I can't put my finger on it, and maybe you can't either, but what is it with dating? You know he likes you, but to what extent? There's some interest, but one thing leads to another, and boom, you're hanging out.
I know you were expecting something bigger. It's not a huge step up from being friends, and not quite at "talking," which is just as vague.
It's this weird limbo between just friends and hooking up, and I don't like it. What happened to knowing if you were dating or not? How will I know you like me? Just tell me already because I want to know if I should wait five minutes before I open your Snapchat, and the anxiety is killing me.
Don't we all like some type of certainty? To know if you are just hanging out, you're the only one he's hanging out with? Or to know he sees this thing as more than a casual hookup?
Or maybe this is just a couple-times-a-week thing, and that's all it will ever be.
There just needs to be some definition. Yes, it's all very ambiguous and confusing, and I might give up on it altogether, but don't lose sight of the goal.
Typically, if you like him and he likes you, you date. Or so I think. So I guess you can start imagining your own drawer in his apartment, or having a romantic dinner together with wine and, well, more wine.
Think of just having him there when you need him and for him to rely on you because you're the only one who understands. That right there, is a bond. It doesn't come often, but it's there, people! That's the goal.
So what is this hanging out thing you're doing?
I don't know, but instead of putting yourself down or letting everyone and their mother tell you how dumb you are, remember, at least you have something.
Hanging out isn't something you'd tell your mother during the holidays, but it's nothing to torture yourself over, either. It's the first step, and definitely not the last because we want to get you out of the post-friend zone.
Hanging out isn't really intentional. It kind of sneaks up on you and you're left wondering how it even happened (usually after a few shots of tequila).
It's when the cute guy at the bar catches your eye, and you're not imagining it. He's checking you out and motions that he'll buy you another drink. How can you resist his smile and another margarita?
So you're chilling with him at the bar and it gets pretty late. You can make one of two decisions. 1) You can take your drunk self back to your apartment, or 2) you can take your drunk self to his apartment.
That's how it starts. You hang around his friends and they think you're cool, and you think you're getting brownie points with this guy, but he's only thinking about the next few hours.
It's almost like the aftermath of the verb. It's the stage you can't even admit to yourself. It's a forever cycle that doesn't stop unless you do something about it.
You don't have a name; you're just "that girl." It's not that you're not important because you are, but you're not giving yourself any credit. Get with it! If you keep doing the verb, you become the noun.
I mean, did he even ask you out? Or did he just say, "I'll see you around," and then text you at 2 am? That ain't no date, Ms. Booty; I think I hear a phone call for you.
No one likes to ask that question and no one wants to get it wrong.
Well, what is it? Do you know?
Subtle hints are my go-to for any situation, but usually, you're still left with a question mark for your relationship status.
Don't give me that "it's complicated" crap because you're better than that. If it's a conversation you need to have, then have at it.
Express how you feel, and if you're not on the same page, pick a different book because it's a dead end. If you're into that, go ahead, but personally, I'm into having long-lasting relationships, walks on the beach and knowing we can hold hands because we're dating.
There's comfort in knowing that even though my palms are sweaty, my hand is the only one he wants to hold.
It's time to be intentional about our actions and say what we mean. Not expressing myself is the equivalent of holding my breath longer than a minute: I can't do it.
I want to feel secure and know who I am to someone, even if we start off a bit shaky. There's no shame in that.
Haven't you've heard, some people get married drunk and forget who they even got married to? That's not you, so you have a fighting chance!
Think of it like this: Hanging out is a phase, and hopefully, it'll go away soon, along with crop tops and bad ombrés. If you can skip that weird waiting period, all power to you.
For the rest of us screwups, we have to ditch the verb, skip the noun and be brave enough to define a real status.


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You need to watch Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson teaching his daughter to say "girl power"
Kayleigh Dray
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is teaching his two-year-old daughter, Jasmine, the value of strength…
Whether you know him as WWE's The Rock, Moana's Maui, Baywatch's Mitch Buchannon or, y'know, the Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns, there's no denying that Dwayne Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most beloved stars.
And the actor has fast become known as a feminist ally, describing himself as a "feminist" raised by "strong women".
So it makes sense that, on International Women's Day (8 March), Johnson spent the day teaching his two-year-old daughter, Jasmine, the value of strength.
Sharing a video of himself with his little girl on Instagram, Johnson can be heard saying: "All right, my queen, can we say 'girl power?'"
Cue Jasmine staring at the camera and saying: "Girl power!"
"There you go! OK how about this, 'International Women's Day,'" Johnson prompted, to which she replied, "Women's day!"
"Perfect," he said. "All right, can you say, 'Daddy is the most handsome, brilliant, sexiest — might not be appropriate — man alive? Say all that."
Jasmine wisely responded: "Say all that."
Johnson previously received praise when he shared his goals for his youngest daughter in a powerful Instagram post.
"There are mornings in life where there are no words… but this is not one of those mornings," he wrote.
"Jazzy, let daddy tell you his goals."
He continued: "By five, you'll be looking people in the eye when you firmly shake their hand. By eight, you'll know how to fish, drive daddy's pick-up truck and do cardio.
"And by 10, you'll be able to directly say to people, 'Great job, I like it a lot, but let's see how we can make it better.'"
During his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, Johnson made sure to honour every single female member of his family during his emotional acceptance speech.
"When I was 15 years old, I was evicted, we were evicted out of our one bedroom apartment in Honolulu, Hawaii," he told the crowd.
"We were forced to leave the island, and here we are today."
Directing his attention to Jasmine and his 16-year-old daughter, Simone, who was unable to attend the event, Johnson continued: "I heard a quote when I was 15, and I thought, if I'm ever in a position one day, I'd like to be able to live this quote, 'It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.'"
Then, picking Jasmine up and holding her in his arms, Johnson added: "I'm going to show you what it all means.
"The hard work, the work you put in with your own two hands… it all comes down to this. It all comes down to your family, and working hard to love and protect and do everything you can to make your family and the ones you love, their lives better."
It seems as if Jasmine and Simone are lucky enough to have a father intent on protecting their rights as women, not to mention honouring and respecting them, too.
All hail, The Rock!
Images: Rex Features
Kayleigh Dray is Stylist's digital editor-at-large. Her specialist topics include comic books, films, TV and feminism. On a weekend, you can usually find her drinking copious amounts of tea and playing boardgames with her friends.

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Reston, Va.— March 5, 2014 — Appian, the market leader in modern business process management (BPM) software and Case Management software, today announced an innovative solution to transition organizations displaced by OpenText's deprecation of the Metastorm and Global360 products to Appian's modern, PaaS-enabled, Work Platform seamlessly and rapidly. OpenText's decision to focus on a recently-acquired platform as its BPM standard potentially leaves current Metastorm and Global360 users without a viable path forward. Appian will provide the Quick-Start Transition program to help those organizations today and in the future reap the benefits of the industry-leading Appian BPM Suite, on-premise or in the cloud at the organization's discretion, including full data management, native mobility and social collaboration at no additional cost.
The Quick-Start Transition program includes a low-risk, one-year term license (on-premise or in the cloud, with full portability between environments), plus a 6-week, fixed-cost engagement to migrate the first application. Appian anticipates that it will be able to migrate Metastorm or Global360 applications in a medium-sized organization in under 9 months, for a fraction of the cost it would take to convert to other technology.
Appian has proven to be a highly flexible solution for clients wishing to re-platform their applications, without having to incur the time and expense needed for re-coding. Hundreds of businesses and government organizations use Appian to accelerate business growth, provide better customer service and engagement, increase operational efficiency, and improve governance and regulatory compliance. With more than 3.5 million users, Appian's is the world's most widely-used BPM suite. Gartner, Inc. awarded Appian the highest ranking possible for Product Viability in its recent "Critical Capabilities for Case Management Frameworks" report, and both Gartner and Forrester Research rank Appian a Leader for comprehensive and easy to use Mobile, Social and Cloud process solutions.
Current Metastorm and Global360 customers wishing to learn more about Appian's platform and the new Quick-Start Transition package can contact info@appian.com.


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Advanced Search Syntax
======================

Kanboard uses a simple query language for advanced search.
You can search in tasks, comments, subtasks, links but also in the activity stream.

Example of query
----------------

This example will return all tasks assigned to me with a due date for tomorrow and a title that contains "my title":

```
assigne:me due:tomorrow my title
```

Global search
-------------

### Search by task id or title

- Search by task id: `#123`
- Search by task id and task title: `123`
- Search by task title: anything that doesn't match any search attributes

### Search by status

Attribute: **status**

- Query to find open tasks: `status:open`
- Query to find closed tasks: `status:closed`

### Search by assignee

Attribute: **assignee**

- Query with the full name: `assignee:"Frederic Guillot"`
- Query with the username: `assignee:fguillot`
- Multiple assignee lookup: `assignee:user1 assignee:"John Doe"`
- Query for unassigned tasks: `assignee:nobody`
- Query for my assigned tasks: `assignee:me`

### Search by task creator

Attribute: **creator**

- Tasks created by myself: `creator:me`
- Tasks created by John Doe: `creator:"John Doe"`
- Tasks created by the user id #1: `creator:1`

### Search by subtask assignee

Attribute: **subtask:assignee**

- Example: `subtask:assignee:"John Doe"`

### Search by color

Attribute: **color**

- Query to search by color id: `color:blue`
- Query to search by color name: `color:"Deep Orange"`

### Search by the due date

Attribute: **due**

- Search tasks due today: `due:today`
- Search tasks due tomorrow: `due:tomorrow`
- Search tasks due yesterday: `due:yesterday`
- Search tasks due with the exact date: `due:2015-06-29`

The date must use the ISO 8601 format: **YYYY-MM-DD**.

All string formats supported by the `strtotime()` function are supported, for example `next Thursday`, `-2 days`, `+2 months`, `tomorrow`, etc.

Operators supported with a date:

- Greater than: **due:>2015-06-29**
- Lower than: **due:<2015-06-29**
- Greater than or equal: **due:>=2015-06-29**
- Lower than or equal: **due:<=2015-06-29**

### Search by modification date

Attribute: **modified** or **updated**

The date formats are the same as the due date.

There is also a filter by recently modified tasks: `modified:recently`.

This query will use the same value as the board highlight period configured in settings.

### Search by creation date

Attribute: **created**

Works in the same way as the modification date queries.

### Search by start date

Attribute: **started**

### Search by description

Attribute: **description** or **desc**

Example: `description:"text search"`

### Search by completion

Attribute: **completed**

### Search by external reference

The task reference is an external id of your task, by example a ticket number from another software.

- Find tasks with a reference: `ref:1234` or `reference:TICKET-1234`

### Search by category

Attribute: **category**

- Find tasks with a specific category: `category:"Feature Request"`
- Find all tasks that have those categories: `category:"Bug" category:"Improvements"`
- Find tasks with no category assigned: `category:none`

### Search by project

Attribute: **project**

- Find tasks by project name: `project:"My project name"`
- Find tasks by project id: `project:23`
- Find tasks for several projects: `project:"My project A" project:"My project B"`

### Search by columns

Attribute: **column**

- Find tasks by column name: `column:"Work in progress"`
- Find tasks for several columns: `column:"Backlog" column:ready`

### Search by swim-lane

Attribute: **swimlane**

- Find tasks by swim-lane: `swimlane:"Version 42"`
- Find tasks in the default swim-lane: `swimlane:default`
- Find tasks into several swim-lanes: `swimlane:"Version 1.2" swimlane:"Version 1.3"`

### Search by task link

Attribute: **link**

- Find tasks by link name: `link:"is a milestone of"`
- Find tasks into several links: `link:"is a milestone of" link:"relates to"`

### Search by comment

Attribute: **comment**

- Find comments that contains this title: `comment:"My comment message"`

### Search by tags

Attribute: **tag**

- Example: `tag:"My tag"`

Activity stream search
----------------------

### Search events by task title

Attribute: **title** or none (default)

- Example: `title:"My task"`
- Search by task id: `#123`

### Search events by task status

Attribute: **status**

### Search by event creator

Attribute: **creator**

### Search by event creation date

Attribute: **created**

### Search events by project

Attribute: **project**

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The Level Of Carbon Dioxide In The Atmosphere Right Now Marks A Scary First
By Mehreen Kasana
Sean Gallup/Getty Images News/Getty Images
Humanity just hit a new milestone, and it's not a good one. The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere right now has exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human existence, CNN reported on Monday. The troubling finding is based on a Sunday report released by sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory and tweeted by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The observatory is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.
The current CO2 level, which is 415.26 parts per million, is far more than any level in the past 800,000 years, CNN noted. Naturally, the research has unsettled meteorologists, to say the least. Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist for the environmental news agency Grist, tweeted about the amount of carbon dioxide on Sunday and noted that humans, as an entire species, have never known such a level before.
"Not just in recorded history," Holthaus tweeted, "not just since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Since before modern humans existed millions of years ago. We don't know a planet like this." The data was shown through the Keeling Curve, which is a graph named after the late scientist Charles David Keeling. In the 1950s, Keeling focused on studying the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere for his research on global warming.
It's probably worth studying the amounts of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere over different ages and periods to make sense of how urgent the Sunday report is. According to CNN, for example, the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide in the Pliocene Epoch — an epoch in the Tertiary Period of the geologic timescale that took place millions of years ago — ranged between 310 to 400 parts per million at that time.
With the rising levels of carbon dioxide over the years, the earth's temperature has gone up due to CO2's ability to retain and absorb heat. Both phenomena have a mostly directly proportional relationship, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. This means that if there is a low amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, our global temperature tends to cool down as well.
At its root, the rise in carbon dioxide can be due to the burning of fossil fuels. Think of resources like coal, oil, and gas, which release greenhouse gases like CO2 into our air. Along with this, the natural burning of forests (or manmade activities like deforestation projects) can cause an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and thus, higher global temperatures.
Environmental experts have urged people to make an effort to decrease their carbon footprint, including tackling the issue of greenhouse emissions. It's for an important reason, as the NOAA noted in 2018. The agency stated that "increases in greenhouse gases have tipped the Earth's energy budget out of balance, trapping additional heat and raising Earth's average temperature."
As National Geographic reported in February, increased and unchecked amounts of carbon dioxide created by emissions from cars, planes, factories, and other manmade sources pose the risk to severely harm people's health. The Mauna Loa Observatory's finding seems to reaffirm National Geographic's report on our environment's condition — and what that could mean for our future.


This show is being held in conjuction with WELKS All Breed Championship Show so there are two sets of CC's available on the same day.
Entries are now closed and our popular judge has an entry of 105 dogs, making 122 entries.
We look forward to seeing you on the day !


Higher education is America is a mess. No post or simple op-ed could ever convey the depth and breadth of the problem that is our University system, our flawed American psyche about education, and our insane government policies that subsidize often valueless degrees. Today, I will tackle the most grave issue on college campuses, and the is the Left's war on thought … or more accurately … the war on critical thinking. It's not just the kids, I warn you. This is a war propagated from Board of Visitors or Regents, to Presidents, down to faculty, and through administrators. The kids are the manifestation of the broken education system and an American value system in steep decline.
We have too many kids, and I do mean children, in college. We have too many kids in colleges in which they don't belong. We have too many kids in colleges in which they don't belong, studying subjects that are nonsense. Education profiteers are forcing kids into debt to create a nation of leftist rubes with valueless degrees whose principle purpose at most institutions is to provide the FTE necessary to support over-paid, under-worked, lifetime employees. The education system has become a propaganda system for profit, and it is turning out non-thinkers. These kids are deep in debt, and they have never been intellectually challenged, nor do they possess the two most essential skills for success in the free market. One is the ability to think and reason, the other essential skill is the ability to control one's feelings and emotions. Is this every student? No. Of course, this is not every student. However, the epidemic of subsidized stupidity and immaturity is spilling out on our streets and into our communities as broke, spoiled, dependent, skill-free, kids … all of whom happen to be in their 20's. That is a stage of growth that one should pass by 11.
Colleges are riddled with leftists. Many of these academics are hiding out from real life, promoting unproven theories in dubious disciplines. As faculty collectives, they then determine who joins the cult. Their lifelines are the shield of academic freedom and the free flow of subsidized cash. At the heart of the problem is a system and mentality that insists that everyone must go to college. It is the same flawed thinking as the "homeownership society." Not everyone should be a homeowner, and not everyone belongs in college, steeped in debt, studying glass-blowing, black-liberation theology, or feminism and the American Indian, or any other number of subjects for which the only markets are joblessness, radicalism, and anger.
We need thinkers. We need mature, responsible adults who can analyze issues, and who have the skills to work in a fast-paced, diverse, technologically advanced, challenging society where rational thought supplants hurt feelings, victimhood, and entitlement. UC Berkeley should be a beacon of free speech. When a conservative, outspoken, openly gay, foreign-born, provocateur arrives on campus, he should be greeted with the intellect of thinkers, not the tears, anger, and outrage of the intolerant. If a man were so wrong on all his ideas, why not show up and prove him so? How dangerous is a world where a purportedly elite academic institution shouts down speech, riots, and lets its students act like fascists just to ensure that words are not spoken?
This problem didn't happen yesterday, and it is not confined to one campus. It's the norm, and not the outlier. That is the grand issue we face in society. Thinking is no longer part of the box; it's truly outside the tool box of most college students. This war on thought is brought you be the left, and that is because in a world of leftism the collective determines the truth, it disseminates that truth, and it requires obedience to the truth. All other ideas are dangerous, and their messengers and message must be destroyed. Leftism is incompatible with liberty. Worse, it is incompatible with independent thought, which is why it requires the destruction of both ideas and those who spread thoughts not vetted through its prism or approved by its elites. The American left seized our colleges four decades ago, and they are churning out warriors of a faith that despises independence, critical thought, and liberty. What's most remarkable is they have Americans paying for and our government subsidizing our own Constitutional downfall.
Think about that … and then see how you feel.


The most stupid question to ask today to even a new born baby would be – "What is data?" Quite exaggerated, I know, but you must have understood the understatement. What I wanted to put across is – "We are living in the age where Data has become super-super prime". Modern economy today is banking on DATA.
From manual record keeping system to so called Object oriented Relational Database Management Systems (OORDBMS) it can be observed databases have come a long way. On a timeline there have been so many technologies that came from hierarchical and network based database model to relational database model. RDBMS was a major game changer and has ruled the planet. RDBMS also evolved from simple Relational DBMS to Object Oriented RDBMS to accommodate Object Oriented Approach and technology introduced in most of the programming languages.
Next Open Source Database Management Systems made use of sophisticated databases a norm and soon everyone was using it. Usage grew and applications grew by many folds. Today we see online users are increasing exponentially. User base is increasing and there is a huge shift of activities to Internet. Because of that suddenly, everybody is working very hard to make best use of ever growing data – and here traditional database management systems have no doubt shouldered the burden but now seem that these databases would be "Once upon a time, databases" in the near future. Simply shape and size of data has changed to a level, these traditional database managements systems can't cope up with.
Some people even say NoSql to be actually abbreviated as NOSql i.e. Not Only SQL, meaning SQL is going to stay but must get merged with new technologies to be able to accommodate changing characteristics to modern web-scale databases. Today's databases are not bound to predefined schemas, must provide replication support, should also be open source with simple APIs, should be able to handle huge and diverse database with consistency. This has led to the huge development and research work in the area of databases since more than a decade now.
Hadoop : is an open source distributed processing framework for Big Data.
• It can perform more transactions per second.
• Also gain new cloud efficiencies.
• 99% of writes at <15ms.
o also has built in statistical sampling.
• Can be accessed via REST or ATOM.
LevelDB: Written in C++ and a Database by Google is Fast & provides Batch updates.
• It is fast and web-scale database.
o Achieves 2.5 M TPS (reads and writes), 99% under 1 ms.
• Suitable for high load environment, it is a modern key-value database.
• It is a Key/Value store for Python object serialization.
One thing is for sure these NOSQL databases are highly scaleable and flexible database management systems. These databases allow you to store and process unstructured as well as semi-structured data in the most efficient manner which is not possible through RDBMS tools. Future ready, Fast, efficient, open-source and can handle and analyse massively huge data.


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Home » News » Blog » Press Freedom a Loser in Viktor Orbán's Winner-Take-All Hungary
Press Freedom a Loser in Viktor Orbán's Winner-Take-All Hungary
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Last week I joined a delegation of leading freedom of expression organizations in Hungary to assess the impact of much criticized media legislation that went into effect in January. Discussions with dozens of journalists, media officials, regulation authorities, and government representatives validated the serious concerns expressed by international press freedom experts since the law was passed last December.
The new media legislation has many troubling features. Not only does the legislation put in place a new regulatory structure with excessively broad authority and questionable independence, it also provides limited possibilities for judicial review of the decisions made by that body, which has the ability to issue or suspend licenses, monitor media content, and issue fines and levies in cases of content violations
At the same time, it provides overly broad language on prohibited content. The law bans content that insults "human dignity" or that discriminates against "any majority" or "any church or religious group." The legislation extends registration requirements to print and online media, a step that sharply contrasts with internationally accepted norms, and greatly expands the circumstances under which journalists can be forced to reveal their sources. Finally, the new regulatory regime has developed a model of co-regulation that amounts to outsourcing censorship to media owners in exchange for immunity from fines, which can otherwise be levied up to 2 million forints (approximately $950,000) for radio and television outlets.
As troubling as are the legislation's implications for press freedom is the government's arrogance in responding to widespread international criticism. Since the legislation was passed, detailed criticisms have been addressed to the Hungarian government by an impressive roster of neutral authorities: the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the Media Representative of the OSCE, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of expression, and many leading press freedom and human rights organizations.
Yet rather than engaging in any sincere reflection regarding the concerns of domestic and international experts, the government's response has been to dismiss criticism as exaggerated and politically motivated. At the same time, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has spent countless hours and reams of paper justifying every questionable aspect of the law by searching out and documenting similar examples in other European countries. The examples range from objectionable laws that should never have been passed in the first place to legitimate laws that have been taken out of context and invoked in misleading ways.
Regardless of whether the failings in other countries are valid, the Hungarian legislation represents a collection of laws that when taken as a whole represents a substantial threat to media diversity and the ability of the media to play its essential watchdog function. Journalists we spoke with, aside from those who take a pro-government line, claim that they are already engaging in self-censorship to avoid legal penalties or punitive actions by media owners who have agreed to the broad content restrictions. In an already tough economic environment, these journalists fear that few will be brave or financially secure enough to challenge the new laws. A cowed media is no asset to any democratic system, including one like Hungary, where free institutions generally prevail.
The damage to Hungarian democracy wrought by the Fidesz-led government is not limited to the new press regulation regime. Orbán's Fidesz government also rewrote the constitution, pushed through a controversial law on religions, and passed a law limiting the authority of the Constitutional Court. Such measures, enacted with little genuine public consultation, are particularly disheartening given Hungary's status as a model post-Communist democracy. For two decades Freedom House has been documenting the hitherto impressive progress of Hungary since its dramatic break from Communism—progress, it should be emphasized, that was unquestionably advanced by the previous Fidesz government.Since breaking free from the Communist bloc in 1989, Hungary has emerged as a consolidated democracy, rising to an impressive status of "Free" in both Freedom in the World, our annual survey of political rights and civil liberties, and in Freedom of the Press, the companion survey of media freedom.
Unfortunately, Viktor Orbán, who once fought for democratic principles against an oppressive communist regime, seems to have succumbed to the toxic polarization of Hungarian politics by adopting a winner take all approach to governing. Having returned to power with a resounding two-thirds parliamentary majority following eight years of ineffective and corrupt Socialist rule, he had an unprecedented opportunity to reinvigorate Hungary's sagging economy and restore public faith in the democratic process. So far, he and his party seem more focused on maintaining their stranglehold on power than on addressing the country's numerous ills. The months ahead will show how Hungarian democracy will weather the storm.
Analyses and recommendations offered by the authors do not necessarily reflect those of Freedom House.


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package auth.dao;

import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
import com.mongodb.MongoException;
import com.mongodb.client.MongoCollection;
import com.mongodb.client.MongoDatabase;
import javax.naming.Context;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import org.bson.Document;

public class AbstractMongoConnector {
    protected MongoDatabase database = null;
    protected MongoCollection<Document> collection = null;
    protected MongoClient mongoClient = null;

    public AbstractMongoConnector() {
    }

    public void openConnection() throws Exception {
        try {

            Context ctx = new InitialContext();
            Properties properties = (Properties) ctx.lookup("boss/resource/mongo");

            /*
            open connection
            */

            this.mongoClient = new MongoClient(properties.get("server").toString(), Integer.parseInt(properties.get("port").toString()));
            this.database = mongoClient.getDatabase(properties.get("db").toString());

            /*
            done open connection, sout
            */

            System.out.println("openConnection | Done");

        } catch (MongoException var3) {
            var3.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    public boolean closeConnection() {
        try {
            if(this.mongoClient != null) {
                this.mongoClient.close();
            }

            return true;
        } catch (MongoException var2) {
            var2.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        }
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}


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Q: c++ passing variable number of arguments to a function I have functions that take a different number of arguments (one or more double values). Pointers to these functions are stored in a vector within a formula-interpreter and will be used to call functions at runtime when needed. The function to call and the number of arguments to pass depends on the formula itself and will be known only at runtime.
From interpreting the formula I get an iterator pointing to the function to call and a vector<double> with the arguments to pass. In the current version I solve the need to pass variable number of arguments by code duplication like :
// (the number of args in dblVec to match the number of args the function accepts is checked previously)
if (dblVec.size() == 1) result = (*funcIter)->function(dblVec.at(0));
else if (dblVec.size() == 2) result = (*funcIter)->function(dblVec.at(0), dblVec.at(1));
else if (dblVec.size() == 3) result = (*funcIter)->function(dblVec.at(0), dblVec.at(1), dblVec.at(2));
...

This is not very elegant and has a limit but it works if the number of arguments is not larger than the number of above tests. My question is:
Is there some way to have an "implicit" loop within the argument list for a function to call, like (pseudo code)
result = (*funcIter)->function(passVectorContentsAsMultipleSeparatedDoubles(dblVec));

It is not a solution to pass the whole vector because the functions will be "standard" functions (like sin(double), cos(double), atan2(double, double) etc.) as well as custom functions passed to the interpreting class by the user (programmer that uses the interpreting class).
Thanks in advance for any hints.

A: With C++11 this is actually possible and I had a quite similar problem. Have a look at the following:
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A Post-Sanders Vision for America
We, the visionary progressives of America, do not feel defeat. Unlike many of my colleagues, friends, and family members, I have not felt an ounce of despair in facing the reality of Bernie Sanders' suspended campaign.
In learning the fight for delegates had officially come to an end, I was met with an overwhelming blend of strong emotions. Defeat was nowhere to be found. Among these, gratitude, hope, and most importantly, service, overtook any sense of mourning I may have felt that day.
In this moment of realization, I was overcome with gratitude. Gratitude for the senator from Vermont for unifying young people, people of color, students, and a nationwide coalition of diverse Americans toward a common goal of a transformed America.
I felt gratitude for the dozens of young activists I had been lucky enough to meet and work with on local progressive campaigns, initiatives, and community projects to fulfill our vision of an economy and political system of compassion and selflessness under a President Bernie Sanders.
Most importantly, I'm grateful that we're not done fighting for what's right, and that we have no intention of abandoning our political revolution.
Next, I'm more hopeful now than during any moment on the campaign trail with my fellow activists fighting for real change. I stand optimistic that the United States will have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, economic justice, criminal justice reform, and the structural transformation required to build an economy and a political system that works for all, not just a few.
I stand hopeful because American progressives have been aware of and angry at social and economic injustices perpetuated by a corrupt political establishment for decades – we had just failed to answer two conundrums that would define our 21st-century political revolution. What exactly is the "political establishment?" Also, what would a compassionate America realistically resemble? Sen. Sanders answered both of these questions and re-energized our progressive movement for justice, equality, and American democracy. It is because of this I stand hopeful.
Next, I was met with a renewed sense of service. I had realized that our movement was not just about Bernie Sanders, nor merely the senator's presidential campaign. Our political revolution is a mass cultural push toward social and economic equality that operates through people-funded, progressive political campaigns as a means to renewing and expanding the American dream.
Our movement chose Bernie Sanders because the senator realized this very fact, and was grounded by the same roots of compassion and selflessness that our movement continues to grow from. Unwaveringly fighting for the principles of "not me, us," the senator had invigorated our movement to realize our obligation to the American people.
This election season, I've come to realize a sense of service to young people, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community like myself, working people, and the marginalized communities of America as a result of Sen. Sanders' revolutionary campaign.
Finally, this past April, in collaboration with various other young, diverse progressives throughout southern Maine, I've founded Maine Youth for Economic Reform: a youth-led, policy-focused advocacy group working within the State Legislature to fight for our vision of a compassionate and humane political system and economy for all. Our organization is working to push historic state legislation through to signature by Maine's governor, such as L.D. 1611, establishing universal health care in the state of Maine.
Maine Youth for Economic Reform is also currently working to support local progressive campaigns for public office, such as Chloe Maxmin for Maine Senate District 13; Betsy Sweet for U.S. Senate, a fearless champion of Medicare for All; and dozens of other progressive leaders.
Our central policy platform lists five economic human rights critical to a humane and just small-business economy: a human right to affordable health care; a secure retirement income for all; workplace democracy and accountability; a human right to clean water, food, and air; and affordable access to higher education and trade schools for all. This is our plan to fulfill Bernie Sanders' vision of America, and we are energized.
To the former mayor of Burlington, fearless political visionary, and most importantly compassionate human being, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I offer a sincere "thank you" for inspiring the American people to ask for more, because we're not done fighting.
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Crib Bumpers are Causing an Increase in Infant Deaths, Study Shows
Remove all unncessary accessories from your baby's crib, including crib bumpers
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A recent study has shown that an accessory found in your baby's crib has led to an increased number of infant deaths: crib bumpers. In case you didn't know, crib bumpers are padded blankets placed around a crib to prevent a baby's limbs from sticking out the gaps. Doctors however have strongly advised against them.
The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, involved analyzing data on infant death between the years 1985 to 2012 from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. For this time period, 48 infants died in incidents involving the bumpers in their cribs. 146 babies, on the other hand, were involved in nondeadly incidents where they nearly suffocated, choked or strangled by the bumpers.
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They also found that over the years, more and more babies died because of the bumpers. From 2006 to 2012, researchers found that 23 infant deaths were reported to have been caused by crib bumpers, three times higher than each of the three previous seven-year periods.
"Crib bumpers are killing kids," said study author Dr. Bradley T. Thach, a professor emeritus of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in the U.S. in a statement. "The infant deaths we studied could have been prevented if the cribs were empty" of crib bumpers, he added.
The researchers suspect that there could be more deaths caused by crib bumpers that go unreported. Despite the data showing the dangers of crib bumpers, parents still continue to purchase them due to misleading advertising.
What you Need to Know about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
"When they go into a baby store to buy a crib, they see all cribs lined with bumpers, and that sends a false signal that if they are selling them, they must be safe," Thach told Live Science.
As early as 2008 in fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been strongly against the use of crib bumpers. According to the AAP, there is no evidence that bumpers protect against injury, but they do have a potential risk of suffocation, strangulation or entrapment.
Safe sleep and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) prevention guidelines by the AAP state that a baby's crib should contain nothing but a firm mattress with a fitted sheet.
Nov. 24, 2015. "More Infant Deaths Blamed on Crib Bumpers". livescience.com
Undated. "AAP Recommends Against Crib Bumpers for SIDS Prevention". parenting.com
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Myles de Bastion of CymaSpace and Audiolux Devices lights the way for inclusive encounters with music through his groundbreaking technology.
Myles de Bastion is on a mission to amplify our senses and empower us to see sound: Photo by Sam GehrkeMyles de Bastion is a musician and innovator who also happens to be deaf. As a guitarist in Misled Bayonets, his post-rock-flavored live and recording project, de Bastion values the spontaneity of improvised creation.
With a background in computer animation and both hardware and software design, de Bastion put his visual arts and engineering skills to work. While he didn't have any formal training in product development, he had many talented friends who were willing to teach him. With a small army of volunteers, de Bastion founded CymaSpace, a nonprofit performance venue and technology and arts incubator. With a creative space to build out his ideas, de Bastion began dabbling in cymatic technology, which seeks to make sounds visible, and it wasn't long before there was a working prototype of the sound-to-light system that became Audiolux One.
The unassuming Audiolux One stomp box has the power translate your instrument's audio into light: Right photo by Sam GehrkeA first step toward creating a visual sound system, Audiolux One is a plug-and-play stomp box that analyzes seven separate audio frequencies in real-time and maps this musical information to smart LED pixels. It's capable of taking the sounds from individual instruments and displaying them in light. This means that the visualizations and layout of the LED pixels can be programmed, customizing the colors, luminosity and movement patterns. Thin and flexible, the LED strips and light strings can be installed onto any surface, including inlaid on instruments and gear. The hardware is easily modified through open-source software, allowing for changes in functionality on the built-in knobs and footswitch. Even if you don't know how to program, you can upload new presets using any computer.
After people started asking where they could buy the compact, silver stomp box, de Bastion founded Audiolux Devices and began building them to order, while via CymaSpace, he started an outreach arm renting large-scale LED installations for concerts and events, employing technicians for setup and breakdown.
"People want the 'cool lights' but we use it as a conversation starter to greater inclusion and accessibility for those with disabilities," he says. This work not only helps events to be more accessible and inclusive to the deaf and hard of hearing but makes a sensory impact on everyone in attendance. In an effort to share knowledge and lower the barrier of entry to new technology, there's even a DIY option for ambitious makers wanting to build their own—the open-source code and instructions can be found on GitHub.
With Misled Bayonets, de Bastion approaches songwriting by collaborating with a rotating cast of local musicians and vocalists. Employing a similar tactic, he's connected with the Portland maker community to create interactive light sculptures such as the Cymatic Star—a sound-reactive LED installation at the Portland Art Museum where museumgoers were actually encouraged to make noise and where softer, higher frequency sounds displayed a light show of cooler tones and louder, lower frequency sounds produced warmer colors. Working with Piano. Push. Play. and Lucid Design, the #SeeingSound LED Piano was created for OMSI, enabling the general public to play a vintage upright that displays different colors and "heat map" patterns depending on which keys are struck.
Top: De Bastion and a full stage of his light sculptures; Bottom: #SeeingSound LED Piano at OMSI, Ear Trumpet Labs mic, and Cymatic Star installation at the Portland Art MuseumOther light-infused gear projects include LED curtains, a see-through kick drum and snare that react to the player's nuances, a guitar that has a muted technicolor glow strip running the length of its body, a sound-reactive pedalboard, and a dazzling, vintage-style condenser microphone from Ear Trumpet Labs that's encrusted with LEDs. De Bastion's work has been featured nationally on Jimmy Kimmel Live with Portland jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding as well as at local happenings like PDX Pop Now!, What The Festival and the Portland Winter Light Festival.
Most musicians, bands and orchestras tune their instruments to an international standard (known as A440, or the Stuttgart pitch, at a frequency of 440 Hz). But one begins to wonder, what are the connections between sound and light? What colors erupt during a blistering guitar solo? Does a low, soulful bassline emit blue and feel as soft lit as it sounds? How many kaleidoscopic rainbows can we use to display the tone of music? De Bastion is attempting to answer that question in his next phase of development.
Sound, as it happens, is mathematical. The circle of fifths is like a songwriter's magic shortcut, expressing the relationship between keys and simplifying chord creation. Mapping this to colored lights allows de Bastion to see what notes are being played by various instruments when improvising, which, more importantly, enables him to turn music into multi-sensorial compositions.
We can all feel music, physically or emotionally—whether it's the pulse of a bassline, the throbbing heartbeat of a drum, or an emotive piece of music that moves us to joy or tears. CymaSpace projects and Audiolux Devices empower everyone to experience sound in a new way, as a synaesthetic blend of sense and sensation. Sound-reactive lighting and vibro-haptic installations, such as benches or vests that vibrate to the rhythm of the music, create immersive, inclusive environments—a multi-colored, sensory feast that can be enjoyed by anyone and everyone. Through his music, public art and innovation, Myles de Bastion is building inventions that are accessible to all, expanding the deaf community's experience with live music while bringing together hearing and deaf communities.
Wanna meet more Portlanders who are crafting innovative, world-renowned instruments and gear right here in your own backyard? Read about 'em in our Maker Issue.


How about that It Takes A Village To Make Records, eh?
If you haven't been staying tuned to our friends at It Takes A Village to Make Records and their monthly 3-Way Split Singles club, you're missing out on some great music. Well, now you can get caught up, as today is the release of volume three of the singles club, which features our very own Narc Out the Reds and Hat Madder, as well as our old friends and fellow mischief makers The Playback. For this single, members of all three bands collaborated in one marathon session to bring three exclusive brand new songs to the masses. Download it for $3, stream it for free, support the cause, check out the other singles, etc here. The future releases in this singles series are very promising, with The Plurals and Frank and Earnest (sheesh, these guys just don't know when to shut up do they?) both scheduled to make appearances very soon alongside many other cool bands.
PS: Those of you in Lansing best be gettin' your dancing shoes on for GTG Fest Part 2 at GTG House tonight, with the one and only Johnny Unicorn making his first local appearance in almost a year.


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Immigration: Acting ICE Director Defends Planned Roundups Targeting Families In an interview with NPR, Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan says his agency is only enforcing the law. "So what are our options?" he asked. "They've had due process."
'We Have No Choice': Acting ICE Director Defends Planned Immigration Raids
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Mark Morgan, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stands for a portrait in his office Friday. In an interview with NPR, Morgan says his agency is only enforcing the law. Shuran Huang/NPR hide caption
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Mark Morgan, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stands for a portrait in his office Friday. In an interview with NPR, Morgan says his agency is only enforcing the law.
Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET Saturday
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expected to begin arresting and deporting thousands of migrant families in 10 cities across the country, according to sources familiar with the planned raids.
The roundups are targeted at recently arrived migrant families whose cases were fast-tracked by the Justice Department after being sent final deportation orders from a judge and failing to show up for court.
Sources said the raids were expected to begin this weekend, but on Saturday President Trump tweeted that he was delaying the action for two weeks. If Democrats do not approve changes to asylum law, Trump wrote, the raids will resume.
Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan defended ICE raids aimed at migrant families in an interview with NPR on Friday, saying his agency is only enforcing the law.
"My duty is not to look at the political optics or the will of the American people; that's for the politicians to decide," Morgan said. "What the American people should want us to do as law enforcement officials is to enforce the rule of law and maintain the integrity of that system."
ICE sent letters to more than 2,000 of these migrants in February, demanding that they report to immigration authorities or leave the country. Morgan said many are not turning themselves in.
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"So what are our options?" he said. "They've had due process, they've had access to attorneys, they've had access to interpreters. Majority of them don't even show up. And then when they didn't show up, they received ordered removal in absentia," Morgan said. "We have no choice."
The decision to make families a priority for deportation sparked condemnation from immigrant rights groups. They say these families may not have understood their rights in court or never received proper notification to appear.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Trump is using migrant families and asylum-seekers as "political punching bags."
"This is an immoral and unconscionable act by a president and an administration hell-bent on dividing our country," James said in a statement. "As New York's top law enforcement officer, I can assure New Yorkers we will do everything in our power to fight back against these inhumane policies."
The Department of Justice fast-tracked the immigration cases of recently arrived migrant families in 10 major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami.
The families' cases were placed at the front of the line in an expedited process developed by the Trump administration, known as "the rocket docket," an effort to deter migrant families hoping to come to the U.S. and seek asylum.
The majority of the migrants who have received final orders of removal — more than 10,000 people — have received "in absentia" orders from federal court officials for not showing up to court.
Migrant advocates said the raids targeting families are likely to prompt a widespread outcry. They point to last year when the Trump administration separated thousands of children from their families as a part of Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration stance. After the uproar, the administration reversed the practice.
"This is a new low," Steven Choi, executive director the New York Immigration Coalition, said in a statement. "In the wake of his official campaign launch, the Trump administration this week has tried to ratchet up its racist anti-immigrant rhetoric and threats of his terrorizing deportation force."
President Trump named Morgan the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month. For Morgan, leading the agency followed a long career working in homeland security and criminal investigations, first as an agent for the FBI for decades before serving as the Border Patrol chief at the end of the Obama administration.
President Trump Names Mark Morgan, Former Border Patrol Chief, To Lead ICE
Just before Morgan's appointment, Trump abruptly withdrew the previous ICE nominee, Ronald Vitiello, saying he wanted the agency to go in a "tougher" direction.
In the interview with NPR, Morgan echoed Trump's hardline immigration rhetoric and the desire to discourage families from crossing the border illegally.
"By doing this we're going to send the message to these individuals," Morgan said. "We want to stop them from paying the cartels and making them a billion-dollar industry and risking their lives. We want to also send that message, if you want to come here, please do so legally. Don't risk your life."
In May alone, more than 144,000 immigrants were taken into custody along the U.S.-Mexico border, the highest one-month total in more than a decade. Many of the migrants are escaping violence and poverty in Central America.
Morgan said raids are not his preference because they can be dangerous and unpredictable for agents. But with so many migrants living in the shadows and dodging requests from ICE, he said it is an appropriate response.
"I don't want to send agents to people's homes. I don't want to send people to their workplace. I don't want to send them anywhere," but, Morgan said, "They're here illegally, and they won't work with us."
President Trump tweeted earlier this week about the ICE operation, saying it will be next week. Morgan said that did not compromise the operations, which are usually not publicized beforehand.
"You've got to remember all these individuals know every single day they're here illegally. They're always watching. Anytime a car goes by, they're always in a heightened state of awareness," Morgan said. "The tweet was just a general tweet. There's no operational specific elements that we're giving out."
NPR's Franco Ordoñez and Joel Rose contributed to this report.


The newly-installed ecopassages under the Long Point Causeway are featured in an article in the winter 2012-13 edition of Ontario Nature magazine. The article can be found on page 8 at the following link : http://www.vdocshop.com/doc/on-nature-magazine/winter2012-13/2012112201/#0 Since it was established as the Federation of Ontario Naturalists in 1931, Ontario Nature has been a champion for nature in Ontario protecting wild species and wild spaces through conservation, education and public engagement. Ontario Nature is a charitable organization representing more than 30,000 members and supporters and 140 member groups across Ontario.
We've added a new photo gallery in the "Maps and photos" section under the More Info heading. The photos show the installation of the two types of smaller terrestrial ecopassages for wildlife and the much larger aquatic ecopassage that will reconnect a waterway in the Big Creek Marsh with Long Point Bay while providing safe passage for wildlife under the Causeway. It's interesting to note that each section of the aquatic culvert weighs 20 metric tons (about 44,000 pounds).


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The Opportunity Zones project aims to boost distressed communities by attracting investment. >AP/File
Federal Gov't Grants $1.1 Million for Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico Opportunity Zones
Rosario Fajardo, The Weekly Journal
Apr 10, 2020 Updated Apr 10, 2020
The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million grant to the University of Puerto Rico to hire three Disaster Recovery Coordinators to execute disaster recovery efforts throughout the entire Commonwealth.
The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designated Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $266,400 in local investment.
"The disaster recovery coordinators hired at the University of Puerto Rico will serve as liaisons between local, state, and federal partners to further advance recovery efforts and rebuild the local economy back stronger than ever before," said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.
In 2018, EDA made $587 million available to eligible grantees in communities impacted by natural disasters in 2017, such as Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico.
Opportunity Zones have become the buzzwords in Puerto Rico in recent months, but they have not generated the hoped for $600 million in investments that the central government was projecting.
The federal program provides tax benefits for those investing in distressed, low-income communities nationwide. Puerto Rico has also enacted its own Opportunity Zone law; hence, investors can benefit from the tax incentive at both the federal and commonwealth levels. About 98 percent of Puerto Rico has been designated by the federal government as eligible for Opportunity Zone investments.
Eligible projects include multi-family housing, including student dorms; tourism-related businesses; educational and health facilities; tech incubators; and other types of commerce.


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Stocks Increase for the first time in 3 times as traders Expect for US-China trade Advancement
by Kane Dane October 10, 2019, 12:00 am 0 Votes
Stocks climbed for the first time in 3 times on Wednesday as dealers expected for some sort of bargain to emerge from U.S.-China trade discussions starting on Thursday, even if it is a restricted pact.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 180 points, or 0.7 percent. The S&P 500 increased 0.9percent while the Nasdaq Composite innovative 1 percent. Stocks narrowed their profits heading into the near after Reuters reported China had reduced their expectations for these discussions.
Apple stocks contributed to the profits, increasing 1.3% following a analyst at Canaccord Genuity increased his price target on the iPhone manufacturer to $260 per share from $240. Tech has been the best-performing industry from the S&P 500, gaining greater than 1 percent.
Earlier in the afternoon, Bloomberg News reported China is now ready to take a partial trade deal so long as no longer tariffs are levied by President Donald Trump. The report added that Beijing could provide non-core concessions such as purchases of agricultural goods in return but maybe not budge on important sticking points between both nations.
Separately, the Financial Times reported that officials in China are supplying to raise purchases of U.S. agricultural goods, so as to accomplish a partial thing.
"It's more difficult to envision a S&P 500 in similar/higher amounts in October 2020 with no trade deal, greater optimism over international economic expansion, and improved corporate earnings," explained Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. "But it's worth recalling that other markets don't concur with those bearish fears" He noted investment level and high-yield company spreads stay"fairly tight"
The world's two biggest economies have levied tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of another's products because the beginning of 2018, battering monetary markets and souring business and consumer opinion. The long-running dispute has gradually expanded beyond commerce policy, exacerbating fears about further damage to a fragile global market.
Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday as expectations for advancement on the trade discussions dimmed. The Dow dropped over 300 points while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell more than 1 percent each. Those expectations decreased amid U.S. visa limitations on Chinese officials along with also the accession of Chinese firms to some U.S. trade blacklist this past week.
"We watched some weakness to the near yesterday that got purchased now," explained Willie Delwiche, investment strategist in Baird. "The manner stocks completed yesterday, they have somewhat overextended into the disadvantage."
"Now it is back to wait and see what another tweet, what another headline will be to find a feeling of whether that is something which may build on itself if a number of the weakness we are visiting proceeds to enlarge," Delwiche said.
The Federal Reserve released the minutes from the September meeting. The minutes revealed the transaction warfare remains an issue for Fed officials. But, they also revealed central-bank officials believe the market could possibly be too optimistic concerning the amount of speed cuts moving ahead . Stocks showed little response to the moments.
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As the world patiently awaits to hear what Donald Trump supposedly has on President Barack Obama that is suppose to shock us new assertions are being made courtesy of a source that is now telling radaronline that Barack Obama used to use cocaine and sell it whilst in college.
radar: A man claiming to be a close pal to President Obama during college made contact with Republican operatives recently, ready to go public with claims that Obama used and sold cocaine in college, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
The operatives tried to spread the story through the media and the Romney campaign, a source close to the situation told Radar.
"At first he wanted to do a book," a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com about the alleged college pal. "But there just wasn't enough time before the election.
But there just wasn't enough time before the election? That sounds odd given what is at stake. If republican operatives were legitimately able to suss out that Barack Obama had used and sold cocaine that book would have been written over a long weekend.
Nevertheless radar aren't flinching. Continues the outlet:
A proposal of the man's story was created and viewed by Radar. The document claims that there are multiple sources who can back up allegations that Obama used and sold cocaine in college.
The alleged pal was willing to go on the record for the story and take a polygraph test, according to the source.
"People who would have taken the information to the highest levels of Romney's campaign just wouldn't touch it.
"They don't want their candidate smeared with this type of activity."
But then there was this comment from one radar reader that also caught my eye too. You be the judge, did Barack Obama really deal and use cocaine…?
Let's see…the birther lie didn't work, all the racists emails/statements didn't work so now lets see if calling him a "drug dealer" will work. Where was this so-called "friend" four years ago? Oh, that's right, he didn't exist. This all boils down to the fact that you can't handle having a Black man as President. Go back to 1800s and let the grown educated folks handle the business of running this country because if it's left up to you, women and minorities will be stripped of their rights but you bigots/racists will still be broke busted and without teeth.
And then I had to include this comment below which made me reach for a fire extinguisher….
Is there anything that could be revealed about the Bamster that would shock anyone? I doubt it. We already know he did drugs, and drank beer, is an Indonesian citizen and declared that in his school records, That Frank marshall davis may have been his real father, there are nude pics of his mom, he ate dogmeat, he has more half brother and sisters than you can count, he got into fancy schools from arab oil money and Bill Ayres parents, etc. New allegations about cocaine use? Who cares. Mooshellle wanted a divorce? Not suprised, she's a horrid b****. The only thing that would shock me is if he made porno movies to pay for college.
Freedom of Speech October 29, 2012 at 1:34 pm
I have also heard about the cocaine. That's why Michelle gave up her right to be an attorney – so she wouldn't face criminal charges for dealing in cocaine. I believe this to be true. Why else would you voluntarily give up your license to practice law unless the government had something big that could bring you down. Same with Osama.
DubLBareL October 25, 2012 at 8:07 am
Do people not watch The Apprentice? Donald Trump is a boob. I honestly have no idea how he has amassed his fortune because I wouldn't let him run a lemonade stand. He is just a brainless, emotionless corporate butt lick.
Patricia Mitchell October 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm
REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES!!! I HOPE THOSE BASTARDS NEVER SEE THE INSIDE OF A WHITE HOUSE AGAIN!!! IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GET THRU THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, SAYS THE BIBLE.


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by Peter Lemieux | Aug 23, 2022 | Life=Baseball
Some marketing ideas make sense in the Boardroom but don't play out well in real life. Such an idea was attempted in Cleveland in 1974.
The Cleveland Indians played in Municipal Stadium for many years. It was a gigantic stadium with a seating capacity of almost 75,000 people. In 1974, their average attendance was 8,000. With about 65,000 empty seats every night, the Indians' brainstormed on ideas to bring in a bigger crowd. Their answer was to have a 10 cent beer night. Fans could drink 8 ounce beers all night for 10 cents each.
It started out well enough as over 25,000 people showed up for the game against the Texas Rangers who were managed by the highly volatile Billy Martin. The fans drank huge amounts of beer and became more and more rowdy as the game progressed. Trailing 6-1 in the bottom of the ninth, Cleveland put together a heroic rally, tied the game and had the winning run on second base. Unfortunately, the excitement was too much for the drunken fans.
First, a drunk ran on the field trying to steal an outfielder's hat. When the player tripped, Billy Martin ran onto the field to protect him. He was followed by his team, many of whom were carrying bats. That prompted drunken fans to pour out onto the fields with weapons of their own. They had knives, chains and parts of stadium seats that had been torn apart. Cleveland television cut away from live broadcasting. In self defense the Indian team ran out from their dugout wielding bats. Fights broke out everywhere. Fans threw metal seats onto the field. The bases were ripped out and actually stolen.
The head umpire, hand and head bleeding from wounds, called the game off. Police had to restore order. The Indians had to forfeit the game. Not surprisingly, future unlimited 10 cent beer nights were changed to a 4 drink maximum.
The next time you brainstorm a good basic question is – what will most likely happen if we do this "great idea".


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UFOs / Paranormal
"From Self to Cosmic Consciousness" by Richard M. Bucke
I . . . If we are right in [the] assumption [that human evolution has not ceased] new faculties will from time to time arise in the mind as, in the past, new faculties have arisen.
This being granted, let us assume that what in this book is called Cosmic Consciousness is such a nascent . . . faculty.
Richard M. Bucke
And now let us see what we know about this new sense, state, faculty, or whatever it may be called. And, first, it may be noted that the new sense does not appear by chance in this man or that. It is necessary for its appearance that an exalted human personality should exist and supply the pre-conditions for its birth. In the great cases especially is there an exceptional development of some or all of the ordinary human faculties. Note particularly, since that case is unmistakably known to us, the singular perfection of the intellectual and moral faculties and of the special senses in Walt Whitman.
It is probable that an approximation to this evolutionary excellence is necessary in all cases. Then certainly in some, probably in all, cases the person has an exceptional physique —exceptional beauty of build and carriage, exceptionally handsome features, exceptional health, exceptional sweetness of temper, exceptional magnetism.
The faculty itself has many names, but they have not been understood or recognized. It will be well to give some of them here. They will be better understood as we advance. Either Gautama himself, or some one of his early disciples, called it "Nirvana" because of the "extinction" of certain lower mental faculties (such as the sense of sin, fear of death, desire of wealth, etc., etc.) which is directly incident upon its birth.
This subjugation of the old personality along with the birth of the new is, in fact, almost equivalent to the annihilation of the old and the creation of a new self. The word Nirvana is defined as "the state to which the Buddhist saint is to aspire as the highest aim and highest good." Jesus called the new condition "the Kingdom of God" or the "Kingdom of Heaven," because of the peace and happiness which belong to it and which are perhaps its most characteristic features.
Paul called it "Christ." He speaks of himself as "a man in Christ," of "them that are in Christ." He also calls it "the Spirit" and "the Spirit of God." After Paul had entered Cosmic Consciousness he knew that Jesus had possessed the Cosmic Sense and that he was living (as it were) the life of Jesus —that another individuality, another self, lived in him. This second self he called Christ (the divinely sent deliverer), identifying it not so much with the man Jesus, as with the deliverer which was to be sent and which had been sent in his person, who was both Jesus (the ordinary Self Conscious man) and Messiah (the herald and exemplar of the new, higher race). The duplex personality of men having Cosmic Consciousness will appear many times as we proceed and will be seen to be a constant and prominent phenomenon.
Mohammed called the Cosmic Sense "Gabriel," and seems to have looked upon it as a distinctly separate person who lived in him and spoke to him. Dante called it "Beatrice" ("Making Happy"), a name almost or quite equivalent to "Kingdom of Heaven." Balzac called the new man a "specialist" and the new condition "Specialism." Whitman called Cosmic Consciousness "My Soul," but spoke of it as if it were another person; for instance:
O soul repressless, I with thee and thou with me. . . .
We too take ship O soul. . . .
With laugh and many a kiss . . .
O soul thou pleasest me, I thee.
Bacon (in the Sonnets) has treated the cosmic sense so emphatically as a distinct person that the world for three hundred years has taken him at his word and has agreed that the "person" in question (whatever his name may have been) was a young friend of the poet's! . . .
It has already been incidentally mentioned that a race entering upon the possession of a new faculty, especially if this be in the line of the direct ascent of the race, as is certainly the case with Cosmic Consciousness, the new faculty will necessarily be acquired at first not only by the best specimens of the race but also when these are at their best—that is, at full maturity and before the decline incident to age has set in.
What, now, are the facts in this regard as to the coming of the Cosmic Sense? They may be summarized in a few words as follows: Of thirty-four cases, in which illumination was instantaneous and the period at which it occurred was with some degree of certainty known, the age at which the person passed into Cosmic Consciousness was in one instance twenty-four years; in three, thirty years; in two, thirty-one years; in two, thirty-one and a half years; in three, thirty-two years; in one, thirty-three years; in two, thirty-four years; in eight, thirty-five years; in two, thirty-six years; in two, thirty-seven years; in two, thirty-eight years; in three, thirty-nine years; in one, forty years; in one, forty-nine years, and, in one, fifty-four years. . . .
Cosmic Consciousness, then, appears in individuals mostly of the male sex, who are otherwise highly developed—men of good intellect, of high moral qualities, of superior physique.
It appears at about that time of life when the organism is at its high-water mark of efficiency, at the age of thirty to forty years. It must have been that the immediate precursor of Cosmic Consciousness—Self Consciousness—also appeared at first in mid-life, here and there, in isolated cases, in the most advanced specimens of the race, becoming more and more nearly universal (as the race grew up to it), manifesting itself at an earlier and earlier age, until (as we see) it declares itself now in every fairly constituted individual, at about the age of three years.
Analogy, then, would lead us to believe that the step in promotion . . . also awaits the whole race—that a time will come when to be without the faculty in question will be a mark of inferiority parallel to the absence at present of the moral nature.
The presumption seems to be that the new sense will become more and more common and show itself earlier in life, until after many generations it will appear in each normal individual at the age of puberty or even earlier; then go on becoming still more universal, and appearing at a still earlier age, until, after many thousands of generations, it shows itself immediately after infancy in nearly every member of the race.
It must be clearly understood that all cases of Cosmic Consciousness are not on the same plane. Or, if we speak of Simple Consciousness, Self Consciousness and Cosmic Consciousness as each occupying a plane, then, as the range of Self Consciousness on its plane (where one man may be an Aristotle, a Caesar, a Newton, or a Comte, while his neighbor on the next street may be intellectually and morally, to all appearance, little if at all above the animal in his stable) is far greater than the range of Simple Consciousness in any given species on its plane, so we must suppose that the range of Cosmic Consciousness (given millions of cases, as on the other planes) is greater than that of Self Consciousness, and it probably is in fact very much greater both in kind and degree: that is to say, given a world peopled with men having Cosmic Consciousness, they would vary both in the way of greater and less intellectual ability, and greater and less moral and spiritual elevation, and also in the way of variety of character, more than would the inhabitants of a planet on the plane of Self Consciousness.
Within the plane of Cosmic Consciousness one man shall be a god while another shall not be, to casual observation, lifted so very much above ordinary humanity, however much his inward life may be exalted, strengthened and purified by the new sense. But, as the Self Conscious man (however degraded) is in fact almost infinitely above the animal with merely Simple Consciousness, so any man permanently endowed with the Cosmic Sense would be almost infinitely higher and nobler than any man who is Self Conscious merely. And not only so, but the man who has had the Cosmic Sense for even a few moments only will probably never again descend to the spiritual level of the merely Self Conscious man, but twenty, thirty or forty years afterwards he will still feel within him the purifying, strengthening and exalting effect of that divine illumination, and many of those about him will recognize that his spiritual stature is above that of the average man.
The hypothesis adopted by the present writer requires that cases of Cosmic Consciousness should become more numerous from age to age, and not only so but that they should become more perfect, more pronounced. What are the facts? Putting aside minor cases, such as must have appeared and been forgotten by hundreds in the last few millenniums, of those given above at least thirteen are so great that they can never fade from human memory—namely: Gautama, Jesus, Paul, Plotinus, Mohammed, Dante, Las Casas, John Yepes, Francis Bacon, Jacob Behmen, William Blake, Balzac, Walt Whitman.
From Gautama to Dante we count eighteen hundred years, within which period we have five cases. Again from Dante to the present day we count six hundred years, in which we have eight cases. That is to say, while in the earlier period there was one case to every three hundred and sixty years, in the later there was a case to each seventy-five years. In other words, Cosmic Consciousness has been 4.8 times more frequent during the latter period than it was during the former.
And before the time of Gautama? There were probably no, or few and imperfectly developed, cases.
We know that at present there are many of what may be called lesser cases, but the number of these cannot be compared with the number of similar cases in the past, for the reason that the latter are lost. It must also be remembered that the thirteen "great cases" given above are only perhaps a small fraction of cases just as great which have occurred since the time of Gautama, for probably only a small proportion of the "great cases" undertake and carry through work which ensures them remembrance. How easily might the memory even of Jesus have been obliterated from the minds of his contemporaries and followers almost before it was born. Many today think that, all else granted, if he had not been immediately followed by Paul, his work and name would have expired together almost with the generation that heard him speak. . . .
It seems that in every, or nearly every, man who enters into Cosmic Consciousness apprehension is at first more or less excited, the person doubting whether the new sense may not be a symptom or form of insanity. Mohammed was greatly alarmed. I think it is clear that Paul was, and others to be mentioned further on were similarly affected.
The first thing each person asks himself upon experiencing the new sense is: Does what I see and feel represent reality or am I suffering from a delusion? The fact that the new experience seems even more real than the old teachings of simple and Self Consciousness does not at first fully reassure him, because he probably knows that delusions, when present, possess the mind just as firmly as do actual facts.
True or not true, each person who has the experience in question eventually, perforce, believes in its teachings, accepting them as absolutely as any other teachings whatsoever. This, however, would not prove them true, since the same might be said of the delusions of the insane.
How, then, shall we know that this is a new sense, revealing fact, and not a form of insanity, plunging its subject into delusion? In the first place, the tendencies of the condition in question are entirely unlike, even opposite to, those of mental alienation, these last being distinctly amoral or even immoral, while the former are moral in a very high degree. In the second place, while in all forms of insanity self-restraint —inhibition—is greatly reduced, sometimes even abolished, in Cosmic Consciousness it is enormously increased. The absolute proof of this last statement can be found in the lives of the men here cited as examples. In the third place (whatever the scoffers of religion may say) it is certain that modern civilization (speaking broadly) rests (as already said) very largely on the teachings of the new sense. The masters are taught by it and the rest of the world by them through their books, followers and disciples, so that if what is here called Cosmic Consciousness is a form of insanity, we are confronted by the terrible fact (were it not an absurdity) that our civilization, including all our highest religions, rests on delusion. But (in the fourth place), far from granting, or for a moment entertaining, such an awful alternative, it can be maintained that we have the same evidence of the objective reality which corresponds to this faculty that we have of the reality which tallies any other sense or faculty whatever.
Sight, for instance: You know that the tree standing there, across the field, half a mile away, is real and not an hallucination, because all other persons having the sense of sight to whom you have spoken about it also see it, while if it were an hallucination it would be visible to no one but yourself. By the same method of reasoning do we establish the reality of the objective universe tallying Cosmic Consciousness. Each person who has the faculty is made aware by it of essentially the same fact or facts. If three men looked at the tree and were asked half an hour afterwards to draw or describe it the three drafts or descriptions would not tally in detail, but in general outline would correspond. Just in the same way do the reports of those who have had Cosmic Consciousness correspond in all essentials, though in detail they doubtless more or less diverge (but these divergences are fully as much in our misunderstanding of the reports as in the reports themselves). So there is no instance of a person who has been illumined denying or disputing the teaching of another who has passed through the same experience. . . .
"From Self to Cosmic Consciousness" is an extract from Cosmic Consciousness by Richard M. Bucke, published by White Crow Books and available from Amazon and other bookstores.
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a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. be aware of (something happening) through physical sensation. a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. (of a material or article) allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen. actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed. existence.
Looking forward to our relationship.
It takes a lot of small pieces to make big pieces.
Painted for the cover of Brandon Hopkins and his new "Three Short Pieces" record.
P.S. He is on to something.
I am lured by faraway distances, the immense void I project upon the world. A feeling of emptiness grows in me it infiltrates my body like a light and impalpable fluid. In its progress, like a dilation into infinity, I perceive the mysterious presence of the most contradictory feelings ever to inhabit a human soul. I am simultaneously happy and unhappy, exalted and depressed, overcome by both pleasure and despair in the most contradictory harmonies. I am so cheerful and yet so sad that my tears reflect at once both heaven and earth. If only for the joy of my sadness, I wish there were no death on this earth.


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Every city in the world has man made monuments as its heritage, but Hyderabad, the only city in the world where billions of year old Rocks have been given heritage status, due to tireless efforts by Society to Save rocks. Now when one hears a rock one may wonder what is so great about rock it is not a living thing so what is the fuss all about.Let me try to use my limited knowledge to build a case for saving the rocks of Hyderabad. First of all, a rock has been there before we came and it will be there unless we decide to remove it, but then it is a one-way destruction a rock cannot grow back.
The second reason is that the rock is not lifeless, a rock is shelter to hundred of plants and animal species and provides a nesting place for birds, reptiles, insects, and beautiful flowers look at you from the small crevices of the rocks. I have myself photographed various birds like Bulbul, Peacocks, Wagtails, Indian Robin, Cattle egret, Greater Coucal, Sunbirds, Beaters, Kingfishers, Black Winged kites etc. in the various rocks and lakes like Peerancheru around Hyderabad. Also spotted but still to be photographed by me are the Hare, mongoose, various lizards including the large monitor lizards etc at various places.
The rocks also have their own beauty and various rocks in Hyderabad are identified by their shapes like the toad rock and mother and baby rock near the Peerancheru lake, or this turtle rock that I clicked at Durgam Cheruvu on a trip with GHAC nature.
Yesterday GHAC and Society To Save Rocks organized a competition come awareness event called Rockathon. I visited the same with my younger one to click some pictures. I reached the venue in the morning but due to viral could not get up. Finally, I could build up strength after some breakfast and reached the venue which was still buzzing with activity in a remote corner of Hyderabad Central University. As you can see a lot of enthusiastic participants climbed rocks both bare hands and with help of ropes using their skills learned in various workshops of GHAC for rappelling and scrambling.
As you can see in one of the pictures concrete is slowly replacing the rocks and showing its face behind the rocks, leading to the destruction of habitat. While nobody is opposed to development our aim should be to do development without destroying the beauty of the rocks around us. Remember once gone they will never come back.
I would like to appreciate the work being done by GHAC Nature to create awareness about the natural flora and fauna found in and around Hyderabad ( it was so nice to see the GHAC volunteers picking up water bottles and plastic around the rock climbing site). Let us also give all the support to Society to Save rocks for opening our eyes to the beauty of our heritage rocks. If all of us join hands and say no to the destruction of rocks there is no reason why we will not be able to save Rocks of Hyderabad.
Remember guys Hyderabad can not rock without Hyderabad ROCKS!
Good to know about these rocks and good to hear that they are heritage sites. And it's great to learn that they are being cared for. Long live these rocks.
That is such a wonderful initiative, steps like these can raise a lot of awareness and help preserve our natural flora and fauna for generations to come. Kudos to the organization for the drive and to you as well for spreading the word around.
Hi Arti… Thanks for your compliments…GHAC has indeed started a lot of good initiatives.
This is the season for climbing those rocks! A timely initiative by all you members of GHAC and Soceity to Save Rocks. Though I am not up to climbing, I love to gaze at them with wonder. Hope we can spread awareness among those citizens who reside nearer to those beautiful rocks, to keep vigil.
Thanks Desi Traveler for those lovely pictures. Your posts bring me new information on this city!


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Report: Conde Nast Finalizes One World Trade Center Lease
By Rich Lamb May 25, 2011 at 7:55 am
Filed Under:911, Conde Nast, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg, One World Trade Center, Rich Lamb, World Trade Center, WTC
One World Trade Center (credit: Tom Kaminski / WCBS 880)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — An official said magazine publisher Conde Nast has finalized a lease to move into a million square feet of the signature skyscraper at the World Trade Center site.
WCBS 880's Rich Lamb: It's A 25-Year Deal https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2011/05/lambcondenast1w_morn_110526.mp3
The official familiar with the lease negotiations told The Associated Press that Conde Nast and the trade center site's owner have agreed to a 25-year, $2 billion lease.
The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter ahead of a scheduled lease signing today and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Executives from Conde Nast and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were scheduled to make an announcement on the 34th floor of the building Wednesday.
Are you satisfied with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site? Sound off in our comments section below…
(TM and Copyright 2011 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
Michael H. says:
This is great news for downtown! The other media companies wont be far behind and it will definitely help revitalize the area.


Short-term Let is the term used when an owner-occupier crofter lets their croft to a tenant for a period not exceeding 10 years .
A landlord cannot apply to let a croft on a short-term let.
An owner-occupier crofter who lets the tenancy of their croft will then become the landlord of the croft and their owner-occupier crofter status would cease to apply.


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    public Computer(String pName)
    {
        super("Computer");
    }

    public void spielen(Kartenstapel k)
    {
        setErgebnis(0);
        // Der Spieler erhält 2 Karten
        while (gibErgebnis() < 17)
        {
            karteNehmen(k);
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}