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BUSINESS Shanghai consumer group requests Canada Goose to explain no-refund policy amid online rage
Shanghai consumer group requests Canada Goose to explain no-refund policy amid online rage
19:11, December 02, 2021
A non-governmental consumer group in Shanghai requested high-end parka maker Canada Goose to explain its seemingly illegal no-refund policy in the Chinese mainland, after a local woman's experience with the company back in late October ignited online rage.
Representatives from the Shanghai Consumer Council and Canada Goose's China branch talk about the company's refund policy in Shanghai, China, December 1, 2021. (Photo: Shanghai Consumer Council)
"After the talk, we found that representatives from Canada Goose didn't know the exact meaning of their own refund policy," the Shanghai Consumer Council said in a public WeChat post on Wednesday. "They didn't know if the company's policy in China is different from that in other countries."
The council requested the company to submit a document explaining the policy before Thursday noon, giving the staff only one day to prepare.
'Even the company logo was wrong'
The entire incident started after a local Shanghai woman bought a 9512M parka from a Canada Goose store in the city on October 27.
The parka in question. (Photo: Shanghai Morning Post)
She paid 11,400 yuan (nearly $1,800) for the parka, only to find after going home that there's an extra red line on the front-side logo, according to a local media report.
A curved red line can be seen on the front logo of the parka in question. (Photo: Shanghai Morning Post)
Some parts of the inside of the parka were not properly sealed, with threads scattered around.
Threads are scattered on the inside of the parka. (Photo: Shanghai Morning Post)
"After swiping my credit card, a staff member asked me to sign an 'exchange policy,'" the woman, surnamed Jia, told local newspaper Shanghai Morning Post. "Otherwise they wouldn't let me leave with the parka."
In a photo posted by the newspaper on Tuesday, the policy reads: "Unless otherwise provided by applicable laws, all products sold at Canada Goose's retail store in China mainland are strictly non-refundable."
The exchange policy signed by Jia. (Photo: Shanghai Morning Post)
Jia told the newspaper that she tried to complain to the store, the company's China branch and even the English language customer care service of Canada Goose's headquarters. But none of the channels worked after a month of complaining.
As of 18:30 Beijing Time on Wednesday, the Weibo post from Shanghai Morning Post has earned more than 6 million views and 15,000 comments, most of which expressed anger against the Canadian company.
30-day refund promise not for China
As the newspaper report became the most-searched term on Weibo on Tuesday, more media outlets in China paid close attention to the matter.
The Beijing News contacted Canada Goose stores in Beijing and Chongqing and staff confirmed the no-refund policy.
Staff told the newspaper that the refund cannot be processed because the consumers have checked the clothes in person. They can only offer a one-time exchange within two weeks of purchase, which is a "China-wide clause."
But products sold from online stores can be refunded within a week of purchase.
On the "return policy" page of Canada Goose's China website, it is stated that "complimentary return labels are available within 30 days of your purchase date" if the product is unwashed, unworn, in the original packaging and with original tags still attached.
Canada Goose's return policy, posted on the company's China website in English. (Photo: Screenshot from canadagoose.com)
The policy was written on the website in both Chinese and English.
But company representatives told the Shanghai Consumer Council that the policy actually doesn't apply to the Chinese mainland.
Shanghai Morning Post said in a later report that many people online are questioning if Canada Goose is practicing a double standard and discriminating against its Chinese buyers.
Confusing clarification
Not long before talking with the Shanghai Consumer Council, Canada Goose's Chinese branch posted a statement on Weibo clarifying their refund policy.
The statement denied the words of the store's staff member to The Beijing News, calling the no-refund policy a rumor.
And the "strictly non-refundable" policy signed by Jia actually means "if the law allows, all products sold in the Chinese mainland can be refunded," which seems completely contradictory to the original paper.
After the statement was made public, Shanghai Morning Post said the company still didn't refund Jia's parka.
An opinion piece published by China National Radio said many foreign brands are being arrogant toward their customers in China.
The company's Chinese branch was fined 450,000 yuan (about $71,000) by market regulators for lying in advertisements.
Canada Goose's official store on Taobao was visited more than 181 million times in 2020, generating a revenue of 167 million yuan (about $22 million).


President Donald Trump refuses to let Democrats get away with their blatant hypocrisy in the James Comey firing saga.
Democrats are in uproar after President Trump, on the advice of the Justice Department, fired FBI Director Comey Tuesday, sending shockwaves through the media and Washington D.C. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. is leading an assault against the president, calling the firing a "cover up" as Democrats accuse Trump of seeking to end the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Just a few months ago, Democrats like Sen. Schumer were assailing Comey for reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails just before the 2016 election. Taking to Twitter, President Trump tweeted a video montage of liberal politicians lining up to attack Comey over the past several months.
"The Democrats should be ashamed," Trump wrote, making internet trolling an art form. And they do look ridiculous.
When you have Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., saying she would've supported Comey's firing if Hillary Clinton did it but not when Donald Trump does it … that hypocrisy speaks volumes about what kind of people the Democrats in Washington D.C. really are.


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Dual Language Middle School and After-School All-Stars are strengthening the connection between home and school through engagement.
This is the third year that ASAS New York partners with Dual Language and they have been granted a two-year extension. "What makes this partnership work is the relationship with the school. It's a collaborative relationship." Student attendance is high because of the relationship that students build with the staff and because of the mobilization of both sides of the community – the schools and the families.


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Is it Me?
Clifford A. Dunlop BScAg., MSc.
C02 EFFECT
THE SUN EFFECT
THE PEOPLE EFFECT
EFFECTS ON CLIMATE
Pacific Decadal Oscillation - Effect on Climate.
It is only in recent years that scientists are starting to recognize the influence of atmospheric and oceanic cycles in influencing climate.
A 2008 study - "Oceanic Influences on Recent Continental Warming", by Compo, G.P., and P.D. Sardeshmukh, (Climate Diagnostics Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, and Physical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Climate Dynamics, 2008) stated:
"Evidence accrued over the last 50 years has indicated that the recent worldwide land warming occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land."
Several recent studies suggest that the observed Sea Surface Temperature (SST) variability may be misrepresented in the coupled models used in preparing the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report, with substantial errors on annual and decadal scales. There is a hint of an underestimation of simulated decadal SST variability even in the published IPCC Report.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) was defined by fisheries scientist Steven Hare in the mid-1990's, based on observations of Pacific fisheries cycles. The PDO index is calculated from sea surface temperatures and sea level pressures.
The PDO goes through warm and cool phases of a repeating cycle with phases typically lasting about 30 years. The causes of the oscillation appear to be related to 60 year Solar Wind / Sunspot cycles that change the rotation of the Earth and cause major warm ocean currents to move more northerly (high sunspots) or southerly (low sunspots) directions, bringing associated weather extremes along with them.
The recent phases of the PDO can be seen in the above figure, with a cool phase starting around 1945 and switching to a warm phase in 1977. This correlates to sunspot observations. It appears that 2008 may be the start of the next cool phase.
The current shift of the PDO has been shown to have occurred at the same time as the recent 30 year rise in global temperatures (blamed on rise in C02). It is now widely accepted that a climatic regime shift transpired in the North Pacific Ocean in the winter of 1976-77. This is on target with observations of global warming for the following 30 years.
This regime shift has had far reaching consequences for the large marine ecosystems of the North Pacific. Subsequent research has suggested that this event was not unique in the historical record but merely the latest in a succession of climatic regime shifts.
The following figure is from a NOAA study of the impact of the PDO variability on the California Current ecosystem and shows the approximately 60-year cycle of the PDO and the corresponding northern Pacific Ocean temperature regimes.
Does the PDO affect Arctic Ice ? - It is tempting to suggest that the PDO would extend its influence into the Arctic during high Sunspot phases when the warm currents push high into the northern hemisphere. The PDO definitely affects Alaskan temperatures and climate as well as ocean biosystems but as far as currents getting into the Arctic this is somewhat unlikely because of the narrowness of access to the Arctic ocean. This is shown clearly on the following map.
It can be clearly seen that the Arctic is much more an extension of the Atlantic system than it is of the Pacific System. Therefore it is probably wise to attribute the warming or cooling of the arctic to the movements of the Atlantic currents, predominantly the Arctic and Gulf Streams. These switch in the same manner as the PDO on a sixty to seventy year cycle - known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).
Morner has shown the movements of these currents and suggested the mechanism is related to Sun cycles causing solar wind / earth interactions that change rotation speeds and shift current directions.
What does the PDO affect then?
Many studies have shown that the major climatic events in the US are linked to cycles in ocean temperatures. Here are some PDO examples:
1. ) The Jet Stream and Droughts - NASA Explains 'Dust Bowl' Drought (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (2004, March 19).)
Cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures and warmer than normal tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures contributed to a weakened low-level jet stream and changed its course.
The Jet stream, a ribbon of fast moving air near the Earth's surface, normally flows westward over the Gulf of Mexico and then turns northward pulling up moisture and dumping rain onto the Great Plains.
As the low level jet stream weakened, it traveled farther north than normal, missing the Gulf and not picking up the rain it would normally carry to the more northerly climates. The Great Plains dried up and dust storms formed.
Analysis of other major U.S. droughts of the 1900s suggests a cool tropical Pacific was a common factor.
Note: Gulf of Mexico app. 25 N to 30 N
Note: How to read these images. There is really only two actual jet streams - the polar and the subtropical that affect the northern hemisphere. These jet streams generally move from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in an easterly flow pattern rotating in an anticlockwise fashion but causing the centre stream to move in a clockwise motion.
These three streams are depicted below but remember this is the direction of a TUBE OF AIR that is also rotating in a clockwise (Ferrel Cell) or anticlockwise (Hedley and Polar Cells).
The diameter of these "screws" can be quite large as much as 30 degrees in latitude. Envision the mid-latitude jet stream (actually caused by the effect of the subtropical and the polar streams) would span the range from the Gulf of Mexico to the lower edge of Alaska by this reasoning. Shifts north or south caused by subtropical or polar "pushing" would have a large effect as they carry southerly weather to the northern ranges or the opposite.
Image used for Perspective.
It is this clockwise motion of the Hedley cell that picks up Gulf moisture and moves it north to the states above. This is shown in the cross section above.
The net Jet stream is highly variable, being pushed up and down by each other. The image below shows how the average mid stream bends first north and then drops dramatically south changing the state of weather below them.
2.) The Jet Stream and Midwest Rains - Temperature of Pacific Ocean Influences Midwest Rains (University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign (1997, September 11).)
The Jet Stream, a ribbon of fast moving air near the Earth's surface, normally flows westward over the Gulf of Mexico and then turns northward pulling up moisture and dumping rain onto the Great Plains. Sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean affect both the position and the intensity of the jet stream over the central United States, which in turn modifies the Jet Stream circulation pattern coming off the gulf.
Warmer sea-surface temperatures shifts the jet stream farther south with more exposure to the Gulf, leading to more storm activity, which pumps even more moisture up from the gulf.
In contrast, cooler sea-surface temperatures shift the jet stream farther north away from the Gulf, resulting in reduced storm activity and drier conditions as the air is less moisture laden.
3.) Northern Hemisphere land temperatures - The Significance of the 1976 Pacific Climate Shift in the Climatology of Alaska (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, 2004)
In 1976, the North Pacific region, including Alaska, underwent a dramatic shift to a climate regime that saw great increases in winter and spring temperatures .
The shift in the climate regime now is known to have coincided with a shift in the phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). ...all of the regions in sub- Arctic Alaska experienced a net warming since 1977.
4.) Global air Temperatures - Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and Global Warming (Amy J. Bratcher & Benjamin S. Giese, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(19), 2002)
An analysis of ocean surface temperature records show that low frequency changes of tropical Pacific temperature lead global surface air temperature changes by about 4 years. Anomalies of tropical Pacific surface temperature are in turn preceded by subsurface temperature anomalies in the southern tropical Pacific by approximately 7 years.
The results suggest that much of the decade to decade variations in global air temperature may be attributed to tropical Pacific decadal variability. The results also suggest that subsurface temperature anomalies in the southern tropical Pacific can be used as a predictor for decadal variations of global surface air temperature.
Since the southern tropical Pacific temperature shows a distinct cooling over the last 8 years, the possibility exists that the warming trend in global surface air temperature observed since the late 1970's may soon weaken.
5.) Herring / Sardines - The PDO shows a strong correlation with sardine catch. A report about the sardine fishery states:
Fish scales found in sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin reveal that, over the past 1,700 years, West Coast sardine populations seem to follow a 60-year cycle of abundance and disappearance (Baumgartner, Soutar et al. 1992). Sardines proliferate in warm Ocean waters and decrease when those waters cool.
The following figure compares Pacific sardine catch with the PDO (see green line).
6.) Zooplankton - The following figure shows a strong correlation between the PDO and zooplankton (copepod) in the Pacific Northwest from a NOAA study of the impact of the PDO variability on the California Current ecosystem. Zooplankton grow well in warm ocean temperatures (sometimes too much and we get blooms) and slow growth during cool ocean temperature periods.
7.) Salmon - lag zooplankton and sardine / herring growth patterns (makes sense) tending to proliferate during cooler ocean periods after herring stocks have replenished and food is available. The following figure is from the same study showing a strong negative correlation between the PDO and California Chinook salmon abundance.
These are from a study of the impacts of the PDO on salmon production. It shows a positive correlation with the PDO for Alaskan salmon:
A remarkable characteristic of Alaskan salmon abundance over the past half-century has been the large fluctuations at interdecadal time scales which resemble those of the PDO.
Time series for Washington-Oregon-California (WOC) coho and Columbia River spring chinook landings tend to be out of phase with the PDO index.
Recent work suggests that the marine ecological response to the PDO-related environmental changes starts with phytoplankton and zooplankton at the base of the food chain and works its way up to top level predators like salmon.
High Sun Magnetic Activity - High Sunspots - High Solar Wind - Decreased Cloud Cover - Decreased Earth rotation speed - Ocean Currents turn North - Strong Jet Stream flowing west over Gulf then north to Midwest - increased Northern Pacific Ocean temperatures --- all causing increased northern hemisphere temperatures / decreased droughts due to increased gulf based midwest rain storms / increased herring / increased zooplankton / less salmon (lags zooplankton and sardine population increases).
Low Sun Magnetic Activity - Low Sunspots - Decreased Solar Wind - Increased Cloud Cover - Increased Earth rotation speed - Ocean currents turn South - Weak Jet Stream drops southward below Gulf and doesn't flow north to Midwest - decreased Northern Pacific Ocean temperatures --- all causing decreased northern hemisphere temperatures / increased midwest droughts due to reduced midwest Gulf based rain / decreased herring / decreased zooplankton / but improved salmon catch.
cliffdunlop03@gmail.com
Note: I've relied heavily on one source for my summary of events above. I've deleted some of the references to materials listed originally in this source to make the blog "readable". If you wish to see this subject (and others) in much better detail as well as to obtain source papers for the sections above, please use the button below where you will find what you need.
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Five-Ton Wheel Takes Center Stage for "Prometheus Bound"
Annelisa Stephan | July 17, 2013 | Less than a minute
It looks like a ferris wheel—but you can't ride on it, and instead of pleasure, it offers endless torment. The Prometheus Wheel has arrived.
The 23-foot-tall, five-ton steel creation is the centerpiece of this fall's outdoor theater production of Prometheus Bound, where it represents the mountaintop to which the rebel god Prometheus is chained for all eternity in punishment for his defiance of Zeus. The actor who plays Prometheus, Ron Cephas Jones, will perform while strapped to the rotating center of the wheel, perched on a modified bike seat.
The wheel is the brainchild of the creative team at the CalArts Center for the Art of Performance, the Getty's partner in this production. "They have the expertise, the ambition, and the artistic sense to pull off something like this," Laurel Kishi, performing arts manager at the Getty Museum, told me as we watched the wheel crane over the Villa.
Visitors will be able to see the wheel (but not touch, spin, or climb on it—seriously, no climbing!) in the Outdoor Classical Theater every day through the end of September, when the production concludes. "We felt this would be a great piece to have up so that, even when the play isn't happening, visitors can take a look at it," Laurel said. If the wheel moves you, tag it with #PrometheusWheel on Instagram and Twitter.
Video by Sarah Waldorf and Steve Saldivar
Getty Villa
Outdoor Classical Theater
Annelisa Stephan
I'm editor-in-chief of the Getty Iris and assistant director for digital content strategy. My background is in 20th-century art history, linguistics, and digital storytelling.
Nothing Happens, Everything Happens: Perspectives on "Trojan Women (after Euripides)"
Backyard Archaeology at the Villa Ranch House
Thespian Experimentation at the Villa, with Singing Frogs


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R.I.P.T.: Looks Like The 'Silent Hill' Reboot Is Cancelled
Konami is pulling the "P.T." demo of its "Silent Hill" reboot from the digital shelves, and key members of the project say it's over.
Konami / "Silent Hills"
What do film director Guillermo Del Toro, video game designer Hideo Kojima and "The Walking Dead" actor Norman Reedus all have in common?
Nothing — not after their collaborative reboot of the "Silent Hill" horror game franchise was all but given the axe Sunday.
The game's publisher, Konami, teased the new "Silent Hills" game last year with a brief trailer and a playable demo that was one of the scariest gaming experiences of 2014.
But the company now plans to pull that demo, dubbed P.T., from Sony's digital marketplace by Wednesday.
And the big names associated with the project have confirmed they're no longer attached to it. Photojournalist Matt Hackney tweeted this quote from del Toro at a San Francisco film event: "It's not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart." (Video via Legendary Pictures)
Reedus chimed in on Twitter late Sunday, saying he "was really looking forward to it. Hopefully it'll come back around."
As for Kojima, well, rumor has it he's been on the outs with Konami for some time. Last month, Konami briefly pulled Kojima's name from the branding of his widely-anticipated "Metal Gear Solid V," sparking speculation that he wasn't going to be with the company much longer.
So it looks like "Silent Hills" is going up in smoke, and maybe that's not entirely surprising. When the Kojima debacle was in full swing, a VentureBeat writer noted the well-established publisher could be looking to change focus.
"The company, like nearly every publisher in Japan, has shifted away from triple-A console games that cost millions of dollars to produce. ... Instead, it could break up that budget and throw it at dozens of mobile games while trying to get more from its casino attractions."
P.T. is still free to download on the PlayStation Store until Wednesday, April 29. Konami has yet to officially confirm whether "Silent Hills" is still in development.


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package cucumber.contrib.grammar.pdf;

import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.thoughtworks.qdox.model.JavaPackage;
import cucumber.contrib.grammar.GrammarConsolidation;
import cucumber.contrib.grammar.java.Grammar;
import cucumber.contrib.grammar.java.GrammarParser;
import cucumber.contrib.grammar.java.GrammarParserListenerAdapter;
import cucumber.contrib.grammar.step.FeatureParser;
import cucumber.contrib.grammar.step.Features;
import cucumber.contrib.util.PropertiesLoader;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Set;

public class GrammarPdfReportTest {

    private String basedir;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws IOException {
        Properties properties = new PropertiesLoader().load(getClass().getResource("/test-settings.properties"));
        basedir = properties.getProperty("basedir");
    }

    @Test
    public void usecase() throws FileNotFoundException, DocumentException {
        Grammar grammar = generate();

        String json = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create().toJson(grammar);
        System.out.println("GrammarPdfReportTest.usecase(" + json + ")");

        GrammarPdfReport report = new GrammarPdfReport(new Configuration());
        report.init(new File(basedir, getClass().getSimpleName() + "_usecase.pdf"));
        report.emit(grammar);
        report.close();
    }

    private Grammar generate() {
        File stepTree = new File(basedir, "src/test/resources/cucumber/contrib/grammar/step");
        File javaTree = new File(basedir, "src/test/java/cucumber/contrib/grammar/pdf/stepdefs");

        Features features = new FeatureParser().usingSourceDirectory(stepTree).process();
        Grammar grammar = new GrammarParser()
                .usingSourceDirectory(javaTree)
                .usingListener(new GrammarParserListenerAdapter() {
                    private Set<String> visitedPkgs = Sets.newHashSet();
                    @Override
                    public void enteringPackage(JavaPackage pkg) {
                        if(!visitedPkgs.add(pkg.getName()))
                            throw new IllegalStateException("Package already visited!");
                        System.out.println("enteringPackage: pkg = [" + pkg + "]");
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void exitingPackage(JavaPackage pkg) {
                        System.out.println("exitingPackage: pkg = [" + pkg + "]");
                    }
                })
                .process();

        new GrammarConsolidation(grammar, features).consolidate();
        return grammar;
    }
}

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Home / Institutional Accreditation / Review & Approval Processes / Minors, Concentrations, and Tracks
WHAT ARE MINORS, CONCENTRATIONS, AND TRACKS?
Minors, concentrations, and tracks are collections of coursework through which students gain specialized knowledge in a particular field or discipline. The number of credits required for concentrations, minors, and tracks are determined by the faculty within each school. Minors, concentrations, and tracks appear on the official transcript of the University.
The following basic guidelines relate to creating or modifying minors, tracks, and concentrations for existing degree programs. Such actions only require University of Virginia approval.
Creating or Modifying a Minor, Concentration, or Track:
Upon review and approval of the proposed minor, concentration, or track by the school's curriculum committee and dean, submit an academic compliance checklist to Cheryl Carroll.
If the minor, concentration, or track affects faculty, students, and/or academic programs in more than one school, the sponsoring dean should consult the corresponding dean(s).
IRA consults with the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (VPAA) to confirm alignment with institutional academic planning.
Upon initial approval by the VPAA, IRA staff will advise the department on the required Faculty Senate materials
Faculty Senate* approval entails the following:
Review and approval by the Academic Affairs Committee
Review and approval by the Executive Council
Upon Faculty Senate approval, the Provost Office will notify the School Dean of the minor, concentration, or track's approval.
IRA staff notifies relevant institutional stakeholders, including the University Registrar for inclusion of the minor, concentration, or track in the Record and the Student Information System.
*As of 2015-16, approval of concentrations, minors, and tracks has been delegated to the Academic Affairs Committee and the Executive Council. However, the Executive Council reserves the right to forward any proposal to the Faculty Senate for review and approval.)
For the minor, concentration, or track to be effective the ensuing fall semester, all approvals (including provost and, if necessary, SACSCOC) must be secured by July 1. For the minor, concentration, or track to be effective with the ensuing spring semester, all approvals (including provost and, if necessary, SACSCOC) must be secured by December 1.


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Q: Bootstrap model covered by modal backdrop I have simple html page to show bootstrap modal, however when I launch the model -
it gets covered by modal backdrop,
I checked the z- index of myModal - 1040 and that of modal backdrop is 1030
checked all posts in stackoverflow but none of them solve my issue
please help

    <link href="" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="Content/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

    Launch demo modal

            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">X</button>

Log in

            <form class="modal-form" id="loginform">
                <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="login" id="username">
                <input type="text" name="password" placeholder="password" id="userpassword">
            </form>

            <button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
            <button class="btn btn-success">Login</button>

A: You forgot a few things, which are:

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Your working code will look like this:
Launch demo modal

        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">X</button>

Log in

        <form class="modal-form" id="loginform">
          <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="login" id="username">
          <input type="text" name="password" placeholder="password" id="userpassword">
        </form>

        <button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
        <button class="btn btn-success">Login</button>

Here's a JsFiddle to show it in a working environment.
To read everything about the modal, please check this
Hope this helps!

A: Remove the hide class from your modal.
JSFdiddle
Launch demo modal

    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">X</button>

Log in

    <form class="modal-form" id="loginform">
      <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="login" id="username">
      <input type="text" name="password" placeholder="password" id="userpassword">
    </form>

    <button class="btn" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">Close</button>
    <button class="btn btn-success">Login</button>

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Jonah Hill is joining Leonardo DiCaprio in director Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, based on Jordan Belfort's best-selling memoir.
Terence Winter ("The Sopranos," "Boardwalk Empire") adapted the screenplay, which chronicles Jordan Belfort's (DiCaprio) dramatic rise and fall on Wall Street, along with his hard-partying lifestyle and tumultuous personal life, which included drug and alcohol addiction.
Hill (Moneyball) will play Danny Porush, who is convinced by his future best friend and business partner Belfort to quit his job in furniture sales and enter the lucrative yet volatile world of stock brokering.
Red Granite principals Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland are producing along with DiCaprio (Appian Way), Scorsese and Emma Koskoff (Sikelia Productions) and Alexandra Milchan (EMJAG Productions). Irwin Winkler and Georgia Kacandes will executive produce.
Production on The Wolf of Wall Street is slated to begin in August in New York.


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Q: How to rewrite an url with two query inside to one folder? I'm facing a problem to transform my actual url
http://website.com/login/profil.php?id=34&pseudo=robin
into this one :
http://website.com/myspace
I checked if the rewrite engine works well and it's ok so that's my .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^&pseudo=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^myspace\$  http://website/login/profil.php?id=$1&pseudo=$2  [R=301,L]

So my wish is to redirect the user's space on one common directory. what's the best way do do this ? am i wrong with the query ?
Thanks in advance guys !
This code doesn't work :

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test\.html$ /profil.php?id=([0-9]+)&pseudo=([a-z]+) [L]

A: Try this .htaccess it will work only when get parameters are in the same order i.e.

id=32&pseudo=code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/login/profil\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(\d+) [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} &pseudo=(\w+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^login/profil\.php$ /myspace? [L,R=301]

A: This format works for me. You also try this:
Put this line into your .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^myspace/?$ login/profil.php?id=34&pseudo=robin

And yes, do not forget to set rewrite base in your .htaccess file:
below line will set the base url:
RewriteBase /

So, basically you need to put these both lines into your htaccess file
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^myspace/?$ login/profil.php?id=34&pseudo=robin

For dynamic id and name, you can use:
RewriteRule ^myspace/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9._-]+)/?$ login/profil.php?id=$1&pseudo=$2

So, into your profile.php file, you can check parameter values(id and name)by
print_r($_REQUEST);

So, example, you will have to run the url something like,
http://websitename.com/myspace/20/robin/ or
http://websitename.com/myspace/25/john/ ... and like wise.


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Foxhills wins 'Best Immersive Experience' award
11.18am 22nd November 2021 - Travel
Avid travellers looking for a stunning escape to the Surrey countryside can now immerse themselves in an award-winning experience as Foxhills Club & Resort is recognised for its array of leisure pursuits by Condé Nast Johansens.
Foxhills was named the Best Immersive Experience as part of the awards, which celebrate outstanding hotels, spas and venues in the UK and Ireland and across the rest of the world.
Created to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across the Condé Nast Johansens portfolio, the annual Awards for Excellence have become an important and trusted mark of quality recognised by discerning readers and travel professionals alike.
The finalists and winners were determined by responses from online guest voting and reviews, as well as local expert reports drawn from the hotels featured on johansens.com website and in Condé Nast Johansens' 2022 International Luxury Hotels Guide.
The award caps off a successful year for the four-star resort, which recently opened a new £7m family leisure facility, The Pavilion, as it looks to continue to invest and improve its wide range of activities and facilities for all ages.
The Pavilion adds to the already extensive leisure facilities across the resort, which now features two of the UK's best championship golf courses; a nine-hole par-three course; 11 tennis courts; spa with treatment rooms, sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi; fully-equipped gym; two indoor pools; two outdoor pools; a natural pool; a crèche and soft play area; fitness, dance and group cycling studios; as well as three restaurants – all offering different styles of dining and cuisine.
The facilities are all encompassed in the Foxhills picturesque 400-acre estate with 66 comfortable bedrooms and suites, making for the perfect staycation, romantic getaway, active break or golf trip with the stately 19th-century Manor House at the heart of it all.
Tej Walia, Foxhills general manager, said: "It is a real honour to receive such a prestigious accolade, particularly in a year where we have opened our new Pavilion building to further enhance the 'immersive' experience we give our guests.
"As our members and regular visitors know only too well, our aim at Foxhills is to ensure they and our guests feel better when they leave than when they arrived and to give them everything they need on site, so they can engage in all manner of activities – which range to up to 200 per week.
"Condé Nast Johansens remains the most comprehensive illustrated reference to independently owned hotels inspected annually. If they recommend a property, you can trust you'll have an exceptional experience."
Condé Nast Johansens commented: "Foxhills is Surrey's pre-eminent resort hotel embraced by countryside as far as the eye can see. The competition was as tough as ever this year with a number of household names shortlisted. This award is thoroughly deserved, Foxhills continues to elevate its brand and customer experience to new heights."
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My daughter dropped the ipad... I went to a kiosk at the mall and had them replace the screen. I got home with ipad and bought an Otterbox, put it in the Otterbox and started playing around. The apps (including the settings app) just close sometimes immediately. I am heartbroken at this point, and don't know what to do... Any suggestions?
Take the case off and see if it still happens. If it doesn't then it's likely the case is installed incorrectly and is pressing the home button frequently. I'm guessing that's what's happening. If you still have the issue without the case on, there's something else going on.
It could be iOS 7. I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.0.4 and some times apps will close and then open and then some times repeat. Are you using iOS 7 if so make sure your using iOS 7.0.4 and when new updates come out get them. Hope I helped please tell me if your using iOS7.
Gosh, I hope it's something silly!!!
Is there anything the guys at the kiosk could have done to cause an issue like this?
Out of the case and playing with the ipad. I have noticed it your finger is around the home button it will close out the app and bring you to the home screen. This would also suggest that the otterbox would be causing it to happen if it was in constant contact with this area.
It appears that the screen/digitizer was not completely in place (dunno) and this was causing the home button to be super sensitive around it. This, in turn, caused the otterbox to constantly have contact with the sensitive part around the home button... This caused the apps to constantly close! I have been playing with it in the otterbox for about 15 minutes with no fault... If I press real hard on the otterbox around the home button this will still happen, but that's easy to not do!!! Fingers crossed, this one is in the bag!


As an Azure customer on Enterprise Agreement (EA), you can create EA (MS-AZR-0017P) and EA Dev/Test (MS-AZR-0148P) subscriptions programmatically. In this article, you learn how to create subscriptions programmatically using Azure Resource Manager.
When you create an Azure subscription from this API, that subscription is governed by the agreement under which you obtained Microsoft Azure services from Microsoft or an authorized reseller. To learn more, see Microsoft Azure Legal Information.
Your Enrollment Administrator can make you an Account Owner (sign in required) which makes you an Owner of the Enrollment Account. Follow the instructions in the invitation email you receive to manually create an initial subscription. Confirm account ownership and manually create an initial EA subscription before proceeding to the next step. Just adding the account to the enrollment isn't enough.
An existing Owner of the Enrollment Account can grant you access. Similarly, if you want to use a service principal to create the EA subscription, you must grant that service principal the ability to create subscriptions.
After you're added to an Azure EA enrollment as an Account Owner, Azure uses the account-to-enrollment relationship to determine where to bill the subscription charges. All subscriptions created under the account are billed towards the EA enrollment that the account is in. To create subscriptions, you must pass in values about the enrollment account and the user principals to own the subscription.
To run the following commands, you must be logged in to the Account Owner's home directory, which is the directory that subscriptions are created in by default.
Use the Get-AzEnrollmentAccount cmdlet to list all enrollment accounts you have access to.
Azure responds with a list of the Object IDs and email addresses of accounts.
Use the az billing enrollment-account list command to list all enrollment accounts you have access to.
Use the principalName property to identify the account that you want subscriptions to be billed to. Use the id as the enrollmentAccount value that you use to create the subscription in the next step.
The following example creates a request to create subscription named Dev Team Subscription and subscription offer is MS-AZR-0017P (regular EA). The enrollment account is 747ddfe5-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx (placeholder value, this value is a GUID), which is the enrollment account for SignUpEngineering@contoso.com. It also optionally adds two users as RBAC Owners for the subscription.
Use the id of the enrollmentAccount in the path of the request to create subscription.
displayName No String The display name of the subscription. If not specified, it's set to the name of the offer, like "Microsoft Azure Enterprise."
offerType Yes String The offer of the subscription. The two options for EA are MS-AZR-0017P (production use) and MS-AZR-0148P (dev/test, needs to be turned on using the EA portal).
owners No String The Object ID of any user that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created.
In the response, you get back a subscriptionOperation object for monitoring. When the subscription creation is finished, the subscriptionOperation object would return a subscriptionLink object, which has the subscription ID.
To use this preview module, install it by running Install-Module Az.Subscription -AllowPrerelease first. To make sure -AllowPrerelease works, install a recent version of PowerShellGet from Get PowerShellGet Module.
Use the New-AzSubscription along with enrollmentAccount object ID as the EnrollmentAccountObjectId parameter to create a new subscription.
Name No String The display name of the subscription. If not specified, it's set to the name of the offer, like "Microsoft Azure Enterprise."
EnrollmentAccountObjectId Yes String The Object ID of the enrollment account that the subscription is created under and billed to. This value is a GUID that you get from Get-AzEnrollmentAccount.
OwnerObjectId No String The Object ID of any user that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created.
OwnerSignInName No String The email address of any user that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created. You can use this parameter instead of OwnerObjectId.
OwnerApplicationId No String The application ID of any service principal that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created. You can use this parameter instead of OwnerObjectId. When using this parameter, the service principal must have read access to the directory.
To see a full list of all parameters, see New-AzSubscription.
To use this preview extension, install it by running az extension add --name subscription first.
Use the az account create along with enrollmentAccount object ID as the enrollment-account-object-id parameter to create a new subscription.
az account create --offer-type "MS-AZR-0017P" --display-name "Dev Team Subscription" --enrollment-account-object-id "747ddfe5-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" --owner-object-id "<userObjectId>","<servicePrincipalObjectId>"
display-name No String The display name of the subscription. If not specified, it's set to the name of the offer, like "Microsoft Azure Enterprise."
offer-type Yes String The offer of the subscription. The two options for EA are MS-AZR-0017P (production use) and MS-AZR-0148P (dev/test, needs to be turned on using the EA portal).
enrollment-account-object-id Yes String The Object ID of the enrollment account that the subscription is created under and billed to. This value is a GUID that you get from az billing enrollment-account list.
owner-object-id No String The Object ID of any user that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created.
owner-upn No String The email address of any user that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created. You can use this parameter instead of owner-object-id.
owner-spn No String The application ID of any service principal that you'd like to add as an RBAC Owner on the subscription when it's created. You can use this parameter instead of owner-object-id. When using this parameter, the service principal must have read access to the directory.
To see a full list of all parameters, see az account create.
Only Azure Enterprise subscriptions can be created using this API.
There's a limit of 50 subscriptions per account. After that, subscriptions can only be created by using Account Center.
There needs to be at least one EA or EA Dev/Test subscriptions under the account, which means the Account Owner has gone through manual sign-up at least once.
Users who aren't Account Owners, but were added to an enrollment account via RBAC, can't create subscriptions using Account Center.
You can't select the tenant for the subscription to be created in. The subscription is always created in the home tenant of the Account Owner. To move the subscription to a different tenant, see change subscription tenant.
For an example on creating subscriptions using .NET, see sample code on GitHub.
Now that you've created a subscription, you can grant that ability to other users and service principals. For more information, see Grant access to create Azure Enterprise subscriptions (preview).


Early morning on Sept. 8, 2015, the driver of a tractor-trailer died after his truck hit the back of a garbage truck that was parked on the side of Interstate 85 in Anderson County.
According to South Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 5 a.m. one mile north of Exit 35 just before Highway 86. The truck was traveling south on I-85 when it was unable to stop and hit the garbage truck stopped on the edge of the highway.
The truck driver died on impact and the driver of the garbage truck and a passenger in the vehicle where taken to a nearby hospital with injuries. A third vehicle was also struck by debris from the accident, but no injuries were reported.
Due to the sheer weight and size of semi-trucks and tractor-trailers, the injuries that often result from accidents are almost always catastrophic and often end in death. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the number of deaths from truck accidents have been steadily increasing since 2009.
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A Strong Mind, A Will to Live and a Medical Miracle
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By David F. Sobel, M.D., Donald Dalessio, M.D., Brian Copeland, M.D., and Barry Schwartz, Ph.D
The case is presented of a 37-year-old man (Lee Stein) with spontaneous thrombosis of a 10-mm left posterior communicating artery aneurysm, following presumed subarachnoid hemorrhage with negative angiography. Sequential magnetic resonance angiography and magnetic resonance source imaging (at 2 weeks, 3 months, 2 years, and 2 years, 5 months) showed progressive shrinkage and disappearance of the aneurysm.
A 37-year-old man complained of a dull ache in the left temporal and posterior ocular area initially felt to represent tension-type headache. He had a history of similar episodes 16 years earlier while under stress in law school. The next day, the headache became incapacitating, to the extent that the patient locked himself in a dark quiet room for 3 days.
Seven days later, the patient returned to the clinic complaining of less severe, but persistent headache. He was seen by a neurologist and referred for MRI. Neurologic exam was negative at that time. MRI performed 3 days later showed a 10-mm left posterior communicating artery aneurysm with bright signal on T1 weighted precontrast images, suggesting either slow flow or thrombosis. MRA was not available at that time.
A three-vessel cerebral angiogram (figure at right) with cut film and digital subtraction was performed, including multiple oblique magnification views. No evidence of a cerebral aneurysm, nor of vasospasm, was seen. The patient elected to have the aneurysm followed by MRA, and was referred to a sister institution for baseline study. A three-dimensional (3-D) phase contrast MRA showed no evidence of flow within an aneurysm. Three-dimensional time-of-flight MRA performed at the same time did show bright signal in the aneurysm, consistent with recent thrombosis.
Repeat MRA 3 months later showed the left posterior communicating artery aneurysm to have reduced in size to 6 mm, with no evidence of flow within the aneurysm. The 3-D time-of-flight MRA source image which had previously shown bright signal within the aneurysm now showed dark signal consistent with thrombus evolution.
Repeat MRA 2 years after the initial presentation showed no evidence of an aneurysm. T1 weighted spin-echo MRI showed a tiny residual nubbin adjacent to the left posterior communicating artery origin, with no evidence of a flow void. Magnetic source imaging (MSI) performed with magnetoencephalography showed diffuse spontaneous slow-wave activity [12,13] over the left hemisphere, indicative of possible cortical dysfunction.
Repeat MRA at 2 years and 5 months after the ictus showed no evidence of an aneurysm on 3-D time-of-flight nor on 3-D phase-contrast MRA, and showed further disappearance of the aneurysm on the source images. The patient has continued to do well 3 years and 2 months after the aneurysm was initially discovered, but he does have occasional mild left-sided headaches. He does not wish to undergo
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Retired Michigan steam plant's history preserved
By CECILIA BROWN The Mining Journal
MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Once a bustling facility filled with employees and the sounds of its turbines, generators and boilers, the interior of Marquette's retired Shiras Steam Plant is largely quiet today, with the exception of the low, constant hum emitted by the facility's lights.
The Shiras Steam Plant, a coal-fired power electric generating station owned and operated by the Marquette Board of Light and Power, was built in 1967, placed in layup status in June 2018, and officially retired in March, BLP officials said.
Just over a year after the plant was placed in layup status, attendees of a tour recently had a chance to explore the retired facility and learn about its history, current status and future, the Mining Journal reported.
"Really the key to this tour to me was a little piece of history," BLP Executive Director Tom Carpenter told attendees. "And maybe a perspective on what this building provided to the community for such a long period of time."
The tour was organized by the Marquette Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Marquette Board of Light and Power for the chamber's What's Brewing series of events.
Carpenter, as well as other BLP staff members, guided attendees through the facility, showing them the retired steam plant's generation equipment, control rooms, complex network of pipes, and more.
Participants were able to stand among the three retired power generation units at the plant that provided much of Marquette's electricity over the past decades while marveling at the plant's high ceilings, grated floors and complex network of staircases.
Beyond the generation equipment, tools, office supplies, signs, and a bit of residual coal ash could also be seen by the light emitted from two massive windows facing Lake Superior and Lake Street, showing evidence of the facility's long history and relatively recent retirement.
The plant and its first generating unit were built in 1967 in response to a growing demand for energy in the Marquette area, which had its energy provided by a combination of hydroelectric and diesel power from the 1920s through the 1960s, Carpenter told attendees.
"Back in the early 60s, they got the idea that we were going to need more power in the community and a bigger plant," Carpenter said. "So they bonded some money and built this unit."
During its nearly 50 years of operation, the plant expanded, eventually housing three separate power generating units, he said.
The 12.5-mW unit one, which was built in 1967, ran through the 1980s before being taken out of service for "a variety of mechanical reasons," Carpenter said. Unit two, with a 21-mW capacity, was built in 1972 and ran until several years ago.
The 44.0-mW unit three, which ran until June 2018, was built in 1983 and became "the primary resource and supply of 90-plus % of the power for Marquette, Michigan (and) nine surrounding townships," for nearly 40 years, Carpenter said.
The steam plant employed 40 to 50 people at its peak, Carpenter said.
"For what it's worth, all of those people still work for the Board of Light and Power," he said. "We have needs for them on the other side of town at our new plant among other things, so nobody got laid off."
While Shiras was operational, it burned around 200,000 tons of coal each year but was ranked as one of the cleanest coal-fired plants in the nation based on its sulfur dioxide emission rates, Carpenter said.
However, just over 50 years after the first unit was built, the Board of Light and Power placed the facility in a layup status in June 2018. In March, the BLP Board of Directors officially made the decision to retire the plant, Carpenter said.
This occurred after the BLP built the Marquette Energy Center, or MEC, which is located along Wright Street in Marquette. The MEC consists of three 18-mW Wartsila reciprocating internal combustion engines that are primarily fueled by natural gas.
The MEC was initially built for added reliability, Carpenter said, but the BLP quickly found out it "could operate that in an efficient way that could save everybody a lot of money over a period of time."
A power supply planning analysis study by consulting firm Burns and McDonnell in August 2017 revealed that the BLP could potentially reduce power supply costs by over $100 million during the next two decades due to the MEC's operational flexibility and use of electric grid markets overseen by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, officials said previously.
This eventually led to the BLP deciding to take the Shiras Steam Plant offline permanently and retire it, pulling all of its permits.
"We have no intention of bringing this back online," Carpenter said.
With the Shiras Steam Plant retired, the BLP is preparing for the long and complex process of decommissioning the plant, he said.
"We're beginning the process. We have a need to get some consultants and contractors on board to help us, because we're not experts in demolition by any stretch of (the) imagination. We're more the type of people who build stuff, do things, so we need some external help," Carpenter said. "And once that's on board, we'll develop plans to start remediating the building internally and then eventually (demolishing) the outside."
The decommissioning, remediation and demolition of the plant is estimated to be a multiyear project, Carpenter said, noting "it's a long process" that could take two to three years, with the interior portion of the process alone taking about a year.
However, some portions of the plant's campus will be here to stay, serving as reminders of the steam plant that operated along South Lake Street in Marquette for over 50 years.
"That substation there, it's staying. That's still actively being used," Carpenter said. "The dock out front is still being used. (Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.) drops limestone on that dock. It's still a municipal dock. So there are things here that aren't going away."
Information from: The Mining Journal, http://www.miningjournal.net
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With hundreds of thousands to millions of car seats in recall every year, it is imperative that parents register car seats to ensure their child's safety. Historically, around 80 percent of vehicle recalls actually receive repairs. This means millions of families are driving around with a child in a compromised car. This makes ensuring your child's car seats are safe all the more important.
Every year, the National Child Passenger Week Campaign and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) urge parents to register their car seats and booster seats so they can receive recall notices. By doing this, you give manufacturers the ability to contact you about any and all safety notices.
By completing this simple task, you can ensure that your child is in a car seat that is as safe as it possibly can be. It could mean the difference between life and death.
How do I Register A Car Seat?
In 2017, more than 700,000 individual car sears were recalled, but only 30 percent of recalls ever make it back to the manufacturer. This leaves thousands driving around with unsafe car seats. A study by Safe Kids Worldwide found that only 42 percent of families return the car-seat registration card that comes when you purchase a car seat. It is important to note that registering your children's car seat will guarantee that you will be notified if a recall is issued.
There are two ways to register a car seat:
Mail in your car seat registration card
Fill out and mail the registration card that came with your car seat. All of your car seat's information will already be included. No postage is required to send this registration card.
Register online at safecar.gov or on your car seat manufacturer's website
You can also visit your car seat manufacturer's website to register your seat. You'll need to have the model number and date of manufacture found on a label on your car seat handy.
Registering your child's car seat doesn't take much effort. But it could keep your child from suffering serious injuries in a car crash.
What To Do In Case Of A Recall
It is important to note that most recalls don't require you to stop using your child's car seat right away. Some recalls are for minor issues such as a misprint on a label that would require to stick a new label on your child's car seat. However, many other recalls are for easily repairable issues.
First, stay calm. Do some research on the issue and find out the specifics of why the manufacturer issued a safety recall for your child's car seat. This will help you with figuring out exactly what you need to do to fix the problem. The second step to take is to contact the manufacturer. In most cases, the manufacturer will send the necessary part or parts needed to repair your child's car seat.
If you receive notice of a recall, follow the manufacturer's instructions carefully and make any repairs necessary. This will ensure your child rides as safely as possible. Recalls are scary when you know your child's safety is at risk. However, taking prompt action to correct the problem is a parent's best precaution when it comes to keeping their child safe.
What is the Safety Recall Process?
Contrary to popular belief, recalls are not issued by the government. They are, in fact, issued by the manufacturer at the government's urging. The NHTSA is the governing body that sets the standards for manufacturers to meet. Also, it is the agency that requires manufacturers to recall unsafe equipment.
The recall process is as follows:
Step 1: Loved ones or individuals who suffer injuries because of a faulty product or defect report the safety defect to the NHTSA.
Step 2: The NHTSA will review complaints upon receiving them. The agency will then analyze to see if an investigation is warranted.
Step 3: If the NHTSA finds credibility in the complaints then it will notify manufacturers of its recall recommendations.
Step 4: A safety recall is issued when the NHTSA finds a company has violated federal safety standards. A recall requires a manufacturer's action to announce and remedy the defects.
While not all recalls are safety related, most of them are. In some cases, automakers issue voluntary recalls, or the NHTSA imposes a recall by court order. No matter the reason for the safety recall, it is essential that you know exactly what is going on with your child's car seat. Registering your car seat is the best way to receive up to date on your child's car seat recall status.
What Else do Parents Need to Know About Car Seats?
Many parents may not know that car seats come with expiration dates. These dates typically range from two to eight years from the date of seat's manufacturer. This date is critical to keep in mind if you are planning to recycle the seat for subsequent children.
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Q: C Loan Calculator returns all 0.00 Everything just comes back as 0.00, can anyone see why it may do that?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <math.h>
#define MONTHS 12

int main (void)
{
    int i;
    double p, r, y, rate, months;
    double old_balance, interest, principal, payment, new_balance;
    long real_payment;

    printf("This program calculates your bank loan repayment plan\n");
    printf("Please enter the principal (q to quit)\n");
    while (scanf("%f", &p) ==1)
    {
        if (p <= 0.00)
            printf("Invalid Entry\n");
        break;
    }

    printf("please enter the annual interest rate (q to quit)\n");
    while (scanf("%f", &r) ==1)
    {
        if (r > 0.00)
            rate = r/100.00;
        else
            printf("Invalid Entry\n");
        break;
    }

    printf("Please enter the duration of the loan in years (q to quit)\n");
    while (scanf("%f", &y) ==1)
    {
        if (y > 0.00)
            months = y*12.00;
        else
            printf("Invalid Entry\n");
        break;
    }

    payment = (p*rate)/(1.00-(pow((1.00+rate),-months)));
    old_balance = p;
    interest = old_balance*months;
    principal = payment-interest;
    new_balance = old_balance-principal;
    real_payment = ((payment*100.00) + 0.5)/100.0;

    printf("%f  %f\n", rate, months);
    printf("Month             Old Balance              Payment                  Interest                 Principal            New Balance\n");
    for (i = 0; i < MONTHS; i++)
    {
        printf( "%d   %20.2f     %20.2f     %20.2f     %20.2f %20.2f\n", i+1, old_balance, real_payment, interest, principal, new_balance);
    }

    return 0;
}

Please feel free to ask any questions, new to C, just learning. Thanks for help in advance. :)

A: Changing the scanf("%f",...) to scanf("%lf",...) solves the issue for me. The data values in the table are no longer output as zeros. Since the scanf function is looking for a float in your code, it doesn't correctly read the data from the user, hence the zeros.