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Anglophone crisis: PM Joseph Dion Ngute announces an official tour in the North-West
Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute will carry out an official visit in the North-West from October 5 to 8, 2021, sources at the Prime Minister's office reveal. During the four days visit, the head of the government will meet the regional driving forces, according to the program seen by Stop BlaBla Cam.
Upon his arrival on Tuesday, October 5, the PM will grant audiences to the governor, "two generals" of the 5th Joint Military Region, security officials, and members of parliament. He will then meet delegations from the seven departments of the region. The meetings aim to "follow up on the recommendations of the Major National Dialogue."
The program, which is not yet official, specifies that "during the meetings, the delegations are expected to present relevant proposals to restore peace" in the region.
In late September, when he was in the Southwest region to chair the second session of the commission tasked to follow-up on the resolutions of the Major National Dialogue, the Prime Minister acknowledged that most people do not understand the special status conferred onto the anglophone regions in the application of the resolutions issued during the national dialogue.
He promised that the commission would visit the regions to explain the importance of that special status and all the resolutions implemented since the national dialogue called by President Paul Biya to find solutions to the crisis shaking the Northwest and Southwest regions since late 2016.
This visit comes in a context marked by renewed violence from separatist groups. In September, several soldiers died in ambushes planned by separatists. In less than a week, 15 soldiers were killed in two such attacks.
The attacks prompted an unprecedented deployment of the army in the Northwest. Meanwhile, the government has been implementing peaceful actions to restore peace in the two regions.


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Like a pebble that falls into the sea and becomes a tsunami Michael Early as Derick is caught up in one incident in Los Vegas that grabs him and won't let go.
Similar to Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction who is pulled into a whirlwind by Glenn Close after a one night stand. Here, Hilary Swank as Detective Valerie Quinlan cannot bring the attracting power that Close did. Michael Ealy is Derrick the man in the middle of a swirling series of deaths, threats and disloyalty.
Derrick is a very successful athletic player manager, he lives on Mulhallan Drive the scenic wealthy location that looks down on the city of Los Angeles and he is married to a successful woman played with an edge by Damaris Lewis. He has been dedicated to his work since escaping trouble as a teen and is now trusted by pro-athletes who sign with him for a percent of their salary which is very lucrative.
Derick drives a handmade sports car, lives well and loves his wife, but finds her more stand offish than before. His partner played by Mike Colter who wants to sell the business suggests he should take a day and go to a bachelor party in Las Vegas where he meets Valerie and spends the night with her. At the same time we meet cousin Tyrin played by Tyrin Turner who has remained in the gangs of his youth and is supported by Derick. The two are always loyal to each other.
Back in LA one evening Derick's home in invaded which leads Detective Valerie Quinlan to visit him and they both quietly remember the night in Vegas. Valerie is in a fight for custody of her daughter with a prominent city elected official who she hates. She is obsessed by that situation.
All the characters are thrown into a mix as the story leads to unfaithfulness, murder, murder, and murder. Derick is at the center and the connector to all the dead people.
The heart of the film is carried by the knowledge, and cunning of Valerie who would like to rid herself of her former husband by pulling Derrick into her trap. Could this be like Strangers on a Train?
The twists and turns are obvious at times but come at surprising points during the story. When they occur they are powerful and embellished by a fine musical score by Geoff Zanelli.
Derick's one indiscretion multiples into a tsunami of death all around him which keeps our attention as we wonder will he survive that one affair.
Review written by Frank
Average B
Frank B
Claudette B
Released by: Lionsgate Films
MPAA Rating: Rated R for violence, sexual content and language.
Director: Dan Taylor
Starring: Hilary Swank, Michael Ealy, Mike Colter and Geoffrey Owens

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The definitive resource for freshers. All your questions about the campus answered in one place. But before we actually get around to answering them, allow us to offer our congratulations- you've come a long way. Also let us welcome you to a part of history...
First things first. How do I get to MLVTEC?
What about once I reach? Will there be accomodation for my parents and me?
The hostel room is made available to the students on their registration. However accompanying parents have to make their own stay arrangements and the parents are not allowed to stay with their wards in the hostel. Very limited accommodation is available in MLVTEC guest houses for the parents. For the same the guest house is to be contacted directly in advance as per following details:
Chief Warden
Dr. Rajiv Kumar
Associate Professor, Textile Technology,
Telephone No. 9828211853
e-mail: rajivchmlvti@gmail.com Warden-Boys Hostel (H-3, H-4)
Mr. K. G. Bhadada
Assistant Professor, Textile Technology,
e-mail:witness_vikram@rediffmail.com
Warden-Boys Hostel (H-1, H-2)
Mr. Jitendra Kumar Meena
Assistant Professor, Textile Chemistry,
e-mail:jitmlvtec@gmail.com Warden-Girls Hostel
Mrs. Reena Ranjan Bhatnagar
Demonstrator, Textile Technology,
Telephone No. 01482 241800
Care Taker
Mr. Om Prakash Kumawat
Yeah, speaking of hostels, which one will I get? How is allocation done?
All first-year B.Tech students are given rooms in H-1. (I'm talking about boys, of course, the girls are put in H-5). After a year, the boys will be transferred to one of the other three Hostels. Most rooms in the first year will be on triple sharing basis.
What will be there in my hostel room? What should I bring?
You'll have a cupboard, a table, a bed and electrical fittings like a fan, already provided to you. You need to bring bedding yourself. As for the rest, what you bring is up to you.
How about registration? What items need to be brought and what are the procedures?
As far as registration is concerned, you need to fill the prescribed form. Once you come here, there'll be a day of "Orientation" when you'll be introduced to the department. The next day, you'll have registration. Once this is done, you'll be issued an Identity card (keep it carefully, it is your identification on campus for at least 4 years!) Congratulations! You're now a student at MLVTEC!
Waitaminute! What about the banks? Give me some details!
OK, there are 2 major banks nearby campus: State Bank of India and Bank of Baroda. They both have A.T.M.s near to campus.
What is the campus like in general?
The campus is a lush green one and is well maintained throughout the year. We have got excellent sports facilities catering to every sport you can think of. Overall personality development is given a lot of importance here. Student groups are extremely active here. Everything in the campus is supported by the students.


April 9th is designated as National Cherish an Antique Day. This is a day set aside to learn the story and the history behind your treasured antiques. It also recognizes the quality and uniqueness of items that were made by hand rather than by machine.
There are plenty of places to shop for antiques in Cumberland Valley including some of my favorites: Bedford Street Antiques, Northgate Antique Mall, and Antique Marketplace of Lemoyne. I have spent hours at each location slowly exploring all the shelves filled with vintage jewelry, stoneware, framed prints, lighting, coins, old maps and books, and glassware, among other things. My favorite find happened many years ago and is still displayed in my house. It is a turn-of-the-19th-century pitcher and bowl set with a beautiful design and in great condition. If you are looking to find the perfect treasure for your home that you will cherish for years to come, check out the Antiques Trail trip idea on VisitCumberlandValley.com. In addition to the antique stores and galleries across Cumberland Valley, there are also several local antique events held throughout the year including the Eastern National Antique Show at the Carlisle Expo Center as well as the occasional antiques appraisal hosted by the Mechanicsburg Museum.


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Q: Generalizations of Hilbert's Syzygy theorem Hilbert's Syzygy theorem states that a minimal free resolution of a finitely generated graded module over a (standard graded) polynomial ring in $n$ variables $k[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$ does not have more than $n+1$ terms in it.  To what rings other than the polynomial ring has Hilbert's theorem been generalized?  Does it hold for polynomial rings which are not standard graded?  Please give me a reference if the answers to these are known.

A: As suggested by Jason I put my comments into an answer. Hilbert's theorem means that all modules over $k[x_1,\ldots ,x_n]$ have projective dimension $\leq n$ -- one says that the global dimension (aka homological dimension) of $k[x_1,\ldots ,x_n]$ is $n$. This is a property of the ring $k[x_1,\ldots ,x_n]$, it does not depend on the grading. It applies to many other rings: by a famous theorem of Serre, a local (commutative) ring has finite global dimension if and only if it is regular.

A: Here's a proof that the grading doesn't matter. It's actually relatively straightforward.
Let $R=k[x_1,\cdots,x_n]$ with  $\deg x_i = d_i$. Then the Koszul complex, which is the total complex of the tensor product of the complexes $$0\to R(-d_i)\stackrel{x_i}{\to} R\to 0,$$ forms a graded free resolution of $k$ as an $R$-module of length $n+1$.
Now let $M$ be an arbitrary graded finitely-generated $R$-module, and let $$\cdots \to F_n \to \cdots \to F_0 \to M \to 0$$ be a minimal graded free resolution, where minimal means we pick the smallest number of generators for the kernel at each step and use that to build the next module in the resolution. Now let $e_j$ be a basis element of $F_{i+1}$ and consider the image $(f_1,\cdots,f_k)\in F_i$: each of the $f$ are homogeneous by the fact our resolution is graded, and I claim none of the $f$ can be constant. To see why, if $f_1$ was constant, then the image of $e_j$ would be in the span of the other basis vectors because the images of the $e_j$ span the kernel, contradicting minimality.
What does this give us? If we apply the functor $-\otimes_R k$ to our resolution $F_\bullet$, we get a complex where every map is zero except possibly the map $F_0\otimes_R k\to M\otimes_R k$ and thus the homology is particularly simple. But now we can use the fact that Tor is symmetric to compute the rank of $\operatorname{Tor}^R_\ell(M,k)$ from resolving $M$ or resolving $k$ using the Koszul complex. Since the Tor groups vanish for $\ell > n+1$ from the Koszul complex, we see that swapping to the other resolution, $F_\ell = 0$ for $\ell >n+1$.

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NATO foreign ministers confirm plans to pursue dialogue with Russia — secretary general
The foreign ministers "discussed Russian continued build-up in our neighborhood," the secretary general said
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
© AP Photo/Francisco Seco
BRUSSELS, December 1./TASS/. A meeting of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs taking place via videoconference confirmed the importance of pursuing a dialogue with Russia, while continuing the policy to deter it, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference on Tuesday following the consultations.
"We all agree that we must continue to pursue the dialogue with Russia," Stoltenberg said. However, "We are adapting NATO deterrence posture to address Russia's destabilizing actions," he stressed.
The foreign ministers "discussed Russian continued build-up in our neighborhood," the secretary general said after the last for this year meeting.
"We see how Russia has deployed troops in violation of the wishes of the different governments in our close neighborhood," including "in part of Georgia (NATO does not recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared after Georgia's aggression in 2008, continuing to see them as part of Georgia - TASS) and Eastern Ukraine and also in Moldova and Transnistria," Stoltenberg said.


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18-year-old girl arrested for murder of her mother days after reporting her missing in South Africa
18-year-old girl arrested for murder of her mother days after reporting her missing in South Africa… An 18-year-old teenager has been arrested for murder after the decomposing body of her mother was found on the side of the road days after she had reported her missing in Free State, South Africa.
The deceased—–
Spokesperson for the Free State police, Brigadier Motantsi Makhele, in a statement on Friday, October 29, said that the teenager's 19-year-old boyfriend has also been arrested.
Makhele said the teenager opened a missing persons case on Tuesday, 19 October. She allegedly told police that she last saw her 46-year-old mother, Sharon Fisher, alive on 14 October.
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On Sunday 24 October, the mother's decomposed body was found near the R721 Kroonstad/Vredefort road.
"Her arrest emanated from an inquest docket, which was opened following the discovery of the body of her 46-year-old mother. Her decomposed body could not yet be identified at the time of discovery, and was taken to the State mortuary where the family later assisted with identification thereof," Makhele said.
"Subsequently, investigation linked the deceased to the reported missing person file that was reported by her 18-year-old daughter on Tuesday, 19 October 2021. She alleged that she last saw her mother alive on Thursday 14 October 2021. A post mortem was conducted as part of ongoing investigation and determined the cause of death as strangulation
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"The inquest docket changed to a murder case. It was later found out that the daughter is implicated according to the evidence obtained at her residence in Brentpark, Kroonstad during investigation
"She was arrested on Wednesday, 27 October 2021. On the same day, investigation led the members to her 19-year-old boyfriend, residing at Morewag in Kroonstad. It is suspected that he was also involved in this case." he added.
The duo appeared at Kroonstad Magistrates' Court on Friday, 29 October 2021 facing a charge of murder.
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Tags: South Africa
Man who killed rapper 21 Savage's brother with Rambo knife is jailed for 10 years
Cyril Ramaphosa rebukes Lindiwe Sisulu over scathing attack on SA judiciary
Boity Thulo hints at buying a new house
"I'm empty" – Palesa Tembe opens up on her feelings
One of the South African Pastors at Shepherd Bushiri Church shot dead while praying
Russell Henley leads Matsuyama by two at Sony Open
Cape Town cop accused of raping assault victim to appear in court
Three armed robbers gunned down during shootout with Mpumalanga police
Parliament report revealed fire hazards, non-compliance a year ago
Letter of demand sent in attempt to prevent Western Cape seismic survey
'uThando Nesthembu': Mseleku's wives bag their own talk show
KZN storm damage will cost R3.3 billion to repair
Joburg Mayor to lay criminal charges against ANC and EFF councillors
Limpopo Health MEC advises schoolgirls to "Open your books and close your legs"
Monkey Town given seven days to remedy 14 violations or face prosecution
King Khoisan released after reportedly growing cannabis outside Ramaphosa's office
Thailand reopens three more Sandbox destinations to South African travellers
Government distances itself from minister Lindiwe Sisulu 'reckless utterances'


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Q: Регулярное выражение в htaccess не пройдет никак Делаю удобочитаемый вид страниц
site.ws/odin/dwa/three

передаю в htaccess скрипту данные
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Не смотря на знания регулярок, не могу сделать так, чтобы проходили символы "." и "-", как это реализовать?


I'm currently combing my closet for enough stuff to sell on e-bay so I can buy this dress and this clutch.
*Update -- and to finish up the ensemble (because you've got to have shoes right??) these babies... ok now I'm really done.
Good plan... Totally worth it!
Yes, a good plan indeed. I'm especially fond of the dress!
LOVE that dress! I'm tempted to save for it too.
Nice detail on the front of the dress. And you can always use a good clutch.
Oh, love it! Both scheming worthy items.
wow, love the dress! i need a few nice new dresses for my brother's wedding weekend... hmmm.
I've been reading your blog for a while now so just wanted to say 'hi'. Thanks for all the beautiful and inspirational posts!
Oh, that dress! Oh yes.
Scheme away, My Dear! That look is perfect!
Oh, so cute!! Love it!!
You can never have too many wedges!


Make your trip memorable by throwing a Florence party your friends and family won't forget. Use our list of catering, entertainment, and facilities to get your party planning started.
It is possible to order online and have baked goods delivered; a great selection of American favorites and character birthday cakes.
A workshop dedicated to encouraging children to learn and play through art in a beautiful historic setting that highlights the city's artistic and civic legacy.


After all the erroneous billings by the spinning "$$mart" water meters, Tinley Park is considering spending millions to remove them and replace them.
Tinley Park officials are considering doing away with the village's controversial water meters with a plan that will cost $6.5 million to do so.
Officials are expected to detail how the Village would remove and replace the smart meters that have been the subject of scrutiny after reports of faulty readings and over-billing. The Chicago Tribune reports the plan will be discussed during a special committee meeting Tuesday night. Trustees must approve the plan before it could be set in motion.
Duke Energy is trying to get a smeter program in Indiana without going through the public utility process of having a business case approved, very much like BC Hydro. Their desire is to install smeters and implement time-of-use billing, again just like Hydro.
Articles re. class action. Please comment.
I'd like to apologize for all of those who came to the hearing, many having to travel some distance, but couldn't sit in on the first part of the session Monday Morning. I had asked for confirmation from those attending to ensure the room was large enough, and by Friday I had received only 40-50. I told David the number so that he could ensure that there was a large enough room. There was room for 50, but, amazingly closer to 70 attended. At the break, those who sat in the first hours allowed the others to take their seats so, hopefully, everyone was able to listen to at least part of the hearing. Today about 45 attended, so there was room. Thank you to everyone who has come and those who will come. This has demonstrated to the judge the depth of interest in the community.
A short summary of the proceedings of Day 2, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, in Davis vs BC Hydro.
It might be impossible to prove in court that the electromagnetic radiation from BC Hydro's "smart meters" is causing health problems.
But the public interest groups Citizens For Safe Technology and the B.C. Coalition To Stop Smart Meters say there is enough controversy in scientific papers and media reports about their safety that thousands of customers have refused to give Hydro permission to install the radio-frequency emitting devices on their homes and offices.
Yet Hydro has gone ahead against their wishes and installed the meters anyway, with the threat of cutting off the power if they refuse or imposing a $35 a month penalty for keeping their old analog meters.
CST and Stop Smart Meters are in B.C. Supreme Court this week seeking permission to launch a class action lawsuit for the constitutional right of Hydro customers to refuse the wireless meter and to recover damages.
David Aaron, lawyer for the two groups, said if the case is allowed, it won't allege harm, but instead will prove that Hydro's tactics have violated a person's reasonable constitutional right to make the choice to keep their home safe from possible risk.
The electrical meters send out "bursts of emissions every 68 seconds at a minimum … you're living with them day in and day out … every day of the year," he said.
Smart meter radiation is similar to that from cellphones, and while more research is needed to know whether it's harmful, it has been proven to have biological effects.


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Smith's Final Exam!
Know the budget process
o The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 established the following:
• Fixed budget calendar
• A budget committee in each House
• The CBO, which advises Congress on the probable consequences of its decisions, forecasts revenues, and is counterweight to OMB
• Now budget requests are directed through the OMB and president before going to Congress (a budget is submitted by prez to Congress every year).
Know the appropriations process. Who authorizes appropriations?
Authorized by Congress then signed into effect or vetoed by the President
What is incrementalism?
The idea that last year's budget is the best predictor of this year's budget, plus some.
Agencies can safely assume they will get at least what they got last year.
o Focus debate on the increase over last year
o Budgets tend to go up a little each year.
What is the military industrial complex?
Relationship between defense industry/contractors and the military hierarchy (pentagon) that want the weaponry
What is budget reconcilation?
**The current budget is reconciled— program authorizations are revised to achieve required savings**
A provision in a budget resolution directing one or more committees to submit legislation changing existing law in order to bring spending, revenues, or the debt-limit into conformity with the budget resolution.
What are authorization and appropriations bills?
Authorization bill: establishes a discretionary government program; set goals and maximum expenditures
o Appropriations bill: funds programs within limits established by authorization bills
o Up to Congress to authorize and to set goals and to set maximum expenditures
Which committees write tax codes in Congress?
Senate Finance Committee & Hayes and Ways Committee
What is the budget and who prepares the budget for the President and for Congress?
The budget is a policy document allocating burdens (taxes) and benefits (expenditures). The White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) prepares the budget proposal, after receiving direction from the President
What are uncontrollable expenditures?
Expenditures that are determined by how many eligible beneficiaries there are for a program or by previous obligations of the government and that Congress therefore cannot easily control.
What is the major reason why the national debt increases?
o Foreign investors lending the federal government money.
o People like government programs, but they really do not want to pay for them, thus there are deficits and federal debt
Know where the U.S. government gets its revenues
Individual income tax and Social Security Tax.
What are tax expenditures?
Revenue losses that result from special exemptions, exclusions or deductions or federal tax law. Major areas of federal spending are social services and national defense.
Know the 16th amendment
Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
What are social welfare policies?
Policies that provide benefits, cash, or in-kind to individuals, based on either entitlement or means testing
What is income distribution?
The way the national income is divided into "shares" ranging from the poor to the rich.
What are entitlements?
Benefits that are given to qualified individuals, regardless of need.
What are means-tested programs?
Government programs providing benefits only to individuals who qualify based on specific need.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Medicare- Partial payment of cost of hospital care for retired and disabled people funded by payroll taxes on employees and employers; voluntary program of medical insurance (pays physicians) for persons 65 or over and siabled Social Security beneficiaries funded by beneficiaries pay premiums.
Medicaid- Medical and hospital aid for the very poor funded by federal grants to state health programs
What is the poverty line?
The income threshold below which people are considered poor, based on what a family must spend for an "austere" standard of living, traditionally set at three times the cost of a subsistence diet.
Know the differences between the welfare systems in Europe and America
They are more generous than the U.S., but the tax rates are higher in those countries than in the U.S.; they have worked to reform their welfare programs, as their programs are in trouble, too.
Progressive tax
A tax by which the government takes a greater share of the income of the rich than of the poor—for example, when a rich family pays 50% of its income in taxes and a poor family pays 5%.
Proportional Tax
A tax by which the government takes the same share of income from everyone, rich and poor alike
Regressive tax
A tax in which the burden falls relatively more heavily on low-income groups than on wealthy taxpayers. The opposite of a progressive tax, in which tax rates increase as income increases
What are transfer payments?
Benefits given by the government directly to individuals—either cash transfers, such as Social Security payments, or in-kind transfers, such as food stamps and low-interest college loans.
Historically, what concept is at the heart of American foreign policy?
What does "guns and butter" mean?
Tradeoff between military spends v. domestic spending. A nation can buy either guns (invest in defense/military) or butter (invest in production of goods), or a combination of both
Know the powers of Congress as it relates to foreign policy
Congress has sole authority to declare war, raise and organize the armed forces and appropriate funds for national security activities
What is meant by containment?
Containment doctrine: foreign policy strategy that called for the United States to isolate the Soviet Union, contain its advances, and resist its encroachments by peace or force
What do international economic policies emphasize?
Interdependency, international trade, and a balance of trade
What powers do permanent members to the UN Security Council have?
Each permanent member has a veto over the Security Council decisions, including any decisions that would commit the UN to a military peacekeeping operation.
What does the president do as chief diplomat?
As chief diplomat, the President negotiates treaties with foreign governments.
Who or what body coordinates foreign and military policy?
President, Diplomats (Secretary of State), National Security Establishment (Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, NSC, CIA), Congress. Nat'l Security Est.advises the president and gather intelligence
What is brinksmanship?
John Foster Dulles secretary of state, policies against anyone taking action against anything American anywhere; basically bring each other to the brink of war. (if they attack us, we attack back) ← known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
What positions are considered the nation's top diplomats?
What is meant by détente?
A slow transformation from conflict to cooperation designed to relax tensions between the superpowers
• Originally applied to the Soviet Union, and then to China
What is diplomacy?
The quietest instrument of influence; the process by which nations carry on relationships with each other.
What does the Secretary of Defense do?
Manages a budget larger than the entire budget of most nations and is the President's main civilian adviser on national defense matters.
What is interdependence as it relates to the international economy?
Mutual dependency in which the actions of nations reverberate and affect one another's economic lifelines
When do members of Congress support military spending?
If it means jobs for their constituents
"negative income tax" that provided income to very poor people in lieu of charging them income tax
Where does regressive taxation occur?
Regressive taxation occurs in states that have a sales tax
Social Security Act of 1935
First major step by the federal government to help protect people against absolute poverty
What are the three tools of foreign policy?
o Military: oldest and still used
• Limited wars
o Economic: becoming more powerful
• Trade regulations, tariffs, and monetary policies
o Diplomatic: the quietest of the tools
• Negotiations and summits
What is the Secretary of Defense's main job?
Main job is an administrative role and to manage the defense budget (currently Robert Gates)
What ended the policy of isolationism?
World War I after the sinking of the Lusitania and propelled US to declare war on Germany.
McCarthyism
The fear, prevalent in the 1950s, that international communism was conspiratorial, insidious, bent on world domination, and infiltrating American government and cultural institutions—named after Senator Joseph McCarthy
What is the Arms Race?
Competition between U.S. and U.S.S.R. that led to increased procurement of military weapons
National Security Policymaking and Democracy main points
• Americans are more interested in domestic than foreign policy
• The opinions of the people are rarely ignored
• Separation of powers are important
• Pluralism is pervasive in foreign policymaking
What is the biggest source of revenue for the government?
Individual taxes are the largest single revenue source for the government.
• United Nations: created in 1945; an organization whose members agree to renounce war and respect certain human and economic freedoms.
• Regional Organizations
• NATO: created in 1949; combined military forces of U.S., Canada and most of Western Europe and Turkey. NATO has a problem in that it was established in order to ward off attack from communist countries during Cold War. Now the cold war is over and NATO has no mission.
• EU: transnational government composed of Western European countries that coordinate economic policies. Now has moved into Eastern Europe toward former soviet republics.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Effort to limit the growth of nuclear arms; a product of détente. First SALT treaty signed in 72, 2nd SALT treaty signed in 79. While SALT 2 was being negotiated in Senate USSR invades Afghanistan and the 2nd SALT treaty was pulled from Senate.
The Reagan Rearrangement
o Reagan added billions to the defense budget in his first term in office to oppose the Soviet buildup.
o Strategic Defense Initiative: using computers and other equipment to defend against Soviet missiles from space-"Star Wars." Meant to create global umbrella of protection from space.
Final Thaw in Cold War
o George H.W. Bush proposed to move beyond containment to integrate the Soviet Union into the Community of nations.
o Leadership of the Soviet Union supported the ending of communism and split into separate nations.
o East and West Germany united.
o Also see the verge of reforms in China, Tiamen Square. Chinese army violently crushed the demonstrators.
International Trade main points
**Emphasizes freer trade and lower tariffs.
• Tariffs: a tax on imported goods to raise the price, thereby protecting American business and workers.
• NAFTA and GATT are ways to lower tariffs and increase trade.


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def count_visited_houses(input_string):

    santas = [(0,0),(0,0)]

    visited_houses = [(0,0)]

    for index, char in enumerate(input_string):
        s = index % 2
        santas[s] = calc_new_coords(char, santas[s])
        if santas[s] not in visited_houses:
            visited_houses.append(santas[s])

    return len(visited_houses)

def calc_new_coords(char, start_coords):
    if char == "<":
        return (start_coords[0]-1, start_coords[1])
    elif char == ">":
        return (start_coords[0]+1, start_coords[1])
    elif char == "^":
        return (start_coords[0], start_coords[1]+1)
    elif char == "v":
        return (start_coords[0], start_coords[1]-1)
    else:
        raise Exception("Invalid direction received...")

if __name__=="__main__":

    input_string = open("input.txt").read()

    print count_visited_houses(input_string)

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Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr: On Israel's 70th anniversary, we remember the Nakba
In this Wednesday, April 4, 2018, file photo, Palestinian protesters wave flags in front of Israeli soldiers on Gaza's border with Israel near Beit Lahiya. (ADEL HANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr, Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison Chapter, May 3, 2018
This month, Jews around the world are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel.
These celebrations reflect the gratitude of Jews who view Israel as the symbol of freedom from centuries of persecution that culminated in the Holocaust.
We are Jews who will not be celebrating. The reason lies in a tragic irony: While Israel was intended as a safe haven for dispossessed Jews, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced to make room for the future state of Israel. In fact, Palestinians were forced out through a deliberate policy of expulsion and terrorism in order to create an exclusive homeland for Jews.
This Palestinian exodus is known as the Nakba, or the Catastrophe, to Palestinians. And as Israelis celebrate May 14 as Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate May 15 as Nakba Day.
In the period before and after Israel's official creation in 1948, an estimated 13,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces or terrorist gangs. Five hundred and thirty-one Palestinian villages were destroyed and depopulated. During a period of a few months, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris, 34 massacres of Palestinians occurred. As a result, 731,000 Palestinians fled.
Sadly, things only deteriorated from there. In the 1948 war, Israel annexed more Palestinian land. And, although Palestine was allotted 45 percent of Israel-Palestine in 1947, a year later it held only 22 percent.
In 1967, following the Six-Day War, Israel began its occupation of the remaining Palestinian territory, including the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. That occupation continues to this day, and it is brutal.
In fact, since 1967, Israel has:
• Demolished nearly 50,000 Palestinian homes because they were built without the permission of Israel's occupying army.
• Destroyed 800,000 Palestinian olive trees (a symbol of life and peace to Palestinians).
• Built Jewish-only settlements, including roads not open to Palestinians, covering 42 percent of the West Bank.
• Confiscated 35 percent of the land in East Jerusalem for Israeli settlements.
Israel also maintains a complete blockade of Gaza, inflicting severe collective punishment on this densely populated area of 1.8 million people. Since 2008, it has conducted three devastating attacks on Gaza, allegedly in self-defense, causing the deaths of thousands of civilians and massive infrastructure damage.
Today more than 96 percent of Gaza's water is undrinkable, and many Gazans only have access to electricity for four hours a day. And Israel has consistently limited the ability of Gazans to rebuild.
Most recently, Gazans have organized a huge protest called the Great Return March. These protests began on March 30 and will continue until May 15, Nakba Day. Although the protests have been mainly peaceful, some demonstrators threw rocks, and some burned tires to make it harder for Israeli forces to shoot at them. Israel responded with deadly force. To date, Israeli snipers have killed dozens of unarmed protesters, including two journalists, and injured more than 5,000. According to Amnesty International, Israeli forces are using military bullets designed to do maximum and irreversible damage.
The Great Return March is about the right to live in dignity and the right of Palestinians to return to their land. Under the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, every person has this right.
But Israel has never accepted this human right as a basis for peace negotiations, whether by return or compensation. In the years after 1948, the Israeli government passed laws preventing Palestinians from returning to their homes or even claiming their property. Any peaceful future for both Palestinians and Israelis depends on recognizing this right.
Gazan-based writer and one of the organizers of the Great Return March, Ahmad Abu Rtemah, wrote in the Nation recently: "The Nakba is not just a memory, it is an ongoing reality. And while we can reconcile that we all must eventually die, in Gaza the tragedy is that we don't get to live."
On this 70th anniversary, we will not participate in celebrations that erase both the historic and modern-day injustices experienced by Palestinians. We choose instead to work toward justice and a final end to the Nakba.
Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr are members of Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison Chapter.
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As of 04/09/2019 the Oakland County Health Department and Bloomfield Pediatric Care recommend that all children living in south Oakland County should accelerate their MMR vaccine.
All healthy children should be vaccinated at 12 – 15 months with the combination shot for measles, mumps, rubella (MMR).
A 2nd MMR vaccine is usually given at 4 – 6 years of age, but can be given earlier if it is at least 4 weeks after the 1st dose. Children who receive two MMR vaccines at least 4 weeks apart at any time after the age of 12 months are considered to have completed the MMR series.
Stay home if you are sick and don't allow visitors in your home as measles is highly contagious.
While Bloomfield Pediatric Care cannot keep up with the demand for the MMR vaccine that the new recommendations require, the Health Department can. We suggest that patients go to the Health Department for MMR vaccinations.
Patients that have well visits scheduled where the MMR would normally would be administered can receive the vaccine at their well visit. We also have a limited amount of vaccinations and boosters available if your infant or child is exposed to expedite their immunization.
We are excited to announce that we are now participating in Vaccine for Children Providers (VFC). We are now able to provide vaccines for all of our patients that have in network insurances.
The pediatricians at Bloomfield Pediatric Care want to provide the best protection for your children, our other patients, as well as our staff and providers from preventable illnesses. We have made the decision to only accept new families into our practice who plan to FULLY immunize their children according to the Center for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics. If your child is behind on the recommended immunizations the office may contact you or we ask that you discuss this with your child's provider at their next visit.
We believe in the safety and benefits of childhood immunizations. We follow the American Academy of Pediatric guidelines for immunizations. We stay informed about newly published studies and have not seen any studies that lead us to support the delay of immunizations or the use of alternative immunization schedules. Alternative immunization schedules leave children unprotected at the most vulnerable ages.
Bloomfield Pediatric Care earns patient-centered medical home designation from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Nation's largest PCMH program transforming primary care in Michigan.
Blue Cross blue Shield of Michigan has designated Bloomfield Pediatric Care as of 2018 patient-centered medical home practice. The designation period runs from July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019.
This means they are among a select group of physicians who are improving primary care in Michigan by adopting the PCMH model of care.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated roughly 1,550 primary care practices-with more than 4,340 primary care doctors-as PCMH practices. The program is the largest of its kind in the country and has the potential to affect close to 2 million Michigan residents.
With the PCMH model, we create care teams that work with you to keep you healthy and monitor your care on an ongoing basis.
We coordinate your health care using registries to track your conditions and ensure you receive the care you need. We offer you more access to the care team, coordinate complimentary care (such as nutrition counseling) and help you better manage conditions like asthma and diabetes.
A recent analysis of Blue Cross claims data shows that PCMH-designated doctors are succeeding in more effectively managing patients" care to keep them healthy and prevent complications.
For more information, contact us at 248 451-0600 with any questions or concerns.
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Freedom Isn't Free. It Never Has Been!
"I watched the flag pass by one day, it fluttered in the breeze.
With hair cut square and eyes alert, he'd stand out in any crowd.
"I thought of how many men like him have fallen through the years.
How many pilots' planes shot down, how many died at sea?
"I heard the sound of Taps one night, when everything was still.
When a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend?
Of fathers, sons and husbands, with interrupted lives.
Some citizens of the U.S., especially some of our younger "millennial" generation, don't seem to appreciate the price that has been paid by their older fellow citizens that has enabled them to enjoy the relatively easy life they experience today. But many brave souls, both the warriors AND their loved ones, paid a price for our liberty that far too many Americans don't even think about.
My wife had an uncle Harvey back before and during a part of WW11. He had studied medicine in order to help others, but joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 to do his bit. Only in his early 20's, he learned to fly P-40 fighters, and we have a 1942 photograph of him flying a P-40, with the cockpit's canopy open and Harvey waving at his fellow pilot in another P-40 next to him. In 1943 he was leaving Greenland, on his way back to the States. He "hitched" a ride with the crew of a B-25 that was leaving Greenland to fly back to the U.S. Sadly, that B-25 got badly iced up and crashed upon takeoff from its base. Her Uncle Harvey was killed and burned, and his remains were buried in Greenland. His parents never recovered from his death. They became "Gold Star" parents who "paid the price" for our freedom, as did their son. There's a headstone with his name and his birth and death dates there in their family cemetery in Ohio, but her Uncle Harvey isn't there. I've stood by his stone several times, trying to understand why many fine young people paid the ultimate price for the rest of us, and why today's Americans don't care. Or at least don't seem to care.
The history of mankind is replete with examples of those who have died in defense of their, and our, liberties, in defense of a principle, or in resisting the brutal forces of tyranny and collectivism. Far too many examples for a short article like this. But our American history is overflowing with tales of people who have done just that, either individually or as part of a force of righteous warriors who were telling their enemies: "This far, and no farther".
I've walked several times on the almost sacred Green of Lexington, Massachusetts., the place where the U.S.A. was "born". At this spot, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired on April 19, 1775. By whom, no one knows with certainty, although I'm convinced that the British fired first. This small band of Massachusetts Militia Men, organized by Reverend Jonas Clark, and led by Captain Jonathan Parker (who was dying of tuberculosis), faced down the might of the most feared and best military force in the world at that time. They didn't want to die, but they also had determined that as free Englishmen they were not going to capitulate to the King's tyranny. Their freedom was too important, and they determined to resist. I always thank God that they did.
Ten militiamen were wounded during that brief battle, including a brave black slave, Prince Esterbrook, who was a militiaman also. Eight brave Englishmen (there were no "Americans" yet, as such), were killed. You should know their names: John Brown, Samuel Hadley, Caleb Harrington, Jonathan Harrington, Robert Monroe, Isaac Morley, Asahel Porter, and Jonas Parker (who was Captain Parker's cousin). I've stood several times before their grave monument where they were eventually reburied, there on Lexington Green. It was erected in 1799, and is the oldest monument to the War of The Revolution in America.
All around the world we see people fighting each other; we see religious sectarianism and hatred causing death, violence, and destruction. We see the deliberate lies perpetrated by the "masters of deceit" in the MSM and in the halls of perfidy in The District of Criminals and Corruption. We see American men and women being sent to far-flung battlefields in countries whose populations mostly despise them, and usually hate us--- people who have no intention of ever relinquishing their culture of hate and religious extremism for the "phantom of democracy" so blithely being forced on them and which few of them believe in or even understand. Our American warriors are still paying the price for our freedom throughout the hell-holes and cesspools, loosely called countries, throughout the Middle East, even though most of us don't even think about them, and don't seem to appreciate their sacrifices. Freedom will never be without great cost. We Americans may be required to pay a higher price to maintain it in the near future than we realize. Federal Reserve "notes" and credit or debit cards will not be accepted in the future battle to preserve our liberties—only the price paid by our Founders, and by American Patriots over the long bridge of time from them to us—will be acceptable "currency". I hope that we, the descendants of freedom's defenders, will be ready with an ample supply of that currency: fortitude, courage, faith, and most of all---BLOOD!


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From being a Prize Winning Trainee and later qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Jim Greenwood decided it was time to branch out. This is the story of how it all began for J H Greenwood & Company…….
Lease on Ava Lodge signed
Jim takes on lease for Ava Lodge at a rate of £208 per year
James Hall Greenwood purchases Berwick based accountancy practice, J.S Simpson and Company
Mark McLeman joins!
Mark joined the firm in 1991 and trained firstly as a Chartered Tax Adviser before going on to qualify as a Chartered Accountant. Having started off in Tax this still has a huge bearing on his day to day work and the advice which he gives to his clients.
Over the last 23 years Mark has gained considerable experience in a variety of different industries particularly Agriculture and the Construction Industry.
More space!
As J.H. Greenwood & Company expanded it was fortunate that the next adjacent section of the property became available hence allowing the firm to occupy the whole of the building by 1999.
In the meantime, part of the area of grounds surrounding Ava Lodge had been sold to a local building developer allowing seven houses to be erected in the grounds.
Gareth Greenwood joins
Gareth joined the firm in 2003 having graduated from University with a BA (Hons). Having sat his Association of Taxation Technicians exams in 2006 Gareth went on to qualify as a Chartered Tax Adviser in January 2011.
Gareth is a Director of the firm and specialises in dealing with all aspects of tax issues facing Owner Managed Businesses as well as farmers and advising on individual's personal tax matters.
Gillian O'Dea joins!
Gillian joined the firm in August 2012 having relocated to the area from London. Having achieved a BA (Hons) degree at university Gillian qualified as a Chartered Accountant, with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, in 2008 in Edinburgh.
Gillian has a wide range of experience across many industries having fulfilled roles within general practice since qualification. Although very much a general practice associate Gillian specialises in audit and accounts.
Strong links with ICAS have led to Gillian recently being voted onto the Lothian, Borders and Central Area Committee.
35th year celebrations
"It seems like only yesterday since we started" said founder Jim Greenwood. "Now we have a client base ranging from Inverness in the North to London in the South and as far West as the Scottish Isles; however we do of course have a large concentration of clients in North Northumberland, the Scottish Borders and the Lothians"
Situated at Ava Lodge, one of Berwicks most fascinating buildings, the firm has grown hugely over the last 35 years now having 4 directors and almost 20 employees.
The Next Chapter…..


Welcome to Colegio Hispano Británico. We welcome you to become a part of a great family, which consists of all those who have contributed to what we are today: a private school that is close, accessible and familiar. Our school awakens each morning with an eagerness to learn and improve.
We instruct children in knowledge, core values, creativity and emotions. We nurture language learning, the development of technological skills and our students' academic preparation. All of this is thanks to our school's innovative vocation, by means of educational methods and tools, which has improved our students' learning process.
The year 2018 marks the school's 40th Anniversary, forty years full of life and many stories. We have changed with the times, adapting to the world in which we live and to the necessities of our children, but what has not changed is our commitment to our families.
Welcome to Colegio Hispano Británico. We welcome you to become a part of a great family, which consists of all those who have contributed to what we are today: a private school that is close, accessible and familiar. Our school awakens each morning with an eagerness to learn and improve. We instruct children in knowledge, core values, creativity and emotions. We nurture language learning, the development of technological skills and our students' academic preparation. All of this is thanks to our school's innovative vocation, by means of educational methods and tools, which has improved our students' learning process.
Colegio Hispano Británico began its educational activity in 1975, opening its doors to its present-day facilities in 1978. Until 1992, Preschool Education and Enseñanza General Básica were taught. In response to the increasing demand, in 1992 the facilities were expanded to teach what was then known as B.U.P. y C.O.U. Since 2012, with the inclusion of the first stage of Preschool Education, a complete educational offer is available from ages 3 to 18. Today, Colegio Hispano Británico offers the following: • Preschool Education • Primary Education • Secondary Education • Baccalaureate The year 2018 marks the school's 40th Anniversary, forty years full of life and many stories. We have changed with the times, adapting to the world in which we live and to the necessities of our children, but what has not changed is our commitment to our families.
The life and organization of the centre revolves around the achievement of the student's overall wellbeing by respecting and tending to their individuality and promoting their own personal development.
Parent's active participation and interaction with teachers and staff is encouraged, as parents are responsible for the education of their child.
Colegio Hispano Británico educates on freedom. The respect that students must show towards their companions, families, teachers and staff emanates from this freedom. The student will always be held responsible for his own actions.
Teachers potentiate learning skills over teaching skills. They are submerged in a process of continual training in order to provide students with the necessary tools in order to discover and learn.
Language learning is a fundamental achievement in the student's present and future. Our curriculum includes English and French as first and second foreign languages.
Physical activity and sports are a fundamental pillar of student development, not only for its proven benefits but also for the values that can be associated with team sports. Healthy development should be completed with a balanced diet, therefore, we offer our own prepared meal services.
We are committed to respecting the environment and the historical and cultural heritage in the hopes of promoting attitudes and habits that achieve everyone's participation within the educational community inside and outside of the school building.
We respect all religions, individual and collective beliefs, as long as they don't interfere with basic human rights. We have adopted the morals and values of Catholicism.
Colegio Hispano Británico is open to the consistent evolution of our world. We have adopted new technologies as means to potentiate and facilitate learning processes, and we continually evaluate educational innovations in order to implement those that contribute to a better educational method in any aspect.
Our educational system gives way to learning as the main objective, instead of teaching. The teacher becomes an expert guide that provides the tools and information necessary for students to be submerged in a process of constant discovery. New concepts will be built upon the foundation of the student's prior knowledge.
The objective is to achieve a significant and functional learning process, meaning that students acquire the tools that will allow them to resolve everyday problems efficiently, interrelate their knowledges and apply them to new situations, establish a clear relationship between what is learned and its significance and use.
We live in a society that places importance on the acquisition of key competencies in order to succeed. Innovation is one of the key constants. It is important to be aware of and understand the new educational tendencies: project learning, multiple intelligences, cooperative learning, projects based on competencies, problem solving, etc. The objective is that students acquire the knowledge and key competencies of the curriculum improving their school experience, creativity and happiness.
In relation to innovation, new technologies have acquired a more important role in the educational system of our school. Our Technological Itinerary provides technological training for students, while at the same time shows them how a combination of resources and tools facilitate learning processes. Our spaces including the Project Room and Smart Zone allow the student to be at the very center of their own learning.
Learning foreign languages is one of the pillars of our educational system. The objective is that students be able to master Spanish, English and French by the end of Baccalaureate, certifying their level through the Cambridge Exams and French Alliance. Our Trilingual Project helps the process of linguistic immersion that begins during the first stage of Preschool Education. French is taught from the first year of primary school onwards. Furthermore, we have developed a program of transversal projects for Primary, Secondary, and Baccalaureate so that students use both English and French to communicate in multiple contexts.
Families play a key role in the educational system of Colegio Hispano Británico, not only because of their decisive role in the education of their children but also for their participation in school life. For this reason, we define ourselves as an open and familiar centre, where parents can access the facilities and interact with teachers, staff, other parents and friends while contributing to the education and development of student's emotional intelligence.
All of this is made possible because Colegio Hispano Británico has adapted a collaborative culture involving management, teachers, staff members and families. Team work is the idea we have adapted as a way to better ourselves each day.


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Ice storm hits area
By Danny Wade | February 8, 2022 | 0
Humboldt not hit as hard as other locations across West Tennessee
ICY TREES – Trees covered with ice like these at Bailey Park were familiar sights around West Tennessee last week when a mammoth area was hit with an ice storm. While some areas got hit harder than others, Humboldt fared pretty well when it comes to power outages due to falling tree limbs onto utility power lines.
Last Thursday morning, people woke up to find the area had been hit by an ice storm. Trees and bushes were covered with about a quarter-inch of ice.
Most of the day Thursday, rain fell in Humboldt keeping driving conditions good. But by Friday morning, the wet roads froze over with a thin glaze of ice. That did not stop many motorists from venturing out to work or other reasons for getting out of the house. Around 9 a.m. Friday, snow began to fall, quickly covering the ground. But it did not last long.
For the most part, Humboldt fared pretty well with the ice and snow. Humboldt Utilities General Manager Alex Smith said there was one major outage where approximately 200 customers were without electricity for about an hour. Icing on tree limbs falling on power lines was the culprit for the outage. Smith said there were less than 20 customers scattered out across the city that also experience power outages. By noon Thursday, everyone's electricity was restored.
GM Smith said Brownsville got hit pretty hard and had requested assistance from other utility companies. Smith said they had a crew ready to go but the request for more assistance was called off after JEA sent some of their workers to help Brownsville.
Smith said this is common for utility companies to assist others. There is a very good network of utility companies ready to assist their neighbors that might be hit harder than others.
With Humboldt having just a handful of outages, Smith contended it was because Humboldt Utilities is proactive in keeping trees trimmed away from their power lines. Humboldt Utilities has a tree-trimming crew working every week to keep tree limbs cut back a safe distance.
Gibson EMC did not fare as well due to the fact that their coverage area is enormous compared to Humboldt Utilities' customer base. Gibson EMC has members as far south as Crockett and Madison counties and to the north, stretching into Kentucky.
Thursday afternoon GEMC reported 66 outages affecting over 2,800 customers. The largest area affected was around Bells where 1,000 homes and businesses were without electricity. By 6 p.m. Thursday, Gibson EMC had restored electricity to about half of the members with 1,141 customers still without power.
By mid-morning on Friday, Gibson EMC workers had cut that number in half again to less than 600.
Around 6 p.m. last Friday, Gibson EMC had all members back online.
Having power outages is no fun for customers or utility companies. Unfortunately, outages of some sort will happen, whether it's weather related such as ice, storms, high winds or tornadoes, or due to some type of accident that takes out utility poles. But when it does happen, rest assured that utility crews will be on the scene, no matter what the weather conditions might be, as quickly and safely as possible to restore everyone's electricity.
FALLEN TREE – This big tree near East End Drive toppled over Thursday morning, taking out a storage shed building in its path. Luckily, no one was hit by the massive tree.
FROZEN LANDSCAPE – Ice covered trees, shrubs and practically anything outside in the elements were beautiful to look at but a nightmare for area utility companies that logged power outages last Thursday and Friday.


AUDJPY is a potential downside continuation pattern currently doing consolidation. At the moment, it is at support from last year's bottom. A new 52-week low printed first quarter this year suggests further lows. Negative implications to stock indices if previous correlation is still valid.
A look at year to date relative performance of major forex pairs and stock indices Despite high positive correlation, subsequent action following early February's correction, separate themes are showing up as winners and losers emerge.
SiMSCI follows a 30-month cycle between late 2006 to present according to this chart. If true, local stock market is reaching a top soon followed by a bottom by end of 2018.
End of Q3 2017 (quarterly) and end of September (monthly) performance of Straits Times Index Constituents. This quarter we see Jardine Strategic replace SIA Engineering w.e.f. 18 Sep.


Weight loss pursuits will sometimes cause many women to resort to desperate measures. Many judge their self-worth by the numbers on the scale and turn to instant solutions such as fat blockers and laxatives, just to weigh lesser temporarily.
An over-dependency on the scale can also result in negative feelings of self-inadequacy, low self-esteem and ultimately, eating disorders. At VLF, we don't advocate quick fixes or crash dieting because we believe in making realistic lifestyle changes for fat loss through exercising regularly and making the right food choices.
Today, we're proud to be sharing Atiqah's weight loss journey, before and after VLF. We hope that this will inspire you to keep training hard.
Her story: Atiqah has always resented exercising but had a wake up call one day to lose some weight. She was searching for quality classes that were also fun and intense, hence discovered VLF women Muaythai through some friends.
In February 2016, Atiqah invested in our VLF Muaythai package as a birthday gift for herself and has unknowingly lost a whopping 23kgs since then. Below is a picture of her before and after.
Our all women Muaythai classes have not only transformed her body, but also empowered her mentally. Through training, she's gained strength, improved her fitness level as well as increased her self-esteem and confidence. New friendships and unbreakable bonds have also been formed.
We applaud Atiqah's dedication towards training, and recognise the real work that she's put in since Day 1. She's always been one of the hardest workers in the room, and never failed to show up for every training, hence the amazing progress. Well done, At!
Ladies, remember that the numbers on the scale don't define you and they never will. You're more than just a number on the scale. Focus on exercising regularly, eat right and you'll lose weight. Give your 100% each time in class and you will definitely see results.
Come join Atiqah and all the other VLF women in their fitness journey here.


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Experts are speculating that China's regulation of social media is the way of the future. Source: Shutterstock
China's social media censorship is effective but disrupts advertisers
By Tech Wire Asia | 18 April, 2019
SOCIAL media users outside China may not have experienced any form of censorship or regulatory oversight when it comes to what they consume on platforms such as Facebook or Instagram. But that is about to change.
As a blowback to the torrents of harmful content that made its way to social media recently, governments across the globe are introducing sweeping regulations to put a stop to it.
Among them are Australia, UK, and Singapore, who have also recently have proposed for a stricter regulatory oversight on social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
While Facebook agrees that social media platform should be held accountable for their content, the censorship proposal has ignited fears of freedom of speech restrictions.
The reason social media censorship is of such great concern to businesses is that these platforms are not just a means to connect with large audiences anymore — they're a strong and important pillar in the commercialization and monetization strategy at many large enterprises and SMEs alike.
WHY ASIA NEEDS TO FOLLOW CHINA'S LEAD IN INFLUENCER MARKETING
Soumik Roy | 29 March, 2019
Self-regulation gives way to self-interests
Meanwhile, allowing the industry to self regulate itself is proving to be futile. A recent media report revealed that YouTube executives, in efforts to increase user engagement have allowed its algorithms to promote hate speeches and conspiratorial videos.
Fu King-wa, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, said governments did let the industry self regulate initially. "But obviously this has not worked."
"Now governments around the world are taking it seriously to [protect] social media in their local communities, not just from inappropriate content, but also from disinformation especially when it comes from another country."
The UK government last week published the Online Harms whitepaper which proposed sweeping social media regulation and establishing new enforcement body. This new regulatory body will have the power to penalize companies for violating the law.
In the UK, the battle against misinformation started in 2016. They discovered that foreign agents used social media to sway the country's Brexit referendum.
WIPO DATA SUGGESTS CHINA FAR BEHIND US IN TERMS OF AI
Soumik Roy | 5 February, 2019
Convergences of forces make regulation difficult
The truth is, social media platforms' structure itself makes it problematic to regulate. Traditionally, free speeches, press, advertising, and commerce existed in a separate sphere, and thus regulated separately. However, social media platforms have merged all these aspects into one.
"Platforms are kind of like vertically-integrated chimera. Like a beast, made up of many different other beasts," said Aram Sinnreich, a professor at American University.
He explained that while one regulation might be appropriate to one type of content, say advertising, it may not be for others, such as private conversations.
Further, social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter allow parties to target their content to specific groups of people. This makes them an effective vector to spread information but that also means they're also open to misuse.
"The kind of disinformation campaigns we've seen are endemic to the platform. It cannot be stopped without changing the entire platform and business models," said Sinnreich.
US-CHINA STRAIN MUCH BIGGER THAN TRADE WAR SAYS NUS PROFESSOR
Is China's approach most effective?
"It's dystopian, but I think China's [regulation method] is going to be the future," said Sinnreich.
China deploys what is commonly referred to as the "Great Firewall" which blocks all foreign social media platforms and imposes restrictions on politically sensitive contents on platforms at home.
However, any regulation has to come with avenues for users to challenge so that the laws cannot be administered unilaterally.
According to Lei Ya-wen, professor of sociology at Harvard University, regulating social media is a constitutional and political issue.
"One major difference between how China deals with the problem and how many other countries deal with it is whether citizens have functioning legal channels to dispute the government's administrative decisions, judicial decisions, regulations, and laws," said Lei.
Either way, any laws that seek to curb social media, will ultimately affect modern enterprises and business. These businesses have come to rely on social media for marketing, advertising, and even commerce. And thus, censorship of content should not interfere with the business aspect of the social platforms.


Donegal's 15,000 euro house goes under the hammer today!
A detached four bedroom house in Convoy is number 206 on an auction list of over 200 properties going under the hammer today at the Allsop Space auction taking place in the RDS, Dublin.
The house, which is in the Convoy area, is up for auction with a reserve of just €15,000. The house is described as a detached four bedroom house, two storey beneath a pitched roof, gardens to the front and rear, off street parking, with an approximate size of 164.35 sq. m (1,770 sq. ft).
The property has one of the cheapest reserves on the extensive list with the more expensive properties being situated in the Dublin area.


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I began consistently writing at the same time I consistently began homeschooling. I sat in a Starbucks every Wednesday evening, ordered my pumpkin spice latte with whip and biscotti (cliché but true), opened my flip journal and wrote about my days, what me and my four kids did, who was learning what, and how we were all processing the transition to being together.
The process of journaling, essentially recording my huge, messy spill of thoughts, was therapy itself. Journaling was a practice I began when I started writing, and has kept me sane through my toughest life stories, has been my cheapest therapist, and has allowed me to make confident choices, switch choices, not be afraid of my choices, make choices in front of questioning eyes, shift my choices again, becoming confident for the reasons of my choices.
Since I was chomping at the bit to get started homeschooling ten years ago (I decided to homeschool one and a half years before we began), we started in July. I began journaling a few months before the pumpkin spice lattes reentered our North American world.
I do get to experience my children in a very organic way, watching their interests expand, their skills develop and the whole thing still goes by so quickly. Too quickly. And every once in a while, I really would like seven hours away.
Homework at the end of a busy day sounds unhelpful. Unless, they're self-motivated. Everyone can keep their academics within 'normal school hours' unless they have too many extracurriculars during the day, which is the case for my grade 10 daughter, but she likes it that way.
Yes, sometimes we do learn through rote learning and memorization. It is one tool of learning. Certainly shouldn't be the only one. And learning to test is a tool too. But actually wanting to learn something should be where the bulk of learning should remain.
We absolutely do use math in our every day. You are less likely to have money mistakenly taken from you at the cashier if you know how to count your own money. Knowing how to calculate percentages in your head makes tipping quicker and making reliable guesstimations on sales purchases. Calculating area enables quick calculations for carpeting a room or building a chicken coop. Memorizing times tables makes advanced math a simpler process. Etc. Some kids will need advanced math for later schooling; some kids like playing with advanced math. I, myself, shall never have need for a $100 calculator. The word trigonometry still means 'confusion' in my thesaurus. But math practice, especially mental math and math problems, quickens the brain, building neural networks.
Kids are better socialized by capable adults, not same aged peers. Yup, yup and yup. (I am not suggesting children don't have regular contact with same aged peers or that they don't have regular social activities, but socialization that breeds kindness, authenticity, and all the character traits you hope for your child is led by kind, authentic, invested and capable adults; the more, the merrier).
When kids are younger, they are less aware of fashion and vocabulary trends, and obviously don't need indoor and outdoor shoes. As homeschooled kids enter adolescence, they find themselves more invested in independent social scenarios and they most definitely clue into fashion and vocabulary trends. (I, on the other hand, believe that when someone says something is 'sick', I think they are actually sick, that if someone says they are fierce, I assume they self-describe as unabashedly unkind, not cool and courageous, or whatever it means).
Homeschooled kids definitely get regular hot lunches (I am not well versed in packing lunches, but the kids are well versed in making their own hot lunches, unless they want my lentils and rice, or kale salad, or homemade soup, which they usually don't).
Homeschooled kids definitely get a surprising amount of extracurricular activity time. There really is just more time in their days.
They also get a whole lot more leisure. They are accustomed to having breathing room in their days. I rarely hear "I'm bored". But when I do, I recognize that statement as a jumping off point for learning something new, pursuing something new, or going farther into an established interest. I am not afraid of that statement, nor do I want to entertain it.
Every parent gets to influence their child's direction and internal compass in life. Not just homeschool parents. But we sure do have more moments to influence them. Which can also become moments to enmesh (and in the moment, we don't realize we're enmeshing…). We are front and center on our child's stage, them watching us, us not necessarily knowing what they're watching.
I most definitely skip out on signing stuff, finding forms, organizing mandatory volunteer time, and doing school stuff I don't want to do. I sign up for the ultimate parenting homework. I follow my child's interests closely, learn about resources that would facilitate those interests, learn how to organize academic time that suits them, find curriculum or books that I believe to be useful, until it isn't, question every aspect of the conventional education and vie to do it different, because I customize my children's educations, until I realize that some of the conventional education is useful (despite much of its busy work), I organize everything in my homeschool daytimer, maintain schedules, hope to arrive on time to every activity they've signed up for (which is at least four times busier than what I would have allowed to be if they were in school). I pay for children's academics and books and curriculum and interests. I think through absolutely every last detail, and then I watch the kiddo, and I rethink again, and change again, then change again for the next child. I definitely do not skip out on parental homework.
Learning style accommodation: yup. 100% true. If an education is about educating a person to develop interests and skills and aptitudes to have some purpose in the world and find meaning through it, then I, with perfect errancy and inconsistency, am able to participate in enabling an education for an individual. My homeschool children's learning styles are always accommodated.
I've been a stay-at-home Mom for almost 16 years now. During that time I have home schooled 7 children and am enjoying watching them grow up to be amazing young men and women. It was the best decision I ever made. I'm just now starting to write a blog about adoption as 5 of my children were adopted from a foreign country called Latvia.
Thanks so much for writing your post. It was refreshing. It is a sacrifice to homeschool and be at home for sure, but one I think well worth the effort!!
Teenage years are tough!! The ages of mine are 21,16,15,15,14,14,13,11….. 3 of which are girls…. Lots of emotions for sure….Hang in there….
You too! Wowsas. You put my world into perspective!
Still waiting for my powers…..
But who says it's NOT gonna kill us!!
I can't wait till their mamas.
😘a mama after my heart, haha!
Really a great post loved reading what you think after 10 years.
Thank you! Times always gives us different perspective.


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Illinois quick hits: Chicago officer commits suicide; suicide prevention hotline 988 launches | Illinois
Concerns raised after another Chicago officer suicide
As Chicago police officials deal with a series of officer suicides, the department's former wellness advisor is calling the canceling of days off "inhumane" and called for a sweeping plan to address psychological issues with the department.
The latest tragedy occurred Saturday when a sergeant suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and died the next day. Alexa James said officers have recently complained they feel like just a number after having their days off canceled, a practice that is being used to address the department's staffing issues.
New suicide prevention hotline launched
The Illinois Department of Human Services' Division of Mental Health, in coordination with the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, is expanding Illinois' mental health safety net by rolling out 988, a new, nationwide suicide prevention and mental health crisis line.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which has existed since 2005, is now available nationwide via a three-digit dialing code – 988 – and is designed to make it easier for those in crisis to get the help they need.
Cook County workers committed fraud, report alleges
Four Cook County employees committed "financial fraud directed at the federal government" by wrongly collecting around $120,000 in payroll protection plan loans intended to help businesses survive the pandemic.
According to a new report from the county's inspector general, three people work in offices under Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle that handle sensitive financial matters, while a fourth works at the county's Board of Review.
Affordable housing grants awarded
The Illinois Housing Development Authority Board has announced conditional awards totaling nearly $12 million in Rebuild Illinois funding that will provide improvements to 27 affordable housing developments throughout Illinois.
In all, more than 1,400 units of affordable rental housing will see vital capital repairs that will address code violations, resolve security issues and improve the health and safety of both the buildings and their residents.
Scam warning issued by Secretary of State
Secretary of State Jesse White is reminding residents to be on alert for scams claiming to be from the Secretary of State's office or from "Illinois DMV" seeking personal information to defraud Illinoisans.
White said there is a new round of attempts to entice the public into falling victim to scam texts and emails. The most recent scam is a text message stating, "Due to increased fuel prices, the State of Illinois has initiated rebate payments of $1500 per vehicle. Check eligibility." Officials urge you not to click on the link.
Salmonella warning issued
Federal health officials are reminding people to stay safe around backyard poultry after two people died and nearly 600 others were sickened in Illinois and 47 other states.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked a recent salmonella outbreak to backyard birds such as chickens and ducks. Officials report Illinois has seen over 15 cases. Overall, about 23% of those who fell ill were children under 5-years old.
Conservative Blocs Unleash Litigation to Curb Public Health Powers
A councilman in Reading wants the city to implement reparations for slavery


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St. Vitale
Church of San Vitale
Ravenna – Ravenna made an impact as a city as far back as the first century. Its perfect location was invaluable to the Romans–it had a seaport and was easily accessible from Rome. The Emperor Tiberius established naval bases here in AD 23, to be able to launch military campaigns and control the Adriatic. Later, under Emperor Claudius, the grand Porta Aurea was constructed in his honor. Also during Claudius's reign, Christianity came to Ravenna through the ministry of St. Apollinare. People arrived from the east and stayed in Ravenna, and many passed through on traditional trade routes.
From the beginning of the fifth century, Ravenna became the capital of the Western Roman Empire, establishing itself as a place of wisdom, law, dogma, art, and cultural interchange. Ravenna survived many wars and invasions and remained the intersection point between Byzantium and the West up to the seventh century.
Much more recently, in June 2002, this meeting of East and West was further enforced by the visit of Bartholomew I (ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople) who officiated at a divine liturgy in St. Apollinare in Classe. This signified closer ties between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Holy See of Rome. (Vardey, 221-222).
Life of St. Vitale
Vitale is usually portrayed in the mosaics as a young soldier (because of his intercession in defending Ravenna after his death), although what we know of him in life is that he was a servant of a rich man. Born in the fourth century, he worked for a prominent citizen from Bologna called Agricola. A confirmed Christian, Vitale was advised by many of his friends to denounce Christ, but he was firmly resolved in his faith, so much so that he was tortured and crucified in the presence of his employer. Agricola was so overcome by the faith and courage of Vitale that he, too, converted to Christianity and went to his death in the same way. Both men were buried in a Jewish cemetery, which has led historians to believe that they were Jewish because capital punishment for a Roman citizen was decapitation, not crucifixion.
Vitale's feast day is April 28, and though considered a Roman martyr, he became particularly connected with Ravenna in the fifth century due to a noblewoman called Galla Placidia. Daughter of Theodosio the Great, Galla represented her imperial family and moved to Ravenna from Constantinople in AD 409. she lived there for twenty-five years, bringing with her peace and religious devotion. She gained permission from Ambrose, bishop of Milan, to have relics of St. Vitale's remains brought to Ravenna from their original burial place in Bologna. As a result, popular devotion to St. Vitale grew among the Ravenna townsfolk, who buitl the famous basilica that bears his name.
Vardey, Lucinda. Traveling with the Saints in Italy: Contemporary Pilgrimages on Ancient Paths. (Paulist Press: Mahwah, NJ), 2005.
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