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News Release 22-Feb-2021
Scientists launch a pre-emptive strike on deadly post-transplant infection
A potential new treatment to protect immunosuppressed patients from human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has been discovered by scientists at the University of Cambridge. Their study shows that certain epigenetic inhibitors expose and help to destroy dormant HCMV infections, which often reactivate to cause serious illness and death in these vulnerable groups. Subject to clinical trials, their proposed 'shock and kill' treatment strategy offers hope to transplant patients across the world.
Around 80% of the UK population is currently infected with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) and in developing countries this can be as high as 95%. The virus can remain dormant in our white blood cells for decades and, if it reactivates in a healthy individual, does not usually cause symptoms. But, for people who are immunocompromised, HCMV reactivation can be devastating.
HCMV reactivation has been identified in COVID-19 patients, though scientists do not yet understand the relationship between the two viruses. Reactivation or re-infection in transplant recipients can lead to severe illness, including organ rejection and, in some cases, death.
More than 200,000 kidney, lung and stem cell transplants take place globally every year and HCMV reactivation occurs in more than half of these cases. For reasons scientists don't yet fully understand, immunosuppressants appear to encourage the virus to reactivate as well as compromising the patient's ability to fight it. There remains no effective vaccine against HCMV and anti-viral therapies often prove ineffective or detrimental.
Now, a team from the University of Cambridge's School of Clinical Medicine has identified a drug type and treatment strategy that could dramatically reduce these devastating reactivation events. The study, published today in the journal PNAS, describes how scientists exposed HCMV-infected blood samples to a wide-range of 'epigenetic inhibitors' - drugs widely used in cancer treatment - hoping to prompt the latent virus to produce proteins or targetable antigen that are visible to our immune system.
They discovered that a particular group of these drugs, 'bromodomain inhibitors', successfully reactivated the virus by forcing it to convert its hidden genetic instructions into protein. This then enabled T-cells in the blood samples to target and kill these previously undetectable infected cells.
The study is the first to identify the involvement of human host bromodomain (BRD) proteins in the regulation of HCMV latency and reactivation but also proposes a novel 'shock and kill' treatment strategy to protect transplant patients.
Lead author Dr Ian Groves said: "We're looking to purge the patient's viral reservoir before they go into the operating theatre and before they start taking immunosuppressants, when they would become extremely vulnerable to the virus reactivating. In other words, we're proposing a pre-emptive strike.
"Prior to transplantation, many patients will have a relatively healthy immune system, so when the virus puts its head above the parapet, its cover is blown, and the immune system will see it and kill the cells it's been hiding in. Ideally, donors would also be treated to avoid re-infecting recipients."
There are similar drugs in Phase 1-3 clinical trials around the world for other intended uses, mainly in the treatment of cancers but also Type 2 diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.
Dr Groves said: "This would be the first type of treatment to reduce HCMV infection levels pre-transplant in order to lower the chances of virus reactivation during immune suppression after transplantation. Our findings could lead to thousands of lives being saved every year."
"In addition to the terrible human suffering this virus causes, treating its effects adds enormously to the high costs already incurred by transplantation. It's a really serious issue for health services in wealthy nations and a desperate one in developing countries. Our findings offer an opportunity to transform this horrible situation."
The study builds on over 25 years of extensive research into the molecular biology of HCMV and its immune evasion tactics (funded by the Medical Research Council). The researchers hope their study could eventually help doctors fight HCMV on other fronts, including in maternity and neo-natal care. HCMV affects at least 1% of all live births in developed countries, and many more in developing countries. These children can be left with brain damage and hearing loss, but congenital infection during pregnancy can also lead to miscarriage.
I. J. Groves et al., 'Bromodomain proteins regulate human cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation allowing epigenetic therapeutic intervention'. PNAS; February 2021: DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023025118
This research was supported by GlaxoSmithKline and the Medical Research Council.
Media contact: Tom Almeroth-Williams, Communications Manager (Research), University of Cambridge: [email protected] / tel: +44 (0) 07540 139 444
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Big Ten men's basketball power rankings, second edition
Aside from a clear cut favorite, there's been little separation between the majority of the conference.
By Mac Stone@MacStone00 Nov 30, 2021, 1:55pm CST
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We're now about six or seven games into the 2021-22 season, depending on which team you look at. Despite the fact that doing power rankings at this point is like throwing darts at a moving dartboard upside down and backwards while blindfolded, we've done our best to compile a complete order. Here's our second edition of the Big Ten men's basketball power rankings.
1. No. 2 Purdue Boilermakers
Record: 6-0 (0-0 B1G)
Next Game: vs. Florida State
This is about the only spot that can be guaranteed at this point. Through six games, the Purdue Boilermakers have not only looked like the best team in the Big Ten, but a top three team in the country. The one-two scoring punch of 7-foot-4 Zach Edey and star guard Jaden Ivey has every college basketball fan licking their chops. The Boilermakers have wins over both North Carolina and Villanova, and against their other four opponents, they've won by an average of almost 39 points per game. It's clear they'll be the favorite to win the Big Ten come conference play, and they could even be a favorite to win the NCAA title come March Madness.
2. No. 22 Michigan State Spartans
Next Game: vs. Louisville
This number two spot could have gone to multiple teams. While this may be a controversial choice, Michigan State's only two losses have come against top 10 teams in Kansas and Baylor. On top of that, the Spartans have two quality wins over Loyola-Chicago and a ranked UConn team. They've also got a 21-point victory over a decent Butler team. MSU is a well-rounded squad, with three players averaging nine points or more. Additionally, the Spartans are a great defensive team, as, according to KenPom, they rank second in the country in adjusted defensive efficiency.
3. No. 23 Wisconsin Badgers
Next Game: @ Georgia Tech
Oh man, did we underestimate the Badgers or what? Coming into the season, we had them placed at No. 11 in our first edition of power rankings. After a loss to Providence, it looked like Bucky and Co. were reaffirming that decision. That was before Wisconsin took down Houston, the team ranked fifth in KenPom's rankings, and a previously undefeated St. Mary's team. They also have a solid win against Texas A&M. Collectively, these three wins are why the Badgers have now surprisingly snuck into this week's AP Top 25. Whether they can keep it going as they wrap up non-conference play is still up for debate, though.
4. Iowa Hawkeyes
Next Game: @ No. 2 Purdue
Much like Wisconsin, Iowa is a team that was underestimated a bit coming into the year. After losing Luka Garza to the NBA, it wasn't super clear as to who was going to replace him for the Hawkeyes. Seven games into the 2021-22 season, it's now clear that Keegan Murray is the answer. The sophomore forward is averaging 25.7 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. What makes it even more impressive is that he's doing all this while averaging just 24.5 minutes per game. Prior to their victory over Virginia last night, the Hawkeyes' strength of schedule was certainly a question mark, and how they would perform against real competition was unknown. Having now beaten a top ACC opponent, it's evident that Iowa will be a team to look out for when Big Ten play arrives.
5. No. 24 Michigan Wolverines
Next Game: @ North Carolina
This may be another controversial ranking, and that's okay. The Wolverines come in at fifth in these rankings due in large part to their loss to Arizona. Their loss at home to Seton Hall was concerning, sure, but at least a two-point defeat like that could be played off as a one-game fluke. Against the Wildcats, however, Michigan was outplayed the entire game and ending up losing by 18 points. On top of that, the Juwan Howard's team struggled with Tarleton State in its next game and only managed to win by 11. While it still ranks top 12 in both offensive adjusted efficiency and defensive adjusted efficiency, Michigan has some issues it needs to patch up before conference play rolls around.
6. Ohio State Buckeyes
Next Game: vs. No. 1 Duke
Much like Michigan, Ohio State simply hasn't played up to its preseason expectations so far this year. The Buckeyes came into the season with a top 25 ranking, but quickly fell out of the poll due to a loss at Xavier. They followed that loss up with a three-point neutral site win over Seton Hall, only to drop their next game to Florida by three points days later. The Buckeyes' inconsistencies have been evident, but they've been able to avoid any major upsets and take care of business against far inferior opponents. OSU will have a huge opportunity to climb up the rankings when they take on the No. 1 Duke Blue Devils in Columbus tonight.
7. Indiana Hoosiers
Next Game: @ Syracuse
Indiana has done just about what everyone expected them to do early on. The Hoosiers have beaten every single one of their opponents thus far, with their closest win being a two-point victory over St. John's. With that being said, they haven't looked extremely convincing at any point, either. Their game against a 3-3 Syracuse team tonight likely also won't be very telling, so we may need to wait until conference play to make any concrete judgements on Indiana. Regardless, any team with a player like Trayce Jackson-Davis should be in a pretty good spot, right?
8. Illinois Fighting Illini
Next Game: vs. Rutgers
We knew the departure of Ayo Dosunmu and Adam Miller would hurt Illinois, but did we think it would hurt them this much? The Illini came into this season ranked in the top 10, but have now tumbled out of the top 25 entirely because of back-to-back losses to Marquette and Cincinnati, the latter of which was a 20-point defeat. Illinois still ranks in the top 30 for both adjusted offensive and adjusted defensive efficiency, according to KenPom, but the Illini turn the ball over a ton. After narrowly escaping a massive upset at the hands of UT Rio Grande Valley, they beat Notre Dame by 10 points last night. Maybe things are beginning to get back to normal in Champaign, whatever normal is.
9. Northwestern Wildcats
Next Game: @ Wake Forest
Is this too high for Northwestern? Maybe, maybe not. As of now, it's tough to say, but they certainly aren't a bottom three team in the conference. The Wildcats have been able to take care of business against inferior opponents thus far, something we haven't really seen these past few seasons. While their loss at the hands of Providence wasn't as close as the score line suggests, the effort they had in those last few minutes to claw back to within five was a pleasant sight, as well. Ultimately, Northwestern's next two games against both Wake Forest and Maryland will be very telling of just how the 'Cats will fit into the Big Ten landscape this year. As of now, they've avoided any big upsets, and that's enough to land them here.
10. Maryland Terrapins
Next Game: vs. Virginia Tech
Here's the deal: Maryland hasn't beaten any good this season. Four of the Terps' five wins have come against teams ranked 100th or below by KemPom, with the only outlier being the Terps' 86-80 win over Richmond. While Northwestern hasn't beaten anyone good either, the 'Cats have at least been able to take care of business against inferior opponents. The Terrapins have not, as shown by their home loss to George Mason. They also lost by eight this past Saturday to Louisville, though the Cardinals were a far more quality opponent. Overall, there are just too many question marks surrounding this Maryland team to rank them any higher.
11. Minnesota Golden Gophers
Next Game: @ Pittsburgh
Sure, Minnesota is undefeated, but have you looked at the teams they've played? Is a four point victory over Western Kentucky impressive? What about needing double overtime to defeat Princeton or scoring a mere 55 points on Jacksonville? The Golden Gophers are undefeated, but they've still struggled against some awful teams. They've got a chance to prove themselves with a stretch against Mississippi State, Michigan State and Michigan coming up, but for now, the Gophers will remain near the basement of the power rankings.
12. Penn State Nittany Lions
Next Game: vs. Miami (FL)
Poor, poor Penn State. Not only have they fallen off a bit in football, but they're struggling in basketball as well. While the Nittany Lions' most recent loss at the hands of LSU was a tight game throughout, their 25-point loss at the hands of UMass on Nov. 15 is keeping them in the bottom three for the time being, as their 1-5 Oregon State team doesn't truly impress anybody.
13. Nebraska Cornhuskers
Next Game: @ N.C. State
Would you look at that? The Cornhuskers are on a four-game win streak! It's impressive, to say the least, but their loss to Western Illinois to begin the season still looms large. The teams they've played during said four-game streak have an average KenPom ranking of 277, so that's something to keep in mind, as well. You could make an argument that UNL and Penn State should be flipped in these rankings, but PSU's ability to force overtime against LSU is what keeps them above the Huskers.
14. Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Next Game: vs. Clemson
Perhaps the biggest surprise this entire season has been the performance of Rutgers, and not in a good way. Not only did they lose at home by two points to Lafayette, but they managed to choke away a 17-point lead to UMass and fall 85-83. At one point, the Minutemen had a mere 3.8 percent win probability, as Rutgers led 72-57 with about eight minutes to go. Still, they managed to fight back and upset the Scarlet Knights. Now, Rutgers will try to bounce back against Clemson and climb up from the bottom spot in the conference. | {
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For skincare, I've already mentioned my love for the Oskia Restoration Oil which works perfectly alongside my current skincare regime for an extra boost of hydration and radiance. It's definitely a pricier product, but I love it so much and little goes a really long way. I can see this little bottle lasting ages! I apply a little before bed in between my toner and night cream, and let it sink in. My skin drinks up the oil really quickly because it's light and not at all greasy, making it the perfect combination for me.
Makeup wise, there have been both new and old discoveries. Firstly, you might have read my review of the new Tanya Burr Cosmetics Neutral Ambiance Collection which I am totally smitten with. I'm actually going to feature both of the products that I've tried in this months favourites because I've been using them non-stop since they were delivered! The eyeshadow quad in My Paradise is adorable, especially if you love rose gold – the shades are pigmented and very pretty for summer. I also love the Tanya's new lipstick in Bear Hug, the perfect addition to my neutral lipstick collection, and I've been wearing that every day since I got it too. I'll link my full review and swatches of the collection here.
Another new purchase has been the P.S… Pure Glow Kit. For starters, the packaging is marble. That sort of won me over in a heartbeat. Then the shades themselves vary from icy white to a beautiful gilded gold. It's a lighter version of the Bronze & Glow Kit I reviewed last month, and it's perfect for light to medium skin tones. The formula is velvety and the swatches are incredibly pigmented and beautiful, and I know I'll be using this palette a lot this year!
An old rediscovery is the Charlotte Tilbury Legendary Lashes Mascara which I've repurchased after remembering how much I loved it last year. It creates perfect evening lashes with lots of volume and length, so it's definitely a great all round mascara. It is a little bit more of a pain to take off, but that means that it wears really well without flaking throughout the day!
I've been reading several beauty and lifestyle content recently, and one of my favourite things to read is the Blogosphere Magazine which I finally subscribed to last month. I think it's the perfect read for bloggers and anyone interested in reading them. It's easy to read, with gorgeous images and interesting interviews and personal stories from other bloggers. I think it's well worth subscribing to, and I'm so excited for the next issue that's coming out!
A couple of fashion favourites – these ASOS pointed flats are super gorgeous and I've loved wearing them this past month! They do rub the back of my ankle so I did have to purchase some soft sole stickers to make them more comfortable to wear, but they were just too beautiful to send back. They've actually sold out but I've linked another beautiful pair which are the most similar style I could find. I've also been loving my Weekend Vibes Sweatshirt on colder drizzly days. It's such a cosy, easy-to-wear style that was a total steal.
Of course, a huge favourite (and stress) of this month, and the next few months, is wedding planning. My beautiful ring has been a huge favourite – it's very special and sometimes I find myself just staring at the sparkles. In case any of you were wondering, it's this one from Goldsmiths. They were very helpful with the resizing issues and I'm very grateful for such a stunning piece from them. I was super excited to share the news with you all earlier this month, and now that the cat is out of the bag, I can think about writing a couple of wedding planning/beauty related posts. Let me know if you have any suggestions!
What have you been loving throughout May?
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Twins With Twins Are Having More Twins
"Nobody was expecting or even thinking any of this could be a possibility."
ByTaylor Pittman
09/16/2015 11:47am EDT
After facing fertility issues, twin sisters Kerri Bunker and Kelli Wall have learned they're both expecting twins -- for the second time.
According to KSL, the identical twins are each expecting their second set of twins in March. After learning in July that her sister was pregnant with twins, Bunker decided to take a pregnancy test.
"I don't even know what got into me, but I decided at that moment that I should take a pregnancy test," she told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. "Why would I possibly think I was pregnant? I knew I couldn't get pregnant on my own."
Bunker's doubt stemmed from the fertility issues she has faced over the years. According to KSL, she had been told it was unlikely she would become pregnant without medical assistance. When the test came back positive, Bunker said she was "literally stunned." Two weeks later, she learned she was having twins.
Courtesy: Kerri Bunker
Both Bunker and Wall became pregnant with their first set of twins after receiving in vitro fertilization treatments. Bunker's twins, Hallie and Kole, will turn 4 in just a few days, and Wall's twins, Madison and McKell, will turn 5 in October. Bunker also has a 2-year-old named Sadie. While she said she didn't receive fertility treatments before becoming pregnant with Sadie, Bunker told HuffPost that her doctor credits that pregnancy to her high hormone levels while she was freezing her embryos.
Bunker also explained her twin sister is expecting her second set of twins after receiving an in vitro fertilization treatment in June. Despite being told her chances of becoming pregnant on her own were slim, Bunker is expecting her twins without medical assistance.
"It's just shocking because everyone that's close to us knows the fertility issues that we've dealt with, both my twin sister and I," Bunker told HuffPost. "Nobody was expecting or even thinking any of this could be a possibility."
She also wants to let other women facing fertility issues know to "not give up."
"I hope those people that are dealing with fertility [issues] do not give up because miracles happen in a variety of ways every day of our life," she said. "And I feel like in vitro alone is a miracle and has provided a way for people like us to have kids."
The twin sisters are both due in March, exactly two weeks apart. They also married best friends and currently teach at the same school. Together, Bunker said they are "ready for complete chaos" as they prepare to add to the family. Luckily, there will be enough bundles of joy to go around.
"We tease that there will be enough babies for everyone to have one to hold," Bunker told HuffPost. "So we won't be fighting over one baby. There will be enough babies to pass around."
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Q: create new certificate using private key I am trying to use a certificate from cert store to sign SAML request. Here what I am trying to do. (cert is the certificate from cert store)
RSACryptoServiceProvider tempRsaProvider = cert.PrivateKey as RSACryptoServiceProvider;
RSACryptoServiceProvider rsaProvider = new RSACryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] privateKeyBlob = tempRsaProvider.ExportCspBlob(true);
rsaProvider.ImportCspBlob(privateKeyBlob);
SAMLMessageSignature.Generate(authnRequest, rsaProvider, cert, null, "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256", "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256");
This errors out when I try to Export in line tempRsaProvider.ExportCspBlob(true). The exportable property of the certificate is false (i.e., the certificate was imported without enabling exportable flag).
This works when I delete and import the same certificate by enabling exportable feature.
Here is my Question:
Is there a way to use the existing certificate's private key to generate a RSACryptoServiceProvider object (by creating a new temp certificate?) to be used in signing when the certificate was initially installed as not exportable?
I haven't found any meaningful information yet to do it through code. Any references/suggestions will help a lot. Thanks in advance.
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De Waterloosesteenweg (Frans: chaussée de Waterloo) is een 12,4 kilometer lange verkeersader in Brussel en Sint-Genesius-Rode. De invalsweg vormt het begin van de N5, die vanaf Waterloo de naam Chaussée de Bruxelles krijgt, en verderop Chaussée de Charleroi.
De steenweg begint aan de Hallepoort in Sint-Gillis en loopt verder in zuidoostelijke richting naar Elsene en Ukkel. Vanaf de Bascule gaat de weg zuidwaarts langs het Ter Kamerenbos en het Zoniënwoud, en loopt door Sint-Genesius-Rode tot aan de grens met Waterloo in Wallonië, waar het de Chaussée de Bruxelles wordt.
De huisnummering langs de Waterloosesteenweg is doorlopend genummerd, ondanks het overschrijden van gemeente- en gewestgrenzen. De officiële Nederlandse naam wordt daarentegen anders gespeld langsheen het traject: Waterloose Steenweg in Elsene, Waterlose Steenweg in Ukkel, Waterloosesteenweg in Brussel-stad en Sint-Genesius-Rode, en beide in Sint-Gillis. De Franse naam is overal Chaussée de Waterloo.
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Het traject van de Waterloosesteenweg is eeuwenoud. De vele Waalse arbeiders die langs de steenweg in de hoofdstad kwamen werken, bezorgden hem de bijnaam chaussée des Wallons of ''Waelsche Weg
In de avond van 3 september 1944 verschenen tanks van de Britse Guards Pantserdivisie na een geforceerde opmars op de Waterloosesteenweg. Ze ontmoetten nauwelijks tegenstand en bevrijdden Brussel diezelfde dag nog.
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Due to a proposal of BSOD2600 I try to compile a HowTo for Using externally updated rrd files. Cacti itself provides a very flexible and fast data gatherer, but situations may occur, where this is not what you want. Assuming, that there already is some rrd file filled by other means, question arises how to use this with cacti's flexible rrdtool front-end administration facilities.
Sometimes people call this feature Importing external rrds to cacti. But what I'm going to explain is not an automated function. It will require some manual interaction.
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respectively. While this is not that a meaningful name, it should show you the principles when dealing with multi-ds rrds. Alongside with this, it is good to know the ds[...].type, ds[...].min and ds[...].max for correct definition of the data sources. In this case, all data sources are of type GAUGE. This will not affect data gathering nor graphing, but to me it seems to be advantageous to create the correct data sources.
All other paramaters (step, heartbeat, xff, rra[..].rows) are assumed to be standard settings.
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While the first goal is not needed in this context, the second one is crucial.
If you want to associate this to a certain host, you may use |host_description| as a placeholder as usual. As this external.rrd file is updated externally, you must set the Data Input Method to None.
You must use the existing data source name of the rrd as retrieved in Chapter I. In this example, use external_ds1.
Fill in the ds[...].min value from rrdtool info above. In this case, use 0. This is not really needed, but for sake of consistency I recommend this.
Fill in the ds[...].max value from rrdtool info above. In this case, use 500. This is not really needed, but for sake of consistency I recommend this.
Fill in the ds[...].type value from rrdtool info above. In this case, use GAUGE. This is not really needed, but for sake of consistency I recommend this.
Fill in the ds[...].minimal_heartbeat value from rrdtool info above. In this case, use 600. This is not really needed, but for sake of consistency I recommend this.
The first approach does not need any additional changes to the Devices list.
Normally, you would create the Data Sources and Graphs automagically using Create Graphs for this Host. But using this approach, cacti would enumerate and generate the needed rrd file(s) on its own. That's not wanted now.
Our task is: make cacti generate all Data Sources stuff but accept our external.rrd file name. This is accomplished by adding the Data Sources manually from the Data Sources list. In this case, there's no difference whether you're going to use an already existing host or the kind of host we generated in the previous chapter.
Now we're nearly done! The last Step now!
It is known, that rrd files are architecture-dependant. So, if you're updating external rrd files and graphing them via cacti, there's a need to make cacti access these rrd files, e.g. by nfs. This will not succeed when mixing architectures.
Attention: the TCP port 13900 isn't officially registered for rrdsrv. You can use any unused port in your services file, but the server and the client system must use the same port, of course.
If all was setup correctly, you can access the server with perl sockets, tools like netcat, or in a quick interactive test by using 'telnet localhost rrdsrv'.
NOTE: that there is no authentication with this feature! Do not setup such a port unless you are sure what you are doing.
as /etc/xinetd.d/rrdsrv. Then xinetd is updated to start rrdsrv.
user should be set to the user defined in include/config.php.
server_args should be set to cacti's rra directory.
assuming, that the rrd file "external.rrd" used in this howto is located in the ./rra directory.
into crontab to perform regular updates.
This handling has the great disadvantage, that you must configure the rrd file name to each single updating script. This rrd file name on the remote system must match the one on cacti's host. There's a good chance to mess things up when used for lots of rrds. But for some few files this may be appropriate.
data source names ends with a `-` and cacti shows a error when i try create data template using those names.
Hmm, I'm not sure when it comes to "-" in ds names. Perhaps this screws everything up. All I can say now, is that the graph is definitively broken. But let's please start at your Data Template (a screenshot would do).
must be 1 to 19 characters long in the characters [a-zA-Z0-9_].
This states, that a "-" sign is not allowed (although in your case, the rrd files accepted this char). So I'm afraid: the solution requires to change the ds names (this is supported by "rrdtool tune ..."). It will require to change your data sampling script(s) as well.
If you know perl could you give me a help ? | {
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Yisrayl Hawkins Breaks Down History of the Bible and Reveals Secrets Scholars Have Longed to Know In
Pastor at The House of Yahweh exposes complete history of the bible including doctored text, mysterious missing years, book burnings, persecution and much more.
Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer at The House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas, has released a new publication with riveting evidence that the bible has many more secrets than most ever realize. Yisrayl begins his writing explaining the number of people who are missing out on the vast blessings offered in the bible when one listens to and heeds the instructions therein. He pleads with the reader to take note of every word in the article, as he promises to reveal great biblical secrets.
"Those who worship Gods are missing out on a lot of blessings, even Eternal Life, I want to show them the opportunity they can have," Yisrayl says.
Yisrayl explains how the popular King James Version has vast misinterpretations, also intentional missing and
wrong information, in order to deceive the masses. He explains continually in his writings the history of how this took place and the results that followed. He says one of the greatest achievements from The House of Yahweh in this time period is bringing back The Book of Yahweh, which is the closest to the original manuscripts found and from which all renditions were written.
"The House of Yahweh has worked long and hard to put all of the original Names back in The Book of Yahweh, correct terribly mistranslated Scriptures, and put all the reference points in there, so anyone can cross-reference the information and prove it true," Yisrayl added.
Yisrayl covers a lot of biblical history in the 12-page post that ranges from the Catholic Church to the Crusades and everything in between. He promises everyone, from the biblical scholar to the layperson, will be in awe of this information.
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In an experiment participants opted to kill one person if it meant saving the lives of five others.
Researchers at the Michigan State University, USA, put participants in a 3D setting and stationed each participant at a railroad switch where two sets of tracks veered off.
Up ahead and to their right, five people - shown through realistic, digital characters - hiked along tracks and a runaway boxcar sped toward them. They couldn't move out of its tracks due to a steep ravine. On the opposite side, a single person hiked along in the same setting.
Participants were given the choice to either do nothing or pull the joystick that would reroute the boxcar to the tracks occupied by the single hiker.
About 90 per cent of the subjects pulled a switch to reroute the boxcar, suggesting that people are willing to violate a moral rule if it means minimizing harm.
"What we found is that the rule of 'Thou shalt not kill' can be overcome by considerations of the greater good," said Carlos David Navarrete, lead researcher on the project.
"I think humans have an aversion to harming others that needs to be overridden by something... by rational thinking we can sometimes override it - by thinking about the people we will save, for example," he said.
The results of the study were published in the research journal Emotion. | {
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Q: How to get a notification in Android when a built-in app finishes loading I am trying to create a benchmarking app that launches a few apps and measures the load time. Starting a timer and launching an app (via intents) is the easy part. And, if I have source to the child app, I can either have it record the time and pass that back, or I can just have it kill itself completely at some point. But, how do I know when stock apps have finished loading? Or, how can I make them close automatically so that mine is brought to the foreground again to stop the timer? I know the source for stock apps is public, but I don't think it's practical for me to try to modify it. Or is it? I can't tie my benchmarking app to a specific version of Android.
Specifically, I'm interested in measuring load times for the browser, youtube, and mail.
I've looked at using the ActivityManager to get info about running apps, but I think in that case I would have to poll in the background, and I've read that ActivityManager info is not necessarily always up-to-date, anyway.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
A: I decided to just modify the source and build a version of my app for each version of Android/processor. I won't have to target each device specifically, just processor families (Atom/armV7/etc.)
Getting and compiling Android source is easy
Building a custom version of a stock AOSP app is also not that bad
From there, it's just a matter of using intents to invoke activities and pass information.
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Your best friend in negotiation can be your opponent—provided you put your report where your mouth is. Too often parties withhold evidence which would support their position. Sure, your opponent's initial reaction may be to denigrate your evidence. But they may not have anything to refute it. It might even be too late for them to try to work up something.
So why did it take so long to get to this point? Because you have been hiding the ball. If you expect large sums for a life pension or for treatment the carrier had denied plus penalties plus fees, be prepared to show why the employer was wrong. You can't expect opposing counsel to advise their client to change their case evaluation if you've been keeping secret the reports that crush their position. Of course, timing is important. There are many reasons why you might not want to show your hand too early. But by the time you are at the mediation table, you must be prepared to put your cards on the table.
Perhaps you have a sub rosa video or some other smoking gun the other side doesn't know about. Your mediation brief can be confidential– for the mediator's eyes only. When you are in caucus (a private meeting with the mediator,) you can discuss secret information with the mediator. If you don't want it disclosed to the other side, it goes no further. But putting the mediator in the picture allows her to frame the issues in the case to maximize the potential for settlement.
Negotiations succeed when parties are in the same ballpark. If you don't communicate what your ballpark is, your opponent will assume that their evaluation is the correct one. It's hard to play in the same game when one of you is at Dodger Stadium in L.A. and the other is at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. To bring everyone to the same field, you have to communicate.
America Runs On . . .
Courtrooms– even WCAB courtrooms– run on evidence. It's your job to make sure you have evidence to support your view of the case.
The advice to communicate your evidence so your opponent can help you "sell" your position assumes you've done everything necessary to gather that evidence. That could mean obtaining a narrative medical or vocational report or ordering a Medicare Set-Aside allocation report.
Mediations are efficient and successful when everyone comes prepared with information to support their demand or offer. | {
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Priyanka Singh did her Mass Communication course from Amity University, Noida. After that she did a Yoga course from Bombay. After that she went on to do a Personal Training course from YWCA, UK. She has been Teaching Yoga since 2009.
"I did a course in Mass Communication from Amity, Noida. After that went on to do a Yoga course from Bombay, then did a personal training course from UK. Since then I have been working as a Personal Trainer & Yoga Instructor" | {
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We have grown to be the largest specialist contractors in the construction industry. We work with our clients to provide the best solution for each of their projects to develop long lasting, trusting relationships. The projects we work on our niche and exciting. While we are a large industry leading business our head office is close knit - modern and harnesses a collaborative environment.
Working here you will build a network in a leading company across APAC, you will be welcomed into the head office with in-house training & support. This is an opportunity to develop your current skillset and progress your career. Salary will be between $50-60,000 per annum pending experience. We offer a flexible working environment. | {
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The Canton Police Department currently employs a fleet of four Cannondale mountain bikes. The bikes are used primarily during the spring, summer and fall. They provide officers with an effective community policing tool by allowing for personal interaction between citizens and officers not possible in the cruiser. The bikes also allow officers to access off-road areas and crowded downtown hot spots, safer and more efficiently than on foot or in a cruiser. Officers assigned to the Mountain Bike Unit also ride at Gillette Stadium during Patriots home games and at numerous functions within town during the year. The department currently has one officer assigned to the Tactical Mountain Bike Unit attached to METROLEC. | {
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Paul S. Cederna is the Robert Oneal Professor of Plastic Surgery, Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. By combining his clinical training in general surgery, microsurgery, and plastic surgery and background in biomedical engineering, he is able to incorporate creative solutions to solve the most difficult clinical problems. He directs the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan, has authored over 160 scientific manuscripts, published 20 book chapters, presented his work over 550 times, and has given over 300 extramural presentations.
Dr. Cederna has received 65 national research awards. He has been the Chairman of the Plastic Surgery Research Council, President of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve, is on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and is currently President-Elect of the Plastic Surgery Foundation. | {
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Such were the feelings of Americans in 1886 about the relatively small group of Indians that caused so much death and destruction across the Southwestern United States. People either despised the Apaches or did not fully consider their well-documented acts of terror and embraced the legend.
Apaches once roamed an area encompassing a large section of the Southwest U.S. and a part of northern Mexico known as Apacheria. The Apaches, although agriculturalists in times of peace, were known for their aggressive behavior, raiding neighboring bands of Apaches when low on food or other supplies.
When the Spanish appeared in the region some 500 years ago, they captured, killed and brutalized the Indians, causing a violent reaction among the Apaches. This hostility was later transferred to the Mexicans as well as American settlers.
The Apaches expected no mercy and gave none. Geronimo, a member of the Bedonkohe band and later a leader of the chiricahuas, became the most famous Apache because of an incident which led the warrior/priest to seek a lifetime of revenge against the Mexicans. His urge to fight extended to the growing number of Americans moving into Apacheria.
In the summer of 1850 a contingent of Apaches went on a trading foray into Mexico. The group, headed by Mangus Coloradas, included Geronimo and the families of the warriors. They stopped at a town called Janus and set up camp outside of town.
Geronimo's ability to lead was recognized by his brothers-in-arms. He received a number of wounds over the years and survived them all. And with every bullet his confidence grew.
Geronimo and his small group, the most restless and bellicose, surrendered for the final time in Skeleton Canyon, near the border with Mexico, on September 4, 1886. The prisoners, only eighteen in number, along with twenty women and children, were then shipped to Florida on a special train.
Crowds gathered at every stop to see the captured Apaches, especially Geronimo. Those who were allowed to visit on the train, including reporters, eagerly sought souverneirs. Geronimo quickly became adept at modeling and selling every item he and his companions could offer. His new found love of capitalism remained with him the rest of his life.
When the train reached Pensacola on October 25, 1886, the women and children were sent on to Fort Marion at St. Augustine, Florida. There they joined other Indian P.O.W.s. Geronimo and sixteen Apaches who completed the trip, began serving their time at Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island in Pensacola Bay.
This was all made possible by some influential citizens in Pensacola (businessmen) pulling strings in Washington. The goal being to establish a tourist attraction. And they succeeded.
The trip across the bay and later, living along the water's edge, caused the Apaches to rethink some of their beliefs. They were religious and believed in many spirits. The Great Spirit, the Supreme Being, was named Essen. Its evil counterpart was called Che-din.
Apaches also believed that the spirits of bad Apaches resided in animals living in water. For this reason, they refused to eat fish or even pork, since hogs ate snakes that swam in water. They were really confused when they saw porpoises cavorting for the first time and huge alligators lying on the shore.
The prisoners went right to work setting up housekeeping in the casemates along the interior wall of the fort. They did their chores, such as maintenance and gardening, without hesitation or complaints.
The Apache leader would greet visitors and try to find a way to extract money from his fans. He would lament, through his interpreter, George Wratten, how poor he was.
Geronimo had his interpreter Wratten write letters to his wifes at St. Augustine, telling them and his children how much he wanted to be reunited with them. His wish became a reality when the U.S. Government moved the prisoners from Fort Marion in April of 1887 to a military base at Mount Vernon, Alabama. But 31 women and children of the 384 transferees were diverted to Fort Pickens to rejoin their husbands and fathers.
The fort was closed to visitors while the new additions were given time to become acclimated. Then in June a "GRAND INDIAN WAR DANCE" was held and hundreds of Pensacola residents attended. The dance lasted well into the night without incident. The fact is that a "medicine dance" had been substituted since a war dance tended to drive the Apaches into a frenzy. Violence would erupt and people would be killed.
During his stay at Fort Pickens, Geronimo and his men adopted American customs and dress in varying degrees. Geronimo wore pants, a shirt and a straw hat. His changes became more dramatic as he moved to other prison camps and traveled around the nation, cashing in on his status as a celebrity. It was not unusual to find him in a suit and his hair cut in a civilized way.
On May 13, 1888, Geronimo and the other prisoners were moved from Fort Pickens to Mount Vernon where they lived until October 2, 1894. Then a train took the combined POWs to their next stop at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.There are some real blemishes sneaking around in Windows 8 and Windows 10. One of these issues is mistake. Numerous clients who have moved up to Windows 8 or Windows 10, have confronted this issue in the early forms regularly where the web association would just drop and get back on haphazardly.During his last years at Fort Sill, Geronimo's fame grew as he made public appearances around the country, speaking and engaging in commerce. On February 17, 1909, Geronimo took his last ride on the ghost pony, ending a long, strange, eventful life.
Want to visit Fort Pickens?
The fort has a lot to offer vacationers and the cost is reasonable. Included are camping, fishing, bird watching, a museum, beautiful beaches, nature hikes, photography, and special events for children and adults. For info and contacts. | {
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Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall
By Andrea Thompson 2012-08-29T00:06:11Z
Tropical Storm Isaac at 10:25 a.m. EDT on Aug. 28, just before being declared a hurricane. Image taken by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.
Update 7:37 a.m. EDT Wed, Aug. 29: After stalling out over water near the coast after its first landfall, Isaac made its second landfall along the southeast coast of Louisiana just west of Port Fourchon around 2:15 a.m. CDT.
Hurricane Isaac has roared ashore just before 8 p.m. ET in Louisiana's Plaquemines parish.
The storm came ashore as a Category 1 hurricane along the coast of southeastern Louisiana as expected. It made official landfall over a small spit of land near the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Weather Channel has reported. The eye of the storm is back over water and Isaac will make a second landfall tonight.
Isaac's path was eerily similar to that of Hurricane Katrina, which hit seven years ago tomorrow (Aug. 29). Despite the similarities between the storms, there were also considerable differences, including Isaac's comparative weakness.
As it came ashore, Isaac had winds of 80 mph (130 kph). Isaac is expected to weaken as it moves further inland and is cut off from the warm Gulf waters that fuel its convection.
Isaac will continue to dump rain as it moves further inland – rainfalls between 7 and 14 inches (18 to 36 centimeters) are expected.
Isaac became a hurricane — the fourth of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season — less than a day before it made landfall. | {
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Apparently still enraged by last weekend's killing of 20-year-old Ada Ifeanyi by the police, some angry mob in Ajegunle area of Lagos did the unusual on Tuesday when they beat some soldiers to a pulp.
It was gathered that the soldiers while trying to prevent the mob who are mostly 'area boys' from beating a truck driver who had crushed their colleague to death.
The incident has reportedly thrown the area into a frenzy.
The area boy identified as Kola Mutiu popularly known as 'Black Jesus', was trying to collect money from a trailer driver before he was crushed to death in the process.
The soldiers tried to stop people from beating the trailer driver. When the area boys heard that 'Black Jesus' had died, they turned on the soldiers, as they destroyed their vehicle and also beat them severely. | {
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This drawing is in charcoal and ink drawing started as a landscape, and developed into a drawing that brought to mind the vision quests of Native American Indians. I'd read about these in the book 'Seeker of Visions' by John Fire. I love the intensity of charcoal, I also love that it is a natural material an it's immediacy of execution lends itself to the automatic drawing techniques.
The seasons of the moon are a huge influence on ceremonial timings, and the red in this image calls to mind the season of the blood moon. | {
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Not long ago I came across an article on the Internet, which was taken from a book called "Onward Christian Athletes" written by Tom Krattenmaker. The article was titled: "Going Long For Jesus" and was essentially about how pro football and basketball teams are hiring "Team Chaplains" who are Evangelicals, bringing to the locker rooms a potentially divisive brand of conservative Christianity, and how these Evangelicals often drive a wedge between players of a team: those who embrace the Christian right and those who are more moderate in their beliefs.
The article made me aware of how much the introduction of religion has permeated professional sports; how it could also be a divisive influence on a team and can actually create problems that affect team chemistry and team bonding. I'm sure it's helpful for those players who have strong Christian beliefs, such as Tim Tebow, but that extreme behavior can also turn off other players who have a more moderate approach to religion. Seems to me the answer is for team owners and coaches to endorse religious practices, but only outside the stadium. I would think that owners and coaches would want a separation of "church and sport" and not allow any religious practices of any kind within the premises of a stadium where the team is housed, especially since that stadium (not only in pro sports but college as well) is generally financed by public money. This, to me, is very similar to the issue of keeping religion out of our schools. But even a religious coach, if he's worth his salt, would realize the potential disruptive influence extreme religious behavior in the locker room can have on team chemistry. And on the won/lost column.
In the world of marketing, before a company will put a product on the market, they find out what their consumers are thinking and then shape their entire marketing program around that information. And athletic teams are no different. Before a season starts, coaches need to have feedback and know what their players are thinking. But very often, the players won't be honest with their coaches because they fear the consequences of their honesty. That's why an independent group facilitator is so important. And why team meetings are so important. A single player can have a devastating effect on the performance of an entire team if he or she is withholding; that is, keeping his or her feelings bottled up. This withholding process creates baggage that affects focus and performance. For example, a three-point shooter in basketball who normally hits 50% of his or her 3-point shots but in a particular game hits only 20%. And every shot missed represents a potential four or six point differential: the shot missed combined with a shot made by the opposing team. And it is only later that the coach finds out the player was having a problem with a "significant other." Or a financial problem. Or a family problem. Successful coaches understand the importance of ongoing team feedback throughout an entire season in order to help athletes with their personal problems.
When one of the NFL's top wide receivers drops a pass in a single game it could be written off as just a mental error. But when he drops two, a little light goes off. And when he drops three, you figure there's gotta be a reason. Some of the media pundits are saying that "his off-season celebrity has affected his performance" and there could be some truth to that. But more than likely there was something that took place in Cruz's personal life the night before the game that affected his focus. Something he bottled-up and didn't tell anyone about. Perhaps it had something to do with his infant daughter Kennedy or his long-time girlfriend, Elaina Watley. Whatever the reason, it's another example of how what takes place away from the football field affects what takes place on the football field. If in Cruz's next game against Tampa Bay he reverts back to his old reliable self, we'll know that he resolved whatever mental issue or issues he had that may have been hovering above him like a dark cloud.
When the Ohio Bobcats beat Penn State 24-14 this past Saturday, television pundits were making excuses for the Nittany Lions saying it was because of the "distractions." And, of course, they are right. But it happens in almost every game when any football team, basketball team or baseball team loses. Very often you'll find one or more players who dropped passes, caused turnovers, missed three point shots they usually make or go 0-5 at the plate. In almost all instances the same pundits give credit to and lavish praise on the winning team, focusing on how well they played, never even mentioning there could be "distractions" taking place among players on the losing teams. Distractions such as: Problems with a girlfriend, financial problems, problems with a coach. They can all negatively affect performance. That's why I believe sports teams, if they want to be successful, should conduct team meetings every week (without coaches present) allowing players to vent issues they may be carrying around. And when this venting takes place, it not only enhances feelings of self-worth of individual players (and thereby enhancing their performance) but also helps to bond the team. Sports psychologists are not allowed to conduct these types of meetings since they would be entering the domain of the clinical psychologist and could lose their license. That's why I advocate all sport psychologists be required to not only have a PhD but also a Masters degree in counseling. | {
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This section describes the Winsock 2 API architecture. Winsock applications are interfacing with 3 DLLs: WS2_32.DLL, WSOCK32.DLL and WINSOCK.DLL.
WS2_32.DLL - Providing Winsock 2 32-bit API and running on top of a collection of Winsock 2 SPIs (Service Provider Interfaces).
WSOCK32.DLL - Providing Winsock 1.1 32-bit API and running on top of the Winsock 2 API.
WINSOCK.DLL - Providing Winsock 1.1 16-bit API and running on top of the Winsock 2 API. | {
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Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2017: Must Watch (Day 2)!
Here's the list of movies we feel you shouldn't miss on Day 2 (Friday, 13th October) of the film festival:
PVR ICON (Infinity Mall)
Bad Lucky Goat (Screen 3, 12:20 pm)
Touted as a simply, sweet comedy this debut feature should be a delightful watch. Check out the quirky plot –
After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's pick-up truck, two bickering teenage siblings embark on a journey of reconciliation.
Quest (Screen 3, 5:30pm)
It seems like one of those documentaries from recent times that are making the boundary between fiction and real rather thin.
Plot – Filmed over the course of eight years, filmmaker Jonathan Olshefski chronicles the daily struggles and successes of the Raineys, an African-American family living in Philadelphia.
24 Frames (Screen 3, 8:30 pm)
Recently deceased Master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's last film is an experimental project made by him in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. It's something his fans wouldn't want to miss!
PVR ECX (Citimall)
Beach Rats (Screen 4, 1:45pm)
Plot – A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with.
Awards – Best Director at Sundance Film Festival
Bad Back (Screen 3, 4:00pm)
Variety describes this Ugandan indie movie as 'a deliriously entertaining multi-genre mashup'. Need we say anymore? Also, experience tells us that it's good to watch a fun film amidst the usually 'heavy' that one sees at film festivals. This one perfectly fits the bill.
Loveless (Screen 4, 7:30pm)
Andrey Zvyagintsev has marvelled one and all with this last film Leviathan. Well, his latest one is supposed to be equally good. Here's Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calling Zvyagintsev's film 'another masterpiece in this apocalyptic study of a failed marriage and the subsequent disappearance of a child'
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On Body and Soul (Screen 2, 3:30 pm)
It's touted as one of the most wildly imaginative films of the year.
Plot – When a man and woman who meet at work begin to know each other, they discover that they have the same dreams at night, and they decide to make them come true.
Awards – Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival
Other Side of Hope (Screen 1, 9:20 pm)
Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki is about a poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriending a group of refugees that has recently arrived in Finland. Kaurismaki is supposed to be at his quirky best in the movie.
On the Beach at Night Alone (2:00 pm)
This Hang Sang-soo directed film was in the main competition at Berlin this year. He's one of the most celebrated Korean director of the arthouse circuit,
Plot – After a publicized affair with her director, an actress leaves South Korea and goes to Hamburg, where she gains insight into the meanings of love and identity.
It Comes at Night (7:30 pm)
Peter Bradshaw on the movie "Everything about the atmosphere in It Comes at Night is tense, and the tension comes both from within and without – human betrayal and airborne sickness."
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I am not a Witch (Screen 5, 11:00am)
Considered to be one of the most strikingly original debuts of this year, the film is about an 8 year-old girl in Zambia who's convicted of being witch and sent to a camp in the desert.
The Party (Screen 5, 4:30pm)
A British comedy from Sally Potter that was competing at the Main Competition section at Berlin. Should be a much needed break from the all the other heavy dose films.
Plot – After she receives a promotion and becomes the secretary of health, a British cabinet politician and her academic husband host a soiree for the political and intellectual elite that ends with blood on the floor.
Wonderstruck (Screen 5, 7:00pm)
Todd Haynes adaptation of the popular novel seems to be a visual delight.
Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n207k52C3DM
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Nothingwood (Screen 8, 6:50 pm)
One of those documentaries which are as entertaining as feature films. The subject here is filmmaking itself.
Plot – On a trip to the Kabul area, Salim Shaheen, a prolific filmmaker from Afghanistan, shows several of his 110 films and, decides to shoot his next project while he is there.
PVR Thane
Unfortunately, there seems to be nothing worth a watch at Thane on Friday as well. The delegates might as well travel to other venues.
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Keeping in mind the shortage of land, the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar, announced new land norms for the KV schools and said that these can be now be set up in 2.5 acres of land. The previous land requirement for KV schools was 4 acres in metro cities.Similarly, the 10 acre requirement in rural areas and 8 acres in urban and hilly areas have been reduced to 5 acres. "This is a historic decision which was taken in view of the land crunch in the country," said Javadekar during the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new building of KV in Shahdara.
Along with the studies, the minister also emphasized that outdoor activities sports and exercises are equally important as the student learns and gains the feeling of team work.
He also said," The government is working actively on providing quality education to students, as it believes that only a proper and quality education has the potential of developing a good citizen with strong character."
He further added," In view of shortage of teaching staff in its schools, the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has also begun the process of recruiting more than 6,250 teachers. We have received lakhs of application and teachers will be recruited on the basis of merit thereby ending the shortage of teachers."
The minister also talked about streamlining the process of admission and form filling. Both the process has been made online so that people don't have to run here and there to get their children admitted in KV. He also told that the link has been put up on the website in the same regard. | {
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Triple Crown winner moved seamlessly from rugby to finance
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European shares drop to their lowest level since March
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Telecoms firm Eir has been fined €1.5 million for breaching its regulatory obligations in relation to fault repair times. Regulator Comreg imposed th(...) | {
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Pokusila jsem se vytvořit CAS přání na téma Medicína. Měla jsem nápad použít výsek brýlí jako výsledek vyšetření u očního lékaře. Doufám, že se přání bude líbit.
Wonderful CAS card with lots of white space. So happy you could play in the CASology challenge this week.
Super card Martina, I remember those tests with the letter E when I was little. I always felt bewildered!
Hello Martina!! I love the playfulness of your card. Super cute. Thank you so much for playing with us this week at CASology.
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In 1915 the first of the AEG G.I to G.V series twin engined bombers appeared. The G.I was essentially an enlarged version of the C.IV. Only a single example was built which led to the development of the G.II.
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Iris Nights Lecture Series
Aired On: Oct 12, 2017
According to photographer Michael Christopher Brown, Americans have a "distant idea" of Cuba, often idealizing the island as a paradise of architecture, cigars, rum, and vintage automobiles. Brown discusses his ongoing "Paradiso" project, which reveals the more complex reality of how Cubans are "surviving the paradise." Brown followed two young DJs in Havana, and their youthful electronica scene, capturing a generation that came of age during the "Special Period" who are trying to thrive in a society largely cut off from the rest of the world.
Michael Christopher Brown
Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington State. His most recent photographic work documents the youthful electronica scene in Havana, Cuba, the aftermath of the death of Fidel Castro, and the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Brown is a contributing photographer at National…
David Alan Harvey: Capturing Cuba
David Alan Harvey's discussion of his work in Cuba for National Geographic will be informed by his years instructing young photographers in New York City.
Michael Christopher Brown is a photographer and filmmaker whose most recent work documents the electronica music and youth scene in Havana, Cuba. | {
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Verizon and Motorola have officially announced today that they'll be launching the Droid RAZR HD smartphone on October 18th on the Big Red. The international RAZR HD is already available in Canada and it was bound to come to Verizon at some point. That point is October 18th and it will be accompanied by the RAZR MAXX HD.
The price tag for the RAZR HD is $199, while the Droid RAZR MAXX HD is $299 and comes with a massive battery. The RAZR HD offers 16 GB of storage and it's available in black or white. Motorola and Verizon will offer the MAXX HD with 32 GB of storage and it will only be available in black. Other specs include a 4.7 inch AMOLED screen, 1 GB of RAM and a 1.5 GHz dual core Snapdragon S4 processor, while at the back is an 8 megapixel camera.
Android 4.0 ICS is the OS here, although Jelly Bean would have been much more welcome at this point of the year. Kevlar coating is present at the back for extra durability, in case you want to subject it to various minor shocks. So, will you pick this model up or wait for the Galaxy Note II?
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Van Hollen, Cardin Call on McConnell to Bring Bipartisan House-Passed Dream and Promise Act to Senate Floor for a Vote
Following the Supreme Court's historic ruling rejecting President Donald Trump's repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) and their colleagues have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calling on him to immediately take up the bipartisan House-passed American Dream and Promise Act, which will establish a path to citizenship for Dreamers and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Cortez Masto Push to Ensure Survivors of Domestic Violence Can Access Their Economic Impact Payment
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), along with 34 Senate colleagues, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig urging them to take action to ensure that survivors of domestic violence can access their Economic Impact Payment. Domestic violence survivors face unique barriers that can keep them from being able to access their economy recovery rebates they are legally entitled to under the law. "The recovery … Continue Reading
Van Hollen Urges Talbot County Council to Remove Talbot Boys Monument in Its Entirety
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) sent a letter to the Talbot County Council urging the removal of the Talbot Boys statue, a Confederate monument located outside the Talbot County Circuit Courthouse. The statue, completed in 1916, memorializes the names of 84 Confederate soldiers and is topped with a soldier holding the Confederate battle flag. The Talbot County Council is preparing to discuss the statue's partial removal at its meeting on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. "I write to … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Blumenthal Statement on Navy Decision to Not Reinstate Captain Crozier as Commander of the USS Roosevelt
U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) issued the following joint statement after the Navy announced it would not reinstate Captain Brett Crozier to the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The Navy's decision follows the conclusion of its Command Investigation into the outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the vessel and the decision to remove Captain Crozier from command. "We have serious reservations about this decision, which comes as a surprise. We will carefully review the Navy's … Continue Reading
Van Hollen Statement on Juneteenth
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement marking the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth: "Juneteenth, June 19, is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It marks the day when the news that President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation finally made it to Texas - the last state to get the news - though it was more than two years after it happened and months after the Civil War had ended. "The … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Durbin, Schumer, Colleagues Call for GAO Investigation Into Use of Federal Law Enforcement During Washington, D.C. Protests Following Killing of George Floyd
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and 12 of their Senate colleagues, today requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) open an investigation into the use of Federal law enforcement, National Guard, and military personnel in response to protests in Washington, D.C., following the killing of George Floyd."The use of force against Americans on June 1 at Lafayette Square was abhorrent and shocking. … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Senate Democrats Press Trump Administration for Answers on Cost, Legal Justification of Out-of-State National Guard Deployment to DC
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) led a letter with eight of his Senate colleagues pressing for answers on the cost and legal justification of the Administration's decision to deploy thousands of out-of-state National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. in response to peaceful protests. The letter, sent to Defense Secretary Mark Esper, seeks crucial details on the deployment of these troops, and requests a response by June 25, 2020. Senator Van Hollen was joined in sending the letter … Continue Reading
Van Hollen, Carper Introduce Legislation to Strip the President's Ability to Federalize D.C. Police, Control D.C. National Guard
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Van Hollen, Cardin Call for Investigation into Offensive Statements by Trump Appointees at USAID
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Van Hollen Statement on Supreme Court DACA Decision
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Van Hollen, Feinstein Call on Senate Majority Leader McConnell to Hold Vote on State, Local Aid Funding Before July
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Van Hollen, Merkley Push to Bring HEROES Act to Floor for Debate and Vote After a Month of Inaction
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Van Hollen Statement on Bolton Excerpts: It's clear that President Trump Puts Himself Over National Security Interests – Republican Leader McConnell Must Stop Aiding and Abetting Trump's Betrayal of our Country
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Van Hollen, Brown, Senate Dems Introduce Resolution Recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month
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Van Hollen Applauds Bipartisan Passage of Great American Outdoors Act
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Senators Van Hollen and Cardin, Congressman Trone Announce $1 Million in Funding, 100 New Jobs for Wright Road Construction in Washington County
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Van Hollen, Cardin, Colleagues Push to Bring Equality Act to a Vote Following SCOTUS Ruling
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Van Hollen Presses Pai on Using E-Rate Funds to Connect Students to the Internet Amid Distance Learning
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Maryland Congressional Delegation Commends General Assembly Leaders for Examining Problems with June 2 Primary
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Van Hollen, Hirono Call for DOJ Inspector General Investigation into Attorney General Barr's Conduct in Suppressing Peaceful Protests around Lafayette Square on June 1
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), along with 19 Senate Democrats, requested that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz open an investigation into the conduct of Attorney General William Barr and the Department of Justice in directing the use of force against peaceful protestors around Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020. The Senators also called on the Inspector General to probe the deployment of federal law enforcement to suppress protests … Continue Reading | {
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Established in 1957, the AYC Cricket Club has been located in the heart of the Alamein Community in the South Eastern Suburb of Ashburton for 58 years.
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Linking social media profiles with Aadhaar: SC transfers to itself all cases pending before HCs
PTI October 22, 2019
(Eds: Adding background) New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred to itself all cases related to the linkage of social media profiles with Aadhaar pending in different high courts and also asked the Centre to submit its report in January to check social media misuse. A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, while allowing the transfer petition of Facebook, asked the registry to place all connected matters before the chief justice of India for listing before an appropriate bench in last week of January 2020. The top court also asked the Centre to submit its report in January on the notification of rules by which social media misuse can be checked and liability could be fastened on intermediaries to decrypt messages. The bench's order came after Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for Tamil Nadu, dropped his opposition to Facebook's plea seeking transfer of all cases pending in different high courts to the apex court. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, clarified that its is not a ploy to breach the privacy of individuals but it is an attempt to protect national security and sovereignty. The attorney general then intervened and said a terrorist cannot claim his right to privacy. Mehta also rubbished the claim of some petitioners, who alleged that the draft rule under consideration of the government, which would enable authorities to fasten liability on intermediaries to trace the originator of a particular message or a content, is government's ploy to "trample individual's privacy". On Monday, the Centre had told the court that internet has emerged as a potent tool to cause "unimaginable disruption" to democratic polity, and sought three more months for finalising and notifying the rules that would regulate the functioning of social media intermediaries in the country. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had told the top court that though technology had led to economic growth and societal development, there was also an exponential rise in hate speech, fake news and anti-national activities. The court had taken the affidavit on record after counsel representing the Centre said the government had sought three months' time for finalisation of the Information Technology Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment) Rules, 2018. The affidavit had stated that after collating and analysing all the details as had emerged from the stakeholders' participation and inter-ministerial consultation, "the deponent (MeitY) has bona fide belief that a further period of three months would be required for finalising and notifying the final revised rules in accordance with law". It had also said that in the last few years, there was an enormous increase in the use of social media and with lower internet tariffs, availability of smart devices and last-mile connectivity, more and more people in India were becoming part of the internet or social media platforms. On September 24, the top court had observed that technology had taken a "dangerous turn" and asked the Centre to apprise it within three weeks about the time-frame needed to come up with guidelines to curb misuse of social media in the country. Expressing serious concern over some social media platforms not being able to trace the originator of a message or an online content, the apex court had said the government must step in now. Seeking transfer of the cases to the top court, Facebook Inc. had contended that whether service providers could be asked to share data with probe agencies to help them in criminal investigation needed to be decided by the apex court as it would have a global effect. The social media giant had pointed out that there were four petitions -- two in the Madras High Court, one in the Bombay High Court and one in the Madhya Pradesh High Court -- and that they contained almost similar prayers. PTI MNL LLP LLP SNE SNE
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Coronavirus in the world. Epidemic situation in Great Britain, Portugal and Italy
The number of infections in Great Britain is falling – therefore the Minister of Health has announced that covid certificates and the recommendation to work from home will be lifted in England at the end of January. The prime minister of the Netherlands has also announced that the restrictions will be eased. In Portugal, many lessons were canceled on Friday due to the next day with the highest number of infections. Every day, there are long lines of people for tests at Italian pharmacies, mainly in big cities.
In the UK, for the first time in 24 days, the daily balance of detected coronavirus infections dropped below 100,000, it was reported on Friday. Infection data over the past few days clearly show that the peak wave induced by the omicron variant has passed. The number of people in hospitals has also been falling for three days. As of Thursday, there were 19.5 thousand of them. – about 350 less than at the peak of the current pandemic wave.
So far, the declining rate of infection growth has not translated into a decline in new COVID-19 deaths. Admittedly, the 270 which was announced on Friday means the break of the series of three consecutive days with the balance above 300, but it is still 41 more than last Friday.
British Health Minister Sajid Javid announced to Conservative MPs that covid certificates and the recommendation to work from home will be abolished in England at the end of January, The Times reported on Friday.
Coronavirus in Great BritainANDY RAIN / PAP / EPA
The next review of the existing epidemic restrictions is scheduled for January 26. Javid's announcement means that from February onwards, the only requirement is likely to be wearing masks in closed public spaces.
Another day in Portugal with the highest number of infections
The Portuguese health ministry confirmed over 40,000 people on Friday. coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours – this is the third day of the sustained highest number of infections. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Health, the greatest number of coronavirus infections are currently occurring in the Lisbon agglomeration and in the north of Portugal.
In the afternoon's announcement, the authorities indicated that the mass coronavirus infections were also accompanied by an unrecorded number of deaths since March 3, 2021. During the last day, 34 of them were recorded. The Ministry of Health added that COVID-19 was responsible in 2021 for nearly 10 percent. all deaths recorded in this period in the country.
Coronavirus in PortugalMARIO CRUZ / PAP / EPA
Meanwhile, representatives of the Portuguese education ministry revealed that many classes were canceled on Friday due to the escalation of the fifth wave of the pandemic. The cause was the massive COVID-19 disease among teaching staff.
10 percent of those infected in Spain suffer from long-term complications
The health ministry in Spain indicated that daily balances of new infections remain high above 160,000. cases. The health service said 139 people from COVID-19 had been confirmed to have died nationwide in the last 24 hours (42 more than last Friday).
Catalonia remains one of the most affected by the sixth wave of the epidemic of the autonomous communities of the country, where the highest number of over 25,000 was recorded in the last day. infections. According to government estimates, about 10 percent of those who contract the coronavirus in this country suffer long-term complications from COVID-19.
Critical ceilings for occupancy of beds exceeded in Italy
In Italy, over the past 24 hours, there were 186,000 cases of coronavirus infections. 360 people died from COVID-19, the most in this wave of the pandemic. The omicron variant has caused more than 80 percent of infections in the country since early January, according to the Institute of Healthcare.
Every day, there are long lines of people for tests at Italian pharmacies, mainly in big cities. In some, you have to wait up to several hours for the examination. 1.3 million tests were performed in the last 24 hours.
Coronavirus in ItalyTino Romano / PAP / EPA
About 1,700 COVID-19 patients are in intensive care, and about 18,000 are infected in the remaining ones. On a national scale, the critical ceilings for occupied beds, designated for resuscitation and regular wards, have been exceeded.
The office of the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Pandemic, General Francesco Figliuolo, announced a significant acceleration of the vaccination campaign. 4.5 million people were vaccinated in the last seven days, 1.5 million more than in the previous week. The number of vaccinations over 50 has recently increased threefold. They are obliged to vaccinate.
Partial easing of restrictions in the Netherlands
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Friday a partial relaxation of the strict lockdown. From Saturday, shops, universities and gyms will reopen, and hairdressers and prostitutes will return to work. On Friday, a record number of over 35.5 thousand was detected in the country. new infections.
– There is still a serious threat of the virus and therefore we cannot open the country right away – the head of government said at a press conference. For this reason, restaurants, cinemas and theaters will remain closed. We have to learn to live with the coronavirus, added new Health Minister Ernst Kuipers.
High infection rates in France
France still has high numbers of new coronavirus infections. 329,371 cases were reported on Friday, the Public Health Agency (SPF) reported on Friday.
Another Coronavirus Variant Detected in FranceTVN24
Due to coronavirus infection, 2,486 patients with COVID-19 were admitted to hospitals during the last day, including 310 to intensive care units. 191 patients died in hospitals. The total death toll from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic has risen to 126,721.
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The United States Olympic Committee was a small group when it started. It was headed by James E. Sullivan and was known as the Amateur Athletic Union that was responsible for entering athletes into the Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. The first president of the committee was Dr. William Milligan Sloane. The committee was formed formally in 1921 and was called the American Olympic Association.
The name of the organization was changed again in 1940 and it was called the United States of America Sports Federation. The name was changed again to United States Olympic Association in 1945. The organization was granted the Public Law 805 allowing it to solicit tax deductible contributions as a non-profit private association.
Some major constitutional revisions were done in 1961 and this was the time when the organization changed its name to the United States Olympic Committee too. And the headquarters of the committee were changed from New York to Colorado Springs in 1978. This was also the year when the Congress announced the association as the coordinating body for all athletes looking at participating in the Olympics and Pan America Games. In addition to that the committee was also given the responsibility of promoting fitness, sports and encouraging the development of sports and sports program.
The United States Olympic Committee also has the exclusive rights to the word "Olympic", "Olympiad" and "Citius, Altius Altius, Fortius". But if someone has been using the symbols and terminology before 1950, they are allowed to continue using the same.
The United States Olympic Committee Paralympic Division was created in 2001. This division helps in the preparation of athletes for the United States Paralympic Teams. They are responsible for sports education, sports programs and partnerships between sports organizations.
The United States Olympic Committee also launched an anti-steroid campaign with the Ad Council. This is a resurgence of the anti-steroid campaign that was launched as "Don't Be An Asterisk" in 2008. | {
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Roma Jane Steffen, of Braham, died Wednesday April 27 at Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center in Wyoming, MN. She was 75 years old.
MEMORIAL SERVICE will be at 3:00 PM on Sunday, May 1st at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Brunswick, with Rev Lori Blake officiating.
MEMORIAL VISITATION will be 1 hour prior to the service at the church on Sunday.
INURNMENT will be at a later date at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Vivian L. Belkholm, of Mora, died on Sunday, April 24, 2011. She was 80 years old.
MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, April 29, 2011 at Immanuel Lutheran Church of Brunswick, with Rev Lori Blake officiating.
MEMORIAL VISITATION will be 1 hour prior to the service at the church on Friday.
Irene Gibson, of Mora, passed away on Monday, April 25, 2011 at her daughter's home in rural Cambridge. She was 88 years old.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held at 2:00pm on Friday, April 29, 2011 at the Akkerman Ingebrand Funeral Home of Mora.
A TIME OF VISITATION will be held one hour prior to the service on Friday.
Carl Bengtsson, of Ogilvie, died at his home on Thursday, April 21, 2011. He was 79 years old.
MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held on Monday, April 25, 2011 at Siloa Lutheran Church of rural Braham at 11 AM with Rev. Delwayne Hahn officiating.
VISITATION will be at 10 AM, one hour prior to the service on Monday at the church.
INTERMENT will be at Siloa Lutheran Cemetery following the service.
Ralph Jenison, of Ogilvie, passed away on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. He ws 61 years old.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at the Lewis Lake Covenant Church with Rev. Bob DeYoung officiating.
A VISITATION and reviewal will be held from 5-7pm on Friday, April 22, 2011 at the Akkerman Ingebrand Funeral Home & 1 hour prior to the service at the church.
Dr. Mark Hruby, of Mora, died on Thursday, April 14, 2011. He was 57 years old.
FUNERAL SERVICE will be held on Wednesday, April 20, at 11:00 am. at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mora.
VISITATION will be on Tuesday from 4:30 – 8 pm. at Akkerman-Ingebrand Funeral Home and one hr. prior to the service on Wednesday.
Mary Sandberg, of Mora, passed away on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at her home in Mora. She was 45 years old.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE will be held at 2:00 pm on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at the Siloa Lutheran Church of rural Braham with Rev Delwayne Hahn officiating.
A TIME OF VISITATION will be held 1 hour prior to the service at the church.
Paul Peterson, of Aitkin, formerly of Ogilvie, died on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at Good Samaritan Home in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. He was 71 years old.
FUNERAL SERVICE will be at 1 PM on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at the Akkerman- Ingebrand Funeral Home of Mora with Pastor Roger Olsen officiating.
VISITATION will be on Friday, April 15, 2011 at the Akkerman-Ingebrand Funeral Home from 5-8 PM and one hour prior to the service on Saturday.
INURNMENT will take place at Camp Ripley at a later date.
Clair Benzen of Braham, formerly of Huntley, passed away on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at Grace Pointe Crossing East of Cambridge. He was 94 years old.
A FUNERAL SERVICE will be held at 10:30 am on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at the Stanchfield Baptist Church with Rev. Dale Cope Officiating.
VISITATION will be held from 9:00 am to 10:30 am, prior to the serivce at church.
INTERMENT will be at 2:00pm at the Hillside Cemetery in Minneapolis with Military Honors.
Charles Scott of Isle, died on Saturday, April 2, 2011 at the St. Cloud Hospital. He was 86 years old.
FUNERAL SERVICE will be held on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 11 AM at the Akkerman-Ingebrand Funeral Home in Mora with Rev. Bob DeYoung officiating.
VISITATION will be one hour prior to the service on Thursday at the funeral home.
INTERMENT will be at Oakwood Cemetery in Mora following the service on Thursday. | {
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Singapore Airlines is running a sale on premium cabin fares departing the U.S.
Through February 25 premium economy starts at $999 for US-Asia roundtrip and business class starts at $1999 for US-Europe roundtrip.
San Francisco – Hong Kong just $999 roundtrip. That's an amazing fare.
Fly out of San Francisco to elsewhere in Southeast Asia from $1499 roundtrip.
Premium economy offers book the cook pre-order meal options and champagne.
For business class New York – Frankfurt is just $1999 roundtrip. Destinations in Asia run over $3500 so I'm not jumping on those.
You can travel May 1 through August 31 for business class, May 1 through December 14 for premium economy.
Ah, no longer upgradeable with miles. Boo!
2-times last year, I've seen SQ do $1100-$1200 for roundtrip in premium economy from all US gateways to SE Asia.
Quite hard to find quoted fares for ex-SFO or ex-JFK routes to Southeast Asia. Samples, please.
Very interesting. If credited to Asiana, the Houston Singapore route should be enough for Asiana Gold (*A Silver). And because of a quirk in their system, if you joined shortly before your flight you would have almost 4 years of *A Silver, as well as almost to years to get to *A gold, which would also last until 4 years after you joined. | {
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Del Mar School District Delays Salary Information
Posted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 |
By Anne Lowe
The Del Mar Union School District refused to release salary information for all its employees in response to a Public Records Act request for weeks, the Del Mar Times reports—until repeatedly threatened with litigation.
NakedGovernment.org co-founder Michael Robertson requested names, titles and salaries for employees of 50 school districts across the nation. The Del Mar district refused to cooperate fully with the request, stating that it would not disclose salary information for employees making less than $100,000 per year—to protect their privacy rights.
Del Mar finally complied with the request this week when threatened with legal action, after three weeks of resistance.
Scott Mann, DMUSD's assistant superintendent for business services, initially provided only the names, titles and salaries of all employees earning more than $100,000 annually, along with the certificated and classified salary schedules.
Parres objected and wrote to Mann, saying, "The documents you provided are general in nature. Other school districts I have contacted provided specific listings as requested with no hesitation." He provided the response from the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado as an example.
Mann wrote back, saying, "First of all, let's be clear. I am not 'rejecting' your request as I have fully complied with it. Case law from the courts has held that total compensation under $100,000 for employees shall not be released because of privacy rights of the individual employee. I have complied with your request under the PRA."
Mann said in a follow-up email, "The Del Mar USD considers your request fulfilled."
Saying the Del Mar Union School District does not "have the right to decide what requests to honor and to what extent," Robertson wrote to DMUSD superintendent Jim Peabody, explaining the impasse and promising to "escalate the situation if DMUSD does not fully respond to the multiple Public Records Act requests which have been submitted to Mr. Mann."
After investigating the matter, Peabody wrote back to Robertson, saying, "I have asked Scott Mann to produce the title and salary of all employees for you."
This time the DMUSD sent the titles and salaries of each employee, but with the names redacted. Robertson criticized Del Mar's reluctance to provide the complete data. He said the Los Angeles Unified School District and the San Diego Unified School District were both asked for the same information, and both cooperated fully with the request, as did most of the 50 school districts that were also asked.
"Our request to you was straightforward and unquestionably allowed by law," wrote Robertson to Peabody. "I am quite puzzled at the delays and nonresponsiveness by your DMUSD staff to this request."
Robertson told Peabody that he will not "stand by and let DMUSD ignore the law" and will "file a lawsuit to force DMUSD to comply with the laws of our state."
The initial request was made to Del Mar on Oct. 8. On Oct. 28, Robertson received an email letter from attorney Susan Gilmor, of the law firm of Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz, writing on behalf of the DMUSD. Gilmor defended the district's decision to withhold the information.
"We have reviewed the recent cases regarding public disclosure of public employee salaries, which are specific to employees earning $100,000 a year or more," Gilmor wrote. "You have asserted your position that you are entitled to all employee names and salaries. Please tell us what case you are relying upon that specifies that employees earning less than $100,000 a year are not exempt from public disclosure by name."
She said the district's position is "not to engage in a fight with you. We have a constitutional duty [to] ensure that we do not invade privacy rights. While we understand that the public has a strong interest in monitoring public expenditures, it [is] our duty to follow the law. It is our position that the courts have not ruled that the names and salaries of public employees earning less than $100,000 a year would be subject to disclosure."
Robertson challenged Gilmor's interpretation of the $100,000 threshold. "There's no exclusion for [an] employee's salary under $100,000," he wrote to her. "Citizens do not have a duty to justify why a request is warranted. Rather DMUSD is obligated to follow the law and provide public records. The party seeking to withhold public records bears the burden of demonstrating that an exception applies."
"There is nothing in the law or ruling to suggest government employees with $99,999.99 salaries are entitled to a different or greater right of privacy than someone making $100,000 per year or more," he added.
Robertson again threatened legal action if the request was not honored. "If DMUSD['s] intention is to use the same privacy excuse to shirk their legally required duties which the courts at the highest level in our state have rejected then they will lose that case and squander taxpayers money," he wrote. "DMUSD does not get to decide what is good for people to know."
Robertson said schools "commonly complain about not having enough money, but when a citizen places a request to see where the money is going they are stonewalled."
Terry Francke, First Amendment rights attorney and founder of Californians Aware, said Robertson's legal case was strong.
"The California Supreme Court decision concluding that public employees' salaries are subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act stemmed from a request for the salaries of Oakland city employees earning $100,000 or more," he said in an email. "But the court neither expressly nor impliedly limited its public disclosure ruling to salaries in that amount, and almost no public agencies are interpreting it that way.
"If sued, I'm confident this district would lose, and have to pay the requester's attorney fees."
CalAware is a nonprofit organization specializing in helping the public understand California's open-meeting Ralph M. Brown Act, the Public Records Act, First Amendment rights and open-access government issues.
Robertson had his attorney contact Gilmor directly and asked him to explain to her "that I understand the law and I'm intent on making this happen and there's just better things for the school district to worry about."
After speaking with Robertson's attorney, Gilmor wrote the following email to Robertson: "Thank you for your response and patience. As I mentioned, my concern was to ensure that a release of names would not subject the district to claims of violating personal privacy rights. I appreciate your input and the time you allowed so that I could make certain that the statutes and laws were interpreted correctly."
Gilmor said the district has been instructed to provide the requested information, all of which was sent to Robertson by Mann on Nov. 1 with the following note: "By direction of the Governing Board, the attached PDF file was prepared for your use under the CPRA and contains all information you previously requested." Peabody later clarified that only board president Steven McDowell rather than the full Board of Education met to discuss this issue.
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Yang/Chan into Australian Open women's doubles quarters
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MELBOURNE, 24 January (BelTA - Xinhua). - Yang Zhaoxuan and her partner Chan Hao-ching on Monday progressed into the women's doubles quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a straight-set win.
Facing off Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina and Belgium's Alison Van Uytvanck in John Cain Arena, the 11th-seeded duo clinched four straight games from 1-0 down and took the opening set at 6-3.
Both pairs managed to survive their serving games in the following set until Yang and Chan broke their opponents in the 11th game and eventually emerged victorious 7-5 after one hour and 40 minutes.
This marked the first time world No. 10 doubles player Yang has reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open since she started playing the Grand Slam event in 2015, while Chan made a semifinal appearance in the 2020 edition.
Earlier, China's Zhang Shuai crashed out of the women's singles with a crisp 6-0, 6-4 loss to Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic.
Leading 7-0 in their head-to-head series, the 30th-seeded and world No. 31 Pliskova fired six aces and 15 winners, stunning world No. 22 Zhang with the first-set win in 21 minutes.
In the second set, Zhang broke Karolina in the sixth game. But Pliskova came back with winning four games in a row.
"I just try my best, but I'm feeling really tired from yesterday and day before the match. I am happy I reached the fourth round, but right now I really need some rest," Zhang told reporters after the match.
This year's Australian Open posted a physically-demanding test for Zhang, who celebrated her 34th birthday on Saturday. Due to rain delays, her first-round singles were rescheduled to day three, from which Zhang had to appear on court every day to play women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. | {
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Paul Kendall reviews the first part of Channel 4's multimedia event, D-Day: As It Happens, in which Peter Snow presents coverage of the experiences of seven participants in the Normandy invasion.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day. Exactly 69 years ago, at the same time you sat down for breakfast this morning, 150,000 Allied soldiers were plunging head first into bloody mayhem on the beaches of Normandy. So many millions of words have been written about Operation Neptune, and so many documentaries made, that those momentous events are in danger of becoming over-familiar. So Channel 4 should be congratulated for its project, D-Day: As It Happens, which started last night and goes on throughout today.
Billed as a "24-hour history event", it is using media, old and new, to tell the story in an intelligent, original way, tracking the movements of seven people who took part in the operation, moment by moment.
Some may question the sanity of a man who, according to Snow, has been locked away in archives analysing D-Day photographs for the best part of 20 years, and Henderson does indeed have something of the eccentric professor about him, but, judging from last night's programme, his work has paid off. Sitting in front of the television at precisely 9.47pm and watching footage of men preparing for the attack at exactly the same time on the same date 69 years ago was a heart-in-the-mouth moment and the very definition of "living history". So much so, in fact, that, as two men opened their orders and read, for the first time, where they would be landing the next day, I had an urge to jump on a train to the coast to find them, thank them for their bravery, and give them some advice, from my vantage point in 2013, that would protect them from the horrors they were about to face.
You can follow the progress of the seven participants – including a paratrooper and a military cameraman – all day via the programme's website and also on Twitter, which will carry "live" updates from the group. Snow will then reveal their individual fates tonight at 9pm. If Channel 4's mission was to remind viewers of the sacrifices made that day, and what a difference those men made to our lives, then it has already been an unqualified success. When other broadcasters wheel out their "landmark" programmes next year, to mark the 70th anniversary, I can't imagine anyone will carry out the same mission with such potency. | {
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اندازهگیری صفات رویشی همخوانی داشت. ارقام مارکونا و D99 که بیشترین میزان تولید پرولین و کمترین میزان نشت یونی را دارا بودند، به عنوان مقاومترین ارقام نسبت به تنش خشکی تشخیص داده شده و رقم K66 به عنوان حساسترین رقم به تنش خشکی معرفی شد.
This study during the year of 2011 and 2012 in horticultural research station and seed and plant improvement Institute, Karaj as factorial on the base completely randomized design was done. Factors include almond seedlings tested in 6 levels (supernova, Perlis, D 124, Marcona, Rabie, and k1-16) and osmotic stress of polyethylene glycol in 5 levels (0, 2-, 4-, -6 and 8-bar). The results showed that with drought stress on plants, plant height, number of leaves, the amount of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll, the amount of glucose and fructose content, relative humidity content decreased and the amount of proline and the rate of ion leakage increased, but increase or reduce these traits in the cultivars with each other had significant differences. The results of investigation growth traits showed that Peerless and k66 cultivars had the most sensitivity to the drought so that the number of these plants leaves and their height under osmotic stress -2 bar are reduced in comparative with plant control significantly. The most resistance to drought was shown in D-124 and Marcona cultivars so that osmotic stress could endure up to -6 bars and only in osmotic stress -8 bars, the number of leaves and their height was significantly reduced compared with control plants. The results from physiological and biochemical characteristics were very similar with the results of the measurements on morphological traits. D-124 and Marcona cultivars had the highest level of production proline and the lowest ion leakage. They were diagnosed as the most resistance to drought stress, while cultivar k16 had the most sensitive to drought stress.
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Lady Wolues too much for Panthers
The Wolues women's football club picked up a win in the BVI Football Association's Women's Futsal League after overcoming an early deficit against the Panthers on Saturday at Cedar International …
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by BVI Beacon | November 25, 2020
The Lady Wolues beat the Panthers, 5-1, at Cedar School International Saturday afternoon. (Photo: BVIFA)
The Wolues women's football club picked up a win in the BVI Football Association's Women's Futsal League after overcoming an early deficit against the Panthers on Saturday at Cedar International School.
The Wolues team is made up of several players that competed together in the Manatees Football Programme since an early age.
The team showed off its skills and composure, despite being tested by a well-organised Panthers team that took the lead in the 18th minute thanks to a Morgan Creque goal.
Tola Broderick and Darci Reich, of the Wolues, responded with goals to take the lead at the half, 2-1.
"Moving the ball through the thirds is something that coach John Reilly always preaches in practice," said Broderick. "The Panthers were aggressive and strong, but we feel we managed, especially in the second half to play that sort of game."
Gabi Jermyn made it 3-1 in the 26th minute, while Kiara Woodley added a fourth in the 33rd minute and Reich netted her second in the final minutes to round out the win.
"So fun to watch the girls play; lots of creativity and confidence being displayed, which is great to see" said Jessica Broderick, who is a Wolues supporters.
"It is great that the girls have a forum to demonstrate what they are learning in a practice setting," said coach Peter Van Zoost. "It would be absolutely terrific if the girls could play each week, the early rust in the game was clearly evident from not having played since the opening weekend three weeks ago."
Despite the loss, the Panthers coach pointed out some highlights from the game.
"We played a much better game than our first time out," said Panthers Coach Jacintha Weekes. "We had chances to score, but both their keepers played well and we will just keep working hard in training and come back stronger."
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Laissez Faire Capitalism Sucks--Arianna Huffington
CURRENT DEPRESSION
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Laissez-faire Capitalism died in the 1930's only to be born again after WWII. It took 63 years for the wealthy capitalists to undo the controls set up during the 30s, of which the most important where laws designed to protect the right of labor to organize, regulations that made the air-waves a public trust rather than a corporate tool, and regulations of banking. Sound economic growth is primarily built upon the increasing buying power of the masses and to a less extent by a favorable balance of trade. Capitalism is about maximizing profits, thus it wants to roll back wages and benefits, and it will outsource production for the sake of greater profits. In 1920s, the effect of declining income was masked by easing of credit requirements. In 1929 the sustainable debt limit was passed. "During the two months before the stock-market crash, production declined at an annual rate of 20 percent, wholesale prices at a rate of 7.5 percent, and personal income at a rate of 5 percent—the first major symptoms of the virulence to come." (T.H. Watkins, The Great Depression, p. 47). We have drifted into a second age of robber barons and history has repeated itself. For more on the evil of neoconservatism and robber barons go to http://skeptically.org/wto/id13.html
Laissez-faire capitalism should be as dead as soviet communism
Arianna Huffington, December 22, 2008 at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/laissez-faire-capitalism_b_152900.html
The collapse of Communism as a political system sounded the death knell for Marxism as an ideology. But while laissez-faire capitalism has been a monumental failure in practice, and soundly defeated at the polls, the ideology is still alive and kicking. The only place you can find an American Marxist these days is teaching a college linguistic theory class. But you can find all manner of free-market fundamentalists still on the Senate floor or in Governor's mansions or showing up on TV trying to peddle the deregulation snake oil {and on talk radio}.
Take Sen. John Ensign, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who went on Face the Nation and, with a straight face, said of the economic meltdown: "Unfortunately, it was allowed to be portrayed that this was a result of deregulation, when in fact it was a result of overregulation." Or Gov. Mark Sanford, who told Joe Scarborough he was against bailing out the auto industry because it would "threaten the very market-based system that has created the wealth that this country has enjoyed." If a politician announced he was running on a platform of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" he would be laughed off the stage. That is also the correct response to anyone who continues to make the case that markets do best when left alone.
It's time to drive the final nail into the coffin of laissez-faire capitalism by treating it like the discredited ideology it inarguably is. If not, the Dr. Frankensteins of the right will surely try to revive the monster and send it marauding through our economy once again. We've only just begun to bury the financially dead, and the free market fundamentalists are already looking to deflect the blame.
In a comprehensive piece on what led to the mortgage crisis and the subsequent financial meltdown, the New York Times shows how the Bush administration's devotion to unregulated markets was a primary cause of our economy to ruin. But the otherwise fascinating piece puts too much focus on the "mistakes" the Bush team made by not paying attention to the warning signs popping up all around them.
"There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems," claimed Al Hubbard, Bush's former chief economic adviser. "Had we, we would have attacked them." But the mistake wasn't in not recognizing the "severity of the problems" -- the mistake was the ideology that led to the problems. Communism didn't fail because Soviet leaders didn't execute it well enough; the same with free market fundamentalism. In fact, Bush and his team did a bang-up job executing a defective theory. The problem wasn't just the bathwater; the baby itself is rotten to the core.
William Seidman, the longtime GOP economic advisor who oversaw the S&L bailout in 1991, cuts to the chase: "This administration made decisions that allowed the free market to operate as a barroom brawl instead of a prize fight. To make the market work well, you have to have a lot of rules."
Even Alan Greenspan, whose owl-eyed visage would adorn a Mount Rushmore of unregulated capitalists, has begun to see the light, telling a House committee in October that he "made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms."
But most Republicans are still refusing to see what's right in front of them. Especially Bush, our CEO President, who lays the blame not on the failures of the marketplace but on past administrations and corporate greed. "Wall Street got drunk," he says. Maybe so, but who made the last 8 years Happy Hour, and kept serving up the drinks?
Last week, Ben Smith reported that the GOP was launching "a new, in-house think tank aimed at reviving the party's policy heft." In a private memo explaining the think tank, RNC chairman Mike Duncan wrote: "We must show how our ideology can be applied to solve problems." But, of course, it's that very ideology that's causing the problems. It's like the old horror movie cliché: "We've traced the call -- it's coming from inside the house!"
We've got to do everything we can to make sure there will be no sequels to this political horror. The blame shifters cannot be allowed to make their case without the truth being pointed out at every turn. It's time to relegate free market fundamentalists to the same standing as Marxist ideologues: intellectual curiosities occasionally trotted out as relics of a failed philosophy.
But until we regulate the airwaves, we will hear more free market spin, and very little on-the point economic analysis. And when we do, it will be contradicted by a freemarketeer. Right now the production of ideas is corporate property--jk.
For the best account of the Federal Reserve (http://www.freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=214). One cannot understand U.S. politics, U.S. foreign policy, or the world-wide economic crisis unless one understands the role of the Federal Reserve Bank and its role in the financialization phenomena. The same sort of national-banking relationships as in our country also exists in Japan and most of Europe.
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and poor are in sovereign control of the government; an oligarchy when the control lies in the hands of the rich and better born."—Aristotle
"All for ourselves, and nothing for anybody else," Adam Smith called this the vile maximum of the masters of mankind. Neoliberals call it, "trickle-down economics."
In 1963, John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 11110 which would have removed the power of money creation from all US private banks, including the privately-owned Federal Reserve, and invested that power in the US Government. Unfortunately, Kennedy died suddenly a few weeks later and his plans died with him.
The Problems of Debt
In the USA 100% of the money supply is created by the private banks. In Britain the figure is over 97%. In the rest of the world, the figure is estimated to be over 95%. All this money is created as a debt. It is created when people borrow money, as banks do not lend existing money; they just create new money out of thin air to lend.
Money created as a debt by the banks bears a charge of interest. This increases the amount of money that the economy owes by an amount greater than the amount in existence. This means that the economy is a saddled with a debt that can never be paid off, merely passed around like a game of Pass-the-Parcel in a Belfast pub. It is like a game of musical chairs, where someone has to lose out.
Money does not have to be based on debt, nor indeed does it have to be based on precious metals. Real wealth is the goods and services that people create for each other. Money is merely a means of exchange. It could be created by HM Treasury and spent on providing public services, saving us all a modicum of taxation, and then the economy would not have to be saddled with large debts.
Executive Order 11110 issued by John F. Kennedy on June 4th 1963, from Wikipedia
This executive order allows the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to issue $4.29 billion in silver certificates ($2 and $5 Notes) against silver bullion based on authority delegated by the President to the Secretary under the Thomas Amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Silver certificates were printed without interest. The Order was for the Treasury to issue silver certificates against all silver held by the government which did not already have certificates against it. The Order was needed due to the passage of Public Law 88-36 which repealed the Silver Purchase Act and other related monetary measures. One result was that after the repeals, only the President could issue new silver certificates. The Federal Reserve System could replace the certificates, but only in larger denominations. The thrust of the Order returned the authority to issue new silver certificates (and specify denominations) back to the U.S. Treasury.
This theory was further explored by U.S. Marine sniper and veteran police officer Craig Roberts in the 1994 book, Kill Zone.[28] Roberts theorized that the Executive Order was the beginning of a plan by Kennedy whose ultimate goal was to permanently do away with the United States Federal Reserve, and that Kennedy was murdered by a cabal of international bankers determined to foil this plan. [jk finds this the most plausible of a dozen theories. Kennedy had expressed extreme frustration of the Bay of Pigs failure and other issues with the CIA. But it is hard to believe that the CIA would on its own, for to protect its power structure, kill the President.]
This executive order allowed for the Federal Reserve System to distribute and exchange currency at lower denominations that met the growing economic need. The authoritative basis for the Order was substantially nullified in 1982 with the passage of Public Law 97-258. The Order was never directly reversed, but in 1987, Executive Order 12608 [by Ronald Reagan] revoked the section that added by Executive Order 11110[1], essentially nullifying it.
Kennedy was killed by more than one shooter, and from 2 directions. See Wikipedia Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.
1) Former U.S. Marine sniper Craig Roberts and Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, who was the senior instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper Instructor School at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, both said it could not be done as described by the FBI investigators. "Let me tell you what we did at Quantico," Hathcock said. "We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don't know how many times we tried it, but we couldn't duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did. Now if I can't do it, how in the world could a guy who was a non-qual on the rifle range and later only qualified 'marksman' do it?"[13]
2) Robert McClelland, a physician in the emergency room who observed the head wound, testified that the back right part of the head was blown out with posterior cerebral tissue and some of the cerebellar tissue was missing. The size of the back head wound, according to his description, indicated it was an exit wound, and that a second shooter from the front delivered the fatal head shot.[11]
3) Kennedy's death certificate located the bullet at the third thoracic vertebra — which is too low to have exited his throat.[14] Moreover, the bullet was traveling downward, since the shooter was by a sixth floor window. The autopsy cover sheet had a diagram of a body showing this same low placement at the third thoracic vertebra. The hole in back of Kennedy's shirt and jacket are also claimed to support a wound too low to be consistent with the Single Bullet Theory.[15][16]
These three facts are sufficient to prove that the Warren commission was a high-level cover-up
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve - Eustace Mullins
The Creature from Jekyll Island - the Federal Reserve - G. Edward Griffin
Web of Debt - The Shocking Truth About Our Money System - Ellen Hodgson Brown
The Case Against the Fed - Murray N. Rothbard
Naked Capitalist, The - W. Cleon Skousen
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - Anthony Sutton
A History of Money and Banking in the United States - Murray N. Rothbard
excerpts from the book 'Tragedy and Hope' - A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley, 1966
Follow the Money to Citibank
Dirty Laundry-Multinational banks as bagmen for global crime syndicates
U.S. Banks and the Dirty Money Empire
Shell Game - Citibank attacks money-laundering regulations
Explosive Revelations - banks, tax havens, and money laundering
Servicing Citi's Interests - GATS and the Bid to Remove Barriers
to Financial Firm GIobalization
Give Us 0.01 Percent - Tobin tax
The Federal Reserve (6/06)
Confessions of a banker - Following money trail through offshore operations of Citibank (8/06)
Federal Reserve Bank (3/07)
Credit as a Public Utility: the Key to Monetary Reform (5/07)
Who Owns The Federal Reserve? (10/08)
What Banks, Academics, the Media and Politicians Don't Tell You About Money - November 2008
The Federal Reserve Abolition Act (12/08)
Ground Zero on Wall Street - Nationalize Federal Reserve (12/08)
The Wall Street Ponzi Scheme called "Fractional Reserve" Banking (12/08)
Nationalize the Federal Reserve - "American Monetary Act" (2/09)
President Obama: Nationalize the Fed and Create Our Own Money (2/09)
A New Monetary System (3/09)
Thinking Positively About Monetary Policy - Nationalizing the Federal Reserve (3/09)
The Big Takeover - how Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution (4/09)
Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy - an open letter to President Obama (4/09)
Top Senate Democrat: Bankers 'Own' the US Congress (5/09)
The Weimar Hyperinflation? Could it Happen Again? (5/09)
Manipulation: How Markets Really Work (5/09)
Ending Today's Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally (5/09)
What the Big Banks Have Won [Wall Street Bailout] (6/09)
Great American Bubble Machine - Goldman Sachs & market manipulation (7/09)
Teddy Roosevelt's advice that, "We must drive the special interests out of politics. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have themselves called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains." | {
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Q: Will browsers in Ubuntu touch support flash? Will the Ubuntu Touch browsers support flash?
Are they the same as the full desktop versions? I would love to be able to see flash content.
A: At the UDS Web Browser Application for touch devices session, it was stated that Flash will not be supported on Ubuntu Touch.
A: Ubuntu tablet applications (including browsers) will basically be adapted versions of the Desktop applications. So, if there is a build of Flash for your processor architecture (I'm not so certain ARM tablets get flash any more, though the Google Chrome Books of course get flash, but using Pepper), you will be able to run flash in your Ubuntu tablet browser.
A: Flash will not be supported in the Ubuntu Touch web browser by default.
This would require a specific build of flash for the target architecture with hardware acceleration. This is usually provided by OEMs, so unless they have a real interest in supporting flash, I don't see that happening.
Instead Ubuntu Touch is committed to providing a first-class HTML5 experience. Hopefully modern websites don't use flash anymore, in favour of open standards.
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A week ago I had a bit of downtime, because I decided to switch hosts. Previously, I was using DigitalOcean, with a droplet running Ubuntu 14.04. I paid $10 a month for a 30GB SSD, 1 CPU core, and 1GB of RAM. This used to be alright for me, because I was just running this website, which doesn't really get a lot of traffic. Recently however, this hadn't quite sufficed. I've been really researching the best way to move some of my work to the cloud. Ideally, I'd like to have a separate server for this, but in the meantime, I've been testing out different methods to do so here, and I'm using up too many resources to be able to run both this website and my tests. Because of this, I went ahead and switched over to Linode. With Linode, I get 24GB SSD storage, a 1 core CPU, and 2 GB of RAM at the same price. For me, having a bit more RAM was more important than the 6GB of storage that I lost. I'm nowhere near the limit anyways, so for now, this will do.
The VPS host wasn't the only thing I changed, however. As I stated earlier, the DigitalOcean droplet I was on ran Ubuntu 14.04. I decided that I wanted to learn more enterprise-oriented Linux distributions, so I went for CentOS. Not only that, but I wanted more stability and a longer support cycle. So, I've noticed a few things that have broken in the migration, but if you happen to come across something that I've missed, please use the contact form to send me a message and let me know. I would greatly appreciate it. | {
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You would hardly be able to believe how technology is changing agriculture. Starting from genetically enhanced plant breeds to drones used to monitor the fields, technology has made everything better. In 1997, only three years after the main hereditarily altered nourishment hit the basic need racks, Europe made GMO names required, however, despite everything the US hasn't made a government control. At present, there are harvests being developed that are hereditarily changed to develop in living spaces other than their local ones, to expand yield efficiency to bolster more individuals. Cases of this incorporate wheat, rice, and different grains. Fish, poultry, and hamburger are likewise frequently altered to expand the amount of meat by enlivening the rate of development of a creature or by adding proteins or different supplements to the meat.
Exactness horticulture is another way in which technology has improved the effectiveness of the food industry. Exactness horticulture is regularly called satellite cultivating and alludes to the utilization of GPS following frameworks and satellite symbolism to screen trim yields, soil levels, and climate examples to expand productivity on the homestead. Exactness technology is progressively imperative as the issue of bolstering nine billion individuals by 2050 turns out to be more evident. The technology was received in the mid-nineties and began with harvest yield screens. Presently, there are instruments, for example, climate examination programming and soil testing units to screen nitrogen and phosphorous levels. Utilizing these exactness technology frameworks, agriculturists can pinpoint a correct area in a field to decide how profitable the range is.
Sometime recently, the whole field was dealt with as one unit, however now, agriculturists can discover which zones are more reasonable for which trims so they don't squander seed, compost, or pesticides. It is likewise critical from a natural stance. Agriculturists can have more reasonable practices and utilize fewer assets, for example, water to tend their fields. Cultivates frequently traverse substantial separations, and agriculturists require help to screen the efficiency of the territories. Automatons are turning into a famous other option to additional homestead hands or satellites and propelled technology is making the automatons more profitable. With automatons, ranchers can find absolutely where an ailing or harmed plant is, all the more precisely discharge manure and pesticides, or take photographs and have prompt information about a specific territory of the homestead. Sensors are and will keep on being essential to sustenance technology.
The Internet of Things has as of now gone to the homestead in the types of water system advances, trim yield checking. A framework called WaterBee gathers information on soil content and other natural variables utilizing remote sensors to lessen water squander. Sensors in grain receptacles permit ranchers to screen the temperature and dampness levels remotely. Another case of IoT use on ranches is Z-Trap, a gadget used to screen creepy crawlies and examine information on products remotely utilizing GPS directions and remote sensors. Technology can make agriculture better and more improved for a better future, so more people can eat better foods. | {
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Senator Rick Scott will hold a roundtable discussion Monday with Venezuelan community leaders in Tampa.
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President Nicolas Maduro has vowed not to let the supplies pass, saying Venezuela is not a nation of beggars.
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who requested the international assistance, urged the military to allow the aid in. He said the stand off could lead to clashes. | {
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Europe's Next Creative Renaissance?
Economic struggle and unemployment, especially among young Europeans, are weighing heavy on the European Union. Startups provide an alternative for bright Europeans who don't want to wait until fate comes their way. Just as the many leading entrepreneurs from Europe before, talent will create successful businesses. Period. The question is whether we give startups the room to build in Europe or show them the door, Lenard Koschwitz asks.
A Roman tale on digital copyrights
Digital copyrights touch on core questions for startups. While you might think that startups in Italy have enough struggles with plenty of inefficiencies in their ecosystem already, new copyright laws might just push it over the edge.
Italians are well known for their creativity, taste and for making things happen, even against the odds. Although the government introduced a dedicated "startup act" in 2012, insiders take a deep breath before listing what still goes wrong in Europe's 3rd largest economy. What came to light at the #Copyright4Startups policy workshop during Rome Startup Week is that the country's small but passionate startup community has lots to say.
Italy in the European Context
Not only Italy has struggled so far to take advantage of its great entrepreneurial resources. Comparing exits between the EU and US shows that 82% still happen in the US. Within the EU, UK company exits amount to more than the remaining EU together and Italy remains at 9th position, after Germany, France and Ireland. And while copyright rules on liability, data mining and new rights have chilling effects to all EU markets, the weaker ones will suffer most.
Digital Copyright Reform, a wolf in sheep's disguise?
On 14 September 2016, the European Commission announced the new proposal for a copyright reform. 15 years since the last Directive on Copyright (the so called InfoSoc Directive), an update the rules reflecting technological developments seemed overdue. Whereas many important and truly ambitious aspects have been left out, the directive goes far beyond the classic IP or licensing market, shaking the very architecture of the internet and fundamental analytics.
Concerns have not only been raised by startups, but also by academics, experts and NGOs from civil society. All these parties agree that, instead of an innovative and updated version, the new proposal would have repercussions on users, media diversity online, social media platforms, startups, researchers, teachers and many more.
#Copyright4Startups @RomeStartupWeek
Dr. Eleonora Rosati, Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Southampton, shared her expertise with Italian founders and community members about how this reform could impact their businesses, their chances of attracting investment and how startups can make their voice heard. Here's the gist of it:
Text and data mining
The legislator defines 'text and data mining' as any automated analytical technique aiming to analyse text and data in digital form in order to generate information such as patterns, trends and correlations'. To put it frankly, it starts when you use the search function on your phone, is necessary for data analytics and is crucial for machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. Uses of text mining have exploded — who knows what innovation it could spark tomorrow? One thing is certain, data mining is the salt of any data business.
The European Commission pushed ahead with an exception for text and data mining, but only for reproductions and extractions made for scientific research (Art. 3). Although this is a noble start, an exception for Text and Data Mining that falls short in practice. It will allow researchers use data mining to create new potential products. However, it would not be allowed to commercialise any of them in Europe. It basically tells data mining startups to take their business elsewhere.
On the flip side, other markets like the UK, the US or Japan have rules which embrace a wider understanding of innovation and welcome data driven startups with open arms. Hence, the proposal could not only nudge startups away but also have an impact on Europe as an innovation ecosystem. The current draft will have negative knock-on effects on European Universities, especially those strong in STEM and entrepreneurship, which naturally benefited from startups being born out of their entrepreneurship centres. So called spin-offs (or spin-outs) raise the profile and prestige of their alma mater, employ fellow alumni, donate funds and literally grow the ecosystem around hubs like Munich, Leuven, Delft or Copenhagen — if the regulatory conditions allow for it.
A press publishers' right
The proposal further suggests a new and extra copyright for the European news publishers. Beneficiaries are gifted a 20-year long right on all their contents, including shortest snippets. This means that news aggregators (although driving traffic to the source) will need a license in order to keep pointing to content. The result is that powerful players will continue to dominate the market while smaller startups have to swallow the bitter pill or die.
Similar rules exist in Spain and Germany already and have, mildly speaking, had disastrous effects on media plurality, startups and consumers. In the Spanish case, the target was Google News. It subsequently stopped operations in Spain, leading to a decrease in traffic to all news publishers, especially small ones, by up to 20% within a few weeks. In Germany, where publishers could determine the price of their license, Google was offered a free license while smaller news aggregators were extorted and forced to pay licenses amounting to 1 Euro per snippet or amounts per user which where higher than the entire companies' turnover.
Damage became evident when German startups lost up to 30% of valuation on the day ancillary copyright was adopted. Some had to shut down.
The reason for this mess is press publishers complaining about their ability to enforce rights they already possess. Instead of packing an additional right on top, some Members of the European Parliament are trying to follow a less harmful but just as effective solution. By following the Italian example where it is simply assumed that publishers hold the rights to articles published on their platform, press actually gets the benefit of the doubt without bypassing the rule of law. Presuming right of representation is a neat and economically responsible solution which seems to gain ground in the European Parliament.
"Value gap" proposal
According to rightsholders, and despite profits of the music industry online rise steadily, it was argued that hosting providers should do more to prevent illicit distribution of works. Not only music and licensed content driven platforms — literally any platform allowing user generated content shall be forced to use content recognition technologies. The Commission's proposal reflected this: painting all platforms with a broad brush.
It should be noted however that the "value gap" argument only looks at the cash flow between platforms and labels. Which value actually ends up in the artists pockets remains the label's secret.
A closer look at content recognition technologies reveals they are costly and inefficient at best. Youtube spent more than 60 million for their Content-ID, which can still be tricked. Even considering the business relevance of this technology presents a huge sum to spend, which is nigh impossible for any startup. The legislators suggestion that startups could "simply buy a filter as a service" are, mildly speaking, ignorant towards new and upcoming businesses.
Beyond that, the article in question is quite vague when it addresses information society service providers that store large amounts of works and other subject matter. Although the problem the legislator is attempting to solve is quite specific, the obligations can affect literally any platform business in Europe.
Would you agree to like other ingredient matter on a foodstuff or accept that the police wiretaps an entire continent to catch a few criminals. Understandably not and for the same reason legislation should be specific and proportionate.
"Why should the content industry live by different standards and get their personal filter on the entire internet? "
Startups are platforms. Period. Billions of users around the world enjoy blogging, sharing and creating content whether this is in written, audio, visual or augmented forms of expression such as additive manufacturing, virtual reality or live content. Putting a dictator-sized filter on top of such services which will be controlled by private commercial entities will not only force startups to spend millions for not business relevant techniques, it will also outdo George Orwell's wildest dreams. By far.
In sum, content filtering would not only give a competitive disadvantage only to startups in Europe, it would also violate fundamental rights like privacy and freedom of expression. Filtering the internet is like fishing the oceans empty to find that one mackerel.
What can Startups do?
Startups in Italy and the rest of Europe can act together and make their voice heard. Allied for Startups provides all the relevant information and opportunity to sign up hassle free on the campaign page http://www.innovatorsact.eu/
To find out more information, participate at the next discussion, or share your ideas and testimonials on this policy discussion, please get in touch!
Visit innovatorsact.eu, join the call, drop a line to [email protected], tweet to @allied4startups, or join the online conversation using #copyright4startups.
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<refentry xml:id="mongopool.setsize" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<refnamediv>
<refname>MongoPool::setSize</refname>
<refpurpose>Set the size for future connection pools.</refpurpose>
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&reftitle.description;
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<modifier>public</modifier> <modifier>static</modifier> <type>bool</type><methodname>MongoPool::setSize</methodname>
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Sets the max number of connections new pools will be able to create.
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The max number of connections future pools will be able to create.
Negative numbers mean that the pool will spawn an infinite number of
connections.
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<para>
If you set the pool size to <literal>n</literal> and then create
<literal>n</literal> connections, attempting to create an
<literal>n+1</literal>st connection will throw a
<classname>MongoConnectionException</classname>.
</para>
<programlisting role="php">
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// only allow one connection to a server
MongoPool::setSize(1);
// creates one connection to localhost:27017
$m1 = new Mongo();
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$m2 = new Mongo();
?>
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Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'MongoConnectionException' with message 'no more connections in pool' in /path/to/php/script.php:10
Stack trace:
#0 /path/to/php/script.php(10): Mongo->__construct()
#1 {main}
thrown in /path/to/php/script.php on line 10
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</refsect1><!-- }}} -->
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&reftitle.seealso;
<para>
<simplelist>
<member><function>MongoPool::getSize</function></member>
<member><function>MongoPool::info</function></member>
<member>The <link linkend="mongo.connecting">connection</link> documentation.</member>
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An absolutely tremendous wine in 2003, and for several vintages a favourite of ours on grounds of price to quality. Batailley stands alongside the very best of the vintage. This is outstanding with bright cassis aromas, sweet, almost silky textured fruit and all-important freshness. Very, very good indeed. It is likely that few 2003 bordeaux will offer such splendid value as this fresh, well-built pauillac. | {
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Classes online
Alberto Gonzalez & Teresa Szefler
HotSalsaDanceZone.com
Professional Instructor, Director, Salsa Dancer,
Promoter of Salsa & Latin Events
Choreographer for stage TV & Film.
Years Professional Dance Instruction since 2001.
Alberto Gonzalez has been recognized as one of the most dynamic dancers in Vancouver, and known for his agility, his smooth leading, his coordination to dance to the music right on the spot, his flashy and smooth moves and dips and his non intimidating and easy to remember teaching techniques.
Born and raised in Mexico City Alberto danced Disco, Break Dance, and 80's Rock since the age of 10. In 1990 Alberto moved to Vancouver to study English, and Culinary Arts. He was introduced to Salsa at a party in 1994. Soon he took classes with a number of local and international dance instructors. In 2003 Alberto joined BC Dance Company rapidly becoming the lead dancer of the troop. The turning point of Alberto's dancing career was meeting Cheryl Rodway, his true dance mentor, who helped him develop and refine his own dance style.
Alberto performed at a number of Vancouver dance events on stage and TV. He started his own dance school, HotSalsaDanceZone.com, where he puts smiles on hundreds of people's faces teaching them Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, and Cha-Cha-Cha at various locations in the Lower Mainland.
At his dance school Alberto, together with his co-instructor since 2009 Teresa, promotes Salsa as an expression of Latin American culture, as well as a source of fitness and entertainment to people of various ages and backgrounds.
His vision is for Hot Salsa Dance Zone to become a forum of cultural exchange for both local as well as foreign dancers and dance lovers.
Teresa Szefler
Professional Instructor, Public relations, Salsa dancer, Promoter of Salsa & Latin Dance Events.
Born and raised in Poland, at her teenage years Teresa was training and competing for 5 years in Rhythmic Gymnastics. She fell in love with Latin beat at the Academy of Physical Education in Poznan, Poland, where she was introduced to Latin dancing by students from Latin America.
Her decision to leave her country put aside her dancing dream for a number of years. After immigrating to Canada in 1996 and working to establish her publishing business she started to dance again in 2006.
Before discovering her passion for Salsa Teresa enjoyed Belly Dancing, Ballroom, and some other Latin dances.
In 2008 Teresa signed up for Alberto's Salsa classes. Alberto quickly noticed Teresa's passion for Salsa and one year later he asked Teresa to become his dance performance partner.
From then on they danced together and since 2009 Teresa is also Alberto's co-instructor of Salsa at Alberto's dance school Hot Salsa Dance Zone.
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Web Design by The Computer Doctor
Alberto Gonzalez, Professional Salsa & Latin Dance Instructor | {
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Moris è un comune del Messico, situato nello stato di Chihuahua, il cui capoluogo è la località omonima.
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
Comuni del Chihuahua | {
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The annual SOULGATE all-dayer celebrates its 30th year on Saturday 2nd June 2012 - in loving memory of Randy Cozens (gone too long).
Fishmongers Arms, 3 Winchmore Hill Road, Southgate, London N14 6AD.
This now legendary all-dayer, was originally hosted by wonderful Randy Cozens and now, for the 9th year, held in his memory.
Great DJ line up as ever; spinning Deep Soul, Northern Soul, and Crossover - with a bit of ska & funk too.
We have seats outside in the sun and 22 car parking spaces for those who turn up early. Those needing to park can also park at Asda.
Everyone welcome to this now fabulous summer all-dayer ! | {
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Influesta, a 'Fiesta for Influencers' is an event specifically curated for influencers, all at one place coming together to Play, Network & Grow. Around 60+ influencers hailing from different backgrounds like fashion, food, fitness, beauty, lifestyle and travel, having a reach of 200 k-600 k attended the event.
The event was organized to keep in mind and commemorate the hard work and success of influencers.
All of this was held at the Indian Institute of Digital Education (IIDE) Campus on the 18th of March.
The event featured live music, multiple fun games hosted by brands, interviews of the influencers and concluded with a panel discussion.
Influencers jammed, sang and rapped to a few songs. A few of them were also interviewed on their area of expertise, to which they had quite a lot to share.
The highlight of the event was the panel discussion, which spoke about the about the 'Future of Influencer Marketing'.
The panelists for the same were: Chintan Ruparel (CCO and founder of Terribly Tiny Tales), Saloni Malkani (Founder of Food Blog Association of India,FBAI), Pranay Swarup (CEO and founder, Chtrbox and Letsintern.com), Srinivas Kulkarni (Organizational Development Director, Social Kinnect).
All in all, the prime aim for Influesta was to Play, Network, & Grow and that's exactly what happened. | {
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Hope you'll have fun looking at all the pictures we've taken over the years. They hold some truly wonderful memories for me!
Once you click on the link you'll be taken to a new Flash Gallery page. The flash program has all sorts of gizmos you can play with - don't worry, you won't break anything.
There are many galleries to choose from (upper left), you can change the way the page is laid out (upper right), and you can pick from about 12 songs (inside upper right).
I hope you'll enjoy the pics as much as I still do - they are memories that I will always hold close to my heart! | {
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Questa voce raccoglie le informazioni riguardanti la University of Nebraska-Lincoln Women's Volleyball nella stagione 2010.
Stagione
La stagione 2010 è l'undicesima per coach John Cook sulla panchina delle Cornhuskers; l'intero staff viene confermato per il quarto anno consecutivo e vede nelle vesti di assistenti gli ex pallavolisti Elizabeth Fitzgerald ed Erik Sullivan, mentre Dan Meske ricopre il ruolo di assistente volontario.
La rosa della squadra resta quasi invariata, con tre sole giocatrici in uscita e due in entrata, tra le quali Lauren Cook, figlia del coach John Cook, proveniente dalla .
La regular season inizia il 28 agosto dal Qwest Center di Omaha e dura in tutto 29 incontri. La prima sconfitta arriva già alla seconda partita, dove le Cornhuskers cedono per 3-2 alla , dopo di che il programma conduce una stagione regolare che rasenta la perfezione, cedendo solo nel big match in casa della .
L'ottima stagione regolare, conclusa con 27 vittorie e 2 sconfitte, permette alle Cornhuskers di presentarsi alla post-season come testa di serie numero 2, ospitando i primi due round della post-season, nei quali arrivano due facili vittorie contro la e la ; nelle semifinali regionali di Seattle la squadra esce sconfitta sorprendentemente contro la , perdendo con un perentorio 3-0.
Tra le giocatrici si distingue particolarmente Brooke Delano, così come Lindsey Licht, Hannah Werth e Jordan Wilberger, tutte insignite di riconoscimenti individuali.
Organigramma societario
Area direttiva
Presidente: Harvey Perlman
Direttore delle operazioni: Lindsay Peterson
Area tecnica
Allenatore: John Cook
Assistente allenatore: Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Erik Sullivan
Assistente allenatore volontario: Dan Meske
Rosa
Mercato
Risultati
Big 12 Conference
Regular season
NCAA Division I
Fase regionale
Statistiche
Statistiche di squadra
G = partite giocate; V = partite vinte; P = partite perse
Statistiche dei giocatori
P = presenze; PT = punti totali; AV = attacchi vincenti; MV = muri vincenti; BV = battute vincenti
NB: I muri singoli valgono una unità di punto, mentre i muri doppi e tripli valgono mezza unità di punto; anche i giocatori nel ruolo di libero sono impegnati al servizio
Collegamenti esterni
2010 | {
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Trump's media relations strategy: "discredit" and "demean"
"[H]e started to attack the press ... I said, ... 'You've won ... Why do you keep hammering at this?' And he said: 'You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all. So when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.'"
"[L]eakiness in a White House can reflect [an] undisciplined and paranoid environment where self-preservation can outweigh loyalty, including (or especially) to the president himself."
Sarah Sanders: "I will always do everything I can to give the best and most accurate information at the time that I can. ... What's true on Monday in terms of a process decision may change by Friday ... And I can't always know that things will be different." | {
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2012 Ford F450 V-10 Gas Engine. 40" Articulating Boom. 110 Inverter.
Everything in good working order. Ready to drive wherever you need it to and go to work tomorrow.
We have a 100% good rating on ebay and want to keep it that way.
This truck will not disappoint. | {
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using IglooCastle.Core;
using IglooCastle.Core.Printers;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System.Linq;
namespace IglooCastle.Tests
{
[TestFixture]
public class NamespaceElementTest : TestBase
{
[Test]
public void TestNamespace()
{
var namespaceElement = Documentation.FindNamespace("IglooCastle.CLI");
Assert.IsNotNull(namespaceElement);
Assert.AreEqual("IglooCastle.CLI", namespaceElement.Namespace);
}
[Test]
public void TestHtml()
{
const string expected = "<a href=\"N_IglooCastle.CLI.html\">IglooCastle.CLI</a>";
Assert.AreEqual(expected, Documentation.Namespaces.First().ToHtml());
}
}
}
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Q: Crystal Report on VS2022 I have installed CR13SP33 x86 & x64 runtime and also installed CRforVS6413 and I am able to get crystalReportViewer on ToolBar, create ASP.NET with .net framework 4.8, and dragged the control to the aspx page. but on design view, I am getting the following error, and on execution its blank page, note that my crystal report file already has data in it
this is my aspx code
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.WebForm1" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304" Namespace="CrystalDecisions.Web" TagPrefix="CR" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<CR:CrystalReportViewer ID="CrystalReportViewer1" runat="server" AutoDataBind="true" width="1200px" Height="800px"/>
</body>
</html>
web.xml config file
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
-->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.8">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="log4net, Version=2.0.12.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669E0DDF0BB1AA2A"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.Controllers, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataDefModel, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=13.0.4000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692FBEA5521E1304"/>
</assemblies>
</compilation>
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.8"/>
</system.web>
<system.codedom>
<compilers>
<compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=2.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:default /nowarn:1659;1699;1701"/>
<compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=2.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" warningLevel="4" compilerOptions="/langversion:default /nowarn:41008 /define:_MYTYPE=\"Web\" /optionInfer+"/>
</compilers>
</system.codedom>
</configuration>
and my C# code to load CRystal report file
namespace WebApplication1
{
public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ReportDocument myReportDocument;
myReportDocument = new ReportDocument();
myReportDocument.Load(@"C:\Users\Serak\source\repos\WebApplication1\WebApplication1\ConsolidatedBalanceSheet.rpt");
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = myReportDocument;
CrystalReportViewer1.DisplayToolbar = true;
}
}
}
A: Your web.config file looks fine.
You must set "Copy Local" to "False", so it doesn't load the wrong DLLs; your \bin folder must have no CR DLLs in it.
Check out this blog I wrote to upgrade your project to VS 2022 (this has a sample web.config that does work).
The problem is that IIS can't find the CR viewer in here, or similar:
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\system_web\4_6_81\crystalreportviewers13.Copy this folder into your Project: crystalreportviewers13
A: Please register the content on your aspx page:
< %@ Register Assembly="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304" Namespace="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine" TagPrefix="CR" %>
< %@ Register Assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304" Namespace="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource" TagPrefix="CR" %>
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Delivering a new content management system to support the future vision of a digital newsroom.
The building blocks at the heart of the system are a series of new scalable components, flexible enough to allow for different journalist needs but, at the same time, ensuring a coherent design for the site as a whole. This frees journalists to focus on content, not on the structure of the site.
TMG was previously using an off-the-shelf CMS that, whilst incredibly feature-rich, no longer supported the way journalists were working. Under the old system, for example, producers had to go through 58 steps including seven repeating steps – to get a story online.
On top of this, only a handful of authors were authorised to upload content, and there were limitations in producing the rich content, graphics and imagery that today's reader demands. The goal was to find the fastest way reporters could go from writing a story to having it ready for publication.
A blended Cognifide / TMG project team set about understanding the day-to-day workflows of the digital journalists and assessing every step of the publishing process.
The proposed solution lay in creating a bespoke authoring interface to meet the varied needs of journalists on different desks. News and sports reporters, for instance, have very different needs to a fashion journalist.
At the heart of this interface, a set of bespoke components were designed and built to:
Deliver a rich end-user experience - we needed to support all the elements used in the existing site and build new scalable components to support future updates.
Be reused across multiple areas of the site - our components needed to be flexible enough to allow for differing journalist needs, whilst helping to deliver a coherent design for the site as a whole.
Enable optimal performance across multiple channels - the site is fully responsive and designed 'mobile first'. Components are designed with the constraints of mobile device performance in mind.
Streamline the work of creating the site - journalists need to focus on content, not on the structure of the site. Our components and templates needed to support a 'tag-driven' approach to building the site, where content appears in particular places by virtue of the way in which it has been tagged by the author, rather than because it has been explicitly placed on the site.
Following testing by around one-third of the Telegraph's newsroom, the site began a gradual roll-out which culminated in March 2016 with the migration of the fast-moving, high traffic Home and News sections.
This was a relaunch designed to improve the digital experience for both readers and authors.
For readers:
A new News stream with a rolling page of the latest stories of the day - arranged in chronological order so readers can easily find out everything that has happened in the past 10 minutes, the past hour or the past day.
New topic pages that collect stories from across a range of desks, accessed via tags at the bottom of articles
A redesigned navigation, making it quicker and simpler for users to find their favourite sections and articles
For authors:
85% reduction in time spent producing an article
Publishing time reduced from 27 minutes to 4 minutes
Steps required to publish an article reduced from 58 to 12
Over 300 journalists can now publish articles simultaneously
Hear Toby Wright, CTO of Telegraph Media Group, talking about their journey to digital transformation on Adobe TV.
Publishing steps reduced from 58 to 12
Publishing time reduced from 27 to 4 minutes
Barclays Africa Group
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Q: Xcode4 ExternalHosts in .plist I'm new to Xcode and Mac environment, I'm trying to set up a PhoneGap / Cordova app and I'm getting a
ERROR whitelist rejection
I did a thorough Google Search and everything said I needed to edit my .plist file and add to the ExternalHosts key.
Well my application didn't have an ExternalHosts key so from random pictures I saw on the web I added an ExternalHosts key as an array and attempted to add the sites I needed so now my Xcode .plist file looks something like this:
As you can see I tried both the domain way and an actual URI, but I'm still getting the same whitelist rejection error.
Can someone point in the right direction of how to get this working?
A: I figured it out. I was attempting to add ExternalHosts to the app build file.
Found out the file I was looking for is under /Resources/Supporting Files/Cordova(|Phonegap).plist
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Application range: whole wall of the bedroom and living room, local backdrop, children and elderly housing, hotels and KTV and other home improvement tooling.
1.Material: environmental , tasteless polyethylene foam material which can pass SGS environmental certification.
Soft and flexible, better anticollision effect for kids.
Both decided by customer's request and the order quantity.
Delivery Time Small Order shipped within 3--7 days after payment paid; If stock available shipped by next day.
Bulk Order if no stock available,,shipped within 15--25 days after payment paid.
Small Order 100% paid before shipping.
Bulk Order 30% deposit paid after sales contract confirmed,the rest 70% paid before shipping.
We sincerely welcome every customer to visit our factory! | {
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Life is a journey. Let us meet at the intersection and share a story.
Category: Pop Culture
Where is the Liberal Support for Feminism in Islam?
On December 6, 2019 By Swarn GillIn Commentary, Philosophy, Pop Culture19 Comments
I listened to a podcast a couple weeks ago where Sam Harris was interviewing Yasmine Mohammed. It was a wonderful interview and even emotional. For those of you who don't know Yasmine she is an ex-Muslim who immigrated to Canada as a child, and ended up being raised by a very strict Islamist (who incidentally had multiple wives) and was forced to marry a guy who turned out to be a Muslim extremist. She experienced a lot of abuse from her biological father, adoptive father, and her husband. Her husband was actually part of ISIS and now supposedly resides in a prison in Egypt although she has been unable to confirm it. The long and the short of it is, that she has had the full experience of what many women go through in Islamic society as second class citizens. I would argue that citizens are humans and I am not sure that many women qualify even as human in traditional Islamic communities. What they go through is absolutely dehumanizing.
But I am not here to talk about the problems with Islam. What I found really interesting about the interview was the discussion about how in the west, the left rarely criticizes Islam for how it treats women. We can criticize Christianity's patriarchal values, have TV shows like Handmaid's Tale which show just how oppressive Christianity can be, but the rules are different for Islam and how they treat women. Yasmine finds it despicable that they even try to use the hijab as some sort of symbol of female empowerment in Islam, when that is really not what it is at all. She says that Muslim women are "othered" in western society, like they are not equally human as white women, that they don't want the same freedoms that white women have. And I have to say, that I agree. I think any practices, whether they be in the context of a religion, culture, or society at large that demean and/or oppress women should be open to criticism. And women in the west, who enjoy a great deal more freedom than many Muslim women, should be joining Yasmine's fight again a very patriarchal religion.
So I wanted to support Yasmine and followed her on Twitter where she is fairly active. In many ways it doesn't make a lot of sense why feminism in the west would be on opposite sides of this battle. And if I consider myself a feminist, then Yasmine is absolutely correct, she's just human and humanist values should apply to her. I see feminism as fitting into the larger umbrella of humanism. But when I started making comments in support and in defense of her points I noticed something quite interesting. When I would look at the profiles of many of the people who liked my comments, I was surprised to find that many of them were Trump supporters, conservative white males who consider themselves libertarians, and a lot of people who I would consider to be politically alt-right. It made me feel uncomfortable. It made me wonder, what type of person am I supporting here if all these people who I would disagree with on almost about everything else are seeming to be on the same side as me? So while it doesn't change my stance that we should be just as critical of patriarchal ideas embedded in any religion, I started to see what the left might be rejecting here. If supporting an ex-Muslim fighting religious patriarchal values is putting you on the same side as conservative, alt-right racist types, what is the answer to effectively supporting people like Yasmine?
So then the question for me became, okay so what is going on?
Is it simply that these people aren't as racist as they are Christian xenophobes who fear other religions, races, and cultures invading their space? Is it basically just the enemy of the enemy is our friend?
Did, as Sam Harris has argued, that the space the left has vacated has simply allowed the right to elevate people like Yasmin in status and use her to spread their more hateful message? We see this phenomena not only in the case of religion here. But we see women who support men's issues get support from misogynist members of MRA or incels. Even Sam Harris, who I would argue is at heart liberal, often gets his words used by alt-right people when they want to reinforce Muslim stereotypes.
Many white liberal women are of the liberal Christian kind. They want religious Muslim women to be seen as strong as empowered because they then don't have to acknowledge the oppressive practices in their own faith? Would this mean that it's Yasmine's atheism that many liberal women are reacting to?
Do we have more in common with people who are alt-right than we think?
I don't really think the last one is true, but I think it's important to consider the question. Where do we go from here? Now I'm not sure whether Yasmine is politically conservative or not. Certainly I think it's possible to want equality for women while still supporting fiscally conservative issues, but I would say certainly Yasmine is socially liberal based on what she has said. Perhaps if more people on the left spoke up in support of Yasmine, all those alt-right followers would flee from her side, not wanting to be allied with us because they would have the same uncomfortable feeling I had!
While I sympathize deeply with what Yasmine Mohammed went through, I do think it's also a reality in the west that minority races and religion can experience a lot of prejudice and racism, and so in some ways I understand perhaps not wanting to critique a religion that is largely followed by darker skinned people so as to not feed stereotypes that can be used by people that would oppress them. I also think that if we are concerned with things like freedom of speech, gender equality, LGBQT rights, we have to be constantly fighting against bad ideas, and Islam, just like Christianity has a bunch of bad ones. Islam is a huge religion and I can only imagine that the amount of women and girls is in the 100s of millions who need liberal voices fighting for their rights in the same way we fight against Christian patriarchal values. I believe it is possible to fight against both prejudice against Muslims, and also still criticize the oppressive practices that Islam advocates and are practiced daily around the world.
Don't Do Anything Nice if You've Done Something Bad
On September 27, 2019 October 4, 2019 By Swarn GillIn Commentary, Pop Culture29 Comments
I read a story this morning that really made me shake my head about how misdirected we've become as a society. I think it's especially worrying, because we live in times where liberal thinking is necessary to push back against greed, against religion, against white nationalism, etc, and it is those people we need to get angry about the right things. CNN reported that a young man who was raising money through beer sales for a local hospital had raised a million dollars, but than a Des Moines news paper dug up some 7 year old tweets that were racist (he was 16 at the time) and published them in an article they wrote about him. The paper claimed that it was standard to do a social media check on people that they write stories about, and that they felt it was important for the sake of transparency to publish these 7 year old tweets so people knew who they were giving their money to.
I'll tell you who they were giving money to. A children's hospital. The guy was raising money for a FUCKING CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL!
What he wasn't doing:
made any racist tweets since then
wasn't raising money for a white's only hospital
beating black people in the streets
remaining a 16 year old
Carson King, who was raising the money, apologized publicly and tried to make the point that he is not that person anymore and that he's become kind and generous. Which given what he is trying to do, seems fairly straightforward. The apology of course cared little wait with Anhauser-Busch who have now distanced themselves from King.
There is good news here. Although Anhauser-Busch rescinded their offer to give this guy a year's supply of beer with his face on their can, they did agree to add to the donation to the hospital with what would have been that beer cost. So the hospital will still get what they were promised. More importantly the readers of the newspaper turned against them and complained about this ridiculous reporting. They went further and decided to dig up old tweets on the reporter, Aaron King, who reported the story, forcing him to then apologize for his past tweets.
It seems to me that what's really going on is that journalism is simply a competition to get clicks, and to do so they use racism as a tool to stir moral outrage among liberals. And far too many liberals are falling for it hook, line, and sinker. The way the attention economy has co-opted people with good intention is troubling and of course it happens on both sides of the political aisle. In this case we can see the ridiculousness of it all, especially since so many products we buy and use are from companies that do far more harm than this man's two tweets as a 16 year old high school student who thought he was trying to be funny. It's further concerning because this mentality of 'cancel culture' seems only interested in the condemnation of people, no matter how far in the past they held a certain view or acted in a certain way, and no matter what they have done since then. No thought has been put into whether there is any apology good enough, or any actions that a person can take to restore public opinion about them. I think this is important. If we want to hold people accountable for their actions, we need to be able to also decide what is acceptable to make up for those mistakes. I realize this is the hard part, there is going to be a lot of disagreement, but that doesn't make it any less important. Without that part, all we are doing is punishing and we move farther from creating the society we claim we want to create by supporting great liberal causes like better training for police, justice system reform, and decriminalization of illegal drugs. These are great causes that indicates a desire for restorative justice over retributive justice.
I'm glad that readers of the newspaper fought back as I think many people also felt that we're going off the deep end here. Overall we have to do better.
*quote in feature image is from Quentin Thomas of the Brown Daily Herald
The Unwise and the Immoral
On June 27, 2019 By Swarn GillIn Commentary, Musings, Philosophy, Pop Culture20 Comments
The title of this post is related to another incident of victim blaming that was in the news not too long ago. The incident involved model Bella Thorne having her computer hacked and the hacker making off with a number of private nude photos. Bella Thorne, to sort of give a big "fuck you" to the hacker, released the photos herself on Twitter. On The View, Whoopi Goldberg criticized Thorne saying essentially that one has to know in this day and age that storing such photos on a device connected to the internet (and you are a famous beautiful celebrity) is setting yourself up for this type of theft. Goldberg then received a ton of backlash including some strong words from Thorne herself for being criticized when it was of course the hacker who was the person who did something wrong and that Goldberg "should know better". I suspect Goldberg does know better. There is nothing about her that makes me think she isn't a good feminist. She has always had a no nonsense, blunt style and her comment here I don't think is meant to give the hacker a pass. I'll go so far as to say that I think she makes a good point. A point we should be able to talk about if framed correctly. Before I get accused of victim blaming, let me go into more detail about what I mean.
Hacking is a reality of this day and age, and Thorne isn't the first victim of this type of attack. This has to be part of our consciousness. There are laws against hacking, which is invading someone's privacy and stealing personal property, and their should be. It is theft and violation, plain and simple. We can say that the hacker is immoral in his actions. I think we can say that we all wish we lived in a world in which there were no hackers, and in which a woman's body wasn't a commodity that someone could profit on, such that this hacker could ostensibly get leverage over Thorne or other victims of this crime. As a society we must continue to strive to fix this bigger problem. Since we don't live in that kind of society yet, we must also act wisely. To do so requires us to be able to have conversations about wise and unwise actions to keep people and property from harm. I am sort of reminded of that old joke where a guy meets a doctor at a social gathering and tries to get some free medical advice and says "Hey doc, my arm hurts whenever I do this. (Imagine whatever arm motion you like). What should I do?" And the doctor responds "Don't move your arm like that." Clearly there is a bigger issue to solve with that person's arm, but in the short term, not doing a motion that causes you pain might be wise. We should be able to simultaneously talk about short term solutions to protect ourselves, while also addressing bigger issues that increase equality and safety for all people rendering this short term acts of caution more irrelevant over time.
If there is a neighborhood where you have an increased chance of being mugged or harmed, all sorts of people will tell you to avoid walking through that neighborhood. It is not meant to say that they condone violence or theft upon you or anybody else, it is simply meant as advice to keep you out of harms way. We don't get all bent out of shape by such advice, but the conversation goes south when women are blamed for their decisions in these types of incidents, or worse crimes like sexual violence. And I think for good reason. There have been some criticisms of social media for the fighting that erupted between two women who are likely on the same side of the fight against the patriarchy, but I'm actually not too upset about social media here, because maybe this is a conversation that needs to be had more often.
We have an older and wiser Goldberg, criticizing the wisdom of a younger Thorne. Perhaps Goldberg feels like she was helping young girls everywhere be wary of putting compromising pictures of themselves in less than secure places based on what can happen to them. Goldberg's mistake however was that she also lacked some wisdom here. As much as I'd like to live in a society where we could have honest conversations about what is a wise or unwise decision when crimes happen, when it comes to crimes against women there is just a long history of the "unwise" decision of a woman being used as an excuse for a man's immorality and criminal behavior. If a person is beaten and robbed in that unsafe neighborhood, the police will still arrest and charge the perpetrators, but too many men have gotten off Scot free because of what was deemed a woman's unwise decision. Furthermore the basis of what was considered unwise for a woman, does not apply to a man. In fact very often their unwise decisions are used to further excuse them from wrongdoing. A woman drinks too much at a party? Well then of course she kind of deserves to be raped. A guy drinks too much at a party? Well clearly he didn't really mean to rape her, he just had too many beers and didn't know what he was doing. Let's just sentence him to talk about the dangers of drinking. It's a huge problem and women have a right to absolutely tired of it. Goldberg could have said what she said in a much better way that made it clear who the bad actor was in this situation.
Let me also add that the best people in our society are ones who could take advantage but don't and instead help people be more safe. Thorne was already punished and probably knows by now what she should have done and doesn't need Goldberg's advice after the fact. So the timing of the comment is also unhelpful. Like Fareed Zakaria's advice to Sam Harris after another rant about Islam being the mother lode of bad ideas "Yeah, you're right, but you're not helping." Being right, and being helpful are often two different things.
Discussion: Privacy – Government vs. Social Media
On March 21, 2019 By Swarn GillIn Commentary, Politics, Pop Culture24 Comments
I was listening to a podcast interview with Nick Bostrom who was talking about his paper The Vulnerable World Hypothesis which looks at how we might avoid certain existential risks that might collapse civilization as we discover new technologies. It's an interesting read, but not directly related to what I want to discuss in this post. He talks about one of the solutions to dealing with such risks is increases surveillance of people. I am sure that we are all uncomfortable with that, but I think he makes a pretty good argument about why it might be necessary given the possibility of inventing some technology that is easy to use by individuals and could easily lead to widespread destruction.
It was this uncomfortability that I was thinking about and I started to think about the reaction to the scandal that was exposed a number of years ago when it was found out that the NSA was collecting all this information on U.S. Citizens. I personally didn't get concerned myself. I thought about the volume of data they are collecting and it seemed pretty clear to me that the man hours it would take to actually listen or read everyone's private communications, while solving unemployment, would be an enormous task. It seems people actually feared that an NSA agent might show up at the door and tell their wife that the husband was having an affair or something. I don't know. We definitely don't like the idea of the government having our private information, and maybe that's for good reason.
But enter social media. We have these platforms that we enter all sorts of personal information into. We talk about what we like and don't like. We post pictures of where we are and where we've been. These companies collect all this information. We know that they have algorithms that influence what we read, who comes up on our feeds, and try to feed into our political views as opposed to presenting us with opposing arguments. We know that these platforms have been used by hackers and others entities to directly manipulate people. 100s of millions of people all over the world hand over all this information willingly.
My question is, is our government anti-trust disproportional to our trust of corporations? Is it even fair to compare the two, or is their an asymmetry here that I am missing? I mean arguably NSA surveillance could be uncovering terrorist plots that prevent loss of lives, does social media have benefits that outweigh its costs? Are we being hypocritical about the importance of privacy? Is it a difference of consent of information vs. non-consent of information? I mean I might argue that I am consenting by getting a Facebook account and posting things about myself, but they are certainly using my information in many ways I don't expect or aren't aware of.
On January 23, 2019 By Swarn GillIn Commentary, Politics, Pop Culture15 Comments
Recently I had an experience on twitter where I saw somebody posting a link for an article that criticized presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and blamed Bernie Sanders for this criticism. The thread was full of people with nothing but vitriol for Bernie Sanders going so far to call him both a racist and a misogynist. My wife has noticed to that criticism of certain democratic candidates erupts into divisive attacks against Bernie Sanders supporters. When I asked for evidence of any connection to Bernie Sanders and a critique of Kamala Harris I was given none. This twitter account had 31K followers and had a lot of posts implying dark money and nefarious works of Bernie Sanders to attack the democratic establishment. The account belongs to Tom Watson and his credentials seem reputable, but for one who claims to be a journalist, he seemed to present no evidence of many of his claims.
But perhaps people like these are a dime a dozen on the internet, but it does make me extremely worried about this future election. What we need is at least some unity, preferably with people who voted for Trump, but if we can't get that we have to at least be striving for some unity in the left. Identity politics seems to be winning the day, and the left has been described some as divided into all sorts of small groups. The tribalism that we characterize the right with in terms of racism and xenophobia seems to me just as rampant across many groups on the left. It may not be some of the more obvious ones like skin color, religion, or nationalism, but it's still there and what's most worrying is that it seems to be based on very minor differences in overall worldview. It seems to me the more that liberals are at each others throats this just increases the odds that when it comes to general election time more people will stay home if their horse didn't win the primary, or might actually go across the aisle because they are so bitter after all the in fighting. There is no reason that Bernie Sanders fans should not support Kamala Harris at this point and vice-versa, but more importantly we have to get our heads on straight about why we are voting for a particular candidate. This isn't sports and who ever puts on the jersey we like we have to root for. Government's goal is to enact the best ideas about how to govern, and this should determine who we vote for.
After the last election I, and I know many of my friends did a lot of research and reflection of how we got to where we were. As incredulous as Trump's win was, to suggest that it is the fault of anybody who tried to run for the job who had generally good ideas and who represented more compassion and benevolence than Trump. Nor should we be accusing each other because we supported who we thought was going to be the best liberally minded candidate. As a Bernie supporter I was certainly disappointed, but it was clear to me that Hillary was better than Trump and I supported. Bernie fans who voted for Trump, I think were misguided, but I don't think this should start casting blame on inspirational politicians who challenge the establishment. If your vote for a candidate is solely based on gender, or racial identity, or the party they belong to, you are just as guilty of the same behavior as somebody who didn't vote for someone based on their gender or racial identity. If you are liberal what you should be for is fighting for a future in which the content of the individual running for office is the reason to vote for them. And while I think there is enormous value to new generations to grow up in a time with female president and/or ethnic minority president, there is also enormous value in having them grow up with leaders who intelligent and empathetic, and who have good ideas that are going to help people have better lives.
It's also worth remembering that the Russian interference in the election is very real, and one of the ways it worked is by exploiting division. I recently listened to this podcast interview on Sam Harris podcast with Renee DiRiesta who has done a lot of research into how Russians used social media to exploit divisions between people. Not only getting more support for Trump, but trying hard to suppress democratic voters from going to the polls. It did make a difference. They are still doing it. The same tactics have been used by terrorist organizations to recruit, and it can it it also being done within our country as well. We must resist the temptation to be divided, and while I'm certainly not suggesting that we don't take a stand on certain issues, if you are spending a lot of time arguing with people on social media you are simply wasting your time. Twitter and Facebook can take all the steps reasonably allowed to try and prevent fake accounts, but people intent on manipulation on a mass scale through social media will find away around us and it is up to use to be aware and responsible users in the end.
The anti-establishment writing is on the wall, and it was for the last election, but the DNC refused to recognize it. Trump was no anti-establishment answer but it what many people were looking for. Likely that sentiment is going to be there again and it is going to be a source of contention on the left. For those of you who followed Bernie his goal was never to actually win, but to shift the conversation. To stay focused on issues and to address the anger that many Americans were feeling towards an economic elite that were bleeding the country dry. Not all of his ideas were great, and whoever you end up supporting will probably not have all the best ideas either. I suggest:
If you want to discuss politics, discuss the issues. Avoid name calling and personal attacks.
Stay away from social media for your information and to keep your emotional health in check during this election season. It's a ridiculously long cycle in the U.S. and it's easy to let your boredom lead you down the path of social media, but it is not your friend, and there are entities on there aiming to continue to divide people. Don't let it work. Not only do you share many similar concerns with your fellow democrat, but probably also your fellow Republican.
Consider supporting a few newspapers monetarily. These platform that are free and run on advertising are prone to attention getting not truth finding. Good information and journalism costs money. Do some research on what papers have good investigative research and get an on-line subscription
Promote empathy by sticking with politicians who demonstrate it, and also be giving it to your fellow human.
On December 10, 2018 December 10, 2018 By Swarn GillIn Musings, Pop Culture, Prose and Poetry18 Comments
I'd like to broach a subject,
About something we all do.
While we might be social creatures,
Some folks make us mad or blue.
So what are the things you do,
To avoid having a conversation?
Have you ducked into a restroom,
Feigning troubling constipation?
Have you ever silenced your phone,
Or just tossed it in your trunk?
Claimed a received message was errant?
Then said, "Boy technology is junk!"
Have you minimized a window,
Or changed the size of the page,
Just to not even see the name,
Of someone who causes you fits of rage?
Have you said you're off to bed,
Even when you stay up late,
Just to binge on your favorite show,
Or get rid of that annoying date?
Have you just replied "LOL"
Just to get the parlay to end?
Or said, "Aw, I meant to reply,
But I forgot to hit 'SEND'"?
Have you ever received an e-mail,
But just didn't give a damn?
And replied in the second one,
That their first one went to spam.
Sometimes you've missed a message,
And don't want anyone to know,
Thankfully software has no feelings,
Or carries grudges to let go.
I am not saying that it's right,
To act with so little grace,
But in this communication age,
We all need a bit of space.
And truly, people can be annoying,
I'm no exception to the rule,
And we often escalate the drama,
As our response just adds more fuel.
Go too far and you may risk,
Being without and job and all alone,
We need goodwill and interaction,
No human is a stone.
But there is no shame in practicing,
Some insanity prevention,
By not sinking in a morass of time,
From some acquaintance's dissension.
Find your peace and your balance,
With your tricks and your white lies,
You're going to feel a little guilt,
But it also might be wise.
If I don't have time to reply
To your comments about this verse,
I promise that the excuses I give,
Are all very well rehearsed.
Free Speech Crisis? Really???
On November 20, 2018 By Swarn GillIn Commentary, Politics, Pop Culture, Psychology, Science16 Comments
Although I recently posted a blog about free speech a new line of thinking has crystallized my thoughts a little better on the subject. There are numerous prominent intellectuals, like Sam Harris and Jonathan Haidt, who are expressing concerns about free speech. This is a cause that many liberals are now concerned about. To the point that they say it is fascism on the left chilling people's free speech. I am not fan of disinviting speakers who have views we disagree with, and I think it's important to hear well researched and thought out points of view. If we are unable to do that on a widespread basis, then I do agree we have a problem. But are we are we really at that point and are we, at this current moment, experiencing a free speech crisis in countries like the U.S? Is the PC crowd really destroying freedom of expression in our society? Here is the view of one such person who disagreed with my assertion that I don't think we have to worry about the first amendment being abolished. Apparently I've missed the point:
perhaps through firings for 'insensitivity', public shaming based on accusations, grovelling apologies if offence is claimed, speakers being deplatformed and disinvited, ongoing vilification of those who break the ideological group taboo and dare to criticize a protected group, not being politically correct enough, daring to use facts and evidence contrary to an ideological assertion about victimhood and oppression, professional and personal sanctions for not being sensitive enough and so on, encountering a new 'tree' each and every time, so to speak, and not addressing the larger issue of the free speech principle. The sentiment raised by Swarn is wrong because this is in fact the rising danger… not because a totalitarian government is on the brink of being elected and canceling free speech by edict but because people by and large are self censoring now, not attending now, not supporting the right of those with whom we may disagree now, cancelling subscriptions now, showing up and disrupting events now, being dismissive free speech for those with whom we disagree now. It is already of such common practice that individuals are curtailing their right to free speech willingly and right now in response to the totalitarian ideology of those who champion social justice through GroupThink and PC, those who stand ready to vilify those blasphemers with the handy labels of bigotry, racism, sexism, ever-ready group smears to be liberally applied as alt Right, fake news, alternative facts, deplorables, and so on. We self censor because of this toxic atmosphere in which we live and the ubiquitous punishments implemented all around us when some people dare to defy it
Besides the fact that obviously any of the people who we are concerned about being "de-platformed" or abused on twitter, or have lost their job still have plenty of platforms to air their views, I'd like to approach the narrative from a different direction. In a recent interview with Sam Harris, journalist Rebecca Traister addressed the following concern by Sam Harris of what he felt were innocuous comments by Matt Damon on Twitter about the #metoo movement. She said that every day in this country people are fired from jobs with no explanation given. It could be their race, their sexuality, their gender, it could be legitimate. The point is, why do we only get concerned when powerful people seem to be unfairly treated given they really don't lose much of their wealth or their status. Matt Damon seems just fine despite getting yelled at on Twitter. When she said this, it resonated with me because I had thought something very similar in regards to this response to my blog comment above with regards to all of us having to self-censor in this PC culture. And I thought about how often women have had to self-censor when they experience sexual harassment? How often have black people had to self-censor when they experienced discrimination? For those who are the bottom end of societal hierarchies, life is a constant stream of self-censoring.
Now that social media has helped give many people a voice should we be surprised that many are using it say, "you know what, we just aren't buying what you're selling"? Now it's not to say that there aren't overreactions, but I would argue that saying "being homosexual isn't natural" is a far larger overreaction that persisted for quite some time in society. In an episode of the Guilty Feminist host Deborah Frances-White said that whenever she hears that the #MeToo movement has gone too far she just thinks "yeah but the previous Women-Have-To-Put-Up-With-Any-Shit movement really had a good run. That went long. For millennia". She goes on to say, in regards to the #MeToo movement, maybe all this PC culture is doing is giving all of us an opportunity (or at least should be) to increase our public empathy. We are at the very least thinking about the fact that what we do and say could be hurtful to other people, and I don't think that's a bad thing.
You may think that I am making a two wrongs make it right sort of argument, and I guess in a way I am, but let me clarify. It's interesting to me how when power structures are questioned the reaction is always far more knee-jerk. And why does it largely seemed to be white males concerned about this? I mean has anybody who is worried about threats to free speech even presented data that this is an increasing problem, that there are more concerns today than ever before? When you approach the narrative from the other side, at the lower end of the hierarchy, the fact that more secular people are free to express doubts about religion, more black people are allowed to express their equality to whites, more homosexuals are able to be openly gay, more women are allowed to be in jobs previously only held by men…I'd say that things are actually far more open. Again is it possible that the pendulum might swing too far in the other direction at times? Sure. But to say that we are in some sort of free speech crisis, I think, is a ludicrous claim. Even Jonathan Haidt who was the first to take note of this issue of de-platforming speakers on campus has done a lot of nice work in really trying to understand what's going on here and by no means think that college students are more against free speech today than in the past. In an article by Jeffrey Adam Sachs in the Washington Post, he argues:
"In fact, our speech is often much more restricted off campus than on. Consider the workplace, where most non-students spend the bulk of their time when not at home. Once you're on the job, most First Amendment rights disappear. The things you say, the clothing you wear, even the bumper stickers on the car you parked in the company lot — all can be restricted by private-sector employers. Perhaps the reason campus free speech controversies can sound so strange is because few of us are aware of how much we are already shielded from hateful or offensive speech."
Just because I don't think we are in a free speech crisis doesn't mean I necessarily agree with silencing people who have disagreeable views. I think that we have to always be careful to think whether our actions will enhance or diminish the number of people who hold such views. Not engaging with people we disagree with can run counter to our goals towards social justice. That doesn't mean we should be publicly debating a racist every week either. Just like I don't think I need to invite a 'Flat Earther' to my class to hash it out in a physics debate, I think a white supremacist is just as fundamentally wrong about the nature of humanity as a 'Flat Earther' is about the nature of the universe and I think it's okay to be somewhat dismissive to such views. But perhaps punching them isn't exactly the most helpful thing to do either. They are all still human, and just like the 'Flat Earther' somehow they've become misguided and it's possible to both oppose their views with strength and recognize their humanity. As writer and journalist Johann Hari said in an interview:
"It is right to challenge racism, but it has to be challenged in an intelligent way that doesn't produce more racism, and that's a fine balance. And I understand why a lot of people say, why should I have to pussyfoot around this?"
And one of my favorite moments in listening to Sam Harris' Waking Up podcast was in interview with Fareed Zakaria, when Harris was going on about the dangers of Islamic ideology, Fareed coolly said, "Yeah, you're right, but you're not helping."
And I think those few words are extremely important to remember. We need to better at the helping part than being right. I think it's possible to do both, but it's not always the easiest way. This is a topic perhaps for another post, but let's not send people into alarmist mindsets about crises of free speech, when so many other problems are still widespread and harmful in the western world. Let's try to understand what's underlying people's fears and worries and see what we can do to help. Let's try to keep some perspective here. The privilege of the powerful is still far greater than those in the society who have no voice.
To Dhyan: Year 6
Update on a recent blog post of mine
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How #PokemonGo Turned Couch Potatoes Into Fitness Fanatics Without Them Even Realising It
A person will engage in exercise if they choose to do so (autonomy), feel they are gaining valuable skills or achieving a goal (competence), or enjoying social interactions (relatedness). And that's where Pokemon Go comes in: it motivates users because it provides a pure form of these core needs. You can choose when to go Pokemon hunting and which Pokemon to hunt. By catching and training Pokemon you gain levels and status, and walking up to 10km can hatch rare Pokemon eggs that you have found. Additionally, you can hunt in packs or with one or two close allies, or share augmented reality snaps over social media.
Gotta catch 'em all. Stoyan Yotov / Shutterstock.com
By John A Parkinson, Bangor University
Pokemon Go is taking the world by storm. Within days of its US release, its number of daily active users caught up with longstanding apps Twitter, Snapchat and Google Maps, and it became the biggest mobile game in US history. Since then, the game has been launched worldwide, creating a user base which spends more time playing Pokemon Go than the average Facebook user spends on site.
The app is supposedly generating upwards of $10m a day in revenue from the sale of PokeCoins, and is so engaging that people have walked into lakes and fallen off cliffs while playing.
Pokemon appear anywhere there is a mobile data signal. Author provided
This latest version of the Pokemon game has also been hailed for increasing physical activity in a group of individuals that have traditionally been seen as couch potatoes. Since 1980, worldwide obesity has doubled. Likewise, people are spending more time sitting down. Pokemon Go is undoubtedly a great tool for boosting physical and mental health, and could probably claim to be the most successful health app on the market without even trying to be. But why is it so motivating for some, and how can we harness this power to change other behaviours?
Each of us possesses an intention-action gap (IAG). This is the discrepancy between our ideal self – what our values and intentions are – and our real self, that is what our actions actually are, what we actually achieve. The bigger the gap, the worse it is for us: if our intention is to spend 30 minutes a day being active and yet only do this maybe once a week, then we will be frustrated with ourselves and have poorer health outcomes.
The IAG concept has been studied extensively in the context of saving the planet. We might all say we want to behave responsibly and reduce climate change, but how many of us actually do things that are consistent with this, such as recycling, buying sustainable produce or reducing air miles? The theory applies equally to health behaviours too. So how do we close this gap?
The world is becoming bipolar between those that embrace exercise and those that do not. While obesity accelerates, so does the popularity of triathlons and many other sports. For some, exercising is intrinsically motivating and we need not worry about them, but the rest need a different approach.
We know from the history of behaviour change that people don't like being told what to do. So for those who are not motivated to exercise we need to find an alternative way. Self-determination theory argues that we will work energetically to satisfy three core psychological needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness.
Still behind a screen but gamers are getting out and about thanks to Pokemon Go. Wachiwit / Shutterstock.com
The game harnesses our vulnerability to a phenomenon known as stimulus-bound behaviour. Because the world is so complex and we have limited processing power, our brains automatise much of our behaviour, developing habits. These operate by identifying stimuli in the environment that we have specific automatic responses to, like braking at a red light. This stimulus control is incredibly powerful in controlling behaviour. In Pokemon Go it is harnessed by tracking specific Pokemon, PokeStops, and PokeGyms. Essentially we relinquish control over goals and actions to these stimuli, but while they can support bad habits – encouraging some to smoke, or buy that sugary coffee they don't really need – they can also help us achieve our chosen goals.
Being the very best
There are few health apps that also happen to be fun for those who are not intrinsically motivated to exercise. Pokemon Go's global release is a success story that we cannot ignore going forward: its impact on getting players up and moving is probably one of the greatest technological advances of the last few years.
Going forward, we need investment in research to help understand complex behaviour change and how we can use it to get the world's population to be more active. Alongside this, it is clear that we need to invest in augmented reality, and explore how it can be used in mobile games. Pokemon was already an outright success before the app was released but there are many other brands and digital universes that could harness a similar approach to their future releases. Imagine competing in a 100 metre Olympic-style event against Nintendo characters augmented in real life, or hunting out rupees and other treasures to use in The Legend of Zelda's Hyrule.
By using gamified augmented reality, we can close the intention-action gap at an individual level and promote sustainable healthy behaviour – without anyone even realising it.
About Today's Contributor
John A Parkinson, Professor in Behavioural Neuroscience, Bangor University
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If you are lost, you will be found!
And these things only begin to describe LIFE in the presence of Jesus.
If you could ask for one thing from God, what would it be? How long would you think about that question before submitting your request? Most of us have immediate needs… money for a car repair, or direction for a big decision, or relief from a broken marriage. Those are serious needs, but is that the one thing you want the most?
Let me reframe that question in a way that helps me: if there was one thing I could ask from God that would fulfill and satisfy my heart every day for the remainder of my life, what would it be?
Isn't that the kind of thing you ask for when you can only ask for one thing?
In Psalm 27:4, David exposes the deepest longing of his heart when he writes, "One thing I have desired of the Lord." There is something he wants from God… a single desire. He hasn't said yet what it is, but to get the one thing it seems clear I must want just one thing.
But desire is not enough. He writes, "that will I seek." Some people will go all their lives wanting God, but will never seriously seek God. David is different. He throws himself into the effort, seeking God by faith with determination and intentionality.
What is he seeking? To dwell in the presence of God "all the days of my life." Every day. He does not want to merely "visit," but David wants to live there… in His Presence.
(1) He wants to "behold" Him. He wants to see God, but not with his physical eyes. Walking into the deepest recesses of the Temple complex, David would have only seen the Ark of the Covenant with the eyes in his head, but with the eyes of his heart he knows he can gaze on the "beauty of the Lord." No speaking is involved, just seeing… simple, childlike wonder at who He is… contentment in His love… deep satisfaction. David's soul thirst becomes soul rest.
1 Samuel 23:4-5, 10-11, 12-14 David inquired of the LORD once again.
2 Samuel 21:1 …and David inquired of the LORD.
David's one desire is to live his life within the confines of an intimate relationship with God.
He shares his desire in order to influence the generations that would follow.
As college freshmen, a friend and I spent some evenings handing out booklets about Jesus. Walking up and down Guadalupe Street next to the University of Texas campus, the reactions we encountered ranged from genuine interest (rare) to open hostility (common). We were ignored. Called names. Threatened. Some self-designated "Satanists" even tried to hex us.
Carved into the side of the iconic UT Tower in Austin, John 8:32 is clearly visible. Every day hundreds of students pass by these words of Jesus: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." As a way of launching a conversation, we often posed the question, "Do you know what's inscribed on the Tower and who said it?" Some said Abraham Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt. A few said Gandhi or Buddha. On discovering it was Jesus, most were surprised, and a few would stop and talk with us awhile.
"Yes! Heaven is a place where there is no more death, only life," I replied.
"Sounds very boring to me," he said flatly. Well, that was not what I expected to hear, but I realized later he was right. I had left Jesus out of my description of heaven! A heaven without Jesus would be boring.
Two conversations with two very different young men were causing me to think more deeply about my relationship with Jesus. My Buddhist buddy made me realize that it is the presence of God that makes heaven amazing. The guy out on Guadalupe Street assumed he could maintain his personal autonomy after death. As I thought about that, I realized he was right. You can do this life — and eternity — without Jesus. You can. But you'll regret it. It is the absence of God that creates hell.
If I asked you to describe what life is like with someone who loves you, you would probably describe your relationship in terms of a series of experiences and effects. He makes me feel safe. She makes me laugh. He makes me happy. She makes me want to do my best. You can live without that person, but your life wouldn't be the same.
When you have a relationship with Jesus, He impacts your life in the same way. He said, "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Knowing Him intimately and personally dramatically affects your life, and because the relationship is eternal, so is the quality of life Jesus described. A relationship with a friend or spouse may falter and fail, causing you to lose the life you enjoyed with that person. Not so with Jesus.
God is an infinite Being, perfect and measureless in all that He is. To have a relationship means that any experience with Him — the byproducts of being in communion with Him — will also be infinite. Infinite meaning… and joy… and completion… and satisfaction. It is impossible to enter into an open and intimate exchange with God, and not experience eternity as an endless succession of these things. This is heaven.
But what if you do NOT have a relationship with Him? Instead of infinite intimacy with God, you are exposing yourself to the effects of an infinite "non-intimacy." Your sense of loss and isolation will never be erased by His nearness. Your pain and sorrow will never be eliminated by His healing and comfort. Your sin and selfishness will never meet His grace and the transforming presence of His Holy Spirit. Your anger and resentment will never be melted away by the unceasing revelation of His justice and mercy.
Before you die, you can know something of the love and goodness of God that He has hardwired into creation, without having any connection to Him. But if you die like that — never entering into a relationship with Him by placing your faith in His Son — you will discover that those earthly hints of God's presence are all gone. The god you served in life will be the only god you have in eternity… just you. The only resources available to you will be those you are able to provide for yourself, like a drifting soul in a limitless ocean with no relief in sight. This is hell.
The great gulf between heaven and hell is the eternal gap between experiencing or not experiencing an infinitely abundant relationship with God — the difference between life in His kingdom, and life within the boundaries of your own kingdom. Hell is a place of your choosing. A soul fortress composed of walls you construct… a place where you can call the shots… a kingdom with exactly one citizen, one companion, one preoccupation, and one sovereign: self. | {
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Fortune Turners: New book recounts tales of India's famed spin quartet
By Arun Janardhan 18 August 2019
Chandra loved horse racing and Mukesh's songs, Bedi liked to hug while Prasanna thought he was a pretty good batsman
One of the memories former England cricket captain Mike Gatting has of India's famed spin quartet is specifically of Bishan Singh Bedi. While Gatting did not play much against the four—Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwath Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan being the other three—he remembered one incident with Bedi.
Batting against the left-arm spinner during a match, Gatting stepped out to clout Bedi over the boundary. Bedi, known to be a larger than life figure with a hearty laugh, smiled at Gatting, which was not the reaction the Englishman expected. A couple of deliveries later, Bedi got Gatting out and smiled—again a reaction the batsman did not expect.
Gatting, who was in Mumbai this week, recalled the incident at the launch of a new book Fortune Turners: The Quartet that Spun India to Glory by Aditya Bhushan and Sachin Bajaj. The book chronicles the careers of the famous four, who dominated Indian bowling in the 1960s-70s and were instrumental in some of the team's famous victories of the time.
Left-arm spinner Bedi, off-spinners Prasanna and Venkataraghavan and leg- spinner Chandrasekhar played only one Test match together, but competed all along for a place in the Indian team which could not have possibly accommodated all four. More often than not, three out of four were part of the starting eleven at the time.
Bedi, whose career spanned from 1966 to 1979, took 266 wickets from 67 Tests, which was at one point an Indian record. Chandrasekhar's 242 wickets from 58 Tests (1964-79) included a famous 6-38 at The Oval that gave India its first series win in England. Prasanna's 16-year international career between 1962-78 brought him 189 wickets from 49 Tests while his immediate rival for a place in the Indian team, Venkataraghavan, had 156 wickets from 57 matches in a career that lasted from 1965 to 1983.
Together, the four spinners took 853 Test wickets from 231 matches between them, which gave them both fame and a mythical quality for the later generations of cricket fans to remember by. Tales have been passed down generations of Bedi's guile and effortless run-up, Prasanna's mesmerising flight in deliveries, Chandrasekhar's unplayable faster ones and Venkataraghavan's intelligence and accuracy.
At the launch of the book at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, the authors, former teammates, and at least one opponent remembered the spinners with little anecdotes that went beyond their cricketing achievements. They pointed out to the foursome's dominance during an era when other great Indian bowlers, like Padmakar Shivalkar, now 79, who was present in the audience, could not find a place in the Test team.
Bhushan, who has written a biography of India's first Test captain C K Nayudu titled A Colonel Destined to Lead, mentioned how Chandrasekhar continues to be a fan of the singer Mukesh and how the other three regarded him the best among them. In an incident that well defines the former cricketer, when he went to meet Bedi, Bhushan wanted to double check with the spinner's staff if he had come to the right place. "There is only one Bishan Singh Bedi," he was told.
Yajurvindra Singh, whose brief four-Test career overlapped with that of the four players, had a significant role to play even during that short stint. He managed two world records in that period—most catches in an innings (five) and most in a match (seven)—both in Test debut. As a close-in fielder, Singh contributed to the spinners' success while also enjoying a ringside view of their magic.
Singh said the four bowlers always took their batting seriously too, though they were not really known for that skill. For instance, once with Singh at the crease close to end of play, Prasanna came out to bat as 'night watchman' instead of Bedi. When Singh asked why, Prasanna said because he was "protecting Bedi", implying that he was a more competent batsman.
"Fielding to Chandra at forward short-leg was the biggest challenge because edges would come fast," recollected Singh. They also had a common interest in horse racing. During drinks intervals, Chandrasekhar would ask him about the horses rather than discuss the match, remembered Singh.
"I had a love-hate relationship with Venkat," added Singh. "He was an introvert and I was an extrovert. Chandra was so humble, a legend without the flourish of today's generation. Bedi liked to hug and laugh loudly.
"But they all were intelligent, articulate and educated. They were all super humans."
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42 // Rowan McCandless on How to Create a Writing Community
In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk to Rowan McCandless about finding your writing community. Rowan is someone who is a part of my writing community and it's the better for it. She is someone deeply committed to the craft of writing and who lifts up other writers.
Go to the episode transcript.
Rowan and I talk about her experience finding her writing community—and as much as there are positive, joyful experiences, she also describes a negative, racialized encounter in a writing course early on. (I mention this in particular for my racialized listeners who may want a heads up before for hearing this.)
Rowan shares four different intentional ways she works in community with writers. And she reads from "An Inventory of Wants and Needs" from her forthcoming book, Persephone's Children.
You can find Rowan online at rowanmccandless.com—take a look at the about page that stymied me.
And you will find Rowan's debut book of innovative essays, Persephone's Children, out from Dundurn Press and in bookstores (support your local bookstore with curbside) in September 2021.
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[00:00:01.020] – Rachel Thompson
Welcome luminous writers to the Write, Publish and Shine podcast, I am your host, author and literary magazine editor Rachel Thompson. This podcast explores how to write and share your brilliant writing with the world. In each episode, we delve into specifics on how to polish and prepare your writing for publication and the journey from emerging writer to published author. In this episode, it is my absolute pleasure to talk to Rowan McCandless about finding your writing community. Rowan is someone who is part of my writing community and it is the better for it. She's someone deeply committed to the craft of writing and a writer who really lifts up other writers.
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Rowan and I talk about her experience finding her writing community. And as much as there are positive, joyful experiences, she also describes a negative racialized encounter in a writing course that she took early on. I mention this in particular for my racialized listeners who may want a heads up before hearing this.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Rowan McCandless in the Write, Publish and Shine podcast. I actually want to introduce you and I'm stymied by that because of your lovely website, that I'm very familiar with. Because it's kind of non-linear in the introduction and that I was trying to find one from your publisher. So I'm just wondering, I know you so well, but I know as someone who's writing fiction, creative nonfiction, you have a forthcoming book of essays.
You've won prizes like the Constance Rooke Prize, you're a finalist for the Journey Prize. What else would you like me to include from your bio?
[00:01:46.400] – Rowan McCandless
I would like to include the National Magazine Awards, where I won gold and also received an honorary mention for one of a kind storytelling. That was just this year, so that was what was really exciting.
Yeah, and that was the piece from the Fiddlehead that was a visual memoir. And the reason I'm stymied, I'm going to include this because I think it's so interesting. And something really cool about you is you really are a visual storyteller.
Your About Page has this whole sort of visual patchwork that you can enter into at any point to kind of get the bio. And that was the piece that you went for as well, too, was in that kind of form. As you know, I invited you here today to talk about writing community, and it's kind of a continuation of some conversations that we had in little snippets here and there. And one time you said to me that writing community kept you writing, that you started writing on your own, but then you knew at a certain point you needed to seek out community and that sustained your writing.
Can you tell me more about this and what that means for you?
For sure. For me, the ways that communities sustained my writing from the get go was that having left a domestic abuse situation almost four years ago, I was pretty isolated when it came to connections with people. And so by attending writing workshops and online courses and conferences, those were ways for me to meet other writers and form friendships and foster community. And these beautiful writers supported and encouraged me to keep on writing during the most one of the most difficult periods that I've gone through.
And what does that look like for me in terms of community and it helping to sustain my writing? That one, it's the ongoing friendships and conversations. And two, it's that I have a number of different groups that I make use of to help foster my writing. For example, I do two one-on-one workshops with another writer. I have an accountability group. I have writing meet-upswhere we spend an hour writing together and I have two different in-person writing groups, although with COVID we've now moved online.
And how has this changed for you? Because when I met you, you were starting to send work out. I think by then, actually, you had won a prize with Room or you had shortlisted at least for the prize. I'm wondering how now that you're on the cusp of really becoming a published author, your book of essays is coming out next year. How is writing community changed for you over your journey to be a soon to be published author?
I think it's changed in that it's grown. I have many more connections than I did when I started and that I find that people are just so generous in terms of offering support and encouragement and cheerleading me on. When it comes to my writing, I don't really find that much of a difference.
Do you find a difference between this local in-person writing community and that's in Winnipeg and then, we've never met in the flesh, which is so strange to think about because of the fact that, I feel really connected to you in writing community. And I think you have other writers, all over the world really, who are connected to you in that way. So what is the difference, barring the COVID times where everything's online, but between local and in-person community, writing community versus online?
Both are supportive, both offer me similar support, the online community on a much broader scale. With my online community however, I've made good friends from not only across Canada but also in different countries. So whether it's in person or online, both communities are very important to me and that the strong connections are there. I very much feel that we're cheerleading each other on. And to me, that's a very important part of community is that rise.
We all rise together as others uplift you and your writing. It's that I feel my job as a responsible and community member to also then do the same for other writers, that as we all rise, we all rise together.
I just love that approach. The rising tide lifts all boats concept.
I hesitate to ask, but then I'm thinking that, sometimes maybe this is perceived or real, but there can be negative experiences in a community like gatekeeping. Have you experienced anything like that?
The worst experience I've ever had was I attended a workshop on poetry and I was the only person of colour in the room, which in some ways is always an initial red flag to me. So during the workshop, first off, one woman bemoaned the fact that many of her friends who are male poets were having difficulty being published because of, and I quote, "all that diversity going around."
And then at the same workshop, I had another participant come up to me during break and she said to me that I would have no trouble getting published. So I asked her, like why? And she said, Well, that's because you're indigenous. And so she didn't see me as a person, she couldn't see me as a writer, I was only a colour to her or what she wanted to project on to me. So when I told her I wasn't indigenous, she gave me this look like I was trying to pull one over on her so that that was a difficult workshop to sit through I have to say.
How right it is to kind of make that assessment and go, hey, well, there are only white people in this room, I might not be safe in this room.
And how these are definitely people that you will not seek out for being part of our communities for sure.
For sure.
It's a much different feeling when I'm in a workshop where it's all people of color. It's like we walk into the room and we all agree the collective sigh of relief. There is a difference I find in that too.
Then knowing you won't be exposed to that kind of experience, and then unfortunately, you know, maybe there are people who are in a position of gatekeeping who feel that way.
I think part of community and I'm wondering if you agree, because, you're saying that to you about being in a workshop where you're the only people of color, you know, OK, I can breathe a sigh of relief because we can help each other kind of navigate this world of gatekeeping by some people with ignorant points of view like that.
Thinking about that negative experience you described in the workshop, I'm wondering if or how this might relate to any other experience with community you have in your history, like growing up.
That experience really, really holds a deep history growing up by being black and biracial and not necessarily looking like any particular ethnicity, people always thought that they were in a position of authority to define me, but my identity had more to do with the perceptions of others than it did with me. So, it certainly does relate in terms of my past history, just that some writers thought that they could make an assumption about who I am and also the fact that I don't necessarily look like a person of colour at times, that some people will say things that perhaps you wouldn't ordinarily have said to me in person.
So that's why I kind of wondered why, that woman with the all that diversity comment, perhaps she didn't realize who was sitting in the room, but then I think, well, no, she probably she probably did know what was going on. So I think it does have it does ring with my growing up years and something that I still obviously come face to face with, given that situation with that particular workshop.
And this is thematic in some of your writing as well, too.
It's obviously, important in a sense, your personal history, because it's part of your experience, although, you know, disappointing that has to be the things that you're writing about. I'm wondering at this point, actually, if you want to talk a little bit about the essays and Persephone's Children and the themes that you're exploring in the book.
Sure with Persephone's children, it's a series of genetically linked and inventive essays where I use different forms in order to go into the work. I find just because of talking about that personal family history or that personal history, that's directly affected me in the outside world that there were stories that were important to tell, and for me, the form is as important to Persephone's Children as the content. For example, one essay is written as a Q and A, another essay is written as a marital contract, another essay is written as an archaeological study.
And there are very real reasons why it was written that way. Because when you leave a situation of domestic abuse, which is one of the themes of the book, you don't remember everything, you don't remember seeing this necessarily in a sequential fashion, that it's all kind of fragmented and you remember bits of the bits of that. So for my essay, was very important to me in terms of writing this book so that other people as well can see what was the possibilities in terms of what does a memoir look like so that people feel that they can start to tell their own stories?
That that was important for me to say here, here, these stories that are written in this particular outlier fashion.
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We're going to take a quick break right now. But after the break, Rowan will read an excerpt from her forthcoming book of essays, Persephone's Children.
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We open up the windows trying to breathe new life into the house. I'm ashamed that my friends are seeing my home under such conditions. My home deserves better. I deserve better. Heather, who is petite and brave and writing a memoir about the recent loss of her husband to cancer and who also runs a professional cleaning service and has offered to do the move out cleaning as a gift to me deserves better too.
Bernie, whom I met through the community classroom and who gives the best of hugs, and her delightful husband, Bill, are in the basement dealing with the disaster of a tool room. The area is overflowing with boxes. Hardware, mismatched lamps, containers of leftover paint, dodgy crafts supplies and various thrift store finds. Tucked against the back wall is a dresser from my childhood, still waiting to be repainted and repurposed. They're tossing out anything that's dried up, rusted, missing pieces or in disrepair, anything I won't use or that can't be donated.
I'm fortunate to have their help because if it was up to me, I'd be mulling over every paintbrush, every jar of mismatched nails, every piece of retro furniture waiting to be coated with milk paint. Every object tells a story and I'm finding the letting go difficult.
And that's Rowan McCandless reading from "An Inventory of Wants and Needs" from her forthcoming book, Persephone's Children. So now that you're teaching and mentoring students, I'm wondering what you do to foster writing community with your own students?
I very much encourage them to get to know one another and to engage in conversations on Slack. Another thing that we've incorporated that I've incorporated is setting up Zoom calls where the group can get together and we touch base and to see how they're doing and how their writing is going. And I find that giving the opportunity, both online, in print and also online to video it makes a huge difference in terms of how that community starts to come together. So I found that those are two very real ways that help to foster community with my writing students.
Having more real-time conversation.
Being able to have that time to meet face to face, I think especially maybe in these times just to meet an actual human being is something that fosters that feeling of connection. So I really appreciate that there is this technology out there and it's something that I can offer my students.
One of the things that I started doing in my workshops that I've been holding with some of my students is like having ground rules for conversations and, you know, identifying those things that you mentioned that were so egregious around, what would be called micro-aggressions.
But I think now is more apt to say just sort of racial attacks. Do you feel the need to create this kind of ground rules or are you more selective about the students that you approach? Or how do you work that?
I think it's a matter of going over the ground rules and just letting people know that, when you meet one another and with mutual respect and in somewhat of a sacred space and that to date, I haven't had any problems with any of the students that I've had in my classes.
I wonder how long ago was that experience that you had in that workshop? I don't want to dwell on that experience because I'm sure it was really hard. Also wondering, I guess there's some kind of optimistic voice in my head and saying, well, maybe this has changed, but I'm sort of being naive about that.
I don't know, maybe, those particular people, they had a change of thought or are more cognizant of the words that fall out of their mouth.
Yeah, I guess I wasn't thinking that, but more like they would know better than to say [laughs] that.
See, I don't come with that particular approach. It's kind of like I have to go in, I guess, somewhat guarded because part of me expects. Something like that to happen. Which is unfortunate, but it's just, the way. The way I can set up a boundary for myself in order to feel safe to enter that space. If that makes any sense.
Yeah, for sure. I guess what I'm thinking is just how unfortunate for someone like and how lucky we are that you persisted through this writing, and went to find your writing community in spite of these really horrible, demeaning comments that you received early on.
I'm wondering what you would say to writers listening, and probably you'd have, certain things that you'd want to say to people of colour who are listening racialized people who are writers, who don't have a writing community and don't know where to start building those connections.
I would say, in person, your local library could be a resource, See if they're offering any community writing workshops that you get to meet other writers in that way. Your province's Writers Guild, that they offer, workshops and different activities. Such as readings for people to get together, so that's another way that you can help begin to foster your writing community. Attend local writing festivals and conferences is another way, online classes for sure for me was the way to build writing community.
So I took classes with people such as yourself, Nicole Breit, Chelene Knight, and Kathryn Mockler. Many opportunities to connect with other writers were fostered in that way. Also with COVID, attending online festivals and conferences and, seeing who you may meet and find compatible to maybe pursue as part of your writing community, engage with writers on Twitter. Many are on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. So just find conversations that you're interested that other writers are interested in and to engage in that type of thing.
And those all foster community. As well, I would say submitting to lit mags. A great deal of my community has come from having submitted work to different literary magazines, they led to different opportunities to meet other writers in other ways. And so I would say that's another way for sure to help to start to build a writing community.
When you talk about engaging with lit mags, you're obviously building relationships with the editors at the lit mags and maybe you're attending readings with other writers who submitted in the issue, what are other things, I guess, that you've done or you've seen and that's been effective, like have people reached out to you about your writing and you've forged connections that way? Can you walk me through a little bit like the nitty-gritty maybe of how those connections are made?
Sure. I mean, at first, it would begin with the editors that you're working with and then there may be, some other person or persons who are attached to the lit mag that also need to work in conjunction with you and editors are people too, so it's a way to meet other people that way, and then I found that as my submissions were accepted in various lit magazines, that then you get to be known.
Your certain pieces of writing and people are attracted to you as you kind of then see what their writing is all about and you say, yeah, that's pretty cool stuff. I want to know more. And that I found that every submission led to every other opportunity and eventually to my book deal for Persephone's Children has all been based on connections, people who have supported and uplifted and believed in my work.So I'm profoundly grateful to all of them.
I think you met your editor, that was through the Journey Prize, is that right, that they approached you or?
Um, let me say no, it was through Black Writers Matter that was edited by Whitney French. She had become an acquisitions editor at Dundurn. And she remembered my work. And I was one of the first people she reached out to ask if I had anything available and luckily, I was working on Persephone's children at the time, and it just sort of meshed and worked out.
So it was from the connection with an anthology to then reconnecting with a book.
Brilliant. I love that story. Is there are there any kind of final things you wanted to share with us about what you think of when you think of writing community.
My final thoughts, I think, about writing in community that it's something that's really crucial to a person's writing life. Writing is such a solitary act that you need to have community to talk to and review each other's work with.
And offer that support, I think it's so important because writing is such a solitary act and that you'll meet so many incredible people and be able to learn from them and they learn from you, and I just think that's like a beautiful thing. So those would be my final thoughts, about writing a community to say that it's important. And I hope people may be inspired by this to, who haven't as yet formed a writing community to start to think of ways for themselves in order to reach out and begin that process.
Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us about writing community, Rowan.
Well, thank you so much for having me and for this wonderful conversation. I greatly appreciate it.
So that was my interview with the lovely Rowan McCandless. Rowan mentioned in our conversation four different intentional ways she works in community with writers. The first is she's in two one-on-one writing exchange groups, meaning she and another writer exchange work and they give each other feedback on that writing.
I'm imagining that she met them in a writing workshop. They clicked and they enjoyed each other's writing. And then she has two individuals she's sending work to that individual and then they're sending the book back. So it's this one- on-one way. And it's a great way to, hone in on the people that you really click with. If you are in a writing workshop and you understand, oh, they get my work
they get what I'm doing here and vice versa. And we can exchange pages. The second intentional way that Rowan connects with the writing community is in an accountability group. Now, I believe most of the members of this group met in my course the Lit Mag Love course, which is very thrilling for me. But what is an accountability group if this term is new to you? I'll just explain that it's a group that checks in regularly about writing goals, and it can be a sounding board for new ideas about what to do next to keep moving the needle on your writing career.
But more often, it's a place for each writer who will state their goals aloud and then return to the next meeting to report on whether they did the things they said they would do, something really powerful about saying what you're going to do and then coming back to be asked by your peers, did you do it? It's very helpful. And a lot of writers really benefit from that external accountability. The third way that Rowan connects intentionally with writing community is she does one-hour writing meet-ups where writers get together to simply write.
I'm understanding that most of this is being done online, probably all of it right now. This is a really great way to get your butt in your chair and just simply write. And it's a really low-pressure way to start meeting with other writers. You don't need to know or like each other's work. You definitely don't need to read each other's work. The practice is just sitting there being present to your writing. You simply hold space for each other to practice writing. The fourth and final item on Rowan's list of ways that she connects intentionally with her writing community is an in-person writing group.
Now, clearly, those have gone online, as she said in the COVID era. But an in- person writing group is probably the most familiar to most writers out there. It's the kind of group where you meet regularly to discuss pages of your writing. You might do it on a rotating schedule. I was in a wonderful group where we did that and we also shared food. So it was delicious and very incentivizing to show up. And this is again something done in person.
But nowadays people are doing this online as they're waiting for it to be safe to meet again. But writing instructors listening, and I know you're out there. I also thought she made a great point about how finding opportunities to meet face to face and that might be screen face to screen face these days helps to knit a community and bring them together. For me, because I've always taught online this has meant using them for video calling and Slack for private text threads of communication.
And if you weren't familiar with these tools before 2020, I'm guessing you most likely know them all too well right now. My sense is that these tools help Rowan feel like there's little difference between her in-person writing community, the people who live in her city and the online community of people like myself who she's never met in person before. You can find Rowan McCandless online at Rowan McCandless dot com and take a look at the About Page page on her web site, that really stymied me in the introduction.
And finally, you can find Rowan's debut book of innovative essays, Persephone's Children out from Dundurn Press and in bookstores. And I encourage you to support your local bookstore with curbside orders that will be out in September 2021. Thank you, luminous writer [background music playing] for listening to the Write, Publish and Shine podcast. If you enjoyed this episode if you glean something about writing community that you found helpful, and if you wanted to find a way to reach out to other writers about writing community, I would encourage you to send the episode and let other writers in your community or other writers you wish were in your community know about the episode and share with them.
Or you can rate and review all the usual stuff the podcast asked you to do. That really does help other writers find the podcast [background music ends]. | {
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Context: The (Zeeman-)Doppler imaging studies of solar-type stars very often reveal large high-latitude spots. This also includes F stars that possess relatively shallow convection zones, indicating that the dynamo operating in these stars differs from the solar dynamo.
Aims: We aim to determine whether mean-field dynamo models of late-F type dwarf stars can reproduce the surface features recovered in Doppler maps. In particular, we wish to test whether the models can reproduce the high-latitude spots observed on some F dwarfs.
Methods: The photometric inversions and the surface temperature maps of AF Lep were obtained using the Occamian-approach inversion technique. Low signal-to-noise spectroscopic data were improved by applying the least-squares deconvolution method. The locations of strong magnetic flux in the stellar tachocline as well as the surface fields obtained from mean-field dynamo solutions were compared with the observed surface temperature maps.
Results: The photometric record of AF Lep reveals both long- and short-term variability. However, the current data set is too short for cycle-length estimates. From the photometry, we have determined the rotation period of the star to be 0.9660 ± 0.0023 days. The surface temperature maps show a dominant, but evolving, high-latitude (around +65°) spot. Detailed study of the photometry reveals that sometimes the spot coverage varies only marginally over a long time, and at other times it varies rapidly. Of a suite of dynamo models, the model with a radiative interior rotating as fast as the convection zone at the equator delivered the highest compatibility with the obtained Doppler images. | {
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Home News & Analysis Wheelock strikes largest deal to date
Wheelock strikes largest deal to date
In its largest equity investment to date, the Boston- and Greenwich, Connecticut-based real estate investment firm has purchased the majority of assets belonging to a Georgia homebuilder for its first institutional fund.
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Wheelock Street Capitalhas bought substantially all of the assets of Georgia-based homebuilder John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods.
Under a new joint venture with the Wieland family, the real estate fund manager will form a new company with the John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods name.
The transaction, which was valued at more than $170 million, will include approximately 300 homes and more than 5,000 lots across the Southeast region of the US, as well as additional asset that Wieland family contributed to the partnership in exchange for equity. John Wieland, who founded John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods in 1970, will serve as chairman of the new company. Wheelock expects to expand the business with additional acquisitions.
"We are very excited about our joint venture and the opportunity to capitalise on the current housing rebound through Wieland's quality brand and strong core positions in the most attractive southeastern markets," said Jonathan Paul, managing partner of Wheelock Street Capital, in a statement. "The joint venture's high quality lot inventory, combined with a strong balance sheet for new acquisitions, should allow for meaningful growth."
The acquisition of the homebuilding assets was capitalised largely with equity, with Wheelock's permanent equity in the venture expected to remain more than $100 million. The transaction marks the firm's largest equity investment to date, and the eighth on behalf of Wheelock Street Real Estate Fund (REF), its first institutional real estate fund.
The fund's transactions have primarily focused on the hotel and residential sectors, including the purchase of Canyon Falls, a 1,129-acre master-planned community in Texas, from an affiliate of Highland Capital Management in July. To date, the manager has invested $322 million of equity from Wheelock Street REF, which held a final close of $525 million in June. | {
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Emily Ann Benedict, welcome to Homeschooled Authors once again. What have you been up to since you last time you were here?
The Vintage Jane Austen project has taken up all of my writing time since my last book was posted here. I've been really pleased with the reaction the series has gotten so far. It's been both a challenging and fun project to be a part of.
Sarah Scheele, who authored Bellevere House (Mansfield Park) originally brought me into the project. We had been corresponding for years and Jane Austen often came up. I immediately wanted to be a part of it.
I felt like finding ways to change so many particulars and plot points from Regency England to Depression Era America was the most creatively satisfying part of this project. When I really started to look into the history of both times, I realized there were so many places they just suited, especially when it came to re-writing Persuasion. The return of the military from the Napoleonic wars and the back story of a once wealthy family dealing with financial difficulties fit so perfectly into 1930s American, which was populated with WWI veterans and plenty of money problems.
I actually think having an excuse to re-read Austen was my favorite part of this project. She is one of my favorite authors, but it has been years since I've had the opportunity to get back into her work. Her writing style is so inspiring and so delicious at the same time.
What was the most challenge part of this project?
I was often challenged by the need to make this both a unique story and remain true to original novel. I wanted the structure of Persuasion to remain the intact, because I felt like that was right for this project. But at the same time, I didn't want the reader feeling like they were just re-reading the same exact story with just a few period details added. In some places that meant taking things that happened "off camera" in the original story and bringing them into the narrative and in others it meant adding new scenes or plotlines. I really agonized over this at times, but I think I finally found a good balance.
I've always longed to be like Fanny Price from Mansfield Park. She was my hero when I was in high school! But I often tell people I'm more of an odd mixture of Elizabeth Bennet and Marianne Dashwood. In other words, I have a fondness for wit and I feel a little too deeply.
Which one of the characters in Perception are you most like?
I guess I sympathize most with Abbey (Anne Elliot). We are similar in age, which helped my perspective when writing her and we are both the type of people who are more accustomed to being the workforce behind the scenes.
Tell us the synopsis for Perception.
Thirteen years ago, Abbey Evans was persuaded to break off her engagement to a penniless soldier headed to the front lines of the Great War. A daughter of one of America's wealthiest families could never be allowed to marry so far beneath herself. But Black Tuesday changed everything. Facing both the loss of her beloved home and the loss of a second chance at love, Abbey's fate lies in her own hands for the first time.
Perception can be downloaded on Kindle, through Amazon. The hard-copy will be available soon!
"I'm not saying I'm still in love with Freddy Williams," Abbey replied in a rising voice. "I'm saying that after my experience with him, I can't settle for merely liking a man when I've known what it's like to love one."
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Vietnamese health authorities have monitored 242 people who entered Vietnam from Ebola-infected areas in Africa, the Health Ministry announced at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.
"The threat of Ebola spreading to Vietnam remains real because many Vietnamese nationals are working in African countries, including those suffering from the Ebola outbreak," said Dang Quang Tan, deputy director of Preventive Health Department. "Many international visitors from these countries also visit Vietnam."
Since Vietnam began screening international visitors on August 11, health agencies have monitored a total of 242 people--including 40 Vietnamese nationals--most of whom arrived from the four countries stricken with the disease: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria.
Of the total people being monitored, 190 have been cleared; 52 remain under a 21-day quarantine. No one has been found with the virus, so far.
According to the Preventive Health Department, Vietnam is building two labs for testing Ebola at the Pasteur Institute in HCMC and Hanoi-based Institute for Epidemiology and Hygiene.
Tan rejected rumors that the Ebola virus has become airborne.
"It is only transmitted through direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of the infected patient or animal," he told reporters.
He also warned about the preventive measures medical staff and residents can take.
"Health workers should be properly equipped when caring for possible cases and people should avoid visiting infected zones if possible," he said.
During the conference, the Ministry of Public Security said it would strictly punish anyone caught spreading misinformation about the disease and enforce compulsory quarantines on any person or community suspected of carrying the virus.
At least 6,574 people have been infected with Ebola in Africa since the outbreak began in early March.
Of those cases, 3,091 have proven fatal.
On September 30, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first travel-related case of Ebola had arrived in the United State.
The victims was a person who had traveled to Dallas, Texas from West Africa.
The patient did not exhibit symptoms when he or she left West Africa, but developed symptoms approximately five days after arriving in the US.
The person sought medical care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas after developing symptoms consistent with Ebola. Based on the person's travel history and symptoms, CDC recommended testing for Ebola.
Doctors isolated the patient and sent specimens to the CDC and a Texas lab participating in CDC's Laboratory Response Network.
Local public health officials have begun identifying individuals who came into close contact with the person to place them under 21-day quarantines the CDC announced. | {
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"Last year I was stuck in traffic in New York, and realised I wasn't going to make it to an interview about climate change at the agreed time," Virgin billionaire Richard Branson wrote on his blog this week.
Branson then posted a picture of himself running down said New York street along with a quote preaching about how much he hates lateness.
But, of course, everyone has been thinking the exact same thing: Branson is in charge of the famously late (and exorbitantly expensive) Virgin train network.
In 2016-17, passengers lost at least 3.6m hours due to significantly delayed trains, according to the consumer group Which?
And it found Virgin Trains East Coast (jointly owned by Virgin Group and Stagecoach) had the highest proportion of significant delays, with 3.7% of its services running between 30 minutes and two hours late. This was followed by Virgin Trains West Coast (2%).
As ridiculously jarring as Branson's comments are, there is a serious side to this, too. Labour has vowed to renationalise the railways if they make it into government because of poor service and high prices across the country's rail networks.
"Building an economy for the many also means bringing ownership and control of the utilities and key services into the hands of people who use and work in them. Rail, water, energy, Royal Mail: we're taking them back," Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said at the party's annual conference in Brighton last year.
So enjoy your choo choos while you still can, Richie!
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their lives on the Solid Rock of God's Word.
Part of the family enjoyed a relaxing hike wedged in between one of the cracks of our busy schedule.
Mexico's beautiful sunrises and sunsets never cease to amaze us.
Allison enjoyed reconnecting with this friend she first met in Mexico a few years ago.
Two older siblings planned a fun lunch date with some of their younger siblings!
You can watch this side-splitting rendition of "Dueling Banjos" on YouTube.
The Mexico countryside is scenic and varied.
Peter Swatsky and his family traveled with us while Peter worked as our capable translator.
playing with Kezzia (pictured above) and her sister Isabella.
We were overwhelmed by the hospitality of the German Mennonites. Their cuisine is our favorite!
Our Mexico Tour would not have been complete without a bus crisis. The day before we left Mexico, we took a "shortcut" to avoid the traffic backed up behind a military check-point. Unfortunately, the incline was trickier to negotiate than anticipated. After our interpreter placed rocks under the tires, we crested the hill with minimal bus damage.
of the free and the home of the brave."
thankful for the hunger for discipleship that we felt in Mexico.
Whether through the busyness of life, the barrage of the technology age, or the disintegration of Biblical family roles, the enemies of strong families will never cease their onslaught.
Nonetheless, God's promises and precepts still hold true for families today. In this generation we must return God's Word, not cultural trends and philosophies, as the foundation for building families. By God's grace, when we let Him build our homes, we can once again have stronger churches and stronger nations.
Bus crisis! ;) love it! We call that "bottoming out" when we scrape!
It looks like you had a wonderful time in Mexico. Since you travel there regularly, have you or any of your children thought of studying Spanish in order to be able to communicate more authentically (rather than through an interpreter)? Learning other languages is a rewarding experience and a wonderful way to connect more personally with others. Just curious - No offense intended.
A couple of us know a smattering of Spanish and are currently studying the language. However, since we mostly sing to German Mennonites, our translator interprets from English to German.
Even in the United States, Spanish is a highly valuable language to know.
Thanks for your reply. I ask because I've been a foreign language teacher (French and Spanish) for more than 30 years, and have had so many more authentic interactions with people when using others' native language rather than what is more comfortable for me.
I want to spread the word to anyone who will listen: Learn another language; You won't regret it :) I wish more Americans cared about learning languages because it's the best way to really appreciate the cultures and contributions of others - a first step in having more peace in the world in my opinion. I studied German long ago, and didn't really get a chance to use it. It's interesting that there are so many people of German descent in Mexico. And nice to know that they are (I assume) happily integrated into the culture there. Where I live French is much more useful. I love Spanish too, but only get to use it at school and when communicating with friends in Spain. I've never visited Mexico or South America because I live very far away from the Southwest US. Enjoy the rest of your travels !
Why wouldn't they let any of you be on the bus with your Dad? It sounds almost scary to cross the border by land now. I've walked across the US-Mexico border a few times, but not in about 35 years. I didn't even have any kind of ID, though I was with a group, and I just remember telling them my name and address, and that I was a citizen. Things have really changed.
I've flown back to the states several times in recent years, and they've barely glanced at me coming through immigration. Coming back from Italy a few years ago, I realized as I boarded my connecting domestic flight that I hadn't even shown my passport to anyone at immigration. The border agents just kept waving me through until I was on the other side. My mother, on the other hand, almost always gets questioned extensively when she comes back to the States. It's so strange how different the border experience can be from one person to the next.
I'm glad you all made it back to the States, and hope the rest of your travels go really well.
The bus had to cross at the same point as the semis, since we were too big to fit in with RVs and other vehicles. The border patrol does not appreciate passengers in the semi checkpoint.
Border crossing can definitely be an experience!
Yes I saw the dodo bird on YouTube. I liked it.
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Traditional Engine lathes have much in common. They have to turn your work while a near stationary cutter comes to bear. For example when drilling with a lathe you hold the it steady and turn the work. It's sort of like screwing in a lightbulb by rotating the house. The lathe needs to be robust enough to turn the work. If you are making small round things this isn't much of an issue, but the logistics get more interesting if you are making cannon barrels or something big and heavy.
I'll begin with a series of tool holders and unique cutting tools. Don't take these to be the only types or even current types. There are many kinds of cutting tools and these are some I have, but they just 'happened' and may not even be good examples.
I'll begin with a series of tool holders and unique cutting tools. Don't take these to be the only types or even current types. There are many kinds of cutting tools and these are some I have, but they just 'happened' and may not even be good examples. The Lantern tool holder is the classic for lathes. You can turn the tool, and rock it up and down to get the right height. Before the days of High Speed Steel, the cutters were massive pieces like the "Very Old Cutter" in the 4th photo down. They went directly into the lantern holder. Machining took a great leap forward with the perfection of HSS--High speed steel which occurred with the dawn of the 20th century.. With that came holders that would fit in the lanterns to hold the smaller pieces of it. Later (after 1926) the Carbide cutters came along which were still smaller.
The first two photos of the 6" square block is a shop made tool holder best used with 3/4" or 1" sized cutters which will fit in the side grove and fasten in there with allen screws down from the top. The block itself was not made for this lathe and I had to rework it a abit to be suitable for my American Lathe. That is why it appears to have an additional laminate on the bottom of it as I needed to raise it up a little. Grooves on 2 sides are 3/4 and are 1" on the other two sides. It's a home made version of some similar mounts offered for lathes. It's advantage is that it is quite rigid. Some carbides are available in those massive sizes and when I have them available this is the tool holder of choice for them.
The holders for larger cutters are also physically larger. Besides coming in size variants, there are also two more variables. There are L-S-R models for Left-Straight-Right. Thus one labeled '5R' will be a #5 bent to the right (when looking at the head end).
The final variant will be whether they are intended for carbide cutters or HSS. HSS workes better with an 11 degree back rake and consequently you will find the standard holder has a 'back rake' built in. This implies that the HSS insert sits at an angle with its 'nose up' 11 degrees from level. This was to save the user from the need to grind a 'back rake' into the cutter. It was a great idea, but 20 years later carbide cutters became common and they don't need or want a back rake for best results. Thus you will find other holders with a 'T" in the model number which stands for Carbide. They come in all sizes, and configurations (L-S-R), but have no back rake. The cutter is held flat with the holder. Note the photos of holders on the left.
There is just one rule about boring bars. Bigger is better as long as it is not so big that it won't fit in the hole. The issue with boring bars is stiffness. Boring bars want to flex, and the smaller and longer they are the more they want to flex. However by definition a boring bar is something that reaches into a hole. This boring bar is about as big a one as I have deal with. You also need to pay attention to the size of the lathe in making a boring bar holder. It puts a lot of leverage on the compound and if you rip the compound off the carriage, your lathes is scrap metal.
Face plates are fairly common appliances for lathes. They are the very oldest solution and predate chucks. Now typically they are a flat plate and you attach things to be turned to them anyway you can. By contrast the chucks have movable jaws or grabbing things. Most face plates have radiating T slots for attaching things. This particular face plate is somewhat unique in that it has just a variety of short slots, which apparently take wedgie holders such as the ones displayed here. I believe the holders were made by a local machinist and didn't come with the plate, but I would expect that the 'factory' holders were similar wedge affairs simply because I can't think of what else would fill the slots for holding purposes. | {
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Hannah Four
Monday, 9:23 AM Los Angeles International Airport
The snick sound of a blade preceded a metallic gleam and the kidnapper pulled a knife to the other man's throat.
"Not from the large cities, though," she said aloud, feeling the old intense pull of the words, a puzzle to figure out. "It's a voice from western South America. Spanish, but with that Andean influence. Can you hear it? That sibilant double L sound. Floats over those hard consonants."
"If this video is real," said Radioman, "maybe we shouldn't watch."
The young geek's fingers lay still, framing the phone. The held-man's hood glistened wet beneath the kidnapper's hand as he continued to speak in those sounds that Hannah knew. The video was indistinct, in gray tones, and the words were less than clear. Hannah concentrated. She felt herself let go, wrapped in the words like old friends.
"Ecuador," she said, "but the northern part. Citified, but with an overwhelming influence from the campo. College voice, though, definitely college. But with that unnecessary use of 'pues', multiple times. Did you notice?"
Radioman took the breath of a long response, but the kidnapper stopped speaking, pulling attention back to the screen. Quickly he brought his fisted knife across the other man's throat, cutting roughly through the fabric of the hood. An immediate wet rupture drenched the kidnapper's arm. The held man slumped.
Radioman said "Oh my God," then turned away, holding the crease between his eyes.
"I can't believe this," said Geek. "An execution? Wouldn't they screen it?"
The kidnapper spoke again, the words like pure oxygen renewing Hannah. She felt the lift in her spirits as the familiar sounds settled into known patterns and the syllabic puzzle pieces fell into place.
"Yes, I do know that inflection," she said. "That high mountain aspiration. The soft r's and the nuance around that third syllable. It grabs you, that speech pattern, doesn't it? Not exactly coffee region. But definitely a city in Northern Ecuador. There aren't that many."
"Can you stop the video, please?" asked Radioman, but the young geek seemed frozen. The held man bled and the kidnapper again spoke.
"Maybe Tulcan," Hannah continued. "But listen to him. What about all that aspirated consonant? Has to be farther south and there isn't much around. Pasqua: small city in the campo, high Andean region. Barrio Luche, I think, west part of the city. More or less Avenida 24 or 25. That's where the college population resides." She listened. "Yes. Definitely Barrio Luche, Pasqua, Ecuador. I'd swear to it."
Hannah looked away from the screen, triumphant, only to see Radioman glaring at her as if she should be the one holding the knife. Young Geek, who had started it all, finally clicked out of the video and closed the screen. Radioman voiced his opinion in clipped judgmental tones.
"Swear to it? As if the language is important," he said. "Didn't you even see the killing?"
She tried to ignore him, aiming her face downward, breathing in the coffee, letting go the words. In her exhilaration, she had forgotten what came next.
The hurt pressed upon her, more real than the violence on the screen. She could trap the language again, reactivate the hum. But now, having let the syllables lay soft against her mind so that she might track their origin, right to the very street this time, Hannah realized how much she had missed it. There was the pleasure of the language, then the pain in success.
The hum would drown out the voices, once she brought it back to mind. But first, she had to remember how to get rid of the crushing hurt.
Cleo Four
Her pocket buzzed and Cleo wondered why she ever put the phone away. Despite Sandra's rebuke, frequent calls littered Cleo's working days and they usually came from her boss.
She slid out the phone, still watching the scene in front of her unfold, expecting to hear from Sandra, expecting to have to describe Hannah's odd reaction and the woman's inability to control herself. Cleo hadn't been close enough to see what everyone was looking at or to hear the talking. But she had seen the physical responses and the body language. Disturbing.
Before Cleo could bring the phone up close, the crisp, slightly upper-class voice of the big boss spoke into her ear bud.
The surprise caught her off-guard, and for a moment Cleo wondered if this was a personal conversation, from JS to Cleo. But John Smith and Associates – JSA – did not function on such a short leash. She reminded herself there were three other people linked. And possibly more she did not know about.
"John Smith speaking," he said. "Follow through according to plan. She still has her skill – most of it, and we need to get to it before they do."
Cleo risked a call to Sandra.
"You forgot to tell me something, didn't you?"
"Cherie, there are always things we don't know. Remember that."
"So I'm done here, right? I don't know a thing about any plan."
"Done? Not exactly, Cherie."
My God, living in the first person was more exhausting than a thousand re-writes.
Hannah Three
Hannah pulled out her change purse from her backpack, checked the fold where she placed her bills from low to high, and then unzipped to find three quarters, four dimes and one nickel. Hannah stepped up to the line extending out from The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, wishing the aroma of Earl Grey was as ever-present as coffee.
"Did you hear about that kidnapping?"
Just ahead of her in line a man about her age, say 52, nodded toward the TV screen in the adjacent lounge area. She craned her neck up to look at him, a motion that took away even the small social pleasure of conversation. And it was always quite small. Conversation had words, true, but it also had face to face people.
"I rarely watch television," she said, momentarily looking that direction, seeing the news program format, with a banner running along the bottom, someone's pretty head talking with serious expression. Never mind the news, she thought, always trouble there. Where was the hum, the layer of comfort that crowded out the overwhelming mix of daily noise? She had learned to cope by using the hum as her mediator to the world.
The man, though, was too close to ignore. He labored over his d's and t's, making them more important than they really were, and it annoyed her to have to notice.
Leave it, she told herself. Let him be as tall as he is and say all the collaborative sounds of his background and temperament. Forget him like you forgot the man with murder in his voice. Look up to the scaffolding, think about the shiny packet of Peet's Earl Grey in your wallet.
"It's been on radio, too." He paused like he'd asked a question. She shook her head. His voice had the confident tone of a radio announcer, practiced and orderly, with traces of southern rural influence mostly edited out after years in a city. He wore a grey suit that looked smooth, and moved with him. "Maybe you follow the news tweets?"
"No," she said.
"I'm a junkie. All news, all day."
"Aspiring for a heart attack?" she asked, and after a moment's pause, they laughed that tight, uncomfortable laugh of strangers. Feeling the stab of her comment, she made a conciliatory shrug. It wasn't his fault she had lost the hum. She would find it again after her coffee. Or tea. "Where are you headed?" she asked.
"Chicago," he said, then introduced himself, using careless tones and casual lies.
Hannah let her mind reduce his words to fuzzy sounds, like Charlie Brown's teacher. A woman stepped back from a spot near the door to grab at an errant child, and Hannah listened for the child's complaint, hoping for a lisp. A scraggly-haired college-looking youth, outfitted with long skinny jeans, a wrinkled tee-shirt, and a heavy canvas bag strapped across his chest joined them in line.
Radioman shined his smile over her head.
"News junkie?" asked Radioman to the youth.
"Primary sources only, man," said the youth, rushing through his vowels like young people do.
The voices pressed up close to Hannah, challenging her indifference. She looked to the cavern, where the voices had swirled around her, words pulling her this way, then the other. And that one word. Back to the coffee aroma, she thought, let the dense smell distract you, then the whoosh of the steam. Almost a hum itself.
"Have you seen that story?" asked Radioman. "Looks like a middle-eastern type with some sort of kidnap victim. And us getting on a plane."
"It's quite a short flight to Chicago," said Hannah.
"I'm continuing to D.C. At least we're far away from the Middle East. I caught about ten seconds of the report on the radio. They said the kidnapper gave CNN a live feed. What I want to know is why there's just that one picture. If there was a live feed, what happened to it?"
The woman pulled her children through the door. The line stepped forward. The younger man brought a thin, wide phone out of his pocket, splayed his hip to balance the bag, and tapped the screen with rapid authority. A technology geek, thought Hannah. She breathed deep, released the words. It wasn't her business.
"Video feed, you think?" he asked. "Let's find out." The geek made sliding motions with a finger. "Hello YouTube. List recent. Nope, not there. How about Reddit? Guess not. Jockular? Ah. Here we go."
The younger man tilted the phone, clicked on a thumbnail photo of the kidnapping, if that's what it was. A gritty picture surfaced on the screen. The mother glanced back, gave that holier-than-your-mama look that Hannah had received too often in the classroom.
The young geek, still clicking and scrolling, adjusted the volume and size of the video. He kept his voice sleek, rolling the syllables together. Was there falsehood in his voice? Hannah thought so. That, and a good bit of trouble, cleverly hid behind fast words.
"Here we go. Primary sources. You gotta love them."
With fractured sound and jerking video, the news-in-a-box photo began to move. A metallic sound cracked through the phone's speakers. Two people, both masked with loose hoods, faced the camera in a badly-lit room that failed to show any detail that might distinguish them. One stood behind the other in a tight one-armed bear hug. He spoke.
"Spanish," Hannah said, like a knee-jerk reaction.
She bit her lip, listened for a moment, hoping Geek would speak again in his easy lying voice. Around her, people focused on the kidnapper speaking to the camera. Hannah looked back to the cavern and silenced her own voice, but the screen pulled her attention. Even with the muffled sound, the words called to her. She weighed the temptations and her strength. Then Radioman looked up, and she was caught.
"Doesn't sound Spanish," he said. "Sounds Middle Eastern to me." Hannah looked back to the video, where the man spoke words she knew in tones she had heard often. Radioman continued in that secure 'knows what he's talking about' voice, stressing those d's, making every other sound stop and pay attention. "Looks Middle-Eastern."
The hooded man continued to address the video camera, and she knew what the words were, what they meant. The tone, the accent and the familiar sounds all drew her in. Where had she heard these words?
"There's no doubt," said Radioman. "Definitely one of those terrorist countries."
"Terrorist country, you think?" asked Geek.
Radioman waved his hand toward some faraway place, tossing away the blame to another corner of the world. "Someplace in the Middle-East. Just look at their history."
Falsehoods, all of it. And such ignorance. Then Hannah spoke, without planning, without counting the words or wondering the costs.
"It's not any Middle-Eastern language," Hannah said. "His voice is South American Spanish. I know these words. Don't I know this accent."
The kidnapper's words continued, the intonation drawing her in, a pattern she recognized, but couldn't yet name. Hannah stopped, listened, let her mind retreat ten years while LAX faded into the distant background and the voice from the screen filled her.
Cleo Three
"Sandra, there's a crowd sort of gathering around her," said Cleo.
"Cherie, it's nice that you are keeping me informed, but you really don't need to call at every step along the way. Didn't we just speak moments ago?"
"It's just that it looks a bit intense to me. You said to follow her, but she looks sort of gummed up with people, and I know she won't like that."
"That's quite sweet. You've gotten into her head with your research and writing. But now, please remember, you are just following. Watching. Don't worry about anything else. I have another call, Cherie. I must go. It will all be just fine."
"Fine?" said Cleo, but her boss was gone.
by Susan Vasquez
© 2019 by Susan Vasquez
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Susan Vasquez. Reviewers are welcome, of course, to quote brief passages.
Hannah One
Ten Years ago, Panamá City, Panamá
Trouble. She heard every bit of trouble. Hannah was the magnet; ominous voices were her metallic bits of bother. For decades, these spoken sounds had added their burden, burying her in pain. She waved the heat away from her face with a paper fan. She placed two fingertips on the bone at the back of her left ear. Whenever she heard trouble, Hannah felt the pain.
She stood with Michael and Rico on the curb 30 feet away from their client and the man he was meeting. Michael aimed the antenna from his cell phone toward the conversation. All three listened through wireless earplugs.
"Call it, Hannah," said Rico. "Threat or no threat? Do your thing."
"Come on, Hannah Banana, what do the voices tell you?" asked Michael. "Is this guy serious?"
"Let it out, Hanny. Turn us loose."
"You two are livelier than the poor coffee salesman, and he thinks he has something to worry about," said Hannah. "Why did we have to come here? Did his company receive a threat?" Michael shook his head. "Just a suspicion?" Rico gave a shrugging nod. "It must have been a well-paying client. Have they been here long?"
"Half hour."
A passing bus broadcast vivid, beating sounds from a local radio station and gave Rico an excuse – not that he ever needed one – to dance a side step of the cumbia. With the motion, he turned his back toward the restaurant, giving Hannah a better view. The steam of downtown Panamá City, Panamá rose from the metal awning of the restaurant where the two conversing men sat.
But Hannah already knew her job was done. This meeting was motivated by ambition with a touch of jealousy, not violence. She heard all the detail in the one man's voice. They watched from outside the patio restaurant as the last part of the conversation played out – intense, but not alarming, perhaps a financial concern. She didn't even detect a spoken lie. Hannah could sign off on the threat assessment. This time, someone else could deal with the trouble and she could try to let the sounds fade away.
She breathed deep, hoping for relief, wishing things would change. But even this quick resolution of her assignment hadn't stopped the spears of pain running from that tender spot in back of her ear to clash behind her eyes. How could she get rid of the pain?
Slowly Hannah shook her head and glanced up at Rico and Michael.
"No threat," she said.
The animation drained from their faces.
"We came all this way? Come on, Hanny," said Rico, "give us something to do. Please."
"There's nothing to fix here," said Hannah.
"Then make something up."
"Go home," she said.
"Please. Something small." As Rico spoke, Michael put a hand on his arm, nodding his head toward the side street, a retreat. But Rico continued, with a laughing plea. "Hannah. You're the One. You don't even have to explain yourself to the Boss. You always get it right. Like a machine. No one will notice a tiny favor. Just give us one little thing. Follow them for a day? Please?"
Hannah watched as Michael became more successful in distracting Rico. He put his cell phone in his pocket, turned his baseball cap forward, nodded at Hannah, took a step away. Working with these two young men the past three years had nearly made Hannah's pain go away. She touched the bone behind her left ear. She was sure she was right. There was distress, but nothing more in the voices, no true malice, no violent backstory sound. No threat. No falsehood. She had hoped the piercing throb would retreat with the absence of a killing intent. But it hadn't. And it wasn't because Rico had compared her to a machine. She wasn't a machine. It was time for Hannah to follow through with her decision.
"See you two later," she said.
Hannah walked away from them, like it was just a normal day, knowing they would never hear the lie in her own voice.
Cleo One
Ten Years Ago, Marion, Iowa
The salad lay before her on the white hexagonal tiles of her mother's kitchen in Marion, Iowa. Only the cucumbers waited to be sliced, then placed on top, in a crisscross pattern, like always. Is this why Cleo had graduated college? So she could come back home, make the Saturday afternoon salad and sit for two hours listening to her mother and aunt talk about Harry's receding hairline and Vera's trips to the fat farm?
"Did you put just a spritz of Tabasco in the French dressing?"
"Yes, Auntie," said Cleo.
She scored the cucumbers, releasing the fresh scent that always relaxed her. Maybe things would work out. Perhaps IBM International would hire her, and maybe then she could work her way to one of the smaller, elite consultancy firms: John Smith and Associates, giving advice to businesses engaged in international trade.
"How are things coming along, Cleo? For heaven's sake, you do love to dally."
"Just fine, Mother. Almost done."
She breathed in again. Maybe all that could happen. Cleo picked up the salad from the aged tiles. This had been her Great Grandmother Cleola's house, then her grandmother's house, now her mother's. How did she get all the way to her goals from this kitchen in Marion, when each female forebear of her family had stayed, alone?
Walking with a book in hand
If you are still staying close to home, like me, you might be getting close to the end of your bookshelf supply. To help things out, I am serializing a novel I wrote, putting up a chapter a day throughout September until the book is done. Happy reading – I hope you enjoy "Vowels, Vodka and Voices."
Hannah hears every voice around her. Every utterance, every syllable, everything spoken. When Hannah listens, intentions and hidden meanings are revealed. She hears things she may not want to know. She hears people's secrets.
Words – in eight languages – give her information normal people never notice. Hannah knows her skill is precious, but it comes at a cost. With each reclaimed secret, a pain grew in the soft bone behind her ear. Thousands of secrets over a 20-year career amounted to more pain than Hannah could endure. She sought peace. She left her agency, changed her name and hid for ten years, trying to escape the enormous hurt.
But an old problem has found its way to her former employer, and only Hannah can fix it. John Smith and Associates are in a tangle of vowels, vodka and voices that hold the past's secrets. They send scouts to find her and bring her back. The question isn't can Hannah solve their problem. The question is, does she want to? | {
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Mike McCammon, a kinesiology instructor at ECU, still has the receipt for his textbooks from his first college semester in 1969. The cost? $160.
You cannot spin 60 years of dedication to a particular craft any other way: Bea Chauncey lived for music.
For Marie '74, '82 and James Thompson, supporting East Carolina University is a way to combine two loves: literature and East Carolina University.
One crisp fall morning, Ora Watts was standing at the window in her kitchen and she spotted that familiar yellow school bus coming by her house.
Jason Lowry '99 was raised in Zebulon, North Carolina. He met Rodney Murray '02 in the 5th grade. They instantly became friends.
Thinking about or planning a will can bring about an unsettling feeling of finality, but for some it's a chance to plant a seed for the future.
There are times in your life where you sit back and look at all you have accomplished and you think about those who have helped you along the way.
While they were ECU students, Phil and Lisa Hodges never imagined the compounding effect they would one day have on their beloved university. | {
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I know I'm supposed to say the Mod(e)(a)h Ani first thing in the morning. Before I get out of bed. Before I say hello to my dogs. Before I have a first cup of coffee. After all, what greater gift is there than the return of one's soul to one's body. It should be the first thing you think of. The problem is, I'm not always sure my soul is awake when I first open my eyes. If I'm rushing through the prayer so that I can wash my hands, and then go make coffee, has my soul reached awareness for the day?
So I've been playing around with new times and ways in which to pray — not just the Mod(e)(a)h Ani, but all prayer. Sometimes it works. Other times it's a disaster. The audio version of the Ma'ariv services on my iPhone while I walk the dogs was an unmitigated disaster. It's impossible to focus while politely asking your dogs to "just, please, don't eat that rabbit".
For a long time, I felt like a failure trying new times and ways of praying. I wanted to do it Right. I wanted to do it Jewishly. Even when the prayer time or placement worked for me, even when it made me feel spiritually alive and in touch with Something Somewhere, I felt like a failure.
We all do it — we become so wedded to the way something is supposed to be done that we lose the point of why we are doing it. We want it to be right and proper and true — and we forget that we also want it to mean something, be authentic, and move us towards something beautiful. I find this to be particularly true of the fixity of Jewish prayer. There are laws to be obeyed. There are times and places and ways in which one is allowed to pray. The text is (more or less) fixed. The words are set. But we also want the work of prayer to be a movement of our hearts.
As in most cases, Heschel is right. I'm not a native Hebrew speaker. I may never get the words quite right. I am not a Jew from birth. I'm still learning how the laws and rules and rituals fit into my life. But Heschel goes on to say that "prayer is not judged by standards of rhetoric but by the good intention, by the earnestness and intensity of the person. Ultimately the goal of prayer is not to translate a word but to translate the self".* I've got those in spades – intention and will and earnestness.
So this morning I sat on my front porch, and I drank my coffee, and I enjoyed the sunshine and I prayed, thanking G…d for the return of my soul to my body. And it may not have been Halachic, this impromptu morning prayer, but for the first time in a while, as I said it, I felt like my soul woke up. | {
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Le est un clan japonais qui servit Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi et Tokugawa Ieyasu comme obligé. Descendant de Fusasaki Fujiwara, du clan Fujiwara du Nord, le clan se déplaça à Owari à l'époque de Heian et y adopta le nom d'« Ikoma ».
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Theo James is joining the cast for season two of the animated series "Castlevania", premiering on October 26 on Netflix.
"Castlevania" is an adaptation of the video game of the same name. The current voice cast includes Richard Armitage, Alejandra Reynoso, and James Callis. James will be joining the cast in the role of Hector, though not much is known about his character yet.
The Greek-English actor has been keeping himself busy with plenty of projects after rising to prominence in the "Divergent" movie series.
James has two projects hitting movie theaters soon – "London Fields" and "Lying and Stealing". His latest film, "How It Ends", is now available on Netflix. | {
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Yes, I say finally because I always wanted to travel and experience Africa personally, not as I conventionally seen it.
I went for one week in Akosombo, a village not very far from Accra, the capital of Ghana, with Alessandro, a close friend who actually made this trip possible.
Let's face that when we talk about Africa, we mention something bigger than a continent, as someone (R. Kapuschinski) used to say "Africa is a universe".
It's very CLEAR that those six days in Ghana did not give me enough time and knowledge to understand or criticize the issues of a country. My personal idea is that Ghana can be much more beautiful then it is already.
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Good things come . . .
Yes, good thing DO come to those who wait. I went to a self-practice ashtanga yoga class this morning at Yoga Junction in Finsbury Park. Thank you, Dan, for managing the morning boy routine so I could go. Only a five minute walk and a five minute bus ride away. My teacher was Nigel, and he was wonderful. He made only a few adjustments as he was familiarizing himself with my practice, but the ones he made were just right. I cannot say how exhilarated I was to be in a naturally lit, quiet studio practicing with others. I smiled to myself as I watched the sweat drip off my nose and down onto my mat. Let's hope I detoxed some more of my cold! And some further news - Nigel (who interestingly lives down the road from us) said they are likely moving the studio to Crouch End this year. Dare I even wish?
On the walk home I stopped into Loukia's for an almond croissant to have with my morning coffee (which I'm eating as I write, and let me tell you, savoring every last crumb). There is something so satisfying and magical to me about a European city waking up - the shop gates going up, the streets filling with people, the smells wafting out of the cafes. What a pleasure. Namaste, friends. | {
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Helmut Schirrmacher (* 6. Mai 1923 in Elbing, Provinz Ostpreußen; † 11. Mai 2009 in Bielefeld) war von 1975 bis 1981 Bundesvorsitzender der Gewerkschaft der Polizei (GdP) und danach Polizeipräsident in Bielefeld.
Helmut Schirrmacher trat 1947 in den Polizeidienst ein und gehörte zu den Gründungsmitgliedern der GdP in Niedersachsen. Nach Tätigkeiten im Vorstand der GdP wurde er 1969 Landesvorsitzender in Niedersachsen. Von 1970 bis 1975 war er stellvertretender Vorsitzender der GdP auf Bundesebene, bis er 1975 auf dem Bundeskongress zum Vorsitzenden gewählt wurde. Im Jahr 1981 trat er von diesem Amt zurück, da er zum Polizeipräsidenten von Bielefeld ernannt wurde. Sein Nachfolger im Amt des Bundesvorsitzenden wurde Günter Schröder.
Schirrmacher war SPD-Mitglied und Träger des Großen Verdienstkreuzes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
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Court dismisses charges vs. NDFP peace consultant
Janess Ann J. Ellao January 15, 2019 Rafael Baylosis
Photo of Guerrero and Baylosis grabbed from Krissy Conti's Facebook post February 23
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – A Quezon City court dismissed today, Jan. 15, the charges against National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant Rafael Baylosis for insufficiency of evidence, his lawyers from the Public Interest Law Center said in a statement.
Rachel Pastores, managing counsel of the PILC, said, "The decision penned by Judge Editha G. Miña-Aguba pointed out the incredulity of the police narrative of the surveillance and arrest, saying: for 'evidence to be believed, it must not only proceed from the mouth of a credible witness but it must be credible in itself, such as the common experience and observation of mankind can approve as probable under the circumstances.'"
Baylosis, who was arrested on Jan. 31, 2018 along with companion Roque Guillermo Jr., was among those nabbed after President Rodrigo Duterte declared an end to peace talks with the NDFP, where he is a consultant for both social and economic reforms and political and constitutional reforms – two substantive agenda in the peace negotiations.
Three more peace consultants were arrested after him and remain incarcerated to this day. They are Adelberto Silva, Vicente Ladlad, and Rey Claro Casambre.
"The dismissal of the case not only vindicates Baylosis, who has always asserted his innocence; it also exposes how the police carry out illegal actions – vilification, undue surveillance, illegal arrest, planting of evidence, and filing of trumped-up charges – against peace consultants and political activists," Pastores said.
READ: 'Illegal arrest of NDFP peace consultant follows an unbelievably bad script'
'More imagined than real'
In the court decision, Judge Aguba noted the inconsistencies and contradictory individual claims of arresting police officers in their respective testimonies, such as their distance from Baylosis when they noticed a firearm purportedly tucked at the peace consultant's waist.
"Either way, it was improbable for him to see, even with his perfect vision, what he declared he had seen at 3 o'clock in the afternoon," the court decision read, adding that what they saw may be "more imagined than real."
By this alone, the court decision further added, "the cases are dismissible."
"It is settled that an evidence to be believed must not only proceed from the mouth of a credible witness but it must be credible itself, such as the common experience and observation of mankind can approve as probable under the circumstances," the decision read.
Pastores said "Baylosis's defense poked holes into their story, pointed out not only lapses but grievous procedural mistakes, and thus exposed concerted, malicious efforts to fabricate the charges."
NDFP Negotiating Panel chairperson Fidel Agcaoili told Bulatlat that he welcomes the court decision, adding that "it shows that there are GRP judges who respect their own laws and would not kowtow to the filing of trumped-up charges by the military and police."
Filing of countercharges
In a message sent to Bulatlat , Baylosis's daughter Eleanor de Guzman welcomed the court decision, adding that there should be "no other hindrance to his father's liberty."
De Guzman said her family has always been confident that the charges filed against her father will be dismissed as the witnesses presented against him "could only tell lies and their testimonies are riddled with inconsistencies."
The Coalition for the Defense and Freedom of Rafael Baylosis, she added, is planning to file countercharges against those behind her father's incarceration. | {
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Dr. Long Le is a pulmonologist with St. Joseph Health Medical Group. He received his medical degree from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
His professional emphasis is to expand patient emphasis in critical care medicine, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, lung cancer, sleep medicine, interventional and general pulmonology with the highest competency and ethical standards
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