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Skip to 0 minutes and 8 seconds In this next part, we will have a closer look again at what happened intra and postoperatively with the tests we selected. As we saw last week, asleep-awake sedation protocol is followed. Cortical mapping with electrical stimulation at four Milliampere is performed and elicits twice speech arrest, while stimulating the motor cortex, as well as the motor response of the right hand. [NONSENSE DUTCH] This is a catox. [NONSENSE DUTCH] Catox.
Skip to 0 minutes and 41 seconds Phonological paraphasia [NONSENSE DUTCH] Yes this is a Rulean
Skip to 0 minutes and 48 seconds Excuse me? [NONSENSE DUTCH] Rulean
Skip to 0 minutes and 54 seconds Phonological paraphasia or articulation problem That's a harp. Yes. Cortical mapping of the temporal lobe while performing an object naming task, induces semantic paraphasias, word-finding deficits, slowness, hesitations, and some phonological paraphasias. [DUTCH:] Yes The woman
Skip to 1 minute and 19 seconds [NONSENSE DUTCH] Third man sauces
Skip to 1 minute and 25 seconds The man plays football [NONSENSE DUTCH] The man tree places [NONSENSE DUTCH] The man plantst [SIC] The tree shoots. The man … What do you call it? Those things. OK. Let's move on.
Skip to 1 minute and 46 seconds Action naming is too difficult to administer. The patient is not able to respond within the four second time constraint of electrical stimulation. Even without electrical stimulation, the patient is not able to perform adequately on the action naming task. Besides that, phonological paraphasias and perseverations are seen. [DUTCH:] I notice that during speaking it is a lot more difficult. Yeah? Tell me. The second word I have the feeling. How am I going to do this? And in particular how do you get it out of your mouth? Yes, correct. After cortical mapping, and during resection, the spontaneous speech remains fluent and adequate. During subcortical resection, near the arcuate fasciculus, we switched to phonological tasks as repetition of words and sentences.
Skip to 2 minutes and 42 seconds He makes some mistakes, but repetition stays intact. [ DUTCH:] The girl eats an apple The cook bakes a cake. The cook bakes a cake. We are dancing in the rain. We are dancing in the rain. The boy is playing outside. The boy is playing outside. We are very satisfied. We are very satisfied. The woman is sitting on the chair. The woman is sitting on the chnair [SIC]. Near the insula, our patient reports respiratory difficulty, and his speech gets incoherent and slightly disinhibited. [ DUTCH:] Actress. Actress. Musician Mutsician [SIC] Musician Musician Good. Can you still keep your eyes open? Yeah. Are you staying awake? I am listening to you, but [NONSENSE DUTCH] I can feel my ears time.
Skip to 3 minutes and 39 seconds They are just closing. [NONSENSE DUTCH] Radio freak Sixty, football That's already hard for me. Uniform. OK. The door is locked. No. The door is locked [NONSENSE DUTCH]I am just a good catch … eat with you. The last part of debulking is done while the patient performs tasks of semantic sentence judgement and phonological judgement. However, the patient fails also at these tasks, without subcortical stimulation. Conform pre-operatively. We saw those errors as false positive mapping in Week 3. No epilepsy is detected by the cortical EEG strip electrodes. [ DUTCH:] What we practised yesterday Yes. Those sentences. That's right. You only have to say right or wrong. OK. That's fine. Listen carefully The passenger drank a ticket. Yes, correct.
Skip to 4 minutes and 43 seconds The plant laughed at the car. The plant laughed at the car. Wrong. The cat bought a new couch. Wrong The plumber is repairing the rainbow. Wrong. He finished reading the book in one go. Correct. The snail is cycling towards the bushes. [NONSENSE DUTCH] The read is cycling? The snail is cycling towards the bushes. [NONSENSE DUTCH] Yes. Correct. He can iron to there.
Skip to 5 minutes and 22 seconds A paiting hangs in a museum. Correct. The butter is melting in the sun. The butter is melting in the sun. Correct. The flowers looked their eyes out. The flowers …
Skip to 5 minutes and 40 seconds Correct. The flowers looked their eyes out. The flowers looked their eyes out. Correct The coffee is too hot to drink. The coffee is too hot to drink. Correct. The carpenter is buying a pack of nails. Correct. Articulation remains intact during cortical stimulation and tumour resection. Until the end of the resection, his spontaneous speech remains fluent and adequate. While the patient gets more uncomfortable and tired, and reports headache, and muscle cramps in his right leg, he receives more sedation, and gets to sleep. [DUTCH:] Is he allowed to go to sleep? Yes You can close your eyes. I will do that then. You have worked hard enough.
Skip to 6 minutes and 34 seconds Now we move on to direct post-operatively assessment. Due to a generalised seizure at the end of surgery, while the patient was still in the Mayfield clamp, the patient had postoperative postictal language deficits. [DUTCH:] What is this?
Skip to 6 minutes and 52 seconds Can I have a look? Yeah. This is a I just know what it is called. I just had it. So, you can do this? Yes. It is delicious. I can't recall it. You can eat it. It is a …
Skip to 7 minutes and 12 seconds I can't recall it. Sorry. Which colour does it have?
Skip to 7 minutes and 20 seconds Can you indicate that?
Skip to 7 minutes and 25 seconds Brocolli. Yeah. Yeah. It is familiar to you. Can you say what this is? [NONSENSE DUTCH] [NONSENSE DUTCH] I had a stripe of that.
Skip to 7 minutes and 45 seconds It is familiar. It is a heli … ? Yeah. copter. You wanted to say that "I had this in the test"? Yeah But then in black and white. Correct. You can remember that. The spontaneous speech was not fluent, and showed sound errors and creation of entirely new words, neologisms. The patient was aware of his mistakes, but unable to correct himself. In this short video clip, it is shown that a neuropsychologist administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, the MoCA, to screen for cognitive deficits. Also, the Aphasia Bedside Check, the ABC was administered, to screen for language deficits in the domains of production and comprehension.
Skip to 8 minutes and 35 seconds Our patient also complained about visual hallucinations, or visual perceptual problems, and strange sensations in his mouth, probably epileptic. A couple of days later, the patient was tested again with the ABC and the MoCA, and showed a significant improvement of general cognitive functioning and language functions. Although he still had word finding difficulties in spontaneous speech. [DUTCH:] That is a brocolli. Very good. Delicious. That is a helicopter Can you repeat after me? Electricity. Electricity. Fine.
Skip to 9 minutes and 14 seconds Job application Job application. In the next steps, we will discuss how this postoperative outcome is interpreted.
Test administration intra- and postoperative
In the following video, Wencke Veenstra describes the applications of the tests previously selected per patient.
Among the test described in the video is the Aphasia Bedside Check (ABC) from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.


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This article describes the SSID settings available for Datto Access Points.
- Datto Network Manager
Each Datto access point can broadcast four unique SSIDs to which users can connect. A network will configure every access point to transmit the same SSID and use the same settings.
1. Navigate to a device web session for your access point.
2. In the Navigation menu, click Access Points, then click an SSID.
Figure 1: The Navigation menu (click to enlarge)
Each SSID contains the following settings and options:
Common settings
Figure 2: Common settings (click to enlarge)
- SSID name: Enter the name users will see and connect to using their device. You can also select the checkbox for Use access point name to combine both the SSID and access point names.
- Enable: When toggled on, an SSID will broadcast on all access points in this network. When toggled off, the SSID will not broadcast, and users cannot connect to it even when entering the name manually.
- Visible: When toggled on, an SSID will advertise itself publicly so users can select it from their list of available networks. When toggled off, users must enter the SSID name manually.
- Band: Access points broadcast their signal on specific radio frequencies. Use the Band drop-down to control what radio and frequency an SSID will use. You can select from the following options:
- Both - Combined SSID: Both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz SSID broadcasts will use the same name. Client devices will make their own roaming decisions on the frequency to which they will connect.
- Both - Unique SSIDs: Each radio will broadcast a unique SSID, even if the access point has multiple radios using the same frequency. For example, an access point that has two radios using the 5 GHz frequency will have two fields: SSID name (5GHz #1), and SSID name (5GHz #2).
- 2.4 GHz only: An SSID will only use the 2.4 GHz frequency.
- 5 GHz only: An SSID will only use the 5 GHz frequency.
- Authentication: Enable this to authenticate users as they connect to an SSID. You can choose from one of the following authentication methods:
- Pre-shared key (Password): Users will enter a password when connecting to an SSID. Enter a password in the WPA password field. It must be eight characters or longer, with no spaces. Selecting the WPA2-only checkbox will only authenticate client devices supporting WPA2.
- WPA Enterprise: Users will enter a username and password defined in a server configured for 802.1x authentication. All connecting client devices must support WPA2. For more information on configuring 802.1x, read our WPA Enterprise/802.1x Setup with Windows Server article.
Captive Portal
The Captive Portal allows you to configure splash pages, custom authentication settings, and more. The following parameters and options are available:
Figure 3: The Captive Portal (click to enlarge)
- Bandwidth throttling: When enabled, each client device on an SSID will have its speed throttled. Use the Download and Upload sliders to set the throttled speed, or enter the values in Mbps. Bandwidth throttling is required if you are configuring throttling on vouchers, PayPal, RADIUS, and HTTP Authentication using Datto Networking.
- Splash page: When enabled, you can configure the page that users will see when connecting to an SSID. Datto Networking offers multiple splash page options that can integrate with third-party services, such as Facebook WiFi or PayPal. You can also create and host a splash page using Datto Networking's built-in editor. The following articles describe all splash page options available:
- Blocked devices: Enter the MAC addresses of devices that you wish to prevent from connecting to an SSID.
- Block message: Enter a message that will display when a blocked device attempts to connect to an SSID.
Each SSID has a WiFi schedule that allows you to enable or disable it during specific times of the day. For more information, read our WiFi Scheduling article.
Advanced Settings
Figure 4: Advanced settings (click to enlarge)
- Band Steering: Toggle band steering on or off.
- 802.11k: This option improves client device roaming performance by providing client devices with a list of selectable neighboring access points and their channels. This option is available on Datto Access Point firmware version 6.5.2 and newer. For more information, read our Client Device Roaming article.
- 802.11r: This option improves client device roaming by reducing the handoff delay in situations where client devices roam from one access point to another. 802.11r is only available if an SSID has WPA authentication enabled. 802.11r is available on Datto Access Point firmware version 6.4.15 and newer.
- Block LAN Access: This option prevents users on this wireless network from accessing your wired LAN.
- Client isolation: This option prevents your wireless users from accessing other local users and machines.
- DNS Intercept: This option prevents client devices from overriding the DNS settings of the SSID, and instead uses the default gateway DNS, or the Alternate DNS address when set. Disabling this feature will also disable Block Clients, Splash Pages, and Alternate DNS.
- SMTP Redirect: This option allows you to enter an alternate SMTP server IP address for your network. Users can then send SMTP emails by using your ISP's SMTP server.
- Alternate DNS: This option allows you to enter alternate DNS server IP addresses, one per line, for an SSID; this will override any other alternate DNS servers configured on other SSIDs.
- Access Control List: This option lets you enter MAC addresses that can use an SSID, and prevent unincluded users from using an SSID.
- Bridge to LAN: This option gives client devices connecting to an SSID access to your local LAN, letting users use local services and devices, such as printers and locally hosted file servers.
- Bridge to VLAN: This option allows you to enter a VLAN ID from 2-4094 for an SSID, and will bridge and tag traffic to that VLAN ID. Using a VLAN automatically bridges the SSID to the LAN.
Datto Networking automatically generates an Item ID that connects a network and an SSID to PayPal. For more information, read our article on Using PayPal in Datto Networking.


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MOSCOW -- In this line of work, you're taught to be cynical and contrarian. So when Gianni Infantino, the FIFA President, says "Today I am a happy man ... as far as I am concerned, we all fell in love with Russia," you want to blow holes in it.
It's very easy to do. From the way the World Cup even got to Russia (remember the "destroyed" computers?), to the state-sponsored doping program that gutted the country's Olympic medal count and led to a lifetime ban for the minister of sport and former head of the Russian FA, Vitaly Mutko, to the fact that it smacked of classic bread and circuses fare.
Give the people a show and they won't bother asking questions about corruption (Transparency International ranks Russia 135th out of 180 nations, substantially lower than Brazil or South Africa), downed Malaysian airliners and dissidents who keep going in and out of jail.
The latter are valid issues -- and there are a host of others -- but they belong to a political sphere, not a sporting one. The former are sporting issues and there remain unanswered questions (and unprosecuted individuals), but they are just one facet of Russia. What Infantino was talking about -- you hope -- was the way a nation rolled out the red carpet for the world and bent over backwards for visitors over more than a month of football.
Did we fall in love? Or were we just seduced into a one-month stand?
What's the difference? The difference is legacy. What do we take from this and what is left behind for Russia, or, at a minimum, for the Russian whom this World Cup touched.
Many Russians I spoke to, both expats and Muscovites, drew parallels prior to the tournament with the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the first behind what was then the Iron Curtain. It was seen by many as a seminal event, one where ordinary Russians welcomed the world and, for the first time in decades, felt a part of it, despite the fact that 66 nations boycotted the Games in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Reading contemporaneous reports from western media at the time, it's striking how much they echoed those of Russia 2018. Smiling volunteers, beautiful state-of-the-art facilities, surgically clean streets and a welcoming population battling gamely through language barriers and a Cyrillic alphabet that makes menus and subway signs tricky.
Then, as now, there are plenty reasons to be cynical. To many western eyes -- at least these ones -- a certain type of totalitarian communism has been replaced by a certain type of totalitarian consumerism, at least in the big cities. The cleanliness and order in the city centers and in places where tourists and wealthy Russians tend to mix is extreme to the point of being unsettling. The brands, clothes and music were what you'd find in many corners of the world. It may not be a global village, it certainly is a global mall.
But then, that's just the landscape. And this is the important bit. That landscape was populated by sentient beings, whether Mexican fans, Russian locals or the journalist I met from Kazakhstan who had grown up with Moscow as his capital city but was only able to visit it now that it was in a foreign country. And they mixed and interacted and cross-pollinated, even if it was just a smile or a selfie or a "Holy-Cow-Did-You-Just-See-That?" glance after a goal on one of the ubiquitous big screens.
That's obviously the sanitised World Cup experience for locals and visitors alike. You can't blame Russia for wanting to put its best face forward. Every city or country organizing a major event tries to do the same. The scare stories about crime, racism and hooliganism that we all read before the World Cup never manifested themselves. It doesn't mean they don't exist, but it does mean that they are not so uncontrollable that for five weeks the country can help keep them under wraps.
Many of us also saw a different, less scrubbed up version. Mine came in Nizhny Novgorod, the night of the Germany vs. Sweden game. I watched the end of the game in a near empty restaurant, the waiter biblically slow because -- quite obviously -- he was watching in the kitchen. When Toni Kroos' free kick went in, I actually heard him shouting. The adrenaline was so high that there was no way I was going to bed. I made sure I had enough podcasts loaded, popped in the earphones and wandered out of my hotel, across the Oka River and past the illuminated stadium. I walked and walked, past the statue of Maxim Gorky, past the Lokomotiv stadium through tower blocks, down to low-rise housing with poorly paved streets.
It was no longer spick-and-span. There was still neon, but it was cheap, worn and flickering. That's when I met them. Volodya, a man in his 60s and his sons, Slava and Alex, both in their 40s. Volodya was drunk and started speaking to me in Russian. His sons, either more sober or more able to fake it, apologised on his behalf. They were on their way back from a relative's house. Volodya was recently retired from the motor works down the road, the one that got Nizhny Novgorod -- then known as Gorky -- nicknamed the "Detroit of the U.S.S.R." He had worked on the line, assembling engines. Alex worked there now, except he was a security guard.
"Too much time in the gym, not enough time studying," said his brother, Slava. He was the only one with whom I could communicate, in rudimentary Spanish. He had played the piano, the violin (or maybe it was the viola) and some other instrument I don't understand. He had lived in Cuba, teaching music, until a few years ago. He had a Cuban wife who split from him and moved to Florida. So he returned home to live with his dad and his brother in the same apartment he had grown up in. Their mother, who had also worked at the motor plant, had died years earlier.
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Slava and I talked while Alex smiled and fiddled with his phone and Volodya sang to himself. I told them about myself and my family; Slava filled me in on their thoughts. They said the stadium looked beautiful lit up at night (it did) and but they had not watched any games, either in person or on TV. Slava didn't like football (or sports of any kind), Alex was into UFC, Volodya liked hockey and interrupted his singing long enough to say: "Ovechkin!"
Slava had no idea what he was going to do. There was an oversupply of music teachers in Russia. He'd look for a job at some point, but as of right now, his dad's pension and brother's salary were enough to go around. Besides, he was busy volunteering, visiting senior citizens and playing in hospitals and old people's homes.
"They smile when they recognise the music," he said.
It was well after three o'clock in the morning by the time I got to bed, but it was time well spent. I had connected, in a way that was at once mundane and meaningful. To me and to them.
It was sheer dumb luck -- and whatever Volodya had to drink -- that brought us together. But we had been together, and that's what mattered. I think the majority of those who traveled to Russia whether as fans or media, had similar interactions at some point. Ones that went beyond wanting to make a buck from visitors, or even basic hospitality.
Time and again, you encountered folks who wanted to make a connection particularly away from the big cities like Saint Petersburg and Moscow, places where the menus are almost exclusively in Cyrillic, the lights are a little less bright and the sight of a foreigner -- particularly from places like Panama and Korea, countries they were only ever going to see on a map -- is very much a novelty.
More so than the stadiums, some of which are magnificent and will hopefully continue to get a lot of use but ultimately are just giant bowls in which a select few get to watch games that most of the world watches on screens -- that's the legacy of this World Cup: the individual connections that were made.
For those who were there, the world became that little bit smaller.
There are obviously deeper and far more significant issues when it comes to Russia's relationship with the rest of the world (and vice-versa). It was never football's job to resolve them.
All it could do -- and has done -- is make some people feel part of a greater whole.


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Immaculée Ilibagiza, Rwandan Genocide Survivor, Tells Story of Faith and Forgiveness
April 16, 2019
Immaculée Ilibagiza spent 91 days of her life in a tiny bathroom with seven other women, hiding from the genocide taking place outside the door. The perpetrators had once been her neighbors, her friends, her classmates—but now they wanted her dead.
The Rwandan genocide that took place in 1994 killed approximately one million of the minority ethnicity, the Tutsi. The perpetrators, the majority Hutu ethnicity, had been engaged in a civil war since 1990 with a Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF).
Under Belgian rule earlier in the twentieth century, Tutsi had been granted preferential treatment, creating a rift between the groups. These divisions festered for decades, coming to a head when Hutu president Juvénal Habyarimana's plane was shot down on April 6, 1994. Seemingly within minutes, the genocide began.
"Men, women, and children, including her entire family except for one of her brothers, were massacred at the hands of Hutu marauders," said Ms. Liang, who helped to organize Ilibagiza's visit.
During her time in hiding, Ilibagiza dedicated herself to her faith, learned English, and committed herself to a "life of peace, hope, and forgiveness." She has since worked with the United Nations, written seven books, and received the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace. She was Padua's first Women's Achievement Award winner in 2009.
"I remember when I was angry… I had a headache of anger, my stomach was aching out of anger, my whole body," Ilibagiza said, clutching her rosary. "And then I also remember the transformation, when I was able to forgive." …I also remember the transformation, when I was able to forgive." — Immaculée Ilibagiza
…I also remember the transformation, when I was able to forgive."
— Immaculée Ilibagiza
Ilibagiza was a college student when the genocide began. She had just returned home for Easter, enjoying the company of her family for just three days. One morning just over 25 years ago, everything changed. To her, it still feels like yesterday.
"In the morning, my brother came to my room… and gave me the news, the leader of the country died the night before, when we were still sleeping," she said. "I told my brother: 'They will kill us.'"
She felt that God had made it clear what was coming. Propaganda against the Tutsi minority was being broadcast over the radio, and tensions were rising. After the president's plane was shot down, the borders of the country were shut and the killings began almost immediately.
"People started to come home, asking my parents what to do. My parents were really people who cared about the whole village," she said. "One of the last images I remember of my father, he had the rosary in his hand, and he spoke to everybody… 'If it is the government that planned this, I cannot lie to you, they will kill us… Let's take this as a chance God is giving us to repent [for] our sins.'"
Ilibagiza was instructed by her father to go to a neighbor's house, where she was told to hide in the bathroom. She would never see her family together again. She could not comprehend how she could hide in such a small bathroom—and then seven more women joined. She lived those 91 days in the bathroom in almost complete silence.
She asked for a radio to be put outside the bathroom door. On the radio, she heard the horrors that were unfolding in Rwanda.
"The leaders of the country who used to tell us to be good, they were now… on national radio speaking and calling everybody to come and kill every one of my tribe," she said. "I remember one man who was a government minister, he went on the radio to say, 'Don't forget children.'
"Even if you are smart in the head, if you don't have the heart, if you don't have love, if you don't have values to lead your intelligence, you can only be smarter to know how to destroy," she said.
When the killers came, Ilibagiza thought death was upon her. There was nowhere to run. They searched the house, but stopped before opening the bathroom. 'We trust you, you're a good man,' they said to the pastor. She considered it a sign from God.
"God heard me, in the bathroom, not within the church," she said. "I started to think, I didn't talk, I only spoke in my heart… God can really hear us."
She became ashamed of the anger she held in her heart. Through prayer and reflection on the Bible, she realized that the biggest challenge would be loving everyone—even her enemies.
"If I [get] revenge, I'm thinking, I will also have to hurt people," she said. "I don't want to hurt people… in that moment I realized what it meant: They do not know what they do."
It felt like a weight was lifted from her shoulders—she felt that God was telling her to stay on "the side of love," not hate.
"I realized that people on the side of love, they have suffered, they have known hatred, they have known injustice," she said. "No matter what happens to them, nothing will change who they are in their hearts."
Her parents were killed. Her two brothers, her grandparents. Her neighbors and her friends, among the million slaughtered by her fellow Rwandans. When she found out, she screamed and cried. She did not want to pray. But then she felt the hand of God, holding her. When she left the bathroom after 91 days, she went to a refugee camp with nothing left but her faith.
"They can throw grenades, the war will not be over, and we'll die, but I wanted to die feeling like I'd done something good that day," she said. "Every evening, I would pick up my rosary and look to the sky because we were sleeping outside. I would ask God… if you chose to take me today, I have tried my best. I have helped somebody. I have loved somebody. I have used the strength you gave me [with] them. To me, to this day, that's how I wake up."
Alix Sikorski, a student in Mrs. Markham's 20th Century Genocide class, felt it was "breathtaking" to hear from Ilibagiza.
"I feel like I should be more aware of other people and forgive them more," she said. "The fact that she was able to make a connection with God in the situation she was in helps me to embrace Him."
April 7, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. President Paul Kagame addressed the nation, emphasizing healing and new beginnings.
"In 1994, there was no hope, only darkness," Kagame said, in a speech at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. "Today, light radiates from this place. How did it happen? Rwanda became a family once again."


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Yesterday, a man slipped trying to board a subway train in Perth, Australia. Closed-circuit footage shows him wedged up to his thigh as the train was filling with commuters. First, a fellow-commuter beckons to the Transit Authority workers to stop the train from leaving. Then, incredibly, dozens of commuters come together and tip the train over enough for the man to be freed. The unnamed man was apparently unharmed and able to catch the next train, undoubtedly more cautious about where and how he stepped (AP story via USA Today, 8/6/14).
The story has rightly been called "heartwarming." It shows the compassion and empathy people can naturally and easily demonstrate. It also shows the power of people united for a common cause. Doesn't it also show the importance of each individual, doing his or her part, to effectively help?
The church is certainly made up of people with varying degrees and kinds of talents. Some may be more visible and audible than others, but no one is unimportant. My experience is that God's people have an inclination to help and serve and often are just looking for a way to be involved. Together, we can accomplish great good for the growth and strength of the kingdom. Not one person is unimportant.
How many people are needed to reach a soul? Paul writes that he planted and Apollos watered (1 Co. 3:6). Think about it. If a person visits our assemblies, one may greet them in the parking lot and another at the door. One may help them find a seat and several more may greet them and converse with them. Another may invite them to lunch. Yet another may eventually ask them to study the Bible. Another may conduct the study and still another baptize them. Others may invite them into their home and conduct follow up studies. There may be those who find where they can be involved and put them to work. Eventually, that one dies in a saved condition. Who was responsible for that?
How beautiful to think that God sees each of us as a vital cog in His eternal plan of salvation! He had the church in His mind as part of His eternal purpose (Eph. 3:9-11). No one can do everything, but each of us can do something. Let us find out where we fit in and then start "pushing"!


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La Follette School faculty member Tim Smeeding, the Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, presented the 2015 Wisconsin Poverty Report (WPR) at the State Capitol on May 22.
Wisconsin gained 70,000 jobs in 2015, leading to a significant reduction in poverty as measured by the Wisconsin Poverty Measure (WPM), Smeeding reported. The WPM overall rate fell from 10.8 percent in 2014 to 9.7 percent in 2015 – the lowest rate since the first report in 2008.
A major difference between the WPM and the official poverty measure is that the WPM includes resources from refundable tax credits and noncash benefits such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, FoodShare in Wisconsin) as well as work expenses and healthcare costs.
"The WPM rates reflect the improvement in Wisconsin's job market and the continued importance of the safety net in protecting families in the state," Smeeding said.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty identified additional good news. The WPM child poverty rate reached an all-time low – 10 percent – and elderly poverty dropped from 8.3 percent to 7.8 percent.
"Refundable tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and safety net benefits, especially SNAP/FoodShare, play an important role in poverty reduction," Smeeding said. "However, state and national changes to SNAP reduced these positive effects in 2015 as compared to previous years."
Milwaukee County and La Crosse County were the only places with rates significantly higher than the state average. Six areas had rates significantly lower than the statewide rate: Waukesha, Outagamie, Dodge, Jefferson, Sheboygan, Brown, and Washington/Ozaukee counties.
Differences within Milwaukee County were larger than differences across counties, Smeeding noted. In Milwaukee County, WPM poverty rates varied from 10 percent to 37 percent and WPM child poverty from 5 percent to 42 percent, comparing the county's outer areas to central city Milwaukee.
The full report is on IRP's website along with a two-page summary.


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With the Paris attacks in the news over the last week. I've been struggling with mixed feelings. The loss of life during the Charlie Hebdo and market attacks was devastating. Radicals, extremists and fear mongers shattered our fragile sense of security as our airwaves became saturated with paranoia and mistrust. The Charlie Hebdo attacks came as a body blow to freedom of expression.
But even free speech has its limits. As a member of the media, a writer and a freelance photographer I understand how difficult it is to walk this line. But just because we can say it, doesn't mean we should. I feel that Charlie Hebdo crossed a line in their depictions of the Prophet Mohamed. It was unnecessary, inflammatory and frankly racist. Now during the painful and emotional clean up of a tragedy, they seek to show the terrorists the strength of their pen by publishing yet another depiction of Mohamed on their front cover.
With over 3 million copies flying off the shelves, … sigh. Where do we go from here?
I choose to take comfort in the words of the wise:
"I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights," he said, adding that he was talking specifically about the Paris killings.
"Everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what he thinks for the common good … we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending," he said.
To illustrate his point, he turned to an aide and said: "It is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends if (he) says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it's normal."
To the writers at Charlie Hebdo I plead, stop this terrible circle of hate. Do not use the faith of many as a sword against the terrorists. Do not allow them to use you in this way. The power of your pen can and should invoke change and understanding. Stop these mean spirited attacks on the Muslim community. For they are not your enemy.
I am not Charlie, but I am human. Let's stop the hate.
Will I purchase a copy of Charlie Hebdo this week?
But I will continue to defend free speech, even when I don't like it. Every.Single.Time.
I'll leave you with the wise words of Rick Mercer and my favorite cartoon penned after the attacks by artist Lucille Clerc.


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India's cricket world cup starts with a little mountain village boy carving a bat
- 'Today is a holiday? No restaurant is open ?'
- 'World cup, India, Sri Lanka'
Hmm... TODAY ?!!
In 2007, with no prior planning, I happened to be in India during the last cricket international game series. Now, 4 years later, it's the same coincidence again. That time, during the final game week, Muhammad Kaif, on of India all-time cricket legends and myself happened to meet on a dark alley in a small mountain village. After the rumor had spread, I was busy for a few days creating photo montages for all my friends who were his fans.
Cricket is not only India's national sport, it is each and every neighborhood's game across India. It is played in a yard, alley, street, school, rice field, beach etc... basically any where the land is flat with a 15 feet vacant stretch (quite a challenge to find in big cities, central rural towns or mountain villages).
Two hours later I got a call from Karl, my Tamil friend. 'where are you', 'in my room', 'you come to my house?', 'yes in 20 minutes', ' Ok, OK'.
On my way out I visited the small grocery below my room, run by Eng. Raju, my lodge owner. I wanted to get some milk powder for brewing my first cup of filter coffee with the freshly ground beans and new south Indian kit. The milk powder hadn't arrived but as usual he invited me to sit with him and we got into a chat. Then S.K, father of Karl showed up on his way home, stopped to get two packs of cigarettes.
We then went home together. S.Ks English is limited, although within my 3 weeks of staying here in Kallakurichi we both seemed to pick up on each others language an just this effort alone got us to not only hear each other but listen and bridge the gaps of misunderstanding.
I stopped on the way and got some candies (here called Chocolates) for babies, kids or other neighbors of the Mani's.
We sat down in front of the government TV set. This set, amazingly, is gifted to any low income family in Tamil Nadu. It has an inscription along it's base declaring so. This living room family entertaining center has a 14" screen. Surprisingly, by western standards, I haven't seen anyone complain about a compromised viewing experience.
The game went on with some two lines of statistics on the lower screen. For nearly 5 years I pick up bits and pieces of this game's rules. Only yesterday I realized I could go read about it in Wikipedia. Somehow it was always an indirect experience. I was there because a friend took me with him. This time I managed to understand that each player has 6 balls (one Over) served for him to bat and then another player come to bat and another comes to ball. That time is also traditionally used for TV commercials, so there are quite a lot of commercials in a game with 100 Overs (50:50 is the game's name, means fifty for each group. Other game is the 20:20). Also, I learned that each player can ball up to 10 Overs. The Sri Lankan team maxed this allowance for Malinga, their vicious server (couldn't stop thinking of Ravna from the Ramayana ).
I also found an answer to why do they run with their bat rather then drop it. It is used as an extension to their arm. It is enough to touch a line with the bat for the player to be considered present there.
One surprising insight that hit my mind was the absence of arguments that deteriorate into fighting among rival players. When I found some down time in the game, I asked Karl about it. He said he never seen any on the field. He said thy sometime exchange angry stairs but that's where it ends. Quite an achievement for an open field team game with masculine players, I thought.
Another fact about tolerance and diversity is the Indian team members themselves. In many western countries anti-discrenination legislation is in place, but in India it is a living fact. The diversity on the Indian street is represented in the national team. Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian play shoulder to shoulder. It is not an exclusive club neither a gladiators arena for the deprived.
By the time I arrived to watch the game, the mythical Sachin Tendulkar was out as well as the best batter of the game
On the last minutes of the game, outside the open door, the familiar whistles and booms of fire crackers became more frequent and nearer to home.
I took a walk down Gandhi road to the central bus stop, the towns center. I had my camera and thought I could get some snaps of the celebration in the street. It was midnihgt, just an hour past the glorious and historic victory but the streets were as empty as just another ordinary day (minus the sugar cane towing tractors which take a whole day to drive from their villages into town and probably took this one off to watch the game).
Later I was told there's a municipal law that prohibits gatherings on the towns streets past some nighttime deadline.


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OK, so maybe the Atlanta Braves career home run leaders list isn't the most imposing statistical group in baseball (Ryan Klesko is in the top 10). But Chipper Jones is No. 1, and you can't take that away from him ... at least until Jeff Francoeur passes him in 2012. Jones hit homers from both sides of the plate on Thursday — Nos. 371 and 372 — to pass Dale Murphy on the Atlanta leader list and help the Braves beat the Dodgers 8-6. Yes, Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron both played in Atlanta, but the franchise has only been in that city since 1966 (Aaron hit fewer than half of his franchise-record 755 homers there). So the city's official home run leader is a guy named Chipper and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. Look, at least it's not Pokey or Boof.
More important, the Braves are only three games behind the Mets in the NL East, setting up that potential Atlanta-Milwaukee NLCS that we've all been waiting for. Try and sit out that one, Hammerin' Hank!
• Beckett Brings The Nasty ... Or is it the cheese? We forget, but Josh Beckett did win his 12th of the season on Thursday as the Red Sox smashed the Devil Ray's faces in with a board, 15-4. Coco Crisp update: Grand slam in the first. And Mike Lowell had five hits. It was Tampa Bay's 11th straight loss, as if that wasn't already marked on a calendar on your refrigerator door.
• The Extra C Is For Craptacular. Come on C.C. Sabathia, what's up with this? SeeSee gave up three homers (Gary Sheffield, Carlos Guillen and Placido Polanco) as Detroit and Justin Verlander beat Cleveland 12-3. This takes some of the potential luster off of the All-Star Game, if such a thing is possible.
• Then Came Bronson. Bronson Arroyo homered and Barry Bonds didn't, the Reds beating the Giants 6-3.


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Intrinsic equation
In geometry, an intrinsic equation of a curve is an equation that defines the curve using a relation between the curve's intrinsic properties, that is, properties that do not depend on the location and possibly the orientation of the curve. Therefore an intrinsic equation defines the shape of the curve without specifying its position relative to an arbitrarily defined coordinate system.
The intrinsic quantities used most often are arc length , tangential angle , curvature or radius of curvature, and, for 3-dimensional curves, torsion . Specifically:
- The natural equation is the curve given by its curvature and torsion.
- The Whewell equation is obtained as a relation between arc length and tangential angle.
- The Cesàro equation is obtained as a relation between arc length and curvature.
The equation of a circle (including a line) for example is given by the equation where is the arc length, the curvature and the radius of the circle.
These coordinates greatly simplify some physical problem. For elastic rods for example, the potential energy is given by
where is the bending modulus . Moreover, as , elasticity of rods can be given a simple variational form.
- R.C. Yates (1952). A Handbook on Curves and Their Properties. Ann Arbor, MI: J. W. Edwards. pp. 123–126.
- J. Dennis Lawrence (1972). A catalog of special plane curves. Dover Publications. pp. 1–5. ISBN 0-486-60288-5.


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The Wishing Map
Chapter Eleven: …and Found
Previously: Zack learned that his sister had been spotted in the Frengan Light Forest. So he and his immense raptor friend Aviar set out to find her.
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Zack wasn't sure what the distance was between the Northern Mountains and southern Frenga, but he knew it was a long way.
As if reading his thoughts, Aviar shouted, "Eighteen hundred quamtomurs. Bury your body in my neck feathers. You'll freeze, if you don't. And don't touch the silver ones, or I'll bite your thumbs off!"
"Now I know you like me!" Zack yelled. "Before you were gonna bite my leg off, now it's only my thumbs!"
Aviar swung his head back to see a grinning boy with wind ripping tears from his eyes. He said nothing, but the corners of his beak curved in an avian smile.
Even at subsonic speeds and an altitude that made Zack thin-air-drunk, it had taken over four hours to reach the Frengan Light Forest. They arrived at the western edge of the glowing woods long after the farmers had gone to bed and Gina had become desperately lost. Now what? Zack wondered.
Within fifteen minutes, the great nocturnal hunter had spotted something moving upward from the northern edge of the forest. "There!" he said, executing a ninety degree turn.
"Woah!" Zack grabbed a three foot long silver feather. "Sorry!"
What Aviar had seen turned out to be a squadron of night-hunting pixie youths decked in full mouse leathers, piloting foot-long foxbats. The bats screeched anxiously when they spotted the mountain-sized Sheya, but the leader of the pixie squadron squeaked a soothing scree-eee-k-k-kooo, and they collected themselves.
"Greetings, Lord Sheya!" the tiny commander called in fluent Zshinian. "You are far from the frigid climes of northern Gerd."
"Too far, young knight."
"I am Jenblevó, prince and future king of the South Frengan Pixies."
"I am Aviar, Master of—"
"Say no more, great hunter! Your name is honored throughout the Ten Kingdoms. Trusted Friend of Prime Regent Melcarhassen and Fabled Servant of Uol, we salute you!" Jenblevó doffed his mouseskin cap. Taking its cue from him, the foxbat dipped its wings and nodded its soft brown head as well. All of the other squadron members followed suit.
"Errr-hrrrrmmm…I thank you, Prince Jenblevó. Now to business. It has been reported that a human girl fell from the sky into the Light Forest, and that—"
"Yes! The beautiful and mysterious Queen J'nah!"
"You have seen her?"
"Uh, no," Zack intervened, "We're looking for a regular girl, like me. I mean, you know, not like me because she's a girl, but…"
Prince Jenblevó and his squadron were taken aback: until now they had not realized that the mighty Aviar had a human passenger! How could this be?
"Lord Aviar, it is an embarrassment to have to tell you this, but there is a—"
"I know! The girl we seek is his sister."
"Ahhhhhh! Then he is of royal blood as well. What is your name, honored sir?" Jenblevó asked in Frengan.
"It's Zack."
There was a sudden silence, then Jenblevó and the others burst into guffaws. "Your sister, the queen, is called 'he who fights,' a strange but honorable name for a magnificent lady! And you…you are 'Zhec' – 'the Surrenderer?' This is a servant's name! Not even that—a slave's name!" The pixies roared a hurricane of hoots. "But it is a joke, yes? Or are you the illegitimate child of a slave?" Another wave of laughter crashed on the shores of callow youth.
Because the pixies had switched to Frengan, with thick pixie accents, Aviar could not understand them. This burned his feathers. Even more, it annoyed him that these crude pixie teens seemed to be having a laugh at Shak's expense, so he quenched their little storm with a downpour of his own: "This is fine fun, fledglings, but it is over. You will help us find the human girl. Now!"
"But glorious Lord Avi—"
"Listen, precious princeling, this boy is my friend. You will honor him, and you will help us find his sister, or you will wish you had never lived, by Uol!—forgive me, Lord. Hrrrrmmm-errrmmm-hmmm!"
Whatever flaws Prince Jenblevó might have, he certainly knew how to command his squadron. He divided the Light Forest into six wedges (like a pizza, Zack noted), and sent a bat-piloting aviator to search each wedge. He sent two more to Rennou, the previous destination of J'nah the Dragonmeer. The last two he sent to scour the Frengan countryside. All were to fly to the Palace of Light with any information they could find before moontop.
Aviar and Zack followed Jenblevó to the Palace of Light, which was immense by pixie standards (it could have fit in Zack's bedroom). Aviar alighted, if a twenty-three foot tall bird can be said to alight, on an immense irontree branch about ten feet away from the Palace entrance. Attendants rushed to meet Prince Jenblevó. A groomsman began to rub down the glistening foxbat, but seeing the massive Sheya, went whiter than the double moon.
"Yes, you pathetic poltroon," said the prince, "I know he's there. I brought him." Then he spun around and walked through the baroque bracken entrance into the Palace.
A moment later the groomsman fainted, and the little foxbat flittered off in search of something to eat.
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Thoughts: Have you ever become friends with someone so entirely different than you that simply knowing them altered your view of the world?
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Cool... what's there now?
European firm buys downtown site
In another example of international money pouring into Manhattan real estate, a European firm has grabbed a development site within steps of the World Trade Center.
Thames Greenwich LLC recently bought 133-135 Greenwich St. for $24 million.
The deal is scheduled to close in January. The new owners will develop a 30-story luxury condo tower on the site. The seller, YL Real Estate Developers, will retain a small interest in the project.
Cool... what's there now?
It's between Cedar and Thames Sts, across from Deutsche Bank. I think the only open retail is O'Hara's restaurant/bar (nice place). Thames St between Greenwich and Church has been under a scaffold since 09/11, and none of the retail has ever reopened after 09/11.
The area is very depressed now, but should improve considerably once Deutsche Bank comes down. I wonder if the developer will wait until demolition is complete.
There's a good looking building (Romanesque Revival I think) across the street undergoing renovation.
There was an article about this in the Post a few weeks ago. It's a shame in my opinion because the building on the site is nice. It would have been great if the developers built on a site that contains garbage. For example, I desparately want to see the horrible, run-down structures on the west side of B'Way just north of Liberty Plaza razed. They are such horrible, run-down eyesores. They'll eventually get razed, but sooner rather than later would be nice.
Agreed on the buildings north of 1 LP. In my opinion, U.S. Steel should have bought up that block instead of demolishing the splendid Singer Tower. A taller building there (obviously a potential building there would not have taken up the whole site) would have been an interesting juxtaposition to the former Twin Towers, and helped to integrate them into the skyline.Originally Posted by londonlawyer
Agreed. The demolition of the Singer building is a crime that ranks up there with the savage destruction of Penn Station.
I think that Goldman should have built on the B'Way site in question. It would have been an easier location to get to than BPC, and it would have resulted in the demolition of that "basura" at the site. Eventually, some one will tear those dumpy buildings down, but let's hope that it's sooner rather than ltr.
Can someone post pics of these 'decrepit' buildings?
The thing that's a real shame about them is that they could have been nice if they weren't so neglected. One of the was built in 1865 and based upon photos from the turn of the century, it was quite attractive in its day. Some of the buildings on this site could be restored and incorporated into the facade of something new; that would be ideal.
Are you talking about Broadway or the site at Greenwich?
Funny, I can't picture 133-135 Greenwich, except at street level - although I've gone by there hundreds of times.
I'm talking about the B'Way site; it's a shame that those buildings are so decrepit.
The nice buildings on Greenwich are not being taken for this project. They are on the northern end off Cedar St. O'Hara's and the deli (that coincidentally relocated from 135 Greenwich) will stay.
Now I know why I couldn't picture the building at 133, 135 - there isn't any. It looks like a building was torn down on the past and replaced by crappy one-storey retail.
The lot is quite narrow, no more than 50-60 feet, and runs about half-way to Trinity Pl.
There's a really beautiful building on Greenwich next to this one which is not being razed. The red brick building that is being torn down, however, is a decent building. I would have preferred seeing horrible buildings come down to make way for new development (e.g., the aforementioned wrecks on B'Way or the site on Liberty where the Burger King is).
Are you sure you are not talking about another block?
133-135 Greenwich are not buildings - they are one storey stores on the NE corner of Greenwich and Thames.
According to The Post, the building that's being razed is 8 or 9 stories. There's a building of that decsription with scaffolding all around it.
By the way, where do you live in BPC? I used to live at 250 S. End.