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Spinal cord injuries can occur in various ways. Car accidents, slip and fall injuries, medical malpractice, sports injuries, and other types of injuries can result in spinal cord injuries. Anatomy indicates that the spinal cord is among the most vital and delicate areas of the human body. In most cases, severe injuries can result in paralysis, permanent impairment, or death. The injury victims and their loved ones have a legal right to compensation for any spinal cord injury caused by the negligence of other people.
Working with a Miami, FL spinal injury lawyer can increase the chances of successfully getting compensated for your spinal cord injuries. Note that these lawyers have decades of experience in helping spinal cord injury victims and protecting their rights when it comes to filing a claim.
Who should compensate for a spinal cord injury victim?
An entity whose negligence causes injuries is legally obliged to fully compensate the victim for spinal cord injuries and the related financial losses. More than one entity may be legally responsible for compensating a victim depending on the type of accident that resulted in the spinal cord injury.
Household accidents
If a spinal cord injury is caused by accident at home such as accidental poisoning, burns, slips or falls, the property owner may be legally responsible for compensating the victim, a legal doctrine called premises liability.
Note that all homeowners owe a duty of care to everyone they invite into their homes. Generally, this duty requires that the property owner warn guests of any dangers including loose tiles, slick floors, aggressive pets, or any other danger that might not be apparent to the guests.
Slip and fall accidents
The premises liability also applies in a case where the spinal cord injury occurs because of a slip or fall accident in business places and public areas. Patrons of entertainment venues, retail stores, gas stations, restaurants, and other areas might slip and fall. The owners of these places also have a duty of care towards everyone who enters the premises.
Store owners have a higher duty of care than other property owners as they invite people into their businesses for a specific reason such as to purchase products. This is the primary reason public place and store owners have the legal duty to inspect their premises and ensure they are safe regularly.
Car accidents
A negligent driver whose choices caused an accident is legally obliged to compensate the victims who got injured in the collision. This is the reason the insurance companies' focus is to determine which driver was at fault for causing the collision. Note that the at-fault driver's liability insurance carrier is contractually obliged to compensate all the victims for the resulting spinal cord injuries, other injuries, and financial losses.
Medical malpractices
Varying levels of medical malpractices can worsen or cause spinal cord injuries. Given the nature of spinal cord injuries, this can happen during medical procedures such as surgeries. Surgeons, nurses, and other medical practitioners owe their patients a legal standard of care.
Regarding the cause of your spinal cord injury, you need a trained and a reliable spinal cord injury attorney to get fair compensation for your damages.


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The FMS500 product line with SDK (Software Development Kit) feature is designed to make GNSS equipment adaptable to customers' needs of rapid solutions, flexibility and innovations.
The SDK feature moved Baltic Car Equipment's products to the highest level, enabling fast device adaptation. BCE FMS500 SDK line – GNSS hardware with the option to write own scripts and control all peripherals including CANbus. Communication via MQTT protocol gives BCE hardware flexibility to implement even very complex systems. Products with SDK feature are marked with a special mark.
This information can be managed not only by drivers (inside the car), but by the fleet management operators as well.
From now on, any company using BCE FMS500 StCAN, FMS500 Tacho and FMS500 XtCAN trackers with SDK can connect Continental ContiPressureCheck ™ system and when the sensor inside the tire sends information to the central receiver (CCU), not only a driver (via display in a driver's cab), but also operators in the office, can receive data such as inflation pressure, tire temperature and warnings.
If you have any kind of project where hardware is limited to handle it – Baltic Car Equipment will indicate and explain how SDK can help you to speed up your business.

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text: Janayugom is the official organ of the Kerala State Committee of the Communist Party of India. It was started in 1947 from Quilon as a weekly magazine to propagate the news and views of the party and the editors were N. Gopinathan Nair(velya gopi) and R. Gopinathan Nair(kochu gopi). By the 1950s, the Janayugom daily newspaper also was started and by the 70s the Janayugom family of publications had expanded with new members- Cinerama, a film weekly, Balayugom, a children's monthly and Janayugom Novelpathippu, a literary magazine. Later all these publications stopped one by one and only a monthly magazine from Calicut remained. In 2007 Janayugom was rejuvenated, now as a daily news paper. Marxist theoreticians like C. Unniraja have been its chief editors. Presently its editor is Binoy Viswam.


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FreightBazaar is B2B Asset Light Integrated Freight Platform that enables online truck hiring for inter-city road transportation. It is a neutral platform wherein Businesses, Fleet Owners or intermediaries can transact.
Simplicity at its Best
The supplier network has more than 20,000 trucks spread across 200 Indian cities providing load opportunities to more than 300 routes. Since, road transportation is a complex industry with high fragmentation dominated by unorganized players with no standardization it was difficult to prepare an online solution for such diverse requirements. Hence, firstly the team segmented the requirements and then started identifying the most common things being used by the stakeholders and built the solutions. Testing was made and improvements were made depending on the responses, being a simple part of organizational DNA.
A change Brought thus
Ganesh has earlier experienced problems while shipping materials to right places on time, because few transporters used to refuse to go to certain locations for delivery due to lack of access to return business. He then decided to jump into the business after discussing with couple of friends. Projects from clients and delivering the product as promised has been the Eureka Moment. Bhaven being a common friend of Ganesh liked the idea and became his partner. Employees at first were recruited via traditional channel that helped to build a strong image. With the initial success, we were able to align the team towards common goal.
One Big Team
Ganesh (39) is a Chemical engineer, an alumnus of NIT Trichy and holds an MBA too from AIM Manila. He has work prior experience from many reputed companies and spent most of the time in building businesses and operations from scratch. Bhaven, the Co-founder is a computer science Engineer from VJTI, Mumbai and has done his MBA from UC Berkley. A. S. R. Hanumanta Rao has nearly three decades of experience in various roles. He had held a series of Leadership positions in the company, most recently as Vice President of Freight Division, heading FTL and ODC segments as National Head. Pradeep has 8 years of experience in Full Stack Technology development. Alok has 10+ years experience in Logistics industry. Praveen has more than 8 years of experience in running BPO operations for large reputed customers.
They are well supported by advisors Vikash Khatri who has 17+ years of experience in Strategy, Business Transformation, Marketing & Business development in Logistics industry and Sanjay Gaggar, a Chartered Accountant and CS with diverse Management, Finance & Business experience of 18+ years, having developed expertise in implementing best finance practices, strategizing business plans, raising funds, initiating growth strategies, executing performance management frameworks along with the usual finance functions.Pune Team Hyderabad Team
That Damaaka post launch
Post launch, they have done close to US$ 1 million freight business. More than 90% of business has seen 100% successful trips. Last October seemed to be a Damaaka month as they have done 5 times more business compared to same period last year. Providing Technology enabled Reliable quality service at affordable pricing is their core strength. Their technology driven features and tools have set them apart from others. Having a transparent revenue model, they charge on percentage of Freight basis.
In just a Truck Away
The company being bootstrapped was funded a little by friends and family. FreightBazaar is an integrated platform. Whenever a business requires Truck, one can login and search for available trucks. Alternatively, business can publish the detail of cargo and can give expected price or request for a quotation. Businesses can also give period based contractual requirements. Truck suppliers can submit the quotation or interest. Once, Truck is hired, businesses can track trip online and make the payments online.
What's Next for FreightBazaar?
Freight would like to build physical infrastructure in major cities and transport hubs starting with 6 major cities and add more features to the platform to automate transactions. Both these initiatives shall result in deeper penetration and larger customer acquisition and would like to reach a daily transaction rate of 10,000 in next 5 to 7 years' of time.
Innovation At its Best
FreightBazaar has received several recognitions at national and international level. It had been declared as the Best Online Marketplace of the Year at ELSC. FreightBazaar was recently recognized at an automotive focused startup conference (TiECon Midwest) in Detroit, Michigan and one of the top innovators in India at the India Innovation Initiative (i3), a prestigious pan India event organized jointly by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Department of Science and Technology and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).Multiple awards and industry recognition speak about the validation that the innovation has great potential to bring positive disruption in not only the Indian freight industry but also other geographies.


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Lead Brand Partner
Linqia is the leader in the influencer marketing industry. We're a growing tech start-up, having experienced 100% year-over-year growth and break-even. At Linqia, we partner with the world's largest brands including Danonne, AB InBev, Kimberly-Clark, Unilever, and Walmart to build compelling and effective influencer marketing campaigns. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing.
We value intelligence, recognize talent and have instilled a culture that supports career development and growth for our employees. We thrive on innovation and accountability, with a customer first attitude that adds true value to everything we touch. Our team members are smart, hard-working, have integrity and love to have fun as we play to win.
The Brand Partner Lead will be responsible for collaborating with brand, shopper, and media agency teams to execute engaging and data driven media campaigns across the Linqia influencer network. The ideal candidate is a results oriented self-starter who has a strong digital media industry background and established client relationships primarily in the CPG vertical, but may also include restaurants, entertainment, apparel, and other verticals. You will own the entire sales cycle and be responsible for prospecting, setting meetings, presenting our solution, building relationships with key decision makers, and motivating them to include Linqia in their media buys and client proposals. Selling will be done through email, phone calls, virtual presentations, face to face meetings, and tradeshows.
- Work with Fortune 500 Companies and their agency partners to educate them on the merits of influencer content planning
- Apply a consultative sales approach that focuses on client objectives, but also maintain a sense of urgency on closing deals
- Have the ability to convey our solution with passion with a focus on the value of targeted, performance based, user generated content at scale
- Understand the value of data driven media solutions and be able to leverage insights and analytics to penetrate clients and close deals
- Develop strategic client relationships through large ($1M+) annual and multi-year contractual commitments
- Drive open opportunities to close in quarter with an eye towards building a strong pipeline for subsequent quarters
- Build a book of business from the ground-up, mentor team members, and prepare for additional leadership as we scale
- Help develop and refine our in-market partner approach by becoming a lead story teller and educate our clients on our platform's best practices
- Apply creativity, demonstrate accountability and maintain a deep understanding of Linqia's services and business model
- Work in a highly dynamic environment with a proven ability to balance competing demands and priorities as well as operate independently
- Proactively manage a rapidly growing sales pipeline/channel
- Be comfortable with carrying a Sales quota, be accountable for delivering revenue, and expect to be handsomely rewarded for over achieving
- Travel required
- +5 years of proven success selling in digital sales and/or online media to executive-level brand clients / agency partners
- Established and transferable relationships in CPG, restaurant, apparel or entertainment verticals
- Proven track record of consistent quota achievement above goal - we're looking for all-stars!
- Demonstrable experience closing committed deals in excess of $1M annually
- Strong consultative sales skills, collaborative + flexible workstyle, while maintaining your competitive drive to win
- A passion for, and evidence of successfully developing creative ideas for clients through leveraging data to deliver optimal client value
- Deep knowledge of promoted and organic best practices on all major social media platforms
- Experience navigating, communicating and leading in a cross-functional environment
- Deep understanding of the advertising industry--including client-direct and key agency relationships
- Excellent presentation/pitch, public speaking, problem solving and negotiating skills
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA a plus
- Can have fun while working hard!
Compensation Range: $150,000 base salary and a $150,000 uncapped commission structure. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.
This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. Linqia is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes or candidates through this Web site or directly to employees. Linqia does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with us.


text: EAI looked to the future with a special summer screening featuring a group of young artists who are redefining the use of video in contemporary art at the beginning of the century's second decade. Produced in the last two years, the works in Future Formats offer a glimpse of where artists may take the medium in the coming decade as they harness new technologies and consider their complex implications. The program included works by Uri Aran, A.K. Burns, Sean Monahan and Greg Fong, Andrew Lampert, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, Ryan Trecartin, Leilah Weinraub, Yemenwed, and Hennessy Youngman.


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Oct 01, 2023
That climate change is now a reality has now been brought home to the common people. A warm November with hardly any need for woolens, particularly in the central parts of the country, making the people realize how true the predictions were that were being made for some time.
A region where the cold weather would herald its onset from the last week of October with cool nights requiring covers and light woolens remained unusually warm this year. It couldn't really attribute it to below-average rainfall. The fact is the winter this year has failed to set in so far and hence one tends to wait for December with trepidation not knowing what it has in store for us. Already, 2015 has been declared the hottest year so far with temperatures worldwide hovering above normal.
Surprisingly, however, northern parts of the country did have their usual quota of cold, sleet and snowfall since late October which worsened in November. Rain and snow hit Jammu & Kashmir as well as Himachal Pradesh with ferocity disrupting road communications bringing traffic to a halt for a few days. But in deep South, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, on the other hand, got a raw deal. It was at the receiving end of extreme and violent weather with heavy rains and floods. Both were man-made -- the first one because of global warming and the flood havoc was because of constructions on drains and wetlands as a consequence of thoughtless urbanization that choked the points of egress of flood-waters.
While the South is sogging wet, the country a few latitudes above it has been bone dry giving rise to misery for farmers in northern Andhra Pradesh and the new State of Telangana. Rainfall deficit has been up to 70% and the crops have withered and hundreds of farmers have committed suicide. Large scale switch to cotton in regions where rainfall is scanty put the famers in difficulties.
The trends of rainfall deficit and crop failures have been witnessed for some years now. The governments should have been able to devise by now strategies to combat the changed weather pattern. Unfortunately, that does not seem to have happened anywhere in the country and lives of farmers are being lost.
In the east the Sunderbans in West Bengal has been bearing stoically the impacts of global warming. Every year the inhabitants brace themselves for the monsoon which unleashes severe cyclonic storms with rising seas accompanied by coastal flooding and erosion. The Sunderbans is now a constantly shrinking landmass with rising seas that swallow islands, gobbling up more and more land every year progressively reducing its 'carrying capacity' of humans. It is here that global warming has given rise to "environmental refugees" for the first time in India. Many have left their sinking islands to fight their way into the Sagar Island, a large island which is likely to suffer the same fate in course of time. The refugees will then join their folks in Kolkata.
The demographic push will not only be felt in West Bengal, even Bangladesh is likely to witness "environmental refugees" pressing on to the mainland from its larger portion of the Sunderbans and, quite likely, eventually pressure will build up on the Indian borders too. A human problem of immense proportions is likely to unfold in not too distant future action to combat which the governments are yet to decide on.
A recent report says that the phenomenon of global warming will progress faster than what was estimated earlier as the rising temperatures encourage greater natural emission of methane, a greenhouse gas that already is in excess among other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The window of opportunity is, therefore, getting smaller and smaller.
No wonder the United Nations organizes every year Climate Conferences to plan to find ways and means to control not only the emission of greenhouse gases as also, as a corollary, to contain the rise in global temperature to 20 Centigrade above what prevailed during pre-industrial times. This year's conference in Paris will be the 21st Conference of Parties after the first one held in 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and legitimised.
1992 reminds one of George Bush who made the stunning statement that the American (opulent and wasteful) way of life was not negotiable. Two decades have elapsed since but an agreement has eluded the world community so far for achieving the objectives of limiting the rise in global temperature to 20 C above the pre-industrial level during this century.
Differences in approaches have prevented an agreement – the world having been divided between developed and developing countries. The former have been held responsible for pumping most of the greenhouse gases and, according to the developing world, should not only cut down on their emissions but also finance poorer countries to adopt technologies to promote for them a cleaner growth.
Hitherto restricting the global temperature increase to 2°C over the pre-industrial average has generally been reckoned as an adequate means of avoiding dangerous climate change. However, according to climate scientist Kevin Anderson "recent science has shown that environmental and social impacts of 2°C rise are much greater than (what) the earlier science indicated, and that impacts for a 1°C rise are now expected to be as great as those previously assumed for a 2°C rise."
Climate scientists have explained that for this reason "avoiding dangerous climate in the conventional sense is no longer possible, because the temperature rise is already close to 1°C with effects formerly assumed for 2°C." Anderson's researches have shown that a rise of 40 Centigrade by 2060 is very much on the cards given the record of inaction till date on climate change by governments.
Researchers have also indicated that there is a linkage of global warming with the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Currently, this concentration is close to 400 ppm and it has been reckoned that the global rise in temperature can be restricted to 20 Centigrade if the greenhouse gases are not allowed to exceed 550 ppm. It has also been felt that stabilisation of greenhouse gases below 400 ppm would provide a higher degree of certainty of temperature not exceeding the 20 C mark. That, however, seems to be impossible now as the concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere is likely to overshoot 400 ppm anytime now.
Naturally therefore, so much of importance is being attached to the Paris Summit. The world would be seen to be standing at the edge of a cliff; a false step and it will be a disaster. It is a matter of 'do or die'. There is no time to play the blame game now. We are already late. Our thoughtless actions have brought us to the brink of disaster.
Now is the time to retrace our steps back and get back to sustainable living that does no further damage to our planet. Rich or poor, all have to come together as it is a matter of survival of humanity in this wonderful "commons" that our planet is. The Summit, therefore, places a huge responsibility on the shoulders of world leaders. Hopefully, they will not disappoint and arrive at an agreement that had eluded them so far to rescue Humanity before it is too late
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|Couple of years ago I myself was about all these talking about climate. Now I experienced the ugly side of this phenomenon. Of course we human being going to destroy this earth very soon.
|In modern scientific times that enables the vast increase in human population coupled with the accompanying demands on and depletion of the earth's resources, the trend is irreversible. One cannot in a climate change conference set about to tweak what is a steep exponential curve. Even eminent scientists - Hawking among them - seriously talk of 'thousands of years' for man on earth, or that Paris will be here 'a thousand years from now' – extrapolating from the easily accommodated survival of the human species in past centuries, unrealistically flattening the exponential trend today. It is our common humanity that prompts efforts to save 'our common (add fragile) home' against the threat manifested in climate change. It is rather the case that the futility of the attempt is realised, but there is nothing for it but to make it appear feasible by solemn warnings. But as the title to the article makes clear, 'Climate change is already upon us'.
Providence has long since been ruled out of what is the very domain of providence from the beginning. Science (providentially, if only to manifest the method) has improved life for human populations, but giving with one hand, has taken back with the other, leading to today's crisis. The substantial checks of war, plague and famine, wiping out millions at a stroke, have proved to be part of providential action in the past, which by and large have been rendered obsolete today. Science, and science fiction, appears friendly in this light, yet, for all the pretence of controlling the future that the latter borrows from the former, it is all-pervading providence that is the ultimate ground of hope for humanity, since nothing occurs but is providential.


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equiteacher is a wireless instruction system with a transmitter and a receiver with an open connection between instructor and rider, so that up to 300 m. distance a direct playback of your instructor without noise, disturbance or delay (there is no signal transduction).
equiteacher is no walkie talkie where a button needs to be pressed for transmission or when they a so-called. VOX setting (automatic send button), the first part of the speech is not transmitted.
At equiteacher is deliberately chosen for a one-road system, there is an open connection than continuous leaving no delay is in the speech or word pieces fall off.
In addition, the transmission and reception quality is of studio quality! so bright and clear, it seems as if your instructor on the back of your horse "rides ". Drive with equiteacher gives more intensive instruction during your lessons and offers discretion when you ride for your contest.
equiteacher has a mono earpiece so that the rider also still sound with the other ear can perceive and is thereby not entirely cut off from the outside world, stereo earpieces are therefore experienced as unpleasant by many.
By the small size, very light weight and the built-in antenna is equiteacher for the equestrian sports a very user friendly system which made your driving comfortable. Once with a equiteacher driven and you never want to be without!


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The New Orleans Ragtime Festival presents The New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra
Sat, Apr 7, 2018 from 11am - 3pm
- Tickets are transferable but not refundable.
This event has passed.
Taking its name from the SS Leviathan, a transatlantic ocean liner with a well-regarded dance band at the start of the 1920s, the orchestra was founded in 1972. Their first performance was at Tulane University, presenting a rather tongue-in-cheek concert of "best loved Oriental Foxtrots" (a then largely forgotten early 20th-century dance music genre, partially satirizing the then-current revival of scholarly interest in classic ragtime.


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China Bears — who obsess over local government debt — love a guy like Huang Qifan, the Chongqing mayor who leads the country in public housing construction and other government-funded projects.
But Huang isn't just spending recklessly. He calls himself a student of supply-side Reaganomics, and he thinks the U.S. should return to these policies too.
He told Reuters (via Beyond Brics): "The United States of the 1980s laid the foundation for the smooth development of that country throughout the whole decade of the 1990s."
Regarding debt-fueled spending: "If you sit there dumbly waiting for funds to be issued to deal with the costs of reform, then you won't be able to accomplish anything."
Regarding the western world: "My sense is that if currently the European and American economies want to improve and be revived, that really must be based on the supply-side theories."
So far things are booming in Chonqing. The southwest city is the only place in China that hasn't needed to restrict property purchases thanks to a municipal luxury property tax, as well as aggressive efforts to build public housing.


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The American Civil Liberties Union had a curious way of honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week by editing out her words — removing offensive references to "woman" and "she." I expect that Ginsburg herself would have had little patience with such woke revisionism.
The ACLU wanted to not just memorialize the one year anniversary of Ginsburg's death but highlight the fight over abortions in states like Texas. The quote, from Ginsburg is taken from her confirmation hearing in 1993:
"The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When Government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices."
The ACLU however did not want to use the term "women" to refer to those who have abortions or the pronoun "she." So that quote was reproduced in this form with "women" substituted with "person's" and "she" substituted with "they":
"The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person's] life, to [their] well-being and dignity… When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices."
Many (including Ginsburg) could object to the use of the plural "they" for a reference to the singular "her" life as not just changing the words but the meaning.
The ACLU also cut "It is a decision she must make for herself." That was arguably the crux of the quote but it was axed entirely.
The removal of "woman" is in response to objections that biological females who identify as male are "men" and therefore "men" can get pregnant and have abortions.The result is a rewriting of Ginsburg's celebrated writings:
What is particularly curious is that the ACLU can still remove such references to "woman" or "she" in its own writings without editing historical quotations or writings. If one accepts this view that the reference to "woman" is offensive, you can still accept that historical documents should be read in their original form. You can then editorialize or contextualize with any objections or warnings.
For my part, I am a strong advocate for leaving historical documents unchanged and quoting them in their original forms. I also recently criticized the decision of the National Archives to add "trigger warnings" to historical documents as "bubbling wrapping history." I believe that people can understand such documents in their historical text, even a quote that was first spoken as recently as 1993.
It is of course ironic that this iconic liberal jurist is now the subject of corrective editing. The ACLU might be wise to consider this other Ginsburg quote:
"Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."


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(Republican Insider) – If you don't think that tyranny is knocking on the door of the United States through the use of the insanely stupid mandates and other directives the left has concocted to handle the COVID pandemic, then perhaps you need to pay more attention to what is happening right now in the country of Austria.
According to WND, there's currently a national lockdown in the country for only those who remain unvaccinated, and to ensure this lockdown is enforced, local police in Austria are currently patrolling stores and stopping vehicles to check the vaccination status of citizens who are out and about.
Sound familiar?
That's what happened in Nazi Germany.
"An Austrian television news report showed officers stopping shoppers at a retail outlet and ordering them to display on their smartphones verification that they had been vaccinated for COVID-19," the report said.
"Reacting to a spike in COVID cases and ICU patients, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said Sunday that people who are unvaccinated can leave their homes only for "essential reasons" such as shopping for food," the report continued.
"In reality we have told one third of the population: You will not leave your apartment anymore apart from for certain reasons. That is a massive reduction in contacts between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated," Schallenberg went on to say.
If you are a person who is caught away from your home without having proof of vaccination, you might end up being fined 500 euros, which is equivalent to $572. A person who refuses to be checked faces a much steeper fine of 1,450 euros, or $1,658, according to BBC News.
As of now, almost 37 percent of the population of the Central European nation has not taken the vaccine.
Austrian police hunt for The Unvaccinated, who have been confined to their homes and face fines of $1660 for being in public (except when working).
And the human rights industry, the EU, US and much of the int'l left are silent, if not quietly approving. pic.twitter.com/Wc26Eh09EC
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) November 16, 2021
Karl Nehammer, the country's interior minister, has issued a rather stern warning to the people of Austria during a news conference last Sunday.
"As of tomorrow, every citizen, every person living in Austria, must be aware that they can be checked by the police at any time," he stated.
Wow. Just wow.
Don't these people see how eerie this kind of stuff is? It's the same kind of mentality that the Nazis possessed back in the 1930s and 1940s in Europe when they wanted to check everyone's papers. Instead of Jews being specifically targeted, it's anyone who refuses to inject an experimental vaccine into their bodies.
The denial of bodily autonomy here is appalling. And if you don't think this can happen in the United States, you better think again. Liberals are just itching to put a policy like the one in Austria into place.
"Every Person in Austria must be aware that they can be checked by the police at any time"
– Interior Minister.
Citizens owned now by the State. Today it's vaccines, but tomorrow?#NoVaccinePassports #Covid pic.twitter.com/Cr2jB0WKWl
— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) November 15, 2021
A Twitter user who stated that she lives in Austria, Anna S. Phillips, said that she is "20 years old and healthy yet the government denies my freedom."
"I see too many thanking the government for stepping in, for taking care of the situation, the unhinged unvaccinated," she said in her post. "This country hasn't learned one lesson of its own history and it shows."
"In neighboring Germany, Reuters reported, the federal government and leaders of Germany's 16 states will meet next week to discuss tightening measures against the spread of COVID-19," the WND report said.
Apparently, Germany already requires anyone coming from Austria to go into quarantine, which is a huge blow to winter tourist industry in Austria.
Copyright 2021. RepublicanInsider.org


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Phishing artists apparently have learned some lessons from legitimate email marketers. The main one is that they are better off sending spam to smaller lists, according to How Modern Email Phishing Attacks Have Organizations On The Hook, a study by Ironscales.
Of the 8,500 verified phishing attacks studied by Ironscales -- those that bypassed spam filters -- 77% targeted ten mailboxes or less, and 33% went to only one. And there are good reasons for this, according to Ironscales:
In line with this, Ironscales found that so-called spear phishing is "increasingly laser-designated."
Scam artists have also discovered that it's better to conduct the attacks as quickly as possible: Over 47% of the phishing efforts studied lasted less than 24 hours.
However, 35% went on for twelve months or more, largely because they were able to beat email security safeguards. They did this by using polymorphism techniques, "changing email artifacts like the sending IP, subject lines and elements of the email body," Ironscales writes.
Why? For one thing, most phishing scam artists have "limited threshold for attack duration." And more targeted campaigns tend to last less time. However, "Malware drip campaigns are successfully beating traditional spam filters and, once they do, the attacks continue to perpetrate for long periods of time," Ironscales continues.
How do you fight them? With machine learning. Without it, it can take weeks, even months, to get inside phishing attacks. Ironscales claims. This is compounded by "overburdened security teams, too many false positives and a lack of incident response technology."
Spoofing attacks are also on the rise, although they tend to be picked up by spam filters. But they're more effective when they target internal executives such as CEOs instead of large brands.
Of the phishing campaigns studied, 95% were "highly targeted campaigns, with the majority impersonating internal communications teams or individuals (i.e. CEO fraud). "
Not that brand-spoofing has gone away. The ten most victimized brands are:
Our conclusion? That scam artists are both spoofing -- and learning -- from the best.
Methodology: For this report, Ironscales analyzed data from more than 100 of its customers and 500,000 mailboxes on four continents.


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The title of this post is the headline of this story by Ad Crable today at Lancaster Online. The story, which says the nuns have "attracted worldwide media attention," begins:
A federal judge in Reading has dismissed a freedom-of-religion lawsuit brought by a Roman Catholic order of nuns near Columbia to try to stop a gas pipeline.
The judge said the court lacked jurisdiction.
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ immediately announced they would appeal the case to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
The Adorers had brought the lawsuit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company in a last-ditch effort to stop the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline from running through farmland they own in West Hempfield Township.
They sued under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The nuns maintained that their deeply held belief is that the Earth is God's creation and that land is a "gift of beauty and sustenance" that should not be used in an "excessive and harmful way."
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ABORTION LEGISLATION HAS passed through the Dáil.
The vote on the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill came at the end of day's of debate in the Dáil on the stroke of midnight.
The Bill passed by 90 votes to 15, and will now pass onto its next stage in the Seanad.
The fact the Bill has passed means that it is keeping within the timeline so that abortion services can be introduced in Ireland in January.
Minister for Health Simon Harris said in a statement that it's a "really significant step forward".
"We pass this Bill today just six months after the people had their say," he said. "I also look forward to being able to assure our doctors, nurses and midwives that they can be confident in the decisions they are helping their patients to make and in providing the care their patients require."
The Eighth Amendment referendum in May of this year paved the way for the legislation to be brought in. That referendum repealed the Eighth Amendment, meaning that planned legislation to regulate termination of pregnancy was to be brought in.
The process to bring in the legislation was delayed due to a number of court challenges to the result of the Eighth Amendment vote.
The Dáil proceedings today were also lengthy and often heated as a number of TDs debated amendments to the proposed legislation well into the night.
Conscientious objection
Conscientious objection was a major contentious point during the debate, over Minister Harris' plans to introduce GP-led abortion services from January 2019.
The legislation makes provision for this and says anyone wishing to exercise conscientious objection should "make such arrangements for the transfer of care of the pregnant woman concerned as may be necessary to enable the woman to avail of the termination of pregnancy concerned".
In other words, the medical professional would have to refer the case onwards.
TDs who'd campaigned to retain the Eighth Amendment spoke referenced conscientious objections a number of times, such as former Sinn Fein TD Peadar Tóibín who said that abortion services are being imposed on GPs, and claimed hundreds of GPs do not believe that general practice was the appropriate setting to lead these services.
He said doctors, nurses and pharmacists who are concerned about the proposals were denied a consultation with Minister Harris.
"As a number of other Deputies have stated here, there is a large number of healthcare professionals who will not implement this as laid out," Tóibín said. "They will refuse to implement it. The problem here is that the abortion service that the Minister seeks to provide will be as chaotic as the health service over which he presides."
Former Fine Gael TD Peter Fitzpatrick argued for an opt-in system while Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler said medical practitioners had genuine concerns.
Harris replied that there are many doctors willing to provide these services, adding that he would defend conscientious objection "forever to anyone".
He said: "We had a referendum on women and women's healthcare and maybe we should think about the woman.
I will defend forever the right of a doctor or healthcare professional to object conscientiously, but I will not stand over conscientious obstruction.
TDs such as Ruth Coppinger and Bríd Smith spoke against the amendments during the lengthy debate.
Smith in particular took exception to Tóibín's comments about how a consultation over hedge cutting would take a year.
"Is it getting that ridiculous and inhumane? We need a reality check and to think about what we are saying," she said.
Amendments proposed to the legislation on conscientious objection were rejected by the Dáil, as was an amendment on the disposal of foetal remains.
'New era for Irish women'
In his statement, Harris hailed the passing of the legislation as a "new era for Irish women".
"I can only imagine how the intensity of debate during the campaign and since then has felt for women who have themselves travelled abroad for a termination over many years," the Minister said.
Who felt the cold shoulder of judgment and the sting of shame at home, and the isolation of being alone and vulnerable abroad. They don't forget, but the referendum result let a little welcome light into the shadows that were forced on their lives.
I look forward to a time – not far away now – when we will be able to assure women experiencing crisis pregnancies that they will be looked after here at home, where they need not fear that they will be stigmatised for their choices or lack the support they and their families need from our health service.
The next step for the Bill is to now go to Seanad for consideration, with a tight deadline in place to get it through before the Dáil breaks for Christmas next week.
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Pages 310-311
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1948.
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33. HOSPITAL OF ST. NICHOLAS, ROYSTON (fn. 1)
The hospital of St. Nicholas was founded in that part of Royston which lay in the county of Cambridge and diocese of Ely. It seems probable that it was founded by Amphelise, wife of Theobald son of Fulk and one of the daughters of Robert the Chamberlain; she gave 2 acres of land in Kneesworth in the parish of Wendy to the Hospital of St. Nicholas, (fn. 2) and her gift was confirmed by her husband. (fn. 3) Amable, or Mabel, de Cormeilles, who seems to have been sister of Amphelise, also made a grant, with the assent of her husband Osbert L'Evesque (Episcopus). (fn. 4) As Osbert was dead by 1203 (fn. 5) and Theobald before 1206, (fn. 6) while Niel, the last surviving son of Robert the Chamberlain, died in 1191 (fn. 7) the date of foundation must have been about 1200.
Numerous small grants of land in Melbourn and Kneesworth were made by more than a score of donors. Most of these were made to 'the brethren', in several instances qualified as 'whole and sick'; (fn. 8) in two deeds 'brethren and sisters' are mentioned, (fn. 9) and in four 'lepers and brethren'. (fn. 10) There appears, therefore, to have been a small religious community who received lepers, and possibly other sick persons. According to a statement made in 1359 the original foundation had been of a chapel and houses for the lodging of lepers and the maintenance of a chaplain who should celebrate in the chapel in the presence of the lepers three times a week. (fn. 11) It does not appear whether the chaplain was head of the community, and it is curious that a grant of 1 acre in Kneesworth by Sir Thomas de Waddon (c. 1230-40) to 'the master and brethren' (fn. 12) is the only allusion to such a head.
On 1 January 1213 King John took the house and brethren under his protection, (fn. 13) and next day he granted to the brethren of the hospital a fair on the eve and day of the Translation of St. Nicholas (8, 9 May). (fn. 14) Henry III in 1236 extended the fair to the morrow of that feast. (fn. 15)
The patronage of the hospital descended from Fulk son of Theobald to his grandson Ralph son of Ralph son of Fulk, who sold 2 acres in Melbourn with the advowson of the hospital and chapel of St. Nicholas to Sir Giles de Argentein, (fn. 16) who already held the patronage of the Hospital of St. James in Royston in Hertfordshire, probably founded by his father. (fn. 17) Towards the end of the 13th century the chapel of the hospital contained a set of vestments, a silver chalice, a chrismatory, a missal, and a breviary; (fn. 18) and just about a century later the ornaments included 7 bronze crosses, 16 banners, 3 censers, and an incense boat. (fn. 19) This suggests that at the later date the chapel was used by one or more of the Royston gilds (fn. 20) — possibly only as a store for their processional gear. Even at the earlier date it is doubtful if the hospital was still functioning, and by 1359 it was certainly a sinecure free chapel or chantry. In that year John de Norwych, nominal warden of St. Nicholas, stated that the advowson of the chapel was held by Agnes widow of John de Argentein, that for a great while past lepers had not dwelt there, and that the chantry of three celebrations weekly was then performed at the Hospital of St. James. The 30 acres of land which constituted its endowment were held of the Earl of Richmond and John de Argentein by service of maintaining a lamp in the church of Wendy. (fn. 21) For another hundred years services seem to have been held, at least occasionally, in the chapel, as in 1467 one of the points in dispute between the Prior of Royston and the Master of St. James's Hospital was the saying of mass in the chapel of St. Nicholas in the fields of Royston. (fn. 22)


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J Biomed 2017; 2:12-19. doi:10.7150/jbm.17059 This volume Cite
Research Paper
Supercontinuum source in the investigation of laser-tissue interactions: "ex vivo" study
1. Group of Applied ElectroMagnetic, Information Engineering Department, University of Parma, Viale Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A 43124 Parma, Italy.
2. Micoralis Laboratory, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Nice, Pôle Universitaire St Jean d'Angély 24, Avenue des Diables Bleus 06357, Nice Cedex 4, France.
One of the main difficulties met by clinicians in their daily practice is the choice of the proper laser wavelength to obtain the best results from their treatments with minimal discomfort of the patients. This "ex vivo" study, based on the employment of a supercontinuum source, was performed with the purpose of defining the amount of energy transmitted through different animal tissues by wavelengths ranging from 350 up to 1700 nm. Supercontinuum is a particular light which combines some properties of the lamp light with the collimation beam of the laser. The transmission amount may help clinicians understand which wavelengths have no interaction with a particular tissue, thus determining which lasers are less useful and effective in the different clinical situations and locations. The experiments demonstrated the absence of transmitted energy in two portions of the spectrum, one (350-600 nm) in the visible part of the "therapeutic window" and one in the infra-red portion of the spectrum (1300-1700). Moving to clinical practice, this study suggests that using the visible (blue and green) and the far infra-red (around 1500 nm) lasers in surgery and LLLT is ideal.
Keywords: supercontinuum laser, transmission, laser-tissue interaction, ex vivo.


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In the Old Testament, we first hear of Bethlehem in Genesis 35 when Jacob's wife Rachel dies and is buried near there. A few times in the book of Judges the town is named as the home of various bit players. The first real drama around Bethlehem happens in the book of Ruth, when Naomi and her daughter in law Ruth return there in grief to make a home. Ruth winds up being the great-grandmother of King David, and suddenly in 1 Samuel 16 Bethlehem breaks out as the home town of King David, whose shadow looms large over the rest of the Old Testament.
David's shadow looms especially large over Israel's hope for a deliverer, a "Messiah", the one God will choose to lead his people. The pinnacle of David's reign as king was God's promise to him that "When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever" (see 2 Samuel 7). This prophecy was partly fulfilled in David's son Solomon, who built the Temple in Jerusalem. But Solomon was not faithful to God and after his reign David's descendants were a pretty motley crew, some better, some worse. But this prophecy finds its fulfillment in Jesus, the heir of David ("Son of David" was a common title for Jesus) and the one who fulfills what God had promised. Thus it is fitting that Jesus, the heir of David, should be born in David's hometown, Bethlehem, even though it was small, out of the way, and more known for shepherds than for kings. In fact, God had promised that this chosen ruler would come from Bethlehem. (See a prophecy about Bethlehem in Micah 5.)
What does this mean for you and me?
One phrase from a sermon that often rings through my thoughts says, "Do not despise the day of small things." Nearly five hundred years after David's time, the temple his son Solomon built was destroyed and his people were taken into exile. When they returned many years later, they rebuilt the temple but on a much smaller scale. In Zechariah 4:10 God tells them that those who have despised the day of small things -- i.e., this little temple -- will be proven wrong. This is a word that goes hand in hand with the Christmas story. What smaller beginning could there be than a baby laid in a borrowed feed trough in backwater Bethlehem, adored by shepherds while his peasant parents look on? Yet in the plan of God, this humble beginning is the way the Messiah arrives. Those who have eyes to see can recognize that God is in these small details!
What are the "small beginnings" where God is at work in your life? What are the places where, if you only have eyes to see, God is at work? Have you dismissed these little things because you believe them insignificant? The brief conversation, the unseen change of heart, the decision to turn here instead of there, to write the note, to make the phone call, to forgive, to leave the television off, to open your heart -- these are the small things that lead to life change. Where is God at work in your life, in whatever minor way? Do not despise this small beginning, but nurture and cherish it, bathe it in prayer, invite God to create more and more space for his work in you and through you.
I was remembering this morning the image of my grandmother, eyes nearly blinded by cataracts and tears, sitting in the back pew of the sanctuary when I was ten. I tried to hold the hymnbook so she could see the words, but she shook her head and whispered, "I don't need it." Then she proceeded to sing every word from memory:
Thou didst leave thy throne and thy kingly crown
When thou camest to earth for me;
But in Bethlehem's home there was found no room
For thy holy nativity
O come to my heart, Lord Jesus,
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In this tutorial, we are going to give a quick introduction to React Native hooks. Hooks in React are available since the version
16.7.0-alpha. These functions allow us to use React state and a component's lifecycle methods in a functional component. If you are familiar with React, you know that the functional component has been called as a functional stateless component. Not any more.
At Instamobile, we have already migrated all of our React Native templates to hooks, so we thought it'd be a good idea to write about our learnings from operating with React Native hooks.
Previously, a class component allowed you to have a local state. Hooks do not work with classes. Also, using Hooks, there is no requirement to refactor a class component React Native into a functional component only because you want to introduce local state or lifecycle methods in that component. In other words, Hooks allow us to write apps in React with function components.
React provides a few built-in Hooks such as
useState and
useEffect. You can also create your Hooks to re-use to manage state between different components.
In this tutorial, let us take a look at some of the hooks and build a demo React Native app using them and functional components.
Getting started
Once you installed
react-native-cli you can begin by generating a React Native project. Run the below command to initialize a new React Native project. Also, note that you can name your React Native app anything.
react-native init rnHooksDemo cd rnHooksDemo
Functional components by default
By default, react native apps generated with the latest
react-native-cli comes with a basic functional component. You can go through this in the
App.js file.
/** * Sample React Native App * https://github.com/facebook/react-native * * @format * @flow */ import React from 'react' import { SafeAreaView, StyleSheet, ScrollView, View, Text, StatusBar } from 'react-native' import { Header, LearnMoreLinks, Colors, DebugInstructions, ReloadInstructions } from 'react-native/Libraries/NewAppScreen' const App: () => React$Node = () => { return ( <> <StatusBar barStyle='dark-content' /> <SafeAreaView> <ScrollView contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior='automatic' style={styles.scrollView}> <Header /> {global.HermesInternal == null ? null : ( <View style={styles.engine}> <Text style={styles.footer}>Engine: Hermes</Text> </View> )} <View style={styles.body}> <View style={styles.sectionContainer}> <Text style={styles.sectionTitle}>Step One</Text> <Text style={styles.sectionDescription}> Edit <Text style={styles.highlight}>App.js</Text> to change this screen and then come back to see your edits. </Text> </View> <View style={styles.sectionContainer}> <Text style={styles.sectionTitle}>See Your Changes</Text> <Text style={styles.sectionDescription}> <ReloadInstructions /> </Text> </View> <View style={styles.sectionContainer}> <Text style={styles.sectionTitle}>Debug</Text> <Text style={styles.sectionDescription}> <DebugInstructions /> </Text> </View> <View style={styles.sectionContainer}> <Text style={styles.sectionTitle}>Learn More</Text> <Text style={styles.sectionDescription}> Read the docs to discover what to do next: </Text> </View> <LearnMoreLinks /> </View> </ScrollView> </SafeAreaView> </> ) } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ scrollView: { backgroundColor: Colors.lighter }, engine: { position: 'absolute', right: 0 }, body: { backgroundColor: Colors.white }, sectionContainer: { marginTop: 32, paddingHorizontal: 24 }, sectionTitle: { fontSize: 24, fontWeight: '600', color: Colors.black }, sectionDescription: { marginTop: 8, fontSize: 18, fontWeight: '400', color: Colors.dark }, highlight: { fontWeight: '700' }, footer: { color: Colors.dark, fontSize: 12, fontWeight: '600', padding: 4, paddingRight: 12, textAlign: 'right' } }) export default App
To see it in action, go ahead, and start the metro server using
yarn start. Also, do not forget to build the app for a specific platform. For the demonstration purpose, I am going to use an iOS simulator.
Run the below command to build the app for iOS or Android.
# for ios react-native run-ios # for android react-native run-android
Implementing Hooks in a React Native app
To clearly understand how functional components could be leveraged to manage a state's component, let us try to go through one of the most basic examples by leveraging one f the few built-in Hooks like
App.js and past the following snippet. Start by creating by importing
useState from the React library. Then, using a functional component you can define a default state variable as shown below. If there were classes present, you would be adding the
state object. Using hooks, the syntax has changed.
import React, { useState } from 'react' import { StyleSheet, Text, View, Button } from 'react-native' function App() { const [count, setCount] = useState(0) return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Text>You clicked {count} times.</Text> <Button onPress={() => setCount(count + 1)} title='Click me' color='blue' accessibilityLabel='Click this button to increase count' /> </View> ) }
React preserves the state between all the re-rendering that happens. The hook
useState returns a pair of values. In the above snippet, the first one being the
count which is the current value and the second,
setCount is a function that lets you update the current value.
You can call
setCount function from an event handler just like inside a class component. It is similar to
this.setState in a class component. In above snippet, you are using the function inside the button component:
setCount(count + 1).
The value of
0 passed as the only argument inside
useState(0) hook represents the initial state. This means that you defining an initial state value for
count as
0. This is the value from which the counter will start.
Using the
StyleSheet object, add the following styles.
const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { flex: 1, justifyContent: 'center', alignItems: 'center', backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF' }, welcome: { fontSize: 20, textAlign: 'center', margin: 10 }, instructions: { textAlign: 'center', color: '#333333', marginBottom: 5 } })
The simulator will show you a similar result as below.
If you play around a bit and hit the button Click me, you will see the counter's value is increased.
App component is nothing but a function that has state. You can even refactor it like below by introducing another function to handle Button touch event and it will still work. Modify the
App.js file as shown below.
function App() { const [count, setCount] = useState(0) function handleTouch() { setCount(count + 1) } return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Text>You clicked {count} times.</Text> <Button onPress={() => handleTouch()} title='Click me' color='blue' accessibilityLabel='Click this button to increase count' /> </View> ) }
How to use useEffect hook to add side-effects?
useEffect hook has an important feature that allows functional components to have access to lifecycle methods to manage side-effects.
Remember, the lifecycle methods such as
componentWillUnmount and
componentDidUpdate, that you often use in a class component? You can achieve similar functionality in your React Native apps using
useEffect instead of them.
Start by importing
useEffect from the
react in
App.js file.
import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react'
In this example, on the initial render of the
App component, let us display some random text block from a placeholder API. Add another state variable called
data to store the data after it is fetched from the placeholder API. Do pass an empty string since the value coming from the API is going to be of string type.
const [data, setFetchData] = useState('')
Next, let us use
useEffect just the way you would use
componentDidMount in a class component to fetch data from an external API. This hook accepts a callback function. Add the following snippet.
useEffect(() => { fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', { method: 'GET' }) .then(response => response.json()) .then(json => { setFetchData(json.body) }) .catch(error => { console.error(error) }) }, [data])
The Effect Hook is a combination of all of these three lifecycles we have discussed before. By using this hook you are telling the React component to do something after the render. The
useEffect runs after every render by default. However, there are ways to prevent that default behavior. One is to pass
[data] as the second argument which tells the callback function to only render once, conditionally until the
data is fetched.
Modify the
return inside
App.js file to fetch and display the mock data.
return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Text>You clicked {count} times.</Text> <Button onPress={() => handleTouch()} title='Click me' color='blue' accessibilityLabel='Click this button to increase count' /> <View style={{ backgroundColor: 'red' }}> <Text style={{ color: 'white' }}>{data}</Text> </View> </View> )
The text is going to be shown inside the red background.
This completes our tutorial. I hope this tutorial helps you understand the basics of React Hooks and then implement them with the favorable mobile app development framework: React Native.
Next Steps
Now that you have learned about resources to learn React Native development, here are some other topics you can look into
- Firebase — Push notifications | Firebase storage
- How To in React Native — WebView | Gradient| Camera| Adding GIF| Google Maps | Redux | Debugging |
Hooks| Dark mode | Deep-link | GraphQL | AsyncStorage | Offline |Chart | Walkthrough | Geolocation | Tinder swipe | App icon | REST API
- Payments — Apple Pay | Stripe
- Authentication — Google Login| Facebook login | Phone Auth |
- Best Resource – App idea | Podcast | Newsletter| App template
If you need a base to start your next React Native app, you can make your next awesome app using many React Native template.


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A 1960s IDF Map of the Hotly-Contested Suez-Sinai Region.
SECRET-rated, Hebrew-language, two-sheet Israeli Defense Forces map of the Suez Canal and north Sinai region.
The base map is from the 1924 Ordinance Survey of Palestine, with revisions from 1953 to 1963. The map was probably the most authoritative and detailed map (at least at the 1:250,000 scale) available at the time of both the Suez Crisis (in an earlier edition) and the Six Days War.
The map shows at least 11 airfields arrayed on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal in defense of the area.
There is extensive information about topography, military installations, transportation, and oases, in this otherwise poorly-mapped region.
While it would make sense the map would be in four sheets and cover all of the Sinai Peninsula, the keys at the bottom right of both maps suggest it is complete in two sheets, as here.
The maps include messages from the Israeli Police and Military Police that the maps must be returned to the nearest station.


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Kelly Ann's Quilting Warrenton VA Kelly Ann is a shop owner I met on Facebook, then in person she writes about her shop, being a shop owner, and quilting. She's a wee bit snarky like me, and when I have shop related questions I can ask her.
Beauty Beyond Bones I stumbles across Caralyn's blog through my faith blog. Caralyn writes, with great candor, about having and recovering from an eating disorder. Her most recent post deals head on with an accusatory, unkind, bullying email.
Melody Crust because she's just amazingly awesome. She manages to blog every single day about quilting. She writes, teaches, lectures, and well, she's Melody.
Cheryl Sleboda she speaks business, art, and quilting. Cheryl is rather talented. If you're interested in moving forward and up in your quilting business, schedule and pay for some time with her.
The Snarky Quilter because why not.
Debby Brown just because well, she's Debby.
Treadlemusic Doreen quilts, rides a motorcycle and has fun.
Chawne Kimber I admire Chawne deeply, and her quilts are amazing. Every single one of them.
Amy's Free Motion Quilting Adventure Amy is in the midst of opening a quilt shop making a huge shift in what she's doing in the quilting world. Watching this is fun!
I'll post another list in a few weeks bloggers are cool.
Happy Quilting!
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We've got it made in the shade here, folks
Over the years, many local golf observers have opined in the media about the fact that Toronto is one of the world's great golf cities, based on the number and quality of courses we have within a 60-mile radius. I totally agree with that premise, and I don't think anyone local would argue the point. Unfortunately, I don't think a whole lot of people realize it. Certainly, not many people who don't live within the GTA.
Chicago is the city that most US golf publications single out for volume and quality of courses, and I don't dispute that, either. But I look at a golf map of Toronto with great pride… and if we include Muskoka, about 120 miles to the north, we also have one of the world's great golf resort destinations within a day's visit.
So what does this all mean? Nothing really. There are no real bragging rights to living in A City With a Bunch of Good Golf Courses, and probably all but two people in the world could care less about Toronto's stature (I'm thinking me, and the guy who runs Toronto Tourism).
But one thing that hasn't been remarked upon, aside from quantity and quality, is variety. The different offerings and styles of courses around the GTA is also very impressive.
Of course, the overwhelming style in these here parts is "parkland", because we don't live by the sea and, big as it is, Lake Ontario doesn't qualify. Our best parkland courses are world class and private – like St. George's, The National, Toronto GC, Hamilton (Ancaster), Weston, Coppinwood, Rosedale, Maple Downs, Granite Golf, Lambton, Summit, Scarborough, King Valley, Cedarbrae, Beacon Hall, and the ultra-private Goodwood, all of which feature lovely, rolling terrain and challenging, pretty and creative layouts.
But we have some excellent public parkland courses as well: Glen Abbey, Angus Glen, Copper Creek, Eagle's Nest, Lionhead, Royal Ontario, Royal Ashburn, St. Andrew's Valley, Woodington Lake, Batteaux Creek, The Briars.
Then we have our own versions of Links courses, like Osprey Valley Heathlands, Devil's Paintbrush, Braeben and Glencairn (which I've only heard are good), Bond Head South, and now, Lebovic. These all come pretty darn close to a genuine links experience, albeit without a sea or a firth or a loch in the distance.
If we venture out beyond the GTA and cast our net from Niagara to Windsor to Sudbury to Ottawa, and all points in between, I honestly can't think of any similar-sized combination of city, region, state, or country that has a better roster of first class golf courses, and variety of offerings, as southern Ontario. And yes, I include Ireland, Scotland, and southeast Australia in that mix.
The Irish, the Scots, and the Aussies will no doubt be shrieking "Infidel!" at me for that bold statement, and I must admit, I offer it to the readership sheepishly. Partly because I have not yet been to either Ireland or Australia. From a lifetime of reading about golf, and looking at pretty golf photos, I'm aware of many brilliant golf courses in those countries, and their second tier roster may be equally impressive. For their part, 99% of the Irish and 99% of the Aussies may say they've never heard of ONE single golf course in southern Ontario, so what does that say about my bold statement? Either I'm wrong, or they haven't done their homework. Frankly, I'd much rather visit Ireland and Australia to prove myself right or wrong, than wait for them to look into southern Ontario.
This all, of course, begs the question, what makes a good or great golf course? And there is, of course, no right or wrong answer to that one. I generally figure that I've been around long enough and played enough bad, good and great courses to know one when I see one. I've played some courses that are considered great, and walked away saying to myself, "really?" (e.g., the Old Course, the National, Harbour Town). I've played some good courses and thought they were great, and some good courses and thought they were bad. All the bad courses I've played were, indeed, bad.
Okay, enough rambling. For your consideration, to agree with or probably not, here are my Top 5 Courses That I've Had the Pleasure to Play in Southern Ontario…
- Goodwood, Uxbridge
- Hamilton (Ancaster)
- St. George's, Etobicoke
- Toronto GC, Mississauga
- Tie – Maple Downs, Vaughan and Muskoka Lakes, Port Carling
- Muskoka Bay, Gravenhurst
- Bigwin, Dorset
- Rocky Crest, MacTier
- Eagle's Nest, Vaughan
- Eagle Creek, Dunrobin
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Loud music reverberated from speakers. The line at the sponsored free bar spilled out onto the sidewalk. The 2010 AIA/LA Design Award boards were perfectly leveled along the crisp white walls. With all the great design on display, the music, the mingling, the clinking of plastic glasses, one might think architecture was simply business as usual.
But this crowd had gathered to listen to a panel on where things stand with the economy as it relates to the architecture industry. The event was sponsored by Form Magazine and coincided with the release of their October Money Issue. One person I spoke with wondered if the panel would show their cards.
More after the break.
It takes courage to sit in front of an audience and talk about the economy. Especially when the audience is comprised mostly of architects, many of whom have been experiencing the worst of the recession for the last two plus years. People were there looking not only for answers but solutions.
The panel was dominated by the architectural point of view. Andy Cohen, CEO of Gensler talked about their global strategy. He noted that when the recession hit they thought they were insulated because they were diversified in so many different markets. The problem has been that all the markets tanked. Gensler's response to the current recession may have been similar to how they adapted to the dot com bust: go where the projects are. For the moment, this translates into developing more international work and spreading it around different offices. The one area that Mr. Cohen said has remained relatively stable is Healthcare. That was a useful insight.
Tom Hinerfeld, President of Hinerfeld Ward Construction, spoke of holding on until the storm passes. As he put it, his company deals in figures with far fewer zeroes behind them than Gensler. When Moderator Ann Gray asked where the money was coming from, he replied, from non-conventional sources and people who have not been "punished." The "hard money" is basically coming from people who have been insulated from the recession. The short answer: super wealthy clients. Not exactly earth-shattering, and not helpful for those unemployed or struggling people looking for solutions.
If this all sounds familiar, that would be because these approaches have been the mantra of the architecture profession since recessions have been around. If one were to look back and analyze the industry's response to recessions since the Great Depression it becomes apparent that basic strategies have not changed much. Which is why the industry is much more susceptible to them than other sectors.
Undoubtedly, digitization and the internet have enabled firms to be more agile and responsive to fluctuations in demand. The ability to mobilize a firm quickly and from long distances makes it easier to reach out. While this model liberates them from being geographically fixed, the tactic is still the same: go where the work is. But there has to be available work in the first place.
Carl Muhlstein of Cushman and Wakefield had a businessman's approach. He noted that 20% of office space on the Westside is vacant; one out of every five floors in Los Angeles is empty. He did, however, offer some useful strategies. For one, architects need to become more politically engaged and "remind elected officials who their real constituents are"— the citizens who live and work in the city. Architects should involve themselves more to prevent narrow, short-term, "barbaric land-use" approaches to planning. To do all this, however, architects must be leaders in their own cities, not just global flyers or internet practitioners. For architects, the Greenpeace slogan, "Think globally, act locally" could be changed to "Act globally and locally."
One audience member who was still employed at a large corporate firm said he was planning on getting out of architecture and into real estate. He wanted to talk to Mr. Muhlstein. Lots of people wanted to talk to Mr. Muhlstein. Because he understood the economy within a larger context and how to strategize for it. Like Mr. Muhlstein, architects should be aware of all the forces shaping the economy. They should understand other business sectors, not just their own, not just as indicators of the economy, but to help identify client sectors they may be losing or gaining.
All in all, not a lot of new information was shared. The audience came for solutions and some were disappointed that they did not get any. "Haven't we heard all this before," one woman asked? And the big elephants in the room, Layoffs and Unemployment, were not spoken of.
At least the bar was free and groups of architects, employed and unemployed alike, could get together and talk more candidly. In fact, the personal conversations were more to the point than the panel.
For future talks, it would be interesting to have a more diverse group willing to talk openly. How about inviting architects practicing in non-traditional ways, city planning officials, developers, bankers, and wealthy and institutional clients? How about getting some economists and MBA's together to tackle the problem from different points of view? What would they say? If we are going to hear what we already know, we should simply clink plastic glasses and admire the great designs on the wall like we normally do.


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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
A video made by conservative-leaning musician Kid Rock with documented lefty Sean Penn makes it seems like we could all get along if we just traded shirts, shared conversation over beers rather than cocktails and ... yeah, trying to steer the country back to civil discourse is a bit more complicated than that.
Still, the video is entertaining, even if Spicoli is looking a bit haggard.
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The famously liberal Penn zinged Kid Rock by calling him a "seal clubbing, Confederate flag waving, oil whoring, Chick-fil-A eating, water boarding, NASCAR loving, Cayman Islands bank account having, endangered species hunting, war mongering, redneck, toothless, Wall Street Troglodyte."
Kid Rock strikes back, calling Penn a "tofu munching, welfare loving, Prius driving, Obama sucking, tree hugging, whale saving, gay marriage fantasizing, big government voting, PETA chasing, Oprah Winfrey masturbating, flag burning, socialist, ACLU, whiney assed granola-crat."
But the men's blind rage blooms into something like respect after an immigrant scolds them for not appreciating America's freedom. Soon after, news of the U.S. casualties in Afghanistan gives them further pause.
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"The goal of the film is to tear down the one-dimensional political stereotypes portrayed by the media by confronting them head on," reads the video's YouTube description. "It reminds us that what really matters is that we're all Americans, with diverse thoughts, opinions and stances on issues."
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