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Texas Spins Into the Wind
Wall Street Jornal, February 17, 2021
An electricity grid that relies on renewables also needs nuclear or coal power.
While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a fable that gas, coal and nuclear plants—not their frozen turbines—are to blame. PolitiFact proclaims "Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage." Climate-change conformity is hard for the media to resist, but we don't mind. So here are the facts to cut through the spin.
Texas energy regulators were already warning of rolling blackouts late last week as temperatures in western Texas plunged into the 20s, causing wind turbines to freeze. Natural gas and coal-fired plants ramped up to cover the wind power shortfall as demand for electricity increased with falling temperatures.
Some readers have questioned our reporting Wednesday ("The Political Making of a Texas Power Outage") that wind's share of electricity generation in Texas plunged to 8% from 42%. How can that be, they wonder, when the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) has reported that it counts on wind to meet only 10% of its winter capacity.
Ercot's disclosure is slippery. Start with the term "capacity," which means potential maximum output. This is different than actual power generation. Texas has a total winter capacity of about 83,000 megawatts (MW) including all power sources. Total power demand and generation, however, at their peak are usually only around 57,000 MW. Regulators build slack into the system.
Texas has about 30,000 MW of wind capacity, but winds aren't constant or predictable. Winds this past month have generated between about 600 and 22,500 MW. Regulators don't count on wind to provide much more than 10% or so of the grid's total capacity since they can't command turbines to increase power like they can coal and gas plants.
Wind turbines at times this month have generated more than half of the Texas power generation, though this is only about a quarter of the system's power capacity. Last week wind generation plunged as demand surged. Fossil-fuel generation increased and covered the supply gap. Thus between the mornings of Feb. 7 and Feb. 11, wind as a share of the state's electricity fell to 8% from 42%, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Gas-fired plants produced 43,800 MW of power Sunday night and coal plants chipped in 10,800 MW—about two to three times what they usually generate at their peak on any given winter day—after wind power had largely vanished. In other words, gas and coal plants held up in the frosty conditions far better than wind turbines did.
It wasn't until temperatures plunged into the single digits early Monday morning that some conventional power plants including nuclear started to have problems, which was the same time that demand surged for heating. Gas plants also ran low on fuel as pipelines froze and more was diverted for heating.
"It appears that a lot of the generation that has gone offline today has been primarily due to issues on the natural gas system," Electric Reliability Council of Texas senior director Dan Woodfin said Tuesday. The wind industry and its friends are citing this statement as exoneration. But note he used the word "today." Most wind power had already dropped offline last week.
Gas generation fell by about one-third between late Sunday night and Tuesday, but even then was running two to three times higher than usual before the Arctic blast. Gas power nearly made up for the shortfall in wind, though it wasn't enough to cover surging demand.
Between 12 a.m. on Feb. 8 and Feb. 16, wind power plunged 93% while coal increased 47% and gas 450%, according to the EIA. Yet the renewable industry and its media mouthpieces are tarring gas, coal and nuclear because they didn't operate at 100% of their expected potential during the Arctic blast even though wind turbines failed nearly 100%.
The policy point here is that an electricity grid that depends increasingly on subsidized but unreliable wind and solar needs baseload power to weather surges in demand. Natural gas is crucial but it also isn't as reliable as nuclear and coal power.
Politicians and regulators don't want to admit this because they have been taking nuclear and coal plants offline to please the lords of climate change. But the public pays the price when blackouts occur because climate obeisance has made the grid too fragile. We've warned about this for years, and here we are.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-spins-into-the-wind-11613605698


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Q: Webmethod is not fired when using jquery and Masterpage Here I am calling the webmethod in a jquery...
If I run this code in a normal aspx page then the webmethod gets fired.. But when I use master page and put this code in child page(Default4.aspx) then web method is not being fired. I have used the colorbox jquery plugin.
Here When I click on any link a popup will open and display the file content
My code is as below...
Default4.aspx
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="Server">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="example1/colorbox.css" type="text/css" />

</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="Server">

        Click here for the time.

            Outside Webpage (Iframe)

        Image
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        <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton2" runat="server"  CssClass="iframe"
       >LinkButton</asp:LinkButton>

</asp:Content>

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    public static string lstbtn1()
    {

        return "Images/Desert.jpg";
    }

A: [WebMethod]
public static string lstbtn1()
{

    return "Images/Desert.jpg";
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#import "RCTNavigatorManager.h"

#import "RCTBridge.h"
#import "RCTConvert.h"
#import "RCTNavigator.h"
#import "RCTUIManager.h"
#import "UIView+React.h"

@implementation RCTNavigatorManager

RCT_EXPORT_MODULE()

- (UIView *)view
{
  return [[RCTNavigator alloc] initWithBridge:self.bridge];
}

RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(requestedTopOfStack, NSInteger)
RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(onNavigationProgress, RCTDirectEventBlock)
RCT_EXPORT_VIEW_PROPERTY(onNavigationComplete, RCTBubblingEventBlock)

// TODO: remove error callbacks
RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(requestSchedulingJavaScriptNavigation:(nonnull NSNumber *)reactTag
                  errorCallback:(__unused RCTResponseSenderBlock)errorCallback
                  callback:(RCTResponseSenderBlock)callback)
{
  [self.bridge.uiManager addUIBlock:
   ^(__unused RCTUIManager *uiManager, NSDictionary<NSNumber *, RCTNavigator *> *viewRegistry){
    RCTNavigator *navigator = viewRegistry[reactTag];
    if ([navigator isKindOfClass:[RCTNavigator class]]) {
      BOOL wasAcquired = [navigator requestSchedulingJavaScriptNavigation];
      callback(@[@(wasAcquired)]);
    } else {
      RCTLogError(@"Cannot set lock: %@ (tag #%@) is not an RCTNavigator", navigator, reactTag);
    }
  }];
}

@end

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"Where's that reader?" they kept saying.
And now there's a whole new set of characters from my latest novel called: A BITTER MAGIC, which is so deliciously spooky and mysterious I don't know all its secrets myself.
Come on in. Elwyn will show you around. He's a talking lobster, but don't let that bother you. Just be extra polite—and watch out for his claws.


text: Q: Webpage not available error html5+cordova app on android - after signing in to app and accepting, I get the following message: "webpage not available http://localhost/$code=4/" followed by lots of letters "webpage might be temporarily down or moved to new address"--this is a result of using full client id from android app in developer console  I tried 12-digit id only and got a 401 error, invalid_client id.  Using the client id from the web app gives me a sign-in screen but sends me back to my app, triggering "on error" with no message.  My app was developed on Construct 2 and exported to Intel XDK with the Cordova Oauth2 plugin.


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package petit.bin;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javassist.CannotCompileException;
import javassist.CtClass;
import javassist.CtConstructor;
import javassist.CtField;
import javassist.CtMethod;
import javassist.Modifier;
import javassist.NotFoundException;
import petit.bin.MetaAgentFactory.MemberAnnotationMetaAgent;
import petit.bin.anno.ReadValidator;
import petit.bin.anno.Struct;
import petit.bin.anno.StructMember;
import petit.bin.anno.WriteValidator;
import petit.bin.util.KnownCtClass;
import petit.bin.util.Util;

/**
 * シリアライズクラスに対する実際の {@link SerializeAdapter} を得るためのファクトリ
 *
 * @author 俺用
 * @since 2014/03/30 PetitBinaryJavaassist
 *
 */
public final class PetitSerializer {

	/**
	 * 生成される内部クラスのための名前
	 */
	public static final String CONCRETE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_NAME = "$$psa__$";
//	public static final String CONCRETE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_NAME = "$__PetitSerializerAdapter__";

	/**
	 * シリアライズクラスに対する実際の {@link SerializeAdapter} のマップ
	 */
	private static final Map<Class<?>, SerializeAdapter<?>> _clazz_serializers = new HashMap<Class<?>, SerializeAdapter<?>>();

	/**
	 * シリアライズクラスに対する実際の {@link SerializeAdapter} を得る
	 *
	 * @param clazz 対象のクラス
	 * @return 対象のクラスに対する {@link SerializeAdapter}
	 * @throws CannotCompileException
	 * @throws NotFoundException
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public static final <T> SerializeAdapter<T> getSerializer(final Class<T> clazz) throws CannotCompileException, NotFoundException {
		SerializeAdapter<?> maybe_null = _clazz_serializers.get(clazz);
		if (maybe_null == null) {
			maybe_null = createSerializeAdapter(clazz);
			_clazz_serializers.put(clazz, maybe_null);
		}
		return (SerializeAdapter<T>) maybe_null;
	}

	private static final void checkStructClass(final Class<?> clazz) throws CannotCompileException {
		final int mod = clazz.getModifiers();
//		if ((mod & java.lang.reflect.Modifier.FINAL) != 0)
//			throw new CannotCompileException(clazz.getCanonicalName() +  ": final class is not supported");
		if ((mod & java.lang.reflect.Modifier.INTERFACE) != 0)
			throw new CannotCompileException(clazz.getCanonicalName() +  ": interface type is not supported");
		if (clazz.isMemberClass() && (mod & java.lang.reflect.Modifier.STATIC) == 0)
			throw new CannotCompileException(clazz.getCanonicalName() +  ": non-static member class is not supported");
		if (!clazz.isAnnotationPresent(Struct.class))
			throw new CannotCompileException(clazz.getCanonicalName() +  ": no " + KnownCtClass.STRUCT.CANONICALNAME + " annotasion is present");
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	private static final SerializeAdapter<?> createSerializeAdapter(final Class<?> clazz) throws CannotCompileException, NotFoundException {
		if (KnownCtClass.SERIALIZE_ADAPTER.CT_CLAZZ == null)
			throw new NotFoundException("Cannot locate SerializeAdapter class");
		checkStructClass(clazz);

		try {
			final CodeGenerator cg = new CodeGenerator();
			final CtClass target_clazz = Util.CP.get(clazz.getName());
			final CtClass adapter_clazz = target_clazz.makeNestedClass(CONCRETE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_NAME, true);
			final List<CtField> managed_fields = Util.getManagedFields(Util.CP, clazz);
			final ReadValidator rval = getAnnotation(clazz, ReadValidator.class);
			final WriteValidator wval = getAnnotation(clazz, WriteValidator.class);

			cg.map("TypeTargetClass", clazz.getCanonicalName());

			// add interface SerializeAdapter to adapter_clazz
			adapter_clazz.setSuperclass(KnownCtClass.SERIALIZE_ADAPTER.CT_CLAZZ);

			// create constructor <init>(Class) of adapter_clazz
			final CtConstructor adapter_ctor = new CtConstructor(new CtClass[] {KnownCtClass.ACLASS.CT_CLAZZ}, adapter_clazz);
			adapter_ctor.setModifiers(Modifier.PUBLIC);
			adapter_ctor.setBody(cg.replaceAll(
						"{\n" +
						"	super($$$1);\n" +
						"}"));
			adapter_clazz.addConstructor(adapter_ctor);

			// add serialization methods

			// for reader
			final String invoke_read_validator;
			if (rval != null && !rval.value().isEmpty()) {
				invoke_read_validator = "((" + clazz.getCanonicalName() + ") ao)." + rval.value() + "($varReader$);\n";
			} else {
				invoke_read_validator = "";
			}
			adapter_clazz.addMethod(makeMethod(cg.replaceAll(
					"public final Object read(Object ao, $typeReader$ $varReader$) throws Exception {\n" +
						"$varReader$.pushByteOrder($varTargetStructAnnotation$.byteOrder());\n" +
						"$varReader$.pushType($varTargetClass$);\n" +

						makeReadFields(adapter_clazz, managed_fields, cg) +

						"$varReader$.popType();\n" +
						"$varReader$.popByteOrder();\n" +
						invoke_read_validator +
						"return ao;\n" +
					"}"), adapter_clazz));

			// for writer
			final String invoke_write_validator;
			if (wval != null && !wval.value().isEmpty()) {
				invoke_write_validator = "((" + clazz.getCanonicalName() + ") ao)." + wval.value() + "($varWriter$);\n";
			} else {
				invoke_write_validator = "";
			}
			adapter_clazz.addMethod(makeMethod(cg.replaceAll(
					"public final void write(Object ao, $TypeWriter$ $varWriter$) throws Exception {\n" +
						invoke_write_validator +
						"$varWriter$.pushByteOrder($varTargetStructAnnotation$.byteOrder());\n" +
						"$varWriter$.pushType($varTargetClass$);\n" +

						makeWriteFields(adapter_clazz, managed_fields, cg) +

						"$varWriter$.popType();\n" +
						"$varWriter$.popByteOrder();\n" +
					"}"), adapter_clazz));

			return (SerializeAdapter<?>) adapter_clazz.toClass()
					.getConstructor(Class.class)
					.newInstance(clazz);
		} catch (CannotCompileException e) {
			throw e;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new CannotCompileException(e);
		}

	}

	private static final CtMethod makeMethod(final String code, final CtClass decl) throws CannotCompileException {
		try {
			return CtMethod.make(code, decl);
		} catch (CannotCompileException e) {
			System.err.println(code);
			e.printStackTrace();
			throw e;
		}
	}

	private static final String makeReadFields(final CtClass adapter_clazz, final List<CtField> managed_fields, final CodeGenerator cg) throws CannotCompileException {
		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

		sb.append(cg.replaceAll("$typeTargetClass$ $varTarget$ = ($typeTargetClass$) ao;")).append("\n");
		for (final CtField field : managed_fields) {
			final MemberAnnotationMetaAgent ma = MetaAgentFactory.getMetaAgent(field);
			if (ma == null)
				throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot find meta-agent for " + field + " (MAY BE BUG)");

			final StructMember sa = getAnnotation(field, StructMember.class);
			final ReadValidator rval = getAnnotation(field, ReadValidator.class);

			ma.checkField(field);
			cg.attachField(field);
			sb.append(ma.makeReaderSource(adapter_clazz, field, cg)).append("\n");

			if (rval != null && !rval.value().isEmpty()) {
				sb.append(cg.replaceAll("$varTarget$." + rval.value() + "($varReader$);")).append("\n");
			}
			if (sa != null && sa.paddingAfter() > 0) {
				sb.append(cg.replaceAll("$varReader$.setPosition($varReader$.position() + " + sa.paddingAfter() + ");")).append("\n");
			}
		}
		cg.detachField();
		return sb.toString();
	}

	private static final String makeWriteFields(final CtClass adapter_clazz, final List<CtField> managed_fields, final CodeGenerator cg) throws CannotCompileException {
		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

		/*
		 * <target_class> <ACCESS_INSTANCE.ID> = (<target_class>) ao;
		 * <write elements>
		 */
		sb.append(cg.replaceAll("$typeTargetClass$ $varTarget$ = ($typeTargetClass$) ao;")).append("\n");
		for (final CtField field : managed_fields) {
			final MemberAnnotationMetaAgent ma = MetaAgentFactory.getMetaAgent(field);
			if (ma == null)
				throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Cannot find meta-agent for " + field + " (MAY BE BUG)");

			final StructMember sa = getAnnotation(field, StructMember.class);
			final WriteValidator wval = getAnnotation(field, WriteValidator.class);

			ma.checkField(field);
			cg.attachField(field);

			if (wval != null && !wval.value().isEmpty()) {
				sb.append(cg.replaceAll("$varTarget$." + wval.value() + "($varWriter$);")).append("\n");
			}

			sb.append(ma.makeWriterSource(adapter_clazz, field, cg)).append("\n");

			if (sa != null && sa.paddingAfter() > 0) {
				sb.append(cg.replaceAll("$varWriter$.setPosition($varWriter$.position() + " + sa.paddingAfter() + ");")).append("\n");
			}
		}
		cg.detachField();
		return sb.toString();
	}

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	private static final <T extends Annotation> T getAnnotation(final CtField field, final Class<T> anno) {
		try {
			return (T) field.getAnnotation(anno);
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return null;
		}
	}

	private static final <T extends Annotation> T getAnnotation(final Class<?> clazz, final Class<T> anno) {
		return clazz.getAnnotation(anno);
	}

}


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L'église Saint-Étienne est une église située à Arrembécourt, en France.

Description

Localisation
L'église est située sur la commune d'Arrembécourt, dans le département français de l'Aube.

Historique

L'édifice est inscrit au titre des monuments historiques en 1987.

Annexes

Liens internes
 Liste des monuments historiques de l'Aube

Références

Monument historique inscrit en 1987
Arrembecourt
Arrembecourt Saint-Etienne

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I am able to sketch the physical and intellectual life of a cocainist who, like many others, came to me in his misery for help. On account of a facial neuralgia he had frequently taken morphia until a dentist plugged cotton-wool soaked in a 15 per cent solution of cocaine into several carious teeth. From that time onward the need for morphia disappeared. Carious teeth served as receptacles for the cocaine tampons, i.e. places from which the cocaine passed into the blood, and that in abundance. At certain times he pressed these cocaine plugs between the teeth. The greater part of the cocaine passed into the stomach with the saliva. This particular method of application had not existed hitherto but likewise had fatal results. It was introduced in ever-increasing quantities-finally over 1 gr. daily. The unfortunate man's own words were as follows: "With regard to the action of cocaine on my personality, I can honestly declare that the past five years can be counted among the happiest of my life, and I owe this primarily to cocaine. Nothing can refute this plain fact." His letter of twelve pages terminates with these words: "Time is necessary to bring my conception of the world to a point which is founded on the sentence: God is a substance!" The latter phrase impressively shows in an undisguised fashion the whole effect which cocaine exerts on the brain. The individual is so attached to his periods of delight that everything else, even the future, is despised, although the evils which the approaching catastrophe is absolutely certain to bring with it slowly become apparent even to him.
Louis Lewin, M.D., Phantastica. A classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants. Parrk Street Press, 1998. p.69.
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Leeds Bradford airport is just 8 miles from the City Centre. Leeds railway station at New Station Street is one of the busiest and largest in the UK outside of central London.
Served well by the A1, A58, A61, A62, A63, A64 and A65 roads and the M1 and M62 motorways.
Good local service to all parts of West Yorkshire and well connected nationally, with Manchester one hour away and London two and half hours away.
A frequent bus service runs on a circular route in the centre of Leeds. Leeds bus station on Dyer Street runs national and local services.
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Drax Power Station's engineering achievements will be celebrated today with a special award from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) to mark its 200th anniversary.
As part of its bicentenary celebrations, the ICE is recognising 10 significant engineering infrastructure assets and ten engineers across each UK region. Drax Power Station has been selected as one of the 10 major infrastructure assets for Yorkshire and Humberside.
It received a special commemorative plaque, which recognises Drax's continued contribution to engineering.
Drax Power CEO, Andy Koss, accepted the plaque on behalf of the power station, surrounded by its engineers, employees and apprentices, as well as some potential future engineers from Camblesforth Primary school.
"Drax Power Station is not just an iconic feature of the Yorkshire landscape, it is also home to some of the very best engineers in the world. We are honoured to be recognised for the contribution our Drax engineers have made to the UK and to celebrate our heritage.
"We welcome around 13,000 visitors to the power station each year – many of whom are students, ranging from primary school-age to post-graduates. By bringing energy and engineering to life, we can inspire the next generation.
"ICE 200 is a fantastic celebration of great works of engineering and achievements across the country and it's wonderful to see so many engineers who have contributed so much to Drax power Station over the years.
Pic caption: Drax Power CEO, Andy Koss, accepted the ICE 200 plaque on behalf of the power station from Mark Calvert, Chairman of the Yorkshire and Humber committee at the ICE. They were surrounded by Drax engineers, retired employees and apprentices, as well as some potential future engineers from Camblesforth Primary school, local MP Nigel Adams and Mark Goldstone (Head of Policy and Representation) from the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.
Drax Biomass is based in the US and manufactures compressed wood pellets produced from sustainably managed working forests.
The Institution of Civil Engineers is reaching a rare milestone in 2018 – a bicentenary.
ICE 200 is a perfect chance to celebrate the institution's longevity, recognise the profession of civil engineering and most importantly the thousands of members who make the institution what it is. ICE will use the bicentenary as opportunity to remind the general public that civil engineers transform their lives for the better and safeguard the future for their families. In doing so, the institution also hopes to encourage young people to see civil engineering as a creative, rewarding and highly enjoyable career.


Please Boris, command line + backtrace?
It crashes when crashing. I think it's clear.
[kernel] warning: cannot load 4 plug-ins (incompatible with Nitrogen-20111001+dev).
Note that t.c is not a well-formed C program and it's enough to reject it without crashing.


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How a Chance Meeting Led to Merger of Brewers
Dan BilefskyStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Updated March 4, 2004 4:41 am ET
BRUSSELS -- The complex deal announced Wednesday to combine two tightly controlled beer makers into the world's largest brewer by volume -- confounding many analysts and investors -- began because of a chance meeting 12 years ago between controlling shareholders who now stand to benefit.
A major shareholder of Brazil's AmBev and a member of one of the aristocratic Belgian families that controls Interbrew SA talked then of their mutual interest in domination of the global beer industry. Last year, that led them to request a...


Last year, it took several months for the Xbox 360 to be readily available in retail stores. Chains such as Gamestop/ EB Games were still filling preorders well into 2006 (the system launched 11/21/2005), and it wasn't until around March or April that someone could easily walk into a store and walk out with Microsoft's next-generation console. Now Nintendo seems to be walking that path, with demand for the Wii still far exceeding the available stock. While this time the preorders were filled right away, people are still hunting and waiting in long lines and hoping to get lucky in acquiring the system.
It now appears, though, that Sony is having no such issues. A recent check with my local game store found that they had plenty of Playstation 3's in stock, and that they weren't exactly moving. My first thought was that Sony had caught up with production and was sending out greater numbers, but the store informed me that they were still getting the same shipments they've been getting all along (roughly 2 systems a week), but that with nobody coming in to purchase the console the stock is just building up.
The employees of that store and others report that while they're still fielding a high number of Wii-related calls during each day, they can go an entire day without any inquiries at all about the PS3. One store showed me a scratch pad they kept by the phone one day, making marks for each Wii call and PS3 call they received. At the end of that day the Wii had gotten 75, while the PS3 came in at 2.
The other issue the store reported is the high number of returns on the Playstation 3. These customers, states my source, had in most cases purchased the consoles in the hopes of making a profit by reselling them online. A quick scan of Ebay, though, shows that this is no longer an option. The few PS3's that are posted either have no bids at all, or are being sold for the retail price or even below (I saw one unopened 60gb unit with a Buy it Now price of $550, $50 below the retail price). So these people who had hoped to make some easy money are bringing back their purchases so they can at least break even.
although i am routing for ms and nintendo, i don't want to see the ps3 tank, as it equals an enormous amount of work for the people at sony.
maybe its specs are just too excessive.
well..... kinda can't help but laugh at it though. The general public (and by that i mean PS3 fans on forums all over the place) thought the PS3 would be the #1 console to get.... and people were actually selling their Wii's for more than PS3's retailed for.... people trading their PS3's straight up for Wii's, returning their PS3's due to no demand. My local Wal-Mart had 2 PS3's returned an hour after they were purchased because the person that bought them found out there was no profit to be made on eBay.
They kept saying "people will buy the PS3 because of it's graphics and because it's a cheap BluRay player." I talked to one kid at Wal-Mart, who wanted a PS3 (his mom buying it of course.... the kid was like 12), and he didn't even know what BluRay was. then again.... he also apparently had no clue about how to figure out which console was more popular, when 3 PS3's were in their case, and not a single Wii in sight. not even any Wii Remotes or Nunchucks.
Sony was too arrogant for their own good. Maybe they'll learn from their mistakes and you know...actually begin releasing decent games.
yeah... and the fact that once MGS4 comes out, the creators of it are looking towards an opportunity to develop something for the Wii.
a) not so much emphasis on BluRay/HD.... shoulda stuck with DVD to keep it cheaper.
It doesn't help console sales when most people barely even know what BluRay is, thus won't see the reason for a $500-600 game console that in their minds does just as much as the $250-400 competition.
i was just down at my local wal-mart again.... was like "wow, you's actually got rid of the PS3's". the person at the counter followed up with a "no... there's probably more in the back, nobody feels like going back to get any though."
This is weird, I can still not get ps3s in my area.
Maybe thats the problem. They've all been sent to NY or something, and are sitting in some large warehouse until someone ships them out.
all i know is i have a 360 and I am very happy with it. and im looking for a Wii and i cant even find it. Yet i was at best buy the other day and I literally saw 10 of them, just sitting there. Sony f*cked up and personally im glad, they wil pay for it this time.
Why do you not like Sony?
sony used to be a wonderful company, now they just sell mediocre products that are vastly more expensive than the compitition.
Well lets start.. Sony doesn't give a sh*t about the consumer anymore. They keep trying to push DRM sh*t on us and propriatory technology that may or may not win.
To add on that i bought a sony digital handy cam for 500 a few months ago and have learned that it is a piece of sh*t as well.
Is it Son'ys Fault you didn't research?
I say more power to em, if they can pawn off a ****ty camera for 500 bucks.
Apart from price being the major factor for the item not shifting, I think there was too much hype and no stock available and that 75% of those that wanted a PS3 now have other plans on spending their money. If there were sufficient stock at the time of "original" release date then it might have been a different story.
i think elemental dragon hates ps3s or sony. maybe he had a bad experience or just loves the wii he likes to hate other consoles.
i personally...will get nothing...yet. my friend has a wii..he was soo hyped about getting one. now after a month after having one..his response is 'its okay. noveltys worn off a bit'.
i want a 360 after playing 1 game on it. i thought wow.
but if the ps3 comes waaaaaaay waaaaaaaaaay down in price to something humanly affordable and sensible..then maybe..just maybe.


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Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Glossary of Terms, 2011-12
Academic Achievement Distinction Designations
Under the new Texas public school accountability system, introduced in 2013, academic achievement distinction designations (AADDs) recognize school districts and campuses for outstanding achievement in specified academic areas (Texas Education Code, Chapter 39, Subchapter G, 2011). For 2013, a campus that earned an accountability rating of Met Standard was eligible to receive AADDs based on results across a number of indicators, including AP/IB examination participation and performance, in relation to a comparison group of campuses. The indicators were evaluated based on data for the 2011-12 school year. Following are the three campus-level AADD indicators for AP and IB examinations.
Participation in AP/IB examinations in English language arts (ELA) or mathematics. This indicator, which measures the campus-wide percentage of students in Grades 11 and 12 who took at least one AP or IB examination in ELA or mathematics, is calculated as follows:
number of students in Grades 11 and 12 who took at least one AP or IB examination in ELA or mathematics
number of students in Grades 11 and 12
Performance on AP/IB examinations in ELA. This indicator, which measures the campus-wide percentage of examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above criterion on at least one AP or IB examination in ELA, is calculated as follows:
number of examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above criterion on at least one AP or IB examination in ELA
number of students in Grades 11 and 12 who took at least one AP or IB examination in ELA
Performance on AP/IB examinations in mathematics. This indicator, which measures the campus-wide percentage of examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above criterion on at least one AP or IB examination in mathematics, is calculated as follows:
number of examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above criterion on at least one AP or IB examination in mathematics
number of students in Grades 11 and 12 who took at least one AP or IB examination in mathematics
For more information about the AP/IB indicators, see Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate General Information, 2011-12. For more information about AADDs, see the 2013 Accountability Manual. See also Criterion Score.
Criterion Score
For purposes of awarding academic achievement distinction designations under the Texas public school accountability system, AP/IB examination performance indicators measure the percentages of examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above a criterion score on at least one examination. The criterion scores are defined as 3 or higher on an AP examination and 4 or higher on an IB examination. Many colleges and universities award credit or advanced placement to students who meet these scores. See also Academic Achievement Distinction Designations.
Under Texas Education Agency (TEA) guidelines, a student is identified as economically disadvantaged if he or she is eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Program.
Mean Score
A mean score is the average score for a given group on a given examination. As an example, the mean AP Psychology score for Texas is calculated as follows:
sum of scores received on all AP Psychology examinations taken by Texas students
number of AP Psychology examinations taken by Texas students
Mean AP scores for students in public and nonpublic schools combined in Texas, other states, and the United States are calculated based on data obtained from the College Board.
Participation rates for Texas public school students are presented for AP and IB examinations separately, as well as for the two combined. When combined results are presented, data for an individual who took both types of examinations are counted only once. For example, the AP/IB participation rate for students in Grades 11 and 12 is calculated as follows:
number of students in Grades 11 and 12 who took at least one AP or IB examination
Calculation of Texas public school AP and IB participation rates changed beginning with the 2011-12 school year. For 2010-11 and previous years, students served in special education programs were included in the numerators but excluded from the denominators in such calculations. Beginning with 2011-12, special education students were included in both numerators and denominators. Consequently, results for 2011-12 are not comparable to results for previous years. AP participation rates for students in public and nonpublic schools combined in Texas, other states, and the United States are calculated based on data obtained from the College Board. For information about calculations for academic achievement distinction designations, see Academic Achievement Distinction Designations.
Performance: Examinations With Scores At or Above Criterion (3 or higher on an AP examination and 4 or higher on an IB examination)
Performance results for all examinations taken by Texas public school students are presented for AP and IB examinations separately, as well as for the two combined. Counts of examinations are based on the number of examinations taken in the current school year that received valid scores. Examination counts are higher than examinee counts because some examinees take more than one subject examination. As an example, the percentage of AP/IB examinations taken by students in Grades 11 and 12 that received scores at or above criterion is calculated as follows:
number of AP or IB examinations taken by students in Grades 11 and 12 that received scores at or above criterion
number of AP or IB examinations taken by students in Grades 11 and 12
See also Criterion Score. AP performance results for examinees in public and nonpublic schools combined in Texas, other states, and the United States are calculated based on data obtained from the College Board.
Performance: Examinees Scoring At or Above Criterion (3 or higher on an AP examination and 4 or higher on an IB examination)
Performance results for Texas public school examinees are presented for AP and IB examinations separately, as well as for the two combined. Students who have valid AP scores in the range of 1 to 5 or valid IB scores in the range of 1 to 7 for at least one examination taken in the current school year are counted as examinees that year. When combined results are presented, data for an individual who took both types of examinations are counted only once. As an example, the percentage of AP/IB examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above criterion is calculated as follows:
number of examinees in Grades 11 and 12 who scored at or above criterion on at least one AP or IB examination
See also Criterion Score. For information about calculations for academic achievement distinction designations, see Academic Achievement Distinction Designations. AP performance results for examinees in public and nonpublic schools combined in Texas, other states, and the United States are calculated based on data obtained from the College Board.
Performance: Students Qualifying for College Credit Based on AP or IB Examination Performance
Students in Grades 11 and 12 who have valid AP scores in the range of 3 to 5 or valid IB scores in the range of 4 to 7 for at least one examination taken in the current school year are counted as qualifying for college credit. Data for an individual who took both types of examinations are counted only once. The percentage of students qualifying for college credit is calculated as follows:
number of students in Grades 11 and 12 who scored scored 3 or higher on at least one AP examination or 4 or higher on at least one IB examination
Calculation of percentages of Texas public school students qualifying for college credit based on AP or IB examination performance changed beginning with the 2011-12 school year. For 2010-11 and previous years, students served in special education programs were included in the numerators but excluded from the denominators in such calculations. Beginning with 2011-12, special education students were included in both numerators and denominators. Consequently, results for 2011-12 are not comparable to results for previous years.
The College Board collects self-reported demographic information, such as race/ethnicity, when examinees take each examination. Although the TEA racial/ethnic categories have recently changed, the College Board's categories have remained the same. Following are the racial/ethnic categories reported by the College Board:
1. American Indian
2. Asian
3. Black
4. Hispanic Overall
a. Mexican American
b. Puerto Rican
c. Other Hispanic
5. White
6. Other
TEA does not receive data on race/ethnicity from IB.
School districts submit student demographic information to TEA through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS). Prior to the 2009-10 school year, TEA required that districts submit one of five racial/ethnic categories for each student: American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian or Pacific Islander; Black or African American (not of Hispanic origin); Hispanic/Latino; or White (not of Hispanic origin).
In 2009-10, TEA began collecting data on race and ethnicity in compliance with a new federal standard. For that year only, as a transitional measure, the data also were collected using the old standard. The new standard requires that race and ethnicity be collected separately using a specific two-part question, presented in a specific order, and that both parts of the question be answered.
Part 1. Ethnicity: Is the person Hispanic/Latino? Choose only one.
Not Hispanic/Latino
Part 2. Race: What is the person's race? Choose one or more, regardless of ethnicity.
The racial/ethnic categories are defined as follows. Hispanic includes students of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. American Indian or Alaska Native includes students having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain a tribal affiliation or community attachment. Asian includes students having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. Black or African American includes students having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander includes students having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. White includes students having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.
The new standard resulted in several important changes: (a) the combined racial category Asian/Pacific Islander is now separated into two categories; (b) students once identified exclusively as "Hispanic/Latino" must now report their race; (c) students may report more than one race; and (d) the definition for one of the racial categories—American Indian or Alaska Native—differs from that used in years past. Prior to 2009-10, American Indian or Alaska Native included students having origins in any of the original peoples of North America only.
For purposes of reporting Texas public school AP and IB data, TEA combines the answers to the two-part question to create seven mutually exclusive racial/ethnic categories. A student identified as Hispanic is included only in the count for Hispanics. A student not identified as Hispanic is included in the count for only one of the following six racial categories: African American, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander, White, or multiracial. A student identified as having two or more races is included only in the count for multiracial students, not in the count for any single racial category.
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WHAT'S THE FUSS ON AKEREDOLU APPOINTING HIS SON AS DIRECTOR-GENERAL
By admin November 20, 2021 November 20, 2021 Opinion / Top News
It was a welcome development and a sign of good things to come when on May 31, 2018, Muhammadu Buhari signed the Not Too Young To Run bill into law.
Not Too Young To Run an act of parliament which sought to reduce the age limit for running for elective office in Nigeria was highly recommended and appreciated so, why the fuss over Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu's appointment of young, dynamic and experienced son Babajide Akeredolu?.
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu appointed Babajide Akeredolu, as the Director General, Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit (PPIMU) yesterday, a position many see as a welcome development and a midas touch by a visionary Governor.
Although, his appointment witnessed an uproar from some sections of the opposition party in the state, but that is normal since we are in the political era.
Aside from being suitably qualified for the job, Babajide Akeredolu's appointment as the Director General, Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit (PPIMU), is well deserved.
His appointment by his father wasn't the first in the history of our nation, Nigeria. In 2014, former Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang appointed his son as a Commissioner in the State.
The son, Yakubu Jang was previously his father's Special Adviser on Special Duties before his appointment as the Commissioner for Lands and Urban Planning.
In 2017, former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, created a new role for his sister – as Commissioner for Happiness and Purpose Fulfilment in the state.
In 2018, former Governor of Nassarawa State, Governor Tanko Umaru Al-Makura, appointed his biological son as the Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board.
Again, in 2019, Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, appointed one of his daughters as Special Assistant to the Governor on Girl Child.
Even in that same Ondo State, former Governor Olusegun Mimiko appointed his own brother, Oluwafemi Mimiko, as the Vice Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA).
And they all did creditably well.
Babajide Akeredolu is from Ondo State. He has the capacity to do the job.
So, why the noise?
Shaba Gbenga, a Public Affairs Analyst writes from Lagos.
OpinionTop News
ANGLICAN CHURCH HONOURS AKEREDOLU, WIKE AND SANWO – OLU
PAYMENT OF 50 PERCENT NOVEMBER 2020 SALARY: ONDO DOCTORS BEGIN INDEFINITE STRIKE
AKEREDOLU ADMINISTRATION TO PAY WAEC FEE OF 25,736 STUDENTS
OLUGBENGA ARAJULU IS REGISTRAR ADEKUNLE AJASIN UNIVERSITY, AKUNGBA AKOKO
ARAPAJA FLOORS ONDOS EDDY OLAFESO
BABAJIDE AKEREDOLU,SON OF GOVERNOR ROTIMI AKEREDOLU IS HEAD OF ONDO STATE PERFORMANCE AND PROJECTS IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING UNIT
AKEREDOLU'S MISRULE IN ONDO STATE (3): THE ROT IN THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE.


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Farragut churches slowly begin re-opening
Concord Quest VBS with FBC moved to Aug. 3-5; Concord-UMC decides to hold virtual VBS July 13-17
June 25, 2020 by Tammy Cheek
While some Farragut churches are now holding live gatherings, others are slowing looking at reopening plans.
Meanwhile, plans are being made for at least two Town churches to conduct Vacation Bible School.
First Baptist Concord, 11704 Kingston Pike, which opened doors to its congregation Sunday, May 31, with in-person services at 9 and 11 a.m., has moved its VBS while offering a new setting.
Concord Quest, which will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Aug. 3-5, is taking it to the community, said Jason Jennings, FBC pastor of Children's Ministry.
"Concord Quest will be hosted by our church members in their neighborhoods," he explained in an e-mail. "Kids that attend will be engaging in dynamic worship, creative Bible lessons and fun games and activities."
More information is available at concordquest.com.
Concord United Methodist Church, 11020 Roane Drive, is looking at a tentative Sunday, July 12, re-worship service opening date.
The Rev. Larry Trotter, senior pastor, sent out an e-mail last week to congregants, noting the Holston Annual Conference, which oversees United Methodist Churches within its district, has approved the church's reopening plan.
The e-mail stated initially that two 45-minute in-person services would take place July 12: contemporary at 8:45 a.m. and traditional services at 10 a.m. The church will continue to offer an online-only contemporary service at 11:15 a.m.
"It should be noted that we could decide to postpone opening based on our comfort level with the number of COVID-19 cases in our area, or the Holston Conference could make a decision to postpone church openings in Knox County based on COVID-19 cases," Trotter added.
Meanwhile, CUMC is going virtual with its VBS.
"We'll be doing the Rocky Railway Vacation Bible School," which is train-themed and done through Group Publishing, said Heather Hayes, CUMC director of Children's Ministry.
"So we'll be online the week of July 13 through (July 17)," she added. "Kids, each day, will click in and be able to join in, watch the opening and closing shows, the Bible stories, crafts, science time.
"They can follow along each day and add to it."
Before that, however, staff is preparing packets for the youngsters.
"Inside the packets, for the children to come pick up July 8, 9 or 10, they will have the art activities, science activities and a few other things to go along with Vacation Bible School that week," Hayes said.
"Each day they'll have a bag inside the packet that will be labeled, and it will have all the things they need for their lessons," the Children's Ministry director added.
Also on Wednesday, July 8, staff will do a drive-through parade for packet pickup, Hayes said. "People from our church are going to be lined up to wave at the kids and greet them.
Still, "We'll be observing social distancing," she added. "We're doing a popsicle giveaway (and) we're doing what we call Pelt the Pastor — (children are) going to throw water balloons from their car at different pastors that are brave enough to stand in front of the target."
The VBS also is open to children who are not members of CUMC, Hayes noted.
"We are limited to 300 (children) because that's as many supplies as we can have," Hayes said.
Families are asked to register online at concordumc.com/events
"You have to be registered to get the packet," she added.
Other churches services
Faith Lutheran Church, 225 Jamestowne Blvd., held its first in-person worship service Sunday morning, June 14, since it stopped holding services in March.
"Everyone is just excited to see one another," said the Rev. Bob Stelter, Faith Lutheran pastor.
At the same time, "We are also still doing online services," he added.
"We picked up a lot of viewers … from all over. And, we invested in a camera system. (COVID-19) has forced us to be creative."
In considering its re-opening, he said, "We have a group of leadership (members) who decided it's time to go."
Saint John Neumann Catholic Church, 633 St. John Way, started public services at the end May. A little more than 100 parishioners gathered for the 10 a.m. Mass service Sunday, June 14.
It will continue with live-streamed Masses.
According to SJN's newsletter, masses are live-streamed at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays and 8:05 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Mass streaming can be found at sjnknox.org/articles, on Facebook at Facebook.com/sjnknox and on YouTube.
Faith Promise Church in West End Center, 11237 Kingston Pike, also started public services Sunday, June 14.
Farragut Presbyterian Church, 209 Jamestowne Blvd., opened up as well, holding services in its parking lot.


This is my 15th Income Report in which I detail how much money I made online this month.
I suppose a good place is to go back to this article I wrote for the Envato community. I had just had some really bad news given to me to do with my family and it was a massive turning point in my life. It made me realise that going through life is not as plain-sailing as I thought it was going to be and that life can be really cruel.
A member of my family is very ill and this month we all got the news we were dreading: things are now getting worse. My whole family, me included, are devastated. We have tried to comfort each other but everything feels very raw right now. It feels hopeless.
Due to this event happening, this month was majorly disrupted. Coming back from vacation I had planned to get right back into work, get some solid hours done and be back on schedule. Well, on the first day I began work, I got the bad news.
This is really affecting me. It has been affecting me for the past year, but it's been easy to ignore knowing things haven't gotten worse. But now that they have, it's another blow.
I am the type of person who cannot just block things out whilst working. I think it's one of the challenges of working by yourself; self-motivation is one the critical skills you need to be able to do this job. All my motivation was sucked out of me this month.
The only good news was that I did manage to do something. A lot of days I had spent with my family, but when I found a bit of peace I did manage to do some work. I'm working on a new product and it's going to be a social media application. It's in its very early stages and I wanted to have a lot more done this month than what I did manage.
After this new product is finished, I'll be updating all my others. I have a huge suggestion list from clients of new features to implement, so I'm actually quite motivated to get to work on those.
My recent articles I wrote about Amazon Affiliate Sites and YouTube Affiliate are doing well in terms of bringing in organic traffic, so I'm very pleased with that. I'm going to be writing a new article soon about how to get freelance PHP jobs.
Finally, I planned a surprise birthday present for my girlfriend: a trip to New York in Christmas. It was actually really hard to feel like doing anything nice this month, but I was glad for the distraction and enjoyed seeing how happy it made her.
A big increase on last month. I had a really good end to the month for CodeCanyon sales which really helped boost sales.
I also took up some freelancing work. I find that when I'm having a crap month in terms of motivation, freelance work is easier to do. You're just following instructions and it's easier to concentrate. I'm fortunate I have this option.
Oh, and I also did well in terms of Amazon Affiliates. I'd love for this to become a bit more stable but it varies wildly from each month.
A big increase in traffic this month. Most of this is because of my tutorial articles for PHP Datatables CodeIgniter and Fullcalendar CodeIgniter now ranking even higher in SERPs. I'm starting to hit 200 hits per day, which is something I'd like to hit constantly before the year is out.
Hopefully some of my new articles can start ranking too and that would help bring in some extra traffic too.
Not much to say here. Time was disrupted massively due to my family crisis. I'm very frustrated with not being able to work at the minute. It just feels like its one thing after another that's causing me to not work.
Work. All I want to do in this month is have a good working month. If I don't hit at least 100+ hours I'll be disappointed. I know I'm still going to have moments this month when things get tough but I'm determined to put in the hours. I don't want to let anything stop me.
My main priority is my new product. I very much doubt it will get finished in September, there's an awful amount of work that needs to be done and I have a huge feature list to complete. Hopefully I'll have some screenshots to show off at the end though.
I have one new idea for an article I want to write, so we will see if I can get that done. Other than that I'll probably use my spare time to do some research into some new topics.
I hope you that are reading this have had a better month than I have.
Thanks for this release, am always motivated with your income reports. Please can you share some thoughts on how you market your products? If you can't post back email will be OK. Please I really need it as a guide.
@Brume The great thing about Envato is that they do all the marketing for you. They drive all the traffic to your products- you just have to focus on making great products for clients!
@Patchesoft Thanks for your feedback. I really appreciate.


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Travis Speller Ranks Fifth in Nation
Posted by Irving ISD | Aug 4, 2021 | Spotlights | 0 |
Q-U-I-N-T-O. That's how you spell the Spanish word fifth and the ranking Nicholas Blas, an incoming seventh grader at Travis Middle School, earned in the National Spanish Spelling Bee last month.
"I'm happy that I am fifth in the country," he says. "It makes me feel really good about myself."
En route to the top five finish, Blas hammered through close to 20 rounds of competition and bested 11 of the 15 other competitors from as far as New York. The contest spanned four hours in a virtual format on a Saturday.
"I am so proud," says his mother, Claudia Esquivel. "All of the competitors at this level are winners. Getting to this point is so impressive."
Blas's journey to national success began by winning a school-wide spelling bee in early January. He then won the district's first ever Spanish spelling bee later that month to advance to the regional spelling bee, held in May. His gold finish there earned him a ticket to the national competition.
"He surprised me," says his mom. "The fact that he did this in Spanish was surprising because his primary language is English. But he had a great support system in his teacher, Mr. [Tomas] Serrano. He's the one who told him he could do this, that he was going to win."
In addition to the encouragement from his teacher, Blas also credits his mother, who helped him study and prepare for each contest.
"We had time set aside each day to go over words," he says. "Mr. Serrano gave me words to work on and helped me with accents, and my mom helped me practice."
His mother also encouraged him to read books in Spanish so that he could learn more words. Both admit that it was sometimes difficult to find the motivation to study after school let out for summer.
"But I would remind him that we were committed so he needed to prepare. We had to practice," says Esquivel. "So we had set times that we would get some practice in."
And the practice paid off. Now, he's looking forward to enjoying the rest of his summer playing video games and basking in the feeling of accomplishment.
"It was really fun to win," he says.
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package repo

import (
	"github.com/dokku/dokku/plugins/common"
)

// CommandGc runs 'git gc --aggressive' against the application's repo
func CommandGc(appName string) error {
	if err := common.VerifyAppName(appName); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	appRoot := common.AppRoot(appName)
	cmdEnv := map[string]string{
		"GIT_DIR": appRoot,
	}
	gitGcCmd := common.NewShellCmd("git gc --aggressive")
	gitGcCmd.Env = cmdEnv
	gitGcCmd.Execute()
	return nil
}

// CommandPurgeCache deletes the contents of the build cache stored in the repository
func CommandPurgeCache(appName string) error {
	if err := common.VerifyAppName(appName); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return PurgeCache(appName)
}


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Tag: army
WHAT, THESE SHIPS, MISSILES AND AIRCRAFT POINTED AT TAIWAN? JUST COINCIDENCE.
It is a simple reality. If China is an enemy of the Republic of the United States of America, then we have no idea what China is building, has planned, or has built.
War is deception, deception is war.
Sun Tzu's basic principles are clear.
To win a military campaign an army or nation must win the political war first, and feign weakness.
All principles of The Art of War, not only the aforementioned two, are available to China. These principles are available to any nation, adversary or ally, and China will use them all.
To think China is being transparent regarding targets and equipment, is pure stupidity if not insanity.
To think the U.S. government is being transparent regarding targets and equipment, is pure stupidity if not insanity.
Go, watch the YouTube commentaries, "NEWS" reports and written commentaries, that have led us, you, to believe China has this or that, or that China wants to invade this or take that.
The ignorant fake American media speculations are astounding.
Are we even certain China is an enemy? Just because lying, international bolshevik/banker media claims China is an enemy, does not mean it is.
I am going to punch you in your left eye with my right fist, which means I will do anything but punch you in the left eye with my right fist, but get ready.
Such bloody fools making videos stealing fake information from others, and those others have already taken fake information from fake sources.
Oh, sure, they exert a degree of intelligence, putting information together in their own, cool, and sometimes masterful ways, but they know very little or nothing.
Presumption makes fools and corpses of intelligent people. Taking information from questionable sources is presumption. All sources should be constantly questioned.
For how long have you foolishly presumed or assumed the U.S. Government, the U.S. Government democracy is yours?
And you people believe that the Military of the U.S. government, the dementocrat party/establishment, international bolshevik/banker government, that rules our republic, is gathering and distributing correct information to you, their enemies?
The illicit, illegal, anti-constitutional U.S. government controls their military while we the people have none.
Do you not understand that the U.S. government is allied with most governments of the world, except Russia and Belarus, against all peoples, YOU!
Many things occurred in 1871 and we, the people, have no idea: The Organic Act of 1871.
Babylonian money magic took over America, subverted our economy and our self-governance.
I have just started to collate events in the 1800s, specifically post American War of International banker aggression against agrarians (Kulaks in Russia, middle-class America). Some call this war in America the Civil War.
I am not so sure.
I am not sure what I will find but many things do not make sense.
Knowledge and vigilance:
Source and humility.
Expect the unexpected.
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THE RUBRIC OF LIES AND FABRICATIONS FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA DID NOT STOP WITH RUSSIA INVADING UKRAINE. Part 8
No, no, no! Russia is not going to incite the wrath of the world by wasting time and munitions killing civilians. These are the most egregious lies the bolshevik/banker media is currently propagating.
The Russian military is fighting somebody/something the media is not reporting or revealing. The suppression is near absolute.
Go watch some of the documentaries of Germany invading Russia and see the organization, Entire Armies and Divisions moving to attack enemy divisions and armies. It is all shown with arrows, drawings, maps.
The corrupt media in Ukraine shows next to nothing and contradicts itself. There is no way in hell Russia advanced and moved, and attacked Ukraine without deploying tactically. But the corrupt media cannot point this out, cannot present accurate reporting because it would require honest reporting, and that would mean exposing the illogical aspects of everything the media is trying to tell you.
Everything is a lie, like everything we have been conditioned to believe, everything is all lies. There is no real right wing, for example. Constitutional, conservative and republican is all the balanced middle: the balance between left-wing totalitarianism and right wing anarchy.
There was no "flu" epidemic of 1918. I have wondered about that for years because I checked my family histories and not a single person died from influenza. There is not a single mention of the great "flu" epidemic in any of my family history.
Influenza "season" perfectly coincides with over-eating season from Thanks-giving to January 2nd.
Nobody dies of actual influenza.
Go to the doctor when you next have "flu".
Ask him or her if it is influenza. It is a simple test case. Pay attention to his or her answer. It would go something like this, No, we never test for it, we just assume your symptoms could be influenza, but the symptoms can be brought on from many things.'
Take this drug…
Everything you think you know, is a lie.
Nobody, not one person has ever died of breast cancer.
Susan G Komen Foundation is a scam, for example.
Listen to the ad intently. Record it and stop the recording after every sentence, and ask what, when, why, where, who?
What does it mean when the narrator says, "…Susan G. Women leans in."?
What does be an advocate for research mean. How do you, "…be an advocate."? Do you realize the answer is given in the next sentence, give money.
America was founded as a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.
The U.S. Government was instituted by international bankers in 1871 with the Organic Act which also set Washington D.C. apart as a ruling nation, an occupying military "governing" base.
America was founded as a Constitutional Republic in 1776, July 4th but was not instituted until September 1787.
The Organic Act of 1871 ended The Republic Of the United States of America.
Russia seceded from international globalist Rule, as the America colonies had done in 1776, and the world bolshevik/banker military force, the U.S. Government, is bringing Russia back into control, or eliminating it.
Do you want to be part of the genocide?
If you do not want to be part of the genocide you need to recuse yourself from the dialogue.
EVERYTHING you say, must be changed to reflect reality: the reality of the things I listed above.
You must be prepared to fight and make sacrifice.
I hope you do not think I am doing what the fake conservatives and republicans, and the fake conservative talk show hosts and hostesses do: manipulate you to hate Russians and Putin. Where are the American traditions of innocent until proven guilty, presumed innocent, and guaranteed a defense with cross-examination?
These traditions have given Americans freedoms untold, and the devilish, luciferian bolshevik/banker dementocrats and fake conservatives and republicans are preparing you to sacrifice yourself for them.
I made and put up over 800 poster to stop the lies where I live. I was out in the early hours of the morning. I got chased, threatened, and ultimately got Ben Macadams fired with 500 posters saying he lied and is a liar.
I have not made one cent writing and fighting. I am broke but do not have a cushy government job that pays me to do nothing. Do not have a radio talk show, and I am not popular. My "friends" who support me will not sign on to anything, but they often buy me lunch, drinks, and listen.
I have advocated physical removal of enemies to our dying and almost dead Constitutional Republic.
I have hidden the date for the first "shot" to be fired and it is not a Constitutional Convention, like that liar levin promotes, that is illegal to the U.S. Government and rebellion to the U.S Constitution (not our Constitution of the Republic).
I am suspended everywhere for inciting what is needed, and the date is hidden in my works.
I know that at any moment I can be arrested or ambushed, and done. I hope someone records my work because it will prove to be correct.
Again, I predict: the dementocrats have already won th 2022 elections. "American", U.S. troops left behind in Afghanistan were secretly sent to Ukriane.
Ukrainian president Zelensky is a corrupt puppet of the U.S. Government. The war in Ukraine has already seen nuclear attacks by the west on Russia (see my exposé regarding the killing of Brent Renaud) and attacks on Russian territory, before Russia invaded. Ukrainian troops, CIA, have been attacking Russians in Donbass region for over a decade, and th supreme court is being packed as I write and the conservative dummies wonder what happened. Ketanji Brown will be sworn in before what's his name retires, and then he will change his mind given that conservative threats are still prevalent.
The 2022 election will be excused by this media narrative, "Ultimately, in spite of the challenges and lack of organization; in spite of the rhetoric that put democrats at a disadvantage; in spite of the follies and struggles of our beloved supreme leader, biden; ultimately the American people chose democracy as a rejection of the fascist right wing.
Good luck America. Put your head back in th sand, and enjoy.
Genocide is coming to you, brought to you by your glorious fake conservative leaders, the dementocrat bolsheviks and YOU, yourselves.
The date,,,,find it. Thousands of us know when and what to do.
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The dem/libs duped them all.
The "amazingly intelligent" radio talk show hosts, Rush, Savage, and Levin, were all misled from real crimes, committed by the democrats and liberals, to innumerable distractions.
The dem/libs never intended for Mexican and muslim invaders to vote because they don't. One would be hard pressed to find a news clip of a Mexican, an illegal invader, voting.
I personally know many Mexicans: not one has ever voted.
The propagation of misinformation was, and still is, the key tactic employed by dem/libs who know Sun Tzu's, and others', tactics of war.
Make no mistake: the democrats and liberals are at war with We, the People. They are using, and have used successfully, Sun Tzu's principles.
The first principle we see is that the democrats and liberals have attacked the plans themselves.
Kavanaugh was a plan in the making. The idea of attacking a plan is the easiest assault. It is preemptive in many ways. Attacking a plan, plants doubt.
Sun Tzu's words: "Warfare is deception."
Deception is warfare. He or she who deceives, wages war.
The best way to defeat an enemy is to help the enemy defeat himself. Attacking a plan plants doubt the enemy entertains at first, then expands.
The purpose of the so-called Honduran invasion and heavy, heavy news coverage, is to distract. It is one of a long list of many distractions. Distractions must be continual and of numerous varieties to capture and hold attention. Sun Tzu's words: "Therefore if able, appear unable. If active, appear inactive. If far, appear near. If near, appear far."
The Honduran situation, the invading army, appears "far" because it was created far to hide the near, active, hidden danger.
The fraud; the deception, is that the invaders elect democrats.
Democrats have not won elections in decades. Indeed, the swamp creatures, the politicians of the unrepresentative branches of government, have propagated so many presumptions, most could not believe or even entertain the oppressive, overwhelming lies and deceptions.
Totalitarian rule must be built upon totalitarian deception. Are we not amazed at the total ignorance of the apparent masses of democrat voters?
We saw a glimpse of scarce democrat support during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A simple reality is that Candidate Trump, at the time, was amassing 20 to 30 times the number of supporters, voters, and electors.
How many Mexican invaders could we count at Clinton "rallies"? Why no democrat-biased media campaigns of Mexicans and Muslims voting? Could it be they did not vote, that the claims of democrats obtaining illegal invader votes were active while the actual voting was inactive? Inactive, or ineffectual, reality, as opposed to dem/lib claims, there was and is an active something, hidden and unknown, until now.
Surely the media did provide scant examples of Mexican support and other dem/lib claims: always organized for but never connected with Clinton rallies. That, alone, makes one wonder if the invader rallies carried credibility for media claims.
We, the public, were witnesses to innumerable claims by the media, and we were slowly brought along to believe the reports. It happened because the masses cannot believe that someone could lie all the time. It is the dichotomy one side has fabricated.
However, we witnessed, time and time again, and still witness it at Trump rallies: scores of thousands of people in support of something, but NOT Trump. Trump is and always has been the representation of something.
Stop, please, and think about that.
If we are led to believe that the tens of thousands represent a mere 50 percent of the voting population, we may be fooled already. It is a given, a full admission by the mechanisms of the opposing party, that roughly half of America votes republican. If hundreds of rallies rallying thousands of supporters represents approximately 50 percent, then three rallies of barely over 1,000 cannot possibly represent the other fifty percent of the voting citizenry.
The formula is the same formula in use by those who claim the democrat "side" is determined by the same variables even though the formula does not produce equally consistent results.
Wikipedia reports Candidate Trump delivered 187 rallies while there is no list for Hillary or Bernie. Combined the democrat variable for the same formula approaches zero, really if the tallying people and mechanisms cared not to tout a terrible loss compared to the Trump masses.
The average attendance at Trump rallies was 6,460, top estimates being 29,000 and 25,000 while Hillary was lucky she had over 1,000 attendees at a maximum of three rallies.
There is no formula for that failure to draw crowds, especially when Clinton could not produce a variable for the formula dem/libs themselves use.
It was the dem/lib media overwhelmingly announcing that Trump supporters represented approximately 50 percent voting support, while the dem/lib media fell silent on the obtuse impossibility that near non-existent numbers at a fraction of the number of rallies somehow, magically produced approximately 50 percent voter support for the democrats.
Democrats claim Trump supporters put him in office, "…speaking to his base…", as the media proclaims, while claiming non-existent democrat voters almost put Clinton in office.
If "…speaking to the base of supporters…" translates to approximately 50 percent for Trump, then "speaking to the democrat base also represents a percentage of voters supporting democrats.
The ratio, according to the numbers, is about 30 to one in favor of Trump. Is it possible the Clinton campaign really, only "spoke to a little over three percent of the voting population? Quite possible given the overwhelming Art of War Tactics the democrats and liberals needed to employ.
If large numbers at rallies, according to dem/lib media "reports" put Trump in office, then that should translate to an equally identifiable factor in determining the so-called and approximate 50 percent that voted for Clinton, and other democrat politicians. Where is the evidence of anything close to 50 percent support for democrats? It cannot be found nor fabricated. The dem/lib media did not try to fabricate that discrepancy. Empty dem/lib algebra and claims were inactive while the reality of the shattered formula was active.
The dem/lib media actually cannot lie completely, although they would prefer it. They admitted, and still do, that candidate Trump and President Trump spoke and speaks to his base, at these rallies. Was Clinton speaking to her base? How could such a small, near non-existent base for Clinton translate to almost 50 percent?
We are constantly reminded that the women's vote went to Clinton and almost always goes to democrat politicians. Where was it then? It was at the bigger rallies, for Trump.
We are constantly told that Mexicans and blacks vote heavily in favor of democrats. We are constantly told democrat politicians represent the minorities. Does low minority turn-out at democrat party rallies magically represent 50 percent or does it represent low voter support for democrats. Surely, irrefutably!
It is assumed dem/libs do tell truth on occasion, and that is completely erroneous.
Sun Tzu's principle, "If they have advantage, entice them." Who is enticing with crazy claims and false attacks, in everything they do and say?
We are in the first stage, the political stage, of war, moving into more dangerous stages, right now, even on the very eve of an election.
Sun Tzu's principle: "The political war must first be won before the military campaign can succeed."
The dem/libs have employed Sun Tzu's principle of distraction in this political stage of war: deception.
We must realize that the democrats have the vote-counting mechanisms in their control, in a manner, and that they have had them in their control for decades. We could consider these logistics as part of the deep state. This is the active while the inactive, again, is the apparent acquisition of new voters, who do not vote.
The dem/libs long ago invaded propriety and honesty in the representative process, transforming and disfiguring it to suit their political campaign.
Invaders do many things. One is they invade to take-over land and space. The act of taking is theft. Taking over, to use a phrase the invaders have used for decades, is to take. It is to take that which does not belong to the takers.
Why do democrats propagate this crime against the nation and the people of this nation?
Stop! Who relinquishes control and who does not not. George Washington is the republican star of relinquishing control while the democrats are seeing it, from YOU; from We, the People.
Why does anyone try to gain control of anything, referring to the vote-counting mechanisms? Think about that for a moment.
Consider a baseball team that gets control of the scoring mechanisms. We all know why. We call it many things, one being, 'having the umps in the pocket of the team'. Anybody, any organization that seeks a subversive, cloaked acquisition of counting mechanisms, seeks to cheat. It is for the primary purpose of taking that which does not legally and fairly belong to the takers. But why do takers, take?
The mental aberration is that the taker knows the taker cannot acquire honestly and legally that which the taker wants.
There is no way around that reality.
While the democrats and dem/lib media have been organizing and presenting crazy, what has happened out of public purview?
Sun Tzu's principle: "Therefore a wise general will strive to feed off the enemy."
The republicans, conservative talk show hosts and politicians, have been feeding the enemies' plans for years by speaking to their crazy and enhancing the subversive dogmas the totalitarians behind the scenes have presented. The fundamentals: Constitutional Republicanism, self-governance, representative permission and accountability, and economic freedom, have been inactive, until now.
If democrat party voters and supporters would honestly look at the crazy, outlandish statements of their own "leaders", Pelosi who acts like she is suffering dementia, and Maxine Waters who speaks to incite violence, they would see what republic-oriented and conservative citizens see, crazy. Are these two democrats, for example, really crazy, or are they exhibiting distractions to hide something?
Sleight of hand in the political arena (not the representative forum) is a trick the dem/libs use continually.
We have been bombarded with three main frauds. We have accepted three main frauds.
1 dem/libs have a basic misunderstanding of realities but generally tell the truth.
2 dem/libs have convinced the masses, even some in the republican party, that republican and conservative is right wing. It is not. Conservative means to conserve that balanced middle the founding fathers established, on the true scale: left is totalitarianism and right is anarchy.
3 Democrat politicians get roughly half the vote, sometimes a little more to win elections and sometimes less, to their losses.
We, the conservatives, the balanced middle, are occasionally stunned and cannot believe the whacky things the democrats and liberals say and do. They have us chasing their tails. Dem/lib crazy, unprincipled and illogical words and actions give us an overwhelming amount of discussion topics, and it occupies our time, efforts, and attention, by design.
What has happened while guards at the door of public purview and opinion, have been preoccupied with the media marionettes of distraction dancing "far" down the hallways away from the guarded doors of reality?
Comments from the dem/libs are purposeful distractions. There should be no doubt their comments and events have captured our attention.
That is a dangerous state in which a nation should not find itself trapped.
What happens while we watch the building burn? The arsonist stands beside us, watches with delight, and sneaks into the night to collect insurance money the next day.
America is burning to the ground, so it appears.
Sun Tzu's principle is as old as time. It is a trick so useful and easy, the Three Stooges employed it for their slapstick comedy:
Curly presents his hand at his own waist, then circles his other arm behind his back, up and over his shoulder to hit Moe. As Moe is looking down the other hand comes from above Moe, out of Moe's field of vision.
"Generally in warfare, if (you or your forces are) equal, be able to fight." Dem/libs never debate, they never stick to a topic. They do not fight because they are not equal: their plans are not equal, being weaker. They know it and employ correct principles of warfare.
"Generally in warfare, if weaker, be able to avoid them." Dem/libs have mounted massive campaigns to avoid the principles, attacking plans and isolated individuals.
"Generally in warfare, if fewer, be able to evade them." Again, massive misinformation campaigns, actually using their enemies' resources, to evade. How many times have we heard republican politicians and so-called conservatives in media and talk radio argue in favor of democrat party and international liberal dogma, that America is a democracy?
The talk show hosts "get it". What the talk show hosts mean is they believe the democrats do not understand, and the talk show hosts and hostesses spend valuable time explaining to those who fully understand sleight of hand and deception. Nobody can be as stupid as the democrat politicos pretend to be. It is sleight of hand. It is Sun Tzu's and Clausewitz's tactic of distraction and deflection.
Imagine an army wants to invade a country. It plans to cross the border of a neighboring country at a certain point on a certain schedule. But, the army announces plans to invade at a certain point on a certain day so the defending country can mobilize and destroy. That is the most fool-hardy tactic an army, or political party could employ. There is absolutely no deception in that, except if the army's tactic is inactive, or a ploy.
The best tactic is to win the political/misinformation aspect by feigning an attack; leaking false information for a location and date, and attacking another point three days before the leaked date.
Leaking information, spying, is a tactic of all aspects of the war. We have seen dem/libs employ this for years, to distract.
To apply this great tactic in deflecting attention is to attack a border, with an army that was never intended to reach the border. The defenders mobilize, spend the nation's treasury, contributing to the loss they create for themselves: numerous principles engaged.
How would we describe the Honduran, mostly military-aged men, army moving to very specific locations?
What is the hidden "active" while the inactive, far, feigned attack captures our attention?
The dem/libs are cheating right now, and have been for weeks, to steal, to take-over, TAKE the election.
The Honduran, inactive, invasion is genius: diabolical.
The dem/libs, like the word :"bolshevik" are a small minority. They have feigned large and looming because they have employed all Sun Tzu's principles: particularly attacking the weak with bigger forces.
Sun Tzu's principle, "Generally in warfare, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them, has effectively been employed by the dem/libs for decades. To attack a smaller, weaker enemy, simply find one not aligned with others, Kavanaugh, for example. The democrats always unite their forces against individuals, appearing to be more numerous than they really are.
The question nobody is asking is what are the dem/libs doing behind the inactive distractions?
The numbers show the democrats have, at most, half of the claimed public support of the voters (25%). In another I wrote article I estimated Clinton had, at best 27 percent of the popular vote. Later I reduced it to approximately 17 percent.
Hillary, at best managed to entertain three rallies with attendance over a thousand, while Trump consistently filled arenas. An average of 6,460 per event, times 187 events, all over the country, involving different people at each and every rally, accounts for 1,208,020 supporters while Clinton and Sanders together cannot show any rough, meagre estimates.
Where is this massive democrat wave? Is it hidden in the respective nothing?
It is non-existent but we believe it is something because of sleight of hand, distractions.
WE, the People, need to physically invade the vote-counting mechanisms and take the count ourselves.
We need to physically take and do, NOW!
The next phase the dem/libs will employ, already planned and in execution now, is the seizure of Congress by force.
Beware! This series of events, and election, mirrors the bolshevik seizure of the Politburo, and subsequent slaughter of Russians and others for decades.
We care not if the few democrat party voters go crazy and whine. We, the People have a commitment to even they themselves, to assure no take-overs, no coup, no fraud ,and no intended genocide.
In my ten years of fighting dem/libs on craigslist and other public forums, of the thousands of claims I have personally investigated, I have yet to find a truth a dem/lib political agent has told. That represents totalitarian deception and distraction.
Totalitarian force cannot be obtained without totalitarian deception, and that is the warfare democrats, liberals, and the bolshevik media complex behind the scenes (and openly), have been waging against We, the People.
There was no Russian Revolution. It was a bolshevik invasion, the same we are witnessing in America NOW! They changed their identities to progressive.
The bolsheviks had, as a primary goal, the elimination of Russians to the count of 30 million people.
What do you, yes, YOU, think the bolsheviks want to do with Americans who have thwarted totalitarian rule ing America for centuries?
Is 100 million eliminated enough for the blood-thirsty dem/libs? No, the dem/libs account for, in my estimation, at most 20 percent of American population, leaving 80 percent guilty of resistance to totalitarian bolshevik/dem/lib/progressive rule.
This means 80 percent, in bolshevik/democrat/liberal minds, can be ruthlessly and justifiably eliminated. This includes minorities.
Please, read. Read The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, YOUR rights.
Search the roots of antifa. It goes all the way back to the bolshevik invasion and the attempted invasions of all countries, including America during Woodrow Wilson's (democrat) presidency.
We must do more than vote. We must watch the vote counting, even where not possible.
Make representative, self-governance a reality in spite of deep-state, fifth column, subversive democrat party hegemony. Be there, be everywhere.
Our reticence and fears will be our elimination.
It is critical NOW. It is critical now more than ever before. The progressives/bolsheviks are poised.
liberalnewsreview Current Commentary, Refused publishing by Craigslist 1 Comment November 5, 2018 November 6, 2018 12 Minutes


Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and local authorities have their eyes on adult skills funding, arguing that taking decisions locally would be more effective than the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) regime. But how might this work?
There are two forms to the argument. One is the Heseltine case for a single funding pot in which adult skills is pooled with other budgets and then redistributed locally. The other is that the funding powers of the SFA should be delegated to LEPs, so that different choices are made in different areas.
It is not at all clear how a single pot, managed locally, could benefit adult skills. To increase investment in skills simply requires LEPs to control other budgets from which resources might be vired. Putting adult skills into a single pot would simply let local decision-makers reduce skills spending — and boost other budgets.
It isn't the case that adult skills funding has less potential to generate growth than schools or higher education funding — indeed, it is more directly focused on that than other areas of education. Is is because the SFA has less political clout than other education funding bodies?
What, though, of the other argument — the bid to exercise some or all of the SFA funding powers at a local level. The implications become clear if we consider the different elements of funding separately.
Is it suggested that each LEP should introduce its own funding formula and set its own rates? This would be bad news for large employers and any provider that works across LEP boundaries. Moreover, since SFA funding seeks to underpin an effective market by reflecting necessary differences in the cost of provision, there would need to be lots of local duplication of effort to develop a similar evidence base on costs or, more likely, sets of rates, giving rise to all manner of perverse incentives.
Is it the SFA role in setting allocations that is sought locally? It's hard to imagine that the government would want to abandon the rule that funding should follow the learner. The alternative — funding places whether or not there is real demand for them — risks wasting resources.
Or is it the eligibility rules that those in favour of localism have in their sights? It would be difficult to vary the rules on individual eligibility; rules on residence, for example, are the province of the Home Office. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills couldn't fund under-18s whatever locals thought, but, by the same token, couldn't see whole cohorts of adults ruled ineligible in one county while welcomed next door.
So is it programme eligibility that might be varied? It would be odd if, after years of trying to bring order into the convoluted world of vocational qualifications, the government should stand back and allow local bodies to remove such coherence as exists. There is perhaps a case for giving greater scope for LEPs to indicate that certain qualifications are important locally and should be funded in their area, but that could readily be done by signalling to the SFA. It doesn't need the creation of 102 new funding bodies.
LEPs and local authorities have a chance to influence provision by providing information about the labour market. They could get involved in assessment, helping to give robust evidence of competence to local employers and providing valuable feedback to trainers and trainees. They could develop a vision for the development of skills. Any of these would surely make more difference than replicating the current funding mechanism over the country.


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Taking microblogging to next level, Twitter has launched its new and powerful search index today. Twitter has been around since 2006 and has gained a continuous popularity ever since its inception. The lately released search engine of Twitter allows user to search through every tweet ever tweeted in last eight years.
Twitter now indexes the entire tweets allowing the users to search for specific words tweeted by specific users out of billions tweets over the site.
"The company is making the complete results from its Tweet Index available through the 'All' tab of search results generated by its Web client and iOS and Android apps".
Company also wrote that the new search engine serves queries with an average latency of under 100 milliseconds which is quite admirable.
Though Twitter already provides a comprehensive search but the new feature will let u search a tweet through all public tweets ever tweeted in the website. Tweet Index, the new and powerful search index will start rolling out in net few days.
As per the official blog post, Tweet Index is a major party of ongoing improvements on Twitter and many such optimizations will done in near future.
Go search for tweets here!