I have just returned from a holiday in Hawaii. The trip was not meant to be a major photographic expedition, but I could not resist the temptation to take a camera with me. I travelled light taking my Leica M9 with 35, 50 and 75 mm lenses. I had no particular project in mind before I set off. My thought was to see what opportunities presented themselves and to go from there.
We were staying in a place called Waimea, which is on the side of an extinct Kohala volcano (well almost extinct) in the north of the Big Island of Hawaii. What struck me immediately was how different it is compared with the stereotypical image of Hawaii as a place of beaches, palm trees and surfers. It is situated at an altitude of around 3000 ft and the surrounding countryside is hilly grassland. This gave me the idea for a project which was about presenting an alternative representation of Hawaii – Another Hawaii – very different from the cliche version.
My approach has been to make landscape and urban scenes at twilight and in interesting weather conditions with low cloud, storm clouds, raking light and such like. All of the photographs were made at locations close to where I was staying. I was particularly struck by the rapidly changing climatic conditions and the wonderful light. This was to form a key feature of the work.
The overall tone is dark and the images low key – a deliberate strategy to distance the work from the sunshine and blue skies of postcard images. I had not anticipated the project and so was not consciously influenced by the work of other photographers. With hindsight and input from others it is clear to me now that the work could be compared to that of other photographers. The emphasis on light and the weather recalls Joel Meyerowitz's 'Cape Light' which is one of my favourite landscape photography books. The dark suburban scenes seem to echo Todd Hido's 'House Hunting' – something which was mentioned by tutor Clive White when he commented on my Flickr site. I have since looked at Hido's work and find it intriguing. The way in which an ordinary place such as a suburban house can when pictured at night take on an air of mystery and be a vehicle for the invention of narrative is very striking in Hido's work. This idea is one which may influence my East End work.
The final image is one which I took at the end of the holiday. It was made from a moving vehicle along the Kohala Mountain Road on the way into Waimea. The cloud cover is very low and an isolated telegraph pole is pictured in an otherwise desolate scene. The mist and slight blur from the movement of the car gives this image a sense of mystery. For reasons I cannot fully explain this image captures my memory of Waimea as a surprising and intriguing place. The lonely telegraph post may however be too much of a cliche but….
As I said above 'Another Hawaii' is work in progress and I hope to revisit it again….we shall see. What did I learn from this project… In the main I think that this small project re-emphasised some lessons I learned during my OCA Advanced photography course – the need to keep an open mind and remain flexible in my approach, the importance of a consistent formal approach, being open to influences from other photographers. But most of all I think that I found the very freewheeling approach I took to this work refreshing. I must keep reminding myself that I need to avoid being overly prescriptive about my work!!
Some of these photographs were taken with the project on the principles of Gestalt Theory in mind. This will be part of my submission of the first assignment.
In previous posts I have presented a second piece of work which I made in Hawaii which was very much about photography and memory – 'Grove Farm Memories…' – see my previous posts here and here. Click on the image below to see the final version of this short video.
I've followed you on Flickr and been impressed by the quality and interest of the photographs you've posted. You've certainly shown the alternative side of Hawaii which is far, far different from my own perceptions as someone who has never been there.
Thanks Catherine….hope all is well with you. I have just about broken free from my other diversions and will be back at work on YOP very soon.
Oh, these are fantastic Keith!! They're really atmospheric and it's lovely to see your 'take' on the place. Fab!
Yes, we must definitely get together for another Thames look around. I shall now have to seek out Turner and the Thames! My course is absolutely brilliant! Loads of reading, visual work and critiques and of course essays. I'm constantly excited by it, I will be adding to my Woolwich work and submitting that as part of my first visual assignment which means that the day we had there has yet another layer of meaning. Rather precious!


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Home News Joe Clark, Tough Principal Who Inspired "Lean On Me" Movie, Passes Away
Joe Clark, Tough Principal Who Inspired "Lean On Me" Movie, Passes Away
Vanessa Roberson
Known for his tough love, New Jersey principal Joe Clark has passed away at the age of 82. He often went further than many would to set his students straight, and the impact of his legacy will be just as far-reaching. Read the touching release from Joe Clark's family on his life below.
Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding Principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods at Paterson, New Jersey's Eastside High School inspired the 1989 film Lean on Me, has passed away. A longtime resident of South Orange, NJ, Clark (82) retired to Gainesville, Florida. He was at home and surrounded by his family when he succumbed to his long battle with illness on December 29, 2020.
Born in Rochelle, Georgia, on May 8, 1938, Clark's family moved north to Newark, New Jersey, when he was six years old. It was in the Garden State that Clark built his legacy through both his accomplished career in education and his children: Olympian and businesswoman Joetta Clark Diggs, Olympic Athlete and Director of Sports Business Development for the Bermuda Tourism Authority Hazel Clark, and accomplished athlete and Director of Track and Field and Cross Country at Stanford University Joe Clark, Jr.
Joe Clark, courtesy of CNN
A Legacy of Laying Down the Law
After graduating from Newark Central High School, Clark continued on to achieve his bachelor's degree from William Paterson College (now William Paterson University), a master's degree from Seton Hall University, and an honorary doctorate from the U.S. Sports Academy.
Clark's post-collegiate career as a U.S. Army Reserve Sergeant and Drill Instructor engrained in him a respect for order and achievement, which came to define his more than three-decade career in education.
First serving as a Paterson grade school teacher and the Director of Camps and Playgrounds in Essex County, NJ, Clark soon found his calling in administration as Principal of PS 6 Grammar School. Under Clark's command, the once failing school was transformed into the "Miracle of Carroll Street."
Committed to the pursuit of excellence, Clark greeted the challenges presented to him following his appointment as the Principal of crime and drug-ridden Eastside High School with eager optimism. In one day, he expelled 300 students for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers, and drug possession and lifted the expectations of those that remained, continually challenging them to perform better. Roaming the hallways with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, Clark's unorthodox methods won him both admirers and critics nationwide. Steadfast in his approach, Clark explained that the bat was not a weapon but a symbol of choice: a student could either strike out or hit a home run.
Actor Morgan Freeman (left) and Joe Clark (right), courtesy of Pinterest
Impressed by the expeditious changes imparted on the troubled school, President Reagan offered Clark a White House policy advisor position. Clark's dedication to his students and community led him to decline the prestigious honor, and his larger-than-life career continued to spark conversations across the country. Clark appeared on programs including 60 Minutes and The Arsenio Hall Show and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine before the motion picture Lean on Me starring Morgan Freeman memorialized his work.
After he retired from Eastside in 1989, Clark worked for six years as the Director of Essex County Detention House, a juvenile detention center in Newark. He also wrote Laying Down the Law: Joe Clark's Strategy for Saving Our Schools, detailing his methods for turning around Eastside High School and how they can be applied to combat crime, permissiveness, and academic decline in schools nationwide. Nearly thirty years after his retirement, Clark's captivating career offered inspiration to executive directors John Legend and LeBron James for a television series, reflecting his philosophies' generational transcendence.
Predeceased by his wife, Gloria, Clark's legacy as an influential educator and father of New Jersey's most storied track and field family lives on through his children, Joetta, Hazel, and JJ, and grandchildren, Talitha, Jorell, and Hazel.
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Judge balks at lawyer's rate as deadline looms for clergy abuse victims to come forward
Haidee Eugenio Gilbert
A proposed deadline is being set for all Guam clergy sex abuse victims to come forward as part of the Archdiocese of Agana's bankruptcy filing, even as a federal judge on Friday balked at an hourly rate of nearly $1,000, or a discounted rate of $755, for the church's proposed special insurance attorney.
"In a bankruptcy case, the more money that goes out, the less money for the victims," U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood said during a hearing on motions related to the archdiocese's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
The archdiocese filed for reorganization bankruptcy to be able to pay out clergy sex abuse claims. As of this week, 206 lawsuits had been filed.
At the hearing, archdiocese bankruptcy counsel Ford Elsaesser said the church will be working closely with the seven-member creditors committee to set a deadline for filings.
"That's the date by which all of the survivors need to file their claims. I would anticipate that date would be somewhere in the next three to four months, and you will be seeing that motion and we'll probably have that for the court's approval, to seek the court's approval on May 3," Elsaesser said after the hearing.
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The date could be finalized and filed in court in two to three weeks, he said.
Abuse survivors could be compensated in 14 to 18 months from the January 2019 filing of the bankruptcy, at the earliest, Elsaesser said during Thursday's creditors meeting.
'Changing the attorney fee landscape'
At the Friday hearing, Tydingco-Gatewood said she's also concerned that the proposed hourly rate for Washington, D.C.-based Attorney James Murray of Blank Rome LLP as the archdiocese's special insurance counsel in its bankruptcy case could change the rate landscape in the small market of Guam.
Elsaesser told the judge that Murray's unique specialty will allow the archdiocese to maximize insurance recovery so that abuse survivors will be compensated more.
Other attorneys in the courtroom supported the proposed rate. The rate is part of the archdiocese's request to employ Blank Rome LLP as its special insurance counsel in its bankruptcy case.
The federal judge took the matter under advisement and ordered the establishment of an interim compensation procedure for Chapter 11 professionals.
3 sources of payments
Proposed payments to clergy sex abuse survivors would come from the sale of archdiocese's assets such as the former Accion Hotel in Yona, insurance money from AIG Asia and CNA Insurance, and from other named defendants such as the Boy Scouts of America, Capuchins and other religious orders.
Elsaesser said the main focus is to recover from the insurance carriers and third parties. He told the judge that one or more properties of the church could be sold soon.
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Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes, some clergy sex abuse survivors and attorneys for plaintiffs were also at the court hearing.
The next hearing on the bankruptcy case is set for 8:30 a.m. on May 3.
The archdiocese, in its bankruptcy filing, listed $22.96 million in assets, with $45.66 million in liabilities. These include potential payments to clergy abuse survivors, whose demand for damages is $5 million and $10 million each.
Reporter Haidee Eugenio covers Guam's Catholic church issues, government, business and more. Follow her on Twitter @haidee_eugenio. Follow Pacific Daily News on Facebook/GuamPDN and Instagram @guampdn.


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Q: Rails - Mail, getting the body as Plain Text Given: message = Mail.new(params[:message])
as seen here: http://docs.heroku.com/cloudmailin
It shows how to get the message.body as HTML, how to do you get the plain/text version?
Thanks

A: The code above:
message = Mail.new(params[:message])

will create a new instance of the mail gem from the full message. You can then use any of the methods on that message to get the content. You can therefore get the plain content using:
message.text_part

or the HTML with
message.html_part

These methods will just guess and find the first part in a multipart message of either text/plain or text/html content type. CloudMailin also provides these as convenience methods however via params[:plain] and params[:html]. It's worth remembering that the message is never guaranteed to have a plain or html part. It may be worth using something like the following to be sure:
plain_part = message.multipart? ? (message.text_part ? message.text_part.body.decoded : nil) : message.body.decoded
html_part = message.html_part ? message.html_part.body.decoded : nil

As a side note it's also important to extract the content encoding from the message when you use these methods and make sure that the output is encoded into the encoding method you desire (such as UTF-8).

A: What is Mail?
The message defined in the question appears to be an instance of the same Mail or Mail::Message class, which is also used in ActionMailer::Base, or in the mailman gem.
I'm not sure where this is integrated into rails, but Steve Smith has pointed out that this is defined in the mail gem.

*

*Usage Section of the gem's readme on github.

*Documentation of Mail::Message on rubydoc.info.

Extracting a Part From a Multipart Email
In the gem's readme, there is an example section on reading multipart emails.
Besides the methods html_part and text_part, which simply find the first part of the corresponding mime type, one can access and loop through the parts manually and filter by the criteria as needed.
message.parts.each do |part|
  if part.content_type == 'text/plain'
    # ...
  elsif part.content_type == 'text/html'
    # ...
  end
end

The Mail::Part is documented here.
Encoding Issues
Depending on the source of the received mail, there might be encoding issues. For example, rails could identify the wrong encoding type. If, then, one tries to convert the body to UTF-8 in order to store it in the database (body_string.encode('UTF-8')), there might be encoding errors like
Encoding::UndefinedConversionError - "\xFC" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

(like in this SO question).
In order to circumvent this, one can readout the charset from the message part and tell rails what charset it has been before encoding to UTF-8:
encoding = part_to_use.content_type_parameters['charset']
body = part_to_use.body.decoded.force_encoding(encoding).encode('UTF-8')

Here, the decoded method removes the header lines, as shown in the encoding section of the mail gem's readme.
EDIT: Hard Encoding Issues
If there are really hard encoding issues, the former approach does not solve, have a look at the excellent charlock_holmes gem.
After adding this gem to the Gemfile, there is a more reliable way to convert email encodings, using the detect_encoding method, which is added to Strings by this gem.
I found it helpful to define a body_in_utf8 method for mail messages. (Mail::Part also inherits from Mail::Message.):
module Mail
  class Message
    def body_in_utf8
      require 'charlock_holmes/string'
      body = self.body.decoded
      if body.present?
        encoding = body.detect_encoding[:encoding]
        body = body.force_encoding(encoding).encode('UTF-8')
      end
      return body
    end
  end
end

Summary
# select the part to use, either like shown above, or as one-liner
part_to_use = message.html_part || message.text_part || message

# readout the encoding (charset) of the part
encoding = part_to_use.content_type_parameters['charset'] if part_to_use.content_type_parameters

# get the message body without the header information
body = part_to_use.body.decoded

# and convert it to UTF-8
body = body.force_encoding(encoding).encode('UTF-8') if encoding

EDIT: Or, after defining a body_in_utf8 method, as shown above, the same as one-liner:
(message.html_part || message.text_part || message).body_in_utf8

A: I believe if you call message.text_part.body.decoded you will get it converted to UTF-8 for you by the Mail gem, the documentation isn't 100% clear on this though.

A: email = Mail.new(params[:message])
text_body = (email.text_part || email.html_part || email).body.decoded

I'm using this solution on RedmineCRM Helpdesk plugin

A: Save HTML Body Format in Rails
USE <%= @email.body.html_safe%>
This will send text written in email text editor as it is to email.

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Jeferson Santos Junior (born 19 April 1999) is a Brazilian judoka.

He won a medal at the 2019 World Judo Championships.

References

External links

1999 births
Living people
Brazilian male judoka
Judoka at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games medalists in judo
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Brazil
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games

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Book Review: The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft
The international community, through the Oslo Accords, has created an intricate web of terminology that points towards a permanently stalled state-building process. In their book, The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft (Routledge, 2019), Michelle Pace and Somdeep Sen expose what lies beneath the façade coined as the "State of Palestine", a…
No compromise in Israel Eurovision Boycott
Celebrities arguing against a cultural boycott of Israel in the lead-up to this year's Eurovision song contest are missing the point. A joint letter from figures including Stephen Fry, Sharon Osbourne and Marina Abramovic states, 'We believe the cultural boycott movement is an affront to both Palestinians and Israelis who are working to advance peace through compromise,…
Repatriating remains is an obligation not a gift
The South Australian Museum is rectifying slivers of colonial damage with the announcement that it will repatriate the remains of over 4000 Aboriginal people to their communities. This will be welcome news for Aboriginal communities, but also a reminder of the need to lobby against policies that deprive them of the right to a dignified connection with…
Joint endeavours to exploit Palestinians in Gaza
Human rights are universal. Or so we were taught. But the simplistic notion has been overturned, mutilated and manipulated to the point that the only universal aspect about human rights is the bureaucratic process that dictates the trajectories of the oppressed. Gaza and human rights are such an example. As Israel once again denied a…
Exploiting Gaza tops the UN's humanitarian agenda
What would prompt the UN to assert, without reservations or calculated statements, that Gaza has collapsed in terms of humanitarian necessities? So far, the international organisation has relied on projecting extended timeframes; the result being that Gaza was forced into a currently irreversible situation while the UN saves face, or believes it does, by stepping…
The EU favours a two-state 'solution', in Israel's interests
There is increasing evidence that international overtures, ostensibly to safeguard Palestinian rights, are nothing but pretence. Following Israel's High Court ruling in favour of the destruction of Khan Al-Ahmar, which will displace the entire community, the EU has subjected Palestinian rights to the dictates of Israeli interests. In a letter to the EU High Representative for Foreign…
Only compromised Palestinian leaders could describe their right to Jerusalem as 'compensation'
Not only has the Palestinian Authority lagged behind in matters of urgent decision making, but it also persists in making defeatist comments which will generate additional repercussions for the people of Palestine in relation to US President Donald Trump's so-called "Deal of the Century". In response to Trump's statement that Israelis will "pay a higher…
Seeking protection for the Palestinians at the UN empowers the criminals
The debate on whether Palestinians should be granted international protection continues. Adalah's November 2018 Report to the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territories says that, since Israel "failed to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for the violation of such serious crimes", thus upholding impunity, there is a…
BOOK REVIEW: Mahmoud Darwish. Literature and the politics of Palestinian identity
Far from accentuating the glorification that is synonymous with Mahmoud Darwish and his beautiful poetry, the new biography "Mahmoud Darwish: literature and the politics of Palestinian identity" by Muna Abu Eid (I.B. Tauris, 2016) is a competent exercise in revealing the intricacies of Palestinian collective memory combined with the complex persona of the man himself….
Italy's Salvini said what the international community knows it can't say: 'Support Israel'
It is no secret that the right wing has appropriated and manipulated the definition of "peace" in today's poisonous political climate. Peace is now synonymous with power, and little is being done to challenge this notion on a political level, to the point that one can speak of collusion between the right wing and the…


Local Toxicity at Ambulatory Surgery Center after anesthesiologist performed right intra-scalene block on 62 year old male, ASA 2 (NIDDM), BMI 27.9. 2 minutes after completion of right intrascalene block, patient became symptomatic with ventricular arrhythmias.. Patient maintained BP and pulse throughout most of the rescussitation. Lipids 20% bolus 150 ml (91.6 kg) was given followed by lipid drip. During the rescussitation, patient was also given, Magnesium 1 GM, Versed, esmolol, propofol, 2 additional bolus of lipids 150 ml. He had to be defibrillated once for V-tach and returned to SR. He was transferred to ICU and placed on a Vent and with lipid drip.
Hi Donna, Thanks very much for posting. I think it's especially scary for practitioners when severe LAST or a any life-threatening emergency for that matter, occurs in an ambulatory center if it's not in, or very close to a hospital. I know...I've been there. It sounds like everything was handled appropriately. Can you tell us when the cardioversion was used in relation to the lipid (before or after) and whether resolution of arrhythmias and return of spontaneous circulation was temporally related to administration of lipid? Finally, remember when continuing the drip it's important to remember there's an upper limit to dosing lipid .... so we have to remember to turn it off.


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Q: C# DateTimePicker - Bolded Dates? Is it possible to set a series of bolded dates for a DateTimePicker control in a C# Windows Forms application?!

A: I don't think the standart DateTimePicker supports this but System.Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar has an AddBoldedDate() method. This way you can achieve what you desire.


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Rovos Rail has designed a delightful nine-day safari to entertain the most discerning player with optional excursions for non-playing guests at all venues. The Golf Safari begins in Pretoria and travels west to Sun City in the hills of the Pilanesberg for a day at this renowned facility including a game drive for non-golfers. In the foothills of the imposing Drakensberg Mountains, 18 holes await at the Champagne Sports Resort with a guided tour of the battlefields a further highlight for non-golfers. Enjoy a game at Durban Country Club (or Beachwood) or tour the city. Then it's on to Zululand for game viewing at Hluhluwe before heading to Swaziland. Tee off at Royal Swazi or enjoy a game drive at Mkhaya and a visit to Ngwenya Glass and Guava Gallery. Golfers then play the challenging Leopard Creek course (dependent) while non-golfers enjoy a game drive in the world-famous Kruger Park, after which this memorable journey ends in Pretoria.
Golfers: Morning tee off at Lost City or Gary Player Country Club.
Non-golfers: 09h00 Game drive in Pilanesberg Game Reserve. Explore the Lost City followed by lunch at the club.
All meals enjoyed on board en route to Estcourt via Ladysmith. Day at leisure on the train.
Golfers: Morning tee off at Champagne Sports Resort.
Non-golfers: 09h00 Enjoy a professional tour of the battlefields with lunch at Spionkop Lodge followed by shopping. Depart for Durban.
Golfers: Morning tee off at Durban Country Club/Beachwood.
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Fran Drescher Takes On Cancer
BY Michelle Breyer
If someone told actress Fran Drescher a decade ago that her advocacy efforts to bring down women's cancer death rates would one day land her on a Top 5 list of Hollywood's political powerhouses — a list that includes people such as George Clooney, U2's Bono and Angelina Jolie — her reply would be simple.
"Did you just say I was going to get cancer?" says Drescher, everyone's favorite nanny. "I always imagined myself getting involved in big things. But I never factored in that I was going to be someone who got cancer. It has been a pivotal, life-changing experience."
Even though she would have gladly bypassed her uterine cancer diagnosis, Drescher says "some of the best gifts come in the ugliest packages."
Her personal experience with cancer prompted Drescher to launch the Cancer Schmancer Movement two years ago. The movement is dedicated to lowering cancer mortality rates by educating women about the importance and methods of early detection; transforming women from patients into informed medical consumers and shifting the nation's priority to prevention and early detection as well as finding a cure. Cancer Schmancer was voted the 2009 runner up for the Cancer Fighters Award.
"At Cancer Schmancer, we believe that stage one is the cure," Drescher says in her infamous voice.
Her passion comes from her own frustrations. She was misdiagnosed and mistreated for a peri-menopausal condition she didn't have.
"My doctors told me I was experiencing symptoms because of a long list of reasons," Drescher says. "My doctors didn't order the proper diagnostic tests. At the time, I didn't know to ask why or why not because I was just happy to be told I was too young for something!"
Two years and eight doctors later, her worst fear was confirmed in the summer of 2002. She had cancer. Luckily, she caught it in stage one. But the experience inspired her to write "Cancer Schmancer" to tell her own story.
But she came to realize that the book was not an end but rather a beginning to a life mission to improve women's healthcare in the United States.
"We need to take control of our bodies, become greater partners with our physicians and galvanize as one to let our legislators know that the collective female vote is louder and more powerful than that of the richest corporate lobbyists," she says. "I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it."
In September, Cancer Schmancer and I Heart Inc. joined forces with Inner Images to help the low-income, uninsured women of Los Angeles received women's cancer screening tests in their neighborhoods
John Paul Mitchell Systems' John Paul and Eloise DeJoria are among two of Cancer Schmancer's biggest supporters. The Paul Mitchell Schools have raised money for the movement, and in September and October, the company offered a limited edition pink Express Ion Smooth 1.25 iron to raise money for the organization.
"Paul MItchell is a brand rooted in and praise-worthy for its philanthropy, and there's no other partner I'd rather team with to communicate my message," Drescher says.
Drescher knows hair. She is a former hairdresser, with a head of naturally curly hair that she wears both straight and curly.
"When I'm working, I like it a little more controllable," she says. "But I wouldn't ever straighten it permanently. I like having the options."


Shaw, St. Aug and Virginia State are on a roll as they close out conference play and look forward to CIAA action.
CIAA conference play is right around the corner and three teams have all been firing on all-cylinders as non-conference play has wound down.
Virginia State came up with a 79-73 overtime win against King on Saturday night. Trey Brown led the way with 19 points, adding seven rebounds, six assists and four steals in 36 minutes as the nationally-ranked won for the 10th time in its first 11 games at home in Petersburg.
Down in Raleigh, Shaw picked up its sixth-straight win behind a career-night from DeVaughn Kelsie. The sophomore from Richmond, VA hit a school record 12 3-pointers and to record a 39 point performance as Shaw came away with a 110-89 win over Barton College. DeAngelo Stephens-Bell filled the stat sheet with 21 points, seven rebound and seven assists.
Shaw's cross-town rival, St. Aug picked up its fourth consecutive win of the year, beating Belmont Abbey 79-66. Senior Quincy January put up 16 points and 12 rebounds for his 45th career double-double, third among active players in D2 basketball. He led five SAU players in double-figures.


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Q: python construct struct invalid DWORDLONG vallues I am trying to parse a c struct in python using the construct library
Here is my struct:
typedef struct _MACHINEID {
    UINT32        ui32Hash;
    DWORD        dwLength;
    DWORD        dwMemoryLoad;
    DWORDLONG    ullTotalPhys;
    DWORDLONG    ullAvailPhys;
    DWORDLONG    ullTotalPageFile;
    DWORDLONG    ullAvailPageFile;
    DWORDLONG    ullTotalVirtual;
    DWORDLONG    ullAvailVirtual;
    DWORDLONG    ullAvailExtendedVirtual;
} MACHINEID, * PMACHINEID;

from construct import Int32un, Int8sn, Int16un, Int64un, Int
from construct import Array, Struct
MACHINE_ID = Struct(
    'ui32Hash' / Int32un,
    'dwLength' / Int32un,
    'dwMemoryLoad' / Int32un,
    'ullTotalPhys' / Int64un,
    'ullAvailPhys' / Int64un,
    'ullTotalPageFile' / Int64un,
    'ullAvailPageFile' / Int64un,
    'ullTotalVirtual' / Int64un,
    'ullAvailVirtual' / Int64un,
    'ullAvailExtendedVirtual' / Int64un
)

But when i receive the struct in python as a bytes object The vallues of all DWORDLONG members are incorrect.  Does anyone know whats causing this?

A: As "Some programmer dude" suggested it had to do with padding. Putting __pragma(pack(push, 1)) and __pragma(pack(pop)) around my struct to disable padding solves the issue.


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Q: Can MapsterMapper specify to map only some fields? Below is the sample code

public People{
   public int Age{get;set;}
   public string Name{get;set;}
   public string Address{get;set;}
}

public PeopleDto{
  public int Age{get;set;}
  public string Name{get;set;}
  public string Address{get;set;}
}

Now, I want to map the Age and Name fields, while the Address field keeps the default value,I would like to have a function like the following available:
var config= TypeAdapterConfig.GlobalSettings.Default.Config.Clone();
config
.ForType<People, PeopleDto>()
.IncludeFields(src=>src.Age,src=>src.Name)//This method does not currently exist, here is just an example
.MaxDepth(2);

Can this be done please?
I searched for relevant information but did not find any usable information.

A: it's fixed
var config= TypeAdapterConfig.GlobalSettings.Default.Config.Clone();
config
.ForType<People, PeopleDto>()
.IgnoreMember((m, s) => s == MemberSide.Source)
.Map(d => d.Name, s => s.Name)
.Map(d => d.Age, s => s.Age);


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/Unique Partnership Expands Homebuyer Education in Native Communities
Unique Partnership Expands Homebuyer Education in Native Communities
Over the past year, Homeownership Education Resource Organization (HERO), an affiliate of the South Dakota Housing Development Authority (SDHDA) that supports the delivery of unified homebuyer education throughout the state, has tripled its certified Native American partners to include six organizations that have served 310 aspiring homeowners. In addition, two more Native organizations are currently undergoing the HERO certification process.
According to Mary Stewart who coordinates HERO, "Once those two organizations complete their certification, we will have partners on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, Rosebud, and Lake Traverse Reservations. We're pleased to see this progression."
Although HERO began outreach to Native communities in 2016, only two Native organizations became partners.
"After those first two, we weren't getting much response. We had some off-reservation partners partially serving Native communities, but there was a disconnect," says Stewart.
Stewart credits the recent increase in Native partners to a collaborative effort between SDHDA, the South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition (Coalition), and Freddie Mac. With help from Freddie Mac, HERO, SDHDA, and the Coalition launched an outreach campaign in Native communities in 2018.
"The Coalition helped with contacts and connections. They were able to spark an interest," says Stewart.
As a result, over 20 practitioners from Native organizations attended a HERO orientation session and then became certified homebuyer education instructors. Some of them have been approved as HERO partners, which opened up a reimbursement-based funding source to support the delivery of their homebuyer education classes.
"I love HERO because it allows us to enhance our homeownership services. It's been a great way to leverage and grow our homebuyer readiness program," said Sharon Vogel, Executive Director of the Cheyenne River Housing Authority.
Cheyenne River Housing Authority was one of the first Native organizations to become a HERO partner. Vogel explains that as a result of the partnership they have been able to rent a better training space more conducive to learning and provide graduates with incentives, which has increased retention rates and referrals.
In the coming year, HERO will continue its efforts to certify homebuyer educators and increase the number of partners in South Dakota's Native communities.
"We're glad to be playing a part in this initiative that is extending homebuyer education into Native communities," said Simone Beaty, Product Development Director for Freddie Mac's Single-Family Business.
As part of their Duty to Serve plan, Freddie Mac established a Memorandum of Understanding with HERO to expand its services to reservation-based organizations.


For those interested in weight loss training, strength training is a crucial element.
Strength training refers to exercises in which muscles are being forced to contract in order to oppose an external force. This force can simply be gravity (as in the case of calisthenics, or body weight exercises), or an external load such as a dumbbell. Repeated contractions against an external force stimulates growth by causing microscopic tears in your muscle fibers.
Building lean muscle is the key to increasing your metabolism, improving your coordination, stabilizing your joints, and changing your body composition. It has also been shown to increase sleep quality and mood.
However, people remain under the impression that weight loss training involves doing a bunch of cardio. Many individuals interested in losing weight will spend weeks on the treadmill or the elliptical trying to shed a few pounds, only to find themselves no better off than when they started. Or even if they do manage to lose weight, they somehow end up looking worse.
There is good reason for this: While extended periods of mild to moderate cardiovascular exercise burn calories, it does little to change your body composition. Unlike strength training or high-intensity interval training, it does not produce a sustained increase in your metabolic rate, and it may even slow down your metabolism. Prolonged bouts of cardiovascular exercise also eats away at muscle tissue, which is much more metabolically active than fat, worsening the problem. Furthermore, overdoing the cardio diminishes testosterone levels, which is important in building and maintaining lean muscle. This results in an undesirable condition colloquially referred to as "skinny fat". That's where an individual is of normal body weight but still carries excessive amounts of fat.
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Dr. Maurya uses both weight training and calisthenics (body weight training) in his strength training regimens. Understanding the various advantages and disadvantages of each, V will often combine both methods into each of his strength training workouts.
Expect to be exposed to a wide array of strength training equipment when working with V, including dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells, cables, resistance bands, and suspension trainers. Also, be ready to recruit multiple muscle groups while performing exercises, as V sees the body as a unit. As such, he will engage several muscles simultaneously to mimic natural body mechanics, increase cardiovascular intensity, and improve balance and coordination.
Dr. Maurya will spend time instructing clients on the fundamental aspects of key movement patterns, ensuring that they can be performed safely and effectively, before incorporating more muscle groups or more complex exercises. He also adjusts his strength training programs to accommodate individuals with all different types of physical capabilities. His goal is to demonstrate how to reap the full benefits of strength training while minimizing the risk of injury.
With steady, persistent effort and an appropriate diet, expect to see changes in your body composition while training with V. Dr. Maurya understands that strength training is essential if you are seeking to reduce body fat levels, and makes it a central element in all his fitness programs.


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US commander says China missile fire over Taiwan must be contested
By AFP and published by The Straits Times Singapore – China's recent decision to fire missiles over Taiwan is a "gorilla in the room" that has to be contested, a top US military commander said today (August 16). Beijing has carried out huge air and sea drills this month around Taiwan in a furious
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Govt readies 150 billion baht loan guarantee for oil fund
By Reuters and published by CNA THE cabinet today (August 16) approved a law to guarantee up to 150 billion baht in loans for the state oil fund to support energy prices as the government fights inflation, according to a government source and local media reports. The measure still has to be examined by
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Prayut could stay put for months pending court ruling on 8-year tenure
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha might probably stay on as head of government for several months after next week pending a ruling by the Constitutional Court over his contentious eight-year tenure, said a veteran lawmaker today (August 16). Deputy Sarng Anakhot Thai party leader Nipit Intharasombat posted on his Facebook page saying
Mountain B pub owner's dad surrenders, denies charges
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Foreigner held for catching parrotfish in national park area
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Q: Metric tensor derivative identity In this paper, the following identity is used without proof nor reference:
$$g^{\alpha \mu} g^{\beta \lambda} \dot{g}_{\alpha \beta} \equiv -\dot{g}^{\mu \lambda}$$
where $g$ is metric tensor and $\dot{g}$ is derivative of $g$.
How can this identity derived?

A: I found out that this is from the matrix identity,
$$\partial X^{-1} = - X^{-1} (\partial X) X^{-1}$$
Proof for this identity is in here.
With this, we have
$$X (\partial X^{-1}) X = - \partial X$$
By substituting $X$ with $g^{\mu \lambda}$, we get the identity!


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Kevin Kelley closes out 16 years on Cleveland City Council, eight years as president
Updated: Dec. 07, 2021, 10:14 a.m. | Published: Dec. 06, 2021, 10:53 p.m.
Kevin Kelley steps down for the last time, December 6, 2021
By Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Outgoing Cleveland Council President Kevin Kelley presided over his final council meeting Monday, closing out eight years as the body's president, and 16 years as Old Brooklyn's representative.
Monday's meeting was council's last of the year, and it also would have been the last for Mayor Frank Jackson at the end of his own historic, decades-long career. But Jackson has not attended council meetings since the start of the pandemic, and did not attend Monday's farewell.
At the close of the meeting, council members took turns praising both Kelley's and Jackson's tenures at City Hall. And Kelley offered his colleagues this advice:
"You've chosen this profession. You owe this city every sleepless night, every late evening, every stressful, agonizing decision. And I want you to enjoy it because it's the most important work we can do."
Kelley, a former social worker, gave up his council seat in an unsuccessful bid to replace Jackson as mayor. He first won the Ward 13 seat representing Old Brooklyn in 2005, and ascended to the presidency in 2014.
During his time on council, Kelley helped establish First Year Cleveland, a partnership to reduce infant mortality. He passed a lead abatement plan aimed at reducing infant lead mortality, and led efforts to provide lawyers to poor families facing eviction.
His tenure also has been marked by controversy, including accusations that he was too friendly to big business, and for his role in quashing two ballot initiatives related to the minimum wage, and to the city's part in financing a renovation of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
Kelley, in his closing remarks, also reflected on his career. He said he had no regrets – on the votes he's cast, and on his bids for council president and mayor.
"The votes people attacked me most for are the ones I'm most proud of," Kelley told council. "Remember: doing what's right is not always popular."
One after another, council members thanked Kelley for his work, and shared kind words for Jackson and the other members departing at the end of the year: Anthony Brancatelli, Basheer Jones, Delores Gray and Marion Anita Gardner.
Kelley closed out the meeting by presenting a gavel to Councilman Blaine Griffin, who will take over as president in January. Said Kelley: "One thing that's given me comfort as I exit is this council's going to be in good hands."
Jackson was first elected as Council's Ward 5 representative for the Central neighborhood in 1989, and rose to be council president before toppling Mayor Jane Campbell in the 2005 election. After four terms and 16 years, he walks away from the post as Cleveland's longest-ever serving mayor.
Said Griffin of Jackson: "Even if you disagreed with Mayor Jackson, one thing you couldn't disagree with was his love and passion for this city."


In MMA, we are regularly exposed to talented and technical fighters who maintain a high pace and output. From flyweight to middleweight, we are introduced to new and exciting talent and reintroduced to seasoned but still fresh established talents. With each year that passes, we get to discover some new up-and-comer, see the continued excellence of the elite, or witness underachievers make a run that belies their rank, skill and physical tools. Unfortunately, in the two biggest weight classes, that trend does not exist.
In the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions, there is no circle of life. There is no cycle of introduction, development, excellence and eventual decline. In other divisions, there really is no place for old men. However, in these two flagship divisions, there is no room for the young men.
Instead of the divisions following the circle of life, they have stagnated. The fresh talent is never able to fully ascend into the position of the elite. The declining elite still rule, and they do so with an iron fist.
The heavyweight division has historically had a warm place in the hearts of fans. At one point, the best title that one could have in sports was to be the heavyweight champion of the world in boxing. Whoever had that title essentially ran sports and, to a certain degree, ran the world of entertainment. Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali — what do they have in common? All were huge stars that to varying degrees transcended their sport. These guys influenced so many fighters in other sports and especially in MMA.
The same trend followed in the world of mixed martial arts, where Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Randy Couture, Frank Mir and Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic are still able to draw checks, media and fighting opportunities as a result of the status they achieved years ago. Even in the face of embarrassing losses and questions about quality of opposition, these guys still maintain a high position in the MMA world. These fighters are given the kind of props that are not provided to better athletes and more accomplished fighters who fight at lower weights.
Historically, the light heavyweights haven't had the cache in combat sports that the heavyweights have had. However, in MMA, that all changed as some of the biggest stars and most notable fighters of all time competed in the division. Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, the aforementioned Couture, Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Silva and Jon Jones shaped the sport through athletic dominance and, in the cases of Liddell and Ortiz, as crossover stars who carried the sport before popularizing it to the masses.
With the exception of Jones, the large majority of these fighters, though considered Hall of Famers, were not viewed as all-time greats in regards to skills, athletic ability, ability to adjust or the quality of their opposition. Yet, they were the ones that buoyed the division and fueled the explosion of popularity for MMA. Though the light heavyweights were popular in boxing, which was the premier combat sport for the large majority of the world, the division's champion never had the cache of being "the man" in the world of sports or the world in general. Mixed martial arts changed that. At multiple times in MMA's abbreviated history, the baddest and most popular man in the world fought in the light heavyweight division.
Currently, both divisions are considered the weakest, not just in the UFC, but in the world. Bellator MMA, ONE Championship, Rizin Fighting Federation — regardless of the reach of the organization or the amount of money invested, none of these leagues have developed a particularly deep and young stash of heavyweights or light heavyweights.
Instead of the vicious cycle that exists where guys come in, develop, establish themselves, peak and then decline, these two divisions have stagnated. They are anomalies in that there is less of a cycle and more of a recycle trend. We repeatedly see the same names in the top 15 that were there five and 10 years ago. Cain Velasquez, Fabricio Werdum, Andrei Arlovski, Roy Nelson, Junior dos Santos, Cheick Kongo, Mark Hunt, Brock Lesnar, Ben Rothwell and the aforementioned Cro Cop, Mir and Emelianenko are the same guys who were at or near the top of the heavyweight division a decade ago. All have competed within the last year. Most of them are still ranked and coming off wins. The same goes for the light heavyweight division, where Glover Teixeira, Phil Davis, Alexander Gustafsson, Ryan Bader, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Ovince St. Preux and Daniel Cormier have ruled for years. In no other division do you have guys who have been around that long but are still considered elite in their divisions. Other divisions have had major changes, if not complete overhauls.
The long and short of the success or failure of these divisions is the simple fact that the fighters who fit into the size, weight and build necessary to be a world-class athlete all compete in other sports. It's a problem that has hit other combat sports, such as wrestling, boxing, judo and jiu-jitsu. The very best athletes of that size, height, weight and build are playing in the MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL. These are all careers that have insurance, pay millions of dollars, and open the door for a variety of sponsorship and media opportunities. Most importantly, none of them require you to split your pay. None of them have limited options to be developed by experience and through work with world-class coaches and staff. None of them significantly limit sponsorship opportunities. Most importantly, none of them require you to get punched in the face.
This is not to say the other sports aren't difficult. The sheer number of participants and level of skill and athleticism tells that story. However, none of them have the uncertainty in health, healthcare, or pay that come in the field of combat sports. At the lighter weights, the options for legitimate life-changing money in sports outside of the combat arena is a lot smaller. There are many more examples of high-class athletes in the lighter weights, which is a direct result of the limited opportunities outside of combat sports for these guys to make money and to achieve stardom.
To really flesh out a division, you have to have an array of fighters. You need prospects, legit fighters, fringe contenders, elite contenders and journeymen. You need each and every type to help guys grow strategically, learn to execute technically, and develop a sense of situational awareness through the seasoning of fights. In the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions, three of these four categories are held by old and, in many cases, declining fighters. This means that while the division is stable due to the extensive amount of experience, quality of opposition and level of accomplishment, it can't grow or expand.
For an organization to develop a fighter, it has to be able to move them along slowly, presenting them with different calibers of athlete, levels of experience and skill sets. You put a prospect into as many different situations as possible to help them get seasoning and develop the poise and preparatory habits so that they are fully formed or close to fully formed fighters by the time they get to the ranked guys and eventually the elite guys.
Think of how Max Holloway was moved up the ladder. He had enough time to acclimate himself to the jump in talent when being brought into the UFC. Due to the depth of the featherweight division, Holloway was able to gain experience, refine his skills and develop his cage IQ. By the time he started facing the likes of Jeremy Stephens, Cub Swanson, Ricardo Lamas, Anthony Pettis and eventually José Aldo, he was ready to not just fight, but to compete and win. Unfortunately, in both the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions, that type of progression doesn't exist.
The depth of the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions isn't established at all. All the legitimate experience and skills reside at the top end. The only thing the elite guys don't have is top-end athleticism. However, all the "elite" guys in both divisions at one point were elite athletes. Some still are close enough to their prime where they can compete physically with the best athletes. More importantly, they have all been the top athlete or faced the top athlete, and they know how to handle that situation. Look at what happened to Jared Cannonier when he faced a faded and clearly vulnerable Teixeira — he lost a decision. Look at what happened when Corey Anderson faced longtime light heavyweight stalwart Ovince St. Preux — a knockout loss for Anderson. Or when Gian Villante met Hall of Famer Shogun Rua — a TKO defeat for Villante. All these guys held advantages in youth, mileage and stylistic match-ups in these fights, but each and every one of them were soundly outworked, outsmarted, outfought and beaten.
The heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions have some potential. At some point, there will inevitably be some forward motion in both weight classes. The problem is that they both lack the numbers of participants and the quality in regards to athleticism in the participants. Until the money improves, and until they get a fighter who resonates like Liddell or Fedor did, we won't see a resurgence in these divisions. Instead, we will be forced to deal with top-heavy divisions ruled by declining fighters who have the skills, experience and situational awareness necessary to navigate the unproven, underdeveloped fighters attempting to make the jump from prospect to legitimate fighter and on to champion.


But oh well. No use worrying about it. It's working now, and that's what matters.
And I'm sculpting again! I should be writing again , too. But now I am! Sorta!
Here's a pair of pictures of the masks I'm making.
I'm making this mask for my cousin who is putting together a Star Wars film of some kind in the near future. It's a half-mask kind of like the Phantom's mask from Phantom of the Opera, but with a decidedly more imperial look. It's got teeth, but at this point, I'm not sure what other details if any I should include (making the cheeks and cheekbones more pronounced and skull-like, or recessed like Boba Fett's Mandalorian helmet).
I will admit, this is the first time I've ever tried to sculpt a mask instead of doing it Pepakura with paper from a three-dimensional model. It's exciting! Now to figure out how to smooth clay to get a stormtrooper helmet feel.
I'm really excited about this just because it looks like I got the proportions of the eyes and color designs of the mask properly the first time!
This mask is from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (naturally), and I noticed a lot of things about its design I hadn't really considered while sculpting it. First of all, it's a heart (of course). It's also a head (a freaky one). The spikes on its sides and top move like fingers (and that's creepy). And the evolutions of Majora himself in the video game use the mask as a chestpiece. Whether Majora was male or female isn't specified. Majora's Mask has a lot of uses, besides the fact that it's a cursed mask that possesses the wearer. You know, all the terrible planet-destroying, moon-summoning power. I mean, just look at it.
…I won't be making that thing as a mask. It would frighten children. And adults. And myself. Man, what kind of designer thought that was okay? And what kind of creative manager said to himself, "yeah, I'm good with that"?


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Once again, Europe has become a serious threat to stability in the Balkans. The UN Security Council has voted to deploy EULEX, the EU's law and order mission in Kosova, on the basis of the six-point plan of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The plan panders simultaneously to a Serbia that appears determind to keep fighting a war it has already lost, a Russia whose own ill-will and lack of faith have been demonstrated in Georgia, and EU members for which toadying to Russia is an end in itself. Although the UN Security Council vote did not formally mention the plan, and although the US has been at pains to stress that Kosova's opposition to the plan has been respected, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is merely a fudge intended to mollify Kosovar opinion. Deploying the EU force in Kosova only on the basis of agreement with Serbia and Russia represents a dangerous precedent and unnecessary concession to ill-willed parties. This policy of 'anything for a quiet' life must be halted to avoid serious damage to our interests, both in the Balkans and in Europe as a whole.
The Ban plan has been rejected by the Kosovar leadership and by all sections of Kosovo Albanian political and public opinion, as contrary to Kosova's constitution and damaging to its territorial integrity, and it is worth pausing for a minute so see why this is so. The plan bases itself on UN Security Council 1244, which guaranteed the 'sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia'. As the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was transformed into the 'State Union of Serbia and Montenegro' in 2003, and as this union then dissolved in 2006 when Montenegro voted to become independent, talk of its 'territorial integrity' being maintained from 1999 is meaningless. The Ban plan has adopted this form to appease Belgrade, which wants to turn the clock back to before the international recognition of Kosova's independence of this year, and sees reaffirming the Resolution 1244 as a way of doing this. But paradoxically, Belgrade wishes to do this in order ultimately to move the clock forward – to impose a territorial partition on Kosova as the price for its independence, a partition that it has already enacted on the ground. By confining the EULEX mission to the areas of Kosova under the control of the Albanian-dominated government, and by maintaining separate police, courts and customs for the Serb enclaves under UN rather than EU control, the Ban plan will, if put into practice, solidify this soft partition, thereby appeasing Serbia on this score as well. Again, the US claims that the Security Council vote allows for the deployment of EULEX throughout Kosova, but whether EULEX will really be allowed to assume responsibility in the north appears uncertain.
It is, perhaps, a sign of how far several of the Balkan states have progressed in terms of democracy and responsibility, that they show greater awareness of the dangers inherent in this scenario than the supposedly mature democracies of Western Europe. According to Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, 'The plan has serious problems, since it favours a soft partition of Kosova.' After meeting with Berisha, Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic warned that a partition of Kosova would destabilise the region, consequently 'The division of Kosova along ethnic lines is a buried plan'. And in the words of Croatian President Stipe Mesic: 'The division of Kosova based on Serb appetites is a dream of Serbia which reminds us of the epoch of the Milosevic dictatorship. And if it really happens as Belgrade intends, this means a step backwards. It means the realisation of the dream of Great Serbia.' Although the sabre-rattling in which Serbia has engaged in recently in relation to Croatia and Montenegro as well as to Macedonia and the Western powers over Kosova is essentially empty, concessions of the kind represented by the Ban plan may serve to persuade Serbia that, despite its past defeats, aggressive behaviour does pay after all.
It is paradoxical that this UN plan for Kosova – rejected by Kosova, favoured by Serbia and unpopular with Serbia's Balkan neighbours – has won EU approval, despite British and US reservations. Paradoxical, given that 22 out of 27 EU members, including all the larger ones except Spain, have recognised Kosova's independence: the EU has ended up favouring a plan opposed by the side in the conflict whose position its members mostly support, and supported by the side that opposes the views of most EU members. This only makes sense if we consider the dynamics of European geopolitics. The EU's foreign policy chief is Spain's Javier Solana, considered by some at Brussels to have been rather quick off the mark in backing the Ban plan, and to have done so on the basis of Spanish rather than EU political considerations. Spain is, of course, the only larger EU member, and the only West European country, that refuses to recognise Kosova's independence, and that indeed continues actively to lobby against it.
Meanwhile, the big three of the continental EU, France, Germany and Italy, are motivated by a general policy of conciliating Russia on all fronts, therefore of mollifying the Serbia-Russia bloc over Kosova. France holds the EU presidency, and at the EU-Russia summit this month at Nice, French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to undermine the US plan for a missile defence system for Europe – to the consternation of the Czechs and Poles – and called for an EU-Russia pact, despite Moscow's failure to honour the terms of the ceasefire in Georgia. Appeasement of Serbia, consequently of Russia over Kosova is of a kind with this policy orientation, one that directly sacrifices the interests – and in some cases the sovereignty – of the Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania and, of course, Kosova.
Sarkozy's Gaullist pursuit of an independent French line, in a manner that undermines the unity of the Western alliance, is not limited to appeasement of Russia, however; he has vocally supported Greece in its 'name dispute' with Macedonia, in contrast to the US's support for Macedonia – despite the potentially tremendous damage that Greece's aggressively nationalistic policy may do to the Balkans, and despite the fact that Macedonia has in recent years been a much better supporter of the Western alliance than has Greece. Sarkozy's determination to keep our crucial Turkish ally out of the EU, expressed and justified in the crudest terms, is a further example of his pursuit of narrow French interests at the expense of common Western interests.
In Kosova, the consequences of EU appeasement of Serbia are beginning to make themselves felt, with the Kosovars – up till now the most pro-Western nation in the Balkans – uniting in opposition to the form EU policy is taking. Their opposition is manifesting itself in mass demonstrations, but there are ominous signs that resistance is also taking a more extreme form: on 14 November, a bomb attack was carried out on the EU representative office in Pristina, with a group calling itself the 'Army of the Republic of Kosova' claiming responsibility, and threatening further attacks against Kosovo's Serb minority. Pursuing the will o' the wisp of Serbian goodwill over Kosova, we have consequently let down our own Kosovar ally to such an extent that we risk engendering a new terrorist-extremist threat in this sensitive spot.
Things are going badly in the Balkans because Britain and the US, Kosova's two strongest supporters in the Western alliance, have been far too reticent in standing up for our ally, and have allowed Russia, Serbia and their West European appeasers to make the running. Nor have we been sufficiently active on the world stage in promoting the cause of Kosova's independence. Egypt, one of the opponents of Kosova's independence, blocked Kosova's participation at an Organisation of the Islamic Conference event in Cairo; despite being one of the largest recipients of US aid, the corrupt regime of Hosni Mubarak obviously has no qualms about undermining Western diplomacy in this gratuitous manner. Similarly, in last month's UN General Assembly vote on whether the International Court of Justice should rule on the legality of Kosova's independence, it was left to the US and Albania, virtually alone, to vote against; the EU members that recognised Kosova's independence all abstained, while the five EU members that reject Kosova's independence all voted in favour. So it is the troublemakers – Spain, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus; the ones that are blocking a common EU policy on Kosova – that aggressively promote their own policy, while Britain pursues the line of least resistance.
The rot must be stopped. If Britain and the US are to prevent further deterioration of the situation in the Balkans, discourage Serbia's escalating policy of revanchism, dampen the slide toward extremism in Kosova, make it clear to Moscow that its mischief-making will be met with resistance, and put a brake on the Franco-German-Spanish-Italian appeasement drive, we must be much more forthright and vocal in promoting our policies and interests and in standing up for our friends. This means waging a much more active diplomatic and public campaign in defence of Kosova. Diplomatic pressure should be brought to bear on the five EU members that have so far refused to recognise Kosova's independence; in particular Spain which, as the only large and West European country among them, bears a particular responsibility for the failure to achieve EU unanimity on this question. Bad allies such as Egypt should be made to understand that they will suffer diplomatic and financial consequences if they continue to undermine us in the Balkans.
A successful diplomatic campaign is one half of winning the battle of Kosova. The other half is to achieve facts on the ground that make this victory an irreversible fact. Serbian attempts to undermine Croatia's independence and annex parts of Croatian territory came to a definite end when the Croatian state became strong enough to assert its authority unchallenged across the whole of its territory. Similarly, Kosova's independence will became a reality, irrespective of Serbian opposition, when a strong Kosovar state exercises full control over the whole of Kosova, including the area north of the River Ibar. Consequently, the EULEX mission must not be allowed to become a permanent international protectorate that prevents the emergence of a genuinely independent Kosova, but must work rapidly to put such a Kosova on its feet. Bosnia, where the international protectorate has wholly failed to create a functioning state or a stable political order, and where the situation is increasingly critical, should serve as a salutary warning of where a similar policy over Kosova might lead.
Britain and the US must therefore work together to ensure that the EULEX mission is a means to the end of a genuinely independent, territorially united Kosova, not to the end of keeping a lid on things indefinitely so as to appease Serbia and Russia. The very aim of Belgrade and Moscow is to undermine us and promote Balkan instability; they will use our weakness and our fear of confrontation to ensure that the lid comes off. The corollary of this is that we cannot establish an independent Kosova and stabilise the Balkans so long as we are pursuing the will o' the wisp of consensus with these regimes. We must choose: to acquiesce in the destabilisation of the Balkans by two regimes that are taking us for a ride, or to move forward and resolve the situation once and for all, at the price of a few impotent howls from them. It should not be a difficult choice to make.
Last July the Italian government succeeded in passing a law granting the President, leaders of the upper and lower chambers, and Prime Minister (the four highest offices of the state) immunity from investigation whilst in office.
The ongoing investigations into current Prime Minister Signor Berlusconi's affairs, which include allegations of corruption, bribery and attempts to pervert the course of justice, question the motives behind such legislation. It is the ad personam nature of these laws which makes them unacceptable. Not only is the idea of equality before the law traduced, but a clear message is sent that the position of lawmaker may be abused for personal gain.
The most fundamental principle of the rule of law is that all are treated equally under it. If such ad personam laws were passed today by a soi-disant democratically elected leader of an Eastern European or African state, it is likely that we would be swift in our condemnation of the act, and there would likely follow calls for action. European member states should be an example to the international community in setting the principle that all in society are equal before the law. Italy should be no exception.
Under Italian law, legislation passed by Parliament may be challenged by referendum, provided that 500 000 signatures calling for such action are collected within a period of 90 days. Despite little or no coverage in the Italian media, 200 000 signatures were collected in a single day, following the formation by some Italian politicians and intellectuals (including Nobel laureate Dario Fo) of a referendum committee. The support of the wider intellectual community is crucial in getting this issue into the Italian media and highlighting the need for a public referendum on this question.
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The conservative think tank Privileged Individuals for Increased Medical Profits released a study today that confirms what conservative pundits have been purporting for some time: America's healthcare system is languishing for lack of increased competition.
"Sick Americans are lazy and don't want to compete for the health services that they want," says Will Underhaul, chair of the recently formed MIOC (Medically Indifferent Obstacle Course) committee, which chose as its logo the Invisible Hand.
The first organized competition instituted was in honor of our soldiers-The Iraq Veterans Victory Lap. What better way to celebrate the inevitable victory of 30 years of globally antagonistic U.S. foreign policy. The Victory Lap is an orienteering challenge-complete with compasses, maps, and hidden flags (that are collected and later exchanged for increased face-to-face time with an actual doctor)-that really makes use of veterans' survival training. It involves both military and civilian bureaucracy trials. "Between the paperwork, runaround, and misinformation, it's a most grueling endeavor. A kind of boot camp for re-entry into civilian life," said the first finalist, now able to afford his full post-traumatic stress disorder treatment.
Another prominent feature of the MIOC commission's Patient Elimination Process is the Asthmatics Endurance Challenge. It involves shuffling asthmatic children from one inflammatory environment to the next to see who can best ration their limited meds and stave off attack the longest. The winner gets "a month's supply" of new medication-proportioned, of course, according to their Endurance Challenge intake levels. "Knowing how little medication a child can get by on helps healthcare providers save, thus make, billions a year," offered one pharmaceutical rep who asked not to be identified.
A progressive business owner out to lunch commented, "It's despicable what the healthcare industry is doing in the name of their bottom line, which I would think should be health and care. Still you can't buy everything the neo-liberals are selling either. A market-based healthcare-for-all program would be filled with graft. I would much prefer a British NHS program or, at the very least, a U.S. congressional-style plan." His compassionate free-marketeer lunch partner countered, "Although I disagree somewhat with my friend, what we currently have is definitely all wrong. It's the healthcare companies that should be competing for the public's business, not the other way around. That's what would drive healthcare costs down. And if it takes the fed to manage the bargaining side of that, so be it."
Industry insiders question what incentive healthcare companies presently have to drive health premiums down. "Why not just keep scaring middle-class Americans into thinking their healthcare will diminish and that they will pay more in taxes than they currently collectively do in premiums if everyone is enrolled in the U.S. Congressional Healthcare plan. Americans are so nationally provincial. They don't know that the poor in many countries with publicly-funded medicine have better healthcare at better rates than middle-class Americans can individually afford. Besides, you can't forget the psychology of capital wealth: Those who can will unconsciously pay much more for something they know the poor can't afford (at least that's what my automaker friends tell me). As for turning the tables and demanding the sick compete for services, that's just fun!"
Despite the more than century-long trend of exponentially mounting healthcare costs, latest polls reveal that 77% of all Americans believe the healthcare market will eventually correct itself (a conclusion extrapolated from 2,500 Iowans polled). But how can the market correct itself when 90% of the power (wealth) needed to correct it rests in the hands of the 7% benefiting from the market's imbalance?
Some say improving healthcare is a simple question of political will, which it may be. But isn't it first and foremost a question of imagination-or lack thereof? How long are we to believe the snake oil salesman who says that our real lack of imagination lies in our inability to grasp the rationale for buying more snake oil? How many times do we return to see the sideshow illusionist who convinces us that there's no other way to do healthcare while he makes Canada, Cuba, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand (yes, 55 nations) disappear from the globe of our consciousness? How often will we embrace economic double-talk from politicians, pundits, and other 7-percenters regarding the failures of healthcare-for-all systems over our own ingenuity and common sense to consider what other nations have and improve upon it?
Who knows? This is, after all, 2032, and Americans have been dancing around this issue for 100+ years (since Teddy Roosevelt). Imagination is a scarce commodity, I guess. But the truth of the matter is this isn't solely about healthcare, now is it?


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