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<?php

namespace Admin\FormWidgets;

use Admin\Classes\BaseFormWidget;
use Admin\Classes\FormField;
use Admin\Models\Location_areas_model;
use Admin\Traits\FormModelWidget;
use Admin\Traits\ValidatesForm;
use Igniter\Flame\Exception\ApplicationException;
use Igniter\Flame\Html\HtmlFacade as Html;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

/**
 * Map Area
 */
class MapArea extends BaseFormWidget
{
    use FormModelWidget;
    use ValidatesForm;

    const SORT_PREFIX = '___dragged_';

    //
    // Configurable properties
    //

    public $form;

    public $modelClass = Location_areas_model::class;

    public $prompt = 'lang:admin::lang.locations.text_add_new_area';

    public $formName = 'lang:admin::lang.locations.text_edit_area';

    public $addLabel = 'New';

    public $editLabel = 'Edit';

    public $deleteLabel = 'Delete';

    public $sortColumnName = 'priority';

    public $sortable = true;

    //
    // Object properties
    //

    protected $defaultAlias = 'maparea';

    protected $areaColors;

    protected $shapeDefaultProperties = [
        'id' => null,
        'default' => 'address',
        'options' => [],
        'circle' => [],
        'polygon' => [],
        'vertices' => [],
        'serialized' => false,
        'editable' => false,
    ];

    protected $sortableInputName;

    protected $formWidget;

    protected $mapAreas;

    public function initialize()
    {
        $this->fillFromConfig([
            'modelClass',
            'prompt',
            'form',
            'formName',
            'addLabel',
            'editLabel',
            'deleteLabel',
            'sortable',
        ]);

        $this->areaColors = Location_areas_model::$areaColors;

        $fieldName = $this->formField->getName(false);
        $this->sortableInputName = self::SORT_PREFIX.$fieldName;
    }

    public function loadAssets()
    {
        $this->addJs('../../repeater/assets/vendor/sortablejs/Sortable.min.js', 'sortable-js');
        $this->addJs('../../repeater/assets/vendor/sortablejs/jquery-sortable.js', 'jquery-sortable-js');
        $this->addJs('../../repeater/assets/js/repeater.js', 'repeater-js');
        $this->addJs('../../recordeditor/assets/js/recordeditor.modal.js', 'recordeditor-modal-js');

        $this->addCss('css/maparea.css', 'maparea-css');
        $this->addJs('js/maparea.js', 'maparea-js');

        // Make the mapview assets available
        if (strlen($key = setting('maps_api_key'))) {
            $url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=%s&libraries=geometry';
            $this->addJs(sprintf($url, $key),
                ['name' => 'google-maps-js', 'async' => null, 'defer' => null]
            );
        }

        $this->addJs('../../mapview/assets/js/mapview.js', 'mapview-js');
        $this->addJs('../../mapview/assets/js/mapview.shape.js', 'mapview-shape-js');
    }

    public function render()
    {
        $this->prepareVars();

        return $this->makePartial('maparea/maparea');
    }

    public function prepareVars()
    {
        $this->vars['field'] = $this->formField;
        $this->vars['mapAreas'] = $this->getMapAreas();
        $this->vars['sortable'] = $this->sortable;
        $this->vars['sortableInputName'] = $this->sortableInputName;

        $this->vars['prompt'] = $this->prompt;
    }

    public function getSaveValue($value)
    {
        if (!$this->sortable)
            return FormField::NO_SAVE_DATA;

        $items = $this->formField->value;
        if (!$items instanceof Collection)
            return $items;

        $sortedIndexes = (array)post($this->sortableInputName);
        $sortedIndexes = array_flip($sortedIndexes);

        $value = [];
        foreach ($items as $index => $item) {
            $value[$index] = [
                $item->getKeyName() => $item->getKey(),
                $this->sortColumnName => $sortedIndexes[$item->getKey()],
            ];
        }

        return $value;
    }

    public function onLoadRecord()
    {
        $model = strlen($areaId = post('recordId'))
            ? $this->findFormModel($areaId)
            : $this->createFormModel();

        return $this->makePartial('maparea/area_form', [
            'formAreaId' => $areaId,
            'formTitle' => ($model->exists ? $this->editLabel : $this->addLabel).' '.lang($this->formName),
            'formWidget' => $this->makeAreaFormWidget($model, 'edit'),
        ]);
    }

    public function onSaveRecord()
    {
        $model = strlen($areaId = post('areaId'))
            ? $this->findFormModel($areaId)
            : $this->createFormModel();

        $form = $this->makeAreaFormWidget($model, 'edit');

        $this->validateFormWidget($form, $saveData = $form->getSaveData());

        $modelsToSave = $this->prepareModelsToSave($model, $saveData);

        DB::transaction(function () use ($modelsToSave) {
            foreach ($modelsToSave as $modelToSave) {
                $modelToSave->saveOrFail();
            }
        });

        flash()->success(sprintf(lang('admin::lang.alert_success'),
            'Area '.($form->context == 'create' ? 'created' : 'updated')
        ))->now();

        $this->formField->value = null;
        $this->model->reloadRelations();

        $this->prepareVars();

        return [
            '#notification' => $this->makePartial('flash'),
            '.map-area-container' => $this->makePartial('maparea/areas'),
        ];
    }

    public function onDeleteArea()
    {
        if (!strlen($areaId = post('areaId')))
            throw new ApplicationException(lang('admin::lang.locations.alert_invalid_area'));

        $model = $this->getRelationModel()->find($areaId);
        if (!$model)
            throw new ApplicationException(sprintf(lang('admin::lang.form.not_found'), $areaId));

        $model->delete();

        flash()->success(sprintf(lang('admin::lang.alert_success'), lang($this->formName).' deleted'))->now();

        $this->prepareVars();

        return [
            '#notification' => $this->makePartial('flash'),
        ];
    }

    public function getMapShapeAttributes($area)
    {
        $areaColor = $area->color;

        $attributes = [
            'data-id' => $area->area_id ?? 1,
            'data-name' => $area->name ?? '',
            'data-default' => $area->type ?? 'address',
            'data-color' => $areaColor,
            'data-polygon' => $area->boundaries['polygon'] ?? null,
            'data-circle' => $area->boundaries['circle'] ?? null,
            'data-vertices' => $area->boundaries['vertices'] ?? null,
            'data-editable' => $this->previewMode ? 'false' : 'true',
            'data-options' => json_encode([
                'fillColor' => $areaColor,
                'strokeColor' => $areaColor,
                'distanceUnit' => setting('distance_unit'),
            ]),
        ];

        return Html::attributes($attributes);
    }

    protected function getMapAreas()
    {
        $loadValue = $this->getLoadValue();

        $loadValue = $loadValue instanceof Collection
            ? $loadValue->toArray()
            : $loadValue;

        if ($this->sortable) {
            $loadValue = sort_array($loadValue, $this->sortColumnName);
        }

        $result = [];

        foreach ($loadValue as $key => $area) {
            if (!isset($area['color']) || !strlen($area['color'])) {
                $index = min($key, count($this->areaColors));
                $area['color'] = $this->areaColors[$index] ?? $this->areaColors[0];
            }

            $result[$key] = (object)$area;
        }

        return $this->mapAreas = $result;
    }

    protected function makeAreaFormWidget($model, $context = null)
    {
        if (is_null($context))
            $context = $model->exists ? 'edit' : 'create';

        if (is_null($model->location_id))
            $model->location_id = $this->model->getKey();

        $config = is_string($this->form) ? $this->loadConfig($this->form, ['form'], 'form') : $this->form;
        $config['context'] = $context;
        $config['model'] = $model;
        $config['alias'] = $this->alias.'Form';
        $config['arrayName'] = $this->formField->arrayName.'[areaData]';

        $widget = $this->makeWidget('Admin\Widgets\Form', $config);
        $widget->bindToController();

        return $this->formWidget = $widget;
    }
}

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Mar 8, 2008 , Buckland Community Centre, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Max Voltage defeated Rishi Ghosh via pinfall.
Eamon O'Neill defeated Ian 'The Idol' Logan via pinfall after the TKO.
Tag Team Match: 'The Righteous' Paul Travell & James Tighe defeated LT Summers & Mark Haskins after Travell rolled up Summers for the pinfall.
British National Championship Round 2: Dan Head upset IPW:UK Champion Andy Boy Simmonz in a non-title match via pinfall to advance to the third round of the British National Championship.


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Q: ajax response is showing in console but not in alert box I was creating a small game for childrens. The game is completed building but the problem am facing is the show the alert boxes when needed. Sometimes it shows sometimes it doesn't. When I pressed inspect element I found that its getting printed on the console but not coming in alert box. Sometimes when I hard reset the browser it shows the alert box when needed. I cleared the browser cache and tried its works sometimes and sometimes not. But its getting printed on the console properly as per my code.
Please someone help me on this issue. I have never faced these kind of issue, its very strange and am tensed.
Below is my jquery code:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#feed_btn").hide();
    $("#finish_btn").hide();

    $("#start_btn").click(function(){
        $("#start_btn").hide();
        $("#feed_btn").show();

    });
});

function RestartGame()
{
    location.reload();
}

var i=0;

function PerformGame()
{
    i++;
    $.ajax({
        url: 'perform_game.php',
        type: "POST",
        data: {'button_clicked': i},
        dataType: 'json',

        success: function(data) {

            if(data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Lose !") {
                swal({title: "Game Over !", text: data, type: "error"});
                $("#feed_btn").hide();
                $("#finish_btn").show();
            }
            if(data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Won !") {
                swal({title: "Wow !",text: data,type: "success"});
                $("#feed_btn").hide();
                $("#finish_btn").show();
            }
            if(data == "Hard Luck ! One or Some animal(s) died.") {
                swal({title: "Dead !",text: data,type: "warning"});
            }
               if(data == "Farmer Died ! You Lose !"){
                    swal({title: "Game Over !", text: data, type: "error"});
                    $("#feed_btn").hide();
                    $("#finish_btn").show();
               }

            }
    });
}
</script>

Below is my php code:
foreach($_SESSION['animal_life'] as $key => $value)
{
    if ($value == '0') {
        if ($key == 'Farmer'){
            $msg = "Farmer Died ! You Lose !";
            unset($_SESSION['animals']);
            unset($_SESSION['animal_life']);
            unset($_SESSION['final_result']);
            break;
        }

        $search_animal = array_search($key, $_SESSION['animals']);
        unset($_SESSION['animals'][$search_animal]);
    }
    $check_animals_left = count($_SESSION['animals']);
    if($check_animals_left < $count_total_animals) {
        $msg = "Hard Luck ! One or Some animal(s) died.";
    }
}

if ($no_of_times_button_clicked == '50') {
    $counter = 0;
    if (in_array('Farmer', $_SESSION['animals'])) {
        $counter++;
    }

    if (in_array('Cow1', $_SESSION['animals']) || in_array('Cow2', $_SESSION['animals'])) {
        $counter++;
    }

    if (in_array('Bunny1', $_SESSION['animals']) || in_array('Bunny2', $_SESSION['animals']) || in_array('Bunny3', $_SESSION['animals']) || in_array('Bunny4', $_SESSION['animals']))
    {
        $counter++;
    }

    if ($counter == 3)
    {
        $msg = "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Won !";
        unset($_SESSION['animals']);
        unset($_SESSION['animal_life']);
        unset($_SESSION['final_result']);
    } else {
        $msg = "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Lose !";
        unset($_SESSION['animals']);
        unset($_SESSION['animal_life']);
        unset($_SESSION['final_result']);
    }
}

if ($msg) {
    echo json_encode($msg);
}
}

A: Please add this debug:
console.log('data is: ',data)
console.log('data == Maximum Clicks Reached. You Lose !',data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Lose !")
if(data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Lose !") {
    swal({title: "Game Over !", text: data, type: "error"});
    $("#feed_btn").hide();
    $("#finish_btn").show();
}
console.log('data == Maximum Clicks Reached. You Won',data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Won !")
if(data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Won !") {
    swal({title: "Wow !",text: data,type: "success"});
    $("#feed_btn").hide();
    $("#finish_btn").show();
}
console.log('data == Hard Luck ! One or Some animal(s) died.',data == "Hard Luck ! One or Some animal(s) died.")
if(data == "Hard Luck ! One or Some animal(s) died.") {
    swal({title: "Dead !",text: data,type: "warning"});
}
console.log('data == Farmer Died ! You Lose !',data == "Farmer Died ! You Lose !")
   if(data == "Farmer Died ! You Lose !"){
        swal({title: "Game Over !", text: data, type: "error"});
        $("#feed_btn").hide();
        $("#finish_btn").show();
   }

}

A: Try this:
$.ajax({
    url: 'perform_game.php',
    type: "POST",
    data: {'button_clicked': i},
    dataType: 'json',
    async:false

    success: function(data) {

        if(data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Lose !") {
            swal({title: "Game Over !", text: data, type: "error"});
            $("#feed_btn").hide();
            $("#finish_btn").show();
        }
        if(data == "Maximum Clicks Reached. You Won !") {
            swal({title: "Wow !",text: data,type: "success"});
            $("#feed_btn").hide();
            $("#finish_btn").show();
        }
        if(data == "Hard Luck ! One or Some animal(s) died.") {
            swal({title: "Dead !",text: data,type: "warning"});
        }
           if(data == "Farmer Died ! You Lose !"){
                swal({title: "Game Over !", text: data, type: "error"});
                $("#feed_btn").hide();
                $("#finish_btn").show();
           }

        }
});

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Twenty-four residential juvenile correctional facilities with onsite education programs also participated in the 2010 MSS. In this report, the responses from 584 youth in correctional facilities were compared to a same-sized sample of youth who took the MSS in mainstream schools. Students were matched to one another on their gender, age, race and Hispanic ethnicity. Comparing two "mirror image" groups of students helps to ensure that differences in survey responses are not attributable to demographic variables. Exploring differences between the two student groups can provide information on what challenges youth in correctional facilities are facing, and what targeted intervention efforts may alleviate their personal or situational difficulties. Similarly, areas in which survey responses are the same for both groups can illuminate protective factors all youth possess, or risk factors to which all youth are vulnerable.


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Nuclear disarmament seems to have gone out of fashion with our current White House Administration. At the same time, the United Nations continues to work on a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Each year, Festival Founder and CEO Rachel Caplan picks one film that she makes her Director's Choice. A film that she wants to make sure gets some special attention.
Part eight of our film-lover's guide to taking environmental action in the first 100 days of the new White House administration. This week we suggest two companion movies: Big Boys Gone Bananas and BANANAS!*.
Dropped jaws, and shocked gasps filled the room at Tuesday night's San Francisco premiere of Death by Design by Sue Williams.
The sold out screening produced by the San Francisco Green Film Festival, as part of Bay Area Science Festival, was a rude awakening for many in the room.
Filmmaker challenges us to ask: Do I really need this?
Sue Williams' documentaries are an in-depth look into the past, present, and future.
In her most recent production, Death by Design, she does an in-depth investigation into the electronics and technology companies and the harmful environmental and health effects that come with them on a global scale.
We all love – and live on – our smartphones, tablets and laptops.
A cascade of new devices pours endlessly into the market, promising ever better communication, non-stop entertainment and instant information.
But can tech be made sustainably?
Encore! Encore! We heard you shout.
We're bringing back some of our favorite Green Film Fest 2016 films to give you a second chance to see them with our Encore Series.
Since 2012, SFGFF is a proud sponsor of Breathe California's annual Clear the Air Film Fest!
Can you remember the last time you heard birdsong, or the wind blowing?


Exposure is an exclusive photography installation where the public must have his or her own picture taken to be able to enter. Davis Freeman asks people to work with privately with the photographer to create their own personal portrait. We'll then print this photograph on the spot, frame it, and the person can install the photograph in the exhibition anywhere they want. People who have their photograph taken will also receive a private pass to come back again to the installation over the following 4 days as the installation grows, and receive a copy of their photo by email.
Davis Freeman has created this installation already in the Playground Festival in STUK (Leuven), Zenne Gallery (Brussels), Tanzhaus NRW (Dusseldorf) with already 300 people participating and we'll include a section of these in the installation itself.
Davis Freeman is an American artist based in Brussels who has worked with Forced Entertainment, Meg Stuart & Superamas. He created his company Random Scream in 1999 where he makes contemporary theater / dance, photo/video installations and curatorial projects. He stage work is often seen as devious political theatre and often deal with issues of climate change. Currently he's touring Now & the future, 7 Promises & A better place and his latest curatorial project Karaoke (ART).


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Shijiazhuang Shuanghuan Automobile Co., Ltd. – chińskie przedsiębiorstwo branży motoryzacyjnej zajmujące się produkcją samochodów sportowo-użytkowych oraz małych samochodów miejskich.

Spółka powstała w 1988 roku, a jej siedziba mieści się w Shijiazhuang, w prowincji Hebei.

Wielkość produkcji w 2003 roku wyniosła ponad 3000 samochodów.

Bibliografia

Chińscy producenci samochodów
Marki samochodów

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Acute parvovirus B19 infection in identical twins unmasking previously unidentified hereditary spherocytosis.
Identical Caucasian male twins, previously fit, presented 1 week apart with short histories of fever and lethargy. The twins were febrile at presentation with profound pancytopaenia and evidence of haemolysis. There was no rash or arthralgia. Both required multiple red cell transfusions. The twins had positive IgM serology for Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), cytomegalovirus (CMV) and parvovirus B19. EBV viral capsid antigen and Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen IgGs were also positive however, suggesting past EBV exposure. Parvovirus B19 DNA was detected from peripheral blood PCR; CMV and EBV DNA PCRs were negative. Convalescent serology demonstrated no evolution of the CMV serological response, that is no IgG to CMV developed which implies an initial non-specific polyclonal IgM response. The twins recovered fully over 7 days, the first with a course of prednisolone and the second spontaneously. They were diagnosed with hereditary spherocytosis on convalescent blood films. On further questioning, a family history of hereditary spherocytosis was eventually revealed. The twins' maternal grandmother was known to have the condition asymptomatically. Their mother had prior to this never been tested, but later bloods would reveal a compatible biochemical picture.


The FireflyDXTM pathogen detection systems are being developed to provide lab-quality results in any environment in less than 30 minutes.
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ExcitePCRTM is leading the charge to bring clinical diagnostics to the Point-of-Need / Point-of-Care (PON /POC) for rapid detection and diagnosis.
ExcitePCR is developing the FireflyDXTM family of pathogen detection systems, portable devices offering rapid sample-to-result detection in less than 30 minutes using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chemistry. FireflyDX devices will be capable of multiplex assays and utilize single-use, disposable cartridges for lab-quality results at the Point-of-Need and Point-of-Care (PON / POC). The FireflyDX systems combine sample lysis, purification, realtime PCR analysis, and reporting of results. The initial, primary use of these systems are expected to be in clinical and molecular diagnostic settings, agricultural screening in domestic sectors and developing countries, PON / POC monitoring of pathogenic outbreaks, and for the detection of biological agents associated with weapons of mass destruction.


Boardroom presentations and conversations with other guests led CCI Solution's Duke DeJong to take another look at his company's CRM software plan.
In two years of attending the CI Summit, Duke DeJong, the VP of systems integration for CCI Solutions of Olympia, Wash., has found value in the connections he has been able to make at the event. And, that has led to new product solutions and even a potential adjustment in business processes.
CCI Solutions focuses mainly on integration in performance venues and houses of worship. In meeting with other commercial integrators from around the country, he finds there is an opportunity to share secrets and help each other because they are not direct competitors, even if what they are doing does not directly line up with his own company's work.
Sometimes, though, there are solutions that transcend markets. DeJong discovered one of those during a boardroom session with ConnectWise, in part because of a fellow integrator.
Company representatives had been delivering their presentation to the group of integrators, and many were very interested in their offerings. But, there was one guest in the room with whom that presentation truly struck a chord.
"Toward the end of the presentation, one of the guys said, 'I'm sorry to interrupt, but everybody, we just spent $2 million over the last two years developing our own system and we're idiots. This would have been way better. Buy this,'" DeJong recalls. "Then, four of us were talking about it for the next half hour on our breaks asking questions. Why are you an idiot for building your own? Why would you never do that again?
It was particularly applicable for DeJong and CCI because they recently had begun developing some CRM software of their own. This presentation, that guest's comments and the following discussions gave him some relevant information to consider, which they still are doing.
This was not the first time a boardroom presentation had proved fruitful for him. A year earlier, during his first CI Summit, he found himself in a meeting with a company with whom he was familiar. But, as so often happens at the event, he learned there was much more to their business, which helped him solve a problem that often was a pain point.
DeJong says one of his primary goals in attending the CI Summit each year is to learn how to bring better and more cost-effective solutions to his clients. With these boardroom presentations and collaboration with other guests, he feels he's done that.


Trucks and cars Other Metosul car and truck models seen at a Dinky Toys expo in 2010 in Portugal.
Metosul truck models More Metosul models seen at Dinky toys expo 2010 in Portugal. Three Mercedes-Benz trucks.
Mercedes-Benz 1113 Photo of a Metosul MB 1113 truck model seen at the Dinky Toys expo 2010 in Portugal.


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With the Coronavirus Pandemic, people have been buying various pandemic novels like Emily St John-Mandel's "Station 11". In this novel, a super-virus wipes out 99% of the human race. But pick your apocalypse – whether all out nuclear war, robot-uprising, climate catastrophe and sudden ice age – whatever. Imagine we are culled back to 1% of the population. Imagine your state or nation culled back that much. New South Wales goes from about 7.5 million back to 75,000! How likely is it that civilisation would survive? Would our children and grandchildren crash back to the Stone Age for centuries?
A: POLITICAL AND SETTLEMENT STRATEGIES
1. Law and order
2. Consolidate and concentrate your population into a few core towns
3. Higher concentration means higher specialisation.
4. You can't get sentimental and try and save everything.
B: TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGIES
5. Energy rationing, agriculture, and cycling culture.
6. Technical guilds.
7. Primitive fridges and batteries.
If a disaster wipes out the majority of your population the survivors need to get on top of law and order, fast. Anyone who has seen the Mad Max movies or for that matter almost any post-apocalyptic movie shows bands of selfish warlords fighting over the scraps.
Instead, surviving cops or authority figures need to get in charge and encourage belief in the system – belief in concepts like States and Nations for the benefit of all. To be honest, I'm not even sure the fall of a National government is as inevitable as it appears in most apocalyptic stories. Most national governments have brainstorming groups (like America's DARPA) and security agencies planning for all manner of horrible crises you could imagine – and some you can't! They have their bunkers complete with years of food and communications equipment and the tools to start over. For that matter, many private firms offer the same for the rich and wealthy.
But assuming the National government fell, after the unbelievably horrible first 6 months, eventually local survivors would form some sort of equilibrium. In the western world we know the benefits of democracy and the rule of law, and having checks and balances on government. As cynical as the modern world is about our politicians, in a real crisis we know we need law and order. We want an authority to call when crimes are committed and things go bad. We also would want to stop the descent into anarchy and mob violence and warlords.
Without the distractions of Netflix and busy social lives, there is a lot more time for thinking. Collapses are long, boring affairs. Sure they have short bursts of extreme terror as you go on another supply run! But this is mingled with months of boredom and general nagging anxiety. Kind of like the isolation life we're living in now. (I'm writing this in 2020.) People will want to feel safe. They'll want a local leader, an authority figure to report infractions to and decide matters. I imagine them quickly appointing a mayor. It's one of the first steps on the road to recovery. Once their village has a mayor and things are rebuilding around a core village, an expanding hunt for resources will begin. The hunt for resources is not just about food and equipment, but human resources like plumbers, builders, carpenters and electricians. Knowledge. Traders will set up an old fashioned mail-coach to get things going – and eventually regional pacts will form that could soon start to look like State governments. Once you have a few of those it wouldn't take long for the quest for a Federal government to be put in place.
And if the catastrophe carried off all decency and common sense – remember this. Even warlords like hot showers and cold beer. Even tyrants hate total anarchy! They might want their kind of order, but at least it is some sort of order. If you've seen Narco's you'll know what I mean. The Mexican drug cartels formed huge corporation-level drug empires. They organised enormous lines of supply, chains of command, technical support, and administrative support all the way down to logistics and accounting divisions. Most post-apocalyptic warlords want technical recovery to run their toys, even if that's something strange like a V8 muscle car rigged up on some locally cooked home brew. Technology and knowledge would most probably be valued – even if the political progress came through painful revolutions later on. It's the decent into generations of competition and barbarism instead of co-operation and progress that chills the mind. I'm optimistic our own self-interest would prevent this from happening and get us organised!
Once law and order is established, the new government would take stock. The population of my state of New South Wales would have collapsed from 7.5 million people down to only 75,000. The loss of trades and professions is profound. How many doctors and nurses have survived – or were most wiped out in the pandemic? How many electricians and plumbers and carpenters and builders and engineers made it? How many power station engineers? What does all of this mean? The government would need to assess all this.
Now we get down to it. Many post-apocalyptic stories focus on the village. Indeed in David Brin's "The Postman" (great book – terrible movie!) the hero moves from village to village looking for somewhere that has power tools and isn't stuck in Medieval farming. Why are they stuck so far down the technological ladder? Because the post-disaster village flattens out our ability to specialise. When the population is scattered throughout smaller villages, people become general labourers. When everyone is a generalist, no one is a specialist. Everyone is too busy just learning how to grow enough food. They're all trying to grow the food, stay well, maintain the house and farm, and learn how to preserve fruits and salt meats. It's a busy but boring life stuck in the basics.
The key to getting technical guilds up and running is a decent population. Just as with computers, towns have a kind of "Moore's law" in which the more people you have living close together, the more you can get done. The basic rule of thumb? Every time you double a city's population you get an extra 30% for free. EG: 5,000 people in one town and 5,000 people in another separate town produce the GDP of 10,000 people. But if they were all together in the one town of 10,000 people, they get the productivity of 13,000 people. That's the work of an extra 3000 people 'for free'. You don't have to feed and clothe and house them. They're not real people. It's just the efficiency gains of living together in shared infrastructure. Why innovation thrives in cities
Now imagine how important this would be in a post-disaster world where your population has crashed from 7.5 million down to 75 thousand! The future government would have to pick winning towns and ask people to move there. There might be a few towns out in the agricultural areas and a winning township picked in Sydney to salvage and carefully store all the goodies in those shopping centres and abandoned suburban homes. Indeed, just as we saw in the recent reboot of the Planet of the Apes trilogy, we might see people moving into semi fortified shopping centres to maintain walkability and mutual security. (That's a bit negative, as it implies governments are struggling with security issues and outlaws.) But generally, a lot of the more boring suburbs are going to be salvaged and then left to lie fallow and return to nature.
You might appoint a few curators and guards for art galleries and museums – or even move the art and contents to be guarded in your new towns. But sentiment can't get in the way. A small townships within Sydney would win, and the rest would be salvaged and abandoned. Or the land even quickly reclaimed for local farming! Solar panels and tech and tools and clothes would all be scavenged and stored and hopefully if stored right, no one would need to make new clothes for generations to come.
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Given that I am optimistic that some form of governance would develop within a year of the disaster – how long to industrialise again? The first step would be prioritising fuel for agriculture. Petroleum has a one or two year shelf life at most. Fuel would be the new gold, enabling some initial agricultural output – and it would be gone within the first year. But what can they do after the fuel runs out? In summary they would use sailing to move larger quantities of stuff around Australia's mostly coastal cities, wood gas as an emergency oil replacement to truck stuff in from the ports and run harvesters, and the rest of us would learn to love cycling everywhere. For more details see What about a really sudden oil crisis?"
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This is where the book World War Z has some interesting insights. (I hate zombies as a concept, but it's a rich apocalypse genre). The book is quite different to the movie and follows the decade after the initial Zombie outbreak. The survivors fortify the Rocky Mountains, get organised, and simplify the economy so that former CEO's and Hollywood celebrities have less status than a good plumber. In a similar way I imagine we would see various guilds quickly formed. There would be farming, scavenging, and technical guilds. At first, any decent carpenter or plumber or electrician would be treated like celebrities. They would be sent to retrieve solar panels and batteries. Otherpower.com even has plans for village scaled wind turbines. Even rural areas would have heaps of useless cars scattered around that could be scrapped for various metals for years to come – let alone the bounty waiting for them in the abandoned cities.
Eventually plans for the future would emerge. Salvagers would look for the manuals that teach future generations how to make stuff work. With limited time for education and a requirement for as much labour as possible, young people would be educated maybe up to middle high school and then apprenticed to guilds to learn on the job. In some ways the next 'industrial revolution' would be much faster than the first industrial revolution, as we already know the laws of physics and chemistry and biology that make the modern world possible. The techs from the village would soon form scavenging parties that would collect and centralise the most important power systems to keep the power tools running. Energy would be more valuable and prioritised for the most important survival and salvaging efforts.
7. Primitive fridges and batteries
Believe it or not, there are primitive and fairly easy local workshop solutions for batteries and even refrigeration. Life in a post-apocalyptic town would have enough resources to salvage and repair for decades. But eventually they would have to build stuff for themselves (out of as much salvaged metal and materials as possible of course). While there might be a generation or so of solar panels and batteries, as these start to wear down other more primitive locally made technologies can take over.
Bit by bit society would build up again, in a more walkable, human based town plan. As all this is happening, the population is growing. Farmer economies tend to view their children as their superannuation. The more children, the safer you'll be in old age. The population could double every generation or so. Finally, some regions will eventually rebuild hydro dams or sadly, get the local coal mine running again.
One of the greatest technological bottlenecks is one of the highest tech industries we have – the computer chip. But fortunately there is a spin off over simplified operating system that techs can install on really old electronics to try running stuff again. It's called Collapse os, and the technical people I've spoken to say it is brilliant. It can run a primitive operating system on really old electrical components – even stuff from the 1970's. This might help the technical guilds eventually head towards communications equipment and building up to the point where they can establish a 'clean room' to start building new computer chips. Australia as a nation would have crashed back from 25 million to 250,000. But a generation or so later it's at half a million, and might start building their own chips – if they haven't already started buying them off America again!
The bottom line? I think we'd be more or less back to close to today's technological capability, if not population and industrial output, within a generation or two. What do you think? For more detail, see Isaac Arthur:

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The showdown approaches and the propaganda war moves on. Do not linger on images of a shroud-wrapped infant with a dummy clamped between grey lips. Do not think of a mother clasping the broken bodies of her two children in the car shot up at a military checkpoint. Or, if you cannot remove them from your memory, see such killings as the necessary price of liberation.
Be mindful, as the endgame plays out, of the Home Secretary's guidelines on war coverage. Some British journalists, he complains, are reporting the conflict in a manner that lends 'moral equivalence' to the Iraqi regime and encourages a 'progressive and liberal public' to believe this distorted version. Mr Blunkett, who yesterday embellished his assertions, is doubly wrong. There is no bias, nor the slightest hint that Bush, Blair and Saddam register equally on the weighbridge of tyranny.
On the separate question of whether Iraqi acts of war are on a par with those of the coalition, the answer is also simple. Ours are sometimes worse. The spectre of chemical attack remains, but, amid Iraqi Scuds unfired and bio-weapons undiscovered, reality trumps fear. The cluster-bombing of civilians by an invading force proclaiming its superior power is an outrage against humanity and the Geneva Convention.
The Government defends their use. Clare Short's conscience has not visibly twitched. Geoff Hoon, when asked on Radio 4 to consider Iraqi mothers mourning their dead children, demonstrated the compassion of a haddock. How unsurprising that, from Basingstoke to Basra, the Whitehall psy-ops department has failed to win its PR battle.
This, politicians say, is partly the fault of a feral media. Making 'snap judgments' on the basis of television footage is dangerous, according to the Foreign Secretary of a government that invited us to judge Saddam's mindset on the basis of a plagiarised PhD thesis. The First and Second World Wars might never have been won, Jack Straw mused, if they had been covered by 24-hour news channels.
It is true that war reporting has speeded up since AD 106, the year that Trajan commissioned the column offering a picture chronicle of his Romanian campaign. The Bayeux Tapestry, many years in the making after the Norman Conquest, could not compete with any factual embroidery confected between Channel 4 News and The World Tonight .
But reporters have been embedded since Crimea and before. The Dunkirk spirit would almost certainly have withstood those images of conflict fit to be shown on Sky. In fairness, Mr Straw acknowledged the merits of front-line news and deplored delay and censorship that once 'helped governments to suppress the truth'.
They still do. Only obfuscation is harder now, in an age of scrutiny. Politicians dislike ceaseless coverage not because it masks the truth but because it exposes it. You can no longer dismiss a marketplace bombing causing many civilian deaths and tell everyone, as Mr Straw did, that it seems 'increasingly probable' that Iraq did it. Two British journalists claim to have found fragments of a US missile, and most people prefer their word to the Minister's. Wartime PR is a slippery game. It always was.
In America, in 1917, the administration grasped, for the first time, that war, like pop-up toasters, was a marketable commodity. Its salesman, Woodrow Wilson, who had run for office on a peace ticket, established a giant propaganda ministry, the US Committee for Public Information. Its mission was to persuade liberal progressives that war chimed with their ideas of a new and rational world order.
'Four-minute men' were recruited as volunteer preachers instructing their communities to shop unpatriotic neighbours as suspected spies. Citizens were warned that America might be renamed New Prussia, while Hollywood was told that no films could be exported without an undertaking to show US propaganda films alongside.
But something more fundamental was happening. According to Stuart Ewen, the social historian of spin, the CPI extinguished the Enlightenment dictum that people were essentially rational. Public opinion was for mobilising and managing. The public mind, Ewen wrote, was now seen as an entity to 'be manufactured, not reasoned with'.
The mantra, then as today, was to make the world safe for democracy. Although Wilson's war was more marketable than Bush's, the tactic of persuasion his agency devised has lasted. Almost a century on, politicians with battles to sell still seek to manipulate minds. The made-to-measure mentality is supposed to be as amnesiac and forgiving as required. It is primed never to ask, should no weapons of mass destruction be found: what was this war for?
It is meant to agree that killing 1,000 civilians and countless thousand unlamented soldiers, some as young and hopeful as dead British 'heroes', is a down payment on a better world. It is groomed to think, against all precedence, that you can bomb a nation to democracy. Just in case the corpses do not speak for themselves, Blair is dropping some more leaflets to tell Iraqis that their new-look country will not be a Pentagon across the water. Except that it most probably will, if neo-conservatives have their way.
But PR decrees that we must forget the dangers of such a move. Equally, we are supposed not to notice that Arab TV stations, a new and potent public-relations force, are inflam ing multitudes of hearts and minds with their graphic version of what the Western coalition has been up to.
We, by contrast, are invited to despise the independent al-Jazeera, condemned by Mr Blunkett as a Saddam tool, and soak up good news images. Ignore the nastiness and think instead of the brave 'rescue' of Private Jessica Lynch from the hospital ward where she was being treated with all available medical skill.
The PR campaign wants upbeat stories. It does not want curmudgeons who opposed this war because pre-emptive strikes against sovereign states run counter to law and sanity. If Baghdad falls mercifully quickly, and if there is no more terrible loss of life, the mind- management machine will decree that Bush and Blair have secured a triumph. They will be just as wrong as they were last week.
Their setbacks have been of their own devising, not manufactured by media that have dithered between triumph and disaster. And, actually, 24/7 coverage has done the Government a favour. The soap of war, with its sanitised pictures and labyrinthine storylines, should be a politician's dream. Such visual Ritalin offers a distraction from how dangerous the bigger picture may look.
Nato and the UN lie among the mangled bodies on the road to Baghdad. Ravaged cities continue to hold out against the coalition. Still, barring a catastrophic fightback by Saddam, the carnage may end soon. The PR machine decrees that, at such a point, all objectors should repent and give thanks for the wisdom of Bush and Blair.
But victory does not vindicate a misguided attack or clarify its consequences. At least we knew roughly what sort of war we were getting. Marketing the peace will be a tougher challenge. We have been sold a new world order and no one can specify what the product will be.


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I purchased it as a cleaning of food parts for machine parts. The frequency of use is about 10 minutes during cleaning in the evening everyday, but I felt that the deformation of hair faster than I thought and the exchange frequency was earlier than the expensive one. (Convincing price) The feeling of use is a range of acceptance, considering the price, more than the thought that the small part also cosled, especially molds, etc. There was no problem even if cleaning with the concentration of about 300 ppm chlorine was used. It is recommended if you purchase it taking into account the exchange frequency.
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Novels written from the heart go further. It can be said that they are written alone, because there are no more limitations for the writer than his desire to keep writing good novels. This is well known by the Swedish writer Fredrik Backman, who brought to the world this interesting story of an old man a little grouchy and face with few friends.
It is from those books that you will not believe that you will like it so much until you start reading it. Its pages are full of literary magic.
Fredrik Backman is a young man who was born in Sweden 36 years ago. His greatest success so far is this wonderful book he wrote in 2012, and which it was produced a film of the same name in the year 2015, very successful and with good reviews by film experts.
Backman takes us into a fictional world where Ove is the protagonist. An elderly widow of 59 years old with much bad temper and which lives in the outskirts of some town in Sweden. He believes that he has the mission to maintain and put order in his neighborhood, which will bring problems with his neighbors, who call him grouchy (not in vain).
Ove is an old man who spends all day grunting and criticizing other people for no apparent reason. He believes that everyone wants to hurt him within his egocentric world, because he does not know the compassion towards the others and judges before knowing them well.
Ove believes that he knows everything and that nobody knows more than he in the world, he looks over his shoulder to others, particularly the young, and demands respect without respecting anyone around him.
But do not let that all these defects make you a bad idea of Ove, because the fact that it is churlish, does not mean that it is not a person of respectable principles, very strict and acceptable for the society. No one turns to think about what may or may not be happening Ove. In addition, Ove's attitude is not given by his appearance or by a smiling face, because for him the treasure of a person lies in its interior and not in the exterior.
Ove is driven in the outside world by his moved inner world that would make cry to the most hated personage of the surroundings. Inside Ove there are disappointments, sad stories and millions of things that life has taken away, often mockingly. But despite these reasons Ove does not let that put him off and always moves forward.
During this interesting story, Ove's life will begin to change, thanks to a series of circumstances that neither he wanted nor expected. These circumstances will cause our dear old man to begin to take back the faith he had lost on humans.
Likewise, its neighbors begin to know the true Ove. The Ove who resides in his moved inner world. They will also learn that the neighborhood without him would be a duller, less supportive place. It would be a colder place and, albeit a lie, a lot less fun.
The way the Backman takes us and interweaves the narration of the current events along with Ove's past (which allows us to understand why he is so) is very accurate. It is because of that excellent connection that we can efficiently connect with the history of Ove.
Have you ever read a novel and have loved his story so much that you do not want it to end? That is exactly what will happen to you with this novel. Backman has known how to leave us wanting more, to know more the history of Ove.
When you finish reading it, you will be left with that strange feeling of satisfaction having read a touching story; but at the same time with that feeling of good books: you want the story to continue and not end up that way.
A man named Ove is a simple and honest novel, does not sin of naiveté before the tensest moments of history. It teaches us that we should not judge people only by their appearances and disrespect the old grumpy solitary; which perhaps have a complicated and tragic history of the we do not realize and do not even want to understand.
It's a very original novel; it has that touch and smell of unique work. Their language and grammar is very current and direct. Backman knew how to build a very well-done story, which does not have a single word missing. His work can read very easily, so that, as we mentioned earlier, it will sadden you to end so soon.
In addition, Beckman wants to make us teach the dangers of judging lightly, because it can become very dangerous and unfair to others. It is a review so we can assess the differences.
We are all different, although some of us seem the same in adopting the role that society imposes on us. We are all different in the end and we are not forced to change by the judgments of others. We all have a good side that we must strengthen and others try to discover.


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Casey Kasem's widow is in the market for a new business manager ... 'cause her last one allegedly flew into a violent rage and threatened to kill her.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... the incident went down around 10 AM last Friday in Jean Kasem's L.A. home. We're told her business manager, John Gressy, got furious because Jean was giving money to her daughter, Liberty Kasem.
Gressy's rampage allegedly included throwing dishes and a vase at Jean, and we're told she was struck at least once and needed to be taken to a hospital for minor injuries. He also allegedly threatened to kill Jean, her lawyer and Liberty ... who was in the home and called 911.
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DOI:10.1038/290465A0
Distinctive features of the 5′-terminal sequences of the human mitochondrial mRNAs
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title={Distinctive features of the 5′-terminal sequences of the human mitochondrial mRNAs},
author={Julio Montoya and Deanna Ojala and Giuseppe Attardi},
journal={Nature},
volume={290},
pages={465-470}
J. Montoya, D. Ojala, G. Attardi
The 5′-end proximal sequences of all the putative mRNAs coded for by the heavy strand of HeLa cell mitochondrial DNA have been determined and aligned with the DNA sequence. All these mRNAs start directly at, or very near to, an AUG or AUA triplet, with the exception of one which starts at an AUU. The available evidence indicates that the terminal or subterminal AUGs and AUAs, and possibly also the terminal AUU, are initiator codons for the corresponding polypeptides. In most cases, the…
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tRNA punctuation model of RNA processing in human mitochondria
D. Ojala, J. Montoya, G. Attardi
It is proposed that the H strand is transcribed into a single polycistronic RNA molecule, which is processed later into mature species by precise endonucleolytic cleavages which occur, in most cases, immediately before and after a tRNA sequence.
Human mitochondrial mRNAs—like members of all families, similar but different
R. Temperley, M. Wydro, R. Lightowlers, Z. Chrzanowska-Lightowlers
Biochimica et biophysica acta
Lack of secondary structure characterizes the 5' ends of mammalian mitochondrial mRNAs.
C. Jones, K. Wilkinson, Kimberly T. Hung, K. Weeks, L. Spremulli
It is found that the 5' ends of all mitochondrial mRNAs are highly unstructured, consistent with a model in which the specialized mitochondrial ribosome preferentially allows passage of un Structured 5' sequences into the mRNA entrance site to participate in translation initiation.
DNA sequence and transcript mapping of MOD5: features of the 5' region which suggest two translational starts
D. Najarian, M. Dihanich, N. Martin, A. Hopper
DNA sequence analysis of MOD5 reveals an open reading frame of 428 amino acids and it is possible that two proteins, one with an amino-terminal extension of basic charge, could be generated from the MOD5 gene via differential translational starts.
Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome
S. Anderson, A. Bankier,
I. G. Young
The complete sequence of the 16,569-base pair human mitochondrial genome is presented and shows extreme economy in that the genes have none or only a few noncoding bases between them, and in many cases the termination codons are not coded in the DNA but are created post-transcriptionally by polyadenylation of the mRNAs.
The pattern of transcription of the human mitochondrial rRNA genes reveals two overlapping transcription units
J. Montoya, G. Gaines, G. Attardi
Sequence and gene organization of mouse mitochondrial DNA
M. Bibb, R. A. Etten, C. T. Wright, M. Walberg, D. A. Clayton
A small polyadenylated RNA (7 S RNA), containing a putative ribosome attachment site, maps near the origin of human mitochondrial DNA replication.
D. Ojala, S. Crews, J. Montoya, R. Gelfand, G. Attardi
Journal of molecular biology
Preferential Selection of the 5′-Terminal Start Codon on Leaderless mRNAs by Mammalian Mitochondrial Ribosomes
Brooke E. Christian, L. Spremulli
The Journal of Biological Chemistry
It is demonstrated here that mammalian mitochondrial 55 S ribosomes preferentially form initiation complexes at a 5′-terminal AUG codon over an internal AUG, demonstrating that post-transcriptional processing must occur prior to translation in mammalian mitochondria.
Transcriptional mapping and RNA processing of the Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrial mRNAs.
D. Rehkopf, D. Gillespie, M. Harrell, J. Feagin
Molecular and biochemical parasitology
The putative mRNA for subunit II of human cytochrome c oxidase starts directly at the translation initiator codon
This work sequenced a 5′-end proximal segment of the putative COII mRNA from HeLa cells of about 30 nucleotides and aligned it with the COII coding sequence in human mtDNA, showing that this RNA starts directly at the AUG initiator codon.
The sequences of the small ribosomal RNA gene and the phenylalanine tRNA gene are joined end to end in human mitochondrial DNA
S. Crews, G. Attardi
The tRNA genes punctuate the reading of genetic information in human mitochondrial DNA
D. Ojala, C. Merkel, R. Gelfand, G. Attardi
Conservation of the primary structure at the 3′ end of 18S rRNA from eucaryotic cells
O. Hagenbüchle, M. Santer, J. Steitz, R. Mans
A different genetic code in human mitochondria
B. Barrell, A. Bankier, J. Drouin
Comparison of the human mitochrondrial DNA sequence of the cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene and the sequence of the corresponding beef heart protein shows that UGA is used as a tryptophan codon and…
Identical 3'-terminal octanucleotide sequence in 18S ribosomal ribonucleic acid from different eukaryotes. A proposed role for this sequence in the recognition of terminator codons.
J. Shine, L. Dalgarno
The Biochemical journal
The results suggest that the base sequence in this region is strongly conserved and may be identical in all eukaryotes, and the possibility that the 3'-end of 18S rRNA may have a direct base-pairing role in the termination of protein synthesis is discussed.
Failure to detect "cap" structures in mitochondrial DNA-coded poly(A)-containing RNA from HeLa cells.
K. Grohmann, F. Amairic, S. Crews, G. Attardi
It is, therefore, likely that "cap" structures are completely absent in HeLa cell mitochondrial poly(A)-containing RNA.
How ribosomes select initiator regions in mRNA: base pair formation between the 3' terminus of 16S rRNA and the mRNA during initiation of protein synthesis in Escherichia coli.
J. Steitz, K. Jakes
Electrophoresis on 9% polyacrylamide gels reveals a dissociable complex containing a pure RNA-RNA hybird that strongly supports the hypothesis that during the initiation step of protein biosynthesis the 3' end of 16S RNA base pairs with the polypurine stretch common to initiator regions in E. coli and bacteriophage mRNAs.


We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our dear mother Joan Audrey Turner, formerly of Vanderhoof, BC on July 9, 2011 at the age of 82 years. Joan was born on January 3, 1929 in Burton-on-Trent, England. Joan was predeceased by her husband Eric in May, 1988 and is survived by her only sister Barbara (Rod) Richards of Lichfield, England and numerous relatives in England and abroad, her 2 sons, Colin (Merle) of Vanderhoof, Robert (Betty) of Prince George, and 6 grandchildren. Interment held in Summerland, BC, Monday July 18, 2011. We love you Mom. Condolences may be directed to the family through providencefuneralhomes.com.


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Compare and contrast Agenda-Setting Theory and Muted Group Theory, AND explain how they have helped you better understand communication.
Compare and contrast expectancy violation theory and adaptive structuration theory, AND explain how they have helped you understand communication better.


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TUC urges employers to offer furlough to parents affected by school closures
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on employers to offer furlough to working parents affected by coronavirus (COVID-19) school closures.
The TUC said that last minute decisions by ministers mean many working parents are now without childcare. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) allows employers to furlough parents who can't work due to a lack of childcare. The CJRS is available from a minimum of seven days – which would allow mums and dads to share childcare over the coming weeks – and can also be given on a part-time basis.
However, the TUC is concerned that 'not all employers are aware that caring responsibilities are acceptable reasons to furlough', so many mums and dads will have no choice but to take unpaid time off work to care for their children.
'The health and safety of school staff, children and parents and the wider community must come first,' said Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC.
'With many schools closed, many families will be frantically trying to find a way to balance their work and childcare commitments.
'Without further action, many will have no choice but to cut their hours or take unpaid leave from work.'
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Q: Find UUID of connected Iphone devices from the objective-c on the mac Can I find UUID of connected Iphone devices from the objective-c on the mac? Something of a list of connected Iphones trough the usb cable.

A: Use the ioreg command, and grep the received results. A minimalist implementation:
- (NSString*)getConnectedIphoneUIID
{
NSTask *ioRegTask = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[ioRegTask setLaunchPath:@"/usr/sbin/ioreg"];
[ioRegTask setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-Src",@"IOUSBDevice",nil]];

NSTask *grepTask = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[grepTask setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/grep"];
[grepTask setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-i", @"usb serial number", nil]];

NSPipe *ioregToGrepPipe = [[NSPipe alloc] init];
[ioRegTask setStandardOutput:ioregToGrepPipe];
[grepTask setStandardInput:ioregToGrepPipe];

NSPipe *outputPipe = [[NSPipe alloc] init];
[grepTask setStandardOutput:outputPipe];
NSFileHandle *outputFileHandle = [[outputPipe fileHandleForReading] retain];

[ioRegTask launch];
[grepTask launch];

NSData *outputData = [[outputFileHandle readDataToEndOfFile] retain];

[ioRegTask release];
[grepTask release];
[outputData release];

NSString *nvcap = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:outputData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

     return nvcap;
  }

I could incorporate more checks and further parse the results, to make sure it's really an iPhone, just in case there are more devices listed in there that have the "usb serial number" property set. Checking the "SupportsIPhoneOS" property would further confirm the device's identity. This way, I could actually build a list of connected iPhone/iPod devices, and get their UUID's from the "usb serial number" property.

A: Apple keeps the iPhone pretty locked down. I don't think you'd find it easy to query anything from the iPhone without some low level code over USB.
IS there a specific reason you need to do this? Can you not just look in the Organizer window in Xcode and see what devices are connected there? The Organizer shows the UUIDs and more information about connected devices, including crash longs, the iPhone's console, screenshots and provisioning.

A: Try this:
[[UIDevice device] uniqueIdentifier]

for each of your connected devices.


bandaero bandaero neon naega wae joa?
반대로 반대로 넌 내가 왜 좋아?
What's the use of saying it, lady?
On the other hand, why do you like me?
Want me to tell you every single one?
Will you stay with me till the sun rises twice?
How much do I like you?


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I've been so busy blogging about all the Project QUILTING craziness that I haven't had time to put up some posts on some of the other fun things I've been doing.
My friend, Naomi, an amazing entrepreneur recently opened a new gift shop on the West Side of Madison – the Glitter Workshop. You can find lots of fun handmade goodies there as well as an adorable vintage boutique that will be officially opening next Saturday, February 12th from 10am to 8pm (although you can shop for lots of goodies right now too).
One of the other things I've been enjoying – and taking advantage of – are the classes that are being taught in the 'back room'. In January, I packed the girls up and we went to the Glitter WorkShop to participate in Mindy Kuen's metal stamping class. Whoever came had the opportunity to stamp their very own necklace or bracelet with the expert guidance of Mindy.
Here are my girls – Mercied and Capri – making their Grandma a pendant for her birthday. They each picked out their metal pendants and then let me know if they wanted small or capital letters in their name. When the stamping is done the girls picked out the fiber for the necklace (one pink cord and one blue cord of course). They really enjoyed helping make something for their Grandma and you should have seen how proud they were to give her the necklace!
When they tired from the class and waiting for mama to shop they enjoyed hanging out in the kids playroom of the shop. Naomi has this set up fantastically and I know my kids are not the only kids that enjoy it! And of course while you're there, be sure to check out all the fun goodies from theApple – I'm proud to be one of the many artists that consign at the Glitter Workshop!
To read about more classes and events coming up the Glitter Workshop click HERE.
I spy a gock's frocks!!


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Pigs are the animals closes related to whites and police, FACT also EY now you can just name this place Galtground.
Quote: Reports of Obama marital strife break out of the National Enquirer ghetto
For the past couple of weeks, the National Enquirer has been publishing prominent stories claiming that the marriage of President and Mrs. Obama is in deep trouble, and that after his term in office is over, she will file divorce papers. Because the Enquirer has earned so much credibility by breaking the story of John Edwards' love child (a rumor that mainstream media outlets were aware of yet failed to pursue when he was a candidate for Vice President of the United States), these reports cannot be dismissed as tabloid tomfoolery.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014...hetto.html
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I have heard of this pigs being stabbed phenomenon, apparently you can buy knives called "pig stickers" to stab the swine, & this has been going on for generations in some communities, not just pig generations either, many of the pigs end up dead from their savage injuries
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(03-28-2014 05:07 PM)Gimp Wrote: [ -> ]
I'd consider the idea substaniated.
^ Obama's making the "dat ass" face with this nordic lady.
this is hilarious:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/a...n-twitter/
8.2 earthquake in Chile
canuckster
http://asheepnomore.net/2014/03/31/histo...2SDhD.gbpl
Historic Breaking News: Canada, Vatican & Crown GUILTY of Genocide
- See more at: http://asheepnomore.net/2014/03/31/histo...f9UBf.dpuf
(04-03-2014 03:46 AM)canuckster Wrote: [ -> ] http://asheepnomore.net/2014/03/31/histo...2SDhD.gbpl
Many eugenicists have no soul.
Quote: "A witness claimed they saw former Popes Joseph Ratzinger and John Paul II participate in Vatican satanic cult rituals known as the Ninth Circle, that torture and murder children" George Dufort of a Brussels international court announced yesterday. "According to a deposition filed in court last week by a former member of the Ninth Circle, the cult practices at Catholic cathedrals and a forest grove in France."
"That makes three eyewitnesses who say former Pope Joseph Ratzinger was present during ritual torture and murder of children as part of a cult known as the Ninth Circle" Kevin Annett of the ITCCS confirmed today in our phone interview. "Murder rituals evidently took place in 1987 and 2002 at locations in France and Holland."
this is ridiculous. "a witness"
does not sound credible at all.
Chick-fil-A stole KFC's chicken crown with a fraction of the stores
The days when fried chicken was synonymous with a certain white-haired southern gentleman are over, at least in the U.S. A new champion has claimed KFC's long-held chicken crown: Chick-fil-A.
The change atop the leaderboard appears undisputed: Yum! Brands (YUM), which owns KFC and has for years prided itself as "the leader in the U.S. chicken [quick-service restaurant] segment," removed that very phrase from the company's most recent annual report.
Anyone in the northern half of the U.S. is likely scratching her head and wondering why she hasn't seen Chick-fil-A outlets opening in the neighborhood. Last year Chick-fil-A only had about 1,775 U.S. stores to KFC's 4,491, and most are in the South. Yet in dollar terms the Colonel is coming up short even with that much larger footprint: Chick-fil-A's 2013 sales passed $5 billion, while all of KFC's U.S. restaurants rang up about $4.22 billion, according to Technomic. And that's with zero dollars coming in to Chick-fil-A on Sundays, when every restaurant is closed.
What Chick-fil-A lacks in store count, it makes up for in traffic. Each restaurant made about $3.2 million in 2013, more than three times as much as the average KFC at $938,000. Average sales at KFC restaurants have remained largely unchanged over the past decade, while they have climbed steadily at Chick-fil-A. Same-store sales climbed by more than 3.6 percent at Chick-fil-A last year; KFC's fell by 2 percent.
KFC hit its U.S. peak by store count around 2004, when it had more than 5,500 restaurants—over four times the number of Chick-fil-A locations—and claimed 46 percent of the fast-food chicken market. But over the past decade the gap between the two narrowed as KFC closed stores and Chick-fil-A added more. Now, KFC's storefront advantage is just 2.5 times more than its rival, and Chick-fil-A plans to chip away with more than 100 new locations opening this year. (A representative for KFC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
Darren Tristano, an executive vice president at consultancy Technomic, called Chick-fil-A one of the most successful fast-food chains. He cited the sizable breakfast business, an average check slightly higher than competitors', and a menu that differentiates it from the big burger chains.
And fast-food chicken fans outside the South may not be puzzled by Chick-fil-A's hegemony for long. A spokesman mentioned plans for locations in the "northern, Midwest, and western states," where the company is now focusing its growth plans.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chick-fil-...35949.html
"Each restaurant made about $3.2 million"
Sounds like a tremendous franchise opportunity.
(04-03-2014 12:25 PM)EVILYOSHIDA Wrote: [ -> ]
have you not followed the kevin annett story?
Roland Bates
Agitators gonna agitate. Warmongers gonna monger.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/0...DA20140404
"China should not doubt the U.S. commitment to defend its Asian allies and the prospect of economic retaliation should also discourage Beijing from using force to pursue territorial claims in Asia in the way Russia has in Crimea, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
Daniel Russel, President Barack Obama's diplomatic point man for East Asia, said it was difficult to determine what China's intentions might be, but Russia's annexation of Crimea had heightened concerns among U.S. allies in the region about the possibility of China using force to pursue its claims.
"The net effect is to put more pressure on China to demonstrate that it remains committed to the peaceful resolution of the problems," Russel, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Russel said the retaliatory sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States, the European Union and others should have a "chilling effect on anyone in China who might contemplate the Crimea annexation as a model."
This was especially so given the extent of China's economic interdependence with the United States and its Asia neighbors, Russel said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, asked about Russel's comments, said he was confusing two different issues.
"No matter whether the Ukraine issue or the South China Sea issue, China has many times expressed its position. Why must this U.S. official mention the two issues in the same breath, and obstinately say these things about China?" Hong told a daily news briefing on Friday.
Russel added that while the United States did not take a position on rival territorial claims in East Asia, China should be in no doubt about Washington's resolve to defend its allies if necessary.
"The president of the United States and the Obama administration is firmly committed to honoring our defense commitments to our allies," he said
While Washington stood by its commitments - which include defense treaties with Japan, the Philippines and South Korea - Russel said there was no reason why the rival territorial claims could not be resolved by peaceful means.
He said he hoped the fact that the Philippines had filed a case against China on Sunday at an arbitration tribunal in The Hague would encourage China to clarify and remove the ambiguity surrounding its own claims.
Russel termed the deployment of large numbers of Chinese vessels in its dispute with the Philippines in the South China Sea "problematic" and said that Beijing had taken "what to us appears to be intimidating steps."
"It is incumbent of all of the claimants to foreswear intimidation, coercion and other non-diplomatic or extra-legal means," he said.
In Asia, China also has competing territorial claims with Japan and South Korea, as well as with Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan in potentially energy-rich waters.
Obama is due to visit Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines from April 22, when he is expected to stress his commitment to a rebalancing of U.S. strategic and economic focus towards the Asia-Pacific region in the face of an increasingly assertive China."


As the debate over the post-2014 Afghanistan gains more attention, observers fear a 'political earthquake' in the country where the US troops' withdrawal coincides with the next Afghan presidential elections. With the exit of the United States, Afghanistan's economy and sources of financing the government in Kabul are likely to come under supreme challenges, they maintain.
In an interview with Dawn.com, Vanda Felbab-Brown, a Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC shares her thought on how prepared Afghanistan is for the transition. With a Ph.D. in political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a B.A from Harvard University, Ms. Brown is an assistant professor at Georgetown University. She has extensively researched on Afghanistan, Pakistan, civil wars, terrorism, drugs and illicit economies. Her book Shoot Up analyses the relationship between insurgent groups and the drug trade in Colombia and Afghanistan.
Q. Why has the American leverage over Afghanistan decreased in the past decade?
A. The security situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated. Many parts of the country still remain hard to manage. The level of public optimism is much weaker today. The US announcement to pull out most of the troops by 2014 has left the people wondering as to what extent the Taliban would be undermined before the withdrawal. Washington has also lost leverage over President Hamid Karzai. The relationship with Karzai has not been totally unproblematic but now he is hedging on all sides.
Q. Can the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police manage the post-2014 situation?
A. The story on the Afghan National Army (ANA) is more positive than the Afghan National Police (ANP). The ANA has received extensive training; increased the number of personnel and partnered with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The question now is how capable it will be to stand against Taliban , the Haqqani Network in the East and other rogue militias. This year, in some areas, the ANA will be required to fight mainly on its own with little ISAF support. The ANA is confronted with ethnic imbalance because the commanders from the north dominate it while a very small number of Pashtuns joined the force. We do not know if the army will come under pressure to breakup ethnically after 2014 if violence escalates and signs of civil war arise.
The Afghan National Police (ANP) is sort of the bigger problem because it is confronted with ethnic issues and a lack of accountability. The people view ANP as abusive, corrupt and often complicit in crimes. Besides these two forces, the Afghan Local Police (ALP) was raised from the local population in areas where the ANA and ANP presence is very weak. They are extremely susceptible to far greater abuse of power.
Q. Islamabad complains about the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) having strongholds in eastern Afghanistan while Washington and Kabul grumble about the Haqqani Network using Pakistani territory as a safe haven. Why does such 'unfaithfulness' exists between the key allies in the war on terror?
A. Historically, the porous Af-Pak border, which is extraordinarily difficult to seal, has been a part of the problem. There is a big difference between the Pakistani complaints and the US grievances. Pakistan complains that the TTP uses Eastern Afghanistan for safe havens. If the US receives intelligence reports, they are far more motivated to go to take action against these groups.
On the other hand, the US believes Pakistan has not shown any motivation to tackle the Haqqani Network but instead systematically allowed it to flourish. This is despite of the fact that it is the deadliest of all the networks which is also responsible for the attack on the US embassy. From the US perspective, there is not a bigger irritant than Islamabad's continued tolerance of the Haqqani Network.
Q. Isn't it ironic that the Afghans complain about Pakistan's influence over their country but they also refuse to recognise the Durand Line as an international border so that both the countries fence parts of the border to avoid infiltration from both the sides.
A. Although Pakistan had suggested fencing some parts of the border, the offer has extremely annoyed President Karzai because he does not recognise the Durand Line. Plus, Pakistan is not popular in Afghanistan for historical reasons and because the Afghans view Pakistan as a country that is currently supporting Taliban and the Haqqanis. Karzai is vulnerable to domestic pressure which makes it hard for him to concede to the Pakistani proposal.
Q. How potential are Afghanistan's internal ethnic conflicts?
A. Besides the issue of religious extremism, ethnic unrest has historically remained a major challenge for Afghanistan. The Hazaras have been the most oppressed. The Tajiks are the second most important group followed by the Uzbeks. In each group there are sub-clans. For instance, the Pashtuns are sub-divided among the Durranis and the Ghilazais. The Durranis from Kandahar city have ruled Afghanistan for centuries and suppressed the Ghilzai Pashtuns without giving them access to power at local or national level.
Much of the Pashtun movement in 1990s drew support from the Ghilzai Pashtuns and appealed the groups that had been underprivileged. The Pashtun complexity is overlapped by the relationship between the Tajiks and the Durrani Pashtuns. The Tajiks have historically perceived themselves as oppressed who had no access to power in Kabul until 2001 when the government headed by a Durrani Pashtun, President Karzai, was dominated by northern Tajik commanders was formed. That balance of power changed in mid-2000s when more Pashtuns came into the government. Thus, the possibility of negotiations with the Taliban stirred ethnic tensions and raised questions as to who will gain power after 2014. Tensions will also rise about the number of commanders in the ANA and ANP as most of the commanders are non-Pashtuns from the north.
Q. Is there a post-2014 strategy on the cards to ensure uninterrupted funding for ANA, ANP, ALP?
A. This is part of the process of transition. Clearly, the bill for Afghan national security forces cannot be paid by the Afghan government. A transition strategy needs to be developed as how to generate revenue for Afghanistan so that it can pay for its security. It's a long-term process. No matter how many troops the United States pulls out in 2014, no one is actually hopeful that the Afghan government will be capable of paying for its security afterwards. It is very much expected of the United States and the international community to continue to pay for Afghanistan's national security. We do not know how much budget they will commit.
Q. Does Washington still view Karzai as 'indispensable' for Afghanistan?
A. That is one of the big questions surrounding Afghanistan. President Karzai had said that he does not intend to run for a third term. Also, the Afghan constitution bars a candidate from becoming the president for more than two terms. Karzai may change his mind as elections near. If he decides not to run then the field will be open for different candidates like Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Amrullah Saleh, Ashraf Ghani and others. But we do not know who the future candidates would be until Karzai makes a final decision.
Q. What are the prime concerns for 2014 presidential elections?
A. We need to worry how high ethnic tensions will get during the elections and to what extent the security forces will be capable of preventing the Taliban from spreading violence during the election process. We also have to wait and see how much consensus will be developed among the candidates about the future president?
Q. What trend do the killings of Ahmed Wali Karzai and Burhanuddin Rabbani indicate?
A. Both these killings illustrate the vulnerability of the Afghan elite and power-brokers. The motivation behind the killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai is still unclear. Majority of Afghans do not believe that the Taliban were behind his killing. On the other hand, in Rabbani's case, it is clear that the Taliban ordered the killing but what remains inconclusive is whether it was the Haqqani Network or the Quetta Shura that killed him. Another question the Afghans are asking is whether Pakistan and the ISI authorised and directed that killing.
Wali's killing has significantly undermined President Karzai's support base in Kandahar and raised concerns about his safety. One lesson Karzai learned from these killings is that negotiations with Taliban will not go as easy as he had thought earlier.
Q. Why is it so difficult to keep Afghanistan's neighbors away from interfering in its domestic affairs?
A. Outside forces have had a very detrimental effect on Afghanistan. One important source of outside influence is Pakistan which is paranoid about the possibility of being encircled by an India-friendly government in Afghanistan. The recent signing of the strategic agreement between Kabul and New Delhi surely did not assuage Pakistan's fears. Pakistan has always tried to cultivate actors to gain influence over Kabul. Pakistan has almost always done this with the exclusion of the northern groups and with the support of the Pashtuns. It is ironic because Pakistan's own Pashtun population has historically received harsh treatment or neglect. Many Pashtuns, at the same time, strongly resent Pakistan's cultivation of proxies inside Afghanistan because they view this as interference into Afghanistan's affairs.
India has tried to cultivate its proxies and supported non-Pashtun groups. During the civil war of 1990s, Iran supported the Hazaras for ethnic and religious reasons.
Ironically, Russia was supporting the Northern Alliance although they had fought against the Soviets during the Cold War.
Today, we are seeing efforts to re-cultivate those proxies because we don't know at this point if post-2014 Afghanistan will be stable.
Q. Who do you think is the right authority to address Pakistan's concerns in Afghanistan?
A. It would be easier to do so if we had only one actor in the region. For Pakistan, the relations with US means to get an assurance that India will negotiate over Kashmir while for India it is primarily linked to getting Pakistan ceasing cooperation with Islamic groups inside Kashmir. Thus, the problem will not be solved only through Pak-Afghan engagement. Kabul wants to cultivate India as a proxy in case its relationship with Pakistan worsens. The signing of the recent strategic agreement was precisely a move in frustration because of the Rabbani killing and the attack on the US embassy.
There was a time when India and Pakistan had nearly reached an agreement on Kashmir during Musharraf's term but the Indian government was not capable of delivering. Later on, Musharraf lost his influence in Pakistan but it showed that India and Pakistan were both capable of resolving their problems without the major involvement of the United States or China. There is much of a possibility for both the countries to move forward if they liberate themselves from the constrains of history.
If India-Pakistan issues are not resolved, Pakistan will continue to frustrate the US in Afghanistan by not taking action against the Haqqani Network which will further poison the relationship because US troops are getting killed as a result of the ISI-Haqqani nexus. If some more American soldiers are killed in Afghanistan with the support of Pakistan, the fallout would be huge. The US Congress has become extremely anti-Pakistan because it views Pakistan as complicit in terrorism against the United States.
Q. What do you think will happen if security situation worsens in Af-Pak after 2014?


It's well known that two of the most common challenges that retailers face are around promotions and inventory.
In terms of promotions, many retailers have hundreds or thousands of product SKUs, with a different internal Merchandiser that oversees each product line. Communication internally around what promotions are going live, when, how long they will run, etc. can often be difficult within a large retail organization. Not to mention… the difficulty of communicating this externally to a search agency.
On the inventory side, it can become a huge challenge just to get the actual inventory levels available in the stores (or distribution centers) to match the inventory on the website.
The last thing a retailer wants is for a customer to land on their site and see an inconsistent promotion/price from what they saw in a weekly circular, or to think that a product is available (because the site says it is) when really it's out of stock. This could cost you not only a future sale, but potentially a long term customer due to a poor user experience.
Allow me to explain how search can help.
Search is one of the few mediums that is dynamic enough to change on a moment's notice if a new product promotion arises or if a product goes out of stock. If you've already printed a circular, you can't take that back. But, you can pause keywords and campaigns… or build keywords and campaigns – quickly.
Search can be the catalyst for the solution – and the key is technology and automation.
Search marketing is at the forefront of marketing technology. It can be the impetus for developing systems that can seamlessly automate the link between inventory and promotions with keyword bids and optimizations. The good news is… the benefits don't stop with search.
To make this work, the retailer would need to input and update what these promotions and inventory levels will be within a customized technology interface. This information then gets translated to the search agency and built into the optimization strategy (through automation). This system would not only benefit the search program, but facilitate communication between internal teams by virtue of the fact that they login and update changes within a centralized interface, all of which is transparent to all parties. All of a sudden, you've got an automated system that drives efficiency on a large scale – saving both time and money. No more spending money on CPCs for products that are out of stock. And, less time spent tracking down folks internally to ensure cross-department communication is happening.
Additionally, if the system is scalable, it can extend beyond search and literally become a centralized hub by which inventory and promotions are managed for all marketing efforts throughout an entire organization.
Moral of the story… search is not just about keywords, creative and landing pages. It's about business, and it can be the catalyst for helping to optimize a business – now that's value!


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