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Mets Morning News: Meet the new Mets' manager
Your Thursday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.
By Linda Surovich@LindaSurovich Jan 23, 2020, 8:45am EST
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Meet the Mets
For the second time this offseason the Mets hired a new manager.
So who exactly is Luis Rojas and what makes him qualified for the position?
The young manager already seems to be a popular choice among the players.
He has been placed in an uncomfortable situation and will have some challenges to sort out as spring training is just weeks away (paywall alert).
He will also have to deal with a coaching staff that was supposed to be Carlos Beltran's and he will have to sort out how to work with them.
So why did the organization hire Rojas instead of someone more seasoned to take the helm?
Even though he has no managerial experience at the major league level, the organization is quite familiar with Rojas and are comfortable giving him the job.
Felipe Alou believes his son will have no trouble taking over the job and even Bruce Bochy has faith in the newest rookie skipper.
According to Brodie Van Wagenen Yoenis Cespedes should offensively be ready to go for spring training, while Jed Lowrie's status is a bit more uncertain but he has progressed from last year.
After everything that has come out about Carlos Beltran, is he still a Hall of Famer?
Wally Backman was back in court as he stands trial for assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Around the National League East
Derek Jeter might be going into the Hall of Fame a Yankee but he is currently a Marlin and he claims he has a vision for the beleaguered franchise.
The Phillies signed Francisco Liriano and old friend Neil Walker to minor league deals.
Around Major League Baseball
The two newest members of the Hall of Fame met with the media to discuss their careers and what the honor meant to them. Larry Walker would like to go in wearing a Rockies hat but the final decision is up to the Hall.
Mariano Rivera remains the only unanimous selection into Cooperstown but who could be the next to join him?
Next year's class doesn't have many new additions that have a shot at being inducted so will this mean that those already on the ballot will see an increase in votes?
Despite Major League Baseball saying that electronics will be introduced in spring training games, the umpires union offered some clarity by saying their judgment will still be the final call on the strike zone.
Despite the Los Angeles City Council pushing for the results of the 2017 World Series to be vacated, Rob Manfred has no plans to grant them their wish. An apology from the Astros is perhaps more realistic to ask for and yet none seem to be forthcoming.
Jeff Luhnow might have lost his job but his tarnished legacy is still prevalent throughout baseball (paywall alert).
The Brewers' home ballpark will be undergoing a name change and will be called American Family Field.
Yesterday at Amazin' Avenue
Maggie Wiggin covered the Rene Rivera news.
Number 7 on Steve Sypa's prospect list is David Peterson.
On episode 36 of A Pod of Their Own, Sheryl Ring from Beyond the Box score was on the show to try and make sense of the mess that is baseball right now.
This Date in Mets History
On this date in 1975, Ralph Kiner was finally elected into the Hall of Fame.


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What is the Currency of the Central African Republic?
The official currency of the Central African Republic is the Central African CFA franc.
The Central African Republic (CAR) has been marred by political instability for a long time, the most recent being in 2013. Twenty-five percent of the country's 4.9 million people was displaced; however, the intervention of the international community and the democratic legislative elections have led to stability in the past three years. According to the World Bank, the GDP of the state expected a slower growth than expected due to insecurity that led to the displacement of labor and disruption of economic activities. Domestic consumption contributes significantly to the GDP in an economy where capital formation is hampered by limited public investment and unfavorable investment climate. The state's official currency is the Central African CFA franc.
The CFA Franc is the official currency use in the Central African states including CAR. It is pegged to the Euro at a standard rate of 1 Euro = CFA 655.957. The CFA franc is issued by the Bank of the Central African States that is located in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The franc has an equal value to the West African Franc but cannot be used in West Africa. The CFA Franc was introduced in 1945 by the French to its colonies in Equatorial Africa to replace the French Equatorial African franc. After Independence, the colonies continued the use of the franc. In 1984, Equatorial Guinea replaced its currency the Equatorial Guinean ekwele when it adopted the CFA franc despite being a Spanish colony. The franc is offered in both notes and coins and is divided into centimes.
CFA coins were introduced to all the French colonies in 1948 except Cameroon. The first coins were issued in denominations of 1 and 2 francs, but the production of the 2 CFA coin was stopped. The 5,10 and 25 franc coins were issued in 1958 to all the colonies including Cameroon. In 1961 and 1966 the 50 and franc coins were introduced respectively. In 1971, each state introduced the 100-franc coins within their borders; the 500-franc coins were later introduced in 1976. The coins were also introduced to Equatorial Guinea after it adopted the currency. 1n 1996, the production of 100-franc coin was centralized, and in 1998 the Bank of Central African States authorized the production of the 500-franc coin. In 2006, the 2 CFA franc coin was introduced.
When the French introduced the franc, it circulated in the denominations of 5, 10, 20, 100 and 1000 CFA franc. In 1947, a different series of notes that did not bear the name of the colonies was introduced. The 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1000 francs' notes were the first to circulate before the 500, and 5000 notes were introduced in 1949 and 1952 respectively. In 1968 the 10,000-franc note was introduced, in 1971 the 100-franc note was withdrawn from circulation and replaced by the 100-franc coin. In 1975, each state began producing their own 500, 1000, 5000 and 10,000-franc notes. However, the independent production ceased in 1993 and the state names replaced by a single letter to distinguish the state where the currency was issued. In 1993, the 2000-franc note was introduced.
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Q: Having issues with running npm start after installing chartjs I'm following along with a tutorial on building a bar chart in React from this YouTube video:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_9c5zkfQ3Y]
After installing Chartjs and Chartjs-2 and then running npm start, I get the following error:
Failed to compile.
Failed to load config "react-app" to extend from.
Referenced from: /mnt/c/Users/perez/dev/hometown-viewers/package.json
This is from my package.json file:
{
  "name": "hometown-viewers",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^5.11.4",
    "@testing-library/react": "^11.1.0",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^12.1.10",
    "chart.js": "^3.0.2",
    "eslint": "^7.23.0",
    "react": "^17.0.2",
    "react-chartjs-2": "^2.11.1",
    "react-dom": "^17.0.2",
    "react-scripts": "4.0.3",
    "web-vitals": "^1.0.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": [
      "react-app",
      "react-app/jest"
    ]
  },
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
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    "development": [
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How can I go about fixing this? Any help would be much appreciated!

A: The react wrapper is not compatible with version 3 of chart.js please downgrade to chart.js 2.9.4 (latest V2 release) by changing "chart.js": "^3.0.2", to "chart.js": "^2.9.4", in your dependencies block, run npm install again and it will work

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This Shepherd's Pie recipe is a go-to meal for me. It's easy to make, I usually have most ingredients handy, and the hubs will eat the leftovers. Score!
The recipe is not really a traditional one though. Most traditional Shepherd's Pies seem to mix all the meat and veggies together. I prefer to separate them. I also top mine with cheese. Who wouldn't want a little cheese? Cheese makes everything awesome.
To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the traditional pies I've had in restaurants. There's just something about the way the meat is flavored that I don't care for. So if you're looking for a traditional recipe, this won't be it. But if you like a good combo of meat, worcestershire sauce, potatoes, peas and cheese and you like easy to put together, this would be for you.
So here it is! I hope you like it! Let me know what you think in the comments!
1. Melt butter in pan. Add salt and pepper.
2. Add ground beef and worsheshire sauce and cook until mostly done.
3. Add onions and cook until beef is cooked (no pink for me) and onions are translucent.
4. Put beef mixture into the bottom of a casserole dish. I use an 8 inch by 8 inch.
5. Top with cooked peas, then cooked potatoes, then top with cheese.
6. Heat in oven at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Can't wait to try this recipe! I love S. Pie!! Just a note: your titles in light blue are hard to read. Make them darker. Thanks!
What a lovely site and great recipes! But thought you might want to know that this recipe is for cottage pie. Shepherd's pie is made with lamb, thus the name.


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Obamacare will increase the massive budget deficit.
Obama's Defining Lie
Terence P. Jeffrey
History will remember how often and adamantly President Barack Obama insisted that the socialized medicine law he signed last week would reduce the federal deficit. It will be his defining lie.
"This legislation will also lower costs for families and for businesses and for the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in the next two decades," Obama said when he signed the bill on March 23. "It is paid for; it is fiscally responsible."
Two days later, he repeated the claim at the University of Iowa. "Costs will come down for families and businesses and the federal government, reducing our deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next two decades," he said.
Americans wisely do not believe him. A Gallup poll released on Tuesday asked people whether the federal budget deficit would "get better, not change or get worse" as a result of Obamacare. Sixty-one percent said it would get worse, and 14% said it would not change.
An honest look at the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the total healthcare package backs the commonsense conclusion of the average American.
On March 19, two days before the House voted to enact the Senate healthcare bill and a companion reconciliation bill to make alterations in the Senate bill, the CBO sent a letter to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, responding to his question about the combined budgetary impact of these two bills plus an associated bill to adjust the Medicare payment rates for doctors that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed to enact.
The bill to adjust the Medicare payment rates for doctors is needed because, under current law, those rates are set to suddenly plunge by 21% in April. After that, they are set to decline by about 2% per year for the next decade.
These dramatic cuts are the result of a gimmick members of Congress wrote into earlier budgets: They mandated that doctors' fees suddenly drop by one-fifth as a way of making the deficit spending they were voting for seem less than it was. They always knew they would repeal the dramatic fee cuts before they actually hit. Like Obama's claim that the healthcare bill will reduce the deficit by $1 trillion, these phantom fee cuts were a lie.
So, what is the impact on the deficit when the Senate healthcare bill, the reconciliation bill to fix the Senate healthcare bill and the bill to fix the phantom reductions in doctors' fees are all considered together?
"You asked about the total budgetary impact of enacting the reconciliation proposal (the amendment to H.R. 4872), the Senate-passed health bill (H.R. 3590) and the Medicare Physicians Payment Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 3961)," CBO said in its letter to Ryan. "CBO estimates that enacting all three pieces of legislation would add $59 billion to budget deficits over the 2010-2019 period."
Rather than cut the deficit by $1 trillion over two decades as Obama claims, the full healthcare package increases the deficit by $59 billion over one decade. The CBO only does budget estimates for 10-year periods.
There are other factors buried in the CBO's analysis that further debunk the President's claim that his plan will reduce the deficit. For example, the CBO discovered that the bill authorizes new discretionary spending that Congress will need to approve in future years to make sure the bureaucracies are in place to carry out the new plan. CBO estimates this will lead to "at least $50 billion" in new spending over 10 years that was not included in the healthcare bill itself.
By contrast, the CBO did include in its analysis of the healthcare bill $53 billion in new Social Security tax revenues it believed would come to the government when employers drop expensive healthcare plans that will be subject to a new federal tax and use some of the money saved on premiums to pay their employees higher salaries that will be subject to higher payroll taxes.
The problem with counting this $53 billion in Social Security tax revenue against expenditures in Obama's healthcare plan is that Social Security is already in deficit and faces a multitrillion dollar long-term shortfall.
Nor should Obama's socialized-medicine plan be viewed in isolation from the rest of his budget. CBO says his fiscal 2011 budget proposal will increase the national debt by $9.8 trillion over the next 10 years. He is running a record $1.5 trillion deficit this year, and the smallest deficit he will ever run is $724 billion in 2014—the year his unconstitutional individual insurance mandate kicks in.
After that, the deficit starts an unbroken climb, surpassing $1 trillion again in 2018 and heading ever higher.
Just as Obama's claim that his socialized medicine plan will reduce the deficit by $1 trillion will be his defining lie, his legacy will be this: He bankrupted America.
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Written By Terence P. Jeffrey
Terence P. Jeffrey is the author of Control Freaks: 7 Ways Liberals Plan to Ruin Your Life (Regnery, 2010.)


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Walking again after paralysis
"The first time that I stood up… it was like when you start a run. Now you are a starter for the challenge – the game has begun!"
Michel Roccati was 27 years old when he was paralysed in a motorbike accident in 2017. "An animal crossed the road and made me lose control of my motorbike," Michel tells This Is MedTech. "I broke my back at different points and at the level T6 I had a complete spinal cord injury," he continues. The injury left Michel with leg paralysis and reduced stability in his trunk.
Despite the severity of his injuries, Michel knew he would find a solution. Then, at a scientific conference, he heard about a system that used electrical stimulation to reactivate spinal neurons.
"I proposed myself for the research, but my injury was too severe," Michel explains. So, Michel focused his attention on training to strengthen his trunk and maintain the elasticity of the muscles and the sequence of walking in his brain. But, in 2020, he got the call.
Michel had the opportunity to take part in a study involving a new, more sophisticated spinal implant controlled by artificial intelligence software. The implant was developed to specifically target the areas of the spinal cord involved in leg and lower trunk movement. Furthermore, a series of activity-specific stimulation programs, delivered through a portable tablet, would enable the implant to stimulate the spinal cord in the way the brain would do naturally during each activity, allowing the user to stand and walk using the device soon after implantation.
The first time Michel stood using the implant he was lost for words. "I just saw the mirror in front of me and I think my face spoke for me," he recalls. Michel went on to take steps on a treadmill with his body weight supported, pedal a motorised bike and use his legs to swim.
After several months of rehabilitation, Michel was able to stand and walk independently using a walker with remote control buttons that connected wirelessly to the tablet delivering the stimulation programs, and even enjoy a drink standing at a bar. Now, he continues to use the technology at his home in Italy.
"I have specific stimulation programs for standing, walking, going up and down stairs, swimming, cycling and using the machines in my gym," Michel explains. "I use the stimulation in my workplace to stand up and speak in a standing position at the same level as my clients and at home to do things like cooking and showering. More importantly, when I visit my friends – who all live on the first floor or second floor – I can make the stairs! I don't need help. I just need crutches where I put the button to make the stairs and I can do it alone."
While the technology is not available outside of clinical trials at present, the developers are working to turn their discoveries into a genuine treatment option available throughout the world. Meanwhile, Michel is focused on improving his walking and his immediate goal of walking 1 km. He also shares his daily experience and training with others on social media. "It is important as the goal is to make this technology available for everyone in the future," he says.
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Having already risen to national prominence in the Canadian college system, consistently claiming podium and National Championship honours in recent years, this past fall the UBCO Heat Cross-Country team made the jump to the even more competitive Canadian university system.
Now, the team needs your support to continue their tradition of success, and to compete at this more challenging level. You can help athletes and coaches alike to meet the training demands by supporting innovative year-round programs and the purchase of sport-specific training aids. Your support will help fund training elements such as a roll-out track that will transform the gym floor into a sprinting alley for speed training, as well as other aids such as agility hurdles and sprint parachutes. The equipment will also contribute to the start-up success of the new UBCO Track & Field club.


Restricting visibility can help ensure that students are ready for the next step before moving on. For example, a project might require certain surface knowledge to be acquired before they can access a folder with activities that deepen their understanding. Or, perhaps you want the students to meet with you to review a project benchmark before moving on, at which time you would provide the students with a password.
To enable the advanced visibility options, click on the Settings tab in the Activity Editor.
Open up the Visibility and Access section in activity settings.
Click the checkbox for "block student access until a specified date"
Click the checkbox for "block access until student masters objective(s)"
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To Like Or Not To Like
Instagram should remove all likes from all Instagram posts
Farouk Hamdan, Staff Writer|February 19, 2020
Elle Skarzinski
With more than 500 million daily active users and over 95 million posts made per day, the sense of competition in the Instagram community can feel suffocating. The importance teenagers place on the number of likes has become an unhealthy epidemic\; it makes people feel like they need to change who they are in order to have more people double-tap their post. Due to this habit, Instagram began experimenting with hiding the number of likes a post receives as of June 15, 2019. It is about time Instagram starts taking responsibility for the mental health issues the app has caused in teenagers.
Currently, Instagram allows users to see the number of likes another user has on their posts. The new update will say who liked it but not the number of likes. This change is a step forward in the right direction.
"We want your friends to focus on the photos and videos you share, not how many likes they get," Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said.
In December 2019, Instagram rolled out a ban on displaying the numbers of likes in the United States. The test started in seven other countries in July 2019: Australia, Canada, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Japan and New Zealand.
"While the feedback from early testing has been positive, this is a fundamental change to Instagram, so we're continuing our test to learn more from our global community," CEO Kevin Systrom said.
The suicide rate among teenage girls rose to the highest it had been in forty years in 2015. Suicide rates are a direct correlation to expectations caused by social media, according to pcc.com. The competition social media causes many to feel less than they are. I have seen it first hand\; many teenagers not liking themselves or wanting to be like someone they follow on social media.
Teenagers should not have to deal with the fear of being pressured to be someone they are not. It is the app's full responsibility to take action whenever a serious incident occurs during the use of their platform. These social media sites are not supposed to be used to compare people, but to express one's personality and style. It should not be about how many likes or followers one person has.
While eliminating likes is a step into a better future, it is still not enough. To end the epidemic completely, Instagram must become more similar to another social media networking site, VSCO. VSCO is an app used to express one's creativity and self assurance. Unlike it's competing social media sites, VSCO only allows the user to see who followed them, who favorited their images and who republished their pictures, rather than how many followers, likes, and republished they get. By eliminating the pressure social media causes, it has become an app that promotes the individual and not others. If Instagram and other social media apps care about taking responsibility for their users' mental health, they should follow VSCO's lead.
As a teenager who frequently uses social media, I have seen people change everything about them to please people to gain clout. Who cares if your Instagram post does not get 500 likes, social media is supposed to be about you and you only. There needs to be a change.
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Achieving awesome photos on your wedding day is a team effort. Yes, you've hired me for my expertise, experience, and the look I can bring to your day (comin' up!), but there are many aspects of the wedding day that no photographer can be in control of. So I've put together this post to cover as many eventualities as I can think of. This way, we can all wake up on your wedding day feeling fresh, ready and excited to celebrate one of the best days of your life.
I'll be there to help you plan, devise, fandangle —so that you don't feel like you're doing it alone. Let's get started!
This part of the day is filled with creative opportunities! There's morning light, excited faces, the bustle of activity—it's a real goldmine for intimate shots and artistic scenes.
Light: Natural light is extremely flattering and creates the most beautiful shots. Think about which rooms have the biggest windows or get the most light in the morning, and make sure both of you are in rooms with good light.
In fact, good light is a really important element of the entire day. For this reason, it should be high on your list of requirements for a good wedding venue. If the location for your wedding has small windows, dark walls and low ceilings, your photos are going to look very different than if it has big windows, white walls and high ceilings. The owner of the venue will be able to tell you what to expect and which rooms are the brightest/best for each purpose.
The Details: This is where I will get shots of the dress or suit, any love notes you and your partner exchange on the day and other details like that. Have those things accessible for me. If you plan on sending out beautiful invites, either send me one in the mail to photograph or save me a copy and I'll get a shot of it while you get ready.
Clutter: A messy room can ruin the aesthetic of your photos. For this reason, I suggest trying to keep things tidy and put the heaps of clothing and suitcases on the other side of the room - away from those big beautiful windows.
Hair and make-up: Your hair stylist/make-up artist agrees with me: natural light is crucial! So make sure your beauty station is close to a window. Often hair and make-up runs late. I recommend having a good buffer - 30 minutes to one hour, worked into your timeline so if it does go behind schedule, you aren't feeling rushed.
All dressed up: So you've got the dress on, your hair and make-up's perfect, and the guests are arriving for the ceremony. You're almost ready to go! I like to take just a couple of minutes to capture you, your bridesmaids and parent(s). If you have hired a second shooter, they will be with your partner capturing their getting ready. There's so much beauty and anticipation worth capturing in these moments!
I seriously love first looks! I know they aren't for everybody—some couples want the first time they see each other, dressed in their finery, to be as they meet at the aisle. If you do want a first look, it's an amazing opportunity to capture a few beautiful and intimate moments between the two of you, away from the crowds.
3) it takes some stress off the timeline later in the day too, because we have 10 – 20 minutes for couples shots before everything the events get underway.
Outdoor ceremonies: Outdoor ceremonies at mid day (11am-3pm) run the risk having harsh sunlight. In terms of photos, the sun will be directly above you. That often translates to those under eye shadows and nose shadow moustaches...not the most flattering. If it has to be at this time of day, try and set up the ceremony in a shaded area, that will help keep your guests cool too.
Ideally, an outdoor ceremony would take place a little later in the afternoon, when the heat of the sun has lessened and overall the light is softer. If at all possible try to set up the ceremony so that the sun is behind your Officiant. That way you two are evenly backlit. If you're unsure what would work best for you day, feel free to ask me about your ceremony spot. I'm here to help!
Go unplugged: I suggest you ask your guests to turn off their phones and refrain from taking photos during the ceremony - that's what you've hired me to do, after all! This way your witnesses can be completely present for your vows, and I don't have Uncle Jim stepping in the aisle and into my shots.
Group shots are typically taken either before the ceremony or right after. If you are doing a first look it's great to get the group shots done right before the ceremony. That way everyone is ready to go and no one has to miss cocktail hour.
If you're not doing a first look, group shots should be done after the ceremony - before people wander off and start drinking champagne! Just make sure to schedule 10 minutes in for hugs and congrats immediately after the ceremony, then it's group photo time!
The family formals photos list is the only shot list I require for your wedding day and I will work with you to create one. It's best to keep your group photo list to 10 groupings or less - just your immediate families. Plan to set aside 20-30 minutes for these family photos.
I like to have 1 hour-1.5 hours for couple portraits. This can be split up throughout the day, or all together, depending on the schedule. This will give us enough time to not feel rushed and enjoy creating beautiful images of the two of you. Also, it may be the only time you are alone together the whole day, so soak it up and enjoy!!
The best times for portraits are at a first look, post-ceremony and sunset. Why?
Post-ceremony: Just like the first look, post-ceremony pics are a great way to take a minute together, this time to celebrate the vows you've just made to each other.
Sunset: Photographers call it the Golden Hour, and it lives up to its name! The light at this time of day is warm, and the sky is often all kinds of gorgeous. This time slot also tends to work well because it falls towards the end of the reception, so you have a window to sneak out while everyone's chatting and re-filling their cups, to make some truly magical images.
Remember that these times are just guidelines. Every detail can be personalized to suit you, your timeline and the location.
By this time in the day we have worked up quite an appetite! It's time to recharge. No one likes photos of themselves eating, so it's my time to also grab a bite to eat and then get back in the action in time for the speeches.
In order for me not to miss anything, the sooner I have the chance to eat, the better. If you're having a buffet, that's easy, I can squeeze in after the "head table" (that's you guys!); if it's being served, it's a great idea to let the caterers know ahead of time that your photographer has a brief window of time before she needs to get back at it.
I strive to capture the mood of the day as it was, so I try not to add lights or flashes to your reception. Having enough light is really important though. Some ways to add light and create good ambiance are by adding strings of patio lights around the room or outdoor area and lighting candles on the tables. I want to walk around and watch the crowd so that I can get a sense of the atmosphere and capture the genuine moments that you share with your guests. The only time I'll bring out my flash is when it comes time to dance!


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U.S. Arrests Commander of Iraqi Nat'l Guard
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two car bombs wounded American and Iraqi troops west of the capital Sunday and a few hours later the U.S. military announced the arrest of a senior Iraqi National Guard (search) commander on suspicion of ties to insurgents, underscoring the challenges to building a strong Iraq security service capable of restoring stability.
The two attackers who died in the twin blasts tried to ram their cars into a National Guard base in Kharma, a town on the outskirts of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah (search), a U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity.
The number of U.S. and Iraqi casualties was not immediately clear, but a statement from the U.S. Marines said there were no serious injuries among American troops at the base.
The National Guard is the centerpiece of U.S. plans to turn over security responsibilities after elections slated for January and guardsmen have been targeted repeatedly by insurgents who are trying to undermine Iraq's interim government and drive out the U.S.-led coalition.
But the threat may not only come from outside the force. Guard Brig. Gen. Talib al-Lahibi (search), who previously served as an infantry officer in Saddam Hussein's army, was detained Thursday in the province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement announced.
The statement provided no details, but said he was suspected of having links to militants who have been attacking coalition and Iraqi forces for 17 months. Al-Lahibi was the acting head of the Iraqi National Guard for Diyala province, said Maj. Neal O'Brien, spokesman for the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian diplomat and two British Muslim leaders urged religious leaders here to help secure the release of hostages.
Egyptian official Farouq Mabrouk sought help for six Egyptian telecommunications workers abducted with four Iraqis last week. Mabrouk refused to speak to reporters after his 30-minute meeting with Harith al-Dhari, who heads the Association of Muslim Scholars, a conservative organization that has helped win the release of other foreign captives.
Gunmen abducted two of the Egyptians on Thursday in a raid on their firm's Baghdad office -- the latest in a string of kidnappings targeting engineers working on rebuilding Iraq. Eight other employees, four Egyptians and four Iraqis, were seized outside of Baghdad on Wednesday.
Two senior officials of the Muslim Council of Britain were in Baghdad seeking freedom for hostage Kenneth Bigley, a British civil engineer kidnapped Sept. 16 with two Americans who were later beheaded.
After meeting with Muslim and Christian leaders, Daud Abdullah and Musharraf Hussain told reporters, "We cannot hold a British citizen responsible for what [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair did."
A posting on an Islamic Internet site Saturday claimed followers of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi had killed Bigley, but the British Foreign Office said the claim was not credible.
Bigley's brother, Paul, said Sunday he was told the captive was still alive.
"I have received information this evening that Ken is alive," Paul Bigley said by video link to a gathering at the Brighton, England, conference of Blair's Labour Party.
He provided few details, but he urged Blair to make a personal plea for his brother's release.
"All I am asking is for communication," Paul Bigley said. "Just simply send a bloody fax pleading for my brother's life."
Earlier Sunday, Blair said his government was doing everything it "properly and legitimately" could to secure Ken Bigley's release. The prime minister's office said Blair phoned the Bigley family again Sunday, as he did earlier in the week.
Yasser el-Sirri, head of the London-based Islamic Observation Center, told The Associated Press his organization appealed Thursday to al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group to free Kenneth Bigley after the British government rejected its demands to free Muslim women from jail.
"We have received a positive answer that the group will consider our appeal when they decide his fate, and they confirmed that he is alive," said el-Sirri, whose organization often is a reliable source of information on Muslim militants.
Pressed on how he received the information on Kenneth Bigley, el-Sirri would only say it was "through a mediator in Iraq."
More than 140 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq -- some by anti-U.S. insurgents and others by criminals seeking ransom. At least 26 have been killed, including the two American civil engineers, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley.
Persistent violence, coupled with the coalition forces' lack of control in key parts of the country, have raised questions about the feasibility of holding elections by the Jan. 31 deadline.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that the United States is committed to allowing all Iraqis the chance to vote, but the top U.S. military commander in the region cautioned against expecting that sort of achievement.
Both Powell and Gen. John Abizaid spoke of a major political and military effort before the scheduled elections to take back areas that insurgents now control.
Powell said planning is under way for an Iraqi conference, possibly next month, that would include the leading industrialized nations and regional powers, including Iran and Syria.
"This was a way to reach out to Iraq's immediate neighbors and persuade them that this is the time to help Iraq, so that the region can become stable," Powell said in a televised interview.
In other violence Sunday, U.S. troops and insurgents traded fire in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, resulting in at least three people being killed and four wounded, witnesses and hospital officials said. Insurgents fired mortar rounds and rockets at two U.S. positions west and east of the city, and U.S. forces responded with shelling, striking a house in Tamim neighborhood, witnesses said.
A rocket slammed into a busy Baghdad neighborhood, killing at least one person and wounding eight, hospital officials and witnesses said.
Hours after the attack, another loud blast shook the area near the Green Zone, site of the U.S. Embassy and interim Iraqi government offices. Smoke rose above the zone and alert sirens sounded. It was not clear if anything had been hit.
Five members of the U.S. House of Representatives were in the embassy at the time, but none was injured.
The delegation included Rep. Stephanie Herseth of South Dakota, Rep. Mark Udall of Colorado, Rep. Tom Osborne of Nebraska, Rep. Ernest Istook of Oklahoma and Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey. The group was to return to the United States on Tuesday, Herseth said.


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Job market, other indicators weak — double dip recession on the horizon?
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: Ben Bernanke, double dip recession, economic indicators, Federal Reserve Bank, job market, recession — David Kirkpatrick @ 7:47 pm
Looks like not if the Fed can help it. This is likely to be a week full of not so good economic news, and if that scenario comes to pass there'll be a lot of talk about a "double dip" recession. And make no mistake, the talk will be justified. I'm not sure what fiscal tools Bernanke has left in the box, but there seems to be agreement that he'll go more chainsaw and less scalpel to avoid a double-dipper. I guess we'll see …
With little support in Congress for a renewed burst of government spending, the burden of rescuing a lagging recovery falls upon the nation's central bank. The Fed already has kept its benchmark lending rate near zero for almost two years, and has tried to further loosen credit via unusual asset purchases, known as "quantitative easing." In a speech Friday, Bernanke said the Fed would take additional "unconventional measures if it proves necessary, especially if the outlook were to deteriorate significantly."
He told an audience of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., that the Fed could spur growth by:
•Expanding its $2 trillion balance sheet with additional purchases of long-term securities.
•Announcing plans to keep its benchmark interest rate near zero for "a longer period than is currently priced into the markets."
•Or reducing the minuscule interest banks earn on deposits with the central bank.
Bernanke said the Fed must balance the benefits of employing unconventional monetary policy tools against their costs. Overly aggressive action could raise doubts that the Fed would be able to unwind its extraordinary assistance once the economy recovers.
Over 50% of Treasuries held by US investors
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Bank, invstment, Treasury Department, U.S. Treasuries — David Kirkpatrick @ 3:19 pm
For the first time in three years.
For the first time since the start of the financial crisis in August 2007, U.S. investors own more Treasuries than foreign holders.
Mutual funds, households and banks have boosted the domestic share of the $8.18 trillion in tradable U.S. debt to 50.2 percent as of May, according to the most recent Treasury Department data. The last time holdings were as high, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke cut interest rates for the first time between scheduled policy meetings as losses in subprime mortgages spurred a flight from riskier assets.
The economy stumbles on
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: Ben Bernanke, economic indicators, economy, Federal Reserve Bank, recession — David Kirkpatrick @ 1:49 pm
It's not imploding, but it's not getting better just yet. Watch the indicators — such as the still falling GDP and rising unemployment, and on the positive side a rising consumer confidence — before you believe any media hype.
For the most part the media ignored this story until it reached crisis level (I've been blogging about the financial meltdown since the first days of this blog) and then went into full "we're doomed!" mode. After scaring the pants off of everyone, the media is now going with things are better and the worst is over. Don't go to the bank with that bill of goods.
Here's the latest from the Fed:
Taking fresh stock of economic and financial conditions, Federal Reserve policymakers are considering whether they need to take additional measures to ease the recession.
Most economists are betting there won't be any major announcements Wednesday at the end of a two-day meeting given the Fed's bold $1.2 trillion move just last month to revive the economy.
Still, analysts aren't ruling anything out as credit and financial stresses persist and a new potential danger has arisen to the economy in the form of the swine flu outbreak.
"Never say never with these guys. But I don't think they have a real reason to increase support at this time," said Michael Feroli, economist at JPMorgan Economics.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are all but certain to leave the targeted range for its key bank lending rate between zero and 0.25 percent.
Watch out for deflation
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: AccountantsWorld.com, deflation, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, financial crisis — David Kirkpatrick @ 2:57 pm
You may be lamenting the outrageous cost of the bailout, you might have been hurt by the credit crunch and you are most likely gearing up for a 2009 full of only one certainty — that the entire year will be filled with nothing but uncertainty.
After all that, who's this boogyman breathing hot, rancid air down the back of your neck? Deflation.
Deflation, the steadily falling prices that are a byproduct of the virulent global recession and financial-market weakness, has emerged as a top danger for monetary policy markets in the U.S. and Europe, top central bankers made clear Sunday.
In separate comments, Lucas Papademos, the number-two official at the European Central Bank, and Janet Yellen, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, and one of the most influential officials at the Fed, said that they would quickly seek to contain the danger of deflation if it emerges in coming months.
Their remarks came at he American Economics Association convention.
Yellen said the U.S. faces a clear risk of deflation: "The odds are high that over the next few years, inflation will decline below desirable levels."
To keep falling prices from becoming entrenched, the Fed would have to make it clear to the financial markets that such an outcome is unacceptable.
"I am optimistic that, by clearly communicating the Fed's commitment to low and stable inflation and by backing that commitment up with determined policy actions should the need arise, any deflationary pressures caused by the weak economy can be contained," Yellen said.
Total bailout cost heading toward $8T
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: bailout, Bear Stearns, Bush 43, Citigroup, corporate socialism, Federal Reserve Bank, financial crisis, Obama, stimulus package — David Kirkpatrick @ 2:41 pm
Yep, you read that right — eight trillion dollars. Corporate socialism to the tune of eight trillion dollars. Obama's plan looks to be in the $700 billion range.
The system, the markets and capitalism have failed on a massive scale. This might simply be a correction in the markets — a correction we are circumventing with this massive bailout — but it's hard not to place at least some blame at the feet of the economic policies (and lack thereof) of the Bush 43 regime.
There's a reason Congress feels the need to look into the incompetence of the SEC of the last several years. Instead of competent smaller government, Bush seems to have pressed for bloated government at every step (Department of Homeland Security, anyone) and increasing incompetence across the board with each stride.
With the ongoing financial crisis and this bailout, it really feels like Main Street is full of flaming bags of shit and the taxpayers are being forced to start stomping.
From the first link way up there in the first graf:
Sitting down? It's time to tally up the federal government's bailout tab.
There was $29 billion for Bear Stearns, $345 billion for Citigroup. The Federal Reserve put up $600 billion to guarantee money market deposits and has aggressively driven down interest rates to essentially zero.
The list goes on and on. All told, Congress, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and other agencies have taken dozens of steps to prop up the economy.
Total price tag so far: $7.2 trillion in investment and loans. That puts a lot of taxpayer money at risk. Now comes President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, some details of which were made public on Monday. The tally is getting awfully close to $8 trillion.
Obama's plan would combine tax cuts with infrastructure job creation efforts. Economists say it could serve as an integral piece to the government's remaining economic recovery puzzle.
"This plan will be the first direct tool to make additions to disposable income," said Lyle Gramley, an economist with Stanford Group and former Fed governor. "None of the other efforts have done that directly."
T-bills lookin' good, interest under one percent looming?
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: Ben S. Bernanke, easury securities, Federal Reserve Bank, interest rates, T-bill — David Kirkpatrick @ 2:44 pm
The Fed has gone all topsy-turvy. I'm not certain what to make of this news.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he's ready to dig deeper into the central bank's toolkit after cutting interest rates almost as much as he can, opening the door to a shift by policy makers this month.
Bernanke yesterday said he may use less conventional policies, such as buying Treasury securities, to revive the economy, because his room to lower the main U.S. rate from the current 1 percent level is "obviously limited." Even so, reducing the rate is "certainly feasible," he said.
Policy makers may decide at their next meeting Dec. 15-16 on the details of carrying out such a shift, which might resemble the "quantitative easing" strategy the Bank of Japan pursued in 2001-2006 after driving interest rates close to zero. The Fed chief's readiness to rely more on adding reserves to the banking system prompted JPMorgan Chase & Co. economist Michael Feroli to refer to him as "Bernanke-san" in a note yesterday.
US Treasury about to begin reneging on debts?
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: Cato Institute, Federal Reserve Bank, Gerald O'Driscoll, national debt, U.S. Treasury, Wall Street Journal — David Kirkpatrick @ 2:11 pm
Maybe, according to Gerald O'Driscoll, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a former vice president and economic adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed from yesterday.
From the intro:
Will the U.S. Treasury repudiate its obligations to its creditors, be they citizens or investors around the world? Most observers would answer "no" without hesitation. But Congress, with the complicity of the White House and the Fed, has arguably embarked on a stealth repudiation.
In his famous treatise, "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith noted there had never been a "single instance" of sovereign debts having been repaid once "accumulated to a certain degree." We may have reached Smith's threshold.
And from the conclusion:
We are at a Smithian moment, in which the temptation for the Fed to spend its last dime of credibility may prove irresistible. Investors are already being taxed by inflation and can rationally expect that tax rate (the inflation rate) to be raised going forward. Wages are not keeping up. Main Street is being taxed to fund Wall Street excess. Anyone who works, saves and invests is exposed to confiscation of his capital and earnings through inflation.
If the Fed maintained its independence of action and said no to the inflationary finance of Congress's profligacy, we wouldn't have reached this point. But the Fed has forsaken that independence amid an absence of leadership.
Perhaps, as rarely happens, Adam Smith will be proven wrong. Let us hope so, because hope appears to be all we have.
SEC and Fed want to toughen rules
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: AccountantsWorld.com, Christopher Cox, Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Timothy F. Geithner — David Kirkpatrick @ 3:31 pm
This AccountantsWorld.com article outlines an effort by the SEC and the Federal Reserve to press Congress for additional regulatory and supervisory powers.
At a Congressional hearing on how to modernize financial regulation, the S.E.C. and the Fed laid out similar, if somewhat competing, visions for a new regime capable of monitoring commercial and investment banks to ensure they remain financially sound in order to prevent another credit crisis.
Both the S.E.C. chairman, Christopher Cox, and the New York Federal Reserve Bank president, Timothy F. Geithner, said that the current patchwork of regulatory agencies, much of which dates back to the Depression of the 1930s, deserved part of the blame for the yearlong financial market turmoil.
But Mr. Cox said his agency should oversee investment banks, while Mr. Geithner said the Fed must have a direct supervisory role over any firms that borrow from the central bank.
"It's very important that we have a role in consolidated supervision of these institutions because you will not have good judgments made by this central bank, this Federal Reserve, in the future unless we have the direct knowledge that comes with supervision," Mr. Geithner told the House Financial Services Committee.
Global accounting gets high level support
Filed under: Business, Politics — Tags: accounting standards, Ben Bernanke, CFO.com, Federal Reserve Bank, Henry Paulson — David Kirkpatrick @ 12:08 pm
The merging of US and international accounting standards is coming. Global companies welcome this because this integration eases the need to keep separate books to meet two sets of standards.
The looming reality of one world-one standard recently received support from a couple of heavy hitters …
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke both defended the Securities and Exchange Commission's plans for converging American accounting standards with international bookkeeping rules.
Their comments on Thursday came in response to criticism over the rapid progression of the project that is being pushed aggressively by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. Michael Capuano, a congressman from Massachusetts and a member of the House Financial Services Committee, questioned the Treasury and Fed chiefs on the wisdom of outsourcing, in a manner of speaking, the rules that affect how companies report their most crucial information — including earnings — at a time when the U.S. is in the midst of a regulatory overhaul. Paulson and Bernanke were testifying at hearing about how to overhaul the regulation system.
Bear Stearns reaches for bailout
Filed under: Business, Media — Tags: Bear Stearns, CFO.com, Federal Reserve Bank, Henry Paulson, JPMorgan, New York Times — David Kirkpatrick @ 9:52 am
The media may be reporting mixed signals, but the US economic crisis is going nowhere.
From the linked NYT article:
Bear Stearns, facing a grave liquidity crisis, reached out to JPMorgan on Friday for a short-term financial lifeline and now faces the prospect of the end of its 85-year run as an independent investment bank.
With the support of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JPMorgan said in a statement that it had "agreed to provide secured funding to Bear Stearns, as necessary, for an initial period of up to 28 days."
Update — Here's a CFO.com article with more on this issue and about government financial regulation in general.
From the CFO.com link:
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, now dealing with his very own horror show in the melting credit markets, can probably relate.
Paulson, the former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, has strived to regulate the financial markets with a light touch. Yet the most recent report of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, which Paulson chairs, shows financial regulators are being pulled inexorably by the worsening credit crisis to use a heavier regulatory hand, or even to intervene directly in the market.
Indeed, today, just one day after the report was released, the Federal Reserve was forced to back a bailout of Bear Stearns. And earlier in the week, the Fed poured some $200 billion of liquidity into the market. The report of the President's Working Group itself contains recommendations that translate into increased regulatory oversight of everything from credit rating agencies to banks to institutional investors to mortgage brokers. The report also recommends that regulators intervene with other standard-setting bodies, notably the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.


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Dr. Benjamin Spock, the nation's baby doctor in spite of everything, will be 80 years old Monday. He will celebrate at his solar-heated home in the Ozarks, where he and his wife, Mary Morgan, who is 39, have lived since 1976. If the weather is decent, the white-haired, barrel-chested old athlete will hurl his 6-foot, 4-inch body into a boat on nearby Beaver Lake and row his customary eight miles. Maybe, because it will be his birthday, he will stop fretting about the future of the world for a few minutes and let his memory drift - say, to 1924, when his crew from Yale won the Paris Olympics.
Not likely, though. He made a birthday speech here today, and when one of the 200 or so people at the party hollered, ''Give us advice,'' he responded with 10 minutes of instruction on working for nuclear disarmament.
Then the fire faded (minutes before, he had told an interviewer that he was no longer angry at anyone except President Reagan), and neighbors and admirers once again saw the other side of him: the reassuring doctor, the friend millions still turn to when the baby wakes up with colic, the man many will always consider the uncle of his country.
Looking out at the men, women, children and babes in arms, he said, ''I hope that sooner or later you will all commit civil disobedience.'' He smiled, as a doctor smiles when advising a worried mother.
Dr. Spock, son of a proper Connecticut family, cast his first vote for Calvin Coolidge for President. He has been moving to the left since and now advocates the decentralized socialism of the People's Party platform. He is dismayed by the apolitical nature of many of the nation's young.


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I would suggest you go through [thread=168]Before you make a query[/thread] thread.
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does it mean that I should look for you in places such as these?
does it mean that I should gravitate toward places such as these?
does it tell me I should pursue people such as these?
does it tell me I should pursue a life such as this?
could it be that resurrection is a very subtle thing?
so unassuming that it can easily go unnoticed?
I'm so glad Easter is a season rather than just a day. So maybe, over the next 50 or so days (until Pentecost) ,I will train my eyes and my heart to see you, O Risen Christ, in ways and in places that I don't normally see you.
He is Risen!!! He is Risen indeed!!!


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Presidential Address.
"November, 1901.
"I have given my party. Fifty people attended, thirty-eight of them 'grown-ups.' It began at 7.30 and ended at 2.15 a.m., starting with a trifle of 165 verses about a certain 'Earl of Engelland' and his two sons. You could have heard my party half a mile, and it was supposed to be a very fine entertainment. We had coffee, Jul-kage, Scotch biscuits, tobacco, cigars, and sweets, and I doubt if any other church-capital ever gave a dance to all the youth of the city for the sum of fourteen shillings! The gentlemen all wore their hats, and most of them neck-mufflers. ' Kissing games ' followed from i o'clock to 2.15, and there was one very pretty figure-dance, when twenty of the gentlemen's garters were used. Altogether it was a great success."
"Nov. 23rd, 1902.
"I wish you could have attended a large wedding in that I saw last week. It lasted 50 hours, and dancing went on about 46 hours out of the fifty. I saw one great-grandfather, grandfather to the bride, dancing vigorously the old Danish ballad ' There lived two Earls in Engelland,' 165 verses long. He was 86 years old. Most of the dance ballads were old Danish kempeviser, but there were also Far6sk ones,—The Long Serpent, Sigmund's ballad, Jakoba Mon, one of the Charlemagne ballads, and perhaps eight or nine more during the whole time of dancing."
In another letter the writer states that the dances cease during the season of Lent.
Note II. The Dedications of Churches.
The Roman Mission under Augustine introduced the veneration of the Apostles. The names of St. Peter, St. Andrew, etc., with the local Roman saints Gregory and Lawrence, mark their foundations. St. Mary and All Saints are of every date and school. The Celtic Church revered its own holy men, as we see to this day both in the dedications and the place-names of Wales and Cornwall. The Anglo-Saxon Church, later, followed to some extent in its steps, and commemorated,—(to mention only a few),—St. Cuthbert and St. Chad, St. Hilda, St. Edith, and St. Mildred. St. Leonard, protector of captives, and St. Giles, patron of cripples, the
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FuboTV has cloud DVR, which means your recordings are uploaded online for viewing on any Fubo-equipped device synced with your account. Anyone who's used a DVR before will be immediately familiar with FuboTVs interface; just find the program you want, hit record, and enjoy later. You don't need to be there when a show starts to record it.
One of FuboTVs best features is the ability to start a recording at any time and still record the whole show. If you stumble upon a program already in progress and hit record, your FuboTV DVR will copy the entire show from the beginning. This feature makes it easy to quickly fill up your DVR with random shows.
More good news: FuboTV has the most generous rules about how long you can keep DVR content. Your DVR recordings last as long as you're a subscriber or until you run out of storage space. That means if you've got a favorite episode of something, you won't have to worry about it automatically deleting itself after a month like some services. Or you can spring for the $9.99-per-month extended DVR plan, which gives you 500 hours of space.
While FuboTV deserves credit for it's "record any time" feature, there is one drawback. For most FuboTV users, DVR'd shows won't be available until one hour after the recording is done. The exception to this rule is users watching on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad, which are the only devices at the moment supporting the instant DVR feature. Those three devices can watch their recordings instantaneously.
Subscribers can record almost anything on local TV, except for blacked-out sporting events. There may be a few local channels nationwide that FuboTV does not have permission to record, but there's no public listing of them and those channels are outliers. As with every streaming TV service, if a show is not available, you'll be notified when you attempt to start your recording.


Every morning around 6:09 from my Metra train heading into the loop , the skyline and Hancock Building come into view if I'm sitting on one side, or the Sears Tower (known as Willis Tower at the moment, but who cares) on the other. How they look changes with the weather and time the sun comes up. As always, these are taken with my Galaxy 7 cellphone, and always cropped, since the actual skyline is maybe 10% of the raw image, and I always snap maybe 100 shots to get one or two that aren't blocked by clutter. I've included one of the raw images in the album. Bottom line-- Chicago's a gorgeous model.


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#include <linux/nl80211.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/pci-aspm.h>
#include <linux/ath9k_platform.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include "ath9k.h"

static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(ath_pci_id_table) = {
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0023) }, /* PCI   */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0024) }, /* PCI-E */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0027) }, /* PCI   */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0029) }, /* PCI   */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x002A) }, /* PCI-E */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x002B) }, /* PCI-E */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x002C) }, /* PCI-E 802.11n bonded out */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x002D) }, /* PCI   */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x002E) }, /* PCI-E */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0030) }, /* PCI-E  AR9300 */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0032) }, /* PCI-E  AR9485 */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0033) }, /* PCI-E  AR9580 */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0034) }, /* PCI-E  AR9462 */
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(ATHEROS, 0x0037) }, /* PCI-E  AR1111/AR9485 */
	{ 0 }
};

/* return bus cachesize in 4B word units */
static void ath_pci_read_cachesize(struct ath_common *common, int *csz)
{
	struct ath_softc *sc = (struct ath_softc *) common->priv;
	u8 u8tmp;

	pci_read_config_byte(to_pci_dev(sc->dev), PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, &u8tmp);
	*csz = (int)u8tmp;

	/*
	 * This check was put in to avoid "unpleasant" consequences if
	 * the bootrom has not fully initialized all PCI devices.
	 * Sometimes the cache line size register is not set
	 */

	if (*csz == 0)
		*csz = DEFAULT_CACHELINE >> 2;   /* Use the default size */
}

static bool ath_pci_eeprom_read(struct ath_common *common, u32 off, u16 *data)
{
	struct ath_softc *sc = (struct ath_softc *) common->priv;
	struct ath9k_platform_data *pdata = sc->dev->platform_data;

	if (pdata) {
		if (off >= (ARRAY_SIZE(pdata->eeprom_data))) {
			ath_err(common,
				"%s: eeprom read failed, offset %08x is out of range\n",
				__func__, off);
		}

		*data = pdata->eeprom_data[off];
	} else {
		struct ath_hw *ah = (struct ath_hw *) common->ah;

		common->ops->read(ah, AR5416_EEPROM_OFFSET +
				      (off << AR5416_EEPROM_S));

		if (!ath9k_hw_wait(ah,
				   AR_EEPROM_STATUS_DATA,
				   AR_EEPROM_STATUS_DATA_BUSY |
				   AR_EEPROM_STATUS_DATA_PROT_ACCESS, 0,
				   AH_WAIT_TIMEOUT)) {
			return false;
		}

		*data = MS(common->ops->read(ah, AR_EEPROM_STATUS_DATA),
			   AR_EEPROM_STATUS_DATA_VAL);
	}

	return true;
}

static void ath_pci_extn_synch_enable(struct ath_common *common)
{
	struct ath_softc *sc = (struct ath_softc *) common->priv;
	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(sc->dev);
	u8 lnkctl;

	pci_read_config_byte(pdev, sc->sc_ah->caps.pcie_lcr_offset, &lnkctl);
	lnkctl |= PCI_EXP_LNKCTL_ES;
	pci_write_config_byte(pdev, sc->sc_ah->caps.pcie_lcr_offset, lnkctl);
}

/* Need to be called after we discover btcoex capabilities */
static void ath_pci_aspm_init(struct ath_common *common)
{
	struct ath_softc *sc = (struct ath_softc *) common->priv;
	struct ath_hw *ah = sc->sc_ah;
	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(sc->dev);
	struct pci_dev *parent;
	int pos;
	u8 aspm;

	pos = pci_pcie_cap(pdev);
	if (!pos)
		return;

	parent = pdev->bus->self;
	if (!parent)
		return;

	if ((ath9k_hw_get_btcoex_scheme(ah) != ATH_BTCOEX_CFG_NONE) &&
	    (AR_SREV_9285(ah))) {
		/* Bluetooth coexistance requires disabling ASPM for AR9285. */
		pci_read_config_byte(pdev, pos + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL, &aspm);
		aspm &= ~(PCIE_LINK_STATE_L0S | PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1);
		pci_write_config_byte(pdev, pos + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL, aspm);

		/*
		 * Both upstream and downstream PCIe components should
		 * have the same ASPM settings.
		 */
		pos = pci_pcie_cap(parent);
		pci_read_config_byte(parent, pos + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL, &aspm);
		aspm &= ~(PCIE_LINK_STATE_L0S | PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1);
		pci_write_config_byte(parent, pos + PCI_EXP_LNKCTL, aspm);

		return;
	}

	pos = pci_pcie_cap(parent);
	pci_read_config_byte(parent, pos +  PCI_EXP_LNKCTL, &aspm);
	if (aspm & (PCIE_LINK_STATE_L0S | PCIE_LINK_STATE_L1)) {
		ah->aspm_enabled = true;
		/* Initialize PCIe PM and SERDES registers. */
		ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave(ah, false);
	}
}

static const struct ath_bus_ops ath_pci_bus_ops = {
	.ath_bus_type = ATH_PCI,
	.read_cachesize = ath_pci_read_cachesize,
	.eeprom_read = ath_pci_eeprom_read,
	.extn_synch_en = ath_pci_extn_synch_enable,
	.aspm_init = ath_pci_aspm_init,
};

static int ath_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
{
	void __iomem *mem;
	struct ath_softc *sc;
	struct ieee80211_hw *hw;
	u8 csz;
	u32 val;
	int ret = 0;
	char hw_name[64];

	if (pci_enable_device(pdev))
		return -EIO;

	ret =  pci_set_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
	if (ret) {
		printk(KERN_ERR "ath9k: 32-bit DMA not available\n");
		goto err_dma;
	}

	ret = pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(pdev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
	if (ret) {
		printk(KERN_ERR "ath9k: 32-bit DMA consistent "
			"DMA enable failed\n");
		goto err_dma;
	}

	/*
	 * Cache line size is used to size and align various
	 * structures used to communicate with the hardware.
	 */
	pci_read_config_byte(pdev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, &csz);
	if (csz == 0) {
		/*
		 * Linux 2.4.18 (at least) writes the cache line size
		 * register as a 16-bit wide register which is wrong.
		 * We must have this setup properly for rx buffer
		 * DMA to work so force a reasonable value here if it
		 * comes up zero.
		 */
		csz = L1_CACHE_BYTES / sizeof(u32);
		pci_write_config_byte(pdev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, csz);
	}
	/*
	 * The default setting of latency timer yields poor results,
	 * set it to the value used by other systems. It may be worth
	 * tweaking this setting more.
	 */
	pci_write_config_byte(pdev, PCI_LATENCY_TIMER, 0xa8);

	pci_set_master(pdev);

	/*
	 * Disable the RETRY_TIMEOUT register (0x41) to keep
	 * PCI Tx retries from interfering with C3 CPU state.
	 */
	pci_read_config_dword(pdev, 0x40, &val);
	if ((val & 0x0000ff00) != 0)
		pci_write_config_dword(pdev, 0x40, val & 0xffff00ff);

	ret = pci_request_region(pdev, 0, "ath9k");
	if (ret) {
		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "PCI memory region reserve error\n");
		ret = -ENODEV;
		goto err_region;
	}

	mem = pci_iomap(pdev, 0, 0);
	if (!mem) {
		printk(KERN_ERR "PCI memory map error\n") ;
		ret = -EIO;
		goto err_iomap;
	}

	hw = ieee80211_alloc_hw(sizeof(struct ath_softc), &ath9k_ops);
	if (!hw) {
		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No memory for ieee80211_hw\n");
		ret = -ENOMEM;
		goto err_alloc_hw;
	}

	SET_IEEE80211_DEV(hw, &pdev->dev);
	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, hw);

	sc = hw->priv;
	sc->hw = hw;
	sc->dev = &pdev->dev;
	sc->mem = mem;

	/* Will be cleared in ath9k_start() */
	sc->sc_flags |= SC_OP_INVALID;

	ret = request_irq(pdev->irq, ath_isr, IRQF_SHARED, "ath9k", sc);
	if (ret) {
		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "request_irq failed\n");
		goto err_irq;
	}

	sc->irq = pdev->irq;

	ret = ath9k_init_device(id->device, sc, &ath_pci_bus_ops);
	if (ret) {
		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to initialize device\n");
		goto err_init;
	}

	ath9k_hw_name(sc->sc_ah, hw_name, sizeof(hw_name));
	wiphy_info(hw->wiphy, "%s mem=0x%lx, irq=%d\n",
		   hw_name, (unsigned long)mem, pdev->irq);

	return 0;

err_init:
	free_irq(sc->irq, sc);
err_irq:
	ieee80211_free_hw(hw);
err_alloc_hw:
	pci_iounmap(pdev, mem);
err_iomap:
	pci_release_region(pdev, 0);
err_region:
	/* Nothing */
err_dma:
	pci_disable_device(pdev);
	return ret;
}

static void ath_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
	struct ieee80211_hw *hw = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
	struct ath_softc *sc = hw->priv;
	void __iomem *mem = sc->mem;

	if (!is_ath9k_unloaded)
		sc->sc_ah->ah_flags |= AH_UNPLUGGED;
	ath9k_deinit_device(sc);
	free_irq(sc->irq, sc);
	ieee80211_free_hw(sc->hw);

	pci_iounmap(pdev, mem);
	pci_disable_device(pdev);
	pci_release_region(pdev, 0);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PM

static int ath_pci_suspend(struct device *device)
{
	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(device);
	struct ieee80211_hw *hw = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
	struct ath_softc *sc = hw->priv;

	/* The device has to be moved to FULLSLEEP forcibly.
	 * Otherwise the chip never moved to full sleep,
	 * when no interface is up.
	 */
	ath9k_hw_disable(sc->sc_ah);
	ath9k_hw_setpower(sc->sc_ah, ATH9K_PM_FULL_SLEEP);

	return 0;
}

static int ath_pci_resume(struct device *device)
{
	struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(device);
	u32 val;

	/*
	 * Suspend/Resume resets the PCI configuration space, so we have to
	 * re-disable the RETRY_TIMEOUT register (0x41) to keep
	 * PCI Tx retries from interfering with C3 CPU state
	 */
	pci_read_config_dword(pdev, 0x40, &val);
	if ((val & 0x0000ff00) != 0)
		pci_write_config_dword(pdev, 0x40, val & 0xffff00ff);

	return 0;
}

static const struct dev_pm_ops ath9k_pm_ops = {
	.suspend = ath_pci_suspend,
	.resume = ath_pci_resume,
	.freeze = ath_pci_suspend,
	.thaw = ath_pci_resume,
	.poweroff = ath_pci_suspend,
	.restore = ath_pci_resume,
};

#define ATH9K_PM_OPS	(&ath9k_pm_ops)

#else /* !CONFIG_PM */

#define ATH9K_PM_OPS	NULL

#endif /* !CONFIG_PM */

MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, ath_pci_id_table);

static struct pci_driver ath_pci_driver = {
	.name       = "ath9k",
	.id_table   = ath_pci_id_table,
	.probe      = ath_pci_probe,
	.remove     = ath_pci_remove,
	.driver.pm  = ATH9K_PM_OPS,
};

int ath_pci_init(void)
{
	return pci_register_driver(&ath_pci_driver);
}

void ath_pci_exit(void)
{
	pci_unregister_driver(&ath_pci_driver);
}

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Консервати́вная колеба́тельная систе́ма — это идеализированная колебательная система, в которой запас механической или электромагнитной энергии, или той и другой в совокупности, в процессе совершения колебаний остаётся постоянным. В консервативных колебательных системах нет диссипации энергии.

Примеры консервативных колебательных систем
 Гармонический осциллятор
 Математический маятник без затухания
 Электрический контур без потерь

Литература

Теория колебаний

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"Oumeh" is like "omg" or "wtf" and is very specific to one region, i.e. not a part of the standard Korean/Keolian vocabulary.
Also, we have a new voting image for TWC! It's of everyone's favorite bear on stilts.
Awesome work, I look forward to the direction and creativity you will bring to this story.


We use this section to highlight events that are pertinent to a college-wide audience. We rotate through events from all campuses, and about a variety of topics. Each item points to its listing in the PCC event calendar or event page.
The Web Team adds events to the page manually.
There can be one or two events, or we can remove the section if there are no events to show. A "more events" link directs readers to the PCC event calendar. Each event includes the abbreviated campus location (or no location if it's at multiple campuses), a short title, and the event date. We don't include the time.
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from girder_large_image.girder_tilesource import GirderTileSource

from . import DeepzoomFileTileSource

class DeepzoomGirderTileSource(DeepzoomFileTileSource, GirderTileSource):
    """
    Deepzoom large_image tile source for Girder.

    Provides tile access to Girder items with a Deepzoom xml (dzi) file and
    associated pngs/jpegs in relative folders and items or on the local file
    system.
    """

    cacheName = 'tilesource'
    name = 'deepzoom'

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Q: Detect drop with jQuery sortable I'm playing with jQuery Sortable (http://johnny.github.io/jquery-sortable/) to display nested lists, move elements and then save the final results. The final goals is to manage a site structure/hierarchy by displaying categories and pages with drag & drop possibilities.
Displaying the list, dragging and dropping elements and saving the output works fine. I now would like to detect drop events to indicate which elements have been moved. This would help me to avoid updating the whole site structure while only a few elements have moved.
My nested list looks like this:

    LABEL

LABEL

LABEL

LABEL

LI are all droppable and draggable
everything is initialized with:

Now comes the difficult part, I try to detect drop events.
The following one doesn't work at all:
$( ".placeholder-children" ).droppable({
drop: function( event, ui ) {
alert('dropped');
}
});
});

This one works but freezes my page:

This code triggers the expected alert but the dragging freezes and I can't modify anything in my list anymore. It's like the whole screen is frozen as I can't move or click anything anymore. I need to reload the page get out of it.
Note: without the alert, it also freezes.
Any idea?
UPDATE:
I have added a JSfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/t9mp80yw/
but I don't know how to call the .js file so that the script can be initialized. I have tried to added the file hosted on my server but it looks like jsfiddle doesn't accept external files.
UPDATE2
I have tried the script with Firefox and Internet Explorer, same issue.
Thanks a lot
Laurent
PS: not shown here but jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Sortable are correctly loaded

A: The onDrop function needs you to do certain things.
From http://johnny.github.io/jquery-sortable/#nested
onDrop: function (item, container, _super) {
    container.el.removeClass("active")
    _super(item)
}

It looks like super is a callback that needs to be called if you override onDrop. Replace your onDrop function with this and it works.
http://jsfiddle.net/xdjn2wqp/2/
The best way to learn a new library is to paste in some of their working example code and go from there.

A: stop: function(event, ui) {
    console.log('Sortable stop');
}


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Will the Swiss and the EU Get to Yes?
The Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss diplomatic community have been all aflutter about who would go to Brussels to negotiate with the European Commission. While it was obvious from the protocol perspective that the rotating Swiss president, Guy Parmelin would go, the question was who would accompany him. Would Ignazio Cassis, the foreign minister, More
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The Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss diplomatic community have been all aflutter about who would go to Brussels to negotiate with the European Commission. While it was obvious from the protocol perspective that the rotating Swiss president, Guy Parmelin would go, the question was who would accompany him. Would Ignazio Cassis, the foreign minister, go along? If not, how would Parmelin, a farmer with little international experience, be able to negotiate an institutional framework agreement between Switzerland and the EU that has been blocked for years.
The art of negotiation, and it is an art, has become a regularly studied academic and diplomatic subject since Roger Fisher and William Ury's set off a cottage industry with their 1981 best seller Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. (It became a perennial best-seller and is now in its third edition) Individuals, companies and nations have all signed on to the Harvard Negotiation Project and its spinoffs to try to learn how to get to yes.
But the negotiation between two sides assumes that the negotiators have already been chosen. The actors negotiating have to have the authority to make decisions that will be binding after any agreement is reached. After all, what is the point of negotiating if the agreement reached cannot be implemented by one or both sides? Each negotiator must have the necessary legitimacy for his/her side for an agreement to hold.
In Switzerland, pre-negotiation among the Federal Council determined who would go to Brussels. (Cassis will not.) But the very fact that there was a discussion indicates that there was less than unanimity among the Federal Counsellors about who would go, an indication of a lack of agreement on the position of the Swiss Government. Not simple, therefore, for Europeans to understand the Swiss position if among the Swiss authorities they hesitate in deciding who will go to Brussels to meet with Ms. von der Leyen.
To add to the confusion: Who is Switzerland negotiating with? An example of pre-negotiation problems is the protocol mishap about the chair for the European Commission's head in the recent meeting with the Turkish President Erdogan. Was the Commission's head less important than the European Council's President Charles Michel? Who was Erdogan negotiating with? If the Europeans couldn't get their chain of command straight, how were the Turks to negotiate seriously with them? The "Sofagate" scandal was certainly not an impressive example of European unity or respect for women's rights.
The question of legitimacy and authority is the basis of all negotiations. The question of who you are is the fundamental fact that must be understood before any negotiation can take place. What is the point of negotiating with someone who has no authority?
The Swiss federal system has many attractions. But, in certain situations such as the negotiations with the European Union or even the question of who is in charge of the pandemic emergency, the lack of clear authority hampers decision-making. A federal democracy has its obvious advantages as well as disadvantages. This is not a call for dictators or autocratic rule. No one questions President Erdogan's authority, but people should not forget his violations of human rights. Rather, it is a recognition that pre-negotiations about positions of power can show potential weaknesses in later negotiations.
If the Swiss and Europeans are to have fruitful negotiations to get to yes on an institutional framework agreement, both sides must be clear about the identity of the other side. So just as Switzerland's federal system hinders clear lines of authority, the EU's devolution of power also raises questions. The April 23 Brussels meeting should clarify lines of authority, a pre-condition to reaching any meaningful agreement. 80% of Switzerland's trade is with EU member countries. So getting to yes is a Swiss imperative, not matter how confused the pre-negotiations have been.
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