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Savory Institute
New Year, New Horizons
Written By Victoria Keziah, Managing Director, Land to Market Program
As the New Year approaches, new beginnings are underway at Savory. Until now, many of us engaged in the shared goal of restoring grasslands have, appropriately, set our sights on the soil, on the grass, on our animals, and on our businesses and communities. The New Year will require us to shift our gaze upward and outward, as we invite the commercial world to participate in the regeneration of landscapes through the Land to Market program, the world's first verified regenerative supply chain.
The program contains three key components. First is the science. The Ecological Outcome Verification, developed in collaboration with major research institutions and soil scientists, is the first methodology of its kind to be based on outcomes, not practices. In other words, rather than providing an inventory of management behavior (tilling, cover cropping, rotational grazing), it measures how the land is responding to its management as a living system. Measuring and trending key criteria such as soil health, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and ecosystem function, the Ecological Outcome Verification gives the land a voice of its own. It will allow all of us — scientists, farmers, marketers and consumers — to better understand regeneration as a process that we have the power to foster through empirically-informed management.
Next is the supply. For the first time in Savory history, our network's global supply of meat, dairy, wool, and leather, with its associated data, will be catalogued for ease of access by brands and retailers. These brands and retailers will then trace their sourcing to producers who are having a positive impact on biodiversity, water security, soil health and carbon sequestration. We have the support of several game-changing brands, including EPIC Provisions, Zuke's Natural Dog Treats and Supplements, and others to be announced in 2018. Together with these brand leaders we are walking the walk toward a regenerative future for food and fiber.
Finally, the Land to Market program must share a story of positive change. Fortunately for us, it's a story that tells itself: regenerating landscapes, thriving livelihoods, stronger communities, engaged brands and retailers, and informed consumers. Our Hubs are the heroes of this story. They are expanding their sphere of influence through Land to Market, by supporting and verifying more farms and ranches in their regions, and by forming relationships with commercial partners who wish to access proven regenerative supply. Suddenly the small are mighty — shops, restaurants, and artisanal brands will proudly wear the Land to Market badge, a sign of solidarity with their local Savory-affiliated producers.
You'll be seeing more directly from our Hubs in the New Year. They'll be sharing their news: of farmers engaged and empowered, of land converted, of supply placed in the hands of conscientious market partners, and of a shared commitment to the meaningful, positive change that can only emerge from the ground up. Let's all be sure to lift our gaze with them, for good things are on the horizon.
The Savory Institute is on a mission to regenerate the grasslands of the world and the livelihoods of their inhabitants, through Holistic Management. We launched in July 2009 by Allan Savory, Daniela Ibarra-Howell and others to accelerate the worldwide spread of Holistic Management through an international network of entrepreneurs and leaders.
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Q: Platform services getting hang We are using endeca 11.x and recently we did OS upgrade on endeca servers. Now we are facing Eac communication issue between ITL and CAS server. I restarted Platform Services on both and the job will run for 1hr and after that it is throwing EAC communication exception. Other than that there is no error log in any file. After going through catalina file I found that Platform Services will stop responding and give Socket Timeout exception after 1 hr.
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Petsecure is an experienced insurance company that has been selling pet insurance in Australian for over 15 years. Unlike most other Australian pet insurance companies, Petsecure specialises in pet insurance. They offer a range of pet insurance policies that are affordable and packed with features.
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Petsecure provides lifetime cover for illnesses if your pet is insured before reaching 9 years of age. They provide accident only cover to pets of any age.
The cost of taking a pet to the vet has rapidly increased over the past decade in Australia. It can cost thousands of dollars to treat an animal for a common condition like a bladder infection or broken leg. Diseases like cancer or diabetes can cost much more to treat.
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2015 Diana Jones Award Shortlist Announced
Five diverse games and books from around the world vie for hobby-gaming's most exclusive trophy
From another long and eclectic collection of nominees, the secretive committee of the Diana Jones Award has distilled a shortlist of five contenders that it believes best exemplified 'excellence' in the field of gaming in 2014. The Diana Jones Committee is proud to announce that the shortlist for its 2015 award for Excellence in Gaming is:
COLLEGE OF WIZARDRY
A live-action roleplay game by Liveform and Rollespilsfabrikken
Rendering a magical world into a physical, playable reality is always a challenge. Rollespilsfabrikken and Liveform, the Danish-Polish team behind the live action role-playing game College of Wizardry, took a post-Potter setting and added a new school of magic in Czocha, Poland. The larp is a witches' brew of game design enabling free play, an ensemble of dedicated co-creative players, and the truly enchanting location of the Czocha castle, filled with secret passages. The participants played juniors, sophomores, and seniors, as well as teachers, ghosts, and a wide variety of magical creatures for three days at the start of the school year. The open design of the larp was particularly robust; this was a larp that would not break—and would still make sense no matter how many dark rituals were performed. The global media attention that College of Wizardry received was unprecedented and unanimously positive.
DESIGNERS & DRAGONS second edition
A series of books by Shannon Appelcline
Published by Evil Hat Productions
Without art history there can be no lasting art.
GUIDE TO GLORANTHA
A role-playing sourcebook by Greg Stafford, Jeff Richard, and Sandy Petersen
Published by Moon Design Publications
Since the appearance of the White Bear and Red Moon board game forty years ago, Greg Stafford's beguiling, mythic world of Glorantha has been a seminal setting for tabletop game play. A testament not only to the depth of the world but also to the loving dedication of its fan base, Guide to Glorantha ballooned into titanic life through a massively successful crowdfunding campaign. Co-authored by past DJA winner Greg Stafford, the equally legendary Sandy Petersen, and the indefatigable Jeff Richard, it thunks onto the table in jaw-dropping, two-volume, 800-page, full-colour, coffee-table-sized glory. (Not to mention a separate map pack!) The book's art direction nods to past RuneQuest glories while serving up gorgeous yet illustrative new pieces from the obsessive likes of Jan Pospisil and Jeff Laubenstein. A compendium in every sense of the word, this is the publishing project only a world as rich as Glorantha could sustain. Whether you're a mechanistic dwarf, an all-devouring troll, or a paradoxical red moon goddess, you have to stand back in awe at both its towering ambition and maniacally detailed execution.
A card game by Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko
Published by IGAMES
In game design, as in perfume making, sometimes two familiar essences can combine to create something totally new. The Ukrainian game Mysterium takes the structured murder-solving heart of Clue/Cluedo, adds the card-identifying charm of Dixit, and blends them into an entirely new game that is atmospheric, suspenseful, narrative, co-operative, delightful and deeply satisfying. One player is a ghost who must communicate the details of its murder to a crew of psychic investigators—the other players—through seven nights of dreams, represented by cards with surreal illustrations. The result is gameplay that's simple but brilliant: the ghost may be telling you about the general, the postman or the nun but your only clue is a picture of a chair on a tightrope. It is a game about the joy of over-thinking the obvious, and when you fail you curse not the cards, the mechanics, fate or your fellow players, but your own poverty of imagination. Being the out-of-wedlock progeny of a family staple and a Spiel des Jahres winner sets high expectations but Mysterium is more than the sum of its parts, it is an instant classic.
A role-playing game by Thor Olavsrud and Luke Crane
Published by Burning Wheel
Combining sleek, modern game design with an unabashed love letter to red-box D&D, Torchbearer celebrates and revels in the nearly-lost notion that roleplaying games can challenge you as a player—and that you can get better at them. Starting from the primordial fortune-seeking adventuring party, Torchbearer quickly strips away the familiar comforts of heroic fantasy. True to its name, you'll be managing light sources—as well as food, water and other minutia—as you crawl through miserable caves seeking treasure. Torchbearer's brilliance quickly becomes apparent as the crunchy details of low-level delves, so often a stumbling block, become simultaneously central to play and effortless to implement. Never has a heartless, brutal grind been so much fun.
The Diana Jones Award is an annual award created to publicly acknowledge excellence in gaming. The award was first made for the year 2000, and the first award ceremony was on August 4, 2001.
The Diana Jones trophy was created in the UK offices of TSR in the mid 1980s to commemorate the ending of their license to publish The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game. The trophy itself is a perspex pyramid containing the burnt remains of the last unsold copy of the game; all that is legible of the title is "diana Jones". The trophy was "liberated" and eventually ended up with the Diana Jones committee. The destruction of "one of the least-loved and critically savaged games of all time" was seen an appropriate symbol for an award for excellence in gaming. The trophy also contains a counter that reads "Nazi™" from the game.
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Keep in mind, I probably wrote this really late and I now want to change everything... unless you like it. Then I wouldn't change a thing. ;)
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Fresh Fig & Berry Burst Lattice Card featuring Floral Statements by Stampin' Up!
Summer is here, and that means flowers flowers and more flowers. So in honor of the start of Summer this weeks episode of Stampin' On The Porch with Rick (my weekly Facebook live) I created a card using Fresh Fig and Berry Burst featuring one of my favorite new stamp sets Floral Statements. I asked people on my Facebook page which of the new in colors they liked the best, and the one with the most comments I would use in the card that I was doing on Tuesday. It was a tie with the comments, between Berry Burst and Fresh Fig so I used both on the my card. Here's a look at my card.
The card is a standard size card. Most of the time the Lattice edge is on the side of the card, but I turned it on it's side and made it a top folding Lattice Card. Stamp the floral sentiment in the darkest colored ink. I used Fresh Fig on Berry Burst Cardstock. I wanted the Berry Burst to act as the mid tone value of the card, so I used the Fresh Fig as the darkest shadows. I used the White and Rich Razzelberry Watercolor pencils as regular colored pencils. I started with the white pencil and very lightly colored the areas that I wanted to be the highlighted areas. Once that was done I switched to the Rich Razzelberry pencil and softened the dark areas a little and very lightly moved out just a little. I then came back into the white areas with a little stronger in the highlight areas. I added another level of the highlights in certain areas to make it pop. I did the same thing with the shadow areas and darkened up the midtones a little more.
Rich Razzelberry and Berry Burst are very close in colors. Rich Razzelberry is just slightly brighter and darker in value and hue then Berry Burst. They are so close that if I put them on a color scale they would be right next together on the scale. I know that this doesn't mean most of you that have not been to art school. The color scale is a group of about ten colors in the same color hue in ten different values ranging from light to darkest.
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Absolutely LOVE this card Rick!!!
I love this stamp set it makes beautiful cards.
Just came across your card while googling this stamp set. Simply gorgeous card!


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Mario Bianchi (Róma, 1939. január 7. – 2022. április) olasz filmrendező. Pályája kezdetén az 1970-es években még mozifilmekkel nyitott, később pedig átváltott a pornófilmekre és más pornográf tartalmú filmalkotásokra.

Élete és munkája
Édesapja Roberto Bianchi Montero rendező, akitől a filmezés alapjait is eltanulta. 1967-től kezdett el dolgozni segédrendezőként Siro Marcellini és Ferdinando Baldi, valamint saját apja mellett. Többször hozzájárult a forgatókönyvek megírásához. Gyakran alkalmazott olyan spanyol és olasz színészeket, akik apja stábjában is dolgoztak, s barátságot kötöttek a rendezővel, úgy mint Aldo Sambrell, vagy Frank Braña.

1971-től jelentkezett önálló alkotásokkal és a korszak divatműfajait követve eleinte spagettiwesterneket és olasz rendőrfilmekkel ún. poliziottescó-kat forgatott. Ezeket a filmeket a kritikák már akkoriban elsősorban pénzügyi célzatúnak tartották. 1981-től Bianchi már fokozottan erotikus tartalmú filmeket csinált, sőt 1983-tól lényegében átállt a pornófilmek készítésére, amelyeket sok esetben csak videókazetta-forgalmazásra születtek. Édesapja Roberto szintén készített az 1970-es évek végétől néhány pornófilmet, de ő maga nem szakosodott erre a műfajra.

Egyik ilyen vitatott pornográf elemeket bőven tartalmazó horrorfilmje A Sátán szeretője (La bimba di Satana), ahol pornószínészek mellett hivatásos színészek (így Aldo Sambrell) is dolgoztak. Utóbbiaknak természetesen nem kellett részt venniük a valós szexjelenetekben, hanem a velük dolgozó pornószínészek lettek a dublőreik. Film hátborzongató képsorain és pornójelenetein kívül okkultizmusról, járkáló halottakról és vérfertőzésről szól.

Bianchi 2001-ig aktív maradt a filmvilágban, de pornófilmeken kívül ritkán készített hagyományos alkotásokat. Az 1990-es évek végén a magyar pornócsillaggal Staller Ilonával azaz Cicciolinával is forgatott, ám rajta kívül még más magyar felnőttfilmszínésznők is dolgoztak Bianchinak.

Filmjeiben használt művésznevei: Alan W. Cools, Nicholas Moore, Martin White, Jim Reynolds, Mark B. Light, Arthur Wolf, David Bird, Tony Yanker.

Érdekesség, hogy Olaszországban élt még egy Mario Bianchi nevű filmrendező, aki csupán egyetlen filmmel, az 1966-os La legge della mafia c. krimivel próbálkozott, ám nem sikerült érvényesülnie a filmiparban. Ehelyett papi pályára lépett és misszionáriusként Polinéziába ment.

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Források

 Mario Bianchi (imdb.com)
 Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I Registi, Gremese 2002

1939-ben született személyek
2022-ben elhunyt személyek
Olasz filmrendezők
Olasz forgatókönyvírók
Pornográfia
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Planning a visit to Laos? You can expect to see a ton of interesting things during your trip to Laos such as ancient temples, rice fields, natural parks, Buddhist monks and shrines, as well as enjoy memorable experiences such as cruising the Mekong River.
The Plain of Jars is one of the most enigmatic sites in the north-east of Laos that you can visit on a day trip. The Plain f Jars is literary a plain filled with prehistoric over-sized stone jars that are scattered over a wide area of the plains of Xieng Khouang.
These huge stone jars are definitely, one of the most fascinating things you'll see in Laos since noone why they are there. What makes this trip worth it though is that you get to soak the beautiful countryside views surrounding the sites.
Kong Lor cave is located within the Phou Hi Poun National Bio-Diversity Conservation Area and it's no doubt, one of the top sights to see in Laos. The area surrounding the cave is stunning and the cave experience is second to none because the only way to see the cave is on boat. You actually get to ride the whole four miles of the cave and come out at the other end!
As far as getting to the cave, you can easily and inexpensively get to Kong Lor cave by bus or private car from the capital city of Vientiane (Viangchan), though it does take a good 6-7 hours to get there. This is why is a good idea to plan this outing as a day trip and spend the night at one of the nearby villages (both Kong Lor and Natan villages have lodgings for tourists).
Also, be aware that Kong Lor is prone to flooding during the rainy season (late May thru November) so that's worth keeping in mind.
Kuang Si falls are located just outside of Luang Prabang and they're definitely one of the most beautiful sights to see in Laos. These waterfalls are one of the best side trips you can do from Luang Prabang and you'll be rewarded with beautiful scenery and plenty to do!
Kuang Si falls are gorgeously maintained by the locals who have built walkways and bridges through the forest for people to walk through. You're also allowed to climb to the top of the falls, swim in the pools, enjoy a picnic and visit the bear sanctuary where you can see up-close the Asiatic black bear.
Being the capital, Vientiane is home to some of the top sights to see in Laos such as the Pratuxai Monument, Buddha Park, Wat Ong Teu Mahawihan (Buddhist monastery) and Haw Phra Kaew. Having said this, two places you wouldn't want to miss are Pratuxai Monument and Buddha Park which are two of the most stunning sights you'll photograph in Laos.
Buddha Park has a huge statue of a laying Buddha on his side, while Pratuxai is a stunningly constructed memorial monument that resembles the famous "Arc de Triomphe" of Paris. Besides taking photos from afar, be sure you go inside the monument to see the beautiful dome frescoes depicting Hindu gods.
Vieng Xai is not only a stunning place to visit but a place where you can learn a bit of history regarding Laos' past conflicts. Basically, Vieng Xai suffered heavy bombardment during the "Secret War" of the 60's and 70's. The bomb raids were so frequent that villagers and the Pathet Lao Leaders were forced to retreat and live in the nearby caves, which are known today as the Pathet Lao caves.
The scenery surrounding the caves is truly memorable, while the guided tour of the caves is even more startling when you learn that more than 20,000 people actually lived and worked in these dark caves.
If you're wondering how to get to the Vieng Xai, the caves are located in east side of Laos near the city of Sam Nuea (near the conservation area of Nam Et). From Luang Prabang, it takes around 4 hours drive by private car or 10 hours by bus.
If you're looking for more cool photo opportunities, the Pak Ou Caves are without question, one of the top sights to see in Laos. The caves are located on the east side of the beautiful Mekong River and are famously known for its thousands of Buddha statues that have been donated by people over the years.
The Buddha statues can be found on both caves and some of the bigger ones are located facing the Mekong River (as if they were guarding the caves).
The best thing about going to the Pak Ou caves is that they aren't far at all from Luang Prabang. In fact, you can easily get from Luang Prabang to Pak Ou caves by boat or tuk-tuk (a.k.a songthaew) and be back to Luang Prabang in half-day.


I am the co-editor of three books, Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women's Thinking to Psychological Theory and Research (Harvard University Press, 1988), Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black (Routledge, 1999) and Gender and Teaching, with Frances Maher, published in 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum. I also wrote the book, The Skin We're In: Teaching Our Children to be Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart and Spiritually Connected (Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2000).
In 1990-92 I was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, and in 1996-97 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Wellesley College Centers for Women. From 2000-2003, I served as the Director for the Alliance on Gender, Culture and School Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education. With Harvard Professor Wendy Luttrell, I was Co-Principal Investigator of Project ASSERT, a five-year school based research study and curriculum development project exploring issues of gender, culture and school practice for urban elementary and middle school teachers. This project ended in 2006.
For over twenty years my professional work and research interests have centered on the developmental issues of African American adolescents, focusing on identity and moral development in African American girls and boys. Along with my teaching responsibilities I work with youth counselors, secondary school educators and other practitioners in a variety of school-based and out-of-school settings. I recently completed a study of socialization practices of White mothers of Chinese daughters and a chapter on educational and clinical interventions with children in schools against everyday colorism.


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Cocktail & Other Recipes By Spirit Gin Cocktails
Kevin Gray
Kevin Gray is a Dallas freelance writer specializing in food, drinks and travel. He's been covering spirits and cocktails since 2009.
Liquor.com / Tim Nusog
The Bramble is one of those cocktails that feels like a century-old classic. It looks the part, and every good barkeep knows how to make one. But the drink wasn't created until 1984, when Dick Bradsell (whose resume also includes the Espresso Martini) mixed this modern-classic at Fred's Club in London's Soho neighborhood. It's one of that decade's best success stories, standing apart from the era's provocatively named drinks that eschewed fresh ingredients in favor of bottled, neon-hued mixers.
The Bramble was named for the bush that blackberries grow on and was inspired by the fresh berries that Bradsell used to pick as a child on the Isle of Wight. After receiving some creme de mure (a blackberry liqueur) for the bar, he began experimenting and came on a combination of gin, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup and creme de mure that was part Gin Sour, part Singapore Sling. He shook up the ingredients and strained them over crushed ice to tame the sweetness.
There's no reason to tweak Bradsell's Bramble: It's great precisely as he made it back in 1984. But that hasn't stopped inventive bartenders from playing with the recipe. The easiest way to tweak the original is to swap in a different base spirit for the gin, like a dry pisco or grassy rhum agricole, or to drizzle another product on top, like Chambord raspberry liqueur. You can also shake a couple berries with the liquid ingredients to lend more flavor and color to the cocktail. All of these variations make a fine drink, but perhaps none provide the simple refreshment that Bradsell achieved behind the bar at Fred's Club.
This recipe pays homage to the well-balanced original. Mix one during spring and summer when blackberries are in season (throw a berry on the ice crown for visuals and a healthy snack), and you might discover your new favorite way to drink gin.
11 Gin Cocktails to Try Right Now
1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
2 teaspoons simple syrup
1/2 ounce creme de mure
Garnish: lemon half-wheel
Garnish: fresh blackberry
Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
Fine-strain into an Old Fashioned glass over crushed ice.
Slowly pour the creme de mure over the top of the drink
Garnish with a lemon half-wheel and a fresh blackberry.
Pisco Bramble
Kentucky Maid
Black Demure
Smuggler's Cove Straits Sling
High King Highball
Thin Mint Julep
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The official Marseillais team selected by Rudi Garcia for the away match to Bordeaux, on Friday at 20h45 at Matmut Atlantique on Matchday 31 in the Ligue 1 Conforama.
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VARIOUS FILE: Former Libyan intelligence officer convicted in Lockerbie bombing Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has died aged sixty
Title: VARIOUS FILE: Former Libyan intelligence officer convicted in Lockerbie bombing Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has died aged sixty
Date: 21st May 2012
Summary: CAMP ZEIST, NETHERLANDS (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (FILE - JANUARY 22, 2002) (REUTERS) SECURITY GATE AT ENTRANCE TO CAMP ZEIST WITH SIGN "SCOTTISH COURT IN THE NETHERLANDS".
Embargoed: 5th June 2012 00:02
Location: Libya, United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom Libya
Topics: Crime,Obituaries
Reuters ID: LVACWSPYYXW5Y790VAFWKCQ88DP1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Story Text: The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday. He was 60.
Abdel Basset al-Megrahi died at home after a long battle with cancer. His health had deteriorated quickly overnight, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters.
"He was surrounded by his family and died in his house," Abdulhakim said on Sunday.
Megrahi had been in and out of hospital for weeks and he was taken for an emergency blood transfusion in April.
He was held in a prison in the town of Greenock in western Scotland after he was tried and convicted for the bombing under Scottish law, although the trial was held in the Netherlands.
In November 2008, Megrahi's lawyers asked a court to free him on bail, saying he was suffering from advanced prostate cancer. He was later released from the Scottish prison on compassionate grounds and returned to Libya, a decision criticised by the United States.
Megrahi, who served as an intelligence agent during the rule of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, denied any role in both the bombing and suspected human rights abuses in his home country before Gaddafi's fall and death in a popular uprising last year.


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Q: Python script to input the next number in a sequence every time it runs. I am trying to write a script that will have a count that starts a 001, and increasing by one every time that the script is run.
I just help some help started this off, what can I do to set it up so that it knows where it start from every time? Is there is way that I can build it into the script to do this?
My bad ideas about how to do this so far:
 - Have the number(001) exported to a text file, and have the script change that number at the end of every script (001 +1).

*

*This number will also be in a spreadsheet, so have the script read to value from the spreadsheet, and add one to that value.

I feel like there has to be an easier way, and I'd prefer a way that was self-contained within the script. Can someone help point me in the right direction?
Thanks for your input.

A: if you want some kind of state persistance then your options are limited:

*

*save the state into a file as you suggest in your question (either a text file or spreadsheet, but spreadsheet is harder to do)

*change your concept so that instead of "running the script" multiple times, the script is always running, but you give it some kind of signal (keyboard input, GUI with a button etc) to let it know to increment the counter

*split your script into two halves, a server script and a client. the server would listen for connections from the client, and keep track of the current count, the client would then connect and tell the server to increment the count, if needed it could also send the previous or new count back to the client for some kind of output. this would prevent having many writes to disk, but the count would be lost if the server process is closed.

A: Here's a quick example of saving state using INI files and JSON files. Both attempt to read a config file, update or initialize a counter, save the new counter back to the config, and then return the counter.
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import configparser
import json
from contextlib import suppress

def get_updated_ini_counter():
    filename = 'config.ini'
    section = 'general'
    option = 'counter'
    starting_count = 100

    config = configparser.ConfigParser()
    config.read(filename)
    counter = 1 + int(config.get(section, option, fallback=starting_count - 1))
    if section not in config:
        config.add_section(section)
    config.set(section, option, str(counter))
    with open('config.ini', 'w') as f:
        config.write(f)
    return counter

def get_updated_json_counter():
    filename = 'config.json'
    option = 'counter'
    starting_count = 100
    config = {}

    with suppress(FileNotFoundError):
        with open(filename) as f:
            config = json.load(f)
    config[option] = 1 + config.get(option, starting_count - 1)
    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
        json.dump(config, f, indent=4)
    return config[option]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print('ini counter  = {}'.format(get_updated_ini_counter()))
    print('json counter = {}'.format(get_updated_json_counter()))

A: This seems like a broad question. But say your script is hello.py and it just printing "hello world", then for a simple case where you're running this script on your own desktop/laptop just include a few lines to keep track of when you last ran the script.
import datetime

def hello():
    print "hello, world"

if __name__ == "__main__":

    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    ## create log
    with open("logs.txt", "a") as log:
        log.write(str(now) + "\n") ## write out to log

    ## run hello
    hello()

Out:
>python hello.py
hello, world
>python hello.py
hello, world
>python hello.py
hello, world
>python hello.py
hello, world
>python hello.py
hello, world
>cat logs.txt
2017-04-21 10:38:46.629779
2017-04-21 10:38:47.229658
2017-04-21 10:38:47.664318
2017-04-21 10:38:47.957451
2017-04-21 10:38:48.279116

If you need to know the number of times you ran the script on a certain day/hour, you can just export this to Excel or something to show you the distribution of usage over time.
Update, using atexit:
Here is the above example using atexit

The atexit module defines a single function to register cleanup functions. Functions thus registered are automatically executed upon normal interpreter termination.

import atexit
import datetime

def hello():
    print "hello, world"

def saveDateTime():
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    ## create log
    with open("logs.txt", "a") as log:
        log.write(str(now) + "\n")

def goodbye():
    try:
        _dates = open("logs.txt").read()
        _count = len(_dates)
    except IOError:
        _count = 0
    print 'Goodbye, this script has been run %d times.' % (_count)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    hello() ## run hello
    atexit.register(saveDateTime) ## then log when you used this
    atexit.register(goodbye) ## then log when you used this


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package com.sudhirkhanger.app.popularmovies.FetchTasks;

import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;

import com.sudhirkhanger.app.popularmovies.BuildConfig;
import com.sudhirkhanger.app.popularmovies.database.Movie;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class FetchMoviesTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, ArrayList<Movie>> {

    private final String LOG_TAG = FetchMoviesTask.class.getSimpleName();

    /**
     * JSON parsing class
     *
     * @param movieJsonStr Raw json data
     * @return Arraylist of movie objects
     * @throws JSONException
     */
    private ArrayList<Movie> getMovieDataFromJson(String movieJsonStr)
            throws JSONException {

        final String MDB_RESULT = "results";
        final String MDB_TITLE = "title";
        final String MDB_RELEASE_DATE = "release_date";
        final String MDB_POSTER_PATH = "poster_path";
        final String MDB_VOTE_AVERAGE = "vote_average";
        final String MDB_OVERVIEW = "overview";
        final String MDB_BACKDROPS = "backdrop_path";
        final String MDB_ID = "id";
        final String IMAGE_BASE_URL = "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/";
        final String IMAGE_BACKDROPS_URL = "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/";

        JSONObject movieJson = new JSONObject(movieJsonStr);
        JSONArray movieArray = movieJson.getJSONArray(MDB_RESULT);

        ArrayList<Movie> movieArrayList = new ArrayList<>();

        for (int i = 0; i < movieArray.length(); i++) {

            JSONObject movieObject = movieArray.getJSONObject(i);

            String title = movieObject.getString(MDB_TITLE);
            String release_date = movieObject.getString(MDB_RELEASE_DATE);
            String poster_path = movieObject.getString(MDB_POSTER_PATH);
            String vote_average = movieObject.getString(MDB_VOTE_AVERAGE);
            String overview = movieObject.getString(MDB_OVERVIEW);
            String backdrops = movieObject.getString(MDB_BACKDROPS);
            String id = movieObject.getString(MDB_ID);

            Movie movie = new Movie(title,
                    release_date,
                    IMAGE_BASE_URL + poster_path,
                    vote_average,
                    overview,
                    IMAGE_BACKDROPS_URL + backdrops,
                    id);

            movieArrayList.add(movie);
        }

        return movieArrayList;
    }

    @Override
    protected ArrayList<Movie> doInBackground(String... params) {

        // If there's no zip code, there's nothing to look up.  Verify size of params.
        if (params.length == 0) {
            return null;
        }

        // These two need to be declared outside the try/catch
        // so that they can be closed in the finally block.
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
        BufferedReader reader = null;

        // Will contain the raw JSON response as a string.
        String movieJsonStr = null;

        try {

            // http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/popular?page=1&api_key={API Key}
            // Build an URL like above

            final String MOVIEDB_BASE_URL =
                    "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie";
            final String QUERY_PAGE = "page";
            final String QUERY_API_KEY = "api_key";

            Uri builtUri = Uri.parse(MOVIEDB_BASE_URL).buildUpon()
                    .appendPath(params[0])
                    .appendQueryParameter(QUERY_PAGE, params[1])
                    .appendQueryParameter(QUERY_API_KEY, BuildConfig.THE_MOVIE_DB_API_KEY)
                    .build();

            URL url = new URL(builtUri.toString());

            Log.d(LOG_TAG, url.toString());

            // Create the request to OpenWeatherMap, and open the connection
            urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            urlConnection.connect();

            // Read the input stream into a String
            InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
            StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
            if (inputStream == null) {
                // Nothing to do.
                return null;
            }
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

            String line;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                // Since it's JSON, adding a newline isn't necessary (it won't affect parsing)
                // But it does make debugging a *lot* easier if you print out the completed
                // buffer for debugging.
                buffer.append(line + "\n");
            }

            if (buffer.length() == 0) {
                // Stream was empty.  No point in parsing.
                return null;
            }
            movieJsonStr = buffer.toString();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Error ", e);
            // If the code didn't successfully get the weather data, there's no point in attemping
            // to parse it.
            return null;
        } finally {
            if (urlConnection != null) {
                urlConnection.disconnect();
            }
            if (reader != null) {
                try {
                    reader.close();
                } catch (final IOException e) {
                    Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Error closing stream", e);
                }
            }
        }

        try {
            return getMovieDataFromJson(movieJsonStr);
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            Log.e(LOG_TAG, e.getMessage(), e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        // This will only happen if there was an error getting or parsing the forecast.
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(ArrayList<Movie> result) {
    }
}


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US-led coalition says it has started Syria withdrawal
January 11, 2019 · 7:45 AM EST
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units head a convoy of US military vehicles in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria.
Rodi Said/Reuters/File Photo
The US-led coalition against ISIS has begun the process of withdrawing from Syria, a spokesman said on Friday, indicating the start of a US pullout that has been clouded by mixed messages from Washington.
US President Donald Trump's announcement in December that he had decided to withdraw 2,000 US troops stunned allies that have joined Washington in the battle against ISIS in Syria. Senior US officials were shocked too, among them Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who quit in protest.
The coalition "has begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria. Out of concern for operational security, we will not discuss specific timelines, locations or troop movements," Colonel Sean Ryan said.
Russia, which has deployed forces into Syria in support of the Damascus government, said it had the impression that the United States wanted to stay despite the announced withdrawal of US troops, RIA news agency reported.
Residents near border crossings that are typically used by US forces going in and out of Syria from Iraq said they had seen no obvious or large-scale movement of US ground forces on Friday.
The US decision has injected new uncertainties into the eight-year long Syrian war and a flurry of contacts over how a resulting security vacuum will be filled across a swathe of northern and eastern Syria where the US forces are stationed.
On the one hand, Turkey aims to pursue a campaign against Kurdish forces that have allied with the United States, and on the other the Russia and Iran-backed Syrian government sees the chance to recover a huge chunk of territory.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton suggested on Tuesday that protecting Washington's Kurdish allies would be a pre-condition of the US withdrawal. That drew a rebuke from Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan who called his comments "a serious mistake."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has been touring the Middle East this week to reassure allies of Washington's commitment to regional security, said on Thursday the withdrawal would not be scuppered despite the Turkish threats.
The Kurdish groups that control the north have turned to Moscow and Damascus in the hope of striking a political deal that will stave off Turkey and shield their autonomy in the north.
Russia urges Damascus-Kurdish dialogue
Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said it was important for Syrian Kurds and the Syrian government to start talking to each other in light of the US withdrawal plans.
She also said the territory previously controlled by the United States should be transferred to the Syrian government.
"In this regard, establishing dialogue between the Kurds and Damascus takes on particular significance. After all, the Kurds are an integral part of Syrian society," Zakharova said.
Turkey views the US-backed YPG Syrian Kurdish militia as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a 34-year insurgency in Turkey for Kurdish political and cultural rights, mostly in southeastern areas near Syria.
A Kurdish politician told Reuters last week the Kurds had presented Moscow with a road-map for a deal with Damascus. Syria's deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday he was optimistic about renewed dialogue with the Kurds.
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of France, which is part of the US-led coalition, welcomed what he believed was a slower withdrawal by the US after pressure from its allies.
"President Macron spoke to him (Trump) several times and it seems that there has been a change that I think is positive," he said in a television interview on Thursday.
In a rare acknowledgment that French troops were also in Syria, he said they would leave when there is a political solution in the country.
By Rodi Said/Reuters
Reporting by Tom Perry in Beirut, John Irish in Paris and Andrey Ostroukh in Moscow; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Angus MacSwan.
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'Arcing and a possible motor malfunction' slow Orange Line
LATEST ON THE IMPACT IN THE CITY. MATT: THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE T SAYS THERE WERE SOME DELAYS ON THE ORANGE AND R LINE AS WELL AS THE COMMUTER RAIL. COMMUTER RAIL'S TWITTE ACCOUNT REPORTING A TRAIN ON THE HAVERHILL LINE WAS ONE HOU LATE AND A TRAIN ON THE FITCHBURG LINE WAS RUNNING ONE HOUR 10 MINUTES LATE DUE TO LATE ARRIVING EQUIPMENT CAUSED BY MECHANICAL ISSUE AND SWITCH FAILURE. A TRAIN AROUND 9:30 HAD TO BE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE AFTER A POWER PROBLEM AT STATE STREET. WE SPOKE ON THAT TRAIN. WE WILL HEAR FROM HIM FIRST AND THEN FROM MBTA' G.M. >> WE SAW LASHES A LIGHT COMING UP. A COUP SPARKS. YOU COULD TELL PEOPLE WERE GETTING ANTSY. >>>> WE'VE BEEN PREPARING FOR THE STORM SINCE SATURDAY. IT'S SUCH A LONG DURATION EVENT. WE HAD CREWS IN PLACE. FOLKS WORKING OVERNIGHT TO ADDRESS ANY MECHANICAL FAILURES AND ALSO TO GET OUR PLATFORMS CLEAR SO I THINK THAT HAS CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ABILITY TO RUN THE SERVICE TODAY. MATT: AND MBTA SPOKESPERSON TELL ME THE PROBLEM WAS RESOLVED IN OUR LATER. WE SPOKE TO SEVERAL COMMUTERS WHO TOOK EITHER THE COMMUTER RAIL OR THE T, WHO TOLD US THEY WERE MENALLY PREPARED FOR A TERRIBLE COMMUTE GIVEN THE SURPRISINGLY GOO IN FACT, ONE MAN TOLD ME IT WAS THE BEST COMMUTE HE'S EVER HAD OBVIOUSLY YOU WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER PROBLEMS TODAY WI
Service was suspended for a time on part of the Orange Line Tuesday morning after a problem with the third rail, the MBTA said.Service was temporarily suspended between Haymarket and Tufts stations because of a power problem at State Street, the MBTA said. At approximately 9:30, an Orange Line motor person reported arcing and a possible motor malfunction on a train while entering State Street Station, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said. "We saw flashes of light coming up, some sparks," said commuter Frankie Gump. "You could tell people were getting pretty antsy."An Orange Line supervisor sent to the check the third rail after the train departed saw a possible defect, Pesaturo said. An MBTA Power Department crew was dispatched to make repairs.The train was taken out of service.
BOSTON —
Service was suspended for a time on part of the Orange Line Tuesday morning after a problem with the third rail, the MBTA said.
Service was temporarily suspended between Haymarket and Tufts stations because of a power problem at State Street, the MBTA said.
At approximately 9:30, an Orange Line motor person reported arcing and a possible motor malfunction on a train while entering State Street Station, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said.
"We saw flashes of light coming up, some sparks," said commuter Frankie Gump. "You could tell people were getting pretty antsy."
An Orange Line supervisor sent to the check the third rail after the train departed saw a possible defect, Pesaturo said.
An MBTA Power Department crew was dispatched to make repairs.
The train was taken out of service.


We have a camping problem.
Anybody who defends the current state of FRU's fail's to recognize how negative of an experience it likely is for newbies to be insta killed in a game they're new to. The UI is clunky AF, I have used it for years and STILL fail to find missions I am looking for or to spawn at locations I know I should be able to. You can't blame the greenies for not knowing better. They're gonna just move on. Call of Duty has a better spawn system to allow newbs a better fighting chance than a camped fms in ww2ol. The death of a FRU should not be a drawn out and brigade-gutting experience; FRU's should be able to be destroyed and created more dynamically.


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Grazer Philosophische Studien 558
1. Grazer Philosophische Studien: Volume > 1
Thomas Paxson, Jr. A New Subjectivistic Theory Of Knowledge: A Critical Discussion
Terence Parsons A Meinongian Analysis of Fictional Objects
This paper explores the view that there are such things as (nonexistent) fictional objects, and that we refer to such objects when we say things like "Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective", or "Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes". A theory of such objects is developed as a special application of a Meinongian Ontology.
Ronald E. Beanblossom In Defense of Thomas Reid's Use of 'Suggestion'
Thomas Reid, the eighteenth century Scottish philosopher, was concerned with the proper use of ordinary language. P. G. Winch would have us believe that in spite of Reid's concern for observing the ordinary meaning of terms, Reid did not know the ordinary meaning of 'suggest'. Not knowing this ordinary meaning, Reid allegedly changed it in violation of his own criteria. Against this view I argue (1) Reid uses 'suggest' in a technical sense and gives reasons for doing so; (2) contrary to Winch's claim Reid does appropriately use 'suggestion' to describe perception.
Henri Sarlet Existenz und Prädikation: Sprachanalytische Untersuchungen zu Existenz-Aussagen
Keith Lehrer, Joseph Richard Remembering Without Knowing
Memory sometimes yields knowledge and sometimes does not. It is, however, natural to suppose that i f a man remembers that p, then he knows that p and formerly knew that p. Remembering something is plausibly construed as a f o rm of knowing something which one has not forgotten and which one knew previously. We argue, to the contrary, that this thesis is false. We present four counterexamples to the thesis that support a different analysis of remembering. We propose that a person remembers that p (at t) if and only if the thought or conviction that p comes from memory (at t) when, in fact, it is true that p.
David W. Smith Meinongian Objects
Meinong's object theory is primarily motivated by the needs of intentionality theory. I argue that Meinongian objects must be intensional entities if, as asked, they are to serve as the objects of thought in a purely object-theoretic account of intentionality. For Meinong, incomplete objects are the proper objects of thought. Complete objects are beyond our grasp; we apprehend them as best we can when we intend incomplete objects embedded in them. This yields, on a semantic plane, an account of failures or substitutivity of identity in intentional contexts. And this, I argue, forces incomplete objects to be intensional, and so therefore are complete objects.
Franz Brentano Was an Reid zu Loben: Über die Philosophie von Thomas Reid. Aus dem Nachlaß
Michael Hooker Descartes' Argument for the Claim that his Essence is to Think
Two previous attempts to discern the argument Descartes intended to establish the claim that his essence is to think have failed to meet with success. I examine those arguments and offer an interpretation of my own that follows one of Descartes' strategies in the cogito passages. The suggested interpretation involves discarding every candidate that falls victim to hyperbolic doubt. However, while my strategy may have been intended by Descartes, it does not successfully yield his conclusion.
10. Grazer Philosophische Studien: Volume > 1
Roderick M. Chisholm Individuation: Some Thomistic Questions and Answers
The epistemological problem of individuation concerns the conditions under which we can individuate or identify particular things. I t is argued that these conditions presuppose that each of us can apprehend his own individual essence or haecceity. The metaphysical problem of individuation concerns the question: In virtue of what can it be said that two things which are counterparts of each other are two and not one? It is argued that here, too, we must appeal to the concept of an individual essence or haecceity. The views presented here seem to be in accord with those of St. Thomas Aquinas.


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WASHINGTON -- Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a new strategy to educate young people about disaster prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery. The National Strategy for Youth Preparedness Education: Empowering, Educating and Building Resilience (National Strategy) couples attention on emergency and disaster preparedness with community action that focuses specifically on youth readiness for disasters and related events. The National Strategy was developed in partnership with the American Red Cross and the U.S. Department of Education, and more than 25 organizations have affirmed their support.
Research shows that it is important to educate and empower young people to prepare for disasters. A 2010 study from Oregon State University showed that 14 percent of children and teens had experienced a disaster during their lifetime, and four percent had been in a disaster within the past year. Of those who had experience with disaster, a quarter reported experiencing more than one.
Recognizing that children have the ability to play an important role in preparing themselves, their families, and their communities for a disaster, Disney, the Ad Council and FEMA are releasing new Public Service Advertisements (PSAs) as an extension of the Ready campaign. These new PSAs highlight several steps that kids can take to prepare for emergencies: Make a Plan, Build a Kit and Know The Facts. The new English and Spanish ads feature leading characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios' upcoming film "Big Hero 6," and they encourage viewers to visit Ready.gov/Kids to learn how to prepare for emergencies.
The National Strategy presents nine priority steps to further youth preparedness education including: building partnerships to enhance, increase and implement youth preparedness learning programs; connecting young people with their families, communities, first responders and other youth; and increasing school preparedness. More information about these steps--as well as the national organizations that have affirmed their support--is available under the National Strategy tab in the FEMA Youth Technical Assistance Center at www.ready.gov/youth-preparedness.
More information about emergency preparedness is available at www.ready.gov.
Canadian man sentenced to life in Flint airport attack, says he 'regrets' not killing cop - "Do I regret what I did? Never," Ftouhi told the judge inside a federal courtroom in Flint.


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In a bearing combination in a hub, the bearing on the inside of the hub flange (the side closest to the centre of the trailer)is called the inner bearing.
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Kimbrough Shares 'GO Week' Chapel Message Sept. 12
Gambo Delivers Fall Chapel Theme Interpretation Message Sept. 5
Gambo Installed as Hughes Chair of Christian Ministry
Whitlock Challenges University Community to 'Live Worthy of Our Heavenly Citizenship'
Global Educator to Lecture
Carolyn Bishop will present the 44th biannual Hobbs lecture at OBU on global impacts on Christian universities, Wednesday.
The Herschel H. and Frances J. Hobbs Lectureship in Baptist Faith and Heritage is OBU's first endowed lectureship, established in 1980 by friends of Dr. and Mrs. Hobbs in honor of the couple's outstanding Christian service. The chapel service is at 10 a.m. in the university's Raley Chapel with a luncheon for honored guests of the university immediately following.
Dr. Bishop has more than 25 years of experience in the field of education, with more than 13 of those years spent overseas.
She currently serves as the international director for the Consortium for Global Education where she maintains communication between member schools and universities and institutions of higher education abroad. She also investigates overseas educational needs and opportunities, develops pilot programs and strengthens international partnerships.
Prior to her current position, Bishop was an education coordinator and consultant with Cooperative Services International and taught at Emory University in the faculty/teacher training program.
She served eight years with the International Mission Board as an education specialist and teacher in Korea. She also has lived and worked in Hong Kong and London, leading educational work in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Bishop is a board member for Global Resource Service and a member of Phi Delta Kappa and NAFSA. In 1989, she was awarded the Olympic Service Medal by Korea's minister of sports.
She has given numerous presentations on areas of educational research throughout her career, including most recently "A Strategic Role for International Education" at the Consortium for Global Education Meeting at Louisiana College this September.
Also this year, Bishop presented "International Studies for Life and Learning" at Anderson College last March and "Global Education Opportunities for Private Universities in the Middle East and North Africa" at the Tunisian-American Education Conference at the University of Tunis Carthage in Tunisia last April.
She earned a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education from Furman University and a master of education degree in special education from Clemson University. Bishop earned a doctorate in educational leadership and supervision from Emory University.
Dr. Hobbs was pastor of Oklahoma City's First Baptist Church from 1949-72. A graduate of Howard College in Birmingham, Ala., he received master's and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. After completing his education, Dr. Hobbs served as pastor of churches in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana before coming to Oklahoma City.
Dr. Hobbs served as preacher for the Baptist Hour from 1958-79, a ministry which was heard over 400 radio stations across the world. Among the many offices he held was the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1963. He is the author of 162 books and countless articles. He received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from OBU in 1986.
Mrs. Hobbs, who died in 1984, also was a graduate of Howard College and attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Women's Missionary Training School, both in Louisville. She served as secretary of the Southern Baptist Minister's Wives Conference and was a member of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Woman's Missionary Union.
Dr. Hobbs died on November 28, 1995 at the age of 89.


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Can We Still Regulate Emerging Technologies?
Ulrich Kühn
© 2019 Mark Schiefelbein/AP
The world was stunned when in 1997 IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Twenty years later, the world champion chess program, Stockfish 8, was beaten in a 100-game match up by AlphaZero, Google's game-playing AI software. The big difference: AlphaZero taught itself how to play chess – in under four hours! As a side note, it won or drew all 100 games! Another example of the major leaps in 21st century technology is Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot parkouring through a landscape of boxes (see the incredible and somewhat scary video here). It does not take much imagination to see the potential for military applications in both cases in the future. That begs the question, is it already too late to regulate emerging technologies?
So far, the international community has regulated emerging technologies and corresponding weapons systems with three general purposes in mind: (1) to limit or prevent unnecessary or extensive human suffering, (2) to prevent certain actors from gaining access to certain technologies, and (3) to prevent all-out, that is, nuclear, war. Historically seen, the prevention of nuclear war is the youngest broad-ranging effort to regulate war technology. (By the way, the oldest known efforts date back to the Middle Ages when Pope Innocent II in 1139 banned the use of crossbows to be employed against Christians and Catholics alike.)
With the emergence of Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Humanitarian Law in the 20th century, efforts to regulate technological advancements became a norm that manifested itself in dozens of bilateral and multilateral international arrangements to limit or somewhat control nuclear, biological, chemical, missile, and other weapons and their corresponding technologies. Export controls, nonproliferation instruments as well as arms control and disarmament agreements came to be part and parcel of the international community's tool kit to regulate military and dual-use technology.
The latest wave of technological breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), drones or genetic engineering (CRISPR/Cas) have triggered renewed interest in humanity's ability to secure its own survival by commonly devising rules. But in order to successfully regulate today's emerging technologies we should get rid of a number of misleading assumptions first. I try to address three of them in the following without claiming that this list is complete.
A New Dimension of Advanced Military Technologies Development
Andrei Frolov
In 20 or 30 years, the role of the state in carrying out security functions will hardly disappear. It may change, a number of functions may leave the state control, or new ones may be added. But specific systemic changes are highly unlikely.
One assumption, often voiced in multilateral fora such as the United Nations, is that today's emerging technologies are vastly different as they emerge much more rapidly than previous inventions. The implicit concern is that international regulatory policies cannot keep pace. While the first assumption is at least questionable, the latter one is probably correct. The question is, was it any different back then? It took the international community almost a quarter century to devise global regulations against the spread of nuclear weapons. The Missile Technology Control Regime only came into being almost 50 years after the first long-range rocket launches. Arguably, with the Cuban Missile Crisis the Cold War superpowers had to race to the brink first before they could agree on a number of rules.
Seen from that angle, the UN's current efforts to regulate so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (sometimes called 'Killer Robots') before they become a dangerous feature of world politics or, in the case of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, to proactively address the potential proliferation impacts of 3D-printing are certainly positive signals. At a time of definitely increased demand for regulation, the more worrisome development is the retreat of the one nation that acted as the torchbearer of international regulatory efforts since the end of World War II – the retreat of America from multilateral diplomacy writ large.
Another assumption is that emerging technologies are challenging existing arms control and disarmament agreements. Again, the implicit concern seems to be that new technological inventions might contribute to the collapse of decades-old treaties. The acrimonious debates about hypersonic glide vehicles and their potential impact on the future of the US-Russian New START accord or the Russian claims regarding drones in conjunction with the end of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty are often cited as examples.
Again, the problem lies more in the political than the technological realm. Disagreements about new weapons systems or new technological enablers are anything but new, and in the past arms control-abiding nations have usually used technical working groups to address such problems to adjust or modernize the relevant rules. Unfortunately, with the waning interest in arms control and, more broadly, military restraint in a number of nations, also the appetite for cooperative solutions to common problems has vanished. In that regard, we should not make technology the scapegoat of changed political interest.
Finally, we seem to assume that our strategic concepts and terminologies are still fit to address the effects of emerging technologies. One typical example is to subsume all things "cyber" under the "deterrence"/"arms control" dichotomy. To begin with, most cyber weapons are developed, stored, and employed in very clandestine environments. Contrary to classical military equipment which can be visibly deployed and used e.g., for "signaling" or "assurance" missions, cyber weapons cannot be used that way without at least causing massive potential for "inadvertent escalation." Anon, the classical laws of "escalation" and "escalation management" do not work in an environment that cannot be defined in terms of "horizontal escalation" or the attribution, and hence the "significance," of "offensive action."
The same could be said about "escalation management" on a future battlefield inhabited predominantly by killer robots. Which actions would be so significant as to be viewed as "escalatory" if human suffering is not involved, or at least not initially? Try reading some of the classic works of Thomas C. Schelling or Herman Kahn with cyber space, killer robots or drone swarms in mind and you will immediately run into some serious conceptual problems. However, this does not mean that we should do away with those concepts whatsoever – and certainly not as long as we continue to rely on old-fashioned nuclear deterrence.
Taken together, regulating emerging technologies is still possible and a significant number of states is engaging in such efforts on a daily basis and in various fora. Nevertheless, if we take the challenge serious, we will have to come up with some novel and certainly more creative thinking. Perhaps we should start by questioning our own fundamental assumptions about the nature of today's emerging technologies and our understanding of how to ensure peace and security in the 21st century.
I recommend you this article on the Valdai Club website: https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/can-we-still-regulate-emerging-technologies/
Кegulating emerging technologies is still possible and a significant number of states is engaging in such efforts on a daily basis and in various fora. Nevertheless, if we take the challenge serious,
The Cycle of Pragmatism in International Politics: The Technology Track Follow the link
The 5G Era: Technology as a Resource in Geopolitical Leadership Follow the link
The EU and Libya: Rediscovering a Realpolitik Follow the link


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This harmless looking gonk is one of the most duplicitous nasty pieces of work in parliament. He is Casini, man of the centre, and UDC – that is a Christian democrat. This means they spout moralistic bollox and ignore all of it in a desperate attempt to stay in power. Casini is the arch DC gonk. He votes against humanistic legislation on teh grounds that he is a reactionary Catholic prat. And at the last election his pathetic share of the vote was halved again by the presence of Monti, reducing his movement to around 2%. But he likes to think of himself as a significant cog in the wheel of things, so has just split with Monti and is planning to vote against the decadence of Berlusconi (along wwith his religious cronies) on the basis that a new centre right centre party with Alfano as the leader may give him a bit of clout. He is merely a hypocritical shite. A loathsome slimy worm. Feel free to let him know via twitter what you think of him. IN italian you could call him a viscido – which is slimy, oily, cowardly, brown nose – ideal really.
In the meantime The wrinkled one plots and squirms to stay in the senate and avoid being arrested for his many crimes. He really doesnt want the public vote – much preferring a secret vote which he may be able to buy. His lawyers are complaining about the hideous rush that everything has been done in. Definitive sentence to be chucked out of parliament came on Aug 1. It is now October 21 and he is still there. We may have a vote in November. How is it possible that a man who has been found definitively guilty and therefore according to the law must be thrown unceremoniously out of parliament can still be there 3 months later. This is why ITaly is such a huge barrel of rotten apples, because they never empty the barrel, just chuck in more on top.
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Georgia's Senate Republicans reelect party leadership
The Georgia State Capitol as viewed from the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Building. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
Politics | Nov 20, 2020
By Maya T. Prabhu, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Senate Republican Caucus has renominated Butch Miller as the chamber's president pro tem and reelected the rest of its leadership team for another term.
Miller survived a challenge from state Sen. Burt Jones, a Jackson Republican. Almost all of the Senate Republican leadership team will remain the same.
State Sen. Butch Miller, R-Gainesville/AJC file
Credit: Jim Galloway
Senate Majority Leader Mike Dugan, a Carrollton Republican, will serve a second term as the party's leader and state Sen. Steve Gooch, R-Dahlonega, will return as the party whip.
New to the leadership lineup is state Sen. Dean Burke, a Bainbridge Republican, who will serve as the caucus' secretary. He is replacing Toccoa Republican state Sen. John Wilkinson, who will not return next year after a failed run for U.S. Congress.
The Senate will vote in January to officially reelect Miller, R-Gainesville, as president pro tem.


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Thiruvananthapuram bypass lighting: Techies call for government intervention
Lack of proper lighting on the Kazhakootam-Mukkola stretch of NH 66 bypass affects techies the most, since several of them reside in homes and apartments situated along the stretch.
Published: 22nd November 2021 03:24 AM | Last Updated: 22nd November 2021 03:24 AM | A+A A-
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By K Krishnachand
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the corporation passing the buck over installing streetlights on the Kazhakootam-Mukkola stretch of NH 66 bypass, Technopark employees will seek government intervention to resolve the issue. Prathidhwani, a welfare organisation representing IT employees, is set to meet Works Minister P A Mohammed Riyas this week seeking his urgent intervention on the issue. Lack of proper lighting on the stretch affects techies the most, since several of them reside in homes and apartments situated along the stretch.
Rajeev Krishnan, secretary, Prathidwani, said that providing lighting on the stretch was a long-standing demand of IT employees. "Though we had met ministers and authorities in this regard, nothing came out of those meetings. However, we have some expectations from the current works minister. So, we will meet him this week to seek his intervention. We will also request him to consider 'workation' (working vacation) for IT employees. Hope, he responds positively," he said.
Meanwhile, the corporation's proposal to invite Expression of Interest(EOI) from private parties for installing and maintaining streetlights on the median remains on paper. After NHAI told the corporation that it will not allow advertisements on light poles, the latter is now exploring other options. The corporation decided to call for EOI as money for the purpose can be generated through small advertisement hoardings kept on light poles.
Later, NHAI told the corporation that it has some provisions for installing streetlights at junctions, but the civic body has to take care of the rest of the things. "We have informed the corporation that NHAI has some provisions for installing streetlights at junctions. But we haven't heard from the corporation ever since. So, we are awaiting their response on the issue," said P Pradeep, project director, NHAI.
Binu Francis, corporation secretary, said the NHAI objected to the installation of advertisement hoardings and hence the proposal was shelved. However, he said that if NHAI were ready to install streetlights, the corporation was ready to maintain them.
"Many private players were ready to maintain streetlights if advertisement hoardings were allowed atop the poles. But NHAI refused permission for that. So, we are weighing other options. However, I will talk to NHAI authorities if there were provisions for installing it," he said. The stretch, which was thrown open three years ago, had become highly accident-prone. NHAI had installed streetlights on the Chackai flyover, near the toll plaza at Thiruvallam.
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Ideas for recipes to feed a crowd that use canned (donated) goods? Sandy relief organizations need help!
Robicelli's, the incredible Brooklyn-based bakery that has activated itself as an advocate and organizer of relief efforts post-Sandy, is looking for ways to process canned good donations into meals for those who need them.
Does anyone have tips or ideas for large-scale recipes that can be cooked for a crowd from canned goods (using minimal equipment and minimal other ingredients)? We know the Food52 community has a wealth of recipe ideas and an awesome ability to join together for good!
The ultimate pantry meal is tuna-noodle casserole, made with egg noodles, canned tuna, and cream of mushroom soup. Add in a can of green beans for the veggie and some color.
Now I have made this with fresh mushrooms and my own bechamel, and with fresh or frozen green beans...but in a pinch, cans will do! If fresh veggies can be added in, so much the better.
In keeping with the above ideas..and the fact it's bakery. How about 'hand pies'/pocket pies/pasty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty.
You could do vegetarian with the Indian curry idea as filling, a chicken hand pie with chicken peas, carrots, etc, Fillings using beans and rice and Cuban/Jamaican spices, and some desert hand pies with canned fruits.
Maybe a pot pie could be approximated from canned chicken, gravy, and the usual canned peas, carrots, etc. (plus some rosemary).
Here is a food52 recipe for tuna casserole: http://www.food52.com/recipes/9151_tuna_noodle_casserole_redux which might be an inspiration for canned tuna.
Just last night I made something I called "Mexican Black Bean Chicken." I sautéed onions and peppers, added plain canned black beans and cubes of coked chicken, some jarred salsa and lots of cumin and some oregano. I served it with rice The kids ate it, surprising me.
I have never had corn fritters but they can be made from canned or maybe creamed corn (my mother talks about liking those as a kid).
If I think of anything else I'll add it. I would guess that some inexpensive spices like cumin or basil could go a long way with sprucing up canned goods. I hope everyone gets back to normal, or some kind of normalcy, soon.
Marcella's genius tomato sauce requires canned tomatoes, a stick of butter, and an onion.
Again, it would be helpful to know what kinds of canned goods you are talking about.
Without knowing ahead of time what kind of canned goods you have or will receive, the only advice I can give is that soup is very versatile and space efficient.
Without knowing the specifics of the canned goods, maybe chili? (you can get creative with chili -- adding things like canned corn is yummy; meat is not necessary, but if there is meat, just about any will do). Again, depending on the canned goods available, maybe a tamale pie?
I make this instead of pumpkin pie every TDay - you could make a big batch, but you WOULD need multiple loaf pans ... are you interested in desserts?
Do you have specuific canned goods that you need to use, or are you looking to acquire then cook them??
Are you cooking as a form of political organization? Please tell us!


A Farewell to Balance: How Journalism Shapes the Public Debate on Climate Change in the U.S.
Zwischen Gestaltungsmacht und Hegemoniefalle: Zur neuesten Debatte über eine "neue deutsche Außenpolitik"
Does Pyeongchang Lead to Pyeonghwa?
Enhanced Cooperation for Europe: Is there a Way out of the Impasse of Integration Politics?
Closing the Gap: Can Europe's Economy Finally Catch Up with the U.S.?
Social Cohesion in the United States and Germany: Will Protectionism and Income Redistribution Be Helpful?
Gibt es eine Braune-Armee-Fraktion in Deutschland?
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The BarKlip® BK300 connector features 14 independent conducting beams that maintain contact with the mating busbar. These power beams provide lower overall resistance by maintaining contact with the mating busbar through common misaligned conditions. BK300'scontacts are plated with Amphenol ICC's proprietary silver-based AGT® plating technology to further reduce contact resistance and eliminate fretting corrosion commonly found in tin-plated connectors. Barklip® BK300 is ideal for high power applications in hyperscale computing architectures using busbars for power distribution.
BarKlip® BK300 Connector, Power Solutions, Vertical Barklip open end with nut retention.
BarKlip® BK300 Connector, Power Solutions, Vertical Barklip closed end with nut retention.
BarKlip® BK300 Connector, Power Solutions, Vertical Barklip open end without nut retention.
BarKlip® BK300 Connector, Power Solutions, Vertical closed end without nut retention.