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Review, Pricing and Specs
With the removal of its gas engine, the Fit EV loses everything we love about that car and replaces it with a higher price tag and 82-mile range. You can't buy this car—you can only lease it—and it's available in a limited number of states. On the plus side, Honda keeps it simple with one trim level and one color combination. Without its zippy gas engine, its nimble handling, and less interior roominess, though, we can't help feeling a certain sense of loss—in every sense of the word.
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FROM debian:jessie

MAINTAINER "base2Services" <itsupport@base2services.com>

# Defaulting to 4.3.0 as this is Currently supported on Lambda
ARG NODE_VERSION=4.3.0

# Set node version
ENV NODE_VERSION $NODE_VERSION

# Install nodejs
RUN apt-get -qq update \
    && apt-get -qq install curl git xz-utils bzip2 python build-essential vim libfontconfig1 \
    && curl -SLO "https://nodejs.org/dist/v$NODE_VERSION/node-v$NODE_VERSION-linux-x64.tar.gz" \
    && tar -xzf "node-v$NODE_VERSION-linux-x64.tar.gz" -C /usr/local --strip-components=1 \
    && rm "node-v$NODE_VERSION-linux-x64.tar.gz" \
    && apt-get clean \
    && npm install -g grunt-cli \
    && mkdir -p /data/node

# Scan GitHub's key and add to known hosts
RUN mkdir /root/.ssh/ \
  && touch /root/.ssh/known_hosts \
  && ssh-keyscan github.com >> /root/.ssh/known_hosts

# Scan BitBucket's key and add to known hosts
RUN ssh-keyscan bitbucket.com >> /root/.ssh/known_hosts

# Set workdir
WORKDIR /data/node

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Volvo vehicles are well known for their quality and their versatility. With all the technology that goes into making modern vehicles, it's becoming more and more difficult for Volvo owners to find an auto shop who knows how to perform dependable Volvo service. Many people rely just on their dealership, but that often means long waiting times and you paying more for less. Don't leave your precious vehicle in the hands of people who aren't experts with decades of experience. Thankfully at Kniesel's Auto Service, we have that experience and we are your Volvo service experts. With ASE Certified staff who continually learn about the latest tools and technology, our service is done right the first time and we get it done fast.


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package cn.mapway.ui.client.modules.test;

import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiBinder;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;

import cn.mapway.ui.client.widget.common.DialogBoxEx;

public class TestDialogBox extends DialogBoxEx {

	private static TestDialogBoxUiBinder uiBinder = GWT.create(TestDialogBoxUiBinder.class);

	interface TestDialogBoxUiBinder extends UiBinder<Widget, TestDialogBox> {
	}

	public TestDialogBox() {
		setWidget(uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this));
		setText("测试弹出框");
	}

}


For (I think) the first time on this blog, I've made a post password-protected. I don't really want to make that a regular habit, but the subject matter is sufficiently nuanced and potentially controversial that I wanted to let a few trusted folks review it before I made my position globally visible.
In fact, I think one could fairly make the point that the whole play is the tension between Aaron Burr ("Talk less; Smile more") and Hamilton's exuberant position taking.
I think the real world should be a balance between these things. I gave a speech about guns on campus last week, and I fully expected that the former faculty and other audience members would be very frustrated with the state of Kansas law. I was pleasantly surprised at how open and free the dialogue proved, and it was a remarkably civil and informed conversation. The experience gave me hope that we can still maintain civil society through conversation, facts, and dialogue. I was flattered when one audience member commented that my talk was "encyclopedic".
I suppose I'm lucky to be unafraid of public speaking. When given the chance, I think I'm going to continue holding talks and forums on interest of public issues, even when they are controversial. In any case, I hope I never lose the humility to be open to changing my own mind, even when I hold what I think is a nuanced and researched position. But I also think that part of being a good citizen is the ability to hold and debate opinions on controversial subjects, even if I'm not willing to advertise these on my blog.


Wow… how strange it is to be back sitting at my desk. I'm so relaxed after our vacation – my mind is struggling to accept the fact that so much work awaits me! Alabama gave us just what we needed: lots of food, family time, football and mindless relaxation. Amazing. And driving across the country was so easy! I'm sure most of our family members and friends thought we were crazy to drive, but it was even easier than we had imagined. We drove straight through both directions, and it was awesome getting to see so much pass by our window. We'd definitely do it again! And I was way off on my estimation about it taking 37 hours to get there. It took exactly 30 – just like Google maps predicted.
One of our many discussions around the dinner table.
I'm kicking myself for not recording any of my Granddad's story telling. He's got some good stories!
From left to right: Ethan (the youngest of the grandkids), Regan (our elder, as I call her) and Abbster. Dearest cousin David not pictured.
The house in Mobile. Minus one of the giant trees that recently fell.
I love this picture! It was so dim that I had to set the camera to f/1.4, hence the reason why only my Aunt Nancy is in focus. I forgot to warn my mom before taking the picture :) Happy accident!
Where most of our time was spent.
Where most of my mom and Aunt Nancy's time was spent – preparing meals for up to 12 people at a time!
We don't mess around when it comes to gingerbread houses. Or in this case, gram cracker houses.
Blossom was loving having so many people around.
Bam! Our gram cracker Airstream!
Take this ball away from me and I will cut you! Never mind. Scratches are way more fun.


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Global survey reveals strong support for Geneva Conventions but growing indifference to torture
December 7, 2016 Global Author Afghanistan and South Sudan, Geneva Conventions, Iraq, Syrian city of Aleppo
Geneva (ICRC) – With fighting intensifying around the Syrian city of Aleppo, a new survey, published today, on how people around the world perceive a range of issues relating to war, indicates overwhelming support in the belief that wars should have limits. It also reveals deeply concerning views on torture and civilian casualties.
The survey of over 17,000 people took place between June and September, in sixteen countries. Ten of those countries were experiencing armed conflict at the time including Iraq, Afghanistan and South Sudan. The permanent member countries of the UN Security Council (P5 – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were also part of what is the largest survey of its kind ever carried out by the ICRC.
Eight in ten people surveyed think combatants should avoid civilians as much as possible when attacking the enemy. The same number thinks attacking hospitals, ambulances and healthcare workers, in order to weaken an enemy, is wrong.
However, a startling 36% of respondents believe that captured enemy combatants can be tortured to obtain important military information. Only slightly less than half of the people (48%) asked this year, believe this behaviour is wrong, compared to 66% in a 1999 survey. 16% said they didn't know.
"In such troubled times, it's heartening to see that the vast majority of people believe that the laws of war matter. This recognition of basic human values flies in the face of the appalling violations we see on a daily basis in our work", said the president of the ICRC, Peter Maurer.
"The results also show that we all need to redraw a line in the sand: torture in any form is forbidden. We demonise our enemies at our own peril. Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely. Using torture only triggers a race to the bottom. It has a devastating impact on the victims, and it brutalizes entire societies for generations."
The survey indicates that if you live in or near a conflict-affected country, you are more likely to respond humanely to questions on the laws of war. In P5 countries, it appears that people are more resigned to civilian casualties and suffering as an inevitable part of warfare:
78% of people living in countries affected by war said it was wrong to attack enemy combatants in populated areas, knowing that many civilians would be killed. In P5 countries, only 50% of people said it's wrong.
26% of people in P5 countries think depriving the civilian population of essentials like food, water and medicine to weaken the enemy is just "part of war", compared to 14% in countries affected by war.
"Faced with constant, gruesome images from the world's frontlines, we must not lose our empathy and become numb to human suffering," said Mr Maurer. "But the overwhelming message from this survey is that people truly believe in the importance of international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, and the protection of civilians during times of conflict."
The four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols seek to limit the effects of warfare on those who do not participate in hostilities, such as civilians or wounded and captured combatants.
"The effectiveness and relevance of the laws of war are being questioned perhaps more than at any time in recent history", added Mr Maurer. "And yet, it is clear that people do not believe in a battlefield 'free for all'. The survey shows that there's a disconnect between the public, who believe that targeting civilians, hospitals and humanitarian workers is unacceptable, and the policies and actions of States and armed groups who commit these acts."
The complete results of the "People on War" survey can be found at
www.icrc.org/peopleonwar
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Central and Eastern Europe faces the end of an economic era.
With employment rates at record highs, and workers demanding wages closer to western levels, the cheap-labor model that has driven growth since the fall of communism is on the way out.
The challenge that faces governments and companies in the region over the coming years is to find new avenues to growth.
A walkout at the Volkswagen factory in Bratislava last month, the first strike at a major Slovak car plant, led to a staggered 14 percent pay hike in what has become the latest and starkest sign of the shifting economic landscape.
VW was one of dozens of big Western manufacturers beating a path to Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary after the fall of communism in search of cheap labor.
The rush eastwards marked the birth of an economic model that transformed the region. But a quarter of a century down the line, the regional labor market is running dry, with record low unemployment rates of around 3-7 percent across the region.
As a result wages are rising faster than in the West - led by Hungary with a 12.8 percent year-on-year leap in March.
Zoroslav Smolinsky, the VW Slovakia union leader who engineered the strike, had joined the production line in 1992, when the plant had just been taken over by Germany's VW (VOWG_p.DE).
Today Volkswagen's 12,300 workers in Bratislava earn an average of 1,804 euros a month.
Such rates, however, remain less than half the average Volkswagen pay packet in Germany, and Smolinsky says such huge disparity can no longer be justified.
The strike was resolved with the wage increase phased over more than two years, as well as a 500 euro one-off bonus for each employee and an extra day of holiday. VW is not alone in facing rising labor costs and strife.
French carmaker Peugeot (PEUP.PA) and South Korea's Kia (000270.KS) have both raised pay this year in Slovakia, while Audi and Mercedes have faced strike threats in Hungary.
The moves by the car makers are particularly significant because the auto industry represents the lion's share of foreign investment in Central and Eastern Europe. Volkswagen units, for example, are the biggest companies in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while Slovakia has become the world's top carmaker per capita, producing more than 1 million a year.
Moscow-based investment banking group Renaissance Capital said foreign investors would not abandon existing projects in the region, but new investments were likely to go elsewhere.
"Never again is Central Europe likely to offer what it did in the 1990s," it said in a note to investors.
Companies are taking steps to improve productivity via methods like increased automation in order to offset rising costs, say executives, policymakers and analysts. In the longer-term some could go to other countries instead in search of cheaper labor.
Volkswagen signaled it could steer clear of Slovakia for future investments if faced with another costly showdown with workers.
Renaissance Capital said investors in search of cheap labor would ultimately look further south and east.
"When European business confidence is high again, we think the next wave of investment expansion will lap the shores of Turkey and the southern Mediterranean," it added, also singling out Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and possibly Ukraine and Iran.
Filip Eisenreich, CEO of Czech ventilation and cooling system producer Janka Engineering, a unit of India-based Lloyd Group, said his company was raising wages by 7-8 percent this year and was "pretty much on the edge" in terms of labor costs.
"Further growth (in wages) without concurrent growth in productivity would not be sustainable for us," he told Reuters.
While labor productivity has long been lower than in Western Europe, "this difference has so far been compensated for by lower wage costs, but those rise faster every year than in western European countries", he added.
Radek Spicar, vice-president of the Czech Confederation of Industry, said intensifying wage pressures were forcing firms to automate more, something his organization trains. Seminars "have been packed to the roof", he said.
The issue of wage disparity is a highly charged one that is pervading society and politics across the region.
It is at the heart of a perception among Poles, Slovaks, Czechs and Hungarians that they are seen by Western Europe as second-class Europeans. Politicians have seized on such grievances and have taken up the call for better pay.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico backed the Volkswagen strikers, while in the Czech Republic the ruling Social Democrats have erected billboards ahead of an October election declaring "The End of Cheap Labour".
However political and labor leaders aiming to bring wages in line with the West must find alternative paths to economic success. Crucial to this, most agree, is to move industries up the value chain into higher-margin areas.
Big manufacturers share less of their income with employees in Central and Eastern Europe than they do in Western Europe. In the EU, wages on average accounts for 47.5 percent of economic output, according to Eurostat - but while that figure reaches 50.9 in Germany it drops to just 40.4 in the Czech Republic.
But workers in Central and Eastern Europe are less financially productive. According to OECD data, an hour of work in Germany produces 52.7 euros of German economic output, but just 19.4 euros in the Czech Republic.
Part of the reason is that many Czech firms produce lower-margin components for global chains rather than the finished products that deliver higher margins and profits.
Policymakers are looking to invest in higher-margin sectors.
"We have to get ourselves away from the economic model based on being a low-cost economy and switch to production with higher added-value," said Michal Picl, head of analysis in the Czech prime minister's office.
There are already examples, such as Czech government support for a plan by U.S. aircraft engine supplier GE Aviation, part of General Electric (GE.N), to build a 350-million-euro development and production plant for turboprop engines in Prague.
Peter Stracar, General Electric's CEO for Central and Eastern Europe, said the region's future industrial success hinged on moving into higher-margin businesses.
"We must find ways to create more value-added technology in CEE and GE is at the forefront in doing so," he told Reuters.
He said his company had hired over 2,500 highly qualified employees in Hungary in engineering, finance and software development over the past three years. The region had much to offer beyond low wages, he added, citing factors including the stability of its legal systems and its geographical proximity to the markets of Western Europe.
"It is not just a question of low cost," he said.


Nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are known to directly inhibit mitochondrial complex I activity as well as various mitochondrial kinases. Recent observations that complex I activity and superoxide production are modulated through cAMP-dependent phosphorylation suggests a mechanism through which NRTIs may affect mitochondrial respiration via kinase-dependent protein phosphorylation. In the current study, we examine the potential for NRTIs to inhibit the cAMP-dependent phosphorylation of complex I and the associated NADH:CoQ oxidoreductase activities and rates of superoxide production using HepG2 cells. Phosphoprotein staining of immunocaptured complex I revealed that 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT; 10 and 50 microM), AZT monophosphate (150 microM), and 2',3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC; 1 microM) prevented the phosphorylation of the NDUFB11 subunit of complex I. This was associated with a decrease in complex I activity with AZT and AZT monophosphate only. In the presence of succinate, superoxide production was increased with 2',3'-dideoxyinosine (ddI; 10 microM) and ddC (1 microM). In the presence of succinate+cAMP, AZT showed an inverse dose-dependent effect on superoxide production. None of the NRTIs examined inhibit PKA activity suggesting that the observed effects are due to a direct interaction with complex I. These data demonstrate a direct effect of NRTIs on cAMP-dependent regulation of mitochondrial bioenergetics independent of DNA polymerase-gamma activity; in the case of AZT, these observations may provide a mechanism for the observed long-term toxicity with this drug.


— Tonight SHOWTIME® is airing TOGETHER: The Hendrick Motorsports Story at 10:30 PM ET/PT. The documentary style film is narrated by everybody's favorite couch jumping hottie, and Hendrick family friend, Tom Cruise.
— Carl Edwards will make his 200th Cup start with Roush Fenway Racing this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway. He's just the fifth driver in the 23-year history of Roush Fenway to do so.
— Did you know that Dale Earnhardt Jr. opened another Whisky River location? Well he did and it's in Jacksonville, Florida. Kelly Bires will be driving a special Whisky River Jacksonville paint scheme on the No. 88 for the Bashas' Supermarkets 200 at PIR this weekend.
— Ya know, it's really easy to be green. I don't know what Kermit The Frog was yelping about. J/K, I know what he meant, he obviously wasn't talking about helping reduce waste and save the planet, I think he was referencing personal issues. Anyway, enough about Kermie, and more about Tony Stewart and his No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy and it's new paint scheme for this weekend's Subway Fresh Fit 600 at Phoenix International Raceway.
Office Depot® has teamed up with EarthEra®, a program created by NextEra™ Energy Resources, North America's largest producer of wind and solar power, to launch a new Office Depot Greener Shipping Program that we can all benefit from.
The new Office Depot Greener Shipping Program encourages eligible Office Depot customers to "grow greener" by changing how they buy office supplies. When eligible customers eliminate small orders, increase average order size and help reduce delivery frequency, Office Depot will provide rebates on certain green products and purchase EarthEra products on the customer's behalf.
Check out the greener office products Office Depot has to offer and learn more about Office Depot's Earth Day Grow Greener campaign.


text: President Hamid Karzai on 00 date signed a presidential decree to establish the Afghanistan National Army, all the army of Afghanistan, former resistance fighters, and placed the other of the armed forces under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense (MoD). The United States, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan National Army, which is grown by France, are placed to assume the responsibility of ground operations that purpose. To establish a powerful army of ten thousand people have been determined by [the Bonn Agreement]. Reform of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff headquarters was started in 2000 spring. The purpose was to create an organization with a wide range of foundation formed by experts who balanced of each ethnic group. In 00 years, the Afghan National Army troops have been deployed with allied troops for the first time the United States-led. Prior to this deployment, soldiers completed the Takeshi training 0 weeks. In accordance with the training progresses scale to expand, engineering, medical, new capabilities, such as reconnaissance, armed forces training, support, will become part of the deployment.


[Chart of the day] What are the most important marketing channels for CMOs' and the best digital channels for measuring ROI?
When it comes to online vs. offline marketing for generating revenue and increasing sales, the most important media channels for CMO's (from automotive, consumer packaged goods, retail, telecommunications, technology and travel industries) according to Nielsen, were social media 79%, search 73%, online video63%, email 59% and mobile video 56%.
Unsurprisingly, offline media channels appear to be the least important with out-of-home 20%, radio 23%, print 25%, and direct mail 25% ranking the least important of the 13 media channels, with only 4% of CMO's who considered Out-Of-Home to be extremely important for their organisation.
Wonderful, -but is it SMART?
Why does social media outrank billboard or bus shelter advertising in terms of importance for CMOs? A wild guess is that the one is more measurable than the other, and therefore much better for calculating ROI.
The chart below ranks marketers' ability to measure ROI from digital channels and demonstrates that PPC, email marketing, affiliate marketing, and lead generation were the best digital marketing channels for measuring ROI in May 2016.
I'm yet to find a chart for 2018, but the data above likely still holds true for today, although according to Nielsen, digital media as a category is now composed of a variety of distinct media types, such as search, social media, online video, OTT (over-the-top) TV/connected TV (CTV), mobile video, email, and online display advertising. According to Nielsen's CMO report, marketers rated social media, search, email, video and online display as the most important digital channels in 2018.
With zero-based budgeting and increasing revenue-and-sales targets, now is the best time to demonstrate bang for each penny spent, with actionable insights, -only really possible through digital and predictive analytics.
Local SEO is the process of optimizing your online presence to bring in the most relevant, local customers Local SEO is absolutely core to the success of many businesses. While lots now operate online, most businesses need their local customers …..


A fun project to do for the family is to plant a Resurrection Garden that will bloom just in time for Easter!
Today I'm sharing with you a project for a DIY Resurrection Garden for Easter Decorating. I have waited almost a year to share this project with you! My hubby and I put our Resurrection Garden in the photos together last year and then used it for our Easter decorating.
It turned out great and was such an easy project to do. I know the kids would love helping you plant the grass seeds and watering every day as well. The instructions are pretty easy on how to plant a resurrection garden on your own too!
I had originally planned on using our Resurrection Garden as our centerpiece for the dining room table, but then decided to keep it on the sideboard right next to the table. It look great and was the perfect conversation piece when family came over.
Make sure you check out the shopping list at the end of this project.
Using the hacksaw, cut the small clay pot in half. This will help create the mound for the tomb.
Place the clay saucer in the decorative planter dish and then add dirt around the clay pot. Remember, you are forming the ground around the tomb for your resurrection garden. Leave space in front for the river rock.
Add the river rock in front of the tomb opening and then add the grass seed.
Place the resurrection garden in a sunny location and water it daily using a spray bottle. Do not use a watering can. You will have a mess on your hands! After about a week you will start to see grass shooting up through the dirt. You're going to want to rotate the planter so all the grass doesn't lean or grow towards the sun.
After a few weeks you'll have a nice amount of grass growing. And yes, you should trim it.
Find a stone that you can use to place in front of the tomb. You can purchase one or just go a hunt in the garden. We found this one at the lake that is near our house.
We used twigs found in the yard to create the crosses. Place the crosses in the resurrection garden and find the perfect place to display. I put our's in the dining room on the buffet table in front of two nice sized windows. It continued to grow and was a great conversation starter on Easter Sunday when our family and friends came over for dinner.
I loved this project and wish we would have done it when our children were younger. When Easter was over, we moved the planter outside but the grass soon died. So we put placed the planter in the garden shed and left it alone until just a few days ago…because it's time to get ready for Easter again! After removing the old grass we put a fresh layer of soil on top and planted new grass seed. I can't wait to see how our garden turns out again this year!
That really came out nice. What a great teaching project for kids.
I have seen these before and plan to make one. Maybe this year is the time. Love it. So glad you shared with us at Merry Monday. Shared to my FB page.


All the signs were that Steven Spielberg's version of H.G.Wells's classic would be a turkey. The reluctance to show this film to critics, the feeble trailer, the lacklustre nature of Spielberg's last effort (The Terminal) and Tom Cruise's transparently desperate attempt to drum up publicity all pointed in the same direction – but, as it turns out, the wrong one. War of the Worlds is a massive return to form for Spielberg, the best blockbuster of the summer (superior even to Batman Begins) and, I would be happy to argue, one of the greatest action epics of all time.
There has been no director better than Spielberg at manufacturing huge, action-and-special-effects blockbusters that don't neglect the human, the humorous, the seemingly inconsequential detail that sets the hairs on the back of our neck on end. That is the reason why he is the most commercially successful director ever, and the central explanation of why War of the Worlds is likely to become this year's biggest hit.
When in full-out commercial mode, as here, Spielberg doesn't make pictures that win actors Oscar nominations. But once again he makes excellent use of the world's most popular actor, Tom Cruise (pictured left).
For all his drive and good looks, Cruise has a cocky, egocentric side, and his boyishness is starting to look spooky in a man over 40. Spielberg skilfully sets up the expectation that Cruise will be a conventionally pushy, Bruce Willis-style, blue-collar action-hero (the first shot shows him lifting huge containers in the docks, from within a gigantic crane), but then this master-director turns our assumptions on their head. This is virtually the first action picture since Hitchcock's North by Northwest, in which the hero spends all his time running away.
"Where's the heroism in that?" you may well ask. His heroism lies in his determination to protect not his own life, but his children's. And Spielberg makes his emotional progress to maturity beautifully clear.
When we first meet Cruise, his work down at the docks has made him late for an appointment to take charge of his two children by his former wife (Miranda Otto), now heavily pregnant by another man. With admirable economy, and largely through images, Spielberg shows us a family so dysfunctional that it has collapsed, the class reasons why it has broken down (she's posher than he is), as well as the personal reasons (his reluctance to grow up and take responsibility).
Heavy machinery, cars and even guns, Tom can handle. Where he's all at sea is in his relations with his ex-wife, his 17 year-old son (Justin Chatwin, pictured right), all gangly walk and headphones, like a non-tennis-playing Andrew Murray, and Tom's little daughter (Dakota Fanning, pictured centre), who's into health foods.
There's a great little verbal exchange when Tom spreads a sandwich for her.
"I'm allergic to peanut butter," says Dakota.
"Oh? Since when?" Tom banters merrily.
"Birth," replies Dakota, with an accusatory stare that could fell any absentee father at 20 paces.
There's another lovely moment later on, when Dakota (an uncannily fine child actress) needs her father to comfort her with a lullaby. He doesn't know any, so he sings her a verse of "Little Deuce Coupe", showing her, us and – in a moment of revelation – himself, that he can sing about his affection for a car, but not for his own daughter.
As for epic special effects and searing imagery, Spielberg does not disappoint. Bridges collapse, boats sink, aircraft crash, people explode, a train rushes past with its carriages on fire. The crowd scenes here are especially brilliantly directed.
Just as important as the awe-inspiring spectacle, however, are the pace of the storytelling and the masterful use of suspense (there's a scene in a basement that's just as effective as the kitchen hunt by the velociraptors in Jurassic Park, or the search by the mechanical spiders in Minority Report). All the time, Spielberg makes us feel we are involved within the action, with some telling detail that brings us closer to the characters – a spider crawling on someone's face, perhaps, or just a look caught in a child's eye.
Spielberg has often been accused of sentimentality, of sidling away from the darker sides of humanity. Here, Spielberg not only takes a much bleaker view of aliens than in Close Encounters and ET (there are no glowing fingers on these guys), he also takes a very much bleaker view of ordinary people.
After the aliens attack, we see Americans loot, panic and riot. And when a stranger (Tim Robbins) takes Cruise and his daughter under his wing, we see not only a nastily right-wing, survivalist streak below the surface of American life, but also more than a hint of paedophilia. Spielberg seems to have lost his Capra-esque confidence in the Common Man, and this makes his film all the more dark, dangerous and convincing. Be aware, incidentally, that this 12A film is definitely not suitable for children under 12 years old, and may give people much older than that nightmares.
The economical script, which never fails to grip or entertain, is by the up-and-coming Josh Friedman and David Koepp, who did similarly intelligent work on Jurassic Park, The Paper and Stir of Echoes. The excellent, Oscar-worthy camerawork is by Janusz Kaminski, who also shot Schindler's List, Minority Report and Saving Private Ryan. And Spielberg's genius – not a word I use often, but for once it's justified – means that the story-telling would be just as clear if you couldn't understand a word of English.
Spielberg doesn't trivialise H.G.Wells's 1898 novel about aliens disrupting the bourgeois normality of Woking. He enriches it with his own concerns and turns it into a parable about the need for men to find the father that is potentially within them. Men, he argues, need to stop being boys, and become real men. It's a timely message.
Admittedly, Spielberg has approached this theme before – notably in Schindler's List and Jurassic Park, less notably in Hook – but he has never done so in a movie that's as full of thrills and spectacle as this.
With Jaws, 30 years ago, the young Spielberg single-handedly invented the Summer blockbuster. It's good to see that, when the chips are down and many critics are eagerly preparing to write him off, the old Maestro can still show us all how to do it.


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OUT OF MIND » THE INSANITY OF REALITY » GLOBAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE » 38,000 Australian Bank Customers Win Largest Class Action Over Fees 2012 SEPTEMBER 6
38,000 Australian Bank Customers Win Largest Class Action Over Fees 2012 SEPTEMBER 6
1 38,000 Australian Bank Customers Win Largest Class Action Over Fees 2012 SEPTEMBER 6 Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:07 am
38,000 Australian Bank Customers Win Largest Class Action Over Fees
2012 SEPTEMBER 6
tags: Australia, Bank Fees, Largest Class Action
Posted by Stephen Cook
By Nicola Berkovic, The Australian – September 6, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/99f799v
BANK customers involved in the nation's largest class action, against ANZ Bank, have claimed a victory in the High Court, which today declared the bank's over-limit fees could be characterised as a penalty or punishment.
This means the bank's $29.95 over-limit fee – charged on top of 4 per cent interest on the amount overdrawn by the customer – could be illegal.
ANZ now faces an uphill battle to convince the Federal Court the fee is a genuine estimate of its costs and not a penalty.
Justin Gleeson SC, representing 38,000 ANZ customers, had argued that fees charged by banks when customers exceeded their limits did not provide any service and were in fact a punishment.
He argued the bank already recovered its costs by charging the customer 4 per cent interest on the amount overdrawn, and that the $29.95 fee was "unjust enrichment of the bank".
The case is part of a wider class action funded by litigation funder IMF on behalf of 170,000 customers from ANZ, Commonwealth, National Australia Bank, Westpac, St George, Citibank, Bankwest and Bank SA who are claiming more than $223 million in excessive fees. The claims against ANZ began in September 2010 in the Federal Court.
In December last year, the Federal Court found that late payment fees were capable of being penalties because they were charged as a result of a breach of contract. But the court said other fees, such as dishonour fees – where banks charge a fee for overdrawn accounts as well as interest on the amount overdrawn – were not a penalty but a service.
This morning, the High Court unanimously rejected the notion that only fees payable for a breach of contract were capable of being classed as a penalty or punishment.
It said even though dishonour or over-limit fees were not payable on a breach of contract, they could still be characterised as a penalty.
The High Court took just three weeks to reach its decision. The hearing was the last for influential High Court judge Bill Gummow, who retires next month when he turns 70.
It will now be up to the Federal Court to determine, on the facts, whether the fees were in fact penalties or represented a genuine reflection of the bank's costs.
James Middleweek, the managing director of IMF subsidiary, Financial Redress, which is handling the case said the decision was a "tremendous victory".
"It's great news for (the) 170,000 bank customers (involved in the class action) and we'd urge everyone to join up," he said.
"For the many banks that are still charging these excessive fees, the High Court has given a very sharp warning that these could be illegal."
Mr Middleweek said anyone could still join the class action via the Financial Redress website.
He said industry estimates suggested the banks had charged a total of about $5 billion in unfair fees over the six years covered by the claim.
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Gainsford is a rural locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gainsford had a population of 14 people.

Geography
The Dawson River forms the western boundary, while the Don River forms part of the southern on its way to join the Dawson.

Road infrastructure
The Capricorn Highway runs along the northern boundary.

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Central Highlands Region
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Spare our post office, plead pensioners
Pensioners have criticised the Post Office's plan to close branches in the city, saying bosses are set to scrap what they view as an invaluable social service.
Women who live at Vernon's Court residential home, in Berry Street, Hillfields, are furious over proposals outlined by the Post Office to close 11 branches in Coventry.
They say the cost-cutting exercise takes no account of the wider service the Post Office provides, and believe attempts to modernise the system are unhelpful because they they do not want to learn how to handle new technology.
Both Irene Cherry and Eileen Hall use the branch in the Empress Buildings, in Binley Road, Stoke, which faces the axe.
Irene, 86, said: "It's such a handy post office because we can get on the bus across the road and we are there within minutes, then we go shopping and it's part of our routine. It's such a busy branch, we can't believe it's not profitable."
Eileen, 82, added: "I cannot walk to any other branch, and have been going to the Empress Buildings for nine years. Currently I meet a friend on pension day, have a nice morning with her and then do my shopping as well." Vera Howard, 83, said the government's attempt to encourage pensioners to get their money wired straight to the bank was an unwanted gimmick.
She said: "We don't use the bank because we don't like it, especially all the paperwork which goes along with it. We just want to be able to cash our pension books at a handy post office - it's what we are used to and it's what we like.
"It's too late in the day to try and make us change."
The women were fearful that those making the decisions about the future of Coventry's post offices had seriously underestimated their importance.
Phylis Parker, 89, said: "The social side is so crucial to all of us. Post offices can be the mainstay of a community. All sorts of relationships will be killed off by closing branches down.
"Also, you don't want to be carrying money with you over long distances, we all have problems with muggers and making us walk further to the post offices makes us easy targets."
The Post Office finished a period of public consultation over the closures at the end of last week. A final decision is expected within a month.


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Congress likely to miss student-loan deadline
The Senate is unlikely to strike a deal to prevent student loan rates from rising on July 1.
On Thursday, two groups of senators -- one a bipartisan group that includes Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Tom Coburn (R-OK), the other of just Democrats -- planned to release proposals to prevent rates from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent while Congress is taking a vacation for the July 4 holiday.
A group of Democrats -- Sens. Jack Reed (D-RI), Kay Hagan (D-NC), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Al Franken (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) -- planned a press conference for Thursday afternoon to announce a plan for another one-year extension of current rates.
But neither is likely to come up for a vote on the floor before senators depart for that holiday.
Asked why it's taken until June 27 to come up with a proposal to fix a problem that crystallizes on July 1, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) quipped, "It's like Dr. Johnson's comment about the dog that could walk on its hind legs. The remarkable thing is not that it's done well, it's that it's done at all."
Most in Congress agree the loan rates should to stay lower than 6.8 percent, at least for the subsidized Stafford loans used by the country's lowest-income students. But they're stuck on how to get there.
Republicans want to let the rates fluctuate with the markets every year and use the proceeds for deficit reduction. Democrats say that's unreasonable and want to cap how fast rates can rise.
The Thursday proposal from Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Richard Burr (R-NC), King, Manchin, and Coburn would lower the rates, and then link them to the interest rates for Treasury bonds. As interest rates rose on Treasury bonds, so too would new loan rates.
They claim their proposal is similar to the one President Barack Obama has been pushing. Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the administration is willing to adjust its proposal to accommodate what Senate Democratic leaders want, including adding a cap on rates.
Either way, their proposal isn't going to see the light of day this week. Neither will the competing Democratic proposal.
Either one, if enacted later in July, would be retroactive -- so any loans approved after July 1, but before legislation passes, would have the lower interest rates.


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"All For Me" by The Kecks
"All For Me" by The Kecks is a slow burner of a song by an alternative-rock quartet that embrace their heritage; the four members represent nationalities that include Britain, Austria, Australia and Germany. This latest single bears resemblance to some Arctic Monkeys/Alex Turner material, with a slower pace and jazz-infused chords.
An accompanying music video suggests art-rock influence and direction, as the band demonstrate their creativity through the combination of theatrical performance and music.
The Kecks explore the meaning of the song and its inspiration in their own words:
All For Me is a self aware love song; an almost sardonic expression of longing from a desperate
sweetheart. Originally composed as a simple and straightforward romantic ballad, The Kecks and
producer JB Pillion delved deeper into a dark fantasy world to deliver more emotion and power out of the song than a conventional pop delivery would have allowed. Singer Lennart Uschmann bares his soul in a gut wrenching one-take lead vocal which entwines with the expansive and pointed dynamic range of the band. It conveys a true emotional power and feeling which can only be conjured from real world
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The story behind The Kecks formation is equally intriguing:
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President Maithripala Sirisena says he has signed the death sentence of four prisoners.
by Colombo Times · June 26, 2019
President Maithripala Sirisena says he has signed the death sentence of four prisoners. The President said that the date has been decided. President Maithripala Sirisena says he is completely opposed to the agreements that the US military and the sofa can land in Sri Lanka.
The president said he had opposed the agreements in the cabinet as well. At the meeting with heads of media institutions, the President said that the 19th Amendment should be abolished. He said the country could not move forward if it did not. The president said the reports of holding a referendum were completely false and said that a general election would be held within two months of the presidential election.
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'The Bachelor' to film in Warsaw in October while Ben Higgins looks for love
Ben Higgins' search for love will bring "The Bachelor" film crews to Warsaw later this month.
A filming request for downtown Warsaw on Oct. 25 and Oct. 26 by NZK Productions, Inc. — which films "The Bachelor" — was approved by the city Board of Works, Ink Free News reported.
Higgins is looking for love on the 20th season of "The Bachelor" after he was voted off of "The Bachelorette" earlier this year. The 20th season will begin airing on ABC in January.
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Higgins lives in Denver, Colo., but grew up in the Warsaw area and graduated from Warsaw Community High School. He still has family in the area.
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With the development of ultra-intense and ultra-short laser pulse techniques, especially the invention of chirped pulse amplification technique, light-matter interaction has got into the highly relativistic plasma regime, and provides a new method for extreme physics research. In this regime, many novel nonlinear physical phenomena, such as relativistic self-focusing of laser, laser proton acceleration, laser wakefield acceleration and relativistic high harmonic generation have been discovered. The laser driven based plasma accelerator therein can maintain a high acceleration gradient up to 100 GV/m, which is three orders of magnitude greater than traditional radio-frequency (RF) accelerator. It can accelerate the electrons up to GeV in centimeter scale, so the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) can cut the cost and reduce the accelerator scales enormously, and provides the possibility for the realization of compact tabletop accelerators. In the recent 40 years, many great progresses have been made on the improvement of high-quality electron beams from LWFAs and their related research fields. On one hand, the LWFAs have produced the electron beams exceeded 4 GeV, the energy spread can be decreased to < 1%, and the brightness of the electron beams can up to 6.5×1015 A/m2/0.1%, which can rival that in the RF accelerators. On the other hand, many results have been achieved in the generation of LWFAs based high-energy radiation sources, and the high brightness gamma rays with energy up to MeV scale have been achieved. Therefore, the LWFAs have promising application prospect in the basic science research and the biomedical imaging, and the studies on the laser driven based plasma acceleration have not only the scientific significant but also the application value. This dissertation is aimed at the generation of multi-GeV scale electron beams and the diagnostic of electron beam parameters based on LWFAs by experiments and theory. By means of experiments and theory simulations, the plasma density measurements of ablative and gas-filled discharge capillaries, capillary discharge waveguides based LWFA experiments, transverse emittance measurements and the enhancement of Betatron radiation have been studied, and many original results have been achieved, which are listed below: 1.	A gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide made of quartz is presented for the first time and the corresponding plasma channel is investegated. By measuring the plasma density and ablation level inside the capillary under different gas pressures and discharge currents, an optimized parametric-range that avoiding the ablation and suitable for the LWFA can be obtained, which is as follows: the peak discharge current range is 70–100A and the range of gas pressure is 7.5–14.7 Torr, corresponding to a controllable plasma density range of 5.0×1017 cm-3 - 1.0×1018 cm-3. 2.	A phase-locking cascaded LWFA based on a tapered plasma density profile is experimental investigated for the first time by the quartz capillary presented above. A cascaded structure with a 6-mm gas nozzle and a 30-mm quartz capillary is used in experiments. By controlling the way of gas-injection in the capillary, a monotonically increasing plasma density profile can be formed. Then, by using ionization-induced injection, phase locked LWFA experiments are investigated and a high-energy electron beam with peak energy up to 2.3 GeV is achieved, which verified the scheme of phase locking acceleration. 3.	A novel discharge capillary—hybrid capillary, is presented, and the high-energy LWFA experiments based on this hybrid capillary are investigated. The hybrid capillary is formed by injecting low-pressure hydrogen (<3.8Torr) into a pure ablative capillary. By measuring the plasma density evolution, a plasma channel and the matched spot size of the hybrid capillary can be obtained. Lastly, with two segments cascaded capillaries (30 mm + 30 mm), a high-energy electron beam with peak energy up to 3.2 GeV is achieved. 4.	By designing a special distribution of gas flow, stable monoenergetic electron beams are produced and their corresponding transverse normalized emittance are also measured. Firstly, a two-gas-nozzle cascaded LWFA scheme based on a hundred-terawatts (TW) laser system is investigated. By constructing a special structure of gas density distribution, stable high-quality monoenergetic electron beams with peak energies of 340-360 MeV, RMS energy spread < 1% and RMS divergence of 0.15-0.4 mrad has been produced. Then, by measuring the corresponding Betatron spectra of the stable monoenergetic electron beams, the normalized transverse emittance can be estimated in a single shot, and the result is 56 ?m mrad, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the smallest value measured by experiments so far. As a main contributor, a novel scheme that enhance the electron beam transverse oscillation and the corresponding Betatron radiation by adjusting the plasma distribution is presented. By introducing a special structure of gas-flow, a tilted shock front region is formed. In experiments, by adjusting the location of the tilted shock front region, high-energy X ray sources with energies of 20 keV-30 keV can be produced.


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WILLIAMS: Who Are The Racists?
By Walter E. Williams
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Former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said that racism in America is "foundational" and that people of color were under "mortal threat" from the "white supremacist in the White House." Pete Buttigieg chimed in to explain that "systemic racism" will "be with us" no matter who is in the White House. Senator Cory Booker called for "attacking systemic racism" in the "racially biased" criminal justice system.
Let's follow up by examining Booker's concern about a "racially biased" criminal justice system. To do that, we can turn to a recent article by Heather Mac Donald, who is a senior fellow at the New York-based Manhattan Institute. She is a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent article, "A Platform of Urban Decline," which appeared in Manhattan Institute's publication Eye On The News, addresses race and crime. She reveals government statistics you've never read before.
According to leftist rhetoric, whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks. Mac Donald says that may have once been true, but it is no longer so today. To make her case, she uses the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal victimization. Mac Donald writes: "According to the study, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and black-on-white attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent. That ratio is becoming more skewed, despite the Democratic claim of Trump-inspired white violence. In 2012-13, blacks committed 85 percent of all interracial victimizations between blacks and whites; whites committed 15 percent. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of white victims and the incidence of white victimization have grown as well."
There are other stark figures not talked about often. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting for 2018, of the homicide victims for whom race was known, 53.3% were black, 43.8% were white and 2.8% were of other races. In cases where the race of the offender was known, 54.9% were black, 42.4% were white, and 2.7% were of other races.
White and black liberals, who claim that blacks face a "mortal threat" from the "white supremacist in the White House" are perpetuating a cruel hoax. The primary victims of that hoax are black people. We face the difficult, and sometimes embarrassing, task of confronting reality.
Mac Donald says that Barack Obama's 2008 Father's Day speech in Chicago would be seen today as an "unforgivable outburst of white supremacy." Here's what Obama told his predominantly black audience in a South Side church: "If we are honest with ourselves," too many fathers are "missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men." Then-Senator Obama went on to say, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison."
White liberals deem that any speaker's references to personal responsibility brands the speaker as bigoted. Black people cannot afford to buy into the white liberal agenda. White liberals don't pay the same price. They don't live in neighborhoods where their children can get shot simply sitting on their porches. White liberals don't go to bed with the sounds of gunshots. White liberals don't live in neighborhoods that have become economic wastelands. Their children don't attend violent schools where they have to enter through metal detectors. White liberals help the Democratic Party maintain political control over cities, where many black residents live in despair, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago.
Black people cannot afford to remain fodder for the liberal agenda. With that in mind, we should not be a one-party people in a two-party system.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.


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using namespace std;
using namespace std::chrono;
using namespace cppkit;

REGISTER_TEST_FIXTURE(chrono_test);

void chrono_test::setup()
{
}

void chrono_test::teardown()
{
}

void chrono_test::test_time_point_construction()
{
    // system clock
    {
        time_t sysNow = time(0);
        system_clock::time_point now = system_clock::now();
        time_t chronoNow = system_clock::to_time_t(now);
        UT_ASSERT( (sysNow == chronoNow) || ((sysNow+1) == chronoNow) );
    }

    // steady clock
    {
        steady_clock::time_point before = steady_clock::now();
        ck_usleep(1000);
        steady_clock::time_point after = steady_clock::now();
        UT_ASSERT(duration_cast<microseconds>(after - before).count() > 1000);
    }

    // high resolution clock
    {
        high_resolution_clock::time_point before = high_resolution_clock::now();
        ck_usleep(1000);
        high_resolution_clock::time_point after = high_resolution_clock::now();
        UT_ASSERT(duration_cast<microseconds>(after - before).count() > 1000);
    }
}

void chrono_test::test_duration_addition()
{
    auto d = hours(1) + minutes(30);
    UT_ASSERT(duration_cast<seconds>(d).count() == 5400);
}

void chrono_test::test_duration_setup()
{
    nanoseconds numNanos(250);
    microseconds numMicros(250);
    milliseconds numMillis(250);
    seconds numSeconds(250);
    minutes numMinutes(250);
    hours numHours(250);
    UT_ASSERT( numHours > numMinutes );
    UT_ASSERT( numMinutes > numSeconds );
    UT_ASSERT( numSeconds > numMillis );
    UT_ASSERT( numMillis > numMicros );
    UT_ASSERT( numMicros > numNanos );
    UT_ASSERT( minutes(15001) > numHours );
}


a qualifying parent undertaking that is a mixed activity holding company of an IFPRU 730k firm in an RRD group.
This section applies where an RRD group member gives, or proposes to give, intra-group financial support using an RRD group financial support agreement.
It does not apply to other sorts of intra-group financial arrangements, including funding arrangements and the operation of centralised funding arrangements.
It does not apply to financial support arrangements where none of the parties to the arrangement has infringed, or is likely to infringe, an RRD early intervention condition.
A firm or qualifying parent undertaking does not have to use an RRD group financial support agreement to give financial support to another group member that has infringed, or is likely to infringe, an RRD early intervention condition.
A firm or qualifying parent undertaking may give financial support on a case-by-case basis according to the group policies, if the support does not represent a risk for the whole group.
RRD recognises a specific form of intra-group financial support. This allows an RRD group member in one EEA State to give financial support to an RRD institution in its group in another EEA State, when that institution has infringed or is likely to infringe an RRD early intervention condition.
To give this specific form of financial support an RRD group member must use an RRD group financial support agreement and satisfy the applicable conditions.
If the RRD group member meets the applicable conditions, other EEA States will recognise this financial support.
the relevant group members make the relevant disclosures (see IFPRU 11.5.22 R to IFPRU 11.5.23 G).
between any combination of those group members.
in one or more transactions, including between the beneficiary of the support and a third party.
An RRD group financial support agreement may include a reciprocal agreement so the group member receiving financial support can give financial support to the group member agreeing to give financial support.
has the FCA as its consolidating supervisor.
identify the members in the RRD group that are intended to be a party to the agreement.
the terms of the proposed agreement are consistent with the conditions for giving financial support in IFPRU 11.5.14 R.
one or more subsidiaries of the group member in (1) which is an RRD institution or a financial institution.
only the parties to the agreement can exercise any right, claim or action arising from the RRD group financial support agreement.
is likely to infringe one of those conditions in the near future.
The principles for calculating the consideration for financial support do not need to take account of any anticipated temporary impact on market prices arising from events external to the group.
the information not being available to the market.
In deciding whether a party is acting in its own best interests, the party may take account of any direct or indirect benefit that may accrue to a party as a result of giving financial support.
the support will not undermine the resolvability of the group member giving the support.
The FCA may modify or waive the requirements of IFPRU 11.5.14R (8) if the conditions in section 138A (modification or waiver of rules) of the Act are met.
how the support complies with the conditions for giving group financial support using an RRD group financial support agreement in IFPRU 11.5.14 R.
A firm or qualifying parent undertaking intending to receive financial support must ensure that its management body takes the decision to accept the support using an RRD group financial support agreement.
details of the proposed financial support including a copy of the RRD group financial support agreement.
not prohibited the support within five business days of receiving a notice of intention to give financial support.
update the information in (1) at least annually.
Regulations 431 to 434 of the EU CRR apply to the disclosures in IFPRU 11.5.22 R.


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Home Books Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations
CHAPTER 6: HIRING FOR VALUES—AND TALENT
HIRING FOR VALUES—AND TALENT. In: Berry LL, Seltman KD. Berry L.L., & Seltman K.D.(Eds.),Eds. Leonard L. Berry, and Kent D. Seltman.eds. Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations. McGraw Hill; 2018. Accessed February 01, 2023. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2315&sectionid=179083803
Hiring for values—and talent. Berry LL, Seltman KD. Berry L.L., & Seltman K.D.(Eds.),Eds. Leonard L. Berry, and Kent D. Seltman. (2018). Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations. McGraw Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2315&sectionid=179083803
"HIRING FOR VALUES—AND TALENT." Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations Berry LL, Seltman KD. Berry L.L., & Seltman K.D.(Eds.),Eds. Leonard L. Berry, and Kent D. Seltman. McGraw Hill, 2018, https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2315&sectionid=179083803.
Values First
Fitting In or Opting Out
Hiring for Talent
Niche Picking
Circle of Loyalty
Lessons for Managers
I came to the United States from South Africa in 1978 because I had been offered a job with a prominent academic medical center in the South. During the course of the three weeks I spent in the United States, I also looked at other academic medical posts. Though I was offered a number of positions, I told a physician friend that I'd like to take a look at the Mayo Clinic, which is very well known in South Africa. So my friend said, "That won't be a problem, I know Bob Brandenburg who is the chief of cardiology at Mayo." I got back a very nice letter where Bob said, "I have just stepped down as chief of cardiology, and I'm going to pass this letter on to Dr. Robert Frye, who is my successor."
One of the reasons that I nearly went to the medical center in the South was that it has a fantastic research faculty, including Nobel Prize winners. But, ironically that was also what concerned me, what made me hesitate. I really felt that clinical medicine was not what they were all about. In fact a leader there told me, "What we're about here is NIH [National Institutes of Health] grants. That's the currency of the realm. We are heavily endowed, and we are going to be the research center of the South—we will be the Harvard of the South." And I wanted to do both—academic medicine and clinical medicine.
I was competitive at that time for a number of positions—I was a Rhodes scholar from South Africa. I did my D. Phil. at Oxford, I'd written quite a few papers. So I came to Mayo for a day after I received an encouraging letter from Dr. Frye. By the end of that day I said to Dr. Frye, "If you offer me a job, I'm going to take it." (I said this even though it was a miserable March day, slushy and snowing. And I'd left from Cape Town where it was late summer.) What differentiated Mayo Clinic for me right away were several things—the people, the camaraderie, the physical facility, which was excellent, the clear commitment to clinical excellence, plus the research opportunities. So I was attracted as a staff person to many of the core values. I loved the way people worked and was impressed by the quiet efficiency. But I was most of all struck by the fact that here was a place with great academic potential for me personally, because it suited my research interest, but clinical medicine and education were also taken seriously, and I wanted to do all three.
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Michael Heseltine: Our loyalty to our country in opposing Brexit runs far deeper than party divides
Michael Heseltine speaking at an earlier People's Vote rally. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images
Michael Heseltine has delivered a resounding speech at a People's Vote rally, sharing the stage with his former political rival Margaret Beckett to say that Remainers are now the truest defenders of Britain's national interest.
The anti-Brexit rally in Derby is one of a series being held nationwide all through the summer and autumn, with one simple message from Remainers: "Let us be heard".
MORE: Massive summer of People's Vote rallies planned nationwide to say: 'Let us be heard'
Lord Heseltine spoke alongside Beckett, Anna Soubry, Raisia Matadar, Lord Richard Newby and Natalie Bennett. The full written text of his speech is below:
The battle to save Britain from Brexit has divided traditional loyalties as never before. This great meeting tonight has drawn support from across the party divide.
I find in my postbag: 'I've never voted for a Conservative but I agree with you on Europe'. People come up to me on trains, in the street. 'I'm a life-long Liberal but we are on the same side.' 'I've been Labour all my life but I was with you in Parliament Square.'
As a veteran of some of the most divisive political party battles of modern times, I find it rather disconcerting. I am a member of the Conservative party. I intend to remain so.
The divisions in my party shout from today's headlines.
As we approach the end of the second decade of the 21st century, there are millions of us, millions of British citizens, who are torn from loyalty to our party to a loyalty we feel deeper and more profoundly.
A loyalty to our country. To the United Kingdom. To the generation ahead.
As the Conservative party searches for a new prime minister amongst the tiniest microcosm of our citizens, its party membership, I despair. I have listened to debate after debate, cross examination after cross examination with growing dismay. They have been a masterclass of evasion. Assertion without evidence.
Bluster in place of answer.
Denial where the facts stare us in the face.
Millions of Conservative voters, who believe, as I do, that every Conservative prime minister since Winston Churchill 70 years ago, was right about our European destiny, are being denied a choice. It's Brexit or Brexit. We are disenfranchised by our own party.
I would never vote for a prime minister whom I believe would make this country poorer and less powerful. There are many who feel as strongly as I do.
The pound has devalued by over 10% since the referendum. The very existence of the United Kingdom is now threatened by majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland. The pound is trading below parity with the euro at the tourist gates to Europe. Speculators are openly talking of dollar parity should the end of October herald the no-deal disaster. This is now the latest threat with which to bludgeon our 27 former partners. Report after report indicates rising inflation, falling investment, lower living standards.
How many times do they have to be told?
As I drove to Derby this evening, I thought back over the years to a time when I was the minister responsible for helping to rescue Rolls Royce. With what pride do I see Rolls engines on Airbus aircraft with British wings, a world partnership of European excellence.
Airbus has warned of difficult choices.
Later, as president of the Board of Trade, I was a member of a government that welcomed Toyota to our shores as they chose Britain as their home base in the European market. How many times do Japanese companies have to warn of the consequences if we shut them off from the European market?
The papers say that a victorious Boris Johnson would fly to Paris and Berlin. Nothing demonstrates the treachery of the Brexit case more. He would visit chancellor Merkel and president Macron because they are the two national leaders powerful enough to tell the civil service in Brussels what to do.
But they won't, of course. Any more than they would have done for David Cameron or Theresa May. They are proud of the Europe their countries have created.
They are proud of the 74 years of peace they have masterminded.
They are proud to belong to a community of parliamentary democracies.
The Communists have gone.
The Fascists in Spain and Portugal have gone.
The Colonels in Greece have gone.
Europe's leaders have united their continent where disagreement is resolved by patient, if tedious, negotiation. They have replaced the brutal and tragic recourse to war. Who can fail to admire a modern Europe where the battles are fought with words, not swords.
Europe, now is so much more than a fusion of economic markets. It is about recognising the reality of the new world growing around us. A world of superpowers with resources beyond the reach of any European nation state.
A world of global challenges to our environment, to our defence, to our safety, intelligence services, global capitalism, pollution, terrorism and disease.
A world which demands more global cooperation and partnership - not less.
The Europeans unite to ensure they have the strength to play a central role in that world. In so resolutely opposing Brexit, I want our country to be part of that Europe. We were central to its warring past. How much more important to be central to its peaceful future? To be at the conferences? To take the decisions? To share the benefits?
It is for this reason that we are the patriots now.
We are the ones fighting for British national interest. We want to stride the corridors of Europe where decisions are made. We are the ones protecting the opportunities of tomorrow for our young generations.
That is exactly how all the other 27 members of the community feel. The Germans are no less German, the French no less French.
The Europeans are not going to risk the achievements of three quarters of a century.
They will politely but firmly tell Boris Johnson his bluster and threat may be good for British domestic newspapers. They may help detach votes from Nigel Farage. They may attract the support of a large part of the Conservative party. But in today's polls that party attracts only a quarter of national support.
In Europe they know these threats have the strength and credibility of a hot air balloon.
There is no majority for such threats in your own parliament. They do not reflect the majority of British people.
A united Europe will repeat to Boris Johnson:
'You want to leave our club!
'That is your choice. Not ours.
'That is your responsibility.
'It is for you to defend the consequences.'
That will be their response to Boris Johnson.
Tonight, here in Derby, we send a different message.
Before you subject the British people to the economic downside of Brexit - Before you risk the integrity of the United Kingdom itself - Consult the people. Now the facts are clearer. Let the people vote.


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Q: MSIEXEC not installing an MSI setup if /QUIET parameter is used to suppress the UI I have an MSI installer that was created using Install Shield Limited Edition, I can install it normally by directly running it.
I can also install it using MSIEXEC if I do not use the /QUIET parameter, but if I use the /QUIET parameter, the application does not get installed.
What can be the reason behind it? When I directly run the MSI, it prompts for License Agreement, can this be the reason for it not being installed in silent mode?

A: The solution is to use /passive /qn instead of /quiet.
/quiet = Quiet mode, no user interaction. This means that the default action is taken into consideration when the installer is requesting UAC rights (that is NO)
/passive = Unattended mode - progress bar only
so, when you set /qn, that means progress bar with No UI. Pretty much the same thing, but in another way :)

A: Open MSI file with some editor like Instedit and open InstallUISequence table. You'll see all the actions that are executed during the graphical part of the installation. InstallExecuteSequence table hold all actions executed after you press the install button, or when you do a silent install.
If you find one action that is being executed only in InstallUISequence, try to find if it's making some changes in the system. It's against the best practices, but many msi do it.
Most probable cause is that some property is necessary and obtained in some window, and you need to "inject" it using parameters in command line. See in table Property for properties all caps (this are the ones you can use).

A: I had this same issue. I know the original question is answered but I thought I would post here for others searching for the answer like me. To do the silent install you have to have administrator privileges. Run command prompt as administrator and it works.

A: Have you logged your installation?
Typically the license agreement page doesn't prevent install, though you could author it that way.

A: The problem here was something different - after a restart of the system, it got installed silently also without opening the command prompt with elevated permissions.

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MacArthur grantees marked Nigeria's National Anti-Corruption Day with a range of activities to bring awareness to corruption issues throughout the country. Several civil society organizations, including Corruption Anonymous and the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, held rallies during which they called on the government for greater transparency in its work to combat corruption. Many organizations issued statements, including the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, urging President Buhari to honor campaign promises to address corruption. The Nigerian Bar Association held a daylong lecture on "Corruption and Rule of Law" and the University of Kent School of Law held conferences and workshops on strategies for reducing corruption.


Established local poet and writer Alice Major explores how we occupy our space and time on earth in her collection of poetry The Occupied World.
SOME people have drinking buddies. I have writing buddies. We critique each other's work. Actually, I have drinking buddies also, but I digress. One of my writing buddies recently handed me a copy of Alice Major's poetry collection The Occupied World.
Major is well known on Edmonton's poetry circuit. She was the city's first Poet Laureate and is a familiar face at the annual Edmonton Poetry Festival in April. Published in 2006, The Occupied World is a clear presentation of why Major is so well regarded. Her language and imagery is at once familiar and other worldly, juxtaposing the local and familiar with other times and places.
Through her words, Major begins with the theme of building a city, using the framework of rituals used in Roman times to sanctify the ground before occupation of the city could take place. From there, Major explores occupation in the world, as ourselves, and through life in general.
For a number of years the term "occupation" (or "occupy") has had political connotations, but in this case literally means taking over a space, being somewhere, or being part of a moment. The world is indeed occupied in many different ways and it is through examining how and why we occupy what and where we do, that we gain a new understanding of our lives and world.
So, thank you, writing buddy, for lending me this volume. I definitely know why it would "occupy."


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Say Cheese: Inn offers chance for 'historic' photos
Chester Inn docents Janice Hammett and Gordon Edwards pose for their old fashioned photographs.
By JOHN KIENER
jkiener@heraldandtribune.com
You can enter a photo studio from the turn of the 20th century and have your picture taken at the Chester Inn Museum now through August.
The exhibit, titled "Capturing Images: Photography and Photography Equipment in Jonesborough," was assembled by Joe Spiker, staff member of the Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
If you are going to get your photograph taken, explained Spiker, "Visitors can use their cameras or cell phones to take their own pictures, or ask one of the docents to take it for them."
There are also props on hand including hats and scarves that visitors can use in their photographs.
Mary Whaley dons the appropriate garb and expression for turn-of-the-century portraits.
Highlighted in the exhibit is the photo studio of O. L. Hensley. His studio probably started in the area about 1890 and continued through the early 1900s. Hensley's studio was located on Main Street. He often photographed outdoor scenes in addition to studio portraits. One such picture is labeled "Camping on Clark's Creek, 1900 – O. L. Hensley Photo."
The museum's "Photo studio" is a photographic reproduction of his studio complete with backdrop, camera equipment, chairs and a couch.
Spiker said he devotes parts of January and February when the Chester Inn Museum is not open to think about new exhibits and how to assemble the contents in the space available. Most of the exhibits in the photography display are from the Alliance Archives including photographs from Volume 14 of the Fink-Dulaney Collection. Spiker believes visitors will be particularly interested in the collection's box camera with glass plate holders.
Twentieth century cameras on display include a Kodak Duaflex II, circa 1955; a Polaroid 600 Business Edition, circa 1985, a Nikon Tele Touch 300AF, circa 1988 and a World War I Army Issue Field Camera, circa 1917. Motion picture cameras are also included in the collection with the explanation: "Capturing still images evolved into moving pictures, and photographs technology evolved along with it. Interest in movies and motion pictures exploded in the 20th century, and the appearance of handheld video recorders allowed anyone to record video and audio recordings."
"The development of photography in the 19th century fundamentally changed human society," Spiker's introduction to the exhibit explains. "Photograph technology allowed people to view and understand things in ways that had never been possible. Other groundbreaking 20th and 21st century technologies such as movies, television, computers and cell phones were built on or incorporated in some way the basic components of 19th century photography."
Ginny Whaley dons the appropriate garb and expression for turn-of-the-century portraits.
Examples of photographs are shown in the museum's display cases under the headings of "Tintype," "Ambrotype" and "Cabinet Card."
Each type is labeled on several pictures and then described as follows: Tintype introduced in 1856 is a photographic image printed on thin iron plate."
The second tintype in the exhibit is a portrait of Jonesborough photographer L. W. Keen in the early 1860s. Libern Wilkerson Keen (1823-1907), a native of Sullivan County, opened a photographic gallery in Jonesborough in 1847. This was only eight years after photography first came to the United States. He remained in business until the end of the century.
Joe Spiker with the Heritage Alliance describes the process of putting together an exhibit.
"Ambrotype was introduced in 1854 and was popular for 10 – 15 years," according to the Capturing Images Exhibit. "Ambrotypes were printed on glass plates. Later ambrotypes usually consisted of a single, ruby-colored glass plate and were packaged in a small container. . . Ambrotypes were similar to daguerrotypes which are largely considered the earliest form of photographic printing."
The "History of Washington County Tennessee" (Jonesborough: Washington County Historical Society, 2001) in an article about the scarcity of goods during the Civil War states, "L. W. Keen, noted local photographer, sought photographic cases by offering refunds to those who returned their pictures with cases intact.
The "Cabinet Card" was introduced in 1866 and became popular in the U.S. in the 1870s. According to Capturing Images, "Cabinet cards became one of the most common photograph printings used in portraits. Cabinet cards were popular for photography studios to use like L.W. Keen and O. L. Hensley because it allowed them to display their studio name both on the front and the back."
"Camping on Clark's Creek," an early 20th-century photo from O.L. Hensley.
A segment of the display asks: "What happens once cameras capture their image?" The answer depends on when you ask the question, according to Spiker.
"Most modern cameras retain their images directly and use memory storage devices or online transference to retrieve a printable image while in the 19th and 20th centuries the film development process. . ." included a number of devices, some of which are shown in the museum exhibit.
The value of photographs to historians in understanding the past is pointed out in a display case placard. Part of the goal of the exhibit "is to reach out to the community" explaining "while our photographic collection is extensive, there are holes we would like to fill in. In order to tell as much of Jonesborough's story as possible we are asking for any photographs that you might have of Jonesborough and Washington County, including buildings, people, places, events, communities and neighborhoods of non-main street Jonesborough, and area towns such as Telford, Bowmantown, Limestone, etc."
For additional information about the exhibit, Spiker can be contacted at (423) 753-4580. The Chester Inn Museum is located at 116 West Main Street in Jonesborough. The museum is open now through October on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.
July 10, 2019 in Lifestyles


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Q: Rails Concurrency issue lockup I have a rails app where an action never finishes and then times out.
Find the diagram below for better illustration.

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*My rails apps action is called

*The action POSTs some data to another app

*The other app needs something to complete the computation and calls a different action than the first of the Rails app

*The other app gets a response and finishes the computation

*The other app responds to the rails apps POST request

*The view is rendered accordingly

Now the issue: The other app never gets a response from the main app. After the Rails apps request times out however, the response is sent (however too late of course) so I think it is somehow cued.
I don't understand how to fix that. I use rails 5 and Puma which should be able to handle parallel calls. Its also not a local issue, same happens in prod.
I use the recommended puma.rb config from Heroku
workers Integer(ENV['WEB_CONCURRENCY'] || 2)
threads_count = Integer(ENV['RAILS_MAX_THREADS'] || 5)
threads threads_count, threads_count

preload_app!

rackup      DefaultRackup
port        ENV['PORT']     || 3000
environment ENV['RACK_ENV'] || 'development'

on_worker_boot do
  # Worker specific setup for Rails 4.1+
  # See: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-rails-applications-with-the-puma-web-server#on-worker-boot
  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
end

What do I do to fix this cueing?
Controller:
    # New method
    def live_preview_page
      preview_locale = params[:preview_locale]
      date = params[:date] # The date to preview
      page_id = params[:id]
      return if locale.nil? || locale =~ /not/ || date.nil?
      all_templates = Template.all.order('name ASC') # Maybe move to render_live_editor_page
      if date == "all"
        active_modules = @page.page_modules.order(rank: :asc)
      else
        active_modules = @page.page_modules.order(rank: :asc).to_a.valid_for(date: date.to_date)
        puts "Active modules: #{active_modules.count}"
      end
      active_modules_json = active_modules.each do |content_module|
        content_module.body = YAML.load(content_module.body).to_json
      end
      response = helpers.render_preview(active_modules, all_templates, preview_locale)
      renderer = ContentRenderer.new
      actionController = ActionController::Base.new
      rendered_helper = actionController.render_to_string(
        partial: '/pages/preview-helper-snippet', locals: {
        all_templates: all_templates, # For select when creating new modules
        modulesData: active_modules_json, # For rendering the JSON containing the data for the editor
        current_page: @page.id,
        localeLinks: renderer.generateStgPreviewURLs(SettingService.get_named_locales, @page.id),
        locale: preview_locale,
        all_locales: SettingService.locales_for_live_editor,
        all_sites_and_locales: SettingService.get_sites_and_locales
      })
      proxy_service = ProxyService.new
      proxy_service.get_page do |error, page_wrapper|
        # Note: Issue is that Vapor app generates warnings inline template : encountered \r in middle of line, treated as a mere space
        rendered_body_with_helper = response.body.force_encoding("UTF-8") + rendered_helper
        decorated_page = page_wrapper.gsub("__WIDGET__", rendered_body_with_helper)
        render inline: decorated_page
        return
      end

    end

Helper
  def render_preview(active_modules, all_templates, preview_locale)
    req = Request.new
    preview_body = {
      modules: active_modules,
      templates: all_templates,
      sites: SettingService.get_sites,
      configuration: {
        locale: preview_locale,
        site: "DE"
      }
    }
    req.send_request(
      url: "#{ENV["RENDER_SERVICE_URL"]}/preview",
      body: preview_body,
      options: {
        type: :post,
        json: true,
        username: ENV["RENDER_SERVICE_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME"],
        password: ENV["RENDER_SERVICE_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD"]
      }
    ) do |response_code, response|
      return response
    end
  end

Request is just a thin wrapper
  require "uri"
  require "net/http"

  class Request
    # Yields resonse_code (int), response
    # Parameters besides url: are optional
    def send_request(url:, body: {}, header: {}, options: {})
      uri = URI.parse(url)
      http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
      if options.key? :type
        case options[:type]
        when :get
          request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri, header)
        when :post
          request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri, header)
        end
      else
        # Default is GET
        request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri, header)
      end
      if options.key?(:username) && options.key?(:password)
        request.basic_auth options[:username], options[:password]
      end
      unless body.class == String
        body = body.to_json.to_s
      end
      request.body = body unless body.empty?
      puts request.body
      # SSL is default
      if options.key? :ssl
        http.use_ssl = options[:ssl]
      else
        http.use_ssl = Rails.configuration.force_ssl
        #http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
      end
      if options.key? :json
        request.add_field("Content-Type", "application/json")
      end
      response = http.request(request)
      yield response.code.to_i, response
    end
  end

A: The following answer is (probably) not the answer you want - but it's the answer you need:
The best way to fix this is to avoid the loop in the request/response logic (where the rails app calls itself through the other app).
Concurrency might help delay the onset of the issue, but the issue will always occur as long as the loop exists.
For example, assume you have an 100 requests from clients to the Rails app.
Rails will call the other app and the other app's request will be queued as request number 101.
This can be solved with 100 threads (for example, 10 workers with 10 threads each)...
But what will your app do with 200 client requests?
This cycle is endless, the more clients you have the more concurrency you require before you experience DoS.
The only solution is to avoid the loop to begin with.
Either break it up to 3 apps or (better yet), avoid dependencies between micro services.