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var Promise = require('es6-promise');
    Promise = Promise.Promise; // unwrap
var pushLib = require('../lib/push');
var PodioErrors = require('../lib/PodioErrors');
var sinon = require('sinon');
var _ = require('lodash');

var Promise = require('es6-promise');
Promise = Promise.Promise; // unwrap

describe('push', function() {

  describe('_getFayeClient', function() {

    it('should initialize, set and return client, when it hasn\'t yet been set', function() {

      var host = {
        apiURL: 'https://api.podio.com'
      };

      var returnedClient = pushLib._getFayeClient.call(host);

      expect(_.isObject(host._fayeClient)).toBe(true);
      expect(_.isObject(returnedClient)).toBe(true);
      expect(returnedClient._endpoint).toBe('https://push.podio.com/faye');
    });

    it('shouldn\'t re-initialize client. Rather return the existing, when already set', function() {

      var disableSpy = sinon.spy();
      var clientStub = sinon.stub().returns({
        disable: disableSpy
      });

      var host = {
        apiURL: 'https://api.podio.com',
        _fayeClient: clientStub
      };

      var returnedClient = pushLib._getFayeClient.call(host);

      expect(_.isObject(host._fayeClient)).toBe(true);
      expect(_.isObject(returnedClient)).toBe(true);
      expect(returnedClient).toBe(clientStub);
      expect(disableSpy.called).toBe(false);
    });
  });

  describe('_getSubscription/_setSubscription', function() {
    it('should correctly get and set subscriptions', function() {

      var message = {
        channel: 'my/test/channel',
        timestamp: 1234,
        signature: 'myTestSignature'
      };

      pushLib._setSubscription(message.channel, message);

      expect(_.isObject(pushLib._getSubscription(message.channel))).toBe(true);
      expect(pushLib._getSubscription(message.channel)).toBe(message);
    });
  });

  describe('_fayeExtensionOutgoing', function () {

    it('should attach signature and timestamp to outgoing \'meta/subscribe\' messages', function() {

      var callbackSpy = sinon.spy();

      var message = {
        channel: '/meta/subscribe',
        signature: 'myTestSignature',
        timestamp: 123456789
      };

      var host = {
        _getSubscription: sinon.stub().returns(message)
      };

      pushLib._fayeExtensionOutgoing.call(host, message, callbackSpy);

      expect(callbackSpy.calledWithExactly({
        channel: message.channel,
        signature: message.signature,
        timestamp: message.timestamp,
        ext: {
          private_pub_signature: message.signature,
          private_pub_timestamp: message.timestamp
        }
      })).toBe(true);
    });

    it('shouldn\'t attach signature info to non-/meta/subscribe messages', function() {

      callbackSpy = sinon.spy();

      var message = {
        channel: 'some/other/channel',
        timestamp: 123456789,
        signature: 'myTestSignature'
      };

      pushLib._fayeExtensionOutgoing(message, callbackSpy);

      expect(callbackSpy.calledWithExactly(message));
    });
  })

  describe('subscribe', function() {

    it ('should reject if authentication has not been performed', function(done) {

      var host = {
        _getAuth: sinon.stub().returns({
          isAuthenticated: sinon.stub().returns(Promise.reject())
        })
      };

      var options = {
        timestamp: 1435054283,
        expires_in: 21600,
        channel: "/conversation/2256621",
        signature: "7d2018df16bd7686063483c8960124bc0a1bb0e2"
      };

      var subscription = pushLib.push.call(host, options).subscribe(new Function());

      subscription.then(function(){
        // Should not be called
        expect('Authentication should not pass').toBe(false);
      }).catch(function(err) {
        done();
      });

    });

    it ('should resolve if authentication has been performed', function() {

      var subscribeSpy = sinon.spy();
      var setSubscriptionSpy = sinon.spy();

      var host = {
        _getFayeClient: sinon.stub().returns({
          subscribe: subscribeSpy
        }),
        _setSubscription: setSubscriptionSpy,
        _getAuth: sinon.stub().returns({
          isAuthenticated: sinon.stub().returns(Promise.resolve())
        })
      };

      var options = {
        timestamp: 1435054283,
        expires_in: 21600,
        channel: "/conversation/2256621",
        signature: "7d2018df16bd7686063483c8960124bc0a1bb0e2"
      };

      var handler = new Function();

      var subscription = pushLib.push.call(host, options).subscribe(handler);

      subscription.then(function() {
        // Assert that the Faye client is properly subscribed to
        expect(subscribeSpy.calledWith(options.channel, handler)).toBe(true);
        expect(setSubscriptionSpy.called).toBe(true);
      }).catch(function(err) {
        expect(String(err)).toBe(null);
      });
    });
  });
})


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Within minutes of becoming the 25th Premier of the Province of Ontario and with over a week before she'll take her seat in the House as Premier, Kathleen Wynne has already blown $200,000 of taxpayer money appointing five additional cabinet ministers: each garners a $40,000 a year raise.
Her additional appointments now bring Ontario's cabinet to 27. The Liberals will have more people sitting in cabinet than on their backbenches. Over one quarter of all Members of the House will now be Ministers. By comparison, the United Kingdom, a country with five times the population and five times number of elected Members, only has 32 Ministers for their much larger government.
"Premier Wynne said she wanted to 'build on the legacy of Dalton'," said Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, "and that seems to be what she's doing very effectively. Before even sitting in the House she has expanded the size and cost of government."
"Dalton McGuinty doubled Ontario's debt in his nine years as Premier from $139 billion to $278 billion. Ms Wynne seems on track to do the same." Hillier observed that "[t]he only commitment that the McGuinty-Wynne Liberals are sure to honour is increased spending, more debt and lowering Ontario's standard of living."
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Time to bite the bullet as painful as it will be; however, Ontario needs to get its debt under control. We headed down the wrong path with the Liberals…a huge sea of RED!! As a senior I cannot afford it.
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The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language.
His mother tongue is a relatively conservative dialect of Aramaic.
Synonyms: first language, mother language, native language, native tongue, L1
The language spoken by one's ancestors.
The language spoken by one's mother, when it differs from that spoken by one's father.
Informal speech, as opposed to educated language.
French: langue maternelle
German: Muttersprache, Erstsprache
Italian: madrelingua
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The power of Mookie Betts' disciplined aggression
As of Aug. 19, just 23 percent of Mookie Betts' plate appearances have ended with him behind in the count, down from 31.4 percent before 2018. Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports
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Last November Mookie Betts rolled a 300 game in the PBA World Series of Bowling. This spring he solved a Rubik's Cube, on television, in under two minutes. Primarily a second baseman in the minors, Betts converted to the outfield upon reaching the Boston Red Sox four years ago and has now saved more runs for his team since 2016 (76, through Aug. 19) than any other major league fielder.
These facts are cool. More important, they testify to Betts' most admirable trait: his willingness to work hard at endlessly repetitive tasks, picking up patterns and fine-tuning again and again to improve the expression of his impressive natural skills.
Now Betts has turned his focus to re-engineering his approach at the plate. His latest round of adjustments is keying the Red Sox's remarkable offensive surge -- and forcing us to reconsider what analytics means for hitting.
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Boston has been saturated with statheads for years, but sabermetric insights about plate discipline didn't do the organization much good in 2017. The Red Sox ranked fourth in the American League in walks but scored just 4.85 runs per game, sixth best in the AL, largely because their 168 home runs ranked dead last in the league. Owner John Henry traced the club's power drop to its passivity: Boston batters swung at just 62.3 percent of pitches in the strike zone last season, the lowest percentage of any MLB team, according to FanGraphs. Henry brought in a new manager, Alex Cora, and hitting coach, Tim Hyers, who promised to get the team on the attack.
Swinging more for its own sake isn't worth anything -- but neither is letting hittable pitches go by. The Red Sox understood that batters can reach a point where standing around to get on base can mean forgoing chances to drive the ball. So they decided, as Cora put it, "to have guys ready to do damage early in the count." That's not easy -- ideally, you have to swing hard but only at pitches you can smack. You need disciplined aggression.
But that's what Betts has, and players up and down the Red Sox lineup are showing it now too. The Red Sox swung at the first pitch in only 20.9 percent of their 2017 plate appearances, versus a league average of 28.1 percent, according to Baseball Reference. This season that number is up to 27.3 percent. And in plate appearances that conclude after one pitch, Xander Bogaerts' OPS has increased by 137 points, Betts' by 262 points and Mitch Moreland's by 360 points! Last winter Boston signed J.D. Martinez, who, it just so happens, has a preternatural ability to crush the first ball he sees. Over his career, even including the years before he raised his launch angle, Martinez has hit .431 and slugged .815 in at-bats ending in the first pitch. This season his OPS in that situation is 1.639. Those numbers are not typos. The Red Sox knew what they were doing when they brought Martinez to town.
Overall, Boston hitters have swung at 68.4 percent of strikes this year, jumping to 11th highest in baseball, while swinging at hardly any more bad pitches and while maintaining a high contact rate (79.6 percent, second in MLB). Those are indeed the statistical tracks of disciplined aggression. And these Red Sox lead the league in hits (by a wide margin) and in runs scored.
In this era of endlessly rising strikeouts, Betts in particular has figured out how to fight back. He doesn't swing at many pitches but makes powerful contact when he does. Now he's advancing that combo to earlier in the count. Just 23 percent of his plate appearances this season have ended with him behind in the count, down from 31.4 percent before 2018. Betts doesn't let pitchers get to strike three because he doesn't let them get to strike two.
Looking ahead, I think this approach could lead teams to rethink the entire philosophy of getting opponents' pitch counts up, especially given the rise of super-bullpens. Why try to work Lance Lynn for walks only to see him replaced by Dellin Betances, Zach Britton and Aroldis Chapman?
I also think Boston's aggression is the kind that will serve the team well in the fall. This is speculative, but from what I can tell, it's better to rely on your own power than opponent mistakes in the postseason -- there's not much chance to take extra bases or beat up No. 5 starters because there are no bad teams in the playoffs.
Put it this way: With Betts hitting leadoff, I wouldn't want to miss the first pitch.


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Q: Erro ao fechar uma aba no PySimpleGUI Estou fazendo um programa de teste com o PySimpleGUI, mas basicamente ele pede um usuário, se estiver correto ele abre uma nova aba com a frase: "Sucesso, você entrou na sua conta!", e quando estivesse errado abrisse uma nova aba com uma frase "Senha incorreta. Tente novamente". Estava programando quando precisei interromper o loop while quando a pessoa fechasse o programa. Até consegui fazer isso na parte onde pede o usuário, mas quando estava fazendo na parte de senha incorreta, percebi que o python não estava reconhecendo o comando if click == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:. Então modifiquei o código para colocar um input para ver se ele aparecia, e se ele aparecesse o comando estaria sendo reconhecido. Mas o resultado é o mesmo que o do início:
You have tried 100 times to read a closed window. You need to add a check for event == WIN_CLOSED
Aqui está o código (eu sei que não iria fechar com ele, mas só queria que ele reconhecesse o input primeiro)
from PySimpleGUI import PySimpleGUI as sg
from time import sleep
sg.theme("LightGreen4")
x = [
        [sg.Text('Usuário'), sg.Input(key='usuario')],
        [sg.Button('Entrar', key = 'entrar')]
]
janela = sg.Window('lalalala', x)
s = 's'
t = 't'
while s == 's':
    while t == 't':
        click, valores = janela.read()
        if click == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
            s = 't'
            click = 'closed'
            break
        elif click == 'entrar':
            if valores['usuario'] == '004848':
                layout = [
                    [sg.Text('Sucesso! Você entrou na sua conta!')]
                ]
                break
            else:
                layout = [
                    [sg.Text('Senha incorreta. Tente novamente.')]
                ]
                break
    if valores['usuario'] == '004848':
        janela3 = sg.Window('sucesso!', layout)
        while True:
            click = janela3.read()
            pass
    elif click == 'closed':
        sg.Window.close(janela)
    else:
        janela3 = sg.Window('senha incorreta', layout)
        while True:
            del(click)
            click = janela3.read()
            if click == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
                input('s')
                sleep(100)

Estou utilizando o Windows 10 PRO, 64bit.
Por favor, caso tenha um erro na pergunta escreva nos comentários para eu modificá-la.
Obrigado!

A: Tente isso: (Obs. não é recomendo usar sleep em uma interface gráfica, isso faz o código esperar um pouco impossibilitando de a interface ser atualizada podendo crashar)
from PySimpleGUI import PySimpleGUI as sg

def tela1(layout, name_window):
    janela = sg.Window(name_window, layout=layout, finalize=True)
    while True:
        event, values = janela.read()
        if event == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
            break

sg.theme("LightGreen4")
layout = [[sg.Text('Usuário'), sg.Input(key='usuario')],
    [sg.Button('Entrar', key = 'entrar')]]
janela = sg.Window('Window-PySimpleGUI', layout=layout, finalize=True)

while True:
    event, values = janela.read()
    if event == sg.WINDOW_CLOSED:
        break
    elif event == 'entrar':
        if values['usuario'] == '004848':
            janela.hide()
            layout1 = [[sg.Text('Sucesso! Você entrou na sua conta!')]]
            tela1(layout1, 'sucesso!')
            janela.un_hide()
        else:
            janela.hide()
            layout2 = [[sg.Text('Senha incorreta. Tente novamente.')]]
            tela1(layout2, 'senha incorreta')
            janela.un_hide()

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Week Ahead Brings Earnings Season, Amazon Prime Day, Apple Event
Posted on October 13, 2020 by [email protected]_84
Broken record time as stimulus hopes continue to provide early market support
Earnings season gets underway tomorrow with big banks beginning to report
Big week for FAANGs as Amazon
Prime Day, Apple
event coming up
If Wall Street had a seat belt sign, now's when the captain would tell us to buckle up for possible turbulence ahead.
Even if earnings season didn't begin tomorrow, there's plenty to keep investors on their toes. Amazon's (AMZN) Prime Day, Apple's (AAPL) long-awaited product event, continued stimulus negotiations in Washington, and mounting virus cases in the U.S. and Europe all get mixed into the recipe.
Ordinarily, those ingredients would be enough for anyone, but this time it's happening while investors and the entire world have one eye on polls three weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Despite all this, volatility is the lowest since late
The Atlantic hurricane season isn't over yet
But it's 2020, and the Atlantic may have other ideas. A weather pattern that encourages air masses to rise, leading to increased showers and thunderstorms, looks likely to overspread the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean by late in the month into early November. This pattern change could once again raise the odds of tropical development, provided other air and ocean ingredients are present as well.
In a typical storm season, the Atlantic averages one named storm after Oct. 19, which would suggest that even in an average year we wouldn't be quite done yet. However, this season is anything but typical, considering we are pacing more than a month ahead of the busiest season on record, which occurred in 2005, and have dipped into the Greek alphabet for only the second time.
It's plausible that the Atlantic basin may cap off its hyperactive season with a robust final act.
Near-term
JPMorgan Set to Kick Off Third-Quarter Earnings Season
Third-quarter earnings season gets underway in the week ahead with results from big banks and healthcare companies among the heavy hitters on tap.
Here's a look at some of the more notable results expected beginning on Tuesday.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) – Get Report is expected to report adjusted net income of $6.9 billion, or $2.23 a share, on sales of $28.2 billion before the market opens on Tuesday, based on a FactSet survey of 23 analysts.
In the same period a year ago, the company posted earnings of $2.68 a share on sales of $30.1 billion. It reported net income of $9.6 billion.
The stock has risen 3.6% since the company last reported earnings on July 14.
In the upcoming quarter, analysts are forecasting adjusted net income of $6.1 billion, or $1.91 a share, on sales of $26.8 billion.
For the year, analysts project revenue
Virginia Tech helpless to stop North Carolina in first loss of the 2020 season |
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HOW THEY SCORED
Virginia Tech 0 14 23 8 — 45
North Carolina 21 14 7 14 — 56
NC—Williams 1 run (Atkins kick), 10:22.
NC—D.Brown 37 pass from Howell (Atkins kick), 7:52.
NC—Williams 19 run (Atkins kick), 4:09.
VT—Mitchell 1 run (B.Johnson kick), 14:13.
VT—Herbert 8 run (B.Johnson kick), 6:28.
NC—Newsome 6 run (Atkins kick), 4:17.
NC—D.Brown 43 pass from Howell (Atkins kick), :16.
VT—FG B.Johnson 55, 9:55.
NC—Carter 16 run (Atkins kick), 7:14.
VT—Hooker 5 run (B.Johnson kick), 5:58.
VT—Herbert 52 run (B.Johnson kick), 5:04.
VT—T.Robinson 33 pass from Hooker (run failed), :15.
NC—Newsome 12 pass from Howell (Atkins kick), 12:37.
VT—Mitchell 26 pass from Hooker (Hooker run), 5:20.
A—3,535.
VT NC
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Running back Khalil Herbert made his presence felt in the quarter as well with a 52-yard touchdown run. Herbert converted the third and eight by weaving his way through the secondary to go over 100-yards for the third straight game.
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The Hokies held onto the ball for nearly 11 minutes in the third quarter, but still couldn't overcome the 21 points they spotted UNC in the first quarter.
North Carolina went straight down the field on their first three possessions to take a 21-0 lead while averaging 9.7 yards per play.
Howell was near perfect in the quarter going 10 of 12 for 123 yards with a 37-yard touchdown pass to Brown. Brown, who beat Tech cornerback Armani Chatman down the field, was able to get one foot down at the back of the end zone for the score.
All Fortnite Season 4 Challenges: Tony Stark's Hidden Lab, Doom's Domain Vault, And More
Season 4 of Fortnite: Chapter 2 is rolling along across consoles and PC. This season has introduced a ton of changes to Epic's hit battle royale shooter, bringing the likes of Thor, Iron Man, Groot, She-Hulk, Storm, and other Marvel superheroes into the game to thwart an invasion by Galactus.
Of course, a new season also means new challenges, and there are already a ton for players to complete. Clearing these tasks will level up your Season 4 battle pass, which in turn will unlock exclusive Marvel-themed cosmetics. In addition to the standard weekly missions, Epic is rolling out a separate set of Wolverine challenges over the course of the season, which you'll need to complete to unlock the Wolverine skin. There are also Awakening challenges that will unlock emotes and other cosmetic flourishes for Season 4's other Marvel skins.
Although Season 4 is underway on most platforms, you cannot
Amazon India's payments unit gets $95.5 million from parent ahead of festive season
Posted on October 9, 2020 by [email protected]_84
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc AMZN.O has invested 7 billion rupees ($95.51 million) in its Indian payments unit, ahead of the festive season, data from business intelligence firm Tofler showed.
Amazon will begin its festive season sales on Oct. 17, and has been trying to encourage payments through Amazon Pay with cashbacks and other rewards.
Both Amazon and Flipkart offer deep discounts on everything from clothes, smartphones to home appliances ahead of key Hindu festivals Dussehra and Diwali.
In July, Jeff Bezos-led Amazon.com had invested 23.10 billion rupees in Amazon Seller Services and early this year announced a $1 billion investment to bring more than 10 million small businesses online in India by 2025.
Amazon, billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries RELI.NS and Walmart Inc's WMT.N Flipkart are in a
The 2020 Hurricane Season Sounds More Like Fraternity Row
Only one other year on record (2005) had to transition to the Greek letters for naming storms. The hyperactive 2020 hurricane season is well into the Greek letter alphabet with about two months of potential activity ahead. The National Hurricane Center is watching several tropical systems, including one that could impact the Gulf Coast next week. Here's why the hurricane season is starting to sound like fraternity or sorority row on a college campus.
Early October activity in the Atlantic basin features Tropical Storm Gamma and possibly Tropical … [+] Storm Delta.
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Currently, Tropical Storm Gamma (the third letter in the Greek alphabet) is being monitored. According to the National Hurricane Center, Gamma is just offshore of the northern Yucatan Peninsula in the southern Gulf of Mexico and is expected to weaken in the coming days. The Sunday morning forecast discussion from NOAA notes, "Now that Gamma
Qatar Foundation's Stars Of Science Selects Season 12's Top Eight Innovators
DOHA, Qatar, Oct. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Eight innovators have distinguished themselves during the auditions for Qatar Foundation's Stars of Science moving on to compete to become this season's Top Arab Innovator.
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"Selecting this crop of contestants was not easy, as they had to prove that both their ideas and their pitching skills stood apart from the best that Arab youth has to offer," said Professor Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, Stars of Science jury member. "This season's contestants come from a wide variety of disciplines, showcasing an incredibly diverse pool of ideas."
Mohammad Almogahwi, a Kuwaiti periodontist, joined with his Automated Hands-Free Toothbrush, which includes a U-shaped mouthpiece designed for effective teeth brushing, especially for people with special needs. Sarah Aboerjaib, a fellow Kuwaiti engineer, earned her place with the Fractured Bone Optical Scanner; a handheld device that uses near-infrared rays
Cyber Pirates Hit Global Shipping Industry Nearing Peak Season
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The MOL Experience container vessel is loaded as it sits at the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) in the port of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.
Two key players in the global shipping industry are trying to restore computer networks and assess the damage from separate cyber attacks this week that are adding short-term complications to supply chains already straining ahead of peak season for consumer demand.
The International Maritime Organization, a UN agency that serves as the industry's regulator, said Thursday it suffered "a sophisticated cyber attack against the organization's IT systems." The breach affected its public website and internal systems, it said. The IMO's web page remained down Friday morning in London.
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GREEN CENTRAL BANKING In the wake of recent financial convulsions, central banks have emerged yet again as the first responders to crisis. But to confront the crisis of anthropogenic climate change, there is growing acknowledgement that central …
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The compound risks of climate catastrophe and Covid-19 have defined the year thus far. As the world continues to reel from the effects of the pandemic, and storms and wildfires dot the map, calls for marshaling a green recovery have proliferated.
The history of green investment thus far has been infamously more modest. In a comparison of the Japanese and American solar panel industries from 1973 – 2005, MAX JERNECK elucidates the rocky paths to financing low-carbon industry. From the paper:
"The United States was the birthplace of the solar cell, and American firms dominated the industry in the 1970s. Beginning in the early 1980s, the American photovoltaic (PV) industry lost ground to foreign, and particularly Japanese, competitors. By 2005, the American share of the global market had declined to under ten per cent.
In Japan, technologically innovative PV firms had ample financing and were sheltered from the turbulence of financial markets. In the United States, the financial system was unwilling to finance small entrepreneurial firms, causing the industry to become concentrated among large corporations. By identifying and evaluating 'difference makers,' it is possible to draw conclusions about which aspects of the low-carbon development process were amenable to human action, and therefore relevant to the task of devising a strategy for the future transition to a low-carbon economy. Knowing where to look requires a theory of both the mechanisms driving industrial change in general, and the particular institutional arrangements regulating them in the countries under study."
In a related paper for Science, Jerneck takes a closer look at the financing impediments to the solar industry in the US. Link.
In the New Republic, Kate Aronoff writes on the prospects of a National Investment Authority. Link. Read also Saule Omarova's Data For Progress proposal for a NIA. Link.
"On what foundations might an alternative economy be built? Neither population nor GDP will be its fundamental metric, but rather land scarcity." Troy Vettese in 2018 on a "half-earth" approach to climate catastrophe. Link. See also: Robert Pollin in 2019 on degrowth and a Green New Deal. Link.
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CENTRAL BANKS AND CLIMATE
Common wisdom around central bank independence (CBI) is increasingly a matter of debate. Before the Covid-19 crisis, a growing number of scholars and commentators have proposed means by which central banks can address looming climate catastrophe—either by integrating new risks into their assessments, or by promoting more active resource allocation—and argued that central bank's attention to climate risk has focused too squarely on financial stability.
In a 2018 working paper, SIMON DIKAU and ULRICH VOLZ outline how, despite the "second-best" nature of this kind of intervention, the shift is already occurring:
"Allocating financial resources toward or away from certain sectors and companies implies favoring certain segments of the economy over others and appears to be incompatible with our modern understanding of independent central banks. Nonetheless, many central banks in emerging and developing economies have resorted to these policies as viable, second-best solutions to promote sustainable development and green investment. The notion of the neutrality of monetary policy has come under intense scrutiny more recently, not least in the context of discussions about the distributional consequences of the negative interest and quantitative easing policies adopted by major central banks. It is apparent that central banks in developing and emerging economies especially, and in Asia in particular, have been at the forefront of using a broad range of instruments to address environmental risk and encourage green investment."
Full paper available here.
On VoxEU, Markus K. Brunnermeier and Jean-Pierre Landau on the applicability of central banking tools for the climate crisis: "The conventional wisdom on monetary policy is that it has no impact on long-term growth; its influence is mostly felt on a 1.5 to 2.5 years horizon. By contrast, climate change is all about the long term; effects and policies materialize and matter over several decades." Link.
An IMF report by Pierpaolo Grippa, Jochen Schmittmann, and Felix Suntheim surveys the field: "Climate change will affect monetary policy by slowing productivity growth (for example, through damage to health and infrastructure) and heightening uncertainty and inflation volatility." Link.
As governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney gave an oft-cited 2015 speech, proposing a scheme of physical risks, liability risks, and transition risks. Link. And Jean Boivin argues for abandoning CBI in the face of Covid. Link.
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➔ Francis Tseng
Shaping the base of a renewable economy
The transition to a post-carbon energy economy will require extraction. As the sun set on the Bernie Sanders campaign, and with it the prominence of the Green New Deal in the contest for the presidency, the Trump administration issued an executive order encouraging private US exploitation of mineral resources in space. Whatever the shape of the coming transition away from fossil fuels, the need to understand the social and distributional costs of a changing energy infrastructure has never been greater. In a new report, I survey the state of mining, near-future ploys for extra-terrestrial extraction, and the persistent externalities of extraction.
Recent years have seen growing attention to the material requirements of information technologies, and especially to the social and environmental harms of sourcing rare earths and cobalt. Researchers highlight, for example, the dependence of electric vehicles and wind power infrastructure on rare earths, or batteries on lithium. But these discussions have tended to omit emphasis on necessity of extraction, relying instead on a more familiar idiom of consumer and corporate responsibility. Both the Trump administration's vision of celestial expansion and some visions of a post-carbon future depend, stated or not, upon a continuing regime of mineral extraction and outsourced harm.
STRANGE PUSH
A retrospective look at cap & trade
Of the various issues mired in severe and ongoing party polarization, climate crisis is among the most puzzling. Despite longstanding discussions of bipartisan market-based policy proposals like carbon taxes and cap and trade, large-scale government and industry action remains elusive.
In a masterful 2013 book-length report, Harvard political scientist THEDA SKOCPOL offers an autopsy of the 2009-10 push for cap and trade legislation. The detail-rich account illuminates not just the legislation's failure, and its leaders in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), but the innumerable complexities of the broader Washington policymaking apparatus.
(h/t to climate economist Gernot Wagner, associate professor at NYU and founder of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Lab, for bringing this piece back up in a recent newsletter and column.)
"If environmental politics in America was ever a matter of working out shared bipartisan solutions to expert-assessed problems, it is now far from that—but in what ways and why? And what is to be done? My report ponders these matters.
The corporations that participated in USCAP could double their bottom-line bets—by participating in the "strange-bedfellows" effort to hammer out draft climate legislation that was as favorable as possible to their industry or their firms. But heads of the leading environmental organizations in USCAP had to stick by whatever commitments they made in the internal coalitional process, or else it would fall apart.
The USCAP campaign was designed and conducted in an insider-grand-bargaining political style that, unbeknownst to its sponsors, was unlikely to succeed given fast-changing realities in U.S. partisan politics and governing institutions."
Link to the full report.
In the footnotes: Eric Pooley's 2010 book The Climate War, which provides an in-depth account of the activities of USCAP. Link to an excerpt from the book, link to the publisher page.
A 2011 paper by Michele Betsill and Matthew Hoffman examines the "contours" of cap and trade, through an analysis of 33 distinct policy venues. Link. And a 2015 paper tracks climate adaptation planning across 156 U.S. municipalities. Link.
A previous newsletter highlighted Skocpol's essential work on US welfare history. Link to the archived letter. And link to a recent blog post featuring climate academic Leah Stokes's recommended readings on climate-related research.
Collective Ownership in the Green New Deal
➔ Patrick Robbins
What rural electrification can teach us about a just transition
This year, we once again shattered the record for atmospheric carbon concentration, and witnessed a series of devastating setbacks in US climate policy—from attempts to waive state protections against pipelines to wholesale attacks on climate science. Against this discouraging backdrop, one idea has inspired hope: the "Green New Deal," a bold vision for addressing both the climate crisis and the crushing inequalities of our economy by transitioning onto renewable energy and generating up to 10 million well paid jobs in the process. It's an exciting notion, and it's gaining traction—top Democratic presidential candidates have all revealed plans for climate action that engage directly with the Green New Deal. According to the Yale Project on Climate Communications, as of May 2019, the Green New Deal had the support of 96% of liberal democrats, 88% of moderate democrats, 64% of moderate republicans, and 32% of conservative republicans. In order to succeed, however, a Green New Deal must prioritize projects that are owned and controlled by frontline communities.
Whose power lines? Our power lines!
Efforts to electrify the rural South during the New Deal present a useful case study for understanding the impact of ownership models on policy success. Up until the mid-1930s, 9 out of 10 Southern households had no access to electricity, and local economies remained largely agricultural. Southern communities were characterized by low literacy rates and a weak relationship to the cash nexus, distancing them from the federal government both culturally and materially. They were also economically destitute—a series of droughts throughout the 20s led to the proliferation of foreclosures and tenant farming. With the initial purpose of promoting employment in the area, the Roosevelt administration launched the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935. The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 sought to extend electrical distribution, first by establishing low-interest loans to fund private utility companies. The utility companies turned them down: private shareholders had little reason to invest in sparsely populated and impoverished counties, whose residents could not be assured to pay for services; private investors lacked the incentive to fund electrification for the communities who needed it most.
Phenomenal Works: Leah Stokes
Editor's Note: This is the first post in a new series, Phenomenal Works, in which we invite our favorite researchers to share notable readings with us. We'll be publishing new editions every two weeks, around our regular output of interviews and analysis. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date with every post.
Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Santa Barbara. Her research spans representation and public opinion, voting behavior, and environmental and energy politics. Her forthcoming book is titled Short Circuiting Policy and examines the role of interest groups in weakening environmental protection policy across the United States. Her academic work has been published widely in top journals, her journalism and opinion writing has been published widely including in the New York Times and The Washington Post, and she is frequently cited in news media of all kinds. You can follow her on Twitter here.
Stokes's work is indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the politics of energy policy—and think through possible ways forward in the climate crisis. Below, her selection of must-read research.
Summer in Brabant
INTEMPERATE OBJECTIVITY
On the pressures of policy-relevant climate science
Without any "evidence of fraud, malfeasance or deliberate deception or manipulation," or any promotion of inaccurate views, how can bias enter a scientific assessment? In their new book, Discerning Experts, Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes, Dale Jamieson, et al explore the pattern of underestimation of the true consequences of climate change.
Climate change's impacts are uncertain; predictions about climate change are difficult to make. Taking an ethnographic approach, Discerning Experts shows how those difficulties, coupled with the nature of the public discourse, and the pressures that come when research is going to be discussed and used in policy, have tilted climate assessment optimistic and cautious.
In a summary of their book, Oreskes et al explain three reasons for the tilt:
"The combination of … three factors—the push for univocality, the belief that conservatism is socially and politically protective, and the reluctance to make estimates at all when the available data are contradictory—can lead to 'least common denominator' results—minimalist conclusions that are weak or incomplete."
These tendencies, according to the authors, pertain to the applied research context. The academic context is different: "The reward structure of academic life leans toward criticism and dissent; the demands of assessment push toward agreement." Link to a summary essay in Scientific American. Link to the book.
In an interview, Michael Oppenheimer elaborates on other elements that skew the assessments: the selection of authors, the presentation of the resulting information, and others. Link.
In a review of the book, Gary Yohe reflects on his own experience working on major climate assessments, such the IPCC's. Link.
A David Roberts post from 2018 finds another case of overly cautious climate science: models of the economic effects of climate change may be much more moderate than models of the physical effects. To remedy this, "We need models that negatively weigh uncertainty, properly account for tipping points, incorporate more robust and current technology cost data, better differentiate sectors outside electricity, rigorously price energy efficiency, and include the social and health benefits of decarbonization." Link.
Tangentially related: carbon tax or green investment? It's worth considering not just all possible policy options but also their optimal interactions. A paper by Julie Rozenberg, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, and Stephane Hallegatte concludes, "Optimal carbon price minimizes the discounted social cost of the transition to clean capital, but imposes immediate private costs that disproportionately affect the current owners of polluting capital, in particular in the form of stranded assets." Link to a summary which contains a link to the unpaywalled paper.
DETERMINED MOVEMENT
Energy production and political institutions
The role of labor (with some notable exceptions) has been relatively marginal in debates over how to decarbonize the economy. But given the growing number of clean energy jobs (and some recent labor news), it is reasonable to predict that any large-scale shifts in the nature of energy production will be accompanied by large-scale shifts in the nature of energy work and the labor relations that define it.
In his 2011 book Carbon Democracy, Columbia University professor TIMOTHY MITCHELL explores the political history of energy production. The wide-ranging study spans history from the industrial revolution to the Arab Spring, and charts the relationship between carbon-based energy production and various forms of governance. Among the arguments at the core of the book is Mitchell's identification of the emergence of democratic labor institutions within the structure and position of coal mines during industrialization—a position that was weakened in the transition to oil.
"Between 1881 and 1905, coal miners in the United States went on strike at a rate of about three times the average for workers in all major industries, and at double the rate of the next-highest industry. The rise of mass democracy is often attributed to the emergence of new forms of political consciousness, and the autonomy enjoyed by coal miners lends itself to this kind of explanation. There is no need, however, to detour into questions of a shared culture or collective consciousness to understand the new forms of agency that miners helped assemble. Strikes became effective, not because of mining's isolation, but because of the flows of carbon that connected chambers beneath the ground to every factory, office, home, or means of transportation that depended on steam or electric power.
Changes in the way forms of fossil energy were extracted, transported and used made energy networks less vulnerable to the political claims of those whose labor kept them running. Unlike the movement of coal, the flow of oil could not readily enable large numbers of people to exercise novel forms of political power."
Link to the book preview, link to a 2009 article that preceded its publication.
For more on labor dynamics in industrial Britain, see Robert Steinfeld's 2010 book Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century, and Suresh Naidu and Noah Yuchtman's 2012 paper on coercive contract enforcement in coal and other industries. Link to the first, link to the second.
A 2012 review of Mitchell's book by Matt Stoller: "Globally, the switch from coal to oil was a fight about labor. You can't understand modern democratic or third world political structures without understanding energy, and particularly, coal and oil." Link.
A book on the role of Mexico's oil fields in labor disputes during the Mexican revolution, by Myrna I. Santiago. Link.
A Next System report by Johanna Bozuwa imagines a network of democratically-run energy projects as the core of a "just transition." Link.
PROGRESS UNCOUPLE
Debating growth and the Green New Deal
In past newsletters, we have highlighted research and policy proposals relating to the Green New Deal and the literature surrounding "degrowth"—the idea that the growth imperative is at odds with human flourishing. In a recent exchange, economist Robert Pollin debates sociologists Juliet Schor and Andrew Jorgenson on the relative merits of "decoupling" and "degrowth." The former asserts that "economies can continue to grow while advancing a viable climate-stabilization project, as long as the growth process is decoupled from fossil-fuel consumption." The latter holds that public discussions over combating climate change must turn "from growthcentricity to needs- and people-centered policies."
The authors share a commitment to increased public investment, and both sides emphasize the distributional consequences of decarbonization. Their debate turns on, and illuminates larger conversations regarding the discursive frameworks and metrics we use to understand economic life. Schor and Jorgenson see reducing GDP in the global north as one element of a program to radically restructure the principles of society; Pollin understands these efforts to muddy the mandate for immediate climate action.
From Pollin:
"Let's assume that global GDP contracts by 10 percent over the next two decades, following a degrowth scenario. That would entail a reduction of global GDP four times larger than what we experienced over the 2007–2009 financial crisis and Great Recession. In terms of CO2 emissions, the net effect of this 10 percent GDP contraction, considered on its own, would be to push emissions down by precisely 10 percent—that is, from 32 billion tons to 29 billion. So, the global economy would still not come close to bringing emissions down to 20 billion tons by 2040.
The overwhelming factor pushing emissions down will not be a contraction of overall GDP but massive growth in energy efficiency and clean renewable energy investments (which, for accounting purposes, will contribute toward increasing GDP) along with similarly dramatic cuts in fossil-fuel production and consumption (which will register as reducing GDP). In my view, addressing these matters in terms of their specifics is much more constructive than presenting broad generalities about the nature of economic growth, positive or negative."
Link to Pollin's initial paper, link to Schor and Jorgenson.
Pollin elaborates on this point in his follow-up statement with a case study of Japan: "Despite the fact that Japan has been close to a no-growth economy for twenty years, its CO2 emissions remain among the highest in the world, at 9.5 tons per capita." Link. Another recent article reviews and recaps the decoupling vs. degrowth exchanges. Link.
Schor and Jorgenson's follow-up challenges Pollin's conviction that decoupling is either possible or efficient: "After decades of promises from advocates of green growth that absolute decoupling will happen, the record is dismal. The simple point about growth is therefore that it makes the nearly impossibly high mountain that we need to climb even steeper. Why rule out an important source of emissions reductions before we've even started?" Link.
Another iteration of the debate in a compilation of INET papers: Schröder et al argue that "if past performance is relevant for future outcomes, our results should put to bed the possibility of 'green growth.'" Michael Grubb takes a different tack: "Before declaring that history has set limits on what is possible, we need to be extremely careful. The future has already started, though its beginnings may be modest." Link.
From Autonomy, a proposal for a shortened work week—a key element of several green degrowth arguments. Link.
Mark Paul, Anders Fremstad, and JW Mason offer a brand new paper on US decarbonization. "In an economy facing persistent demand constraints and weak labor markets, public spending on decarbonization will raise wages and living standards." Link.
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My whistleblower godson – and a failure in our duty to Afghans who served Britain
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It's unusual for a former ConservativeHome contributor to make the Daily Mail's front page – and the Guardian's. Both at once. Because that writer has turned whistleblower.
But so it is today. Raffy Marshall went on after university, at which time his ConHome articles appeared, to work for the Foreign Office.
He recently resigned – and has submitted evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about what he saw of the Foreign Office's handling of the Afghanistan crisis earlier this year. Full declaration of interest: he is my godson.
You will read parts of his submission in the papers this morning, but the nub of the matter is that he believes the Foreign Office's crisis response structure was found to be not fit for purpose.
And that the department as a whole was found institutionally wanting, resulting in unforced errors which bear a responsibility for avoidable deaths in Afghanistan.
These failures in his view are illustrated by his own experience – which at one point found him, a junior civil servant, charged with making life and death decisions about which desparate Afghans would be evacuated.
He was at that point the only person in that position – charged with assessing thousands of unread e-mails, as hundreds more piled up by the hour.
Furthermore, Raffy knows, by his own admission, nothing much about Afghanistan. He speaks none of its languages, such as Pashto and Dari. In all likelihood, he could not identify its major towns and cities on a map.
Additionally, he had no access to an expert on Afghanistan. Nor to Government nor even open source analysis of human rights there.
You must make what you will of his story as it unfolds this morning and during the next few days. I want this morning to give my take in brief, for what it's worth, and look at the possible consequences of his revelations.
For what it's worth, my reflex view of whistleblowers tends to be a cool one, since my take is that their usual first duty is to take up issues that concern them with their employer – to make their case, as it were, before blowing a whistle.
And it is sometimes the case that whistleblowing serves the interests of Britain's enemies. However, that is not the case here, and Raffy did indeed make a complaint to the Foreign Office.
Furthermore, he has since resigned of his own volition, which was the honourable course to take – and has made his case to a Parliamentary committee rather than a media outlet.
(It was the committee itself which released his evidence, along with all the rest submitted to it, in the course of its enquiry into its inquiry into Afghanistan.)
Next, I'm not emotionally engaged, as Raffy is, with the fate of that country. Nonetheless, Britain has enduring obligations to some Afghans – such as those who served our Armed Forces, for example.
I think most people would agree with that view, whatever their take on how many refugees we should take. This takes me to the politics of Raffy's story.
A whistleblower's revelations are usually followed by a media stampede – with demands for the resignation of the politician concerned (as the Opposition clambers aboard the bandwagon).
However, that ritual dance can't be trod in this case, because Dominic Raab, who was in charge at the time, has since been moved from the Foreign Office.
Raffy is severe about the former Foreign Secretary, suggesting that he should have made swifter decisions on individual cases.
I suspect that Raab's defence will be that he needed to see them alongside others to understand the context, but we shall see.
In any event, my sense is that nothing in Raffy's account is likely to damage the former Foreign Secretary more than the holiday he was criticised for continuing as the Afghanistan crisis gathered pace.
The case for the defence, not so much of Raab as Foreign Secretary but of the Foreign Office as an institution, is that it simply didn't have the resources to cope.
It will argue, as Raab has already done, that it had a limited number of employees with knowledge of Afghanistan, and that they were better employed getting people out directly rather than answering the growing mass of e-mails.
Indeed, Raffy himself accepts that it was inevitable that the vast majority of eligible Afghans who appealed to the FCDO for evacuation would be left behind.
And that this was not in itself the Foreign Office's fault – and there were inevitably many impossible decisions to be made about who to leave behind in Kabul and who to rescue.
However, the department itself took his initial complaint seriously enough to commission an internal inquiry. So it concedes at the least that Raffy had a prima facie case.
You can bet your house on Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, demanding that it sees this inquiry's report.
To cut to the chase: if someone blows a whistle – which makes a loud noise and tends to disturb people – they should do so with good cause. What's the nub of the issue here?
Is it really more than an over-stretched department not rising to events? I think so. Taken as a whole, Raffy's account is an inside view of institutional failure.
For example, potential refugees were misled, according to Raffy, by being told that their emails had been logged, which suggested that these had been read when they had not.
It is hard to see this device as other than a means of allowing Ministers to give a misleading impression to the Commons.
Elsewhere, a key refugee scheme, the Leave Outside the Rules (LOTR) scheme, was only approved four to five days after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, according to Raffy.
However, the Ministry of Defence began planning for Operation Pitting, its own rescue scheme, in January. It comes better out of Raffy's account than the Foreign Office.
He says that the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence communicated very ineffectively, to the extent that the Ministry of Defence was initially not informed of the Foreign Office's evacuation plans.
And that the Foreign Office did not initially provide the soldiers responsible for emailing priority evacuees travel documents with working computers.
There are darkly comic moments in his story – such as the British Embassy in Washington reporting an e-mail from him requesting a security clearance as a Russian phishing attack.
But its details, such as the fate of Afghans depending on whether the civil servants on a particular shift had entered their application on a spreadsheet or not, are no laughing matter.
We all know what will happen next. David Lammy will call for a statement. Tugendhat will issue an excoriating report. Liz Truss will say that there are lessons to be learnt.
The tale Raffy tells could perhaps have happened under any government – since in his view the Foreign Office is good at running embassies but apparently very bad at crisis management.
But it can't simply be dismissed as an account of under-resourcing, thus making what he describes, in the words that Dickens considered as an alternative title to Little Dorrit, "nobody's fault".
Liz Truss has charge of a department which hasn't recovered from a key element of its recent mission, EU membership, vanishing.
It doesn't have control of trade policy, which bits of it want. It does now have responsibility for overseas aid, which bits of it don't want.
The new Foreign Secretary is on top of the world, or at least this site's Cabinet League Table, but she will need to be on top of her department.
Johnson and Dorries are not quite so hostile to the BBC as they pretend
Maududi doesn't fit into Burke's clothes
Falling Omicron cases and Tory poll ratings
Why Johnson has a duty to continue as Prime Minister
Over half of our panel of Party members want Johnson to resign now
Spare a thought for those on zero-hour contracts as you mull the downside of restrictions
The 'Chinese spy' story puts All-Party Parliamentary Groups in the spotlight
There will never be a 'good time' for IPSA to increase MPs' pay
Grey suits wait for Gray, Sue
If Johnson has to quit, is it best he does so now?
Simon Danczuk: Labour has mis-diagnosed social housing as a class war issue January 18, 2022
Paul Howell: Locally-led institutions are crucial to the Government's levelling up agenda January 17, 2022


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The platform http://farmknowledge.org is a product of the EU funded OK-Net Arable project, of which ICROFS is a partner.
Preliminary results about carbon turnover in top- and subsoil were presented at a recent symposium. The poster, which was prepared by Zhi Liang, Ph.D.-student of the Deep Frontier project, won the prize for 'Best poster'.
Tanzanian student from ICROFS project took up the challenge from the Danish Minister of Environment and Food in the Case Competition during the World Food Summit in Copenhagen in August together with three other students from USA, Belgium and Denmark.
In the latest issue of Organic Agriculture, the editors have collected a number of papers relevant for the theme Organic 3.0. It is published in connection to the science track "Innovative research for Organic 3.0" at the Organic World Congress in India, November 2017.
Going local – a way to increase value-added in organic food products?
The LOCO research project investigates the consumers' interest in local organic foods, and whether they are willing to pay an additional price premium for organic food products, if they are also produced locally.
The objectives of the EU-funded project SOLID were to evaluate competitiveness and environmental sustainability of organic and low-input systems, to investigate ways to increase their profitability, and to disseminate knowledge to key stakeholder groups. Read about the results and recommendations in the newly puslished article at Wiley.com.
All investments claim a healthy economic basis. This also applies toorganics. The project RobustFish finds that the price premium on organic trout and salmon is maintained, when the supply of organic fish rise.
In the latest issue of Organic Agriculture (Volume 7, number 3) a scientific article based on ICROFS' latest Knowledge Synthesis has just been published.
The 12-13 June 2017 OrganicDairyHealth discussed how the results obtained in the project could enhance the European dimension of the best breeding strategies and management practices.


Today is 17th March 2017 and I feel so proud to tell you that I now embrace who I am. I'm also so grateful for how much I've grown since I created Vesna Personal Stylist back in 2012. In this short video I share with you what's happening with Vesna Personal Stylist in the next couple of months (a little secret: a book is about to be released) and how I got re-united with my dear friend Confidence.
I also wanted to share with you that now I can freely and openly say that I feel beautiful, confident and radiant. Not just because I can say it but also because I can deeply feel it.
How are you feeling about yourself? If you feel beautiful and confident as well I'd love to hear how did you get there. If this not your case, please stay tuned and make sure you read my next's week newsletter. I'll take you on a fulfilling trip to re-gain your confidence back!..


英文摘要 In the era of Web2.0 nowadays, everyone knows Blog anyway. In other words Blog may be the starting key point of this new era. As it develops, now many of new media rising sharply day by day. And for Blog, the trend is an opportunity or a threat? If it is an opportunity, how to use of that? However, if it is a threat, how to make a self-defense? These questions are the sources of the research inspiration.
This study using Rogers' diffusion of innovation model examines the effect of innovation attributes on the adoption of User-Pay VIP System of The Wretch Blog. An internet survey with a random sample was conducted to the users of The Wretch Blog members. This study obtained 420 valid samples, and found that innovation attributes are important predictor for the adoption of Use-pay VIP system. More detailed findings are discussed in the paper.
In a nutshell, as the fast progress of the facebook, PLURK…etc lots of new media, Blog still have its own status, not disappear in the end. Therefore, through the research may preliminary find out the reasons of why the Blog so popular yet, and the people with what kinds of personalities tend to adopt what service of the Blog.
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Girls' basketball: East Jordan slips past Grayling in late stages
EAST JORDAN — Paige Poindexter and Brianna Newberry each hit two free throws late in regulation to lift East Jordan during a Lake Michigan Conference win over Grayling, 58-56, on Friday.
"It was a back-and-forth game," East Jordan coach Steve Hines said. "The third quarter was the difference, we were able to take care of the ball and get some baskets."
The Vikings led 17-15 at the end of the first before the Red Devils went into halftime with a 34-32 lead.
East Jordan outscored Grayling, 17-8, in the third quarter to take a 51-40 lead.
Grayling worked the score to within two points with minute left in the game. Then Poindexter was fouled under the basket, went to the free throw line and hit both attempts.
The Vikings followed with a field goal to again cut the deficit to two.
Newberry then drew a foul, went to the line with nine seconds remaining and hit both ends of her free throws.
Grayling had a last shot attempt, but was was able to get the final shot off.
For the Red Devils, 4-7 overall, 3-4 league, Val Peters scored 20 points, Poindexter added 11 and eight rebounds, while Holley Carson had nine points and six rebounds.
For Grayling, Caitlin Prosser scored 15 points and Maddie Benardo added 11.
Elk Rapids 49, Harbor Springs 36
HARBOR SPRINGS — Rachel Hintz finished with a game-high 12 points and 11 rebounds, while Paige Granger added 10 points and Brittany Trout finished with nine points as the Elks picked up a Lake Michigan Conference win Friday.
With the win, the Elks improve to 7-4 overall, 4-2 league, while Harbor Springs falls to 2-10, 0-7.
"Elk Rapids was really big and athletic and we had a hard time shooting over their bigger players in the paint," Harbor Springs coach Jennifer Foley said.
"Our full-court pressure took a step in the right direction and we forced an uncomfortable tempo for them at times."
The Elks led at the quarter breaks, 11-7, 23-18 and 34-25 before outscoring the Rams, 15-11 in the fourth quarter. The Elks also were 9-of-14 from the free throw line in the fourth, while Harbor was just 1-of-4 in the fourth and were 6-of-12 for the game. Elk Rapids shot 16-of-27 from the line for the game.
For the Rams, Katie Barkley had nine points, Maddy Savard added eight points and Betsey Simons added seven.
Kalkaska 51, Boyne City 42
BOYNE CITY — Kelli Guy finished with a game-high 33 points — 24 of which came in the second half — as the Blazers topped Boyne City Friday in a Lake Michigan Conference contest.
With the win, Kalkaska improves to 9-3 overall, 5-1 league, while Boyne City falls to 4-8, 3-4.
The Ramblers built a comfortable 31-17 halftime lead before the Blazers trimmed the deficit to two, 35-33, at the end of the third.
"The first 16 minutes, we did almost everything right and our game plan worked well," Boyne City coach Kevin Fitzpatrick said. "Kelli (Guy) is a heck of a player and we shut her and their players down in the first half, but we lost momentum a little bit and once she started to get hot, she didn't stop."
Kalkaska battled back from a one-time 18-point first half deficit as Guy hit 11 of 14 shots in the final 16 minutes. Guy also added seven steals, six rebounds and four assists.
For Boyne, Halee Boughton finished with 11 points and Mary Myers added nine.
Ellsworth 47, Mancelona 38
ELLSWORTH — Kari Steenwyk led the Ellsworth girls basketball team with 19 points as the Lancers stole a non-league contest from Mancelona Saturday.
Steenwyk also brought in 12 rebounds for Ellsworth, who improved to 6-6 overall. Tara Essenberg added 18 points to go along with a game high 14 rebounds.
The Lancers got off to a 10-6 lead at the end of the first and 19-15 lead at halftime.
By the end of the third quarter, Mancelona would make a run to bring it within two points, as the Lancers still controlled the game at 26-24 to close the third.
Ellsworth would hold on to preserve the win in the fourth.
Vanessa Bachelor scored a team high 15 points for the Ironmen, while Emily Nixon brought in 11 points.
Mancelona falls to 0-13 on the year.


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Q: 404 Error when moving ASP.NET MVC app from IIS6 to IIS7 I just got a new development box and am having issues getting my MVC project up and running.  My old box had Server 2003 and IIS6. I was able to get my MVC apps working on this box after setting up the wild card mapping as mentioned here.  My new box is running Vista Business and IIS7.  When I copied my app over and tried to run it, I get an 'http 404 The resource cannot be found.' error.  However, if I create a new MVC app and run that, everything works fine.  I also copied the Nerd Dinner app over from my old box and that works fine as well.
I've verified that the app is running in Integrated Mode and have compared the web.config files of the working and non-working apps but see nothing that is different other than application specific appsettings.  I have tried to run the app in Classic Mode with the wild card mapping set, but that does not work either. I have also tried running the app using Cassini, but got the same results.

A: I have posted the answer on my blog, check it out at
http://nkitdugar.blogspot.com/2011/02/special-care-while-migrating-mvc.html

I had a MVC based application that was earlier hosted on IIS 6. Now IIS 6 doesn't support extensionless URL routes by default, so we need to add some extension to the controller name in the default route defined like {ControllerName}.aspx{Action method}{Id} in IIS6. Also we if we wanted to go for some other extensions like .mvc etc. then we needed to map it using techniques like wildcard mappngs etc.
Now when we have migrated to IIS7, then extensionless URLs are supported which means URLs can be there which don't have any corresponding physical location.
So when you are migrating your MVC application to IIS7 then make sure the default route define in Globla.asax don't have any extension defined with controller like {controller}.aspx\{action method}\{Id} and change it to \clean URL route {Controller}\{Action Method}\{ID(optional)}.
  Second thing you should keep in mind that the pipeline mode of AppPool of the website should be set to Integrated from classic.
That's all now your website is ready to be hosted on IIS7.

A: OK, I figured out the problem. The App in question is a port of a Web Forms app over to MVC as a proof-of-concept project. As such, when the project was first created, we just added a .MVC to the end of the project name to make it {project name}.MVC. This, not surprisingly now that I know what's going on, caused a problem with the default routing definitions. I changed the name to use an underscore instead of a period and everything works now.  I'm assuming that it worked fine while running under IIS6 since it was setup using a wild card mapping and therefore there was no .MVC extension to confuse it.


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D a nice bit of crumpet !
It became obvious that I would not be able to wait until I got back to the UK to curb that crumpet NEED so I made some, this is the first time and boy, do I wish I had done it before.
Dissolve sugar in the milk and sprinkle on the yeast, leave in warm spot for 10 mins.
Sieve the rest of the ingredients together.
Cover and leave in warm spot until the batter has doubled in size.
Oil a thick frying pan and several crumpet rings - I used metal pastry cutters, oil them too.
Place the cutters in the pan on med- high heat, spoon mix into cutters, about half way seemed to work best. Let it cook on hot for a minute or two, reduce the heat and cook for 6 minutes. The top should be starting to cook through.
Remove from cutter and turn over, cook for 2 more mins.
Serve hot with butter and golden syrup - ooohhhh my!
Another crumpet recipe for me to try!
I have made crumpets using two different recipes so far and the bubbles are still eluding me.
Your recipe is so much simpler than the ones I've been using but I can't tell from your picture whether you got masses of honey and butter catching bubbles.
They are so good though, aren't they?
And they even work with soy milk in case our mutual vegan friend comes to stay.
Your son looks like he loves it. I like your orange plate.
Oh JO.. I saw your post on MIJ.. I am lusting for a crumpet again... They look fabulous.
Care to ship some lol "wink"
Heather - the bubbles worked for the first lot i cooked, but then had to leave the rest sitting coz my mom called so the 2nd lot weren't quite as bubbly, I'm not sure whether that was the reason or because I was using different sized rings and experimenting with depth! When I left the batter to stand before cooking it all started to bubble, you could hear it at work!
Oh this is brilliant! I have wanted to know how to make these all my life! You should see what happens when you post on flapjacks... my word now there's a variety!
well not the special stuff in the green tins.... sooooo yummy!


These boxcars are parked on a little-used spur line in Ridgefields Industrial Park in Kingsport.
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When not making tea, you can find me behind FL Studio cooking up something fun! My main hobbies are BMX, Music producing and web-design.
I found this place the only way possible; Ray's big mouth.
I'm a 16 year old cleaner, relationship status being 'TAKEN'.
I've known Ray for a long time and I can easily say he's got the same internet humour as me.
Welcome to RC forums, Reece. We're glad to have you here "ol chap".


THAT'S HOW HE CARRIES ON.
Rung by Miss Jennie Hill.
Of this omnivorous biped, so his ways I'll try and show.
Here's a check to get that bonnet, dear; so sorry I forgot."
That's when his temper's nice and smooth, but see him when it's not.
Put 'em up at once, sir. hang your pro and con!
When's he got the needle, well, that's how he carries on.
It takes two suits to show it. for it is so fine and large.
Up will go his collar then, mooching down the road.
Nose as red as beetroot-" ain't it, jolly code?"
His back up like a greyhound, don't he look a don?
See a "toff" in winter time, that's how he carries on.
Snatching at her madly, see him split his gloves.
Hear him say, "Thanks awfully, a very jolly dance"
And hear him pop the question-that's, when he gets the chance.
See him when he's married, Augustus and Maria.
I'm assuming that he's sober, but you see him when he's not.
Get up and pay the cabby, dear, brought me from "the swan."
When's he's had a drop too much, that's how he carries on.
All his little follies then vanish in the air.
Proving, when it's wanted, the British pluck is there.
Hear him say. "Good-bye, love; God guard you when I'm gone.
Over miles of ocean to some distant land.
Where the battle's raging, fighting hand to hand.
See him grasp his sword then, dashing left and right.
Hear him shout, "Hurrah! boys, the victory we've won."
That's the way an Englishman in battle carries on.


If not a bug please give me support for this..
I have created this field for require Picture Poster.. if possible to require Header Image I more happy.. I found this solution for require Header Image..
Thanks for this mod.. If I want use Custom Field for Picture Poster you suggestion code?
Example for me use Explode comma delimiter and use the first array.. You have more suggestions?
Tested, but when edit the release the header images is not reloaded.. now try to edit the mods for enable this.. if any suggestions please give me..
With this modification works correctly.. if not uploaded get error, if the header images is uploaded reloaded correctly..
Found one problem: if into type is disabled the header image, get error.
Does it do what you want it to do? If so then it seems fine.


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Biografia
Prinzing ha conseguito il dottorato nel dicembre 1960 presso la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza ed Economia dell'Università di Tubinga.

Precedentemente presidente di una camera penale minorile del tribunale regionale di Stoccarda, Prinzing, su iniziativa del Governo Federale, del Procuratore Generale Federale e del Governo dello Stato del Baden-Württemberg, è stato il primo giudice presidente del secondo senato penale tedesco (Area penale) il 4 febbraio 1974, succeduto all'ex presidente Hänle. Tra maggio 1974 e aprile 1977, fu il giudice responsabile del processo di Stammheim contro diversi membri della Rote Armee Fraktion. Per questo difficile processo è stato scelto perché è titolare di "esperienza in processi di mostruosi fatti, intuizione, assertività e ambizione riconoscibile".

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Metallic Beetles
There was an interesting catch phrase on Monty Python's Flying Circus. John Cleese, sitting behind a desk, would say, "...And now, for something completely different," followed by a ridiculous phrase, such as, "A man with a tape recorder up his nose." There was also a Monty Python film by the name, "And Now for Something Completely Different."
Humans disdain the regular and crave novelty. This explains the instant popularity of The Beatles and the British Invasion of the 1960s. Sure, Rockabilly was entertaining, and very American, but all things have their season. Not content with their original popular style, The Beatles reinvented themselves with each subsequent album release.
The Beatles dissolved as a group just as Heavy Metal hit the scene. It would have been interesting to have heard their response to this musical genre. Since this article is about metallic beetles (as in Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Pterygota Neoptera Endopterygota Coleoptera), how could I resist such a contrived lead-in?
An interesting article was just published in the inaugural issue of Optical Materials Express, an open-access journal published by The Optical Society (OSA, also known as The Optical Society of America). The paper, "Visible light reflection spectra from cuticle layered materials," looks at the reason behind the gold and silver coloration of the two beetles, C. limbata (silver) and C. aurigans (gold).[1-3] A photograph of these two appear below, courtesy of OSA.
The beetles, Chrysina aurigans (gold) and Chrysina limbata (silver).
Photograph by Eduardo M. Libby via OSA)
In order to understand why the beetles are colored gold and silver, we need to know what it means for something to be "silver" or "gold." There's no better reference than the actual metals themselves. The spectra below tell the whole story. These metals essentially reflect all wavelengths above certain values, and absorb all wavelength below. The critical wavelength for gold is about 500 nm. For silver it's about 300 nm, although any value sufficiently below the visible spectrum would work.
Reflectance spectra of silver and gold in the visible and near-IR.
(Spectra by Bob Mellish via Wikimedia Commons, modified.)
How would you simulate such spectra without recourse to any silver or gold? Spectral features like these are quite common in optics, since they are found in dielectric mirrors. These mirrors are formed from alternating stacks of low and high refractive index materials. Not only can dielectric mirrors be made wavelength selective, forming notch and bandpass filters, they are also much more reflective than a metal mirror.
One material available to beetles is chitin, a complex sugar containing nitrogen. Chitin is responsible for the hard shells of insects, and those of sea creatures such as lobster and shrimp. Chitin has a refractive index of between 1.7 and 2.0 in the visible wavelengths.
An available low refractive index material is air, which has a refractive index of about 1.0. A multilayer stack of chitin and air of appropriate thicknesses will produce the observed spectra. The cuticle of these beetles is 10 micrometers thick, and it contains about seventy chitin layers.
Close examination of the beetle spectra shows that the beetle mirrors are chirped; that is, the layers are not of uniform thickness. Chirped mirrors allow a wider bandpass response. This mirror structure on the beetle shell has been confirmed by electron microscopy. It's presumed that the silver and gold coloration has an evolutionary advantage in camouflaging the beetles in their tropical rainforest environment.
This fundamental study may have applications. William Vargas, an author of the study, thinks there may be an application in providing decorative metallic coatings that contain no metal. There might be an environmental benefit, since everything ends up in the trash, eventually.
About a decade ago, I worked with dielectric mirrors. The figure below is an example spectrum of a passband mirror centered around the red line of a helium-neon laser. In this case, tantalum oxide (Ta2O5) was used as the high refractive index material (n ≈ 1.80), and silica (SiO2) was used as the low refractive index material (n ≈ 1.52)
Calculated reflectance of a dielectric mirror formed from twenty alternating layers of tantalum oxide and silica.
Angela Stark, "Beetle Bling: Researchers Discover Optical Secrets of 'Metallic' Beetles," Press Release of The Optical Society, April 25, 2011
Spotlight on Optics -Highlighted Articles From OSA Journals: Visible light reflection spectra from cuticle layered materials
Cristian Campos-Fernández, Daniel E. Azofeifa, Marcela Hernández-Jiménez, Adams Ruiz-Ruiz, and William E. Vargas, "Visible light reflection spectra from cuticle layered materials," Opt. Mater. Express, vol. 1, no. 1 (April 22, 2011), pp. 85-100.
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VIDEO: Vandal Tears Apart Car For 6 Hours While Passersby Watch, Take Pictures
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(CBS LA) — A woman was left in tears and without a car after a vandal went to town on her vehicle for hours while passersby stopped to take pictures instead of calling police.
Stacy Omelinoff, a church-going woman, returned from a Thanksgiving trip on Friday to find her car a total wreck. She said she left her Buick Lucerne in front of her friend's house on Thanksgiving night in Koreatown to celebrate the holiday in Chino. On Friday morning, she woke up to find her car vandalized and destroyed.
"I just broke down and just cried, like it can't be true," she said. "And now I'm out of a car period."
She quickly found out who was behind the damage after watching video from her friend's security camera.
Around 3 a.m. Friday, a woman could be seen approaching the car and then breaking off the windshield wiper. She used the wiper along with a pipe and a piece of wood to carve letters and illegible words all over the car.
But she wasn't finished — she could be seen climbing atop the car and jumping on the roof, causing more damage. After she's seen taking a rest by lying on the hood, she came back and tore off the gas cap and then ripped off the grill. She flattened a tire using the piece of wood that had nails in it.
When all was said and done, the woman attacked the car for six hours.
"I'm angry, I'm hurt, frustrated, and at the same time I understand that she has a mental problem," Omelinoff said through tears.
After a business owner called police around 9 a.m., the vandal was taken into custody by LAPD.
Omelinoff said she is even more upset because many onlookers saw the woman at work and didn't take action.
"They would come by, stop, back up, take pictures, video, and just take off," she said.
Making it even harder for her is that she just lost her job and only has liability insurance.
The LAPD said the suspect is being detained on a 72-hour psychiatric hold and is still being evaluated.
If you want to help Stacy repair her car, click on her GoFundMe Page.


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Chapter 4 — Emblematic Letterform
by Monsieur H
— Signature Details — One of the symbolic elements found on our presentation box and creations is the embossed design and raised letterforms; this detail serves as a common thread that weaves together the opus of the House. Monsieur...
Chapter 3 — The Perfume Capital
— The Signature Fragrances of the House — While on the soul-searching journey Monsieur H came across the captivating sensory adventure to be remembered years after finding his way back in New York. It became clear that this new chapter...
Chapter 2 — The Capital of Fire Arts
— Limoges Porcelain — The rich traditions of the past first and foremost inspire the creation of the Avant-Garde collection produced by the Porcelain craftsmen in Southwest-central France. Through the creative vision of Monsieur H, the pairing of the expertise...
Chapter 1 — The Foundations
— — The Double-Arch Crest of the House — To craft a symbolic emblem that represents the House's philosophy and embellish the creations with the mark of excellence, Monsieur H looked into the historic innovations in European architecture. The emblematic...
In the Beginning The founder and creative known as Monsieur H assumed a sojourn-stay in France as a part of a sabbatical grand voyage. H fell in love with the charming Côte d'Azur seaside and the slow-savoring way of life...


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How to Take Hibiscus
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By Max. D Gray. Updated: January 16, 2017
Hibiscus is a red aromatic plant with many health benefits. It has important medicinal properties and is suitable for everyone, even children. The part of the plant used is the flower and the most common way to use it by drying it and then mixing with hot water. It has a lot of healing power. But on OneHowTo.com, we tell you how to take hibiscus in other equally beneficial ways.
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Hibiscus' health properties are diverse: it reduces hypertension, improves blood circulation, helps the digestive system, contains vitamins and minerals, helps you lose weight and eliminate toxins, cleanses the bowel, lowers harmful cholesterol, regulates triglycerides, is stimulating, is a potent antioxidant, is high in vitamin C protects the body from germs, and increases its defenses.
If you have blood pressure problems, in this OneHowTo article we show you how to lower your high blood pressure.
Before you learn how to make hibiscus, you should know that it is safe to be consumed daily, by individuals of all ages. And the best, healthiest and most enjoyable way to consume it is as a tea.
For example if you suffer from cramps, hibiscus is a great natural remedy. Drink a tea made from the plant before bed and about 2 or 3 cups throughout the day. Hibiscus contains thiamine, riboflavin and vitamin C to prevent cramps. By drinking this type of tea you naturally fill your body with these nutrients. If you'd like to know more on the subject, take a look at our article How to relieve cramps with home remedies.
You can find hibiscus at any health food store or specialty food store. You can find it in the form of dried flowers, tincture or as a liquid. If you choose tincture a daily intake of 50 drops is recommended about 3 times a day.
To prepare a hibiscus tea, you need 3 cups of water and a dried flower. Put the flower and water in a pan, bring to a boil for 15 minutes. Then let it sit, then pass it through the strainer and sweeten with honey.
If you want to take hibiscus to lose weight you need to prepare the tea as we've discussed and drink about 3 cups a day after meals. Don't sweeten it with sweetener, and it is advisable to drink it warm. Drink your first tea on an empty stomach with the juice of half a lemon and don't eat anything until half an hour later.
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The Hold Steady's Craig Finn announces Leopard Lounge show
Craig Finn of the band The Hold Steady will perform a solo show at Leopard Lounge. (Getty Images)
By Mac McGuire|Published Tue, Aug 8, 2017 |Updated Tue, Aug 8, 2017
Craig Finn is set to perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Town Ballroom's Leopard Lounge (681 Main St.).
Formerly of cult Minneapolis rock group Lifter Puller, Finn is better known these days as the frontman/lyricist of the literate bar rockers the Hold Steady.
The passionate musician has been quickly building his solo discography since sharing his debut solo album "Clear Heart Full Eyes" in 2012. Finn released his latest and best solo offering "We All Want the Same Things" in March.
He will be backed by his band the Uptown Controllers for the October gig.
Joining Finn and crew will be songwriter John K. Samson, former lead singer of the beloved Winnipeg indie act the Weakerthans.
Since the Weakerthans disbanded — or at least went inactive — in 2014, Samson has continued to release his own music. His 2012 freshman solo record was followed up last year with the fantastic "Winter Wheat."
Tickets are $28 to $58 and will go on sale at noon Aug. 11 (box office, Ticketfly or charge by phone at 877-987-6487). Further event details can be found here.
Story topics: concert announcements/ craig finn/ john k samson/ Leopard Lounge/ Mac McGuire/ the hold steady/ Town Ballroom
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