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Natali Sevriukova reacts outside her building following a Russian rocket attack on the capital city of Kyiv, Feb. 25, 2022, one day into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti
AP's team in Ukraine delivers unparalleled coverage of Russian invasion
The AP all-formats team in Ukraine
This week's honorable mentions
With courage and conviction, AP journalists document Russia's war on Ukraine.
Kateryna Suharokova kisses her newborn son Makar in a maternity hospital's basement, converted into a medical ward and bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka
From images of a young girl killed by shelling to an eyewitness account of a makeshift maternity ward inside a bomb shelter, AP's team of more than two dozen journalists across Ukraine documented for the world in vivid detail how the Russian invasion is playing out on the ground.
The all-formats coverage began as Russian troops massed at Ukraine's borders and has not let up since the assault began more than a week ago.
In the coastal city of Mariupol, one of AP's standout packages told of a new mother struggling to control her emotions while holding her baby in a bomb shelter. Medical professionals were also using the space in the hospital basement to receive casualties, including the body of a young man brought in on a stretcher.
"Do I need to say more? This is just a boy," a doctor told an AP video journalist, lifting the sheet that covered the deceased.
A similar scene played out 260 miles north in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city close by the border with Russia, where mothers and their newborns were protected by mattresses piled against the windows of a bomb shelter.
Snow collects on the body of a serviceman beside a destroyed Russian military multiple rocket launcher vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022, one day into the Russian invasion.
AP Photo / Vadim Ghirda
A woman walks past debris in the aftermath of Russian shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022, after Russia launched a barrage of air and missile strikes on Ukraine.
A woman and child peer from the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk, in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Traffic comes to a virtual standstill as people leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022. Many were fleeing to western Ukraine or Poland.
A woman waits for a train as she tries to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022. Explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa as Russian launched its invasion of Ukraine.
A woman holds her baby as she gets on a bus leaving Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers on a road in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
A Ukrainian firefighter walks through debris of a downed aircraft seen in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. It was unclear what aircraft had crashed and what had brought it down amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
AP Photo / Oleksandr Ratushniak
The body of a soldier lies on the ground as Ukrainian Army soldiers stand by in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia was pressing its invasion toward the capital after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases, and sending in troops and tanks.
AP Photo / Efrem Lukatsky
Ukrainian soldiers take positions in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
Svyatoslav, 6, looks at his tablet in a public basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
People pass time in the capital's subway, using it as a shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
A single window is illuminated on a residential building with other lighting turned off for security, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
A gaping hole is left in an apartment building following a rocket attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022. Russian troops pressed toward Ukraine's capital and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter.
A soldier's pierced helmet lies near debris of burning military trucks on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
A woman reacts, looking at her apartment building damaged by a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
An armed civil defender stands guard at a checkpoint in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
Ukrainian refugees walk along vehicles lining-up to cross from Ukraine into Moldova at a border crossing near Mayaky-Udobne, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
AP Photo / Sergei Grits
One day after they were married, newlyweds Svyatoslav Fursinb, left, and Yarina Arieva pose for photo after they joined the ranks of the city territorial defense in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
AP Photo / Mikhail Palinchak
Civilian members of a territorial defense unit prepare their weapons to repel Russian forces in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
Ukrainian troops escort a man suspected of being a Russian agent in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
Armed civil defenders pose for a photo while patrolling an empty street during curfew in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
Civil defenders prepare Molotov cocktails in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
An armed civil defender holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle while patrolling an empty street during curfew in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
A women holds a child and a dog iat a shelter inside a building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
A child looks out from from a train while waiting to leave Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, headed to western Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022. Thousands of people were fleeing west and into neighboring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion.
AP Photo / Andriy Andriyenko
A couple embrace as the woman prepared to board a train leaving Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, headed to western Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
A Russian armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022. Authorities in Ukraine's second-largest city said that Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv were engaged in fighting with Russian troops.
AP Photo / Marienko Andrew
Passengers inside Lviv railway station in western Ukraine wait for a train to Poland, Feb. 27, 2022.
AP Photo / Bernat Armangue
African residents in Ukraine wait for a train on the platform of Lviv's main railway station in western Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022. Thousands of people massed at the station, attempting to board trains that would take them out of Ukraine as the Russian invasion continued.
An elderly Ukrainian woman eats a slice of bread inside Lviv's crowded main railway station in western Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered its fifth day.
People prepare for the night in an improvised bomb shelter at a sports center that can accommodate up to 2,000 people, in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022.
As sirens sounded for new attacks, an oncology patient rests on a couch in a basement used as a bomb shelter at Okhmadet, a children's hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
Ukrainian volunteers tear cloth into strips to make camouflage nets in Lviv, western Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
A woman walks on a platform as people crowd to board a Lviv-bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
A child cries as people scramble after a last-minute change of departure platform for a Lviv-bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
A child sits on a suitcase waiting to board a Lviv-bound train in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
Kateryna Suharokova holds her newborn son Makar a maternity hospital's basement, converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022.
A series of photo galleries showcased the hundreds of images captured by AP photographers. One gallery showed citizen soldiers training to repel Russian troops. Another showed families sheltering in subway stations and basements. Yet another showed children caught up in the war, including a baby swaddled in bright pink in a crush of people waiting to board a train to Poland.
"Show this to Putin. The eyes of this child, and crying doctors," a doctor shouted to an AP journalist in the room as ambulance personnel and city hospital staff in Mariupol tried unsuccessfully to save a 6-year-old girl injured in Russian shelling of a residential area, Feb. 27, 2022.
AP staffers across the world have been vital in explaining the economic, political and social repercussions of the war, from editors and writers in Moscow, Washington and New York tracking government responses and diplomacy in a slew of global capitals, to those covering the expanding refugee crisis along the Polish and Hungarian borders. But the journalists on the ground in Ukraine have been the anchor — setting AP's coverage apart by producing memorable images and authoritative text as the story develops by the hour.
Included on the all-formats Ukraine team: Andy Drake, Francesca Ebel, Emilio Morenatti, Vadim Ghirda, Sasha Stashevskyi, Efrem Lukatsky, Inna Varenytsia, Bernat Armangue, Andrea Rosa, Susie Blann, Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Nicolae Dumitrache, Yuras Karmanau, Hakan Kaplan and Sergei Grits, as well as some journalists who are not named for their safety.
For tenacity and bravery in chronicling the Russian invasion, the team in Ukraine earns the respect and gratitude of their colleagues worldwide and is AP's Best of the Week — First Winner.
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The initial scoop came from smart source work, and the impressive range of content that quickly followed was made possible by advance coordination across formats and departments — AP was poised with thorough preparation on each of the front-runners for the nomination. Read more
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spent a year investigating the possible health effects of groundwater and soil contamination under Fort Ord, a decommissioned U.S. Army base on the central California coast. A tip led AP to a Facebook group of hundreds of soldiers who had lived at the base and developed rare forms of cancer they believe were caused by contamination.
The complex, all-formats story included in-depth interviews with those likely suffering health consequences of exposure at the base, which is on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of the most polluted places in the nation. The team revealed a discredited 25-year-old study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found no "likely" risk at the site, and documents showing the Army knew toxic chemicals had been improperly dumped at Fort Ord for decades, but took pains not to let that information become public. Read more
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was the first to report that although the Biden administration's plan to distribute free COVID tests to American households was announced with great fanfare, less than half of the available test kits had been delivered. His story, based on interviews with the White House, showed how the plan to mail out 500 million free COVID tests had met with lackluster demand as virus cases plummeted. Read more
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Q: WCF Service in ASP.NET Compat Mode - What is the Simplest Way to Pass Username/Password I have a web service (WCF or ASMX doesn't matter)... I have made a Console application, right-clicked, added service referrence. So far, so good.
However, I cannot for the life of me pass "security" credentials across to my service. This is my client code:
var client = new MyClient();

client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "bob";
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "123!!";

client.HelloWorld();

client.Close();

But on the server, no matter what I do (aspnetcompant mode on and off, wcf service, asmx service, custom http handlers, etc)... I can't find 'bob:123!!' anywhere. Not in headers, not in HttpContext.Current.User.Identiy.Name, not in Thread.CurrentPrincipal... nothing.
What am I missing here?

A: Have you checked this article on custom validators: http://www.leastprivilege.com/FinallyUsernamesOverTransportAuthenticationInWCF.aspx?
Also, one thing that helped me when I worked on this was to disable anonymous access to that directory for the web server. HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name always returns an empty string when you are not authenticated. Thus it can look like you are authenticating correctly and just can't "find" the username, but really you are logged in anonymously. At least with anon access disabled, you will get an exception and can figure out the authentication side more easily, which is the hardest part.

A: Yes I have, and apparently if you don't use SSL, .Net throws an exception. So apparently you can't do what I want without SSL.

A: See: http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2006/07/31/890.aspx for information about TransportCredentialOnly to be able to pass usernames and passwords without SSL.
This should only be done in TESTING environments, as you are exposing the user's password in plain text.

A: Have you configured the UserName (message security) or Basic (transport security) client credential type on the endpoint binding?

A: From what I understand, WCF does message level auth, not integrated auth.   In either case, I'm not sure passing credentials is something you can do without SSL...
Have you tried turning on Anonymous authentication on the endpoint (via IIS)?  From what I understand, WCF uses message level security (username/password passed in the message headers) rather than HTTP headers (used in integrated auth methods like Windows Integrated, SPNego, etc.)
some links I found...

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*WCF Authentication Service Overview (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386582.aspx)

*Howto: Enable WCF Authentication Service (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398990.aspx)

A: If I understand your question correctly, you have succesfully configured username authentication for a WCF service (sorry - I'll focus on WCF) and you wish to gain access to the username and password within your serivce's methods.
You can access the username through ServiceSecurityContext.Current.PrimaryIdentity, I don't believe you can access the password easily.
One suggestion I found on the web, which I don't really like, is for your custom validator to keep a dictionary of username and passwords, which you could access later from your code given a username.
I don't like this for several reasons - one - you shouldn't really have access to passwords anyway, two - I'm not sure how secure this is, and three - if it's possible to have duplicate usernames (I know of some systems where this is the case) you might end up getting the wrong one.

A: have you tried accessing this? (especially if you are using your own authentication system and your own UsernamePasssword and Certificate validators.
System.ServiceModel.ServiceSecurityContext.Current.PrimaryIdentity.Name

you can get the caller's name but not the password.

A: How to: Use a Custom User Name and Password Validator.

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El Club de Voleibol Son Amar va ser un club de volley mallorquí fundat el 1970 i desaparegut el 1991. El nom prové de la possessió bunyolina de Son Amar, convertida en centre d'espectacles i restaurant que patrocinava el club.

L'agost de 1970, un grup d'amics mallorquins i turistes muntaren un equip de volley, que no començà a competir professionalment fins a 1973 a la Tercera Divisió amb Damià Seguí com a president del club. Durant les dues primeres temporades, el club va aconseguir dos ascensos consecutius, i així en dos anys havia assolit la Primera Divisió del volley estatal, ja amb qualque americà a la plantilla. Però la temporada 1974/75 l'equip va decidir no presentar-se a la Copa del Generalísimo, i per aquest motiu perderen la categoria tot i haver acabat setens.

Les tres temporades següents l'equip, per bé que no dissolt, no participà en cap competició fins que, per iniciativa del metge de l'equip, Carlos Sugar, el club reprengué l'activitat la temporada 1978/79, altra vegada a Tercera Divisió, de la qual ascendeixen al final de la temporada. La temporada següent, Seguí fitxà el col·locador iugoslau Pedro Bozic, i aconseguí de tornar a la Primera Divisió. Feliciano Mayoral, Miguel Ocón i, a mitjan temporada, l'americà Larry Benecke reforçaren l'equip la temporada 1980/81, i s'aconseguí el primer títol de lliga. Luis Álvarez Gómez, Jaime Fernández Barros i Francisco Sánchez Jover foren els reforços de la temporada següent, que acabà amb un doblet de lliga i copa.

La temporada 1982/1984, el club assolí la gesta de ser el primer equip de l'estat d'arribar a la final a quatre de la Copa d'Europa, després d'eliminar el Maccabi a vuitens per 6:1, l'Ibis a quarts per 4:3 i el Giessen per 5:3. Però a la final l'equip va acabar quart amb un balanç negatiu d'1:9.

A començament de la temporada 1984/85, Damià Seguí decidí de no continuar a la Primera Divisió i competiren a la Segona, per bé que amb part de la plantilla. L'equip torna a ascendir a la Primera División, on es va mantenir fins a la desaparició el 1991.

Com a fet notable, entre 1983 i 1988 el club obtengué un total de 124 victòries consecutives a la Lliga.

L'empresa de Son Amar reprengué la seva obra en volleyball el 2003, quan patrocinà el Club Voleibol Pòrtol en la seva empresa per la Primera Divisió. No obstant això, l'acord només s'allargà tres anys, i el 2006 el CV Pòrtol recobrà el seu nom.

Palmarès
 Recopa d'Europa
 Finalista el 1984
 Copa d'Europa
 Bronze el 1990
 7 Superlligues
 (1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 i 1989)
 6 Copes del Rei
 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990)
 1 Supercopa d'Espanya de voleibol
 (1990)

Referències

Clubs esportius de Palma
Clubs de voleibol
Clubs esportius desapareguts

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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...
By William Martin
and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate or deny ; but content myself with wishing, that I may be one of those, whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of age and experience.
Whether youth can be attributed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; but surely age may justly become contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings, have passed away without improvement, and vice appear to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and in whom age has only added obstinacy and stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and become more wicked, with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
But youth, Sir, is not my only crime : I have been accused of acting a theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of gesture, or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, and in the adoption of the opinions and language of another man.
In the first sense, Sir, the charge is too trifling to be confuted, and deserves to be mentioned only that it may be despised, I am at liberty, like
other man, to use my own language ; and though I may perhaps have some ambition to please this gentleman, I shall not lay myself under any restraint, nor very solicitously copy his diction or his mien, however matured by age, or modelled by experience.
But if any man shall, by charging me with theatrical behaviour, imply that I utter any sentiments but my own, I shall treat him as a calumniator and a villain ; nor shall any protection shelter him from the treatment which he deserves. I shall, on such an occasion, without scruple, trample upon all those forms, with which wealth and dignity entrench themselves, nor shall any thing but age restrain my resentment,—age, which always brings with it one privilege, that of being insolent and supercilious without punishment.
But with regard, Sir, to those whom I have offended, I am of opinion, that if I had acted a borrowed part, I should have avoided their censure. The heat which offended them, is the ardour of conviction, and that zeal for the service of my country, which neither hope nor fear shall induce me to suppress.
I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery. I will exert my endeavours, at whatever hazard, to repel the aggressor, and drag the thief to justice, whoever may protect him in his villainy, and whoever may partake of his plunder.
Lesson X.
EXTRACT FROM LORD ERSKINE'S SPEECH.
Lords is the case. The Defendant,—not a disappointed and malicious informer, prying into official abuses, because without office himself, but himself a man in office : - not troublesomely inquisitive into other men's departments, but conscientiously correcting his own ;-doing it pursuant to the rules of law, and, what heightens the character, doing it at the risk of his office, from which the effrontery of power has already suspended him, without proof of his guilt ; a conduct not only unjust and illiberal, but highly disrespectful to this Court, whose judges sit in the double capacity of ministers of the law, and governors of this sacred and abused institution. Indeed, Lord Sandwiche has, in my opinion, acted such a part * * * * * * (Here, Lord Mansfield, observing the Counsel heated with his subject, and growing personal on the first Lord of the Admiralty, told him that Lord Sandwiche was not before the Court.) I know that he is not formally before the Court, but for that very reason I will bring him before the Court: he has placed these men in the front of the battle, in
pes to escape under their shelter, but I will not join in battle with them : their vices, though screwed up to the highest pitch of human depravity, are not of dignity enough to vindicate the combat with me. I will drag him to light who is the dark mover behind this scene of iniquity. I assert, that the Earl of Sandwiche has but one road to escape out of this business without pollution and disgrace; and that is by publicly disavowing the acts of the prosecutors, and restoring Captain Baillie to his command. If he does this, then his offence will be no more than the too common one, of having suffered his own personal interest to prevail over his public duty, in placing his voters in the hospital. But if, on the contrary, he continues to protect the prosecutors, in spite of the evidence of their guilt, which has excited the abhorrence of the numerous audience that crowd this court; IF HE KEEPS THIS INJURED MAN SUSPENDED, OR DARES TO TURN THAT SUSPENSION INTO A REMOVAL, I SHALL THEN NOT SCRUPLE TO DECLARE HIM AN ACCOMPLICE IN THEIR GUILT, A SHAMELESS OPPRESSOR, A DISGRACE TO HIS RANK, AND A TRAITOR TO HIS TRUST.
But, as I should be very sorry that the fortune of my brave and honourable friend should depend either upon the exercise of Lord Sandwiche's virtues, or the influence of his fears, I do most earnestly entreat the Court to mark the malignant object of this prosecution, and to defeat it :--I beseech you, my Lords, to consider, that even by discharging the rule, and with costs, the defendant is neither protected nor restored. I trust, therefore, your Lordships will not rest satisfied with fulfilling your judicial duty, but, as the strongest evidence of foul
abuses has, by accident, come collaterally before you, that you will protect a brave and public spirited officer, from the prosecution this writing has brought upon him, and not suffer so dreadful an example to go abroad into the world, as the ruin of an upright man, for having faithfully discharged his duty.
My Lords, this matter is of the last importance: I speak not as an advocate alone, I speak to you as a man ;-as a member of a state whose very existence depends upon her naval strength. If a misgovernment were to fall upon Chelsea Hospital, to the ruin and discouragement of our army, it would be, no doubt, to be lamented, yet, I should not think it fatal; but, if our fleets are to be crippled by the baneful influence of elections, we are lost indeed! If the seaman, while he exposes his body to fatigue and dangers, looking forward to Greenwich as an asylum for infirmity and old age, sees the gates of it blocked up by corruption, and hears the riot and mirth of luxurious landsmen drowning the groans and complaints of the wounded, helpless companion of his glory,—he will tempt the seas no more. The Admiralty may press his body, indeed, at the expense of humanity and the constitution ; but they cannot press his mind,—they cannot press the heroic ardour of a British Sailor ; and instead of a fleet to carry terror all round the globe, the Admiralty may not much longer be able to amuse us with even the peaceable, unsubstantial pageant of a review.
FINE AND IMPRISONMENT !—The man deserves a palace, instead of a prison, who prevents the palace, built by the public bounty of his country, from being converted into a dungeon, and who sacrifices his own security, to the interests of humanity and virtue.
And now, my Lords, I have done :-But not without thanking your Lordships, for the very indulgent attention I have received, though in so late a stage of this business, and notwithstanding my great incapacity and
DRAMATIC AND ORATORICAL LESSONS.
inexperience. I resign my client into your hands, and I resign him with a well-founded confidence and hope; because that torrent of corruption, which has unhappily overwhelmed every other part of the constitution, is, by the blessing of Providence, stopped here by the sacred independence of the judges.

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In 2010 an amateur family historian from Kirkcaldy began a project to research and record details of men and women bearing the Wishart surname who served overseas during the First World War.
Now, along with help from people around the world, Scott Wishart hopes to have completed at least 50 per cent of this self-funded project in time for the Great War centenary this year.
Scott has already identified close to 460 individuals and has compiled details of over half of them and is now eager to hear from anyone who may be able to help in any way.
"Around 25 per cent of Wisharts from all corners of the British Commonwealth and the USA never returned home from the war," Scott continued. "I am close to being able to publish the details of those who died in battle on the project website, www.wishart1418.org, and I'm interested in anyone named Wishart who served in uniform, whether they were survived the war or were killed.
Scott is especially keen to make contact with any one who is related to an Andrew Wishart who comes from Burntisland.
He said: "Andrew served as a piper with the 1st Battalion Black Watch and gained some fame locally when, aged just 18, he piped his battalion into battle at Richebourg, and continued playing despite being riddled with bullets.
"He eventually fell close to enemy trenches, but managed to drag himself back to British lines.
The project has been added as part of the Great War Centenary Partnership Network, a series of programmes and events which aim to mark the 100th anniversary of the war.
It has also recently been been added to the British Library Web Archive as part of their World War One Centenary collection.


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"One thing that I really clicked with Lenny about is that we were always looking for the universal in the story, we were not hung up on the crime aspect. 6. Brie Larson plays a young woman who has been held captive in a shed for seven years, and Room begins on her son Jack's fifth birthday. "All the way through, they'd improvise some bits, or Lenny would email me and say, 'You know what, we need a bit of dialogue, can you make it up to me for Tuesday?' '", Once the two characters get free, Donoghue said, "It was really important not to lose that focus on Jack and Ma in the bigger world." I was just trying to be cards-on-the-table about it.". [31] However, Tremblay's part was filmed in numerous takes so Tremblay could give variations of his performances of specific lines, so Abrahamson and Nugent had to assemble and splice the different takes in the editing process.
Which brings Room to one of its most moving moments — the scene when Nancy cuts Jack's hair and he says to her, "I love you, Grandma."
Ma, whose name we find out is Joy Newsome, was also aged down from 19 to 17 in the film, because if she had been above 18, the FBI would not … It's a stripped-down self-edit that will please book loyalists, but also immediately grip people who know nothing about Room's plot and its twists. It's not an easy scene at all. He kept saying, 'Let's go back to the book, let's go back to the book.' "She could never go off to her trailer to have a big, intense moment — she was always there to say 'Oh, let's tie your shoes' or 'Let's try that again with your chin more to the left,'" Donoghue said. The Joy true story reveals that she possesses more than 100 patents and trademarks for her inventions, which also include the velvet-covered Huggable Hangers (designed to prevent clothes from slipping onto the floor) and My Little Steamer (a handheld device for smoothing out wrinkles). [8] Larson consulted with a trauma expert and nutritionist for the role,[15] went on a restrictive diet, and avoided sunlight. Joy Newsome (Brie Larson) was abducted at age 17 and locked in a shed by a rapist called Old Nick (Sean Bridgers). Cohen used a Panavision Primos lens on a Red Epic Dragon camera, saying "The Primos and using Kino Flos, which is more akin to fluorescent lighting, gave Room a certain texture, a certain look. ), Donoghue and her partner, Chris Roulston, live in London, Ontario, where Roulston is a professor. Donoghue wants to be particularly clear about one thing: "I'm so. Yet Larson also had to hold it together for Tremblay, who was 8 at the time.
However, as Abrahamson and cinematographer Danny Cohen wanted the camera to always shoot scenes from inside Room, the lens was always positioned within the set even if the rest of the camera was outside. 8. [30], Prior to production, A24 acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. In Akron, Ohio, 24-year-old Joy Newsome and her 5-year-old son Jack live in a squalid shed they call Room. ), "It seemed to me that to have Ma recover too quickly in the second half would be really skimming over the reality of rape and of damage from a domestic violence situation," Donoghue added. As punishment, he cuts their heat and power. Joy Newsome We found 38 results for Joy Newsome in Alabama, California, and 21 other states. Room is a 2015 independent drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 novel of the same name. So there's a wonderful kind of flickering shiver before she finds herself able to say, 'I love you too, Jack. Lenny Abrahamson, Donoghue, and Brie Larson at the BFI London Film Festival this month in London. [22] The actors improvised some lines, with Donoghue saying they created "speech patterns more natural-sounding than I could have written, and produced some brilliant new lines that ended up in the film.
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Russia's Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA stealth fighter program has suffered another delay. Testing of the powerful new jet's second stage engine, which was supposed to start later this year, has been pushed back to 2018.
The new engine was expected to make its first flight installed onboard the PAK-FA in the fourth quarter of 2017. "The first flight of the aircraft with the new engine is expected in the fourth quarter of 2017," a United Engine Corporation spokesman told TASS earlier in the year.
The next-generation Saturn izdeliye 30 — sometime referred to as the izdeliye 129 — are the engines for the T-50. There are few details available about the izdeliye 30 engines, but the new powerplant is expected to deliver 24,054 pounds of dry thrust and 39,566 pounds of afterburning thrust.
With the new engine installed, the PAK-FA should be able to offer kinematic performance comparable to the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor — cruising without afterburner at speeds exceeding Mach 1.5 with a maximum speed greater than Mach 2.0 at altitudes of around 60,000 feet.
"Performance-wise it certainly looks to compete with the Raptor," one senior military official with extensive experience on U.S. fifth-generation fighters told me some time ago.
Overall, while the Russians place less emphasis on stealth while focusing more on maneuverability and raw kinematic performance, the new Sukhoi-built jet appears to have a comprehensive suite of avionics.
But while the Russians have developed active electronically scanned array radars, infrared sensors and excellent electronic warfare systems, one of the big questions that remain is how well the Russians have integrated the jets' avionics.
It took the United States decades of effort and billions of dollars to develop the complex integrated avionics suite and sophisticated pilot vehicle interfaces that make the Raptor the fearsome weapon that it is.
Ultimately, the Russians will probably be able to resolve technical glitches with the PAK-FA and field a capable operational aircraft. There is little doubt about that. The real question is when that will happen and how many jets the Kremlin can afford to buy.


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Q: Roulette Wheel for sampling user defined pdf Following is the pdf from which I want to sample so, I used roulette wheel sampling
Code to generate pdf
pdf=np.array([1,5,1,10,1,5,1])
pdf=pdf/np.sum(pdf)
x=np.arange(0,np.size(pdf),1)
plt.bar(x,pdf)

Code to generate cdf
def pdf2cdf(tpdf):
tcdf=np.zeros_like(tpdf)
itr=0
for i in tpdf:
    tcdf[itr]=tcdf[itr-1]+tpdf[itr]
    itr=itr+1
return tcdf
cdf=pdf2cdf(pdf)
plt.bar(x,cdf)

CDF of the given pdf
Code to sample from pdf using roulette wheel
lst=[]
uni=[]
for j in range(100000):
    tmp=np.random.uniform(0,1)
    uni.append(tmp)
    tmp2=np.argsort(np.abs(cdf-tmp))
    lst.append(tmp2[0])

histogram of uni

histogram of samples drawn

I don't understand what's going wrong. The pdf from which I sampled(first plot) and the histogram of samples (last plot) are not the same.
Can anybody please suggest the correction of any mistake I made above.

Thanks @jsk
for k in range(np.size(cdf)):
    if cdf[k]>tmp:
        break
tmp2=k

plt.hist(lst,bins=range(0,8), align='left', rwidth=1, normed=True)

A: The problem is with the command
np.argsort(np.abs(cdf-tmp)).

The command will find which element of the cdf is closest to tmp, regardless of whether or not tmp is greater than cdf.
According to your problem,
$P(0) = 1/24 \approx 0.04167$
$P(1) = 5/24 \approx 0.2083 $
so $ CDF(1) = 6/24 = 0.25$.
In your code, you will end up sampling a 0 if tmp is closer to 0.04167 than 0.25, for example tmp = 0.1 will return a 0, which means that you are assigning 0 a much higher proportion of the time than 0.04167.  What range of values for tmp will ensure that you assign a 0 with probability 0.04167?  What range of values for tmp will ensure that you will assign a 1 with the appropriate probability?
I will leave it as an exercise for you to figure out how to adjust your code in light of the problem I have identified with the current code.


Effervescent tablet and effervescent instant drink formulations are popular with consumers as they are easy to ingest and offer an enhanced taste experience. As these dosage forms are designed to dissolve rapidly and completely in water – but must also remain stable towards moisture during production, shipping, and storage – specialist granulation technologies are required.
To better bond primary powder particles together. This improves processability and allows compression into effervescent tablets – or manufacture as instant drinks.
To reduce the amount of dust within a powder. This improves the overall flowability and ensures that the API is homogeneously distributed in the blend.
To alter the morphology of powder particles to an optimal particle size distribution. This reduces the number of particles with unwanted awkward shapes (such as needle-shaped particles), which are difficult to process.
Overall, the physical process of granulation reduces the accessible surface area of effervescent components in a powder, which is especially important for moisture sensitive products. Less surface area means that the product will be more stable because active ingredients cannot react readily via surface interactions. Similarly, altering the granule size and shape offers control over the bioavailability of the API, so it can be tuned according to requirements. At HERMES PHARMA, we use advanced wet granulation technologies, such as TOPO and Continuous Flow granulation, to prolong the shelf life of effervescent formulations and ensure they maintain optimum product performance, even in regions with high-moisture climates.
Our patented TOPO granulation technology is perfectly suited for the manufacture of effervescent formulations containing at least one solid crystalline organic acid and at least one alkaline carbonate. TOPO stabilizes these components in air while maintaining their rapid reactivity in water, ensuring fast dissolution of the product.
The single-pot TOPO granulation technology consists of a vacuum granulation step that produces a homogenous granulate, which is easy to tablet and process, as well as extremely moisture resistant.
Usually the organic acid employed in effervescent is citric acid. One of the pioneering aspects of TOPO is that it can modify the surface of the reactive citric acid by coating it with an alkaline carbonate, causing less reactive citrates to subsequently develop on the acid's surface. These citrates continue to form a thick protective layer that reduces the reactivity of the citric acid to moisture in the atmosphere.
This is why TOPO-manufactured products possess long shelf lives and are suitable for use in tropical regions – even countries in IV+ climatic zones. Moreover, as only pure water is used for granulation, TOPO ensures there are no solvent residues in the finished product.
Continuous Flow (CF) granulation is a further development of TOPO technology specifically designed for high throughput requirements. It uses an inclined drum, with the primary particle powder being fed in at one end and collected from the other. CF allows us to manufacture up to 10 tons of granules every day and is a very economical approach for the production of our effervescent tablets and granules. Both TOPO and CF are beneficial technologies for stable effervescent products, especially when they contain sensitive APIs, such as acetylsalicylic acid.
Manufacturing can take place under standard atmospheric conditions and up to a humidity level of 30 percent.
Low drying temperatures and short drying times decrease likelihood of thermal degradation.
As performed within a vacuum, TOPO prevents uncontrolled chain reactions occurring.
TOPO saves on laboratory water costs, as only a small amount of water is needed. This makes it an environmentally-friendly and sustainable technology.
No solvent residues are present in the finished product.
Products dissolve quickly in water, as the release of carbon dioxide starts immediately.


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Q: How to deal with changing cardinality in sci-kit learn model I am trying to use a high cardinality feature (siteid) in a sci-kit learn model and am using get_dummies to one-hot encode this feature. I get around 800 new binary columns which returns a decent accuracy using logistic regression. My problem is that when I pass a new dataset through my model I have a different cardinality on this feature with say 300 unique values and the model rightly asks, where are the other 500 columns you trained me on? How can I resolve this?
I don't want to have to train the model every time the cardinality changes nor do i want to hard code these columns in my SQL data load.
cat_columns = ["siteid"]

df = pd.get_dummies(df, prefix_sep="__",
                              columns=cat_columns)

A: My recommendation would be to pad these remaining columns with zeros. So if your new training sample has, for example 10 unique values, and the model expects 50 values (number of total_cols), then create 40 columns of zeros to the right to "fill out" the rest of the data:
df = pd.DataFrame({"siteid": range(10)})
cat_columns = ["siteid"]
df1 = pd.get_dummies(df, columns=cat_columns)

# df1 has shape (10, 10)

total_cols = 50    # Number of columns that model expects
zero_padding = pd.DataFrame(np.zeros((df1.shape[0], total_cols - df1.shape[1])))
df = pd.concat([df1, zero_padding], axis=1)
df.columns = ["siteid__" + str(i) for i in range(df.shape[1])]

# df now has shape (10, 50)

A: I suggest using scikit-learn's OneHotEncoder.
documentation here
In your case, the usage would look something like
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder

enc = OneHotEncoder(handle_unknown='ignore')
enc.fit(df[['cat_columns']])

categories = [cat for cats in enc.categories_ for cat in cats]

df[categories] = enc.transform(df[['cat_columns']])

the handle_unknown parameter is key, and the enc object is necessary for repeatability for new data.
On new dataframes you would run
df_new[categories] = enc.transform(df_new[['cat_columns']])

This will hot-encode the same categories and ignore any new ones that your model is not accustomed to.


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• It compatible with Coral RDA Atomizer.
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I'm still alive. I have been working and working on my house, so I have barely had time to do much else. I certainly haven't had time to think much, and I like that just fine. Maybe I'll just post some pictures. We did lots of work on the kid's room today. I hope he likes it.


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Coconut Grove $18 Million Redevelopment Plan Gets Key Vote
An $18 million plan to redevelop one of Coconut Grove's most important waterfront parcels won approval from voters Tuesday.
The vote makes it possible for Grove Bay Investment Group to move forward with its plan to replace the Chart House and Scotty's Landing and overhaul the Grove Key Marina that is located to the north of city hall.
The group, which is now able to sign a 50-year lease for the site, plans to locate new restaurants including Shula's Steak House at the property. It will also restore and put to new use a pair of historic Pan Am hangars located there and build a promenade that will end at a new pier.
The city on Tuesday also began demolishing the Coconut Grove Exhibition Center to make way for a park. The area's overall revitalization plan includes a public parking garage, with the developer contributing $5 million toward its construction, that would serve all the new facilities.
Source: SFBJ
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Local CRE Developer Authors EB-5 Financing Guide
From Manhattan to Miami, foreign investors seeking U.S. visas are a growing source of real estate financing through the job-creating federal EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.
To help developers navigate the program's complex requirements and frustrating delays, veteran developer Rodrigo Azpúrua's new book, EB-5 Visas & Real Estate Development, provides a step-by-step approach to create successful projects.
The book guides real estate professionals in designing and building commercial real estate projects that meet requirements of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) EB-5 program. It's a financing method being used nationwide to fully or partially fund projects including office buildings, mixed-use centers and resorts.
"When traditional financing evaporated in 2008, the EB-5 program really came into its own," explains Azpúrua, who has been responsible for managing over $200 million in land development projects that created about 1 million square feet of office space throughout Florida. "For development teams who master the complexities, it's great financing alternative," he said. "Funding is relatively low cost, since investors are more focused on finding a reliable project to secure their immigration status than on high returns."
Foreign participation in the EB-5 program keeps climbing, from 1028 visa petitions in 2009 to a 6,041 in 2012, toward the government's current annual cap of 10,000 visas. Launched in the early 1990s, the program lets qualified foreign investors obtain conditional resident status (green card) for investing a minimum of $1 million in U.S. businesses, or $500,000 in an economically challenged Targeted Employment Area. If the individual's investment creates at least 10 jobs within two years, the government grants permanent U.S. residency.
The book's readers will learn how to:
Establish a job-producing project concept that aligns with EB-5 regulations and investors' needs.
Assemble the multi-disciplinary team crucial to secure funding and manage the process.
Gauge if a project should move forward, based on financial feasibility, site selection, due diligence and marketing planning.
Understand EB-5 requirements, the Immigrant Investor Visa process and who can apply.
Evaluate job-creation projections, based on USCIS precedent and econometric analysis.
Create the highly disciplined business plan needed for government approval.
Reduce investor risk at every stage of the project.
Azpúrua brings life to the technical topic, sharing his first-hand development and immigration experiences.
An attorney who practiced real estate law for 14 years in his native Venezuela, he immigrated to the U.S. in 2001 and launched his development career in Miami. He travels regularly to speak about EB-5 investment to audiences in the U.S., South America and China, and he has appeared as an expert on the subject in media including CNN and Fox News.
For information visit www.rivierapmo.com
Adam Von Romer, CCIM, Senior Investment Associate at Fitzgerald Group also has a new book on the shelves, "Getting Started in Commercial Real Estate Ten Step Program to Success!" The book was co-authored by Von Romer and Patricia O'Connor.
Adam has taught or spoken for national and regional companies and associations such as Tandy/Radio Shack, Wiechert Realty, Marcus & Millichap, Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA, the Florida Association of Realtors, West Virginia Career College, and many more. He routinely conducts workshops and seminars on commercial real estate sales, commercial real estate leasing, commercial real estate financing,and commercial mortgage restructuring and modification.
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South Florida's Office Vacancy Falls To 13.5%
Industry News, Office
The South Florida Office market ended the third quarter 2013 with a vacancy rate of 13.5%.
The vacancy rate was down over the previous quarter, with net absorption totaling positive 551,507 square feet in the third quarter. That compares to positive 769,100 square feet in the second quarter 2013. Vacant sublease space decreased in the quarter, ending the quarter at 722,903 square feet.
Tenants moving into large blocks of space in 2013 include: Miami Herald Media Company moving into 158,266 square feet at 3511 NW 91st Ave; Management Resources Institute moving into 40,000 square feet at 550 LeJeune Rd; and Aldridge Connors moving into 39,788 square feet at 1615 S Congress Ave.
Rental rates ended the third quarter at $26.04, a decrease over the previous quarter.
A total of three buildings delivered to the market in the quarter totaling 31,512 square feet, with 812,735 square feet still under construction at the end of the quarter.
This trend is compared to the U.S. National Office vacancy rate, which decreased to 11.6% from the previous quarter, with net absorption positive 23.48 million square feet in the third quarter. Average rental rates increased to $21.75, and 244 office buildings delivered to the market totaling more than 12.2 million square feet.
Source: CoStar
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Miami's Hot Market? Industrial Property
Industrial, Industry News
Condos may get all the publicity, but industrial space in Miami is hot again, with developers competing for land and tenants.
More than 4 million square feet of space is in the development pipeline. And land prices are reaching record level, attracting as much as $1 million per acre. The investment industry now considers Miami a tier 1 city, which is attracting more institutional investors, Steve Medwin, managing director for Jones Lang LaSalle South Florida told WPC News. "REITs, the life insurance companies, private equity firms, all have raised tremendous amount of capital for real estate… they want to have a location here," Mr. Medwin said.
Several catalysts are driving the market, including the Panama Canal expansion, which will bring Panamax-class container ships to Miami's port in 2015, as well as the growth of the economy in Latin America. Developers delivered almost 300,000 square feet of warehouse and distribution space in Miami during the third quarter. An additional 733,737 square feet is currently under construction, according to CBRE. Another 3.9 million square feet of space is in the development pipeline.
The largest delivery during the third quarter was Building 1 in South Florida Logistics Center, adding 171,545 square feet to the area known as Airport/Doral. The South Florida Logistics Center will eventually add 1.6 million square feet of industrial space across 200 acres next to Miami International Airport.
The popularity for land in Doral has pushed up prices for competing investors. "Prices went from a $1 million an acre [before the recession], down to about $400,000 an acre in the bottom of 2009 in Doral, and are now back to about $750,000 an acre — if you can find it," Mr. Medwin said. The year-to-date net absorption of 794,356 square feet at the end of the third quarter already surpassed the total absorption for 2012. Starboard Cruise Services signed the largest lease — 220,000 square feet at the future Flagler Station Building 34, according to CBRE.
The vacancy rate for Miami's industrial market is down to 4.9 percent, dropping 40 basis points from the previous quarter, and down 120 points from last year. Average asking rates were up to $7.81 per square foot during the third quarter, which is $0.43 per square foot higher than last year, CBRE reports.
The recent development has led to a glut of product in certain areas, which is helping to keep down prices, Mr. Medwin says. "We are seeing is a lot of speculative construction by these big institutions who were able to buy land in the last couple of years and they are all delivering around the same time," Mr. Medwin said. "There are a number of choices so rental rates are staying low there, they're not shooting through the roof."
The demand for Miami's industrial product should continue to increase, analysts say. "Several sizable investments sales, both institutional and private, are expected to close during Q4 2013, resulting in a boost in sales volume," CBRE said in the report.
Although land is predominately scarce, the city still offers potential for developers and investors, analysts say. "It's a supply constrained market, so there's not a lot of land around," Mr. Medwin said. "But there's enough to build another 10 million to 20 million square feet, which is 5 to 10 percent of the base we already have in Miami, over the next 3 to 5 or 10 years."
Source: World Property Channel
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VIDEO: CCIM Webinar Examines Effects Of 3.8 Percent Tax On Investment Real Estate
The 3.8 percent healthcare tax, which took effect on Jan. 1, has wide-reaching implications for investment real estate.
The impacts of this law were examined in a recent CCIM Institute member webinar hosted by Jeff Bilsky, senior director of BDO USA's national tax office.
The 3.8 percent tax is imposed on the lesser of net investment income or modified adjusted gross income over $250,000 (married filing jointly), $125,000 (married filing separately), or $200,000 (individual filing). The tax also applies to the lesser of a trust or estate's undistributed net investment income or the excess of adjusted gross income over $7,500.
Bilsky examined the categories of investment income that are tax eligible as well as exclusions, including rental income and gains on sale of rental property when income is generated by a real estate professional who materially participates in the rental activity or the rental activity constitutes a trade or business.
View CCIM's Section 1411 Net Investment Income Tax webinar to learn more about the effects of the 3.8 percent tax on net investment income, how to calculate the potential changes in rental income, and more.
Source: CCIM Institute
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New Idea: Third Party Solar Financing For Commercial Properties
Energy Efficiency & Sustainability, Industry News
The most recent initiative makes it a goal for the costs of solar to continue their trend downward to meet those of conventionally generated electricity by the end of this decade.
This comes with the announcement by the White House reinvigorating solar energy through the Department of Energy's SunShot initiative. These goals don't only come from government offices. Laboratories too are leading the way. Technological advances are helping along the trend, as silicon may be able to be replaced as the main ingredient in solar panel construction. A recent discovery that a light-absorbing material known for a century may work in solar panels and dramatically increase their efficiency has the industry talking. Thanks to the combined developments, the cost per watt of solar-generated electricity may fall to the 10-20 cents per watt range where fossil fuel-generated electricity resides.
All that said, the opportunity for commercial space users to take advantage of these new technologies and for commercial landlords to convert their properties into energy-producing ones remains mired in the financial barriers and customs of an industry that views (and pays for) property improvements for multi-tenant buildings in very specific ways. To answer the question of how the costs and benefits of solar improvements are apportioned usually needs to begin with how such improvements are paid for.
One California company says they have used real estate legal forms to address this problem. Working with a leading law firm, EPR Squared, a real estate firm specializes in cracking the tough problem of opening commercial rooftops to solar. In solar improvement, as with most other features of commercial property usage, the all-important capital source is the third party financier. But the territory is new and forms and deals have little precedent to work with. Establishing revenue flows on a tenant or space subdivision basis to cover construction costs and to apportion energy-generation benefit requires a new kind of real estate deal. EPR Squared says they've constructed such a boilerplate.
According to real estate research firm data cited by Energy Producing Retail Realty, Inc. Founder/CEO, Chris Pawlik, 90 percent to 95 percent of commercial building rooftops remain essentially beyond the reach of third-party financing, "When you have a commercial building with multiple tenants," Pawlik said, third parties "can't technically finance those unless the owner takes it on, and commercial owners won't do that."
Third-party financiers, he explained, "can get an agreement signed or financing in place because they have the credit of the off-taker that takes care of the risk." With a twenty-year commitment, third-party financiers have certainty that their loan will repaid. But, Pawlik said, "owners typically own properties five to seven years and tenants are typically in properties five to ten years. You can't have a ten- to twenty-year agreement in situations like that."
EPR Squared's idea is to create a real estate interest on the property and have it be a separate interest from the improvements and from the land. It is similar to agreements with property owners for cell tower and billboards, though, Pawlik stressed, the solar legal structure is not identical. DLA Piper, which Pawlik called "the gold-standard, top-tier law firm" for commercial real estate, "has finalized the form documents we need to take to the owners to show them how this structure would work."
EPR2 has "a dozen or so deals in the pipeline with groups that have either portfolios of properties or single properties," Pawlik said. The first deal, he explained, must be one that demonstrates to the 60,000 California real estate brokers, agents and mortgaging agents that "this is almost identical to a real estate transaction." When they see commissions in it for themselves, he said, "we can really scale the idea and bring it to a size at which pension funds and insurance companies will start looking at it."
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Research Challenges Vegetable Oil's Heart-Healthy Reputation
Research from 2016 casts doubt on the "heart-healthy" practice of replacing butter and other saturated fat sources with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid, such as corn oil. The findings, published in the BMJ, found using corn oil in place of other fats failed to reduce heart disease deaths and overall mortality. This 2016 evidence comes from a meta-analysis of previously unpublished data from a large controlled trial, the Minnesota Coronary Experiment (MCE), which was conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota between 1968 and 1973. The MCE included 9,423 patients, aged 20 to 97, residing in six state mental hospitals and one state-run nursing home. The participants were divided into two groups: the first group was put on a diet that replaced saturated fat sources with linoleic acid-rich corn oil and corn oil polyunsaturated margarine; the second group ate a control diet that included usual amounts of saturated fat from animal fats and trans-fats from common margarines and shortenings. After analyzing the reports of deaths from any cause, deaths from heart disease, and the presence and severity of atherosclerosis from autopsies, the authors of the 2016 meta-analysis found that:
Being on the high-linoleic acid diet resulted in a 50% reduction in saturated fat intake and a 2.8-fold increase in linoleic acid consumption compared with the control diet. Being on the control diet resulted in no change in saturated fat intake and a slight increase in linoleic acid intake.
Participants on the high-linoleic acid diet experienced a statistically significant reduction in blood cholesterol levels compared with the participants on the control diet. In addition, those who followed the diet most strictly had the greatest reductions in cholesterol levels.
Despite their lower cholesterol levels, participants eating the high-linoleic acid diet did not have fewer deaths from any cause, less coronary artery disease, or fewer heart attacks compared with those eating the ordinary high saturated- and trans-fat diet.
While these findings go against widely held beliefs about saturated fats, cholesterol, and heart disease, the authors of the 2016 meta-analysis pointed to similar findings from a re-examination of data from a dietary trial in which safflower oil, another linoleic acid-rich oil, was used. How high-linoleic acid vegetable oils bring cholesterol levels down, but fail to reduce cardiovascular disease and deaths, is a subject of ongoing research. Some studies suggest that linoleic acid, which is prone to oxidation, can trigger inflammation and vascular damage in its oxidized state. While we wait for more research to come in, it's important to remember that unprocessed plant fat sources like nuts, seeds, olives, and avocadoes are an important part of a heart-healthy diet.
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È considerato uno dei grandi interpreti di Fryderyk Chopin.

Biografia
Nato nel 1930 a Praga in Cecoslovacchia, Moravec iniziò ad avvicinarsi alla musica ascoltando suonare il padre, avvocato e pianista dilettante, che amava anche cantare arie d'opera. Ebbe una notevole passione per l'opera lirica; era solito  assistervi spesso a teatro accompagnato dal padre e sviluppò una grande ammirazione soprattutto per il tenore Enrico Caruso di cui ascoltava le incisioni. All'età di sette anni iniziò le prime lezioni di pianoforte con Erna Grünfeld, nipote di Alfred Grünfeld, celebre pianista austriaco. A 15 anni entrò al Conservatorio di Praga, ma a 18 anni un incidente di pattinaggio gli causò una lesione alle vertebre cervicali e lo lasciò debole, con parecchie difficoltà, tanto che dovette sospendere le lezioni fino ai 24 anni; dovette rimodulare la sua tecnica e il suo modo di suonare, bilanciando l'uso delle dita con la forza delle braccia. Il suo stile raffinato e molto delicato è stato in seguito attribuito proprio a questa sua situazione.

Studiò in seguito con Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, figlia del pianista ceco Vilém Kurz. Quando nei primi anni '50 ascoltò un concerto a Praga di Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, l'esecuzione del pianista lo colpì talmente da suggerirgli la strada da percorrere nel suo cammino artistico. Dopo averlo sentito suonare, Michelangeli lo invitò ai corsi dal lui tenuti ad Arezzo per gli anni 1957 e 1958.

Per tutti gli anni '50 la carriera di Moravec si svolse all'interno della Cecoslovacchia; quando la registrazione di un suo recital iniziò a circolare negli USA l'interesse del mondo musicale iniziò a rivolgersi al giovane pianista. In seguito, ottenuti i permessi per lavorare in occidente, la carriera di Moravec prese avvio. Nel 1963 il direttore d'orchestra George Szell lo invitò a partecipare a una tournée americana con l'Orchestra di Cleveland. Da allora la sua carriera lo portò a spostarsi ovunque per dare concerti, dagli Stati Uniti all'Italia, all'Austria, alla Gran Bretagna. Incise il suo primo album nel 1960 con l'etichetta Supraphon, interpretando la Sonata n. 3 di Mozart e la Ballata n. 4 di Chopin. Nel 1964 il pianista fece il suo debutto alla Carnegie Hall di New York.

Ivan Moravec si è esibito con le maggiori orchestre tra cui la New York Philharmonic, la Boston Symphony Orchestra, la Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Come solista ha suonato in tutte le maggiori città americane ed europee. Nell'anno 2000 Vaclav Havel, l'allora presidente della Repubblica Ceca, gli ha conferito la medaglia al merito per l'eccezionale risultato in campo artistico.

Moravec ha sempre preferito come autori Chopin e Debussy, che scoprì da ragazzo suonando Children's Corner; egli è stato però grande interprete anche di Mozart, Beethoven, César Franck e di musicisti suoi conterranei quali Leoš Janáček e Bedřich Smetana. La maggior parte delle sue esecuzioni e incisioni hanno avuto comunque come oggetto le opere di Chopin; la sua registrazione nel 1965 dei Notturni, riedita nel 1991, è stata considerata dal New York Times nel 2010 come una delle cinque maggiori realizzazioni in occasione del bicentenario della nascita del compositore polacco.

Spesso chiamato dai critici il "poeta del pianoforte", Moravec era conosciuto per la grande dolcezza e la bellezza del suono, una tecnica brillante e una grande sensibilità; era anche un grande perfezionista, era noto per non separarsi mai da un astuccio che conteneva un kit di attrezzi per mettere a punto il suo pianoforte prima delle esibizioni, a volte fino a pochi minuti prima del concerto.

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Shutter Island, the Film, Is Shuddery Good
No Spoilers
You probably recognize American Film Noir when you see it. Shot in black-and-white with stark lighting and dramatic shadowing, the films explore morality in storylines where no character is completely good or evil. The disillusioned and usually fatalistic male protagonist wears suits and is virtually always clean-shaven (or sporting day-old stubble, at most). Though he's had some dubious dealings in the past that make him morally ambiguous, he is almost always portrayed as the victim of a femme fatale, a woman of highly questionable moral virtue.
Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer in 1947 Noir Classic, Out of the Past ©
Beautiful and duplicitous, the femme fatale ensnares the unwary male protagonist, who is so drawn to her that he will do anything — even commit murder — in order to possess her love. Sexual passion goes along with her love, of course, but the doomed male protagonists of Noir want the femme fatale's love even more than they want her sexual fidelity.
Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in Hitchcock's Rebecca ©
Whether the male protagonist is a widower attempting to find happiness in his new marriage (Rebecca), a private investigator dealing with unscrupulous adventurers (The Maltese Falcon), or a drifter who gets involved in a murder conspiracy (The Postman Always Rings Twice), the male protagonist of Noir is world-weary, gritty, and psychologically complex.
Neo-Noir pays homage to Noir classics, using "updated themes, content, style, visual elements, or media that were absent in film noir of the 1940s and 1950s." Shutter Island, a 2010 neo-Noir film by Martin Scorsese, based on the 2003 bestseller by Dennis Lehane, is one of the more fascinatingly complex neo-noir films.
Mark Ruffalo (L) and Leonard DiCaprio (R) in Shutter Island ©
Though lacking the characteristic noir Voice-Over which limits the story to the male protagonist's perspective, Shutter Island nevertheless keeps the audience focus firmly restricted to the story of US Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio). On assignment in 1954 with his new partner Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), Teddy is investigating the disappearance of a female inmate of Shutter Island: a psychiatric facility isolated in Boston Harbor and housing the most dangerous of the criminally insane.
Marshals Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo, L) and Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio, R) heading for Shutter Island ©
On Shutter Island, psychiatrists and nurses, led by the facility's Director, Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley), are ostensibly using revolutionary psychotropic drugs and intensive psychotherapy — along with "empathy" — to treat the dangerous inmates.
Director of Shutter Island, Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley) ©
All of the doctors and staff are extremely uncooperative with the law officers, however, leading Teddy to suspect that something nefarious is happening on the Island, especially at the Lighthouse, which guards refuse to let the Marshals enter.
The Lighthouse on Shutter Island ©
Haunted by his experiences as a soldier liberating the Nazi concentration camp Dachau,
American soldier liberate Dachau in Shutter Island ©
as well as by the death of his belovèd wife Dolores (Michelle Williams),
Teddy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and wife Dolores (Michelle Williams) in Shutter Island ©
Teddy is determined not only to find the missing inmate, Rachel, who disappeared from a locked cell on a locked ward, but to unearth Shutter Island's sinister — perhaps criminal — secrets.
Teddy and Chuck, attempting to reach the Shutter Island Lighthouse ©
Ultimately, like all neo-noir protagonists, Teddy becomes "trapped in a difficult situation" and is "forced to make choices out of desperation."
Leonard DiCaprio as Teddy in Shutter Island ©
Suspenseful and gripping, Shutter Island ultimately becomes heartbreaking — even if you think you've guessed the ending about halfway through — mostly because of Leonardo DiCaprio's incredibly powerful performance as the noble but flawed Teddy.
Rated R for mature subject matter, Shutter Island received mostly positive critical reviews and has become Scorsese's second-highest grossing film worldwide, earning over $294M. It's available for rent for $2.99-3.99 from Amazon, from iTunes, and from YouTube.
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True Love Story of Real Couple 'On the Spectrum'
Living and Loving with Autism
Our acclaimed West Coast Premiere of Ken LaZebnik's On the Spectrum chronicles the blossoming love story between Mac and Iris, two young people with autism. Meet real-life couple David and Lindsey. They, too, haven't let their autism get in the way of falling in love.
By Thea Trachtenberg and Lindsay Goldwert
David Hamrick, 29, and Lindsey Nebeker, 27, look like a typical couple in love, but what's not apparent is how hard they've worked to be together.
Hamrick and Nebeker live together in a Jackson, Miss., apartment, yet they have separate bedrooms, eat meals apart and spend most of their time focused on their own interests.
This unusual setup is how Hamrick and Nebeker, who are both autistic, make their relationship work.
About 1.5 million people in the United States have autism, with varying degrees of severity. Many people with autism struggle with the most basic social interactions, so finding love may seem like an impossibility.
Hamrick and Nebeker are high-functioning but, since childhood, both have found it difficult to make friends and even harder to keep them.
"All of her socialization had to be learned, usually by hard experience," said Nebeker's father, Gordon Nebeker.
Autistic people can also be hypersensitive to touch and sound. Hamrick can't stand when the room is too warm and cringes at certain sounds; Nebeker can't take florescent lights; and both are profoundly uncomfortable with small talk.
Lindsey Nebeker and David Hamrick
Learning to Interact with Autism
Despite their difficulties, they both kept trying to reach out and connect with others. Nebeker learned to make friends by reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Hamrick had tried to untangle the rules of dating by reading self-help books.
"No one teaches you to flirt," said Diane Twactman-Cullen, editor in chief of Autism Spectrum Quarterly. "Individuals with autism would really be at a loss. So there might be some missed signals."
When Hamrick and Nebeker met in 2005 at an autism conference, Hamrick was smitten.
"I pretty much liked everything about her," he said. "She was very sweet, easy to talk to, and a good listener."
But Nebeker was unsure.
"In my early 20s, I had decided I was no longer going to seek a relationship," she said. "I was mainly going to focus on my career and my friends that I had been able to make and keep."
They became friends. Then one day when they were at a café, Hamrick knew he was making progress when he put his hand on hers.
"My heart was racing," Hamrick said. "I was fearful it might not work out the way I had anticipated, but the fact that she didn't pull back and she was able to hold my hand there for at least five minutes, I was very touched by that."
Mac (Dan Shaked) and Iris (Virginia Newcomb) in 'On the Spectrum'
Living Together With Separate Needs
After two years of dating, they took the huge step of moving in together, despite their unique and separate needs.
Nebeker admits that it seems highly unusual for a typical couple to agree to separate bedrooms.
"We both understood the importance of an individual with autism needing their own space," she said.
When they are in their apartment, they are rarely together. Hamrick, a meteorologist, is often in his room on the computer or absorbed in the Weather Channel while Nebeker, a musician, can get lost for hours playing the piano and working on her music.
A romantic dinner for two presents major challenges.
"There are a number of sounds that are unpleasant to me," Hamrick explained. "Such as chewing sounds and crunching sounds."
And Nebeker has many complicated eating rituals. Her napkin has to be placed just so and her meals prepared in just the right way.
"Sometimes Dave will spontaneously ask, 'Hey, you want to go out for dinner tonight?' And I break into sobs and I say, 'I am so sorry, I just can't. I just can't,'" Nebeker said.
Virginia Newcomb & Dan Shaked in 'On the Spectrum'.
The couple's parents have seen their children struggle with their disorder and are in awe of the way the two care for each other and express their love and devotion.
"Being high functioning is almost more difficult than being low functioning," said Gordon Nebeker. "You are so close to there, and yet not quite — and that is heartbreaking."
But for all the compromises, the couple's love story is actually a pretty traditional one, one of deep understanding and acceptance.
"When I have had a bad day at work or just a bad day for some other reason — and I come home, I don't even have to say anything, he senses it. Dave will come up to me and start cuddling up to me and that's really all I need," Nebeker said. "I know that I am with a partner who is not going to judge me for certain eccentricities I have."
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Home Have you Ran out of Time? How Long Do I have To Contest A Will or Trust In California?
How to Contest a Trust in California In A Timely Manner
March 14, 2018 | Albertson & Davidson, LLP | Contested Wills
Contesting Wills and Trusts can be difficult because each document operates under a different set of rules. And each document has a different statute of limitations for contesting it.
Timeline for California Will Contests
You really cannot contest a California Will until someone offers the Will to be admitted into probate. Under California law, a Will is not a Will until a court says it's a Will. In other words, a written Will is just evidence of a Will until the court admits it to probate. Probate is the process of proving the Will is valid. As a result, there is nothing to contest until a Petition for Probate is filed with the court. And in many estates a Will is not required because none of the decedent's assets pass under his or her probate estate. As a result, the Will is never submitted to the court for admission to probate, and a contest never takes place (nor is it relevant, since no assets would pass under the contested Will anyway).
If, however, someone files a petition seeking to admit the Will to probate, then you must object to that petition and file your Will contest lawsuit before the Will is admitted to probate. Once the Will is admitted to probate, it is deemed a valid Will—the court issues an order saying the Will is valid. To prevent that order from being entered, you must contest the Will's validity.
If you receive notice of a petition for probate on a Will you'd like to contest, you need to appear and object at the initial hearing. The court will then allow you time to file a written objection and a Will contest complaint where you must state the legal grounds you are using to challenging the validity of the Will.
Once a Will is admitted to probate, and thereby deemed valid, you still have one last chance to contest the Will. If you file a petition with the court within 120 days after the probate is opened, you can ask the court to revoke its order admitted the Will to probate. Again, you must file a petition stating your legal grounds for contesting the Will.
Avoiding delays in your will contest
Ideally, you want to contest a Will BEFORE it is admitted to probate because you do not want the court to enter an order validating the Will. But if a petition for probate is never filed, then your deadline in which to contest the Will never starts.
WARNING: there is a big warning here for creditors of the estate. If you are owed a debt from a decedent, and a probate estate is never opened, you still have only one year in which to bring your claim. A creditor has the right to open a probate estate. Once opened the creditor can file its claim against the estate in order to preserve the right to sue for the debt. If a creditor fails to do so within a year of the decedent's death, then that creditor is forever barred from collecting that debt. (See CCP section 366.2 and 366.3.)
Timeline for California Trust Contests
For Trusts, the rules are quite different. A Trust contest must be commenced within 120 days after a beneficiary is given notice by the Trustee under Probate Code section 16061.7. The notice provides specific information that must be given to the Trust beneficiaries. Once the notice is mailed, the 120-day period begins. The 120-day period is extend by up to 60 days if a beneficiary requests a copy of the Trust document after receiving the initial notice. But it is best to contest a Trust within the initial 120-day period to be on the safe side.
If a beneficiary is given Trustee notice, but fails to file a Trust contest within 120 days, then the beneficiary is forever barred from contesting the Trust at any time in the future. If, however, statutory notice under section 16061.7 is never given, then the statute of limitations to contest the Trust remains open indefinitely. That's not to say you should sit on your rights if you never receive notice. The court can still use its equitable powers to stop your lawsuit if you wait too long to bring it. But the legal requirements to contest a Trust depend on Trustee notice first being given to you. Once you are given notice, then the clock starts and you have to file quickly.
Regardless of whether you are contesting a Will or a Trust, the best way to proceed is to file promptly. The longer you wait to file your lawsuit, the more likely you are giving up valuable rights that may be lost forever.
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The Left calls Trump an 'authoritarian', a false & futile attempt to suppress populism
By Larry Kummer, Editor / 3 Comments	/ 16 March 2016 17 August 2016
Summary: The hot meme on the Left is that Trump is an authoritarian. It's a reflex by the Left to opposition to declare them illegitimate rather than debate specifics (or for Trump, to admit the overlap in their views). While gratifying to the faithful, such declarations show the inward focus of the Left that has led to their loss of influence. After decades of such declarations, who cares anymore? This post examines the claims, the research behind them, and their real role in US politics.
The Left has mastered the tactic of declaring their foes to be illegitimate, therefore avoiding the need to confront their views. Hence their announcements that Trump is an authoritarian (or like Hitler). Populism be gone!
This July 2015 article by John Dean at Justia was perhaps the first essay in this genre. It is one of the best; its flaws were common in those that followed. Alternet ran it as "Trump Is the Authoritarian Ruler Republicans and Some Dems Have Been Waiting For — How far can a truly authoritarian leader go in America?". Dean was counsel to President Nixon and the author of Conservatives Without Conscience
(2006). He rigorously defines his terms, and roots them in historical and social science research. I recommend reading this. But on this foundation he makes broad assertions about Trump and his followers without a shred of evidence.
More typical is this: "It's not just Trump. Authoritarian populism is rising across the West. Here's why." by Pippa Noris at WaPo. She gives no evidence that Trump is an authoritarian. She is a lecturer in politics at Harvard. There are scores of such essays out there.
About Trump's authoritarian supporters
It's fun to declare those who support your foes to be fools or evil, or even evil fools. How sad that doesn't win elections.
"The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You're a Trump Supporter" by Matthew MacWilliams at Politico, 17 Jan 2016 — "And it's not gender, age, income, race or religion." Very exciting to the Left, with 214 thousand shares! He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Also see his article at the London School of Economics blog, and this at AlterNet: "How Authoritarianism Took Over the GOP and Allowed for the Emergence of Emperor Trump" — "Trump's doctrine is authoritarianism, which explains why he continues to exceed conventional expectations." He's discovered there is a big market for telling people what they want to hear!
Here's a good summary of this genre: "The rise of American authoritarianism" by Amanda Taub at VOX, 1 March 2016 — "A niche group of political scientists may have uncovered what's driving Donald Trump's ascent. What they found has implications that go well beyond 2016." Comprehensive and cartoon-like; blind to the similar things said by Sanders and Trump.
This is what I (& others) have said since August: "Trump's voters aren't authoritarians, new research says. So what are they?" by Eric Oliver (prof of pol sci at U Chicago) and Wendy Rahn (prof of pol sci at U Minnesota) at WaPo, 9 March 2016.
"But in our research, we find no evidence that Trump supporters are any more "authoritarian" (at least by common measures) than those who like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) or even Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). …Instead, Trump's supporters are distinctive in another way: They are true populists."
The description of an "authoritarian" personality type comes from a 1950 book of psychobabble: The Authoritarian Personality (available on Kindle: vol 1
and vol 2
). Bob Altemeyer (prof psychology at U professor at U Manitoba) updated this in a widely cited monograph "The Authoritarians".
The most often used definition of an authoritarian government is from Juan Linz's 1964 essay, later published as Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
. The concept has broadened over time (to even include "democratic authoritarian regimes"), but has several characteristics — chiefly these (from Wikipedia):
Limited political pluralism, constraining non-executive political institutions and groups (e.g., legislatures, political parties and interest groups).
Identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency.
Suppression of political opponents and anti-regime activity.
Broad and undefined executive powers.
As usual in politics, these things are matters of degree, not kind. They are found to varying degrees in most mass movements. However, neither mainstream American conservatives nor Donald Trump advocate these things to an unusual degree — or more than the Left (e.g., see the Left's attempts to criminalize those who disagree with their views about climate change).
People often speak of an authoritarian leadership style. Wikipedia describes it with a long grab-bag of traits, adding up to meaning "leaders I don't like". John Dean (who worked for Nixon) describes such leaders as dominating, amoral, seeking personal power; and opposing equality. The first three traits are commonplace among political and business leaders (many are psychopaths) — Nixon and LBJ are classic examples. The latter is a defining characteristic of conservatism. Not much juice is a label that fits so many people.
The usefulness of this in Campaign 2016? Little or none, other than to remind us why we don't listen to political scientists. These claims probably divert attention from the better-founded reasons to oppose Trump — and the larger long-term decay of the US political regime. But these are not appeal to reason; they serve to delegitimize populism, the standard response of the political establishment to its resurgence. Time will tell if they succeed.
Here is the authoritarian spirit in America
Occupy Protest at UC Davis, 18 November 2011.
The actual role of authority in this election
Max Weber described the three forms of political authority: charismatic, traditional, and bureaucratic. Societies evolve through them, then refresh their legitimacy by re-starting the cycle (which may or may not succeed). In this election we have a candidate for each: Clinton, Sanders, and Trump.
Max Weber explains Trump 2016: we want a charismatic leader to restore America.
Hillary's weakness: traditional & charismatic leaders attack her bureaucratic authority.
Please like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter. See all posts about Trump and the New Populism, especially these…
What the press won't tell you about Trump and populism — See Walter Russell Mead's famous essay about Jackson.
Why the Left is missing the rising populist movement.
Liberals look at Trump and populism, but see only their prejudices.
Why they lose: the Left tells us that Trump is like Hitler.
Edward Luttwak: Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future.
3 thoughts on "The Left calls Trump an 'authoritarian', a false & futile attempt to suppress populism"
epagbreton
Terrific Example in the UC Davis photo at the end of this Post.
Editor of the Fabius Maximus website
Breton,
Oh, yes. We have real live problems with authoratarianism rising in the US. Too bad the Left distracts us from it with these attempts to discredit populism (and hide their overlapping views).
The 1% laughs.
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