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A short story about brotherly love.
"Harmony is the ultimate brotherly love." Phil Everly
"You're going, Eddie," Johnny kept saying to his brother, even with his sons begging him to let their uncle stay. "C'mon," he said, kicking Eddie in the back again. "I've got work to do. Move your ass, let's go."
Eddie kept sitting there cross-legged in the dirt, trying to get a cigarette going. He knew he had to go. Johnny kept telling his boys the marina couldn't support another mouth through the winter. "You ain't trying very hard," Eddie laughed, making Johnny grab his skinny leg and pull him across the parking lot. Eddie would flop about, making it as hard as possible.
He'd make funny faces at the boys, showing where most his teeth were gone on one side.
"Get in," Johnny said, puffing away, sweat forming on his broad face. "Get in, Eddie." They kicked and punched each other some more until Eddie finally got in the truck. He made funny faces at the boys, showing where most his teeth were gone on one side. Even May, Johnny's wife, looked sad.
"He'll make out," Johnny kept telling them. Everyone knew Eddie never got further than the jail in Sudbury. He'd show up in late April or May, all beat up, showing off a new tattoo. The latest was supposed to be Jesus. It looked more like a big birthmark on his cheek. Who was going to hire him?
"I don't need nobody hiring me," Eddie would say. "I got you, big brother."
Eddie figured he could always count on Johnny for work. Not that Eddie appreciated it. He was always screwing up or disappearing. The previous afternoon, a couple showed up, wanting to go out to Thompson Island. Eddie should have been down starting the launch. Johnny ended up doing it himself. By the time the engines were warmed up, the couple was arguing. Then the woman stormed off back to the car.
"We changed our minds," the guy said to Johnny. "What do I owe you?"
"Five bucks, I guess," Johnny said. "All I did was start the engines."
The guy gave him a twenty. Johnny went to make change.
"Five bucks?" Eddie said. "That's all you're getting?" He flicked cigarette ashes into his pant cuffs. "You ain't gonna get rich that way, Big Chief."
Eddie's feet were up on the counter when Johnny came back in the store. He watched Johnny take out a ten and a five from the cash register. "Five bucks?" Eddie said. "That's all you're getting?" He flicked cigarette ashes into his pant cuffs. "You ain't gonna get rich that way, Big Chief."
After taking the money out to the couple, Johnny came back and kicked Eddie's feet off the counter. Then he pushed Eddie to the door.
"You cost me seventy-five bucks, Eddie," he yelled.
"How do you figure that?"
"Round trip, asshole. That's what they wanted."
"You're one dumb Indian, Johnny."
"You think it's funny?"
"Sure it's funny," Eddie said. "You lost seventy bucks, not seventy-five. Five from seventy-five is seventy."
"Get out of here," Johnny said. "Go scrub the cleaning tables."
Eddie pulled his ponytail through the loop of his baseball cap.
"Whatever you say, Big Chief," he said.
"Scrub them down good, Eddie."
"I can't. The coons ran off with the brush."
Eddie grinned that stupid grin, the same one that got him beaten by the Jesuits growing up. He and Johnny were both at The St. Peter's Orphanage. Johnny used to tell him to stop grinning, but Eddie couldn't do it. So he got beaten until even the Jesuits wondered if they were doing any good. It wasn't, obviously, since Eddie was still grinning, acting the fool.
Two of the band elders were reading newspapers when Johnny came in the store. Charlie Goose and Burt Sugar sat on the band council. They wore red fishing vests and had brush cuts. Both men were in their seventies. They'd run the marina until the band council voted to let Johnny and May take it over.
Charlie tossed his cigarette in the stove.
"He's not helping you, Johnny," he said.
"You know it, but you don't do nothing 'cept throw him out every fall."
"I had the fuel line out on that Grew," he said. "I guess I took too long washing up."
The night before, Johnny and May were sitting in the kitchen. He was telling her about losing the fare to Thompson Island. "Eddie wouldn't come down to the dock," he said. She listened without interrupting. Her eyes stayed fixed on Johnny like they always were during a discussion. "I had the fuel line out on that Grew," he said. "I guess I took too long washing up."
May put the plates in the sink. The boys were watching television in the living room. There were only three rooms behind the store. Living room, bedroom, kitchen. The boys slept in the living room.
Johnny kept rubbing his big arms. "I'm taking him out to the highway tomorrow," he said. "He knows he's going. That's why he's goofing around so much."
"He needs a coat," May said.
"He'll just trade it for booze."
"He still needs one."
Johnny got up from the table and looked out the window. A full moon shone through the pine boughs. Out behind the trees, he could see the shadows of tarpaper shacks. The band council built them for the road crews back in the fifties. Now they sat in various states of disrepair, some of them falling over. Johnny kept one as a machine shop. Eddie lived in another. It sat beyond the outhouse and the two fish cleaning tables.
Johnny got his jacket and walked back through the scrub pine to Eddie's shack. He opened the door and turned on the single light bulb. Eddie wasn't in his bed. Down below, in the little inlet, the last of the boats sat motionless in their slips.
By Saturday, they'd all be in dry dock. Once that was done, he and May would close the store, then start looking for other work. In May's case, the band council always had something. She was their accountant and bookkeeper. Johnny could get on a road crew cutting trees and working the grater.
Eddie was sitting on the ground, sniffing gasoline.
He was starting back to the store when he heard a cough. It was coming from the machine shed. He went around and found the door open. Eddie was sitting on the ground, sniffing gasoline.
Johnny kicked him in the side.
"I said I'd beat you if you did that again."
Eddie just grinned.
"Where the key, Eddie?"
"In the lock where it always is, dummy."
Eddie laughed and hooked his thumbs in his pockets.
"Got yourself five bucks today, didn't you, Johnny boy? Ain't you a high roller? Big Chief's got himself five bucks."
"Better than you, Eddie."
"Nah," Eddie said. "You're no better than me, Johnny."
He adjusted his baseball cap and stumbled off through the scrub pines.
"I'm coming for you in the morning," Johnny yelled.
"Go ahead, see if I care," Eddie replied.
He got a few letters, most of the words spelt wrong. "Miss you," Eddie wrote.
He was singing that song again. "Shut up, Eddie," Johnny yelled out the bedroom window. May told him to come back to bed. He sat down, looking at the grease under his nails. It was a song Eddie sang back at the orphanage. It was supposed to make Johnny feel guilty. Johnny left the Jesuits a year before Eddie did. He got a few letters with most of the words spelt wrong or backwards. "Miss you," Eddie always wrote.
Eddie eventually ran away, showing up at the marina while Johnny was dragging logs. The council had taken Johnny on after he left the orphanage. He was living in one of the shacks. He remembered Eddie waving from the rocks, saying, "Hey, Johnny. It's me!" He didn't even have a coat.
May was still asleep when Johnny woke up the next morning. There was frost on the window. He went downstairs and stood at the kitchen door. Across the inlet, he could see Charlie and Burt cutting wood. Leaves seemed to drop in unison with each axe stroke. Johnny didn't wave to them. He walked across the crackling lichen to Eddie's shack. His old coat was under his arm. May had fixed the buttons and stitched the lining.
"Wake up, Eddie," he said at the door.
He came in and kicked Eddie's foot.
Eddie rolled slightly, opening one eye.
"Go away," he mumbled.
"I'm taking you out to the highway."
Eddie rubbed his face and sat up.
"What's with the coat?" he said.
"It's for you. May fixed the buttons."
"You're giving me a coat?"
Eddie put the coat around his shoulders and laid back down. "Take me out tomorrow," he said, curling up, hands between his knees.
"No, Eddie. You're going now."
Johnny grabbed Eddie's leg. Eddie tried to kick him.
"I said, get up, Eddie."
"Piss off, you dumb Indian."
Johnny tried grabbing him again. Eddie ripped a button off Johnny's coat.
"Got your button," Eddie grinned.
There was nothing to Eddie, no real strength. He pulled Eddie by the scruff of the neck outside.
Johnny climbed on top of him, pinning Eddie with his heavy knees. It didn't take much. There was nothing to Eddie, no real strength. He pulled Eddie by the scruff of the neck outside. May was standing by the back door of the store in her dressing gown. Eddie pulled free and fell on the ground. They were both breathing heavily. It came out in steamy puffs.
Eddie lay there with his hands behind his head, his legs crossed.
"What are you going to do now?" he said.
"Get up, Eddie."
"Why? I'm happy right here."
Johnny dragged him across to the pickup by his collar. He opened the door, pushing Eddie inside. "Stay there until I get your stuff," he said. He went back to the shack, threw Eddie's things in a duffle bag, grabbed his coat, then brought everything to the truck.
Eddie was leaning out the window.
"See you soon," he yelled to May.
Johnny threw Eddie's bag in the back and started the engine. His boys came and stood by their mother. They called to Eddie, telling him they didn't want him to go, saying they'd miss him. "Tell it to your stupid dad," Eddie called back. "He's the one sending me out in the wilds."
Revving the engine, Johnny pulled out, gravel kicking up, driving up the hill to the dirt road. They passed tarpaper shacks, the peeling church, the old cars without any windows. Eddie nodded off along the way. He woke up when Johnny hit the highway. Eddie yawned and stretched, then opened the door.
"Who says I'm going to Powassan?" Eddie grinned.
"So long, Johnny," he said.
Johnny threw him the coat.
"I better not see that on someone in Powassan," he said.
He got his duffle bag out of the back.
"I might just stay here by the road," Eddie said.
"You'll freeze your ass off," Johnny said.
"No I won't. I got a coat. I still got your button, too."
"Shut the door, for chrissake."
"Do it yourself, you dumb Indian."
It was just like Eddie to sell his coat for ten bucks without even checking.
Johnny yanked the passenger door closed and drove off. In the rear view, he could see Eddie laying back, using his duffle bag for a pillow. He'd stay there until he got hungry, then head up to Powassan. Nobody would give him anything there. Eventually, he'd find the thirty dollars May put in the coat pocket. Or maybe he wouldn't. It was just like Eddie to sell his coat for ten bucks without even checking.
Looking back one last time, Johnny saw Eddie pissing on the road. He pissed, stretched, then lay back down again. A truck came around the bend and showed down. Eddie could've gotten a ride if he'd used his head. Probably going to Powassan or even Sudbury. But Eddie, being Eddie, went back to sleep. Johnny shook his head and turned back down the sideroad to the marina. "So long, Eddie," he said, not feeling good or bad.
As he told May, Eddie wasn't worth keeping around. "He'll be back," he said, wondering if one day Eddie wouldn't appear in the parking lot, saying, "Hey, Johnny, it's me." That made him sad. He wasn't sure why, but it would. Maybe not for long, but it would.
Robert Cormack is a satirist, novelist, and blogger. His first novel "You Can Lead a Horse to Water (But You Can't Make It Scuba Dive)" is available online and at most major bookstores. Check out Simon and Schuster for more details. Other stories and articles by Robert Cormack can be found at robertcormack.net
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Candidate Dixie Seeks Equality
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NASHVILLE, TN —The 2018 election cycle has produced a number of exciting and hotly-contested matchups, but none might be as nail-biting as the race for State House District 54.
It's in that race that we see Vincent Dixie, a small business owner and first-time candidate, step into the spotlight.
Once considered an underdog in the race, Dixie has run an impressive campaign, coming on strong in public forums, and charming his way through community events.
When asked about what made his campaign so special, however, Dixie shrugged it off.
"It's nothing special, we've just worked very hard. I think people are attracted to our message. They like that we aren't up to the usual political tricks," he said. "We have tried our best to campaign on our own merits, instead of cutting the legs of our opponents."
What is Dixie's message, though? The candidate said all of his positions could be summed up in one word: equality.
"Equality in schools, equality in healthcare, and equality in justice," Dixie said. "That's what I'm about. When you wake up every day and fight for those three things, you will see our community improve."
Dixie said he was inspired to run for office by the women in his life. One was his mother, Glenda Dixie, who suffered from stage 4 lung cancer until she passed in February of this year.
"My mother raised me by herself, and she did everything right. Worked hard, raised her kids, and retired with a small pension. But when she got sick, she found herself having to make tough choices – do I pay for food, shelter, or medicine?" Dixie said. "Luckily, she had me by her side. I helped her through the process and supported her to the best of my abilities. But not every ailing senior has someone in their life who can help them."
"I love my mom, and I was devastated during her illness," Dixie said. "I don't want any son or daughter to have to feel the pain of watching their parents' health fail, and then also not be able to see them get the healthcare they need."
Another important woman who pushed Vincent into leadership was his wife, Ericka Myles Dixie, a Metro Public Schools educator.
"Through Ericka, I see what kids go through in our public schools, and I know we must do better to give them a chance at success," Dixie said. "Our lawmakers are so focused on kids passing tests, that we aren't even providing our teachers and students with the basics they need to teach and learn."
Perhaps most vital of all, Dixie said he is running for office with his daughters' futures in mind.
"One thing that worries me is that we aren't properly caring for our young men," Dixie said. "When my two daughters are grown and ready for marriage, I want them to be able to choose from men who have been raised to have healthy relationships. That starts at home, then extends to our schools, and later to our criminal justice system."
He said that our system often cripples the futures of young men in poverty who make a single mistake.
"I was able to stay out of the system, but I knew many guys growing up who couldn't avoid it. And even though they didn't commit a violent crime, they have to live with the 'scarlet letter F' – for felony – their whole lives," Dixie said. "They struggle getting good jobs, and therefore struggle to be productive citizens."
Dixie said one way that we can all work to improve our community is to improve our civic engagement.
"One thing's for sure – we show up and vote," Dixie said. "But once we've elected new people, do we hold them accountable? Do we interact with the rest of the city and make sure we're getting our fair share? I want to lead our district to take hold of our own futures and demand better representation at every level.
"We have to take this seriously, and that means we have to pay attention. It's hard work, but my goal will be to help improve communication with the community, so that nobody gets left behind," Dixie said.
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ITV Takes Expert Team to World Cup 2018
Sports Media June 3, 2018 2 months ago
By Kevin Coy
Topics: ITV, ITV Sport, Mark Pougatch, UK, World Cup 2018
ITV has unveiled its squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia along with its plans for covering the tournament – including a star-studded on-screen line-up of some of football's biggest names ahead of kick-off on June 14th.
Joining presenter Mark Pougatch on the plane to Moscow to lend their experience and expertise to ITV's tournament coverage will be Gary Neville and regular pundits Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Ian Wright and Lee Dixon as well as England women's striker Eniola Aluko, former French international Patrice Evra, Celtic and Sweden legend Henrik Larsson, Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill, former Croatia and West Ham boss Slaven Bilic, and Euro 2016 final referee Mark Clattenburg.
ITV is looking forward to bringing viewers a veritable borscht of football with all the action, drama, colour and atmosphere from across Russia. Presenter Jacqui Oatley, reporters Gabriel Clarke and Seema Jaswal, commentators Clive Tyldesley, Sam Matterface, Jon Champion and Joe Speight as well as co-commentators Glenn Hoddle, Ally McCoist and Iain Dowie will also be on the ground and in the stadia throughout the tournament.
The excitement has been building with the on-air launch of ITV's 60-second promotional trail, which encourages fans to 'forget the past' reflecting on the victory in 1966 and subsequent tournament failures which have both burdened with expectation and haunted the England team and fans for decades, and their preconceptions, and to focus on the potential for glory this time.
ITV will have a studio base overlooking St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow to bring home to viewers the impact of the tournament in front of one of Russia's most iconic backdrops. The team will also criss-cross the vast expanse of the country to deliver build-up, live coverage and analysis of some games from in and around the stadia in the various host locations to give viewers a taste of the tournament.
Niall Sloane, ITV Director of Sport, said: "Excitement is building for what we hope will be a great World Cup. We have put together a terrific team of pundits who will provide their expertise, insight and unique perspective to bring the tournament to life for our viewers. Our coverage, which kicks off with the opening game, will bring you the very best action and analysis from Russia."
The tournament begins on ITV with coverage of the opening ceremony at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, followed by the opening match between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia on 14 June, along with England's final group game against Belgium.
A number of mouth-watering fixtures from the opening stages of the tournament will be shown on ITV, including all three of Brazil's group games. ITV will have first and second pick of the round of 16 and first pick of the semi-finals. Both ITV and BBC, who share the coverage, will show the final.
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Future Human Evolution
January 9, 2018 ~ Troy Earl Camplin
This is one of the dumbest things I've heard of, for many reasons.
While there does seem to be some evidence of the division into "gracile" and "robust" forms in primates, Oliver Curry mistakenly says that chimpanzees split into robust chimps and gracile bonobos. This is not true. The common ancestor of humans, chimps and bonobos split into the descendants of chimps and a second group that itself split into the descendants of the bonobos and the descendants of the humans. We can see this in the fact that we are more closely related to bonobos and that we share some anatomical and behavioral features with bonobos, though many of our behaviors more closely resemble chimps, while bonobos physically resemble chimps more. So the evolutionary picture is more complex than Curry suggests.
The next bizarre statement, from an evolutionary point of view, is that "human evolution will reach its peak in about the year 3000." I don't know what this could possibly mean. Evolution does not have "peaks" in the sense that a species is as good as it gets. Species are always adapting to their environments. Humans are a strong generalist, and we are thus highly adaptive to practically every terrestrial environment. This leads into the nonsense about genetic regression. There is no such thing as genetic regression — there is only more or less adaptive species to their environment.
This then leads me to the issue of evolution itself. When a species is as mobile as our own — especially in the modern world — natural selection as adaptation to the physical environment no longer occurs. What we have now in control is population dynamics, where a genetic change spreads rapidly and evenly throughout a population after a few generations. Now, Curry mentions sexual selection. But I see little evidence for major differences in sexual selection. All the studies that have been done my evolutionary psychologists show that people universally find the same general proportions physically attractive. Globalization is, again, even eliminating many of the cultural differences that may (as unlikely as that is, since those differences were never actually substantial) have contributed to sexual selection. The elements contributing to intelligence, as I noted in a previous post, are so numerous as to make it difficult to determine what combinations are best.
This is not to say that over the time span he mentions — 100,000 years — that human evolution won't occur. Sure by then we will have colonized the moon and Mars, perhaps even the stars. And one would expect those isolated populations to evolve. But to keep things more down-to-earth, Curry fails to mention another type of evolution. It is a more important kind, and it is the kind that gave rise to human intelligence itself. And that is the evolution of more complexity. It is possible that certain people might evolve to have more complex minds — perhaps as much more complex than humans as humans are over chimps and bonobos. It is unlikely they would appear to be physically any different, as the difference would be in the minds of the people who emerged into the more complex forms of thinking. This kind of evolution seems more likely, and it seems more immediately likely. And if Claire Graves, Don Beck, and Christopher Cowan are right, it may have already happened in a small group of people. That is a much more interesting kind of evolution in my book.
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Mum opens sex-shop for over-50s who find standard toys 'too powerful'- Pro Teachs
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A 61-year-old has set up a sex shop specifically catering to people aged 50 and older in a bid to improve their sexual wellness.
Suzanne Noble established the online store, Sunset Satisfaction, for people who might find standard sex toys "too powerful".
The mum-of-two has devoted her recent years to creating greater awareness of sex amongst seniors alongside her partner, Peter Marriott, with whom she hosts a sex podcast, called Sex Advice for Seniors.
Noble, who lives in London, also runs a TikTok account with almost 50,000 followers, on which she and her partner discuss issues affecting older people's sexuality, reports Metro.
"As a result of that, we knew there were a lot of people in their fifties and sixties really struggling with their sex life, and with experiencing pleasure, because they were leaving lots of comments," she said.
"So we decided we would do something about that and open a shop for older people".
She said that the aim was to try and "keep it simple" and "not overwhelm" people with lots of products.
"A lot of sex shops have so much stuff people don't really know where to start. I know that was my own experience when I first started to get into sex toys. I was just overwhelmed by all the stuff that was out there, some of which were really too powerful," she said.
"We've got lots of books as well – a lot of books that I've read and would recommend because they're really helpful when you're trying to understand how to experience pleasure later in life."
Feedback has been largely positive, but Noble feels there is insufficient information about sex for older people.
The launch follows a 2021 high profile campaign by relationship charity Relate, which aimed to spotlight and celebrate sex for older people.
Shot by acclaimed photographer Rankin, the photographs, which were posted on billboards around the country, showed five naked (or nearly naked) older couples and one woman in their most intimate settings in a bid to tackle stigma around the subject.
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The Nuclear Joke's on Us
Stop me if you've heard this one. A general, a professor and a lawyer walk into a Senate hearing on nuclear command and control...
By Joe Cirincione
Stop me if you've heard this one. A general, a professor and a lawyer walk into a Senate hearing on nuclear command and control. The senators want to know what we can do to stop a deranged president from starting a nuclear war.
The general tells them not to worry, everything is under control, but he needs more money for more weapons.
The professor tells them not to worry, everything is under control, but he'd be happy to lead a seminar on the subject.
The lawyer tells them not to worry, everything is under control and he should know because he served in the Obama administration and they didn't change anything.
They all warn the senators to be very, very careful about tinkering with the system because the professionals in the military and executive branch know what they're doing, they don't make mistakes and even the slightest change could upset the gods of deterrence.
Okay, you can stop me here. Because this is no joke. This is sad. It's why making change in Washington is so hard. It's what happens when good, honest, patriotic Americans like the general, professor and lawyer who testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on November 14 get so enmeshed in the $55 billion-a-year nuclear weapon complex that they lose all perspective.
Fortunately, the senators weren't buying it. They, like the majority of Americans, are very worried. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), the committee chairman who called the hearing, says that President Trump has "put us on the path to World War III" and that the White House is "an adult day care center" and that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and a few others "are all that stand between us and chaos."
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called Trump "a f***ing moron" for demanding at a private Pentagon briefing that he wants to increase our nuclear weapons arsenal many-fold, to bring it back to the peak levels of over 31,000 nuclear bombs that we had during the Cold War (up from the over 4,000 in the current active arsenal).
More recently, National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster "dismissed the president variously as an 'idiot' and a 'dope' with the intelligence of a 'kindergartner,'" according to five sources recounting a dinner conversation McMaster had with close friends in July.
Is it any wonder that Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, "We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national security interests."
"No one human being should have the power to unilaterally unleash the most destructive forces ever devised by humankind," added Senator Ed Markey (D-MA). "Yet under existing laws, the President of the United States can start a nuclear war without provocation, without consultation, and without warning… I fear that in the Age of Trump the 'cooler heads' and 'strategic doctrine' that we once relied upon as our last, best hope against the unthinkable seem less reassuring than ever."
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) -- the only woman on the 21-member committee hearing from three male witnesses -- worries about Trump's inflammatory rhetoric around nuclear weapons: "Doesn't it also suggest it's important for the commander in chief to also be cautious in how he talks about this issue, so there is not a miscalculation on the part of our aggressors who would do us harm about what the real intent here is?" she asked.
Questions of nuclear launch policy are front and center these days for a very good reason: most Americans are completely freaked out by Trump's ability to order a nuclear strike whenever he wants, for whatever reason he wants.
"I must tell you, I am always amazed as to what subjects come up at town hall meetings that I hold throughout Maryland. Most of the topics deal with the local economic or domestic issues. We don't normally get a lot of foreign policy questions at town hall meetings," said Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), the ranking Democrat on the committee. "But as of late I've been getting more and more questions about, 'can the President really order a nuclear attack without any controls?' That question is asked more and more by the American people."
One would think that a hearing exploring changing the current Cold War system would have at least one witness who favored change. But this stacked deck offered the bland reassurance that "generals don't blindly follow orders," as Gen. Robert Kehler said. He assured the senators that he would refuse an illegal order. A statement repeated by the current commander of the Strategic Command, Gen. John Hyten at a security forum in Halifax on November 19.
But the legality of the order is a false issue. All the war plans in the binder carried in the "nuclear football" that follows the president every where he goes and is never more than one minute from his control are legal orders. They have been pre-vetted for legality. If North Korea does something provocative, the president could quickly order a legal nuclear strike. No one could stop him.
What if someone refused to carry out the order? When Gen. Kehler was asked this question by the senators, he admitted "I don't know exactly." Gen. Hyten had a more elaborate answer:
"He'll tell me what to do, and if it's illegal, guess what's going to happen? I'm gonna say, 'Mr. President, that's illegal.' Guess what he's going to do? He's going to say, 'What would be legal?' And we'll come up with options of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is, and that's the way it works. It's not that complicated."
In other words, the general would come up with a way to make a nuclear strike "legal." That is, if he were still around. Just as likely, the president would remove the general and get someone who would execute his order. Trump would burn through the general's resistance like tissue paper. Or, as nuclear expert Bruce Blair told the Associated Press, the president could bypass the Strategic Command completely and send his order directly to the Pentagon and on to the missile silos.
This problem does not originate with Trump, but with the nuclear launch policy itself. At an October Ploughshares Fund conference, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) recounted a conversation she had with the head of Strategic Command during the Obama administration: "I said to him, if you were asked by the president to launch and you really believed it was the wrong thing, would you do it anyway? And he looked me right in the eye and said 'Yes.' … The total authority is within the office of the presidency, and particularly in one man: the President of the United States."
Congress is not accepting the condescending reassurances offered so far. Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ted Lieu have a bill gaining momentum in Congress to require Congressional approval before any president starts a nuclear war. You know, the power vested in Congress and Congress alone by the Constitution. There are over 73 co-sponsors so far in the House and over 13 in the Senate, including Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, Dianne Feinstein and Kirsten Gillibrand.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee introduced more sweeping legislation last week. It is one sentence long: "It is the policy of the United States to not use nuclear weapons first."
"We have prevented the use of nuclear weapons in war for 72 years," says Smith. "We must continue working to ensure they will not be employed by taking steps to increase strategic stability, stem the incentives for nuclear proliferation and reduce the likelihood that these weapons will be used irresponsibly in a conflict."
This is a step that the Obama Administration considered in 2009. But they backed down in the face of resistance from the nuclear bureaucracy. If they had established the policy when they had the chance, we wouldn't be having this debate now: any order to use nuclear weapons first would be illegal and the military would be duty-bound to refuse it.
This should be a lesson we can all learn: The next time we get a real chance to fix our obsolete nuclear policy, we'd better take it. You never know when you're going to draw the Joker from the pack.
--Joe Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund and the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late.
--"The Most Dangerous Man in the World" by Tom Collina for Defense One here.
--"The Senate Questions the President's Power to Launch Nukes" by The New York Times's Editorial Board here.
--"Trump era sparks new debate about nuclear war authority" by Robert Burns for The Washington Post here.
--"Trump's Nuclear Authority Reviewed on Capitol Hill" by Michael Bowman for VOA News here.
--"Senate committee questions Trump's nuclear authority" by Patricia Zengerle for Reuters here.
--"Nuclear Weapons Authority" for C-SPAN here.
--"Trump can't start a nuclear war by himself, but there's not much stopping him" by Sean Illing for Vox here.
Joe Cirincione
The First 100 Days and Nuclear Weapons Policy
The Nuclear Arsenal Problem You Never Saw Coming


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Club, community support help service dog get cancer treatment
Jennifer Tozzo with Zoe and Dr. Garlitz, in costume representing the Hawthorne Lion's Club.(Photo by Sarah Carey)
Zoe Tozzo knows American Sign Language, English and Spanish. She's participated in many community events, including parades and community clean-ups, has done reading programs in schools, even the Special Olympics. But this outstanding citizen is not human; she is a dually certified service and therapy dog and a beloved companion to her owner, Jennifer Tozzo, of Hawthorne.
Just three months ago, Tozzo, who has a hearing disability and relies on Zoe for assistance, found a lump, soon diagnosed as cancerous, in her dog's mouth. She feared she might lose her best friend. But thanks to a little-known program at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, financial support from the Hawthorne Lions Club and a vaccine developed by a UF veterinary oncologist, Zoe received the treatment she needed and is on the road to recovery.
For several years, Zoe has received veterinary services through a student club known as Pets are Wonderful Support, or PAWS, which provides basic veterinary services to the pets of people with disabilities or terminal illnesses at no charge.
"We biopsied the mass and discovered it was a melanoma," said Sharon Villabona, a senior veterinary student and co-vice president of PAWS. "She was devastated and wanted to do everything she could for Zoe."
The club offered to pay for Zoe's basic blood work and X-rays to make sure the tumor hadn't spread to her chest. In addition, PAWS offered to pay for half of Zoe's melanoma vaccine treatment if Tozzo could pay for surgery to remove the mass and the remaining half of the vaccine.
"Ms. Tozzo and Zoe do a lot of volunteer work in the Hawthorne community and Zoe had met a lot of people whose lives she had touched over the years," Villabona said. "When Ms. Tozzo told us she would begin fundraising to pay for all Zoe's expenses, we had no idea her community would contribute so much to Zoe's cause."
Ultimately, enough money was raised to pay for the melanoma vaccine entirely — and Tozzo even made a donation to PAWS with leftover funds, said Villabona, who along with fellow club member, senior veterinary student Claire Vaiden, has worked closely with Tozzo and Zoe over the years.
Amy Stone, D.V.M, the club's adviser and chief of the UF Small Animal Hospital's primary care and dentistry service, performed the surgery and successfully removed the mass on Zoe's lip. The next step was entering Zoe into the melanoma vaccine clinical trial, which is run by Rowan Milner, B.V.Sc., the UF veterinary oncologist who developed the vaccine.
"She's getting the cancer vaccine now and seems to be doing really well with it," Tozzo said.
Jay Garlitz, D.D.S., secretary-treasurer of the Hawthorne Lions Club, called Tozzo and Zoe "very active community members."
"Zoe was very important to Jen as a service dog, a hearing dog and a visitor at our club meetings," Garlitz said. "Our Lions Club already had Jen as a cherished member at the time Zoe was diagnosed with melanoma. We did not have to think twice about helping a Lion in need, and neither did other Lions clubs in our district."
Many donations were made by the Hawthorne club and other district Lion members "to make sure there were enough funds to assist Tozzo now, and to have a reserve for future needs. Of course, without the generosity of the UF veterinary school, none of this would have been possible," Garlitz said.
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You will most likely encounter an ISO file for installing Linux on your old XP machine. After I downloaded this file, I dragged and dropped the file on my DVD drive icon in Windows Explorer and then burned the contents to a DVD. I wasn't all that surprised when I found the ISO file nicely burned on what is now a festive window ornament. Windows does know how to handle an ISO file. In Windows Explorer (W7 or W8), navigate to the location of the ISO file and then right-click it. In the context menu there should be an entry "Burn Disk Image". If this entry is not there, associate the ISO extension to Windows Explorer. This can be done from the control panel. In W8, bang into the upper right corner and then click on the gear to find the control panel. Search for "associate" to find "Default Programs". (I Hate Windows 8!).
The Ubunto install that I have been discussing, begins with options requiring some knowledge of drive partitioning. The install can be performed by replacing an existing Windows installation, wiping the drive before a clean install, or creating a new partition and installing Linux alongside Windows.
First, let's define some terms. A "disk" or "drive" is typically a piece of hardware that stores information. A "partition" is a structure to manage the storage of information on a disk, and can include boot records, bitmaps, file directory structures, as well as data. "Volume" and "Partition" are used almost interchangeably. An Extended Partition is not considered a Volume. A "Logical drive" is a structure that emulates a physical drive. Logical Drives are considered to be Volumes.
So what are these partitions Linux is talking about? In the big inning, computers were started by a process called bootstrapping. An operator entered a very small program, usually about six instructions by hand, that would load a larger program from a tape drive or card deck, that would then load the full operating system from a system card deck, tape, or disk. It wasn't long before someone figured out how to burn the bootstrap loader onto a ROM chip so the operator need only push the "power" button then a "boot" button. Today, that bootstrap loader is called the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) on a PC. It contains generic, standard op codes to handle the box's front-end buttons, the keyboard, the display, and any other device where the operating system loader can be expected to reside. The BIOS must know how the disk drive is organized. Since the BIOS is"permanently" part of the hardware, it defines the structure of the system's drives. The disk structure commonly used by windows is not coincidentally called the BIOS structure. Without getting too complicated, assuming a drive uses 512 byte "sectors" the BIOS system limits a disk's size to 2 terabytes. Today's drives use a sector size typically of 4096 bytes meaning the drive's max size is about 16 terabytes. To increase a drive's maximum capacity, one must increase the "sector" size of the drive. A sector is the minimum amount of data that can be moved in and out of the drive.
Intel foresaw this limitation and developed the GPT disk structure that loosened up this restriction and is embodied in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) which Linux uses as the default disk structure. But the Linux people aren't fools. They know the vast majority of boxes out there are going to be BIOS boxes. A version of UEFI can handle the BIOS structure. If you go "native" with Linux, chances are you will need to "re-burn" your bootstrap to conform to UEFI.
Apart from Install options, there are two ways to manage partitions in Windows; the Microsoft Management Console, and the DiskPart command-line program. You must load a disk management snap-in into the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) to manage disk partitions by a GUI. MMC is a multi-use tool that can cause havoc in the wrong hands. Cuidado!
Contains hardware specific files allowing security tools like Bitlocker and recover tools such as Windows Recovery Environment. Multiple operating systems can exist on a drive if a Master Boot Record (MBR) is in a system partition as a primary partition.
Used on UEFI/GPT drives to support software that formerly used hidden sectors.
A partition with a recovery image of another partition.
A partition storing only data, often used when the primary OS is likely to be replaced often.
Windows provides users with two different partition types; Primary and Extended. There can be a maximum of four partitions on a drive. Of those four only one can be an Extended. An Extended Partition can have an "unlimited" number of Logical Volumes(Drives). Logical Volumes act like a Primary Partition except you cannot use a logical drive to start an operating system. You cannot have another Extended Partition or a Primary Partition inside an Extended partition. A Primary Partition can contain a Master Boot Record, allowing an operating system to be loaded.
I have a slightly different agenda concerning partitions. I have installed a high capacity drive on my new multi-core machine and I want to reserve a large space on this drive for backups of my major databases residing on another machine; my music, e-books and photos. I want each database to have its own logical drive and be as isolated as possible from the OS of my new machine, which I will use mainly for software design and development. An extended partition would be perfect for this purpose. The disk management MMC will only create an extended partition after three primary partitions have been created. I don't want three primary partitions on my drive. I only want two. So I must use the command-line DiskPart.
DiskPart is hierarchical. You must give focus to the various objects to manage them further. The only commands that work at the top level is LIST DISK. From the list you can select which one to further manage as in SELECT DISK 0. Now you can get a list of partitions or select a partition to perform further management.
The disk structure can now be managed by the MMC. In W8, bang into the upper right corner and search "MMC", add the disk management snap-in from the file menu and you're off to the races.


WASHINGTON, Thursday—As we grow older in life it is inevitable that our elders will pass off the stage. But when those we feel to be our own contemporaries go before us, we begin to feel a sense of loneliness. In Forbes Morgan's death we have lost not only a relative by marriage but a good and true friend. My own friendship with him goes back over many years, for I first met him when I was eighteen. In all these years he has been infailingly kind and sympathetic. We have been through pleasant times and some very sad times together, but never a cloud has crossed our friendship. It was a good way to go when still actively engaged in work and we who remain can but be grateful for the friendship we have had and the memory we will keep. When our time comes, may we all be as worthy to pass on to the "Happy Hunting Ground!"
Forbes' son and I met Mrs. David Gray who came up from Sarasota, Florida on the morning train and then I went to the Congressional Club's annual breakfast at the Raleigh Hotel. They had a delightful musical program sung by Charlotte Simmons of the Metropolitan Opera Association, with Milne Charnley as her accompanist at the piano. She has a charming voice and every one enjoyed her singing.
These official parties like the one yesterday and this one today, are scheduled so long in advance that it always seems to me unfair to break the engagement unless it is an absolute necessity. But in some ways it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its little hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.
Tomorrow, Friday April 23rd, will be the eighty-fifth birthday of the poet, Edwin Markham. There will be plenty of people to remember him and to pay tribute to his work and so in this column I simply want to wish him a happy birthday. May the years bring you, Mr. Markham increasing satisfaction.
I had expected to leave for New York this afternoon but that is changed on account of Forbes Morgan's funeral here tomorrow morning and certain members of my family will be gathered here tonight.
Since I mentioned the fact that I might be going out to see my daughter the invitations have been pouring in on me fast and furiously. People are so very kind but this trip will be entirely unofficial. I will have only a few days out there and therefore I am making only one official engagement and that is in Seattle.


Photo from Angela Hewitt's annual Trasimeno music festival.
Loving classical music I combine the passion with training my brain to remember things.
Before I got to know and appreciate classical music I unconsciously did the same memory game as a teenager. What did I hear and which band was playing? The Beach Boys? The Kinks or the Animals? The Doors and Moody Blues and many others from the sixties. Then I also tried to hit the right name on the vocalist.
I am convinced that a healthy lifestyle can help you to keep up your inner man, but I will share what I do . When ever I drive my car or hear classical radio at home I try to guess what I hear. Is it a symphony, a concert or chamber music and who wrote it?
"How many and which instruments are involved? Again who is the composer?
I dislike to be mistaken about Haydn and Mozart or Debussy and Ravel.
If I am without a clue on the composer I think of the period it came from, Renaissance, Baroque, Vienna classical, the Romantic period or French, Russian or contemporary style. Then I can guess the soloists and it's great fun to recognize Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Kathleen Ferrier, James Galway and many other fine soloists alive or long time dead.
A joyful moment was to be sure that I heard the famous violinist Isaac Stern and I did. I am sure that what ever you have as an interest could be used to strengthen your brain ability too.
This interest in classical music can lead to many things. It was a great pleasure this summer to attend to six out of eight of the much varied beautiful concerts all by the excellent Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt in Umbria Italy.
I met her personally and she was so kind and knew my name from the mailing list!
Awesome! I'm more into No Doubt, Ashlee Simpson, etc… I also like county and some of the older ones like Alabama, the doors, Eagles, etc. I try to practice memorizing bible verses or certain things I write. I read and paint, do photography, or anything to keep my brain engaged. Great write!
Thank you. I appreciate that. You're a great writer and I enjoy reading what you have to say so please keep up the great work. I've always been brought up to reach out and help others.


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Pillars of Truth
The Man Adam
Robert L. Millet
News from Antiquity
Daniel C. Peterson
"No Other Gods before Me"
S. Michael Wilcox
Naaman, Baptism, and Cleansing
Travis T. Anderson
All the Prophets Prophesied of Christ
D. Kelly Ogden and R. Val Johnson
Passover—Was It Symbolic of His Coming?
John P. Pratt
Parents, Never Give Up
F. Melvin Hammond
The Race of My Life
Michael Lorin Taylor
how can we tell which scriptures can be likened to all of us and which ones cannot?
George A. Horton Jr.
Did worthy people continue to be translated and taken up long after Enoch's city?
Monte S. Nyman
Was the Creation confined to six 24-hour days as we know them?
Thomas R. Valletta
What does it mean when the Lord said he would create for Adam "an help meet for him"?
David Rolph Seely
What do we know about the location of the Garden of Eden?
Bruce A. Van Orden
Lisa Ray Turner
The Back-and-Forth Cow
Lynn C. Jaynes
Too Active to Need Home Teachers?
Bertram Cannon Willis
Mormon Journal
I Couldn't Ignore the Voice
Diary of My Enemy
Stephen G. Biddulph
Proving the Prophet's Promise
James R. Prince
Learning from a Leper
Lee G. Cantwell
About My Duty
Johnny W. McCoy
Newsmaker: Forty Children Call Her Mom
Primarily Teaching
Pauline Morello
Heartfelt Volunteer
Giles H. Florence
Desk to Saddle
Her Flavor of Faith
Elizabeth VanDenBerghe
Robert McGraw
Hooked on Histories
Amy K. Stewart
Fostering Love
Nihla W. Judd
Participate Fully in Receiving the Blessings of the Priesthood
Helping Prevent Eating Disorders
Val Farmer
A Chapter a Day
Ronda Hinrichsen
Debra Lacy
At Home in a New Ward
Patricia Nilssen
Ground Broken for 50th Operating Temple—St. Louis, Missouri
Statement Released by First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve
Members, Missionaries Help Victims of Fire
Mary Kay Stout
Of Good Report
The Church in Northern Europe
Focus on Children
Book of Mormon Fund
St. George Visitors' Center Dedicated
Vira H. Blake
"Statement Released by First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve," Ensign, Jan. 1994, 75
The following is a statement released by the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve:
"In light of extensive publicity given to six recent Church disciplinary councils in Utah, we believe it helpful to reaffirm the position of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
"We deeply regret the loss of Church membership on the part of anyone. The attendant consequences felt over time by the individuals and their families are very real.
"In their leadership responsibilities, local Church officers may seek clarification and other guidance from General Authorities of the Church. General Authorities have an obligation to teach principles and policies and to provide information that may be helpful in counseling members for whom local leaders are responsible. In matters of Church discipline, the General Authorities do not direct the decisions of local disciplinary councils. Furthermore, the right of appeal is open to anyone who feels he or she has been unfairly treated by a disciplinary council.
"It is difficult to explain Church disciplinary action to representatives of the media. Considerations of confidentiality restrain public comment by Church leaders in such private matters.
"We have the responsibility to preserve the doctrinal purity of the Church. We are united in this objective. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught an eternal principle when he explained: 'That man who rises up to condemn others, finding fault with the Church, saying that they are out of the way, while he himself is righteous, then know assuredly, that that man is in the high road to apostasy.' (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 67).
"In instructing His Twelve Disciples in the new world about those who would not repent, the Savior said, 'But if he repent not he shall not be numbered among my people, that he may not destroy my people.' (3 Ne. 18:31; see also Mosiah 26:36; Alma 5:59.) The Prophet also remarked that 'from apostates the faithful have received the severest persecutions.' (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 67.) This continues to be the case today.
"The longstanding policy of Church discipline is outlined in the Doctrine and Covenants: 'We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members … according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; … They can only excommunicate them from their society, and withdraw from them their fellowship.' (D&C 134:10.)
"Faithful members of the Church can distinguish between mere differences of opinion and those activities formally defined as apostasy. Apostasy refers to Church members who: '1, repeatedly act in clear, open and deliberate public opposition to the Church or its leaders; or 2, persist in teaching as Church doctrine information that is not Church doctrine after being corrected by their bishops or higher authority; or 3, continue to follow the teachings of apostate cults (such as those that advocate plural marriage) after being corrected by their bishops or higher authority.' (General Handbook of Instructions, 10-3.)
"The general and local officers of the Church will continue to do their duty, and faithful Church members will understand.
"As leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we reach out in love to all and constantly pray that the Lord, whose church this is, will bless those who love and seek divine truth."


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"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is een nummer van de Amerikaanse singer-songwriter Billy Joel. Het nummer verscheen op zijn album The Stranger uit 1977.

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"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is geschreven door Joel zelf en geproduceerd door Phil Ramone. Alhoewel het nummer nooit op single is uitgebracht, is het een van zijn populairste composities onder zijn fans; het verschijnt op een groot deel van zijn compilatiealbums en wordt vaak gespeeld tijdens liveconcerten. In interviews heeft Joel aangegeven dat de tweede kant van het album Abbey Road van The Beatles een grote inspiratiebron is voor het nummer.

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" kan worden gezien als een medley van drie nummers. Het begint als een ballad op de piano, gezongen vanuit de eerste persoon, over twee oude klasgenoten die elkaar tegenkomen in een Italiaans restaurant. Dit gaat over in een uptempo, door jazz beïnvloede sectie, wanneer de klasgenoten elkaar op de hoogte brengen over de gebeurtenissen in hun leven en herinneringen ophalen aan vroeger. Hierna volgt een rock-'n-rollsectie (door Joel "The Ballad of Brenda en Eddie" genoemd). Hierin wordt in de derde persoon een verhaal verteld over geliefden op een middelbare school (vermoedelijk Brenda en Eddie), die jong trouwden en snel uit elkaar gingen. Het nummer vertraagt daarna weer naar de stijl van de eerste sectie, waarin een karakter zegt "I'll meet you anytime you want, at our Italian restaurant" (Ik ontmoet je wanneer je wilt in ons Italiaans restaurant).

Met een lengte van 7 minuten en 37 seconden is "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" het langste nummer dat Joel ooit in de studio heeft opgenomen; zijn klassieke album Fantasies & Delusions niet meegerekend. Op 6 mei 1977 speelde Joel het nummer voor het eerst live op de C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York, en droeg het op aan het restaurant Christiano's in het nabijgelegen Syosset, wat tot februari 2014 open was. Joel gaf jaren later toe dat het vermelden van dit restaurant tijdens een concert vrijwel gelijk stond aan het schreeuwen van "Yankees" in een concert in Manhattan.

Na jaren van speculatie vertelde Joel in een interview in 2008 welk restaurant de inspiratie vormde voor "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant". Op de dvd bij de heruitgave ter gelegenheid van de dertigste verjaardag van het album The Stranger vertelde hij dat het nummer geschreven is over Fontana di Trevi, een restaurant dat tegenover de Carnegie Hall gelokaliseerd was, waar Joel in juni 1977 een aantal concerten speelde. Een bekende regel uit het nummer, "A bottle of red, a bottle of white, whatever kind of mood you're in tonight" (Een fles rood, een fles wit, het ligt eraan in welke bui je vanavond bent) werd daadwerkelijk door een medewerker die de bestelling van Joel opnam uitgesproken. Verder vertelde hij dat het restaurant in het verhaal is geïnspireerd door meerdere echte restaurants, alhoewel hij aan Fontana di Trevi dacht toen hij het schreef. Hij noemde het zijn favoriete door hem geschreven nummer.

Radio 2 Top 2000

Nummer van Billy Joel

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Cook, Norman, Collins, p. o. Collins Center, was born in Collins, July 18, 1829. His father, Peter Cook, of Danby, Vt., was one of the pioneer settlers of Collins. He married Lydia White, daughter of Hosea White, of Mt. Holly, Vt., and through life was a farmer. Norman Cook was educated in the common schools of Collins. He was twice married; first to Alzora Ashman of the town of Concord, Erie county, N. Y., and in 1857 he married Cynthia, daughter of Allen Bartlett, a son of Smith Bartlett, who settled in Collins in 1811 and died in 1859. Norman Cook died in California in 1889.


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import no.vegvesen.nvdbapi.client.model.Direction;
import no.vegvesen.nvdbapi.client.model.Geometry;
import no.vegvesen.nvdbapi.client.model.roadnet.DetailLevel;
import no.vegvesen.nvdbapi.client.model.roadnet.RefLinkPartType;
import no.vegvesen.nvdbapi.client.model.roadnet.TypeOfRoad;
import no.vegvesen.nvdbapi.client.model.roadnet.roadsysref.RoadSysRef;

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.util.Objects;

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    private final long netElementId;
    private final double startPosition;
    private final double endPosition;
    private final Direction direction;
    private final Geometry geometry;
    private final int municipality;
    private final int county;
    private final RoadSysRef roadSysRef;
    private final Double length;
    private final LocalDate startDate;
    private final LocalDate endDate;
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                   Direction direction,
                   Geometry geometry,
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                   LocalDate startDate,
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A 51-year-old Burbank man was cited and released Saturday after he asked a woman who was taking out her trash for sexual favors, police said.
Michael Mayo was cited on suspicion of soliciting lewd acts — a misdemeanor — at about 3:23 p.m. in the 1200 block of Riverside Drive after she notified police about the incident and officers found him in a parking lot, according to Burbank Police Sgt. Darin Ryburn.
The 28-year-old Burbank woman was taking out the trash outside her apartment when Mayo allegedly yelled repeatedly to get her attention before asking for sexual favors, according Ryburn.
The woman then ran into her apartment and called police.
Mayo was booked at the Burbank police jail and later cited out, Ryburn said.


The Methodist church have set up a 'Messy Nativity Sheep Trail' around the village and have invited all the children to have a go! Trail sheets were handed out last week by Mrs Haddon and we had the serious business of naming our very own sheep! After much debating and by democratic vote 'Cotton Candy' was the outright winner!
We hope as many children as possible can participate and spend some time remembering the real reason for Christmas!


Efraim Diveroli, the ungainly, socially awkward miscreant at the center of "War Dogs," surrounds himself with paraphernalia from the movie "Scarface." A still of Tony Montana and his "little friend" hangs on the wall of Efraim's Miami office, a cut-rate military contractor called AEY; when Efraim gives his partner and best friend, David Packouz (Miles Teller), a sentimental gift, it's a gold-plated hand grenade, inscribed with a quote from the film: The World Is Yours.
The poster for "War Dogs" is even reminiscent of the one for "Scarface," which offers the first clue to why the new movie doesn't work. Co-writer and director Todd Phillips — best known for the "Hangover" comedies -—doesn't seem sure if he's celebrating Efraim and David's dubious occupation or scolding it.
For a movie about the gonzo, giddy world of gunrunning, ripping off the Pentagon and doing massive bong hits while living large in South Beach, "War Dogs" has a weird lack of energy and bite. Based on a Rolling Stone article about the real-life Diveroli and Packouz's lucrative career as gray-market arms dealers, "War Dogs" stays at arm's length from the subjects, afraid to implicate us in the pleasures and prosperity of their rise, thus making their fall seem distant, puny and unaffecting.
Haphazardly written and fitfully paced, "War Dogs" admittedly contains more than a few infectiously funny moments - usually courtesy of Jonah Hill, who plays Efraim with enormous girth, slicked-back hair and a fluttery, high-pitched laugh - and an irresistibly catchy soundtrack, including what may be the most crass use of "Fortunate Son" every committed to film. (That's the real-life Packouz in an early scene singing an acoustic version of "Don't Fear the Reaper" in a nursing home.) One memorable scene, of the stoned-out protagonists pitching some Pentagon procurement officials in an Illinois business office, is staged for maximum Coen-esque absurdity.
Efraim and David's sordid pastime will eventually take them to Fallujah and the nastier precincts of Albania, where high jinks ensue with the same inevitability as the boys' eventual comeuppance.
All those DePalma nods and Scorsese freeze frames should telegraph loud and clear where this story is headed: The reckoning, when it comes, leaves the audience feeling deflated and depressed, and far more cynical than when they walked in. That's not necessarily inappropriate, but the pessimism feels unearned in a film that never firmly decides where its sympathies lie.
Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play two buddies who exploit a loophole that allows small businesses to bid on military contracts to become big-time arms dealers in "War Dogs."


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Q: Django, best way to print a field key I want to print fields of a model differently than by first_name
I want to print something like "key: value" but it prints "first_name: Georges", I would prefer that it's looks like "First name: Georges"
Currently i'm using a file named form.html that I include in every form template:
{% load widget_tweaks %}

{% for field in form %}

    {{ field.label_tag }}

    {% if form.is_bound %}
      {% if field.errors %}
        {% render_field field class="form-control is-invalid" %}
        {% for error in field.errors %}

            {{ error }}

        {% endfor %}
      {% else %}
        {% render_field field class="form-control is-valid" %}
      {% endif %}
    {% else %}
      {% render_field field class="form-control" %}
    {% endif %}

    {% if field.help_text %}

        {{ field.help_text }}

    {% endif %}

{% endfor %}

And a model that looks like this:
from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)

What is the best way to print first_name as "First name"?:
Is it by setting verbose_name for every fields in the models.py?
Or by setting label in the forms.py for every fields in each form?
Or by not using a dynamic template and hardcode it in my form.html?

A: Like what Aleksei Maide said to change that you need to alter the Label, here is an example:
in your form class add a method:
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(YourFormName, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['first_name'].label = "First name"

this is how i'm displaying it in my template:
{{ field.label }}
{{ field.name }}

A: Think by a moment that you have a Model Form with 30 fields, and as this form, you have other 30 more Model Forms, now, you have to set every time your field labels, is a very complicated task, don't you think?
i could suggest you that use the verbose name feature to each model field and build a simple template tag that can help you to get dinamicaly the verbose name of your fields i your templates
This template tag will try to get the model field's verbose name
# yourapp/templatetags/yourapp_extras.py
from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def field_name(model, field):
    field_name = field

    if model:
        try:
            field_name = model._meta.get_field(field).verbose_name.title()
        except Exception as ex:
            print ex
    return field_name

And in your template you can display your field label as follow
# sometemplate.html
{% load widget_tweaks %}
{% load yourapp_extras %}

{% for field in form %}

    {% field_name model field.name %}

    {% if form.is_bound %}
      {% if field.errors %}
        {% render_field field class="form-control is-invalid" %}
        {% for error in field.errors %}

            {{ error }}

        {% endfor %}
      {% else %}
        {% render_field field class="form-control is-valid" %}
      {% endif %}
    {% else %}
      {% render_field field class="form-control" %}
    {% endif %}

    {% if field.help_text %}

        {{ field.help_text }}

    {% endif %}

{% endfor %}

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East Mississippi Community College (EMCC) has partnered with BadgePass to implement the company's TotalCard solution as the college's new one card system.
EMCC approached BadgePass in search of an upgrade to its existing campus one card system, and though the system the college had was working, it had grown cumbersome for the IT department to maintain. EMCC wanted to implement a solution that allowed for customized ID card production, while also provided support for dining and meal plan management on campus.
TotalCard was a selected to solve the needs of the college of 5,500. With over a dozen available applications to choose from, EMCC can implement the mission-critical functions they need near term, while also having the flexibility to expand as the campus' security requirements grow in the future.
EMCC will leverage TotalCard's badge production module, Identity Manager, as part of the implementation. "When we switched from our previous software to this, I think we spent 5-10 minutes training the library staff and sent a short email to them to describe the process. It's that easy," adds Harrell.
EMCC currently offers a faculty meal plan and three meal plan options for students, which combine meal plans and flexible dining dollars, all of which are easily accommodated for in the flexible TotalCard system. The college utilizes TotalCard's point-of-sale terminals for dining and meal plan management at three locations on campus, with plans to expand and add TotalCard's bookstore and access control application's in the future.


The majority of Harper's Bazaar subscribers no doubt regarded the September issue with a quizzical stare upon receiving it in the mail this month. While Lady Gaga takes the cover of the newsstand edition, a 20-year-old by the name of Emma Ferrer graces the front of the subscriber version. As it turns out, this 20-year-old is not a Vine star nor a fashion vlogger, but . . . an art student with an extremely famous grandmother. Ferrer, in her third year of studies at the Florence Academy of Art, is Audrey Hepburn's granddaughter (Emma's father, Sean Ferrer, is the son of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn's first husband).
Emma—who was born a year after Hepburn died—appears in the magazine in a spread designed as a tribute to her grandmother (featuring Emma imitating many of Hepburn's iconic looks), shot by Michael Avedon, the 23-year-old grandson of Richard Avedon, who photographed Hepburn many times.
In the accompanying interview, Emma, who will be moving to New York next year to continue her studies, watches Sabrina with writer Pamela Fiori, and explains that her relationship with her grandmother, and the idea of her grandmother, is evolving.


More than 20,000 people gathered at Sun Moon University campus in Asan, south of Seoul for mass wedding ceremony. The photo above illustrates what her.ie meetup would look like if all 29478 of her.ie daily visitors met in one place, fell in love and decided to have a mass wedding ceremony. In addition to that, since her.ie has more than 20,000, this meetup would also set a new world record.


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Mubabinge Bilolo wa Kaluka (15 de janeiro de 1953) é um filósofo e egiptólogo quinxassa-congolês (nascido em Kabwe, Cassai Central, região do grupo banto dos lubas).

Bilolo estudou filosofia, religiões africanas, sociologia e teologia na Faculdade de Teologia da Universidade de Quinxassa e se formou em 1978 com um mestrado em religião e filosofia africana, com ênfase em sociologia e antropologia. Ele então estudou filosofia, ciências sociais e teologia na Escola de Filosofia de Munique/Faculdade de Filosofia SJ de Munique, e Egiptologia, Etnologia/Africanística e Estudos Religiosos na Universidade de Munique, onde em 1985 escreveu uma dissertação sobre o tema "Les Cosmo-Théologies Philosophiques de l'Egypte Antique. Problématique, Prémisses herméneutiques et Problèmes majeurs", doutorando-se. Tal foi seguido por estudos de pós-doutorado em ciências políticas e econômicas de 1985 a 1989 na Universidade de Munique. O procedimento para venia legendi na Universidade de Zurique com um trabalho sobre "L'Un (Wa) devient-il 'Multiple' (Hh)? Approche pragmatique des formules relatives à 'L'Un comme Multiple' ou à 'l'Auto-différenciation' de l'Un dans les Hymnes Thébains du Nouvel-Empire" (Zurique 1992), que alguns dizem ter sido posto em espera por razões ideológicas.

Mubabinge Bilolo é desde 1991 diretor do Centro de Pesquisa Egiptológica do Instituto Africano de Estudos Prospectivos - [Institut Africain d'Études Prospectives], uma instituição da União Africana sob a direção do "Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique de la République Démocratique du Congo". Também é responsável do Centro de Estudos Egiptológicos e da União de Pesquisas Ecológicas; e Coordenador de Trabalho da Academia do Pensamento Africano e membro co-fundador da Sociedade Civil do Zaire. Ele afirma lutar por instaurar a "maaticracia" na África - referência ao estabelecimento de maat, conceito egípcio que representa verdade-justiça-bondade-solidariedade-e-ordem.

Temas de sua obra científica são a egiptologia, história da filosofia africana, religião africana, filosofia da história e  história da filosofia da história. Especializou-se também em bantulogia, e na europeologia em grecologia, francologia, germanologia e questões da União Europeia, defendendo que conceitos da filosofia grega antiga e teologia monoteísta como o Um foram originários da filosofia egípcia tebana e banta.

Em 2013, ele recebeu o Prêmio Internacional de Egiptologia Africana em Paris e foi admitido no círculo de estudiosos negro-africanos (Cheikh Anta Diop, Ki-Zerbo, Obenga e Bimwenyi Kweshi) na Bélgica no final de 2013, por ocasião de seu 60º aniversário.

Publicações
Dentre um conjunto de mais de 70 publicações, aqui está uma seleção dos livros mais importantes:

 Les cosmo-théologies philosophiques de l'Égypte Antique. Problématique, prémisses herméneutiques et problèmes majeurs (AAT-APA., Sect. I, vol. 1). Kinshasa/ München 1986. nouvelle rééd., München/ Paris, 2004.
 Les cosmo-théologies philosophiques d'Héliopolis et d'Hermopolis. Essai de thématisation et de systématisation. Kinshasa/ München 1987. (neue Aufl., München/ Paris 2004, ISBN 2-911372-32-8)
 Le Créateur et la Création dans la pensée memphite et amarnienne. Approche synoptique du Document Philosophique de Memphis et du Grand Hymne Théologique d'Echnaton, (AATAPA., Sect. I, vol. 3), Kinshasa-München 1988; neue Aufl.., München/ Paris 2004.  Menaibuc 2004, ISBN 2-911372-34-4.
 Conception Bantu de l'Autorité. Suivie de Baluba : Bumfumu ne Bulongolodi (gemeinsam mit Mgr. E. Kabongo). München/ Kinshasa 1994.
 Métaphysique Pharaonique IIIème millénaire av. J.-C. (AAT & Diop CES-INADEP, Sect. I, vol. 4). Kinshasa-München 1995; neue Aufl. München/ Paris 2003.
 Philosophie de la création et ses implications écologiques en Egypte du IIIe millénaire av. J.-C. (AAT & Diop CES-INADEP, Sect. I, vol. 6). München/ Paris 2005.
 Méta-Ontologie Égyptienne du -IIIè millénaire. Madwa Meta-Untu: Tum-Nunu ou Sha-Ntu (AAT & Diop CES-INADEP, Sect. I, vol. 10). Kinshasa/ München/ Paris 2008, ISBN 978-3-931169-01-5.
 Percées de l'Éthique Écologique en Égypte du -IIIe millénaire, (AAT & INADEP., Sect. I, vol. 8). Kinshasa/ München/ Paris 2007, ISBN 978-3-931169-03-9.
 Fondements Thébains de la Philosophie de Plotin l'Égyptien (AAT & INADEP, Sect. I, vol. 9). Kinshasa/ München/ Paris 2007, ISBN 978-3-931169-00-8.
 Tuleshi Kapya ne Dyanga mu CiKam. Mishi ya CiKam mu Cyena Ntu (AAT & Diop CES-INADEP, Sect. I, vol. 11). Kinshasa/ München/ Paris 2008.
 Invisibilité et Immanence du Créateur Imn (Amon-Amun-Amen-Iman-Zimin). Exemple de la Vitalité de l'Ancien Égyptien ou CiKam dans le Cyena Ntu (AAT & INADEP., Sect. I, vol. 12). Kinshasa/ München/ Paris 2010, ISBN 978-3-931169-14-5.
 Vers Un Dictionnaire Cikam-Copte-Luba: Bantuïté du vocabulaire égyptien-copte dans les essais de Homburger et d'Obenga (AAT & INADEP., Sect. I, vol. 13), Kinshasa/ München/ Paris, 2011, ISBN 978-3-931169-20-6.
 Du nom Imn à Bi-Mweni. Exemple de la vitalité de ciKam et de 'Saintes doctrines philosophiques' pharaoniques dans le Cyena-Ntu. In : KALAMBA NSAMPO & BILOLO MUBABINGE (Hrsg.): Renaissance of the Negro-African Theology. Essays in Honor of Prof. Bimwenyi-Kweshi – Renaissance de la Théologie Négro-Africaine. Essais en l'honneur du Prof. Bimwenyi-Kweshi (AAT-APA., Sect. XII, 1). München/ Freising/ Kinshasa 2009, S. 109–161.
 Les Coptes : 2000 ans du christianisme africain. In: KALAMBA NSAMPO & BILOLO MUBABINGE (éds.), Héritage du Discours Théologique Négro-Africain. Mélanges en l'honneur du prof. Dr. Bimwenyi-Kweshi (AAT-APA., Sect. XII, 2). München/ Freising/ Kinshasa 2011, S. 85–108.

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Thorpe with the Canton Bulldogs, c. 1915 – c. 1920
No. 21, 3, 1[1]
May 22 or 28, 1887[2]
Near Prague, Indian Territory
March 28, 1953(1953-03-28) (aged 65)
Canton Bulldogs (1915–1917, 1919–1920)
Cleveland Indians (1921)
Oorang Indians (1922–1923)
Rock Island Independents (1924)
New York Giants (1925)
Tampa Cardinals (1926)
Canton Bulldogs (1926)
Chicago Cardinals (1928)
Indiana (1915) (assistant head coach)[3]
Canton Bulldogs (1915–1920)
First-team All-Pro (1923)
NFL 1920s All-Decade Team
2× Consensus All-American (1911, 1912)
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Olympic medal record
Representing the United States
1912 Stockholm Decathlon
1912 Stockholm Pentathlon
James Francis Thorpe (May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete in track, football, and baseball. Thorpe was part Native American and was from Oklahoma. He played football, track, and six other sports at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. While at Carlisle, Thorpe's team was one of the best in the country, and beat an Army team that had Dwight Eisenhower. Thorpe won gold medals in the pentathlon (five track and field events in one day) and decathlon (ten events in two days) at the 1912 Summer Olympics. After the decathlon, the King of Sweden called him the greatest athlete alive. His medals were taken away because he had played professional baseball, but were returned in 1982, long after his death.[4]
After the Olympics, Thorpe played professional baseball and football. He played for football teams including the Canton Bulldogs, Rock Island Independents, Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants.[5] He was commissioner of the NFL for one year. Thorpe is in the NFL Hall of Fame. He also played for baseball teams including the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and Boston Braves [6] For several years, Thorpe toured with football, baseball and basketball teams that only had Native American players. Late in life, Thorpe had problems with alcoholism. Thorpe died in 1953. He was buried in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, which changed its name to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
↑ "Hall of Famers by Jersey Number". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
↑ Sources vary. See, for example, Flatter, Ron. "Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo", ESPN. Retrieved December 9, 2016, and
Golus, Carrie (2012). Jim Thorpe (Revised Edition), Twenty-First Century Books. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-4677-0397-0.
↑ Cook. p. 115.
↑ McCallum, Jack (October 25, 1982). "Jim Thorpe's Olympic gold medals at last have been - 10.25.82 - SI Vault". cnn.com. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
↑ "Jim Thorpe Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
↑ "Jim Thorpe Stats". Baseball-Reference.com.
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Yes. If you are experiencing a dental emergency, please come to the Clinic on a walk in basis. Because the Clinic provides care to patients with an existing appointment it will be necessary for you wait to be seen. In most cases, emergency walk-in's are seen on the same day. Non- scheduled urgent dental emergencies are given priority.


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El  es una fortificación japonesa del siglo  en ciudad de Suwa, en la prefectura de Nagano. Situado a orillas del lago Suwa, se trata del castillo construido en llanura más alto del país.

Historia

El castillo fue construido por Hineno Takayoshi, primer daimio del dominio de Suwa y comandante de Hideyoshi Toyotomi, entre 1592 y 1598. La fortaleza también es conocida como el «castillo flotante» porque se levantó sobre una pequeña península en el lago, que conectaba a la orilla por una lengua de tierra estrecha y servía como foso, por lo que solo necesitaba murallas fuertes en el lado opuesto. El lago Suwa desde el período Edo con el aumento de la sedimentación ha disminuido su volumen y ha retrocedido al oeste de la fortificación, y se draga periódicamente para mantener una línea de costa constante. El clan Suwa gobernó el área alrededor de sus aguas durante varios siglos hasta que perdió su control en 1542. En 1601 lo recuperaron, y siguieron gobernando el área hasta 1869, fecha que coincidió con la restauración Meiji. En la década de 1870, quedó desmantelado por orden del gobierno Meiji.

Conservación
En la actualidad los terrenos de Takashima, rodeados enteramente por la ciudad, albergan una reconstrucción del castillo en hormigón que data de la década de 1970, que pese a que ya no está adyacente al lago, aún cuenta con los fosos y jardines. Las dos primeras plantas del torreón conforman un museo, y el tercer piso es una plataforma de observación. El parque Takashima que enmarca esta fortaleza es un lugar popular para observar la floración de los cerezos. Desde 2017 forma parte de la lista continuada de los cien notables castillos de Japón.

Referencias

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