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Monte Vista – History at Home
By Catherine Hudgins
One of the most enchanting and diverse communities in metro San Antonio is known as Monte Vista. Some of the most elegant, distinctive residences in the entire metropolitan areas can be found in this near-north side San Antonio neighborhood that was one of the first—and the largest—in the United States to be designated a historic district.
The Monte Vista Historic District comprises some 100 city blocks and is bounded (generally) by Trinity University and Hildebrand, McCullough, Ashby, and San Pedro Avenues. Structures within the district have been under the protection of the Historic District and Landmarks Zoning Ordinance since early 1987. Historic zoning affects only the external appearance of the property, not its use; proposed changes to exteriors require approval by the San Antonio Historic Review Commission.
Preservation of the neighborhood's ambiance and history can be traced to the efforts of the Monte Vista Historical Association, which was formed in 1975 to stop the demolition and decay of structures Monte Vista's History within the area. One of the guiding lights of the drive was Trinity University professor emeritus and Monte Vista resident, Donald E. Everett, who is also the author of San Antonio's Monte Vista, published by Maverick Publishing Company in 1999.
Monte Vista's History
Monte Vista, located 1 ½ miles north of downtown San Antonio contains fourteen platted subdivisions, and was primarily developed during the "Gilded Age," the post-Civil War Reconstruction period that saw San Antonio become the largest city in Texas. During this era—roughly 1890 – 1930, prosperous local families, their wealth derived in proper Texas fashion from cattle and oil, began to build elegant homes on the heights of the city's northern edge.
Distinctive residences designed by well-known architects who adapted national architecture trends to satisfy local tastes continued to be added to the area as late as 1958. Throughout the development period, Monte Vista builders sought to meet the housing needs of a variety of segments of the public, from wealthy ranchers to middle-class merchants. The resultant wide variety of housing stock has been one of the district's strengths and has contributed to the neighborhood's residences through the years.
Ambiance an Architecture
It is also a wonderful place to raise a family, or retire. Quiet streets lined with sidewalks, lots of mature trees, a convenient location, porches, and the ordinances in effect because the area is a designated historical district make a Monte Vista home a smart investment as well as a delight to the senses of any fan of architecture, community or history.
Houses within the Monte Vista Historical District showcase a gamut of styles from Queen Anne to Spanish Colonial Revival and a range of sizes from modest cottage to breathtaking mansions.
Living in the Present
Monte Vista's attractiveness as a place to live is not just its historical architecture. In addition to its preservation and value-protection activities, the Monte Vista Historical Association organizes lots of fun activities that build community within the district. Block parties, Easter egg hunts, parades and home tours encourage neighbors to meet and befriend each other in the neighborhood.
This is but one of many articles about place-making, district communities and neighborhood activity to appear in San Antonio In Focus.
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Science, Belief and Society
International Perspectives on Religion, Non-Religion and the Public Understanding of Science
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The relationship between science and belief has been a prominent subject of public debate for many years, one that has relevance to everything from science communication, health and education to immigration and national values. Yet, sociological analysis of these subjects remains surprisingly scarce.
This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and non-religious belief systems interact with scientific theories and practices. Contributors explore how, for some secularists, 'science' forms an important part of social identity. Others examine how many contemporary religious movements justify their beliefs by making a claim upon science. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the United States, the book shows how debates about science and belief are firmly embedded in political conflict, class, community and culture.
"This timely and rich volume engages sociological considerations of science and belief and extends our understanding of how different groups across the world reconcile or reject diverse aspects of these two ways of knowing." Shiri Noy, Denison University
Stephen H. Jones is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and serves as current General Secretary of the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN). He specialises in contemporary Muslim communities and public perceptions of science and religion and has published widely on these themes.
Rebecca Catto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University, USA. She is interested in secular-religious interactions in Britain and North America. Rebecca has published widely on atheism, Christian mission, youth and religion, state-religion relations, and science and religion.
Tom Kaden is Academic Council at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bayreuth, where he is working on a general sociology of conflict. Previously he worked as a Research Associate at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he explored the relationship between religion and science for Canadian life scientists and members of the public.
Foreword ~ Grace Davie
Editor's Introduction: Science, Belief and the Sociological Tradition ~ Stephen H. Jones, Tom Kaden and Rebecca Catto
Part I: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Science and Belief
The Sociological Study of Science and Religion in Context ~ Fern Elsdon-Baker and Will Mason-Wilkes
Survey-based Research on Science and Religion: A Review and Critique ~ Jonathan P. Hill
Language, Labels and Lived Identity in Debates about Science, Religion and Belief ~ Tom Kaden, Stephen H. Jones and Rebecca Catto
Researching Clergy Attitudes towards Science: A Reflective Account of Key Methodological Challenges ~ Lydia Reid
PART II: Belief in the Study of Science and Technology
From 'Science and Religion' to 'Transcendence in Science', or: What We Can Learn from the (History of) Science and Technology Studies ~ Silke Gülker
Rational Believers: Religion, Tradition and Spirituality among Indian Scientists ~ Renny Thomas
Muslim Perceptions of Biological Evolution: A Critical Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Research ~ Jessica Carlisle, Salman Hameed and Fern Elsdon-Baker
PART III: Science, Culture and Non-religion
Feeling Rational: Affinity and Affinity Narratives in British Science–Non-religion Relations ~ Lois Lee
Avoiding the 'Anti-intellectual Abyss': How Secular Humanists in Sweden try to Define the Boundaries between Science, Religion, Pseudoscience and Postmodernism ~ Susanne Kind
Atheism and the Social Sciences ~ Stephen LeDrew
PART IV: Religion, Conflict and Moderation
Science and the Unearned Virtues of the 'Really Religious People': Exploring the Association between Perceived Religiosity and Science Rejection among Students in the Midwestern United States ~ David E. Long
Discourses on Science and Islam: A View from Britain ~ Amy Unsworth
Conclusion: Future Directions in the Sociological Study of Science and Belief ~ Stephen H. Jones, Rebecca Catto and Tom Kaden
Religion, spirituality and the social sciences
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The Entire History of You Is Being Sold
Every moment, servers are logging, cataloging, and selling your personal, private information.
It's not just your credit score.
Your utility bill payments, cell phone records, insurance payments, auto history, court records, credit score, identity information, social security records, address history and hundreds of other pieces of information are amassed into giant data warehouses where it's packaged and sold to data farms, lenders, and banks.
Depending on your demographic and where you live, your personal data can be worth upwards of $100 per year, or more. To see the sheer size of the industry, Experian, Equifax, Transunion amassed over $10B in revenue from the sale of personal information.
This a prevalent business that is also seen through tech companies like Facebook and Google. These businesses make huge amounts of revenue off of owning your data and in turn, selling your data.
This calls into question: What responsibility do companies bear when it comes to holding your data?
This debate is most notably seen in the recent headlines of the scandal with Cambridge Analytica, which worked with Donald Trump's election team to collect data on Facebook users to influence votes. The data breach impacted over 87 million users. Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress on this topic.
What responsibility do companies bear when it comes to holding your data?
In the case of the credit bureaus, nothing you can do will protect you from these businesses profiting off of the backs of your daily habits.
You can't opt out.
Theoretically, you could live an all-cash lifestyle. This would mean never requesting credit from any bank or any lender, but even then your information could still wind up being sold to the credit companies through non-credit sources like cable or phone companies, property tax bills, or doctors' offices.
The Great Debate: Who Owns Your Data?
Have you ever gotten a "pre-approval" card in the mail? If you have, this means that the sending company bought your data, mined it, and thought you were valuable enough to send you an offer for a product which, in turn, makes them even more money off of you.
"It's a pretty simple business model, actually. They gather as much information about you from lenders, aggregate it, and sell it back to them," said Brett Horn, an industry analyst with Morningstar.
The data industry is a murky one.
Riddled with scams, dark markets, and illegal underground sources of data, the problem is only getting worse. According to the latest reports from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an estimated 10,000 different companies and sources report information about you to Equifax, TransUnion and Experian. Analysts' figures show that number climbing to more than 30,000 in the next 10 years.
In 2017, Equifax was hacked, leaking the private information of more than 145 million Americans. This was one of the most notable leaks in recently history.
Additionally, two years before that, 123 million American households had sensitive information publicly exposed due to the negligence of Alteryx, a marketing analytics firm. These details included street addresses, demographics, and finances for families, as well as private information pertaining to house and auto ownership. It turns out that the firm got this information from Experian, which collected and sold the firm the data as part of its "ConsumerView" product for marketers.
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~ The Wilkinson First Pattern F-S Fighting Knife ~
November 1940 - August 1941
~ Introduction ~
The Wilkinson Sword First Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is unquestionably a classic amongst military fighting knives and continues to be an enduring influence on modern knife production. Arguably the most influential knife design of the twentieth century, it has been copied and reproduced by countless knife makers and its influence on modern knife designs can be seen in many fine fighting knives to this day.
Not surprisingly, this rare and historically significant fighting knife has attracted a plethora of myth and stories, most of which have been created by misguided or ill informed individuals and occasionally unscrupulous persons with less than honorable intentions but always with little to no research or factual basis to back up such tails. What follows are some of my own observations and opinions based on many years of research and my personal experiences in studying and examining over one hundred original Wilkinson First Pattern F-S Fighting Knives.
Details of First Pattern design, development and production are based on documented facts obtained from contemporary internal Wilkinson Sword documentation discovered by Robert Wilkinson-Latham during many years of painstaking research. Mr Wilkinson-Latham has generously shared all of his research with me, of which only a small part is shared on this website. These details added to my own research and along with many original examples kindly shared by fellow collectors and friends throughout the world, I am confident will provide an accurate insight into the knives history and offer collectors and historians alike an unprecedented and unparalleled resource.
The First Pattern F-S was conceived on Monday, 4th November 1940 at a meeting held at the office of the managing director of Wilkinson Sword Co. Ltd, John ('Jack') Wilkinson-Latham. Joining 'Jack' that Monday were three other gentleman; Charlie Rose, William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes. Charlie Rose was one of Wilkinson's most talented and experienced engineers and as head of the Experimental Workshop, his input on design, development and production would have been invaluable.
~ The Beginning ~
Fairbairn and Sykes, having been tasked with training Britain's newly-formed Commando's and the clandestine operatives of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) in 'unconventional warfare', were meeting with Jack Wilkinson-Latham on official duty. They needed a Fighting Knife suitable for their particular style 'silent killing' and Wilkinsons, with their long history of military arms manufacture and bespoke knife making, were the ideal choice to supply such a weapon.
The original page from the Wilkinson ledger clearly shows the meetings location of 53 Pall Mall, the date of '4 November 1940' and present J.W.Latham Mr S (Sykes) Mr WEF (Fairbairn) and Mr R (Charlie Rose).
A design was soon agreed upon and it would appear that expediency was of paramount importance as just ten days later on 14th November (1940), a contract was received for 1,500 knives to be supplied before the end of the month. The now well-known moniker of First Pattern that we are so familiar with today was obviously not yet in use. Interestingly however and before Wilkinson was able to supply the first batch of F-S knives, there was an initial request for Wilkinson to supply a quantity of their 'Hunting Knife', as a stop-gap measure. Wilkinson of course was happy to assist and is known to have supplied one gross (144) of their commercial hunting knives while they were tooling up for production of the F-S.
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The original Wilkinson 'Commando' knives. The model 784 and R.B.D. commercial hunting knives were part of the 'one gross' (144) order supplied on the 16th November 1940 as a stop-gap measure while Wilkinson were tooling up for production of the now classic 'First Pattern' Fairbairn-Sykes Knife (show far right).
Starting with the November 4th meeting and ending with the last order for 51 First Pattern knives on August 11th, 1941 (order #1482), the First Pattern was in production for a total of nine months and six days. It is difficult to precisely determine the exact number of First Pattern knives produced, but when referring to Wilkinson's order/contract books for the period, we can approximate the number at around 7,500. From current ongoing research and those knives known to be in collections, it would appear that the survival rate is conservatively less than 5%. Although these figures are approximate, they do give us an idea of the scarcity of this knife and an understanding of its desirability within the collecting community. In part I for one feel that 'any' original First Pattern F-S should be treasured regardless of condition.
Contrary to some erroneous reports there were no pre-production First Pattern knives and at that time only 'one' prototype or pattern knife was made. This singular knife was used for setting up tooling and was subsequently disposed of. Although no records survive concerning this incident, we do have a firsthand account. Robert Wilkinson-Latham, while working as a Craft Apprentice (c1963) asked Charlie Rose (the original engineer on this project) about any prototype knives. He said that he only made one knife and that "Mr., Jack [Jack Wilkinson-Latham] took it up to town, we then 'tweaked' it a bit ....... there was a bloody war on! We used it for tool making and then slung the bits in the official scrap bins". These, then, are the facts as we know them. Extreme caution should be exercised when contemplating a purchase of any knife purporting to be a First Pattern prototype or pre-production knife made by Wilkinson Sword, as no such knife exists.
Unlike the subsequent patterns that followed it, the First Pattern would for the most part remain very consistent in its design with very few production anomalies or manufacturing variations. As a result most First Pattern F-S knives are nearly identical to one another in somewhat of a 'standardized' pattern. There are of course a few exceptions to this; for example those knives that are stamped with the number 30946, those very few original examples known with a three-inch long crossguard (the standard being two inches) and those early production knife that have a number of features that clearly make them distinct from later examples. All of these 'variations and production anomalies' are dealt with the specific section dedicated to this topic (see top navigation bar). Generally the rest of the knife (and scabbard) still conformed to the 'standard' pattern having a commonality with most other First Pattern knives. However such variations - however minor - does give the committed collector some exciting opportunities to discover knives that are both rare and interesting.
An exceptionally rare example of an early production First Pattern F-S. Such variations of the First Patten are rare but certainly makes life interesting for the F-S collector.
~ Well Worth Looking For ~
This great photograph clearly shows the First Pattern in use, although just one of the many ways in which a Commando could wear his knife. Also note there is no insignia on his battle dress blouse; this was normal operating procedure during raids.
Of interest in the caption is the use of 'Special Service' (soldier) as this was the original official term for these units prior to the adoption of the term 'Commando'. Apparently the abbreviation of the Special Service to SS was deemed to close for comfort considering its relationship to the Nazi 'SS' (Schutzstaffel) forces they were fighting.
~ Modern Reproductions ~
Although First Pattern production was soon replaced by the 'new design' (Second Pattern) this was not the end of this original design. With the increased interest amongst collectors Wilkinson Sword (prior to their closure in 2005) released many 'commemorative' F-S Knives and the First Pattern was also represented. The example shown adjacent dates from the 1990's and although a beautiful knife in its own right, the details of its construction differ enough that it would be unlikely to be mistaken for their original circa 1940/1 First Pattern F-S Knife. Although one must still remain cautious as I have seen at least one example recently that was 'artificially' aged, no doubt in an attempt to possibly deceive and unsuspecting collector. If you are contemplating a purchase of any F-S and are unsure then I'm here to help, always feel free to e-mail me with any questions.


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TOPIC: Amelia Earhart
Date: Jun 10 22:14 2015
RE: Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart film shot before last flight in 1937 rediscovered
It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Earhart, ready to make history again by flying around the world, brought her personal photographer to a small Southern California airport to document the journey's beginning.
Al Bresnik took dozens of still photos, including a few that have likely been seen by millions. His brother John, who tagged along, made a very dark, grainy 3.5-minute home movie almost nobody saw - until now.
Date: Oct 29 22:21 2014
Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment Identified
A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminium aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.
Amelia Earhart explaining her 1932 flight and the welcome she received
Amelia Earhart Plane Wreckage Spotted in Sonar Image, Expert Suggests
A team of historical sleuths believe they have found a clue to what happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart, claiming sonar may have picked up an image of her wrecked plane off an underwater cliff in the Pacific.
The sonar image is the right shape, size and in the right place of where some researchers believe the wreckage of Earhart's doomed flight went down in 1937.
The image, taken during an expedition on July 15, 2012 by a company contracted by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), depicts a narrow object, similar to the shape of an airplane wing, nearly 22 feet long lodged in the side of a steep underwater cliff off the coast of Nikularoro Island.
A Search Team May Have Finally Found Amelia Earhart After 75 Years
Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, people are still looking for her. In fact, just last month, a search team started a search expedition only to leave without discovering Amelia's wreckage. Or so they thought. The team recently took a closer look at the underwater images they captured and now think they may have found her.
Date: Jul 24 21:38 2012
Amelia Earhart: Expedition returns without evidence
An expedition to find out what happened to celebrated US pilot Amelia Earhart is returning to Hawaii without the evidence it was looking for.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar) believes Earhart and her navigator crashed on a Pacific island and died soon after.
Date: Jul 2 14:35 2012
Fresh search for Amelia Earhart plane
An operation is set to begin off the coast of Hawaii to try to find out once and for all what happened to the American pilot Amelia Earhart.
Researchers will use an underwater robot equipped with sonar and high definition cameras to try to prove their theory that, on 2 July 1937, she crashed near a remote Pacific Island.
Amelia Earhart's anti-freckle cream jar possibly found
A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.
Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.
Amelia Earhart 1932 transatlantic solo flight
At the age of 34, on the morning of May 20, 1932, Earhart set off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland with the latest copy of a local newspaper (the dated copy was intended to confirm the date of the flight).
Date: Mar 21 03:59 2012
Amelia Earhart: New Kiribati hunt for lost Lockheed
Explorers are to begin a new push to find the remains of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane.
Analysts say an old photo shows part of her doomed Lockheed Electra, and a July search is set for Nikumaroro island, part of Kiribati in the Pacific.
The search will be privately funded, but the US state department helped negotiate with Kiribati.
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In Whitman's Hand
Title: Poem for the good old cause
Creator: Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: upa.00002
Source: Walt Whitman Collection, 1842–1957, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This manuscript includes ideas for two poems, one of which is titled "Poem for the good old cause." Possibly this is a very early draft of the poem "To Thee Old Cause," which first appeared in the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass. However, Whitman used the term "good old cause" as early as the 1855 edition, where it appears in the Preface. The phrase probably originated in England during the seventeenth century, shortly after the English Civil War, and was frequently used by Whitman (see Clarence Gohdes, "Whitman and the 'Good Old Cause,'" American Literature 34.3 [November 1962]: 400–403). Aided by the earlier work of Richard Maurice Bucke in Notes and Fragments (1899), Edward Grier suggests that this manuscript likely was written prior to 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1329). The titles of both of the proposed poems ("Poem of...") suggest the title format of the 1856 edition. The second proposed poem, titled "Poem of the People," is not known to have led to a published work.
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Poem for of of adherence to of my adherence the good old cause
the "good old cause" is that in all its diversities, in all lands, at all times, under all circumstances,—which promulges liberty, justice, the Cause of the people as against infidels and tyrants
Poem of the People
represent the People, so copious so simple, so fierce, so frivilous
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Fiercely independent and loaded with down-home credibility, Merle Haggard was a country music star from the mid-1960s until his death in 2016. Merle Haggard's upbringing in Bakersfield, California as a post-Depression Oklahoma transplant is the stuff of legends: Raised in a boxcar (his dad worked for the railroad), he spent his youth getting into trouble and running away from home. His unruly behavior eventually ended with a stint in San Quentin prison for burglary (1958-60). Haggard worked on his music in jail, and after his release he landed jobs performing in night clubs and playing bass for Wynn Stewart. He then became part of Bakersfield's growing music scene and began his recording career singing duets with Bonnie Owens (the ex-wife of country star Buck Owens). In 1965 he released his first big label album, The Strangers, the title taken from his hit single, "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers." (The Strangers also became the name of his long-time backing band.) In the last half of the 1960s Haggard emerged as one of country music's biggest stars, recording ballads and honky-tonk hits including "The Fugitive," "Mama Tried" and "Workin' Man Blues." His 1969 single "Okie From Muskogee," a good-natured slap at hippie-influenced pop culture, was a crossover hit and Haggard made headlines as a symbol for love-it-or-leave-it America. The attention even helped get him an invitation to play for Richard Nixon at the White House. "Hag" was a talented musician (fiddle and guitar), a gifted vocalist and an influential songwriter, and his turbulent personal life added to his reputation as an ornery individualist. He paid tribute to traditional country music (as in 1970's A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World: Bob Wills) but also appealed to crowds beyond country music's typical audience; in 2005 he toured with Bob Dylan. His recordings include: "The Fightin' Side of Me"; Poncho and Lefty, an album of duets with Willie Nelson; "The Way I Am" (from the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy); "I Think I'll Stay Here and Drink"; and "That's the News," a commentary on the media's coverage of war in Iraq.
In 1972 the governor of California, Ronald Reagan, granted Merle Haggard a full pardon for his earlier crimes.


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Agreed. Even then, it's no golden guarantee, you still may have to change the component to get it to compile (and it might require considerable work), but you're improving your odds considerably this way. Sometimes you get lucky and others have gone through the modifications already and you can find the changes on the Internet.
Two other factors I take into account are: How likely is it that the components will be around in a few years' time, and can I design the code around it or encapsulate the interface to the component so that it will be easier to switch the component for another.
I hope you continue to keep us posted about the project!


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final class PhabricatorEmailPreferencesSettingsPanel
  extends PhabricatorSettingsPanel {

  public function getPanelKey() {
    return 'emailpreferences';
  }

  public function getPanelName() {
    return pht('Email Preferences');
  }

  public function getPanelGroupKey() {
    return PhabricatorSettingsEmailPanelGroup::PANELGROUPKEY;
  }

  public function isManagementPanel() {
    if ($this->getUser()->getIsMailingList()) {
      return true;
    }

    return false;
  }

  public function isTemplatePanel() {
    return true;
  }

  public function processRequest(AphrontRequest $request) {
    $viewer = $this->getViewer();
    $user = $this->getUser();

    $preferences = $this->getPreferences();

    $value_email = PhabricatorEmailTagsSetting::VALUE_EMAIL;

    $errors = array();
    if ($request->isFormPost()) {
      $new_tags = $request->getArr('mailtags');
      $mailtags = $preferences->getPreference('mailtags', array());
      $all_tags = $this->getAllTags($user);

      foreach ($all_tags as $key => $label) {
        $mailtags[$key] = (int)idx($new_tags, $key, $value_email);
      }

      $this->writeSetting(
        $preferences,
        PhabricatorEmailTagsSetting::SETTINGKEY,
        $mailtags);

      return id(new AphrontRedirectResponse())
        ->setURI($this->getPanelURI('?saved=true'));
    }

    $mailtags = $preferences->getSettingValue(
      PhabricatorEmailTagsSetting::SETTINGKEY);

    $form = id(new AphrontFormView())
      ->setUser($viewer);

    $form->appendRemarkupInstructions(
      pht(
        'You can adjust **Application Settings** here to customize when '.
        'you are emailed and notified.'.
        "\n\n".
        "| Setting | Effect\n".
        "| ------- | -------\n".
        "| Email | You will receive an email and a notification, but the ".
        "notification will be marked \"read\".\n".
        "| Notify | You will receive an unread notification only.\n".
        "| Ignore | You will receive nothing.\n".
        "\n\n".
        'If an update makes several changes (like adding CCs to a task, '.
        'closing it, and adding a comment) you will receive the strongest '.
        'notification any of the changes is configured to deliver.'.
        "\n\n".
        'These preferences **only** apply to objects you are connected to '.
        '(for example, Revisions where you are a reviewer or tasks you are '.
        'CC\'d on). To receive email alerts when other objects are created, '.
        'configure [[ /herald/ | Herald Rules ]].'));

    $editors = $this->getAllEditorsWithTags($user);

    // Find all the tags shared by more than one application, and put them
    // in a "common" group.
    $all_tags = array();
    foreach ($editors as $editor) {
      foreach ($editor->getMailTagsMap() as $tag => $name) {
        if (empty($all_tags[$tag])) {
          $all_tags[$tag] = array(
            'count' => 0,
            'name' => $name,
          );
        }
        $all_tags[$tag]['count'];
      }
    }

    $common_tags = array();
    foreach ($all_tags as $tag => $info) {
      if ($info['count'] > 1) {
        $common_tags[$tag] = $info['name'];
      }
    }

    // Build up the groups of application-specific options.
    $tag_groups = array();
    foreach ($editors as $editor) {
      $tag_groups[] = array(
        $editor->getEditorObjectsDescription(),
        array_diff_key($editor->getMailTagsMap(), $common_tags),
      );
    }

    // Sort them, then put "Common" at the top.
    $tag_groups = isort($tag_groups, 0);
    if ($common_tags) {
      array_unshift($tag_groups, array(pht('Common'), $common_tags));
    }

    // Finally, build the controls.
    foreach ($tag_groups as $spec) {
      list($label, $map) = $spec;
      $control = $this->buildMailTagControl($label, $map, $mailtags);
      $form->appendChild($control);
    }

    $form
      ->appendChild(
        id(new AphrontFormSubmitControl())
          ->setValue(pht('Save Preferences')));

    $form_box = id(new PHUIObjectBoxView())
      ->setHeaderText(pht('Email Preferences'))
      ->setFormSaved($request->getStr('saved'))
      ->setFormErrors($errors)
      ->setBackground(PHUIObjectBoxView::WHITE_CONFIG)
      ->setForm($form);

    return $form_box;
  }

  private function getAllEditorsWithTags(PhabricatorUser $user = null) {
    $editors = id(new PhutilClassMapQuery())
      ->setAncestorClass('PhabricatorApplicationTransactionEditor')
      ->setFilterMethod('getMailTagsMap')
      ->execute();

    foreach ($editors as $key => $editor) {
      // Remove editors for applications which are not installed.
      $app = $editor->getEditorApplicationClass();
      if ($app !== null && $user !== null) {
        if (!PhabricatorApplication::isClassInstalledForViewer($app, $user)) {
          unset($editors[$key]);
        }
      }
    }

    return $editors;
  }

  private function getAllTags(PhabricatorUser $user = null) {
    $tags = array();
    foreach ($this->getAllEditorsWithTags($user) as $editor) {
      $tags += $editor->getMailTagsMap();
    }
    return $tags;
  }

  private function buildMailTagControl(
    $control_label,
    array $tags,
    array $prefs) {

    $value_email = PhabricatorEmailTagsSetting::VALUE_EMAIL;
    $value_notify = PhabricatorEmailTagsSetting::VALUE_NOTIFY;
    $value_ignore = PhabricatorEmailTagsSetting::VALUE_IGNORE;

    $content = array();
    foreach ($tags as $key => $label) {
      $select = AphrontFormSelectControl::renderSelectTag(
        (int)idx($prefs, $key, $value_email),
        array(
          $value_email => pht("\xE2\x9A\xAB Email"),
          $value_notify => pht("\xE2\x97\x90 Notify"),
          $value_ignore => pht("\xE2\x9A\xAA Ignore"),
        ),
        array(
          'name' => 'mailtags['.$key.']',
        ));

      $content[] = phutil_tag(
        'div',
        array(
          'class' => 'psb',
        ),
        array(
          $select,
          ' ',
          $label,
        ));
    }

    $control = new AphrontFormStaticControl();
    $control->setLabel($control_label);
    $control->setValue($content);

    return $control;
  }

}


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Sporting regulations announced for Season 9
NEWS 22 Nov 2022 3 Mins
From ATTACK MODE, the introduction of ATTACK CHARGE to laps replacing time, here are the changes coming for Season 9.
Formula E and the FIA today announced a series of updates to the sporting regulations for Season 9 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship following approval by the FIA World Motor Sport Council.
Laps replace time:
Races will run over laps instead of a set time period. To maintain consistency with the switch to laps, Safety Car and Full Course Yellow interruptions to racing will now be compensated by added laps, replacing the additional racing time feature.
Attack Charge will be introduced at select races later in Season 9:
Formula E and the FIA have been working with strategic technology partners to develop pioneering battery and charging capabilities that will allow the new smaller, faster and lighter Gen3 cars to receive a boost of energy during the race.
This collaboration has resulted in the development of a battery capable of receiving 4kWh of energy inside 30 seconds - the most advanced EV battery in the world today - delivered by a 600kW booster.
A mandatory 30-second Attack Charge stop during a pre-determined period in the race will unlock two enhanced Attack Mode periods to be deployed later in the race where the power output of the Gen3 race cars will increase from 300kW to 350kW.
Attack Charge is set to be trialled at select races later in Season 9. The existing Attack Mode format of a temporary power boost activated by drivers during the race will be maintained in races where Attack Charge is not implemented. Fanboost has been discontinued and will not feature in Season 9.
Rookie drivers given platform to impress:
Every team must complete at least two Free Practice 1 sessions during the season with a driver who has never previously competed in the championship. The goal is to give up-and-coming drivers the chance to experience the unique qualities of Formula E racing and to contribute to the progress of the team.
Jamie Reigle, CEO, Formula E, said: "Our updated sporting regulations are evidence of the continued evolution and positive impact of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship for drivers, teams, partners and fans into the consumer EV world. The combination of sporting enhancements, a step change in car performance, cutting-edge battery technology and the innovation of Attack Charge will make our racing more competitive and entertaining while showcasing the future for EV development. This is at the heart of what Formula E set out to achieve and we look forward to seeing the new generation come to life in Season 9."
Alberto Longo, Co-Founder and Chief Championship Officer, Formula E, said: "We are creating the perfect conditions for the very best racing drivers and teams to succeed and win. Switching to laps allows teams a greater degree of race strategy planning. Introducing Attack Charge at races later in the season will add a whole new dimension to race strategy for teams and interest for fans. We are also preparing for the future with the opportunity for new drivers in the championship to take a seat and show what they can do."
Pablo Martino, Head of Formula E Sporting Matters, FIA, said: "Capitalising upon a successful Season 8, we have now made further slight modifications to the racing format as we endeavour to bring the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship to an ever-wider audience while encouraging teams to trial fresh talent. With the advent of the eagerly-anticipated Gen3 single-seater, a 22-strong grid featuring iconic automotive names and some of the best drivers in the sport, I am confident that Formula E's new era will be bright."
The Gen3 race car is the fastest, lightest, most powerful and efficient electric race car ever built. It will debut in Round 1 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in Mexico City on 14 January 2023.


This super creative Bride and Groom – the lovely Meg and dashing Joe – wanted to have their senses fully engaged in their wedding ceremony. They incorporated sensuous sights, acoustic sounds and uplifting scents . . . and they kept savory tastes for the reception! Their celebration occurred at the Arizona Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. An AMAZING venue for outdoor ceremonies.
Instead of the often used Unity Candle or Sand Blending rituals, I offered them a custom Blessing of the Hands Ritual with essential oils. They chose Bergamot and Lavendar oils, for the uplifting and reassuring scents those offer.
Like the earth, should your love be firm, grounded in your humanity.
Like a star should your love be constant, imbued with pure light.
Let the powers of the mind and of the intellect guide you in your marriage.
Let the strength of your wills bind you together.


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Above all else, we are passionate about our mission, which serves as both a north star for our strategy and a pulse-check for everything we do. All of our programs and services are evaluated based on how well they help us achieve this purpose.
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We internalize and champion principles like quality and equity at every level of the organization and through every interaction. We infuse these principles into everything we do so we can provide valid, meaningful information that stakeholders can count on and that has a positive effect on individuals and institutions worldwide.
We are proud of our 70-year legacy and commitment to make fundamental contributions to the progress of education by enabling opportunity for all learners. And as a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization, we stay true to that heritage of pushing the boundaries of our industry. We do this by driving innovation in assessment and by conducting groundbreaking research that helps individuals, educators and government agencies around the world find new ways to advance learning for all.
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Wheal Martyn hosted a three day conference between 8 and 10 May run by the University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute as part of their Heritage Futures Project (www.heritage-futures.org). The event explored how artists and land managers can collaborate to share heritage and engage people with transitional landscapes.
While all landscapes undergo change over time, in some, processes of change and transformation are particularly dynamic and uncertain. In these transitional environments, ongoing processes – such as extraction, erosion, ruination, rewilding and depopulation unsettle and rearrange places and communities. The open and fluid character of such landscapes often draws artists and other creative practitioners to work in them. Experimental creative practice can generate alternative perspectives on these 'landscapes in limbo,' and often open up new possibilities for heritage and art-based community engagement and economic development.
The conference provided a rare opportunity for dialogue between creative practitioners and those responsible for landscape management and planning. Invited guests, and representatives from relevant local industries and communities, along with Heritage Futures case study partners (from Portugal, Suffolk and Cornwall), explored how creative modes of thinking and doing can generate alternative futures in transitional landscapes. The event included field trips to sites of interest in the clay country and an opportunity to contribute to the development of a framework for embedding creative approaches in land management.
Presentations from Duncan Kent and Ian Marsh (National Trust) focused on integrating creative practice into landscape management, providing perspectives from the Trust on benefits and challenges related to their experience of integrating arts approaches within their dynamic landscapes. Focusing on contemporary curation in/of place, Michele Horrigan (Askeaton Arts) and Karen Guthrie (Grizedale Arts) reflected on extended duration curatorial involvement with specific landscapes and communities.
Later Sue Hill and Luce Choules explored the theme of Interventions and Exposures, through their own reflections as artists, on their experiences making work in particular post-industrial/transitional landscapes.
Finally, Aurora Tang (Centre for Land Use Interpretation), Euan Hall (The Land Trust) and Pedro Prata (Associação Transumância e Natureza) led a workshop on 'Making Futures' followed by group discussion which resulted in establishing a shared set of principles and practices on creativity and stewardship within 'Landscapes in Limbo'.


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"People need to know": West Nile virus remains…
"People need to know": West Nile virus remains a concern in Colorado
The virus infected nearly 100 people in 2018. Two people died.
By Sam Tabachnik | stabachnik@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
Two months before Chuck Clark-Martin died, he was exercising six days a week.
A sergeant with the Denver Sheriff Department for 35 years, Clark-Martin maintained an active lifestyle into his 60s and showed no signs of slowing down.
Until he suddenly got sick. Doctors were stumped. On October 28th, Clark-Martin died at the age of 63. The cause? West Nile encephalitis, a rare form of the virus that attacks the brain. There is no cure.
Research for West Nile has drawn protests from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. But Clark-Martin's family is fighting back, insisting this work is more necessary than ever as the virus takes root in the state.
"People don't know this is occurring," Katelyn Lucero, Clark-Martin's daughter, said. "They need to know there's no treatment."
With last month's hard freeze, the West Nile virus season in Colorado has reached its end. But after two deaths and nearly 100 infections to date in 2018, experts said the virus is here to stay — and it's a cause for concern.
Since West Nile first came to Colorado in 2002, only four states have a higher average incidence rate than the Centennial State's rate of 1.35 incidents per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2018, there have been 94 reported human cases in Colorado, according to data compiled by the state's Department of Public Health and Environment. Last year, there were 68 human cases in the state, including four deaths.
Nationally, there have been more than 2,300 West Nile cases this year, leading to 110 deaths, according to CDC data.
West Nile season typically runs from June through the beginning of October, when mosquitoes are active, according to the CDC.
The virus most often spreads to people via mosquito bites, but a vast majority of those infected feel no symptoms. For those that do, symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, vomiting and diarrhea. In rarer instances, like in Clark-Martin's case, individuals can develop serious illness that affects the central nervous system, the CDC said.
A confluence of factors make Colorado more hospitable to the virus, including the climate and species of mosquito, said Dr. Jennifer House, an infectious disease expert with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
"We have enough of the virus for it to be a concern to people," House said.
There are no vaccines or medications to prevent or treat West Nile virus.
The virus' victims this year were Clark-Martin and longtime Colorado journalist Ed Marston.
"This is not just a little thing"
As state experts attempt to learn more about the virus, there has been some pushback from animal rights groups on how it is researched.
PETA sent a letter to Colorado State University in mid-November asking the school to end experiments that involve infecting wild birds with the West Nile virus. In its letter, PETA argued that experiments on birds have "little relevance to West Nile virus infection in human populations."
CSU countered that the research is vital to saving human and animal lives.
Lucero read about PETA's protests and felt compelled to speak out. She watched firsthand as the virus debilitated her once-active father. She saw doctors identify the cause of his ailment, and not be able to do anything to stop it. West Nile is personal.
"I emailed the head of research (at CSU) and said it's a good idea to continue testing," Lucero said. "I think it's really important to do that research."
West Nile is a disease that flies under the radar, she said. It's time to change that.
"This is not just a little thing," she said, "that shouldn't be taken care of."
CU researchers find key to some symptoms of severe West Nile infection
First West Nile virus case confirmed in Denver
Mosquito pools in Erie, Louisville and Longmont test positive for West Nile virus
"A Perfect Storm"
The West Nile virus is a relatively new concern for Americans. In fact, the first reported case in the U.S. wasn't detected until 1999, and Colorado saw no sign of the virus until 2002, according to CSU.
Then, in 2003, the virus attacked the state like no place else. Since Colorado had no prior history with West Nile, birds, people and other wildlife had no immunity, and the results were catastrophic.
"It was kind of like this perfect storm," House said.
Nearly 3,000 people were infected that year. Sixty-three died. It was the worst epidemic in the United States, and no state has reached those numbers in any year since, CDC data showed.
Since 2003, outbreaks of the virus have varied from year to year in the state, with a low of seven cases reported in 2011. Whereas 2003 was an epidemic, House explains, West Nile has now become endemic.
"The virus is here and will never go away," she said. "We would never expect it to be as bad as 2003, but we expect it never goes away."
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"If not me, who?" Colorado medical students pursue training as abortion providers even as more states restrict access
With the recent flurry of activity in state legislatures and concerns about the future of Roe vs. Wade, there's a sense that a shakeup is on the way for one of the nation's most contentious issues -- and medical students in Colorado are taking note.
Federally-funded family planning clinics, including Planned Parenthood, are defying the Trump administration's ban on referring women for abortions.
Checkup Denver: Future abortion providers, I-70 construction spurs health concerns and more Colorado health news
Happy Monday and welcome back! We have a lot of news for you this week so let's get started!


In 2014 students in 8 classes spread across 7 schools participated in Project Heritage during their Emet classes.
As background, each class watched 'Paper Clips', a documentary about a holocaust project undertaken at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee, USA. Then each class was visited by a Holocaust survivor who told their particular story of survival to the students. After listening to the story students completed an artistic project which was presented to the suvivor.
The BJE students were extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to meet with a survivor and learn their story first-hand. The Project was generously supported by the The JCA LotBen Fund in 2014.
The photos below are of some of the participating students and survivors and the projects presented by the students. Also included are some photos which Project Heritage Coordinator Robyn Bloom took at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee where the 'paper clips project' took place.


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Q: Issues using eval() to parse JSON data For a widget that gets prices from exchange APIs using exchange api urls and json keys:
var Url = 'https://insert.api.url/';
var Key = 'insert.json.key';

request(Url, function(req) {
    var data = JSON.parse(req.responseText);
    var rate = eval("data." + Key);
    callback(rate);
    });
    return true;
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function request(Url, callback) {
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        return function() {
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var Url = 'https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Ticker?pair=XBTUSD';
var Key = 'result.XXBTZUSD.c[0]';

but it does not work in some cases e.g when:
var Url = 'https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/bitcoin/';
var Key = '0[price_usd]';

I get an eval() error with "expected token".
how can i solve this?

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Alixandria Lapp
Former staffer for Adam Smith; lobbyist for Parven Pomper Strategies
Alixandria Lapp joined Parven Pomper Strategies as Vice President in January of 2008. Lapp brings a unique blend of top-level political experience,...
Alixandria Lapp joined Parven Pomper Strategies as Vice President in January of 2008. Lapp brings a unique blend of top-level political experience, having been at the epicenter of the Democratic takeover of the House in 2006, and legislative experience, having spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill as a top advisor to moderate House Democrats.
Prior to joining PPS, Alixandria Lapp served as Executive Director of NDN, a progressive think tank and advocacy organization. During her tenure, she worked extensively on the organization's Globalization Initiative, immigration reform, and next-generation media and technology tools.
Lapp was at the epicenter of the Democratic takeover of the House in 2006 and has been a leading strategist for the Democratic Party on message and policy. Under Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Lapp served as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Campaign Director. In this role, she oversaw the Committee's incumbent protection program. Ali Lapp worked with vulnerable incumbents, Democratic House leadership, and interest groups to develop and implement comprehensive political strategies. This program successfully ensured the re-election of every House Democrat, a feat not achieved since 1922.
Lapp then served as Deputy Director of the Committee's Independent Expenditure operation, which spent over $65 million in polling and paid political communication in over 50 congressional races to help the Democrats win back control of the House of Representatives. As Deputy Director, Ali Lapp supervised individual campaign strategies for each congressional district; oversaw polling, direct mail, radio advertising, and television advertising; and was responsible for the media buying strategy.
Lapp also ran the winning Washington state caucus campaign for Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 and has worked at two Democratic National Conventions.
Lapp, a Washington state native, graduated from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and currently lives in Falls Church, VA with her husband John and stepson Truman.
Parven Pomper & Associates Consulting
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Adam Smith US Representative from Washington
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New Democratic Network A leading think tank and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• Deputy Dir, Indep. Expenditure Operation	('06) [+1]
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John Kerry for President
• Washington State Caucus Campaign	(past)
Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceutical, consumer and animal health products manufacturer
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Patty Murray Democratic US Senator from Washington
Brad Ellsworth US Representative from Indiana
Blue Dog Political Action Committee political action committee
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Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP Civic Action Committee Akin Gump law firm PAC
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I am experiencing a déjà vu moment.
When I was working in the U.S., I lived through Silicon Valley's first dot-com bubble in the late 1990s through early 2000s. From those tumultuous times, there emerged big losers and big winners. Ebay, which had been profitable since the early years and received $6.7 million funding, now has a market cap of over $38 billion. Paypal received $217 million funding and now controls a market cap of over $70 billion. On the other hand, Webvan, an online grocery store, received $396 million of world-class venture capital funding (Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, Goldman Sachs, Yahoo, etc.), raised $375 million through an IPO then filed for bankruptcy.
Global companies and Venture Capitalists (VCs) have been increasing their investments in Indonesia over the last few years, as the U.S. and China markets have matured. They have been inspired by Silicon Valley's success, and even more motivated after seeing the success of BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent) in China.
Indonesia is the fourth most populated country in the world with over 260 million people, and the majority of them are young Millennials. The population is growing rapidly; they are actively engaged in social media using mobile phones, and many of them are coming online for the first time. Indonesia is the digital world's next big battleground.
Amidst all this excitement, there is news of a few startups receiving big investments with billions in valuations. A handful companies have claimed profitability; others' statuses remain unknown although they are growing in terms of revenue, the number of employees, the number of customers, and other key metrics. At the same time, numerous startups have declared bankruptcy on a regular basis for the last couple of years.
My other passion, aside from technology, is the game of chess. Chess divides the game into 3 distinct phases: the opening, middle, and endgame. The player must be able to identify the start and end of each of these phases, and evolve their strategies and tactics throughout the transition. Skills relevant to one phase may no longer be relevant to the next.
The Indonesian battlefield has emerged and, in my mind, we have closed out the opening phase. Domestic players are emerging and growing. International companies are placing their own stakes in the ground.
What comes next? It is too early to tell who the eventual winners and losers will be as we now transition to the middle game. Based on my experience living through this game once or twice, this article discusses what to expect as next steps for all the players involved.
If Indonesia follows a path similar to Silicon Valley, many more Indonesian startups will enter the startup graveyard, while a handful of big winners will find outsized success. Each startup will have to go through growing pains. Growing pains are key factors determining the fate — life or death — of a hyper-growth startup. Recognizing growing pains is the first crucial step in order to take the necessary precautionary measures.
Specifically, startups have to overcome obstacles in these key areas: Technology, Business, and Leadership & Management. Scale these aspects properly in a timely manner, and they will increase the chance to grow into a scalable, profitable, and sustainable business.
Our industry moves at a single, constant speed: fast. Today's technology inventions are the foundation of future inventions. The accumulated inventions for the past six decades — Mainframe, PC, Internet, Mobile, Cloud-computing, Networking, Artificial Intelligence, User Interface, and Communication — have increased our productivity and accelerated each subsequent change at a dizzying speed. Companies rise fast and some of them fall even faster if they are complacent and are not reinventing themselves. Companies in the high-tech industry usually have 2 extremes: the successful ones get bigger and stronger, achieving near monopolistic levels of power while others suffer bankruptcy or, perhaps worse, irrelevance.
There are many technical decisions to consider as a startup grows exponentially. I will mention just a few of them.
Scalability and Stability. This is one of the most noticeable pains when your startup is growing exponentially. Your system crashes on a regular basis -- a few times a day. KASKUS, Twitter, Amazon, etc. have all experienced this blockade and trudged right through it. Rapid growth is a good problem to have. However, you need to address it fast before this "good problem" becomes an irreversible bad problem. The best startups are able to "rebuild the plane mid-air" and architect solutions for sustainable long-term growth.
Security. This is one of the most overlooked and neglected issues by most startups. It is mostly due to ignorance, since many of them know little to nothing about security, and have never experienced being hacked. Additionally, many young founders might not even have the skills when they realize that it is important. Startups usually have the most technical debt in this area, especially if your business is related to e-commerce and payment.
Internationalization and Localization. This is another area where startups don't invest much time and resources. Although many Indonesian startups are targeting local markets only, it is amongst software engineering best practices to design and implement your software to be ready to go international when the opportunity arises.
Some wise people have advised that you should use company money as if it were your own and spend frugally. This is even more important in a startup environment, especially when they're not yet profitable. As startup owners and management team, we legally, ethically, and morally have a responsibility to various stakeholders — employees, customers, shareholders, and the community — when running a company. The VCs are expecting to get their money back in high multiples because they have obligations to their own investors.
Fiscal negligence leads to the fall of startups. When startups receive large new rounds of funding, a common mistake is to overspend — hiring luxury limousines when picking up guests, partying in 5-star hotels, hosting team-building exercises in exotic resorts, etc. This behavior is irresponsible to the stakeholders. I firmly believe startups should live within their means. We must spend frugally yet intelligently.
At the same time, it's important to double down on the caliber of your people. I used to work for one of the most successful software companies in the world when it was still small. My coworkers and I all worked 12 hours a day and 7 days a week without any complaints because we loved what we did. We found our work was meaningful because we improved people's lives globally. We were on a mission to make the world to be a better place! The company was rewarded handsomely — making billions in profit — while doing good.
Years later, this company has grown by multiple orders of magnitude. One of the old-timers asked a new employee why he joined the company. The reply was shocking — he joined the company for the free drinks, free food, parties, and benefits — this employee was joining for all the wrong reasons! He had neither the passion nor the fire of the early employees who had made the company into what it was. The mission-driven perseverance of the startup mindset is one of the few reasons startups even have a chance to compete against large companies.
As a startup grows, the interactions become exponentially more complex between employees with different educations, experiences, and cultures. Growth means diverse customers, shareholders, and complicated product integrations. Suddenly, founders and management team are dealing with multiple business units and office locations in different time zones. It's next to impossible to enumerate all the possibilities.
So how do we deal with the above challenges?
People-First. A company will be successful when both its employees and customers are delighted. Employees' needs should be taken care of so they can focus on their work with undivided attention. Consequently, their exceptional work can exceed the customers' expectations.
Alignment. One of the key reasons many startups fail due to internal conflicts — self-inflicting wound —because they are not aligned internally. All departments — PM, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Customer Support, etc — should align their goals with the company's short and long term goals. This has to be monitored routinely in order to ensure everyone's work is aligned. There will always be conflicts and disagreements as the company grows. Ideally, it should be "agree & commit". If not, the next best thing is "disagree & commit" as long as the priorities are in this order: company, team, and individual.
Discipline. Silicon Valley is well-known for its casual dress: t-shirts and jeans or even shorts during the summer time. This seemingly relaxed environment is actually deceptive. Silicon Valley startups have grown world-class companies in a decade or so due to their passion, iron-will, naive optimism, foolish confidence, and discipline. People in Silicon Valley refer to this as "duck syndrome". The companies and people may look calm and relaxed on the surface but are furiously paddling underneath.
Back to Basics. As I've written about previously, it's important to revisit and remember your fundamentals.
The list of a startup's growing pains could fill an entire book. I'm just scratching the surface with this article. Internally at KASKUS and GDP Labs, we take the time to recognize the foundation we have established, but are also now preparing for the next phase. We expect to grow quickly, but at every step of the way, we must maintain our focus on long-term sustainability, on staying humble, and passing onto new team members what has driven us to where we are today.
Building a truly great technology company is a marathon, not a sprint. There's a tendency to rush forward to the next big milestone. And indeed, as I've frequently reminded my team, speed and sense of urgency are a startup's best tools against well-funded corporate competitors. But I've seen too many companies attempt to run before they can walk. The upcoming middle game is a fascinating phase, where much of the action happens; most of the pieces are removed and only the survivors remain. We're here and we're ready to play.


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Legalise cannabis? No way, says Bill English
Collecting an extra $150 million a year in tax revenue at a time when the health, education and housing sectors are all screaming out for money – sounds like a no-brainer, right?
The catch? Legalising cannabis.
This week Nelson lawyer Sue Grey revealed through an Official Information Act request some informal notes from Treasury, which calculated that legalisation would not only generate money, but also save $400m a year on enforcement of drug prohibition.
Treasury noted two options for dealing with drug reform. First, decriminalisation, which would satisfy international treaties by keeping drug use illegal but with criminal penalties swapped for civil penalties, such as rehabilitation treatment for people who need it.
The full-throttle option is legalisation, which means the Government could generate revenue from the sale and production of some drugs while reducing enforcement costs further.
STACKING UP THE EVIDENCE
Treasury says, particularly for lower-harm drugs already widely available, "this wouldn't have any big negative impacts".
It notes a number of countries are already moving in this direction. Denmark, Germany, Portugal and parts of Australia and the United States have all decriminalised the possession of cannabis to varying degrees.
"Their experiences have been positive and don't seem to have increased drug use."
Treasury also noted drug reform isn't a "particularly radical idea these days".
"It's supported by The Economist and the Global Commission on Drug Policy, as well as reports by our health select committee and the Law Commission."
So now that information dating back to 2013 has gone public and people are talking about it, what is Treasury's position?
A spokesman says money saving/generating from cannabis hasn't been part of any formal work programme.
There's been no formal analysis and the document was simply "high-level estimates from a variety of sources" but did not undergo the process of quality assurance as other policy would.
In short, "it was a conversation starter" – apparently a common practice at Treasury to test ideas that are floating around.
GOVERNMENT'S SPLIT OPINION
So will Treasury take the idea further? No, says English.
The minister's office says Treasury has not been asked to do any further work on this – in other words, the Government has no interest in pursing the legalisation of cannabis.
And, personally, English doesn't favour legalisation either.
So why no appetite from the Government?
There's plenty of theories, from it being political dynamite especially for a third-term government, to concerns the drug and alcohol bods will revolt given that decriminalisation and legalisation often lead to a downturn for those industries.
But there's one member of the Government who is a bit rogue on the issue. Admittedly UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne isn't a National Party member, but he is a minister and he's the one in charge of signing off on medicinal cannabis applications.
Dunne "respects" that the Government has no interest in changing the legal status of cannabis but in his own view that position is the wrong one.
"If you can grow a natural product in your backyard and someone else can manufacture something that's equivalent to that product, and the manufactured product can then be submitted for testing and be judged to be low risk and put on the market for sale, why can't you do the same with the natural product?
"That's the thinking. Now of course things aren't as simple as that, but as a principle I think that's where I would see this heading," Dunne says.
What he's talking about is the Psychoactive Substances Act once it's fully implemented. As to when that will be, it's like asking how long a piece of string is, says Dunne.
"The real issue here is that we have not been able to finalise the testing regime because Parliament, quite properly, moved to ban animal testing. So at some point the international community will move similarly to ban animal testing, not just for psychoactive substances but across the board, so therefore alternatives will have to be developed."
At that point, Dunne says, the regime will come "back into play" but that could be two, 10, 15 or even 20 years away.
So from his perspective, once the act is fully operational cannabis will be able to be tested in the same way as any other drug is and "if it is deemed to be low risk and can be sold under the same conditions, i.e in R18-designated stores" then he says that's the right approach.
"But we're not at that point."
FINDING ANOTHER WAY
Grey says an easy way to deal with cannabis, similar to how there are exemptions for drugs like morphine, would be to add it to regulation 22(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations.
Regulation 22 prevents any doctor or other person administering any controlled drug to any person without the prior approval of the minister.
But the second part of the regulation creates an exemption for cocaine-based medicines and morphine products.
"It would then be for doctors to prescribe whatever medicine they consider to be the most fit for purpose for the patient, depending on the needs of the patient," Grey says.
"We trust doctors to make life-saving decisions for patients on a wide range of conditions, so this simple amendment would put cannabis on a similar footing to other medications."
Former Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly echoes Grey's push for medical professionals to make the decisions, rather than ministers.
Kelly, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer almost 18 months ago, has been illegally taking cannabis for many months. She says it has allowed her to keep living her life pain free.
"Cannabis isn't a bad drug. I don't think it's good for teenagers, but I think we can regulate, control and understand it," she says.
Grey is working with Kelly to help her get access to prescribed cannabis products overseas that she can bring back to New Zealand thanks to a loophole discovered by Grey's client, Rebecca Reider.
The Golden Bay woman won a legal victory when she escaped conviction after being charged with importing medicinal cannabis products.
So as laws start to crack around medicinal cannabis, what's the argument against decriminalisation or taking the leap to legalisation?
WHAT ARE THE HEALTH EFFECTS?
Scientists in the United Kingdom, US, Europe and Australia are warning that frequent use of cannabis can increase the risk of psychosis in vulnerable people at the same time as many of those governments are moving towards decriminalisation.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists warns cannabis can trigger mental health problems in people who seemed to be well before, "or it can worsen any mental health problems you already have".
"The younger you are when you start using it, the more you may be at risk. This is because your brain is still developing and can be more easily damaged by the active chemicals in cannabis."
Given most experts consider a brain not to be fully developed until the age of 25, having cannabis legally available in R18 stores could have a substantial effect on the mental health system.
An Otago University report, Cannabis use in adolescence, by David Fergusson and Joseph Boden says cannabis is the drug most commonly used by New Zealand adolescents.
"Estimates suggest that by the age of 21 in the region of 80 per cent of young people will have used cannabis on at least one occasion, with 10 per cent developing a pattern of heavy dependent use."
There is increasing evidence that regular or heavy use of cannabis leads to increased risks of mental health problems, other forms of illicit drug use, school dropouts and educational under-achievement, motor vehicle collisions and injuries, the report says.
GREY POWER WANTS ACCESS
Health concerns aside, Grey Power is one of many voices throwing their weight behind loosening the rules around cannabis.
A group of Northland retirees who say they have never taken illegal drugs are petitioning for medicinal marijuana on the basis the elderly should have the choice to die pain free.
When the group went public about their petition, the Cannabis Party decided to join the fray, which reportedly led to Grey Power national president Tom O'Connor having a "heated stoush" with the party when he told them to stay out of Grey Power matters.
It is understood O'Connor wasn't interested in a party pushing for legalisation of cannabis for recreational purposes joining a Grey Power local chapter's campaign for medicinal marijuana.
For the past two years medicinal cannabis has been hitting the headlines hard.
It really gained momentum in April last year when Nelson teenager Alex Renton was approved Elixinol, a cannabidiol product from the US, by Dunne.
Since then it's been revealed the late Paul Holmes and Martin Crowe were both using cannabis for pain relief in their final months.
Grey is calling for medicinal cannabis law reform to be an election issue when voters go to the polls next year.
"Cannabis law reform may just become New Zealand's equivalent of Brexit – the issue which empowers the public to make their voice heard."
- stuff.co.nz


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Alfiano è una frazione del comune cremonese di Corte de' Frati, suddivisa in due distinti villaggi e posta a nord del centro abitato verso l'Oglio.

Storia
La località si divide oggi in due villaggi, il vecchio e il nuovo, di antica origine nel Contado di Cremona, e assommava 250 abitanti a metà Settecento.

Fin dall'epoca epoca longobarda era una curtis del monastero femminile di S. Salvatore (poi S. Giulia) di Brescia e comprendeva le due sponde del fiume Oglio, cioè gli attuali Alfiano Vecchio e Nuovo, in provincia di Cremona, e Alfianello, in provincia di Brescia. La curtis si trovava in posizione strategica, dove la via Cremonensis attraversava l'Oglio Il toponimo del paese di Corte de' Frati, appartenente al feudo di Alfiano, inizio a chiamarsi così nel XIII secolo.

Il Polittico di S. Giulia, un inventario di beni del primo decennio del X secolo, documenta la presenza non solo di una cappella, ma anche di un porto con tre naves. Due diplomi imperiali confermano la proprietà: Lotario I nell'837 e Lotario III nel 1136. Le bolle papali fra il 1060 (Nicola II) e il 1251 (Innocenzo IV) confermano pure la proprietà e documentano l'esistenza di una chiesa di S. Giulia, tuttora esistente in Alfiano Vecchio.

Il toponimo del paese di Corte de' Frati, appartenente al feudo di Alfiano, inizio a chiamarsi così nel XIII secolo.

In età napoleonica, dal 1810 al 1816, Alfiano fu già frazione di Corte de' Frati, recuperando però l'autonomia con la costituzione del Regno Lombardo-Veneto.

Nel 1823 il comune si espanse annettendo Aspice e Grimone.

All'unità d'Italia nel 1861, il comune contava 1507 abitanti, e due anni dopo cambiò nome in Alfiano ed Uniti.

Nel 1868 il comune di Alfiano ed Uniti venne aggregato al comune di Corte de' Frati secondo lo schema napoleonico.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Corte de' Frati
Comuni della Lombardia soppressi

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Panthers RB Christian McCaffrey in walking boot after Week 12 loss
Anthony Rizzuti
November 28, 2021, 4:37 PM ·1 min read
There was some hope left in 2021 for the Carolina Panthers before they kicked off in Miami Gardens this afternoon. But as they depart after their nightmarish Week 12 loss, that hope won't be going back to Charlotte with them.
Part of the reason why could rest in yet another injury to running back Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey left Sunday's defeat early due to a bothersome ankle.
That ankle, according to Omar Kelly of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, was confined to a walking boot after the game.
Christian McCaffrey is in a walking boot on his left leg.
— Omar Kelly (@OmarKelly) November 28, 2021
Head coach Matt Rhule, obviously, didn't have an extensive update on the injury during his postgame presser. Rhule told reporters that his star rusher, who finished with 35 yards on 10 rushes against the Miami Dolphins, rolled his ankle and could not return despite his best efforts.
McCaffrey has already missed five games this season due to a strained hamstring. If we add that total to last year's chunk of an absence, he's been sidelined in 18 games between 2020 and 2021.
Carolina's late Week 13 bye will work in McCaffrey's favor, as long as this latest setback isn't a serious one.
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Ever since I was a kid I have always loved turning leftover protein into salads, and then sandwiches. Of course, what I mean by this is chopping whatever chicken, beef, pork, lamb, hard boiled egg, etc., remains from dinner into little bits and mixing it with gobs of mayonnaise, then heaping the mixture onto whatever type of bread was available. Not exactly the most elegant preparation, but it always got the job done. It never actually occurred to me at the time that you did not have to wait for leftovers, you could prepare the meat specifically for this purpose, and that the addition of a few other ingredients could turn ho-hum, overly mayonnaised salads into some truly spectacular sandwich fillings. Hence, over the years my love of mixing meat with mayo has not diminished one bit, but has undergone quite an evolution.
My friend and coworker John has been bringing this chicken salad to work for lunch the last few weeks that intrigued me quite a bit. A slightly modified version of a recipe from the Barefoot Contessa (recipe link at the end of post), it starts with roasted, skin-on, bone-in chicken breasts and combines the meat with mayo, sour cream, some toasted nuts, grapes, and tarragon.
I wanted it immediately the first time I saw him take it out of his lunch bag and heard him describe the recipe. When my other friend and coworker Diana came in last week with some chicken salad of her own, the same recipe, I knew I had to make it as soon as possible (which turned out to be last Friday).
The thing I love about making recipes that others have made is that the recipes have already been tested and any possible trouble spots are thus easier to avoid. This recipe is a good example, as it calls for 2 teaspoons of salt (yes, 2 whole teaspoons) to be added to the dressing, hardly any of which is necessary. I knew this going in, and cut down the salt dramatically. I also knew that the dressing amount could be cut as well, and I used seedless red grapes instead of green. All information gleaned from discussions with my friends. If you don't have your own personal recipe testers, a great thing to do is find a recipe website, like Food Network or Recipezaar, that has user comments along with the recipes. You can pick up many great tips from countless others who have tried the recipe before you.
For this particular recipe I doubled the chicken, halved the mayo and sour cream, reduced the salt to 1/4 teaspoon (and I'm not sure it even needed that), and reduced the nuts by half. Although the recipe was intended to produce a salad eaten on a bed of lettuce, I could never eat chicken salad this way knowing I'm just 2 slices of bread away from sandwich heaven. I found this particular recipe to be quite good, the grapes added a nice refreshing burst of sweet flavor that I found to be a nice accent. And tarragon is fast becoming one of my favorite herbs, as I find it pairs extremely well with poultry. The real keeper though from this recipe is the easy and delicious chicken preparation. The meat came out cooked perfectly, and starting with bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts really kicks up the flavor while reducing the price tag (don't be a boneless/skinless chicken snob). I'll definitely be using this particular prep whenever I make chicken salad from now on.
I have never done the Veronique recipe, but Ina's broccoli chicken salad recipe got rave reviews. Check it out, too. This is the only way to make chicken breasts for such recipes (and for casseroles). Now, I buy the big packs and just roast it all at once. Works perfectly every time, and I freeze it in 2 cup batches!


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