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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut (Switch eShop)
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From the Producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, the sequel to the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG.
The Wasteland's hellish landscape is waiting for you to make your mark...or die trying. With over 80 hours of gameplay, you will deck out your Desert Ranger squad with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the wasteland.
One Size Does Not Fit All: Don't feel like finding the key for a door? Pick the lock, bash it down with your boot, or just blow it open!
Decision Making… With Consequences: With both short and long term reactivity, your choices ripple outwards, changing the game's events and forever altering the lives of those in the wasteland
Huge & Customisable: Hundreds of characters. Thousands of variations on your Rangers' appearance. Over 150 weapons. No two players will have the same experience
Director's Cut New Features
Perks & Quirks: Customise your squad even more! Perks & Quirks are special personality traits you can use to give your characters even more life, with their own unique bonuses... And drawbacks
Precision Strikes: Fire on your enemies and debilitate them with tactical attacks!
Expanded Voice Over: Over 8,000 lines of new voice-over dialogue have been added for the game's characters and companions, bringing the wasteland to life like never before.
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Rayburn Helped Sabotage Expose of Communists
Westbrook Pegler
Rome News-Tribune/February 12, 1954
Representative Sam Rayburn's squawk that the party which fostered the grand treason is getting tired of bearing the guilt is a political challenge that calls for a showdown. Is the Democratic Party the party of treason in the sense that it aggressively fostered this treachery under the "leadership" of a man whom it constantly venerates as a probationary deity? Or was this infestation of the national government by traitors, including personal protégés of Felix Frankfurter and friends of Eleanor Roosevelt, a bi-partisan error in which Herbert Hoover, Tom Dewey, John Bricker and Joe McCarthy were equally at fault? It is Mr. Rayburn's design to shed the guilt altogether under absolution to be decreed by himself or to share the shame with the party which had absolutely no voice in the government except, to a minor degree, in the 80th Congress. Harry Truman berated that one for its patriotism in the most abusive language ever resorted to by any president.
Rayburn, a dogged machine politician of the old Texas tradition, found Truman's idiom handy to his tongue when he spoke of "rat-alley" attacks on the Democrats and warned President Eisenhower "some of our backs are getting mighty sore."
His Part
Let us see what part Rayburn played in the development of the situation in which the Democrats in Congress and out through the country find themselves more and more ashamed to be Democrats.
Rayburn was a tyrant when he ran the House of Representatives for Truman, who was wailing at the patriots in Congress and scoffing away the Alger Hiss case and the plain implications of monumental treason as "a red herring." Truman since has denied that he ever used that term. But he lied as he lied in the Harry Dexter White case and he is little more credible than Jimmy Roosevelt. He used the term "red herring" three times on Aug. 5, 1948 and gave permission for direct quotation. He said the Alger Hiss hearings were a red herring.
It was Rayburn, himself, who executed a sly political coup to hamstring the House Committee on Un-American Activities by removing Congressmen Edward Herbert of Louisiana and John Rankin of Mississippi, both Democrats and both aggressive, tenacious fighters, under nasty conditions which gave aid and comfort to enemies of the United States. Not content to tolerate abuse of these loyal Americans by other Democrats and the pro-communist wing of the Democratic journalism in Washington and New York, Rayburn rigged a trick to get rid of them.
Sly Trick
During the reviled 80th Congress, when Harry Dexter White appeared before the committee as a witness, the Republican Party had control of the committee. Hebert, a former reporter, who is almost blind and very courageous in his affliction, wanted to keep on hounding the traitors. Rankin was less effective because his hatred of the treason made him sputter like a hot wire on a trolley track. There were two other Democrats, Wood of Georgia, and Peterson of Florida, both colorless and passive. Rayburn got rid of both Hebert and Rankin by a trick soon after the Democrats won back control of the House in 1948. Hebert frankly charged that "The White House" and the Department of Justice were determined to weaken the committee. In the 81st Congress, the Democrats had two seats to fill, one vacated by Peterson's resignation, the other a seat gained from the Republicans in the election. According to precedent, Wood would have become chairman with Rankin and Hebert following in that order. Also, according to precedent Rankin and Hebert would have been retained.
But Hebert charged at the time and has reiterated since that the Democratic leadership was out to get him and Rankin for baiting the Reds and embarrassing the "leadership."
The Ways and Means decided that henceforth no member could be a member of two standing committees. That got rid of Rankin because he was in line to become chairman of the committee on Veteran Affairs and everyone knew he would not give that up. It was Rankin who, in the 79th Congress, had contrived to change the status of the committee on Un-American Activities from "special" to "standing" or permanent. This was a victory at the expense of Eleanor Roosevelt, who had openly insulted the "special" committee and flagrantly endorsed her friend Joe Lash in the days of Martin Dies. Rankin's coup was also an act of impiety toward the Holy Kipper of Hyde Park who had frankly warned Dies to take it easy go through the motions and let his red friends alone.
Hebert Refused
Now Rayburn called Hebert to his office and asked him to resign so that he could devote all his energies to the Committee on Armed Services. Hebert refused and almost immediately the Ways and Means held a special meeting and announced that only lawyers would be permitted to hold the Democratic places on the H.U.A.C. That eliminated Hebert.
Hebert exposed the trick but got nowhere. The Democratic lawyers named to make up the majority did very little. Bob Stripling, the chief investigator who actually nailed Hiss, although Richard Nixon got the credit, quit in disgust. He went to Midland, Texas where he has prospered in oil. He recently got a tremendous impromptu ovation at a rally in Texas and might make senator next time. Hebert further pointed out that not even the Judiciary Committee is necessarily made up of lawyers. But the Democratic Party in the House under Speaker Sam Rayburn was sabotaged in favor of the treason by an arbitrary order, absolutely without precedent. Now he complains that his back is "getting mighty sore."
(Source: Google News, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=BJbdYPG6LGMC&dat=19540212&printsec=frontpage&hl=en)

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Encounters With the God Particle: The Higgs Boson Meets Organized Religion
The Higgs boson, the pope, and the curious interaction between organized religion and big science
By Paul Fishbane
September 27, 2012 • 7:00 AM
Event recorded with the CMS detector in 2012, showing characteristics expected from the decay of the SM Higgs boson to a pair of Z bosons.(© 2012 CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration)
This is the season when many minds are tuned in to the concept of "God" and origins and fundamentals. I am reminded of a papal visit in the spring of 1982, when Pope John Paul II came to CERN, the European center where I was engaged in physics research on basic physical law. He spoke to the staff about "prodigious things," world peace, and how he hoped the science discovered at CERN should be subject to the constraints of conscience, quoting Genesis 1:31 ("And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good"). In reply, the CERN director spoke of a fecund dialogue between science and religion. I am sure most of my colleagues—a good portion of them Jewish, many European agnostics, many Catholics—kept these two categories in separate mental compartments. But undoubtedly the need for good public relations on CERN's part and the need for an open mind on scientific research on the church's part played some role in this curious interaction between organized religion and big science.
Up to the middle of the last millennium, of course, with the exception of some considerable accomplishment by the ancient Greeks, the search for rules that govern that physical universe was largely religious in nature. But around the time of Galileo things took a fruitful turn. The search for physical law became more of a game of proposition, prediction, and test by experiment. We accepted a modus of working on what was accessible to our instruments or detectors. We went after laws at large scales—Newton's gravitation, say, or the laws of friction. We studied and systemized electricity and magnetism. We learned about atoms and with the additional knowledge of electrical forces got access to the laws of chemistry. By the end of the 19th century we were breaking down atoms, learning over a 50-year span about the construction of the nucleus and sub-nuclear structure.
Physics experiments today are often done by colliding constituents of matter with one another at ever-higher energies and studying the debris. The highest-energy facilities—today, as then, at CERN—are huge and expensive, but they work at the frontier of the research that led us this summer to the much-noted announcement of the discovery at CERN of the so-called "god particle," a particle associated with how all other particles get their masses. (In fact, the phrase "god particle" does not convey much information, but it is a fine way to attract attention, and it helped to sell a 1993 book when it was coined.) The "god particle" is only one piece of an elaborate structure known as the standard model.
The basics of the so-called quantum field theory—the theoretical context in which the Higgs boson resides—are spectacularly beautiful.
Physicists prefer the term Higgs boson to "god particle." That title, after one of several theorists who around 1964 more or less simultaneously proposed a mechanism that implies its existence, does have significance for those who know the science. The CERN discovery was not a matter of blind luck, like that of a gambler discovering a row of five cherries on a slot machine. The invention and search for the Higgs boson are part of the next stage of physics research, where we attempt to learn the rules that govern the sub-constituent parts of the nucleus and other stable or unstable particles and give us a coherent picture of the basic rules governing the way the universe was, is, and will be. In fact, there remains much to do to confirm and test whether what was found was really the Higgs boson, as well as to continue to sift through the various ways this particle fits into our larger conceptual framework about matter. The machine that discovered the Higgs boson at CERN has a physical scale of tens of kilometers and costs many billions of dollars—so expensive that politics killed a counterpart machine here in the United States after much money had already been spent.
All the thought and experience about physical law of the last 500 years have given us a set of criteria as to what makes a good set of rules. For one, the language of physical law is mathematical. Why this is so is a mystery. Mathematics carries within itself a kind of logic that somehow is reflected in the way the world is. And it has to be the right kind of mathematics. Newton discovered his laws of gravitation with the aid of calculus, which he essentially had to invent on his own. It was short work with his mathematics in hand. He then spent years trying to explain these laws with a geometrical description adapted to the knowledge of his contemporaries.
Furthermore, a set of rules at a small scale should encompass and explain the laws at larger scales. The rules must have testable predictive power. The rules must be simple and economical. And the rules must be aesthetic. The basics of the so-called quantum field theory—the theoretical context in which the Higgs boson resides—are spectacularly beautiful. That is the only way to put it, a beauty based on what is almost an inherent inevitability—"almost" because rival theories are in play, each with its own kind of beauty.
So, what makes the Higgs boson so important? The Higgs mechanism was put forward in the 1960s as a way to allow symmetry in the underlying structure of a theory while the physical manifestation of the theory did not exhibit such symmetry. Physicists were coming to realize that symmetries play a central role in physical law—a realization that had taken root over 50 years earlier. Then, in 1967, a group of theorists found a way to use the Higgs mechanism to unify two previously separate domains of subatomic forces, electromagnetism and the so-called weak interactions. (The latter were responsible for some radioactive decays.) This "electroweak unification" fit the set of rules I wrote above with one particularly grave set of exceptions: When you tried to calculate with them, you apparently came up with meaningless numbers, infinities. But by the early 1970s other workers had learned that the apparent infinities were only apparent. In fact when you were careful to calculate more completely and look at only physically measurable quantities, the infinities would systematically cancel out.
Continue reading: A single life-spanning experiment
The Higgs mechanism also did something else: It put terms into the equations that were identical with terms that corresponded to the various particles having been given individual masses by hand. The mass of an object is a measure of the difficulty of speeding up or slowing down that object: Up until the invention of the Higgs mechanism, mass was just something you had to take as an otherwise unjustified given. With the Higgs mechanism in play, mass has a significance, an origin. Since mass is one of the most fundamental concepts in physical law, the Higgs mechanism, and the Higgs boson associated with this mechanism, becomes a central piece of our picture of the rules.
In fact the electroweak unification predicted three new and very heavy particles, and, even better, information on their mass ratio was numerically predicted. When Pope John Paul II visited me and my co-workers at CERN, a new machine had begun operation, and the discovery of these new particles, with exactly the predicted properties, was less than a year away. What remained was the discovery of the Higgs boson itself, which would eliminate alternative theories and cement the new interpretation of mass. Now, 30 years later, the Higgs boson is on the road to being fully confirmed.
During Pope John Paul II's visit, Director-General Herwig Schopper presented him with a representation, made in the CERN workshops, of a high energy proton-antiproton interaction, such as was seen in the SPS collider. June 15, 1982. (CERN)
I admit to a certain melancholy about all this. When I passed through CERN in 1982, I had been thinking about physics for some 15 years. At the beginning of that period, it was still possible for a professor and several graduate students to perform an experiment at one of the existing accelerators and get a result worth publishing, even to make a major discovery, in a matter of months. Theorists could both propose and analyze on the same time scale. By the early 1980s things had changed. Experiments in the new era involved bigger and bigger detectors. Bigger and bigger collaborations were necessary, and the time required to do an experiment grew longer. The accelerators, ever more expensive, were fewer, and their construction took years and involved dodging political minefields.
I am not complaining about the cost here. (I admit I did not build the machine myself.) The track record of something falling out of research on "pure" physics is pretty good. The World Wide Web arguably came from CERN, and techniques for the difficult analysis of the vast amounts of data from high-energy collisions are paying good dividends in other contexts. The current generation of accelerators has also taught us a great deal about superconducting technology.
But the fact that the United States has not provided an equivalent machine to check CERN's results—or even to have beaten them to the punch—is discouraging. Will experiments at a single machine, without a second machine to check the results, be acceptable? This is not going to get any easier. Peter Higgs had to wait 50 years to learn that his proposal was at least partly proven right. He retired in 1996 and is now in his early eighties. Results from modern machines come slowly, and many theorists have wandered off into regions where unverifiable speculation is king. For the worker bees who stick to experimentation, thousand-person collaborations are now the rule. Will the most creative individuals be willing to spend all their time in such collaborations on a single life-spanning experiment? I wouldn't bet on it.
Perhaps the popes still have something to teach us.
Paul Fishbane is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Virginia.
gwhepner says:
SUM GAME
The laws of physics all are mathematical,
a fact that is extremely problematical
for those who think a sum game should be close to
and think of God as Primal Number that's primero.
gwhepner@yahoo.com
Nitish Dobhal says:
Does a sub atomic particle ever wonder how its state of being is the result of complex relations that cant even fit in a book.? If it does, then it will break Schrodinger's law, I bet!
ShalomFreedman says:
It has been clear for many years now that the great discoveries are being made more in the biological sciences than in Physics. And so it is to be expected that many creative individuals would not be eager to dedicate their life to work in which collaborations with a thousand others required before there is significant discovery.
Dave Green says:
Is that the view of biologists or physicists?
trehub says:
Think about what kind of biophysical mechanisms in human brains invented the standard model of particle physics and the Higgs mechanism. Modern physics, like all the sciences, is a product of biology. For more about this see here:
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/trehub01.htm
Jon Jermey says:
There's no reason I can see why the CERN results shouldn't be acceptable, and certainly no reason for the US to fling billions of dollars into a pointless competition to see who can build the biggest cyclotron. I thought it had learnt that lesson after the space race.
Of course, if the Pope wanted to cough up the funding, that would be different. What are the chances of that, do you think?
OK says:
It is refreshing to read a piece like this – someone who is not afraid to think deeply and connect the random dots that make up our existence. Bravo.
October 1, 2012 - 6:34 am
anyone who values the pope's opinion is, in fact, doing the opposite of thinking deeply
JWPicht says:
It doesn't seem to me that Prof. Fishbane has much to say here about the pope's opinion, but only uses John Paul's visit to CERN as the starting point for an interesting commentary on Big Physics.
Ian Clark says:
What errant nonsense, Tibetan Buddhism has a better paradigm for theoretic physics than the Pope. He should concentrate on cleaning the stables rather than imposing his reactionary self. Remember Galileo. These Catholic ideologues are the same people who like dressing up in frocks and molesting small boys.
jansand says:
I had heard that the physicist involved with the Higgs boson originally called it "the god damned particle" and it was subsequently shortened. The Pope's opinion, of course is as valid as any astrologer's on the matter. Any Wizard of Oz would do.
you are correct (on both counts). it's fascinating that one can write an article about a subject and not even know where the term came from. apparently a wikipedia search would be too much.
Al_de_Baran says:
"Mathematics carries within itself a kind of logic that somehow is reflected in the way the world is".
That's one of the funniest things I've read in weeks. Many thanks for the chuckle.
jklfairwin says:
No matter how deep one goes in physics, one inevitably comes up against the problem of first cause. Then we are faced with two prospects. Either our mathematics and/or our instruments are not yet sophisticated enough to deal with the problem or the problem is in a space inaccessible to human understanding. Either option requires a leap of faith.
Charaxa says:
Physicists continue to unravel the mysteries of the universe, but they can't understand a senior religious man? They don't seem to have unravelled much after all.
Peter Higgs


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"For YBA, the Green Line doesn't exist," says Rabbi Beni Nachtailer at UBA Neria...
Mateh Binyamin Mayor Avi Roeh,
cutting the ribbon at UBA Neria
"For YBA, the Green Line doesn't exist." so said Rabbi Beni Nachtailer,Director General of the YBA Educational Network in Israel, at the dedication ceremony of new dormitory buildings at UBA Neria this month. "We are committed to opening schools wherever there is a need for quality religious Zionist education in the entire Land of Israel."
That is the reason why the YBA network opened UBA Neria ten years ago in the Talmon block of settlements within the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. In total, 14 of the network's 74 schools are located in Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.
The new dormitory buildings replace the aging caravans the school has used since its founding in 2004. The new buildings, while still temporary in nature, will provide a vastly improved quality of life for the school's 300 students until a permanent residential facility can be built.
Funding for the new structures was provided by the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council. Mayor Avi Roeh was joined by other public officials in formally opening the new facility.
UBA Neria is named after Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neria, z"l, the founder of the first YBA yeshiva high school in 1940, and spiritual mentor of the 'Kipa Seruga' generation, which has moved into leadership positions in the IDF and in all aspects of Israeli society in recent years.
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Microsoft's research division comes up with some pretty cool stuff, like its Holoflector augmented reality mirror, but its latest project is much more homely.
To be more precise, the company debuted HomeOS today, an operating system designed to make all your devices work in conjunction with how you live at home.
"It is no secret that homes are ever-increasing hotbeds of new technology such as set-top boxes, game consoles, wireless routers, home automation devices, tablets, smart phones, and security cameras. This innovation is breeding heterogeneity and complexity that frustrates even technically-savvy users' attempts to improve day-to-day life by implementing functionality that uses these devices in combination," Microsoft writes in a post announcing HomeOS.
The operating system works in conjunction with a "HomeStore" app market, where you can buy apps to orchestrate activities around the house. The basic idea is to have device makers make their home appliances compatible with HomeOS, and then let developers take over.
Microsoft is testing the current prototype in over a dozen homes, with researchers from universities across the globe experimenting with the technology. The OS is free for non-commercial use.
We've embedded a demo of what the OS can do below, with a slightly longer video available on Microsoft's website. And having watched some of the videos, I can say this is probably the closest we've come to recreating the "House of the Future" attraction in Disney theme parks' Tomorrowland.


Yeah...love it. We are dismantling them. I would love to get another shut out.
A game like this is beyond pointless.
A game like that is good for a team from time to time. It gives the backups a chance to get some real game experience. It gives the starters a chance to rest, both physically and mentally. It gives the fans something to feel good about and it's always good for potential recruits to see UC's name on the plus side of a score like that. Not every game needs to be a physical and mental grind.
I agree, this was good timing for a game like this. I think this gives our playmakers an opportunity to gain confidence. I really like that we got to play our reserves.
I think he meant a shutout. LOL !!


The recent tragedy of Stephon Clark's shooting has been made more public by the body cam footage released after the shooting making it clear there was little to no threat to the officers. It is also made less clear by the fact that the officers all told each other to mute their microphones after the shooting and then had several minutes of conversations amongst themselves.
However, the truth is that there might be a very different story around this shooting if the Sacramento Police Department hadn't released both the body cam footage and the footage taken from the helicopter above.
These releases weren't a department leak, nor were they really a tough decision for the Sacramento Police Department. They were required under their own rules, and Sacramento regulations, regarding police body cam footage. These types of laws have spread quite a bit in the last several years.
This is largely due to action from former-President Obama in 2014 offering federal grant money for police body cam programs that met certain requirements. The number of police shootings, especially of black men, had drawn–and frankly continues to draw–an enormous amount of criticism. This program was part of President Obama's response to this criticism–although it is obviously not a solution.
For Sacramento's part, they put quite a few rules in place as city policy back in 2016 after the fatal shooting by police of a mentally ill black man named Joseph Mann. The incident saw police attempt to strike the man twice with their vehicle before getting out and shooting him upwards of 20 times.
This incident led to both substantial reforms in the department and new rules on police cams–most notably a requirement that all Sacramento patrol officers wear body cameras.
These body cam rules are crucial both for police to protect themselves from false accounts or defend their actions and for the public to protect themselves from police misconduct. However, the laws differ substantially from state to state and there are no federal rules on the topic.
This means it's important to know how the rules work where you live. In the next several days, we're going to take a bit of a deeper dive than usual into this topic considering Mr. Stephon Clark's tragic death.
Today, we'll start with the actual events of the shooting caught on film as well as the rules on body camera's in Sacramento. However, keep an eye out for upcoming information on existing body camera rules work in every state across the nation.
The actual shooting of Stephon Clark is all caught on camera through the two body cameras of the responding officers and a camera from a helicopter. Responding to a call regarding vandalism in the area, they enter the backyard of Mr. Clark's grandmother, one of them with their weapon drawn. The video shows one officer around the corner to the backyard, spot Clark, and immediately yell at him to put his hands up.
Seconds later the other officer rounds the corner and yells "gun." Shouts of "gun!" fill the air, Clark is told to freeze, and the officers nearly immediately shot at Clark twenty times-hitting him eight times. They then call for backup and walk up and handcuff the still form of Stephon Clark.
The item they believed to be a gun is visible during the handcuffing process–a rose-gold smart phone with a money clip on the back. Stephon had borrowed the phone his girlfriend–the mother of his two children.
Clark is left on the ground for around six minutes until backup shows up. The officers come together to talk about what has happened and one officer tells the others "hey mute." The officers all mute their bodycams and the rest of the video is silent as they speak to each other and at least one Sacramento citizen.
Clark was pronounced dead at the scene. Since the shooting, demonstrators have taken to streets and appeared at city hall to protest the actions of the police.
What are Sacramento's Body Cam Laws?
The events recorded here are awful, but the release of the footage of the incident is crucially important to give the public transparency on the issue. The release of all this footage is in line with Sacramento's Body Worn Camera policies, requiring police to release videos of "critical incidents." Critical incidents include quite a few things, such as shootings involving officers and deaths while in custody.
The video of such an event may be released within 30 days of the incident under Sacramento's rules–although Chief Daniel Hahn (the first Sacramento police chief) released the footage much quicker than that. This has been a trend for Chief Hahn, one would assume to focus on transparency.
The Sacramento Body Cam Program benefited from a Department of Justice grant under former-president Obama's federal program and has been ramping up for a few years now and finally implemented body cameras for police last year. The policy itself on their use, however, has been in place since 2016.
The policy requires the cameras to be activated during sobriety tests, vehicle stops, any sort of pursuit, warrantless searches of vehicles, incidents with suspected suicidal individuals, any call involving reportedly involving weapons or violence, executing a search warrant, giving Miranda rights, any incident involving protests or civil unrest, and a few other situations.
There is also policy on when a camera may be deactivated. Some situations are simply sensible, low battery life or when a witness or victim doesn't want to be recorded. Quite a few are simply a matter of officer judgment, such as where it might interfere with an investigation or be inappropriate due to the condition of a victim or witness.
There are additional provisions in the policy–all media must be downloaded at the end of shifts, only approved body cams can be used, cameras must be worn for the entire shift. There are provisions on damaged gear, reporting recorded events, when the recordings can be reviewed, and more. However, there are absolutely no rules on whether muting a camera constitutes deactivation or muting in general.
What Can Be Learned from This Tragedy?
As we've seen from much of the reaction to Stephon Clark's tragic death, the officers choosing to mute their cameras has drawn quite a bit of mistrust from the Sacramento community as opposed to the intended impact of body cams–transparency and public trust.
This doesn't mean body cams are a bad idea. While the majority of police seek to protect the public, the stories of police misconduct are widespread and do not come from nowhere. These body cams, and the laws and policies around their implementation, are an important step towards much needed transparency and accountability.
However, what the muting incident does reveal is that a lot of body cam law and policy has not caught up to the twists and turns of what needs to be addressed when it comes to their use. The Sacramento Police Chief has already lamented the mistrust the muting incident has caused and said that it is an oversight in their policy that they will need to be addressed.
To be honest, there is a lot that needs to be addressed when it comes to the use of body cams nationwide. The Sacramento policy also lacks much in the way of repercussions for breaches–unauthorized attempts to tamper with, erase, or alter a body cam or its recordings are described as "employee misconduct" by the policy.
There's no guaranteed repercussions for this–although perjury and destroying evidence carry their own punishments. However, simply improperly turning off a camera–never mind muting it–is not even particularly likely to result in a firing. There's no evidentiary repercussions–such as a presumption against police testimony–associated with such actions.
This is true in many states across the country, not just Sacramento. Law continues to develop from state to state, however, many issues such as how a camera affects what's in plain sight during a search, whether the recordings are subject to public disclosure, and more remain unaddressed. But the last few years have seen substantial movement on laws discussing the use of body cams. Later this week, we'll get into how these laws apply in each given state.


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Ten games back with the Columbus Clippers proved to be too few for former member of the organization Melky Cabrera. The Indians signed the 33-year-old outfielder to a minor league contract for the second time this season, bringing back the experienced veteran as an insurance policy for their banged up outfield.
Cabrera was unsigned this past offseason despite a strong season offensively last year with the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals. He appeared in 156 games, putting up a combined .285/.324/.423 slash at the plate with 30 doubles, two triples, 17 homers, and 85 RBI in his split stay.
The Indians added him on a free agent contract on May 1, sending him first to Goodyear, Arizona, to prep for the season. He logged ten games of work for the Clippers to get into game action, marking his return to the Ohio capital after playing for the club when a New York Yankees affiliate in 2005 and 2006. After hitting in seven straight games and eight of his first ten for the Clippers this year (.286/.286/.381 with four doubles and four RBI), his contract was purchased from Columbus by the Indians on May 20, ahead of an opt-out date in his contract while the parent club was dealing with a wide range of outfield injuries to the 25-man roster.
In his first two weeks back in the Majors, he saw extensive work in right field for the Tribe. After missing the first 44 games of the year, the switch-hitter jumped into action on May 20 and recorded his first hit (a double) and an RBI in his second game on May 22 against the Chicago Cubs. He notched hits in six of his first eleven games with the club, but was hitting just .179 at the end of May and was often lifted late in games for defensive replacements. He did come through with some big hits, however, as he totaled eight RBI in his eleven-game sample size.
As June rolled around, the Indians' wounded began to wrap up rehab assignments. Bradley Zimmer was activated from the disabled list on June 1, shifting the outfield around and sending Cabrera back to the bench. He went a week between starts on June 1 and June 9, with one pinch-hit appearance in between. By that latter date, Lonnie Chisenhall had been activated (June 5) and Zimmer had been optioned to Columbus to make room. Cabrera got a little more work during the early June road trip to Detroit and Chicago, matching a season-high with two hits and three RBI on June 10 against Detroit. He played in games against his former White Sox club on June 11 and June 13, but with Brandon Guyer returning from the 10-day DL on June 14 and Tyler Naquin due to return the next day, Cabrera was designated for assignment.
After clearing waivers, Cabrera was sent outright to Columbus, but opted to forgo the assignment and elected to become a free agent. Nearly three weeks later and still unsigned, the Indians brought him back, just two days after Chisenhall was lost to his second DL trip this season, this time with a left calf strain that is expected to see him sidelined for another lengthy absence.
In 17 total games for the Indians, Cabrera slashed .207/.242/.293 with five doubles, four sacrifice flies, and eleven RBI.
The Indians have Michael Brantley manning left field and have used Rajai Davis and Greg Allen in center field (the latter was called up when Chisenhall was placed back on the DL). Naquin has paired with Guyer to handle right field primarily, although the injury bug has still pestered Guyer so far in July after fouling a pitch off of his leg on July 3.
Cabrera will see time in Columbus at designated hitter as well as in the outfield with Triple-A All-Stars Brandon Barnes and Francisco Mejia and minor league veterans Todd Hankins (who is expected to be activated from the seven-day disabled list on Thursday), Mike Papi, and Dorssys Paulino. Zimmer has been out of action there with a right shoulder injury sustained during batting practice shortly after being optioned.
Cabrera joined the pro game in 2001 when he signed with the New York Yankees. He made his MLB debut in 2005 with the Yankees before he was traded following the 2009 season to the Atlanta Braves. He spent 2011 with the Royals and was an All-Star in 2012 for the San Francisco Giants before playing for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2013 and 2014. He signed with the White Sox following his time in Toronto and remained there until his deadline trade back to Kansas City last year.
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Education Cluster Situation Update: 5 Education Facilities damaged in a week of heavy fighting near the contact line [EN/UK]
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2 schools and 3 kindergartens were damaged by shelling in the last week (2 cases are unverified at time of report). Damages are the result of localized flare-ups in the areas of Horlivka/Novoluhanske and Pervomaisk. 3 of the education damaged facilities are located in NGCA (2 - Donetska NGCA, 1 - Luhanska NGCA), the other 2 are located in Novaluhanske (Donetska GCA). In addition to these 5 education facilities there are reports that as a result of multiple damages to gas pipelines from shelling in the area of Pervomaisk (Luhanska NGCA), some schools are left without heating.
The kindergarten and school in Novoluhanske (GCA) need support in repairing damages to the facilities, according to cluster partners, and further assessments of the damages are planned in the coming days. Also for these two facilities cluster partners are mobilizing immediate response including psychosocial support and hygiene kits. Please contact the Education Cluster for more information or if your organization may be able to provide response.
During 2017 a total of 40 education facilities have been damaged due to conflict in Ukraine (as of December 19, 2017) affecting access to education to at least 4,000 children.
Ukraine: Ongoing, active conflict a cause of a heavy humanitarian toll
Centre for Digital Education opens in Donetsk Oblast with support of EU and UNDP [EN/UK]
Ukraine: Fear, freezing temperatures and an uncertain future for families on the frontline
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30 years after Soviet collapse, almost two-fifths of Russians say they have 'barely enough' for food, as prices surge – survey
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In the last six months, nearly two out of every five (39%) Russians have gone without food and drink due to a lack of funds, a poll has revealed. The country has seen rapid inflation of grocery prices during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The latest figures come over three decades after Perestroika and the market-like reforms introduced by then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which led to worsened food shortages. The subsequent fall-out led to the collapse of the USSR, and the introduction of a hyper capitalist system, where a small oligarchy quickly took over key sectors of the economy. The 1990s were a painful decade in Russia, and while things have improved since then, pronounced inequality remains a feature of the country's economic make up.
The poll, published by Levada, also revealed that 52% of all Russians have had to forgo necessary purchases of clothes and shoes, while 71% decided not to go ahead with essential large purchases for the home.
The Levada Center is registered by Russia's Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent, due to its receipt of Western funding.
According to a UNICEF study published last month, Russia has 400,000 people classed as 'severely food insecure'. For comparison, in the same bracket, the UK has approximately 500,000 people, while Germany has 600,000 people. The US, which has roughly double the population of Russia, has 2.7 million severely food insecure people.
Nutrition emergency: Ukraine has more citizens classed as 'severely food insecure' than any other European state, claims UNICEF
The new Levada figures come off the back of rapid inflation in food costs, with figures from July revealing that prices have risen 7.4% in just 12 months.
With elections just around the corner, the growth in the price of food has become a severe issue within Russia, with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin coming out publicly to accuse companies of pushing up inflation by hiking prices across the board. In May, he pointed to the "greed of individual manufacturers and retail chains" as the main reason.
In a battle to reduce inflation, the government has created export quotas, while the central bank has hiked the interest rate.
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$a "The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research. Revealing the full diversity of approaches to the study of textiles, the Reader introduces students to the theoretical frameworks essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. Content is drawn from a wide range of genres - blogs, artists' statements and fiction, as well as critical writings - and organized in themed sections covering touch, memory, structure, politics, production and use. Each thematic section is separately introduced and concludes with a bibliography for further reading. The Textile Reader will be an invaluable resource for students of textile design, textile art, applied arts and crafts and material culture. Selected authors include Glenn Adamson, Anni Albers, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Sarat Maharaj, Rozsika Parker, Sadie Plant, Peter Stallybrass, Alice Walker and Catherine de Zegher"


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An Elephantine Problem Laid Out In Stark Reality
People see elephant conservation in isolation. Sanjeev Kumar Chadha's data rich book explains the challenges posed by human-elephant conflict and fragmentation of corridors and provides solutions.
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When a serving bureaucrat raises red flags on species conservation one ought to wake up and see the devil in detail. The future of Asian elephants is at a crossroads in India, as forest habitats dwindle and elephant-human conflicts increase.
On the launch of Jumbos on the Edge: The Future of Elephant Conservation in India by Sanjeev Kumar Chadha—an Indian Forest Service officer, currently managing director of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED)—the minister for environment, forest and climate change Bhupender Yadav emphasised on people's awareness and participation as the crucial step in conserving both flora and fauna, while ensuring life and livelihood.
The Asian elephant is an integral part of the forest ecosystem and biodiversity. The elephant is a national heritage animal of India, with the highest degree of protection under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act 1972. However, human-elephant conflict is a challenging issue for elephant management and conservation. The environment ministry refers to human-elephant conflict as the negative interaction between people and elephants, leading to a negative impact on people—human death and injury, crop damage, loss of property—as well as on elephants or their habitats. Chadha has elaborated on this issue in great detail with case studies, followed by recommended mitigation strategies and management interventions.
It's a big challenge in a country with 1.3 billion people to provide space for species like elephants to move and perform their role in the ecosystem. Pachyderms need forest corridors to move constantly for food and water. No one forest patch can sustain the elephant's appetite. Chadha writes that on an average an elephant eats around 240 kg in weight a day. As India embarks towards economic prosperity, the elephant is bound to face obstacles on account of fragmentation of landscape, genetic isolation and biotic interference. People often see species conservation in isolation and not in context to the habitat they require to thrive.
Chadha's narrative is substantiated with studies and valuable data. He observes that during the last three decades, the country has seen tremendous change in rural and urban landscape, especially in elephant habitats, on account of continuous development and upgrade of infrastructure. This, he writes, has been more pronounced in Odisha, where human-elephant interactions have gone downhill, despite elephants being revered as gods. He writes extensively on the mitigation of human-elephant conflict in Dhenkanal district of Odisha.
Due to anthropogenic pressure, the historical range of elephants in India has shrunk, confining the animal into distinct geographical zones. The Indian subcontinent has an estimated elephant population of about 26,400-29,000, which accounts for over 50 per cent of the wild elephant population in Asia. This population is split into four groups—north, northeastern, east and south.
A common challenge in species conservation is how to incorporate species movements into management objectives. The challenge of increasing linear infrastructure (highways, railway lines, new power transmission lines, irrigation canals, mining and power projects) through the forest landscapes is a serious one. Chadha throws light on mitigation measures to be adopted at the inception stage, so as to reduce the impact in elephant landscapes already fragmented by varied land uses. The designs of different solutions explained in the book can be easily adapted to different landscapes.
This is an extremely useful book for conservation practitioners, policy makers, forest department officials and others to understand issues related to elephant depredation in human settlements and the fragmentation of elephant landscapes.
(This appeared in the print edition as "Grand Trunk Roads")
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It was dad's birthday this week – he was 95. In 1923, Tutankhamen's tomb was opened, Time magazine's first issue was published, Hitler attempted a coup in Germany (the Beer Hall Putsch it is called), insulin was first used to treat diabetes (and its discoverers won the Nobel prize for medicine in that year too) – and WRB was born in Mrs Wright's nursing home, Saddleworth South Australia.
He has been a lovely dad, and I have really enjoyed getting to know him more in recent years. I went up to see him on the big day – we went out to lunch in Watervale – they have a new-ish cafe there, and it was delicious. I made the usual Blow Away sponge and we caught up with the rest of the family, either in the flesh or on the phone.
I took a couple of photos, but they are pretty bad (dad's eyes are closed or he's looking the wrong way or something. One of the dangers of taking pics without my glasses on!!) – so click on the link above for the pics taken a few years ago… and in the meantime, here are some other photographic links to events in 1923.
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Oh wow Happy Birthday Mr.Becker.
It's fantastic that you spend such treasured moments with him Elizabeth, you are a great daughter.


"Rugby has become increasingly popular from Copacabana Beach to the rugby pitches of Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere"
"Olympic Games 2016: Samba sevens as Brazil granted rugby spots"
"As a nation, Brazil might be better known for its round rather than oval-ball prowess but the World Cup host has been granted automatic spots in the rugby sevens at the 2016 Olympics.
"Sevens is making its Olympic bow in Rio de Janeiro and increasingly teams in the Brazilian city are seen practicing on the iconic Copacabana Beach and elsewhere - overall in the country, rugby participation in Brazil has risen by 25% since 2011...."
The Sochi Winter Olympics are over. Some folks won, some didn't, and now the world breathlessly awaits Olympics yet un-commentaried. If that wasn't a word before, it is now, but the Lemming digresses.
The Lemming has already seen one op-ed about the unfairness of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, and is confident that there will be more of the same over the next year or so.
That's understandable, since editors have space to fill in their publications; and a persistent need for something, anything, to prevent those regularly-scheduled broadcasts from descending into ad-libbed witticisms.
Or, perhaps, for those who go for Baroque, a piacere: which has nothing to do with pizza.
On a more — or less — serious note, the Lemming recognizes the importance of rugby in the lives of so many of this world's people.
This brings to the Lemming's mind a question: why is there so very little attention paid to Pinochle?
"Starlit Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi, Puritan Privateers, and a Rambling Lemming"
Caspar David Friedrich's "Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon."
Is it just the Lemming, or was that tree moving a moment ago?
No, wait that's Antony's line: not in A. and Cleopatra, the other one. "Julius Caesar:" not to be confused with Orange Julius, or Jules Verne.
Since the Sochi Winter Olympics are still going strong, or cold, or whatever: the Lemming thought it only fitting to ponder, weak and weary, over many a — no, that's about a monomaniacal raven: not that saying "nevermore" necessarily constitutes mania. If your life won't be complete unless you read Poe's poem, here's a link: "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe.
That reminded the Lemming of an unaccountable lacuna in the Olympic lineup. Why have the Olympic committees utterly overlooked the snicker-snack double biathlon?!
Maybe it's due to pressure from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Jabberwocks. Or perhaps something more sinister. Dares the Lemming say it — ravens?!
It's Valentine's Day today, by the way: thankfully, the Lemming did not forget. And that's another topic.
"Sochi: After weeks of worry, a pretty smooth start to Olympics spectacle"
"Amid international concerns about security, the Sochi Games completed the first day of contests Thursday with high excitement and -- equally important -- no major adverse incident.
"After all the anxiety about a terror strike, controversy over gay rights and ridicule over poor preparations, the Winter Olympics commenced smoothly enough, as qualification events were held in the men's and women's slopestyle, women's moguls and team figure skating...."
A remarkable portion of news about the 2014 Winter Olympics is about sports: alpine skiing; snowboarding; and curling; but not, oddly enough, mascara.
On the other hand, automotive journalists cover Sochi cars and trucks, activist journalists cover Sochi unfairness, and animal journalists cover Sochi animals: or lack thereof. Which actually is a somewhat-serious issue. Oddly enough, nobody seems to have noticed the utter lack of lemmings in the official proceedings: which have little to do with Lemuria.
"...Navel lint (also known by names such as navel fluff, belly button lint, belly button fluff, and dip lint) is an accumulation of fluffy fibers in the navel cavity. ... The reasons for its accumulation in the navel are a subject of speculation...."
Presumably Olympic Athletes occasionally find lint in their navels, but mainstream journalism has been strangely silent on the topic. The astute reader will note that the photograph of a magnificent domestic interior has little to do with lint, which is the Lemming's point precisely.
Points may be of the percentage, pivot, or Paris persuasion, but the Lemming digresses.


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Joel Cunningham over on the B&N SF&F Blog announced today that a new anthology is publishing August 2019!
And it features new short fiction by Naomi Novik!
These are dreams of classic myths, bold reimaginings of the stories we tell about gods and kings, heroes who shaped nations, the why and how of the world.
Journey with us to the fields of Elysium and the Midwest, through labyrinths and the space between stars. Witness the birth of computerized deities and beasts that own the night. Experience eternal life through curses and biochemistry.
Bringing together stories from the world over, eighteen critically acclaimed and award-winning authors reimagine myths of the past for the world of today, and tomorrow.
The Mythic Dream will be published August 27, 2019.


The Fly Series by Space Copenhagen is a lounge collection made up of two sofas, an armchair, two tables and a pouf. Pushing the idea of lounging to its fullest, Fly is a series that allows the user to sit, lie, rest, and relax. Unlike many of the sofas and easy chairs in Scandinavian design history, Fly does not impose any particular posture onto the sitter. The seat itself is optimised for comfort, with loose cushions for the back that can be arranged according to the user's own needs.
But Fly adheres to tradition in other respects; the frame of the sofa and armchair, with a slatted back rest, is made from solid oak, treated with white pigmented oil or smoked oil. It is the type of material and treatment that ages with true grace, only becoming more beautiful with time. Space Copenhagen gathers much of their inspiration from travels abroad, often in the form of ambience and mood. An example could be as simple as a particular wall in the streets of SoHo, New York, the distressed look of which makes its way into Space Copenhagen's imagination.
Oiled oak base with marble table top.
Smoked oiled oak base with polished Nero Marquina marble table top.
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The Fly table base is made from solid oak and oak veneer. The marble plate is CNC milled and the surface is either polished or honed.


These terms seemingly defy English rules of spelling.
The rules of English spelling can be baffling.
Writers and editors see it daily. I recently had to check the spelling of "prerogative" because it couldn't possibly be spelled "prerogative" (it is).
One area of spelling that is particularly challenging: finding correct plural forms. They can trip writers up, because they're difficult to spell and difficult to pronounce.
What others can you think of, Ragan readers?


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Our community is proud of the Poplarville Hornets Football team ending the year as 4A South State Champions for the 2nd consecutive year in a row. Your fans thank you for how you have represented the school, district, community, and South Mississippi.
This week the boys will play three games. The first game will be a home game on Monday the 9th against Stone county at 7:00pm. On Tuesday the 10th JV will play an away game against Hancock at 7:00pm. On the 12th the V team will play a home game against FCAHS at 7:00pm. Varsity girls will play against Stone county at 5:30pm Dec. 9th. Then on the 10th, JV play an away game against Hancock at 5:30pm. The last game this week V will play in a home game against FCAHS at 5:30pm.
The Varsity basketball teams went up against Picayune Tuesday, Dec. 3 at a home. Varsity basketball girls' won against Picayune with a score 39-50. Varsity boys' lost their game with a close score of 67-58. On December 6, varsity teams played Vancleave at home. Varsity girls' won with a score of 65-25. Boys lost with a score 41-49. Upcoming games this week are Girls' and Boys' Varsity on December 10, 2019 against Sumrall played at home. Boys start at 7:30 p.m. and girls start at 6:00 p.m. On December 13, 2019 teams will travel to Lumberton. Girls start at 6:00 p.m., both boys' varsity and junior varsity start at 5:00/7:30 p.m.
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If you've gotten a robocall about a free cruise, you could get $900
By Kelcie Willis, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Up to $900 may be available to those who received a robocall saying they won a free cruise.
The class-action lawsuit, Charvat v. Carnival et al claims that Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line allowed Resort Marketing Group to make robo calls offering free cruises with the lines and in doing so violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Those who are the owner, subscriber or user of a landline or cell phone that received a recorded telemarketing call between 2009 and 2014 may get a up to $300 from the suit. Individuals may file up to three claims for a maximum payment amount of $900.
Claims can be filed and individuals can check to see if their number is part of the settlement at the Charvat v. Carnival et al website.
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I recently had the opportunity to experience Dr. Teal's Epsom Salt Soaking Solution. I have been using the Relaxing blend scented with eucalyptus and spearmint essential oils. I am amazed how, with the addition of natural fragrance, such a traditional and basic product can offer spa-like indulgence.
Epsom salt is composed of crystalized magnesium sulfate. When dissolved into a warm bath, epsom salt will assist in replenishing the body of magnesium. Soaking in epsom salts can aid in stress reduction, help lower blood pressure, and increase circulation. It has a long tradition of being employed to heal the body of aches and pains.
I began by adding a couple handfuls of Soaking Solution to a heated bath. I had the good fortune to use this product in my sister's bathtub with massaging jets. The aroma of the salts is clean and refreshing. The scent lightly perfumed my skin and hair for hours after my bath.
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My sister has an antique scalloped dish with epsom salt on display in her bathroom. She mixes a small amount with liquid soap to act as a refreshing hand scrub. She enjoys the pure and natural scent and the thorough cleansing brought from scrubbing with epsom salt. I imagine this technique would be auspicious for the coarser skin on feet, knees and elbows.
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Too bad I'm so far away from US! Have to find a decent epsom salt in local stores!
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Sussing Out the Confusion Over President Trump's Transgender Military Ban
If you're confused over the implementation of President Trump's transgender military ban, take solace in that you aren't alone, because everyone else looks to be in the same boat.
Some weeks back, President Donald Trump unveiled a new policy that would ban trans individuals from serving in the military. As you may have guessed, this in turn caused a fair amount of confusion. Then earlier this week, many news agencies had reported that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was freezing President Trump's military ban, only to have those news reports debunked by new claims that wasn't the case.
Now if you're confused on where the ban stands, you're not alone; based on the various emails we've been getting on the subject, many people are in the same boat. That's why we thought it would be a great idea to suss out what exactly is going on with President Trump's transgender military ban.
So Is the Transgender Military Ban Actually Dead?
In layman's terms, the transgender military ban isn't exactly dead, as it is put on hold for the time being. What the Trump administration did was postpone the ban until the government concludes a study on how to best implement it and send its recommendations back to the White House for implementation. So as for the two biggest misconceptions that were floating around regarding this story:
The first was that Mattis is the one that put a freeze on the transgender military ban; but in reality, that wasn't the case at all. Mattis was just following the directive that was issued by the White House, that already had language in place which froze the transgender ban until a study on the ban's implementation was in place. So the narrative of Mattis, in that he's "undermining President Trump's directive", is completely taken out of context. If anything, Mattis is following the president's directive very closely.
The second misconception comes in the way that people are believing the transgender ban is dead. To be perfectly clear, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TRANSGENDER MILITARY BAN IS NO WAY DEAD!!! For right now, it's just temporarily put on hold because government agencies (ie the Pentagon) have to figure out how to implement the ban without disrupting the day-to-day operations of the military.
So while President Trump's transgender military ban isn't dead, there's still questions of how it will be implemented in the military in general. Considering there's an estimated 2,150 to 10,790 trans service members – this isn't a hard number, just one based on data derived from multiple surveys – it's possible the ban could be implemented similar to a Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that was placed on gay soldiers back in the 90's, because a complete dismissal of these individuals could potentially cause chaos within the military. Not only that, but there would be a strong potential for a witch hunt within military ranks of individual's sexual identity getting outed, which is an ugly situation no one wants!
Though based on the various human rights groups that have asked a judge to halt President Trump's military ban, claiming that it's discriminating against transgender soldiers already serving, this fight looks to be far from over.
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Q: Polars - Replace part of string in column with value of other column So I have a Polars dataframe looking as such
df = pl.DataFrame(
    {
        "ItemId": [15148, 15148, 24957],
        "SuffixFactor": [19200, 200, 24],
        "ItemRand": [254, -1, -44],
        "Stat0": ['+5 Defense', '+$i Might', '+9 Vitality'],
        "Amount": ['', '7', '']
    }
)

I want to replace $i in the column "Stat0" with Amount whenever Stat0 contains i$
I have tried a couple different things such as:
df = df.with_column(
    pl.col('Stat0').str.replace(r'\$i', pl.col('Amount'))
)

Expected result
result = pl.DataFrame(
    {
        "ItemId": [15148, 15148, 24957],
        "SuffixFactor": [19200, 200, 24],
        "ItemRand": [254, -1, -44],
        "Stat0": ['+5 Defense', '+7 Might', '+9 Vitality'],
        "Amount": ['', '7', '']
    }
)

But this doesn't seem to work.
I hope someone can help.
Best regards

A: Edit: Polars >= 0.14.4
As of Polars 0.14.4, the replace and replace_all expressions allow an Expression for the value parameter.  Thus, we can solve this more simply as:
df.with_column(
    pl.col('Stat0').str.replace(r'\$i', pl.col('Amount'))
)

shape: (3, 5)
┌────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬─────────────┬────────┐
│ ItemId ┆ SuffixFactor ┆ ItemRand ┆ Stat0       ┆ Amount │
│ ---    ┆ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ ---         ┆ ---    │
│ i64    ┆ i64          ┆ i64      ┆ str         ┆ str    │
╞════════╪══════════════╪══════════╪═════════════╪════════╡
│ 15148  ┆ 19200        ┆ 254      ┆ +5 Defense  ┆        │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 15148  ┆ 200          ┆ -1       ┆ +7 Might    ┆ 7      │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 24957  ┆ 24           ┆ -44      ┆ +9 Vitality ┆        │
└────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴────────┘

Polars < 0.14.4
The problem is that the replace method does not take an Expression, only a constant.  Thus, we cannot use a column as replacement values, only a constant.
We can get around this in two ways.
Slow: using apply
This method uses python code to perform the replacement.  Since we are executing python bytecode using apply, it will be slow.  If your DataFrame is small, then this won't be too painfully slow.
(
    df
    .with_column(
        pl.struct(['Stat0', 'Amount'])
        .apply(lambda cols: cols['Stat0'].replace('$i', cols['Amount']))
        .alias('Stat0')
    )
)

shape: (3, 5)
┌────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬─────────────┬────────┐
│ ItemId ┆ SuffixFactor ┆ ItemRand ┆ Stat0       ┆ Amount │
│ ---    ┆ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ ---         ┆ ---    │
│ i64    ┆ i64          ┆ i64      ┆ str         ┆ str    │
╞════════╪══════════════╪══════════╪═════════════╪════════╡
│ 15148  ┆ 19200        ┆ 254      ┆ +5 Defense  ┆        │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 15148  ┆ 200          ┆ -1       ┆ +7 Might    ┆ 7      │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 24957  ┆ 24           ┆ -44      ┆ +9 Vitality ┆        │
└────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴────────┘

Fast: using split_exact and when/then/otherwise
This method uses all Polars Expressions.  As such, it will be much faster, especially for large DataFrames.
(
    df
    .with_column(
        pl.col('Stat0').str.split_exact('$i', 1)
    )
    .unnest('Stat0')
    .with_column(
        pl.when(pl.col('field_1').is_null())
        .then(pl.col('field_0'))
        .otherwise(pl.concat_str(['field_0', 'Amount', 'field_1']))
        .alias('Stat0')
    )
    .drop(['field_0', 'field_1'])
)

shape: (3, 5)
┌────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬────────┬─────────────┐
│ ItemId ┆ SuffixFactor ┆ ItemRand ┆ Amount ┆ Stat0       │
│ ---    ┆ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ ---    ┆ ---         │
│ i64    ┆ i64          ┆ i64      ┆ str    ┆ str         │
╞════════╪══════════════╪══════════╪════════╪═════════════╡
│ 15148  ┆ 19200        ┆ 254      ┆        ┆ +5 Defense  │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 15148  ┆ 200          ┆ -1       ┆ 7      ┆ +7 Might    │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 24957  ┆ 24           ┆ -44      ┆        ┆ +9 Vitality │
└────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴────────┴─────────────┘

How it works: we first split the Stat0 column on $i using split_exact.  This will produce a struct.
(
    df
    .with_column(
        pl.col('Stat0').str.split_exact('$i', 1)
    )
)

shape: (3, 5)
┌────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬──────────────────────┬────────┐
│ ItemId ┆ SuffixFactor ┆ ItemRand ┆ Stat0                ┆ Amount │
│ ---    ┆ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ ---                  ┆ ---    │
│ i64    ┆ i64          ┆ i64      ┆ struct[2]            ┆ str    │
╞════════╪══════════════╪══════════╪══════════════════════╪════════╡
│ 15148  ┆ 19200        ┆ 254      ┆ {"+5 Defense",null}  ┆        │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 15148  ┆ 200          ┆ -1       ┆ {"+"," Might"}       ┆ 7      │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 24957  ┆ 24           ┆ -44      ┆ {"+9 Vitality",null} ┆        │
└────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────┴────────┘

Notice that when Stat0 does not contain $i, the second member of the struct is null.  We'll use this fact to our advantage.
In the next step, we break the struct into separate columns, using unnest.
(
    df
    .with_column(
        pl.col('Stat0').str.split_exact('$i', 1)
    )
    .unnest('Stat0')
)

shape: (3, 6)
┌────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬────────┐
│ ItemId ┆ SuffixFactor ┆ ItemRand ┆ field_0     ┆ field_1 ┆ Amount │
│ ---    ┆ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ ---         ┆ ---     ┆ ---    │
│ i64    ┆ i64          ┆ i64      ┆ str         ┆ str     ┆ str    │
╞════════╪══════════════╪══════════╪═════════════╪═════════╪════════╡
│ 15148  ┆ 19200        ┆ 254      ┆ +5 Defense  ┆ null    ┆        │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 15148  ┆ 200          ┆ -1       ┆ +           ┆  Might  ┆ 7      │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 24957  ┆ 24           ┆ -44      ┆ +9 Vitality ┆ null    ┆        │
└────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴────────┘

This creates two new columns: field_0 and field_1.
From here, we use when/then/otherwise and concat_str to construct the final result
Basically:

*

*when $i does not appear in the Stat0 column, then the string is not split, and field_1 is null, so we can use the value in field_0 as is.

*when $i does appear in Stat0, then the string is split into two parts: field_0 and field_1.  We simply concatenate the parts back together, putting Amount in the middle.

(
    df
    .with_column(
        pl.col('Stat0').str.split_exact('$i', 1)
    )
    .unnest('Stat0')
    .with_column(
        pl.when(pl.col('field_1').is_null())
        .then(pl.col('field_0'))
        .otherwise(pl.concat_str(['field_0', 'Amount', 'field_1']))
        .alias('Stat0')
    )
)

shape: (3, 7)
┌────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────────────┐
│ ItemId ┆ SuffixFactor ┆ ItemRand ┆ field_0     ┆ field_1 ┆ Amount ┆ Stat0       │
│ ---    ┆ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ ---         ┆ ---     ┆ ---    ┆ ---         │
│ i64    ┆ i64          ┆ i64      ┆ str         ┆ str     ┆ str    ┆ str         │
╞════════╪══════════════╪══════════╪═════════════╪═════════╪════════╪═════════════╡
│ 15148  ┆ 19200        ┆ 254      ┆ +5 Defense  ┆ null    ┆        ┆ +5 Defense  │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 15148  ┆ 200          ┆ -1       ┆ +           ┆  Might  ┆ 7      ┆ +7 Might    │
├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤
│ 24957  ┆ 24           ┆ -44      ┆ +9 Vitality ┆ null    ┆        ┆ +9 Vitality │
└────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────────────┘

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Facing the Winds of Change
"No activity that promotes genuine human progress and builds bridges among peoples is alien to our faith-based service. It is with this humanistic vision that the Jesuits of Kohima, like their fellow-Jesuits elsewhere in the world, offer their service to the people of North-East India."
This is the heart of Father General Arturo Sosa's message to the alumni of the Jesuit schools of Phesama, in North-East India. For half-a-century, the Society of Jesus has been serving this community, one of the smaller villages in the Jakhama circle. Though the Kohima district, of which the Jakhama circle is part, has a literacy rate of 85%, that percentage falls dramatically as one moves away from the urban areas and into the villages. As such, much of the Jesuit ministry in the region has been focused on the establishment and maintenance of educational institutions to serve the often forgotten populations of this peripheral region. The Jesuit work in Phesama changes not only the lives of the students who have been trained by these institutions, but also what those in similar regions think is possible in serving the underserved. In the eyes of Father General, this type of ministry exemplifies the positive change that is made possible by a commitment to the spirit of service.
For his part, Fr. General alluded to the confusion generated by the fast pace of change in the village and reminded the alumni that St. Ignatius himself experience much of that same disorientation during the Renaissance.
"Much like our post-modern age caught in the whirlwind of bewilderingly rapid changes affecting every sphere of human life, sixteenth century Europe was going through a prolonged period of turmoil. The Renaissance, the Reformation and an exciting new scientific quest had created a climate of liberal humanism and an attitude of questioning. If it spread a great deal of disturbing doubt and confusion, it also generated a new energy and a determined search for new answers to new questions.
It was in this climate that Ignatius of Loyola and his six intellectually brilliant companions studied for seven years (1528-35). As lay students, they were exposed to the intellectual ferment, the liberal humanism and free open questioning prevailing there. And, having been schooled in theSpiritual Exercises, - the experience of encountering God and discerning God's will for the world as well as for themselves, - even as young laymen they were able to meet these winds of change head-on. In discerning openness to God's Spirit speaking to them in the signs of the times, they accepted what led to God and to genuine human progress; discarded what they found divisive; and fought against what was dangerous to a healthy social order."
Speaking directly to the alumni, Fr. General asked them to have this acceptance; an energy of commitment at the heart of a rapidly changing world, the energy needed to move towards true progress. Fr. Sosa reminded them of some criteria for evaluating whether the education they received has really been fruitful.
"Your education in a Jesuit institution was intended to help you open your minds to wider horizons transcending mere self-interest, to take responsibility for yourself and for society, so that you become agents of social change, 'men-and-women-for- and with-others'. The values you have assimilated in Jesuit education prepare you to engage the world in all its complex challenges and make a significant contribution to creating a more humane society. (...)
It is around this shared vision that our educational campuses seek to promote unity and harmony, embracing and transcending all diversity of religious, ethnic, tribal and linguistic identities. If this essential element is missing, however successful you might otherwise be in your careers, our education will have failed in its primary objective. It is not primarily academic results or achievements in sports or the beauty and facilities of an educational campus that measure the success of Jesuit education. It is the quality of life of our alumni/alumnae. This is the best evidence, that the values for which the Society of Jesus was established, and which we try in our lives and through our educational institutions, to share with our staff and students, have had some measure of success."
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