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ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #16
J.M.:
I think I've found the clue as to how Zoroaster, flying saucers and all that lunatic-fringe stuff fits into the Illuminati puzzle. Dig this, boss-man:
The Nazi Party was founded as the political appendage of the Thule Society, an extremist fringe of the Illuminated Lodge of Berlin. This lodge, in turn, was made up of Rosicrucians -high Freemasons- and its preoccupation was mourning the death of the feudal system. Masons of this time were, like the Federalist Party in post-revolutionary America, working diligently to prevent "anarchy" and preserve the old values by bringing about Christian Socialism. Indeed, the Aaron Burr conspiracy, which Professor Hofstadter notes was allegedly Masonic in origin, was an American prototype of German intrigues of a century later. To their external scientific socialism these Masons added mystic concepts which were thought to be "gnostic" in origin. One of these was the concept of "Gnosticism" itself, called Illumination- which held that heavenly beings directly or indirectly gave humanity its great ideas and would come back to Earth after mankind had achieved sufficient progress. Illumination was a brand of Pentecostalism which was persecuted by orthodox Christianity for centuries and had become lodged in Freemasonry through a complex historical process which is impossible to explain without a major digression. It is sufficient to say that the Nazis, being "Illuminated," felt themselves to be divinely inspired and therefore felt justified in rewriting the rules of good and evil to suit their own purposes.
(According to Nazi theory) the heavenly beings, before the present Moon was captured, had lived on the highest ground, in Peru, Mexico, Condor (Ethiopia), Himalaya, Atlantis and Mu, forming the Uranian Confederation. This was taken quite seriously and British intelligence actually combated it with the Tolkien fantasy called the "Silmarillion," basis for the famous "Hobbit" books…
Both J. Edgar Hoover and Congressman Otto Passman are high-ranking Masons and both, significantly, reflect this philosophy and its Manichean attitude. The chief danger in Masonic thinking aside from the "divine right of government" is, of course, Manicheanism, the belief that your opponent is opposing God's will and is therefore an agent of Satan. This is the extreme application and Mr. Hoover usually reserves it for "Godless Communism" but it is almost always present to some degree.
Source: "The Nazi Religion: Views on Religious Statism in Germany and America" by J. F. C. Moore, Libertarian American, Vol. III, No. 3, August 1969.
They were using Mace now, and I saw one photographer snapping a picture of a cop while the cop was still Macing him (Heisenberg rides again! From out of the west come the thundering hooves of the great hearse, Joint Phenomenon! Except that I was on acid; if I'd been on weed, then it would really, royally, be a Joint Phenomenon). And I heard later that the photographer got an award for that shot. Right then, he didn't look like he was getting an award. He looked like they had just taken off his skin and touched each raw nerve with a dentist's drill. "Christ," I said to Hagbard, "look at that poor bastard. I hope I come out of this with just another teargassing or two. I don't want any of that Mace." But acid is placid, you know, and a minute later I was on Joyce's juices again and thinking of a drama called 'Their Mace and My Gripes." I made the first line fruity, in honor of Padre Pederastia: "What a botch of a pair to plumb this hour's gripes."
"Bism'allah," Hagbard said. "Our karma is made by our deeds, not by our prayers. You're on the set, so you take the action as it comes."
"Oh, cut out that Holy Man craperoo and stop reading my mind," I protested. "You don't have to go on impressing me." But I was off on another tangent, which went something like this: If this set is Mayor Daley's circus, then Mayor Daley is the ringmaster. If the things below are the things above, as Hermes hermetically hinted, then this set is the bigger set. Mr. Microcosm, meet Mr. Macrocosm. "Hi, Mike!" "Hi, Mac." Conclusion: Mayor Daley, in a small way, is what Krishna is, in a large way. QED.
Just then some SDS kids who'd been teargassed across the street came running our way, and Hagbard got busy handing out wet handkerchiefs. They needed them: they were half-blind, like Joyce splitting his Adam into wise hopes. And I wasn't much help, because I was tod busy crying myself.
"Hagbard," I gasped in ecstasy. "Mayor Daley is Krishna."
"Worse luck for him," he said curtly, distributing the handkerchiefs. "He doesn't suspect it."
I thought, suddenly:
Hubert the Hump has coughed and hawked And spat on the streets that Lincoln walked
The water turned to blood (Hagbard was a joking jolting Jesus: you expected wine maybe?) and I remembered my mother's story about Dillinger at the Biograph. We all sit there, like him, in the Biograph Theatre, dreaming the drama of our lives, then walk outside to the grandmotherly kindness of the lead kisses that wake us back to our slipping beatitude. Except that he found a way to come back. What was it Charley Mordecai said: "First as tragedy, then as farce?" Marxism-Lennonism: Ed Sanders of the Fugs, the night before, talking about fucking in the streets as if he had read my mind (or had I read his?) and Lennon's "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" was recorded a year in the future. The Marx and our groupies. The bloody handkerchiefs dipped into water, or wine, and the mass rite went on, the mass went Right On, the Mace they rowed. Capone set it up for the Feds, but John was fed up and left the set, so an extra named Frank Sullivan got the bullets. The Autobiograph Theatre, a drama house and a trauma, yes. I maybe should have taken only half a tab instead of the full 500 mikes, because at that point the SDS kids, all of them siding with RYM-I at the split next year, looked like they had altarboy robes on and I thought Hagbard was distributing communion wafers, not handkerchiefs. He looked at me, suddenly, with that hawk-faced Egyptian glare, and I observed that he had observed, Hopalong Horus Heisenberg, just where I was at You don't have to be a waterman, I thought, to know which way my mind is blowing.
There was a sound from the crowd, like a subway opening all its doors with a suck of air, and I saw the police coming, crossing the street to clear the park.
"Here we go again," I said. "All hail Discordia,"
"Snafu ueber alles," Hagbard grinned, starting to trot beside me.
We headed North, figuring that the ones who retreated eastward would get trapped against the wall and creamed. "Democracy in action," I said, panting along.
'There thou might'st behold the very image of Authority," he quoted, shifting his water bucket to keep it in balance. I caught the Shakespearean reference and looked back: my mind had already: each policeman indeed looked like Shakespeare's dog. I remembered the frantic semantics at the LBJ anti-birthday party, when Burroughs insisted Chicago Cops were more like dogs than pigs, in contradiction to the SDS rhetoric. Terry Southern, taking his usual maniacal middle course, claimed they were more akin to the purple-assed mandrill, most surly of the baboon family. But most of them hadn't discovered writing yet.
"Authority?" I asked, realizing I'd lost something along the way. We were slowing to a walk, the action was behind us.
"A is not A," Hagbard explained with that tiresome patience of his. "Once you accept A is A, you're hooked. Literally hooked, addicted to the System."
I caught the references to Aristotle, the old man of the tribe with his unfortunate epistemological paresis, and also to that feisty little lady I always imagine is really the lost Anastasia, but I still didn't grok. "What do you mean?" I asked, grabbing a wet handkerchief as some of the teargas started to drift to our end of the park.
"Chairman Mao didn't say half of it," Hagbard replied holding a handkerchief to his own face. His words came through muffled: "It isn't only political power that grows out of the barrel of a gun. So does a whole definition of reality. A set. And the action that has to happen on that particular set and on none other."
"Don't be so bloody patronizing," I objected, looking around a corner in time and realizing this was the night I would be Maced. "That's just Marx: the ideology of the ruling class becomes the ideology of the whole society."
"Not the ideology. The Reality." He lowered his handkerchief. "This was a public park until they changed the definition. Now, the guns have changed the Reality. It isn't a public park. There's more than one kind of magic."
"Just like the Enclosure Acts," I said hollowly. "One day the land belonged to the people. The next day it belonged to the landlords."
"And like the Narcotics Acts," he added. "A hundred thousand harmless junkies became criminals overnight, by Act of Congress, in nineteen twenty-seven. Ten years later, in thirty-seven, all the pot-heads in the country became criminals overnight, by Act of Congress. And they really were criminals, when the papers were signed. The guns prove it. Walk away from those guns, waving a joint, and refuse to halt when they tell you. Their Imagination will become your Reality in a second."
And I had my answer to Dad, finally, just as a cop jumped out of the darkness screaming something about freaking motherfucking fag commies and Maced me, as was certain to happen (I knew it as I crumbled in pain) on that set.
ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #15 8/6 | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #16 8/7


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United Nations Report Presses U.S. on Child Refugee Safety
By Joel Millman
March 12, 2014 3:24 pm ET
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has called on the U.S. and other governments in the Americas "to keep children safe from human rights abuses, violence and crime" in what the agency says is a surge of undocumented minors trafficked into the U.S. by criminal smuggling networks.
The report, "Children on the Run," was released in Washington, D.C., Wednesday by the U.N. refugee agency. It said such trafficking involved 21,537 children last year, up from 4,059 in 2011.
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Alfie Evans, who has been at the centre of a long-running legal battle, has died.
The 23-month-old had been suffering from a rare condition that doctors said had irreversibly destroyed much of his brain.
He was first admitted to Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool in December 2016.
Alfie has been cared for by doctors and nurses at the hospital for over a year, in which time his parents have fought a lengthy legal battle to have him moved to another hospital in Rome.
Alfie lost his fight last night at 2.30am.
His parents have said they are 'heartbroken' in a post on Facebook.
The post on Facebook said: "Our baby boy grew his wings tonight at 2:30 am. We are heart broken. Thankyou everyone for all your support."
Mr Evans said their lives had been "turned upside down" by the "intense focus" his case had received.
"Our little family along with Alder Hey has become the centre of attention for many people around the world and it has meant we have not been able to live our lives as we would like," he said.
Alder Hey Children's Hospital have paid tribute to Alfie after his death.
The hospital, where Alfie was receiving care for a degenerative brain condition, extended their condolences to the boy's family.
Describing the 23-month-old's battle as a 'devastating journey', the hospital said their thoughts went out to parents Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20.
Alder Hey also asked people to respect the family's privacy and the privacy of hospital staff.
In a statement issued this morning, Alder Hey said: "We wish to express our heartfelt sympathy and condolences to Alfie's family at this extremely distressing time.
"All of us feel deeply for Alfie, Kate, Tom and his whole family and our thoughts are with them.
"This has been a devastating journey for them and we would ask that their privacy and the privacy of staff at Alder Hey is respected."
Tributes have been left outside the hospital, where a special area has been set up for people to lay flowers.
A spokesman for Alder Hey has issued advice to mourners wanting to lay flowers or other tributes outside the hospital today.
The volume of tributes expected has necessitated a dedicated section being set up in Springfield Park next to the hospital.
In a statement shared with the ECHO, Aldery hey said: "We feel sure people will wish to place tributes to Alfie along with messages of support for Kate and Tom.
"To ensure there is sufficient space for these and to ensure the safety of all those who wish to visit, we have secured a suitable place in Springfield Park situated next to Alder Hey Hospital.
"This is on the advice of Merseyside Police.
"People will be available to direct you to that space throughout the weekend."
A heart shaped balloon left in memory of Alfie Evans outside Alder Hey Hospital.(Pic Andrew Teebay).
Members of Alfie's Army have organised a balloon release in memory of the 23-month-old at Alder Hey this afternoon.
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Mihiroa's world revolves around her whānau, her hockey and her school. Sparks fly when she meets Kēriana for the first time. Both Mihiroa and Kēriana are whāngai, and both are champion hockey players. What will become of this relationship? This resource is a set which includes the novel Mihiroa, a CD recording of Mihiroa being read by the author, and a teachers guide.


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Q: Efficient implementation of multi-dimensional arrays in Java? As far as I understand (from answers such as this), java has no native multi-dimensional continuous memory arrays (unlike C#, for example).
While the jagged array syntax (arrays of arrays) might be good for most applications, I would still like to know what's the best practice if you do want the raw efficiency of a continuous-memory array (avoiding unneeded memory reads)
I could of course use a single-dimensional array that maps to a 2D one, but I prefer something more structured.

A: it's not difficult to do it manually:
int[] matrix = new int[ROWS * COLS];

int x_i_j = matrix[ i*COLS + j ];

now, is it really faster than java's multi dimension array?
int x_i_j = matrix[i][j];

for random access, maybe. for continuous access, probably not - matrix[i] is almost certainly in L1 cache, if not in register cache. in best scenario, matrix[i][j] requires one addition and one memory read; while matrix[i*COLS + j] may cost 2 additions, one multiply, one memory read. but who's counting?

A: It depends on your access pattern. Using this simple program, comparing an int[][] with a 2D mapped over a 1D int[] array treated as a matrix, a native Java 2D matrix is:

*

*25% faster when the row is on the cache, ie: accessing by rows:

*100% slower when the row is not in the cache, ie: accessing by colums:

ie:
// Case #1
for (y = 0; y < h; y++)
    for (x = 0; x < w; x++)
        // Access item[y][x]

// Case #2
for (x = 0; x < w; x++)
    for (y = 0; y < h; y++)
        // Access item[y][x]

The 1D matrix is calculated as:
public int get(int x, int y) {
    return this.m[y * width + x];
}

A: Let's say you have a 2D array int[][] a = new int[height][width], so by convention you have the indices a[y][x]. Depending on how you represent the data and how you access them, the performance varies in a factor of 20 :

The code:
public class ObjectArrayPerformance {
    public int width;
    public int height;
    public int m[];

    public ObjectArrayPerformance(int w, int h) {
            this.width = w;
            this.height = h;
            this.m = new int[w * h];
    }

    public int get(int x, int y) {
            return this.m[y * width + x];
    }

    public void set(int x, int y, int value) {
            this.m[y * width + x] = value;
    }

    public static void main (String[] args) {
            int w = 1000, h = 2000, passes = 400;

            int matrix[][] = new int[h][];

            for (int i = 0; i < h; ++i) {
                    matrix[i] = new int[w];
            }

            long start;
            long duration;

            System.out.println("duration[ms]\tmethod");

            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int z = 0; z < passes; z++) {
                    for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
                        for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
                                    matrix[y][x] = matrix[y][x] + 1;
                            }
                    }
            }
            duration = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
            System.out.println(duration+"\t2D array, loop on x then y");

            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int z = 0; z < passes; z++) {
                    for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
                            for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
                                    matrix[y][x] = matrix[y][x] + 1;
                            }
                    }
            }
            duration = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
            System.out.println(duration+"\t2D array, loop on y then x");

            //

            ObjectArrayPerformance mt = new ObjectArrayPerformance(w, h);
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int z = 0; z < passes; z++) {
                    for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
                            for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
                                    mt.set(x, y, mt.get(x, y) + 1);
                            }
                    }
            }
            duration = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
            System.out.println(duration+"\tmapped 1D array, access trough getter/setter");

            //

            ObjectArrayPerformance mt2 = new ObjectArrayPerformance(w, h);
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int z = 0; z < passes; z++) {
                    for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
                            for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
                                    mt2.m[y * w + x] = mt2.m[y * w + x] + 1;
                            }
                    }
            }
            duration = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
            System.out.println(duration+"\tmapped 1D array, access through computed indexes, loop y then x");

            ObjectArrayPerformance mt3 = new ObjectArrayPerformance(w, h);
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int z = 0; z < passes; z++) {
                    for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
                        for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
                                    mt3.m[y * w + x] = mt3.m[y * w + x] + 1;
                            }
                    }
            }
            duration = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
            System.out.println(duration+"\tmapped 1D array, access through computed indexes, loop x then y");

            ObjectArrayPerformance mt4 = new ObjectArrayPerformance(w, h);
            start = System.currentTimeMillis();
            for (int z = 0; z < passes; z++) {
                    for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
                        int yIndex = y * w;
                        for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
                                    mt4.m[yIndex + x] = mt4.m[yIndex + x] + 1;
                            }
                    }
            }
            duration = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
            System.out.println(duration+"\tmapped 1D array, access through computed indexes, loop x then y, yIndex optimized");
    }
}

We can conclude that linear access performance depends more on the way you process the array (lines then columns or the reverse?: performance gain = x10, much due to CPU caches) than the structure of the array itself (1D vs 2D : performance gain = x2).
If random access, the performance differences should be much lower, because the CPU caches have less effect.

A: If you really want more structure with a continuous-memory array, wrap it in an object.
public class My2dArray<T> {

  int sizeX;

  private T[] items;

  public My2dArray(int x, int y) {
    sizeX = x;
    items = new T[x*y];
  }

  public T elementAt(int x, int y) {
    return items[x+y*sizeX];
  }

}

Not a perfect solution, and you probably already know it.  So consider this confirmation of what you suspected to be true.
Java only provides certain constructs for organizing code, so eventually you'll have to reach for a class or interface.  Since this also requires specific operations, you need a class.
The performance impacts include creating a JVM stack frame for each array access, and it would be ideal to avoid such a thing; however, a JVM stack frame is how the JVM implements it's scoping.  Code organization requires appropriate scoping, so there's not really a way around that performance hit that I can imagine (without violating the spirit of "everything is an object").

A: Sample implementation, without a compiler. This is basically what C/C++ do behind the scenes when you access multidimensional arrays. You'll have to further define accessor behaviour when less than the actual dimensions are specified & so on. Overhead will be minimal and could be optimized further, but thats microoptimizing imho. Also, you never actually know what goes on under the hood after JIT kicks in.
class MultiDimentionalArray<T> {
//disclaimer: written within SO editor, might contain errors
    private T[] data;
    private int[] dimensions; //holds each dimensions' size

    public MultiDimensionalArray(int... dims) {
        dimensions = Arrays.copyOf(dims, dims.length);
        int size = 1;
        for(int dim : dims)
            size *= dim;
        data = new T[size];
    }

   public T access(int... dims) {
       int idx = 1;
       for(int i = 0; i < dims.length)
            idx += dims[i] * dimensions[i]; //size * offset
       return data[idx];
    }
}

A: The most efficient method of implementing multi-dimensional arrays is by utilizing one-dimensional arrays as multi-dimensional arrays. See this answer about mapping a 2D array into a 1D array.
// 2D data structure as 1D array
int[] array = new int[width * height];
// access the array
array[x + y * width] = /*value*/;

I could of course use a single-dimensional array that maps to a 2D one, but I prefer something more structured.

If you want to access array in a more structured manner, create a class for it:
public class ArrayInt {

    private final int[] array;
    private final int width, height;

    public ArrayInt(int width, int height) {
        array = new int[width * height];
        this.width = width;
        this.height = height;
    }

    public int getWidth() {
        return width;
    }

    public int getHeight() {
        return height;
    }

    public int get(int x, int y) {
        return array[x + y * width];
    }

    public void set(int x, int y, int value) {
        array[x + y * width] = value;
    }

}

If you wanted arrays of objects, you could use generics and define class Array<T>, where T is the object stored in the array.
Performance-wise, this will, in most cases, be faster than a multi-dimensional array in Java. The reasons can be found in the answers to this question.

A: If you cannot live without C constructs, there's always JNI.
Or you could develop your own Java-derived language (and VM and optimizing JIT compiler) that has a syntax for multidimensional continuous-memory arrays.

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Geografia

Zone
 Montalbano (monte) – rilievo montuoso fra il Valdarno inferiore e la piana di Prato, Pistoia e Firenze
 Montalbano di Mori – bastionata rocciosa in Trentino
 Montalbano (Chianti) – vino Chianti prodotto nella omonima zona (deriva dal precedente)
 Montalbano (sottozona) – sottozona di produzione del vino Chianti
 IGP Toscano menzione Montalbano – olio extravergine d'oliva Toscano prodotto nell'omonima zona
 Monte Albano – antico nome del Monte Cavo, nei pressi di Roma

Comuni
 Montalbano Elicona – comune italiano nella città metropolitana di Messina
 Montalbano Jonico – comune italiano in provincia di Matera

Frazioni
 Montalbano – frazione di Fasano in provincia di Brindisi
 Montalbano – frazione di Ferrara
 Montalbano – frazione di Medolla in provincia di Modena
 Montalbano – frazione di Zocca in provincia di Modena
 Montalbano – località (non frazione) di Cattolica in provincia di Rimini
Montalbano – frazione del comune di Santarcangelo di Romagna
 Montalbano – antica denominazione italiana di Montauban

Persone
 Accursio Montalbano – Senatore della Repubblica italiano
 Giuseppe Montalbano – Deputato italiano e sottosegretario
 Giuseppe Montalbano – Senatore della Repubblica italiano
 Renato Montalbano – attore italiano
 Vincenzo Montalbano – calciatore italiano

Media
 Salvo Montalbano – personaggio letterario e televisivo creato da Andrea Camilleri, trasposto in due serie televisive:
 Il commissario Montalbano – serie televisiva italiana prodotta dal 1999
 Il giovane Montalbano – serie televisiva italiana prodotta dal 2012 al 2015, prequel de Il commissario Montalbano

Altro
 Montalbano – nei poemi cavallereschi del ciclo carolingio, la famiglia di Rinaldo

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Bourbon County is the name of two counties and one former county in the United States:

Bourbon County, Georgia (1785-1788)
Bourbon County, Kansas
 Bourbon County, Kentucky, originally Bourbon County, Virginia (1785–1792)


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With Omnivore Recordings recent acquisition of the Nighthawk Records label, They have been steadily rolling out new re-issues of classic reggae artists like Justin Hinds and Ethiopian & His All-Stars. They continue with the April 20th releases of two early eighties albums from the Gladiators, 1982's "Symbol Of Reality" and 1984's "Serious Thing."
The Gladiators were founded in 1966 by singer/guitarist Albert Griffiths and the group found success early, in 1968 with their hit single "Hello Carol." The band had a cult following throughout their career, never-fully breaking into the worldwide music market, but these new re-issues will certainly remind you of how good the Gladiators were on the Nighthawk Records label.
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Le Sutta Nipāta (pali), « choix d'instructions » , « collection de suttas », « ensemble de textes » ou « dépôt de sermons », est un recueil de sutras. C'est le  livre du Khuddaka Nikāya , «petits textes ou petits discours », lui-même étant la  partie du Sutta Pitaka du canon pali.

C'est l'un des recueils les plus anciens du bouddhisme. Par convention, les auteurs d'ouvrages bouddhiques utilisent l'abréviation « Sn » pour désigner les textes du Sutta Nipāta, pour la distinguer de « SN », qui fait traditionnellement référence au Samyutta Nikāya.

Divisé en cinq sections (vagga), il  est composé de 70 sutras (pali : sutta), 1 prologue et 1 épilogue, principalement sous forme versifiée, et quelques passages en prose.

Certains font également partie d'autres collections, comme le Majjhima Nikaya ou le Khuddakapāṭha). Une section figure dans le canon bouddhique chinois.

Certains auteurs considèrent que l'ensemble forme :  soit un tout homogène, soit un assemblage sans ordre logique, ou estiment que la plupart des suttas pourraient être antérieurs au bouddhisme et avoir été incorporés tardivement au corpus canonique.

Datation
L'orientaliste japonais Hajime Nakamura estime que le Sutta Nipāta est un recueil très ancien. Selon lui, les deux dernières parties, intitulées Atthaka vagga (Sn. IV)  et Parayana vagga (Sn. V), existaient déjà du vivant du Bouddha Gotama.

Le moine theravāda américain Bhikkhu Bodhi, estime lui aussi qu'il s'agit  de textes datant du bouddhisme primitif.

Deux indices plaident  en faveur d'une datation remontant au bouddhisme ancien :
– les deux parties (ou sections, ou vaggas) qui viennent d'être mentionnées, Atthaka vagga (Sn. IV)  et Parayana vagga (Sn. V), sont commentées dans le Khuddaka Nikāya. Livre XI. Niddesa : « Exposé  d'une partie du  Sutta Nipāta ». Le premier commentaire, (consacré à Sn.IV) intitulé Mahāniddesa est le plus long, 385 pages; le second, (consacré à  Sn. V) a pour titre Cūļaniddesa et compte 275 pages. Ces commentaires sont traditionnellement attribués  à  Sāriputta , le premier disciple du Bouddha.
– dans le canon bouddhique chinois, figure une traduction de la quatrième section Aṭṭhaka Vagga (Sn. IV). L'indianiste britannique  écrit : . Il ajoute, faisant référence aux travaux de   que l'Aṭṭhaka Vagga  fait vraisemblablement partie du canon Sarvāstivādin (une des écoles majeures du bouddhisme ancien).

Mais le moine theravāda américain   a un avis plus nuancé. Il considère qu'aucun élément connu à ce jour ne permet de conclure avec certitude  qu'il s'agit de textes du bouddhisme primitif (sans toutefois en exclure la possibilité).

Présentation
Par convention, les auteurs utilisent  l'abréviation « Sn » pour mentionner les textes du Sutta Nipāta, pour la distinguer de « SN », qui  fait traditionnellement référence au Samyutta Nikāya.

Le Sutta Nipāta (pali), que l'on peut traduire par : « choix d'instructions », « collection de suttas », « ensemble de textes » ou  « dépôt de sermons », est un recueil de sutras du bouddhisme ancien. C'est le  livre du Khuddaka Nikāya , « petits textes ou petits discours », lui-même étant la  partie du Sutta Pitaka, dont il est probablement la plus ancienne partie.

Comme la plupart des recueils du bouddhisme primitif, il est divisé en sections (vagga), cinq en l'occurrence. Il compte 70 suttas, plus un prologue et un épilogue.

Parmi les autres textes canoniques, un seul recueil lui est proche d'un point de vue stylistique. Il s'agit de la  section Sagāthā Vagga (SN.I), partie du Samyutta Nikāya (SN), dont plusieurs suttas sont versifiés sous forme de dialogue.

Il se distingue des autres recueils du canon, car tous les suttas qui le composent sont des poèmes rédigés en vers parfois mêlés de quelques passages en prose (sans qu'aucun ne soit qu'en prose). Il compte 1149 versets.

Trois suttas du Sutta Nipāta  figurent parmi les plus célèbres du bouddhisme ancien, comme : Sn. I.8 «Metta Sutta  ou  Karaṇīya-Mettā Sutta  (Discours sur la bienveillance ou la bonne volonté) » ;   Sn. II.1 . «Ratana Sutta (Les Trois Refuges) »  ; Sn. II.4 « Mahāmaṅgala Sutta (Discours sur la grande protection) ». Ils   tiennent une place importante dans le rituel de la tradition theravāda et sont récités quotidiennement sans les monastères, ainsi qu'à certaines occasions. Ils font partie des textes considérés comme étant protecteurs et sources de bénédiction spirituelle.

Occurrences multiples dans le canon pali
Quelques suttas figurent dans plusieurs recueils sous les mêmes titres, comme (énumération non exhaustive):
- le Sela Sutta: (Sn.III.7) dans le Sutta Nipāta (Sn) et (MN 92) dans le Majjhima Nikaya (MN);
- le Vāseṭṭha Sutta: (Sn.III.9)  dans le Sutta Nipāta  et (MN. 98) dans le  Majjhima Nikaya ;
- le Metta Sutta: (Sn. I.8 ) dans le Sutta Nipāta et (Khp.9) dans le Khuddakapatha (Khp);
- le Ratana Sutta: (Sn II.1) dans le Sutta Nipāta et  (Khp.6) dans le Khuddakapatha;
- le Mahamangala Sutta: (Sn.II.4) dans le Sutta Nipāta  et (Khp.5) dans le Khuddakapatha.

Il en est de même pour de nombreux versets, que l'on trouve dans deux, voire trois recueils, comme : les versets 45 et 46 du (Sn I.3) Khaggavisāṇa Sutta  (Seul comme un rhinocéros)  qui figurent en outre dans le Dhammapada (Dhp. XXIII) L'éléphant, versets 328 et 329 ; dans le  Vinaya Pitaka II. Khandhaka 10.1, L'histoire de Dīghāvu et dans le Majjhima  Nikaya (MN).

Dans le canon bouddhique chinois , une version de l' Aṭṭhaka Vagga (Sn. IV), ainsi que des fragments d'une version en sanskrit de l'ensemble du  Sutta Nipāta (Sn), ont été retrouvés.

Sections anciennes
 Section I. Uraga Vagga .
Le Khaggavisānasutta (Sn.I.3), semble également révéler une forme ancienne de monachisme bouddhique, qui insiste sur la quête individuelle d'une manière proche de la tradition indienne des samnyāsins. Une version assez complète de ce sutra a été  trouvée dans les textes bouddhistes gandhariens, en 1994, parmi les plus anciens manuscrits indiens connus.
Sections IV. Aṭṭhaka Vagga  et V. Pārāyana Vagga .
Les deux sections Aṭṭhaka Vagga (Sn. IV) et Pārāyana Vagga (Sn. V), sont considérées comme considérablement antérieures au reste du canon pali et révéleraient une forme plus précoce de la religion bouddhique. Ce point de vue se fonde sur l'aspect littéraire des textes, leur inclusion dans les commentaires les plus anciens, mais également parce qu'ils expriment des croyances bouddhiques sous une forme différente de leurs versions les plus courantes.

Luis Oscar Gómez note qu'elles traitent respectivement des questions des plaisirs sensuels en général (et non seulement sexuels), et du processus de libération, prajñā. La méditation bouddhique y est abordée sous un angle plus proche de la pratique samatha bhavana (la première étape), que de vipassanā bhavana (seconde étape), alors que les sutras ultérieurs du canon enseigneront l'équilibre entre des deux. Y est aussi mentionné le « monde du sans forme », arūpaloka , ce qui a amené l'auteur à souligner la proximité de ces enseignements avec ceux de l'école Madhyamika du bouddhisme mahāyāna, dans lesquels  la notion de vacuité, Śūnyatā, tient une place centrale.
 Ensemble du Sutta Nipāta.
En ce qui concerne l'articulation des sections entre elles, les auteurs indianistes ont des lectures différentes: Luis Oscar Gómez , considère que les cinq sections forment un tout homogène; Tilmann Vetter, estime qu'elles constituent un ensemble composite, car, selon lui, certains suttas (notamment ceux de Sn.IV. Aṭṭhaka Vagga ) proviendraient de groupe ascétiques ayant précédé Siddhartha Gautama, et auraient été intégrés postérieurement au corpus bouddhique; André Bareau est sur la même ligne, ne voyant, quant à lui, aucun ordre logique dans les sections du Sutta Nipāta, contrairement aux autres recueils du canon.

Bhikkhu Bodhi  note :

Composition
Le Sutta Nipāta est composé de 70 suttas, répartis en cinq sections (vaggas). Les titres indiqués en français sont basés sur les travaux de plusieurs auteurs :
 I. Uraga Vagga (Section du Serpent): 12 suttas ;
 II. Cûla Vagga (Petite  section) : 14 suttas ;
 III. Maha Vagga (Grande section) : 12 suttas ;
 IV.  (Section des Octades): 16 suttas ;
 V. Pārāyana Vagga ( Section du Chemin qui conduit au-delà) :16 suttas (plus 1 prologue et 1 épilogue).

I. Uraga Vagga (Section du Serpent), 12 suttas

II. Cūla Vagga (Petite section)

III. Mahā Vagga (Grande section)

IV. Atthaka Vagga (Section des Octades ou Octets)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Numéro du Sutra
! Titre en pāli
! Titre en français
|-
| Sn IV.1
| Kāma Sutta
| Les désirs sensuels
|-
| Sn IV.2
| Guhaṭṭhaka Sutta
| L'octade du corps-caverne.
|-
| Sn IV.3
| Duṭṭhaṭṭhaka Sutta
| L'octade de l'esprit corrompu.
|-
| Sn IV.4
| Suddhaṭṭhaka Sutta
| L'octade de l'esprit pur.
|-
| Sn IV.5
| Paramaṭṭhaka Sutta
| L'octade  de l'esprit suprême.. |-
| Sn IV.6
| Jarā Sutta
| La vieillesse |-
| Sn IV.7
| Tissametteyya Sutta
|  À Tissametteyya |-
| Sn IV.8
| Pasūra Sutta
| À Pasūra |-
| Sn IV.9
| Māgandiya Sutta
|  À Māgandiya |-
| Sn IV.10
| Purābheda Sutta
| Avant la dissolution du corps |-
| Sn IV.11
| Kalahavivāda Sutta
| Querelles et disputes |-
| Sn IV.12
| Cūlaviyūha Sutta
| Petit discours sur les désaccords.
 |-
| Sn IV.13
| Mahāviyūha Sutta
| Grand discours sur les désaccords |-
| Sn IV.14
| Tuvaṭaka Sutta
| La Voie rapide |-
| Sn IV.15
| Attadaṇḍa Sutta
| Celui qui a pris le bâton |-
| Sn IV.16
| Sāriputta Sutta
| Sāriputta |}
 V. Parayana Vagga (Section du Chemin qui conduit au-delà)

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L'édition originale (en anglais) a été publié par les éditions KUFS, à Osaka, Japon, en 1980. André Bareau en a fait le compte-rendu en 1984, dans la Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient , tome 73, 1984, p.366-368, lire en ligne . Consulté le .
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Dictionnaire
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Liens externes
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Q: FastDTW for Hand Gesture Pattern Recognition Example I am using a tri-axis accelerometer to capture the movements of the hand. While coming through the existing solutions, I found that FastDTW is a suitable one for identifying the patterns of a time series data set. I came across the following libraries.
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https://github.com/cscotta/fastdtw/tree/9322f2a74c96f9c38f253c702a57dd23a16cf777
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NATIV ■ Volume Fifteen ■ Number 3 (86) ■ June 2002 ■ Ariel Center for Policy Research
Islamic Extremism and Subversion in South Asia
Ajai Sahni and K.P.S. Gill
The idea that there has been a "shift" in the "locus of terrorism" towards South Asia is currently being vigorously propounded. This paper analyzes trends in terrorism and sectarian violence in this region in the context of the hypothesis that it is more accurate to speak of the spread or expansion of the sphere of terrorism, rather than any "shift". Indeed, as terrorists secure even limited successes in one region, their methods are adopted in others, threatening an ever-widening spectrum of nations and cultures.
Extremist Islam is at the heart of this malignant expansion and, while terrorist activities and safe havens may manifest apparent and transient shifts as a result of tactical and strategic exigencies, the locus of the ideologies that inspire this brand of Islam has remained firmly fixed.
South Asia comprises the largest concentration of Muslims in the world, and has a long history, both of communal confrontation and violence on the one hand, and of co-existence within an eclectic culture that has accepted differences on the other. This duality is ingrained in the unique and diverse set of practices and beliefs that comprise Indian Islam. But Indian Islam is, today, under a deep and penetrating attack, a "hardening" of beliefs that may lend itself to the extremist jihad in an uncertain future. This is compounded by a process of "encirclement" and massive demographic shifts that deepen the danger, particularly along India's eastern borders.
This paper assesses the threat of Islamic terrorism within the context of these broad parameters. Specifically, it focuses on the following:
I. The geopolitical context of the Islamic Extremist threat to South Asia.
II. Islam in South Asia – demographics, politicization, schools and overview of sectarian conflicts.
III. Extremist Islamic terror in South Asia, including the role of Afghanistan/Pakistan; the conflict in Kashmir; and the growth of militant Islam in other parts of the subcontinent, including India's northeast.
IV. The strategies of subversion, including patterns of demographic shift, the systematic establishment of mosques and madarsas, and the "hardening" of Islam throughout the region.
V. International support and linkages of Islamic Extremism in South Asia.


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Portrait of an adult Peregrine. Photo Jaiden Blumfield
Famous as the fastest bird on Earth, with birds in mid-stoop having been recorded at over 200mph. Prey is struck at the end of the stoop and is often killed instantly by the impact.
Peregrines are large and powerful falcons, with the typical falcon body plan of long pointed wings allowing for great speed. They are a slate grey above, with darker wingtips and paler rumps. The head is grey with white chin, throat and cheeks and black moustachial markings, giving a distinctive helmeted appearance. Below, the birds are white and variously spotted with black. Females tend to be more heavily marked than males and are also significantly larger.
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Lifespan: Average in the wild of 6 years. Adults have an 80% year-to-year survival. Roughly half of juveniles will survive their first year. The oldest known is over 24 years old (re-sighting of colour-marked bird).
Nesting: Peregrines can breed from 2 years of age. Nest scrapes are placed on rocky edges, cliffs, quarries and mountains with no nesting material, eggs being laid directly on the substrate. Occasionally birds will nest on the ground and tree nesting is not unknown. Increasingly birds are nesting on man-made structures such as industrial buildings, churches and high-rise buildings, with birds preferring to place their nests on the highest local point. Building-nesting birds will often happily take to installed nesting platforms.
Clutches are laid from end of March to mid-April and only one brood is raised a year. The female does most of the incubating, but both birds provision the young. Care is given to the chicks for several months after fledging, with adults providing food and teaching the youngsters to catch live prey.
Number of eggs: 3-4
Incubation: 31-33 days
Fledging time: 39-40 days
Peregrines are very aggressive in defending their nests against perceived danger and will eagerly attack any large birds that pass over the area. Buzzards and Red Kites are regularly targeted, with some pairs adept at grounding or even killing such large birds. There have even been records of Peregrines attacking and killing Golden Eagles near their nests
Distribution: They breed throughout Scotland, Wales, the north and south-west of England and coastal areas of Northern Ireland. They now also breed in several major cities. In winter they can also be seen along the south and eastern coastal areas of England.
Movements: Non-migratory British Peregrines are resident, although there is significant dispersal of young birds from their natal sites. Numbers of European birds winter in the UK in addition to the resident birds. Although hard to identify in the field, there have been claims of F. peregrinus tundrius (northern North America) and F. peregrinus calidus (northern Europe) subspecies in UK.
Feeding: Peregrines feed almost exclusively on medium-sized birds, a huge variety of species are taken generally during an aerial stoop, and waterfowl and pigeons are favourites in the UK. In urban areas, the main component of the Peregrine's diet is the Feral Pigeon although collection of remains has shown a surprising range of species taken. Very occasionally Peregrines will take bats, or even terrestrial mammals, but this is unusual. Hunting takes place mostly at dawn and dusk, although urban birds use artificial light to allow them to hunt at night, targeting migrating birds moving overhead.
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Roy Reid is a leading authority on public relations, business communications, and marketing with extensive experience in healthcare. He works with business leaders as a counselor, strategist, and coach to grow, maintain, and protect their interests. He is the Executive Director of Communications for AdventHealth Florida Division. Formerly, he was at the University of Central Florida College of Business, prior to that he was a partner with Consensus Communications, an Orlando based public relations firm and served as Director of Corporate Communications for the nation's largest hospital, Florida Hospital. In 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 the group Trust Across America/Trust Around the World named him as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders Influencing Trusted Business Behavior.
He has worked with Fortune 500® companies, healthcare organizations, entrepreneurs, professional service firms, and public agencies. He successfully worked with leading brands, including Wal-Mart, Walt Disney Resorts, 5/3 Bank, CSX Transportation, Tavistock Group, Lake Nona, Progress Energy, and Burger King. In 2015, the Florida Public Relations Association/Orlando named Roy Public Relations Professional of the Year. Roy was named the 2017 Top Thought Leaders in Trust and received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Roy is a sought after speaker on numerous business topics including trust, issues management, crisis communications, ethics, change, and other related topics. He is the author of Outrageous Trust®, a program that provides a framework and understanding of how to improve results by improving relationships through a more intentional and mindful effort to earn, cultivate, and restore trust.
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Diablo II: Resurrected Unleashes Its Cinematic Trailer
by Daniel Tack on Sep 13, 2021 at 05:50 PM
Diablo II: Resurrected arrives later this month on September 23 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC. Today, Blizzard has unveiled the cinematic trailer for the game. Anyone around when the original Diablo II was released knows how revolutionary and impactful the original cinematics in the game were, adding a ton of powerful visuals and flavor to the trek through catacombs, deserts, and jungles.
It is important to keep in mind what is going on within Activision Blizzard at this time regarding ongoing allegations about the work culture. The ongoing lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the company is over reported toxic workplace culture. The bulk of the suit focuses on "violations of the state's civil rights and equal pay laws," specifically regarding the treatment of women and other marginalized groups. To learn more about the proceedings thus far, including details listed in the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, please check out our previous coverage here.
Vicarious Visions has shown off a huge amount of Diablo II: Resurrected through various alphas, betas, and other testing phases to this point. We had a long look at one of the earliest builds and were fairly impressed. What do you think about Diablo II coming back this month? Will it hold up? Does it still stand up today with all the other ARPG offerings out there? What class are you looking forward to playing?
Daniel Tack
Daniel has been at Game Informer for seven years, specializing in multiplayer titles and PC games. When he's not speculating on the future of the industry, you can find him exploring vast online worlds — and probably streaming the experience.


Georgiy Poltavchenko calls on his employees to fight "robin feeders". | Телеканал "Санкт-Петербург"
Georgiy Poltavchenko calls on his employees to fight "robin feeders".
Fighting corruption, budget revenues from selling city property and increase of social spending with deficit budget – among the main topics discussed today at the St. Petersburg government's session. Governor Georgiy Poltavchenko wasted no words commenting on tackling the corruption issue. He also demanded decisive action in the sphere of selling municipal property. The governor believes the effectiveness of this procedure is quite doubtful. Dmitriy Runkov with the details.
"When a man becomes a bureaucrat it breeds corruption", says the governor. That's why he suggested limiting such happenings at the government's meeting. Georgiy Poltavchenko was outraged with how fighting corruption is being "lightly" discussed. During the ongoing year 2013, 500 crimes have been committed – and those only the registered ones. Meanwhile, illegal trade spots – addresses of which are well known to officials – are continuing their operations. For quite obvious reasons.
Georgiy Poltavchenko. Governor of St. Petersburg: "Don't you understand that such spots are like feeders for robins – where all crooks from state bodies, including district administrations, are flocking in to. Because if people work illegally - they pay bribes to stay at their places. I need you to urgently monitor these trading spots and take measures on closing them".
The biggest bribe-takers this year – as per tradition – have been doctors, teachers and law enforcers. Unlike commonplace corruption, businesses are tight-lipped about bigger crimes.
The benefit of privatizing state property was also put under doubt today. The federal law says that authorities must provide small businesses with a right to buy rented properties. An extended list of such properties suggests the total profit would reach 30 billion rubles. But it's by far not the amount which would put the city's books into positive balance.
Despite the deficit, the government is looking to increase social spending. Today the governor suggested doubling the funds for buying houses to orphans in the next year's budget plan. They will now be offered flats of their own – not rooms in communal flats or making them live with relatives, deprived of parenthood. The leader of St. Petersburg's communists couldn't sit straight being so happy for the youths of the past. Head of local KPRF faction Vladimir Dmitriev rounded off the government's session with a heated gratitude for a concert marking the Lenin Komsomol movement's jubilee.
Vladimir Dmitriev, deputy of Legislative Council of St. Petersburg, KPRF: "The concert was like at home, thank you".


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So I found these wires under my seat just disconnected and have no idea what they were for. Did a little research and see that they may control telescoping steering and memory features? Am I supposed to 'plug' these in somewhere or what must I do with these wires? Also my telescoping steering & lumbar controls do not work if that sheds any light (Never worked from purchase)...I also found this switch or something under the center console. Have zero idea what that is for or about? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I just did a white wire under console check, I feel your pain.
I really can't help with the loose wires, but that switch is not factory. I'd bet the PO hooked up a kill switch for theft prevention. Either that or maybe fog lights, nitrous...?
Is there a central position? Center off, up or down to close circuits...? Even though they only used one tap.
No central position, literally just an on or...on lol hmmm...super curious.
It's likely that the switch for the power seats is bad, causing battery drain issues, so they unplugged the problematic wires.
Sounds simple enough lol ! I'll plug them in and see what happens...the power seats still work back and forth, just the lumbar has never worked. That may be why...thanks for the insight.
Ok so I was able to get the two black wires in and the red one. I think they are in the right order, and now the memory for the power seat works! But the purple one is being a pain to get in. Is there a special technique to push these in there. It's tough with the seat still there. I'm going to take a little break and update later.
Ok so I was dumb and was trying to hook it up while it was attached to the other blue part lol my hands couldn't get in the right position...but now I detached the blue thing off and got all the wires where they need to be. Now my memory function works and also the seat moves when I take the keys out. So all is well with that....my telescoping steering never had worked before but now it makes a noise as if the motor is trying to do something but nothing happens I had hoped that that function would work too...also does anyone else have any idea what this plug is for? Still trying to figure that one out.


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Savar (Bangladesh), September 30: India recorded a thumping 227-run win over the UAE in the U-19 Asia Cup here on Sunday (September 30), with openers Anuj Rawat and Devdutt Padikkal hitting centuries and spinner Siddarth Desai picking up six wickets.
Choudhary knocked off his runs in just 19 balls, while Badoni was quicker. During their chase, UAE lost wickets at regular intervals and were never in contention for challenging India's total. Barring a third-wicket stand of 53 runs between Ali Mirza and Figy John, there wasn't a contribution worth mentioning.
India's left-arm spin bowler Desai returned impressive figures of six for 24 in 8.5 overs. UAE were bowled out for 133 in 33.5 overs. Sri Lanka beat Hong Kong by 10 wickets in Chittagong. India defeated Nepal by 171 runs in a Group A game on Saturday.


Wi-Fi access has become a way of life. From mobile devices and laptops to video game systems and household appliances, almost anything you can think of needs a wireless connection. In fact, the number of connected devices is expected to reach over 20.4B by 2020 according to Gartner.
We've also seen huge growth in the number of people using smartphones, jumping from 35% in 2011 to 77% in 2018 1 . As your customers and employees are roaming around on their smartphones and other wireless-enabled devices, you'll need to provide them robust Wi-Fi access. But what about the inherent security risks associated with Wi-Fi? Have you thought about the threats lurking around every corner just waiting for someone to connect so they can steal their information?
James Korte is the Marcom Design Manager at BlueStar. A design thinker, voracious reader and technology enthusiast, James is the editor of the Brain Container at VARTECH Nation. Previously, James has worked in marketing research and professional sports. His interests include: travel, film and photography production and ice hockey.


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Nqobile Mthethwa (More photos)
In the fall of 2017, Nqobile Mthethwa joined the Teaching for Change staff as a fellow with a focus on the Zinn Education Project. Having just graduated from the University of Virginia, the fellowship was designed to allow Nqobile time to explore work with a social justice organization that aligned with many of her own interests—people's history, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, climate justice, research, K-12 education, organizing, and more.
The range and depth of her contributions to our work in the D.C. metro area and nationally have been enormous. As Nqobile leaves to do refugee work this spring, we express our heartfelt appreciation for her dedication, wisdom, creativity, and hard work.
Nqobile's fellowship coincided with the launch of new initiatives at Teaching for Change and the Zinn Education Project. Therefore, she not only stepped into the daily work, but she also helped shape it.
Here is a brief outline of just a few of her many accomplishments and contributions while working here.
This Day in History Series
The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools) created an online database for our popular "this day in history" social media series. Nqobile was the lead staff person making the transition from short Facebook posts to more in-depth stories for the website. This required intensive research, fact-checking, and finding hi-res images.
In addition to expanding existing posts, Nqobile researched countless new stories and created thematic collections such as Black Veterans Killed in Fight for Democracy in the United States.
Teach Reconstruction
Nqobile Mthethwa, Lauren Cooper, and Myla Kabat-Zinn at the Howard Zinn Book Fair, 2017.
Our Zinn Education Project (with Rethinking Schools) launched a Teach Reconstruction campaign. Nqobile helped design a student mapping project to make Reconstruction visible.
Working with Adam Sanchez, Nqobile conducted research and wrote roles for the lesson, When the Impossible Suddenly Became Possible: A Reconstruction Mixer, a role play that explores the connections between different social movements during Reconstruction.
To introduce these lessons to classroom teachers, she played a key role in the planning and implementation of a teach-in on Reconstruction at Howard University and a full day teacher workshops in Charlottesville.
Nqobile represented the Zinn Education Project at key conferences including the National Council for the Social Studies in San Francisco and Chicago and the Howard Zinn Bookfair in San Francisco.
D.C. Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools
Rosalie Reyes and Nqobile Mthethwa
Nqobile worked with Faye Colon in the 2017-2018 school year to engage teachers in more than 100 schools in the D.C. metro area in the first regional Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools.
That same school year she helped plan public events leading up to and during the week of action, including a session for educators with Dr. Ibram Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning, and "Love Poems to Black Women," an open mic poetry night.
In the 2018-2019 school year, Nqobile worked with Rosalie Reyes to expand not only the participation but also the preparation. Close to 400 teachers participated and also benefited from preparatory events such as a Curriculum Fair at Howard University. In addition to the public events, Nqobile visited schools to introduce the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action at staff meetings.
During the week, she visited more than a dozen classrooms to document the lessons with student quotes, a narrative description, and photos. As a result of scheduling and conducting these visits, we now have the most detailed description in the country of the week of action's impact in classrooms.
Virginia Interscholastic Association
Meeting at Virginia State University to talk about documenting the history of the VIA. From Left: Creative Coordinator Mykella Palmer, researcher Nqobile Mthethwa, Knox Tull, Dean Elsie Weatherington, and historian Francine Archer.
Teaching for Change was invited by Knox Tull to create the Story of the Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) website in collaboration with Virginia State University (VSU) and the VIA Heritage Association (VIAHA). The project is designed to preserve the rich heritage and legacy of African-American students and adults who participated in the Virginia Interscholastic Association from 1954-70 and its predecessor organization the Virginia Interscholastic Association League (VIAL).
Nqobile joined the initial planning meeting at VSU and made follow up trips to Petersburg by train to scan documents in the archives. The development of this project would not have been possible without Nqobile's time and expertise.
Faye Colon; SNCC veterans Courtland Cox, Frank Smith, and Timothy Jenkins; Deborah Menkart, Nqobile Mthethwa, and unknown.
Nqobile helped raise awareness about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee through workshops for teachers in D.C. and visits by veterans to D.C. classrooms.
To address the limited visibility of SNCC veterans on Wikipedia, Nqobile prepared and submitted a page for SNCC veteran Timothy Jenkins. After months of back and forth with the Wikipedia reviewers, the page was approved and made live. This not only makes the story of Mr. Jenkins available forever worldwide, it also paves the way for the addition of more Wikipedia pages about SNCC veterans.
Africa Access
Nqobile joined the team of reviewers for the annual Children's Africana Book Award. She read at least two dozen children's and young adult titles in preparation for the 2019 award selection.
Nqobile represented Teaching for Change and the Zinn Education Project at book talks, fundraisers, media interviews, and teacher institutes.
These include a talk by Noliwe Rooks (in photo) about Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education, a summer institute at the National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) with Enid Lee, a Data for Black Lives conference at MIT, a discussion of the documentary The Long View at the Center for Popular Democracy, a filmmaker's visit to Howard University to record footage for a documentary on Reconstruction, a We Act Radio interview about Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, and much more.
Nqobile also helped plan and implement people's history trivia nights in D.C. and San Francisco.
Nqobile Mthethwa's Biography
Londeka Nqobile Mthethwa was raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has a B.A. Degree in Political Science/Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia (UVA). While a student, she was a researcher at UVA's Carter Woodson Institute. Her duties included organizing and archiving data related to the Institute's digital exhibition "The Movement in the Archive."
As a researcher for the Institute's "Digital 64 Project," she organized and archived data for the OMEKA Web Exhibition on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She also digitized and categorized over 5,000 documents from a variety of sources.
Also while a UVA student, Mthethwa worked on open-source web publishing platforms for the display of library, museum, archives, and academic collections/exhibitions. She presented on Julian Bond's legacy as a historian on a panel at the Julian Bond Symposium. She also helped create and teach a course titled "Introduction to Citizenship & Activism a Critical Examination of Jefferson's University."
She was a researcher at UVA's Curry School of Education. In this capacity, she conducted a mixed-methods case study design using document analysis, observations, and interviews. She also developed questionnaires and sampling methodologies. This work is described in Heinecke, Cole, Han, and Mthethwa. "Student Activism as Civic Engagement: Challenging Institutional Conditions for Civic Leadership at University of Virginia." In Tania Mitchell (ed.), Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities: Engaging Undergraduates for Social Justice, Social Change, and Responsible Citizenship. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.)
Her research interests include organizational structure of grassroots movements, federal legislation of the Civil Rights era, and documenting untold historical narratives.
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Q: Installed required packages on the host system but facing missing packages issue in Jupyter Notebook I have all the packages required to run the ipynb file on my computer, but while I run the notebook file, I get the error message 'No module named 'plotly'' (for example).
'plotly' has actually been installed on the system, and even if I install it in a previous step in the notebook file, I get the same error message.
I am not really sure if it is a problem with sync between the system and notebook file or I'm missing something really obvious here.
The same holds true many other packages and libraries.
Any help would be appreciated.

A: Indeed the problem was that most of the packages were installed, by default, for Python 2. I had to re-install all the packages separately for Python 3 (Jupyter Notebook).
pip install package-name
pip3 install package-name
Not all the packages are available for Python 3 but thankfully, all the ones I needed were easily obtained. Hope this helps someone and thank you all for the suggestions :)


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Motshweneng Simon Gopane (ur. 26 grudnia 1970), piłkarz rodem z RPA grający na pozycji bramkarza.

Karierę Gopane spędził tylko w kraju rodzinnym. Przez wiele lat był podporą bramki zespołu Bloemfontein Celtic. Następnie zaliczył krótkie epizody w Jomo Cosmos i Bush Bucks. Karierę zakończył w roku 2003 po dwóch sezonach spędzonych w Mamelodi Sundowns.

Gopane został powołany do reprezentacji RPA na Mistrzostwa Świata 1998 tylko z powodu urazów odniesionych przez konkurentów. Najpierw kontuzji doznał Andre Arendse, zaś niedługo potem to samo spotkało jego zmiennika Paula Evansa. W dwóch z trzech meczów RPA na Mundialu siedział na ławce rezerwowych.

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Hydrogen is ineffective in O2-induced retinopathy
In Animal studies, Eye / Ear by CHESS March 7, 2017
Hydrogen-rich saline (HRS) is a novel protection against various oxidative disorders and almost all types of inflammation. Moreover, its toxicity and side effects are rarely reported. The authors sought to clarify the protective effect of HRS against the oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) in C57BL/6 J model. The OIR in the HRS treated mice and the untreated controls were systematically compared. The retinas of both groups were analyzed using high-molecular-weight FITC-dextran staining of flat-mount preparations, hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining of cross-sections. The distribution and expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were also evaluated by the immunohistochemical measurements between postnatal days 17 (P17) and P21. The leakage and non-perfusion areas of retinal blood vessels were not alleviated in the HRS treatment group. Moreover, the number of preretinal vascular endothelial cell in the HRS treatment group was similar to that in the untreated group after exposure to hyperoxia (P>0.05). The degree of OIR was positively correlated with the expression level of VEGF. Intriguingly, the preretinal vascular endothelial cell count in the retinas of pups reared in room air with HRS treatment was 15.21±2.98. The preretinal vascular endothelial cell count of the HRS treated mice was significantly higher than that of the untreated group reared in room air. In summary, HRS therapy (at the dose of 10ml/day, applied between P12 and P17) did not inhibit retinal neovascularization in OIR; On the contrary, it would induce the retinal neovascularization during the development of normal retinas.
Zhang Q, Tao Y, Zhang ZM. Hydrogen-rich saline is ineffective in oxygen-induced retinopathy. Life Sci. 2016 May 15;153:17-22.


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#OTD in 1919 – An unofficial government policy of reprisals began in Fermoy, Co Cork.
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Two hundred British soldiers looted and burned several commercial buildings in the town, after 23 Cork Volunteers, under the leadership of Liam Lynch, augmented by Mick Mansfield and George Lennon of Waterford attacked members of the Royal Shropshire Light Infantry en route to services at the Wesleyan Church. Four soldiers were reportedly wounded, one fatally. Fifteen rifles were captured. Lynch was also wounded and taken to a Youghal safe house. Later he was transferred to West Waterford where he rested at Foley's in Ardmore and finally taken on to Cooney's farmhouse at Carriglea, Dungarvan. Here he recovered from his wound under the care of Dr B. Moloney from the nearby town before returning to Fermoy area. This is the first reprisal committed by the Crown forces against civilians.
#OTD in 1695 – Penal Laws are passed which restrict the rights of Catholics to have an education, to bear arms, or to possess a horse worth more than five pounds.
'The Meeting of the Waters' by Thomas Moore
Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh!
#OTD in 1986 – Death of singer, bassist, instrumentalist, and songwriter, Phil Lynott.


KBS Corporate has led the deal of Railex Ltd, comprising Railex Filing Ltd, an industry-leading supplier of paper filing products and Railex Storage Ltd is one of the UK's premier designers and manufacturers of metal storage products.
This Southport based company were acquired in a management buy in and the acquisition marks the first time in Railex's 105 year trading history that the link will be broken with the founding Wilson family.
Originally established by Frank Wilson and his wife as WH Hilton in 1908, the £3.5m turnover group of companies is now spread over two sites. Railex Storage, based in Essex, produces a wide range of filing cabinets, mobile storage and bespoke storage solutions. Railex Filing is based in Southport and is a leading manufacturer of office and large format files, wallets and folders.
The buyers, Andrew Ferguson and Raymond Crane, acquired 100% of the shares of Railex Limited for an undisclosed sum. Andrew Ferguson is a serial investor in manufacturing and engineering businesses and Raymond Crane has a number of business interests including a successful recycling company in Northern Ireland.
Funding for the transaction was sourced by the buyers using asset backed lending and factoring facilities. The buyers were represented by Robin Gill of Storrar Cowdry.
KBS Corporate spoke to a number of trade buyers however, they only showed interest in one side of the business due to them being unable to specialise in both areas whereas, Andrew Ferguson and Raymond Crane offered the possibility of selling both sides of the company.
It is understood that all shareholders will exit the Company with immediate effect, but will receive rental income from the Southport property going forward having taken control of the freehold in a sale and leaseback transaction.


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Discrimination in the Name of Religion
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Dastardly Deal: Wisconsin Gov. Has Republicans On Board With His School Voucher Scheme
Jun 05, 2013 by Simon Brown
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has faced pushback of late from his own party when it comes to his private school voucher expansion, but now it seems he's cleared some major hurdles and will move forward.
We've known for some time that Walker had grand plans to fund religious and other private schools statewide, which I'm sure had nothing to do with the fact that voucher advocacy groups have donated $2.35 million to support Walker since 2006.
And while we knew Walker would come on strong with his scheme, it seemed for a moment that his own party would put a stop to his plans. Earlier this year, Wisconsin Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) said he would oppose Walker's voucher proposal in the fiscal 2014-15 budget because Walker had ignored the input of a handful of Republicans who don't support voucher expansion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
But this morning, the Associated Press reported that Republicans have reached a deal to expand private school vouchers. Walker told the AP last week that he now wants vouchers to be available in all school districts, but limited to 1,000 students per district after next year. A maximum of one percent of students could participate in any given district, except for Milwaukee and Racine, he told the AP.
Walker had originally sought private school vouchers in only nine cities but with no enrollment maximum after two years, the Fond du Lac Reporter said.
Walker and his allies may think private school vouchers are a ticket to better education for many students, but they're wrong. A study released this year on voucher students in Milwaukee and Racine (the only districts currently eligible for vouchers), showed they scored lower than their public school peers in both reading and math in 2012.
About 13 percent of voucher students scored proficient or better in math, while about 19 percent of public school students were at that level. As for reading, about 11 percent of private voucher students scored proficient or better in reading compared with about 14 percent of public school students.
Bob Peterson, president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, said in a statement that these results should tell lawmakers that taking money away from public schools is bad policy.
"They should provide fair funding for our successful public school system, and stop throwing money away on underperforming vouchers, so that all students in Wisconsin can continue to have access to a high-quality public education," he said.
And yet Walker won't listen. He told the Reporter that: "Every two years we're going to come back and talk about further expansion."
To make matters worse, misguided legislators have found an additional way to entice more students to enroll at private schools – all at taxpayer expense, of course.
This week, the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee approved a new tax credit for tuition expenses of up to $4,000 per year for elementary schoolers and up to $10,000 for high school students. It would take effect starting in 2014, and would cost the state about $30 million, the AP reported.
So what do we have here? Walker seems driven to pump state funds into religious and other private schools, no matter what. He doesn't seem to care about test scores or how much money is pulled away from public schools. And he certainly hasn't expressed any apprehension about using taxpayer money to fund religious enterprises.
If you live in Wisconsin, let your lawmakers know what you think about this.
Americans United has been fighting vouchers nationwide for years, but it seems Wisconsin is one of our toughest battles to date. This is going to be a long fight, but we're in it for the long haul.
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