Is a bottling company about to get unlimited groundwater when locals have been conserving during the drought? Some residents of Mount Shasta City are concerned a loophole in a new groundwater law means that a planned bottling operation by Crystal Geyser could dry up local groundwater wells.
A large beverage bottling operation could receive a free pass to use all it wants of a small Northern California community's groundwater supply, thanks to an obscure allowance in state water laws and a protective trade agreement.
Crystal Geyser has plans to launch a new beverage bottling operation in the small northern California town of Mount Shasta. In response to California's drought, locals here cut water use by about 40 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to officials. However, an exemption in newly drafted groundwater regulations could give the giant company leeway to use unlimited water from the community's underground supply. The company has sworn it will take an insignificant volume of water from the ground and that local wells will not be affected.
The concern among locals, however, is that there is nothing in the law that will curtail Crystal Geyser's use. That's because the city of Mount Shasta's groundwater supply is considered to be a "volcanic basin," not an "alluvial basin" – a geologic distinction that carries significant consequences under a set of new water use laws.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), the newly passed legislation celebrated as a potential fix to the state's aquifer overdraft problems, only addresses alluvial basins. Alluvial basins occur mostly in low-lying valleys, where substrate like sand or gravel is saturated with large volumes of water that flows in from upslope sources. SGMA's new regulations are based on Bulletin 118, a Department of Water Resources list that names several hundred of the state's important groundwater sources. All are alluvial basins.
Tim Godwin, an engineering geologist with the California Department of Water Resources, says there are two basic types of groundwater sources recognized by scientists – alluvial basins in valley areas, where river sediments have accumulated for long periods of time, and aquifers in mountain regions, where the ground consists mostly of solid or fractured rock.
"[The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act] only focuses on alluvial basins with lots of groundwater production," he says.
An alluvial basin is characterized by predictable "radial flow in permeable, porous medium," he says, adding that this flow pattern makes managing, predicting and limiting water use relatively easy.
But groundwater in mountain areas is very different. It doesn't move through the earth in the relatively homogeneous way that water generally seeps through the alluvial sand or gravel soils of valley regions.
Fractures, porous volcaniclastic rock and tubes created by lava flows all serve as conduits for water, he explains. Groundwater in areas of solid bedrock flows in even less predictable ways.
Godwin says that roughly 98 percent of the state's groundwater use comes from alluvial aquifers, meaning few people will be affected by the exclusion of volcanic and fractured rock aquifers from SGMA.
But for Californians who depend on mountain groundwater deposits, the exemption of such basins from the widely heralded new groundwater management laws seems an egregious omission. In the Mount Shasta region, the water that flows just below the surface ultimately winds up in the Sacramento River system – an increasingly troubled ecosystem in which native species are vanishing and on which millions of people, and vast sprawls of farmland, depend.
"Leaving the Sacramento River's source region out of SGMA is like trying to cure peripheral vascular disease without addressing the heart," says Vicki Gold, who lives just outside of the city of Mount Shasta.
Godwin says that aquifers that won't be covered by SGMA may still be monitored and regulated by county officials. But Gold says she and other locals don't trust that county authorities will do so in a fair way.
Even if Siskiyou County wishes to bar Crystal Geyser from pumping the region's groundwater, the beverage giant may have its way with local water resources through a new business-friendly trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP has been drafted through years of negotiations between the United States and 11 nations surrounding the Pacific Rim, and it could be activated this year. The partnership will work as a boon to economic growth and will essentially allow multinational business ventures to skirt local regulations.
Since Crystal Geyser is owned by a Japanese pharmaceutical firm called Otsuka, the Mount Shasta beverage bottling project could be protected from any restrictions imposed by state or county laws.
Nancy Price, the national co-chair with the Alliance for Democracy, says the TPP will allow corporations to sue governments in a TPP-specific court if any laws infringe on the profits of foreign-owned ventures.
According to Gold, when Coca-Cola operated the bottling plant now being resuscitated by Crystal Geyser, local groundwater supplies dwindled.
Raven Stevens, the community liaison for the Mount Shasta Gateway Neighborhood Association, moved to the area four years ago but has talked with many of her neighbors about groundwater quality and reliability in recent years. She says at least six wells within half a mile of the bottling plant went dry or almost dry between 2005 and 2009. In 2010, the beverage maker left town.
"Then everyone's water issues went away and didn't even return through the worst drought in history," she says.
Stevens says that Coca-Cola representatives informed of the well issues at the time said that because only some local wells, and not all, were experiencing issues the problem must have been related to the landowners' pipes or the wells themselves.
"But we're in a volcanic aquifer," Stevens says, explaining that the unpredictable movement of groundwater in such aquifers makes Coca-Cola's straight-line conclusion much too simplistic to trust.
Greg Plucker, community development director with Siskiyou County, says no records exist of resident complaints about groundwater supplies during Coca-Cola's use of the bottling facility. Moreover, he says a review by the Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2001 determined that extracting 450 gallons (1,700 liters) per minute from the aquifer below the plant would not negatively influence local groundwater water supplies. He says Crystal Geyser has plans to use much less than that.
Steve Burns, with the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, which is representing Crystal Geyser, confirms this. He says the plan is to draw 80 gallons per minute – or 115,000 gallons per day – from the site's production well and, perhaps in several years, if the project is successful, double that use. Never, he says, will water use on the Crystal Geyser site approach what Coca-Cola pumped from the ground.
Stevens believes this is misinformation. She says that an additional domestic well on the property will have the capacity to take up to 320 gallons per minute. Eventually, she warns, Crystal Geyser's project will be pumping at least the volume of water that allegedly drained locals' water supplies seven years ago.
"There is nothing legally stopping them from taking all the water they want," she says.
Following a lawsuit filed last August by a citizens' group demanding a thorough review of Crystal Geyser's proposed project, the company announced it would conduct an environmental review to ensure its bottling plant does no harm to the community. The first step in that process is submitting review applications to local agencies.
At press time, Burns said the county application had been submitted months prior and another application would be turned in "any day now" to the city of Mount Shasta. He says it may take the city and the Siskiyou County Air Pollution Control District another two months to determine whether or not an environmental impact report is actually needed. An EIR, he says, could take many months more.
Plucker, with Siskiyou County, says that even though California's incoming groundwater laws will have no effect on the volcanic basin beneath Mount Shasta, an environmental review could potentially derail or stall the project.
Stevens feels the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will adequately serve communities in low valleys but fails communities like Mount Shasta.
Alastair Bland is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He can be reached via Twitter at @allybland.


Coq au Vin, Poulet au Vin Blanc, or my version, Poulet au Vermouth. No matter how you pronounce it or the wine you use, this is an amazingly delicious way to cook chicken thighs. Traditionally bone-in chicken pieces are used as there's a lot of flavor to be had from the marrow, but I used boneless, skinless thighs and the results were positively amazing.
I wanted to call this dish Coq au Vin, but traditionally that dish uses red wine, thus the translation would not be correct. I actually prefer to cook with vermouth over any dry white. I first started using vermouth after Julia Child recommended it to me. Ha ha. Okay so she didn't really tell me that of course, but I did read it in her book, [amazon_link id="0375413405″ target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]Mastering the Art of French Cooking[/amazon_link]. I use vermouth in anything that calls for white wine and use it in many of my pasta dishes as well. Vermouth is inexpensive too, usually around $5.00 for a bottle.
In the interest of thoroughness, I also referred to Julia's recipe for Coq au Vin and she says "This popular dish may be called coq au Chambertin, coq au riesling, or coq au whatever wine you use for its cooking." Now since I consider Julia to be the authority on French cooking, I felt pretty comfortable substituting after that. She also goes on to say that in France this dish is usually accompanied by parsley potatoes, I chose a buttered garlic rice by family request.
[amazon_link id="0778802485″ target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ] [/amazon_link]I was thumbing through one of my many cookbooks, this one titled [amazon_link id="0778802485″ target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]500 Best Comfort Food Recipes[/amazon_link] by Johanna Burkhard. She had a recipe for Coq au Vin which called for red wine and bone-in thighs. I had some boneless thighs in the freezer and the family isn't big on the bold flavors that red wine imparts. So I adapted it slightly, following the rest of her instructions to come up with Poulet au Vermouth.
In this recipe the bacon is cooked and then you brown the chicken pieces in a little of the leftover bacon fat. In Julia's recipe, the bacon is blanched first, then sauteed in butter, then the chicken is cooked in the drippings. The method from Johanna's cookbook is a bit easier, so I went that route.
Another difference I noted is that Julia uses brown stock, or beef broth, and a bit of tomato paste. That makes sense since she's cooking with red wine. I used chicken broth, which goes beautifully with vermouth.
The gravy alone is worth making this dish. The flavor is fantastic and the chicken is just right. You could simmer it even longer if you prefer the meat be "fall off the bone" type tender and could server it more as a stew. The instructions below keep the meat pieces in tact and are cooked to perfection.
This recipe came together and was on the table being enjoyed in about an hour. You can also use a whole cut up chicken, which is what Julia uses and what Johanna offers as a substitute.
In a Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain and set aside. Drain all but 1 tablespoon of the fat from the pan.
Add chicken pieces to the pan and cook until browned on all sides. Transfer to a plate.
Reduce heat to medium and cook onions, carrots, garlic, celery thyme, salt and pepper, stirring, about 5 minutes. Add vermouth and 1 cup of the chicken broth and the bay leaf. Bring to a boil.
Place flour in a small bowl. While stirring with a fork, slowly drizzle 1/4 cup of the reserved chicken broth into the flour. Stir with fork until smooth. Add the flour and broth mixture to the pan as well as the remaining chicken broth. Stir together. Bring to a boil, stirring until slightly thickened. Add chicken and any juices back to the pan. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, until chicken is just tender, about 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Cook the mushrooms, stirring constantly, until mushrooms are tender, about five minutes. Add mushrooms and reserved bacon to the chicken. Stir then simmer for 5 minutes before serving.
Ohhh. I bet the vermouth valve such a delicious flavor to the sauce!
I'm glad this turned out so well for you Amanda! I now won't be afraid to try it…and will try it with Vermouth!
I love any type of French chicken stew – It makes a great dish for winter.


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Q: How to calculate the difference between two dates in php using jquery I have been trying to calculate the difference between two dates using the change function in jquery but i have not been getting a good response... code seem to run fine but it doesnt give me any result...
<input type="text" name="datte1" class="form-control datepicker" id="datte1">
<input type="text" name="datte2" class="form-control datepicker" id="datte2">

Jquery code is:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.datepicker').datepicker({
        dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
        changeMonth: true,
        changeYear: true
    });
   var date1 = $('#datte1').val();
   var date2 = $('#datte2').val();

$('.datepicker').change(function(){
        $.ajax({
            url:"caldate.php",
            method:"POST",
            data:{date1:date1, date2:date2},
            success:function(data){
                $('#display_result').html(data);
            }
        });
});
});

This is the post function of caldate.php
<?php
if(isset($_POST["date1"]) && isset($_POST["date2"])){
    $date1 = new DateTime($_POST["date1"]);
    $date2 = new DateTime($_POST["date2"]);
    $interval = $date1->diff($date2);
    echo "Difference ". $interval->y . " years, " . $interval->m. " months, " .$interval->d. " days";
}else{
    echo "Something went wrong";
}
?>

My result total shows 0yr, 0month and 0days please what is my mistake?

A: $(document).ready(function(){
    $('.datepicker').datepicker({
        dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
        changeMonth: true,
        changeYear: true
    });

$('.datepicker').change(function(){
   var date1 = $('#datte1').val();
   var date2 = $('#datte2').val();
        $.ajax({
            url:"caldate.php",
            method:"POST",
            data:{date1:date1, date2:date2},
            success:function(data){
                $('#display_result').html(data);
            }
        });
});
});

A: I think the framing of this questions is all wrong.  There is absolutely no reason why you should be using AJAX for this.
JavaScript provides native date handling, and calculating a date difference is pretty simple and there are plenty of examples online (for example, this StackOverflow question).
There are even dedicated JavaScript date libraries, such as Moment.js which can simplify things even further, though this might be overkill for your situation.
Using an AJAX request for this will slow things down, use up unnecessray bandwidth and add an unnecessary depedency on a PHP script that otherwise wouldn't even have to exist.
As a general rule, the only reasons to use an AJAX request are (1) you need to send data to the server; (2) you need to access data that is located on the server; or (3) because there is some non-trivial functionality that you don't want to implement multiple times.  In your case, none of these reasons apply, so AJAX should not be used..

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Q: Vue: icons are not displayed when css.extract: false When building a Vue library (component), according to Vue docs, you can set css.extract: false in vue.config.js to avoid the users having to import the CSS manually when they import the library into an app:
vue.config.js
module.exports = {
  css: {
    extract: false
  }
}

However, when you do that, the icons are not displayed in the production build.
In this case I'm using @mdi/font and weather-icons. Neither of them load:

To reproduce
You can reproduce this with this Vue library (component):

*

*Create new Vue project with vue create test

*Clone the repo and put in the same directory as the Vue test project

*In vue-open-weather-widget set css.extract: false in vue.config.js;

*And comment out CSS import:

import 'vue-open-weather-widget/dist/vue-open-weather-widget.css'

*

*Build vue-open-weather-widget with yarn build

*Import it into the test Vue app with yarn add "../vue-open-weather-widget";

*Serve the test app yarn serve

A: I have looked at your lib (nice component BTW). I created a build with css: { extract: false } and first looked at the behavior when importing vue-open-weather-widget.umd.js directly into an HTML file. And that worked without any problems.
The thing is that the fonts remain external in the dist after the build. And it seems that there is a problem to find the fonts when your component is loaded in a Webpack project (in our case Vue CLI project). I don't know why the fonts are not referenced correctly. But I have found another, and possibly a better solution.
As it is stated in the MDI docs, the use of the web fonts can negatively affect the page performance. When importing only one icon, all of them are imported, which in turn increases the bundle size. In such a small component this is more than suboptimal, especially for the component users. Therefore here is the alternative solution, also suggested by MDI:
Use @mdi/js instead of @mdi/font
Remove all @mdi/font references in your code and install deps:
npm install @mdi/js @jamescoyle/vue-icon

Replace all icons with SVG(e.g. in MainView.vue). Note that on this way only icons are included in the bundle that are used in your components:
...
<span @click="state.settings.view = 'settings'">
  <svg-icon type="mdi" :path="mdiCogOutline"></svg-icon>
</span>
...

import SvgIcon from '@jamescoyle/vue-icon'
import { mdiCogOutline } from '@mdi/js'

...
components: {
  SvgIcon
},
data () {
    return {
      mdiCogOutline: mdiCogOutline
    }
  },

Adjust vue.config.js:
module.exports = {
  css: {
    extract: false
  }
}

Build component:
# i would also include --formats umd-min
vue-cli-service build --target lib --formats umd-min --name vue-open-weather-widget src/main.js

Now your dist contains only  192.68 KiB vue-open-weather-widget.umd.min.js and the component is ready to use over CDN or in a Vue CLI Project, without importing any CSS or fonts. I have tested both cases. Here is how it looks like:

Hope it helps you! Feel free to ask if you have further questions.


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Heart of Texas Regional Advisory Council hosts Waco Safety and Wellness event
by: Jessica Rivera
Posted: May 6, 2021 / 09:17 PM CDT
Updated: May 6, 2021 / 09:22 PM CDT
WACO, Texas – Local first responders came out to Waco ISD stadium on Thursday afternoon to speak with people in the community about safety and wellness.
"The special thing about having events like this, it allows our health care community to sort of reemerge and reintroduce themselves, reintroducing one another to the folks that they serve. It's a really special event not just for the responder community, the emergency health care community, but of course to the folks that came out to visit us," says Deputy Director Heart of Texas Rec. Francisco Villa.
People in the community were able to meet with EMS, fire departments, law enforcement, and hospital personnel.
"My youngest loves looking at them. Still, we had to stop every single helicopter and look, and everyone was very friendly, showing them the cockpit and the part where the patients go, and it was really fun and awesome, and they really enjoyed it," says Waco resident Alyssa Berryhill.
In addition to seeing ambulance, fire trucks, police cars, and helicopters, experts were there talking about the resources available to citizens.
"I've learned that Waco has a lot of resources available whenever we need help with anything. There's several flight helicopters that the boys are enjoying looking at," says Berryhill.
Kids weren't the only ones getting in on the fun – the Texas Medical Association was giving out free safety equipment such as helmets, life jackets, and car seats.
"I love that they're offering free helmets and trying on free helmets for kids, because that seems to be difficult finding the right size, especially for his size," says Berryhill.
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I am not breaking my summer silence, merely taking a recess. The cause is a movie I saw on television last night called The Promise. It is about the Armenian genocide. If I was a true film aficionado, I would know about the film, whether I had seen it or not. But I not only did not see it when it was released, but I had not heard of it. I initially thought I had an excuse because the release date that I read was 27 May 2017. However, the actual release date in Canada was 21 April 2017. Further, it was at TIFF in 2016. In any case, my lame excuse had been that I went north to my island for the rainy and cold month of June and did not return fully until July.
Before I begin the review, a few, and perhaps too many, words about the Armenian genocide. As is well known, successive and very different Turkish regimes have denied the existence of any intentional slaughter of the up to 1.5 million Armenians killed in that slaughter. The Armenians were killed, the Turks claim, because they allegedly started a civil war. Civilians were killed in the crossfire. They were casualties of war, not deliberately murdered. In any case, the Turks insist, the numbers that died is grossly exaggerated.
They are not. The genocide took place as depicted.
I became a secondary scholar of the Armenian genocide when I was asked by the Toronto School Board to sit with two other academics, experts on the Holocaust, to adjudicate whether the story of the genocide should be included on the curriculum for high school students in Toronto. Deliberately, not one of asked to serve on this voluntary judicial advisory committee because we had published on the Armenian genocide. The Board of Education wanted expertise without offering grounds for the formal Turkish government complaint to subsequently declare a prior bias.
This was, of course, not entirely possible. All three of us were familiar with Holocaust deniers. I certainly knew of Rwandan genocide deniers, or those who try to mitigate that tragedy, though the latter position was virtually impossible to sustain. Instead, in the case of Rwanda, deflection is used – a practice with which every reader is likely to be extremely familiar since the election of President Donald Trump. The claim is that President Kagame of Rwanda has been systematically slaughtering Hutu since the Tutsi-led rebels invaded Rwanda and initiated the civil war in 1990. The numbers killed on each side, these genocide distractors imply, are about equal. This past month, I was asked to review a research paper that edged in this way towards apologetics. However ruthless President Kagame may be as an elected dictator in Rwanda, any fair examination of his record, positive and negative, would not declare him to be a genocidaire.
However, the Turks, and their successive governments of very different stripes, have been united perhaps on only one topic for over one hundred years – the persistent and insistent denial of the Armenian genocide. A Turkish graduate student of mine – not an Armenian – wanted to write a thesis on the Armenian refugees in WWI. Somehow the Turkish government heard of it. A representative of the Turkish embassy in Ottawa paid me a visit when I was the founding director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. He asked generally whther any student was writing about refugees, particularly from Turkey, during I disclosed nothing but informed my student. That student, fearing punishment on any return to Turkey, switched topics.
On the committee, I read much of the scholarly literature on the Armenian genocide as well as the Turkish propaganda denying its occurrence. What was distinctive from the Jewish and the Armenian genocides is that, in this case, there were two reputable scholars who denied that a systematic government-led effort to slaughter and forcefully relocate the Armenians had taken place. The vast majority of scholarly conclusions – as the committee claimed in its report to the Board of Education – supported the claims of genocide. Though the committee did not find that the evidence for the Armenian genocide taking place was incontrovertible or unassailable – there are very few historical events in which this is the case – the committee concluded that the overwhelming preponderance of evidence, and the logical flaws of the deniers, made it unquestionable that the Armenian genocide should be taught as a segment of actual history on a high school curriculum and without providing any necessity to make room for the literature of deniers. The evidence was as indisputable and indubitable as one can find in historiography. Yet two films appeared relatively recently that bordered on genocide denial – The Ottoman Lieutenant and Russell Crowe's Water Diviner.
All this is to say that when I watched the film, I had no distraction or concern that the genocide had taken place. However, I was bothered somewhat by the implication that Turkey during the dying days of the Ottoman empire and even the beginnings of the Young Turk takeover in the aftermath of the disastrous Turko-Russian War largely waged in the Balkans in 1912, was simply a prosperous multicultural society. It certainly had that appearance. But just as there had been early warnings of a genocide in Rwanda with some trial efforts at mass slaughter, the warnings in Turkey were far clearer with the slaughter of 100,000 to 300,000 Armenians in the massacres of 1894-95 by the paramilitary Hamidye (the Interahamwe militias were used in Rwanda) and the 10,000–30,000 murdered by units of the armed forces in the Adana massacre of March-April 1909. However, as most scholars point out, a pogrom does not constitute a genocide. But pogroms can be precursors.
Thus, the film is correct in dating the formal start of the genocide to 24 April 1915 when several hundred Armenian professionals and intellectuals were rounded up and interned, with the vast majority eventually being killed. Second, the film depicts the second stage of the genocide when young Armenian (as well as Assyrian and Greek Christian) males from their teens to their forties were arrested, subjected to forced labour and murdered en masse in the process. The third phase of the slaughter portrays whole Armenian villages and towns put to the torch and Armenian older men, women and children set out on a forced march to Syria, where, on route, the vast majority perished in the desert which they attempted to cross with inadequate supplies of food and water. In the finale, the film portrays the brave and victorious Armenian 53-day self-defence by the Armenians from the villages of Kabusia (Kaboussieh), Yoghunoluk, Bitias, Vakef, Kheter Bey (Khodr Bey) and Haji Habibli at the mountain, Musa Daği (ironically, Moses' Mountain) recorded in Franz Werfel's novel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, until over 4,000 Armenians were rescued by the French navy.
The genocidal scenes are handled with mastery by the director, Terry George, and constitute a complement to the beauty and variety and richness of Constantinople before the war. Terry George entered this project with a stellar reputation from directing Hotel Rwanda and, before that, Some Mother's Son (1991) about the 1981 IRA prisoner hunger strike, In the Name of the Father (1993) and The Boxer (1997), the latter two both starring Daniel Day Lewis. Unlike these depictions of the troubles in Northern Ireland, The Promise is directed on an epic scale with wonderful crowd scenes varying from the throngs in the markets of Istanbul to the forced labourers to the mass deportations in cattle cars and the forced march of the Armenian inhabitants of towns and villages. The leads portrayed by Oscar Isaac as Mikael Poghosian, an apothecary with a determination to become a doctor, Charlotte Le Bon as the vivacious and vibrant Ana, and Christian Bale as the famous American journalist, Chris Meyers.
So what is wrong with the film? Why is it not the Armenian equivalent to Schindler's List? It is certainly not the cinematography which is gorgeous – perhaps all-too-gorgeous, even in the scenes about the flight. Unlike Atom Egoyan's 2003 imperfect movie Ararat, also on the Armenian genocide, the flaw in The Promise is in the script co-written by Terry George and Robin Swicord. The weakness is not because they used a romantic triangle among the three to anchor the film in the personal, but because the triangle remains too central when the belated portrayal of the genocide begins. Further, it turns into a contrived and cloying series of segments through the latter half of the movie. Finally, and I could not figure why, there is almost no sexual chemistry between Ana and Mikael.
Some reviewers that I read this morning found this simply to be a distraction. For other reviewers, it spoiled the film. While I agree with the consensus on the sentimental and manipulated personal narrative at the core of the film, the power of the portrayal of the genocide, the brilliant directing and cinematography, and the wonderful acting, even though the character of Mikael Poghosian is too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, the events and their portrayal more than make up for this lapse so that I was mesmerized by the film and would have rated it much higher than the negative and barely positive reviews that I read.
However, do not read the reviews before you watch the movie. I did not, and very rarely do, for, in this case, review after review egregiously offer an account of the plot in great detail. A script which allowed reviewers to be distracted from the main and very important subject matter can be blamed on the screenwriters, but reviewers are as much to blame for allowing their narrative sensibilities to detract from the power of the movie.
It is a must see. And it does not cost nearly as much to watch on TV as in a movie theatre, though I desperately wish I had viewed the panoramic scenes on a large movie screen.


Fans of period mystery series will be happy to know that ITV has commissioned a sixth series of hugely popular detective drama, Endeavour!
Shaun Evans charms audiences with his portrayal of the cerebral and solitary Detective Constable Morse in Endeavour, written by Inspector Lewis creator and Inspector Morse writer Russell Lewis.
Starring Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, James Bradshaw, Anton Lesser.
Produced by leading indie Mammoth Screen, the smart and savvy Inspector Morse prequel charts the career of Endeavour Morse as he rises up through the ranks, with each feature-length film investigating a new intricately plotted case.
Receiving praise from critics and viewers alike, the drama has gone from strength to strength since its first outing as a one-off film in 2012 to mark the 25th anniversary of Inspector Morse on ITV.
Filmed in and around Oxford, the new set of films will be set in 1969 and go into production later this year for transmission in 2019. Mammoth Screen's Damien Timmer executive produces, alongside writer and creator Russell Lewis and WGBH's Rebecca Eaton. Deanne Cunningham will produce the new series.
Actors Lewis Peek (DC George Fancy) and Dakota Blue Richards (WPC Trewlove) won't be back.
US audiences can watch Season 5 of Endeavour on PBS MASTERPIECE Mystery beginning June 24th. You can read about Season 5 here.
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'I like my rings the hard way…' Kobe Wouldn't Come Out Of Retirement For A Guaranteed Ring
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Regarded as one of the greatest and fiercest competitors to lace em' up, Laker legend Kobe Bryant stated Tuesday during his appearance on the Ledlow & Parker podcast that he would never come out of retirement and join a super-team in pursuit of a another championship. Bryant said he would rather earn his rings.
"I like my rings the hard way," Bryant said "I like fighting for them and earning them. I don't like jumping to the easier route, so I wouldn't take it."
Anyone who has ever heard of Kobe knows about his "Mamba Mentality" and his absolutely legendary work ethic (and that's an understatement). Kobe would show up at the gym for 7:00 AM practices 2 hours earlier, at 5:00 AM. Legend also has it that during his high school practices, he would force his teammates stay and play one-on-one games to 100 points. This mentality stayed the same when he got drafted, former Lakers player and head coach Byron Scott said he once found an 18-year old Bryant shooting in the dark two hours before practice.
Whether these are shots at players who have joined up to form super-teams or not, we don't know. We DO know that Shaq said this about Kobe in the locker-room, "You'd walk in there and he'd be cutting and grunting and motioning like he was dribbling and shooting — except there was no ball. I thought it was weird, but I'm pretty sure it helped him." The best compliment of them all had to be when his idol Michael Jordan said, "Kobe had done that work to deserve the comparison. He says Kobe's the only one to have done the work."
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My daughter likes her version of cheese biscuits with cheddar and garlic. This is my go to flavored biscuits. They are a nice delicate savory biscuit that you can serve with a dinner or just for a snack or I like them for breakfast. Sometimes I add a little sage to it and you can make them with a biscuit mix if you like. Just use buttermilk instead of the milk that it calls for.
Pancetta is like an Italian bacon that is similar to bacon but has not been salt cured. You can use bacon instead. Dicing the pancetta it cooks quickly!
It's hard to wait until they cool before eating them. If you like you can serve with a flavored butter to jazz them up a little, but we enjoy them just the way they are!
I'm going to try these on the weekend. I think my husband will really like it. I'll like it too!
These flavourful savory biscuits sound pretty tasty. I would probably having these with yogurt & pickles. hehe... Weird huh! Hope you're enjoying your day.
YUMMY! I am printing out this recipe!
A buiscut with panchetta? Yes please!
A couple of these delicious looking biscuits with my morning coffee - perfect!!!
Trying these! The look very rich and yummy.
What a yummy treat these are with all that pancetta! I bet they'd be good with eggs on them.
I am very tempted to make this tonight!
What is Pancetta? Lovely texture of cookies.
You had me at pancetta! I love my salty pig!
These look fantastic!! I can only imagine how wonderful they would taste! I'm quite sure I could eat 12 of them.
Thanks everyone, these are really so simple but good. If you have the biscuit mix it make it really easy!
what a great looking biscuit!! I never think of adding anything to biscuits, yours look wonderful with the pancetta and cheese!
These look and sound wonderful. Saving this to my favorites. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing such a great carb treat.
I'd have no control with these savory treats--so lovely!


District 16 is made up of 14 communities in Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, and Somerset counties: Branchburg, Delaware, Flemington, Hillsborough, Manville, Millstone, Montgomery, Princeton, Raritan, Readington, Rocky Hill, Somerville, South Brunswick, and Stockton.
Voter registration leans Democratic -- 28 percent "blue" and 24 percent "red." But the unaffiliated voters consistently swing the results to the GOP.
The district is represented by Republicans, who are seeking re-election. Both Assembly members -- Jack Ciattarelli, a publisher from Hillsborough, and Donna Simon, of Whitehouse Station – are completing their second terms. On the Democratic ticket are Andrew Zwicker of Princeton and Maureen Vella of Hillsborough.


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Eanger Irving Couse Painting, ca. 1930
Value (2014) | $75,000 Retail
The painting was bought by my mother-in-law in about 1930, and when she died, it came to us. And she adored Indians. So then finally, I think when she got married, her husband and she bought this.
Where did they buy it?
I am not sure. Couse was an oil painter in the '30s, right?
Well, he died in 1936.
He was a very interesting artist. He was one of the founders of the Taos school, and he was the first president of the Taos Society of Artists. His friends Blumenschein and Sharp, who he met in Paris, where they all studied in the late 1880s, had been to Taos, and they encouraged Couse to come out to Taos and work in the summers. So by 1901, Taos was a thriving art community and Couse was there with his wife, Sharp was there with his wife, and Blumenschein was also there...
Wonderful.
...as a summer art community. They all lived and worked most of the year in New York, but what they were all most known for was their Native American subject matter and their interest in preserving the vanishing West. Couse in particular grew up in the Midwest and lived near a Chippewa tribe, so he from a very early age was interested in Native American culture. This work we know was done after he became a National Academician because he signs it in the lower left "E.I. Couse," Eanger Irving Couse, and he inscribes it "N.A.", which means National Academician.
The National Academy was an honorary organization of artists, and they elected their members. I think that it probably dates from the late 1920s to the early 1930s because of the way the work is handled. It's very competent, but there's some generalized drawing that's a little bit more of a later, more modern painting style. Couse moved permanently to Santa Fe and Taos in the 1920s, so I do believe that this painting was done in Santa Fe or Taos.
That could be. Yeah.
The medium of this painting is oil on board. I would say a retail replacement value would be about $75,000.
Oh, good. Yeah, great! Terrific. It's a little more than I thought, and that's wonderful.
He's worthy.
$75,000 Retail
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The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a new competition for grants to support the construction of new and expanded scientific research facilities at institutions of higher education and nonprofit scientific research organizations.
Through the NIST Construction Grant Program (NCGP), the agency expects $20 million to be available for grants ranging from $5 to $10 million over a period of no more than five years.
The program provides competitively awarded, cost-shared grants for the construction of new science research buildings or the expansion of existing buildings, including laboratories, test facilities, measurement facilities, research computing facilities and observatories. Proposed projects must complement the research goals of one or more of the department's three science agencies: NIST, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). These agencies conduct research in measurement science, engineering, oceanography, atmospheric research and telecommunications.
Since 2008, NCGP has provided over $250 million in grant funding for new or expanded facilities at 24 institutions across the nation to pursue research in topics ranging from earthquakes and ocean ecology to nanoscale engineering and quantum physics.
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Banksy's chimpanzee parliament goes under the hammer
Agence France-Presse / 05:23 PM September 28, 2019
Banksy's "Devolved Parliament" is expected to sell for between £1.5 million and £2 million at Sotheby's. Image: Courtesy of Sotheby's
A painting by British street artist Banksy depicting parliament populated by chimpanzees is to go on show on Saturday before going under auction.
"Devolved Parliament", painted in 2009, is due to go on display until October 3, when it will go under the hammer at Sotheby's auction house.
The derisive work is expected to fetch £1.5 million to £2 million ($1.85 million to $2.45 million or P95.6 million to P127.5 million).
The current auction record for a Banksy artwork is $1,870,000, achieved by "Keep it Spotless" at Sotheby's New York in 2008.
The sale comes after the controversial five-week suspension of Britain's parliament by Prime Minister Boris Johnson was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court, with time running out before Britain is due to leave the European Union on October 31.
Parliament was due to return on October 14 but instead reconvened on Wednesday, since when MPs have spent their time angrily arguing over the suspension, and then arguing about whether their language in doing so was too strong.
House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said they were the most toxic scenes he had ever seen in his 22 years in the elected lower chamber.
"There's never been a better time to bring this painting to auction," Alex Branczik, Sotheby's European head of contemporary art, told AFP.
"Inevitably what we have been seeing in the Houses of Parliament over the last few months and weeks has become a daily soap opera, not just in the UK… but also across the rest of Europe and indeed the world.
The painting measures 4.46 meters by 2.67 meters—the largest known canvas by the anonymous street artist.
It shows chimpanzees on the green benches of the Commons, from the viewpoint of the main entrance.
"What he's pointing to here is the regression of the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world into tribalistic animalistic behavior, the sort that we've seen broadcasted on our televisions," said Branczik.
"The real genius of Banksy is his ability to reduce this incredibly complex debate into one single simple image, which importantly is very readily shared in this age of social media and a very image-consuming population."
Banksy got the painting out again for March 29 this year, when Britain was originally due to leave the European Union.
"I made this 10 years ago. Bristol Museum have just put it back on display to mark Brexit day," the mysterious artist said at the time.
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Solar photovoltaic solutions company Solarsis has installed a rooftop solar photo-voltaic system for IIT-Madras. This system incorporates various technologies in modules and inverters. The solar plant has been installed on top of the 50-year-old Electrical Sciences Block at IIT-Madras that aims to build 1-MW solar unit on top of its existing buildings.
Venkat Rajaraman, CEO, of the Hyderabad-based Solarsis, in a statement said the structure is designed to withstand high wind zone of the Chennai coastal region. The plant also brings high degree of reliability and protection to enable to smooth interaction with the grid.
"We plan to test smart controller for solar, which is currently being designed by IIT-M, with the rooftop solar plant. Also the elevated structures ensure that we continue to use the roof as before for our regular use," Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Electrical Engineering Department said. The IIT Madras Solarsis rooftop solar plant is a mix of different types of modules of various capacities. The 90KW plant will generate 1.5 lakh units a year and helps offset 90 tonnes of carbon dioxide.


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Saying what we're all thinking has always been Sebastian Maniscalco's specialty.
Except when he says it, it's a whole lot funnier, and that has fans across North America showing up in droves for his shows and millions tuning in for his network specials.
After more than a dozen sold-out performances in New York City's comedy circuit in the last year alone, the Chicago-born-and-bred turned Los Angeles native tapped Manhattan as the backdrop for his newest comedy special on Showtime, SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? Maniscalco is the star and executive producer of the special, which was filmed at the historic Beacon Theatre and premiers Oct. 1. This highly-anticipated new hour of skepticism follows up Sebastian's 2014 Showtime standup special and DVD"Aren't You Embarrassed?" in which he offered up his witheringly sarcastic and exasperated take on modern behavior and etiquette. As the Dallas Observer noted, "Much of the material for his three comedy specials and tours comes from his astonishment with modern society's unspoken rules and the juxtaposition of current culture against his upbringing in a hardworking, 'half-Sicilian, half-Italian' immigrant family." Sebastian shares, "Those values … have been a catalyst for my comedy. I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing' … that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done."
Distinguished by The New York Times as a comic with his "own kind of panache," Sebastian has taken on everything from selfies that he calls "lonelies" ("Do you know how alone you have to be to have 838 photos of yourself in your bathroom?") to online restaurant reviews ("Who's got the time to write an 18 page essay on asparagus?") to airport check-ins ("I'm taking out a boot…a sock…a toothpaste…does anyone know what two pounds is?").
Sebastian grew up in the middle class suburbs of Chicago ("The world doesn't match my upbringing"), prides himself on a work ethic his father instilled in him when he began working at the age of eight, as an altar boy at funerals during his lunch break to contribute to the family.
Still sporting his Chicago accent despite leaving the Windy City in 1998 to follow his dream in Los Angeles, Sebastian began paying his comedy dues by night playing his brand of comedy in bars and bowling alleys while working as a waiter at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. He eventually broke into the national spotlight with a 20-city tour in support of his one-hour Comedy Central DVD special. Yet, it wasn't until Sebastian captured the attention of award-winning actor and entertainer Vince Vaughn, who selected him to be one of four featured comedians in the critically acclaimed film "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show," that his comedy career began to explode.
Since then, the 2016 Just for Laughs Stand Up Comedian of the Year and 2014 American Comedy Award nominee for Best Club Comedian has established an avid fan following via national late night television appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," "Late Night with Seth Meyers," "Conan," and more as well as an appearance in Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee." Sebastian is a popular guest on groundbreaking podcasts "WTF with Marc Maron" and "The Joe Rogan Experience" while starring in his own wildly popular "The Pete and Sebastian Show" podcast every Friday night.
2016 through 2017 will also find Sebastian making his move to the big screen with several major motion picture appearances, including a voice-over role in the animated feature "Nut Job 2," a New Line feature comedy "The House" starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler (directed by Andrew Cohen), and the independent drama "Cruise" directed by Rob Siegel and produced by Jeremy Renner.
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How People started using Home Appliances
By AlexJanuary 17, 2021No Comments
Right after electricity was invented in 1879 by Thomas Edison, life has seen a lot of many more inventions that relied on this major invention. Among those vast inventions, we have the home appliances that we use today. In the onset of the 20th century, a lot of home appliances were invented as a man began to modernize and make life easier. During this era, the great appliances we use today were brought to fruition in our homes. Let's have a look at these commonly used appliances and how people started using them.
Electric Clothes Washer
In November of 1906 to about April 1907, Cassier's Magazine is believed to have captured one of the earliest pictures of the earliest washing machine, with a woman sitting on it. The washer is believed to have been a product of the Nineteen Hundred Company. This washing machine was later linked to Alva J. Fisher as the inventor, although it was never clear if he was the true inventor of the device. This was back in 1916. It was until 1922 that Maytag Corporation came up and invented the washing machine with an agitator.
Before all these discoveries were made, washing was done only by hands or with washboard in the rivers, lakes, or streams and would use ashes and plant extracts as soap. In Rome, people would use water collected from washing clothes by hand since they had learned the water collection technique known as aqueducts. Detergents such as Iye soaps, fuller's, and white clay started emerging during the middle age and were always used in washing in tubs.
During the 18th and 19th century the manufacture of soap intensified as buckets and closed tubs with wooden paddles and agitators became the first forms of washing machines. As soon as electric washing machines started encroaching the market in the 1920s, these traditional washing appliances left the electric one's stage. During this period, people began using these advanced electric washing machines, backed up by the fact that electricity was now in almost all residential homes in the US.
The Electric Refrigerator
Refrigerators have played a great role in human lives that it is difficult to picture life without them. Almost all types of food would need refrigeration at one point or the other, be it to maintain the food's flavor or preserving it from getting worse and harming us when we consume the same. Before electricity and fridges were discovered, man had to rely on nature to protect his food for future use. For example, in ancient China and Rome, snow and ice were primarily used for refrigeration and food preservation.
In some years back in the '90s, food would be placed in buckets and submerged in a cool river or lake for preservation. The demand for refrigerators was only realized in the mid-19th century when German breweries started making way into the US. This led to the invention of the earliest refrigeration device that was used by S. Liebmann's Sons Brewing Company in New York in 1870. After that, other brewery followed suit, and later butcheries joined until finally, the refrigerators found their way into people's households.
Electric Iron Box
Ironing never started with the coming of iron boxes. This trendy and fashionable practice traces its origins from far back in history in the 800AD, where people used stones, bones, and glass to press away wrinkles from their clothes. In Europe, during the Middle Ages, flat, smoothing, or sad irons were majorly used to straighten clothes. It is from these stones and glasses that the idea of creating charcoal boxes for ironing.
After these, gas irons were invented. They were fitted with tubes that would connect the iron to a source of hot gas for heating up the iron box. It was after the invention that Henry W. Seely patented his first electric iron in 1882 even though some electric iron models were already being worked on by others. At the onset of the 20th century, electric irons became the in-thing, and it was hard to miss it in any household you would visit then.
Shaking the dust off carpets and rugs could involve some thorough beatings and thrusting until all the dust was seen off the rags. However, this changed when Vacuum cleaners came into existence. The first claimed and patented vacuum cleaner to exist traced back to Murray Spangler, who had created an electric model to help with his allergies. However, the ownership rights of this invention were bought by William Hoover. This is how the vacuums ended up in people's houses to date. The earlier versions were so big that it would take several people to operate.
Electric Blender
In 1922 another home appliance invention was made by one gentleman, Stephen J. Poplawski, who came up with the Electric Blender. In its earliest uses, the blender was used in making milkshakes and malts, making the appliance very popular across the country. In 1932, he improvised the blender and came up with one that could make juice from fruits and vegetables.
Bread toasting has been going on over the centuries as the earliest practice of bread toasting was first recorded in Rome, where they held bread on an open fork then held over an open fire. Many other devices and methods were used to find out which one would be the ideal tool for bread toasting. It was until the year 1919 that Charles Strite invented the pop-up toaster and took out a patent. These toasters soon began finding their ways into people's homes for domestic use.
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Hatred of Hindutva may lead to Hindumisia and Hinducide – Makarand R. Paranjape
Posted on Aug 26, 2021 by VOI
Should 'Dismantling Global Hindutva', an overly political event disguised as an academic conference, be given legitimacy in Western universities? – Prof. Makarand R. Paranjape
When the whole world is alarmed at the swift takeover of Afghanistan by the regressive, Islamist, self-proclaimed jihadi Taliban, a three-day conference on "Dismantling Global Hindutva" has been announced from 10-12 September 2021. As circulated on social media, the poster of the conference attempts a false equivalence upon unsuspecting readers in the opening lines, "Militant Hindu groups exist and are growing exponentially" and "Rampant violence against minorities". But what is of much greater cause of concern is the claim that this politically prejudiced crusade disguised as an academic event is supposedly cosponsored by some 60 departments and centres from over 45 top universities in North America including Berkeley, Emory, Toronto, Goettingen, and my own alma mater, the University of Illinois.
As a life-long academic myself, with a track-record of over 40 years of university teaching all over the world, I register my concern and dissent. First of all, I would like to ask, who are the organisers of the event? Why haven't they been named? Yes, some of the featured speakers, who include the usual suspects from Audrey Truschke to Kavita Krishnan, have been listed. But what about the organisers? Why are their identities, affiliations and positions hidden?
Furthermore, which departments or centres have sponsored this event? How and why? Are there faculty resolutions or departmental minutes of meetings to support and document such sponsorship? What is the nature of the support offered? Is money involved or just an endorsement by lending the name of the centre, department or university? Many of these are publicly funded institutions or schools. So taxpayers have a right to know.
US and Canadian universities are respected for allowing freedom of expression and debate. True. But, by the same token, should such an overly political event be given legitimacy on Western campuses? Especially, when it is disguised as an academic conference? More seriously, from the looks of it, the meeting is actually propaganda against the RSS and BJP. Why should university forums be allowed to be hijacked for such purposes?
More deeply saddening and dangerous than these obvious objections are the lurking if not obvious Hinduphobic and Hindumisic attitudes and ideologies behind the event. While targeting the un- or ill-defined termed Hindutva, the real peril is Hindu-hatred masquerading as intellectual activism. Hindu-hatred, let us not forget, may lead to Hinducide. The poster shows a hammer uprooting a nail that resembles an RSS worker. Isn't this an open and undisguised call to hatred and violence?
In the past, during several centuries of Islamic conquest and rule in the subcontinent, the enslavement and genocide of Hindus was widely recorded and vaunted by Islamic historians themselves. Even if these accounts are somewhat exaggerated in their triumphalism, they prove the existence, endorsement and naturalisation of what we might term kafir-conversion and kafir-killing on a vast scale. The kafirs in this instance were Hindus.
Isn't it amazing that instead of training their ideological guns against such activities in our present times such as the abduction, forcible conversion, and marriage of Hindu girls in Pakistan to older, sometimes already married men; the ethnic cleansing and widespread destruction of Hindu shrines in Islamist Kashmir right within India; the continuing violence and prejudice against Hindus in Bangladesh; or even more flagrant, the Taliban's avowedly fanatical, violent, women-and-kafir-hating track-record in Afghanistan, this motley group of India-bashers has resorted to such an underhand way of "dismantling" what they term "Global Hindutva"?
Would many of them, being self-professed liberals, leftists and atheists, dare to organise a similar event on, say, "Dismantling Global Jihadism" or "Induced or Coerced Conversions by Christian Missions and Organisations"? More importantly, would any of the 60+ departments and centres in the 45+ universities cosponsor such an event? Instead, the aim is to dismantle what is not yet properly established or documented as militant.
Why, we should ask, is such a conference being organised ostensibly in North America rather than India? The question is salient since the event is online and virtual rather than live and in real time. The answer will reveal the networks of Hindumisia and Hinduphobia across global academia.
Having lost the battle against Hindutva in India, these forces are trying to hold on to their Western fortresses and bastions. Many Indian academics, riding on such ideologies, are now deeply ensconced in Western universities. They have ruled the roost, called the shots, distributed jobs, fellowships and largesse to followers and associates.
Anyone who has been a target of their tactics knows that they are a bunch of tyrants and bullies rather than truly liberal scholars who believe in dissent, debate and dialogue. They and their gatekeepers ensure that their opponents are kept out of the portals of the institutions they control through elaborate blacklists and purges.
Their networks are so powerful that they have infiltrated prestigious prizes and awards both in India and abroad. Just to offer one example, it is hardly surprising that two of the listed speakers are Infosys Prize winners. Some years ago I pointed out the preponderance of "LeLis" in the Humanities and Social Science winners of this prize. Should one of India's top companies lend its name to such politically motivated activism or should the prizes recognise true academic achievements? Perhaps, when it comes to some disciplines, we have erased the distinction between the two.
What is to be done? My answer is simple: Let those targeted, which includes the BJP, RSS and its affiliates, hit back. They have the means and the reach to do so. Until now, it is a US-based activist group such as Hindu America Foundation (HAF)—led by its executive director, the calmly determined Suhag Shukla—which has led the charge. HAF efforts have caused several universities to disassociate with the event. Evidently, their names and logos were used without proper authorisation. Doesn't this amount to fraud and cheating?
Current and former students, teachers and donors of these universities should write to their respective presidents to cancel the conference or dissociate themselves from it. The organisers should be exposed. Many Indian private-initiative periodicals have already exposed the dubious motives and bona-fides of the event. Even a few mainstream media networks in the country have done their bit.
But none of this is actually enough. What is needed is for Hindus to own up Hindutva as our Supreme Court already did. All variations of being genuinely Hindu should be acknowledged by Hindus. Only then will Hindu-haters think twice before attacking us. Till we are weak and full of self-loathing, this will never happen.
A strong Hindu does not hate or fear others. But he or she is capable of standing up for what is right and resisting what is wrong. Those of us who have not hesitated to criticise Hindutva when we found it becoming too Abrahamic should also not hesitate to defend it from its detractors who are so grossly mistaken or offensive.
If we do not do so, we will be complicit in our sliding down the slippery slope in which Hinduphobia progressing to Hindumisia might, even in this day and age, lead to Hinducide. – The New Indian Express, 21 August 2021
› Prof. Makarand R. Paranjape taught English at JNU and is the director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
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Walter Salles, whose Central Station was such a delight, has now produced another accomplished film which uses a child- narrator's experience to contrast Brazil's paradisal coast with its forbidding interior. But the new film, Behind the Sun, has a more didactic purpose and, although there are many strikingly good things in it, the cuteness and warm- heartedness so much in evidence in both films degenerates by the end of this one into mere fantasy. Having presented us with a fairy-tale-like but nevertheless remarkably accurate account of the rituals of blood-feud among the sugar plantations of up-country Brazil in 1910, he simply drops the whole subject by offering as a solution to the seemingly intractable problems confronting the Brazilians of the period the solution of their grandchildren and great-grandchildren: Just go to the beach!
The story is based on a novel, Broken April, by Ismail Kadaré, about family feuds in Albania. Now if you are interested in family feuds, Albania is the place you want to go. Albanian feuds are even more lasting and inexorable than Sicilian ones. There is a whole book of rules, called the Kanun by Lekë Dukagjini, which explains to all interested Albanians — and all Albanians are interested — how you carry on your feud: whom you can and can't kill and when and where and how. There is nothing comparable in Brazil, but the demands of honor, up until about a hundred years ago, when this film is set, were pretty similar all over the world. If one of theirs kills one of yours, you have to kill him or your whole family is dishonored. It seems crazy, I know, but for whatever reason human kind in almost every culture known to us for thousands of years lived by such rules.
To explain them to us, Salles introduces us from the start to his voiceover narrator, a young boy called Pacu (Ravi Ramos Lacerda) whose youthfulness makes the whole honor system seem almost as strange to him as it does to us. It is a story, this boy-narrator tells us, "about me, my brother, and a shirt in the wind," and we see the shirt on the clothesline with a large stain on it. It is a blood stain, but the red is turning to yellow. His family, the Breves, were once powerful landowners but are now living in grinding poverty. Literally grinding, since the whole family must pitch in to grind up sugar cane in an ox-driven mill and sell it for ever less money at the local village. "In grandpa's time, the slaves did all the work," says Pacu. "Now we do it." And we see his father (José Dumont) driving the oxen around the mill while his older brother, Tonio (Rodrigo Santoro), feeds the cane stalks into it.
What he has to do is avenge his brother's murder on the more powerful (and, ominously, more numerous) Ferreiras, with whom Father Breves has been in dispute over some land for a very long time. "Only kill your brother's murderer, man to man, face to face," says Pop, introducing us to the local code of honor. And he proceeds to do this, more or less. Then he comes to the dead man's wake and funeral — this, too, seems to be in keeping with the local honor code — and asks the Ferreira patriarch for a truce. The old man says that he will give him just as much of a truce as he gave his grandson: that is, until the next full moon, or when the stain on the murdered man's shirt has turned to yellow. Then he ties a black armband on his arm to mark him as doomed.
Everyone seems to accept this, and when a pretty young circus performer called Clara (Flavia Marco Antonio) comes to town, her step-father (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) casually informs her that Tonio, to whom she is obviously attracted, is a walking dead man. But when Tonio, who has never been anywhere, asks to come with this couple to the next town, he gets a taste not only of the wide world beyond the close confines of the plantation and the demands of honor which nail him to it but also of love. Pacu too is infatuated with Clara, who has given him a picture book. He can't read, but he can read pictures, he tells her. And seeing a picture of a mermaid he happily announces that it is Clara herself. He thinks her a mermaid who lives in the sea, where he will go one day to live with her a life of freedom from work — and honor, and family.
I wonder if Salles reflected much on the fact that laughing in the sea seems to have become the contemporary Brazilian's ideal in place of honor. But if honor is just to be forgotten about, if it was all so easy, why did the thing exist in the first place? Like Pacu's fantasy, in other words, the movie takes up one of the hard problems of human existence and just wishes it away. A pity, considering how many things it does right.


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Q: In parallel execution how to fetch different transaction IDs from the application opened in chrome browser--Selenium Java My scenario is for example in my parallel execution for 2 scenarios the application is launched in two chrome browser and two transactions are initiated. I need the the 2 transaction for which I used "transaction.getAttribute("value")" because the transaction IDs can be seen when I do inspect.
I wrote the below code but only one transaction ID is getting fetched. I am using ThreadLocal for parallel execution. I checked there are two different thread got assigned for two test.
List AlltransactionID = DriverManager.getDriver().findElements(By.id("transaction-id"));
    int i = AlltransactionID.size();     // (here I am getting size=1)
    log.info("Total number of Transaction ID " + i);
    for(WebElement tranID : AlltransactionID){
        Object transactionID = tranID.getAttribute("value");
        log.info("Value is --> " + transactionID);
    }

Note: I have used driver.findelements because I want to fetch the transactions IDs from the two test. Please assist


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FEMA, Withdrawal of General Permission To Overseas Corporate Bodies, Regulations 2003.
Short title and commencement
Object and construction of these Regulations
Overriding effect
Withdrawal of general permission and unwinding of investments and transactions
Permission to hedge certain transactiona
Foreign Exchange Management (Withdrawal of General Permission to Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCBs)) Regulations, 2003
Notification No. FEMA 101/2003-RB, DT. 03/10/2003 - In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (b) , (d), (e) and (0 of sub-section (3) of Section 6 read with Section 47 of the FEMA, 1999 (42 of 1999) and all other powers available to it in this behalf, the Reserve Bank of India makes the following Regulations :-
These Regulations may be called Foreign Exchange Management (Withdrawal of General Permission to Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCBs)) Regulations, 2003.
They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
For the purpose of these Regulations -
"Act" means the Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999;
"Account" means Savings, Current, Recurring, Fixed Deposit. opened and maintained under Non-Resident (External) Account Scheme (NRE Amount), Foreign Currency (Non-Resident) Account Banks Scheme (FCNR-B Account) or Non-Resident (Ordinary) Account Scheme (NRO Account);
"Deposit" includes deposit of money with a bank, company, proprietary concern, partnership firm, corporate body, trust or any other person;
"Existing account" means an account maintained on the date of commencement of these Regulations;
"Existing investment" means an investment made pursuant to the general permission granted under the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer and Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 provided that
in case of Portfolio Investment Scheme, the investment was held as on November 29, 2001 and
in other cases, held on the date of commencement of these Regulations;
"Overseas Corporate Body (OCB) " means and includes an entity defined in Clause (xi) of Regulation 2 of the Foreign Exchange Management (Deposit) Regulations, 2000 and which was in existence on the date of commencement of these Regulations and immediately prior to such commencem4snt was eligible to undertake transactions pursuant to the general permission granted under the Regulations;
" Regulations" means the Regulations made under the Act;
"Schedule" means Schedule to these Regulations.
These Regulations seek to withdraw the general permission to Overseas Corporate Bodies, (OCBs) to undertake transactions in terms of such permission granted under the Regulations and shall be construed accordingly.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other Regulations, these Regulations shall prevail.
On the commencement of these Regulations -
no fresh account by whatever name called shall be opened or maintained in the name of an OCB. ,
the Regulations specified in column 1 of the Schedule shall be amended as mentioned in Column 2.
an existing NRE (Saving and Current) Account held or maintained in the name of an OCB shall be closed and balances repatriated forthwith;
an existing NRO (Saving) Account held or maintained in the name of an OCB shall be closed and balances transferred to non-interest bearing NRO (Current) Account. The disposal of balances in such NRO (Current) account shall require specific approval of the Reserve Bank except in the following cases:
all local payments in rupees;
remittance outside India of current income in India of the account holder net of applicable taxes;.
an existing NRE (Recurring/Fixed Deposit) Account or FCNR (B) Account held in the name of an OCB, may be continued till original maturity and on maturity the proceeds shall be repatriated forthwith;
an existing NRO (Recurring/Fixed) Account held or maintained in the name of an OCB may be continued till original maturity and on maturity the proceeds shall be credited to NRO (Current) Account;
no facility of any nature whatsoever shall be granted on the security of an account held in the name of an OCB;
any loan or other facility granted against the security of a Recurring/Fixed Deposit Account held in the name of an OCB, shall not be renewed and shall be closed by adjustment of the proceeds on maturity of the deposit;
no investment in any security shall be made by an OCB;
an OCB may -
transfer an existing investment in the form of shares or convertible debentures held by it, by sale or gift to any non-resident Indian (NRI);
dispose of the existing investment in the form of shares held by it, by sale at a rate not exceeding the prevailing market rate through a registered stock broker on a recognised stock exchange in India;
an OCB shall not be eligible to purchase equity or preference shares or convertible debentures offered' on right basis by an Indian company, and no Indian company shall offer equity or preference shares or convertible debentures on right basis to an OCB;
where any offer on right basis made to an OCB before the date of commencement of these Regulations, is existing on that date, the OCB may renounce it in favour of any person resident in India or a person resident outside India who is eligible to invest in a security of an Indian company under the Regulations ;
no person resident in India shall borrow from, or lend to, an OCB either in foreign exchange or in Rupees;
where any borrowing from or loan to an OCB, whether in foreign exchange or in Rupees made in accordance with the Regulations as applicable, is outstanding on the date of commencement of these Regulations, such borrowing or loan shall not be renewed on becoming due, and no interest thereon shall accrue after it falls due for repayment.
Permission to hedge certain transactiona;-
An OCB may enter into a forward contract with rupee as one of the currencies with an Authorised Dealer (AD) in India to hedge -
the amount of dividend due to it on an existing investment in the form of shares of an Indian company;
the balances held in an existing Foreign Currency Non-Resident (FCNR) account or Non-resident External Rupee (NRE- Rupee) Term Deposit account;
the amount of existing investment made under Portfolio Investment Scheme in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 or under the notifications issued there under or made in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000, and in both cases subject to the terms and conditions specified in the proviso to paragraph 1 of Schedule II to The Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Exchange Derivative Contracts) Regulations, 2000, as amended from time to time.
Amendments to the existing provisions of the FEMA Regulations ;
Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing or Lending in Foreign Exchange) Regulations, 2000 In the Schedule, in paragraph 3, the word 'OCB' shall be deleted.
Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing or Lending in Rupees) Regulations, 2000 In Regulation 5, the words 'or an overseas corporate body (OCB),' '/Overseas Corporate Bodies(OCBs)' shall be deleted.
Foreign Exchange . Management (Deposit) Regulations, 2000 In Regulation 5 (1)(i) and (ii),
in Regulation 8(2),
in Schedule 1,
the words 'or an overseas corporate body', 'and Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCBs)', 'and OCBs', `/OCBs' shall be deleted
Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 In Regulation 5(3)(ii) and (4),
in Regulation 9(2)(ii),
in item Nos 2 and 6 of Annexure 'B' to Schedule 1,
in Schedule 3 (paragraph 3),
in Schedule 5
the words '/OCBs', 'or an Overseas Corporate Body', 'and Overseas Corporate Body', 'or OCB' shall be deleted.
Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Exchange Derivative Contracts Regulations, 2000 In Schedule II, the words 'or Overseas Corporate Body' shall be deleted.
(Please refer CIR. NO. 34/2005-06-RB, DT. 12/05/2006 - External Commercial Borrowing - clarification on Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCBs) as recognised lenders)


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Q: concatenate strings I have a big problem with my design of my algorith because i use large text file.
I have a text file that contains sequences of words.
eg

*

*my friends

*hello my friends

*the world

and a second file is large (gigabyte) containing sentences.
The goal of the program is through the words (the first file) word by word and look in the second file the concatenate the symbol "+"
for example
"hello my friends of the world" as input" Become
"hello + my + friends  of the+world"
Any idea please?
I want to program it in Perl wich is performant with text
i've done this script in Perl, but its too slow because it read the file Many time..:(
This is an example of Perl programm, it works , but it is too slow
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use feature qw(:5.10);
my ($in, $dico) = @ARGV;
die "Bad infile $in" if !-r $in;
die "Bad dicofile $dico" if !-r $dico;

# load dico
my @dico;
open(FICHIERNOUVELLES, ">resultat7.txt");
open my $DICO, "<", $dico or die "Can't open $dico for reading: $!\n";
# For all lines in the Dico
foreach my $line (<$DICO>) {
chomp($line);
# extract words
 if (my @word = split /\s+/, $line) {

 my $re = q{(^\s*|\s+)(}.(join q(\s+), map quotemeta, @word).q{)(\s+|\s*$)};

push @dico, qr/$re/;
}
}

 open my $IN, "<", $in or die "Can't open $in for reading: $!\n";
 my @word;

foreach my $line (<$IN>) {

 foreach my $dico (@dico) {

  while (my (undef, $sequence) = $line =~ /$dico/) {

  $sequence =~ s/\s+/+/g;
  $line =~ s/$dico/$1$sequence$3/;
  }
 }
print FICHIERNOUVELLES "$line";

 }
close(FICHIERNOUVELLES);

A: The solution to not read the second file multiple times is to read the sets of words from file1 first, and store in a data structure.
use File::Slurp;
my @lines = read_file($filename1);
my %replacements = map { my $c = $_; $c =~ s/ / + /g; ( $_ => $c ) } @lines;

open (my $file2, "<", $filename2) or die "$!";
while (<$file2>) {
    chomp;
    foreach my $replacement (keys %replacements) {
        s/$replacement/$replacements{$replacement}/g;
    }
    print $_;
}


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Mark Richman, a Ventura doctor planning to rebuild, talks to two SCE planners at the Ventura Open House.
An SCE planning representative explains the rebuilding process to Jerry Gibbs who lost his home in the Thomas Fire.
Homeowner Nella Nelson takes notes about the rebuilding process during her meeting with one of SCE's planning representatives.
Kari Gardner, SCE senior manager for consumer affairs, helps a customer with her billing questions during a recent Ventura open house for Thomas Fire victims.
SCE Ventura Open House Helps Thomas Fire Victims Start to Rebuild
Residential and business customers learned about the steps required to start reconstruction.
By Mary Ann Milbourn
About 10 p.m. on Dec. 4, the power at Jerry Gibbs' Ventura home went out. Shortly after that, they lost water pressure on their well. Then, just before midnight, Gibbs received a text to immediately evacuate.
He and his wife didn't see any imminent threat of fire in their area, so they assumed the evacuation order was just precautionary. They grabbed their two dogs, two pillows and their two cars to wait out the evacuation at their daughter's house.
When the Gibbs returned several days later, their home of 20 years was in ashes, the devastation so complete that, even sifting with screens, they found nothing. But, like many Thomas Fire victims, Gibbs isn't leaving.
"I'm going to rebuild," said the former contractor during a recent open house in Ventura sponsored by Southern California Edison to help fire victims with the task of reconstruction.
Business and residential customers attended SCE's recent one-stop open house for Thomas Fire victims. PHOTO: Maria Hedrick
Gibbs is already working with an architect on plans and hired a contractor to build his new home. He said he was at SCE's open house to get information on how to install temporary power and the process for rebuilding.
Kari Gardner, SCE senior manager for Consumer Affairs, said the company held the open house to help residents and businesses with those kinds of issues.
For more information, including local assistance centers and how to reach SCE customer service representatives: SCE's Wildfire & Mudslide Support.
"There's so much many people don't know," she said. "We wanted to have a one-stop shop with our planners and billing staff, county and city building representatives and companies that provide temporary power to provide information for the rebuilding process."
Mike Richman, an anesthesiologist, took advantage of a day off to also ask the experts questions about rebuilding his home of 33 years.
"I got the information I needed to tell our contractor," he said. "It's a start."
Nella Nelson happens to work for a contractor, who she has hired to rebuild her house in Ventura.
"It makes it easy," she said, holding a sheaf of notes and SCE brochures she collected. "My full-time job now is literally rebuilding my house."
One of Nelson's stops was at SCE's customer service table where Jim Miller talked to her about bill forgiveness, getting an application for service and other issues that typically might require several phone calls.
"I'm like a portable call center," Miller said.
SCE's Gardner said the company wants to help customers through this difficult time and will consider holding additional open houses if there is a community demand.
For more information: SCE's Wildfire & Mudslide Support.
Tags: Ventura Open House, local assistance centers


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Celebration of Howard Munce Planned for May 14 at Westport Arts Center
Photo: Howard Munce in the 1960s. Contributed photo.
The friends and family of Howard Munce invite the public to a celebration of the life of Howard Munce on Saturday, May 14 from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Westport Arts Center (51 Riverside Avenue). The reception is free and open to the public.
Munce, known as the dean of Westport artists, died at his Westport home on March 5, 2016. He was 100 years old. Munce was a well-known painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer, and a figurehead of Westport's creative community since the 1930's.
"Howard Munce was an incredibly generous and talented man, whose guiding influence helped shape the Westport Arts Center as well as the larger arts community of Westport. We are honored to host this celebration of his life and accomplishments," said Amanda Innes, the Westport Arts Center's Acting Executive Director.
Munce began his creative career in Westport in the late 1930s as an independent artist and writer, later attending Pratt Institute and graduating in 1938. These formative years included his experimentation with illustration, painting and sculpture. Each work showcased the mix of imagination, humanity and frank humor that would later become his hallmark.
It was Munce's time as a Marine and Second Lieutenant in the Pacific Theater of World War II that inspired his most public distinction. Harrowed by the horrors of combat, he penned an anti-war poem and cartoon that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1946.
After the war, Munce worked as a creative director for notable New York advertising agencies like Young & Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson, and Foote, Cone & Belding. He led national accounts for Rheingold Beer, Jaguar and others with a keen eye, sense of humor and self-integrity.
Disillusioned with the trials of advertising, Munce moved back to Westport and set out on his own as an illustrator, writer and teacher.
In Westport, Munce worked with, befriended or taught generations of creative residents. He could regularly be found attending sketch classes, curating shows and present at art openings into his nineties.
Howard Munce is survived by his daughter Mary Brewster, his son Andrew Munce, their spouses, their children and their children's children, as well as his sister-in-law Agnes Conover and the descendants of his late wife, Geraldine Conover.
For more information on the event, please contact the Westport Arts Center at 203/222-7070 or visit www.westportartscenter.org.
The Westport Arts Center also receives philanthropic support from the Aibel Foundation; Artur and Heida Hermanns Holde Foundation, Inc.; AB Bernstein; the Brant Foundation; CBP; Cohen and Wolf, P.C.; Connecticut Cigar Company; Connecticut Office of the Arts; Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., DanceSport; Dragone Motor Cars; EC Infosystems, Inc.; Fairfield County Bank; Finn, Dixon & Herling LLC; Fleishers Craft Butchery; 4th Row Films; Geigers Home and Garden; GWAY Marketing Gymnasium; Hal Prince Music; the Hall Art Foundation; Land Rover Milford; Lillian August; the Mitchell's Family of Stores; Moffly Media; Newman's Own Foundation; Rosenkranz Foundation; Saugatuck Sweets; Shack Sackler Foundation; Sheffer Family Foundation; Sontag Advisory LLC; Stamford Tent; Sun Hill Foundation; Verde Energy USA, Inc.; Vespa Restaurant; Wells Fargo Advisors; Westport Family Counseling; Westport Now; William J. Rosenbloom Charitable Trust; Xerox Foundation; WPKN; and WSHU Public Radio Group.