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Paul Krugman, Niall Ferguson and the norms of public intellectualism in a digital age
The academic blogosphere had been getting a bit boring ever since the Chomsky and Zizek spat came to an end. Fortunately, Niall Ferguson decided a couple of days ago that it was time to take his longstanding feud with Paul Krugman to the next level in an earnest essay, syndicated on the Huffington Post weirdly enough, which largely amounts to an extend accusation that Krugman is a bully who hides his frequent errors through the ferocity with which he is alleged to attack advocates of austerity.
Much of it is remarkably dull, with the end result of the countless hours Ferguson has clearly spent reading through the archives of Krugman's blog looking remarkably like the sort of thing you find on pg 50 of a bad tempered debate thread on a bulletin board that takes itself far too seriously. In essence Ferguson is self-consciously pursuing this as a clash of public intellectuals concerning the norms of public intellectualism. But what's remarkable is the banality of much of the discussion and I found it difficult not to wonder if the internet might have been spared this diatribe were Ferguson only to have become acquainted at the right moment with the xkcd cartoon on the left (which has personally saved me from becoming embroiled in pointless internet disputes on more occasions than I can count).
But while I utterly failed to engage with the body of Ferguson's essay, it was hard not to be interested in the final section where he effectively got to his point after the long preamble:
So we public intellectuals should not brag too loudly when we get things right. Nor should we condemn too harshly the predictions of others that are subsequently falsified by events. The most that we can do in this unpredictable world is read as widely and deeply as we can, think seriously, and then exchange ideas in a humble and respectful manner. Nobody ever seems to have explained this to Paul Krugman. There is a reason that his hero John Maynard Keynes did not go around calling his great rival Friedrich Hayek a "mendacious idiot" or a "dope".
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/niall-ferguson/krugtron-the-invincible-p_b_4073956.html
I assume he's correct about this. Though that might be because they were friends rather than any inherent reticence to name call on the part of Keynes. But nonetheless I'm interested to see how Krugman responds to this:
When Paul Krugman first began his attacks against me, he made it clear – as if almost proud of the fact – that he had read none of my books. (Quote: "I'm told that some of his straight historical work is very good.") This was a mistake on his part. I have read his books. If he had read mine, he would perhaps have thought twice about seeking to discredit me on the basis of a few articles and interviews.
Krugman's unabashed ignorance of my academic work raises the question of what, in fact, he does read, apart from posts by the other liberal bloggers who are his zealous followers. There is a ratio that really would be good to have as a metric of the seriousness of a public intellectual. It is the ratio of words read to words written. Ideally, I would say, that ratio should be between 100 and 1000 to 1. But in the case of the Invincible Krugtron, I begin to suspect it has now fallen below unity. (When he does read a book, he mentions it in his blog as if it's a special holiday treat.)
In the past few days, I have pointed out that he has no right at all to castigate me or anyone else for real or imagined mistakes of prognostication. But the fact that Paul Krugman is often wrong is not the most important thing. It is his utter disregard for the norms of civility that is crucial here. I am not alone in being dismayed by Krugman's "spectacularly uncivil behavior". It is "my duty, as I see it, is to make my case as best I honestly can," Krugman has written, "not [to] put on a decorous show of civilized discussion." Well, I am here to tell him that "civilized discussion" matters. It matters because vitriolic language of the sort he uses is a key part of what is wrong with America today. As an eminent economist said to me last week, people are afraid of Krugman. More "decorous" but perhaps equally intelligent academics simply elect not to enter a public sphere that he and his parasitical online pals are intent on poisoning. I agree with Raghuram Rajan, one of the few economists who authentically anticipated the financial crisis: Krugman's is "the paranoid style in economics":
All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side's motives and methods … Instead of fostering public dialogue and educating the public, the public is often left in the dark. And it discourages younger, less credentialed economists from entering the public discourse.
Where I come from, however, we do not fear bullies. We despise them. And we do so because we understand that what motivates their bullying is a deep sense of insecurity. Unfortunately for Krugtron the Invincible, his ultimate nightmare has just become a reality. By applying the methods of the historian – by quoting and contextualizing his own published words – I believe I have now made him what he richly deserves to be: a figure of fun, whose predictions (and proscriptions) no one should ever again take seriously.
And I'm finding it hard not to wonder about the read:written ratio of many authors now! Mine has diminished over the last couple of years but is still probably relatively healthy. The disturbing thought this provoked was that with the rise of eReaders, increasingly sophisticated reference managers and the move away from paper, the only practical obstacle to consistently measuring this is a lack of standardisation about what and how different people are reading. How long before the F(erguson) index comes to supplement the H index et al on Google Scholar profiles…..?
Going back to the supposed topic of this post, this comment pretty much sums up my reaction to Ferguson's attack:
My advice to Ferguson would be: Unless you're aiming for your legacy as a public intellectual to be "that British guy who constantly went after Paul Krugman", I'd suggest finding something else to write about. History, for example. I hear you're a very good historian.
The response by Matt O'Brien from the Atlantic here is worth reading:
And then there's Ferguson's bizarre jihad against Paul Krugman, along with his many "acolytes" (though we prefer to call ourselves Krugman's Killer Apps), for not being perfectly clairvoyant. I'm not sure why Ferguson thinks anybody should think less of Krugman for being bearish on the euro, which was entirely appropriate before Draghi's "whatever it takes" moment, and still might be. Least of all Ferguson, who himself has been … pretty bearish on the euro. Unless that's the point? That agreeing with Ferguson shows that Krugman makes mistakes? It's not clear.
Ferguson fancies himself a victim of liberal intolerance—a conservative crucified on a cross of tweets. And, worse, by his lessers. Who are these unwashed masses of university professors and writers who dare question him? He's written books, and I have not.
Arguing from authority is always a bad sign, because it means you can't argue from the merits. Maybe Ferguson should try not making arguments that seem tendentious at best, and oblivious at worst. But now we're getting into counterfactuals.
And this is Krugman's own response:
Some readers have been asking when I'm going to reply to certain rants aimed my way. The answer is, never.
But if you really really need a fix, here are a couple of members of my sinister claque: Noah Smith and Josh Barro.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/dont-feed-the-trolls/
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Philip Roddis says:
I'm not familiar with Ferguson's work but I am a little with Krugman's. I first noticed him on BBC Newsnight just over a year ago. With effortless good manners he demolished the two blowhards – a snarling Adam Smith Instituter (or similar) plus hoplessly out of her depth tory – lined up against him while Paxo sat back to enjoy the slaughter. It took PK all of forty seconds to show the absurdity of likening macro economics to household budgeting, something Labour front-benchers haven't managed in forty months. I was impressed. I then read End This Depression Now.
No wonder the right don't like him.
Yep I saw that too – he's a nobel prize winning economist who thinks 'austerity' is a stupid concept. Shame Labour are too spineless to say the same thing.
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Maybe we could replace "Shame Labour …"
"F***ing tragedy Labour …"
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Indian Medicinal Plants in Children Diseases
Author's Preface Information on the use of medicinal plants in relation to children diseases is scattered and most of it is found in books and periodicals, many of which are out of print and are not available in large libraries. One of the greatest difficulties confronting the research workers is the paucity of authentic information on the identity, distribution, habitat, habit, root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, chemical constitution, condition of collection and use of medicinal ...
Author's Preface
Information on the use of medicinal plants in relation to children diseases is scattered and most of it is found in books and periodicals, many of which are out of print and are not available in large libraries.
One of the greatest difficulties confronting the research workers is the paucity of authentic information on the identity, distribution, habitat, habit, root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, chemical constitution, condition of collection and use of medicinal plants. Medicinal properties, some genuine, some otherwise have been attributed to a large variety of plants, more than 1500 in numbers, in different parts of this vast country. The practitioners of various Indian systems in different parts of India tried to utilize the locally growing plants as for as possible and accepted those which were found useful after trial for treatment of children diseases.
This book is in no sense a treaties, and must not be considered or judged as such. It is as accurate and reliable a compliation and fullest collection of verified plants in relation to children diseases. It will fulfil its pourpose and prove a useful aid to the students, researchers and general practitioners. Latin names, English names, synonyms of Sanskrit names of described plants are mentioned in the books. As it is again offered with much appreciation to the professional brotheren.
Authors and prominent works have been consulted, and some times quoted. I offer my sincere thanks, emphasizing that any misunderstanding in the work is my own responsibility entirely. Inevitably in a book of this nature, mistakes would have craft in, and would be grateful if readers would draw my attention so that correction would be made in revised edition should be called for,
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List of Latin, English, Samskrit, Hindi names VII
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3. Allium cepa 6
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7. Aristolochia indica Linn. 14
8. Bacopa monnieri Linn. 16
9. Bambusa arundinacea willd. 18
10. Barringtonia acutangula linn. 20
11. Barleria prionitis Linn. 22
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13. Calotropis procera R.Br. 26
14. Cassia tora Linn. 28
15. Cedrela toona Roxb. 30
16. Ceiba pentandra (Linn). Gaertn. 32
17. Clerodendron serratum spreng. 34
18. Clerodendrum Viscosum Vent. 36
19. Clitoria ternatea Linn. 38
20. Coleus amboinicus Lour. 40
21. Crocus sativus Linn. 42
22. Curcuma zedoaria Rosc. 44
23. Eclipta alba Hassk. 46
24. Embelia ribes Burm. 48
25. Euphorbia antiquorum Linn. 50
26. Euphorbia hirta, Linn. 52
27. Euphorbia hypericifolia Linn. 54
28. Euphorbia thymifolia linn. 56
29. Ferula narthex, Boiss. 58
30. Foenicum vulgare Mill. 60
31. Hemisdesmus indicus 61
32. Holarrhena antidysenterica wall 63
33. Justicia picta linn. 65
34. Nardostachys jatamansi Dc. 66
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39. Strychnos nux-vomica Linn. 76
40. Trachyspermum ammi Linn. 78
41. Urginea Indica. kunth 80
42. Woodfordia fruticosa kurz 82
43. References 84
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Many people cringe at the thought of sliding into the dentist's chair. For some people, even the idea of opening their mouth wide to the bright lights of the exam room is enough to make their hearts beat faster and for their words to catch in their throat. So, if you like so many others dread going to the dentist, then you will want to read this.
There are multiple things that your dentist can do to make your experience less frightening, and with nearly 1 in 25 people being dental-phobic, dentists are more than willing to lend a helping hand. In fact, make sure that you have a dentist who is comforting and helps meet your needs, whatever they may be. Next time you make an appointment, ask about these techniques to help ease your dental anxiety.
If your biggest issue with the dentist is needles, then this is the tip for you. Ask your dentist about other forms of anesthetics such as gel, spray or rinse. These forms of anesthetics numb the area before you get a shot. Using this technique means that you won't feel the needle at all.
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Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 2 Dinosaur-Type monsters from your Graveyard. Once per turn, during either player's Main Phase: You can destroy 1 monster in your hand or field, and if you do, change all face-up monsters your opponent controls to face-down Defense Position. This card can attack all monsters your opponent controls, once each. At the start of the Damage Step, if this card attacks a Defense Position monster: You can inflict 1000 damage to your opponent, and if you do, send that Defense Position monster to the Graveyard.
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, we begin our annual Top 10 countdown today, and I have to say, the final list is pretty solid. In the past few years, these top 10's have produced some questionable selections, but my feeling is that 2017 produced 10 to 12 cards that overwhelmingly separated themselves from the pack, and that feeling was validated after the votes were cast.
We start with Ultimate Conductor Tyranno. Only two cards on my list differed from the pojo list by more than 5 spots, and this was one of them. My ranking for him was #3 for two distinct reasons. First, as most of you readers know by now, my review always consists of a future potential rating. I feel it's just as important to the well-rounded review of a card as its current status. And Ultimate Conductor Tyranno is truly unique among the other top 10 cards of 2017 in that there's probably little chance it will ever get restricted or banned, and yet this monster is so incredibly good, that he will be an unquestioned staple in dino decks now and in the future.
Secondly, while dino decks didn't make quite the impact that SPYRAL, Zoo, and True King/Draco had on the TCG during the year, my impression has always been that the other archetypes had at least two truly broken cards to work with while Dinosaurs had a more rounded lineup and just Tyranno as its lone elite star. To me, tournament results shouldn't be the biggest factor in determining greatness, because the best decks are the ones with the best 40 cards total. Tyranno is a lone ferocious beast.
Top 10 CoTD for 2017 is here and lets get straight into it with our #10: Ultimate Conductor Tyranno.
One of the new Dinosaur monsters that led to the True King Dino deck being so dominant, as well as lending support to an old archetype, UCT has so much going for it. Two Dino-Type monsters to banish isn't tough at all to attain in a True King or a dedicated Dino deck. 3500ATK is huge for such an easily Special Summoned monster, and then there's its effect. Book of Eclipse for your opponent for one monster in your hand. UCT can also be Red Dragon Archfiend and attack everything your opponent has and on top of that it can do 1000 damage when it sends a defense position monster to the grave instead of destroying it. Burn effect, Book of Eclipse effect, easy Special Summon ability with the ability to be Special Summoned by regular means, and high ATK, this card has too much going for it.
2017 is over and we now look at the Top 10 cards of 2017, the number 10 card was inside the Dinosmasher's Fury Structure Deck and was the Boss Monster of the deck, Ultimate Conductor Tyranno.
UCT is a Level 10 Light Dinosaur with 3500 ATK and 3200 DEF. Both ATK and DEF are very good, Level 10 has little advantages, Dinosaur type makes it searchable now while the Level lets you use Ultra Evolution Pill to summon him from the deck, and Light has some advantages. UCT cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and must first be Special Summoned by banishing 2 Dinosaurs from the GY. Very easy summoning conditions for this powerhouse, outstanding! Once per turn, during either Main Phase, you can destroy a monster in your hand or field to set all monsters your opponent controls. Links cannot be set, but everything else can, and you cannot make much use out of set monsters. This destruction effect also triggers effects of cards like the Baby Dinosaurs or True Kings. UCT can attack each monster your opponent controls once, so you should be able to clear their board with great ease since this guy has high ATK stats. Finally, when this card battles a defense position monster, you can send it to the GY immediately and deal 1000 damage. If you can get this off with like 3 monsters at least, this can do heavy burn, and there is no reason why you shouldn't be using this effect attacking a monster in defense mode, because normal battles do no damage. This card would be a welcome Boss Monster for any deck, but Dinosaurs were the lucky ones to get this guy.


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Sciliar (německy Schlern, ladinsky Sciliër) je hora o nadmořské výšce 2563 m n. m. nalézající se v jihotyrolských Dolomitech v Itálii.
I přes poměrně nízkou nadmořskou výšku je díky svému charakteristickému tvaru západní pilíř Sciliaru považován za dominantu Jižního Tyrolska.

Hora nese jméno okolní horské skupiny Sciliar. Samotný Sciliar se rozkládá na náhorní plošině, o jejímž dávném pasteveckém využití svědčí prehistorické nálezy, a nabízí výhled na Alpe di Siusi, největší vysokohorskou pastvinu v Evropě, a na nízké horské terasy kolem obcí Castelrotto a Völs am Schlern. Od roku 1974 byl Sciliar a některé přilehlé oblasti chráněn jako přírodní park, který byl od roku 2003 rozšířen na Přírodní park Schlern-Rosengarten.

V jihotyrolských legendách je Sciliar považován za domov čarodějnic. Regionální časopis Der Schlern, který vychází od roku 1920, nese jméno hory a jako znak používá její grafickou siluetu.

Poloha
Burgstall (2515 m) tvoří severní okraj pohoří Sciliar, jeho nejvyšším vrcholem je Petz (2563 m), který se tyčí nad Gabels Mull (2390 m) a Jungschlern (2280 m). Za Petzem se zvedá Mahlknechtstein (2550 m), nápadný malý útvar. Před ní se tyčí dvě věže Santnerspitze (2413 m) a Euringerspitze (2394 m). Tyto vrcholy, známé také pod jednoduchými názvy Santner a Euringer, byly dříve známé jako Schlernzacken, Paarlspitzen nebo Badlspitzen. Santner se také nazýval Tuiflspitz, v ladinštině Piza dl Malang.

Horské chaty
Na Sciliaru otevřela bolzanská sekce Německého a rakouského alpského klubu 22. srpna 1885 útulnu, která byla v roce 1903 spojena s přilehlým hostincem a vznikl tak Schlernhaus, který dnes vlastní bolzanská sekce Italského alpského klubu. V roce 1969 postavila Bolzanská sekce Jihotyrolského alpského klubu horskou chatu Schlernbödelehütte.

Etymologie
Název hory, doložený v 16. století jako Schlernkhofl nebo auf dem Schalern, je jistě předgermánského a předřímského původu.

Jeden z výkladů odvozuje jeho původ od etymu *sala, který znamená "potok, příkop, kanál". Při středověké germanizaci jména se základní tvar spojil s příponou -en, jejíž e v bavorštině brzy vypadlo, takže vznikla výslovnost Salérn (Oswald von Wolkenstein psal Saleren). Kvůli zachování předgermánského přízvuku se první slabika nakonec scvrkla na Sl-, což vedlo k výslovnosti Schl- palatalizací. Původně se název pravděpodobně vztahoval na Schlerngraben a Schlernbach; podle nich se pohoří mohlo nazývat nejprve Schlernkofel (viz pravopis ze 16. století) a poté Schlern.

Jiná teorie předpokládá souvislost s indogermánským kořenem *skel, který znamená "řezat". Podle toho se název Schlern vztahuje k charakteristickým skalním stěnám horského masivu, které se zdají být vertikálně odříznuté.

Geologie
Masiv Schlernu je tvořen převážně sedimentárními horninami středního triasu. Ložiskové dolomity formace Rosengarten a formace Rosszähne se z velké části vytvořily na přibližně 30stupňových svazích karbonátové platformy, v oblasti centrální platformy také jako plošně uložené sedimenty. Mezi rosengartenským souvrstvím a souvrstvím Rosszähne se nacházejí vulkanické horniny, které vznikly v ladiniku. Tyto útvary jsou překryty útvarem Schlernské formace, který je tvořen mimo jiné dolomitovými a vápencovými vrstvami. Nejvyšší části Schlernské plošiny jsou budovány dolomitickými horninami svrchního triasu.

První výstupy
 1880 Santnerspitze (východní strana, obtížnost III.) - Johann Santner sám
 1884 Euringerspitze (jižní stěna, stupeň III) - Gustav Euringer a G. Battista Bernhard
 1908 Jungschlern (severní stěna, III.) - Paul Mayr a Ernst Hofer
 1912 Burgstall (traverz východní stěny, III.) - Max Reinstaller, Heindl Tomasi
 1912 Mull (severovýchodní strana, II.) - Paul Mayr, Hermann Kofler, Hans Kiene a Pius Wachtler
 1929 Schlernkind (IV.) - Fidel Bernard, Hans Leitgeb, Georg Harm, Edi Hermann a Luis Gasser

Galerie

Literatura
 Conradin A. Burga (Hrsg.): Habitat Schlern, Sciliar. Naturmuseum Südtirol, Bozen 2008.
 Peter Haupt: Bronzezeitlicher Brandopferplatz und römisches Heiligtum: neue archäologische Untersuchungen auf dem Schlern. In: Der Schlern 83, 2009, S. 4–21.
 Peter Haupt: Bronzezeitliche Erdöfen auf dem Schlern: ein neues Interpretationsmodell zum Brandopferplatz auf dem Burgstall. In: Der Schlern 84, 2010, S. 4–15.
 Hanspaul Menara: Der Schlern: Wahrzeichen Südtirols. Athesia, Bozen 1985, ISBN 88-7014-386-4.
 Günther Regensberger (Hrsg.): Bekenntnis zum Schlern: Festschrift für Hubert Mumelter. Athesia, Bozen 1971 (u. a. mit Beiträgen von Hans Fink, Peter Ortner, Paul Stacul).
 Raimund von Klebelsberg: Der Schlern als geologisches Musterstück. In: Der Schlern 7, 1920, S. 225–230
 Luis Vonmetz: Berg der Berge. Das Wahrzeichen Südtirols. In: Berge erleben – Magazin des Alpenvereins Südtirol, 03/15, S. 69
 Hannes Obermair: Umbrüche, Übergänge, Chancen: Landesgeschichtliche Zeitschriften im Raum Tirol-Südtirol-Trentino und in Italien. In: Thomas Küster (Hrsg.): Medien des begrenzten Raumes. Landes- und regionalgeschichtliche Zeitschriften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Forschungen zur Regionalgeschichte. Band 73). Schöningh, Paderborn [u. a.] 2013, S. 265–281, Bezug: S. 273–275.
 Egon Kühebacher: Die Ortsnamen Südtirols und ihre Geschichte. Bd. 3. Athesia, Bozen 2000, ISBN 88-82660184, S. 265.
 Johannes Ortner: Windschere und schneidiger Schlern. In: Berge erleben – Das Magazin des Alpenvereins Südtirol. Nr. 3, 2017, S. 68–69.

Externí odkazy

Reference

Hory a kopce v Dolomitech
Dvoutisícovky v Alpách
Dvoutisícovky v Itálii

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We have been reading the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and we particularly enjoyed the illustrations by Quentin Blake. So we decided to create our own animation based on the story. Nikki from Knowsley CLC helped us use the app 'Brushes' to create our illustrations. We then saved these images and wrote a script. Finally we used the app 'Puppet Theatre' to make our illustrations move, add a background and record our script.
Have a look at the photographs below to see how the process developed and hopefully soon you will be able to see the finished animation when Nikki has edited it for us.


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Election 2016: Liberal lies, cover ups, and Voter Fraud in California
Election 2016:
Liberal lies, cover ups, and Voter Fraud in California
The Zombie Voter Apocalypse: California Refuses to Admit Its Voter Fraud Problem
Hans von Spakovsky
Jana Minich
Hollywood has always loved making films about the walking dead, but in Southern California it appears they have a real life problem with "zombie" voters.
An investigation by CBSLA2 and KCAL9 found that hundreds of deceased persons are still on voter registration rolls in the area, and that many of these names have been voting for years in Los Angeles.
Julita Abutin, died in 2006 but voted in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014.
For example, John Cenkner died in 2003, according to Social Security Administration records, yet he voted in the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010 elections. His daughter told the station that she was "astounded" and couldn't "understand how anybody" could get
CBS reports that California is the only state that does not comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002, something the Obama administration has basically ignored.
Another voter, Julita Abutin, died in 2006 but voted in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. According to CBS, the county confirmed they have "signed vote-by-mail envelopes" from Abutin since she passed away. So either someone has been forging her signature or her ghost has quite an earthly presence.
The investigation revealed that 265 deceased persons voted in Southern California, 215 of them in Los Angeles County. Thirty-two were repeat voters, with eight posthumously-cast ballots each. One woman who died in 1988 has been voting for 26 years, including in the 2014 election.
This report comes 20 years after the contested election of Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., from this same area. An investigation by a U.S. House committee found that hundreds of illegal ballots were cast by noncitizens and improper absentee ballots.
In that 1996 election, when she defeated incumbent Bob Dornan, a winning margin of 979 votes was whittled down to only 35 votes or fewer when that voter fraud was factored in. In cases like these, where elections are decided by only a small number of votes, the harmful effects of voter fraud are most obvious.
Yet here, two decades later, California has still not taken the necessary steps to ensure the reliability of its electoral system.
As a result of the investigation, Los Angeles County supervisors called for an investigation into the findings. Even if these particular zombie voters did not change the outcome of an election, each fraudulently cast ballot stole and diluted the vote of a legitimate voter.
Cases like these and many others show that voter fraud is a real phenomenon and a potential threat to the integrity of the election process.
The Los Angeles County Registrar pointed to the 1200 to 2000 voter registrations removed every month to update records and told reporters, "There's really no way to connect a person whose death is recorded with a person who is registered to vote unless we get some kind of notification from the family."
But that is plain nonsense. Other states do frequent comparisons between their voter registration lists and the death databases maintained by the Social Security Administration, and other state agencies consult vital records departments in order to remove voters who have died.
The CBS investigation shows both that voter fraud exists and that this type of fraudulent voting is detectable through proper investigation.
The Help America Vote Act establishes mandatory minimum standards of accuracy for state voter registration lists and requires states to engage in regular maintenance and updates to remove ineligible voters who die or move away.
California is obviously not complying with these requirements.
http://dailysignal.com/2016/05/26/california-refuses-to-admit-its-voter-fraud-problem/
By C A Davidson • Posted in Culture Wars, Current Events, History, Truth Zone	• Tagged american culture, cover ups, current-events, election 2016, liberal lies, truth, voter fraud, voter fraud california


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The New Airbus Helicopters H160
Say hello to the new Airbus H160 helicopter. The H160 is the first member of all-new "H" family that has been unveiled at Heli-Expo trade show.
The entire design is based on the goal to create added value for customers in terms of performance, economic competitiveness, safety and comfort.
The new H160 offers some radically new design features, such as so called "Blue Edge" rotor blades, that provide increased performance, more passenger comfort because of decreased vibrations and less noise emissions.
The H160 also features a full composite airframe that contributes to the robustness of the aircraft.
A next generation turboshaft engine provides more power than previous generations with reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The so called "Biplane Stabilizer" located near the new canted Fenestron tail rotor offers improved performance, better handling and more agility.
The electrical landing gear has been designed to allow more payload and to simplify maintenance.
Images (c) Airbus Helicopters
That looks REALLY sleek! I really like the design, but I'm also interested in all of the features it's going to be offering. Seems like an interesting turn for helicopters if it works how it's advertising it will.


Are you new to Glendale? Maybe you're retired but still crave the social interaction that goes on in the workplace. Volunteering at one of the area's many charities is a great way to meet new people, gain fresh life experiences and help others who are in need. At Low Budget Movers, our team of Glendale movers, we're a little partial to volunteer opportunities that align with the skills that we've mastered in the moving industry. Here are six great charities that offer some of those opportunities.
For the over 3,500 homeless persons and 18,000 foster kids in Maricopa County, Furnishing Dignity is a shining light of hope at the end of a very dark tunnel. The Phoenix-based non-profit provides housewares and furnishings for homeless people and foster children who are transitioning into permanent housing. Assistance on this path to self-sustainment include collecting, packing, delivering and setting up furniture at clients' homes. This is a volunteer opportunity that Low Budget Movers can really get behind. Furnishing Dignity's next event will take place 5/10/2018.
Esperanca, Inc. needs similar muscle to help load and unload boxes onto trucks and pallets as well as clean out storage rooms. Every year, the organization collects medical supplies and equipment and ships the items to charities throughout Central America. Its next Shipment of Hope event will take place 4/27/2018.
Chrysalis is a non-profit agency that offers temporary shelter and transitional housing support for victims of domestic violence. It collects personal care supplies, housewares and furniture for delivery to clients who live throughout the Phoenix metro area. The organization is looking for people or groups with trucks or vans who can load, deliver and unload the goods to its clients. Volunteers for this effort are needed throughout the year.
Many area shelters offer support to men or to women and children only. However, Christian Family Care delivers services that are designed to keep family units intact even when they face hard times. It also assists other agencies in finding permanent, loving homes for Maricopa County's foster care children. The faith-based organization operates a thrift store that helps to fund its Safe Families for Children initiative. It needs volunteers on an ongoing basis to unload donation trucks, assemble product displays and sort and organize merchandise.
The Phoenix Rescue Mission provides Christ-centered solutions to the social issues of hunger and homelessness in Glendale. It operates the Hope for Hunger Food Bank that offers emergency food supplies to individuals and families in crisis. Food bank volunteers sort and pack boxes of food at the facility; they also help tote groceries to client vehicles. The organization especially welcomes volunteers who have the licenses and experience to drive warehouse-style forklifts. However, don't underestimate your power to transform a client's day by simple, joyful interaction.
Cancer is an illness that strikes fear into the hearts of many, but Cancer Support Community Arizona is committed to offering area residents effective tools to fight back against the life-threatening disease. One way that the organization empowers cancer victims is to make organic produce readily available to them on an ongoing basis. As a volunteer with Cancer Support Community, you'll participate in food delivery and distribution activities as well as the creation of signage for food pickup events.
At Low Budget Movers, we love the Glendale community, and donating our time and skills to charities like the ones that are highlighted in this post is just part of being a good neighbor. We hope to see you getting involved around Glendale too.


Inside the House Leadership Scramble.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) made clear on Tuesday that Democrats are observing the first rule of politics: when your opponent is screwing up, stand back and let it happen.
At his weekly press conference, Hoyer was asked whether Democrats would side with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) or another GOP hopeful to replace Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) when the House meets on Oct. 29. Hoyer said Democrats are minding their own business amid the Republican infighting and will back Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for the post.
Is a Shutdown Possible if the House Can't Elect a New Speaker?


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Trump responds to California wildfires by threatening to cut federal aid
Nov 3, 2019 Huntsville news, Huntsville tribune
Flames enter a vineyard during the Kincade fire near Geyserville, California on October 24, 2019. | Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Trump suggested ways to fight the fires at odds with the reality on the ground, and threaten to cut all federal wildfire "$$$ help."
As California continues to suffer from a number of wildfires, President Donald Trump has made a vague threat to cut federal aid to the state's fire recovery efforts.
Amid high winds and dry weather, the fires have spread so rapidly that California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency last week to mobilize resources to fight the blazes. Californians have been experiencing historic blackouts and mandatory evacuations. Hundreds of people have lost their homes, and more than 10,000 acres have burned.
Rather than address those hit with tragedy, Trump criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom Sunday morning for doing a "terrible job of forest management." In a following tweet, Trump implied that he would cut federal aid because of his dissatisfaction with how Newsom has dealt with the fires.
..Every year, as the fire's rage & California burns, it is the same thing-and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more. Get your act together Governor. You don't see close to the level of burn in other states…But our teams are working well together in…..
Newsom quickly responded to Trump on Twitter, rebuking the president for his past as a climate science denier.
Trump has a long history of refusing to acknowledge that human activity is expediting global warming; when the National Climate Assessment, a major government report on climate change, warned of the devastating impacts of climate change, Trump simply said, "I don't believe it."
You don't believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation. https://t.co/PSt8N39Er5
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 3, 2019
The tweets marked a complete turn of events: Just a few days before, Newsom had shown rare gratitude toward the administration for their help with the wildfires, according to the San Fransisco Chronicle.
"His team is performing above and beyond expectation,'' Newsom said. "Every single request we've had to the administration has been met.''
Experts have noted Trump's tweets also provided misleading advice for fire management. Despite his encouragement to "clean" the forest floors, raking isn't helpful for California, a state that is experiencing intense fires because of climate change related reasons, according to The Washington Post. Vox's Eliza Barclay has explained that as temperature continues to rise, the land grows more arid, thus making trees and shrubs more flammable — raking would not nothing to change that.
Also of issue is the fact most of the fires this season also aren't happening in forests. The Getty fire and others near Los Angeles broke out on "vegetation-dominated hillsides," The Washington Post reported. And even if they had broken out in forests, it would be difficult to lay the responsibility for forest management at the state's feet. The University of California found that 57 percent of about 33 million acres of forest in the state is managed by federal agencies, ABC News reported.
Trump and Newsom are at odds on everything — including wildfire management
This isn't the first time Trump has made such a threat. When California was fighting deadly fires last November, he tweeted out similar criticisms of the state's forest management. "Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!" he said, although no concrete action was taken afterward. Then again in January the president tweeted out a similar threat that led to no action as well.
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2019
These threats are partially fueled by Trump's poor relationship with Newsom, who has been open about his disapproval with the administration. Newsom took the opportunity in September to criticize Trump for his poor environmental policies during the opening ceremony of New York's Climate Week, where he spoke about California's climate plans.
"I don't know what the hell happened to this country that we have a president that we do today on this issue," Newsom said, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Because it's a damn shame. It really is. I'm not a little embarrassed about it — I'm absolutely humiliated by what's going on."
Their clashes haven't stopped at verbal arguments. So far the state has filed more than 60 lawsuits against the administration on a range of topics from immigration to climate change. Their most recent legal dispute: Trump's decision to revoke a waiver that allowed California to hold higher emissions standards for cars than the federal government. While Trump characterized the policy as a business opportunity for the auto industry in California, Newsom decried it as a threat to public health.
"It's a move that could have devastating consequences for our kids' health and the air we breathe if California were to roll over," Newsom said in a statement. "We will fight this latest attempt and defend our clean car standards."
Because of this bitter history, Trump has never shied away from blaming Newsom for California's problems — even if it mean capitalizing on the tragedy of wildfires.
Author: Catherine Kim
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Q: nginx controller in k8 TLS version issue I have installed a nginx controller using the following link:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-nginx-ingress-with-cert-manager-on-digitalocean-kubernetes
And I have added a NLB with TLS termination. Everything works as expected and I can ping the NLB domain but when I ping my domain with https although all the cert-manager settings are correct I receive the following error:
lij43@NCATS-2170711-M ~ % curl -v -I https://nginx-ing-poc.ncats.io/
*   Trying 52.72.56.47:443...
* Connected to nginx-ing-poc.ncats.io (52.72.56.47) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
*  CApath: none
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* error:1404B42E:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) error:1404B42E:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version

I expect to see the output as echo1 which is mentioned id DO's instructions.

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Basically, collateral attacks on past offenses means that if you had any prior criminally charged OWI offenses where you were not represented by an attorney and you do not have a knowing waiver to your right to an attorney, then that offense may be thrown out and not used against you. That means you may collaterally attack your prior conviction when the challenge to your prior conviction is based on the denial of your constitutional right to a lawyer. In the state of Wisconsin, OWI second offenses and higher can be attacked, but if your first offense occurred in another state then it also be attacked.
In order for your waiver of this right to counsel to be valid, the record from your prior offense must reflect not only your deliberate choice to proceed without counsel, but also your awareness of the difficulties and disadvantages of self-representation, the seriousness of the charge or charges you were facing and the general range of possible penalties that may be imposed if you were found guilty. The sentencing court is also required to make a finding that you were competent to not only waive your right to counsel, but also to proceed without counsel. Unless the record reveals your deliberate choice and awareness of these facts, a knowingly and voluntary waiver of counsel cannot be found. Therefore, that means the past offense must be dropped and not used against you. So if your current charge was for an OWI 4th within 5 years (a felony), it is now dropped to a 3rd offense (a misdemeanor).
In order to prove that you did not waive your right to counsel, you have to get the transcript from the plea and sentencing hearing of the offense you are attacking. If there are no records that discuss your deliberate waiver of this right, then the court may drop those prior offenses based off of your testimony. The older the case, the more likely the transcripts has been destroyed.
This is a complicated issue and one to be aware of if you believe one of your older convictions occurred where you were not represented by an attorney. Contact us today to set up your free consultation and to discuss a potential Collateral Attack Defense in your case.


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UCI Education Research Initiative November Update
ERI December Seminar Speaker
We are thrilled to bring out our next speaker in the ERI seminar series, Oded Gurantz, assistant professor from the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. Dr. Gurantz studies gaps in college enrollment and completion for historically underrepresented students. His talk, Documenting their Decisions: How Undocumented Students Enroll and Persist in College, will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on December 5, in the Engineering Colloquia Room (Engineering Hall 2430). He also will be presenting a workshop, You Can't Point Fingers at Data: Cross-Agency Collaboration and Shared Data from the Community Perspective, from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on December 6, in ALP 3700. This workshop will discuss elements of successful research-practitioner partnerships to improve education, and focus on his collaboration between the San Francisco Unified School District and the City College of San Francisco to improve the high school to college transition.
If you are interested in attending the talk or workshop, please RSVP here.
ERI Mini Grant Call for Proposals
We are excited to release our 2019-20 call for proposals. Proposals will fall into one of two types:
Research proposal (up to $30k): This type of proposed work will examine a research question related to higher education or activities happening on the UCI campus. It is expected that proposals will have a scholarly background/theoretical framework to describe the compelling nature of the topic being studied, how it will be studied, and what the expected implications and findings will be.
Implementation proposal (up to $15k): This type of proposed work will focus on implementing an activity or program related to higher education or UCI. Intervention proposals are expected to be developed using best practices and include desired program outcomes. Although research will not be the primary focus of these proposals, it is expected that the interventions are based in the literature to give an indication of why it will be successful.
A brief letter of intent is due on or before 5 p.m. on Monday, December 2. The ERI will provide feedback on the LOI to guide the creation of a full proposal due February 3, 2020. Submission of a full proposal requires the submission of a letter of intent. More information including formatting of the letter of intent and the full proposal can be found on our website.
ERI Mini Grant Recipient Updates
Qian Du, assistant professor of teaching in Academic English, and Sei Lee, English department lecturer, will be presenting their work, titled "Multilingual Students' Perceptions of Teacher Effectiveness in University EAP Courses" at the 2020 American Association of Applied Linguistics. From student evaluation forms and interviews, they found that, (1) instructors who focus more on form than content were perceived as ineffective and their teaching style affected students' perceptions of the overall classroom environment and (2) an instructor's demonstrated willingness to acknowledge students' multilingual background as an asset rather an a deficit played an equally important role as an instructor's content knowledge on English academic literacy.
Penelope Collins, associate professor of education, published an article, titled "The utility of infographics in L2 writing classes: A practical strategy to scaffold writing development." In the TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) journal. Her group explored the impact of infographics into writing curricula for second language learners as a means to both support the writing development of multilingual students and scaffold the cognitive demands these students face while composing. The article can be found here
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Is It Safe? How Insecure Can Be a Force in Shaping Black Women's Sexual Health
Dr. Regina Davis Moss
Filed to:insecure
Photo: HBO
If you watched Sunday night's episode of Insecure you found out that Lawrence is out here burning folks. Kudos to the show for showing some of the negative health effects of what happens if you engage in unsafe sex, as well as showing Lawrence in true "good dude" form calling all of his sexual partners and telling them they should get tested. A famous poet and playwright once wrote, "life imitates art far more than art imitates life." What if Issa Rae used the success of her hit show to inform viewers about important sex issues?
The United States is seeing a steep increase in chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in recent years and young black men and women are at higher risk at contracting STDs than their white counterparts. Television can be a critical source of sexual health information, and perhaps, one of the more influential. According to a survey, 26 percent of the public say entertainment television is one of their top sources of health information. Over half (52 percent) said they consider the health information contained in these programs to be accurate.
Now, before you say I'm hating on the show, let me just say I am a huge fan. I was born in Inglewood, grew up in L.A. and believe it's doing a lot to portray intelligent, multifaceted black women in compelling and realistic storylines. It is also infusing lots of money into some of the underappreciated neighborhoods and business of L.A. I tried to go to Worldwide Tacos last week and there was a five-hour wait.
I love how Insecure is affirming black female sexuality and challenging standards unfairly applied to women. I'm just saying I'd also like to see Issa, Molly and Kelli having honest conversations about contraception and what they are doing to protect themselves against STDs. As exciting and adventurous as the Ferris wheel hook-up was in last week's "High-like" episode, Twitter has been ablaze that Issa and Nathan didn't use a condom.
Negotiating condom use in real-life sexual situations isn't always as easy, but Insecure fans are already paying attention and the writers have proven themselves to do a great job at working through awkward experiences. Rae even talked about the condom issue with Cosmo magazine last year. However, a far less told, but very real narrative is among the recent estimated diagnoses of HIV infection in U.S women; black women accounted for 61 percent and heterosexual contact was the most frequently way it was transmitted. Or that Trichomoniasis, the world's most common curable STD, is disproportionally affecting black women and if left untreated, can lead to infertility.
Art can change one's outlook on life. Insecure can be a powerful platform for raising awareness and giving black women the agency to best support their sexual health.
Dr. Regina Davis Moss is the associate executive director for the American Public Health Association and an expert in minority women and girl's health and explores the intersection of the health and entertainment media. Follow her on Twitter.


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Q: Passing Facebook authentication from Javascript to PHP I'm trying to set up offline access for my Facebook App. The javascript part is in place, having the user authenticated at all. However I can't for the life of me seem to send the authentication data from javascript to PHP.
Basically I am getting the access_token from the javascript getSession method, then I make my php request with access_token=<URL_ENCODED_ACCESS_TOKEN>, however the PHP SDK detects that the access token matches the application access token and chickens out.
I have no idea why my access token is that of the application, maybe because I'm the dev?
For what it's worth, this is the line where the Facebook SDK bails on me:
$access_token = $this->getAccessToken();
if ($access_token &&
    $access_token != $this->getApplicationAccessToken() &&
    !($user && $persisted_access_token == $access_token)) {
  $user = $this->getUserFromAccessToken();
  if ($user) {
    $this->setPersistentData('user_id', $user);
  } else {
    $this->clearAllPersistentData();
  }
}

Can't seem to highlight a line, it's this line:
$access_token != $this->getApplicationAccessToken() &&

Can anyone explain to me how I pass the authenticated user from Javascript to PHP?
Also, I assume that since the user has given permission for offline access I can store this access token for later use?
Thank you

A: Well try using cookies, as both Javascript and php allows you to do it, if not, then AJAX is the best way to do it and getAccessToken() function basically fetches access token of user only if the user is connected and if the user is not connected,then it gets your application access token, echo getUser() and see what you get, if you get user's id, then the user is connected to your application and if you get 0, then the user is not connected.

A: Solved eventually by passing the access token as a GET parameter, then using API calls that accept manually supplying the access token. I was unable to figure out a way where it would handle this automatically.


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Q: load data WITHOUT double-quotes I am loading data that looks like this (URL removed)
"shortUrl"|"url"|"date"|"ipAddr"|"userAgent"|"referrer"
"http://clk2.it/uHamBX"|"http://..."|"2017-05-21T16:14:49.590Z"|"97.33.66.11"|"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/8536.25"|""

like so
mysql -h <host> -u <user> --password=<password> --local-infile <db> -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/data/<file>.csv' INTO TABLE <table> FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' IGNORE 1 LINES"

It works fine but the problem is that data is loaded WITH the double-quotes like so (URL removed)
shortUrl, url, date, ipAddr, userAgent, referrer
"http://clk2.it/CPJK2c", "http://...", "2017-05-18T17:12:22.278Z", "96.8.170.62", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.4 facebookexternalhit/1.1 Facebot Twitterbot/1.0", ""
"http://clk2.it/CPJK2c", "http://...", "2017-05-18T17:12:45.500Z", "96.8.170.62", "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14E304 Safari/602.1", ""
"http://clk2.it/CPJK2c", "http://...", "2017-05-18T17:13:44.015Z", "96.8.170.62", "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14E304 Safari/602.1", ""

Is there a way to load data WITHOUT double-quotes?

A: Use ENCLOSED BY and ESCAPED BY
FIELDS
    TERMINATED BY '|'
    ENCLOSED BY '"'
    ESCAPED BY ''

A: This works for me. Notice screening in '\"'.
cat >data.csv

"shortUrl"|"url"|"date"|"ipAddr"|"userAgent"|"referrer"
"http://clk2.it/uHamBX"|"http://..."|"2017-05-21T16:14:49.590Z"|"97.33.66.11"|"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/8536.25"|""
^D

mysql -u <user> --password=<password> --local-infile <db> -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/to/data.csv' INTO TABLE t1 FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' enclosed by '\"' IGNORE 1 LINES"

mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be
  insecure.

mysql -u <user> -p <db> -e 'select * from t1'

| shorturl              | url        | date1                    | ip          | useragent                                                                                | referrer |
+-----------------------+------------+--------------------------+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------+
| http://clk2.it/uHamBX | http://... | 2017-05-21T16:14:49.590Z | 97.33.66.11 | Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/8536.25 |          |
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Source: Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina News (Sarajevo)
Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced that Thursday, March 1, 2018, would a non-working public holiday in Bosnia and Herzegovina and that "in accordance with the Law on proclamation of the 1st of March as the day of independence of BiH ("Official Gazette of RBiH", No. 9/95), state institutions, companies and other legal entities will not work on the Independence Day".
The aforementioned announcement that that Thursday, March 1, 2018, would a non-working public holiday in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is in line with the announced the dates of the 2018 non-working public holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina, released at the beginning of this year (2018-01-18) and which, as usual (2017-01-02, 2016-01-01, 2015-01-04, 2013-11-13 and 2012-11-10), were based on the 2009 "draft law on public holidays" (2009-07-18) with some additional regional public holidays that are not part of the "draft law on public holidays" but which are nonetheless observed by either the Bosnian Federation or the Republic of Srpska.
Below are links to the news stories referred to in the above "Bosnian 2018 Independence Day Public Holiday March 1st" news story, as well as links to subsequents news stories which refer to the present news story.
Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) public holidays news and updates
Worldwide public holidays news updates (February 2018)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) public holidays for 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
2018-01-18: Bosnian 2018 Public Holidays Announced
2009-07-18: Bosnia Finally Approves Draft Law On Public Holidays


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Operationalising the Generational Challenge of Holistic Urban Resilience
20 April, 2016 Urban Resilience Research NetworkVIEWPOINTS
Guest Author: Prof. Jon Coaffee (University of Warwick)
This century, more than any other, is the century of the city, where rapid urbanisation and greater global connectedness present unprecedented urban challenges. Such increased urbanisation also concentrates risk in cities making them increasingly vulnerable to an array of shocks and stresses. Under such circumstances, city managers are increasingly having to plan for risk, crisis and uncertainty: they have to enhance urban resilience by providing an operational framework for reducing the multiple risks faced by cities and communities, ensuring there are appropriate levels of resources and capacities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from a range of shocks and stresses.
Increasingly, the ideas and principles of resilience carry tremendous influence in modifying and, in some cases, significantly changing international urban agendas, whether this is dealing with the unique needs and characteristics of places, looking at the short-, medium- and long-term issues, advancing knowledge, objectives and actions or recognising the wide range of stakeholders (who should be) involved in resilient planning.
Urban resilience has not only become a highly popular policy metaphor but also an increasingly politicised concept, incorporating a vast range of contemporary risks, underpinned by an orthodoxy that has pre-eminently focused upon managerial and technical aspects of 'crisis' response and environmental management. As a result of momentous events (e.g. the devastating events of 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington DC and the release of the fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007 highlighting unequivocal evidence of a warming climate) resilience has increasingly become a central organising metaphor within both the urban policy-making process and, more broadly, the expanding institutional framework of national security and emergency preparedness. As policies which incorporate principles of resilience have evolved and been adopted internationally, the ideas underpinning resilience have additionally begun to infiltrate a host of further, more loosely connected, social and economic policies, which impact at the urban and regional scale. This growth in both the scope and importance of resilience has been strengthened by the political prioritisation of the safety and security of organisations, communities and individuals, and the need to enhance preparedness against an array of perceived hazards and threats, including terrorism, earthquakes, disease pandemic, global warming-related flooding, economic crisis and social breakdown.
2015 was a key year for urban resilience with three core and integrated dialogues deploying the discourse of resilience – explicitly and implicitly – in the advancement of international agreements: first, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 which was adopted by UN Member States in March 2015 at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan; second, the UN Sustainable Development Goals released in September 2015, and third, the Conference of Parties (COP) in Paris that signed up to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in December, with the aim of achieving a universal agreement on climate change adaptation.
Notably, within these international dialogues the so-called 'urban Sustainable Development Goal' (Goal 11 is dedicated to Make(ing) cites and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) marks the UN's strongest expression ever of the critical role of cities in the world's future, and in so doing raises the profile (and power) of urban areas in global discourse. Overall, these three post-2015 dialogues highlight the importance and utility of ideas and practices of resilience in tackling the integrated and complex urban issues of reducing the risk of disasters, advancing sustainable development and mitigating and adapting to climate change.
These core agendas, and their framing in resilience ideas, will ensure that urban resilience will be a vital area of study for years to come (see for example project websites HARMONISE and RESILENS). Key priority issue underpinning the future study of urban resilience should revolve around the extent to which core agendas can be joined up or amalgamated. It is clear that both operationally and in financial terms, that, for example, advancing schemes for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation simultaneously makes much sense. Concomitantly, the key role of training and skills development to raise awareness of options that are available to all built environment professionals involved in the decision making process, or that hold a stake in developments is vital. What is clear from debates about urban resilience is that institutional inertia within a range of built environment professions is often a barrier to such collaborative working thus there is a key role that education and training can play in better aligning effort in this crucial area. This can come through student-centred courses or through continual professional development, where adaptive capacity skills can be forged in a multidisciplinary and multi-professional environment, mirroring the complex reality of urban resilience problems on the ground. Orchestrating such a coherently joined-up approach to meeting the challenge of building comprehensively resilient cities will perhaps be the most significant challenge confronting all built environment professionals over the coming decades.
Biography: Jon is Professor in Urban Geography in the Department of Politics & International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK and director of both the Resilient Cities Laboratory and the Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities (WISC).
Relevant work:
Coaffee, J. and Lee, P. (2016) Urban Resilience: planning for risk crisis and uncertainty, Palgrave Macmillan, in press
Coaffee, J., Murakami-Wood, D and Rogers, P. (2008) The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster, Palgrave/Macmillian
Coaffee, J. and Clarke, J. (2015) On securing the generational challenge of urban resilience, Town Planning Review, 86, 3, 249-55
Coaffee, J. (2013a) Rescaling and Responsibilising the Politics of Urban Resilience: From National Security to Local Place-Making, Politics, 33:4, 240–252
Coaffee, J. (2013b) From Securitisation to Integrated Place Making: Towards Next Generation Urban Resilience in Planning Practice, Planning Practice and Research, 28:3, 323-339
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Q: Sheaf of rings on a discrete set. I was reading through some notes for an exam and one exericse asks me to prove the following
There is a unique sheaf of rings making a topological set $X$ with discrete topology a ringed space.
I tried doing it but I feel I'm missing something, using the definition of presheaf and than of sheaf doesn't seem to bring me any result.
How can I solve such a problem? I leave you my definitions of presheaf and sheaf.

A presheaf $\mathfrak{F}$ (of rings) on a topological space X consists of the data:

*

*for every open set $U\subset X$ a ring $\mathfrak{F}(U)$ (think of this as the ring of functions on U),

*for every inclusion $U\subset V$ of open sets in X a ring homomorphism $\rho_{V,U}:\mathfrak{F}(V)\to \mathfrak{F}(U)$ called the restriction map (think of this as the usual restriction of functions to a subset),
such that

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*$\mathfrak{F}(\varnothing)=0$

*$\rho_{U,U}$ is the identity map of $\mathfrak{F}(U)$ for all U,

*for any inclusion $U\subset V\subset W$ of open sets in X we have $\rho_{V,U}\circ \rho_{W,V}=\rho_{W,U}$

The elements of $\mathfrak{F}(U)$ are usually called the sections of $\mathfrak{F}$ over U, and the restriction maps $\rho_{V,U}$
are written as $\varphi\to \varphi|U$.

A presheaf $\mathfrak{F}$ is called a sheaf of rings if it satisfies the following gluing property:

*

*if U$\subset X$ is
an open set, $\{U_i : i \in I\}$ an arbitrary open cover of U and $\varphi_i\in \mathfrak{F}(U_i)$ sections for all i such that $\varphi_i|_{U_i\cap U_j}=\varphi_j|_{U_i\cap U_j}$
for all $i, j \in I$, then there is a unique $\varphi \in \mathfrak{F}(U)$ such that $\varphi|_{U_i} = \varphi_i$ for all i.

EDIT: added picture of the exercise text for reference in case I explained myself wrong

EDIT2: This is what is given as the definition of a K-ringed space:

A ringed spaces equipped with a sheaf of rings such that the elements of $\mathfrak{O}_X(U)$ are actual functions from U to a fixed ring K;

EDIT3: It turns out that the actual definition is

A ringed spaces equipped with a sheaf of rings such that the elements of $\mathfrak{O}_X(U)$ are actual functions from U to a fixed ring K and $\mathfrak{O}_X(U)$ is not only a subring of the ring of functions from $U\to K$ but a $sub-K-algebra$ of it;

What does this change?

A: This is just summing up the comment discussion:
it seems that the question is badly posed, as a counterexample of what seems the most senseful interpretation of it we can take the space $X=\{x\}$ to which we can associate any ring to form a ringed space, and even restricting to rings of functions from $\{x\}\to K$ for K a field we don't have uniqueness

A: Being a $K$-ringed space has a very specific meaning, namely that the associated sheaf $\mathcal{O}_X(U)$ is a $K$-subalgebra of the $K$-algebra $\operatorname{Mor}(U, K)$. In particular this means that $\mathcal{O}_X(U)$ contains the constant functions.
A set $X$ with the discrete topology has the trivial open covering $$X = \bigcup_{x \in X} x, $$ where we identify $x$ with the set $\{x\}$. The sheaf axioms then give that we can decompose any sheaf $\mathcal{F}$ over an open subset $U$ as $$\mathcal{F}(U) \cong \prod_{x \in U} \mathcal{F}(x).$$ After all the intersection of $x \cap y$ for any distinct elements is empty. For $\mathcal{F}(x)$ to sheaf for a $K$-ringed space we need it to be a $K$-subalgebra of $K_x := \operatorname{Mor}(x, K)$ and must contain the constant functions. But all elements of $\operatorname{Mor}(x, K)$ are constant functions and the set can be identified with $K$. We must thus have $\mathcal{F}(x) = K_x$ for all $x \in X$. It follows that for a $K$-ringed space with the specified conditions we must have $$\mathcal{O}_X(U) \cong \prod_{u \in U} K.$$ It is easy to see existence of a presheaf defined that way and the sheaf axioms  hold because the restriction maps come from dropping terms in the product.


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News-Press & Gazette Co. (NPG Co.) has agreed to purchase KEYT-TV, an ABC-affiliated television station serving the California coastal communities of Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo, from Smith Media, LLC (Smith Media). A related digital television property, MyRTV, is included in the sale.
NPG and Smith Media announced the transaction Thursday. The sale is expected to be completed later this year after receiving required Federal Communications Commission approval. No financial terms were disclosed.
The acquisition, along with a pending purchase in Columbia, Mo., will give NPG stations in 10 television markets in the United States. KEYT competes in the 122nd largest Designated Market Area (DMA) in the country, with a potential reach of 230,000 households.
For Smith Media and its predecessor, which have operated the station since 1987, the sale is a major milestone.
"My late husband put in place his vision of a community oriented, first-class television station dedicated to and reflecting the unique mix of talents, resources and caring that make Santa Barbara so special to us all. It has been a major part of the Smith Family's lives for these last 25 years to be directly involved in the traditions that have become KEYT," said Anne Smith Towbes.
At the completion of the sale, Smith Media is exiting the Santa Barbara market.
News-Press & Gazette Co. is headquartered in St. Joseph and owns and operates television and radio stations in eight Midwestern and Western markets including stations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Oregon and Texas. The company launched FOX 26 KNPN this spring in St. Joseph, along with local affiliates for Spanish-language Telemundo and entertainment network The CW. It announced in July its acquisition of a cluster of stations in Columbia – KMIZ-TV (ABC), KQFX-LP (FOX), MyZouTV (MyNetworkTV) and Me-TV – operated as The Networks of Mid-Missouri. That transaction is expected to be completed in November.


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Kat O'Hara is an author that can't write. Her excuse for why she is not finishing her opus, is because she needs to visit Paris first, so the ending of her book which is set there, can then be authentic. It's a perfect excuse for the girl that lives in denial. Kat works as a waitress on Kissing Bridge Mountain where everyone is obsessed with Christmas and happily ever after. Kat's tons of fun, especially since she's gained thirty pounds after her longterm boyfriend left on his internship. Between trying to dupe her boyfriend into marrying her and hiding her true self on Skype, Kat laments her lack of passion and drive.
When Kat agrees to teach the Adult School Diet Class,despite the fact that she herself is thirty pounds overweight, she meets an international visitor from India that challenges her way of life. Together they form a pact to lose the weight they each want to lose to achieve their goals.
Kat is a super funny, easy going white trash girl. She is also slightly mentally challenged and a heck of a beer drinker.
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Along the way the unlikely couple forms an undeniable bond that connects them against all odds.
When Kat's love life breaks apart, she learns that sometimes the things you are looking for are not always where you think.
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One of the most interesting ideas I came across in the past few months was Metacademy. Its knowledge graph idea was less interesting to me than the idea that you could break knowledge up into prerequisites such that you could study without ever getting stuck.
Unfortunately, the website was abandoned before it ever really got to explore its real potential. It never added a fringe feature, which would see what you had marked as "learned" an tell you what you could study next.
I suspect its creators just got busy with other things. I hope they return to it one day.
Or, you know, I could figure out how to implement that feature and send a pull request. Anyone know a good introduction to Django?


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YTL Corporation Bhd, IJM Corporation Bhd, Gamuda Bhd and MMC Corporation Bhd stirred in early trades following the news that Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to build a high-speed rail (HSR) linking the city-state and Kuala Lumpur. At about 10.30 am today, YTL Corporation Bhd rose 4 sen or 2.5% to RM1.62 with trades of 4.75 million shares.
YTL, which has emerged to be the 10 most actively traded stock, was the first company to come out with the proposal on Singapore-KL link. It was responsible for the construction of the express rail link between KL Sentral and KLIA airport.
"Both the rail projects are positive sentiment for the construction sector as it indicates potential order book replenishment opportunities for the construction players.


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The villa is built on one level and consists of an open plan lounge/dining room with fireplace, American Style kitchen which is fully fitted and utility room.
Having an additional kitchenette enables the configuration of the living space to be utilised with a studio apartment with, which is accessed either from the 3rd bedroom or by a separate external door. Ideal for anyone who has lots of visitors or has a family with older children.
Currently one of the bedrooms is being use as an office, which is ideal for anyone who does not need all the bedrooms, but would like a separate space to use as a workroom or office.
Additional storage space is also available in the under-build.
The villa is on a 530m2 plot which has been tiled with a few planted boarders to make it easy to maintenance. There is a long driveway and an external staircase which also leads up from the back of the property to a private solarium, ideal for sunbathing on.
There is also a private pool, which is heated and the property even has it's own petanque court!
Helicol solar pool heating plus pool cover.
It is close to all amenities and just a 10 minute drive to the wonderful beaches of Guardamar, and 30 minutes drive from both Alicante and San Javier (Murcia) airports.
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This cheap bargain villa is conveniently situated close to shops, bars, restaurants, supermarkets, etc. the golden sandy beaches of the Costa Blanca are only 10 minutes away, as is the AP7 motorway, it is just a 35 minute drive to either Murcia or Alicante airport and only minutes from any of a dozen world class golf courses so because of its proximity to the golden sandy beaches of the Costa Blanca, Orihuela Costa, Costa Calida and the Mar Menor, not to forget all of those World famous Golf courses means that should you buy this wonderful property, not only will you have a fabulous investment, with its increased rental and growth potential but you will also have everything you might ever need to enjoy your life in the Spanish sunshine.


Everyone's sentimental favorite Roger Federer played in his 11th Wimbledon final and he came away victorious in an epic match against Croatia's Marin Cilic on July 16. We've got more on Roger's huge win.
What an incredible finale to 2017's Wimbledon tournament, as Roger Federer, 35, went into the match with his 11th trip to the finals while Marin Cilic, 28, made his very first career appearance. The English grass court has always been the Swiss legend's greatest surface, and he was looking for his eighth win and he got it. At the All England Tennis Club, Roger took down Marin as the crowd cheered him to a 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 victory.


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Q: Is it possible to automatically invert picture colors in LibreOffice using macros? I was looking for a tool/extension/build-in abilities to invert picture colors automatically (via macro) in LibreOffice and how to do it, and posted the question here.
Then I just discovered Invert Tool in LibreOffice 6. To use it, just hit the Tab key and then go to:
Image -> Filer -> Invert

Yet it still unclear for me how to automate it, as I'm LibreOffice noob and it was my first experiment with LibreOffice macros.
Trying to record a macro of inverting didn't give me the result I did expect, so guidance in writing macro for image inverting still needed.
So i changed a bit the question, now that one method to invert image was found by myself, i just need a macro to automate it.
I hope my findings would help everybody looking for inverting color tools|macros.
BTW, if you know the same purpose macro for Word, i would appreciate you share it here.

A: I've been looking for the same thing. So far, a pretty decent solution I've found is to change the page background. To do this, go to Format/Page/Area/Color and select the color you want to display in Background. To work late-nights I use black background and the letters automatically turn to white for you to see.
Here is how it would look: