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Hamletian dilemma: The phrase is derived from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. When Hamlet, the prince of Dutch learns that his father was murdered by his uncle, he is in a dilemma as to whether he should avenge his father's death or continue ruling the kingdom.
Begusarai was once known as the "Leningrad" of Bihar, or the "Leningrad" of East. It was recently in news again, because the Communists, are trying to field Kanhaiya Kumar from this pro Communist constituency. Leningrad as we all know is a place in Russia. The famous siege of Leningrad lasted from September 1941 to 1944. By the end of the siege, some 632,000 people are thought to have died with nearly 4,000 people from Leningrad starving to death on Christmas Day, 1941. The first German artillery shell fell on Leningrad on September 1st, 1941.
Teacher absenteeism accounts for the loss of up to one-quarter of the primary school spending. A World Bank Report estimates this loss to be about $2 billion a year in India, just at the primary level.
With a median age of 27.9 years in 2018, India's population is quite young. By 2020, youth will make up for 34% of India's population.
Forty-five million young people have been added to the voters list since 2014. Based on 2011 Census, about two crore youngsters turn 18 every year, even though not everyone gets registered to vote.
India has shown responsibility and restraint by targeting a satellite at 300 km altitude, as opposed to China destroying a satellite at the height of 857 km in 2007, which created a lot of risky debris. But even the Indian test has a small likelihood of creating some debris that gets thrown into the higher orbits.
One of the reasons for lesser concern with India's test has to do with the height of the test. At 300 kilometers, the debris may survive just for months, if not weeks. At 800 kilometers, the Chinese satellite debris has already survived for more than a decade and may survive for a few more years.
India has demonstrated that it can take down satellites in Low Earth Orbits of less than 2,000 km above the surface.
There are over 22,000 artificial objects currently in the orbit that are being tracked by one government agency or another. The European Space Agency estimates that currently there over 34,000 pieces of debris in the orbit that are larger than 10 cm in size; close to a million pieces between 1 cm and 10 cm; and 128 million pieces of debris less than a centimeter in size. With reducing satellite size and the increasing frequency of space launches, this is only set to grow rapidly.
UTSAVA- is a Sanskrit word. Where, UT –means to 'let go' or remove and SAVA means worldly sorrows hence the complete word UTSAVA means to "let go your sorrows."
In the Scandinavian countries without any reservations, around half the MPs are women. In India we only keep talking of 33% which is not happening.
Earth orbital safety in the 21st century is as vital as shipping lane security was, in the 20th century.
The Lucas critique, named after Robert Lucas's work on macroeconomic policy making, argues that it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of human relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data.
Marriage industry of India boasts about 10 million weddings a year.
There are reports that Pakistan is collaborating with China to develop a fifth-generation fighter aircraft. India too needs to double up.
In Hindu philosophy the soul is interpreted as being without a gender.
Security cooperation was one of the reasons why PM Narasimha Rao formally opened diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992, followed by purchase of India's first IAI Searcher unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and an air combat manoeuvring system from Israel in 1996.
India is the largest single market for Israeli arms. Israeli arms sale to India is only second to Russia, having gone up by 650% in the past decade, now amounting to $715 million in 2017 alone. IAF misslies fired in Balakot reportedly used Israeli made SPICE-2000 GUIDANCE KITS.
Modi was the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Tel-Aviv in July 2017 and then came the visit of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Delhi in January 2018.
Israel is virtually a 'nation-at-arms' country. It has always had conscription, or draft, or compulsory enlistment of people in national service. Every Israeli man (who's Jew or Druze, excepting those with medical disabilities or religious scholars) above 18 serves in the military for 36 months, and every Israeli woman for 24 months.
The National bill of Israel passed in 2018 specified Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people. This makes Israeli state closer to a theocratic one.
Iron and steel accounts for roughly 15-20 % of the total cost in real estate.
Global warming: When Americans were experiencing bone-chilling temperatures on January 29, the world was actually 0.3 degrees warmer on an average compared to a baseline from 1979 to 2000.
Among all the 13 tiger range countries, India alone has the maximum number of tigers (70% of the global wild tiger population) and their source areas. This impressive gain is there despite the fact that our per capita forest is only 0.06 hectare as against the world average of 0.6 hectare, apart from having 60% of global livestock, 17% of world's human population, with a forest productivity of around 1.34 cubic metre per hectare per year as against world's average of 2.1 cubic metre per hectare per year.
It has been documented that around 67,911 hectares of forest cover has been lost in 188 districts of India between 2009 and 2011 due to encroachment.
Earth: The soil is her flesh, the rocks are her bones, and the wind is her breath; trees and grass her hair. She lives, spreads out, and we live on her. When she moves we have an earthquake—Rabbi Ezekiel Malekar
In real life it is the hare who wins—ANITA BROOKNER, award winning novelist.
Mary Shelley projected through the character, Frankenstein. We all are threatened by the monsters we create. They don't come into being on their own.
Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy—ASMA JAHANGIR, Pakistani Human Rights lawyer and activist.
If you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you—SHIMON PERES. Israeli politician who served as the ninth President of Israel.
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GLOOM BEHIND THE SMILE
(The book is about a young cancer patient. Now archived in 7 prestigious libraries of the US, including, Harvard University and Library of Congress. It can also be accessed in MIT through Worldcat.org. Besides, it is also available for reading in Libraries and archives of Canada and Cancer Aid and Research Foundation Mumbai)
ONE TO TANGO … RIA'S ODYSSEY
(Is a book on 'singlehood' about a Delhi girl now archived in Connemara Library, Chennai and Delhi Public Library, GOI, Ministry of Culture, Delhi)
(Is a fiction written around the great city of Nawabs—Lucknow. It describes Lucknow in great detail and also talks about its Hindu-Muslim amity. That happens to be its undying characteristic. The book was launched in Lucknow International Literary Festival of 2014)
REFRACTIONS … FROM THE PRISM OF GOD
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TYPICAL TALE OF AN INDIAN SALESMAN
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The development of the plate tectonic theory was one of the great revolutions in the history of science. Before the plate tectonic theory, most scientists believed that Earth was a static planet that never really changed. Working like detectives, a small group of pioneering individuals slowly pieced together an entirely different picture of our Earth, showing that the planet is really a dynamic, active world. Over the course of millions of years, continents collided with each other, oceans opened and closed, and mountains rose and fell - and these changes continue today.
"Plate Tectonics" examines the evolution of plate tectonic theory from its beginnings as a wild idea of drifting continents to its acceptance as the main concept that drives geology today. The book also focuses on the lives and achievements of those individuals who fought great odds to give rise to one of the most important theories in science.
Stephen M. Tomecek is a geologist and author of more than 30 nonfiction books for children and teachers. He works as a consultant and writer for The National Geographic Society and Scholastic. Tomecek was the writer and host of the Emmy Award-winning television series Dr. Dad's Phantastic Physical Phenomena. This is his second book for Chelsea House.
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When requiring the ResourceSecurityMetadata module, a Javascript object will be populated with the resource’s security metadata as properties. By accessing these properties, one can inspect the state of the resource’s security.

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The following table describes the properties of the Javascript Object returned by the previous code. It returns a property of the resource if it has a value for that property. If not, returns a default value. The returned properties are Java HashSets of roles that can make requests to the resource.

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Serves as one of the earliest clubs formed at the request of Rev. Dr. Arthur Fletcher Elmes in 1953. He gathered 25 newly joined members and requested that they form the Progressive Circle to support Church activities through stewardship and friendship. This very active Circle raises funds for the church by sponsoring trips and other social events.


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Чемпионат мира по шорт-треку среди юниоров 2019 года проходил с 27-29 января в Монреале (Канада).

Чемпионат включает в себя четыре дистанции — 500, 1000, 1500 и 1500 метров — суперфинал. На дистанциях сначала проводятся предварительные забеги, затем лучшие шорт-трекисты участвуют в финальных забегах. Чемпионом мира становится спортсмен, набравший наибольшую сумму очков по итогам четырёх дистанций. В случае равенства набранных очков преимущество отдаётся спортсмену занявшему более высокое место в суперфинале на дистанции 1500 м. Также проводятся с 2001 года эстафеты по три человека у девушек и у юношей на 2000 м. С 2011 года в эстафетах участвует по четыре человека на дистанциях 3000 м. С 2019 года абсолютный чемпион не разыгрывается.

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A new sustainable neighbourhood in Iceland designed by JTP has become the first international project to achieve final certification under the BREEAM Communities Standard 2012.
Urridaholt is a 100ha project in located in Gardabaer, a small town close to Reykjavik. JTP led an international design team to develop a consensus-led masterplan through a participatory planning process, with local collaborator Alta Consulting.
The environmentally sensitive hilltop site has panoramic views of the spectacular surrounding landscape, encompassing the Urridavatn Lake, mountains, volcanoes, a lava field and the ocean.
To address the context, the design team developed the masterplan around sustainable principles in close contact with the natural environment, incorporating ideas from the Winter Cities movement. This included measures to encourage an active outdoor environment throughout the year, to enhance the community's sense of well-being during the dark winter months.
The development also features the first large-scale sustainable drainage system in Iceland, developed with COWI from Norway, and is the only known example of a hillside application of this technology in Europe.
When complete Urridaholt will become a ground-breaking model for creating sustainable neighbourhoods in cold climates and will deliver 1,650 homes and 90,000 sq m of mixed-uses including office and retail space, schools, health and social facilities and cultural venues.
The BREEAM Communities certification is a method for measuring and evidencing the sustainability of large-scale development plans. It provides a framework to support planners, local authorities, developers and investors through the masterplanning process, before embarking on procurement, detailed building level design and construction.
Urridaholt marks JTP's second certification under BREEAM Communities, having previously been awarded the standard for three sites in Sheffield which were amongst the first residential schemes in the UK to be certified.
To view the BREEAM case study for Urridaholt click here.


The corporate media in the United States are ignoring valid news stories, based on university quality research. It appears that certain topics are simply forbidden inside the mainstream corporate media today. To openly cover these news stories would stir up questions regarding "inconvenient truths" that many in the U.S. power structure want to avoid.
A dangerous little DVD inserted into newspapers in 70 cities last month titled "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" is a deliberately frightening view of "radical Islam." Imagine those who received it going to a Palin rally and hearing Barack Obama's middle name spat out. These cannot be coincidences.


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For the last 8 years, member states that make up the East African Community have not met their annual commitments to the regional body fully. The closest they came to fully meet these commitments was in the financial year 2011/12, and were at their lowest at 70% for FY2019/20.
This has led to the EAC to push for its organs to reduce their budgets to adjust to this reality which has included reducing the number of activities and missions abroad. These efforts to reduce the expenses by the community were acknowledged last month by the African Development Bank, which ranked the EAC as the most performing regional community in Africa.
For example, documents availed to The Exchange by sources within the community show that the travel expenses which were at US$17.7M during FY2013/14 were reduced to US$12.05M during FY2017/18.
However, according to sources within the community, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has opposed plans to reduce its budget and introduced measures that have seen their expenses rise considerably.
This has included the number of days they spend at the floor of the assembly, travel allowances, trips abroad, and personal emoluments which includes mortgages and bank loans.
"Previous Assemblies held their sessions for a maximum of 14 days; the current assembly decided, contrary to the directive of the Council of Ministers, to increase this number to 21 days," noted a source within the EAC who sought for anonymity.
"Thus, each Member of Parliament receives US$560 per day (thus US$11,760 for 21 days) and receives, in addition, a monthly salary of slightly over US$6,000. "
The regional MPs have also been accused of taking huge loans and mortgages despite the EAC secretariat objecting to guarantee the loans as they go against the EAC financial regulations.
The East African Community Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania
One accounting officer within the Secretariat also confirmed this anomaly. "Unable to rely on their salaries, the MPs can only count on the daily income of US$560 which they receive during parliamentary sessions; and we thus better understand why the parliamentary sessions have gone from 14 to 21 days per month."
This among other issues related to EALA has put the regional parliament on a collision course with the Secretariat. However, the Secretariat has denied the existence of a conflict between the organs and the EAC was only readjusting to irregular contributions from member states.
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"There is no conflict between the Secretariat and EALA, and there is no reason for it to exist'" notes an EAC Executive. " The Secretariat never withholds the funds EALA is supposed to receive. EALA is faced with serious management problems in a context where contributions from EAC Member States are irregular and insufficient," he adds.
In August, a row erupted among the EALA MPs after reports emerged that they were requesting for the payment of parliamentary travel allowances even after having virtual meetings. The MPs even threatened to shoot down the annual budget unless their dues were met, according to newspaper reports.
This has concerned the Council of Ministers as the dwindling reserve affects the affairs of the regional bloc. For the last 2 years, EALA has had to borrow funds from the EAC General Reserve account and from other EAC institutions. By the end of July 2020, EALA owed nearly US$2M to the EAC General Reserve Account.
"This is unacceptable as the two other organs, the Secretariat and the EAC Court of Justice owed zero," noted another EAC official.
The borrowing has continued with a recent request for over US$1.6M loan from both the Inter-University Council of East Africa (IUCEA) and the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization to pay the East African legislators a move that has been opposed by Tanzania.
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The EALA gave the reason for the borrowing as supposedly to pay money owed to Members of Parliament for virtual meetings (videoconference, Zoom,) held between March and August 2020.
Each Member of Parliament claims US$560 per virtual meeting held. even from his/her home or in some ministry based at 1 or 2 kilometers away from his/her residence.
The EAC Secretary General Amb. Mfumukeko transmitted that request of EALA to the Council of Ministers through a letter dated 20th August, and until now member countries have not reached any consensus on this subject.
The letter by Tanzania's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of East African Affairs Ambassador Brig. Gen. Wilbert Augustine Ibuge, notes that his country was not consulted, and it is prudent for the EAC organs to adhere to the principle of controlled spending terming the borrowing "essentially unsustainable".
Other bodies within the EAC have also questioned the manner under which the EALA was adhering to prudent financial operations. For example, the independent EAC Audit Commission, of which all EAC State Auditors General are members, established in December 2019 that expenditures (mainly by Members of Parliament) of more than US$6M had no supporting documents.
Per the Treaty establishing the EAC, the Secretary-General is the Principal Chief Executive Officer of all Organs and Institutions of the Community. Member States send funds to the Secretariat and the latter redistributes them to ALL Organs and Institutions according to the annual budget approved by the Council of Ministers and the Assembly (EALA) for each Organ and Institution.
While the global economy is facing a bleak future as long term effects of Covid-19 start being felt, East Africa Community is at crossroads. The community has called on all its organs to show financial prudence and sound budget utilization. However, for this to happen, insiders feel it is critical to urge EALA MPs to reduce their appetite for personal allowances.
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Analysis the Effect of Macroeconomic Indicators and Specific-Firm Characteristic as Determinant Profitability of Islamic Banks in Asia
Lupita Widyaningrum Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics University of Indonesia
Dodik Siswantoro Lecturers in Accounting Department, Faculty of Economics University of Indonesia.
https://doi.org/10.14421/grieb.2014.022-01
Islamic Banks, Profitability, Macroeconomic Indicators, Specific-Firm
: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of macroeconomic indicators and specific-firm characteristics on the profitability of Islamic banks in Asia for period 2008-2012. Macroeconomic indicators using variables GDP growth and inflation, while the firm-specific characteristics using variables leverage, capitalization, operating expense, asset quality, number of branches, and firm size. Bank profitability measured by ROA and ROE. Research method using Ordinary Least Squares regression (OLS) to process the data types unbalanced panels and balanced panel. Unbalanced panel using sample of 42 Islamic banks with 188 observations, while on balanced panel using sample of 28 Islamic banks with 140 observations. The result of this research shows that capitalization, firm size, GDP growth, and inflation are determinants affecting ROA with positive and significant influence, while operating expense and leverage are significantly negative determinants that affect ROA. Asset quality and number of branches had no significant influence to ROA. The research also shows that determinant factors that affect ROE with positive and significant influence are captalization, number of branch, GDP growth, and inflation, while operating expense, and asset quality are determinants that affect significantly negative to ROE. Leverage and firm size don't have significant influence to ROE. These results expected to be useful as a consideration material to improve the performance of Islamic banking, especially in Indonesia in order to compete with Islamic banking in Asia.
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ANZ launches 'tap and go' for UnionPay
ANZ has announced it will roll out contactless EFTPOS payment for UnionPay cardholders in Australia and New Zealand.
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UnionPay's Quickpass contactless capability will be made available to about 90,000 ANZ EFTPOS terminals across Australia, the bank has announced.
Myer, Harvey Norman and Dreamworld will be among the first organisations to offer the functionality, ANZ said in a statement.
Speaking at a launch ceremony at Myer Melbourne yesterday, ANZ chief executive Mike SMith said UnionPay International is the leading card network in China, with more than 50 per cent of all cards in circulation.
"It is also the only card network that issues, clears and settles in yuan," Mr Smith said.
"Every year, more and more Chinese tourists, students and business people travel to Australia, with around 800,000 visiting in 2014. As a super regional bank operating in 34 markets, we recognised that we needed to expand our card payment options to support customers' cross-border activities," he said.
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ANZ will launch contactless acceptance technology for UnionPay International customers in New Zealand by the end of 2015, and mag-stripe and EMV compliant acceptance will be introduced to ANZ's EFTPOS terminals and ATMs across 11 markets in Asia Pacific from early 2016, according to an ANZ statement.
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#pragma once
#include <aws/wafv2/WAFV2_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/wafv2/model/IPSetSummary.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
template<typename RESULT_TYPE>
class AmazonWebServiceResult;

namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace WAFV2
{
namespace Model
{
  class AWS_WAFV2_API CreateIPSetResult
  {
  public:
    CreateIPSetResult();
    CreateIPSetResult(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);
    CreateIPSetResult& operator=(const Aws::AmazonWebServiceResult<Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue>& result);

    /**
     *
High-level information about an IPSet, returned by operations like
     * create and list. This provides information like the ID, that you can use to
     * retrieve and manage an IPSet, and the ARN, that you provide to the
     * IPSetReferenceStatement to use the address set in a Rule.

     */
    inline const IPSetSummary& GetSummary() const{ return m_summary; }

    /**
     *
High-level information about an IPSet, returned by operations like
     * create and list. This provides information like the ID, that you can use to
     * retrieve and manage an IPSet, and the ARN, that you provide to the
     * IPSetReferenceStatement to use the address set in a Rule.

     */
    inline void SetSummary(const IPSetSummary& value) { m_summary = value; }

    /**
     *
High-level information about an IPSet, returned by operations like
     * create and list. This provides information like the ID, that you can use to
     * retrieve and manage an IPSet, and the ARN, that you provide to the
     * IPSetReferenceStatement to use the address set in a Rule.

     */
    inline void SetSummary(IPSetSummary&& value) { m_summary = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
High-level information about an IPSet, returned by operations like
     * create and list. This provides information like the ID, that you can use to
     * retrieve and manage an IPSet, and the ARN, that you provide to the
     * IPSetReferenceStatement to use the address set in a Rule.

     */
    inline CreateIPSetResult& WithSummary(const IPSetSummary& value) { SetSummary(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
High-level information about an IPSet, returned by operations like
     * create and list. This provides information like the ID, that you can use to
     * retrieve and manage an IPSet, and the ARN, that you provide to the
     * IPSetReferenceStatement to use the address set in a Rule.

     */
    inline CreateIPSetResult& WithSummary(IPSetSummary&& value) { SetSummary(std::move(value)); return *this;}

  private:

    IPSetSummary m_summary;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace WAFV2
} // namespace Aws


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Zack Littell
by Jorden 11 Apr,2019
Body Stats
Height 6 Feet 3 Inch
Date of Birth 1995, October 5
Famous Name Zack Littell
Country United States US
Birth Name Zack Stuart Littell
Birth Place Mebane, North Carolina, United States
Horoscope Libra
Mother Allie Littell
Net Worth $500,000
Salary $555,000
School Location Mebane, North Carolina
Contract 1 year / $555,000
Career Earnings $745,830
Position in Team Pitcher
Current team Minnesota Twins
Profession baseball player
Currently Working For Minnesota Twins
University attended Appalachian State University
School attended Eastern Alamance High School
Affair with Autumn
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Zack Littell is an American professional baseball player who plays in the Major League Baseball (MLB). As of 2019, Zack Stuart Littell currently plays for the Minnesota Twins as their Pitcher.
Zack is currently dating his longtime girlfriend Autumn.
As a Pitcher, Zack Stuart Littell reportedly earns around $555,000 as his yearly salary from Minnesota Twins. Further, Zack Stuart Littell has an estimated net worth of over $500,000.
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As of 2019, Zack Stuart Littell has an estimated net worth of over $500,000 and earns an annual salary of $555,000. In addition to this, he has earned a sum of around $745,830 from his professional baseball playing career.
Zack Littell's Salary and Contract:
Year Team Salary
2013 Seattle Mariners $100,000
2018 Minnesota Twins $90,830
2019 Minnesota Twins $555,000
Earnings $745,830
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Zack Stuart Littell was born on October 5, 1995, in Mebane, North Carolina, the United States to mother Allie Littell. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the White ethnic group and his star sign is Libra.
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Zack started his professional baseball playing career after ending his college career and his debut was with the Arizona League Mariners.
He began his career with the Minnesota Twins on July 30, 2017, and played for the team in the minor league. He made his MLB debut on 2018, June 5th, and is currently playing for the Twins team along with Miguel Sano and Nelson Cruz.
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Want a smidgen more proof that Hyundai will build the Santa Cruz pickup concept? Read this three-sentence article from Reuters, which quoted a company executive in South Korea, and see if you can find the "yes."
We can't, but after our longer interview with Hyundai USA's vice president of product planning, we're not surprised that Hyundai's home base noticed the "good response" after the pickup's Detroit debut. The man quoted is Park Byung-cheol, an R&D director who also mentioned "hurdles" to getting it to production.
Besides trying to sell a small, unibody, Korean pickup in the Home of the Whopper, where full-size, body-on-frame, American pickups are practically a religion, the biggest hurdle is Hyundai's Alabama plant. Currently, it's almost maxed out with about 400,000 Elantra and Sonata models per year, and because the Johnson-era chicken tax levies a 25-percent tariff on all imported trucks and vans, it's 'Bama or bust.
Reports in the Korean press, however, suggest that Hyundai will build a second Alabama plant for the Santa Fe—currently assembled at Kia's Georgia factory alongside the Sorento and the Optima—and add the Tucson. The Santa Cruz could potentially sidle in alongside them. According to the Detroit Free Press, the new plant could support annual production of 300,000 vehicles by 2017. Nothing is confirmed.
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A Connecticut teen could be in deep water with the feds after posting video of a hands-free weapon — a drone rigged with a semiautomatic handgun that shoots multiple live rounds in the woods.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that it was working with Connecticut police to look into the video, "Flying Gun," which was reportedly recorded by 18-year-old Austin Haughwout of Clinton, Connecticut.
"The FAA will investigate the operation of an unmanned aircraft system in a Connecticut park to determine if any Federal Aviation Regulations were violated," the administration said in a statement.
"The FAA will also work with its law enforcement partners to determine if there were any violations of criminal statutes."
While police say it doesn't appear the teen violated any state laws, the FAA bans the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.
Haughwout is a mechanical engineering student and told ABC News the drone was just one of many projects he has undertaken.
The teen's father, Bret Haughwout, told WFSB-TV last week a Central Connecticut State University professor helped his son create the device. The CCSU professor quickly denied it, saying he discouraged Haughwout when the student presented the idea.
Haughwout defends his son. "People have been playing with RC [remote-controlled] toys for many decades," he told AFP. "The proper name for this is an RC quadcopter. The media keeps using the inappropriate word because it helps you to generate fear."
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Joy Reid to Guest Lying About Birtherism: "Even a Pastor Cannot Just Make Things Up On This Show" August 22, 2016 Hemant Mehta
Joy Reid to Guest Lying About Birtherism: "Even a Pastor Cannot Just Make Things Up On This Show"
Over the weekend, on AM Joy, host Joy Reid tried to understand Donald Trump's misguided outreach to the black community by speaking to one of his surrogates, Pastor Darrell Scott.
She asked him why Trump was addressing black people while speaking in mostly white communities and why Trump settled a case involving housing discrimination against black people if he really did nothing wrong. In both cases, Scott dismissed the charges, saying he knew Trump personally and didn't see him as racist.
But when he tried to excuse Trump's claims that President Obama wasn't really born in the United States — a conspiracy theory made famous by Trump and which many people saw as veiled racism — Reid refused to let Scott get away with the lie that Hillary Clinton was the one who started it.
The exchange begins around the 6:42 mark:
REID: Don't tell me you agree with the birtherism, sir. I hope you're not gonna say that.
SCOTT: No… What I'm about to say is the birther issue came out of Hillary Clinton's campaign in [the] 2008 elections.
REID: No. No it didn't. Nope. No. No it didn't, sir. No. No.
SCOTT: Yes it did. Yes it did.
REID: That's just actually factually wrong. That's wrong. You can't… you know what? Even a pastor cannot just make things up on this show.
SCOTT: It came out of her camp. Yes it did. It's not factually wrong. It's not factually wrong. The birther issue…
REID: No, no, no, no, no, no… I respect you as a pastor… but you're not going to come on and make things up.
Wow. Take lying away from pastors and they lose the greatest weapon in their arsenal.
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Q: Equal class misunderstanding
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*I have my own data type to represent nodes and edges of a graph as follows:
data Node a = Node a deriving (Show, Eq)

data Label a = Label a deriving (Show)

data Cost = CostI Int | CostF Float deriving (Show)

data Edge label node = Edge (Label label, (Node node,Node node), Cost) deriving (Show)

*Now, I create a function to check whether an edge contains 2 nodes or not as follows:
isEdge:: (Eq n) => (Edge l n) -> (Node n, Node n) -> Bool
isEdge (Edge (_, (n1,n2), _)) (n3, n4) = result
     where result = (n1 == n3) && (n2 == n4)

*The function works well, the problem here is if I remove (Eq n) from the function, it fails. So, why is that, even though in the declaration above I declared Node as deriving from Eq class?
data Node a = Node a deriving (Show, Eq)

A: The Eq instance GHC derives for Node a is something like this:
instance Eq a => Eq (Node a) where
    (Node x) == (Node y) = x == y
    (Node x) /= (Node y) = x /= y

You can view the generated code by compiling with -ddump-deriv.  The Eq a constraint is needed for obvious reasons.  So, GHC couldn't infer an instance of Eq for, say, Node (a -> b) since functions can't be compared.
However, the fact that GHC can't infer an instance of Eq for Node a for some a doesn't mean it will stop you from constructing a values of type Node a where a isn't an equality type.

If you wanted to stop people from constructing non-comparable Nodes, you could try putting a constraint like this:
data Eq a => Node a = Node a deriving (Eq, Show)

But now GHC tells us we need a compiler pragma:
Illegal datatype context (use -XDatatypeContexts): Eq a =>

OK, let's add it to the top of our file:
{-# LANGUAGE DatatypeContexts #-}

Now compile:
/tmp/foo.hs:1:41: Warning: -XDatatypeContexts is deprecated: It was widely
considered a misfeature, and has been removed from the Haskell language.

The problem is that now every function using Nodes will need an Eq class constraint, which is annoying (your functions still need the constraint!).  (Also, if your user wants to create Nodes using a non-equality type but never tests them for equality, what's the problem?)

There's actually a way to get GHC to do what you want, however: Generalized Algebraic Data Types (GADTs):
{-# LANGUAGE GADTs, StandaloneDeriving #-}

data Node a where
  Node :: Eq a => a -> Node a

This looks just like your original definition, except that it emphasizes the Node value constructor (the one formerly on the right hand side of the data declaration) is just a function, which you can add constraints to.  Now GHC knows that only equality types can be put into Nodes, and unlike our earlier attempted solution, we can make new functions that don't need a constraint:
fromNode :: Node a -> a
fromNode (Node x) = x

We can still derive Eq and Show instances, but with a slightly different syntax:
deriving instance Eq   (Node a)
deriving instance Show (Node a)

(Hence the StandaloneDeriving pragma above.)
For this to work, GHC also requires us to add a Show constraint to our GADT (if you look at the generated code again, you'll see the constraints are now gone):
data Node a where
  Node :: (Eq a, Show a) => a -> Node a

And now we can take the Eq constraint off isEdge, since GHC can infer it!
(This is definitely overkill for such a simple situation -- again, if people want to construct nodes with functions inside them, why shouldn't they?  However, GADTs are extremely useful in pretty similar situations when you want to enforce certain properties of your data types.  See a cool example).

EDIT (from the future): you can also write
data Node a = (Eq a, Show a) => Node a

but you still need to enable GADT extensions and derive instances separately.  See this thread.

A: When you add a deriving clause to a data declaration, the derived clause will include any necessary constraints for the type variable in scope at the declaration.  In this case, deriving Eq will create essentially the following instance:
instance Eq a => Eq (Node a) where
    (Node a) == (Node b) = a == b
    (Node a) /= (Node b) = a /= b

Any derived Eq instance will depend upon the Eq instance of types that appear to the right of the data constructor.
This is because there's really no other way to derive an Eq instance automatically.  Two values are equal if they have the same type and all their components are equal.  So you need to be able to test the components for equality.  In order to generically test a polymorphic component for equality, you need an Eq instance.
This is true not just for Eq, but for all the derived classes.  For example this code
toStr :: Edge l n -> String
toStr = show

won't work without adding the constraint (Show l, Show n).  Without that constraint, the function to show an Edge doesn't know what to call to show its internal Labels and Nodes.

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View in the "Grand Detour," Upper Missouri, 1861/1869
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overall: 46.1 x 62.2 cm (18 1/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
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During the mid-19th century, George Catlin created two large collections of paintings featuring Indian portraits, genre scenes, and western landscapes. The first collection, which he called his "Indian Gallery," included more than 500 works completed during the 1830s. Most of the surviving paintings from this group are now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. During the 1850s and 1860s, Catlin created a second collection, numbering more than 600 works, which he called his "Cartoon Collection." The surviving works from this collection were acquired by the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1912. Paul Mellon purchased more than 300 paintings from the Cartoon Collection when they were deaccessioned. In 1965, he gave 351 works from this collection to the National Gallery of Art.
When Catlin exhibited the Cartoon Collection in New York in 1871, he published a catalog listing all the works. The catalog entries often included additional information about the subject of each painting. Catlin's catalog entry for this painting follows.
Cart. No. 244.
VIEW IN THE "GRAND DETOUR," upper Missouri. These bluffs, formed of clay of various colors, are traversed by a bed of lignite, near the water's surface.
George Catlin [1796-1872]; by descent to his daughters, Clara Gregory Catlin, Louise Catlin Kinney, and Elizabeth Wing Catlin; purchased 1912 from Elizabeth Wing Catlin by the American Museum of Natural History; sold 1959 through (Kennedy Galleries, New York) to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1965 to the NGA.
Mellon, Paul
Loan for display with permanent collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1968-1969.
Exhibition of George Catlin Paintings, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1970.
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American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 32.
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