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Donnchadh O'Conaill is charmed by A Little Night Music, DULOG, Assembly Rooms, 10th - 13th March 2010
Thank goodness for this. Six reviews into the year, I can finally write one dispensing with a lengthy introduction about the failings of the play under consideration. A Little Night Music, my favourite Sondheim, is a Rolls-Royce of a script and a score; urbane, elegant, the chassis of a decent plot and strong characters finished with superb lines and sumptuous musical touches. Crucially, these elements are blended together to form a coherent piece of musical theatre rather than a series of show-stoppers jutting out of a stop-start comedy. It may not be to everyone's taste (it is rather wordy and static), but DULOG's production had enough diesel to keep it gliding along.
Sondheim's appropriately old-world score is draped around a carousel of romantic fools in late nineteenth-century Sweden. Fredrik Egerman's young wife Anne refuses to sleep with him; he seeks solace and other comforts in the arms of his mistress, leading lady Desiree Armfeldt; her lover, an idiotic Count, is consumed with jealousy; his wife sees an opportunity to cut her husband down to size. For a romantic play which leans towards comedy, it carries wonderfully cynical undertones. Everyone ends up with their 'right' partner, but this outbreak of propriety scarcely conceals the baser instincts which precede it. Even the grand Mdm. Armfeldt, lamenting modern-day sexual mores in 'Liaisons', is effectively advocating only a higher class of prostitution: sex as "a pleasurable means to a measurable end".
Blustin's direction of the performances was also on the whole successful
Oscar Blustin wisely opted for a simple set, five white panels hanging in a semi-circle to provide varied entrance-points and a striking black-and-white colour scheme (though I wasn't sure if the splashes of colour in certain character's clothes actually signified anything). Costumes established the period and milieu without ostentation. The props and furniture were just detailed enough to give shape to individual scenes; the set changes were in the main slick and composed. These aspects of the production were reminiscent of Blustin's most recent work, The Blue Room; he also provided the kind of soft lighting and subtle use of colour we've come to expect from him. My main criticisms of the staging concern the Quintet, a chorus who appeared at various points to comment on proceedings. They tended to be grouped together at the back of the stage, which looked impressive but meant that for the most part they were inaudible. In addition, some of their blocking was a little a little fussy, and it might have been better to have had them use the entrances at the front sides of the stage, rather than relying almost exclusively on those at the rear.
Blustin's direction of the performances was also on the whole successful. A Little Night Music has a number of songs which I imagine pose severe challenges in terms of rhythm, pitch and lyrical dexterity. In general, the cast coped well, though some singers were clearly better than others. The leads were certainly numbered among the former. Ed Lane (Fredrik) displayed a nice sense of humour in his singing, adroitly handling Sondheim's sung dialogue. However, as with certain other performers, he conveyed no real sense of age, apart from his deep voice. This particularly affected his scenes with Desiree, which lacked the sense of two people trying to recapture their evanescent youth (of course, this kind of scene is always difficult for actors without the fortune of having lost said youth in the first place).
Ben Whittle effortlessly brought out his character's ridiculous indignation…
Rebecca Grosvenor-Taylor had the manner and charm of the fading beauty Desiree down to a tee. Her voice was superb throughout, but I must take issue with her performance of 'Send in the Clowns'. Though the most famous number in the show, it occurs in a tender scene between Desiree and Fredrik, where they realise they cannot commit to each other. Grosvenor-Taylor's exaggerated facial expressions and gestures overwhelmed the pathos which the scene required. In general, the scenes with her and Lane weren't as successful as they might have been. I felt the sense of mutual longing and loss wasn't brought out enough, and, in 'You Must Meet My Wife', some of the quick-fire humour wasn't quite captured either.
The other main roles were filled with some excellent casting. Rebecca Collingwood was (and I hope she'll take this in the spirit in which it is intended) perfect for a young woman aware of her own attractiveness but unsure about what to do with it, almost absent-mindedly exercising her power over her husband and his infatuated son. She displayed some particularly good chemistry with Ben Whittle, who is not usually cast as an anguished student priest, but effortlessly brought out his character's ridiculous indignation at the world in general and his father in particular.
DULOG's cast and crew should be congratulated for capturing so much of the suavity of Sondheim's writing, while adding charming inclinations of their own.
Doug Gibbs as the Count had a more difficult task, since his character was skewed furthest towards caricature. The night I attended, I felt Gibbs was too inclined to follow this direction, playing it strictly for laughs. The Count is a stiff character, but Gibbs let this stifle any empathy we might possibly have felt towards him. He provided the outline of a very funny performance, but not the shading required. Niamh Murphy, playing the Countess, was all shade, garlanding her performance with a string of beautifully bitter lines but leaving enough room to bring out genuine poignancy in 'Every Day A Little Death'. In an evening of wonderful comic moments, she provided more than anyone else, and nestled them in precise and consistent characterisation.
Kate Hunter (Mdm. Armfeld, Desiree's mother) spoke with an authority which never seemed forced and which underscored some lovely comic delivery. However, the depiction of the character's age was an issue, particularly as regards her death. I appreciate that playing Mdm. Armfeldt with more verisimilitude might have risked dragging her scenes, but if I hadn't done my research (oh yes) I would have assumed she had gone a nap rather than passed away at the end. Anna Budget's Petra neatly complemented Collingwood in her sexually playful exchanges with Whittle, and found the right poignancy in the verses of 'The Miller's Son'. Of the other players, Amy Annette deserves special commendation for comic over-pronunciation par excellence in the play within the play where we first meet Desiree.
I can claim no expertise in the area, but to my ears the band didn't sound as successful as the cast. I only noticed one instance of an actor dropping lines, but on more than one occasion instruments sounded out of tune, and often there was a lack of certainty when they resumed lines. To be fair, when they worked they worked very well indeed; music that was rich but not stodgy, adding colour without confusion. In addition, the band could boast a visual effect the equal of anything seen on stage, in conductor Tim Barrow's sightline-threatening hair.
DULOG's cast and crew should be congratulated for capturing so much of the suavity of Sondheim's writing, while adding charming inclinations of their own. Not every aspect was polished, but everyone knew what they were trying to do and succeeded in doing it more often than not, giving us a good production of a very good musical.
Donnchadh O'Conaill

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We investigate hybrid charge transfer states (HCTS) at the planar interface between a-NPD and ZnO by spectrally resolved electroluminescence (EL) and external quantum efficiency (EQE) measurements. Radiative decay of HCTSs is proven by distinct emission peaks in the EL spectra of such bilayer devices in the NIR at energies well below the bulk a-NPD or ZnO emission. The EQE spectra display low energy contributions clearly red-shifted with respect to the a-NPD photocurrent and partially overlapping with the EL emission. Tuning of the energy gap between the ZnO conduction band and a-NPD HOMO level (E-int) was achieved by modifying the ZnO surface with self-assembled monolayers based on phosphonic acids. We find a linear dependence of the peak position of the NIR EL on E-int, which unambiguously attributes the origin of this emission to radiative recombination between an electron on the ZnO and a hole on a-NPD. In accordance with this interpretation, we find a strictly linear relation between the open-circuit voltage and the energy of the charge state for such hybrid organicinorganic interfaces.
Correlated donor/acceptor crystal orientation controls photocurrent generation in all-polymer solar cells (2014)
New polymers with high electron mobilities have spurred research in organic solar cells using polymeric rather than fullerene acceptors due to their potential of increased diversity, stability, and scalability. However, all-polymer solar cells have struggled to keep up with the steadily increasing power conversion efficiency of polymer: fullerene cells. The lack of knowledge about the dominant recombination process as well as the missing concluding picture on the role of the semi-crystalline microstructure of conjugated polymers in the free charge carrier generation process impede a systematic optimization of all-polymer solar cells. These issues are examined by combining structural and photo-physical characterization on a series of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (donor) and P(NDI2OD-T2) (acceptor) blend devices. These experiments reveal that geminate recombination is the major loss channel for photo-excited charge carriers. Advanced X-ray and electron-based studies reveal the effect of chloronaphthalene co-solvent in reducing domain size, altering domain purity, and reorienting the acceptor polymer crystals to be coincident with those of the donor. This reorientation correlates well with the increased photocurrent from these devices. Thus, effi cient split-up of geminate pairs at polymer/polymer interfaces may necessitate correlated donor/acceptor crystal orientation, which represents an additional requirement compared to the isotropic fullerene acceptors.
carriers on illumination. Efficient organic solar cells require a high yield for this process, combined with a minimum of energy losses. Here, we investigate the role of the lowest energy emissive interfacial charge-transfer state (CT1) in the charge generation process. We measure the quantum yield and the electric field dependence of charge generation on excitation of the charge-transfer (CT) state manifold viaweakly allowed, low-energy optical transitions. For a wide range of photovoltaic devices based on polymer: fullerene, small-molecule:C-60 and polymer: polymer blends, our study reveals that the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) is essentially independent of whether or not D, A or CT states with an energy higher than that of CT1 are excited. The best materials systems show an IQE higher than 90% without the need for excess electronic or vibrational energy.
When state-of-the-art bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with ideal morphology are exposed to prolonged storage or operation at elevated temperatures, a thermally induced disruption of the active layer blend can occur, in the form of a separation of donor and acceptor domains, leading to diminished photovoltaic performance. Toward the long-term use of organic solar cells in real-life conditions, an important challenge is, therefore, the development of devices with a thermally stable active layer morphology. Several routes are being explored, ranging from the use of high glass transition temperature, cross-linkable and/or side-chain functionalized donor and acceptor materials, to light-induced dimerization of the fullerene acceptor. A better fundamental understanding of the nature and underlying mechanisms of the phase separation and stabilization effects has been obtained through a variety of analytical, thermal analysis, and electro-optical techniques. Accelerated aging systems have been used to study the degradation kinetics of bulk heterojunction solar cells in situ at various temperatures to obtain aging models predicting solar cell lifetime. The following contribution gives an overview of the current insights regarding the intrinsic thermally induced aging effects and the proposed solutions, illustrated by examples of our own research groups. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.


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People always ask where I found my prison pen pal, then laugh at the answer: GayPrisoners.net. There you can browse gay prisoner profiles, which include stats, photos, location, and the nature of their crime. Most profiles verge on the romantic side, often with unintended irony. "Do you aim to tease or aim to please?" asks a felon incarcerated for sexual assault. "I've made a couple of mistakes in my life, but I have a good heart," ventures Angel, a transgender convict in for double homicide.
Although they may ask where I found him, few have ever asked why. I felt trapped in a dead-end job, surrounded by phonies and sycophants and insidious water cooler conversation ("How was your weekend?" "Great. How was your weekend?"). I was desperate for an outlet, needy to talk about real shit. Not only would a prisoner have real shit to talk about, he promised to be a captive audience.
Randy's personal ad caught my attention because it wasn't advertising romance. Instead, he guaranteed "delish correspondence" from "Randyland."
In his first letter to me, he wrote about his goofy lover: "Butters and I were chillin' one night, watchin' local news when the state prison warden comes on the telly and proclaims to the masses there is no sex happening in the joint on his watch. Cue me: Huh? Cue Butters: Mmgghmm? — because it's hard to talk with a mouth-load of cock!"
His prose was bursting with sexual innuendo ("My projected release date? Just after lights out!"), clever reminiscence ("That's eight pages, one for every inch of my favorite lover. Sigh, Joey."), and vivid description ("Boiled-beyond-death spinach and a turkey-like compound with gravy? Oh, the humanity!"), and was usually signed off by Miffy Lovelorn Von Tragique. Importantly, Randy also kept it real. "I've been at this pen pal gig for a long time," he wrote. "It's what's kept me sane, relevant, inspired, and determined to survive the mental warfare that is incarceration." That's what kept me writing back.
Randy also made me feel better. "Between the cops and other cons, the never-ending cat-and-mouse game becomes crushingly wearisome. I've seen men crumble in less than a year as the machine devours them." I remarked how Randy kept his spirit unbroken, his humor intact. He categorically refused to be chewed up.
He witnessed some real shit, too, including the time the Nazi with a swastika tattoo on his forehead chopped off a kid's nose with a cribbage board, and the six-man beat down over skimmed hooch that left the skimmer unable to see or speak. But Randy had not suffered for being gay. In his lockup, queers were seen as a novelty. He wrote about the others: Miss Pineapple, a black princess the size of a linebacker; Lorne, the dowager empress who always saw the bright side of life, despite having 37 years of incarceration under his belt; and Dewars, a recovering alcoholic who suffered the shakes. Once, at chowtime, Dewar's hands trembled so much that the rice kept flying off his fork. "Where's the wedding, dear?" quipped Randy.
He also described his lovers, past and present. Butters, 21, loved to be naked. Max, 27, was a firecracker in the sack but otherwise hopeless. Randy wrote, "You name it, I'll nail it—blowjobs, too." His most recent flame was Chas, 25. Chas was well-hung, but his finest attribute was being openly gay, not a quasi-straight ACB ("after count boy"). But no lover compared to Joey, who after his release, sent Randy a Dear John letter that spun him hard. In the span of our two-year correspondence, I never received a letter without some reference to Joey. "Even in here, we live, we luv, we be," Randy wrote.
Randy insisted he would bloom wherever planted and I was inspired by the way he refused to be imprisoned by his circumstances. That's not to say I was sympathetic to his predicament; Randy had been locked up for 10 years in the Texas state penitentiary as a convicted child molester (a "cho" for short, or, as he is gay, a "chomo"). From his profile, I knew he was in for sexual offenses with a minor. From his letters, I learned that when he was 21, Randy had had a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy.
Disturbing as this was, I saw no good reason for me to further denounce a man condemned. I wrote asking why he did what he did, how he felt about it, and if he considered himself hopelessly pathological — the thing about having a pen pal in prison is that you don't have to frame anything sensitively. What are they going to do, feel judged? Letters are opened by officials, so I couldn't send smut or cigarettes, but I could ask things like "What the fuck were you thinking with a 12-year-old?" and "Do you get prison-raped for it?"
He hated the label pedophile ("I don't lust after every boy I see!") as much as sex offender (which implies it's ongoing), but it was therapy he hated most of all. And anyway, he had resolved his own issues. "The focal point of my self-morality now is [to] strive not to hurt others, and, while at it, be sure, at the very least, they're 18." But when he brought up ancient Greece, I wrote it sounded like
he felt he was the victim. Randy insisted he wasn't — he broke the law and could take his licks.
His crimes, he said, were due to the deceit of being in the closet, mixed with drug and alcohol abuse and anger. "How many chums did I crush hard for in adolescence? Didn't I want some diddlin' back then?" So Randy transposed his 12-year-old self onto an actual 12-year-old boy. At least, that was his explanation.
"I feel remorse that I didn't have a sane enough mind at the time to not introduce the kid into a world beyond his understanding (alcohol, sex). But now here I am, and that soul-crushing guilt I can't afford to harbor."
My colleagues were aghast to learn my prison pen pal was a pedophile. The word is pregnant with the poison of a deed so beyond redemption that it slams every door immediately, forever. But somehow, Randy cracked the door to dialogue. At the water cooler, "How was your weekend?" became "What's new with Randy?" No one felt any better about his crime, but friends would read parts of his letters and wonder with me why Randy will spend the rest of his life on a sex offender registry, but there isn't something analogous for murderers — a homicide registry?
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Randy knew some men are solely attracted to children, but insisted he's not one of them. He believed judges (and the public) don't see individual cases; for them, all sex offenders are bogeymen. Gays, especially, won't go near the topic for fear of association. Demonized as chicken hawk child predators for so long, we run a million miles from anything that gives that old smear an ounce of credence. Randy said he wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
At least he was popular at the post. Randy maintained around 20 pen pals. A few wrote wanting to "cho out" about prepubescent longings, and a few demanded his soul-crushing guilt, but most were just friendly strangers. Randy said he felt fortunate. He kept most of the letters he received and sent them home at regular intervals. After he was released, he planned to take all those letters, ignite them in a big bonfire, and move on.
His oldest correspondent, Bob (a.k.a. Boopsy), was an 88-year-old living in the California desert. Boopsy was not only a loyal correspondent, he deposited money in his prison account so Randy could buy essentials at the commissary (95 cents for a honey pepper turkey stick, $12.75 to splurge on a stylish Casio digital watch) or contraband cigarettes ($6 each).
In prison, Randy worked as a custodian, earning $40 a month until he was laid off due to budget cuts. I tried sending stamps so he wouldn't pay postage, but stamps are verboten, a jailhouse currency used in lieu of cash. So I started sticking stamps on the back of my envelopes he could steam off and reuse. I considered wiring money but wasn't sure if that was his racket, and I didn't want to feel played. But Randy wrote back always without expectation, and I wondered what currency all those pen pals offered him in lieu of cash. A purpose, a distraction, a window, a mirror?
Although he would soon be sprung, the conditions of his release (no drinking, no spontaneous travel, no porn, no contact with friends from prison) took him to a very dark place. "I perceive being freeish," he wrote. "And subject to continual scrutiny, distrust, judgment, and stigmatization." Add to that being an ex-con starting over flat broke and unskilled.
Around the time I quit my dead-end job, Randy finally got a release date confirmed. One day soon, after some 4,300 days jailed, a free-ish life would begin at a halfway house in Austin. After six months "reintegrating" there, Randy planned to go live with his father in Montana. He was imagining future careers (custom epitaphs?), his first meal (a Denver omelet with mushrooms, extra cheese, and a pound of bacon), and little luxuries like owning the marvelous all-in-one Norelco beard-brow-nose-ear hair trimmer. He was also nervous.
The halfway house promised a battery of barbaric tests (such as the penile plethysmograph, electrodes attached to his dick to measure arousal), and he had a more general fear that after so long away, he would be a lost relic from a forgotten age. "Getting out of here will be akin to a second birth," he wrote. "An after-birth birth... a strangely profound yet grotesque analogy."
Then, that day in April, he said farewell forever to Lorne, to Dewars, to all those inside he had come to love, his family for the previous 12 years. After an especially teary, blubbery parting from Chas, Randy hopped a Greyhound bus to Austin. Not having traveled for so long, his first taste of the outside was severe motion sickness exacerbated by nerves and sensory overload.
After spending the majority of his adult life behind bars, Randy found his rebirth unsettling. People were like zombies now, walking around lost in their smart phones. At a Walmart, he found himself standing frozen before a wall of technology, completely overwhelmed and longing for his old Discman. And they say there is no such thing as time travel. He picked up a pack-a-day smoking habit to help cope. "Don't tell my mom — she'll freak!" he wrote. That must have been a joke.
He said the halfway house was dangerous. More than he ever had in lockup, Randy sweated the sex offender label. He kept the nature of his conviction on the DL and even invented an entrapment alibi in case of violent confrontation. Although he had never felt so menaced, there were bright spots. For the first time in over a decade he was sleeping on a mattress with an actual box spring, and Boopsy had sent him the Norelco trimmer and his very own seven-inch portable RCA TV.
Suddenly, Randy stopped writing. I was disappointed that I didn't even get a Dear John letter when our relationship ended. To be fair, he was just two months shy of being back home in Montana, where I picture all of my letters — with so many others — in a bonfire torching that big sky. I'm a part of his past, but for me, Randy is very much present. I've got a new prison pen pal who also understands the value of delish correspondence, and I try to pay it forward where I can.
In his last letter, Randy wrote that another resident at the halfway house had broken into his locker in the middle of the night while he slept and stolen his portable TV. He wanted to retaliate, but he had an actual future to consider now, so instead of avenging the loss he got a bigger lock for his locker and, wouldn't you know it, another TV was already on its way courtesy of good ol' Boopsy.


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South Sound Cruise 2019
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Day 1:
Start: Sunday, July 21: Des Moines Waterland Festival
Destination: Dockton Snohomish County Parks near the mouth of Quartermaster Harbor
Distance 15 nM
Notes: Quartermaster Harbor is close by - possible reciprocal moorage
No dockside electrical power, but modern lavatories and showers
Reasonable moorage rate
Day 2:
Start Monday, July 22: Dockton Snohomish County Parks near the mouth of Quartermaster Harbor
Destination: Lakebay Marina 253/884-3350
Distance: 20 nM
Moorage: Stern Tie, $1.00/linear foot
Day 3:
Start Tuesday, July 23: Lakebay Marina
Destination: Jarrell Cove State Park
Distance: 20 nM
Moorage: Reasonable. Discount for Discover Pass. Watch for low tide. Campgound with showers (@ .25 three minutes)
Days 4 & 5 (Layover):
Start Wednesday, July 24: Jarrell Cove State Park
Destination: Oakland Bay Marina, Shelton, Washington
Distance: 15 nM
Moorage: Reasonable. Use of Shelton Yacht Club Clubhouse. Free bus transport into downtown Shelton. Affordable bus transport throughout Mason and into Thurston Counties (Olympia)
Day 6 (optional) & End:
Start Friday, July 26: Oakland Bay Marina
Destination: Breakwater Marina, 5603 N. Waterfont Dr., Tacoma, Washington 98407, 253/752-6663
Distance: 40 nM
Moorage: unable to make tentative reservations until a week in advance.


text: Cost 60RMB cover (includes a free drink). Drinks around 40RMB.Drinks For creative names and fruity flavours, look no further than the hot stud (35RMB) and men's world (50RMB). Keep your distance from the YMCA (40RMB) if you're sensitive to spice; hot like Sichuan cuisine, it'll do a number on your stomach. Music A dose of disco gets the dancefloor hopping upon our arrival. There's no better genre for a gay club, as far as we're concerned. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold. Club bangers predominate from there on out. We might be put off, but the crowd keeps boogeying all the same.Ambiance One bar is bedecked with cuddly bears. The symbolism is not lost on us. The layout takes some exploring, so much so that newbies may need a map. On the whole, it's noticeably no-frills, content to merely serve its function as the grand-daddy of Beijing's gay clubs.Crowd Jubilant and shirtless. Gay in all senses of the word. We wouldn't be surprised if there was a sign-up sheet for the stripper pole; it got loads of attention throughout night. The dance floor itself is more crowded than a Chinese train station during Golden Week, with plenty of energy, to boot. We'll say this: it's a vibe you can get behind.Worth it? Do yourself a favour and get on that pole. It's your destiny! Posted: Tuesday November 1 2011


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"Mark 16:15 preach the gospel to every creature. Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe (do) all things whatsoever I (Jesus Christ) have commanded: Revelation 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega .. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, .. they .. have right to the tree of life, and .. enter .. the city."
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the Church of God (Tennessee).
My name is Isaac Livingston. I am from Neyyoor India.
Christmas day is celebrated on December 25th. The actual day of the birth of Jesus is not given in the Bible. But if we study the Bible, we can trace it down and that is what we will do now.
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Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be upon you.Christians celebrate Christmas as religious festival. It centers around the church, party, food and fun. Christmas to others is part of business, party, or something else. We all celebrate Christmas in some way. But, I have received a mail couple of days ago from one guy saying Christmas and Easter are not in the Bible, but are rooted in pagan origin. I do not know what kind of Bible he has. In Luke 2:9-18 Angels brought the news of Christmas to shepherds & rejoiced. 13&14 suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Angels celebrated Christmas, man and God had part in it. Shepherds even went to see the baby to celebrate it. So, it is proper to celebrate the birth of Jesus, which is Christmas.
Some others say that December 24th is not the actual Christmas day and so what do we celebrate? Let us look at this. The feast of passover and the feast of unleavened bread are the most important feasts for the Jews. God said to celebrate them on 14th & 21st of the first month. In 2 Chronicles 30:2,13&15, we see that it was allowed to be celebrated on the 2nd month, for a few reasons. So, God has allowed to celebrate the feasts on different days and it is recorded in the Bible for us to know. Here, Christmas day is not directly given in the Bible and the church chose to celebrate Christmas on December 24th & 25th. God has allowed such festivals to be celebrated on different days. So it is okay to celebrate it on December 24th & 25th, even though it is not the exact day.
One more thing. If we look for Christmas day in the Bible, we may find it. So, Let us give it a try. Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: Exodus 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,. So, the 10th of the first month Abib, the passover lamb was set aside for sacrifice. It is the main part of the passover. 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. Here, we have two important days in the first month Abib. 1) passover lamb is set aside on the 10th. 2) passover lamb is killed on the 14th. 1 Corinthians 5:7 says Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:So, Jesus is the passover lamb. If we look at the Bible, Jesus was killed on the same day, and at the same hour, that the passover lamb should be killed. That is Jesus died on Abib 14th evening. It is also possible that he was set aside on the 10th of Abib, as the passover lamb. So, Abib 10th may be the birthday of Jesus, Christmas day. Let us verify this day from another side. When the angel of God announced Mary about her conception with child Jesus, he also said that her cousin Elisabeth was also with a baby, John the Baptist. It is in Luke 1:26-36. 30 the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 36 behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her. So, John the Baptist was 6 months older than Jesus. So, if we find the birthday of John the Baptist, take 6 months from it, that is the birth day of Jesus. So, let us first find the birthday of John the Baptist.
Luke 1:5 says priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: his wife was of the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elisabeth. 8&9 it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 11 there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 13 the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.So, according to this, Zacharias was a priest in the course of Abia. His wife was Elizabeth. An angel told him at the temple that his wife Elizabeth will conceive a son soon after he goes home and Zacharias has to name him John. Let us find when Zacharias got home. The priests are divided into 24 courses, in which the course of Abia comes as the 8th according to 1 Chronicle 24:7-19. 24 courses serve in the temple one week at a time. When they have completed, they start it all over and serve a second term. So each course serves twice in a year. But, on special feast days, all courses serve according to 2 Chronicle 8:13, Deuteronomy 16:10&16, & Exodus 34:22. Special weeks are, feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, Pentecost that was feast of the weeks in the OT, and of the Tabernacles. So, every course serve three times in a year. But, our aim is to find the 2 weeks that Abia alone and Zacharias served. The first course serves in the 1st week. Second week is the feast of Passover, third week is feast of Unleavened Bread & ninth week is feast of the weeks, it is Pentecost, all courses together serve these weeks. So, these are 3 weeks. Abijah, being 8th, it's turn comes in 8+3 the 11th week. So, Zacharias served this week and might saw angel Gabriel. After this, Zacharias went home on 12th week, which is the end of the third month. Luke 1:23 says it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. 24 after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived... So, most probably his wife Elizabeth would have conceived, in the beginning of the 4th month. Then, John the Baptist could have born in the beginning of the 1st month. If we take away 6 months from the birthday of John, it comes to the beginning of the 7th month. So, a possible birthday of Jesus is in the beginning of the 7th month of the Jews. But, this day does not match with the day that we got by setting aside the passover lamb. It was the first month, but not the 7th. So let us try the other possibility, if the angel visited Zacharias at his 2nd round of service in the temple. 24 weeks for the first round, 4 feasts days, and Abia is the 8th course, so 24+4+8= 36. So, at the 36th week from the first Sabbath of the year, the course Abia would have served in the temple for the 2nd term. If angel Gabriel had met Zacharias at this week, he would have gone home at the 37th week, which is the last week of the 9th month or the 1st week of the 10th month. In this case, Elizabeth would have conceived within the first two weeks of the tenth month and John would have born within the first 2 weeks of the 7th month. If we take 6 months away from 7, Jesus would have born at the first two weeks of the first month Abib. If we look at the account that set aside the passover lamb, the birthday of Jesus is 10th of Abib, which is within the first two weeks of the 1st month Abib and this is match perfectly. So, birthday of Jesus, the passover lamb, is Abib 10th. So Christmas day is 10th of the 1st month of the Jews, a/c to the Bible. So, we may celebrate Christmas on either December 24th & 25th a/c to the tradition, or on Abib 10th & 11th a/c to the Bible, or on both days. But I like to tell you one important thing. If we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Lamb of God, even on both occasions, and if we are not cleansed by the blood of Jesus, who is the Lamb of God, then what is that to us. 1 John 1:7 if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. So, walk in the light as he is in the light, so that his blood may cleanse us, so that the celebration of our Christmas will have meaning, peace, joy and eternal reward.
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A teatime classic from decades past, the cream horn is still a great sweet to eat and is easy to make. The flavour and the texture you get as the caster sugar caramelises on the outside of the buttery pastry are wonderful, especially with the richness of the cream. Continue reading "Cream Horns"
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Pear, walnut & Gorgonzola sourdough
These full-flavoured loaves have been very much a firm favourite in our house for many years and while it is great as a non-sourdough bread, the sourdough version is seriously terrific. Of all the flavoured breads I make, this is one I make more than any other. Continue reading "Pear, walnut & Gorgonzola sourdough"
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Most of my career has involved caring for HIV-infected children and advocating for the medically underserved in Harlem, Washington Heights, and the Dominican Republic, where my work has primarily taken place over the past 25 years. I have created a number of community-based educational experiences for medical and public health students and resident physicians. I was the director of pediatrics at Harlem Hospital Center from 2000-2006, during which time I started the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative.
In 1999, I started the Columbia University International Family AIDS Program (now renamed the IFAP Global Health Program), which introduced the first AIDS treatment for pregnant women (1999) and long-term AIDS care and treatment for families (2004) in the Dominican Republic. Today, its program in the province of La Romana has lowered the rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission to a rate comparable with New York's, and its clinic is one of the largest providers of care and treatment for children and adults in the Dominican Republic. It is also a popular site for health sciences student and resident training and education rotations.


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Delegation of National University of Science and Technology from Pakistan, led by Rector, Engr Muhammad Asghar and Ambassador of Pakistan in Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Syed Khalid Amir Jaffery, was welcomed on 13th of September by Vice-Rectors, Deans and Heads of the Departments at the Burch University. This was a return visit and an opportunity for presentation activities of both universities and discussion specific ways of cooperation.
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I'm on my second Grace F9E cartridge. Not knowing any better, I'm thinking that it's getting long in the tooth. If I don't have anything else to compare it to, how do I know if I need a replacement? And if I do replace it, is there a currently available cartridge that comes close (or surpasses) the Grace in the same price range (<$500)? Or should I just send the old guy to Sound Smith to get it re-tipped? Any advice would be appreciated.
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comparing the sound to the sound of a CD of the same music. if it doesnt measure up, then soundsmith is the answer. in the meantime you could snag another cart like a grado black or at95e or ortofon 2mRED. all affordable and its not a bad idea to have and extra around for dry spells. having an arm with detachable headshell is beneficial.
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Hello Friends!
My name is Desirée and I blog over at The 36th AVENUE.
I am super excited to be here today visiting with Kristen and all of you.
What a wonderful series this has been!
I want to focus my post today on decorating using children portraits.
I love decorating with pictures… if you were visiting my home you'd find family pictures scattered all over the place.
Some of my favorites however are children pictures.
Having a great photograph is as big a part as having a great display.
Here are some tips that I like to personally follow whether I am the one behind the lens or our children are in front of someone else's camera.
Show their personalities!
Children are children for such a short time.
What they like one year they may hate the next.
Sometimes you can show their personalities through objects that they love.
Capture them!
Miss Laid Back…
Mr. Tough!
Miss Cute!
I don't edit a child's face.
Children are naturally beautiful.
Make sure you capture those unique features that make them… them!
Before we know there won't be spaces between their teeth…
And those cute little freckles will be covered with makeup…
Listen to them…
Children are naturally creative.
Some of my favorite pictures have come from their ideas.
Welcome To My Life!
A photo is just an image until you print it!
I know many people thinks that in order to display portraits you have to have a gallery wall.
This concept can be overwhelming for some and pretty expensive.
Yes, frames are not cheap.
Here is an idea for you…
Use an old large frame or window and add some chicken wire to it.
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Pin the pictures, change them often, make it fun, and enjoy those moments that make each day count!
I hope this post inspires you to not just take pictures…
… but to use them as accent pieces in your own homes.
Thank you Kristen for having me.
I can't wait to see the rest of the series!
Thank you, Desiree! I LOVE that you mentioned capturing the details, because those details make great artwork! I also love to capture the fun and spunky personalities. This series is all about printing images, so that is another GREAT reminder to do so! I discovered Desiree's blog recently, and then realized she is related to a local friend of mine–fun! I look forward to meeting up with her at the blog conference, SNAP, that we will both attend in April. The 36th Avenue has lots of numbered lists that I could look through for hours. My fave's are 20 handmade gifts for him and 30 amazing furniture makeovers. You can also find The 36th Avenue on facebook and pinterest.


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FULL TEXT: Twelve women were arrested in Zenta, Hungary, charged with poisoning their husbands.
The wholesale plot was discovered by a man who suspected that his wife was trying to kill him. Believing she had placed poison in his soup, he compelled his wife to drink it, and she died.
This started an investigation, and the police found an old woman named Sivacky, who confessed that she had sold poison to several women. She gave the names of a number, who are charged with killing their husbands to marry other men.
The authorities have ordered that the bodies of several men believed to have been poisoned by their wives be exhumed and examined.
Nine husbands are now critically ill from the effects of poison.
["Husbands Poisoned. - Hungarian Women Charged With Wholesale Slaughter." The Star (Reynoldsville, Pa.), Sep. 13, 1905, p. 7]
For more than two dozen similar cases, dating from 1658 to 2011, see the summary list with links see: The Husband-Killing Syndicates
Senta (Serbian Cyrillic: Сента Hungarian: Zenta Romanian: Zenta; German: Senta or formerly Zenta; Turkish: Zenta) is a town and municipality on the bank of the Tisa river in the Vojvodina province, Serbia. Although geographically located in Bačka, it is part of the North Banat District. The town has a population of 18,704, whilst the Senta municipality has 23,316 inhabitants (2011 census).
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In 1994 SLC performance was dramatically improved by developing an extensive set of feedback systems, and the installation of seamless vacuum tube in the dumping ring, and succeeded to demonstrate the reality of future large linear collidertechnology in TeV region.These feedback systems are challange for preservation of the low emittance. They compensate for enviromental effects ranging from diurnal temperature variations to beam orbit disturbances up to frequencies of tens of Hz. They control the beam enery and optimal overlap of two beams at the interaction point (IP), and serve to stabilize against step changes such as cycling and interchange of klystrons. The orbit feedback loops are used to deliberate bumps in the lineac orbit whic cancel previously generated wake field tails. As result, horizontal emittances drop from about 30 to 7 micro radian meter.Other remarkable success in 1994 operation has been to increase the specific luminosity by the flat beam collisions. The flat beams
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of vertical size of 50 mm and horizontal of 100 mm are procuced from the dumping rings by shifting the operating point away from a coupling resonance, and now SLD routinely attained flat beam collisions with 0.9 mm and 2.5 mm, vertial and horizontal size respectively, at IP.The IP is tured out to be stable within 10 mm level for several houres and this feature boost up the reconstruction efficiencies of complicated reaction vertecies.The most remarkable advance in SLC/SLD experiment is the high electron polarization. By making use of strained GaAs cathode irradiated by the pulsed circularly polarized laser beam with wavelegth of 865 nm and the pulse length of 2.8 ns with 10 mJ of energy, SLC delivered electrons with a polarization of more than 85% at the source and 75% at IP.In this year, SLC/SLD has run from the June to the middle of February, with an average luminosity of 40-55 Zs per hour or 800 Zs per day (a record luminosity was 10^<30> cm^2/sec or 1,100 Zs per day), and has recorded more than 100,000 Z at the end of 1994 runs with an average polarization of 75%.The left-right cross section asymmetry A_<LR> with longitudinally polarized electron beam has been measured at E_<cm>=91.2660.02 GeV with 1993 data (50.000 events). The electron polarization was continuously monitored by a Compton scattering and Moeller polarimeter, and both results were coinside, i.e. (65.7<plus-minus>0.9) % and (66<plus-minus>3) % respectively, after detailed studies of detector characteristics. The uncertainty in polarization determination was <plus-minus>1.3%. The final result we obtained is,A_<LR>=0.1656<plus-minus>0.0073 (statistical) <plus-minus>0.0032 (systematic)From this measurment, the weak mixing angle defined at the Z-pole is derived to besin^2rheta_W^<eff>=0.2292<plus-minus>0.0009 (statistical) <plus-minus>0.0004 (systematic)Comparing with the previous measurments, this result is smaller by 2.4 standard deviations than the average of 25 measurments performed by the LEP Collaborations. Our future plan for this measurment is to reduce uncertainties in A_<LR> to the level of 0.002 the same order of magnitudes to theoretical limit.An extensive QCD studies are performed with the Z samples of 1993 run. Since the theoretical errors are so large, the high event statistics are not requiered in these analysis. Specific subjects being done are : alpha_S mesurment, flavor independence of alpha_S non-leading multiplicity of B events, quark-gluon jet difference, jet handedness, and search for T-violation in three-jet events.Taking advantage of good vertex determination of CDC+VTX,BB branching ratio has been determind. A preliminary result was obtained with about 2,500 B samples is,R_b=0.259<plus-minus>0.023 (stat.) <plus-minus>0.061 (MC simulation).With good vertexing and highly polarized electron beams, SLC/SLD has the unique opportunity exploring B physics Since the number of Z event collection is the key to the new physics, we plan to continue data aquisition experiments to record a million of Zs in the next few years. The experiment for 1994 has already approved in full. One of the most improtant detector upgrades for the comming "million-Z" runs, the new VTX upgrade has been approved. We are expecting SLD to go ahead in 1995 and further more.Strong coupling constant alpha_S is determind by the complehensive analysis using all existing obserbvables plus a new obsevable,alpha_S=0.120<plus-minus>0.003 (experimental) <plus-minus>0.008 (theoretical)Obtained results are consistent with other experiments. This result indicate clearly the uncerainty due to the hadoronization and other theoretical calculations. A rapid development in QCD formalism is expected.In SLAC and in Japan, a new efforts for the program conversion from existing VMS codes to UNIX are being proceed to meet SLAC policy, and it will take some resouces and time to get rid of confusion in computing power. Less
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USA Only Nation With Legal Definition Of Overfishing And Political Will To Enforce Quotas...For Now.
Fish fry. Image credit:Wikpedia, by Jon Sullivan.
As all you corporate types know, for a business to succeed over the long term it must have defined - up and down the value chain - how progress will be measured: going far deeper than ROCE, cash flow, or profit. Having supply chain metrics are equally or more important for maintenance of shared natural resources such as timber or marine fisheries. (see Tragedy of the Commons for background).
The optimistic view.
Only the USA , it is now being claimed, has defined metrics for determining when over-fishing is taking place and has used quotas to get harvests in balance with populations. For the first time in a century, indications now are are that US territorial fisheries are heading toward that lovely balancing point of 'sustainability.'The cynical view.
With jobless rates, state budget deficits, and seafood prices all skyrocketing in parallel, state by state fishery quotas are unlikely to continue on a sustainability path, I am afraid. Newly elected Governors of coastal states are already whining about enforced Federal catch restrictions.
As reported in the Bangor Daily News:
But fishermen and their advocates say ending overfishing came at an unnecessarily high cost. Dave Marciano fished out of Gloucester, an hour's drive northeast of Boston, for three decades until he was forced to sell his fishing permit in June. He said the new system made it too costly to catch enough fish to stay in business.It comes down to this question. Shall the USA just have a grand tea party, liquidating coastal fish stocks, state by state; or, shall the Federal Government enforce quotas to have some fish to fry for the next generation?
"It ruined me," said Marciano, 45. "We could have ended overfishing and had a lot more consideration for the human side of the fishery."
An end to overfishing doesn't mean all stocks are healthy, but scientists believe it's a crucial step to getting there.
Have you gone to a nice seafood store lately and looked at the quality and the prices? The good stuff has become completely unaffordable for all but the wealthy.
Real Atlantic cod is the Renaissance painting of seafood. Tilapia, although edible on those rare occasions when it does not taste like nut and spice-covered algae cake, is by comparison to the real deal, an Elvis on black velvet.


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Cardboard Box
I want to cry when I see him
picking through the garbage bins
Glad when he finds a piece of clothes
joyful for aluminum cans
He stands in line for hours
just to get a decent meal
Then he returns to his cardboard box
when he`s got his fill
Safe within his cardboard box
a blanket and a prayer
He dreams a dream to be anywhere
Anywhere but there
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Sure is a nice feeling of holding onto faith. Even though we all want to be anywhere sometimes. Keeping prayer is definately not to miss out on. Great writing, that was very wonderful. Matthew
Thank you Matthew. Yes its faith that keeps us hanging on.
As in this poem. Even though this man is down to living in a cardboard box.He still has faith in prayer,and in God.Though he dreams to be somewhere else, anywhere but where he is. He has a most glorious mansion in heaven.And that isnt a dream. less you Matthew, Angellynn.
oh yes I have always ahd a soft spot for the homeless.
In some ways you can see that many of them have outgrown mainstream society. I know many, many, many homeless people that would rather sleep outside then go inside to the shelters, seriously, believe me I was one of them. I have often thought of ways in which we could help them feel more comfort right in the areas they live; the camps and what not. going in there and offering services, clothing, blankets even money etc etc....there are jsut so, so, so , so many things we can do. this poem is good; I like it because it offers a blanket and love; it recognises him as the fine spirit he is....and weather or not he does dream of being elsewhere he does go home when he dies, to the very same place we all go. Many of them are closer to it than we.
Air you are so very right.The homeless dont require much, only necessities to meet their need. Their not beggers. I have met a few myself. And they were very respectful,and thankful for my help.Which is more than I can say for a lot of people who arent homeless.Most people confuse the homeless with beggers and thieves. That is far from the truth.Thank you so much for your comment, and for sharing.Angellynn.
This is very somber but sadly it's true. Don't know how many homeless there are around but you trap the reality of it nicely
So sad. Well written. You captured his plight perfectly. You have a way of grasping your topic and pouring it out upon your readers so gently. You did a wonderful job!
So sad, but so well written. You really get readers imersed into the subject, because you write it so well. Well done and I'm looking forward to reading even more from you! Let me know when you add more please!
i really loved this and the message it gave out. thank you so much for sharing ((((((Hugs))))) joss.
I think it should have been longer, or if not longer then definitely broken up into stanzas. Also, I'm not trying to start a theological debate here, but I highly doubt that the homeless feel "safe" with just a box, a blanket, and a prayer. It takes a bit more than faith to be safe when you're living on the streets.
With a vice like greed being the basis of our economic system, the homeless are a monument to the corruption of the human spirit that living this lie brings.
i really loved this poem, it touched me cause when i was young i lived in and out of a homeless shelter and i was round people like that for soo long and at one time i was one thank you.
Angellynn this was probably one of the most heart warming poems I have read in a very long time. The pictures that came into my mind were just so vivid. I have seen may homeless people here where I live and in bigger cities like Memphis and Nashville. You are so kind in writing this in the manner that you did. To be able to take such a sad situation and make it beautiful is a gift. Bless you for your kindness. Susan :)
I so was touched by the poem. I am a believer in Christ and feel giving to the needy is what Christians should be doing. I find it so wonderful to give out clothing and attention and prayers. I so would like more people to think about serving in this way. It is such a huge blessing.
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The Level 4 Modules are available for those learners who have a Level 3 Vocational Qualification in Community Justice or equivalent. Successful completion of the level 4 modules form the Probation Preparation Certificate at the University of Portsmouth, for preparation to the Level 5 Diploma of HE in Community Justice Award . Applications are through your NPS Divisional Training Manager or your Community Rehabilitation Company.
The Diploma of Higher Education is a twelve-month Level 5 award for those learners who already have a Level 4 Higher Education award or who have completed the Level 4 modules in the Probation Preparation Certificate.
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I recently set up my own server for streaming live video over the Web. That was complicated and difficult, and although I found some useful resources on the Web, none of them were complete and many of them were out of date. So here are my notes on what worked, both for my own reference and in the hope they may be useful to others.
These notes are current as of late January 2018. Pay attention to the date on these notes or any other information sources about this topic, because the relevant technologies change over time and there's a lot of outdated information out there.


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Journalists and info centers believe the number of those killed by right-wing extremists is double the official figure. After the shocking mistakes of the NSU murder investigations, old cases are now being re-examined.
Frank Jansen has been writing about neo-Nazis and the victims of right-wing violence since the 1990s. A reporter with Berlin's "Tagesspiegel" newspaper, he is also familiar with the kind of milieus where racism and xenophobia thrive: in political parties like the German Nationalist Democratic Party (NPD), or amkong right-wing rock concerts and social groups.
Jansen has covered the trials of countless people who have beaten up or murdered others on account of their skin color or ethnic origin. Over and over again, he has listened to them expound their misanthropic ideology. In the course of his work, he started to suspect that his assessment of the extent of right-wing extremist terrorism was very different to that of the German state.
Jansen's suspicions were confirmed when he looked up the official statistics on deaths resulting from right-wing violence. The figures published by German authorities seemed far too low. He and some colleagues set about comparing them with their own findings, and in September 2000 they published their first conclusions: a total of 93 people had been killed in right-wing attacks since German unification in 1990. This was almost double the official number: government statistics had recorded only 48 such murders.
Missing from the list
The official list had even omitted the case of the Kay Diesner, a self-confessed neo-Nazi who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a policeman. Frank Jansen was an observer at the trial in 1997, where Diesner described himself as a "political soldier."
The court in Lübeck had stated that Diesner had a xenophonic mindset, said Jansen, addressing a conference at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Berlin on Friday (30.08.13) to discuss the criminological collection of data on right-wing crime. "Nonetheless," he said, "until 2000, this case was not officially recognized as a right-wing homicide."
The exposure of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) in November 2011 shook up the authorities and forced them to pay far closer attention to this kind of crime. The terrorist group is believed to have killed nine immigrants and a policewoman over a period of several years. In all that time, police investigations remained focused on finding a link to organized crime, or even to the victims' families. Racism was more or less ruled out as a motive.
A federal police officer told the conference in Berlin that this shocking misjudgement has resulted in some 4,000 cases being re-examined to see whether the crimes may have been motivated by right-wing extremism.
Fiddling the numbers
Extremists use music and concerts by right-wing bands to attract young people and spread their message
There are now 152 names on Frank Jansen's list. It was last updated in March, Jansen said, in view of the NSU trial in Munich. The figure of 152 is still more than double the official number, which now cites 63 deaths as a result of right-wing violence. "And I can't help pointing out that around 20 of these were added retrospectively, because of our list," Jansen commented.
Holger Poppenhäger is the justice minister in Thuringia, the state where the alleged NSU murderers were based. He describes the disparity in the figures as "the discrepancy between a sense of justice and the constitutional state." According the Poppenhäger, the state is essentially rigging the statistics to play down the problem of right-wing extremism.
No consistent definition
However, Justice Ministry statistics expert Bert Götting points out that there is no consistent definition of right-wing extremism, used in the same way by police, the prosecution service, the judiciary and centers that offer victims advice. He believes that this, and not insensitivity to extremism, is causing the problem.
"What is right-wing extremist?" Götting asked, rhetorically. "What is xenophobic? What is anti-Semitic?" If it's not crystal clear, he suggests, how does one decide whether or not this is the right label? He adds that it often comes down to a personal assessment by whoever is dealing with the case; and unfortunately, there are no legal regulations governing the compilation of such statistical data at the federal level.
The many systemic failures that allowed the NSU to go undetected for so long have also been highlighted by the investigation committee. On Monday (02.09.2013), there will be a special parliamentary session to discuss its comprehensive report, which contains recommendations as to how to recognize right-wing extremism in order to better combat it.
Media also at fault
One key finding in the report is that the mentality in the police and intelligence services absolutely has to change. Prejudice and cliché in attitudes to immigrants have become entrenched over decades, the report warned. This may be another reason why official figures for the victims of right-wing violence are so much lower than those recorded by journalists and information centers.
In the case of the NSU murders, though, the media could also be at fault. It failed to see that racism could be the missing link between the murders of nine people with an immigrant heritage. This was a possibility that even reporter Jansen overlooked - a fact that, looking back, he simply can't explain.
The parliamentary inquiry into the botched NSU investigation has brought shocking details to light. Germany must reform its domestic spy agency and confront everyday racism, says DW's Marcel Fürstenau. (22.08.2013)
In its final report, a parliamentary committee investigating the mishandled NSU neo-Nazi terror investigations suggested 47 reforms for police, public prosecutors, and intelligence agencies. (23.08.2013)
In a joint operation, police in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands have searched the apartments of suspected neo-Nazi terrorists. The case bears similarities to the operations of Germany's NSU terror cell. (18.07.2013)


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Employers and employees equally dislike the dispensing of discipline, also referred to as adverse actions. When discipline happens, a variety of employee reactions are possible. Some employees accept discipline as a constructive experience and opportunity for change. Others react to discipline with anger, resentment, threats, and in the worst cases, violence of the worst kind.
Discipline isn't going away, no matter what kind of reaction employees have to it. Some organizations make it the last resort, but nevertheless, helping employees respond to discipline in a constructive way is a worthy, possibly life-saving endeavor.
Without a doubt, EAPs are in the best position to help employees gain the most from a disciplinary experience, both in heeding its message and gaining the most personal growth from the crisis it represents. Whether it's discovering an unresolved personal problem that contributes to problematic behavior, or reframing discipline as an opportunity for a better future going forward, managing an employee's reaction to discipline remains somewhat unexplored territory for stakeholders.
The most rudimentary steps have been recommended by some insurance companies to prevent violence following disciplinary actions. However, these ultimate payors of enormous sums resulting from violent reactions to discipline have not used EAP processes to their fullest advantage.
This is another argument for EAPs being an essential part of any organization's risk management strategy, not just a service tucked into a benefits package. The excitement lies in advocating for this increasing role for EAPs in work organizations to save lives and money. Is this the shortest distance between two points? Is an all out assault on the goal of incorporating EAPs in risk management strategies to help allay the financial risk of major insurers easier hanging fruit for us? Is it a faster walk to what we all want than searching for next rung on the "EAP ladder of acceptance" using long-term strategies like funding more research to prove our worthiness? I think free markets and market forces have faster solutions for EAPs. Practiticioners must take the lead in the field, not academics. What do you think? (Just thinking outloud here folks.)
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Debuggers are included in Che for:
Java debugger is deployed with the workspace agent, i.e. runs in the workspace. It can connect to local processes (those running in a workspace) or remote ones.
Breakpoints are set with a single click on a line number in the editor. You can set breakpoints before attaching a debugger:
In a Debug Dialog (Run > Edit Debug Configurations…), choose if you want to attach to a process in a local workspace or a remote machine. If localhost is chosen, a drop down menu will show all ports that are exposed in a container. You may either choose an existing port or provide your own.
Java Console Apps
l To debug console apps, pass debug arguments to JVM:
mvn clean install && java -jar -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=y ${current.project.path}/target/*.jar
Java Web Apps
To debug a web application, you need to start a web server in a debug mode. Debug arguments may vary depending on the web server in use. For example, to start Tomcat in a debug mode, run:
$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh jpda run
You can add debug commands to CMD widget to permanently save them with the workspace config.
GDB can be used to debug C/C++ and Node.js projects. In Docker 1.13+, a container requires privileged mode for gdb and gdbserver to start. In
che.env configure workspace container privileged mode and restart Codenvy :
Since Che 5.20, privileged mode for debugging in docker is NOT required anymore. Che on Kubernetes or Openshift supports GDB debugging by default, because
seccomp:unconfined is default. To enable GDB debugging in a docker based installation, the docker
securityOpt parameter must be set to
seccomp:unconfiend. This can be done by adding
To your configuration.
Debugging Local Binary
Compile your app with
-g argument, go to
Run > Edit Debug Configurations > GDB. Create a new configuration, check
Debug local binary box. By default, binary path is
${current.project.path/a.out}. When the debugger attaches, this macro is translated into an absolute path to a currently selected project.
a.out is the default binary name. If you have compiled binary with a different name, change it:
Set a breakpoint in code, go to
Run > Debug > YourDebugConfiguration. Once a debugger attaches, there's a notification in the top right corner. A debugger panel will open.
Remote Debugging with GDB server
Similar to Java debugger, one needs to start a process that a debugger will connect to. In case of GDB, this is
gdbserver which is installed in C/CPP runtime by default.
To run gdbserver, execute the following:
gdbserver :$port /path/to/binary/file where
$port is a random port that you will then connect to. It is important to provide an absolute path to a binary file if you run gdbserver in a command.
It is important to make sure that the binary has been compiled with
-g argument, i.e. with attached sources.
When gdbserver starts, it produces some output with info on process ID and port it's listening on. When a remote client connects to gdbserver, there will be a message with IP address of a remote connection.
To stop gdbserver, terminate the command in Consoles panel (if the server has been started as a command). If gdbserver has been started in a terminal, Ctrl+C does not kill it. Open another terminal into a machine, and run:
kill $(ps ax | grep "[g]dbserver" | awk {'print $1;}')
This commands grabs gdbserver PID and kills the process.
Connect to GDB server
Go to
Run > Edit Debug Configurations and enter host (localhost if gdbserver has been started in the same workspace environment), port and path to the binary file being debugged. By default, binary name is
a.out. If you have compiled your binary with
-o argument, you need to provide own custom binary name in a debug configuration.
Save your configuration, choose it at
Run > Debug > <YourDebugConfiguration> and attach the debugger, having previously set breakpoints in source files.
Connection Timeouts
Latency or poor connectivity may cause issues with remote debugging. A local GDB may fail to receive a timely response from the remote server. To fix it, set a default timeout for a local GDB. In the terminal, run:
echo "set remotetimeout 10" > ~/.gdbinit
You may set a bigger timeout, say, 20 seconds, if there are serious connectivity issues with a remote GDB server.
It is also possible to add this command as a Dockerfile instruction for a custom recipe:
FROM eclipse/cpp_gcc
RUN echo "set remotetimeout 10" > /home/user/.gdbinit
The PHP and Zend stacks come with the Zend Debugger module installed and configured. Debugging both PHP CLI scripts and PHP web apps is supported.
The debugging workflow involves the following steps:
- Launch the Zend Debugger Client to start listening for new debug sessions.
- Optionally set breakpoints in the PHP editor.
- Trigger a debug session from the CLI script or the web app.
- Use the Web IDE tooling to do the actual debugging.
Starting the Zend Debugger Client
Codenvy has the Zend Debugger Client integrated in the Web IDE. For launching the Zend Debugger Client:
- Go to
Run > Edit Debug Configurationsfrom the main menu.
- Create new
- Change any settings if necessary. The defaults are usually OK.
- Click the
The successful launch of the Zend Debugger Client is noted with a notification message. From this moment on the Zend Debugger Client listens for new debug sessions initiated by the Zend Debugger module of the PHP engine.
The Debug Configuration window allows the following configuration for the Zend Debugger Client:
Break at first line. Determines whether to break the execution at the very first line, hit by the PHP interpreter. Enabled by default. It is useful to easily find the app's entry point. You may want to switch this option off if you defined your own breakpoint and you are not interesting at breaking the execution at the first line.
Client host/IP. The host/IP on which to bind the server socket for listening for new debug sessions. The default host is
localhost. Changing it should be only necessary if the PHP engine is running in a different workspace machine or outside of the Codenvy workspace at all.
Debug port. The port on which to bind the server socket for listening for new debug sessions. The default port is
10137. It should be rarely necessary to change it.
Use SSL encryption. Whether to use SSL encryption for the debugging communication between the PHP engine and the Zend Debugger Client. Disabled by default.
Debugging PHP CLI Scripts
PHP CLI scripts can be debugged by setting the
QUERY_STRING environment variable when executing the PHP script. For example, to debug the
hello.php script you should execute the following command in the Terminal:
QUERY_STRING="start_debug=1&debug_host=localhost&debug_port=10137" php hello.php
Let's dissect the value of the
start_debug=1says the PHP engine that we want to trigger a debug session for this execution.
debug_host=localhostsays that the Zend Debugger Client runs on localhost (on the same host where the PHP engine runs).
debug_port=10137says that the Zend Debugger Client listens on port 10137.
For convenience the PHP and Zend stacks have the
debug php script command. It will run the PHP script, which is currently opened in the editor, with the required
QUERY_STRING preprended to the launch command. It is a handy way for easily debugging CLI script without the need to remember the exact
QUERY_STRING variable.
Debugging PHP Web Apps
Debugging web apps is done in a similar way. The value of the
QUERY_STRING used for debugging CLI scripts must be added as a query string to the URL of the debugged web page. This can be done either manually or by using a browser toolbar/extension that does it automatically. Such browser extensions also make it easier to debug POST requests.
Using Query Params in the URL
?start_debug=1&debug_host=localhost&debug_port=10137 query string must be added to the URL. For example, to debug the
http://localhost:32810/web-php-simple/index.php web page you should request the following URL in the browser:
Using the zDebug Extension for Chrome
The zDebug extension can be used for easier triggering of debug sessions from the Chrome browser. The Zend Debugger Extension is another extension that does the same job.
It is important to configure the Chrome extension properly before using it for debugging PHP apps running in a Codenvy workspace:
- Set
Debug Hostto
- Set
Debug Portto
- Set
Debug Local Copyto
Note that it is not the browser that opens the debug session to the Zend Debugger Client. This is done by the PHP engine that runs in the Codenvy workspace. The browser just tells the PHP engine to do so. So the above settings are for the PHP engine (the Zend Debugger module in particular). Thus the
Debug Host must be set to
localhost and not the public host of the docker container running the Codenvy workspace.
In the end the zDebug settings should look like this:
Now you are ready to trigger the debug session:
- Open the web page to debug.
- Click on the zDebug toolbar button.
- Click on
This Page.
Using the Zend Debugger Toolbar for Firefox
The Zend Debugger Toolbar for Firefox can be used for easier triggering of debug sessions from the Firefox browser.
After installing it, go to
Extra Stuff > Setttings to configure the toolbar:
- Disable the
Debug Local Copyoption.
- Switch the
Client/IDE Settingsto
Manual Settings.
- Set
Debug Portto
- Set
IP Addressto
In the end the toolbar settings should look like this:
Now you are ready to trigger the debug session:
- Open the web page to debug.
- Click on the
Debugtoolbar button.
Using Z-Ray
Z-Ray is a productivity tool, part of Zend Server, that is available in the Zend stack. Z-Ray requires no installation or configuraton. It is injected into the response coming from your PHP app and shown right in the browser you are using for development.
Among other features, it also has the capability to trigger a debug session:
- Click on the "bug" button.
- Click on
Debug current page.
That's all!
The Node.js ready-to-go stack comes with a Node.js debugger module installed and configured. The Dockerfile is located in the eclipse/che-dockerfiles repository.
The debugging workflow is:
- Launch the Node.js debugger client to start a debug session
- Create/Run command to generate a preview URL
- Click the preview URL to interact with the app
- Use the debugger panel to perform debug functions
You can set breakpoints in the editor at any time by clicking on the line number.
Starting the Node.js Debugger Client
Codenvy has the Node.js client integrated in the web IDE. to launch the debugger client:
- Go to
Run > Edit Debug Configurationsfrom the main menu
- Create a new
- Change any settings if necessary. The defaults are usually OK
- Click the
- The debugger will break at first line of code
Creating a Command to View the Preview URL
Codenvy's workspaces have machine(s) that are docker container(s). Docker container's exposed ports are given an ephemeral port. The preview url provides an easy way convert an internal port to it's external ephemeral port counter part.
- Add a command
Run > Edit Commands
- Give the command a name like "View Preview URL"
- Add a fictitious command
echofor required command line
- Provide the preview URL for your app such as
Using the Node.js Debugger
- Start the debugger
Run > debug > <config-name>
- Click the continue button until server is running
- Add breakpoints if needed
- Run the preview URL command (see above)
- Click the preview URL to open web app in another tab
- Go back to IDE tab
- Use the Web IDE tooling to do the actual debugging


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