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And when they came to Jesus, they sought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(4) They besought him instantly.—Better, earnestly, or urgently, the adverb "instantly" having practically lost the meaning which our translators attached to it.
MacLaren's Expositions
WORTHY-NOT WORTHY
Luke 7:4, Luke 7:6 - Luke 7:7.
A Roman centurion, who could induce the elders of a Jewish village to approach Jesus on his behalf, must have been a remarkable person. The garrison which held down a turbulent people was not usually likely to be much loved by them. But this man, about whom the incident with which our texts are connected is related, was obviously one of the people of whom that restless age had many, who had found out that his creed was outworn, and who had been drawn to Judaism by its lofty monotheism and its austere morality. He had gone so far as to build a synagogue, and thereby, no doubt, incurred the ridicule of his companions, and perhaps the suspicions of his superiors. What would the English authorities think of an Indian district officer that conformed to Buddhism or Brahminism, and built a temple? That is what the Roman officials would think of our centurion. And there were other beautiful traits in his character. He had a servant 'that was dear to him.' It was not only the nexus of master and servant and cash payments that bound these two together. And very beautiful is this story, when he himself speaks about this servant. He does not use the rough word which implies a bondservant, and which is employed throughout the whole of the rest of the narrative, but a much gentler one, and speaks of him as his 'boy.' So he had won the hearts of these elders so far as to make them swallow their dislike to Jesus, and deign to go to Him with a request which implied His powers at which at all other times they scoffed.
Now, we owe to Luke the details which show us that there was a double deputation to our Lord-the first which approached Him to ask His intervention, and the second which the centurion sent when he saw the little group coming towards his house, and a fresh gush of awe rose in his heart. The elders said, 'He is worthy'; he said, 'I am not worthy.' The verbal resemblance is, indeed, not so close in the original as in our versions, for the literal rendering of the words put into the centurion's mouth is 'not fit.' But still the evident antithesis is preserved: the one saying expresses the favourable view that partial outsiders took of the man, the other gives the truer view that the man took of himself. And so, putting away the story altogether, we may set these two verdicts side by side, as suggesting wider lessons than those which arise from the narrative itself.
I. And, first, we have here the shallow plea of worthiness.
These elders did not think loftily of Jesus Christ. The conception that we have of Him goes a long way to settle whether it is possible or not for us to approach Him with the word 'worthy' on our lips. The higher we lift our thought of Christ, the lower becomes our thought of ourselves. These elders saw the centurion from the outside, and estimated him accordingly. There is no more frequent, there is no more unprofitable and impossible occupation, than that of trying to estimate other people's characters. Yet there are few things that we are so fond of doing. Half our conversation consists of it, and a very large part of what we call literature consists of it; and it is bound to be always wrong, whether it is eulogistic or condemnatory, because it only deals with the surface.
Here we have the shallow plea advanced by these elders in reference to the centurion which corresponds to the equally shallow plea that some of us are tempted to advance in reference to ourselves. The disposition to do so is in us all. Luther said that every man was born with a Pope in his belly. Every man is born with a Pharisee in himself, who thinks that religion is a matter of barter, that it is so much work, buying so much favour here, or heaven hereafter. Wherever you look, you see the working of that tendency. It is the very mainspring of heathenism, with all its penances and performances. It is enshrined in the heart of Roman Catholicism, with its dreams of a treasury of merits, and works of supererogation and the like. Ay! and it has passed over into a great deal of what calls itself Evangelical Protestantism, which thinks that, somehow or other, it is all for our good to come here, for instance on a Sunday, though we have no desire to come and no true worship in us when we have come, and to do a great many things that we would much rather not do, and to abstain from a great many things that we are strongly inclined to, and all with the notion that we have to bring some 'worthiness' in order to move Jesus Christ to deal graciously with us.
And then notice that the religion of barter, which thinks to earn God's favour by deeds, and is, alas! the only religion of multitudes, and subtly mingles with the thoughts of all, tends to lay the main stress on the mere external arts of cult and ritual. 'He loveth our nation, and hath built us a synagogue'; not, 'He is gentle, good, Godlike.' 'He has built a synagogue.' That is the type of work which most people who fall into the notion that heaven is to be bought, offer as the price. I have no doubt that there are many people who have never caught a glimpse of any loftier conception than that, and who, when they think-which they do not often do-about religious subjects at all, are saying to themselves, 'I do as well as I can,' and who thus bring in some vague thought of the mercy of God as a kind of make-weight to help out what of their own they put in the scale. Ah, dear brethren! that is a wearying, an endless, a self-torturing, an imprisoning, an enervating thought, and the plea of 'worthiness' is utterly out of place and unsustainable before God.
II. Now let me turn to the deeper conviction which silences that plea.
'I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof, wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto Thee.' This man had a loftier conception of who and what Christ was than the elders had. To them He was only one of themselves, perhaps endowed with some kind of prophetic power, but still one of themselves. The centurion had pondered over the mystic power of the word of command, as he knew it by experience in the legion, or in the little troop of which he, though a man under the authority of his higher officers, was the commander; and he knew that even his limited power carried with it absolute authority and compelled obedience. And he had looked at Christ, and wondered, and thought, and had come at last to a dim apprehension of that great truth that, somehow or other, in this Man there did lie a power which, by the mere utterance of His will, could affect matter, could raise the dead, could still a storm, could banish disease, could quell devils. He did not formulate his belief, he could not have said exactly what it led to, or what it contained, but he felt that there was something divine about Him. And so, seeing, though it was but through mists, the sight of that great perfection, that divine humanity and human divinity, he bowed himself and said, 'Lord! I am not worthy.'
When you see Christ as He is, and give Him the honour due to His name, all notions of desert will vanish utterly.
Further, the centurion saw himself from the inside, and that makes all the difference. Ah, brethren! most of us know our own characters just as little as we know our own faces, and find it as difficult to form a just estimate of what the hidden man of the heart looks like as we find it impossible to form a just estimate of what we look to other people as we walk down the street. But if we once turned the searchlight upon ourselves, I do not think that any of us would long be able to stand by that plea, 'I am worthy.' Have you ever been on a tour of discovery, like what they go through at the Houses of Parliament on the first day of each session, down into the cellars to see what stores of explosive material, and what villains to fire it, may be lurking there? If you have once seen yourself as you are, and take into account, not only actions but base tendencies, foul, evil thoughts, imagined sins of the flesh, meannesses and basenesses that never have come to the surface, but which you know are bits of you, I do not think that you will have much more to say about 'I am worthy.' The flashing waters of the sea may be all blazing in the sunshine, but if they were drained off, what a frightful sight the mud and the ooze at the bottom would be! Others look at the dancing, glittering surface, but you, if you are a wise man, will go down in the diving-bell sometimes, and for a while stop there at the bottom, and turn a bull's-eye straight upon all the slimy, crawling things that are there, and that would die if they came into the light.
'I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof.' But then, as I have said, most of us are strangers to ourselves. The very fact of a course of action which, in other people, we should describe with severe condemnation, being ours, bribes us to indulgence and lenient judgment. Familiarity, too, weakens our sense of the foulness of our own evils. If you have been in the Black Hole all night, you do not know how vitiated the atmosphere is. You have to come out into the fresh air to find out that. We look at the errors of others through a microscope; we look at our own through the wrong end of the telescope; and the one set, when we are in a cynical humour, seem bigger than they are; and the other set always seem smaller.
Now, that clear consciousness of my own sinfulness ought to underlie all my religious feelings and thoughts. I believe, for my part, that no man is in a position to apprehend Christianity rightly who has not made the acquaintance of his own bad self. And I trace a very large proportion of the shallow Christianity of this day as well as of the disproportion in which its various truths are set forth, and the rising of crops of erroneous conceptions just to this, that this generation has to a large extent lost-no, do not let me say this generation, you and I-have to a large extent lost, that wholesome consciousness of our own unworthiness and sin.
But on the other hand, let me remind you that the centurion's deeper conviction is not yet the deepest of all, and that whilst the Christianity which ignores sin is sure to be impotent, on the other hand the Christianity which sees very little but sin is bondage and misery, and is impotent too. And there are many of us whose type of religion is far gloomier than it should be, and whose motive of service is far more servile than it ought to be, just because we have not got beyond the centurion, and can only say, 'I am not worthy; I am a poor, miserable sinner.'
III. And so I come to the third point, which is not in my text, but which both my texts converge upon, and that is the deepest truth of all, that worthiness or unworthiness has nothing to do with Christ's love.
When these elders interceded with Jesus, He at once rose and went with them, and that not because of their intercession or of the certificate of character which they had given, but because His own loving heart impelled Him to go to any soul that sought His help. So we are led away from all anxious questionings as to whether we are worthy or no, and learn that, far above all thoughts either of undue self-complacency or of undue self-depreciation, lies the motive for Christ's gracious and healing approach in.
'His ceaseless, unexhausted love,
Unmerited and free.'
This is the truth to which the consciousness of sinfulness and unworthiness points us all, for which that consciousness prepares us, in which that consciousness does not melt away, but rather is increased and ceases to be any longer a burden or a pain. Here, then, we come to the very bed-rock of everything, for
'Merit lives from man to man,
But not from man, O Lord, to Thee.'
Jesus Christ comes to us, not drawn by our deserts, but impelled by His own love, and that love pours itself out upon each of us. So we do not need painfully to amass a store of worthiness, nor to pile up our own works, by which we may climb to heaven. 'Say not, who shall ascend up into heaven,' to bring Christ down again, 'but the word is nigh thee, that if thou wilt believe with thine heart, thou shalt be saved.' Worthiness or unworthiness is to be swept clean out of the field, and I am to be content to be a pauper, to owe everything to what I have done nothing to procure, and to cast myself on the sole, all-sufficient mercy of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
And then comes liberty, and then comes joy. If the gift is given from no consideration of men's deserts, then the only thing that men have to do is to exercise the faith that takes it. As the Apostle says in words that sound very hard and technical, but which, if you would only ponder them, are throbbing with vitality, 'It is of faith that it might be by grace.' Since He gives simply because He loves, the only requisites are the knowledge of our need, the will to receive, the trust that, in clasping the Giver, possesses the gift.
The consciousness of unworthiness will be deepened. The more we know ourselves to be sinful, the more we shall cleave to Christ, and the more we cleave to Christ, the more we shall know ourselves to be sinful. Peter caught a glimpse of what Jesus was when he sat in the boat, and he said, 'Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!' But Peter saw both himself and his Lord more clearly, that is more truly, when, subsequent to his black treachery, his brother Apostle said to him concerning the figure standing on the beach in the grey morning, 'It is the Lord,' and he flung himself over the side and floundered through the water to get to his Master's feet. For that is the place for the man who knows himself unworthy. The more we are conscious of our sin, the closer let us cling to our Lord's forgiving heart, and the more sure we are that we have that love which we have not earned, the more shall we feel how unworthy of it we are. As one of the prophets says, with profound meaning, 'Thou shalt be ashamed and confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy transgression, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done.' The child buries its face on its mother's breast, and feels its fault the more because the loving arms clasp it close.
And so, dear brethren, deepen your convictions, if you are deluded by that notion of merit; deepen your convictions, if you see your own evil so clearly that you see little else. Come into the light, come into the liberty, rise to that great thought, 'Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but by His mercy He saved us.' Have done with the religion of barter, and come to the religion of undeserved grace. If you are going to stop on the commercial level, 'the wages of sin is death'; rise to the higher ground: 'the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.'
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
7:1-10 Servants should study to endear themselves to their masters. Masters ought to take particular care of their servants when they are sick. We may still, by faithful and fervent prayer, apply to Christ, and ought to do so when sickness is in our families. The building places for religious worship is a good work, and an instance of love to God and his people. Our Lord Jesus was pleased with the centurion's faith; and he never fails to answer the expectations of that faith which honours his power and love. The cure soon wrought and perfect.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They besought him instantly - Urgently or earnestly.
He was worthy - The centurion. He had showed favor to the Jews, and it was not improper to show him a kindness.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
4. he was worthy—a testimony most precious, coming from those who probably were strangers to the principle from which he acted (Ec 7:1).
Matthew Poole's Commentary
See Poole on "Luke 7:1"
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And when they came to Jesus,.... To that part of the city where he was; either at Peter's house, where he used to be when in this place; or rather it might be as he was passing along the streets, that they came up to him
they besought him instantly; or with great vehemence and importunity; very studiously and carefully they urged the case, and pressed him much to it:
saying, he was worthy for whom he should do this; or, "for whom thou shouldst do this", as the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read, and some copies; and which reading connects the words best. This speech of theirs savours of their "pharisaic" tenet and notion of merit, and is very different from the sense the poor centurion had of himself.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Expositor's Greek Testament
Luke 7:4. σπουδαίως, earnestly; though he was a Pagan, they Jews, for reason given.—ἄξιος ᾧ παρέξῃ, for ἄξιος ἵνα αὐτῷ π. παρέξῃ is the 2nd person singular, future, middle, in a relative clause expressing purpose instead of the more usual subjunctive (vide Burton, § 318).
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
4. instantly] i.e. urgently, as in the phrase "continuing instant in prayer."
Bengel's Gnomen
Luke 7:4. Ἄξιος, worthy) The centurion himself thought differently of himself, "Neither thought I myself worthy," Luke 7:7.—παρέξῃ) The Others read παρέξει; but the construction supports the Subjunctive: ἄξιός ἐστιν, ᾦ παρέξῃ τοῦτο.[69]
[69] ABCDLΔ read παρέξῃ. "Dignus est ut hoc illi præstes," Vulg. Rec. Text has παρέξει without any very old authority.—ED. and TRANSL.
Pulpit Commentary
Verses 4, 5. - He was worthy for whom he should do this: for he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue. There are several mentions of these Roman military officers in the Gospels and Acts, and in every instance the mention is a favourable one. Still more notable instances occur in the case of Cornelius - to whom Peter was specially sent (Acts 10, 11.) - of the centurion who was on guard at the execution on Calvary, and of the centurion who conveyed Paul to Rome (Acts 27:1-3). On these Gentile soldiers "the faith and life of Judaism (seen, we may well believe, to more advantage in the village life of Galilee than amid the factions of Jerusalem) had made a deep impression: he found a purity, reverence, simplicity, and nobleness of life which he had not found elsewhere, and so he loved the nation, and built a new one of the synagogues of the town" (Dean Plumptre). The centurion was apparently one of those foreigners who - without submitting to circumcision and other burdensome ceremonial rites which were incompatible with the exercise of his profession - had accepted the faith of Israel, and worshipped with the people in the position of one who, in another age, would have been termed a "proselyte of the gate." He was evidently one of those true-hearted men who translated a beautiful creed into acts, for it was specially urged by the elders, in their petition to Jesus, that he loved the people, no doubt emphasizing his generous almsgivings, and, as a crowning act of his kindness, had built a synagogue Capernaum. Modern travellers tell us that among the ruins of this city of Jesus are the remains of a white marble synagogue of the time of the Herods. This may have been the Roman soldier's noble gift to Israel. The whole character of this nameless officer seems to have been singularly noble. In those selfish days of undreamed-of luxury, cruelty, and heartlessness, for a master to care for, much less to love, a slave was, comparatively speaking, rare. From his message to Jesus (ver. 7) it would seem as though he had a clearer conception who the poor Galilaean Teacher was than any one else at that period of the public ministry, not excluding the inner circle of disciples.
They besought him instantly (παρεκάλουν σπουδαίως)
On besought, see on Luke 6:24. Instantly, which commonly means at once, is used in its older meaning, pressingly, from the Latin instare, to urge or press upon. So Romans 12:12, "instant in prayer." Wyc., prayed busily.
That he was worthy (ὅτι ἄξιός ἐστιν)
The A. V. renders ὅτι as a conjunction, that. The Rev., more correctly, takes it as a mark of quotation, besides properly rendering ἐστιν is, instead of was. Render as Rev., He is worthy that thou shouldst do this; for the best texts read παρέξῃ, the second person, thou shouldst do, instead of the third person, παρέξει, he shall do.
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I haven't forgotten that I want to write you. So much to say. But I'll be off next week and have a couple of days before the kids arrive, so I will write then. Goodness, that man has me in a stew.
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Former Student Dormitory to be sold at Lender-ordered Auction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Allison Guyton
April 9, 2018 (507) 285-1444
Ullin, Illinois, April 9, 2018 – The former Saints Place Student Dormitory will be auctioned by Maas Companies at 8954 Shawnee College Road in Ullin, Illinois on Thursday, May 10 at 10 AM. Maas Companies specializes in the liquidation of specialized assets for banks and lenders nationwide.
The auction will include the 28,456 square foot single-story building on 10.3± acres access off Shawnee College Road and next to Shawnee Community College. The building has state-of-the art geo thermal heating, 52 -400 sq ft individual rooms with private baths and showers. The auction will include the remaining furniture selling with the real estate.
"The property offers a unique opportunity to the community," Tyler Maas, Maas Companies said. "The space was built for $2.8 Million in 2008 and was only used for two semesters. The property is bank owned and now ready for a new owner."
Potential buyers are encouraged to view the property during the following days (other times by appointment):
Monday, April 16 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Wednesday, May 9 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Thursday, May 10 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Details of the sale are available at the auction website, maascompanies.com
or by contacting the auction company directly at (507) 285-1444.
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Q: Magento2 - Adminhtml - Checkboxes default as checked when it does not show as checked I am a bit of a lost as to handling checkboxes (a group of them) for a custom form, made as a UI Component.
On the form, they look as if they are unchecked, but if I click them then it reacts normally, but the "Pencil" indicator does not show up on the tab button on the left of the admin page until I unchecked the checkbox that it shows this part of the form has been changed. Furthermore, if I submit the form without changing the checkboxes then the POST data shows they are checked with their correct values. It is only when I "check" then "uncheck" the boxes that the POST value does NOT include the fields.Please reply me if anyone know.
Vendor/Module/view/adminhtml/ui_component/location_listing.xml

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A: I went from:
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Vladas Šigauskas (born 7 August 1967) is a professional archer who internationally represents Lithuania. He was announced as the best Lithuanian archer of 2010 in recurve events.

In 2011 Šigauskas won a bronze medal at the European Grand Prix in Antalya, Turkey.

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1967 births
Living people
Lithuanian male archers


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The Ugly Side Of Being An African Student In India
Published April 4, 2017 at 12:12 PM EDT
Endurance Amalawa, a Nigerian studying in India, was admitted to the hospital after being attacked by a mob in Greater Noida. Locals had blamed a group of Nigerian students for the death of an Indian teenager even though the police had no evidence linking them with the youngster.
On March 24, Manish Khari, an Indian teenager in Greater Noida, a city on the outskirts of India's capital New Delhi, went for a walk and did not come home.
Someone said he had been seen with some Nigerian students who lived a few doors down. An angry crowd barged into their house but could not find the boy. A rumor spread that boy could not be found because the Nigerians were involved in cannibalism.
The teenager eventually showed up but was thoroughly disoriented. He complained of heart palpitations and was rushed to the hospital, where he died. The cause of death is not known, although the family suspects that drugs were involved.
Virendra Singh Gosain / AFP/Getty Images
Indian police and onlookers surround African nationals at a shopping mall in Greater Noida.
Five Nigerian students were booked under charges of murder but let off when no evidence was found linking them with the boy or drugs.
On the 27th, a candlelight vigil was held for the teenager outside a mall in the neighborhood. But the vigil turned violent; a mob attacked some Africans with sticks, metal bins and chairs. Nigerian students Precious Amalawa and his brother, Endurance, were eating at a KFC in that mall and were caught in the melee as they tried to leave.
"There were kicking at us and shouting at us," Precious Amalawa told the media outlet Scoopwhoop News from his hospital bed. "We kept asking what had we done. Even dogs are treated better." Four Nigerians were hospitalized that night.
A few days later the Association of African Students in India (AASI) issued a statement: "[Because of the] failure to secure the lives of African students and to ensure maximum security in areas where African students live, we will write to the African Union to cut all bilateral ties with India."
Many do not realize that in its own modest way India is a magnet for African students looking for an international experience during higher studies. In his paper about perceptions of African students by the local community in the Indian city of Pune, anthropologist Wondwosen Teshome-Bahiru says there are several "push and pull factors" behind this. The push factors include "shortage of higher academic institutions" in parts of Africa as well as "political instability" in some African countries. The pull factors are the affordability of higher education in India as compared to the West, the fact that the medium of instruction is English and "fast and less complicated" admission procedures. Many come to study IT since India is well known for that globally.
India's government and private universities are anxious to sell the country as an affordable destination for higher education, so they've been laying out the welcome mat for African students for a while. In 2007 the Indian government set up its Pan African e-Network Project, linking some African and Indian universities to exchange expertise. And in 2016 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced 50,000 scholarships for African students over the next five years.
In 2014 over 10,000 African students were studying in India with Sudan, Nigeria and Kenya leading the pack. In 2016, there were 42,420 foreign students in India, and Sudan and Nigeria were both in the top 5 countries of origin for those students, while the other three top spots occupied by India's immediate neighbors.
Universities have hired registration agents in Africa and run seminars with prospective students and their parents. "They do a lot of marketing, video conferencing and workshops," says Samuel T. Jack, a Nigerian student in India who is the president of AASI.
The slick promotional video for Sharda University, for example, stresses its "global vision" and has idyllic images of smiling African students mingling with local students. An African student strums a guitar, others walk down the hallway with their backpacks alongside Indian classmates. African students are all over the video, sometimes in suit and tie discussing career options, sometimes in traditional tribal costumes dancing at the "mega cultural festival." It all has a very 21st century Kumbaya feel to it.
The reality these students face in India has been rather different. "I have been here five years," says Jack bitterly. "My classmates might laugh and talk with me in school. But no one has ever invited me to their house. No one has ever said 'Sam, come home and meet my parents.'"
What's worse, he says are the assumptions. "I don't smoke but when I walk on the street I am asked, 'Bro, can I get some hash?'" Africans are stereotyped as criminals, drug dealers, prostitutes and now, in a new low, cannibals. Jack does not deny that some African students are involved in the drug trade but angrily asks why Africans are singled out and racially profiled for what is a much broader social problem.
The stereotypes have made life hard for the African students as they struggle to make a home in India's teeming cities. Jack says he hears many complaints about how hard it is to find housing. Taxi drivers fleece them. He says it's very difficult to get internships. Local landlords complain that the Africans drink, party and drive rashly. "We are conservative people and these African women dress up badly," a landlord in Delhi told Mail Today. Our children are influenced."
That culture clash has turned into something uglier.
In 2016 in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, an allegedly inebriated Sudanese student driving a car accidentally ran over a woman on the sidewalk. An angry mob attacked a carload of Tanzanians who happened to be passing through the area, set their car on fire and tore the top off one of the Tanzanian women.
In 2012, Yannick Nihangaza, a student from Burundi, was beaten up by locals who mistook him for someone they had an altercation with outside a liquor shop. He died after two years in a coma. In 2014, Delhi's law minister led a post-midnight raid in a house where four African women lived on the suspicion of a drug and prostitution racket and allegedly forced them to give urine samples. The minister claimed community support for his vigilantism but eventually resigned. In 2016, Masonda Ketada Olivier, a young Congolese French teacher, got into an altercation with three men over an autorickshaw. He died after one of the men allegedly hit him on the head with a stone.
The Indian government always calls the violent incidents "deplorable" and promises "stringent action" but also insists they are not racially motivated. In the Greater Noida case, the local district magistrate insisted "It is absolutely not a hate crime, nor is it some kind of anger against a race."
Even as he said that, banners and posters appeared in the area, hanging at traffic intersections, calling for a "Nigerian-free Greater Noida."
"The government is saying this is not a racial issue. Then I want to know what it is," says Jack.
"Whiteness has always been a preferred category in India," says social scientist Shiv Visvanathan of O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonepat, pointing to the proliferation of newspaper and TV ads for skin-lightening creams. He also notes that even within the Indian caste system there was a gradation of color with the lowest castes and so-called "untouchables" often the darkest. But Visvanathan says that this is "stereotyping beyond racism." He says that those who attack Africans think they are not just black "but ugly because they are lumpen, uncivilized and here just to have a good time." He says there's always an excuse for the provocation — a radio playing too loud, a traffic altercation, alcohol — but it boils down to neighborhood vigilantism where the "crowd shows it knows how to deliver justice to the alien."
While the government shies away from terms like "racial attack," the envoys of Africa stationed here are not mincing their words. Categorically describing the attacks as "racist" they said on Monday that they would take India to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.
Jack says African students are nervous and their parents back home are terrified. Local embassies are advising the students to not panic and keep calm and remain indoors. The universities are providing food, medical supplies and other essentials until the situation returns to normal.
Jack hopes the fallout over the Indian teen will blow over soon. African students have also met with the police to discuss sensitization and were assured that the Indian government would compensate them for damages and medical bills.
A football match between Indians and Africans is being planned by Sharda University to defuse the tension.
But for jittery African students, such efforts may not be sufficient to make them feel safe.
Jack says he's doing his best to reassure them but he admits if today an African student tells him he is thinking about coming to India, he will have some tough advice.
"Don't make India your study destination. I'll tell them stay home, my friend."
Based in Kolkata, Sandip Roy is the author of the novel Don't Let Him Know. He tweets @sandipr.


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Q: Script pdf printing of webpage that has printSelectedDiv javascript using Powershell In several scripts, I use wkhtmltopdf in Powershell to headless print pdfs of webpage content.  This works well except on websites busy with widgets and javascript complexity where the pdf print output is a jumbled mess.
One such webpage offers a button to print and uses javascript printSelectedDiv.  This opens the Windows print dialog and will print exactly the desired div from the complex page.
I am able using Powershell to automate clicking and submitting the printjob.  However, I want in a headless manner to perform this in a scheduled task like several other scripts.
I'm able to automate the printing as follows with Sendkeys:
$ie = new-object -ComObject "InternetExplorer.Application"
$requestUri = "https://www.complexpagefullofwidgets.com"
$ie.silent = $true
$ie.navigate($requestUri)
while($ie.Busy) { Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100 }
$doc = $ie.Document

$pdfPrinter = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer | Where{$_.Name -eq "Microsoft Print to PDF"}
$pdfPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter() | Out-Null

$printButton = $doc.getElementsByTagName("a") | Where-Object {$_.id -eq "btnPrintList"}
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$wshell.sendkeys("c:\temp\temp.pdf")
$wshell.sendkeys("{ENTER}")

Is there a better scripted control of this process instead of sending keystrokes?  I don't know if sending keystrokes would reliably work headless in a scheduled task if at all.

A: If you'd like to keep using wkhtmltopdf, you can use this approach.
Your code completely gets the job done, all you need to do is call the $printButton.click() method, then check back on $ie.Document, the Body.InnerHTML object will contain the full HTML of the page you requested, so you could send that over to wkhtmltopdf.
$ie.Document.body.innerHTML > c:\temp\Page.html
& 'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe' c:\temp\page.html c:\temp\page.pdf

The only problem is resolving the image URLs, you'd have to replace the urls in the tags, change them from relative links to absolute links, subbing the \ for the full url of the page you're loading.


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Understanding others through storytelling
Asha Aden ('20) demonstrates the power of storytelling.
Piper Wood ('21) I Chips
Piper Wood, Staff Writer
Professor of Political Science Pedro dos Santos and Asha Aden ('20) delivered the second of three lectures in the Paideia Lecture Series "Be the Change" on Feb. 27 in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall. The lecture was titled "What is to be done? Humanizing the Refugee Crisis" and focused on issues stemming from the wake of mass refugee immigration all over the world.
To begin the lecture, dos Santos spoke on the complexities of the Syrian refugee crisis. He explained basic information surrounding the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis. Dos Santos then analyzed the relationships between the United States, various militia groups, rebel groups, and government organizations in Syria, and how these forces combined to create the complicated conflict and refugee crisis. Dos Santos highlighted the importance of keeping the politics of the war separate from the humanitarian crisis caused by the large numbers of refugees fleeing Syria.
"It is important to understand the complexity of issues, and move away from the polarizing political dichotomies," dos Santos said. "The Syrian conflict is one thing and helping the people affected by the conflict is a whole other thing."
Aden went on to explain how the politics of the refugee crisis leads to the dehumanization of refugees. According to Aden, both pro-refugee and anti-refugee movements can dehumanize. Anti-refugee movements do this by using stereotypes.
"By emphasizing the differences and exploiting myths and lies about religious and cultural values of many of those fleeing conflict and natural disasters, those using this argument dehumanize refugees by positioning them as complete outsiders, unworthy of their help," Aden said.
Professor of Political Science Pedro dos Santos explains the refugee crisis in Syria.
She went on to explain the misguided intentions of the pro-refugee movement that views immigrants and refugees as "superhuman." According to Aden, to be "superhuman" they somehow have to be better than normal humans to avoid blame and hate. Aden explored the dehumanization of the refugees through the consequence of presenting refugees as innocent humans in need of help.
"Altogether, good intentions can dehumanize refugees too," Aden said. "The ways we talk about refugees and to refugees are important because it impacts the way people perceive refugees, shaping opinions and behavior."
As a solution to the demonization and dehumanization of refugees, Aden proposed a sharing of refugee stories. Aden shared three refugee stories, including the story of her experience growing up the daughter of Somali refugees. Through the stories, Aden hoped to inspire action and understanding for the lives of refugees in America.
"Since both of my parents are refugees, it is an issue that is very near and dear to me," Aden said. "I feel connected to it, and I am compelled to speak out about it."
Audience member Katy Roets ('18) appreciated the diversity of the stories that Aden told.
"I really liked that Asha showed stories of refugee women," Roets said.
During the question and answer portion, Roets asked Aden about her experiences in the education system as a young child of refugees growing up in Rochester, MN.
"The first time I went to preschool, I did not speak English. It was a confusing, scary day for me," Aden ('20) shared.
Dos Santos and Aden offered ideas for audience members to become involved. They stressed the importance of being informed, reading diverse news outlets, and donating time and money to the organizations working directly with refugees, like the White Helmets, or Lutheran Services of Iowa. Moving forward, Dos Santos is optimistic that there is an international conversation happening.
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Professor of Political Science Pedro dos Santos and Asha Aden ('20) lecture together on the refugee crises.
"Having this conversation shows that people are caring for these issues and listening to it, and trying to make good decisions to solve it," Dos Santos said. "Humans are taking the opportunity to help other humans."
Aden is also optimistic about the future citizens in helping solve the refugee crisis.
"I have optimism in the people," Aden said. "If the people push the government, they can make a change."
The next lecture in the "Be the Change" series will be given by Assistant Professor of Art David Kamm and Professor of English Lise Kildegaard. The lecture will be titled "Turn and Face the Strange: Creative Activity as a Catalyst for Change," and will take place March 20.


It seemed like my Instagram feed this weekend was overrun by Hamptons getaways and while I have never been to the Hamptons my love affair with their lifestyle and decor started ever since I watched "Somethings gotta give" and continues to grow every time I come across a property such as this one.
This property has so many elements that make it distinctively "Hamptons" and the carefully curated collection of furniture and accessories make the home both sophisticated and comfortable at the same time.
The outdoor facade is classic with a shingle roof, shutters and an outdoor swing but the real surprise occurs inside. The interior is a careful collection of Contemporary, Traditional and Rustic pieces and exemplifies chic yet comfortable design. The living room is perfection in my eyes and I love the pairing of the contemporary coffee table along with the textural jute rug and the colourful printed throw cushions.
Another unexpected space in this classic Hamptons home is the eclectic dining space off the kitchen showcasing contemporary oversized pendant lights with rustic seating and distressed table.
Perhaps one of the most important spaces for summertime entertaining and living in a Hamptons home is the outdoors. This pool and seating area surrounded by perfectly manicured lawns is the perfect place to spend your days or nights! For more home inspiration visit me on pinterest.


The subject of Tropical Medicine has become so broad and the contributions to it so numerous that one welcomes this work, containing, as it does, the most important advances in this subject condensed into a comparatively small space, with the retention of the practical value of the original contribution. The field covered by this book is immense and no one is better qualified to do so than the distinguished author. Needless to say, the book is an admirable addition to the literature of the subject and one that should be in the hands of every student and practitioner of medicine in the tropics, as well as in other regions, for tropical diseases are no longer confined within the limits of the tropical and subtropical zones.


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Now Playing at 59E59 Theaters
Written by Cynthia Allen
Photography by Carol Rosegg
Playwright Richard Strand's Butler is an outstanding, captivating, important play about race relations – part historical drama and part biography. In wake of the 2016 summer shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota, Dallas, and elsewhere, the issues debated in Butler about Black equality are extremely timely.
A simple act of defiance or a "why not?" decision can be a catalyst for change. For example, on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks challenged a bus driver, refusing to give up her seat to a white man, thereby making a stand against an unjust segregation law. And, on November 9, 1989, a Berlin checkpoint captain, Harald Jäger, decided to open the Berlin Wall gates, effectively ending the Cold War.
In Butler, the play focuses on such a moment in history — another catalyst — a moment that helped enact a sea change for racial equality. On May 23, 1861 at Fort Monroe, Virginia, three courageous fugitive slaves – Shepard Mallory, Frank Baker and James Townsend – and a shrewd politic Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler worked in tandem in unexpected ways to set in motion the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862.
Fort Monroe, Virginia is central in the momentous events, which altered history for people of color – actually two specific histories. Ironically, in August 1619, this exact location was where the first Africans (20 African captives) set foot on the North American continent and where slavery first was established. Almost 250 years later, the Union-held Virginia Fort Monroe was where the three refugee slaves sought sanctuary from the Confederacy. They escaped from the Confederate-held post of Big Bethel, Virginia, eight miles away.
A key event to these Virginia locations being pivotal was the Confederacy Act the day before (May 22, 1861). Virginia seceded from the Union and became essentially a "foreign country." Laws particular to the United States of America no longer applied to the Confederate States, including The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Butler, both a military man and lawyer in civil life, recognized the judicial loophole and took action to establish a way and means by which slaves did not have to be returned to the Confederacy and their "owners," and, in fact, could become part of the Union army.
Butler is not just a story about one man, but two – Benjamin Butler (Ames Adamson) and Shepard Mallory (John G. Williams). However important the other two slaves who sought asylum were, their contributions are back-story in the play, and the other two slaves are never seen. It is through Butler's and Mallory's meetings, conversations and decisions that caused the dominos to fall and change history.
Besides Butler and Mallory, Union Lt. Kelly (Benjamin Sterling) and Confederate Major Cary (David Stiller) are an integral part of the drama. Joseph Discher (Director) has inspired exceptional performances from all four actors, each channeling their characters in distinct ways.
The two main actors, Butler and Mallory, square off against each other in an admirable battle of wits, circling each other with one rhetoric jab after another. Butler has never had a conversation with a black man. Mallory, a learned man, surprises Butler with his eruditeness. Butler becomes more and more intrigued by Mallory's knowledge of and use of words. Butler is an absorbing boxing match on which historical revisions are not based on rabbit punches, but verbal feints.
Butler, a lawyer and aspiring politician, weighs words more carefully than most military men. The opening scene of the play establishes how words and their importance come into play. Butler demands that words be precise. Astonished is different from being surprised. A request is considered being polite; a demand is not. Butler takes offense at having demands made of him.
I spoke with Ames Adamson and John G. Williams about the moment in the play that stands out to them the most:
Ames Adamson (Butler): "Mallory's entrance into Butler's office and Mallory and Butler regarding each other. Butler has never been confronted by a slave before. I am sure Butler has seen them, but not in such close proximity as a man. And Mallory is standing almost exactly as Butler is standing. And looking Butler straight in the eye. Mallory and Butler regard each other. And I think that's a very powerful moment. And then Mallory, of course, tells what's happened to him. But when Mallory shows Butler the scars on his back, Butler sees that this is a "man," a human who has been tortured. And that sets the dominos falling."
John Williams (Mallory): "In piggy-backing on what Ames just said, for me, a significant moment for my character [Mallory] in his journey he takes throughout the play is the line, 'You find me interesting, don't you?' The line comes at the same scene that Ames just referred to … I feel that Mallory has been waiting his whole life to give a confession about the person that he is. And, he has found a willing listener. Someone who wants to know him. The way that [Butler] takes that in and says 'thank you.' It's sort of weighted. Nobody has ever found [Mallory] interesting before. He knows that he is interesting but nobody has ever seen it. And Butler sees it. From that point on Mallory feels he can work with [Butler]."
Strand structures their discussions with comedic panache – ping pong exchanges with each trying to one up the other. Discher directs their back and forth debates with fast-paced humor. Discher carefully choreographs their meetings of mind and quick witted conversations so that they escalate into a growing trust of each other and camaraderie.
Adamson portrays Butler as a man not to be toyed – brazen, confident, with a tad of hubris. Adamson highlights Butler's pride in securing a military general's commission, but also aptly conveys his assuredness and his abilities as a canny attorney.
Williams' Mallory counters Butler effectively, depicting Mallory as a complex, quick-change artist, who can easily swing between being impertinent, cocksure, guarded, hotheaded, and clever – at a moment's notice. Mallory gets away (except in one instance) with slyly making sport of Butler, without crossing the line.
As their guarded relationship grows into mutual respect, Butler comments: "You are a collection of contradictions. You're brash but wary. I don't even know how it's possible to be both of those things at once. You seem, I don't know, scared and overly confident at the same time. You're humble and arrogant at once. It's quite remarkable."
Mallory recognizes first how "not unlike" they are, when he proclaims: "It's because I remind you of you. It's because I'm just like you."
And, it is Mallory who maintains, and even plants a seed with Butler: "I heard a good lawyer can always use convoluted reasoning to find a loophole."
Butler's right-hand is Lt. Kelly, who shifts from being on the fence as to what to do about Mallory to taking Mallory's side. Benjamin Sterling subtly captures Lt. Kelly's belief shift in whether or not to like this Black man, to changing his opinion and to trying to champion him. Sterling maintains the air of puzzled complaisance as his change towards Mallory evolves.
David Stiller takes on the difficult role of the Confederate Major Cary – conveying both superciliousness and ignorance.
As Butler comes to like Mallory, Butler grudgingly begins to agree there may be ways to bend the law in Mallory's favor, and Butler devises a way to shrewdly use language in the service of justice.
A pivotal plot point occurs when Confederate Major Cary confronts Butler and reads a document drafted by his superior, Confederate Colonel Charles Mallory:
"You have, in your possession, property belonging to Colonel Charles Mallory of the Sovereign State of Virginia. Specifically, you are sheltering three runaway slaves: Shepard Mallory, Frank Baker and James Townsend. We 'demand' that you release those slaves to the custody of Major John B. Cary, also of of the Sovereign State of Virginia, as is appropriate under the Constitution of the United States, and the universal Articles of War. If you refuse our 'demand,' we will have no choice but to consider you no more than a common thief and we will take appropriate measures in response."
When Cary reads the document, his usage of the word, "demand," triggers an aha moment for Butler. He sees a way out for Mallory and the other slaves, where Butler is not obligated to return them to the Confederacy. Butler realizes the slaves are 'contraband.'
Butler (addressing Cary) in the play: "Nothing in either document (the Constitution and The Fugitive Slave Act) requires me to return a runaway slave to a foreign country. Yesterday, I'd have been obliged to return these three men to the state of Virginia. But since yesterday Virginia has claimed to be no longer a part of the United States …. The three slaves you speak of – the property you allude to – they were being used by you to build fortifications. They are, therefore, contraband …. which I can impound according to the Articles of War."
The playwright, Richard Strand, gives the words "demand" and "contraband" weight – shifting the balance for Butler to be able to help Mallory.
Strand researched the Civil War extensively and stated that he came to know about Butler and his relationship to the fugitive slaves by way of reading a biography about Abraham Lincoln. However, Strand discovered Mallory and the other slaves' contributions to history as but a footnote in the Lincoln biography he read. Strand felt impassioned to render Mallory's and Butler's story; their relationship deserved much more consideration.
Strand was unable to find out much about what became of Mallory or the others after 1861. But, Butler lived on to become both famous, as well as notorious. Among Butler's accomplishments was his appointment of the first woman to a political office in his home state of Massachusetts— Clara Barton, the pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
However, according to Ames Adamson's research, Butler was not highly regarded in New Orleans, when the city was under his command in 1862. Butler made hard choices to save New Orleans from the yellow fever epidemic. He was hated for his strict quarantines and his serve measures for garbage disposal, and became known as the "Beast of New Orleans." Butler's unpopularity reached such heights that he was ridiculed in the most outrageous way — his image was stamped into the bottom of chamber pots (which can still be procured on eBay today).
Terry Gilliam too has immortalized Benjamin Franklin Butler in his opening title sequence of the British TV series, Monty Python's Flying Circus. After Gilliam announces: "Now for something completely different," Butler's photo pops up over the TV series title, whereby a large foot stomps on him. Butler's feats of accomplishment in public policy are legendary today despite his notoriety.
Kudos to Richard Strand, the actors and production designers in portraying an historic event that might have been left obscured. Butler is Strand's tribute to the two catalysts that largely caused the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 to be enacted — Shepard Mallory's act of defiance and Benjamin Franklin Butler's "why not?" decision.
Butler (through August 28, 2016)
Produced by New Jersey Repertory Company (Artistic Director SuzAnne Barabas, Executive Producer Gabor Barabas) by special arrangement with Eric Falkenstein, Czekaj Artistic Productions, Ken Wirth, and Jamie deRoy/Catherine Adler at 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues, in Manhattan
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Running time: two hours with one intermission
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I woke up this morning earlier than I'd planned on account of Oscar who was grinding an iron beam in half about 75' from my window, on the other side of a 5' high hollow cinderblock wall, which resonated with and amplified the higher range of frequencies.
"What the fuck are you doing at 6:AM on Saturday morning, Oscar."
Oscar is the middle-aged ex-Guatamalan jack-of-all who works for Fred in return for half a house opposite the Falafel take-out next door.
"You're not stupid, Oscar. You know what I mean, don't you."
"It's my job, I got to work, man."
"You don't got to do this at 6:AM and it's illegal. You know that."
"My boss wants me to do it now."
"Does Fred want me to call the cops who will shut you down and fine him?"
"OK. Stop the noise and don't do it again because next time, I'm calling the cops."
Fred, by the way, is the owner of the trailer park where I live and he also owns Falafel King, which is where Oscar was fabricating an illegal addition to the dumpster enclosure, possibly doing it on the weekend so the building code people who he paid off don't get blamed. When these incompetents are working at all, they never do it on weekends. According to Oscar, they're all uneducated, hired with a GED and given 3 months training to inspect the work of structural contractors. You want to understand failed levees and bridges that fall?
The other thing that Oscar told me is that businesses here in Santa Maria don't pay minimum wages, not in the fields, not in the stores, nowhere, not to mention health care, retirement or any of that other good shit that was the norm about 20 years ago. He says he works 40hrs a week on a job that pays $450/week but it's really 65hrs a week. Do the math. Oscar's no rocket scientist but he's bright enough to know that's $7.50 an hour before taxes, and he's driving a big truck on this job, so much for the teamsters, so much for Cesar Chavez. This is a whole new century.


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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing society and our lives. A lot of the "buzz" around AI concerns consumer devices such as Amazon Alexa, self-driving cars, and industrial devices such as robots which are changing the workplace. AI is also having a major impact on clinical medicine, especially in contexts such as medical imaging where complex data needs to be analysed.
AI can also help first responders, that is people on the scene who deal with medical emergencies until paramedics or other qualified medical personnel arrive (such as airline cabin crew when there is an in-flight medical emergency). Recent data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) indicates 7.8 billion people are expected to take to the sky by 2036. The pressure is therefore on to find innovative ways to support cabin crew first response.
Reducing risk: The worst-case scenario for any first responder is that they forget to do something or are unsure what to do, and the patient deteriorates. AI systems can monitor what first responders do, and give reminders or alerts, prompting them to take action appropriately. Monitoring can be based on sensor data and information entered by the first responder; in the longer-term computer vision systems could be used to watch the first responder and the patient. It may sound like "Big Brother" to have an AI system literally watching over the responder's shoulder, but most would welcome anything which observes their actions and warns them about potential changes in patient status.
Giving advice: Sometimes first responders need to make potentially life-critical decisions. These can be medical interventions, such as giving the patient oxygen. They can also be logistical, such as deciding whether a flight needs to make an emergency diversion (which of course is expensive for the airline and disruptive for all passengers). AI systems can help in such cases by making recommendations based on real-time available data, including contextual data (e.g. how far the plane is from its destination) as well as medical data. These recommendations can be based on explicit "best-practice" rules; they can also be based on analysis (perhaps using machine learning techniques) of previous incidents.
Handover: When the passenger is delivered to ambulance services or other medical personnel, the first responder needs to brief the paramedics on the patient's status, what happened before the emergency (e.g. observations from people in neighbouring seats), and what happened while the first responder was looking after the patient (both medical problems and interventions carried out). This may sound trivial but it's not; people often forget to mention important information during handover, especially in stressful situations. Again, AI systems can help in handover, by pulling together relevant data and using natural language generation (NLG) technology to produce an accurate summary of the data for the paramedics. It's like a translator, which converts data into language.
In 2018, AI is just starting to be used in first responder contexts. In five years' time, I expect that AI will be an essential tool used by all first responders. I certainly think it can play a major role in helping cabin crew do a high-quality job of looking after their passengers.
Written by Professor Ehud Reiter, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen.


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