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Wolves vs Burnley: TV channel, live stream, team news & prediction
By Max Parsons
Bruno Lage has done impressive work so far this season / Marc Atkins/GettyImages
Two founding members of the Football League face each other on Wednesday night, as Wolves host Burnley in the Premier League.
Bruno Lage has gone somewhat under the radar since arriving at Molineux this summer. Following a rough start to his tenure, the Portuguese has quietly lifted his side up the table with six wins and two draws in their previous ten Premier League outings. Wolves are enduring a slight bumpy patch, having lost to Crystal Palace, beaten West Ham and most recently drawn with Norwich in their last three fixtures, although still occupy sixth place.
Burnley still languish in the relegation zone, although have experienced an upturn in form since starting the campaign in woeful fashion. Before seeing their last fixture against Tottenham postponed due to snow, the Clarets had only been beaten by Manchester City in seven league games - although had drawn five of the other six. Sean Dyche's men sit 18th, three points adrift of safety with a game in hand.
Here's 90min's preview of this clash.
How to watch Wolves vs Burnley on TV
The famous Molineux will host the fixture / Pool/GettyImages
When is kick off? Wednesday 1 December, 19:30 (GMT)
Where is it being played? Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton
What TV channel is it on? Amazon Prime Video (UK), fuboTV (US)
Highlights? Sky Sports Football YouTube channel
Who's the referee? John Brooks
Who's the VAR? Stuart Attwell
Wolves team news
Lage faces a couple of headaches regarding team selection for this one. Ruben Neves will be forced to miss out due to a one-match suspension, while Daniel Podence will also be out of contention due to Covid.
Burnley team news
Dyche also has a couple of suspended players to make do without. James Tarkowski will miss out, meaning a likely start for Nathan Collins at the heart of defence.
James Tarkowski will be a big miss for Sean Dyche's side / Sebastian Frej/MB Media/GettyImages
Meanwhile, Ashley Westwood also faces a one-match ban, most probably opening the door to Jack Cork in the Clarets' midfield.
Wolves vs Burnley predicted lienups
Wolves: Sa; Kilman, Coady, Saiss; Semedo, Dendoncker, Moutinho, Ait-Nouri; Trincao, Jimenez, Hwang.
Burnley: Pope; Lowton, Collins, Mee, Taylor; Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Cork, McNeil; Wood, Cornet.
Wolves vs Burnley head to head record
For two such historically significant football clubs, they've spent long periods without meeting each other since the Football League's formation in 1888. In 135 encounters, Wolves have had more joy with 60 victories while Burnley have won just 40 (29 draws).
The Midlands outfit experienced a huge period of domination in the fixture from 1970 until 2002, winning 21 and losing just two of the two club's 27 meetings throughout that time.
Recent years, however, have favoured Burnley. Since 2012 there have been ten meetings between the sides, of which the Clarets have been triumphant in five while losing just once. Dyche's men are currently on a two-match winning run against Wolves, most recently thrashing them 4-0 at Molineux with the help of a Chris Wood hat-trick back in April - as seen above.
Wolves vs Burnley prediction
Burnley may have the more readable record in the fixture heading into Wednesday's clash, but Wolves have certainly been the stronger side throughout the 2021/22 campaign so far.
Lage's Wolves seem to have finally settled and are earning the results that their performances have warranted since the new boss took over. Quality has quietly shone through and, having discovered a more clinical edge to obtain said results, the club is in a very encouraging situation approaching the halfway point in the season.
Burnley, on the other hand, haven't shone - the large majority of this campaign's early stages have been dull, to say the least. Finally starting to show their trademark solidity and having picked up some form, however, it looks as though the Clarets will have enough in the tank to retain Premier League status for yet another season come May.
This Wednesday, however, it's likely that Wolves will just have too much for them.
Prediction Wolves 1-0 Burnley


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Today's meetup was all about Appreciation Marketing, a fitting topic, considering most of us just celebrated Thanksgiving. We have been grateful for our health, family, business and so much more!
Did you know that there is a VERY small percentage of realtors and loan officers who keep in touch with their database, even though the best source of new business is your current business?
Did you know that there are 8 Things that are important to running a successful business?
Take a minute to grade yourself in those categories...do you have straight A's or are there some areas where you can make some improvement? I bet that tweaking some areas will mean a HUGE increase in your business!
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I will let you in on a little secret, you will only need a few things to be a HUGE SUCCESS...the Right Tools, the Right Systems, The Right Habits....CONSISTENTLY applied! That last one is the key.
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Pick SOMETHING and WORK IT!
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Hope you are attending a meetup near you, I know you will learn more than you thought possible.
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Learn how santeros preserve the past, visit the Harwood Museum of Art's new exhibit, celebrate St. Patrick's Day, explore the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, and hike Petroglyph National Monument.
Updated Mar. 12, 2021
By Maria Manuela
A bulto of St. Francis is among the works it be discussed during "Traditions of the Santero" on Saturday. Photograph courtesy of Albuquerque Museum.
Learn how santeros preserve the past.
During the Spanish colonial era, santeros crafted religious artworks using the materials at hand—cottonwood roots, plant pigments, and cowhides. Dive into the carving of bultos, or statues, at 1 p.m. Saturday as conservators Allison Herrera and Keith Bakker discuss the artworks' significance and how to care for them. Hosted by the Albuquerque Museum and its Casa San Ysidro site, Traditions of the Santero: Bulto Restoration Techniques is designed for artists, collectors, and anyone curious to find out more.
Besides talking about specific pieces from the museum collection, the pair will discuss current trends in conservation. "We don't ever want to paint over original paint," Herrera says. "We don't change the color of anything. We don't want to affect the artist's original intent or its history."
The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum's Home on the Ranch exhibition explores how the rural Tularosa Basin became a missile range during World War II. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
Hit a new museum exhibit.
Explore life in the Tularosa Basin and the immense changes it has seen from 1940 to now in the exhibition Home on the Ranch: From Ranches to Rockets at the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, in Las Cruces. Once a rural farmland, the basin transformed into a missile range during World War II. Some families had to leave their farms with little to no notice.
"We want people to understand what ranch life was like out there, and what happened to folks," says Leah Tookey, the museum's curator of history. She worked with Jim Eckles, public information officer at White Sands Missile Range, on the exhibition, which includes replicas of missiles and ranch houses, period-appropriate interactive games for kids, and a rocket-making station. If you cannot visit in person, see the virtual version on the museum's website.
Visit an art show.
Maja Ruznic, a Bosnian-Herzegovinian artist, creates ethereal figures by painting with pigments and thin washes, then sanding her paintings to remove layers of color and texture. Her newest works are featured in a solo exhibit, In the Sliver of the Sun, at the Harwood Museum of Art, in Taos. A virtual opening reception happens via Zoom at 5:30 p.m. Friday. "I think all of the figures I have been painting the last few months are looking for a sliver of sun," Ruznic says. "I feel the colors and the way I am applying the paint is acting as kind of an ointment for me. It isn't intentional, it's intuitive. There's a lot of gentleness in the new work."
Born in a tiny town in Bosnia in 1983, Ruznic and her family fled the country to escape ethnic cleansing and eventually settled in the United States. The sliver of sun Ruznic references in the show's title speaks to her own internal journey. "The search for that sliver is the reclaiming of scattered pieces of identity," she says. The show is up through September 26.
Celtic Fringe performs at Celtic Fest Saturday on the campus of New Mexico Tech. Photograph courtesy of Celtic Fringe.
Wear something green.
Do a wee jig and celebrate the luck o' the Irish just before St. Patrick's Day at Celtic Fest, a drive-in concert, 1–4:30 p.m., Saturday. Hosted by New Mexico Tech's Performing Art Series, the event features Celtic jams performed by the Irish Setters and Celtic Fringe from the Macey Center parking lot in Socorro. (RSVP by emailing pas@nmt.edu.) The Cubish food truck will dish up shepherds' pie and bangers and mash (the chef is Cuban and Irish, hence " Cubish"). Attendees get a menu upon arrival and text to order for carside delivery. You can also enjoy the concert from home, but the cabbage stew is all on you.
One of the more than 400 petroglyphs you might see hiking the 1.5 mile path in Petroglyph National Monument. Photograph by Steve Gleydura.
Hike the Petroglyphs
Centuries ago, Ancestral Puebloans decorated cliff faces and boulders with representations of their lives and culture. Go hunting for some this weekend at the Piedras Marcadas (marked rocks) Canyon Trail at Petroglyph National Monument, on Albuquerque's west side. The easy 1.5-mile path offers views of more than 400 petroglyphs. You can bring your pups, but they must stay on a leash at all times and you must pick up after them. The trail is open sunrise to sunset. There might be a nip in the air and a bit of a breeze, so dress in layers. Oh—and don't touch the petroglyphs. The oils from your hands can damage them.


Do Antidepressants Impair the Ability to Extinguish Fear?
An interesting new report of animal research published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that common antidepressant medications may impair a form of learning that is important clinically.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly called SSRIs, are a class of antidepressant widely used to treat depression, as well as a range of anxiety disorders, but the effects of these drugs on learning and memory are poorly understood.
In a previous study, Nesha Burghardt, then a graduate student at New York University, and her colleagues demonstrated that long-term SSRI treatment impairs fear conditioning in rats. As a follow-up, they have now tested the effects of antidepressant treatment on extinction learning in rats using auditory fear conditioning, a model of fear learning that involves the amygdala. The amygdala is a region of the brain vitally important for processing memory and emotion.
They found that long-term, but not short-term, SSRI treatment impairs extinction learning, which is the ability to learn that a conditioned stimulus no longer predicts an aversive event.
"This impairment may have important consequences clinically, since extinction-based exposure therapy is often used to treat anxiety disorders and antidepressants are often administered simultaneously," said Dr. Burghardt. "Based on our work, medication-induced impairments in extinction learning may actually disrupt the beneficial effects of exposure-therapy."
This finding is consistent with the results of several clinical studies showing that combined treatment can impede the benefits of exposure therapy or even natural resilience to the impact of traumatic stress at long-term follow-up.
The authors also suggest a mechanism for this effect on fear learning. They reported that the antidepressants decreased the levels of one of the subunits of the NMDA receptor (NR2B) in the amygdala. The NMDA receptor is critically involved in fear-related learning, so these reductions are believed to contribute to the observed effects.
Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry, commented, "We know that antidepressants play important roles in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. However, it is important to understand the limitations of these medications so that we can improve the effectiveness of the treatment for these disorders."
The article is "Chronic Antidepressant Treatment Impairs the Acquisition of Fear Extinction" by Nesha S. Burghardt, Torfi Sigurdsson, Jack M. Gorman, Bruce S. McEwen, and Joseph E. LeDoux (doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.10.012). The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 73, Issue 11 (June 1, 2013), published by Elsevier.
Full text of the article is available to credentialed journalists upon request; contact Rhiannon Bugno at +1 214 648 0880 or Biol.Psych@utsouthwestern.edu. Journalists wishing to interview the authors may contact Nesha S. Burghardt at nsb2113@columbia.edu.
Biological Psychiatry is one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience. It is ranked 5th out of 129 Psychiatry titles and 16thout of 243 Neurosciences titles in the Journal Citations Reports® published by Thomson Reuters. The 2011 Impact Factor score for Biological Psychiatryis 8.283.


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package javax.swing.plaf.synth;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.basic.*;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;

/**
 * Provides the Synth L&F UI delegate for
 * {@link javax.swing.JComboBox}.
 *
 * @author Scott Violet
 * @since 1.7
 */
public class SynthComboBoxUI extends BasicComboBoxUI implements
                              PropertyChangeListener, SynthUI {
    private SynthStyle style;
    private boolean useListColors;

    /**
     * Used to adjust the location and size of the popup. Very useful for
     * situations such as we find in Nimbus where part of the border is used
     * to paint the focus. In such cases, the border is empty space, and not
     * part of the "visual" border, and in these cases, you'd like the popup
     * to be adjusted such that it looks as if it were next to the visual border.
     * You may want to use negative insets to get the right look.
     */
    Insets popupInsets;

    /**
     * This flag may be set via UIDefaults. By default, it is false, to
     * preserve backwards compatibility. If true, then the combo will
     * "act as a button" when it is not editable.
     */
    private boolean buttonWhenNotEditable;

    /**
     * A flag to indicate that the combo box and combo box button should
     * remain in the PRESSED state while the combo popup is visible.
     */
    private boolean pressedWhenPopupVisible;

    /**
     * When buttonWhenNotEditable is true, this field is used to help make
     * the combo box appear and function as a button when the combo box is
     * not editable. In such a state, you can click anywhere on the button
     * to get it to open the popup. Also, anywhere you hover over the combo
     * will cause the entire combo to go into "rollover" state, and anywhere
     * you press will go into "pressed" state. This also keeps in sync the
     * state of the combo and the arrowButton.
     */
    private ButtonHandler buttonHandler;

    /**
     * Handler for repainting combo when editor component gains/looses focus
     */
    private EditorFocusHandler editorFocusHandler;

    /**
     * If true, then the cell renderer will be forced to be non-opaque when
     * used for rendering the selected item in the combo box (not in the list),
     * and forced to opaque after rendering the selected value.
     */
    private boolean forceOpaque = false;

    /**
     * Creates a new UI object for the given component.
     *
     * @param c component to create UI object for
     * @return the UI object
     */
    public static ComponentUI createUI(JComponent c) {
        return new SynthComboBoxUI();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * Overridden to ensure that ButtonHandler is created prior to any of
     * the other installXXX methods, since several of them reference
     * buttonHandler.
     */
    @Override
    public void installUI(JComponent c) {
        buttonHandler = new ButtonHandler();
        super.installUI(c);
    }

    @Override
    protected void installDefaults() {
        updateStyle(comboBox);
    }

    private void updateStyle(JComboBox comboBox) {
        SynthStyle oldStyle = style;
        SynthContext context = getContext(comboBox, ENABLED);

        style = SynthLookAndFeel.updateStyle(context, this);
        if (style != oldStyle) {
            padding = (Insets) style.get(context, "ComboBox.padding");
            popupInsets = (Insets)style.get(context, "ComboBox.popupInsets");
            useListColors = style.getBoolean(context,
                    "ComboBox.rendererUseListColors", true);
            buttonWhenNotEditable = style.getBoolean(context,
                    "ComboBox.buttonWhenNotEditable", false);
            pressedWhenPopupVisible = style.getBoolean(context,
                    "ComboBox.pressedWhenPopupVisible", false);
            squareButton = style.getBoolean(context,
                    "ComboBox.squareButton", true);

            if (oldStyle != null) {
                uninstallKeyboardActions();
                installKeyboardActions();
            }
            forceOpaque = style.getBoolean(context,
                    "ComboBox.forceOpaque", false);
        }
        context.dispose();

        if(listBox != null) {
            SynthLookAndFeel.updateStyles(listBox);
        }
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected void installListeners() {
        comboBox.addPropertyChangeListener(this);
        comboBox.addMouseListener(buttonHandler);
        editorFocusHandler = new EditorFocusHandler(comboBox);
        super.installListeners();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void uninstallUI(JComponent c) {
        if (popup instanceof SynthComboPopup) {
            ((SynthComboPopup)popup).removePopupMenuListener(buttonHandler);
        }
        super.uninstallUI(c);
        buttonHandler = null;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected void uninstallDefaults() {
        SynthContext context = getContext(comboBox, ENABLED);

        style.uninstallDefaults(context);
        context.dispose();
        style = null;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected void uninstallListeners() {
        editorFocusHandler.unregister();
        comboBox.removePropertyChangeListener(this);
        comboBox.removeMouseListener(buttonHandler);
        buttonHandler.pressed = false;
        buttonHandler.over = false;
        super.uninstallListeners();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public SynthContext getContext(JComponent c) {
        return getContext(c, getComponentState(c));
    }

    private SynthContext getContext(JComponent c, int state) {
        return SynthContext.getContext(c, style, state);
    }

    private int getComponentState(JComponent c) {
        // currently we have a broken situation where if a developer
        // takes the border from a JComboBox and sets it on a JTextField
        // then the codepath will eventually lead back to this method
        // but pass in a JTextField instead of JComboBox! In case this
        // happens, we just return the normal synth state for the component
        // instead of doing anything special
        if (!(c instanceof JComboBox)) return SynthLookAndFeel.getComponentState(c);

        JComboBox box = (JComboBox)c;
        if (shouldActLikeButton()) {
            int state = ENABLED;
            if ((!c.isEnabled())) {
                state = DISABLED;
            }
            if (buttonHandler.isPressed()) {
                state |= PRESSED;
            }
            if (buttonHandler.isRollover()) {
                state |= MOUSE_OVER;
            }
            if (box.isFocusOwner()) {
                state |= FOCUSED;
            }
            return state;
        } else {
            // for editable combos the editor component has the focus not the
            // combo box its self, so we should make the combo paint focused
            // when its editor has focus
            int basicState = SynthLookAndFeel.getComponentState(c);
            if (box.isEditable() &&
                     box.getEditor().getEditorComponent().isFocusOwner()) {
                basicState |= FOCUSED;
            }
            return basicState;
        }
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected ComboPopup createPopup() {
        SynthComboPopup p = new SynthComboPopup(comboBox);
        p.addPopupMenuListener(buttonHandler);
        return p;
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected ListCellRenderer createRenderer() {
        return new SynthComboBoxRenderer();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected ComboBoxEditor createEditor() {
        return new SynthComboBoxEditor();
    }

    //
    // end UI Initialization
    //======================

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent e) {
        if (SynthLookAndFeel.shouldUpdateStyle(e)) {
            updateStyle(comboBox);
        }
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    protected JButton createArrowButton() {
        SynthArrowButton button = new SynthArrowButton(SwingConstants.SOUTH);
        button.setName("ComboBox.arrowButton");
        button.setModel(buttonHandler);
        return button;
    }

    //=================================
    // begin ComponentUI Implementation

    /**
     * Notifies this UI delegate to repaint the specified component.
     * This method paints the component background, then calls
     * the {@link #paint(SynthContext,Graphics)} method.
     *
     *
In general, this method does not need to be overridden by subclasses.
     * All Look and Feel rendering code should reside in the {@code paint} method.
     *
     * @param g the {@code Graphics} object used for painting
     * @param c the component being painted
     * @see #paint(SynthContext,Graphics)
     */
    @Override
    public void update(Graphics g, JComponent c) {
        SynthContext context = getContext(c);

        SynthLookAndFeel.update(context, g);
        context.getPainter().paintComboBoxBackground(context, g, 0, 0,
                                                  c.getWidth(), c.getHeight());
        paint(context, g);
        context.dispose();
    }

    /**
     * Paints the specified component according to the Look and Feel.
     *
This method is not used by Synth Look and Feel.
     * Painting is handled by the {@link #paint(SynthContext,Graphics)} method.
     *
     * @param g the {@code Graphics} object used for painting
     * @param c the component being painted
     * @see #paint(SynthContext,Graphics)
     */
    @Override
    public void paint(Graphics g, JComponent c) {
        SynthContext context = getContext(c);

        paint(context, g);
        context.dispose();
    }

    /**
     * Paints the specified component.
     *
     * @param context context for the component being painted
     * @param g the {@code Graphics} object used for painting
     * @see #update(Graphics,JComponent)
     */
    protected void paint(SynthContext context, Graphics g) {
        hasFocus = comboBox.hasFocus();
        if ( !comboBox.isEditable() ) {
            Rectangle r = rectangleForCurrentValue();
            paintCurrentValue(g,r,hasFocus);
        }
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    @Override
    public void paintBorder(SynthContext context, Graphics g, int x,
                            int y, int w, int h) {
        context.getPainter().paintComboBoxBorder(context, g, x, y, w, h);
    }

    /**
     * Paints the currently selected item.
     */
    @Override
    public void paintCurrentValue(Graphics g,Rectangle bounds,boolean hasFocus) {
        ListCellRenderer renderer = comboBox.getRenderer();
        Component c;

        c = renderer.getListCellRendererComponent(
                listBox, comboBox.getSelectedItem(), -1, false, false );

        // Fix for 4238829: should lay out the JPanel.
        boolean shouldValidate = false;
        if (c instanceof JPanel)  {
            shouldValidate = true;
        }

        if (c instanceof UIResource) {
            c.setName("ComboBox.renderer");
        }

        boolean force = forceOpaque && c instanceof JComponent;
        if (force) {
            ((JComponent)c).setOpaque(false);
        }

        int x = bounds.x, y = bounds.y, w = bounds.width, h = bounds.height;
        if (padding != null) {
            x = bounds.x + padding.left;
            y = bounds.y + padding.top;
            w = bounds.width - (padding.left + padding.right);
            h = bounds.height - (padding.top + padding.bottom);
        }

        currentValuePane.paintComponent(g, c, comboBox, x, y, w, h, shouldValidate);

        if (force) {
            ((JComponent)c).setOpaque(true);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return true if this combo box should act as one big button. Typically
     * only happens when buttonWhenNotEditable is true, and comboBox.isEditable
     * is false.
     */
    private boolean shouldActLikeButton() {
        return buttonWhenNotEditable && !comboBox.isEditable();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the default size of an empty display area of the combo box using
     * the current renderer and font.
     *
     * This method was overridden to use SynthComboBoxRenderer instead of
     * DefaultListCellRenderer as the default renderer when calculating the
     * size of the combo box. This is used in the case of the combo not having
     * any data.
     *
     * @return the size of an empty display area
     * @see #getDisplaySize
     */
    @Override
    protected Dimension getDefaultSize() {
        SynthComboBoxRenderer r = new SynthComboBoxRenderer();
        Dimension d = getSizeForComponent(r.getListCellRendererComponent(listBox, " ", -1, false, false));
        return new Dimension(d.width, d.height);
    }

    /**
     * From BasicComboBoxRenderer v 1.18.
     *
     * Be aware that SynthFileChooserUIImpl relies on the fact that the default
     * renderer installed on a Synth combo box is a JLabel. If this is changed,
     * then an assert will fail in SynthFileChooserUIImpl
     */
    private class SynthComboBoxRenderer extends JLabel implements ListCellRenderer<Object>, UIResource {
        public SynthComboBoxRenderer() {
            super();
            setText(" ");
        }

        @Override
        public String getName() {
            // SynthComboBoxRenderer should have installed Name while constructor is working.
            // The setName invocation in the SynthComboBoxRenderer() constructor doesn't work
            // because of the opaque property is installed in the constructor based on the
            // component name (see GTKStyle.isOpaque())
            String name = super.getName();

            return name == null ? "ComboBox.renderer" : name;
        }

        @Override
        public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList<?> list, Object value,
                         int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) {
            setName("ComboBox.listRenderer");
            SynthLookAndFeel.resetSelectedUI();
            if (isSelected) {
                setBackground(list.getSelectionBackground());
                setForeground(list.getSelectionForeground());
                if (!useListColors) {
                    SynthLookAndFeel.setSelectedUI(
                         (SynthLabelUI)SynthLookAndFeel.getUIOfType(getUI(),
                         SynthLabelUI.class), isSelected, cellHasFocus,
                         list.isEnabled(), false);
                }
            } else {
                setBackground(list.getBackground());
                setForeground(list.getForeground());
            }

            setFont(list.getFont());

            if (value instanceof Icon) {
                setIcon((Icon)value);
                setText("");
            } else {
                String text = (value == null) ? " " : value.toString();

                if ("".equals(text)) {
                    text = " ";
                }
                setText(text);
            }

            // The renderer component should inherit the enabled and
            // orientation state of its parent combobox.  This is
            // especially needed for GTK comboboxes, where the
            // ListCellRenderer's state determines the visual state
            // of the combobox.
            if (comboBox != null){
                setEnabled(comboBox.isEnabled());
                setComponentOrientation(comboBox.getComponentOrientation());
            }

            return this;
        }

        @Override
        public void paint(Graphics g) {
            super.paint(g);
            SynthLookAndFeel.resetSelectedUI();
        }
    }

    private static class SynthComboBoxEditor
            extends BasicComboBoxEditor.UIResource {

        @Override public JTextField createEditorComponent() {
            JTextField f = new JTextField("", 9);
            f.setName("ComboBox.textField");
            return f;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Handles all the logic for treating the combo as a button when it is
     * not editable, and when shouldActLikeButton() is true. This class is a
     * special ButtonModel, and installed on the arrowButton when appropriate.
     * It also is installed as a mouse listener and mouse motion listener on
     * the combo box. In this way, the state between the button and combo
     * are in sync. Whenever one is "over" both are. Whenever one is pressed,
     * both are.
     */
    private final class ButtonHandler extends DefaultButtonModel
            implements MouseListener, PopupMenuListener {
        /**
         * Indicates that the mouse is over the combo or the arrow button.
         * This field only has meaning if buttonWhenNotEnabled is true.
         */
        private boolean over;
        /**
         * Indicates that the combo or arrow button has been pressed. This
         * field only has meaning if buttonWhenNotEnabled is true.
         */
        private boolean pressed;

        //------------------------------------------------------------------
        // State Methods
        //------------------------------------------------------------------

        /**
         *
Updates the internal "pressed" state. If shouldActLikeButton()
         * is true, and if this method call will change the internal state,
         * then the combo and button will be repainted.

         *
         *
Note that this method is called either when a press event
         * occurs on the combo box, or on the arrow button.

         */
        private void updatePressed(boolean p) {
            this.pressed = p && isEnabled();
            if (shouldActLikeButton()) {
                comboBox.repaint();
            }
        }

        /**
         *
Updates the internal "over" state. If shouldActLikeButton()
         * is true, and if this method call will change the internal state,
         * then the combo and button will be repainted.

         *
         *
Note that this method is called either when a mouseover/mouseoff event
         * occurs on the combo box, or on the arrow button.

         */
        private void updateOver(boolean o) {
            boolean old = isRollover();
            this.over = o && isEnabled();
            boolean newo = isRollover();
            if (shouldActLikeButton() && old != newo) {
                comboBox.repaint();
            }
        }

        //------------------------------------------------------------------
        // DefaultButtonModel Methods
        //------------------------------------------------------------------

        /**
         * @inheritDoc
         *
         * Ensures that isPressed() will return true if the combo is pressed,
         * or the arrowButton is pressed, or if the combo popup is
         * visible. This is the case because a combo box looks pressed when
         * the popup is visible, and so should the arrow button.
         */
        @Override
        public boolean isPressed() {
            boolean b = shouldActLikeButton() ? pressed : super.isPressed();
            return b || (pressedWhenPopupVisible && comboBox.isPopupVisible());
        }

        /**
         * @inheritDoc
         *
         * Ensures that the armed state is in sync with the pressed state
         * if shouldActLikeButton is true. Without this method, the arrow
         * button will not look pressed when the popup is open, regardless
         * of the result of isPressed() alone.
         */
        @Override
        public boolean isArmed() {
            boolean b = shouldActLikeButton() ||
                        (pressedWhenPopupVisible && comboBox.isPopupVisible());
            return b ? isPressed() : super.isArmed();
        }

        /**
         * @inheritDoc
         *
         * Ensures that isRollover() will return true if the combo is
         * rolled over, or the arrowButton is rolled over.
         */
        @Override
        public boolean isRollover() {
            return shouldActLikeButton() ? over : super.isRollover();
        }

        /**
         * @inheritDoc
         *
         * Forwards pressed states to the internal "pressed" field
         */
        @Override
        public void setPressed(boolean b) {
            super.setPressed(b);
            updatePressed(b);
        }

        /**
         * @inheritDoc
         *
         * Forwards rollover states to the internal "over" field
         */
        @Override
        public void setRollover(boolean b) {
            super.setRollover(b);
            updateOver(b);
        }

        //------------------------------------------------------------------
        // MouseListener/MouseMotionListener Methods
        //------------------------------------------------------------------

        @Override
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
            updateOver(true);
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseExited(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
            updateOver(false);
        }

        @Override
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
            updatePressed(true);
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
            updatePressed(false);
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}

        //------------------------------------------------------------------
        // PopupMenuListener Methods
        //------------------------------------------------------------------

        /**
         * @inheritDoc
         *
         * Ensures that the combo box is repainted when the popup is closed.
         * This avoids a bug where clicking off the combo wasn't causing a repaint,
         * and thus the combo box still looked pressed even when it was not.
         *
         * This bug was only noticed when acting as a button, but may be generally
         * present. If so, remove the if() block
         */
        @Override
        public void popupMenuCanceled(PopupMenuEvent e) {
            if (shouldActLikeButton() || pressedWhenPopupVisible) {
                comboBox.repaint();
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void popupMenuWillBecomeVisible(PopupMenuEvent e) {}
        @Override
        public void popupMenuWillBecomeInvisible(PopupMenuEvent e) {}
    }

    /**
     * Handler for repainting combo when editor component gains/looses focus
     */
    private static class EditorFocusHandler implements FocusListener,
            PropertyChangeListener {
        private JComboBox comboBox;
        private ComboBoxEditor editor = null;
        private Component editorComponent = null;

        private EditorFocusHandler(JComboBox comboBox) {
            this.comboBox = comboBox;
            editor = comboBox.getEditor();
            if (editor != null){
                editorComponent = editor.getEditorComponent();
                if (editorComponent != null){
                    editorComponent.addFocusListener(this);
                }
            }
            comboBox.addPropertyChangeListener("editor",this);
        }

        public void unregister(){
            comboBox.removePropertyChangeListener(this);
            if (editorComponent!=null){
                editorComponent.removeFocusListener(this);
            }
        }

        /** Invoked when a component gains the keyboard focus. */
        public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
            // repaint whole combo on focus gain
            comboBox.repaint();
        }

        /** Invoked when a component loses the keyboard focus. */
        public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
            // repaint whole combo on focus loss
            comboBox.repaint();
        }

        /**
         * Called when the combos editor changes
         *
         * @param evt A PropertyChangeEvent object describing the event source and
         *            the property that has changed.
         */
        public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
            ComboBoxEditor newEditor = comboBox.getEditor();
            if (editor != newEditor){
                if (editorComponent!=null){
                    editorComponent.removeFocusListener(this);
                }
                editor = newEditor;
                if (editor != null){
                    editorComponent = editor.getEditorComponent();
                    if (editorComponent != null){
                        editorComponent.addFocusListener(this);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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A sea captain has lost his long-running tax battle. Photo/Getty Images.
A globe-trotting sea captain has lost his battle to be considered a non-resident for tax purposes having fought his way almost to the Supreme Court.
Peter van Uden has worked at sea for more than 40 years but the Inland Revenue decided he had a permanent place of abode in New Zealand after he spent time in the country for several months each year between 2005 and 2009 and should pay tax on his income.
During that time, van Uden filed no tax returns apart from a non-resident tax return disclosing a small loss in 2007.
Court documents state van Uden met his future wife in 1998 when she was living at a property he then "almost always" stayed at when was in New Zealand.
The property was transferred to a family trust of which van Uden became a trustee in 1999, although he never owned the property.
"During the period in question, his typical pattern was to return to New Zealand twice per year during breaks from being at sea. It was accepted that he "almost always" stayed at the property when he was in New Zealand."
The Inland Revenue commissioner began an audit of van Uden in 2009 and issued him with the challenged assessments in February 2014.
The commissioner assessed van Uden as liable for income tax from 2005 to 2009 based on the fact van Uden had a permanent place of abode in New Zealand for those tax years and was liable to pay tax on his worldwide income.
In addition, a 10 per cent penalty was imposed because van Uden had taken an "unacceptable tax position" by not paying income tax.
Van Uden challenged the fact that the property was his permanent place of resident but the Taxation Review Authority, High Court and the Court of Appeal concluded van Uden had made the relevant property his home.
The Court of Appeal also dealt with van Uden's interest in his employer superannuation fund which as a foreign investment fund was taxable on an accrual basis.
"The court rejected the argument made on behalf of Mr van Uden that because the contributions to the Provident Fund were paid by his employers there was "no cost or expenditure incurred by or on behalf of Mr van Uden as regards that fund."
The Court of Appeal also rejected the challenge made to the process follow by the commissioner in removing the time bar that applied to the assessment for the 2005 to 2008 tax years.
On top of that it rejected van Uden's submission he should not have been liable for shortfall penalties.
"The court noted in this respect Mr van Uden had been aware there was an issue about whether he was a resident for tax purposes since 1995. Mr van Uden had received advice from his accountants that it appeared he would be treated as having a permanent place of abode in New Zealand and, so, as a resident."
Van Uden proposed an appeal to the Supreme Court based on four issues.
Firstly, he wished to argue that the courts had misapplied the test for a permanent place of abode.
He also argued that the focus of the foreign investment fund rules was on investment behaviour.
Van Uden questioned whether the legal case used to base its decision on him needing to pay shortfall penalties created a risk of a miscarriage of justice.
But the Supreme Court ruling found the three proposed grounds raised no questions of general or public important or of general commercial importance.
Van Uden also wished to pursue the submission that he had not had access to justice.
However the judgement said all his concerns had been considered by the previous courts.
"For reasons given, it is no necessary in the interests of justice for the Court to hear and determine the proposed appeal."
The application for leave to appeal was dismissed.
The judge also ordered van Uden to pay the Commissioner of Inland Revenue $2500 in costs.


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After six years of war in Syria, the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad seems to have the upper hand over the rebel forces. Massive assistance from allies Iran, Russia, and Hizbullah has enabled it to almost completely crush its opponents and push them out of stronghold after stronghold. This is done by besieging rebel-held areas and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to their residents, while carrying out massive airstrikes, including with barrel-bombs, and artillery attacks. The regime's main efforts are now concentrated on Aleppo, where it has already recaptured more than two thirds of the east of the city. At the same time, the regime's Russian allies are focusing their attacks on Idlib, now a major stronghold for opposition forces that had arrived there from other locations across the country, under "reconciliation agreements" with the regime that nevertheless do not prevent the Russians from targeting them as part of the regime offensive.
The regime's numerous military victories, especially in Aleppo, are coming at a time of political change in some of the Western superpowers that have led the anti-Assad camp. Donald Trump's presidential triumph, the anticipated French presidential win of Francois Fillon, and statements by both indicating their willingness to work together with Assad in the fight against ISIS have led the Syrian regime to expect shifts in its favor in U.S. and French policy vis-a-vis the Syria crisis. They have also increased the regime's belief that its cause is just and that it will prevail, and encouraged it to continue to strive for total victory, with no negotiations.
Throughout the war, even when its battlefield and diplomatic situations were at their nadir, the Syrian regime never wavered, maintaining confidence that it would triumph in the end. Today its sense of victory is paralleled by an equal measure of despondency among the opposition and its supporters, with mounting losses on the battlefield, growing division in its ranks, and increasingly numerous voices that are beginning to acknowledge a coming Assad victory.
This paper will describe the Assad regime's and its allies' sense of victory, as reflected by top regime officials' statements and by articles published by the state and pro-regime newspapers. It will also review the frustration and despair of the opposition and its supporters, as seen in articles in the Syrian and Arab press expressing recognition of the coming defeat.
As stated, in the past weeks the Syrian regime has been encouraged by its achievements on the ground and by changes in the international arena that, it believes, will allow it to remain in power and also position it as a major player not only on the regional level but on the global one. This is evident from statements by Syrian officials and articles in the government and pro-regime press.
Having recaptured about two thirds of Aleppo by besieging the residents and withholding humanitarian aid from them while carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes and artillery attacks, including on hospitals, the regime is more determined than ever to eliminate the remaining pockets of resistance in the city, and rejects out of hand any arrangement other than a complete surrender of the rebel forces. In a December 8, 2016 interview with the pro-regime daily Al-Watan, Assad stressed his determination to retake Aleppo: "The decision to liberate all of Syria, including Aleppo, was taken from the very beginning [of the war]. We never thought to leave any part [of Syria] unliberated."
Muhriz Al-'Ali, a columnist for the pro-regime daily Al-Thawra, wrote: "Uprooting terror is a top priority, and the only choice the terrorists [now] have is between death and surrender, because the decision to purge Aleppo and all of Syria of the filth of terror and terrorist has already been made, and this is the foremost goal of all Syrians, no matter how many sacrifices [it takes]."
Al-Thawra columnist Nasser Mundhir wrote in a similar vein that the battle for Aleppo "will cause all the regional and international considerations to change in favor of the resistance axis in the region... Thanks to the [Syrian] army, Aleppo is now achieving the final victory over terrorism and its supporters. It will not accept anything less than victory and a defeat of the aggression. Freed from terrorism, it will pave the way to victory in many other places and open the door to the political solution that the army is already outlining on the ground..."
As the Syrian regime sees it, its military successes across the country, specifically in Aleppo, and its ability to stand fast throughout the crisis, have shifted the balance of power not only in Syria but also in the world. Assad told Al-Watan in an interview that while domestic issues were a factor in the changes in Western countries, the changes were also the result of external elements, such as terrorism and immigration, that are directly linked to the events in Syria. According to Assad, it was the warnings by the Syrian regime throughout the years of the conflict that helped "expose the Western deception [regarding the state of affairs in the Middle East] in the media, in politics, and in institutions and lobbies tied to [the West], and they [these warnings] played a part in fomenting popular demand for change in Western countries... If not for the steadfast position of the Syrian people and state, the Western citizens would have believed these lies to be true..."
Bouthaina Sha'aban, political advisor to Assad, was more forceful, saying: "Syria's steadfastness, and the support from its allies, have shifted the regional and international balance [of power]... The recent developments in the international arena are bringing the countries of the region face to face with a new world, which requires additional thought and action in order to formulate strategic political and informational plans on the regional and global levels."
Hizbullah Executive Council Chairman Hashem Safi Al-Din said in a similar vein that after the army recaptures eastern Aleppo, "the power-balances will change not only in Syria but in the entire region, and that will be the beginning of the end of the world war that was launched against Syria and the resistance."
Ahmad Hassan, a columnist for the Syrian state daily Al-Ba'th, compared the battle for Aleppo to the battle of El Alamein in World War II. He wrote: "The outcomes of the battle there [in Aleppo], which will be decided sooner rather than later in favor of the Syrian regime,... can be compared to the outcomes of the famous battle of El Alamein, which was a major turning point that helped decide the ultimate outcome of World War II... The objective significance of what is happening now [in Aleppo], is that the stage following [the victory] in Aleppo starts [right now], at this very moment... The battle continues and will continue until all the neighborhoods [of Aleppo] are purged and every part of the city is returned to the bosom of the Syrian state. The military action continues and will continue on every piece of land that terror has contaminated, no matter the price..."
Al-Ba'th columnist 'Imad Salem wrote: "The world is on the verge of a strategic transformation that will transform [various] alliances, so that countries that dream of keeping their long tentacles in distant places will be forced to withdraw back into their own borders... The contours of the victory of the Syrian army and its allies in World War III [i.e., the Syria war] are becoming clear, and we shall reap the fruit of the steadfastness and the sacrifices. There is no better proof of this than [the fact that] some countries – chief among them Trump's U.S. and Marine Le Pen's France – are rushing towards Russia. This means that Syria will be a major player not only in the region but in the world, and the agents [of the U.S.] should get ready to reap what they sowed..."
Rif'at Al-Badawi, a columnist for the pro-regime Syrian daily Al-Watan, claimed that in today's world, anyone who wishes to win a presidential election must recognize the important role of the Syrian regime. In a column titled "Syria and the Road to the Presidency," he wrote: "[U.S. president-elect Donald] Trump's power stems from the fact that he rebelled against the mechanism that produces presidents [in the U.S.] and had no need for the large corporations... [In addition,] he declared his wish to cooperate with Russia under President Putin, and [said] that he supports President Bashar Al-Assad staying in power and helping him in his war against terror... In France, Nicolas Sarkozy's defeat in [his party's] presidential primaries was a punishment [he received] after his role in the plot against Libya and Syria was exposed... [Conversely,] Francois Fillon declared his intention to hold direct talks with Russia and Iran in order to find a political solution for Syria and fight terrorism there, [stressing] that the wishes of the Syrian people must be respected... The result is that Fillon is managing to advance towards [winning] the French presidency. In Lebanon, General Michel 'Aoun, the ally of Syria and Hizbullah, has [already] managed to attain the title of 'Honorable President'... The world is changing and alliances are reforming, and Syria is at the heart of this new world. The way to the presidency passes through Syria, and whoever wants to win must recognize the role of the Syrian leadership and respect the will of the Syrian people."
This perception of the Assad regime that the developments on the ground and in the international arena are in its favor is also reflected in statements by Syrian officials and articles in the pro-regime press expressing open contempt for the U.S. administration and for UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura.
In an interview with Al-Watan, President Assad attacked outgoing U.S. administration, saying: "In the last year, the U.S. administration has been behaving [just] like the armed factions in Syria, struggling for loot and achievements... The declarations [it] makes in the morning differ from the policies [pursued] in the evening, and the latter are different from the actions of the following day... You feel there is no consistent policy, but [only] struggles [between factions within the administration]."
Criticism at the U.S. administration was also expressed in press articles, especially after National Security Advisor Susan Rice said, following the escalation of the attacks on Aleppo, that "the Syrian regime and its allies, Russia in particular, bear responsibly for the immediate and long term consequences these actions have caused in Syria and beyond." The articles stated that this was mere bluster, like the U.S. administration's threats in 2013 to attack in Syria if it were proved that the regime had used chemical weapons, and that this bluster only proved that the U.S. administration supports the terrorists. Al-Thawra columnist 'Ali Nasrallah wrote: "The latest U.S. warnings are meaningless... They are [only] another indication of the Obama administration's concern for [the safety of] its mercenaries, which it tried to defend by means of [UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan] de Mistura... and expose an administration that is detached from reality and full of delusions... Neither Russia nor Syria currently feel the need to remind the present U.S. administration that the final decision to free Aleppo from the Wahhabi [i.e., Saudi] mercenaries has already been taken and is not up for discussion or reassessment under any excuse, and that no U.S. opposition will affect the unfolding and development of events..."
Amin Hatit, a Lebanese columnist and analyst for Al-Thawra, wrote: "When Obama threatened to attack Syria in 2013 [following reports that the regime had used chemical weapons], we knew this was [mere] bluster and that he would never dare to act on it, in light of what would await him on Syrian soil [if he did]... The American warnings and threats have no effect on decisions in Syria and Iraq... The American warning is nothing but a political and propaganda [tactic]..."
A similar attitude was expressed towards Staffan de Mistura, who was received coldly during his November 20, 2016 visit to Damascus. A particularly insulting article in Al-Watan, which is close to the regime, published the same day, stated that Syria had repeatedly rejected de Mistura's requests to visit the country, and speculated that his visit would be very brief to reflect "Damascus's dissatisfaction" with his "recent string of provocative and unfair remarks, which are not in line with the UN special envoy's role of mediator in resolving the crisis." It added that Donald Trump's election victory had dealt "a harsh blow to de Mistura" and placed him "in an unenviable position."
Al-Watan's assessment turned out to be correct. Following de Mistura's visit, which lasted only a few hours and which included a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mu'allem, the minister held a solo press conference in which he rejected out of hand de Mistura's proposal for a ceasefire in Aleppo in exchange for the departure of Jabhat Fath Al-Sham (formerly Jabhat Al-Nusra) fighters from eastern Aleppo and local opposition forces' establishment of some kind of autonomous governance. Al-Mu'allem called the proposal "totally unacceptable, as it harms our national sovereignty and rewards terrorism," and added that it was inconceivable that the UN would present such an initiative. De Mistura, he said, had not met expectations, had not discussed a renewal of intra-Syrian dialogue, and had provided no guarantees that the ceasefire would be respected by countries that support terrorism.
Articles in the Syrian press likewise accused de Mistura of supporting terrorists and overstepping the bounds of his position, and called on him to resign. An article in Al-Thawra stated: "The UN has never [before involved itself] so bluntly as a direct side [in the conflict] by means of its envoy, who is not just biased in favor of the terrorists but has worked to violate the UN charter and principles... It appears as though the UN envoy does not want to end his role before using his influence to consolidate the terrorist plan and allow its supporters to retain a foothold [in Syria]..."
Al-Watan columnist Samer 'Ali Dahi wrote: "After [de Mistura's visit to Damascus] today, it will come as no surprise if Damascus demands to replace the international mediator [de Mistura], who has so far failed in his task... His trip to Damascus was to no avail and he returned empty-handed."
Al-Thawra columnist 'Abd Al-Halim Sa'ud wrote similarly: "De Mistura's efforts to defend some 7,000 terrorists in eastern Aleppo while disregarding some 2,000,000 residents who suffer because of them is an outrageous [act by] the UN that cannot be passed over in silence or allowed to continue, and it [also] constitutes a blatant overstepping of the bounds of [de Mistura's] role. Perhaps de Mistura, who is so committed to [the safety of] the terrorists in eastern Aleppo, should have persuaded them to emigrate to the West and used his vast experience to persuade the Western countries who support them to take them in..."
The Assad regime's current sense that victory is at hand is now, for the first time, being echoed by some members of the opposition, as is seen in recent articles published inside and outside Syria that express despair and recognition of defeat.
Military, Political Opposition Bodies Criticized For "Hijacking Our Revolution"
One of the main factors in the opposition's defeat both on the ground and in the political arena is the rift between the political and the military opposition, which dates back to the onset of the revolution. The rift is the result of the lack of a single, agreed-upon leadership – a weakness skillfully exploited by the regime and its allies. One notable manifestation of this of this state of affairs was the absence of representatives from both the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces and from the Syrian High Negotiations Committee, both of which claim to represent the Syrian opposition, from the December 2016 Turkey-sponsored talks in Ankara between representatives from some of the factions fighting in eastern Aleppo and Russian military personnel.
The opposition's repeated defeats on the ground, particularly in Aleppo, led many regime opponents to criticize the poor functioning of the political and military opposition and of the many splits among them. Some claimed that these bodies did not represent them. Syrian journalist 'Ali Safar wrote in an article titled "Who Gave You Our Voices? Why Do You Speak in Our Name?": "In the last six years, no political or military body emerged that enjoys a Syrian consensus and can be trusted to accelerate the political process and end the disgraceful reality in which all [Syrians] live, inside and outside the country... An armed group takes the fate of an entire region into its hands, claiming to speak for its residents, and the regime continues to do the exact same thing... and the political opposition [also] does the same thing, by other means. All these elements... bear no relation to democracy and have never asked a single Syrian if he agrees to their involvement in his life..."
Syrian journalist Khalil Al-Miqdad wondered: "Do we not have the right to ask these [opposition] leaders about the reasons for the division [among them] and the defeats on the ground, the price of which has been paid by hundreds of thousands of people [?]... Have our people been killed and forced to emigrate, and have our villages been destroyed, [just] so that instead of one thief a [whole] gang of thieves and mercenaries will rule [the country], living at the expense of our people's blood?"
"Only restoring the original purity of the revolution, and its initial perception and non-violent character, will restore [the vigor of] our youth... The only thing that will save us from death – which seems inevitable in light of the rise of extremism, the hateful discourse, the rise of the extremists to power in most of the countries involved [in the Syria crisis], and the cruelty of those who attack us and our land – is a comprehensive national program for fixing all the mistakes we Syrians have made. That will happen only when we can finally learn from our mistakes... and stop rejoicing at one another's death..."
In addition to criticizing the performance of opposition bodies, some articles by Syrian oppositionists and supporters of the opposition in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere reflected recognition of the opposition's impending defeat and despair of achieving the main goal of the revolution, i.e., toppling the Assad regime.
Muhammad Rushdi Sharbaji, a Syrian writer living in Germany, wrote: "The revolution has few options. In light of the regime advances on all fronts, even the best option is a bitter one. In my opinion, the revolution's strategic goal should be survival – to survive, even on a small piece of Syrian soil, which will grant it status in any future political arrangement... It is no longer conceivable to bring down the regime in the current way. Continuing on the present path means destroying the revolution's circles of support, and creating new problems involving immigration and refugees. This is a bitter truth that is hard to swallow after hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of emigres..."
George Sama'an, a Lebanese columnist for the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat, was even more pessimistic, arguing that the opposition had no chance of victory in Aleppo and should consider its next move: "In the coming days, the opposition will have no choice but to accept Aleppo's fate: either the model of Grozny, which spells total destruction, or the model of Beirut, where Israel [first] besieged and cornered the PLO and [then] removed it from its headquarters and from the streets of the city, [sending it] to a far-flung diaspora... Can the Syrian opposition, which could not topple the [Assad] regime for a thousand objective and subjective reasons, successfully fight the Russian and Iranian militaries, which are armed with all manner of heavy weapons? The challenge is great. Many just revolutions throughout history have failed, but other revolutions succeeded, because they knew how to adjust their political and military strategies..."
Hazem Saghieh, a Lebanese columnist for Al-Hayat, complained about the improvement in Assad's global standing despite his crimes against the Syrian people. He wrote: "The claim that more and more people are keen on Bashar Al-Assad, or at the very least prefer him to his rivals, is gaining momentum. In recent months, this growing list of names has seen the addition of [president-elect] Donald Trump in America and of [leading presidential candidate] Francois Fillon in France... while Bashar Al-Assad, along with his two biggest allies, Vladimir Putin and Ali Khamenei, continues the destruction and murder in Aleppo. Nobody blames him for this terrible disaster... and almost everyone agrees that he is part of the solution and of the future..."
"Assad will win. Fine. But he is defeating his own people, and history teaches us that such a victory is unsustainable."
Former Egyptian MP Mustafa Al-Nagar, who served in the Egyptian parliament in 2012-2013 during Muhammad Mursi's presidency, expressed concern that following an Assad victory, other tyrants could deal with their own opponents the same way he did: "The big tragedy of the Syrian revolution's failure is that it will create a historic model in support of tyranny and extermination as a way of controlling people against their will. Our Arab region has given birth to a bloody model, the Bashar model, which provides tyrants with a roadmap for survival – according to which you kill your people mercilessly if they rise up against you. The more you kill, the better you ensure the survival of your regime. Aleppo will fall in weeks or months. The flag of the revolution will come down, and Bashar's flag will fly..."
Anti-Assad Syrian Journalist: "I Want The Dictator Back"
"Let us examine why the situation in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya deteriorated after their revolutions... Do the factions fighting the armies in Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Iraq truly want to topple tyrants and dictatorial regimes there, or do they merely want to take their place? Did the peoples rise up to replace one tyrant with [many] tyrants, or one dictatorial regime with [many] dictatorial regimes?... Did they rise up to replace Bashar Al-Assad with Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi?
"How many factions are fighting the regime [in Syria]? One oppositionist spoke of some 2,000 factions. Just imagine – 2,000 factions, each with its own agenda, trends, statements, leaders, personal interests, budgets, and borders... Do these factions want security, stability, and prosperity for the Syrian people, or do they want to split the country up amongst themselves?"
* N. Mozes and Dr. M. Terdiman are research fellows at MEMRI.
 See MEMRI Inquiry & Analysis No. 1221, Local Ceasefire Agreements In Syria: Capitulation To Regime's Siege-And-Starvation Strategy Under UN Sponsorship, January 12, 2016.
 See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 6322, In Recent Speech, Assad Expresses Confidence In Regime's Victory, Says Crisis Will Be Resolved Through War On Terror, Local Ceasefires, February 24, 2016; Special Dispatch No. 5332, Bashar Al-Assad To 'Al-Akhbar': The Western Game In Syria Is About To End; We Have Rejected Attractive Western Proposals To Finance Syria's Reconstruction, June 11, 2013; Special Dispatch No. 6422, Syrian Regime And Its Mouthpieces: Aleppo Campaign Will Continue Until Final Victory; U.S. And Its Regional Proxies Responsible For Aleppo Crisis, May 9, 2016.
 Al-Watan (Syria), December 8, 2016.
 Al-Thawra (Syria), November 14, 2016.
 Al-Thawra (Syria), November 30, 2016.
 SANA (Syria), November 28, 2016.
 Al-Safir (Lebanon), November 29, 2016.
 Al-Ba'th (Syria), November 29, 2016.
 Al-Ba'th (Syria), November 20, 2016.
 Al-Watan (Syria), November 28, 2016.
 Al-Thawra (Syria), November 21, 2016.
 Al-Watan (Syria), November 20, 2016.
 SANA (Syria), November 20, 2016.
 Al-Thawra (Syria), November 22, 2016.
 Al-Watan (Syria), November 21, 2016.
 Al-Quds Al-Arabi (London), December 3, 2016.
 Al-Hayat (London), December 5, 2016.
 Al-Hayat (London), December 3, 2016.
 Al-Hayat (London), December 4, 2016.


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Q: Error while configuring active directory LDS using ADSI edit I am new to Active Directory. I want to create few users in active directory. From some research I found out I can do with the help of ADSI edit console.

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Todd Harms Sworn in as New Fire Chief
Sacramento County, California – The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Board of Directors will conduct a swearing-in ceremony at its regular meeting tonight for new Fire Chief Todd Harms. Following a national search, Harms was selected by the Board of Directors in August as the District's sixth Fire Chief. He replaces Mark Wells, who, after 29 years of service in public safety and two years as Fire Chief, is retiring.
"I am truly honored to have this opportunity to lead Metro Fire," said Harms. "I look forward to continually finding way to improve our service delivery, showing the communities we serve that Metro Fire is here every day of the year to solve their problems."
Harms began his fire service career in 1981 as a Firefighter Paramedic in Peotone, Illinois. In 1987, he became a member of the Phoenix Fire Department. While there, he progressed through the ranks as a Firefighter, Paramedic, Engineer, Captain, Battalion Chief, Deputy Chief of Special Operations and Shift Commander. He also has been an Urban Search and Rescue team member, with deployments to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Harms holds a Bachelor's degree in Fire Service Management and is a past adjunct instructor at Phoenix College in the Fire Science Program.
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Il modello del sistema locale territoriale (brevemente modello SLoT) è un modello teorico usato come strumento nella Pianificazione territoriale. Il modello trova applicazione anche nella progettazione territoriale in ambito turistico, diventando strumento indispensabile sia per uno Sviluppo sostenibile che per un Turismo responsabile.

Componenti del modello SLoT
Il modello concettuale si compone di quattro elementi:
 la rete locale dei soggetti (o rete corta): è l'insieme di tutte quelle relazioni e interazioni che avvengono tra soggetti (pubblici e privati, individuali e collettivi, locali e sovralocali) in un territorio definito "locale" e caratterizzato dal concetto di "prossimità fisica", per la quale possono avvenire interazioni face-to-face, in cui si instaurano rapporti di fiducia, conoscenza e reciprocità, ma anche conflittualità di interessi. A titolo di esempio, si considera una scala geografica che comprenda la dimensione di un villaggio, di un piccolo quartiere urbano, fino alla media provincia italiana.
 il milieu locale inteso come l'insieme di risorse, materiali e immateriali, di vario genere (economiche, culturali, ambientali, sociali) presenti in un determinato territorio e frutto di un processo di sedimentazione nel lungo periodo. Si parla di milieu come di contenitore di risorse potenziali, cioè presenti e potenzialmente sfruttabili attraverso una Pianificazione territoriale.
 i rapporti di interazione cognitiva e materiale, intrapresi dalla rete locale di soggetti con il milieu locale e con l'ecosistema. Lo scambio cognitivo e materiale tra soggetti, risorse presenti in un territorio ed ecosistema dovrebbe permettere di trasformare simbolicamente le risorse potenziali in valori comunicabili e scambiabili.
 il rapporto interattivo tra la rete locale di soggetti e le reti sovralocali (o reti lunghe). Il sistema locale di soggetti e risorse territoriali di vario genere è un sistema aperto a relazioni con l'esterno, cioè con soggetti, istituzioni ed organizzazioni che operano su una scala più ampia, come la regione, lo Stato, l'Unione europea, e le organizzazioni mondiali.

Caratteristiche del modello SLoT
Il modello riconosce un grado di autonomia ai soggetti delle reti locali e sovralocali, ne consegue che, il coordinamento tra l'operato di attori che operano su vari livelli territoriali (provincia, regione, stato, organizzazioni sovrastatali e mondiali) è governato dal Principio di sussidiarietà.
Il modello si fa carico di ereditare risorse del passato, di organizzarle in progettualità attuali e attuabili in un'ottica futura di Sostenibilità. L'ottica di sostenibilità nasce dal presupposto che le risorse presenti nel milieu locale non sono rinnovabili, anzi, in caso di risorse ambientali e culturali soprattutto, si parla di risorse uniche e non imitabili, che vanno tutelate e valorizzate responsabilmente.

Finalità del modello SLot
Il modello SLoT è uno strumento per la creazione di valore aggiunto territoriale, inteso come la creazione, la trasformazione o l'incremento di risorse naturali e culturali di un territorio. Il valore aggiunto del progetto può essere calcolato anche in termini di incremento dei valori di mercato del capitale fisso, dei prodotti e dei servizi di un territorio.
Un'altra finalità del modello è quella di accertare la congruenza tra le competenze dei soggetti locali e l'impiego delle risorse potenziali del milieu locale.
Usato come strumento di progettazione territoriale, lo scopo principale del modello è quello di individuare dove e come esistano le precondizioni soggettive ed oggettive per uno sviluppo territoriale sostenibile.

Bibliografia
 Giuseppe Dematteis, Per una geografia della territorialità attiva e dei valori territoriali, in Slot quaderno 1. Appunti, discussioni, bibliografie, (a cura di) Paola Bonora, Baskerville, Bologna, 2001.
 Giuseppe Dematteis, Il modello SLoT come strumento di analisi dello sviluppo locale, in Slot quaderno 3.Una geografia dei luoghi per lo sviluppo locale. Approcci metodologici e studi di caso, (a cura di) C. Rossignolo e C.S. Imarisio, Baskerville, Bologna, 2003.

Voci correlate
Geografia economica

Ingegneria ambientale

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ICE-breakers: Fun Games for Agents and Immigrant Children
More fun than freedom.
by Samuel Allemang and Julia McCloy
To our valued employees at ICE,
We know life can get a bit boring patrolling the baby-cages. And maybe even a glimmer of conscience survived past orientation. Fortunately, here at ICE head-office, we've got just the thing to liven things up at the converted Walmart where you're all busy making the world safe from refugee children.
Introducing ICE-breakers: ICE's conversation starters for agents and immigrant children! These games are a sure-fire good time, all the time: before raids, during raids or after raids. But mostly after raids.
Two Truths And A Lie
This is a super fun one! Each person tells two truths and a lie about themselves, and everyone else has to guess which one's the lie. Try to stump the kids. Here's a good one, "My name is Susan, over 500 children are still separated from their families, and my favorite actor is Bradley Cooper." But come on guys, it's Tom Selleck.
Broken Telephone
This game is more fun with more players. So see how many children you can round up in your next raid! One player whispers a phrase to the second player, who whispers it to the third and so on, until the final person in the cage announces what they heard. It gets pretty crazy! One time the first player said that she had to leave Mexico because her cartel-member ex-husband was going to kill her and that her 2-year old daughter needed surgery and the last player said "I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13 & clean out the toughest of situations. They are great!" Can you even imagine how confused that last player must have been?!
Desert Island Picks
This is an easy get-to-know-you game. Simply list what book you'd take to a desert island. It's a tough question because it's all you'll get to read for the rest of your life. You might be surprised, lots of people say they'd bring the Bible. That's a hard book for us to recommend because of all the parts in it about loving your neighbor and helping poor people. If the children ask for their parents, remind them they can't bring them. Just their favorite book!
Never Have I Ever…
Each person takes a turn saying something wild they've never done and then, anyone who has done that thing takes a drink. You can't give alcohol to the caged children (that would be morally wrong), but you could play this with juice, or injectable sedatives on-hand to quiet the children. Anyways, for example, someone might say, "Never have I ever… abandoned families at a bus station right before a hurricane hit!" and you would take a drink since that is something you have done.
No Smiling
Please note: we are no longer playing "No Smiling" as the children always win.
This is a fun guessing game: Everyone gets a post-it with the name of a famous person stuck on their forehead and they have to ask questions until they correctly guess who it is. You may find that the children lack an ICE agent's expertise about America's hottest starts—Tawny Kitaen, for example. However, they do get to watch Moana during the 22 hours they're locked inside daily, so Dwayne Johnson is a fun choice. As a bonus, this game of self-identity is great practice for when the children are released and no longer recognize their mothers.
This one is so fun, it's like an adventure! Everyone gets a list of items around the ICE facility and whoever finds the most items and delivers them to the site supervisor wins. What we're going to be looking for in particular is any and all evidence that implicates ICE in the death of a toddler who had been in our custody. Our lawyers recommend this game be played as soon as possible.
The One-Word Game
Everyone splits into two groups and are given 10 minutes to come up with a one-word answer to a seemingly simple question. So, for example, we would ask "What do you think of our company culture?" and each group would have to debate and discuss what one word best sums up ICE's culture. Some group members may need some encouragement to come of out of their "shells" (i.e. cages), but keep at it and you'll get some great contributions. Please remind group members that crying is not a word. Nonsense words like malo, malvado, and satánico are incorrect. The correct answer is "heroic".
These ICEbreakers are the perfect way to show the caged children what a caring, loving, and humanitarian country we've got here in the U.S.A!
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