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FIFA opens case against Serbia over flag denying Kosovo's independence
FIFA opened, Saturday, November 26, a disciplinary procedure against the Serbian Football Federation, because of the flag placing Kosovo in Serbia exhibited in the locker room of the "White Eagles" before their match lost Thursday against Brazil (2-0) at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. FIFA does not cite specific violations of its disciplinary code, but relies on the general obligation to "fair play and non-violence" imposed on the thirty-two participants in the tournament.
The scale of sanctions that can be imposed on the federations ranges from a meeting behind closed doors to a defeat by forfeit, without FIFA indicating where the gravity of the fault alleged against the Serbs lies.
"chauvinistic rhetoric"
The offending photograph shows a map of Kosovo printed on a square of white fabric hanging from two coat hooks. Kosovo is stamped with the flag of Serbia and the inscription "there will be no surrender". The dissemination of the snapshot led to an official protest on Friday from Kosovo, via its sports minister, Hajrulla Ceku, who denounced "shameful images" relaying "hateful, xenophobic and genocidal messages".
In a tweet commenting on the image, Kosovar Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Daulina Osmani, judged that "Serbia's chauvinistic rhetoric against the Republic of Kosovo, through sport and in an official forum, is an aggressive act against human and sporting values, which must be condemned. Doing nothing is, in itself, a very telling position".
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"We expect concrete actions from FIFA of which Kosovo is a full member", specified for his part the Minister of Sports. The Football Federation of Kosovo (FFK) has announced that it has filed a complaint with FIFA against "Serbia's aggressive action". This act "has no place in sporting events and even less inside the venues where the biggest football event in the world takes place"denounced the FFK.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, unilaterally. The Serbian government, supported by China and Russia, refused to recognize it, unlike the United States and most European countries.
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I stirred up some controversy and heated rejoinders from my other panel members Prabir Purkayastha and G Nagarjuna, Chairman of the Free Software Foundation when I said that I see a dichotomy between the way the west treats knowledge and the way the east treats it. My point was that our traditions of knowledge come from a spiritual tradition where there is a moral imperative to share knowledge while western tratment of knowledge springs from commercial traditions which seek to commoditize knowledge. I will elaborate on this theme one of these days.
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Throughout May 2018, The Outdoor Journal has been reporting on five French explorers who have been traversing Greenland's toughest terrain.
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In the face of much adversity, the expedition finally made it home to Paris, having being trapped at the finish line without food, and unable to extract themselves due to bad weather. We caught up with Maxime Laine upon his return, to hear about 'Engages: La Finale'.
If you missed it, then you can read the day by day updates, sent home by the expedition via satellite phone, here.
The end of the expedition taught us a lot of humility.
Throughout the crossing, we had over estimated the distance that we expected to be able to cover towards the end of the expedition. We had reached the highest point, and had started to walk down to the east coast. However, the weather played it's part, and played with our nerves, as the snow just could not stop falling.
There was so much snow, that every step went deeper and deeper, day after day. Each day, we could not imagine how it could get any harder the next. Our expectations, with regards to the kilometres we could cover, were just in vain. We had to keep telling ourselves, to get out of the tent, and to walk as far as we could, and then even further.
On the 28th day, we walked 30 kilometres in 12 hours. We were exhausted, but our daily goal was only 40 kilometres away from our position. We told ourselves, one more time, that we could walk 25km on the 29th and 15km on the 30th day. This would be ok.
However, on the 29th day, the snow kept on falling. We could only walk 5 little kilometres, with the little energy that we had. It was at this point, we had a critical decision to make.
Option 1: Keep on walking. Get closer to the coast, and a better extraction point, for the helicopter. Given the harsh weather conditions, this could take us several days, a lot of energy, and we were running out of food.
Option 2: Set up the camp and stay where we are. Economise our energy and the rest of our food. Hope that the helicopter can come to pick us up.
We went for the second option. However, once again, Greenland's weather played with our nerves.
We were now out of food.
The helicopter was supposed to pick us up on the 30th at 1:00pm. The pilot just could not make it, and the next clear weather window was 4 days later on the 3rd of June. There was nothing that we could, but stay in our tents, spending as little energy as possible. We tried hard to think about anything worth thinking about. Anything to take our minds off our empty bellies.
At times like these, the only thing to do is remain calm and patient. We had to call the pilot every hour, and every hour he told us that the weather window was not good enough, and that we'll talk again in an hour.
This repeated itself for more than 24 hours… until we woke to find a beautiful day, and a clear blue sky out of our tent. Still, we didn't want to express any form of optimism, Greenland had played this game with us before.
We just waited for the pilot's confirmation which was never clearly expressed, until finally we saw a red flying object on the horizon coming towards us. We could not believe it. For the first time, Greenland "a fait preuve de clémence" and was not playing with us anymore.
It felt like we had passed the test, like we had learnt enough about humility.
Over the course of the next week, Max will publish a detailed account of what he thought about for 10 hours a day, whilst he crossed Greenland. Here's a sneak preview. Make sure that you follow us or subscribe so that you don't miss it.
One of the most difficult part of crossing Greenland by foot, is not only to walk 10 hours a day, but to keep our minds busy. We were in an environment where nothing could possibly interrupt our minds.
There was just us, walking on the same white and flat ice caps for endless days.
Even the sun doesn't set. Just us and ourselves. Thinking about our frozen fingers and toes. Our friends, our family, our jobs. Why we are here, focusing on this very moment, what we are looking for, what kind of life we want to live, what is the next adventure. All of a sudden you are aware of plenty of little things that we strangely never had the time to think about before.
We came back to Paris, and people did not see us any different, life remained the same here, but we were different. We triggered a new energy, like we had just woken after a very long sleep.
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The 2018 Australian Open in Melbourne produced another enthralling fortnight of exciting Grand Slam tennis, but when the curtain came down on the hot and happy Slam and the crowds were finished cheering, it was Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki who were left smiling and holding the silverware in the respective men's and women's singles championships.
World men's No.2 Federer added his 20th Grand Slam title to an already bulging trophy cabinet by defeating Marin Cilic in five sets, while newly crowned world No.1 Wozniacki couldn't stop smiling after winning her very first major championship on Rod Laver Arena against Simona Halep, Federer's joy also produced tears when making his acceptance speech as the 20-time major champ was overcome with emotion at what he had just achieved, Wozniacki also shed tears of joy when she outlasted Halep in a tremendous three-set women's singles final, the Dane finally capturing the major title that has alluded her all these years.
Although all tennis fans were gaga over another great Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, AO 2018 will also be remembered for the brutal heat that most players had to endure throughout the fortnight, watching some of the best names in the game struggling in the heat certainly wasn't fun or exciting and the Australian Open organisers will no doubt be discussing the best solution for all concerned before next year's tournament, hopefully they can come up with a new heat policy that is fair and reasonable to all players.
The first Grand Slam event of 2018 was another great success with record crowds attending the tournament once again, one wonders what the final crowd figure would have been without some of those extremely hot days though, the tennis was once again of a high calibre and there were many storylines throughout the two weeks to keep all tennis fans interested, fans of Fed and Woz were certainly left celebrating and smiling as their heroes came out on top in Melbourne, however nobody would have been smiling more than the two respective AO singles champs themselves.
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Hawk(e): The Movie is an independent comedy film co-directed by Phil Baker and Tom Turner and written by Phil Baker. The film was produced by Genepool Records with Paramore Productions and is set for a summer 2013 release. The film is to be distributed by Genepool in the UK and Continuum Motion Pictures in North America.

Plot

Movie-maker-come-idiot Mike Hawk sets about making his latest movie, a Rom-Com called "Get Becky Laid", and is followed in his pursuits by documentary maker and film fanatic Philip K Longfellow.
Mike Hawk also plays the lead character and has named him Mike Hawke - after himself only adding another 'e' to his name to distinguish the two.
Mike's bitten off more than he can chew, and is followed as he gets through the making of the film, achieving it only through sheer determination and ignorance.

Additional Details

Hawk(e): The Movie is due for release Summer 2013. It was shot in and around Plymouth with Principal photography taking place in October and early November 2010.

Cast

 Mike Hawk(e): Phil Baker
 Philip K Longfellow: Martin Ross
 Scarlett Foxx/Becky: Chelsea-Marie Gall
 Archie Bishop: Darren Lake
 William Yung/Weepole: Paul Gentle
 Rachael Hoskins/Kirsty: Lucy Harvey
 Sandra Cox/Sandy: Kokil Sharma
 Richard "Dick" Dickson: Dan McNeill
 Max Willey: Richard Silverwood
 Richard Holder: Mark Smalley
 Richard Daley: Michael Terry
 Richard Payne: Tom Turner
 Richard Long: Dan Leahy
 Richard Hunter: John Elliott
 PC Richards: Richard Haighton

Crew

 Director Of Photography: Mikey Parkinson
 Camera Operators: Tom Turner/Mikey Parkinson
 Editor: Thomas Turner
 Sound Recordists: Phil Baker/Carl Jones
 Sound Engineers: Deep Blue Sound
 Assistant Crew: Rich Silverwood
 Production Photographer: Oliver Joy/Mikey Parkinson
 Additional Featured Stills Photographers: James Baker
 Hair: Karen Shilstone
 Make-up: Carole Dodge
 Effects Make-up: Jon Haye
 Costume Consultant: Laura Backhouse
 Original Featured Songs: Phil Baker
 Original Songs Engineers: Doc Collins/Phil Baker
 Original Song Backing Singer: Nick Lemanis
 Propmaker: Jon Haye
 Graphic Design : Mikey Parkinson
 Double for Miss Gall: Lizzi Gabe-Thomas
 Insurance provided by Allan Chapman & James Insurance Brokers Ltd
 Executive Producers: Phil Baker & Pete Genepool

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack includes tracks from Cosmo Jarvis, Leeroy Thornhill of The Prodigy, Kat Marsh - a performer also known for her time as bass player in The King Blues, as well as director Phil Baker's band Lemanis, and other Plymouth based bands such as The Wildcards. Two tracks were also written and recorded specifically for the movie, one of which was performed by Darren Lake, one of the lead cast.

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http://www.devon-cornwall-film.co.uk/2011/02/08/plymouth-comedy-hawke-trailer-released-dcfilm-speaks-to-director-phil-baker/

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Q: simulation of endogenous skewed regressor I have a question regarding endogeneity. I have to simulate a variable that is skewed and at the same time correlated with the error term, whereas the error term, as well as two other exogenous variable should be normal distributed.
I already tried:
drawnorm r1 r2 e, corr(1,.5,.5 | .5,1,5 |.5,.5,1) n(1000)
gen x1 = rpoisson(5) // in order to get the skewed variable
gen x = x1 + r1      // to get the correlation in the skewed data

but in fact, this did not work. x is skewed but not correlated with e.

A: You need to specify the correlation matrix before. The way you wrote down the drawnorm command Stata will return an error (also because you specified an asymmetric correlation matrix, though I assume that 5 in row 2, column 3 was supposed to be .5).
If you run
// set a seed for replicability
set seed 777

// specify and list the correlation matrix
mat C = (1,.5,.5 \ .5,1,.5 \.5,.5,1)
mat list C

C[3,3]
    c1  c2  c3
r1   1  .5  .5
r2  .5   1   5
r3  .5  .5   1

// simulate the data, generate x and display the correlations
drawnorm r1 r2 e, corr(C) n(10000)
gen x1 = rpoisson(5)
gen x = x1 + r1
corr
             |       r1       r2        e       x1        x
-------------+---------------------------------------------
          r1 |   1.0000
          r2 |   0.4947   1.0000
           e |   0.5002   0.5009   1.0000
          x1 |  -0.0142  -0.0168   0.0019   1.0000
           x |   0.3932   0.1855   0.2050   0.9138   1.0000

However, your x is not going to be very skewed or maybe not as much as you desired.
sum x, det
                              x
-------------------------------------------------------------
      Percentiles      Smallest
 1%     .0051123      -2.543394
 5%     1.213776      -1.960374
10%     1.952922      -1.898967       Obs               10000
25%     3.262814      -1.856982       Sum of Wgt.       10000

50%     4.857108                      Mean            5.00197
                        Largest       Std. Dev.      2.438195
75%     6.617982       14.76838
90%     8.203129       15.10846       Variance       5.944795
95%     9.160346       15.78603       Skewness       .2930976
99%     11.13091        16.5633       Kurtosis       3.034108

You can also control the mean and standard deviation of r1 and r2 in the drawnorm command by specifying the vectors
matrix m = (3,5)
matrix stdevs = (0.4,1)

and use them in the options of the command as
drawnorm r1 r2 e, corr(C) n(10000) means(m) sds(stdevs)

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History of the Supreme Court (Part 1): The Least Dangerous Branch? (MP3 download)
By Eric Daniels
Alexander Hamilton famously described the judiciary as the "least dangerous" branch of government. Most Founding Fathers viewed the Supreme Court as a great bulwark of liberty against encroachments of power. The Supreme Court, however, has not always fully protected liberty, and has at times been openly antagonistic to it.
This course surveys the broad history of the Supreme Court in the United States from its creation in 1789 to the infamous Dred Scott decision. It illustrates how the judiciary has functioned in our republic, and examines how it might have functioned better. By explaining the dominant trends in the Supreme Court, its characteristic mode of reasoning and interpretation, and the major results during each period, this course illuminates the importance of the Supreme Court in American life. Specific topics covered in this section of the multipart course include: the creation of the federal judicial system, the landmark Marbury decision, the Marshall Court's protection of federalism and property rights, the shift to democratic ideas under the Taney Court, and the Dred Scott decision.
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Texas Group Makes News With Data
By Bess Keller
Principal Barry P. Horst was familiar only in passing with the group Just for the Kids when it gave his DeLeon, Texas, elementary school a lowly one-star rating—the educational equivalent of a motel with scratchy sheets and thin towels.
"Initially, there was disbelief," Mr. Horst said, and then, "a lot of concern."
Though DeLeon Elementary School fared better on recent state accountability ratings, it couldn't turn its back on the dismal mark from the nonprofit group, which doled out its lowest score possible in the course of rating nearly 5,400 public schools for Texas Monthly, a respected magazine read statewide.
The concern spurred Mr. Horst and seven other people from the 700-student DeLeon district southwest of Fort Worth to travel six hours round-trip to a workshop run by the folks who had caused the trouble.
Having heard two former principals tell school turnaround stories at the session held here in Austin this month, Mr. Horst now wants to find more time to build students' skills. And he's wondering if money might be available for a longer school day or year.
This is the kind of story that Just for the Kids hopes to repeat as it takes its recipe for school success nationwide—a move it announced last month—in an effort to help states do a better job collecting and using their vast collections of school data.
Mr. Horst summed up his lesson this way: "It's easy to get wrapped up with things going on at your own school and get comfortable with it. But if [higher achievement] is being done around the state, it can be done here."
In many ways, Just for the Kids is enjoying a banner year.
The widely read collaboration with Texas Monthly raised Just for the Kids' profile—its first workshop after the piece drew nearly 100 educators, or three times the average attendance.
And now, the group is poised to become a player nationally.
Founded by the influential Texas lawyer Tom Luce six years ago to help local communities improve schools, the group recently joined with the Denver-based Education Commission of the States and the University of Texas at Austin to form the National Center for Educational Accountability.
The center aims to bring Just for the Kids' school performance analysis to any state that wants it. Seven have already signed up. ("Group to Take Texas Reform Tools Nationwide," Nov. 14, 2001.)
Partially because of the new center, the organization's staff has more than doubled over the past six months, from six to 14 people. Its annual budget has about tripled in the past three years, to $1.9 million, and the group has moved from an office in downtown Austin to more spacious University of Texas research quarters.
Two former school administrators hired to detail the practices that make schools a success on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, or TAAS, expect to spell them out for middle schools, adding to the ones that are available for elementary schools. Plans to expand the group's Texas data to include high schools are on track for next month.
Equally important, the group's message is being heard by the public as never before.
A Just for the Kids analysis of 40 urban districts in Texas, requested by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, recently landed smack in the middle of the Austin mayoral race. Gus Garcia, who was elected this month, cited the published study to decry most of the state capital's high schools.
Earlier this year, Just for the Kids calculated Texas dropout rates for The DallasMorning News, helping the newspaper weigh in on that controversial topic. The Dallas paper also commended the group's Web site to parents and others in an editorial. But the Texas Monthly collaboration stands out, in part because the magazine reaches a sophisticated statewide audience.
"I think this was their coming-out party," said S.C. Gwynn, who wrote the story accompanying the ratings. "There are zillions of schools out there that had never heard of these guys."
Today, Mr. Gwynn explained, Texas schools live or die on their state education department ratings. But Just for the Kids, he said, aims to get people thinking in terms of a higher standard than the one set by the state—one that is more in line with giving students a solid grounding for college. That shift "is just starting to happen," Mr. Gwynn suggested. "We'll see how deeply it percolates into the state."
Genius of the System
By its own count, Just for the Kids has worked with educators from some 2,100 of the state's more than 7,000 schools. Many more have doubtless visited the group's interactive Web site that went up in 1998. Still, it is hard to say how much schools have improved because of the group. The results of a recent survey of a sample of elementary schools, asking about the group's influence, are due out next month.
Whatever the impact, Just for the Kids' formula rests on appealing logic.
Mr. Luce, the founder, reasoned that a statistical picture of school progress that was widely shared with the public would give community leaders, parents, and educators a common way of measuring school performance—and a common language for talking about it.
In turn, advocates for school improvement could pinpoint the most successful schools, investigate them, and spread the word about what they had done right.
To be sure, the Texas accountability system already provides something along those lines. It publicly rates schools according to how their students did, and also breaks out the passing rates of various groups, such as Hispanics, blacks, and poor children.
But Mr. Luce believed that more could be done with the data.
He argued that one improvement would be for Just for the Kids to set its sights beyond the state benchmarks. Rather than look to the proportion of students passing the state tests, schools could be characterized by the proportion of students that achieved the higher marks needed for "proficient." Such a mark is more consistent with the level of achievement students will need to prepare for and succeed in college, research shows.
Second—and this may be the genius of the system, its supporters say—the statistical picture should compare schools with student enrollments that are at least equally challenging to educate. Not only is it fairer to consider the proportions of students who are poor and have limited English skills, but proponents say that approach also takes away the excuse that one school does better than another because of its more advantaged students.
In the Just for the Kids comparisons, which can be found on the group's Web site, test results for a particular school appear along with the best scores from economically and linguistically comparable schools. To give a more complete picture, another analysis shows results over a seven-year period, and others note which students have been at a school for three full years.
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The comparisons "give power to the [districts] who want to do their very best, and motivate those who do not want to change very much," said Brad Duggan, a former head of the state elementary principals' association, and the executive director of Just for the Kids since its founding.
Deborah Wells, an assistant superintendent for the 4,500- student Kerrville schools southwest of Austin, agrees that the Just for the Kids data can have a powerful effect on expectations.
"We always hoped and always strived for all kids to learn," she said, "but when we saw that a district like Aldine or Pharr-San Juan-Alamo does so well with 90-something percent of economically disadvantaged students, and we have about 50 percent, we knew we could, too."
Ms. Wells telephoned administrators at some of the successful districts to get ideas. Those conversations led her to the intersection of principal, teacher, and assessment as a place where significant improvement could be leveraged.
She learned that while her teachers gave frequent tests—a hallmark of successful schools, according to Just for the Kids— they generally worked alone to fix the gaps in student skills the tests revealed.
Following the model provided by one district, Ms. Wells encouraged principals to be aware of the teachers' struggles and make sure students get the extra help they need.
"I sit in on all the grade-level meetings the teachers have," said Ted Schwarz, the principal of 400-pupil Chester W. Nimitz Elementary School. "I've interceded, I've monitored, and everyone finally hears every problem or plus of every kid in the school."
At the same time, Kerrville educators work with a retired principal and TAAS expert, Margaret Kilgo, on matching classroom activities to escalating test demands and to the district curriculum. That meant detailing the skills and concepts that must be learned, in what order, and in what grade.
Ms. Kilgo's approach dovetails so well with Just for the Kids' message that the independent consultant and the group now coordinate their efforts.
Mr. Schwarz credits Ms. Kilgo with helping his school reach Just for the Kids' high-performing group within the last three years. Her strategy included coaching teachers to drop even favorite activities—such as the 1st grade unit on American Indians—that don't fit with the district's curriculum.
"I've seen the teachers on this campus change so much," Mr. Schwarz said.
Now, Just for the Kids educators visit Kerrville to get ideas for other districts.
And while the educators at Just for the Kids like to think that their school performance data provide tools for their colleagues in the field, they realize it can have another role.
If the tool is occasionally a hammer, so be it, says Mr. Duggan. "There has to be tension in the system for there to be change."
Published in Print: November 28, 2001, as Texas Group Makes News With Data
"No State Has a Coordinated Standards Effort, AFT Says," Nov. 7, 2001.
"Teaching, Standards, Tests Found Not Aligned," Oct. 31, 2001.
"More Than a Snapshot," May 2, 2001, a Commentary by Chrys Dougherty, director of research for Just for the Kids.
Learn more about Just for the Kids, including its mission, staff, (including a short bio of Mr. Luce), history, and funders. See also its best practices overview.
The November 2001 issue of Texas Monthly has published JFTK's school rankings based on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills scores in the article, "How Good Is Your Kid's School?" Also, listen to JFTK director of research Chrys Dougherty discuss the Texas Monthly/Just for The Kids school survey. (Requires the RealAudio Player.)
Read more about the Kerrville Independent School District's curriculum.
Read more about Margaret Kilgo and OASIS—the Objective Alignment System in Schools.


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QuAIA to Mayor: Find another pretext for your anti-Pride agenda »
Rob Ford's record on LGBT issues
Rob Ford's record on Pride funding and other LGBTQ issues:
2005: Then-councillor Rob Ford said during a council debate, "I don't understand a transgender… is it a guy dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy?"
2006: Ford argued against city funding for AIDS prevention programs, saying, "If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line." He also voted against such programs in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
2006: Ford was the lone vote against putting up three welcome banners over roadways for the 2006 International AIDS Conference being held in Toronto that year. The city did not require any extra funding to install those banners.
2010: Ford endorsed council candidate and fundamentalist pastor Wendell Brereton, who said, "My kind of Toronto doesn't parade immorality and call it pride." In endorsing Brereton, Ford said, "We're together. We have the same thoughts."
2010: During his mayoral campaign, Ford said, "I support traditional marriage. I always have."
While trying to distance himself from homophobic attack ads, Ford called homosexuality a "lifestyle choice."
2011: In February, Ford was the only member of council to vote against accepting $100,000 from the province to establish screening programs for syphilis and HIV.
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Almost nobody would guess that the speech of Czech MP David Rath would start a moral reform in the country. Rath was arrested and charged with receiving bribes in May 2012. He had a chance to explain what happened to other MPs, who would then vote on his political immunity. His words were not addressing the fellow MPs. He was looking at the cameras and trying to create a sentiment in the Czech nation. He pointed out other cases of corruption. The moral reform was not coming from his words nor from his heart. It was happening in parallel to his speech. And he was the only one that did not notice.
In contrast to his fellow citizens, Karel Schwarzenberg (minister of foreign affairs) was not moved by Rath's words. He did what every sane person in that situation would do – he fell asleep. From that place where dreams melt with reality of TV cameras filming bored politicians he sent a text message to Karolína Peake (Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic).
Few minutes later something unexpected happened at the house of parliament. No, David Rath did not apologize for his corrupt behaviour. His speech was still directed at citizens, trying hard to make them emotional. He probably learned that from other heart-breaking speeches by many other politicians that use this technique to influence the public. Something was in the air. Whispering started in the house of parliament.
"We all have something on each other – a mutual deadlock. I feel really bad about it. Moral reform is the only way out of it. Let's grasp this opportunity".
When they had this new ID card, they requested passport, visa to China, gun permit and even a wedding certificate – during the wedding, the groom and the best man had to exchange, because their identities were exchanged and the bride wanted her husband's real name on the certificate.
According to the state, we are all equal. They do not care about us when we pay taxes, do not break law and generally get out of the way. The bureaucrats do not communicate with people, but with rows in the database and their ID cards. The human being is usually only there to hand over the ID card to the state employee. They only notice a face when they try to compare the picture on the ID to the face of it's owner. From that point on, we are just a record in the database. You can find more about the project in the documentary Občan Ztohoven that is right now in Czech cinemas and will be touring world documentary film festivals soon.
Projects of the group are not taking place in a gallery – they occur in "public space". Museums and galleries are only visited by hipsters and tourists anyway. The "public space" as their location is almost the only thing that the projects have in common – it is very difficult to predict their next project.
Members of the group have rarely control over the result of the project. Most of the people learn about them from media and that means that they only get to know the media interpretation. It is very interesting that the public is almost always on their side. Although public support is very important (even in court), the members never know what consequences would their projects have. When they were sending the texts to the members of parliament, they could have changed voting or cause panic. But did they want to do that? Did they want to cause panic or change votes? It's sad that media wrote that "Hackers attacked mobile phones of members of parliament". The content – the Moral Reform – was probably not so interesting as the hacker attack. MPs did not disapprove of the project (how could someone disapprove of Moral Reform?), but they never spoke about it. Media was focusing on the fact that someone can send fake text messages and getting hold of phone numbers of most MPs, the president and relevant journalists. They did not focus on the fact that our world needs a real moral reform. Maybe that's the reason that the members of Ztohoven call their projects "media sculptures" – they can set the funding stone, but the resulting shape of the project is usually formed by the media. And most of foreign media totally ignored this project. What a pity.
Sometimes I wish we had Ztohoven in our country. There are not many people that ask the right questions. There are almost none that ask the difficult ones. I am trying to imagine what would happen if Moral reform really happened – if politicians really decided to end corruption and be better. If they would understand that they are here to serve us. Maybe it's evolutionary – those that are politicians are there because they have the ability to speak well in front of people, to touch their hearts and transfer emotion. About doubling wages, about security, economy, the nation, education, the Europe and the bright future… And for some reason, people base their "voting" on that. If the only quality that people in the parliament are capable of is to speak to the hearts of people, are they able of real transformation from inside? Are they capable of moral reform? Every politician is able to tell the public that they let go of their past and focus on the future. Are they capable of actually doing it?


First, many thanks to Chris Harbaugh of Harbaugh Trucking in Rockwood, PA for sponsoring all my efforts to bring PGA golf instruction to all interested in the game.
In our last edition we discussed how to "get the ball rolling" on our initial spring startup. So, let's get right to the second step.
In case you do not know, many top-notch golf professionals will take a successful swing sense, move, or feeling and by applying proper analysis break it into a succession of sequential components. I like to call this process as re-engineering our golf swing from the whole to the sum of its parts. This is the easiest way to get your swing back into sync without wasting time using the trial and error approach.
So let's begin how to apply this this time saving process. Grab about 40-50 balls and head to the range. Next, grab your favorite club. Mine has always been my 8-iron. Loosen up by making any old swing watching the ball fly. Sense the motions, feel the club head, mentally absorb the contact between clubface and ball throughout your muscles. Finally, when you contact the ball with the sensations you like, stop, and think about it for a moment. What did you sense, feel, or absorb?
You see dear readers, we all learn differently. That's why we have to focus on all of the above; sensing, feeling, and absorbing. Find the one of the three that stick out. Now focus on it for the rest of the practice session. You are now pre-programming your golf senses for the next step in the learning process of obtaining your optimum golf swing.
I will be conducting a long game clinics on Tuesday June 7th at Indian Lake Golf Club beginning at 1pm. My short game clinics are on Thursday June 9th at Piney Run GC at 11:00 am and then at Middlecreek GC at 1:30pm. The fee this year is only $5 per student for the hour clinic. There is no age limit at the clinics but my space is limited so get there early.


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Trailer of Anil Kapoor-Aditya Roy Kapur's 'The Night Manager' out
New Delhi, (UNI) Disney+ Hotstar on Friday unveiled the trailer to the spiralling world of revenge, deception and revelation, the much-awaited spy thriller 'The Night Manager'.
A Hindi-language adaptation of John le Carré's novel "The Night Manager", produced by The Ink Factory and Banijay Asia, the series is created and directed by Sandeep Modi and second director Priyanka Ghosh.
There is always more than what meets the eye, a thought that'll compel you to dive further into the world of Shelly Rungta (played by Anil Kapoor) and Shaan. As the chase between the power-hungry philanthropist, Shelly and Shaan along with his companion from RAW Lipika (played by Tillotama Shome) begins, the latter aims to dismantle Shelly's unholy alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade along with Shelly's partners in crime BJ (played by Saswata Chatterjee) and Jayu (played by Ravi Behl). Sobhita Dhulipala a.k.a. Kaveri plays the dynamic and charming girlfriend of Shelly Rungta.
The series is wrapped in lavish drama, picturesque sights and features the eclectic talent including Anil Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sobhita Dhulipala, Tillotama Shome, Saswata Chatterjee and Ravi Behl.
Creator and Director Sandeep Modi, said, "The Night Manager is a perfect mixture of an intricately woven plot and a gripping thriller that will keep audiences on their edge of the seat. Actors like Anil Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur, the absolute best of the industry and remarkable technicians from around the world, have given their all to make our vision of the show come to life. A high-octane thriller, packaged with elements of drama, conspiracies and picturesque sights, The Night Manager traces the journey of Shaan, Shelly and their dynamics as they unfold with each episode. Moreover, collaborating with Disney+Hotstar has been an incredible experience and we hope to engage and entertain the audiences with this gripping story."
Anil said, "Spy thrillers are all about the twists and revelations, with The Night Manager the audience will experience the unexpected. Shelly Rungta is the evil in plain sight, you can never anticipate what his next move is going to be or he is the man behind the menace. But the twist is that he meets his match and where the show goes from there will keep the audience on the edge of their seats.We are super excited to bring the series to global audience with Disney+ Hotstar."
Aditya said, "When there's revenge and betrayal in the mix, high voltage drama is inevitable. The Night Manager pulls this off on the back of fascinatingly complex characters. As they say, still waters run deep, and my character Shaan very much embodies that phrase. One can never tell what's on his mind but you know the wheels are furiously turning, taking the plot from one unexpected turn to another. It's been a great experience working with some of the finest talent of the Indian film industry, assembled by the dynamic team at Disney+ Hotstar."
It will release on February 17, on Disney+ Hotstar.
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One of the foremost iconic figures of the first twentieth century, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is remembered because the leader who emerged from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire to ascertain Turkey as a sovereign republic.
Born "Mustafa" on 1881, Turkey's most known son came old-time within the Ottoman Empire, that had spent over 600 years up. When attending military college from the age of twelve, Kemal Pasha cut his teeth as a soldier in actions against the Italians in African country from 1911 to 1912, and later helped lead forces that blocked the Allied capture of city within the known Gallipoli Campaign throughout warfare I. His 1st raid politics came in 1919, once he organized a nationalist revolution to drive the occupying Allied powers out of Turkey. when rating decisive victories against the Greeks and Armenians, he secured the pact of urban center in Gregorian calendar month 1923, that recognized Turkey as a free nation. Later that year, the national assembly established Turkey as a republic with Atatürk as its 1st president.
As the president of the newly formed Turkish Republic, Atatürk initiated a rigorous program of political, economic, and cultural reforms with the ultimate aim of building a modern, progressive, and secular nation-state. He made primary education free and compulsory, opening thousands of new schools all over the country. He also introduced the Latin-based Turkish alphabet, replacing the old Ottoman Turkish alphabet. Turkish women received equal civil and political rights during Atatürk's presidency ahead of many Western countries. In particular, women were given voting rights in local elections by Act no. 1580 on 3 April 1930 and a few years later, in 1934, full universal suffrage, earlier than most other countries in the world.
Mustafa Kemal's first order of business was to modernize and secularize the country, which he did by studying Western governments and adapting their structure for the people of Turkey. He believed that modernization necessarily entailed Westernization, and he established a policy of state secularism, with a constitution that separated the government from religion.
Social and economic reforms were a crucial part of his strategy as well. He replaced the Arabic alphabet with a Latin one, introduced the Gregorian calendar and urged people to dress in Western clothes. Mustafa industrialized the nation, establishing state-owned factories around the country as well as a railway network. And a multitude of new laws established legal equality between the sexes. Mustafa removed women's veiling laws and gave women the right to vote.
Although he believed he was advancing the country, not all of Mustafa Kemal's reforms were warmly received. His policy of state secularism was particularly controversial, and he was accused of decimating important cultural traditions.


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News from the NODCC
Conference 2021 Postponed until Summer 2022
Due to the continued health concerns and government regulations with COVID-19, the NODCC has made the difficult decision to postpone the 2021 DCC Conference and move the event to 2022. We are disappointed to again move this event (that was originally scheduled in 2020), but the safety requirements would greatly affect the operations, attendee capacity and experience of the conference. We have been working with the hotel and are planning for the dates of July 1-3, 2022. If you prepaid for conference registration, you will be contacted to receive a refund or to defer to 2022.
Read further information and the full statement at: https://nodcc.org/conferences-and-events/
Longtime Board Members, Lynn and Dana Snyder, Share their Motivation for Service
After attending a gathering in Minnesota with other families who had children with disorders of the corpus callosum (DCC), Lynn and Dana Snyder knew they had found their place.
"Allison was 6 at the time, remembered Lynn. "We came away knowing there were kids who had more challenges than Allison and a lot that were doing better. We felt like everybody got it – Allison got it too. We were hooked after Minnesota."
That was 18 years ago, and after the first official year of operations of the NODCC, Lynn was asked to join the Board of Directors in 2003. That decision has led to him becoming one of the organization's longest-serving Board members as Lynn completes his 13th year of Board service and wraps up his term as President in January.
Continue reading this story and hear the motivation behind Lynn and Dana's service to the NODCC at https://nodcc.org/longtime-board-members-lynn-dana-snyder-share-motivation-for-service/
Giving Tuesday is December 1
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past seven years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
This year Giving Tuesday is on December 1…after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are complete. The NODCC will have a Giving Tuesday fundraiser on Facebook that you can share with friends and family. Facebook will match $7 million in qualifying donations on Facebook made on December 1 so join us in making this a great kickoff to our end of year fundraising!
The NODCC wishes you and your family a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!
Here are the latest opportunities to get involved with the NODCC community.
Regional and Community Gatherings
The NODCC will continue hosting regular virtual gatherings via Zoom. Details, dates, and Zoom links will be shared on our website with reminders on social media (Facebook and Twitter). Please contact community@nodcc.org or info@nodcc.org if yo have any questions or suggestions.
Upcoming Zoom calls include:
December 12 at:
11am PST
12pm MST
1pm CST
2pm EST
Parents of Middle Schoolers with DCC
Topic: Virtual Learning & Social Struggles
Click HERE for the link to register
1pm PST
2pm MST
Teen IEP's Presented by Kim Oren
**After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Infant Study Enrollment Still Open
Interested in a research study for your baby with a disorder of the corpus callosum? Enrollment is still open for the ACC Study. The purpose of this study is to better understand development in infants and toddlers with dysgenesis or agenesis of the corpus callosum. Improved understanding of development over this period will improve clinical recommendations and treatment planning in the future.
Parents / primary caregivers of a child who is less than 36 months of age and who has received a clinical diagnosis of corpus callosum malformation via MRI, CT, or ultrasound. Dysgenesis of the corpus callosum includes complete and partial agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC or AgCC) and hypoplasia of the corpus callosum. Caregivers must be 18 years or older and must be proficient in reading and speaking English. For more information and to sign up for the study, visit: https://accinfantstudy.com/
Fundraisers & Donations
New Charitable Tax Deduction
Interested in making a charitable donation to the NODCC? The recent Covid-19 Stimulus Package outlines a new charitable deduction opportunity under the CARES Act for Nonprofits. "The CARES Act allows for an additional, 'above-the-line' deduction for charitable gifts made in cash of up to $300. If you are not itemizing on your 2020 taxes, you can claim this new deduction." Continue reading HERE.
**This information is not intended as legal or tax advice. For such advice, please consult an attorney or tax advisor.
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Q: PowerCLI equivalent to "chkconfig usbarbitrator off" what is the PowerCLI equivalent to CLI command:
chkconfig usbarbitrator off
I would like to execute it from PowerShell

A: Invoke-VMScript can run shell commands on Linux guest vms with vmtools.
To run arbitrary shell commands on ESXi hosts from PowerCLI without SSH, you might try the esxcli-shell package.


The George Inn in Coleorton, Leicestershire has been acquired by husband and wife, Chris and Kerrie Perrin, with the support of a six-figure commercial mortgage from HSBC UK.
The funding has been used to purchase the premises, allowing Chris and Kerrie to begin their first business venture together.
The pair identified The George Inn as the perfect business venture due to its popularity amongst local residents. Having both previously worked on luxury and private yachts as Head Chef and Chief Stewardess for over 12 years, Chris and Kerrie have all the necessary skills to refine and elevate the pub's menu and service.
Following the purchase, four full-time jobs have been created, including front of house staff and kitchen porters. The duo hope to create more jobs in preparation for a busy Christmas and New Year.


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Keys Park
Dr. Martens Southern Premier League
Keeler (3), (83) (penalty), Browne (66)
Hednesford Town
Lamey (11), (22), C. Palmer (14), Anthrobus (42)
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Bromsgrove Rovers (H) 27.9.03
A tremendously entertaining game at the Avenue Stadium this afternoon goes the Pitmen's way as they edge out hosts Dorchester Town by the odd goal in seven to make to back-to-back wins for Barry Powell's side
The Pitmen made the long journey down to Dorset buoyed by their excellent 3-1 win over Worcester City on Tuesday night, with Nathan Lamey finally notching his first goal for the club after a number of blank games in front of goal. Powell was able to bring skipper Steve Palmer back into the side in place of Anthony Maguire in one of two changes, the other being Chris Brindley's return to the starting XI in place of the injured Stuart Ryder. Stuart Lake returned to the substitute's bench after missing the midweek game through a slight knock
Dorchester's season had been one of inconsistency so far, with the Magpies sitting just below the Pitmen in the Dr. Martens league table in seventeenth place after a narrow defeat at home to Eastbourne Borough last weekend had left Mark Morris's side with only two wins from their first ten games. Morris made two changes to the side that had lost to Eastbourne, bringing in Mark Jermyn and Matthew Groves for Jamie Brown and the injured Martin Shepherd
It was scorchingly hot late summer's day in Dorchester, with the mercury touching 30 degrees at kick-off time. Both teams made light of the hot conditions to produce a memorable encounter that started with a bang and never really relented for the next ninety minutes. An early corner kick from Justin Keeler was missed by everyone charging into the six yard box before the ball dropped wide of Ryan Young's far post
With only three minutes on the clock, Dorchester took the lead as a slide-rule pass from former West Ham man Matty Holmes found Matt Hann down the right wing - his inch-perfect cross found the head of Keeler, whose glanced the ball past Young from eight yards out with a little help from a deflection off the thigh of Ashley Williams en route to goal
The Pitmen made light of going a goal down so early in the game and reacted well with a great chance of their own on eight minutes; Steve Palmer's pass found Williams out on the right, with the youngster cleverly slipping the ball into the path of Steve Anthrobus. The big man turned well and returned the ball to Steve Palmer, whose low shot was deflected wide of goal by a timely block from Mark Rawlinson
Three minutes later, a corner kick from Les Hines led to a Hednesford equaliser, although Dorchester felt that there was a touch off offside about it as Hines' ball in was flicked on at the near post by Anthrobus and turned home at the far post by Lamey, with the home defenders appealing for offside against the former Moor Green man as he prodded the ball home. Assistant referee Ms. Kingwell and referee Mr. Curtis were content that Lamey was onside after a brief glance across at each other and the goal was given
The Pitmen had their tails up and took the lead with their next attack three minutes later through the excellent Carl Palmer; Hines was involved once more with a fine pass into the feet of Lamey, who did well to lay the ball off into the path of Palmer, who made a run from midfield into the inside-right position. He did well to brush off a challenge from Andy Harris before driving across goal and into the far corner of the net past Dorchester keeper Mark Ormerod
The game was snappy and lively, with the home side going close to an equalising goal on eighteen minutes as Hann's free-kick was deflected inches wide of Young's right-hand post by Steve Palmer. At the other end, Ormerod required lengthy treatment for a cut after he had momentarily dropped a Williams cross at the feet of Lamey before claiming it at the second attempt and making contact with the striker's boot
Ormerod was in action again on twenty-two minutes diving full-length to his left to palm Lamey's long-range effort away for a corner kick. Hines sent over another superbly-struck corner kick from the right, finding Brindley this time with another great delivery. The veteran defender's flick-on found Lamey lurking at the far post once more, turning the ball goalwards in much the same way as his goal. Hann was positioned on the line and appeared to clear the ball off the line, although there was a suspicion of handball in his clearance. The referee appeared to award the away side a penalty kick for Hann's handball, but was overruled by Ms. Kingwell as she stated that the ball had already crossed the line before Hann had made contact with the ball so the goal was given instead
Dorchester continued to press for goals against a nervy-looking Hednesford defence, with Young coming to his club's rescue on the half hour mark to turn Rawlinson's thunderous drive from the edge of the penalty area over the crossbar
Two minutes later, a fine run from youngster Matt Tubbs saw him get to the bye-line and pull the ball back into the path of Keeler, who lifted his shot just over the crossbar form ten yards out
On thirty-four minutes, Dorchester had the ball in the net as Rawlinson's right-wing cross was turned into the net from close-range by Tubbs, only for an offside flag to deny Tubbs his goal
Dorchester were doing everything possible to try and get themselves back into the game, with Young making a fine save on thirty-nine minutes to deny Groves after the midfielder was played through one-on-one with the Hednesford keeper by Hann
A minute later, Steve Palmer was forced off with what appeared to be a recurrence of the thigh injury that had kept him out of the previous two games and was replaced by Maguire
Despite being second-best for much of the last fifteen minutes, the Pitmen put clear daylight between themselves and the hosts with a fourth goal on forty-two minutes. Hines, perhaps predictably, was involved in the goal as his long, rangy free-kick from just inside the Dorchester half was met by Anthrobus at the far post, who managed to get the better of Alex Browne and head beyond the desperate dive of Ormerod to find the far corner of the net
It had been a hugely entertaining first-half from both sides, with the Pitmen pleased at their application in front of goal after a number of games this season where they had struggled to take their chances. However, Dorchester were to come storming back into the game in the second half and pressed the Pitmen from the off as they looked for a route back into the contest
A succession of early corner kicks from the Magpies tested Young and his defence, with a header from Browne on forty-nine minutes clawed off the line by a last-ditch save from Young down to his right hand side
A quick break from the hosts on fifty-four minutes saw Keeler's long pass sending Groves in behind the Hednesford defence, only for Groves to toe-poke his effort just over the crossbar as he stretched to reach Keeler's long ball
The Pitmen responded through a counter-attack from Karl Brown on the hour mark, racing past two challenges in midfield and playing Lamey in down the left, only for the two-goal striker to get his angles all wrong as he fired well over the crossbar with a wild effort
Dorchester got themselves back into the game on sixty-seven minutes as Hann's quickly-taken free-kick found Groves unmarked inside the Hednesford penalty area. Groves showed great feet to jink his way past Young and cross for Browne at the far post, who in turn did well to compose himself before firing into the net from twelve yards out with a number of Hednesford defenders attempting to block his shot
The hosts were firmly on top at this point and continued to press the retreating Hednesford defence for more goals. Tubbs fired over on sixty-eight minutes with a rising shot from twenty yards out, followed a minute later by a header from Rawlinson from Keeler's corner that was straight into the arms of Young
Lake made his welcome return to the side on seventy-four minutes, coming on in pace of the tiring Brindley who had had the runaround by the lively Tubbs all afternoon
Tubbs was again denied by Young on eighty minutes, having sent three Hednesford defenders the wrong way with an outrageous dummy on the edge of the penalty area before striking a firm shot that Young parried away from goal
However, Young's commanding performance was blotted slightly as he handed Dorchester a chance to set up a grandstand finish on eighty-two minutes as he sent Rawlinson sprawling inside his penalty area after the midfielder had taken advantage of the keeper's fumble to rob a Jermyn pass off him. The referee awarded Dorchester a penalty kick, which Keeler fired past Young from twelve yards out to make it 4-3
It was all Dorchester in the final minutes as they camped out in the Hednesford third in search of what had looked an unlikely equaliser half an hour earlier. A late offside flag denied Groves a leveller on eighty-seven minutes as he nipped in to fire past Young from twenty yards out
In the first minute of added time, Tubbs created enough room for himself at the near post to turn and fire goalwards, but was again denied by Young, who stood firm to push Tubbs' angled dive away from goal
A breathless game of football was finally brought o an end after five minutes of added time, with the Pitmen able to finally celebrate a hard-fought win that they should have made easier for themselves after an indifferent second-half display. This win moves Hednesford into the top ten of the league table in the process, with Powell's men taking a well-earned rest from league action next weekend as they face Southern League Western opponents Bromsgrove Rovers in the F.A. Cup at Keys Park
Dorchester Town: Ormerod, Jermyn, Walker (Radcliffe 57), Rawlinson, Browne, Harris (White 74), Hann, Holmes, Groves, Tubbs, Keeler Subs Unused: Brown, Moore, Cooper
Hednesford Town: Young, Williams, Hines, Dodd, Simkin, Brindley (Lake 74), C. Palmer, S. Palmer © (Maguire 40), Anthrobus, Lamey (Swann 90), Brown Subs Unused: Danks, P. Evans
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Cob, cobb or clom (in Wales) is a natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (typically straw), and sometimes lime.1 The contents of subsoil naturally vary, and if it does not contain the right mixture it can be modified with sand or clay.
Daub is usually created from a mixture of ingredients from three categories: binders, aggregates and reinforcement. Binders hold the mix together and can include clay, lime, chalk dust and limestone dust. Aggregates give the mix its bulk and dimensional stability through materials such as mud, sand, crushed chalk and crushed stone. Reinforcement is provided by straw, hair, hay or other fibrous materials, and helps to hold the mix together as well as to control shrinkage and provide flexibility.
Are the materials necessary to make cob or wattle and daub available in the Adirondacks? I think wattle could be made use a variety of trees in the region and I am sure cob can be made nearby too, but what about in the Adirondacks specifically?
What soil or quality does one need to check/test for to know if material is suitable as one of the necessary daub ingredients - binders, aggregates, and reinforcement? Is there a particular soil or property to look for on a service like the USDA Web Soil Survey?
I read the question more as "Does what I want exist here?" rather than "Is the stuff here going to be good enough quality?" So my answer was initially in that light. OP shows in comment that what was really wanted was the latter, "Is the stuff here going to be good enough quality?" Scroll down below the horizontal line for the original answer, which I left because I think it is still very useful here.
I have a common answer to questions of this type, and that is that you can do almost anything with lots of different materials. The materials might not be perfect for what you want, but that just means you have to try harder.
"if I find clay in the Adirondacks (southern central), is it safe to say it's suitable for cob or daub? Same with sand? I can identify what areas have sand and clay in the soils but am not sure if all sands and clays are usable in this way."
I would say yes, as you don't technically even need the clay and sand. My daughter once made a wall out of just dirt. She got it very wet, molded it into the shape she wanted, and let it sun dry. She layered it up over time so that she was building on a somewhat hard surface as opposed to having a sloppy muddy mixture from top to bottom all at once.
Given that, I would say that whatever clay and/or sand you find should work since it is not strictly necessary but merely makes the end product better. A simple mud-on-stick structure will require maintenance much more often. A nicer mud + aggregate + binder mixture on a stick base will just be stronger, less susceptible to water damage (though it will probably still happen), last longer, and therefore require less maintenance.
The question then becomes what kind of trade off do you want between initial complexity and effort to future maintenance requirement. Personally, I would gather the best resources I could for the bottom of the wall so make a better foundation but would then switch to simpler mud above that, and I would put more effort into the roof to guarantee the water sheds well to keep the indoor dry and the higher mud-only portion of the wall dry. If the mud gets wet, it can weaken drastically.
Also, you can include rocks to improve structural integrity even more, either as a foundation, and/or within the wall itself.
The simple answer to this is "Yes, it will work since it's not even necessary in the first place."
If you want to go the extra mile and make sure your clay is better quality for holding together better and shedding water better, you can process it. I won't go into deep detail, as that would be a matter for a different question, but you can use water to separate the larger particles from the smaller ones, and keep the smaller particles to make better quality clay. Doing this, you can even create pottery-grade clay out of very clay-poor soil. There are articles and videos online of this if you search for making clay from dirt.
Soil composition can change a lot between two points in the same area, and the Adirondacks is a huge enough area that you will encounter many different types of ground. In fact, I know of one spot (admittedly, not quite within the borders of the Adirondacks, but still in the same broader region within the nation) where the woods abruptly stop and give way to an area of sand, and further the sand abruptly stops again in another hard line which gives way to a flat field (which I happen to know does have soil with a very high clay content). That is a more drastic example, but still, it makes a point.
So that provides the first reason for my "yes and no": some areas will meet your criteria and some will not.
The other reason is probably more important. I am going to assume you are talking about public lands, as if it was your own private land or that of a friend or family member, you could just ask them.
Even if the answer is technically yes, it will still likely be practically no as far as you are concerned, as much of the Adirondacks is a public area with rules and regulations which include adherence to the "Leave no Trace" guidelines.
- Carry out what you carry in. Practice "leave no trace" camping and hiking.
See also "Leave no Trace: Tips for the Adirondack Park"
And there are many other pages about the Adirondacks with rules and guidelines about specific areas within it, and I think I generally see "Practice leave no trace" on all of them.
If you build stuff out of the dirt and/or clay, especially a structure, you will definitely be violating the guidelines. Even if you merely dig the area up and mess up the ground, basically any more than necessary for your waste catholes, you are still violating leave no trace.
Park stewards do come out and check on things: when I made an unplanned camp one time another hiker alerted the local steward about it (the other hiker was concerned for our safety when they learned we had planned a day-trip, despite my insistence that we were fine), and the steward came in to make sure I was safe and also that I was not violating any rules... I got a 5-10 minute lecture about park guidelines, and I think she mentioned leave no trace as well.
From personal experience, when I have engaged in activities similar to what you describe, I had to do it on private land. That is how I know there is very (very) clay-rich soil to the west of the Adirondacks, on the private land I was on. In some places, I could go down less than a foot and hit large deposits of clay almost everywhere I dug, high enough quality that it would only need a small amount of processing to be pottery-capable.
The E-horizon is usually sandy, wavy, sometimes discontinuous, and consists mostly of resistant, uncoated quartz grains and little else. In the Adirondacks, however, clay minerals are also found here as they form from the intense weathering of silicate minerals that were once present in this horizon (April et al. 1986a).
Even if there is clay in the area you are in, there is likely no clay for you.
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After nearly two weeks of documenting the harrowing journey of a caravan of mostly Central American migrants headed towards the U.S.-Mexican border, I snapped a picture I will never forget.
Cheili is seen in diapers, Saira barefoot, while their mother wears a T-shirt showing the smiling sisters from the Disney hit "Frozen," a movie I've seen many times with my own daughter.
Meza's daughter, Jamie, is behind her mother in the photo, also running away from the approaching gas. According to their Honduran documents, Meza is 40 and her daughter is 12.
In the frantic moments after the canisters hit the ground, the acrid smell was everywhere and I could see children crying, their eyes stung by the gas.
Cheili cries after running away from tear gas.
"I thought I was going to die with them because of the gas," Meza told my Reuters colleagues a day later, adding that she was shocked U.S. border agents would fire the canisters near women and children.
The U.S. government said the customs officers had fired off the canisters after a group of migrants had attempted to cross the border violently, throwing projectiles at them.
I did not see who fired the canister but I heard the sound come from the direction of the fence and I began running too. It was one of the first of several tear gas canisters I saw used. At that point, I had not seen any of the migrants throw projectiles but it is a large area and things were happening in different places.
I cannot say which side is right, and which is wrong. I just took a photo of what I saw at that moment and in that location.
Some social media users have called the photo "staged," which absolutely is not the case. At Reuters, we have strict photo guidelines. We are not allowed to mislead the viewer by making material alterations or staging scenes.
Reuters has core values of independence, freedom from bias, and accuracy. I am proud to uphold those sacrosanct values.
Meza's family had made it to the El Chaparral border crossing, which straddles the Mexican city of Tijuana and San Diego on the U.S. side, after leaving their home in the violent city of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras two months ago.
Sunday's incident happened after a group of migrants in Tijuana rushed at the border fencing.
Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon (left) walks through a cloud of tear gas.
Just before the tear gas was fired, I had followed some of the migrants as they approached a section of the border fence recently reinforced with razor-studded coils. U.S. border agents warily eyed the group from the other side.
Meza sits with Cheili and Saira inside their tent in a temporary shelter.
Meza and her children said they had already spent a week at a Tijuana shelter, but they will likely have to wait much longer for a chance to ultimately plead their case.
She said she hopes to be granted asylum in the United States due to rampant crime back home, and if successful will travel to Louisiana, where the girls' father lives.


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Picasso painting sets world record at auction
By Joe Tacopino
1 Jennifer Aniston's SAG Awards 2020 dress leaves little to the imagination	2 Conor McGregor cost this man an insane pile of cash	3 Video sends Marcus Stroman into rage over Carlos Beltran's cheating Astros	4 New York man wows at Virginia gun rally with 5-foot sniper rifle	5 Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt destroy internet with 2020 SAG Awards reunion
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Pablo Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)"AP
Collectors with money to burn set world records at Christie's in Midtown on Monday as two works of art fetched astronomical amounts on the auction block.
The records started falling when Pablo Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)" sold for $179 million, making it the most expensive artwork of any kind ever sold at auction.
An hour later, a life-size Alberto Giacometti sculpture, "Pointing Man," sold for more than $141 million, the most ever for a sculpture at auction.
The pieces were bought by anonymous bidders over the phone in frenzied bidding wars that elicited gasps in the auction room.
"Women of Algiers (Version O)" is part of a 15-work series Picasso painted in 1954-55 and depicts a colorful array of overlapping nude figures.
It was partially inspired by the work of 19th-century French artist Eugene Delacroix.
Dated 1947, "Pointing Man" is a 5-foot-10 bronze stick figure with its right arm extended.
Christie's calls it "one of the most important achievements of the Modern era."
The prices smashed the previous records.
Francis Bacon's painting "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" had set the record for an artwork at auction when Christie's sold it for $142.4 million in 2013.
Another Giacometti piece, "Walking Man I," had broken the auction record for a sculpture when it sold for $104.3 million in 2010.
Experts said Monday's prices were driven by investment value and wealthy collectors looking to make a profit.
"I don't really see an end to it unless interest rates drop sharply, which I don't see happening in the near future," Manhattan dealer Richard Feigen said.
Combined, the two pieces yielded more cash than the gross domestic product of entire small countries such as Palau and the Marshall Islands.
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Dang, a lot of sour losers! Cut throat competition. Very India I would say. Even in other countries, South Indians are very competitive sometimes way too competitive. It's off putting when this happens. I've worked with a few Indians with superiority complex.


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For Business Crime Prevention, a solo security system will get the Police there in 15:00-23:00 minutes, and usually 5:00 minute if you yell gun at the operator. That's a lot of time.
High asset special inventory needs security shield layers from Business Security Doors to a Commercial Safe Room.
Guns blazing, bullets zinging, and bodies dropping aren't good for business. Employees deserve the privilege of a last resort to save their own life. A 16 gauge steel door is enough to diffuse a .357 Magnum round and potentially send that lead fragmentation back their way, incapacitating them until the Police show up.
Crowbars are used for "Backdoor Break-ins" in most cases. Sometimes the tools become extreme with Subarus and 2 Ton pick-up trucks chained to doors, like a recent gun heist in Houston, TX that put dozens of firearms on the streets. For some reason this technique has gained popularity with young degenerate criminals, after the original "Purge" came out.
Security cameras with motion detection and automatic screen pop-up would've gotten them noticed way faster and the entire police precinct there way faster, Commissioner and all.
Commercial Break-in Prevention for internal penetration should be geared towards stopping thieves with torch and grinder in hand looking for heavy safes.
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