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Apple products get double the space in Target stores
By Ed Hardy • 2:11 pm, February 25, 2021
Shopping for Apple gear in some Target stores across the U.S. will soon be an easier process.
Photo: Mike Mozart/Flickr CC
Many Target stores will become better places to buy Macs, iPhones and other Apple products. In a deal announced Thursday, there'll be twice as much space dedicated to the devices in these locations, and Target employees will get additional training on using them.
Here's how to bag AirPods Max in time for Christmas
By Killian Bell • 9:07 am, December 9, 2020
AirPods Max are on sale for the lowest price yet.
Photo: Apple
It's still possible to get AirPods Max in time for Christmas — if you hurry up and order them soon. Some retailers are offering the silver and space gray models with shipping by December 15.
Here's where you can bag yours.
Target employees leak inventory listings for new AirPods, Apple TV, iPod touch and more
By Brad Gibson • 6:13 pm, February 23, 2020
Are these soon-to-be-released Apple products, supposedly uncovered by Target employees?
Photo: 9to5Mac
Unnamed Target retail store employees are sharing details of what some believe are soon-to-be-released Apple updates using purported images of product listings from the companies retail inventory system.
The supposed new products include Apple AirPods X Generation, a 10.5-inch iPad, a new generation Apple TV, a new iPod touch and a series of new Apple Watch bands.
Best Buy and Target bust out killer iPad deals for Green Monday
By Buster Hein • 3:06 pm, December 9, 2019
It's a great day to scoop up the new iPad.
If you're still looking to get a new iPad this holiday season, Target and Best Buy have some amazing deals today for the made-up holiday buying day called 'Green Monday'.
Target's deal is especially appealing if you're looking for a regular 10.2-inch iPad. The store is currently offering two configurations at more than 20% off.
Target recalls 90,000 Lightning cables that cause burns
By Killian Bell • 5:49 am, May 31, 2019
Stop using these cables immediately.
Photo: Target
Target is recalling around 90,000 Lightning cables over concerns they could cause fires or electric shocks.
The "heyday" branded cables, which feature a nylon braided cable and metal connectors, "can become electrically charged," according to a recall notice.
Target has so far received 14 reports of the cables "smoking, sparking or igniting."
Target stores now accept Apple Pay in the U.S.
By Luke Dormehl • 8:08 am, February 4, 2019
Apple Pay is now available with one of the top U.S. retailers.
Target has started rolling out Apple Pay support at all its stores across the United States. The stores' upgraded NFC-enabled payment terminals mean that the retail giant now accepts Apple's mobile payment solution, along with Google Pay, Samsung Pay and contactless credit and debit cards.
It's certainly big news for any retailer with 1,821 stores to hop on the Apple Pay bandwagon. But this is especially significant since Target was previously a notable holdout to this technology.
Target says its REDcard won't work with Apple Pay
By Killian Bell • 12:15 pm, January 23, 2019
Target hasn't quite gone all-in on Apple Pay.
Target has started rolling out Apple Pay in stores throughout the United States, but it's not all good news for frequent shoppers. The retailer today confirmed that it's not possible to add its own REDcard debit and credit cards to your Apple Wallet.
Apple Pay expands its reach to Target, Taco Bell, other top retailers
By Killian Bell • 7:00 am, January 22, 2019
Target stores are now accepting Apple Pay.
Apple Pay is now rolling out in Target stores throughout the United States, and will soon be available at Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, and other top retail locations.
The expansion means that 74 of the top 100 merchants and 65 percent of all retail locations in the U.S. now offer support for Apple's mobile payment platform.
Target's Apple Pay freeze-out may be thawing
By Luke Dormehl • 2:44 am, November 30, 2018
One Target store is reportedly now accepting Apple Pay.
The days of Apple Pay not being accepted at Target could be coming to an end. According to a number of users on Twitter, the Target store in San Francisco is currently accepting Apple Pay purchases.
While this has yet to be rolled out to Target's other 1,821 stores, this suggests the company may be changing its stance on Apple's mobile payment service.
Apple adds fresh colors to Beats Solo3 headphones
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The new Beats Solo3 colors.
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One of the most popular types of headphones made by Beats is getting a fresh look in the form of an exclusive "Neighbourhood Collection" that adds new colors to the Solo3 headphones.
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Context-aware systems use predictions about a user's future state (e.g., next movements, actions, or needs) in order to seamlessly trigger the display of information or the execution of services. Predictions, however, always have an associated uncertainty that, when above a certain threshold, should prevent a system from taking action due to the risk of getting it wrong''. In this work, we present a context-dependentlevel of trust'' estimator that is able to determine whether a prediction should be trusted -- and thus used to trigger an action -- or not. Our estimator relies on ensemble learning to adapt across different users and application scenarios. We demonstrate its performance in the context of a popular problem -- next-place prediction -- and show how it outperforms existing approaches. We also report on the results of a survey that investigated user attitudes towards mobile-phone-based personal assistants and their ability to trigger actions in response to predictions. While users appreciated such assistants, they had substantially different tolerance thresholds with respect to prediction errors depending on the use case. This further motivates the need for a context-dependent level of trust estimator.


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The Lesson of the Vine
Blees Luxemburg, Rut, 2018, Art or design object, The Lesson of the Vine
Corporate Creators:
Schuch + Weyer Architecture, Graphic Relief
The Lesson of the Vine, 2018, is a public artwork integrating architecture, photography and viniculture
Rut Blees Luxemburg's first public artwork in Germany is located in the rural setting on the Moselle river. The wine-growing village of Leiwen has commissioned the artist to make a work for their new community hall Forum Livia. Situated in the midst of vast grapevines, Leiwen is part of the main wine-producing regions in Germany.
Blees Luxemburg's work The Lesson of the Vine shows the local vine plant in different stages of the yearly cycle, on three structural columns of the newly built public forum . Metaphorically, the vine holds up the community and its architecture, as the main cultural and economic dynamo of the region.
The Lesson of the Vine highlights the instructive potential of the plant: the life-skills of nurture, care and self-discipline. The Lesson of the Vine is particularly pertinent to the village's location on the Moselle that connects Germany with Luxemburg and France through a shared history of viniculture.
The work was realised in close collaboration with engineering company Graphic Relief who have pioneered the new technology of using photography and concrete as part of an architectural process.
Architecture > K100 Architecture
Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art
Municipal Community of Leiwen, Ministry of Science, Education and Culture of Rhineland-Palantine, Germany
http://rutbleesluxemburg.com/the%20lesso...

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Newman loses Stewart-Haas seat
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By alley | July 12, 2013 3:07 AM ET
Ryan Newman will lose his NASCAR Sprint Cup seat with Stewart-Haas when Kevin Harvick joins from Richard Childress Racing next season.
Harvick's deal with Tony Stewart's squad had been completed last season. It was previously unclear whether SHR would expand to a fourth car to accommodate Harvick alongside existing drivers Stewart, Newman and Danica Patrick, but at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Friday Stewart announced that Newman would be departing.
"We are not ready to expand to a fourth team," Stewart said. "Unfortunately, this will be the last year that we have Ryan with us. That's probably what has made this a bittersweet day. I'm bringing in another one of my friends to the organization, but also knowing that I'm losing a friend from the organization at the end of the year.
"I truly wish we were able to facilitate four teams at this time. We're just not able to do that."
Newman joined Stewart-Haas from Penske in 2009 when Stewart linked up with Gene Haas to create the operation.
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You are here: Home » Conferences » Culture - Freedom of Expression and Dialogue 5th of May 2000 » One Response or a Multitude of Stories by Michael D. Higgins
When Spyros Mercouris contacted me with an invitation to participate in this Symposium, I had a little reservation, I pressed him on what it was that I could possibly contribute. I did so out of a feeling that to discuss Culture in a European context in many ways might appear to be simply an exercise in bad faith. I have after all been present at conferences on Our Creative Diversity of U.N.E.S.C.O., of In From the Margins of the Council of Europe – both impressive, if not complete, agendas for action. Both are comprehensively neglected by European Governments, Parliaments and the European Union.
I was President of the Council of Culture Ministers and of the Council of Audio-Visual Ministers of the European Union in 1996 when we sought to resist the definition of film as simply a commodity. I witnessed the victory of the neo-Liberal market theorists over nearly all aspects of life. Faced with the major tendencies of convergence of technology, fragmentation of audiences and concentration of ownership, the Commission and Council abandoned all outcomes to an unregulated market which was reconstructing itself into new harsh, homogenized, and philistine forms. Ministers had an encounter with culture all right – one that was visited on them more as a preprandial exercise rather than as a crucial policy area affecting humanity.
No directive came to curb the monopolistic tendencies of the international media. In his day Commissioner Monti refused to act, and with the support, sadly I say this, of Jacques Santer, stated that the market would resolve the complex issues of the application of the new technologies in the European Union.
So for me Spyros Mercouris' invitation is Gramscian. I am invited yet again to assert an optimism of the will in times when not only is there great reason for pessimism of the intellect but, that the role of intellectual in Europe is devalued and perhaps has even been discarded.
"Perhaps you might deal with" Spyros Mercouris suggested: "the homogenizing tendencies of the global economy and of the consumerist culture that goes with it – what are the chances of Europe's cultural diversity?
Is it possible to combine the Cultural diversity with the Construction of a distinct European Cultural identity? Is the integration of Europe alone not only economic but also socio-political and cultural lines a precondition for resisting the so-called McDonaldisation of the world?"
I will try to respond to these questions briefly and out of respect for the organizers to do so in a way that might perhaps be programmatic.
When we consider cultural diversity in Europe we must remember that the concept of a United Europe is not new. It has happened before and the boundaries constructed have at times led to more intolerance than diversity. It was not that a varied tapestry was woven. It was more that a dominant coloration was imposed.
Again we should remember that there are reasons for the comprehensive neglect of culture in the European Union. After all it had been abused to sustain Fascism and Totalitarianism. European leaders have, in the European project, been more comfortable with the transcendent concept of markets than the concept of culture with its near historical negative resonance. Then too, the Council of Europe, it was felt, would deal with Culture. It had done so since 1929. The European Union could ignore it. It did, and it does today. Culture has a residual, or at best diffused, existence in the European Union.
Before I left the Council of Commissioner's D.G. X produced a document showing flavourings of culture across several lines of expenditure. Yes, we could discern cultural aspects of things but they had no policy basis in the Council or Commission's proposals, decisions, directives or Treaty Amendments. Article 128 of Maastricht is a back-door concession not an acceptance of a principle.
Culture was and is residual, peripheral and neglected. In Europe now the invitiation is to be useful cogs in a knowledge economy – capable of competing with the U.S. and Japan. It is not to be citizens in a creative society with a diverse past and future.
In my lifetime cultural rights will not be added to those other rights recognized after we were shocked by the Death Camps and the nadir to which human behaviour could fall. No government that I know is committed to implementing Our Creative Diversity or In from the Margins. Even Vaclav Havel, a most recent and enthusiastic convert to neo-liberal market hegemony was shocked when he visited Brussels and felt he was looking at the cogs of a machine.
Havel's problem was moving. His was a faith delivered with courage in the act of dissent only to find that the enemy had re-emerged in a form in which it would be impervious to the techniques of dissent. I say this in respect for the poet's insight and courage, but also his recognition that he can hardly articulate the price that has been and will be paid for constructing a new space of unaccountable power – the internationally networked forms of informational capital that have been given the title – Globalisation.
Globalisation is a relationship between markets and it is the process by which a new form of international capital flows assert themselves in real time and deterritorialised space. It is facilitated by a new informational order that constructs forms of unaccountable power. That unaccountable power distorts even more the connection between science, technology, economy, and society that has created an unacceptable arms production industry at the heart of so many European economies.
In the past citizens could organize, agitate and protest. Having made the transition to an exclusive existence as consumers it is more likely that they will drift to a new unfreedom, a new form of alienation. That alienation, of the consumers consumed in their consumption, is but one of a spectrum of alienations that now prevail. Others include the alienation of those who are ageing, those with obsolete skills, those in public services, whose life-worth is slipping away. They had lesser aspirations. They just hoped for security, tenure, a frugal pension. The world of such solidarities, such securities is fading away…As society fragments, as the Civil Society finds public trust eroding from it, as politics becomes no longer a vocation to be sought, we find ourselves on the edge of a new confrontation. This new confrontation will not be mediated by Trade Unions, Social Contracts or indeed by Social Democracy. It will be between those excluded from migration to cyber space regarded as backward, left on earth to construct a response, and the super-rich consuming from speculative gain in commodities never experienced before. Information technology – potentially liberational in terms of communication, could become the greatest fissure in a class confrontation for which there will be no mediation. What could have liberated and deepened communication will become an instrument of the information industry, a tool of surveillance and control.
Today, there are few forums, academics or journalistic, where it is acceptable to raise an ethical, political or social reservation to the hegemonic discourse of neo-liberal market economics.
If a cultural space, as I advocated to the Council in my time, were to be accepted as at least equal, if not more important, than the economic space, then we would have had a space for a more morally informed discourse. We are now in the era of a single, limited, intolerant, inhuman, discourse, that, in media terms, has decontextualised events, shortened time.
Globalisation has frightened the European Union into becoming an economic fortress under siege from U.S. software and the Japanese hardware of informational capitalism.
There is one story – the neo-liberal economic one. In its time it will allow cultural manifestations for the diversification and titillation of its leaders. It may even construct in cities and events a bogus nostalgia that abuses memory, that ransacks the cultural heritage for potential of commodification. All manifestations of the cultural are, of course, selective, are politically charged, are aspects of control, subversion, liberation. The moment of creation is a moment of artistic power however and the Left has to accept that it may arise at the point of consumption as well as production. The act of selection discrimination is a creative choice. All reproduction, distribution, mass consumption, follows the logic of capital. It is in the act of origination that most creative power is located.
In the absence of an awareness of the importance of the cultural space and process, the real danger now is that the ethnicities, the nationalisms, the primordialisms, which will become available for fictive constructions of reaction and hate will fill the vacuum created by abandonment of the cultural space. The evidence is already to hand.
In any properly validated cultural space there needs to be a dialogue on the politics and ethics of memory, on the freedoms and responsibilities of the imagination.
There is no time more than now that we need to acquire the capacity to construct Utopias. It is the least promising environment. We have after all moved in the Social Sciences from the end of ideology, past the alleged end of history, to the near proscription of Utopia.
We are in exile from a moral sensibility, from an untrammelled cognitive aesthetic, from even a memory of homo ludens. Slaves of an international economy, we mourn in exile for our spiritual home, for a reflective life. For us space is changing in such a way that territories have no meaning. We live, we are told, in diasporic public spheres. Our need for a moral philosophical framework is then all the greater so that we might actively communicate. Useful in the short term to the knowledge economy we are losing the elements of a creative society.
We need to draw from the experience of those we may have neglected if we are to make a journey home – even if it is to encounter the more terrible truths of our ancestral and imaginary hearths. Migrants have always had to face the task of constructing new imaginings of space and time – not reducible to point of origin or of destination. Their constructed localities have often been the more ethical for their absence of the mark of property. Social Science, following a positivistic paradigm has not drawn for theoretical insight on migration as embodied experience, as theoretical construct, mythic source.
We need to put an ethic in place, drawn from, but not reduced exclusively to, diasporic reality, from uncertainty lodged in imagination, rather than certainties rooted in suspect reason. We have more to gain in this project from Aristotelian wonder than from Cartesian doubt.
The globalisation to which Spyros Mercouris referred in his questions is no simple process. Beyond its essential economic assumptions it brings a bundle of consequences. Commodification of experience and memory is one near inevitable consequences. It is well, however, to remind ourselves that the moment of creating something is a powerful moment of artistic sovereignty. From that moment follows reproduction, distribution, exploitation, manipulation that may follow the logic of capital accumulation. That moment of creation, as I have said, is crucial in offering a space of resistance. The artistic moment may constitute a frontier, where the paradox of the terms 'cultural product', 'cultural industry', may be used for a defence of diversity. The creative movement can be front loaded with rights for example. The education to a sensibility of art among the public saves film for example, for culture, rescues it from product as mass entertainment.
Information, the new fifth factor of production, is not a neutral instrument, no more than globalisation is an even evolutionary process. Manuel Castells, in perhaps the most comprehensive recent account available of the Information Society, describes the unevenness of both resources and access. Hans Magnus Enzesberger has written of an "immaterial exploitation" where material exploitation must camouflage itself in order to survive.
Of what then would Culture consist? Time and space does not allow a full treatment to suggest that the selection of cultural forms, artifacts and events is a profoundly political act, as is the exclusion of certain events. For example, how many events or manifestations of culture from the cities and events would come near the principles of Carnival, as enunciated by Bakhtin? To validate the space of culture against the narrowly economic requires being open in public spaces and events to the hidden transcripts of the oppressed and the excluded.
The nation in its history is of course more inclusive than the state but there are consequences for both as they are transcended by diasporic identities and mass produced identities of consumption. There are those, such as Appadurai, who see the variety of instruments that constitute Globalisation being absorbed, repatriated and re-exported as heterogeneous dialogues. This I find unconvincing. There is no such simple contemporary commercial flux amenable to the influence of some post modern imprint. Coca Cola and McDonals may localize the global, and globalise the local on rare occasions, but they do so under patent, protected by law and the power of transnational corporations.
At the heart of globalisation lies an impulse to construct a single discourse, an imagery of modernity. It is a paradigm that makes an evolutionary suggestion of global information capacity on the one hand and backwardness on the other. What is constructed usually is a hybrid of the multi-national owned patents protected product and some local content. The power is in the patent. Whether it be cricket in the West Indies or Coca Cola in Dublin, there are rules that prevail. Local content there may be. Local genres there will not be.
Alice-Mary Higgins, contrasting Arjun Appadurai's and Veena Das' treatment of this tension, points to the former's neglect of power in the domination of the global genre on the return route of the image. This process Veena Das describes as the assimilation of "varied histories into one master narrative of conquest".
The European Union has chosen to compete at the level of knowledge economy. It has capitulated on the humanistic project of building the creative society with all its discordant voices and multitudes of stories. In its bunkers it emits occasional longing sighs for a better, more humane, project. Competing in the short term for one version of the knowledge economy it distorts education, imperils creativity and condemns itself to obsolescence and to miss out on the next several waves of innovation.
If the Union had gone for regulation where it was appropriate it would have enabled a cultural space to be created. It has expressed its loyalty uncritically to a new-liberalbe version of the economic. It has watched on as nation-states and the political space have lost influence. What it may yet reap is the reaction, expressed in hundres of distortions of ethnicity, nationalism and race. I hope I am wrong, that it is not too late.
I believe that there is no single, ancient, unified, uncontested mythic source which we can call home. I profoundly believe that the imagination, decolonised from the mechanistic distortion of economics that we now suffer, can discover new homelands of the spirit, can recover unknown, as well as known mythic heroic journeys, but also, and even more important, we can create a myriad of hope-giving and truly human utopias. We have to accept that there is a distinction however, between fantasy and imagination, and between individual and collective imagination. Imagination above all has to be accepted as a space of contestation available for hidden as well as public transcripts.
And as to a practical agenda which Hatto Fischer always seeks, we could in the short term at the level of Civil Society, Market Institutions and Political Institutions seek to achieve the following:
Civil Society:
In Education: Cultural Studies shall be a core requirement for curriculum, designed for each level on the principle of plurality:
Cultural Impact Studies shall enjoy the same status as a requirement for project development and thus preparation for this shall be made at third level for the required skills for such:
There shall be clear limits to monopoly in the media with statutory prohibitions at national and international level:
Creativity shall be a key component of preparation for life-long learning:
Critical studies including film and the audio-visual as material shall be a subject on the curriculum:
Pedagogy shall be constructed as craft on a wide basis of wisdom rather than a narrow utility.
Market Institutions:
Corporations shall commit themselves to a code of ethics:
Markets shall not seek a hegemony over culture:
Cultural Impact Studies shall enjoy the same status as environmental impact studies as a requirement for project planning:
International Corporations shall not enjoy immunity from Social and Cultural Responsibility:
New International Regulation will enforce this on a Treaty Basis:
It will be prohibited to own or seek to own the heritage, including the intellectual property of a nation:
Broadcasting, Audio-Visual and related cultural activities shall be treated other than as a commodity.
Political Institutions:
The principle of accountability shall be sought by International agreement for cultural rights as legal and human rights:
The cultural dimension shall be a co-equal at least with the economic in political and administrative institutions:
The Proposal of Our Creative Diversity and In from the Margins shall be debated in each participating country's parliament:
The Cultural Space shall be acknowledged as wider than the economic space generating a different and wider set of Rights:
U.N.E.S.C.O.'s position of the U.N. shall be strengthened.
In the end it is always about Power. Power has not been dissolved in the process of globalisation. The taking of power into a democratic accountability is necessary if we are to substitute an ethical universalisation for a globalisation of misery.
We have the right to ask that European Union's version of us and our children be one as active agents of diverse narratives rather than well fed European dreamers of the collective fantasies of informational capitalism.
Hans Magnus Enzenberger's Raids and Reconstructions, Pluto Press, 1976
Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large, University of Minnesota Press, London 1996
Veen Das, Universalisation versus Globalisation (yet to be published - ? )
Veen Das, "Critical Events", Oxford University Press
Imre Szeman, "Cultural Logic", 1997 – www.eserver.org/clogic/1-1/szeman.html
Philip J. Deloria, "Playing Indian", Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1998
Higgins, Alice Mary, "Appadurais Theory of Context and the Creation of Locality", 2000 New York Private Circulation
The full title of the presentation was: "One Response or a Multitude of Stories – Creative Society or Knowledge Economy? Issues for the Cultural Space in an era of Globalisation."
It was given at the cultural symposium held in Athens 2000 with the aim to initiate a day of culture on May 5th of every year.
Organised by Spyros Mercouris, Honorary President E.C.C.M. Network of the European Cultural capitals and months.
Michael D. Higgins
Dail Eireann
Irish Parliament Buildings
Kildare Street
was at that time Statutory Lecturer for Political Science and Sociologyat National University of Ireland Galway (on leave), and
Former Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Ireland.
In 2012 he was elected as President of Ireland.
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He Gave Up Everything For Happiness. You'll Be Oddly Tempted By His Lifestyle.
Books can inspire individuals to dream big, aspire for something different or take a step off the beaten track. Such is the case for Dan Price who was so moved by J. R. R. Tolkien's, The Hobbit, he decided to forego his modern lifestyle and adopt the life of the book's central characters, the hobbits; imaginary little people resembling humans, characterized by their simple life on the shire known for their good nature and hairy feet.
Despite living a comfortable life with his wife and kids as a successful photojournalist in Kentucky, the urge to live his life differently was nagging at him. Finally, he decided to forgo everything for an underground living space in Oregon. His new living space is right out of the pages of his favorite book; an eight-foot hole with a roll out mat, books, dry goods, a pot and some clothes.
Just from reading books, Price learned how to build a sauna, a heated shower and a toilet.
To generate income, Price, aka Hobo Artist, has created Moonlight Chronicles, a series of how-to guides and narration of how to live his lifestyle.
Also see, Woman Lives In A 84-Foot-Square House And Only Owns 305 Things.


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Q: Rewriting URL in AJAX application I am making a simple online application.
I have a navigation bar with a few buttons and one "div" into which all the new contents will be loaded dynamically i.e. when I click "About", it will load the page parts into the "div" without reloading the whole page with .load() function. The problem is:
what if I need to give a link to the Documents section of my web site, or the user wants to store this kind of link, the url is not rewritten when browsing my site. when the user stores the default link it will always link him to the default "Home" part.
How can I rewrite the URL and what is the most correct way to do this?

A: As option you can use location.hash.
E.g. user clicks About
and you're loading the content of your "About" page.
Also the URL in browser's address bar will be changed to something like http://mysite.com/hello.jsp#about.
So now user can copy this URL and visit it.
Then in $(document).ready() you can check the location.hash, find that '#about' anchor in it and then load an appropriate content.

Another option is to use Backbone.js or any other JavaScript MVC framework that you like which will help you to build rich client-side application and will handle such things for you.

A: According to me, appropriate method is to update the hash of the URL. Something like example.com/#About and etc. People can bookmark these. You have to take care to make a AJAX call when you read a hash tag in the URL and load the respective page.
What I would do is make ajax call on hashchange event instead of click. This event is supported from IE8 to all modern browsers. If you want to support IE7 use the hashchange plugin by Ben Alman.

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In 2011, his wife died and his own health deteriorated forcing the ABG to hold a by-election to replace him as he had missed three consecutive sittings of parliament.
Dr Sarei died at his home in the Notuko hamlet of Gagan village in the Solos area of Buka.
Along with other residents of Bougainville, in 2000 Dr Sarei filed a lawsuit in the United States against mining giant Rio Tinto claiming human rights abuse but the case was finally awarded to Rio Tinto.
"The passing of the late Dr Alexis Sarei signifies an immense loss to the people of Bougainville as he is held in high regard as an elder statesmen and a formidable leader during the early years of this country's formation," said Bougainville President John Momis.
It was with great sadness that I learnt of the passing of Alexis Holyweek Sarei, first National District Commissioner Bougainville District, PNG High Commissioner to the Court of St. James, Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, former Premier North Solomons Provincial Government, Local Level Council President and most recently Member of the Assembly of the Autonomous Bougainville Government.
During an NEC Meeting in Kundiawa in 1979, I had the honour and pleasure of accomodating Dr. Sarei, as he preferred to be known, and another lovely dude, the late Eliakim ToBolton, whose daughter is now Chief Magistrate.
In 1989 I took up residence at Buka Passage for a couple of years and became close friends with Sir Alex and his lovely Lady, Claire, who, sadly, passed away last year. We and many others were broken hearted at the passing of that wonderful woman.
My family had the pleasure of visiting and overnighting with the Sareis at their hacienda at Solos in the middle of Buka Island and enjoying many exhilarating conversations with a truly brilliant, enlightened and compassionate man.
Alexis, a very talented linguist, speaking four Bougainville languages, as well as Kunua, Motu, English and Tok Pisin, had been sent to Rome by the Catholic Church, with which he later became estranged, where he completed his Doctorate in Canon Law in Latin and his PhD in Italian, two languages hitherto unknown to him.
Alex was instrumental in promoting a peaceful solution to the explosive situation in the Trobriand Islands in the early '70's, in an active operational role, and became Sir Michael Somare's right hand man for a number of years prior to his appointment as DC Bougainville. He spoke very fondly of some Kiaps who worked for him, and less fondly of others.
He was taken prisoner by the BRA in 1991, but released because of the uproar that resulted throughout the Province.
Ill health forced him to leave Bougainville for his wife's 'ples', Los Angeles, where he secured employment as a bank guard! He returned to Bougainville in 2005.
Dr. Sarei suffered a stroke several years ago, lost the sight in one eye and his mobility. He nevertheless conducted a cheerful correspondence and maintained an active interest in international and local affairs.
Alex had celebrated his 80th birthday, though very debilitated, and passed peacefully. He is survived by his son Solomon and daughter Deborah and numerous bubus.


If you enjoy like the set-it-and-forget-it ease and fun of Pick & Pray tourneys, this weekend should be right up your alley. We have 18 featured tourneys on Friday, Saturday and Sunday—and all but five are Pick & Prays. The "church doors" swing open on Friday.
The week, the Friday topper is back to being our up-to-$12,500 Pick & Pray with $5,000 Guaranteed. The entry fee is $190 and there is a limit of 75 entries here. If you're lucky here, your prayers won't just be answered…they'll be well rewarded.
Another reason to hit your knees on Friday is our Horse Player World Series entry-only qualifier. One in 20 will receive a $1,500 HPWS entry good at The Orleans next March.
If you find yourself still praying to the (racing) gods for a 2019 NHC seat, take a shot Friday in our $75 NHC Pick & Pray qualifier.
One of every 143 entries will "get qualified" to the NHC. Two seats are guaranteed to be awarded, and if we reach the 429-entry plateau, a third seat will be added to the prize pool.
Ten heats make up the contest races for all of the Friday featured events: the 6th through 9th at Gulfstream; the 7th and 9th from Tampa Bay Downs; the 8th and 9th at the Big A; and the 8th and 9th from Laurel.
The weekend's richest tourney takes place on Saturday.
It's our up-to-$30,000 Pick & Pray with $17,500 guaranteed. The entry fee is $260 and a maximum of 133 entries will be accepted.
We also offer a pair of Saturday Pick & Prays to two Las Vegas tournaments—both among the richest and most prestigious in the land.
One is a "regular," two-seats-guaranteed play-in affair to the NHC. The entry fee here is $165 and one in 65 will go on to Treasure Island, home of the NHC.
The other is a full-package qualifier to the Horse Player World Series. Winners (one per each 25 entries) earn not just a $1,500 entry, but a four-night hotel stay at The Orleans and yet another $500 to put towards your travel expenses. If $500 is more than you need to get there, then you can just pocket the difference…or use it to play in other tourneys…like the two on Saturday at HorsePlayers!
The fifth and sixth guaranteed NHC seats of the weekend come via two separate tourneys at HorsePlayers.
One is a Low Ratio qualifier. Here, one in just 21 will win the grand prize. And one NHC berth is guaranteed here even if fewer than 21 sign up. If 42 take part, we'll add in a second prize.
The other is an NHC "Maiden Special" tourney. It's a 1-seat-guaranteed Pick & Pray restricted to those who have yet to win a 2019 NHC seat. If you'd like to compete for a seat at The Big Dance without facing some of the top players out there, this one's for you! The entry fee is $165, and note that—because of the special, restricted nature of this qualifier—no NHC Tour Points will be awarded in this tourney.
Ten more featured competitions are slated for Sunday.
The new entry on this week's schedule is our first qualifier to the January 4-5 tournaments at Hawthorne. The Hawthorne events are run as two separate single-day contests with two NHC seats at stake each day. The top finisher each day also becomes eligible for a million-dollar bonus should he or she go on to win the 2019 NHC. These two Hawthorne contests are also among the very last to fall under the 2018 NHC Tour year. So if you are looking for an NHC seat…or more 2018 NHC Tour points, this can be an even more important competition for you. Winner(s) of our Sunday qualifier receive $800 in entry fees for Hawthorne—enough to cover you on both days of their events.
You can also qualify on Sunday for the Pegasus World Cup Betting Championship at Gulfstream on January 25-26. Players there start with a $12,000 bankroll (which also represents the buy-in…the prize pool, guaranteed at a minimum of $435,000, is funded by players' churn, plus contributions from The Stronach Group, Gulfstream Park and Xpressbet).
Our Sunday qualifier costs $480 to enter and one in 30 will earn a Pegasus entry ($12,000 value as noted earlier) plus $500 for travel. Pegasus contestants will have seats in The Sport of Kings Theatre for Pegasus Day, and five NHC seats will be part of that prize pool as well as all that cash. Note that this qualifier will be run in live-format mode.
For just $90, you can compete in our Sunday, entry-only Pick & Pray to the Horse Player World Series. One in 20 will earn a $1,500 entry to the HPWS at The Orleans in Las Vegas.
There's also a Pick & Pray for the December 29 Monmouth Park NHC qualifier. Our Sunday qualifier carries an entry fee of just $71 and offers winners a $900 package ($400 entry plus $500 travel). Six NHC seats will be up for grabs at Monmouth on the 29th.
A lot of money is also at stake in our Sunday tourneys via our cash games. Two of them offer pots of up to $20,000.
One is our up-to-$20,000 Pick & Pray, which carries an entry fee of $195. Regardless of the number of sign ups, the purse is guaranteed to be at least $10,000. No more than 118 entries, however, will be accepted in this one.
The other game offering a pot of up to $20,000 is our Big Bucks tourney. This one also $10,000 Guaranteed, but it has a higher buy-in and fewer participants. It costs $1,150 to enter this Pick & Pray and no more than 20 entries will be allowed in. As always, only the top three will win money…on a 70%/20%/10% basis. Again, the pot will be at least $10,000 no matter how many—or few—sign up. Low-cost feeders for this event continue all week long at HorseTourneys.
Exacta specialists will be out in force for Sunday's up-to-$5,000 Exacta box tourney. They will be selecting a three-horse exacta box in every race. No payoff caps. Whoever wins the most money, based on $1.00 payoffs, wins. This contest (always run in live-format mode) offers a guaranteed purse of $1,000. It's also extra fun for many because no matter how badly you might be doing, you're never out of contention until the very last race has been run. That's exactly what happened last week when Adam Lewis struck out on the first 11 races, but nailed the exacta in the 12th…which paid enough for him to beat everyone else.
There are three featured tourneys on Sunday over at HorsePlayers—all tied, directly or indirectly, to the NHC.
Our final two of the eight guaranteed NHC spots this weekend will be bestowed in a "regular" NHC qualifier with a buy in of $165. This tourney is a Pick & Pray.
Winning is not rare for Garett Skiba or Kim Dixon. They won last weekend's Gulfstream Conquer the Crown Challenge and Lone Star Park NHC qualifier, respectively. Congratulations to them!
And here's hoping your name joins theirs on the roster of December winners. Good luck!


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Ean Miles Kessler: Rutgers, BFA Acting. Ean studied at Shakespeare's Globe in England under esteemed director Tim Carroll. While at the Globe, Ean performed the title role in Hamlet on the Globe Stage. Off-Broadway Playwriting credits: Brotherly Love; King's River; The Bcam; Beautiful Hands. Publications: Brotherly Love ("Shorter, Faster, Funnier," by Vintage Books); Funny Valentine ("Plays for Two," by Vintage Books).
His play Beautiful Hands premiered at The Lion Theatre, on Theater Row in Manhattan, and was a semi-finalist in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (2011). Ean's play Devil Lay Me Down received its world premiere in Manhattan at Theater for the New City, and his play Mountain Kings was workshopped at the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis.
Ean was commissioned by Grace Arts in Miami to write Romeo y Julieta - La Tormenta, a retelling of Romeo & Juliet and The Tempest, written entirely in iambic pentameter. That production premiered in Miami, FL in 2018.
Ean is a member of the Playwriting Development Program (class of 2020), headed by Sheri Wilner, and is a former member of the New York and Miami chapters of Naked Angels Theater Company. He has been a proud Dramatist Guild Member since 2012.


Brush up on the basics of Ayurveda to gain valuable insight to enhance your yoga practice and teaching. Learn about the 20 gunas, or the building blocks of Ayurveda, and how they make the doshas (body types) that align with the seasons. John will offer practical tips for incorporating these Ayurvedic principles into yoga class themes.
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John Immel, RYT 200, is the founder of Joyful Belly and director of The Joyful Belly Institute's Master of Ayurvedic Digestion program. He studied Ayurveda under Dr. Vasant Lad and holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. He first discovered Ayurveda while working on a public health project in Bangladesh. John's interest in Ayurveda and digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel.


OSWEGO, NY – Jennifer Hill, executive director of the Greater Oswego-Fulton Chamber of Commerce, announced the Oswego and Fulton farmers' markets will be opening for the season.
The Oswego Farmers' Market, which is held on West First Street in downtown Oswego, opens tonight and will continue each Thursday from 5 – 9 p.m. through Oct. 9.
The Fulton Farmers' Market, held Saturdays from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the Canalview Parking Lot on Route 481 in Fulton, will open for the season on Saturday and continue each Saturday through Oct. 25.
For more information on the Oswego and Fulton markets, contact Goebricher at the chamber office, 343-7681.


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Montegrappa and the National Institute's of Fine Arts Foundation present the new pen: "Palacio de Bellas Artes" (Palaca of fine Arts)
As a contribution in support of art students in Mexico, David Eskenazi, CEO of Montegrappa Mexico, has presented the new Montegrappa Pen –"Palacio de Bellas Artes" (Palace of Fine Arts) – to the Institute´s Fine Arts Foundation. Montegrappa, established in 1912 as the first Italian manufacturer of fine pens, concluded the celebrations of its First Centenary with an exclusive cocktail party on Tuesday, November 27th in the Shop of the Palace of Fine Arts, with the support of INBA National Institute of Fine Arts Foundation.
The new pen in the Mexico Collection has been created by Montegrappa to celebrate the fine arts. This superlative writing instrument expresses the beautiful architecture of this important element of Mexican culture through the refined engraving and extraordinary details throughout the pen's body. The pen was inspired by the history of the National Institute of Fine Arts and its monumental exhibition space: The Palace of Fine Arts. This pen honors one of the most important and significant icons of Mexican civilization.
Only 78 sets of fountain pens and roller-balls have been produced, the number referring to the current anniversary of the Palace of Fine Arts. On the sterling silver body are engraved the representations of the frontispiece and the dome of the Palace, framed with the colors of the national flag on the cap. The distinctive facade of the Palace is in turn represented by white resin referring to the Carrara marble used in its construction. The central ring is engraved with the word "Mexico".
To honor this important edifice, Montegrappa is proud to announce a partnership with the Foundation of the National Institute of Fine Arts. The Foundation is a civil non-profit organization formed in late 2010, whose mission is to contribute with the National Institute of Fine Arts, broadening the scope of their projects, strategic programs and actions related to education, training and outreach arts. This is achieved through the promotion and dissemination of its work, management, and additional support and resources, as well as through generating support structures in partnership with states, municipalities, and other individuals. One of its most important objectives is to contribute to institutional support, through its leadership in the field of culture and the achievement of its mission. Montegrappa and the Foundation have formed this partnership to support the study of arts in Mexico, providing financial support to young people through the program BecArte.
In this magnificent Palace and with this important alliance, Montegrappa concludes the celebrations of its centenary in Mexico and is committed to keep working on new ideas that praise the Mexican culture around the world.
Since 1912, for precisely 100 years, Montegrappa has been manufacturing high-quality writing instruments in the same historic building in Bassano del Grappa, North East Italy.
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We love to keep up with what's going at Noma, especially when it comes to Rene Redzepi's Saturday Night Projects. That's why we were excited to hear about a few happenings at the world's best restaurant.
The staff has kept busy this week, harvesting shallots even after working 80 hours and preparing a new batch of dishes for the ongoing Saturday Night Projects, in which cooks get a chance to prepare dishes that may end up on Noma's menu.


The military build-up over the last few months in Ethiopia and Eritrea had reached such proportions that the world could soon be witnessing the first high-tech war in Africa, Mohamed Sahnoun, Special Envoy of the SecretaryGeneral in Africa, said during a press briefing this afternoon at Headquarters.
Mr. Sahnoun, who had briefed the Security Council this morning on the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea after his recent visit to the region, said that each country had high-tech fighter planes and bombers at its disposal and that the situation was extremely serious for both countries. "It is a disaster", he said.
He added that there was a need for the international community to address the issue and put pressure on both sides to put an end to the nonsensical war. The Secretary-General had called on the parties to cease hostilities immediately and give diplomatic solutions a chance. Without such efforts, there could be a full-scale war with horrendous destruction and repercussions for the entire region.
Having lived in Ethiopia for 10 years as Deputy Secretary-General for the Organization of African Unity (OAU), he said he knew the countries and both leaders well and had worked very closely with them. They were a source of inspiration in understanding and dealing with the issues affecting Africa. Both leaders had made a unique contribution to the OAU conflict-resolution process in the past. He hoped the leaders would heed the appeals of their friends around the world and bring an end to the current conflict.
Good governance in Africa was not easy in the face of so many difficult legacies and challenges, he said. Development was still insufficient to allow for prosperity that would cut across social, tribal or regional differences. It was incomprehensible, however, how two modern, independent States that seemed to have modern leadership and that seemed to be making important strides internally, could come to fight each other. It was important that the Security Council make a very strong appeal for the immediate cessation of hostilities there.
What was the rationale of both countries entering into the conflict? a correspondent asked. Mr. Sahnoun said it was not a mere border dispute. The conflict had its background in a number of contentions; however given the type of leadership the two countries had, they should have been able to resolve their differences. The tremendous military build-up by both countries had contributed to the escalation of the conflict.
Mr. Sahnoun was then asked why the conflict had flared up again in the last week. He said he wished he knew the reason. He could not really tell, but when he had been in the region he had been optimistic that there was hope for a peaceful solution. He had argued in favour of the OAU Framework Agreement and for both countries to invest in peace, which would reap both political and economic benefits. He believed the reaction of both leaders was positive.
Who was selling the high-tech weapons to both sides? a correspondent asked. Mr. Sahnoun said that he did not know -- that was a question that was better addressed to the countries.
The correspondent then asked why there had been so little action by the world community to respond to the conflict and what had been the role of countries such as the United States in bringing peace? Mr. Sahnoun responded that the United States Special Envoy to the region, Anthony Lake, had made four trips to the region. After his last trip, Mr. Lake had reported back to the United Nations. That was when Mr. Sahnoun had been sent on his mission to the region.
Was there any will on the part of the Security Council to impose an arms embargo and was that the best solution? a correspondent asked. Mr. Sahnoun responded that the President of the Security Council was in a better position to answer that question and that the will of the Council would be set out in its resolution on the matter.
A correspondent asked where the countries were getting the money for all the weapons and whether Mr. Sahnoun's job was more difficult now that the United Nations had fewer resources to address conflicts in the region. He said that the United Nations should be given more means to address such issues and that the international community should be more involved. It was not enough to pass a resolution and forget about the issue. There should be strong bilateral actions and a warning of sanctions to be imposed if the conflict severely affected civilians.
What was the next policy option now that the OAU Framework Agreement had been rejected by the Eritreans? Mr. Sahnoun was asked. He said there were two directions. There was a need for an immediate end to hostilities and the Security Council had to take whatever measures it felt necessary to bring about that end. In the other direction, the OAU could meet and recommend more actions to bring a resolution to the conflict.
A correspondent asked what Mr. Sahnoun and the Council had discussed as options if the resolution was ignored by the parties? Mr. Sahnoun said that such a question would be better answered by the President of the Council.
Asked whether the conflict went against the argument that the world would only be facing internal conflict and not inter-State conflict, Mr. Sahnoun said that in Africa most conflicts would be internal. It had taken centuries for Europe to develop the States that it had today. There was a need for development in Africa -- if there was no investment in development, then there would be no peace in the those countries. He hoped that this kind of conflict between two independent States would be the exception and such conflicts would not occur in the future.


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Oscar Winning Room out On DVD
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Every now and then the shocking story becomes headline news: a woman is discovered after being held captive for years in some man's basement or backroom while neighbors passed by unaware. The reports inspired the fictional story in Room, an Oscar nominee for Best Picture out on DVD and Blu-ray.
In Room, a mother has been held captive for seven years by a sexual predator. The film begins on the fifth birthday of her son, Jack. Despite his paternity, she loves Jack without reservation and shelters him from "Old Nick," the man who visits her many nights. The boy watches wide-eyed through the door slat of the wardrobe where he hides, seeing little but hearing the creaking agony of sex in the outer room, endured silently by his mother.
Based on the bestselling novel by Emma Donoghue, Room's early scenes are often shot in claustrophobic close-ups, framed to make palpable the physical and emotional confinement between mother (Brie Larson earned her Oscar for the role) and Jack (Jacob Tremblay). Their lives are circumscribed by the toolshed where they are kept, locked behind a door with a number keypad. The blue patch framed by the skylight is the only glimpse of sky. The shabby container is furnished with bed, tables, chairs, toilet, tub and kitchenette. Old Nick keeps them on tight rations, and when angry, shuts off electricity. The film gathers the details of their confinement slowly. Old Nick is an unremarkable-looking middle-aged man, verbally and physically abusive, though seemingly bound by vestiges of propriety. Director Lenny Abrahamson mirrors the novel's narration by Jack by shooting some scenes from the boy's point of view. Larson and Tremblay's performances are well modulated and thoroughly believable.
The wobbly pictures on a little TV, his mother's stories and reading lessons from a handful of books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland among them) provide Jack with his education. A bright boy, he has difficulty at first accepting his mother's revelation that the room they inhabit is only an insignificant sliver of a greater world outside. "We can't keep living like this," she tells Jack, purposefully planting seeds of curiosity about the wider reality beyond their room. She begins to plot an escape plan.
Room becomes a gripping drama as mother prepares to send Jack into the world for help; at all points it's an acute and carefully observed study of life under great duress. The world outside the room is the goal, but as Jack learns, that world has its troubles, too.
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Gower road finally reopens after weeks of repairs to massive sinkhole
'They've done a good job and it's perfect timing for it to reopen'
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Motorists are able to use the road for the first time since the sinkhole appeared in September (Image: Swansea Council)
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A main road through Gower has reopened after a sinkhole the size of three houses appeared beneath it.
The void was found below south Gower Road between Nicholaston Farm in Penmaen and the turn-off to Oxwich on Wednesday, September 30.
Swansea Council closed the road, saying it was at risk of "imminent collapse" as the large hole lay just a few feet below the surface and extended for the whole width of the road.
The open sinkhole during the investigation period (Image: Swansea Council)
How south Gower road looks now it has reopened (Image: Swansea Council)
Workers at the site before it reopened (Image: Swansea Council)
Perriswood Archery and Falconry Centre is located just off the affected area of road.
Speaking in October, owner Brian Williams said it was a double blow for the business after a difficult financial year because of coronavirus.
Now, the 60-year-old said he was pleased to see the road open so promptly.
He said: "To be fair the workers have done well and have worked through some really bad weather, they've done a good job and it's perfect timing for it to reopen as we come out of lockdown.
"We can reopen again to the same restrictions we had in the summer, with social distancing and sanitising. It means we'll have a dramatic reduction in capacity, but we are open.
"The road closure had a massive impact on us before the fire-break lockdown. It was closed both sides of us. It was a double whammy for us as we were already dramatically reduced because local lockdown in Swansea, meaning people from outside the area could not visit us."
Brian Williams, owner of Perriswood Farm which is located just after the section of the south Gower Road closed (Image: Robert Melen)
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Contractors and specialist geotechnical consultants had been on site since October in an effort to repair the road and get it reopened as quickly as possible.
The cause of the sinkhole was surface water running off the adjacent farmland and was made worse by the presence of smaller holes in the rock beneath the road.
The repairs have included the creation of a new drainage system to help direct water away from the road surface.
Local business owner talks about the sinkhole in Gower
Mark Thomas, cabinet member for environment enhancement and infrastructure management, said: "Early fears that the subsidence has been caused by the large voids deep in the ground were fortunately not the case. However, running water had created some smaller voids much nearer the road surface and it was this issue that had caused the problem.
"We also needed to develop a new drainage system so that the problem did not return.
"I'm pleased we have now been able to reinstate the road, which our contractors have done as quickly as possible.
"I'd like to thank motorists for the patience they have shown while we have completed these works and also thank our highways staff for the hard work and effort put in to get the road open again."
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In a year where their head coach was fired before the first month of the season ended, the LSU football team doesn't lack confidence heading into a matchup with top-ranked Alabama.
It's a series that Alabama has dominated historically (65.6% winning percentage) and in recent years (5 straight victories), but LSU senior Dwayne Thomas believes the Tigers change that next Saturday.
During the five-game winning streak, Alabama hasn't scored fewer than 20 points while LSU has failed to score more than 17 in each meeting. And the Crimson Tide might be bringing its best offense of the winning streak to Baton Rouge on November 5.
That doesn't change Thomas' opinion.
"I really see us dominating this offense. I really see us dominating this team."
The SEC West lead will be on the line once again when these two programs square off under the lights of Death Valley. The game will kickoff at 7PM on CBS.
BONUS VIDEO: Watch the game-winning catch last time Alabama played in Baton Rouge.


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Senator Obama – Meet The Big Man: President Obama!
"The notion that as a consequence of that authorization, the president can continue down a failed path without any constraints from Congress whatsoever is wrong and is not warranted by our Constitution," – Remarks in 2007 by Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama criticizing President Bush's decision to increase U.S. military forces in Iraq based on a 2001 congressional authorization.
If we gauge a president's success by his ability to achieve campaign promises, there is no doubt that in foreign policy President Obama has fallen far short of the mark. As research by Middlebury College student Danny Zhang of presidential candidate Obama's public remarks reminds us, Obama's foreign policy agenda included two fundamental tenets: he would wind down U.S. military involvement in Iraq, and he would return to a more collaborative and bipartisanship conduct of foreign affairs – one more nearly in accord with the Constitution.
Arguably neither tenet has been met. It is now clear that Obama will almost certainly bequeath to his successor an anti-terror military campaign in Iraq and Syria intended to destroy the Islamic State (IS) that even the most optimistic projections suggest will last years, and with uncertain odds of success. And rather than consult with Congress, Obama has justified his current air campaign against IS on the Bush-era 2001 authorization by Congress to use military force against terrorists who attacked the United States – the very premise he rejected on the presidential campaign trail while a U.S. Senator.
It is tempting to conclude from this record that candidate Obama was naive, if not duplicitous. But I have no doubt that he sincerely believed his rhetoric – as did most of those who voted for him. He likely did believe that, as he indicated to the Boston Globe "[t]he President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." As I have often said, however, governing is far different than campaigning. The reason why President Obama's foreign policy seems to have largely followed his predecessor's blueprint is because the nature of the strategic threats to the United States has not changed across the two presidencies. Nor has the president's constitutionally-based responsibility to protect the nation from attack. That combination of similar threats and a shared vantage point made it almost certain that President Obama's foreign policy would not deviate markedly from George W. Bush's – a point some of us have made before.
Indeed, arguably Obama's biggest foreign policy mistake occurred when he did try to deviate from his predecessor's blueprint by ordering a full U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq. One can debate what precipitated the U.S. troop pullout; Obama's supporters insist that Iraqi leader al-Maliki was unwilling to allow U.S. forces to remain under a strategy of force agreement that protected U.S. soldiers. More generally, as Obama argued in his recent 60 Minutes interview, it may be that the decision to withdraw was sound, but that the Iraqis then squandered the opportunity the U.S. left them: "When we left, we had left them a democracy that was intact, a military that was well equipped, and the ability then to chart their own course. And that opportunity was squandered over the course of five years or so because the prime minister, Maliki, was much more interested in consolidating his Shiite base."
However, Obama's former CIA director Leon Panetta is the latest ex-administration member to suggest Obama made little effort to overcome al-Maliki's resistance to retaining a small U.S. military force in Iraq in order to stabilize the regime and provide security against terrorist attacks. In excerpts from his soon to be released book Worthy Fights, Panetta writes, "Those on our side viewed the White House as so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests."
Whatever the explanation, the reality now is that the U.S. is once again engaged in a military conflict in Iraq and Syria of indeterminate length and uncertain success. And, like his predecessor's Iraqi war effort, Obama is trying to create an international "coalition of the willing" to help defeat IS. To date, however, the largely U.S.-led campaign of targeted air strikes has not appeared to have had much success in rolling back IS's territorial gains. That leaves open the possibility that at some point the U.S. may have to increase its troop commitment beyond the nearly 2,000 now stationed in Iraq if Obama's war aims are to be reached – a troop increase that many military experts suggest is inevitable.
Nor has President Obama appeared to heed candidate Obama's advice, as exemplified in the opening quote to this piece, to conduct foreign policy in a more collaborative, bipartisan and constitutionally-acceptable manner. In fact, as noted above, Obama has cited the Bush-era authorization of military force as the legal basis for the current bombing campaign against IS. Critics contend that this smacks of presidential imperialism. In truth, however, Obama's actions are consistent with those of his predecessors', almost all of whom have sought to protect the presidency's ability to fulfill its constitutional prerogative to defend the nation from attack. As Madison argues in Federalist 51, this effort to defend the presidency as an institution is both expected and desirable: "But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place." Under Madison's reasoning, it is Congress' role to push back against this assertion by Obama of prerogative power. However, as I noted in this previous post, many congressional Republicans are applauding Obama's newfound militarism while most Democrats do not want to take on their own president heading into a midterm election.
We should not be surprised, then, that as President, Obama more closely resembles President George W. Bush than he does Senator or candidate Obama. In the modern era, the United States – as the sole superpower – no longer has the luxury of choosing whether to take the lead in foreign affairs. That is a burden that cannot be removed, no matter how much Americans may yearn for – and candidates may promise – a return to normalcy. And the President, as the embodiment of national sovereignty, simply cannot delegate this leadership role to any other political actor.
In his study of American government Woodrow Wilson wrote, "The President is at liberty, both in law and in conscience, to be as big a man as he can." In the modern era, however, as presidency scholar Richard Neustadt reminds us – and as President Obama has discovered – the president "nowadays cannot be as small as he might like."
Senator Obama – meet the big man: President Obama.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged bombing IS, foreign policy, Obama, prerogative power on October 5, 2014 by Matthew Dickinson.	4 Comments
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Shelly Sloan says:
Matt:
Your statement that Obama will leave his successor a war in the Mideast is axiomatic. I have been thinking a lot about that aspect.
Do you think that portends a serious problem for Hillary Rodham Clinton? I suspect that our next President will surely be a wartime President. Does that argue for Jeb Bush? Or, is it possible that we will see campaigns for David Petraeus or Stanley McChrystal?
I suspect that if we are in the war posture we all expect to see, that Hillary may decide not to run. While we all assume that America is ready for a woman to be President of the United States, I'm just not sure that a wartime situation is conducive to that result.
Matthew Dickinson says:
War posture or not, I'm convinced Hillary will run. She's certainly going to make the case that her diplomatic experience qualifies her to handle these foreign policy issues, and she will also try to distance herself from Obama by arguing that she was ahead of him in pushing for a more muscular foreign policy in Afghanistan and other hotspots. There may be some people of a certain generation who would be less willing, because of her gender, to vote for her during a time of war, but I suspect those people would be looking for an excuse not to support her anyway. It's hard to tell, but I could see an argument that her gender, like Obama's race, might actually be a net plus in terms of getting out the vote among some groups.
Arnold Abelson says:
If preparing for war is part of the next president's job, having a general in the office is the worst possible choice. Five stars are more frequently awarded
in time of war.
Arnold:
Worst possible choice? We've tried that.
Will you agree that our nrxt President ought to have some background that prepares him or her to lead a nation at war?
Some background that is discoverable?
Or, should we elect another "Manchurian Candidate"?
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Browningia hertlingiana (Backeb.) F.Buxb., es una especie fanerógama perteneciente a la familia de las cactáceas. Es endémica del Perú en Junín.

Descripción
Es un cacto de tamaño arborescente a arbóreo, columnar de hasta 8 m de altura , de 18  o más costillas y 1 a 3 de espinas centrales de  hasta 3,8 cm de largo y 4 a 6 de radiales. Las flores son blancas de 5 cm de diámetro.

Taxonomía
Browningia hertlingiana fue descrita por (Backeb.) F.Buxb. y publicado en Kakteen 4(1): 104, en el año 1965.Browningia hertlingiana en Cactiguide
EtimologíaBrowningia: nombre genérico que fue nombrado en honor de Webster E. Browning (1869-1942), exdirector del Instituto Inglés de Santiago de Chile.hertlingiana: epíteto que honra el comerciante alemán y compañero de Curt Backeberg Sr. Hertling.

Sinonimia
 Clistanthocereus hertlingianus Azureocereus hertlingianus Azureocereus nobilis Azureocereus imperator'' Johnson

Referencias

Enlaces externos

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Cactaceae/Browningia.html
http://cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Browningia

hertlingiana
Flora de Sudamérica occidental
Flora de América del Sur continental
Cactus y suculentas
Plantas descritas en 1965
Taxones descritos por Curt Backeberg
Plantas descritas por F.Buxb.


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