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SA's Future News 2014 winners announced
The British Council, in partnership with the arts and culture department and the Mail & Guardian, are excited to announce the winners of the Future News 2014 Competition in South Africa.
Mikaela Thakur (17), Baxolise Mfidi (19), and Kelebogile Mojanaga (18) have been selected as the winners of the Future News Competition 2014. The Future News Competition in South Africa was open to the next generation of young journalists aged between 16 and 19 years old. Over 50 entries were received and 12 individuals were shortlisted from across South Africa.
Mikaela, Baxolise, and Kelebogile will represent South Africa in Glasgow, Scotland, where they will meet young journalists in a unique opportunity to connect to the Commonwealth Games through the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. A hundred days before the Games begin, up to 300 young people aged between 16 and 19 will take part in the Aye Write! Future News International Young Journalists' Conference from April 14 to April 16.
There they will enjoy master classes from some of the world's leading journalists on a range of subjects including press freedom and ethical reporting, technical skills, investigating features, research, and using digital technology and social media as a journalism tool.
Over 14 countries including Jamaica, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia and the UK Home Nations will take part in the conference, which will be held at Mitchell Library in Glasgow.
British Council South Africa country director Colm McGivern said of South Africa's participation: "These winners are the future of news in South Africa – their talent, commitment and journalistic ability is clear to see, and I've every confidence that they'll shine out from their peers during their time in the UK. Any media organisation that operates online, in print or in broadcasting will be lucky to have this talent on their team. I'm delighted that the British Council has been able to meet them and help them connect with other Commonwealth journalists in Glasgow."
"Former president Nelson Mandela once said, 'A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy'. These young aspiring journalists represent the lifeblood of our future and democracy. We wish them the wisdom to fully appreciate the value the Future News programme offers to them so that they will return to South Africa and implement the ideals the late Madiba so fervently spoke of," said commissioner general of the arts and culture department's South African Season, Bongani Tembe.
M&G editor-in-chief Chris Roper said: "In many parts of the world, journalists are one of the last lines of defence between freedom of information and encroaching government control. In developing nations, this is essentially a young person's war, given the importance of digital media to the fight. The training provided by Future News 2014 is essential to understanding the ethical obligations and technical possibilities of our industry, and for inspiring young journalists to become masters of their craft".
Mikaela Thakur, a 17-year-old from Durban Girls High School, who was selected as one of the winners of the Future News Competition in South Africa, said: "To be given this opportunity is truly an honour, especially for a young person like me. This is a life-changing experience and I'm so excited about meeting other aspiring young writers from around the world. Thank you to the British Council of South Africa, the arts and culture department, and the Mail & Guardian".


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A man was shot and killed in the Bladensburg area of Prince George's County Wednesday, and investigators are searching for suspects and a motive in the case, authorities said.
Bladensburg police were called to the 4200 block of 58th Avenue about 1 p.m. for the report of a shooting, authorities said. They arrived to find a man, who appeared to be about 30, suffering from a gunshot wound, authorities said. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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Sig Kadet Senior - ARF. Good For A Newbie?
I'm looking at this plane as my next plane after soloing with an Apprentice 15e, I've been actively flying my Apprentice for almost a year now: http://www.sigmfg.com/IndexText/SIGRC58ARFB.html
I like big planes. I don't have any experience building planes so I'm concerned about my capabilities in installing the servos and electric motor setup etc. in the Kadet. I am able to handle tools and did build some balsa models when I was a kid back in the dark ages.
Could I be getting in over my head with the Sig Kadet Senior ARF?
Thank you.
As long as you use the recommended equipment, the build will be very easy. All you really have to do is hinge the control surface, bolt the motor and servos in , install the velcro for the battery, ESC, and recievers, assemble the pushrods and glue the horns. That might sound like a lot but it won't take more than a few hours. Just make sure to have thin and medium CA, 5 minute epoxy, and the correct screwdrivers.
I recently got one from a buddy of mine and it's an easy plane to fly, just BIG! His was a gas to electric conversion and there was no battery access which made battery connection and so on tough. It's a floaty airplane and needs lots of room. Mine has a 60 in it running a 6S lipo. Nice looking plane too. ZEE
If you've got the hang of the Apprentice you'll have no problem flying the Kadet, but remember that you may need a bigger field, longer take-off/landing space etc. I assume you'll go electric, not glow.
Like RCAddict says, use the recommended radio gear and motor and follow the instructions. Plenty of people on RCG to help if you get stuck.
The only thing is that you might find flying the Kadet is very similar to the Apprentice - have you considered a low wing 'trainer' plane?
I also prefer bigger planes these days. Good luck
I have the Word Models version of this plane, glow powered. Not hard to assemble and flies nice and it is big.
It will not be a step up in flying skill for you though, just a little different, so if you want more of a challenge then a low wing would be the next step. If all you are looking for is BIG then go for it
He's right about being the same type of plane. I have a Hanger 9 Piper Pawnee with a 80" w.s. and a power 80 w/6S in it. But it will fly with a 46 and a 4S setup just fine. I plan on towing gliders with mine. It is basicly a low wing Super Cub. Same tail and wing and it's a blast to fly!! Super easy to build and only the rudder to hinge! It has available flaps too. It will cover all the types of flying you need. Believe it or not there is a warbird YOU can fly also and that is the Hanger 9 40 size P-51 w/60" w.s. I have one and it flys like a trainer ask anyone who has one. It will also fly balls to the wall! I love mine.
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I found your post while looking for a more generic Senior thread and it's a little dated but I have $0.3 for ya.
By coincidence I just maidened my electric Senior last week. Got it second hand. The previous owner had converted it to taildragger, and used fuel, and I converted it to electric. First flight was 99% perfect.
I've seen a *ton* of people learn on Apprentice, that was a great choice.
Back in the day the Senior was The Trainer, standard issue. It's handling/flight behavior slightly more advanced than Apprentice. It's docile yet still mildly aerobatic. The performance you get will be a factor of what power system you use. Mine is way overpowered because I got a good deal on a used Hacker A-60 22s. Trainers are traditionally underpowered but that's not always the best idea because it leaves little spare power to get out of tight spots where it might help if needed.
There are threads that suggest power ratios for different flying styles. With that info see http://www.ecalc.ch/motorcalc_e.htm to pick an exact motor/esc/battery/prop combination. If you have a good LHS they should be very helpful.
Since you're doing a lot of the build and it's not a true RTF like Apprentice I suggest having a more experienced pilot do a thorough preflight inspection and the first flight. There may be details you miss in construction/setup. Since this your second plane a more experienced pilot will be better able to handle initial trim problems that could easily confuse/panic an inexperienced pilot.
Senior needs more space simply because it's bigger, but in a -scale- sense flies about as fast as trainers. Given the sheer size it doesn't 'look fast' and it doesn't -behave- fast.
I was kinda surprised at my first flight with it. The taxiway is about 4'. I have flown a 50" Yak and it looked pretty big. the 80" looked like a *MONSTER*. But, out on the runway it actually looked not much bigger than the Yak. Not sure why that perception thing happened but someday I'll go with both Yak and Senior and look at the differences.
BTW, also a matter of size, the expression '3 mistakes high' really is twice as high as a 40" plane. LOL! Personally, until I'm very familiar with a plane, I prefer about 2x that or 6 mistakes high. Maybe 8. LOL! But because it's so much larger it doesn't -look- very high and you'll be able to see it fine. And because it handles like a pussycat I *promise* you'll do excellently with it. Senior is an awesome excellent trainer.
I also have a Kadet Sr, older kit built I got used, tail dragger, flaps, unreliable 1.00 nitro.
I find the thing flies well, and is quite floaty in landing. To me, the Apprentice is better at basic aerobatics.
Sig has a reputation for excellent directions in both kits and ARF, so I don't think you could pick a better brand for a first ARF.
I recently built the Rascal 110" ARF, and the build quality, covering job, and directions are excellent.
Let us know how it worked out.
I'm building a Kadet Sr ARF now...started it last night actually. I don't think you'll have any problems getting together. As mentioned, the Sig manuals are excellent. Yes, it has a few typos, but it wont let you forget to do anything. It's very thorough.
As for the kit, I'm impressed so far. The only snag has been the difficulty threading the nosewheel pushrod wire into the inner sleeve of the flexrod. That's pretty trivial stuff.
Let it be noted that they only show you one motor mounting method and do not provide the parts for that method. Any deviation also requires improvisation...but that's how we develop new skills.
For what it's worth, I'll be using an E-flite power 32 on 4S-5000, and that's still more motor than they recommend. I justified the bigger motor because:
1. I have it
2. I plan to haul gliders and/or cameras
If you just want to use the Kadet as a sport plane, I suggest you use their recommended motor (or similar) and keep it light.
Think about putting a Saito 56 four stroke in it. I had one and it was fantastic!
The Kadet family of planes are good high wing trainers. SIG has a great reputation for well flying planes.
Although the Kadet/Seniorita will float, it is big, and will not turn on a dime, and needs power to do vertical stuff. If you're going electric, you could easily put a 1500 watt motor on it and run it with sport voltage (4S). Once you get used to it, and the fear is gone, then you will have the power to add 6S batteries and do some really interesting stuff.
The Kadet is a nice choice.
I maidened mine yesterday. It did very well at 7lb 1oz, with 682 watts (Power32/4S-5000/13x6.5). Plenty of vertical and speed. I may go to a 14x5 for aerotow, but I'm sure it would work as-is. 14" is about as big as I dare go on the prop without lengthening the nose strut...and I use a very smooth asphalt runway.
Here's some video from the 3rd flight. It didn't mind the 90-degree crosswind much at all.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Offleak made my day. if you enjoyed either BTBAM's "Alaska" or "The Silent Circus" I can't see how you wouldn't enjoy this album. This is probably my 2nd favorite album this year behind Dillinger's.
Can't find this anywhere!
I have been waiting for this album ... where is it?
I am probably about to commit a major musician faux pas and comment on this review. However, since there are so many questions about the release dates, I figured I owed it to those who are interested as well as to Adam so no one thinks he supplied you with incorrect information.
We were pushing really hard to get the album out by the end of July and had planned on July 27th being the release date all along. We had a few snags along the way (artwork, guest vocals, pre-order date lead times etc.) that put the date in jeopardy but we thought we could keep the date from slipping regardless so that is the date we supplied with the album to reviewers. Unfortunately it was confirmed this week that was not the case and the album is being officially released August 10th with pre-orders starting this week instead of the actual album sales this week. This also gives the label a little time to promote now before it is actually released as well.
Sorry for any confusion and for the delay; there should be an official press release from Tragic Hero soon on actual pre-order details etc. For now, based on the comments/reviews, it looks like there are some leaks out there. Feel free to check those out and hopefully you will enjoy the record enough to pick up your own copy August 10th. Thanks again to Adam for an awesome review.
Album Rating: 3.5Thanks for the info Jamie! =)
Album Rating: 4.0I retrieved the book (The Screwtape Letters) and this album on the same day! Time to have some fun! :D
Album Rating: 3.5Vampolka, your username ROCKS.
*ahem* I should really read that book...
Album Rating: 4.0Thanks for filling us in. Been looking for it and good to hear official word. Really enjoyed the EP; will be buying.
Album Rating: 4.5Hilarious that he posted here HA. Even better that he didn't care crestacious posted a link. But I totally agree Coleba. I found the EP via sputnik and was happy to see this review. Especially since it had a leak link. Great album. Like ^ said. Will be buying.
Album Rating: 3.0Josh you may NOT listen to this. Once an album based on The Age of Reason comes out you can listen to that.
Digging: Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
Album Rating: 4.0Album is so good that if it were a character Tom Hanks would play it in a movie.
Album Rating: 3.0This isn't as awesome as I hoped it would be. I spend my life trying to find another TSC, but WHY?? Album is still good though.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffTheir drummer must love that little splash cymbal. It sounds oddly fitting, though. I like it.
such a great album!
Album Rating: 3.0Little too much hype here... I didn't want to keep listening to it as a whole. Select tracks are excellent.
sucks monkey dick thats been up a horses ass, shitted on twice, and thrown in a blender
Album Rating: 4.0This is pretty fucking good.
Album Rating: 4.0So this is a pretty huge step up for the band. The album is fairly immense. Sometimes it feels a bit like they lost in the technical stuff though, like it's more of an exercise than a song, whereas the EP songs seemed to flow. Regardless, this is an achievement and should be checked out.
Album Rating: 4.0The intro/outro riff in "Let Sleeping Worms Lie" is total sickness.
Album Rating: 4.0It's damn good, but that's because aside from Counterparts and Hundredth metalcore has sucked balls this year.
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text: I've been wanting to try out Shutters and Michael and Marions but when I looked on the Shutter's website, they have "gourmet" mac and cheese as one of their mains. Not into it! Anyone attend last year's event? I tried winterlicious twice in Toronto and the portions were so minuscule and dried out (given they are prepared in advance) that I am a little apprehensive about doing it again. I thought I'd give this Barrie event I try given I live there now.


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Comment #22 Monday, April 4, 2005 10:39 AM
when I switch to y'z dock, this docklet no more works.
what should I do?
Because, you know, y'z is much more stable than od, at least for my system.
I would be very grateful if you got a solution for using this docklet on y'z.
Comment #23 Saturday, April 23, 2005 9:03 PM
but if u extract properly using winzip, install that MXML4 (whatever) program, extract a fresh copy of GMail into Docklets folder (even if u already done it before), then u should be able to get it to work...
The config settings are:
URL: https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
XPath: xmlns:a="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"
Username & Password: Enter your Gmail username & password
P.S. If you get funny %s symbols, extract GMail again (and let all files overwrite).
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It doesn't paste correctly..
but here's what it's meant to be:
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then the rest is the same.
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Comment #26 Monday, June 13, 2005 3:41 AM
when i have unread mails in my gmail inbox then icon is changed but text remains old: "%s Unread Gmails"
Please suggest.
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Comment #29 Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:40 PM
Judge's help is needed, I think.
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This worked for me.
Right click on GMail icon.
Select configure.
Select Meter tab.
Select GMail.
Click on Configure
Under URL erase the g in //gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom so it reads https: //mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
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I have to agree with OndrejL, a sound option would be great.
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Friday, Dec. 30, 2005 | 10:09 a.m.
Tom Gorman's column runs Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. He can be reached at [email protected] or at (702) 259-2310.
If you throw big parties at your house, tell me how you do it.
Jeanne and I are hosting an open house Sunday and frankly, I worry that we're in over our heads. We're not sure how many people to expect and the invitations said not to bring anything because we'd have it all.
I really want to impress everyone with our generous hospitality. (We even boasted that we have three TVs, but one of them is in the bedroom and, truthfully, I don't want a gaggle of strangers sitting on our bed, watching football and dropping potato chips and French onion dip on the comforter.)
We didn't ask for RSVPs, so I don't know whether to buy a six-pack of Milwaukee's Best or an entire case. Should we pick up just one plastic tray of veggies and dip from Costco, or three or four? (Can left-over carrot and celery sticks be frozen until summer?)
The invitation list includes my co-workers and bosses at the Sun, my neighbors (so they won't complain about people parking in front of their driveways), and people I've written about in this column.
That list includes Steve and Elaine Wynn and I'm sure they'd swing by, were they not spending the holidays in Idaho. If they return early, I'll break out the Cook's champagne from Sav-on that I've saved for a special occasion, and swap out the Cheez Whiz for the really good Tillamook cheddar.
The invite list also includes Oscar ("No-Thumbs") Goodman, but he probably won't show up either. We invited him to an open house five years ago and, thinking he'd make an appearance, I bought two big bottles of decent gin. Well, that $20 would have better been spent on beer for my friends than on Oscar ("No-Show") Goodman.
The biggest wild card for the open house will be the Henderson Symphony. I attended their Christmas concert and interviewed a half-dozen of its members. But Jeanne said that since I wrote about the entire symphony, I had to invite each member. So I did.
I don't know if two musicians will come, or all 65, so now I'm hoping one of 'em will bring some crispy pork rinds or a bag of Fritos.
How can you plan for a party if you don't know how many are coming?
Maybe I can learn something from the folks who are organizing the big New Year's Eve party on Fremont Street. The mayor of Las Vegas hopes to get himself and another 11,999 people into the Guinness Book of World Records by participating in the world's largest toast. All but one of them will be sipping wine.
The current record, I'm told, is a 10,079-person toast, conducted by a Japanese sake company.
Tickets for the Vegas event, which will drink in the new year and drink out the Las Vegas Centennial celebration, cost $40, which includes admission to the Fremont Street Experience and music by three bands, none of which goes by the name of Guy Lombardo.
It can't be easy, organizing the Fremont Street New Year's Eve party. They've got to order 1,200 magnums of chardonnay, locate a handful of corkscrews (unless the stuff comes in cardboard box dispensers like Franzia) and send someone to Costco for a ton of plastic cups.
But I've learned something from the Fremont folks: Make a party so big that a wine maker will co-sponsor it, as is Beaulieu Vineyard for Oscar's party. (Maybe I could ask Two-Buck Chuck to underwrite the Gorman gala.)
If BV Wine has leftovers, will it sell the unopened bottles at a swap meet or take them back home to Napa? And pity the guy who has to take a few thousand plastic cups back to Costco for a refund.
I guess my party logistics will pale by comparison, but now I have a new concern. By writing about the New Year's Eve toast, will I now have to invite everyone there to our open house?
I guess we'll be able to at least handle every member of the Henderson Symphony. I just hope they don't bring their cellos.


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Even though Halloween costumes rank really high on my "things I like to make" list, I decided this year, I needed to make it easy on myself. So I recycled an old costume for Pumpkin, pieced together super simple costumes for me and Todd and I even bought *gasp* a pre-made costume for Baby Brother. Ugh. I hated to do it, but at the end of the day I was so glad I did.
Princess was the only one that got a new, homemade costume this year because honestly, it wouldn't feel like Halloween around here unless I spent at least little time at the sewing machine.
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" Artist: Blood of Kingu / Audio CD released 2008-03-10 at Supernal "
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Blood of Kingu is a one man black metal project by Ukranian musician Roman Saenko, also of other prominent Ukraininan black metal bands Astrofaes, Hate Forest and Drudkh. Kingu was a god in Babylonian mythology, who was killed by the god Marduk and whose blood was used to create mankind. Blood of Kingu then is a band themed around Ancient Sumerian/Egyptian/Indo-European history and mysticism, and effectively blends the harsh, raw droning high-speed black metal of Hate Forest with the more sorrowful and melodic riffs of Drudkh.
Like Hate Forest's releases 'De Occulta Philosophica' has a dissonant and ominous feel to it, with its clanging/clattering cymbal-heavy drums, furious buzzing riffs and changes in tempo from fast-paced passages to majestic-sounding half-time sections creating a very powerful and ancient-feeling atmosphere that is in keeping with the band's themes of the dark and mysterious civilisations of antiquity and ancient creation myths. The cover and booklet are full of deep-blue images of the cosmos and ancient line-drawings of Egyptian and Babylonian warriors in battle, and are in keeping with the gravitas of the music.
It does just sound like Hate Forest by another name upon the first listen, but repeated listens reveal 'De Occulata Philosphia' to be a subtly different beast, as Hate Forest becomes fused with Drudkh's unique style of reedy and fuzzy Eastern European melodic riffing. Roman Saenko's rasping growls are nowhere to be found, being replaced instead by droning druidic chanting, whilst interludes of tribal african rhythms and distant, booming horns further bolster the albums thick atmosphere. At under half an hour the album is quite short, but shows promise of good things ahead which is especially pleasing given that Hate Forest are now sadly no more.
De Occulta Philosophia is a powerful and intriguing piece of cold and raging raw black metal that is well worth checking out for fans of Hate Forest and Drudkh looking for something that is in the same vein but subtly different.
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2. Your Blood, Nubia! Your Power, Egypt! 04:28
3. Mummu Tiamat 04:00
4. Stronghold of Megaliths, Thorns and Human Bones 04:35
5. Slaughter of Shudras 00:44
6. Lair of Night Abzu 05:27
7. Black Spectral Wings of Shaman 04:45
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2 Your Blood Nubia Your Power Egypt
3 Mummu Tiamat
4 Stronghold Of Megaliths Thorns And Human Bones
5 Slaughter Of Shudras
6 Lair Of Night Abzu
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My good friend Sam Stokes posted an introduction to Encapsulation not long ago. Not that I am competitive mind you but I thought I could do better. And since I had some vacation time in which to think and write I have given it a try. I'll let you judge if I succeed or not.
So what is Encapsulation? Encapsulation is an important part of object oriented programming. It is part of what makes OOP "safer" and more easy to use. Briefly stated Encapsulation is the hiding of implementation details of a class. Specifically you include the data storage as private data and create methods that interact with that data. The implementation of these methods is not visible to the programmer who uses the class. Nor is the internal representation of the data. Everything is in this software capsule – this "black box" that just works. One fun example is a die class (Die being the singular of dice in this case. Nothing to do with first person shooter actions)
Of the several benefits of encapsulation are that data cannot be directly manipulated by code that calls/uses the object and that the way methods work can be changed without negative impact on other code that uses the class/object. Let's take a look at this in code with the first part of a very simple Die class (This example is in Visual Basic but the concepts are the same in other programming languages)
Public Class Die
Private sides As Integer
Private face As Integer
Private rnd As Random
Public Sub New(ByVal s As Integer)
If s < 2 Then
Throw New Exception("Sides must be greater than or equal to 2")
End If
sides = s
rnd = New Random
face = rnd.Next(1, sides + 1)
End Sub
Public Sub New()
End Sub
Public Function Roll() As Integer
face = rnd.Next(1, sides + 1)
Return face
End Function
Public ReadOnly Property FaceValue() As Integer
Return face
End Get
End Property
Public Overrides Function ToString() As String
Return face.ToString()
End Function
In this example we only allow the user to get (and change in a protected fashion) the face value of the Die. The property FaceValue is read only – we do not want the user code changing that to some value of its own choosing. In fact the only way to change the value is to call the Roll function/.method which uses random values that are (theoretically at least) outside the user's control. The ToString method is likewise only a way to get the face value.
In our example there is no way to retrieve the number of sides the Die has and fixing that would probably be a good edition. Like FaceValue that would be done as a read-only Property.
In our example we could substitute any algorithm for changing the face value of our Die that we wanted to as long as it returned an Integer value within the range expected by the user code. While we are probably not going to write our own random number routine we could and it would not require any changes in code that used this Class. In other applications being able to change the algorithm used in a method without having to change code that uses it could be a valuable option. It would allow us to test various algorithms for performance, accuracy, or other values quickly and easily. In a payroll program we could make changes in the calculations for bonuses, overtime or any number of things within a single class without having any negative impact on programs that used that class. That's a big win in ease of testing and debugging. It's all made possible by encapsulation.


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In today's ever-changing culture, there is confusion and a lack of conviction concerning the role of women in the local church. Even though the Bible speaks plainly, some tend to doubt the authority of God's Word on this subject. Alistair Begg reminds us that Scripture is always relevant, must always be trusted, and should be our ultimate source of truth.
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We live in a culture that displays an increasing contempt for authority of all kinds. Contemporary ideas and attitudes are light years away from what the bible has to say. In these stories we learn that God's plan for leadership in the church is not that one individual should dominate the next -- autocracy. Nor is it one man, one vote -- democracy. It is certainly not 'every man for himself' -- anarchy.
Instead the biblical pattern is 'servant leadership' -- a plurality of godly men responsible 'for' not 'to' the congregation. This is not a matter of marginal importance. The church cannot and does not make progress beyond the spiritual maturity and sensitivity of its leaders.


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Kid Cudi takes to Twitter to show support for fellow G.O.O.D. Music signee Pusha T, while Young Chop responds to Pusha's song in a similar manner to Lil Wayne.
Since the release of Pusha T's "Exodus 23:1" featuring The-Dream, everyone's been wondering who exactly Pusha T's taking shots at. Lil Wayne assumed it was at Drake and/or his team, and so immediately took to Twitter to respond.
Since Weezy's "fuck Pusha T and anybody that love 'em," Kid Cudi has defended Pusha on Twitter.
Cudder tweeted, "I love my nigga Pusha T, fuck anybody who feel different. We ain't ho's out here."
I LOVE MY NIGGA PUSHA T, FUCK ANYBODY WHO FEEL DIFFERENT.WE AINT HO'S OUT HERE— Scott Mescudi (@wizardcud) May 24, 2012
In addition to this though, the track also seems to be taking shots at producer Young Chop (who did "I Don't Like" and then got upset with Kanye West for changing up the beat.)
Pusha spits, "You can keep your beats, nigga / We'd much rather share your bitch, nigga, bitch nigga."
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A larger-than-life statue of the Virgin Mary, arms outstretched, stands on a hill overlooking the entrance to the Lebanese Christian village of Jezzine, welcoming visitors into this picturesque mountain town.
For more than two decades, during Lebanons 16-year civil war and since its conclusion in 1990, this particular icon has presided over incessant strife among warring Middle East factions. Last June 3, however, Jezzine residents awoke to an unexpected lull in the violence. After occupying their town for the past 14 years, the South Lebanon Army (SLA), a proxy militia for Israel comprised of Lebanese conscripts, withdrew from the region. In its wake, long-besieged Jezzine dared to hope peace may finally be at hand.
Conflict dies hard in the Middle East, however. As they pulled back to the safety of Israels nine-mile-wide occupation zone in southern Lebanon, the 200 SLA soldiers faced a familiar inferno. Hezbollah guerrillas detonated roadside bombs along their path, blowing up tanks and armored personnel carriers, killing two SLA militiamen.
The humiliating retreat looked a lot like the beginning of the end for Israels surrogate army in the south. It also looked to many like the first sign of Israels impending withdrawal from Lebanon after a costly 21-year occupation that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has promised to end.
Just outside of Jezzine, longtime resident Joseph Auon pointed to a rocky hill overlooking the SLAs escape route, still littered with charred Israeli tanks.
"Thats Hezbollahs hill where they launched their attacks," said Aoun matter-of-factly, summing up in a single sentence everything that has been going wrong for Israel and its allies in south Lebanon.
Born in response to Israels invasion of Beirut in 1982, Hezbollah has transformed itself from a radical organization, suspected of playing a role in the bombing of the U.S. Marines barrack in Beirut in 83 and the kidnapping of Western hostages, into a potent resistance force. In their fight to end Israels occupation of Lebanon, Hezbollah guerrillas have become increasingly effective in slipping into Israels buffer zone and ambushing the 1,500-strong Israeli army and the 2,500 SLA troops that help patrol its occupation. The Hezbollah-launched Katyusha rocket attacks, which have long terrorized northern Israel, have only served to underscore the limitations of Israels self-proclaimed "security zone" inside Lebanese borders.
More even than the Israeli military, the SLA has served as Hezbollahs favorite target. The SLA had emerged in the 1970s under the leadership of the late renegade Lebanese army officer Major Saad Haddad, whose militia-for-hire served as a shield between the Jewish state and the Palestinians then controlling south Lebanon.
Funded and armed by Israel, SLA troops assisted Israel during its 1978 occupation of south Lebanon, its invasion of Beirut in 1982, and later its establishment in 1985 of Israels current buffer zone.
That same year, SLA leader General Antoine Lahad, a Christian, occupied Jezzine, claiming the need to protect the areas largely Christian population against feared massacres. Israel gave its okay, viewing the Jezzine enclave a finger that juts just north of the declared occupation zone as a useful tactical appendage. Ever since, Jezzine has been cut off from the rest of Lebanon, controlled by a client army and relinquished by a national government that has become little more than a tool for neighboring Syrias regional designs.
With 35,000 troops in Lebanon, Syria pretty much calls the shots, fomenting continuing tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border. That translates into constant harassment of Israels occupation, which Syria can distance itself from, but can also promise to quell in return for Israeli concessions in peace talks.
Hezbollah helps serve that agenda by hitting hard at the SLA. This past spring, the commander of the SLAs Jezzine regiment was badly injured in a roadside bomb explosion; his deputy was killed in a similar attack a week later. Unable to find a replacement and faced with growing casualties and army desertions, the SLAs Lahad called his militias presence in Jezzine "untenable" and ordered a pullback.
For Jezzines 3,000 residents down from an original 30,000 the sudden withdrawal, after 14 years of isolation and war, has given rise to mixed emotions.
Fareed Aoun sat in the corner of his shop along Jezzines quiet main street, carefully crafting the ebony-and-bone handles of the cutlery for which Jezzine is famous. He once employed 15 workers to help him make the exquisitely sculpted forks and knives that tourists drove two hours from Beirut to buy. Now he works by himself.
He said the last few years have been marked by weekly bombings and explosions as the SLA and Hezbollah did battle. Many civilians were killed in the crossfire, while others fled to Beirut for safety. Because of his store, said Aoun, he had no choice but to stay.
"I would go from home to work to home again, only," he said, describing life under siege. "Always we were afraid."
Now, said Aoun, theres peace and quiet. "With the war over, I just hope that Jezzine will become a tourist center once again."
Nineteen-year-old Shadi Helou agreed that life has improved in the wake of the SLA pullout. The town, he said, no longer has to worry about Hezbollah attacks.
"People are more relaxed and stay out later," he said.
But others expressed only bitterness that so little had changed in the 40 days since Jezzines return to Lebanons fold. Many noted that the national government had yet to lift travel restrictions into Jezzine, limiting the influx of tourists and the chance of economic recovery. Others accused the government of leaving Jezzine vulnerable to Hezbollah control by not deploying the Lebanese army in the region. The government argues that sending troops would signal cooperation with the Israelis, who have long insisted that Lebanon assert control over its border region.
People were most upset, however, about the status of 200 area residents who had worked for the SLA and gave themselves up to Lebanese authorities, rather than retreat with their colleagues. Mainly soldiers for the SLA, the men, ranging in age from their 20s through their 70s, are now facing trial in Beirut on charges of collaborating with the enemy. Despite their lawyers calls for amnesty, some already have received prison sentences ranging from three months to two years.
Edmond Rizk, a former member of parliament from Jezzine, who is representing some of the men, said they were victims of circumstance, not collaborators.
"Many were taken by the SLA and forced to join," he said, referring to the SLAs policy of recruiting a son from each family. "Others joined for economic reasons"; in economically depressed southern Lebanon, the militias $500-a-month salaries were hard to match.
As one walks through the Jezzine area, its not hard to find residents with brothers, fathers or sons who served with the SLA. Their stories highlight the anguish and uncertainty of lives caught in the middle of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
At a grocery store in the nearby village of Roum, both the store owner and his customer said they had family members in prison awaiting trial on collaboration charges.
"We ran a hair salon," said a tearful Fahimi Assouf, referring to her husband. "But the SLA took him 16 years ago; he had no alternative but to serve . . . He had to survive."
Seated at a nearby gas station, elderly Boulos Akouri, a former gatekeeper for the SLA, expressed anger and disgust toward the Lebanese government for accusing his 25-year-old son of treason.
"Were Lebanese here, our sympathies are not with Israel. We always believed the SLA was a Lebanese army," said Akouri. "We were abandoned by the Lebanese government all these years, so what right does the government now have to prosecute my son?"
Despite a clear ideological gulf between the Hezbollah militants and the SLA soldiers, these erstwhile enemies also have a few things in common.
Long considered a Christian militia, the SLA is in fact predominantly Shiite today, its soldiers culled from the poor Muslim families inhabiting south Lebanon. This has made the SLA particularly susceptible to infiltration by the Shiite Hezbollah, which over the years has developed numerous informers among the client armys ranks.
Hezbollah has also been effective in encouraging defections among SLA foot soldiers, promising them protection and assistance. In 1997, Hezbollah unsuccessfully sought to pass a bill in Lebanons parliament granting amnesty to all SLA defectors with the exception of officers.
"The Islamic resistance has pledged that we want to dismantle the SLA," said Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim Mussawi, "because they serve as Israels sandbags in the south."
Following the Jezzine pullout, recent SLA defectors have reported the militia to be demoralized and on the verge of collapse. Rumors are circulating that General Antoine Lahad sought to resign and retire to France, but was prevented from doing so by the Israelis. The Israeli army has since been left with little option but to bolster its own forces in south Lebanon. Just four days after the SLA retreat, Israel declared that earlier plans to reduce its troop numbers were being postponed, in part to prevent the complete implosion of the SLA.
Mussawi says efforts to force the collapse of the SLA have been part of a larger Hezbollah strategy.
"We want to remove the SLA so the Israelis will feel the pain directly," said Mussawi.
And the pain these days has become more than most Israelis are willing to bear. It has not been easy policing an occupation zone that at its deepest point is 10 miles wide and runs for 50 miles along Israels shared border with Lebanon.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), 72 Israeli soldiers have been killed in south Lebanon in the last two years alone. In February, Israels highest-ranking commander in the region, Brigadier General Erez Gerstein, died in a roadside blast, along with three other Israelis. His loss re-ignited Israels internal debate about the wisdom of remaining involved in what many call Israels Vietnam, and no doubt helped strengthen Baraks pledge to remove troops within the next year.
While other Lebanese and Palestinian groups have fought to oust Israel over the years, Hezbollah gets most of the credit for undermining Israels resolve to stay in Lebanon.
"There are many criticisms of Hezbollahs behavior," said American University of Beirut political science professor Farid el-Khazen, "but no one can say Hezbollah is not engaged in a real war with Israel, a war that has produced some results."
Aside from its guerrilla agenda, Hezbollah has over the years built itself into a legitimate political party. Members of "The Party of God," as its known in English, hold seats in Lebanons parliament, elected by a largely poor Shiite population that enjoys Hezbollahs extensive network of hospitals, schools, orphanages and other social services. Though its critics accuse it of espousing an Iranian-inspired Islamist agenda that uses violence to silence its opponents, even they begrudgingly recognize Hezbollahs good works.
"Hezbollah may be the least corrupt party in Lebanon," said Khazen.
Its autonomy, however, is another question. Visitors to the neighborhood of south Beirut where Hezbollah is headquartered are greeted by posters of the late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran and President Hafez al-Assad of Syria. Hezbollah is funded by Iran and backed by Lebanons taskmaster Syria.
Hezbollah is largely regarded as a tool of the Syrian regime, which uses it to pressure and harass the Israelis. In return for the Golan Heights, which Syria lost to Israel in the 1967 war, Syria is believed to be in a position to call off Hezbollah attacks and guarantee Israel a peaceful northern border for the first time in almost 30 years.
"Its no secret that the greatest bargaining chip that the Syrian government has against the Israelis is the resistance in the south," said Chebli Mellat, a law professor at Beiruts St. Joseph University.
The SLA withdrawal, he believes, alarmed Syria because it underscored the possibility of a unilateral Israeli pullout, which would deny Syria much-needed leverage in negotiations with Israel.
The result, according to Mellat, is that "Jezzine triggered the increased readiness of the Syrians to seek a rapprochement with the Israeli government over the whole issue of peace on the northern front."
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Ever since Israel bombed Beirut on June 24, in response to Hezbollah rocket attacks on its northern border, Hezbollah military operations in the south have decreased. Israel claims its air raids, which killed nine Lebanese and destroyed two of Beiruts power stations, cowed the group. (Hezbollah responded with rocket attacks that killed two Israeli civilians.) But others say that Syria requested calm as a gesture of good will to Barak a sign of how keen Syria is to resume peace talks suspended with Israel in 1996.
How much Syria will be able to control Hezbollahs actions to suit its political designs remains to be seen. Though it states that its sole military aim is the liberation of Lebanon, Hezbollah, whose Iranian sponsors are firmly opposed to peace with Israel, remains coy about whether or not it plans to disarm once the seemingly inevitable IDF withdrawal takes place.
In the meantime, Jezzines residents seem little interested in the stepped-up regional power plays triggered by the SLA retreat. Instead, their thoughts lean toward survival. As one resident asked plaintively, "If the government doesnt give us back our sons and husbands, how will we manage?"
Mellat says that Jezzines return to normalcy, like much of Lebanons, depends upon Damascus and Jerusalem resolving their regional differences which may or may not happen any time soon.


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- FanimeCon 2011
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
This one was not too bad. The cloak was pretty easy to make. However, the shirt gave me a lot of difficulties, truth be told. It was modded from a long sleeve white shirt from Goodwill and for some reason, I couldn't get the arm holes to look right LOL. The one I went with was actually my second try haha. The first failed version was used as an undershirt since the fabric was kind of see through. Wig was bought on ebay and cut by my friend and was styled and tweaked by myself. The necklace was made out of sculpey. The fur and gloves were pretty difficult as well. I had to dye the fur twice, though I think I spent more time worrying about the process than actually dying it. There was a lot of swearing while making the gloves. I bought the base glove from a japanese dollar store and cut off the finger tips and sewed on bias tape for the edges. Which took forever. OTL Pants were reused from Kurthnaga (my mom's pants lol). Boots were bought from hot topic and bias tape glued on and shoelaces bought and cut. The sword was made using cardboard, aluminum tape, dowel, pvc pipe, sculpey, and lots of masking tape. I was really pressed for time, so it looks pretty crappy. Also, it kept falling off during the con (there are hooks in the back which connects to the belt). OTL Oh and the belt was sewed together and the designs were painted on.
Wig Details
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- Unknown
- Wig Name
- Medium Layered
- Original Color:
- Golden Yellow
- Styling Time
- 30 min to an hour or so
- Wig Quality Rating
- 3 / 5.00
- How was the wig colored?
- none
- Styling Notes
- I had to retie the ponytail and trim the the bangs. I'm kind of disappointed in how I trimmed the bangs so I hope that one day, I can get a new wig and fix my mistakes haha.
- Wig Review
- Not a very good color for my skin. But it was alright and the fiber was nice and thick.
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ST George Illawarra, Newcastle and Gold Coast face fines totalling $350,000 as the NRL launches a major clampdown on alleged breaches of concussion protocols.
The Dragons were slugged with a $100,000 fine after Josh Dugan appeared to cop a head knock in Sunday's win over Cronulla but was allowed to play on.
The Knights were slugged for the same amount after Brendan Elliot stayed on after copping a swinging arm from Hymel Hunt while the Titans are facing a $150,000 sanction over the treament of Kane Elgey, Joe Greenwood and Ryan Simpkins.
"These are, by far, the heaviest fines ever proposed by the game for concussion breaches," NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg said.
"That is how seriously we take it.
"The clubs involved have the opportunity to respond to the breach notices, and we will consider those responses, but our message is clear … we are not going to allow player safety to be put at risk through breaches of the concussion rules."
The clubs have five business days to respond to the breach notices.


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Exactly. You assemble a team with Tom Brady, Ed Reed, Ray Lewis, etc and the rest of the world would probably have -500 yards and 0 pts.
Originally Posted by FelixOrion
Professionally? Canadians. And Europe had NFL Europa for a while.
Also for everyone to note!:
IFAF World Championship
So yeah. Japan gave us a run for our money our first year but we were hardly using the best players. We were using graduating seniors who weren't going to the NFL.
Hell you assemble a team with Andrew Luck, Matt Kalil, Trent Richardson, etc and they would do the same.
We're sending a bunch of scrub seniors who have no chance at the NFL at all and still winning.


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I would like to start a new Form on "Hairy Corners", to find how often this happens to other riders and how they deal with it.
Now I have been riding bikes since the age of 13. Did my bike test at 18 and have worked my way up to an RSV Millie. But even now (much less often than my earlier years) I still find myself with my heart bursting out my ears, when having gone to fast round a corner, where i am either on the wrong side of the road, almost becoming red paint on a country sign-post, or leaning so far over the footpeg has bounced off the deck throwing back up into these dangers anyway. I know this happens less when your calm and confidant when riding. But I also know it happens to other riders as I'v seen it happen when sitting behind people on pasier runs.
So how can we deal with this in a way that doesn't involve tensing up stiff, or locking the back wheel up and bouncing round a corner, facing a car head on, riding into a feel, or death?
Come on old guys, we know You've lived to tell the tale. How did you do it and how do you correct it?


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355 Tasting Notes
Sadly, the last cup of a now apparently discontinued tea. Not getting the cocoa as much today. I think I'm going to have to make a SpecialTeas order today; my black tea stockpile is getting dangerously low. Looks like only about 10 or so half-full sample tins of Adagio blacks left. I've only tried a few of SpecialTeas' blacks but I LOVE them, so I want to try more.
Yeah, my tea selections are boring today. I am so eyeing up that Samovar deal. Unfortunately for some reason, my work computer hates Samovar's website; I get errors the second it loads up. So gotta wait til I get home.
So far your teas for today perfectly suit the rainy weather were having here in Oklahoma. I think I am actually going to have to start the day off with a black tea as well to accommodate this rain. That Samovar deal seems too good to be true. Kinda hard to pass up.
Best part of sencha: knowing that great resteeps are yet to come.
This tea is so delicious, and hopefully will help me on my eternal quest to drink more greens. Light, sweet, buttery, and with an intoxicating pineapple aroma. I still have a small sample bag of their orange sencha that I need to try.
I wish this was closer in price to The Tea Farm's pineapple green! Their orange is good so I'm hoping this one is a heck of a lot more pineappley than TTF's version.
Last of a tiny sample that I bought (apparently almost a year ago!) in the bulk bins at Whole Foods. As I said in my decades-old tasting note for this, this taste like a not-so-sweet creamsicle tempered by a bit of an undercurrent of jasmine. I really dig it. Mighty Leaf charges $12.95 for 2.2oz of this on their site, however, so if I can't find it at Whole Foods again, I won't be getting more.
Woohoo! Another sample done! My tea stash has gone down pretty dramatically in the last month or so. I still have a lot of small samples from the fine people of Steepster, but I'm running through Adagio sample tins – 9 done in the last month at last count. I might do another swap/giveaway of teas that need a good home in the next week or two.
Anyway, I liked this one overall, but I don't think I'll reorder. The caramel taste can be too synthetic and sugary at times.
Woooo! I'm impressed with your ability to put this stuff away. I have so many Adagio samples half-finished, and no interest whatsoever in finishing them…or even starting on most of the greens. Your determination is admirable!
Agreed! It appears, sophistre, that you and I have similar Adagio attack strategies. Which is that…we don't.
I know Shanti is a love it or hate it tea, and I love it. The smokiness really shines through, with a slight hint of vegetal flavor. If you don't like smoky teas, you won't like this.
I know this is sacrilege, but.. I think I prefer this to SpecialTeas' Almond Cookie. It all depends on what you're looking for, I suppose. Almond Cookie is much sweeter and has a lot more of a cinnamon sugar than an almond taste to me. This, as I've said before, has more of a true, bitter almond taste that I prefer.
That isn't sacrilege, it makes sense. Almond and almond cookie are not the same thing:) Do you prefer this or their almond oolong?
The almond oolong was WAY too strong and artificially flavored for me, which is too bad, because almond and oolong are two of my favorite things!


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CHESTER, Pa. – An early-season bye week could not come at a better time for the Philadelphia Union.
After going winless in their first four outings to start the 2012 campaign, the Union (0-3-1) plan to recharge their batteries and return a better team after two full weeks off between games. That's not exactly groundbreaking, of course, but it's Philly's only option after such a slow start.
"That's the plan," Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath told MLSsoccer.com. "That's what we all hope for. Hopefully, we can take this extended break and refocus and try to start this as a new season."
HIGHLIGHTS: Union, 'Caps end scoreless
Philadelphia, who are coming off a scoreless draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps on March 31, sit idle this weekend, returning to action on April 14 with a home game against Columbus.
OPTA CHALKBOARD: Track Le Toux's return to Philly
Because of the long layoff, Union manager Peter Nowak admitted practices were a little different this week, focusing more on regeneration and less on tactics.
"We just wanted to let them play, keep the intensity up, keep it short and keep them in a good mindset as well," Nowak said after a 45-minute session on Wednesday.
Before Wednesday's practice, the Union had three days off following the weekend's scoreless draw. It was, the players say, a stretch that was very much needed and very much appreciated.
"We got a couple of days to get our minds off of things," Philly's Gabriel Farfan said. "Everybody's bodies are well-rested now, so it's time to get back at it."
Starting Monday, the Union will return to their normal practice routine and begin preparations for Columbus. Nowak said they'll also continue to stress taking shots from distance, which could help kickstart an offense that has been mostly stagnant so far this season.
"The more shots you take, you never know what will happen," Nowak said. "A deflection here, a deflection there, then all of a sudden the ball is in the goal.
"I think it's a good situation," the Union manager added of the bye week. "I think it's going to give us time to assess where we are after these four games. We'll correct the things we need to correct."
Dave Zeitlin covers the Union for MLSsoccer.com. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Nairobi - Kenya's High Court on Tuesday acquitted suspended cabinet minister William Ruto of corruption charges, the first of two potential trials that could have foiled his bid to run for president in elections due next year.
Ruto, who was suspended from his higher education portfolio to fight the charges, is also one of six suspects named by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a suspect behind the bloodshed that followed a disputed December 2007 election.
Ruto, who appeared at the ICC in The Hague last Thursday, has declared his intention to run for the top post in east Africa's biggest economy in elections due in 2012.
He was charged alongside Sammy Mwaita, a member of parliament, and former President Daniel arap Moi's aide Joshua Kulei, who were also acquitted of the charges.
The three faced fraud charges relating to the sale of land in the Ngong forest near the capital.
"I find the evidence adduced by the prosecution does not support the charges, and I therefore find they have no prima facie case to be put on their defence," Nairobi Chief Magistrate Gilbert Mutembei said in his ruling.
Analysts said the acquittal was likely to boost Ruto's political credentials and it opened the door to him possibly regaining his cabinet portfolio, which he was stripped of by President Mwai Kibaki.
"This is a great day for us. We have carried this burden and baggage for the last eight years... The truth has come out," Ruto told reporters outside the court.
"This case was doomed to fail from the word go because it was not about criminal justice it was about political persecution."
Ruto said he was confident he would be cleared of the other case against him, referring to the ICC accusations.
Ruto has a date with the ICC pre-trial judges who are due to start hearings in September to confirm whether the six suspects named by the prosecutor have a case to answer.
More than 1 200 people were killed and hundreds of thousands uprooted from their homes during the election violence, severely denting Kenya's reputation for stability in a turbulent region.


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- Singapore Grand Prix - FP2
Turn 10 an improvement - Webber
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- Singapore Grand Prix
Mark Webber believes the changes to Turn 10 at the Marina Bay street circuit are an improvement for this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix.
The left, right, left chicane known as the Singapore Sling has been replaced by a sweeping left hander this year and a small amount of run-off. The previous incarnation was designed to slow the cars but drivers complained about the dangers of getting airborne over the high kerbs.
Webber, who has been critical of the Singapore layout in the past, said the change was for the better after setting the second fastest time in Friday's practice sessions.
"It's better," he said. "I think before it was a bit Mickey Mouse for the guys at our level and the cars we drive. They're trying to find a solution down there that is still reasonably challenging and I think the balance is not too bad now [between challenge and safety]."
Webber finished the session over 0.6s off team-mate Sebastian Vettel on the super-soft tyres, but said he was pleased with his performance after having the edge on the medium compound tyre.
"It hasn't been the best the track for me so I'm happy with how it went today. Seb looks pretty comfortable on the super-soft and it's perhaps a little bit closer on the prime [mediums]. We look competitive on both tyres and that's the main thing."


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Published on 09 April 2014 03:30 PM
Age Cymru is calling for more TV and radio programmes that show age and ageing in a positive light.
It comes after an S4C documentary film about a 75-year-old climber picked up an award at a prestigious film festival.
'75: Byth Rhy Hen – 75: Never Too Old', follows Jeremy Trumper of Gwynedd, as he fulfils his ambition of climbing The Devil's Tower in the USA.
The film - produced by Slam Media for S4C, won the silver medal for Best Climbing Film at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival ShaFF 2014. Commenting on the success of the film, our Head of Policy and Public Affairs Graeme Francis says:
"Well done to Jeremy Trumper, to his climbing partner - the legendary Eric Jones, to S4C and Slam Media for producing such an extraordinary film.
"That two men in their 70s can climb a 12,000 ft mountain, or would even contemplate such a feat, will surprise many.
"'75: Byth Rhy Hen – 75: Never Too Old' powerfully challenges stereotypes about older people's abilities, expectations and place in society.
"Jeremy Trumper and Eric Jones are also both great role models and we need more programmes like this."
The programme, broadcast on S4C 12 months ago, follows Jeremy and Eric, who is 73, from Eifionydd to the USA where they take on the 12,000 foot Devil's Tower.
S4C Content Commissioner Llion Iwan says:
"This is a documentary that celebrates life, the strength of spirit and realising dreams.
"It's inspirational to follow Jeremy and Eric, two talented and charming people.
"Congratulations to everyone involved in this memorable, uplifting production."
Jeremy Trumper started climbing when he was fourteen, as a Scout on climbing trips led by famous climber Showell Styles.
It was his wife, Margaret who was responsible for igniting Jeremy's obsession with the Devil's Tower in the first place.
Jeremy explains:
"One Christmas she bought me a book which was full of amazing climbs all around the world, and that's when I first came across the Devil's Tower.
"And since then I've been obsessed with the idea, and determined to climb to the summit. It was such a great feeling, and I was so glad to have Eric Jones by my side.
"I couldn't have found a better friend to come along on the adventure."
Producer Aled Llŷr from Slam Media, who led the filming team that followed them there in autumn 2012, adds:
"What delighted me most about this story was their friendship.
"They are both fine men - their values and friendship are something special.
"I hope the programme inspires the viewers, however old they are."
For more information:
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The essence of data flow programming describes how you can use comonads to model the semantics of dataflow languages.

One of the best stops from there is probably, Dave Menendez's response on the Haskell mailing list back in 2005 summarized how one can move from building a semantics for dataflow programming using comonads to actually implementing dataflow programming directly using comonads. This is useful if you don't want to write a dataflow language compiler or interpreter, but instead just want to write some dataflow code in the middle of your program as an embedded domain-specific language.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2005-September/016502.html

Now, the types that one would use to do either, have changed slightly in the intervening years. You could write everything out by hand from EODP r or Menendez's email, but there are packages on hackage that can do much of the heavy lifting for you:

I have a 'comonad' package on hackage that provides the basic Comonad type they use:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/comonad/1.1.0/doc/html/Control-Comonad.html

The Apply class from the 'semigroupoids' package plays the role of the ComonadZip class in the presentation of Uustalu and Vene. (There used to be a separate ComonadApply class, but it has since been retired for only introducing a law):

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/semigroupoids/1.2.2/doc/html/Data-Functor-Apply.html

The Future causal comonadic stream type used by Uustalu and Vene is packaged in 'streams' as Data.Stream.Future:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/streams/0.8.0/doc/html/Data-Stream-Future.html

-Edward Kmett

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Richard Senington <email@example.com> wrote:

Hi all,

 I have recently become interested in Dataflow programming and how it related to functional languages.
 I am wondering if the community has any advice on reading matter or other directions to look at.

 So far I have been looking through the FRP libraries, using Haskell functions with lazy lists for co-routines and
 the Essence of Dataflow Programming by Uustalu and Vene where they propose using co-monads.

 It looks as though Iteratees are also relevant but I have not got round to looking at them in detail yet.

 Have I missed anything?

 Regards

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John Coltrane - Love Supreme (CD)
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- Avant-Garde/Downtown
- Number of Discs
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- Format
- Title
- A Love Supreme [Remaster]
- Performer
- John Coltrane/John Coltrane Quartet
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Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison (acoustic bass); Elvin Jones (drums).
Producer: Bob Thiele.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on December 9, 1964. Includes liner notes by John Coltrane and Michael Cuscuna.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Erick Labson.
Personnel: John Coltrane (vocals, tenor saxophone); Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone); McCoy Tyner (piano); Jimmy Garrison, Art Davis (bass); Elvin Jones (drums).
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and The Festival Mondial Du Jazz Antibes, Juan-Les-Pins, France between December 1964 & July 1965. Includes liner notes by John Coltrane, Ashley Kahn, Ravi Coltrane.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
A LOVE SUPREME is the essential example of the genius of John Coltrane. In what has become the apotheosis of jazz music, this eminently accessible work bridges the gap between music and spirituality, between art and life. With the ultimate incarnation of the jazz quartet, Coltrane brings together all of his turbulent elements into a cohesive paean to spirituality, one which is fully appreciable by the uninitiated.
A LOVE SUPREME is a 33-minute work divided into four movements. "Acknowledgment" starts the album with a heraldic summoning from Coltrane's tenor saxophone, full and joyous, which approximates the tone of the prayer he provides in the album's liner notes. The solo that follows reveals an artist whose spiritual depth and emotional urgency are matched by an adherence to logic and a resolve to achieve one goal above all--communication. Each simple musical statement is either followed by a motivic development or countered with a conversational response. Coltrane climaxes with a distilled four-note motif echoing the album's title, which he plays with by sequencing it through a wide array of tonalities. Finally, the band comes in, reiterating this idea, chanting the mantra "A Love Supreme."
"Acknowledgment" is followed by the torrential release of "Resolution," whose melody Coltrane fervently states to the animated accompaniment of his superb rhythm section. Laying the groundwork is drummer Elvin Jones, who approximates the effect of multiple percussionists feeding off of each other, creating an enormous texture of rhythm. McCoy Tyner's colorful piano clusters act as gusts of wind supporting Trane's soaring expressions. Bassist Jimmy Garrision takes the low road, keeping everyone on track. With support like this, Coltrane is free to explore the uncharted depths of his soul. On "Resolution," we can hear the very fabric of Trane's voice being stretched to the limit, as if even the horn which he has mastered is not a worthy enough vehicle for this man's spirit.
The rousing "Pursuance" features some vigorously swinging playing from Tyner, furiously followed by Coltrane's climaxes in an inspired hurling of ideas. Bassist Garrison brings us to A LOVE SUPREME's conclusion, an extended "Psalm" that acts as a resolved denouement in which Trane slowly muses over a lush bed of tranquil sounds--almost as if he were reflecting upon the wisdom achieved at this apex of his spiritual journey. Although the music is slowed, the level of intensity is maintained, as if we've reached a plateau upon which we may ponder what is pronounced in the liner notes, "Elation--Elegance--Exaltation--All from God." Via John Coltrane.
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- [ Disc 01 Track 01 ] Acknowledgement Part 1
- [ Disc 01 Track 02 ] Resolution Part 2
- [ Disc 01 Track 03 ] Pursuance Part 3
- [ Disc 01 Track 04 ] Psalm Part 4
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Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.110) - Ranked #47 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Coltrane soars with nothing but gratitude and joy. You can't help but go with him..."
Rolling Stone (11/14/02, p.91) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...John Coltrane's A LOVE SUPREME is one of the most compelling, spiritual testimonies in the history of jazz..."
Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.114) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's list of 2002's "10 Best Reissues"
Q (10/95, p.136) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...a four-part affirmation of religious faith, and simply one of the most influential records of the '60s. It's challenging and intense, but an essential and ultimately very beautiful album..."
Q (4/99, p.129) - Included in Q's list of "The Best Jazz Albums of All Time."
Uncut (2/03, p.91) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Stormy jazz from the height of the New Thing..."
The Wire (12/02, pp.51-3) - "...A LOVE SUPREME is marvellously self-contained....The dignity of A LOVE SUPREME has not been compromised and it has never sounded better on CD..."
Down Beat (4/8/65) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...Coltrane's artistry is evident in his never permitting tension to overcome its counterpoise, release....[A LOVE SUPREME] is a significant album, because Coltrane has brought together the promising but underdeveloped aspects of his previous work; has shorn, compressed, extended and tamed them; and has emerged a greater artist for it...."
Down Beat (11/95, p.73) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "With the power of prayer fueling its invention, half the universe's choice for desert-island disc still sounds novel....Trane's rolling discourse managed to be simultaneously menacing and sublime..."
Vibe (12/99, p.160) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.106) - "...A LOVE SUPREME remains a remarkable, challenging listen...It's the definitive version of a definitive moment..."
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #36 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
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Snow lovers flock to slopes
It's not often that you hear the sentiment that Minnesota winters are "nice and mild."
But that's just what one woman had to say as the slopes opened on the first day of the season at Afton Alps Wednesday, Nov. 12.
In the case of Erdenetsetseg Dashzeveg, it's all a matter of relativity.
"We are originally from Mongolia," said Dashzeveg, whose family now lives in Cottage Grove.
"Mongolia is similar to Minnesota in terms of the snowfall in winter, but we have a Siberian winter in Mongolia, where it can reach almost negative 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Here, this is so mild and nice. All my kids enjoy being out in the winter," she said.
Dashzeveg, her husband and their youngest son, Khuslen, who is just 4, were watching as the two eldest children in the family-of-five, aged 18 and 16, got in the first rides of the season on their snowboards.
This year, the family invested in season passes to Afton Alps so there would have to be no rationing of the number of ski and snowboard days over the winter.
"We were waiting for this day, today," added Dashzeveg, who said Khuslen would be taking skiing lessons so he could join his two older siblings on the slopes.
"My husband got out of his work, and said, 'Go, go, go to Afton!'
"Usually we'll spend the whole day here at Afton over the winter. It's like my second home."
With an official opening time of 3 p.m., there were already dozens of snowboarders making the most of every minute on the Afton Alps slopes just a half-hour after opening. And they kept on coming.
In preparation for the opening day, the venue's 63 snow machines had been busy making the cold, white stuff to keep visitors happy.
Friends Kayla Goetsch and Kayla Tuckner, juniors from Lake Elmo, said they had planned to come on opening day since they found out about it a week before.
"We have been waiting," said Tuckner. "It's always nice when it cools down.
"Most people don't like it, but we do.
"I've been telling people all day we were coming out here, and they say, 'You're crazy -- you're going out in the snow?'"
They were joined by students from across Woodbury and south Washington County, who waited patiently in the line to use the one operational chair lift.
For more information on Afton Alps, visit www.aftonalps.com.
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So annoyed with the principal at my sons school! LONG
So my son is 6 years old and in 1st grade I found out a couple weeks ago that a 10 year old 4th grader has been harrassing my son and 3 other 1st grade boys by grabbing them shoving them into the wall in the bathroom and threatening them. The 1st time I found out and reported it to his principal she finds out who it is (after I had my son point him out and get the boys name myself) and tells me "well you know he is not that much bigger than Benjamin (DS)" I said I could care less he is 4 years older than my son and placed his hands on my son you need to handle it. She calls later and says it is taken care of.. Then it happens again so I go to the school again and report it to her and tell her if she doesn't solve this I would be calling the district and police department for assult chargers.. She then gives me the excuse of "Well this boy has special needs (my son's school doesn't have a special ed program one of the other elementry schools houses the program)" I told her that wasnt an excuse to physically assult my son and I want it handled she calls me later and says he is suspended. 3rd time it happened was Thursday and they kids were off friday and monday so I call tuesday and she has the nerve to ask if I thought my son could be lying about this. I said absolutly NOT and it needs to be handled so says ok she will talk to the other boy which low and behold he ADMITS to grabbing my son and said he just grabbed him to say hi and that he had a nice shirt hmmm ok well he still placed his hands on my son and I want it handled so not he lots his lunch recess which is the only time he is around my son so I am still debating on calling the district office and reporting all of this... I am just annoyed that nothing has been handled at this point!