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The United States on Friday set a record of 79,196 new cases of the coronavirus, as a third surge of infections has now firmly taken root across much of the country.
The previous peak was July 16, when 75,687 new cases were recorded, according to a database maintained by The New York Times. Much like today, at the time of the first record, the virus was resurgent, prompting new restrictions and a dim view of economic recovery.
Now, seven months after much of the country first went into some form of lockdown, the virus is still far from contained: The number of people hospitalized has risen 40 percent in the past month, 10 states have added more cases in the past week than in any other seven-day stretch and, as of Friday evening, six states had set or tied weekly records for new deaths: Wisconsin, Kentucky, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. More than 223,000 deaths linked to the virus have been recorded since the start of the pandemic.
The high case count in part reflects increased testing. With about one million people tested on many days, the country is getting a far more accurate picture of how widely the virus has spread than it did in the spring.
But public health officials warn that Americans are heading into a dangerous phase, as cooler weather forces people indoors, where the virus spreads easily. It could make for a grueling winter that tests the discipline of the many people who have grown weary of masks and of turning down invitations to see family and friends.
The latest surge is raging most acutely in the Midwest and Mountain West. But even the Northeast, which was ravaged by the virus in the spring and later lauded as a model of infection control, is losing ground to the virus.
North Dakota leads the nation in coronavirus cases per capita. Illinois is averaging more than 4,100 new cases per day, up 85 percent from the average two weeks ago. And Pennsylvania is regularly seeing single-day case counts near those set in the earliest days of the pandemic, on Thursday the state reached a new record of 2,054 cases.
This harrowing third surge is happening less than two weeks from Election Day, which will mark the end of a campaign dominated by the pandemic and President Trump's much-criticized response to it.
The virus will be front of mind for voters in several key battleground states, including Wisconsin, home to seven of the country's 10 metro areas with the highest numbers of recent cases. And in Ohio, where more people are hospitalized with the coronavirus than at any other time during the pandemic.
Since January, The New York Times has tracked cases reported by state and local health departments. Other tracking services use different combinations of government sources, which can lead to fluctuations in daily totals, especially with regards to daily records.
Experts worry that the growing numbers in need of hospital care will only get worse if cases continue to mount.
"I don't really see any signs that things are slowing down and that concerns me a lot," Caitlin M. Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, said. "It has to be our starting premise that it's not going to slow down unless we force it to slow down."
In response to rising cases in Chicago, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot announced a curfew on nonessential businesses beginning at 10 p.m. on Friday. Residents were warned to avoid social gatherings of more than six people and end all gatherings by 10 p.m.
Overnight, nearly 2,500 people were hospitalized in Illinois, the state's top public health official, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, said in a news conference Friday afternoon.
"Since yesterday we lost an additional 31 lives, for a total of 9,418 deaths. These are people who started with us in 2020 and won't be with us at the Thanksgiving table. Today we are reporting 3,874 new cases," she said wiping tears from her eyes and briefly turning away from the podium. Dr. Ezike said more than 500 hospitalized patients were in the I.C.U. and 197 were on ventilators.
Citing a rise in hospitalizations across the state, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced a strengthening of coronavirus restrictions in certain counties, capping gatherings at 10 people from no more than two separate households.
In the latest presidential debate, President Trump asserted that the virus was "going away" as he defended his management of the pandemic. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, attacked Mr. Trump's handling, calling for much more aggressive federal action for the "dark winter" ahead.
"It's not going to spontaneously turn around unless we do something about it," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, said Friday evening in an appearance on CNN. "We don't want to throw our hands up and give up. That's ridiculous to do that."
Dr. Fauci stressed the importance of wearing masks, socially distancing, avoiding crowds and regular hand washing. "I plead with the American public to please take these things seriously," he said.
Late-stage coronavirus vaccine trials run by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have resumed in the United States after the companies said Friday that serious illnesses in a few volunteers appeared not to be related to the vaccines.
Federal health regulators gave AstraZeneca the green light after a six-week pause, concluding there was no evidence the experimental vaccine had directly caused neurological side effects reported in two participants. The AstraZeneca news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Johnson & Johnson said that its trial, which had been on pause for 11 days, would restart after a company investigation determined that a "serious medical event" in one study volunteer had "no clear cause." To maintain the integrity of the trial, the company said, it did not check whether the volunteer received the vaccine or the placebo.
Dr. Luciana Borio, a former acting chief scientist at the Food and Drug Administration, welcomed the announcements, citing the urgent need for multiple vaccines to remain in the race for a product that could protect the global population from the coronavirus, which has already killed more than a million people worldwide.
"The demand for safe and effective Covid vaccines exceeds any single manufacturer's production capacity," Dr. Borio said. "We really need several in the field."
An F.D.A. spokesperson declined to comment on Friday afternoon.
AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson are two of the four companies now in late-stage clinical trials in the U.S. for experimental coronavirus vaccines. Both companies are using adenoviruses, which typically cause harmless colds. The adenovirus is engineered so that it can chauffeur a coronavirus gene into human cells.
Their two high-profile competitors, Moderna and Pfizer, also in advanced trials, are instead using a technology based on genetic material known as mRNA. Delivered into human cells, the mRNA prompts the production of coronavirus proteins, triggering an immune response.
AstraZeneca moved swiftly into clinical trials, enrolling thousands of volunteers for its vaccine trials around the world in countries including Brazil, India, South Africa and Britain. A large, late-stage trial kicked off in the United States at the end of August. But all the trials were halted days later, on Sept. 6. A volunteer who had received the vaccine in the United Kingdom reportedly experienced symptoms of transverse myelitis, or inflammation of the spinal cord, triggering a global pause to the company's efforts.
The incident sparked some concern among experts, who noted that a similar adverse neurological event, reported months ago, had occurred in another vaccinated volunteer. While this earlier event prompted its own pause in AstraZeneca's trials, an independent safety board ultimately determined it was unrelated to the vaccine, allowing studies to resume.
Following the second AstraZeneca halt in September, trials abroad rapidly resumed in most countries. But the American hiatus persisted, with few details released as to why.
According to two vaccine experts familiar with the situation who were not authorized to discuss it publicly, the F.D.A. did not directly tie the vaccine to the two neurological illnesses, although it could not be ruled out. The agency has advised the company to alert study volunteers about related symptoms like weakness and numbness that might point to a milder case of transverse myelitis, the experts said.
Johnson & Johnson launched their Phase 3 trial on 60,000 volunteers in September. On October 12, the company announced its own trial pause, citing concerns that an illness had happened in one of its volunteers as well. The company has kept mostly quiet about the details of the incident.
"There are many possible factors that could have caused the event," the company said. "Based on the information gathered to date and the input of independent experts, the Company has found no evidence that the vaccine candidate caused the event."
Adverse events are not uncommon in large-scale vaccine trials. In some cases, they are caused by a vaccine. But investigations usually reveal that they're coincidental — a simple matter of chance.
Before the pauses, both companies had indicated they would likely submit their vaccines for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration within a few month's time — perhaps even by year's end. It remains unclear how much these plans have now been thrown into flux in the wake of trial delays. Results from AstraZeneca's late-stage trials are still expected later this year, according to the statement. Johnson & Johnson did not provide an updated estimate in their statement.
More than 200,000 coronavirus cases have been identified at U.S. colleges this year, according to a New York Times survey that showed universities continuing to struggle to control major outbreaks. More than 35,000 cases of those cases have been identified since early October.
At least 75 virus-related deaths have also been reported from the time the pandemic began.
The University of Dayton in Ohio announced on Friday that Michael Lang, 18, of LaGrange, Ill., had died the previous day after a lengthy hospitalization. Mr. Lang was a first-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences and had left campus on Sept. 13 to return home for remote study, college officials wrote in a letter to students and staff members.
Though some colleges have moved all their fall classes online, many campuses have remained open even as positive tests have accumulated by the hundreds or thousands. Of the more than 1,700 institutions surveyed by The Times, more than 50 reported at least 1,000 cases over the course of the pandemic. More than 375 colleges have reported at least 100 cases.
The 214,000 cases at colleges account for 2.5 percent of all known cases in the United States. And that figure is an undercount because some colleges have refused to provide any case data or have stopped giving updates.
Large public institutions in the South and Midwest reported the highest case totals, including seven campuses where there have been more than 3,000 cases.
The virus has disrupted every sector of higher education, forcing quarantines and canceling plans at schools large and small, public and private.
In Ohio, the College of Wooster moved all classes online for the rest of the fall after dozens of cases had emerged, including several tied to social events. The University of New Mexico canceled its season-opening football game with Colorado State because of spiking case numbers in the Albuquerque area. And at the University of Michigan, where more than 600 people have tested positive, undergraduates were told to remain in their homes for two weeks except when attending class, eating or working.
"The situation locally has become critical, and this order is necessary to reverse the current increase in cases," Jimena Loveluck, the Washtenaw County health officer, said in announcing the stay-in-place order at the University of Michigan.
As the first coronavirus vaccines arrive in the coming year, government researchers will face a monumental challenge: monitoring the health of hundreds of millions of Americans to ensure the vaccines don't cause harm.
Purely by chance, thousands of vaccinated people will have heart attacks, strokes and other illnesses shortly after the injections. Sorting out whether the vaccines had anything to do with their ailments will be a thorny problem, requiring a vast, coordinated effort by state and federal agencies, hospitals, drug makers and insurers to discern patterns in a flood of data. Findings will need to be clearly communicated to a distrustful public swamped with disinformation.
For now, Operation Warp Speed, created by the Trump administration to spearhead development of coronavirus vaccines and treatments, is focused on getting vaccines through clinical trials in record time and manufacturing them quickly.
The next job will be to monitor the safety of vaccines once they're in widespread use. But the administration last year quietly disbanded the office with the expertise for exactly this job. Its elimination has left that long-term safety effort for coronavirus vaccines fragmented among federal agencies, with no central leadership, experts say.
"We're behind the eight ball," said Daniel Salmon, who served as the director of vaccine safety in that office from 2007 to 2012, overseeing coordination during the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009. "We don't even know who's in charge."
An H.H.S. spokeswoman declined to answer detailed questions about why the vaccine office, set up in 1987, was closed or how the health agencies were planning to track the safety of vaccines once they are injected into millions of people. In a brief statement, she said that Operation Warp Speed was working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "to synchronize the IT systems" involved in monitoring vaccine safety data.
Poland, which has reported 64,783 cases of the coronavirus in the past seven days, will enact a number of new restrictions starting on Saturday, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced at a news conference on Friday.
The country reported 13,632 new cases on Friday. The country has recorded 214,686 cases of the virus and more than 4,000 deaths. Thirty percent of the total cases have come in the past week. Poland, which the prime minister designated as a "red zone" on Friday, largely avoided the first wave of the pandemic by imposing an early lockdown in March.
As of Saturday, all cafes, bars and restaurants will be closed — except for carry out — and remote teaching will become a norm for older children in primary schools, as well as in high schools and at universities. Residents are required to use face coverings outside their homes.
Young people up to 16 years old will not be allowed outside between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. without the supervision of an adult, and socializing in groups of more than five will be forbidden. Additionally, gyms and swimming pools will close. The government also asked that people over 70 stay home.
"We are far away from the comfort zone," said Adam Niedzielski, the health minister during the news conference.
There are concerns about how the country's underfunded health care system will cope with the growing number of virus patients. Earlier this week the government announced that it was transforming the national stadium in Warsaw into a field hospital, and constructing new temporary virus hospitals in major cities.
— Monika Pronczuk and
Global Roundup
The first time the police came to the Body Tech Fitness gym in Liverpool, England, it was with a polite warning. But four hours later they were back, and this time in force.
As lunchtime gymgoers worked out, about half a dozen officers, some with Tasers, ordered the closure of the fitness center, which had been deemed in breach of England's toughest coronavirus restrictions.
But even a show of strength like that doesn't always work — particularly not in a city like Liverpool. While the main entrance was closed, the gym kept a discreet side door open for members to come in and work out.
But on Friday, in a head-snapping turn of events, the gym will operate legally for the first time in nine days, having forced the authorities into an unlikely retreat.
The Body Tech Fitness saga, with its combination of opaque rule-making, inconsistent enforcement and, ultimately, reversal, is in many ways emblematic of the British government's overall performance since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Its handling of the pandemic has been in turns hesitant, halting, confused, secretive and contradictory.
That has generated confusion and distrust, along with growing resistance, to the diktats from Westminster. And if there was one place that was not going to suffer quietly, local people say, it was Liverpool, which finds itself in the highest tier of restrictions.
"Historically, we have shown that we are not going to lie down when something is unfair," said Nick Whitcombe, 29, the owner of the gym, as he celebrated a victory achieved through concerted lobbying of politicians and slick outreach to the media.
The city has not been an easy testing ground for a new system of rules that divides England into three tiers, depending on the seriousness of coronavirus infection rates.
The system has left many frustrated and confused, even as they acknowledge the gravity of the worsening health situation in Liverpool.
In other developments around the world:
More than 170 Australians stranded in Britain will return home on Friday on a government-chartered repatriation flight. Upon arrival, they will be transferred to an isolation facility to quarantine for 14 days. The flight is the first of eight that will bring back up to 1,315 Australians from Britain, India and South Africa. More than 30,000 Australians are stranded abroad. Many have been trying to return for months but have faced difficulties because of caps on international arrivals imposed by the government.
In Spain, the regional authorities in Madrid will reintroduce lockdowns on Monday around 32 specific areas of the city where the rate of infections has been spiraling. As of Saturday, people in Madrid will be prohibited from gathering between midnight and 6 a.m. with people who do not live under the same roof. These rules replace a travel ban for Madrid residents. In the eastern region of Valencia, the authorities have ordered a curfew from midnight to 6 a.m., which will remain in force at least until Dec. 9. The central government is studying whether to reintroduce a nationwide state of emergency, which would supersede the mosaic of regional and local rules that have recently come into force.
Two senior Palestine Liberation Organization officials tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, as the virus spread among the Ramallah-based Palestinian leadership. Azzam al-Ahmad and Ahmad Majdalani, members of the P.L.O. Executive Committee, tested positive before a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, who is in his 80s, Mr. Majdalani said. Mr. al-Ahmad, in his 70s, and Mr. Majdalani, in his 60s, entered isolation after receiving the results and did not attend the meeting with Mr. Abbas. Saeb Erekat and Hanan Ashrawi, two other members of the executive committee, also tested positive for the virus this month. Mr. Erekat, who was hospitalized in Jerusalem on Sunday, is on a ventilator and is in critical but stable condition, according to the hospital.
Residents of Belgium will not be able to attend sporting events, theme parks will be closed, and cultural events will be limited to 200 people, the prime minister, Alexander de Croo, announced at a news conference on Friday. The measures will be re-examined Nov. 19. The restrictions come a week after Belgium shut all restaurants, bars, and cafes, and limited close social contacts to one person outside a household.
The Nepali government has temporarily suspended trekking and access to Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, and other mountains in Solukhumbu District after an 80-year-old local man tested positive for the coronavirus.
"Trekking and mountaineering in Everest region have been suspended for now to prevent the spread of virus," Laxman Adhikari, a village chief of the Everest region, said in a telephone interview. "We cannot say how long it will be suspended." The infected man is a politician from Namche Bazaar, a town in the Solukhumbu District.
For decades tourists and adventurers from around the world have been visiting Everest — even at the relatively low base camp — to fulfill an intensely personal, and expensive, quest to test extremes. In March, Nepal suspended trekking and mountaineering when the pandemic hit. After six months the country started welcoming back foreign and domestic tourists willing to climb Mount Everest, a significant source of revenue for Nepal.
Mr. Adhikari said that, after the news of the man's infection, locals started denying accommodation to trekkers and that the authorities had collected swabs of 100 people in the area, fearing the virus had already spread. Flights to the area have also been suspended for now.
The broader route which was shut by authorities takes trekkers and mountaineers to the Everest base camp. Mr. Adhikari said fewer than 100 foreign tourists, including a 19-member team from Bahrain, had reached the Everest region in recent weeks.
Nepal, a country of 30 million people sandwiched between India and China, is enmeshed in a public health crisis over the virus. As of Friday, Nepal has more than 153,800 infections and 829 deaths, according to health authorities. Health experts have been warning that the Nepali government isn't conducting enough high-quality testing to allow for measures to keep the virus from spreading.
The New York Times partnered with 11 newsrooms across the country to bring readers the stories of Americans laid off amid the pandemic. Among them: Evetta Applewhite, 39, a former legal assistant trainer from Buffalo, who shares her experience below.
The day I got laid off, in March, I was supposed to have an 11 a.m. training. All of a sudden an 11 a.m. conference call popped up on my calendar instead. I knew a bunch of people were on this call because as I was dialing in, the line kept chiming: boop, boop, boop. And then the HR manager said that, due to everything that's going on, everyone on the call was being laid off.
I sat back and I cried. I was 39 years old, working as a trainer at a law firm, training legal secretaries and paralegals. I was finally where I wanted to be. Then I was torn right back down again. I felt the law firm threw me away this spring.
Rent still needed to be paid. But who wants to go back to working two or three jobs when you have a child at home? So my path forward was to figure something else out. And I never want to be laid off from another job. Going back to a company is not for me, period.
I'm going to school to be a small business consultant. I'm also taking evening classes to get my real estate license. And I started working with a real estate office for a few hours each day, but I've been driving for Uber, too.
Losing my job at the law firm did something to my ego. I started to feel like I was done. But then I imagined my child having to tell someone that his mom "was." And I couldn't be a past tense in his life.
I'm not struggling to pay my bills. I saved when I was on unemployment, and there are other things I can do if I need to. Believe me when I tell you I have plans "B" through "Z."
— Interview by Caitlin Dewey, Buffalo News
In the final weeks of the presidential race, President Trump cannot seem to stop harping on New York City.
"Look at what's happened to New York, it's a ghost town. It's a ghost town," he said at the debate on Thursday night. "For so many years I loved it, it was vibrant. It's dying, everyone is leaving New York."
For the president, belittling New York seems to serve two purposes: It appeals to his base as a campaign strategy, and allows him to address personal scores with his foes.
While many New Yorkers feel that Mr. Trump has turned his back on the city, the feeling is mutual with Mr. Trump. The city overwhelmingly voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. There were protests when he returned to Trump Tower. His name was stripped from skyscrapers.
Democratic prosecutors in New York are digging into his family's finances, and Democratic leaders, like Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, frequently accuse him of betraying his hometown.
The president is now balking at granting New York more coronavirus recovery funds, despite entreaties from Representative Peter T. King to reconsider. But the constant taunting from Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio — including painting "Black Lives Matter" on the street in front of Trump Tower — does not help, Mr. King said.
In May, Mr. Trump said that he would visit New York City, where more than 20,000 people have died from the coronavirus, "when things calm down." He has not done so.
Jesse Garcia, a county Republican leader on Long Island, said Mr. Trump had shown his love for the city by providing relief funds through the $2 trillion CARES Act in March and sending the Navy hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort to the city, along with the Army Corps of Engineers.
North Korea urged its people to stay indoors this weekend with their windows shut because "yellow-dust" storms blowing in from China may help spread the coronavirus.
Yellow dust storms have been a recurring curse for Koreans for years, with many people complaining of burning eyes and sore throats and resorting to wearing masks when going outside. But the North's main state-run newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said on Thursday that North Koreans should be more vigilant this year.
"Given the fact that the coronavirus continues to spread around the world and given data suggesting that malicious viruses may spread through air, we need to deal with yellow dust with more vigilance and thorough countermeasures," the newspaper said.
It urged North Koreans to refrain from leaving homes or traveling, to wear masks and to keep their windows shut.
In South Korea, where people also guard against yellow dust, health officials did not suggest a link between the dust and the virus.
The subject of airborne transmission of the virus has been fraught. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the coronavirus is most often spread through close contact, not airborne transmissions. "There is no evidence of efficient spread (i.e., routine, rapid spread) to people far away or who enter a space hours after an infectious person was there," the agency says.
But North Korea has taken more aggressive measures against the virus than most other countries, shutting down its borders since January. In February, it said it was studying water samples from rivers, streams and lakes because it was hard to predict how the virus spread. The C.D.C. says it is not aware of any scientific reports of the virus spreading to people through lakes, oceans or rivers.
North Korea claims it has not found any cases of coronavirus in the country, though outside experts remain skeptical.
When the pandemic first hit Italy and masks became scarce, Myss Keta, the mysterious Queen of the Milan Night, came to the rescue. The Italian rapper, performance artist and L.G.B.T.Q. icon had amassed a vast collection of face coverings that she wore for years to hide her identity. So she began distributing them to her friends in need.
"I had so many," she said. "Surgical, cloth, vinyl, silk, whatever material."
This month, with a second wave of the coronavirus rising and Italy requiring the wearing of masks in public at all times, grandparents, politicians, middle-management businesspeople, doctors, lawyers, delivery people — just about everyone — is covering up. That has rendered Myss Keta — whose use of masks took her from underground clubs to the cusp of national, if incognito, celebrity — an improbable authority on life behind the surgical veil.
It has also threatened to strip her of her defining shtick.
"Before, it was a distinguishing characteristic. Now, it's something we all have in common," she said as she lifted a black surgical mask — the casual black T-shirt of her vast collection — to sip a Bloody Mary at Bar Basso in Milan. Under her trademark blond bangs, her eyes remained covered as usual in dark Givenchy sunglasses.
It used to be only the front-row fans at her concerts who emulated her by wearing masks. "Now, everyone seems like a Myss fan," she said.
Istanbul, Turkey's capital of finance and culture and a global travel hub, now represents 40 percent of the country's total number of coronavirus cases, the health minister Fahrettin Koca announced Friday.
Turkey has recorded at least 355,000 total cases and nearly 10,000 deaths, according to a New York Times database.
"The pandemic is re-escalating in the entire country,'' Mr. Koca said, after he urged residents of Istanbul to avoid crowds.
On Thursday, Turkey recorded 2,102 daily cases and 71 deaths, according to health ministry figures.
After ending its partial lockdown in June, Turkey made it compulsory nationwide last month to wear masks everywhere but at home. The authorities also instituted a system of staggered work hours in order to manage crowds of commuters in Istanbul, a city of 15.5 million. Turkey's total population is about 82 million.
Critics and health professionals have long challenged the government's coronavirus figures, saying that the actual numbers are much higher.
Lately, the government admitted that it was excluding asymptomatic cases from its announced coronavirus tally.
In today's edition of the Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt writes:
The coronavirus is spreading more rapidly in rural areas of the U.S. than in urban areas. But one rural state continues to do a fabulous job keeping the virus away: Vermont.
The starkest sign of Vermont's success is that it has not recorded a single Covid-19 death in more than two months.
Vermont is succeeding partly because it has not allowed the virus to become a partisan issue. The Republican governor, Phil Scott — unlike many other Republican politicians around the country — has consistently told people to take the virus seriously. "He started wearing a mask early in the pandemic and has stood at the back of the room in many of the state's coronavirus briefings, letting Dr. Mark Levine, Vermont's answer to Dr. Anthony Fauci, dominate proceedings," Bill McKibben, a Vermont resident, wrote in The New Yorker.
Vermont also benefits from having a high degree of social trust among its residents, as Maria Sacchetti explained in The Washington Post. And Vermont has two strong local media organizations — VTDigger and Seven Days — that keep residents informed and that both took an intriguing step early in the pandemic, McKibben notes: They shut down their comments sections, to prevent misinformation from spreading.
Reporting was contributed by Michael Levenson, Sheila Kaplan and Gina Kolata.


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5/30/15: Today's Top Tips: Saturday
MUSIC: Eastbound Jesus @ Putnam Den, Saratoga Springs. CD release party for their new album, Hollerin'. With Lucid. 9pm. $15; $20 if under age 21.
MUSIC: Capowski @ Pauly's Hotel, Albany. Robert Capowski leads the CD release party for Wild Animals with Jeff Sohn, Jamie Hurst and Jimmy Eppard. 9pm. $5. GO HERE for more info…
MUSIC: Nixon's Spirit @ the Low Beat, Albany. EP release party for The Most Expensive Ride Into Hell. With Society High, Evan C and Lame. 9pm.
EVENT: Troy Bike Rescue's Bikefest @ Freedom Square, Troy. Celebrate Bike Month and support your local volunteer-run bicycle resource center with a day of music, prizes, burritos, beer, and — of course — bikes! Featuring a biking tour (3pm), the music of Troy Samba (5pm), cash bar and burrito buffet (5:30pm) and a live cake auction (7pm). $20.
MUSIC: Patrick Porter @ the Albany Center Gallery, Albany. The artist-singer-songwriter performs new songs from his "secret church sessions," as well as old songs in conjunction with the current exhibition of self-taught artists, "Edge." 6:30pm. $5.
MUSIC: Jim Weider's Project Percolator @ the Falcon, Marlboro. With Holly & Evan. 7pm. Donations encouraged.
MUSIC: Trio Los Pajaros @ the Valatie Community Theatre, Valatie. Mariachi, a form of folk music in Mexico, has evolved from humble beginnings, but continues to shape and influence Mexican culture. The band features three generations of the Ortega family, who are working to keep the mariachi tradition alive and well in the U.S. 8pm. $10.
MUSIC: Jimmy V's Billion Dollar Bash @ Levon Helm's Barn, Woodstock. Guitarist Jimmy Vivino leads the band, which also features Rich Pagano, Tony Garnier and Ed Alstrom. 8pm. $45 & $65.
COMEDY: Pretty Much the Best Comedy Show @ Proctors' Underground, Schenectady. Featuring Brooke Van Poppelen. 8pm. $15. GO HERE for more info…
THEATER: "Pippin" @ Proctors, Schenectady. With a sparkling score by Tony nominee Stephen Schwartz ("Godspell," "Wicked"), the classic musical tells the story of a young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence. Will he choose a happy but simple life? Or will he risk everything for a singular flash of glory? This captivating new production is directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus and stars Adrienne Barbeau, Sam Lips, John Rubinstein,
Sasha Allen and others. 2 & 8pm. $20-$80. Through Sunday. GO HERE to read review…
MUSIC: The Tee Mox @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs. Pete Pashoukos has left the Tequila Mockingbirds, and George Fletcher is carrying on with the project under a new name: The Tee Mox, featuring Fletcher and Steve Mulvaney. 8pm. $18.
MAGIC: "Obscura" @ the Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. An intimate evening of close-up magic, fairy tales, dark fables and strange happenings. 3 & 7:30pm. $15; $10 students.
MUSIC: Uday Bhawalkar @ the Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy. He's a standard bearer for Dhrupad, an evolving North Indian classical music tradition. 8pm. $10.
FESTIVAL/MUSIC: LakeGeorge.com Elvis Festival @ the Lake George Forum and various other locations, Lake George. It's the 10th annual fest for the King at Vacantionland, USA… GO HERE for more info and complete schedule…
THEATER/MUSIC: "The First Five Years" @ Schenectady Light Opera, Schenectady. SLOC celebrates their fifth anniversary in their current theater with an allstar, gala revue of songs from the 24 dozen musicals they've presented there. 8pm. $20. GO HERE for more info…
FESTIVAL/FILM: Berkshire International Film Festival @ various locations, Great Barrington and Pittsfield. More than two dozen films will be screened throughout the day, including "The Dark Horse," "Don't Worry Baby," "H.," "Welcome to Leith"… GO HERE for more info…
THEATER: "Butler" @ Barrington Stage Co.'s St. Germain Stage, Pittsfield. It's the New England premiere of the uproariously funny, witty and very moving play based on actual events that changed the lives of over 10,000 slaves during the Civil War. 4 & 7:30pm. Through Saturday, June 13. GO HERE to read review…
COMEDY: Mad Laughs @ the Madison Theater, Albany. Featuring stand-up comedians Ryan Shanahan, Marty Carpone, Brendan Joseph and Shawn Gillie. 8:30pm. $12.
MUSIC: Brian Patneaude Quartet @ 9 Maple Avenue, Saratoga Springs. The saxman is joined by pianist Rob Lindquist, bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff Siegel. 9pm.
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Maryland quarterback O'Brien is ACC Rookie of the Week
For the third time this season, Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien has been voted the Atlantic Coast Conference's Rookie of the Week. The redshirt freshman from North Carolina completed 13 of 20 passes for 168 yards and a career-best four touchdowns in Maryland's 62-14 win over Wake Forest. O'Brien, who threw no interceptions, had an efficiency rating of 201.56 — the eighth best mark for a Football Bowl Subdivision freshman this season. In the past two games, O'Brien has passed for seven touchdowns and no interceptions. O'Brien, who didn't start until the fourth game of Maryland's season, has thrown for 13 touchdown passes — tied for second in the country among freshmen. He is 4-1 as a starter for the 6-2 Terps, and his 4.33-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio is the best in the country for freshmen.
More Maryland: The ACC announced that Maryland's game at Virginia on Nov. 13 will start at 3:30 p.m. and be shown online on ESPN3.com.
More Division I: Towson freshman linebacker Kyle Polk was named Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Week after recording a game-high 13 tackles, including two sacks and three tackles for losses, in a 30-20 loss to Rhode Island on Saturday.
Division III: Salisbury freshman punter Matt Elsasser was named Atlantic Central Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Week. Sea Gulls defensive back Andre Carter was named Rookie of the Week.
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Mount men eliminated from NEC playoff chase with loss
Saint Francis (Pa.) (10-5-1, 6-2-1) scored in the 107th minute to edge visiting Mount St. Mary's, 1-0, in double overtime, eliminating the Mountaineers (7-10-0, 4-5-0) from Northeast Conference playoff contention. Sean O'Reilly served a long ball to Owen Gombami, who tipped into the lower right netting to hand the Red Flash the victory. Winning goalkeeper Daniel Valcicak made five saves; Chris Davis had five saves in the loss.
More Division I men's soccer: Loyola senior Glenn Leitch was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week after a seven-point week. … UMBC senior forward Levi Houapeu was named America East Player of the Week after scoring three goals in a playoff-clinching 3-1 victory over Vermont on Oct. 27. … Navy freshman goalkeeper Aaron Dupere was named Patriot League Rookie of the Week for the third time in the past four weeks.
Women's soccer: Hood senior goalkeeper Rachelle Buhrman was named Capital Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week and the Hood College Athlete of the Week. … St. Mary's sophomore forward Tori Eskay was named Capital Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week. … Wilmington sophomore forward Brittany Rhodes (Eastern Tech) was named to the All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference first team. Senior defender Danielle Niccoli (Kenwood) and sophomore forward Molly Taylor (Fallston) were named to the second team.
Field hockey: Salisbury senior goalkeeper Anna Cooke was named CAC Defensive Player of the Week.
Women's volleyball: UMES freshman Maline Vaitai was named Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week. … Salisbury sophomore setter Carley Todd was named CAC Player of the Week.
Women's basketball: Maryland will host Gallaudet in an exhibition tonight at 7 at Comcast Center. The Terps are ranked No. 21 in the Associated Press poll, which came out last week. The Terps will play host to District of Columbia on Sunday at 2 p.m. in a second exhibition match.
Facilities: Hood's board of trustees last week approved the building of an athletic facility for intercollegiate, recreational and intramural activities that will be home to the school's men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams. The building, which will be adjacent to the one-year-old turf field, is expected to be completed in time for the 2011-12 basketball season. The cost is estimated at $8 million to $10 million.
Basketball: The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association voted unanimously on a three-year extension that will keep its men's and women's tournament in Charlotte through 2014.
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Citing costs, WNBA's Mystics combine coach, GM jobs
The Washington Mystics made Trudi Lacey their general manager and head coach in a money-saving move Monday, after cutting ties with the pair of people who held those two jobs during the most successful season in team history. Lacey succeeds GM Angela Taylor, whose departure was announced a month ago, and coach Julie Plank. Owner Sheila Johnson said on a conference call that having one person hold both positions was a decision "about business. … We have been in a recession, and … everyone is fully aware that we have to make decisions — business decisions … to keep our league alive and keep the Mystics alive." The Mystics went a franchise-best 22-12 in the 2010 regular season to finish with the top record in the Eastern Conference and earn a No. 1 seeding for the playoffs. They lost in the first round. Lacey joined the Mystics in 2009 as an assistant coach, then was promoted to director of basketball operations in 2010. Johnson said Monday that she then tried to persuade Plank to stay on as coach-GM but that she only wanted to coach.
Varsity: Gov. Thomas Johnson's Ben Wright was named Ravens High School Coach of the Week after the Frederick-based school ended Linganore's 21-game winning streak with a 27-14 victory.
Minor league baseball: The Single-A Hagerstown Suns promoted assistant general manager Bill Farley, 31, a former Loyola College golfer, to GM.
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Introduction: The Reason for the Seasons
Over the years, I have written a number of relatively short essays on various Church feasts.
No other story, no pagan legend or philosophical anecdote or historical event, does in fact
affect us with that same peculiar and even poignant impression produced on us by
the word Bethlehem. No other birth of a god or childhood of a sage seems to
us to be Christmas or anything like Christmas.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
On the 9th of April, being Good Friday, I, Boswell, breakfasted with Samuel Johnson on tea
and cross-buns, Doctor Level making the tea. He carried me with him to the church of
St. Clement Danes, where he had his seat, and his behavior was, as I had imagined
to myself, solemnly devout. I shall never forget the tremendous earnestness
with which he pronounced the awful petition of the Litany: "In the hour of
my death, and at the day of judgment, good Lord, deliver us."
We went to church both in the morning and in the evening.
In the interval between the two services we did not dine;
but he read in the Greek New Testament.
— James Boswell, The Life of Johnson
You created Heaven and earth, but you did not make them of your own substance.
If you had done so, they would have been equal to your only-begotten Son, and
therefore to yourself, and justice could in no way admit that what was
not of your own substance should be equal to you. But besides
yourself, O God, who are Trinity in Unity, Unity in Trinity,
there was nothing from which you could
make Heaven and earth.
— St. Augustine, Confessions
And yet we cannot avoid the appalling realization, that at no time have the revolt
from Christ and the supernatural and the idealization of man and his nature been
so noisily proclaimed, so audaciously organized and carried into effect with such
terrible severity and such extensive display of power as in these days in which
we live. The era of the serpent is near. Already its word, "Ye shall be as
gods," may be heard in the streets and lanes. Did Christ die in vain?
. . . Because man is inexhaustible in his wickedness, God must be
inexhaustible in His redemptive love, that He will subdue
such wickedness by the superabundance of His love.
— Karl Adam, The Son of God
These feasts are always an occasion to ask: "What is the point of the celebration?" "Why is it a case, not just of rejoicing, but of knowing the truth that makes real joy possible?" We cannot be joyful without ultimately knowing why we should be joyful, without having something to be joyful about.
In particular, I have written (and include here) many reflections on Christmas, Easter, and the days surrounding them. Also in this text are considerations of Pentecost, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day as well as of the "End Times" that come up in the last Sundays of the Liturgical Year.
I have also included my 2009 essay on Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson's novel The Lord of the World, because the book now has been cited any number of times by Pope Francis. It fits in with the Gospel themes for the last days of the Liturgical Year, when we are reminded of the end of our temporal existence.
The feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is the transition to the Nativity cycle, completes the Liturgical Year. I do not talk much here of Advent, Lent, or the various other celebrations of the Lord or of the saints. Although these seasons are important, I want to focus in these pages on more central considerations.
It has always been a pleasure and an inspiration for me to say something each year on Christmas and Easter. These days are never-ending causes of insight into what we are and who God is. For that reason, you need not sit down and read this book from page 1 to its end, although there is nothing wrong in doing so. Each chapter is its own reflection. Come back to the same feast again and again: each time you will find something astonishingly new that you missed before.
These essays are not homilies or sermons, though they can be made into them. Rather, they are each intended to reveal something of the meaning and depth of the occasion that we might otherwise pass over unnoticed.
All Christian feasts have in common their particularity in time and place as well as their transcendent reaching to the truth that God has revealed to us. The second reading of each day in the Breviary, for instance, can come from any time or place in the past two thousand years and still speak to us as we read it.
Likewise, although they speak of universals, sometimes these essays reflect the time in which they were written, so I have included on the first page of each chapter the source and date of its first publication.
The reader will notice that I have my favorite authors and books. No one writes better about Christmas than Chesterton. Anyone who reads the Breviary knows that its readings contain a wealth of information and insight along with their prayerful nature.
In our day, the basic truths of Christianity are not well known. They are often rejected before their point or reasonableness is seen. Rejection of the truths of faith and reason is not always, or even mostly, due to lack of intelligence or diligence. They are rejected because people do not want them to be true, as their truth would affect the way people live. So people blind themselves to their logic and evidence. They formulate theories or ideologies that claim to be the real world, when actually they are subjective projections onto reality that do not correspond to it.
The Liturgical Year is composed of an Advent season, a Christmas season, a Lenten season, an Easter season that ends with Pentecost, and a remaining season of Ordinary Time that constitutes generally the periods from the end of the Christmas season to the beginning of Lent and from Pentecost to the beginning of Advent. Each day of the year has its own special atmosphere and Liturgy, either of the season or the day. Often, we find more than one feast on the same day. Here, I spend much time on Christmas and Easter, because they not only commemorate the principal truths of the Faith but also, as such, offer an enormous opportunity to think about what is handed down to us. Indeed, revelation was given to us, among other reasons, precisely so that we would think more clearly.
As I noted earlier, you will find here several chapters on Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, All Souls' Day, and the End Times. These chapters are not intended to be a comprehensive discussion of the feast in question, but they reveal strikingly different things we can learn about each of them every time we celebrate or encounter them.
Each feast — each separate consideration of a feast — is something "to be wondered about." And we do not "wonder" for wonder's sake, but to find the truth of what we wonder about. Simply to wonder with no hope of finding the truth is bewildering. Aristotle, the man who told us that philosophy begins in wonder, was the same man who answered many of his initial wonderments.
The events and the occasions that feasts commemorate in their own right have the same effect on us. They cause us not only to wonder but to find the truth as a result of our inquiry and longing. The spirit of these reflections on the great feasts is one of awe, but of an awe that is fully aware of the truth that makes us free.
Rev. James V. Schall. S.J. "Introduction." from The Reason for the Seasons: Why Christians Celebrate What and When They Do (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2018)
Reprinted with permission of Sophia Institute Press.
The Author
James V. Schall, S.J. 1928-2019, who served as a professor at Georgetown University for thirty-five years, was one of the most prolific Catholic writers in America. Among his many books are A Line Through the Human Heart: On Sinning and Being Forgiven, On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018, Reasonable Pleasures: The Strange Coherences of Catholicism, The Mind That Is Catholic: Philosophical & Political Essays, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing; Roman Catholic Political Philosophy; The Order of Things; The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking; Another Sort of Learning, Sum Total Of Human Happiness, and A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning.Copyright © 2018 Sophia Institute Press
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[Jon Stewart:] Source: LYBIO.NET
Uh…. I want to thank Mr. Collins and Mr. Nadler for putting this together but uh… as I sit here today, I can't help but think what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process that getting health care and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to. Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders; and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress.
Sick and dying, they came down here to and speak. And no one? Shameful. It's an embarrassment to the country, and it is a stain on this institution and you should be ashamed of yourselves for those who aren't here, but you won't be because of accountability doesn't appear to be something that occurs in this Chamber.
We don't want to be here. Lou [Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD detective at 9/11 responding.] doesn't want to be here, none of these people don't want to be here. But they are. And they're not here for themselves. They are here to continue fighting for what's right.
Lou is going to go back for his 69th chemo. The great Ray Pfeifer would come down here, his body riddled with cancer and pain, where he couldn't walk. And the disrespect shown to him and the other lobbyists on this bill is utterly unacceptable.
You know – I used to get – I would be so angry at the latest injustice that's been done to these men and women. And uh… you know – another business card thrown our way as a way of shooing us away like children trick or treating, rather than the heroes that they are and will always be.
Ray would say, 'Calm down, Jonny, calm down.'
I got all the cards I need. And he would tap his pocket where he kept the prayer cards. 343 firefighters.
The official FDNY response time to 9/11 was 5 seconds. Five seconds! That's how long it took for FDNY, for NYPD, for Port Authority, EMS to respond to an urgent need from the public. 5 seconds. Hundreds died in an instant.
Thousands more poured in to continue to fight for their brothers and sisters.
The breathing problems started almost immediately, and they were told they weren't sick, they were crazy.
And then, as the illnesses got worse, and things became more apparent, "Well, okay, you're sick, but it's not from the pile."
And then when the science became irrefutable, "Okay, it's the pile". "But this is a New York issue". "I don't know if we have the money."
And I'm sorry if I sound angry and undiplomatic. But I'm angry, and you should be too, and they're all angry as well and they have every justification to be that way.
There is not a person here, there is not an empty chair on that stage that didn't tweet out:
"Never Forget the heroes of 9/11. Never forget their bravery. Never forget what they did, what they gave to this country."
Well, here they are!
And where are they?!~
And it would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy were benign, but it's not.
[Jon Stewart:] Source: LYBIO.NET
Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time.
It's the one thing they're running out of.
This should be flipped, this hearing should be flipped. These men and women should be up on that stage and Congress should be down here answering their questions as to why this is so damn hard and takes so damn long!
And why no matter what they get, something's always pulled back and they gotta come back.
Mr. [Mike] Johnson, you made a point earlier and it is one we've heard over and over again in these halls, and I couldn't help but to answer it, which was you guys are obviously heroes and 9/11 was a big deal but you know, we have a lot of stuff here to do and we've got to make sure there's money for a variety of disasters, hurricanes and tornadoes.
But this wasn't a hurricane. And this wasn't a tornado, and by the way, that's your job anyway.
We can't fund these programs. You can.
Setting aside that, no American in this country should face financial ruin because of a health issue.
Certainly 9/11 first-responders shouldn't decide whether to live or to have a place to live.
And the idea that you can give them only five more years of the VCF because you're not quite sure what's gonna happen five years from now. Well I can tell you, I'm pretty sure what's going to happen five years from now.
[Jon Stewart:] Source: LYBIO.NET
More of these men and women are going to get sick and they are going to die.
And I am awfully tired of hearing that it's a 9/11 New York issue. Al Qaeda didn't shout "Death to Tribeca." They attacked America.
And these men and women and their response to it is what brought our country back. It's what gave a reeling nation a solid foundation to stand back upon. To remind us of why this country is great, of why this country is worth fighting for. And you are ignoring them.
You can end it tomorrow.
Why this bill isn't unanimous consent and a standalone issue is beyond my comprehension, and I've yet to hear a reasonable explanation for why; it'll get stuck in some transportation bill or some appropriations bill; and get sent over to the Senate; where a certain someone from the Senate will use it as a political football; to get themselves maybe another new import tax on petroleum; because that's what happened to us in 2015.
And we won't allow it to happen again. Thank God for people like John Feals, thank God for people like Ray Pfeifer, thank God for all these people who will not let it happen.
They responded in 5 seconds.
[Jon Stewart:] Source: LYBIO.NET
They did their jobs with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. Eighteen years later, do yours. Thank you.
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Cisco Bug: CSCul24984 - Call dropped when call is out on hold for 20+ mins and resumed
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Symptom: 3 Phones, all DX-650 1. Phone A DN : 2001 Calls Phone B DN: 2020, Phone B answers 2. Phone C (DN : 9001) calls Phone A and Phone A answers, Call with Phone is put on hold 3. Hold time goes above 20+ mins (in this case around 27 mins) 4. Phone C cuts the call with phone A 5. Phone A, taps on resume icon 6. No audio/video after resume. Call drops Expected : After resume, call between Phone A and Phone B should go on as usual. Logs attached Conditions: Hold for more than 15 minutes.
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OpenMoji Support in emacs-emojify
If you have no dignity (like me), you might enjoy displaying emoji in Emacs. I actually really like that when composing/reading email, and when I want to add colorful stuff like stars in my to-do lists. There's this package, emacs-emojify, you might want to check out. When you install the package, it will download EmojiOne images by default. You can set up your own, and I found the OpenMoji set to look very nice. Clear lines, crisp shapes, very recognizable expressions in big and small sizes. Love it.
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Convert org-babel Markdown Blocks to HTML
During app development, I track the tasks in an org-mode task list. And I track the stuff I finished and want to highlight in the release notes in a Markdown block right there. When I release an update, I'll copy & paste the Markdown part to the "Release Notes" of the app and push the changes to the server online.
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Making Emacs Autosaving of Files Ignore Email Drafts
This week I noticed that a ton of files like
*message*-20201029-134012 piled up in my home folder. These are email drafts from
message-mode, and the numbers are a date-time-stamp. These didn't appear ever before. So I figured it might have something to do with autosaving after looking at the change history of my configuration file – and it sure does.
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Shorten Emacs Yes-or-No Confirmation Dialogs
Some commands in Emacs and its various packages are destructive. They require a confirmation by the user. These usually use
yes-or-no-p, which won't complete the command until the user replies by writing "yes" and then hits enter, or "no", or aborts the command with C-g. Some of the commands that require confirmation in this way are overly protective, I find. Like
projectile-kill-buffers (C-p k) which closes all open buffers for a project at once. I use this heavily when e.g. editing my website: jump into the project, edit a file or two, commit, then leave. I don't want to type "yes" and hit enter just for that. (Please note that killing a buffer this way will still ask me if I want to save or discard changes, so the kill command alone is not destructive.)
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Export Day One (macOS) Journals to Emacs org-mode Diary Entries
I noticed that I still had the journaling app Day One (macOS) on my computer. I haven't touched it in ages. So I figured it'd be time to export to plain text and then shove all the goodness from 2004 and onward into my Emacs org-mode
diary.org. Turns out there's no Day One to org-mode exporter.
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Make RVM's Ruby Available to Emacs Shell Commands
No matter if you use
exec-path-from-shell or not, Emacs will not be able to know your RVM-managed Ruby information. This drove me crazy. Most Emacs shell commands are invoked in an "inferior" mode, aka a "dumb" shell. This includes
M-x shell, and also the projectile compile commands. That's when some of your user login scripts will not automatically load, like the entirety of
rvm, the Ruby Version Manager.
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Add HTML Entity Picker to Emacs
Emacs comes with a lot of stuff out of the box, but I was missing TextMates "Insert Entity" action that lets me search through HTML entities by name and then insert
" or
™ for me. I can never remember the names of typographic quotation marks in German, for example.
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Delete the Next Word or the Current Selection in Emacs with the Same Shortcut
When you delete a character or the current selection, you usually hit
C-d (Control + d) in Emacs. I got into the habit of revising drafts by deleting whole words, and the
M-d (Meta + d) key combination is super useful for that. It also works into the other direction with backspace. It's essentially the same effect of ⌥+backspace everywhere else in macOS.
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Indie Support Weeks: beorg
This is week two of the COVID-19 lockdown that led to
#IndieSupportWeeks to help independent developers get a shoutout and maybe find a couple extra customers.
For today's installment, I picked beorg.
beorg is a bit weird. It's basically a task manager and calendar, but based upon plain text files that I sync via Dropbox. It's not a particularly user-friendly application, and its UI didn't win any prizes, unlike e.g. Things or OmniFocus (I'm often confused by the app icons and lack of labels, but also glad because my iPhone 5S screen is so smol). So why did I pick this app, then?
beorg is a mobile companion for my Emacs org mode files. It's capable of handling org mode outlines, and parts of these outlines can be tasks or TODOs, and you can group them in projects, and then display an overview or "Agenda" – and things get out of hand quickly from there. Emacs is ridiculously customizable, and org mode is no different. beorg makes these information available on mobile.
So since over the years I moved from OmniFocus 1 to Things to OmniFocus 2 to Emacs, I got used to viewing tasks on my mobile phone and iPad; and I really much like the capability to capture information on the go. A piece of paper will do most of the time; but having a web clipping synced to my computer directly is nice.
You can even write Scheme scripts inside beorg! I haven't touched that topic at all. The REPL (yes, it has a REPL!) provides a sandbox for experimentation, and by convention beorg will load and run
init.org file from your list of files right after bootstrapping. You can even customize the app's UI with this. Writing org files that auto-execute during launch to customize the behavior of the editor is a long-running theme, see this random example (source).
Regarding the business model: most stuff is free, and the free version will get you really, really far. You currently can buy access to additional features:
- "Properties" will let you add custom key/value pairs to any item; it's mostly a UI affordance for the plain text underpinnings
- "Encryption" to, well, encrypt your items or files
- "Task Timers" to track how long you work on a task (ahem, I suggest an automated service like Timing for that; note: this is an affiliate link)
- "Templates" are pretty self-explanatory, and org mode capture templates can get out of hand and cover JIRA ticketing, for example (did I mention you can configure org mode to sync with JIRA?)
- "Export Themes" are CSS styles to generate HTML from your outlines because, well, org mode is supposed to be a structured markup language for HTML and LaTeX export and such thing
- "UI Themes" for Solarized and additional dark modes in the app
- "Saved Searches" to more quickly access the results of complex searches
- "Box Sync" to … sync to Box.net (beats me why this of all things is an add-on)
The developer provides release notes for updates in the app, which I absolutely adore for this kind of "make it your own" pro user application, to make sure I keep up-to-date with the good stuff. The tip jar that goes along with it is probably the main source of his income – at least as much as I'm concerned. The updates are really good and much appreciated.
- Check out the beorg website and the blog
- Make sure to browse the forum to see what people tinker with and post bug reports and feature requests
- Watch screencasts and read amazing how-tos
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Print Current Date and Time in Emacs Minibuffer
I don't show a clock on my computer. Sometimes, I quickly want to find out what time it is, though. I often run
date from the shell to get the current time, and can often get there in my Quake console-like iTerm 2 Hotkey Window by pressing the "up" key since I seldom use the Hotkey Window for anything else.
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Native macOS Notifications for Emacs Org Tasks and Appointments
Emacs is a text editor, kind of. But I use its Org mode for "keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system" – its Agenda became my daily productivity hub. It's a calendar view of all things scheduled for the day, plus some other info interspersed: thanks to the plain text nature of the whole interface, it's simple (albeit not easy) to re-style everything you see there. Add sub-headings, spacing, links, text, what have you.
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Prevent Emacs Compilation Window From Displaying Other Content
By accident I found a setting for emacs windows that prevents a window from displaying any other content than what it currently is showing. It is not locking the textual contents but the buffer. That means you cannot show the contents of another file, or change the currently visible help page, or whatever.
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Quit and Close Emacs Special Windows Like Help and Compilation Results
Emacs can display interactive help windows (the content/buffer name is called "
*Apropos*"), and compilation results. I managed to limit the height of the compilation window to 10 lines already. But when I have the compilation results pane focused, I want to close and dismiss it quickly.
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Emacs Settings for PHP Development
The project that I've been working on over the weekend, I worked on in emacs. This is part of my re-learning the basics of text editing and programming in emacs to slowly move away from TextMate when it comes to scripts. I want to move away from TextMate because I eventually want to transition to be productive on a Linux machine – that means, to create stuff in an otherwise foreign operating system. Emacs is portable, so that's a good start.
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Fold Current Level-1 Heading in Emacs Org-Mode Outlines
There's no standard shortcut to fold the current subtree of an org-mode outline. When I work in org-mode outlines, I usually am 3 or more levels deep into a so-called "subtree" and want to get back to the root item, fold it to hide the details, then drill down into another item. I use that when I am working on an app and want to have a look at a planned milestone nested deep down at a different point in the outline.
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Emacs for Remote SSH Python Development
I am using Emacs for over a year now to manage my tasks. I like how I can mix tasks with long form notes in a single outline. It's good. We had to play with
vi and
emacs for a while at University. I'm very happy I got used to the very basics of both editors because I ended up using vi a lot when SSH-ing into remote machines, and now Emacs for everything else.
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Sync Emacs Org Agenda Files via Dropbox Without Conflicts
I use beorg on iPad/iPhone to view my Emacs Org files. Until today, I did use it only for viewing files, not edit tasks, because I ran into sync conflicts. This is how I solved the problem with a few simple1 settings. First, put your org files into the Dropbox. I have all
.org files in one directory and use the directory as
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Add Blog Post Text Template Expansion to Emacs with Org Babel
In my quest of total immersion into Emacs, I am trying to write blog posts in Emacs instead of TextMate. That means my TextMate macros are gone for good, including insertion of YAML header information. On this very blog and on Zettelkasten.de, I used to type
cthead and
zkhead respectively, then expanded the YAML header with tab. TextMate's great template feature even allows you to specify multiple points inside the templates to jump to by tabbing forward. Emacs works a bit differently, so I adapted the templates to request information up front instead and fill in the values.
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Indent Code and Lists by 4 Spaces in Emacs Markdown Mode
I noticed that my Emacs didn't maintain the current line's indentation when editing code blocks in Markdown (
markdown-mode). I indent the first line with 4 spaces like any sane person would. When I hit enter to continue in the next line, thanks to the
markdown-mode defaults, I am presented with a new line that's properly indented visually. Only when committing to git did I notice that Emacs inserted tabs instead of spaces. Gasp!
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Global TODO Capture Hotkey for Emacs Org Mode on macOS
I am using GNU Emacs for a while now to do all kinds of stuff. I'm thinking about migrating away from OmniFocus as my task manager and use Org mode instead. What I like so far is the free-form list nature of Org files. I can have an outline of notes and sprinkle
TODO items inside them. This way I can take notes on puzzling problems I'm working on and mark things I need to do later. This is super useful to remind myself what to clean up before a commit, for example write or amend tests or remove debug code somewhere. I like it. I got used to a lot of shortcuts already, so most of the pain of daily use is gone.
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French Parliamentary Delegation headed by Senator Pascal Allizard was as part of their visit given a guided tour and were briefed about the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS).
Senator Pascal Allizard who is on his fourth parliamentary visit to the country has been the chair of Pakistan France Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group expressed hope that the two countries will experience an enhanced cooperation in Parliamentary diplomacy. Senators Mrs. Chantal Deseyne and Mrs. Gisele Jourda, and Mr. Geoffroy Laurin from the Administrator of the French Senate are also a part of the visiting delegation.
Executive Director PIPS Zafarullah Khan briefed the delegation that the institute came into existence as art of an act of the Parliament and provides legislative drafting support to the members of the two Houses of the Parliament as well as the provincial legislatures in addition to the outreach activities to connect the legislature to the public through public hearings, training workshops, internship opportunities and seminars.
Both sides discussed the possible avenues to enhance interaction and engagement between the two Senates and making use of this kind of institutes on both sides. The French delegation told the PIPS team that the Parliamentary Services institute in France provides a different kind of support and instead of providing trainings and outreach opportunities, it is more responsible for having the opinion of civil society and academia on different pieces of legislation.
The similarities and differences in the mechanism of Committee procedures and the respective powers of the oversight committees of the Senate were also discussed and experience sharing proposed through frequent interactions between the two sides.