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BkiUa0zxK5YsWV5L1zNe | An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History, from the Earliest Period to ...
מאת John Marsh
Entrance of the Church into the promised land. State of the Church from
Joshua to Samuel. Schools of the Prophets. Establishment of Monarchy in Israel. David. Solomon. Érection and dedication of the Temple. Prosperous state of the Church. Additions to the sacred
Canon.
The Church passed into the promised land through the waters of Jordan, divided by Almighty power, A. M. 2554. Its leader was Joshua, the son of Nun, a man of great cour: age and deep piety; and, in this transaction, an eminent type of the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Captain of our salvation, who conducts the invisible Church into the Canaan of endless felicity. But it was composed of very different members from those who came out of Egypt; for God sware in his wrath that none of that rebellious generation, save Caleb and Joshua, should enter the promised land. The millions who now formed the Church were their children, and were " holiness to the Lord."
Having planted his people in that land, which, 430 years before he had promised to Abraham for a possession, God directed every male to be sealed with the seal of circumcision. This sacred rite had been neglected during their wanderings in the wilderness. It was now imposed on the whole nation, and the Passover was solemnly celebrated.
The Canaanites were an exceedingly wicked people. Their abominations cried to heaven for vengeance; and God made his people the rod of his anger. He gave them power over his enemies. By the most simple instruments as well as by fire and sword, they exterminated thousands and millions and took possession of the land.
This was divided among them for an inheritance. Here the Tabernacle was set up in Shiloh; and the Israelites with God for their king, commenced their national existence under the best political and ceremonial institutions. But alas! they were surrounded by enemies who perpetually sought their destruction. They retained among them many of the Canaanites, who were "scourges in their sides, and thorns in their eyes," and "snares and traps," seducing them to idolatry. They wandered from God; and the first 300 years of their history, was a period of darkness and trouble.
A little before the death of Joshua, the whole Church solemnly renewed covenant with God at Shechem; which
was a most affecting transaction. But after his decease the Israelites had no regularly appointed governor, and appear to have acted in separate tribes. They soon fell into a state of anarchy and forgetfulness of God, for which they were delivered over, first to eight years bondage to Cushan, king of Mesopotamia; and afterwards to the Moabites; the Canaanites; the Midianites; the Ammonites and the Philis. tines. When they were sufficiently chastened and humbled, " the Lord repented himself for his servants," and raised up Judges to deliver them and guide them. Illustrious were their exploits. God was with them; and we behold in this conflict between the Church and the world many striking exhibitions of divine justice and mercy. But this long period is one on which the eye dwells with little complacency. The people were ignorant, and vicious. "The highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through by-paths." Few prophets were appointed to guide the people. "Every one did that which was right in his own eyes." Yet, in the darkest seasons, Christ had a seed to serve him. In the characters of Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jepthah,* we have illustrious examples of faith. Enlightened by the gospel, we may see in them many imperfections, but theirs was a holy confidence in God; and they "subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises," and went triumphant to the rewards of heaven.
In the early part of this period the book of Joshua was written by Joshua himself, and subjoined, by him, to the law of God.
It is worthy of remark, that, during this dark period, though idolatry was prevalent, it never extended to the demolition of the Tabernacle; for it was never as in later ages, commanded by the rulers.
In the 2868th year of the world, Samuel was born; and dedicated by his mother, to the service of God. He became a faithful servant of Jehovah, supreme Judge in the land, and was eminently endowed with the spirit of prophecy.
* Infidel writers have considered the story of Jepthah's sacrificing his daughter, as an indellible blot on the Jewish religion, and utterly inconsistent with his being a good man. But for such a sacrifice the Jewish religion is not answerable, for it did not warrant it, but pointedly condemned it. His vow was rash; and if he acted consistently, his conscience was erroneous, through ignorance of the law of God, and too much intimacy with heathen customs. On conviction of sin, he might, like David, have become a true penitent. To this event may be traced the heathen story of Iphigenia sacrificed by her father Agamemnon.
He was much feared and respected by the whole nation, and was a great blessing to the Church. He doubtless wrote the book of Ruth, and the greater part of the first book which bears his name. It is supposed he died about the 98th year of his age.
The most remarkable event in his life, connected with the history of the Church, was the establishment of the School of the prophets.
Prophecy or the power of foretelling future events, belongs solely to God. The government of the universe is in his hands. He determines in his own infinite mind, what shall be, he has control of the volitions and actions of men; and he only therefore can tell what will come to pass. The accomplishment of prophecy is one of the most striking proofs of the divine unity and of the inspiration of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. The heathen nations have ever been filled with diviners, who have professed to derive from their gods a knowledge of futurity; and who have, in this way, been the chief supporters of pagan idolatry. But their whole system has been a system of lies;—an abominable imposition upon the ignorance and credulity of mankind.
By dreams, by flights of birds, by the entrails of beasts, by throwing dice, did the Grecian oracles, the most cunning the world ever saw, give their answers; and these were always so ambiguous, as to admit of different interpretations, and save their credit if they failed of the truth.
We have seen that divine revelations were made to mankind in the earliest periods; and that, through Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham, and Jacob, God was pleased, from time to time, to foretel future events. We have also contemplated Moses as a prophet, whom the Lord knew face to face. But no regular order of men, bearing the prophetic office, existed in the Church until this period. We now find schools of them established at Bethel, Gilgal, Najoth, Jericho and Jerusalem, and " Samuel standing as appointed over them." In these schools of the prophets, young men of piety were collected, who were instructed by some eminent teacher in divine things, and fitted for the high stations of prophets, as God should call them. Their dress was plain and coarse; their food, pottage and herbs. They were designed to reprove, rebuke and reform a stupid and backsliding nation; and, by lively admonitions of impending judgments, by bold predictions of future events, to cause kings and priests and people, to turn with fasting and mourning to the Lord. Many of them may have risen no higher than the business of composing and singing hymns to the divine honor, and instructing the people in the common principles of religion; but some of them were exalted to the very highest rank in the nation, and made the most powerful princes tremble before them.
Their predictions were not confined to the Jewish nation, but extended to the rise and fall of all the great empires of the earth, and constantly directed the Church to Him who was to redeem her by his blood; overturn all the kingdoms of men; and establish a spiritual dominion which should never be destroyed. These extraordinary men were continued in the Church from the days of Samuel to Malachia period of about 700 years; when the prophetic spirit was withdrawn for about 400 years, until John the Baptist, the last of the prophets in the Jewish dispensation.
The Israelites having departed from God, demanded of Samuel a king, that they might be like the nations around them. Such ingratitude to Him, who, for centuries, had been their sovereign and had kindly directed all their concerns, might well have provoked immediate destruction; but, for his promise to their fathers, he bore with them and gave them Saul. About 2923 A. M. the monarch was publicly crowned, and God endued him with suitable qualifications for government. But he soon departed from the Lord and showed himself unworthy of his exalted station. God therefore determined to dethrone him and his family; and, since the Hebrews would have a king to reign over them, he was pleased to advance the work of redemption and exalt the Church, by raising that family to the ihrone from which the Messiah, the promised seed should descend. David, the youngest son, was selected and anointed by Samuel to succeed to the government, and be the distinguished ancestor and type of Christ. God brought him to the notice of the nation, to influence and royalty by a series of wonderful providences. He sanctified him early by his Holy Spirit; endued him with the power of prophecy; and excited him to celebrate in a vast variety of beautiful songs, the divine character and government and the glorious scheme of redemption by Jesus Christ.
David was the man after God's own heart. But, in common with all the ransomed of the Lord in this world, he was far from perfection. He sinned in numbering the people. He was guilty also of a gross violation of the sixth and seventh commandments. That sin was of a scarlet dye and crimson hue;- most offensive to God, and injurious to his own soul, and has been the sport of thousands of mockers and scoffers, from that day to this. His heart too was greatly hardened. No man dared directly tell him his sin. Nathan declared it by a parable. It came upon him like a thunderbolt. Out of his own mouth was he condemned. And, upon conviction, he manifested, as every child of God will, a spirit of holiness. He did not, like a proud man, resent the charge. He did not, even as a self-righteous man, plead his meritorious services for a balance to his evil deeds, but he cast himself, in deep repentance, upon the mercy of God for pardon and life. The fifty-first Psalm, written on that occasion, exhibits the deepest penitential feelings.
With this eminent saint, did God solemnly renew the covenant of grace;—that covenant which had been established with Adam, with Noah, with the patriarchs and with the Church in the wilderness: and in his zeal for God, David subdued the holy city, Zion-Jerusalem; brought into it, with joyful acclamation, the Tabernacle; perfected the national worship, especially its sacred music, and gathered materials for a Temple, which should fill the earth with its glory.
His character can never be contemplated but with admi. ration and love. His writings have been a most precious inheritance to the Church. Here saints have, in all ages, read their own experience. Here, they have found their joys and sorrows accurately portrayed; and, as the delineation has passed before their eyes, their soul has been melted and comforted within them. Here, in multitudes of songs, the character and offices of Christ, his glorious work on earth and in heaven, the blessedness of the Church, and its future enlargement and perfection are sweetly sung; --and the pious have been furnished from that day to this, and will be furnished from this to the latest period of time, with the language and sentiments of devout praise. Forty years did David reign. He was a man of war, and he subdued all the nations around him; but he lived solely for the glory of God, and he advanced that glory beyond any monarch that ever sat on a throne. Having made the most magnificent preparations for the national Temple, and appointed his son Solomon his successor, he died A. M. 2985, " full of days, and riches, and honor." | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
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The Syrian Civil War
New figures released today by UNHCR reveal the continuing upward trend for forcibly displaced people worldwide. At the end of 2018 there were 71 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people - a new high and an increase of 2.3 million since the end of 2017. As cited in the latest report, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi commented: "What we are seeing in these figures is further confirmation of a longer-term rising trend in the number of people needing safety from war, conflict and persecution."
As our infographic shows, the new record figure is in sharp contrast to the 43 million people recorded in 2009, and even as recently as the 60 million in 2014. Contributing to the latest record was an increased number of internally displaced people in Ethiopia due to Inter-communal violence, and the large numbers fleeing Venezuela.
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During a sclerotherapy treatment session, a sclerosing chemical solution is injected carefully into the affected vein using a fine needle. Depending on the severity of the condition, the treatment varies with the number of doses needed per vein. The doctor will use cotton to apply ointment and pressure on the injection prick, which helps to spread the medication and stop any minimal bleeding. There may be cramping sensations during the treatment, which is normal. Patients will be advised to wear compression garments for a period of time to continue to put steady pressure on the skin so that the medication continues to work and damage the veins.
Sclerotherapy is a cosmetic treatment that is performed as an outpatient procedure in an accredited surgical center. After treatment, the veins swell, shut down, and ultimately dissapears. The gradual fading of size and color will begin to take notice around 2 - 3 weeks. Optimal results are evident after 6 weeks.
It is difficult to target 100% of the vein as some can be a challenge to inject. On average, 70% improvement is seen in the majority of treated patients. For severe cases, several treatments are necessary to see any significant improvement in appearance. Patients report satisfying results, especially those who are bothered with the pain and cramps of severe varicose veins.
Sclerotherapy is a popular method in removing cases of spider and varicose veins, but there are other alternatives that today's technology offers. Laser treatment, surgical stripping and radiofrequency treatment are a few other options for someone seeking the removal of problematic veins. The doctor will evaluate the condition and recommend the best approach for the patient's circumstance.
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For cases needing several treatments, patients will need to wait several weeks in between sessions to allow the treated veins time to fade. This allows the treated veins to break down and completely be absorbed by the body so that the injector can then focus on the live veins that remain. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfrnxK1ThhBMLit_a | Heritage Burnaby is an online collaboration that represents all of the community assets, heritage services and historic collections managed by the City of Burnaby, British Columbia.
Our goal is to provide a comprehensive and interactive community heritage and history website that brings together the 'personal history' of our citizens. We want to create a wider understanding and appreciation of our city's collective memory.
Through Heritage Burnaby you can experience, learn and research our community's unique history. Use online databases and exhibits to access our heritage sites and landmarks, artifact collections, archival collections and the library's history resources.
If you are interested in searching the City of Burnaby's collections of photographs, artifacts, textual records and heritage landmarks, you can find them online. Do a Collection Search using Heritage Burnaby.
Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby's Heritage charts the natural and cultural heritage of our community through the use of four interactive maps linking history and geography to reveal community.
On each map, Burnaby's heritage landmarks, historic buildings, and neighbourhoods are plotted and linked to historic photographs, artifacts, and neighbourhood histories. Google Street View capabilities let you zoom in to see these heritage sites online.
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BkiUdEjxK1ThhAcYkSDm | Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today indicated broad, bipartisan support for a bill proposing new restrictions on the lobbying activities of former Federal employees, but Reagan Administration officials opposed the measure as too sweeping.
Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, proposed legislation that would prohibit all Federal employees, including members of Congress, from lobbying the Federal Government for one year and from working for a foreign interest for two years. In addition, the bill would prohibit high Federal employes from ever representing or advising a foreign government or entity.
The bill would provide penalties of up to $250,000 in fines and up to two years in prison, or both.
Mr. Deaver, who has denied any wrongdoing, asked Monday for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate charges that his lobbying activities had violated Federal conflict-of-interest laws.
''It will also terminate violations of public trust by halting high-ranking Federal officials, who by the nature of their jobs are privy to some of our Government's most sensitive information about national security commerce, from vending that information to a foreign entity for personal gain,''the Senator said.
Administration officials acknowledged the existence of some problems, mostly in public perception, but opposed the legislation as overly broad.
''We are unaware of any studies or general concerns that would demonstrate a public harm that has a substantive relationships to the breadth of the net this proposal would cast,'' David H. Martin, director of the Office of Government Ethics, said.
Some senators expressed surprise at this remark, and Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, Ohio Democrat, cited articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post as evidence of a growing public concern on the issue.
''Did you ever hear of a filing clerk become a lobbyist?'' Mr. Metzenbaum asked.
Mr. Keeney especially objected to the proposed lifetime ban on working for a foreign interest. The value of inside information depreciated with the passage of time, he said.
Both he and Mr. Martin urged that present laws be tightened to prohibit a former Federal employee from ''quarterbacking,'' or offering a client advice, on a matter in which he was substantially involved.
Senator David L. Boren, Republican of Oklahoma, author of a similar bill, said there was public concern over the fact that some former officials earned as much as 20 times their former salaries within a short time of leaving government. He said some Oklahoma farmers attributed their problems in exporting farm products to the efforts of former officials who leave government to become high-priced lobbyists.
''I think it's demeaning and degrading to former Federal officials to say that the only worth they have is who they know, and not what they know,'' said Mr. Boren, who is not a committee member.
Mr. Metzenbaum spoke of the erosion of public confidence in government.
Thursday, Late City Final Edition The caption under a picture from The Associated Press in some editions yesterday, about Senator Strom Thurmond at a meeting of the Judiciary Committee, misidentified the Senator conferring with him. It was Patrick Leahy, not Howard Metzenbaum. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUeG3xaL3SufhMo6_B | Zephyr's 'Shadows Across Our Eyes' unveils new venue: SITE/less
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Zephyr Dance in SITE/less
Apr 29, 2018 | By Lauren Warnecke
Bricks are loosely stacked to create arch-shaped benches, forming a circle with a few points of exit, and a place for patrons to sit for the premiere of "Shadows Across Our Eyes," Zephyr Dance artistic director Michelle Kranicke's newest work. This short, circular wall-turned-benches forms a Venn diagram, interlocking with knee-high wooden arches propped up on their narrow ends. Apart from some white breezy fabric laid on the end of one bench, these wooden arches are the only soft good to be found in SITE/less, Zephyr's new performance venue tucked into a West Town industrial corridor between the Metra tracks and I-90/94.
Unless you look up. The spectacular wood beams on the ceiling play creatively with Rich Norwood's arresting lighting design, which casts dramatic shadows across SITE/less's walls and concrete floor.
The new space is an extension and deepening of the creative partnership between Kranicke and her husband, architect David Sundry, who have collaborated together for about six years creating immersive performance experiences combining movement-based performance and the built environment on a one-to-one ratio. And in the interest of permanence, Sundry has been busy painting the floors and walls, and building an ADA-accessible restroom in addition to building the artistic architectural elements of "Shadows Across Our Eyes."
So, in comparison to previous works Kranicke and Sundry have created together like "Valise 13" and "Balance in Between," "Shadows" feels sparse. But in a way, that only serves the piece, and the event's other aim: a ribbon cutting for SITE/less.
An iPad showing images of stark landscapes, sunflowers, and close-ups of eyes is mounted on the space's diagonal wall, which butts against the embankment for the Metra line; the clang of a train can be herd over a mostly-atmospheric score and the clack of high heels on the cement floor, worn by Kranicke and the evening's only other performer, Molly Fe Strom.
At the opening, Kranicke walks through our circle, unravelling pink mason's line on her way to the far end of the space, at which is a short set of stairs to the emergency exit. As if by kismet, the heater above Kranicke's head shudders on, and she flips the off switch as a symphonic western movie score takes over and she postures, stepping her stiletto-clad feet further apart, filling out her black jump suit, which is accented with orange piping (costumes by Amanda Lee Franck). She winds the string around her hands, held taught by a not-yet-visible Strom, who eventually emerges at the opposite end of this duel.
They revolve their wrists like spinning slow motion pistols, winding and winding the two lines of string around their hands and nearly whacking several patrons. The two women cross through our pow-wow at the center, coming closer together until they stand, eye to eye, directly in front of the iPad.
"Shadows'" salient moments are many, not least of which comes near the end, when Kranicke unravels her black jumpsuit, wriggling into that white tube of fabric at the edge of one brick bench. The image is quite clear: a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, first by entering the white sheath and then extending a stiff wing that projects from the end of this fabric cocoon.
Meanwhile, Strom struggles on in her black jumpsuit, which is overlaid by a stiff poncho, tangled up in the twine and putting her heels back on after the women had danced, unshod, for some time. Strom retreats backward, toward the staircase where the whole thing began. She sees us and makes eye contact with the audience for the very first time, and then leaves out the emergency exit.
Like, really leaves. Strom's exit marks the end of the performance, but we sat for quite awhile before we were ready to clap. For me, "Shadows" makes a strong comment about women: its two performers embody iconic male postures, but their hands are bound. The veins in their feet show the struggle that is every female foot in an uncomfortable burden of femininity, but stilettos can also be viewed as a symbol of empowerment. They increase height, accentuate features of female bodies, announce an arrival into a room. At regular intervals, Kranicke and Strom embrace, and then rail against feminine archetypes, ultimately settling somewhere between transmutation and desertion, all the while exerting remarkable control of their movement as they get vulnerably close to us – par for the course over the last decade of Kranicke's work – but not asking more of her audience than she should.
"Shadows Across Our Eyes" is compelling enough that I want to see it again. That surprised me.
Zephyr Dance presents "Shadows Across Our Eyes" through May 5, Thursday through Saturday, 7:30 p.m. at SITE/less, 1250 W. Augusta Blvd. Tickets are $15 and available at zephyrdance.com and on See Chicago Dance.
Lauren Warnecke is the dance writer and critic for the Chicago Tribune.
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BkiUgoXxK7IABLfxJjv- | Zoe Anna Wright Lindsey Nawrocik passed away peacefully at her home in Cocoa Beach, Florida on January 24, 2019. Zoe was born on February 7, 1938 in Lima, Ohio and attended Galion High School. Zoe was an avid fan of the Ohio State Football team and loved watching their games.
She was the daughter of the late Harold and Lena (Sherfey) Wright known and remembered as owners of Wrights's Sandwich Shop. She was preceded is death by her first husband Jack D. Lindsey, a brother John Wright, and her sisters Betty Jane Wright, Irene (Wright) Hinkle and Norma Jean (Wright) Anderson.
Zoe is survived by her husband David Nawrocik of Cocoa Beach, FL; Children: Stephen (Laurinda) Lindsey, Ian (Jeannne) Lindsey, Amy (Lindsey) Sherpa, Lisa (Lindsey) (Mark) Allen, David Lindsey, Cheryl (Timothy) Carlin, Anita (Kenneth) Chatelian, Jon (Gina) Nawrocik, Sisters; Helen (Wright) Weaver, Ruthela (Wright) Miller and Margaret (Wright) Martin, as well as 9 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers and gifts donations in Zoe's honor may be made to the St. Jude's Children Hospital. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
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BkiUdbI5qoTBGz1jy2l3 | Q: how to store SoapObject data to an array?
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I'm able to fetch data to SoapObject using following code.
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public void getUserInfo() {
SoapObject request = new SoapObject(_NAMESPACE, _METHOD_NAME);
SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
envelope.dotNet=true;
envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
try
{
AndroidHttpTransport aht=new AndroidHttpTransport(_URL);
aht.call(_SOAP_ACTION,envelope);
_response=(SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();
String s1 = (String)_response.getProperty(0);
String s2 = (String)_response.getProperty(1);
String s3 = (String)_response.getProperty(2);
String s4 = (String)_response.getProperty(3);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Oops..."+ex, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
}
I can get each values by using above _response.getPropertyand the values what I'm getting is correct
anyType{anyType=user1; anyType=pswd1; anyType=user2; anyType=pswd2; anyType=user3; anyType=pswd3; anyType=user4; anyType=pswd4; anyType=user5; anyType=pswd5; anyType=user6; anyType=pswd6; }
the data what I'm fetching is username and password.
I want to store it in a array for my further operations such as storing it into Sqlite DB. my database table have two column as
username userPassword
I want my above data in following format:
user1 pswd1
user2 pswd2
user3 pswd3
user4 pswd4
user5 pswd5
user6 pswd6
so that is will be easy to find username with their corresponding password. How can I cast SoapObject to an Array
A: step 1: create a bean class same as your .net server is returning
step 2: parse the data and create object of that bean class
step 3: add into array
and do what ever you want to do
A: int propertyCount = _response.getPropertyCount();
if(propertyCount % 2 != 0) {
// The response is not even so you have many option remove last count or return error
}
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
for(int index = 0 ; intdex > propertyCount/2 ; index +=2)
{
map.put((String)_response.getProperty(index), (String)_response.getProperty(index + 1));
}
A: I got the solution for What I wanted, thanks to @Basbous I got some idea from the code you provided..
Finally I solved it by adding following code:
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private static final String _SOAP_ACTION = "http://tempuri.org/getUserDetails";
private static final String _METHOD_NAME = "getUserDetails";
private static final String _NAMESPACE = "http://tempuri.org/";
private static final String _URL = "http://sush19.in/myservice/myservice.asmx";
SoapObject _response;
public Boolean getUserInfo() {
SoapObject request = new SoapObject(_NAMESPACE, _METHOD_NAME);
SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
envelope.dotNet=true;
envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
try
{
AndroidHttpTransport aht=new AndroidHttpTransport(_URL);
aht.call(_SOAP_ACTION,envelope);
_response=(SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();
int propertyCount = _response.getPropertyCount();
String[][] userDetails = new String[propertyCount/2][2];
int temp = 0;
if(propertyCount % 2 != 0) {
return false;
}
else
{
for(int i = 0 ; i < propertyCount/2 ; i++)
{
for(int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
{
userDetails[i][j] = (String)_response.getProperty(temp);
temp = temp + 1;
}
}
}
return true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Oops..."+ex, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
return false;
}
}
}
the list of values which I got from my Server is now stored in 2D Array userDetails[][] and I can pass it to any Activity and can access it using for loop easily.
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BkiUdF44eIXhzes6oKv1 | Homescience blogA new study found the same genetic signature associated with monogamy in species
A new study found the same genetic signature associated with monogamy in species
Latest science and technology news Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Same genetic signature associated with monogamy in mammals, birds, amphibians and fish.
Monogamy evolved in many different groups of animals.
Prairie voles, little rodents who live in North America, do not believe in free love. When they choose a partner, they stay with them for life, raise the offspring together and cooperate in preserving the territory.
Monogamy is not unique to voles of course: we observe it in other mammals and also in birds, amphibians and even fish. It seems to have evolved again and again, independently, in different groups of animals.
A new study suggests that in each such case, genes responsible for monogamous behavior were involved in the development of monogamous specie from an ancestor that wasn't monogamous.
A study compared monogamous animals to five non-monogamous animals.
Researchers from universities in the United States and the United Kingdom compared five monogamous species to five non-monogamous species.
For example, they examined the Meadow vole and additionally two species of mice, two species of songbirds, two species of Tilapia, and two species of a poisonous frog (Dendrobatidae).
For a species to be considered monogamous for the purpose of the study, the couple should have stayed together for at least one breeding season, sharing at least some of the care of the offspring and keeping them together from predators.
The researchers did not focus on the genetic sequence itself, but on the expression of genes - that is, how many proteins are produced according to the instructions written in them.
When examining the male brains of the different species, the researchers found 24 genes whose expression was clearly different between the monogamous and non monogamous species, some more expressed in monogamy and others less.
Of course, there are many other genes that affect behavior change, but the differences in the expression of these 24 genes were the most significant.
The findings indicate a genetic mechanism for the development of monogamy, which is repeated again and again in evolution, in different groups of vertebrates.
The genes involved in this mechanism, according to the study, influence, among other things, the development of nerve cells, memory and learning.
The researchers speculate that monogamous animals need a good memory and learning ability to create the necessary relationships with their partners. In addition, the brain of monogamous animals may need to change simply to be in a relationship. However, some of the genes identified in the study may not be involved in the development of monogamy, but their expression changes when animals adopt it.
The reward system.
Monogamy is not necessarily the simplest choice, especially for males. There are many reasons why they may get away from their partner after mating.
A monogamous animal has to endure the presence of another animal beside him for an extended period of time, and it is not easy. It involves sharing food and shelter, there is the risk of infection with the partner's germs, or the partner can hurt you.
Growing up the next generation is not easy either; descendants are parasites, they take resources, and make life more dangerous because it's easier for predators to find the animal.
In animals that are not monogamous, most females raise the offspring by themselves, and males do not have to bear the burden.
What evolution has done, is none the less brilliant; when animals get into a relationship, or when they have children to care for, they feel that it rewards them, the reward system in the brain is snatched.
This evolutionary "solution" enables the monogamous lifestyle, which in many cases ensures better survival of the offspring.
If so, there are probably certain brain genes associated with the development of monogamy. The obvious question is, of course, what about people, as a species and as individuals?
Researchers hypothesize that the same pattern of gene expression might also exist in humans, but that does not mean that we would soon be able to test gene expression and thus determine the suitability of a particular potential partner or his monogamy level.
In conclusion.
Monogamy is a complex feature that many genes are involved in. In addition, the definition given in the study of "monogamy" is not necessarily what we are talking about when we look for monogamy in a mate or in a partner.
Studies have shown that in many species of animals that have a long-term relationship there are many infidelities, but since the male and the female stay together and raise the offspring in common, they are considered monogamous. In order to find the genetic signature associated with loyalty to a spouse, we will probably have to wait for the next research.
Young, R. L., Ferkin, M. H., Ockendon-Powell, N. F., Orr, V. N., Phelps, S. M., Pogány, Á., ... & Urrutia, A. O. (2019). Conserved transcriptomic profiles underpin monogamy across vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201813775.
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Why is having the correct tyre pressure important?
It is critical to keep your tyres at the correct pressure.
Having over or under-inflated tyres can make a huge difference to the way your vehicle handles, making it dangerous to drive.
Whether you have the cheapest tyres or top-of-the range ones from manufacturers like Continental, if they're wrongly-inflated, their lives will be shortened.
Every two-three weeks, you should check your vehicle's tyre pressures. This is particularly important before going on a long journey, as you may have a heavy load to account for.
You should only measure when the tyres are cold, as pressures will appear higher if a vehicle has been running, due to the air inside warming up.
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For your tyre tread to remain in constant contact with the road, the wheel and tyre have to be correctly balanced.
If you drive on the road with unbalanced tyres, this creates vibration through the steering wheel, which can result in problems with braking and the way it handles. You may also notice a dramatic increase in fuel consumption.
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An imbalance left unnoticed or ignored can cause further problems with the suspension, wheel bearings and steering.
What do I do about incorrect wheel balancing?
If you do notice an imbalance of your tyres or shaky steering, we advise you to visit one of our Tyre Shopper technicians, to avoid putting yourself and your passengers at risk.
They will use a computerised electronic wheel balancer. This can measure the imbalance and add small weights to correct the imbalance and rebalance your wheels.
What is wheel alignment or 'tracking'?
If you hit a kerb when parking or drive over a pothole, the thud can cause more damage than you think.
Every car has a specific steering track setting for the front wheels, so if this is disrupted, tyre wear can happen quickly.
Incorrect wheel alignment is obvious when the inner or outer edges become unevenly worn and the wear is noticeable.
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What is the tyre valve and when should it be replaced?
The tyre valve is crucial to ensure a tyre is safe for the road. The tyre valve is often the most neglected and overlooked component within the wheel assembly, as it holds the pressure inside.
The tyre valve cap is also vital as it can prevent dirt or grit getting into the valve, which could otherwise result in a dangerous failure of the tyre at speed.
A poorly-sealed valve can cause constant under-inflation of the tyre, which reduces its life by 25%.
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BkiUc_o5qsBC4wbX-W4r | Welcome to Legacy
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Ken Kessenich
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Ken has spent the past 5 years serving as the Children's Ministry Pastor at Crossroads Church and acts as the liaison between the school and the church. Prior to his ministry work, Ken taught in Christian education at the elementary and middle school levels for 26 years before serving as vice principal for 12 years also at the K-8 level. He is passionate about pointing kids to Christ and encouraging growth in their faith.
Greg Friesen
School Principal
Greg has 11 years of teaching experience and worked 14 years in school administration, primarily as school principal at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He recently moved from Oregon to principal Legacy Christian School and is excited God has called him back into Christian education.
Christina Cross
Christina has spent most of her 12-year educational career working as a public school counselor with middle and high school students. She spent 2 years also serving as a college counselor and as college adjunct professor teaching career and life skills. Christina is thrilled to be working in a Christian school environment where Christ can be at the center of every conversation.
Kristen Wiley
Kristen is continuing at Legacy as our Kindergarten teacher and possesses 10 years of teaching experience primarily with preschool-aged children. She earned a Bachelor's in Bible and Theology and Liberal Studies from William Jessup University and also possesses an Early Childhood Associate Teachers Certificate. Her goal as an educator is to provide a warm, caring environment and to keep Jesus as the center of everything.
Jennifer Reiches
Jennifer is continuing at Legacy as our 1st grade teacher after teaching our 3rd/4th grade classroom last year. Jen comes to us with experience teaching preschoolers in the Bay Area for four years prior to joining Legacy. In addition, her student teaching experience had her working with 5th graders in Southern California all the way to Kindergartners in New Zealand. She graduated from Biola with a Liberal Studies degree in Elementary Education, a minor in Biblical Studies, as well as her California teaching credential. Jen is excited to provide a safe and loving environment where kids can feel free to learn and grow in their academics and more importantly in their relationships with Jesus Christ.
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Christin is joining Legacy this year as our 2nd/3rd grade teacher after spending last semester working as a substitute teacher for multiple schools in Southern California. Christin is a recent Biola University graduate where she earned her degree and completed their teacher certification program. The bulk of her experience has been with the primary grades which is where her heart truly lies. She was raised attending Crossroads Church and is very excited about returning "home" and joining our Legacy team!
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4th/5th grade teacher
Lynn is joining Legacy as our 4th/5th grade teacher and comes with 24 years of teaching experience from a variety of educational settings. She received her degree from the College of Charleston, double-majoring in English and Secondary Education. Lynn began teaching as a credentialed public high school teacher in South Carolina prior to moving to California. Since then, her experiences as an educator have included homeschooling, teaching and administering in a behavioral school, and teaching and serving as vice principal in private Christian schools. Lynn is passionate about leading children into the reality of a daily, intimate walk with Jesus and, thereby, helping open their minds to the joy of discovering the universe which He has created for them to explore.
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Margaret is joining Legacy as a part-time learning specialist and will be working with students one-on-one, in small groups, and also assisting our teachers in the classroom. She comes to us with years of experience and a wealth of expertise in numerous areas of education. Margaret started her career as a classroom teacher and holds both her teaching credential and special education credential. Over the years, Margaret became a reading specialist but also works at identifying and assisting students with a wide range of academic challenges. Margaret is most passionate about helping students identify and implement the best learning tools for their individual needs and then watching them advance as their love for learning becomes ignited in a whole new way.
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BkiUcwg25V5hegR8YPXw | MFA|EDA Viewfinder Blog of the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University
English Director and Screenwriter John Akomfrah visits MFAEDA
Acclaimed English director and screenwriter John Akomfrah OBE visited the MFAEDA Carpentry Shop on October 26th to discuss his approach to filmmaking and to participate in critiques of MFA student work. Akomfrah also screened and discussed his previous work and artistic practice with the greater Duke and Durham communities at the Nasher Museum of Art on October 27th.
A founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah's work has been shown in galleries including Documenta (Germany), the De Balie (Holland), Centre George Pompidou (France), the Serpentine and Whitechapel Galleries (UK); and The Museum of Modern Art (USA). In 2000, Akomfrah was awarded the Gold Digital Award at the Cheonju International Film Festival, South Korea, for his innovative use of digital technology.
John Akomfrah is currently a Governor of Film London, a visiting professor of film at the University Of Westminster (United Kingdom), and an officer of the Order of the British Empire.
The trailer for Akomfrah's newest film The Nine Muses, can be seen below. Mnemosyne, a shorter gallery version of The Nine Muses was screened at the Nasher on October 20th.
Akomfrah's visit was presented as part of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Visiting Artist Series, in collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI).
John Akomfrah, Mnemosyne, Nasher Museum, The Nine Muses
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BkiUdp44dbghfTKFObcP | title: "Merkle Trees: The Backbone of Distributed Software"
date: '2018-02-24'
tags:
- markle trees
- crypto
- decentralization
slug: merkle-trees-the-backbone-of-distributed-software
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I know it sounds complicated, but bear with me, it's worth it.
A Merkle Tree is a data structure useful in distributed scenarios because it allows one to securely verify data structures without having to transfer the entire data structure.
# EXAMPLES
Thes use cases have been exploding in recent years:
- Distributed Version Control (Git/Mercurial)
- BitTorrent
- Copy-On-Write Filesystems (btrfs/[ZFS](https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-end-to-end-data-integrity))
- Distributed NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, Riak, Dynamo)
- The distributed web! ([IPFS](https://taravancil.com/blog/how-merkle-trees-enable-decentralized-web/))
- Cryptos (Bitcoin, [Ethereum](https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/11/15/merkling-in-ethereum/))
These all use Merkle trees to ensure data consistency.
# MERKLE STRUCTURE
The structure of a Merkle Tree a tree in which:
1. every leaf node is labelled with the hash of a data block
2. every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes¹
The parts of the Merkle tree are the branches (lines between nodes), the nodes, and the root (the very top node).
<p><img src="https://www.noqcks.io/img/merkle-tree-structure.png" alt="Screenshot showing merkle tree"></p>
The hashes 0-0 and 0-1 are the hash values of the data blocks (data chunks) L1 and L2, respectively. The hash 0 is a concatenation of the hashes 0-0 and 0-1 and so on. By walking this tree, one can verify that a data chunk exists!
I still don't get it, why are they used precisely?
# WHY USE MERKLE TREES?
There must be good reasons why the use of Merkle Trees have exploded in recent years. Let's list them now!
1. They allow you to verify a data structure securely! ZFS uses this to ensure that the data stored is consistent with earlier versions of data.
2. They significantly reduce the size of data you need to prove the consistency of data. Bitcoin "light clients" only need to download block headers for each block in its blockchain instead of the entire block to verify its integrity. This is the main reason why Merkle Trees are used in distributed applications.
3. It separates the verification of the data from the data itself. Cassandra DB's AntiEntropy service uses Merkle Trees to detect inconsistencies in data between replicas. They do this because there is no need to send the data itself across replicas for verification, only hash data.
# WHAT KIND OF PROOFS ARE THERE?
There are two Merkle Proofs that allow you to verify Merkle data in different ways.
- **Audit Proof**: This kind of proof lets you verify that a single chunk exists in the tree.
- **Consistency Proof**: This kind of proof is only applicable to append-only Merkle trees. The consistency proof lets you verify that earlier versions of the tree are consistent with newer versions of the tree (that they're in the same order, and that all new records come after all old records).
For more information about the specific implementation of these proofs, you can reference [this blog post](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1176140/Understanding-Merkle-Trees-Why-use-them-who-uses-t#WhoUsesMerkleTrees2).
Hopefully, you now understand a little better the uses cases for Merkle Trees in distributed applications. Enjoy!
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
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BkiUdqc5qX_BrrvEBiPf | CPC (Cost per Click) explained
CPC (cost per click) is a metric that determines how much advertisers pay for the ads they place on websites or social media, based on the number of clicks the ad receives. CPC is important for marketers to consider, since it measures the price is for a brand's paid advertising campaigns. The goal of marketers should be to reduce the price of clicks while also cultivating high-quality clicks, and consequently satisfied customers.
What is CPC?
CPC is the cost per click that an ad receives. It's a metric that applies to all types of ads, whether they have text, images, or videos. It applies to ads that appear on the results page of search engines, display ads, and ads that appear on social media, too. Thinking about CPC should be one of the Sponsored Products best practices used by brands, because finding an accurate bid on certain keywords helps determine the value of advertising campaigns.
What's the difference between CPC vs CPM?
It's important for brands to measure their digital marketing metrics, including comparing CPC vs CPM (cost per mille, or the cost per 1,000 ad impressions). The click-through rate (CTR) of an ad, landing page, or article is the rate of the number of clicks to another page that it receives. CPC is based on the number of actual clicks the ad receives, while CPM is based on the number of times an ad is viewed, regardless of whether customers click on it or not. Brands can use both metrics, considering the implications of each, for a more comprehensive view of the performance of their ad campaigns.
How to calculate cost per click
CPC equals the average amount paid for each click on an ad. A high number of clicks, or visits on an ad, mean that the ad is getting attention from customers. Various advertisers can bid on ad placement on websites and popular keywords, and so each brand's optimal CPC is determined by its ad ranking as well as the ranking of other related brands and products. The more in-demand a keyword is in the auction and the higher the ad placement, the higher the advertising costs.
What is average cost per click?
The average cost per click is easy: It's the average amount spent on each click for an ad. Typically, ads placed on search engine pages will cost more than ads placed on a brand's website. The rank of ads changes frequently, so there won't be a set number for the CPC of a brand's ad.
What is maximum cost per click?
The maximum cost per click is a brand's bid on ad placement and keywords, which means it's the highest price they're willing to pay. Luckily, though, the brand will typically not pay the entire maximum cost per click. Based on related brands and quality scores in search, the actual CPC will often be lower than that initial bid.
What is manual cost per click bidding?
Once a brand decides on its maximum cost per click, it needs to decide if it wants to use manual cost per click bidding or automatic cost per click bidding. Manual cost per click bidding means that the brand chooses its own individual bid amounts. For a more automatic option, brands can use enhanced cost per click bidding instead.
What is enhanced cost per click bidding?
An alternate option to manual cost per click bidding is enhanced cost per click bidding, where the brand sets their overall budget and then has their bids automated based on that. Enhanced cost per click bidding is a feature that's been added to search engines including Google AdWords and Microsoft Bing. Sponsored Display uses automated bidding to adjust your bid based on conversion.
Advantages and disadvantages of pay per click (PPC) advertising
There are upsides and downsides to PPC advertising, which is measured by CPC and CPM: CPC is more directly correlated to the purchases made by customers, while CPM could help reach a goal of increasing brand awareness. This will often result in CPC advertising being higher priced but also more valuable in getting customers to the next step in their shopping journey, since CPC is directly linked to the click-through rate (CTR) of customers who have viewed the ads.
How to lower CPC
The goal of all brands should be to have a low CPC. That means that ads should have optimization for high value at a low cost. Additionally, CPC should be proportionate to the overall profits of brands, since the ultimate goal of CPC is to drive sales. Most brands don't want to spend more on ads than their income is, so budgeting can be crucial.
CPC FAQs
What's the difference between PPC and CPC?
PPC and CPC are describing the same thing: PPC is the system of brands paying per click on an ad, and CPC is the metric used to measure those clicks.
How can brands begin advertising and determining CPC?
Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands use CPC to determine how much advertisers need to pay, based on the clicks of customers. By becoming aware of their CPC optimization and figuring out what their cost per click currently is, and what it should be, brands can start making their ad campaigns even smarter.
1 Statista, Global Programmatic Advertising Spending, 2021
2 eMarketer, Programmatic Digital Display Ad Spending Forecast, June 2021 | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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Tatiana Bazzichelli
Publisher: transcript Verlag
The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contribute to new courses of action, digital tools, and contents? This urgent intervention based on the work of Berlin's Disruption Network Lab examines this growing phenomenon, offering interdisciplinary pathways to empower the public by investigating whistleblowing as a developing political practice that has the ability to provoke change from within.
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Armed in America - A History of...
Patrick J. Charles
This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment.
This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it legally protects, has changed drastically since its first appearance in the 1689 Declaration of Rights.
Armed in America explores how and why the right to arms transformed at different points in history. The right was initially meant to serve as a parliamentary right of resistance, yet by the ratification of the Second Amendment in 1791 the right had become indispensably intertwined with civic republicanism. As the United States progressed into the 19th century the right continued to change—this time away from civic republicanism and towards the individual-right understanding that is known today, albeit with the important caveat that the right could be severely restricted by the government's police power.
Throughout the 20th century this understanding of the right remained the predominant view. But working behind the scenes was the beginnings of the gun-rights movement—a movement that was started in the early 20th century through the collective efforts of sporting magazine editors and was eventually commandeered by the National Rifle Association to become the gun-rights movement known today.
Listeners looking to sort through the shrill rhetoric surrounding the current gun debate and arrive at an informed understanding of the legal and historical development of the right to arms will find this audiobook to be an invaluable resource.
This "acerbic yet compassionate" meditation on humanity by the acclaimed actor and playwright offers "curiosity, thoughtfulness, sharp logic, deep emotion" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Beloved actor and Obie Award–winning playwright Wallace Shawn has been an incisive commentator on civilization and its discontents for decades. Now, having recently passed the age of seventy and watched Donald Trump claim the presidency, he offers a late-stage critique of his species, which he sees as being divided between the lucky and the unlucky. In Night Thoughts, Shawn takes the lucky—himself included—to task for their complacency while offering fascinating reflections on "civilization, morality, Beethoven, 11th-century Japanese court poetry, and his hopes for a better world, among other topics" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Trail of the Dinosaur
Arthur Koestler's publications manifest a wide range of political, scientific and literary interests. The Trail of the Dinosaur gathers some of his best-known essays and speeches.
The Trail of the Dinosaur , first published in 1955, contains a great deal of Koestler's thinking for the first ten years after the war – a 'farewell to arms' as he wrote in his preface. These essays deal with the political questions that obsessed him for the best part of a quarter of a century.
The essays in 'The Trail of the Dinosaur' cover the decade 1946–55-the early or classical period of the Cold War. In that confrontation the West was on the defensive, and the majority of its progressive intellectuals were still turning a benevolently blind eye on Soviet foreign policy and the facts of life behind the Iron Curtain . In the dramatic contest between Whitaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, which has been called the Dreyfus Affair of our century, progressive opinion stood firmly behind Hiss. And when, in the New York Times, I took Chambers' part, I became, if possible, even more unpopular among self-styled progressives than I had been before.
In 1937, during the Civil War in Spain, I spent three months under sentence of death as a suspected spy, witnessing the executions of my fellow prisoners and awaiting my own. These three months left me with a vested interest in capital punishment-rather like 'half-hanged Smith', who was cut down after fifteen minutes and lived on.
Politics without Vision -...
Tracy B. Strong
"Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."—Perspectives on Politics From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of political thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has left us effectively thinking without a banister. Politics without Vision takes up the thought of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lenin, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Arendt. None of these theorists were liberals; nor, excepting possibly Arendt, were they democrats—and some might even be said to have served as handmaidens to totalitarianism. And all, to a greater or lesser extent, shared the common conviction that the institutions and practices of liberalism are inadequate to the demands and stresses of the present times. In examining their thought, Strong acknowledges the political evil that some of their ideas served to foster but argues that these were not necessarily the only paths their explorations could have taken. By uncovering the turning points in their thought—and the paths not taken—Strong strives to develop a political theory that can avoid, and perhaps help explain, the mistakes of the past while furthering the democratic impulse. Confronting the widespread belief that political thought is on the decline, Strong puts forth a brilliant and provocative counterargument that in fact it has endured—without the benefit of outside support. A compelling rendering of contemporary political theory, Politics without Vision is sure to provoke discussion among scholars in many fields.
The Debt Bomb - A Bold Plan to...
Tom A. Coburn, John Hart
In a nation whose debt has outgrown the size of its entire economy, the greatest threat comes not from any foreign force but from Washington politicians who refuse to relinquish the intoxicating power to borrow and spend. Senator Tom Coburn reveals the fascinating, maddening story of how we got to this point of fiscal crisis-and how we can escape. Long before America's recent economic downturn, beltway politicians knew the U.S. was going bankrupt. Yet even after several so-called "change" elections, the government has continued its wasteful ways in the face of imminent danger. With passion and clarity, Coburn explains why Washington resists change so fiercely and offers controversial yet commonsense solutions to secure the nation's future. At a time when millions of Americans are speculating about what is broken in Washington, The Debt Bomb is a candid, thoughtful, nonpartisan exposé of the real problems inside our government. Coburn challenges the conventional wisdom that blames lobbyists, gridlock, and obstructionism, and places the responsibility squarely where it belongs: on members of Congress in both parties who won't let go of the perks of power to serve the true interests of the nation-unless enough citizens take bold steps to demand action. Throughout a distinguished career as a business owner, physician, and U.S. senator, Tom Coburn has watched his beloved republic careen down a suicidal path. Today, the nation stands on the precipice of financial ruin, a disaster far more dangerous to our safety than any terrorist threats we face. Yet Coburn believes there is still hope-if enough Americans are willing to shake the corridors of Washington and demand action. With an insider's keen eye and a caregiver's deft touch, Coburn diagnoses the mess that career politicians have made of things while misusing their sacred charge to govern. Coburn's incisive analysis: Reveals the root causes of America's escalating financial crisisExposes Washington's destructive appetite for wasteful spending, power grabs, backroom deals, and quick nonfixesRises above partisanship to implicate elected officials of all stripes in steering the nation off courseLays out a commonsense guide to restoring orderConcludes with a clarion call and sound advice for Americans dedicating themselves to defusing the debt bomb Above all, Coburn believes the United States can continue as a beacon of opportunity for future generations-but how we act today will determine whether we deliver the nation to our children and grandchildren fully alive, on life support, or without a pulse.
Stand Up! - How to Get Involved...
Gordon Whitman
"Grassroots organizing is our best hope. If you're serious about making change from the bottom up, read Stand Up! and pass it on." - Congressman Keith Ellison
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Veteran organizer Gordon Whitman shows that we have the power we need to create a racially and economically just society. But it won't happen if we stay on the sidelines sharing social media posts and signing online petitions. We win only if we're willing to join other people in the kind of face-to-face organizing that has powered every successful social movement in history.
Whitman describes five types of conversations that enable people to build organizations that can solve local problems and confront the greatest challenges facing our country - from gun violence to climate change. The audiobook is a road map for standing up to the bullies who've hijacked our democracy and divided us against each other.
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BkiUeIA4eIOjSIyClH9n | Society and Scenery
It started out with a comment I heard on the news the other night.
"THEY are taking away our rights and treating us like second class citizens!", he shouted on the steps inside the rotunda of the Utah State Capitol building. This was the clip ABC 4 played over the evening news as they explained that many Utahns believed that non discrimination laws were good for business and the economy. By and large, it was a very positive story, showing how many businesses favored non discrimination laws and how people as a whole just wanted to show respect for their neighbors.
But for some reason I just couldn't get over that first comment.
"THEY are taking away our rights"
"THEY"
Let me begin by explaining that I am a very optimistic person. So much so that I think it defines me more than any other of my characteristics. As such, I am a humanist. I believe people are generally good and that most people really just want to do the right thing, what ever that may be. I like people. A lot.
My biggest reservation about ascribing myself to the LGBT community is the "us" versus "them" mentality. In public addresses, you often hear speakers say that people on both sides of the fence need to be more understanding and sympathetic to the other side's view. However at the end of the day, most in the liberal community see this as conservatives need to become more open minded on social issues and liberals need to welcome them onto the correct side.
But when it comes to the "us" versus "them" mentality, both sides are equally to blame.
I can't really speak to what it is like to be on the more conservative side of this fence, so let me talk just a moment to my own people.
The LGBT community in my opinion is a misnomer. A community is a group of people that you primarily interact with. Your kids play with other kids in the community. You get people from your community to watch your kids or take care of your pets while you are out of town. You probably have common social events like church, parties or barbecues with your community. A community where you have chosen to establish yourself and it should hopefully be where want to be.
It was a frigid December night where I first heard the term "LGBT family". A few days in to having marriage equality in Utah, a large rally was organized outside Salt Lake's City County Building on Washington Square in downtown. One of the speakers, a radio host, was addressing the audience. He talked about how in his profession he regularly travels across the country, and how frequently when he mentions that he lives in Utah and is gay people immediately react, "Isn't that so hard?". The short answer for him was, "No, not at all". He remarked that Utah had one of the strongest and closest LGBT Families that he knew of, and that for him it wasn't hard.
So I like to think of it a little bit more like that. A family is the group you share commonality with based on circumstance. You don't choose your family-- you are a part of them because you share a key biological identity. And you grow up with them. You change and become different from them. You learn and become and understand better by being with them. But inevitably you separate, always knowing that you share something special with them.
For the LGBT family in Utah, that is very much true. An overwhelming proportion of us come from an LDS background and have all had very similar stories. But we are part of many other communities that take a higher precedence-- work environments, ecclesiastical organizations, schools and universities, neighborhoods and service groups. It doesn't mean that we aren't a part of the same family, but we are often in noticeably different communities.
That being said, I find a lot of frustration with victimizing the LGBT family. Don't get me wrong, discrimination happens. It has happened to me personally and is is hell. But that being said, I don't think it happens to such a degree as people often proclaim. I don't think it is ever appropriate to ask for special attention or recognition specifically because you are part of a minority group. Having to treat someone nice or make them especially comfortable because they are a minority is just as much discrimination as harassing them because they are a minority. It then becomes as sort of pacification-- patronizing them for being too much a part of a minority to be able to earn their own respect.
I want people to respect me and to care about who I am as a person rather than because I am part of a discriminated against minority. I think think there is an importance in letting people know your identity during the coming out process, and then there after to let the world know you for who you are as a person. That's why I get incredibly frustrated when I see on twitter and instagram the following, #gay #gayboy #instagay etc. I find that just as out of place as seeing #blackguy #whitekid, etc. You are so much more than a label. So why the hell would you go out of your way to ascribe yourself to a single title that could come to define how people see you.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for non discrimination laws and ordinances. But that being said, you are so much more than a title. And unlike other discriminated groups like racial minorities and women, LGB people aren't visually marked by their differences. You have the opportunity to make an impression on people through your work ethic, your attitude, your productivity, friendliness, optimism, etc, before the topic of your date with that nice person last weekend ever comes up over a lunch break.
I love you guys. I think I've have enough of a monologue for now. Have a good one. :)
Evan April 27, 2014 at 12:11 AM
This is interesting, though I'm not sure I agree with your line of reasoning, at least as a concept that extends universally. If I may make a totally unsolicited comment: First off, I think "the gay community" makes sense in two ways. First off, LGBT people are a political community - many of them share some political interests, and there are others who oppose these interests.
I also think that there are gay communities as you've outlined them. I feel like I am increasingly in this sort of community. In my city, if I go to a gay bar or club, I know that I will likely run into friends and acquaintances. We chat about what is going on with us and our mutual friends. I play in a concert band with other LGBT people. A lot of the gay people in my city play in a kickball league. We're like a small subsection of the city with a lot of interactions among ourselves. Even more than that, we're likely to have connections to the same people in other cities. I ran into a (gay) friend tonight who said he was working with a (gay) guy I went to school with and that guy had asked how I was doing. I know I used to not believe in it either, but I think it really is a community in a lot of meaningful ways.
In terms of referring to yourself by a gay label, I think it's because being gay might cause you to have different experiences than other people, primarily as a result of dating guys and knowing other people who do the same. This applies to other labels as well. As an equivalent, if you are LDS, you would be concerned with things like general conference weekend and temple recommends. If there are activities tied to your identity, that makes it more salient and you might bring it up more. This is especially true if it that identity is "marked" (differing from the "standard"). You wouldn't say #whitekid because there isn't anything different from the "standard" that you would do as a white person.
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Celebrating The Macallan's origins, the new collection of single malt whiskies will be available exclusively from The Macallan Estate Boutique, The Macallan Boutiques in Global Travel Retail, Domestic and E-Boutiques.
The 485-acre Macallan Estate on the banks of the River Spey has been farmed since 1543. In 1700, Captain John Grant transformed the land into a community with the construction of Easter Elchies House, with schoolteacher Alexander Reid establishing the Distillery in 1824.
The Macallan Home Collection – The Distillery, the first release in the new series, showcases The Macallan's Distillery. The award-winning building, designed by globally acclaimed architects
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, incorporates a unique undulating roof covered in grass and wild-flowers to reflect the surrounding scenic hills.
Crafted from a combination of European and American oak casks and refill casks, this whisky also pays tribute to The Macallan's traditions and community spirit.
The bottle is presented in a unique pack featuring a watercolor painting depicting the Distillery by local artist Colin Rizza, who is also a long-standing Distillery worker at The Macallan. Colin's family has worked with The Macallan for over three decades, and both he and his son still work at the Distillery to this day.
Polly Logan
Polly Logan, Whisky Maker at The Macallan, said: "Being part of the 200-year history and heritage of whisky-making at The Macallan Distillery is a truly unique experience… The Macallan Home Collection–The Distillery describes sensorially the passion and pride we feel in our wonderful spiritual home. A gentle floral note gives a subtle nod to the beautiful land-scape that forms The Macallan Estate, while the rich finish reflects the warm welcome that awaits here in the heart of Speyside."
Jeremy Speirs, Regional Managing Director, Edrington Global Travel Retail, commented: "Central to our vision for The Macallan Boutiques in travel retail is allowing more consumers around the world to connect with the brand's home in Speyside. With the launch of The Macallan Home Collection exclusively in select boutiques, we continue to build on that vision with a new series which is inspired by the natural beauty of The Macallan Estate. We're confident this series will resonate strongly with global shoppers looking to explore the stories and heritage behind The Macallan in a beautiful, highly collectible format."
With an RRSP of US$250 / GBP200 / €230, The Macallan Home Collection – The Distillery will be available from Mid-August 2022. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdTY5qX_Bl-uWGmHS | California Court of Appeal Clarifies Meal and Rest Period Premium Calculation and the Enforceability of Rounding Policies
California, State Developments, Wage and Hour
California employers have long grappled with two wage and hour questions:
What rate of pay should be used to calculate meal and rest period premiums in California?
Does the facially neutral "rounding" of employee work time, which results in a small subset of employees being undercompensated, result in systematic undercompensation on a class-wide basis?
On October 9, 2019, the California Court of Appeal weighed in on these issues in a favorable published opinion, Ferra v. Loews Hollywood Hotel, LLC, Case No. B283218.
Meal and Rest Period Premiums Should Be Paid at an Employee's Base Rate of Pay
With respect to meal and rest period premiums, the Court of Appeal considered whether the phrase "regular rate of compensation" for calculating meal and rest period premiums under Labor Code § 226.7 has the same meaning as "regular rate of pay" for calculating overtime compensation under Labor Code § 510.
The Court of Appeal ruled that the two phrases have different meanings, and thus meal and rest period premiums should not be calculated in the same manner as overtime compensation. As a result, unlike overtime, meal and rest period premiums need only be paid at an employee's base hourly rate, which may be lower than the employee's regular rate for purposes of calculating overtime compensation.
Specifically, the Court of Appeal concluded that "equating 'regular rate of pay' and 'regular rate of compensation' would elide the difference between requiring an employer to pay overtime for the time an employee spends working more than 40 hours a week, which pays the employee for extra work, and requiring an employer to pay a premium for missed meal and rest hour periods, which compensates an employee for the loss of a benefit."
In reaching this conclusion, the Court of Appeal first undertook an analysis of the plain language of the two different statutory provisions—"regular rate of compensation" versus "regular rate of pay." The court found that "compensation" and "pay" are, indeed, different terms, and that the legislature made a conscious decision to use two different terms in the two different statutes, which were enacted in the same year.
The court also addressed the legislative history of the two statutes. Notably, the legislature's occasional reference to similarities in the purpose of overtime pay and meal and rest period premiums (i.e., sometimes equating both to a penalty) did not require reaching the conclusion that the two types of payments should be calculated in the same way, especially in light of the choice to use different terms (i.e., "pay" versus "compensation").
Facially Neutral Rounding Practices Do Not "Systematically Undercompensate" Employees, Even Where a "Small Majority" of Employees Lose Compensation
The Ferra court also considered whether the employer's facially neutral rounding policy systematically undercompensated employees on a class-wide basis and found that it did not.
The plaintiff alleged that she and other putative class members were underpaid due to their employer's practice of unlawfully shaving or rounding time from hours worked. Specifically, hourly employees clocked in and out using an electronic timekeeping system that automatically rounded entries either up or down to the nearest quarter-hour. According to the plaintiff, the rounding practice was further impacted by the company's attendance policy, which included a "grace period"—seven minutes prior to the beginning of the shift and six minutes after the scheduled start time—to provide employees with flexibility when clocking in.
In the lower court, the plaintiff challenged the accuracy of the rounding data while simultaneously asserting the evidence clearly demonstrated that (1) she lost time due to rounding in 55.1 percent of her shifts; (2) she gained time in 22.8 percent of her shifts; and (3) the remaining shifts were not affected by rounding. For a sample group of hourly employees, she alleged the data showed: (1) in 54.6 percent of shifts, paid time was reduced; (2) in 26.4 percent of shifts, paid time was added; and (3) in 19 percent of shifts, paid time remained unaffected.
The Court of Appeal concluded that "[t]his is not sufficient to show that the rounding policy 'systematically undercompensate[s] employees.'" Despite previous case law, in which rounding policies were considered facially neutral and the majority of employees were overcompensated, the court explained that "a 'fair and neutral' rounding policy does not require that employees be overcompensated, and a system can be fair and neutral even where a small majority loses compensation."
Lower California courts are now obligated to follow the Ferra court's logic in finding that meal and rest period premiums are appropriately paid at an employee's base hourly rate. However, the question is also still pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, which could come to a different conclusion or ask the Supreme Court of California to weigh in with a definitive determination.
While employers must still ensure that rounding policies are facially neutral and do not systematically undercompensate employees, they can breathe a sigh of relief that not all employees must be overcompensated or equally compensated for rounding practices to be considered lawful.
Sales Rep Falls Within FLSA's "Administrative" Exemption Because of Independent Strategic Planning Responsibilities
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employees who work more than 40 hours a week are entitled to overtime pay unless they fall under one of the Act's enumerated exemptions. The 3d U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal found that a Johnson & Johnson sales representative fell within the "administrative" exemption, based upon that person's high level of planning and foresight, along with her "exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance" and, therefore, was not entitled to overtime pay.
Texas Legislative Roundup: New Laws Impacting Employers
The Texas Legislature's 86th session adjourned on May 27, 2019, and there is little likelihood that the governor will call a special session. The legislature primarily focused on educational reforms this year. Regarding employment matters, most observers expected the legislature to adopt laws preempting any attempt by municipalities to pass paid sick leave laws. While the legislature failed to pass any such law, they did pass other laws impacting the employer-employee relationship.
Workplace Preparation for Natural Disasters in View of Hurricane Dorian
As the East Coast braces for yet another hurricane, we should contemplate the impact that natural disasters can have on employees and employers, both personally and professionally. While individuals prepare their homes and employers prepare their businesses for the physical damage, employers will benefit from also assessing the practical and legal implications surrounding the unpredictable events Mother Nature throws our way—and planning accordingly. | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUdn_xaJJQnNCyf7mB | Склоне́ние:
Склонение (астрономия)
Склонение (лингвистика)
Склонение (юридическое) — склонение к сожительству
Склонение (физическое)
Магнитное склонение
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Склонение географических названий в русском языке | wikipedia | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUdto4ubnhBx1JrAs2 | Measuring mitochondrial DNA could predict who will need ICU care, intubation — ScienceDaily
Rutgers-led study sheds light on subsurface melting of thick ice billions of years ago — ScienceDaily
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study concludes.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, may help resolve what's known as the faint young sun paradox — a lingering key question in Mars science.
"Even if greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and water vapor are pumped into the early Martian atmosphere in computer simulations, climate models still struggle to support a long-term warm and wet Mars," said lead author Lujendra Ojha, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. "I and my co-authors propose that the faint young sun paradox may be reconciled, at least partly, if Mars had high geothermal heat in its past."
Our sun is a massive nuclear fusion reactor that generates energy by fusing hydrogen into helium. Over time, the sun has gradually brightened and warmed the surface of planets in our solar system. About 4 billion years ago, the sun was much fainter so the climate of early Mars should have been freezing. However, the surface of Mars has many geological indicators, such as ancient riverbeds, and chemical indicators, such as water-related minerals, that suggest the red planet had abundant liquid water about 4.1 billion to 3.7 billion years ago (the Noachian era). This apparent contradiction between the geological record and climate models is the faint young sun paradox.
On rocky planets like Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury, heat-producing elements like uranium, thorium and potassium generate heat via radioactive decay. In such a scenario, liquid water can be generated through melting at the bottom of thick ice sheets, even if the sun was fainter than now. On Earth, for example, geothermal heat forms subglacial lakes in areas of the West Antarctic ice sheet, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic. It's likely that similar melting may help explain the presence of liquid water on cold, freezing Mars 4 billion years ago.
The scientists examined various Mars datasets to see if heating via geothermal heat would have been possible in the Noachian era. They showed that the conditions needed for subsurface melting would have been ubiquitous on ancient Mars. Even if Mars had a warm and wet climate 4 billion years ago, with the loss of the magnetic field, atmospheric thinning and subsequent drop in global temperatures over time, liquid water may have been stable only at great depths. Therefore, life, if it ever originated on Mars, may have followed liquid water to progressively greater depths.
"At such depths, life could have been sustained by hydrothermal (heating) activity and rock-water reactions," Ojha said. "So, the subsurface may represent the longest-lived habitable environment on Mars."
NASA's Mars InSight spacecraft landed in 2018 and may allow scientists to better assess the role of geothermal heat in the habitability of Mars during the Noachian era, according to Ojha.
Scientists at Dartmouth College, Louisiana State University and the Planetary Science Institute contributed to the study.
Materials provided by Rutgers University. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
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BkiUdyzxK6nrxpQc1yK6 | Metro w Lagos to budowany system metra w Nigeryjskim mieście Lagos. Obecnie w trakcie budowy są dwie linie – niebieska, długości 27 kilometrów i licząca 13 stacji, oraz czerwona, mająca 37 kilometrów i 11 stacji. Budowa linii niebieskiej rozpoczęła się w 2010 roku, początkowo planowano ukończenie odcinka od stacji Marina do Mile 2 pod koniec 2016 roku, lecz obecnie gotowe jest zaledwie 78 procent trasy. Budowa czerwonej linii rozpoczęła się 15 kwietnia 2021 roku, a planowany termin zakończenia inwestycji to koniec 2022 roku. Planowane jest użycie rozstawu szyn 1435 mm, zaś tabor ma stanowić 255 pociągów odkupionych z metra w Toronto.
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BkiUdA85qX_Bg0pzuo18 | UGC NET Exam 2019 Official Notification Released – Apply Online via Direct Link for UGC NET Exam 2019!
On behalf of UGC, NTA has released the official notification for the June session of UGC NET Exam 2019. The UGC NET Exam is conducted to determine the eligibility of the candidates for the Eligibility for Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor both in Indian universities and colleges. The Online Registrations have started from 1st March 2019. This is a golden opportunity for the candidates who aspire to build a career in the educational sector. Read this article to know in detail about UGC NET Exam 2019, Important Exam Dates, Eligibility Criteria, Exam Pattern, Application Fee and Direct Link to Apply for UGC NET Exam 2019, June Session.
The Application Process for UGC NET Exam 2019 June Session have started from March 1st, 2019. If you are planning to apply for the upcoming UGC NET Exam 2019, check out the important exam dates associated with UGC NET Exam 2019 in the table mentioned below.
Check out the Eligibility Criteria for UGC NET Exam 2019, June Session. The Eligibility Criteria will give you a detailed view of the Age Limit as well as Educational Qualification required for both JRF & Assistant Professor.
The Other Backward Classes (OBC) belonging to Non-Creamy Layer/Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST)/Persons with Disability (PwD)/Transgender category candidates who have secured at least 50% marks (without rounding off) in Master's degree or equivalent examination are eligible for this Test.
The UGC NET Exam 2019 for the June Session 2019 will consist of two papers. Paper I & Paper II. Both the papers will be Computer Based Tests having Objective Questions. Check out the details below about the nature of the questions asked and the marking scheme employed for deciding on the final score.
The Exam Patten for UGC NET Exam 2019, June 2019 Session has been mentioned below. The Exam is conducted in two shifts. Both the Papers are Compulsory.
For Paper I questions will be generic in nature, intending to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the candidate.
Paper II will be based on the subject selected by the candidate.
Both Papers will be Computer Based Tests.
Both Papers will be Objective in nature.
There will be no break between papers.
All the questions will be compulsory.
Direct Link to Apply for UGC NET Exam 2019 – Apply Here!
Alternatively, you can also go to the Official Website of UGC. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcWvxK7Tt6AlxC-rm | Топешть () — село в Румунії, у повіті Вранча. Входить до складу комуни Бирсешть.
Топешть () — село в Румунії, у повіті Біхор. Входить до складу комуни Дреджешть.
Топешть () — село в Румунії, у повіті Горж. Адміністративно підпорядковується місту Тісмана. | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
BkiUfZrxK6-gDw5AxWaN | Rich, hearty, and full of the beefy flavors you crave, this recipe for Bush's Best Three Bean Chili is best served with diced green onions, shredded cheddar cheese, and a hefty dollop of sour cream. Protein-pack with ground beef and beans, this recipe will fill you up and it served a crowd of hungry family members or guests, so it makes a perfect party food to dig into.
Cook beef, onion, and ground black pepper until meat is browned. Drain grease. Put the drained beef back into the pan and add the kidney beans, chili powder, pinto beans, salt, black beans, garlic salt, green bell pepper, tomato paste, and the diced tomatoes. Stir to combine, then bring to a boil. Note: Don't drain the beans - that gives plenty of liquid to the chili that is simmered off. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve topped with sour cream and shredded cheese. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbmbxK2li-LM1QYNt | Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, is also internationally recognized as a ""gadol b'chinuch."" He built his yeshivah into one of the premier chinuch institutions in the United States. He is a wise and empathetic educator, who understands well the thoughts and feelings of his students - and their parents. His voice and opinions are sought on almost every important issue of Torah education today. In Chinuch With Chessed Rabbi Bender shares his insights and his decades of experience in dealing with children's education. The questions posed to him (as a member of Yated Neeman's Chinuch Roundtable, from where these essays are culled) are real, sent by parents and mechanchim. looking for expert guidance. The answers, too, are ""real"": realistic, practical, and very, very wise.
My daughter has a social problem in school; how much should I, as her mother, interfere?
How can each of my children share their Shabbos parashah sheets without making the Shabbos meal tedious, long and boring?
Our son is a likable, good boy, with a mild case of ADHD. With medication he has no problem keeping up with his studies. Do we have to tell the yeshivah he is applying to, knowing it will probably result in a rejection letter?
I'm thinking about home schooling my child. What are the benefits? The pitfalls?
In the questions collected in Chinuch with Chessed, we find our own lives and challenges. In Rabbi Bender's answers we gain clarity and a new understanding of how to become full and successful partners with our children's schools, working together to give children the very best chinuch they can have. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdak5qhLA4YB2l1tl | Сантеу () — село у повіті Сату-Маре в Румунії. Адміністративний центр комуни Сантеу.
Село розташоване на відстані 439 км на північний захід від Бухареста, 42 км на південний захід від Сату-Маре, 115 км на північний захід від Клуж-Напоки.
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За даними перепису населення 2002 року у селі проживали особи.
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Села повіту Сату-Маре | wikipedia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUboLxK1fBGwCLLKHz | 8 Ways Andrea Rogers Makes Sure Every Workout Is a Good One
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July 14, 2022 | BY: Linnea Zielinski
July 14, 2022 Linnea Zielinski
There's no denying the infectious energy of Andrea Rogers, creator of the wildly popular Xtend Barre and XB Pilates programs.
But the positivity, dedication, and strength that you see on-screen isn't for show — it's something she cultivates every day.
Andrea loves helping others. She's passionate about supporting Beachbody On Demand members so they can get the most out of every day and every workout.
She walked us through the eight habits she has mastered and now puts into practice daily, as well as the philosophy that's at the root of them.
Andrea Rogers Shares Her Workout Philosophy
It's understandable that Andrea is constantly asked how she stays motivated, but she says that's the wrong place to start.
"Motivation isn't the first thing that happens," she says. "It starts with the hard work, which gets you results, and that turns into motivation."
But you're not on your own with that first step.
Andrea has guidance for you there, which she calls "the results equation": "Results that are lasting come down to a simple combination of effort and consistency over time."
But it needs to be the right effort.
"A lot of times when people work out they think about how long they work out and how many calories they're burning. To me, that's quantity over quality," she explains.
Instead, Andrea believes in "the all-out philosophy," an idea based on her dance background.
Her coach would either tell her to "mark the move," or go through the movements without wasting energy on jumps and turns, or "go full out," or perform like she was on stage and give it her all.
She challenges you to "go full out" and break this idea that the length of a workout is a clear indication of quality.
"I know I can get you an amazing workout and have your legs shaking in 15 minutes if you're using the mind-body connection and the all-out philosophy," she says.
So how do you set yourself up to "go full out" on every workout? Andrea walks us through the habits that set her up for success.
1. She schedules workouts like she does meetings.
"Try to work out at the same time every day," she advises. "Schedule it like a meeting and make it a priority in your life."
That's exactly what she does, and she makes sure to keep those appointments. "If your boss scheduled you in a meeting at 8 every single morning, you'd find a way to make it. Do the same for your workouts," she adds.
Even though she's a pro, she still has other habits that make it easy to make those appointments each day.
2. She preps the night before.
Andrea sets out her workout clothes and equipment before bed.
"I don't have even an opportunity to come up with an excuse," she explains. "I've got everything. My clothes are laid out, my equipment is ready, I have my smoothie, and then it's like, 'here we go!'"
3. She gets good quality sleep — and enough of it.
"You have to be well-rested in order to have a strong mindset and a game plan for working out effectively," she says, adding that quality sleep is her number one habit for success.
She always tries to get eight hours of sleep, and lately, she's focusing on earlier bedtimes.
"I know that when I get up earlier and start my day with a workout, I just do better throughout the rest of the day."
4. She stretches first every morning.
Just after she wakes up, Andrea takes time to wake up the rest of her body.
But her stretching sessions, which last five to 15 minutes, aren't just setting the tone for the day physically. This time of inward reflection is also about preparing mentally.
Andrea goes over what she needs to do and takes a moment for mindful gratitude before heading to the kitchen for an energizing breakfast.
(You can use our full-body stretches as inspiration for your morning session.)
5. She never skips breakfast.
Andrea is all about the after-effect, even when it comes to her eating habits. She focuses on what will make her feel the best and keep her adequately fueled for her busy days.
"I don't play into diet culture," she says.
Rather, Andrea asks herself, "How will I feel after I eat this?"
6. She turns on music that sets the right mood.
Andrea says this habit is small but powerful for her. She'll ask her smart device to play music while she's getting ready for a workout and it gets her in the mood to attack her sweat session.
7. She sets an intention for each workout.
No matter what, you should set a goal for your workout. She always does, even after a lifetime of being active.
"Your intention for that workout may be to complete the workout without stopping, it might be to get deeper into your plié, it might be to hold your plank, it might be to get through a certain movement that really challenges you," she says.
Andrea will sometimes focus on a body part or increasing the intensity. No matter what the goal is, she always does her best to crush it and then celebrates that progress.
8. She just presses play.
"People think I'm motivated every day, but that simply isn't true," Andrea says. "Some days I don't feel like moving."
When that happens, Andrea has a couple of tricks: She focuses on how she'll feel after the workout, and she just presses play.
That's why some of the XB Pilates and Xtend Barre videos are just 15 minutes. You'll be done and celebrating your success before you know it — as long as you just show up and press play. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbTXxK7kjXLlzaQu4 | Rashard Quovon Lewis (Pineville, 8 augustus 1979) is een basketbalspeler in de NBA.
Lewis speelde voor Seattle SuperSonics en kreeg op 27-jarige leeftijd een contract van vijf jaar ter waarde van 110 miljoen dollar om te spelen voor Orlando Magic. Hij staat hier meestal op de positie power-forward. Zelden speelt Lewis als small-forward.
In 2009 werd hij voor tien wedstrijden geschorst, omdat zijn testosterongehalte te hoog was. Ook kreeg hij een boete van 1,6 miljoen dollar opgelegd. Hij verklaarde dat hij een product zonder recept had gebruikt en zich niet gerealiseerd had dat dit op de verbodenmiddelenlijst van de NBA stond. Hij bood zijn fans zijn excuses aan.
Op 18 december 2010 werd hij geruild voor Gilbert Arenas van de Washington Wizards.
Amerikaans basketballer | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUde025V5ha7jY8zfP | Let the Consumer Advocate & PUC Do Their Jobs!
Yesterday's press conference held by some politicians need some good follow-up questions by journalists. Questions like: It's so easy for you just to say no to the merger, so have you mapped out a serious alternative strategy to reach the 100% renewable portfolio standard objective? If so, how much is your alternative strategy going to cost? As the public ownership option and dissolution of the franchise are solely in your hands what would be the timeframe for such a proposal? What would be the opportunity cost for switching to a new ownership model? Other than the Hawaii Island Energy Cooperative, what other non-profits have been formed to seriously look at cooperative models for Molokai, Lanai, Maui and Oahu? If none, what will it take to form a credible non-profit to move forward, and again what would be the opportunity cost? Do you understand that in these alternative models all risks is transferred to the electricity customer and taxpayer? How do you feel about that? Or, what matters most, how do your constituents, who will be carrying 100% of the risk, feel about that? And, the threshold question, are you willing to put State or County's money where your mouth is? Who is going to upfront the money for a serious look at cooperatives?
I guarantee it's just lots of big talk and just more studies. These people have very little understanding how much it will cost, where to start and what it will take to run an efficient and financially viable electric utility during a technological disruptive period. As these politicians spew their "beliefs" - and that's just what it is, rhetoric not based in critical analyses or an understanding of utility operations or regulation - they create an unstable regulatory environment and business climate which has the potential to send up red flags and wreak havoc on HECO's ability to finance its operations with or without the merger.
During this time of transformation a well-functioning electric utility requires insightful leadership, nimble and flexible strategic planning and strong analytical capacity. A particular ownership model does not guarantee any of these characteristics or qualities required for an electric utility to successfully navigate an energy transformation and may, in fact, hinder it with decisions based on politics and the need to weigh competing interests rather than fact, technology, economics and best practices.
This is why these politicians and the Governor need to let the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, as the regulator, and the Consumer Advocate, whose statutory duty is to represent the interest of Hawaii's ratepayers, to do their jobs in evaluating the application and all the questions and responses to come to an evidence based decision that is in the public interest.
This issue of risk transfer is widely misunderstood.
In the worst utility catastrophes of the past half century, ratepayers have absorbed the vast majority of the risk when investor-owned utilities have failed. And have not always absorbed the risk when public power utilities have made failed investments.
The most extreme cases are those of Public Service Company of New Hampshire and Long Island Electric Company. Both invested in nuclear plants (Seabrook and Shoreham) that devoured capital and provided little or no return. In the case of Seabrook, the bankrupt company was sold to Northeast Utilities, and ratepayers paid for nearly all of the excess investemnt. In the case of Shoreham, a public power utility had to take over, because the investor-owned utility was inviable, and the public needed electric service; but ratepayers again paid for the dead nuke.
At the other end of the spectrum is the $2.25 billion bond default on the failed Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) units 4 & 5. Ratepayers ultimately had to pay one-third of the cost of the bond default. And, despite warnings to the contrary, there was no long-term adverse impact on the borrowing rates for the individual public power utilities who signed the contracts, and WPPSS has been able to refinance the debt on the first three units at very attractive rates.
Yes, there is a shift of risk. But the tradeoff is substituting 10% utility cost of equity and 6% utility cost of debt (and average rate of return of 8% (plus federal income tax) for 4% municipal bond rates (with no federal income tax). Anyone who has refinanced a home mortgage knows what a difference in payment a 4% mortgage can make compared with 8%. | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUeYXxK4sA-5fmyUNk | Home / geekspeak / Will wearable tech be the next revolution?
Will wearable tech be the next revolution?
The personal computer changed the way we did business at even a small level, as well as changing the way we educated, played games and managed our personal affairs. Then notebooks came along, taking the computing concept into the mobile sphere. Now notebooks themselves are challenged — but most certainly not knocked out of contention — by the increasing power and utility of tablets and large screen smartphones.
So what comes next to unseat smartphones and tablets? If you ask many of those in charge of large technology companies today, they'll talk about truly "mobile" computing, although as a term that's a remarkably flexible one, partly because there's no set definition as yet. Sometimes these things can take a very long time to actually germinate into products that are both useful and realistic to bring to market. Apple, for example, gets a lot of kudos for bringing the tablet concept to mass market with the iPad, but Microsoft's been pushing tablet-based operating systems for more than a decade now. Google's Android has the majority market share for smartphones, but it's built on the Linux operating system, itself a Unix-like operating system that goes all the way back to mainframe days.
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BkiUfxQ5qhLByVBy2FKi | Was Leo III's reign good or bad for Byzantium?
Jun 25 2011 Published by lars under Iconoclasm,Leo III
Jack asks if Leo III was beneficial or detrimental to the Byzantine Empire.
If you ask five historians this question you may very well get five different answers- Leo is a complicated figure. I've changed my mind about him several times, but have gradually come to feel that he was a beneficial ruler. Here's why.
Leo was born in Syria (but grew up on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria) and cut his teeth on the eastern frontier. This gave him a knowledge of the Arab mind that stood him in good stead when he became emperor. When he arrived in Constantinople in 717 Byzantium was in a terrible predicament. Heraclius' dynasty had petered out with the bloody Justinian II, the Arabs were already on their way with a massive fleet and land army to exterminate the empire, and the current occupant of the throne (Theodosius III) was an overwhelmed tax collector who had been crowned against his will. (When Leo arrived, Theodosius was more than happy abdicate and become the bishop of Ephesus) A month after Leo's coronation a gigantic Muslim army was pounding at the gates. Things looked bleak but Leo somehow kept up morale and outmaneuvered the Arabs at every turn. Within months they were suffering from inadequate sanitation and freezing temperatures. After they were appropriately demoralized Leo sent in the fireships against the enemy navy and- in what is surely one of the most brilliant unsung victories in history- managed to bamboozle the Bulgarians into attacking the Arab army for him. Less than half of the Muslim infantry made it home and the grand fleet lost all but 5 ships. Had there been a less capable man on the throne (Theodosius III for instance), Constantinople probably would have fallen in the eighth century and Islam would have had a free run at an undeveloped and divided Europe.
That's the part of the legacy that most can agree is positive. Offsetting that is Iconoclasm. In 726 Leo came to the conclusion that the Byzantine love of icons had strayed into idolatry and he ordered the city's most prominent icon to be torn down. That unleashed two centuries or so of controversy that was among the most destructive in the empire's history.
So why conclude that his reign was on balance beneficial?
Because I think it's unfair to blame Leo for everything that came after him. And by the true iconoclast's standards, it's doubtful that he was really even one of them. The use of icons had gone overboard- they stood in for godparents at baptisms and most people agreed that it could stand to be ratcheted down a notch or two. There was also a popular belief that Arab victories in Asia (and the terrible earthquake of 726) were due to divine displeasure over idolatry. Leo gave a sermon in the Hagia Sophia to that effect and it was greeted with rousing applause. I don't think he ever intended to say that icons were inherently bad- he promulgated a revision to the law code in 726 that didn't even mention them- and contemporary Muslim and Armenian sources don't number him among the iconoclasts.
His most controversial action was to rip down the famous icon above the imperial palace, but this can be explained in two ways. First, just before the Arab army had been routed the Patriarch had processed around the city walls bearing an icon of Mary and the subsequent victory was credited to divine intervention. Leo's own efforts were downplayed and it's quite possible that he was a tad peeved. Secondly (and more importantly), he replaced the icon with a simple cross and the inscription "I drive out the enemies and kill the barbarians." I think this was an attempt to resurrect the cross as a victorious symbol. Leo's main argument was always that the Arabs were winning because the Byzantines had abandoned their true faith. What better way to get back to basics than by fighting under the same symbol that had led Constantine and Heraclius to such incredible victories? This was not so much a strike against the idea of icons as it was a re-branding. There is no evidence to suggest he ever persecuted those who disagreed with him on the issue, and in fact he (ironically) tried to promote religious unity his entire reign. He was always a moderate and for most of his reign he had popular opinion on his side- hardly the divisive figure later writers tried to make him. His son Constantine V, on the other hand, took the whole thing to an extreme. He really did have a theological axe to grind against icons and suppressed them with a single-minded fervor that crossed into obsession.
It's been all too easy for most historians to throw Leo under the bus as the guy who started all the trouble. Somehow it seems a bit ungrateful to blame him for his successors' fanaticism…
What was Byzantine Athens like?
Jun 15 2011 Published by lars under Athens
Justin asks how Athens fared during the Byzantine period.
To put it bluntly, Constantinople's gain was every other prestigious city's loss. Constantine and his immediate successors looted Athens of much of its impressive works of art, including the famous statue of Athena that graced the Parthenon. This, combined with an exodus of talent (the action was clearly in Constantinople) reduced the city to a shell of itself. The deathblow, however, was Justinian's closing of the Academy which ended its one remaining attraction as a university town. In 580 invading Slavs burned the lower city and (in a demonstration of how little importance was now attached to the place) it took the empire a decade to rebuild.
It was probably around this time that the Parthenon was converted into a church. Roman emperors had started making pronouncements in the 4th century to convert all pagan buildings to Christian ones, but these edicts had been largely ignored in the backwater parts of the empire. And Athens was by now a true backwater. Its economy was almost purely agricultural with one or two 'aristocratic' families hanging on, and for the next two centuries it was a sad, little village huddled around the Acropolis. The low point was the early 7th century when Heraclius reorganized the empire along military lines. Needing a capital for the province of Greece (Hellas), he bypassed Athens completely and chose Thebes- a move which would have appalled any ancient Greek who fought at the battle of Plataea.
But the 7th century also saw the city's fortunes begin to recover. A sign of this was that fact that Heraclius' grandson Constans II (who knew his Herodotus) spent the winter of 662 there on his way to Sicily. He was on the search for a new capital- the last Roman emperor to seriously consider moving back into the west. (He was attracted by the virtual impregnability of the walled Acropolis) There were also emerging signs of intellectual life. Theodore of Tarsus (who would be Archbishop of Canterbury from 669-690) studied there, and Athens became a haven for monks fleeing Iconoclastic persecution (thanks to the availability of caves in nearby Mt. Penteli). The late 8th and early 9th centuries saw two Athenian women (Irene and Theophano) become empresses- with one (Irene) even ruling as emperor.
By the end of the 9th century the population had expanded enough to make Athens a true city again. The local bishop was promoted to Metropolitan, and the city was finally made the seat of the Theme (province) of Hellas. (You can see a vestige of this period on the Acropolis today- one of the columns of the Parthenon has a carving recording the death of the strategos (governor) Leo in 848) The next three centuries saw a sustained period of growth- the 'golden age' of Byzantine Athens. A tzykanion field was installed (an aristocratic game related to polo), and Athenian merchants grew wealthy selling purple dye and soaps. In 1018 Basil the Bulgar-Slayer visited specifically to visit the Parthenon church. His presence (he may have cleared the ruins of the nearby Daphne monastery and begun to build the magnificent dome visible today) kicked off a rash of church building- most of the surviving Byzantine buildings (Church of the Holy Apostles in the Agora, Panaghia Kapnikarea, etc) date from this period.
The new wealth and prestige (and general isolation from the troubles besetting the rest of the empire) led to feelings of independence. They rose against the central government of Michael IV in the 11th century and were brutally suppressed by an imperial army led by the Norse adventurer Harald Hardrada. The city physically recovered quickly (a 12th century Arab traveler reported that it was well populated and surrounded by rich country), but couldn't escape the wider Byzantine decline. Roger II of Sicily sacked it in 1147, and the new governor sent in 1182 complained that it was filled with 'uncivilized hordes whose boorish accents took 3 years to learn'. In 1204 came the ultimate humiliation when it was seized by crusaders. For the next 250 years it was ruled successively by the French, Catalans, and Florentines. The Athenians referred to the period of French and Catalan domination as the 'ultimate slavery' and things got so bad that Greek had to be reintroduced in 1387. The Byzantines never regained control.
As for the Parthenon, it weathered the ages gracefully. The large statue of Athena was probably removed to Constantinople in the third century where it was set up in one of the public squares. In 360 it was restored by Julian the Apostate in his quest to revive paganism and probably remained a temple for some time after Theodosius' decree of 379 which made Christianity the sole legal religion of the empire. As a church, the Parthenon attracted both famous pilgrims and the donation of relics. Outside of Constantinople, it probably had the most impressive collection in the empire. (including a painting of Mary done by St. Luke which gave the church its name, and a copy of the gospels written on vellum by St. Helena) The 13th century Italian sightseer Niccolo da Martoni left a breathless description- the magnificent marble carvings, glittering mosaics, massive columns, and the seemingly endless reliquaries. He also repeats a story (smacking of that time honored tradition of local guide yarns) about the doors being made of the wood from the gates of Troy.
Interestingly enough, the Parthenon was a church for longer than it was a pagan temple, since it survived as such until the Turkish occupation of Athens in 1456. As for the famous statue of Athena, that lasted almost as long. It stood in Constantinople for almost a thousand years until 1204. As the crusading army gathered outside the walls a superstitious mob converged on the square where it was kept. Since the statue happened to be facing the West it was blamed for attracting these western barbarians and destroyed.
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From up-and-coming writer Brendan Cowell comes the story of a young guy who's got it all ' the parties, high-flying job, money, women ' but when he loses it he finds himself isolated and having to re-examine his whole existence. It's essentially a play about alcohol: the modern epidemic of Australian binge drinking, addiction and genetics, the real physical effects of prolonged alcoholism on the body, and what happens when a party person stops and looks around.
Ruben Guthrie is Creative Director at a cutting edge advertising agency who overindulges in drugs and alcohol. When he ends up injuring himself jumping out of a hotel window into a children's pool, his model fiancé decides she's had enough and is going home to Prague. He joins AA and tries to get his life on track but soon finds there's not a lot of support around him. Everyone in his life seems to be constantly encouraging him to get drunk. The further Ruben digs on his journey of self-discovery the more pain he finds, and the more it hurts the more he craves a drink.
Ruben Guthrie is a Phillip Parson's Young Playwright's Award commission, and is launching the 2008 B Sharp Season at Belvoir St Theatre. Its themes of childhood trauma, guilt, rejection, wasted creative potential and isolation are punctuated with moments of hope, humanity and humour. Toby Schmitz is excellent in the lead role as Ruben and though the play starts to feel a little drawn out towards the end, in all it's as sharp and engaging as it is confronting.
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BkiUa8DxK0iCl4WD2Vic | Rahm Emanuel on Homeland Security
Democratic Rep. (IL-5); Chief of Staff-Designee
U.S. citizen but served in Israeli army
In 1991, we also persuaded another young Chicagoan, Rahm Emanuel, to join our campaign. Rahm had worked with Wilhelm in the successful campaigns of Mayor Richard Daley and Senator Paul Simon. He was a slight, intense ma who had studied ballet and, though an American citizen, had served in the Israeli army. Rahm was so aggressive he made me look laid-back. We made him finance director, a job in which an underfunded campaign needs an aggressor. Source: My Life, by Bill Clinton, p.376-377 Jun 21, 2004
Voted YES on requiring FISA warrants for wiretaps in US, but not abroad.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007 or RESTORE Act: Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to provide that a court order is not required for electronic surveillance directed at the acquisition of communication between non-US citizens outside the US, whether or not the communication passes through the US or the surveillance device is located within the US; and provides procedures when one party is located inside the US or is a US citizen.
SUPPORTER'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING YES:Rep. CONYERS: Earlier this year, in the Protect America Act, PAA, amendments were made to FISA, giving the Government enhanced flexibility to collect foreign intelligence information. But the broad scope of the authority without up-front court approval raised grave concerns about the need for more safeguards of innocent Americans' communications. The RESTORE Act improves upon the PAA by providing a series of checks and balances while still allowing maximum flexibility. The RESTORE Act does not require individual warrants when persons are abroad, but it is firm that a FISA warrant is required to obtain communications of people in the US.
OPPONENT'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING NO:Rep. KING of N.Y.: Electronic surveillance is one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal. The real enemy is al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism, not our own government working so hard to protect us. The PAA updated FISA and struck the appropriate balance between protecting our citizens from terrorist attacks and protecting our civil liberties. Today's bill, the RESTORE Act, marks an undeniable retreat in the war against Islamic terrorism. It limits the type of foreign intelligence information that may be acquired and actually gives foreign targets more protections than Americans get in criminal cases here at home.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Bill passed, 213-197. Reference: RESTORE Act; Bill H.R.3773 ; vote number 08-HR3773 on Mar 14, 2008
Voted YES on Veto override: Congressional oversight of CIA interrogations.
PRESIDENT'S VETO MESSAGE:This bill would impede efforts to protect [against] terrorist attacks because it imposes several unnecessary and unacceptable burdens on our Intelligence Community. [I reject] subjecting two additional vital positions to a more protracted process of Senate confirmation [and I reject] a new office of Inspector General for the Intelligence Community as duplicative. [Most sigficantly,] it is vitally important that the CIA be allowed to maintain a separate and classified interrogation program, [and not] use only the interrogation methods authorized in the Army Field Manual on Interrogations. My disagreement over section 327 is not over any particular interrogation technique such as waterboarding. Rather, my concern is the need to maintain a separate CIA program that will shield from disclosure to terrorists the interrogation techniques they may face upon capture.
SUPPORTER'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING YES:Rep. REYES: This legislation goes a long way towards strengthening oversight of the intelligence community, which the President seems to consistently want to fight. That's why the President vetoed it. He wants the authority to do whatever he wants, in secret, with no oversight or authorization or without any checks and balances. Well, I don't agree. The Constitution gives us a role in this process. We do have a say in what the intelligence community does. That's why we need to override this veto.
OPPONENT'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING NO:Rep. HOEKSTRA: This bill fails to give the intelligence community the tools that it needs to protect the American people from radical jihadists. The debate on this authorization bill is not about a single issue, [waterboarding], as some would have you believe. It is about the need to ensure that we give the right tools to our intelligence professionals in this time of enhanced threat.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Veto override failed, 225-188 (2/3rds required) Bill Veto override on H.R. 2082 ; vote number 08-HR2082 on Mar 11, 2008
Voted NO on removing need for FISA warrant for wiretapping abroad.
Vote on passage of S.1927, the Protect America Act: Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to state that the restrictions on "electronic surveillance" should not encompass surveillance directed at any person reasonably believed to be located outside the US.
A modified version, S.2011, failed in the Senate; it called for amending FISA to provide that a court order is not required for the electronic surveillance of communication between foreign persons who are not located within the US for collecting foreign intelligence information, without respect to whether the communication passes through the US or the surveillance device is located within the US.
Sen. LEVIN: Both bills cure the problem that exists: Our intelligence agencies must obtain a court order to monitor the communications of foreigners suspected of terrorist activities who are physically located in foreign countries. Now, what are the major differences? Our bill (S2011) is limited to foreign targets limited overseas, unlike the Bond bill (S1927), which does not have that key limitation and which very clearly applies to US citizens overseas. Our bill does not. Now, if there is an incidental access to US citizens, we obviously will permit that. But the Bond bill goes beyond that, citing "any person." It does not say a "foreign person." We avoid getting to the communications of Americans. There you have to go for a warrant.
Sen. LIEBERMAN: I will vote for the Bond proposal (S1927) because we are at war, & there is increased terrorist activity. We have a crisis. This proposal will allow us to gather intelligence information on that enemy we otherwise would not gather. This is not the time for striving for legislative perfection. Let us not strive for perfection. Let us put national security first. We are going to have 6 months to reason together to find something better. Reference: Protect America Act; Bill S.1927 ; vote number 2007-0836 on Aug 4, 2007
Voted YES on restricting no-bid defense contracts.
Improving the Quality of Contracts--to restrict the contract period of noncompetitive contracts to the minimum period necessary to meet urgent requirements; and not more than one year unless the the government would be seriously injured.
Increasing Contract Oversight--to make publicly available (on websites) justification documents for using noncompetitive contract procedures.
Promoting Integrity in Contracting--to prohibit former federal officials from accepting compensation from contractors as lawyers or lobbyists.
In Iraq, we were told we needed Halliburton to get a contract without any competition because they were the only ones who know how to put out oil well fires. So they got a contract on a cost-plus basis even though they had a history of overcharging the taxpayers. And then later we found out that they didn't do anything about putting out oil well fires in the first Gulf war; it was Bechtel, not Halliburton. Contractors were given special treatment by not having healthy competition.
In dealing with Hurricane Katrina, and we have seen the same mistakes again: No-competition contracts; cost-plus contracts. We have seen what the result has been: Wasted taxpayer dollars. This bill requires that if there is an emergency to give a contract, give it. But then have bidding within a year.
We support transparency and accountability in decision-making, but this bill asks for audit reports that are only advisory. To provide those to Congress not only gives you too much information, a lot of it can be misleading and can increase the number of contract disputes.
When you are fighting a war, you need to move quickly. You don't give a 6-month appeal to the folks that lose the competition. You don't give small business set-asides because there is one thing you don't have, you don't have time. Reference: Accountability in Contracting Act; Bill H R 1362 ; vote number 2007-156 on Mar 15, 2007
Voted NO on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant.
Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to allow the President & Attorney General to authorize electronic surveillance without a court order to acquire foreign intelligence information, after certifying that the surveillance is directed at the acquisition of communications of foreign agents.
Intelligence is the first line of defense in the war on terrorism. That means we have to have intelligence agencies and capabilities that are agile, that are responsive to changes in technology, and that also protect the civil liberties of Americans. Let me make an analogy. With modernization, we replaced Route 66 with Interstate 40. We no longer have the stoplights and the intersections. We created on ramps and off ramps and concrete barriers to protect the citizens where traffic was moving very quickly. That is like what we are trying to do here--FISA needs modernization.
We are legislating in the dark. We do not even know what the President is doing now because he will not tell us. The New York Times exposed that the administration had authorized secret surveillance of domestic conversations. When exposed, the President claimed he was operating under inherent powers, but court decisions have found that the President cannot simply declare administration actions constitutional and lawful, whether or not they are.
Yet rather than finding out what is going on, this legislation retroactively legalizes whatever has been going on. The President already has broad latitude to conduct domestic surveillance, including surveillance of American citizens, so long as it is overseen by the FISA court.
This bill does not enhance security, but it does allow surveillance without the traditional checks and balances that have served our Nation well. Reference: Update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978; Bill H.R.5825 ; vote number 2006-502 on Sep 28, 2006
Voted YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight.
A resolution providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5020) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities. Voting YES indicates support of the current methods for intelligence-gathering used by the CIA and other agencies. The resolution's opponents say:
This bill could have and should have required a dedicated funding line for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The 9/11 Commission recommended this board to serve as a civil liberties watchdog on the potential erosion of the basic constitutional rights. Now, 15 months later, we find our concerns about basic civil rights to have been well founded, but the oversight board is barely up and running [and is not funded].
Many of us believe that when the President authorized the NSA surveillance of Americans, he broke the law, plain and simple.
We are talking about the most basic fundamental civil liberties that protect the American people, and the Republican leadership will not even let us debate it. What are they afraid of?
If you believe that this President should have the ability to spy on Americans without a warrant and without going to the FISA court, then they should write that bill and bring it to the floor, then have a debate and a vote.
The resolution's proponents say:
We have had the good fortune in this country for the last 4 1/2 years to have not had another terrorist attack on our soil, and it is not because they haven't tried. The reason for that success boils down to two things: the courage of our soldiers and the quality of our intelligence. Exceptional intelligence is the first line of defense for America in the long war on terrorism.
I think as a responsible body we have to start out by getting the facts. That means hard work that is done largely in secret. Oversight is under way, and, for the most part, the National Security Agency has been very forthcoming.
Reference: Intelligence Authorization Act; Bill HR 5020 resolution H RES 774 ; vote number 2006-108 on Apr 26, 2006
Voted NO on federalizing rules for driver licenses to hinder terrorists.
REAL ID Act of 2005: To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.
Title I: Amendments to Federal Laws to Protect Against Terrorist Entry - defining more factors relevant to credibility determinations in asylum cases.
Title II: Improved Security for Driver's Licenses and Personal Identification Cards - setting minimum security requirements, including the incorporation of specified data, a common machine-readable technology, and certain anti-fraud security features. Title III: Border Infrastructure and Technology Integration - studying ground surveillance technologies.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R, WI-5]; Bill H.R.418 ; vote number 2005-031 on Feb 10, 2005
Voted NO on continuing military recruitment on college campuses.
Expresses the continued support of Congress for, and encourages the executive branch to continue challenging any judicial decision against, specified provisions of Federal law prohibiting making certain Federal contracts with or grants to institutions of higher education that prevent military recruiters from having access to their campuses and to certain information about their students. Reference: Resolution sponsored by Rep Mike Rogers [R, AL-3]; Bill H.CON.RES.36 ; vote number 2005-016 on Feb 2, 2005
Voted YES on supporting new position of Director of National Intelligence.
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004: Establishment of Director of National Intelligence, to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires the Director to have extensive national security expertise. Prohibits the Director from being located within the Executive Office of the President or simultaneously serving as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or any other intelligence community (IC) element. Reference: Bill sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins {R, ME}; Bill S.2845 ; vote number 2004-544 on Dec 7, 2004
Voted NO on adopting the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act:
Title I: Reform of the Intelligence Community
Subtitle A: Establishment of National Intelligence Director
Subtitle B: National Counterterrorism Center and Civil Liberties Protections
Subtitle C: Joint Intelligence Community Council
Subtitle D: Improvement of Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
Subtitle E: Improvement of Education for the Intelligence Community
Title II: Terrorism Prevention and Prosecution
Subtitle A: Individual Terrorists as Agents of Foreign Powers
Subtitle B: Stop Terrorist and Military Hoaxes Act of 2004
Subtitle C: Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2004
Subtitle D: Weapons of Mass Destruction Prohibition Improvement Act of 2004
Subtitle E: Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
Subtitle F: Criminal History Background Checks
Subtitle G: Protection of United States Aviation System From Terrorist Attacks
Reference: Bill sponsored by Rep Denny Hastert [R, IL-14]; Bill H.R.10 ; vote number 2004-523 on Oct 8, 2004
Voted YES on emergency $78B for war in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2003: Vote to pass the bill that would supply $77.9 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations in fiscal 2003, including $62.5 billion for military operations in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The bill would also provide for $4.2 billion for homeland security, $8 billion in aid to allies and for Iraqi relief and rebuilding; $3.2 billion for U.S. airlines to cover additional security costs; and $1 billion in aid to Turkey. Reference: Bill sponsored by Young, R-FL; Bill HR 1559 ; vote number 2003-108 on Apr 3, 2003
Rated 100% by SANE, indicating a pro-peace voting record.
Emanuel scores 100% by SANE on peace issues
Peace Action, the merger of The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) and The Freeze, has effectively mobilized for peace and disarmament for over forty years. As the nation's largest grassroots peace group we get results: from the 1963 treaty to ban above ground nuclear testing, to the 1996 signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, from ending the war in Vietnam, to blocking weapons sales to human rights abusing countries. We are proof that ordinary people can change the world. At Peace Action we believe...
That every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons.
That war is not a suitable response to conflict.
That America has the resources to both protect and provide for its citizens.
As the Pentagon�s budget soars to $400 billion, 17% of American children live in poverty. For what the US will spend on Missile Defense in one year we could: put over a million children through Head Start OR provide healthcare for over 3.5 million children OR create over 100,000 units of affordable housing OR hire over 160,000 elementary school teachers. At Peace Action our priorities are clear.
The ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position. Source: SANE website 03n-SANE on Dec 31, 2003
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BkiUdNc4dbghQM8AbAFv | Po Tong Ha () is a village in Tuen Mun District, Hong Kong.
Administration
Po Tong Ha is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the 36 villages represented within the Tuen Mun Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Po Tong Ha is part of the Po Tin constituency.
See also
Siu Hang Tsuen (Tuen Mun District), a village located directly south of Po Tong Ha
References
External links
Delineation of area of existing village Po Tong Ha (Tuen Mun) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
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BkiUaybxK1ThhBMLeDTu | Q: VBA Excel: Copying cells without overwriting I'm new with vba excel.
I have the sheet Sheet1 with this:
And I want that in other sheet (Sheet2) the data of the first sheet is copied but asking the especific number of Sheet1, by asking I mean column A number, which can be captured as a cell range or can be written in the code. What I have is very raw it goes like this and in effect is copying:
Sub planilla()
Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:B14").Copy
Sheets("Sheet2").Select
Range("A2").PasteSpecial xlPasteValues
End Sub
The previous code is used when a button I have is clicked, so for example, if the case is 1 then I would expect this to be copied in Sheet2:
When the case is number 2 or 5, I don't want it to start in the cell A:2, I need it to start from cell A:10, for example if the case was 1 and then is 5 the result should look like this:
Not in all cases the range of start would be the same, for example if I try with numbers 2 and 5, my starting cell for 5 would be A:4, the only cell constant for sure will be A:2.
A: This might be a start for you.
You can build range as:
Range(A1:D1) -> Range(Cells(A1), Cells(D1)) ->
Range(Cells(row number, column number), Cells(row number, column number)) ->
Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(1, 4))
Press F8 to go line by line in your code to see what happens at each line.
VBA Code:
Sub CopyValues()
Dim ws1 As Worksheet
Set ws1 = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1") 'Set the name of worksheet "Sheet1"
Dim ws2 As Worksheet
Set ws2 = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet2") 'Set the name of worksheet "Sheet2"
Dim lrow As Long
Dim lrow2 As Long
Dim Number As Variant
Dim i As Long
lrow = ws1.Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row 'Find the last row in Sheet1
lrow2 = ws2.Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row 'Find the last row in Sheet2
Number = Application.InputBox(Prompt:="Enter a number", Type:=1) 'Input box where you write which number to copy from column A
'Number = 2
For i = 1 To lrow 'Loop through column A, from row 1 to lastrow
If ws1.Cells(i, 1).Value = Number Then 'If cell value in column A is equal to your number then...
ws2.Cells(lrow2 + 1, 1).Value = ws1.Cells(i, 1).Value 'Then copy the current row from Column A to the other sheet, first empty row in column A,
ws2.Cells(lrow2 + 1, 2).Value = ws1.Cells(i, 2).Value 'Then copy the current row from Column B to the other sheet, in column B,
lrow2 = lrow2 + 1 'Add one incremental to the last row.
End If
Next i 'Go to next row number
End Sub
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The Speech/Language Pathologist, working in a staff position, has a well-developed plan for meeting patient needs, demonstrates good clinical judgment and is competent in Speech/Language Pathology practice.
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BkiUa7E5qsNCPV6Yi1-n | The most insidious form of procrastination for my writing hides in plain sight. "I don't have time to write." And yet, I have time to check my email, play a video game, or look at cute cat pictures on the Internet. I think we've all slid down this rabbit hole before.
I'm doing my best to fight it, and have started by testing what I can actually get done in a set amount of time. I recently told myself I didn't have enough time to write because I only had fifteen minutes available. But I made myself get out my laptop anyway and closed off all distractions and wrote. Fingers to the keys, I wrote as hard and fast as I could. The word count was close to 800.
800 words in fifteen minutes. Let me put that another way. I aim for most of my novels to be 80,000 words. That's 1/100 of a novel in just fifteen minutes. That might not seem like a lot. I'd have to do that a hundred more times to reach my goal, right? But the time is going to pass anyway. I could spend it on a video game (and sometimes I do – we all need to recharge), or I could spend it creating something, getting something out of myself that's sometimes clawing, sometimes whining, sometimes singing to get out.
When I tell myself, "I don't have time to write," I see it for the tactic that it is. What I'm really saying is, "I don't have as much time to write as I want." That's just one of the challenges of a writer's life. Building skills, practicing, and seeing through my own diversion attempts all help me to become a better writer, a better person, and to live the life I choose. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUfKfxK4sA-5Y3uTky | Joseph Richardson has been appointed managing director of Yorkshire family business, Jos Richardson & Son Ltd.
Joseph Richardson is the fifth-generation Richardson to work in the Goole-based family firm, which was established in1892 by his great, great grandfather, also called Joseph Richardson. Joseph joined the business in 2004 which then comprised two car dealerships and service station at Glews Garage, Goole.
In the past eight years director Joseph has grown the forecourt and convenience store side of the business with the purchase and development of four new forecourt sites: Filey Service Station; Primrose Valley Service Station; York Road Garage, Escrick and Longs Corner Service Station, Howden.
Joseph was also responsible for bringing the business at Goole under one brand name in 2010. This involved a re-vamp of the corporate image and improvements to the operation of the business by amalgamating the aftersales and used car departments, and creating a MOT test and valet centre that offers Class IV, Class V (light), Class VII and motorbike MOTs.
He now takes on the role of managing director of the whole company.
Joseph said: "My objective is to grow the forecourt side of the business even further with the acquisition of more sites. The convenience sector is growing and playing an increasing role in people's everyday shopping habits. We aim to be the best in class providing customers with modern forecourt facilities, a good range of quality products, and above all excellent customer service.
"I will also be taking on responsibility for our established dealerships at Glews Garage which remain an integral part of our business. My focus will be to build on the reputation that my father, Timothy, has worked hard to develop over the past 30 years. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUco025V5hegR8YGDx | Discussion in 'Apple iPad News' started by Maura, Jun 9, 2010.
Tech-On! posted a very interesting feature about an app called "ServersMan HD†from FreeBit Co Ltd that is designed to make the iPad accessible from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Tech-On! says that the company has submitted the app to the Apple iPad App Store for approval, and once it has been approved, it will be available as a free download. The app is already available for iPhone (pictured above), Android, Windows Mobile and other devices, with the newest app awaiting approval being the aforementioned iPad-exclusive HD version.
Once ServersMan HD is installed on your iPad, you can access text files, photos and other items stored on the device, such as PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, all via the Internet. You can also use it to upload and download files to and from the iPad.
It all sounds great in theory, although it has to be said that the ratings for the iPhone version in the App store are rather low. Hopefully they've ironed out any problems and perfected the software for the iPad, but there's no way of knowing until it's approved and released to the App Store and the reviews start coming in. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUe4PxK7IAEfdTTIYf | Meaning and definitions of vapour, translation in Welsh language for vapour with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of vapour in Welsh and in English language.
What vapour means in Welsh, vapour meaning in Welsh, vapour definition, examples and pronunciation of vapour in Welsh language. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd5XxaKgQMxLkzEb2 | social media | Markitty | Page 3 , on January 15. But what does this mean for your business? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Just read on.
Do you have a custom ("vanity") URL set up for their Facebook page? That is, is your Facebook page URL something like www.facebook.com/username or is it more like www.facebook.com/pages/page-name/16rstringofnumbers64?
It only takes a minute and it makes your page look so much better (and gives you a shorter, nicer URL to share), so if you haven't set it up yet, do it right now.
Step one: Click on Edit Facebook Page and then on Update Page Info.
This week's round-up is a mish-mash of different topics, which explains the wacky title.
Not a graphic designer? HubSpot has this great guide on creating graphics with PowerPoint. I don't know about you, but I'm going to try some of those!
Neil Patel shares these 7 lessons he learned from launching 5 products. If you're a product startup, read this.
This is an old post, but read it anyway: Mashable lays out 10 Facebook marketing mistakes to avoid.
I'm so excited Lisa Barone is blogging again. Check out her advice on the 5 actions you should take for a profitable 2013.
Rand Fishkin explains what company culture really is, as opposed to what the term is commonly supposed to mean. Every startup founder should learn the difference.
Instead of our regular Weekend Reading post, today we have for you a round-up of the marketing sites and blogs you should read, recommended by the marketing experts and entrepreneurs we have interviewed in 2012.
Read on for the 13 blogs you should follow in 2013.
The recent brouhaha over Instragram's policy changes brings into sharp relief the fact that marketing on social media entails a lot of dependence on the social media sites. Instagram's users might not be in trouble right now, but do you remember the last cries of outrage over changes in Facebook's policies?
Which brings me to the question: is it wise to focus your marketing efforts primarily on social media?
I'm not advocating ignoring social media (of course). But realize this: you don't control Facebook or Twitter or Google Plus. Your most important content should be on your own site, whether it's in the form of blog posts, FAQs, a photo gallery, or video tutorials.
We use Trello to manage our tasks, and this post gives you a lovely breakdown of why and how you should use it. And it's free!
Here are six writing tips from Roald Dahl, via Copyblogger.
Copyblogger also breaks down Facebook's EdgeRank and tells you what you should be doing for more engagement. Tl;DR? Keep trying different things to engage your audience (as Sahil Khan says here).
Create better landing pages with these tips from Hubspot: we especially like the last one!
Rand Fishkin ponders how you can get the best out of your employees.
And lastly, I loved this article about productivity myths. Now I can continue to not get up early or sort my emails properly without feeling guilty! | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUcZfxK6EuNBRhHcdp | The Noise of Letea ist ein Dokumentarfilm des Berliner Filmemachers Matthias Leupold über ein Dorf, dessen Bewohnende größtenteils außerhalb des offiziellen Wirtschaftskreislaufs leben. Der Film wurde im Jahr 2016 in Letea, Rumänien, gedreht. Sein Leitmotiv ist der Klang: ein Esel schreit, der Wind pfeift, eine Angel taucht in den Fluss ein, die Menschen arbeiten und singen, und die selbst zusammengeschweißten Fahrzeuge tuckern. Der Film wurde im Dezember 2016 beim Short to the Point–Festival gezeigt.
Handlung
Der Film spürt den Klängen nach, die aus den Gehöften des Dorfes Letea im Donaudelta entspringen. Darstellende des Films sind die Dorfbewohner, von denen die allermeisten Selbstversorgende sind. Sie sprechen ein altes, "sonst nirgendwo mehr gepflegtes" Russisch, weil sie Nachkommen von Ukrainern sind, die vor hunderten von Jahren aus dem Russischen Kaiserreich flohen. Im Dorf gibt es keine offizielle Kommunalverwaltung (keine Schulpflicht, keine Polizei, keinen Bürgermeister, kein Ordnungsamt usw.). Pferde leben frei, das Vieh kehrt allein in die Bauernhöfe zurück. Der Film stellt Letea einerseits als sich "am Rande Europas" befindenden und "von Europa vergessenen" Ort, andererseits als "verlorenes Paradies" dar.
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BkiUdH_xK0wg09FXVngo | Saudi Arabia plays leadership role in development: UN aide
SPDRY, MEWA sign MoC to support agricultural sector in Yemen
SPDRY, Ministry of Environment, Sign Memorandum of Cooperation to Support Agricultural Sector in Yemen
Saudi Program for Development and Reconstruction of Yemen and ESCWA discuss aspects of cooperation for development
Strategic partnership: To pursue mutual development goals
SPDRY ropes in UN body to support 4 least developed Arab countries including Yemen
RIYADH — The Saudi Program for the Development and Reconstruction of Yemen (SPDRY) has forged a partnership agreement with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) to support a program that aims to build the capacity of four Arab least developed countries — Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — to assess challenges in absorbing aid from donor countries and transitioning from relief and aid to sustainable development.
The agreement was signed by SPDRY General Supervisor Ambassador Mohammad Bin Saeed Al Jaber and undersecretary-general of ESCWA Dr. Rola Dashti on Monday.
The partnership includes financing and enriching the forthcoming UN report on least developed countries with comprehensive humanitarian and development analyses and plans for developing a comprehensive strategy for the least developed countries for the next ten years and to assist member states and donor organizations to contribute to achieving UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
This report will provide mechanisms for building resilience and addressing the chronic, multi-faceted issues facing the selected countries, strengthening regional solidarity and helping them embark on the path of sustainable development. A path that will be followed based on best practices in development support to Yemen, through joint action that contributes to achieving stability and accelerating economic recovery. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdpbxaKPQof3xyWTC | Q: What's wrong with this nginx.conf? I'm using nginx as a load balancer to 4 internal server instances. The below nginx.conf will work correctly only for www.mydomain.com . But not for mydomain.com or http://mydomain.com.
upstream mydomain{
server 127.0.0.1:8000;
server 127.0.0.1:8001;
server 127.0.0.1:8002;
server 127.0.0.1:8003;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://mydomain;
}
}
A: It's normal that it doesn't work for mydomain.com because of server_name www.mydomain.com.
I'm not an nginx expert, but try omitting server_name.
A: I think you can try this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.com mydoamin.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://mydomain;
}
}
At least I've found this solution in docs
A: all webservers will only work for the domain you configure. In this case, the only domain you added is www.mydomain.com, so it is only going to "work" for the address www.mydomain.com.
If you want all subdomain to work, you need a wildcard character in front of mydomain.com as the following:
server {
listen 80;
server_name .mydomain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://mydomain;
}
}
Notice the . before mydomain.com.
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BkiUdo7xaKgT2YGEnJNj | Ten unforgettable quotes from diary entries and essays she wrote while hiding from the Nazis. Anne Frank would have turned 86 on Friday.
A list of literature and documented scrolls that date back hundreds to thousands of years. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbeU5qoTDt2GdhQAW | WOW, Kathy! Every project you make is absolutely gorgeous! I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite but I have to say this one really does take my breath away. This collection is simply stunning. Each paper coordinates so well with the next one. As usual your details are so perfect. I love the way you custom dye the ribbons and of course that little bee really caught my eye! Your tags are wonderful also! What a great way to use scraps. I must remember that! Thank you for sharing this beautiful folio! Hugs! | c4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
BkiUdwc4eIXh0sNxxIfE | PESA introduces valuable tool to advance health and safety in the workplace
As the unified voice for the energy industry's oil field services and equipment sector, the Petroleum Equipment & Services Association (PESA) advocates and supports job creation, technological innovation and economic initiatives. Recognizing the importance of equipping its 200 global member companies with the insights they need to drive improved workplace practices, it wanted to develop a secure, accessible tool that provides peer-to-peer analysis. PESA envisioned its members using this data to advance workplace health and safety.
The association wanted a partner with deep expertise in end-to-end application development. Using a cloud-first approach and agile methodology, Avanade helped the association develop and deploy Microsoft Azure in just eight weeks. The platform features an application security model to protect competitor's information while allowing extensive filtering capabilities of specific, anonymous data. To enhance the user experience, it is accessible anywhere, anytime and on any device.
Avanade's Digital Studio experts built this first-of-its-kind app, providing PESA members with information not previously available, including:
Deep insights with granular data, available in customisable reports and graphs
Peer-to-peer comparison and benchmarking of health and safety practices
For the first time in this industry, the people who lead health and safety for their organisations have a valuable resource at their fingertips, and it's accessible via desktop or mobile device.
Find out how we can help you get the most from the speed, scalability and economics that Azure provides.
Exploit the ever-expanding power of the cloud.
Learn more about how we can partner to help you realise results – and recognition.
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BkiUchnxK0wg09lKBsBk | Ratios of nitrogen (N) isotopes in leaves could elucidate underlying patterns of N cycling across ecological gradients. To better understand global‐scale patterns of N cycling, we compiled data on foliar N isotope ratios (δ15N), foliar N concentrations, mycorrhizal type and climate for over 11 000 plants worldwide. Arbuscular mycorrhizal, ectomycorrhizal, and ericoid mycorrhizal plants were depleted in foliar δ15N by 2‰, 3.2‰, 5.9‰, respectively, relative to nonmycorrhizal plants. Foliar δ15N increased with decreasing mean annual precipitation and with increasing mean annual temperature (MAT) across sites with MAT ≥ −0.5°C, but was invariant with MAT across sites with MAT < −0.5°C. In independent landscape‐level to regional‐level studies, foliar δ15N increased with increasing N availability; at the global scale, foliar δ15N increased with increasing foliar N concentrations and decreasing foliar phosphorus (P) concentrations. Together, these results suggest that warm, dry ecosystems have the highest N availability, while plants with high N concentrations, on average, occupy sites with higher N availability than plants with low N concentrations. Global‐scale comparisons of other components of the N cycle are still required for better mechanistic understanding of the determinants of variation in foliar δ15N and ultimately global patterns in N cycling.
Craine, J.M., A.J. Elmore, M.P.M. Aidar, R. Amundson, J.E. Barrett, M. Bustamente, C. Coetsee, T. Dawson, H.J. Hawkins, E.A. Hobbie, B.Z. Houlton, K. Koba, M.C. Mack, M. Makarov, K.K. McLauchlan, A. Michelsen, G.B. Nardoto, L.H. Pardo, J. Peñuelas, P.B. Reich, E.G. Schuur, W.D. Stock, R. Tateno, R.A. Virginia, J.M. Welker, and I.J. Wright. 2009. Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability. New Phytologist 183: 980-992. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUbNk5jDKDx3bd2Lah | George Piazza, born in Italy in 1950, came to Australia at the age of ten. His passion for cars started while still a child and at the age of 14 George started his apprenticeship. The love and passion for his job and motorcars was beyond belief and he worked around the clock repairing cars. Many times George would spend his spare times camping at the race track helping teams repair their cars to have them back on the track the following day.
George Piazza opened Berlina Bodyworks in 1974. Not many employees could handle George for being so fastidious towards the quality of work. There were many times he would make the boys redo the job just before it was ready to be rolled out of the door. People around Sydney began to respect his attitude and attention to detail.
The close relationships with his very passionate customers began from the start. Cars ranging from exotic Ferraris to everyday family vehicles drive through Berlina doors every day.
In the 1980s GIO launched the Recommended Repairer system with George's help. The television advertisement was filmed at Berlina Bodyworks and until today George is still heavily involved in the development of the motoring indsutry.
These days George's son Enzo is in full drive at the workshop and all the people that know of the two say Enzo is the clone of George. The business stands by its moto to keep the customers happy at all times. Many similar businesses that started at the same time as Berlina have move onto expanding but George always believed in quality before quantity and prefers TO REMAIN A BOUTIQUE WORKSHOP RATHER THAN BECOME A SAUSAGE FACTORY. Every job has to be above satisfactory! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUasXxK0wg0_748TyU | Did former President Obama abandon the Syrian people? If so, when, and how do Syrians here feel about it?
by luciovainesman | Nov 21, 2019 | Good Question |
By Lucio Vainesman, Medill, Immigrant Connect
Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, Executive Director of Syrian Community Network, is one of the many Syrian Americans who had high hopes for President Obama.
"It was an inspiration and an amazing thing when he won the presidency. Obama stabilized the country after a huge crisis with the Bush administration and was very anti-Assad. Syrians were encouraged by Obama's voice because he vouched for young people organizing fights of democracy." says Sahloul, a self-proclaimed Democrat.
She applauds all that Obama did for Syrian refugees seeking asylum. "Obama raising the cap for Syrian refugees certainly helped." An increase from 85,000 in 2016 to 110,000 when he left office, the "cap" was a robust increase in the quota for refugees from Syria.
Yet, for Sahloul, Obama still didn't handle things in the right way.
The moment when the Obama administration failed the Syrian people was in August 2013. That was when the Assad regime used sarin gas on its civilians, killing 1,400 in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. The lack of a response is what defined Obama's legacy, according to Sahloul. "Assad used chemical weapons. The day came when Assad used chemical weapons against his people, and Obama stood there and did nothing."
In northern Syria, residents of the rebel-held town of Azaz clean up after an aerial bombardment by Syrian government planes killed about 50 people and wounded more than 100. Click on photo to go to the video. [Photo credit: VOA News]
Not only did the Obama administration stand pat, but they broke a promise. One year before, on Aug. 20, 2012, President Obama had stated, "We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is when we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized." That line was passed in Damascus and no action was taken. [Here for Obama "red-line" speech]
Sahloul's husband was as vocal as anyone about the struggles the Obama administration had in dealing with Assad and the Civil War. The time came when he was able to speak to Obama about Syria, claiming that how he would handle the crisis would define his campaign and legacy. To many Syrians, it did just that.
Ahlam Al-Jebory voices that the U.S. plays a significant role in protecting civilians of the middle east. "The U.S. does have a unique responsibility to serve as a sanctuary for refugees from the middle east," she says. To the extent that Sahloul and Al-Jebory differ, Al-Jebory believes that the region woule be better off if the U.S. didn't intervene.
Al-Jebory spent a significant amount of time in both Syria and Iraq, countries whose histories are riddled with violence and warfare. For Al-Jebory, it is as simple as "the U.S. should stay in their own business."
Part of where this opinion comes from is rooted in America's involvement in Iraq, beginning in the '80s with attempted removals of Saddam Hussein and carrying over into the Gulf War. Following Operation Desert Storm and the eventual liberation of Kuwait, the American presence was felt and felt strongly. "Tanks were going down streets half the size," Al-Jebory describes.
Mimi Zidan, native Syrian, expresses similar beliefs to Al-Jebory. As she puts it, the role the U.S. should play in significant crises such as the Syrian Civil War should be concentrated on promoting immigration and providing asylum. When asked if the United States should let struggling Syrians in, Zidan responds by saying, "Definitely. Anything they could do to help families. They could send them to America. There are a lot of ways to help, and they need as much help because they are in danger."
For both Al-Jebory and Zidan, the Obama administration didn't fail the people of Syria. Militaristic intervention causes more problems than it solves, according to Al-Jebory, and the best solution for Zidan is opening the doors to those who are in need of help. To them, for the most part, Obama's administration was a success. Raising the quota for Syrian's during the war was an achievement, especially for a President many consider "Deporter in Chief." However, when Assad used Sarin and Chlorine on his own civilians, the American response was not enough. Whether it is the United States' responsibility to intervene or not is a more extensive philosophical debate. However, in the eyes of Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, this was when the Obama administration failed the Syrian people and the world for that matter. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
BkiUbIQ5qsBB3HnuUy4U | Many businesses are adopting data-driven management as a means of facilitating change, staying flexible, and making sure the business doesn't get stuck in outdated processes.
Elizabeth Press' goal is to teach you people to transform data into insights that will help you run your business, make decisions and manage your team. She shared her tips with us via our friends at Betahaus.
A data-driven approach to solving problems and leading discourse enhances the tenor of your communication and teamwork, in addition to improving hard performance metrics such as revenue and margin. Data and evidence-based brainstorming can also help turn creative ideas into business transformation. The reason why I am so excited about guiding entrepreneurs along their data-driven journey is that these techniques are important for people who need to articulate innovative ideas to investors, customers, partners and others in their ecosystem while creating super motivated teams.
Using specified metrics and analytical methods at key points in your decision processes will improve your accountability. Sentiment from experts across the globe, including The Harvard Business Review in their article Big Data: The Management Revolution, point to improved decision-making through data. Even if your decision turns out to be sub-optimal, you will be able to explain your actions in a logical and concise manner and understand where you need to improve.
Setting goals and measuring how your performance benefits your organisation's strategy and tactical goals will allow you to communicate your successes and your prioritised areas of improvement through evidence-based reasoning. The city of Houston, Texas in the US has a Performance Insight portal to communicate their progress and provide transparency regarding strategic priorities.
Gamification is one data-driven strategy for engaging and motivating employees while increasing transparency, as described in CIO magazine. An additional benefit of using data is that a fact-based tone of discussion helps teams work on problems with minimal personal or negatively emotionally charged conversation.
To learn more about data-driven management, check out the Betahaus blog. They've also recently announced that they'll be collaborating with EY Startup Challenge on their accelerator programme. For more info, check this out.
Republished from Jobspotting and updated November 14. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUacfxK1Thg98UdZXQ | Q: jQuery animate with opacity not working I am trying to get a flashing effect on a div whose background is initially at rgba(0,0,0,0) => originalColor and have it flash to rgba(237,155,0,1) => noticeFlashColor. To do this, I am using:
var noticeFlashEffect = function (applyTo, originalColor) {
return setInterval(function () {
$(applyTo).animate(
{ 'background-color': noticeFlashColor },
flashTime,
function () {
$(applyTo).animate({ 'background-color': originalColor }, flashTime);
}
);
}, (2 * flashTime));
};
However, I get this error every time I try to do this:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined
From this line in jQuery-ui:
fx.elem.style[attr] = 'rgb(' +
Math.max(Math.min(parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[0] - fx.start[0])) + fx.start[0], 10), 255), 0) + ',' +
Math.max(Math.min(parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[1] - fx.start[1])) + fx.start[1], 10), 255), 0) + ',' +
Math.max(Math.min(parseInt((fx.pos * (fx.end[2] - fx.start[2])) + fx.start[2], 10), 255), 0) + ')';
But even stranger, none of the above variables seem to be null after checking it in the debugger.
EDIT: Further clarification: I am using jquery-ui.1.8.4 and the animation effect seems to work when animating to noticeFlashColor but not when going back.
A: It looks like this is only an issue in jQuery ui 1.8.4. I upgraded to 1.10 and it appears to be working correctly.
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BkiUbjs5qsBB3Ha6iW-R | Thanksgiving 2018: Does Turkey Make You Sleepy?
Thanksgiving is a great time to spend a day or a weekend with family and friends, reconnect with your extended family, and be thankful for the loved ones in your life. It's also a time to enjoy great food, and no thanksgiving dinner would be complete without a turkey, stuffing and all.
After you've stuffed yourself with Thanksgiving dinner, you've probably experienced extreme drowsiness, or the 'food coma' that's generally associated with holiday dinners. Everyone needs an afternoon nap before the festivities can continue, and it feels like every room in your house has someone who's succumbed to sleep. While we often blame the turkey for our drowsiness, it might not actually be the real culprit.
Why do we blame the turkey for our drowsiness after dinner? There's some amount of truth in it because eating turkey can make you sleepy. Turkey contains L-tryptophan, an amino acid that's often linked with sleep. It encourages serotonin production in your brain, and this makes you feel relaxed and sleepy. While turkey is full of L-tryptophan, it's not the only food that contains a lot of this amino acid. Just about every high-protein food you eat on a regular basis, like other meats, cheese, nuts, and even meat substitutes like tofurky, have equal levels of L-tryptophan, and could also make you feel tired.
Not only that, but consuming L-tryptophan isn't enough to cause serotonin production, and this amino acid by itself isn't enough to make you sleep. In fact, turkey contains not just L-tryptophan, but a whole lot of protein and other amino acids that block L-tryptophan from producing serotonin, and regulate insulin levels, keeping you awake instead of putting you to sleep.
What Makes You Sleep After Thanksgiving dinner?
If it's not the turkey that's making you sleep, what is it that makes you feel so drowsy? The answer seems to be carbs. When you eat foods that contain L-tryptophan, like turkey or other meats, along with a lot of carbs, you'll often feel sleepy. The mashed potatoes, bread, and pie you ate during dinner are what's responsible for your desire to pass out on the couch rather than chat with your cousins or do the dishes.
When you've stuffed your stomach with all your favorite holiday foods, the carbs you've eaten give the amino acids and proteins in your body something to do. It takes a lot of energy to digest all that food, and break down all the sugars in the carbs. This allows the L-tryptophan to produce serotonin and melatonin, making you feel sleepy. Thanksgiving isn't about the turkey after all, but about the carbs.
It's not just the carbs fault either, and it could really be a simple case of overindulging. After all, Thanksgiving comes just once a year! All the food in your stomach, whether that included turkey or not, needs to be digested, and costs your body a lot of energy. While your body works hard to digest your food, resting is the best way for your body to conserve energy, and devote more energy to processing all that food while you're resting on the couch.
If you've been tasked with washing dishes after dinner, and you're feeling too exhausted to load the dishwasher or scrub the pots, there's really no way to combat the after-dinner fatigue. The best thing you can do it try to regulate how much you eat during dinner, and try not to overeat. Your other option is to realize that you'll be drowsy after dinner, so give yourself time to enjoy the day and eat a wonderful dinner, then give yourself time for a nap before cleaning up.
Have you been struggling to fall asleep at night? Do you feel drowsy after Thanksgiving dinner, or do you feel tired all the time? We want you have a great night's sleep every night, and wake up refreshed every morning, whether or not you had a Thanksgiving Day nap. If you've noticed any problems with your sleep cycle, reduced alertness during the day, and a drop in your ability to concentrate and get tasks done, visit us at Sound Sleep Medical to discuss your sleep habits and health. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUeUfxK6Ot9WA5ilVz | Fraser Health expands access to opioid subsitute
Methadone and suboxone used as a substitute for illicit drugs that may contain fentanyl
There have been 28 illicit drug overdose deaths in Abbotsford through Oct. 31
by Owen Munro, Abbotsford News
Fraser Health will expand access to methadone and suboxone at Abbotsford Community Services as it looks to address the opioid overdose crisis in one of the most affected cities.
Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) replaces illicit drugs with a longer acting opioid like methadone and suboxone, and is typically administered in a supervised setting. According to Fraser Health's chief medical officer Dr. Victoria Lee, it has been proven to relieve the symptoms of withdrawal and can reduce high-risk behaviours.
"There's evidence that shows opioid substitution should be first on the line of treatments," Lee said.
"A lot of people think of detox as being first on the line, but detox sometimes has the highest risk for overdoses because you become naive to the opioids you're using."
The expansion of the services was announced alongside two new supervised injection sites that will be opened in Surrey, another area that has been hit extremely hard by fentanyl overdoses. Lee also noted that Fraser Health has looked at whether a supervised-injection site would be feasible in Abbotsford.
But some are casting their doubts about whether this will do anything to curb the rampant trail of destruction fentanyl is leaving.
Abbotsford Police Const. Ian MacDonald said he's unsure whether the announcement will have a profound effect, given that it still comes down to people buying illicit drugs that have high toxicity.
"My fear is that the fentanyl, and all of the analogues of it, are in such great abundance that those potential counter-measures may not have the impact people are hoping for," MacDonald said in an email.
Abbotsford has been of the hardest-struck communities in 2016, seeing 28 deaths through Oct. 31. Figures from November have not yet been released.
Erica Thompson, an outreach worker for the Warm Zone women's outreach centre, said any news about expanding treatment options for drug users is good news. Thompson is a former heroin user who has previously been in a methadone treatment program and believes it can be advantageous in helping people wean themselves off of drugs such as heroin.
"Any initiative like this is something that I support and something that is desperately needed," Thompson said. "There's a lot of stigma around addiction that can be erased."
Lee agrees that the stigmatization around addiction and overdoses are not conducive to a proper dialogue, saying OST would be a huge lifeline for people who desperately need help.
UPDATE: Chilliwack Cattle Sales fined $300,000 in unique animal abuse case
VIDEO UPDATE: Police confirm targeted shooting is connected to Townline Hill conflict | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdQc4uzlh53v22wyU | Q: how can i find start and end date using spacy? I want to use spacy (or any other program you know of) to extract the start and end date from the text of a contract. I am currently able to color and label all the DATES using displacy.render(doc, style="ent"). But again, I need to distinguish between start and end date. Any idea how I can do that? Maybe apply more training to a model? How can I do that? Thanks for your help! yishairasowsky@gmail.com
My Environment
Operating System: windows 8.1
Python Version Used: 3.7.2
spaCy Version Used: 2.2.2
Environment Information: I prefer to use jupyter notebooks, so that i can see what i am doing. but py files i guess are ok too.
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BkiUdno4eIfiUSz0sU6g | News » Alexis Bledel: Life after the Gilmore Girls
TV News / Jon Galt
Published: January 23 2014 22:36
Alexis Bledel: Life after the Gilmore Girls
Alexis Bledel played Rory in the Gilmore Girls
The show ended back in 2007
Alexis has had a fairly successful career since then
When a young and promising star plays the same role in a hit television series for a number of years, they can sometimes find it difficult to move on from there when the show comes to an end. These stars find that they have become typecast by the role and struggle to get any meaningful roles in the future.
Alexis Bledel starred in Gilmore Girls
However, this is not always the case and there are plenty of stars who have gone on to have very successful careers, following a long spell in a hit television series. One such star is the talented and beautiful actress Alexis Bledel, who played the role Rory Gilmore in the hit series Gilmore Girls, appearing in 154 episodes between 2000 and 2007.
Since Gilmore Girls came to an end, Alexis Bledel has continued to find plenty of interesting acting roles, appearing in a number of television shows and movies along the way. As well as having a guest appearance on ER and playing Beth Dawes in Mad Men, Alexis Bledel also plays the role of Stacey in Us and Them, the US version of the hit British show Gavin and Stacey.
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Alexis Bledel has built up a very loyal fanbase over the years, becoming one of the fans favourites for the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey, before the role eventually went to Dakota Johnson. There have also been plenty of rumours about a possible Gilmore Girls movie being made but, as of yet, nothing solid has been confirmed.
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BkiUc7o5i7PA9Q883D7y | Q: Amazon SDK in Yii framework Trying to get the new Amazon SDK
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/guide/latest/quick-start.html
in Yii Framework.
Amazon doc says to use like this:
// Include the SDK using the Composer autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Aws\S3\S3Client;
// Instantiate the S3 client with your AWS credentials
$s3Client = S3Client::factory(array(
'key' => 'YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID',
'secret' => 'YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY',
));
But you can not use "use" in a method of a controller in Yii, so in Yii you can use setPathOfAlias to use namespaces.
I'm trying with this:
Yii::import('application.vendors.amazon-sdk.*');
Yii::setPathOfAlias('AwsSDK',Yii::getPathOfAlias('application.vendors.amazon-sdk.*'));
require 'aws-autoloader.php';
// Instantiate the S3 client with your AWS credentials
$aws = AwsSDK\Aws\Common\Aws::factory(array(
'key' => '************',
'secret' => '************',
));
It's loading the "Aws.php" correctly, but it says "Fatal error: Class 'AwsSDK\Aws\Common\Aws' not found"
What is the problem ?
Thank you
A: Is this for Yii 1.*?
In that case, just check how I configured it:
https://github.com/IvoRe/ES32
"But you can not use "use" in a method of a controller in Yii"
Aren't you supposed to use "use" at the top of a class? So the use declaration would come before the Controller declaration.
Quote from this tutorial:
Aliasing or importing should occur in the highest scope of a namespace
or in the global scope. Trying to do this in the scope of a method or
function is invalid syntax.
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BkiUdpzxK3xgpZzQoX87 | Create a multifile web page property editor using the text or json file with the property groups.
I have a property file but the configuration requires having more knowledge. What I want is a web page (html page offline) configurator which can read the text or json file and create fields the user can fill in and generate the property file out of that for the install. I want the setup as a group and can be selected or not selected based on the choice. For example, a user selects to server Weblogic then only show the related property to edit. I would love if the property text file is read and converted to JSON so we don't have to maintain but if that is not possible then it is fine. When the user selects the export after setup the property file will be generated from that.
I want simple but clean fill for generating a property file. You can use any JS, open source library to get this done.
If it is JSON then it will be as per the JSON parent-child structure with data format (Name, Value, info). If it is the text file you can read then we will make sure it marked accordingly for the editor page to build. Also some way to add the help or info for that property Ie. (: or !) etc.
Basic Options for server setup like port etc.
Does the file to read have any structure ?
It will be either flat,xml or json file you can use. FLAT file does not have the data structure so you may have to add with some delimiter as mentioned. However final output is flat property file as variable name =value pair text file.
I will better to implement your app with swing java. | c4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
BkiUeGs4eIOjSKE2vDve | Tag: Fernando Prass
Seleção Brings in Weverton Days Before Start of Rio Olympics
Nelson Belen - August 2, 2016
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Only days before their debut match, the Brazilian national team's (Seleção) Olympic football (soccer) coach Rogerio Micale, on Monday, August 1st, introduced Atlético Paranaense goalkeeper Weverton Pereira Silva as the...
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By Georgia Grimond, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The winner of the Copa do Brasil football championship was decided last night, Wednesday December 2nd, at Allianz Park in São Paulo. After two hours of hard play the...
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By Robbie Blakeley, Contributing Sports Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Carioca clubs recorded a perfect round last weekend as each team walked away with three points in the national Brasileiro tournament which started in May. After six rounds... | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUgxrxK7IADzpkWJ5a | 1. Being asked to give a 'quick-fire trigger talk' as part of a Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) gathering of church leaders, youth leaders and others reflecting on contemporary challenges around discipleship. It was a really good day organised by Rick Hill Discipleship Officer of the PCI (and MA grad of IBI), with lots of good input and discussion.
2. Reading Matthew Bates' outstanding book Salvation by Allegiance Alone.
The fun part of a short talk is that you get to do what you tell students not to do: make deliberately provocative statements without following the niceties of detailed academic substantiation. The point of the talk is to raise issues and get open discussion going.
This is not to say these are random thoughts. They come from thinking about faith, gospel and works in teaching and preaching over a lot of years.
It's also drawing on what Bates does with crystal clarity. He articulates a persuasive case for how themes of faith, gospel and works operate within the New Testament – from Jesus to Paul, John and other authors.
Here are 7 thesis statements with brief notes. Feel welcome to comment – whether agree, disagree or discuss …!
THESIS 1: We have a major problem with discipleship in the West – and to be specific within the PCI.
Discipleship is patchy: in prayer, giving, service, training, Bible reading and study, evangelism, and a passion for holiness. Attendance is plummeting within denominations in the post-Christendom era, including the PCI. Membership is getting older. I can't prove this, but formerly high levels of nominalism within Christendom are now being revealed within post-Christendom. The cultural pressure to 'go to church' has evaporated. Perhaps contemporary members are more committed and serious than many in the past? And there are lots of good things happening in various places, but no-one I talk to is bursting with optimism and confidence about the future of the institutional Church.
We can easily fall into the trap of imagining that 'if only' we got things right, that the Church can return to its former 'glory'. Getting things right tends to mean things like having more attractive services, youth and children's programmes, modern buildings etc. But reliance in externals is just rearranging the furniture. Something more fundamental is at issue. Treating symptoms is not going to address the root cause.
Neither is the solution dependence on pragmatic models of ministry. By this I mean adopting models of discipleship based on x principles of how Jesus made disciples and if we do the same mature disciples will result – as if discipleship is a nice easy recipe to follow and if we keep to the instructions – bingo! Some discipleship resources seem to owe more to management strategies for growing a business than they do to the teaching of the New Testament.
We need to think primarily theologically when we think about discipleship. So what's the theological problem? Let me suggest it includes a superstructure of half-formed assumptions and misconceptions about both the content of the gospel and a proper response to the gospel (faith and works).
For various reasons there are deeply embedded and damaging popular misunderstandings of how gospel, faith and works are understood that distort both the way the gospel is talked about and how a proper response to that gospel is framed. This impacts both how discipleship is understood and how it is prioritised and practiced.
What is faith? At what is it directed? How does it 'work'?
These are very big questions indeed. Just have a read of Galatians for example to see how crucial a place 'faith' has within the argument of the letter. 'Faith' is clearly the key to Paul's passionate appeal to the Galatians to come to their senses – but what does he mean by faith?
Or an 'ABC gospel': Accept. Believe. Confess. For an earlier post on 'gospel lite' versions see this.
Artificially separate the relationship between grace and works (former makes the latter of secondary importance and of no soteriological significance).
Mask what Christians are actually saved for (little or no space for the necessity of personal transformation and growth in holiness and Christlikeness).
Faith is opposed to works due to the 'anxious Protestant principle' of not importing works into saving faith.
Grace tends to be set against works as well. Grace invites, but does not obligate.
Works (discipleship) happen as a fruit of faith: a secondary cause.
But the real hard lifting has already been done (forgiveness, salvation, assurance, justification) by faith. Sanctification is secondary.
Some propose that 'works are the fruit of faith'. But this itself is not how the Bible talks about faith – works are intrinsic to saving faith. We are judged 'according to our works'.
No-one is rejecting the central place of faith. Take Ephesians 2:8: It is by grace you have been saved through faith. But what does faith mean and how does it work?
Matthew Bates (and others) argue that pistis has a wider semantic range than in popular models outlined above. Pistis includes faithfulness; loyalty; fidelity; or as proposed by Bates as allegiance to the risen Lord. Faith here is best seen as a personal commitment for all of life.
If this is the case, Bates proposes that when it comes to discipleship we would be better off dropping faith language altogether in order to try to get back to what Scripture means by pistis.
In brief, the gospel is about the good news of Jesus the resurrected Lord and King. The gospel is therefore first and foremost Christology that calls for a response in faith to a person (not an abstract idea). Salvation is past present and future, lived out in hope of resurrection life in the new creation.
Bates proposes it has three inter-related themes.
John Barclay comes into the story here with his magnificent book Paul and the Gift that I posted on here and here and here.
He has shown how grace in the NT world is more subtle and complex than theological systems (both Protestant and Catholic) have often allowed. Certainly for Paul there is no problem in expecting grace involves reciprocity. Whereas 'gracism' that says that free grace 'requires nothing' is an alien concept to the NT.
This is not to say that salvation is not utterly and completely due to the grace of God. We cannot save ourselves. There is forgiveness and new life in the Spirit through confessing and repenting – turning to Jesus Christ in faith. But God's grace is not opposed to a response of embodied obedience. Grace is not opposed to works, it leads to works shaped by loyalty and action in the world. It is opposed to merit.
How we understand gospel, faith and works (and discipleship fits in the category of works) will have practical implications for how we think about evangelism and discipleship.
However you read the NT, any idea of 'easy believism', or 'cheap grace' is utterly alien. Both Calvinists and others should agree on this. Believers have assurance built on the person and work of Jesus, but since only God knows all we should be wary of offering any blanket easy reassurance.
What does 'successful' discipleship look like? And how can what goes on at church foster development towards that goal and vision? | c4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUbRs4uBhhxMDmQ6Fx | Q: Proxy Server in Django or Python I am tryigng to build a webpage in Django, which contains a mini "browser", an input bar for inputing link and an iframe for displaying the webpage, like this website (http://free-proxyserver.com/). But a lot of pages cannot be load in the iframe due to different reasons, like google, stackoverflow etc. So I want to build a proxy server on my server. For links like "https://www.google.com", I will set the iframe source to "http://mywebsite.com/proxy?url=https://www.google.com", and there will be a view function for "/proxy".
If I just request this page and send the response back, the web user will not be able to get any .js or .css files. Is there an easy way to fix this?
I have tried to search open source proxy server for django, projects like "Django Http Proxy" can only be proxy for one certain website, but I want it to be a proxy for all possible websites.
A: Taking a look at the Django Http Proxy documentation, you will find that:
Older versions of Django HTTP Proxy only supported a single proxy per
Django project, which had to be configured using a Django setting:
PROXY_BASE_URL = 'http://www.python.org/
Naturally, you can easily replicate this behavior using the new class-based view syntax:
from django.conf import settings
from httpproxy.views import HttpProxy
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^proxy/(?P<url>.*)$',
HttpProxy.as_view(base_url=settings.PROXY_BASE_URL)), )
So, I think you can easily modify base_url and read it from the client input.
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BkiUbIvxK6mkyCfOALAQ | If elected in March a Marshall Liberal Government will make it mandatory for all South Australian councils to publish travel expenses in their annual report to increase transparency and accountability.
We will take this action recognising that in South Australia, the State Government has constitutional responsibility for the affairs of local councils.
South Australians are fed up with councils wasting their rates on outrageous expenses, including ridiculous travel costs.
There is no shortage of examples of local government wasting ratepayer's' money, whether they are sending elected members off to the Australian Open for a week or funding golf memberships or luxury cars all at the expense of ratepayers.
Currently, however, there is a complete lack of transparency and accountability in the way councils are reporting how they spend ratepayer money.
This is simply unacceptable and ratepayers have a right to know how much of their dollars are being spent on travel for elected members as well as other expenses.
That's why we will ensure local government has the same level of scrutiny and transparency as State Government Ministers and their staff when it comes to disclosing travel expenses. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUc3E5qoYAlWqzxVXV | When high interest rates and penalties are making it difficult for you to pay off your debts, a consumer credit counseling service may be helpful. In addition to helping you develop and stick to a realistic budget, they can often negotiate with your creditors for more favorable terms (interest rates and waved penalties). Sometimes credit card companies are more likely to respond to such requests when made by a consumer credit organization – it tells them you are serious, are seeking help, and are getting advice on how to meet your obligations. However, there is no guarantee a credit card company will agree to this, and they are not obligated to do so.
Be aware of all the fees the credit counseling services charge. Be cautious of unscrupulous credit counseling services.
Debt consolidation may help if you can obtain a lower interest loan to pay off all of your higher interest debt. However, if you already have a lot of debt, this usually requires borrowing against an asset (such as a home or land) that you pledge as collateral.
You are essentially converting your unsecured debts (credit cards for example) to secured debt (perhaps a second mortgage). While the interest may be lower, the risk of losing your property increases should you be unable to make timely payments. If there's any chance you may eventually end up filing for bankruptcy, be sure to discuss this with one of our San Fernando Valley bankruptcy lawyers.
Debt settlement and negotiation involves making an offer to immediately pay off a debt with a reduced lump sum (for example, 50% of the total amount owed). This can work if you have money available to pay the lump sum, especially if the creditor understands that your only other alternative is to file for bankruptcy, in which case they may receive far less.
This works best when you are dealing with only a few larger debts rather than multiple creditors, especially if the debts are old and being paid off slowly. However, using a "debt negotiator" can limit the benefit of this approach, since the cost for the service may be excessive.
Contact our San Fernando Valley bankruptcy attorneys today to determine what alternatives may be most helpful for you. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUdG44ubng5asjoZpP | Q: In Google Docs, apply small caps formatting to a part of a line I am trying to write a script in order to replace specific words with their small caps version. I have created a small caps style Heading6 in my document but it can only be applied to a text range as a whole.
Is it possible to apply the style partially?
Here is my attempt:
function applyHeading(textToFind){
var style = {};
style[DocumentApp.Attribute.HEADING] = DocumentApp.ParagraphHeading.HEADING6;
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
var foundElement = body.findText(textToFind);
while (foundElement != null) {
// Get the text object from the element
var foundText = foundElement.getElement().asText();
// Where in the element is the found text?
var start = foundElement.getStartOffset();
var end = foundElement.getEndOffsetInclusive();
var newText = foundText.getText().substring(0, start) + textToFind.toLowerCase() + foundText.getText().substring(end + 1);
foundText.setText(newText);
// Set style -- does not work
foundText.setAttributes(start, end, style);
// Find the next match
foundElement = body.findText(textToFind, foundElement);
}
}
A: *
*You want to convert the found texts to the small capital letters.
I could understand like above. If my understanding is correct, how about this sample script?
Unfortunately, in the current stage, there are no methods for modifying the part of texts to the small capital letters in Document Service, yet. I think that this might be achieved with Document Service by the future update. But as a current workaround, I thought that Google Docs API released recently might be able to be used for achieving this. So I challenged this.
In order to use the following sample script, before you run the script, please enable Google Docs API at API console as follows.
Enable Google Docs API at API console:
*
*On script editor
*
*Resources -> Cloud Platform project
*View API console
*At Getting started, click "Explore and enable APIs".
*At left side, click Library.
*At "Search for APIs & services", input "Docs". And click "Google Docs API".
*Click Enable button.
*If API has already been enabled, please don't turn off.
Flow:
The flow of sample script is as follows.
*
*Find texts on Google Document using the findText method of Document Service.
*Retrieve all contents from Google Document using the get method of Google Docs API.
*
*Each content is corresponding to each paragraph of Document.
*Create ranges of all found texts using the retrieved contents and the objects retrieved by the findText method.
*Modify the text style of the found texts using the batchUpdate method of Google Docs API.
Sample script:
The sample script is for the container-bound script with Google Document. Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor, and run the function sample().
function applySmallCapital(textToFind) {
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var body = doc.getBody();
var id = doc.getId();
var baseUrl = "https://docs.googleapis.com/v1/documents/";
var headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + ScriptApp.getOAuthToken()};
var params = {headers: headers};
// Retrieve all contents from Google Document.
var res = UrlFetchApp.fetch(baseUrl + id + "?fields=*", params);
var obj = JSON.parse(res.getContentText());
// In order to use at Google Docs API, create ranges of found texts.
var foundElement = body.findText(textToFind);
var ranges = [];
while (foundElement != null) {
var p = foundElement.getElement();
if (p.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.TEXT) p = p.getParent();
if (p.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH || p.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.LIST_ITEM) {
var content = obj.body.content[body.getChildIndex(p) + 1];
ranges.push({
startIndex: content.startIndex + foundElement.getStartOffset(),
endIndex: content.startIndex + foundElement.getEndOffsetInclusive(),
});
}
foundElement = body.findText(textToFind, foundElement);
}
// Modify textStyle of found texts.
if (ranges.length > 0) {
var resource = {requests: ranges.map(function(e) {return {
updateTextStyle: {
textStyle: {smallCaps: true},
range: e,
fields: "smallCaps"}
}
})};
params.method = "post";
params.contentType = "application/json";
params.payload = JSON.stringify(resource);
UrlFetchApp.fetch(baseUrl + id + ":batchUpdate", params);
}
}
function sample() {
applySmallCapital("this should be small caps");
}
Result:
From:
To:
*
*For testing this script, your sample texts in your shared Document was used. You can see that the text of "this should be small caps" is modified to the small capital letters.
References:
*
*Google Docs API
*TextStyle
*Document Service
Added:
When Google Docs API of Advanced Google Services is used, the above script becomes as follows. When you use this, please enable Google Docs API at Advanced Google Services. In this script, the cost became a bit lower than that of above by reducing one loop.
function applySmallCapital(textToFind) {
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var body = doc.getBody();
var id = doc.getId();
// Retrieve all contents from Google Document.
var obj = Docs.Documents.get(id, {fields: "*"})
// In order to use at Google Docs API, create ranges of found texts.
var foundElement = body.findText(textToFind);
var requests = [];
while (foundElement != null) {
var p = foundElement.getElement();
if (p.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.TEXT) p = p.getParent();
if (p.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH || p.getType() == DocumentApp.ElementType.LIST_ITEM) {
var content = obj.body.content[body.getChildIndex(p) + 1];
requests.push({
updateTextStyle: {
textStyle: {smallCaps: true},
range: {
startIndex: content.startIndex + foundElement.getStartOffset(),
endIndex: content.startIndex + foundElement.getEndOffsetInclusive(),
},
fields: "smallCaps"}
});
}
foundElement = body.findText(textToFind, foundElement);
}
// Modify textStyle of found texts.
if (requests.length > 0) {
var resource = {requests: requests};
Docs.Documents.batchUpdate(resource, id);
}
}
function sample() {
applySmallCapital("this should be small caps");
}
Reference:
*
*Advanced Docs Service
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BkiUdyA4eIOjRzejrw6f | My great-Aunt Dot is legendary in my family.
Now, she has not jumped out of planes (that I know of), or hacked through the Amazon jungle (I don't think so), or discovered the damn missing link. Her contribution has been more subtle.
Now, let me explain about her: she is a cute, petite, 88-yr-old lady who lives in Atlanta. She has never been married, and in fact, has lived in the same house in the Capital View neighborhood that her father (my great-grandfather) moved his family into in 1939. The neighborhood has had its ups and downs. At one point I think there was some funky stuff going on, and some folks enjoying some crack and the like, but Dot would NOT move. She waited it out, and sure enough, she was GENTRIFIED.
As a matter of fact, you can see her on the website for "The BeltLine", a high-falutin' urban park renewal project.
On EVERY holiday, especially on every birthday, she sends a cute card with flowers or kittens or cherubs on it to EVERY family member and in it she encloses… $1. Now please understand, I have quite a large extended family now. She may have started with siblings and cousins, etc., but now…there are nieces, nephews, cousins, their spouses, their children, and at this point…their children's children and children! I mean, she is in for a lotta dough, not to mention cornering the market on Hallmark.
Throughout life, some years, SOME birthdays…well…let's just say "It ain't always so yippy-skippy." But Dot's card always arrives, and I know I will get the $1. I am so old now that if I had saved and invested them, I might be a wealthy woman today.
Oh Yes! Aunt Dot is legendary with all of us. That is awesome that Stephen received that card… and the dollar! And you know, I am not sure how she gets my address sometimes. Mom & Dad lost track of where I lived for awhile but good old Aunt Dot always kept up. Your point about a full time job and investment is not lost on me. Its gotta be in the hundreds now. She is amazing.
Ha ha! 😃 very funny. I do love the old one dollar gift! Lol!
My grandmother sends every single one of us a $2 bill on our birthday and always has. She has also included my husband and son in this tradition as they came along. My family, like yours, is huge and I don't know how she finds all of those $2 bills, but I am sure glad she does becayse I love this tradition!
$2?? Hey, we need an upgrade! Just kiddin…these thoughtful gestures warm my heart.
This is terrific. Does Aunt Dot know about her legendary presence on the interwebs?
Oh yes…and in case you are still interested, my blog is http://www.seekrockcity.wordpress.com. Mostly, I post album reviews, but you might find a few anecdotal articles of interest! | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUd_A4ubnhDOg0XlAN | Assistance needed with expanding our online outreach via Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.
Our goal is to continue to expend our reach outside of the Fresno/Clovis area to other communities in the Central Valley. This opportunity would include working on helping us more closely interact with our "friends" on social networks to become involved and to expand the existing networks.
Seeking assistance with making telephone calls and sending emails to potential advertisers.
Soliciting companies from our visitors/readers and making phone calls to build an LGBT friendly community directory. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfck25V5jS9ZhZQxD |
package org.apache.camel.processor.resequencer;
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class SequenceBuffer<E> implements SequenceSender<E> {
private BlockingQueue<E> queue;
public SequenceBuffer() {
this.queue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();
}
public int size() {
return queue.size();
}
public E take() throws InterruptedException {
return queue.take();
}
public E poll(long timeout) throws InterruptedException {
return queue.poll(timeout, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
}
public void sendElement(E o) throws Exception {
queue.put(o);
}
}
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BkiUauTxK7kjXJwSOlfv | We have several different cabins to choose from. Standard cabins or larger cabins with private facilities.
Our campsite is a good starting point for excursions along our national tourist roads (by car) or for hiking on one of our nearby trails. Just a short drive away is Balestrand with museums and activities for everyone.
Our campsite has a sanitary building and a small shop. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUdyzxaKgS2KyudGSx | How much you weigh depends on your mass, the mass of the planet, and the distance you are from the center of the planet.
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Note: Technically, the sun and Earth's moon are not called planets. This page should probably be titled Your weight on other heavenly bodies.
Enter your weight in any unit you wish, the output will be in the same unit.
Much of the Data used for these conversions came from Exploratorium. I encourage you to visit them for research on our solar system. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUb1bxaL3Sug5GK5ST | Audible Escape (126)
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Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World
By: Scott McCormick
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Samantha Turret, Khristine Hvam, and others
Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely hated each other? It's true! Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World is a riotous audio exclusive, like if Monty Python taught your history class. Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor. Choose sides: Cope or Marsh, the jerks who discovered so many dinosaurs; Hamilton or Burr, whose rivalry fueled American politics; and many more....
Great Listen with Kids
By R. L. Ortinez on 07-18-18
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Samantha Turret, Khristine Hvam, Gabriel Vaughan, Josh Hurley
Series: Rivals!
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
My Sad, Sad Confession…
By Mike L Lane on 08-08-17
Series: Harry Potter, Book 1, Wizarding World, Book 1
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start.
Of all the trees, we get one that hits back!
By Andrew on 11-20-17
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3
When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves.... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss....
Jim Dale at his best
By rottndachs on 01-12-16
Series: Wizarding World, Book 3, Harry Potter, Book 3
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Book 4
The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons, and dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
By Alejandro Ahumada on 02-19-19
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time....
Best Book You'll Read This Year
By Gretchen SLP on 11-22-15
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Book 7
As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin - Harry must stand and face his enemy....
I'm so sad it's over!!
By Erin on 05-19-16
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Book 6
When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny....
Masterful Narration Continues
By Gina on 05-13-16
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war - and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built.
She did it again!
By Alyson on 02-10-19
Series: The Nikolai Lantsov Duology, Book 1
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he's not even sure he believes himself.
Loved the story - but.....
By Julia on 02-28-10
Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
The Mystery of Alice
By: Lee Bacon
Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy, Jessica Almasy, Josh Hurley, and others
Thirteen-year-old Emily Poe has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: A chance to attend the exclusive Audyn School in Manhattan. But to win the scholarship, she has to pass a test like nothing she's ever experienced before: A nearly bare room, a set of strange clues, a locked door. And a mysterious organization - the Leopold Foundation - that's watching her every move.
Surprisingly Enjoyable
By Cheryl on 05-05-19
Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy, Jessica Almasy, Josh Hurley, Cassandra Morris, Libby McKnight, Emily Bauer, Michael Crouch
Inheritance, Book 1
By: Christopher Paolini
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now, his choices could save - or destroy - the empire.
Delightful and Enjoyable
By Mfsm2001 on 02-23-04
Series: Inheritance Cycle, Book 1
Who in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
For decades, people have asked the question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? But just who is this infamous and elusive globe-trotting criminal? A skilled thief on a mysterious mission, Carmen Sandiego is endlessly pursued by ACME and Interpol. But the woman in the red fedora is always one step ahead. In this novelization, based on the Netflix animated series, Carmen shares her own backstory for the first time ever.
Great for kids, not for adults
By James Tharpe on 03-10-19
Series: Carmen Sandiego
A Throne of Glass Novel
By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.
The World's Most Powerful Assassin is a Sap.
By Fil on 11-18-13
Series: Throne of Glass, Book 1
Series: His Dark Materials, Book 1
The Sea of Monsters
After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.
great family fare
By BR from Richmond on 09-03-06
Eldest
The Inheritance Cycle, Book 2
Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspiring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems.
You see growth in the Author
By Theodore on 01-09-13
The Titan's Curse
When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he'll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronze sword, Riptide; and...a ride from his mom.
Great family listen!
By Jamie on 04-17-13
The Twilight Saga, Book 1
By: Stephenie Meyer
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
About three things I was certain. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him, and I didn't know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
love that's sweet and deadly...
By Megan on 08-25-07
Series: The Twilight Saga, Book 1
Not so very long ago, Eragon - Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider - was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can.
All the reviews had me worried for nothing! | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUa-_xK7FjYEXSCtDL | Chinese scientists identify native lunar water in Chang'e-5 samples
In situ detection by China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe and subsequent analysis of its returned samples revealed at least two sources of water on the moon, one brought in by the solar wind and the other by indigenous sources.
The results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications..
Chang'e-5, consisting of an orbiter, lander, ascender and returner, was launched in November 2020 and returned to Earth in December. It recovered a total of 1,731 grams of lunar samples, mostly rocks and soil from the moon's surface.
One of the scientific objectives of the probe was to study the presence of lunar water, key to the formation and evolution of the moon. It also provides important information about the evolution of the solar system. The presence of water should provide support for future in situ human lunar resources.
However, sources of lunar water are still controversial. Lunar water is traditionally assumed to have been implanted by the solar wind or the result of a meteorite or comet. Additionally, minerals like native water-bearing apatite would be present in small amounts and unevenly distributed over the lunar surface.
A group of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found new evidence of water on the lunar surface based on in-situ spectral analysis of Chang'e-5 and laboratory results from returned samples.
Their findings revealed that the apatite found in the area of the young mare where the Chang'e-5 landed contained native water in the form of hydroxyl.
According to the study.
Excess hydroxyl
Equipped with the Lunar Mineralogical Spectrometer (LMS), the Chang'e-5 lander acquired spectral data of a rock and different lunar soil targets, finding that the hydroxyl content of the rock is much higher than that of the soil lunar.
The researchers said there should be little to no foreign hydroxyl associated with the impact crater or ejecta since Chang'e-5 saw mostly local mare material at its landing site.
Subsequent laboratory analysis on Earth showed that the returned rock fragments, with a considerable amount of apatite grains, have a higher proportion of mineral content with much less glass content compared to the Apollo samples.
The glass content was considered a measure of the solar wind's contribution to lunar water, and it is quite low in the Chang'e-5 sample, only about a third of that in the Apollo sample. 11, according to the study.
Then, they confirmed the presence of hydroxyl in the apatite grains.
Moreover, the overall hydroxyl content of lunar soil samples detected in situ is relatively low. But one of them labeled 0012 stands out.
Excluding the native water in the mineral, the water content of soil samples from Chang'e-5 should also be about one-third that of the Apollo 11 sample, according to the study. But sample 0012 shows higher hydroxyl content than it should be.
It turns out that the researchers detected hydroxyapatite in the soil sample, strongly suggesting that hydroxyl-containing apatite is likely to be a significant source for the excess hydroxyl observed.
drier ground
Despite the exception of 0012, the overall hydroxyl content of lunar soils sampled at the Chang'e-5 landing site averages 28.5 parts per million (ppm), which is at the weaker end of the lunar hydration characteristics.
Researchers have proposed three causes for the drier soil samples. First, the probe obtained data when lunar surface temperatures are near a maximum at the same latitude, with most of the molecular water evaporated.
Second, when the probe collected in situ spectra on the lunar surface, the moon coincidentally lies within the Earth's magnetosphere which shielded it from the solar wind, thereby reducing the contribution of solar wind hydration.
Third, its landing zone is filled with late-stage lunar basalts, leading to relatively low hydroxyl contents, according to the study.
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BkiUdyg25V5jEEL8tXof | Why my site is Down please?
hello i have this account and it is down for some f\reasone why is that ???
I can get there just fine. Nice looking site, by the way- I'll have to translate later to read. Is it a newly registered or transferred domain? If so, it can take a couple of days to propagate so all can see.
lol! Spoke too soon- second look shows I cannot translate. OK, but still is well laid out and does work fine. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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