It's been exactly one month since I moved to Paris.
During that time, it's been nonstop wine, cheese, brasseries, influencer meetups, fashionable social events, writer salons, museums, picnics, and late-night jazz concerts.
It's been a whirlwind of adventure and romance.
Just I imagined it would be.
It hasn't been that way at all.
Life here has been the exact opposite of that (though that kind of fabulous lifestyle does sound like fun).
But, after that wild night, life slowed to a crawl.
After that first week, I moved into my new apartment, went to some meetups in hopes of making friends, and flew to Berlin for ITB, the largest travel conference in the world.
Upon returning to Paris, I came down with a terrible cold and spent the last week inside my apartment trying to recover. Just when I had hoped to hit the ground running, life had other ideas.
Now, as I hit my first full month here, I'm finally feeling better (and thanks to spending so long inside, I'm fairly caught up on work).
Life here is very different than what I imagined it to be.
In my head, I imagined hitting the ground running. I imagined perfectly scheduled days balanced with work and play, including regular French classes, meetups, sightseeing, food tours, and nights out. I imagined myself like Owen Wilson's character from Midnight in Paris where I just wander around town and stumble into this action-packed life.
But, instead, my time here has been similar to when I moved Bangkok where I spent much of my early weeks there alone playing video games, discouraged that life just didn't "happen" to me.
It took a long time to find my groove in that city.
First, life just doesn't happen. Sitting at my kitchen table doing work isn't going to show me life in Paris. Neither is going to the same co-working space.
This first month has gone by the in the blink of an eye, and, with only three more left to go, I know I have to make the most of every single day.
I need to go out and make thing happen. I need to be more proactive in doing things.
But, when I think of some of my motivations for coming here — to escape the fast pace of New York City, to write more, to relax, to sleep, to be healthier — I realize that, by those metrics, my first month has been a success.
Yeah, it would be nice to live this life I imagine in my head. But what I really want is exactly what I've been doing.
Now I feel settled in and ready to take on the city.
So, though, I'm 25% of the way through my time in Paris, I still have plenty of time left to accomplish the other things I want to do.
I didn't come here in hopes of establishing a new life.
I came here for a fresh start and to try out what it's like to take a really extended holiday to one of my favorites cities in the world. To no longer be just passing through but rather to peel back some of the layers of the onion that is Paris.
No move to a new place is ever going to be easy.
Because the second thing living Bangkok taught me? If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere.
Bangkok showed me that I could be self-reliant and independent. It showed me that I could adapt to anything.
1. How did I find an apartment so quickly?
I got lucky. Someone on Twitter connected me with someone who rented out apartments. And having a decent budget allowed me to find a place quicker. I was going through some agencies and looking at Facebook groups and Le Bon Coin (French Craigslist), but that personal connection made it a lot easier.
Finding an apartment here in Paris is hard even for the French. It's a long process filled with a lot of paperwork. The way New Yorkers talk about the price of an apartment is the way people here talk about finding an apartment. It's the first topic of discussion, as a way to bond with strangers.
2. Are you studying French? If so, where?
I was taking French classes at Alliance Française but, disliking the classroom teaching style, dropped out and hired a private tutor. I'm also learning via podcasts and Duolingo.
3. How are you meeting people and making friends as an expat?
There's a bunch of expat meetup groups I've joined, and I started hosting my own meetups. I am also reaching out influencers based in France. But if you know of any cool Parisian locals, let me know!
4. I heard you're running walking tours. Is that true?
Yep! I started running my own historical walking tours. You can sign up here. I have put up the schedule through the end of May. I do them once a week and they're free. Come join! If a date is full, join the waitlist. A few people always end up canceling!
St. Christopher's Canal – Comfy spot on the canal. During the summer months, the terrace is hopping!
3 Ducks Hostel – This hostel has one of the cheapest bars in the city, and it's just a 10-minute walk to the Eiffel Tower.
Les Piaules – Fantastic chimney lounge, a cool bar, and a rooftop space. It's a great place to meet people!
Check out my in-depth destination guide to Paris with more tips on what to see, do, costs, ways to save, and much, much more!
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AdviceWhen you learn that your friend in another industry sleeps 10 hours a night.
Barclays junior moves to a fintech, discovers far better lifestyle
When Marta worked in banking, she was not the first person in the office each morning. A lot of people would arrive at 6.30am to 7am, she says, speaking in a recent video on her YouTube channel: "I would barely get to the office by 7.30am."
These days, Marta is absolved of the need to drag herself out of bed and into Barclays' New York office. She's left banking, and she now works remotely for Fabric, a fintech in the insurance sector.
The move appears to have been transformative. "The learning that has happened over the past six months has been incredible," enthuses Marta. She's a finance manager at Fabric on what she describes as "really good salary" (albeit lower than her banking salary), plus equity. She's also negotiated the option to work entirely remotely from California for a year, and has been working on things like the automation of daily reports, despite previously being unable to code.
When she worked in Barclays' office in NYC, Marta says the hours were long and the lifestyle was "unsustainable. " She'd often fantasize about quitting the bank to work for a travel agent, where she thought she'd be happier. Although her boss was "wonderful," Marta said she didn't want his life: he had three young children, and he'd arrive in the office between 7am and 8am and stay until 6-7pm. "He was always on call, responding to emails at 9.10pm. When I looked at his life, I said that is not the kind of life I want."
Marta appears to have been given the impetus to move both by the threat of returning to the office after the pandemic and a friend who worked in copywriting and was sleeping for 10 hours each night. "I would say, 'Oh my God, you can do that!", says Marta. Different jobs have "different lifestyles," she observes. This is one reason she didn't want to move from banking to private equity: the PE lifestyle was similar to banking.
When to leave banking for a fintech
If you're thinking of leaving banking for a fintech, Marta advises doing so before you get too senior. "In my team (syndicate), I was dealing with a mature product with a defined career path, but I felt that for my continued growth, I should take a bigger risk: broaden my understanding of the innovation taking place in the world today," she informs us. "The world is changing - people are growing billion-dollar companies within 5-10 years. I knew there was a lot more to learn about how to create and implement disruptive technologies."
The longer you work in banking, the more technical and specialized you become, cautions Marta. For example, if you spend seven years working in debt modelling, you'll be technically excellent but may find it hard to apply your skills to something outside of finance. By quitting in under three years, with a Level II CFA exam pass, Marta was able to move to the finance function of a start-up, despite not having an accounting qualification. "The more years you spend working on the same product, it'll become harder for you to interview because you'll need a diverse set of stories," she says. - You won't get those doing the same thing "year after year."
Although her new existence appears far more tolerable, Marta stresses that banking was "a great training experience" and "very positive" in terms of "learning and growth." It's just that she wanted something different. Working remotely for a fintech is that thing, and is probably better than working for a travel agent.
Contact: sbutcher@efinancialcareers.com in the first instance. Whatsapp/Signal/Telegram also available (Telegram: @SarahButcher)
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Deceptive Practices in Foreclosures
by James Robert Deal | Sep 15, 2013 | Foreclosure | 0 comments
Thanks to the New York Times
In early 2012 when five big banks settled with state and federal officials over widespread foreclosure abuses, flagrant violations — including the seizure of homes without due process — were supposed to end.
But abuses keep coming to light. Despite happy talk about a housing rebound, nearly three million homeowners are in or near foreclosure, and many continue to be victimized by improper and possibly illegal practices.
A lawsuit filed this week by the attorney general of Illinois, Lisa Madigan, and a report by The Times's Jessica Silver-Greenberg have detailed one such abuse.
It starts out innocently enough. The banks hire property management companies to determine whether homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments have abandoned their homes and, if so, to secure the vacant property.
It doesn't always go that way. The Illinois suit accuses the largest company in the industry, Safeguard, of breaking into homes despite evidence of occupancy, damaging and removing personal property, changing locks, cutting off utilities, and bullying occupants into leaving their homes when they have the legal right to stay. In several other states, private lawsuits and complaints to legal aid lawyers have alleged similar abuses.
Under the foreclosure settlement, banks are responsible for vetting, supervising and auditing contractors, a category that clearly includes property management companies. Profit and expediency, however, seem to have trumped due process yet again. Property companies and their subcontractors make more money on vacant homes than on occupied ones, because abandoned property requires more work, including changing locks, boarding up doorways and removing trash. And banks get some or all of the proceeds from the sale of vacant homes.
In the past, banks have downplayed foreclosure abuses by noting that affected homeowners were, after all, late on their payments, as if that justifies harassment and worse. The Illinois suit makes clear that eviction is permissible only after a legal process is concluded. In addition, state laws to protect homeowners are consistent with federal policies — weak as they are — to promote loan modifications. Both state and federal laws are intended to ensure fairness in the brutal foreclosure process.
Safeguard has said its work meets "the highest standards in the industry." The banks have said they carefully monitor the property management companies. That is hard to square with allegations in the Illinois suit, including the claim that Safeguard deemed homes vacant when the foreclosure process was not under way or when homeowners were negotiating loan modifications with the bank.
Illinois prosecutors have correctly referred the Safeguard case to the monitor of the foreclosure settlement, who must decide whether banks have breached the settlement terms. State and federal officials should start their own investigations.
The failure of federal policy to ensure adequate mortgage relief to borrowers, even as the banks were bailed out, remains an injustice and a drag on the economy. Foreclosure abuses add inexcusable insult to injury.


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A member of the Country Club asked the lifeguard how he might go about teaching a young lady to swim. "It takes considerable time and technique". replied the guard. "First you must take her into the water, then place one arm about her waist, hold her tightly, then take her right arm and raise it very slowly". "This is certainly most helpful" said the member. "I know that my sister will appreciate it". "Your sister?" said the lifeguard. "In that case, just push her into the deep end of the pool. She'll learn in a hurry".
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DICTIONARY FOR WOMEN
ARGUMENT (ar*gyou*ment) n. A discussion that occurs when you're right, but he just hasn't realised it yet.
AIRHEAD (er*hed) n. What a woman intentionally becomes when pulled over by a policeman.
BARBEQUE (bar*bi*q) n. You bought the groceries, washed the lettuce, chopped the tomatoes, diced the onions, marinated the meat and cleaned everything up, but, he "made the dinner".
BLONDE JOKES (blond joks) n. Jokes that are short so men can understand them.
CANTALOUPE (kant*e*lope) n. Gotta get married in a church.
CLOTHES DRYER (kloze dri*yer) n. An appliance designed to eat socks.
DIET SODA (dy*it so*da) n. A drink you buy at a convenience store to go with a half-pound bag of peanut M&Ms.
ETERNITY (e*ter*ni*tee) n. The last two minutes of a football game.
EXERCISE (ex*er*siz) v. To walk up and down a mall, occasionally resting to make a purchase.
GROCERY LIST (grow*ser*ee list) n. What you spend half an hour writing, then forget to take with you to the store.
HAIR DRESSER (hare dres*er) n. Someone who is able to create a style you will never be able to duplicate again. See "Magician".
HARDWARE STORE (hard*war stor) n. Similar to a black hole in space - if he goes in, he isn't coming out anytime soon.
CHILDBIRTH (child*brth) n. You get to go through 36 hours of contractions; he gets to hold your hand and say "focus... breath... push..."
LIPSTICK (lip*stik) n. On your lips, colouring to enhance the beauty of your mouth. On his collar, colouring only a tramp would wear...!
PARK (park) v./n. Before children, a verb meaning "to go somewhere and feel each other up". After children, a noun meaning a place with a swing set and slide.
PATIENCE (pa*shens) n. The most important ingredient for dating, marriage and children. See also "tranquilisers".
WATERPROOF MASCARA (wah*tr*pruf mas*kar*ah) n. Comes off if you cry, shower, or swim, but will not come off if you try to remove it.
VALENTINE'S DAY (val*en*tinez dae) n. A day when you have dreams of a candlelight dinner, diamonds, and romance, but consider yourself lucky to get a card.
An irate motorist went to his insurance company and demanded money because his car had been stolen. "But" explained the insurance agent "we do not give you money. We will replace the car with another". The man replied indignantly "Well, if that's the way you do business, you can just cancel the policy on my wife".
Eight-year-old Sally brought her report card home from school. Her marks were good... mostly A's and a couple of B's. However, her teacher had written across the bottom "Sally is a smart little girl, but she has one fault. She talks too much in school. I have an idea I am going to try, which I think may break her of the habit". Sally's dad signed her report card, putting a note on the back "Please let me know if your idea works on Sally because I would like to try it out on her mother".
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A Dwarf Province is readying for an attack, as the troops are preparing - two of them are in a conversation...
Warrior. "Are you coming on the attack?"
Axemen. "No, i cant ..."
The Warrior frowns at his comrade and asks. "Why is that?"
Axeman. "Im too def."
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Martin had just received his brand-new driver's license.
The family troops out to the driveway, and climbs in the car, where he is going to take them for a ride for the first time.
Dad immediately heads for the back seat, directly behind the newly minted driver. "I'll bet you're back there to get a change of scenery after all those months of sitting in the front passenger seat teaching me how to drive" says the beaming boy to his father.
"Nope" comes dad's reply "I'm gonna sit here and kick the f*cking back of your seat as you drive, just like you've been doing to me all these years!"
I stuck my finger in her hole and I could immediately feel it getting wet. As I pulled it out, she then started squirting and going down on me, and a sudden rush overcame us both. ****... I really need to get off this f*cking boat before it sinks.
In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the mystic delivered grave news: "There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be blunt - prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death this year". Visibly shaken, Laura stared at the woman's lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then down at her hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself. She simply had to know. She met the fortune teller's gaze, steadied her voice, and asked "Will I be acquitted?"
Little Mary was not the best student in the Catholic School, usually she slept through the class.
One day her teacher, a Nun, called on her while she was sleeping. "Tell me Mary, who created the universe?"
When Mary didn't stir, little Johnny who was her friend sitting behind her, took his pencil and jabbed her in the rear.
"God Almighty!" shouted Mary.
"Very good" said the Nun said and continued teaching her class.
A little later the Nun asked Mary "Who is our Lord and Saviour?"
But Mary didn't stir from her slumber. Once again, Little Johnny came to her rescue and stuck her in the butt with the pencil.
"Jesus Christ!!!" shouted Mary and the Nun once again said "'Very good!" Mary fell back asleep.
The Nun asked her a third question "What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?"
Again, Johnny was about to come to her rescue.
This time Mary jumped up and shouted "If you stick that f*cking thing in me one more time, I'll break it in half!"
The nun fainted.
While attending a "Sex, Love & Intimacy - Weekend workshop" Dave and his partner, Ann, listened to the instructor declare "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other". He then addressed the men "Can you name and describe your wife's favourite flower?" Dave leaned over, touched Ann's arm gently, and whispered "It's Self-Raising, isn't it?" The divorce goes through next week.
A FEW FACTS ABOUT MEN
-Men like to barbeque. Men will cook if danger is involved.
-Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewellery.
-If a woman buys her husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, she needs to lock the door when she goes to the bathroom.
-Women need to be careful of men who are bald and rich. The arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".
-Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
-Men are very confident people. A husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates, he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from the living room and if they are really in trouble, the wife has to get off the phone in case they call him.
-If its attention a girl wants, she doesn't need to get involved with a man during playoff season.
-Men like phones with lots of buttons. it makes them feel important.
-Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.
-All men look nerdy in ANY socks and sandals.
-The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.
-Women should not try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.
-Men who are going bald often wear baseball caps.
-A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
-Men love watches with multiple functions.
-All men hate to hear "We need to talk about our relationship". These seven words strike fear in the heart of even the Inspector General of Police.
-Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.
-Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a camp fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.
-All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Ask disgruntled women for a list of names.
-Men don't get cellulite.
-Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Woman have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.
-Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, sleep next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.
-Women take clothing much more seriously than men. Rarely does a man walk into a party and say "Oh my gosh. I'm so embarrassed... get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo!"
-Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
- If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.
-If you're dating a man who you think is Mr Right and if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise.
-The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on caterpillars and butterflies.
-Men own basketball teams. Every cheerleader's outfits get tighter and player's shorts get baggier and longer.
-No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.
-When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.
-When four or more women get together, they talk about men.
-Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly.
-Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.
-Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am i emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outstropective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"
-If a man says "I'll call you" and doesn't, he didn't forget, he didn't lose your number, he didn't die, he just didn't want to call you.
-Men hate to lose. If a woman beats he husband at tennis, she might ask him "Are we ever going to be in love again?" He might say "Yes, but not with each other".
-Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. "Get out" and "I never want to see you again" might sound like a challenge. If you really want to get rid of a man say "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have your children". Sometimes they leave skid marks.
-Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch you look great". Mitch: "Thanks". On the other side: "Ruth, you look great". Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting"
-Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.
-Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.
-Only men who have worn a ski suit understands how complicated it is for a woman to go to the bathroom when she's wearing a jumpsuit.
-Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. Women need men emotionally and intimately, but they also need men to help them get dressed.
-Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with superheroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
-When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When man tries something from his closet that feels tight, he will assume the clothing has shrunk.
-Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause - you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
-Men forget everything, women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
-Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
-All men would still really like to own a train set.
A couple were watching a program on psychology one night when the topic of conflicting feelings came up. The husband told the wife there was no such thing as feeling good about something and at the same time feel bad about it. The wife thought about it for a minute and strongly disagreed. He called her bluff and said "prove it". She said "You have the biggest dick out of all of your friends".
One day a blonde guy went to an auction. While there, he bid on a parrot. He really wanted this bird, so he got caught up in the bidding. He kept on bidding, but kept getting outbid, so he bid higher and higher and higher. Finally, after he bid way more than he intended, he won the bid - the parrot was his at last! As he was paying for the parrot he said to the Auctioneer "I sure hope this parrot can talk. I would hate to have paid this much for it, only to find out that he can't talk!" "Don't worry" said the auctioneer "He can talk. Who do you think kept bidding against you?"
A guy out on the golf course takes a high speed ball right in the crotch. Writhing in agony, he falls to the ground. When he finally gets himself to the doctor he says," How bad is it doc? I'm going on my honeymoon next week and my fiancée is still a virgin in every way".
The doc said "I'll have to put your penis in a splint to let it heal and keep it straight. It should be okay next week".
So he took four tongue depressors and formed a neat little four-sided bandage, and wired it all together - an impressive work of art.
The guy mentions none of this to his girl, marries, and on his honeymoon night in the motel room, she rips open her blouse to reveal a gorgeous set of breasts. This was the first time he had seen them. She says "You'll be the first, no one has ever touched these breasts".
He whips down his pants and says "Look at this, it's still in the CRATE!"
The pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, and then asked the navigator "Do you know what I use this for?" The navigator replied timidly "No, what's it for?" The pilot responded "I use this on navigators who get me lost!" The navigator proceeded to pull out a .45 and place it on his chart table. The pilot asked "What's that for?" "To be honest sir" the navigator replied "I'll know we're lost before you will".
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The start of a new year always brings much excitement to the tech world as the great and the good of the industry unite at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's biggest technology event, which both builds on momentous trends from the previous year and sets them for the year ahead.
This year was no exception when it came to the unveiling of some extraordinary tech that may just take the world by storm in 2016. From DietSensor's Bluetooth-enabled gadget which informs you of the nutritional content of your food just by hovering over it, to the 'Code-a-Pillar' which teaches pre-schoolers to learn to code, the showcase of new tech was more inventive than ever. But there was one clear trend which appeared again and again: the Internet of Things (IoT).
Put simply, IoT is a network of devices that can be controlled by and communicate via the Internet. The buzz around IoT has been a persistent but exciting noise in the digital world for years now; the exponential rise of smartphone technology over the past decade has led to a seismic shift in the way consumers interact with the world around them. The technology industry is thinking about the consumer in more detail than ever before and is finding innovative ways to integrate folks' daily routine (cooking, exercising, working) with every device, household appliance and wearable item imaginable to create an interconnected world for the consumer.
People today want easy, instant access to all the things that keep their lives moving (email, online banking, grocery shopping) – and any company which cannot keep pace is inevitably left behind in an archaic heap of 'on hold' music and discarded paper forms. The tech industry has quickly realised that in order to succeed, it must both meet and predict the needs of the consumer and lead the way in streamlining and simplifying their lives.
For consumer-facing businesses, harnessing the data of connected devices has the potential to be nothing short of revolutionary as it offers unprecedented insight into the real lives and behaviour of consumers. The IoT opens up a new universe for digital marketers: the collection of data from connected devices such as the Fitbit provides deep insight into the daily lives of consumers. For example, if a Fitbit user goes running each Tuesday and Thursday night, the digital marketing department can tailor its communications strategy accordingly and send the most relevant content at the most receptive time for the user. The potential for creating truly personalised digital marketing through IoT is exciting and transformative.
However, the mass of data risks being of little value if businesses lack the technical ability to safely store and make sense of what it tells them about their consumers and ultimately how to predict and inspire their behavior. From geo-locations of exercise routines to what time the customer puts the heating on – IoT is capable of providing microscopic insight into consumers' lives, but the wealth of data is as overwhelming as it is exciting. This is the challenge for digital marketers in 2016 and beyond: how can the IoT be capitalised on to enhance a business's understanding of its consumer and lead to pioneering interactions?
A new channel means another level of customer expectation: they want to know that every touchpoint they have with a company is unified. Businesses must learn how to incorporate this new channel of extremely valuable, robust data into an already complex web of customer transactions in order to fuel highly powerful, personalised digital marketing.
The integration of health and fitness with IoT, building on the success of Fitbit, continued to be a clear trend at CES. Under Armour's Gemini 2 trainers are the next step in wearable technology; the sensor-filled trainers track your workouts without the need to carry a smartphone and the user's workout details are transmitted later to a connected app. Many innovative organisations have already embraced the potential of smart exercise devices; Vetadvisor, the US-based holistic care provider for military veterans, integrated Fitbit bands into its CRM deployment, allowing it to track veterans' progress towards personalised fitness goals and provide real-time coaching via SMS messaging. IoT offers huge potential for CRM platforms as they evolve to absorb and decipher the data that is being generated and use it to shape sophisticated digital marketing strategies that really understand and satisfy the customer's needs.
The area where IoT has been gaining the most momentum over the past five years is in home heating, driven by a dual agenda of environmental sustainability and the constant consumer demand to save money on utility bills. After investing in 'smart' meters such as British Gas' Hive, users can login to their account through an app to change the temperature, view and adjust their schedule or settings, as well as seeing exactly how much energy they are using. Far from the days of estimated meter readings and accidentally leaving the heating on when away for the weekend, it's unsurprising that sophisticated meters are an appealing prospect for consumers.
Despite the excitement at the Las Vegas exhibition, the reason IoT has been talked about for many years but progress is (relatively) slow is because businesses are still learning how they can incorporate it into their digital strategy and, most importantly, how it will benefit both them and their customers. The future of IoT is crucially dependent on 2 factors; the consumer and the ability of businesses to gain and retain trust in their products and the brand that are connected to the IoT. The concern of paramount importance is enforcing watertight cybersecurity: consumers are (understandably) wary of opening up their lives to devices that harvest their personal data. With the inevitable threat of hacking into wi-fi controlled devices, it is the responsibility of the businesses investing in IoT technology to gain their customers' trust by ensuring their cybersecurity is not compromised. Consumer demand is also critical to the success of IoT: currently, most consumers are reluctant to pay more for 'smart' products – meaning manufacturers are making products at a faster rate than consumers demand.


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Supreme Court Holds that Retaliation Claims Available Under Section 1981 and to Federal Employees Bringing ADEA Claims
In a pair of employee-friendly decisions issued on the same day, the U.S. Supreme Court held that? ?private?? employees? ?can? ?bring?? retaliation claims under section 1981 and that federal employees can bring retaliation claims for complaining about ADEA violations.? ?Justice Breyer authored the decision for a seven-member?majority in the section 1981 case and Justice Alito authored the decision for a six-member majority in the federal ADEA case.?? Both majority opinions relied on the cases of Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, 396 U.S. 229 (1969), and Jackson v. Birmingham? Bd.? of? Ed.,? 544? U.S.? 167? (2005), which held that retaliation claims were available under? Section? 1982? and? Title? IX,? respectively, even though neither statute explicitly prohibited retaliation.?? ?The? Bush? Administration ?supported the employee in the Section 1981 case and the government in the ADEA case.?? Justice Roberts joined the majority in the Section 1981 case but the dissent in the federal ADEA case. ?Justices Scalia and Thomas dissented in both cases.?? Apart from their holdings, the decisions are quite important for their rejection of the ?plain meaning approach? when it comes to civil rights statutes.? ?Justice Alito?s opinion has a useful discussion about the difference between the question whether a statute confers a private right of action and the question whether the statute prohibits a particular form of conduct. ?CBOCS West Inc. v. Humphries, No. 06-?1431 (5/27/08) and Gomez-Perez v. Potter, Postmaster General, No. 06-1321 (5/27/08).


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Mediterra continues to expand new home and lifestyle choices
Mediterra continues to expand new home and lifestyle choices Mediterra continues to expand new home and lifestyle choices Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/money/real-estate/2019/05/11/mediterra-continues-expand-new-home-and-lifestyle-choices/1133098001/
Caffrey & Associates, Special to Naples Daily News Published 9:35 a.m. ET May 11, 2019
A west-facing fire pit terrace at the clubhouse offers golf course views during the day and colorful sunset views at night. (Photo: Submitted)
For first-time visitors to Mediterra on Livingston Road, just two miles north of Immokalee Road in North Naples, the community initially conveys a sense of completeness. Lushly landscaped streetscapes, soothing water features, a clubhouse that anchors the community's amenity core, and residences set against golf course, preserve, and water views all speak to Mediterra's award-winning history. Mediterra is a place that is still becoming, a place that continues to expand its amenity and new home choices to create a more thoughtful, more relaxed approach to luxury living that reflects the preferences of homebuyers who crave livability, fun, and personal connections over the formality of their parents' country club lifestyle.
A variety of new home choices are available at Mediterra, including a new collection of contemporary floor plan and elevation choices by London Bay Homes in the community's Cabreo and Lucarno neighborhoods. The new open-concept floor plan choices in Cabreo and Lucarno reflect London Bay's commitment to Private Label Living and are priced from the high-$800s with homesites starting in the mid-$200s. Spacious outdoor living areas can include optional outdoor kitchens, a fireplace, custom pools, and spas. Finish selections can be made at London Bay's Selection Studio that presents the latest design trends in the building industry. Purchasers of homes by London Bay are eligible to secure a full golf membership immediately rather than being placed on the membership waiting list as a Limited Golf Member. London Bay, an award-winning homebuilder and developer in the Southwest Florida luxury home market for more than 25 years, manages all new home construction sales and marketing for Mediterra.
New open-concept floor plan choices ranging from 2,894 to 3,020 square feet under air are available in Cabreo, a neighborhood that presents maintenance-free single-family luxury villas. Homesites on the neighborhood's single-loaded streetscape measure 65 to 70 feet by approximately 145 feet and offer lake and nature preserve views. One of London Bay's newest villa neighborhoods, Cabreo is situated adjacent to Mediterra's landscaped walking trails and within comfortable walking distance of the community's extravagant gardens.
The new contemporary single-story home choices in Cabreo feature attractive covered entries, wide foyers, spacious great rooms, island kitchens, and dining areas, a study, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, master suites with large walk-in closets and elegant baths, and three-car garages. One of the plans, the Langston, offers a formal dining room in lieu of the study. Each of the plans can include an optional pool bath and two of them can be modified to include a fourth bedroom.
Double-loaded one-way cobblestone streets, sparkling lakes, glorious gardens, and majestic fountains combine to create the maintenance-free Lucarno neighborhood's distinctive feeling. The neighborhood's entry sequence includes the Parterre Garden, a French-inspired garden set on an island in the middle of a lake.
Several new one and two-story open-concept home choices in Lucarno range from 3,170 to 3,844 square feet under air. The floor plans feature spacious great rooms, island kitchens, and dining areas, a study or formal dining room, optional wet bars, three or four bedrooms, three or four baths, lofts, large walk-in closets and bathrooms in the master suites, and two or three-car garages.
In addition to the new floor plan choices in Cabreo and Lucarno, completed furnished models by London Bay, a model under construction that is scheduled for completion next fall, and single-family and estate home sites are also available. The completed furnished models feature spacious open floor plans finished with contemporary and transitional interior designs. The models present interiors by Romanza Interior Design and custom pools and outdoor living areas by London Bay that overlook Mediterra's spectacular tableau.
The Collier Building Industry Association (CBIA) has named Mediterra recipient of its Sand Dollar Award for Community of the Year an unprecedented 11 times. The Club at Mediterra has been designated as a Top 50 Platinum and Distinguished Emerald Club. Mediterra has also been named the "Best Place to Retire in Florida" and 10th best in the world since 2014 by Best Retirement Destinations. The Club at Mediterra was named one of the healthiest clubs in the United States and was the first private residential club to be honored with a "green" certification. The club is home to the world's first golf course to be recognized as an Audubon Silver Sanctuary.
Mediterra's amenities offer the possibility of living a healthy, active lifestyle. With the completion of Phase I of a two-phase 24,000 square-foot clubhouse expansion late last year, The Club at Mediterra's European Chic-style clubhouse has quickly become a favored gathering place and the epicenter of social life within the community. Phase I included the expansion of the popular cypress bar and tavern, the addition of an outdoor covered bar terrace, a new covered grille terrace, and a new west-facing dedicated fire pit terrace that provides unfettered views of one of the Mediterra's two Tom Fazio-designed golf courses that weave their way along sparkling lakes, wetlands, and nature preserves. Under the direction of the General Manager/COO Carmen Mauceri, CCM, the clubhouse's dining options offer a varied menu with unique concepts that include a "doctors' orders" menu with a selection of healthy items. Phase II will include enhancements to 7,000 square feet of existing clubhouse space. The entire initiative is being undertaken without a member assessment.
Mediterra's Sports Club is situated adjacent to the clubhouse at the community's piazza. A fitness center is outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment and offers fitness classes ranging from aerobics to Zumba, wellness programs, personal trainers, aesthetic services, three spa rooms, and a swimming pool with a sunning deck and smoothie bar. Tennis facilities include a dedicated tennis pro shop and eight Har-Tru tennis courts, including a spectator court. Three pickleball courts with a Laykold masters' gel surface that reduces the force of impact by 17 percent have oversized perimeter areas that allow each court to stand alone. More than 700 members enjoy competing on the Club's bocce ball courts. Historically themed parks and water features that are unique to Mediterra are connected by nearly eight miles of walking and biking trails.
The 10,000 square-foot Mediterra Beach Club is located on nearby Little Hickory Island. The Beach Club conveys "the magic of the beach" with colors reminiscent of the sand and water and South Beach casual elegance. In addition to casual indoor and al fresco dining, the Beach Club offers an elevated swimming pool with an expansive sundeck and cabana service for beach chairs and umbrellas that enhance members' enjoyment of the Club's pristine beach and the Azure-toned waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Visit the Mediterra Sales Center at 15836 Savona Way off Livingston Road two miles north of Immokalee Road. The Sales Center and award-winning model residences by London Bay Homes are open daily. Visit MediterraNaples.com. For information about London Bay Homes, visit www.LondonBay.com.
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Both Australia and Pakistan eye winning start to the series.
After bamboozling India in their own den, an upbeat Australia will aim to continue the successful Asian run over Pakistan, when they face the mighty hosts in the opening game of the five-match ODI series on Friday, March 22 at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium in Sharjah.
The Qantas and the Greens have faced each other in your 95 completed ODI matches. The Kangaroos undoubtedly dominates the head to head scoreline by securing 62 wins out of those, while the Asians have managed to keep the honors on 32 occasions, with one fixture ending in a tie.
In the six ODI games played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, both Pakistan and Australia have shared the honors on three occasions. However, the visitors have clinched the last three games on the trot, which gives them a genuine advantage ahead of the clash.
Australia bank on momentum against Pakistan.
The upbeat Kangaroos possesses a good record at this venue and are coming on the back of a tremendous show against India. After being reduced in the series at 0-2, the Aussies came back strongly to secure the series by a 3-2 margin, and this will certainly boost their confidence ahead of the series opener against Pakistan.
Usman Khawaja led the Kangaroos to their maiden series title after two years. The opening batsman was in terrific touch against India and scored 383 runs comprising two centuries and two fifties in his five outings. Khawaja will once again be their key batsman in the upcoming fixtures and is likely to cause the major problem for the Pakistani bowlers. While Aaron Finch also showed some cues of revival and the skipper will be desperate to make a statement with a considerable contribution.
In case of a top-order failure, the team boasts good middle order firepower with the likes of Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis. Both can score runs at a brisk rate and can cause a major setback for the opponents, if not dismissed early.
Pat Cummins and Adam Zampa finished as the teams leading wicket-takers against India with 14 and 11 wickets respectively to keep the Blues in check and the skipper will need them to post a similar show here.
Aaron Finch (C), Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Usman Khawaja, Ashton Turner, Alex Carey (W), Jhye Richardson, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, and Adam Zampa.
Shoaib Malik will lead a relatively inexperienced squad against Australia.
On the flipside, Pakistan are coming on the back of a 3-2 series defeat against South Africa and will aim for a resurgence in the opening clash. Meanwhile, the hosts have made some big decisions ahead of the series by resting as many as six key players, which underlines their strategy to check their bench strength ahead of the CWC 2019.
Although, the hosts have won four of their previous five clashes at Sharjah and their recent record at Sharjah will certainly help them garner some much-needed confidence ahead of the clash.
In the absence of Fakhar Zaman and Babar Azam, Pakistan's batting will rely mostly on Imam-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal and skipper Shoaib Malik. Imam was the team's best performer against the Proteas by scoring 271 runs.
While Umar Akmal, who has been given another chance on the basis of his good performance in the domestic circuit, will be eager to prove his worth in the squad. Except for these two, stand-in skipper Shoaib Malik will be the teams key in the middle order and will be expected to play a captain's knock against the buoyant Aussies.
When it comes to bowling, Usman Shinwari, Imad Wasim and Yasir Shah will be the skipper's go to men against the Aussies. Where Shinwari will lead the pace attack and is expected to clinch few early breakth, Wasim and Yasir will look to exploit the Kangaroos weakness against the spin.
Shoaib Malik (C), Mohammad Rizwan (W), Imad Wasim, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Amir, Junaid Khan, Usman Shinwari, Imam-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Abid Ali and Saad Ali.


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Q: How to implement a Linux Device Driver for Data Acquisition Hardware? I am developing an acquisition device which requires DMA operation to transfer large data frames to the main memory. For now I am assuming the destination is a contiguous memory region so I am allocating it (say 1 MB) at boot time as described in section "Do-it-yourself allocation" from  ldd2-ch13. The driver can then access that region by calling ioremap().
The current system works as follows:

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*A memory-mapped control register enables a user-space application to Start/Stop the device

*Upon start, the device begins to transfer the acquired data to the assigned memory region continuously (and circularly) at ~8MB/s.

*The reserved memory region has the size of two frames in order to employ a double-buffering technique.

*Once a complete frame has been transferred, the device triggers an interrupt.

I have developed a simple char driver which provides a blocking read() function so that the user-space can read a new data frame every time an interrupt is received.
After running a few tests, I realized that the user-space application misses some frames when running the following code:
    for(i=0;i<NUM_FRAMES;i++) {

       read(dev_d,buf,FRAME_SIZE);/*Read frame*/

       for(j=0;j<FRAME_SIZE;j++) /*File dump*/
          fprintf(fp,"%d",buf[j]);

        fprintf(fp,"\n");
    }

I suspect that the application's process is being put to sleep between two subsequent reads, allowing the device to rewrite the memory location which should have already been read.
Since I have no experience in kernel development I would like to know how is the correct way to implement a driver for such a device in order to ensure synchronization. Basically I am trying to implement a simple shared memory communication for a real-time acquisition device and I need to guarantee that the OS is able to read all the acquired data frames.

A: You are reading a very very old book. Here the link to the last version of the book (it is just very old): Linux Device Driver 3 - Memory Mapping. You can also read the DMA-API from the kernel documentation.
To make a kind of synchronization read Time, Delays and Deferred Work chapter. You can use the a waitqueue. You wait on read() and you *wake_up* when new frames are available.
About your code, it is not enough to understand your problem. But, if you think that you need to sleep/wait, you can implement the poll file_operation in your driver and use select() in user-space to ask if there is something to read.

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'Viable explosive device' found in Fermanagh
Originally Published / Friday, 10 Nov 2006
PSNI - Explosive find investigated
The PSNI has found what it says is a viable explosive device following a search close to the border near Roslea in Co Fermanagh.
The search was carried out after a telephone warning from a dissident republican group.
British Army bomb experts examined the explosives which were found in a container on the Clogh Road, close to the border with Co Monaghan.
It is understood the operation to clear the device will continue tomorrow.
PSNI Chief Inspector Alwyn Barton said he was in no doubt that had the device exploded when people were in the area, it would have caused serious injury or death.
He said he believed it was an attempt to murder members of the community PSNI team in the area.
A section of the Clogh Road close will remain closed overnight.
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Sam Hunt Net Worth 2021 (Salary, House, Cars, Bio)
$ 3 Million
Sam Lowry Hunt is an American singer and songwriter. He released his debut studio album Montevallo in 2014. He was also nominated for prestigious awards like Grammy Awards and Billboard Music Awards. He has been famous after he released a singer Cop Car from the album Take You Time which peaked at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100. As of now, the singer Sam Hunt net worth is $3 Million.
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Hunt's debut studio album Montevallo was released in 2014. His singles "Leave the Night On", "Take Your Time", and "House Party" all reached #1 on both the US Hot Country and US Country Airplay charts.
Hunt became the first male rookie artist that reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart in two years. Hunt wrote songs for artists such as Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, and Billy Currington.
In the last two years, he produced only two singles like, "Body Like a Back Road" and "Downtown's Dead". Hunt became famous worldwide due to his back-to-back hit singles.
He also owns the website samhunt.com where you will get all the information about his tours. Sam also runs an e-commerce website, samhuntmerch.com.
As of now, Sam Hunt Net Worth stands at $3 Million.
According to some sources, Sam Hunt currently lives in Nashville, United States. Unfortunately, further information is not available at this time.
The Car collection of Sam Hunt is Small. Sam Hunt owns a few of the best luxury cars in the world. The Car brands owned by Singer Sam Hunt include a Mercedez, Ford and a Range Rover.
Sam Lowry Hunt was born on 8 December 1984 in Georgia, the United States to the parents of Allen Hunt and Joan. Hunt attended Cedartown High School. He played American football at the quarterback position in his Міddlе Теnnеѕѕее Ѕtаtе Unіvеrѕіtу college life. Не grаduаtеd frоm thе Unіvеrѕіtу оf Аlаbаmа аt Віrmіnghаm (UАВ) іn 2007. Sam moved to Nashville for pursuing a career in music.
Sam Hunt released his first single "Raised on it" in 2013 which was a moderate success. His second single "Leave the night on" which took the world by storm becoming the no 1 hit of 2014.
Sam Hunt signed a record deal with MCA Nashville in 2014. In the same year, he released his debut studio album "Montevallo". Hunt also released his EP X2C in 2014 which reached #5 on the US County chart and #36 on the Billboard 200.
'Take your time', 'House party', and 'Make you miss me' are some of the most hit songs of Sam.
Hunt became the first male rookie artist that reached #1 on the Top Country Albums chart in two years
Over his 10-year long career, Sam Hunt has won many nominations including the Grammy nomination and also several prestigious awards. He won 'American music award', 'iHeart music award', 'Teen Choice Award', and 'CMT music award'.
Sam Hunt started dating Hannah Lee Fowler in 2008. Later, on 15 April 2017, Sam tied a knot with Hannah in Cedartown, California.
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Quick Facts about Sam Hunt:
Full Name Sam Hunt
Date Of Birth 8th December 1984
Place Of Birth Cedartown, Georgia USA
Height 1.92 m, 1.92 m
Profession American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist
Education University of Alabama
Parents Joan Hunt, Allen Hunt
Siblings Ben Hunt, Van Hunt, Take Your Time, Break Up in a Small Town, Make You Miss Me, Houston, TX, USA, San Antonio, TX, United States, Houston, TX, United States, Ben Hunt, Van Hunt, Break Up in a Small Town, Take Your Time, Body Like a Back Road, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, United States, Baltimore, MD, USA, Cleveland, OH, USA
Awards New Artist of the Year (2016),
Albums Montevallo
Nominations Best Country Album
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This research is chiefly concerned with negative symbolic consumption which refers to consumers reject products and brands with negative symbolic meanings which are associated with negative self-concepts that they fear for. Since negative symbolic consumption has been an under-explored area in consumer research and the empirical study is limited in clothing industry, the objective of this study is specifically to explore and discuss the negative symbolic consumption in MP3 player market.
The study is based on the literature in product/brand symbolism, self-concept and image congruence theory. In this study, a conceptual framework is proposed to understand the relationships between the major components, including negative possible selves, negative product/brand images, and avoidance reference groups and negative significant others, in negative symbolic consumption. In addition, the conceptualisation also incorporates self-esteem as a mediator motive that stimulates avoidance behaviour under negative image congruence; and distastes and dislikes as the approach to explore negative possible selves and negative product/brand images.
Given that the study was focused on understanding rather than generalisation, qualitative methods was employed and fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted. Through the thorough analysis of the interview data, the findings provided general supports for the conceptualisation and revealed that the purchase of MP3 players partially involved negative symbolic consumption, offering useful implications for marketing management. However, this study is limited to MP3 player market. Considerable work still needs to be done for empirical exploration and theoretical advances in the negative aspects of symbolic consumption.


Technology moves at high- speed, and we now have more power in our budget than we had in our homes in the 1990s. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be at the heart of every major technological in the world. It has the potential to completely change how we live, work and get around. If electricity and the internet changed humanity forever in the 20th century, then AI will in the 21st.
Artificial Intelligence trends are one of the top media channels in the Artificial Intelligence. It is shaping many industries as compared to other technologies. AI is also growing faster as scientists and engineers are doing research at rapid space. Also they research on other domain like cyber security, payment and financial markets, biotech, healthcare, marketing, computer vision etc.
We can expect, one day AI significantly impact our everyday lives. Just like other technology, there are many different ways you can learn about AI. Finding useful information becomes major challenge today for the people because there is a lot of information is available on web. Also, liberate of self-driving cars is just an example of increasing AI growth. Recently, only AI seems to capture the attention of people's, the reality is that AI has been around for over 60 years as a technological discipline.
Artificial Intelligence is upgrading the quality, speed, and cost of goods and services, it is also replacing large numbers of workers. Instead of hiring additional workers, many businesses continue to automate their operations. In 2016 major companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and others are also investing heavily in AI research and the result are quite noticeable. Referred to as AI, technology based companies are struggling to translate it into consumer products and services such as virtual reality and smart home systems, but other industries such as health care, manufacturing and transportation are also assured for transformation.


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    path = require('path'),
    upath = require('upath'),
    through2 = require('through2'),
    stream = require('readable-stream'),

    manifold = require('gulp-manifold'),
    webp = require('gulp-webp'),
    jspm = require('gulp-jspm'),
    sass = require('gulp-sass'),
    htmlmin = require('gulp-htmlmin'),
    rename = require('gulp-rename'),
    RevAll = require('gulp-rev-all'),
    uglify = require('gulp-uglify'),
    sourceMaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps'),
    angularTemplateCache = require('gulp-angular-templatecache'),
    ngAnnotate = require('gulp-ng-annotate'),

    StreamReplacer = require('./StreamReplacer'),
    SourceMapUtil = require('../util/SourceMapUtil'),

    project = require('../../project.conf'),
    paths = project.paths,
    APP_NAME = project.APP_NAME,
    TEMPLATES_MODULE_NAME = project.TEMPLATES_MODULE_NAME,
    entryPoint = project.entryPoint;

let revAll = new RevAll({
        dontRenameFile: [/^\/index\.html$/, /^\/sink\.html$/, /^\/favicon.ico$/],
        replacer: (fragment, replaceRegExp, newReference) => {
            fragment.contents = fragment.contents.replace(replaceRegExp, '$1' + encodeURI((newReference)) + '$3$4');
        }
    });

module.exports = class StreamCompiler {

    /**
     * Creates a new Stream Compiler with sensible defaults.
     *
     * @param assetTypes Multiple asset types configured by arbitrary key names, valued by an Object containing a filter and
     * a stream handler.
     * @param preCompileHandler a stream handler executed on the unfiltered stream, prior to asset compilation.
     * @param postCompileHandler a stream handler executed on the unfiltered resulting stream, post asset compilation.
     *
     * @constructor
     */
    constructor(assetTypes = {}, preCompileHandler, postCompileHandler) {

        let replacer;

        this.assetTypes = _.defaultsDeep(assetTypes, {

            fonts: {

                filter: [
                    paths.jspm.fontAwesome('fonts/*'),
                    paths.jspm.twitterBootstrap('fonts/*'),
                    paths.src.fonts('**/*')
                ],

                handler: (opts) => (stream) => stream.pipe(manifold([

                    manifold.duct(

                        [
                            paths.jspm.fontAwesome('fonts/*'),
                            paths.jspm.twitterBootstrap('fonts/*')
                        ],

                        // through2.obj NOT arrow. (lexical this)
                        (stream) => stream.pipe(through2.obj(function (file, enc, flush) {

                            file.base = upath.join(file.cwd, paths.src());
                            file.path = upath.join(file.cwd, paths.src.fonts(), upath.basename(file.path));

                            this.push(file);

                            flush();

                        }))

                    )

                ]))

            },

            images: {

                filter: paths.src.img('**/*'),

                handler: (opts) => (stream) => stream.pipe(manifold([

                    manifold.duct(
                        paths.src.img('**/*.{png,jpeg,jpg,tiff}'),
                        (stream) => stream.pipe(webp())
                    )

                ]))

            },

            scripts: {

                filter: [
                    paths.src.js('**/*.js'),
                    paths.src.templates('**/*.html'),
                    `!${paths.src.js('modules/templates')}`, // excludes templates dir itself
                    `!${paths.src.js('modules/templates/**/*.js')}` // excludes templates dir contents
                ],

                handler: (opts) => (stream) => {

                    // special handling for minify: true since ngAnnotate requires unminified babel output from jspm.
                    let jspmOpts = _.extend({}, opts);
                    delete jspmOpts.minify;

                    let resultStream = stream
                        .pipe(manifold([

                            manifold.duct(

                                paths.src.templates('**/*.html'),

                                (stream) => {

                                    return stream
                                        .pipe(htmlmin({
                                            removeComments: true,
                                            collapseWhitespace: true
                                        }))
                                        .pipe(angularTemplateCache({
                                            moduleSystem: 'ES6',
                                            filename: path.relative(paths.src(), paths.src.js('modules/templates/templates.js')),
                                            module: TEMPLATES_MODULE_NAME,
                                            standalone: true
                                        }));

                                }

                            )

                        ]))
                        .pipe(jspm.buildStatic(paths.src.js(entryPoint.js), `js/${APP_NAME}.js`, jspmOpts));

                    if (opts.sourceMaps) {

                        resultStream = resultStream
                            .pipe(sourceMaps.init({ loadMaps: true }))
                            .pipe(ngAnnotate())
                            // remove the bundle from the sourcemap (improves browser debugger)
                            .pipe(SourceMapUtil.streamRemoveSource(new RegExp(APP_NAME)))
                            .pipe(sourceMaps.write('.', {
                                mapSources: (sourcePath) => {
                                    if (!new RegExp(paths.jspm()).test(sourcePath)) {
                                        return upath.relative(paths.src.js(), sourcePath);
                                    } else {
                                        return upath.relative(paths.src(), sourcePath);
                                    }
                                }
                            }));

                    } else {
                        resultStream = resultStream.pipe(ngAnnotate());
                    }

                    if (opts.minify) {
                        resultStream = resultStream.pipe(uglify());
                    }

                    return resultStream;

                }

            },

            styles: {

                filter: paths.src.sass(entryPoint.sass),

                handler: (opts) => (stream) => {

                    let sassOpts = {
                        precision: 10 // for bootstrap
                    };

                    if (opts.minify) {
                        sassOpts.outputStyle = 'compressed';
                    }

                    return stream
                        .pipe(sass(sassOpts).on('error', sass.logError))
                        .pipe(rename((filePath) => {
                            filePath.dirname = 'css';
                            filePath.basename = APP_NAME;
                        }));

                }

            },

            html: {

                filter: [
                    paths.src.html('**/*.html'),
                    `!${paths.src.templates()}`, // excludes templates dir itself
                    `!${paths.src.templates('**')}` // excludes templates dir contents
                ],

                handler: (opts) => (stream) => {

                    return stream
                        .pipe(htmlmin({
                            removeComments: true,
                            collapseWhitespace: true
                        }));

                }

            },

            json: {

                filter: paths.src.json('**/*.json'),

                handler: (opts) => (stream) => stream

            }

        });

        this.preCompileHandler = preCompileHandler || ((opts) => {

            replacer = new StreamReplacer();

            return (stream) => {

                return stream
                    .pipe(manifold([

                        // replace references to js/sass entry points with their bundled names
                        manifold.duct(

                            [
                                paths.src.js(entryPoint.js),
                                paths.src.sass(entryPoint.sass)
                            ],

                            (stream) => {

                                return stream.pipe(replacer.push((file) => {

                                    let dir = upath.dirname(upath.relative(paths.src(), file.path)).split('/')[0],
                                        ext = upath.extname(file.path);

                                    return upath.join((dir == 'sass' ? 'css' : dir), APP_NAME + (ext === '.scss' ? '.css' : `${ext}`));

                                }));

                            }

                        ),

                        // replace references to images to use .webp extension
                        manifold.duct(

                            paths.src.img('**/*.{png,jpeg,jpg,tiff}'),

                            (stream) => stream.pipe(replacer.push((file) => {

                                let dir = upath.dirname(upath.relative(paths.src(), file.path)),
                                    ext = upath.extname(file.path),
                                    name = upath.basename(file.path, ext);

                                // replace references to current file with $dir/$name.webp
                                return upath.join(dir, name + '.webp')

                            }))

                        )

                    ]));

            };

        });

        this.postCompileHandler = postCompileHandler || ((opts) => {

            return (stream) => {

                return stream
                    .pipe(manifold([

                        manifold.duct(

                            [
                                paths.src.html('**/*.html'),
                                paths.src.css('**/*.css'),
                                paths.src.js('**/*.js')
                            ],

                            (stream) => stream.pipe(replacer.replace())

                        )

                    ]))
                    .pipe(revAll.revision());

            };

        });

    };

    /**
     * Helper for working with streams.
     *
     * @param handler stream handler
     *
     * @returns {through2}
     * @private
     */
    _withStream(handler) {

        let files = [],
            handlerStream = new stream.Readable({

                objectMode: true,

                read: function () { // NOT arrow function (lexical this)

                    files.forEach((file) => {
                        this.push(file);
                    });

                    this.push(null); // signal end of stream.

                }

            });

        return through2.obj((file, enc, flush) => {
            files.push(file);
            flush();
        }, function (flushStream) { // NOT arrow function (lexical this)

            handler(handlerStream)
                .pipe(through2.obj((file, enc, flush) => {
                        this.push(file);
                        flush();
                    }, (flush) => {
                        flushStream();
                        flush();
                    }
                ));

        });

    };

    _preCompile(opts) {
        return this._withStream((stream) => this.preCompileHandler(opts)(stream));
    };

    _compile(opts) {

        return this._withStream((stream) => {

            return stream.pipe(manifold(
                _.map(this.assetTypes, (assetType) => manifold.duct(assetType.filter, assetType.handler(opts))), // [ manifold.duct(filter, handler), ... ]
                (bypass) => bypass.pipe(manifold.exhaust()) // ignore unfiltered items (js source, sass, etc).
            ));

        });

    };

    _postCompile(opts) {
        return this._withStream((stream) => this.postCompileHandler(opts)(stream));
    };

    /**
     * Compile the stream assets according to configuration specified in constructor.
     *
     * @param opts Compile opts, ex: {minify: true, sourceMaps: true}
     *
     * @returns {through2}
     */
    compile(opts) {

        return this._withStream((stream) => {

            return stream
                .pipe(this._preCompile(opts))
                .pipe(this._compile(opts))
                .pipe(this._postCompile(opts));

        });

    };

};

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New state and municipal employees might want to read the fine print on AFSCME union membership cards before signing.
The membership cards authorize one of the state's largest public-sector unions to automatically deduct dues even if the employee resigns from the union in the future and places restrictions on when an employee can cease paying those dues.
Employees who sign the card will only have short window of 10 days before and 20 days after the employee's yearly membership anniversary during which they can resign.
Similarly, the American Federation of Teachers' "re-commit" cards for Connecticut's Administrative and Residual Employees Union say members can only resign from membership during the month of February.
Language restricting public sector workers' ability to resign from a union may prove problematic in the wake of the Supreme Court's Janus v. AFSCME decision.
Janus v. AFSCME ruled public sector employees can resign from union membership without being forced to pay dues or fees based on the First Amendment right to free speech.
Vice President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Patrick Semmens says that unless union cards are "very explicit that they're signing away their First Amendment rights," the language may be legally questionable.
"We believe the way that card is written, the limitation on cutting off union dues payments should not be legally enforceable," Semmens said.
Semmens also says it is questionable whether or not the windows apply to union membership or the collection of dues. "They can't restrict the ability to resign from the union, the question is whether they can restrict when you can stop paying dues," Semmens said.
The fine print of AFSCME cards say dues will be deducted regardless of whether a worker remains in the union.
A court case out of Pennsylvania broached the subject of resignation windows and dues for public sector unions in 2007, when the court granted an injunction to cease dues collection from plaintiffs who were only allowed a brief 15-day window prior to the end of the collective bargaining agreement to resign from the union.
The plaintiffs in the case – members of Turnpike and Public Employees Union in Pennsylvania – submitted union resignation letters but were not allowed to leave the union under a "maintenance of membership" provision in the collective bargaining agreement and continued collecting full dues.
The judge ruled this provision "may have a direct and deleterious impact on plaintiffs' rights under the First Amendment," and ordered the union to cease collecting dues until the case could be litigated.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation represented the plaintiffs in the Pennsylvania case, which was eventually settled.
Typically, resignation windows revolve around a member's anniversary date of membership, which is different than their employment anniversary; under these restrictions, members have to find their anniversary date in order to resign.
But in the wake of the Janus ruling, restrictions on membership resignation and dues deductions could be called into question.
The Janus ruling also said new public-sector employees must affirmatively "opt-in" to the union by signing membership cards, but Semmens says the language on the new cards should be explicit and clear what rights they are waiving.
"Anything less than that would violate Janus," Semmens said.
These unions are run by thugs who have no regard for member rights. For years, these unions have been under the control of Democrat operatives who have used forced dues and their control of union pursestrings to advance the interests of the party they favor. Unlike private sector unions, public sector unions have a selfish vested interest in growing government because bigger government and higher taxes redounds to the benefits of unions and their bosses' fat salaries. In unguarded moments, labor thugs have admitted that their unholy alliance with the Democrat Party gives them the ability to elect thei own bosses, i.e. those who will give them what they want, and the taxpayer be damned. Like "card check" this is just another devious method of controlling members and extracting dues against their members' wishes. Janus would never have happened if Crooked Hillary was president because she, like public employee union bosses, would treat public employees and citizens alike as compliant sheep.
Thanks for the heads up to those unaware! I gave myself a $65 a month pay raise by getting out of union and put that into my monthly 401k contribution! Do your own calculation. I gave them 11k over the past 12 years (your welcome) and now its time to save for my own family.


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Al Lindseth
SVP, Technology, Process and Risk Management, Plains All American Pipeline
Al Lindseth is SVP of Technology, Process and Risk Management at Plains All American Pipeline, where he has evolved his hybrid role over 22 years.
Acting as the senior management 'face' of Financial Business Risk Management, Information Technology and Services and Cybersecurity to the board, management and other stakeholders, AI Lindseth received the 2009 5 year MVP Award from Evanta, awarded to one CIO nationally every year.
Evanta described Lindseth as 'the leader that has had the most significant impact on the CIO Executive Summit community.'
After 22 years in a role where tenures are usually a lot shorter, Lindseth jokes that "I've been to a few conferences where they get everybody to stand up and gradually sit down as they count the amount of years in the role, until it's only me and some 70 year old guy still standing," he said.
"I've always felt in the CIO role that my responsibilities extend beyond the traditional technical responsibilities. You can't just stay focused on the technology. You have to get better at the Change stuff," said Lindseth.
Still driven after all these years
"I'm really goal-oriented. I walk around making lists all the time: personal goals, career goals, family goals, weekly, monthly and annual goals. Of course, family's number one to me. I have two boys who play tennis. I didn't grow up playing it, and have had a lot of fun learning something new with them. My wife and I decided a number of years ago to give more income to philanthropy, but make it fun. And she's really taken that and run with it, and we attend many events and have discovered great causes in Houston. My motto is that 'life's an adventure'. My wife and I like to travel. You have one life to live, so you have got to have fun and be with people that you enjoy."
In terms of mentors, Lindseth points to his father and those who served with him in Vietnam: "I had the pleasure of taking my son to my dad's 173rd Airborne Brigade reunion right before COVID. There was one gentleman who at the time was 18 years old, just one year older than my son. He had to take point during a rescue mission basically knowing that if he got stuck out there, they weren't going to be able to divert to help his team from the core mission. What people can accomplish really inspires me." said Lindseth.
Leaving a legacy by planning for succession
"I spend a lot of time mentoring and developing people," said Lindseth.
By investing in peers and their success, Lindseth is safeguarding the business for when he is gone. Where necessary, he also brings in more senior people at different levels to help with succession planning. By redesigning and tightening up the entire program, the teams are allowed to run more effectively without him and become more self-sufficient.
"This really allows me to take on new roles. There's always more stuff to focus on. I never get threatened by somebody coming in and taking over my position. I'm always trying to move myself out of a role eventually," he said.
"What I'm most proud of is the job I've done succession planning with Dan Reinbold. Under his leadership and my support, we got the company through the pandemic when everything went remote."
Lindseth is also proud of the business risk management program he designed, citing the reputation that it has and the results that it's achieved, alongside carrying a cultural identity and language into cyber.
Houston - we have lift off
Lindseth is a community leader and influencer in Houston, saying it is an exciting place to be: "It's very accepting and collaborative. I was involved in 2004 with the Greater Houston Partnership in trying to bring the CIO summit to the city (Lindseth won 'Houston CIO of the Year SuperGlobal Category' in 2019) and make it a better place for startups. It's incredible to see what's developed almost 20 years later here."
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Telugu » Reviews » Mr & Mrs Sailaja Krishna Murthy
Mr & Mrs Sailaja Krishna Murthy Review
Review by IndiaGlitz [ Monday, October 25, 2004 • Telugu ]
Sivaji, Laila, Tanikella Bharani, Banerjee, LB Sriram, Brahmanandam, Ali, Venu Madhav, Krishna Bhagavan,
Siva Nagewara Rao
Atluri Purnachandra Rao
Rohit Raj
Mr and Mrs Sailaja Krishnamurthy
Lost and found themes have a special appeal to Indian cinema. Mother and daughter. Father and son. Brothers and sisters. Lovers. Animals. You name it --- everything is lost and found. It is a theme that allows for comedy, intrigue, sentiments and heaven knows what else.
Mr and Mrs Sailaja Krishnamurthy is also about a man and woman who don't know that they are in love. And when they realize that the two are lost on their own separate ways. So both try to seek out each other. The film is about whether they can.
Providence takes Krishnamurthy (Sivaji) and Sailaja (Laila) to the temple town Annavaram. One is a believer and another non-believer. Then again, it is providence that makes them pose as husband and wife to get a room. But after some typical hilarious moments, providence again sees them separated. So the question is whether providence allows them to get united again.
It is a trite and cliched story. But comedy, especially from Dhramavarapu Subramanyam, redeems the film. There is a new polish to Sivaji's performance. As an atheist sent to a temple town, he gives his role a veneer of plausibility. Laila is as usual fresh and lively. Though her stock of expressions is limited, she makes do with that in this simple role. The comedy team of Subramanyam and Brahmanandam is positively first rate. The others have typical roles.
Debutant music director Rohit Raj is a standout in the film. The songs are soft and hummable while the background is effective.
Director Siva Nageswara Rao (previous films Money and Sisindri), the film was major chance to establish himself as a frontline technician. But he seems to have let that slip by coming up with average script that does not allow for the film to move forward fast.
Mr and Mrs Krishnamurthi is by no means a perfect couple. But they are also not bad enough to call for a divorce.
Rating: 0 / 5.0
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Essay on Sat Raw Material
Submitted By terence4042
一 、 莎士比亚 William Shakespeare
(第一段介绍成就凑字数)
English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s, is regarded as the greatest dramatist in the history of English literature. His plays include historical works such as Richard II, comedies, including As You Like It, and tragedies, such as Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. He had a profound understanding of human nature and human behavior, and he was able to communicate this knowledge through the wide variety of characters he created in his plays.
(接下来介绍身世套题目)
Though recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists, he surprisingly didn't attend the university after graduated from a grammar school due to taking the responsibility of the eldest son in his family and becoming an apprentice to learn the business in his father's shop. (可以套 university 对成功有否影响之类的问题)The school's rigorous curriculum was based largely on the study of Latin and the major classical writers, which influenced Shakespeare's writing a lot. But it was the mundane life experience during his apprentice time that provided those vivid images in Shakespeare's mind. (可以套 平凡小事的大作用 之类的问题)
In the late 1580s, Shakespeare went to London and worked in the theater as a handy man who sometimes prompted the stage lines to the actors or played an insignificant role in the play. His talent of drama writing first appeared when he tried to revise the old scripts because the theatre's immediate requirement of different scripts everyday. (这个勉强算 struggle 好了) During the summer of 1592 to the spring of 1594 because of plague, many theaters were closed, which led to Shakespeare's losing job. He seized the chance to improve himself by reading a large number of books, which eventually made him stand out conspicuously after the plague. (很明显啦抓住机遇之类的问题)
二、 甘地 Gandhi
甘地的事例真的太多太多了所以要全部的请自己去wiki或者查资料
这里就说我最喜欢用的几个事迹
另外因为是印度人又算是革命家所以名字阿地名阿专业名词都很奇怪也很多 怕烦就别用
(第一段还是介绍人物)
Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence ---- which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi 'Great Soul'. He is officially honored in India as the Father of the Nation.
(接下来是事迹)
He first employed non-violent disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa. → faced discrimination directed at Indians; thrown off the train after refusing to move from the first class to a third class while holding a valid first class ticket.
It was through witnessing firsthand the racism, prejudice and injustice against Indians in South Africa that Gandhi started to question his people's status within the British Empire, and his own place in society. (这段可以用于motive一类的问题)
直接跳到最有名的salt march 中间还有很多小的政治运动有兴趣的自己wiki
Gandhi launched a new satyagraha against tax on salt in March 1930, highlighted by the famous Salt March to Dandi from 12 March to 6 April, marching 400 kilometers (248 miles) from Ahmedabad to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt himself. Thousand of Indians joined him on this march to the sea. The government decided to negotiate with Gandhi and later agreed to set all political prisoners free, who were imprisoned in the salt movement. (这个的话struggle阿peace or violence阿都可以 自己斟酌吧) 三、道格拉斯 Frederick Douglass
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Q: can java or eclipse easily 'auto wrap' class methods that aren't being changed when using decorator pattern I've found a few times that I was considering the decorator pattern, and was tempted not to do it just because it could be so tedious to wrap a classes methods to pass the capability down to the class I was decorating.  Writing:
 public int methodA(int argument){
     return decoratee.methodA(argument);
 }

over and over again for a dozen methods when I'm only really interested in modifying one or two of them is just tedious.  Plus, if I add a new method to the class/interface I need to remember to go back and the method in to all the classes that are using the decorator pattern if I want to expose it to everyone.
It seems like there should be an easier way to do this.  I mean in theory you could implement a language capability to handle decorator pattern almost exactly the same as we handle extending a class; except instead of a making calls to super make calls to decorated class.  If a method of the decorated class is called and the decorator doesn't have anything written for it pass the call down to the decorated class automatically.  If the decorating class wants to hide the method, only if the decorating class wants to implement different logic does he have to actually write the full method out.  Perhaps with some nice annotation to allow one to quickly identify what methods of decorated class should be made available and what shouldn't
so is there anything that will do this sort of logic for me?  I mean I doubt it is built into java laungae itself like I described above, as cool as that would be it hardly seems like it would come up often enough to justify it.  Still, does at the very least eclipse handle autowraping of methods like this or something?

A: Well, kind of.  I think you're under-utilizing the object oriented world.  With an abstract class, you can implement default decorator behaviour, such as wrapping all the boring wraps.  Then you can simply extend this Decorator abstract class and cherry pick the things you're overriding!
Something like this:
Decoratee.java
public interface Decoratee {
    public int methodA(int argument);
    public int methodB(int argument);
}

DecorateeA.java
public class DecorateeA implements Decoratee {
  private final Object arg1, arg2;
  public Decoratee(Object arg1, Object arg2){
    this.arg1 = arg1;
    this.arg2 = arg2;
  }
  public int methodA(int argument){
    return someInt;
  }
  public int methodB(int argument){
    return someInt;
  }
}

Decorator.java
public abstract class Decorator implements Decoratee {
  private final Decoratee decoratee;
  public Decorator(Decoratee decoratee){
    this.decoratee = decoratee;
  }
  public int methodA(int argument){
    return decoratee.methodA(argument);
  }
  public int methodB(int argument){
    return decoratee.methodB(argument);;
  }
}

DecoratorA.java
public class DecoratorA extends Decorator {
    public DecoratorA(Decoratee decoratee){
      super(decoratee);
    }
    public int methodA(int argument){
      return someOhterInt;
    }
    //methodB inherited from Decorator
}

DecoratorB.java
public class DecoratorB extends Decorator {
    public DecoratorB(Decoratee decoratee){
      super(decoratee);
    }
    //methodA inherited from Decorator
    public int methodB(int argument){
      return someOhterInt;
    }
}

Yes, you still have to wrap these things.  The upside here, is that you only have to wrap them once - then you can build decorators till you're blue in the face.
Additionally - if you need access to the decoratee's method's, you can now call them via the super keyword:
public class DecoratorC extends Decorator {
    public DecoratorC(Decoratee decoratee){
      super(decoratee);
    }
    //methodA inherited from Decorator
    public int methodB(int argument){
      return someOhterInt + super.methodB(argument);
      //super.methodB calls Decorator.methodB which calls decoratee.methodB;
    }
}