Found 11 results for Cosmetic Medicine in London, UK.
What is a Cosmetic Doctor?
A cosmetic doctor is someone who can offer advice and procedures to achieve your desired appearance. There are different types of cosmetic doctors who specialise in different areas (e.g. skin treatments, nose surgeries, breast augmentations, etc). The procedures on offer can be both surgical and nonsurgical (e.g. cosmetic injections, laser treatments, etc). Some cosmetic procedures can also be done therapeutically (e.g. breast reduction for back pain). Note - those requiring reconstructive surgery should see a plastic surgeon.
When to see a Cosmetic Doctor?
You may wish to see a cosmetic doctor when you are looking to change your appearance for nonmedical reasons. The cosmetic doctors can give you a consultation and offer their advice and recommendations for you and thoroughly explore any procedures on offer before any decisions are made. The majority of procedures are not available through the NHS and funding is generally provided privately.


This year, Megan Kellogg's mother moved into a new in-law unit in her own backyard, freeing up the main house for Kellogg's family of three. Building it was the easy part. Getting the blessing from a Bay Area city was another story.
From lot sizes to parking, cities are "all over the map" with their rules, fees and interpretations of the new state laws governing in-law units, said Karen Chapple, a professor of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley who has a pilot project to grade local governments on their policies.
Also pending is a proposal from Senate Republican Leader Pat Bates, of Orange County, to encourage the legalization of unpermitted units by authorizing local building officials to apply the standards that were in place when the unit was constructed, rather than the latest, more stringent standards. Bates crafted the bill with Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear.
New laws that took effect last year prompted cities across California to rewrite their rules on granny flats. Many are continuing to refine them. San Diego in April stopped charging development fees for new accessory units, and San Jose has just approved changes allowing a second story and, on larger lots, a second bedroom. Campbell is reconsidering its rule banning in-law units on lots less than 10,000 square feet, a restriction affecting about 75 percent of the city's single-family properties, according to data provided by senior planner Daniel Fama.
The year-old granny-unit laws "cut out a lot of paperwork" and have worked wonderfully for his district, said Republican Assemblyman Randy Voepel, former mayor of the San Diego suburb of Santee — the lone member of the Assembly Local Government Committee to voice support for Sen. Bob Wieckowski's failed SB 831.
At the hearing, Voepel rattled off a list of groups the bill would help: veterans, seniors, the disabled, and millennials.
But cities and counties are not keen to deal with another set of state mandates just as the ink has dried from the last changes. "I don't think the folks at the state have any idea how long it takes to draft, vet and implement a new ordinance," said Christina Horrisberger, a senior planner for Alameda County, who stressed that she was speaking for herself personally and not the county when she said she was relieved that Wieckowski's bill failed.
And some residents are wary that unfettered growth of second units will lead to yet more short-term rentals and competition for street parking. Jimme James said the Oakland neighborhood where her family has owned a home for decades is "unrecognizable," with landlords renting out houses at rates that few families can afford.
Jake Decker thinks local land-use restrictions are partly to blame for the run-up in housing costs. He and his partner spent six months waiting for a permit to build a 392-square-foot granny flat behind their house on the Oakland-Berkeley border, which they are renting to friends who recently moved to the area. The permit finally came through, he said, shortly after his councilman made a call to the city.
Decker considers it well worth the hassle. Even after cutting their friends a deal on rent, he said, the rental income was enough to let them refinance to a 15-year mortgage on the main house. "We got stupid lucky in this whole thing," he said.
Quicker approvals, more oversight: Next month, the state Senate will take up Assembly Bill 2890, by Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco. It would give cities and counties 60 days, rather than 120, to consider accessory dwelling unit permits. It would also further simplify approvals; prevent governments from banning backyard units on smaller lots; and strengthen state oversight of local ordinances. It would still allow cities to require the main house to be owner-occupied as a condition of approval, as they can now.
Legalize them: Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates, of the Orange County suburb Laguna Niguel, wants to bring unpermitted units "out of the shadows." Senate Bill 1226 would authorize local officials to apply the building standards in place when a granny-flat was built, rather than holding it to the latest, more stringent, standards.
Maybe next year? This year's most far-reaching bill to cut restrictions and fees for granny flats, Senate Bill 831, failed late last month in an Assembly policy committee. But Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, vows to return next year with similar legislation. Wieckowski carried another major bill to promote the growth of backyard units that took effect in 2017.


Social Accountability in Africa: Practitioners' Experiences and Lessons is a collection of case studies from Africa on social accountability. This collection attempts to build aconsolidated body of knowledge on social accountability efforts across the continent. The case studies are diverse and present unique approaches to how social accountability strategies and interventions are implemented within different countries. The book is written by practitioners, for practitioners, providing first hand experience of designing and implementing social accountability initiatives and the challenges, methods and successes each one presents.
• While most research focuses on the role of citizens and civil society organisations inpromoting accountability, this book places a greater emphasis on joint state-civil societyinitiatives.
• While social accountability initiatives are known mostly only in their own countries, and few African campaigns are documented, this book fills this gap by covering different approaches within a wide array of African countries.
To overcome language and cultural barriers that have prevented practitioners in the African sub-regions from learning from each other, this book will be translated into French and disseminated widely in Francophone Africa.


William D. Friedman, president and chief executive officer for the Port of Cleveland, began his one-year term on October 10 as the 2018-19 chairman of the board for the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA).
"AAPA's new chairman will provide strong leadership as AAPA continues to educate stakeholders, provide services, and advocate policies that strengthen the ability of member seaports to serve their global customers and create economic and social value for their communities," said Kurt Nagle, AAPA president and CEO.
"With his valuable experience as a port director involved with diversified cargo, his background in real estate development, multimodal transportation and the international supply chain, and his longstanding active engagement with AAPA and our member ports throughout the hemisphere, Will Friedman will be of enormous value as our member ports work together to address common challenges and legislative priorities," said Nagle.
Friedman was elected chairman of the board in a March 2018 vote of AAPA's board of directors, representing port officials throughout the Americas. Friedman succeeds Steve Cernak, chief executive and port director for Port Everglades, and he, along with all 2018-19 delegation officers and board of directors, were inducted as part of AAPA's 107th Annual Convention in a membership meeting in Valparaiso, Chile.
As AAPA's board chairman, Friedman also serves as the association's U.S. delegation chair, whose other officers include: Chairman-Elect – Gary G. Nelson, Port of Grays Harbor (Wash.); Vice Chairman – Mario Cordero, Port of Long Beach (Calif.); and Immediate Past Chair - Steve Cernak, Port Everglades (Fla.).
Canadian delegation officers are: Chairman – Carl Laberge, Saguenay Port Authority (Québec); Chairman-Elect – Sean Hanrahan, St. John's Port Authority (Newfoundland and Labrador); and Vice Chairman – Denis Caron, Belledune Port Authority (New Brunswick).
Chairing the Caribbean delegation this year is Glenn Roach, Barbados Port Inc. The chairman-elect is John Bishen, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Port Authority; and the vice chairman is Orlando Forbes, Freeport Harbor Company (Bahamas).
Officers of the Latin American delegation are: Chairman – Giovanni Benedetti, Sociedad Portuaria Regional de Cartagena S.A. (Colombia); Chair-Elect – Francisco Javier González Silva, Empresa Portuaria Arica (Chile); and Vice Chairman - Angel Elías, Ente Administrador Puerto Rosario (ENAPRO; Argentina).


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Over-The-Top Hairdo Sparks Blogosphere Firestorm
Courtesy of Michelle Joni Lapidos
Michelle Joni Lapidos sports a big afro wig.
Michelle Joni Lapidos never knew that she would fall in love with a big, black afro wig. And she certainly never knew it would change her life. But after she wore it to a dress-up party, that's exactly what happened. Now the white, Jewish "afro-girl" has been thrown in the middle of a racial firestorm.
It sounds like an experiment from a college sociology class, but Lapidos tells NPR's Michel Martin that she began wearing the wig with good, fun intentions. She was quickly called a racist by people who took offense to it.
Here's one comment on her blog, beforeandafro.com:
"From one white girl to another, please just stop. You are hurting people — you're wearing their identity and culture as a costume that you can put on and take off."
Lapidos received some encouragement, however, from Questlove, the drummer from the band The Roots. Questlove recently tweeted a picture of Lapidos sporting her wig and busting a few moves on the dance floor at a fried chicken festival. Lapidos is unapologetic for wearing the afro, but she is sorry for offending people who think she is mocking anyone's culture.
She says the afro is "a symbol of anything that makes you look at something in a different way." She explains how she "looks cooler" since the wig covers her "normal blond hair."
Lapidos says she's learned a lot from this experience, and now she enjoys educating "a ton of other clueless white people."
/ Jessica Lapidos
Jessica Lapidos
Lapidos has changed her look.
She says she genuinely enjoys the look of the afro. But her experience has revealed "the open wound that is still there for people who have afros who feel that they have to straighten their hair for job interviews."
If this were Lapidos' dramatic idea for a dress-up party, then you must wonder what she plans to do for Halloween. She says she'll dress as an Equal Opportunity Offender — wearing a "yarmulke, the afro, a sari, and all these different symbols of culture and religion."
"I never meant to offend anyone, but if I'm gonna offend someone, I'll offend everyone," she says. "Let's just all be offended."
After all the criticism, Lapidos says that she now wears a blond wig.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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using System.Linq;
using MongoDB.Bson;
using MongoDB.Bson.Serialization;
using MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Attributes;
using MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.IdGenerators;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace MongoDB.Bson.Tests.Serialization.Attributes
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class BsonAttributeTests
    {
        [BsonDiscriminator("discriminator", Required = true)]
        [BsonIgnoreExtraElements(false)]
        public class Test
        {
            [BsonDefaultValue("default1")]
            public string SerializedDefaultValue1 { get; set; }
#pragma warning disable 618 // SerializeDefaultValue is obsolete
            [BsonDefaultValue("default2", SerializeDefaultValue = true)]
            public string SerializedDefaultValue2 { get; set; }
            [BsonDefaultValue("default3", SerializeDefaultValue = false)]
            public string NotSerializedDefaultValue { get; set; }
#pragma warning restore 618
            public string NoDefaultValue { get; set; }

            [BsonId(IdGenerator = typeof(ObjectIdGenerator))]
            public ObjectId IsId { get; set; }
            public ObjectId IsNotId { get; set; }

            [BsonIgnore]
            public string Ignored { get; set; }
            public string NotIgnored { get; set; }

            [BsonIgnoreIfDefault]
            public string IgnoredIfDefault { get; set; }
            public string NotIgnoredIfDefault { get; set; }

            [BsonIgnoreIfNull]
            public string IgnoredIfNull { get; set; }
            public string NotIgnoredIfNull { get; set; }

            [BsonRequired]
            public string Required { get; set; }
            public string NotRequired { get; set; }

            [BsonElement("notordered")]
            public string NotOrdered { get; set; }
            [BsonElement("ordered", Order = 1)]
            public string Ordered { get; set; }
            public string NoElement { get; set; }
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestDiscriminator()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));
            Assert.AreEqual("discriminator", classMap.Discriminator);
            Assert.AreEqual(true, classMap.DiscriminatorIsRequired);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestIgnoreExtraElements()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));
            Assert.AreEqual(false, classMap.IgnoreExtraElements);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestDefaultValue()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var serializedDefaultValue1 = classMap.GetMemberMap("SerializedDefaultValue1");
            Assert.AreEqual(false, serializedDefaultValue1.IgnoreIfDefault);
            Assert.AreEqual("default1", serializedDefaultValue1.DefaultValue);

            var serializedDefaultValue2 = classMap.GetMemberMap("SerializedDefaultValue2");
            Assert.AreEqual(false, serializedDefaultValue2.IgnoreIfDefault);
            Assert.AreEqual("default2", serializedDefaultValue2.DefaultValue);

            var notSerializedDefaultValue = classMap.GetMemberMap("NotSerializedDefaultValue");
            Assert.AreEqual(true, notSerializedDefaultValue.IgnoreIfDefault);
            Assert.AreEqual("default3", notSerializedDefaultValue.DefaultValue);

            var noDefaultValue = classMap.GetMemberMap("NoDefaultValue");
            Assert.AreEqual(false, noDefaultValue.IgnoreIfDefault);
            Assert.IsNull(noDefaultValue.DefaultValue);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestId()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var isId = classMap.GetMemberMap("IsId");
            Assert.AreEqual("_id", isId.ElementName);
            Assert.AreSame(classMap.IdMemberMap, isId);

            var isNotId = classMap.GetMemberMap("IsNotId");
            Assert.AreEqual("IsNotId", isNotId.ElementName);
            Assert.AreNotSame(classMap.IdMemberMap, isNotId);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestIgnored()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var ignored = classMap.GetMemberMap("Ignored");
            Assert.IsNull(ignored);

            var notIgnored = classMap.GetMemberMap("NotIgnored");
            Assert.IsNotNull(notIgnored);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestIgnoredIfNull()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var ignoredIfNull = classMap.GetMemberMap("IgnoredIfNull");
            Assert.AreEqual(true, ignoredIfNull.IgnoreIfNull);

            var notIgnoredIfNull = classMap.GetMemberMap("NotIgnoredIfNull");
            Assert.AreEqual(false, notIgnoredIfNull.IgnoreIfNull);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestIgnoredIfDefault()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var ignoredIfDefault = classMap.GetMemberMap("IgnoredIfDefault");
            Assert.AreEqual(true, ignoredIfDefault.IgnoreIfDefault);

            var notIgnoredIfDefault = classMap.GetMemberMap("NotIgnoredIfDefault");
            Assert.AreEqual(false, notIgnoredIfDefault.IgnoreIfDefault);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestRequired()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var required = classMap.GetMemberMap("Required");
            Assert.AreEqual(true, required.IsRequired);

            var notRequired = classMap.GetMemberMap("NotRequired");
            Assert.AreEqual(false, notRequired.IsRequired);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestElement()
        {
            var classMap = BsonClassMap.LookupClassMap(typeof(Test));

            var notOrdered = classMap.GetMemberMap("NotOrdered");
            Assert.AreEqual("notordered", notOrdered.ElementName);
            Assert.AreEqual(int.MaxValue, notOrdered.Order);

            var ordered = classMap.GetMemberMap("Ordered");
            Assert.AreEqual("ordered", ordered.ElementName);
            Assert.AreEqual(1, ordered.Order);
            Assert.AreSame(classMap.AllMemberMaps.First(), ordered);

            var noElement = classMap.GetMemberMap("NoElement");
            Assert.AreEqual("NoElement", noElement.ElementName);
            Assert.AreEqual(int.MaxValue, noElement.Order);
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Pigeon poop is a filthy nuisance, especially when it lands on shoulders, hair, statues, and cars. But a new development in science could turn pigeon plop into cleaning product.
Developed by Belgian firm Tuur Van Balen, the project "Pigeon D'Or" has been created to see if it's possible to modify the metabolism found in pigeons and change the faecal matter into cleaning detergent. When released by the pigeon, the soap would clean cars, buildings, and statues, instead of leaving dirty white spots all over everything.


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Q: pyspark--FPGrowth: how does transform work on unseen transactions? I am using pyspark.ml.fpm.FPGrowth in Spark 2.4 and I have a question about how precisely transform works on a transactions which are new.
My understanding is that model.transform will take each transaction X and find all Y such that
Conf(X-->Y) > minConfidence. It will then return the list of such Y ordered by confidence.
However suppose there is no transaction which contains X, so Conf(X-->Y) is undefined for all Y, I am unsure how the algorithm will transform this transaction.
This is a simple set of transactions taken from the docs:
DF = spark.createDataFrame([
    (0, [1, 2, 5]),
    (1, [1, 2, 3, 5]),
    (2, [1, 4])
], ["id", "items"])

fpGrowth = FPGrowth(itemsCol="items", minSupport=0, minConfidence=0)
model = fpGrowth.fit(DF)

Then we supply a simple transaction as test data:
test_DF = spark.createDataFrame([
    (0, [4,5])
], ["id", "items"])
test_DF = spark.createDataFrame(baskets, schema=schema)
model.transform(test_DF).show()

+---+------+----------+
|num| items|prediction|
+---+------+----------+
|  1|[4, 5]| [1, 3, 2]|
+---+------+----------+

Does anyone know how the prediction [1,3,2] was generated?

A: I think FPGrowthModel.transform applies the rules mined by FPGrowth on the transactions, so when ever it finds an itemset X in a transaction and at the same time we have a rule that says (X=>Y) then it suggests the item Y in prediction column for this transaction,
but the question know I noticed that in the case we have a transaction that contains X and Y it returns [ ] in prediction column unless there is a rule that says X & Y => Z in this case it will suggest Z instead.
So that makes it hard to evaluate the model with accuracy metric :(

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Snoddy Properties, Inc. (SPI) is a licensed full-service real estate firm specializing in the development, management and leasing of commercial real estate, with an emphasis on medical office buildings. Jim Snoddy, founder, has worked in the real estate industry since 1981, originally building homes and office warehouses in Edmond, Oklahoma and has specialized in medical office buildings since 1987. SPI currently offers a wide range of commercial real estate services that include site selection, assistance with financing, construction management, asset management, leasing, brokerage services and real estate investment opportunities.
Jim Snoddy formed SPI in March, 1993, in order to provide high quality, personalized, corporate and institutional real estate services. SPI's purpose is to provide a high level of professional service in commercial real estate, including shopping centers, warehouses, land and office buildings, while specializing in the highly technical area of medically related real estate. SPI has been chosen to provide full service management, leasing, development, construction management and/or consulting services for several institutional clients in Oklahoma City, including Variety Care Health, Oklahoma Heart Hospital, Chesapeake Energy Corp., St. Anthony Hospital, Integris - Southwest Medical Center, Integris - Baptist Medical Center, UROCOR, Deaconess Hospital, Norman Regional Hospital and Guardian Life Insurance, to name a few. SPI has been honored to provide these same services to many physicians and private investors throughout Oklahoma as well.


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De Jan Evertsenbrug (145p) is een kunstwerk in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. Alhoewel de naam dragend van een brug is het een stelsel van viaducten en bruggen, Amsterdam duidt meestal viaducten als bruggen aan.

Het viaducten- en bruggenstelsel, geheel van beton, is gelegen in de Ringweg Amsterdam en overspant de Jan Evertsen en een parallel liggende waterweg. De bouw van het complex ging van start op 1 mei 1969 Op 9 mei was er een grote zandvlakte te zien.. Het bouwwerk maakte deel uit van de verlenging van de Ringweg-West toen nog Einsteinweg geheten. Het traject tussen de Jan van Galenstraat en de Cornelis Lelylaan, waarin het kunstwerk ligt, werd op 27 juni 1972 vrijgegeven voor het verkeer. Deze ongelijkvloerse kruising kreeg geen onderlinge af- en toevoerwegen, omdat de afstand tot de afslagen in de ringweg naar de Jan van Galenstraat relatief dichtbij zijn. Die afstand is dermate kort dat de afslag van de ringweg naar de Jan van Galenstraat al ten zuiden van de Jan Evertsenbrug begint, net als de toevoerweg van de Jan van Galenstraat naar die ringweg pas ten zuiden van de Jan Evertsenbrug ophoudt. Het viaduct ziet er van boven als volgt uit (van oost naar west):
afslag ringweg naar Jan van Galenstraat, noordwaarts gelegen
overspanning ringweg noordwaarts over de Jan Evertsenstraat
overspanning ringweg zuidwaarts over de Jan Evertsenstraat
toevoerweg van Jan van Galenstraat naar ringweg zuidwaarts.

De viaducten gingen vanaf 1974 naamloos door het leven met het nummer 145P hetgeen verwijst naar een brug in Amsterdam in beheer bij het rijk of provincie, in dit geval het rijk. Amsterdam vernoemde op 8 december 2017 (bijna) alle viaducten in de ringweg, om een betere plaatsaanduiding te krijgen. Op die datum werd de nieuwe naam Jan Evertsenbrug opgenomen in de Basisadministratie Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG). Het bouwwerk werd daarbij vernoemd naar de Jan Evertsenstraat, die op haar beurt is vernoemd naar de admiraal Jan Evertsen.

Ten zuidoosten van het viaduct/de brug staan twee voormalige kantoorgebouwen. De laagbouw dient tot filiaal van de Hotelschool The Hague. De hoogbouw, een voormalig kantoor van de AMRO Bank, dient tot hotel. Ze zijn beide ontworpen door Piet Zanstra, Ab Gmelig Meyling en Peter de Clercq Zubli. Ten zuidwesten staan de Knijtijzerblokken, naar architect Herman Knijtijzer, een gemeentelijk monument.

Brug in Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Rijksweg 10

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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package com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.record;

import com.orientechnologies.common.log.OLogManager;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.db.ODatabaseListener;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.exception.OTransactionException;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.id.ORID;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.record.ORecordInternal;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.record.impl.ODocument;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.tx.OTransaction;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.tx.OTransaction.TXSTATUS;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.tx.OTransaction.TXTYPE;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.tx.OTransactionNoTx;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.tx.OTransactionOptimistic;

/**
 * Delegates all the CRUD operations to the current transaction.
 *
 */
public class ODatabaseRecordTx<REC extends ORecordInternal<?>> extends ODatabaseRecordAbstract<REC> {
	private OTransaction<REC>		currentTx;
	private static volatile int	txSerial	= 0;

	public ODatabaseRecordTx(final String iURL, final Class<? extends REC> iRecordClass) {
		super(iURL, iRecordClass);
		init();
	}

	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> begin() {
		return begin(TXTYPE.OPTIMISTIC);
	}

	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> begin(final TXTYPE iType) {
		currentTx.rollback();

		// WAKE UP LISTENERS
		for (ODatabaseListener listener : underlying.getListeners())
			try {
				listener.onBeforeTxBegin(underlying);
			} catch (Throwable t) {
				OLogManager.instance().error(this, "Error before tx begin", t);
			}

		switch (iType) {
		case NOTX:
			setDefaultTransactionMode();
			break;

		case OPTIMISTIC:
			currentTx = new OTransactionOptimistic<REC>(this, txSerial++);
			break;

		case PESSIMISTIC:
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Pessimistic transaction");
		}

		currentTx.begin();
		return this;
	}

	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> commit() {
		// WAKE UP LISTENERS
		for (ODatabaseListener listener : underlying.getListeners())
			try {
				listener.onBeforeTxCommit(underlying);
			} catch (Throwable t) {
				OLogManager.instance().error(this, "Error before tx commit", t);
			}

		currentTx.commit();
		setDefaultTransactionMode();

		// WAKE UP LISTENERS
		for (ODatabaseListener listener : underlying.getListeners())
			try {
				listener.onAfterTxCommit(underlying);
			} catch (Throwable t) {
				OLogManager.instance().error(this, "Error after tx commit", t);
			}

		return this;
	}

	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> rollback() {
		// WAKE UP LISTENERS
		for (ODatabaseListener listener : underlying.getListeners())
			try {
				listener.onTxRollback(underlying);
			} catch (Throwable t) {
				OLogManager.instance().error(this, "Error before tx rollback", t);
			}

		currentTx.rollback();
		setDefaultTransactionMode();
		return this;
	}

	public OTransaction<?> getTransaction() {
		return currentTx;
	}

	@Override
	public REC load(final int iClusterId, final long iPosition, final REC iRecord, final String iFetchPlan) {
		return currentTx.load(iClusterId, iPosition, iRecord, iFetchPlan);
	}

	@Override
	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> save(final REC iContent) {
		return save(iContent, null);
	}

	@Override
	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> save(final REC iContent, final String iClusterName) {
		currentTx.save(iContent, iClusterName);
		return this;
	}

	@Override
	public ODatabaseRecord<REC> delete(final REC iRecord) {
		currentTx.delete(iRecord);
		return this;
	}

	public void executeRollback(final OTransaction<?> iTransaction) {
	}

	public void executeCommit() {
		getStorage().commit(getId(), currentTx);
	}

	protected void checkTransaction() {
		if (currentTx == null || currentTx.getStatus() == TXSTATUS.INVALID)
			throw new OTransactionException("Transaction not started");
	}

	private void init() {
		currentTx = new OTransactionNoTx<REC>(this, -1);
	}

	public ORecordInternal<?> getRecordByUserObject(final Object iUserObject, final boolean iIsMandatory) {
		return (ORecordInternal<?>) iUserObject;
	}

	public void registerPojo(final Object iObject, final ODocument iRecord) {
	}

	public Object getUserObjectByRecord(final ORecordInternal<?> record, final String iFetchPlan) {
		return record;
	}

	public boolean existsUserObjectByRID(final ORID iRID) {
		return true;
	}

	private void setDefaultTransactionMode() {
		if (!(currentTx instanceof OTransactionNoTx))
			currentTx = new OTransactionNoTx<REC>(this, txSerial++);
	}
}


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What America can learn from cities with super-low unemployment
Posted January 11, 2018 6:28 a.m. EST
By Lydia DePillis
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In one sense, Ames, Iowa, has something any other city might envy: An unemployment rate of 1.5%, the lowest in America.
Buoyed by Iowa State University's main campus, this metropolitan area with about 100,000 people just 40 miles north of Des Moines has long had a tighter-than-average labor market, meaning that almost everyone who wants a job can find one. But there's a downside to having that many jobs: Businesses looking to expand or relocate have a tough time finding employees.
"If a company was doing a site search, and were basing it strictly on the unemployment rate, we would be out every time," said Dan Culhane, president of Ames' Chamber of Commerce. They're still able to find the workforce, Culhane explains, but it usually requires luring someone with the promise of higher pay or recruiting from out of town.
Ames' mixed blessing is an extreme version of what the U.S. may face should unemployment sink further past its current 16-year low of 4.1%: An undersupply of workers readily available for the work that needs doing. Economists at Goldman Sachs expect the rate to get as low as 3.3% by 2019, even if wages rise enough to draw people who had given up looking for jobs following the Great Recession back into the workforce.
That wouldn't be as much of a problem, of course, if unemployment were uniform across the country. There are still pockets with much higher unemployment rates, particularly in cities in California and New Jersey, where the housing bust hit hard.
So why don't people just relocate from those cities to places like Ames?
One big reason unemployment is low in the upper Midwest: It's hard to get people to move there.
The very tightest job markets are overwhelmingly concentrated in a small part of the country. Out of the 20 metro areas with the lowest unemployment rates in November 2017, 14 are in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Those regions have seen a run of good economic luck. Most of them didn't overheat during the housing bubble, and thus didn't fall too hard during the crash. As the recession wore on, agricultural areas were bolstered by high prices for corn and soybeans. These economies relied on some manufacturing, but few whole towns depended on it or suffered terribly as factories disappeared, like those in Michigan and Ohio. The upper Midwest has also largely managed to escape the opioid epidemic that has swept through the rest of rural America.
Meanwhile, North Dakota's oil-rich Bakken shale formation drew people from its neighboring states during the fracking boom, and many of them stayed even when oil prices declined and the frenzy faded - leaving fewer workers to go around overall.
However, not all the jobs in the upper Midwest pay as well as working on an oil rig. Of the 1,700 jobs openings on the WorkInAmes.com job site, many are hourly positions in hospitality, transportation, or retail, paying between $10 and $20 an hour.
That can be a good thing. Such jobs don't require as much education, which helps keep unemployment low because the skills of the local labor force fit the work available - unlike in very high-skilled markets like Washington D.C., which have large populations that lack the education necessary to compete for the specialized jobs that exist there.
But those middle-skilled jobs don't usually pay enough to convince someone to move from, say, Merced, California or Ocean City, New Jersey. In fact, plenty of cities with low unemployment also have high poverty rates, since the jobs that are available still don't pay enough to live comfortably.
Outside North Dakota, the Upper Midwest has seen relatively slow growth, in part because it also hasn't drawn the immigrant population that settled in border states and big coastal cities.
"The Bakken was an interesting anomaly, because wages were so high, it literally just sucked people in," said Ron Wirtz, outreach director at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve. "Everywhere else, you have normal labor market migration. And if you're not from the upper Midwest, it's probably a higher hurdle to move there, because of the weather."
Even if the upper Midwest did attract people from other areas, newcomers might not have as easy a time finding jobs.
The populations of places with super-low unemployment tend to be very white. People of color are no less willing to work there, said Alan Berube, deputy director at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. There are just fewer of them in the applicant pool to discriminate against. In more diverse places, white hiring managers are more likely to discriminate against people of color, which can keep a large chunk of the population on the sidelines.
In the homogenous upper Midwest, "you're just not going to have a lot of labor market discrimination, because the people doing the hiring are going to look like the people applying," Berube said. "It's not just Minnesota nice. It's sameness. I think sameness can work to alleviate labor market friction that other parts of the country are going to exhibit."
Under those circumstances, cities in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Wisconsin are doing their best to lure the people most willing to give the middle of the country a try: People who already have a connection to it.
Related: The great debate: Will tax cuts trickle up or down?
Mankato, a southern Minnesota community with the nation's second-lowest unemployment rate, just launched a web site, MoreMankato.com, with 360-degree views of the city. They're preparing a social media advertising campaign targeting alumni from nearby universities, and helping local employers recruit from within the region.
"We are looking at areas of significant unemployment and letting them know that we do have job vacancies available," said John Considine, director of regional business intelligence at Greater Mankato Growth, the town's economic development organization. "We have to help people understand that we're not a frozen tundra wasteland."
Ames is doing that, too. But in convincing the city's student population to stick around, Culhane said he could use a little help from Washington in the form of immigration reform, which would allow those who came from overseas for their studies to work in the U.S. after they graduate.
"We've got a lot of really bright people who are from around the globe who are educated here, and we want them to stay," Culhane said. "We need them to stay. "
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Disturbing video shows fight outside bus shelter in Toronto as man is stabbed
A man was rushed to hospital after he was stabbed in the neck in an incident which reportedly took place just before 11:00 a.m. on Thursday in the heart of Toronto's entertainment district. The…
A man was rushed to hospital after he was stabbed in the neck in an incident which reportedly took place just before 11:00 a.m. on Thursday in the heart of Toronto's entertainment district. The 22-year-old victim suffered "significant" injuries and was described as "not doing well" by Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders, who described the incident as "unprovoked" but said the victim, who is reportedly a "Star Wars" actor, was innocent of any wrongdoing.
Initial reports also claimed that the man was part of a large group who was attacking an Uber driver when a young man charged the group from a bus shelter, punching one of the victims and stabbing him in the neck before taking off with the group. It is believed that the incident began when a man at the bus shelter had shouted at the Uber driver to move away from the area.
Saunders told reporters that the man would likely survive the attack, according to Toronto TV station CP24. He added that "there is still more work to be done."
Read the full story at the Financial Post.
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Q: iOS7: Hiding and showing of UIView not working correctly I have a UIView on my UIViewController and it is correctly connected

It is also made hidden by default as

The idea is to show the view only when the model property is set. The code for that looks like
    if (budgetCategoryModel.recurring) {
        [self.recurringView setHidden:NO];
    }

When I inspect, I see

But the view doesn't renders on the UIViewController at all,

What is that I am missing or doing incorrectly?

A: I just caught the bug in my code.
The code
    if (budgetCategoryModel.recurring) {
        [self.recurringView setHidden:NO];
    }

was executing inside init method.
when I executed the method inside viewDidLoad, I get to see the right behavior
Thanks for suggesting different approaches.

A: Sometime you (or xCode) can make mistake during connecting IBOutlets/IBAction so if it doesn't work you can remove connection and it back again, mostly it should help.
Also Apple recommendation is use weak instead of strong/retain for IBOutlet property so if you haven't got a good reason you should do:
@property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet UIView *yourview;

then,
[yourview setHidden:NO];

[yourview setHidden:YES];

This might helps you :)


Ina Garten was told not to walk barefoot in our cars or platforms.
Eli Manning, quarterback of the New York Giants, was seen throwing short passes to wide receivers on the Quogue platform. A few straphangers got hit but were glad of it. Nobody was injured. Ina Garten, the celebrity cookbook author and television personality was admonished for riding the Hamptons Subway barefoot between Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton. She said she was in Contessa mode, so that was good enough for us.
Since March 1 when the new helium balloon ban went into effect in East Hampton Township, Hamptons Subway has been struggling to get an inflated helium balloon down and out from under an air vent grating in Georgica. The air vent grating sits on private property that used to be farmland but is today the lawn adjacent to the swimming pool of a large private mansion built there on Lily Pond Lane in 2015. The owner of this mansion will not let Hamptons Subway employees on the property to temporarily lift the grating to get the balloon out. Meanwhile, from underneath, which is Subway property, we have no pole or ladder long enough to get us close enough to either pop it or remove it. It's stuck up there.
The East Hampton Ordinance Inspector issues one violation every day it is up there. Each violation costs $175. It may be necessary, if this is not resolved by the end of 2019, to raise subway fares in order to balance our budget.
On January 1, a series of new blue warning lights were put into service at subway entrances up by the street and above all tunnel openings that lead into station platforms. The lights would begin blinking when a train was two minutes from arriving at the station and then stop when the train pulled in, and this was supposed to help passengers still up on the street, or just coming down the escalators. A train was coming. Be alert.
Being that it was flashing blue rather than either red or green, most people got confused about what it meant when it flashed. Several people were injured rushing down the escalators to meet the trains hoping they weren't pulling out of the station yet—either one way or the other. Meanwhile, further chaos occurred on the platforms when people took it to mean that the trains were stuck down in the tunnel and not coming at all.
We regret ever having installed these lights. We were apparently sold a bill of goods by a traveling subway light salesman who blew into town, said all subway systems were now using blinking blue lights and then blew back out of town counting his money. As we have been using the lights for less than 90 days, we intend to request they be returned and our substantial expense refunded, but because the salesman left no receipt, we do not know who he is or how to contact him. The police have been called in, but say it's a private matter. Anyway, we've asked a local contractor to remove these offending flashing lights and hope that he will do so soon, especially before the 90 days are up, which is on April 1.
I will be taking off for five weeks beginning Monday to go on a concert tour around the country with my band The Commissioner and the Three Motormen. Send $20 to me by check c/o Hamptons Subway, 4123 Ponquogue Road, Hampton Bays, 11946, make it out to me personally and I will send you our CD.


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The study of 834 men with prostate cancer showed that men with the highest levels of EPA/DHA in their blood were about 1.5 times more likely to have prostate cancer.
The study did not analyze the use of fish oil supplements associated with prostate cancer risk. Most of the men in the study were not taking fish oil supplements.
This is an observational study looking for associations between 2 factors and does not tell us anything about cause/effect.
Men living in Japan, where the intake Omega-3 fats is highest in the world, have the lowest incidence of prostate cancer. This contradicts the conclusion that the high Omega-3 is the reason for the increased risk.
Prostate cancer is highest in men who eat the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.). When Japanese men move to the U.S., their risk of prostate cancer increases to that of American men. That indicates that there is something about the American diet that promotes cancer. The S.A.D. is high in processed foods which is lacking in nutrients and antioxidants and is high in sugar, trans-fats, pesticides, and preservatives.
There may be many other factors at play in this association. Most fish in the U.S. is farm-raised and full of toxins from contaminated water and that could be a reason that American men with high blood levels of Omega-3 have increased risk of prostate cancer.
We will not have the answer to the question about fish oil supplements and prostate cancer until a double-blind, placebo-controlled, long-term study is done.
My advice would be to be cautious about the use of high dose fish oil in men at high-risk of or already diagnosed with prostate cancer and take into consideration other conditions which may benefit from fish oil. I would also advise taking high quality, pharmaceutical grade fish or krill oil and combine with Omega-3's (ALA) from flax and other seeds.
If you would like to learn more, here is a link to a great discussion on the cumulative evidence of Omega fats and prostate cancer.


It get's off to a very shakey start...the opening three cuts do absolutely nothing for me...but by the end of it's long sixteen track run, this third outing from the fictional animated band masterminded by ex-Blur frontman Damon Albarn emerges as the most enjoyable Gorillaz outing yet.
Conceptually, the approach on Plastic Beach is basically the same, hip-hop mashes into Brit-pop mashes into reggae mashes into straight soul mashes into other global influences, often all in the same song in a variety of surprising ways.
What's changed here is that unlike on the first two releases, which despite all the genre change ups were very even-keeled affairs, Gorillaz now seems much more interested in exploring extremes: Aggressive numbers like the electro-romp Glitter Freeze and the ready-to-combust, reggae-based Sweepstakes are really aggressive; Lazy numbers like the Lou Reed-led Some Kind Of Nature couldn't sound more lazy; Melancholy ballads like Broken and Up On Melancholy Hill are really, well, melancholy, and exercises in abstract beauty like the hard to categorize album peak Empire Ants couldn't be more beautiful.
It all adds up to the most dynamic album Albarn and fictional friends have yet to release, a slow starter that picks up steam relentlessly the deeper you dive into it.
Though not quite a Strong Recommend from me, I still see this making a lot of year-end top 20 lists, and any anyone who naturally gravitates towards this type of playful, world-oriented hip hop is strongly encouraged to pick this one up.
Cherry Pickers Best Bets: Empire Ants , Glitter Freeze , On Melancholy Hill , Sweepstakes , Plastic Beach .


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has a B.S. in Earth Science. He has worked in the field of environmental consulting and OSHA/EPA regulations
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Morgan Beall
B.S. in Mathematics from Jacksonville University. He has 40+ years of programming experience; systems analysis, application and hardware development.
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Director of Operations for Open Minds Production, host Open Minds UFO Radio, OpenMinds.tv, emcee IUFOC.
Board Adviser - PR
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B.A. in Organizational Communications from Wright State University. He is an Information Technology consultant and strategist.
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Coordinates and assists with board foundation formation, peer review procedure creation and advises the SCU on business and nonprofit strategies.
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To help people understand the nature of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, and key issues in U.S.-China relations, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation supports public and private events and original academic research on historical and contemporary questions in the areas of trade and economics, foreign policy and security studies, and political development and human rights in China.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. announced a full and total ban on Xinjiang cotton and tomato products, following a partial ban from September 2020. The total ban also applies to products processed or manufactured in third party countries and…
Coercion in Xinjiang's Cotton Fields
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'In the past, my lazy thoughts . . . were serious. Now, I finally understand that the happiest thing is to use the money I earn with my hard-working hands and my sweat." These are the words of a Uighur villager in…
Breaking: New Report on Xinjiang Forced Labor Tainting Global Cotton Industry
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today Dr. Adrian Zenz, Senior Research Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), released a breaking report in partnership with the Center for Global Policy detailing new findings on forced Uyghur labor in…
Coercive Labor in Xinjiang
Executive Summary New evidence from Chinese government documents and media reports shows that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority laborers in Xinjiang are being forced to pick cotton by hand through a coercive state-mandated labor transfer and "poverty alleviation" scheme,…
Americans Shouldn't Fund Communist China's Armed Forces
American investors should not be financing Communist China's military buildup. On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to prevent just that and protect American security. The order bans individual and institutional investors from owning shares in 31 Chinese firms that…
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There will be at least one good outcome of Election Day: Whoever wins, communist China will lose. Whether it's Joe Biden or Donald Trump, the next president of the United States will likely take a hard line on China. Both candidates have staked…
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The Chinese Government Locked Up My Uyghur Father. Disney's 'Mulan' Is A Disgrace.
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Daughter of Renowned and Imprisoned Uyghur Intellectual Joins VOC as Uyghur Human Rights Fellow
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Jewher Ilham on Bill Hemmer Reports
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Processing Data by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Updates
Posted on Friday November 29, 2019
If you are providing services to customers and processing data about them, then you have probably received an email from one of Google products subjected: "Important updates about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)".
It might seem like Google is restricting marketers and businesses alike from collecting important information, similar to the 2018 GDPR changes.
In this article, we will offer you some of the most important information about the data processing updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
What is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)?
As Google says in its own article about the updates, "the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a new data privacy law that establishes various rights for California state residents."
What this means is that companies that have any business operations in California and collect personal data from their clients, such as email addresses, birth dates, etc. will have to ensure that these clients have a clearly available option to opt-out of selling their information.
There are a few ways to create such opt-outs. A Google article suggests placing a button such as "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" prominently on a homepage.
There are some distinctions as to what is considered as information selling. For instance, the transfer of an email address to someone who is considered a "service provider" is not considered information selling.
Restricted data processing – what it is and how to use it
We need restricted data processing in order to avoid misuse and abuse of personal information provided by our clients. Google takes great care of making information privacy its primary concern and this is a logical next step in the process.
Furthermore, Google notes that it will act as a "service provider with respect to data processed while restricted data processing is enabled." This way, Google makes sure all their products are safe from selling private information of their users and their clients.
Restricted data processing will also impose on business to take care of the information provided to them by their clients.
As with many of its products, Google had optimized the updates to how data is processed differently across its various products. This will affect some products, such as Google Ads and Google Analytics, to a higher and others to a lesser extent.
We will list the products that already operate using restricted data processing, where users of these products are not required to take any additional actions. Naturally, we will also list the products that require certain actions to be taken as well. We will also try to explain briefly how restricted data processing updates will be applied and how they will affect the following products.
Google products that already operate using restricted data processing:
Ads Data Hub
Audience Partner API (formerly known as DoubleClick Data Platform)
Authorized Buyers
Campaign Manager (formerly known as DoubleClick Campaign Manager)
Display & Video 360 (formerly known as DoubleClick Bid Manager)
Funding Choices
Google Ads Customer Match (formerly known as AdWords Customer Match)
Google Ads Store sales (direct upload) (formerly known as AdWords Store sales (direct upload))
Google Analytics, Analytics 360, and Analytics for Firebase*
Google Opinion Rewards for Publishers
Google Optimize, Google Optimize 360
Google Tag Manager, Google Tag Manager 360
Open Bidding Buyers (including products formerly known as Exchange Bidding and Network Bidding)
Search Ads 360 (formerly known as DoubleClick Search)
Waze Ads
* Where data sharing with Google products and services is disabled.
This list is copied from Google's article Helping advertisers, publishers, and partners comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) .
Google products require action to enable restricted data processing:
Ad Manager and Ad Manager 360
Google Ads (other than Google Ads services listed above)
This list is also copied from Google's article mentioned above.
Some more details about the products that require action to enable restricted data processing below. Note that these are only general details, and you would need to visit help centers of these products for more details.
Google Ads. It comes as no surprise that this is one of the products which will be affected the most by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Updates. Restricting data processing in Google's most profitable product will primarily affect the way advertisements are shown and analyzed. This then affects the ability of marketing professionals to have detailed information about ads performances, placements, etc. Of course, this will certainly end up incurring higher costs, especially at the beginning of a new campaign. To avoid wasting budget while optimizing ads performance, it is very important to get familiar with the updates on data processing. However, Google notes that "Third-party click tracking will continue to operate as usual, with no changes when restricted data processing is enabled." The good news is that conversion tracking, for one, will still function even with restricted data processing enabled.
For more information, we suggest visiting the Google Ads help center.
Google Analytics, Analytics 360, and Google Analytics for Firebase. It is important to note here that all Google analytics-related products will be acting as service providers only in instances when sharing with Google products and services has been disabled. Probably the simplest way to explain the update changes to privacy settings is by restricting data processing for a specific location; in this case, California is most likely to be restricted. Of course, there will still be the option to restrict data processing and collecting of specific events, pages, and even the entire property. For those who have linked other Google products or services to their Google Analytics account, it is worth mentioning that from the moment when data is exported through that linking, it starts being processed by the terms of the Integration Partner. For more information about Google's integration partner program, visit their official website.
Ad Manager, Ad Manager 360, AdMob, AdSense. The biggest change in the way these products will be processing data under the updated terms of CCPA is the use of unique identifiers. If a user has opted for restricted data processing of some of the data, Google will longer use that data for ads personalization. As we already mentioned, this will mostly affect the campaigns created for display advertising purposes, since advertisers might lose the ability to show their ads to people who have shown interest in similar products. As mentioned before, marketing professionals will now have to find a new way of ad serving on optimization and targeting. For more information on these products, visit their respective help centers – Ad Manager, AdMob, AdSense.
Funding Choices. This product is specific because it announced the changes in processing data to take effect in the Q1 of 2020. The product's CCPA page clearly states that CCPA "message will display a 'do not sell my personal data' link and communicate visitor decisions via ad tags." The reporting feature will also be influenced by the changes, but, apparently, not to a wider extent. You can read more about this in the Funding Choices CCPA article.
The data processing restrictions in the California Consumer Privacy Act the updates will certainly have an impact on data collection and reporting. However, these updates shouldn't be concerning for publishers and advertisers to a great extent since it will only change the way some features are used. There are still several possible ways to collect and use relevant information in order to run successful campaigns.


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import Ember from 'ember';
import config from './config/environment';

const Router = Ember.Router.extend({
  location: config.locationType
});

Router.map(function() {
  this.route('query-path');
  this.route('query-path-params');
  this.route('query-record-path');
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});

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Chinalco's Rio Deal Clears First Hurdle
Updated March 25, 2009 9:34 am ET
Australia's competition watchdog Wednesday approved Aluminum Corp. of China's proposed investment in Rio Tinto Ltd., the first in a series of hurdles facing the $19.5 billion deal.
Following the greenlight from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the deal is still subject to approval by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, which last week extended its review of the deal by 90 days. The ACCC made a point in its release of explaining that its role was different to that of the FIRB, which considers matters...


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You'll see me mention the phrases "genealogical" and "family history" value often, so I thought it would be appropriate to explain the subtle differences. There's a third phrase that I think we're all familiar with, "sentimental" value.
When you find that old "shoebox" in your closet, or your parents, it will be filled with items of different values. And when I'm talking about value, it's not in dollars.
If an item has vital statistics on it or relationship information, then it has genealogical value. An old drivers license may show the date of birth. An old newspaper clipping may list a child's parents. And then there are the obvious documents: birth, marriage and death certificates. But my point is that ANY document with this kind of core information has genealogical value.
Your family tree will identify all of the people you are related to, along with their core information (birth/marriage/death) and their relationships to other people (parent/child). But going beyond the basic genealogy is what I refer to as "family history". What activities filled the lives of the people on your tree? Their education, employment, community involvement, and military service are just a few examples of family historical information.
If you find an item in that mentions a person's name, a date and a place, it has family history value. Things like member lists from clubs and societies, yearbooks, magazines and newsletters from employers, military and Masonic rosters, all offer clues into a person's life. That's family history value.
An item may possess these "values", but be of no use to you -- either you don't know the people mentioned or you're not interested. But, other researchers may be very interested. You may have a item that mentions other individuals in a Lodge or Cavalry unit.
As you approach that trash can with a pile of documents, think about their value before discarding them. Not sure who to give them to? Don't worry, that's what this blog is all about.


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'Insecure' Recap: Everything You Need to Know Before Watching HBO's Season 2 Premiere
By Janice Williams On 7/23/17 at 9:30 AM EDT
Issa Rae appearing in the first episode of HBO's "Insecure" on Oct. 16, 2016. Season two of the hit series premieres on HBO on July 23, 2017. John P. Fleenor/HBO
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Fans of Insecure have been waiting for the show to return to HBO since its first season ended back in November. And finally, on Sunday, the hilarious hit series will return with season two.
The last time viewers saw the protagonist Issa Dee, played by show creator Issa Rae, she had a fistful of tears after returning home from a girl's trips to discover her longtime boyfriend Lawrence Walker (Jay Ellis) had packed up his belongings and moved out of their the apartment they shared in Inglewood, California.
Lawrence called Issa earlier in the season finale episode and expressed his desire to fix their broken relationship. But apparently, at the last minute, he decided that he didn't want to work things out after all and was last seen on season one pounding away at the backside of the bank teller Tasha (Dominique Perry), who had been incredibly flirty towards Lawrence all season long.
In an earlier interview with Newsweek, Rae said time would jump ahead a few months after Issa and Lawrence's breakup in the season two premiere. She wouldn't say whether or not the duo would end up back together, but from the looks of the season two previews, it seems as if Issa will be diving into single girl life feet-first with the help of her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji) while Lawrence appears to be mulling over various aspects of his former relationship in clips.
Regardless to where they end up, it's probably worth remembering how they got there. Brush up on everything that happened during Insecure season one by checking out the recap below:
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Episode One, "Insecure as F**k": Issa appears in front of a classroom of teenagers attempting to stir up some interest in We Got Ya'll, the nonprofit youth-outreach organization that she works for. She later ends up in a heated exchange with an unemployed Lawrence who has made no special plans to celebrate her 29th birthday.
A birthday message from an old flame, Daniel (Y'lan Noel), leaves Issa wondering what would happen if she just started actually going after what she wanted, which results in her dragging Molly out to an open-mic night where Daniel is expected to be. After giving a stellar impromptu open-mic performance, in which she raps about the misfortunes of Molly's love life with the song, "Broken P***y," Issa goes to meet up with Daniel. However she's quickly reminded of Daniel's playboy status after they kiss and he tells her he's not looking for a relationship.
Episode 2, "Messy as F**k": Lawrence gripes over his incompetence to a neighbor. Although he's college educated, he's apparently lost his mojo on all fronts of his life, including his relationship.
Molly, on the other hand, finally gets a spark in her own romantic life when she randomly runs into Jered (Langston Kerman), a cutie she met at the open-mic night.
Issa suffers a bad day of work when she shows up unprepared for a presentation. However, at the last minute she and her coworker Frieda (Lisa Joyce) comes with the idea to take the youth group to the beach for a cleanup day. The exhaustion of it all and her failed attempt to reconnect with Daniel leads her to finally return home to Lawrence.
Episode 3, "Racist as F**k": Lawrence gets a "regular sales job" at Best Buy that he tells his bank teller, Tasha about while Issa finds out some of her white coworkers have been badmouthing her beach day event behind her back. Luckily for her, the cleanup is a huge success. The day continues to get better when she returns home to find Lawrence cooking her a romantic dinner. This reignites the spark in their relationship, and they finally exchange apologies for the way they've been treating each other.
As for Molly, despite having an obvious connection with Jered, she decides to break things off with him when she gets accepted into an elite dating service called The League.
Episode 4, "Thirsty as F**K": Issa and Lawrence are back in a good place and decide to go shopping for a new couch, while Molly scares off a doctor with her overbearing and over-available advancements towards him. Luckily, she already has another date set up.
Daniel unexpectedly shows up at We Got Ya'll looking to apologize to Issa for what happened after open-mic night, and she promptly tells him that she's back with Lawrence. Daniel sticks around to talk the kids in her program about music production for Career Day, after which he invites her to the studio where he works. But the moment is eventually ruined when Issa overhears the kids watching a YouTube video of her performing "Broken P***y."
Lawrence gets discouraged when he's relocated from the computers section at Best Buy to washers and dryers. However, his spirits are lifted when he runs into Tasha during his break. He opens up about an app he's been trying to launch, and she tells him to "keep hustling" while they have lunch together.
Coming up on #InsecureHBO, tomorrow at 10:30 on @HBO.
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Episode 5, "Shady as F**k": A freaked-out Issa worries how the "Broken P***y" video will affect her job, and although Lawrence assures her the kids will forget about it over the weekend, they don't. Pressed to have the video removed, Issa meets up with Daniel outside the studio to see if he knows anything about who posted the video. After some convincing, Issa decides to come sit in on a session Daniel's producing.
Molly goes to an engagement party with her date from The League, who introduces himself as her boyfriend. But later he tells her it was just all just an act so Molly wouldn't appear lonely. This leads her to show up drunk at Jered's, where she ends up staying the spending the night on his couch.
Meanwhile, Issa ends up sticking around the studio after the session ends and has a deep conversation with Daniel about why they were never able to establish a relationship when they were younger. He admits that he may not have been ready for commitment back then, but alludes he might be ready now. Caught up in the moment, the two of them end up having sex in the studio.
Episode 6, "Guilty as F**k": Issa decides not to tell Lawrence that she cheated on him with Daniel, and arrives home from the studio to learn Lawrence was able to get the "Broken P***y" video scrubbed from the internet.
Daniel texts her while she's at work, but Issa ignores him while Molly spends the day at Jered's house, finally apologizing for dismissing him. And after the two end up having sex in his kitchen, Molly decides to cancel The League and take her blossoming romance with Jered more seriously. However, when she finds out Jered messed around with a guy once, she ends up ending the relationship once again.
Issa and Lawrence go on a date, but the night ends on a sour note when he takes her into a jewelry store to look at engagement rings and Issa starts having flashbacks of her hookup with Daniel.
The next day Issa tells Molly about her cheating incident, and after Molly advises her not to tell Lawrence about, she finally goes home and allows herself to be intimate with Lawrence, who secured another job interview at a tech firm earlier that day. After a passionate night of love making, Lawrence wakes up to go to the bathroom and trips over Issa's phone, which just so happens to have another message from Daniel.
Issa and Daniel go on a date, but the night ends on a sour note when he takes her into a jewelry store to look at engagement rings and Issa starts having flashbacks of her hookup with Daniel. Issa tells Molly about her cheating incident, and after Molly advises her not to tell Lawrence about, she finally goes home and allows herself to be intimate with Lawrence after learning he's secured another job interview at a tech firm. After a passionate night of love making, Lawrence wakes up to go to the bathroom and trips over Issa's phone, which just so happens to have another message from Daniel showing on the display.
Episode 7, "Real as F**k": Lawrence's interview goes without a hitch and he ends up landing the job. However, he decides to turn down the offer and work on his own app instead. Unpleased by this Issa tries to convince him that it's too good of an opportunity to pass up.
Later, they attend the We Got Ya'll fundraiser, which is a success until Daniel shows up trying to talk to Issa. When he finally gets the chance to talk to Issa, she tells him that he was simply an itch she needed to scratch, unaware that Lawrence is watching their exchange in the distance. Later that evening, Issa finds herself in yet another blow up, but this time with an intoxicated Molly who tells her that she doesn't deserve Lawrence.
Things only get worse when she returns home, ready to celebrate the success of the event but faces questions from Lawrence about Daniel. Irate after Issa confesses she messed up, Lawrence leaves the apartment.
"I'll do whatever it takes. Just come home." See what's coming up on the season finale of #InsecureHBO, tomorrow at 10:30.
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Episode 8, "Broken as F**k": Lawrence disappears for three days, during which Issa leaves him voicemail after voicemail. Finally, she shows up at his job with toiletries and tries to talk things out. But he tells her that he's done. Things are still shaky between Issa and Molly too, even though they are supposed to be going on a girl's trip to Malibu for the weekend with their other friends Tiffany (Amanda Seales) and Kelli (Natasha Rothwell). However, when Lawrence calls Issa during the trip and suggests talking when she returns, it's Molly who volunteers to drive Issa home. Unfortunately, by the time she arrives Lawrence has had a change of heart, and Issa finds no remnants of him other than his Best Buy uniform shirt hanging in the closet.
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Historia Żydów w Kaliszu – osiedlenie się społeczności żydowskiej w Kaliszu nastąpiło w 1139. Pierwszy w Kaliszu cmentarz żydowski założono w 1285 roku. Czynsz za cmentarz opłacany był przez gminę żydowską pieprzem, szafranem i innymi korzeniami. O zamożności i wpływach kaliskich Żydów świadczy także fakt, iż w II połowie XII i na początku XIII w. w Kaliszu bito denary z napisami hebrajskimi.

Począwszy od XIII w. kaliska gmina wyznaniowa przeniosła się do południowej części miasta lokacyjnego w sąsiedztwo muru miejskiego.
W 1264 roku książę wielkopolski Bolesław Pobożny nadał Statut kaliski – przywilej immunitetowy, określający w punktach kwestie dla Żydów szczególnie istotne.

W połowie XIV w. istniała w Kaliszu "dzielnica żydowska", której centralnym punktem była synagoga. Zezwolenie na jej budowę wydał król Kazimierz Wielki w 1358 roku – pierwsza synagoga była zapewne drewniana. Dopiero w 1659 roku gmina wykupiła plac na tzw. Rozmarku, gdzie postawiono synagogę murowaną. Pierwszym wiadomym z imienia kaliskim rabinem był niejaki Michoel (1427 rok). Innymi znanymi rabinami tego okresu byli: Salomon Zalman (1639–1643), Jisroel Szapiro – założyciel jesziwy, Juda ben Nissan i Abraham Abel Gombiner (1656–1683) autor komentarzy do "Szulchan aruch".

Gmina żydowska w Kaliszu należała do najznaczniejszych w Koronie Królestwa Polskiego, a rabini Kalisza stali na czele Sejmu Czterech Ziem (1581–1764).

Według spisu dokonanego przez Prusaków w 1793 r. mieszkańcy dzielnicy żydowskiej żyli głównie z handlu i rzemiosła. Żydzi zamieszkiwali w obrębie ulic Złotej i Garbarskiej z zaułkami, żyli w 91 domach, a gmina posiadała synagogę, przytułek i koszerne jatki.

. Wyznaczono wówczas w Kaliszu "dzielnicę żydowską" i od 1828 roku Żydzi mogli mieszkać jedynie w jej obrębie. Jednak na mocy specjalnych zezwoleń dwadzieścia trzy domy poza wyznaczoną dzielnicą były własnością żydowską. W 1836 roku otwarto żydowski szpital, a w 1875 roku szkołę żydowską z językiem rosyjskim. W 1852 roku wybuchł pożar, spłonęło 157 domów właścicieli żydowskich i 12 chrześcijańskich. Zagładzie uległa również stara synagoga. Odbudowano świątynię, ale nie dorównała ona poprzedniej. Jednym z najwybitniejszych rabinów kaliskich XIX w. był Cwi Hirsz Chajes, wybrany na rabina w roku 1852, twórca kilku znaczących rozpraw talmudycznych oraz studium o filozofii Majmonidesa.

W latach 30. XX wieku w Kaliszu działał jedyny żydowski klub wioślarski będący członkiem Polskiego Związku Towarzystw Wioślarskich – Klub Wioślarski z roku 1930.

Kres historii kaliskich Żydów przyniósł wybuch II wojny światowej we wrześniu 1939 roku. Część ludności żydowskiej Kalisza ruszyła pieszo do pobliskich miasteczek – Koźminka, Opatówka, Błaszek. Zamożniejsi udali się do Łodzi i Warszawy. Co najmniej 20% żydowskich mieszkańców opuściło miasto. W Kaliszu w październiku 1939 roku na polecenie Niemców utworzono 25-osobową Radę Żydów z Gerszonem Hahnem jako przewodniczącym. Jednym z jej pierwszych zadań było przeprowadzenie spisu pozostałych w mieście Żydów, których szacowano na 18 tys. 7 listopada zostaje oficjalnie utworzone getto. Trzy dni później wyruszają pierwsze przesiedlenia. Zimą 1939/1940 większość Żydów kaliskich wywieziono do Litzmannstadt Ghetto i obozów pracy (między innymi w Grodźcu). Wywózki trwały również przez cały rok 1941 (część Żydów skierowano do obozu zagłady w Chełmnie nad Nerem). Na wiosnę 1942 roku w getcie pozostawało 150 osób, które zostały wysiedlone do Łodzi. W dniach 4–6 lipca 1942 Niemcy zlikwidowali ostatecznie kaliskie getto. W Kaliszu wiosną 1945 roku powołano Komitet Żydowski. Do 1950 roku zarejestrowało się w nim 2225 osób.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Pakentreger A., Żydzi w Kaliszu w latach 1918–1939, Warszawa 1988
 Marcinkowska H., Żydzi w Kaliszu, Calisia 2005, nr 3-4

Linki zewnętrzne
 Wirtualny Sztetl, "Kalisz. Historia. Społeczność żydowska przed 1989".
 Wirtualny Sztetl, "Getto w Kaliszu".

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Top Ten Tuesday: Anticipated Releases
Top Ten Tuesdays is a feature created by the ladies over at The Broke and the Bookish. If you want to share your own lists in the future, the prompts can be found on their page! You can also find my previous lists by searching the label "top ten tuesday" :)
We're talking about ANTICIPATED RELEASES today, specifically titles coming out between July and December. I am looking forward to many many many books, but these are the ones I'll be reading as soon as they're published! The first five are must-reads because of their authors, and the last five are must-reads because of their stories.
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart // September 5
We Were Liars, E. Lockhart's previous novel, was a hit or miss with a lot of people but I loved the style of writing. I'm especially excited for this one because it's YA psychological suspense! Sounds like we will have an unlikeable main character.
Invictus by Ryan Graudin // September 26
Ryan Graudin comes up with the most unique storylines — seeing her on my list shouldn't come as a surprise! Wolf by Wolf, the first in her duology, is one of my favorite books; I was completely sold after reading the synopsis. It's no different with Invictus ("... after failing his final time-traveling exam, Far takes a position commanding a ship with a crew of his friends as part of a black market operation to steal valuables from the past.") I love a good time-travel story!
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins // September 26
I love this cover, and I've loved everything Stephanie Perkins has written so far. Mystery/horror is not her usual genre, so I am very curious about this new approach.
Renegades by Marissa Meyer // November 7
Yes to books about people with super powers. Other than that, I have absolutely no idea what this book is about but I will 100% pick it up because it's written by Marissa Meyer. Thank you and good night.
Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills // December 5
Another book I want to read only because of the author. Emma Mills is definitely an auto-read author for me — her debut novel, First & Then, is one of my favorites!
Lucky in Love by Kasie West // July 25
The synposis sounds very similar to Windfall ... it'll be interesting to read both. But I think the love interest is Vietnamese, and I'm all about books with Asian characters.
The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee // August 29
The first book, The Thousandth Floor, was so addicting to read through. If you like Pretty Little Liars and Gossip Girl, there's a high chance you'll enjoy this series too. It's perfect if you are having a book hangover!
Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo // August 29
I am a little disappointed by the cover but that doesn't really matter because Leigh Bardugo is writing about WONDER WOMAN, whaaat?!
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke // September 1
Someone using dark magic to change history + time-travel = the perfect combination, so sign me up! Historical fiction is always a bit slow for me, but this sounds so good.
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust // September 5
Jodi Meadows, author of the Newsoul trilogy, said this debut novel is "everything a fairy tale should be." I AM HERE FOR THAT.
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The boycott should also raise concerns about staffing firms violating equal employment laws, said Les French, president of WashTech. "In addition to calling attention to an illegal practice, we want to show there are valid challenges to the 'labor shortage' of STEM workers," French said in an email.
"It is incorrect to allude that we exclude or discourage U.S. workers," she said by email. "Today, we are recruiting for over 440 active openings across 20 states in the U.S."
Many of the positions target people who have a U.S. master's degree in business administration for sales and management consultant jobs, she said. "The graduate hiring program is a key investment to strengthen our future leadership pool," she added. "Attracting the best and brightest talent is paramount to Infosys success."
The company's external job posts give "everyone an equal opportunity to apply," she added. The company supports several minority advocacy groups, she said.
Representatives from IBM and Manpower didn't respond to requests for comment on the boycott.
In some cases, a Manpower subsidiary has advertised for Indian IT workers to come to the U.S. for openings anticipated more than a year in advance, said Conroy, author of a white paper, released last week, that is focused on Manpower's IT recruitment efforts in India.
The advertisements in India are being placed even though "most Americans believe the nature of the tech industry is so fast-paced that staffing projections cannot be adequately foreseen," she said.
Meanwhile, Manpower is not advertising for U.S. IT positions on U.S. job portals, Conroy said. But if Manpower advertised in the U.S. using the same lead time it is using in India, it would give companies "plenty of time to seek Americans first."
In November 2013, Manpower subsidiary Experis IT India advertised in India for an OpenStack engineer for a U.S. position, Bright Future Jobs noted. "We are now hiring young, dynamic, skilled and experienced IT professionals from India to work with us in the U.S.," the ad said.
Other Experis IT India ads in late 2013 talked about the company filling out H-1B worker visa applications for job applicants, with one ad saying "all expenses related to your visa filing would be take care of" by Manpower.
The three tech workers groups also plan to launch an educational effort aimed at helping U.S. tech workers recognize discriminatory job ads and questions during job interviews, Conroy said. "When people are educated, there will likely be more lawsuits" related to discriminatory employment practices, she said.
Indian employers show a "strong preference" for Indian IT workers, Dabhadkar said. He questioned why U.S. companies don't do the same thing.
The boycott "will protect the Indian foreign workers from the accusation of displacing Americans," he said. "Indians were not put on this earth to displace Americans, but Manpower's recruiting efforts show this is their plan."
Segregated recruiting opens the door to "unscrupulous agents" who make false promises to Indian IT workers, he added.
"The brokerage of intellectual capital drives down wages, and foreign workers are under paid," Dabhadkar said by email. "Multiple layers of broker agencies, that earn a per hour commission of their visa-sponsored employee creates a grey market."
Importing foreign workers to the U.S. as a commodity violates human rights, he added. "American employers gain competitive advantage and profitability by labor arbitrage, by paying low to their sponsored workers, and bidding high to their clients," Dabhadkar said.


A new strategy paper released Monday calls for the deployment of peacekeeping troops in eastern Chad. Violence in neighboring Darfur has spilled across the border, putting many civilians and humanitarian workers at risk.
The report comes from the Enough Project, an initiative aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity. Collin Thomas Jensen is a policy adviser with the Enough Project. In Washington, he spoke to VOA English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua about the strategy paper.
"Essentially, we're calling for a protection force for Eastern Chad that has one the one hand a robust Chapter 7 mandate to protect civilians and on the other hand a significant civilian component to deal with the other issues on the ground – the reconciliation, the human rights monitoring and eventually the political process that will try to reduce some of the root causes of violence in Eastern Chad," he says.
The authors of the Enough Project strategy paper are John Prendergast, co-chair of the Enough Project; Omer Ismail, a Darfur human rights activist who founded the group Darfur Peace & Development; and actress Mia Farrow, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, who's currently in Eastern Chad.


I harvested my garlic yesterday, about 2 or 3 weeks late. But that's the nice thing about garlic, it's not really that picky about when it gets ripped out of the ground. Due to a busy schedule this month, I didn't get the chance to build my "no watering wall" around my garlic to prevent my sprinkler system from spraying my garlic plants. I think this contributed to my garlic heads being a bit smaller this year, due to the plants still sending energy to the leaves due to the watering. But I'm sure they will taste delicious all the same, and were free and organic. Nice!
Last year, I planted Early Italian Purple Grape, as well as Spanish Roja, and saved a couple heads of each for growing this year. Both are exceptional. The Spanish Roja has a stronger, more burning garlic flavor, but is not nearly as large as the Early Italian. The Spanish Roja is a hardneck variety, and the Early Italian a softneck variety. I think I prefer the Early Italian due to its size, easy to peel skin, and great garlic flavor.
The following was taken from a previous post, How to Plant and Grow Garlic, but has some new photos of the harvesting process.
Once dug up, shake off any excess dirt, trim the roots, and rinse clean with water.
You can leave them in the sun to dry for a day or so, or can promptly tie into braids or bundles and hang in your garage or other dry place out of the sun (the sun will actually rot the garlic if exposed for long). Garlic will store in this way all throughout the winter, and likely clear through the end of spring. I love going out in the garage and cutting a head off the tied bundles whenever I need one. It's cool to show off with too.
The Bald Gourmet loves his organic gourmet garden, and is especially fond of growing aromatic garlic.


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A Fantastic Way to Start Hooping.
This has been one of my most valuable tricks. The first big show I did was a holiday parade. It was long, tiring, cold and the audience was very close and personal. I had been hooping for less than a year. You could hear the crowd talking, 'oh thats cool,' 'look at the hoops!' they would cheer for cool tricks and when I dropped my hoop, I could hear the crowd share in my disappointment. But luckily, I had this trick under my belt. When I caught up to my hoop, in my white penguin suit jacket and plaid pants, I would get my toe under the hoop. I put my arms in the air and loomed the crowd directly in the eyes to make sure I had their attention. I would nail this trick and the crowd would all clap and cheer louder than before!
If you know me, you know I love leg moves and tricks that incorporate the whole body. This awesome trick does both! And it is so easy! Give it a try!
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They are made of grey lizard skin with fuchsia pink suede detailing on the cross straps and heel edging. They have a 4" heel and no platform. Now, you know how much I love my platform for their shock absorption (and height of course). But these are so amazingly comfortable, that they surprise me each and every time I wear them. The slightly thicker square-ish heel really helps you feel stable in them despite their height. They are incredibly versatile. They go from season to season by adding tights for the cooler months and wearing them sans tights in the warmer weather. The neutral grey with the nice gradations of grey makes them easy to match to most of your grey wardrobe options. And the pinky and plumy fuchsia just makes the girly girl inside me jump for joy.
Tights/stockings with open-toed shoes?...I thought that wasn't kosher. Please share your thoughts and opinions on this.
Love, love, love these shoes!
I am preparing a post about comfortable and fashionable shoes for work travel and I would love to get your ideas to feature on my blog. Please let me know if you are interested! My email is classycareergirl@gmail.com. Thanks!