Early in the morning with dark clouds in the sky, we thought its going to rain. Indeed when we got into the car rain started pouring down. The rain ended after 5 minutes and the Sun was totally naked in the blue sky. Dramatic change in just 5 minutes and it was HOT HOT sunny morning!
After 15minutes of the congestion, we got in to the back of hill where grandparents resting place is there.
Step 1: Call all family members to gather there first.
Step 2: All arrived, next is to gather all the food and put it front of grave.
Step 3: Incense time. Everyone needs to.
Step 4: Burn the money for grandparents and light up the firecrackers.
Step 5: Waited 5-10 minutes and toss the coins to see grandparents eaten yet. If its a Head and a Tail, that means grandparents finished eating. Everyone take back their food.
Step 6: If there is a PIG, I mean pork meat, then we will eat over there before heading back home.
My grandparents has 8 sons & 1 daughter, so its like a big family. Every year we all will come on this special day.
For me, its not a family gathering. I go because I pay my respect. My grandma loved me the most! As grandchild, no matter what you have to come back for this day. It's the principle. But nowadays Youth generation are not thoughtful.
After the pork meat, we moved on. 'Balik Rumah' and shower and rest.
Hope you had a great time in visiting your ancestors' grave.
It's been a while I didn't post any food pictures. No great food to snap since I was sick.
Until yesterday Friday we went to Celestial Court for Dim Sum lunch. It was great. First dim sum meal after 1 month sick.
Noticed also that they change new uniform and not just that. The tableware, dining table and the menu book also changed.
Here are the rest of photos, enjoy.
I can't say I'm 100% okay by now, because my body tells me its not. I just feel it. It is not that my mind was all over negative thought. But at least, I'm fine now.
Ulcers were gone. No more headache. Sleep well now.
My taste is coming back slowly as well.
Something is lacking of. Its my energy.
Today is Monday. Another new week. Last night I kept telling myself I must do something starts tomorrow, especially find a job. I supposed to rest after I resigned last month but I couldn't rest enough. I have been causing a mess my partner's normal daily routine. It didn't feel right if I didn't work. People like us, always need to work. Work for the whole life. It's fate, har? Well, let it be then.
2011 is a tough year to me.
God Bless everyone and those quake & tsunami victims in Japan.


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#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/of_address.h>
#include <linux/io.h>

static void __iomem *system_controller_base;

struct mvebu_system_controller {
	u32 rstoutn_mask_offset;
	u32 system_soft_reset_offset;

	u32 rstoutn_mask_reset_out_en;
	u32 system_soft_reset;
};
static struct mvebu_system_controller *mvebu_sc;

const struct mvebu_system_controller armada_370_xp_system_controller = {
	.rstoutn_mask_offset = 0x60,
	.system_soft_reset_offset = 0x64,
	.rstoutn_mask_reset_out_en = 0x1,
	.system_soft_reset = 0x1,
};

const struct mvebu_system_controller orion_system_controller = {
	.rstoutn_mask_offset = 0x108,
	.system_soft_reset_offset = 0x10c,
	.rstoutn_mask_reset_out_en = 0x4,
	.system_soft_reset = 0x1,
};

static struct of_device_id of_system_controller_table[] = {
	{
		.compatible = "marvell,orion-system-controller",
		.data = (void *) &orion_system_controller,
	}, {
		.compatible = "marvell,armada-370-xp-system-controller",
		.data = (void *) &armada_370_xp_system_controller,
	},
	{ /* end of list */ },
};

void mvebu_restart(char mode, const char *cmd)
{
	if (!system_controller_base) {
		pr_err("Cannot restart, system-controller not available: check the device tree\n");
	} else {
		/*
		 * Enable soft reset to assert RSTOUTn.
		 */
		writel(mvebu_sc->rstoutn_mask_reset_out_en,
			system_controller_base +
			mvebu_sc->rstoutn_mask_offset);
		/*
		 * Assert soft reset.
		 */
		writel(mvebu_sc->system_soft_reset,
			system_controller_base +
			mvebu_sc->system_soft_reset_offset);
	}

	while (1)
		;
}

static int __init mvebu_system_controller_init(void)
{
	struct device_node *np;

	np = of_find_matching_node(NULL, of_system_controller_table);
	if (np) {
		const struct of_device_id *match =
		    of_match_node(of_system_controller_table, np);
		BUG_ON(!match);
		system_controller_base = of_iomap(np, 0);
		mvebu_sc = (struct mvebu_system_controller *)match->data;
	}

	return 0;
}

arch_initcall(mvebu_system_controller_init);

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This buffer is a component of the methyltransferase kit used for optimizing the enzymatic reaction. It can be ordered as a spare part.
Buffer conditions are essential for the quantification of S-adenosylhomocysteine detection (SAH). EPIgeneous detection buffer one has been carefully optimized to allow a highly sensitive detection of SAH, as an indicator of methyltransferase enzymatic activity.


For the first time in over a decade, Gozzard Yachts has a finished Factory Demonstrator available for sale. As you many of you know, Gozzard never builds a "spec" boat… so what's the story here? Well… this project was originally commissioned by a long time Gozzard owner who unfortunately was unable to complete the contract. Without getting into the details we found ourselves in an unusual position. We picked up the project and fitted her with a brand new galley in addition to numerous upgrades and some uniques changes to our standard D interior. Since we finished her with only a few hours to spare we haven't even got any photos yet… so the Annapolis show will be the unvealing!
This boat was originally to be one of the most complete specifications we had ever written and is filled with some very interesting ideas, modifications and upgrades. The concept for the forward cabin was to maximize the ergonomics of the forward V settee. To achieve this we extended the seat length forward into the space normally occupied by the forward hanging lockers and designed fully contoured rounded corners for the seat backs. The remaining space forward was utilized as general lockers and because the locker face moved forward it made the forward cabin feel even larger. A central air conditioner was fitted forward of the main bulkhead but uses hard ducting to service remote zones without any significant velocity loss. The standard bi fold privacy panels has been replaced with a one piece sliding/lift up panel which cleverly hides behind the 900 amp hour battery bank locker.
The forward cabin also features a propane space heater with tile surround. The air conditioner is installed under the hearth… and by removing the counter top which ingeniously slides out of the way, it provides great access for servicing. Originally intended to be used in cold climates, the interior was designed to be fitted with a hydronic heating system and various locker bottoms have been isolated for the heat exchangers and plumbing runs… add the Hurricane Heater and the system is complete.
The hanging locker to starboard is fitted with custom shelving – all with individual doors so the locker contents are not exposed when the privacy door is deployed. The forward section of this area has been fitted with a flat screen TV that swings out. Our regular coffee table and its companion dining table are fitted in their usual locations and, other than an additional locker in front of the house battery locker, the forward cabin looks and feels like a slightly bigger version of the standard cabin. These optimizations seem to have successfully added even more character to an already wonderful use of space and these changes may well represent our new standard for this cabin space going forward.
Moving aft into the midsection of the boat you will notice a completely new and even larger galley. The concept here was to create a galley with more storage that was easier to access… and it is simply the largerst galley you will find on any 41 footer any where. The galley now forms a "G" (appropriately) with a centerline sink with double sided access. The side by side top loading fridge/freezer also features our brand new and super cool (literally) front loading drawer.
The aft sections of the interior are quite similar to a conventional G41. The owner's stateroom is aft to port and it features a sliding privacy bulkhead and a sliding door similar to the "C" and "D" interiors. When these are open (in the down position) the aft cabin becomes part of the interior as opposed to a separate closed off cabin. It feels like a much bigger and significantly improved air flow and ventilation. The cabin is fitted with two opening ports in the cabin sides, a large ventilation hatch in the overhead and another opening port into the cockpit. The cabin is tied into both the heating system and the air conditioning system.
The head is similar in size to a conventional G41… the big different is with the head door. On a standard head, the door opening into the center of the boat forward of the companionway stair… on this boat we made the door slide into a pocket so the door stores effectively out of sight when open. This detail worked out very well. As with the standard head, it features a separate shower with a glass door… the shower compartment is intended for every day "live aboard" use and will be very easy to maintain and keep clean. A wet locker is located within the back of this compartment.
The ships systems are very complete… in addition to all the usual Gozzard standard features, this boat has some interesting addition items. Starting with the engine, you will notice that there is Beta 65 in lieu of the traditional Westerbeke. This was selected because it is based on the newer Kubota engine which was very nicely marinized with serviceability very high on the priority list. Ease of access to pumps, dip sticks, impellors etc all factored in the decision to install… that and the pollution emissions were the lowest in the industry for this sized engine. The engine was also fitted with the latest ideas on belt tensioning… gone are the double pulleys with conventional V belts which wear out and create dust. Instead these are replaced with automatically tensioned serpentine belts which have significantly more contact surface. The engine drive line was upgraded as well with the addition of the Aqua Drive. Instead of the drive shaft been fitted directly to the back of the motor, a constant velocity joint is used to isolate vibration and torque, making the engine very quiet and smooth. The steering system is also brand new … the traditional cable system replaced with a custom built Edson Cobra rack and pinion system… the increase in sensitivity is noticeable even out of the water. The boat is fully fitted with the N2K bus and is ready for the latest electronic devises to be selected and installed. Already equipped with a thruster, all electric winches, a custom davit assembly, mainsheet arch, windlass etc, she is wired and plumbed ready for a genset, water maker and universal voltage system… making her ready to cruise the world.
If you would like more details on this boat and her very attractive pricing… we would welcome the opportunity to talk with you! We will even consider a trade in. We are motivated to sell her now she is finished and this is a rare opportunity to negotiate with the builder to acquire a brand new Gozzard at substancial savings.


Good for intermediate, IELTS, Business English class. The first page is done for you, it includes vocabulary commonly used in boking Hotels.
Here is a little lesson I made for the Mimio Master Class about French-speaking Francophone Countries.


Mellow Walk Aussie Men's Slip On Leather Composite Toe Boots were designed with a full-grain leather upper and slip on style that offers convenience if you're in a hurry. The breathable moisture wicking lining keeps your feet cool and dry on a warm day.
Dreamfit Comfort insoles provide all-day comfort and are anti-bacterial, breathable and moisture-wicking.


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Young Rotary volunteers honoured by Guelph mayor
After volunteering at Rotary's Sparkles in the Park for the past three years by helping take down lights on New Year's Day to earn high school volunteer hours, teenagers Kaylyn and Amber Proudfoot became Friends of Rotary because they were so impressed by the many charitable causes that Rotary supports.
Now 19 years old, the girls were diagnosed with autism and anxiety at a very young age. Through ongoing communications with Rotary member Terrie Jarvis, it became evident that the girls are passionate about many different causes, that they are driven by their heartfelt desire to make the world a better place, and that their fundraising abilities are astonishing. In the past 10 years, they've raised and donated some $30,000, with $3,000 of that being within this difficult Covid year.
On Friday, December 11, 2020, Mayor Cam Guthrie presented Kaylyn and Amber with a certificate of appreciation from the City of Guelph for their extraordinary community service, coinciding with their latest charitable donation to Rotary of $300.45 which was designated by them for specific programs and accepted on behalf of Rotary by Terrie.
Kaylyn and Amber, we are so proud to have you as Friends of Rotary!
You might have read about these wonderful girls in a recent article in Guelph Today, here.
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-twins-show-youre-never-too-young-to-care-3136439
Guelph twins show you're never too young to care
Amber and Kaylyn Proudfoot raised over $3,000 this year for various causes
Guelph Today Dec 1, 2020 By: Ariel Deutschmann
Twin sisters from Guelph have a shared passion for giving back to the community.
Amber and Kaylyn Proudfoot, 19, have spent almost a decade raising over $30,000 to support various charities.
Recently, the two donated a cheque for $318 to the St. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation for the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) program, but it's only one of many charities they've helped this year.
In 2020, the sisters donated $2,250 to National Service Dogs, $345 to the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides and $370 to the Guelph Food Bank. They also made donations to the Rotary Club of Guelph, Sparkles in the Park and the World Wildlife Foundation to help with the Australian bush fires.
The sisters say they have a passion for helping others and helping local organizations that are supporting their community.
"We like fundraising for charities because there is a very large need, and me and my sister want to cover some of that need," says Amber via email. "It bothers us not to be helpful."
For these two, some of these causes hold a special place within their heart.
Diagnosed with autism and anxiety, Amber and Kaylyn have continued to give back to organizations that helped them when they were younger. One of these organizations is National Service Dogs which provided them with a service dog named Vargo.
"We both like raising money for these charities because I feel bad for other people in the world and in our community who don't have the same opportunities and help that me and my sister had," explains Kaylyn in the email.
Their philanthropy began in Grade 5, when the two sisters collected food donations for Trick or Eat to support the Guelph Food Bank.
At 13 they attended a WE Day charity event where they became more interested in giving back. With the WE charity, they raised money for Free the Children. In 2016, they started fundraising for Bracelet of Hope, one of their favourite charities.
"WE Day and Dr. Zajdlik (Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik from Bracelet of Hope) also inspired us both to make a change in the world, and explained to us what kind of struggles other kids in developing countries have." says Kaylyn.
For Bracelet of Hope, they started going door-to-door to raise money and selling bracelets, along with collecting items like pop tabs, scrap metal, scrap keys and empties. In the end they managed to raise between $2,000 to $3,000 for the organization.
"They're pretty ingenious with what they come up with," says their mother, Carrie Proudfoot, about how her daughters collect donations, "Every nickel counts."
Since then, the two also decided to no longer accept Christmas presents, asking families to help them donate to various causes.
"Kindness can be contagious." says Amber, "Start with one simple thing, swapping out a Christmas gift for a donation to a third world country."
Next year, the sisters are planning to raise more money for the Rotary Club of Guelph, Guelph Food Bank, National Service Dogs and the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides. They also want to support additional charities, like Kerry's Place, KidsAbility and World Vision Canada.
Soon, they will begin collecting money to support the Guelph Black Heritage Society and hope to raise $500 for them by the spring of 2021.
Carrie says her daughters often just pick a charity and run with it, and she is amazed with their tenacity to support these organizations once they decide to help.
"I'm glad that they're good citizens and that's important to me."

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Luxury car tax (LCT) applies to all supplies and importations of luxury cars where the GST-inclusive value exceeds the LCT threshold. The value generally also includes the value of any accessories, parts or attachments supplied, or imported, at the same time as the car.
Cars with a value higher than the current LCT threshold are subject to a tax of 33%. This tax only applies to the portion of the car's value that is above the threshold, not the total value of the car.
The LCT threshold is reviewed each financial year and may change.
Retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers of luxury cars may have a liability for LCT. Importers (including private buyers) also pay LCT.
Your business must be registered for GST before you can register for LCT.
whether you expect to have a LCT liability on every activity statement.
by lodging the Add a new business account (NAT 2954) form, which you can order using our online publication ordering service for businessExternal Link.
Retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers of luxury cars must register for and pay luxury car tax (LCT).


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Q: How to access a static member of an expression which represents an inner class in the outer class? This is a follow up of this question: How to use nested non-static type as constructor parameter type?
All required type definitions are now in place and the final puzzle piece is how to use the members of the inner class from code in the outer class. Here's an example:
class JavaObject {
}

class Enum<T> {
  public constructor(public name: string, public value: number) {}
}

export class CodePointBuffer extends JavaObject {
    public Type = (($outer) => {
        return class Type extends Enum<Type> {
            public static readonly BYTE: Type = new class extends Type {
            }(`BYTE`, 0);
            public static readonly CHAR: Type = new class extends Type {
            }(`CHAR`, 1);
            public static readonly INT: Type = new class extends Type {
            }(`INT`, 2);
        };
    })(this);

    private readonly type: InstanceType<typeof this.Type>;

    public constructor(type: CodePointBuffer.Type) {
        super();
        this.type = type;
    }

    public static withBytes = (): CodePointBuffer => {
        return new CodePointBuffer(this.Type.BYTE);
    };
}

export namespace CodePointBuffer {
    export type Type = InstanceType<CodePointBuffer["Type"]>;
}

The initialisation of the type member of CodePointBuffer does not compile, because CodePointBuffer.Type.BYTE is not accepted. I also tried variations like CodePointBuffer["Type"].BYTE and this.Type.BYTE, to no avail.
What's the correct syntax in this case?
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Tommy Mason passed on. He was the first player drafted by the Minnesota Vikings back when they were an expansion team.
Bill Monbouquette passed on. In addition to his own achievements as a major league pitcher, I recall in the late 60s when he spent some time late in his career in the National League that his name was a tongue-twister for By Saam who did the Phillies' games then. Saam said his name as "Mon-cue-bet".
Ernie Banks passed on. Mr. Cub can now get ready to "play two" in the Celestial Baseball League.
Why not try to pay off the good folks in Alaska and get the Iditarod moved from "Wherever, Alaska" to Wherever-Else Alaska" and have it start this year in Boston. Two laps around a route from Boston to Albany, NY to Portland, ME and back through Boston would come awfully close to the 1000 mile trek for the dogs and the mushers. Why might this be interesting?
First, it might show the folks at the IOC the organizational skills of the folks in Boston. If those Beantowners can pull off this sporting event on short notice – even though there is no history of any such event in the same general area as is the case with the Olympics – think about what that might mean about those same folks doing something "grand" with almost a decade to prepare.
Second, the grand prize for the winner of the Iditarod has been a mid-five figure payoff and a pick-up truck for the past several years. With two weeks' notice, the Boston folks should be able to match that – or double it – without breaking a sweat.
If you can force yourselves to do this, I want you to take your sporting focus off of the Super Bowl for just a moment today and pay attention to what is going to happen tomorrow in the NFL. On Friday of this week, Commissioner Roger Goodell will give the annual "State of the League" address to the assembled scribes and talking-heads. Face the facts here; even Rudolf Nureyev could not dance around the embarrassments of the NFL over the last 12 months gracefully. Goodell is not Nureyev; he will be lucky to dance around them without winding up with his foot in his mouth – or in the orifice at the other end of his alimentary canal.
Standing up there and giving a prepared speech with all that monstrous vomit in the background is not any better than being President and having to give a State of the Union address when times are bad and the "other guys" are in the majority in the audience. It would not surprise me a bit to know – if I could read minds – that what Goodell really wants to do is to build his address to a crescendo and then to drop his pants and moon everyone who is paying rapt attention to the speech. Then he can "leave the building" and live off the approximately $100M he has earned in his tenure as NFL Commish and at the same time, tell the rest of the world to "do this with your that".
Just in case you think that Goodell's ownership embarrassments end with folks like tone-deaf Danny Boy Snyder or rumblin', bumblin' stumblin' Jim Irsay or two steps ahead of indictment Jimmy Hasalem, perhaps you have not yet heard about the fun and games surrounding Tom Benson, the Saints' owner.
According to reports, Benson decided to cut his daughter and her two kids out of the ownership of the team when Benson goes to the great used car lot in the sky. Instead, reports say that the Saints' ownership will pass to his third wife when Benson "assumes ground temperature" so to speak. This seems as if it should not be such a big deal – except for the fact that his daughter and two grandkids have sued him over this action. They claim that he is mentally incompetent, that he has only brief moments of lucidity and that he still thinks that Ronald Reagan is President – or perhaps it is Harry Truman. No matter how this proceeds from here, it will be a PR nightmare for the Saints, the Benson family and the NFL.
The shift was used by the Cardinals in the 1946 World Series against Williams who went 5 for 25 in that Series.
It was used earlier in 1946 against Williams by Indians' manager Lou Boudreau and when that happened it was known as the "Boudreau Shift".
The first use of an "extreme shift" goes back to 1924 when it was used by several teams against the Phillies as a counter to Cy Williams – a left-handed power hitter.
So, the shift was used against Cy Williams and then against Ted Williams… Is this an example of profiling?
Yesterday was Media Day in the march toward Super Bowl Sunday. As usual, it provided far more heat than light. If I may pretend for just a moment that the Super Bowl is mostly a football event around which a circus-like aura has developed – rather than vice-versa – I think the league and the folks who attend Media Day leave a lot to be desired.
Marshawn Lynch is not going to say anything interesting in these sorts of settings and so it is sort of stupid for the folks at Media Day not to realize that asking more questions after four or five identical responses from Lynch.
The NFLPA – and the NFLPA – negotiated into the CBA a provision that would mandate player appearances at various press events. It seems clear that both sides recognized the benefits to the "NFL brand" if players became better known to the public and so the CBA codified standard media/player/coach interactions wherein players and coaches had to attend. If not, there was a fine for I guess what you would call "breach of contract". Marshawn Lynch has demonstrated the fecklessness of that mandate.
The "NFL brand" is not advanced by Lynch's behavior; and when the "NFL brand" is not advanced, there is likely a deficit to both the league and to the players. The current structured and legalistic framework surrounding media interaction(s) with players and coaches demonstrates the significant limitations of the existing rules.
There is a real challenge for the NFL and the NFLPA here; and frankly, I am not sure that either side is up to the challenge. They need to modify these rules and regulations using common sense and good will as the framework for the new – and badly needed – reworked regulations. These two sides have tried the "one-size-fits-all" model and it clearly does not work. Here we have Marshawn Lynch at one end of the spectrum and in the recent past we had players like Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco who never saw a camera they did not like. One size does not fit all. Adults ought to be able to recognize that. And so, the challenge for the NFL and the NFLPA also represents a test to see if there is any real adult supervision in either organization.
Given the juvenile sort of "look-at-me" behaviors on display (a man wearing a barrel and a black cowboy hat for example) and given the stupid and irrelevant questions asked by the people in attendance (what is Bill Belichick's favorite puppet?) and given the spectacle of players dancing with "reporters", who asks for a press credential to this mess and is denied one?
"The mayor of Boston has signed an agreement banning city employees from speaking negatively about the Olympics.
I have a new computer but still none of my old documents and information. I would guess there is a 10% chance that I will ever see any of that old info. So, here I go, starting from scratch.
You cannot possibly be any more tired of hearing about "Deflategate" than I am. Since I do not know what happened, I am not going to pretend that I do. What I would like to say here is that there are lessons for all of us when we are faced with stories of this kind and I would like to use the current "debate" to illustrate.
Here is one sure way to tell if a story is really about a conspiracy theory and not just the events that triggered the story. In a conspiracy theory, the absence of evidence about some aspect of the story becomes proof of the conspiracy itself. Because Tom Brady did not say some specific thing at his news conference or because the NFL has not made the referee and other officials publicly available becomes part of the "proof" of a conspiracy. Not exactly Aristotelian-level logic there.
OK, if you are CERTAIN that such-and-such happened, then how did the perpetrators effect it?
The answer to that question has to be just as certain as the first assertion plus there has to be good objective evidence for how it all came about. Certainty is a very robust stance and when someone claims to KNOW what HAD TO HAPPEN, that person had also be ready to provide some specifics when facing follow-up questions.
ESPN New York reports that the Yankees are "devising legal arguments so Alex Rodriguez won't be able to collect any of the bonuses he is owed per the $30 million 'milestone home run' marketing agreement he signed in 2007". As I understand the contract, A-Rod can collect $6M each time he gets to a milestone along the way to the all-time home run record. The nearest of those milestones comes if he hits 6 more and ties Willie Mays for #4 on the all-time list. You can read the entire report here. Frankly, I think this makes it look as if the Yankees are sinking to A-Rod's level. He and they signed a contract; neither side coerced the other to agree to the terms.
The new Commissioner of Baseball said that he is open to ideas for rules changes that would prevent teams from using "extreme defensive shifts". I am not trying to nit-pick here, but this is not enough of a big deal that it qualifies as something the new Commish should jump to as soon as he takes office. I have no idea when "extreme defensive shifts" started in baseball, but I recall seeing teams use what was called the "Ted Williams Shift" back in the 1950s. Perhaps that was the origin of shifting; perhaps it goes back a lot further than that; I will leave that to baseball historians. I guess one could argue that by limiting defensive shifts the amount of scoring would increase in baseball. The problem with that simplistic view is that if nothing else materially changes, increased scoring will necessarily have to increase the length of games and the games are already long enough thank you very much.
Personally, I think the best way to defeat an "extreme shift" is for left-handed hitters to learn to lay down a solid bunt that will end up in the vicinity of where a third baseman would normally play. It would not take a jillion of those events to convince managers to put players in more "normal defensive positions". I do not want to jump all over the new Commish and draw any wide-ranging negative conclusions about him from this one early statement. So, I will chalk this one up to him trying to do something to keep MLB in the sports conversation while the majority of the focus in the US is on the impending Super Bowl game.
One other thing about MLB is interesting at this moment. The folks who are in charge of MLB have named a new Chairman of the MLB Finance Committee. Normally, that would be no big deal but in this case the new Chairman is Fred Wilpon – the owner of the NY Mets. Recall that Wilpon was a "major investor" with Bernie Madoff and basically lost his shirt in that Ponzi scheme. I recall reading one estimate that he might have been into the investment club to the tune of $300M. Assume that number is the right order of magnitude and then realize that this guy is now in charge of the MLB Finance Committee… What could possibly go wrong?
The Nats have had the best team in the NL East by a wide margin for the last two years. They waltzed into the playoffs.
In the playoffs, they have laid eggs and they have been ostrich-sized eggs.
Nats' fans – many of whom are bandwagon-hopping front runners – want to see the team in the World Series.
A six-man starting rotation is not of great use in a playoff scenario.
The NFL hired former FBI Director, Robert Mueller, to investigate what happened within the NFL such that the league botched the handling of the "Ray Rice Affair" so badly. That was about 4 months ago which seems to me to have been a supremely protracted length of time. Finally, The Mueller Report is finished and delivered.
Let me deconstruct that statement for a moment and assume that what it says is true because indeed no one at the NFL did have or did see the in-elevator video prior to TMZ springing it on the public consciousness.
1. NFL Security – by reputation a paragon in its field – has more than just feet of clay. The reason no one in the NFL had or saw the in-elevator video is because the folks in NFL Security did not figure out how to get it. TMZ figured that out so it probably was not exactly equivalent to untying the Gordian Knot.
2. There were stories of a reporter – or reporters, I really do not recall if it was singular or plural – hearing a voicemail message from a female who called from an NFL telephone number saying that they had received said video. If The Mueller Report is accurate, someone went to elaborate means to concoct a forgery of a message. The reporter(s) for that story need now to come forth to demonstrate the level of veracity of their report based on the credibility of their source(s). If this was a hoax, it was an elaborate one indeed.
1. She was conscious getting on the elevator and passed out during the descent to the ground floor.
2. She was conscious getting on the elevator and he rendered her unconscious during the descent to the ground floor.
3. She was unconscious prior to getting on the elevator meaning she had been dragged/carried onto the elevator in that state and some kind of investigation as to how she found herself in that circumstance needed to be done.
Not only did the first person in NFL Security to run across the original reports seemingly shrug his shoulders and move on to the next issue; it would also seem that as the first few days of the awareness of Janay Palmer Rice exiting that elevator in a comatose state no one else in NFL Security or anyone else in a position of influence in the NFL thought this was any kind of big deal. They did not have much in front of them – other than a completely unconscious woman in the company of an NFL player – but they did not throw it into high gear to find out what had happened here.
Moreover, as time passed and as the local prosecutor was contemplating some kind of action against Ray Rice, Rice's attorneys were given copies of the in-elevator video as part of the discovery proceedings. Seemingly, the league did not know that ever happened and it never asked either Rice or his attorneys anything about the existence of an in-elevator video let alone to see a copy of the video they had in their possession.
Well, of course the Ravens did not divulge that information to the NFL. Ray Rice was the #1 RB on their depth chart and Roger Goodell was/is the league's "Disciplinarian-in-Chief"; it was in the best interests of the Ravens' brass to keep this under wraps as much as possible. But according to The Mueller Report, the NFL was less than dogged in asking the Ravens what all they might know about the incident.
Heads must roll in NFL Security and heads must roll in any and all departments tangentially related to the incident where no one questioned the lack of information and insight coming from NFL Security.
What seems clear to me now is that someone – or some ones – along mahogany row in the NFL decided early on that the NFL did not want to know exactly what happened in that elevator and so there would be no impetus given to the folks in NFL Security to get to the bottom of this mess. If The Mueller Report is correct in saying that the NFL never had or saw that in-elevator video, it almost certainly has to be the case that the NFL never really wanted to see it and therefore never expended much effort to get it.
And speaking of not expending a lot of effort to get hold of some critical information, I can find no reference to any of the investigators involved in The Mueller Report busting their butts trying to get information from the guy who claims he sent that copy of the in-elevator video to the NFL. If the investigators can find no record of it ever reaching the NFL by examining the NFL's records, would not a prudent next step be to find the guy who says he sent it to the NFL and report on what he has to say?
The Mueller Report as I read it does not exonerate Roger Goodell in this matter except to confirm his assertion that at the time he issued the 2-game suspension to Ray Rice for the Atlantic City assault, he had not seen the in-elevator video. The problem is that he had ample opportunity to have had more information at his disposal – to include the in-elevator video – if the folks who work for him had done their jobs efficiently and effectively. They did not and when that happens some of the fault for that nonfeasance has to reside with the guy in charge.
1. The league moves on to another Commissioner and the new guy/gal domes in with a mandate to change the foundations of NFL Security and to give it an entirely new structure, charge and leadership.
2. The league sticks with Roger Goodell – mainly based on his demonstrated ability to increase league revenues for the owners and secondarily for the players – but it forces him to make significant personnel changes both in NFL Security and along NFL mahogany row.
Make no mistake; if major changes in personnel and in the way things are reported and tasked within the NFL do not happen as a result of The Mueller Report, this is going to happen again. If the Ray Rice Affair was uncomfortable and smarmy, it will look like a glimpse of Nirvana once the next issue of this kind breaks if the NFL reacts in the same way.
He is Taiwanese and has been in MLB in the past. He is 32 years old and made his major league debut in 2003. After an undistinguished time in MLB with several teams, he went to play in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan in 2009. That is where the backstory gets "verrry interesting" [/Arte Johnson]. The Taiwanese equivalent of a District Attorney's office said in 2010 that Tsao had accepted "improper benefits" from gamblers and had agreed to throw two games for their benefit during the 2009 season. He never actually threw the games because they did not take place for various reasons. So, he was never tried and convicted but his Taiwanese team – the Brother Elephants – parted company with him.
Believe me; I do understand the precept of "innocent until proven guilty" and have a sense of what the concept of "due process" entails. However, I have to wonder what might have gone through the minds of the folks who run the LA Dodgers when it came time to make the decision to offer this guy a minor league contract. Over the course of 4 seasons between 2003 and 2007, Tsao threw a total of 88 innings with an ERA of 5.40 and a WHIP of 1.392. Those are not eye-popping stats; the guy is 32 years old; he has a whiff of "game-fixing" around him. What made the Dodgers' front office think this was a good PR move?
Can you imagine the conversation in the Celestial Starbucks between Kennesaw Mountain Landis and A. Bartlett Giamatti if this guy makes it back to MLB?
TMZ Sports has a report from yesterday saying that some bar patrons threw drinks at Johnny Manziel in a Houston club earlier this week. According to TMZ, some fans were shouting at Manziel and "aggressively trying to take pics" which led to Manziel flipping off one of the patrons and then "drinks started to fly". Some folks might be tempted to use this report to reinforce their thinking that Johnny Manziel has "character issues" and that the Browns never should have drafted him because of those "character issues". I prefer to interpret this incident – in the context of other reports of Manziel's behaviors – a bit differently.
I cannot recall any reports regarding Manziel that would lead me to believe he is an evil person; I do not think he is a nascent serial killer or a totally amoral sociopath. I am, however, convinced that he is very immature and has a heightened sense of entitlement. And it is for those reasons that I believe that the Browns never should have drafted him and it is for those reasons that I believe he is not going to achieve the level of success one would hope for from a first round quarterback selection. Like most team sports, football has a large mental component and for a quarterback, the mental component is as important as the physical component. There have been a few "quarterback prodigies" – guys who excelled at the position despite their neglect for things like preparation or conditioning. Bobby Layne, Joe Namath and Ken Stabler come to mind here. However, most of the guys who neglect preparation have brief and undistinguished careers.
I know that Johnny Manziel is only 22 years old and that he does have time to grow up and to behave like an adult. Nonetheless, I have not seen any reports that would lead me to believe that he recognizes that "maturation" is something he needs to put high on his list of "Things To Do". Until someone realizes that importance, becoming a responsible adult does not happen; one becomes merely a chronological adult.
I mention this because teams talk about "character" when they draft players and I think in many cases that is not what they should focus on. Yes, if a potential draftee at the age of 21 already has 9 arrests for violent behaviors along with stories that he belongs to a Satanic Cult that sacrifices kittens weekly, a team should play the "character issues card" and pass on him. However, the more prevalent problem is "maturity" and not "character". What teams need to figure out how to measure is the degree to which a potential draftee – actually a physically large and gifted man-child in most cases – has internalized concepts such as responsibility and/or logical consequences of one's actions and/or self-control.
Johnny Manziel is an example in football of a young player who does not seem to have a great awareness of those sorts of characteristics of maturity. The NBA faces the same problem with its yearly influx of "one-and-dones". Kids – and I use that term here very purposefully – come into the NBA after one gaudy year of college basketball and often fade into mediocrity. For some, it is because they are boys playing against men and need to catch up physically to players who have had years of physical training to build themselves up. Others fade into mediocrity because they do not recognize that what they have to do to continue to excel goes beyond merely showing up sufficiently before game time that the coach does not suspend you for being late.
Make the potential draftee watch the movie Bull Durham and then talk to the potential draftee about Nuke LaLoosh and what they think about his future in MLB.
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require 'tmail'
require 'net/smtp'

module Emailer

  class MailerError < RuntimeError; end
  class ConnectionNotOpenError < MailerError; end

  class SmtpFacade

    class << self; attr_accessor :default end

    attr_reader :settings, :error, :offending_mail

    def initialize(settings)
      @settings = settings
      @settings.keys.each do |key|
        raise ArgumentError.new("invalid option, {"+key.to_s+" => "+@settings[key].to_s+"}") unless [
            :host, :port, :username, :password, :authentication, :domain
          ].include?(key)
      end
    end

    def open
      @open = true
      open_connection
      yield self
    ensure
      @open = false
      close_connection
    end

    def get_net_smtp_instance
      Net::SMTP.new settings[:host], settings[:port]
    end

    ##
    # Sends a mail to the represented SMTP server. Options is expected to include
    # :to, :from, :subject, :body, :content_type and :encoding. Use send_html or
    # send_text to provide defaults for :content_type and :encoding.
    #
    def send_mail(options)
      raise ConnectionNotOpenError unless @open

      content_type_args = options[:content_type].split('/') << { 'charset' => options[:encoding] }

      mail = TMail::Mail.new
      mail.set_content_type *content_type_args
      mail.to = options[:to]
      mail.from = options[:from]
      mail.subject = options[:subject]
      mail.body = options[:body]

      @connection.sendmail(mail.encoded, mail.from[0], mail.destinations)
      true
    rescue ConnectionNotOpenError => e
      raise e
    rescue StandardError => e
      @error = e
      @offending_mail = mail
      close_connection
      false
    end

    def send_html(options)
      send_mail(options.merge(:content_type => 'text/html', :encoding => 'utf-8'))
    end

    def send_text(options)
      send_mail(options.merge(:content_type => 'text/plain', :encoding => 'utf-8'))
    end

    private
    def open_connection
      @connection = get_net_smtp_instance
      @connection.start(
        settings[:domain],
        settings[:username],
        settings[:password],
        settings[:authentication]
      )
    end

    def close_connection
      @connection.finish if @connection && @connection.started?
      @connection = @open = nil
    end

  end
end


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Q: index.rst build just only links of the rest of pages. - Sphinx I have a index.rst with this sintaxis:
Example
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.. toctree::
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   :caption: Contents:

   item
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

By other hand, I have a item.rst file with this:
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What's the problem? I have an index with this:

But I do not want this. All content of item.rst (Another page) It should be displayed when I push in Another page not in the index.
I just want display in index the link of the rest of pages like this:
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Q: Inserting into a table variable from information_schema appears to retrieve nothing SQL Server 2008.
I am writing some T-SQL to take a list of tables which are common between two databases (essentially two copies of the same database so column names are common), truncate each table in the list in the target db and append the rows from the matching table in the source db.
As part of this I am building a list of column names to use in the ultimate SELECT statement which does the appending.
The problem is that when I attempt to insert the list of column names for the table in question into a table variable, I get nothing. I developed that section of T-SQL separately however, and it works fine in isolation.
Anything glaringly wrong ?
DECLARE @SourceCompany  CHAR(1)
DECLARE @TargetCompany  CHAR(1)
DECLARE @SQL            NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @lcParmDef      NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @TableCount     INT
DECLARE @t              INT
DECLARE @ThisTable      NVARCHAR(256)
DECLARE @TableList      TABLE (name NVARCHAR(256), RowID INT)
DECLARE @ColumnCount    INT
DECLARE @c              INT
DECLARE @RowList        NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @ThisCol        NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @ColumnList     TABLE (column_name NVARCHAR(4000), id INT IDENTITY )
DECLARE @ColString      NVARCHAR(4000)

 ---------------- Set source and target companies here ----------------
SET @SourceCompany = 'Z'
SET @TargetCompany = 'X'
 ---------------- Set source and target companies here ----------------

INSERT @TableList (name, RowID) VALUES (N'stran',1), (N'sanal', 2)
SET @TableCount = @@ROWCOUNT
SET @t = 1

WHILE (@t <= @TableCount)

    BEGIN

        SELECT @ThisTable = name FROM @TableList WHERE RowID = @t
        SET @ThisTable = N'[dbo].[' + @ThisTable + N']'

         -- Clear target table.
        SET @SQL = N'TRUNCATE TABLE [COMP_' + @TargetCompany + N'].[dbo].[' + @ThisTable + N']'
        SET @lcParmDef = N''
        EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQL, @lcParmDef

        -- Build column list for current table.
        DELETE FROM @ColumnList
        INSERT INTO @ColumnList
            SELECT column_name from information_schema.columns
            WHERE table_name = @ThisTable

        -- PROBLEM - this always returns zero.
        SELECT @ColumnCount = Count(*) FROM @ColumnList

        SET @c = 1
        SET @ColString = ''
        WHILE (@c <= @ColumnCount)
            BEGIN
                SELECT @ThisCol = column_name FROM @ColumnList WHERE id = @c
                SET @ColString = @ColString + '[' + @ThisCol + ']'
                IF (@c < @ColumnCount) SET @ColString = @ColString + ','
                SET @c = @c + 1
            END

        --- Just print the column string for now, ultimately I will build a SELECT statement and execute.
        PRINT @ColString

        SET @t = @t + 1

    END

A: Try the following changes

*

*Comment this line SET @ThisTable = N'[dbo].[' + @ThisTable + N']'. Because in information_schema.columns system view table name will be just stored as tablename not like [dbo].[tablename]. Not even [square brackets].

*Add a new variable for schema and assign dbo to it.
declaring @schema_name variable
 Declare @schema_name char(3) = 'dbo'

*change Insert query like this.

Add the schema name filter to the query
INSERT INTO @ColumnList
SELECT column_name
from information_schema.columns
WHERE table_name = @ThisTable
  and schema_name = @schema_name

A: Okay, it turns out that the use of 'information_schema' requires a database context. Here I am working with dynamic database names held in variables, and you can't (AFAIK, annoyingly) use variables in a USE statement. So what I do below is build some T-SQL and execute it dynamically using sp_executesql with output parameters to return a string with the column names for each table being processed.
-- Takes a list of tables in @TableList, truncates that table in a target database and appends all rows
-- from the same table in a source database, building a column list dynamically in each case.

DECLARE @SourceCo       CHAR(1)
DECLARE @TargetCo       CHAR(1)
DECLARE @SourceCoName   CHAR(6)
DECLARE @TargetCoName   CHAR(6)
DECLARE @SQLString      NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @ParmDefinition NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @TableCount     INT
DECLARE @t              INT
DECLARE @ThisTable      NVARCHAR(256)
DECLARE @TableList      TABLE (name NVARCHAR(256), RowID INT)
DECLARE @RowList        NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @ThisCol        NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @ColumnList     TABLE (column_name NVARCHAR(4000), id INT IDENTITY )
DECLARE @ColumnString   NVARCHAR(4000)

 ---------------- Set source and target companies here ----------------
SET @SourceCo = 'Z'
SET @TargetCo = 'X'
SET @SourceCoName = 'COMP_' + @SourceCo
SET @TargetCoName = 'COMP_' + @TargetCo
 ---------------- Set source and target companies here ----------------

 -- Build the list of tables to process.
INSERT @TableList (name, RowID) VALUES (N'stran',1), (N'sanal', 2)
SET @TableCount = @@ROWCOUNT
SET @t = 1

-- Iterate through list of tables.
WHILE (@t <= @TableCount)

    BEGIN

        SELECT @ThisTable = name FROM @TableList WHERE RowID = @t

         -- Clear relevant table in target database.
        SET @SQLString = N'TRUNCATE TABLE [' + @TargetCoName + N'].[dbo].[' + @ThisTable + N']'
        SET @ParmDefinition = N''
        EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQLString, @ParmDefinition

        -- Retrieve the column list for current table.
        SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
        SET @SQLString =              "DECLARE @ColumnList TABLE (column_name NVARCHAR(4000), id INT IDENTITY );"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "DECLARE @c INT;"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "DECLARE @ColumnCount INT;"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "DECLARE @ThisCol NVARCHAR(4000);"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "USE " + @SourceCoName + ";"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "INSERT INTO @ColumnList SELECT column_name from information_schema.COLUMNS"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "     WHERE TABLE_NAME = '" + @ThisTable + "' "
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "     AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo';"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "SELECT @ColumnCount = Count(*) FROM @ColumnList;"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "SET @c = 1; SET @ColStringOUT = '';"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "WHILE (@c <= @ColumnCount) "
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + " BEGIN "
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "  SELECT @ThisCol = column_name FROM @ColumnList WHERE id = @c"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "  SET @ColStringOUT = @ColStringOUT + '[' + @ThisCol + ']'"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "  IF (@c < @ColumnCount) SET @ColStringOUT = @ColStringOUT + ','"
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "   SET @c = @c + 1 "
        SET @SQLString = @SQLString + "  END"
        SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
        SET @ParmDefinition = N'@ColStringOUT NVARCHAR(4000) OUTPUT'
        EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQLString, @ParmDefinition, @ColStringOUT = @ColumnString OUTPUT

        --- Just print the column string for now, ultimately I will build a SELECT statement using it.
        PRINT @ColumnString

        SET @t = @t + 1

    END


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He urged companies handling large amounts of cash to surrender it to banks.
of US1 dollar to Z$1.4 million) was in circulation.
which used to be the limit for persons making ordinary withdrawals.
now come that swift measures be taken".
December 2003 and replaced the traveller's cheques with the bearer notes.
rising sharply, he pointed out, costing larger wads of Zim dollars.
sorted. And sorting out the political crisis means regime change."
contributing to the shortage of cash in the banks.
surprises" and might introduce new currency sooner without much warning.
genius, including Dr. Gono himself, can fix the economy.
the mines minister announced almost exactly the same plan in early March.
nationalisation had yet to be finalised.
than the parallel-market rate, which is currently around Z$1m:US$1.
symptoms, if not the root cause, of inflation.
naked in a mixture of ash and broken glass.
activists' main "sin" was to attempt to embarrass Mugabe in front of Mbeki.
the talks between the ruling party and the opposition.
succession dilemma. The act allows him to handpick a successor.
are brutally crushed by riot police.
legitimise another rigged election in favour of Mugabe.
Zimbabwe Amendment (Number 18) Act.
Police Station where police took turns to brutally assault them.
country yesterday (Thursday),' the source said.
would resume talks as soon as it was possible.
of cases involving violence against its members.
talks without an undertaking from Zanu-PF that they would stop the violence.
implement any agreements that arise from the talks.
Zimbabwe's political crisis, while warning of "various external forces"
mobilising to disrupt the dialogue.
between the ruling Zanu PF party and the MDC seven months ago.
process and questioning Zanu PF's sincerity.
is doing is illogical to logical intended goals of the dialogue."
a fledgling accord before the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon next month.
Ncube said the talks had now entered "a final and decisive stage".
Commonwealth after it was suspended in 2002.
and mismanaging the country's economy.
President Mugabe accuses western countries of pursuing a "regime change"
agenda, and says they would like to see Mbeki fail.
attempt at derailing the talks."
internal forces to derail the successful conclusion of the SADC dialogue."
problems and issues," said the MDC statement.
polls campaign, could soon find their pockets bursting at the seams again.
clearing refuse only once a month.
collection fleet of vehicles has compounded the crisis.
Zimbabwe to our city council are erratic and inadequate to meet the needs.
now face a severe health crisis."
just to mention but a few.
of national processes which affect their lives.
a matter of who is better Mugabe or Tsvangirai; to me they are both as bad.
You can't trust a politician."
because it is seen as critical of the government.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesperson said on Friday.
Ellam. "We hope any agreement that is reached will be acted upon."
largely of Britain and its former colonies.
invited Mugabe, and Mugabe has said he would attend.
ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
and ensure any commitments were honoured.
of other commonwealth countries. Malcolm Webb reports from Kampala.
is not in my opinion one of the crucial factors."
presidential candidate Kizze Besigye addressed a group of about 100 people.
commonwealth address what he says are Uganda's democratic failings.
Congo, while the international community and the commonwealth was quiet.
[and] the commonwealth was quiet."
produce final resolutions on the issues discussed.
as an equal negotiating partner.
jamming of radio stations such as Studio 7.
are at the centre stage of people's needs and livelihood.
emotionally attached and have access to internal dynamics within the MDC.
needs and expectation of the general population of Zimbabwe.
space crushed for all those in the democratic movement.
person at this particular time.
a discourse that has begun to take centre stage within the party corridors.
Joice Mujuru and Gedion Gono the Reserve Bank Chief.
within Zanu, to which Joice Mujuru lost the president's favour.
to deal with the Daily News case.
opening of citizen participation space.
way that they would be able to influence policy in the new government.
is an MDC or Zanu (PF) government.
focus on their core priorities.
political circles of late are anything to go by.
should first of all define to us a number of points.
decisions on whether to participate or not.
4 - Zimbabwe is Zimbabwe by virtue of its boundaries, history and culture.
The voice of the people of Zimbabwe is the voice of God.
way the worker benefits from his toil.
Zimbabwe for everybody or is it based upon the presence of a common enemy?
Clarity of motives allows for trust and comradeship.
conditions are not conducive but flourish as soon as the first drop of rain!


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Green Tea Products Protect Against Alzheimer's and Cancer
Opposing Views Staff
Author: DoctorsHealthPress
Green tea could protect against Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, according to a new study. It may also play a big role in shielding you from cancer. And green tea's effect may be stronger than we thought.
The study, published in "Phytomedicine," aimed to see if the protective properties of green tea were still there once the tea was digested. Previously, researchers knew that the freshly brewed form of green tea had health-promoting qualities. But could digested green tea still keep working?
Digestion is obviously a vital process that extracts and distributes nutrients we need to survive. But even though a food contains health-boosting compounds, we don't know for sure if they will be absorbed and used properly.
To that end, the study found that, when green tea is digested by enzymes in the stomach, the resulting chemicals are actually more effective at protecting against Alzheimer's disease than the green tea before it is brewed. Digested green tea also was found to have anti-cancer properties, slowing the growth of tumor cells.
Both hydrogen peroxide and a protein called "beta-amyloid" are known to be involved in Alzheimer's disease. Older studies have shown that polyphenols in black and green tea are able to protect the brain cells. The body breaks down polyphenols into a mix of compounds. It was these that were the subject of the study.
In a lab, they exposed cells to different toxins and then to the green tea compounds. What happened? Green tea's compounds prevented the toxins from destroying the cells. What's more? They affected cancer cells, too, slowing growth considerably.
Cancer and dementia are huge illnesses in today's society. This study, though preliminary, is a great step in showing one drink that just might give you loads of protection. It can't hurt, after all.
To read more from Doctors Health Press, click here: http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/
Article Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_2014584_17.html
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Protecting Women's Fertility from Cancer Treatments
Exercise and Green Tea May Help Breast Cancer Survivors Beat the Blues
Omega-3 and Green Tea Healthier as Combo
Thyroid Problems Linked to Alzheimer's in Women


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Zhìzhī Gǔdōu Hóu Chányú (郅支骨都侯單于), más conocido generalmente como Zhìzhī Chányú (郅支單于), con el nombre de nacimiento Luándī Hūtúwúsī (攣鞮呼屠吾斯), fue uno de los autoproclamados Chányú que aparecieron tras la crisis de poder iniciada en el 58 a.C., siendo a la postre una figura determinante para entender el proceso de descomposición final del poder xīongnú (匈奴) a lo largo de las estepas orientales. A la hora de tratar su legado histórico, debemos tener en cuenta la posición hostil y partidaria de las fuentes de la época Hàn (漢), que no dudaron a la hora de colocar su imagen como la de un líder sibilino, tiránico y traicionero, capaz de ejecutar o atacar tanto al enemigo como al otrora aliado.

Primeros años de actividad y reforzamiento del poder en las estepas orientales
La primera aparición de Hūtúwúsī en las fuentes chinas, se circunscribe al Hàn Shū (漢書), donde aparece como uno de los componentes del aparato de poder del legítimo Chányú, Luándī Jīhóuquǎncè (攣鞮稽侯犬冊), quien era a su vez su propio hermano. Para reforzar su aún precaria situación, Jīhóuquǎncè escogió para el cargo de Zuǒ Gǔlí Wáng (左谷蠡王) a Hūtúwúsī, hasta el momento apenas relevante o conocido en el conjunto del pueblo. Esta inclusión en el organigrama de poder, pudo brindarle los primeros apoyos y experiencias políticas, necesarias en las décadas posteriores para acometer su propio esquema independiente. No obstante, en esta etapa aún temprana y con varios usurpadores aún por erradicar en ciernes, Hūtúwúsī, no se erigirá como un potencial candidato al trono xīongnú. Para este momento culminante, Hūtúwúsī esperó hasta la enésima usurpación al poder de su hermano, protagonizada en el 56 a.C. por uno de los príncipes regionales de la confederación, el denominado Xiūxún Wáng (休旬王), lanzándose en paralelo él mismo también como legítimo Chányú. En el transcurso de dos años (56-54 a.C.), Hūtúwúsī  llegó a combatir y ejecutar al príncipe usurpador, además de avanzar con sus huestes contra su propio hermano, empujándole a una huida desenfrenada a territorio Hàn. Exultante, Hūtúwúsī había logrado no sólo aniquilar el bando usurpador hacia su familia, sino que también había expulsado a su hermano como legítimo Chányú. En estos momentos, la autoridad de las estepas recaía ya sobre su figura, aunque no sería por mucho tiempo.

La primera reacción de Jīhóuquǎncè tras su derrocamiento, fue tratar de rearmarse ante esta humillación, intentando efectuar una respuesta a su hermano y conseguir de nuevo la legitimidad como único Chányú: a este respecto, las elites y sus consejeros más cercanos, consiguieron disuadirle, indicándole numerosos argumentos sobre su delicada situación actual, por medio del cual finalmente, se consumó el vasallaje ante el emperador Hàn: Jīhóuquǎncè  se vio obligado tan sólo un año después de su expulsión del trono (53 a.C.), a enviar a su hijo, Zhūlóuqútáng (銖婁渠堂), ante la corte imperial, para servir como rehén. Dos años después (51 a.C.) le tocaría a él mismo acudir a prestar vasallaje ante el emperador en Cháng'ān (長安), siendo este el primero de los tres que tendría que efectuar hasta el final de su gobierno.

Paralelamente a la humillante posición adoptada por su destronado hermano, Hūtúwúsī tendrá que lidiar con la díscola nobleza xīongnú, de la cual llegaría a nacer un nuevo usurpador, quien será ejecutado prontamente por sus tropas. Aun cuando había logrado obtener el máximo poder en las estepas, Hūtúwúsī fue consciente de la debilidad de su mandato, como evidenció este brote tardío de rebelión, al mismo tiempo que temía una más que probable maniobra de reinstauración de Jīhóuquǎncè apoyándose en los ejércitos Hàn. Para solucionar esta doble amenaza, Hūtúwúsī  calibró un acercamiento a uno de los grupos más lejanos en el oeste: los wūsūn (烏孫). Un acercamiento que tendría al mismo tiempo un posible plan de huida y repliegue a sus tierras situadas en el área del  Asia Central, en caso de una eventual invasión Hàn desde el sur. Del mismo modo que practicaba este esquema de blindaje de la confederación, Hūtúwúsī  trataba de mantener las formas bajo una diplomacia activa en comunicación directa con el Emperador, sucediéndose varias embajadas con presentes y mensajes conciliadores, en los que reflejaba la intencionalidad de un trato cordial, así como el expreso deseo del reconocimiento de su poder por parte del soberano chino.

Esta doble política, fracasará estrepitosamente ante la previsible intencionalidad del Emperador de salvaguardar a Jīhóuquǎncè en el trono, al mismo tiempo que el existente recelo y ataque consecuente del soberano de los wūsūn, que justamente debía su posición en el trono al respaldo de los Hàn. Este último movimiento, se traducirá catastróficamente en una seria derrota para los wūsūn a manos de las tropas comandadas por Hūtúwúsī, que no contento con esta victoria, llegarían a aumentar su reconocimiento militar tras acabar con la independencia de otros grupos étnicos situados al norte, como los wūjiē (烏揭), los jiānkūn (堅昆) y los dīngling (丁零). El plan del Emperador y los aliados de la dinastía, había fracasado, reforzando la figura de Hūtúwúsī y sentándose las bases de un enemigo ya directo que no dudaría en tratar de sacar la ventaja de su éxito, ya fuese atacando a los estados del Asia Central (aliados de los Hàn), o bien de forma análoga sobre la frontera imperial.

 Huida al oeste y consolidación del poder en las estepas centrales
Los éxitos obtenidos y una renovada posición de fuerza de Hūtúwúsī sobre las estepas orientales, junto con las sospechas fundadas sobre un movimiento por la retaguardia a manos del Emperador y su hermano, harían que a la postre, el Chányú comenzase a adoptar una política fuertemente agresiva hacia los Hàn, aunque aún no declaradamente hostil. Prueba de este proceder, sería el secreto asesinato de uno de los embajadores imperiales: el llamado Gǔ Jí (谷吉). Mientras Hūtúwúsī configuraba un plan de confrontación contra los Hàn y un reforzamiento de su figura, su hermano destronado, Jīhóuquǎncè, aún se mantenía situado al área fronteriza Hàn, para desesperación de las autoridades y del propio Emperador, que deseaban reinstaurar la situación de influencia directa a través del desposeído Chányú: todo ello con el evidente temor del asesinato de este último a manos de su ya poderoso hermano. Ante estas vicisitudes, el aparato de poder Hàn logró movilizar al timorato Jīhóuquǎncè bajo promesas de alianza y respaldo de su figura, regresando nuevamente a su antigua corte, al norte de las estepas. Esta circunstancia crispó sobremanera a Hūtúwúsī, preludiendo lo que sería su siguiente golpe de efecto: la alianza con el rey de los kāngjū (康居).

La identidad tanto étnica como filológica de estos últimos, es contemplamente desconocida a día de hoy (barajándose su origen iranio o proto-turco), conociendo únicamente rasgos de su historia a través de las fuentes chinas, que los ubican en torno a la Transoxiana a partir del siglo I a.C. Este pueblo, es identificado por las fuentes como una rama puramente nómada, aunque manteniendo ciertas características asociadas a la cultura sedentaria. La razón por la cual Hūtúwúsī giró su mirada hacia estos últimos, como apoyos frente al expansionismo Hàn, fue justamente la coincidencia de objetivos entre ambos: junto con los kāngjū, existía una evidente animadversión hacia los wūsūn, con una intencionalidad ofensiva que llevase a arrebatar y conquistar las tierras a estos últimos, impidiendo así cualquier posible expansión en la estratégica área centroasiática. Comenzaba así una nueva reubicación de sus territorios, con el epicentro enfocado ya en las estepas centrales, convirtiéndose durante los años subsiguientes en una amenaza al control Hàn de Xīyù (西域). Para reforzar aún más la alianza entre ambos poderes, Hūtúwúsī entregó una de sus hijas al soberano de los kāngjū, mientras que este último efectuaba la misma maniobra hacia el líder xīongnú.

Esta alianza se saldó con una primera victoria importante, tras penetrar en el territorio wūsūn y saquear la capital, Chìgǔchéng (赤谷城),apoderándose de un botín fastuoso, tanto a nivel material como humano, lo que alertó en mayor medida a la corte Hàn, que comenzaba a temer un control absoluto de toda la cuenca del Tarim a manos de Hūtúwúsī, con los daños económicos y estratégicos que ello acarrearía. Ensimismado en su propio éxito, Hūtúwúsī no dudó a la hora de traicionar y ejecutar a su aliado, al igual que a su hija y esposa y extendiendo esta drástica medida contra toda la elite nobiliaria hostil a su poder. Este movimiento inesperado, nunca antes observado con respecto a sus aliados o partidarios, puede estar hipotéticamente condicionado por una conjura descubierta a manos del líder de los kāngjū, aunque las fuentes chinas únicamente inciden en el acto despótico de su asesinato e incorporación de los territorios kāngjū bajo su poder, sin especificar los motivos de dicha acción. Este sería el punto de partida bajo el cual, Hūtúwúsī comenzó a levantar una estructura de grandes dimensiones, organizada en forma de ciudad fortaleza (城): esto es, la construcción de la denominada Zhìzhīchéng (郅支城), capital de sus dominios y el epicentro de su defensa hasta la caída final de su efímero estado. No contento con el aumento de su poder y la acaparación de las tierras de los wūsūn y los kāngjū, Hūtúwúsī calibró la idea de expandir aún más su mandato, hasta conseguir el control cuasi absoluto de toda Xīyù, obligando a otros estados de la misma a pagarles el tributo y amenazándoles con una respuesta militar en caso de negativa. Este último paso, sería a la postre un error estratégico, haciendo que desde la corte Hàn, saltasen todas las alarmas, traduciéndose en la llegada de dos nuevos representantes gubernamentales: Gān Yánshòu (甘延壽) y su famoso subalterno, Chén Tāng (陳湯).

 La respuesta Hàn: ataque y destrucción del aparato de poder de Zhìzhī
Las fuentes chinas, relatan en primera instancia que la labor de Gān Yánshòu y Chén Tāng, no era a priori atacar a Hūtúwúsī y derrocar su gobierno, saldándose así de raíz este acuciante problema: únicamente se puntualiza en primera instancia, su llegada a Xīyù con motivo de una reorganización del sistema de gobierno regional, el respaldo hacia varios de los estados acosados por Hūtúwúsī, al mismo tiempo que la investigación de los sucesos acaecidos entre el Chányú y varios de los dignatarios desaparecidos tras su envío desde la corte (especialmente, en el caso del desaparecido Gǔ Jí). Sin embargo, el [[Libro de Han|Hàn Shū (漢書)]] relata que en el transcurso del camino, Chén Tāng logró convencer a su superior de encabezar una audaz campaña inesperada contra Hūtúwúsī y eliminar de facto cualquier amenaza potencial para la dinastía al igual que para el resto de estados feudatarios de Xīyù. Aunque al principio Gān Yánshòu mostró sus reparos ante esta iniciativa no autorizada ni validada por la corte, finalmente acordaron el ataque conjunto, comenzando a reorganizar los efectivos disponibles en base a las tropas de varios de los estados amenazados de Xīyù, encaminándose hacia Zhìzhīchéng (郅支城).

A su llegada a la misma, provistos de un nutrido ejércitos compuesto mayoritariamente por los enemigos de Hūtúwúsī, el líder xīongnú desplegó su habitual comportamiento contemporizador, declinando ofrecer cualquier concesión y enviando un emisario ante al campamento Hàn en el que demandaba explicaciones ante la llegada de los ejércitos encabezados por Gān Yánshòu y Chén Tāng. El intercambio de opiniones, era un puro eufemismo, conscientes ambas partes de un enfrentamiento y choque irreversible. La contienda consiguiente tras el cese de comunicaciones, fue registrado de forma poco usual en el Hàn Shū, donde se desglosó cada uno de los pormenores pertenecientes a la bautizada por algunos autores, como Batalla de Zhìzhī (郅支之戰) o Batalla de la Ciudad de Zhìzhī (郅支城之戰), en el 36 a.C. En medio de la misma, Hūtúwúsī sufrió varias heridas, consiguiendo sin embargo resistir hasta el último momento, cuando el empuje de las tropas Hàn, obligó a un repliegue desesperado hasta el interior del complejo, donde finalmente fue decapitado por un oficial subalterno del ejército Hàn, llamado Dù Xūn (杜勳).

Tras su muerte, la toma del complejo era ya una realidad, descubriéndose tras ello el horrible destino acaecido a los enviados del Emperador, al mismo tiempo que confirmándose el enriquecimiento que Hūtúwúsī  había logrado conseguir tras décadas de rapiña y conquistas a lo largo de las estepas orientales y centrales, con una mayor profusión desde su llegada al escenario centroasiático. La muerte de Hūtúwúsī, supuso no sólo el último gran éxito logrado por los ejércitos Hàn en esta primera etapa dinástica, sino que también simbolizó la decadencia ya irrefrenable del poder xīongnú: nunca antes ningún ninguno de los líderes xīongnú había caído derrotado de forma tan absoluta frente a los Hàn, al igual que tampoco antes se había conseguido abatir en batalla a ningún Chányú. Tras el cese de la campaña, los ejércitos regresaron portando un extraordinario botín, aunque esto último no les valió para eludir las críticas palaciegas que les censuraban su actitud autónoma sin consulta ni permiso previo a la corte. Paralelo a ello, Chén Tāng aprovechó la circunstancia para arramblar parte del botín en su beneficio, lo que le traería graves consecuencias judiciales a lo largo de toda su vida. La figura de Hūtúwúsī, terminó por desdibujarse en la imagen de un éxito de armas Hàn, al igual que una clara advertencia para cualquier disidente o enemigo de la dinastía, como probaba la presencia de la cabeza del Chányú  en la entrada a la sede imperial.

Bibliografía primaria
Hàn Shū (漢書), Volumen 94 Inferior (卷九十四下), Biografía de los Xīongnú (匈奴傳), enlace directo: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%BC%A2%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7094%E4%B8%8B

Hàn Shū (漢書), Volumen 70 (卷七十), Biografías de Gān [Yánshòu] y Chén [Táng] (甘陳傳), enlace directo: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%BC%A2%E6%9B%B8/%E5%8D%B7070

Bibliografía secundaria
DAFFINÀ, PAOLO: "Chih-Chih Shan-yü" https://www.jstor.org/stable/41880149?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

ENOKI, K.: "Sogdiana and the Hsiung-nu" https://www.jstor.org/stable/41926300

Xiongnu
Historia del Asia Central
Dinastía Han
Historia de Mongolia


I am thinking over my earlier post and my conversation last night with a beautiful friend and also conversations I have had lately with my daughter. And I have a word. Sparkle. And another word. Shine. And another. Glow. Lately since I have been creating spaces in my life I have felt those words surrounding me. It's when I am out walking and I am looking at the mountain and the open sky and I am singing to myself. It's in George Jones' voice right now that is playing on the stereo that reminds me of my father and the best parts of my childhood. It's in the thought of vegetarian lasagna tonight for dinner with a friend and the smell of the chocolate cake I made for his birthday. My friend said she's afraid of being public with her extreme optimism. Her beautiful, lovely, necessary view that good things really do happen in the world. My daughter says she doesn't like sharing herself with new people. That she is afraid she will say something wrong and look stupid. Why are we afraid to sparkle? Why do we think we need to keep other people from seeing us shine? Why do we hold back our hearts from that glow that wants to erupt every time we encounter something wonderful? I know people might think I'm talking to myself in a strange way when they pass by me as I am out on my walk and singing out loud. But I enjoy my time to walk and sing my favorite songs too much to stop because of what people in their cars or houses that see me through their windows might think. I am learning to value the sparkle and the shine and the glow so much more than the part of me that says to hold myself back because people might be watching and might have something negative to say. Writing this blog has helped me even further with that. Sometimes it's okay to put your shiniest, most honest, most glorious self in a place where the world can see. Sometimes it's more important to speak what's true in your heart than to plan ahead for what the others around you might say or think to shut you down. Who are those others anyway? I have listened to them for years and I have rarely ever actually heard them say anything. Certainly not anything that ever turned out to be true. So go ahead. Sparkle. Go ahead. Shine. Go ahead. Glow. Go ahead, live your fullest life possible by listening to that quiet place of joy inside your heart. The rest of us will thank you.


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Texas ready to fund full day Pre-K at all public schools
By T.J. Parker
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It used to be only some Texas schools were able to afford half-day Pre-K, but now thanks to new legislation, the state is offering to fund full-day Pre-K at all public schools.
Educators and parents ABC13 talked with say it's a big benefit.
"I think it's good for parents who need to work to have full-day options," says parent Kristin Ghia.
Thao Montemayor says "I know it's really stressful for some of my friends to find a good program to send their kids off to."
This is part of a multi-billion dollar overhaul to the state's school finance system. Part of it pays for full day Pre-K for low income and other qualifying students across Texas.
Educators in Houston say not only does it help parents who work full time and are trying to find childcare, but it's a cheaper option, as private childcare can cost thousands of dollars.
"Childcare is very expensive," says Jonathan Parker with the Harris County Department of Education.
Several Houston-area school districts already have full day Pre-K, but it'll also be a first for some.
"The low income districts would benefit from this type of program, once again, that allows parents to be able to work, and of course that extra income helps the family tremendously," Parker said.
Educators add this lets more students get a head start on their education.
"Pre-K allows students to begin to start developing and understanding the routines of school," Parker said.
Parker expects to see most of the 25 districts in Harris County to adopt a full day Pre-K program.
HISD offers both free Pre-K and tuition based Pre-K.
Many of the larger districts, like Katy, Ft. Bend, Aldine and Pasadena now offer full day Pre-K.
There are some requirements though for children to enroll into it for free:
Inability to speak English
Must be eligible for free lunch program
Child of active duty service member
Child of a member of Armed Forces who was killed or injured
In or have been in custody of DFPS
Child of a first responder who was killed or injured
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