Financial Planner recommends HECM "synergy" with use of coordinated credit line.
Reverse mortgages have been around for decades, even before the Department of Housing and Urban Development created the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program in the late 1980s. But while these financial products aren't necessarily new, today they are becoming a "disruptive" way to leveraging home equity, says one reverse mortgage researcher.
In the spirit of Silicon Valley, where the term "disruption" has become a buzzword among tech companies looking to radically change the conventional way things are done, reverse mortgages are disrupting long-held emotional attachments tied to the home and how it can be used in building retirement wealth, according to a recent webinar from the Financial Planning Association (FPA), featuring Barry H. Sacks, a practicing tax attorney in San Francisco who has researched the effects of reverse mortgages in retirement planning.
In February 2012, the Journal of Financial Planning published a report Sacks co-authored that analyzed the use of home equity via a reverse mortgage. The report mathematically showed how a reverse mortgage line of credit feature can be used to supplement retirement income.
Expounding on the report's findings during last Thursday's FPA webinar, Sacks discussed how HECMs can "reverse" the conventional wisdom that has been anchored by perceptions that one's home is sacrosanct, and that once the mortgage has been paid off, it should never be encumbered to any debt.
Using a reverse mortgage line of credit as part of a coordinated retirement strategy can help retirees—specifically, the "mass affluent" who have invested assets in the range of about $500,000 to $1.2 million, and home equity in the same range—who are drawing on securities portfolios like 401(k) accounts or rollover IRAs, Sacks said.
"A small draw from a reverse mortgage credit line at the right time increases the long-term growth of the securities portfolio, such as a 401(k) or rollover IRA account," he said.
This can be a critical strategy for retirees, considering the most frequent cause of retirement account exhaustion is the sequence of returns risk.
When faced with portfolio depletion, using a reverse mortgage as a last resort can prematurely exhaust one's portfolio much sooner than if a person took a line of credit earlier during retirement.
Per a comparison example provided during the webinar, two people named John and Jim each start off in Year-1 with a retirement portfolio of $500,000 at age 65. Each experience the same investment performance over the course of a 30-year retirement period.
John, however, embraces the conventional wisdom of taking out a reverse mortgage later in life and only does so once his portfolio has been exhausted in Year-24.
"New wisdom" Jim, on the other hand, gets a reverse mortgage with a line of credit feature in Year-2 of his retirement when he's 66 years old. Jim then draws from his standby line of credit in years following negative returns to his portfolio in years 2, 3, 6 and 23.
At the end of a 30-year retirement, Jim had drawn $295,000 from his reverse mortgage credit line, owed $692,000 on the reverse mortgage loan, but left an investment portfolio of $1,086,000—more than doubling his portfolio value since he retired.
John, who ran out of money on the 24th year, had drawn a total of $447,955 over the course of the seven years he had his reverse mortgage line of credit, but without any money left in his retirement portfolio.


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Pythagoras Biography
Born: c. 575 B.C.E.
Samos, Greece
Died: c. 495 B.C.E.
Metapontum
Greek philosopher, scientist, and religious scholar
The Greek philosopher, scientist, and religious teacher Pythagoras developed a school of thought that accepted the passage of the soul into another body and established many influential mathematical and philosophical theories.
Born on the island of Samos, off Greece, in the Mediterranean Sea, Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus. Little is known about his early life. After studying in Greece, he fled to southern Italy to escape the harsh rule of Polycrates (died c. 522 B.C.E. ), who came to power about 538 B.C.E. Pythagoras is said to have traveled to Egypt and Babylon during this time.
Pythagoras and his followers became politically powerful in Croton in southern Italy, where Pythagoras had established a school for his newly formed sect, or group of followers. It is probable that the Pythagoreans took positions in the local government in order to lead men to the pure life that was directed by their teachings. Eventually, however, a rival group launched an attack on the Pythagoreans at a gathering of the sect, and the group was almost completely destroyed. Pythagoras either had been forced to leave Croton or had left voluntarily shortly before this attack. He died in Metapontum early in the fifth century B.C.E.
Religious teachings
Pythagoras and his followers were important for their contributions to both religion and science. His religious teachings were based on the doctrine (teaching) of metempsychosis, which teaches that the soul never dies and is destined to a cycle of rebirths until it is able to free itself from the cycle through the purity of its life.
Pythagoreanism differed from the other philosophical systems of its time in being not merely an intellectual search for truth but a whole way of life which would lead to salvation, or to be delivered from sin. An important part of Pythagoreanism was the relationship of all life. A universal life spirit was thought to be present in animal and vegetable life, although there is no evidence to show that Pythagoras believed that the soul could be born in the form of a plant. It could be born, however, in the body of an animal, and Pythagoras claimed to have heard the voice of a dead friend in the howl of a dog being beaten.
Mathematical teachings
The Pythagoreans presented as fact the dualism (that life is controlled by opposite forces) between Limited and Unlimited. It
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was probably Pythagoras who declared that numbers could uncover the secrets of the universe, limiting and giving shape to matter (anything that takes up space). His study of musical intervals, leading to the discovery that the chief intervals can be expressed in numerical ratios (relationships between numbers) between the first four integers (positive whole numbers), also led to the theory that the number ten, the sum of the first four integers, embraced the whole nature of number.
So great was the Pythagoreans' respect for the "Tetractys of the Decad" (the sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4) that they swore their oaths (promises) by it rather than by the gods, as was normal during his day. Pythagoras may have discovered the theorem which still bears his name (in right triangles [triangle with one angle equal to 90 degrees], the square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other sides), although this proposal has been discovered on a writing stone dating from the time of the Babylonian king Hammurabi (died c. 1750 B.C.E. ). Regardless of their sources, the Pythagoreans did important work in extending the body of mathematical knowledge.
As a more general outline, the Pythagoreans presented the two contraries (opposites), Limited and Unlimited, as ultimate principles, or truths. Numerical oddness and evenness are equated with Limited and Unlimited, as are one and plurality (many), right and left, male and female, motionlessness and movement, straight and crooked, light and darkness, and good and bad. It is not clear whether an ultimate One, or Monad, was presented as the cause of the two categories.
Cosmological views
The Pythagoreans, as a result of their religious beliefs and careful study of mathematics, developed a cosmology (dealing with the structures of the universe) which differed in some important respects from the world views at the time, the most important of which was their view of the Earth as a sphere which circled the center of the universe. It is not known how much of this theory was credited to Pythagoras himself.
The mathematical knowledge carried out by Pythagoras and his followers would have been enough to make him an important figure in the history of Western thought. However, his religious sect and the self-discipline and dedication which he taught, embracing as it did a vast number of ancient beliefs, make him one of the great teachers of religion in the ancient Greek world.
Fey, James. Looking for Pythagoras: The Pythagorean Theorem. White Plains, NY: Dale Seymour Publications, 1997.
Philip, J. A. Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966.
Strohmeyer, John, and Peter Westbrook. Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 1999.
Also read article about Pythagoras from Wikipedia
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hello this is really interesting but i would like to know who his mother is
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Q: Cascading multi valued parameters Asssume that there is a report parameter called salesman which is multivalued and is dependent on another report parameter called distributor which is also a multivalued.Each value of distributor is having two salesman values.If i select two distributors i should get 4 related salsman values in the salesman dropdown. how to do it in SSRS 2008 pls help me out.

A: *

*Order the parameters having Distributor first and Salesman second.

*Set The Query of the Salesman Parameter to use the Distributor parameter

*Beware that everytime you change the first parameter the second will be refreshed, and this can be anoying sometimes.

Good Luck.

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In a failed attack on the industrial zone in the town of Avdiyivka [the so-called "promzone"] in Donbas, the occupation forces suffered losses, in particular seven KIA and another 17 WIA, that's according to Andriy Lysenko, the speaker of the Defense Ministry on ATO.
"Yesterday's aggressive actions have cost the enemy dearly. Enemy losses over the past day have been confirmed. It's seven dead and 17 wounded occupant troops," Lysenko told a briefing Friday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Read alsoRussian proxies attack Ukraine 54 times in last dayThe lion's share of the losses were in the so-called 10th regiment and a separate assault battalion of the 1st Army Corps of the combined Russian-occupation forces, who attacked Avdiyivka's industrial area and failed," said Lysenko.
He added that the terrorists had planned to push the Ukrainian forces back from their positions in Avdiyivka. The command of Russian occupation troops deployed several hundred militants from two different units to carry out the offensive, as well as several batteries of artillery, supported by UAVs.
"After a powerful artillery fire from 82mm mortars and 152mm howitzers, the invaders tried to storm our positions. Reinforcements arrived to repel an attack on the cutting edge of our defense. Clashes ended in our favor, and the enemy was forced to retreat in disgrace, having suffered losses," Lysenko said.


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namespace Tests\AppBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

class APIControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
    private $client;

    public function __construct($name = null, array $data = [], $dataName = '')
    {
        parent::__construct($name, $data, $dataName);
        $this->client = static::createClient();
    }

    public function testListingOrganisms()
    {
        $this->client->request('GET', '/test_data/api/listing/organisms', array(
            'limit' => 5
        ));
        $response = $this->client->getResponse();
        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $responseData = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
        $this->assertEquals(5, count($responseData), 'the correct number of organisms are returned');
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('fennecId', $responseData[1], 'the second organism has a fennec_id');
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('scientificName', $responseData[3], 'the fourth organism has a scientific_name');
    }

    public function testListingOrganismsAlternativeDB()
    {
        $this->client->request('GET', '/test_data2/api/listing/organisms', array(
            'limit' => 5,
            'search' => 'rainbow'
        ));
        $response = $this->client->getResponse();
        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $responseData = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
        $this->assertEquals(5, count($responseData), 'the correct number of organisms are returned');
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('fennecId', $responseData[1], 'the second organism has a fennec_id');
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('scientificName', $responseData[3], 'the fourth organism has a scientific_name');
    }

    public function testMappingByDbxrefId()
    {
        $this->client->request('POST', '/test_data/api/mapping/byDbxrefId', array(
            'ids' => array(1174942, 471708, 1097649, 1331079, -99, 'non_existing'),
            'db' => 'ncbi_taxonomy'
        ));

        $response = $this->client->getResponse();
        $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
        $responseData = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
        $this->assertEquals(6, count($responseData), 'the correct number of mappings is returned');
        $this->assertArrayHasKey('1174942', $responseData, 'there is a mapping for the first id');
        $this->assertEquals($responseData[471708], 88648, 'the mapping for the second id is correct');

    }

    public function testMappingByEOLId(){
        $this->client->request('POST', '/test_data/api/mapping/byDbxrefId', array(
            'ids' => array(1116106, 38161, 2872684, 39873511),
            'db' => 'EOL'
        ));
        $expected = [
            1116106 => 99273,
            38161 => 23857,
            2872684 => 121992,
            39873511 => 16033
        ];
        $response = $this->client->getResponse();
        $responseData = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
        $this->assertEquals($expected, $responseData);
    }
}

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Q: J2SSH Core library - Unable find other custom key exchange algorithms implementation I am searching the implementation of key exchange algorithms for j2ssh core 0.2.9 as below.
diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1
diffie-hellman-group14-sha1
diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
ecdh-sha2-nistp256
ecdh-sha2-nistp384
ecdh-sha2-nistp521

Above all should be able to supports j2ssh core library version 0.2.9 and able to add them like how the existing j2ssh core library using key algorithm i.e DhGroup1Sha1 by default
Currently, In my application, I am using j2ssh core library version[0.2.9]. Switching to other j2ssh library is not feasible for me due to some time constraints.
Please help me out if you have any good solution

A: Your using an outdated API. The original J2SSH API has not been maintained for over a decade and I would strongly suggest you stop using it. And I'm saying this as the original author of that API.
Since your using SSH you are concerned with keeping your connections secure therefore you should be using an up to date API that implements the latest security and practices.
There is a replacement API that is maintained currently and supports these key exchange algorithms at https://github.com/sshtools/j2ssh-maverick


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Law as a Tool
Disability Rights Defenders
Independent Living Institute (ILI) » Library » National report on Finnish access legislation
National report on Finnish access legislation
Fränti, Marttiina, Könkkölä Maija. 1991. National report on Finnish access legislation.
Internet publication URL: www.independentliving.org/cib/cibbudapest9.html
Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Budapest 1991
Marttiina Fränti, Chief Architect, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Maija Könkkölä, Architect, National Association of the Disabled, Finland
The access norms are based on the performance criteria expressed since 1973 in statute 85a of the Building Decree, amended in 1990, concerning public administration and service buildings as well as private business and service facilities. The Building Norm on Accessibility, code F1, first included in 1978 in the National Building Code of Finland and amended in 1985, consists of regulations in the form of performance criteria, and also of guidelines with detailed numerical measures on accessibility.
Only the building regulations in the norms of the Code are binding, the guidelines are recommendations on possible good solutions.
There is an enforcement mechanism at the municipal level. The municipal building authority, the building committee, is responsible for applying any norm when granting building permits. According to a new statute in the Planning and Building Act, enacted in 1990, the builder and the developer are also responsible for fulfilling the norms. The Act serves as a source to the local authority in enforcing access statute 85a and building regulations on accessibility. Only the body or individual, whose project the building permit concerns, and the neighbor of this future or existing building, can appeal to the County Administrative Court if discontented with a decision made by the building committee. However, a disabled individual, who is neither the applicant of a building permit nor the neighbor of someone who is, has the possibility to complain to the Attorney General. During the 1980s, disabled communities and individuals have, in some cases, used this way of complaining about the disregard of statutes and norms by local building authorities.
Types of disabilities are expressed in the statute referring to "Individuals whose ability to move around, or to be active, or to orientate themselves is restricted due to age, disability or illness ". The definitions based on this statute 85a include access to the structure from the street and access within the structure, including toilets.
Access legislation refers to new buildings but must also be considered for application in existing buildings under renovation or restructuring.
Enforcement does not depend on the size of the structure in question, but only on the type and use of the building itself. The structure should be open to the public in general, or owned or administered by a public body, state, municipality, church etc.
The requirement of elevators is based on performance criteria in the building regulations of the Code. Complaints to the Attorney General have shown that these criteria are insufficient. Almost in all cases the cause of the complaint has been the lack of an elevator. The guidelines give a difference in elevation of two or more storeys when an elevator is needed. The minimum size for a personal elevator is 110 cm x 140 cm. The elevation differences as described in the guidelines ought to be made a binding regulation to enforce the installation of elevators in public buildings and business facilities.
In newly built structures, there remain areas without access such as, storage rooms, technical machinery rooms, etc. In existing buildings, for which a building permit is needed for reconstruction work, applying the legislation depends upon the existing building itself, considering its future use. If existing architectural barriers can be technically removed, doors will be widened and ramps and elevators will be installed, regardless of costs. Rare cases, in which the historical nature of a building prevents the remodelling of its main facade and if because of that, access for disabled persons through the main entrance cannot be provided, other entrances are to be made accessible. Nowadays, access is also often voluntarily planned by the property owner.
Access legislation refers to public buildings which includes: municipal and governmental office buildings; schools and universities; social or medical facilities; cultural and religious premises; recreational and sports facilities; public transport terminals; and train, bus and subway stations. In these buildings both visitors and internal working staff benefit from this accessibility. In the private building sector the statute concerns businesses or services open to the public so that everyone has to have the possibility to enter. This legislation refers to shops, markets, hotels, restaurants, etc. The building legislation only refers to those structures to be constructed or renovated and the area immediately outside. The legislation does not refer to public outdoor areas such as parks, streets, etc. except when a public building is to be built in those areas.
Access legislation does not include private workplaces or residential buildings. The subject has been lobbied but the initiative has not yet reached the stage of preparing a statute. There is no legislation, enforcing accessibility to vehicles used in public transport. The cities of Helsinki and Tampere are experimenting with low-floor buses and streetcars for public use. The Helsinki subway was originally planned for and has accomplished accessibility. The Finnish State Railways are developing a new railway wagon accessible for people with disabilities. Ferries sailing between Finland and Sweden are accessible.
Awareness of access regulations is spread through trade journals, and courses and seminars attended by planners, building authorities and disabled consumers. Training is voluntary and courses are organized mainly by local organizations of disabled persons.
In the future, the access norms will be accompanied by a separate publication of good examples of accessibility in renovated existing public buildings. The publication has been prepared by the National Association of the Disabled and will be published in 1991-92.
The interests of disabled and old persons in bringing about access legislation are represented by organizations of disabled people, organizations for disabled people, by disabled individuals and also by the government social authorities. These parties are involved in lobbying and formulating draft proposals on access legislation. The National Association of the Disabled prepares technical papers for improving the building norms on accessibility required by the Ministry of the Environment.
The National Council on Disability, a special body of disabled people's organizations and government officials has existed since the mid-1980s. The Council takes initiatives on any legislation to improve the situation of disabled persons.
The initiative on access legislation was due to the results of a working group of the Nordic Ministers Council in the beginning of the 1970s. At the same time, the organizations of disabled persons in Finland became active in this matter. The already existing building statute of Sweden on accessibility served as a model for the Finish governmental agency in preparing the first statute 85a in 1973.
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Last week, Youtuber and PC gaming personality TotalBiscuit sparked controversy when he took to Twitter to call for the removal of an attendant of CoxCon, a privately-run convention for fans of Jesse Cox. The man's offense? During a panel fielding questions from the floor, he asked "are traps gay?".


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class InfoBarService;

class ScreenCaptureInfoBarDelegate : public ConfirmInfoBarDelegate {
 public:
  static void Create(
      content::WebContents* web_contents,
      const content::MediaStreamRequest& request,
      const content::MediaResponseCallback& callback);

  virtual ~ScreenCaptureInfoBarDelegate();

 private:
  ScreenCaptureInfoBarDelegate(
      InfoBarService* infobar_service,
      const content::MediaStreamRequest& request,
      const content::MediaResponseCallback& callback);

  // Base class: ConfirmInfoBarDelegate.
  virtual bool EqualsDelegate(InfoBarDelegate* delegate) const OVERRIDE;
  virtual void InfoBarDismissed() OVERRIDE;
  virtual Type GetInfoBarType() const OVERRIDE;
  virtual ScreenCaptureInfoBarDelegate*
      AsScreenCaptureInfoBarDelegate() OVERRIDE;
  virtual string16 GetMessageText() const OVERRIDE;
  virtual string16 GetButtonLabel(InfoBarButton button) const OVERRIDE;
  virtual bool Accept() OVERRIDE;
  virtual bool Cancel() OVERRIDE;

  void Deny();

  const content::MediaStreamRequest request_;
  const content::MediaResponseCallback callback_;

  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(ScreenCaptureInfoBarDelegate);
};

#endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_UI_SCREEN_CAPTURE_INFOBAR_DELEGATE_H_


Sutton, Mass.--Junior Tyler Boisclair (West Warwick, RI) earned All-Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) honors as he notched a tie for fifth place with a two-round score of 157 (78, 79) to lead the Rhode Island College men's golf team to a seventh place finish (nine teams) with a team score of 670 (335, 335) at the 2018 GNAC Championship held at Blackstone Country Club on Saturday and Sunday.
• The Anchormen carded a 670 (335, 335), which was good for a seventh place finish (nine teams). Johnson & Wales captured the team championship with a 619 (308. 311).
• The par-72 Blackstone Country Club measures 6,602 yards.
• RIC senior Mike Caparco (Johnston, RI) carded 162 (85, 77) and finished tied for 12th place.
• Junior Matthew Butler (Johnston, RI) finished in a tie for 33rd place with a 178 (86, 92).
• Senior Victor Dumont (Riverside, RI) shot a 189 (102, 87) over the weekend, which was good for 37th place.
• There were a total of 45 golfers at the event.
In upcoming action, Rhode Island College will travel to Brewster, Mass. and the Captain's Course for the 2018 New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (NEIGA) Championship on Sunday-Monday, Oct. 21-22.


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'''Fort Sandusky ''' was a fort built and used by British troops in the Ohio Country during Pontiac's Rebellion and the French and Indian War.
Following the French and Indian War (1756-1763) and the Treaty of Paris (1763), France turned over all of its North American colonies to Great Britain. Native Americans saw they had lost a possible ally and now stood alone against the British. Pontiac of the Ottawa Indians attempted to unite the Native American tribes in the Ohio Country against the British in 1763. This uprising became known as Pontiac's Rebellion.
Fort Sandusky illustrates the difficulties Great Britain had in settling the Ohio Country. Left deeply in debt following the French and Indian War, the royal government could not afford to defend adequately its territory from native uprisings. Settlers who ventured west of the Appalachian Mountains remained at the mercy of the Indians. British traders, hoping to form relationships with the Native Americans similar to that which the French had enjoyed, faced economic problems due to English policy. These difficulties would partly be responsible for the coming of the American Revolution.
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15 Bollywood 'Beauties' Who Look Totally Different Without Makeup!!!
By Admin	 Last updated Jun 15, 2021
Bollywood is largely symbolic of larger than life dreams and glamour. It brings to the country the latest in fashion trends and the women who star in the movies carry the onus of always having to look like divas. While most of them do this rather effortlessly, there are few Bollywood beauties who manage to carry themselves with style and grace minus the makeup, take a look at these 10 Bollywood actresses who look great even without makeup:
1 1. Katrina Kaif
2 2. Shraddha Kapoor
3 3. Alia Bhatt
4 4. Deepika Padukone
5 5. Yami Gautam
6 6. Diana Penty
7 ALSO READ : How These Gorgeous Female Singers Look Without Makeup Will Leave You Surprised
8 7. Nargis Fakri
9 8. Sonam Kapoor
10 9. Lisa Haydon
11 10. Aishwarya Rai
12 11. Kareena Kapoor Khan
13 12. Priyanka Chopra
14 13. Anushka Sharma
15 14. Taapsee Pannu
16 15. Kangana Ranaut
1. Katrina Kaif
The beauty of mixed lineage loves to look casual and doesn't bother about having to cake up in the constant media glare. She looks great without makeup and proves herself time and again as a true beauty!
2. Shraddha Kapoor
Shraddha Kapoor has been pretty right from her younger days. Her pictures as a baby floating on the internet has only verified the fact that Shraddha Kapoor has always looked beautiful and doesn't need makeup to look great!
3. Alia Bhatt
One of the youngest actors in Bollywood, she has already done many a successful film and critics have praised her for her excellent acting. She is also making popular the de-glamorised look with her appearances in public sans makeup.
4. Deepika Padukone
Deepika Padukone the reigning queen of Bollywood looked stunning in her most recent release Piku where she appears with nearly no or minimum makeup. She does look great these days no matter what she does! How does this diva manage it!?
5. Yami Gautam
It is ironical that the poster girl for the Fair and Lovely commercials actually looks pretty great without makeup. She doesn't need Fair and Lovely and certainly not the layers of makeup. She sure is a natural beauty.Yami Gautam was born in a Himachali family in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh and was brought up in Chandigarh. Gautam made her Bollywood debut with the film Vicky Donor. Upon release, the film was a critical and commercial success, and Gautam gained positive reviews for her performance. And she is sure pretty.
6. Diana Penty
Diana Penty charmed us with her girl next door performance in Cocktail. And we have been looking forward to seeing more of this talented beauty. She makes casual appearances in the media choosing functionality over glamour and we think she looks great!
ALSO READ : How These Gorgeous Female Singers Look Without Makeup Will Leave You Surprised
7. Nargis Fakri
The lady who looks far younger than she actually is stole our hearts by portraying the innocuous Kashmiri girl in Rockstar. She is also among the few women in Bollywood today who looks great with or without makeup. Take a look for yourself!
8. Sonam Kapoor
Sonam Kapoor is known as the fashionista of Bollywood. She is always seen rather glamorously dressed and with the perfectly applied makeup, which is exactly why she surprised us with her portrayal of the village belle in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
and boy does she look lovely!
9. Lisa Haydon
Considered one of the sexiest heroines in Bollywood, she charmed us with her role in Queen. She is great looking in person and carries herself confidently even without makeup. Well, looks like she definitely can afford to do so!
10. Aishwarya Rai
One of the most popular divas of Indian cinema and someone who represents Indian beauty and fashion on a global front, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan looks more beautiful sans makeup.
11. Kareena Kapoor Khan
Kareena Kapoor is the daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor. After making her acting debut in the 2000 war film Refugee, Kapoor established herself in Hindi cinema with roles in the historical drama Aśoka, and the blockbuster melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Married to actor Saif Ali Khan, Kapoor's off-screen life is the subject of widespread coverage in India. She has a reputation for being outspoken and assertive, and is recognised for her contributions to the film industry through her fashion style and film roles.
12. Priyanka Chopra
Born to a Punjabi family from Ambala. She was the winner of the Miss World pageant of 2000. In addition to her acting career, Chopra is noted for her philanthropic work, and was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights in 2010. She promotes various causes such as environment, health and education, and women's rights, and is particularly vocal about gender equality, and gender pay gap. Though she is reticent to discuss her personal life in public, her off-screen life is the subject of substantial media coverage. As a singer, she has released three singles. Chopra is also the founder of the production company Purple Pebble Pictures.
13. Anushka Sharma
In addition to acting in films, Sharma is the ambassador for multiple brands and has an active social media presence. She also supports multiple charities and causes, including gender equality and animal rights. She and her brother are the founders of the production company Clean Slate Films.
14. Taapsee Pannu
After a short stint with modelling.Taapsee worked as a software professional and also pursued a career in modelling before becoming an actress.Taapsee made her acting debut with the 2010 Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam directed by Raghavendra Rao.
15. Kangana Ranaut
Born in Bhambla, a small town in Himachal Pradesh, Ranaut initially aspired to become a doctor at the insistence of her parents. Determined to build her own career path, she relocated to Delhi at age sixteen, where she briefly became a model.She has established a career in Bollywood and is one of the highest-paid actresses in India. Ranaut is particularly known in the media for expressing her honest opinions in public and is frequently credited as one of the most fashionable Indian celebrities.
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Abstract : In this paper, we present a method for the design of MPSoCs for complex data-intensive applications. This method aims at a blend exploration of the communication, the memory system architecture and the computation resource parallelism. The proposed method is exemplified on a JPEG Encoder case study by describing all the design steps. Our method allows for a JPEG encoder implementation having a throughput increase of 84% and an increase of the achievable FPGA maximum frequency fmax of 64% with an area overhead of 6x with respect to a reference solution. Our method is also assessed with additional explorations of applications from different domains.


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Super Mario 3D All-Stars Release Date and Contents Announced for Nintendo Switch
Nintendo just announced Super Mario 3D All-Stars for Nintendo Switch as a part of the 35th anniversary celebration for Super Mario. This collection releases in two weeks and brings three Mario games to Nintendo Switch. The games included are Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. It is worth noting that Super Mario Galaxy 2 is not included here. This collection also includes a music player. Watch the trailer for Super Mario 3D All-Stars below:
Super Mario 3D All-Stars download size and price
The Super Mario 3D All-Stars download size is 4.8GB GB and price is $59.99.
Super Mario 3D All-Stars physical release
Super Mario 3D All-Stars is getting released as a limited run physical and digital release until the end of March 2021 as revealed on the eShop.
Super Mario 3D All Stars releases on September 18 for Nintendo Switch.
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Q: How do I return a html code as output of filter in Angular js I have written a custom filter which matches a pattern and if the match is true converts it into html, how do I bind the html output inside {{test | toimgsrc}} I don't want to use ng-bind-html or $sce is there any other way?
here is my code

angular.module('demoApp', ['toimage'])
  .controller('MainController', function($scope) {
    $scope.test = '*!dsfsdfsdfsdfsdfsd!*';
  });
angular.module('toimage', []).filter('toimgsrc', function() {
  return function(text) {
    regex = /^\*!(\w*)!\*$/;
    if (regex.test(text))
      return text.replace(/^\*!(\w*)!\*$/, '
"$1"
')
    else
      return text;
  }
});

  {{test | toimgsrc}}

A: As the angular documentation say:
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$sce
By default, Angular only loads templates from the same domain and protocol as the application document. This is done by calling $sce.getTrustedResourceUrl on the template URL. To load templates from other domains and/or protocols, you may either whitelist them or wrap it into a trusted value.
that means you are converting the value to html, that also need to be secure, that is the reason the only way to solve that is with $sce like this:
$scope.trustedHtml = $sce.trustAsHtml(yourGeneratedHtml);

The main reason for that is for the security policy that angular handle.


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Showtime To Place Viewers Behind The Comedic Green Room Door
By Mike Reynolds
No, it's not a tribute to the late Marilyn Chambers. Rather, Showtime will give viewers a look at how comics interact backstage.
The premium network has ordered six half-hour episodes of a comedy series, tentatively titled Behind The Green Room Door, which is slated to bow in 2010.
Hosted by comedian Paul Provenza, the director and co-producer of the behind-the-scenes comedy documentary The Aristocrats, Behind The Green Room Door will present watchers a chance to witness the hilarious exchanges between comic legends who span several generations and for some, are meeting their own comedy idols for the first time.
Among the comedians scheduled to be featured: Jonathan Winters, Eddie Izzard, Roseanne Barr, Drew Carey, Robert Klein, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull, Tommy Smothers, Bob Saget, Sandra Bernhard, Andy Dick, Rain Pryor, Rick Overton, Paul Mooney, Bobby Slayton, Jim Jefferies, Patrice O'Neal, Andy Kindler, Dana Gould, Brendon Burns, Larry Miller and Reginald D. Hunter. There will also be some fresh faces who may become the comic legends of tomorrow.
Filmed in a front of a small live audience, each episode features a handful of the comedy geniuses mentioned above in a spontaneous, uncensored format. They will share personal anecdotes, intimate thoughts and spur-of-the-moment, no-holds-barred comedy.
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The Estonian government sharply condemned Russia for its actions against Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait on Sunday. Russian forces first stopped, then fired on and seized two Ukrainian artillery ships as well as a tug. Prime Minister Jüri Ratas called the actions a "serious breach of international law."
"The incident in Kerch Strait is a serious breach of international law. I condemn Russia's seizure of Ukrainian naval vessels, blocking of the Kerch Strait and aggression against Ukraine. I support the European Union and NATO's call for a de-escalation of the tense situation," Ratas said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sven Mikser (SDE) also condemned Russia's actions. Estonia condemns the Russian attack on Ukrainian Navy vessels in the Kerch Strait, Mikser said, and calls upon Russia to stop its actions and immediately release the vessels and allow them to reach a Ukrainian port.
"This is a deliberate escalation of current tensions on the part of Russia, a serious breach of international law and an aggression against Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Mikser said.
Russian forces stopped two Ukrainian gunboats and a tug on their way into the Sea of Azov on Sunday morning, ramming the tug. Russia scrambled fighter jets and helicopters as the Ukrainian vessels were approaching the only bridge across the Kerch Strait, which itself was blocked by a tanker, the BBC reported.
According to the Ukrainian government, Russian forces opened fire on the Ukrainian Navy vessels. Russia confirmed that weapons were used, adding that three Ukrainian sailors were injured.


The Shreveport Police Department has identified two sergeants and one officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of the 27-year-old gunman and robbery suspect who led police on a chase last Wednesday.
The police personnel named include Sgt. Brian Skinner, hired August 1999; Sgt. Steve Mckenna, hired April 2000; and officer James Leclare, hired July 2016.
Each were placed on paid departmental leave by provisional police Chief Ben Raymond in accordance with departmental policy, according to a news release on Monday.
The shooting of 27-year-old Trivenskey O. Odom ended a series of events both within the city limits of Shreveport and areas of Caddo Parish. The incidents began around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.
The first of events occurred in the 200 block of 70th street. There, Shreveport Police responded to reports of a man who was armed with a handgun and stole a white, older-model Chevrolet Tahoe and shot a man multiple times before fleeing the scene.
The shooting victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries in the leg.
Before 6 p.m., the Caddo Parish Sheriff deputies responded to a residence located in the 5300 block of North Market Street, unaware of the armed robbery that occurred more than an hour before in Shreveport, according to previous reports.
At the residence, a suspect threatened to harm himself and the people inside, before leaving and initiating a police pursuit.
The Shreveport Police and Louisiana State Police joined the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office in the chase which eventually ended at the intersection of Jewella Avenue and Greenwood Road.
During the pursuit, Odom reportedly brandished a handgun several times and discharged the weapon randomly during the incident, police said.


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As most of you who follow me on Twitter know, I've been trying to get an iPhone. Not so hard that I've been camping out, but I've made a couple of unsuccessful trips to the Apple stores in the KC area. Yesterday - my first full day in Cali - I managed to snag a white 16G and also managed to be one of the few people who's purchased an iPhone without waiting in line.
Around 7 last night me and a few of my new coworkers headed over to the Apple store that's a few blocks away. I asked about getting a white iPhone and was told they were out for the day. I got the low down on the process for getting one. They passed out tickets based on how many phones they had in stock starting at 8 AM.
Once I knew the rules of the game, seemed simple enough to get one. I'd just walk over one morning this week, spend 20 or 30 minutes waiting in line, then come in to the office. We wondered around the store for a few minutes looking for a headset that the $200 cost scared her away from and then the girl from the front rushes up to me.
"Which iPhone did you want again?"


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Film Commentary by Alex Good
The Act of Killing (2012)
*. A documentary doesn't present the truth but rather a shaping, interpretation, selection, and perspective on the truth. In the best postmodern fashion, The Act of Killing is more about this process than about the product.
*. It isn't quite a meta-documentary since it's not about its own construction but rather presents dramatic re-enactments of real events. On the DVD commentary director Joshua Oppenheimer and executive producer Werner Herzog compare it to reality television but an even closer analog might be the mockumentary. The cast are a bunch of deluded clowns we can barely take seriously. But we have to because they're killers.
*. On one level there's nothing terribly profound or revealing about what's happening. "Morality is relative" and, as is also pointed out, it's the winners who get to write history ("When Bush was in power, Guantanamo was right. . . . . 'War crimes' are defined by the winners. I'm a winner so I can make my own definition."). In their political culture the "gangsters" we meet here were heroes. Of course we think it's outrageous that they should happily re-enact scenes of torture and mass murder, but we are outsiders to that culture and cultural moment. Within their own frame of reference they have nothing to be ashamed of.
*. Being against killing people, the act of killing, is not a cultural universal, and never has been. As Dirty Harry once remarked, there's nothing wrong with killing people as long as the right people get killed. The cinema gangsters thought they were killing the right people. Why would they care what somebody on the other side of the world thinks of what they've done? It's unlikely they'll ever even visit the U.S., or the Hague.
*. At least that's one way of looking at it. I was confused, however, to hear Oppenheimer say that the television show where the killers are interviewed struck Indonesian audiences as shocking. There's nothing in the film itself to suggest this. The studio crew watching on monitors make some cynical comments on the proceedings but that's it. This seems to me to be a major mistake on Oppenheimer's part, as the impression he creates is quite the opposite of what he says the real reaction was.
*. The basic conceit, and there's a long tradition behind it, is that through the use of masks the actors would feel free to be more themselves, that through the creation of fictions we get closer to the truth. Do you buy it? Or do you feel lost in a performance, a (quite literal in this case) mise en abyme?
*. This question is starkly presented in the final trip to the rooftop with Anwar. Do you believe that he is feeling remorse for his sins? That he has become partially self-aware? Oppenheimer, I think, does, but he was somewhat invested in Anwar by then. It's notable that Herzog and Errol Morris both seem to take a more cynical view, seeing Anwar as still acting for the camera. Personally, I take this view as well. I think he's faking it. I don't think he's learned anything. So the performance is just another layer of deception.
*. Then there is Siregar, the journalist who tries to distinguish cruelty from sadism and then goes on to deny knowing anything about the killings. This is actually the part of the film I found the most fascinating. Here's someone who clearly is acting: pretending that he had no idea what was going on when Anwar and Adi were torturing and killing prisoners. No one is buying his performance though, and he is ridiculed and exposed as a lying worm.
*. It's a male world, with the women we meet all being viewed by the gangsters as whores. Perhaps this explains Herman's bizarre turn as Divine. Is he funny? Yes, but Divine was both funny and threatening too.
*. The political angle is devastating. There's a juxtaposition of high and low throughout, with Anwar just a bag man doing "grunt work" for a political and economic elite who "need gangsters to get things done." But what an elite! This is what a gangster state looks like: the thugs at the top just the same as the ones at the bottom only they have more money to buy trashier bling. You have to wonder how much of the rot in such a state begins at the top and trickles down and how much of it has grass roots.
*. Their philosophical justifications trickle down anyway. The gangsters are "free men," libertarians, the opposite of government bureaucrats. Except they are bureaucrats. They are the men of action who "get things done." There's something about the sound of that that should concern us in the West. And am I the only one who thinks the higher-ups appear to be scared of Congo when he comes to visit?
*. Does media violence breed violence? Anwar explains "When I was young I always watched American films and imitated them." But he sees himself as Sidney Poitier, and the genre reenactments take the form of lavish musicals as well as gangster films. So I don't really think what we're seeing here is an example of life imitating art. Though there are moments when my corollary to Wilde's dictum, that life mainly imitates bad art, seems in play.
*. Oppenheimer interviewed dozens of gangsters but you can tell right away why he settled on building the film around Congo (despite the fact that individuals like Congo were, according to the publisher we meet, dime a dozen at the time). The camera loves Congo, he has the charisma of a Poitier or Mandela (who he resembles), authority and charm, and can even break into a few dance moves. And yet like many Hollywood stars he can't act at all. in the film within a film he repeatedly fails to get a simple line right. Herman is much better, though he has no personal magnetism and is hilariously inept as a politician (the one role in which he can't remember his lines).
*. In the end, it's a movie that leaves me with mixed feelings. It's wonderfully shot and edited, and filled with indelible moments and lines ("I believe even God has secrets"). It paints a terrifying portrait of state corruption and violence, in a way that helps remind us of just how bad things can get when the wheels come off completely.
*. At the same time, the bizarre concept and some of the more outlandish (or, as Herzog would have it, "surreal") moments feel like a distraction to me. Does such an approach conceal more than it reveals? Oppenhemier makes a nice observation on the commentary track about how Anwar holds his grandchildren up in front of him as a way of screening himself from the re-enactments of his crimes. But I wonder if the whole exercise became that for him: a way of safely mediating his memories and bad dreams. Postmodernism is a defence against the real.
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Don Cristobal is a family owned winery that started its activities in 1998 with the solid commitment to produce quality wines with personality. The shareholders of the company are the Belgian-Argentinian family Lapania-Vandenbalck. The company is led by Eduardo Lapania, its founder, and Cristóbal Lapania (his son) who assumes the position of CEO.
Don Cristobal began the production of wines with the 2001 harvest and entered that same year in the world wine market with its brand Cristóbal 1492 "wines of the new world for the entire world". Don Cristóbal owns a total of 200 hectares of land with 143 hectares of planted vineyards, a very good production base, great diversity of areas and grapes and is constantly evolving. The company improves day by day in the winemaking process and is adopting sustainable practices in the vineyards and in the winery.
A clean and ripe Chardonnay with tropical fruit and nuances of butter and nuts with acidity. A very good bottle.


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Q: DiD with time fixed effects does not drop Post dummy Following the copied link (https://www.statalist.org/forums/forum/general-stata-discussion/general/1323707-fixed-effect-difference-in-differences-model) I was expecting the classic dummy 'Post' to be dropped at the inclusion of year Fixed Effects in a difference-in-difference regression, with panel data (though not balanced).
This is not the case.
Where might it be the error in my data?

A: Depending on the software you are using, either the "Post" variable, or one additional time dummy (if you're modeling year/month/day fixed-effects), will be dropped. Should you include a "Post" variable and time fixed-effects in a regression model, then R (which I suspect you're using) will automatically exclude an additional time dummy. To illustrate, here is the canonical approach:
$$
y_{it} = \alpha + \gamma Treat_{i} + \lambda Post_{t} + \delta (Treat_{i} \times Post_{t}) + \varepsilon_{it}
$$
where $i$ could represent firms or businesses and $t$ could represent months or years. Now, should you wish to estimate this model:
$$
y_{it} = \alpha + \gamma Treat_{i} + \lambda Post_{t} + \omega_{t} + \delta (Treat_{i} \times Post_{t}) + \varepsilon_{it}
$$
with $\omega_{t}$ is standing in for "time" fixed-effects (i.e., dummies for each time period), then one additional time period is dropped to allow for estimation. In this setting, only $t-2$ unique estimates for your dummies will appear in the console; one is dropped as normal and the other excluded dummy is likely to show up as NA in your regression output. It should be noted that the variable "Post" will be estimated.
Should you drop the "Post" variable entirely and interact the treatment variable with each time dummy using as.factor notation, then R will only drop one time period for you. In sum, you lose one more time dummy estimating the equation that you referenced.
Below is another question where collinearity problems were addressed.
Dynamic treatment timing in a panel-DiD framework


Seriously, it doesn't worth it that you gain every desirable position, pleasure and possession of this world and go to hell fire at the end; think about it, does it worth it that you gain less than 100 years pleasure of this life and get more than 1 Million years of pain and plague in life after? Dear, it does not worth it that you lose your soul in eternity just because of temporal profits of this present and passing world, are you a fool?
Do not delays to forsake your sins to experience genuine salvation just because of the profits, pleasure or popularity that you may lose; or because of the persecution you will face. There is nothing in this world as important and precious as the salvation of your dear soul. The end is imminent than you imagine. Repent, confess and forsake your sins as you accept the lordship of Jesus Christ into your life.
Beloved, it does not worth it that you give up your garment of holiness, your purity and faithfulness in Christ simply because of the promising gain of this world; it does not worth it that you surrender your standard in Christ just because of the fear of persecution and problem of life. Will you allow Satan to fool you to give up your precious eternal life just because of this passing pleasure of this world? Will you compromise your purity and righteousness in Christ just because of money and the craving for riches? How foolish will that be? Will you fall into sin just because of fear of men for persecution or unknown problem? How will you be stupid to give away your gift of life just because of the gain of this going-away world?
Do not fear persecution of men or problem of life and fall into sin, for it is better to die in Christ for not compromising into sin than to dine with Satan for committing sin. Do not fall into sinful demand and system because of earthly riches, pleasure and possession, for it is better to maintain purity in poverty and end up in eternal riches than to make prosperity and profits by worldly wisdom and end up in eternal damnation.
Be wise, be warned and wake up unto righteousness, for our salvation draws nearer than when we first believed.


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Perf Stories by David Clements
By David Clements
David Mark Clements tells war stories of the performance kind. By wrapping hard numbers in engaging anecdotes, this talk makes high performance JavaScript accessible. Featuring tales from the open source and enterprise worlds, we'll go on a journey through profiling and flame graphs, high speed logging, tracing, v8 native syntax extensions, benchmarking, and load testing.
In each of these areas we identified a need in the ecosystem and wrote open source tools and libraries to make things easier. The discussion will veer into enterprise, with a true story of how we helped a company over three days to reduce their deployment costs by 66% whilst achieving double the throughput and half the latency. The moral of the story is that there is immense untapped value in making systems faster.
As the story concludes, everyone should have a strong understanding of optimization workflow, performance debugging tools and techniques, and a taste of the euphoria that comes when you make code run faster.
About David Clements
David Mark Clements is an architecture and performance consultant with nearForm, and head of nearForm's training department. David is passionate about performance and open source. His recent efforts include 0x, the first (and only) cross-platform flamegraph generation tool for Node.js; pino, the fastest Node.js JSON logger in the ecosystem; and autopsy, a postmortem analysis tool. He's also the author of Node Cookbook, currently in its second edition, with a third on the way.


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The Story of the Two Charmed Shows
By Joel Woodley On Jan 5, 2023
Some shows lead a charmed existence and that's certainly true of "Charmed," a supernatural primetime show which launched in 1998. The weekly television drama followed the story of three estranged sisters, reunited after the death of their grandmother, Gram.
Gram left them her amazing digs, a three-story home in a tony neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Upon her death, the three young women also inherit magical powers. Like every woman on their mother's side of the family, Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), Prue (Shannen Doherty), and Piper (Holly Marie Combs) Halliwell inherited natural witchy powers. Eventually, the enemy slays Prue, but The Power of Three continues to exist when the remaining two sisters discover their half-sister, Paige (Rose McGowan).
Originally launched as a show by Aaron Spelling, created by Constance M. Burge, and with executive producer/showrunner Brad Kern, the original show ran until 2006. You can't keep a good show down though and "Charmed" re-booted in 2018.
The rebooted show ran from October 14, 2018, to June 10, 2022, and aside from its supernatural premise, bore little resemblance to the beloved original. The second version, developed by Jessica O'Toole, Jennie Snyder Urman, and Amy Rardin, changed the setting to small-town Michigan.
The sisters' names changed to those beginning with "M" and even their ethnicity underwent a metamorphosis. Interestingly, the remake couldn't decide on ethnicity but earned kudos for showcasing talented diverse actresses.
The remake didn't quite embody the magic of the original, lasting just four years compared to the original which ran for eight years. The original series used a powerhouse cast of Combs, Doherty, Milano, Brian Krause, and later McGowan. The remake introduced young actresses without the star power of the original series – Madeleine Mantock, Melonie Diaz, and Sarah Jeffery.
So, if you're looking for a new to you supernatural TV show to binge-watch, which version of "Charmed" do you turn to for entertainment?
The original still airs online and in reruns. It offers a more engaging storyline and still scores well on the diversity scale. It also offers gorgeous California as its backdrop.
Not only does it offer more episodes in which to deep dive, but it also explores more family storylines. The original introduced more family members, including their father, originally played by actor Tony Denison, Krause as Piper's husband and the three witches' whitelighter, and Phoebe's half-demon husband, Cole.
For sheer fun, binge-watch the original, but stock up on popcorn since you'll have twice the number of episodes to watch.
Joel Woodley
Joel Woodley is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist with a BA in Journalism and an MA in Film and Television. He loves to keep up with all the latest celebrity gossip. Despite being born and raised in the UK, he's always up to date with stars and celebrities all around the world.
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Q: Wordpress category page loop not displaying image and title I am a long time listener first time caller.
I am working on a wordpress theme and I am having trouble with one of the loops on my category page. I have 2 loops on the category page, the first loop which Im having trouble with, is suppose to show the most recent post from whatever category the user is viewing while the 2 loop displays a grid of the rest of the posts. Both loops work except the first one is not pulling the title or featured images for the post. Here is the code-
   <?php global $post; $cat_posts = get_posts('numberposts=1&category='.$catID);
foreach($cat_posts as $post) : ?>

 <?php global $post; if(has_post_thumbnail()) {
the_post_thumbnail(); }?>

 <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('large'); ?>

<?php $postTitle = get_the_title(); if($title != $postTitle) :?>

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

<?php endif ;?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

A: Change:
foreach($cat_posts as $post) : ?>

To:
foreach($cat_posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>


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What price the public good when governing parties bow to markets?
February 9, 2015 2.18pm EST
Eva Cox, University of Technology Sydney
Eva Cox
Professorial Fellow Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
Eva Cox does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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A core problem for Treasurer Joe Hockey is that the public doesn't share the Abbott government's fervour for budget cuts and market policies. AAP/Mick Tsikas
The recent losses of first-term governments in Queensland and Victoria suggests that some of the assumed verities of political process are being challenged. These results and the rapid shifting legitimacy of the Abbott government suggest a more volatile and distrustful electorate, which is quick to express its displeasure.
Despite Australia avoiding the worst of the global financial crisis, the political climate here echoes aspects of changes in Europe, such as the victory of the Greek left coalition, the rise of left and right – but mainly right – populist parties in the UK, France and Germany, as well as the antics of the Tea Party in the US.
These developments all suggest that mainstream centrist parties' economic emphases are struggling to engage voters as their policies are failing to respond effectively and acceptably to GFC-damaged market models. The electoral results confirm the rising deficits of trustworthiness in current democratic processes.
Major parties no longer command loyalty
The question is: why is the political climate so volatile? What triggers the types of revolts where voters rapidly lose faith in the usual governing parties?
A consistent trend is voter concerns about public spending cuts and economic priorities that promote markets as the means to cut "excessive" public costs.
These common issues tend to be either overlooked in media reports and political stances, or questioned as "opposition to reform". The expressed concerns of voters are therefore not seen as legitimate.
Questions need to be asked about why there is little or no serious discussion on the relative roles of governments, markets and communities in delivering goods and services for the nation. The sale of public assets was clearly crucial to the Queensland results. It was raised by the ALP as the single biggest issue, yet, more broadly, the significance of this issue has not really been taken as serious.
Most of the big federal debates are on similar grounds: cuts that the ALP opposes but without seriously suggesting the alternatives to a market model. This lack of "choice" between basic agendas could be the reason that in recent elections voters have rejected the incumbents – rather than voting in the oppositions – and then voted out the next incumbents.
The federal debates on Medicare changes, university fees and deregulation, child care and welfare cuts show the gaps between the views of much of the general public and the political strategists of major parties. The latter assume people want to cut spending and self-manage their needs, so there is no suggestion of debating the benefits or otherwise of models of public versus private providers.
Similarly, there are no clear lines of policy on entitlements and who pays for what services in aged care, community care, early childhood and Indigenous communities, or on the eligibility and rationale for income support payments etc. The basic political assumption on offer is that cuts or higher fees – reform – are the way to go.
Developing a strategy to build policy and trust
Building trust in the electorate requires those seeking power and influence to take on serious debates on what the role of the public sector should be vis-a-vis the market. When is privatisation good and appropriate and when should public services be retained? What should be the different roles of government/public, communal/not-for-profit and/or private/for-profit services?
As citizens of one of the most affluent countries, how do we reassure voters they have access to resources for needs and unexpected crises?
These questions were once on the agenda but the neoliberal shifts have obscured the issues of what services we need to enhance social well-being and at what appropriate costs. We need to revisit the case, never proven, for shifting most public services over to markets and private providers over the past two decades. We need to address the following questions:
Who should fund/provide/pay for many social goods and services – for example, health, education, community services, child care, aged care and other support services?
How do we balance needs with ability to pay?
What are the appropriate roles of government as a funder and provider of non-market-driven services? How do we balance the economic and social costs, where these roles conflict?
When do we decide to use pooled resources (tax revenue) to provide the social infrastructure that is needed for collective well-being and social cohesion? What services and resources should be publicly provided and/or funded because they contribute to the public good?
What particular goods and services need subsidising because needs do not equate with ability to pay? Who should be eligible to use them?
Should there be charges for using such public services? If yes, for whom and under what circumstances? Should we means-test access?
What are the relative benefits for the wider community of collective risk-sharing or individual capacity to save and provide?
As a society, what social frameworks are needed to counter the inequalities and tensions that undermine cohesion and trust?
This type of assessment requires indicators that can value good social functioning, not just economic growth, as well as recognising long-term politico-cultural differences such as Australia's traditional embedded social contract beliefs. Our history includes the first basic wage, the concept of a fair go and the public provisions of infrastructure and services. These are being undermined by individualised market models without real debate.
The threats of political distrust and instability
IMF chief Christine Lagarde has recognised that the flipside of rising inequality is growing public distrust and instability. AAP/Dave Hunt
The rise of neoliberal markets in the 1980s was a relatively unquestioned move for most Western democracies. The rise in wealth masked some of the problems of mal-distribution, but now even the International Monetary Fund is signalling concerns.
The long-term effect of market failures and the GFC is the current and growing voter distrust of traditional party-driven forms of government. This carries the risks that toxic populist movements, the danger of the 1930s, may reappear. Such populist movements rise when there is a disengaged population looking for leadership.
The signs of increasing political discontent are widespread as voters reject the increasingly problematic neo-liberal policies. Therefore, there is a manifest need to devise and promote the possibilities of alternative programs that retain the concept of making societies more ethical and civil, and encourage good social changes. Rebuilding trust in the legitimacy of democratic political forms will counter the disillusionment with current political incumbents and policies.
Then, maybe, we can retain or even enhance the possibilities for making societies more civil.
Other articles in The Conversation's ongoing series, "New Politics", can be read here.
New politics
A wall graffiti depicting Indian National Congress (INC) party leader Rahul Gandhi (L) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a tug of war over India, Mumbai on April 28, 2019. Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP
Spatial analysis of India's 2019 elections reveals the unique geography of the Hindu Right's victory
The most important reason for the Coalition's victory was that Morrison was both liked and trusted by lower-educated voters, while Labor leader Bill Shorten was not. Mick Tsikas/AAP
Final 2019 election results: education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
New South Wales, which was 100% drought-declared in August 2018, is already suffering climate impacts. Michael Cleary
Why old-school climate denial has had its day
Asylum seekers stare at media from behind a fence at the Manus Island detention centre, 2014. Eoin Blackwell/AAP
Australia's asylum seeker policy history: a story of blunders and shame


World Youth Day guidebook? Check.
The pilgrim packs are being assembled for this year's World Youth Day in Madrid.
And just like when he became the first pilgrim to register for the August 2011 event, Pope Benedict became the first to receive the pilgrim pack.
The Archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, hand delivered Pope Benedict XVI his official WYD pilgrim pack.
It's just one of the many preparations going on for Madrid.
For more on this quickly approaching World Youth Day -- only six months away! -- visit the official site madrid11.com.


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Bitcoin not a financial product… yet
The federal government should hold off on classifying crypto currencies such as Bitcoin as financial products, a parliamentary committee has recommended.
The Senate committee established last October had been asked to consider a range of taxation and regulatory issues raised by the emergence of digital currencies.
While the committee recommended that digital currencies be treated as money for GST purposes, it warned the government to take a "wait-and-see" approach before regulating digital currencies like conventional financial products and payment services.
In its report tabled in parliament today the committee wrote that such regulation would be premature and could stymie the digital currency industry's development in Australia.
Instead, it recommended that the government consider establishing a taskforce to further investigate the opportunities and risks involved with digital currencies and support a self-regulatory model in the meantime.
If accepted by the government, the recommendations mean that Bitcoin is unlikely to be subject to regulatory requirements of the Corporations Act.
In its report the committee referred to evidence by Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) senior executive Michael Sadaat who warned of the difficulties of regulating crypto currencies.
"I think the difficulty in regulating the trading platforms like traditional markets is that the compliance obligations that are associated with running a traditional financial market are quite high. The bar is set quite high. I think it is likely that if you were simply to apply the existing framework to platforms that sell digital currency, most would find it uneconomic to sustain in Australia. And because the market for these bitcoins is global, a lot of that activity would move offshore and Australian consumers would probably still end up being able to speculate with digital currency by buying and selling on foreign trading platforms," Mr Sadaat told the committee.
The committee also referred to evidence vocal Bitcoin expert and author Andreas Antonopoulos gave to the inquiry in its report.
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"We do not really know where Bitcoin coin will be in a couple of years, in terms of whether it will be used primarily as a long-term store value—akin to a digital gold—for transactions involving large parties or, as I would like to say, the kind of currency used to buy aircraft carriers with, or if it will turn into a currency that is used for micro-transactions and retail transactions and consumer online commerce—the kind of currency you use to buy a cup of coffee—or perhaps fill in both of those at the same time. There are many unanswered questions at the moment," Mr Antonopoulos told the committee.
While the committee recommended sparing digital currencies from being classed as financial products it strongly recommended that they be subject to controls under the government's Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing laws.
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The Great White Whale, S.S. Canberra
Kingdom of Laos #43 (1958)
Peristerona Church on Cyprus
Cyprus – Scott #127 (1934)
St. Barnabas and Hilarion Church is found in Peristerona (Περιστερώνα in Greek), a large village about 32 kilometers west of the capital Nicosia, on the foothills of the Troodos Mountain range in the Morphou basin. It is built on the west bank of the river that bears the same name, which is a tributary of the river Serrachis, at an average altitude of 250 meters. The population by the 2001 census was 2,173. It is primarily an agricultural village producing citrus-fruit vegetables, cereals olives and almonds. The name Peristerona derives from the Greek word for dove or pigeon (peristeri).
Peristerona has historically always been a mixed village. The 1831 Ottoman census recorded a slight Turkish Cypriot majority at 56%, but all later censuses recorded a slight Greek Cypriot majority. In 1960, the village's population was 1166, with 690 Greek Cypriots (59.2%) and 476 Turkish Cypriots (41.8%). In 1964, during the period of intercommunal violence after the Bloody Christmas of 1963, the whole of the village's Turkish Cypriot population fled to Turkish Cypriot enclaves in Lefka, Angolemi, Kazivera and Elia. In 1968, some Turkish Cypriots returned to the village though their numbers were extremely small, only 23 were reported in 1971.
Following the killing of two Turkish Cypriots by Greek Cypriot militants in 1974 after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the returned Turkish Cypriots also left for Northern Cyprus. There, Turkish Cypriots of Peristerona were resettled all over the territory but were mainly concentrated in Katokopia. Peristerona was used to resettle Greek Cypriot refugees, mainly from Morphou and surroundings. Turkish Cypriot houses were mostly used to house these people and a modern housing development was constructed between 1975 and 1982, housing 500 people in 1982.
Saints Barnabas and Hilarion Church in Peristerona, Cyprus. Photo taken on June 16, 2014.
The church has five domes on the roof arranged in the shape of a cross, a feature only seen on one other church in the island. It was built in the Byzantine period. The Peristerona Mosque was constructed in the 19th century, during the Ottoman era. It has tinted windows and sculptured parts. It is next to the church and the two were portrayed on stamps during the British period as a symbol of Greek-Turkish coexistence.
Scott #127 is a ¾-piastre violet and black stamp released in a set of 11 King George V definitives on December 1, 1934. These were recess printed by Waterlow & Sons Limited of London on paper watermarked with a multi-script CA and perforated 12½. A variety of this stamp vertically imperforate is a great rarity listed as Scott #127b and valued in the 2013 edition of the catalogue at U.S. $50,000 for a joined pair. The design picturing the Saints Barnabas and Hilarion Church was reused stamp issued on May 12, 1938, with the same denomination, colors, watermark, perforation gauge, and printer with the only difference being a portrait of King George VI replacing that of George V (Scott #145). This portrait was actually shifted a bit higher with the removal of the oval's crown, revealing a bit more of the engraved church image.
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Province Of Seville
THE PROVINCE OF SEVILLE
Tourism of the province of Seville
The province of Seville loves you
It is located in the southwest of Spain and is one of the eight provinces of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. It has a population close to two million inhabitants, in a somewhat larger area of 14.000 square kilometres, distributing its population in 105 municipalities, plus the city of Seville, which in turn is the capital of Andalusia.
This southern province of the Iberian Peninsula opens to the sea via its marshlands and the river Guadalquivir and its tributaries, such as the Genil, Corbonés, Guadaíra, Viar etc., on the axis of the Baetic depression, crossing the province from east to southwest. One can highlight its special location insofar as the transport network that connects the area to other parts of Andalusia, Europe and the rest of the world. Its major maritime, air, land and rail infrastructure contribute to the strong growth of the first order.
La Vega del Guadalquivir leads us to appreciate an important agricultural and agro industrial activity, due to the fertility of the land. This primary industry is developed in the capital city and its metropolitan area, as well as in municipalities with more than twenty thousand inhabitants. In the services sector, tourism is the main drive of the Sevillian economy. Its fauna and flora, its rich monumental and cultural heritage, its accommodation, cuisine, local festivals, fairs and traditions, and in particular its people, which all permit this millenary province to enjoy the vestiges and customs of former civilizations that have configured the current Sevillian personality.
The attractiveness of the province and its complete offer make Seville one of the most popular tourist destinations. The Aljarafe provides visitors with an ideal framework to understand the Tartessian, Roman and Arab past, spreading the alegría of its people and its wines. The Vía de la Plata, the Sierra Norte and the Sierra Sur reveal the secrets of the mountains in the midst of rivers, roads, bridges, swamps and vegetation, with numerous leisure activities, associated with the outdoors and exquisite mountain cuisine. The Guadalquivir-Doñana corridor, the splendid orchards and rice fields of the Province, brings us the flavours of crab and fish, marshland, rockroses and rosemary. Finally, La Campiña, boasts its beautiful towns and villages, the smaller sisters of the capital city; many just like her, engulfed by the waters of the Guadalquivir River - that keep the essence, monumentality and charm of the passing of the centuries.
The influence that the Rio Grande has produced in the province of Seville has always been important since days gone by.
This communion of land, water and toil has evoked the interest of so many peoples in this Province. The river's valley is embedded between the Sierra Morena and the Baetic Mountains of Cádiz and Ronda. The landscapes, its flora and fauna, are in constant change along the hundred-kilometre-long river course, as it also does at the estuary of the river, in the shape of the marshlands of the Doñana Park, former Roman Ligustino Lake on which Seville's rice fields grow. Flora such as juniper, heather, pine, cork oak, and fauna such as the Mongoose, common partridge, Iberian lynx, flamingo, Imperial eagle ... and a wide variety of migratory birds on African and European routes. They constitute some of the most impressive areas to contemplate and enjoy the pleasures of nature.
The Sierra reveals areas of natural beauty throughout the territory, with holm and cork oaks, and large scrublands that create the rugged mountain landscape, leaving the rockroses, rosemary, thyme and aromatic flowers to the lower mountainous areas. Another area of mountains transformed due to the exploitation of the environment, are the pasturelands and olive groves, which are accompanied by a rich diversity of flora and fauna. The pasturelands provide food and habitat for the Andalusian horse, bulls, pigs, and other livestock. Another unique agricultural exploitation is the olive grove, the focal point of Andalusia's tree cultivation industry, the olive tree, and its domestic variety the "acebuche" or wild olive. Oil, olives, mills, olive groves are products that a renowned all over the world. The hacienda, inherited from the Roman villae, is the building par excellence of the Andalusian countryside, which in the 17th century experienced a transformation to become the great landed estates of olive groves, vineyards, cereal crops, livestock, and so on. In this type of construction, the urban cult architecture overrides popular tradition, so that this type of construction would be named a cortijo or farmhouse only if it has cereal crops. In the towns and villages throughout the province there are frequent woodland groves, parks and gardens, colourful flower pots and, of course, bitter orange trees, without forgetting those trees that originated from America, palm trees, Ficus and Magnolia trees, showing our visitors an original formula of the autochthonous gardens such as the Sevillian courtyard or patio.
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The Festival Puli
Photo by Francisco X. Guerra, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution
Szőke paints and constructs during different stages of his Puli-making process on the National Mall.
On June 29, 2013, the Puli dog sculpture was lifted with heavy equipment from the place where it had been constructed to a new location near the Hungarian Peacock Tower in the center of the National Mall.
A Contemporary Hungarian Artist: Gábor Miklós SzÖke
By Tasha Sandoval, 2013 Katzenberger Art History Intern, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
This online exhibition focuses on Hungarian contemporary artist Gábor Miklós Szőke and the sculpture he created for the Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Gábor Miklós Szőke is not just a contemporary sculptor—he is a creator of monumental installations scaling upwards of fourteen feet. His finished work for the Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program was a symbolic rendering of a Hungarian shepherding dog breed, the Hungarian Puli.
Szőke makes his large-scale sculptures by screwing recycled wooden slats of different sizes together to create his imposing animal subjects. Though he graduated only in 2010 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, he has been extremely prolific, installing his animal sculptures throughout Hungary and much of Europe.
"The main inspiration is animals, but even within this I have a personal mythology about a dog, which currently is my dog, Dante. My art is about him, which is a museum topic, or an art topic in a stricter sense. But otherwise, it's mostly about animals and everything that goes with it—instincts, dynamism, grand dimensions, and spontaneity."
Szőke assembles inexpensive materials such as wood and metal to create fantastical creatures including horses, whales, bulls, and of course, the Hungarian Heritage Puli. Szőke made the Puli with recycled wood slats, painted black and nailed together to shape the Puli's corded coat. Szőke did not follow a meticulous plan to construct the Puli. Instead, he built it like he builds all his projects: he begins with a basic idea or outline that he develops through intuition and imagination. On his Web site, Szőke refers to himself as a statue breeder "who is experimenting with all materials to finally make the most appropriate being."
"Since childhood I loved disassembling and reassembling things, and at home, when I was little, I would disassemble anything, from my mother's cabinet to anything else, whether it was expensive antique furniture or a washing machine, and I would make it into another thing. So eight years ago, in an art colony, where I was supposed to carve a stone, I did not feel like it at all, so I started assembling the scrap wood I found there; that's where it all started, and the process is still ongoing."
The Puli: A Symbol of Hungarian Pride
Animals as Inspiration
Hungarian Roots and International Scope
The Life and Death of the Puli


Molly, the term "evaluation", especially if it is everyday runs against my understanding. I choose to use the term "assessment" Might you inform and educate me on why evaluation is an everyday activity…for me it is more of a periodic event…after a number of activities and the purpose of evaluation may be quite different than for assessment…so I await your insights.
Everyday you will decide whether to get out of bed, what to eat for breakfast, what you will wear, whether you will do X or Y. And you do this based on criteria. For example, how you feel at the moment the alarm sounds. (Does that extra five minutes really make a difference?) You use that criteria to determine if you are making a difference in your life (or the lives of others). You probably do not think of what you are doing as an everyday activity; you probably do it without thinking about the decisions. You just do it. Assessment is (and I'm quoting) "intended not so much to generate broad theories as to inform local action". Assessment is a tool that evaluators can use. I see it as a tool that is used in the classroom, although not always in the classroom. (See Walvoord, B. E. (2004). Assessment Clear and Simple. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.) You do not do assessment every day; you evaluate everyday.
In life this is a difference something that is sure to happen, every individual must have their own characteristic which is the difference is not something that was designed before but the difference will grow by itself. In my view, a difference is when a person performs a positive and useful action for the people. If you do, that's just to say a DIFFERENCE.
Difference is one way I think of evaluation. Does this (fill in the blank–program, performance, product, policy, proposal) make a difference in a person's/people life/lives? Does the (fill in the blank–see above) have merit, worth, value? Keep in mind that the root of the word "evaluation" is value. One would hope that the result is positive and that is the difference for which one is looking. What if the difference is a "negative" action, not particularly useful? That can give you information that may make the (fill in the blank–see above) better the next time. That, too, is a difference. Thank you for your comments.
I think everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses. That's what makes the difference. Differences can not only be seen from one's behavior, but also from what they have written. So, when you write on the blog and many people comment, there is something different from your blog. From that comment, I think the evaluation can be done, by comparing the positive and negative comments objectively, whichever is more dominant. Furthermore, it can be concluded whether the blog gives the difference either good or bad for the readers.
Kelly, you provide me with an unusual approach to evaluation of "difference". How do you determine if there is a "positive" comment if all the comments seem positive? Negative comments don't get written. The comments that show up are typically "good article" or something along that line. Would love to hear more about this approach.


Daily wage labourers wait at labour chowks for work, but almost two-thirds of them do not get any.
New Delhi: As you step into Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, the first thing that would strike you is the ordered chaos, the cacophony of sellers, traders, hoteliers and street vendors. However, amongst all this racket, one would be surprised to find a group of men sitting quietly right in the middle of Chandni Chowk, observing the day pass by in a flurry. Small gunny sacs with an assortment of paints, brushes, hammers, nails and plumbing equipment dot the pavement before them.
Muzammil Abbas, a migrant labourer from Hyderabad came to Delhi in 1982 as a 17-years-old to get a job. When he arrived in the national capital, he had dreams of making it big in life. Today, he barely earns enough to put food on the table everyday. He says it's a struggle to for his family of three to have two meals everyday.
Apart from Chowri Bazar, there are numerous such "labour chowks" – informal labour hubs or hotspots – in Delhi. Semi-skilled labourers like carpenters, construction workers and painters gather here to find a day's work. Most are migrants from states like UP, Bihar and West Bengal. They arrive at the chowk as early as 7 am.
If they don't find work by 11.00 am, it is unlikely that they will find any work on that day. Along with the ticking clock, the remuneration also drops by the hour. If a male labourer is hired before 10 am, they get paid Rs 400 for the entire day. A female labourer gets paid approximately Rs 300 for the day. But by afternoon, the rates drop to Rs 200-250.
When the sun sets, almost two-thirds of the congregation at the chowk would not have found any work.
Like Muzammil, thousands of people from different states and small villages come to Delhi every year as laborers. They struggle to find five days of work in a week. Ramesh Jatav (44) is another migrant labourer who came to Delhi almost ten years ago from a small village in Behraich district of UP. Because the opportunities are scant, Ramesh says he is contemplating going back to his hometown.
"Earlier, I used to earn about Rs 400 everyday and didn't regret coming to Delhi. But ever since demonitisation, the situation has deteriorated starkly. These days, I barely find work for 2-3 days a week. I want to go back to my hometown, but I hear the situation is worse there. I don't know what to do", he says.
In December 2016, Bihar's finance minister said that post-demonitisation, 95% of the migrant workers from the state were forced to return home because their employers had no money to pay salaries.
According to the economic survey of 2017, Delhi is the largest recipient of migrants. A report by the All India Manufacturer's Organisation (AIMO) found there has been a reported 60% job loss with a 47% dip in revenue in the sector of small-scale traders, shops and micro industries as of December 2016. The shutting down of small scale industries has directly affected the daily wages of migrant labourers.
As the day progresses, the labourers gathered at Chowri Bazar become increasingly restless. By late afternoon, a few of them start leaving the chowk. By 4 pm, Ramesh prepares to leave. "I'll come here again tomorrow, let's hope luck is on my side," he says and departs.