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#ChevsManu: Mourinho provoked as Chelsea coach Ianni appears celebrating Barkley goal in his face
A member of Maurizio Sarri's team sparked a touchline tussle with the Manchester United boss after the Blues snatched a late draw at Stamford Bridge
Jose Mourinho found himself caught up in a touchline tussle on his return to Stamford Bridge as a member of Chelsea's coaching staff celebrated a late leveller for the Blues in front of the Manchester United manager.
Marco Ianni, who is a second assistant to Maurizio Sarri, took great delight in seeing Ross Barkley snatch a 2-2 draw in stoppage-time.
He jumped off his seat upon seeing the ball hit the net and made a point of expressing his delight in front of Mourinho, who remained rooted to his bench.
Mourinho took off after his rival and had to be held back as a mass brawl broke out at the entrance to the Chelsea tunnel.
Backroom teams from both sides, along with security officials, were caught up in the tussle before players also got involved.
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United's manager was incensed and made his feelings clear to those in the opposing dugout.
Order was eventually restored, but there were further scuffles on the field before the full-time whistle went.
Mourinho had vowed to keep his cool heading into a highly-charged fixture, telling reporters: "Would I celebrate like crazy if my team score a goal at Stamford Bridge or my team wins at Stamford Bridge? I don't think so.
"I think I would try to control myself and to respect the stadium and the supporters that were my supporters and stadium for many years, to do that should be something if I completely lost my emotional control, which is not easy."
After being caught up in an unfortunate flashpoint, Mourinho later made his way from the touchline holding up three fingers to Chelsea supporters.
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He found himself targeted by a fan base which once adored him following the tunnel melee and, having done so before, was keen to remind his detractors what he once achieved in west London.
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Mourinho landed three Premier League titles over the course of two spells at Stamford Bridge, but is now viewed as a fierce rival after taking the reins at Old Trafford.
He was keen to brush off the incident with Ianni afterwards, telling Sky Sports: "Oh come on, I can tell you that 97 minutes of the game was so good that you have to focus on that.
"I did not get respect back from Chelsea [fans] but that is not my responsibility. What I did here today I will do in Madrid, in Milan, in Porto, the reaction from the fans is not up to me.
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"I am not annoyed with anything. What happened with Sarri's assistant, Sarri was the first one to come to me and say he will resolve it. The assistant has already come to me and apologised, I told him to forget it. I have made a lot of mistakes in my career."
United will be understandably disappointed to have seen two points slip through their grasp in dramatic fashion during their latest visit to the capital, but they had battled back from a goal down to lead through two Anthony Martial efforts.
Chelsea, meanwhile, remain unbeaten and seven points in front of the Red Devils.
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When the company subsequently purchased the Long Pond Distillery in Jamaica, Sam bought an age-old family recipe for spiced rum from the Levy Brothers, two Jamaican pharmacists from Kingston.
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Since its origin in 1994, the NMLA Marine Lenders Workshop has continued to deliver the most comprehensive course on best practices for marine lenders offered anywhere in the US. This year's March event in Ft. Lauderdale was no exception.
Each year the program instructors delve into the uniqueness of marine lending: the impact the economy has on the boating industry, the "how-to-s" of underwriting both small and large marine loans, best collection practices, the art of collateral valuation, remarketing strategies, the differences between a boat insurance policy and a yacht insurance policy, perfecting liens on marine collateral on the local, state and federal level, and so much more. For attendee comments, next year's workshop date and location, and fun photos click here.


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Q: what's wrong with following assembly code to read file? ;the code read 4 bytes from file and print it on screen
bits 16

org 100h

jmp start

filename db 'example.file',0

handle dw 0

buffer db 255

start:

    mov ah,3dh
    mov al,0
    mov dx,filename
    int 0x21
    mov handle,ax

    mov ah,3fh
    mov cx,4
    mov dx,buffer
    mov bx,handle
    int 21h

    mov dx,buffer
    add dx,ax

    mov bx,dx
    mov byte[bx],'$'

    mov dx,buffer
    mov ah,9
    int 21h
    mov ah,4ch
    int 21h

A: Your buffer appears to be a single byte. If what you really wanted was an array of 255 bytes then you should use (assuming this is for NASM):
buffer: times 255 dup 0
Also, as mentioned, you should use brackets in NASM code to access the value pointed to by an address.  Just  mov ax,foo  will put the address of foo in ax, not the value stored at that address.

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Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Nashville : Abingdon Press, 2017Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652 .B47 2017] (1).
Total church life / Darrell W. Robinson.
by Robinson, Darrell W, 1935-.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Broadman Press, c1985Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 600.2 .R59] (1).
Inside the small church / Anthony G. Pappas, editor.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Alban Institute, c2002Other title: Small church.Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 637.8 .I57 2002] (1).
Surviving difficult church members / Robert D. Dale.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Nashville : Abingdon Press, c1984Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652 .D35] (1).
How to mobilize church volunteers / Marlene Wilson.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Minneapolis : Augsburg Pub. House, c1983Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652 .W555] (1).
The big small church book / David R. Ray.
by Ray, David R, 1942-.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, 1992Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 637.8 .R387 1992] (1).
Leading & managing a growing church / George G. Hunter, III.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c2000Other title: Leading and managing a growing church.Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652.25 .H839 2000] (1).
Church planning : a manual for use in the United Church of Christ / produced by the Office for Church Life and Leadership.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: [New York : The Office], c1976Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BX 9884 .C45 C58 1976] (1).
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Cleveland [Ohio] : Pilgrim Press, 2005Other title: Indispensable guide for restoring church buildings.Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: NA 4800 .G75 2005] (1).
Administration in the small membership church / John H. Tyson.
by Tyson, John H, 1958-.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c2007Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652 .T97 2007] (1).
Who is our church? : imagining congregational identity / Janet R. Cawley.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Herndon, VA : Alban Institute, c2006Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652.4 .C39 2006] (1).
Strategy planning for the smaller church / [Phillip E. Rodgerson].
by Rodgerson, Phillip E. (Phillip Edward) | Virginia Baptist General Board. Division of Missions Ministries.
Edition: Rev. ed.Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: [Virginia] : Division of Missions Ministries, Virginia Baptist General Board, 1990Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 637.8 .R64 1990] (1).
Twelve keys to an effective church / Kennon L. Callahan.
Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1983-1988Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 652.25 .C34 1983] (4).
The church idea book : more than 200 ideas / Shane M. Groth and John D. Schroeder.
by Groth, Shane M | Schroeder, John D.
Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, c1992Availability: Items available for loan: *Schaff Library [Call number: BV 4400 .G76 1992] (1).


FLY UP & AWAY FOR FATHER'S DAY!
Leave The Crowds Below This Father's Day With The London Helicopter's Father's Day Package With Free Gift!
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As an added extra, The London Helicopter will reward Dad with a commemorative solar-powered wooden helicopter toy as a memento of their jaw-dropping flight (19 June only).
The London Helicopter has established itself as one of London's premier must-do experiences and is a must for anyone wanting to not only show their father appreciation, but show him a truly unique view of London – from the air.
Dads can soar above the River Thames, looking down on Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, The Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, The London Eye and Shakespeare's Globe. The uninterrupted panoramic views continue through London's financial district, Tower Bridge, The Tower of London and The Shard.
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London Max https://www.thelondonhelicopter.com/routes/london-max/ : for that really special Dad who'll want his family to share the fun. The ultimate treat and for those that want to travel like VIP's then there's only one choice to make. This exclusive journey takes up to six passengers on a 30 minutes trip from west to east over London and promises thrill after thrill and breath-taking views.
Bookings are now open for The London Helicopter Father's Day flights on 19 June 2016.
British Airways is offering the perfect Father's Day gift idea for dads wanting to unleash their inner pilot with a 20 per cent discount on its full-motion flight simulator experiences. The airline is offering the Father's Day discount on gift vouchers booked by June 19, 2016* for use during the next 12 months. The simulators, which are used to train British Airways' 4,000 professional pilots, are the real thing and will make the perfect gift for would-be pilots.
Using cutting edge technology and graphics the state-of-the-art simulators give would-be pilots the opportunity to fly to and from more than 180 of the airline's worldwide destinations, such as its new routes to Lima, Peru and San Jose in Costa Rica. All sessions are accompanied by an instructor and no previous flying experience is necessary. Flights in a Boeing 767 simulator are available at £319, reduced from £399 or in a simulated jumbo jet or Boeing 777 for £359, reduced from £449 per hour long session.
Gift vouchers are available for purchase at www.ebaft.com.
*Bookings must be made by June 19, 2016 using the promotional code DAD2016 to receive the 20 per cent discount. Flight simulator experiences can be made for available dates during the 12 months to the end of June 2017. The experience starts with a full technical briefing from a pilot followed by an hour's flying time in which you can land and take-off from multiple airports as well as cruising through blue skies. The full-flight simulators are located at British Airways' Flight Training Centre near Heathrow.
With the last day of BBC Good Food Show Summer falling on Father's Day, why not treat Dad to a delicious day out at the UK's best live food event. At this year's show, guests can watch culinary heroes such as Michel Roux Jr and Tom Kerridge cooking live, as well as exploring the producers village which will boast a plethora of seasonal and artisan produce to take home. Alternatively, visit the show in advance to pick up the perfect Father's Day gift: choose from a stunning collection of folded steel knives from Kin Knives, or pick up a The Homemade Curing Kit from Ross & Ross.
Chelsea's hidden cocktail bar Barts is teaming up with luxurious chocolatier Rococo to host a special Whiskey & Chocolate Father's Day Masterclass. Celebrate the day with Dad by sampling top notch whiskies from around the globe and indulge in specialty chocolate pairings. Barts' world-class bar team will provide guests with an hour and a half of tip top tuition about the fine art of whiskey and chocolate pairing, talking through the tasting notes of each variety of whiskey and explaining in detail how each distinctly pairs with the rich flavours of the chocolate.
Loved for its quirky vibes and live 1920s jazz music, Barts is the ideal spot to spend the day with Dad with a whiskey tipple and chocolates in hand.
Luxury tea brand Kanuka (www.kanukatea.com) have a limited edition Father's Day Temple of Heaven Gunpowder Tea Gift Set which comprises of a 125g loose gunpowder tea pouch, a silver tea strainer and a glass mug all of which is beautifully gift wrapped and only £19.50 with free nationwide online delivery.
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This Father's Day The London Beer Factory have created a special gift box including a selection of 24 craft beers hand picked from their craft beer brews. The gift box will feature favourites from the core and experimental pilot range, and will be delivered directly to his door. Dear dad will be amongst the first in the UK to sample the range in 360 degree can technology, allowing for the complete removal of the lid, enabling aromas and flavours to leap out of the can. The box will feature favourites such as The Chelsea Blonde and the Paxton Pale Ale as well as unique brews including the Wimbledon a cream ale infused with strawberries, a Champagne Beer and the Slow Red Ale.
Hunter 486, located within boutique hotel The Arch London, has created an exclusive new menu for Father's Day (Sunday 19 June). The restaurant's luxuriant setting, succulent meats and strictly seasonal produce will combine to provide all the ingredients for a delightful afternoon dedicated to dad.
The menu includes a real ale match for Dad and the whole family to enjoy. The menu offers an appetiser of English asparagus with crispy Burford Brown egg, tomato and herb dressing. To follow, succulent meats are cooked until perfectly tender in the restaurant's stone oven. Diners can choose between roasts of beef, leg of lamb or Black leg free range chicken, all served with classic accompaniments. To finish, diners can enjoy a tempting gooseberry crumble with Chapel Down's Curious IPA.
The Father's Day menu is available for £26.95 per person, including a Curious IPA and three courses.
This Father's Day why not take Dad to Battersea's hit Italian-inspired restaurant, bar and karaoke joint Bunga Bunga. On Sunday, 19th June enjoy, Il Porco, one of London's most authentic Italian hog roasts with all the trimmings and homemade apple and cider sauce. Bunga Bunga's talented head chef, Alexis de Naray, has conceived an extraordinary three-course feasting menu of pork delicacies that will leave Dad satisfied and content. To start, guests can tuck into a comforting starter that includes pig cheek, wild mushroom and white truffle arancin along with caramelised red onion home-baked focaccia and olives, followed by the one-of-a-kind hog roast that is ideal to share between the whole family. Grab your knife and pork this Father's Day and tuck in!
Mr Fogg's Tavern's award-winning pies are becoming personal for Father's Day. The Victorian inspired Pub, Gin Parlour and Salon in Covent Garden will be offering exclusive personalized pies for Dad on Sunday, 19th June when you book in advance. Surprise your lovely father with his initials on Mr Fogg's Tavern's famous beef and bacon or the scrumptious leek and potato pie. Reserve a table and send the reservations team your father's initials by Thursday, 16th June. Mr Fogg's Tavern is on hand to make it a Father's Day to remember.
After lunch, head up the stairs to Mr Fogg's Tavern's intimate Gin Salon for a one-on-one whisky tasting with Glenfiddich brand ambassador and whisky connoisseur, Mark Thomson. Guests can look forward to a three whisky tasting menu and Mark will be on hand to explain the tasting notes and history of each unique variety.
Glenfiddich Whisky Tasting – 5:01pm – 7:01pm.
Looking for somewhere to take your wine loving Dad, then head to Humble Grape in Battersea and treat your father to a delicious meal of Confit Duck Cassoulet with smoked pancetta and chargrilled radiccio. On Father's Day Humble Grape will be offering four of its exclusive, hand crafted wines at a discounted rate.
This year to celebrate Father's Day, award-winning bar Mr Fogg's Residence in Mayfair will be hosting an intimate whisky tasting with Glenfiddich ambassador Mark Thomson. Guests will enjoy a three whiskey tasting menu and will have the opportunity to speak with Mark one-on-one about the tasting notes and history of each unique variety. It's the ideal activity to experience with your Father on the special holiday.
This year to celebrate Father's day, London's favourite Scottish restaurant Mac & Wild will be offering a complimentary dram of whisky on arrival for all fathers. Treat your dad to the finest highland roast and whiskies in town and make his day.
Dads will be able to dine on array of delicious dishes whilst sampling whiskies from all over Scotland. Dishes on the roast menu include Mac & Wild's signature haggis pops, perfectly roasted chicken and highland venison all accompanied by seasonal vegetables and the biggest Yorkshire puddings in the west…end.
This summer, the award-winning bar brand Mr Fogg's will unveil a lavish 19th century colonial Safari Camp at the world's greatest food and drink festival, Taste of London in Regent's Park. From 15th June to 19th June 2016, Mr Fogg's Safari Camp will serve a range of the finest World Class Drinks, complete with British-colonial style tents, taking guests on an exotic alfresco adventure in the first safari park to open in London. The Safari Camp will also boast an interactive Gin & Tonic bar, where a world-class barman will give a lesson in the fine art of concocting the perfect G&T, making it the ideal destination for Father's Day!
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The Tampa Bay Symphony is announcing a call for scores competition for living composers. One score will be selected for performance on our Spring 2020 concert series* (performances April 26, 2020, 3:30pm in Clearwater, FL; April 28, 8:00pm in St. Petersburg, FL; May 3, 2:30pm in Tampa, FL). Finalists will be notified by November 1, 2019 and the symphony will read/rehearse the compositions by the finalists at a public event on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 8:00pm. There is a cash prize of $1,000 for the winning composer provided the composer attends at least one of the performances in person. (Please review performance dates carefully before submitting.) Up to four finalists will be chosen to have their works rehearsed by the orchestra. Each finalist is eligible for up to $250 in travel reimbursement if they are available to attend the reading rehearsal on January 7, 2020.
•	All interested composers at any stage in their career are eligible to apply. There are no age or citizenship restrictions.
•	The work must be composed after January 1, 2001.
•	Only one submission per composer will be considered at this time. Please do not send multiple works. No concerti will be considered at this time.
•	The work should be between 4 minutes and 12 minutes in length. Works shorter than 4 minutes or longer than 12 minutes are subject to disqualification at the sole discretion of the Tampa Bay Symphony.
•	Works that have been chosen as winners or finalists in previous years may not be resubmitted, however previous winners and finalists are encouraged to submit new works.
•	PDF of program notes and performance history for the submission if it has previously been performed. New works that have not been performed are also welcomed.
•	A $25 USD non-refundable application fee must be received by the Tampa Bay Symphony by September 30, 2019. This application fee can be paid via PayPal invoice or by mailing a check payable to Tampa Bay Symphony addressed as follows: Tampa Bay Symphony, ATTN: Composition Contest, PO Box 4653, Clearwater, FL 33758. Contact Susan Rhein at email address listed below to receive a PayPal invoice for the entry fee.


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Rishi Sunak, Scion of Britain's New Ruling Class
The new prime minister's wealth matters more than his background.
By Helen Lewis
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In December 2019, nearly 14 million people voted for Boris Johnson to become prime minister of Britain. Last month, 140,000 Tory members voted for Liz Truss to succeed him. And today, the support of 195 Conservative members of Parliament was enough to install Rishi Sunak on Downing Street.
British democracy is shrinking, and the result is Sunak—a politician who lacks a popular mandate but does have incredible wealth and an air of hoodie-wearing dorkiness. Let me be clear about how cringe he can be: The 42-year-old once told a pair of schoolboys that he was a "total coke addict" before clarifying, with a small, snorting laugh, that he was referring to Coca-Cola. He wears his designer slides with white socks. He owns a $200 "smart mug" that heats itself. His victory speech revealed all the charisma of a recorded announcement at a train station. Every time I see him on television, I feel an atavistic urge to give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money.
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Sunak's success is a direct consequence of Truss's complete and total failure. Only six weeks ago, she beat him to the Tory leadership, but a parade of nightmare decisions panicked the bond markets and doomed her premiership. After that debacle, her wounded party moved to find a replacement—fast. By insisting that any potential candidate had to be nominated by 100 of their 356 colleagues, the Tories' "men in gray suits" narrowed the field and ensured that this new leadership contest would favor known quantities.
Only three people had the potential to succeed. Sunak was the obvious choice, because he had attracted the most support from members of Parliament in the last leadership election (before losing to Truss among rank-and-file Conservatives). The second possibility was Penny Mordaunt, the supposed "unity" candidate, who did not secure enough nominations to stay in the race. And the third was Boris Johnson—yes, that Boris Johnson, of the haystack hair and grudge against monogamy, a man whom many of these same MPs had declared to be unfit for office only three months previously. Johnson flew back early from a holiday in the Caribbean, looking like he had slept in a hedge, and made some phone calls. Then he withdrew from the race late last night, all the while insisting that he could have made the ballot had he wanted to. That left Sunak as the only candidate.
In one sense, Sunak's success is a triumph for diversity: He is the first Briton of Indian descent to be prime minister, and, as a Hindu, the first non-Christian. But it is also a victory for the establishment. Sunak attended Winchester College, a private boarding school that last produced a prime minister in 1801, and then Oxford, which produced five of the past six. "England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus," George Orwell wrote in The Lion and the Unicorn, of the first half of the 20th century. "And considering what energy the self-made men possessed, and considering that they were buying their way into a class which at any rate had a tradition of public service, one might have expected that able rulers could be produced in some such way." Sunak might once have been an outsider, but he hasn't been one for a long time.
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As it happens, I conducted what was probably Sunak's first big political interview, in May 2014, just five months before he was selected for the safe Conservative seat of Richmond, in rural Yorkshire. Working for a think tank called Policy Exchange, he had come to the BBC to promote a report arguing that politicians should no longer lump all Britons of color together as "BAME"—"Black and minority ethnic"—but should acknowledge each distinct community on its own terms. At the time, the Conservatives were failing to attract nonwhite voters whose attitudes and circumstances should have made them natural Tories. They had small-c conservative opinions, and if the party could shrug off its associations with golf-club racism, these voters might flock to it. "By no means are they in favor of mass immigration," Sunak told me. "They distinguish between immigration that happened 50 or 60 years ago, when their grandparents or parents came to this country, integrated, worked hard and what they see happening now, which is in their perception, not the same."
His analysis was right: The Conservative Party is much less white today, while still being opposed to mass immigration. In Truss's first cabinet, none of the four most important offices was held by a white man. The breakout star of the last leadership election was Kemi Badenoch, who lived in Nigeria until she was 16.
As I listen to this interview eight years later, what strikes me is that Sunak was describing his own life story. His parents followed a well-trodden post-colonial path from India to East Africa to Britain in the 1960s. Having settled in Southampton, an unremarkable port city in southern England, his mother became a pharmacist and his father a family doctor. The Sunaks gave their boy the best (or at least most expensive) education they could. Apart from his ethnic background, everything about his subsequent career screams establishment: boarding school, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Stanford Business School, a hedge fund, then a think tank, then a political career. He is a reflection of Britain's constant desire to fuse modernity with tradition.
The Atlantic Daily: Britain's new leader faces a tough winter
In truth, Sunak's racial heritage is less salient to most Britons than another fact about him—how rich he is. He owns a mansion in West London; a house in Santa Monica, California; and a Georgian-era home in Yorkshire with an ornamental lake and a swimming pool. Although no one's idea of a brash spendthrift, Sunak has displayed his riches openly enough to attract comment: tailored suits, a Peloton exercise bike, that absurdly expensive self-heating cup. To those sensitive to the exquisite vibrations of the British class system, this makes him "new money." By contrast, Boris Johnson—a scholarship boy at Eton who even got a Conservative donor to pay for the celebratory barbecue at his third wedding—has always postured as "old money."
Sunak's wife, the fashion designer Akshata Murthy, is even richer. She is the heir to an Indian telecommunications fortune, and the revelation in April that she was a "non-dom"—a foreign national who paid a £30,000 flat fee in lieu of millions of pounds in income tax on earnings outside Britain—nearly sank her husband's political career. (To add to the Rishi Register of Cringe, the legitimate media attention on his wife led Sunak to declare that he sympathized with Will Smith's defense of Jada Pinkett Smith. "At least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good," he added.) The same month, it emerged that Sunak had held a green card until October 2021, allowing him permanent residency in the United States. Questions about how committed he was to living the rest of his life in Britain have bubbled through back channels and social media.
Brian Klaas: What happened to Liz Truss can't happen here
That tax controversies have hindered his career more than overt racism seems like progress. The question now becomes: What is Sunak's vision for Britain? He was chancellor of the Exchequer through the pandemic, and although he loved to boast about his desire to cut taxes, he kept raising them. And the public finances are now in an even worse condition than they were back then. His warnings about Truss's economic policies might have been prescient, but he now has to deal with their consequences. His victory speech pledged to continue Johnson's and Truss's support of Ukraine, and he is a true-blue Brexiteer who will not soften the party's skepticism toward the European Union, but domestic issues are thornier. Does he believe that pensions and working-age benefits should rise along with inflation, which this month hit 10.1 percent? Does he have any idea how to improve either Britain's terrible productivity figures or his party's own terrible poll ratings? The British people heard answers to none of these questions during the leadership contest, during which Sunak did not give a single interview. He didn't need to—he could reach every single voter he needed simply by picking up the phone or walking down the corridor from his parliamentary office.
In The Lion and the Unicorn, Orwell was not praising the new class of rulers—the parvenus made good—as superior to the old aristocrats. He thought both were hopeless: "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three-quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Sunak, the third British prime minister since early September, and the second without a mandate from the voters, will struggle to prove Orwell wrong.

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Three from Entertainment Weekly this time with the first being "'X-Files' returns: New EW exclusive photos" here.
Also, they have the new "'Ant-Man': 7 EW Exclusive New Character Posters" here.
Finally, as if we needed the reassurance, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor assures: 'It's gonna be incredible'" here.


We did it! BUT – our Bronze certification only last 3 years. In December 2015 we will have to submit another 150 points or reach higher to Silver and submit 350 points.
For the next phase of this process, the Green Team, led by Marnie Vyff, intends to focus primarily upon the schools in terms of influencing curriculum, educating students, enlisting them in actual hands on projects and using their enthusiasm to reach the rest of the Community.
The following presentation was given to Borough Council on April 22 and lays out a "road map" to Bronze re-certification and 175 points.


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Having made an indie-twin stick shooter myself, I know it's a tough market to crack. Still, the reason I chose to create a game in that genre was because its a genre so near and dear to my heart. So when I got an email about XenoRaptor with the subject line "Fight rocket propelled chainsaws as a cyberdragon in this co-op bullet hell" I knew I had to check it out.
What I didn't expect to find was an beautiful shoot em up with super fast paced and challenging combat. Perhaps most surprising was a deep upgrade system allowing players to customize their ship with not only weapons, but color and style. Also available are weapon unlocks and upgrades which you can earn just by playing XenoRaptor's various modes which include single player, versus and co-op. Players equip two standard weapons and a special weapon to take on the onslaught of strange mechanical and alien enemies.
I played a bit of XenoRaptor and the weapons in the game are definitely the highlight. Of particular fun is the gravity control beam which allows you to grab and toss large asteroids at your enemies. From what I've played of XenoRaptor it's a very challenging game. Luckily there's an 8 player online co-op mode to help ease the pain and unlock goodies.
Players can jump in and use their own ship to conquer any of the game's missions. There's no progression or locking system, so you can jump around and play the missions in any order.
XenoRaptor isn't quite ready for release yet, but you can still purchase it direct from the website and get immediate access. It's being improved upon every week. The game is also up for vote on Steam's GreenLight.
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Preccelerator® Program Class 6 Demo Day + 5-Year Anniversary Party!
Clear your calendar - It's going down! The Preccelerator® Program Class 6 Demo Day kicks off on September 13th @ 5:30pm, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. SAM Preccelerator® Program is our meeting spot to showcase the Preccelerator®'s current class of all-star companies to investors and the start-up community. Followed by an endless summer party and networking on our outdoor patio to celebrate the Preccelerator's 5-year anniversary!
At Tapp That App we're passionate about finding great apps, but we know it can be difficult. So we've set out to solve the problem of mobile app discovery by combining social networks with app marketplaces. By doing so we allow users to satisfy their curiosity and developers to take part in one of the most powerful purchase motivators around: seeing the apps their friends and influencers are using.
Most apartment searches involve numerous resources, multiple applications, and too many added fees. Rather than spending massive amounts of time and money applying for individual Los Angeles apartment rentals with separate companies, they've created a streamlined system. Simply fill out one application, pay an inexpensive application fee, and receive a soft credit check, sparing you unnecessary damage to your budget and credit score. Best of all, their one-stop application allows you to spend more time exploring your favorite listings, and gives our renters a distinct advantage in a competitive market.
Animate Objects (AO), an augmented reality and virtual reality development company, is excited to announce the launch of ARGO, the gamified Augmented Reality (AR) location platform. ARGO adds AR enhanced infotainment, commerce, and analytics that drive engagement and commerce at "Destination Venues" like theme parks, resort, shopping malls, as well as in-the-wild. Guests are engaged and incentivized while site operators use ARGO's real-time dashboard to manage, monitor and analyze their properties and visitors.
Networking + 5th Anniversary Party!
After the demos have ended please join us on the patio for live music and to celebrate the Preccelerator Program's 5th anniversary; meet the companies, network, and have a drink on us. We hope to see you there!


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Women taking their right to go topless to state's high court
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In a case that pits freedom of expression and equality against public decency, three women are challenging a New Hampshire city ordinance prohibiting public nudity and taking it to the state's highest court.
Heidi Lilley, Kia Sinclair and Ginger Pierro were ticketed in 2016 in Laconia after they went topless at Weirs Beach over Memorial Day weekend. Pierro was doing yoga, while the other two were sunbathing.
Some beachgoers complained and a police officer asked them to cover up. When they refused, they were arrested. A legal motion to dismiss a case against the women was denied so they have appealed it to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which is expected to hear the case Feb. 1. The women want to the court to dismiss their conviction by invalidating the city's ordinance.
The three women argue there's no state law forbidding female toplessness and that the ordinance is discriminatory since men are allowed to go shirtless. They also contend their constitutional rights to freedom of expression were violated.
"The law in the state of New Hampshire is that it is legal for a woman to go topless so we're trying to get the town of Laconia to recognize and to stay with the state," Lilley said. "The town ordinance, in our opinion, is not constitutional. We're hoping the Supreme Court will see that."
The women are part of the Free the Nipple movement, a global campaign that argues it should be acceptable for women to bare their nipples in public, since men can. Supporters of the campaign also are taking their causes to courts with mixed success.
A U.S. District Court judge ruled in October that a public indecency ordinance in Missouri didn't violate the state constitution by allowing men, but not women, to show their nipples. But in February, a U.S. District Court judge blocked the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, from enforcing a law against women going topless, arguing it was based on gender discrimination. The city is appealing.
In New Hampshire, Lilley and another woman first challenged the ban when they were cited for going topless at a Gilford beach in 2015. A judge later dismissed that case but the Legislature took up the debate several months later, with a bill that would have made it a crime for women to expose their breasts or nipples in public.
Supporters of the bill warned that allowing women to go bare breasted at beaches could lead to scenes of topless women at libraries and Little League games. They said they were trying to protect families and children. Opponents said such a ban violates the state constitution.
The measure failed but not before an ugly online dispute in which several male legislators were criticized for sexist remarks, including one who suggested men should be allowed to grab the breast of topless women.
In the Supreme Court case, the women are getting support from the ACLU of New Hampshire, which argues free speech protections applies to both "popular and unpopular forms of expression."
"Here, the Laconia ordinance prevents women from making choices about their state of bodily expression using the full range of options available to their male counterparts," said Gilles Bissonnette, the group's legal director. "This case presents an issue of significant importance concerning the right of women under the New Hampshire constitution to speak freely and the constitutional implications of codified stereotypes related to females' roles and sexuality."
In defending the ordinance, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office argues the ordinance just regulates what they can wear to the beach, not bar them entirely from the beach. It also argues the city has the right to "prevent any disturbances," noting women exposing their nipples would cause "disturbances" where a man without a shirt wouldn't.
For Lilley, who said she's fought for women's rights for decades, the case has come to symbolize more than just women being able to choose their beach attire. It's part of an effort to draw attention to inequality "straight across the board," though she seemed frustrated that women taking off their top was still so controversial.
"It shouldn't be an issue," she said. "It's not an issue if a man takes off his shirt. Why should it be an issue if a woman takes off her shirt?"


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How cities drive climate change
By Guest contributor(s)Wednesday 29 April 2020 No Comments
The stark inequality of "extreme cities" is going to be exacerbated and tested by the effects of climate change. By Ashley Dawson.
An excerpt from Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson, now 40% off as part of the sale of all books on the Climate Crisis and COVID-19 reading list.
I found a huge blister of water forming on my bedroom wall when the wind woke me in the middle of the night. Hurricane Sandy had been buffeting the city all day, and as nightfall approached I hunkered down in my apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens, hoping that my neighborhood's elevation would bring a degree of safety. The previous day New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had ordered the evacuation of everyone living in flood Zone A, a total of 375,000 people, and by evening the city halted all subway service, marooning people without cars in their neighborhoods. There was little to do the following day, Monday, 29 October, other than to fill the bathtub with water, stock up on batteries, and watch the sky over the city ominously darken. When the full force of the storm hit that night, the intensifying winds drove rain into the bricks and mortar of my building, which age had rendered all too permeable to such a sustained onslaught, producing a threatening bulge in the paint of my bedroom wall. I prodded the blister gingerly and mopped, slept fitfully, and then was awoken by the winds raging outside to find the blister growing larger again, in what seemed like an endless cycle. By morning, I felt exhausted but fortunate to have escaped the hurricane relatively lightly. We still had power, and taxis and delivery trucks rolled through the streets.
But other portions of the city had sustained major damage. The superstorm drove a wall of water into the financial district of Manhattan, capitalism's great citadel. Sandy's fourteen-foot surge had flooded a power substation in Manhattan's Lower East Side, causing a catastrophic short circuit that cut off electricity to all of Lower Manhattan. The surge had also inundated many low-lying areas: Red Hook, the Navy Yard, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island in Brooklyn; areas around Jamaica Bay in Queens, including the Rockaways, a barrier island where the community of Breezy Point was utterly destroyed by a fire started by short-circuiting electrical equipment. On Staten Island, a borough still mourning losses from 9/11, beachside communities like Ocean Breeze and Oakwood Beach had flooded catastrophically.
In the days following Sandy's landfall, it became clear that it had been one of the most destructive storms ever to hit the United States. The storm killed 160 people in the New York metropolitan region and caused $65 billion in damage. New York City suffered cataclysmic breakdowns in basic infrastructure and services, including the flooding of the subway system and most major roads entering Manhattan; the destruction of hundreds of homes and a quarter million vehicles; and a power outage that plunged all of Manhattan below 14th Street into an eerie darkness for days. Hurricane Sandy accomplished what the Occupy Wall Street protests had been unable to do the previous autumn: it shut down the world's preeminent financial hub, the New York Stock Exchange. The uncanny sight of downtown Manhattan's spires plunged into darkness was an unmistakable signal that something had gone deeply awry.
The prostration of New York left me with turbulent emotions. I felt fortunate (as I had on 9/11) that my neighborhood escaped almost totally unscathed, but the city itself suddenly seemed vulnerable: the sense of certainty that underlies quotidian urban life had been dramatically interrupted. I also felt disconnected from the rest of the city: the subways did not start running again for days; I couldn't reach friends who lived in downtown Manhattan, since their power was out and their cell phones weren't working; and without a car, I didn't know what was being done to help people in the most damaged areas. The city's immense size, and its disconnected and disjointed character, became painfully evident as life unfolded in my neighborhood with striking placidity, while in some other neighborhoods, those who lived above the 5th floor had no access to drinking water.
I would later discover that people I knew had been displaced by the hurricane. My colleague Fred Kaufman, a resident of downtown Manhattan, had already spent years struggling with the disruption caused by 9/11: being forced to move out, then dealing with endless construction and associated pollution once he was able to move back in. Hurricane Sandy devastated the neighborhood afresh. Many of the small businesses Fred frequented were inundated by a fifteen-foot storm surge. Billions of dollars of property had been damaged. The FDR Tunnel, not far from Fred's apartment, was completely filled with water, as were most basements in the area. The noise of diesel generators pumping that water out was constant, day and night. But when I asked Fred about the psychological impact of this experience, he seemed relatively resigned. The experience of Sandy was frightening, he said, but in many ways it is constantly frightening to live in downtown New York. When disaster strikes, no amount of money or advance preparation is going to save you; at the end of the day, you have to be able to walk out of the disaster zone on foot. What matters most is knowing how to get out and having friends who can support you once you do. Yet life returned to normal for him in a matter of days.
Just across the harbor, the people of Red Hook, Brooklyn, had a different experience. Sheryl Nash-Chisholm, a Red Hook resident, watched with trepidation as the water advanced up Columbia Street toward her home on Monday night. Scenes of people on rooftops after Hurricane Katrina were not far from her mind, but she put on a brave face for her family. Still, when the lights went out, they were all terrified. How far would the floodwaters rise? They lit some candles and huddled, sleepless, until dawn. Once the storm passed and they were able to leave home, her son discovered that his car, the pride of his life, was totally submerged, a complete write-off. Sheryl did her best to console him.
The devastation in Red Hook was vast. When Hurricane Sandy struck, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) had shut down elevators, boilers, and electrical systems in public housing complexes across the city, including those in Zone A neighborhoods like Red Hook. With roughly 8,000 residents, NYCHA's Red Hook Houses complex is the largest public housing development in Brooklyn. When the power went down, the heat turned off and the water stopped running, leaving the residents of Red Hook Houses in life-threatening conditions.
The morning after the storm, Sheryl headed over to the Red Hook Initiative (RHI), a community organization dedicated to empowering the youth of the neighborhood. She is one of their key organizers. The building, unlike many others in Red Hook, was largely spared flooding during the storm and had also kept its power supply, so after failing to reach the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on the phone, Sheryl began coordinating with residents of Red Hook Houses to turn RHI into a hub for the community. Within hours, RHI was providing power for charging cell phones, so that community members could let family members elsewhere know that they were okay. The building also provided a warm space, where residents of the chilly public housing complex could escape hypothermia. By the end of the day, hundreds of volunteers with what would become known as Occupy Sandy had arrived at RHI on bicycles, bringing much needed donations of batteries, candles, blankets, and canned food. A colleague of Sheryl's organized medical delegations to Red Hook Houses to check on elderly residents who needed medical attention, fresh medical supplies, and even basic needs like drinking water and food. For the next three days, RHI was the principal center for organizing the community, gathering donations from around the city and delivering food and other supplies to needy people living in public housing and other parts of Red Hook. For Sheryl, it was an exhausting but exhilarating sequence of days, a time in which her personal energies were strained but her faith in the solidarity of her community was reaffirmed. The federal government and relief agencies like the Red Cross would not arrive in the neighborhood with supplies for many days.
The stories of Sheryl, Fred, and myself highlight the precariousness of urban life in the face of climate change–induced disasters like Hurricane Sandy. After Sandy, endemic subway delays from heavy rain would no longer seem like mere temporary inconveniences, but rather prologues to a permanently drowned city. We wait anxiously for the next superstorm, fearing that the efforts of officials to prepare the city will turn out to be inadequate. And these Sandy narratives also dramatize the diversity and disparity of experiences of urban space and community during a disaster.
In Extreme Cities, I place Hurricane Sandy in a broader context, weaving together stories of cities around the world that are threatened by climate chaos. Extreme Citiesdraws on interviews with researchers at the cutting edge of climate science, landscape architects whose work uses natural processes to build our capacity to endure extreme weather, and activists fighting to diminish the inequalities that render cities vulnerable to climate chaos. Cities, I contend, are at the forefront of the coming climate chaos, their natural vulnerabilities heightened by social injustice. Cities are the defining social and ecological phenomena of the twenty-first century: they house the majority of humanity, they contribute the lion's share of carbon to the atmosphere, and they are peculiarly vulnerable to climate chaos. New York City is not alone in its vulnerability to flooding: almost all of the world's great cities are sited on or near bodies of water. This should come as no surprise, since rivers, lakes, and the ocean have always been key to the economic and ecological health of cities. Thirteen of the world's twenty largest cities are port cities. But this has generated a deadly contradiction that is one of the most-overlooked facts of the twenty-first century: the majority of the world's megacities are in coastal zones threatened by sea level rise. Today, more than 50 percent of the world's population lives within 120 miles of the sea; by 2025, it is estimated that this figure will reach 75 percent. In addition, urbanites all over the world are particularly vulnerable to deadly heat waves, whose intensity and frequency are increasing as a result of global warming, because of the "heat island" effect that makes urban areas hotter than their rural surroundings. Several decades of evidence suggests that people are migrating out of drought-prone areas in the developing world and into coastal cities that are prone to floods and cyclones. Whether we like it or not, anthropogenic climate disruption is going to dramatically alter the world's cities, and it is here that the effects of climate change will be of most consequence.
The New York that Hurricane Sandy struck was experiencing a second Gilded Age. It was a city presided over by Michael Bloomberg, the consummate corporate insider and power broker, who embodied nearly four decades of big business– friendly neoliberal urban policies. During that period, as Occupy Wall Street activists tirelessly pointed out, the city became a place of extreme economic and social inequality. It was also a site in which a variety of high-profile initiatives were undertaken to turn the city into a green metropolis. Yet inequality in the city continued to spiral. Today, New York is the consummate example of the prototypical social form of our age: the extreme city.
The extreme city is not a city of a certain size, like the megacity or metacity, which designate, respectively, metropolitan areas with populations in excess of 10 and 20 million. Instead, it describes the specific character of the urban fabric. For instance, Tokyo and Lagos are both metacities, but the two are often taken as opposing poles in the contemporary urban imaginary, one a paradigm of technological sophistication and orderliness, and the other a sprawl of decaying infrastructure and informal settlements. By contrast, "extreme city" refers to an urban space of stark economic inequality, the defining urban characteristic of our time, and one of the greatest threats to the sustainability of urban existence. How a city copes with stratifications of race, class, and gender (or how such inequalities are left to fester) has everything to do with how well it will weather the storms that are bearing down upon humanity. It is in the extreme city that the most important struggles for human survival will take place. Nevertheless, this global convergence of urbanization and climate change, which I call the extreme city, has remained surprisingly invisible. Scientific literature on climate change has largely ignored the disproportionate contributions of cities to global warming, while climatology tends to assess the threat on a global scale and in the future tense, often in terms of how much the planet as a whole will warm by 2100, for instance. As a result, scientists actively suppress specific information about climate change in cities, statistically adjusting data collected from urban weather stations in global temperature datasets. In seeking to record the overall fluctuations of a planetary environment, science ignores the specific places where most of us live— cities—which also happen to be the sites of the most extreme transformation. This makes climate change seem distant and abstract, something that will happen in a remote future on a scale far removed from that of individual experience.
But climate change is happening right now, and above all in the cities where the majority of humanity now lives. Many have already exceeded the magnitude of warming projected for the planet as a whole over the current century. Take São Paolo, the Brazilian metacity of over 20 million. São Paolo lies in a region that typically receives four times as much rainfall as Los Angeles, in a country that, with more than 12 percent of the world's renewable fresh water, is often referred to as "the Saudi Arabia of water." Yet São Paolo has suffered from a deep drought in recent years that is tied to anthropogenic climate change. The city's main water reserves are perilously low, and in recent years the authorities have introduced water rationing. The origin of São Paolo's water crisis is no mystery. Since 1984, researchers have linked potential declines in precipitation in southern Brazil to the deforestation of the Amazon. The rain forest transformed what would otherwise have been a desert into a lush environment, by releasing massive quantities of water vapor into the air. Yet 224,000 square miles of the rain forest—an area nearly one-and-a-half times the size of California—have been clear-cut since 1980. This unchecked deforestation, which disrupts the rain forest's ability to recycle precipitation from the Atlantic, is one of the primary causes of São Paolo's drought. Without adequate supplies of water, a city shuts down in a matter of days, and São Paolo has seen an exodus of "water refugees" as well as the proliferation of wildcat drilling for water that is polluting groundwater, a development that worsens the drought's long-term impact. There is still much that the city can do to conserve water, but São Paolo's plight makes the crisis tendencies of the extreme city dramatically evident.
Despite this, the predominant outlook on urbanization remains surprisingly sunny, even utopian. Numerous paeans have been devoted to the economic and civic benefits of urban development, penned by writers who are frequently economists by training and consultants by profession. Most of them recognize the inequalities that have generated what Mike Davis calls our "planet of slums," but they also characterize cities as the breeding grounds for new entrepreneurship that will provide solutions to the "challenge" of poverty. Their "smart," technologically enhanced forms of urbanism will usher capitalism into a new era of "green" urban growth and produce a "city fix" for climate change: a new era of efficiency and resilience based on compact green cities. But these blithe predictions elide the glaring contradiction of capitalism's destruction of nature, its material base. The perils of climate change in the city are either totally ignored in this literature, or cast as a mouthwatering opportunity for entrepreneurs to usher in the next wave of green technology.
Neither "smart" urbanism nor good design alone will provide safe harbor from the storms increasingly breaking on our shores. "Tactical urbanist" interventions, however noble, will remain isolated oases in the vast desert of neoliberal urbanization. We certainly need technology and planning to help adapt to the coming climate chaos, but under present social conditions, these tools are more likely to be employed by elites to create architectures of apartheid and exclusionary zones of refuge. The War on Terror has shown us that the computer networks that are supposed to make cities efficient and green can be used not only against dissident groups and targeted populations, such as Muslims, but against the entire US population. The oppressive character of surveillance in the "smart" city is sure to be stepped up as climate chaos intensifies.
Urban growth is driven at bottom by capitalism. As urban critics Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey have emphasized, the city plays a central role in solving the economic crashes that periodically wrack the capitalist system. The shiny new buildings and spiffy developments that are constantly popping up in cities are a fantastic sink for the surplus capital that builds up in this economic system. In other words, profits are not left idle in bank accounts; they are always reinvested in other profit generating schemes, like urban development. But the city is also the primary site for the feckless depletion of natural resources that characterizes this economic system, which is founded on unbridled compound growth. There is consequently no "city fix" without addressing overproduction. The city is where capitalism's central contradictions play out and consequently where revolutionary movements have often been pushed into existence. This means that the movement for climate justice, which builds on anti-imperialist, antiracist, and feminist movements of the past, will necessarily grow through solidarities forged in urban terrain. To suggest this is to challenge the notion that the city is the antithesis of "nature." We need to abandon such stale preconceptions. Not only are cities dependent upon nature, but they also structure our increasingly chaotic natural world. Climate change will unleash the greatest havoc in cities, but cities will also produce the most ferocious struggles against the inequalities of our urban age.
There is no green capitalist exit from the extreme city, when capitalism is founded on the principle of "grow or die." The world does not have a limitless supply of resources for humans to exploit. Urbanization and climate change are the two great products of this dysfunctional system, the central contradictions that define our age. And while the urban dwellers of the global South are the most vulnerable in the face of the gathering storms, climate extremes will affect all of humanity, albeit unevenly.
After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, geographer Neil Smith wrote that there is no such thing as a natural disaster: "In every phase and aspect of a disaster—causes, vulnerability, preparedness, results and response, and reconstruction—the contours of disaster and the difference between who lives and who dies is to a greater or lesser extent a social calculus." "Disaster" connotes an unpredictable calamity that falls from the stars, but Smith suggests that so-called natural disasters are actually the product of all-too-tangible social inequalities. In New Orleans, for example, poor people (who are predominantly black) tend to live in low-lying, flood-prone areas, while the city's wealthy (and mainly white) residents live in the most elevated (and safe) areas. Similarly, in New York, in true American form, many impoverished and predominantly black neighborhoods are isolated from the rest of the city, thanks to housing discrimination and segregation, and continue to be starved of resources and targeted by the criminal justice apparatus. Today, climate change bites down on these neighborhoods with particular ferocity, both in the form of dramatic disasters like Katrina and Sandy, as well as more subtle, protracted forms of environmental injustice like elevated mortality rates caused by increasing summer temperatures in cities.
And the unevenness also extends beyond the confines of the city; after all, extreme weather is oblivious to political boundaries. Before Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern United States, it began life, as most hurricanes do, in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Gestating in the hot waters of the Antilles, Sandy knocked out power for 70 percent of Jamaicans and destroyed thousands of homes in Cuba and the Bahamas. But it was in Haiti that Sandy was most devastating: fifty-four Haitians were killed by the storm, more than the number of dead in New York City. With 99 percent of Haiti's landmass already deforested, the rainfall quickly produced flash flooding, with death-dealing torrents of water rushing down denuded hillsides, washing away homes and burying people alive. Sandy also destroyed the island's staple crops of banana, plantain, sugar cane, bean, and breadfruit, placing hundreds of thousands of Haitians at risk of malnutrition and famine in the following days and weeks.
The extent of this damage was made possible by the destruction of social infrastructure (housing, schools, hospitals) on the island, a disaster that unfolded over many years rather than in the course of a single stormy night. When Sandy arrived, almost 400,000 Haitians remained homeless following the devastating earthquake of 2010, and many thousands were still sick from the cholera epidemic that UN peacekeeping troops brought to Haiti. Sandy made matters worse by destroying sixty-one cholera treatment clinics, while also flooding the streets of cities like Port-au-Prince, worsening the cholera outbreak by polluting water supplies. But the conditions that laid the ground for Sandy's impact on Haiti reach back much further, troubling neat lines between anthropogenic (or manmade) and "natural" calamities. Ever since the Haitian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, when the country's enslaved populace rose up and demanded that the "Rights of Man" of the French revolutionaries apply to all human beings rather than simply to Europeans, Haiti has been punished by the world's ruling powers. This began when the French insisted in 1825 that the newly independent Haitian state indemnify slaveholders for the capital lost when the island's slaves freed themselves. It extends as far as 1991, when the United States used the language of human rights to help block loans to the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide for clean water systems for the poor. Indeed, for years the US insisted on sending aid for Haiti exclusively to NGOs, which currently provide 70 percent of health care and 80 percent of essential services on the island. And US-backed dictators like François and Jean-Claude Duvalier were only too happy to oblige these demands to dismantle public services. But NGOs do not build infrastructure or public works, and, as a result, basic services in Haiti are now nearly totally privatized. Sandy's high death toll resulted from the liquidation of public infrastructure by corrupt domestic elites and the United States.
In addition, the threat of famine that loomed in Sandy's wake is also linked to decades of underdevelopment. Since the 1970s, Haiti has been subjected to some of the most stringent free market reforms ever imposed on a country by international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In the name of neoliberalism, Haiti became a supplier of the cheapest labor in the western hemisphere for foreign and domestic export assembly companies. Public institutions providing education, water, and energy were privatized, and all obstacles to free trade were dismantled, including tariffs on food imports. This devastated Haitian agriculture, and the country went from producing 90 percent of its own food during the 1970s to importing more than 42 percent of its food today. Haitians are now the highest per capita consumers of subsidized US-imported rice in the Western Hemisphere. And as Haiti's agricultural sector was decimated, Haitians fled rural areas in ever-increasing numbers, with the capital city Port-au-Prince swelling to more than 2 million people. When Sandy hit, over 350,000 of these people were still living in emergency camps established after the earthquake of 2010. Despite the proliferation of NGOs in Haiti, the majority of the city's population lacks access to potable water, electricity, and health care. Haiti's vulnerability to natural disasters is a product of its subjection to the savage doctrines of neoliberalism.
Hurricane Sandy's effect on Haiti is a striking example of how disasters are "combined and uneven." Leon Trotsky used this phrase to describe capitalist development, a system that does not develop in a linear fashion but rather produces zones of abject poverty cheek-by-jowl with sites of shocking affluence. Such extremes are not a temporary aberration but an inherent feature of capitalism. In today's neoliberal world system, gaping inequalities open up within and between countries. Hurricane Sandy's course from Haiti to New York rendered national boundaries nonsensical, although they continue to structure how we think about weather. Haiti and New York were linked long before Sandy by centuries of imperialism and racial capitalism, but the hurricane wore the grooves of extreme inequality even deeper. If poverty is a kind of disaster, it is one that has been imposed on the people of Haiti. The plunder of Haiti, which left the island defenseless when Hurricane Sandy barreled down on it, is a product of the very same system that has amassed wealth, power, and a degree of insulation (for some) from disasters in global cities such as New York. Disasters such as Hurricane Sandy are combined and uneven, linking territories, cities, and nations whose fates are often diverse, and affecting their populations in highly unequal ways. Like capitalist development, combined and uneven disaster yokes together disparate stages, steps, and cultural forms.
Extreme Cities explores conditions of uneven development and disaster in cities around the globe, returning always to New York, the capital of capital and a microcosm of the challenges posed by climate change to global cities. The first chapter, "Capital Sinks," looks at the way in which real estate development, a key motor of contemporary capital accumulation, generates forms of irrational and unsustainable urbanization in cities like Miami, New York, and Jakarta. Chapter 2, "Environmental Blowback," surveys the historical "conquest" of nature that has attended urban growth, spawning increasingly unmanageable environmental contradictions in places like New York's Jamaica Bay and the Mississippi Delta south of New Orleans. This urban risk has been represented (and ignored) in different ways, which is the topic of Chapter 3, "Sea Change." How are the perilous conditions of global cities made invisible by the global scale of scientific calculations? And how does the recent wave of celebrations of urban living as the key to global upward mobility similarly downplay these hazards? Exploring what are often regarded as exemplary efforts to stormproof Dutch cities, the chapter underlines the massive challenges facing even the best-prepared cities. I examine this even more closely in Chapter 4, "The Jargon of Resilience," which casts a critical eye on cutting-edge efforts to adapt cities to the threats posed by climate change, looking in particular at the Rebuild By Design program in the New York region. If there are some good reasons for the buzz around the idea of resilience, we need nonetheless to question the extent to which free market ideology permeates the concept—and the adaptation efforts deployed in its name. In Chapter 5, "Climate Apartheid," I turn to one of the most significant ways that climate change is already reshaping humanity, examining contemporary accounts of so-called climate refugees and tracing the appropriation of this term from its origins in humanitarian and environmentalist discourse to its current deployment by the military-industrial-urban security complex in the wealthy nations of the European Union and the US. If current state-led efforts to cope with climate change are inadequate and often draconian, where one may find alternatives? In "Disaster Communism" (Chapter 6), I look at mutual aid efforts in cities struck by natural disasters in order to assess the viability of community self-help when the state falls away. Finally, "Urban Futures" broaches the taboo but ultimately inescapable topic of retreat from imperiled cities, which I argue must be accompanied by the dismantling of a feckless capitalist culture of ruinous growth whose epitome is the extreme city.
There is no better place to bear witness to these contradictions and shifts than New York City. As the world's preeminent financial hub, New York is not only the world's most iconic modern city, but also one of its most densely built and cosmopolitan urban spaces. While it has been surpassed in population by the megacities of the global South, it continues to be seen as the citadel of modern capitalism and to control key institutions of the global economy. Meteorites, flying saucers, giant radioactive monsters, and, of course, zombies—no other city in the world has been destroyed in as many ways and as many times in literature and films as New York. The flooding of New York by Hurricane Sandy generated similarly spectacular images, not of an external threat laying waste to Gotham, but of capitalism's own self-destruction. Climate chaos brought one of the modern era's greatest cities to its knees, a city that has become synonymous with unbridled free market capitalism. With its massive carbon footprint and the outsize global impact of its financial institutions, New York bears a disproportionate responsibility for deepening climate chaos.
At the same time, New York can also make a strong claim for being the paradigmatic green city, thanks to New Yorkers' dense living patterns and use of public transportation, as well as recent initiatives like the creation of more than 400 miles of bike lanes. But Hurricane Sandy revealed the hubris of celebrations of New York as a green metropolis, exposing a city completely unprepared for the larger threats posed by climate change. Like Hurricane Katrina before it, Sandy also showed the yawning social divisions that fissure cities, making a mockery of homogenizing accounts of urban resilience. Since the superstorm devastated us, much effort has been expended to help the city adapt to a warmer, more unstable world. Yet there has been relatively little discussion of the links between the city's vulnerability to climate change, and the economic and social inequalities New York embodies. There has been even less critical analysis of the model of untrammeled economic growth that New York incarnates. The world is watching. How New York City attempts to mitigate and adapt to climate change—and also to respond to climate justice more broadly—will set key precedents nationally and internationally.
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"So for now, I'm hanging out with my best friend Lo, and doing what girls do when things aren't going their way...shop."
Unfortunately, it's taken my recent watching of the E! channel's series, Kill Reality (a show about the filming of a movie with nothing but reality show stars) to realize just how pathetic these "reality actors" are. Sure, the shows are bad, in regards to both concept and execution, but it's these people who have been given more than their allotted 15 minutes of fame and become divas that seem pathetic. The overwhelmingly sad part of most reality shows is that it's nearly impossible to change the channel when one of them is on. MTV's Laguna Beach is the exception, as, after watching the first episode of the first season when it premiered on the network, I gave up, never to watch another installment.
Now that the first season is available on DVD, I decided to give it another chance. While it wasn't as awful as I remembered, it's not one audiences can get easily hooked on, an easy proposition when it comes to other reality fare like Survivor and Big Brother. Those shows are fueled by their casts, as these people at least come across as being normal, that is, until they are finished with the show, become reality show veterans, and do slop like Kill Reality. The people in Laguna Beach are the type that you would see in any given installment of The OC, and this show is actually riding the wave of success of that popular Fox show, by taking place in Orange County as well. Many of these "real" characters even come across as near carbon copies of the fictional residents of that show.
This has a much tighter target demographic than other ventures in reality TV, and is likely to appeal mostly to teenagers and those in their early twenties. Some parents might want to check the show out before letting younger kids watch it, as this is adult-oriented subject matter, but since it's on MTV, it does still have to follow FCC regulations and keep the more raunchy material to our imaginations.
Our loveable group of beach bums and babes consists of Stephen, Kristin, LC, Lo, Trey, Christina, Morgan, and Talan. Yeah, some of their names are ridiculous, but I have a feeling that if you visited Orange County today, you'd be hard pressed to find kids with names like Mike and Jane. Through the course of these 11 episodes, we get everything one would expect from reality television, from the back-stabbing pseudo-friendships to the torrid love triangles. However, every one of these people are rich and beautiful, so we not only get twice the fighting and on-again off-again romances, we get twice the egos and more envy than we can handle.
These crazy kids actually go through quite a bit in their early adventures, including a trip to Catalina, and one to Cabo as well. We also see them at their prom and graduation ceremonies, which made my Prom and Graduation look pathetic in comparison. The primary love triangle gets much attention as well, as Stephen, Kristin, and LC are constantly vying for each other's affections. Arguably, the most annoying cast member has to be Richie, who seems to be trying to act like a fool only to attract attention to himself, and those of you who he rubs the wrong way have to deal with quite a few of his antics. Still, there's always a character in reality TV that we love to hate, and for me, Richie was that person.
Laguna Beach looks and feels more real thanks to the reality show style camera work and constant use of beach locations where the show was shot. So, I guess the bottom line is that if you're into watching the day-to-day activities of seven of the most beautiful people in Orange County, let alone the United States, check out this DVD.
Image Transfer Review: These episodes are presented in nonanamorphic, 1.66:1 widescreen, which is how they were broadcast on MTV. The show was shot using hand-held video cameras, and everything looks about as good as can be expected, with sharp, detailed images, that only suffer from softness momentarily. There is some pixelation, but it never becomes too distracting.
Audio Transfer Review: Also similar to their TV broadcast, the audio is Dolby Digital 2.0. There are quite a few of today's pop music hits permeating the soundtrack, and these songs come across clean through all of the surround speakers. The dialogue stays up front, though, and is equally crisp and easy to understand.
Cast Interviews - Talks with each of the major cast members.
Casting Tapes - Footage shot before the show began production.
The Laguna Triangle - Video montage from Laguna Beach.
Laguna Looks - Montage showing facial reactions from the cast.
Music Videos - Seven videos from various artists.
Extras Review: An entire disc is devoted to extra features, and die-hard fans of the show are sure to enjoy most of them. There's bonus footage consisting of 11 deleted scenes, eight cast interviews, as well as a collection of footage from pre-show casting tapes. There's also a pair of pieces in this section called The Laguna Triangle and Laguna Looks, both basically montages, with the former featuring random clips from the show and the second featuring a collection of odd looks from many of the characters.
Three featurettes are next, including LC's House Tour, a nine-minute look at an amazing house that LC's father designed himself. A seven-minute piece called Lo's Guide to Laguna Beach takes us on another tour, this time of Lo's favorite places to go in her hometown, and Behind the Season One Finale with Kristin & Trey is a six-minute talk with this pair.
Seven music videos featuring songs by Jag Star, Justin Farren, Kaila, Vaughan Penn, The Pills, Aruna, and Junk total just over 25 minutes.
Aside from a collection of Paramount Home Video previews, the rest of the extras are DVD-ROM based.
Taking a cue from The OC, Laguna Beach shows us what young adult life is really like in Orange County. This group of beautiful, rich young people take us on a first-hand journey through their lives in a way that is engaging, but had me feeling guilty that I was actually enjoying this cheesy material. Paramount Home Video presents Laguna Beach: The Complete First Season in grand fashion, using two discs to house the 11 episodes of the show and a third disc dedicated to a bevy of extras.


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Q: Configure Spring security for Angular 2 I'm building a Angular 2 web client that tries to do a POST to a server using SpringBoot Security. How should I write my Spring security configuration?
My Angular call for authentication:
public login(username, password) {
  let body = JSON.stringify({username: username, password: password});
  let headers = new Headers({'Content-Type': 'application/json'});
  let options = new RequestOptions({headers: headers});
  this.http.post("http://localhost:8080/login", body, options)
    .subscribe(
      res => this.loggedIn = true,
      err => console.error("failed authentication: " + err),
      () => console.log("tried authentication")
    );
}

The authentication fails with the error:

{"timestamp":1487007177889,"status":401,"error":"Unauthorized","message":"Authentication Failed: Empty Username","path":"/login"}

My spring security configuration:
@Configuration
public class WebSecurityConfigurer extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
    @Autowired
    private RestAuthenticationEntryPoint restAuthenticationEntryPoint;
    @Autowired
    private RestAuthenticationSuccessHandler restAuthenticationSuccessHandler;
    @Autowired
    private RestAuthenticationFailureHandler restAuthenticationFailureHandler;
    @Autowired
    private RestLogoutSuccessHandler restLogoutSuccessHandler;

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.csrf().disable()
                .exceptionHandling()
                .authenticationEntryPoint(restAuthenticationEntryPoint)

                .and().formLogin()
                .loginProcessingUrl("/login")
                .usernameParameter("username")
                .passwordParameter("password")
                .successHandler(restAuthenticationSuccessHandler)
                .failureHandler(restAuthenticationFailureHandler)
                .permitAll()

                .and().logout()
                .logoutUrl("/logout")
                .logoutSuccessHandler(restLogoutSuccessHandler)
                .permitAll()

                .and().authorizeRequests().anyRequest().authenticated()
        ;
    }

    @Override
    public void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder builder) throws Exception {
        // This configuration has been tested, it works.
        // It has been removed for better readability
    }

    @Bean
    public LdapContextSource contextSource() {
        // This configuration has been tested, it works.
        // It has been removed for better readability
    }
}

A: You're supposed to use application/x-www-form-urlencoded parameters for form login, not JSON. That's why the error is saying that the username is missing, because Spring Security it trying to get it from the HttpServletRequest#getParameters. To send form parameters in Angular, you can do
import { URLSearchParams } from '@angular/http';

let params = new URLSearchParams();
params.set('username', username);
params.set('password', password);

If you set it as the body parameter of the Http request, it should (from what I remember) automatically be serialized to the correct format, i.e.
username=xxx&password=xxx

And I don't think you need to set the header Content-Type to applicatio/x-www-form-urlencoded either. I think that should also be set for you when Angular detects URLSearchParams as the body.


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I just converted my cursors into icons. You can use them as emoticons on rw-designer.com.
Which one do you prefer? These?
To see the original cursor set, click here.
The internet was such a nice place.


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Goldman issues stock market warning
RT.com
The bear phase is not over yet, according to the investment bank
The current rally in global stocks is temporary, according to Goldman Sachs, forecasting a market bottom in 2023. The Wall Street bank's strategists cite "typically consistent" indicators when saying that the bear market phase is not over yet.
"We continue to think that the near-term path for equity markets is likely to be volatile and down before reaching a final trough in 2023," they wrote in a note to clients.
The investment bank noted that while valuations had fallen this year, they had mostly done so in response to rising interest rates. Goldman added that investors haven't yet priced-in earnings losses from a recession.
The strategists expect the S&P 500 index to end 2023 at 4,000 points, which is just 0.9% higher than Friday's close. Europe's benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 was projected to finish next year about 4% higher at 450 index points.
The projection follows a recent stock rally, driven by softer US inflation reading and news of easing Covid restrictions in China. In the past month alone, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 10.6% and the S&P 500 has climbed 6.6%. The sharp rebound since mid-October followed a volatile year for global markets as central banks embarked on aggressive rate hikes to combat surging inflation.
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I just read the article on closing the halfway houses. Why does everything have to be such a hassle (all or nothing)?
Grandfather in the houses already there and don�t add any new houses. That way most people will be satisfied and there will not be the problem of finding housing for the displaced people.
As was noted, eventually the problem will solve itself.


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Mary Kom gets Khel Ratna while Sarita receives Arjuna
New Delhi, Jul 29 (IANS): For the first time since the inception of the Rajiv Khel Ratna Award in 1991, three sportspersons -- four-time world boxing champion Mangte Chungneijang Marykom, Olympic bronze medallists boxer Vijender Singh and wrestler Sushil Kumar -- will receive the country's highest sporting honour.
Mary will be the second sporstperson from the state to receive the prestigious award after weightlifter Nameirakpam Kunjarani.
The only other time more than one sportsperson was bestowed the award was in 2002-03 when shooter Anjali Vedpathak and athlete K.M. Beenamol shared it.
Meanwhile, chief minister of Manipur, O Ibobi Singh and his SPF government expressed happiness over the selection of Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Laishram Sarita for the Arjuna Award.
The chief minister said that four-time world boxing champion May Kom and international player Sarita were really rare and talented players. He expressed his pride at getting the most prestigious sports award by the players of the state and also asked the young players to concentrate and become good players while assuring that sports would surely bring peace to the state.
N Biren Singh, state minister for youth affairs and sports also expressed his happiness over the awards to be given to the players of the state and felt proud of such achievements by the state's boxing players.
The sports ministry also announced the list of 15 Arjuna Award winners Wednesday.
India's opening batsman Gautam Gambhir, world No.6 badminton player Saina Nehwal and trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi, who equalled the world record, are among those selected for the Arjuna Award.
The selection committee headed by former table tennis player Indu Puri also selected Olympic medallist Sushil's coach Satpal and former All England Badminton champion and Saina's coach Pullela Gopichand for the Dronacharya Award.
The prize money for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyanchand Awards have been increased.
Khel Ratna prize money has been hiked from Rs.500,000 to Rs.750,000 while Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyanchand Awards prize money has been increased from Rs.300,000 to Rs.500,000.
List of awardees:
Rajiv Khel Ratna: M.C. Marykom (boxer), Vijender Kumar (boxer) and Sushil Kumar (wrestling)
Arjuna Award: Mangal Singh Champia (archery), Sinimol Paulose (athletics), Saina Nehwal (badminton), L. Sarita Devi (boxing), Tania Sachdeva (chess), Gautam Gambhir (cricket), Ignatius Tirkey (hockey), Surinder Kaur (hockey), Pankaj Shirsat (kabaddi), Satish Joshi (rowing), Ranjan Sodhi (shooting), Poulami Ghatak (table tennis), Yogeshwar Dutt (wrestling), G.L. Yadav (yachting), Parul Parmar (badminton disabled)
Dronacharya Award: Baldev Singh (hockey), Jaidev Bisht (boxing), Satpal (wrestling) and Pullela Gopichand (badminton)
Dhyanchand Award: Ishar Singh Deol (athletics), Satbir Singh Dahya (wrestling)


Going away, coming back physically changed. Mentally as well? Was there life out there, and what did it do to him? It's progressive - what is happening to him? I think I will be disappointed if he is just turning into an alien - thankfully he isn't. His wife fears losing him, mentally. They find a way to treat the body, so the mind will stay. Held back by the love of his wife? And then a wonder cure? Blech! It is dangerous to go away, but we should still keep doing it.
That capsule burns an awful lot of fuel!


cactus, books and mail - what's that crazy place you're in?
We have returned from San Antonio, after a stop in Houston last night. Happily, we had lots of mail to look at, since we hadn't gotten any last week by the time we left on Thursday. Sadly, there is no new range in the kitchen, and no new dishwasher, both of which were supposed to be delivered on Saturday.