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Mujahedin-e Khalq Armed Agents Arrested for false-flag killings; Iran
BY Press TV ON 2019/12/24
Press TV, December 24 2019:... Iran says many of the rioters were found to have links to the notorious US-backed Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group, separatists besides members of organized groups trained towards staging acts of sabotage. Last week, Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, Iran's Judiciary's spokesman, dismissed the unofficial casualty count provided by certain sources as inaccurate. "The numbers and figures…
US uses MEK to fuel unrest in Iran
BY Tehran Times ON 2019/11/18
Tehran Times, November 18 2019:... Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has said that anti-revolutionary elements and the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK) are behind the unrest over gasoline price hike in Iran, an MP said on Sunday. "Mr. Shamkhani pointed to documents which show that in the past two days, organized groups of anti-revolutionaries…
MEK Trashing American Foreign Policy
BY The Washington Post ON 2019/09/24
John Hudson, Washington Post, September 24 2019:... Pompeo is scheduled to speak at an event hosted by Iran hawk and former diplomat Mark Wallace, who has drawn criticism for including a fringe Iranian diaspora group, Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, in his programming surrounding the U.N. gathering. Until 2012, the MEK was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the United…
OIAC aka MEK Deceptive Tactics in USA
BY Iran Interlink ON 2019/08/15
Amil Imani, PipeLineNews, August 15 2019:... OIAC or MEK is an Islamist-Marxist cultish group headed by Maryam Rajavi, the wife of the deceased co-founder of MEK, Massoud Rajavi. During the 1970's they rebelled against the Shah and were involved in bombing and shooting American and Iranian targets . The MEK or (OIAC) executed U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lewis Hawkins in 1973 as…
Maryam Rajavi dodges questions using an advert
BY Les Angeles Times ON 2019/08/05
Iran Interlink, August 05 2019:... Maryam Rajavi paid for an advert to answer an article in the Los Angeles Times. Evidence that neither she nor her group have any credibility, otherwise a fact based reply would have been possible in the newspaper. Rather than answer the allegations against the MEK, Rajavi twists the facts to blame Iran for its lack…
White House supporters of MEK Terrorists
Melissa Etehad, Les Angles Times, July 29 2019:... For decades, the United States categorized the Mujahedin Khalq, or MEK, as a terrorist organization. In the Trump era, members of the Iranian dissident group, which seeks to topple the government in Iran, have found key allies in Washington. People close to President Trump, including national security advisor John Bolton, and Trump's…
MKO plans to assassinate Iranians
Press TV, June 30 2019:... A US and Saudi Arabia-backed anti-Iran terrorist group, which is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians and officials, has announced a plan to assassinate a senior Iranian military commander and the country's new Judiciary chief. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) informed its members about the plan through a recent internal communiqué. MKO…
MEK Terrorists (Rajavi cult) In The Heart Of Bolton's War Plans?
BY Nejat NGO ON 2019/05/23
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, May 23 2019:... "Bolton's unrelenting drive to attack Iran and his unstinting support for the MEK can only lead to one conclusion: MEK operatives, brought from Albania, will be deployed to carry out false flag ops that can be blamed on Iran – such as a suicide attack," Khodabandeh states. MEK Terrorists (Rajavi cult) In The…
Rajavi Was Proud of Being Terrorist
Mazda Parsi, Nejat Society, April 17 2019:... Maryam Rajavi hesitates to thank President Trump directly the same way that Netanyahu did. Instead, she repeats her usual propaganda against the IRGC, although she has warm relations with US warmongers. American Iran hawks such as John Bolton, Tom Ridge and Rudy Giuliani frequently show up in the MKO gatherings where they are warmly…
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – February 22, 2019
Iran Interlink, February 22 2019:... MEK responded strongly against the revealing Der Spiegel article by Luisa Hommerich. The NCRI issued a statement similar to those attacking pieces in Aljazeera, The Guardian, Independent, Channel 4, NBC and etc. Habilian compared these statements and concluded that this latest one is different in tone and wording. This statement carries a threat against the writer,…
MEK and other fake oppositions discrediting Iran's authentic opposition
Hamid Debashi, Aljazeera, February 11 2019:... The atrocities of the Islamic Republic over the past 40 years have created an expatriate opposition equally atrocious in its treacherous powermongering. The People's Mojahedin Organisation (MEK), the monarchists, and their various incarnations have come together collectively to form and discredit the Iranian political opposition. These organisations are now actively collaborating with the US, Israel,…
Handling Of Iran Is Juvenile. Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) the darling of Trump Admin
Stephen Gottlieb, WAMC, Morning Edition, January 30 2019:... The MEK has been the darling of the Administration as a potential successor to the mullahs because they both dislike the Iranian regime. Never mind that the MEK objected when Khomeini decided to release the hostages, that it has been a terrorist organization and killed Americans. Never mind that it has no support…
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MEK defectors raise doubts over alleged Iranian…
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MEK Terrorist Cult Members In Albania Who…
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Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, August 23 2019:... So, when Giuliani…
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In Albania Shedding Light on Bizarre Behaviour…
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Iran : Disinformation and Fake MEK Writers
Aljazeera News, June 17 2019:... As the Trump administration continues with its…
Bolton's Alternative is M.E.K. Mujahedeen Khalq
The New York Times, May 15 2019:... Bolton's Alternative is Mujahedeen…
Bolton's Plans For A False Flag Op…
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iranian.com, May 14 2019:... MEK operatives, brought from Albania,…
Bolton Vs. Zarif On MEK
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, May 03 2019:... Hillary Clinton did not…
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Borzou Dargahi, THE INDEPENDENT, Originally published September 28 2018:... An Iranian exile group…
Where Rudy Giuliani's Money Comes From (…
Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg, April 05 2019:... While in Warsaw, just outside…
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Ebrahim Khodabandeh, March 14 2019:... A charity organisation registered in London…
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Women's Health Clinic Suffers Breach in Ransomware Attack
Pennsylvania Nonprofit Says Patient Medical, Financial Data Breached in 2022 Attack Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • January 6, 2023
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Maternal and Family Health Services this week revealed a ransomware attack in April 2022 that compromised patient medical and financial data.
Threat actors targeted the organization, which supports a network of health and nutrition centers in 17 Pennsylvania counties, on April 4, 2022, but only began notifying customers and vendors in January 2023.
After the incident, MFHS says it immediately engaged a third-party forensic incident response firm to secure its systems and conduct investigations to determine the extent of the compromise.
A spokesperson for MFHS was not immediately available to provide additional information.
Investigation Details
The investigation found that unauthorized access to MFHS systems occurred sometime between Aug. 21, 2021, and April 4, 2022. Personal information accessed in the breach includes names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security and driver's license numbers, financial account/payment card information, usernames and passwords, medical information and/or health insurance information.
"MFHS does not have evidence that any personal information has been misused as a result of this incident," the company said. "MFHS began notifying via U.S. mail potentially affected individuals, including certain current and former employees, patients and vendors, on January 3, 2023."
These letters notify customers of the breach and provide protective measures, such as implementing fraud alerts and security freezes.
The firm is also offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to individuals whose Social Security number or financial account/payment card information may have been involved in the incident.
"At this time, we are not aware of anyone experiencing fraud as a result of this incident. We encourage you to remain vigilant, monitor your accounts and immediately report any suspicious activity or suspected misuse of your personal information," the statement says.
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Q: Python saying variable mentioned before assignment when it is assigned in the for loop it's nested in? EDITWell I'm an idiot for deleting the thing I'm looping through. Thanks y'all.

I've tried looking up answers but honestly this is just boggling me.
I have a for loop which loops through lists in a list, but then in an if statement nested into the for loop it says the thing it is looping with is not defined?
for monster in self.monsters:
    print("google chrome")
    if monster[1][1] <= 0:
        self.exp_gotten += monster[1][8]
        for j in self.turns:
            if j[0] == monster[1][0]:
                del j
                self.defeated_monsters.append(monster)
                del monster

self.monsters is a list containing other lists for the monsters. The lists are like ["Monster Name", [monster_id, hp, mp, ...]]. Monster[1][1] is the HP stat, and it checks if it is smaller than 0, indicating its been defeated. It then adds the exp, then deletes the monster from the turns list, adds it to the list of defeated monsters, then deletes the monster itself. Except when it comes to this part, I keep getting "monster variable referenced before assignment"
File "C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Dave's stuff\Python\COURSEWORK\battle.py", line 150, in check_if_fin
    if j[0] == monster[1][0]:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'monster' referenced before assignment

I just don't get what I'm doing wrong.

A: Your inner for loop deletes the monster variable:
    for j in self.turns:
        if j[0] == monster[1][0]:
            del j
            self.defeated_monsters.append(monster)
            del monster
            ^^^^^^^^^^^

If self.turns contains more than one element and and anything but the last enters the if block, you'll delete monster and get that error. You probably want to throw in a break statement or otherwise exit the loop if you're done.
It's tricky to remove objects from a list that you're currently iterating over. One solution would be to use intermediate lists:
new_monsters = []

for monster in self.monsters:
    # It's usually clearer to remove unnecessarily nested `if` statements
    if monster[1][1] > 0:
        continue

    self.exp_gotten += monster[1][8]

    for j in self.turns:
        if j[0] == monster[1][0]:
            self.defeated_monsters.append(monster)

            break  # Don't continue checking, you've already defeated the monster
    else:
        # We never broke out of the above loop, so we never defeated the monster
        new_monsters.append(monster)

self.monsters = new_monsters

Finally, code like monster[1][8] and monster[1][1] is really difficult to manage. Consider setting up your monster as a class with descriptive attributes or at the very least a namedtuple. That way, you can use monster.exp instead of monster[1][8].

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Royal & SunAlliance is launching its first self-invested personal pension and income drawdown product exclusively for IFAs.
The life office says that new safety features will make the products very appealing to clients and their advisers.
The key feature, recommended by the PIA in its Update 55 document, is the critical yield calculation which helps a policy holder to monitor their investment and check whether the fund is growing into an adequate pensions pot.
The life office is also providing investors with additional documentation which spells out the risks from changes in annuity rates, mortality rates and interest rates.
The minimum investment into a plan is £100,000. A minimum of £250 month or £10,000 single payment must be made into Royal & SunAlliance funds. The remainder can be self invested.
Maximum IFA commission is 3 per cent with a 0.5 per cent trail but a higher allocation can be offered as an alternative.
International Money Marketing is losing its editor to investment research and marketing consultancy Forsyth Partners.Richard Newell is leaving the paper after eight years of service to become director of editorial & media development.International Money Marketing is the sister publication of Money Marketing.
Norwich and Peterborough Building Society is making a final assault on the Pep market by launching a General and Single Company Pep.Both products will have a minimum investment of £1,500 with no initial fee.Dealing charges are 1 per cent on the first £5,000 and 0.1 per cent on the excess above £5,000.
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Following the surprise return of a majority Conservative government, George Osborne announced that he will deliver a second budget statement on 8 July this year.


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"The Little Poor Jesus" A Sermon By Alan Sherouse
by First Baptist | Dec 23, 2018 | Blog Page, Podcasts, Sermons
Luke 1:39-56 | Order of Worship
One of the delights of my life these days is hearing my children learn and sing beloved carols. "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "Silent Night" or, of course, the childhood favorite "Away in a Manger." It was probably the first carol I learned as a child, and I love to hear my kids sing its lullaby melody in these days of Advent and Christmas… except for the fact that my daughter, Della, sings a different version.
This is Della's last Advent season spent in Junior Church, which means she's not in the Sanctuary right now and it's safer for me to tell you this story without embarrassing her. But I need you all to promise me not mention this to her (and I'm especially looking at her big brother right now), okay?
To this day, when my first-grade daughter sings "Away in a Manger" and comes to the second line of the first verse she sings the words, "The little poor Jesus." I first noticed it a couple years ago, and I would have assumed that by now from all her time in Children's Choir, or from the Christmas Pandora station at home, or from the wider culture of Christmas amplified around her she would have learned the words as they were written. But then the other night, singing before bedtime, she did it once again, "Away in a manger no crib for a bed, the little poor Jesus lay down his sweet head…"
Surely you don't expect me to bypass the theological value of such a slip!
Dr. Delores Williams, a wise and influential theologian who taught for years at Union Theological Seminary, once shared a story from her formative years, growing up in church. She remembers Sunday mornings, when the minister would ask boldly: "Who is Jesus?" The choir would respond in unison, voices loud and strong, "King of kings" and "Lord Almighty!" But Williams also remembers an older woman, sitting near her, who would respond in a voice so fragile and soft you could hardly hear, singing out her own answer, "And poor little Mary's boy." They sang out back and forth — call and response — "KING OF KINGS" and "Poor little Mary's boy." "LORD ALMIGHTY" and "Poor little Mary's boy." Williams once said of this call and response, "This was the Black church doing theology." Because we cannot proclaim a "King of king"s without seeing "poor little Mary's boy." (1)
And just as we teach and learn the words Lord, Christ, Messiah, this is also the season we must proclaim "the little poor Jesus."
His mother, Mary, seemed to think so, at least. In her song — the Magnificat — no sooner has she magnified the Lord than she describes her own life as "lowly." Mary is lowly and vulnerable in multiple ways in her world: she's young, she's a woman, she's unexpectedly and inexplicably pregnant, and she's among the large mass of those who were living in poverty in the first-century economy of Rome.
In Mary's time, the great majority of people lived a subsistence-level existence. One scholar estimates perhaps 2-3 percent of the population was wealthy (2), but the vast number of people prayed "give us this day our daily bread," because that was their basic physical need. As Madeline L'Engle once wrote in her poem, "The Risk of Birth": "This was no time for a child to be born / In a land in the crushing grip of Rome / Honour & truth were trampled by scorn / Yet here did the Saviour make a home… Love still takes the risk of birth."
Any birth was risky, and especially this birth. Mary is aware of the danger. She is conscious of her fear. But Mary is also resolved and says earlier in Luke: "Here I am… let it be with me according to your word." And then, as though to steel herself against the danger and the risk; as if anticipating the course and call of the life of the child growing within her, Mary finds her voice and starts to sing. She feels the child within her move, and its though she can feel the earth move with him. It's not a lullaby or a soothing melody; it's an anthem of liberation and freedom that turns things upside down. It's an announcement of a new kingdom that will stand in contrast to the kingdoms of this world. It's a song of reversal: "God has shown strength and scattered the proud… God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly… God has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty… God will keep the promises God has made"
Mary understands those promises better than most, so she sings of a God who cares deeply and passionately about people and the conditions of their lives in the world. A God who cares a lot about people who, in this plentiful world are hungry. A God who cares about people who in this active and bustling world are forgotten; people who in this loud world of bravado are silenced. God cares about injustice and suffering and inequality, Mary claims. And with every word Mary sings, this vision is embodied in her – poor, young, vulnerable, at risk. The kind of woman who would birth the son and have no place else to place him but into a manger, nothing else in which to wrap him but the rags within reach. If God is going to choose someone to birth God's son — a Lord and Messiah mighty to save — most of us would would expect someone powerful and lofty. Unless, of course, the choice of Mary represents something important about God. Unless of course who Mary is — poor, vulnerable, bold and hopeful for another way — tells us something about who Jesus is.
God wanted the Son to be born to this woman so he could see the world as she sees it. God wanted the Son to know the things she knows. And from those earliest moments stretching into this world in her womb, God wanted the Son to hear the song that she sings — a song that imagines a new world and a new way, and refuses to accept things as they are.
For years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there was displayed beneath the great Christmas tree, a beautiful eighteenth century nativity scene. In many ways it's a familiar scene. The usual characters all there with Mary and baby in the middle of it all and each figure a marvel of wood, clay, and paint. There was, however, something surprising about this scene: the stable, and the shepherds, and the cradle were set not in the expected small town of Bethlehem but among the ruins of mighty Roman columns. The fragile manger surrounded by broken and decaying columns from a once mighty empire. (3) The artists, it seems, knew something of the gospel, and something of what Mary sings about: that the birth of God's new age in Jesus is also the death of the world as it has been. This is the end of the power of the days of Emperor Augustus and his census with the birth of one who will side with outsiders, feed hungry people expecting nothing in return, welcome outcasts, and model a world as it could be with oppressed freed, marginalized affirmed, and God's gift of justice and righteousness swells in volume.
This is the good news of great joy. And yet for this world and its powers it has often been threatening news of great agitation. It's the kind of news that sent Herod into a murderous frenzy, searching for this one born to Mary. It's the kind of news that frustrated authorities throughout the course of Jesus' life, and even now.
There were places in Latin America, El Salvador, and Guatemala where within the last couple decades, the public reading of the Magnificat was forbidden as subversive activity.
Or consider how when Martin Luther and his followers translated the Bible into German, they did not translate Mary's song. We call it the Magnificat — from the Latin — in part because it was primarily available in Latin and not in the common language. Some of Luther's strongest supporters were sitting on thrones, and they didn't exactly embrace the Magnificat's reversal of conventional power, so he left the Magnificat in Latin, where it was less accessible to all.
And yet it's the kind of news that some people can read and believe that the promises of God are for them. God does not want them to suffer with hunger or disease. God doesn't want their lives to waste away. God doesn't want them to be lost in poverty living amidst vulnerability and risk.
My friend Heidi Neumark is a Lutheran pastor, who once was pastor of a small church in New York City in the poorest section of the Bronx. She wrote a wonderful memoir of her time there, called Breathing Space, and tells of this congregation composed of all kinds of people: undocumented workers, drug addicts, women who had shaken loose from prostitution. "And those were just the church officers," Heidi says. She shared recently about how once amidst Advent worship a woman read the Magnificat aloud in a congregation filled with people living in poverty and at the end the woman looked up and added, "Thank God!" (4)
I wonder, can we say that with her this morning? Can we hear Mary's hope? Can we celebrate the vision that comes through her words?
My very favorite carol is one we will sing later in the service, "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming." The German carol holds the symbolic image of Mary, growing with the child within her, and it describes how she bore to us a savior, "To show God's love a'right." Our voices will swell with the power of our belief in God's love a'right this Sunday as the candle of Love flickers nearby.
But if we are to sing our belief that through Mary God's love is made right, we first have to sing along with Mary and acknowledge a world where things are so desperately wrong. That's the much harder work of Advent, as so much urges us toward cheer and goodwill. So often we'd opt to celebrate a mighty Lord that will take care of everything for us, rather than honestly acknowledging the pain of the world, all that is wrong in the world that God so loves, and how our lives can be about the blooming of something more and the swelling of Mary's song.
If we're honest, we might prefer the symbolic or spiritual aspects of Christ's coming to all the talk of the mighty being pulled from their thrones and the lowly lifted. It can start to sound a little like politics or economics or things we don't want to talk about in church. I have a preacher friend who, when he has something controversial to say, is known to put it in his grandmother's words. He'll use the phrase, "Like Grandma used to say…" And I wonder if Jesus might have said a time or two, "Well, it's like my mother used to say…" Or maybe, "My mother used to sing it this way…"
Because at some point, you know what happens: her song becomes his song. He learns what his mother knew from the beginning, from the time he was moving in her womb, to the moment he was born behind a barn against the backdrop of the night and still beyond. It's what Thomas Merton once said, describing the world that Jesus entered as a "demented inn" that held no room for him at all, Merton wrote: "His place is with those others for whom there is no room. His place is with those who do not belong, who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak, those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, tortured, exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in this world." (5)
Mary's voice first rings out with this truth before Jesus is born, but it becomes his song and follows him for his entire life. The night he is born, Mary is joined by a multitude of heavenly hosts who pick up the theme with a song of "Peace goodwill to all."
As he grows, Jesus follows this message to the Jordan, connecting his life to the prophet, John, not at the center of power but out in the wilderness with people who know life there. He wades into the water there and rises up from his baptism, and traces of this song can be heard parting the sky and reminding him who he is, and who we all are, as beloved children of God.
It's the theme that he continues to follow. You can hear the echo of his mother's song as he proclaims release for all those captive, or as he restores sight to the blind, or as he opens tables to invite the poor, the crippled the lame and the blind.
It's there when he's asked "Are you the one? Or should we wait for another?"
And even when he wonders this himself, off by himself in the garden of self-doubt, I imagine that somehow it echoes for him then. "Not my will but yours be done," he says, which sounds like something you might hear from someone who had heard of how their mother once said, "Let it be with me according to your word."
Her song becomes his song. It's ingrained in him throughout his childhood, but then it stays with him, just as she herself does. She follows him from Nazareth. She continues all the way to Jerusalem, and there she watches as the terrible events of that last holy week unfold. She's there in the crowd when he's led to his trial, and she's among the masses the next morning, when the world he called to renewal and sought to turn upside down finally, with all its inertia toward the status quo, turns back to the only order it knows and crushes him as it does. But still she is there. She refuses to leave him when all the others — Peter, John, James, all of them — flee in fear. His mother stays. The Bible doesn't tell us if she says anything at all. But I can imagine her lips mouthing the words, her breath catching as she seeks to project, her voice finding again the song she once sang against the night about a God who, even in death, raises up the lowly.
So do me a favor, will you? A Christmas favor this year. Don't teach my daughter the words as we know them. Because it might be that she knows something that I don't. It's something most of us have forgotten, or something we've found hard to hear or maybe something we've never quite been able to learn. It's something this world drowns out in its constant amplification of power and might. But it's something that Mary knew so clearly, about the child growing inside her, and about the salvation of this world.
How it comes through power in weakness and greatness in service, and in finding your life by giving it away.
How it comes in one who in very nature God, made himself nothing and humbled himself to be with us.
How it comes through a woman poor and vulnerable, who comforted her baby with the scraps around her as she laid him in an animal trough and sang for him a song to pierce all the nighttimes of a world that held no room for him.
It's a song about how this child would grow and be the savior this world really needs. And you know who he is:
"The little poor Jesus asleep on the hay."
Story courtesy of Dr. Williams' colleague, Dr. Barbara Lundblad, in "A Different King of King" (ON Scripture, November 12, 2012)
Warren Carter, Roman Empire, p.1-15.
Tom Long, Shepherds and Bathrobes, p. 32
Shared by Rev. Heidi Neumark on Facebook, December 21, 2018.
Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable, p. 51


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Remembering MLK: The Things We've Forgotten Would Guide Us
Civil rights historian Barbara Ransby says we are all King's political heirs.
By Barbara Ransby Jan 14, 2011
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been 82 this month, and his assassination occurred nearly 43 years ago. As we get further and further from that time, memories get fuzzy and a kind of collective amnesia sets in, as Vincent Harding has observed, some of it deliberately promoted amnesia. So, the question is how to remember King clearly and to see that amazing moment in history that he participated in through a sharp and focused lens? Three things come to mind.
First of all, King was a radical. Not the venomous kind that promotes reckless violence against innocent people; quite the opposite. King was a radical in his criticism of the root causes of injustice, and in his brilliantly imaginative vision of a different, more just and humane world. For example, King did not just urge protesters to be non-violent, he urged politicians and governments to be non-violent. In 1968 he took a brave stance against the war in Vietnam, in a speech in New York City's Riverside Church, that cost him some of his liberal supporters. He criticized the injustices of capitalism: persistent poverty, inadequate aid to workers and the poor, and growing wealth disparity. Let us remember he died demanding not simply integration, but labor rights for striking sanitation workers in Memphis.
Secondly, King was not a king. He was not a superhero who rushed in to singularly rescue black people from the evils of American racism. He acted in concert with others, many others, some of them with longer careers in social justice struggles than himself. There is a famous analogy in King's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, one he used many times, in which he compares his work to that of a pilot guiding a plane. The pilot is important, King concedes. However, that safe journey could not be achieved without the sometimes invisible work of a very skilled and committed ground crew. I might chose a slightly different analogy, but the point is an important one. As Ella Baker was fond of saying, "King didn't make the movement, the movement made King."
King understood this. We cannot build a movement for social justice by hanging our hopes on a single charismatic leader, no matter how articulate, committed, and brilliant he or she may be (not King and not Obama).
Individuals change their minds, and their loyalties. They get assassinated. Most fundamentally, individuals are only as strong as the collectives and communities that surround them, that keep them safe and honest and grounded and accountable. So, celebrations of King have to go hand in hand with celebrations of the maids and porters students and teachers who struggle tirelessly in what we now term the civil rights movement.
We have to also remember the folks like Ella Baker, who was an activist and strategist for over 50 years in groups fighting racism, poverty, and repression. And Fannie Lou Hamer, who had no formal education and lacked the credentials that King enjoyed, but who was one of the most courageous and revered leaders in the civil rights movement of the South. And, of course, there are white activists like Anne Braden, who dared to stand up for justice and freedom at the risk of being attacked and ostracized in her own southern community.
Finally, part of remembering King's legacy is remembering the dangers of political repression and vitriolic persecution. Recent events in Tucson come to mind. King lived under a constant fear of assassination because his visibility and outspokenness made him a target. But something else made him a target, too: The way in which his critics vilified him, attributed sinister motives to his actions, called him un-American and a danger to the traditional values of our nation.
Those folks are outliers now, but they were not outliers in King's time. They were politicians and editors, civic leaders and sheriffs. The violent rampage that left six people dead in Arizona last week and many others injured was carried out by one troubled man. However, he chose a political event and targeted a politician. And he did so in a climate where that same politician had been a literal bulls-eye on political hit list. When violent metaphors are used to "target" opponents we should not be surprised when one disturbed person takes the bait.
But here is a sad and troubling irony: Tea party organizers can bring guns to rallies and put their political rivals under bulls-eyes on websites and have that accepted as legitimate political activity, while non-violent activists who criticize government policy are under attack by the FBI. I refer here to the Supreme Court decision in June against the Humanitarian Law Project, which essentially criminalized their efforts to offer conflict resolution training to people immersed in violent conflicts around the world. This decision made it a crime to provide "material support" to any organization the government designates a terrorist group, but established a ridiculously broad definition of support. The ruling has been the basis of FBI raids on the homes of activists who support Palestinian rights and oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The people the FBI is targeting do not advocate the use of guns or even own them; they advocate peace and justice.
King, too, was a peace activist who supported anti-colonial struggles and was under constant FBI surveillance. His phone was tapped, his mail was opened, he was followed and watched. People he trusted were enlisted to spy on him. Government agents plotted how to undermine his leadership, especially as he moved more toward the left.
So, let's remember three things this MLK Day: the honorable tradition of progressive democratic radicalism that looks deeply and widely at the causes of injustice and tries to root them out; the danger of investing all our hopes and dreams in a savior-type leader; and the persistent danger of witch hunts that seek to silence and intimidate dissidents and make everyone else afraid to come to their aid.
In King's words, "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent." Instead of praising King for battles already fought, let's look around at the pervasive injustices that still exist, from the obscene disparity in wealth to the abandonment of our educational institutions. From the unchecked growth of prisons for the poor to the escalating oppression of the Palestinian people in Israel and Palestine. Let's pay tribute to King, and Baker and Hamer and all the others who fought the good fight by building a sustainable movement for a more just and humane world.
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Christian Teacher Fired for Choosing to Stay with Criminal Husband
Veronica Neffinger | iBelieve Contributor | Thursday, May 19, 2016
A Christian teacher in the U.K. has chosen to remain with her husband even after he was convicted of secretly filming his students while they undressed.
According to ChristianToday.com, the decision to remain committed to her marriage vows cost Sarah Pendleton her job at Glebe Junior School in Derbyshire.
Sarah's husband, Matthew, a head teacher at another school, was convicted of using a camera disguised as a pen to secretly film male students while they were changing for swimming lessons.
Pendleton was accused of "making indecent images of children and voyeurism," convicted, and given a 10-month jail sentence. Sarah, however, decided to stay with Matthew because she had promised to be committed to him "for better or worse."
Sarah was initially told that her job would not be affected by her husband's conviction. However, school officials ultimately decided that allowing her to remain on staff could be "seen as condoning his [her husband's] behavior," and proceeded to dismiss her. "This has led the panel to believe that [her] suitability to carry out the safeguarding responsibilities of [her] role ... have been eroded," said the school.
Sarah took her case to court where she argued that she had been discharged unjustly, due in part to her religious beliefs about marriage.
An Employment Tribunal agreed that the school's investigation had been "woefully inadequate," but disagreed that she had faced religious discrimination.
Sarah then took her case to an Employment Appeal Tribunal which agreed with her that she had experienced religious discrimination.
"I do not suggest that any less respect should be given for those who are in a loving and committed relationship (whether married or not) but who do not share the same view as the Claimant as to the sanctity of marriage vows; I am simply recognising that, in these circumstances, those sharing the Claimant's belief would suffer a particular disadvantage given the crisis of conscience they would face," stated the judge in regard to Sarah's case.
Sarah Pendleton will thus be entitled to compensation for unfair dismissal and religious discrimination. The exact amount has not yet been settled on.


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Follow Up Attack? Ricin Letter Sent To Senator Who Ended Gun Control Filibuster; Second Letter Sent To Obama
Pattern beginning to emerge as some suggest both attacks could be right wing, pro-gun extremists
A letter believed to have been laced with the deadly substance ricin was intercepted in a Maryland post office yesterday before it could reach it's intended destination – the desk of a Senator who has been fiercely critical of gun control legislation, yet voted to block a filibuster on the issue.
In a statement late Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol Police said that further tests on the package, which had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark, are being conducted at the Army's biomedical research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Though false positives of ricin in letters to elected reps. have been recorded in the recent past, the analysis conducted so far seems to conclusively show that the deadly toxin was present in the letter.
The intended target of the letter was Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, who in recent weeks has vowed to block any legislation that would further tighten firearms regulation.
"I have an A+ rating from the NRA and have consistently worked to protect Second Amendment rights,' Wicker wrote on his Facebook page last week. "I have never voted for gun control and will not do so… I will filibuster." the Senator, and former 12 year Congressman noted.
Despite his staunch opposition to gun control, Wicker was one of only 16 Republicans who last week voted to end the filibuster on the legislation and invite debate on the matter. "This begins a debate to put the Senate on record about a basic constitutional freedom." Wicker stated at the time.
In justifying his vote, Wicker pointed to "the opportunity to vote on measures to strengthen gun rights, such as an amendment to protect veterans from unfair restrictions when trying to purchase a firearm."
Wicker reiterated that he "will filibuster passage of a final bill if it contains gun restrictions or a weapons ban."
Because of Wicker's vote to end the filibuster last week, some have suggested that he may have been targeted by an extremist right wing pro-gun group or individual:
Probably right wing terror groups sent Ricin to all 16 "Traitor" Republican Senators to end gun control filibuster #Boston
— Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) April 16, 2013
Others have suggested that the incident could be tied in with the Boston bombings:
IF ricin letter is connected w/ Boston, it echoes Minnesota Patriots Council plotting of early 90s and 2011 Georgia plot. Both anti-tax/fed
— Jarret Brachman (@Jarret_Brachman) April 16, 2013
Although not out of the question, this would be somewhat of a stretch, given that Senator Wicker is, despite his vote last week, still a staunch critic of gun control legislation.
As we reported yesterday, a media driven narrative is beginning to emerge that paves the way to level blame for the Boston attack at the feet of anti-government, "patriot", tea party types.
Politico reported that the ricin letter contained a warning that read "You haven't listen to me before. Now you will, even if people have to die."
An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News also stated that the letter contained the sentence "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."
Both letters were reportedly signed, "I am KC and I approve this message."
The same bulletin also noted that a second letter containing the same phrase was also sent to the president. It is not clear whether the letter to Obama also contained ricin.
Police and the FBI have refused to comment on the situation. However, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told the Associated Press that police have a suspect in mind.
"The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members," McCaskill told reporters as she emerged from a classified briefing.
Senator Wicker, who has served in the Senate since 2007, has been assigned a protective detail, according to police sources.
"This matter is part of an ongoing investigation by the United States Capitol Police and FBI,' Wicker said in a statement released late Tuesday. 'I want to thank our law enforcement officials for their hard work and diligence in keeping those of us who work in the Capitol complex safe."
The timing of the attempted attack on Senator Wicker, just one day after the bombing in Boston, has recalled the 2001 anthrax attacks, where deadly letters were sent to elected representatives and newsrooms in the days following 9/11.
The FBI's official narrative on those attacks has since been proven extremely doubtful at best, and has been seriously questioned by leading scientists and world authorities on the composition of Anthrax.
This article was posted: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 10:47 am
Tags: domestic news, gun rights, terrorism


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Industrial fluoride pollution: Chronic fluoride poisoning in Cornwall Island cattle.
Author: Krook L, Maylin GA.
Journal Name: The Cornell Veterinarian
Volume/Page: 69 Suppl 8:suppl 1-70.
Type: Animal Study
Categories: Bones/Joints, Dental Fluorosis, Susceptible Populations, Age, Osteoblasts, Osteocytes, Aluminum smelter, cattle, Fetal Toxicity & Teratology
An aluminum plant on the south bank of the St. Lawrence river, southwest of Cornwall Island, Ontario, Canada, has emitted 0.816 metric tons of fluoride daily since 1973; considerably higher amounts were emitted from 1959 to 1973. The plant has been designated as the "major source of fluoride emissions impacting on Cornwall Island." Chronic fluoride poisoning in Cornwall island cattle was manifested clinically by stunted growth and dental fluorosis to a degree of severe interference with drinking and mastication. Cows died at or were slaughtered after the third pregnancy. The deterioration of cows did not allow further pregnancies. Fluoride concentrations in ash of biopsied coccygeal vertebrae increased significantly with age and were dependent on distance from and direction to the aluminum plant. Fluoride in bone ash of a 7-month old-fetus exceeded 500 ppm; fluoride thus was passed transplacentally. Analyses of fluoride in ash of bones obtained at necropsy of cattle from 4 months of age to 4 to 5 years of age showed increased amounts with age. Cancellous bone retained far higher amounts than cortical bone, a reflection of the normally higher metabolic rate of cancellous bone. Concentrations exceeding 10,000 ppm fluoride were recorded in cancellous bone of a 4-to 5-year-old cow. The target cells for fluoride in chronic fluorosis were shown to be the ameloblasts, the dental pulp cells and the odontoblasts and, in bone, primarily the resorbing osteocytes and also the osteoblasts. Atrophy and necrosis of the ameloblasts were responsible for enamel defects. The existing enamel showed brown discoloration from fluoride deposits. The pulp cells underwent fibrous and osseous metaplasia and necrosis of the ectopic bone occurred. The odontoblasts were atrophic and the dentin showed brown discoloration. The resorbing osteocytes were inactive and osteosclerosis resulted. This was especially pronounced in areas of normally great apposition, i.e. in the metaphyses. The epiphyseal plate became squeezed between petrotic bone and growth was stunted. Resorption of alveolar bone surrounding the deciduous teeth was severely retarded or arrested. A delay in eruption of permanent teeth occurred; it was up to 3.5 years in incisor teeth. Interference with the resorbing osteocytes in fluorotic bone was also demonstrated by loss of collagen birefringency in such bone. Failure of bone resorption also caused retention of trabecular bone in the cortices; this was observed even in a 4-t0-5-year-old cow. In areas where modeling into osteonic bone had begun, fluoride deposits were extremely heavy but this bone showed numerous soft osteons in microradiographs. The toxic effect of fluoride on osteocytes also resulted in the death of the cells. Such osteonecrosis occurred mainly in gnathic bone. There was atrophy of the osteoblasts. Osteopenia thus resulted from osteonecrosis and osteoporosis. Subperiosteal exostoses were not observed in long bones. The degree of fluorosis in Cornwall Island cattle was severe…
A comparative study of dental fluorosis and non-skeletal manifestations of fluorosis in areas with different water fluoride concentrations in rural Kolar.
Background: Fluorosis is an endemic disease which results due to excess exposure to high fluoride from different sources. The climatic factors and dependency on ground water add to the risk of fluorosis in Kolar. In addition to it, the epidemiological studies conducted on fluorosis in Kolar are very few. Aims: (1) To
Dental Fluorosis Trends in US Oral Health Surveys: 1986 to 2012
Introduction: Dental fluorosis has been assessed only 3 times in nationally representative oral health surveys in the United States. The first survey was conducted by the National Institute of Dental Research from 1986 to 1987. Subsequently, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted fluorosis assessments from 1999 to 2004
Chronic Exposure to Fluoride During Gestation and Lactation Increases Mandibular Bone Volume of Suckling Rats.
We aimed to investigate the effect of maternal exposure to NaF on mandibular bone microarchitecture and phosphocalcic plasma parameters of the offspring. For this purpose, 10-, 15-, and 21-day-old pups (n?=?6-8 per group) from two groups of mothers, control and NaF 50mg/L treated dams, were used. Plasma calcium (Ca) and
Fluoride exposure may accelerate the osteoporotic change in postmenopausal women: animal model of fluoride-induced osteoporosis
Carbonic anhydrase is a key enzyme for initiating the crystal nucleation, seen as "the central dark line" in the crystal structure in calcified hard tissues such as tooth enamel, dentin and bone. Both estrogen deficiency and fluoride exposure adversely affected the synthesis of this enzyme in the calcifying hard tissues.
Coal-burning roasted corn and chili as the cause of dental fluorosis for children in southwestern China.
To find the pathologic cause of the children's dental fluorosis in southwestern China, diet structure before the age of 6 and prevalence rate of dental fluorosis (DF) of 405 children were investigated, and the fluorine and arsenic content of several materials were determined. The prevalence rate of DF of children
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[caption id="attachment_8879" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Severe fluorosis - Photograph by David Kennedy, DDS[/caption] In its severe forms, dental fluorosis causes highly disfiguring brown and black staining of the teeth, which can cause chronic embarrassment and social anxiety for the impacted child. In 1984, a panel from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) warned
"Pre-Skeletal" Fluorosis
As demonstrated by the studies below, skeletal fluorosis may produce adverse symptoms, including arthritic pains, clinical osteoarthritis, gastrointestinal disturbances, and bone fragility, before the classic bone change of fluorosis (i.e., osteosclerosis in the spine and pelvis) is detectable by x-ray. Relying on x-rays, therefore, to diagnosis skeletal fluorosis will invariably fail to protect those individuals who are suffering from the pre-skeletal phase of the disease. Moreover, some individuals with clinical skeletal fluorosis will not develop an increase in bone density, let alone osteosclerosis, of the spine. Thus, relying on unusual increases in spinal bone density will under-detect the rate of skeletal fluoride poisoning in a population.
Racial Disparities in Dental Fluorosis
In 2005, the Centers for Disease Control published the results of a national survey of dental fluorosis conducted between 1999 and 2002. According to the CDC, black children in the United States have significantly higher rates of dental fluorosis than either white or Hispanic children. This was not the first time that black children were found to suffer higher rates of dental fluorosis. At least five other studies -- dating as far back as the 1960s -- have found black children in the United States are disproportionately impacted by dental fluorosis.
Nutrient Deficiencies Enhance Fluoride Toxicity
It has been known since the 1930s that poor nutrition enhances the toxicity of fluoride. As discussed below, nutrient deficiencies have been specifically linked to increased susceptibility to fluoride-induced tooth damage (dental fluorosis), bone damage (osteomalacia), neurotoxicity (reduced intelligence), and mutagenicity. The nutrients of primary importance appear to be calcium,
Fluoride Increases Osteoid Content of Bone
Fluoride's ability to increase the osteoid content of bone is now undisputed. Osteoid is an unmineralized tissue in bone that, in the normal bone remodeling process, ultimately becomes calcified. As some observers have noted, "[t]he main histological change induced by fluoride is the increase of osteoid volume." (Arnala 1985). One way fluoride


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Das Secretáriado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE (Technisches Sekretariat der Wahlverwaltung) ist eine Regierungsbehörde in Osttimor zur Durchführung der Wahlen im Lande. Es untersteht dem Ministerium für Staatsadministration und ist verantwortlich für die Erstellung der Wahlvorschriften und Verhaltensrichtlinien für die Kandidaten, die Organisation der Wählerregistrierung und die administrative Seite der Wahlen. Die vom STAE verfassten Vorgaben werden von der Comissão Nacional de Eleições geprüft. Das Gesetz 2/2003 vom 23. Juli bildet die Grundlagen für das STAE.

Langjähriger Generaldirektor des STAE war Tomás Cabral, der 2012 in die Regierung Osttimors wechselte.  2014/2022 war Acilino Manuel Branco  Generaldirektor. Er leitete auch das Team zur Unterstützung des Wahlprozesses in Guinea-Bissau 2022. Auch in São Tomé und Príncipe unterstützte die STAE die Durchführung von Wahlen.

Ihren Sitz hat das STAE in der Travessa da Rumbia in Caicoli.

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Town to vote on controversial community hall - despite 1,000+ petition against it
By Jessica Charles @JessCharlesWN Reporter
HALL: The sight for the proposed community hall, next to Pershore cemetery
PEOPLE will be asked how they feel about a proposed community hall - even though there's already been vocal opposition to the plan.
A petition with 1,067 signatures showing opposition to the new hall being built was handed to the clerk at a heated Pershore Town Council meeting on Thursday night.
Jacqui Marler who handed the petition over said: "This is getting a bit petty, I have to say. Many people in this town don't want this hall and I have only put the petition through three rows of the Abbey Estate. The amount of people in this town that know nothing about it; it's unbelievable. And we have got the rest of the town to do, and it will keep going.
You have got to understand and listen to what the people in this town want. The poverty in this town is terrible."
The decision on the community hall will take into account the public consultation, which will ask residents whether they want the council to go forward with the new hall and whether or not they want the council to borrow some of the money for the hall.
One member of the public asked the council whether they will accept it if the consultation found that the majority of Pershore did not want the new hall.
Council chairman, Councillor Chris Parsons replied: "We will have to re-debate it and re-consider it. The town council will make the decision but with respect of the views of the public."
Every house in Pershore will get a copy of the consultation containing information on the proposed new community hall with a voting slip for every person on the electoral role.
A public exhibition so that residents can view the proposals for the new Community Hall will go ahead.
A date has yet to be decided for this.
The Town Council noted the shortfall in funds of £204,000 for the proposed Community Hall which currently has a budget cost of £850,000.
The Clerk suggested the most appropriate way of funding this would be a loan from the Public Works Loan Board.
It was decided that the Clerk would apply for permission to borrow for the project.
It was then proposed that permission be applied for, to borrow up to £500,000, even though this amount would not be required, in a bid to give the Council the flexibility to repay the balance on the loan to refurbish Pershore Library (£200,000 outstanding) should they believe this to be the best course of action.
The new hall would be built on the land next to Pershore Cemetery, off Defford Road.
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Maria Montessori's Educational Method
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Essay On Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front
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Summary Of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque was born in Germany in the year 1898 into a lower-middle-class family. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended, he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating, "This book is to be neither an accusation
Analysis Of All Quiet On The Western Front, By Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabruck, Germany, in 1898 into a middle-class family of lower status. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I, in which he was unfortunately wounded. He published,Im Westen Nichts Neues,ten years after the war ended, rewritten in English a year later as All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about the experiences of typical German soldiers during the war. In presenting his terribly realistic version of a soldier 's experience, Remarque
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Theme Of Love And Hate In Romeo And Juliet
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"Maria Concepcion", a short story, by Katherine Anne Porter, discussed how much power a community has over people and how the community will protect or reject a person for the sake of the community as a whole as they allowed Maria Concepcion get away with the murder of her husband's mistress, Maria Rosa. The reason being is due to the fact that Maria Concepcion is well respected amongst the village due to her accomplishments, but they also suspect that she is too prideful. Maria is a very religious
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As the title suggests, Last Tango in Paris is set in Paris and the main plot concentrates on two people's loneliness, Paul (Marlon Brando), a 45-year-old old American man and Jeanne (Maria Schneider), a 20-year-old French woman born in an aristocratic environment, the daughter of a Colonel and engaged to a young film director, Tom. After Paul's wife suicide, his life dramatically changes and he finds himself lost in a foreign, yet known, city. The despair drives Paul to find a shelter to comfort
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Theoretical Base: Learning theory of MM developed by Dr Maria Montessori is based on careful observation of what children reveals about their developmental needs. L2 is presented like L1. Role of T and L: The teacher has to adjust the usage of Montessori materials according to different ages of the learners. Learners are expected first to learn vocabulary through different activities followed by pinking materials. Skills: MM focuses mainly on Speaking and Writing followed by Reading. Activities:


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#include <zephyr/tc_util.h>
#include <zephyr/ztest.h>
#include <zephyr/kernel.h>
#include <zephyr/spinlock.h>

BUILD_ASSERT(CONFIG_MP_MAX_NUM_CPUS > 1);

#define CPU1_STACK_SIZE 1024

K_THREAD_STACK_DEFINE(cpu1_stack, CPU1_STACK_SIZE);
struct k_thread cpu1_thread;

static struct k_spinlock bounce_lock;

volatile int bounce_owner, bounce_done;

/**
 * @brief Tests for spinlock
 *
 * @defgroup kernel_spinlock_tests Spinlock Tests
 *
 * @ingroup all_tests
 *
 * @{
 * @}
 */

/**
 * @brief Test basic spinlock
 *
 * @ingroup kernel_spinlock_tests
 *
 * @see k_spin_lock(), k_spin_unlock()
 */
ZTEST(spinlock, test_spinlock_basic)
{
	k_spinlock_key_t key;
	static struct k_spinlock l;

	zassert_true(!l.locked, "Spinlock initialized to locked");

	key = k_spin_lock(&l);

	zassert_true(l.locked, "Spinlock failed to lock");

	k_spin_unlock(&l, key);

	zassert_true(!l.locked, "Spinlock failed to unlock");
}

void bounce_once(int id)
{
	int i, locked;
	k_spinlock_key_t key;

	/* Take the lock, check last owner and release if it was us.
	 * Wait for us to get the lock "after" another CPU
	 */
	locked = 0;
	for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
		key = k_spin_lock(&bounce_lock);

		if (bounce_owner != id) {
			locked = 1;
			break;
		}

		k_spin_unlock(&bounce_lock, key);
		k_busy_wait(100);
	}

	if (!locked && bounce_done) {
		return;
	}

	zassert_true(locked, "Other cpu did not get lock in 10000 tries");

	/* Mark us as the owner, spin for a while validating that we
	 * never see another owner write to the protected data.
	 */
	bounce_owner = id;

	for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
		zassert_true(bounce_owner == id, "Locked data changed");
	}

	/* Release the lock */
	k_spin_unlock(&bounce_lock, key);
}

void cpu1_fn(void *p1, void *p2, void *p3)
{
	ARG_UNUSED(p1);
	ARG_UNUSED(p2);
	ARG_UNUSED(p3);

	while (1) {
		bounce_once(4321);
	}
}

/**
 * @brief Test spinlock with bounce
 *
 * @ingroup kernel_spinlock_tests
 *
 * @see arch_start_cpu()
 */
ZTEST(spinlock, test_spinlock_bounce)
{
	int i;

	k_thread_create(&cpu1_thread, cpu1_stack, CPU1_STACK_SIZE,
			cpu1_fn, NULL, NULL, NULL,
			0, 0, K_NO_WAIT);

	k_busy_wait(10);

	for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
		bounce_once(1234);
	}

	bounce_done = 1;
}

/**
 * @brief Test basic mutual exclusion using interrupt masking
 *
 * @details
 * - Spinlocks can be initialized at run-time.
 * - Spinlocks in uniprocessor context should achieve mutual exclusion using
 *   interrupt masking.
 *
 * @ingroup kernel_spinlock_tests
 *
 * @see k_spin_lock(), k_spin_unlock()
 */
ZTEST(spinlock, test_spinlock_mutual_exclusion)
{
	k_spinlock_key_t key;
	static struct k_spinlock lock_runtime;
	unsigned int irq_key;

	(void)memset(&lock_runtime, 0, sizeof(lock_runtime));

	key = k_spin_lock(&lock_runtime);

	zassert_true(lock_runtime.locked, "Spinlock failed to lock");

	/* check irq has not locked */
	zassert_true(arch_irq_unlocked(key.key),
			"irq should be first locked!");

	/*
	 * We make irq locked nested to check if interrupt
	 * disable happened or not.
	 */
	irq_key = arch_irq_lock();

	/* check irq has already locked */
	zassert_false(arch_irq_unlocked(irq_key),
			"irq should be already locked!");

	arch_irq_unlock(irq_key);

	k_spin_unlock(&lock_runtime, key);

	zassert_true(!lock_runtime.locked, "Spinlock failed to unlock");
}

ZTEST_SUITE(spinlock, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);

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Of or relating to comedy.
He is charismatic, confident and comedically spot on and in what must be a physically demanding role it appeared effortless and was a delight to watch.
Although not all of it grew proportionately or as rapidly - hence those comedically tiny arms/front legs that come in very handy for gags in Toy Story.
Although not all of it grew proportionately or as rapidly, hence those comedically tiny arms/front legs that come in very handy for gags in Toy Story.
Till the dust settles, I don't think anyone should go near those issues, certainly comedically.
I would love you because that would be entirely high praise if it were to come true, because Garrison Keillor is a hero of mine, even though comedically he's become a little bit of a joke in certain sniffy comedy circles.
"Writing is really hard; challenging and lonely"
Separately or together, they narrate or comedically comment on a wide range of viewer-submitted videos related to scientific wonders and weird oddities.
Bea's grown-up relationship with Rob, the highly watchable hipster (Gabriel Ruiz), is comedically brilliant in scope.
It literally wasn't until a few years into the process that we really faced the hard truth that this has to be a movie that functions intelligently as well as comedically because that is the standard it will be held against.
Vik sold the ironic verses with a comedically blas expression, while the entire band sang the choruses.
Author Devin Scillian original and charmingly entertaining story is wonderfully illustrated with the comedically cheery artwork of Tim Bowers.
Why do you think the film treats them comedically, instead of dramatically?


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Gary Johnson: Yeovil could bring in further loan signings
Last updated on 19 November 201319 November 2013 .From the section Championship
Yeovil Town manager Gary Johnson has not ruled out further loan signings but has said he will not make any before Friday's match at Doncaster.
Johnson wants to assess the Glovers' performance against their fellow Championship strugglers before acting.
"The loan window closes on 28 November and if something comes up we might do some business," said Johnson.
We are looking forward to playing the clubs around us - they are all cup finals now
Gary Johnson Yeovil manager
"But at the moment we want to see how we are going against the Donnies and Barnsleys of this world."
The Glovers are bottom of the league and have signed Reading goalkeeper Stuart Taylor on a one-month loan deal.
Johnson added: "We have played all the top teams, all the teams that came out of the Premier League, one after the other.
"We are looking forward to playing the clubs around us - they are all cup finals now. The Doncaster game is the first one.
"We will get a better assessment of our team and squad once we've played a few of those teams."
Over the coming three weeks, Yeovil face struggling Charlton and Barnsley, as well as Watford and Blackpool.
The Glovers are two points below Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday at the foot of the table.
Leicester go top with win over Chelsea
Premier League looks at Snodgrass omission


All PP children make at least 3 stages of development each year.
Meet social and emotional needs of PP children so that they can thrive in the playground and in the classroom.
In school intervention used to identify areas where intensive support is needed. This may lead to 1;1 tuition after school.
Quality first teaching is always the basic requirement for any child.
Intervention has to meet the needs of individual pupil.
Where general intervention /booster is not sufficient, more focused 1;1 may be needed.
PP Children who can't access quality first teaching within the classroom – are provided with alternative teaching environments where they are more likely to thrive.
If BES difficulties, learning and social development will be hampered.
Some children have emotional/mental health issues and need support so they can thrive.
Some families can be experiencing difficult circumstances- that are affecting child's development.
Meeting people who have achieved.
If children don't have aspirations – they are less likely to try.
We want to provide children with goals, reasons to try, self-belief and resilience.
Pupil premium children having good attendance and arriving at school at the right time.
Attendance is good for PP children, however punctuality can sometimes be an issue.
Good progress made by PP children – better progress than non PP in all areas.
Gaps not only narrowed – actually reversed.
PP children increased aspirations& self-image.
Desire to achieve increased – good attitudes to learning.
No PP CAFS remained open other than for transition purposes as all other additional needs had been met.
Children had increased opportunities, developed pride and belief/self-esteem.


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The Communications Group of Toronto has joined IPREX, an international group of independent public relations firms. "Several of us have first-hand experience of TCG's professionalism, and are looking forward to expanding our working relationship with them," said Gwinavere Johnston, North American president of IPREX. "Their team brings new perspectives to our Canadian network and will play an important role in the IPREX Real Estate Communications Counsel we have just launched." Other Canadian members of IPREX include Wertheim & Company of Toronto, Hedlin Lauder Communications of Calgary and Peak Communicators of Vancouver. IPREX consists of 63 firms in 28 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.
The Communications Group rebrands November 29, 2013
Canon Canada conducts Buffer Festival contest September 23, 2013
J. S. Cheng & Partners rebrands as JSCP March 22, 2013
Real Estate Developers Expo retains The Communications Group December 13, 2011
L-Eat Group retains 52 Pick-Up, The Communications Group November 1, 2011
Marshall Mattress hires The Communications Group July 26, 2011
Kestenberg Rabinowicz Partners retains The Communications Gr... January 19, 2011
Upper Canada ADR hires The Communications Group January 27, 2010
Atria Networks breaks advertising campaign September 16, 2009
Atria Networks hires The Communications Group March 23, 2009


A developing progress report on a venture where the outcome is rather uncertain. Any comments, suggestions, encouragements, or discouragements are welcome.
For some time I have pursued a reactionary project to supplement my organ MIDI control with a punched paper tape reader. Apart from being old fashioned there are a number of problematic issues with this, like making the tapes, feed them reliably over the tracker, and keep hygroscopic size variation under control. The main positive feature is that of its visual impact, the solid demonstration of how the organ is controlled. Also, in my yet limited experience, the presently weakest link in the system is indeed connected to the electronics system, like diskette read errors causing abrupt music halts, or inconveniently complicated multiple control button pressing.
The following covers some key issues of this project, some of which are almost solved, others still in a planning stage.
Conventional self playing organs use either pneumatically read paper tape rolls, or fanfold cardboard books sensed by mechanical means. The aim in this project is to combine positive features of each, namely to use fanfold paper tapes, inspired by the DEC computer tapes of the 1960s. These paper books will then be very compact to store and there is no call for return spooling. These are to be read pneumatically, but a main foreseeable problem is how to avoid misreadings at the paper folds.
The current specification sets out from practical reasons like tape width 297 mm (long side of A4 paper format) and 200 mm fold divisions. 104 channels on 2.5 mm divisions will occupy 260 mm of punched width. This number of channels suffices for my organ except its percussive harp. Possibly the harp can be accommodated using an additional register control, not yet implemented. The divisions measure is motivated by my metric tools for tracker bar and punch fabrication. This format will not coincide with any one presently known, but it is anticipated that music arrangements will anyway be unique to this organ. Until an automated punch device is developed I believe computer MIDI printouts will give templates that are easy enough to use for guiding a manual punch.
Because of available space this reader is unusually short in the paper travel direction, about 280 mm over all. This makes it relatively difficult to control the paper sideways position, calling for active devices.
In the drawing below the tape is driven from a payoff bin at left, over the tracker bar surrounded by two curved guide plates, into a takeup bin at right. The tape is driven by a rubber capstan extending some 2 mm through a hole in the right guide plate. On top is a bridge, pivoting around its left shaft which also carries a gentle leaf spring to press the tape against the tracker bar. The bridge right shaft carries the 'pinch roller' pressing the tape against the capstan. This is a tube extending the whole width of the tape and is held by ball bearings at its ends.
This photo is a general overview of the assembled unit, mounted with ball sliders on two support rails. This allows the unit to be pulled out from its storage position in the organ cabinet for easy access. The bins and these rails are keyhole mounted such that they are easily unhooked. The pinch roller axle holds eccentric segments at its ends, resting against the capstan support plate. This axle can be rotated somewhat with a small spoke in order to engage or disengage the pinch roller.
The width of the payoff bin is just some 1 mm more than the tape width and is supposed to guide the tape sideways initially. The takeup bin is some 5 mm wider. It is important that the wide paper tape is fairly closely guided near the tracker bar, otherwise it easily wrinkles as it alternately folds up and down. On the entry side this is done by the guide leaf spring, on the exit side by the pinch roller being a long tube rather than just short rollers. The outside curvature of the bins appears essential to make the paper unfold and fold graciously.
The tracker bar is made from 20 mm hexagonal alloyed alumin. Its sensing holes are 1.8 mm diameter at 2.5 mm divisions, drilled to the center of the bar. On the back two oblique sides there are continuation holes to connect to the switches. These alternately go to the leading and trailing sides of the bar, such that the connection holes come at 5 mm divisions. The coupling to the two switch rails is with short flexible PVC tubes. After drilling the holes the bar was excentrically put in the lathe and the sensing surface was turned into about 15 mm radius.
The ends of the tracker bar are supported by vertical leaf springs such that the bar is easily mobile in its axial direction. Two extreme holes in the tracker bar sense the edges of the paper tape. These holes vent two balancing bellows that are evacuated via bleeds to the suction source. This bellows array is geared with an arm to the tracker bar in order to align the bar with the actual sideways position of the tape. In the present design the bar can move over a range of 3 track divisions in about 2 seconds time. The rocking armature hinges on two central pins and is held in place by a strong crosswise leaf spring, pivoting on brackets. This is a toggle pressing the rocker toward its end positions, a partial compensation for the elasticity of the bellows cloth and the bar suspension.
It is easy to take out the various subassemblies like the drive motor gear, the alignment bellows, the curved guide plates, and the bins. Each is fastened to the wooden main frame with two machine screws. Once these units are taken away the tracker bar and the switch rails can be lifted out together.
The sideways control of the tracker bar seems to operate well. Still, when the tracker bar is found to go toward one side, then the drive mechanism should make the paper tape wander back toward its correct path. Initially I tried two capstans, one each side of the tape, hoping that direction might be controlled using the pinch roller pressure. In my practical experience this does not work. The double capstan was then abandoned in favor of a single one at the paper center line.
The key feature is that the feed direction of that capstan can be controlled to be slightly off axis, in my present experiment up to +/-3 degrees. When the tracker bar is sideways adjusted by the sensor holes and bellows, that same excursion is used to yaw the feed direction of the capstan. After some effort at the drawing board I arrived at the following design which indeed appears to work in the same time as it reasonably simple to make.
The motor driven capstan shaft (right of capstan in this drawing) is rigidly supported by ball bearings at both its ends (motor end not shown). The shaft capstan end is approximately ball shaped, resting in a bushing at the center of the capstan. A hole is drilled through this bushing and the shaft and a small pin is inserted. With adequate backlash this implements a half cardan joint. A spoke extends from the other (left) end of the bushing. The far left end of this rotating 'yaw' spoke rests in a link arm that connects its direction to the tracker bar sideways position.
This drawing shows the under side of the trailing guide plate which carries the capstan and its control, and also the tracker bar. The red markings show how the capstan is yawed when the tracker bar is displaced leftward by the edge sensors and bellows.
These switches are suction-to-electric converters. They can be connected in parallel to the present MIDI decoder and serve as an alternate control option. The design is a variation on the recipe by Richard Vance at http://www.mmdigest.com/Tech/vanceSwitch1.html.
Initally I tried a small 8 channel prototype in a plexiglass body, 2.5 mm divisions and 8 mm cavities. Dismissed that as too difficult to make and adjust. Then made a short 4 channel copy with 5 mm divisions and 15 mm cavities like shown below, which seems to work OK. Major parts for the complete system are built, but fabrication of contacts withheld until transport design is finalized.
To accommodate the totally 104 switches within managable space requires multilevel staggering, the first one is to split from the tracker bar into the two rails. Next level is to alternate between front and back sides of a rail (black and red in the sketch), and finally between an upper and a lower row. The general layout is maybe seen in this sketch of the end of one of the rails.
The central part is a 12*80*330 mm mahogany piece with 2*2*13 pouch cavities, 15 mm diameter. On each side, over these cavities is a 1.5 mm plexiglass plate with a glued-on wooden frame to carry the contact wires. These plates are drilled in the same operation as that for the underlying cavities. The pouches are formed by a coherent sheet of pouch leather (red below), compressed without glue between the 1.5 mm sheet and the wooden base. Outside this are 3 mm plexiglass plates carrying contact adjustment screws in threaded holes, and finally wooden bars to hold the complete assembly together. The inner sides of these bars are made slightly convex in order to distribute their compression force more evenly along the rail - there is little room for compression screws except at the ends of the rails.
This drawing shows more detail on one single switch, for clarity neglecting its neighbors.
The photo is from before adjustment screws and pouch leather are installed.
The internal volume where the contact springs are located is connected to the suction source. For each cavity there is a 0.8 mm bleed hole drilled through the 1.5 mm plexiglass, leading to the channel toward the tracker bar. It is a fairly exacting operation to perforate and mount the pouch leather sheet to match with these bleed holes.
The contacts are made from 0.8 mm sterling silver wire. Each contact is two parts, one 'fixed' albeit adjustable with a screw, and one moving with its end actuated by the pouch. The stem of the moving contact is flattened into a leaf spring, 0.25 mm thickness. This flattening is done using a steel bar with thickness control shims added. The contact wire is placed between that bar and an anvil and the bar is hit with a sledge hammer. Hammering is repeated until a micrometer or caliper tells the correct thickness has been reached. The end of the moving contact is bent and tin soldered to a small washer that rests on the middle of its pouch.
After preliminary shape adjustment the contact wires are locked in place in their mounting holes with cyanoacrylate glue.
When the tracker hole is covered, then the whole unit is under the same suction, the contact spring presses the pouch into its cavity and the contact is open. With an open tracker hole only the contact cavity is under suction and the pouch lifts the contact spring until it makes to its fixed counterpart.


This is the second (and final) part of a short interview with Byron Kauffman.
How has the Affordable Care Act changed the field for small agencies?
Our commercial insurance business serves closely held family businesses and with little exception these are predominately firms with less than fifty employees. We are committed to both helping employers and employees access health care whether they qualify for subsidy or not. We have reacted and developed a robust online platform on our website to support individual coverage options as a result of these changes.
What are your plans for the agency?
We are an independent, multi-line insurance agency, a Trusted Choice for our Customers, a secure employer with career opportunities for dedicated professional associates, and a Committed Sales Partner for our companies. This will not change. My vision is to enable Wetzel to grow and prosper as a self-sustaining independent organization where we enjoy our daily work and actively seek the opportunity to present ideas of risk protection to those in our community who wish to grow and protect their assets.
How does Wetzel differentiate itself from other agencies?
We are our customer's risk manager. Insurance is only properly purchased with an understanding of the risk one assumes daily and the protection achieved by the purchase of insurance. We strive to educate our customers to appreciate a fundamental attitude of risk management. The communities in which we work, our peers, and the companies we represent recognize our experience, professionalism, and knowledge. We are known to be a tenacious but friendly advocate for our customers in the negotiation of insurance, the administration of policies, and the adjudication of claims.


I always support companies that doesn't forget to help the people in need. Being a successful company should give back the blessings they receive. This is one factor I see how the company is compassion not only to its customer but also to people how is unfortunate.
Now Wyeth Nutrition and with Synergeia Foundation came up an advocacy campaign called "Nurture, Inspire, Give". Their campaign will start this June 15 until August 15, 2013. Within that two months they pledge to give away notebooks equal to the number of registrants for the raffle promo.
For every purchase of Aquiva (900g), Progress Pre-School (900g, 1.6kg), Promil Pre-School (900gg and 1.6kg), Bonakid Choco Boost (800g), Bonakid Pre-School (900g 1.2kg and 1.6kg) Enercal Plus (900g), and ProMama (900g) comes with a free limited edition notebook and a scratch card. The scratch card has a promo code in where you need to register by texting to be eligible in the raffle promo. Also with that registration a less fortunate school children notebooks.


La Niña conditions have continued for another month at weak-to-moderate strength, with both atmospheric and oceanic conditions, including sea-surface temperatures (SSTs), demonstrating a consistent La Niña pattern (Figs. 1-2). Forecasts continue to suggest that a weak-to-moderate La Niña event will last through the winter before weakening this spring.
On Jan. 11, the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) identified ongoing La Niña conditions and called for a 70-percent chance of these conditions persisting through spring 2018. On Jan. 11, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) continued its La Niña advisory, identifying an 85-95-percent chance of La Niña conditions lasting through the winter, with a transition to ENSO-neutral in the spring. On Jan. 11, the International Research Institute (IRI) issued its ENSO quick look, calling for La Niña to last into the spring (Fig. 3) as a weak event, but with recognition that the conditions were very close to the threshold for a moderate event. On Jan. 16, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology updated its ENSO tracker to reflect continued La Niña conditions, but noted that this event "may be nearing its peak," with a return to neutral values by spring 2018. The North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) is consistently indicative of a La Niña event of weak to moderate intensity this winter (Fig. 4).
Summary: Given the consistent La Niña patterns observed in both oceanic and atmospheric indicators, seasonal outlooks forecast that La Niña will last through the winter. Current conditions reflect a borderline weak-to-moderate event. Warmer- and drier-than-average winter conditions are associated with La Niña of any strength in the Southwest, so the presence of La Niña is certain to heighten concerns about winter precipitation and drought. Southwestern winters are already relatively dry, however, so La Niña does not ensure an exceptionally dry winter (although this is the trajectory much of the Southwest appears to currently be on), but it does take a wetter-than-average winter off the table based on past La Niña events. If the La Niña strengthens to moderate intensity, the likelihood of an even drier Southwest winter increases (see the following page for a few examples).
Winter precipitation (Dec-Feb (DJF)), during most weak La Niña events (ENSO Index Value between -0.5 and -1.0) has been below average, although a few years (1968, 1985) were notable outliers (Figs. 5-6). The monthly breakdown of weak, moderate, and strong La Niña events reveals that while the DJF totals for Tucson, AZ and Las Cruces, NM have been mostly below average (Figs. 7-8), there have been individual months that recorded precipitation above the monthly average (represented by black lines on the plots). The most likely outcome for the Southwest this year is below-average precipitation totals for the winter season, but the way that these events unfold will have an impact on how residents perceive and experience this La Niña event.