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Bradford West Gwillimbury > Procurement
Procurement Division
The Procurement Division works with Town departments as a strategic partner, facilitating value-added Procurement for all Goods, Services and Constructions. If you do not find the information you require below, please contact the Procurement Division at purchasing@townofbwg.com.
Select a topic for more information:
To obtain the best value for the Town when procuring Goods, Services or Construction. In doing so, the division encourages competition and ensures principles of fairness, objectivity, transparency and accountability are reflected in the Town's Procurement processes.
Our vision is to provide resourceful professional services to both internal and external customers while adhering to government legislation and sound business practices. The division ensures that Procurement activities are undertaken with due regard to the preservation of the natural environment and the promotion of human rights and fair labour practices.
Open, fair and transparent processes
Employment of Best Practices to facilitate ease of procurement
Competence, excellence, efficiency, objectivity and impartiality
Continuous development of purchasing excellence
Purchasing Co-operatives
The Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury is a member of the Georgian Bay Area Public Purchasing Co-operative (GBAPPC). The GBAPPC membership comprises a broad spectrum of public agencies operating within the Georgian Bay area including municipalities, school boards, hospitals, colleges, and various other public entities that share resource efforts to procure similar goods and services through collaborative processes to recognize additional savings.
In addition to being an active member of the GBAPPC, the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury may participate from time to time in procurements conducted as part of the following buying groups:
Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplace (OECM)
Ministry of Government and Consumer Services
Local Authority Services (LAS)
Canada Free Trade Agreement – Disclosure, 2018
Pursuant to Article 516 Transparency of Procurement Information, the following details the procurements covered under the Canada Free Trade Agreement for the 2018 calendar year.
Type
Number of Procurements
Aggregate Value, incl. HST
$101,100 or greater for goods or services, excluding construction 13
$3,164,720.44
$252,700 or greater for construction 7
$15,276,655.63
Should you have any questions regarding the above mentioned disclosure, please contact the Procurement Division at purchasing@townofbwg.com
Bid Irregularities
This list of irregularities should not be considered all-inclusive. The Bid Review Committee will review irregularities not listed and shall have authority to waive the irregularity or grant two (2) business days to remedy such irregularity.
Where, at the request of the Town, a bidder has been given two (2) business days to correct an irregularity and the bidder fails to make such correction within that time period, the bidder shall be deemed non-compliant and the bid rejected without further consideration.
For the purpose of this document, the following shall apply:
a)	Bidder(s) shall also mean Proponent(s)
b)	Bid(s) shall also mean Proposal(s)
c)	Bid Form shall also mean Form of Proposal
Informal Bid Process
(see below for Formal Bid Process Irregularities)
Item
Irregularity
Response
1 Late bids Automatic rejection
2   Bid Form not signed or witnessed
Automatic rejection
Bid Form signed by an authority to bind the company, but not witnessed Upon notification, two (2) business days to witness or bid shall be rejected
Bid Form witnessed, but not signed by an authority to bind the company Upon notification, two (2) business days to sign or bid shall be rejected
Incomplete Bid Automatic rejection, unless:
a) the competitive bid opportunity state that partial bids are acceptable, and the bid is complete in respect to the portion of the scope of deliverable(s) bid on; or
b) in the opinion of the Procurement Division, the omission is of a minor nature and is remedied by the bidder within two (2) business days of notification. Incomplete pricing shall not be considered minor in nature and shall result in automatic rejection, with the exception of the irregularities stated in accordance with items 4 and 5.
If a unit price has been provided but the corresponding extended total has been omitted The extended total will be calculated from the unit price and the quantity specified, by the Owner.
If an extended total has been provided but the corresponding unit price has been omitted The unit price will be calculated from the extended total and the quantity specified, by the Owner.
Mathematical errors which are not consistent with the Unit Price, such as tax calculation errors Upon notification, two (2) business days to correct or bid shall be rejected
Unit Price, which has been changed, not initialled but the corresponding extension is consistent with the amended Unit Price Upon notification, two (2) business days to initial or bid shall be rejected
Unit price, which has been changed, not initialled and the corresponding extension is not consistent with the amended unit price Automatic rejection
Transfer of an amount from one part of the submission to another is incorrect or incomplete Upon notification, two (2) business days to correct or Bid shall be rejected
Incorrect security submitted:
a) Bid Bond, in the form, amount and irrevocability outlined in the competitive bid documents, not submitted Automatic rejection, unless the Bid Bond submitted is in excess of the competitive bid document requirements
Bid Bond not signed or sealed, as applicable Automatic rejection
Alterations, additions, deletions or qualifying statements made to or provided with the Bid Form Automatic rejection, unless in the opinion of the Procurement Division the statements provided do not qualify any pricing but are included for clarity purposes
Failure to have a representative in attendance and registered at a mandatory site visit Automatic rejection
Bidder has not been previously prequalified under a related prequalification process, where applicable Automatic rejection
15   Addenda have not been acknowledged:
a) which have financial implications Automatic rejection
b) which have informational content Two (2) business days to acknowledge or bid shall be rejected
Formal Bid Process
b) in the opinion of the Procurement Division, the omission is of a minor nature and is remedied by the bidder within two (2) business days of notification.
a) Bid Security, as an e-bond, in the amount and irrevocability outlined in the competitive bid documents, not submitted Automatic rejection, unless the Bid Bond submitted is in excess of the competitive bid document requirements
Owner is unable to verify the e-bond authenticity Upon notification, twenty-four (24) hours to provide authenticity of the e-bond submitted with the bid.
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Bid received is from a Bidder serving a suspension period in accordance with FIN-F18-025 Procurement Suspension Procedure Automatic rejection
Owner Terms & Conditions
ARTICLE 1 – INTERPRETATION
1.01	Defined Terms
When used in the Contract, the following words or expressions have the following meanings:
"Conflict of Interest" includes, but is not limited to, any situation or circumstance where the Contractor's other commitments, relationships or financial interests (i) could or could be seen to exercise an improper influence over the objective, unbiased and impartial exercise of its independent judgment; or (ii) could or could be seen to compromise, impair or be incompatible with the effective performance of its obligations under the Contract;
"Contract" means the purchase order for the Deliverables issued by the Owner to the Contractor (the "Purchase Order"), including these Owner Terms and Conditions and the competitive bid document used to solicit the Deliverables. Should there be inconsistencies between these Owner Terms and Conditions and the terms and conditions within the competitive bid document used to solicit the Deliverables, the latter shall prevail.
"Contractor" means the vendor identified on the face of the Purchase Order.
"Deliverables" means the goods, services or construction as described in the competitive bid document or Purchase Order;
"Indemnified Parties" means the Owner, its elected officials, directors, officers, agents, employees and volunteers;
"Industry Standards" include, but are not limited to: (a) the provision of all labour, supplies, equipment and other goods or services that are necessary and can reasonably be understood or inferred to be included within the scope of the Contract or customarily furnished by parties providing goods or services similar to the Deliverables in similar situations in Canada and; (b) adherence to commonly accepted norms of ethical business practices, which shall include the Contractor establishing, and ensuring adherence to, precautions to prevent its employees or agents from providing or offering gifts or hospitality of greater than nominal value to any person acting on behalf of or employed by the Owner;
"Owner" means the Corporation of the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury;
"Rates" means the price, in Canadian funds, to be charged for the Deliverables, as set out in the Contract, representing the full amount chargeable by the Contractor for the provision of the Deliverables, including but not limited to: (a) all applicable duties and taxes; (b) all labour and material costs; (c) all travel costs; (d) all costs associated with insuring, transporting and delivering the Deliverables to the Owner at its address specified on the Purchase Order; (e) all insurance costs; and (f) all other overhead, including any fees or other charges required by law;
"Related Entities" include directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, affiliates, volunteers and subcontractors.
"Requirements of Law" means all applicable requirements, laws, statutes, codes, acts, ordinances, orders, decrees, injunctions, by-laws, rules, regulations, official plans, permits, licenses, authorizations, directions, and agreements with all authorities that now or at any time hereafter may be applicable to either the Contract or the Deliverables or any part of them; and
ARTICLE 2– GENERAL TERMS
2.01	Governing Law
The Contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein.
2.02	Entire Contract
The Contract, together with any additional documentation referenced in the Purchase Order, sets forth the entire agreement between the parties with regard to the provision of the Deliverables and supersedes any prior understanding or agreement, collateral, oral or otherwise, existing between the parties. In the event of any ambiguity, conflict or inconsistency between these Owner Order Terms and Conditions and any terms and conditions contained in any acknowledgement, order or any other form issued by the Contractor, these Purchase Order Terms and Conditions shall prevail. Changes to the Contract shall only be made by the issuance of an amended Purchase Order by the Owner to the Contractor.
2.03	Notices
Notices shall be in writing and shall be delivered by mail, personal delivery or email and shall be addressed to the contact identified on the face of the Purchase Order.
If any term or condition of the Contract, or the application thereof, is to any extent invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of the Contract, and the application of such term or condition (except to the extent to which it is held invalid or unenforceable), shall not be affected.
2.05	No Indemnities from Owner
Nothing in the Contract, whether express or implied, will directly or indirectly increase the indebtedness or contingent liabilities of the Owner beyond the obligation to pay the Rates in respect of Deliverables accepted by the Owner.
2.06	Force Majeure
Neither party shall be liable for damages caused by delay or failure to perform its obligations under the Contract where such delay or failure is caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, such as natural disasters, acts of war, insurrection and terrorism. If a party seeks to rely on a force majeure event, that party shall immediately notify the other party of the reason for and anticipated period of any delay.
2.07	Survival
This paragraph and paragraphs 2.01, 2.04, 2.05, 3.02, 3.04, 4.01, 6.02 shall survive the termination or expiry of the Contract, as shall any other provision which by its nature ought to reasonably survive such termination or expiry.
ARTICLE 3 – RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OWNER AND CONTRACTOR
3.01	Contractor's Power to Contract
The Contractor represents and warrants that it has the full right and power to enter into the Contract and there is no agreement with any other party that would in any way interfere with the rights of the Owner under this Contract.
3.02	Contractor Not a Partner, Agent or Employee
The Contractor shall have no power or authority to bind the Owner or to assume or create any obligation or responsibility, express or implied, on behalf of the Owner. The Contractor shall not hold itself out as an agent, partner or employee of the Owner. Nothing in the Contract shall have the effect of creating an employment, partnership or agency relationship between the Owner and the Contractor or any of the Contractor's Related Entities.
3.03	Non-Exclusive Contract, Work Volumes
The Owner makes no representation regarding the volume of goods and services required under the Contract and reserves the right to contract with other parties for goods and services the same as or similar to the Deliverables.
3.04	Responsibility of Contractor
The Contractor agrees that it is liable for the acts and omissions of its Related Entities. The Contractor shall advise its Related Entities of their obligations under the Contract and shall ensure their compliance with the applicable terms of the Contract.
3.05	No Subcontracting or Assignment
The Contractor shall not subcontract or assign the whole or any part of the Contract without the prior written consent of the Owner.
3.06	Conflict of Interest
The Contractor shall: (a) avoid any Conflict of Interest in the performance of its contractual obligations; (b) give notice to the Owner without delay of any actual or potential Conflict of Interest that arises during the performance of its contractual obligations; and (c) comply with any requirements prescribed by the Owner to resolve any Conflict of Interest.
3.07	Advertising
The Contractor is not permitted in any manner to advertise or publish the fact that they have been contracted to furnish the Owner with the Deliverables, without first obtaining the written consent of the Owner.
3.08	Contract Binding
The Contract can be enforced by and is binding upon the parties and their successors, executors, administrators and their permitted assigns.
ARTICLE 4 – PERFORMANCE BY CONTRACTOR
4.01	Deliverables Warranty
The Contractor represents and warrants that the Deliverables (i) shall be provided diligently in a professional and competent manner by persons qualified and skilled in their occupation in accordance with: (a) the Contract; (b) Industry Standards; and (c) the Requirements of Law; and (ii) shall be free from defects in material, workmanship and design, suitable for the purposes intended, in compliance with all applicable specifications and free from liens or encumbrance on title. The Contractor represents and warrants that the use or sale of the Deliverables purchased under this Contract will not infringe any patent, copyright or trademark.
4.02	Delivery
Unless otherwise stated on the face of the Purchase Order, all Deliverables shall be delivered Duty Paid (DDP) (Incoterms 2010) to the Owner's location, as specified on the face of the Purchase Order. No transportation or delivery charges of any kind, including, without limitation, packing, storage, cartage or customs brokerage charges, shall be paid by the Owner, unless specifically provided for on the face of the Owner Order.
4.03	Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
For any hazardous materials on this order, the Contractor shall provide the Owner with the SDS, prior to or with the receipt of Deliverables. If the SDS have not been received, the Deliverables will either be refused or shall be returned to the Contractor at no cost to the Owner.
4.04	Packaging and Risk
The Deliverables will be suitably packed in such a manner as will ensure their safe transportation undamaged to their destination. The Deliverables will remain at the risk of the Contractor until the Deliverables are received by the Owner.
4.05	Inspection and Acceptance
Receipt of the Deliverables at the Owner's location does not constitute acceptance of the Deliverables by the Owner. The Deliverables are subject to the Owner's inspection and acceptance within a reasonable period of time after delivery. If any of the Deliverables, in the opinion of the Owner, are inadequately provided or require corrections, the Contractor shall make the necessary corrections at its own expense as specified by the Owner in a rectification notice. The Owner reserves the right to reject or return quantities in excess of the quantity ordered.
4.06	Time
Time is of the essence. The Owner reserves the right to cancel this order in whole or in part if the Deliverables are not delivered within the stated time schedule. If the Contractor anticipates the delivery will be delayed, the Contractor shall give immediate notice to the Owner of the cause and extent of the anticipated delay. As a result, any costs or penalties incurred by the Owner due to late delivery may be borne by the Contractor.
ARTICLE 5 – PAYMENT FOR DELIVERABLES
5.01	Payment According to Contract Rates
The Owner shall pay the Contractor for the Deliverables in accordance with the Rates within thirty (30) days of receipt by the Owner of a satisfactory invoice from the Contractor requesting payment for Deliverables that have been received and accepted by the Owner.
All invoices submitted by the Contractor must include the amount invoiced, exclusive of HST, and the amount of HST shown separately.
5.02	No Expenses or Additional Charges
The Contractor shall pay all applicable taxes and duties, including excise taxes, incurred by or on the Contractor's behalf with respect to the Contract. There shall be no charges payable by the Owner to the Contractor other than the Rates.
ARTICLE 6 – INSURANCE AND INDEMNIFICATION
6.01	Insurance
The Contractor shall put into effect commercial general liability insurance, in a form acceptable to the Owner, in an amount not less than $2,000,000 per occurrence, with the Owner as an additional insured. The Contractor will also put into effect such other additional insurances as required by the Owner. The Contractor shall provide the Owner with evidence of insurance upon request. In the instance of consulting services, the Contractor shall also put into effect professional liability insurance, in a form acceptable to the Owner, in an amount of not less than $2,000,000 per claim.
6.02	Contractor Indemnity
The Contractor agrees to indemnify and save harmless the Indemnified Parties from all losses, claims, damages, actions, causes of action, costs and expenses that the Indemnified Parties may sustain, incur, suffer or be put to at any time, either before or after this Contract ends, including for infringement of third-party intellectual property rights or for third party bodily injury (including death), personal injury and property damage, arising or occurring, directly or indirectly, by reason of any act or omission of the Contractor or its Related Entities, except to the extent that such liability arises out of the independent acts or omissions of the Indemnified Parties.
ARTICLE 7 – TERMINATION
7.01	Immediate Termination of Contract
The Owner may immediately terminate the Contract upon giving notice to the Contractor for any reason, notwithstanding that the Contractor might not be in default under the Contract, and in such event the Owner shall be liable to the Contractor only for the payment of the Rates in respect of Deliverables accepted by the Owner up to the date of termination. The express rights of termination in the Contract are in addition to and shall in no way limit any rights or remedies of the Owner under the Contract, at law or in equity.
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yvp music war ein unabhängiges deutsches Tonträgerunternehmen, das der Verleger und Musikproduzent York von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1937–2021) 1984 gründete und leitete. Das Label veröffentlichte mehr als 700 Tonträger.

Geschichte
Das Label yvp, das 1985 seine Arbeit aufnahm, konzentriert sich auf Jazz aus Europa, mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der italienischen Szene. Dort waren Musiker wie Enrico Pieranunzi, Carlo Actis Dato, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Franco D'Andrea, Cristina Zavalloni, Guido DiLeono, Tony Pancella, Stefano Sabatini oder Romano Mussolini neben Joe Kienemann, Gijs Hendriks, Imre Köszegi, Rick Hollander, Klaus Wagenleiter, Martin Schrack, Hans-Peter Salentin, Jo Mikovich, Annette Neuffer, Jochen Baldes und Rainer Pusch unter Vertrag. Dabei wurde auch jüngeren Musikern wie Manfred Billmann, Katja Mair oder David Helbock Gelegenheit gegeben, sich zu präsentieren.

Als weitere Unterlabel bestanden das dem zeitgenössischen Jazz vorbehaltene Label ART-PUR mit Musikern  wie Daniel Studer oder Hubert Winter/Michael Wollny und das Label DEMON, das Produktionen des Easy Listening präsentierte. Weiterhin vertrieb yvp music das italienische Label Splasc(h) in Deutschland.

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Weblinks
 Webpräsenz von yvp music (archiviert)
 Labelporträt (Jazzzeitung)
 Albenübersicht (swissjazzorama)

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Jazz-Label
Musiklabel (Baden-Württemberg)
Independent-Label
Unternehmen (Ulm)

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A Peek at the Fun: Finding fun and creative birthday gifts is tricky sometimes, but we are here to help! If your friend has a birthday coming up, we have some awesome ideas for you.
Birthdays are so fun, and celebrating them with friends is even better! Deciding what to give your friends is sometimes tricky, but we have so many fun and creative birthday gifts for you choose from. These great gift ideas have so many possibilities, all you need to do is decide which gift your friend will love!
Do you have a friend who loves lotions, bubble bath, lip gloss…pretty much all things with yummy smells? This is the perfect gift for her. With so many possibilities it's a fun gift to put together. Start with your friend's favorite scents and products and you will be able to put together a fun "Scent-Sational" gift basket of your own.
We love these types of theme gifts because they are so fun and creative! If your friend loves purple then look no further, this is the gift for her. We started with a fun water bottle (found at our local dollar store) and started to fill it with fun purple items. You can also use a purple bag, purple pail, or purple basket for the base of this present.
Add the cute printable tag and you will have a very fun and creative birthday gift.
Does your friend love to pamper herself, or does she need to learn the art of pampering herself? Try giving her this awesome pedicure gift and see how much she will love it. Just grab all of the pedicure essentials and put them in a fun pail, basket, bag, or even a mason jar and your gift is ready to go.
This is so fun, you should probably buy double of everything and pamper yourself too!
This is a gardener lover's dream gift! Seriously if your friend has a green thumb, she needs this gift. Filled with all things needed for a beautiful garden, and we know she will love this.
We put everything in this fun summer bag, but you can assemble your gift in a basket, a watering pail, gift bag, or anything you think is fun. This gift tag could also be used to put on a plant, tree or flower basket which would make a great gift as well.
Who wouldn't absolutely love this "pretty" awesome birthday gift? This is for the gal who loves all things makeup. We started with this adorable makeup bag and then just started to fill it with fun items.
Add our cute printable tag and you are set to go.
Similar idea to the 40th birthday gift, but this one is designed for any birthday celebration. You can use a mug, mason jar, or any fun container you find. Super simple and super fun.
Do you have a friend who is in love with donuts? This donut bouquet is such a fun idea for anyone celebrating their birthday. We love this gift idea because it is budget friendly but so bright and fun. This makes the perfect gift if you are struggling to know what someone would love because EVERYONE loves donuts…right?!
This idea has more to do with the presentation of the gift than the gift itself. This is a fun and creative way to present whatever you want to give. Using a Pringles can, you can create a clever way to say happy birthday. Fill it with all kinds of items…really endless possibilities.
Who doesn't like a night out at the movies? This movie gift basket gives everything needed to enjoy a fun night out! You could also give a gift card for Redbox and let your friend enjoy a night at home. Either direction you go with this gift, it's sure to be a blockbuster gift idea!!
Give your friend the gift of ice cream, because is there anything better? This is perfect if you are wanting to wish someone a quick happy birthday, do it with a little flavor! Perfect for work friends or neighbors, or really anyone who loves ice cream.
Keep reading, we have more!
This is such a bright and fun birthday gift idea, we absolutely love it. This Hawaiian theme is a perfect way to say happy birthday to your friend. Simply load up on anything yellow and green, and when it's all put together you have a bright pineapple inspired gift.
This is for that friend who happens to have a love affair with a certain type of soda. This soda pop cake can be made with any flavor of soda, so if your friend has a "little" addiction to soda…go ahead and help her feed the addiction with this fun birthday cake. You could also decorate this "cake" with fun items your friend would love.
It's berry fun to give birthday gifts this cute! This is such a fun themed gift and perfect because you can customize it however you want. You'll just want a lot of red items and then you can top it off with a touch of green.
We love, love, love this piñata gift idea! Seriously, this is such a great birthday gift and so easy to put together. You can fill this piñata up with anything that will fit, making it so fun to give.
We recommend keeping extra piñatas on hand for those times you need a go-to gift idea!
So many great birthday gifts to choose from, we hope you have so much fun deciding which one to give!
Have FUN giving creative birthday gifts!!
Thank you for putting this on here I was having. A stuff time getting a gift for my friend her birthday is July 17th and need something quick to make for her that's awesome and that she would like.
A November, December, January Birthday idea would be great! Love the creative gifts..


Why is Rivareno so good?
The philosophy of our gelato store and lab is based on one key principle – a constant quest in the world for natural ingredients exemplifying freshness, purity and intensity. We do not use hydrogenated fats, artificial colourings, flavourings or preservatives. A uniquely intense, creamy and velvety experience, our gelato is unrivalled for the intensity of its flavours. Our ultra-fresh gelato is produced daily in our "laboratorio" in store only a few hours before serving. Our milk is the best milk in Italy, coming from the pastures high up in the Stura Valley, Piedmont, between the Maritime and Cottian Alps, which form the border between France and Italy.
We offer the best example of Italian gelato using traditional recipes – but whilst we respect tradition, we never give up on creativity. Many of the flavours we offer are our own creations which you will find only in Rivareno Gelato stores.
Every flavour in Rivareno, before being presented to our customers, has to pass one simple test: blindfolded, with no prior knowledge, one should be able to pick the flavour immediately.
At Rivareno Gelato, we use the traditional Italian way of storing the gelato. Gelato is stored in 'pozzetti' – stainless steel cylindrical containers deep inside the counter and covered with lids.
Although you cannot see the gelato, there are many advantages to using pozzetti. Gelato is at its best the moment it comes out of the gelato machine. After this point the gelato slowly oxidises and begins to lose flavour and freshness. The pozzetti are critical for the preservation of gelato, keeping it in the best possible state, maximising freshness and taste without the need for preservatives. This is particularly important since we use such high quality ingredients.
Using pozzetti importantly maintains a very consistent (and much warmer) temperature. This is one reason why our gelato has a soft, smooth and velvety texture. As the gelato is not so cold, it allows your taste buds to taste the gelato much better. In addition using pozzetti is a much more hygienic way of storing gelato, keeping the environment out. Each flavour is contained in a separate container covered with lids, avoiding cross-contamination of flavours.
Rivareno Gelato hails from Italy, more precisely from Bologna, the gastronomic capital of Italy and the world.
Born out of passion, imagination, dedication and determination to bring to the market the very best possible Italian gelato, Rivareno Gelato was created by two Italian gelato-makers and three friends. The partners had for a long time wished to produce a gelato with uncompromising quality and in the city of Bologna they put their plans into effect, with the first italian gelato store opening in Milan in 2005.
Reminiscent of the city where it all began, Rivareno shares the same name as a neighbourhood in Bologna. Rich in history and significance, the name was chosen to pay homage to the region of Emilia Romagna, whose people exhibit strength, passion and commitment in all that they do, and most importantly, gastronomy.
Rivareno Gelato's unique taste and consistency was immediately recognised by national and international gastronomic critics.
In its first year, Rivareno was mentioned by the exclusive Louis Vuitton guide.
In the second year, Rivareno was mentioned in Gambero Rosso and Golosario guides.
In 2008, Rivareno received the prize "Migliore gelateria d'Italia" (best gelato in Italy) from the Golosaria association – a leading Italian independent food guide and one of the most prestigious food titles in Italy.
Rivareno has won the title "Maestri del Gusto" (Masters of Taste) from Slow Food, one of the leading international organisations for the promotion of high quality healthy food and biodiversity – year after year. Masters of Taste is one of the most prestigious food titles in Italy.
We are not about gimmick, or show – we are all about quality, freshness and real authentic Italian gelato.
With the first Rivareno Gelato store opening in 2005 in Milan, other stores opened soon after across Italy; including Turin, Ferrara, Florence and Rome and internationally; Australia, Malta and Spain. We are particularly proud that Sydney, Australia was the location for the first store to open outside Italy, in February 2013 in Darlinghurst.
Gelato vs Ice-cream, what's the difference? Whilst gelato in Italian literally means frozen, it refers to the dessert invented in Italy, which has roots that go as far back as ancient times across different cultures.
Less Fat – Italian gelato is made predominantly from milk, whereas ice cream is cream-based. Gelato typically contains more high quality real ingredients and less sugar than ice cream. Immediately you can see why gelato typically contains much less fat, and less sugar (this depends on who is making it, of course).
We at Rivareno Gelato do not need to use chemicals or airing agents to 'puff up' our gelato, and as a result, it contains much less air, and is very dense.


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Vestido de Etiqueta por Eduardo Magallanes is the thirtieth studio album by Mexican musician Juan Gabriel, released on August 12, 2016. A bonus DVD was included. The album was released 16 days before Juan Gabriel's death.

Vestido de Etiqueta por Eduardo Magallanes reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart in the United States.

Disc 1

Disc 2

DVD

The production of the video clips took place at the Peón Contreras theater in the city of Mérida, with the participation of Juan Gabriel's personal videographer, Jesús Ochoa from Juarez, of whom some unpublished videos remain.

Promotion
Juan Gabriel embarked on the Mexico Es Todo Tour performing his final concert at The Forum in Inglewood, California.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

Juan Gabriel albums
2016 albums
Spanish-language albums
Fonovisa Records albums


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Our Anaheim employment lawyers have been watching the recent news that California-based youth-oriented retailer Zumiez, claimed that it has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging violations of California wage and hour laws by former and current employees.
According to the lawsuit, filed last year in Los Angeles, California Superior Court, Zumiez was accused of failing to compensate former and current California store managers with overtime wages, and didn't provide managers with their legally mandated meal periods and rest breaks. Zumiez was also accused of failing to reimburse retail employees for clothes that the store required the employees to wear for the company's dress code.
Zumiez, the seller of apparel designed for skateboarding and snowboarding cultures, reportedly claimed that although the allegations in this case lack merit, they are settling to avoid the time and cost associated with litigation. Zumiez expects the settlement to be approved in court, and estimates that it will cost the company over $2 million to settle the California wage and hour lawsuit.
As our Carson employment attorneys have reported in a previous blog, according to California wage and hour laws, defined by the California Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE), in the state of California, a nonexempt employee cannot work for more than eight hours in a single workday, or more than 40 hours in any week of work, unless they receive overtime of one and one-half times their regular pay rate for all hours worked beyond eight hours in a work day and over 40 hours in a week of work.
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Sail on stunning Loch Katrine aboard the iconic Steamship Sir Walter Scott. This trip is an absolute "must do" when visiting the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
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Is Docker in Trouble?
Posted by J Cole Morrison on November 14th, 2019 .
The words "Docker" and "Container" have been a roller coaster of highs and lows over the past couple years. Docker's debut into the tech world was nothing short of a renaissance...or so social media, marketers, and developer forums would have you believe. As soon as containers went from a backwater, linux-lover's side-conversation to the front page of Silicon Valley...well all sorts of new services and ideas came about. Microservices became a panacea to all of our problems, continuous integration was less of a hassle, and, despite it trying to take all the credit, even Serverless was born from this bang.
And so time went on. Docker became more and more ingrained into everyday lingo, job requirements, and Dilbert comics. Images of whales, boats, and colorful ships at the port became the backdrop to all of our modern developer websites and blog pages. This titanic topic set sail into the technology field's mind share and since then...it's almost impossible to escape it.
However, despite its (marketed) promise of taking us to a new land, a number of folks in the technology community believed it to be headed towards an iceberg...A "doomed" direction chosen by the fault of its own captains and crew. But how grounded is this paranoia? Is Docker on the downfall? Or is it all just a knee-jerk reaction from the Chicken Littles of our field?
Docker, An Empty Swarm
The biggest criticism and fear surrounding Docker was the company's isolated obsession with their container orchestration platform "Docker Swarm." Now, I don't want to get too deep into technicalities, but the point of this tool was to make it so that you could launch containers on a fleet of services and easily manage them. This was their financial flagship that they expected to bring in cash and make good with their nearly $272+ million worth of investment.
Though this is simply a result of the way they steered the ship, one of the main reasons Docker (the company) is in such a precarious position is because the alternatives to Docker Swarm have won out. Google's Kubernetes became the defacto option for teams with enough resources to sink into its operational overhead and reap the rewards. AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS) became the prime option for teams looking to streamline their container workflows without having to build and maintain the entire boat.
And so, the curious case arose whereby the official solution of "Docker Swarm" became the least picked option. Companies like VMWare have gone all in on Kubernetes for their future operations. And on the other hand, companies like Riot Games, with 27 million daily users, or Expedia, which runs over 13,000 containers on over 860 servers, use AWS ECS.
With so much of the pie being eaten up by other players, not many folks were surprised when it came to light that Docker was having financial problems. In a leaked memo, it turned out that despite raising so much money, they needed to raise even more. If Docker Swarm can't be the monetary powerhouse they need, what's their path forward? Also, how did it even come to this?
(If you are interested in learning the technicalities, check out my free series on Docker and AWS)
Docker, the Open but Closed Source and Community
The problems with Docker began and ended with its open source nature and management. Yes, Docker is an open platform that all can see, contribute to, and be a part of...and yet it wasn't. You could have the most incredible set of contributions for Docker ready to go into the codebase, and yet, if these contributions weren't on point with their vision...then too bad.
Now that's not radically different from any open source project. You have the contributors, who come up with improvements, make them, and submit them to be added. And you have the maintainers, who review these contributions and either thumbs up or thumbs down them. In an ideal open source project, anything helpful that objectively progresses the codebase gets added. Instead of an isolated set of folks doing what they think is best, you get everyone who uses and loves your project to do this for you.
The problem was that Docker was too authoritative on what they would and wouldn't allow. Instead of asking, "Will this contribution benefit Docker and the community as a whole?" they asked, "Will this contribution give Docker a competitive advantage and position Docker Swarm as the number one solution for orchestration?"
These decisions and actions lead to a great deal of blowback. Their "my way or the highway" approach to their community, and its contributions, transformed Docker from the friendly whale into a Moby Dick. And if you keep up with the zeitgeist of the open source hacker community...well, then you know that this is a surefire way to create an angry mob. (It's also funny that they named their open container framework Moby).
This rift between Docker and their community may not be the absolute cause for their troubles, but it's a hole in the ship for sure. If you alienate your best contributors and fans, who are the lifeblood of an open source project...well...what are you left with? Well, you're left with all of those great folks and potential partners turning to the alternative solutions.
Docker, Splitting the Ocean
...10 Years Later... (well almost)
And so on November 13th, 2019, nearly 10 years after Docker's founding, it was announced that Docker would be selling off the ENTERPRISE portion of its business to Mirantis. Now, due to the way this was announced, there was an initial burst of confusion: "Whaaaat?? Docker is getting sold???" In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that misunderstanding is still floating around.
But the truth is that over the years Docker became a two-headed...whale. They've had one head dedicated to improving their core technology and developer workflows, and the other head occupied with selling solutions and their platform to enterprises. So to clarify...
Docker did NOT get sold. Instead, Docker sold the enterprise portion of its business.
However, even without a misunderstanding, this can still be easily conceived as a doomsday signal for the captains out there chasing the beloved whale. Just as we've all found and settled on a technology that, regardless of what one thinks of the company, is incredible...is it destined to meet the deep dark of Davy Jones' locker?
Docker, the New Path Forward
It's not all doom and gloom though. In fact, things are looking pretty bright. Alongside Docker's announcement of selling the enterprise portion of their company, they also announced another important event: Docker raised an additional $35 million in funding and replaced the current CEO with their CPO Scott Johnston. This also came with an announcement that they're going to refocus their efforts on the community, improving developer workflows, and adding to their Docker Hub and Docker Desktop tools.
Why is this positive? Well, beforehand we had this two-headed whale constantly competing with itself. Will it work to better the ecosystem and make its technology compatible and optimal for everyone? Or will it draw boundaries and attempt to make its solutions king of the ocean? By removing the head (enterprise platform + Docker Swarm) that was largely responsible for the rifts and push-back, it seems they've decided to go all in on being the friendly whale. Between that, the injection of new funds, and putting someone product-oriented at the point, all signals are pointing towards smooth sailing.
Docker, Loved by Many, Hated by Some, Used by All
Here's the thing though - for all of the debris and uncertainty drifting around Docker there is one truth: developers and companies both love and use it. For all the AWS ECS vs K8s vs Swarm vs Etc, DOCKER is still the engine of these offerings. And so, not only are user-facing companies generating revenues off of Docker, but so too are B2B companies. And where there's cash...there's products, companies, jobs, interest, and longevity.
It's still reported as the 7th most popular tech tool on StackShare, the 2nd most loved / 1st most wanted platform, and the 3rd most broadly used platform according to the 2019 StackOverflow Survey. And so with popularity, love, and real usage at such highs, it's hard to see this recent business move as anything but positive. Since it seems to be changing course towards doing more of what folks want truly want from Docker, it should be some healthy forward motion.
Admittedly I am a big fan of Docker and I want to see them succeed. I've worked with it professionally for years now, and quite frankly, I can't imagine returning to an ecosystem without it. The pleasant and productive developer experience it allows for is unmatched by any similar solution, let alone trying to do the same workflows with VMs. Hopefully this return to their roots, of making a great developer experience, will help them reconnect with the community and find a sustainable business model.
But regardless of any position about the company, its success, or personal preference, let's not forget the people of Docker. If you've been in tech, then you know how volatile the industry can be, ESPECIALLY if you're in the startup scene. One day it's there. One day it's not. Yep, on paper it's all just another day in the world of business. But the shakeups, acquisitions, etc cause all sorts of turmoil in careers and relationships. And so no matter what, let's wish the folks of Docker well in their new direction and hope they all land on their feet.
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package cnu.eslab.fileTest;

import java.awt.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import org.jfree.chart.*;
import org.jfree.chart.axis.*;
import org.jfree.chart.labels.StandardXYToolTipGenerator;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.XYPlot;
import org.jfree.chart.renderer.xy.StackedXYBarRenderer;
import org.jfree.chart.title.TextTitle;
import org.jfree.data.time.TimeTableXYDataset;
import org.jfree.data.time.Year;
import org.jfree.data.xy.TableXYDataset;
import org.jfree.ui.*;

public class StackedXYBarChartDemo3 extends ApplicationFrame
{

	public StackedXYBarChartDemo3(String s)
	{
		super(s);
		JPanel jpanel = createDemoPanel();
		jpanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 270));
		setContentPane(jpanel);
	}

	private static TableXYDataset createDataset()
	{
		TimeTableXYDataset timetablexydataset = new TimeTableXYDataset();
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2002), 41287D, "Landfilled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2003), 41096D, "Landfilled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2004), 39603D, "Landfilled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2005), 39693D, "Landfilled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2006), 37227D, "Landfilled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2002), 7717D, "Recycled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2003), 8317D, "Recycled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2004), 9493D, "Recycled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2005), 11228D, "Recycled");
		timetablexydataset.add(new Year(2006), 14941D, "Recycled");
		return timetablexydataset;
	}

	private static JFreeChart createChart(TableXYDataset tablexydataset)
	{
		DateAxis dateaxis = new DateAxis("Year");
		dateaxis.setTickMarkPosition(DateTickMarkPosition.MIDDLE);
		dateaxis.setLowerMargin(0.01D);
		dateaxis.setUpperMargin(0.01D);
		NumberAxis numberaxis = new NumberAxis("Tonnes");
		numberaxis.setNumberFormatOverride(new DecimalFormat("0.0%"));
		StackedXYBarRenderer stackedxybarrenderer = new StackedXYBarRenderer(0.29999999999999999D);
		stackedxybarrenderer.setRenderAsPercentages(true);
		stackedxybarrenderer.setDrawBarOutline(false);
		stackedxybarrenderer.setBaseToolTipGenerator(new StandardXYToolTipGenerator("{0} : {1} = {2} tonnes", new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy"), new DecimalFormat("#,##0")));
		XYPlot xyplot = new XYPlot(tablexydataset, dateaxis, numberaxis, stackedxybarrenderer);
		xyplot.setBackgroundPaint(Color.lightGray);
		xyplot.setDomainGridlinePaint(Color.white);
		xyplot.setRangeGridlinePaint(Color.white);
		JFreeChart jfreechart = new JFreeChart("Waste Management", xyplot);
		jfreechart.setBackgroundPaint(Color.white);
		jfreechart.addSubtitle(new TextTitle("St Albans City and District Council"));
		ChartUtilities.applyCurrentTheme(jfreechart);
		GradientPaint gradientpaint = new GradientPaint(0.0F, 0.0F, new Color(64, 0, 0), 0.0F, 0.0F, Color.red);
		GradientPaint gradientpaint1 = new GradientPaint(0.0F, 0.0F, new Color(0, 64, 0), 0.0F, 0.0F, Color.green);
		stackedxybarrenderer.setSeriesPaint(0, gradientpaint);
		stackedxybarrenderer.setSeriesPaint(1, gradientpaint1);
		stackedxybarrenderer.setGradientPaintTransformer(new StandardGradientPaintTransformer(GradientPaintTransformType.HORIZONTAL));
		return jfreechart;
	}

	public static JPanel createDemoPanel()
	{
		JFreeChart jfreechart = createChart(createDataset());
		return new ChartPanel(jfreechart);
	}

	public static void main(String args[])
	{
		StackedXYBarChartDemo3 stackedxybarchartdemo3 = new StackedXYBarChartDemo3("JFreeChart: StackedXYBarChartDemo3");
		stackedxybarchartdemo3.pack();
		RefineryUtilities.centerFrameOnScreen(stackedxybarchartdemo3);
		stackedxybarchartdemo3.setVisible(true);
	}
}

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OuijaCon :: Celebrating 125 Years of the Unknown
Posted by Kelly Louise Barton April 17, 2015 October 12, 2017
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In a culture deeply enamored with fear and the Unknown, many of us find ourselves needing to confirm or deny things we can't explain. The paranormal can evoke fear and curiosity in some, while others simply dismiss it. Despite these contrasting views, the Unknown never ceases to spark controversy, and whether you believe in ghosts or not, who doesn't love a thrilling ghost story?
My obsession with the paranormal started with my mother's affinity for ghost stories, and my dad's dismissal of it all as a "bunch of garbage." Throughout my childhood we were members of a haunted library and lived in the woods full of spooky folklore-monsters and lost towns full of the Unknown. We always sought out the most interesting ghost stories, so of course, growing up we always had a Ouija board. Because what better way to seek the best ghost story than to take the reigns and be a part of one yourself?
After one memorable experience where a spirit my mother spoke to knew information about some eerie family history, my mom was so spooked she hid the board under my bed (thanks, Mom). There it stayed for several months, without my knowlege, and in those few months I had temper tantrums so violent that I made the lights flicker. At the time I attributed those melt-downs to my angsty, "woe-is-me" teen years. The superstitious side of me has always known that we had experienced our own ghost story, which only further sparked my curiosity about the influence of the "other side" and what worlds the Ouija is able to bridge.
Several years later, I found myself moving to Baltimore, which just so happens to be the birthplace of the Ouija board as we know it today. And recently, I found myself scoring an interview with the man who has literally rewritten Ouija's history: Robert Murch.
Murch is an avid collector, historian, and the Ouija and Talking Board connoisseur. No one else even comes close to Murch's talking board collection, consisting of, "Well over 500 different boards, that doesn't include variations. The boards change over time, and that can be into the thousands," he explains. But Murch doesn't just collect boards; he compiles all things Ouija, Talking and Witch board, from sheet music and poetry books, to newspaper articles and even the foot stone of William Fuld—the Father of the Ouija board. But most importantly, Murch collects stories.
Murch's interest in the paranormal goes back to his grandmother, who showed him all the things his mother tried not to—especially scary movies. Seeing the movie Witch Board in 1985, ignited Murch's Ouija curiosity. "That movie made a pretty big impression on me," Murch says, "mostly because I thought it was fascinating that something, that today is made out of cardboard and plastic, caused such controversy. The hard time we have dealing with death and the finality of things, is something that people believe is a great part of the game while [it] causes others to fear the Devil."
Since then, Murch has spent more than half of his life with the Ouija Board. Initially, his journey began wanting to clarify the discrepancies in all the documented history of the board. "I had to go to the library and actually open an encyclopedia, and every entry on the Ouija board said it came from somewhere else," he says. "Everyone knows what it is, and everyone knows how to play it, and everyone has their story, and yet we don't know where it comes from." Now, Murch's home is stockpiled with all things Ouija, that he's found on his own and through the help of the Ouija's ancestors.
Throughout Murch's Ouija odyssey, he's found that the real story behind the board lies within the hands of the originators. "That has been my biggest focus, on those people," he explains, "because that's where they tell the real story. It's unbelievable how much they've kept, whether it's photographs or letters." Much of his work has actually focused on genealogy, connecting the dots that time has left unanswered. In joining these dots, Murch has uncovered quite a few answers that have filled in so many gaps in the Ouija story—including the discovery of the unmarked grave of Elijah Bond, the man who patented the Ouija board with Charles Kennard, who is one of two men credited with coming up with the Ouija game idea.
"I found this unmarked grave, and two weeks later I found his great-grand-nephew, who was alive and 99 at the time," Murch remembers. "He gave me permission to put in a gravestone for Elijah at Green Mount Cemetery." He then worked with various other collectors and historians in order to raise the funds for the tombstone. This collaborative and historical effort was the beginning of the Talking Board Historical Society. The gravestone in question is one of the most visited stones in the cemetery including the grave of John Wilkes Booth. Why? Because the tombstone has a Ouija board carved into it, and what is cooler (and creepier) than that?
"Once I got permission to do that, I realized that most of this hobby was sharing and collaborating with other people, because the research is crazy," Murch says. There is no better way to describe the innumerable hours he's put into this adventure, and I think Murch couldn't be prouder of his insanity.
Murch is also the Chairman of the Board at the Talking Board Historical Society—which was created to research, protect and celebrate this history that has been lost for a long time. As with any historian, one of Murch's driving forces has been to preserve the history of the Ouija, even if that means rewriting it over 100 times.
These goals in mind, the TBHS is hosting its inaugural event: OuijaCon—a conference to celebrate 125 years of the paranormal and history of talking boards, in the city where Ouija was incepted. With festivities ranging from lectures, workshops, and a temporary museum showcasing over a century of talking boards, the conference promises to entertain believers and skeptics alike.
To kick off the event, the TBHS has worked closely with the city to unveil a plaque at 529 North Charles Street (which just so happens to be a few buildings down from What Weekly HQ), with a mayoral proclamation. This location is the exact spot where the Ouija was named, this month, 125 years ago. The plaque aims to set straight the myth behind the board's puzzling name, and memorialize the rich Ouija history Baltimore has to offer.
"We use to think that Ouija was the combination of the French and German, 'Oui' and 'Ja'," Murch says, "It turns out that's not true." Instead, the real story was uncovered in letters from the Ouija originators in 1890 published in the Baltimore Sun that discussed the naming event. Legend has it that the board simply named itself with the direction of a female medium, in what has otherwise been a male-dominated history.
"They asked the board what it wanted to be called and it answered by spelling out O-U-I-J-A," Murch says, recapping the evening he discovered. "When asked what that meant, the board answered 'Good Luck.' And so Ouija the board was born."
This cryptic blessing from the board itself only reinforces the mystery that has kept players and skeptics enthralled for over a century. And while Murch claims that he's only ever had good experiences with the board, we all want to hear the stories that send goosebumps up our spines. Still, Murch has nothing but love for the Ouija, and encourages others to stay openminded. "With all these Ouija boards around, with all of the things from the people that originated in all of the different stories—if any door to Hell were to open up, it would open up here."
In the meantime, Murch and his gang of merry Ouija-enthusiasts invite Baltimore to celebrate the Unknown in the city that helped spark the history surrounding this mystifying board, and maybe even be a part of your own ghost story.
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Van Hemlock Episode 13. Live!
I guess this is what would happen if all the football fans in the UK (i.e. all the people in the UK) went to pubs to talk about EQ instead of Roman Ambramovich.
Does this happen often? This isn't a rhetorical question. I haven't lived in Blighty for a good few years. Friends openly talking about MMOs and gaming OUT OF DOORS?!?!
Sounded like fun, I forgot about all my problems for a while when listening.
The background was interesting, was there a soft breeze? It was relaxing and something like a water fountain and a band muffled in the building with you guys out side. I liked it as nice alternative to just regular music tracks, I don't remember hearing that before. I liked it. I wonder if playing nature sounds s background sounds would be fun to do in pod casts sometimes too.
So yeah this is something I will listen too more then once :) and I liked all the games you all talked about and other stuff.
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The decline and fall of the Heian nobility, which is chronicled in The Tale of the Heike, provoked much lamentation among the poets of Japan. At the start of the 13th century, the court poet Kamo no Chomei was passed over for a prestigious post and left the imperial capital of Heian-kyo (present-day Kyoto). He took the tonsure, and lived henceforth as a grouchy hermit in a hut. There he produced his masterpiece, the verse-essay Hojoki, which translates as 'Writings from a Place Ten Feet Square'.[*] A charmingly disenchanted blend of Thoreau and the Prophet Jeremiah, the work takes a bitter satisfaction in looking back at his nation's fall from glory. Chomei describes an age visited by fire, drought, famine and plague. Corpses are piled in the streets of the capital and citizens loot temples and chop up Buddhas for kindling. Noble families have passed into obscurity: 'Decorously dressed folk/in hats and gaiters,/went from house to house,/frantically begging.' From his mountain seclusion he recalls a brief spell of collective repentance after a devastating earthquake in 1185:
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But days and months went by,
then years,
and no one spoke of it again.
At its height, in the 10th and 11th centuries, Heian Japan existed on a perhaps unmatched plane of aristocratic refinement. Nearly any scene from Murasaki Shikibu's extraordinary court romance, The Tale of Genji (completed in 1021), gives an idea of the premium placed on aesthetics. Genji, the Casanova-like hero, holds the rank of commander, but not once do we see him bothered with state or military matters. He is instead preoccupied with music recitals, poetry, calligraphy, perfume, fashion, love affairs and an aristocratic form of Buddhism that simultaneously smiles on earthly pleasure while offering a path to bliss after death.
To understand the decline of Heian imperial authority you might think of what happened to Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire. In Japan, the ruling houses attached to the crown had always had difficulty controlling landowners in remote provinces. For a time they had kept these far-flung manors quiet by promising immunity from taxation. But as the court in the capital became more and more insular and rarefied (men were often appointed to crucial posts entirely on the basis of good looks and good deportment), provincial landowners formed militias and staged revolts, joined by bellicose warrior-monks, undaunted by the Buddhist prohibition against taking life. Their raids on the capital had become annual occurrences.
The crown had no standing army, but relied instead on warrior clans from the capital, who were dispatched to snuff out insurrection in return for royal favours and preferential appointments. The outcome was predictable: power shifted from the emperor to the warlord (or shogun), and Japan entered a medieval age in which the country was controlled by feudal landlords with manorial estates (called shoen) protected by private warriors (samurai). This would remain the situation for more than six hundred years. In the 12th century, in the final throes of the Heian period, there was a decades-long civil war between the two most powerful warrior clans, the Heike (also known as Taira) and the Genji (or Minamoto). The end of the conflict, which came with the annihilation of the Heike and the establishment of the unchallenged supremacy of the Genji, is the subject of the Heike monogatari, The Tale of the Heike, newly translated by Royall Tyler.
Tyler is the most prominent translator since Arthur Waley and Edward Seidensticker to take on the Sisyphean task of rendering Japan's vast classical literature into accessible English. The Tale of the Heike is an especially challenging work for Western audiences. The Tale of Genji, with its eerily Proustian anatomisation of social protocol and matters of the heart, is approachable (Tyler's 2001 translation is the one to read), but The Tale of the Heike feels much more antique, a military chronicle cobbled together from a mishmash of adventure yarns, religious cautionary tales, folk legends and portraits of heroism.
Early sources say it was written – or, more likely, compiled from existing popular stories – by the monk Yukinaga in the early 13th century, who then taught the blind monk Shobutsu to chant it. The Tale of the Heike became famous as a musical recitation performed by a guild of blind itinerant monks called biwa hoshi (they played a biwa, a lute-like instrument, to accompany their singing). As centuries passed the text was altered and expanded, but it was always treated as a sourcebook for public performance: Tyler's translation, like his predecessors' versions, comes from a musical score.
Its basis in oral tradition and status as a great military epic have led many to think of The Tale of the Heike as the Japanese Iliad. But the comparison is misleading. The Tale of the Heike is far more episodic, its dramatis personae larger and more confusing, and its battle scenes relatively infrequent. Better to think of it as akin to Livy's histories of early Rome, with their mixture of military chronicle and personal narrative, or to a version of the Books of Kings seasoned with the didacticism of Proverbs and the eschatology of Revelation.
What is constant throughout The Tale of the Heike is its nostalgic, often despairing evocation of a dying culture. Its most famous passage concerns the transient nature of worldly renown:
The Jetavana Temple bells
ring the passing of all things.
Twinned sal trees, white in full flower,
declare the great man's certain fall.
The arrogant do not long endure:
They are like a dream one night in spring.
The bold and brave perish in the end:
They are as dust before the wind.
As Tyler explains in a footnote, the Jetavana Temple bells were rung when a disciple died, and when the Buddha died under a grove of sal trees, their yellow blossoms turned white. It's a strikingly funereal set of images with which to commence a tale of political and military bravado. But the epic was building on a cultural conception of greatness that had less to do with battlefield glory than with a high-minded acceptance of defeat. The Tale of the Heike is a work of nested, increasingly personal instances of failure: the fall of Heian splendour surrounds the fall of Heike hegemony, which surrounds the fall of the imposing Heike chieftain, Taira no Kiyomori, who 'held in his hands/at once the realm and the four seas,/and nobody could gainsay him.' He is presented as the apotheosis of the degenerate 'latter age': cruel, despotic, physically brutish and, perhaps worst of all, unmannerly (none of his rustic entourage 'had learned etiquette/or had any idea how to behave').
When the tale begins, in 1177, the Heike are basking in victory after two crushing defeats of the Genji in what are known as the Hogen and Heiji Conflicts. Kiyomori could have deposed the weakened emperor and made himself dictator, but instead tries to appropriate the crown's prestige and waning powers in time-honoured if heavy-handed ways, by working within the anachronistic court system. Other sources recount his attempt to ingratiate himself with the aristocracy by entering a poetry competition, where his submission is judged to be 'not good'. More cannily, he makes his daughter the consort of the reigning emperor, ensuring that succession will fall to his grandson.
Kiyomori's nemesis in the imperial court is a tenacious figure called Go-Shirakawa, who had briefly been emperor but abdicated at the age of 31 in order to exert political control through the system known as insei, or 'cloister government'. Traditionally, the duties of the emperor were largely ceremonial; the actual governing was done by regents who became wealthier than the nominal rulers. Go-Shirakawa's trick was to abdicate, become a monk and then dominate from behind the scenes. (Not to be outdone in faux holiness, Kiyomori becomes a monk as well.)
Having evaded the regents, Go-Shirakawa, the so-called Cloistered Emperor, becomes embarrassingly subservient to the Heike. So in 1177 he encourages the Shishi-no-tani plot, which comes across in The Tale of the Heike as a rather inept attempt on Kiyomori's life. The Heike quickly sniff out the rebellion; many of the conspirators are beheaded, some are 'killed and pickled'. A few high-ranking noblemen are exiled to a distant island with barbarian natives who are 'dark, oxlike and very hairy', and there they indulge in poetical teeth-gnashing about their abject fates.
Kiyomori's impulse is to retaliate against the Cloistered Emperor, but he is moved to leniency by his eloquent son Shigemori, and the two rulers revert to an awkward status quo ante bellum. Shigemori piously argues that disrespect for the throne is tantamount to sacrilege: he adheres to the saying, 'When ruin threatens the Sovereign's Way,/The Buddha's Way collapses first.' His finest moment is a stirring Shakespearean speech in which he despairs of the difficulty of properly honouring both the emperor and his father, the emperor's enemy:
O sorrow! Should I exert myself
to escape being unfilial,
at that moment I would become
a treacherous, disloyal subject.
Soon afterward, Shigemori falls fatally ill, and refuses to consult a well-respected foreign doctor because successful treatment would be humiliating to Japanese pride. He is one of the epic's archetypal heroes, martyred by the perfection of his loyalty.
Shigemori's death removes the last brake on his father's ambition. In 1179, Kiyomori marches on the capital at the head of several thousand mounted men and stages a bloodless coup. He dismisses dozens of imperial ministers and forces the abdication of the nominal emperor, installing his infant grandson Antoku on the throne. The Cloistered Emperor is put under a kind of house arrest. 'The age is ours!' the Heike exult, setting the stage for Kiyomori's most outrageous overreach. In 1180, the warlord, 'a mere commoner', has the audacity to move the capital from Heian-kyo, where it had been established in 794, to his estate in the coastal city of Fukuhara (near present-day Kobe).
The move proves to be a blunder – the sensitive aristocrats find the raw weather on the coast unbearable and Kiyomori soon succumbs to pressure to return to the old capital. But it is perceived by all as the ultimate sign of End Times, and in some of the book's most picturesque visions of imperial decay, 'houses that once up and down the streets/jostled eave to eave in their pride/ day by day crumbled into ruin'.
This is the pinnacle of Heike dominance. Kiyomori commits a few more abominations – worst of all are the burning of an ancient Buddhist temple and the slaughter of thousands of warrior-monks – but he is soon pursued by 'the murderous demons of transience' and meets an agonising death:
Water sprayed on him from a bamboo pipe, to give him relief,
recoiled as though from hot stone or iron and never reached him.
What water did touch him turned to fire.
Black smoke filled the room, and flames swirled high in the air.
In his bitter last words, Kiyomori rues that he has not lived to see the severed head of 'the Izu exile, Yoritomo'. He's talking about the Genji leader, Minamoto no Yoritomo, and it's at this point that the Genji rouse themselves and begin their conquest of Japan. Despite the epic's tendentious message that Kiyomori's downfall is retribution for his overweening pride, his real mistake is an old-fashioned weakness for granting clemency. After he routed the Genji in the Heiji Conflict and killed the clan leader, Yoshitomo, a noblewoman persuaded him to spare the lives of Yoshitomo's young sons. Yoritomo has grown up in exile, waiting for the chance to avenge his father's death.
Yoritomo is a shadowy and remote presence in the story, yet so dispassionately ruthless that he changes his country's history more radically than a sentimental, backward-glancing figure like Kiyomori ever could. His defeat of the Heike, now led by Kiyomori's son Munemori, is decisive, but the civil war is drawn out by vicious intra-clan bloodshed. Yoritomo's method is to send allies to do his fighting; then, when their generals succeed and become celebrated, to contrive excuses to have them killed. 'A man of power may do little himself, yet gain glory through his retainers,' a soldier says on the eve of a battle, while Yoritomo is safely ensconced on his estate in Kamakura. It could be the motto of the new feudal age.
'The Heike felt still caught in ice,/like birds of the Himalayas.' They are finally destroyed in 1185 after a series of famous battles against Yoritomo's daredevil half-brother, Yoshitsune. (Yoshitsune, whose story continues beyond The Tale of the Heike, is one of the most renowned figures in Japanese history. His legend arose not only because of his victories but because Yoritomo eventually hounded him into suicide, thus cementing his posterity as a sacrificial hero.) During this drawn-out war come the plagues and famine and natural disasters transcribed with such appalled fascination in the Hojoki. In The Tale of the Heike, the story pauses to recount an enthronement in the capital, which entails the ritual purification of the emperor, amid ornate processions and great feasts. But such ceremonies have now been infested by preening warmongers, and the imperial pomp that surrounds them is described with a hint of irony instead of purely wistful longing.
the common people and the peasants
throughout every province of the land
had suffered Genji depredations
and destruction at Heike hands.
They had abandoned hearth and home
to flee into mountains and forests.
In spring they forgot to till their fields;
in autumn they could harvest nothing.
How, then, was this feast even possible?
And yet it could not be omitted.
Therefore it was followed at least in form.
Tyler has improvised a loosely metred verse form for his translation of a performance text that, created for musical recital is, as he writes, 'really neither verse nor prose'. Tyler's version is more inviting than Helen Craig McCullough's precise but rather gruelling prose translation of 1988, which seems intended for students rather than the general reader. Even so, it doesn't quite match his earlier translations. He favours a playful, colloquial style of dialogue and description, and in The Tale of Genji this brings down to earth the flights of ethereal poetry and Buddhist pontification in what is essentially a novel of manners. But the slangy touch sounds odd in a historical epic. Lines like 'That brought it all home to me' and 'Hey, you! Now what do you have to say?' make the characters seem curiously burlesque even if you sense that they are supposed to be imposing or heroic.
The translation is at its richest in the tale's final sections, which recount how Yoritomo, unlike his vilified counterpart Kiyomori, spares no one from his rival clan, not even the six-year-old Emperor Antoku, who drowns in the arms of his grandmother during the conclusive sea battle of Dan-no-ura. (The Cloistered Emperor, Go-Shirakawa, is by this point a peripheral figure, and Yoritomo's few deferential gestures to him are laced with sarcasm.) As the Heike nobles face their destruction and renounce what is felicitously called the 'dewdrop life', the tale suddenly overflows with sympathy for them.
Removing yourself to a monastery is always considered a mark of urbane sagacity: 'Life is a dream, an illusion –/why then suffer while we live/any distasteful company?' one wise young man says. But for the doomed Heike nothing is more ennobling than suicide. One episode recounts the demise of Koremori, Kiyomori's grandson and the commander of the defeated Heike forces. Koremori has left his wife and children to make a pilgrimage to the shrine at the spectacular Nachi waterfall. A monk spies him and recalls Koremori's youthful beauty, when he was honoured by the sovereign and admired by the palace women. ('Talk about life's vicissitudes!' the monk says.)
After completing his pilgrimage, Koremori carves a suicide note into the trunk of a pine tree and rows a boat out to sea. There, as he thinks of his family, his courage falters; fortunately, he has with him a compassionate holy man to provide the needed motivation:
You will believe that you are sinking
into the depths of the blue ocean
but really will mount the purple cloud.
Once enlightenment dawns for you
and you are free in buddhahood,
you will return to your home in this world
to guide your wife and your children.
The holy man instructs Koremori to repeat the name of the Buddha Amida and then to do his duty:
Trusting his true spiritual friend,
Koremori righted his error,
faced the west, palms pressed together,
one hundred times called out the Name,
and with a last 'Hail!' plunged into the sea.
[*] Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins (Stone Bridge Press, 1996).
Vol. 35 No. 22 · 21 November 2013 » Sam Sacks » The age is ours!


According to MTV.com a spokesperson for Columbia Records confirmed to MTV News that the robots' collaboration with Pharrell, 'Get Lucky', will be released sooner than we thought. Over the last few days we've seen a lot of articles and SoundCloud accounts advertising a possible leak of the record. When MTV attempted to verify the leak with Columbia they received no comment.
However they did receive news that 'Get Lucky' will be make available for download on April 19th, at 12:01 AM ET on the dot.
Although I'm excited to hear the full, official version of 'Get Lucky', I'm even more excited for the full album. Not only because it's Daft Punk's music, but because it's going to be a refreshing sound for our scene. Pre-Order 'Random Access Memories' on iTunes, it's set release day is May 21st.


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function ds=sign(ds)
% Function takes the sign of the traces of a seismic dataset
%
% Written by: E. Rietsch: September 11, 2005
% Last updated: September 18, 2006: Handle structure arrays

if isstruct(ds)  &&  strcmp(ds(1).type,'seismic')
   for ii=1:numel(ds)
      ds(ii).traces=sign(ds(ii).traces);
   end
else
   error('Operator "sign" is not defined for this argument.')
end


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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"path"
	"time"
)

var (
	flagSet = flag.NewFlagSet("simages", flag.ExitOnError)

	config  = flagSet.String("config", "", "the path of configure file.(required), default current directory config.ini")
	debug   = flagSet.Bool("debug", false, "run with debug")
	version = flagSet.Bool("version", false, "print version string")
)

func main() {
	flagSet.Parse(os.Args[1:])
	if *version {
		println("0.1")
		os.Exit(0)
	}

	if *config == "" {
		*config = path.Join(currentDir, "config.ini")
	}
	cfg, err := newConfig(*config)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(cfg)

	logger := newLogger(10000, cfg.LogPath)
	log.Println(*debug)

	logger.Info("nihao")
	time.Sleep(time.Second * 2)
}


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Airtel, Jio, Vodafone Idea to push DoT to release new 5G spectrum bands
The Big 3 telcos are likely to voice their concerns to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) as the National Frequency Allocation Plan (NFAP-2018) has not been updated by the department's wireless planning cell (WPC) more than a year after several new airwave bands, including the 26 Ghz spectrum, were identified by the ITU for 5G deployments worldwide, including in India.
Kalyan Parbat
Updated: January 04, 2021, 08:25 IST
Kolkata: Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) are likely to push the government to revise a key spectrum policy document, to include the new 5G airwave bands approved by the International Telecom Union (ITU) for speedy auctioning of the 26 Ghz millimetre waves for ultra-fast wireless broadband service in India.
The NFAP is a central policy roadmap that defines future spectrum usage by all bodies in the country, including DoT, the Department of Space and the defence ministry. Telcos want it revised quickly as any further delay could potentially hinder the auctioning of the premium millimetre-wave 5G bands.
"The NFAP-2018 needs to be revised expeditiously by the WPC to align different stakeholders if a meaningful 5G auction is to happen later this year, and the industry will take up the matter with DoT," a senior industry executive told ET.
In November 2019, Geneva-based ITU had identified a clutch of new airwaves, including the 24.25-27.5 Ghz (popularly known as the 26 Ghz band), 37-43.5 Ghz, 45.5-47 Ghz, 47.2-48.2 Ghz and 66-71 Ghz bands for 5G services. Effectively, as much as 17.25 Ghz was approved for 5G deployments at the World Radio Communications-2019 conference in Egypt, but none of these bands (primarily the millimetre waves) have been included in India's NFAP.
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Indications are that the telcos may communicate their concerns to DoT through the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
The COAI, Airtel, Jio and Vi did not reply to ET's queries till press time Sunday.
Last month, the Cabinet approved an auction of 4G airwaves in March 2021. The government has yet to clear the air on the timing of India's maiden 5G spectrum sale, but indications are that it might happen later this year.
Both telcos and DoT want the sector regulator to ensure that both millimetre waves (26 Ghz and above) as well as mid-band spectrum (in 3.3-3.6 Ghz) are auctioned in the 5G spectrum sale.
Telcos have repeatedly maintained that unavailability of the 26 Ghz spectrum — considered among the most efficient for 5G services — could jolt the 5G business case in India. This is since without these airwaves, 5G deployment costs would rise several fold for telcos, making the ultra-fast wireless broadband service unaffordable. Worse, India won't be able to leverage the 5G global devices ecosystem that is rapidly developing around the 26 Ghz band, especially with the US, China, South Korea and Japan backing 5G global deployments in this spectrum.
An apex panel of secretaries had recently nudged the Department of Space (DoS) and the defence ministry to favourably consider the DoT's request to part with all idle 5G spectrum — both in the 26 Ghz band and in the 3.3-3.6 Ghz frequencies — for commercial use by telecom companies. These airwaves are with DoS and the defence ministry.
Here is all the buzz about India's 5G spectrum auction
After being rolled out in the United States, South Korea, China, and other countries, 5G is slowly making its way in India to provide faster data downloading and uploading speed with lower latency and stable connections. However, it still has big challenges to deal with. In this slideshow, ET Telecom points out the issues hindering the 5G rollout in India.
Huawei's participation in India's 5G trial after the US ban
The Indian government has to decide whether to allow participation of Chinese telecom giant Huawei in the 5G trials, considering the country's economic and security interests after the US has blacklisted Huawei over security concerns earlier this year.
Huawei has teamed up with Vodafone Idea to conduct 5G trials in India and has urged India to make an "informed and independent decision" on permitting its 5G trials in the country.
Sky-high price of 5G spectrum in India
The Indian government is likely to conduct the auction for the country's first 5G technology in 2019. TRAI has recommended sale of 275 MHz of spectrum in 3.3-3.6 GHz band at Rs 490 crore per MHz. In South Korea, the same band was priced at roughly Rs 131 crore per MHz in the auction held in June last year. According to the Cellular Operators' Association of India (COAI) the price of 5G spectrum in India is 30-40 percent higher than global rates.
What do telecom operators say on Trai's price recommendations
This deal seems unprofitable to the telecom operators as they have to pay Rs 9,840 crore individually for 80-100 MHz spectrum out of the total of 275 MHz of spectrum which is too high as per the brokerage firm CLSA. Bharti Airtel has said these prices are exorbitant and it would not participate in an auction held at these prices, while Vodafone Idea has suggested that the 5G auction should take place in the year 2020.
Telecom operators are raising funds for 5G spectrum sale
Considering the fact that the pricing of the 5G spectrum auction is very high, Indian telecom operators are looking for funds for the 5G auction. Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel recently raised Rs 25000 crore each via rights issues. Bharti Airtel raised a further Rs 7000 crore via a bond sale. Whereas, RIL is planning to infuse Rs 20,000 crore into Jio to bolster its broadband and e-commerce play ahead of a potential entry into 5G mobile telephony services. Jio is also set to raise Rs 3500 crore in fresh overseas borrowings.
Vodafone Idea in talks to offer tracking tech to vaccine companies
HFCL to put Rs 125 crore into R&D to bag civilian and defence market share
Vodafone Idea deploys 3G spectrum for 4G services in Mumbai
Airtel, Vodafone Idea partners sabotaging network in Punjab and Haryana: Reliance Jio


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(10128) Bro – planetoida z grupy pasa głównego asteroid okrążająca Słońce w ciągu 3 lat i 153 dni w średniej odległości 2,27 j.a. Została odkryta 19 marca 1993 roku w Europejskim Obserwatorium Południowym w programie UESAC. Nazwa planetoidy pochodzi od Bro, małej parafii na Gotlandii. Przed nadaniem nazwy planetoida nosiła oznaczenie tymczasowe (10128) 1993 FT31.

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Tom Steyer's tie is a bigger hit than the man himself
'Tom Steyer's got two billion bucks but only one tie': Democrat's outfit makes waves on Twitter after the man himself failed to grab attention during last night's debate
Tom Steyer largely failed to make an impression at the debate on Tuesday night
But his tie did a lot of the talking for him, after grabbing attention on Twitter
Viewers were keen to know why he always wears the same tartan pattern, after donning the same accessory several times on the campaign trail
A spokesman says he wears Scottish ties because 'you got to dress for the fight'
By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline
Tom Steyer caught attention on social media for his choice of tie after largely failing to make an impact on the Democrat debate
Tom Steyer made waves on Twitter during the Democratic debate on Tuesday night – but perhaps not for the reason he would have hoped.
The billionaire's tie drew all the attention after the man himself largely failed to make an impression in Des Moines ahead of the Iowa caucus on February 2.
Steyer has made a point of wearing the same time throughout the campaign, but it caused a particular stir on Tuesday night as the narrowest Democrat field yet – six candidates – duked it out in a bid to become the presidential nominee.
At one point, Google Trends gleefully pointed out that the top trending topic about the businessman was 'Tom Steyer tie'.
Meanwhile others took to roasting him for it, with Blaze TV host Jon Miller joking: 'Tom Steyer's got 2 billion bucks but only 1 tie.'
Michael Harriot pointed out: 'Here is the most important question the moderators are ignoring: Why does Tom Steyer have only one tie?'
Talk show host Howie Carr also observed: 'Why does Tom Steyer wear a Christmas tie every debate?'
It seems that Steyer's media team picked up on the trend, before advertising a copy of the tie in his online store.
'Heard you like Tom Steyer's tie?' they wrote.
According to a spokesman for Steyer, 'he wears Scottish ties every day because, in his own words, you got to dress for the fight.'
Viewers were fascinated by the fact that Steyer has worn what appears to be the same time throughout the campaign, despite being fantastically wealthy
While the tie was a hit Steyer himself failed to have the same impact, speaking for just 12 minutes compared to the other five candidates, who all got in 16 minutes or more of airtime.
He plugged his top issue of climate change, and touted himself as the strongest challenger to Trump on the economy, but had little to say on other issues.
Perhaps his biggest moment came when he ended up the middle-man in an apparent bust-up between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
After the debate was over, Warren went to speak with Sanders who extended a hand towards her which she didn't take.
The two then seemed to get involved in a very animated conversation, which was not caught on a mic.
Standing in the background throughout – while attempting to speak with Sanders himself – was Steyer.
Steyer's other stand-out moment came when he got caught in an apparent bust-up between Warren and Sanders, though later claimed not to have heard what was said
But asked afterwards what the pair had been saying, he claimed not to have heard.
'I was just going up to say good night. And I felt like okay, there's something going on. Good night! I'm out of here! I really wasn't listening,' he said.
'They were talking about getting together or something. I really didn't listen.
'It was one of those awkward moments where I felt like, you know, I need to move on as fast as possible. You could see it was an awkward moment. My goal was simply to say good night to two people I respect.
'The last thing I wanted to do was get in between the two of them and try and listen in. That was not my goal and I didn't do it.'
Warren and Sanders, while political allies, have been left at personal odds after reports that he told her a woman couldn't win against Trump during a chat in 2018.
She added fuel to the fire with a statement afterwards appearing to confirm that interpretation of conversation, despite Sanders denying anything to the effect had been said.
The tie set off a Google trend alert which didn't go unnoticed by Steyer's social media team, who promptly offered copies for sale
The tie also has its own Twitter account, having gone viral several times in the past
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