Logan Gonzalez will soon get a chance to drive down Magnolia Lane and putt Augusta Nationals slick greens as part of Drive, Chip and Putt finals.
There are plenty of professional golfers who are still hoping to get a chance to drive down Magnolia Lane and compete at Augusta National, the site of the Masters.
On April 1, 12-year-old Thousand Oaks golfer Logan Gonzalez will get to play at the historic golf course in Georgia when he takes part in the finals of the fifth annual Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals.
Gonzalez is one of 80 junior golfers representing 30 states and one Canadian province who earned an invitation to the finals at Augusta National Golf Club the Sunday before the Masters begins.
Developed in partnership between the Masters Tournament, the PGA of America and the USGA, the Drive, Chip and Putt Championship is a nationwide contest open to girls and boys ages 7-15. Players compete in separate divisions in four age categories.
The process started with a local round where the top-three scorers in each age group advanced to 50 sub-regional qualifiers. The top two scorers at the sub-regional advanced to a regional competition, where the player must win his or her division to qualify for the finals at Augusta National.
Gonzalez finished first in all three of the rounds, including posting a total score of 164 at the regional round at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, site of the Farmers Insurance Open. The 164 was the top score of the any of the regional qualifiers in the 12-13 age division.
Gonzalez is the third junior golfer from the county to qualify for the finals, joining former Newbury Park High golfer Skyler Wood, who qualified in the first year, and current Oaks Christian School golfer Megan Ahmadi, who competed last season.
Gonzalez punched his ticket to the finals in late September.
"It's been a while (since the regional) but I like the amount of time I have had to get ready for the finals," Gonzalez said while taking time out from a practice session at Los Robles Greens in Thousand Oaks.
While he's been practicing hard since earning his spot in the finals, Gonzalez's preparations for the event has been years in the making.
When he was 8, he was sitting in a golf cart watching his sister Gabby, a talented junior golfer at Oaks Christian, when he decided to get out and take a few swings.
For several years he split time between golf and soccer, where was good enough to play goalie on a local club team.
Last year, Gonzalez decided he wanted to take a break from soccer and devote his full attention to golf.
It was a difficult decision since soccer runs deep in his family. Logan's dad, Mike, played semipro and his mother Tatiana also plays.
"It took a lot for him to come and tell me he wanted to take a break from soccer," Mike Gonzalez said. "He felt like it was something he wanted to do and so we told him we would support him 100 percent.
Gonzalez has shown the ability to focus beyond his years.
"When he shows up to a competition, he walks with so much confidence and he goes and gets it done," Tatiana Gonzalez said. "When he practices, even just in the backyard, he has that game face on, he's in his own world.
Gonzalez said he's excited about getting to experience Augusta National in person for the first time. He will also get to watch the pros during their practice round Monday.
As the Drive, Chip and Putt has grown, more pros competing in the Masters have come out to watch the finals and even help hand out trophies to the winners.
Gonzalez said he would love to meet current Masters champion Sergio Garcia and his two favorite golfers, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler.
While he knows he will be nervous during the finals, Gonzalez is determined to have fun.


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Kizza inks deal to remain in Pittsburgh
News Press Releases Team Announcements
Riverhounds Staff
PITTSBURGH (Jan. 13, 2023) — Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC and forward Edward Kizza have agreed to a deal that will bring the striker back to Pittsburgh on a permanent basis for the 2023 season.
Kizza, 24, joined the Hounds last July on a loan deal with the New England Revolution of MLS. The former first-round MLS draft selection scored three goals in 12 appearances with the Hounds, two of which came in the team's dramatic Eastern Conference Quarterfinal against Birmingham that saw the Hounds advance in a shootout.
"Kizza brings goal scoring, ideas and mobility up top. He is a forward who works hard for the team, and we are excited to have him back in Pittsburgh for the 2023 USL Championship season," Riverhounds head coach Bob Lilley said.
A native of Uganda, Kizza first arrived in Pittsburgh to play collegiately at the University of Pittsburgh. In three seasons with the Panthers from 2017-19, Kizza scored 31 goals and helped lead Pitt to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 54 years.
After being drafted by the Revolution in 2020, he made 11 appearances for the MLS club while also spending time on loan with New England Revolution II in USL League One and with fellow USL Championship club Memphis 901 FC. Kizza became a free agent when his loan spell with the Hounds ended at the conclusion of the 2022 season.
The Hounds offseason continues with little more than two weeks until the beginning of preseason, Jan. 30. The 2023 USL Championship season begins March 11, when the Hounds will visit Birmingham Legion FC.

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Priest supported closing churches during 1918 flu pandemic, lamented loss of Mass
https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2020/04/priest-supported-closing-churches-during-1918-flu-pandemic.html
Ah, brethren, let us today reflect on the meaning and the history of that great sacrifice at which we may not assist, a sacrifice that links us with the saints and sages of every age from Christ's time till now, and let us beg God in his mercy to remove from us that sickness that keeps us deprived of the great sacrifice, so that soon we may again with glad, worshipful hearts, meet in our churches and assist in offering to the All High that clean oblation, seen by the prophet Malachy in vision,[3] that sacrifice that is offered in every place from the rising to the set of sun.
Rage, fear, and confusion
https://medium.com/@dpatil/rage-fear-and-confusion-28bd6d3eeb8d
There was a young data scientist that pulled me aside before a meeting on how data and technology might be able to help on community policing. He showed me data that he had cobbled together from multiple systems where he showed the rate over time of how police stopped white vs blacks and it was about equal. And then he showed me the search rates after they were stopped and they were staggering. It showed how much more likely you were to be searched if you were black. As we dug in, he showed how you could tell which officers contributed to doing the most searches and matching it to those that had the most complaints. When I showed his results to the other police chiefs they all asked how they could get that kind of data so get those officers off the streets. The chiefs didn't have the basic data systems to know which officers were a problem.
What gets measured gets fixed. Yet, we won't track even the basics of policing.
Now is the moment to sign Colin Kaepernick
It was only in the second preseason game that an NFL Network reporter, an employee of the league, noticed it and reported the story. Once it broke, https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/opinions/now-is-the-moment-to-sign-colin-kaepernick-lockhart/index.html
Kaepernick worked with a former Green Beret, Nate Boyer, to find a more acceptable way to protest, and the National Anthem kneel -- "taking a knee" -- was born.
That played out for the whole 2017 season. Some players joined Kaepernick, but by the end of the season, there were only a handful of players kneeling. But those protests started important discussions within the league, specifically involving Goodell, during the offseason. I participated in several long conference calls where the commissioner and leaders of the newly formed Players Coalition grappled with how to use the NFL's vast platform to promote racial justice in America.
The new season started with very productive dialogue and work proceeding between the players and the league. That all changed on a Friday night in Alabama at a rally for Republican Senate candidate Luther Strange, where President Donald Trump called for kneeling players to be fired.
NFL owners should respond to those players "taking a knee" (who were overwhelmingly black) by saying "Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he's fired!" he told the crowd.
That one rally changed everything. Although Kaepernick had not been signed in the off season, players' protests to that point were primarily off the field -- not during the anthem or on the field during games. But starting the following Sunday, hundreds of players were now kneeling and a full-blown battle with the President was drawn.
I'm a CEO, a retired Army officer and a black man
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/05/29/im-a-ceo-a-retired-army-officer-and-a-black-man-column
I shudder with each death of a black man killed by a police officer. I often shed another tear, reflecting upon the times I was stopped, for little more than driving while black or being followed while shopping in stores. I've been stopped and searched far more times than my white colleagues and through intimate discussions with them, most simply can't or won't try to understand.
Sadly, I have grown accustomed to being profiled and treated like a criminal for no legitimate reason.
It happened during high school in Palm Beach County.
Following my freshman year in college it occurred when I returned to Florida.
As a young Army captain following my nearly five years serving overseas it happened.
On a cold rainy night in South Georgia I was stopped for speeding in my new truck. The young white police officer screamed and pointed his pistol in my face while my hands were on the steering wheel. I yelled repeatedly, "I am an Army officer." He removed me from my vehicle and pressed my face against the hot truck hood. I never resisted him, but that situation quickly spiraled out of control until his supervisor arrived and acknowledged the big mistake. They quickly backed down and ushered me away in the rain while I sobbed for 45 minutes with mixed emotions; feeling lucky to be alive and quite upset that I was treated with such violence and disrespect.
Why those sometimes annoying launch, landing weather rules exist
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/05/why-weather-rules-exist/
Some of those launch operator-specific weather criteria include how close rain can be to the pad at launch, wind speed and direction, upper level wind shear limits, and others.
Two of these launch-vehicle specific criteria gave the U.S. the absolute hardest lesson it has had to learn about space flight on 28 January 1986 when the Shuttle Challenger was launched in near-freezing temperatures that were 20℉ colder than the lowest certified operational limit of the Solid Rocket Boosters.
The cold temperatures caused the failure of the primary and secondary O-Ring seals on the aft field joint of Challenger's right-hand Solid Rocket Booster. The failure method caused a temporary seal to form as O-ring material became jammed in the hole.
This temporary seal was shattered when Challenger encountered the most-intense upper-level windshear ever for a Shuttle (even through to the end of the program).
Overriding those two vehicle-specific weather rules resulted in the loss of seven people that January morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/boris-johnsons-test-and-tracing-system-britain-lockdown
To this day I remain a "key worker", paid £10 an hour to sit in a chatroom – alone, lost, without support or help. Despite what the government is saying, it seems the relentless problem "with the system" is another pandemic without a cure. Motivated as I am to help out during this difficult time – and after two weeks of doing "pretend" work on the track-and-trace programme – I have decided to quit and try to find a real way to help people.
If Boris Johnson or Matt Hancock are reading this, I'd ask them to please go into the chatrooms you created and read what people are saying. You will see a lot of anger and confusion from a lot of people. And none of them have any faith that we're properly set up to fight any increase in infection rate from this pandemic.
Why the media is so polarized — and how it polarizes us
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21077888/why-were-polarized-media-book-ezra-news
Misperceptions were particularly high when people were asked to describe the other party. Democrats believed 44 percent of Republicans earned more than $250,000 a year; it's actually 2 percent. Republicans believed that 38 percent of Democrats were gay, lesbian, or bisexual; the correct answer is about 6 percent. Democrats believed that more than four in 10 Republicans are seniors; in truth, seniors make up about 20 percent of the GOP. Republicans believed that 46 percent of Democrats are black and 44 percent belong to a union; in reality, about 24 percent of Democrats are black and less than 11 percent belong to a union.
Here's the kicker: As the charts below show, the more political media people consumed, the more mistaken they were, in general, about the other party. This is a damning result: The more political media you absorb, the more warped your perspective of the other side becomes.
The little-known story of Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh's admiration for the US
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-18/little-known-story-vietnamese-communist-leader-ho-chi-minh-s-admiration-us
Ho Chi Minh's admiration for the US is most clearly seen in the language he wrote in Vietnam's own declaration of independence, which he issued on Sept. 2, 1945, just as the Japanese empire was crumbling in defeat. The first line of that declaration is a direct quote from the American version: "All men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
It's likely this was partly sincere, and partly a play for US help in decolonization, based on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's anti-colonial rhetoric.
This has all led some writers to speculate counterfactually, that the US missed an opportunity to "flip" Ho Chi Minh, and thus could somehow have avoided the Vietnam War. Most historians think that's a step too far. Ho Chi Minh was a committed communist from the 1920s. He was persecuted for it and yet stuck to his guns. And however much he may have liked America's anti-colonial history, he could never have been a sincere partner for the US. The anti-communist forces in South Vietnam were much more natural partners for the US.
We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat's Chinese Censorship Apparatus
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
In this report, we present technical experiments which reveal that WeChat communications that are conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to content surveillance. We found that documents and images that were transmitted entirely among non-China-registered accounts were analyzed for Chinese political sensitivity. Upon analysis, files deemed politically sensitive were used to invisibly train and build up WeChat's Chinese political censorship system. We also conducted analysis of WeChat's public-facing policy documents, made data access requests, and engaged with Tencent data protection representatives to assess whether those methods could also explain, or uncover, the content surveillance carried out towards international users' communications. We found that none of the information WeChat makes available to users explains the rationales for such surveillance or the transmission of content hashes from WeChat International to WeChat China.
How 'Jakarta' Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing/
In total, it is estimated that between five hundred thousand and one million people were slaughtered, and one million more were herded into concentration camps. Millions more people were indirect victims of the massacres, but no one came around to inquire how many loved ones they had lost.
Their silence was the point of the violence. The Armed Forces did not oversee the extermination of every single communist, alleged communist, and potential communist sympathizer in the country. That would have been nearly impossible, because around a quarter of the country was affiliated somehow with the PKI. Once the killings took hold, it became incredibly hard to find anyone who would admit to any association with the PKI.
Around 15 percent of the prisoners taken were women. They were subjected to especially cruel, gendered violence, which sprung directly from the propaganda spread by Suharto with Western help. Except for a tiny number of people possibly involved in the planning of the disastrous September 30th Movement, almost everyone killed and imprisoned was entirely innocent of any crime. Magdalena, an apolitical teenage member of a communist-affiliated union, was innocent.
The rank-and-file card-carrying members of the unarmed Communist Party, who made up a large proportion of the victims, were also entirely innocent. They didn't do anything wrong at all, yet they were condemned to annihilation, and almost everyone around them was sentenced to a lifetime of guilt, trauma, and being told they had sinned unforgivably because of their association with the earnest hopes of left-wing politics.
Formal federal prosecutor Jonathan Kravis '99: Consider government service
https://williamsrecord.com/2020/05/formal-federal-prosecutor-jonathan-kravis-99-consider-government-service/
The first piece of advice: Consider government service.
I know from my own experience how rewarding a career in government service can be. I spent 10 years as a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice. In that job, I had the opportunity to work alongside talented and dedicated lawyers and agents to serve the mission of the Department, first by prosecuting violent crimes, and later by investigating corruption by federal, state, and local officials. I went into work every day knowing that my job was to serve justice, to do what was right to the best of my ability.
You will have similar opportunities. Now more than ever, our country and the world need talented, dedicated, hardworking public servants. Federal, state and local governments are facing unprecedented challenges. Whatever your chosen field — law, medicine, science, education, business — you can help. For some of you, the chance to serve in government may present itself in the natural course of your career. For others, you may have to look a little harder to find it. Either way, government service will allow you to serve a greater good and to help make your community a better place.
And this brings me to my second piece of advice. When you do find the right opportunity to work in government, remember why you took the job in the first place.
thebigschnoz on rights
https://www.reddit.com/r/Buffalo/comments/gnves8/psa_the_moron_500_will_be_running_again_thursday/frcr7jj/
Honestly, this is less draconian than quarantines of the past. Most of you don't know that because we haven't had to do this in a very long time, like 75 years long time. But back before we had vaccines to a lot of things, if the government so much as suspected you had measles or smallpox, you would get your house sealed up and you didn't go anywhere for two or three weeks while they shoved a few casserole dishes under the door. They'd put a big sign on the door that says "no entry or exit" and if you tried, some burly men would "politely explain" to you why that was not permitted. You didn't go out for essentials. You didn't go out for a walk. And they didn't have Netflix or Instacart back then.
There is no constitutional right to own a business or go to work. Not in there. I'm sorry some of you are suffering, and I feel for you. I legitimately get that some of you are going to lose a lot from this and possibly everything you built. But it's not a right. You didn't have that right before, which is why people go bankrupt or get laid off or have their business ventures fail.
Again, you have been temporarily inconvenienced, not oppressed.
SASN Faculty and Staff Honored for their Exceptional Contributions
https://sasn.rutgers.edu/news-events/news/sasn-faculty-and-staff-honored-their-exceptional-contributions
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching is awarded annually to non-tenure-track, full-time faculty members in the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences who have demonstrated outstanding teaching skills in classroom instruction, clinical instruction, curriculum development, or mentoring. Diane Jammula, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Physics is one of five winners in this category.
Jammula recently led an overhaul of the Physics Department's introductory physics courses for science majors, which serve 450 students per semester, to be interactive and aligned with the cutting edge of physics education research, including a research-based instructional approach designed by Distinguished Professor Eugenia Etkina (Rutgers-New Brunswick); space renovation; instructional technology; new scheduling; and instructor training. Tenured, tenure-track, non-tenure track faculty, and part-time lecturers and doctoral students participated in trainings and taught and helped troubleshoot the newly designed courses. The non-tenure track faculty designed the curriculum, led the trainings, and are evaluating the reform. "I spearheaded this project, but the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching is a win for the whole department," said Jammula, who also credited the SASN Dean's Office, Academic Scheduling, Technology and Learning Spaces, and the Rutgers Learning Center, for making the project a success.
She added that she was grateful to Physics Chair Michele Pavanello, who nominated her for the award and was a strong supporter of the overhaul from the start. "When I faced resistance, Dr. Pavanello came to my office and said, 'Not everyone likes what you're doing, but I support you because I think it's important to take risks.'" The project has since been a great success, among students and faculty and staff alike.
"The students are the center of our work," said Jammula, "Our world will be a better place with them as our future leaders, and we seek to offer them a first-class physics education built on love and care."
My favorite example of the power of translation (Emily Wilson)
The opening of the Odyssey (2 old translations and one from a few years ago from Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the Odyssey):
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1728/1728-h/1728-h.htm
Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy, and many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt, yea, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the deep, striving to win his own life and the return of his company. Nay, but even so he saved not his company, though he desired it sore. For through the blindness of their own hearts they perished, fools, who devoured the oxen of Helios Hyperion: but the god took from them their day of returning. Of these things, goddess, daughter of Zeus, whencesoever thou hast heard thereof, declare thou even unto us.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1727/1727-h/1727-h.htm:
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/the-odyssey-translated-emily-wilson-review
Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
and where he went, and who he met, the pain
he suffered in the storms at sea, and how
he worked to save his life and bring his men
back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools,
they ate the Sun God's cattle, and the god
kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus,
tell the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.
Facebook post on the virus
https://www.facebook.com/brianlee.hitchens/posts/3241584752540091
We don't have to fear this and by heeding the advice doesn't mean that you fear it that means you're showing wisdom during this epidemic time. Looking back I should have wore a mask in the beginning but I didn't and perhaps I'm paying the price for it now but I know that if it was me that gave it to my wife I know that she forgives me and I know that God forgives me. Whether man forgives me or not that's out of my control but as long as I have the assurance that God forgives me and my wife forgives me I am good. So just think about what I said and if you have to go out please use wisdom and don't be foolish like I was so the same so the same thing won't happen to you like it happened to me and my wife.
De-risking custom technology projects
https://agilebudgeting.org/
Only 13% of large government software projects are successful.1 State IT projects, in particular, are often challenged because states lack basic knowledge about modern software development, relying on outdated procurement processes.
State governments are increasingly reliant on modern software and hardware to implement federal programs and deliver essential services to the public, and the success of any major policy initiative depends on the success of the underlying software infrastructure. Government agencies all confront similar challenges, facing budget and staffing constraints while struggling to modernize legacy technology systems that are out-of-date, inflexible, expensive, and ineffective.2 Government officials and agencies often rely on the same legacy processes that led to problems in the first place.
The public deserves a government that provides the same world-class technology they get from the commercial marketplace. Trust in government depends on it.
Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests
https://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/the-charmer/
To speak of what Farrakhan gets right about racism is to risk lending credence to all he gets wrong. For just as he has been correct in his indictment of white supremacy, so too have his critics been correct in their indictments of him. Farrakhan's ample critical gifts have always come packaged with abundant bigotries: hatred of Jews, mockery and fear of homosexuals, denigration of women. I have heard occasional attempts to deny Farrakhan's anti-Semitism, but these defenses approach lunacy. Farrakhan's distrust of and anger toward Jews are as central and constant as any other aspect of his philosophy; anyone reading over his speeches for examples of anti-Semitic rhetoric will quickly find herself spoiled for choice. Jews control the banks, they control the media, they control the government, Israel knew 9/11 was coming.
Babies among 24 killed as gunmen attack maternity ward in Kabul
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/afghanistan-gunmen-storm-kabul-hospital-200512071439807.html
Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off an hours-long shoot-out with the police and killing 24 people, including two newborn babies, their mothers and an unspecified number of nurses.
Are the Lockdown Orders Constitutional?
https://arcdigital.media/are-the-lockdown-orders-constitutional-5f3531e31fb1
Bans on assembly, movement, and badly needed economic activity? Citizens of the early Republic went through all these and much more. Churches shut their doors. People were routinely cooped up in their homes — contrary to some recent speculation, there was no general practice of applying restrictions only to the sick. Not long after the adoption of the new Constitution, the nation's capital of Philadelphia was struck with a deadly outbreak of yellow fever; persons fleeing the city in the direction of places like Baltimore were turned back at gunpoint, while Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza, after surviving the illness, had to undergo quarantine at the behest of authorities in Albany, N.Y. whence they had fled.
In Massachusetts, to take another example, a 1797 law provided that a person "coming from any place out of this state, where the small pox or other malignant distemper is prevailing, into any town within this state," shall be obliged to obey the commands of selectmen to depart the state "in such manner, and by such road as the said selectmen shall direct." The measure made it unlawful for any resident to entertain in his house such a person ordered to leave, once warned of the circumstance.
The tears of the choir world
https://jennyshouldblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/the-tears-of-the-choir-world/
I asked a simple question on my Facebook status. The post was, "I'm seeing it from every choir director. The grief is profound. I'm curious. How many of you in a different career are heavily grieving the loss of the way you did your job? And I'm curious how many of you are actually thriving in this new way." There are presently 65 comments and and side comments, and it's still growing. Some professions and hobbies work through an online medium. My choir director friends are grieving. The grief I read on choral forums is so thick. It hurts.
There are only two ways to do this right now. One way involves risk. The other, technology. The risk? Get together and social distancing by God knows how many feet and sing through a mask. Or, enter the world of Virtual Choir. For me, I'm trying to figure out a world where both exist until we can get back to something…..whatever it's going to be. I, unlike the cynics out there, believe that choirs will come back and will be what they were – a thriving community of people who want to join their voices together to create the most beautiful sound there is. I'm not giving up on that. It's too good. History says so.
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-confusing-uncertainty/610819
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. COVID-19 is the disease that it causes. The two aren't the same. The disease arises from a combination of the virus and the person it infects, and the society that person belongs to. Some people who become infected never show any symptoms; others become so ill that they need ventilators. Early Chinese data suggested that severe and fatal illness occurs mostly in the elderly, but in the U.S. (and especially in the South), many middle-aged adults have been hospitalized, perhaps because they are more likely to have other chronic illnesses. The virus might vary little around the world, but the disease varies a lot.
Read: The coronavirus's unique threat to the South
This explains why some of the most important stats about the coronavirus have been hard to pin down. Estimates of its case-fatality rate (CFR)—the proportion of diagnosed people who die—have ranged from 0.1 to 15 percent. It's frustrating to not have a firm number, but also unrealistic to expect one. "Folks are talking about CFR as this unchangeable quantity, and that is not how it works," says Maia Majumder, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.
The CFR's denominator—total cases—depends on how thoroughly a country tests its population. Its numerator—total deaths—depends on the spread of ages within that population, the prevalence of preexisting illnesses, how far people live from hospitals, and how well staffed or well equipped those hospitals are. These factors vary among countries, states, and cities, and the CFR will, too. (Majumder and her colleagues are now building tools for predicting regional CFRs, so local leaders can determine which regions are most vulnerable.)
The variability of COVID-19 is also perplexing doctors. The disease seems to wreak havoc not only on lungs and airways, but also on hearts, blood vessels, kidneys, guts, and nervous systems. It's not clear if the virus is directly attacking these organs, if the damage stems from a bodywide overreaction of the immune system, if other organs are suffering from the side effects of treatments, or if they are failing due to prolonged stays on ventilators.
Even Naked, America Cannot See Itself -- In a time of plague, willful blindness is a coping mechanism.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/coronavirus-inequality-america.html
I was asleep when one of the tornadoes missed our house by a handful of miles. That it charted its particular path, sparing my family but killing others, and leaving others still with spoiled food stockpiles and home damage they might never recoup, taught me little about tornadoes except that they behave like tornadoes — that is, they function in ways that are neither malicious nor cosmically edifying on their own terms, even as they cause tremendous damage to humans. It's not personal for them. How societies mitigate the pain they cause at the margins is far more revealing — how much we invest, as Americans, in catching the vulnerable when the floor is ripped from beneath them. We may tell ourselves the pandemic is asking this question of us, but if we had the courage to look clearly, the answer was evident long before this crisis: in how our society distributes suffering, the stories we tell to make it compatible with our national self-regard; how aggressively so many insist on overlooking the foreseeable. The depth of havoc that the coronavirus wreaks on its inevitable victims was, and is, within America's capacity to determine. We have few insights into the path it's cutting today that we haven't had for years and that we weren't already ignoring.
The president created a leadership vacuum. China intends to fill it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/time-americans-are-doing-nothing/611056/
Carl Bildt—a Swedish prime minister in the 1990s, a United Nations envoy during the Bosnian wars, and a foreign minister for many years after that—told me that, looking back on his 30-year career, he cannot remember a single international crisis in which the United States had no global presence at all. "Normally, when something happens"—a war, an earthquake—"everybody waits to see what the Americans are doing, for better or for worse, and then they calibrate their own response based on that."
This time, Americans are doing … nothing. Or to be more specific, because plenty of American governors, mayors, doctors, scientists, and tech companies are doing things, the White House is doing nothing. There is no presidential leadership inside the United States; there is no American leadership in the world. Members of the G7—the U.S. and its six closest allies—did meet to write a joint statement. But even that tepid project ended in ludicrous rancor when the American secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, insisted on using the expression "Wuhan virus" and the others gave up in disgust. Not only is the president talking nonsense, not only is America absent, but the nation's top diplomat is a caricature of a tough guy—someone who throws around insults in the absence of any capacity to influence events.
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With not much chance to get much fishing in this year due to work and other commitments, I decided to book some time off work this month. With autumn upon us, I thought it was only right to get the rods out for a few nights. Where better to go than to Linear Fisheries in Oxford, possibly the best day-ticket venue in the country?
With five nights at my disposal, I planned to get up there after work on Tuesday night and meet a good friend of mine, Jamie Everard. We were hoping to fish on Manor but when we arrived the lake was already stitched up, so after looking around the other lakes on the complex we opted to fish Oxlease, which has a good head of fish in it and represented a good chance for us to get a bend in the rods. By the time we decided on the swims we were going to fish, Tuesday night was a write-off. I opted to get all the rods and bait ready for the morning and get my head down and be up and ready at first light.
I waited until 9am to get the marker rod out to find a spot for all three rods. In the end I found a gravel bar that runs down the middle of the lake at 80 yards range, which is a nice comfortable distance to fish and even more easy as I was using the new tapered SUBline. Finding the back of the bar, I then clipped all three rods at the same distance and got three solid bags out with trimmed-down Baitworks Atlantic Heat boosted hook baits, tipped with the new slow-sinking IB Plastic Corn, fishing a short, three-inch hook links with a size-six Kurv Shank. I then went on and put 20 spods tightly and accurately over all three rods, the mix consisted of chopped Atlantic Heat, sweetcorn, pellet, mixed particles and a good helping Baitworks Hot Fish Oil, a proper munga mix which works well on all the waters on the complex. It didn't take long for the fish to turn up. Jamie went on to catch steadily for the next few days and I ended up with 13 with a good stamp of fish and a new PB of 34lb 6oz chunky Oxlease mirror and Jamie ended up with five to 30lb 6oz. It was a great few days spent on Oxlease and I really enjoyed myself and will be back up there again soon!


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Trumped! è stato un programma radiofonico statunitense andato in onda tutti i giorni, dal lunedì al venerdì, dal 2004 al 2008, e condotto dall'imprenditore e futuro presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America Donald Trump.

Storia
Nel 2004, Donald Trump fu contattato dalla Infinity Broadcasting Corporation e dalla Clear Channel Communications, entrambe interessate ad averlo protagonista di un programma radiofonico. Trump scelse la Clear Channel, la quale accolse l'indea dello stesso Trump di realizzare un programma della durata di soli 90 secondi. Il programma che nacque, Trumped!, fu ufficialmente annunciato il 29 aprile 2004. Tale trasmissione, la cui messa in onda era prevista nella mattina di ogni giorno, avrebbe visto protagonista lo stesso Donald Trump, il quale, per un tempo che andava dai 60 ai 90 secondi, avrebbe espresso le sue opinioni riguardo argomenti economici, politici e di cultura popolare. Un caso a parte sarebbe stato quello della puntata del venerdi, che avrebbe visto Trump commentare la puntata del reality show da lui condotto, The Apprentice, andata in onda la sera prima e motivare le ragioni della sua decisione circa l'eliminazione dei diversi concorrenti. Prima del lancio del programma, la Office Depot siglò un contratto per la sponsorizzazione della trasmissione che prevedeva la lettura delle pubblicità dell'azienda da parte di Trump durante la messa in onda.

La prima puntata di Trumped! andò quindi in onda il 14 giugno 2004, in occasione del cinquantottesimo compleanno di Donald Trump. Il programma, presentato da Trump dal proprio ufficio di New York, ebbe il più grande lancio nella storia della radio, con la prima puntata che andò in onda su ben 320 stazioni radio della Clear Channel. Nel corso delle puntate, così come era stato previsto nella sua progettazione, la trasmissione vide Trump esprimere i propri punti di vista riguardo alla vita, allo sport, all'industria dell'intrattenimento e a quella immobiliare, alla finanza e alla politica.

Nel febbraio 2006, Trumped! arrivò ad essere mandato in onda su circa 400 stazioni radio di proprietà della Clear Channel, finché nel 2008, dopo circa 1.000 puntate, la trasmissione chiuse.

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Reading FC Transfer News
Bowen defends Reading FC's treatment of long serving pair Gunter and McCleary
Both players have been exiled by Jose Gomes and are training with the club's U23 squad
Exiled Reading pair Garath McCleary and Chris Gunter (Image: Get Reading)
Reading 's new sporting director Mark Bowen has defended the club's treatment of long-serving duo Chris Gunter and Garath McCleary.
The pair, who both joined Royals from Nottingham Forest in 2012 and have a year left on their contracts, were told to find a new club over the summer.
The decision has meant they have been sidelined from the senior squad and been left to train with the U23 players since the start of July.
It has left some Reading fans angry with the club's treatment of Gunter and McCleary, who have played more than 500 games combined for the club.
But Bowen, who was appointed to his new role last week, admitted although the pair's exile is 'unfortunate,' it is just part and parcel of the game.
"These guys have put great service into the club but at times you bring a coach or manager in and they have to make their decisions," said the Welshman.
"We couldn't have a decision where the manager makes a decision and we all go against him because the manager makes decisions and you have to back him.
"You live and die by those decisions and it's unfortunate. Other people say to me they (Gunter and McCleary) have been treated badly but I don't get that.
"At the end of the day they are not in the first team squad, it's the manager's decision, so they have to be classed as in the U23s squad.
"They are training hard and playing well which you expect them to because they are good pros."
New Reading FC sporting director Mark Bowen on his role at Royals, transfer window, embargo, treatment of Gunter and McCleary, Novakovich and more
Both Gunter and McCleary face uncertain seasons ahead with the Premier League and Championship transfer windows already closed.
Their only hope of a move is to League One and League Two, or abroad, where the windows remain open until the end of the month.
The duo's only game time this season came in Royals' U23s' 6-0 win over Newcastle United in Premier League 2 Division 2 at Hogwood.
Bowen says he hopes Gunter and McCleary can find a resolution to their situation in one way or another, but their future ultimately rests in their hands.
"I've been in the game a long, long time and it's a phrase everybody uses but it's football," said Bowen.
"It's what happens in football. They both understand it. They came in for pre-season and the manager made his decision.
"He [Jose Gomes] wants to go with certain players and they weren't in his plans so nothing has really changed from there.
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"They have been training hard and getting on with their jobs, and waiting for the right opportunity as individuals.
"You'll get interest from certain clubs but ultimately it's their decision what they want to do.
"I'd be hopeful over the final days of the transfer window (the windows which remain open) they can both find positions which are attractive enough to go.
"If they can't, they'll be plying their trade here as footballers and waiting for opportunities to come here.
"You hope for their benefit, if they are not in the manager's plans, they go out and find the right platform."
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Q: The variables are initializing when I'm using inheritance between two classes this is the code I wrote:
public class shapess
{
    public int len1, len2, len3;
    public void SetVars (int Len1, int Len2, int Len3)
    {
        len1 = Len1;
        len2 = Len2;
        len3 = Len3;
    }
}
public class triangle : shapess
{
    shapess sh = new shapess();
    public void Perimeter()
    {
        sh.SetVars(3, 6, 9);
        int peri = len1 + len2 + len3;
        Console.WriteLine("The perimeter is: "+peri);
    }
}

When I tried to play this by using triangle tr = new triangle(); tr.Perimeter(); it showed me that my variables (len1, len2 & len3) equal to 0 and the output was: The perimeter is: 0.
What is my problem here?

A: You are creating a Shapess instance inside Trangle class and set that instance's len1,len2 .. not the values of the Trangle itself len1,len2.... Try
public class triangle : shapess
{
    public void Perimeter()
    {
        SetVars(3, 6, 9);
        int peri = len1 + len2 + len3;
        Console.WriteLine("The perimeter is: "+peri);
    }
}

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The current generation of computer and Internet users expect everything to be tailored to suit their demands. Software developers cannot possibly satisfy everyone. Even free software or nearly free software is not good enough for them. If something is not to their liking, instead of simply requesting improvements, or asking for temporary solutions, they make demands such as: "This software is unusable, until this feature is added, I will go back to using my old software." Of course, such threats are empty. If their old software was perfect, why are they trying out something else?
The problem lies between the keyboard and the chair. Negativity breeds dissatisfaction, and obstructs the learning process.
The above complaint is typical. A new user does not know how to import bookmarks, nor how to add them via the icon in the address bar or keyboard shortcut. Rather than asking how it can be done, he/she just complains. After a couple of users respond with sarcasm, a moderator edits their replies, fixes the thread title, and locks the thread. This is idiot compassion at work. The fault lies with the new user, who failed to ask before complaining, and threatened not to use the software unless the perceived, but non-existent, faults were fixed.
Since everything is imperfect, everything can also be improved, given time, money, patience, and resourcefulness. Good people respond well to constructive criticism. Even bad people do sometimes. Almost no one likes harsh criticism that is unjustifiable, unfair, untrue, or simply the expression of someone's negativity.
Did the Buddha Criticise Anyone?
A basic assumption in Buddhism is that living beings are imperfect. They have defects rooted in greed, ill-will, and delusion. A Buddha, or Fully Awakened One, is a human being who began his career as a Bodhisatta many aeons ago, and cultivated spiritual perfections to achieve Buddhahood.
When Siddhattha Gotama was born, he was still an unenlightened Bodhisatta. Although already free from the vast majority of human defects shared by ordinary folk, he was still not a Buddha. He left the comfort of his palace, and meditated strenuously for six years to achieve perfection. Thereafter, he became a Buddha, and spent the remainder of his life teaching to others the meditation method that he had discovered for himself under the Bodhi tree.
Those who have faith in the Buddha's teaching may become lay disciples, monks, or nuns. They become trainees who willingly undertake the discipline prescribed by the Buddha to train the mind, leading the practitioner towards perfection.
The Buddha would encourage his disciples with kindness and admonish them with harshness when necessary to remove their faults. If they did not respond to instruction, he would stop speaking to them. For a disciple this was the ultimate punishment. It is a spiritual death to refuse admonishment from one's teachers and fellow monks or nuns. (See the Kesi Sutta).
I very much liked your "Complaining Rewires Your Brain for Negativity" information.
Well, I could import easily my bookmarks via an HTML file. Adding new ones is also easy —the icon in the address-bar and also Ctrl + F1 is very useful, but some people are lazy to think or even ask how to do it. I could not import Vivaldi's own notes using the UI, but only copying them from another profile … which is very illogical and should be easy to implement.
Bhikkhu Pesala, your post is a very good one, but a bit too philosophical, maybe.
That's the way that my brain is wired.
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The North Harris Ranger Service was started in October 2009 and is supported by funding from Scottish Natural Heritage.
The Ranger, leads a comprehensive programme of guided walks and events from May through to October.
The Guided Walks programme for the year will be advertised on this website and is available in the Tarbert Tourist Information Centre.
Each year there is a monthly walk; 'mountain of the month'. This walk showcases the finest of Harris' mountains. The location of each walk is published on this website, Facebook and in the Tarbert Tourist Information office, the week before the start of the walk.
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Sir George Nicholls (1781-1865)
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Sir GeorgeNicholls was a poor-law reformer and administrator. He was the eldest child of Solomon Nicholls of St. Kevern, Cornwall, by his second cousin Jane, daughter of George Millett of Helston. George Nicholls was born on 31 December 1781 at St. Kevern. His father — who died in 1793 — was of an old Cornish family. Nicholls was educated first at the parish school of St. Kevern Churchtown, under his uncle, William Nicholls; later he was educated at Helston grammar school, under Dr. Otter (afterwards bishop of Chichester); and finally, for less than a year, at Newton Abbot, Devon, under Mr. Weatherdon.
In the winter of 1796-7 a berth was obtained for him by his uncle, Captain George Millett, as midshipman on board the East India Company's ship the Abergavenny, commanded by Captain John Wordsworth, uncle of the poet William Wordsworth. In 1809 at the age of 27, after his sixth voyage, having served as fifth, third, and first mate successively,he obtained command of a ship, the Lady Lushington. On 18 January 1815 the ship then under his command, the Bengal, was burnt in harbour at Point de Galle. He was honourably and completely acquitted from blame in the subsequent inquiry and command of another ship was offered to him but he left the service, having lost about £30,000 through the disaster.
In 1816, after living at Highgate for a year he took up residence at Farndon near Newark; he moved to Southwell early in 1819. His time, at first devoted to domestic matters, soon became increasingly occupied with parochial and public affairs. At Farndon he started the first savings bank and showed much interest in the schools and in agricultural concerns. At Southwell he took an active part as overseer, waywarden, and churchwarden; he was also appointed a Justice of the Peace, but never acted in that capacity.
Before he left Farndon, Nicholls' attention had been drawn to the question of the poor laws and their administration, which called urgently for reform. In 1820-1 the amount of relief actually disbursed to the poor of Southwell (exclusive of church and county rates) was £2,069. In 1821 Nicholls accepted the office of overseer of the poor in that parish. In 1821-2 the amount of relief had fallen to £1,311, and in 1822-3 to £515, the saving being effected moreover without injury to the poor. The labourers acknowledged his friendly interest in them; he had, they said, compelled them to take care of themselves. The principles adopted had a year or two previously been tried, without Nicholls's knowledge, by Robert Lowe, the rector, in the parish of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, who subsequently became one of Nicholls's intimate friends, and they had been advocated by Nicholls himself in the well-known series of eight 'Letters by an Overseer' written by him in 1821 to the Nottingham Journal, and afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet.
Nicholls's leading idea was to abolish outdoor relief, and to rely on the 'workhouse test' as a means of raising the condition of the poor. The principle was accepted in the subsequent poor-law legislation and administration. The system of denying parish relief to the poor except as a last and unpleasant resort was suggested to Nicholls by his observation of the great difference at Farndon between the condition of non-settled labourers, who were obliged to shift for themselves, and that of those belonging to and therefore having a claim upon the parish; the condition of the latter being much the worse of the two. At Southwell, too, he instituted a 'workhouse school,' to which children of labourers with large families and applying for relief were admitted and kept during the day, returning to their parents at night.
Early in 1823, having been consulted by George Barrow as to the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal (at that time languishing for want of funds), he moved at the request and cost of the company to Gloucester, taking up his residence at Longford House. For three years he practically controlled the concern, his only remuneration being the payment by the company of his household expenses. During this period he engaged in other commercial and quasi-nautical enterprises, acting in most of them in concert with Telford the engineer, between whom and himself there existed thenceforward a warm friendship. Telford eventually appointed him one of his residuary legatees. Among their joint schemes was the famous plan of the English and Bristol Channels Ship Canal, in favour of which in December 1824 he and Telford reported, he on the nautical and financial questions, Telford on the engineering difficulties. The reports were adopted, and an act of parliament obtained. The crisis of 1825-6, however, effectually hindered the raising of the necessary funds; and the introduction of locomotion by steam soon removed the need for the work. About the same time he was asked by Alexander Baring, afterwards Lord Ashburton, to go out and report on the feasibility of a Panama Ship Canal, but declined on account of the climate. In the autumn of 1825 he was called upon to report on a scheme for making a harbour at Lowestoft, with a ship canal thence to Norwich.
In November 1826 Nicholls accepted the appointment of superintendent of the branch of the Bank of England which was then first established at Birmingham. He had previously declined a similar appointment at Gloucester, where the branch had been established, through his exertions, to replace the bank of Turner, Morris & Turner, which had recently failed, and in the winding-up of the affairs of which he had taken a leading part. He moved to Birmingham in December 1826, and — except for three or four years, during which he lived at the Friary, Handsworth — he resided with his family on the bank premises. His life at Birmingham was a very active one. He found time for many things besides his official duties. He established the Birmingham Savings Bank. He was an active town's commissioner. He was a working member of the committee of the Birmingham General Hospital. He originated and organised a system under which taxes were paid through the Bank of England branch, a system which was afterwards extended to other branches throughout the country. He was a member of the Society of Arts, and was concerned in the provision of the building for the exhibition of pictures and statuary in New Street. He became a director of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and remained at the board until his death, being chairman during the last twelve years. In 1829 he was consulted by the Home Secretary, Robert Peel, on the general condition of Birmingham, and the friendly intercourse thus begun was never afterwards broken. During this period he refused an offer of a partnership in Moilliett's bank; and also an invitation by John (afterwards Sir John) Gladstone to join a proposed firm for the purpose of establishing a system of commercial agencies connecting England and the East. It was proposed that Nicholls should go out to organise branches at Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Singapore, and Canton, and that a post should be reserved for him at Liverpool or London on his return.
In the meantime the first poor-law commissioners, appointed in February 1832, had drawn up their report. Nicholls had been especially applied to by them (through Mr. Cowell, one of the assistant commissioners) in the course of their inquiries, and the report, published in February 1834, contains frequent favourable references to the system in work at Bingham and Southwell, the principles ultimately recommended as the basis of legislation being those which had been advocated in Nicholls's 'Letters by an Overseer.' The Poor-law Amendment Act (4 and 5 Will. IV, c. 76) was passed the same year, and in August Nicholls was appointed one of the three commissioners entrusted with its administration, the other two being Sir T. Frankland Lewis (afterwards succeeded by his son, Sir George Cornewall Lewis) and Mr. J. G. Shaw-Lefevre (afterwards succeeded by Sir Edmund Head); Edwin Chadwick was appointed secretary.
Thenceforth Nicholls lived in London. The bank was very anxious to retain him at Birmingham, and he accepted his new office only under strong pressure from Lord Melbourne, and at some pecuniary loss to himself. He remained a member of the poor-law commission until its reconstitution in 1847. The question of the Irish poor law in the meantime became urgent; no feasible scheme was forthcoming till 1836, when Nicholls submitted to Lord John Russell, by request, certain 'suggestions' on the subject. In June 1836, and again in the autumn of 1837, Nicholls was sent over to Ireland to inquire as to the best form of legislation. His two reports (dated respectively 15 November 1836 and 3 November 1837) were approved, and were to a great extent the foundation of the provisions of the Irish Poor-law Act, 1838 (1 and 2 Vict. c. 56). He was also, early in 1838, sent by the government to Holland and Belgium to make examination of the mode of administering relief and the condition of the poorer classes in those countries. His report is dated 5 May 1838. Upon the passing of the Irish act he was requested by government to superintend the early stages of its introduction, and he accordingly proceeded in September 1838 to Ireland, residing, with his wife and children, at Lis-an-iskea, Blackrock, Dublin. He did not return to London till November 1842. The task of directing the working of the measure proved very difficult, and his efforts were hampered by party opposition. The Irish poor law and its administration were subjected to violent criticism, both in and out of parliament; but the bitterest opponents bore testimony to Nicholls's character and ability.
On the reorganisation of the poor-law board in 1847, Nicholls became its 'permanent' secretary, Lord Ebrington being appointed its 'parliamentary' secretary. In April 1848 he was made a C.B., the appointment being one of the first batch following the extension of the order of civilians. In January 1851 he retired from office through ill-health, with a pension and the title of K.C.B. (March 1851). The remainder of his life he chiefly devoted to writing on the poor and the poor laws. Between 1848 and 1857 he was consulted three times by persons making inquiries on behalf of the French government, and once by Professor Kries of Breslau, the object in all four cases being to obtain materials for proposed poor law legislation on the continent. He continued to take an active part in the affairs of the Birmingham Canal, and he was also a working member of the committee of the Rock Life Assurance Company. On 24 March 1865 he died at his house, No. 17 (afterwards No. 1) Hyde Park Street, London.
On 6 July 1813 he had married Harriet, daughter of Brough Maltby of Southwell, Nottinghamshire. She survived her husband till May 1869. They had issue one son, the Rev. Henry George Nicholls, who married Caroline Maria, daughter of his uncle Solomon Nicholls, and seven daughters: Georgiana Elizabeth, Charlotte (who married W. F. Wingfield), Emily, Jane (who married Rev. P. T. Ouvry), Mary Grace, Harriet (who died in infancy), and Catharine Harriet (who married W. W. Willink). Nicholls was author of:
'Eight Letters on the Management of our Poor and the General Administration of the Poor Laws. By an Overseer,' 1823.
Three Reports by George Nicholls, esq., to H. M. Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department,' 1838.
'The Farmer's Guide,' Dublin, 1841.
'The Farmer,' London, 1844.
'On the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer,' 1847.
'The Flax-Grower,' 1848 (reprinted, with additions, from vol. viii. of Royal Agricultural Society's 'Journal').
'A History of the English Poor Law,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1854.
'A History of the Scotch Poor Law,' 8vo, 1856.
'A History of the Irish Poor Law,' 8vo, 1856.
Stephen, Sir Lesley, and Sir Sidney Lee (eds.), Dictionary of National Biography: from the earliest times to 1900. London, Oxford University Press, 1949.
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Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome-- as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.
An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves. Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he's ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self discovery, guided by panther turned stern mentor Bagheera, and the free spirited bear Baloo.
Pieces of April
Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts her good-girl status and brother Timmy captures it all on film.
Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.


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Suspended Marlboro County sheriff, ex-deputy given $25K bond
by: Kevin Accettulla
Editor's note: A previous version of this story contained an incorrect spelling for Jarrel Johnson. It has been corrected.
MARLBORO COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A judge on Tuesday granted $25,000 surety bonds for suspended Marlboro County Sheriff Charles Lemon and former deputy David Andrew Cook.
Lemon and David Andrew Cook are were arraigned at 1:30 p.m. in front of Judge Michael Nettles in Florence. Nettles said neither Lemon nor Cook can have any contact with anyone from the Marlboro County Sheriff's Office outside of their attorneys.
Bakari Sellers, who is representing the family of Jarrel Johnson, spoke in court and said the family was unaware anything happened to their son while he was in jail and considered Lemon a friend until they saw video of the incident.
"This is arguably one of the most disgusting acts we've seen on video, your honor, perpetuated by law enforcement of an individual that's still alive," Sellers said.
Interim Marlboro County sheriff vows to work hard to help officers, reshape department's image
"We would ask your honor, and everyone else, to show the same grace and mercy to these individuals that they showed to my client," Sellers said. "Under South Carolina law, you can't be sheriff, and jury, and executioner at the same time and Mr. Lemon thought he was."
The attorney for Lemon, Morgan Martin, argued that Johnson was acting disorderly.
"There was no execution involved here," Martin said in response to Sellers' comments.
Martin said Lemon has been a life-long resident of Marlboro County except for when he was in the military and asked for bond to be granted. He argued that the taser was used to maintain control of the situation and said Lemon is not guilty.
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"In a jail setting, somebody's got to be in control and the question is, is that going to be law enforcement or is it going to be people who have been arrested," Martin said.
Martin said the family is rightfully concerned about the video and nobody wanted this situation to happen, but said the actions of Lemon were reasonable. Martin argued that Johnson was brought to the jail earlier on the day of the incident for allegedly beating his dad with a bat.
"We believe that the Sheriff Lemon and the other deputy involved were doing the best they could to get him into the cell without any violence," Martin said.
Heather Weiss, a lawyer for the State Attorney General's Office, showed Nettles the video of the tasing.
Lemon and Cook have been charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, along with misconduct in office, according to an announcement last week by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
In the video of the incident, Lemon orders the officials to remove the inmate's handcuffs and "tase the hell out of him." Lemon is heard on the video saying, "When y'all take the handcuffs off of him – when he turn around, stick that taser to his head."
The sheriff then yells several things, including about how he knows Johnson's whole family. He goes on to yell, "give him what he asked for."
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Johnson's handcuffs are then removed by jail officials and that's when Johnson turns around and appears to lunge towards the sheriff. After that, more yelling is heard and the sheriff continues to demand that the Taser be deployed to Johnson more. This video lasts for a little over two minutes.
Former Bennettsville Police Department Chief Larry McNeil was named as interim sheriff until Lemon is acquitted, convicted, until if the indictment is disposed of or until a sheriff is elected in the next general election, according to an announcement. Cook resigned in July 2021 and was with the department since 2018.
The next court date for Lemon and Cook has not been set.


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This new set of model figures will enable the enthusiast to stage his own football match. There are 29 pieces in the set - 24 players, in various poses, 2 trainers, 2 linesmen and a referee. In addition there are 2 footballs. We leave the choice of team colours to you as all the figures are unpainted.


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Axemen top Tigers 5-0
Dalhousie (2-7-1, 2-7-1) 0 0 0 0
Acadia (7-2-1, 7-2-1) 3 1 1 5
1st - 05:34 - Stephen Harper (Acadia)
1st - 11:15 - PP - Kyle Farrell (Acadia)
1st - 15:00 - Michael Zipp (Acadia)
2nd - 01:25 - PP - Remy Giftopoulos (Acadia)
3rd - 18:28 - PP - Boston Leier (Acadia)
Sh: Andrew Shewfelt - 6
Sv: Corbin Boes - 28
G: 5 Players (#7, #26, #34, #37, #94) - 1
A: Stephen Harper - 3
Sh: Rodney Southam - 5
Sv: Robert Steeves - 38
Source: Joshua Foote, Acadia Athletics Communications
Wolfville, N.S. – The Acadia Axemen (6-2-1) started their two-week home stand with a convincing 5-0 defeat of the Dalhousie Tigers (2-6-1). Axemen goaltender and Subway First Star of the Night, Robert Steeves turned aside all 38 shots he faced for his first shutout of the year.
The first period saw Acadia take a commanding 3-0 lead, with goals from Stephen Harper, Kyle Farrell and defenceman Michael Zipp.
Harper was the first to score, burying a one-timer from a cross ice pass by Farrell.
Farrell added a goal of his own on the power-play a few minutes later, when he finished a passing play while parked in front of the Dalhousie net.
Seconds after killing off a penalty, Michael Zipp picked up the puck in the Dalhousie zone and ripped a wrist shot to the top left corner of the net to make it 3-0 heading into the second.
Acadia added to their lead in the second period, with an early power-play goal to make it 4-0.
On the man-advantage, Axemen forward and second star of the night, Boston Leier put on the brakes to evade the defense and passed the puck to Remy Giftopoulos for an easy tap in.
The game got rough near the end of the second as the two teams combined for 18 minutes in penalties, with forward Remy Giftopoulos receiving a 10-minute misconduct.
Hostilities grew between the teams in the third, as Acadia and Dalhousie combined for 26 minutes in penalties, including fighting majors on both sides and a 10-minute misconduct for forward Reid Murphy.
Boston Leier added the only goal of the third, with a power-play marker from the point to make it 5-0.
Dalhousie goaltender Corbin Boes turned aside 28 of 33 shots he faced.
Tigers defenceman Colton Heffley was named third star of the night.
The Axemen take to the ice again at home on Friday Nov. 3 against the StFX X-Men. Puck drop is at 7:00pm.


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When a West Vancouver couple called on an architect to build their family home, he delivered—he just had to change the roof first.
By Kelly Dawson | Dwell Magazine
A couple living in West Vancouver with two young kids had a plan. They wanted a home where their family could grow; a place that had enough room for toys, and books, and play. It seemed like a typical enough objective, as most couples with children want this. And even though the 1950s property they purchased had likely spent generations as the setting for this type of dream, this pair couldn't picture their future amongst its history.
"The interior had seen a couple of interior renovations over the years, but the structure and the bones were all existing," principal Nigel Parish of Splyce Design says. "The exterior was in its original 1950s form."
Read the Full Article Here: Mathers in Dwell 2018


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Q: Should a tag wiki body be self-contained, duplicating what's already stated in the excerpt? Update: the example in this question is somewhat outdated, as I've edited the Android tag :)
What is the specific goal for a tag wiki // the relation between a tag-wiki and its excerpt?
I would assume that the tag wiki itself should be complete, and the excerpt is just a summary. I was looking at the Android wiki and this starts with:

Developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.

Now while this is true, this is hardly a good description of what Android is :). It looks like you should already know what it is before reading this wiki.
The excerpt does start with something more sane:

Android is Google's software stack for mobile devices

I thought I might add something like that to the wiki, but looking at the edit history (nr 11 at time of writing, dated Apr 1 '11 at 22:18, the equivalent description in the wiki itself was deliberately removed by a diamond moderator, so I'm hesitant to re-add it, not willing to go into an edit war :)
Question:
Therefore I come to this question: Should the wiki itself

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*Be a complete description including the information from the excerpt, with the excerpt containing a shorter version for the popup

*Or is it something different, like for instance the wiki supposes a pre-existing knowledge of the excerpt (it being more of an introduction) with more in-depth information?

Also: the excerpt seems more than just that: it's the text you see when adding tags, so it has also some information about what to do and when to add. In the case of android the complete excerpt is currently:

Android is Google's software stack for mobile devices. Please use the
  Android-specific tags such as [android-intent], not [intent]. For
  non-developer questions, see http://android.stackexchange.com

(The emphasis is mine.)
The part about what tag to use doesn't seem relevant (to me) when you are looking at the tag-wiki, only when you are using the tag (so looking at the excerpt). It currently looks like the "excerpt" is something of a "tag usage description", whereas the wiki is more general description? (Note that I don't mean "should be" in any of this, just trying to get clear what is currently the goal of which part). This could be one of the "different" options:

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*The excerpt containts some information that is double (like an intro), and some information that is not copied in the wiki (like tips on using it)

(And in the end, following from this, should I / we / you / someone add something to the Android wiki that describes what it is or not?)

I've seen some differences in approach among the various tags by the way. Doesn't it kind of seems like a free-for-all currently? "We" (read: I) could just edit the Android tag wiki to make a bit more sense, despite the mentioned change by a diamond moderator?

OK, this seems to be going nowhere, I've edited the wiki to include the excerpt, as I think I've shown enough effort to not just be labelled as an "edit war". (It hasn't been 'peer reviewed' though at the moment.)

A: The excerpt of a tag wiki should contain a short description of what the purpose of the tag is, or what the topic is.
The tag wiki should expand the excerpt, which is just plain text, and describe more in which cases the tag should be used; it can contains relevant links, a list of similar tags with an explanation of when to use one instead of the other, or a list of questions that are great examples of questions using that tag.
The difference between excerpt and tag wiki is that the excerpt is the part that is seen from the users when they are adding a tag to questions.

For this reason, the excerpt can sometimes contain a text that is important for the user, such as the reference to an existing Stack Exchange site dedicated to that type of questions, a warning that the tag should not be anymore used for new question, or a warning about the questions probably being a subjective/off-topic question.

(The second screenshot has been taken from Seasoned Advice.)
I don't think that what reported in the excerpt must be necessarily be repeated in the tag wiki, especially if all the tag wiki reports is already reported in the excerpt. The excerpt could contain something that is important for the users to see when they are adding tags to questions, which then less important when the tag wiki is being read.
That said, it is important the tag wiki is independent from its excerpt, and it should be stand-alone, especially now that users can hide the excerpt when seeing the tag wiki page (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/tags/drupal/info).

This means that, instead of reading, "Developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance." which is not a sentence, I would rather prefer reading, "Android is Google's software stack for mobile devices, developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance."
How much of the excerpt should be repeated in the tag wiki depends from many factors, such as how long the tag wiki is already, and how much the excerpt content is important.
I would not say that repeating the excerpt in the tag wiki is something bad, but if there is other more important information that should be visible in the first 5-7 lines of the tag wiki, I would rather see that information, and not seeing again what I have already seen in the excerpt, which is normally seen when adding tags to questions, or when hovering the tag used by a question (as the excerpt is hidden by default, in the tag info page).
It is not possible to objectively decide about this in all the cases. Generally speaking, duplication is not necessarily bad.

A: My view on this, and the one I'm going to use while editting if there will be no other answers in the end:

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*An excerpt is a short introduction to the subject, and maybe some extra hints as to how to use the tag.

*The tag wiki should contain the introduction part (but this doesn't have to be literal: the excerpt might be more dense, so in need of a different sentence structure).

*The excerpts "tag hints" part doesn't need to be copied into the tag wiki: it has nothing to do with the subject, it's just for the popup while selecting tags.


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Q: Extracting continuous colour information (saturation, contrast, etc) from video mp4 files in R I would like to analyse some videos I have to extract frame-by-frame or second-by-second information about colour, saturation, and contrast.
I've never done this before and am simply unable to find any information on the internet about this. I have seen a few analyses of static images, but nothing about video.
Fore reproducibility, here is a randomly generated video from the av:: package:
video <- av::av_demo()

I would like to extract information in a time-series fashion. For example:
What are the average R/G/B values or other colour information at each second?
Saturation values?
Contrast values?
Ideally, the analysis would provide a data frame where each row is one second and each column is a variable. The values at each second could average over multiple frames.
Videos I have in real life range from 1 minute to about 4.5 minutes.
I appreciate that there may be a different way to describe the values I am looking for and am open to options and suggestions.


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What The 'Real UN' Is Like: Jonah Goldberg has an excellent column out today about the UN and Iraq. There are without a doubt people out there who think that getting UN approval for our invasion of Iraq somehow legitimizes it or at least gives it more moral authority. However, getting the approval of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council has absolutely nothing to do with ethics or morality and everything to do with economics. Here is what China, France, and Russia want in return for putting the precious UN stamp of approval on our Iraqi invasion….
"China's vote -or abstention, same difference -is considered the cheapest since it has so few commercial interests in Iraq. All they want is for the United States to either support, or turn a blind eye to, a Chinese crackdown on Muslim minorities in Western China. The United States also tossed into the pot an agreement to soften its stance toward the Tibet issue; we're leaning on the Dalai Lama to lighten up in his negotiations with the Chinese government.
Then there's France, which has publicly carved out the most self-righteous position when it comes to American "imperialism" and a potential war with Iraq. Privately, the French are very much open to negotiations. France has huge oil and other commercial interests in Iraq (despite the sanctions). America is working hard to promise the French that if France goes along with its historic ally -I mean America, if you weren't sure -they won't be frozen out of the new Iraqi economic order. Now, the French may not end up supporting a U.S. invasion of Iraq, but if they do support us, money, not principle, will have won the argument.


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