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package org.spiffyui.client;

import org.spiffyui.client.i18n.SpiffyUIStrings;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;

/**
 * This is a set of utility methods for formatting numbers in a locale-sensitive way.
 *
 * The logic to match formatting with locale was initially taken from
 * jquery-numberformatter 1.2.1, which
 * maps a country to a format.
 *
 * There are 4 different formatting types depending on whether the locale is like US, DE, FR or CH.
 * Locales like US (English) use comma (,) as the number separator and period (.) as the decimal separator.
 * Locales like DE (German) use period (.) as the number separator and comma (,) as the decimal separator.
 * Locales like FR (French) use space ( ) as the number separator and comma (,) as the decimal separator.
 * Locales like CH (Switzerland) use apostrophe (') as the number separator and period (.) as the decimal separator.
 *
 * This utility requires JSDateUtil to determine the locale.  For some locales there is no country,
 * in which case we use the language.  If none are found it defaults to be like US format.
 *
 * The following countries and languages are supported:

 Countries:
 Arab Emirates -> "AE"
 Australia -> "AU"
 Austria -> "AT"
 Brazil -> "BR"
 Canada -> "CA"
 China -> "CN"
 Czech -> "CZ"
 Denmark -> "DK"
 Egypt -> "EG"
 Finland -> "FI"
 France  -> "FR"
 Germany -> "DE"
 Greece -> "GR"
 Great Britain -> "GB"
 Hong Kong -> "HK"
 India -> "IN"
 Israel -> "IL"
 Japan -> "JP"
 Russia -> "RS"
 South Korea -> "KR"
 Spain -> "ES"
 Sweden -> "SE"
 Switzerland -> "CH"
 Taiwan -> "TW"
 Thailand -> "TH"
 United States -> "US"
 Vietnam -> "VN"

 Languages:
 Chinese -> "zh"
 Danish -> "da"
 Dutch -> "nl"
 English -> "en"
 French -> "fr"
 German -> "de"
 Italian -> "it"
 Japanese -> "ja"
 Portuguese -> "pt"
 Russian -> "ru"
 Spanish -> "es"
 Slovak -> "sk"
 Swedish -> "sv"

 **/

public final class NumberFormatter
{
    private static final String[] LIKE_US_LOCS = {"AE", "AU", "CA", "CN", "EG", "GB", "HK", "IL", "IN", "JP", "TH", "TW", "US", "sk", "zh", "en", "ja"};
    private static final String[] LIKE_DE_LOCS = {"AT", "BR", "DE", "DK", "ES", "GR", "IT", "NL", "PT", "TR", "VN", "nl", "de", "pt", "es"};
    private static final String[] LIKE_FR_LOCS = {"CZ", "FI", "FR", "RU", "SE", "pl", "fr", "ru", "se"};
    private static final String[] LIKE_CH_LOCS = {"CH"};

    private static final String[] GROUPING_SEPARATORS = {",", ".", " ", "'"};
    private static final String[] DECIMAL_SEPARATORS = {".", ",", ",", "."};

    /** A constant representing locales that are like US (English) */
    public static final int LIKE_US = 0;
    /** A constant representing locales that are like DE (German) */
    public static final int LIKE_DE = 1;
    /** A constant representing locales that are like FR (French) */
    public static final int LIKE_FR = 2;
    /** A constant representing locales that are like CH (Switzerland) */
    public static final int LIKE_CH = 3;

    private static final SpiffyUIStrings STRINGS = (SpiffyUIStrings) GWT.create(SpiffyUIStrings.class);
    /**
     * Making sure this class can't be instantiated.
     */
    private NumberFormatter()
    {
    }

    /**
     * Format the absolute value of the number appending an abbreviation, if necessary.
     * If 3 digits leaves as is.
     * If 4-6 digits adds a kilo abbreviation with up to one decimal digit.
     * If 7-9 digits adds a mega abbreviation with up to two decimal digits.
     * If 10+ digits adds a giga abbreviation with up to three decimal digits.
     * @param number as a double
     * @return a formatted string
     */
    public static String formatWithAbbreviation(final double number)
    {
        String s;
        double n  = Math.abs(number);
        if (n < 1000) {
            s = format(n, "##0");
        } else if (n >= 1000 && n < 1000000) {
            s = getKiloString(format(n / 1000, "0.#"));
        } else if (n >= 1000000 && n < 1000000000) {
            s = getMegaString(format(n / 1000000, "0.##"));
        } else {
            s = getGigaString(format(n / 1000000000, "0.###"));
        }
        return s;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the number with the localized abbreviation for kilo.
     * Override if specialized localization string is needed
     * @param number - a number formatted as a string to be inserted into the parameterized localized string
     * @return the number with the abbreviation
     */
    protected static String getKiloString(String number)
    {
        return STRINGS.kiloAbbrev(number);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the number with the localized abbreviation for mega.
     * Override if specialized localization string is needed
     * @param number - a number formatted as a string to be inserted into the parameterized localized string
     * @return the number with the abbreviation
     */
    protected static String getMegaString(String number)
    {
        return STRINGS.megaAbbrev(number);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the number with the localized abbreviation for giga.
     * Override if specialized localization string is needed
     * @param number - a number formatted as a string to be inserted into the parameterized localized string
     * @return the number with the abbreviation
     */
    protected static String getGigaString(String number)
    {
        return STRINGS.gigaAbbrev(number);
    }

    /**
     * Return the number formatted to the browser's locale.
     * The browser's locale is determined using the localization utilities within JSDateUtil,
     * so the date libraries must be included in order to use this.
     *
     * @param number - the number to format as a String
     * @param pattern - a String pattern using the following syntax:
     *

     *
 0 = Digit

     *
 # = Digit after the decimal, zero shows as absent

     *
 . = Decimal separator

     *

     * Valid pattern examples include:
     *

     *
0.#
     *
0.##
     *
0.0##
     *

     * Grouping separators will be placed every 3 digits before the decimal separator. Number of digits
     * after the separator is subject to pattern specified. You will always get at least a single whole number,
     * so specifying a 0 before the decimal is all that is necessary.
     *
     * @return the formatted number as a String
     */
    public static String format(double number, String pattern)
    {
        int indexKey = getLikeLocale();
        /*
         * Get the decimal and group separator
         */
        String decSep = DECIMAL_SEPARATORS[indexKey];
        String groupSep = GROUPING_SEPARATORS[indexKey];
        return format(String.valueOf(number), pattern, decSep, groupSep);
    }

    /**
     * Get the constant representing the 'locale' which the browser locale is similiar to in terms of number formatting
     * @return one of the following constants LIKE_US, LIKE_DE, LIKE_FR, LIKE_CH
     */
    public static int getLikeLocale()
    {
        String loc = JSDateUtil.getLocale();
        /*
         * Get the country or language key
         */
        String lang = null;
        String country = null;

        int hyphen = loc.indexOf('-');
        if (hyphen > 0) {
            lang = loc.substring(0, hyphen);
            country = loc.substring(hyphen + 1);
        } else {
            lang = loc;
        }
        String key = country == null ? lang : country;
        return getIndex(key);
    }

    private static String format(String number, String pattern, String decSep, String groupSep)
    {
        int decimalPatPos = pattern.indexOf('.');
        int decimalPos = number.indexOf('.');
        /*
         * handle digits before decimal
         */
        String wholeNumber = decimalPos > 0 ? number.substring(0, decimalPos) : number;
        int wholeNumberLen = wholeNumber.length();

        //Add grouping separators by traversing the number in reverse
        StringBuffer reversed = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 1; i <= wholeNumberLen; i++) {
            reversed.append(wholeNumber.charAt(wholeNumberLen - i));
            if (i < wholeNumberLen && i % 3 == 0) {
                reversed.append(groupSep);
            }
        }
        //reverse back (reverse is undefined in GWT's StringBuffer)
        wholeNumber = "";
        for (int i = 1, revLen = reversed.length(); i <= revLen; i++) {
            wholeNumber += reversed.charAt(revLen - i);
        }
        if (decimalPatPos < 0) {
            return wholeNumber;
        }
        /*
         * handle decimal digits
         */
        String decimalPattern = decimalPatPos > 0 ? pattern.substring(decimalPatPos + 1) : "";
        String decimalNumber = decimalPos > 0 ? number.substring(decimalPos + 1) : "";
        int decimalPatternLength = decimalPattern.length();
        int decimalLength = decimalNumber.length();
        //truncate the decimal number to the size of the pattern
        if (decimalLength > decimalPatternLength) {
            double fullNumber = Double.valueOf(number);
            //round by the full number, because the decimal might be .07 and that would make it .7 instead of .1
            double fullRounded = Math.round(fullNumber * Math.pow(10, decimalPatternLength)) / Math.pow(10, decimalPatternLength);
            String fullRoundedStr = String.valueOf(fullRounded);
            decimalNumber = fullRoundedStr.substring(fullRoundedStr.indexOf('.') + 1);
        }
        //if the decimal pattern ends in a 0 and the decimal number ends before it
        //continue to add zeroes until the length is the same as the pattern
        decimalNumber = addZeroes(decimalNumber, decimalPattern);
        //If the pattern is or requires at least one digit, show the decimal separator and it or a 0
        if (decimalNumber.length() > 0) {
            decimalNumber = decSep + decimalNumber;
        } else if (decimalPattern.startsWith("0")) {
            decimalNumber = decSep + "0";
        }

        /*
         * put the whole and decimal back together
         */
        return wholeNumber + decimalNumber;
    }

    /**
     * Format an integer based on the browser's locale.
     * (A convenience method equivalent to formatting a number with the pattern of "0".)
     * @param wholeNumber an integer to be formatted
     * @return the formatted integer
     */
    public static String format(int wholeNumber)
    {
        return format(wholeNumber, "0");
    }

    private static String addZeroes(final String decimalNumber, final String decimalPattern)
    {
        StringBuffer number = new StringBuffer(decimalNumber);
        int numberOfPlaces = decimalPattern.lastIndexOf('0') + 1;
        int decimalLength = number.length();
        if (decimalLength < numberOfPlaces) {
            int numberOfZeroes = numberOfPlaces - decimalLength;
            for (int i = 0; i < numberOfZeroes; i++) {
                number.append('0');
            }
        }
        return number.toString();
    }

    private static int getIndex(String key)
    {
        for (String s : LIKE_US_LOCS) {
            if (s.equals(key)) {
                return LIKE_US;
            }
        }

        for (String s : LIKE_DE_LOCS) {
            if (s.equals(key)) {
                return LIKE_DE;
            }
        }

        for (String s : LIKE_FR_LOCS) {
            if (s.equals(key)) {
                return LIKE_FR;
            }
        }

        for (String s : LIKE_CH_LOCS) {
            if (s.equals(key)) {
                return LIKE_CH;
            }
        }

        return LIKE_US;
    }

 }

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Multiple Teams · Dec 17 MS/JV/Var Basketball Schedule Update
There have been some changes made to the middle school, junior varsity, and varsity basketball schedules recently.
Middle School: The girls and boys games scheduled for Dec. 17th vs Batesburg-Leesville have been cancelled. The make-up date will be announced at a later date.
Junior Varsity Boys: The boys JV game scheduled for Dec. 18th has been cancelled. The game will not be made up.
Varsity Boys: Due to the cancellation of the JV game on Dec. 18th, the boys varsity game vs. Saluda will now begin at 6:00 pm.
ALL GAMES scheduled against Pelion on Dec. 21st have been cancelled. No make up date has been scheduled.
Please continue to check swanseatigersathletics.com for the most up-to-date scheduling information! Go Tigers!!!

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A beautiful 12 red roses (big head) shapping in basket sharing the space with baby flowers, which is available according to season. A gift to offer a surprise in special occassions, including Valentine's Day gift, anniversary or even just want to send an appology for your love one.
Send her the basket of flower to express how much you love and care about her.


Xcode is pretty great for a free piece of software BUT that doesn't mean it's without its quirks.
Not the kind of warning you expect to see after optimising your App and providing all the necessary launch icons and splash screens - even more so AFTER the App had passed validation - so what was causing this?
After a little digging around online (and where would be as developers without Google or Stack Overflow?!) we found that the issue was caused by a bad key in the project Info property list as displayed below.
Simply deleting the highlighted Icon file key within Xcode resolved the issue completely.


Thank God for those committed to obeying the Lord's command.
We are thankful and praise God for those who were baptised recently. The Community Hall venue was full to capacity with our congregation and family members witnessing the public declaration of seven young people, saying to the world they are committed to following Jesus with all of their lives.
My special adoration go to Bethany, she was the one who just before Christmas approached me and asked to be baptised. just had witnessed her brother's baptism just over a year ago. She had the opportunity to be baptised then but felt she wasn't sure and said she would wait. praise God she decided now she was ready. Because of her faithfulness, others were able to join her in this tremendous public witness.


Fun fact: I'm the Guinness World Record holder for Most Consecutive Days Writing A Song. I've just entered my 10th year of writing a song a day. All the songs live on YouTube.
One of the promises of the blockchain is that it could fundamentally transform the way creators like me make a living. This project is a very personal exploration of that.
- Grows by one each day, as long as I can keep the project going (read: Until I'm incapacitated or I die).
- Each song is it's own discreet collectible, with a long list of attributes that make them all completely unique.
Each illustration is comprised of a series of pieces that represent the attributes of that song. These pieces are then programmatically assembled to create unique images.
Here are some attributes for year 1, illustrated by Steven Powell.
My expression represents the mood of the song. There are 12 moods total in year 1 of Song A Day.
My outfit represents the topic of the song. There are 33 topics total in year 1 of Song A Day.
The instrument I'm holding represents the primary instrument. There are 15 instruments total in year 1 of Song A Day.
The background represents the location where I wrote the song. There are 9 locations total in year 1 of Song A Day.
I'm working with the folks at Pixura to get year 1 of Song A Day tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. They're going to integrate everything they've built for superrare.co directly into songaday.world.
I'm looking to hire a different illustrator for each year of this project. Are you an illustrator who's interested in this project? Please get in touch!
It's really expensive to develop a site as ambitious as this one. I've got to pay developers, designers and every illustrator.
To raise the necessary funds, I'm offering these rewards. Think of it like a CryptoKickstarter. All the money you pay me will go towards making this project a reality.
ANY AMOUNT - Donate anything and you get to choose a song to own (from a preset list) as soon as we launch.
$200+ - Is there a song of mine that you know you've just got to have? Reserve it!
$1000+ - I'll write you a custom song. Makes a great gift!
$5000+ - I make my living making custom songs for companies. I can literally sing your white paper.
Fill out the form below, send me the crypto, and I'll be in touch!
NOTE: I'm happy to accept donations anonymously. Just donate in ETH or BTC below.
ALSO: There's certain things I won't write about, like hatred or bigotry, so if your song idea is controversial, contact me before paying.
What should the song be about?
What song do you want to reserve?


Barry Cleavin has been involved in the making and exhibiting of prints since 1966. He has exhibited since that time in some of the worlds most significant Biennales – Berlin, Krakow, Ljubljana, Paris, Sapporo, San Francisco and Tokyo. Barry has also exhibited regularly in New Zealand with major works held in the major Public City Art Gallery Collections.
His prints and drawings generally interface words, image and paradox within etching or digital print mediums. Solo exhibitions have been presented under such titles as 'The Bitter Suites', 'As the Crow Flew' and 'Critical Masses'. Barry was awarded ONZM for services to Art and Education, 2000; Doctor of Letters from Canterbury University, 2005. Barry resides in Dunedin and is a full time artist.
How many shags can you have on the head of a pin?


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Ice football in Iceland
A few bracing days in Iceland - cold, at times fearsomely so, but in Reykjavik (the world's most northerly national capital) it was bright and sunny too. What an enticing city. Stylish, prosperous, and surrounded by beautiful scenery. And at the City Pond in the centre of town, the ice was sufficiently sturdy to allow these kids to play a game of football.
Thingvellir, below, was the site of the world's first Parliament. Iceland was settled by Norwegians in the late ninth century - Icelandic is basically Old Norse. After a few centuries of independence, it was ruled by Norway and then Denmark, becoming independent as recently as 1944. It has a population of 320,000 - about 10% of them immigrants - most living in and around Reykjavik in the south-west.
Iceland is said to be the world's most feminist nation. So here's a conundrum. According to a tour guide - and it seems to check out with what I've read on the net - of the 25,000 or so original settlers who came across in the first decades, new DNA-style research has revealed that 70% of the men were Scandinavian ... and 64% of the women were Celtic. In other words, Iceland's national origins appear to lie with the mass abduction of Irish (and perhaps Scottish) women. Ouch!
Whale watching off Reykjavik delivered ... not a whale in sight, but hundreds and hundreds of white-nosed dolphins. They were everywhere, at times encircling the boat - and some showed off by jumping and shimmying. Magical!
Our basic cameras are not fully up to the task of capturing now-you-see-them type wildlife - but you can get a sense of what it was like from the photo on the right, and Rohan's sequence of shots below (from now on, all the photos on this post are his) showing a dolphin leaping.
We were also in luck in our search for the Northern Lights - a wonderful display, with shapes dancing across the sky, and touches of lime green and traces of red. They are really difficult to photograph - you need a strong lens and long exposure times. But Rohan's photo here gives you some sense of the display:
And some more stunning images - of respectively the dramatic Gulfoss (golden falls) waterfalls, the thermal water fountains at Geysir (Iceland has such abundant thermal energy that it's now - a guide told us - the world's biggest producer of aluminium even though it has no bauxite, the cheap energy makes it worthwhile to ship in the ore), and Reykjavik again.
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Day 36 — Family, Isn't it about Time…..for Paid Family Leave?
HB 278, Paid family and medical leave, is a bill whose time has come. We've known for years that employees feel loyalty to an employer who supports their need to take care of family members facing emergent medical situations. That loyalty leads to a stronger work force and prevents people from choosing between keeping their paycheck and supporting their family.
Several news outlets have highlighted paid family leave and my HB 283 this week.
What does HB 283 do?
It provides a tax credit, based on the qualifications of the federal tax plan implemented in Jan. 2018. Up front I need to say it's not a mandate. It's an opt in for businesses in Utah who want to support both job growth and working families in Utah. Full-time workers making less than $72,000 a year could receive at least two weeks of paid leave and receive at least half of their wages for their time off to take care of a medical emergency for a spouse, child, or parent. HB278 is a priority of the Salt Lake Chamber, one of the state's largest business groups. The group says at least tens of thousands of employees would be eligible for paid leave under the bill.
HB278 still must pass the Senate in the remaining four days of the session and would join a long list of bills seeking funding as lawmakers finish assembling the state's annual budget. The original bill came in with a fiscal note of $4.1M. We have a substitute bill that lowers the tax credit and is expected to cost the state about $800K. The bill is a step in the right direction and really a signal that in Utah, we can be both pro-family and pro-business.
One op-ed provided such good analysis, I've included it in it's entirety below.
Thanks, Deseret News, and Christian Sagers, editorial assistant for the Deseret News opinion section.
Buried in the middle of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address last week buzzed a little blurb that might have flown past the ears of the casual listener. Sandwiched between an expansive infrastructure proposal and the details of an immigration deal was a simple nod to the American family: "And let's support working families by supporting paid family leave," said Trump to a smattering of applause.
The reality is that paid family leave is an idea whose time has come for the American family, and we need a program that's uniquely tailored to America's needs.
The nation's shifting workplace dynamics mean making adjustments to keep the family at the forefront of public policy. As of 2016, 61 percent of families with children had both parents in the workforce. Whether out of necessity or choice, parents are more likely to be employed than before, leading to certain challenges when raising children.
It's often difficult for a mother or father to take extended periods of leave from their work to care for a new child, with lower-income workers feeling the brunt of the problem. These parents are less likely to work for large corporations that offer generous benefits, and, without the guarantee of job-protected leave, many low-wage earners either feel the need to get back to work as soon as possible after welcoming a new child or quit their jobs entirely. Neither option is good for economic production in the long run, nor does either offer working families support to raise strong children.
Some form of widely available paid leave, then, seems attractive, and the country agrees. A 2016 poll found that 74 percent of registered voters support paid family leave for new parents.
With bipartisan agreement that working parents need a helping hand — ranging from Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D.-Ill., to Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah — the debate should center on what a paid family leave program should look like, as well as what it will cost. But most proposals do little to look beyond tired norms to find a truly American solution.
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's FAMILY Act, for example, is clearly rooted in the desire to help the average family raise children, but its mechanics smack of another entitlement program estimated to cost taxpayers $85.9 billion per year. In the long run, such hefty programs only drag on the economy, and they run the risk of benefiting middle-income workers while leaving low-wage earners in a lurch. These universal proposals also crowd out free-market solutions, which have the potential to be more generous than government-funded programs.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is crafting a different approach. His working plan would allow parents to withdraw Social Security benefits when they have a new child, thus delaying benefits for the same duration at retirement. It's an inventive concept, apparently appealing to Ivanka Trump — a longtime paid family leave supporter — but the finer details have yet to materialize. And in Rubio's words, "We still have to work on members of my own party" before the idea stands a chance in Congress.
Still another option is to establish tax-preferred savings accounts into which parents deposit money in anticipation of welcoming a new child. The government would offer tax incentives to companies that match employee contributions or that offer company paid leave benefits, much like Sen. Deb Fischer's, R-Neb., tax credit in the recent tax reform bill. Government assistance would be minimal and targeted only to low-wage earners, contingent upon their own deposits into an account.
Regardless of the approach, tackling such legislation will be a monumental effort. But it can be done by focusing on sound principles. Principles will always resonate with the American people more than partisan platforms. As such, any paid leave program should be deficit-neutral (better yet, reduce the deficit), should target working families who most need the help and shouldn't compete with a company's choice to treat its employees well with generous benefits.
The lemminglike justification that the U.S. needs a paid family leave program because it is the only civilized country in the world without one is rote and perhaps the worst motivation for crafting any sort of policy. What the country needs is meaningful debate with input from thought leaders on all sides. Open and honest deliberation will build the foundation for a paid family leave program that's tailor-made for American families.
Christian Sagers is the editorial assistant for the Deseret News opinion section.


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Political Wrinkles > General Forum > News & Current Events
Another Poll Found President Trump's Approval Rating Is Historically Low
News & Current Events Discuss Another Poll Found President Trump's Approval Rating Is Historically Low at the General Forum; Can the right even see what's happening? Protests around the world. He praises Putin while trashing real leaders. This guy ...
Location: PNW
Can the right even see what's happening? Protests around the world. He praises Putin while trashing real leaders. This guy is going down.
President Donald Trump, who entered the White House with historically low approval ratings, continues to receive record high disapproval ratings compared to his predecessors.
Two weeks into Trump's presidency, a majority of people (53%) disapprove of how he is handling the job, while just 44% approve, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Friday. Those numbers reflect the highest disapproval rating for a newly elected president since such figures were first tracked, according to CNN.
By comparison, former President Ronald Reagan's initial approval rating of 51% was only slightly higher than Trump's, but his disapproval rating (13%) was not nearly as high.
The poll results were sharply divided along partisan lines, with 90% of Republicans voicing approval for Trump and just 10% of Democrats saying the same.
CNN's survey echoes the results of a recent Gallup poll, which found Trump to be the first president in the history of Gallup surveys with an initial job approval rating below 50%.
Since his inauguration, Trump has faced several high-profile protests, including a swift backlash to his immigration order last week. Americans surveyed by CNN were divided in their views on the immigration ban. While a majority (53%) said they oppose the order, 47% said they favor it.
The CNN survey of 1,002 adults, conducted between Jan. 31 and Feb. 2, has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Another Poll Found President Trump?s Approval Rating Is Historically Low
jamesrage
Location: A place where common sense still exist.
Re: Another Poll Found President Trump's Approval Rating Is Historically Low
Originally Posted by Mikeyy
If there was actually any truth to these low poll numbers claim then Trump would have never been elected to office.Politicians don't lose favorability with the people who elected them when they do or attempt to do they things they campaigned on. I realize that Clinton was a lousy candidate.But I don't think she was so lousy that most people outside of California and New York said anybody but her and picked Trump to keep Clinton from becoming president.
Also those same polls aid Trump would lose,that he would have lost so bad that they might as well been saying that the Trump supporters were basically gift wrapping the election and handing it to Clinton.Interviewing people over the phone with no proof of who they voted or supported for is a good way to conduct a poll. Because people lie. They lie because they want their side to look like its winning or because they want to screw with the people conducting the poll.
"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."—Theodore Roosevelt
WallyWager
Or he's just garbage. The CNN poll is pretty consistent with the others for the most part.
The guy won with only 46% of the vote, and had favorables worse than Clinton, and has made zero outreach to anyone beyond his base.
The polls aren't wrong, but the excuses are sad.
"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." - Donald Trump, on pedophile Jeff Epstein.
jimbo
PW Enlightenment
Originally Posted by WallyWager
And, at the same time that the guy was winning with 46% of the vote, the polls were showing Mr. President Trump down anywhere from 6 - 15%. Both the polls and the math was wrong. And even now the math is wrong. The guy, President Trump, won 306 - 230 something. That's almost 70% of the vote.
AZRWinger
Conservative Sage
The pre-election polls consistently predicted a Hillary victory. They turned out to be what you call garbage.
In the election Trump out performed Romney with Hispanics and blacks as well as in the woman's vote. Trump won college educated white women's votes outright. Surely that proves to the ignorant Democrat base Trump has no appeal to anyone but his base but to anyone with the slightest acquaintance with the facts it exposes the claim as nothing but garbage.
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Then don't believe it.
Originally Posted by jamesrage
Why should anyone? The MSM has lied about the polls from day one about Trump,,, favoring Hillary as winning by a landslide. How many times here alone was the term President Elect Hillary tossed around. The world was shocked when Hillary Lost because of the slanted polls.
I don't believe anything that comes from the media anymore. All are nothing but a bunch of left wing puppets.
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OK stay ignorant. What I think is that those people who thought Trump was doing what he needed to to win thought he would be different once elected. But I think it is becoming clear to them that he is the egotist they secretly feared. He is so far out that there are protests worldwide. You can ignore what he has been doing since elected. You can blame the mean ole media. But it's his own words and actions that are bringing him farther down. There are a group who will support him no matter what. You, cnredd, Jimbo, Mr Liberty and a few others here. But thinking people are having second thoughts,
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Stay ignorant? Your the fool here Mikeyy. You will believe everything the left media says. A two year old can see your partisanship.
Oh yeah, I am not supporting Trump I am only stating my facts on your stupid left wing polls. But you can't or won't admit the difference.
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"Wtorek to nie mój dzień."
Translation:Tuesday is not my day.
It would be helpful for these to be presented a bit more before asking us to reproduce them from recordings.
Why i cannot reply on someone else's comment?


Venus Williams fell to a tough Lucie Safarova in the first round of the W&S Open.
Following his magical run in Toronto, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga just didn't have enough to defeat Mikhail Youzhny today.
How tough is the US Open Series summer of tennis? Just ask Venus Williams and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
A finalist and champion, respectively, at the Rogers Cup in Canada last week, Williams and Tsonga combined for an 11 match wins in the span of seven days.
But Tuesday they were both bundled out of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati in opening-round matches, victims perhaps of fatigue, but also of the packed draws that the U.S. hardcourt swing come along with in the lead-up to the year's final major.
Her first-round opponent was world No. 17 Lucie Safarova, a semifinalist at Wimbledon just last month. Tsonga, the 12th seed, drew Mikhail Youzhny, a two-time US Open semifinalist (2006 and 2010) and a current world No. 25 that has Wimbledon just last month. Tsonga, the 12th been ranked as high as No. 8.
Unlike the majors, when top players often face qualifiers or opponents outside the top 50 to start in order to work their way into a tournament, champions like Williams and Tsonga have no respite during US Open Series events. This week in Cincinnati, main draw cutoffs were No. 43 (women) and No. 57 (men).
Only four times since 1995 has any man won Canada and Cincinnati – the biggest events of the US Open Series – back-to-back: Andre Agassi (1995), Patrick Rafter (1998), Andy Roddick (2003) and Rafael Nadal (2013). The latter three went on to win the US Open.
Late Tuesday afternoon Andrea Petkvoic, a semifinalist at the French Open this year, faced Sloane Stephens, the rising American star and former world No. 11, in a first round match.
That came after five-time Slam champion Maria Sharapova bested up-and-comer Madison Keys, albeit in a second-round battle. It wasn't easy, however, Sharapova needing three sets to take down the world No. 28.
Wednesday, world No. 1 Serena Williams will take on Sam Stosur in round two, a rematch of the 2011 US Open final. Wimbledon finalist Genie Bouchard gets two-time major winner Svetlana Kuznetsova in her first match in Cincy.
Roger Federer, who lost to Tsonga in the Toronto final, gets another young gun in Vasek Pospisil, the dangerous Canadian, to start.


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The Batman Review on Opening Weekend
Owen Wolff, [email protected]|March 9, 2022
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In "The Batman," Batman, played by Robert Pattinson, is in the midst of his second year fighting crime in Gotham City. During the film, Batman comes across two other animal-themed characters, the thieving Catwoman, played by Zoë Kravitz and the mobster Penguin, played by Colin Farrel. However, Batman's primary conflict is with the Riddler, played by Paul Dano, a scheming psychopath who commits a string of PG-13 murders that Batman needs to solve.
"The Batman" is a slick film—literally. It's raining more often than not. To elaborate on the film's style, there is heavy use of shallow focus, wherein large parts of the shot are blurred out in order to draw attention to a subject, which is normally Batman. It is nice to see a modern blockbuster remember what a functioning camera can do. This effect also reinforces the film's focus on Batman, with the film rarely breaking away from his subjective perspective. The viewer even gets "knocked out" along with Batman at certain points in the film.
Speaking of getting knocked out, that is exactly how it felt after this movie's three-hour runtime. The story is convoluted and bloated with one uninteresting plot twist after another. The music is repetitive. The fight scenes are competent, yet nothing spectacular. At least Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Batman gets a little character development, although it comes so late in the film that it feels like an afterthought. Only Paul Dano's "committed" (to put it mildly) performance as a man child version of the Riddler stands out in any capacity. "AHHH! THIS IS NOT HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO!," said the Riddler.
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My bank has some new doors.
They're designed to increase security, I reckon. To stop people with guns and balaclavas rushing in and swearing and rushing out again with our hard-earned cash. This is a good thing, we need the bank to look after our cash. Not a trace of irony here. None.
The trouble with the new bank doors is that, although they may well thwart the robber-hoard and keep our euro safely abed, they do nothing to ease customer passage in and out of the bank.
In short, these new doors are just a massive pain in the hole.
They act like an airlock. You go in the first set of glazed double doors and find yourself in a small lobby facing another identical set of glazed double doors. All fine. The trouble is that the second set of doors won't open until the first set of doors are securely closed behind you. It's for security, you see. If balaclava-ridden thuggies breach the first doors they will have to stand and wait before they can get through the second set and this allows some time for all sorts of buttons to be pushed and breasts to be clutched.
Well done, the bank, you've done it, I reckon. You've defeated the robbers. Of course, in defeating the robbers you've also defeated the poor customers too. You've thrown out the baby-depositor with the bank water.
The customers are bemused, deflated, outraged, frustrated and slightly-sweary about these doors. I can confirm this for I myself am a customer.
Let me walk you through the new-bank-door experience.
You arrive at the entrance to the bank. You have a small cheque you wish to deposit. Life is pretty darned good. You are surprised to see that the area behind the glazed entrance doors into the bank is wedged with a human mosaic of people, all pressed up against the glass, swollen-faced and distorted.
There's a little square white button to the side of the door and you push it in that spirit of exploration and scientific betterment which drives practically all forms of human endeavour. The doors burst open and the trapped people all spill out from within onto the pavement at your feet. Rather like that little Kintner boy in 'Jaws' might have done if it had been the right shark and not just some number-plate-munching impostor from upstate. They pick themselves up, the spilled-people, dust themselves down and mutter-off into the irreparably-spoiled morning.
A select few denizens of the between-door area have not fallen out because they were far enough back in the darkened bowels of the lobby to survive the intemperate horror of the door release. They now beckon you inside like hungry witches, their shrivelled fingers crooked in faux welcome. You object. You explain to them how you can't really go anywhere until they come out of the lobby so why not just come on out and stop inviting you in? It's only good sense but these lobby-lingerers don't see it that way. It's almost as if, in the small timescale they have spent in the bank lobby, they have become institutionalised and reluctant to abandon the unquestionable security of the betwixt-door area.
You humour them, you enter the lobby and now the spell is broken and the welcoming residents suddenly understand the need to get out, to escape. They bombard you with their perambulators and their lollipop-drooling offspring as they make one final all-out bolt for freedom.
Suddenly they are gone and it is just you in the lobby. Silence falls. The outer door eases slowly to that closed position which will enable the inner door to be opened via a similarly square and white button which currently mocks you with its imposed impotency. You watch the inner door swoon towards the consummation of its closure and, when it is within millimetres of completion, you turn to punch the white square button that will allow you into the inner sanctum. You punch the button. Nothing happens. What new hell is this now? You turn, the outer door is wide open again. Some megastar with no hair and milkbottle glasses has pulled the door open at the last minute. You shoot hostile glares and him which his thick glasses and his shiny pate simultaneously conspire to reflect back at you. He is remorseless or impervious, whichever, one of those things that annoying outer-door-opening people are.
In a huff, you move to the outer door and try to make a silent point about your annoyance by trying to pull the door to a closed position before some other gobshite shows up outside. The door weighs exactly the same as those barbells which the Lithuanian Weightlifters attempt to lift for show right after they've secured the Olympic Gold Medal. You feel an ancient hernia pop somewhere deep down in your groin and still the door will only close at whatever speed it chooses.
Finally it is closed and a new person arriving outside is accosted with a hostile glare of such magnitude that he falls away from the door in shock and awe. Meanwhile the Megastar has activated the inner door and has slipped away into the murky halls of banking. Now a new hoarde, trapped within holding their completed business slips for far too long, stampede into the lobby blocking your exit. Deaf to your protestations, they pull the inner door closed and this door responds much easier than the outer one ever would. Of course it does. You are trapped, trapped and now doomed to face the exit charge all over again. Not to mention the shock and awe merchant from outside who will derive much glee from informing you that he can't go anywhere until you come out so please stop beckoning him in.
The new double doors into the bank may keep my meagre money safer but I sometimes wonder if it is worth the cost in human misery that it extorts minute by minute by minute.
It is a thing that is utterly without joy.
Wait, I take that back. There is one joy.
When you finally get inside and have joined the automatic teller queue and you have nothing at all to do for the next few minutes, it is fun to watch the people trapped in the maelstrom of the door lobby living the horror for themselves.
That bit is quite good actually.
Banks have long moved on from caring much about the customer. The cash-dispenser, located as it is, outside in the wind and the rain that we frequently enjoy, is one example. Not making payments to other banks, at the counter, is another example. And of course, protection from the robber is justification for just about anything else they care to do.
I pity some of the staff. You can tell they are embarrassed by the goings-on. Others were so aloof before the changes were introduced, that the new way only serves to reinforce their attitude.
So much of Irish (and perhaps world-wide) society has changed for the worse in the course of my lifetime. And lots have changed for the better too.
One big change is in the broad landscape of the rights of minorities. Nobody can nor should attempt to deny equal rights, but in some areas a new inequality has occurred because the rights of minorities are given more weight than those of the majority. A balance needs to be struck to achieve a true equality.
In the case of the threat of robberies, the customer shouldn't be discommoded in the way you have outlined above. Rather the judicial system should make it so unattractive for robbers in the first place, that we could all go on about our business in a reasonable way.
My bank has no doors. Okay, it has doors but during opening hours they're thrown wide open and you can wander in and out and in and out at your leisure. My bank's situated in a shopping mall which is why but none of the branches I've ever been in over the years has had anything fancier than a plain ol' glass door and I wouldn't have it any other way. We don't go to the bank very often to be honest. Carrie does everything online. But I have to admit the new doors you describe would be enough for me to shift my money elsewhere. It's not as if any one bank is much better or worse than the others. Who came out of the banking crises untarnished? Not many. What I have noticed is how in recent years how downright grovelly everyone in my bank has got. If I have to queue more than two minutes some obsequious minion sidles up beside me to apologise for the delay. I can't be jugged with all of that. I really hate all that "Suit you, sir!" fawning that goes on. Especially because all those who're tasked with salvaging the bank's image aren't the ones who sullied it in the first place.
Living in a very small town, I was surprised when our bank adopted this system when none of the banks in larger towns have even thought about it. Sure, it feels like a plexiglass cattle shute and I did "run into" the inner door the first time as I failed to wait for the one behind me to shut.
That said, the fun of living in a small town is that there is hardly ever a soul in front of you so the bank teller often waves hello as you wait for that little light to turn green and let you in.
i had the misfortune of getting 'air locked' in that bank the other day with a wellie wearing, silage stinking farmer. i knew it was going to happen as i approached the front door. he entered first and i took a large gulp of air to see if it would sustain me through the ritual of waiting for the green light. however the said silage spreader did not know how to work the entrance system and tried a number of times to push pull and finally shake the crap out of the door before i breathed out to show him he had to press the green button. he was lucky i didn't leave my lunch on the perfectly cleaned see through doors.