Actions that keep it affordable for Alamedans to continue living here. We keep an eye on all costs of living, but when action is needed it's usually about housing. We want rent stabilization for renters who want to stay where they are, and creation of more affordable housing for those in the market who can't afford market prices.


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Sexual Assault & California Law
California made several important statue of limitation changes in regards to sexual assault this year.
On January 1, 2019, California law AB1619 went into effect. This new law extended the timeframe for adult victims of sexual assault. Before this law, adult victims of sexual assault had a two-year statue of limitations to file a civil lawsuit. This limitation meant filing had to occur within two years from either the assault itself or the reasonable discovery of injury caused by the assault. With this law in place, adult victims now have:
Ten years to file a lawsuit from the date of the last sexual assault act or attempted act or
Within three years of reasonable discovery that an injury resulted from the act
Then in October, 2019, Assembly Bill 218 passed which further extended the timeframe to report abuse and file a lawsuit. The changes this new law has made on the statute of limitations include:
Expanding the definition of childhood sexual abuse to include ALL instances of childhood sexual assault so that those victims of past abuse who had claims that expired due to the statute of limitations now have a three-year window to pursue reparations.
Creating a three-year window in which ALL claims of sexual assault can be brought in.
Expanding the deadline for filing childhood sexual abuse and assault case from 26 years of age to 40 and from three years to five years of when the survivor should discover or reasonably should have discovered that they suffered damages.
Allowing survivors to recover up to treble (or triple) damages in situations where there was an attempt to cover up their assault.
At Booth Law we specialize in institutional abuse and thus generally take on cases in which perpetrators take advantage of a lax or negligent institution in order to inflict abuse on trusting children. But while children are most often the victims of institutional abuse, there are adult outliers. Recently, we won a $1.3 million settlement on behalf of a confidential client who was molested by a hospital employee while she was in their care and incapacitated by a brain injury. Thanks to this new law, we can take on similar cases in which compromised adults were betrayed by the institutions they trusted and assaulted or otherwise neglected on account of it.
The second big change made this year happened in October with the passing of AB218 which will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Where the previous law focused on making changes to the statute of limitations as it pertained to sexual assault victims who were pass the age of majority at the time of their assault, this latest law pertains to children and to victims who were children at the time of their assault. Once this law goes into effect, it will offer:
An expansion of the legal definition of childhood sexual abuse to include all instances of childhood sexual assault. This aspect of the law change is important because it allows all victims to take advantage of the following law change:
A new and unique three-year window in which ALL claims of childhood sexual assault can be brought in. This is a one-time only move and it's important for victims of abuse that happened long ago to take advantage of this window.
A change to the statute of limitations for filing from 26 years of age to 40 and from three years of 'reasonable discovery' to five years.
A change to allow plaintiffs to recover as much as triple damages in situations where it can be shown the defense attempted to cover up the sexual assault.
Both these law changes mean that cases that before were dead in the water because of legal limitations can now be re-examined and potentially brought forward. If you or someone you loved was the victim of a sexual assault or ongoing abuse in which an instiution was involved, then no matter when that abuse happened, we want to hear about it and see if we can't work to bring a civil case against that instituiton.

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Our team at Paustenbach and Associates has published more than 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts on asbestos regarding exposure science, toxicology, take-home exposures, bystander exposures, and exposure to residents.
Dr. Paustenbach, in particular, has given more than 400 depositions on asbestos toxicology, conducted more than 1,000 exposure assessments, and is a known expert on "state of the art" matters, i.e., understanding of hazards of asbestos over time.
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This chemical has been the focus of attention by numerous parties for thirty or more years. It was featured in a broadcast of 60 minutes in the 1970s. There have been hundreds of studies of this chemical and the vast majority of them have indicated that it can be used safely and that it doesn't pose a chronic health hazard.
Heavy metals, such as lead, cadmium, chromium, arsenic, beryllium, mercury, and a few others, have merited the attention of occupational physicians, industrial hygienists, toxicologists, and epidemiologists since the early 1900s.
In 2019, after concerns were raised about the presence of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), also known as dimethylnitrosamine (DMN), in pharmaceuticals, it was reported in the newspapers that NDMA was also present in the over-the-counter drug Zantac (ranitidine). When it was originally released by GlaxoSmithKline, the drug was so effective at dealing with excess stomach acid and the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), that it became one of the most commonly prescribed medications in the United States.
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The PCBs are a broad category of chemicals that have been well studied over the years. The concerns were initially on its environmental persistence, then the occupational hazards, then the dermal hazards, then the inhalation hazards (more recent).
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Lightspeed Announces Acquisition of Upserve to Further Omnichannel Revolution of American Restaurant Industry
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Lightspeed, a leading provider of cloud-based, omnichannel commerce platforms, today announced it has acquired Upserve Inc, a leading restaurant management cloud-software company based in Rhode Island. The acquisition strengthens Lightspeed's position as an industry leader with high-performing restaurateurs across the United States as those restaurants refine the digital dining experience.
The union of Lightspeed and Upserve will accelerate product innovation and the advancement of Lightspeed's analytics-driven commerce platform. A convergence of the two companies' teams and technology will provide independent restaurants in the United States, from fine-dine to multi-location fast-casual, one of the most competitive hospitality platforms on the market and enable the industry to more easily navigate the new dining needs made permanent by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The acquisition builds on Lightspeed's growth momentum following the company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange and the acquisition of ShopKeep, a leading cloud commerce platform provider serving more than 20,000 customer locations. Combining with Upserve will grow Lightspeed's position in the U.S. hospitality market by an additional 7,000 customer locations generating over $6 billion in GTV in the trailing twelve-month period ending September 30, 2020.
"Combining forces with Upserve is a strategic next-step in Lightspeed's vision of providing the most advanced commerce platform to high-performing businesses around the world," said Dax Dasilva, Founder and CEO of Lightspeed. "We believe this acquisition will accelerate the product innovation that has enabled Lightspeed customers to tackle the greatest challenge to their industry in decades and will add exceptional leadership to our teams in anticipation of the economic recovery of the global hospitality industry."
"Through its analytics-based POS and restaurant management solutions, Upserve has been delivering actionable insights to restaurateurs for over a decade. Lightspeed is quickly emerging as a world-leading commerce platform for SMBs and partnering with them to deliver data-based insights through a single digital hub was a natural choice", said Upserve CEO Sheryl Hoskins. "Together we look forward to empowering North American restaurateurs to deliver superior guest experiences and make them wildly successful."
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KGB headquarters in Moscow gets an 'overhaul with a vengeance'
By Ned Temko Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
May 10, 1983 | Moscow
It is not every day that someone takes hammer and chisel to the imposing ocher facade of the Lubyanka - Soviet KGB headquarters and, in Stalin's 1930s, way station for many a Russian awakened by a midnight knock on the door.
But a host of Soviet workers are doing just that: peeling Lubyanka's paint and lopping off the pre-revolutionary plaster flourishes that are reminders of the days when the building housed a major Russian insurance company.
On any other structure, this would not be too surprising.
The Lubyanka is apparently undergoing a rite known locally as the kapitalny remont: the brick-and-plaster equivalent of a 500,000-mile checkup. It is an overhaul with a vengeance.
A sleepy-eyed Russian pedestrian, unshaven and unsteady, gawked as he crossed downtown Dzerzhinsky Square early Sunday and espied, where the Lubyanka's unobstructed facade should have been, a jungle gym of scaffolding and, beneath, the building's denuded front.
The square is named for Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chief of the Soviet security police. His statue stands in the square. Fortunately it faces the other way: He need not watch the defilement of his Lubyanka.
''They're doing a remont,'' said a uniformed policeman, having first waved me away as if worred I might try to rush the scaffolding.
As some KGB offices are said already to have moved to a new, typecast-gray building nearby, I asked: ''Will the KGB move back into the Lubyanka after the remont?''
''I cannot say,'' he said formally.
I wished him a hearty ''happy holiday'' and we parted.
The holiday in question is May 9: ''Victory Day.''
A few days ago I wrote that the only really spontaneous holiday activity on the official calendar here is the mass stroll through central Moscow the night of May 1, May Day.
I neglected Victory Day and its gathering of young and old - the latter generally in uniforms bedecked with medals - in the leafy park near the Bolshoi Theater.
This does fulfill a function for officialdom: helping preserve the memory of the Soviet Union's agonizing triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II, which is known here as ''the great patriotic war.''
Yet the Bolshoi gathering is scripted only in that sense. The singing of patriotic songs by all present - veterans' voices wailing above the others - is no theater. Young children, strolling with parents, offer flowers, thanks, sometimes embraces, to the veterans.
As much as a day for the young to recognize their war heroes, Victory Day is a day for the veterans to greet each other. They are, after all, the tough and fortunate survivors of a war that claimed 20 million Soviet lives.
''I fought in the Ukraine,'' an old man recounted proudly to a young couple. He held a sign with his unit number, a tradition to help comrades in arms locate each other.
Near the park's central fountain men and women veterans danced formally to music from a cassette player held aloft by a youth. Two young soldiers asked a pair of elderly women in brown uniforms for the next dance.
''I was ill last year,'' one of the women explained, smiling and flushed afterward. ''I am so grateful that I am well, and that I could just be here on this wonderful day, between the Bolshoi and the Kremlin. . . .''
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The term market sector is used in economics and finance to describe a part of the economy. It is usually a broader term than industry, which is a set of businesses that are buying and selling such similar goods and services that they are in direct competition with each other.

See also
 Economic sector
 Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS)
 Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB)
 Market segmentation
 Thomson Reuters Business Classification (TRBC)

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Carnival of Improv Blogging: Why Improv?
Hello and welcome to the second Carnival of Improv Blogging here at Around the Block Improv!
This week's topic will be: Why Improv?
Why do you do improv rather than other art forms? What is it about improvising that really does it for you? Why should other people be doing improv? Anything that could conceivably be an answer to that incredibly simple yet inclusive question is desired.
If you want to be included, just go ahead and write away wherever you can, post it somewhere that everyone can see, and leave a link to that post here in the comments below by next Sunday, September 23. Then, on the 24th, I'll write up a summary of everyone's posts, complete with links.


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FAQ: What Island Is Bigger Cuba Or Cyprus?
By Kristopher Gallagher
1 What countries are bigger than Cuba?
2 Is Cuba bigger than Greece?
3 What country is the same size as Cyprus?
4 Is Cuba bigger than Spain?
5 Which is biggest island in the world?
6 What US state is the same size as Cuba?
7 How big is Cuba compared to Tennessee?
8 How big is Cuba compared to Ontario?
9 Is Cyprus bigger than London?
10 Who owns Cyprus?
11 What is the greatest export for Cuba?
12 What is Cuba known for producing?
What countries are bigger than Cuba?
Japan is about 3.4 times bigger than Cuba. Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, while Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, making Japan 241% larger than Cuba.
Is Cuba bigger than Greece?
Greece is about 1.2 times bigger than Cuba. Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, while Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, making Greece 19% larger than Cuba.
What country is the same size as Cyprus?
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Cyprus is approximately 9,251 sq km, making Cyprus 13.16% the size of Ireland.
Is Cuba bigger than Spain?
Cuba is about 4.6 times smaller than Spain. Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, making Cuba 21.94% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~50.0 million people (39.0 million fewer people live in Cuba). Spain using our country comparison tool.
Which is biggest island in the world?
Greenland is officially the world's largest island that is not a continent. Home to 56,000 people, Greenland has its own extensive local government, but it is also part of the Realm of Denmark.
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What US state is the same size as Cuba?
What state is the same size as Cuba? Florida is approximately 139,670 sq km, while Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, making Cuba 79.37% the size of Florida. Meanwhile, the population of Florida is ~18.8 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in Cuba).
How big is Cuba compared to Tennessee?
Facts about Cuba Size 109,884 km2 ( about the size of U.S. state of Tennessee ).
How big is Cuba compared to Ontario?
Cuba is about 90 times smaller than Canada. Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, making Cuba 1.11% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~37.7 million people (26.6 million fewer people live in Cuba).
Is Cyprus bigger than London?
The total area of Cyprus is 9,251 km2 and the total area of London is 1,572 km2. Cyprus is bigger than London by 7,676 km2.
Who owns Cyprus?
The Republic of Cyprus is the internationally recognised government of the Republic of Cyprus, that controls the southern two-thirds of the island. Aside from Turkey, all foreign governments and the United Nations recognise the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus over the whole island of Cyprus.
What is the greatest export for Cuba?
Cuba's main imports are machinery, food and fuel products, while its major exports are refined fuels, sugar, tobacco, nickel and pharmaceuticals.
What is Cuba known for producing?
Cuba produces sugarcane, tobacco, citrus, coffee, rice, potatoes, beans and livestock. As of 2015, Cuba imported about 70–80% of its food. and 80–84% of the food it rations to the public.
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Infographic: As Xiaomi Starts to Expand, Does its Reputation Precede the Device?
As China's homegrown smartphone, Xiaomi, begins to expand beyond its borders to several international markets in 2014, we have to wonder how the potential customers view Xiaomi in terms of quality. China is known for many 'white box' devices - those designed somewhere else, but made in China because it is cheaper to do so or just "off-brands" built in China and shipped with no brand name...but can anything of real quality come out of China? For so many years, "Made in China" was synonymous with cheap - however, those days are long gone...just take a look at the Lenovo (IBM) ThinkPad that I am using to write this article.
Another such company that is quickly gaining a good reputation is the new and exciting, Xiaomi. Headquartered in Beijing and founded by CEO Lei Jun in just 2010, it has already become one of China's biggest electronic manufacturers. They released their first smartphone in 2011 and have already surpassed Apple as the number three smartphone in China, which is no small feat. Xiaomi has been called China's Apple and its founder and CEO Lei Jun has been compared to Steve Jobs with his likeness for blue jeans and dark shirts. However, he compares Xiaomi more to Amazon - a company that sells through their website, hoping to make its money on all of the accessories and services a customer will buy along with their smartphone.
As Xiaomi begins the challenge of expanding beyond its safe borders, Jana - a company that specializes in gauging the public opinion in emerging nations - conducted a poll of 750 people in India, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam from May 2 -4, 2014. They wanted to find out what their opinions were on Xiaomi, even though the product is not yet available in those countries. In other words, how do they perceive the Xiaomi brand - when they hear it, do they think of quality, or when they think of quality, what China brands come to mind. This study asked the participants three questions: How much will you pay for your next smartphone - Which of the following do you know as China's highest quality smartphone - and lastly, Which brand do you associate with low-cost, high-quality smartphones...and the answers were very enlightening.
When asked - HOW MUCH WILL YOU PAY FOR YOUR NEXT SMARTPHONE - the answers were all over the place depending which of the four markets you looked at. The customers from more advanced India were willing to pay more for their next smartphone - only 8-percent were going to pay less than $100, while 16-percent said that they would pay $101 - $150, and 28-percent said $151 - $200, while almost a third at 31-percent said they would pay $201-$400, and a full 17-percent said they would pay over $400 on their next smartphone. Those percentages for the more expensive phones dropped off dramatically in the lesser developed nations, which makes sense since money is much tighter. While a total of 48-percent in India would be willing to spend $201 - $400+ for their next smartphone, only 36-percent were in Vietnam, 29-percent in the Philippines, and only 17-percent in Indonesia were willing to spend that much. Xiaomi offers two devices that fall into the price range of the majority of respondents - the Xiaomi Redmi falls into the $101 - $150 category and the Xiaomi MI3, priced at $270, offers specs equivalent to devices costing $300 and over.
When asked - WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DO YOU KNOW AS CHINA'S HIGHEST QUALITY SMARTPHONE - respondents from Vietnam ranked Xiaomi number one in quality and on par with the likes of LG (which is not a Chinese company), Oppo, Lenovo and Huawei. Indonesia picked Xiaomi as third best, topped by Oppo and Lenovo, as did the Philippines topped by LG and Lenovo. Reading this, we must keep in mind that Xiaomi smartphones have never been sold in any of these countries, yet three areas picked them in the top three of "China's highest quality smartphone."
When asked - WHICH BRAND DO YOU ASSOCIATE WITH LOW-COST, HIGH-QUALITY SMARTPHONES - Several participants mentioned Xiaomi and described them as: "Xiaomi phones are Chinese phones but of good quality" by a 20 year old male from India. "Fake Apple from China" by an 18 year old female from Indonesia. "Good smartphone with a neat exterior design" by a 27 year old male in Indonesia. "Affordable and fashionable" said a 24 year old male from Vietnam, and "The quality is excellent and an affordable price" from a 23 year old male from the Philippines.
It is interesting to see just how much of an impact the name Xiaomi has made in such as short time frame, especially in countries that do not even sell the product. If Xiaomi does a little advertising and promotion, their name and reputation may spread like a wildfire. According to Hugo Barra, Xiaomi will make its U.S. debut sometime in 2015 and I know I am excited to see what they bring to the U.S. market. Please let us know on our Google+ Page if you are interested in the Xiaomi brand - or have you even heard about it - what is your perception of their quality and value...as always, we would love to hear from you.


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In fact, by the end of the demo I could barely think of a camera control Garmin hasn't included. Besides the MARPA target tracking which we saw work well–and the AIS, chart object, and hot spot tracking to come–you can set up 45°, 90°, and 180° automatic sweeps, and you can also sync two cameras. (Getting separate Garmin low-light and thermal cams is the equivalent of, say, a dual payload FLIR M-Series, except with a redundancy versus install complexity trade off.) At any rate, Garmin now has GCT 30, GCT 20, and GCL 20 details and pricing up, including some good video.
And despite other rumors, I'm fairly certain that the new OceanView Astra thermal and low-light cams have nothing to do with Iris or Garmin except for a common case supplier. Meanwhile, OceanView surprised with something called the Sea Watch which purports to let you "See in total darkness for a fraction of the cost of a thermal camera." So far only found on Facebook, the Sea Watch uses an infared illuminator to give its (28x optical zoom) low-light cam an "up to 390 foot" range in no light. It will be interesting to see well it works, plus it's worth noting that this and other OceanView cameras work with the great tracking features that are now in MaxSea TZ Explorer and which are promised updates to Furuno's striking NavNet TZ series. Anyone getting nav cam envy yet?
Iris NightRunner nav camera, too good to be true?
All of these thermal cams seem to be a solution to a problem I don't have.
If you don't boat in the dark, Anin, you certainly don't need a thermal camera. While the cost has come down a lot, thermal vision is still quite expensive. But I think that a lot of boaters who use binoculars for navigation, safety, or just to look around would appreciate a long range PTZ camera. Especially if they already have a nice display to see the results and/or if they can install the camera in a spot with a better view than what they have at their helm.
I'd guess that Garmin will try again eventually, but for now the announcement means that a lot of neat MFD software development is down the drain and probably that some Garmin owners are disappointed. However, better that than having those same owners find out the hard way that the cameras didn't hold up to marine conditions.
In fact, let's give Garmin credit for discovering the problems in their extensive testing lab (and maybe in beta testing) rather than via customer support. And, while classy Garmin won't talk about it, I have to wonder if this isn't a black eye for Iris, who likely supplied the cameras?


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Guwahati: Pride is your individuality, it is everything, said designer Varun Bahl. The fashion designer was in Guwahati, Assam on Friday to participate in the Blenders Pride Magical Nights 2019 held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the city. Incidentally, 'Pride' was also the theme of the Blenders Pride Fashion Tour and the evening was only an extension to that.
EastMojo: Tell us about your theme for the show tonight.
Varun Bahl: Today, we have started a new brand Varun Bahl Pret, whose basic theme is based upon nature largely, besides many other things. Flora and fauna are an important part of our creation. Few months ago, while I was sitting and sketching, I made a flower of five petals. Thereafter I started repeating the pattern and subsequently many beautiful patterns came up and it gave birth to the Varun Bahl Pret. So this is what I am showing tonight and the idea behind this was to reach out to a much larger audience. This couture is basically for weddings. As we see a lot of people look for wearing Indian clothes, so I thought of contemporising the whole Indian wear. This is the five petal story and every design and every print is based on it. It is contemporary Indian clothing.
EM: How will you define 'Pride', the theme for the evening?
VB: Pride is your individuality, it is everything. For me, pride is my journey -- how I handled and I achieved it. My uniqueness is my pride.
VB: A lot of flora and fauna. In terms of detailing, I love the Victorian period -- this is very costume type so we need to wash down and make it relevant for the 21st century and for 2019. That will also be showcased in tonight's event -- high necklines and all. I love the art nouveau period which was in the earlier 19th-century period, it is my favourite period. I also like Barukh though it is not showcased tonight.
EM: What do you have to say about the earlier and the present fashion trends -- the way they are evolving?
VB: What is past fashion is past, it was relevant then what is at present it is relevant now. We should not think about yesterday. But in future, I think today we are in the best stage, one of the nicest stage of fashion. Many things are co-existing because individuals wear according to their style and personality. There are many changes nowadays. Like I have introduced many things in fashion industry, one being the use of very light and pastel colours in bridal wear. I was one of the few ones to start this and now everyone is using this. Today, at the show, you'll see I have brought in contemporary Indian wear. You will see a lot of 'shararas' but they won't look like a 'shaadi ka sharara'. It is a trouser which cut in a certain way in which a sharara is cut and worn with a short kurti, which is slightly short. It may be a shirt or a jacket. So Indian wear is modernised in my creations tonight. The kind of clothing I showcase can be worn by women in any way and any where across the planet.
VB: My personal style is very casual, a T-shirt and jeans. I don't think much about what to wear when I am working. But when I go out in evenings, I dress up and go.
EM: How do you unwind when you are not working?
VB: I live in a city called New Delhi and there is a lot of social activities happening in the evenings. I am a very social person and I like going out and meeting people. I also like watching movies when not working.
EM: We have heard that you earlier showcased your designs in Milan Fashion Week. Tell us about the experience there.
VB: It was many years ago. It was a wonderful experience. As a young designer to showcase the designs there and to show India anywhere, it was really wonderful.
EM: Tell us about your upcoming projects.
VB: I am working on my next couture collection that is coming up in July. And I also have to make this Pret reach out to more and more audience.
EM: Any celebrity/person you dream to design for someday.
VB: I have always dreamed to design for Madonna someday.


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Wouldn't notice, I only by 600ml drinks made by Pepsi.
Yup, that's the ones I mentioned. There you can see the tag - "Enjoy 6 delicious servings in every bottle". Meanwhile, everybody except ArtyFrootLoop realises it used to be 8 delicious servings. So this shouldn't actually be a selling point.
500ml buddy replaced by 440ml buddy is common, now some variants offer "extra value" & offer 440ml + 60ml.
Is it me or they changed the taste again?
I find the taste of Coke horrendous since last week.
Sugar tax ftw... I noticed on the weekend where Burger perfect used to have the four burgers, chips and a 2lt coke, now it's a 1.5lt and you pay R3 more for normal coke.
Funny you mention that but the other day I was picking up a Steers burger for my kid and the combo with drink specified a diet soda.
You can buy ZIP cola for R11 at checkers, been doing for years now with the zero sugar version.
I don't like the taste tbh.
Their house brand is cheaper ar R8.99. Doesn't taste too bad either.
It does change, I am trying to determine how and when, using batch numbers off the bottle and correlating that to times of year and where bought.
Happens at Mcdonalds as well, R39 for a big mac meal, unless you get normal coke then it's R40.90 or something.
You can add the ones bought in Mpumalanga (the one I have on my desk just mentions B03 21:45) to the horrible ones!
440ml coke for R17.90 at most fast food places, lol fekk off.


Walking around Ashover in Derbyshire is always a pleasure and guests at our holiday cottages enjoy the many walks from the doorstep we provide them with into and around the village of Ashover. This is a mile from Wildflower Cottages in Alton. For more information about walking from Wildflower Holiday Cottages and around the parish of Ashover see our guide. This is a circular walk from the centre of the main village of Ashover.
If you can walk upstairs to bed, you should manage this and you could always turn around or take an alternative route!
Will I Meet Any Strange Animals?
Well, you will probably meet other human beings. You may see buzzards or kingfishers (if you are very lucky) and lots of different birds. There may be rabbits, a cow or two or a couple of horses and the odd sheep. The dragonflies will be about in late summer but the badgers will usually be asleep.
Allow an hour but to really enjoy, take longer.
Please use the large village car park – up the hill and turn right at the Black Swan and then 100 metres on your right.
As you leave the shop, cross the road and turn left up the hill. Pass the first place where you could sit down for a rest (there are two benches on your right but it's a bit early for that yet!) and look out for the replica village pump that the village won some years ago in a television quiz show. As you walk up the hill, enjoy a good look at the village church (All Saints Parish Church built from 1350 onwards) – better still, go in!
Take a right turn opposite the Crispin Inn (read all about it on the outside) and follow the wide path that leads past the Bassett Rooms. This was a former girls' school built in 1877 and now the parish rooms and yes, there is a connection here to the Liquorish Allsorts sweets: the Miss Bassetts and their father were village benefactors. Continue onto the 'Show Fields'. The Ashover Show was revived in 1925 and has a growing reputation. It still sticks to the second Wednesday in August for its show day, attracting crowds of at least 12,000.
Keep following the path and look out for the cricket pavilion to your left, on the other side of the wall. The club was founded in 1874 and is still thriving.
The path keeps straight on through a series of slit stiles and fields, until you enter a wood. The path is well defined, so you shouldn't lose it. When you reach the wood, continue to follow the path but look out for the quarry to your right and be aware that any deviation to the left might get you well stuck in one of the former settling ponds. Immediately on leaving the wood, turn right to follow the edge of the quarry (one of many in the area and this one's well fenced) and then along the right hand edge of a small field.
You leave the field by some steps straight down onto a fairly busy road, where the speed differential between the walker and the motorist is very evident! You should turn immediately right along the road for about 40 metres before crossing to follow a little lane down to the Fall Mill, which was built in 1731. At various times grain was ground here and also fluorspar: the two together might have made for a very special baking of bread!
Having viewed the mill, turn so that the River Amber is on your right and follow the path to cross the river and then up some steps. Turn right and cross over the railway tracks, which are a few rails left from the Ashover Light Railway, which was built in 1922 and closed in 1950. The locos and track were army surplus from the First World War, and some were used on the Western Front.
Look for the lane to your right and follow it down to Demonsdale Farm. Follow the track between the farm buildings to your right and the wooden building to your left and go through a wooden gate. This opens onto a path along the banks of the Amber. You will cross over a lovely stone bridge and just before the path swings from the river bank, you will see the foundations for one of the railway bridges of the Ashover Light Railway. You now climb up a short sharp hill onto the road opposite Leonard Wheatcroft Cottage. Turn left here and follow the lane back to your starting point – and a cake or ice cream or drink or souvenirs.
The thin line of trees you see on the hillside across the Amber is the Great Eastern Plantation. It was planted in 1858 and is the same length, breadth and shape as Brunel's great ship – not surprisingly by far the largest in the world when it was launched: it still looks huge today.


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[AUC Preface]: Unintentional Chauvinism
[These remarks refer to the Preface of Livy's history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita.]
Mr Livy says we can find in history, especially in Roman history, patterns of behavior to imitate and others to avoid. Let us start right away with his Preface.
A striking feature of the Preface is that Mr. Livy had a very good opinion of the Roman nation. This should not surprise us, of course. We expect everyone in every country to love their native land and to be proud of the accomplishments of their fellow citizens; including the Romans.
But something about Mr. Livy's tone seems to me to go beyond a simple pride in the actual achievements and strength of the country. I see evidence of a national attitude that probably impeded good relations with other nations. A tricky aspect of discussing this is that some of the attitudes most harmful to international good will are unconscious and unquestioned stereotypes about one's own nation, which are rarely stated explicitly and which appear only as unstated assumptions in discussions of other topics. In Mr. Livy's Preface, these are more interesting than the overt expressions.
Mr. Livy's Overt National Pride
We will begin, however, with Mr. Livy's conscious and intentional expressions of national pride. First:
Besides, either the love for this project which I have undertaken misleads me, or there has never been a country greater or more venerable or richer in good examples, nor any community which greed and extravagance entered so late, nor where poverty and thrift had so much respect for so long.
I think we have to grant that this statement was literally and objectively true at the time Mr. Livy wrote it, at least according to any information available to him. Rome did have a long written history and was a successful nation. Further, Mr. Livy has softened the impact by acknowledging that he might be a little biased. Finally, elsewhere in the Preface, he can barely restrain himself from commenting at length on the problems of his own time; clearly he does not regard Rome as perfect. Therefore, the statement seems to me appropriate in the context of advice about the utility of studying history as personal and political instruction.
Next, in connection with his comment about the mythic nature of some of the early traditions:
… if it is proper to permit any nation to immortalize its origins and to relate its founders to the gods, then when the Roman nation, having such a source of pride in war, calls the supremely powerful Mars its ancestor and its founder's own father, the human races may indeed tolerate this as calmly as they tolerate its political dominion.
Did Mr Livy believe that Rome had a special relationship with the gods? The conditionals and the structure of the sentence suggest that there may be more here than meets the eye. Mr. Livy and most of his intended readers must have known that those other nations did not bear the domination of Rome calmly; there was always some country trying to break away from the empire or some king outside the empire trying to snatch a chunk of it and Rome maintained armies throughout in order to keep this activity to a minimum. So there is irony in the statement and suspicion that the irony was intended. Perhaps this is sarcasm directed toward the notion of divine origin for the city and toward people who believed in it, worded very carefully to avoid offending anyone important. In any case, Mr. Livy goes on to say that he gives these myths no importance. So he, himself, apparently did not consciously consider Rome to be guided by the gods.
Mr. Livy's Unconscious Chauvinist Stereotypes
But, although Mr. Livy and other thoughtful, educated Romans could reject the idea of divine origin as unbelievable when it was presented explicitly in this "myth", I think this tradition reflects some important, widespread, stereotypical Roman ideas: that Rome was destined from the start to be a rich and powerful city and that it was simply right for Rome to dominate its part of the world. And I think that Mr. Livy, like other Romans, accepted these ideas unconsciously; and that they are unstated assumptions in much of Roman public policy.
It is a stretch to justify this thesis simply on the basis of this one 770 word Preface. We have only one or two glimpses. For example, among the aspects of history that Mr. Livy suggests ought to interest his readers he includes:
Through the actions of which men and by means of what skills, at home and in war, was dominion brought forth and increased?
Mr. Livy seems to have considered "dominion" to be a good thing for Rome in and of itself, something separate from the life and customs, separate from the moral character and subsequent moral decay of the nation. He appears interested only in how it was achieved; not in events, conditions, rationale, or policy decisions that led to it. This unadorned use of the word suggests that he and Romans of his time generally accepted a national policy of dominating the neighborhood as an unquestioned feature of their government. Perhaps the praise of "poverty and thrift", above, reflects this, too, as those characteristics might direct citizens' energies into improvement of public fortunes as distinct from the "greed and extravagance" of private fortunes.
We may also wonder about the observation of "having such a source of pride in war". This does not seem to be the simple pride of having a strong and prosperous country that can defend itself and help defend its allies, but seems rather to give War, in and of itself, a priority among civic activities. In contrast, while there is evidence elsewhere that Romans valued freedom, justice, rule of law, respect for civil rights, and competent government responsive to the needs of the citizens (although their understanding and practice in these areas differ from our own in the details), they do not seem to have regarded these as a source of national pride (except perhaps freedom).
I do not suggest here that these unstated assumptions made the Roman nation on average over time any more militaristic or aggressive or rapacious than its contemporaries; I suggest only that when the Romans were presented with an international problem, these assumptions caused war and imperialism to be the tools that they were most likely to use.
Certainly I do not know whether military domination was the best policy under the circumstances. We may suppose that the Romans, if they thought about the matter at all, regarded this as important to their national security. No institutions for avoiding wars, such as the United Nations, were available in Roman times, not even in concept; nor any regional alliances like NATO. These are recent developments and still obviously imperfect. So possibly no other strategy for constant security existed but to take actual control of their part of the world themselves and to try to administer it according to some set of principles. But if there was another strategy available (perhaps less bloody or less expensive), the ingrained and unquestioned nature of their attitude of domination, especially if reinforced by the ideas of divine support and pride in war, may have precluded the Romans from even thinking of it or recognizing its value if it were suggested by others.
Modern Examples of Unconscious Chauvinism
Having noticed in Mr. Livy's time a pattern of behavior that may have been detrimental to the Romans, we can consider whether anything similar is found in our own time; whether in the United States we also have unconscious and unquestioned stereotypes about our nation. I think we do, although not the same ones as the Romans had. Some of them, ironically, are based on an excessive appreciation of the principles on which our country was founded. Let me unfold this carefully, in an effort to avoid being flamed.
Of course we do have an excellent country and are proud of it; and the principles on which the government is based are a major part of its excellence and our pride. These principles are all the familiar tenets of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, including free speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state, rule of law, checks and balances in political power, and civil rights and liberties for all; in short, competent government of the people, by the people and for the people. These principles give us an advantage compared to the Romans in managing our republic because they have been stated openly and explicitly from the beginning and were thoroughly debated at the beginning of the nation; they serve as an anchor and a guidepost to help us keep to our civic values in the turmoil of a crisis.
We have some objective evidence that our pride is justified. Over the years various foreign leaders and countries have stated openly that they were inspired by our example.
But we need to acknowledge that sometimes in our unconscious thoughts we go beyond a healthy patriotic pride, accepting the notion that, because our government is based on these principles, the U.S. is morally superior to other countries. This concept, when it is presented explicitly, can readily be seen as chauvinism. But it has been an unstated assumption in a large part of our recent political discussions; as, for example, in the assertions that the U.S. can properly and should actively attempt to remake the politics of the Middle East, perhaps even by force.
Unstated though it may be, both friends and opponents can recognize when a position relies on the assumption of moral superiority; and it is ticking off our friends and making it harder to deal with our opponents. Some Americans assert that we do not need to pay any attention to anyone else, a concept which also seems to rely on the same unstated assumption of moral superiority, unless it is sheer arrogance. The Founding Fathers would not agree: when listing the grievances of the colonies in the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress said
… a decent respect to the opinion of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them …
Apparently, respecting the opinion of mankind is as American as any of the other principles in our founding documents. In contrast, there is nothing in our values that encourages thrusting those values on other countries or justifies an attitude of superiority.
Because we do value these principles, however, it is natural to advocate their adoption elsewhere, and even to lend a hand when the people of a country choose to adopt one or more of our principles. But the world is a complex place and people do not change their attitudes quickly. Our own experiences with slavery and race relations and gender rights ought to tell us that changes in culture proceed very slowly and are resisted at every step even when the impetus for a change comes from within the country, and even when the impetus for the change derives from the nation's very founding principles. We cannot from outside demand, or even expect, changes elsewhere; certainly not overnight changes. In the meantime, while hoping that others will recognize the value of our ideals and waiting for them to do so, we need realistic principles and strategies for dealing fairly with nations that run on other values.
Domestic Implications of Unconscious Chauvinism
Unstated assumptions also cause problems in the internal politics of a nation. Perhaps unstated assumptions are not disruptive in a small population, such as Rome had at its founding, because these assumptions are held in common by the entire populace. But their disruptiveness appears when the population has increased enough that there are two or more large groups in the nation with incompatible sets of assumptions. As these assumptions remain unstated, neither group acknowledges either the unstated nature of their own assumptions or the existence of the assumptions of the other group. The unstated assumptions have no chance of being considered; a group neither assesses the validity of their own assumptions nor assesses whether there might be some validity to the assumptions of the other group. In this environment, then, policy discussions consist of arguments by each group which are unresponsive to the arguments of the other; each group distorts the goals and aspirations of the other; and no consensus can be reached. With no rational basis for agreement on government policy, partisanship prevails; and later, rancor and perhaps political turbulence.
When I began this essay, I thought the subject would be how to distinguish valid and healthy patriotic enthusiasm from the excesses of chauvinism and jingoism; in particular, how to encourage the former without straying into the latter; and especially, how to create a society in which every citizen knows the difference. But the subject turned out to be more general and these matters are examples of applying it. If every citizen were aware of the unspoken ideas that lead to quasipatriotic excesses, we might avoid the constant bickering over whether every given expression, statement, or policy crosses the dividing line. We might avoid the distraction and impediment to serious debate that occur when any doubt or question about the wisdom of a national policy is labeled (and libeled) as treason. And we might avoid, most pernicious of all, the political infallibility fallacy: the notion that because we are an accomplished, enlightened, good, and strong nation, anything we do must automatically be right. Then, avoiding sanctimony on all sides, we might arrive at policies, consistent with our explicit national values, which balance the concerns of our disparate political philosophies, and meet our actual needs.
We cannot, of course, draw any conclusions from so small a bit of data as this Preface. We may find as we read the history that the assumptions prevalent in Mr. Livy's personal views, explicit or inferred, reflect only his own time, when Rome had already slipped out of republicanism into the new monarchy of the imperial period. In that case they would tell us nothing about the earlier periods when Roman republican government developed and later began to fail.
Even so, these speculations may be of use to us. The purpose of this exercise is not to prove anything about the Romans or about ourselves. The purpose is to see whether looking at another culture can suggest, about our own motivations and actions, hypotheses which we might not have thought of otherwise. These hypotheses can then be measured against our own experience, and by each individual against his personal experience; with the goal of being more aware of the complex nature of political reality, of accommodating that complexity in our policies, and of improving the quality of our decisions.
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Q: Using cfx to make a Thunderbird addin I'm trying to make a Thunderbird addon that will call external code to produce a lump of data to attach to an outbound email, labelled as some custom type so a recipient mailer can just be told to use our app to handle such inbound attachments. Regardless of implementation detail, I'm falling at the first hurdle.
Having briefly tried and given up with XPCOM components in C, I've found this page which tells me to go here from where I downloaded and installed the Add-on SDK. That uses a command cfx to create skeleton addins and test them. It has an experimental parameter --app which allows you to load Thunderbird instead of the default Firefox. However, it doesn't seem to load the addin. From the docs, I see that pretty much the simplest possible case is for main.js to simply contain
console.log("Hello World");

Firing this up using cfx run --app=thunderbird gives no "Hello World" anywhere that I can see, though Thunderbird does open using a temporary test profile. Running it in firefox opens firefox and outputs
 reference to undefined property exn.stackconsole.log: cfxtest1: Hello World

Which is outputting what I want it to output but in a rather suspicious way!
So two questions; is the AddOn-SDK the way to go for Thunderbird extensions, and why even in Firefox is it looking like it's not actually working?
Versions; Firefox is 25.0.1, Thunderbird is 24.1.1, the AddOn-SDK is 1.14 and Python is 2.6.6 (after 3.3 and then 2.7 turned out to be incompatible). Platform is Windows 7.

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