Over the years, marketers are seeing how content can impact sales. This is especially true since more B2B researchers don't contact the company they are looking to work with until they are 57% of the way down the purchasing path. By creating more content, marketers are increasing the chance of being found during the first 57% of the purchasing path journey.
However, even though there are more B2B companies taking on content marketing, there are still many mistakes being made. Here are five mistakes to avoid in content marketing plan in 2016.
When starting a blog it is best to remember to create content that that your audience would be searching for throughout each stage of the buying cycle. Knowing that B2B researchers don't contact a company until they are 57% of the way down the purchasing path, focus on creating content that your audience will be looking for earlier on in the process.
For example, if a company sells audiovisual services, creating content around best practices for video conferencing would be wise. This may be content a user would find before they are looking for a service but would introduce them to the brand.
Then the blog's design does a great job at showing content they may be interested in, they may sign up for the newsletter, connect socially, or at least remember the brand and come back to it at a later date. You can also use this blog to nurture leads or send to current clients to increase their education.
32% of B2B marketers have a written content marketing strategy. What about the other 68%? The marketers who have a documented content marketing strategy get better results than those who don't. This is because they plan prior to creating and broke the content creating & marketing plan into smaller more manageable actions that can be delegated to different members on the team.
Planning earlier on allows you to decide where a call-to-action can be in a new blog post so dead-ends are not created within the content. Basically, leaving users the option to only read the blog and then leave the site instead of encouraging them to click to another page on a site.
Planning earlier also creates the opportunity to identify where pieces of content can be used in different stages of the buying cycle reducing the amount of content that may need to be created ( This is especially useful for smaller teams). Or if content can be re-purposed to different types of content like a slide or a video.
Not every marketer has a team or knows how to create videos or graphics. But this shouldn't be an excuse to not create more than just a blog post in a content marketing strategy. While on average marketers tend to create 13 different types of content for their initiative, fewer than 50% of marketer say they use tactics such as podcasts, ebooks, digital magazines, microsites, or branded content tools.
Blogs are just the start of it and while it may take a little extra time, blogs can be re-purposed into other types of content depending on the topic. By creating other types of content, you can have the same information live on other channels or 3rd party site to drive more traffic or brand awareness.
A simple screen recording video demonstrating how to use a product can live on YouTube. A Google Slide can live on SlideShare to increase chances of being found via search. A recording of a reading of the blog can live on MP3 websites or as a podcast to reach a new audience.
After creating different types of content there will be data to show which types are most effective to help determine future strategy.
When creating content it is important to base content and the strategy on results. This requires setting up tracking in the planning and development phase. Look beyond tracking just the amount of track, leads, or sales the content generates. But also track the amount of effort or hours that went in developing the content to determine the true ROI.
To track how the content performs on the site, be sure Google Analytics or another tracking script is added to the site. Tracking the content on other channels, be sure to use the Google URL Builder to create a custom URL for tracking to report back to Google Analytics. Additionally, make use of native social media analytics to track impressions, clicks, shares etc.
There are two important steps with content marketing strategy. Planning and putting together a strategy is the first step, but that doesn't mean it is the most important. Reporting the results of the content marketing strategy is just as important.
Who is this piece of content for?
Does it answer a question or concern in the industry?
Will the user take away anything from this post or find value in it?
What action do I want them to take?
Do we have any related content to this piece we can link to or include?
Can this be repurposed into something else?
What channels can this be shared on?
How will I measure its results?
While creating the plan may take a little extra time, the results you are able to report on will be worth it in the end.


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Television • 1h 27m
Tilda Swinton's hypnotic voiceover and a treasure trove of rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s-much of it previously unseen-combine to trace the anxieties of today's hyper-connected world back a hundred years. Then, too, electric media sparked idealism in the public imagination-hailed as the beginning of an era of total communication, annihilation of distance and the end of war. But then, too, fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality proved to be well-founded.
DREAMS REWIRED traces contemporary appetites and anxieties back to the birth of the telephone, television and cinema. At the time, early electric media were as revolutionary as social media are now. The technologies were expected to serve everyone, not just the elite classes. Human relationships would become stronger, efficiency would increase and the society would be revolutionized... But these initial promises were very different from what new media eventually brought to daily life.
Using excerpts from early dramatic films, slapstick comedies, political newsreels, advertisements and recordings of scientific experiments culled during years of research in film archives around the world, co-directors Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart and Thomas Tode unearth material that is by turns hilarious, revelatory, beautiful and prescient. The archival footage, combined with poetic narration and a virtuosic score by Siegfried Friedrich forges a cross-generational connection between contemporary viewers and their idealistic forbearers of a century ago.
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So check this out. Yesterday I mixed in our east auditorium(the two auditorium thing explanation really is coming soon…). I guess on Monday, leadership types get together to evaluate our services and then relevant feedback gets filtered to the appropriate people. After the evaluations this morning there was some audio specific feedback my boss delivered to me.
Now, I have never received a comment before like what was given to me today. I've been involved in audio for 16 years including all my amateur stuff, and this was a total first so I'm dwelling on this a bit. If you know me and have ever sat in on a rehearsal I was mixing, you'll have a chuckle over this.
I don't know if I should be happy or hurt. I am befuddled. Seriously, think about this. The sound guy who played in rock bands for like ten years didn't have a loud enough mix at his church staff gig. It wasn't loud enough. They want it louder. Rock the house. Turn it up. My boss told me he has full confidence that I can rise to their standards.
What's funny to me is that yesterday I was thinking about writing an entry about SPL meters and how some people set these hard dB limits which are kind of silly because loudness is a perception thing that depends on a lot of different factors blah blah blah. It was going to be almost a rant about SPL police…did I ever talk about the time I was physically assaulted…maybe some other time…and how you need to make sure your meters are calibrated because they can be a nice little speedometer thing sometimes… And now this.
The blog is "Going to 11". It's about making church sound "louder". And today I feel as if I have let you down. I will try harder next time. I guess I was watching my speedometer a little too closely.
And if you're wondering how loud wasn't loud enough, someday you'll just have to come visit. Yesterday was "1" less than what you'll hear on that day.
LOL. At least you can now feel comfortable in going louder! Did they ask for more heart pounding bass too?
No, they didn't have to ask for any more heart pounding bass. It was already good. In fact, I actually think that's why it didn't seem loud enough to them overall. Maybe I'll do a post on that sometime.


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Paid parental leave in 2022
2021-05 - Issue Secundary - Legal
As of August 2, 2022, employees will be eligible for a benefit when taking parental leave. As stated in the legislative proposal 'Wet betaald ouderschapsverlof' (Paid Parental Leave Act), the benefit will be provided by UWV (the National Institute for Employees' Insurance and Regulations). On April 20, a majority of the lower house of the Dutch parliament voted in support of the proposal.
The legislative proposal is based on European directives aimed at improving the balance between work and private life. Employees can currently only take unpaid parental leave with a maximal duration of 26 times their weekly working hours (per child). After the implementation of the new proposal, employees will be eligible for a benefit for 9 out of those 26 weeks, provided that these 9 weeks fall within the first year of the child's life. Employers will apply for the benefit on behalf of employees.
The benefit is only limited in amount, being 50% of an employee's daily wages and at most 50% the maximum daily wages permitted by law. There is therefore the concern that employees on a low-income will not be able to take paid parental leave, since they won't be able to make ends meet with the limited benefit. Outgoing minister Koolmees of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has therefore decided to add a provision to the legislative proposal. This provision will make it possible for the new cabinet to increase the percentage to 70% before the legislation goes into effect, if the new cabinet wishes to do so a will make a budget available for this. Once the legislation has gone into effect, the percentage can only be changed through a legislative amendment submitted to and voted on by the lower house of parliament.
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This bride was referred to me and I LOVE it when I get referrals. This is the biggest compliment when you hear that you did a great job and someone else also would like to share the same experience! Thank you so much to Jennifer and her new hubby Lauro for allowing me document their special day. It was small, it was perfect. A little teaser before the weekend! Keep checking back because i will most likely add to this as a sneak peek for you and your family. Thank you!!!!


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It's time for npower forecasting challenge 2017! The registration will close on Nov 2nd, 2017. You don't have to be a UK student or citizen to join the game, but the prizes and internship opportunities are for the UK people only. The organizer also told me that you may register as a single-person team if you like. Since the registration form asks for multiple names, you may put your own name and contact information twice.
This is the list of blog posts about the previous npower forecasting challenges, where you can find our winning methodologies.
Look forward to seeing you in the competition!


Windsor chairs were rarely made as rockers originally in the eighteenth century. Most rockers were added during the first part of the nineteenth century when the Boston Rocker became fashionable. Ever resourceful, early Americans used pieces they already had to serve a new purpose. Still, we think rocking chairs are beautiful and useful forms.
Height: 48"Width: 25"Seat Height: 18"Seat Width: 21 1/2"Seat Depth: 16 1/2""


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"""
Provides definitions for various lldb test categories
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import print_function

# System modules
import sys

# Third-party modules

# LLDB modules
from lldbsuite.support import gmodules

debug_info_categories = [
    'dwarf', 'dwo', 'dsym', 'gmodules'
]

all_categories = {
    'dataformatters': 'Tests related to the type command and the data formatters subsystem',
    'dwarf': 'Tests that can be run with DWARF debug information',
    'dwo': 'Tests that can be run with DWO debug information',
    'dsym': 'Tests that can be run with DSYM debug information',
    'gmodules': 'Tests that can be run with -gmodules debug information',
    'expression': 'Tests related to the expression parser',
    'libc++': 'Test for libc++ data formatters',
    'libstdcxx': 'Test for libstdcxx data formatters',
    'objc': 'Tests related to the Objective-C programming language support',
    'pyapi': 'Tests related to the Python API',
    'basic_process': 'Basic process execution sniff tests.',
    'cmdline': 'Tests related to the LLDB command-line interface',
    'dyntype': 'Tests related to dynamic type support',
    'stresstest': 'Tests related to stressing lldb limits',
    'flakey': 'Flakey test cases, i.e. tests that do not reliably pass at each execution',
    'darwin-log': 'Darwin log tests',
    'watchpoint': 'Watchpoint-related tests',
    'lldb-vscode': 'Visual Studio Code debug adaptor tests',
    'lldb-server': 'Tests related to lldb-server',
}

def unique_string_match(yourentry, list):
    candidate = None
    for item in list:
        if not item.startswith(yourentry):
            continue
        if candidate:
            return None
        candidate = item
    return candidate

def is_supported_on_platform(category, platform, compiler_path):
    if category == "dwo":
        # -gsplit-dwarf is not implemented by clang on Windows.
        return platform in ["linux", "freebsd"]
    elif category == "dsym":
        return platform in ["darwin", "macosx", "ios", "watchos", "tvos", "bridgeos"]
    elif category == "gmodules":
        # First, check to see if the platform can even support gmodules.
        if platform not in ["freebsd", "darwin", "macosx", "ios", "watchos", "tvos", "bridgeos"]:
            return False
        return gmodules.is_compiler_clang_with_gmodules(compiler_path)
    return True

def validate(categories, exact_match):
    """
    For each category in categories, ensure that it's a valid category (if exact_match is false,
    unique prefixes are also accepted). If a category is invalid, print a message and quit.
       If all categories are valid, return the list of categories. Prefixes are expanded in the
       returned list.
    """
    result = []
    for category in categories:
        origCategory = category
        if category not in all_categories and not exact_match:
            category = unique_string_match(category, all_categories)
        if (category not in all_categories) or category is None:
            print(
                "fatal error: category '" +
                origCategory +
                "' is not a valid category")
            print("if you have added a new category, please edit test_categories.py, adding your new category to all_categories")
            print("else, please specify one or more of the following: " +
                  str(list(all_categories.keys())))
            sys.exit(1)
        result.append(category)
    return result

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In Los Angeles and Orange counties in the past year, the oil industry has used more than 45 million pounds of toxic air pollutants as part of its 477 hydraulic fracturing (fracking), acidizing and oil extraction operations.
More than half of the associated oil wells were located within 1,500 feet of a home, school or hospital. One well was 12 feet from a house.
This does not sit well with Angela Johnson Meszaros '91, JD '94.
Around Los Angeles people always say, 'Oh, the air is so much better now than it used to be,' which may well be true, but it's still really bad.
Through her work as general counsel at Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR–LA), Johnson Meszaros ensures that public health professionals are engaged in environmental public health policy and support of community-based efforts to protect public health.
The above findings came from a recent report on air toxics generated by several local organizations as part of a campaign to analyze the chemicals being used and push for air monitoring at the oil wells. Partner organizations included PSR–LA; the Center for Biological Diversity; Communities for a Better Environment; and the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment.
PSR–LA is a physician and health advocate organization dedicated to protecting public health from environmental toxins, informing policymakers about toxic threats, promoting safer practices and strengthening grassroots environmental advocacy efforts.
The alarming statistics in the report often don't register with the general public, Johnson Meszaros said. In reality, a very significant amount of air toxics are utilized as part of the extraction process.
The report also touched on the industry's use of trade secrets protection. Oil companies argue that disclosing the names of the chemicals they're using as part of the oil extraction process aids their competitors. Consequently, these companies invoked the trade secret law more than 5,000 times in the past year. About 1,000 of the chemicals they designated as trade secrets were also marked as air toxics.
Toxic air pollutants are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive or birth defects, or adverse environmental effects.
Johnson Meszaros also focuses on policy related to the broader air quality issues for Los Angeles.
In addition to high rates of smog-related asthma and bronchitis, high levels of particulate matter in the air resulting from burning fossil fuels have been linked in studies with lung cancer, heart disease, brain disease, low birth rate and even autism.
Before entering the world of environmental justice, Johnson Meszaros started out as a philosophy major at USC Dornsife, earning her bachelor's degree.
In the philosophy department, she noted that Associate Professor Janet Levin in particular encouraged her to consider what she wanted to do with her life and career. Levin also invited her to join her graduate seminar as an undergraduate student.
She continued her education at the USC Gould School of Law. In a civil rights course, Mark Rosenbaum, now chief counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, discussed the issue of childhood lead poisoning. The class learned about the social and economic dynamics of who is poisoned and how it happens — most often low-income children of color who are living in substandard housing.
To Johnson Meszaros, environmental justice is also about ensuring that people who are impacted are involved in decision-making.
Living near major highways has been linked to childhood asthma, but a new study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC suggests that traffic-related pollution near schools is also contributing to the development of asthma in children.
Girls may be at higher risk for ill effects than boys.
The thickness of artery walls increases as levels of pollution rise, say USC researchers. Exposure to pollutants, the findings suggest, may play a key role in the development of cardiovascular disease.
Exposure to air pollution appears to increase the risk for autism among people who carry a genetic disposition for the neurodevelopment disorder, according to new research.


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Blog Business Preston Hollow
Margolin: Too Early for Budget Prognostications
May 18, 2010 Eric Nicholson	0 Comments Ann Margolin, booze, Budget, City Hall, From The Print Product
Note: Quotes attributed to city planner David Cossum should have been attributed to assistant city attorney John Rogers. Rogers was the one speaking. Cossum was clicking through on the Powerpoint.
Councilwoman Ann Margolin hosted District 13 VIPs (mostly neighborhood association and crime watch presidents, plus yours truly) at the Gatti Town at Marsh and Forest Lanes last night to give a rundown and answer questions on the dual petition circulating to allow alcohol sales citywide.
More on that below, but first, the budget. Margolin couldn't help but address the city's estimated $130 million shortfall looming over next year's balance sheet. Falling property values (and a corresponding fall in the city's property tax receipts) and a drop in sales tax revenue has left the city with a "grim" budget outlook for the second year in a row. That will mean more belt tightening from a budget which, excluding public safety and code enforcement, was cut to the bone to close last year's $190 million gap, but Margolin declined to speculate on where cuts might be made.
"It's too early in the game. I'm not going to say what we're going to do," Margolin said.
But she made clear that nothing–not police, not fire, not code enforcement–is off the table.
Now, back to the booze. Not much new to report, but a quick recap: If at least 68,500 registered voters sign each of two petitions being circulated (which seems like it will happen by the time they are submitted to the city next week, Margolin said), voters will choose Nov. 2 whether to 1) allow beer and wine to be sold at grocery and convenience stores for off-premise consumption and 2) to do away with the 'private club' restriction that requires drinkers to be "members" of a restaurant to order alcohol. Cities, counties, and justice of the peace precincts can vote to be completely wet, dry, or somewhere in between, per the Texas Constitution. In the past, this has been determined by JP precinct, which goes a long way toward explaining the odd patchwork of wet, dry, and quasi-wet areas in Dallas.
David Cossum, the city's assistant director of Sustainable Development and Construction Assistant city attorney John Rogers did most of the talking, getting into some of the more arcane details of Texas liquor law, which I won't go too far into. He said the city is "looking into" the potential impact on the city's sales tax revenue if the measures are approved.
One interesting side note, though: The citywide elections will not override previous JP elections if the historic JP precinct is completely within city limits. So if, hypothetically, a JP precinct bounded by Northwest Highway, Hillcrest Road, Walnut Hill Lane, and Preston Road had voted to be completely dry in 1892, the coming election wouldn't make it wet.
Should be pretty easy to determine, right? Wrong. Rogers said the city is digging through county records to determine the boundaries of various justice of the peace precincts during previous wet/dry elections.
"I'm really, really hoping they figure it out by Nov. 2," Cossum Rogers said.
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Cowboy SEAL Christmas by Nicole Helm, giveaway, spotlight
Three former Navy SEALs
Injured in the line of duty
Desperate for a new beginning…
Searching for a place to call their own.
Single mom and Revival Ranch's on-site therapist Monica Finley has dedicated her life to helping brave servicemen and women, but former Navy SEAL Gabe Cortez is the one man whose shell she just can't crack. Yet with the holidays fast approaching, she may finally have a plan. In a bid to get Gabe to open up, she'll ask for as much help as possible—cutting down the Christmas tree, stringing lights, the whole nine yards.
Who could possibly be a Grinch with so much holiday cheer in the air?
Gabe has always hated Christmas—the holiday never fails to remind him just how alone he truly is. But the more time he spends with Monica and her young son, the more he finds himself drawn to their cozy little family…and the more he begins to realize his long-suppressed Christmas dreams may finally be coming true.
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"Yes. Picking out a book for someone shows that you know them, and you have some clueas to what they like. It shows you're paying attention, and that you like them."
"So, what book are you going to get me?"
She tapped her chin, pretending to ponder it. "Maybe I'll find one on the great art of narcissism."
He chuckled good-naturedly.
"You can stay here and play your video games."
"Nah, I'll look at books."
So they walked over to the book section of the store, and Monica tried very hard to concentrate on finding a book that her mother would like, and then her father. It was admittedly hard to concentrate with six-foot-something of former Navy SEAL just…lurking.
Which was silly. She was used to tough military men in her life. She'd been raisedwith one, then married to one, and none of that lurking had ever affected her. Not like this.
Sex camel. Sex camel. Only one cure for a sex camel.
"Hell," she muttered.
"Nothing. Nothing. I think I'm going to have to order something for my dad. None of this really works. Besides, it's nearly five, and we should head over to the florist."
"Here. Try this one." He handed her a book.
She took the heavy, dry-looking tome. She wrinkled her nose at the black-and-white picture on the front. It was some complicated-looking nonfiction book about the role of presidents during wars of the twentieth century.
Damn Gabe Cortez.
"How did you know he'd like this?" she demanded.
Gabe shrugged, taking it upon himself to push the cart toward the front of the store while she trailed behind.
"Marines are all the same. Like all that bullshit about politics and war. Like it's complicated and not always a dick-measuring contest."
"Is that all war is?"
"Is to me."
"I don't believe that." He looked sharply over his shoulder at her, but she simply held his gaze. "You don't join the military if you think that."
"First of all, you don't know the first thing about why I joined the military. Second, a lot of guys think it once they've been through one. Because you don't come out unscathed from that. You either double down on what you believe, or you realize it's all a bunch of bullshit."
"So, you're the enlightened, I suppose."
"No, it's not enlightened. It's just how you deal. One way's not better than the other."
He always managed to surprise her. She was used to uncompromising military men, and there was an element of that to him. But it was somehow…open-minded. There was a lack of judgment. Gabe seemed to believe in survival however you managed it. Considering that was at the heart of her therapy mission, it was impossible not to admire him for it.
"So why did you join the military?" she asked, unable to resist. It wasn't a therapist's question either. No, this was a Monica question. Shewanted to know, as a person, about his person.
She wasn't sure what to do with that, but he smiled. Not those bitter ones meant to push her back a few paces, but one of his charming smiles. The ones he flashed her before he said something…suggestive. Her cheeks heated against her will and that foreign flutter from last night was back in full force.
"Sorry, sweetheart. That's not a question I answer for just anybody."
"Oh," she said, trying to sound calm and not at all affected as she started putting her items on the conveyer belt of the checkout line. "What would an anybody have to do to become a somebody?" She steeled all her courage and calm and self-possession and looked pointedly at him.
But that grin didn't change any, except maybe turn the air a little hotter. Which was impossible. All this heatwas a figment of her over-wintered imagination.
"I'm not sure. No one ever has. But you're more than welcome to take on the challenge."
That word wound though her. Challenge. She never, ever backed down from a challenge. It was one of those things her parents had insisted she learn to do: face any challenge, any hardship, any responsibility.
And she had. Over and over again. But this was different, because she had a bad feeling his challenge would involve nakedness.
Oh, remember male nakedness? That was nice. His would be very, very nice.
The cashier cleared her throat and Monica blushed even deeper. "Sorry," she mumbled, fumbling to pull her credit card out of her purse. She centered herself with the rote actions of sliding the card through the reader and taking the receipt as Gabe loaded up the cart with her bags.
As they walked out of the store, side by side, Monica kept her gaze forward. "I might take that challenge," she said hastily as they reached the truck.
"You might fail."
She looked up at him and gave him a very carefully blank smile. She knew it irritated him by the way his lips firmed and his jaw tightened.
"I might," she agreed, validated somehow when he was the one to break eye contact and finish loading the bags into the truck bed. "But I also might not," she added, heading for the passenger side door.
The fact that Gabe didn't slide into the driver's seat for another minute or so was very validating indeed.
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Q: Error "ValueError: can't format dates this early" on one PC, works on other I have a Python script that works perfectly fine on my development PC. Both are Windows 7 with the same Python version (2.7.9). However on the target machine I get a

ValueError: can't format dates this early

The error seems to come from pywin32 module.
The code uses a third-party library invoked by pywin32:
raw = win32com.client.Dispatch("MyLib.MyClass")

and then fails later on:
acq_time = raw.GetCreationDate()

Now I'm lost why this is working on my PC and not on the target machine. Both have a "corporate install" of Windows 7, for example, the same Regional and date-time settings.
What is the issue? How might I resolve it?
EDIT:
See comments. The cause is probably which C++ runtime is used. I'm still investigating. I now suspect that it matters which runtimes are present at install time of pywin32. Why? Because DependenyWalker on my development PC says that pywin depends on MSVCR90.DLL in my Lotus Notes installation. This tells me it sure isn't "hard" linked.
Update 30.06.2015:
I was all wrong...The issue now also happens on my PC.
Some further info. The script reads data files and inserts the read
meta-data into a database. Only older files seemed to be affected by the
bug, not new ones (I now think this is assumption is wrong). So the idea was to to the initial load on my Dev PC and then hope the issue will never occur again with new files.
In case of the PC were the script will run, the files it reads are on a
Windows Shared drive (mapped network drive). I don't have access to that
drive so I just copied the files into my PC. Now for doing the initial
load I requested access to said network drive and BOOM. It also does not
work from my Dev. machine when reading from the shared drive.
The issue does not always happen with the same file. I now think it has nothing to do with a specific file. I also tried it on a 64-bit PC with 64-bit python. There it took longer till the error occurred. In fact a file was successfully read which failed on my PC. I now think it is some kind of memory issue? I believe that it then always fails on the date line because all other lines just return null or an empty string which causes no problem and is entirely possible such a value can be null. But for the date it is a problem and it should not be null and then the error is thrown.
EDIT of Update:
On my PC it always fails on the same file. Loading that file alone works perfectly fine. I now think it's some kind of counter/number overflow that after reading n files, the issue occurs. It has to do with the amount of files I load per run of the script and not the file itself. Files that fail work when loading them individually.

A: Turns out the issue was in fact trivial and somewhat due to my lack of experience with python and misleading error message.
The COM object raw = win32com.client.Dispatch("MyLib.MyClass") is used to open proprietary files in a loop. To solve the issue one must "clean-up" the object before next iteration. This is done either by
del raw
or
raw = None.
That completely solves the issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with dates or date formating.  So Peter Brittain was probably right that this file limit was reached.

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The removal of the loyalty dividend was approved by the Special Meeting of eligible shareholders of 4 April 2018 and subsequently by non-eligible shareholders at the Extraordinary Annual General Meeting of 16 May 2018.
As a reminder, the loyalty dividend was applicable to registered shares eligible for a dividend held for more than two calendar years on the year-end closure date and still held on the date of the dividend payment. To compensate for this, from 24 May 2018 eligible shareholders will receive one new ordinary share for 26 eligible registered shares held for more than two years on 31 December 2017 and still held on the dividend payment date for financial year 2017.
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Singapore Airlines has begun offering a farm-to-plane food concept designed to enhance its sustainability practices with the food and beverages passengers consume on its flights.
The airline already serves fish from fisheries certified by Marine Stewardship Council, a nonprofit group that recognizes and rewards efforts to protect oceans and safeguard seafood supplies, for its sustainable practices. It also committed to buy produce from local farms in all the countries it serves.
In Singapore, the airline is partnering with the Kranji Countryside Association, a nonprofit organization that promotes local agriculture and the building of the country's agriculture industry. The carrier's International Culinary Panel (ICP) of famous chefs will create inflight menus using more sustainable ingredients and local produce from farms at its destinations, such as cherry tomatoes, pumpkins, green beans and lettuce.
The new menus will initially be introduced to Singapore Airlines' first class Suites customers on selected routes by the end of the year, and will progressively be made available to customers traveling in business, premium economy and economy class starting in 2018.
Kenny Eng, president of the Kranji Countryside Association, is also director of the Nyee Phoe Group, a horticulture and agri-tainment business that runs recreational activities within the farm.
Local farms that will partner with Singapore Airlines include Bollywood Veggies, the Kuhlbarra fish farm (which focuses on barramundi), Uncle William's quail meat and eggs, the Hay Dairies Goat Farm and Kin Yan Agrotech, which grows organic wheat grasses, edible cactus, aloe vera, pea sprouts and a variety of mushrooms.
Betty Wong is Singapore Air's divisional vice president for the customer experience. "Being such a small country, most people may not know we have local farms," she said.
"Food source safety and security is a big interest for Singapore Airlines," she said. "But our focus is also on what customers want on their flights and do what we can to meet their needs. We hope this new farm-to-plane food initiative, being done here and in other parts of the world, are what our customers want us to do.
Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe already use local foods in Singapore Airlines' menus, said Wong. "We've also launched Deliciously Wholesome, our healthy eating program designed to offer passengers more meatless choices on their flights," she said.
Another large part of the farm-to-plane initiative is reducing food waste, said Wong. "We compost and are exploring to learn how to work with organizations like the Singapore Food Bank to see how we can donate our food," she said. We're in touch with a research think tank on finding ways to convert food waste to biodegradable wares. We're also asking the stations in the cities we serve to reach out to local resources in their areas.
As is common in the travel industry, the writer was provided with complimentary services for review purposes. While it has not influenced this review, TripSavvy.com believes in full disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest.


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import urlparse

from nose.tools import *  # flake8: noqa
from dateutil.parser import parse as parse_date

from framework.auth.core import Auth
from website.models import NodeLog
from api.base.settings.defaults import API_BASE

from tests.base import ApiTestCase, assert_datetime_equal
from tests.factories import (
    ProjectFactory,
    AuthUserFactory,
    RegistrationFactory,
    RetractedRegistrationFactory
)
import datetime

API_LATEST = 0
API_FIRST = -1
OSF_LATEST = -1
OSF_FIRST = 0

class TestNodeLogList(ApiTestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super(TestNodeLogList, self).setUp()
        self.user = AuthUserFactory()
        self.contrib = AuthUserFactory()
        self.creator = AuthUserFactory()
        self.user_auth = Auth(self.user)
        self.NodeLogFactory = ProjectFactory()
        self.pointer = ProjectFactory()

        self.private_project = ProjectFactory(is_public=False, creator=self.user)
        self.private_url = '/{}nodes/{}/logs/'.format(API_BASE, self.private_project._id)

        self.public_project = ProjectFactory(is_public=True, creator=self.user)
        self.public_url = '/{}nodes/{}/logs/'.format(API_BASE, self.public_project._id)

    def tearDown(self):
        super(TestNodeLogList, self).tearDown()
        NodeLog.remove()

    def test_add_tag(self):
        user_auth = Auth(self.user)
        self.public_project.add_tag("Jeff Spies", auth=user_auth)
        assert_equal("tag_added", self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'], 'tag_added')
        assert_equal("Jeff Spies", self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].params['tag'])

    def test_remove_tag(self):
        user_auth = Auth(self.user)
        self.public_project.add_tag("Jeff Spies", auth=user_auth)
        assert_equal("tag_added", self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        self.public_project.remove_tag("Jeff Spies", auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal("tag_removed", self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url, auth=self.user)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'], 'tag_removed')
        assert_equal("Jeff Spies", self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].params['tag'])

    def test_project_created(self):
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(self.public_project.logs[OSF_FIRST].action, "project_created")
        assert_equal(self.public_project.logs[OSF_FIRST].action,res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'])

    def test_log_create_on_public_project(self):
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_datetime_equal(parse_date(res.json['data'][API_FIRST]['attributes']['date']),
                              self.public_project.logs[OSF_FIRST].date)
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_FIRST]['attributes']['action'], self.public_project.logs[OSF_FIRST].action)

    def test_log_create_on_private_project(self):
        res = self.app.get(self.private_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_datetime_equal(datetime.datetime.strptime(res.json['data'][API_FIRST]['attributes']['date'], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f"),
                              self.private_project.logs[OSF_FIRST].date)
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_FIRST]['attributes']['action'], self.private_project.logs[OSF_FIRST].action)

    def test_add_addon(self):
        self.public_project.add_addon('github', auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal('addon_added', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'], 'addon_added')

    def test_project_add_remove_contributor(self):
        self.public_project.add_contributor(self.contrib, auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal('contributor_added', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        self.public_project.remove_contributor(self.contrib, auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal('contributor_removed', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'], 'contributor_removed')
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][1]['attributes']['action'], 'contributor_added')

    def test_remove_addon(self):
        self.public_project.add_addon('github', auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal('addon_added', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        self.public_project.delete_addon('github', auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal('addon_removed', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'], 'addon_removed')

    def test_add_pointer(self):
        self.public_project.add_pointer(self.pointer, auth=Auth(self.user), save=True)
        assert_equal('pointer_created', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        res = self.app.get(self.public_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), len(self.public_project.logs))
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][API_LATEST]['attributes']['action'], 'pointer_created')

    def test_cannot_access_retracted_node_logs(self):
        self.public_project = ProjectFactory(is_public=True, creator=self.user)
        registration = RegistrationFactory(creator=self.user, project=self.public_project)
        url = '/{}nodes/{}/logs/'.format(API_BASE, registration._id)
        retraction = RetractedRegistrationFactory(registration=registration, user=self.user)
        res = self.app.get(url, auth=self.user.auth, expect_errors=True)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 404)

class TestNodeLogFiltering(TestNodeLogList):

    def test_filter_action_not_equal(self):
        self.public_project.add_tag("Jeff Spies", auth=self.user_auth)
        assert_equal("tag_added", self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        url = '/{}nodes/{}/logs/?filter[action][ne]=tag_added'.format(API_BASE, self.public_project._id)
        res = self.app.get(url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), 1)
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][0]['attributes']['action'], 'project_created')

    def test_filter_date_not_equal(self):
        self.public_project.add_pointer(self.pointer, auth=Auth(self.user), save=True)
        assert_equal('pointer_created', self.public_project.logs[OSF_LATEST].action)
        assert_equal(len(self.public_project.logs), 2)
        date_pointer_added = str(self.public_project.logs[1].date).replace(' ', 'T')

        url = '/{}nodes/{}/logs/?filter[date][ne]={}'.format(API_BASE, self.public_project._id, date_pointer_added)
        res = self.app.get(url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        assert_equal(len(res.json['data']), 1)
        assert_equal(res.json['data'][0]['attributes']['action'], 'project_created')

class TestNodeLogContributors(ApiTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        super(TestNodeLogContributors, self).setUp()
        self.user = AuthUserFactory()
        self.user_two = AuthUserFactory()
        self.node = ProjectFactory(is_public=False)
        self.node.add_contributor(self.user, auth=Auth(self.node.creator), log=True, save=True)
        self.node.add_contributor(self.user_two, auth=Auth(self.node.creator), log=True, save=True)
        self.node.remove_contributors([self.user_two], auth=Auth(self.node.creator), log=True, save=True)
        self.url = '/{}logs/'.format(API_BASE)

    def test_log_returns_associated_contributors_relationship(self):
        log_id = self.node.logs[1]._id
        url = self.url + '{}/'.format(log_id)
        res = self.app.get(url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        json_data = res.json['data']
        associated_contributors_url = json_data['relationships']['contributors']['links']['related']['href']
        assert_equal(urlparse.urlparse(associated_contributors_url).path, url + 'contributors/')

        res = self.app.get(associated_contributors_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        added_contributor_id = res.json['data'][0]['id']
        assert_equal(self.user._id, added_contributor_id)

    def test_log_associated_contributors_link_leads_to_empty_list(self):
        log_id = self.node.logs[0]._id
        url = self.url + '{}/'.format(log_id)
        res = self.app.get(url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        json_data = res.json['data']
        associated_contributors_url = json_data['relationships']['contributors']['links']['related']['href']
        assert_equal(urlparse.urlparse(associated_contributors_url).path, url + 'contributors/')

        res = self.app.get(associated_contributors_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.json['data'], [])

    def test_log_removing_contributors_returns_associated_contributors_relationship(self):
        log_id = self.node.logs[3]._id
        url = self.url + '{}/'.format(log_id)
        res = self.app.get(url, auth=self.user.auth)
        assert_equal(res.status_code, 200)
        json_data = res.json['data']
        assert_equal(json_data['attributes']['action'], 'contributor_removed')
        associated_contributors_url = json_data['relationships']['contributors']['links']['related']['href']
        assert_equal(urlparse.urlparse(associated_contributors_url).path, url + 'contributors/')

        res = self.app.get(associated_contributors_url, auth=self.user.auth)
        removed_contributor_id = res.json['data'][0]['id']
        assert_equal(self.user_two._id, removed_contributor_id)


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Xenu's Paradox
Alec Nevala-Lee describes Xenu's Paradox:
If there's one overwhelming conclusion to be drawn about [L. Ron] Hubbard's career, it isn't that he wrote science fiction, or even that he was influenced by its ideas. It's that he ended up writing science fiction almost against his will, and for much of his life, he seems to have actively despised it.
Most of his stories displayed little, if any, interest in science itself, an attitude that extended to his protagonists. The heroes of Hubbard's adventure yarns were invariably tall, virile, and masculine, while the central figures in his science fiction and fantasy stories were more likely to be henpecked weaklings. As Isaac Asimov wrote of his first meeting with Hubbard: "He was a large-jawed, red-haired, big and expansive fellow who surprised me. His heroes tended to be frightened little men who rose to meet emergencies, and somehow I had expected Hubbard to be the same." His constant use of such characters reflected his low opinion of his audience, and even when he offered up a more conventional lead, as in the relentlessly sour series The Kilkenny Cats, the result reeked of contempt.
The war offered Hubbard the chance to become the kind of hero that he had always wanted to be:
Campbell wrote to Heinlein: "I imagine that the thing that would really satisfy [Hubbard's] nature . . . would be a chance to command a sub sent out to raid Tokyo harbor. I wouldn't permit him to, if I were running the Navy. He'd probably try to up ship and bombard Hirohito's hovel with his deck gun, just for the hell of it."
As it turned out, Hubbard alienated his superiors in Australia and Massachusetts, attacked two nonexistent submarines off the coast of Oregon, and fired without authorization in Mexican waters, causing him to be relieved of his command. He would later say that he had been crippled and nearly blinded in action — he really suffered from a duodenal ulcer — and he spent much of the war in the hospital, although he continued to play the charming rogue in public. In late 1944, Asimov attended a party at which Hubbard told stories, played the guitar, and effortlessly dominated Heinlein and the author L. Sprague de Camp, who listened "quietly as pussycats." The writer Jack Williamson, who was also there, came away with a different impression: "I recall his eyes, the wary, light-blue eyes that I somehow associate with the gunmen of the old West, watching me sharply as he talked as if to see how much I believed. Not much."
Before long, the mask began to crack, and Hubbard grew visibly depressed. His appearance startled his friends — Campbell wrote that Hubbard was "a quivering psychoneurotic wreck" after the war, and that "his conversation was somewhat schizoid at points." The reasons for this downturn are unclear, although de Camp may have come closest to the truth in a letter to Asimov: "What the war did was to wear [Hubbard] down to where he no longer bothers with the act."
One of those who noticed Hubbard's fragile mental state was Heinlein, who had spent the war at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with de Camp and Asimov. He had recruited Hubbard — on Campbell's recommendation — for a think tank in which science fiction writers gathered on weekends to brainstorm responses to the kamikaze threat. None of their ideas were ever used in combat, but Heinlein was moved by Hubbard's tales of being repeatedly bombed, sunk, and wounded, and he evidently encouraged Hubbard to have a sexual relationship with his wife Leslyn. Hubbard later recalled: "He almost forced me to sleep with his wife."
After the war, Hubbard briefly lived with the Heinleins in Laurel Canyon, where they set up a shared working space. Heinlein was undoubtedly impressed by Hubbard, whom he credited with introducing him to the plot formula of "the man who learned better," and he introduced him to Jack Parsons, a rocket engineer in Pasadena with an interest in black magic. Hubbard became housemates with Parsons in December 1945, and he took part in occult rituals before the two men had a falling out, caused in part by Hubbard's affair with Parsons's lover Sara Northrup. Hubbard married her the following year, without bothering to divorce his first wife.
Definitely an odd circle. Anyway, Hubbard moved on from science fiction — sort of:
"Terra Incognita: The Mind," which marked the inauspicious debut of dianetics in print, was published in the Winter/Spring 1950 issue of The Explorers Club Journal. Hubbard's membership in the Explorers Club, a scientific society based in New York, had long been a feather in his cap. He had applied years earlier on the strength of some unremarkable travels in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico, and after he was accepted, he took enormous pride in the achievement, frequently mentioning the club in his stories and using its address on his personal letterhead.
In the article, Hubbard provides a brief description of dianetics, his new science of the mind, and makes the strange claim that he developed it to provide expedition leaders with a way to screen team members for mental problems, as well as a form of emergency medicine in the field. It was a clear attempt to frame his work in terms of how he liked to see himself — as an adventurer and man of action. The piece aroused no perceptible response, but it sheds a revealing light on the audience that he was hoping to reach. Hubbard wanted to attract explorers and men of the world. Instead, he ended up with science fiction fans.
And they weren't his first, or even his second, choice. Hubbard had been working on dianetics for years, and he had approached a number of professional societies with offers to share his research. None of them took the bait, and he ultimately returned to a proven market, writing to Campbell in the spring of 1949. At the editor's invitation, Hubbard and his pregnant wife Sara moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, not far from where Astounding had recently relocated. Campbell could have collaborated with him at a distance, as he had with so many other writers, but he seems to have decided early on that he wanted to keep this one close.
When the two men met again, Campbell was impressed with Hubbard's appearance, which was newly composed and confident, and he became convinced that the author had healed himself using his own techniques. He was primed to be receptive. Like Hubbard, Campbell had grown depressed after the war. Atomic weaponry had always been a staple of science fiction, but the reality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led him to publish a series of bleak postnuclear stories, and he became obsessed with making a discovery that would save the world from the bomb.
Over the following year, Campbell worked intensively with Hubbard to develop dianetics into a science that could prevent a nuclear catastrophe. His goal was to turn Hubbard's "rules of thumb" into something that his readers could accept. Hubbard himself took a more casual approach, and he spent much of that summer looking into jobs in Hollywood. For a working writer, dianetics was just one angle among many, and Hubbard was cheerfully willing to allow Campbell to turn it into whatever he thought it needed to be.
What emerged was rather different from what Hubbard had initially envisioned. It was a theory of the brain as a kind of computer that could be damaged by recordings, or engrams, implanted when it was unconscious. The treatment, called auditing, required no special equipment, and it could be conducted by an auditor and a "preclear" in any quiet room. After entering a state of reverie, the preclear would relive memories going back to the period before birth. If successful, the subject would be left with total recall, a heightened intellect, and freedom from psychosomatic illness — a "clear" free at last to achieve his or her full potential.
When the first article on dianetics appeared in the May 1950 issue of Astounding, followed by the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, it seemed unlike anything else Hubbard had ever written. Campbell — who appears anonymously in several of its case studies — wrote some of the text, borrowing terms and ideas from the new discipline of cybernetics to give it a veneer of scientific respectability. Still, it's a truly weird book, with a level of sexual explicitness that must have taken many readers by surprise: "Mother is saying, 'Oh, I can't live without it. It's wonderful. It's wonderful. Oh, how nice. Oh, do it again!' and father is saying, 'Come! Come! Oh, you're so good. You're so wonderful. Ahhh!'"
On the whole, however, its tone is unexpectedly restrained. Hubbard calls it a provisional theory, subject to revision, and he concludes: "For God's sake, get busy and build a better bridge!" In fact, it was conceived as the beginning of an ongoing scientific revolution. Campbell saw the newly founded Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth as a think tank for the superior brains that dianetics would produce. Many of the earliest converts were science fiction fans, who had always believed that a major discovery would emerge from their ranks. And no one was more surprised by its success than Hubbard, who embraced his sudden celebrity and boasted to his agent: "I'm dragging down Clark Gable's salary."
Campbell thought that he had found his life's work, but the dream quickly fell apart. Once it became clear that dianetics would be a greater financial windfall than anyone had anticipated, Hubbard grew convinced of his own infallibility. (One of his few works of fiction from this period, Masters of Sleep, is an Arabian Nights tale that turns halfway through into a piece of propaganda for dianetics, which has rendered psychiatry obsolete.) Money was spent as quickly as it came in, and a series of messy internal disputes led Campbell to resign. As Asimov later observed: "I knew Campbell and I knew Hubbard, and no movement can have two Messiahs."
Hubbard subsequently said that Campbell became "bitter and violent" after his ideas were rejected, while Campbell, who had staked his position and reputation on dianetics, dismissed Scientology years afterward as "intellectual garbage." He also claimed: "It was, as a matter of fact, I, not Ron, who originally suggested that it should be dropped as a psychotherapy, and reconstituted as a religion. Because only religions are permitted to be amateurs." It's impossible to verify this statement, although the notion of a religious cult founded by scientists frequently recurs in the stories that Campbell published, and the editor Lloyd Eshbach — to whom Hubbard allegedly made his famous remark that a religion would be a good way to make money — said in a memoir that the plans for the church were drawn up in Campbell's kitchen.
With Campbell out of the picture, Hubbard published no more stories for decades, but a strain of science fiction remained in his work, and it grew even stronger after he set up shop in Wichita, Kansas, where a businessman named Don Purcell had offered to underwrite his research. Many of the disciples who followed him there owed their first exposure to his ideas to Astounding, and he began to tailor his teachings, consciously or otherwise, to the audience he had left, just as he had opportunistically turned to science fiction to satisfy his publishers and allowed the terminology of dianetics to be shaped by Campbell.
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Rollory says:
"Heinlein [...] evidently encouraged Hubbard to have a sexual relationship with his wife Leslyn"
Every single time I learn something new about Heinlein it lowers my opinion of him.
It's getting to the point where I'm convinced the only people who view him as this star-striding tour de force tale-spinner are the ones who were reading his stuff when they were too young to have decent judgement. Even the half-decent stories he wrote haven't aged well at all.
Adar says:
I was not aware of the war record of Hubbard. He seems to have had a bad case of PTSD or such.
Sam J. says:
Hubbard has all the signs of a psychopath. There's a book about his time with Parsons called,"Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons". It's entertaining to read.
He may have made that up. He also may have seduced Heinlein's wife and spun it as he was allowed. Psychopaths seem to have almost supernatural ability to convince people to do things they really shouldn't. I think this is because they no empathy they can completely mask small stresses that normal empathetic people show when they lie. They use facial expressions to fake sincerity, happiness, etc. Some are good at it and some not. I think Nancy Pelosi is a psychopath. I think it's harder for Women to fake empathy than it is for Men. Look at Pelosi's expressions. She looks like a monster. See how when she's smiling she raises her eyebrows but he face really doesn't smile it grimaces. Hundreds of small muscles involved in smiling. Tough to fake. Men I think have it easier as we're not expected to have our facial expressions be as strong. Same for Hillary.
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Hillary is better at it but when you see her live you see these slips like this.
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Hubbard lied a lot. Heinlein's wife was boozing hard and divorcing Heinlein around then. Neither of us has written stuff that holds up as well as Heinlein's stories.
Gaikokumaniakku says:
I was going to post a link to a plausible accusation on Heinlein, but I don't have the document handy, so I'll post that later, if at all.
Thelema might (or might not) be justifiable, but Crowleyanity never is. Those familiar with Crowley will see some obvious imitation and Crowleyanity in both Heinlein and Hubbard.
I don't have a smoking gun document linking Hubbard or Heinlein to Marion Zimmer Bradley. However, some of Heinlein's incest stories bear a surprising resemblance to real-life accusations against Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series. While some critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing,[1] her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse and rape by two of her children, Mark and Moira Greyland, among many others.
'I don't have a smoking gun or document linking Hubbard or Heinlein to Marion Zimmer Bradley'
Well, there is one. Heinlein wrote a short letter of support to Bradley when her husband was in trouble for ped stuff. He thought everyone should mind their own business. I don't think Hubbard was into fandom then.
"Neither of us has written stuff that holds up as well as Heinlein's stories."
That's where you're wrong. Give it 20 years and I'll link back to this thread.
"Heinlein wrote a short letter of support to Bradley when her husband was in trouble for ped stuff. "
Yeah, and Bradley herself was appalling. I reread most of the Darkover books after I learned the details of her behavior and the author's issues snap right into focus from how the books (and certain characters specifically) are written.
'Neither of us has written stuff that holds up as well as Heinlein's stories'
'That's where you're wrong.'
Are you writing anything I should know about? I expect to reread Expanded Universe and two of the juveniles and Glory Road and, really, my three feet of shelved Heinlein, including Pattison's biography, twenty years from now, as I was rereading them twenty years ago.
I have read a few of the very early Darkovers, good space opera. I haven't read the later Darkover books, which were written for feminists. They liked it. The magazine she edited, was well edited. The psychic detective/romance Heartlight series was about as good as Manly Wade Wellman's psychic detective stuff.
Most writers are neurotic introverts. Most critics are worse. This is not compatible with them being people of very good character or judgement. Heinlein wrote like a person of very good character and judgement. If he was faking it, he faked it very well. Too bad he was a cockhound through his forties, but it looks to me like his third wife about tamed him. Bradley was a sex criminal, but in the stuff I've read she didn't write like one. She wasn't Samuel Delany or John Scalzi.
Graham says:
Wow. Genuine question- what about Samuel Delany's or John Scalzi's writings suggesting writing "like a sex criminal"?
Really is a question- Can't say I've ever read either of them.
What about Samuel Delany's or John Scalzi's writings suggesting writing "like a sex criminal"?
I doubt that Scalzi is a criminal. He does not appear to be competent or energetic enough to do anything.
Delaney was highly promiscuous during the 1960s "free love" movement, and there is little doubt that many of his sex partners were underage. Aside from his personal sex acts, he propagandized many others to break all restrictions on sexual behavior. Delaney is probably impossible to prosecute in California, although he might hang by the neck in another jurisdiction.
'What about Samuel Delany or John Scalzi's writing suggested writing like a sex criminal?'
Delany wrote man-boy love stories with a light space opera background. Like the Gor books are bondage with a light swords and sorcery background. I don't mind either, but neither should be getting awards for science fiction. There's just not enough science fiction there. Also Delany supports the National Man Boy Love association, but that's not in his space opera. Scalzi supports Delany.


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For my daughter, it can be tough before school (she moves like a slug!). So we try to tap in to her motivation to get a move on with brushing teeth, getting dressed, etc. Her motivation lately is to be done with everything by a certain time in the morning to earn 10 minutes of TV time before school. For whatever reason, that seems to be what's working lately.
1. Put a visual of your goal where you can see it.
2. Get a goal buddy or workout partner.
4. Make it a pleasure (not work to dread).
5. Give it time, be patient.
6. Break it into smaller, mini goals.
8. Find inspiration, on a daily basis.
9. Get a coach, or take a class.
10. Have powerful reasons, and write them down.
11. Become aware of your urges to quit, and be prepared for them.
12. Make it a rule to never skip two days in a row.
13. Keep a daily journal of your goal.
14. Make a big, public commitment. Be fully committed.
Which of these stands out to you? What's your motivation?


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Shaping New Labor Policy, Germany Looks to Rutgers SMLR for Insights
By: Steve Flamisch
L to R: Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Associate Professor Janice Fine; Associate Professor Mingwei Liu; Professor Charles Heckscher; Distinguished Professor Douglas Kruse (seated); State Secretary Thorben Albrecht, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs; Professor Lisa Schur, Chair, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations; Dean James Hayton.
Germany is tapping the expertise of the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) to inform national policy recommendations on the future of work.
State Secretary Thorben Albrecht and a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs met with students and faculty members in Piscataway between stops in Boston, Washington and New York City this month.
"This is one of the universities in the U.S. where you really have a very strong labor relations department," Albrecht said. "We've seen that a lot of the debates we are having (in Germany) about the future of work are also issues that are discussed here."
At a time when robots outnumber humans in some German factories, federal labor officials are discussing the importance of re-training and developing a highly-skilled workforce that cannot be replaced by automation and algorithms.
Albrecht and his team are also exploring the future of collective bargaining, occupational safety and health, and the rapidly-expanding "gig economy," in which companies use contract workers instead of employees. They are common areas of concern.
Distinguished Professor Douglas Kruse (left) and Professor Lisa Schur give State Secretary Thorben Albrecht a copy of People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed?, a book they authored with Syracuse University Professor Peter Blanck. Kruse also gave Albrecht a copy of The Citizen's Share. In that text, Kruse, Distinguished Professor Joseph Blasi, and Richard Freeman, the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, make the case for more companies to offer profit sharing to their employees.
"Germany's national discussion on the future of work will have global implications given their role in the international economy," said Douglas Kruse, a Distinguished Professor at SMLR and a Research Fellow at Germany's Institute for the Study of Labor. "It was an honor to talk to the Secretary, and I was very glad to participate with my SMLR colleagues in sharing our knowledge and ideas to help shape the debate."
Kruse and Professor Lisa Schur, Chair of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, encouraged Albrecht to give stronger consideration to people with disabilities when developing policy recommendations.
"I described how people with disabilities have long grappled with many of the issues that are becoming widely important across the workforce today, such as the greater need for workplace flexibility, work-life balance, telecommuting, and accommodations for the personal needs of employees," Schur said.
Inspired by the conversation, Albrecht vowed to explore the issue in greater depth.
"This encouraged me to pick up this aspect (of work)," he said. "You work with your iPad and no longer with a screwdriver. The technological possibilities make it probably easier for people with disabilities to be integrated into jobs in all fields, not only in office jobs."
SMLR Dean James Hayton, Professor Charles Heckscher, and Associate Professors Janice Fine and Mingwei Liu also attended the two-hour conference, asking questions and exchanging ideas with the five-person German delegation. Assistant Professor Tobias Schulze-Cleven arranged the meeting.
Albrecht will use what he learned at SMLR and other universities to craft a white paper on the future of work later this year. Dean Hayton is hoping to collaborate on research and keep the dialogue going.
"It's very exciting for us," Hayton said. "We have an international organization. The reputation of the school is largely within the U.S., but we're keen to expand that."
Work 4.0: Re-Imagining Work
Work 1.0 – Birth of the industrial society; first worker organizations (late 1700s)
Work 2.0 – Start of mass production; beginnings of the "welfare state" (late 1800s)
Work 3.0 – Rise of globalization, information technology, and social economy (1970s-2000s)
Work 4.0 – Interconnected digital, flexible work and rising man-machine cooperation (Today)
Source: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs


In a private room at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in January 1977, Commodore launched the world's first complete "personal computer" - a microcomputer that for the first time could be taken out of the box, plugged in and used by regular people without a soldering iron. Soon Tandy and Apple joined in, and by the end of the 1970s, they - and hundred of other companies - were selling thousands of microcomputers a year. And it might have gone on like this until Sinclair in the UK, and then Commodore in the US, launched a range of affordable home micros at the start of the new decade which changed everything.
The market exploded from tens of thousands of machines a year to millions, as famous 1970s names like Cromemco, IMSAI, Nascom and MITS were swept away. Micro companies were suddenly worth $1 billion dollars and their employees were millionaires. Hundreds of companies launched hundreds of machines, with 900 mostly-incompatible systems appearing in the 1980 "Guide to Small Business Systems". Price wars were started, old scores were settled and companies were destroyed. 8 bits made way for 16 and 32 in the space of a few years. The video games market surged and then collapsed in on itself, taking out Atari and Coleco. For a while Britain led the world in manufacture and adoption, with 80% of all computers sold in Europe being sold in the UK.
Then the 8-bit market reached saturation and more companies imploded - Sinclair was sold for its name and assets only, Acorn almost didn't make it and a raft of also-rans fell by the wayside - Camputers, Dragon Data, Elan, Oric and Jupiter Cantab to name but a few. Even big names like Timex and Texas Instruments were burned. Of the near-200 companies in these adverts, only 17 remain, of which 15 are the BASFs, Sanyos and Yamahas for whom micros were only ever a sideline. None, including Apple, survives as a pure computer company.
Meanwhile, the sleeping giant that was IBM launched its 5150 at the end of 1981 and watched as it slowly but inevitably over the next few years became the standard. Other companies cloned it, copied and improved it and soon the only game in town was the IBM PC. From the latter half of the 1980s, every micro company and its dog was building generic beige boxes. The "wonder years" were over.


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Les Ascodesmidaceae sont une famille de champignons de l'ordre des Pezizales.

Liste des genres
Selon  :
 Ascodesmis Tiegh., 1876
 Coprotiella Jeng & J.C.Krug, 1976
 Eleutherascus Arx, 1971
 Hemiascosporium L.R.Batra, 1973
 Pseudocoprotus U.Lindem., Fellm. & J.A.Castillo, 2019

Systématique
Le nom correct complet (avec auteur) de ce taxon est Ascodesmidaceae J.Schröt., 1893.

Liens externes

Notes et références

Pezizomycetes
Famille de champignons (nom scientifique)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


I'm curious, where is home for you?
I teach yoga in English in Switzerland. Most of my students and private clients are people living and working in a country not considered their own.
Last week, I began teaching a 6-week Beginners Yoga course. I had a lovely and interesting conversation with a woman after class. She was not Swiss and English was not her native language.
She was explaining how she came to join the course, through a recommendation from someone I used to teach before she recently and unexpectedly returned to her country of birth due to her husband's work.
Moving abroad can be a thrilling and exciting new opportunity, I remember completely embracing and loving the adventure when I was in my early 20's, single and free with no responsibilities except embarking on my first career in ballet.
But it's different when you have more than just yourself to think about. It can be hard to uproot everything especially with young children and completely start afresh.
During our conversation, we discussed the meaning of home and the significance of starting from scratch without knowing anyone or having family close by. The student had plenty of experience having spent most of her life travelling the world herself.
She seemed to have figured it out with elegance and maturity but it wasn't always easy. I sensed it came down to an attitude, a mindset drawn from experience, values and an honest, confident sense of self that had grown over time.
It made me think of other friends and students who have moved abroad recently, the ones who are putting down new roots, or stepping away from work and travelling for a while, or contemplating whether to move back to their country of birth.
Then today, I came across a TED Talk with Pico Iyer that I've kept safely in a folder for a couple of years now.
Pico Iyer is an elegant and eloquent speaker, essayist and novelist, having spent more than 30 years tracking movement and stillness – and the way crisscrossing cultures have changed the world, our imagination and all our relationships.
I'd like to share his message with you, in the hope that the essence of his talk or perhaps just a word or phrase will inspire you to reflect on where you are right now, especially if you're feeling stuck, alone or perhaps out of balance.
Perhaps it can help you navigate a new path or cause a simple shift in how you approach your life or work.
So Where Does Yoga Fit Into This?
I didn't ask what she meant, the moment was too special to be disturbed. I sensed though, that it was where she finally found her balance, a defining moment where she connected to her heart.
The essence of yoga is to still the mind but also to allow you to become connected to your true self. It is Coming Home.
I'd love to hear what 'home' means to you. Is it one thing or a combination? Has it changed for you over the years? Let me know by replying to this email and I'll get back to you.
Have a good week, wherever you are!
P.S. If you have any other questions related to yoga, you can always reach out and I'll respond as soon as I can. Better still, come and try an Early Bird class on Wed 7.00-8-15 or Saturday 9.30-10.45. For more info click here.


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The kids in Mrs. Connor's class are celebrating Earth Day, and everyone has lots of ideas on how to save the Earth...except Emma. Emma is worried that her ideas are not good enough. With the help of her dad and Mrs. Connor, Emma learns that her small ideas can have big results!
Trees are a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and animals depend on trees for food and shelter. But most important, we depend on trees because they add oxygen, a gas we all need, to the air. While trees give us many wonderful products, we must also protect them because we can't live without them.
Counting the cans gives Ryan, Luke, and Carly -- along with readers -- a lesson in place value. And facts about recycling throughout the story will help readers understand how important it is to take care of the earth.
What if everybody threw away old bottles and newspapers, littering the world with glass and plastic and tin cans that should be recycled and made into new products? Mr. Jones is a teacher who sets a good example for kids by separating his trash for recycling. When he takes them on a class trip to a recycling plant they learn the value of recycling. Part of every child's development involves asking questions. Today, some of the most important questions kids ask are related to the natural environment. The enlightening and entertaining four-book Why Should I? series demonstrates the importance of protecting nature. Books present brief, entertaining stories that answer children's questions and feature amusing color illustrations on every page. A note at the back of each book is for parents and teachers, suggesting ways to use these books most effectively.
The bishops open a new avenue of dialogue in the sometimes convoluted discussions about global warming, offering a distinctively religious and moral perspective on the need for environmental protection.
Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds is a book that is destines to become a movement. Arriving just in time to meet the groundswell of demand created by An Inconvenient Truth, it guides readers through an accessible step-by-step program for personal CO2-reduction that leaves them empowered and inspired at the difference they can make toward the issue of our time.Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers readers much more than a to-do list of eco-friendly actions. With practicality and humor, bestselling author and environmental change pioneer David Gershon walks readers through every step of the carbon-reduction process, from calculating their current CO2 footprint to tracking their progress and measuring their impact. By making simple changes to actions they take every day, readers learn how to reduce their annual household CO2 output by at least 15%. And, for those who are more ambitious, there are chapters on how to become carbon neutral and help one's workplace, local schools and community do the same.A recent Yale University study revealed that over three-quarters of Americans not only accept the reality that their lifestyle is contributing to climate change; they believe they have a responsibility to do something about it. Now, with the release of Low Carbon Diet, they have a practical tool to help them succeed.
A gift from God and the common home of humanity, the earth is threatened by man's abuse of his freedom. In his encyclical Praise Be to You (Laudato Si'), Pope Francis challenges all people to praise and thank God for his glorious creation and to work together to safeguard her.
Popes Benedict XVI, John Paul II, and Paul VI addressed key themes regarding stewardship of God's creation, but Francis is the first to devote an entire encyclical to the subject. The encyclical takes its name from Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Creatures, which depicts cre-ation as "a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us." Pope Francis declares, "This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her."
Francis calls for an "integral ecology" based on what Pope Saint John Paul II called an "ecological conversion"--a moral transformation linking the proper response to God for the gift of his creation to concern for justice, espe-cially for the poor. He challenges people to understand ecology in terms of the right ordering of the fundamen-tal relationships of the human person: with God, oneself, other people, and the rest of creation.
Francis examines such ecological concerns as pollu-tion, waste, and what he calls "the throwaway culture." Climate, he insists, is a common good to be protected. He explores notions such as sustainability from a Judeo-Christian perspective. The loss of biodiversity and the unequal distribution of resources, largely caused by the consumerism and excessive individualism of the wealthi-er nations, threaten the good order of creation, he writes. While valuing technology, he rejects efforts to repudiate the natural order, including the moral law inscribed in human nature. He cautions against an overreliance on science to solve ecological problems and emphasizes the need for openness to God.
Expounding the biblical tradition regarding creation and redemption in Christ, Francis stresses man's subordi-nation to God's plan. He insists on the primacy of the human person in creation and rejects treating it as if it were "divine," yet he traces the roots of the ecological crisis to man's self-centeredness and the rise of prac-tical relativism. Without rejecting political changes, he implores people to change their hearts and their ways of life.
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West Virginia's sporting venues are some of the most exciting and revered in the nation.
At West Virginia University you can watch Division 1 college play in one of several first-class stadiums. The WVU Coliseum holds 14,000 screaming fans and is where you'll see the Mountaineers play basketball. Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium is for championship Mountaineer football – it regularly draws 60,000, making it more populous than the state's biggest city!
Ice hockey is played in the modern Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington. The striking Charleston Civic Center can hold more than 13,000 and is where you'll see top-level high school basketball. Wheeling's WesBanco Arena is home to the Wheeling Nailers ice hockey team.
Marshall University's storied football team plays on the turf of Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which can seat more than 38,000 fans – which is more than three times the size of the entire student body. Football and lacrosse teams from the University of Charleston play at Laidley Field, while high school football teams in Bluefield play at storied Mitchell Stadium, which was built in 1935.
Baseball fans will flock to Appalachian Power Park in Charleston, which is home to the minor league West Virginia Power.
Plan for a thrilling day of sacrifice bunts, doubles down the line, and maybe even some homeruns – baseball is alive and well in West Virginia. Head north into Morgantown and check out the Monongalia County Ballpark, home field of two local teams: the WVU Mountaineers baseball team, and the West Virginia Black Bears of the New York-Penn League.
Opened in 2015, the Monongalia County Ballpark seats 3,500 fans, and can be found just west of the WVU campus – it's neatly nestled between Interstate 79 and the Monongahela River. The college baseball season lasts, approximately, from February through the end of June.


Refusing because of the blockade of Donbass from own coal Ukraine continues to buy it at an inflated price.
Ukrainian politics lately often declare the termination of the energy dependence of Ukraine, and how much they do.
In the framework of this policy took place and reports that Ukraine will buy gas in the United States.
President Petro Poroshenko personally agree with Donald trump. Moreover, the President argued that the decision to carry coal from the States that this will ensure "transparency" of the energy market and energy security.
However, it turned out that Ukraine will seriously overpay for American coal. What is the transparency of such work?
Ukraine will buy coal-anthracite in the United States over $ 113 per ton. It is only on the price of the first batch of 85 thousand tons, and all should be purchased before the end of the year 700 thousand tons, and the shipments, according to management "Tsentroenergo" will change.
The price of 113 dollars is significantly higher than all offers.
As of August 1, the price of coal futures in Rotterdam was 81-83 USD/t, depending on the month of delivery.
Price 113 $ 16 $ higher than the one on which "Centrenergo" was supposed to supply coal to the Georgian company of Saknakhshiri – 96,9 dollar per ton.
For example, the energy holding "DTEK" of businessman Rinat Akhmetov buys the coal from the mine office obukhovskoe in Russia at a price of $ 95 per ton including delivery to the power station of Ukraine.
The cost of imported coal from South Africa for DTEK was about $ 100 per ton.
It should be noted that no data on the quality of coal, which Centrenergo will purchase.
Lost due to the blockade of coal "DNR/LNR" was worth about $ 50 per ton.
Centrenergo has signed an agreement for the supply of coal with an American company Xcoal.
However, the latest news on the website Xcoal date back to 2012 – so in General it is unclear what this company is doing today.
Financial analyst Oleksandr Parashchiy called American company – the unknown firm that had no experience in coal supplies.
The administration of President Donald trump announced the agreement with Ukraine an important tool to undermine Russian influence over its European neighbours.
That's what this transaction in its press release, said the Minister of Commerce Wilbur Ross: "As promised during the election campaign, the President trump releases from the shackles of the us energy every day in office. This brings tremendous benefits to the coal communities of our country…".
"It turns out that agreement, our government only carries out the campaign promises of President trump makes the best of life of American miners. Like the Ukrainian miners do not complain to life, and our President fully fulfilled his campaign promises" – says para.
The company Xcoal noted that the supply of coal to Ukraine will support and create hundreds of jobs for the miners of Pennsylvania. However, for us to score.
The new price hike of electricity?
Experts believe that because of the expensive coal Ukrainians should expect an increase in the cost of electricity.
"American coal will be burned at Trypilska TPP of Centrenergo, and at that price, only the fuel costs of the plant will pull somewhere in the 175 cents per kWh. This is more than previously announced, the average rate of our thermal power plants in 2017, 130 cents. Moreover, example Centrenergo can follow DTEK, quite rightly demanding high tariffs for its anthracite stations. Thus, with the formula "Rotterdam+" we can upgrade to a more expensive formula "Appalachian+", with the corresponding increase in electricity bills", says para.
Since March 1 of the first 100 kilowatt of electricity cost for Ukrainians, HR 90, each additional kilowatt – UAH 1.68. This is the price after the fifth increase of tariffs, which, as promised, will be the last. However, these fares were set when the anthracite cost on average $ 60 per ton. What could be the new tariffs is an open question.