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25 Marvel Endgame Facts to Know Before Watching The Movie
by Theodoros II April 12, 2019, 6:00 am
With a couple of weeks left before it arrives in theaters, you're probably anticipating the following 25 Marvel Endgame Facts to Know Before Watching the Movie. So what exactly are we going to see in this new film?
The remaining heroic Avengers saving the universe hopefully, or what's left of it. Following the catastrophic events of Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos destroyed over half of life in the universe. However, hope never dies.
With the surviving universe in ashes, the remaining Avengers and their allies will do everything to stop the evil Thanos. They have to bring peace back to the universe. Are they going to make it? We don't know yet.
However, from the 10-minutes footage we watched, we managed to collect this list for you. So, without further ado, here are 25 Marvel Endgame Facts to Know Before Watching the Movie.
Breaking records already
The film has yet to be released and it's already breaking records. One of the records the film has broken; becoming the first official trailer in YouTube history to reach over a million likes in less than four hours.
More broken records
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a27025208/avengers-endgame-tickets-pre-sale-records-broken-six-hours/
Endgame also broke the record for being the film with the most pre-sale tickets sold within 24 hours. The crazy thing is that it didn't even need 24 hours to accomplish that. It broke the record in only six hours.
What? Even more broken records?
https://screenrant.com/avengers-endgame-movie-records/
The Endgame trailer amassed an incredible 289 million views in the first 24 hours, beating its predecessor Infinity Wars. The former record holder had a total of 230 million views in its first 24 hours.
Film number 22
It's going to be the 22nd film to be released by Marvel Studios for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Over 3 hours of action
Endgame will be three hours and two minutes long, or 182 minutes if you prefer. To put it simply, it will be the longest Marvel movie in history.
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Home to the infamous three Disa Towers, here you'll find hidden eateries like The Woodlands Eatery or Lazari delightfully scattered throughout the area. Luckily, this neighbourhood has remained largely immune to chain restaurants, which has kept the character of this area in tact.
It's laid-back, cosy and spoils visitors with city views that are unparalleled.
Literally sitting smack, bang on the border of Oranjezicht and Vredehoek, on Vredehoek Avenue, is Bao Down.
Both neighbourhoods would surely claim it as their own, as it's one of those places you want to return to every single night after your first visit.
Exquisite Asian fusion food, presented beautifully in a space that is a retro-lover's daydream. The service is excellent and the wine list features lesser-known local wine producers like Donkiesbaai on the West Coast.
But Derry Street is really where it's at. Great pizza at Carlyles On Derry, coffee at the Red Sofa Cafe and breakfast lunch, dinner and even sundowners at the area's much-loved, The Sidewalk Cafe.
Part of the Madame Zingara stable, its a friendly find offering yummy food at a good price.
The Vredehoek Kwik Spar is famous for being Cape Town's coolest Spar. Yes.
Here, and only here, you'll find market-fresh produce for cheap. A bag of lemons for R14?! What?
It is also known for having the best raw salmon, tuna and steak in town at mind-blowing prices.
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So why is something merely a week old considered history? It falls under the category of contemporary history… relevant things that are produced today must be saved just like something that is 20, 40 or 60 years old. Too much of 4-H history has been lost over the past century. One of the goals of the National 4-H History Preservation Program is to remind people to save the current "history" as well.


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November 30, 2018 Black Lung
An E&E News story published today highlights Congress's inaction on the RECLAIM Act and the issues facing the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. The story features quotes from retired miner and ACLC client Kenny Fleming (pictured above, left) and ACLC staff Eric Dixon. E&E's Dylan Brown reports:
Advocates frustrated by inaction on black lung, cleanup bill
Dylan Brown, E&E News reporter
Residents of coal country went to Capitol Hill this week to demand action on black lung funding and abandoned mine reclamation legislation.
More than a dozen people, aided by regional advocacy groups, pushed lawmakers to extend the current rate of the coal production tax for black lung disease benefits and pass H.R. 1731, the "Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More (RECLAIM) Act."
At the end of the year, the black lung tax rate is set to drop from $1.10 to 50 cents per ton at underground mines and 55 to 25 cents per ton at surface mines.
But a broad tax package that the House will vote on today would postpone that reduction for one year (E&E Daily, Nov. 28). Advocates and workers wanted more.
"It's a good start, it's not actually good enough," said Kenny Fleming, 59, a retired Kentucky coal miner with black lung.
Fleming blamed his fatal, incurable disease on working conditions during his 35 years underground.
"The coal companies need to step up and accept responsibility for using us as machines to further their already lucrative profits," he said.
The coal industry has lobbied against extending the tax rate, blaming the recent spike in the number of black lung cases on the loosening of benefit eligibility criteria.
Vonda Robinson, a Black Lung Association chapter member from Coeburn, Va., just worries about being able to afford her husband's $3,800 a month in black lung medicine. Diagnosed in 2013, John Robinson, 47, has the lungs of a 77-year-old, Vonda Robinson said.
"This is not getting better," she said. "This is [an] epidemic."
Even at the current tax rate, the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is expected to be $15.4 billion in debt by 2050, according to the Government Accountability Office.
A June report found that returning the fund to solvency requires increasing the black lung tax rate by 25 percent (E&E News PM, June 4).
"That's the action that Congress should be taking," said Eric Dixon, policy coordinator for the Appalachian Citizens' Law Center. "We should be achieving solvency for this really important fund."
'RECLAIM Act'
Dixon's group and others are also championing the "RECLAIM Act," a bill that would fund coal mine reclamation work leading directly to economic growth.
With 23 Republican and 17 Democratic co-sponsors, Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) is shepherding the bill that would more quickly disperse $1 billion already in the Abandoned Mine Land Fund to states already expecting to receive it.
"The people in a vast number of these communities are suffering and have been suffering for far too long, and they will continue to do so until these abandoned mines are cleaned up," United Steelworkers Local 1123 Vice President Katrina Fitzgerald said.
The coal industry opposes the legislation, arguing the economic focus diverts money that should go toward cleaning up the most hazardous coal sites. The bill has also become a proxy war in the fight to reauthorize the fee that sustains the AML Fund (Greenwire, Nov. 14).
But Dan Fisher, the son and grandson of Illinois miners, said the region has earned the "RECLAIM Act" after supplying the nation with so much fuel.
"We owe it to them … to provide jobs, maybe not for them, but for their offspring when the mines won't be there," he said.
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My daughter is going to college next year. We have to file the FAFSA in October. We have money in our savings account that we saved for emergency reasons and some for my daughter's college. Will this affect her chance in getting grants or loans? What should we do? — G.N.
Money in a savings account counts as an asset on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and may affect eligibility for need-based student financial aid. Most personal finance experts recommend keeping 3 to 6 months salary in an
emergency or rainy day fund. The size of the emergency fund is based on the average duration of unemployment. During the current economic downturn, some people recommended increasing the size of the emergency fund to 6 to 12 months salary.
The FAFSA does not have an exclusion for money in an emergency fund. This is in contrast with the CSS Financial Aid PROFILE Form, which subtracts an allowance for emergency reserves from assets. The PROFILE is a supplemental form used by about 250 mostly private colleges for awarding their own institutional aid funds. This is one of the few areas in which an institutional need analysis formula may yield a lower expected family contribution than the federal need analysis methodology. Despite the lack of an exclusion for emergency funds on the FAFSA, the impact of parent assets on the student's eligibility for need-based aid is often small. If the parents qualify for the simplified needs test, all assets will be disregarded on the FAFSA. To be eligible for the simplified needs test, the parents' adjusted gross income must be less than $50,000 and the parents must have been eligible to file an IRS Form 1040A or 1040EZ. (There are other ways of qualifying for the simplified needs test, such as by qualifying for certain means-tested federal benefit programs.) Even if the family does not qualify for the simplified needs test, the FAFSA ignores the net worth of the family's principal place of residence, the value of any small businesses owned and controlled by the family, and assets in qualified retirement plan accounts. There is also an asset protection allowance based on the age of the older parent that shelters about $40,000 to $50,000 of parent assets for most parents. (The asset protection allowance is based on the present cost of an annuity which would, at retirement, supplement Social Security benefit payments to a moderate living standard. The asset protection allowance can vary significantly from one year to the next based on changes in the Consumer Price Index.) Any remaining reportable parent assets are assessed according to a bracketed scale, with a top bracket of 5.64 percent.
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There are ways of reducing the impact of parent assets to zero, but each method has its own flaws. Most approaches involve saving or investing the money in a non-reportable asset, such as a qualified retirement plan account. (Investing the money in a small business or using it to pay down the mortgage on the family home may work for federal and state student aid, but not for money from the college's own need-based financial aid funds.) The flaws in these approaches do not make them suitable solutions for sheltering an emergency fund. One approach is to save the money in a Roth IRA, which is not reported as an asset on the FAFSA. Given the low annual contribution limits on a Roth IRA, using this strategy will take several years to implement. So long as one does not take a distribution from the Roth IRA while the student is enrolled in college, it will have no impact on need-based aid eligibility. But the family cannot take any distributions from the Roth IRA, not even a tax-free return of contributions. A tax-free return of contributions will be reported as untaxed income on the FAFSA. Regardless of whether the distribution is taxable or not, it will reduce aid eligibility by as much as half the distribution amount. Another approach involves saving the money in a whole life or cash value life insurance policy. These are not reported as assets on the FAFSA because they are treated like qualified retirement plan accounts. (Note, however, that there has been so much abuse of this provision that the favorable treatment of these life insurance policies may be eliminated in the future.) Any distributions from such a life insurance policy will count as untaxed income on the FAFSA, and may also involve high surrender charges. One could borrow from the life insurance policy's cash balance, but then the interest payments merely substitute for the income the money would have earned had it remained invested. Any unpaid interest will be added to the loan balance, causing the borrower to be charged interest on interest. This accrued but unpaid interest will eventually be treated as income by the IRS. The interest payments also cannot be deducted on the borrower's federal income tax return, unlike the interest on student and parent education loans. Even if the family does not take a distribution or loan from the cash balance, the return on investment after commissions and expenses is lousy, among the worst available. These products are more to the benefit of the salesperson than to the insured. Both of these approaches suffer from a critical flaw, in that they tend to limit access to the investment. A rainy day fund must be saved in an easy-to-access liquid form, such as a savings account or money market account. If an emergency arises, the family will need quick access to the money. Most methods of sheltering money from need analysis are not very liquid and will result in a significant penalty by reducing the student's eligibility for need-based financial aid. This will hurt the family even further at a time of severe financial distress.
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In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together... On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophélie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to draw—and can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companion—until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophélie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophélie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of loss—to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date....MORE
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The Sad Truth About Jerry Jones' North Little Rock School Photo
H. Drew Blackburn Nov 30, 2022 4 min read
Yes, the Dallas Cowboys owner's racism is hard to deny, but the infamous picture taken at a 1957 desegregation protest nods to an even more terrifying reality
Last week, before people started to prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Washington Post unearthed some news I don't think anybody had on their bingo cards: Jerral Wayne Jones, better known as the owner of the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones, was one of the white boys in a crowd that harassed and tried to prevent Black students from desegregating North Little Rock High in Arkansas on Sept 9, 1957.
This isn't to be confused with Little Rock Central High, where the Little Rock Nine busted through the doors, though that did take place during the same month across the Arkansas River just four miles south. The news is surprising because, first of all, what type of name is Jerral? And second of all, it's wild how close Jones was to having his very own Forrest Gump moment. Just a hop, skip, and a mile away. I'm only shocked by the revelation because I didn't see it coming, but dear reader, I was born a Cowboys fan, and will in all likelihood sadly die a Cowboys fan. I know me some Jerry. I'll invent a Jerryism of my own to tell you how I feel about this. Let me tell ya, it's like getting bit in the behind by a pooch in the dark, just because you might not be expecting it, don't mean it's not in the beast's nature.
The photo, captured by William P. Straeter of the Associated Press, doesn't see Jones snarling or anything like that, just peering into the crowd. On most of the boys' faces you can see animus in their eyes, but in that snapshot, Jones looks genuinely curious. This is what he told the Washington Post about why he was there. He said even though his head football coach gave the team a clear directive to steer clear of the scene because there might be trouble, he went anyway. He just had to see. "I don't know that I or anybody anticipated or had a background of knowing … what was involved," he told the Post. "It was more a curious thing." As far as I'm concerned, all those kids in that photo are racist little shits—that includes the curious cat Jones, too. There's really no evidence of the contrary.
Jones' response, when asked by the Post about his presence, wasn't an admonishment of the obscene display of racism that day. He didn't empathize with the Black children who were terrorized. He didn't reveal that his curiosity led to disgust. He didn't say he was opposed to the integration (which is the most likely case), but has since changed or grown in the decades since. There are many roads he could have traveled in explaining his presence in the photo, but he chose the route of trying to divert your attention away from what he really thought. No honest reflection on that day, because he's a hall-of-fame deflector. To use another Jerryism: You can't throw peaches on bull-you-know-what and try to sell it off as peach cobbler, it's still bull-you-know-what.
The disturbing thing is knowing that, just like Jerry inherited racism from his elders and environment, everybody else in that photo probably carried on tradition, too, in ways that are slight and immeasurable.
Benevolent racism is still, well, racism. One of the reasons Jones has been so successful is because in many ways he can relate to Black people better than any other NFL owner will ever dream of until the day there's a Black person who owns an NFL team. This is in part because of the way he grew up. His father, every bit of the smooth-talking showman and shrewd businessman Jones would become, owned the only integrated grocery store in town. When he was a kid, he passed out advertisements in the peculiarly named Black part of town, Dixie Addition. He became familiar with the people there. However, just a few months after that photo was taken at North Little Rock High, Jerry's father, Pat, ran for local office. His views on full integration were that he stood for "states' rights."
We are products of our origins. Jones' father was an anti-integration man who sold food to Black people in a store where they could walk through the front door. Jones' grandfather was a bit more unrepentant, a dues-paying member of the Capital Citizens' Council, the Little Rock version of the White Citizen's Council. Jones, who was a captain of the national championship-winning University of Arkansas football team in 1964, didn't have a Black teammate until the year after he had graduated. (The player who broke the color line, Darrell Brown, never actually got the chance to play because he sustained an ankle injury.)
It's silly to think a man with all of this in his lineage could be anything other than racist. It should be the assumption until they prove otherwise, and pussyfooting around issues of race and racism is not the evidence of otherwise. We know he threatened players with punishment if they followed Colin Kaepernick's lead. We also know the Dallas Cowboys has never hired a Black head coach. Furthermore, his team has only employed two Black men as coordinators—Maurice Carthon on offense and Brian Stewart on the other side of the ball. Both of their tenures only lasted one year. Jones is just like his daddy and like his daddy's daddy, too, albeit a bit more subtle, cowardly, and keenly aware of what Black people can do for him.
The most haunting thing about that photo isn't the presence of one of the most famous owners in sports. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't—we know about who Jerry Jones is and about a lot of his dirt. The disturbing thing is knowing that, just like Jerry inherited racism from his elders and environment, everybody else in that photo probably carried on tradition, too, in ways that are slight and immeasurable. We don't know what type of power they've amassed, where their kids are, or their grandchildren. Did they help enact racist policies? Throw a job application in the garbage because of the color of somebody's skin? Did they do something unthinkable in the quiet of the night? Where were these people and their bloodlines on January 6, 2021? What jobs did the boys in that photo take and what did they teach their children?
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Ustilago is a genus of approximately 200 smut fungi parasitic on grasses.

Uses
Ustilago maydis is eaten as a traditional Mexican food in many parts of the country, and is even available canned. Farmers have even been known to spread the spores around on purpose to create more of the fungus. It is known in central Mexico by the Nahuatl name huitlacoche. Peasants in other parts of the country call it "hongo de maíz," i.e. "maize fungus."

The genome of U. maydis has been sequenced.

See also
 Corn smut

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London, July 20, GNA – Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin, 53, has become the first black woman to deliver an Inaugural Lecture in the almost 190-year history of King's College London, the fourth oldest university in England.
"Not before now has a black woman grown and risen through the ranks at King's to become a professor and to give an Inaugural Lecture for the first time in its esteemed history," she told a packed auditorium at the university.
The Lecture is usually given by "newly-promoted or appointed professors to inform colleagues in the university and the general public, about their research career so far; and update colleagues on their current and future research directions".
Born to Nigerian parents in South London, Prof Olonisakin spent her formative years in Nigeria where she obtained a BSc in political science at Obafemi Awolowo University in 1984.
Returning to London, she received an MA in War Studies (1990) and a PhD also in War Studies (1996) from King's College.
At King's she is currently Professor of Security, Leadership and Development at the African Leadership Centre (ALC) in the School of Global Affairs, and Vice-President/Vice-Principal (International).
She established and acted as the founding director of the ALC in 2010, which aims to build the next generation of African scholars and analysts generating cutting edge knowledge for conflict, security and development in Africa.
A number of Ghanaians have been students at the ALC, which offers a Masters course in London and a Women's Fellowship programme in Nairobi.
For over 20 years, Prof Olonisakin researched issues at the intersection of security and development, positioning her work to serve as a bridge between academia, policy and practice.
She has contributed to efforts to tackle the structural roots of armed conflict in developing countries, particularly in Africa.
In the last decade, Prof Olonisakin led multi-country research projects on reframing narratives of peace and state building in Africa and on leadership and peacebuilding in Africa.
Her current research is on "Future Peace and the role of the State in Africa".
Prof Olonisakin worked at the UN between 1999 and 2003 before returning to King's.
In January 2015, she was appointed by the then UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, as one of seven members of the Advisory Group of Experts on the Review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture.
She is currently a member of the UN Group of Experts for the Global Study of Youth, Peace and Security.
Not surprisingly, in her inaugural lecture, Prof Olonisakin placed some emphasis on her time at the UN, pointing out that her "experience as a staff member of the United Nations… transformed my worldview".
"First, Africa's footprint on the UN Security Council's agenda was hugely disproportionate to the continent's representation in the places where decisions about the destiny of Africans were being made," she said.
"Second, the voice of young people was glaringly absent – notwithstanding my own privileged position – particularly African youth (most especially women), who were rarely found among the JPOs [Junior Professional Officers] and interns.
"Again, power dynamics were at play such that only wealthier member states who provided voluntary contributions and other support to the relevant UN offices had Junior Professional Officers in the Secretariat," Prof Olonisakin told her audience.
"Thirdly, far too few African representatives seemed to grasp these realities and the structural flaws that stunted the progress of the UN in various ways.
"If they did, it was not apparent in their actions.
Prof Olonisakin went on: "Security Studies and Peace Studies were not always closely integrated notwithstanding that the imperatives of the post-Cold War era aligned their objectives.
"The pursuit of negative peace that is bringing violence to an end had become an end in itself without corresponding investments in conflict transformation.
"Fifth and linked to the last point, what has become a peacebuilding dilemma and posed a major challenge for the UN peace and security agenda is the problem of conflict relapse.
"In about 50 per cent of cases where the UN has intervened to build peace, it has returned to make peace again within 10 years," Prof Olonisakin added.
She pointed out that available data also suggested that the UN had mainly deployed its peace intervention in traditional conflict situations.
"The capacity to respond flexibly to new security threats or low intensity conflicts has been less obvious," she continued.
"Overall, sadly, our orientation as UN staff was almost religiously focused on the perspectives of state officials.
"I was somewhat unquestioning about the idealised pursuit of a particular kind of democratic state.
"By seeking a romantic – idealised solution – we risk doing more harm than good or at best doing no good, notwithstanding all of our good intentions," Prof Olonisakin said.
The University of Pretoria in South Africa appointed her as an Extra-Ordinary Professor in 2016, following an earlier award as a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Scholar on Peace and Conflict in 2013.
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy also appointed her as a Distinguished Fellow in April 2014.
She was Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Group at King's from 2003 until 2013.
Prof Olonisakin worked in the Office of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, overseeing the Africa programme.
In this role, she facilitated the establishment of the National Commission for War Affected Children in Sierra Leone and the Child Protection Unit in the Economic Community of West African States.


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Q: Best way to send data to server through ajax() From searching the web, I found this two method to send data into the server by jQuery .ajax() the first method is working fine for me but I need to keep the code cleaner (since I have more items to send to server than this example).
How can I use this second way of wrapping data? and which one is better?
1-
var uid = $('.userid').val();
var em = $('.emailadd').val();
var data='userid='+uid+'&emailadd='+em;
var request = $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "assets/.../exe.php",
    data: data,

});

2-
var uid = $('.userid').val();
var em = $('.emailadd').val();
var data={userid: "uid", emailadd: "em"};
var request = $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "assets/.../exe.php",
    data: data,

});

A: This is idiomatic:
var request = $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "assets/.../exe.php",
    data: {
        userid: $('.userid').val (),
        em: $('.emailadd').val ()
    },
});

As was mentioned, perhaps you should read the docs before asking questions.

A: Although the first is clean, my advise would be to create a JSON line, and sending it through the data. You will need to create the JSON string, and then parse it, as such:
var text = '{ "employees" : [' + '{ "firstName":"John" , "lastName":"Doe" },' + '{ "firstName":"Anna" , "lastName":"Smith" },' + '{ "firstName":"Peter" , "lastName":"Jones" } ]}';

And then:
var obj = JSON.parse(text);

What you will do is assign that obj into the data and encode it, so:
var data=json_encode(obj);

And on the receiving side you will have to "json_decode" it to be able to access it by writing:
obj.employees[1].firstName;

Read more about JSON here:
http://www.w3schools.com/json/default.asp

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Q: Fail to Inject ComponentFactoryResolver I tried to use ComponentFactoryResolver to create dynamic angular component. The below is my code to inject ComponentFactoryResolver.
import { Component, ComponentFactoryResolver, OnInit, ViewChild } from "@angular/core";

@Component({
    selector: "app-component",
    template: `
        <h1>{{title}}</h1>
    `
})
export default class AppComponent implements OnInit {

    private title = "Hello World";

    constructor(private componentFactoryResolver: ComponentFactoryResolver){

    }

    ngOnInit() {}

}

It throw the below exception in browser console.
Error: Can't resolve all parameters for AppComponent: (?).

The used dependency (package.json). I use webpack to compile js and include js in HTML for run.
{
  "name": "angular_hello_world_example",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "build": "webpack",
    "watch": "webpack --progress --colors --watch"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "@angular/common": "^5.1.3",
    "@angular/compiler": "^5.1.3",
    "@angular/core": "^5.1.3",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "^5.1.3",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^5.1.3",
    "core-js": "^2.5.3",
    "rxjs": "^5.5.6",
    "zone.js": "^0.8.19"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^9.3.0",
    "babel-core": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-loader": "^7.1.2",
    "ts-loader": "^3.1.1",
    "typescript": "^2.6.1"
  }
}

Additional Information for Module Declaration
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import AppComponent from './AppComponent';

@NgModule({
    declarations: [
      AppComponent
    ],
    imports: [
      BrowserModule
    ],
    providers: [],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
  })
export default class AppModule {

}

A: Thanks @estus. It is due to incorrect ts config. emitDecoratorMetadata is missing in tsconfig.json.
tsconfig.json
{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "es5",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "sourceMap": true,
        "outDir": "target",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "allowJs": true,
        "experimentalDecorators": true,
        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true
    },
    "include": [
        "src/**/*"
    ]
}


It is recognized that research contracts or grants may be awarded on short notice, precluding lengthy searches for postdoctoral positions, particularly when the duration of the contract may be for only one or two years.
Departments or research units which may require personnel for such postdoctoral positions may create a pool of qualified candidates for these anticipated positions. A department or research unit wishing to establish such a pool must receive written approval from the Dean. The request/approval must be renewed annually for the postdoc pool position number. At least once each year, the department or research unit must advertise that from time to time postdoctoral positions become available under a variety of research grants and projects. A college may choose to utilize one posting for all departments and research units within the college. The specializations for which postdoctoral positions are anticipated must be included in the advertisement.
Both online and printed media may be utilized to advertise anticipated positions. These may include the college's web site as well as web sites for professional journals and/or organizations. To address the University's commitment to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, it is suggested that notices be mailed to those universities graduating high numbers of minorities and to historically black college and universities, with notices to both being limited to those institutions with departments similar to the departments at Auburn which anticipate postdoctoral positions. The information should also be included in the block ad for faculty positions at Auburn University placed once each year by the Provost in minority publications.
The above process applies only to postdoctoral positions funded with contract or grant money and only in those cases where there is sufficient time to conduct a normal search process and complete the research in the time allotted by the contract or grant. In all other cases, the standard faculty recruitment process must be followed.
If a postdoc approaches a department with his/her own funding, no advertisement is required. The Department Head/Chair must submit a memorandum through the Dean to the Provost, indicating the research to be conducted and the AU faculty with whom the postdoc will work. The source of the funding must be identified as well as the duration of the requested appointment. The postdoc's vita and graduate transcripts must be attached to the memorandum.


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FTC drags AT&T to court over 'deceptive and unfair' throttling of unlimited data users
Christian Zibreg on October 28, 2014
It's sad that we've grown accustomed to greedy carriers and their unlimited data deals. Not only does unlimited service typically come with lots of strings attached, carriers have dumb excuses ready once folks realize their data speeds are being throttled.
Having decided not to let it slide, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now taking AT&T to court over what it called "deceptive and unfair data throttling" policy.
As announced on Twitter and via a media release, the FTC's federal court complaint alleges that the Dallas, Texas headquartered firm in some cases reduced data speeds for unlimited customers by up to 90 percent while failing to explain in clear and concise manner why and when throttling would take place.
"AT&T promised its customers 'unlimited' data," reads the complaint, "and in many instances, it has failed to deliver on that promise".
"The issue here is simple: 'unlimited' means unlimited," said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. AT&T's other sin: the company avoided mentioning throttling to customers who were about to renew their unlimited contracts.
AT&T's marketing materials, the filing continues, emphasized the 'unlimited' amount of data that would be available to consumers who signed up for its unlimited plans.
And once unlimited consumers renewed their contracts, AT&T failed to as much as make a brief mention about data speed reduction, let alone inform customers of its throttling policy.
Lesson to mobile companies from FTC's 1st data throttling case: If u promise unlimited data, ur on hook to deliver: http://t.co/Q29FL8Am2V
— FTC (@FTC) October 28, 2014
The carrier began throttling unlimited data customers back in 2011, in some cases after they used as little as 2 gigabytes of data in a billing period.
The "severe" throttling program reduced data speeds between 80 to 90 percent. The FTC claims that AT&T has thus far throttled at least 3.5 million unique customers a total of more than 25 million times.
And when people canceled their contracts after being throttled, AT&T charged them early termination fees, "which typically amount to hundreds of dollars," the filing reads.
The carrier issued a statement in which it called the FTC's allegations "baseless" and said it's "baffling" as to why the FTC would choose to take this action against them.
AT&T, the statement insists, should be allowed to manage its network resources without being sued. AT&T approaches throttling in a way that's "fully transparent" and "consistent with the law" and its contracts, the statement reads.
"We have been completely transparent with customers since the very beginning," says the carrier. "We informed all unlimited data-plan customers via bill notices and a national press release that resulted in nearly 2,000 news stories, well before the program was implemented".
According to AT&T, its throttling program has affected only about three percent of its customers. And before any customer is affected, "they are also notified by text message".
Be that as it may, changing the terms of customers' unlimited data plans while people were still under contract is just plain wrong.
Are you glad that the FTC is taking AT&T to court over this?
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Chaplain Matthew, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing chaplain, speaks with Senior Airman Devin, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron avionics specialist, in the work center August 10, 2018, at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. Matthew spent 22 years in the U.S. Army as an infantryman, honor guardsman, and Apache helicopter pilot prior to becoming a U.S. Air Force Chaplain. He now leverages his combat experience to further help combat Airmen.
He's chatting to Remotely Piloted Aircraft Airmen and checking up with how they're doing, however, he's no ordinary chaplain.
Chaplain Matthew's hat sits alongside his military coins and patches accumulated from 22 years in the U.S. Army as an infantryman, honor guardsman, and Apache helicopter pilot prior to becoming a U.S. Air Force Chaplain. He now leverages his combat experience to further help combat Airmen at Creech Air Force Base, Nev.
Matthew, Northrop Grumman chief pilot, stands in front of his Russian Mil Mi-17 helicopter in Afghanistan in 2011. During this point in his career, Matthew also served in the U.S. Army Reserves while taking seminary classes online which would lead to his current assignment as a U.S. Air Force Chaplain at Creech Air Force Base, Nev.
Confused while still chewing his Meal Ready-To-Eat, Matthew didn't think it was possible, but the officer urged Matthew to take the chance without letting things like workload or self-doubt get in the way.
Chaplain Matthew's coins tell a story from the early part of his 25-year career starting U.S. Army as an infantryman, honor guardsman, and Apache helicopter pilot prior to becoming a U.S. Air Force Chaplain. He now leverages his combat experience to further help combat Airmen at Creech Air Force Base, Nev.
During those years, Matthew deployed multiple times, became an aircraft commander and an instructor pilot at Fort Rucker, Ala. As time went on, Matthew continued to grow in his faith and began dedicating himself to it. As he felt his life changing with God's word, he quit bad habits such as drinking, smoking and using profanity, finding ways to improve himself and his fellow service members.
Chaplain Matthew, 432nd Wing/432nd Air Expeditionary Wing chaplain, speaks with Senior Airman Devin, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron avionics specialist, in the work center August 10, 2018, at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. Matthew began his 25-year career in the U.S. Army as an infantryman. Through the years he has changed careers multiple times before becoming a U.S. Air Force Chaplain.
Two years after working at the position, Matthew received a call from parent company Northrop Grumman which offered him the job of chief pilot.
To alleviate his conflictions of the situation, Matthew consulted the elders of the church for guidance. With their support he buckled down and made the time to finish his coursework, oftentimes at the expense of his sleep.


When she was twenty-one years old in 1982, Sylvia became anxious and depressed over events in her life. Her internist at the time placed her on Triavil, a combination of the neuroleptic perphenazine (Trilafon) and the antidepressant amitriptyline (Elavil). Although most of her symptoms of anxiety cleared up over the years, her internist maintained her on the drug until he passed away in 1997. According to the standards of modern biological psychiatry, perphenazine is indicated for the treatment of psychosis but at no time in her life has Mrs. Jones displayed any symptoms of psychosis.
In 1997 internist Alan Margolis, M.D. took over Mrs. Jones treatment. Although she no longer suffered from any serious symptoms of anxiety, Dr. Margolis maintained her on Triavil until February 2003 when she developed a severe, painful and crippling torticollis (spasm of her neck). Subsequent physicians diagnosed her as suffering from neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia, a disorder that can afflict any voluntary muscle, including the face, neck, torso, and extremities, as well as speech, breathing and swallowing. The torticollis was a variant of tardive dyskinesia called tardive dystonia.
Since 2003 Mrs. Jones has been completely disabled by a variety of motor abnormalities associated with tardive dyskinesia. In addition to the spasms of her neck, her shoulders twist severely and she has facial and abdominal spasms. Her vocal cords are impaired, producing an abnormal tone of voice. She is weakened and cannot carry out tasks requiring coordination or strength. She suffers from chronic pain. Humiliation over her appearance has caused her to be socially isolated.
Tardive dyskinesia is caused by drugs that block the function of the neurotransmitter system called dopamine. Despite drug company propaganda to the contrary, the so-called atypical or second-generation neuroleptics such as Zyprexa (olanzapine), Risperdal (risperidone), Geodon (ziprasidone), Abilify (aripiprazole), and Seroquel (quetiapine) are potent dopamine blocks and therefore can cause tardive dyskinesia.
Rates for tardive dyskinesia are extraordinarily high: 3%-8% per year cumulative from year to year with the overall risk exceeding 40%-50% in long-term studies. Rates in the elderly are even higher: 20% or more per year cumulative.
In my initial evaluation I found that at no time during his treatment of Sylvia Jones' did Dr. Margolis adequately justify the use of neuroleptics. He failed to monitor the patient sufficiently, at one point prescribing for her over a period of more than two years without seeing her. He performed no specific examinations for TD, and he admittedly gave no warnings or education concerning the risks and symptoms of TD.
In defense of Dr. Margolis at the trial, a Florida psychiatrist argued that the patient's TD wasn't caused by the twenty years of neuroleptic exposure but by the very last dose that the patient supposedly took after her last visit with Dr. Margolis. The effects of the neuroleptics are in fact cumulative over time. A well-known Washington, DC internist argued that Dr. Margolis was not required to give the patient any warnings or education concerning TD since he was certain her original prescriber had given her this information at the start of treatment twenty years earlier. However, the original doctor was deceased and his records no longer existed. Besides, patients and their families need regular reminders about the risks of TD and about how to detect early signs. The internist also argued that Mrs. Jones could have phoned Dr. Margolis any time she developed early signs of TD. But the medical record confirmed that neither Mrs. Jones nor her family had any idea how to identify typical signs of TD.
As a medical expert hired by Mrs. Jones, I conducted the initial evaluation of her medical records and then evaluated her in my office. I provided consultation in planning the case and then in the courtroom during the trial. Originally scheduled as a rebuttal witness to the defense experts, I did not need to testify because the defense was so weak, and Mrs. Jones' attorney did such a good job discrediting the defense experts, that no rebuttal was required. Two treating physicians testified on behalf of Mrs. Jones.
There have been many previous malpractice verdicts against doctors, hospitals and clinics concerning tardive dyskinesia. I have been involved in half-a-dozen trials that resulted in verdicts for the plaintiffs. Juries have been wise enough to see through distortions and even outright lies by defense experts and have shown sympathy to patients even when they have been stigmatized with diagnoses like schizophrenia. Nonetheless, too many physicians and facilities fail to meet accepted standards for neuroleptic treatment. I continue to believe that the neuroleptics as a group cause more harm than good, and that their use should be curtailed or abandoned. If doctors provided truly informed consent, most patients and their families would refuse to take them. Involuntary treatment with these or any other drugs should be prohibited.
This commentary will appear as a part of Dr. Peter Breggin's feature column, "Politics, Practice & Breaking News," in the professional journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry published by Springer Publishing Company and sponsored by the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP). You can support psychiatric reform efforts by joining ICSPP and attending its annual meeting. Membership includes a subscription to the journal where you will find Dr. Breggin's regular column. For more information, go to the ICSPP website (www.ICSPP.org).


Nearly every country in the world shares the same gripe: the postal service. There's always the same complaints—lost packages, customs charges, or just unbearably slow service. There are still some things you just have to do via snail mail, like sending out tax returns or returning packages bought online, and you have to at least be able to trust that the mail will get to its destination eventually.
Residents of Vicenza in northeastern Italy have now lost that trust, after the bizarre discovery of almost half a ton of undelivered mail was found in the most ironic of places: a postman's garage.
The massive stash of mail—totaling 1,261 pounds—has been named the biggest seizure of mail in the history of Italy, the New York Daily Newsreports. The postman had allegedly been hoarding the pieces of mail for the past eight years, and it included all sorts of things: utility bills, bank statements, old phonebooks, and even political propaganda mail from the city's 2010 elections.
The postman, 56, has been arrested, but no motive has been reported. However, with a crime this weird, it's probably best to not know the reason behind it.
Since mail getting lost is not so unheard of that you'll report it to the police, the whole strange scheme was only discovered when a recycling center reported receiving 25 large yellow containers full of mail. Somehow, that led police straight to the rogue postman's garage in Vicenza.
The best part of the story is that the remaining pieces of mail will now—finally—be delivered.