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Anvari (Abiward, 1126 – Balkh, 1189), nome completo Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani ou Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud () foi um poeta e astrônomo persa.

Biografia
Anvari nasceu em Abiward ou Abi-ala (agora no Turcomenistão) e morreu em Balkh, no atual Afeganistão, e estudou ciência e literatura no instituto colegiado em Toon (atual Ferdows, Irã), tornando-se um famoso astrônomo, bem como um poeta.

Os poemas de Anvari foram coletados em um Divã, coleção de poesias árabes, e contém panegíricos, elogios, sátiras, e outros. Sua elegia "Lágrimas de Khorasan", traduzido para o inglês em 1789, é considerado um dos mais belos poemas da literatura persa. The Cambridge History of Iran chama Anvari de "um dos maiores vultos da literatura persa". Apesar de sua beleza, seus poemas frequentemente necessitavam de muita ajuda na interpretação, uma vez que eram geralmente complexos e difíceis de entender.

O panegírico de Anvari em louvor ao sultão seljúcida Ahmad Sanjar (1117-1157), governador de Coração, trouxe-lhe a proteção real, e permitiu-lhe usufruir do patrocínio de dois dos sucessores de Sanjar. Porém, quando a sua profecia de desastres em outubro de 1185 falhou, caiu em desgraça com a realeza, e foi forçado a levar uma vida de serviço escolar, posteriormente, vindo a cometer suicídio em 1189.

 The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-06936-X
 Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 . ISBN 90-277-0143-1

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"The number of Finnish tourists visiting Estonia is so large that a small decline percent-wise is a large decline in numbers, and every tourist is important for Estonia's accommodation establishments," Laurmaa told journalists on Tuesday, commenting on fresh data published by Statistics Estonia.
According to Verni Loodmaa, chairman of the board of the Estonian Hotel and Restaurant Association, the number of Finnish tourists declining is worrying, but at present does not pose a serious problem.
According to Loodmaa, the number of Finnish tourists staying at Estonia's accommodation establishments might have declined because Estonia's EU presidency raised hotel prices in Tallinn. Another reason might be that the living standard in Finland has improved so much in the past few years that Finnish people can afford to travel to further destinations.
Last year 3.5 million domestic and foreign tourists stayed in the accommodation establishments of Estonia, which is 7 percent more than in 2016. The number of Finnish tourists, who accounted for 42 percent of the total number of foreign tourists in accommodation establishments, decreased by 4 percent compared to 2016.


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Ben Williamson leaves Eastleigh for league rivals Bromley
by Kieran James • November 21, 2019
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Eastleigh confirmed today that striker Ben Williamson has left the club on a transfer today, after agreeing terms with fellow National League side Bromley.
Williamson spent three years with the Spitfires after signing from Cambridge United in August 2017.
He went on to make 102 appearances for the club, netting 19 goals in that time.
He reached double figures in his first season at the club, with 10 goals, before playing an important part of last season's run to the National League Playoff Semi-Finals, scoring 7 times during the campaign.
Ben Strevens said told EastleighFC.com;
'Since becoming manager of this club Ben has been first class for me, he has worked hard every day in training and always gives his all in matches. He's a great lad to have around the squad as well, myself and everyone at the football club wishes him well for the future'
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Learn how to create a new report and fix a broken report.
The Blank Report command creates a blank report with a Page Header section, Detail section, and a Page Footer section. It opens in Layout View.
The Report button in the Reports group on the CREATE ribbon creates an AutoReport that is a basic report based on the table or query selected in the Navigation Pane. If a form or report is selected, the report will be based on its Record Source. If what is selected does not have a Record Source (such as an unbound object, Macro, or Module), this button will not be enabled.
The Report Design command creates a blank report with a Page Header section, Detail section, and a Page Footer section. It opens in Design View.
The Report Wizard command pops up a wizard that steps you through creating different types of reports that can then be customized using Design or Layout View.
The Labels command opens the Label Wizard, which enables you to choose data to print on labels using purchased label paper (such as Avery 5160) or create custom labels.
Go to the design view of the report and click on the builder button (...) in the Record Source property (Data tab of Property Sheet) for the report.
00:09 Reports are what others that are not using your database see.
00:14 They can be printed on paper or viewed like web pages.
00:20 about creating reports in Access.
00:23 Hi, this is Crystal.
00:25 Click on the Query or Table you want to base a report on.
00:29 Then click on the Create ribbon.
00:38 showing fields from the selected source.
00:44 in Print Preview, or when sent to a printer.
00:55 and a Page Footer section.
01:01 and opens in Layout View.
01:07 between creating a Blank Report and choosing Report Design.
01:14 picking standard or custom labels.
01:17 You can scroll through the list to pick the label paper you have.
01:22 Notice you can also filter by manufacturer to limit the choices.
01:31 exactly what you want.
01:33 Avery 5160 is a common size to use for envelopes.
01:45 multiple records in columns of a page.
01:58 InvoiceID was deleted from the Work table.
02:02 So how do we fix it?
02:10 so the RecordSource can be fixed using the Query Designer.
02:17 click on the builder button ... in the RecordSource property.
02:25 and choose Show Table.
02:31 InvoiceID will be if it is filled.
02:39 and choosing Delete from the shortcut menu.
02:43 Turn on the Property Sheet.
02:48 the property sheet changes.
02:53 as opposed to properties for a fieldlist or column.
03:00 set the Unique Values property to Yes.
03:04 Then close the query designer and save.
03:13 and subreport to show detail for the tasks done.
03:17 Then delete the InvoiceID field from the Work table again.
03:25 to create a Grouped Report.
03:36 you can drop the list and choose whatever you want.
03:40 The available fields are shown on the left.
03:46 click the double angle bracket pointing to the right (>>).
03:51 click the double angle bracket pointing to the left (<<).
03:57 to add them to the list on the right.
04:00 The list on the right displays the fields you have selected.
04:07 back to the available fields list, double-click them.
04:14 so move the 3 ID fields at the bottom back to the left.
04:19 The Next dialog box shows how data will be grouped.
04:25 for the main grouping and Access will guess at what you want.
04:29 Click >> 'Show me more information' for help.
04:37 that lets you specify grouping levels.
04:44 and now it does.
04:46 I actually liked it better when it didn't.
04:52 to add them to group levels on the right.
04:57 data sorted within each group.
05:06 In the next dialog box, you can choose a Layout.
05:16 will not be repeated.
05:18 I used to like Block because it left-aligned everything.
05:22 The wizard, however, has been changed not to do this anymore.
05:30 so it might be a better choice in most cases.
05:34 The last dialog box lets you specify a title for the report.
05:42 be whatever you specify.
05:45 Click Finish to see the results.
05:47 Oh my goodness, is that ever ugly, at least for this data.
05:54 when you do not have many fields.
06:00 show data with number signs.
06:06 and choose Design View from the shortcut menu.
06:14 on the PRINT PREVIEW ribbon.
06:16 Maximize to give yourself more space.
06:20 There are several sections.
06:24 will be printed once at the beginning of the report.
06:30 will be printed once at the top of every page.
06:35 whenever the value in a grouped field changes.
06:40 will be printed for every record.
06:45 at the bottom of each group.
06:49 and will be printed at the bottom of each page.
06:54 once at the end of the report.
07:01 and dragging it down.
07:03 Move the YearWork control to the YearWork Header section.
07:11 and dragging it down.
07:13 Move the Customer control into the Customer Header section.
07:22 on the REPORT DESIGN TOOLS, DESIGN ribbon.
07:30 and press the Delete key on your keyboard.
07:40 it is faster to create what you want from scratch.


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POLITICS ISSUES
March 08, 2019 by Stefan Novakovic 228
Where's the Progressive Coalition for Zoning Reform?
The appetite for change is here. Emphatically manifested in U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed Green New Deal, a new American progressive movement calls for a bold reinvention of America's physical and socio-economic fabric. Rooted in confronting climate change, the Green New Deal marries social equity and decarbonization—and the built environment is a key focus. A proviso for "upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximum energy efficiency," ranks among the Green New Deal's ambitious goals. Yet, for some urbanists, a crucial ingredient is missing: zoning.
"A truly Green New Deal must end exclusionary single-family home zoning laws that promote long car commutes, greenhouse gases and climate change by pricing out workers from living near their city jobs," argues Randy Shaw. Writing in Beyond Chron, the San Francisco-based housing activist points to land use policy as a fundamental impediment to decarbonization.
Beside San Francisco's famous 'painted ladies' houses, a hint of urban density. Photo by Emiliano Zapata via Unsplash
It goes beyond the Green New Deal. Across North America, the widespread implementation of green building policies is met with with structural inaction on zoning reform. While cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto have all implemented progressive 'green building' policies governing thermal performance and greenhouse emissions, the same cities retain widespread single-family zoning policies that prohibit anything but detached homes across much of their land area.
"The single biggest factor in the carbon footprint of our cities isn't the amount of insulation in our walls, it's the zoning," explains Tree Hugger's Lloyd Alter. Even modest increases in density—achieved through the adaption of single-family homes into multiple units and modestly scaled "missing middle" development—can have massive carbon impacts. By reducing car trips and providing an alternative to sprawl, greater urban density alleviates carbon emissions while creating the type of walkable, transit-friendly communities conducive to healthier, active lifestyles, and street-level vibrancy.
And what about social inclusion and housing affordability? Shaw argues that zoning policies are "barring new affordable apartments in so many residential neighborhoods," yet they stubbornly persist in many of North America's most politically progressive cities. Single-family zoning restricts new housing supply, and with it, new residents. Assuming the tenets of supply and demand apply, it also hinders affordability. If single-family zoning insulates white, wealthy communities from becoming more diverse and inclusive, does it also implicitly burden denser, poorer, and more diverse urban communities with gentrification and displacement?
In a transformative political moment where climate change, inclusion, and housing affordability, are at the forefront of urban consciousness, single-family zoning appears situated at the intersections of some of our most pressing social issues. But even as the horizons of the possible expand, zoning reform as a progressive political issue still has limited—if growing—traction.
Is gentrification — and displacement — an inevitable byproduct of new urban density? Photo by Anna Holowet via Unsplash.
Either the progressive movement is missing what ought to be a key part of its platform, or the consequences of zoning reform aren't as progressive as we'd like to think. Although the environmental impacts of urban density are fairly straightforward, the issues of housing affordability and social equity are harder to parse. Can an infusion of market-priced housing supply really make cities more affordable and inclusive, or does it inherently spread gentrification and displacement?
The complex and controversial relationship between housing supply and affordability is at the heart of why the issue of zoning reform is something of a political orphan. Where left-leaning urbanists see a push for inclusion and affordability, others see the obvious failures of supply-side market deregulation. Where upzoning advocates foresee a dismantling of a historically entrenched system that props up racially and socio-economically exclusionary urban geographies, critics might predict accelerated gentrification and a return to top-down planning, blind to community concerns.
The lack of a progressive consensus for zoning reform is at least partially rooted in these tensions; the limits—and harms—of supply-side market liberalization, the lack of cohesion between zoning and affordable housing policy, and the toxic political baggage of past top-down urban planning efforts.
A Freer Market Can't Solve the Housing Crisis
Last year, California State Senator Scott Wiener proposed a landmark housing bill that would streamline approvals for new four-to-eight-storey apartment buildings in transit-rich areas across the state. Intended to address the housing crisis and alleviate car dependance, Bill SB 827 would have rezoned most of San Francisco, as well as much of the Bay Area, and parts of Los Angeles and San Diego. The much-touted proposal spurred what Randy Shaw described as "the biggest public debate ever held in California over urban housing policy." And it failed.
The rookie State Senator's bill drew predictable criticism from homeowners associations and municipal politicians, with Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín going so far as to describe SB 827 as "a declaration of war against our neighborhoods." While insidious claims about historic neighbourhoods replaced by endless luxury condos also permeated the discourse, the bill also faced determined opposition from the same low-income residents it aimed to help.
In Los Angeles, a coalition of 37 community groups argued that SB 827 would "exacerbate the very issue it seeks to remedy, especially in low-income communities and communities of color." By allowing—and incentivizing—the replacement of existing homes with new density, concerns that low-rent housing stock would be replaced by luxury apartments came to dominate the discourse. But what about supply and demand? Wouldn't the infusion of new housing bring bring prices down?
Writing in Shelterforce, Rick Jacobus outlines a stark disparity between market-driven support for the bill and community-based opposition. "Commenters wondered what it was about supply and demand that voters can't quite understand. More than one person suggested that all voters be required to take an entry-level economics class," Jacobus notes. But the impacts of zoning on supply, demand, and housing affordability aren't so straightforward.
Analyzing the market impacts of upzoning, a recent study by Yonah Freemark in Urban Affairs Review finds that transit-oriented zoning ordinances in Chicago did not lead to a decrease in prices, nor an increase in housing supply. Instead, the parcels which were up-zoned—in 2013, and more aggressively in 2015—actually increased in property value between 2010 and 2018.
In Chicago, new transit-oriented zoning didn't lead to affordability. Photo by Austin Neill via Unsplash.
According to Freemark, the rise in prices can be attributed to the potential for more density. By allowing more housing units, liberalized zoning offers greater revenue potential for landlords, which becomes reflected in higher land values. Undertaken over a relatively short five-year period—which doesn't reflect an adequate timeline to deliver new housing supply—Freemark's study hardly invalidates the need for zoning reform and urban density.
In an exchange with urbanist Richard Florida, Freemark acknowledges that the study's results aren't "suggesting that increases in the number of housing units won't eventually lead to lower prices overall." Instead, the study shows that up-zoning a parcel of land doesn't inherently make it more affordable. But what if new zoning was applied across an entire metropolitan region?
Responding to Freemark's research in CityLab, Alex Baca and Hannah Lebovitz point to the links between declining market-rate rents and new housing construction in Washington, D.C., and Seattle. In these cities, the lower rents "have been attributed to an increase in supply, which can be induced by upzoning." Similarly, a 2015 study by Megan Elizabeth Shannon compares four growing cities—Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin—finds that the highest price appreciation is happening in Austin, which also employs the most stringent zoning restrictions.
On the scale of a city, rather than a neighbourhood, zoning can make a difference. By contrast, "simply changing a few elements of a zoning code within a small area would not, in isolation, lead to new housing that's affordable, nor make existing housing more affordable by creating more supply," note Baca and Lebovitz.
In Vancouver, however, a recent study by Andy Yan also finds dispiriting results. In an analysis of property assessment values, Yan found that communities with density-oriented "neighbourhood plans" experienced rapid land value appreciation, even as the value of land in other parts of the city slowly declined over the same two-year period. As in Chicago, the selective "spot zoning" that allows greater density on select areas appears to drive price gains in response to higher revenue potential.
Responding to Yan's Vancouver study, urban planner Patrick Condon laments that Vancouver's zoning changes have only made affordability problems worse. "If we can all agree, based on Andy Yan's statistical evidence and what we all know in our gut, that increasing allowable density only reduces affordability, then we should start by not increasing allowable density, anywhere, in the city," Condon writes in The Tyee.
It's a bold and misguided prescription. Condon extrapolates that the land value impacts of "spot zoning" would be replicated in a broader regional upzoning effort—with endless demand driving up the cost of land everywhere. However, the relative value of any given upzoned site changes when the surrounding region is subject to the same rules. (To say nothing of climate impacts). Nonetheless, Condon's reluctance to embrace a strictly market-based solution is well founded.
Condon stresses that Vancouver should "only increase density anywhere in the city in return for social benefit." By tying density allowances with inclusionary zoning provisions, Condon rightly argues that the city can guarantee affordability by simply mandating it. While Condon's affordability concerns are a dubious justification for the continued prohibition of urban density, tackling the housing crisis requires more than a market solution, no matter how much new supply can be induced.
Even if land was free, the current material and labour costs of constructing new housing would make it unaffordable for low- and modest-income people. From an affordability standpoint, zoning reform could play some limited role in alleviating housing prices—and only if applied at the metropolitan scale. Even then, zoning should be understood as a prerequisite to creating inclusive and affordable environments.
"The reason why upzoning is so necessary is because other measures—such as the development of subsidized, permanently affordable buildings, or the construction of market-rate buildings to which rent controls could be applied—are often impossible unless zoning is loosened," write Baca and Lebovitz.
Human Right, Commodity, or Capital Asset?
The debate around single-family zoning is largely predicated on the market impacts of new supply. Yet, most zoning reform advocates acknowledge that upzoning is no panacea to affordability problems. While new supply can play a role in alleviating demand pressure, the roots of the 21st century housing crisis run much deeper than an imbalance between supply and demand.
For starters, there are two distinct housing crises. The well-documented lack of affordable market-price housing in global cities is paired with growing neglect of public housing programs. Since the mid-20th century, governments in the English-speaking world have retreated from providing affordable housing, a process that accelerated in the Reagan-Thatcher-Mulroney era of the 1980s. In 2019, it means that market-price housing is out of reach for urban workers, while remotely adequate public housing is no longer being provided to lower-income people.
According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), the US government spent roughly three times as much on housing programs in the 1970s as it does today. In an e-mail to the New York Times' Emily Badger, NLIHC President Diane Yentel describes a "modern phenomenon of homelessness didn't exist in the late 1970s because our country housed almost everyone, including the lowest-income and most vulnerable families." Put simply, "the key difference between then and now is declining federal subsidies."
In Canada, meanwhile, government policy has almost exclusively focused on incentivizing home ownership—at the expense of renters. According to a study by J. David Hulchanski, an emphasis on a high rate of home ownership has exacerbated the country's social divisions:
In recent decades the growing gap between rich and poor Canadian households has increasingly manifested itself in the housing system. The social need for housing exists mainly among renters – tenants whose income (and lack of wealth) cannot generate effective market demand. Meanwhile, public policy decisions since the mid-1980s have further privileged the ownership sector and helped exacerbate problems in the rental-housing sector, problems that include widespread homelessness.
Alongside the middle-class crisis of housing affordability, there's a parallel crisis of public affordable housing. Myriad factors influence the former, but the latter is a product of simple neglect. In Canada and the United States, decades of strong cultural and institutional focus on home ownership have come at the detriment of basic public housing provisions.
Last year, investigative reports showed that the New York City Housing Authority had a staggering $32 billion in unmet capital needs. In Canada's largest city, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation faces a comparatively modest state of good repair backlog of $2.6 billion (CAD), with under $1 billion in secured funding. For two of the world's financial capitals, it's difficult to interpret the situation as anything short of a moral failure.
It gets worse. Since the post-war period, North American housing policy has shifted to subsidizing ownership in lieu of building housing. In both the US and Canada, substantial public subsidies for home ownership help perpetuate the financialization of housing. In Why Can't You Afford A Home?, market researcher Josh Ryan-Collins argues that the urban housing crises across the western world are first and foremost the products of a global banking system where aggressively scaled-up mortgage lending drives up the price of the land that it borrows against.
Writing in the Financial Times, David McWilliams offers a more provocative take. According to McWilliams, former US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's quantitative easing policies—crafted in response to the subprime mortgage crisis—gave rise to the wave of "millennial socialism" exemplified by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal. "By exchanging old bad loans on the banks' balance sheets with good new money, underpinned by negative interest rates, the Fed drove asset prices skywards," McWilliams explains. "Soaring asset prices, particularly property prices, drive a wedge between those who depend on wages for their income and those who depend on rents and dividends."
In 2019, housing is oftentimes foremost an investment. While the cultural importance of home ownership partly rests on intangible values, 21st century price appreciation in cities like New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver, makes property a lucrative investment—particularly given the public policies that induce its purchase and drive its value. As a growing number of middle-class boomers in Canada and the U.S. come to depend on home equity as a substitute for retirement savings, what would happen if property values fell? And what about urban millennials—and investors? Would they take on record debt and risk to purchase homes barring expectations of virtually guaranteed price growth?
As housing becomes more expensive, we paradoxically become more dependant on prices continuing to rise. It's a tension that Daniel Hertz gets to the heart of in City Observatory. "We say we want housing to be cheap and we want home ownership to be a great financial investment," Hertz writes. And unless "we realize that these two objectives are mutually exclusive, we'll continue to be frustrated by failed and oftentimes counterproductive housing policies."
If the housing crisis is not primarily a function of supply and the built environment, our response to it can't be solely rooted in addressing the physical structure of cities. The case for affordability and inclusion must entail much more than zoning reform, tackling both the lack of public funding for affordable housing, and a financial system that props up home ownership at the expense of renters and lower-income people.
The Toxic Optics—and History—of Top-Down Planning
In the public imagination, the financial complexities of housing are sometimes distilled into narratives about global capital flows, interest rates, speculation, or foreign buyers. The same homeowners who prompted to "take an entry-level economics class" about the laws of supply and demand have some reasonable justifications for eschewing supply-side economic thinking. In a system where housing exists as capital, it's easy to frame zoning and density as the purview of self-interested developers. Historical precedent also lends a helpful—if misleading—hand.
In his recent book Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, Randy Shaw argues that many of North America's global cities chronically fail to provide adequate new housing supply. Like San Francisco, solidly liberal cities Denver and Portland are also places where new development is chronically–and often aggressively—contested. For Shaw, these otherwise progressive communities are "trapped in the framework of past urban renewal fights," which pitted low-income urban residents against cruel top-down planning policies.
In a recent article in Building Magazine, I explain how these historical viewpoints are manifested, and twisted, by today's homeowners:
These past conflicts are neatly epitomized through the now-legendary conflicts between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. Spearheading New York City's mid-century urban development, Moses's policies created elevated expressways at the expense of working class inner-city neighbourhoods, hastily bulldozed in favour of suburban America. In opposition to Moses, Jane Jacobs rallied local residents to oppose the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have torn through neighbourhoods like SoHo and Little Italy in the name of "slum clearance."
Moving to Toronto in 1968, Jacobs helped guide the city through similar conflicts that defined the 1970s 'reform council' era. The city pushed to demolish large swathes of the inner city, including much of The Annex and Chinatown, to build the Spadina Expressway. Luckily, the expressway was halted. So too was a plan to demolish Queen Street's Trefann Court, protecting a low-income community from forced evictions. The preservation of Trefann Court marked a turning point in Toronto's approach to urban planning, giving rise to a more robust community consultation process that puts local residents at the heart of urban decision-making.
Like most North American cities, Toronto now hosts extensive public consultations, with residential neighbourhoods protected from disruptive change. Today's restrictive zoning and community-oriented urban planning ethos emerged as a necessary corrective against the 20th century's acutely harmful top-down planning regimes, which were often explicitly racist and exclusionary.
Viewed through this lens, contemporary opposition to zoning reform continues a long progressive history of urban preservation: a perspective as myopic as it is far-sighted. No longer hubs of immigration and incubators of vibrant ethnic communities, Toronto's 'stable' inner-city neighbourhoods are now full of multi-million dollar homes. Immigrants and low-income Torontonians are increasingly clustered far from the Victorian townhouses once threatened by the Spadina Expressway. The same ethos of community-led planning that once protected the vulnerable from displacement now arguably entrenches the privilege of the few.
While community control of the planning process retains links to progressive roots, its implicit density restrictions arguably perpetuate a long and racist history of exclusionary zoning. Yet, the ostensibly progressive optics of community land use control are buttressed by opposition to developer business interests, top-down planning, and the free-market narratives that often accompany pushes for zoning reform.
Take, for example, the notion of 'filtering,' which posits that the addition of new luxury housing stock will serve to make older housing more affordable by providing more attractive options for the wealthy. Even if it works, it reads as Reaganite trickle-down economics.
Insufficient and Necessary
By some metrics, Toronto is the development capital of North America. Signs of growing urban density are impossible to miss. With more per-capita tall building under construction that anywhere else in North America, the city is obviously not averse to new residents. It's also not averse to losing them. As quoted in the Globe & Mail, Canadian Centre for Economic Analysis CEO Paul Smetanin, 52% of Toronto's land mass has lost population since 2001, registering a loss of over 200,000 since the turn of the millennium.
For a growing city, the reality of widespread population losses—offset by massive increases in density in small pockets—is an obvious logistical problem. Why do we allow the transit-rich Annex to continue losing population while we push density into Etobicoke's Humber Bay Shores? In Toronto, the so-called 'yellowbelt' of single-family homes (a term coined by urban planner Gil Meslin) loses population as the overall city adds jobs and people. It shouldn't.
According to urban planner Cherryll Case, the demographic shift away from the nuclear family has left many residents in single-family homes 'overhoused', yet zoning restrictions prevent them from easily being converted into the duplexes and triplexes that fit today's smaller households—all as high-rise towers spring up on every downtown vista. Even most of the existing mid-rise buildings that dot Toronto's older residential neighbourhoods could not be built today.
In 2019, single-family homes still make up much of inner Toronto. Photo by Chelms Varthoumlien via Unsplash.
The growing concentration of jobs in alpha global cities like Toronto and New York makes them obvious magnets for new residents. If we hope to continue welcoming immigrants and growing our cities in an environmentally conscious manner, we ought to reconsider how urban land is used.
It happened in Minneapolis. Last year, the unprecedented Minneapolis 2040 plan effectively up-zoned the entire city, allowing triplexes—and sometimes fourplexes—across areas that presently contain only single-family homes. In Vancouver, meanwhile, a less ambitious reform legalized the addition of duplexes on single-family lots, while Toronto's much-touted laneway housing policy allows homeowners to add Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) to their properties.
In California, State Senator Wiener is promising to return with an updated housing bill; one that promises to protect renters from displacement while pushing more density into wealthy transit-connected suburbs. Perhaps it's a model of things to come. As urban affordability problems and the need for environmental action become more urgent, a new political coalition to re-shape our cities may be taking form.
According to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's Anthony Flint, "a potential compromise" to the housing deadlock "has begun to emerge thanks to forward-looking policy makers: increasingly, cities are formalizing the requirement that new residential development include a percentage of affordable homes, the policy known as inclusionary housing."
Despite being left out of it, the movement for zoning reform and density can take inspiration from the Green New Deal. By combining an environmental mandate with new affordability measures—whether through extensive inclusionary zoning, a renewed commitment to publicly built housing, or a combination of both—zoning can become a key part of the progressive agenda across North America. Just as the Green New Deal combines climate action with social welfare programs and a new industrial policy, the push for zoning reform ought to use the mandate for density as a prerequisite for creating affordable and inclusive low-carbon communities.
By itself, the market liberalization facilitated by widespread zoning reform may do relatively little to assuage the housing crisis. Yet, the goals of creating inclusive and more resilient new communities are impossible unless the construction of new homes is legally permitted. Zoning doesn't just apply to luxury developers; it's a roadblock for affordable housing too. Let's change that.


A leaked document has revealed that the asshattery of BMW drivers may be more than coincidence. Failing to use turn signals, cutting off other drivers, tailgating, flipping the bird and other affronts to road civility have become indelibly associated with the Bavarian Marque. Why? According to the document, it's all part of a totally illegal customer loyalty scheme.
This template document, issued to all BMW dealers (click the image below to expand), comes to us from an anonymous informant known only as "The Whistleblower." It clearly outlines a list of driving behaviors, recorded on the black boxes that have been standard on all new BMWs for several years now and translated into points.
Accumulated points can then be traded for the kind of fabulous prizes middle management Bimmer drivers most covet, such as anger management classes and male botox injections.
Publishing this document may prove somewhat controversial. While it's our mandate as journalists to seek truthiness, automakers like BMW have long considered customer loyalty programs such as HPDP to be sacrosanct, issuing edicts that access to press vehicle would be denied to any publication that dared bring them to light.
VW famously issued a lifetime ban to British motoring publication Car when it revealed that CC customers were being offered free vasectomies in an effort to keep the four-seater's appeal fresh.
BMW has long been reluctant to aid law enforcement officials in the recovery of black box data post-accident, instead insisting that the data being collected is "not accurate enough to reconstruct crash scenarios." Could it simply be that they were wiping evidence of HPDP before it could be used as evidence? That now seems completely likely.


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Q: Typescript decorators unexpected behavior I have a decorator defined to create routes with express
export const Get = (path: string) => {
  return (
    target: any,
    property: string,
    descriptor: PropertyDescriptor
  ): PropertyDescriptor => {
    console.log(`Creating router for get request, path ${path}`);
    if (!Reflect.hasMetadata("routes", target.constructor)) {
      Reflect.defineMetadata("routes", [], target.constructor);
    }
    const routes = Reflect.getMetadata("routes", target.constructor);
    routes.push({
      method: "get",
      path,
      handler: target[property]
    });
    Reflect.defineMetadata("routes", routes, target.constructor);
    return descriptor;
  };
};

And a decorator to protect routes
export const protect = function(type: authenticatorType = "JWT") {
  const authFactory = AuthFactory.getInstance();
  const authenticator: IAuthenticator = authFactory.getAuthenticator(type);
  return (
    target: any,
    property: string,
    descriptor: PropertyDescriptor
  ): PropertyDescriptor => {
    const method = descriptor.value;
    descriptor.value = function(...args: any[]) {
      const req: Request = args[0];
      const token = <string>req.headers.token;
      if (!token) {
        throw new HTTP401Error();
      }
      const payload = authenticator.verify(token);
      const result = method.apply(this, [...args, payload]);
      return result;
    };
    //Object.defineProperty(target, property, descriptor);
    return descriptor;
  };
};

When I try to use protect with Get, it does not work. To make it work, I have to uncomment //Object.defineProperty(target, property, descriptor);. Without that, the decoration code block is not executed at all.
However, if I use it without Get it works fine even without using Object.defineProperty().
@Controller("/users/:uuid/connections")
export default class ConnectionController {
  constructor() {
    console.debug("Creating network controller");
  }
  @Get("/")
  @protect()
  getConnections(req: Request, res: Response, meta?: any) {
    const s: Social = new Social();
    const result = s.getConnection();
    return res.json(result);
  }
  @Post("/")
  createConnection(req: Request, res: Response) {
    return res.json({ method: "POST" });
  }
  @Put("/:connectionId/status")
  updateConnectionStatus(req: Request, res: Response) {
    const connectionId = req.params.connectionId;
    return res.json({ connectionId });
  }
}

I am not able to understand why the behavior differs.

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Chelsea deal for Elseid Hysaj to be announced soon?
There are indications that a West London side Chelsea will soon announce a deal for Napoli star Elseid Hysaj ahead of the January winter transfer window following reports that talks between both clubs have already started.
The Blues have been long term suitors with manager Maurizio Sarri seeking to have a reunion with Elseid Hysaj to strengthen his defence line.
According to the report, the West London side are ready to pay as high as £50 million to secure the service of the star defender as an earlier bid in the last summer was rejected by the Italian Serie A side.
Elseid Hysaj will well fit into the Blues team having known the tactics and style of the Italian manager as they have both worked together in the past.
Chelsea are only being delayed by the fact that Napoli are unwilling to let Elseid Hysaj leave the club knowing that he is one of the best defenders in the Serie A.
Meanwhile, the Blues team have got a number of defenders but there are suggestions that space would be created for Elseid Hysaj by Sarri just as it happened in the case with Jorginho who was handed a role at the detriment of French powerhouse N'Golo Kante.


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The talking points, crucial changes and the most discussed factors of Indian cricket in our social round-up, from November 5 to 11.
Justin Langer as a player had lost only 22 International games in his career which lasted over 14 years.
As a coach Langer has already lost 13 within 5 months of his stint.


Will You Take the Torch?
While today's "millennials" are consumed with personal family demands and financial worries, are we losing the culture of public askanus that has shaped our communities for the last half a century?
A violinist provides background music to the low hum of conversation as tuxedoed waiters circulate, offering mini-eggrolls from a tray. Meir Pfeffer greets attendees with the proprietary air of a baal simchah. The 58-year-old accountant is the chairman of tonight's dinner. He's been serving in that role for three decades. Pfeffer wears a new shirt, the creases still visible, and his smile is wide and welcoming as he works the room, dropping a steady stream of good-to-see-yous and thanks-for-making-its. Despite the festive air he projects, there is something not quite right in his expression. During a quiet moment, he rests an elbow on the polished wood of the curved bar. "There was a time," he tells me, "when a dinner was an event! People cared. They left work a bit earlier, they changed their clothing and showered, waited for the babysitter and headed out together with their wives. They had fun, they enjoyed the food and company, they listened to the speeches and responded generously. The next morning, they discussed the speakers, the main course, and most importantly, the cause." Pfeffer pauses to clutch the hand of a new arrival, then continues. "Today, we're fortunate if they come at all — forget about getting them to actually think about the cause, or take a moment to care. There are three dinners a night, and everyone is busy with the kids' homework and chavrusas. They're out of here after 20 minutes and by the next morning, they don't even remember that they were here at all." Pfeffer's grim assessment is countered by the optimism of others. "There has never been a more promising time for askanus than now," says Rabbi Shai Markowitz, director of Agudath Israel's Lefkowitz Young Leadership Initiative. "We're seeing an eager young generation desperate to do." Not only to do, but even give. The group of alumni who spearheaded several successful campaigns on behalf of Yeshivas Mir–Yerushalayim were amazed at the response from the younger alumni, who gave and solicited their parents as well. Convention wisdom says that "Generation Y," or "millennials," as they're known, are entitled and self-absorbed. ("The Me, Me, Me Generation," read the cover of a recent issue of Time magazine.) Yet others insist they are passionate, generous, raring to get out there and do. What doesShaiMarkowitz know thatMeirPfeffer doesn't? For executive directors and dinner committees charged with reaching the young donors base, is it the best of times or the worst? The answer, like that of most questions, depends on whom you ask.


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Dean Morton
Dean Morton became the second player in NHL history to score a goal in his only NHL appearance. Rolly Huard of the 1930 Toronto Maple Leafs was the first.
Morton was a defensive d-man if there ever was one. He only scored 4 goals in 202 AHL and IHL games, though did pop in 6 in the the lowly Colonial Hockey League. He was a physical force both in junior and minor pro but wasn't a great skater and was a replaceable commodity, thus explaining his short career.
Drafted 148th overall from the Ontario Hockey League by Detroit in 1986. He turned pro a couple of seasons later, spending two years with the AHL's Adirondack Red Wings. In the 1989-90 season Morton got his only shot at NHL action, and made the most of it by scoring a goal.
His goal-a-NHL-game pace didn't impress many people apparently. He would spend the next three seasons bouncing around with 6 teams in 3 leagues before hanging up the skates in 1993.
Morton would return to the NHL as a referee in 2000.
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First listen of Dubstar's new single "I Can See You Outside"
Posted byJames Iles November 22, 2020 November 27, 2020 Posted inUncategorizedTags:Chris Wilkie, Dubstar, lockdown, Sarah Blackwood, Stephen Hague, synth pop
"I Can See You Outside"
Released Friday (November 27)
ONE of the bright sparks in this dark year for the music industry has been the socially-distanced return to the studio of 90s dream popsters Dubstar.
Now the duo of Sarah Blackwood and Chris Wilkie since their return in 2018 with the Youth-produced album 'One', this year the pair have been collaborating again with the legendary producer Stephen Hague – the man behind some of Pet Shop Boys and New Order's biggest hits, as well as Dubstar's 1995 Gold-selling debut album "Disgraceful".
The first material with Stephen Hague to be released since 1997, "Hygiene Strip" dropped down like a well-timed blessing from synth pop heaven in September.
Sarah recording vocals this year.
Blackwood's ethereal vocals were comforting like a guardian angel, with an endearing vulnerability that was perfectly captured in an ordinary fragile love story cleverly contrasted with extraordinary life under lockdown.
So, what of the new track "I Can See You Outside" that I was given an exclusive first listen to this weekend?
The pace picks up with "…Outside" and, pleasingly, it's another catchy song which reinforces the promise for their upcoming new album "Two", due out in 2021.
The duo say they composed the single as a "disco soundtrack for condemned night clubs and empty venues". Well, fingers crossed it gets played in some, if they ever manage to re-open.
Recorded at the end of the first Covid-19 lockdown, "I Can See You Outside" is meant as a companion piece to "Hygiene Strip" that offers "the resolution to transcend an existential threat".
The track kicks off with a Blondie "Heart of Glass" vibe on the sequencer and disco bongos, before some lovely melancholy chord stabs build up to the opening vocals.
"Remember the way it made you feel, tied to the wheel" Sarah inquires before taking us for a post-lockdown holiday where you "Open the case in a place where you can get away".
Dubstar are Sarah Blackwood and Chris Wilkie.
Talking of getting away, I'm reliably informed that Sarah loves nothing more to escape to British Camp in Malvern whenever she can.
An early walk up the Hills, buying some local honey for sale by the car park before getting a coffee and a mooch in the shops in The Design Quarter by Ledbury is her ideal local jaunt.
Well, the Malverns certainly inspired Elgar, so it's fair to say they may have helped Dubstar write new material too!
Back to the new single and, for all the mournful reminiscences of the verses, the chorus, is defiantly optimistic and full of positively uplifting metaphors because, after all, "If they close the ride, I can see you outside."
This release marks another bold step for Dubstar, who are blazing a trail where many of their contemporaries arguably used to lead.
They've pipped their peers to the post by releasing not one but two pandemic-inspired pop songs in the year of Covid-19, but what's really good about this track is, like all good pop songs, it will fit into another time and place with ease. Here's hoping we get there soon.
• You can presave the new single here https://fanlink.to/dubstar-icsyo
• To hear more of Dubstar's back catalogue (and I can recommend it) why not listen to their "Dubstarter" playlist on Spotify at https://spoti.fi/3kNWxC4
• Here's the full video of "I Can See You Outside"
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Q: Move shape while key is down in WPF I want to move a shape in a window while user holds a key down.
I'm new to this so i tried this approach, but i can't change circle.RederTransform from my new thread, because it belongs to a different thread. How should it be done?
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        private Matrix transformationMatrix = Matrix.Identity;
        private Thread myThread = null;
        private bool isGoing = false;

        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Window_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            isGoing = true;
            myThread = new Thread(HandleMyThread);
            myThread.Start();
        }

        private void Window_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            isGoing = false;
        }

        private void HandleMyThread(object obj)
        {
            while(isGoing)
            {
                transformationMatrix.Translate(10, 0);
                circle.RenderTransform = new MatrixTransform(transformationMatrix);
                Thread.Sleep(50);
            }
        }

    }

A: In WPF you want to use the System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer class for UI-thread safe timers.
Here is an example:
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
    private DispatcherTimer _timer;

    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    protected override void OnContentRendered(EventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnContentRendered(e);

        _timer = new DispatcherTimer();
        _timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(50);
        _timer.Tick += timer_Tick;

    }

    protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnKeyDown(e);

        _timer.Start();
    }

    protected override void OnKeyUp(KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnKeyUp(e);

        _timer.Stop();
    }

    private void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        transform.X += 2;
        transform.Y += 2;
    }
}

A: You might get away with doing it by just using an Invoke...but there are better ways to do what you want to do.
Firstly, creating a thread each time you handle the KeyDown is inefficient...and could lead to problems...because it may take a while to create and schedule the Thread...thus a delay in your "thing" moving.
In addition it's possible for you to get in a mess with having multiple threads staying in existence. For instance, say someone was repeatedly pressing and releasing the key....in that case it's possible for "old" threads to still keep running...because isGoing flag is true....in other words, there is poor synchronization.
private void HandleMyThread(object obj)
{
    Action action = new Action( ()=>
    {
        transformationMatrix.Translate(10, 0);
        circle.RenderTransform = new MatrixTransform(transformationMatrix);
    };

    while(isGoing)
    {
        this.Dispatcher.Invoke(DispatcherPriority.Normal, action);
        Thread.Sleep(50);
    }
}


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Topeka receives recommendation as home for single conference office
After the April meeting of the Connecting Council, clergy and lay members to annual conference knew they would have the opportunity to vote on whether to condense three conference offices to one. Now they know if they choose the single-office option they then will get to vote on where that office will be.
Topeka will be the suggested location, based on a recommendation from the location task force endorsed by the conference Board of Trustees.
Initial candidate locations included Topeka, Kansas City, Lawrence, Lincoln, Manhattan, Omaha, Salina and Wichita. Based on factors including the labor market, operating costs, access to air travel and overall quality of life, McCallum Sweeney Consultants – a company that provides businesses, municipalities and organizations assistance with site selection – recommended narrowing the initial list to Topeka and Kansas City. The firm provided information comparing the various markets on those factors before the task force made its decision, which was affirmed unanimously by the Trustees.
"Topeka's strengths as we saw them were in affordability of housing, cost of living and of available office space, cost per square footage," said Steve Flader, chair of the conference Board of Trustees. "The committee saw the benefits of being in a smaller metro area, commuting time to an office and a smaller-town feel. Topeka is also closer to the center of church attendance for the conference."
The location task force – comprised of Flader, Lisa Maupin and Tom Watson from Nebraska and the Rev. Maria Campbell and Lloyd Hamrick of Kansas – began meeting in early May after the Connecting Council tasked the Board of Trustees with presenting a proposal for a single conference office location. The decision grew out of a staffing report presented by the Rev. John Wimberly, a consultant who provided recommendations for the realignment of staff to better fulfill the conference's mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. In Wimberly's report, he suggested that conference staff would be more efficient, improve internal communication and foster greater teamwork if it is all in one location. Wimberly stated in his presentation to the Connecting Council that during his more than 160 interviews with staff, clergy and laity in late winter across the two states, it became clear to him that a single office would help the staff better deploy resources to local congregations for use in addressing needs in their mission fields.
Read more about Wimberly's recommendations.
To assist the task force with its work, the team hired McCallum Sweeny Consulting, a South Carolina-based firm that reports among its clients Michelin, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, and several U.S. cities and states. The firm previously consulted on property assessment, evaluation and certification of properties for the state of Kansas and the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
From the consulting firm's analysis, the task force unanimously recommended Topeka as the location for a single conference office.
Read the full report from McCallum Sweeney Consulting.
The proposal now will move on to the 2017 annual conference session, during which members will vote first on whether to condense the three offices to one and, second, whether to approve the location recommended by the task force.
The conference currently has three offices. The Congregational Excellence staff is based in Wichita. The Clergy Excellence staff is based in Lincoln. And the Administrative Services staff is based in Topeka. All three offices also have personnel dedicated to accounting and other administrative duties. If approved, office consolidation is expected to be completed in 2018.
Bishop Ruben Saenz Jr. said the decision to maintain three offices when the former Kansas West, Kansas East and Nebraska conferences unified in 2014 was correct at the time.
"Conference staff at all three office sites provided a seamless transition and continuation of mission critical ministries, administration and local church support for the newly formed Great Plains Conference," Bishop Saenz said. "Their dedicated work and contributions to successfully unify and sustain the conference's support of the local churches are to be highly commended and deeply appreciated."
The bishop said now, however, personnel and other resources must be focused on building upon and enhancing the Great Plains Conference's missional culture and the quality of service and support to the laity, clergy, and local churches.
"A single conference office location will enable us to effectively and efficiently align and faithfully steward our human, material and financial resources in support of our mission," the bishop said. "Regardless of what is decided during the annual conference session, our staff will remain committed to doing as much is possible to assist local congregations in meeting the spiritual and temporal needs of their individual communities."
If the annual conference approves the single-office concept and Topeka as the location, the Board of Trustees then will decide whether to lease or purchase an existing building, renovate an existing building or build a new office structure. If renovations or complete construction is necessary, the move may not happen for more than 12 months. And even then, conference staff would migrate to the new location in shifts to ensure the work of the conference continues unabated.
Contact Todd Seifert, conference communications director, at tseifert@greatplainsumc.org.


30/11/10: I'm uploading this purely for historical interest. There's some nice pictures of plasma discharges with two spherical grids, but I never tried it with anything other than air.
The fusor is a device to generate a small blob of superhot plasma using inertial/electrostatic confinement. By using deuterium gas (deuterium nucleus is identical to hydrogen except for 1 extra neutron), it is said that fusion can start inside the plasma. For a full description and construction details see Richard Hull's 634fusor.pdf. Or, you can just enter "hirsch fusor" into Google.
By the way, I don't know if I'm allowed to put Richard's file on this website, so if I shouldn't, email me and let me know!
This fusor was built using soft-soldered copper wire for both grids (mainly because I don't have a convenient way of joining steel wire). As a result, the inner grid melted to pieces after about 10 seconds of operation! It proved the principle though.
Pictures are shown below - see further down for descriptions.
1) General setup. Power supply is on the left (in the big wooden box). Vacuum chamber is the bit of yellow pipe (courtesy of British Gas PLC!!). Vacuum pump is down on the floor to the right. PSU can deliver 100mA @ 1kV. Inner grid is NEGATIVE. PSU has no current limiter so it's down to skilful twiddling of the variac to adjust the current within limits!
2) Close-up of vacuum chamber. Note: The nice perspex lid came from a skip at university and just happened to fit over the end of the pipe EXACTLY!! The two grids are visible, the inner one connected to a modified NGK spark plug which acts as a great electrical feedthrough.
3) The rest of the pictures are of the plasma ball inside the inner grid. Some are blurry because the digital camera decided to take a long exposure time and I moved during the exposure.
4) Another picture of plasma ball.
5) Yet another picture of plasma ball.
6) Good picture of plasma ball! This was running at 200mA (meter was off-scale) @ 1kV.
7) Another good picture of plasma ball, but blurry.
8) Diagram of grids drawn using Povray.


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News > Associated Press
Politicians Split on Questions of Bodily Autonomy
Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and several other Mississippi politicians make clear that they don't think the government should mandate vaccination against COVID-19. They take a different stance on bodily autonomy when it comes to a woman or girl deciding whether to have an abortion.
In arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 1, the Mississippi attorney general's office defended a 2018 state law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks. The state solicitor general, Scott Stewart, also tried to persuade justices to overturn the court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.
Reeves was lieutenant governor when the 15-week ban was pushed into law, and he has said repeatedly that he wants to restrict abortion. When Reeves appeared on "Meet the Press" days before the Supreme Court arguments, the show played a video clip of Reeves saying COVID-19 vaccine mandates were a "power grab" by the federal government.
In the context of government rules that affect people's bodies, host Chuck Todd asked Reeves: "Why should the state of Mississippi tell a woman what they should do with their body? Why shouldn't they have that individual freedom on their body, particularly in the first 20 weeks?"
Reeves responded: "The far left love to scream, 'My body, my choice.' And what I would submit to you, Chuck, is they absolutely ignore the fact that in getting an abortion there is an actual killing of an innocent, unborn child that is in that womb."
The Supreme Court is expected to take several months to rule on the Mississippi case. Six conservative justices indicated they would uphold the Mississippi law. Doing so would undermine Roe and Casey, which allow states to regulate but not ban abortion up until the point of fetal viability, at roughly 24 weeks.
Mississippi's only abortion clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, sued the state when then-Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican, signed the 15-week ban in March 2018. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves (no relation to Tate Reeves) issued a temporary restraining order that immediately blocked the law from taking effect.
In a detailed ruling in November 2018, Judge Reeves wrote that "this Court concludes that the Mississippi Legislature's professed interest in 'women's health' is pure gaslighting." He cited the state's high infant mortality statistics and noted that Mississippi has not expanded Medicaid, which is an option most states have taken under the 2010 federal health law signed by then-President Barack Obama. Mississippi still has not expanded Medicaid because of opposition from Reeves and other Republican leaders.
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn and Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson, who are Republicans, join Reeves in wanting to restrict abortion and in denouncing COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
"I respect your right to make whatever health care decision, as it pertains to the coronavirus, that you think is best for you in consultation with your health care provider," Gunn said Oct. 28 at the Mississippi Economic Council's Hobnob event. "This is America. One of the greatest rights we have in this country is to make the decisions that we think are best for us in regards to our health care."
On the day the Supreme Court heard arguments about the Mississippi abortion case, Gunn said in a statement that the Mississippi House "has repeatedly demonstrated a commitment to save the lives of the unborn children in our State. This bill is just another example of the House's commitment to the unborn."
Gipson was a House committee chairman who worked to push the 15-week abortion ban into law, and he filed written arguments asking the Supreme Court to uphold it. During Hobnob, Gipson said federal vaccination mandates are "as un-American as anything I've ever seen in my life."
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Live music around the Klang Valley in November from pop, R&B, hip hop, jazz, classical, indie and rock to live theatre and comedy, Discover the hottest events in Kuala Lumpur with The City List, here's a look at the week ahead.
Supported by: StanKonnexions presents Aether (Live) featuring Charleston Cornelius on decks and Syima on vocals. Also in the house DJs Helmee, Joey G & Jeff Jefferson will get you going.
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Bob Skunjas and the Groove Messengers delivers authentic bebop, post-bop, latin jazz and fusion music. Inspired by John Coltrane, Chucho Valdez and Herbie Hancock, this band also explores a wide array of arrangements involving the combination tone colour of alto saxophone and trumpet. The signature phrases and rhythmic-based improvisation of Kenny Garrett inspired the band members to explore his musical approach, which led to the formation of this band in 2016. With that, the band aims to perform in various local and international jazz festivals and jazz clubs to showcase its exploration in authentic jazz music.
Kirana Kay is a vocalist that performs authentic Jazz, Pop Rock, Traditional Malay, R&B and Soul. Compatible with contemporary genres, Kirana is a regular feature at Kuala Lumpur's entertainment industry. A gifted vocalist with wide array of modern contemporary repertoire.
Urbanscapes 2018 is back again! This time around, in collaboration with A Very Indie Showcase, they bring you some of the best local acts in town, with Fazz, Nadir, Brendan de Cruz, Fabian Mark Peter and Billie Blue & the Nowhere Men.
A veteran of the circuit, Carey Marx concocts his own blend of dark humour with mischief and glee. His wilful disregard for the controversial and taboo is tempered with his ability to find joy in the most unexpected places.
Having played all the most prestigious clubs and festivals in the world, Carey has performed in every continent and claims to have travelled more in his life than he has stood still. In 2012, he had a heart attack and - because he's a comedian - wrote a highly acclaimed show which described his battle back to health, cementing him as Britain's top heart attack comedian.
Crackhouse Comedy Club KL: 24A (1st Floor) Lorong Rahim Kajai 14, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, KL . Tickets online RM40 / Door RM50. https://rizalvansewaoct.peatix.comCall +6017-260 3654 or email laugh@crackhousecomedy.asia for more info.
Cass3y starts the evening off at 7.30pm with Irma Selemand and Syima live on stage from 11pm.
BOBO KL: 65-1, Jalan Bangkung, Bangsar, KL: Dine with them before the show. Admission RM60++/ RM45++ for Bobo diners. For reservations call 03-2092 5002.
Sounds of Jane Live on the Dust Factory Stage at the new Iron Fairies KL from 8pm.
Jacome returns with another spellbinding performance showcasing the versatility of both the Venezuelan acoustic and electric harp. After intermission, bask in the warm glow of Rachmaninoff's sublimely beautiful, richly romantic Second Symphony.
With Ariff Jazzmi, Yogi, Fenna and Natasha Azlan.
Singer- song writer "Jazzmi" from Subang Jaya has been playing music ever since he was 5. Started of by learning piano and now in the midst of recording an EP called "Nocturnal" that will hopefully be released on spotify mid next year!!
An acoustic singer-songwriter and a guitarist. Yogi has been actively performing as a solo artist and with his band for over 7 years. His musical genre ranges from old school rock to country and from alternative to acoustic soul. His debut EP in English was released worldwide in 2015 and he ventured into the music industry in Nepal with his singles (comprising of 2 songs) in 2017. Before moving to Malaysia, he was the lead vocalist of his Band called "YoGi & the Quarter Lives" and the Pop / Rock & Roll band called "SUGR" in India. He also briefly featured as the lead vocalist for the hard-rock band called "BRB – Brim River Bridge" and as a guest vocalist for a renowned old school rock band called "Altered Scales".
Fenna de Jong is a singer and pianist from the Netherlands who found her passion for playing music when she was a kid. She has a love for soul music and covers songs while leaving her singing style mark on them. Loves to sing on weddings, conferences and parties, and she recently added the open mics to her list when she moved to Kuala Lumpur.
Natasha Azlan started open mic-ing regularly in Feb 2018. Often listening to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald & Madeleine Peyroux, she covers jazzy tunes from time to time. A few months ago, she's begun to write her own songs - she thinks they're possibly categorised under 'folk jazz'.
RIL'S BANGSAR: 30, Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar Baru, KL: Call 03-2201 3846.
Irma Seleman performs early at 7pm. Hydra the band takes the stage from 11pm onwards.
Suzanne Live on The Dust Factory stage at the new Iron Fairies KL from 8pm.
Fresh from playing The Iskandar Puteri Jazz Festival and in preparation for their slot at Urbanscapes 2018 later this month, the Frankie Sixes brings a night classic swing jazz tunes from the 1940s-50s. Be prepared to move your feet.
The Frankie Sixes is a new swing jazz band with some familiar faces from the Malaysian music scene. The band, a side project of singer-songwriter Reza Salleh, started out playing for lindy hop dancers, a kind of swing dance from the 1940-50s. Reza is an AIM award-winning singer- songwriter and a regular face in the independent music scene. His debut album "Realize" topped radio charts the year of its release and has led him to performances in Korea, Japan, Thailand, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore. He's performed at the 18th annual Sunset Live Festival, Asia Music Found Showcase and the Nakasu Jazz Festival in Japan, as well as being invited to the Jazz & Wine music series and the Daegu Folk Festival in Korea. On local shores he's appeared most major music festivals and has had his own showcase at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas. Reza is the main vocal of the band.
On keys is Ee Jeng, one of the most well knows jazz musicians in the Malaysian jazz scene. In addition to playing most local jazz festivals in the country, internationally he's played for the likes of Randy Bernsen, Laura Fygi and Indro Hardjodikoro, among many others. He's normally seen leading the 8-year-old Ee Jeng Trio doing a repertoire of jazz originals or leading Funkatorie, a soul and funk act.
On double bass is Che Wan, who has played for some of the top jazz practitioners in the Malaysian music industry including Michael Verappen, David Gomes, Patrick Tebrack, Junji Delfino and many more. Outside of jazz he has sessioned for the likes of Yuna, Guba and Tony Eusoff.
On drums is KJ, trained musically in the esteemed Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. Together with Malaysian Jazz Ensemble WVC, KJ has drummed in many parts of the world such as China, Taiwan, Macau, Thailand, Canada, The United States and even the Caribbean Islands.
A live acoustic band, lined up of musicians who have been in the music industry for more than a decade. Ideally named, simply performing songs ranging from the late 60s up to the current Top 40s in an acoustic manner to sooth your every acoustic musical fantasy. Muzza performs early at 7pm.
Malaysian guitarist Andrew Cheng is returning from New York for an Asia tour with German Singer/Songwriter and Jazz Pianist Julian Moreen, whom he met during his studies at Berklee College of Music. After many shows in Boston and NYC, they're now on tour through Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, presenting their original music, a celebration of musical and lyrical storytelling that draws from modern jazz, folk and indie pop music.
Julian Moreen is an award-winning jazz pianist and singer/songwriter from Germany. After receiving a scholarship to study at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, he moved to the United States, where he met Malaysian guitarist Andrew Cheng. After graduating, both moved together to New York and started performing at many venues around the city while furthering their studies with famed NY Jazz musicians. Their original music draws from modern jazz, folk and indie pop music with lyrics influenced by the poetry of writers such as Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. Joined by Singaporean drummer Eugene Seow and Taiwanese bassist Yu Jia Liu, they're now on a month-long tour through Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan before traveling to Germany.
Russell Curtis hits the stage live at 11pm. Allan G performs early at 7.30pm.
Dani is back again with The Nightshades once more, the band that she used to perform with when she first started out. This show promises originals, and jazz and blues numbers that will keep your feet tapping and leave you wanting more.
Dani started out in 2015 and has since been a regular fixture at a few of Kuala Lumpur's jazz establishments such as No Black Tie. Apart from her love for singing jazz and blues classics, she enjoys performing her own originals which puts a spin on classic jazz music. While she's been performing regularly, her unique voice and engaging originals have granted her invitations to perform at various festivals such as the IP Jazz Festival (Johor), JB International Arts Festival (Johor) and also the Publika Jazz Festival (Kuala Lumpur). Her efforts have also opened up collaborative doors for her to work with a few of Malaysia's best musicians like Dasha Logan, Michael Veerapen, Lewis Pragasam and international guitarist, Robin Banerjee, who was the late Amy Winehouse's guitarist. Lately, Dani has been working with her band mates on their first EP which will be released by year end for everyone to enjoy.
Stan Konnexion hit the stage live at 10.30pm. Allan G performs early at 7.30pm.
Lady Elle live on the Dust Factory Stage from 8pm.
Cass3y starts the evening off at 7.30pm with Clinton Jerome live on stage from 10.30pm.
Live on the Dust Factory Stage.
Canto Divo is a good-looking duo made up of Alan S and Yee Yee. Canto Divo sings Cantopop fused with pop/jazz elements. Together the duo will spice up all your fave Cantopop hits by Jacky Cheung, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung and many more.
Yee Yee is a veteran singer who started singing from a young age, having a legendary father who was a well-known composer/producer of local Chinese pop in the 70s and early 80s. She started out as a model for magazines and TV commercials, and actress (TV drama, movie) before entering into the music industry. She was also a beauty pageant queen. She ventured into Taiwan Chinese pop market with 2 Chinese albums in 2004. Her multi-faceted talent coupled with her good looks allow her to attract many sponsors and commercial opportunities. More importantly, her Cantonese diction and sweet voice is what attracted pop pop factory.
Alan S, also a fashion model, before being talent scouted by pop pop factory. He has been the face of many famous brands (Gucci, YSL etc. etc.) as a catwalk model. But his main calling is jazz singing, with a voice perfectly cut for jazz music. At a towering height of 6' 3", Alan has a presence like no other. His aspiration is to become the Chinese Michael Buble in Asia. Alan S is currently sought after by many wine bars and jazz venues in town.
NO BLACK TIE: 17, Jalan Mesui, off Jalan Nagasari, KL. Admission: RM70. Concert menu available. Call 03-2142 3737 after 5pm or visit www.noblacktie.com.my for bookings.
Get over that mid-week slump with a dose of comedy as it's supposed to be – uncensored and honest. Raw, fast paced and edgy, Open Crack! Witness the grassroots comedy scene with newbies, regulars and if you're lucky a surprise guest comic. The best 3 minute set of the night will cash RM100 AND an opportunity to perform on the weekend shows. To perform, just turn up at 8.00pm on the night itself to sign up. List closes at 8.45pm. Prepare 3 minutes of material.
Crackhouse Comedy Club KL: 24A (1st Floor) Lorong Rahim Kajai 14, Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, KL . Tickets online RM15 / Door RM20. https://rizalvansewaoct.peatix.comCall +6017-260 3654 or email laugh@crackhousecomedy.asia for more info.
on the Dust Factory Stage from 8pm.


With 360 million smokers, China has more cigarette consumers than any other country — a smoking prevalence of 31 percent among the general population. Physicians can play a key role in encouraging smokers to quit, yet up to now, little has been known about Chinese physicians' attitudes and practices regarding smoking. In this first-of-its kind-study, researchers found that 23 percent of 3,552 hospital-based physicians surveyed were smokers, substantially higher than in the United States (3.3 percent), where the smoking prevalence in the general population is 20.9 percent, and the United Kingdom (6.8 percent), with 25 percent prevalence in the general population. This rate is also higher than in Japan (20.2 percent), where the smoking prevalence in the general population is 33.8 percent.
The findings are noteworthy because physicians who smoke are significantly less likely than their nonsmoking counterparts to advise their patients to quit smoking. As a result of this survey, the China Center for Disease Control has instituted an antismoking campaign that targets physicians and medical students and promotes smoke-free hospitals.
Michael Ong of UCLA; Elisa K. Tong of the University of California, Davis; Quan Gan and Teh-wei Hu of UC Berkeley; and Yuan Jiang, Yan Yang and Yi Nan of the National Tobacco Control Office of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing.
The research appears in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.


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Norway's Marianne Skarpnord will take a three shot lead into the final round of the Oates Victorian Open being played at 13th Beach Golf Links on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula.
The multiple winner on the Ladies European Tour, who sits atop of the leaderboard at 13-under-par wont have it her own way with England's Holly Clyburn and young gun Su Oh leading the chase at 10-under and 9-under respectively.
Skarpnord's five-under-par, 68 included six birdies and one birdie during the weather interrupted afternoon. Play had to be suspended at 3.48pm local time due to lightning in the area, players returned to the clubhouse, waited for the storm to pass before officials allowed play to resume at 5.00pm local time.
Having only arrived in Australia from Dubai late Monday night, the 28-year-old was hit by jet-lag with four holes to play today.
Clyburn, who was celebrating her 24th birthday, finished her four-under-par 69 in style with an eagle on the par 5 18th. Having won on the LET in 2013 and finished runner-up twice in 2014, she will be eager to get her 2015 campaign started with a win.
Sharing fourth place and in with an outside chance at eight-under is the leading amateur Shelly Shin (72) and first round leader Sally Watson (73). Watson had an unbelievable round it included three eagles, including holing out from 160 yards with a 6-iron, two birdies, four bogeys and two double bogeys.
Crowd favourite Dame Laura Davies got herself into a share of 10th at four-under-par after posting a three-under-par 70, while Rachel Hetherington is a further shot adrift in a tie for 14th.
Victorian Bre Elliott carded the round of the day, a seven-under-par 66 to move into a tie for 19th position.


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Лаухар-де-Андаракс () — муніципалітет в Іспанії, у складі автономної спільноти Андалусія, у провінції Альмерія. Населення —  осіб (2010).

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