[This feature referred to 2017, year of the Fire Bird. For a more up to date story, see above link.] Losar, the Lunar Tibetan New Year, is a day of festivities, celebrated around the world by Tibetans, Tibetan Buddhists and their friends and families. It represents new beginnings, fresh start, and an opportunity to bring in auspiciousness for the new year.
This year is the Year of the Fire Bird (Fire Rooster or Fire Chicken). Celebrations begin February 27, 2017, and can continue for fifteen days as people visit temples, gompas, families and friends. The day varies each year with lunar cycles: in 2018 it will be celebrated on January 25, in 2019 on February 5. Here are some helpful tips to help you bring in good fortune and happiness in 2017.
The Boudhanath Stupa in Nepal is decorated with light and flags for Losar.
On the last day of the year, Gompas and monasteries usually hold fantastic and colourful masked dances to drive away the negativities of the old year.
If you are fortunate enough to be in an area with a Tibetan temple or Gompa, there are likely colourful and beautiful celebrations planned. To help bring in the luck of 2017, consider attending and supporting the temple with a significant donation for merit (good karma). These events might include rituals, but are also as likely to include festive performances. It's worth a trip to your local centre to join in on these auspicious events.
Traditionally, you decorate your doors and windows to bring home the auspiciousness of the year. Often these decorations are purpose-made with good luck, good fortune, happiness and long life messages. Consider having a festive dinner. The "first meal of the day" should go to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and deities. Before eating breakfast, typically you should make your offerings on your home shrine.
Making offerings on your shrine on Losar is a way of creating new year merit and of creating a festive environment. You should make the offerings before you eat your first meal (ideally).
Not only do you get to party, you are encouraging the good fortune and merit for 2017! One important tradition includes hanging new prayer flags, Wind Horse flags, which carry the good wishes to all corners of the earth on the winds.
Prayer flags are hung up to spread the auspicious wishes on the winds. These Windhorse flags usually have the wind horse symbol (a horse with jewels and flames on his back flying through the air), with mantras.
Early in the morning, at home we might give our offerings on our personal shrines. When first greeting people, the most common greeting is "Tashi Delek" which basically wishes them good fortune and happiness. The first day of Losar is usually for immediate family. If you are fortunate to be near a temple or Gompa, join the festivities if there are any this day (it may be scheduled for the weekends or other days).
Elaborate festivities at some monasteries and gompas.
The second day of Losar is gyal-po losar (King's Losar) and tends to be more secular in nature. Throughout these first few days, people might visit friends and families, wishing them well, and enjoying food and feasts. Of course, it's a time for dancing, partying and entertainments. Displaying the eight auspicious signs of the Buddha is a good way to bring auspiciousness home (either printed out from your laser printer and hung up, or more elaborate displays).
Losar is a time of festivities, dance, parties, shows, and ceremony.
For traditional Tibetans, the third day is the day for visiting monasteries and gompas and making prayers. This is the time to show generosity, to create merit in the year by donating food, clothing and money to the Lamas, Gurus, monks, and nuns. The third day will be heavy with incense smoke, especially Juniper leaves.
Tashi Delek from your friends at Buddha Weekly!
The third day is typically for visiting the monasteries, temples and gompas.


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Furioso II (né Vertuoso en 1965, mort en 1986) est l'un des étalons de sport les plus influents du . Les descendants de ce Selle français de souche Anglo-normande continuent à briller au plus haut niveau en saut d'obstacles.

Histoire
Il naît en 1965 sous le nom de Vertuoso, à l'élevage de Henri Lemoine Ecajeul. Il est importé en 1968 en Allemagne par George Vorwerk, éleveur de chevaux Oldenbourg. Sa mère, Dame de Ranville, a produit plusieurs grands chevaux, dont Mexico, Laeken, Jexico de Parc et Heur de Bratand. L'étalon est approuvé pour le stud-book Oldenbourg en 1967, et remporte son test de 100 jours effectué en 1968 à Westercelle. Il se révèle incroyablement influent sur la race Oldenbourg, qui se ressource en lignées paternelles d'origine Pur-sang pour introduire un type plus moderne de cheval de sport, sans pour autant tomber dans le modèle du Pur-sang. Furioso II a ensuite été approuvé pour les stud-books Hanovrien, Rhénan sang chaud et Westphalien.

Furioso II meurt en 1986, à cause de coliques.

Origines

Descendance
Furioso II est le meilleur étalon reproducteur d'Allemagne entre 1979 et 1989, en se basant sur les gains de ses descendants. En 1990, il est le premier producteur de chevaux de dressage. Durant sa vie, l'étalon a produit plus de 200 juments de première qualité et au moins 70 de ses fils sont approuvés, y compris :

Mexico : père de 20 fils approuvés et de nombreux chevaux de saut d'obstacles
FBI : champion de saut d'obstacles
Heisman : quatrième aux Jeux olympiques de Barcelone en saut d'obstacles, cheval de l'année aux États-Unis
For Pleasure : médaille d'or de saut d'obstacles aux jeux olympiques d'Atlanta et de Sydney, cheval allemand de l'année en 1995 et 1996
Voltaire : père de 33 fils approuvés en saut d'obstacles, y compris Finesse et Altaire
Cocktail : cheval de Grand Prix de dressage cheval monté par Anky van Grunsven, père de Jazz

Origines

Il est également visible dans les lignes, par son petit-fils Welt As, Bonfire et STC diamant

Notes et références

Étalon de sport influent
Anglo-normand
Cheval enregistré Selle français
Animal né en 1965
Animal mort en 1986
Cheval mort de coliques
Étalon chef de race

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Regina Spektor is like fine wine. She doesn't seem to age and she just seems to get better with time. Her sixth musical effort What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is definitely a breath of fresh air, and despite being the most recent tapestry we're heard from Spektor in 3 years, it doesn't fail to impress.
The record is not that radically different from much of Regina's other work, nor did it make that much of an impact on the charts. It's a lot of melodic piano pieces with Spektor's versatile voice blanketed on top much like Kristian Matsson, (The Tallest Man On Earth). They generally have their powerhouse voices at the forefront of their music with an accompanying instrument to support.
Luckily, Spektor's voice is so distinct and pleasant that it we all wait with open arms.
She did not bring something that sounds all that new and exciting to the table, but she brought back herself with new music and that's exciting. She is comfortable in her sound, and it is not likely that she will ever sway from it. She is good at what she does. There no reason for her to change. All we can do is hope that she continues to put forth five-star music like this record. Regina Spektor is a true gem.
Regina Spektor – "Don't Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas)"


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Morsay (prononcé //) de son vrai nom Mohamed Mehadji, né le  à Beaumont-sur-Oise dans le département du Val-d'Oise, est un rappeur, réalisateur, scénariste et acteur français, connu initialement pour ses clips provocateurs publiés sur Internet.

Biographie
Morsay grandit à Villiers-le-Bel, dans le Val-d'Oise, avant de déménager à Persan, ville dans laquelle il réside actuellement. Il arrête l'école au collège et passe plusieurs séjours en prison. Avant de s'essayer au rap, il tient un stand de tee-shirts au marché aux puces de Saint-Ouen. En 2007, Morsay et près de 50 de ses collaborateurs font une descente dans les locaux de la station de radio Skyrock après que l'animateur Difool se soit moqué de la sœur d'un vendeur de la boutique du rappeur. Après un premier album solo, Morsay rejoint son frère Zehef pour Cli-Cli Notre Plaque Tournante, auto-produit par le duo en 2009 (Cli Cli étant un surnom du quartier de Clignancourt, dans lequel se situent les puces de Saint-Ouen). Il crée le collectif de rap Truand 2 la Galère, auquel il consacre une ligne de t-shirts qu'il écoule via son magasin des puces.

Plus que par sa production musicale, Morsay se fait connaître en suscitant des buzz sur Internet. Par le biais de diverses vidéos, Morsay multiplie en effet les déclarations provocantes, les assertions difficilement vérifiables sur sa carrière dans les affaires (il prétend ainsi avoir fait fortune en vendant des tee-shirts et des CD, et avoir soustrait son argent au fisc en le transférant en Algérie), et les injures à l'encontre de ceux qui le tournent en dérision ou doutent de son talent artistique, notamment la communauté des « noelistes » de Jeuxvideo.com ou le vidéaste d'extrême droite Vinceneil. Il explique au journal Le Monde que ses vidéos lui ont servi à s'en sortir et que sans elles il aurait peut-être « fini en prison pour de bon ». Sa notoriété sur le web en tant qu'habitué des  lui vaut en 2009 de faire l'objet de menaces de mort de la part de détenus.

La sortie du titre Le son du Ter-Ter 2 en 2009 crée une controverse à cause du morceau J'ai 40 meufs, dont les paroles sont jugées intolérables par Frédéric Mitterrand, ministre français de la Culture, qui condamne l'incitation à la haine et à la violence :

En 2012, Morsay attire l'attention de certains journaux en soutenant la campagne de l'écrivain Mickael Korvin, qui tient comme lui un stand aux puces de Saint-Ouen, pour obtenir un siège à l'Académie française. Korvin et Morsay apparaissent ensemble dans une vidéo promotionnelle, dans laquelle le rappeur injurie Erik Orsenna en le menaçant de violences sexuelles. La même année, il poursuit une pseudo-candidature à l'élection présidentielle française de 2012.

Il réalise et tient également le rôle principal d'un long-métrage auto-produit, La Vengeance, film pseudo-autobiographique où il décrit des aventures lui étant arrivé en dénonçant le racisme dont les jeunes de cités seraient victimes. Le film est présenté dans une salle en séance privée avant d'être distribué directement en DVD. Morsay lance à cette occasion une série de rumeurs, affirmant notamment que Marine Le Pen aurait tenté de faire interdire le film, Morsay étant un fervent détracteur du Front national. En 2020, il publie La Vengeance 2 gratuitement sur YouTube.

Quelques mois plus tard, on aperçoit l'artiste aux côtés de l'essayiste Alain Soral dans une vidéo qui atteint fin 2014 plus de  sur le portail YouTube, .

Lors des élections législatives de 2017, il soutient le candidat PS Alexis Bachelay.

En décembre 2021, il annonce sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle française de 2022 et prône l'abolition de la prison.

Instrumentalisation par l'extrême droite
En 2012, dans une interview de Morsay pour le site Canal Street, le journaliste Mouloud Achour note que les vidéos du rappeur sont souvent partagées sur des sites d'extrême droite comme Fdesouche afin d'entretenir une image négative des banlieues.

Le , dans le sillage de l'affaire Nick Conrad, le journaliste David Doucet déclare sur France Inter et dans un article paru dans Les Inrocks que Morsay était un rappeur inconnu monté en épingle par la fachosphère.

Albums
 2008 : Le son du Ter-Ter
 2008 : Zehef, les élites du rap
 2009 : Cli-Cli, notre plaque tournante
 2009 : Le son du Ter-Ter 2
 2010 : Le son du Ter-Ter 3
 2011 : Truand d'la Galère l'inconscience
 2011 : Après la haine, la vengeance
 2014 : Le Son du Ter-Ter 4
 2016 : Baise tous les racistes du monde

Filmographie

En tant que réalisateur

 2012 : La Vengeance
2020 : La Vengeance 2
2021 : La Vengeance 3
2022 : Le Sourire de la peur

En tant qu'acteur

 2012 : La Vengeance
 2012 : La Face cachée de Morsay (documentaire)
 2013 : Street Life (websérie)
 2014 : Kopp, chapitre 2
 2015 : Halal police cacher (websérie)
 2018 : Bienvenue chez les Belges (websérie)
 2019 : Regis Prod
2020 : La Vengeance 2
2021 : La Vengeance 3
2022 : Le Sourire de la peur

Notes et références

Liens externes

Chanteur des années 2000
Chanteur des années 2010
Chanteur français du XXIe siècle
Rappeur français
Vidéaste web français
Réalisateur français
Scénariste français de cinéma
Acteur français de cinéma
Naissance en août 1980
Naissance à Beaumont-sur-Oise
Phénomène Internet
Nom de scène
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Canadian police allege ex-SNC executive paid bribes to Gaddafi son
A son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allegedly received 120 million euros ($162 million) in bribes for giving major contracts in Libya to SNC-Lavalin Inc , Canada's biggest engineering and construction company, a police document said on Friday.
According to an affidavit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police used to obtain a search warrant at SNC's head office last April, the bribes were paid, in a roundabout way, to Saadi Gaddafi by Riadh Ben Aissa, a vice-president at Montreal-based SNC at the time.
"It is alleged that this money (120 million euros) were paid him as a reward for influencing the awarding of major contracts to SNC-Lavalin Intl," RCMP officer Brenda Makad said in the affidavit. The document did not make clear when the alleged bribes occurred.
The 59-page RCMP statement, redacted in part, was released by the courts at the request of three Canadian newspapers, the Globe and Mail, the National Post and La Presse.
In an allegation based on information from Swiss anti-corruption investigators, Makad said SNC-Lavalin paid the money to offshore companies belonging to Ben Aissa, and the money was then transferred to offshore companies controlled by Saadi Gaddafi. Some money was used to buy yachts for the son of the slain dictator, the RCMP statement alleged.
SNC, which has said that any wrongdoing was the work of a small number of former employees, said it was seeing the affidavit for the first time and had not been aware of some of the information it contained.
"We cannot determine the veracity of certain allegations in the affidavit," SNC said in a statement. It said it was eager for the situation to be resolved and would do everything it could to help the authorities rapidly get to the bottom of those issues.
In the affidavit, Makad said an RCMP investigation had shown there was a genuine friendship between Saadi Gaddafi and Ben Aissa "and that over several years SNC-Lavalin, through Ben Aissa, offered bribes to the son of the dictator to secure the awarding of engineering/construction contracts in Libya."
Ben Aissa left SNC in February last year and is now in jail in Switzerland after being arrested on suspicion of money laundering. The Globe said he had not been charged with a crime but was in precautionary detention.
'SCAPEGOAT'
The National Post and the Globe and Mail have reported that Ben Aissa had denied any wrongdoing, while a brother, Rafik Benaissa, said in a statement in November that his brother Riadh had been made a "scapegoat."
The RCMP statement also said former SNC controller Stephane Roy paid money from his personal bank account for condo fees for an apartment belonging to Saadi Gaddafi, and was then reimbursed by his boss, Ben Aissa.
Makad said Roy also helped arrange for an outside consultant - who has denied wrongdoing - to make a fact-finding trip to Libya as the Libyan dictatorship was falling in 2011. She said she had reason to believe the real goal was to help get Saadi Gaddafi and his family out of Libya.
Initial attempts to reach Roy for comment were unsuccessful. The National Post reported in June that lawyers had been unable to locate him and that a judge ruled he might be not cooperating. Saadi Gaddafi is reported to have been granted asylum by Niger. None of the allegations in Makad's affidavit has been proven in court.
SNC, a C$7 billion-a-year company with operations in more than 100 countries, has been at the center of an ethics and corruption scandal for more than a year after it revealed it had uncovered tens of millions of dollars in mysterious payments it had made.
The company's previous chief executive resigned in March, and he was arrested later in the year on fraud charges. The charges have not been proven in court.
The 101-year-old company has installed a new CEO and several new executives and tightened its ethics policies.
The company's stock, which is down 15 percent in the past year, closed 25 Canadian cents lower at C$44.88 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Friday.

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Myne Whitman Writes: Why Do We Always Blame "The Other Woman"?
Why Do We Always Blame "The Other Woman"?
I just read a post on 1+TheOne titled Leave Her Man Alone, and immediately commented to say, the man is at fault and should have the blame, if not 100% then 99%. Unless one can prove to me that a particular woman went out of her way to seduce a man, or keep him dating her long term, or that she forced him at gunpoint to neglect, abuse, and divorce his wife, then I stand by my opinion that the cheating man is at fault.
Men are not stupid, they know what they want, and in this chauvnistic world, it is disingenuous to argue that mistresses made them do what they did not want to do. Na Jazz? Sugabelly in her comments said some of what I had in mind, but there are other angles I wanted to expantiate on, and that's why I wrote this post.
If men cheat as much as we think they do, then most of our mother's generation experienced infidelity, and the other woman, but today, most of them are still standing tall. They are Captains of industry, CEOs of their homes, mothers of top-performing children, and pillars of the church. While some are separated or divorced, many are celebrating their 30 - 50 years marriage anniversary to the same man. The other woman went on to peacefully marry another man, or is the de facto second wife with her own gig and children. All of them are alive and healthy, and the heavens did not fall.
Yes, talking about heaven and hell is all well and good, but it is only at the point a woman faces her man, knowing he's cheating on her, it is only then that she decide on the way forward. Beating ourselves up now doesn't help any body. Hating on other women - real and imagined - who date married men won't help either.
So, what can a woman who has been cheated on do? In my opinion, Railing against the other woman may give you a target for venting, or a temporary reprieve, but it rarely heals your relationship, which is between you and your spouse, and in some cases it may even further damage it, depending on how close your partner is to the other woman, and how much he feels isolated from you. There are two ways forward, either find it in your heart to forgive him, or the strength to let him go.
For myself, if I find myself in this situation, I will have to accept that my husband has made a mistake, or he never did - or at that point does not - respect our relationship integrity. I know for a fact that in most cases of infidelity, the other woman has little to do with it, again unless there's jazz or a gun to the head scenario, which I think is very unlikely.
I know this is an emotive and controversial topic, but this is just my opinion. I will like to hear yours.


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Lenovo ThinkPad X280 Review
Lenovo's new ThinkPad X280 makes a compelling case for why businesses users should be more open to design changes when buying a new PC.
Available for $1,061.10 from Lenovo.com, this business notebook has new ways of protecting privacy, a new generation of powerful Intel processors inside, a lighter profile and long battery life. Whether it's a smart buy for you depends on how essential a removable battery, Ethernet port and older docks are to your workflow.
New features and tricks keep you from missing the features Lenovo cut to get the slim and relatively light ThinkPad X280. A long-lasting battery, tough shell, decent display and powerful processor make the ThinkPad X280 a solid notebook for businesses big and small. Buy the ThinkPad X280 without fear.
Solid Battery Life
Durable Body
Great New Security Features
Terrific Performance
No Ethernet Port
Loud Fan
Must Choose Between Windows Hello & ThinkShutter
Lenovo ThinkPad X280 Design & Internals
ThinkPad X280 buyers will certainly recognize this notebook as a ThinkPad. It has the same black magnesium chassis and matte plastic lid as the rest of the ThinkPad family. Like the others, it has passed 12 military tests for durability. That includes testing for temperature shock, mechanical shock, and drops.
The laptop's power button sits above a backlit keyboard that glows in the dark. Below this keyboard is a spacious multi-touch trackpad and a TracPoint button that other notebooks don't have and business users demand.
The ThinkPad X280's 1,920 x 1,080 matte display doesn't have gloss or seriously thin bezels. It's a standard screen in every sense and that's ok. The full-HD model has a touch display, but you can step down to a 1,366 x 768 display if you don't need highly detailed visuals to get your work done.
There's no seam or battery eject button on the bottom of the ThinkPad X280 because it doesn't have a removable battery like the model it replaces. This allowed Lenovo to whittle down the device's thickness and weight. Fast-charging technology and a battery that lasts 15 hours offset the loss of removable batteries.
Ports are important for any notebook, especially one that's aimed at businesses. Every ThinkPad X280 has a Thunderbolt 3 port, a USB Type-C port, 2 USB Type-A ports, 1 HDMI port, a headphone jack and a MicroSD card reader. That, in theory, means you can get work done on this PC without buying tons of adapters and cables.
Ensuring the ThinkPad X280 passes those military-grade durability tests and has the new features it needs hasn't ballooned the device's weight. At 0.67-inches thin and 2.49-pounds, the ThinkPad X280 is thinner and 20% lighter than the business notebook it replaces.
Buy your ThinkPad X280 from Lenovo.com to get the features and specs you want. There, you can choose between the 12.5-inch 1366 x 768 standard display and 1,920 x 1,080 12.5-inch display with multitouch. You can also add up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. By far, the most impressive thing about this notebook's updated internals are the new 8th Generation Intel Core processors that it supports. These processors have four cores instead of two for better performance.
Gotta Be Mobile's review unit had an 8th generation Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of storage and the 12.5-inch 1080p touch display. It also featured Lenovo's upgraded fingerprint sensor and ThinkShutter camera module. It didn't have the optional LTE connectivity that allows you to connect to the internet without searching for Wi-Fi. A model matching these specs costs $1,565.10 from Lenovo.com.
Lenovo ThinkPad X280 Experience
On paper, the ThinkPad X280 is more secure, more powerful and easier to carry than its predecessors. These things are also true in real life, but more nuanced than you'd expect.
Performance-wise, this laptop is absolutely no slouch. Not one productivity program, an app from the Windows Store or feature of Windows 10 drags down this device's processor. There's no painful browser refresh as you switch between apps or multiple browsers. Push the notebook with dozens of apps and the worst thing you can expect is a lot of fan noise. That quad-core processor needs lots of cooling when under stress. Close some apps and the laptop goes whisper quiet.
Lenovo's security upgrades are also promising.
If you're someone that covers your front-facing camera with tape or a sticky note, you will love the new ThinkShutter camera. Slide the shutter to the left to left to block yourself from the 720p web camera built into the lid. Then, slide it back to the right when you're done. It's a simple idea that addresses a real concern people have for their privacy.
My only problem is that upgrading the standard camera to a Windows Hello camera costs you the ThinkShutter. For practical purposes this makes sense, but that's definitely something to keep in mind as you configure your system.
Lenovo has isolated the fingerprint reader's inner-workings with better security in mind. Meaning, it stores your fingerprint for Windows Hello locally instead of on your hard drive. This makes it harder for someone to steal your fingerprint, according to Lenovo. The change hasn't made the fingerprint reader any slower, so that's a net gain.
Finally, the ThinkPad X280 is certainly a portable powerhouse. The laptop doesn't get lost in your bag, but it's not the behemoth that other business notebooks are either. It's thin enough that you don't feel uncomfortable carrying it from meeting to meeting in your hand.
Lenovo had to drop the full-size Ethernet port, dedicated power plug and external battery to reduce the notebook's size. Others will feel differently, but none of those compromises ruined my productivity. There are clever fixes for each loss.
Ethernet is typically something you use at your desk and Lenovo makes clever side docks to address that. The Lenovo Basic Docking Station costs just $199.99. If you were relying on Ethernet at your desk, you probably need the extra ports that this dock provides anyway. Lenovo also makes the $29.99 Ethernet Extension adapter, though it's not available online yet.
Long battery life helps offset the lack of a removable battery. Lenovo cites 15 hours of battery life with this notebook. Turn on Windows 10's Battery Saver utility and you can hit that estimate with a few web browser tabs open, your favorite productivity apps open and the display at 25% brightness. With the display at 50% brightness, I got around 11 hours of battery life.
That's a respectable time between charges. Dell claims its Latitude 7380 lasts 17 hours, and it doesn't have the ThinkPad X280's powerful quad-core processor. Coming from a 2017 Surface Pro that gets nowhere near that kind of battery life or horsepower, I appreciated being able to work away from a charger for an entire day and not feel like I should have sprung for an expensive processor upgrade.
Of course, battery life depends on what you're doing. The harder you push that quad-core Intel processor inside the ThinkPad X280, the less time you have until your next charge.
The ThinkPad X280's fast charging technology also offsets the lack of removable battery and longer battery life. It gets the notebook back to 80% battery capacity in an hour. Every Windows 10 PC needs this feature.
Lenovo ThinkPad X280 Specs
Processors & Graphics 1.60 GHz 8th Generation Intel Core i5-8250 processor with Intel UHD 620 Graphics
(Up to 1.9GHz 8th Generation Intel Core i7-8650U processor)
Memory & Storage 512GB SSD and 8GB of RAM
(Up to 1TB SSD & 16GB of RAM)
Display 12.5-inch 1,920 x 1,080 FHD display
(Optional 12.5-inch 1,366 x 768 HD display)
Ports & Extras Thunderbolt 3 port
1 USB 3.1 Type-C port
1 HDMI Port
1 Ethernet Extension Connect
MicroSD card Reader
Backlit & spill-resistant keyboard with TracPoint
Camera with Privacy Shutter
Kensington Long Slot
DTPM 2.0 Chip
(Optional Fingerprint Reader)
(Optional Windows Hello Camera)
Battery Life 15 Hours, according to Lenovo
Dimensions and Weight 12.11-inches x 8.26-inches by 0.70-inches
2.49-pounds (For model without Touch)
Should You Buy the Lenovo ThinkPad X280?
Unless you're a huge, huge fan of removable batteries and a full-size Ethernet port, there's very little wrong with the Lenovo ThinkPad X280. The laptop is everything that Lenovo promises: a thinner, lighter and more powerful workhorse that still lasts a long time away from a charger.
At $1,106.10 from Lenovo.com, I have no problem recommending it to anyone that needs a solid PC with lots of power and battery life. Changes aren't always bad. This notebook proves it.
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Home Affairs - War with America
Some changes had in the meantime taken place in the British administration. On the 11th of May, 1812, the premier, Mr. Perceval, was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons, by a man named Bellingham, whom some private losses had rendered insane. Lords Liverpool and Castlereagh then became the ministerial leaders in the two Houses of Parliament, but were quickly voted down by a majority of four, upon a motion made by Mr. Stuart Wortley, afterwards Lord Wharncliffe. The ministry was finally rendered satisfactory to Parliament by the admission of Earl Harrowby as president of the council, Mr. Vansittart as chancellor of the exchequer, and Lord Sidmouth (formerly premier while Mr. Addington) as secretary for the home department Lord Liverpool continuing as premier, and Lord Castlereagh as foreign and war secretary.
Notwithstanding the successes which were at this period brightening the prospects of Britain, the regent and his ministers did not enjoy much popularity. The regent himself did not possess those domestic virtues which are esteemed by the British people, and he had excited much disapprobation by the steps which he took for fixing a criminal charge upon his consort. The general discontents were increased by the effects of the orders in council, for prohibiting the commerce of neutral states. Vast multitudes of working people were thrown idle by the stagnation of manufactures, and manifested their feelings in commotion and riot. The middle classes expressed their dissatisfaction by clamors for parliamentary reform.
At this unhappy crisis, provoked by the orders in council, as well as by a right assumed by British war-vessels to search for and impress English sailors on board the commercial shipping of the United States, that country (June 1812) declared war against Britain. Before the news had reached London, the orders had been revoked by the influence of Lord Liverpool but the Americans, nevertheless, were too much incensed to ret race their steps. During the summer and autumn, several encounters took place between single American and British ships, in which the former were successful. It was not till June 1, 1813, when the Shannon and Chesapeake met on equal terms, that the British experienced any naval triumph in this war with a kindred people. On land, the Americans endeavored to annoy the British by assaults upon Canada, but met with no decisive success. The British landed several expeditions on the coast of the States and were successful at Washington, Alexandria, and at one or two other points, but experienced a bloody and disastrous repulse at New Or leans. The war ended, December 1814, without settling any of the principles for which the Americans had taken up arms. But while thus simply useless to America, it was seriously calamitous to Britain. The commerce with the States, which amounted in 1807, to twelve millions, was interrupted and nearly ruined by the orders in council, and the hostilities which they occasioned: henceforth America endeavored to render herself commercially independent of Britain, by the encouragement of native manufactures - a policy not immediately advantageous perhaps to herself, and decidedly injurious to Great Britain. The fatal effects of the Berlin and Milan decrees to Napoleon, and of the orders in council to the interests of Britain, show how extremely dangerous it is for any government to interfere violently with the large commercial systems upon which the immediate interests of their subjects depend.
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Serving People In Dire Need in Alexandria
Pop-up grocery moves from Christ Church to Personal Delivery Services with daily food deliveries to people falling between the cracks.
Anne Ramsey hands out prebagged groceries from the Meade Room at Historic Christ Church at their last pop-up pantry on March 19 before the coronavirus shut down the weekly event. Daily food deliveries to people in need have replaced the pantry. Photo contributed
By Shirley Ruhe
Part 1 of a series on food insecurity in Alexandria during the coronavirus. Link to Part 2.
The regular Thursday morning pop-up grocery at Historic Christ Church has been closed for the last three months and transformed into a delivery service. The pop-up grocery served more than 30 families in need each week.
The church has kept the Lazarus Food Pantry (pop-up grocery) running "but in drastically modified ways," according to Barbara Fallon who is the volunteer coordinator of this effort, now run out of a staff member's home and the Methodist Church across the street. "We are reaching those in tremendous need who are falling between the cracks from some of the other major City food efforts," Fallon says.
In February they were hearing about the coronavirus but the pantry kept going. "We had an arrangement with Marymount nurses, and Pamela came with music and meditation yoga for people waiting for the pop-up pantry to open." Fallon says the last two weeks they moved the pantry outdoors for the first time.
"March 12 was very chilly. We set up a long line of tables for safety's sake and 40 chairs. We had hand sanitizers." The next week the health situation was getting more serious, so instead of clients having the usual shopper experience, the volunteers prepackaged grocery bags for the first time ever and served them from the Meade Room kitchen at the church. "We had to be quick."
Fallon says they prepackaged 90 bags of food. "People were starting to get nervous. Fifty came out the final day and got fresh vegetables, eggs, frozen meats. We were as generous as possible. We had 35 extra grocery sacks, thank goodness, because the calls kept coming in for food." Some people walking by on the street who saw the line of people said they didn't know they offered the food, "and we reached additional people in need that way."
At the last two pantries they took the phone numbers of those who wanted to participate so they could send a group text to the clients telling them what to expect in the future, and about other food resources such as the ALIVE! Free giveaway and Hunger Free Alexandria.
Fallon says she delivers to people who are really in dire need. "For instance, 87-year-old Magna, who has a room in a Del Ray house. She hadn't been out for a month, and she had no food. I text her that I'm coming. I leave the food in her front yard and wave. She must cook because she loves the fresh produce."
Fallon says, "Most of the people are families with kids. I delivered to a Spanish single mother with a darling first grader who translated for her." Fallon said she had gotten the call asking her to make another delivery the same day for this family's emergency. "They had no food." She said when the mother got the sacks of groceries she could say only one English word with a smile— "Happy."
Melanie Gray, Director of Outreach and Mission at Christ Church, says the former pop-up grocery volunteers now sack up groceries. "The network of volunteers I created years ago is able to work now. It took a while to pull it together to make it work, but once it's working, it works really well." The food pantry volunteers do the shopping and another group of go-getters deliver the groceries every day.
There was a lull of a few weeks and "we wondered how we were going to regroup." Gray set up a Care Team of volunteers who called 200 people in the Christ Church records to check in and see if they needed food. Fallon says a lot of these people are sequestered and don't have the internet or any way to find out about the resources the City offers. "A lot is by word of mouth."
"But we were getting all of these calls—what are we going to do?" The church building was closed. That's when Liz Denson, Gray's Assistant at Christ Church, offered her home as a storage place. Denson says she had all the groceries and other supplies in her living room but eventually there was too much. So she approached the Methodist Church across the street that offered their refrigerator and storage space.
Today Denson, with a couple of Methodist church volunteers, will load up bags for deliveries and carry them across the street to her home where Christ Church volunteers will pick them up for delivery. "I try to recruit the help of my 10-year-old son to carry the bags and the 8-year-old and three-year-old help in small ways. I make it a point to talk about what I am doing so they understand what is happening in the City."
Denson pulls out her handy spreadsheet by zip code to cluster the daily deliveries. She has a list for each client. "We ask what they need. They mostly all get the same food but today one single mom with two kids has requested paper towels, dish soap, toothpaste, baby wipes. We give them what we have."
Denson put out the word to volunteers to drop off groceries at her house. Fallon says volunteers bought food with their own funds. They got a couple of grants to provide Giant gift cards and ALIVE! generously provided Denson with a lot of food. In addition, gleaning will begin at the Farmer's Market, which will add fresh produce to their supplies. Fallon says originally it was food, food, food. But now they have been able to add diapers and toiletries. "And now we're adding crayons and coloring books."
Gray says they have learned as they go along and "we make corrections. The families asked for more masa flour, rice, snacks for the kids, cups of noodles, laundry detergent, trash bags, very specific things." And the airlines repackaged their snacks and provided packages of pretzels and things "which the kids loved."
Lazarus Counselors at Christ Church helps residents in the City in crisis situations by addressing the immediate needs. Gray says since March 19, Lazarus Counselors have taken 462 calls and spent over $119,000 on 339 client bills and 128 gift cards and groceries. Gray explains the church's Lazarus ministry reaches out with financial counseling and support for people facing financial emergencies as well as offering a shop and share assistance through the pop-up grocery. They have spent $14,630.15 on groceries for 128 families, including 475 people with 54 receiving groceries and 109 receiving gift cards.
In addition to food, the Lazarus ministry has been able to give people $250 to pay a portion of their rent. Even so, "This is like putting a bandaid on a cancer." But, Gray says, "People are so grateful for something; they want to be heard. It shows the system is working."
Gray adds "starting today the ACT fund has been set up to help City of Alexandria employees making under $60,000." Lazarus has a phone call for intake and a City employee can go online and start the application. "We plan to get back within 48 hours. Nobody needs to know you need money. It can be used for gas, food, whatever you need."
These efforts are funded through a cooperative effort from six churches, grants from United Way, FEMA, and ACT for Alexandria as well as over $75,000 from 198 individuals.
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Playing "zombies" on the foggy beach with the cousins (Have you watched the Walking Dead? Gruesome, but great show... Hence where my current zombie fascination stems).
This Zombie 5K run. You need motivation to run? How about zombies coming after you the whole time? Seriously, how much fun would this be?
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Working on a different unit that I usually do and stumbling around to find equipment. "Hello, I'm Jenna and I'll be your awkward night nurse who appears like she doesn't know what she's doing. So nice to meet you."


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Rise Up Coffee Roasters will soon open in the old 7/11 spot at the circle in Rehoboth Beach. Owner Tim Cureton (Mo Nacho LLC) is planning on at least 25 parking spots – a rare commodity for that part of town! There will be a dining area, a bar and a patio. and seating for 112 people in the dining area, bar and patio.
Baked goods will be sourced from Lewes' Old World Breads, with the coffee beans roasted in nearby Easton.
Rise Up will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Interestingly, the shop hopes to offer alcoholic beverages, with the accent on beer, wine and breakfast cocktails.


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This is a mild to chronic inflammatory skin condition characterised by itchiness, redness and the presence of small blisters that may be dry or weep if the surface is scratched. Eczema is non-contagious and the cause may be genetic or due to internal and external influences. It can cause scaly and thickened skin, mainly at flexures such as the cubital area of the elbows and the back of the knees.
This is a chronic inflammatory skin condition. Psoriasis may be recognised as the development of well-defined red plaques, varying in size and shape, and covered by white or silvery scales. Any area of the body may be affected by psoriasis but the most commonly affected sites are the face, elbows, knees, nails, chest and abdomen. It can also affect the scalp, joints and nails. Psoriais is aggravated by stress and trauma but is improved by exposure to sunlight.
This is a mild to chronic inflammatory disease of hairy areas well supplied with sebaceous glands. Common sites are the scalp, face, axilla and in the groin. The skin may appear to have a grey tinge or have a dirty yellow colour. Clinical signs include slight redness, scaling and dandruff in the eyebrows.
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Q: Form Validation Reversed Django Version 1.10.5
I can't find this answer in the documentation or the code source. Using the example form below I am expecting my form validation on submit to run in the order of which I have defined.
So validators.RegexValidator, validators.MinLengthValidator, etc... would run in that order. However when submitting the form it would appear that the validators are running in a reversed order.
Where validate_status, validate_employee_id, etc... would run.
Is this expected?
class FormLogin(forms.Form):
    # Employee ID
    employee_id = forms.CharField(
        label=_('employeeId'),
        required=True,
        widget=forms.TextInput(
            attrs={
                'id': 'employee_id',
                'placeholder': _('employeeId'),
                'class': 'form-control'
            }
        ),
        validators=[
            validators.RegexValidator('^[1-9][0-9]*$', _('validatorStartsWithZero'))
            validators.MinLengthValidator(1),
            validators.MaxLengthValidator(20),
            validate_employee_id,
            validate_status
        ]
    )

Currently I have 1 user with the ID of 1.
When I submit the form using 01, the validate_status validator is taking over and returning that a user doesn't even exist. I would have expected the validators.RegexValidator to be returned first because it has a 0 in front.
If I reversed the entire order of validators, then the validation appears to work in the order I wanted. But now code readability isn't clear that's what is actually happening.
Edit 1 Cleaned up example with more information

A: I wrote this little test code to reproduce this.
from django import forms

def validate_1(value):
    print('RUNNING VALIDATOR 1')
    raise ValidationError(
        'validation error 1',
        params={'value': value},
    )

def validate_2(value):
    print('RUNNING VALIDATOR 2')
    raise ValidationError(
        'validation error 2',
        params={'value': value},
    )

class FormLogin(forms.Form):
    # Employee ID
    employee_id = forms.CharField(validators=[
        validate_1,
        validate_2
    ])

Running it:
>>> f = FormLogin({'employee_id': '01'})
>>> f.is_valid()
RUNNING VALIDATOR 1
RUNNING VALIDATOR 2
False
>>> f.errors
{'employee_id': ['validation error 1', 'validation error 2']}
>>>

As you can see, the validators where executed in descending order.
I assume that one of your self written validators does not properly throw a ValidationError so that the list of errors get's messed up or that you do not properly render the errors in your template.
Normally all validators will run and every validation error will be appended to the list of errors. But they run in descending order.

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Isle of Dogs: The Environmental Photography That Inspired the Set
March 24, 2018 March 29, 2018 by baileystreetdesign, posted in Curated Content, Uncategorized
How the forthcoming Wes Anderson film raises questions about the human impact on the environment.
A star-powered group of voice actors that includes Yoko Ono, Bryan Cranston, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Greta Gerwig and Scarlett Johansson join forces in Wes Anderson's stop-motion animation feature Isle of Dogs, but beneath the dazzling cinematography is a critique of the way humans treat our environment.
In the film, after an extensive propaganda campaign blames a flu outbreak on local dogs, the Megasaki City government exiles the canines to Trash Island, the city's floating garbage dump. Isle of Dogs begins later, as 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi searches Trash Island for his missing dog Spots.
Paul Harrod, who worked as a production designer on the film alongside Wes Anderson veteran Adam Stockhausen, told The Hollywood Reporter, "Trash Island represents the way in which a society chooses to put its own crisis of waste removal out of sight and therefore out of mind." It is both literal and not: "The dogs can be seen as representing any group of dispossessed beings, be they human or not."
According to Harrod, commentary about the human impact on the environment was engineered into the set design itself. "The environmental critique was always at the forefront of our design process," he said, noting that the Isle of Dogs team took inspiration from two particular photographers who have devoted much of their work to capturing the impacts of waste on the environment: Edward Burtynsky and Chris Jordan.
Though Wes Anderson and Adam Stockhausen were already looking at Burtynsky's photos by the time Harrod came on board, Harrod brought Chris Jordan's work into the mix. "What was interesting about these two photographers was that their images were nightmarish and oppressive, while also having a perverse sort of aesthetic appeal," said Harrod. "Chris Jordan's monograph is titled 'Intolerable Beauty,' which I think says it all. The intent was for Trash Island to always have that quality; to be captivating in the way only a vision of Hell can be."
While Burtynsky's work helped to generate ideas about the landscape at large, Jordan's inspired many of the textures and surface treatments of the set.
Jordan, whose film Albatross is forthcoming, told THR that his intentions as a photographer are not to advocate for a particular cause but rather to generate questions about human society at large. It's not about pushing people to pick up trash. It's about seeing what that trash, and everything else we leave behind, says about our own search for direction.
"Some people think environmental activism is the primary intention of my work, which it isn't, and that's why I tend to grate against the term 'eco artist,'" Jordan said. "What I'm interested in is the root cause of all forms of human destructiveness, whether environmental or social. … How can we shift and rebuild the very foundations of our worldview, such as our approach to money, capitalism, militarism, environmental exploitation, social exploitation, and so on?"
These are some of the same issues that the production designers on Isle of Dogs grappled with as they worked. Through the work of Jordan and Burtynsky, a film about exiled dogs and a boy's search for companionship has found a uniquely subtle way to raise pressing questions about the relationship between people and the environment.
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IMF on Zim unrest: Fiscal policy on 'right direction' but needs stability to work
Zimbabweans must "collaborate peacefully" after last week's unrest in order to stabilise the economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says.
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's reforms "were headed in the right direction" towards mending the fiscal deficit, but the country needed stability for these to work, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said at a press briefing in Washington on Friday.
"I would say that of course Zimbabwe is facing major challenges and just in terms of the unrest, we encourage all stakeholders to collaborate peacefully in developing and implementing policies that will stabilise the economy and promote sustainable and inclusive growth," said Rice.
"I said here the last time that the authorities' economic policies we felt were headed in the right direction broadly in terms of addressing the fiscal deficit and monetary policy and so on."
Rice again said there was little chance of Zimbabwe getting fresh credit from the IMF until the country pays off arrears to other lenders.
"In terms of the IMF, Zimbabwe has in fact cleared its arrears to us, to the Fund, but our rules preclude lending to a country that is still in or under arrears to other international financial institutions. So until that particular situation is resolved, we would not be moving forward with financial support for Zimbabwe," Rice said.
He added: "On the overall economic situation, debt and the IMF, there has been no real change in what I have said here recently, which is Zimbabwe continues to be in a difficult situation regarding debt with protracted arrears to official creditors including multilateral creditors such as the World Bank which severely limits Zimbabwe's access to international financial support."
Zimbabwe has cleared its arrears with the IMF, but latest Treasury data shows that the country still owes $687 million to the AfDB, $1.4 billion to the World Bank and $322 million to the European Investment Bank.
In total, foreign debt stands at $7.6 billion with nearly $6 billion in arrears. To qualify for new credit, Zimbabwe has to clear its arrears first.
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^I like this effing new guy.
I'm going out on a limb and say that this is knot a poplar thing to do.
I cedar what you did there, not entirely balsa-less.
OK, that's an immediate COTD candidate.
Okay, intriguing, how about carbon fiber pistons?
Yeah, how about that? Seems like way less reciprocating mass. I wonder what reason (besides maybe cost) is keeping this from happening. Seems like it should be possible.
People have been researching 'plastic' engine components for some time now. For obvious reasons they haven't succeded yet (wear/heat/etc) but I'm sure we'll see it one day.
Having extracted a cedar post from cylinder #2 in a SBC... yes. It's a thing.
Hah... they didn't even go for a hardwood? Cedar is soft as hell..
But your exhaust smells lovely. Briefly.
I don't know if I would say he machined it out of wood. Machining always equated working with metal to me. But I guess that's just my view. Fun video none the less.
He used a machine to shape wood. Why wouldn't he say he machined the pistons? He probably even used the same machines that he would if he machined an aluminum piston.
Well he used a machine lathe (metal lathe) to turn them so its a pretty fitting term in this case. With a 4 jaw chuck its pretty easy to center up a square you just need a lathe that'll spin up fast enough for wood work, which his clearly can.
Of course ash failed. It's too soft. For pistons, you really need something like Brazilian walnut, or ebony wood.
Southern chestnut, then. Everybody hates Southern chestnut!
it's not oil It's deck stain.
I wonder how a harder wood like ipê or buloke would have fared.
I believe that in WWII they used lignum vitae for pistons due to metal shortages. Super hard wood grown in the Caribbean.
There's no truth to that. However it is still used to make shaft bearings and other low speed water lubricated bearings.


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Publish Date June 18, 2019
Philip Morris on the Cannes Social Good track? Quit Big Tobacco wants to know why
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PMI at Cannes. (Image via Campaign)
Anti-smoking campaign Quit Big Tobacco is calling out the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for hosting a panel for cigarette maker Philip Morris International on its Social Good track.
The anti-tobacco campaign, which was started by nonprofit Vital Strategies, is calling out what it sees as hypocrisy for including a cigarette maker in the Good track alongside nonprofits such as Greenpeace, Sesame Street and U.N. Women.
To draw attention to the Monday morning panel, Quit Big Tobacco, which has asked agencies to promise to shun tobacco clients, pulled together a last-minute social media campaign to ask #WhyCannes.
"We and those that have taken this pledge understand the tobacco industry is trying to use Cannes to rebuild its terrible reputation," said Steve Hamill, VP at Vital Strategies and a Quit Big Tobacco representative. "This is part of a global push to rebrand themselves as an industry with a conscience. They think social good is like a costume they can zip on and zip off. We think it's a shame that the organizers at Cannes fell for it."
The anti-tobacco group has urged the advertising industry to sign a pledge promising not to work with or take money from tobacco companies. The Quit Big Tobacco campaign began last May and has since secured pledges from more than 250 companies.
Philip Morris defended its inclusion on the Social Good track on Twitter and in a blog post. The company has said its business model is changing for a "smoke-free future" and moving away from selling cigarettes, and that it wants to make sure consumers have accurate information about smoking and smoking alternatives. Philip Morris International also said initiatives such as Quit Big Tobacco's are "creating a fog of misinformation and confusion."
Unfortunately some organizations don't want to talk about better solutions for smokers. The latest campaign by Vital Strategies spreads falsehoods in an effort to intimidate others
— Philip Morris Intl (@InsidePMI) June 14, 2019
"We want to inspire the best creative brains on the most robust platforms to join us on this mission," PMI said on the blog post. "We can't do this alone."
The panel was focused on PMI's smoke-free future business model. It featured rapper Wyclef Jean and marketing executive Bonin Bough alongside Moira Gilchrist, VP of scientific and public communications at Philip Morris.
Last month, Philip Morris suspended influencer marketing campaigns globally for its cigarette alternative iQOS after a Reuters investigation found one endorser is under the minimum age required to promote the products. Critics said the influencer campaign contradicts the company's assurances that it does not market products to young people or nonsmokers.
While PMI has launched efforts to move away from traditional cigarettes, like the Year of Unsmoke initiative launched in April, organizations such as Quit Big Tobacco don't believe Philip Morris should be included in this track while it produces billions of cigarettes annually.
"The action is not what's up on stage, but how does the advertising agency world receive this?" Hamill said. "Do they understand that it's a ploy to rebrand the world's leading killer industry as a do-good organization? We understand these things take time and hope one day Cannes will join Quit Big Tobacco as an organization themselves. We don't think creative talent should be used for an industry that kills."
Close more info about Philip Morris on the Cannes Social Good track? Quit Big Tobacco wants to know why


Florence + The Machine performing 'Ship To Wreck' live at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015.
Florence + The Machine returned to her homeland this weekend to headline BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015 music festival.
Still confined to sit-down performances, I must admit it's a little weird to see Flo so still during a show. But as per norm, her vocals are flawless. SLAY!


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