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Netflix renews Adam Sandler deal because you have awful taste in movies
by Bryan Clark — in Insider
Netflix can't get enough Adam Sandler.
After signing an exclusive deal with Netflix in 2014 to produce four films, Sandler started off with a bang. The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over, and the newly-released Sandy Wexler all met with near-universal hatred from critics. Netflix users, though, couldn't get enough. The Ridiculous 6, a western comedy complete with racist backlash, drew the venom of audiences everywhere, yet blew all of our minds when Netflix announced the film was its most-watched ever in its initial 30 days. Ever.
A movie with a zero-percent score on Rotten Tomatoes was more popular than The Shawshank Redemption, widely considered to be one of the best films of all time. A snoozefest with a lower IMDB score than Air Bud bested a film that won seven, count-em, seven, academy awards.
Adam Sandler, it seems, has the most loyal fans in the business. And Netflix, for its part, recognizes this. During today's earnings call, the company deepened its desire to bring shitty cinema to the masses.
Just ahead of the release of our third film from Adam Sandler, Sandy Wexler, we announced the renewal of our deal with Sandler to premiere an additional four films exclusively on Netflix around the world.
It also hit us with this unexpected bit of accounting that can only be described as witchcraft:
We continue to be excited by our Sandler relationship and our members continue to be thrilled with his films. Since the launch of The Ridiculous 6, Netflix members have spent more than half a billion hours enjoying the films of Adam Sandler. (Emphasis ours.)
Half a billion hours. I have so many questions.
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9/11: Self Wants to Remember
September 9, 2016 at 3:59 pm	(Places)
Tags: 9/11, Events, Fridays, memorial, memories, New York, The NYTBR
New York Times Book Review: 9/11 Issue
New York Lives:
NYTBR Holiday Books Issue (2013)
December 24, 2014 at 7:25 pm	(Books, Links, Lists, Memoirs, Publishers, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, essays, history, memoirs, nonfiction, novel, short story collections, The NYTBR
Did self ever mention how humongous her PILE OF STUFF is? LOL. Self has no clue how it got that big.
Nevertheless, she is making inroads.
Today, she finally gets to the huge December 2013 issue of The New York Times Book Review.
It is, naturally, full of reviews of interesting books self wants to add to her reading list. And it has the annual "100 Notable Books List." A couple of selections from that list:
Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin, $28.95)
The Color Master: Stories, by Aimee Bender (Doubleday, $25.95)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra (Hogarth, $26)
Dirty Love, by Andre Dubus III (Norton, $25.95)
Duplex, by Kathryn Davis (Graywolf, $24)
The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride (Riverhead, $27.95)
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, by Andrew Sean Greer (Ecco/HarperCollins, $26.99)
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton (Little, Brown, $27)
A Marker to Measure Drift, by Alexander Maksik (Knopf, $24.95)
Submergence, by J. M. Ledgard (Coffee House, $15.95)
Want Not, by Jonathan Miles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26)
Woke Up Lonely, by Fiona Maazel (Graywolf, $26)
The Barbarous Years, The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600 – 1675, by Bernard Bailyn (Knopf, $35)
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood, by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco/HarperCollins, $19.99)
The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit (Viking, $25.95)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink (Crown, $27)
A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout (Scribner, $27)
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butler (Scribner, $25)
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, by Robert Kolker (Harper, $25.99)
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, by Mary Ruefle (Wave Books, $25)
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan (Harper, $28.99)
Thank You for Your Service, by David Finkel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26)
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of Valet Parking! — in America's Gilded Capital, by Mark Leibovich (Blue Rider, $27.95)
Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala (Knopf, $24)
There's also:
The Most of Nora Ephron, a collection of her essays (Knopf, $35)
A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York, by Anjelica Huston (Scribner, $25)
NYTBR 24 November 2013
December 5, 2014 at 4:04 pm	(Books, Lists, Publishers, Recommended)
Tags: book lists, Fridays, nonfiction, novel, Russian writers, short story collections, The NYTBR, translation
The Pile of Stuff is incredible, simply incredible. She probably hasn't looked at it for over six months. This morning, she went through a New York Times Book Review from about a year ago. Here are the books that most piqued her interest:
Recommended by crime writer Patricia Cornwell in the By the Book section: Chris Kyle's American Sniper, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and "anything by Marcella Hazan."
Ann Patchett's The Patron Saint of Liars and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Harper, $27.99)
Autobiography of a Corpse, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull (New York Review of Books, $15.95)
The Isle of Youth: Stories, by Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $14)
In the Memorial Room, by Janet Frame (Counterpoint, $24)
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 2: 1923 – 1925, edited by Sandra Spanier, Albert J. DeFazio III and Robert W. Trogdon (Cambridge University Press, $40)
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb (W. W. Norton, $28.95)
NaNoWriMo 2014 Almost Upon Us, Looking Back at NaNoWriMo 2013
October 19, 2014 at 10:05 pm	(Sundays, Writing)
Tags: advice, inspiration, Sundays, The NYTBR, UCLA Extension, Writing, writing process
Self has never signed up for NaNoWriMo (Also, she has never applied to UCross. Self's just saying. Nothing against Wyoming. You know what? Right this very second, she's going to apply for a residency to UCross!)
The New York Times Book Review she is reading is the one from Nov. 17, 2013 (Her pile of back-reading is HUMONGOUS! Simply HUMONGOUS!)
A little over a month ago, when self was cooling her heels in southern California, she looked over Fall course offerings for UCLA Extension and saw that there was a class offered on "Achieving Your NaNoWriMo Goal." And she quickly contacted the Program Administrator to indicate that she wished to enroll. She was informed that the class was "on-site." And ya know, that's 10 weeks of weekly on-site meetings, and self can't commit to being in one place for 10 weeks. Seriously! So she regretfully had to pass up taking the class.
Here's an excerpt from the article on NaNoWriMo 2013 which was in the Nov. 17, 2013 NYTBR:
We're now past the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month — or, as it's inelegantly shortened online, NaNoWriMo — when aspiring authors aim to produce 50,000 words during November. More than 277,000 writers signed up for the sprint this year. Erin Morgenstern, whose best-selling novel The Night Circus originated as part of the exercise, once advised: "Don't delete anything. Just keep writing. And if you don't want to look at it, change the font to white."
Excellent advise! How does one register for NaNoWriMo 2014?
First NYTBR Post in Forever: 15 December 2013
October 19, 2014 at 3:42 pm	(Artists and Writers, Books, Lists, Memoirs, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: book lists, history, interviews, Jim Harrison, lists, memoirs, mysteries, nonfiction, novel, praise, reviews, Sundays, The NYTBR
Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. It's been nearly a year since this issue came into self's hands. She has since suspended her New York Times Book Review subscription (in case dear blog readers were wondering. It was just too depressing seeing the book review in her mailbox every week, and not being able to read for months and months and months.)
It just so happens that the By the Book interview is with Michael Connelly, and he has many, many interesting book recommendations, which include the following:
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo, by Jack Cheevers
The Public Burning, by Robert Coover
The Little Sister, by Raymond Chandler
This issue also has the list of Ten Best Books of 2013, and since self is well aware that time is a river, and self is disappearing quick, she has to be choosy about which of the Ten she really really wants to read, and it is these:
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
Tenth of December: Stories, by George Saunders
In Nonfiction
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink
Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala
One of the highlights of this issue is a review (by Anthony Doerr) of Brown Dog: Novellas, by Jim Harrison. Self doesn't know why exactly but she's loved Jim Harrison for a long long time. His books are violent, they are pungent, they are precise, and they are very, very funny.
And here's a round-up of a burgeoning sub-genre, the cookbook as memoir:
Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland, by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal, by Abigail Carroll
Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers and Food, by Peggy Wolff
And here's a sub of a sub-genre, the fate of elephants in America:
Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard Thomas Edison, by Michael Daly
Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America, by Ronald B. Tobias
And one about elephants in Africa:
Silent Thunder, by Katy Payne
Finally, much thanks to Rivka Galchen and Pankaj Mishra for recommending (in the end-paper, Bookends) two books by authors self hasn't yet read:
My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Ove Knausgaard
Zibaldone, by Giacomo Leopardi
Whew! Finally self has arrived at the end of a monster post. Stay tuned.
NYTBR 12 January 2014: Self Will Not Read Any Review That Describes a Main Character as "Beleaguered"
March 20, 2014 at 1:33 pm	(Artists and Writers, Books, Lists, Memoirs, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, interviews, lists, memoir, novel, reviews, The NYTBR
Even though self suspended her subscription to the NYTBR, she still has a pile of back issues to get through.
Perusing the 15 January 2014 issue, self sees that NYTBR editors have not lost any of their interest in Russia or its writers: There are reviews of a new novel by Lara Vapnyar (partly about a Soviet youth camp), as well as a translation of Michael Shishkin (famous in Russia).
In the By the Book interview, Sue Monk Kidd named the following as "books with spiritual themes": Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson; The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver; The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy; and Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton. Asked which books "we all should read before dying," she responds with: Night, by Elie Wiesel, What is God? by Jacob Needham, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Self finds herself skipping over several reviews, for several reasons, one of them being that when a reviewer describes a novel's main character as "beleaguered," self quickly loses interest. Also, right now, self has no interest in reading books about "ornery old men" who drink and smoke themselves "to death" because she doesn't consider either of these activities even remotely tempting.
She is interested in the books Sue Monk Kidd is "reading these days": Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter, Dear Life, by Alice Munro, Sister Mother Husband Dog, by Delia Ephron, and Edith Wharton's Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence.
Self loves discovering new women writers, and this issue of the NYTBR introduces her to Elizabeth Spencer ("Spencer's great gift is her ability to take ordinariness and turn it inside out, to find focus in a muddle.")
She also loves Diane Johnson, who happens to have written a memoir (Flyover Lives: A Memoir).
Having come — finally! — to the end of this post, self realizes that blogging about The New York Times Book Review is an exceedingly intricate and time-consuming activity, because it involves making a list, and a list involves — naturally — exclusion, which then causes her Catholic guilt to rear its annoying head.
About the End of Self's New York Times Book Review Subscription
January 12, 2014 at 2:22 am	(Books)
Tags: Chang-rae Lee, complaints, decisions, Just published, reviews, Saturdays, science fiction, The NYTBR
Self still has a huge backlog of NYTBR issues to go through. She pulled them out of her hopelessly muddled "Pile of Stuff" and started to go through them. The very first one she started to read was the January 5, 2014 issue.
Front page review of Chang-rae Lee's science fiction novel, On Such a Full Sea.
Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. It's a wonderful addition not only to Chang-rae Lee's body of work but to the ranks of "serious" writers venturing into the realm of dystopian fantasy.
Lost self at "dystopian," everyone's favorite catch-all one-word description for the Apocalyptic Future, now swarming the world on hundreds of reviews of the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
The NYTBR, 16 June 2013
December 28, 2013 at 4:56 pm	(Books, Lists, Memoirs, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, discoveries, Graham Greene, interviews, lists, memoir, nonfiction, reviews, Saturdays, speculative fiction, The NYTBR
Congratulations to the following writers/contributors, who made this issue of the NYTBR worth reading (Although self is still canceling her subscription):
Elaine Blair * Jeannette Walls * Donovan Hohn * Justin Cronin *
Elaine Blair's review of What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, by Daniel Bergner was the title page review. Blair's review made self want to read Bergner's previous book, The Other Side of Desire. See, it is so interesting that a man is responsible for doing all this research into female desire. Self fully expected that a woman scientist would produce the first comprehensive look at this fascinating topic. But then, why can't it be a man? Men, after all, are just as affected by feminine desire as women are! Onward.
The "By the Book" interview is a good one. It's with memoirist Jeannette Walls (There was one time the "By the Book" interviewee was Amanda Knox, she who was jailed in Italy for several years after being convicted of the murder of her roommate. What on earth the NYTBR thought they were doing when they interviewed Amanda Knox about her favorite books is still a profound mystery to self)
Jeannette Walls' favorite book "of all time" is The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene.
Recently, she was impressed by A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout, a memoir about Lindhout's time spent "kidnapped in Somalia." In addition, Walls recommends the following memoirs: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, by Neil White; The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartok; Denial, by Jessica Stern; A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah; An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Redfield Jamison; Chanel Bonfire, by Wendy Lawless; The Center Cannot Hold, by Elyn Saks; After Visiting Friends, by Michael Haimey; The Kiss, by Kathryn Harrison (Self has read this one; it's about Harrison's affair with her father); My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor; Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution, edited by Wally Lamb.
The book that "had the greatest impact on" Walls when she was growing up was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Donovan Hohn reviewed The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code, by Margalit Fox. It is wonderful to read that the "gentleman archaeologist who led the excavation at Knossos" on the island of Crete brought along for sustenance "two dozen tins of ox tongue, 12 plum puddings and a Union Jack." Hohn also brings up the term "hash marks" which then leads self to wonder how far we have come, from markings on an ancient tomb in Crete to Twitter.
Finally, there is Justin Cronin, who reviews "the world's first 9/11 werewolf book," Red Moon, by Benjamin Percy. Here we are in a world where "lycans" (werewolves, for you non-initiates or total ignoramuses) are confined to a reservation on a "discouraging patch of permafrost in northern Scandinavia, currently under American military occupation to safeguard its valuable training resources." A majority of Americans goes about their business peaceably under "mandated medication — a mind-dulling silver-infused concoction wittily named Volpexx." Sold! How soon can self get her hands on this book?
The NYTBR: 22 December 2013
December 27, 2013 at 12:36 am	(Books, Links)
Tags: complaints, disappointment, novel, reviews, The NYTBR
Boring, OK? Boring.
Self is cutting off her subscription.
There is only one review she enjoyed reading: the one by Stacey D'Erasmo, on The Apartment, a short novel (193 pages) by Greg Baxter.
Bookends/ The Joy of a Quiet Afternoon
November 30, 2013 at 10:58 pm	(Family, Holidays, Surprises)
Tags: indulgences, Marilyn Stasio, mysteries, San Carlos, Saturdays, T. C. Boyle, The NYTBR
Two days since Thanksgiving ended. Though self had no one over, the clatter in her head can be quite deafening, a clatter the sole other occupant in this house is always happy to add to. Every day brings a new spurt of instructions, whether it's when to mail bills or covering windows with cardboard. Mother-in-law said it best: "My son is such a character."
Now he has stepped out, without any prior warning: A friend of his from Ateneo, Randy, came over. Self imagined both would want to watch the games. But suddenly, after she'd bought all manner of chips and snacks and drinks and ham and what-have-you, she arrived to find the two men preparing to go out. What is self going to do with all this food? She'll send it home with Randy, probably. It's either that or scarf on chips for days on end.
Anyhoo, after self watered a bit, she settled down in the tiny room she calls her "Office." This has all her memorabilia, all her saved literary magazines, all her knick-knacks. Through the French doors, she can look right into the backyard:
The View From Self's "Office": What a Gorgeous Day!
These bookends were from a consignment store in San Carlos, whose name is eluding self. It's on Laurel Street.
The Rabbit keeps her literary magazines upright. One Story faces out.
Now self settles down to tackle a huge pile of back issues of The New York Times Book Review. There's a "Let's Read About Sex" issue, and the October 20, 2013 issue, which has more than the usual number of "Women's Literature" reviews. Self is bored reading about sex in the staid NYTBR. It would be much more fun reading books about sex if she were reading something like Rolling Stone. So she goes for the October 20, 2013 issue.
A short story collection by T. C. Boyle is reviewed in this issue. Self really loves T. C. Boyle so she is happy to read the review (and would read anything by him, regardless of whether the review was good or bad). There's a review of a novel about the forty-ish Bridget Jones, and a review of a Scandinavian novel in which a traumatized woman is plagued by the conviction that her husband is guilty of a heinous crime (Don'cha just love those traumatized women in Scandinavian novels who are so . . . so noir-ishly fragile in temperament! After all, there can never be another Lisbeth Salander. That's over. That's done. Now it's back to the Scandinavian women of an Ingmar Bergman movie)
Of the four crime novels reviewed by Marilyn Stasio in this issue (Sunday, October 20, 2013), two are set in Florence. How absolutely fabulous! That's Florence, Italy, in case you were wondering. The third is set in Manhattan (It's by Jeffery Deaver, who writes about Manhattan like nobody's business). And the last one is set in a small town in Connecticut — but in 1956. Self likely won't get to the Connecticut novel, as she is easily confused by mysteries that happen in the recent past (Mysteries about the way, waaaaay past are much easier on her nerves. At least, everything's different, not like the ones set in the 1950s, where self keeps forgetting the decade and then wonders why she is so confused)

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The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Pali; Sanskrit: Dharmacakrapravartana Sūtra; English: The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of the Dhamma Sutta or Promulgation of the Law Sutta) is a Buddhist scripture that is considered by Buddhists to be a record of the first sermon given by Gautama Buddha, the Sermon in the Deer Park at Sarnath. The main topic of this sutta is the Four Noble Truths, which refer to and express the basic orientation of Buddhism in a formulaic expression. This sutta also refers to the Buddhist concepts of the Middle Way, impermanence, and dependent origination.

According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha delivered this discourse on the day of Asalha Puja, in the month of Ashadha, in a deer sanctuary in Isipatana. This was seven weeks after he attained Enlightenment. His audience consisted of five ascetics who had been his former companions: Kondañña, Assaji, Bhaddiya, Vappa, and Mahānāma.

Definitions
Dhamma (Pāli) or dharma (Sanskrit) can mean a variety of things depending on its context; in this context, it refers to the Buddha's teachings or his "truth" that leads to one's liberation from suffering.  Cakka (Pāli) or cakra (Sanskrit) can be translated as "wheel."  The dhammacakka, which can be translated as "Dhamma-Wheel," is a Buddhist symbol referring to  Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment.  Pavattana (Pāli) can be translated as "turning" or "rolling" or "setting in motion."

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The sutra contains the following topics:
 The two extremes to be avoided (sensual indulgence and self-mortification)
 The Middle Way
 The Four Noble Truths
 The Noble Eightfold Path
 The Twelve Insights of the Four Noble Truths
 Proclamation of release from the cycle of rebirth (commonly referred to as nibbana)
 The Opening of the Dhamma Eye (the attainment of right view)
 Proclamation of the devas upon the setting of the Wheel of Dhamma in motion by the Buddha
 Response of the Buddha to Aññā Kondañña's comprehension of his teachings

Buddhist understanding of the sutta

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta is the first teaching given by the Buddha after he attained enlightenment. According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha attained enlightenment and liberation while meditating under the Bodhi Tree by the Nerañjarā river in Bodh Gaya. Afterwards, he remained silent for forty-nine days. According to MN 26 and MĀ 204, after deciding to teach, the Buddha initially intended to visit his former teachers, Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka Rāmaputta, to teach them his insights, but they had already died and born in a place where it is not apt to preach or they were deaf, so he decided to visit his five former companions. On his way, he encountered a spiritual seeker named Upaka. The Buddha proclaimed that he had achieved full awakening, but Upaka was not convinced and "took a different path".The Buddha then journeyed from Bodhgaya to Sarnath, a small town near the sacred city of Varanasi in central India. There he met his five former companions, the ascetics with whom he had shared six years of hardship. His former companions were at first suspicious of the Buddha, thinking he had given up his search for the truth when he renounced their ascetic ways. But upon seeing the radiance of the Buddha, they requested him to teach what he had learned. Thereupon the Buddha gave the teaching that was later recorded as the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, which introduces fundamental concepts of Buddhist thought, such as the Middle Way and the Four Noble Truths.

Development of the sutta

Retaining the oldest teachings
Modern scholars agree that the teachings of the Buddha were passed down in an oral tradition for approximately a few hundred years after the passing of the Buddha; the first written recordings of these teachings were made hundreds of years after the Buddha's passing. According to academic scholars, inconsistencies in the oldest texts may reveal developments in the oldest teachings.{{refn|See:
 La Vallee Possin (1937), Musila et Narada; reprinted in Gombrich (2006), How Buddhism Began, appendix
 Erich Frauwallner (1953), Geschichte der indischen Philosophie, Band  Der Buddha und der Jina (pp. 147-272)
 Andre Bareau (1963), Recherches sur la biographiedu Buddha dans les Sutrapitaka et les Vinayapitaka anciens, Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
 Schmithausen, On some Aspects of Descriptions or Theories of 'Liberating Insight' and 'Enlightenment' in Early Buddhism. In: Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus (Gedenkschrift für Ludwig Alsdorf), hrsg. von Klaus Bruhn und Albrecht Wezler, Wiesbaden 1981, 199-250.

 K.R. Norman, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309183447/http://ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/articles/the%20four%20noble%20truths_norman_pts_2003.pdf Four Noble Truths]

 Tilman Vetter (1988), The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism, by Tilmann Vetter
 , chapter four

 Alexander Wynne (2007), The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, Routledge|name="development of teachings"|group=note}} While the Theravada tradition holds that it is likely that the sutras date back to the Buddha himself, in an unbroken chain of oral transmission,* academic scholars have identified many of such inconsistencies, and tried to explain them. Information of the oldest teachings of Buddhism, such as on the Four Noble Truths, which are an important topic in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, has been obtained by analysis of the oldest texts and these inconsistencies, and are a matter of ongoing discussion and research.

Development of the sutta
According to Bronkhorst this "first sermon" is recorded in several sutras, with important variations. In the Vinaya texts, and in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta which was influenced by the Vinaya texts, the four truths are included, and Kondañña is enlightened when the "vision of Dhamma" arises in him: "whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation." Yet, in the Ariyapariyesanā Sutta ("The Noble Search", Majjhima Nikaya 26) the four truths are not included, and the Buddha gives the five ascetics personal instructions in turn, two or three of them, while the others go out begging for food. The versions of the "first sermon" which include the four truths, such as the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, omit this instruction, showing that

According to Bronkhorst, this indicates that the four truths were later added to earlier descriptions of liberation by practicing the four dhyanas, which originally was thought to be sufficient for the destruction of the arsavas. Anderson, following Norman, also thinks that the four truths originally were not part of this sutta, and were later added in some versions. According to Bronkhorst, the "twelve insights" are probably also a later addition, born out of unease with the substitution of the general term "prajna" for the more specific "four truths".

The "essence" of Buddhism

According to Cousins, many scholars are of the view that "this discourse was identified as the first sermon of the Buddha only at a later date." According to Richard Gombrich,

Yet, the understanding of what exactly constituted this "very essence" also developed over time. What exactly was regarded as the central insight "varied along with what was considered most central to the teaching of the Buddha."  "Liberating insight" came to be defined as "insight into the four truths," which is presented as the "liberating insight" which constituted the awakening, or "enlightenment" of the Buddha. When he understood these truths he was "enlightened" and liberated, as reflected in Majjhima Nikaya 26:42: "his taints are destroyed by his seeing with wisdom." The four truths were superseded by pratityasamutpada, and still later by the doctrine of the non-existence of a substantial self or person.

According to Anderson, a long recognized feature of the Theravada canon is that it lacks an "overarching and comprehensive structure of the path to nibbana." The sutras form a network or matrix, which have to be taken together. Within this network, "the four noble truths are one doctrine among others and are not particularly central," but are a part of "the entire dhamma matrix." The four noble truths are set and learnt in that network, learning "how the various teachings intersect with each other," and refer to the various Buddhist techniques, which are all explicitly and implicitly part of the passages which refer to the four truths. According to Anderson,

Translations into English

From the Pali version
In the Pāli Canon, this sutta is found in the Samyutta Nikaya, chapter 56 ("Saccasamyutta" or "Connected Discourses on the Truths"), sutta number 11 (and, thus, can be referenced as "SN 56.11").  There are multiple English translations of the Pali version of this sutta, including:

 Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma
 Ñanamoli Thera (trans.) (1993). Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth.
Piyadassi Thera (trans.) (1999). Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1993). Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion.
Bhikkhu Sujato (trans.) (2018). Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma.
 Thich Nhat Hanh (trans.) (1999). "Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma: Dhamma Cakka Pavattana Sutta". In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, p. 257.
 Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma (trans.) (1997). "The First Discourse of the Buddha: Turning the Wheel of Dhamma". In The First Discourse of the Buddha, Wisdom, pp. 17–20.
 Walpola Rahula (trans.) (2007). "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth". In What the Buddha Taught.

From Tibetan, Chinese and Sanskrit versions
 The Tibetan 'Missing Translator's Colophon' Version of the Dharma Wheel Discourse (chos kyi 'khor lo'i mdo 'gyur byang med pa): A New Translation into English by Erick Tsiknopoulos (2013) This is a translation of one of two versions of the Dharma Wheel Sutra in Tibetan, known as the 'Missing Translator's Colophon' version (Tib: 'gyur byang med pa). It has a correlate in Chinese, translated into English by Lapiz Lazuli Texts and listed below.
 Lapis Lazuli Texts: Saṃyuktāgama 379. Turning the Dharma Wheel. This is a translation from the Chinese canon; the Chinese version is based on the Sarvastivadin Sanskrit version of the text (Dharmacakra Pravartana Sutra).
 Thich Nhat Hanh has produced a notable rendering of the first teaching of the Buddha in his biography of the Buddha entitled Old Path White Clouds. Thich Nhat Hanh relied on multiple sources for this rendering. This rendering is also included in Thich Nhat Hanh's book Path of Compassion: Stories from the Buddha's Life. See Turning the Wheel of Dharma

The 26th chapter of the Lalitavistara Sutra contains a Mahayana version of the first turning that closely parallels the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. The following English translations of this text are available:
 The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (2013), translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. Translated from Tibetan into English and checked against the Sanskrit version.
 Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion (1983), translated by Gwendolyn Bays, Dharma Publishing (two-volume set). This translation has been made from French into English and then checked with the original in Tibetan and Sanskrit.

See alsoAnattalakkhaṇa SuttaAsalha Puja
Buddha's Dispensation
Enlightenment in Buddhism
Four Noble Truths
Middle Way
Noble Eightfold Path
Sarnath
Taṇhā
Three marks of existence

Notes

Subnotes

References

Sources

Printed sources
Pali Canon

Buddhist teachers

 Anandajoti Bhikkhu (trans.) (2010). The Earliest Recorded Discourses of the Buddha (from Lalitavistara, Mahākhandhaka & Mahāvastu).  Kuala Lumpur: Sukhi Hotu. Also available on-line.

Secondary

Web-sources

Further reading
Scholarly

 Analayo, V (2012). The Chinese Parallels to the Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta (1), Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies 3, 12-46
 Analayo, V (2013). The Chinese Parallels to the Dhammacakkappavattana-sutta (2), Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies 5, 9-41

Commentaries in English
 Ajahn Sucitto (2010), Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching, Shambhala
 Bhikkhu Pesala, An Exposition of the Dhammacakka Sutta
 Mahasi Sayadaw (1996–2012), Discourse on the Wheel of Dharma
 Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma (1997), The First Discourse of the Buddha'', Wisdom, .

External links

Saṃyutta Nikāya 56.11 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu with links to alternative translations.
Saṃyukta Āgama version translated into English
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta read aloud (talking book) by Guy Armstrong
Romanized Pāli version with English translation
 Resources for researching the Buddha's First Sutta - contains links to seven different translations by notable Theravada translators
Word-by-word semantic analysis with translation on the side
 An Exposition of the Dhammacakka Sutta by Bhikkhu Pesala

Samyutta Nikaya
Gautama Buddha
Sarnath

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"Harmful rhetoric" and "discrimination" were alleged to have been a part of President Dallin H. Oaks' recent General Conference talk entitled Truth and the Plan. These claims were made by Lori Davis, a Board Member of a group called Mama Dragons, a group whose stated purpose is to provide support for Mormon and former Mormon mothers of LGBT children. A brief review of social media and other contemporary news articles will quickly demonstrate that the Mama Dragons were not alone in their feelings that some wrong was committed by Elder Oaks. Others actually implied that people may have to call a crisis line following the talk. Such drastic condemnation would certainly lead the reasonable reader to ask what horrible thing President Oaks said to possibly elicit such a strong response.
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How a Proper Translation of Genesis 1:1 Underscores the Atonement-like Properties of Creation.
As Latter-day Saints, we believe that the atonement plays a central role across all eternity. And though I don't understand all the ways in which that is true, I was recently fascinated by commentary on Genesis 1 from "The Jewish Study Bible". Commentary that suggests something atonement-like was going on at the very beginning of creation.
When God began to create heaven and earth – the earth being unformed and void.
Pay careful attention to the subtle grammar of this sentence. The commentary suggests that the proper translation of these verses is not of a God creating a universe out of nothing, but of a God that "began" creation when the universe was still "unformed" and chaotic.
Furthermore, the footnotes add that Modern readers like to think the opposite of something is nothing, but to the ancients the opposite of something is chaos. A chaos they thought has malevolent power. Thus, the proper translation of these versus portrays a God who creates through taming a malevolent chaos.
The Wikipedia also makes similar observations.
Is This God More Powerful Than the Traditional God Who Creates Something Out of Nothing?
The Jewish Study Bible then informs us that this idea has generated debates between Rabbis. The Rabbis who prefer the traditional "ex-nihilo" translation of Genesis suggest this "better" translation implies God built his kingdom on a dung hill. Also, they worry that if the universe has an existence independent of God, this undermines basic theology. For one, if God is really battling in chaos, are we certain He is in control? If chaos ruled once, can it rule again?
The response other Rabbis have given is that such a God is the more powerful One. Which is more impressive: A God Who can create what He wants in the context of no opposition? Or One that has accomplished similar creative goals in the face of opposition?
To use a horrible analogy, who is the more impressive gamer: one playing Sim City who creates the world he wants because all the cheat codes were up his sleeves, or one who had to fight through the game's intrinsic opposition?
Furthermore, this latter God may be free from the problem of evil described below.
One way to look at the atonement is that God is trying to turn you into a perfect person. An exalted creation. To use a CS Lewis analogy: you may be perfectly fine with being a little cottage. But God's plan involves turning you into a palace, as difficult as those renovations may be.
In going about this "exalted creation", a common question raised is: if God can create whatever He wants, why doesn't He just create you perfect from the beginning? This is fundamentally the "problem of evil".
This translation would supply a response to that by changing our perspective on how God must create. If from "the beginning" God's creative plans have required the overthrow of pre-existent chaos, perhaps for us to become perfect "like Him" similarly requires a battle of that same chaos. It's as if the "opposition of all things" we must overcome is a continuation of the process that started in Genesis 1. As if learning to be creative like God is not learning to simply will things into existence, but is learning how to roll up our sleeves and with Him defeat the chaos that confronts us.
This makes Genesis 1:1 even more profound than merely being a verse about creation. It may be a verse that underscores what is at the heart of the entire plan of salvation.
It has been the hobby horse of recent scientists to suggest that, in the light of quantum mechanics, the opposite of something is not nothing but instead some quantum chaos. See recent books by Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss for example. Now admittedly these books have been blasted for being filled with bad philosophy in their attempt to reduce the entire universe to a few 20th century physics principles the authors coincidentally specialized in. (Not too different from biologists I have met who likewise attempt attribute everything about the known universe to the evolutionary principles they were blessed to study in graduate school) But these philosophically bad reductionist errors are beside the point here.
My larger point is that there is a growing belief among scientists that quantum mechanics suggests that the opposite of something is not nothing, but a "quantum"-like chaos. Remove "everything" in a quantum mechanical system in an attempt to obtain "nothing", and you are still left with a randomly "fluctuating" zero point energy. An energy with a chaotic structure that I will not speculate too much about as we don't completely understand it, but one that at least hints that physical systems devoid of organized structure are not "filled" with nothing, but instead something akin to chaos.
Thus, it's interesting that the "more accurate" translation of a thousands of years old Genesis verse may have been consistent this entire time with physics that we did not know until very recently. That before the "something" that we call our universe was not nothing, but a chaos that had to somehow be "tamed". And though how that was done remains a mystery to both scientists and theologians, it appears Genesis is correct with the idea that it needed to be done.
Doesn't the Bible say he created the world?" And they infer, from the word create, that it must have been made out of nothing. Now, the word create came from the word baurau, which does not mean to create out of nothing; it means to organize; the same as a man would organize materials and build a ship. Hence we infer that God had materials to organize the world out of chaos—chaotic matter, which is element, and in which dwells all the glory.
Thus, despite his flaws, Joseph continues to be a man whose teachings are quite impressive. Even though Joseph's understanding of Hebrew pales in comparison to the great Rabbis of history referred to in this commentary, he demonstrates time and again fascinating level of inspiration.
Joseph Smidt is a physicist in the X-Theoretical Division (XTD) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) where he currently sits as the cosmology team lead for LANL's Center for Theoretical Astrophysics (CTA) as well as a point of contact for the US nuclear stockpile. His research is split between cosmology, astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion and nuclear weapon design. He has published over 50 papers in the open literature on a wide range of early universe topics from supersymmetry and cosmic inflation to how the first stars and galaxies formed. Joseph obtained his PhD in physics at the University of California, Irvine, and double majored in physics and mathematics at BYU. He was married to his wife in the Salt Lake Temple, has five wonderful children, and currently serves as stake clerk in the Santa Fe New Mexico Stake.


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Q: nested path dosent work in react router dom I am trying to create a browser router for my app but the nested paths are not working.
import React from 'react';
import './App.css';
import HomeScreen from './screens/HomeScreen';
import {
  createBrowserRouter,
  createRoutesFromElements,
  Route,
  RouterProvider
} from 'react-router-dom';
import LoginScreen from './screens/LoginScreen';

const router = createBrowserRouter(
  createRoutesFromElements(
    <Route path="/" element={<HomeScreen />}>
      <Route path="dashboard" element={<LoginScreen />} />
      {/* ... etc. */}
    </Route>
  )
);

function App() {
  return (

      <RouterProvider router={router} />

  );
}

export default App;

On this code both "localhost:3000/" and "localhost:3000/dashboard" are opening the HomeScreen page only.
Can you tell me what I should do to make "/dashboard" open LoginSrceen instead of HomeScreen?

A: If you are nesting routes then the parent route necessarily needs to render an Outlet component for nested routes to render their element content into.
Example:
import { Outlet } from 'react-router-dom';

const HomeScreen = () => {
  ...

  return (
    ... Home screen UI ...
    <Outlet /> // <-- nested routes render content here
    ...
  );
};

const router = createBrowserRouter(
  createRoutesFromElements(
    <Route path="/" element={<HomeScreen />}>
      <Route path="dashboard" element={<LoginScreen />} />
      {/* ... etc. */}
    </Route>
  )
);

function App() {
  return (

      <RouterProvider router={router} />

  );
}

On the off-hand chance that you actually want HomeScreen and LoginScreen to render each on their own discrete routes, then they should not be nested one in the other, but instead should be rendered as sibling routes. Render HomeScreen on an index route such that it will be rendered when the URL path matches the parent route, e.g. "/".
const router = createBrowserRouter(
  createRoutesFromElements(
    <Route path="/">
      <Route index element={<HomeScreen />} />
      <Route path="dashboard" element={<LoginScreen />} />
      {/* ... etc. */}
    </Route>
  )
);

function App() {
  return (

      <RouterProvider router={router} />

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}

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Joe Biden's immigration plan, explained
Date: December 12, 2019, 21:30
in: Politics
Joe Biden released an immigration plan on Wednesday that focuses on undoing President Donald Trump's policies while acknowledging critiques of his Obama-era record on the issue.
Biden, a frontrunner in the Democratic primary, has positioned himself as former President Barack Obama's natural successor. His plan touts his record as vice president, including his support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Obama's plan to give temporary protection to unauthorized immigrants brought to the US as children.
Biden has struggled to answer questions in several recent debates about Obama's more controversial policies on immigration enforcement, which included record-high levels of deportations and were often criticized by activists.
But in his plan, Biden begins to outline ways to make the existing immigration enforcement system more humane.
"Joe Biden understands the pain felt by every family across the U.S. that has had a loved one removed from the country, including under the Obama-Biden administration, and he believes we must do better to uphold our laws humanely and preserve the dignity of immigrant families, refugees, and asylum-seekers," his campaign said.
Biden is one of the last candidates to release an immigration plan. (The only candidate participating in the December debates who has yet to release one is Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana.)
He doesn't back some of the more progressive policies that have been proposed or embraced by other candidates: decriminalizing the act of crossing the border without authorization, placing a temporary moratorium on deportations, or redesigning the agencies in charge of immigration enforcement.
But it's significant that Biden has chosen to highlight the fear and insecurity in immigrant communities that started with the deportations that occurred under the Bush administration, became more widespread under Obama and has escalated under Trump. It suggests that he would not simply revert to the status quo on immigration enforcement under Obama — even if his immigration plan attempts to revive some of the former president's policies.
What Biden's plan would do
Biden promises to end President Donald Trump's practices of keeping immigrants in detention long-term, separating families and conducting large-scale immigration raids that aim to arrest unauthorized immigrants already living and working in the US — proposals in line with those from the rest of the Democratic field.
He also vows to end a slew of Trump's toughest anti-immigrant policies: the "public charge" rule making it more difficult for low-income immigrants to enter and settle in the US; his travel ban on individuals from seven countries he deems to be national security threats; and restrictions on asylum including the Migrant Protection Protocols, under which Trump has sent tens of thousands of migrants back to Mexico to wait for their court hearings in the US.
Biden proposes reforms to the legal immigration system, including a plan to create a new visa category that would allow cities counties to apply for higher levels of immigrants.
He would renew the US's focus on protecting vulnerable immigrant populations, including asylum seekers and refugees. He would immediately increase the number of refugees the US admits to 125,000 annually, on par with what Sen. Elizabeth Warren has promised (and more than Obama admitted), staff up immigration courts, and shore up protections for domestic violence victims and those fleeing political persecution.
To address the root causes of migration in Central America, he would invest $4 billion over four years to combat corruption, attract private sector investment, develop civil society, and incentivize countries to conduct their own reforms. (Though, that's still less than the $1.5 billion in annual aid to Central America that Warren has proposed.)
Biden says he would work with Congress on comprehensive immigration reform, which isn't likely to pass so long as Republicans control the Senate. The closest Congress has come to a compromise on comprehensive immigration reform in a generation was the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" bill that passed the Senate 68-32 in 2013.
The bill would have reinvented the immigration system, notably creating a 13-year path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants and a new visa for low-skilled workers, requiring employers to verify the employment authorization of their workers and shifting away from policies emphasizing family ties in favor of work skills. But it was ultimately doomed after House Republicans refused to hold a vote on the bill under pressure from grassroots anti-immigrant voters.
To get comprehensive immigration reform done in 2020 would require an unlikely series of events: Democrats would have to flip the Senate and hold the House, and the next president would have to make it an immediate legislative priority. That's why many lawmakers have abandoned the idea of "comprehensive" reform, instead opting for a piecemeal approach on issues like visas for agricultural workers that can attract bipartisan support.
One noted absence from Biden's plan: Most of his opponents have embraced the idea, originally proposed by Julián Castro, of decriminalizing the act of crossing the border without authorization by repealing section 1325 of the Immigration and Nationality Act — one of the legal provisions that allowed the Trump administration to separate thousands of immigrant families in 2018.
Under that proposal, immigrants would never be "charged with a crime, immediately deported, or detained for more time than strictly necessary for crossing the border," as Dara Lind explained for Vox.
Though discussions of decriminalization featured heavily in the early Democratic debates, polls have shown that about 67 percent of voters aren't in favor of it.
Biden doesn't embrace that proposal, saying instead that he would end criminal prosecutions that separate families and punish people for lawfully requesting asylum, as well as end blanket prosecutions that undermine due process and the rule of law.
He would also focus on deporting only immigrants who pose a threat to national security and public safety — a designation that relies largely on the discretion of individual immigration officers.
The Obama administration's "Secure Communities" program, meant to deport primarily people with records of violent crime, proved that it's difficult to draw the line between who constitutes a threat and who doesn't. Under that program, which ended in 2014, it wasn't just violent criminals who were deported, but also individuals with minor infractions such as traffic tickets.
It's not clear how Biden would guarantee that his administration wouldn't repeat the mistakes of that program, but he says he will ensure "individuals are treated with the due process to which they are entitled and their human rights are protected."
Biden calls for investing in programs that do not require immigrants to remain in detention long-term, including releasing immigrants on the condition that they wear ankle monitors, and support migrants in ensuring that they show up for their immigration appointments.
The Obama administration started investing in these programs — which have been shown to be effective and much cheaper than detention — toward the end of his presidency.
For those who are detained, Biden vows to improve their living conditions, promising improved accountability for immigration agencies like US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (The plan isn't specific about what this accountability would look like.) And he calls for ending for-profit detention centers, which have been sites of some of the most egregious abuses of immigrants in recent years.
He also calls for ensuring that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't allowed to arrest immigrants at "sensitive locations" including hospitals, schools, and workplaces — but he does not mention courthouses among such locations. ICE has stepped up courthouse arrests of unauthorized immigrants under Trump, despite the fact that federal judges have prohibited the practice in some areas of the country on the basis that it discourages them from showing up for their hearings.
Reckoning with Obama's immigration record
Biden has closely tied his candidacy to his time as Obama's vice president. His plan even repeatedly mentions Obama's accomplishments, including the former president's efforts to offer legal status to certain unauthorized immigrants and pass comprehensive immigration reform.
But Biden has also struggled to answer persistent criticism of immigration enforcement tactics under Obama, particularly in the first four years of his presidency.
Advocates labeled Obama the "deporter in chief" for deporting more immigrants than any other president — over 3 million between 2009 and 2016 and peaking at 409,849 in fiscal year 2012.
When a migrant crisis hit in 2014, when over 60,000 unaccompanied children from Central America showed up at the southern border, the Obama administration was caught unprepared. Border officials detained children in jail-like facilities for longer than the 72 hours that is permitted by law. The administration set up temporary housing similar to the soft-sided facilities Trump has constructed and tried to detain migrant families for extended periods of time.
Eventually, courts stepped in to put an end to these practices. And in his second term, after comprehensive immigration reform failed in Congress, Obama also shifted toward more sweeping executive actions, including creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and issuing an executive order instructing ICE to deport "felons, not families."
"Many people don't actually understand where things ended up at the end of the Obama administration and how that evolved out of a period of time that was quite aggressive," the Center for American Progress's Tom Jawetz, who has given informal advice to several campaigns, said Wednesday. "I think that's an important thing to be able to walk people through and then be able to articulate clearly going forward."
Still, part of Obama's record has proved a burden to Biden. His most senior Latina staffer even resigned recently over her frustration with Biden's rhetoric about Obama-era immigration policy.
In November, Biden snapped at an immigration activist who asked him at a South Carolina town hall whether he would support a moratorium on deportations. He said that he would prioritize deportations only of those who have committed a felony or a serious crime, telling the activist to "vote for Trump" if that wasn't good enough.
When asked about the deportations that occurred under Obama during a debate in September, Biden did not budge: "I stand with Barack Obama all eight years, good, bad and indifferent."
He stumbled on the same question about whether he regretted Obama's deportations at a Democratic debate in July, saying that he was vice president at the time and that he does not speak about his private recommendations to the president.
But his plan finally begins to reckon with those questions.
"By acknowledging plainly the real pain that American families around the country feel today, Biden's plan signals an openness to discussing the evolution of the Obama-Biden approach to immigration enforcement over the course of their eight years in office and how the lessons learned from that process would shape a Biden administration in its first 100 days," Jawetz said. "That is a conversation that should continue over time."
On the whole, however, Obama's record is likely boosting Biden more than it brings him down: The former president remains popular among Democratic voters, and left-wing criticisms of his immigration policies rarely attracted major political backlash while he was in office.
The activist community still thinks Biden could be bolder in his approach to immigration. Biden isn't trying to tear down the existing immigration enforcement system — he's just trying to administer it more humanely. For immigrant advocacy groups like Movimiento Cosecha that believe that the underlying system needs to be entirely reinvented, that's not enough.
"Here's what Biden fails to see, or is willfully ignoring: Our laws themselves are inhumane & deny the dignity of immigrants," the group tweeted Wednesday.
And while Biden's plan acknowledges how the immigrant community has been harmed by enforcement measures under both Obama and Trump, he hasn't been able to effectively communicate that when talking to voters on the campaign trail. For voters to believe him, he needs to show empathy, Jawetz said: "His appreciation for the fear and insecurity in communities around the country should be reflected in how he interacts face-to-face with individuals looking to be reassured about how he will keep their families together."
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GOP victories in off-year election renews pressure on Washington Democrats to deliver ahead of the midterms
By Sarah Ewall-Wice, Jack Turman
Updated on: November 3, 2021 / 7:01 PM / CBS News
GOP election success deals blow to Democrats
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Democrats returned to Capitol Hill Wednesday with a new sense of urgency to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and focus on President Joe Biden's social spending agenda after Republicans received strong support in the off-year election. Lawmakers argued they need to prove they can deliver for their constituents amid fear the election results Tuesday foreshadows real trouble for Democrats seeking to maintain their majority in next year's midterms.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said his party needs to show that it "could govern and in a pragmatic way." He said the first step would be getting the bipartisan infrastructure bill to the president's desk, calling delays a "mistake."
First-time Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday after campaigning heavily on education. His victory reversed the state's blue trend of more than a decade, including Biden's win by 10 points. Republicans also appear to have reclaimed the majority in the Virginia House of Delegates. The New Jersey governor's race was still too close to call Wednesday.
The 2021 Republican momentum comes as Democrats in Washington are struggling to finalize their $1.75 trillion social spending package. A vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill has also been held up in the House amid negotiations. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois said Wednesday the election results are a warning to Democrats about the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the social spending package.
"I don't want to point a finger of blame," said Durbin. "But I will tell you this. There's no time left. This warning to us came early enough for us to do something about it. Now we have to respond.
Tuesday's outcome is also putting pressure on Senate Democrats up for reelection next year.
"We need to get it done," said Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. "And as one who will be running for reelection in 2022, I need results that I can tell the American people that Congress can deliver."
But reaching consensus has proven difficult. Progressives have said they would not vote for the infrastructure deal, despite supporting it, without a vote on the social spending agenda, while moderates in the Senate have objected to a series of provisions, some related to how they will pay for the legislation. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia advocated on Wednesday for the Senate to "take our time" on the social spending plan.
"It's unbelievable to see what went on in Virginia. And then not just, not just from the governor's race, but all the way down that ticket," said Manchin. "Let's start looking and working together, listening to our people back home. I've been listening to the people in West Virginia. They're concerned about inflation. They really have been for a long time."
Leading up to the race in Virginia, former Governor Terry McAuliffe expressed frustration with the stalemate in Washington, urging Democrats to move forward with the infrastructure deal. Democratic voters in the state also expressed some disappointment with more not getting done leading up to Election Day — but also a general lack of enthusiasm in an off-year.
"Everyone has to make wages, everyone has to take care of their kids, everyone has to feed themselves, and I wish we would just lean in harder to those issues," said voter Reba Mendoza in Richmond ahead of the election. She said she was not as excited by Democrats' messaging as she wished she was.
McAuliffe spent the last few weeks of the campaign attempting to tie Youngkin to former President Donald Trump. But Youngkin walked a fine line, accepting the former president's endorsement but never campaigning with him in the state.
Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon suggested Democrats need to "turbo charge" their work on the social spending plan and focus messaging on kitchen-table issues, such as lowering prescription drug costs.
Exit polling in the Virginia governor's race found the economy and jobs was the top issue on voters' minds in the election, with roughly a third saying it was the most important issue facing the state. Independents also prioritized the issue.
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Enjoy Woburn Abbey and Woburn Safari Park before heading for Sundon Hill Country Park. Marvel at the gardens and sculptures of Wrest Park before pausing at the Warden Vineyard. Tour the Shuttleworth Collection before visiting Jordan's Mill. Relax at The Lodge at RSPB before arriving at Moggerhanger Park.
The village of Woburn is just a short drive from Woburn Abbey where you can visit the world famous art collection, the gardens and the deer park. At Woburn Safari Park you can drive through the park amongst the animals before taking a picnic and exploring some of the other attractions.
Enjoy shopping at Riverside on the banks of the Great Ouse. At nearby Silsoe, explore the Wrest Park Estate. Stunning French, Italian, Dutch and English gardens combine to cover 90 acres whilst woodland walks offer peace and quiet. Take a visit to the sculpture gallery housed in the old dairy or browse the archaeological collection.
Visit the world famous historic Shuttleworth Collection home to aircraft, motor vehicles, motorcycles and agricultural vehicles from through the ages. Stroll the magnificent Swiss Garden, now restored to its former glory.
Just 3 miles from Biggleswade on the banks of the River Ivel, you can tour Jordan's Mill – the last working flourmill in Bedfordshire. Outside you can explore the gardens, mill meadow, woodlands, café and mill shop.
The small market town of Sandy is home to The Lodge, headquarters of the RSPB. Visit the nature reserve and gardens to explore 5 miles of trails and spot the wildlife. You can also see the Iron Age banks and ditches at Galley Hill.
Set in 33 acres of parkland and woodland, Moggerhanger Park is a Grade 1 listed Georgian historic house. Check the schedule for a variety of events throughout the year including house tours.
Enjoy some time touring the house and gardens at Woburn Abbey before visiting Woburn Safari Park for a driving adventure amongst the animals before relaxing with a picnic and enjoying the attractions. Head for the wide open spaces of Sundon Hill Country Park before arriving at the splendour of Wrest Park to enjoy the formal gardens and sculptures.
Visit the Warden Vineyard en route to the Shuttleworth Collection of historic aircraft, motor vehicles and motor cycles. Call in at Jordan's Mill on the way to The Lodge at RSPB headquarters before finishing up at Moggerhanger Park.
Enjoy the splendid Abbey and its various collections – don't miss the art. At the Woburn Safari Park you can cruise amongst the animals before relaxing with a picnic or taking a walk on the wild side with a foot safari.
The Shuttleworth Collection is an amazing array of rare and historic aircraft, motor vehicles, motorcycles and agricultural vehicles. Take a tour of Jordan's Mill, Bedfordshire's only working flour mill, and see the mill in action.
Relax at the splendid Wrest Park with its magnificent collection of restored gardens, sculpture gallery and archaeological collection. Take a tour of the historic Moggerhanger Park or enjoy a walk in the surrounding parkland and woodland.


Buurtzorg, understandably, places a lot of emphasis on supporting the nursing or care professionals develop into successful, sustainable, self-managed teams.
That is only part of the story; to be successful teams need an efficient and professional back office function that is focused on reducing bureaucracy and supporting front-line care.
In our work with UK partners, we are helping them to re-examine their back office systems and resources in the context of self-managed teams who still require support, albeit of a different kind.
Ard Leferink, co-founder of Buurtzorg Nederland, and Paul Jansen, Chief Operating Officer of Buurtzorg Britain & Ireland, have been helping Medway Community Health to explore how the Buurtzorg back office model would apply.
Buurtzorg's back office is famously small: just 50 people support and organisation of 14,000 employees. Some of Buurzorg's support functions are outsourced (for instance, its IT is provided by third party provider eCare), which of course helps to keep back office staff numbers down. In terms of cost, Buurtzorg's model results in a famously low spend on overheads: just 8% of its total cost compared to 25% for a comparable care provider.
Autonomous, self-managing teams of care professionals have the authority to organise their work themselves. There are no managers required to oversee this, and no central departments to support planning, quality assurance, answer calls, etc. The professionals are trusted to do a good job, and the results speak for themselves.
An 'at your service culture': the back office is there to support the frontline; the care professionals are their clients. Therefore, there is no need to instruct them, devise new policies, or follow up on countless reports. Instead, the back office focuses on solving problems and making professionals' lives easier.
A relentless drive for simplification: at Buurtzorg a central question is 'how does this help in delivering better care to our client'? If the answer isn't clear, chances are the action will be dropped. This culture has permeated the organisation, and as a result policies are kept at a minimum, processes are quick and simple, and costs are kept low. For instance, if a team hires a new colleague, they drive the recruitment process themselves within the team. Once the person is hired and the contract needs to be drawn up, the back office takes care of the paperwork like background checks and references. This way, the team stays in control of the quality of the recruit, but is not wasting time on paperwork. The back office, in the meantime, works with standard contracts that are electronically signed and processed.
Ard and Paul's visit to Medway focused on understanding the complexities of the local health and care systems, the requirements of regulators and commissioners and how that affects their processes, as well as how staff are supported in their work. The next step will be to start designing a simplified approach, using Buurtzorg's philosophy.
The ultimate aim is to provide better support for care professionals on the frontline, reduce the amount of bureaucracy, and free up resources to deliver more and better care.
The workshop is part of the on-going programme of work under the Transforming Integrated Care in the Community (TICC) project.
TICC is a cross-border partnership involving 14 organisations from the UK, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, approved and funded by the EU Interreg 2 Seas Programme 2014-2020 (co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund) which has supported the project over four years.
Lessons learnt in the TICC programme aim to benefit the entire health and care system in the UK, France and Belgium.


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/*
 * The Plaid API
 *
 * The Plaid REST API. Please see https://plaid.com/docs/api for more details.
 *
 * API version: 2020-09-14_1.205.3
 */

// Code generated by OpenAPI Generator (https://openapi-generator.tech); DO NOT EDIT.

package plaid

import (
	"encoding/json"
)

// LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource Specifies user stated income sources for the Income product
type LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource struct {
	// The employer corresponding to an income source specified by the user
	Employer *string `json:"employer,omitempty"`
	Category *UserStatedIncomeSourceCategory `json:"category,omitempty"`
	// The income amount paid per cycle for a specified income source
	PayPerCycle *float64 `json:"pay_per_cycle,omitempty"`
	// The income amount paid annually for a specified income source
	PayAnnual *float64 `json:"pay_annual,omitempty"`
	PayType *UserStatedIncomeSourcePayType `json:"pay_type,omitempty"`
	PayFrequency *UserStatedIncomeSourceFrequency `json:"pay_frequency,omitempty"`
}

// NewLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource instantiates a new LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource object
// This constructor will assign default values to properties that have it defined,
// and makes sure properties required by API are set, but the set of arguments
// will change when the set of required properties is changed
func NewLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource() *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource {
	this := LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource{}
	return &this
}

// NewLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSourceWithDefaults instantiates a new LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource object
// This constructor will only assign default values to properties that have it defined,
// but it doesn't guarantee that properties required by API are set
func NewLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSourceWithDefaults() *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource {
	this := LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource{}
	return &this
}

// GetEmployer returns the Employer field value if set, zero value otherwise.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetEmployer() string {
	if o == nil || o.Employer == nil {
		var ret string
		return ret
	}
	return *o.Employer
}

// GetEmployerOk returns a tuple with the Employer field value if set, nil otherwise
// and a boolean to check if the value has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetEmployerOk() (*string, bool) {
	if o == nil || o.Employer == nil {
		return nil, false
	}
	return o.Employer, true
}

// HasEmployer returns a boolean if a field has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) HasEmployer() bool {
	if o != nil && o.Employer != nil {
		return true
	}

	return false
}

// SetEmployer gets a reference to the given string and assigns it to the Employer field.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) SetEmployer(v string) {
	o.Employer = &v
}

// GetCategory returns the Category field value if set, zero value otherwise.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetCategory() UserStatedIncomeSourceCategory {
	if o == nil || o.Category == nil {
		var ret UserStatedIncomeSourceCategory
		return ret
	}
	return *o.Category
}

// GetCategoryOk returns a tuple with the Category field value if set, nil otherwise
// and a boolean to check if the value has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetCategoryOk() (*UserStatedIncomeSourceCategory, bool) {
	if o == nil || o.Category == nil {
		return nil, false
	}
	return o.Category, true
}

// HasCategory returns a boolean if a field has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) HasCategory() bool {
	if o != nil && o.Category != nil {
		return true
	}

	return false
}

// SetCategory gets a reference to the given UserStatedIncomeSourceCategory and assigns it to the Category field.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) SetCategory(v UserStatedIncomeSourceCategory) {
	o.Category = &v
}

// GetPayPerCycle returns the PayPerCycle field value if set, zero value otherwise.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayPerCycle() float64 {
	if o == nil || o.PayPerCycle == nil {
		var ret float64
		return ret
	}
	return *o.PayPerCycle
}

// GetPayPerCycleOk returns a tuple with the PayPerCycle field value if set, nil otherwise
// and a boolean to check if the value has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayPerCycleOk() (*float64, bool) {
	if o == nil || o.PayPerCycle == nil {
		return nil, false
	}
	return o.PayPerCycle, true
}

// HasPayPerCycle returns a boolean if a field has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) HasPayPerCycle() bool {
	if o != nil && o.PayPerCycle != nil {
		return true
	}

	return false
}

// SetPayPerCycle gets a reference to the given float64 and assigns it to the PayPerCycle field.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) SetPayPerCycle(v float64) {
	o.PayPerCycle = &v
}

// GetPayAnnual returns the PayAnnual field value if set, zero value otherwise.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayAnnual() float64 {
	if o == nil || o.PayAnnual == nil {
		var ret float64
		return ret
	}
	return *o.PayAnnual
}

// GetPayAnnualOk returns a tuple with the PayAnnual field value if set, nil otherwise
// and a boolean to check if the value has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayAnnualOk() (*float64, bool) {
	if o == nil || o.PayAnnual == nil {
		return nil, false
	}
	return o.PayAnnual, true
}

// HasPayAnnual returns a boolean if a field has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) HasPayAnnual() bool {
	if o != nil && o.PayAnnual != nil {
		return true
	}

	return false
}

// SetPayAnnual gets a reference to the given float64 and assigns it to the PayAnnual field.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) SetPayAnnual(v float64) {
	o.PayAnnual = &v
}

// GetPayType returns the PayType field value if set, zero value otherwise.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayType() UserStatedIncomeSourcePayType {
	if o == nil || o.PayType == nil {
		var ret UserStatedIncomeSourcePayType
		return ret
	}
	return *o.PayType
}

// GetPayTypeOk returns a tuple with the PayType field value if set, nil otherwise
// and a boolean to check if the value has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayTypeOk() (*UserStatedIncomeSourcePayType, bool) {
	if o == nil || o.PayType == nil {
		return nil, false
	}
	return o.PayType, true
}

// HasPayType returns a boolean if a field has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) HasPayType() bool {
	if o != nil && o.PayType != nil {
		return true
	}

	return false
}

// SetPayType gets a reference to the given UserStatedIncomeSourcePayType and assigns it to the PayType field.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) SetPayType(v UserStatedIncomeSourcePayType) {
	o.PayType = &v
}

// GetPayFrequency returns the PayFrequency field value if set, zero value otherwise.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayFrequency() UserStatedIncomeSourceFrequency {
	if o == nil || o.PayFrequency == nil {
		var ret UserStatedIncomeSourceFrequency
		return ret
	}
	return *o.PayFrequency
}

// GetPayFrequencyOk returns a tuple with the PayFrequency field value if set, nil otherwise
// and a boolean to check if the value has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) GetPayFrequencyOk() (*UserStatedIncomeSourceFrequency, bool) {
	if o == nil || o.PayFrequency == nil {
		return nil, false
	}
	return o.PayFrequency, true
}

// HasPayFrequency returns a boolean if a field has been set.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) HasPayFrequency() bool {
	if o != nil && o.PayFrequency != nil {
		return true
	}

	return false
}

// SetPayFrequency gets a reference to the given UserStatedIncomeSourceFrequency and assigns it to the PayFrequency field.
func (o *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) SetPayFrequency(v UserStatedIncomeSourceFrequency) {
	o.PayFrequency = &v
}

func (o LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	toSerialize := map[string]interface{}{}
	if o.Employer != nil {
		toSerialize["employer"] = o.Employer
	}
	if o.Category != nil {
		toSerialize["category"] = o.Category
	}
	if o.PayPerCycle != nil {
		toSerialize["pay_per_cycle"] = o.PayPerCycle
	}
	if o.PayAnnual != nil {
		toSerialize["pay_annual"] = o.PayAnnual
	}
	if o.PayType != nil {
		toSerialize["pay_type"] = o.PayType
	}
	if o.PayFrequency != nil {
		toSerialize["pay_frequency"] = o.PayFrequency
	}
	return json.Marshal(toSerialize)
}

type NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource struct {
	value *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource
	isSet bool
}

func (v NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) Get() *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource {
	return v.value
}

func (v *NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) Set(val *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) {
	v.value = val
	v.isSet = true
}

func (v NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) IsSet() bool {
	return v.isSet
}

func (v *NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) Unset() {
	v.value = nil
	v.isSet = false
}

func NewNullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource(val *LinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) *NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource {
	return &NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource{value: val, isSet: true}
}

func (v NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	return json.Marshal(v.value)
}

func (v *NullableLinkTokenCreateRequestUserStatedIncomeSource) UnmarshalJSON(src []byte) error {
	v.isSet = true
	return json.Unmarshal(src, &v.value)
}

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What's the Right Way Out of Debt?
> What's the Right Way Out of Debt?
For some, consolidating debt can mean the beginning of the end. When done properly, consolidation brings a smaller monthly payment requirement, and a quicker debt payoff date. However, some consolidation loans could cause more problems than you already have. Take the necessary precautions to avoid pitfalls and consolidate your debt the right way.
All consolidation loans are not equal. Do your homework before applying for a loan. Make sure that your lender will not incur any early payoff penalties should you choose to eliminate your debt before the loan maturation date. Additionally, make sure the interest rate on your new consolidation loan is less than the interest rates and annual fees charged on your current credit card. Avoid the temptation to extend the loan over a period of more than five years. While the idea of a lower monthly payment obligation sounds enticing, your debts will ultimately stay with you for much longer than they have to, and financial freedom will take longer to attain.
Obtaining a consolidation loan can cause more problems than good for some debt-holders unless they change old habits. Holding a cheque for a large sum of money can come with the temptation to spend the cash on something other than your debt. Be sure to pay every penny to your debt as quickly as possible. Continue to make large payments toward your loan to pay it down as quickly as possible. Most importantly, stop charging additional debts to your now paid-off credit cards.


When we were kids, we were taught never talk to strangers. And we didn't. I never asked "why?" because I had no great urge to talk to strangers anyway. What would I say to them?
What I want to know is, why don't parents drum it into their children that this rule applies until you're dead!? No one wants a stranger blabbing away about whatever it is strangers blab about. (I'm not referring to little pleasantries like "it's a nice day". I'm not a fanatic).
"Madame. Let me tell you ……something or other". Might have been his opinion on the state of the world or maybe he didn't like my face. Who knows? I could tell from his demeanor that I really didn't want to talk with him. I was out enjoying myself, but he looked like he had a bossy point to make.
But that would be rude. And when we were kids, we were taught never be rude.
So I didn't answer. I just gave him my best evil eye and he moved on.
These people are not strange strangers so I'd probably talk to them.
If the dog approached me, I'd even practice my French.
"Strangers" are very big in the Quote World. Everyone seems to recommend them.
I agree that I am not a fan of chatty types when it isn't in a social setting. I understand if I am at a "meet and greet" kind of function but if I am taking a walk...whole other matter.
Maybe the new rule should be printed on a shirt (for wearing when shopping)!


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Prosecution appeals court decision on release of Mina Thabet - Daily News Egypt
Egypt Prosecution appeals court decision on release of Mina Thabet
Prosecution appeals court decision on release of Mina Thabet
Thabet appeared in court using a walking stick, pleaded to the judge for release over health concerns
Menan Khater June 19, 2016 Be the first to comment
The prosecution appealed a court decision to release researcher Mina Thabet on EGP 10,000 bail on Saturday.
Thabet is expected to have another court session on Monday to decide on the prosecution appeal, according to his lawyer Doaa Mustafa.
Mustafa told Daily News Egypt that during the detention renewal session, Thabet pleaded to the judge for his release because of his deteriorating health conditions.
"He attended the session while holding a walking stick as he could not stand on his own," she said. "His legs and back used to hurt him before the arrest, but his condition has now become worse."
Thabet, a member of the local observatory Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), was arrested in mid-May from his home. He is facing 10 charges in relation to the recent maritime demarcation deal between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over the Red Sea islands, according to Mustafa.
The charges include belonging to an outlawed group and inciting to overthrow the regime, among others. During the preliminary investigations, the prosecution confiscated a leaflet he allegedly possessed that featured the Tiran and Sanafir islands.
In early April, the Egyptian government ratified a decision to transfer the sovereignty of Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia. The decision prompted two waves of anti-government protests in mid- and late April.
Amid those calls for protests, hundreds were arrested and tried but have since been acquitted. They included those arrested both from public spaces and from their homes on charges of inciting protests.
Topics: Arrested ecrf Egypt Mina Thabet researcher Sanafir Tiran
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Q: Power Query / Power BI - How to move a cell value to a separate cell the easiest way? I want to move a single value from column B to column A, how can I achieve it in the most simplest way in Power Query / Query Editor (Power BI)?
Please see attached images.

I know I might need to declare a variable so please enlighten me. By the way, I will delete row 1 afterwards, promote my headers, and rename column2 as PERIOD.
Thank you.

A: This might be along the lines of what you want to do.
If I start with this table named as Table1:

Then I click on the fx to the left of the formula bar:

And type = Table.InsertRows(Source, Table.RowCount(Source), {[Column2 = Source[KP20 rate]{0}, KP20 rate = null, Column4 = null]}) into the formula bar:

I used Table.InsertRows to create a new row in Table1. Source is the name of the latest state of Table1 after it is pulled into Power Query and before I do this step. So I actually use Source as the name of the table for this step instead of Table1. (Each applied step basically results in its own table. You probably know this already, but others may not.) So for this step I use Source as the table name in the Table.InsertRows statement. Then, since I want the new row to appear at the bottom of Source, I just enter the Table.RowCount of Source as the row number location for the new row. Then I enter each of the Columns' names and their values to be added. For Column2, I entered the value "Source[KP20 rate]{0}." Source[KP20 rate]{0} basically treats column KP20 rate as a list, where {0} serves as a pointer to the first item in the list. To target the second item in Source[KP20 rate] you would use Source[KP20 rate]{1}. You can see that I set the values for the other two columns (KP20 rate and Column4) to null.
The result:

Here's the M code in case you want to see it:
let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content],
    Custom1 = Table.InsertRows(Source, Table.RowCount(Source), {[Column2 = Source[KP20 rate]{0}, KP20 rate = null, Column4 = null]})
in
    Custom1


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NEWS | EAST LONDON
"The struggle for work in East London is hell"
12 November 2018 By Chris Gilili
Unemployed men wait on the side of the road for work
Sivuyile Mduzulwana (L) and Thembinkosi Gaqa (R) from East London stand along Amalinda Road every day, waiting for piecemeal jobs. Photo: Chris Gilili
12 November 2018 - By Chris Gilili
Every morning Sivuyile Mduzulwana travels from his shack to stand along Amalinda Main Road in East London. He hopes that a passerby will stop and offer him piecemeal work. He has been doing this for nearly 18 years.
According to the Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force survey for the second quarter of 2018, the unofficial unemployment rate increased by 0.5 percentage points to 37.2% quarter to quarter. The Eastern Cape had the highest unemployment rate at 45.8%.
Mduzulwana, 45, left his home in Peddie in search for better employment prospects in East London almost 30 years ago. Mduzulwana lives in a backyard dwelling in Amalinda Forest with his girlfriend and their son.
He says he is a skilled tiler who on a good day makes up to R500. But most days, Mduzulwana, says he returns home empty-handed. "I pay R200 for rent a month and my girlfriend is also not employed but gets piece jobs now and then to wash clothes for people around Amalinda. This helps provide for our son," he says.
"It gets difficult sometimes to a point where we have to use his child support grant to pay rent. Especially when jobs are scarce. I feel like a very big failure when I cannot provide for them."
Mduzulwana says that the upcoming festive season brought some hope for him and the many others who also stand along Amalinda Road. "The festive season is good for us because many people want to renovate their homes and gardens. We survive on that. But there are also too many of us," he says.
While GroundUp was visiting the spot on Saturday, one of the six men standing on the side of the road got a job. Thembinkosi Gaqa, 42, was one of the five men left behind. He has been living with his sister in Duncan Village after his shack burnt down in September. He has been standing in the Amalinda spot since 2015.
"It has been hard to piece my life together. The struggle for work in East London is hell," he says.
I feel like a very big failure when I cannot provide for [my family].
"In 2006, I had a child with someone. He died of hunger, because both me and her mother were not working. I am skilled in gardening and waterproofing, but a week goes by without getting a job here. When I do get a job, I share whatever I have with my sister," he says.
Elvis Ngamlana from Duncan Village says he wakes up about 6am and walks 8km to the Amalinda spot. He is skilled in painting, tiling and landscaping. He also depends on piecemeal jobs to survive.
"I am unemployed though I have skills I can use. But coming here is better than sitting at home. I am very patient because I know everyday is different. I sit here until 6pm at least and just hope my luck for work will come," he says.
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Closing date for entry is 5pm on Friday 30th June 2017. Open to UK residents aged 18 and over. One lucky winner, picked at random, will win a Cross Peerless TrackR Quartz Blue Pen (worth £215). No cash alternative to the prize will be offered. Premier Print & Promotions reserve the right to cancel this competition, or amend the terms and conditions, at any time.
Congratulations to our winner Jackie Rautenbach from Andover… your TrackR pen is on the way!
Special thanks to UK competition site Loquax for their support in promoting our Win The World's First Trackable Pen free giveaway contest.