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Chesterfield rescue greyhound's seven-month hunt for a forever home is over
Scooby the rescue greyhound has finally found a forever home after a seven-month search – with an owner who can relate to his lifelong tummy problems.
By Gay Bolton
Monday, 25th October 2021, 4:17 pm
Staff at Chesterfield and North Derbyshire branch of the RSPCA were desperate to rehome the lovable three-year-old who has the canine equivalent of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in humans and dislikes other dogs.
The pawfect match came in the form of a young woman with Crohn's disease who understands the greyhound's health issues.
Kiren Montford and her partner Dom Fields had been looking for a dog for months after moving into their first home. Kiren, 27, from Dudley, said: "I've always loved greyhounds and when I saw Scooby's little face on the website it was love at first sight. His bio really tugged our heartstrings.
Scooby, who has the canine equivalent of IBS in humans, gets a cuddle from his new owner Kiron Montford.
"Poor Scooby can struggle with vomiting, diarrhoea and itchy skin due to his IBS but has special food and treats to help keep it under control. Because of my history, I understand how strict we have to be and what the signs are to look out for. We are like two peas in a pod!
"I think Scooby will really help me with my Crohn's disease. Thankfully it's under control at the moment but when I do get ill it means I have to spend a lot of time in bed and I get really lonely. Dom and my family can't sit with me all the time so it'll be lovely to have Scooby there to stay with me and keep me company.
"He doesn't need a huge amount of exercise although he does enjoy his walks and playing in the garden but he spends most of the day sleeping so I think he'll enjoy being curled up on the bed with me!"
Steph McCawley, supporter engagement officer at the RSPCA, said: "We are over the moon that Scooby has finally found his forever home. He had a special place in all our hearts at RSPCA Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Animal Centre. Although we were sad to see him go we couldn't have wished for such an amazing, loving home. It may have taken some time for him to find his perfect match but it was definitely worth waiting for."
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Thrombocytopenia after aortic valve replacement: Comparison Between Sutureless Perceval S Valve and Perimount Magna Ease Bioprosthesis
Syed Saleem Mujtaba*, Simon Ledingham, Asif Raza Shah, Stephan Schueler, Stephen Clark, Thasee Pillay
Introduction: The incidence of postoperative thrombocytopenia after aortic valve replacement (AVR) with the Perceval S Sutureless bioprosthesis remains unclear. The aim of this study was to report thrombocytopenia associated with the use of sutureless AVR.
Methods: The data was collected retrospectively for patients who had isolated AVR with sutureless Perceval S valve (Group A: 72 patients) and was compared with patients who underwent isolated sutured AVR with Perimount Magna Ease Bioprosthesis (Group B: 101 patients) in our institution between June 2014 and January 2017.
Results: Cardiopulmonary bypass and cross-clamp time were significantly shorter in group A. Maximum drop in platelet count was 58% mean (day 2.3) in group A versus 44% mean (day 1.7) in group B (P=0.0001). Absolute platelet count on postoperative day 1-6 in group A was significantly less than in group B (P≤0.05). Platelet count recovered to preoperative value in 44% patients in group B versus only in 26% patients in group A at discharge (P=0.018). Moderate thrombocytopenia occurs more often in group A (41% vs. 26%) (P=0.008) while severe thrombocytopenia (<50 x 109) was observed in 6% in group A but never in group B. Platelets (P=0.007) and packed red blood cells (P=0.009) transfusion was significantly higher in the group A.
Conclusion: The implantation of sutureless Perceval aortic valves was associated with a significant drop in platelet count postoperatively with slow recovery and higher platelets and packed red blood cells transfusion requirements. A prospective randomised trial is needed to confirm our findings.
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
https://doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2017-0157
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Mujtaba, S. S., Ledingham, S., Shah, A. R., Schueler, S., Clark, S., & Pillay, T. (2018). Thrombocytopenia after aortic valve replacement: Comparison Between Sutureless Perceval S Valve and Perimount Magna Ease Bioprosthesis. Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 33(2), 169-175. https://doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2017-0157
Mujtaba, Syed Saleem ; Ledingham, Simon ; Shah, Asif Raza ; Schueler, Stephan ; Clark, Stephen ; Pillay, Thasee. / Thrombocytopenia after aortic valve replacement : Comparison Between Sutureless Perceval S Valve and Perimount Magna Ease Bioprosthesis. In: Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. 2018 ; Vol. 33, No. 2. pp. 169-175.
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N2 - Introduction: The incidence of postoperative thrombocytopenia after aortic valve replacement (AVR) with the Perceval S Sutureless bioprosthesis remains unclear. The aim of this study was to report thrombocytopenia associated with the use of sutureless AVR.Methods: The data was collected retrospectively for patients who had isolated AVR with sutureless Perceval S valve (Group A: 72 patients) and was compared with patients who underwent isolated sutured AVR with Perimount Magna Ease Bioprosthesis (Group B: 101 patients) in our institution between June 2014 and January 2017.Results: Cardiopulmonary bypass and cross-clamp time were significantly shorter in group A. Maximum drop in platelet count was 58% mean (day 2.3) in group A versus 44% mean (day 1.7) in group B (P=0.0001). Absolute platelet count on postoperative day 1-6 in group A was significantly less than in group B (P≤0.05). Platelet count recovered to preoperative value in 44% patients in group B versus only in 26% patients in group A at discharge (P=0.018). Moderate thrombocytopenia occurs more often in group A (41% vs. 26%) (P=0.008) while severe thrombocytopenia (<50 x 109) was observed in 6% in group A but never in group B. Platelets (P=0.007) and packed red blood cells (P=0.009) transfusion was significantly higher in the group A.Conclusion: The implantation of sutureless Perceval aortic valves was associated with a significant drop in platelet count postoperatively with slow recovery and higher platelets and packed red blood cells transfusion requirements. A prospective randomised trial is needed to confirm our findings.
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text: GUELPH'S EVOLUTION SIGNPOST BY KAREN LANDMAN + SEAN KELLY LA AT GUELPH TURNS 50! EN_THIS YEAR, the Landscape Architecture community is celebrating 50 years of LA at the University of Guelph. Five decades of design training is rooted within the rich traditions of the Ontario Agriculture College (OAC), where ornamental horticulture has been taught since OAC's founding in 1874. Landscape design, however, was not an important part of this training. Over time, increasing numbers of OAC graduates completed post-graduate landscape architecture degrees in the U.S. and brought their skills and knowledge back to Canada. Eventually, in pursuit of homegrown LA training and education, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects lobbied Canadian academic institutions to establish landscape architecture programs. In 1960, the Ontario Landscape Contractors Association invited the CSLA to join them in meeting with several institutions to discuss the establishment of a program. At the meeting, Dr. R. J. Hilton, Guelph's Chair of Horticultural Science, indicated support for the appointment of a landscape architect as a first step. Victor Chanasyk was subsequently appointed in 1962 - the first university appointment of a landscape architect in Canada - to develop and launch a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program that would be both a liberal and professional education. The University Senate approved the BLA in 1964. In 1974, the University launched the Master of Landscape Architecture program, the second in Canada and the first in Ontario. continues to receive many requests for help with design projects. Decades of students have left their design mark in the surrounding landscape and beyond. LA students have also been very active in international academic exchanges, participating in other LA programs around the world. Guelph graduates, too, reach out to new generations of students, building a connection with the profession via studio critiques, internships and employment upon graduation. In preparing for the LA50 event, we put out a call to alumni for a logo that would represent our history, where we are now and where we hope to go. From the 25 submissions, the planning committee selected one by Landscape Architect David Duhan and adopted Dave's logo theme of "evolution" for the LA50 event. Please check out the homecoming weekend we have planned for University of Guelph LA alumni. We look forward to seeing you! www.uoguelph.ca/sedrd/fifty-years-la-celebration-fall Karen Landman and Sean Kelly are professors of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental Design & Since 1964, the University of Guelph has graduated approximately 1500 landscape architecture students, who make up a large percentage of practicing and academic landscape architects in Canada. Among them are many notables, as nominated by alumni. Since the Guelph program was founded, the school has recognized the importance of outreach, and the Community Outreach Centre Rural Development at the University of Guelph, as well as BLA (89) Alumni. klandman@uoguelph.ca skelly03@uoguelph.ca 1. L A STUDIO BANNER: KU WING (BRIAN) CHAO LOGO DAVID DUHAN 1. 2015 vol. 17_no. 3 55 http://www.uoguelph.ca/sedrd/fifty-years-la-celebration-fall


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import com.museums.bean.Museums;
import com.museums.bean.Works;
import com.museums.service.MuseumsService;
import com.museums.service.WorksService;
import com.museums.util.Constant;
import com.museums.util.FileUpload;
import com.museums.util.Pagination;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.http.HttpEntity;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by bonismo@hotmail.com
 * 下午10:38 on 16/5/6.
 *

 * ServletContext 的 getRealPath(); 可以指定路径
 */
@Controller
@RequestMapping("museums") // JSP 请求路径
public class MuseumsController extends BaseController {

    private final MuseumsService museumsService;
    private final WorksService worksService;

    @Autowired // 初始化并自动装配
    public MuseumsController(MuseumsService museumsService, WorksService worksService) {
        this.museumsService = museumsService;
        this.worksService = worksService;
    }

    /*
    @RequestParam 获取提交的参数
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    @RequestMapping("create")
    private String create(Museums museums, @RequestParam MultipartFile logoFile, @RequestParam MultipartFile picturesFile) {
        String photoPath = application.getRealPath(Constant.UPLOAD_PHOTO_PATH);
        // upload 将文件存入指定路径,并返回 纳米秒名字, 防止数据库存储相同
        museums.setLogo(FileUpload.upload(photoPath, logoFile));
        museums.setPictures(FileUpload.upload(photoPath, picturesFile));
        // service 层, 调用 create
        museumsService.create(museums);
        return "redirect:/museums/queryAll";
    }

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    类似封装前的 String id = request.getParameter("id")
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    @RequestMapping("remove/{id}")
    private String remove(@PathVariable("id") Integer id) {
        museumsService.remove(id);
        return "redirect:/museums/queryAll";
    }

    @RequestMapping("modify")
    private String modify(Museums museums, @RequestParam MultipartFile logoFile, @RequestParam MultipartFile picturesFile) {
        // 判断文件要用 isEmpty()
        if (!logoFile.isEmpty()) {
            String photoPath = application.getRealPath(Constant.UPLOAD_PHOTO_PATH);
            museums.setLogo(FileUpload.upload(photoPath, logoFile));
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        if (!picturesFile.isEmpty()) {
            String picturesPath = application.getRealPath(Constant.UPLOAD_PHOTO_PATH);
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        }
        museumsService.modify(museums);
        return "redirect:/museums/queryAll";
    }

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    @PathVariable 没有使用 () 标记, 是因为不是表单域传回的参数
    museums.jsp 页面引入的分页 page.jsp
    设置的 value = "museums/${sessionScope.pagination.statement}"
     */
    @RequestMapping("queryAll/{page}")
    private String queryAll(@PathVariable int page) {
        // service 层 queryAll() 返回的是 Pagination
        session.setAttribute("pagination", museumsService.queryAll(page));
        return "redirect:/museums/list.jsp";
    }

    @RequestMapping("queryAll")
    private String queryAll() {
        return queryAll(1); // 调用上边重载方法
    }

    @RequestMapping("queryById/{id}")
    private String queryById(@PathVariable("id") Integer id) {
        session.setAttribute("museums", museumsService.queryById(id));
        return "redirect:/museums/edit.jsp";
    }

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     *
     * @param currentPage 当前页码
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        Pagination<Museums> pagination = museumsService.query("queryMuseums", null, currentPage);
        // Pagination 有 域 List<T> 存储当前 Museums, 所以调用 getList() 获得 Museums 集合, 然后遍历 size()
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            // 根据 museumsId 将多端信息查询出来,并封装到 List
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            pagination.getList().get(i).setWorksList(works);
        }
        session.setAttribute("pagination", pagination);
        return "redirect:/museums/museums.jsp";
    }

    @RequestMapping("queryMuseums")
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        return queryMuseums(1);
    }
}


Attorney Jessica Neer McDonald participates in Miami's first Teen Discourse and Discussion event for local high schools with the Southern District of Florida and South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
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This month, Jessica Neer McDonald aided in leading discussions for the first Teen Discourse and Discussion event for local high school students with members of the Federal Bar Association, South Florida Chapter and Judge Beth Bloom.


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Batman: The Brave and the Bold #16
After a brief prelude where Batman teams up with — well, more like gets beat up by — the mind-controlled Teen Titans, we get to the main story for this issue — Bats and Wonder Woman try to find the egg-obsessed criminal mastermind Egg Head by looking for a bunch of strange eggs he seemed to be after. But Egg Head captures the heroes and their collected eggs and uses them to hatch out an elder god called Y'ggphu Soggoth — better known as the ridiculously silly Silver Age Wonder Woman villain Egg Fu.
Verdict: Thumbs up. How 'bout this — this series takes two of the DC Universe's biggest names and pits them against two of their dumbest foes — a bizarrely racist egg (but now portrayed much more like the character from the "52" miniseries, as simply a weird egg-like villain) and a guy who hasn't really appeared anywhere since he was played by Vincent Price in the '60s Batman series. And they actually make it work out fine. Egg Head mostly stays in the background directing the action and acting demented, with Egg Fu showing up at the end as the heavy hitter. It was a lot better than I was expecting from the cover, honestly.
Wonder Woman #43
Diana is stuck in Washington, which is cut off from the rest of the world, as a monstrous alien civilization makes war on it. It's an all-woman invasion that survives by scavenging a hundred women from each world they visit before they unleash a horde of semi-organic snakes on the planet to eat everything biological and convert it into a goo that is used as both food and spaceship fuel. Oh, and the aliens' leader is Wonder Woman's aunt, Astarte, kidnapped from the Amazons when she and Hippolyta were just babies. While Achilles, Etta Candy, Steve Trevor, Wondy's gorilla bodyguards, and the DMA try to get control of the situation, Astarte reveals that even more of her alien fleet is on the way — and she unveils her secret weapon: her own daughter.
Verdict: Thumbs up. Excellent action, good intrigue, better characterization than I was expecting, and an excellent backstory for Astarte. And Wondy's new cousin, Theana, makes the best mirror-opposite Wonder Woman I've seen outside of, well, DC's antimatter universe. And beside Gail Simone's storytelling, there's also Nicola Scott's downright brilliant artwork, too.
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The Eagle and The Rose by Rosemary Altea, Bantam Press, 1995, Hardcover, 283 pages. Postage $14 extra if required. The book is in very good condition with age related tinting on the pages.
One woman's journey as a medium and a healer and the spirit guide that she had by her side during that journey.


Every week brings new reports of Muslims in America flocking to join ISIS. Those who aren't killed in battle will eventually return to New York, to Los Angeles and to Minneapolis–Saint Paul.
And they will stop being Iraq's problem and become our problem.
ISIS is more than just another terrorist group. It is now an Islamic State. Its followers and allied militias pledge to obey the Caliph of ISIS and reject all allegiances to other states and entities. Western ISIS recruits burn their passports to show that they are no longer citizens of those countries.
Like most Salafists, ISIS members see our system of law and government as idolatry and heresy.
Fort Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan, who recently applied to join ISIS, had earlier written that he would "renounce any oaths of allegiances that require me to support/defend any man made constitution (like the Constitution of the United States) over the commandments mandated in Islam."
"I therefore formally renounce my oath of office as well as any other implicit or explicit oaths I have made in the past … This includes my oath of U.S. citizenship," Hasan declared.
By his own admission, Nidal Hasan is no longer a United States citizen. He should be promptly denaturalized. So should every ISIS member and anyone who supports the Islamic State.
The oath of citizenship that Hasan was retroactively rejecting states, "I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen."
ISIS members have pledged their allegiance to a foreign prince and a foreign state. Denaturalizing them should be a mere formality.
Anwar Al-Awlaki, Hasan's mentor, whose American citizenship became such an issue for the left when he was killed in a drone strike, was clear in his lectures that he was at war with America, that "Muslims in the West should see their stay there as temporary" before leaving to build an Islamic State in the Middle East and that Muslims shouldn't even vote in America because they would be participating in "a disbelieving system, in a disbelieving country."
Like Hasan, he did not consider himself an American in any way, shape or form.
In the past the United States had denaturalized Nazis and Communists and even specifically targeted foreign agitators linked to the Nazis and Communists, denaturalized them and then deported them.
Recently, Obama Inc. found the time to have two former Guatemalan soldiers accused of committing atrocities against a village linked to Communist guerrillas in the so-called Dos Erres massacre back in the 1980s stripped of their citizenship.
Other denaturalization targets under his administration included two Serbians, an Ethiopian Marxist who took part in the 70s Red Terror and a woman involved in the Rwandan genocide.
None of the denaturalized were Muslim terrorists posing a current national security threat. And yet if we are to have a strategy against ISIS, denaturalizing its members will accomplish more than air strikes.
The modern Jihadist threat had at its core a group of fighters who trained and fought in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet invasion. These fighters went on to lead terrorist groups and stage attacks. But the battlefields of the Arab Spring will produce a new wave of threats on an unprecedented scale. Muslims in the West, especially converts to Islam, who have gone to join ISIS will return with training, battlefield experience and a plan. It's far more urgent to keep them out than to deport war criminals.
A serious ISIS strategy has to address not the flow of fighters from the United States, as Obama has proposed to do, but the flow of fighters coming into the United States. If ISIS members want to travel to fight in Iraq and Syria, they should be allowed to do so.
By joining the Islamic State, they have disavowed their allegiance to the United States. Their citizenship is now only a passport of convenience that they will burn as soon as they make their way into Syria.
It's far more important to keep them from coming back than to keep them from leaving.
If the United States can denaturalize foreign soldiers for being part of units linked to war crimes, as it has under Obama, it has the obligation to pursue the denaturalization of anyone who chooses to affiliate with an organization such as ISIS which has committed undeniable war crimes.
While the legal grounds for denaturalization won't be the same since some of those being denaturalized did not have terrorist histories and may have even been born in the United States, the policy basis is clear. Despite the various dubious Supreme Court attempts to strike down the denaturalization power of Congress, there are still clear standards for denaturalization.
Joseph Lieberman and Scott Brown introduced the Terrorist Expatriation Act back in 2010 which would have added providing material support to terrorists as a basis for denaturalization leading to hysterical reactions on the left and the right. Ted Cruz and Michele Bachmann have followed that up with their own bills now.
But such an explicit addition isn't strictly necessary; particularly in the case of the Islamic State. Under the Immigration and Naturalization Act anyone voluntarily "committing any act of treason," bearing arms against the United States or plotting to conquer it will lose his citizenship.
While establishing this has proven tricky in the past due to the preponderance of evidence standard, ISIS represents a clear case because its fighters travel voluntarily from the United States for that purpose and because the Islamic State's creed explicitly repudiates citizenship in anything but the new Caliphate. It is clearly apparent that any American citizen joining ISIS intends to abandon his citizenship. He is not only serving in a foreign army, but he is joining an organization whose very reason for existence is precluded on a rejection of states and manmade documents such as the United States Constitution.
Furthermore if Obama were to admit that the United States is at war with ISIS, its fighters would also be guilty of bearing arms against the United States. However even without this admission, ISIS has made sufficient threats and has now murdered two Americans. There is no serious doubt that we are at war.
Unlike the Taliban, some of whose American members argued that they had not originally been in conflict with the United States, ISIS originated in conflict with the United States and its creed explicitly calls for the perpetuation of conflict not only with the United States, but with the rest of the world.
The Islamic State's founding declaration urged all the Muslims of the world to gather to it, "So rush O Muslims and gather around your Caliphate, so that you may return as you once were for ages, kings of the earth and knights of war... By Allah, if you disbelieve in democracy, secularism, nationalism, as well as all the other garbage and ideas from the west, and rush to your religion and creed, then by Allah, you will own the earth, and the east and west will submit to you."
The Muslim fighters rushing to join ISIS hoping to be its "kings of the earth" and "knights of war" and to force the east and west to submit to it are at war with the United States. They have given their allegiance to a foreign power that promises them that they will rule over Americans.
Both attacks on the World Trade Center were carried out by terrorists who should not have been allowed into the United States. It's time we learned the lessons of those attacks.
ISIS members and supporters like Nidal Hasan are eager to abandon their American citizenship. It's our own government that is standing in the way.
It's useless to bomb ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, if we let them march through our airports.


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Get the World to Work – Trade Unions Mobilise Around the Globe on 7 October, World Day for Decent Work
Trade unions in more than 100 countries, from the eastern Pacific to the west coast of the Americas, are mobilising on 7 October to tackle the global economic and employment crisis and demand fundamental reform of the world economy. Organisations from more than 100 countries have already posted information on their events onto the special website
Live internet coverage of the activities around the world, including videos, photographs and messages from events in every continent, is being broadcast on the website, which will be updated via a 24-hour live feed. Large-scale mobilisations are taking place in several countries while events elsewhere will include public rallies and workplace meetings, demonstrations in front of national parliaments, concerts, trade union member-to-member contacts in person and by phone and email, seminars involving trade unionists, academics and politicians and public events in city squares and other venues.
On a video message , ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder insists "that governments make a decisive and fundamental change in direction: away from the policies which have caused the deepest recession in 70 years, allowing a small minority to amass vast wealth at the expense of working people's jobs, security and incomes, while hundreds of millions of people remain locked in absolute poverty."
The world's trade union movement has described the results of the Pittsburgh G20 G20 The Group of Twenty, or G20, is a forum for international cooperation on the most important aspects of the international economic and financial agenda. It brings together 19 countries and the European Union, which together represent around 90% of global GDP, 80% of global trade and two thirds of the world's population. Summit as representing progress on the outcome of the April Summit in London, but has warned against complacency and highlighted crucial areas where little or no progress has been made.
"The current challenges that the world is facing cannot be used as an excuse to threaten and weaken internationally recognised labor standards. We must reverse the trend towards precarious work and insecurity, and continue to confront violations of workers' rights wherever they happen," said Ryder.
A new ITUC report released to mark the World Day for Decent Work, The Path to Recovery, How employment is central to ending the global crisis , describes how in response to the global economic crisis, the worst since the Great Depression with tens of millions of jobs disappearing, the economy must be built on social justice and environmental sustainability, respect for internationally-recognised workers' rights, effective financial regulation and global governance which puts people first.
"This 7 October trade unions are raising their voices across the continents, to keep up the pressure for fundamental change, for justice and equity. They face tremendous resistance from those who have profited from the exploitation of others in the past. Trade unions are determined to confront and defeat that resistance, and to ensure that governments everywhere get the message that they must deliver the results that working people demand," Ryder concluded.
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By Andy Duncan Cobden Centre Radio 30 October 10
Cobden Centre Radio: Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto; Economic Recessions, Banking Reform and the Future of Capitalism
A professionally-shot and edited video of Cobden Centre Senior Fellow Jesús Huerta de Soto's recent scintillating and inspirational speech at the LSE, delivered on the 28th of October, 2010, will be available soon at the Cobden Centre. In the meantime, Brian Micklethwait and I thought that we would release an audio podcast preview of this speech on Cobden Centre Radio, to share and spread the message of this incredible Promethean bearer of the economic torch of Ludwig von Mises, himself a Promethean bearer of the torch of the University of Salamanca, led by the Spanish theologians, rooted in the scholastic work of Francisco de Vitoria, brought to us through the ages and linking us through to Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle.
Look forward to the video; in the meantime, here is the complete speech as recorded via the technical wizardry of Brian with his Zoom H2 Handy recorder and some guerilla recording techniques as employed in the Sheikh Zayed theatre, at the London School of Economics, for the 2010 Hayek Memorial Lecture, as sponsored by Toby Baxendale, our Cobden Centre Chairman; Professor Huerta de Soto is introduced by Professor Tim Besley of the LSE:
Cobden Centre Radio, Hayek Memorial Lecture, LSE, October 28th, 2010, Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto, MP3
There is an alternative MP3 recording of the speech, provided by the LSE, which you can listen to here.
[By the way, listen out for the spontaneous break out of applause towards the end of the lecture when Huerta de Soto calls for a 'Bank of Amsterdam'-style return to a 100% monetary reserve standard based upon gold.]
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31 October 10 at 12:59
I was there! Great event. De Soto has a strong Spanish accent but it was fine. The message was still clear and he's clearly a very enthusiastic and friendly person.
Andy Duncan says:
Good you could be there, John, and I'm glad you weren't locked out like some unfortunate others. If you haven't read it already, it's now time to read the Professor's Magnum Opus, freely available as a PDF:
Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
goldonomic.com says:
1 November 10 at 02:30
As simple as it gets….logical and clear speech.
Whig says:
Great speech (I read the text via Mises.org) in general and a heroic effort to briefly explain the Austrian view of the business cycle. My only criticism would be that it could have described how the other two major schools of macroeconomics differ from the Austrian analysis – rather than simply how central bankers/press/politicians have interpreted the crisis.
I did feel that he was a little too sanguine about the likely outcome. There are strong indications that the US (and Bank of England) are keen to inflate their way 'out' by running effectively negative interest rates and by deliberate expansion of the money supply. Quite what the next economic cycle will look like is not my place to say but it does seem that the conditions for another cycle of malinvestment via the process Prof de Soto describes are in the process of being laid as he speaks!
The policy prescriptions are ambitious but I see the real chances of them being fulfilled as close to zero. Despite fiscal contractions, on the monetary side quite the reverse is being done and the outcome seems to be greater banking regulation and not a move towards sound money.
I was slightly surprised to see a gold standard advocated rather than a denationalisation approach – isn't that exactly what Hayek advocated? We've seen how, in an emergency, the gold standard will be abandoned and ultimately it provides no real checks on monetary expansion (even overlooking its other problems, or the problems inherent in any commodity currency).
The speech will be even better when you get to see the video. The speech itself goes over an hour, as it is. Explaining the two other schools (I presume you mean Keynesian and Monetarist) would have added on another 2 hours, at least, to be dispatched properly. As to the policy prescriptions, they may be ambitious, but he is telling it like it is. Let's imagine that he's telling a fat 25 stone smoker how to climb Everest. He can tell him the nice 'politically correct' way, "eat one less pork pie a week", "only smoke 30 cigarettes a day instead of 40", and "do a little light walking for half an hour each day to reach your peak fitness level", and that's all probably possible for the fatster. It's still not going to get the fat lump to the top of Everest though, is it (unless he flies in Ben Bernanke's helicopter, of course). All Huerta de Soto is doing is saying "stop smoking completely, to deal with the lack of oxygen; get down to 1500 calories a day, for six months, to get your weight down sufficiently to survive the climb with the backpack; and you've got to be be able to run 10 miles in 2 hours, as a minimum, to stand any chance of being fit enough to do the job, so get running." Yes, it is an ambitious programme for our fatster, but if he wants to climb Everest, then that's what he's going to have to do. In the meantime, if he won't follow the advice, then he can dream about planting the flag at the summit, but the likelihood is he's going to sit there for 20 years festering, just like the Japanese have with their Keynesian 'solution' to their economic problems from the late 1980s. The world may not want to hear the truth, but I don't think that precludes anyone from saying what they believe the true path to be in the first place. And it's remarkable what can happen when enough people keep hearing the truth, and seeing men and women bold enough to proclaim the truth who never give in to evil, and can somehow get over all of that government programming that government education indoctrinates us all with, that government is always good in everything that it does. Besides, the world power elites can do what they like with regulation, including the introduction of a global fiat currency and global currency and price controls, but it's not going to do them any good and will keep making things worse. The fiat currency fractional reserve party is over. Yes, it lasted nearly 40 years, from when Nixon finally shredded the last tatters of the gold standard brought about by Peel's 1844 act, but it really is over. The Fed and all the other central banks are out of bullets. Until we follow the Austrian path, either by deciding to do it or by being forced into it through circumstance, we are going to remain stuck in a Japanese-style limbo, at best, for many years to come. I suggest you wait for the video, where the Professor answers some similar questions to yours on the gold question, after the speech finished. Essentially, going on memory, he said a proper free market gold standard only works when it is based on 100% reserves, manipulative central banks are abolished, and money is completely privatised. As you say, if we leave a gold standard in the hands of government, administered by fractional reserve government central banks, and still nationalised, we will only get again what we've already had, which is a slow abandonment of the standard, as we already witnessed from 1913 through to 1971, mostly driven by the instigation of state-led military and welfare wars. The solution is honest hard money and entrepreneurialism fed by free markets and genuine capital savings. In the long run, this is what we will achieve if we just keep pushing the ideas.
Current says:
FYI The gold standard did not begin in 1844. Britain was on the gold standard for a century before that. The transition to the gold standard was made by Issac Newton when he was master of the mint in 1717.
Greg Jaxon says:
100% reserves of gold to back both bank notes and demand deposits produces an extremely stable M0 money supply. If that is the sole circulating medium of exchange, the QTM leads me to expect quite rapid episodes of price inflation and deflation as the population's propensities to produce, consume, or hoard ebbs and flows (modulating the "velocity of money" coefficient). Such changes make business calculation much harder and present an unmet human need for stability that offers an entrepreneurial opportunity.
The higher purpose of an "M1 money supply" is to inflate and deflate in sync with the level of basic economic activity so as to dampen large swings in price levels and to stabilize discount and interest rates. A market-based M1 money has been known to exist and to provide the desired flexibility. Such M1 money needs to mature into M0 money on a tight schedule, so that the supply of M1 shrinks and must be continuously renewed by beginning fresh economic activity. M1 creation cannot be centralized; it must be rooted in economic activity itself: the placing and filling of orders for goods and services.
This is not a policy argument – it is an argument about the origins of money in economic exchange. How does one arrange to dig up and refine that first ounce of gold? Assuming a division of this labor among many actors, something like short term credit, or real bills, must circulate until the first unit of hard M0 can be delivered. These logically first steps should not be labelled as the economic Original Sin of having a soft currency. Neither should this creation myth require a Prime Lender. The free market can (and did) do this at least once, and it will find that ideal state again.
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Parenting is tough, and when it comes to sports like skateboarding, it becomes a lot tougher. However, knowing the positive impact of skateboarding on the health, can make a parent think otherwise.
Skateboarding is an art, and to master it, it is important to have perfect coordination between the eyes, arms, feet, and legs. Thus, using the skateboard frequently can assist a person to have better coordination which can help in multitasking.
Skateboarding for about an hour can help in losing calories somewhere between 150 to 500. So, it's a fun exercise, especially for those who find it extremely boring to run for hours on a treadmill and reach nowhere literally.
Skateboarding provides a full body workout since the different parts of the body are working together. It also helps in providing flexibility to an individual. So, this activity can be fun and useful at the same time.
It's not hidden that people try a lot of drugs and other things in order to get relief from stress. However, skateboarding can help in providing relief from stress since it can make the individual focused by taking their mind off from the hustles and bustles of life, which sometimes take a toll on their mental and physical health. This is one of the reasons east coast skate tour was launched. It gives the chance to all enthusiasts to enjoy skateboarding and music at the same time.
As they say, "Health Is Wealth", which indeed is because, if a person is not healthy, he cannot maintain a life which is full of bills and expenses. To be wealthy, one must be in proper shape and at the best level of fitness.
Skateboarding can teach a valuable life lesson. It is fine to fail sometimes. It's all about practice, as well as trial and error. Eventually, a person is likely to learn the art of skateboarding, which can benefit the mental health in the long run since it can be used as a good example for proving one's success even after a lot of fail attempts.
People have seen new cities on bus, trains, or through renting a car. However, cities can be discovered with a new angle, that is, by using the "Skateboard" as it is a lot likely to be a fun way. A person can be burning the calories so, it is likely to be a win-win situation.


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Q: Issue specifying parameters to 'pstops' in subprocess.Popen Issuing this command from the command line:
pdftops -paper A4 -nocenter opf.pdf - | pstops "1:0@0.8(0.5cm,13.5cm)" > test.ps

works fine. I tried to convert this to a parameter list for subprocess.Popen like this:
import subprocess as sp

path = 'opf.pdf'

ps = sp.Popen(
            ["pdftops",
             "-paper", "A4",
             "-nocenter",
             "{}".format(path),
             "-"],
            stdout = sp.PIPE)
pr = sp.Popen(
            ["pstops",
             "'1:0@0.8(0.5cm,13.5cm)'"],
            stdin = ps.stdout,
            stdout = sp.PIPE)
sp.Popen(
            ["lpr"],
            stdin = pr.stdout )

where path is the filename - opf.pdf. This produces error, in the second Popen:
0x23f2dd0age specification error:
  pagespecs = [modulo:]spec
  spec      = [-]pageno[@scale][L|R|U|H|V][(xoff,yoff)][,spec|+spec]
                modulo >= 1, 0 <= pageno < modulo

(sic). I suspect the 0x23f2dd0 somehow replaced the 'P'. Anyway, I suspect the problem to be in the page spec 1:0@0.8(0.5cm,13.5cm), so I tried with/without the single quotes, and with (escaped) double quotes. I even tried shlex.quote which produced a very exotic ''"'"'1:0@0.8(0.5cm,13.5cm)'"'"'', but still the same error.
What is causing this?
EDIT As a last resource, I tried:
    os.system(("pdftops -paper A4 -nocenter {} - | "
               "pstops '1:0@0.8(1cm,13.5cm)' | "
               "lpr").format(path))

which works perfectly. I'd still prefer the above Popen solution though.

A: Think about what the shell does with that argument (or use something like printf '%s\n' to get it to show you).  We need to undo the shell quoting and replace it with Python quoting (which happens to be eerily similar):
pr = sp.Popen(
            ["pstops",
             "1:0@0.8(0.5cm,13.5cm)"],
            stdin = ps.stdout,
            stdout = sp.PIPE)

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Help an Unknown Band Get Its Picture on the Cover of Rolling Stone
By Brenna Ehrlich 2011-02-16 13:28:48 UTC
Look who's getting into the crowdsourcing game. Rolling Stone magazine is asking its readers to help one band achieve the ultimate in rock 'n' roll street cred: its image on the cover of the iconic print publication.
Today, Rolling Stone announced its new "Do You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star?" contest, for which the mag has selected 16 unsigned acts to face off for a chance to appear on the cover of the August issue, as well as score a contract from Atlantic Records.
Readers can learn about bands and listen to their jams on a page dedicated to the contest, and keep up with favorites via posts, galleries and videos.
The eight most-voted-for bands will record music with a major producer, after which a second round of voting will occur in March. The four remaining acts will then play a live showcase for editors and music execs, which will lead to a battle of the bands at Bonnaroo in June.
The victor of said battle will appear on the August 1 episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and, of course, the cover of Rolling Stone — the first unsigned (until getting that Atlantic contract) band to have that honor.
While we commend the fact that such an established magazine is giving some unknowns a shot, this contest seems a little, shall we say, archaic. (Reminiscent of flop TV series I'm With Rolling Stone.)
Yes, being on the cover of Rolling Stone is still a major honor, to be sure, but we can't ignore the old media feel of the contest. A photo in a print product, a record contract and a TV spot as a prize? What about digital? How will this band be featured on the web and on mobile?
We'll be interested to see how this contest progresses, and how the public reacts to the endeavor. Will you participate?
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Post a comment with the Song and Artist name with a link to your photo that the song inspired.
oh and you get bonus points if you explain why it makes you think of the photo.
Why? Well, the most obvious reason is because the photo is of a place where the sea meets the sky and you can't tell the difference between the two. But further, the underlying theme of the song is infinity, and I think you can see this as well in the gradient from fog to water and the reflections. Thanks.
Why? Well, the most obvious reason is because the photo is of a place where the sea meets the sky and you can't tell the difference between the two. But further, the underlying theme of the song is infinity, and I think you can see this as well in the gradient from fog to water and the reflections. Thanks.
Secret Garden by Bruce Springsteen. As soon as I saw this scene, that song popped in my head.
I love how dramatic it is!
When I listen to the song Galaxies by Rekevin, I think of this image of the Milky Way that I took.
Um…I meant wow what a cool contest. Hehe.
Wow. What I cool contest.
Sunset by Kitaro on his India LP.
I love listening to really off the wall stuff on my Pod while I shoot. I actual searched for a sunset song while shooting this day.
Great sky in the shot!
When I hear the song "I Love This Town" by Bon Jovi. I think of a recent image I took of the Boston Skyline back in July.
Everytime I goto Boston, I am blessed that I am a short distance drive from there. It is one of the most beautiful towns to photograph and the link to the photo below is one of my favorites as it showcases the skyline at its best.
Great black and white Chris!
"Brown-Eyed Girl" – I always think of my wife or daughter when I hear this song. My photo is of my daughter taken this past weekend!
When I framed & captured this image, the song "Long Road to Ruin" by the Foo Fighters entered my head. The song can have arguably different meanings: perhaps a love lost that would have been found if only things were different (lyrics like "No harm, no life, no love; No stranger singing me your name"), or perhaps regaling the ending of war through a change in leadership in lyrics like "One flag was taken down; To raise another in its place" but to me, it's not about these themes. It's more general in terms of the life we lead. The lyrics that echo most in my mind are "Dear God I've sealed my fate; Running through hell; Heaven can wait".
I don't know if it's that I was envisioning the underworld as looking something like a warped version of Red Rock Canyon or if it was the winding road in front of me in the title onf the song, but in my mind the song tells us to follow our dreams today regardless of the life you're leading today. Make a change now and find your dreams at the end of the road.
A powerful rock song with a message that's powerfully sung by Dave Grohl – dare to dream & chase your goals in life today.
Great song for a great photo Jacob!
I was at the sunrise in Long Branch a few weeks ago. When I saw the umbrellas in this photo I immediately thought of the line "Counting ten tin soldiers in a row" from Elton John's Nikita.
That is a great looking building.


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Twitter for Mac Review: Love It, Hate It, Tweet It
At some point in the past months, I thought I would never had the chance to write this review. But it's happening. Twitter for Mac, what you expected to be called Tweetie 2.0 before Atebits became part of Twitter, is now live in the Mac App Store. It's available for free here.
Like I said, months ago an idea started to grow on me: Tweetie 2.0 for Mac, the way I saw it back then, was never going to happen. Kaput. Vaporware. Twitter killed it, and with it -- Loren Brichter's enthusiasm and passion and willingness to provide millions of Mac users out there the sequel to what I think it's still one of the finest Twitter clients ever created for the platform. And it's not that the term "sequel" doesn't apply really well to this whole saga: Twitter acquired Atebits but Loren had promised that MacHeist customers would get early access to Tweetie 2; Tweetie for iPhone was rebranded; the guy even started making promises and interviews about an app that "was coming". Just like in the best stories of sequels that seem to never happen, people began to lose faith in Brichter, Twitter and Tweetie 2.0. They moved on.
I tried to move on. I tried to get over the original Tweetie. I tried several Twitter clients for the Mac, I gave Echofon, Nambu, Hibari and even the old Twitterrific a try. I never sticked to none of them. Somehow, I always ended up going back to Brichter's old, broken, slow and unofficial application. I know many of you did as well.
That changed a week ago. On New Year's Eve, while I was getting ready to go to a party with my friends, I got an email from Loren. I knew something was going on, I just didn't know how much it was real, or on schedule for that matter. Long story short, I got into Tweetie's beta testing group and installed "Twitter for Mac". The app is a rebranded version of Brichter's original vision for Tweetie 2, apparently. I tested the app, we all waited for the Mac App Store to open, the app is now live and everyone seems to be excited or disappointed about it. Just like in the best stories of sequels that eventually happen, many people seem to have newfound respect for Twitter's mobile developer now. On other hand, some were expecting more from the sequel.
So now that we have a proper introduction to a review I once thought would never see the light of the day, let's get to the point. Is Twitter for Mac any good? Can it top the original Tweetie? Is it just Twitter messing with Loren Brichter's plans all over again? Below, you'll find our review of Twitter for Mac. Here, I'm just going to say that I moved on.
Twitter for Mac looks like a revamped fresh version of Tweetie for Mac. It's got the same sidebar to switch between accounts and sections, it's got a clean timeline on the right, it's got the picture popups and it has the tweet compose window opening in an external tiny popup. At first sight, it looks like a more polished version of the original Tweetie to the average user. Which I'm pretty sure that's the reason why many people are going to leave negative reviews in the Mac App Store -- those people who were expecting Brichter to come up with an entirely new design, OS X Lion hints and who knows what other magical UI tricks. Thing is -- yes, it's similar to the app you used until 10 minutes ago. If you look right below the surface, though, you'll notice everything that's new in there. And all the things that will take some time to process, too.
Twitter for Mac has support for native retweets, live stream (as a user option), lists, trends, tweet deletion, block. If I were to make a list of the new features in "Tweetie 2", I'd be forced to write these down. But let me talk about the most important aspect of the app first, the timeline. Twitter's timeline on the Mac looks a lot like the iPhone and iPad one, except that you can't swipe to reveal an action menu or open conversation views and web links in additional panels. The timeline, graphically speaking, retains a lot of the iOS iterations of Twitter, leaving Tweetie's "bubble chat" style behind for good. It's a whole unified timeline made of white cells, and that's it. Appearance aside, one thing I immediately noticed about this new timeline when comparing it to the old Tweetie's one is that it's fast. And by fast, I mean really fast and snappy. When switching between sections -- either with a keyboard shortcut like before, or with a new three-finger gesture -- you'll notice that the timeline, mentions, searches and messages load almost instantly, as if you were turning the pages of a magazine extremely fast. I don't know what code trick did Loren apply there, I just know that the main view is fast. The first thing you're going to do after authorizing your account will likely be a quick tour of the timeline and sections, and I'm sure you'll notice the difference. Which also gets me to one of my first gripes with the app: sometimes, it's also crazy fast at loading previous tweets for when I need to go back in my timeline and check on messages posted overnight. Other times though, the app won't load past a certain amount of tweets (hundreds, anyway) and I'm not sure whether or not this is a limitation imposed by the Twitter API or the fact that the Twitter team (not just Brichter on his own, I guess) didn't implement a "read more" button at the end of the timeline. It only happened twice for me (last time, it was last night when loading all the Microsoft CES-related tweets) but when it does, it's annoying. Together with that, I have to say scrolling in Twitter for Mac's timeline is also smooth and, again, fast. Especially with inertial scrolling activated on your Mac. Like I said, these are the first things I noted when launching the app.
On first launch, I also realized I could see beneath Twitter's sidebar. I wasn't getting it at first, then I saw Twitter implemented a black translucent sidebar. Luckily, I was able to turn it off in seconds from the preferences. I don't know why there's an option to make the sidebar translucent but, frankly, I don't like it. It's more fancy than useful or anything, and I thought they would get rid of it come the final version. Clearly they didn't.
Back to the timeline. One of the biggest annoyances of the original Tweetie was that you couldn't get anything done with tweets unless you either selected one and hit a keyboard shortcut, or invoked a contextual menu with right click. Now, you can just move your cursor over a tweet and do a bunch of things with it without having to mess with the keyboard or right clicks. From the overlay icons that appear on a status update, you can show a conversation view, reply, mark as favorite and retweet. Two things are noteworthy here: first, Twitter by default initiates replies to all the usernames contained in a tweet. Say Cody tweeted something like "Hey @gruber, @strevestreza disagrees with you" and I was to reply to Cody with Twitter for Mac, my tweet compose window would be pre-populated with the usernames @codyfink, @gruber and @stevestreza. What if you just want to reply to the original author? You'll need to manually backspace on those usernames. There's no preference to change that. The other feature I noticed, and this time was happy about: Twitter for Mac still offers the possibility to "quote" a tweet instead of natively retweeting it. This is useful if you're that kind of user who likes to add his own comment to a tweet; still, Twitter didn't include the popular RT @ or /via @ formats in the app. Looks like they moved on, as well.
Twitter for Mac, like Tweetie, can show conversation views. You can access them with a double click on reply to someone or with your keyboard's right arrow, but the real fun kicks in with the gestures. As you select a tweet (or just head over it with the mouse) that's a reply to someone else and you want to view the entire reply chain, you can perform a three-finger swipe right to load a new panel that, like Twitter for iPad, will slide in from the right side. There are no multiple panels on screen in the Mac version, but the effect is pretty much the same. Again, the conversation view loads as fast as the timeline. This three-finger swipe action, though, opens the door to other major new features of Twitter for Mac, which are iPad-like panel navigation and contextual actions for tweets. Panel navigation is simple to understand: instead of getting a "breadcrumb" navigation at the top of the window like in Tweetie 1, where you could see how much you were "going deeper" with conversation views, usernames, conversation views and so forth, you have all these panels that will stack on top of each other as you load usernames, conversations, trends, searches, more usernames. The effect is cool as you can move back and forth between these panels with your fingers, the bad news is that there's no way to understand at which point of the navigation you are, how many profiles you've loaded or how far you're from the main timeline. So you'll either have to switch to another section and switch back again to have your "exploration" canceled with a fresh clean timeline, or start going back to the first panel with the aforementioned three-finger gesture. The fact that you can kill panel navigation by switching sections twice can be seen as an advantage from some users or as a terrible consistency breaker from others. Personally, I don't like the way Twitter handled this, as I would like to do whatever I want in the first section (discover users, see trends), read my replies for a few minutes, go back and find everything as I left it. Or perhaps that would be annoying after some time? So maybe Twitter should offer a way to quickly jump back to the first panel? I don't know, we'll see in future updates.
As for the contextual "tweet item menus" (as Twitter calls the feature): they're basically a way to let the app guess what's the best thing to load in a status update that's not a conversation after a three-finger swipe right, or provide all the options that are possible. Example: a tweet from @codyfink has a link and a hashtag. That tweet is not a reply to someone else. With a three-finger swipe right on that tweet, Twitter for Mac will open the link in the web browser. If Cody doesn't tweet with a link but just with a hashtag, though, Twitter will load a search for that hashtag in a new panel instead. And what if Cody doesn't like links and hashtags and he just tweets personal thoughts? A swipe will open his profile view. If you don't like this way of managing content and usernames found in a tweet, you can do everything manually by selecting a tweet and hitting Alt + right arrow. Twitter will open a contextual menu with all the links, usernames and hashtags found in a tweet. It will also offer the possibility to "open all links" in the web browser. Links can be set to open in the background in the Preferences. So, to recap: three-finger swipes left and right can open and close panels, or follow links through a user's browser. Three-finger swipes up and down are for switching between the sections in the left sidebar.
The app supports live streaming for tweets, but only in the timeline. Searches, for instance, will need a manual refresh -- which I assigned to a custom gesture using BetterTouchTool. There is also (finally) support for Twitter Lists built in, although it's pretty simple and straightforward. Once you open the Lists tab in the sidebar, you'll just get to a new panel with all your lists to choose from. You can't, of course, manage lists in the app. As for the tab right above Lists, Direct Messages: they're threaded and "stacked" on top of each other if a user sent you multiple messages at once, but the newest DMs are at the bottom. In my opinion, this was implemented just to follow to trend established with Twitter for iPhone and iPad, but as I said in the past it's very annoying. Especially on the Mac, where there's no virtual keyboard that slides up and automatically scrolls the list to the most recent message. You'll have to manually scroll.
One of the "features" that's causing a huge stir on Twitter this morning is the lack of a titlebar at the top of the window. Admittedly, the lack of a titlebar makes it difficult to drag the app around on the desktop, but it has to be noted that Brichter wanted to try something new by letting users have the same kind of control by clicking and holding on the entire sidebar. That will trigger a titlebar-like action and you will be able to reposition the window. I found this incredibly out of context at first, now I'm sort of used to it. Looking forward, I think this is what Mac OS X Lion will be all about -- new interaction processes and schemes. Other complaints I'm hearing from developers and people I follow on Twitter seem to be all about the fact that "Tweetie 2 doesn't look like a Mac app at all". After a week of usage, I believe it is true Brichter and the Twitter team changed a lot of stuff that's usually OS X-default like the titlebar, the maximize button (which does nothing) and the lack of a bottom bar. But while many of us Mac geeks and long-time designers and developers are going to notice these things, I wonder if the average Mac App Store user will see these changes at all. My guess is, most people will simply use the app without caring about various design inconsistencies (alignment and padding issues, anyone? Fonts are too small?) and broken standards. I'm not saying those are mistakes and, sometimes, glitches that shouldn't be noted: the lack of titlebar is disorienting at first. I'm saying that, in the long term, we should probably get used to this kind of "new rules".
Something that's really new in Twitter for Mac is the possibility to drag tweets out of the timeline. To do so, move you cursor next to a profile picture in a tweet, click & hold and drag the message out. You can drag a tweet to the desktop to save it as a text clipping or into Mail.app to have it formatted as a complete tweet -- profile picture included. I don't find this option particularly useful, mostly because I never email tweets to my friends.
What I absolutely love about Twitter for Mac is the improved support for keyboard shortcuts and the new right-click menu on tweets. Tweetie 1 had good support for a variety of keyboard shortcuts, Twitter for Mac simply outnumbers the original app with keyboard shortcuts for everything. There's one to quickly go to a user's profile page (which is very similar to Tweetie) by typing a username, one to block a specific user, one to delete a tweet. You can retweet, mark as favorite, copy a tweet or copy the link to a tweet with the keyboard as well. If you're a hardcore Mac keyboard user, you're going to find plenty of options to learn in Twitter for Mac. If you don't feel like learning dozens of shortcuts, you can find most of the commands in the improved contextual menu -- which, when compared to the original Tweetie, is pretty great. During this week's test, I found myself equally using keyboard shortcuts, gestures and the contextual menu. I don't know which one I prefer yet, but the shortcuts are surely handy.
Other miscellaneous new features in Twitter for Mac include a new redesigned white popup for pictures, a minimal tweet compose box that sits on top of any window on your Mac (annoying or useful?), character count for tweets which automatically takes care of links even before shortening them (neat) and the lack of any shortening button. Every link I tweet seems to be wrapped inside Twitter's t.co shortener now -- or so it appears on the desktop client.
Twitter for Mac is different, and we have to understand what kind of difference we're talking about. Because you can look at this app in two ways. If you were a loyal Tweetie 1 user and you were among those who eagerly anticipated the release of Tweetie 2 and eventually lost faith as the app never seemed to come out, you are probably going to be disappointed by the fact that the app doesn't look revolutionary on the surface, it's got some arguable design choices and doesn't add anything new to the mix except for native retweets, lists, live stream and a bunch of new shortcuts and actions. If we look at Twitter for Mac as a desktop client on its own, without the weight of being a sequel to one of the most popular apps for the Mac, the situation becomes quite different. Twitter for Mac is, in my opinion, a solid app and a great attempt to bring Twitter to the desktop. It doesn't come with all the fancy integrated web views and multiple panels seen in the iPad version, but I don't know how much sense they would have made on the desktop anyway. There are some problems that need to be fixed, some design choices that I'll need to wrap my head around over time and even stuff I don't really like, like direct messages or the t.co URLs. I understand several people's positions when they say the app makes them "anxious" the way Twitter for iPad did: panels aren't easy to get used to, and to many it feels like "there's too much" to do in a single tiny app.
Still: I think Twitter for Mac is a well-crafted application that brings Twitter to the Mac in a way that most users won't need to open Twitter.com anymore. After a week of playing around with it I don't feel "confused" or "disoriented" in Twitter for Mac, nor do I think the slide animations make for an incomprehensible, baroque user experience.
This app is not perfect, and there's a huge room for improvement. But right now, Twitter for Mac is my new default client and the best I can find if I want to use Twitter from the desktop. Twitter for Mac, after all, is the app that let me move Tweetie 1 to the trash.
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Q: ASP.NET MVC Large file upload to REST API I have an ASP.Net  MVC application that upload files to storage nodes via REST API. I do not have control over the storage apart from using the API's to upload and download. This is what i typically do on an upload file.
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task UploadFile()
    {
        //Get stream from file to upload
        using (Stream fileStream = System.IO.File.OpenRead(Request.Files[0].FileName))
        {
            HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
            client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api-upload.abc.com");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.TransferEncodingChunked = true;

            var res = await client.PutAsync("/streaming/" + Path.GetFileName(Request.Files[0].FileName),
                new StreamContent(fileStream));

            ViewBag.Result = res.Result.ToString();
        }
    }

This works for files of smaller size. I would like to upload files > 2GB, in that case this app I was planning for breaking the file in chunks.
            byte[] buffer = new byte[2048];
            int bytesRead;
            while ((bytesRead = await fileStream.ReadAsync(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
            {
                //tempStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

            }

This approach again I need to have a temporary stream to merge, because I need to push the file to a REST API. This also will run into Out Of Memory(or there is not enough space on the disk) error. I have been doing some reading on this on several posts, there some ways with jquery controls that too led to same OOM, because of the chunk merging in the server side code. I'm looking for solution with .NET to stream files directly to REST API in a web application, if available.
I have set maxRequestLength and maxAllowedContentLength to max values.
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1" maxRequestLength="2097152"/>

<security>
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    <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2147483648"/>
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Below is the response on uploading large files.
            HTTP / 1.1 500 Internal Server Error
            Cache - Control: private
            Content-Length: 9918
            Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
            Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
            X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
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With the Ontario election 80 days away, Wynne's speech from the Throne is in the spotlight
Public Affairs and Government Relations|March 20, 2018
Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne
Ontario Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell delivered the Ontario Government's Throne Speech on Monday, March 19th, on behalf of Premier Kathleen Wynne and her government. The speech, which read like an election platform, contained promises of new investments in health care, home care, mental health and students that will plunge the province back into deficit.
The Ontario Government's plan is for the deficit to be about one per cent of Ontario's GDP – or $8 billion. This breaks a key promise by the Wynne government to achieve balance.
"It is the right thing to do in support of a fairer way forward," the government argued in the speech. "… after delivering a balanced Budget this year, your government has made a deliberate choice to make more investments in the care and the services that the people of this province rely on."
As is the protocol, Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell read the speech in the legislature at Queen's Park.
Typically, a Speech from the Throne sets out or resets the government's agenda – but the Wynne government's speech was much more than that.
With an election scheduled for June 7, however, this speech (called suddenly late last week) had the feel of a pre-election public relations play, aimed at winning back voters for the June general election. Facing historic lows in public opinion polls and a newly crowned populist Progressive Conservative leader in Doug Ford, Premier Wynne and her team need to take some bold measures to be competitive in June.
Delivering a Throne Speech now, just days before they are to table a crucial pre-election budget, wipes the slate clean to focus attention entirely on the government's priorities in advance of the election and attempts to take the spotlight from the Ford Tories.
Today's speech also aims to peel left-leaning voters away from the NDP, veering far left with promises to bolster multiple programs to help women and middle class Ontario families.
This two-pronged strategy – review the investments already made, hint at what's in next week's budget, talk about it for a week and then release the budget – guarantees a lot of focus on the Liberal agenda.
In addition, there was a gentle tone to the speech – it was all about caring, fairness and helping Ontarians succeed now to better equip them later against the threats of "hyper-globalization." There were repeated references to "your government."
This is, perhaps, in contrast to what the Liberals are expecting from Mr. Ford, who has said he will throw out former leader Patrick Brown's centrist platform, the People's Guarantee.
In the first few interviews he has done as PC leader, Mr. Ford has talked about the dire state of the province's finances and rejecting a carbon tax.
The Liberal government is attempting to draw a stark contrast, as can be seen from lines such as: "We do not accept that people should fend for themselves, and see if they make it on their own."
The speech also made a number of references to climate change and the environment, which is an area where the Liberals and PCs are now at odds.
"These are fights that our children and grandchildren can't afford for us to lose," the government says in its speech. "Ontario eliminated coal-fired power, making our air cleaner and lowering our rates of childhood asthma. But you cannot be serious about lowering emissions and fighting climate change without a price on carbon pollution."
Speech Highlights
"Significant" investments in the operation of hospitals, reducing wait times.
Major investments for mental health and opioid addictions.
Costs of childcare will be addressed, suggesting some kind of relief?
Expansion of the government's "free tuition" program for some college and university students.
Expansion of the government's pharmacare program, announced in last year's budget. The program, offering free prescription drugs for any Ontarian under age 24, kicked in Jan. 1. "More people without a drug or dental benefits plan will have access to more affordable prescription drugs and dental care," the government said in the Throne Speech.
Budget 2018 will lay out the plan to get the province back to a balanced budget.
Written by Jane Taber
The Premier unplugged
Public Affairs and Government RelationsMarch 13, 2018


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USA: Capital One Financial Fined $390 Million Penalty After Admitting To US Treasury That It WILLFULLY Violated Anti-Money Laundering Laws Helping Organized Crime Abuse The System.
Capital One has been fined $390 million for willful and negligent violations of U.S. anti-money laundering law. https://t.co/nhuSUMyMJF
— FCCED - Financial Crimes News (@FinCrimeEdu) January 16, 2021
Capital One fined $390M for 'willful' anti-money-laundering failures
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Capital One Financial has been hit with a $390 million penalty after admitting to the U.S. Treasury Department that it willfully violated anti-money laundering requirements between 2008 and 2014.
The problems, which involved a unit that served cash-checking businesses and has since been shut down, were first revealed years ago. But documents released Friday by Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network contained new details, including Capital One's admission that it failed to file suspicious activity reports even when it knew about criminal charges against specific customers.
"The failures outlined in this enforcement action are egregious," Fincen Director Kenneth Blanco said in a press release. "Capital One willfully disregarded its obligations under the law in a high-risk business unit."
A Capital One spokesperson said in an email that the McLean, Va.-based company is pleased to resolve the matter, calling it the last remaining government inquiry into a now-defunct business, and saying that the firm was fully reserved to pay the nine-digit penalty.
"Capital One takes its anti-money laundering obligations very seriously," the company spokesman said. "The bank has invested heavily in the enhancement of its AML program over the past several years under new AML leadership, and has worked closely with regulators and law enforcement to ensure our compliance processes and protocols are robust and thorough."
Capital One acquired the check cashing group in its 2006 purchase of New York-based North Fork Bank. The unit's customers included dozens of check cashers in the New York and New Jersey areas, according to a document that Fincen made public on Friday. Services that the unit included check processing and armored car cash shipments.
Capital One acknowledged errors involving currency transaction reports, which banks are required to file with the government when customers conduct cash transactions over $10,000. The $422 billion-asset admitted that it was negligent in failing to file the reports on roughly 50,000 transactions totaling more than $16 billion.
Capital One also admitted that it failed to file suspicious activity reports in connection with Domenick Pucillo, who owned numerous check-cashing businesses in the New York area. Pucillo was described Friday by Fincen as a convicted member of the Genovese organized crime family and the fourth-largest customer of Capital One's business unit that served check cashers.
The bank learned in 2013 about potential criminal charges against Pucillo in New Jersey. Nonetheless, Capital One subsequently allowed Pucillo's entities to conduct more than 20,000 transactions worth roughly $160 million through 23 deposit accounts, according to Fincen.
Capital One shut down the commercial banking unit that served check-cashing businesses in 2014. Five years later, Pucillo pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money in connection with loan sharking and illegal gambling proceeds that flowed through his Capital One accounts, Fincen stated.
"Capital One's egregious failures allowed known criminals to use and abuse our nation's financial system unchecked, fostering criminal activity and allowing it to continue and flourish at the expense of victims and other citizens," Blanco said. "These kinds of failures by financial institutions, regardless of their size and believed influence, will not be tolerated."
Fincen said that Capital One took significant steps to cooperate with its investigation and to remediate the problems, which it took into account in determining the size of the fine assessed. The civil money penalty totaled $390 million, but Capital One was credited $100 million for a penalty that it paid to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2018.
The OCC imposed an enforcement action on Capital One in 2015 in connection with anti-money laundering compliance inside the same business unit. That consent order was closed in 2019.
Capital One Fined for Anti-Money-Laundering Deficiencies
Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said the bank admitted it had failed to maintain effective controls in a check-cashing businesshttps://t.co/Heai4bgcuY #FinCENFiles
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) January 17, 2021
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The Treasury Department on Friday said it fined Capital One COF -1.63% Financial Corp. for "willfully failing to implement and maintain" effective anti-money-laundering controls.
As part of the settlement, Capital One admitted that it "willfully failed to file thousands of suspicious-activity reports," according to the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The allegations pertain to a check-cashing group that Capital One acquired when it bought North Fork Bank in 2006.
FinCEN said it had assessed a $390 million penalty but that it agreed to give Capital One credit for a $100 million penalty it paid to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2018. The OCC is an independent branch of the Treasury.
Capital One also acknowledged that its actions violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Financial institutions are required to work with the government to detect and prevent money laundering.
The allegations cover practices between at least 2008 and 2014, the same year Capital One exited the check-cashing business.
FinCEN said Capital One's actions caused "millions of dollars in suspicious transactions to go unreported in a timely and accurate manner, including proceeds connected to organized crime, tax evasion, fraud, and other financial crimes laundered through the bank into the U.S. financial system."
"Capital One's egregious failures allowed known criminals to use and abuse our nation's financial system unchecked," FinCEN's director, Kenneth Blanco, said in a statement.
FinCEN said Capital One was aware of the money-laundering risks associated with the check-cashing group, in part because of warnings by regulators and criminal charges against some customers. FinCEN said the bank acknowledged failing to file suspicious-activity reports even when it had knowledge of criminal charges against customers, including a convicted associate of the Genovese organized-crime family.
A Capital One spokeswoman said the bank takes its anti-money-laundering obligations seriously. The bank "has invested heavily in the enhancement of its AML program over the past several years under new AML leadership, and has worked closely with regulators and law enforcement to ensure our compliance processes and protocols are robust and thorough."
She said the bank had set aside money to fully cover the fine and that it has already paid the FinCEN penalty, adding that there is no further financial impact to the company.
Capital One disclosed several years ago that it was under investigation by FinCEN, as well as the New York District Attorney's Office and the Justice Department, over anti-money-laundering practices related to former check-casher clients.
The bank said Friday's settlement is the last remaining government inquiry related to this check-cashing group.


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Home 2021 AFL Players | All Players Taylor Walker Walker breaks silence following West Lakes return
Walker breaks silence following West Lakes return
The former skipper has spoken openly for the first time since being suspended for a racial slur.
December 3, 2021 - 11:51am
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 06: Taylor Walker of the Crows looks dejected after losing the round 16 AFL match between the Richmond Tigers and the Adelaide Crows at Melbourne Cricket Ground on July 6, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Ex-Crows captain Taylor Walker has spoken candidly about his experience on the outer at Adelaide following his racial slur directed at North Adelaide player Robbie Young.
While the 31-year-old made his first appearance at the club's West Lakes headquarters last week, Walker's open airing on Triple M provided the public with their first opportunity to hear from the Crows' five-time leading goalkicker.
Walker commenced by stating that his decision to demean Young had come with consequences, but also an opportunity to grow as a person.
"I certainly learnt a lot about myself, my Indigenous teammates, past and present, and certainly the community," he said on radio waves.
"It's something that's going to forever be there, it's never going to go away, and I'm looking forward to trying to make a difference in the community."
BALLARAT, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 25: Taylor Walker and his Crows team mates look dejected after losing the round 23 AFL match between the Western Bulldogs and the Adelaide Crows at Mars Stadium on August 25, 2019 in Ballarat, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Walker also delineated that the turmoil had extended onto members of his family.
"One of the toughest things was seeing how much my family did hurt, especially my wife," the 220-gamer revealed.
"She was an amazing support for me the whole time. You just don't get through these things by yourself.
"I've had a few people that have supported me immensely through this and I suppose when you go things like this you understand who your true friends and family and mates are."
The club veteran also suggested that he felt like the new boy upon returning to pre-season training such was his stress surrounding his teammate's acceptance levels.
"It felt like I was five or six years old going to my first day of school back in Broken Hill," he said.
"Bit of the unknown, but the boys were quite welcoming when I came back. Get back and kicking the footy around is what I love doing, so it's been awesome to be back around the footy club."
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 16: Taylor Walker of the Crows walks off at half time during the round 13 AFL match between the Hawthorn Hawks and the Adelaide Crows at Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 16, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
While Walker's slur will see him unavailable for senior selection for the first three weeks of the 2022 AFL season, the spearhead remained coy aboutplans following his ban.
"That's a bridge we'll cross at Round 4. You just control what you can and that's getting fit over pre-season and having a bit of fun," he said.
"I look forward to trying to fast-track our young group. We've got some good recruits in, we've got some players (returning) that we didn't see much of last year in Wayne Milera and Matty Crouch.
"If we can get those guys up and going and playing, I reckon we're in a good spot."
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 28: Taylor Walker of the Crows looks on during the round 19 AFL match between the Adelaide Crows and the Melbourne Demons at Adelaide Oval on July 28, 2018 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images)
Walker's 220-appearances in a tri-coloured jumper sees him sit on the 15th rung for games played for the club and his 489-goals has him atop the Crows' all-time charts.
Following his slur directed at the former Saint, the NSW/ACT Rams product missed the final pair of games last season after commencing his campaign with bags of five, six and six across the opening three rounds.
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