Let's face it, the world we live in isn't always sunshine and rainbows. Each one of us face difficulties and naturally some are worse than others but how we react is the bottom line......do we wilt or grow during these seasons? One thing we have to realize is that God is not going to deliver us from every difficulty ...... He is not going to keep us from every challenge because if He did, we would never grow. The Scripture says, "Our faith is tried in the fire of affliction." When you're facing a difficult time, change your thinking a wilting mentality to a growing mentality because this time is an opportunity for your faith to shine.
If we will just hold our faith and choose to grow rather than wilt during the difficult times, we will come out looking and smelling like the rose God intends us to be.
Father, thank You for refining me and growing my faith. I choose to stand strong in the midst of difficulty. I choose to bless You no matter what my circumstances are. I trust that You are leading and guiding me in paths of righteousness for Your name's sake in Jesus' name. Amen.


Check out the Auto Leasing Process with Regency Leasing. Inquiries are requested by either calling or emailing us, or using the form we have provided on our site to contact our helpful group of auto experts.
Download and upload your completed credit application here. We have personal and business credit applications available.
Protection Plans are a mechanical breakdown service contract designed to keep you covered.
Vehicle leasing is now more popular than ever.
The controversial topic of whether it is better to lease or buy a new vehicle has been argued in many forums and is a constant argument among car shoppers.


The Auberge le Grillon is the perfect place for either a short or a long stay and an ideal place to relax. We have five tastefully decorated double rooms, each with its own individual personal touch. The rooms are very cosy with en-suite shower and toilet. Sully is a small peaceful village in the French countryside, situated in South Burgundy between Beaune and Autun. The leafy Auberge gardens are arranged so that you can always find a nice place to sit, either in the sun or in the shade.
In the vicinity of the Auberge lie many possibilities for a day out. You will find castles, churches, monasteries, beautiful museums and the historical interesting cities of Dijon, Beaune and nearby Autun with its Gallo-Roman remains and city gates. Well worth a visit are the many markets in the neighbourhood, the cosy terraces, the wine region around Beaune which starts only 15 minutes away and the hills of the Morvan National Parc to the west.
There are many opportunities for walking and cycling. We have a lot of brochures from which you can select the perfect route. At the end of the afternoon when you come home from a nice day out, you can enjoy our three course menu prepared from Burgundian regional products. You can of course select the perfect Burgundy wine to accompany your meal from our wine list.
We hope to welcome you here soon!
Some places worth visiting are: The castle of Sully (you can go there by foot) Autun with its cathedral an gallo-roman remains Beaune with its famous hospice and the wine region The historic center of Dijon The Morvan natural parc Other possible activities are: walking, cycling, golf, archery etc.
Follow the D973 from Beaune to Autun. Go to the right at the D26, direction Sully. In the village stay on the main road; the auberge is on your right.
If you drive from Autun in the direction of Beaune, you can take the D326 (left) in the direction of Sully. At the end of this road you can see the auberge.


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Billboard Bill Is Facing A Fight
LANSING — Opponents to bills proposed in the legislature to stiffen the regulations on billboards say the measures are unnecessary, unfair and a veiled attempt to ban the advertising medium.
Included in the four-bill package is a measure that would cap the number of billboards in the state by prohibiting the issuance of new permits to erect a new billboard or renew permits for signs existing prior to March 31, 1972.
A coalition of industry and business interests is mounting opposition against the bills, now pending in the Senate Transportation Committee. The group — Business and Charities for Billboards — contends that billboards are already heavily regulated on both the federal and local levels that dictate their placement, size and spacing, and that additional measures are unneeded.
Any additional state regulation, they contend, would merely drive up the cost of advertising for businesses and nonprofit organizations that use billboards to generate awareness.
Outdoor advertising "is not an industry that suffers from a lack of regulation," said Rich Studley, senior vice president for government affairs for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
"Employees and employers across the state depend on billboards to sell their products," Studley said. "It's a necessary and important part of doing business for a lot of companies."
Proponents of the bills base the need for more regulation of billboards as a land-use issue —preserving the state's natural beauty — and depict billboards as an eyesore on the landscape surrounding roadways and highways.
The bills, introduced in December, would create a 12-member state advisory panel to consider best practices for billboards, raise permit fees to support a fund to pay for removing "abandoned signs," alter an existing law to allow logos for tourism attractions and related businesses to appear on state signs posted near freeway interchanges, and place a moratorium on issuing permits.
There are presently 14,000 billboard faces, two per pole, in Michigan. Backers of the legislation say another 2,200 have been issued across the state, although signs have not yet been erected.
"Part of the charm and attraction of Michigan is its scenic beauty," said Sen. Tom George, R-Texas Township, the chief sponsor of the legislation.
"We recognize that billboards provide important information to Michigan motorists and we do not wish to eliminate them. However, we have reached the saturation point."
Among the backers of the package are two West Michigan legislators, Sen. Gerald Van Woerkom, R-Muskegon, and Patricia Birkholz, R-Saugatuck, who are co-sponsors to one of the bills.
Former Attorney General Frank Kelley and former Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus also support the legislation.
"Few measures would have more impact on improving the aesthetic beauty on Michigan's out-of-doors than reducing the clutter of billboards in our open spaces," Posthumus said.
And Kelley contends that billboards "do more damage to our landscape and vistas than any commercial or informational value they claim."
"At the very least, Michigan should limit and control the proliferation of billboards," Kelley said.
But opponents to the bills say claims of billboard proliferation are exaggerated and that the number of sign permits in effect today is about the same as 20 years ago.
Roger Martin, a spokesman for the coalition Business and Charities for Billboards, contends that existing regulations are plenty and that private-sector forces, not additional government regulations, should determine the number of billboards around the state.
"We've already got enough regulations on the books and they're working," Martin said. "We believe the market should determine what is enough and what is not enough."
As with many other previous legislative sessions where new billboard regulations were introduced, both Martin and Studley doubt the bills will receive much support in the Legislature.
"They're really a solution looking for a problem," Studley said.
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How buildings affect us: Trump version
On May 28, 2017 May 28, 2017 By mandersonIn architecture, building infrastructure, contexts, Design, infrastructure, Links, Physical Environment, quotesLeave a comment
By Sebastian Bergmann [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Goldhagen is an architecture critic and the author of the new book "Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives." In it, she argues that buildings affect us in ways that go deeper than even most architects realize. They also provide windows into the minds that conceived them. "What can you learn about Trump from Trump's aesthetics?" she asked. "Quite a lot."
—Sarah William Goldhagen, in "THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHTS OF TRUMP TOWER", The New Yorker by David Owen
Sunday Smorgasbord: Design
On September 18, 2016 September 18, 2016 By mandersonIn architecture, Design, diversity, Ecology, green space, infrastructure, integration, Links, natural light, People Centered Design, Physical Environment, quick links, race, School Choice, segregation, Weekend Reading, Weekly Roundup, well-beingLeave a comment
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I'm playing around with the formatting of these weekly roundups. Let me know what works or doesn't work for you. UPDATE: looks like links in pictures weren't working, so I added embedded links to each article.
A nice overview of the relationship between architectural design and well-being from The Guardian's Cities.
"One, two, three, four!" they counted in Finnish. (For good measure, I jumped into the ditch, too.) The teacher, Pelo, explained that this experience represented how she and the two aides aspire to teach the kindergartners in the woods. She described this approach as "secret" learning, when children are unaware that they're learning academic content. In the forest, these Finnish educators might lead the children to find sticks of varying lengths and organize them from shortest to longest, form letters out of natural materials, or count mushrooms.
Smart stuff, as usual, from Amanda Ripley.
It's likely that as long as humans and their institutions hold prejudices and bias, their designs will reflect them. But some progress is possible. Two decades ago architect Ronald Mace imagined a new standard, in which anything humans make — a new piece of technology, a public park, a household product — is usable by everyone. He called this idea "universal design." Today it's an enforceable legal standard in Norway. One way to help us get there? Make sure the design process itself is also accessible to all.
"All of the choice-based reform efforts that they've come up with over the last 20 years have been designed to bring back all the white people who left after Brown v. Board. But the irony is that, if [districts] keep relying on choice, they're going to be set up for failure because white people will not enroll their children in schools unless they're already [predominantly] white," said Natalie Hopkinson, a black parent and journalist, referring to extensive research showing privileged, white parents tend to send their kids to schools that they perceive as "high status." "So the segregation keeps repeating itself as long as you rely on choice as a way to make the change."
In the Philadelphia school district, 37 percent of the system's 144,000 are chronically absent. Among high-school students, the figure shoots up to 51 percent. The districts in Baltimore and Milwaukee have similar numbers. For Cleveland and Detroit, the chronic absenteeism rates are around 50 percent, and more than 60 percent of Cleveland's high-schoolers missed more than three weeks of school a year.
The report's authors write that one common denominator linking these cities is the "nearly 100 years of historical actions that aimed to segregate African American populations in sections of the city with the poorest housing, greatest proximity to industrial pollutants, greatest exposure to violence, and highest unemployment rates, resulting in widespread inter-generational poverty."
Students need classrooms that inspire them
On September 3, 2016 September 3, 2016 By mandersonIn architecture, building infrastructure, contexts, daylighting, Design, infrastructure, intangibles, learning environment, Links, natural light, Physical Environment, quotes, school environment, seating, Social NetworksLeave a comment
"Students need to be in classrooms that inspire them—spaces that are light, airy, and filled with examples of work that they aspire to do. Each school will have a variety of spacious classroom settings. Some will be more traditional in the way that we envision classrooms now, but others might be set up outside or within an atrium or amphitheater. There might be desks, cushions, or benches arranged in rows or circles—however the teachers want them, as not every classroom will follow a template. Each classroom will be set up based on what is necessary to meet learning objectives. But schools will prioritize configuring classes to inspire learning first and foremost, and, where appropriate, reflect the diversity of environments that students are exposed to outside a school setting. Students will have beautiful spaces that make them feel good to be at school—with art, living plants, music where appropriate, comfortable seating, and fast internet access." [Bold added]
—Rita Pin Ahrens, the director of education policy for the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, in an article on The Atlantic, "Reimagining the Modern Classroom"
Deaf Space
On August 17, 2016 By mandersonIn architecture, building infrastructure, chairs, Design, disability, diversity, inclusion, infrastructure, Links, Media, People Centered Design, Physical Environment, seating, TheoryLeave a comment
Some interesting design considerations for design of spaces that can not only provide a better environment for the deaf, but possibly a better environment for all.
Change the Environment to Change Behavior
On July 2, 2016 By mandersonIn architecture, building infrastructure, daylighting, Design, infrastructure, learning environment, Links, natural light, People Centered Design, Physical Environment, quotes, regenerative design, school environmentLeave a comment
A "high level of student engagement may be at least partially due to the school's new Lithgow Building, which opened last August. The historic building was renovated with a trauma-informed design that houses the school's lower and middle grades. "In many elementary schools, people use bright primary colors," says Codman's executive director Meg Campbell. "But for kids who've been traumatized or on the autism spectrum, red can be a trigger."
. . . Campbell says she has seen a dramatic improvement in students' behavior following the Lithgow renovation, even with the addition of 44 more students this school year."Last year we had 16 students with 50 different incidents that warranted a suspension," Campbell says. "This year to date, we've had three students with six incidents warranting suspension to date. If you put kids in a different environment, the behavior changes, and the teachers are happier." [Bold added]
—Susan Johnston Taylor, "Want To Keep More Kids In School? Design A Smarter Classroom" on Good


The Landmark Trust made it possible for some of our families to take a break at one of their beautiful properties.
The Landmark Trust announces success of its first ever scheme offering charities 50 free stays in it's unique historic properties.
We hope our three families visiting Goddard's will have a tremendous time and enjoy a well earned break.


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Candlestick Park Structural Investigation and Repair
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Candlestick Park was a former outdoor sports and entertainment stadium, home to the MLB's San Francisco Giants from 1960 until 2000. In 1983, Interactive Resources was retained by the City and County of San Francisco to provide a comprehensive forensic investigation of the deterioration of structural and architectural components at Candlestick Park. Our study determined that the stadium was in serious disrepair and recommended that the park be upgraded immediately to provide a higher level of resistance to potential seismic forces. Interactive Resources subsequently prepared contract documents for structural repairs and provided construction administration services. In 1988, our firm was once again called in to resolve water infiltration problems in the newly constructed luxury boxes at the stadium.
Following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, Interactive Resources was enlisted on an emergency basis to evaluate the condition of Candlestick Park, which was hosting the third game of the World Series during the tremor. We dispatched a response team of engineers and architects to perform a visual post-earthquake inspection and to perform immediate repairs. Ten days later, the World Series was able to resume at the stadium, repaired to its original condition.


All donations are appreciated in support of the Dutch Community in Auckland.
NZ Netherlands Society Oranje Auckland Inc is a registered charity and all donations are eligible for a tax credit at the end of each financial year (31 March). We issue official donation receipts once a year around April.


So, we were all set up for a rockin house show this Tuesday night...and then the tornado sirens went off. Needless to say, no one came to see the show and protective mama Lauren urged us all into the closet. But that didn't stop us from drinking and having the concert anyway. That's right, while tornados were whirling around outside, we got a private show by none other than James of Picardy III, Paul Banks, and Cody Kimmel (formerly of Eliot Fitzgerald) right there in the bathroom. It's really fun having friends who are so talented. Oh, and sweet Kyler got to stay up WAY past his bedtime and party with the big kids. (btw, everyone was fine).
MAN! I WISH WE WEREN'T HANGING OUT IN AN UNDERGROUND GARAGE THAT NIGHT! AND WE MISSED KYLER!! BLAST!


The Energy Future Project has formed volunteer community working groups to obtain input from residents, businesses, and stakeholders on project focus areas. The city is currently convening five working groups and has held six in the past. Click on the menu below to read about the recruitment and selection process, goals and tasks assigned to each group, and notes and reports from current and past groups.
No working groups are currently open for recruitment. Please check back here as new groups form.
Technical working groups are brought together for fixed, short periods of time to work on very specific tasks. Individuals participating in these groups are expected to have the time, interest, and commitment to participate in the production of deliverables assigned to the group.
Members of the city's technical working groups provide valuable input and technical assistance in areas of strategic importance to the city's efforts.
Members are expected to actively participate in group meetings and events, volunteer, collaborate, and complete specific group goals.
It is expected that no more than five working groups will convene each year.
Size and composition are dependent on the group's task.
Technical Working Group membership is open to anyone with relevant subject matter expertise and the time and interest to participate fully.
Since these groups are expected to provide a deliverable within a set amount of time, group size is limited to facilitate collaboration and decision-making.
If more people express interest than can be accommodated, the city will ensure that the group is representative of the community and has members with the necessary skills and talents to achieve group goals.
Selection is based on skills and qualifications. If you are applying to multiple groups, please fill out an application for each group. To achieve a diverse representation of community experts, we do not anticipate that the same person will be selected for more than one working group.
The Natural Gas Working Group is a team of industry specialists, local stakeholders and other interested parties that was formed to explore concerns and opportunities related to the use of natural gas to generate electricity for the City of Boulder, should it decide to form a local electric utility. It will provide valuable recommendations, as natural gas will likely play a significant role in Boulder's energy portfolio, whether the community continues to be served by Xcel Energy or by a municipal utility. While the focus of the group will be to examine issues and concerns related to fracking and methane release, it will also explore current and possible industry best practices and potential alternatives for gas replacement.
The Energy Services Working Group is composed of community members who will help inform the Energy Future Project and Transition Plan.
The Resource Acquisition Working Group is composed of community members who will help inform the Energy Future Project and Transition Plan.
The Reliability and Safety Working Group II is composed of community members who will help inform the Energy Future Project and Transition Plan.
The Rates Working Group is composed of community members who will help inform the Energy Future Project and Transition Plan.
Since December, city staff has met with executives from Xcel on several occasions to develop a process for discussing a partnership to create the utility of the future. In March 2013, Xcel proposed the creation of a task force that would engage with Xcel executives, city staff and other experts when needed, to discuss possible paths to forming such a partnership. Xcel and the city jointly selected Boulder residents and representatives of Boulder businesses to serve on the task force. The task force members are interested and are prepared to be engaged in the issues and represent diverse backgrounds and perspectives. A task force report was presented at the July 23, 2013 City Council Study Session, and further analysis from the task force is expected in the coming months.
The Communications and Outreach Working Group provided strategic counsel to city staff about best practices and innovative ways of engaging a broad cross-section of the community in the ongoing discussion about whether the city should form an electric utility. This group was tasked with vetting ongoing communications and outreach efforts, identifying and examining alternate strategies and low-cost tactics for informing the public, and providing city staff with feedback from the public's perspective about what worked in terms of communication related to the municipalization exploration effort.
The Decision Analysis Working Group was tasked with reviewing the framework of the decision analysis and vetting data and assumptions included within it. It was comprised of a small team of experts with significant academic and/or career experience related to decision analysis and risk assessment. The city hired a decision analysis consultant who provided overall project guidance, and the group both evaluated aspects of that consultant's work and provided research support and expert feedback.
The Financial Working Group was tasked with vetting certain data inputs and assumptions included in the financial model. Additionally, this team researched and located certain data points to use in the model. The city hired a financial advisor with expertise in municipal utility finance. Questions that arose from the financial working group related to the financial assumptions were sent to the financial advisor and then discussed with the working group.
The Governance Working group will work with city staff to understand the flexibility and limitations of the charter language and to develop a recommendation for City Council on any necessary ordinance amendments or other suggestions on how the utility should be governed. As the city has studied municipalization it has developed a service area that includes customers that are both within and outside the municipal boundary, raising issues related to the appropriate level of customer participation in the governance structure from these areas. Another important task was discussing the composition and qualifications for a utility advisory board, as well as its role and authority. The working group was also asked to review and make recommendations relating to the appropriate representation for the various utility customer categories.
The Reliability and Safety Working Group was tasked with vetting reliability issues associated with the city's municipalization exploration work plan. The goal of the working group was to help city staff identify what is required to meet expected reliability requirements and associated costs. Considerations included not only reliability in the design, operations and maintenance of the system, but also in the delivery of power from suppliers. The working group was asked to help inform the scope of this analysis, review consultant work products, and vet assumptions with respect to reliability-driven costs.
The Resource Modeling Working Group was tasked with vetting the reliability issues associated with the city's municipalization exploration work plan and providing industry-specific expertise about a variety of resource options. The group also helped vet assumptions that the resource model used to develop possible portfolio scenarios.
The Solar Working Group was composed of a team of solar industry specialists and customers - both current and future - who explored motivators and barriers to implementing solar throughout the community. The focus of the group's work was on defining the next-generation of incentives as well as providing guidance about how to handle solar contracts between now and the time when the city decides whether it will create a local electric utility.


Incoming Transmission project launched! Plus DRV news!
Revised Solo/CoOp Rules (with video) and other news!
Hello everyone!! It's been a little while but we have some news for you!
New UPDATED DRV Rulebook available + Overworld Campaign live today!
NEW AND IMPROVED DRV RULEBOOK AVAILABLE!
Please pardon the interruption, it is good to be writing to you again!
Darkrock Ventures FAQ now available!
Hello Magic Meeple Games supporters!
Message from Fulfillment: Final mailings to begin THIS WEEK!
We're happy to be shipping Darkrock Ventures for Magic Meeple Games.
Shipping confirmations ahoy! Have you received yours?
The latest shipping info & long-awaited promo card!
Current Status: On a boat and halfway home!
Clarifications/Shipping info update, & PnP Files available!
Final invoices paid! Advance copies arriving soon! New Free PnP!
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DRV Shipping update and GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT!
Updates! Announcements! Polls! How many? SO MANY.
Spring is here! The weather is warming up and the kids are out of school and it's time for an overdue update!
Proofs and Shipping and Fire, oh my!
Part 2 of the DRV Print-N-Play is ready!
Hello and good morning/afternoon/evening DRV backers!
BACKERS ONLY: DRV Print and Play now available!
PledgeManager reminder and progress update!
It is month two after the Kickstarter campaign funded and it is time for a progress report! Let's begin with PledgeManager!
We did it! Darkrock Ventures coming soon to the world!
6 Hours to go! Spot UV and more over 200% Funded!
SG Down and...do you guys and gals want a bigger board? I think we can do that. Details within!
Lots of new names! Welcome everyone to the campaign and the very last day (technically)!
2 Days Left and 2 more Stretch Goals DISINTEGRATED!
A few more hours until the FINAL TWO DAYS! Also, you all broke another TWO Stretch Goals!
Behold our field of stretch goals, for many of them are BROKEN!
Darkrock Ventures, now for 1-5 players!!
Solo and Co-Operative modes are now included in every copy of Darkrock Ventures and all of the cards will be premium quality!
Stretch goal unlocked! Solo/CoOp is next!
Three more goals BUSTED as we enter the FINAL WEEK!
Solo Mode AND Co-Op Modes added to Stretch Goals!!
GenCon begins with another Stretch Goal down!
Weekend Update! Mini-Expansion Added and New Stretch Goals!
Every time I turn around you all amaze me. Thanks to one of our many outstanding backers upgrading their pledge, we have unlocked another Stretch Goal!
Darkrock Ventures is 113% FUNDED! Two stretch goals NUKED from ORBIT.
Darkrock Ventures is getting around!
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Can You Spare A Dime
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By Lowell L. Kalapa
Would you like it if state government offered to pay 15% to 20% of your household bills or perhaps 15% or 20% of the costs of operating your business?
Well, that is what one bill moving through the legislature would do. The measure would provide a tax credit equal to 15% of the costs incurred in a county with a population of over 700,000, or 20% of the costs incurred in a county with a population of 700,000 or less, for a qualified production of a motion picture or television production. The idea is being proposed because proponents point out that other states are offering such incentives in order to attract movie and television productions to their states. They go on to argue that if Hawaii doesn't hand out incentives, it will lose these job-creating ventures to other states. After all, they point out, movie and television productions create jobs for Hawaii's people.
Hawaii currently offers such productions a credit equal to 4% of the production costs incurred in the state and a 7.25% credit for any hotel accommodations purchased by the television and movie production. These credits basically offset the "sales tax" and the transient accommodations tax that the production company pays on the purchase of goods and services and hotel accommodations in the state. In that respect, there is a justifiable basis for extending the current credits in order to level the playing field for these production companies that might shoot their productions in another state.
The current proposal would basically underwrite the costs of the movie or television productions to the tune of 15% or 20% depending on whether the production is done on Oahu or on the Neighbor Islands. Such a subsidy might be justifiable if, in fact, the production was producing a public good such as health care or housing. But in this case the argument is that it is creating jobs. But job creation can come from all sectors of the economy. Why didn't the legislature subsidize the pineapple or sugar industries when they suffered sever competition from sugar growers from around the world? Not subsidizing the industry meant the closure of plantations and the loss of thousands of jobs.
Advocates seem to overlook the one thing that no other destination can offer, and that is Hawaii's unique beauty and the fact that weather wise, productions can film nearly 365 days a year. Not only that, but Hawaii can offer sun and surf and the wintry climates of Haleakala and Mauna Kea.
While the advocates try to make an argument that Hawaii needs to enact such an incentive to compete for this type of business, one has to ask "at what price?" Promoters of the film industry obviously don't give much credit to Hawaii's natural beauty and more recently its relative security. One has to ask the actors of the hit series "Lost" who have bought homes here if they would like to work elsewhere. That production has been successful without any state subsidy.
While film producers may moan that they will lose money without the proposed tax credits, is there any offer to share the wealth when a film makes millions of dollars? If promoters of the film industry would just do their job in outlining the advantages of doing this type of work in Hawaii and address some of the costly barriers by correcting them, such tax incentives would not be necessary. From permitting to skilled labor to facilitating transportation of equipment, there are ways to reduce the cost of filming in Hawaii. Unless these intrinsic elements are addressed, moviemakers will probably demand subsidies such as this incentive.
As one observer put it, these tax credits will do nothing more than put the down payment on some movie producer's new swimming pool in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile the average Hawaii taxpayer continues to struggle to pay taxes, groceries, and for a roof overhead.
It is also apparent that movie producers do not undertake such projects to lose money and therefore justify these subsidies. When they do sell their movies for a profit, is there any provision in the proposal to have them return some of the up-front subsidy or do they just laugh all the way to the bank? If the advocates of this proposal want the state, more importantly taxpayers, to invest in these ventures, then taxpayers – the state – should expect a return on that investment.
Finally, the measure does not specify that these movie and television productions have to be undertaken by out-of-state people, but it applies to anyone making productions, so the credit could be claimed by someone who is already located in the state, thereby discriminating against other not-so-favored businesses in the state.
Quality Not Quantity of State Government Services
By Lowell L. Kalapa (Released on 6/7/09) Well, the "other shoe" has dropped and now...
Efforts of Lawmakers in Disarray
By Lowell L. Kalapa As legislators race to meet internal deadlines to move bills from...
Opting Out Of Conformity Just For More Tax Dollars
By Lowell L. Kalapa (Released on 5/29/11) For many taxpayers the tax increases approved by...
Time for the Subcontract Deduction to Be Upended? Hafa Adai!
By Tom Yamachika, President With so much going on in our hot construction market these...
Green Fees – But Not the Golfing Kind
Senate Bill 2696, which the Senate has just given to the House for consideration, is...
How Taxes Work
By Tom Yamachika, President This is a thought-provoking piece that appeared on the Internet some...
Making an Even Larger Hole in State Finances
By Lowell L. Kalapa Well, the 2003 session of the state legislature just completed its...
Vital That Hawaii Is A State And Not Four Separate Counties
By Lowell L. Kalapa (Released on 10/21/07) In the past months of contentious rancor over...


We would just like to say a most heartfelt thank you for sharing your comments about why your family loves Kids Teeth during our Park West office 10 year anniversary celebration. We are very grateful for your continued patronage because we wouldn't be here without loyal customers like you. Thank you for being part of our family. Please take a moment to read a few of the comments left by our patients and their families.
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Door Mouse: Movie Review
Door Mouse creates a very specific world, but one which is hard to get used to. Mouse (Hayley Law) is a comic book artist and a dancer at a burlesque club. The aesthetic is gritty punk, or neo-noire as marketed. Mouse is poor, lives in the slums, drinks coffee, smokes cigarettes, draws her comics and then goes to work. Rinse and repeat. 2022
Directed by: Avan Jogia
Screenplay by: Avan Jogia
Starring: Hayley Law, Keith Powers
If you're not a comic book artist or connoisseur and don't work in a sleazy night club, then the film really doesn't care about trying to get you invested in the characters or interested in their world. A lot of effort was spent in creating the world and its visual atmosphere, and a lot less effort was spent on connecting the characters to the audience.
The burlesque club has one owner (Famke Janssen) and five other employees (including Mouse and Ugly (Keith Powers) and two fellow dancers), but zero customers or maybe one on a good night. So I have no clue how that's a viable business. Sorry, scratch that, after watching the entire movie, then you'll have a clue how that's a viable business and why Janssen's Mama is such a terrible boss. There's so little interesting at the beginning, that it just seems like a poorly written movie rather than a movie that actually does lead somewhere.
When one dancer goes missing, Mouse and Ugly take it upon themselves to find her. The issue here is the plotting and the lack of connection to the characters. Mouse has a "fuck the world" and laissez-faire attitude, so everything takes way too long and if the main character only kind of cares, then the audience is only going to kind of care. The neo-noire atmosphere though creates a strange tone. When a ring of stolen girls is uncovered, it's not presented as something serious, but more of a dark comedy. It definitely feels like the wrong tone. Sex trafficking isn't exactly funny.
Slowly the film does build to a more interesting plot. First a poor vs rich theme is introduced (why can't the rich ever do something normal when they get bored?) and then Mouse becomes more determined to track down the missing girls and makes a drastic but interesting decision when she's out of other options. The tone also evens out once the plot gets more interesting and things start making a bit more sense.
Unfortunately, it's a too little too late situation. Door Mouse presents an uninviting world with characters who don't care and act so slowly, then it takes half the movie for the audience to even realize it's heading anywhere interesting.
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Because my store, Tessuto Menswear, is located on Main street in Sommerville, I wanted to try to take advantage of the high traffic area by making it simple for people to call me without having to write my number down. In 2004 I dialed 1-800-Menswear and spoke with the CEO of Telename Dave Ashley and found that I could own the rights to 1-800-Menswear for all of NJ. I locked it up 6 years ago, immediately put the number on my awning facing the street, on our postcard mailers and all newspaper or magazine ads. We began getting calls in about a month and within 2 years the number alone led me to open a second business of a full service tailor shop because it seemed that everyone knew the number 1-800-Menswear. I've since added the number for NYC as well.


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Palm Company: Press Room Palm Unveils New Web Browser Optimized for Handhelds -- It's about time!! This has been a major gap between the base PocketPC and PalmOS platforms, leaving Palm users and advocates feel like 2nd-class citizens. It's annoying that they decided to charge for it, instead of just including it in the base OS distribution and making it available for download as an OS update. Still, it's an improvement over PQAs...
Bluetooth Qualification Program Website - Qualified Products OK, I'm blown away! Bluetooth has begun to take hold in the market, despite predictions that it would falter due to high component costs and a larger-than-acceptable physical footprint. Evidently the technology has been able to exploit Moore's Law and drive ruthless execution to deliver customer value in a much shorter timeframe than I would have expected.
Clearly, the wireless market is now solidifying into three segments -- WANs, LANs and PANs, each of which either has adopted or is approaching a standard (LANs=802.11x, PANs=Bluetooth, WANs~=3G?). It's a pretty safe bet that, by the end of this calendar year, laptop & PDA vendors will take big steps toward integrating wireless PAN and LAN support (though PDAs will probably lean more toward PAN + WAN).
Here's the daydream I'm caught up in -- I'm walking down the airport concourse toward my departure gate when my cellphone/PDA vibrates. I pop o…
ARTS & FARCES internet : Radio community subversion "Personal computers infiltrated organizations through the back door. Someone brought one in to make his or her job easier and the notion spread, like a virus. RCS is going to infiltrate organizations the same way." Ran across this in Dave Winer's "Scripting News" and had to read the whole thing...
I mentioned something very similar in a conversation with a fellow blogger earlier today -- "This is viral software...two people will start using it, a few more will notice and try it, and pretty soon you've got 1,000 users blogging..."
RCS taps an unmet need in large corporations by hitting a "sweet spot" of features for knowledge capture, organization, and sharing at a price point that avoids the typical capital process (and dramatically undercuts traditional content management products, though RCS is about different things than something like Interwoven or Vignette). Thanks, Dave, for…
Java: Potent Security "Application security and interface security are more than just niche elements of next-generation IT.
Security is the prerequisite to mobility: Without security, most mobile technologies are unacceptably vulnerable to interception and man-in-the-middle attacks.
Security is the foundation of e-commerce: Without it, there can be no spontaneous formation of trust relationships among previously unknown parties, nor can there be guarantees of nonrepudiation of electronic transactions.
Security is the substrate of remotely administered systems and centrally managed code: Without it, all such mechanisms are unacceptable risks."
As I mentioned earlier today (see my reference to Dave Winer's "Scripting News" mention of web services), SECURITY is the foundation for much of the value-based IT work in BigCos. Without it, there's always a question about the validity or reliability of the information obtained from the service. I expect that Goslin…
Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog "In this release I also wired up both the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API to Radio's SOAP interface. It would be interesting to see a blogging tool in .Net or other environments that have strong SOAP support. Maybe this is what the SOAP world is waiting for -- something to work on that has clear benefits to users. All the consorting and sparring among the Big's has yielded little utility so far, mostly science projects." (bolding is mine, not the Dave's; ed.)
Dave makes a great point about the "science projects" underway in the BigCos; however, in defense of the BigCos (as I am employed by one!), the lack of acceptable security standards in many web services implementations prevents adoption for any serious (aka revenue or ROI-related) transactional stuff. However, Radio and RCS may have hit the sweet spot for delivering real business value on top of a web services-based platform. Can the BigCos offer somethin…
Ernie the Attorney Blogging toward "Knowledge Management." -- Dave Winer mentioned this blog in Scripting News and it's a thought-provoking piece, particularly in the context of how much attention (and $$) I see devoted to the subject at my employer. DW also mentioned another related idea earlier in SN -- "BTW, another reason I blog is patents." The fact that patents must take into account any previous art prevents someone being allowed to take full credit for ideas that appear elsewhere in the "weblog knowledge cloud."
AOL Replaces IE with Netscape in New BetaI think it's interesting that AOL's finally prepared to "bet the company" on its own alternative to IE. I wonder if it's got anything to do with the fact that "Mozilla now supports SOAP." (quoted from Mozilla 0.9.9 Release Notes - What's New)
AOL's finally got a browser platform that can act as a web services "user agent", opening new opportunities for their users and content providers that parallel (or perhaps even exceed) those promised by Microsoft with .NET.
Expect more news on this in the next year...
Web Services Wave - Major hurdles must be overcome, but the time is right for close evaluation. "Until now, and for the near future at least, Web services are more hype than substance...(however) expect legions of Web services advocates to crop up soon, and stay away from those who aren't pledging unswerving dedication to the World Wide Web Consortium's XML and SOAP standards work.
Web services are the great leveler of heterogeneous networks, a universal communicator technology for IT."
The buzz about web services is beginning to remind me of the mid-90s when browsers were gaining momentum in the press and on people's PCs. The good news is that, as with the former trend, web services are poised to achieve the same ubiquity and market appeal, translating into more opportunities for developers, service providers, and users alike.


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Labour minister eyes legislative reforms to deal with RCMP harassment
Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour MaryAnn Mihychuk responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Feb. 5, 2016. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, September 21, 2016 4:57AM EDT
OTTAWA -- The federal labour minister is looking at whether Canada Labour Code reforms are needed to address harassment issues within the RCMP after hearing from a disgruntled female Mountie.
MaryAnn Mihychuk asked for a briefing from Public Safety officials after receiving a message from an RCMP member who alleged the Mounties had failed to "adequately address her complaints" of sexual harassment through internal procedures, an internal government memo reveals.
Mihychuk and her officials wanted to know more about the RCMP's policies, procedures and guidelines to gauge the need for possible amendments to Part 2 of the Canada Labour Code, intended to protect employees from violence in the workplace.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale received a copy of the unidentified Mountie's email as well as messages and letters from 17 other people, including current and former RCMP members, detailing their experiences of workplace and sexual harassment within the police force, the memo adds.
The Canadian Press obtained a declassified version of the heavily censored February memo under the Access to Information Act.
The RCMP has been grappling for years with complaints from women and men about bullying and harassment.
Just two months ago, the national police force said it would launch a new effort to eliminate sexual misconduct in the workplace after an internal review criticized its response to an "egregious" case involving nudity and harassment at the RCMP-administered police college.
In response to questions about Mihychuk's concerns, Employment and Social Development Canada officials said the minister was working with Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu to ensure the safety of workers under federal jurisdiction.
"Violence and sexual harassment are unacceptable in the workplace, and in any environment."
Employment and Social Development Canada consults with Public Safety whenever needed in order to provide Mihychuk with comprehensive and current briefings, the officials added.
The RCMP did not respond to questions about the government memo.
Scott Bardsley, a spokesman for Goodale, said the minister has taken a number of steps on harassment in the RCMP.
They include appointing a former auditor general to review the RCMP's response to lawsuits from four members of the force alleging harassment.
As a special adviser, Sheila Fraser will provide recommendations on the policies and procedures the national police force pursued after Catherine Galliford, Alice Fox, Atoya Montague and Susan Gastaldo filed legal proceedings against the RCMP.
In addition, Goodale has told the RCMP he expects comprehensive, transparent investigations, serious disciplinary measures, support for victims and concrete action to end toxic workplace behaviour.
He has also asked the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP to look at whether recommendations it made three years ago on harassment have been implemented.
In a 2013 report, the watchdog said the force must take swift and effective action on complaints of harassment and intimidation to restore the shaken confidence of both members and the public.
It called for a more independent process, strict timelines for responding to accusations and force-wide training on the issue.
Since then, new legislation has revamped the way such cases are handled within the force and training has also been stepped up.
The Mounties have pledged zero tolerance for harassment.
RCMP apologizes over harassment at police college
Rank-and-file Mountie concerns about discipline, harassment fuel changes to bill
Goodale hints at changes to RCMP labour bill amid rank-and-file concerns
B.C. Mountie says sexual harassment settlement still means RCMP needs policies


With more focus and energy being placed on securing funding and accreditation than teaching, it seems schools and universities are forced to make learning outcomes their second priority.
How can the education system hope to be effective when schools are influenced more by politicians and bureaucrats than by teachers; and educators are forced to make saving money, compliance, paperwork and assessment a higher priority than teaching and learning?
'Bernice McCabe, head teacher and co-director of the Prince's Teaching Institute, thinks that heads have to deal with too many initiatives.' - TES Magazine, 2nd Oct, 2009, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK.
"Universities are too obsessed with grading and measuring students and need to rethink assessment practices to focus on ensuring students are learning". - Andrew Trounson, The Australian 18 Nov, 2009.
Students 'tricked into thinking they will earn more after study'.
"Many students feel university has given them little more than "an expensive library ticket" as graduate unemployment soars, said Andrew Grant, the new chairman of the Headmasters and Headmistresses' Conference. - Tim Ross, Education Correspondent, Evening Standard, 5th Oct, 2009, UK.
'Essays to be marked by "robots".' -William Stewart, Times Education Supplement, 25th Sept, 2009, UK.
-Stephen Jones, Times Education Supplement, 11Sept, 2009, UK.
If you want the best education, you may need to look for an institution that puts learning above funding and accreditation. ACS is fighting back.
If mankind is going to realize its full potential, if society is to advance as it should, it is essential that we optimize our education system. Education should be about learning above all else. Learning should be about improving the capacity of people to understand and respond to the unforeseen challenges that confront them throughout their lives.
Learning is more than just knowing how to perform a task or passing exams.
The tasks that confront us at work, play or home, are constantly changing (at an ever increasing rate).
To be well educated requires developing the capacity to adapt. Adaptability is improved by a solid foundation of knowledge, repetition and reinforcement of what we learn. Reinforcement makes knowledge 'stick'.
There are no short cuts to good quality learning, however governments and bureaucrats are continually trying to educate a greater number of people to a higher level with less money per capita (in real terms).
Any reasonably intelligent person can see that shorter Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees (as we have today) cannot possibly provide the same standard of education that much longer courses provided a few decades ago.


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Ivan Mršić (born 24 June 1991), is a former Bosnian-Herzegovinian professional footballer of Croat ethnicity, who last played for FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce as a defender.

Club career

ViOn Zlaté Moravce
He made his Fortuna Liga debut for ViOn Zlaté Moravce against Slovan Bratislava on 19 July 2015.

References

External links
 Futbalnet profile
 Fortuna Liga profile

1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mostar
Association football defenders
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina youth international footballers
NK Lokomotiva Zagreb players
NK Inter Zaprešić players
NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac players
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce players
Croatian Football League players
First Football League (Croatia) players
Slovak Super Liga players
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Expatriate footballers in Slovakia
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia


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#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

#define MAX_ITEMS 100
#define ITEM_CODE_LENGTH 15
#define ITEM_NAME_LENGTH 31

class item_class{
        char item_code[ITEM_CODE_LENGTH];
        char item_name[ITEM_NAME_LENGTH];
        float rate;
        unsigned long quantity;

public:
        item_class(){
                strcpy( item_code, "");
                strcpy( item_name, "");
                rate = 0.0;
                quantity = 0;
        }

    /*
     Fetch the item code from the object. const so that it cant be changed here.
     */
        char* getItemCode(void) const{
                return (char*)item_code;
        }

    /*
     Fetch the item name from the object.
     */
        char* getItemName(void) const{
                return (char*)item_name;
        }

    /*
     Fetch the item rate from the object.
     */
        float getItemRate(void){
                return rate;
        }

    /*
     Fetch the item qty in stock from the object.
     */
        unsigned long getItemQuantity(void) const{
                return quantity;
        }

    /*
     Set the item code for the object.
     */
        void setItemCode(char *code){
                strcpy(item_code, code);
        }

    /*
     Set the item name for the object.
     */
        void setItemName(char *name){
                strcpy(item_name, name);
        }

    /*
     Set the item rate for the object.
     */
        void setItemRate(void){
            scanf("%f", &rate);
            while(rate < 0){
                printf("Rate cannot be negative! \nEnter again.\n");
                scanf("%f", &rate);
            }
        }

    /*
     Set the item qty for the object.
     */
        void setItemQuantity(long temp){
                while(temp < 0){
                        printf("Quantity cannot be negative! \nEnter again.\n");
                        scanf("%ld", &temp);
                }
                quantity = temp;
        }

};

class item_list{
    item_class item[MAX_ITEMS];
    int numberOfUniqueItems;
    char tempCode[ITEM_CODE_LENGTH];
    char tempName[ITEM_NAME_LENGTH];

    /*
     Private function to check whether code entered by the user exists in database or not.
     input: param: code: ptr to char array, pointing to user entered code.
     returns index at which item is present in databse. else returns -1 if it DNE.
     */
    int doesCodeExist(char *code){
        for( int i = 0; i < numberOfUniqueItems; i++){
            if(!strcmp(item[i].getItemCode(), tempCode) )
                return i;
        }
        return -1;
    }

    /*
     Private function to add new item if code entered by the user  doesnt exist.
     Helper function for addNewItem();
     */
    void addCodeForNewItem(void){
        scanf("%s", tempCode);
        while( doesCodeExist(tempCode) != -1){
            printf("That code already exists for another item. Enter a different code.\n");
            scanf("%s", tempCode);
        }
        item[numberOfUniqueItems].setItemCode(tempCode);
    }

    /*
     Private function to add name for item.
     Helper function for addNewItem();
     */
    void addNameForNewItem(void){
        do{
            std::cin.ignore(32767, '\n');
            gets(tempName);
            printf("The item name entered is : %s\n", tempName);
            printf("\tIf you want to continue press 0.\n");
            printf("\tIf you want to enter again press any non zero integer.\n");
            scanf("%s", tempCode);
        }while( strcmp(tempCode, "0") != 0 );

        item[numberOfUniqueItems].setItemName(tempName);
    }

public:
    item_list(){
        numberOfUniqueItems = 0;
        strcpy(tempCode, "");
        strcpy(tempName, "");
    }

    /*
     Public function to add new item.
     Sets code, name, rate, qty, along with necessary input validations.
     */
    void addNewItem(void){
        printf("Enter the code for new item you want to add.\n");
        addCodeForNewItem();

        printf("Enter the name for new item you want to add.\n");
        addNameForNewItem();

        printf("Enter Rate per unit of item name: %s, having code: %s\n", item[numberOfUniqueItems].getItemName(), item[numberOfUniqueItems].getItemCode());
        item[numberOfUniqueItems].setItemRate();

        printf("Enter Quantity in Stock of item name: %s, having code: %s\n", item[numberOfUniqueItems].getItemName(), item[numberOfUniqueItems].getItemCode());

        long temp;
        scanf("%ld", &temp);
        item[numberOfUniqueItems].setItemQuantity(temp);

        numberOfUniqueItems++;
    }

    /*
     Public function to print details of all items in database.
     */
    void printAllItemsDetails(void){
        if(!numberOfUniqueItems)
            printf("No Items in Database!\n");
        else{
            printf("Code\t\tName\t\t\t\tRate\t\tQty\n");
            printf("_____________________________________________________________________________\n");
            for( int i = 0; i < numberOfUniqueItems; i++){
                printf("%-15s\t%-30s\t%-15.2f\t%lu\n", item[i].getItemCode(), item[i].getItemName(), item[i].getItemRate(), item[i].getItemQuantity()  );
            }
            printf("_____________________________________________________________________________\n");
        }
    }

    /*
     Public function to print details of item (if it exists) whose code is entered by user.
     */
    void printSpecificItemDetails(void){
        if(!numberOfUniqueItems)
            printf("No Items in Database!\n");
        else{
            int index;
            printf("Enter the code for item you want to see details.\n");
            scanf("%s", tempCode);
            if( (index = doesCodeExist(tempCode)) == -1){
                printf("No item with such code exists in database!\n");
            }
            else{
                printf("Item Name: %s\n", item[index].getItemName() );
                printf("Item Code: %s\n", item[index].getItemCode() );
                printf("Item Rate: %.2f\n", item[index].getItemRate() );
                printf("Item Quantity: %lu\n", item[index].getItemQuantity() );
            }
        }
    }

    /*
     Public function to change rate of item (if it exists) whose code is entered by user.
     */
    void changeItemRate(void){
        printf("Enter the code for item you want to change rate.\n");
        scanf("%s", tempCode);
        int itemIndex = doesCodeExist(tempCode);
        if(itemIndex == -1){
            printf("Item Does Not Exist. Try Again!\n");
        }
        else{
            printf( "Enter Rate per unit of item name: %s, having code: %s\n", item[itemIndex].getItemName(), item[itemIndex].getItemCode());
            printf( "Current Rate is: %.2f\n", item[itemIndex].getItemRate() );

            item[itemIndex].setItemRate();
        }
    }

    /*
     Public function to issue item (if it exists) whose code is entered by user.
     */
    void issueItem(void){
        printf("Enter the code for item you want to issue.\n");
        scanf("%s", tempCode);
        int itemIndex = doesCodeExist(tempCode);
        if(itemIndex == -1){
            printf("Item Does Not Exist. Can't be issued!\n");
        }
        else{
            long qtyToIssue;

            printf( "Current stock of item name: %s, having code: %s is: \n\t%lu\n", item[itemIndex].getItemName(), item[itemIndex].getItemCode(), item[itemIndex].getItemQuantity() );
            printf("Enter the quantity for the above mentioned item you want to issue.\n");
            scanf("%ld", &qtyToIssue);
            while(qtyToIssue<0 || qtyToIssue > item[itemIndex].getItemQuantity()){
                printf("Incorrect Quantity Entered. Enter the quantity of stock to issue again.\n");
                scanf("%ld", &qtyToIssue);
            }
            qtyToIssue = item[itemIndex].getItemQuantity() - qtyToIssue;
            item[itemIndex].setItemQuantity(qtyToIssue);
        }
    }

    /*
     Public function to receive item (if it exists) whose code is entered by user.
     */
    void receiveItem(void){
        printf("Enter the code for item you want to receive.\n");
        scanf("%s", tempCode);
        int itemIndex = doesCodeExist(tempCode);
        if(itemIndex == -1){
            printf("Item Does Not Exist. Please Create New Item First to receive additional stock!\n");
        }
        else{
            long qtyToReceive;

            printf( "Current stock of item name: %s, having code: %s is: \n\t%lu\n", item[itemIndex].getItemName(), item[itemIndex].getItemCode(), item[itemIndex].getItemQuantity() );
            printf("Enter the quantity for the above mentioned item you received.\n");
            scanf("%ld", &qtyToReceive);
            while(qtyToReceive<0){
                printf("Incorrect Quantity Entered. Enter the quantity of stock received again.\n");
                scanf("%ld", &qtyToReceive);
            }
            qtyToReceive += item[itemIndex].getItemQuantity();
            item[itemIndex].setItemQuantity(qtyToReceive);
        }
    }

};

int main(void){

    int switchCase;
    bool flag = true;

    item_list list;

    printf("\nOptions available:\n");
    printf("\t0 : Exit.\n");
    printf("\t1 : Add New Item.\n");
    printf("\t2 : Issue item based on unique Item Code.\n");
    printf("\t3 : Receive item based on unique Item Code.\n");
    printf("\t5 : View Details of an item based on unique Item Code.\n");
    printf("\t6 : Print Details of all Items in databse.\n");
    printf("\t8 : Change Rate of an item based on unique Item Code.\n");

    while(flag){
        printf("\nChoose from the given options :\t");
        scanf("%d", &switchCase);
        switch(switchCase){
            case 0:
                flag = false;
                break;
            case 1:
                list.addNewItem();
                break;
            case 2:
                list.issueItem();
                break;
            case 3:
                list.receiveItem();
                break;
            case 5:
                list.printSpecificItemDetails();
                break;
            case 6:
                list.printAllItemsDetails();
                break;
            case 8:
                list.changeItemRate();
                break;
            default:
                printf("Invalid value entered. Bye!\n");
                flag = false;
                break;

        }
    }

    return 0;
}

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