Sometimes life happens, and after a debtor files bankruptcy they get injured and run up medical bills. Can they add those bills to their bankruptcy filing?
This is a good question, and the answer is that it would depend on what kind of bankruptcy is filed. There are two commonly filed bankruptcies, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. A Chapter 7 bankruptcy is usually the quickest and easiest form of bankruptcy. A Chapter 13, also called the wage earners plan, lets a debtor with a regular paycheck create a repayment plan to get rid of part of or all of their debts during a three to five year period.
In the case of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, if medical care was provided before the debtor filed, those debts are considered to be a part of the bankruptcy process. In that case, they would be discharged. On the other hand, if the medical care was rendered after a Chapter 7 bankruptcy is filed, that debt is not a part of the proceeding. This means the debtor would have to pay the bill on their own.
No one can predict when they are going to be hurt and need to go to the hospital or need on-going medical care. Unexpected bills happen to everyone from time to time. This means you need to move forward with caution when filing. After you have filed a Chapter 7, you must wait eight years before filing another Chapter 7. If you are unable to or do not want to pay medical creditors, they have the option to pursue filing a lawsuit against you. If they are successful, they may be able to foreclose on your property, attach liens, garnish wages or seize assets.
In a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, your disposal income is a part of the process of bankruptcy, and it is used to make monthly payments in accordance with the repayment plan you submitted to the courts. In other words, it is an ongoing plan, and that means you may amend the schedule as you move forward to include medical debts. They are prioritized and added in to the order of payments. Any unpaid, unsecured debt, such as medical bills may be discharged.
Even though it is possible to add medical debt repayment to a Chapter 13, there are other consequences. The biggest one is the added expense you face to try and meet your debt repayment plan. If you are unable to pay, or miss payments, the plan may be dismissed. This would put you right back where you started from in the first place.
There are exceptions to be considered in either instance, and it is wise to contact a qualified Iowa bankruptcy lawyer and find out what options are open to you in your particular case.
Posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 and filed under News and Press.


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EMPOWERING THE URBAN POOR
Valenzuela Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian with (from L) Social Housing and Finance Corp. president Ana Oliveros, AMVACA community leader Enriqueta Catayon and AMVACA president Ismael Alberio during the "Bahay Ko, Buhay Ko" 1st National Housing Summit held here, May 27.
Photo by: Rodrigo de Guzman
HOUSING CZAR
Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council chairperson Jejomar Binay and Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian arrrive at the AMVACA Housing Project in Brgy. Ugong, Valenzuela City, May 27 for the 1st National Housing Summit.
From left, Valenzuela City Councilors Marlon Alejandrino, Lai Nolasco, Charee Pineda, Tyson Sy and Ugong PB Eduardo Nasar at the 1st National Housing Summit held in AMVACA Housing Project in Brgy. Ugong.
WHAT'S HOME?
Former Valenzuela City Mayor Sherwin Gatchalian addresses the 1st National Housing Summit in Brgy. Ugong, Valenzuela City, May 27. He said housing woes can be resolved by empowering informal settler families to organize themselves and come up with win-win solutions with the government.
HOUSING SUMMIT
From left, Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian, Negros Occidental 3rd District Rep. Alfredo Benitez, Committee on Housing and Urban Development chairman; Vice President Jejomar Binay and Sen. JV Ejercito, Commitee on Urban Planning, Housing and Resttlement chair and Sen. Nancy Binay.
HOUSING CZAR REPORTS
Vice President Jejomar Binay chairs the Housing and Urban development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) that provided homes to 222,789 low-income families as of October 2014. The figure is 63% higher than its target of 136,859 families for the year 2014, according to the agency's website.
BINAY'S COMMITMENT
VP Jejomar Binay expressing his commitment to continue finding ways in addressing gaps in the housing sector through multi-stakeholder approach. A series of housing summits in different parts of the country kicks off in Valenzuela, May 27, with an aim to gather support from different sectors.
WIN-WIN SOLUTION
Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian pledges support in addressing housing problems through a multi-stakeholder approach during the 1st National Housing Summit in Valenzuela.
Community leader Enriqueta Catayong shows Vice President Jejomar Binay a unit at AMVACA Housing Project her fellow association members have built with loan assistance from SHFG. Each unit is at 28 square meters.
'SQUATERS' BUILT THIS
Informal settler families built this condominium-style housing project with loan assistance from the government payable in 30 years through their community association.
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Another bright new spot in Valenzuela City signals hope for the country's housing woes as a cluster of 30 buildings at three storeys each rises in Brgy. Ugong through the collective efforts of informal settler families (ISFs) and with the help of the government and non-government organization sectors.
The 4.2-hectare condominium-style Alyansa ng mga Mamamayan sa Valenzuela at Caloocan (AMVACA) Housing Project is being built by 1,440 members of AMVACA Housing Cooperative.
A project briefer provided by the Social Housing Finance Corp. (SHFC), an attached funding government agency of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), during "Bahay Ko, Buhay Ko" First National Housing Summit held at the site on May 27, revealed the AMVACA Housing Cooperative "adopted a community-driven housing strategy in planning for their relocation."
The agency further stated that the cooperative identified the site where they want to be relocated, chose their land developer, and oversaw the design of the housing buildings.
"They applied for a loan under the High Density Housing (HDH) program of SHFC and it was approved on December 2013," the briefer said.
The in-city housing project has a price tag of P576 million or equivalent to mere P400,000 per AMVACA cooperative member that will give them a 28-square meter housing unit. The loan is payable at a maximum term of 30 years with an interest of 4.5% per annually.
Parts of their housing project were the construction of commercial areas including wet and dry markets.
The AMVACA cooperative, whose members came from informal settlements along the danger zones of Tullahan River in Valenzuela and the transmission lines of the National Power Corporation, has also been given trainings and technical assistance by Kilos Maralita, a network of civic organizations advocating ISF rights, in order to equip members with knowledge they needed in facilitating their legal resettlement.
This development prompted Congressional Committee on Housing and Urban Development vice chairman and Valenzuela City first district Rep. WIN Gatchalian to say that informal settlers are indeed major stakeholders in solving housing problems especially in Metro Manila. He encouraged addressing shelter backlogs through housing cooperatives after AMVACA members have reaped the benefits of their efforts in Valenzuela City since they were formed in 2012 out of several small groups.
Gatchalian underscored the sustainability of the project, "I think regardless of the model or the system, ang pinakaimportante is sustainability dahil mahabaan ito, na sana hindi mangyari na sa kalagitnaan ng project eh magkaroon ng problema tapos mabuwag yung proyekto." He said that it is important to have mechanisms to make sure conflicts are resolved and the project is sustainable.
Congressman WIN laid the foundation of Valenzuela City's flagship Disiplina Village housing project as mayor in 2010. The former chief executive tapped the multi-stakeholder approach in addressing immediate housing needs of almost 900 ISFs affected by Typhoon Ondoy.
Incumbent Mayor REX Gatchalian similarly employed the same framework for Disiplina Village – Bignay, touted as the biggest in-city relocation project in the country at 11 hectares for 3,852 families at a cost of P1.2 billion. The project aims to achieve zero ISFs along danger zones in the city in 2016.
Organizers of the "Bahay Ko, Buhay Ko" First National Housing Summit held at the AMVACA Housing Project site on May 27, gathered key stakeholders in the housing sector – government, the private sector, and the civil society "to collaborate towards effecting immediate interventions to address the housing backlog among the informal and formal sector and identifying key policy reforms to close the gap in affordable housing."
Leading the summit was "housing czar" Vice President Jejomar Binay who sits as the chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC).
According to Negros Occidental 3rd district Representative and Congressional Committee on Housing and Urban Development chairperson, Alfredo B. Benitez, this summit was designed to undergo "series of discussions for the period of eight months."
His counterpart at the Upper House, Sen. JV Ejercito, who chairs the Senate Committee on Urban Planning, Housing and Resettlement and Sen. Nancy Binay also attended the affair.
2015-06-19 | By: Beng Bautista

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How to Leverage Facebook Groups for Business
July 2, 2020 | Article | Social Media
As the leading social platform with more than 2.45 billion users, Facebook is a social networking force to be reckoned with. One of the fundamental building blocks of Facebook was to bring people closer together and build relationships. In recent years, Facebook has placed a strong emphasis on "meaningful interactions." With a strong desire to focus on community and creating meaningful relationships, Facebook is making a push for higher user engagement. Where is the best place to find high user engagement? Facebook Groups.
"People want to be a part of meaningful communities… In a community, you can meet new people who share your values – for some, this might be a support group for new parents. For others, it might be about a disease you have. For others, it might be about finding people to come together and volunteer."
– Mark Zuckerberg
What Does Facebook Consider a "Meaningful Interaction"?
The days of using 'engagement-bait' posts to goad people into commenting are gone and Facebook warns to continue to demote these posts in News Feed. According to Facebook, they are prioritizing posts that spark conversations and meaningful interactions between people. But what does that mean? Facebook says that posts that "inspire back-and-forth discussion in the comments and posts that incite users to share and react" will be given priority. (Think someone seeking advice and recommendations or sharing an article that prompts discussion.)
What Can Businesses Do To Create "Meaningful Interactions"?
If higher engagement is the ultimate goal and meaningful interactions are the means to getting there, what can brands and businesses do? Facebook's 2018 News Feed algorithm changes have made it so reactions, comments, and shares get priority over passive actions like clicking the "Like" button. This shifts the focus to the type of content users post, as one of the top new ranking signals. Outside of regularly posting content to a business page, Facebook offers two interesting insights on success for businesses to create more meaningful interactions.
Use Facebook Live Video
While it's no secret that video content tends to yield high performance on social, there's a clear distinction between video content and live video content. Facebook live videos get six times as many interactions and ten times more comments than regular videos. Why is live video more engaging? When you go live, you give your audience a chance to interact directly with you via likes, comments, and questions. The shift goes from watching to participating. Live video is also more authentic, which is helpful in humanizing your brand.
Harness the Power of Facebook Groups
According to Adam Mosseri, Head of News Feed at Facebook, there will also be a heavier focus on group content. Facebook Group content tends to inspire a lot of conversation because people tend to interact around public content. It gives local businesses a chance to connect with their communities by posting relevant updates and creating events, which can be helpful in creating a meaningful interaction.
How To Use Facebook Groups for Business
93.7% of businesses use Facebook which means there's a lot of competition. An increase in competition on social media has led many businesses to look for ways to stand out above the noise. Facebook Groups membership is up 40% from last year to 1.4 billion people. That means over half of Facebook's user base is using Groups every month! This presents marketers with a remarkable opportunity to leverage existing Facebook Groups and create a Facebook Group of their own.
In case of any confusion, a Facebook Group is NOT a page. Facebook pages and groups differ in functionality. According to Facebook, "a Facebook page is designed to be the official profile for entities, such as celebrities, brands, or businesses while Facebook Groups are the place for small group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion." In other words, pages are for people, brands, and businesses. Groups are for passions, causes, and interests.
How To Leverage Existing Facebook Groups for Your Business
Perhaps the easiest way to leverage Facebook Groups is to search for groups that are relevant to your brand. For example, if you're a fertility clinic, you could search for infertility support groups. If you're a hotel, you could search for a travel group. People tend to join groups around topics they're not only interested in, but passionate about. Mix passion and interest together for a brilliant recipe that is certain to increase engagement. Meaningful interactions have the tendency to compound, allowing the Facebook algorithm to work its magic for you. The more interactions that occur tells the algorithm that this is content people want to see, therefore expanding its reach for more people to see it and join in.
Facebook Groups offer a wide variety of topics and ranges in size, but certain aspects make them very advantageous for brands. If your business joins a Facebook Group, it's entering into a subset of the population that is already interested in a specific topic and the work that your business may be doing. While it may be tempting to use Facebook Groups as another way to sell your brand, this will likely backfire and potentially cause you to get kicked out of the Group. People don't want to be sold to, they want to be educated and informed. So instead of being self-promotional, position your business as a resource and an authority in the space. Think industry forward over brand forward, where your knowledge and expertise is more valuable than the product or service that you are selling.
What to Post in a Facebook Group
When you join a Facebook Group, you'll notice that there's a ton of conversations going on, many of which originate with an initial question from a user. Search through the Group page to locate some questions that are relevant to your brand or business. This can give you a chance to offer up your expertise or specialized skills. Options for meaningful interactions include:
Provide a solution by answering the question outright.
Share a link to one of your blog posts to provide insight to the question.
Offer your own products and services (without being salesy).
This highly targeting form of marketing can be quite powerful if used correctly. When you provide value to the members of the Group, you start to build trust which is instrumental in developing a relationship. Garner Group members trust by providing solutions outside of what your business can offer, and your brand will start to become a resource to the group. People may begin to come to you for answers by tagging you directly in comments!
Don't overlook the tremendous value of Facebook Groups that doesn't involve engagement. Facebook Groups are a great place to conduct research on your target audience. By reading through the interactions you can gain valuable insight into what your target audience is looking for. Use the comments, thought processes, and questions that Group users discuss to create original content for your potential customers.
How to Build a Community Through Facebook Groups for Your Business
Does increasing traffic to your website via Facebook without spending a penny on ads sound good to you? A well developed Facebook group can be a marketer's dream. Facebook Groups can offer a captive audience that is active and engaged in learning more about a space that your business can offer a solution to, for free! Building a community is the biggest priority after creating a Group for your business. Whether you're starting from scratch or in the process of growing, ensure you're making the most of your Group by following these simple tips.
Set clear rules and guidelines. Clear rules often translate to meaningful conversations. For starters, ask yourself: what are your goals for this Group? What kind of content do you expect members to post? Do you want to enforce interaction guidelines? At the very least, set boundaries to limit spammers that self promote and link drop. Nothing stops free flowing conversations like spammy behavior. Facebook allows 10 public rules for every Group and suggests including rules like:
Encouraging positive comments, feedback, and conversations
Taking a firm stance on bullying and hate speech
Outlawing spam and irrelevant links
Respecting the privacy of fellow members
Prioritize and foster daily discussions. The more conversations, the better. If you find it challenging to post regular content, encourage members to share their content or stories.
Keep your Group closed. Nothing fosters the desire to be included quite like the idea of exclusivity. Requiring members to be properly vetted to join Closed Groups reinforces the notion that your Group is an exclusive club, where only members can access secret content and offers. The more tight-knit of a community, the higher the quality of discussion.
Avoid salesy posts. If authentic, meaningful interactions are the goal, salesly and self-promotional posts achieve the opposite. If this isn't obvious by now, start reading again from the beginning.
Optimize, optimize, optimize. Best practices tell you to optimize your website and your social channels, so why would you not optimize your Facebook Group? Cover your bases to ensure everything is where it needs to be.
Use eye catching imagery on your profile and cover photos.
Employ clear calls-to-action.
Fill out Group information as clearly as possible so you can allow others to find you.
If you haven't yet, discover the keywords your audience may be searching for.
Experiment with different types of posts. Plan for success with a social content strategy. Search for common pain points in conversations and find ways to discuss them more.
User-generated content (Utilize your members!)
Video (Upload or go live!)
Interactive content (Polls and questions)
Images (Photos, memes, infographics, GIFs)
Promote your Group on social media. Promote your Group on all social media channels, not just Facebook! How can members join if they don't know it exists? You can also send a direct invite to join your Facebook Group in an effort to build your community.
Mention your Group in similar Groups. Act with caution on this tip. Coming off spammy in order to help your own Group or business is one the quickest ways to find yourself kicked out of a Group. Be sure to position your Group as another resource (not a competitor) to similar groups. Perhaps someone asked a question that was answered brilliantly in your group. Use research and be solution-oriented when mentioning your Group in similar groups.
Focus on girl power. According to Facebook, women are 40% more likely to create groups that become meaningful to people. Take note, females! Use this as leverage over your male counterparts.
While there are a multitude of ways to increase engagement and meaningful interactions on Facebook, Groups are a prime tool that can transform your brand from being reactive to proactive. Not only are Groups important for brands to interact directly with consumers, they also foster trust in that brand. Seeing a brand engage in an open dialogue via an online social forum allows your brand to be industry forward rather than brand forward. Most importantly, Facebook Groups allow your business to be as close to the consumer thought process as you can be, all while learning and addressing the concerns of your next customer.
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Here's Some Happy By Gina Graham from Hachette Book Group is filled with charming, whimsical illustrations throughout, combines the joy of coloring with the peacefulness of journaling. This beautifully rendered inspirational coloring journal will inspire colorists with space to write and intricate, charming illustrations. Coloring enthusiasts will be inspired by the detailed borders, butterflies, flamingoes, lovable faces, and cheery tone. Enjoy 128 pages of whimsical illustrations to color and journal within; perforated pages for easy removal and display; and Scripture to reinforce the message of God's love.
My Opinion: I really like this color journal to take notes and also do adult coloring along with reading and inspirations on every page. One of the sands inside is let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever. Psalms 146:21.


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How To Fix VIA's On-Time Problem.
Jim Loomis August 30, 2016 All Posts, Canada, VIA Rail Canada 2 Comments
VIA Rail's storied train #1, the Canadian, is always included on lists of the 10 or 20 best train rides in the world. And deservedly so. It's certainly the best long-distance train ride in North America: superb scenery; classic rail cars, many of which have been beautifully refurbished; excellent on board service; and wonderful food. And of course it helps the Canadian economy because the train attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world.
But what the freight railroads have done over time to this iconic train is sad. No, it's worse than sad; it's an outrage.
The problem, in as few words as possible, is that VIA's train runs on track owned by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific, the country's two huge freight railroads, and they give priority to their trains. That means the VIA train has to pull off onto sidings, where it sits and waits until a freight comes trundling by before resuming the journey. And, believe it or not, that happens as many as 20 or more times a day.
VIA has done as much as it can to allow for all those delays by adding many hours to their train's schedule. What was a three-night trip now take four nights to complete. Of course, that has added millions to the cost of operating the train, but it hasn't solved the problem. The Canadian continues to arrive in either Vancouver or Toronto hours late . . . and by that, I mean as much as ten or twelve hours late. Sometimes even more.
That, in turn, burdens VIA Rail with still more additional cost—for hotel rooms, meal vouchers and alternate transportation for inconvenienced passengers—not to mention damage to the train's reputation which must inevitably result in the loss of future revenue.
Yes, yes … I know: the freight railroads own the tracks, and diverting and delaying VIA is entirely within their legal rights. That's private enterprise. That's capitalism. But that doesn't mean it's not an outrage. A drug company in the U.S. has just raised the cost of a life-saving medication by 600 percent because they can. But it's still an outrage.
And don't tell me there is nothing government can do. What if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were to summon the president of each freight railroad to his office and say, "Starting tomorrow, your dispatchers will keep the VIA train running on time. If they don't, I will have government inspectors swarming over your railroad like flies on a cow pie and we'll slap you with maximum fines for every single infraction they find, no matter how small, until your entire operation shuts down."
Would that be legal? Probably. Would it be an abuse of government authority? Perhaps. Would it be in the public interest? You're damn right it would!
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I've been thinking much the same thing – require CN and CP to give VIA priority, especially on the long distance trains. Having freight slow down for 2-3 trains per week shouldn't be a huge disruption – or in a perfect world, 1 train per day. My niece's husband works for CN and says that VIA sometimes gets priority but that's usually when it's extremely late.
One problem with giving VIA priority is the length of freight trains vs the length of many sidings. When freight trains are longer than the siding, it requires a graceful (?) leapfrog around the shorter passenger train. That's why they tend to not give them routing priority. While some parts of the Canadian (or Skeena) route through the mountains (probably the Ocean too, but haven't been there) have challenging terrain, I think there are enough stretches of wide, flat ground to extend sidings to 2+ miles.
Thanks for this. I'm aware that the freight trains are now much longer than the sidings, but completely agree with you that it's a problem they could work around if so inclined. For example, is it not possible to divert the front third of the freight onto the siding, wait for VIA to appear, stopping it on the main between the entrance and the exit of the siding, then have the freight exit the siding, clearing the main in front of VIA, allowing it to proceed with almost no wait time? I think the fundamental point is, they could keep VIA more or less on time if they really wanted to.
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Opal is created inside the cracks of volcanic rock and is considered a mineraloid because its structure can change does not stay within certain parameters to be considered a mineral. This is due to the water in the stone, and over time the water may evaporate completely from the opal. Along with water, the structure within an opal is made up of silica. The combination of these diffracts the light passing through and creates an almost endless amount of hue combinations. Some opals appear in reds and oranges, others in hues of blue and green. These magnificent color changes have made opals and opal jewelry popular for thousands of years.
In Ancient Rome, one historian wrote that he felt "inexpressive difficulty� in describing opal's beauty because its many color combinations incorporate into one stone what makes all other precious stones desirable. Shakespeare wrote that the opal was "the queen of gems�. In the Middle Ages, royalty wore opal rings and opal necklaces to garner good luck. Opal jewelry was associated with good luck because opals were seen as containing the characteristics of all other precious gems. Opal jewelry was also thought to reveal the wearer's health when it changed color.
While we know today that opal jewelry cannot bring good luck or reveal our health, we are still attracted to the opal's stunning and dynamic beauty. As October's birthstone, opal jewelry can be given to anyone with a birthday this month. Of course, the beauty of opal jewelry can be given to anyone at any time and for any occasion.


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Schwarzenegger has proposed reclassifying 73 property and drug crimes, including most insurance crimes, as misdemeanors rather than felonies in order to reduce the state prison population amid the state's severe budget crisis.
California's insurance commissioner, Steve Poizner, and four anti-fraud groups warned that reclassifying fraudulent car insurance claims and other fraud would erode the state's efforts to prosecute insurance fraud.
"Insurance fraud is a serious crime that demands serious consequences," the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, National Insurance Crime Bureau, National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association and the International Association of Special Investigation Units said in a joint letter to Schwarzenegger.
Poizner, who has announced his intention to run for governor next year, criticized the proposal, saying it would hurt investigations and prosecution of insurance fraud. Search warrants cannot be executed in misdemeanor cases, he said.
"This proposal would severely limit [law enforcement's] ability to go after career criminals," he said.


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2012 Council election results
unChain Inc / 30/10/2012
Well the results are in, and we have an interesting Council for the next four years. There are 3 unChain Councillors, 3 CAPP/Labor and one Liberal.
In the case of the 3 unChain and 3 CAPP Councillors there was a consistent theme. The candidate who received the majority of the first preference votes was successful – receiving enough second preferences from the other candidates to get elected, even though this went against their how-to-vote cards.
The 3 unChain Councillors are Serge Thomann, Jane Touzeau and Vanessa Huxley.
In Catani ward Serge Thomann (unChain) won easily, with over 50% of the first preference votes – so there was no need to distribute the second preferences of the unsuccessful candidates.
In Point Ormond ward Jane Touzeau (unChain) won. She got 46% of the vote and enough of Christofakis' (Greens) preferences (38%) to easily defeat Salina (CAPP/Labor) by 437 votes.
In Carlisle ward Vanessa Huxley topped the vote with 24%. She then received enough preferences from Spillane (Liberal), McLoughlin (CAPP) and Spiegel (Liberal) to defeat Baxter (Greens) by 568 votes.
The 3 CAPP Councillors had narrower wins.
In Albert Park ward, Stevens (CAPP/Labor) defeated Birrell (Greens) by 86 votes after allocation of the preferences of Sharples (unChain) and Mills (Liberal).
In Emerald Hill ward, Horvath (CAPP) defeated Roberts (unChain) by 80 votes after allocation of preferences of Griffith (Liberal).
In Sandridge ward, Voss (CAPP) defeated Turner (Labor) by 29 votes after allocation of preferences of de Groot (unChain).
The most unusual result was in Junction ward. Bond (Liberal) received only 23% of the first preference votes – significantly less than the sitting Councillor Middleton (Green) who got 29% of the vote. However Bond ultimately defeated Middleton by 28 votes after allocation of preferences of two minor candidates and Galic (unChain) and Gross (Labor).
The key here was that former CAPP/Labor Councillor Dick Gross gave his second preferences to the Liberal candidate – and these preferences pushed Bond over the line. So Dick Gross, the former CAPP/Labor Councillor, was responsible for the election of the first Liberal Councillor ever in the City of Port Phillip.
This may be important because Bond may be a significant link between the City of Port Phillip and the Liberal state government. There are many important issues that require co-operation between the City and the state government, not the least of which will be the development of the St Kilda Triangle.
Congratulations to the seven successful Councillors and also to the unsuccessful candidates and all of the support teams.
Now it is time to smoke the peace pipe and for the Council and the community to get on with the business of making our City the best possible one.
~ Peter Holland
unChain President
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1971 India-Pakistan War: Loyalty
April 17, 2014 by Sandeep Bhardwaj
This is the second post of a four-part series on India-Pakistan 1971 War. First part can be read here
Richard Nixon (left) and Henry Kissinger, two most controversial figures of the 1970s
Six days after Pakistan Army began massacring its own people, a meeting on the East Pakistan Crisis was held in the White House Situation Room. It was chaired by Henry Kissinger, the US National Security Adviser and President Richard Nixon's right-hand man when it came to the American foreign policy. Kissinger, a former Harvard academic, was brilliant, ruthless and extremely powerful. Perhaps the most controversial figure in the American foreign policy of the time, he was an ardent worshipper of realpolitik in foreign policy, which often translated to celebrating cold-blooded calculations.
On this day, the calculation was about East Pakistan and Yahya Khan. A week into the crisis, Kissinger and his boss, Nixon, had already made up their mind to stay out. Despite the mounting reports of a bloodbath coming in from their own consulate in Dacca, the mood in White House was to let Yahya do what he wanted. In the meeting, Kissinger's main concern was whether Pakistan Army could actually succeed or not. As the meeting progressed, Kissinger asked about the people killed in Dacca University. "Did they kill Professor Razak? He was one of my students." He was informed by a CIA official that Razak probably had been killed. Kissinger, apparently referring to the previous rulers of South Asia, replied, "They didn't dominate 400 million Indians all those years by being gentle."
This detached statement perfectly represented the American attitude towards the East Pakistan genocide. And it was about to get worse. Within a month, US will shed its disinterested neutrality and will actively begin aiding Pakistan in the massacre. Why? Because Nixon and Kissinger were secretly working on a project to change the world.
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1971 India-Pakistan War: Genocide
This is the first post of a four-part series on India-Pakistan 1971 War. The second part is available here
Yahya Khan: The man responsible for the genocide
On the night of 31 March 1971, two men huddled under a small culvert somewhere on the India-East Pakistan border. A week ago these men – Tajuddin Ahmad and Amirul Islam – were riding the greatest high of their lives, a landslide victory in the Pakistani elections. And now they were hunted men, escaping from their own country like criminals. Their boss – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – was already in jail and the Pakistani Army was rounding up thousands of their supporters as of that moment. As the morning came, Ahmad and Islam, cold, hungry and scared for their lives, heard the familiar footsteps of army boots. Soldiers in green uniforms began to appear around them. Islam breathed a sigh of relief. For these were Indian soldiers, here to give them refuge.
It was still hard to see, but the entry of these two men into India was going to set in motion a chain of events leading to perhaps the most significant war in South Asia since the Second World War.
The crisis that had brought Ahmad and Islam to India had its roots in the end of the British Raj. Independence of India and its consequent partition into two countries had left resultant Pakistan as a geographical anomaly unique in the world. Two wings of the nation – West and East Pakistan – were not just separated by a thousand miles of a hostile India, but also by ethnicities and languages. While the west was dominated by Urdu-speaking Punjabis, the east was almost entirely made up of ethnic Bengalis. Further, accidents of history had ensured that the West Pakistan enjoy a certain political dominance over the East. Invariably, this had led to a build-up of resentment that the Bengalis had nursed for decades. The relationship between the two parts of the country was always rocky and periodically worsened over issues like national language. Enter an alcoholic dictator – General Yahya Khan.
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Accession of Junagadh: Farce of History
August 28, 2013 by Sandeep Bhardwaj
A Map of Princely States in Gujarat, leftover from British India. Junagadh is the state in red at the southern tip of Gujarat (click to enlarge)
In the run-up to the Indian Independence 600-odd princely states, another legacy of the British Raj, were being divvied up between India and Pakistan. In the last few months of British India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Lord Mountbatten were trying convince, cajole, bribe or threaten all the state princes into submission. Remarkably, by 15 August, Indian Government had managed to get almost all of them in line; only three states ended up proving to be troublesome – Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagadh.
Of these the story of Junagadh turned out to be the most absurd, as if a farce mockery of the upcoming Kashmir and Hyderabad crises. It was a state on the southern-tip of Gujarat within a region called Kathiawar. The region was peppered with tiny states, as can be seen in the map on the right (click to enlarge). Junagadh itself contained dozens of petty estates and sheikhdoms within it. In fact the situation was so confusing that it took the Government of India several weeks just to figure out the correct borders before they could formulate a military plan. Moreover, the government lawyers couldn't figure out whether these tiny sheikhdoms were legally independent or under the suzerainty of Junagadh even after the accession. But Junagadh was an important state, with a population of 700,000, 80% of them Hindus and, predictably, ruled by a Muslim prince.
The Nawab of Junagadh was an eccentric character, famously obsessed with dogs. He was said to have owned 800 of them, each with its individual human attendant. When two of his favourite dogs mated, he is said to have spent Rs. 20-30 lakhs in "wedding" celebrations, and proclaimed the day as State holiday. It is no surprise that the actual governing of the Junagadh was carried out by his dewan (Chief Minister). In the last months of British India his dewan was a Muslim League politician named Shah Nawaz Bhutto (father of future Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar and grandfather to Benazir Bhutto).
Posted in Indo-Pak, Legacy of Independence, Nehru	| Tagged jawaharlal nehru, junagadh, pakistan, sardar vallabhbhai patel | 12 Comments |
The 2001-2002 India-Pakistan Standoff (Operation Parakram): A Dangerous Experiment
July 17, 2013 by Sandeep Bhardwaj
Security Personnel during the firefight
On the morning of 13 December 2001, Shekhar, the driver for the Vice President of India, was at the Parliament parking lot waiting for his boss. The Rajya Sabha, which his boss chaired, had been adjourned forty minutes ago, but the Vice President was still inside the building. At around 10:00 am, Shekhar heard someone shouting and suddenly a white Ambassador rammed into his car. By the time he got out of his car to have a word with the Ambassador's driver, five men armed with AK-47s had poured out of it and begun shooting indiscriminately. Shekhar ducked for cover as other members of the Vice-Presidential security detail begun shooting back. A fire fight had broken out a few feet away from the heart of the Indian Government. In thirty minutes, it was over. All five attackers, who will be later linked to Pakistan, were dead. So were six of the policemen and security guards and a gardener who tended the Parliamentary gardens. The Parliament Attack was one of the deadliest terrorist strikes India had suffered through since its independence. In response the Indian Government started off the first nuclear crisis of the twenty-first century. A ten-month stand-off, where they stood precariously on the brink of an all-out war, was the closest India and Pakistan had come to nuclear annihilation. This is the story of that crisis.
The Parliament Attack had touched off one of the most difficult puzzles that the Indian leadership had been struggling with for more than a decade – how to handle a nuclear-armed Pakistan. Since Pakistan's acquisition of nuclear weapons in late 1980s, it had grown more and more aggressive in pushing terrorism and the Kashmir Insurgency. As Pakistan's leadership had calculated, the bomb gave them a cover against India's superior military forces. They could bleed India by supporting the insurgency and be assured that India would not retaliate, for a retaliation could mean escalation to an all-out war and a nuclear annihilation for both countries. It was a game of perverse logic much like living next to a crazy neighbour (or a very smart neighbour pretending to be crazy) who keeps stealing from your house. Should you ever retaliate, he threatens to burn down both your houses.
All through the 1990s, while Pakistan continued to train and send increasing numbers of insurgents into India, New Delhi remained stuck in a strategic paralysis. While retaliations like air bombings or commando raids were considered, the risks were too great for India to ever go through with them. With the nuclear threat, coupled with the weak leadership that India suffered through during the decade of fractured politics, Pakistan seemed to have hit upon the perfect solution for its own security. The continued insurgency meant that the Indian Army remained occupied in Kashmir and thus not free to threaten Pakistan. It also meant that the Indian Government had to bear the crushing cost of securing India-Pakistan border against infiltration and the counter-insurgency campaign as opposed to Pakistan's extremely cheap expense of running a few terrorist training camps.
Posted in 1947-, India's Wars, Indo-Pak	| Tagged 2001-2002 India-Pakistan stand off, BJP Government, nuclear crisis, operation parakram | 1 Comment |
Indira Gandhi and the Pakistani Bomb
June 9, 2013 by Sandeep Bhardwaj
AQ Khan with design of neutron initiator, which serves as the kick-start mechanism for a nuclear chain reaction
In December 1975, a thin man with a light moustache landed at the Karachi Airport, where he was awaited by a top Pakistani Military general. He had three large suitcases with him, all stuffed with photographed and hand-written documents that he had stolen from a Dutch lab where he worked as a translator. These documents were technical designs of a revolutionary new technology to make a nuclear bomb. His name was Abdul Qadeer Khan. He was here to make, as the world would come to know of it, the first Islamic Bomb.
In July 1974, AQ Khan had written to the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, offering to build a nuclear bomb for Pakistan. The timing of the letter had been perfect, for only two months ago India had exploded a nuclear bomb of its own, which had thrown Islamabad into a tizzy. Pakistan had been trying to develop its own nuclear bomb since 1958, but had consistently failed because of the lack of money and the technical know-how. The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) was still many years away from developing a bomb. So the letter from this unknown mining engineer had come as a god-sent for Bhutto.
Pakistan had been trying to develop a nuclear bomb through Plutonium, which is a very expensive and difficult exercise. What AQ Khan offered, instead, was building the bomb with Uranium-239, enriched through centrifuges, which was a cheaper and quicker process. This enrichment technology was just being developed by a European Consortium called UNRECO, where AQ Khan worked as a translator. His job offered him unlimited access to the technical information, which he was willing to steal and bring to Pakistan.
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Q: Does the Pfaffian have a geometric meaning? While reviewing the proof of Gauss-Bonnet in John Lee's book, I noticed the following paragraph:
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...In a certain sense, this might be considered a very satisfactory generalization of Gauss-Bonnet. The only problem with this result is that the relationship between the Pfaffian and sectional curvature is obscure in higher dimensions, so no one seems to have any idea how to interpret the theorem geometrically! For example, it is not even known whether the assumption that $M$ has strictly positive sectional curvatures implies that $\chi(M)>0$....
(page 170)
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May I ask if this "interpretation problem" has been resolved? I felt much the same way when I read Milnor's proof of Chern-Gauss-Bonnet using Chern classes, and Chern's statement in his own book using Lipschitz-Killing curvature. Neither has a geometric meaning that is "self-transparent" to me. When I had a class in the index theorem, our proof basically showed Gauss-Bonnet is a special case of Atiyah-Singer using an appropriate Dirac operator. And I do not recall that it involved much geometry, but instead a lot of algebraic manipulations.
Chern suggested the following way to look at it in his book: Consider the exterior $2n$-form
$$
\Omega=(-1)^{n}\frac{1}{2^{2n}\pi^{n}n!}\delta^{i_1 \cdots i_{2n}}_{1\cdots 2n}\Omega_{i_1i_2}\cdots \Omega_{i_{2n-1}i_{2n}}, \Omega=K d\sigma
$$
Then the "key" to prove Chern-Gauss-Bonnet is to represent $\Omega$ on the sphere bundle of $M$ so that one has $\Omega=d\prod$, where $\prod$ is a $2n-1$-form. However, I still do not know how this shed any light on the picturesque side of the equation so that I can visualize it. So I decided to ask. I suppose that this might be one of those topics well known to experts but not written down in introductory level textbooks.
Reference:
John M. Lee: Riemannian Manifolds, page 170
Chern: Lectures on Differential Geometry, page 171
Milnor & Stasheff: Characteristic Classes, appendix A?
For a definition of Pfaffian, see here from wikipedia.

A: The thing you are missing is one further geometric property of the $(2n{-}1)$-form $\Pi$ that Chern constructs on the unit sphere bundle $\mathsf{S}(M)$ of the oriented $2n$-manifold $M$: The fact that the pullback of $\Pi$ to any unit sphere $\mathsf{S}_x(M)\subset T_xM$ is simply the induced volume form of $\mathsf{S}_x(M)$.
Once one establishes this, Chern's proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is straightforward:  Choose a vector field $X$ on $M$ that has isolated zeroes $z_1,\ldots, z_k\in M$, and let $$U = \frac{X}{|X|}:M\setminus\{z_1,\ldots,z_k\}\to \mathsf{S}(M)$$ be the corresponding unit vector field, defined and smooth away from the $z_i$.  Let $\epsilon>0$ be sufficiently small that the geodesic $\epsilon$-balls $B_\epsilon(z_i)$ around the $z_i$ are disjoint and smoothly embedded.  On the manifold with boundary $M_\epsilon\subset M$ that consists of $M$ with these $\epsilon$-balls removed, consider the section $U:M_\epsilon\to \mathsf{S}(M)$.  By construction/definition, $U^*\Omega = U^*(\mathrm{d}\Pi)$ is the Gauss-Bonnet integrand over $M_\epsilon$.  By Stokes' Theorem,
$$
\int_{M_{\epsilon}}U^*\Omega = \sum_{i=1}^k \int_{\partial B_\epsilon(p_i)} U^*\Pi.
$$
Now let $\epsilon$ go to zero.  The left-hand side converges to the Gauss-Bonnet integrand over all of $M$ while the $i$-th summand on the right-hand side converges to the index of $X$ at $z_i$. (This is because $U^*\Pi$ on $\partial B_\epsilon(z_i)$ differs by a term vanishing with $\epsilon$ from the pullback of the unit volume form of $\mathsf{S}_{z_i}(M)$ to $\partial B_\epsilon(z_i)\simeq \mathsf{S}_{z_i}(M)$ under the indicial mapping induced by $U$ at $z_i$, whose degree is, by definition, the index of $X$ at $z_i$.)  Thus, passing to the limit and using the Poincaré-Hopf theorem (that the sum of the indices of the vector field $X$ is equal to $\chi(M)$), one obtains Chern's proof of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.
As to why $\Pi$ pulls back to each $\mathsf{S}_{z_i}(M)$ to be the unit volume form, you need to look at Chern's definition of $\Pi$, which uses the Pfaffian, particularly its algebraic properties.  This comes out of the computation that Chern does, and it is essentially a geometric fact, but it amounts to an explicit formula for the transgression operator defined in Chern-Weil theory for the Euler class.  Another way to look at it would be to look at the generalized Gauss-Bonnet formula, a discussion of which you can find at the MO question A question on Generalized Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.

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Police today imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 banning rallies, sit-ins, meetings and use of loudspeakers without prior permission in Jaipur and suburban areas as a precautionary measure ahead of Rajasthan Assembly polls scheduled for December 1.
The authority also put restrictions on defacing of public property, putting up of billboards and banners, and other activities related to polls.
For any such activity prior permission has to be obtained from the district collector or the police commissionerate, an official spokesman.
Restrictions were also placed on use of social media like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and WhatsApp, according to the prohibitory order.
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Seeing empty chairs in the trade show is the horrible dream for trade show organizer. What is the purpose of trade show? Why people organize the events and trade show, how could be trade show beneficial for any business company? The answer is very simple. Actually, trade shows are the worth key to increase the company sales, products, services and relationship with their customers. 50% of business organizations just want to generate profit and revenue from their events or trade shows.
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The successful trade show is an essential factor for business existence. Events industry has become a popular and powerful industry for generating the revenue. Therefore trade show organizer should identify their goals and targets. Just in the UK event industry value approach to 39.1 billion pounds and the number of income figures is increasing progressively.
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Baldwin Red Devil III
When Thomas S. Baldwin returned from the 1910 Pacific tour, he began testing a new airplane at Mineola, New York. The new aircraft was similar to the basic Curtiss Pusher design but was constructed of steel tubing instead of wood with cloth wings. The aircraft was constructed by C. and A. Wittemann of Staten Island, New York, and was powered by a 60 horsepower (45 kW), Hall-Scott V-8. It was capable of 60 mph (97 km/h). Baldwin named his new aircraft the "Red Devil III", and thereafter each of his designs would be called a "Baldwin Red Devil". Tony Jannus flew actress Julia Bruns in a Red Devil on October 12, 1913, in a New York Times Derby.
About half-a-dozen steel biplanes have been produced in 1911 by Captain Baldwin, and he and other aviators, Badger, Hammond, Miss Scott Mass, etc., have flown these at various exhibitions and meets.
Baldwin's Red Devil, located at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Baldwin Red Devil
Engine: Hall-Scott, 50-60 hp
Propeller: Requa-Gibson
Prop diameter: 7 ft / 2.13 m
Prop pitch: 6 feet / 1.82 m
Span: 28 ft 8 in / 8.75 m
Length: 28 ft 3 in / 8.60 m
Speed: 60 mph / 97 kph


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Miami Marlins 2019 Rebrand
By SilverBullet1929, October 15, 2018 in Sports Logos
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On 7/6/2019 at 9:57 PM, the admiral said:
Don't nightclubs in Miami make you wear something a little nicer than a baseball jersey?
Probably. The whole thing strikes me as trend-chasing without understanding what made the original work/the current circumstances of the franchise.
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On 7/7/2019 at 3:38 PM, CaliforniaGlowin said:
I watched a Marlins road game last week and was amazed at how drab the road uniforms looked on TV.
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I was at Marlins Park today and all the advertisements for the throwback games showed a purple DBacks logo so maybe the DBacks will be wearing throwbacks as well?
The logo was actually an incorrect recoloring. The ad had a teal background so I guess they took liberties to not have a teal A on a teal background but the A was purple with gold and black for the diamond pattern on the left side.
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I would love it if the Diamondbacks wore throwbacks too, but I doubt it happens. I recall the Marlins using the 90s Padres logos in their promotions for the 25th anniversary weekend at various points (at the park especially), but the Padres still wore their current uniforms during the games.
That's a missed opportunity in both cases because arguably the Padres and Diamondbacks are among the NL teams that have most noticeable changed their look since the mid 90s. I'd give anything to see a 90s throwback series between the Marlins and Astros next season!
If they wanna be really accurate the Arizona players will not wear any uniforms since that team didn't even play in 97.
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On 7/14/2019 at 7:03 PM, SilverBullet1929 said:
If it's how you describe then it must have been the logo on the hat on the far left and far right. It was an actual alternate hat in the first few years of the franchise, though rarely worn.
44 minutes ago, TheOatsMustFlow said:
Yeah it was basically like that though I can't remember if the diamond pattern was black or gold, whichever it was the outline was the other color.
Man the DBacks were too heavy on the teal in that first unveiling. Very wise of them to bring the purple to more prominence when they eventually did. The teal cap on the home vest is an awful combo with the purple sleeves.
Also, the home whites were actually cream right? Seems weird for a 1998 expansion team to go with cream. They probably would have looked just as good in regular white. To be honest when they wear those today they look more white than cream to me. Almost like it's a lighter cream than say the Giants use.
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12 minutes ago, SilverBullet1929 said:
The unis in that picture are definitely bright white.
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Maybe it was the second iteration of that set that had the off-white homes.
As far as I know, the second iteration of the home set was definitely cream, though they very well could have been white when they first came out. I can't remember for sure though I have some originals in my closet at home.
I would absolutely love it if the diamondbacks had some road throwbacks prepared for this series. I haven't seen anything on the internet that indicates this unfortunately. Though, I was at the chase field team shop several times in the spring and noticed an increase in the former 'D' road hat (2000-2006) on the shelves being sold. It also had the extra new era stickers and was being marketed as one of the official on field caps with all of their other official caps, including the purple alternate one. This got me thinking that there was a chance of a potential throwback game with these hats being used this year. But this is the only evidence I could find to support my theory.
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The D Backs were in white from the very beginning, but I don't think it lasted that long. They began tweaking a few things here and there almost immediately, and made a few rather significant changes after the first or second season. They ditched the cream hat after only a few games (which I believe was only worn with the cream sleeveless set), changed the stacked original wordmark white home jersey to cream either somewhere after the initial reveal or after the first season (or maybe even mid season in their first year. This is the part that's confusing to me. The original set was definitely bright white) then eventually replaced it with the cream A jersey, updated the original home purple batting helmets that used the D snake to the A logo, made the D snake the road hat and helmet switching away from the A, and they made the sleeveless alt the home jersey sometime after 1999 or 2000, I believe? At least, it was basically a defacto home jersey during their World Series run.
This is all off the top of my head, but I think I got that all right. The D Backs uniform history is pretty fascinating to me because they made so many subtle changes to their set so early on, and it was during the era literally JUST before sports leagues really tried to crack down on the consistency of team branding. Pretty much every change we've seen across the big four (or five, if you wanna include MLS) was rather well documented in comparison after the 1998 MLB expansion teams.
Also, my goodness, that D Backs first set (even with the slight tweaks) was head and shoulders above anything they've ever had. The brick, sand, and black set was terribly boring after only a few years and their current look is nothing short of a total mess.
6 hours ago, SilverBullet1929 said:
Shirts against skins!
12 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:
I can do you one better. The Phoenix Firebirds!
1. The stacked Diamond Backs Jersey is among the worst to see the field in the past 21 seasons.
2. Solid-white cap should never be worn with pinstriped uniforms.
3. Were players really still wearing their stirrups like that in '98? I thought we were entering the solid-sock era by then.
4. The turquoise caps were atrocious. Only really went with the white A jersey, but even then, purple is way better.
5. I forgot that I actually liked that purple jersey. Waaaay better than any of their black alts, and way better than the trash they called an away uniform. Shoulda just worn that with solid-gray pants all season long.
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7 hours ago, TheOatsMustFlow said:
This picture got me thinking of a couple of interesting experiences related to local rec baseball leagues with "Diamondbacks" teams (using official marks), and how the variety of colors and identities (and tweaks) the real Diamondbacks had may have led to some understandable confusion or liberties taken on those rec teams' looks.
That black jersey Ainge is wearing looks exactly like the jerseys that teams called "Diamondbacks" in my hometown's youth baseball leagues would wear when I was playing as a kid in the early 2000's. Same exact wordmark and everything. I find that interesting because jerseys in those leagues were usually the major teams' primary colors (never white), and the only exceptions I recall were the Mariners teams in teal and Diamondbacks teams in black (wore the black "D" caps, too, instead of the purple ones). Looking back I guess that was just the manufacturer's assumption/perception of primary colors, I guess? Seems off but I don't know. It could just also be that they just wanted to do it anyways.
Second thing is my stepdad used to pitch for what they called "The Old Man's League" in the southern end of Utah Valley, it was a 30-and-over city league just for fun. He played for the same Diamondbacks team for three or four years, and their uniform was a grey vest and pants, black undershirts, black "D" cap, and the "Arizona" script but in turquoise with the white/copper/black outlines + dropshadow instead of purple, and purple was nowhere to be found on the top or pants. I always thought that was interesting, I never knew why or how that happened.
Anyways, sounds like providing uniforms for rec leagues and keeping up with Arizona's identity must not have been the easiest task!


Love the pictures, what set up are you using, the hill shots are great quality. Do you have any pictures of Ben Nevis?
I am using a Nikon D40 DSLR with a Nikon 18-200mm lens (28-300mm equivalent on the D40). Earlier photos were taken with a Canon S45 digital compact and a Minolta 600si film camera.
No photos of Ben Nevis unfortunately – haven't climbed that one.


PAAL Apartments, in the Eixample Center.
This modernly furnished apartment was renovated in 2007 and lies on the third floor of a building in the area of Eixample Izquierdo. Since it sleeps up to 6 people, it is an ideal choice for a family vacation or a group of friends.
The area of 87m² is distributed in 3 bedrooms, the main one with a double bed and a closet, the other two with a single bed each.
In the living room you will find a double sofa bed, a TV and Wifi access to the internet. The fully equipped kitchen comes with all the necessary utensils you might need to prepare your meals, as well as with a mixer, an espresso coffee maker, a filter coffee maker, a fridge with freezer, a juicer and a boiler.
The bathroom is small but functional and offers a shower and a WC.
For your safety you will be able to use the provided safe (measurements: 190x380x450).
The good location near the Hospital Clínic and the Paseo de Gracia will allow you to visit Gaudi's masterpieces within a short walk. The metro station Hospital Clínic (line 5) also lies nearby.
Late check-in after 22:00 will incur an additional charge of 30€. Furthermore, check-in on the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 31st December, and the 1st January will incur an additional charge of 30€ (these charges are cumulative).


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#define qHistogramHolderLabel_H

#include <QLabel>

class qTransferFunctionDefinitionWidget;
class qTransferFunctionWindowWidget;
class vtkCuda2DTransferFunction;
class vtkCudaFunctionPolygon;

class qHistogramHolderLabel : public QLabel
{
  Q_OBJECT

public:
  qHistogramHolderLabel(qTransferFunctionDefinitionWidget* parent, vtkCuda2DTransferFunction* f);
  ~qHistogramHolderLabel();
  void paintEvent( QPaintEvent * );
  void setObject(vtkCudaFunctionPolygon* object);
  void setSize(unsigned int size);

  void giveHistogramDimensions(float maxG,float minG, float maxI, float minI);

  void mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent*);
  void mousePressEvent(QMouseEvent*);
  void mouseReleaseEvent(QMouseEvent*);

  void keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent* e);
  void keyReleaseEvent(QKeyEvent* e);

  void setZoomSquare(float maxG,float minG, float maxI, float minI);
  void setAutoUpdate(bool au);

  void visualizeAllObjects(bool b);

private:
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  vtkCuda2DTransferFunction* func;
  vtkCudaFunctionPolygon* object;

  float maxGradient;
  float minGradient;
  float minIntensity;
  float maxIntensity;
  double size;
  bool histogram;
  bool visAll;

  float zoomMaxGradient;
  float zoomMinGradient;
  float zoomMinIntensity;
  float zoomMaxIntensity;
  bool hasZoomSquare;

  //original click locations
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  float origClickG;
  float centroidI;
  float centroidG;
  float rotationCentreI;
  float rotationCentreG;
  float closenessRadius;

  //booleans to interpret click by
  bool shiftHeld;
  bool ctrlHeld;
  bool translating;
  bool scaling;
  bool vertexDragging;
  bool autoUpdate;
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};

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Warm weather, pristine beaches, historic attractions, museums and vast dining options make Fort Lauderdale a highly appealing city to visit. Once a spring break destination for college students, Fort Lauderdale now attracts a more sophisticated tourist due to its variety of cultural, historical, and social activities.
In the downtown area, Las Olas Boulevard is a popular spot for visitors. Points of interest along this one mile stretch include the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Museum of Discovery and Science and the Museum of Art, all of which are wheelchair accessible. With a wheelchair rental, scooter rental, or other special needs equipment rental, you can stop in the numerous art galleries, restaurants, outdoor cafes and boutiques that line the way. All sidewalks and street corners comply with ADA requirements and are special needs wheelchair accessible.
Sometimes called the "Venice of America," Fort Lauderdale has more than 300 miles of canals, channels and rivers. Sightseeing cruises enable visitors to see the homes, yachts and the cruise ships of the beautiful city. Tours such as Jungle Queen and Carrie B are both special needs wheelchair accessible but the bathrooms on the Carrie B ships are not.
Fort Lauderdale's ties to the water, has also made it an ideal home to the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame and the Swimming Hall of Fame. Both locations are wheelchair and scooter rental accessible and the Swimming Hall of Fame also provides a lift into the pool should one want to swim in this one-of-a-kind aquatic complex where Michael Phelps once broke a world record.
Fort Lauderdale's port of call, Port Everglades, is also one of the busiest cruise ports in the world. More than 5,300 ships call at Port Everglades in a year. Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, Holland America, Princess, Regent Seven Seas, Royal Caribbean and Seabourn all sail from Fort Lauderdale. To secure your special needs wheelchair, special equipment, scooter rental, or other equipment rentals in Fort Lauderdale, please contact Special Needs Group.
Interesting Fact: Greater Fort Lauderdale houses the world's largest discount mall, Sawgrass Mills.


To support our commitment to delivering a frictionless checkout experience with maximized payment conversions, we have hired three top executives to help online merchants reach this goal. With over 70 years of combined payments and technology experience, we welcome Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Botelle and Scott Conti.
All three executives have extensive experience in the payments space and will be based in the Waltham office. Scott Fitzgerald, a payments expert with a coffee addiction and nearly 20 years of experience, has been named Senior Vice President of Marketing. Previously an executive at ACI Worldwide, Fitzgerald will head marketing, lead generation, public relations and market research.
With over 30 years of customer support and operations experience in eCommerce and Payments, Bob Botelle, SVP of Customer Success, will ensure the successful onboarding of new merchants and customer satisfaction (and not just by wining and dining them with his expert knowledge of food and martinis). Botelle was previously SVP of Client Relations at Litle & Co/Vantiv, a pioneering payment processor.
Scott Conti brings more than 20 years of payments and technology knowledge to BlueSnap to lead their sales efforts and help eCommerce merchants capture more sales with BlueSnap's newly launched Powered Buy Platform. Conti spent 8 years at Litle & Co/Vantiv and was SVP of Direct Sales and relationship management at Merchant e-Solutions. He also has sang the national anthem at Fenway Park (with 37,000 other people, of course), and will only allow people as honorary members of the sales team if they're Patriots fans.
Previous Story How Can You Make 36% More eCommerce Sales? We've Got You Covered.


The traditional method for removing induction furnace linings involved the use of a pneumatic pick. This process exposed the operator to hazards from hand-arm vibration, noise, dust, heat and manual handling. The process has been replaced by the introduction of a hydraulic ram to push the lining out, which can be operated remotely. In addition to eliminating the risks to the operator, productivity has been increased by reducing the downtime of the furnace.


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Which New Funds' PMs Eat a Lot of Their Own Cooking?
News summary by MFWire's editors
How many PMs invest heavily in their brand new products? In the "Focus on Funds" column, Brendan Conway of Barron's highlights PMs of freshly-launched mutual funds who ate of lot of their new cooking.
Barron's named the 12 PMs and their nine new mutual funds, out of 484 new mutual funds launched in 2012, who invested at least $100,000 in their new mutual funds. The PMs and funds, along with ranges for how much they invested in funds they launched last year, are:
Howard Gleicher of the Aristotle/Saul Opportunity Fund [profile] (more than $1 million);
Ernesto Ramos of the BMO Low Volatility Equity Fund [profile] (between $100,000 and $500,000);
David Miller of the Catalyst Insider Long/Short Fund [profile] (between $100,000 and $500,000);
Robert Goldstein and Joel Greenblatt of the Gotham Absolute Return Fund [profile] (between $500,000 and $1 million);
Mark Baribeau of the Prudential Jennison International Opportunities Fund [profile] (between $500,000 and $1 million);
Henrik Strabo of the Rainier International Discovery Fund [profile] (between $100,000 and $500,000);
Dana Feick, Rick Moulton and Mark Thompson of the Riverbridge Fund (more than $1 million);
Andrew Foster of the Seafarer Overseas Growth and Income Fund (more than $1 million); and
Mark Shenkman of the Shenkman Short Duration High Income Fund (between $100,000 and $500,000).
Edited by: Neil Anderson, Managing Editor


OpenDocument Fellowship member Russell Ossendryver has written an Open Letter to the Gnome Foundation enjoining it to halt its apparent support for Microsoft's OOXML as a standard and to put its efforts behind enhancing adoption of the genuinely open standard, the OpenDocument Format (ODF), which was approved by the world standards bodies as ISO/IEC standard 26300 on 2 May 2006.
It appears that the Gnome Foundation is participating in ECMA TC 451 regarding resolving comments and contradictions for DIS 29500. Given the technical shortcomings in the specification and the disregard for process that the backers of DIS 29500 have displayed during the process, Gnome's participation in this activity is to the detriment of interoperability among office suits.
Efforts should be made to support the International Organization for Standards (ISO) policy of "one standard, one test, accepted everywhere." Gnome can do this by promoting support for ISO/IEC 26300. Once the standard is implemented and in use, then add extras can be added, either import-only, or read-write. But, if different suites support unfinished specifications while failing to support the standard, then there is no interoperability.
Having Gnome team members promoting the agenda of its main opponent, however, is not only counter-productive but also reflects negatively on the project and its credibility. GNOME is supporting its main opponent by explicitly participating in the official Ecma / ISO process; by participating informally at the conferences; and, presumably, by participating inside of actual development. It seems that Gnome is becoming Microsoft's catspaw to damage and slow down open source and open standards.
Along those lines, it would be important for Gnome to present a respectable public image in regards to standards and to be sure that Gnome team members are able to back ISO's position rather than ISO's opponent. Individuals may wish to work against open standards, and they are free to do so, but Gnome as a project should distance itself and emphasized that such activities not be done under the auspices of Gnome nor in their role in the project.
For example, one high profile team member can cause a lot of trouble for Gnome, especially when promoting proprietary technologies in opposition to open source and open standards. Quotes like, "Time to play with C#, ASP.NET and some nifty toys (you can make almost Windows feel like Linux now)" seem to be promoting themes advanced by bloggers at Gnome's (and open standards') main antagonist, Microsoft.
A good illustration of pragmatic reasons for standards has been provided in a presentation by David Wheeler, linked below. In sum, Wheeler makes a compelling case that open standards save time and effort.
It is time to unite the community behind the standard, universal format for office suites and distance themselves from Ecma TC45 and DIS 29500. The participation of Gnome in Ecma TC45's apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS and all in the community who have worked so hard for open platforms and open standards.


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Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland Selects Mills James for AV Services
CLEVELAND, OH — The 2021 Prime Site Award-winning Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland (HCCC), managed by ASM Global, has selected Mills James as its new audiovisual production partner.
"As one of the country's largest production companies, Mills James has built a reputation for high-impact events and outstanding customer service, two critical strengths for the convention center going forward," said Assistant General Manager Mike Campo. "We're back in growth mode — HCCC and Cleveland in general — and we're excited to partner with Mills James to take client events to the next level."
Mills James will become Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland's preferred provider of production services and its exclusive provider of rigging services. Founded in Columbus, OH, in 1984 by Ken Mills and Cameron James, the employee-owned company produces live and virtual events, commercials, broadcast programs and visual communication in all its emerging formats.
"Our mission is to redefine convention center audiovisual services," said Mike Tyson, Director of Convention Center Sales for Mills James and primary contact for the HCCC account. "The Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland is committed to raising the game nationally, and we're honored to be part of it."
"We're able to offer production value that rivals anything you'd see in New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, but at client-friendly price points," added Mike Yearling, one of Mills James' managing partners. "And with greater speed and agility, which is so important these days. The fact that every Mills James associate is an owner in the company is a huge differentiator for us."
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I opened 4 hotels and 5 restaurants as part of a corporate job. Over the years, I also dabbled in opening my own restaurant, only to see it fail. What was the difference that when I opened restaurant for a corporate, it did well and when I tried if for myself I did not succeed.
I thought about it long and hard….
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Q: Separate two strings to two variables Let's say I have this :
var colors = 'Red,Blue,Green,Orange,White,Brown';

I tried to parse it to get all the colors which means :
color1='Red';
color2='Blue';
[...]

I used to use the matches() and then put a comma since the colors are separated by commas so I put ',', but the result is not what I've expected... Is there any fast way to do it?

A:
Is there any fast way to do it?

Yep, I recommend you to use split()
As the docs says :

The split() method is used to split a string into an array of substrings, and returns the new array.
Tip: If an empty string ("") is used as the separator, the string is split between each character.
Note: The split() method does not change the original string.

So you could get the same of your colors doing something like this :
var colors = 'Red,Blue,Green,Orange,White,Brown'.split(','); //use .split() to split the character you want to.
var color1 = colors[0];
var color2 = colors[1];
var color3 = colors[2];
[...]
alert("Color 1 = " +color1 + "\n"+ "Color 2 =  " + color2);

Now you could do some logic to know the items that are on your var colors or whatever you want.
Hope it helps.

A: If you dont mind to have it on the global object:
'Red,Blue,Green,Orange,White,Brown'.split(',').forEach(function(color, index ){
  window['color' + index] = color;
});

A: To match it with a regular expression you just need to use \w+ which matches any of the following characters A-Z a-z 0-9 _.
var colors = 'Red,Blue,Green,Orange,White,Brown';
var matches = colors.match(/\w+/g);
console.log(matches[0]);

If you are worried about matching the numbers and underscore, you can always just use /[a-z]+/gi

A: You can use below code:
String [] stringParts = myString.split(":");


Amy attended a screening of "American Hustle" yesterday in New York City. We have the fist photos of her arriving at the after part in our gallery, lets hope more pictures appears soon!
Also, pictures of Amy and Darren attending 'First Date' on Broadway was also added.


Schleck crashes into car on training ride. A very, very small car.
Andy Schleck hit a car while on a training ride in Luxembourg. Perhaps out of embarrassment, he neglected to mention the size of the car. Sub-sub-sub compact.
Cycling fans were astonished to hear that the skinny stickman from Saxo Bank slammed into the car going 35 kilometers an hour yet sustained only minor bruises. Now we know why his injuries were so inconsequential.
Neither Schleck nor police could explain why the late model, toy orange Camero or Firebird was laying abandoned in the middle of the road. According to crash experts, the impact with Schleck's Specialized bike also tore off the engine hood, rear tire and rim and back window.
Schleck will travel to Fuerteventura in January for Saxo Bank's first team camp of 2010. Let's hope there aren't any more toy cars to deal with there. These are the kinds of obstacles that ruin training.
« Zirbel denies "knowingly" ingesting DHEA. "Unknowingly" a tough sell.


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Deep in the Hole, sorti en 2001, est le cinquième album (le quatrième en studio) du groupe de rock alternatif Masters of Reality dont l'unique membre permanent est Chris Goss.

Deep in the Hole est aussi le titre de la septième piste de l'album Flick of the Switch produit en 1983 par le groupe ACDC.

L'album
Toutes les compositions de l'album sont l'œuvre des membres du groupe.

Musiciens
 Chris Goss : voix, guitare, basse, claviers
 John Leamy : batterie, claviers

Titres de l'album
 Third Man on the Moon - 5 min 13 s
 A Wish For a Fish - 3 min 57 s
 Counting Horses - 5 min 34 s
 Major Lance - 1 min 03 s
 Scatagoria - 4 min 09 s
 High Noon Amsterdam - 3 min 45 s
 Corpus Scorpios Electrified - 3 min 53 s
 Deep in the Hole - 4 min 32 s
 Roof of the Shed - 4 min 30 s
 Shotgun Son - 3 min 10 s

Informations sur le contenu de l'album
David Catching, Josh Homme, Mark Lanegan, Troy Van Leeuwen, Nick Lucero, Brendon McNichol, Nick Oliveri, Josh Paskowitz, Roxy Saint et Mathias Schneeberger ont également participé à l'enregistrement de l'album.

Album musical sorti en 2001
Album de Masters of Reality
Album produit par Chris Goss

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import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.flipkart.server.monitor.cache.ResourceCache;
import com.ning.http.client.AsyncHttpClient;
import com.ning.http.client.Response;
import com.flipkart.perf.common.jackson.ObjectMapperUtil;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;

/**
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 * User: nitinka
 * Date: 24/1/13
 * Time: 4:17 PM
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
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public class MetricPublisherRequest {
    private String requestId;
    private Set<String> resources;
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You can, most certainly, move and divide them. The best time to do this is in fall when there is little chance of a heat wave. As far as the color change: I believe it is most likely that a cross pollination with another variety or color has occurred. This means that the next generation of seeds are different than what you have started originally.


iPlayCO design, manufacture, ship and install commercial Indoor playground equipment and interactive play solutions worldwide. A wide variety of soft contained modular play structures, climbing walls, custom theming, soft sculpted foam play (TUFF STUFF), soft toddler areas, Ballistic ball arenas, sport courts, Air Trek obstacle adventures, trampolines, Ninja courses, play designs and more. We also offer FEC Development and Turnkey Solutions.
Don't Know Where to Start? Our experienced staff can help you do it all, from design to installation. Receive the highest quality and most creative play structures available in the world when you choose iPlayCO. Our equipment is designed and manufactured to meet all North American and International safety standards. Quality and attention to detail. We pride ourselves on the quality of product we deliver. We have been creating fun since 1999.
iPlayCO now have offices and manufacturing locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Our North American operations will continue to supply customers in the Americas and worldwide, our Asian operations IREC Corporation will focus on supplying customers in the Asia-Pacific region, and customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa will benefit from our manufacturing and distribution operations at Play Mart International in Europe. iPlayCO's market has always been global, and we have the capabilities to supply our customers from three different continents.
Percussion Play is a family-run UK business who design and manufacture engaging outdoor musical instruments for all ages and abilities to explore - bringing the joy of playing percussion to the great outdoors.
From giant floor pianos to rainbow xylophones, from tough urban-style drums to gentle, melodic chimes, all our instruments are specifically designed to withstand challenging outdoor environments. We have supplied outdoor musical instruments to projects in school playgrounds, parks, activity trails, family attractions, museums, hospitals, elder centres, seaside piers and even a cruise ship. All our instruments are fully inclusive, accessible and easy to play. No musical knowledge or skill is required in order to create beautiful sounds and all our instruments are orchestrated to be pleasing to the ear for the players and those listening nearby.
Combining sculpture with music makes our instruments ideal for landscape architects, local authorities, playground and garden designers looking for dynamic, interactive playful items which add energy and soul to outdoor spaces. Integrated with local architecture or landscaping they cross the boundaries of usual play equipment and allow music making possible for any member of the public to enjoy.
Constructed of durable, easily cared-for materials to avoid the worst effects of the elements, all instruments are designed to avoid costly or long-term maintenance. Where possible we've designed the instruments to be played simply by using your hands. Where beaters are required, we've engineered them as one complete piece, so the ends do not become separated and they're attached using coated stainless-steel cables. Most of the instruments themselves are made from stainless steel or aluminium with high corrosion resistance, making them outdoor musical instruments which stand out in terms of durability and performance. Instruments are available in a variety of fixings from in-ground to surface or wall, all certificated to EN1176 and come with easy to follow installation instructions, plan and 3D drawings.
With representatives in over 60 countries, Percussion Play is the world's leading outdoor instrument manufacturer who has built their reputation on the excellence of their service and quality of their musical instruments.