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Quick Guide to Contents
1. How This Privacy Policy Applies
2. What Information Bookshop.org Collects and Receives
3. How Bookshop.org Uses the Information It Collects
4. How Bookshop.org Shares the Information It Collects
5. Tracking and Other Technologies
7. Links to Other Websites and Services
9. Cross-Border Data Transfers
10. Children's Privacy
12. Updates to this Privacy Policy
By using the Website and any SMS Service you opt into to receive messages via text ("SMS Service"), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy (including new versions of this Privacy Policy when and as they go into effect) and Bookshop.org's Terms of Use ("Terms of Use"), which governs this Privacy Policy applies to those persons or entities who (i) purchase products on the Website, (ii) receive communications from Bookshop.org, (iii) sell products on the Website through Bookshop.org's Platform Seller Program (each, a "Platform Seller"), and (vi) participate in Bookshop.org's Affiliate Program (each, an "Affiliate") (collectively, "Users," and each, a "User", "you" or "your"). Capitalized words not defined in this Privacy Policy are defined in the Terms of Use. In the event of a conflict between this Privacy Policy and the terms and conditions applicable to the Platform Seller Program and the Affiliate Program, respectively, such terms and conditions applicable to the Platform Seller Program and the Affiliate Program shall apply respectively.
This Privacy Policy describes the information Bookshop.org collects from you through the Website and SMS Service, how Bookshop.org uses that information, and its legal basis for doing so. It also covers whether and how that information may be shared and your rights and choices regarding such information. For residents of the European Economic Area, Bookshop.org is the data controller responsible for your information.
In order for you to use the Website or the SMS Service, Bookshop.org needs to collect and process certain information, which depending on how you use the Website, may include the following.
A. Information You Provide
(i) Bookshop.org collects information you provide by using the Website, such as when:
• Platform Sellers post Content (as such terms are defined in the Terms of Use).
• Users complete forms on or through the Website or subscribe to our newsletters or emails. The information you provide may include your name, email address, mailing address, or telephone number.
• Users make a request or transaction through the Website. Bookshop.org and Platform Sellers offer products for sale through the Website, and Bookshop.org and its payment processor will need to collect and use information such as your name, mailing address, billing address, email address, telephone number, and payment card information to process these requests and transactions.
• Users communicate with Bookshop.org, such as when you request support, submit comments or questions, or report a problem to Bookshop.org.
(ii) Through the use of the SMS Service, Bookshop.org will receive the following personal information:• Your mobile phone number when you send a text message to us.
• Any user or screen name you select in connection with the SMS Service.
• The text of messages that you send to other users of the SMS Service.
• Any comments or feedback regarding the SMS Service or other personal information you send to Bookshop.org.
B. Information Automatically Collected
Bookshop.org also automatically or passively collects information that relates to your usage of the Website or that is necessary for the proper functioning or improvement of the Website, including:
• Times and dates and the extent of your usage of the Website.
• Time zone, language, screen resolution, and other usage preferences you select when using the Website.
• Device keyboard settings.
• Usage history such as areas and pages within the Website that you access or use and/or which buttons on the Website you click on.
• The search terms you entered into a search engine that may have led you to the Website.
• The Internet service provider (ISP) or mobile platform you use.
• Other device and Website access information such as your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, referring/exit pages, and other unique device identifiers.
Bookshop.org also collects and maintain aggregated, anonymized, or pseudonymized information to protect the safety and security of the Website, improve the Website, or comply with its legal obligations.
You may decline to provide Bookshop.org with some or all of your information. However, doing so will limit your ability to use the Website.
(i) Bookshop.org uses the information it collects from and about you for the following purposes:
• To enable Bookshop.org to provide you and other Users with the Website, and to improve, protect, and promote the Website and services;
• To address inquiries and respond to customer service requests, questions, and comments;
• To contact you with newsletters, offers, promotions, and other product specials or to customize your experience on the Website;
• To track and analyze use of the Website and Bookshop.org's services, such as to identify trends, conduct data analysis, and determine the effectiveness of marketing and promotion efforts, and other service offerings, so that Bookshop.org can improve its performance and provide Users with the best experience possible;
• To maintain security and to enforce the Terms of Use and comply with applicable law; and
• For other purposes that Bookshop.org believes are necessary to protect its rights and the rights of others, or as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
(ii) With respect to the SMS Service, Bookshop.org uses personal information to (a) provide you with the SMS Service, (b) process and respond to inquiries, (c) improve the SMS Service, (d) if necessary, contact you with important announcements, or messages, (e) conduct research, and (f) provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients and partners.
Each message that you send through the SMS Service is stored on our servers. We retain these messages on our servers. Bookshop.org utilizes servers owned by third parties.
Bookshop.org may share the information it collects from and about you in the following ways:
• Service Providers: Bookshop.org may share your information with certain service providers to help provide, improve, promote, or protect the Website, process payments, or manage ads on other websites. Bookshop.org requires those service providers use your information only for the purposes Bookshop.org has authorized and protect your personal information at least to the same standards as Bookshop.org does.
• Affiliates and Platform Sellers: Bookshop.org may share your contact information with an Affiliate if you visited Bookshop.org's website via that Affiliate's referral link, or you shopped from the Affiliate's book lists or a Platform Seller's page on our Website. We will only share your information with Platform Seller from whom you purchase.
• Legal Matters; Safety: Bookshop.org reserves the right to disclose information Bookshop.org collects from or about you when doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or law enforcement, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to protect the legal rights, property, or the safety of Bookshop.org, Users, or others.
• Sale or Transfer of Assets: In the event that Bookshop.org is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, or sells all or substantially all of its assets, Bookshop.org reserves the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information it has collected from and about Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the unlikely event of bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, Bookshop.org may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
• Aggregate or Anonymous Information: Bookshop.org may also share information that is aggregated or anonymized in a way that it does not directly identify you.
• Publicly Available Information: When Platform Sellers post Content, all Users will be able to view such Content. Platform Sellers should not post any information, including personal information, that they do not want to be publicly accessible.
The above excludes the sharing of any personal information collected by the SMS Service, which shall not be shared with any third parties.
A. Types of Cookies Bookshop.org Utilizes
Bookshop.org uses the following types of cookies and other technologies:
• User Information: Bookshop.org will store a logged-in User's information to remember the customer information you gave us so that you do not have to re-enter it when making additional purchases.
• Shopping Cart Contents: Bookshop.org also uses cookies to keep track of items you put into your shopping cart including when you have abandoned your cart and this information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via the SMS Service
• Security: Bookshop.org secures the Website with cookies that facilitate security features and allow Bookshop.org to detect activity that might violate the Terms of Use, such as unauthorized access or activity.
• Localization: Some cookies help Bookshop.org provide localized experiences, such as displaying the Website in the local language.
• Site Features and Services: Certain cookies provide greater functionality to the Website and help Bookshop.org deliver our products and services.
• Performance: Bookshop.org uses performance cookies to help route traffic between servers and understand how the Website is performing so Bookshop.org can provide Users with the best experience possible.
• Analytics and Research: Cookies and other technologies also help Bookshop.org to understand, improve, and research features and content on the Website. These types of cookies include Google Analytics, which you can opt out of at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
B. Limiting or Blocking Cookies and Our Do Not Track Policy
Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies, which may depend on the type of cookie, and browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. However, blocking or deleting cookies may prevent you from using most of the Website. Some browsers have "do not track" features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. If you block cookies, certain features on the Website may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described in this Privacy Policy will necessarily stop. Note that certain options you select are specific to certain browsers and devices. Our system may not recognize Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers.
C. Web Beacons
The Website may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how the Website is used. Bookshop.org uses third parties to gather information about how you and others use the Website. For example, Bookshop.org will know how many Users access a specific page and what Website Content they clicked on. Bookshop.org uses this aggregated information1 to understand and optimize how the Website is used.
D. Social Media Plug-Ins
Bookshop.org may use certain social media plug-ins (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) to allow you to communicate with such services and interact (e.g., "like" or "comment") with various Website content. The social media plug-in will enable a direct communication between your end user device and the servers of the applicable social media provider, allowing the applicable social media provider to communicate with you and collect information about you browsing the Website. If you decide to use a social media plug-in, Bookshop.org may transfer your information to the social media provider, whether or not you have a registered user account with the applicable social media provider. Bookshop.org is not responsible for the content and the data collection on respective third-party websites or apps and that Bookshop.org neither controls the extent of personally information collected by the respective plug-in provider nor knows the processing's purpose or the period your personally information will be retained. For further information as to how and for what purpose certain social network providers process your data, please see the relevant privacy policies of the applicable social media provider.
A. Information for California Residents
California residents may also take advantage of the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
• Access: You may request, up to two times each year, that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information that we have collected from and about you, and how we used, disclosed, and sold that personal information.
• Deletion: You may request that we delete any personal information that we have collected from or about you. Please note that we may not always be able to fully address your request, such as if we need the information to complete a transaction for you, to detect and protect against fraudulent and illegal activity, to exercise our rights, or to comply with a legal obligation.
Sale Opt-Out: Our company policy is not to sell your personal information. If we share your personal information to third parties, or to our affiliated companies that do not share common branding, you may opt out. To effect the opt out, please click on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link https://mailchi.mp/bookshop.org/donotsell or contact us as instructed below. To take advantage of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or (800) 484-6309.
We value your privacy and will not discriminate in response to your exercise of your privacy rights.
In addition to the information provided throughout this Privacy Policy, we make the following disclosures:
• We collected the following categories of personal information within the previous 12 months: identifiers/contact information, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation, and inferences drawn from the above.
• We disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose within the previous 12 months: identifiers/contact information, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation, and inferences drawn from the above. We disclosed this personal information to the service providers, Affiliates and Platform Sellers described in Section 4, above.
B. Information for European Economic Area Residents
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and would like to gain access to, update, erase, or restrict or withdraw any consent to the processing of certain information collected from and about you through the Website, please contact us at [email protected]
In addition, residents of the European Economic Area also have the right to object to the processing of such information and, in some instances, the right to request that we export, in a structured, commonly used, machine readable, and interoperable format, and transmit to another controller, such information.
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires a "lawful basis" for collecting and retaining personal information from citizens or residents of the European Economic Area. Bookshop.org's lawful bases include:
• Consent: In certain cases, you have affirmatively provided Bookshop.org with your consent to collect your personal information for a specific purpose, such as providing your name and email address when you register for an Account.
• Contract: Bookshop.org may need your personal information to comply with contractual obligations to deliver the Website, such as fulfilling transactions for Merchandise.
• Legal Obligations: Sometimes the law requires the collection and use of your information. For example, applicable tax laws may require Bookshop.org to retain records of payments made through the Website.
• Legitimate Interests: This is a technical term that means Bookshop.org has a good and fair reason to use your information and in ways that do not harm your interests and rights, such as in a way that might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and that does not materially impact your rights, freedom, or interests. For example, Bookshop.org uses identity, device, and location information to prevent fraud and abuse and to keep the Website secure. We may also send you promotional communications about the Website and services subject to your right to opt out, as well as analyze how Users interact with the Website so Bookshop.org can understand better what elements do or do not work well, thereby facilitating improvements and developments in the quality of the online experience for all Users.
C. Email Notifications
Bookshop.org wants to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. Bookshop.org will send you emails relating to your transactions on or through the Website, as well as service-related announcements when necessary. You may also elect to receive marketing emails, in accordance with your preferences, and from which you may opt out at any time by adjusting your notification settings. Bookshop.org will try to keep emails to a minimum and give you the ability to opt in to any marketing communications.
The Website may include links to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from the privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy. When you click or otherwise use a link to an external website or service, the privacy policy and data processing disclosures for that website or service govern.
Bookshop.org will retain the information collected from or about you as long as necessary to provide you with the Website or Bookshop.org's services, as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, and to the extent necessary to comply with Bookshop.org's legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and protect our legal rights. Additionally, Bookshop.org may retain indefinitely any aggregated or anonymized information, and may from time to time transfer or merge your information collected off-line to our online databases or store off-line information in an electronic format.
Bookshop.org is based in the United States so your information will be collected and processed in the United States, which has its own laws governing data protection and access to it, including by the government. If you reside outside of the United States, be advised that the rules that protect your personal information under United States federal, state, and local law may differ from those of your home country. With respect to any personal information that may be originally collected and stored in the European Economic Area, if and when Bookshop.org transfers your personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area, it will do so under the European Commission's model contracts for the transfer of personal information to third countries (i.e., standard contractual clauses) pursuant to 2004/915/EC or 2010/87/EU (as appropriate). For a copy of these Standard Contractual Clauses, please contact Bookshop at [email protected]
The privacy of children is of the utmost importance, and Bookshop.org is committed to complying with applicable privacy law, including the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Bookshop.org does not knowingly collect or process personal information from children under the age of sixteen (16). If Bookshop.org ever discovers that it has inadvertently collected or processed personal information from a child under the age of sixteen (16) on or through the Website, Bookshop.org will take steps to delete such personal information from its records as soon as possible. We do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under the age of sixteen (16) without such persons' affirmative authorization as required by applicable law.
Bookshop.org takes security seriously, and the security of your personal data is important to us. Bookshop.org follows industry-standard practices to protect the data Bookshop.org collects and maintains, including using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt information as it travels over the Internet. However, the nature of security risks is constantly evolving, as are the technical and organizational industry standards relating to management of those risks, and Bookshop.org cannot guarantee the complete security of any information it collects, stores, or uses.
Bookshop.org may change the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time. Whenever Bookshop.org makes a material change, Bookshop.org will provide appropriate notice to you. The effective date of the most recent version of this Privacy Policy will appear at the top of this page.
Questions or comments about this Privacy Policy should be sent by email to [email protected] or mail to Bookshop.org, Inc., 463 Lincoln Place #200Brooklyn, NY 11238. You also have the right to submit feedback to the applicable supervisory authority in your jurisdiction of residence.
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Q: Accessing JSON Object values from json_encode($phpArray) I'm a JSON/Javascript newbie and have a problem of this nature.
within my php script I'm passing a php array to javascript as follows:
echo '<img id="Next" src="misc/arrow_right.png" onclick="imageSlider(' . json_encode($images) . ')" >';

in my javascript:
function imageSlider(imagesArray) {
alert(imagesArray);
}

the alert above prints an output of the form object Object
The trouble is I do not know how best to 'decompose' or break down this object so that I can extract its the data that I originally json_encoded.The structure of the original array is a simple numeric indexed array with strings i.e ["image1", "image2",...] etc
I have also tried alert(JSON.stringify(imagesArray)) and I get this string:

{"1":"images1.jpg","2":"images2.jpg","3":"images3.jpg","4":"images4.jpg","5":"images5.jpg"}

Either way I am not sure how best to get my images names and array index in javascript. e.g
extract 1 and images1.jpg from the object or if there is a way to convert the 'stringified' object into a true javascipt array...?
Thanks

A: var imgs=eval('('+imagesArray+')');

Then you can access imgs object.
Keep in mind that this is not an indexed array any more, but a key-value store:
for (key in imgs){
  var img=imgs[key];
  console.log(img);
}

A: You can use famous json2.js to parse json string into object in Javascript. After including json2.js, you can use:
imageArray = JSON.parse(encodedJson);

Bu i think in your example it is already a true javascript object if you have a json encoded object. You can use
console.log(imageArray);

to see contents of imageArray. And you can access the properties of your object like:
alert(imageArray[1]) //this will alert "image1.jpg"

But i want you to know that imageArray is not an array, it is a javascript object. And you cannot use dot notation to reach javascript object's values if the key is a number (like in your example). So you can not use imageArray.1 to reach "image1.jpg", you should use square brackets if your keys are numbers like the code above. If you want to use dot notation, you should make your keys strings such as:
imageArray = { "i1": "image1.jpg", "i2": "image2.jpg" } //this way you can use imageArray.i1 to get "image1.jpg"

A: You were close.
function imageSlider(imagesObject) {

    //access it like an Array (note the quotes around 1), no other changes needed.
    imagesObject["1"];

}

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#97 Hahaha! Seriously, what would anyone expect?
#134 maybe, just maybe, it's Sharpie with Vaseline over it...idk.
#112 One of the drivers named Moses. S'true.
#34 What in the name of God does it mean?


Pride can be a good thing when it's about self-respect or being satisfied with a job well done, but we all know that pride has a dark side. We've seen it in ourselves and in others. The Bible tells us that the first sin ever committed was the sin of pride. An archangel named Lucifer became so full of himself that he wanted to be like God. He recruited followers and a third of of God's angels swore their allegiance to him. Not content to lead a large rebel force of angels, the chief demon turned his attention to the first man and woman. He came alongside Eve and whispered, God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat the fruit of the tree. You will become just like God–knowing everything, both good and evil.
The most visible is vanity, a preoccupation with our appearance. We may not worship the mirror, but we devote a lot of attention to it.
Beneath vanity lies a second characteristic of prideful people: stubbornness. Stubbornness causes us to shun correction. When someone points out an error, we evade or deny or blame someone else. This kind of defensiveness is particularly hard for God to penetrate.
But there is a third dimension of pride that is even more dangerous. It can be summed up in the word exclusion. Pride is a choice to exclude God and people from their rightful place in our hearts.
James, the half-brother of Jesus, wrote a letter that identified the source of humankind's challenges and how to overcome them. "If any of you lacks wisdom," James says, "he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does" (1:5-8).
All of us have heard spectacular stories of people who had a spiritual experience that totally changed their life. The story of Virginia Lively is a good example: Virginia had an experience where she wept uncontrollably for four days and nights. Then she saw a white light, and in the light was a face with eyes that looked deep within her and loved her and forgave her. She understood this to be Jesus. This went on for three months. Then the face began to fade, but told her that he would always be with her. She asked how, and she was told she would be able to see him. Several years later while speaking to a group, Virginia saw the eyes of Jesus looking at her again, only this time it was through a woman in the second row. Then, as she was trying to process this, she suddenly saw his eyes looking into hers from everyone in the room.


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Q: Force EntityFramework to use OUTPUT not SCOPE_IDENTITY to retrieve key value I'm using Entity Framework code first to access a set of tables whose key will be set by an int based SEQUENCE in a default constraint.  EF seems to have trouble handling this, it insists on using SCOPE_IDENTITY after an insert to populate integer key fields.
Digging into the code, it looks kind of hard-coded:
http://entityframework.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/EntityFramework.SqlServer/SqlGen/DmlSqlGenerator.cs
See the IsValidScopeIdentityColumnType method a little over halfway down the page.  If this method returns true the inserted Key value is retrieved with SCOPE_IDENTITY(), otherwise an OUTPUT clause is generated.  (Guid/uniqueidentifier is the typical use case there).
        // make sure it's a primitive type
        if (typeUsage.EdmType.BuiltInTypeKind != BuiltInTypeKind.PrimitiveType)
        {
            return false;
        }

        // check if this is a supported primitive type (compare by name)
        var typeName = typeUsage.EdmType.Name;

        // integer types
        if (typeName == "tinyint"
            || typeName == "smallint"
            ||
            typeName == "int"
            || typeName == "bigint")
        {
            return true;
        }

Is there any way to fool this method into returning false for an integral field?  Once I start seeing things like 'EDMType' I'm beyond what I really understand about how the EF mapping really works.  Maybe there's some way to use a user defined type to fool it?  But it's really the configuration on the .NET side that needs some sort of update.
See also the UseGeneratedValuesVariable method in that same file for where this is used...
It's not clear to me why OUTPUT isn't just used across the board here -- maybe performance?

A: UPDATE - ONLY IDENTITY SUPPORTED FOR DB GENERATED PK
You can create a key column marked as computed, which has a DataseGeneratedOption.Computed. (See DataseGeneratedOption enum).
To indicate this you can decorate the column with DatabaseGeneratedAttribute, or use the fluent API, in the OnModelCreating method of your DbContext, like so:
        modelBuilder.Entity<EntityType>()
            .Property(c => c.KeyColumn)
            .HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed)

This sample code works perfectly with EF6.1
public class MyDbContext : DbContext
{
    public IDbSet<ComputedKey> ComputedKeys { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        // Computed Key:
        modelBuilder.Entity<ComputedKey>()
            .HasKey(c => c.Id)
            .Property(c => c.Id)
            .HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed);
    }
}

public class ComputedKey
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

When you run the app, the table is created correctly.
The problem arises when you try to add the first entity to the entity collection and save changes. You get: Modifications to tables where a primary key column has property 'StoreGeneratedPattern' set to 'Computed' are not supported. Use 'Identity' pattern instead. Key column: 'Id'. Table: 'CodeFirstDatabaseSchema.ComputedKey'.
This is a limitation of EF (until 6.1) that only allows to have integer type or GUID as DB generated value for a PK.
WORKAROUNDS
First:
One would be to use the column generated on the DB as an alternative key.
From EF 6.1 on you can create the AK, decorating the AK column with an attribute like this:
[Index("MyIndex", unique: true)]

Second:
The reason for using a sequence is defining the seed and the increment. If this is what you need you can modify the identity like this:
DBCC CHECKIDENT ('SchemaName.TableName', RESEED, 10);

This means that the next generated identity value will be 11, and the increment will be 1.
If you need to use a different increment you'd need to drop and re-create the identity column, indicating the seed and increment. But for doing this you also need to drop and create the associated foreingk keys, so that's too hard to implement.
Third:
You could use a trigger. Inside the trigger you can use SET IDENTITY_INSERT tableName ON/OFF, but then again you can have problems because the @@identity will mismatch.
NOTE: if you need to run custom SQL commands to apply this customizations, you need to implement the Seed method of your db initializer
CONCLUSION
This scenario is only partially supported, so you'd rather find an alternative solution, unless one of the previous work arounds work for you.
REQUEST THIS FUNCTIONALITY
if you're interested in this functionality, go to the Entity Framework Feature Suggestions, and vote for this: Allow using SQL Server 2012 sequence for generating primary key


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Big Fish is a two-year plus old restaurant that sits along one of my favourite makan haunts, Upper East Coast Road. And it was also where the Deli Aprecio Club visited last Saturday.
Together with a group of about 23 people, I went down for lunch. Susan had pre-arranged with Big Fish and a four course set lunch was subsequently rolled out.
The meal started with a delicious Pumpkin Soup which was accompanied with warm, thick slices of bread. The Pumpkin Soup was sweet and creamy with a hint of spice that prevented it from being overly cloying.
For the main course, we were served Pan-Fried Sole with Assorted Vegetables. The sole tasted fresh and its flesh was soft and yielded easily to my fork. The assorted veggies consisting of leek, bell peppers, onions and cauliflower, were a little too oily for my liking. I would have preferred them roasted and drizzled with a little olive oil to add a smokey dimension. The only carb on the plate was the mashed potato which was smooth except for the small chunks of potato (purposely done?), giving it an interesting texture. The presentation of the dish was pretty with the colourful veggies adding er..colour and red wine reduction, orange sauce and basil oil drizzled around the plate. Unfortunately, the trio of sauces did not really work for me. While they did not taste bad individually, I would have preferred just one type of sauce. With fresh seafood, there's no need for complicated sauces and flavourings ya?
Paprika, a mild red pepper, seemed to be the choice of garnish here at Big Fish. I first noticed paprika dusted over the Pumpkin Soup and now sprinkled on the edges of the plate.
To round up the meal was home-made (or rather restaurant-made) Brownie with Mixed Chopped Fruits and Mango Sauce. The Brownie was a tad dry but I so like the chocolate ganache layer at the top of it. Thick, creamy and rich, it was not overly sweet and had a slight bitter aftertaste. It also probably had a quickie with an alcohol. But by then, it could have just been my inner wanting surfacing.
Now to the man behind the food. Is that you asking for the fourth course, I hear? It's either a soft drink, coffee or tea. Ok back to the brains and hands behind the food.
Previously from hotels such as Goodwood Park and the Mandarin, Chef Terrence has helmed the kitchen here since its opening. He brought to the table a lemon sole and explained about the fish and some ways of cooking it. Other fishes that are available here include halibut, mahi mahi, snapper, rainbow trout and of course the omnipresent salmon and tuna. Most of these are air-flown from New Zealand and Australia.
Is a lemon sole black...
or white?
Both! It's a type of flounder so one side is black while the other is white.
I can't help but liken Big Fish to Greenwood Fish Market. Both serve delicious seafood and have a good selection to choose from. But unlike the latter, Big Fish does not have a market whereby fresh seafood, gourmet sauces and flavoured oils are available for sale. The lady boss, Ms Loi, pointed out that the market for these items there are small and the relatively near-by Blue Lobster does already serve this market. But if you wish to purchase a piece of fish or two or a dozen of mussels for that matter, you can try asking Ms Loi. *winks*
By the way, Big Fish does sell marinated seafood for barbeques so the next time you want a barbeque but are too lazy to go grocery shopping and go through all the hassle of preparing the food, think Big Fish.
Big Fish Seafood Grill
85 Upper East Coast Road
Lunch: 11.30am-2.30pm
Dinner: 6-10pm
Closed on Mondays.
Chew On This: If you like oysters, come down to Big Fish on Wednesdays and with an order of a main course, fresh raw oysters are available at $1 each.
PS: Group pic provided by Pony. Thanks.
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Local Food Trip
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Obama unveils mpg rule, gets broad support
California's push for cuts in smog and greenhouse gas emissions stems from congested cities like Los Angeles. That push was also the driving force behind a new federal standard worked up by the Obama administration.Lucy Nicholson / Reuters file
May 18, 2009, 6:45 PM UTC / Source: msnbc.com staff and news service reports
Joined by an uncommon alliance of auto executives, union leaders and environmental activists, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced a national program to cut new vehicle carbon emissions and raise mileage by 30 percent, while also reducing oil needs and changing the kinds of cars Americans buy.
"This gathering is all the more extraordinary for what these diverse groups — despite disparate interests and previous disagreements — have worked together to achieve," Obama said at a White House ceremony. "For the first time in history, we have set in motion a national policy aimed at both increasing gas mileage and decreasing greenhouse gas pollution for all new trucks and cars."
"The status quo is no longer acceptable," he added. "We have done little to increase fuel efficiency of America's cars and trucks for decades."
Obama said the program would save 1.8 billion barrels of oil "over the lifetime of the vehicles sold in the next five years. And at a time of historic crisis in our auto industry, this rule provides the clear certainty that will allow these companies to plan for a future in which they are building the cars of the 21st century."
The new requirement is estimated to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle starting in 2016, but drivers will be saving at the pump. Obama estimated that a typical driver would save $2,800 over the lifetime of a car, assuming gasoline costs around $3.50 a gallon by then.
Moreover, the increased miles per gallon should cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than 900 million tons, the equivalent to shutting down 194 coal plants, a senior administration official said Monday.
35.5 mpg fleet average planned
While the 30 percent increase translates to a 35.5 mpg average for both cars and light trucks, the percentage increase in cars would be greater, rising from the current 27.5 mpg standard to 39 mpg starting in 2016. The average for light trucks would rise from 24 mpg to 30 mpg.
For 2009 car models, the industry has actually averaged 32.6 mpg, well above the existing 27.5 mpg standard.
If all goes as planned, by 2016 Americans can expect dozens of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and even all-electric vehicle models instead of the two hybrids — Toyota's Prius and Honda's Civic — that currently get better than 39 mpg in combined highway/city driving.
The national program is expected to be finalized once the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency draw up specifics, and then those must go through a public review.
California, 13 other states and the District of Columbia had earlier urged the Bush administration to let them enact rules to cut vehicle greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent. The Bush administration blocked the request and fought a lawsuit, but Obama has decided to adopt key elements of that strategy.
Environmentalists and even the auto industry praised the move. For the industry, it means a single standard rather than a federal rule plus various set by individual states — a much costlier approach for the industry. Automakers also get a bit more flexibility than under the California approach.
"For seven long years, there has been a debate over whether states or the federal government should regulate autos," Dave McCurdy, president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said in a statement. "President Obama's announcement ends that old debate by starting a federal rulemaking to set a national program."
Top auto executives, union leaders, environmentalists as well as Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were among those who attended Obama's announcement.
Will phase in new standards
The California program would have required new cars to get 42 mpg by 2020. The Obama plan sets a 39-mpg benchmark by 2016.
Administration sources noted that while a 2007 federal law requires a 30 percent increase in mileage by 2020, Obama's plan steps that up by four years. The requirement will gradually phase in, starting with 2012 vehicle models.
Administration officials said consumers were going to pay an extra $700, anyway, for mileage standards that had already been approved. The Obama plan adds another $600 to the price of a vehicle, a senior administration official said, bringing the total cost to $1,300 by 2016.
The plan effectively ends a legal feud between automakers and statehouses over emission standards — with the states coming out on top but the automakers getting a single national standard and more flexibliity in making the changes.
Moreover, cash-strapped states such as California will not have to develop their own standards and enforcement plan. Instead, they can now rely on federal tax dollars to monitor the emissions.
For the auto industry, it will be costly; the Transportation Department last year estimated that requiring the industry to meet 31.6 mpg by 2015 would cost nearly $47 billion.
But industry officials — many of whom are running companies on emergency taxpayer dollars — said Obama's plan would help them because they would not face multiple emissions requirements and would have more certainty as they develop their vehicles for the next decade.
Activists on boardEnvironmentalists were among the first to praise the move. Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, called it "one of the most significant efforts undertaken by any president, ever, to end our addiction to oil and seriously slash our global warming emissions."
Daniel Weiss, director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, described it as "a triple play: It will help move America off foreign oil, save families money and spur American businesses to take the lead in developing the job-creating, clean-energy technologies of the future."
In Congress, Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat and chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, thanked the Obama administration for bringing together "the federal government, the state of California, and the auto industry behind new national automobile emissions standards that follow California's lead.
"This is good news for all of us who have fought long and hard to reduce global warming pollution, create clean energy jobs, and reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil," she added.


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Q: Error inflating class fragment, trying to display map I'm really new to Android Development, and I'm atempting to include some maps in my App, I've started with something simple, just displaying a map centered on where I live. I've been trying many things to solve my problem, without any success, I'll leave here my code and the error log. I'll be really grateful if you can help me out :D
Here is the java:
    package com.example.proyect2;

import com.google.android.gms.maps.CameraUpdateFactory;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.BitmapDescriptorFactory;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.LatLng;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.Marker;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.MarkerOptions;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;

public class AddPlace extends Activity {

    static final LatLng PAMPLONA = new LatLng(42.811, -1.648);
    private GoogleMap map;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_add_place);
        map = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.amap)).getMap();
        map.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(PAMPLONA, 15));

            if (map!=null){
              Marker pamplona = map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions()
                  .position(PAMPLONA)
                  .title("Pamplona")
                  .snippet("Nota")
                  .icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory
                      .fromResource(R.drawable.ic_launcher)));
            }

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_add_place, menu);
        return true;
    }

}

Here is the xml:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".AddPlace"
    android:background="#333333" >

    <fragment
     android:id="@+id/amap"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent"
     class="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"/>

</RelativeLayout>

And finally the error log:
04-29 17:44:32.320: D/libEGL(19416): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_mali.so
04-29 17:44:32.330: D/libEGL(19416): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_mali.so
04-29 17:44:32.330: D/libEGL(19416): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2_mali.so
04-29 17:44:32.335: D/(19416): Device driver API match
04-29 17:44:32.335: D/(19416): Device driver API version: 10
04-29 17:44:32.335: D/(19416): User space API version: 10
04-29 17:44:32.335: D/(19416): mali: REVISION=Linux-r2p4-02rel0 BUILD_DATE=Tue Oct 16 15:37:13 KST 2012
04-29 17:44:32.380: D/OpenGLRenderer(19416): Enabling debug mode 0
04-29 17:44:33.955: E/SpannableStringBuilder(19416): SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length
04-29 17:44:33.955: E/SpannableStringBuilder(19416): SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length
04-29 17:44:34.555: D/dalvikvm(19416): GC_CONCURRENT freed 105K, 8% free 12515K/13511K, paused 15ms+2ms, total 33ms
04-29 17:44:34.555: D/dalvikvm(19416): WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 9ms
04-29 17:44:34.975: D/dalvikvm(19416): GC_CONCURRENT freed 234K, 9% free 12755K/13895K, paused 5ms+4ms, total 52ms
04-29 17:44:35.060: D/AndroidRuntime(19416): Shutting down VM
04-29 17:44:35.060: W/dalvikvm(19416): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40fe72a0)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.proyect2/com.example.proyect2.AddPlace}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #8: Error inflating class fragment
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2100)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2125)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:140)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1227)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4898)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1006)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:773)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416): Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #8: Error inflating class fragment
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:704)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:746)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:489)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:396)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:352)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:308)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1924)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.example.proyect2.AddPlace.onCreate(AddPlace.java:24)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5206)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1083)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2064)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    ... 11 more
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: API key not found.  Check that <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY" android:value="your API key"/> is in the <application> element of AndroidManifest.xml
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.ab.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.ab.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.ab.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.ag.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.ag.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.bw.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at maps.z.r.onCreateView(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.maps.internal.IMapFragmentDelegate$Stub.onTransact(IMapFragmentDelegate.java:107)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.os.Binder.transact(Binder.java:326)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.maps.internal.IMapFragmentDelegate$a$a.onCreateView(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment$b.onCreateView(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.internal.e$4.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.internal.e.a(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.internal.e.onCreateView(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment.onCreateView(Unknown Source)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:807)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1013)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.addFragment(FragmentManager.java:1112)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.app.Activity.onCreateView(Activity.java:4857)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:680)
04-29 17:44:35.080: E/AndroidRuntime(19416):    ... 21 more
04-29 17:44:44.865: I/Process(19416): Sending signal. PID: 19416 SIG: 9

Thanks in advance for the help! :)


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Agricultural machines are full of rubber products
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The family business GRIMME was founded in 1861 in Damme and started as a blacksmith. For more than 80 years the father of the current owner Franz Grimme senior developed the first machines for harvesting potatoes. That was the start of the GRIMME agricultural machine factory in the city of Damme, Germany. Over the years, the company has developed into a full-liner in the potato, beet and vegetable sector. The well-known red machines are used in more than 120 countries worldwide.
At the modern production locations in Damme and Rieste not only the GRIMME machines for soil preparation, laying and sowing, plant care and harvesting are made, but also the sieve belts and conveyor belts marketed by their affiliate RICON. More than 2,400 people work within the GRIMME group worldwide.
Moulded rubber products for agriculture
GRIMME uses various moulded rubber components in their harvesting machines, and these are made by RIS Rubber, among other parties. RIS Rubber applies rubber to the pintle bars for sieve belts and conveyor belts in a wide range of lengths and varieties. These rubberised bars ensure that the harvested crops are transferred from the ground to the machine without any damage. RIS Rubber also supplies haulm choppers that remove the haulm from potatoes and sugar beet, and applies rubber to the large transport and drive rollers that set the sieve belts and conveyor belts in motion.
All the products that RIS Rubber produces for GRIMME are custom-made. Together with the customer, we decide for each product the best material for each specific application. Moulded rubber articles for the agricultural industry are produced by our factory in Bulgaria, and are delivered direct to our customers from there.
The collaboration between GRIMME and RIS rubber dates back to the 1980s, and as GRIMME has continued to develop innovative machines and solutions for the agricultural industry, so has the RIS Rubber product range continued to grow. In addition to GRIMME, RIS Rubber also collaborates closely with the other businesses in the group, such as RICON (sieve belt and conveyor belt technology) in Rieste and INTERNORM (plastic technology) in Damme. In spite of its size, the GRIMME Group is still a genuine family-owned business, and the new generation is poised to take control. This is in line with the developments that RIS Rubber has seen in past years and of which we are particularly proud.
If you would like to know more about the products that we manufacture for the agricultural industry please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.


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Q: Сложная запись в файл Есть сайт с посещаемостью 100 000 уников в сутки и при каждом посещении будет исполняться такой вот код для записи данных в файл:
<?php
    $fp = fopen("fi/qwe.txt", "a");
    $mytext = "Эту строку необходимо записать\r\n";
    $test = fwrite($fp, $mytext);
    fclose($fp);
?>

Могу ли я быть уверен, что если два человека одновременно зайдут на сайт, то не возникнет ошибки при записи в файл? просьба ответить те, кто действительно уверен ответе, для меня это очень важно. спасибо!
A: Смотря какая платформа и какая файловая система. Лучше монгу рядом поставить и плевать туда.
A:  Почитай: flock
А так да, лучше базу использовать. Не понимаю смысла использования файлов.
A: С приведенным кодом нет, не можете. Пользуйтесь блокировками
$fp = fopen ("fi/qwe.txt","a");
flock ($fp, LOCK_EX);
fputs($fp ,"Эту строку необходимо записать\r\n");
fflush ($fp);
flock ($fp, LOCK_UN);
fclose ($fp);

но имейте ввиду, что это дополнительные задержки на открытие страницы. Запись в файл - не самый лучший вариант при высоких нагрузках.
A: Что-то тебе ерунду тут насоветовали. Вот код в одну строчку, который будет работать так, как тебе надо)
file_put_contents("fi/qwe.txt", "Эту строку необходимо записать\r\n", FILE_APPEND);

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Если строка не формируется сложными вычислениями в php скрипте, то может, писать в отдельный лог самим веб-сервером?


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Whether you are consulting individually or through any other medium of conversation (i.e. phone or the web), be on time. Note that psychics are also experts who consider their work seriously. You generally spend for every minute, and negligence on your finish translates to poor etiquette and higher cost.
But don't anticipate large changes to arrive about in your life, centered on what one psychic might say. At the finish of the day, it's not really essential exactly where the readings takes place, nor their appearance. Seers and psychics arrive in all shapes and measurements, as does their setting. A psychic which performs a studying from their kitchen table may be as great, if not better than any who types the cliched image. You never get a 2nd opportunity to make a first impact, as the old stating goes. But don't always conclude on this alone.


On behalf of Downs Law Offices on Saturday, July 21, 2018.
Losing trust in the person you planned to spend your entire life alongside is always difficult, but if you also suspect that this person is working to stack the deck against you, it can prove even more troublesome. Unfortunately, many spouses who suspect that their marriages are nearing their final days behave less than honestly when it comes to finances, and many use similar tactics and methods in doing so.
On behalf of Downs Law Offices posted in child custody on Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
As you ponder divorce, you'll do so with your children in mind. If you decide to move forward, you must have a plan in place for keeping your children safe at all times.
On behalf of Downs Law Offices posted in child custody on Friday, July 13, 2018.
Once your divorce is in the past, you can turn all your attention to the future. If you have children with your ex-spouse, now's the time to focus on their well-being.
Who will keep the house in a divorce?
On behalf of Downs Law Offices posted in property division on Wednesday, July 4, 2018.
Matters of property division can quickly bog down the divorce process, with both individuals fighting to secure as many assets as possible.


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Peter Vermes Visits Rockhurst
When it comes to leadership, there are many lessons to be learned. But Peter Vermes, Sporting Kansas City coach and general manager, was able to translate what he's learned on the soccer pitch, into what Rockhurst University students will learn in the work place.
On March 25, Vermes came to speak to a group of students, faculty and staff about what he's learned throughout his life that has made him an effective team player and team leader.
For an hour, Vermes discussed how to deal with a variety of personalities, how to surround oneself with effective people and how to make the hard decisions, even when they're not always right.
"With leadership comes a great amount of responsibility," Vermes said. "Leadership is about making good decisions, but if you don't, it's about how you are after that decision. It's about how you react to it."
Vermes was invited to speak at Rockhurst University by the Nu Omega chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, the business fraternity at the Helzberg School of Management.
Amy Drouin, director of major giving, attended the event. She said it was important for students, especially those about to graduate, to learn how someone even in Vermes's position still has to work well with his bosses, the owners, and work with the people that report to him, the players.
But if there was one lesson that Vermes wanted to drive home to his audience it was that leaders will be their most effective when they have a passion for what they are doing.
"I love it," Vermes said about his time as Sporting KC's coach. "I wake up every day and I'm very excited about the next challenge."


Freedom and Flourishing: How do preferences relate to well-being?
Readers of this blog will know that I am attracted to a developmental view of individual well-being. I have previously argued that if happiness is viewed as a positive emotional state (involving, for example, peace of mind, optimism, uncompression, exuberance, flow, joy and cheerfulness) then well-being cannot be the same thing as happiness. Well-being also involves other factors - including personal security and security of property, health and longevity, access to goods and services – as well as a positive emotional state. (See: What are the links between freedom and flourishing?) The kind of life that is best for all humans is a life of flourishing - one that follows a pattern of psychological and physical growth filled with enjoyment.
What does a developmental view of individual well-being have to say about the relationship between well-being and the satisfaction of preferences? Richard Kraut's questions whether a more preferred outcome is necessarily a better outcome for an individual, even if it satisfies her properly informed and rational desires. His point is that it is possible to have properly informed and rational desires that are not good for us.
"There is no way to criticize the desire for fame except to say that its object is not something that it is good to have. But it should not be at all surprising that human beings sometimes have desires whose objects fall into this category. Nature has not installed in us some wonderful mechanism that guarantees that what propels us forward and focuses our minds on certain courses of action will bring us to something that it is good for us to have. Somehow or other, we have to take steps to learn about what is good for us, and even to care about what is good for us; that is not a topic about which we inevitably come to have tacit knowledge merely by virtue of having desires" ("What is good and why", p 185).
Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson note that if well-being is not the same as preference satisfaction then the normative significance that economists attach to preference satisfaction would appear to be without foundation. These authors then offer a new partial defence of welfare economics based on the view that if people are more or less self-interested with respect to certain alternatives, then economists can use their preferences to make inferences concerning what they believe will benefit them. This means that if it is reasonable to suppose that individuals are good judges of what will benefit them, then economists can use people's preferences as evidence concerning what in fact makes them better off ('Preference satisfaction and welfare economics', Economics and Philosophy: 25 (2009).
What happens if we are dealing with policy issues where evidence has accumulated that individuals are often poor judges of what will benefit them? Does this mean that paternalistic government intervention will produce better outcomes? No. The argument that imperfections in individual judgement justify government intervention is just as fallacious as the old argument that departures from perfect competition in markets justify government interventions to increase competition.
In order to consider whether intervention is warranted it is necessary to consider the consequences of alternative institutions, or rules of the game. The judgements that governments make on behalf of individuals may be worse than the judgements that people make on their own behalf. For example, compulsory superannuation in Australia forces some young people to begin to save for their retirement at a time of their life when they would probably be better off saving to buy a house.
In addition, it is important to consider the consequences of government interventions that displace personal responsibility. It is good for adult humans to accept responsibility for decisions affecting their own well-being because this contributes to their personal development and self-respect.
Thanks Karim. I thought the post was mainly about economics rather than personal development. But I did come to a developmental view of individual well-being via personal development literature.


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Reading: BeatO raises $33 mn led by Lightrock India
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BeatO raises $33 mn led by Lightrock India
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New Delhi, Nov 16 (UiTV/IANS) – Digital diabetes care platform BeatO on Wednesday said that it has raised $33 million in Series B funding led by Lightrock India with participation from HealthQuad, Flipkart and existing investors.
The fresh funding will be used to scale BeatO's platform, continue to invest in its product and technology, and to strengthen the reach of its evidence-based care programmes, it said in a statement.
Founded by Gautam Chopra, Yash Sehgal and Kunal Kinalekar, BeatO provides an affordable, comprehensive and patient-centric digital solution to millions of people with diabetes who have limited access to good quality and continuous care.
"With our digital-first solution, BeatO is well positioned to lay the new standards of how care will be delivered in the future to millions of Indians," said Gautam Chopra, Co-Founder and CEO, BeatO.
BeatO is expanding the diabetes care market with over 70 per cent of their users coming from Tier 2 cities and beyond, and 55 per cent of their users never having used a blood glucose monitoring device previously.
Currently serving more than 15 lakh members, the company has grown 3 times in the last one year.
Tejasvi Ravi, who leads healthcare investments at Lightrock India said that BeatO has a "world-class team that have demonstrated the ability to deliver consistent, high-quality and empathetic care resulting in clinical outcomes that are outstanding."
BeatO aims to serve over 10 million patients by 2025.
The company's existing marquee investors include Orios Venture Partners, Leo Capital, W Health Ventures, Blume Ventures and others.


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Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus – Travel Weather
Polis Chrysochous is a city in Cyprus, Europe. The weather in Polis Chrysochous sees differences from a month to another. Choosing the best period to travel to Polis Chrysochous can have a great impact on your visit. Check below for Polis Chrysochous monthly weather data based on climatology reports from the past 30 years.
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The weather in Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus shows variations from a period to another. The graph below shows the monthly averages, in Fahrenheit, letting you select the perfect weather for traveling to Polis Chrysochous.
January: the weather in January is cool, with minimum temperatures recorded at 47° Fahrenheit (8.1°C) and maximum at 62° Fahrenheit (16.5°C). Travelers will find here an average temperature of 54° Fahrenheit (12.3°C) and 15.3 days of rain during the month (6.51 inches rainfall / 165.3 mm).
February: Polis Chrysochous weather for February is cool and comes with an average temperature of 54° Fahrenheit (12.4°C), with minimum temperature values at 46° Fahrenheit (8°C) and maximum values of 62° Fahrenheit (16.7°C). There is an average number of 12.6 days of rainfall during February, with a total of 5.19 inches rainfall (131.7 mm).
March: the weather is cool during the month of March in Polis Chrysochous, with an average temperature of 57° Fahrenheit / 14.1°C. We will have minimums of 49° Fahrenheit (9.2°C) during the night and maximum of 66° Fahrenheit (19°C) during the day. The data shows 3.18 inches of rainfall (80.7 mm) recorded with an average of 9.3 rainy days.
April: April in Polis Chrysochous is mostly defined by chilly weather, with an average temperature of 62° Fahrenheit (16.6°C). Minimum temperatures can go as low as 53° Fahrenheit (11.6°C), while the maximum is situated around 71° Fahrenheit (21.6°C). April brings an average of 8.1 days of rain, with 1.96 inches rainfall (49.7 mm).
May: visiting Polis Chrysochous in May will land travelers in a place with pleasant weather, where maximum temperatures rise to 79° Fahrenheit (25.9°C), and minimum temperatures recorded at 59° Fahrenheit (15.1°C). The average temperature is situated around 69° Fahrenheit (20.5°C). The average 5.5 days of rain bring a total of 1.54 inches rainfall / 39.2 mm.
June: warm and pleasant weather awaits visitors in Polis Chrysochous in the month of June. The minimum temperatures are situated around 67° Fahrenheit (19.4°C), maximum temperatures rise to 87° Fahrenheit (30.5°C), and the average temperature for this month is 77° Fahrenheit / 25°C. The average number of rainy days is 2.3, which equals to a total of 0.8 inches rainfall / 20.4 mm.
July: Polis Chrysochous weather in July is hot. The average temperature is 82° Fahrenheit (28°C), which is determined by a maximum temperature of 92° Fahrenheit (33.6°C), and a minimum of 72° Fahrenheit (22.3°C) during the night. 1.4 rainy days are the average for the city, with a 0.96 inches rainfall total (24.3 mm).
August: during the month of August, visitors can expect hot weather. The maximum temperatures go up to 92° Fahrenheit (33.4°C), while the minimum temperatures will be around 73° Fahrenheit (22.6°C). Temperature average is 82° Fahrenheit (28°C). A recorded total of 0.94 inches rainfall (24 mm) is brought by the average of 1.8 days of rain during the month.
September: the month of September brings hot weather to Polis Chrysochous, with temperatures fluctuating around a maximum of 86° Fahrenheit (30.1°C) and a minimum of 68° Fahrenheit (20.2°C). The average temperature is 77° Fahrenheit (25.2°C). With an average total of 2.6 rainy days, the city has 0.52 inches rainfall (13.3 mm) during this month (24 mm).
October: October is the time for pleasant weather in Polis Chrysochous. Minimum temperatures go down to 62° Fahrenheit (151.1°C), and maximum temperatures will be around 80° Fahrenheit (26.4°C), which results in an average temperature of 71° Fahrenheit / 21.7°C. There are, on average, 5.6 days of rain during this month, with an average of 1.47 inches rainfall / 37.4 mm.
November: chilly weather surrounds Polis Chrysochous in November. The average temperature stays at 63° Fahrenheit (17.4°C). Minimum temperature values are at 55° Fahrenheit (12.7°C), and the maximum values go to 72° Fahrenheit (22.1°C). There are, on average, 6.6 rain days, with 2.69 inches rainfall (68.3 mm).
December: cool weather of December in Polis Chrysochous brings an average temperature of 57° Fahrenheit (14°C), determined by maximum temperatures situated around 65° Fahrenheit (18.4°C) and minimum values at 49° Fahrenheit (9.6°C). The 5.95 inches rainfall (151.1 mm) average is a result of the 11 rainy days that visitors will face there during this month.
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As an overall, the climate in Cyprus: temperate; Mediterranean with hot, dry summers and cool winters.


The Old School Community Gathering Place in Musquodoboit Harbour has been open for almost ten years now, thanks to a combination of community will, great volunteers, and recently, funding from a number of sources: the federal government, the Province, HRM project grants, and the United Way.
"As a result of all the efforts, In the past six months over 1200 people have come through the door for programs, including healthy cooking workshops, youth programs, seniors groups, mental health resource information, bereavement, coffee houses, pub nights, concerts, fundraisers, art shows, art gallery, the community garden, a walking group, tai chi classes, and a variety of other gatherings," said Program Director Leslie Savoy.
The diverse and vibrant offerings make a significant difference to the village and surrounding areas. But the Old School recently hit a major new obstacle: the United Way funding, which went primarily for operating support for all of the programs, ended with no new funding for the coming years.
"The Board of the Old School is strong and committed and determined to carry forward, despite the disappointing news." Said Samantha Holmes, Board Member. The Board is asking for the help of the community, in light of all that is planned. And here is some of that: a mentorship program for seniors to work with youth, partnerships with local cultural, heritage, and healthy living institutions, more pub nights, after school and vacation youth opportunities, and a project for people living with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and their caregivers.
How can you help make sure this important facility continues to operate fully? Three ways will make a difference: First: Come to the great programs offered, take advantage of the community's wealth of expertise and talent (and have a great time doing it!). Next: rent space from us. Our fees are low but necessary, and the coffee is available too! And if you can, make a donation to the school by e-transferring any amount (large ones are definitely appreciated but any will do!) to oldschoolmh@outlook.com. Check out the website as well -- https://www.theoldschool.ca/ -- and click on the donation button there, which takes you to our Canada Helps page.


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By Suzanne Potter, Public News Service
This story was originally published by Public News Service.
SEARCHLIGHT — The push for a new national monument about 60 miles south of Las Vegas has taken on added urgency, in the face of a new wind-farm proposal in the area.
The monument would be called Avi Kwa Ame, which is the Mojave Tribe's term for Spirit Mountain. The 380,000-acre monument would connect the Mojave National Preserve on the California-Nevada border with the Colorado River plateau.
Neal Desai, senior program director for the National Parks Conservation Association, said the landscape is holy ground for many Native Americans.
"This area is sacred to a dozen tribes," Desai explained. "It's tied to the creation story. It is the area where the universe started for the Yuman tribes along the river."
Opponents noted the area already has some federal protections. However, a national monument designation would preclude any future commercial development.
In recent weeks, town officials in Searchlight and Boulder City have endorsed the monument proposal.
In 2018, the Bureau of Land Management rejected a bid by a Swedish company to build the huge Crescent Peak wind farm.
Desai added he hopes the agency will also put a stop to the company's latest plans.
"That company is now proposing a 9,000-acre project in the same area," Desai noted. "It's just a new threat, and it's another reason why we need to get this monument established right away."
Advocates for the monument believe their cause is gaining momentum now that a Native American leader, Deb Haaland, has become U.S. Interior Secretary. In addition, the monument would help President Joe Biden reach his stated goal of protecting 30% of the country's public lands by 2030.
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Darlene Kriesel and Athena Lark
Five Racially Controversial Verdicts in American History
Government, Society & Culture
The Mississippi Delta was no doubt as muggy this summer as it was in the summer of 1955 when fourteen-year-old Emmett Till walked into a grocery store in Money, Mississippi, and with his Chicago confidence whistled at a white girl, an act he paid for with his life. The last days of that hot summer of 1955 saw the opening of the trial for the murder of Emmett Till. The trial closed with a sixty-seven minute jury deliberation by an all white male jury. Till's assailants, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, would celebrate a "Not Guilty" of murder verdict by lighting up cigars in the courtroom.
In February 2012 Trayvon Martin's death stroll through his father's housing community began. We know he donned his hoodie to protect himself from the rain, sipped on an Arizona Iced Tea, popped candy into his mouth and headed to his father's house. The now infamous next four minutes in which George Zimmerman took one look at the hoodie, the boy, his race and his casual stroll and saw a thug in the place of an ordinary teenager, ended Martin's life. This summer, George Zimmerman's "Not Guilty" verdict came after a two day deliberation from a jury comprised of five white female women and one Hispanic woman.
The George Zimmerman trial is one in a line of historically significant verdicts that have triggered a national debate about race relations in America. Collected here is a list of other controversial and racially-charged verdicts.
1. Emmet Till
Till's murder is credited as a sparking the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. An exact timeline of the events surrounding Till's death are outlined by PBS, including William Huie's Look Magazine confession. This 1955 news article notes that the verdict came in as such due to the fact the dead body could not easily be identified as that of Till.
2. Rodney King
The LAPD beating of King following a high-speed chase was caught on tape; despite this evidence, the police officers involved in the beating were acquitted and the event is said to be the catalyst of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. A detailed chronology of the events and the trial are outlined here.
3. O.J. Simpson
In another controversial California verdict, the celebrated black football player O.J. Simpson was acquitted in a trial of the murder of his white wife. In this essay, Professor of Law Gerald Uelman tackles "The Five Hardest Lessons from the O.J. Trial."
4. The "Subway Vigilante."
In 1984, Bernhard Goetz seriously wounded four black men on a subway train, claiming self defense—the incident brought to light issues of urban crime and weapons concealment in the United States. This 1987 New York Times article highlights the main points of the resulting trial.
5. "The Central Park Five" or "Central Park Jogger Case."
In this case involving the rape of a white female jogger in New York's Central Park, five black men were accused of the crime then acquitted. Later evidence showed that in fact convicted rapist and murderer Matias Reyes, serving a life sentence for other crimes, was in fact the perpetrator. This New York Times Magazine article revisits the crime, while Ken Burns also produced an illuminating documentary on the subject.
Image credit: Deborah Sweet via flickr
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Darlene Kriesel
Adjunct faculty member, Cal Baptist University and Riverside Community College
Darlene is a writer who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is currently working on her novel, House Secrets, and a memoir. Darlene developed an ear for writing early on from the African-American culture, with its poetry, music, rhythm, and figurative language, and her mind always leads her to the most poignant and powerful details of human strife and joy; that is, to the heart of a story.
Athena Lark
MFA, UC Riverside
Athena Lark is a writer, independent journalist and photographer. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. Athena has been published in the literary journal The Whistling Fire, the Florida Times Union newspaper, Jacksonville Business Journal, Jacksonville Advocate, The Albany Herald, UNF Spinnaker, UNF Alumni Magazine. Athena also worked as the Associate Producer for the documentary "Slave Market Diaries" written and directed by Clennon King. Her Associate Producer credits include her work at WJXT Channel 4 News, Jacksonville, FL. Athena has worked as a contributing commentator on the radio talk show "The Advocate" AM 1460, Jacksonville Florida. She is currently writing the novel "Avenue of Palms" and her memoir "Sailor Girl."
Prison Cells and Pretty Walls: Gender Coding and American Schools
Jennifer Borgioli Binis, Nursing Clio
Forced Sterilization Programs in California Once Harmed Thousands – Particularly Latinas
Natalie Lira, The Conversation and Nicole L. Novak, The Conversation


According to Green Tech, the inventor of the EFuel100 MicroFueler home ethanol maker has signed on Sierra Nevada Brewing to make ethanol from beer dregs. E-Fuel said that the beer company will start testing EFuel's refrigerator-sized portable ethanol refineries in the second quarter of this year using discarded beer yeast as a feedstock for ethanol.
E-Fuel last year unveiled its $9,995 home ethanol machine which ferments a mix of water and sugar into ethanol. Sierra Nevada every year generates 1.6 million gallons of "bottom of the barrel" beer yeast waste, which it now sells to farmers as feed. The MicroFueler will be able to raise the alcohol content in that mix to 15 percent and remove water.
Initially, Sierra Nevada plans to use the ethanol in its own vehicles. Once it has excess fuel, it will look to supply employees and distribute through E-Fuel's distribution network, a company representative said.


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Shortlisted for Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Bootcamp
MissionV is the collaboration between GiftedKids.ie and Daynuv. We recently received the support of the NCTE to roll the project out to 20 schools in Ireland this year. We also applied to the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Social Impact Programme and have made it down to the last 42 (out of more than 200 applications received) for this years Bootcamp -
42 people from all over Ireland will take part in the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland 2011 Bootcamp to pitch for a place on this year's Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Social Impact Programme, with a total fund of €500,000 up for grabs. The 42 selected, from over 200 entries nationwide, will be joined on the day by a number of Dragons from RTE's Dragons Den, sponsors DCC plc and supporters of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland.
At bootcamp applicants will pitch their ideas and answer a series of questions from a panel of judges from which six finalists will be chosen. The bootcamp, hosted at the Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, Citywest, Co Dublin, will also include workshops to be held throughout the day providing information and training to assist the participants in bringing their project forward and will include topics such as how to pitch, strategic planning, and marketing & PR.
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland launched their 2011 Social Impact Programme, which is supported and sponsored by DCC plc, in January and sought applications from individuals developing new, big ideas to address the social and environmental challenges we face in Ireland. The bootcamp is part of the extensive eight month selection process for applicants which will result in six social entrepreneurs embarking on a three month 'finalists programme' prior to the announcement of three winners in October. These winners will then receive extensive funding and support as part of the Social Impact Programme to help them grow and increase the impact that they are having in Ireland.Since 2005, Social Entrepreneurs Ireland has provided support to 142 social entrepreneurs, directly investing over €3.7m into supporting these exceptional individuals. These in turn have directly supported over 170,000 people and indirectly helped another 300,000 people.
Further information is available online at www.socialentrepreneurs.ie.
MissionV to extend to 20 schools nationwide with support from NCTE
MissionV is very pleased to announce the support of the National Centrefor Technology in Education (NCTE) in it's Phase 1 rollout to 20 primary schools in the school year 2011/2012. MissionV is a tool for building immersive learning experiences for high potential students.
We would like to thank Anne White, National Coordinator – ICT in the Curriculum, and Jerome Morrissey, NCTE Director, for their support for this innovative ICT schools project. "The project is innovative and is making excellent use of a number ofcutting edge technologies. It is very timely given the Department ofEducation and Skills' prioritisation of numeracy at both primary and postprimary level. The use of a 3D learning environment and geometric buildingtools by children to collaboratively build 3D replicas generating a fullyinteractive world powered by their own software is very much in line withthe thinking and implementation of the project maths curriculum at postprimary which is being rolled out at present to all schools", said Jerome Morrisey, NCTE Director
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