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'No Religious Test Clause' Applies to Supreme Court Justices
Chris Talgo | Sep 24, 2020
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According to the No Religious Test Clause of the U.S. Constitution, "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
It does not take a constitutional scholar to understand this straight-forward clause, which obviously applies to Supreme Court Justices. However, as President Trump readies to announce his nomination for the vacant seat on the nation's highest court, it seems as if religion will be a front and center issue.
Already, days before Trump is scheduled to make his official pick to replace the recently departed Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Democratic Party, in cahoots with the mainstream liberal media, is preparing to usereligion as a litmus test against whomever Trump eventually nominates.
This should not come as a surprise.
All signs are pointing to Trump nominating either Amy Coney Barrett or Barbara Lagoa. Although it should not matter at all, both are practicing Catholics. And both have come under major scrutiny for the simple fact that they choose to practice the Catholic faith.
This reprehensible religious discrimination is nothing new to Amy Coney Barrett, who most believe is the front-runner for the nomination.
In 2017, while appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee as she awaited confirmation to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett faced a barrage of religion-related questions/accusations from Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA).
Feinstein began with a rhetorical question meant to call into question Barrett's fidelity to the law. "Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that dogma and law are two different things, and I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different," Feinstein said.
Before allowing Barrett to answer, Feinstein said, "And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that's of concern."
As if that was not enough, Feinstein went on to say, "You're controversial because many of us that have lived our lives as women really recognize the value of finally being able to control our reproductive systems. And Roe entered into that, obviously."
After being raked over the coals by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) for simply being a Catholic, Barrett made it abundantly clear that her faith would not preempt her ability to make decisions based on the law.
As Barrett eloquently put it, "my personal Church affiliation or my religious belief would not bear in the discharge of my duties as a judge."
At that point, the religious test that Barrett was facing (which is unconstitutional) should have ended. However, it did not. And, if Barrett is nominated this weekend, you can surely bet these false and malicious allegations will be resurrected.
In 1960, while running for president, then-candidate John F. Kennedy faced many insults and outlandish accusations because he was Catholic.
However, what was different then as opposed to today is that JFK was not being put on blast because he held religious beliefs. Rather, JFK was considered unfit for the Oval Office because he was a Catholic. Believe it or not, many thought JFK would be under the spell of Rome. Many thought the Pope would be the puppet-master, pulling the strings from the Vatican.
It was preposterous then and it is even more preposterous now. The First Amendment guarantees that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
This obviously applies to those running for public office and those who are under consideration to sit on the Supreme Court.
Although the Left will try to portray anyone who Trump nominates to the Supreme Court in a few days as a monster, they should refrain from launching unwarranted, unconstitutional, and un-American attacks on their religious views.
After all, didn't the Pilgrims flee religious tyranny to create a place where religious freedom was supposed to be paramount?
Chris Talgo (ctalgo@heartland.org ) is an editor at The Heartland Institute.
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Art is an act of communication, and if we are constantly communicating our smallest thoughts, how will we have time for big ones? Cell phones miniaturize your life, breaking it down into tiny sound bites. I think we call them "bites" for a reason. They tend to devour our time and attention. There's no room for following your own train of thoughts. You can be interrupted at any moment-- and you will be.
Virginia Wolfe said writers needed a "room of their own." Most of us do not have that, but we can build a portable room of our own by turning off our devices when we are working, and taking walks with no cell phone.
Are you willing to experiment with this?
I find it to be a wonderful!
Just spent two weeks away.. with no phone, and not computer. I missed conversing with a few friends.. but didn't miss it that much.
I think I will try it right from now.
I do it anyway. My generation didn't grow up with mobile communication capabilities, we grew into it. We didn't know when our phone was ringing if we were out, and we scheduled calls and had answering machines, period. Sometimes it appears rude to others but I am not always available to chat and it feels good.
I also turn off WIFI on my laptop (as I mostly write from my computer unless I'm jotting down an idea for later in a notebook).
In contrast, one of my favourite places to write is a busy cafe or park! It stimulates new ideas when I take a mini break – I see loving moments between a child and a parent, overhear intriguing snippets of conversations between lovers… I like that LIFE is happening around me while I disappear into my imagination… It gives me a sense of connection to the world and creative playfulness/spirit (God).
If I only write from home and don't spend time reaching out and connecting with people, then I sometimes feel a creeping sense of dislocation and disconnection from the world and the people I want to share these worlds with… The act of writing is often wonderful – like a warm bath or an electric shock making me want to skip along a beach – but if I remove myself from others it can become a prism of solitude and isolation. I've learnt that through my writing practices I can create my experience instead of being beholden to it. It's my choice as an artist.


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National News Roundup: Year 2, Week 40 (October 21–27)
Posted on October 30, 2018 by Kara Hurvitz
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This week's news was a poisoned pill that is very, very hard to swallow for many of us. I don't think I can do anything that makes this information easier to sit with, so instead I'm just going to tell you that I'm here for you, and so's your comfort food of choice. (Mine's ice cream, which is always here for me — until I have eaten it. Ours is a complicated friendship.)
Standard standing reminders apply: I am no journalist, though I play one in your inbox or browser, so I'm only summarizing the news within my area of expertise. This week's news contains some detailed analysis that's outside my expertise — I'm a lawyer, not an entitlement! — but all offroad adventures are marked with an asterisk. Okay, I think that's about it for the disclaimers. Onward to the news!
Constitutional Crisis Corners:
This was a frankly unprecedented week of politically-motivated violence in our country, which appears to have been partially incited by the far right. This phenomenon, particularly when Trump also blames the violence on the media, is a serious perversion of our First Amendment rights. I firmly believe this should be treated as related to other constitutional crises, and have included it in this section accordingly. Here are the three big things that happened on this front this week:
Kroger Shooting in Kentucky. A white man in Kentucky walked into a Kroger grocery store on Thursday and fatally shot two Black people who were shopping there, apparently sparing a third white shopper and telling him, "Whites don't shoot whites." Police say the man initially tried to go into a Black church, but entered the Kroger instead when he couldn't get inside. Combined with the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, detailed below, this stories make four attempted shootings at a place of worship since 2015.
Literally Explosive Political Attacks. Fourteen different liberal public figures were sent explosive bombs in six locations this week — George Soros, CNN, Robert DeNiro, James Clapper, and the Clintons all were sent one in New York; the Obamas and Maxine Waters were sent one in the DC area; Joe Biden was sent two in Delaware; Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Cory Booker were each sent one in Florida; Kamala Harris and Maxine Waters were both sent one in California; and CNN was sent a second one at their HQ in Georgia. Conservatives spent most of the week as this was unfolding making the absurd claim that the bombs were "false flags," while Trump complained that the media was somehow responsible. Eventually, police apprehended their primary suspect late last week, which you'd think would slow down the claims that this is all a liberal conspiracy but somehow hasn't. And meanwhile, the device sent to Georgia happened after the guy was in custody, so if the current suspect did send the earlier bombs, that means we either have a copycat bomber on our hands or this was the work of more than one person.
Synagogue Shooting in Pittsburgh. On Saturday, a self-avowed white nationalist walked into a synagogue called Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and fatally shot eleven people — eight Jewish members observing Shabbat services and three police officers who responded. The shooting appears to have been motivated by a combination of anti-semitism and anger at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, an organization that helps refugees immigrate to the United States. The suspect is now in custody and facing 29 charges. Trump responded to the tragedy by saying that the synagogue should have had a guard, and eventually followed this up by blaming the media (again). This suspect marks the third person arrested for a violent, hate-motivated crime this week, and the Southern Poverty Law Center observes that this type of hate is becoming an increasingly common motivation for domestic terrorism.
We also saw a couple of instances of Casual Disregard of Governing Norms this week, and neither one was especially reassuring against the backdrop above. Here are the main things to know:
"I'm A Nationalist." I can't even believe I'm typing this one, but Trump told people to call him a nationalist this past week, leaving improbable defenders like Anthony Scaramucci to claim he's just trolling us. Given Trump's reactions to all of the violence of the past week, I find myself oddly inclined to believe him over Scaramucci on this one.
China Listening In.* News broke this week that China is hacking Trump's iPhone, because he's routinely using a personal device instead of a secure one to call all his old friends (which, as you probably already guessed, completely ignores Presidential protocol). Trump's clever rebuttal to this allegation? Using his iPhone to tweet that he never uses his iPhone, because apparently he forgot that Twitter records platform information and TweetDeck users can see it. So that's this week's episode of Harry Wormwood Tries to Run A Country covered.
I'm honestly not even sure how to classify the final story in Constitutional Crisis Corner, because it's pretty much just authoritarian thuggery at work. I guess we'll call it Threats to Due Process? At any rate, here's the short version:
Julie Swetnick Is Investigated. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and apparent ghoul Chuck Grassley has referred Julie Swetnick, one of Brett Kavanaugh's accusers, to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation. For those of you playing the home game, why yes, this is the same accuser that the FBI didn't interview and the panel Republicans took time to slut-shame in the middle of the FBI investigation. Apparently nobody can be bothered to talk to her when a Supreme Court nomination is at stake, but when she has a bad TV interview it's time to get investigators involved.
Your "Normal" Weird:
Medicare Messiness. Trump offered some pretty wild theories about Medicare this week, which Forbes pretty charitably called "a stunning move" and I might more accurately describe as "a pie-in-the-sky distraction from the gross GOP platforms of removing pre-existing condition protections and blaming the deficit on entitlement programs." Thankfully, this is one narrative the Dems have no trouble staying on top of, and it seems unlikely this particular strain of gaslighting will be effective.
Census Update. The census lawsuit suffered a minor setback this week, with the Supreme Court deciding to stay discovery on Secretary Ross's state of mind until at least October 29 — or, to translate that from legalese to English: The plaintiffs don't get to ask Ross why he added a citizenship question before the actual trial. That said, this goes in the weird column instead of the bad because they denied every other request the government made, which means there will be a lot of discovery still happening. (And Gorsuch and Thomas wrote a whole opinion about how it was wrong to deny the other requests, which is how we know the government didn't truly get what they wanted.)
Dow Droppings.* The stock market continued to slide this week, ending the week at its lowest point since February 2009 — which means bad news for the economy, and given how the GOP has been reacting, potentially bad news for legislation. The shaky ground is prompting some economists to speculate that it's the beginning of our shift from bull to bear, and I'm no moneyologist but Time's suggestions for how to handle that transition seem reasonable to me. (For those of us with no investments to speak of, I recommend eating all the Halloween candy on Wednesday by like 7:00 and informing people your costume is a Bear Market.)
The Ballad of the Bad Ballots. The Missouri GOP acknowledged this week that it sent 10,000 voters the wrong absentee ballot information, falsely claiming a deadline that was a full week too early. Esquire, which appears to be painfully done with this election season as of two election seasons ago, speculates that this is how the deadline is counted in Republican Election Time — "an experimental measure of time that extends from now until the Twelfth of Never." And in Texas, early voting revealed issues with the voting machines that caused Democrats to vote for Ted Cruz and Republicans to vote for nobody. (On the plus side, at least the machines were equal opportunity saboteurs.) Meanwhile, Georgia's voting shenanigans have continued so long they've been enjoined by a federal court from throwing away any more ballots, and North Carolina is just straight-up admitting that they're trying to suppress Black votes.
Immigration Updates. Trump continues to threaten to close our southern border this week, as well as asking the Secretary of Defense to send troops down — which General Mattis went ahead and approved, and then sent more troops down today. And, of course, the misinformation campaign continues unabated, Now With Pictures. Still, the week was quieter than it could have been on this front, so I guess that's something.
Trans Discrimination Lookout (continued). In the wake of last week's New York Times article, we saw some sequel bigotry this week. Lowlight number one is Jeff Sessions is appealing a case that protected transgender people from discrimination in the workplace in the Sixth Circuit, though it's still unclear whether the Supreme Court will hear his case. And lowlight number two is Trump attempting to remove the word 'gender' from United Nations human rights documents, which would serve the same functional purpose as the internal memo, but on an international scale. Because it's 2018 and our biggest American export is "being jerks."
Gillum Gives DeSantis the Business. In a rough week like this one, it's particularly edifying to watch Florida Dem candidate Andrew Gillum, who has had to field all kinds of racist nonsense from his opponent Ro DeSantis, run rhetorical rings around the dude who has been hitting him below the belt pretty often. If you haven't yet watched the clip that's been making its Internet rounds from the Wednesday debate, I highly recommend it; it's quite edifying.
So that's what I have for this week, and I'm so, so sorry. I think it's fair to say that this week, we all deserve kittens playing in tupperware and an eventual better government. I'll be back next week with more news, and I hope you will be back as well — but in the meantime, feel free to ping the National News Roundup ask box, which is there for your constructive comments. Send me questions! Send me feedback! Send me toppings for my ice cream!
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In Tibet, a worm worth its weight in gold
Tibetan nomad Lhamotso can earn $1,000 a week during the brief season gathering caterpillar fungus. "It's only in the last two years it has gotten so expensive," she says, "It's crazy, but it is good for us. How else would I make so much money? I can't read or write."
(Jia Han / Los Angeles Times)
By Barbara Demick
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
HEITUSHAN, CHINA —
Lhamotso never learned to read and write, and she has few marketable skills other than the ability to milk a yak.
Yet she can earn up to $1,000 a week these days, an unimaginable fortune for a Tibetan nomad. With the money, she has bought herself a shiny new Honda motorcycle. She and her husband gave up their tent for a house they built themselves with solar panels, a satellite dish and television.
The worm, Lhamotso explains, "has changed our lives."
What Tibetans call the worm is actually not a worm but a fungus -- Cordyceps sinensis, to be precise -- that feeds on caterpillar larvae. Or, to give the fungus its more poetic name, "winter worm, summer grass," because its appearance changes from one to the other with the seasons.
The worm is a prized ingredient in traditional medicines here, with prices in the last few years skyrocketing to the point where prime specimens are worth their weight in gold, literally, about $900 an ounce. Even the most ordinary pickings command prices rivaling that of French truffles, another famous fungus.
Because the caterpillar fungus is indigenous only to the 1,000-mile-long Tibetan plateau running from western China to Nepal, the money has hastened the nomads' lurching transition into modernity.
"It is a bit like a gold rush in the Wild West. It's brought enormous wealth to these communities," says Andrew Fischer, an economist specializing in Tibet at the London School of Economics.
For centuries, Tibetan nomads added caterpillar fungus to their soups or tea, believing it boosted stamina, endurance, lung capacity, kidney function and, of course, sexual performance. Its use for medicinal purposes was documented as far back as the 14th century. But until recently, the fungus was cheap and abundant enough that Tibetans also would feed it to yaks and horses when their energy was flagging.
The fungus' popularity took off after the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, when Chinese female athletes stunned the world by breaking records in nine track and field events and their coach gave partial credit to an elixir containing the fungus (along with turtle blood and deer penis).
More recently, Houston Rockets basketball phenomenon Yao Ming revealed that he too is a fan of the fungus. Then came the 2003 epidemic of SARS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome, which set Asian consumers off on a frenzy of buying anything that might boost immunity.
China last year exported $43 million worth of caterpillar fungus. In China and abroad, it is touted as a treatment for everything from impotence to aging.
"Yes! Grandma & Grandpa, you may not be a world-class athlete shattering world records, but wouldn't it be great to feel like one?" claims one promoter out of Canada.
The center of the caterpillar fungus trade is in Qinghai province, particularly the Tibetan enclave of Golog. Here, the bu -- Tibetan for worm -- is by far the largest source of cash and dictates the pace of daily life. During the peak fungus hunting season, schools close down to allow children to help. People with jobs shirk work to prospect for riches.
The winding roads into the mountains are roped off with checkpoints run by police whose job is to keep out outsiders who might clash with locals. Every year, several people are killed in turf battles, often ethnically tinged, pitting Tibetans against Hui Muslims, another minority, or against Han Chinese.
The season runs for about 40 days, beginning in early spring when the snowmelt turns the mountains brown and spongy as though covered with a dirty shag carpet. Timing is crucial. If you dig too early, you get a live, wriggling caterpillar. It's best to dig just after the fungus has killed the larvae.
For practitioners of traditional medicine, it is this strange interplay between the animal and the plant kingdoms -- the yin and the yang, as it were -- that makes the caterpillar fungus such a prize.
The best caterpillar fungus is found at higher elevations, places such as Heitushan, the 14,000-foot Black Earth Mountain in Golog, where Lhamotso lives.
The climb is steep, that even a nomad used to the elevation will be huffing and puffing, so Lhamotso counts herself lucky to have the motorcycle. She and her daughters, 10 and 16, pile on and zigzag uphill in a cloud of dust until the terrain gets too rough and they must walk.
Lhamotso, who like many Tibetans goes by one name, wears traditional clothes -- black wedge-heeled lace-up shoes and an ankle-length black dress, her head swathed in pink and turquoise scarves to keep out the sun and dust. Her daughters are more modern; the younger, Hiriti, in jeans and white sneakers, scrambles energetically up the mountain, helping her mother.
Children are useful on the hunt because their sharp eyes allow them to pick the fungus out of the clumps of grass and sodden earth -- a little like finding a needle in a haystack. Although the dead caterpillar is rather unprepossessing in appearance, it's not nearly as disgusting as it sounds: sort of like a little yellow root with a stalk growing out of the top.
"It is very boring work," complains Hiriti, who just this year began fungus-hunting at 10, the same age her mother started.
Reaching into the pocket of her faux leather jacket, the girl pulls out a tissue and unwraps what looks like a 3-inch-long twig, the only piece she found all day. She will sell it for about $3, but it could command a retail price of $10 in Singapore or Tokyo.
"I think people must be insane to pay so much," Lhamotso says. "It's only in the last two years it has gotten so expensive. It's crazy, but it is good for us. How else would I make so much money? I can't read or write."
Lhamotso and the girls expect to make at least $6,000 this season -- about triple what most Chinese families earn in a year. Last year's take was enough that Lhamotso and her husband built their house, the interior wallpapered with photographs from magazines of an assortment of celebrities, movie stars, Mao Tse-tung, the Dalai Lama.
Over a stove burning dung in the center of the main room, Lhamotso boils a kettle of water to make yak-butter tea, a salty brew popular here. The television is the only appliance.
The worm has helped pay for the house, but more important, it has provided the motivation and the money for Hiriti to get an education. The family pays $30 a month in tuition at a Buddhist monastery where Hiriti studies Tibetan, Chinese, a little English and math. (Lhamotso says they can afford tuition for only one child and that her older daughter is needed to help with traditional chores such as milking yaks.)
The caterpillar fungus has made it painfully apparent to Lhamotso and her husband how crippled they are by a lack of education. Neither can speak Chinese or do basic math. So they must rely on intermediaries, many of them Muslim traders, to do the counting, weighing, calculating and marketing of their pickings.
"We need to have one person in the family who is educated," she says.
Lhamotso is well aware that fungus may not be a reliable source of income for much longer. The fungus is growing scarcer each year from over-harvesting and changes in the fragile ecosystem of the Tibetan plateau.
"When I was young, somebody could just walk out of the tent and dig 800 to 900 pieces in a day. Now we have to hike three hours up the mountain and the best we do is maybe 50 pieces," says Tsering, 38, in a straw hat who was picking one afternoon with Lhamotso and her friends.
The bottom could drop out of the market if artificially cultivated caterpillar fungus catches on in Asia, as it has in the U.S., where much of the supply is cultivated. Many people believe that the prices for caterpillar fungus are ridiculously high and that the bubble will burst soon.
"It is expensive because it is rare and it is rare because it is over-exploited," says Lin Zhibin, a pharmacology expert at Peking University Health Science Center.
Another concern is that the relentless digging on the mountains is contributing to soil erosion and desertification that keeps a perpetual cloud of dust swirling around Golog.
Although the caterpillar fungus has given the nomads a financial boost, Tibetan intellectuals remain ambivalent about its benefits to society as a whole.
"It is not good for the environment or for building harmonious society," says Tseten Dargye, a Tibetan educator and a physician in Dawu, one of Golog's main towns. "People have become territorial. There are a lot of fights between family and friends and the possibility of corruption."
The real problem is that Tibetans themselves have become used to the easy money and the creature comforts it buys -- the motorized transit, the houses, the televisions.
"People can't go backwards. For years, it's been like digging up gold, but more valuable," says Daodu, 31, a teacher. "People today can't survive without it."
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Barbara Demick is New York correspondent of the Los Angeles Times, formerly head of the bureaus in Beijing and Seoul. She is the author of "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" and "Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood." Demick has won Britain's Samuel Johnson Award for best nonfiction; the George Polk Award; the Robert F. Kennedy Award; the Osborn Elliott Prize for Journalism from the Asia Society; the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for human rights reporting; the American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Award; and Stanford University's Shorenstein Award for best Asia reporting. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Finishing up the Texas leg of the Hell-On tour, Neko Case, joined by opening act Jennifer Castle, made her way to the Granada Theater on Saturday night. These two Americana folk-rock acts brought a calm, positive energy to a gloomy and rainy night in Dallas.
Jennifer Castle @ The Granada Theater. Photo by Lauren Frederick.
At approximately 10:10pm, the long awaited for Neko Case and her six-man band took the stage. Kicking off her marathon of a set with "Pitch or Honey," the crowd roared out with excitement. Neko blazed through the set, spending little time chatting with the crowd, probably due to the insane amount of songs they were intending to play; however, the crowd was still engaged and were laughing along to every little joke the band made, and with the conclusion of each song the crowd cheered louder.
Having seven people on stage is seemingly an ambitious feat; however, each instrument and voice blended together beautifully and flawlessly, with each instrument also standing out and being highlighted in a very purposeful and intelligent way. The set, peaking with "Curse of the I-5 Corridor," brought out an impressive light show and equally awesome instrumental breaks. The lights organically ebbed and flowed with the energy of this long song. Only about half way through the set, Case had the fans engaged and loving every second of the night. Although the set was long, it didn't seem long enough because after it was over, fans had to reluctantly go back out into the gloomy weather from which they came.
After seeing Neko Case live, it's no wonder she has had a very long and successful career and acquired so many fans across the globe. And after last night, she has gained one more fan in me. Neko Case continues her tour across North America and Canada into the spring. Check out the list of tour dates below and be sure to give her new album Hell-On a listen.


The next day was one of those days that starts out gray and cloudy and only becomes grayer and cloudier as it goes along, until eventually one begins to wish it would just rain already and get it over with instead of hanging about threatening all the time.
Jane felt unaccountably dull and restless, Martha's mood was similarly bleak, and Mrs. Lloyd awakened with a cold in her head that seemed to have come on her overnight. The apothecary was duly sent for, and though he reported that there was nothing in her condition to alarm, the mood in Ibthorpe House remained as dreary as the weather.
This cheerless atmosphere seemed unlikely to be improved by a late-morning visit from the Miss Debarys. As it turned out, however, they had come to deliver an invitation to dine at the parsonage the following day. And while an evening in the company of the endless Debarys was not generally an occasion to excite much enthusiasm on Jane's part, as it further turned out, Sir Thomas and his friend Dr. Smith had been extended the same invitation.
The weather persisted in its gloomy cast the next day, which saw Mrs. Lloyd's condition not at all improved. Martha was reluctant to dine away from home with her mother feeling poorly, but Mrs. Lloyd was vehement that she would be just fine and the girls should by all means go without her. Jane was silently relieved, as she had been looking forward to continuing her acquaintance with the peculiar Dr. Smith.
And so at the appointed time, Jane Austen and Martha Lloyd presented themselves at the parsonage, and were received with great cordiality by the Rev. Mr. Debary and his wife; with somewhat less cordiality by their disagreeable son Peter; and with much giggling and twittering on the part of their three extremely silly daughters, Mary, Sally and Susan. Of Sir Thomas or Dr. Smith there was as yet no sign, but Jane could not bring herself to ask if they were still expected.
The conversation quickly turned to Peter's new curacy, as conversation so often seemed to do in the young gentleman's presence. Mr. Debary spoke with pride of his son's dedication to his parish and the many hours now devoted to Eversley, while Mrs. Debary expressed a motherly wish that Peter were more often at home in Ibthorpe, "for his company is so desirable to us all." This last was said with a meaningful look in Jane's direction.
She was fortunately saved the trouble of feigning agreement by the arrival of Sir Thomas and Dr. Smith. The wind had been rising throughout the afternoon and the first fat drops of rain had finally worked up the wherewithal to fall, in consequence of which both men entered the drawing room looking windblown and somewhat damp. Jane could not help observing that the influence of the elements seemed to lend an improvement to Dr. Smith's boyish looks.
Now that the whole party were arrived the doors were thrown open to admit them into the dining parlor, which had been appointed with abundance and elegance for the occasion. Jane was not at all surprised to find herself seated beside Peter and at some distance from Dr. Smith, whose attention was very much taken up by the rapturous addresses of the three Debary girls.
She listened dispassionately as Peter embarked upon a lengthy description of the gardens surrounding his abode in Eversley, until Mr. Debary, sitting on Jane's other side, inquired after the absent Mrs. Lloyd's health.
"Nevertheless, I hope that Mr. Bromley the apothecary been called," said Mrs. Debary fretfully.
"Mr. Bromley has seen her and proscribed nothing stronger than dandelion tea for her affliction," said Martha.
"He seemed to want her to have a sore throat and to go down with a fever but she has stubbornly refused to do either," added Jane.
"If that woman died of heart failure then I'm the Queen of Cucamonga," declared Dr. Smith.
This startling utterance won him the full and immediate attention of everyone in the room. The doctor, seemingly oblivious to the rapt audience he now commanded, continued to shovel spoonfuls of soup into his mouth like a man coming off a week-long fast. The growl of distant thunder filled the silence, accompanied by the sound of the rain rattling against the windows.
"Pray, tell us what you mean," prodded Sir Thomas finally.
"That's two," said Dr. Smith, holding up the appropriate number of digits.
"There was a lodger of Mr. Crabbe's who died mysteriously in his sleep at the weekend!" cried Sir Thomas, getting quite into the spirit.
"Three," intoned Dr. Smith, holding up a third finger.
"That poor man at the dairy was kicked in the head by a mule!" cried Susan.
Lightning flashed outside, briefly lighting up the room, followed by a low rumble of thunder.
"And how would you know such a thing?" demanded Peter.
As if to drive home the ominous nature of this revelation, there was another flash of lightning attended by a deafening crash of thunder, which rattled the windows and shook the very walls of the parsonage. All three Debary girls started violently and cried out in fright, their mother looked as if she might faint dead away, and even Martha, Jane noticed, seemed somewhat alarmed. Jane herself couldn't help feeling uneasy as she thought of dear Mrs. Lloyd abed with a cold.
"My sincere apologies," said Dr. Smith, looking neither sincere nor apologetic.
Mr. Debary turned purposefully to Sir Thomas. "Tell me, Sir Thomas, how do you like that little black pointer you acquired last month? She looks a fine specimen, but is she steady to wing and shot?" And with that the conversation was firmly steered to more mundane topics, and on such trivialities it remained for the balance of the meal.


The 2017 EWS International presented by Infinity and Sweep got underway on Friday evening, with three rounds of optional free practice to allow the 130 entries to acclimatise themselves to the new track layout. The track, designed by race announcer Oli Meggitt and realised by Richard King and the EWS track team, features a huge area of 34×24 metres and the unique EWS corner kerbs. Commenting on the track layout, recently crowned EWS Series champion Elliott Harper noted that there was a "good variety of corners" and expected this to lead to some "close times throughout practice and qualifying".
Making his first racing visit tot he UK, current Touring Car World Champion made full use of the practice opportunities, getting faster each round until he topped the time sheets with the three quickest consecutive laps by the end of the evening. Describing the track layout simply as "good", he also noted that the unique corners took him some time to get used to, but jokingly was more concerned that he "did not bring any shorts to a race in England" – the hall temperatures reaching a warm 25 degrees in as the racers ran their practice sessions.
The event continues on Saturday with three rounds of Controlled Practice, to seed the qualifying heats, before the important task of qualifying begins in the afternoon.


This is what we call "hard work" around the Mean Girl Desert Retreat- relaxing in a hammock and demanding that a slave-loser worships our feet. Oh, and using another slave to film it, edit it, and post it so we can make more $$$ off of us relaxing and being literally WORSHIPED! Whatta a tough life...LOL.


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magazine subscriptions, hire purchase and rental companies?
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• Returning library books.• Canceled milk, newspapers, subscriptions.• Found new homes for your plants.
• Emptied the tanks of powered tools such as mowers.
medication for at least two weeks,and ensure you have copies of any necessary prescriptions for use at destination.
• Collected travelers checks or local currency.• Arranged for someone to look after the children on moving day.
donated to charity. Consider a garage sale.
ammunition. It's best to use them up or give them away before you move. Propane tanks must be emptied as well as lawnmower fuel tanks.
magazines to which you subscribe. Note: You must fill out a change-of-address form for each person receiving mail at your address.
other things you've borrowed. Collect things you've loaned, and items in layaway, cold storage, etc.
sheet for the new owners.
fluids, acids, caustic drain cleaners, etc.
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Q: Flatten JSON List to Nested Structure I have a list of flatten json objects. I want to parse and form a nested json structure.
Below is the list of flattened JSON objects:
     [
      {
        "seId" : "35EB8012",
        "snumber" : 1,
        "department" : 1,
        "jId" : "1",
        "width": 576,
        "depth": 18,
        "height": 78
     },
     {
        "seId" : "35EB8012",
        "snumber" : 1,
        "department" : 1,
        "jId" : "1",
        "width": 132,
        "depth": 18,
        "height": 60
      },
      {
       "seId" : "45EA8012",
       "snumber" : 2,
       "department" : 2,
       "jId" : "1",
       "width": 132,
       "depth": 18,
       "height": 60
      }
    ]

I want to form a nested json structure.
  { "stats" : [ {
    "seId" : "35EB8012",
    "jobOutPut" : [
    {
            "jId" : "1",
           [ {
            "snumber" : 1,
            "deparment" : 1,
            "placement" : [{
                "width" : 576,
                "depth" : 18,
                "height" : 78
            },{
                "width" : 132,
                "depth" : 80,
                "height" : 60
            }
             }
            ],

            }
        }
    }
      ]
     }, {
         "seId" : "45EA8012",
          "jobOutPut" : [
         {
            "jId" : "20",
            {
            "snumber" : 2,
            "deparment" : 2,
            "placement" : [{
                "width" : 132,
                "depth" : 80,
                "height" : 60}
            ]
           }
          }
         }
         ]
        }
      ]
      }

I tried pandas group by but not able to form the inner lists. Here I tried grouping the list based on seid. But I am not getting the inner list.
   stats = pd.DataFrame(arraylist)
   stats_df = strategy_result.groupby(by=['seId']).agg(list)

I need to group on 3 fields (seId), (jId), (snumber, department)

A: I think you need:
import json
df = pd.DataFrame(arraylist)

f = lambda x: x.to_dict('records')
df = df.groupby(['seId','snumber','department','jId'])[['width','depth','height']].apply(f).reset_index(name='placement')
df = df.groupby(['seId','jId'])[['snumber','department','placement']].apply(f).reset_index(name='new')
df = df.groupby('seId')[['jId','new']].apply(f).reset_index(name='jobOutPut')

d = json.dumps({"stats" : df.to_dict('records')})

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Xinhua News Agency
Tigrayan forces announce retreat
By Xinhua News Agency , People Daily Digital
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 09:00 | 2 mins read
The TPLF said its withdrawal was to open the door for humanitarian aid donors to access the region. Photo/COURTESY
Addis Ababa, Tuesday
Tigrayan forces fighting the central government say they have withdrawn from neighbouring regions in northern Ethiopia, a step towards a possible ceasefire after 13 months of brutal war.
"We trust that our bold act of withdrawal will be a decisive opening for peace," wrote Debretsion Gebremichael, the head of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the political party controlling most of the northern region of Tigray, in a letter to the United Nations on Monday.
No-fly zone
His letter called for a no-fly zone for hostile aircraft over Tigray, imposing arms embargoes on Ethiopia and its ally Eritrea, and a UN mechanism to verify that external armed forces had withdrawn from Tigray.
The conflict erupted in November 2020 between the federal government and the TPLF, which dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly 30 years before Prime Minister Abiy came to power in 2018.
Abiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, promised a swift victory. His troops seized Tigray's capital, Mekelle, in late November but by June, the Tigrayan forces had launched a counterattack that saw them retake much of their region and expand fighting into the neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions.
At the end of November, the Ethiopian military began an offensive that pushed the advancing Tigrayan forces back hundreds of kilometres.
Troops pullout
Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the TPLF, said the Tigrayan troops were pulling out of Amhara and Afar.
"We decided to withdraw from these areas to Tigray. We want to open the door to humanitarian aid," Getachew said.
"We are not interested in taking over the province of Afar. We are not interested in squeezing a hard bargain in Addis Ababa," he continued, adding: "We are only interested in ensuring that the siege that was ruthlessly imposed on our people is broken."
The decision to retreat to Tigray was made a few weeks ago, Getachew said, later tweeting: "We have just completed the withdrawal of our forces from both #Amhara&#Afar regions."
But Abiy's spokeswoman Billene Seyoum said the announcement was a cover-up for military setbacks.
"The TPLF have sustained great losses over the past weeks and hence are claiming 'strategic retreat' to make up for defeat," she told AFP.
"There are still pockets in the Amhara region in which they remain as well as other fronts they are attempting to open the conflict." - Xinhua
Gabon kit man arrested after Afcon return over sex abuse allegations
Former Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies aged 76
Breakthrough as David Bennett receives pig heart
Omicron ruins hope for Xmas boom


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Q: My Carousel Materialize doesn't work. I'm using latest version 1.0.0 My problem is my carousel didn't show up. It appears just white like there's nothing.
This is my html code for carousel materialize.. It is from their site http://materializecss.com/carousel.html

              button

First Panel

This is your first panel

Second Panel

This is your second panel

Third Panel

This is your third panel

Fourth Panel

This is your fourth panel

And here's my javascript for the carousel that also a code from their site and it's located at the bottom of my body tag.
var instance = M.Carousel.init({
fullWidth: true});

// Or with jQuery

$('.carousel.carousel-slider').carousel({
fullWidth: true
});

To be specific, here's my links for my materialize and js.
<link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "materialize/css/materialize.css">
<link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "materialize/css/materialize.min.css">
<link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "css/style.css">

A: You need to select the carousel element
var elems = document.querySelectorAll('.carousel');
and then pass it as parameter when you initialize it.
var instances = M.Carousel.init(elems, options);


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Kościeniewicze – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie bialskim, w gminie Piszczac.

W latach 1809–1954 miejscowość była siedzibą gminy Kościeniewicze. W latach 1954–1968 wieś należała i była siedzibą władz gromady Kościeniewicze, po jej zniesieniu w gromadzie Piszczac. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa bialskopodlaskiego. Według Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego (III 2011 r.) liczyła 352 mieszkańców i była szóstą co do wielkości miejscowością gminy Piszczac. Przez miejscowość przepływa Lutnia, niewielka rzeka dorzecza Bugu, dopływ Zielawy.

Siedzibę w miejscowości ma erygowana w 1930 r. rzymskokatolicka parafia  pod wezwaniem NMP Królowej Polski. Funkcję kościoła parafialnego pełni dawna cerkiew unicka z  XVII w., następnie zamieniona na prawosławną. We wsi znajduje się również cmentarz parafialny.

W 1922 w Kościeniewiczach urodził się Bohdan Kosiński, zaś w 1944 – Bogdan Chazan.

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The Changing Concepts of the Body in the British Bronze Age
On Wednesday January 14, 2015
Joanna Bruck, University of Bristol
Dr. Brűck's talk challenged the idea that Bronze Age grave goods reflect the status and prestige of a person and used the examples of the Bush Barrow and the Amesbury Archer. She suggested that we assume that all grave goods express wealth and status, but gave examples that it this is not necessarily the case, using the example of a child burial at Barrow Hills, Oxon. where 3 bronze rings were recovered. The rings would have been too large for the 5 year old child that was buried and Dr. Brűck suggested that the rings were gifts from mourners and that these gifts were a link between the living and the dead. She put forward the view that grave goods may come from different sources and, therefore, do not necessarily belong to the corpse.
Another example from Barrow Hills is an adult burial with a group of objects that suggest leather working. Close family members could have put the leather working objects into the grave and their function does not necessarily reflect that of the deceased. The presence of a Bronze Age razor suggests an adult male, but it should perhaps be regarded as a funerary object in its own right. Razors were used to prepare a corpse and for shaving the heads of the mourners. The Amesbury Archer has his objects carefully arranged around him in a sort of micro-geography of the mourners' status.
We learnt that Beaker burials are not always individual burials, some are double ones and some have cremations and child inhumations added. There are disarticulated burials, Eg. the Boscombe Bowmen where one of the bowmen has hand bones missing. Under him are two bundles of disarticulated bones. This suggests that the burials were re-opened and bones removed and sorted, as in the Neolithic.
The fragmentation of human remains was put forward as a way of creating an heirloom that allowed relatives to keep parts of the dead for themselves. Although this idea is abhorrent to us today, it was common practice in the Bronze Age. By the Middle Bronze age cremation is the dominant practice, with few grave goods. There is evidence of the deliberate breaking of pots, which are then deposited in graves. This produces ancestral relics, which could be put in later burials.
We know little of how the dead were disposed of in the Late Bronze Age, but odd fragments of human bone are found in marginal or liminal locations, i.e. on the edge of a ringwork, or entrance to a settlement, Eg. South Hornchurch, Essex, or at the entrance to a roundhouse, as if it marks a boundary between social space. At Flag Fen near the platform and causeway, human remains have been deliberately deposited. At Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, Moray, there are children's mandibles deposited at the cave entrance. They may have fallen off skulls and placed in the liminal space between the outside world and the entrance to the cave.


Approximately 700,000 people have surgery to remove their gallbladders annually, according to 2004 estimates by the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Your doctor may prescribe a low-fat diet for you after surgery to promote healthy digestion during the recovery phase. A low-fat diet calls for reduced intake of eggs. Discuss your diet with your doctor if you have questions.
The main function of the gallbladder is to store and excrete bile, which is essential for the digestion and absorption of fats. The liver produces bile, which is concentrated and stored in the gallbladder, and then excreted into the small intestine where it aids in the digestion of food. When the gallbladder is removed, the bile that enters the small intestine is less concentrated, which may cause fat indigestion, malabsorption and abdominal pain. A low-fat diet that minimizes eggs and high-fat foods can alleviate discomfort and promote healthy digestion. Most people can gradually progress from a low-fat diet to a regular diet over time.
One egg contains approximately 4.5 grams of fat, or approximately 10 percent of the daily fat intake recommended on a low-fat diet after gallbladder removal. The amount of fat allowed on a low-fat diet varies, but the typical fat allowance is 40 to 60 grams of fat per day. The amount of fat in an egg may be difficult for you to tolerate following gallbladder removal surgery, or too high for you to incorporate into your daily fat allowance.
You can eat eggs in moderation on a low-fat diet. You can likely tolerate up to three eggs per week, prepared only with fat from your fat allowance, or no more than one egg per day. Egg whites and fat-free egg substitutes are better choices when following a low-fat meal plan after gallbladder removal.
If you are following a low-fat diet and enjoy eggs daily, try combining one whole egg with several egg whites or fat-free egg substitute so you can enjoy your eggs while staying with your daily fat allowance. To further reduce fat intake, use fat-free cooking sprays on pans instead of butter, margarine or oil. Replace whole milk in egg recipes with skim milk or water.
The type of diet your doctor prescribes after surgical removal of the gallbladder is based on your individual needs, including past medical history and type of surgery. Unnecessarily limiting fats in your diet may place you at risk for nutritional deficiencies. Always consult with your physician before starting a new dietary plan.
Krause's Food, Nutrition, & Diet Therapy; L. Kathleen Mahan, MS, RD, CDE, et al.


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Mr. Perkins has been involved in successful entrepreneurial endeavors for more than forty years. After receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1961, he worked for IBM and Price Waterhouse, before beginning the first of his entrepreneurial efforts covering over 35 years with Revco, Calumet Photographic, Cambo Photographic, PhotoMarketplace, Americare Health Services, Americare Group Purchasing and Atlantic Medical Supply. In the fall of 2000 Mr. Perkins was introduced to Fresh Roast Systems and in May 2001 Mr. Perkins funded the company with equity and a secured loan, and in September of 2003 he assumed management of the company.
Mr. Weisberg attended Lehigh University, majoring in Marketing and International Relations. He began his career in strategic consulting and systems integration with Coopers & Lybrand and Weatherby Associates servicing clients including Citicorp, Banker's Trust, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Hoffman LaRoche, MCI, Manufacturers Hanover, Chase and Fleet Financial. Mr. Weisberg has also served as a partner in the private equity firm, Willard Equities where he founded and served as President/CEO of VSoft Corporation and Group 32 Development & Engineering, Inc. which was subsequently acquired by Perkins & Associates, with whom Mr. Weisberg has worked for the past eight (8) years. In 2003 Group 32 received the assets of Fresh Roast Systems, Inc from Perkins & Associates and Mr. Weisberg was appointed VP and General Manager.
Mr. Kuo has his undergraduate degrees in applied mathematics and electrical engineering from Northwestern University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. Before joining Fresh Roast Systems, he held the position of systems engineer at Johnson Space Center on the International Space Station program, and at BAE Systems on the Army's next-generation medical vehicle. He has also worked as a software consultant at Innolume, where he designed and developed a program to calculate the different properties of an arbitrary optical network.
Mr. Perkins graduated from Northwestern University in 1985 with a BS degree, having majored in electrical engineering. His areas of specialization included lasers, laser diodes, semiconductor device physics, as well as digital communications. He has held positions with Motorola in their ASIC's Group, where he worked in integrated circuit design as well as Iomega, Hewlett Packard and more recently with Qwest. In 2003, he joined Fresh Roast Systems, where he has been involved with the enhancement of several technologies related to the company's automated ventless coffee roasting machine.
Fred Perkins attended Lake Forest College, after which he entered the U.S. Marine Corp. in 1981. He spent roughly fifteen years with MicroAge Corporation, where he became an expert in the computer networking field. Mr Perkins has also held network engineering and support positions at Wyle Systems, Inc. and following an acquisition, Arrow Electronics. Mr. Perkins joined Fresh Roast Systems in 2003. Mr. Perkins is also a graduate of the world renowned Willem Boot Coffee Training Program.
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Hi. I'm Christian. I never thought I'd be involved in missions work someday. I thought that stuff was best left to the professionals.
Hi. I'm Christian. I never thought I'd be involved in missions work someday. I thought that stuff was best left to the professionals. I'm from America and in my town there was a church on practically every corner. I had no reason to think that it wasn't like that everywhere else in the world.
It wasn't until I took a short-term missions trip with Envision that I realized that not everybody has the same kind of access to the gospel as we are privileged to have.
It didn't take long for me to fall in love with the place—the music, the food, the culture, —but especially the people. They were a lot like you and me. They had plans for the future; they valued family and education, and having a good time.
But I couldn't help but notice the overwhelming need. I can't explain to you the brokenness I saw all around me. There was the physical poverty of contaminated drinking water and malnutrition. But there was also the spiritual poverty of having absolutely no hope.
I was shaken to my core.
If you were to knock on doors in the U.S., it would take about six tries before someone answered who could tell you how to have a relationship with Jesus. In places like post-modern Europe, that number is closer to 1 in 500 doors. In parts of the world where there is no access to the gospel, it's a staggering 1 in 30,000 doors!
I began to realize that I had taken my privileged access to the gospel for granted. I'd never even thought about this "access divide" that I had just witnessed and was feeling more and more compelled to bring this access to people who are lost without it—lost in a system of religion that binds people into submission; lost in the discord of deities and idols; lost in a belief that we are alone in this world, that human enlightenment is the path to truth, and that our own works will determine whether we get to go to heaven or not.
The Bible says in Romans chapter 10, "how can people call for help if they don't know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?"
I mean, what would this place be like if Jesus' name could be declared publically? What if these people truly understood what He did for them and why He did it?
That was it for me. I was so overwhelmed by the grace I received for my own salvation, I knew I had to share the same grace with those who don't have any access to it. Many of us share the call to send workers into the harvest field. But my family and I were called to go.
We left our friends and family and careers and now we're in language study in a country where it's not exactly safe to talk about Jesus openly, that is, until we first earn the trust of those around us. We are doing much more than just declaring the gospel message. We're living it out through our actions by serving our adopted community. Otherwise, we can't speak in ways they'll really hear us.
We spend our time building friendships with our new neighbors so that they might start asking about the reason for our hope. And of course, we'll be happy to tell them!
So, here we are! And you know– there are many others in The Alliance who are willing to answer the call, just like us, to create access to the gospel in places where Jesus' Name is not known.
I'm Christian and this is my story.
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5SOS' New Song 'Youngblood' Is An Absolute 'Monster,' According To Niall Horan
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During a concert in Stockholm, Sweden, last month, 5 Seconds of Summer performed a new song called "Youngblood" for the very first time. Guitarist Michael Clifford introduced it by telling the crowd, "This next song embodies everything that the third record is gonna be." On Friday (April 13), the studio version of "Youngblood" finally arrived, and if what Clifford said is true, then the band's upcoming third album is looking mighty promising.
"Youngblood" (no, it's not a Green Day cover) begins as a slow, simmering reflection of the push and pulls of a relationship, before exploding into a synth-pop banger on the chorus. As the song keeps building, frontman Luke Hemmings gets increasingly bitter, snarling, "So who you been calling, baby? Nobody could take my place / When you looking at those strangers, hope to God you see my face."
5SOS' buddy Niall Horan called the new song a "monster" with five exclamation points — listen below and decide for yourself if you agree.
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"Youngblood" follows 5SOS' March comeback single, "Want You Back," which signaled a big sonic change for the Aussie band. Speaking about their new, more pop-friendly sound, Luke Hemmings said, "We had to move forward and test our songwriting and progress. It was the greatest thing we could do — we were hungry for something new and exciting. It felt like starting the band again!"
5SOS 2.0 will drop their third album, also titled Youngblood, on June 22.


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CARPEC – The Agricultural Cooperative, of Carmo do Paranaíba – Brazil. Its Located in Cerrado Mineiro region, which has the perfect conditions to produce high-quality coffees.
The Cooperative was founded on February 28, 1965, and have been more than 50 years strengthening the cooperativism of the region. Besides coffee, producers of dairy and beef cattle, corn, coffee, soybeans, and beans are supported as well, and today Co-op counts with about 1700 members, and 400 of them are coffee producers.
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School Improvement Plan. The Strategic Plan will Our Vision. Each school will submit an annual report to the Office of Catholic Schools with an update of the progress made regarding the school's strategic plan. The result of a broadly inclusive and consultative process. With this in mind, our School Council has developed a Strategic Plan to ensure that we are setting a vision for our children and following through on our goals. It provides a focus for dialogue about school improvement between the people who work there. We hope that this plan is more than just a list of strategies, but a living document that grows and develops with our … The new Strategic Plan is the final product of our Strategic Planning process and that feedback. Strategic planning in a school is different from others because there are no markets to explore, products to produce, clients to … Beliefs – An expression of fundamental values, ethical code, overriding convictions, inviolable principles. A summary of your strategic plan with strategic objectives, goals and action items. In 2010, Trinity launched a comprehensive strategic planning process, its first in two decades. Strategic Plan Impact The Strategic Plan for 2016-2021 aligns with the vision, mission and core beliefs of St. Johns County School District and is focused on four overarching goals supported in five strategy areas; Academic and Student Services, Operations, Community Relations, Human Resources and Superintendent and School Board. The vision of Suffolk Public Schools is that all students will become life-long learners equipped with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to succeed as productive citizens in a local, national and global society. The following School Improvement Plan describes the current status of Sample Christan School and provides a five year plan to ensure the school's viability in the future. commit to an exemplary performance and development culture of openness, reflection and trust. Strategic Plan. Our school must continually be nurtured and renewed. Failure in strategic planning can be disastrous. Church One-Click Strategic Plan A comprehensive report from mission through action items & includes SWOT, scorecard, roadmap & budget. GPS Strategic Plan 2015-2020 . School Profile Purpose The concept of a vision for a school has been demonstrated to be an essential characteristic in the school improvement and effectiveness research over several decades and across a wide range of education systems. What the District will accomplish by the end of the five-year strategic plan. Strategic Plan SMS Strategic Plan Cornerstones and Pillars Guided by the St. Monica Catholic Advisory Council, the Strategic Planning process was designed to be highly collaborative, involving Diocesan administrators, faculty, staff from both the school and the parish, student,s and parents. The School Strategic Plan is an essential component of the Department's School Accountability and Improvement Framework and provides a means for the school to clearly identify and communicate how the school is working to improve outcomes for its students. Strategic Plan (2014-2019) The following five-year Strategic Plan is organized into six sections: • Catholic Identity* • Program Excellence • Faculty/Staff Excellence the school's strategic plan. The priorities are linked to the key areas of: Achievement, Teaching & Learning, Behaviour & Leadership. It is informed by consultation with students, staff, parents and carers, and engagement with the broader community including relevant community agencies and … See examples from schools across the country. assure all students access to a broad, balanced and flexible 21st Century curriculum including skills for learning and life. 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The Kent School District strategic plan, Blueprint: Leaning Forward Together 2016-2021, is designed to respond to primary stakeholder priorities with a mission, vision, theory of action, goals, metrics, and core values driven by research and best-we-know practices. Actions to be completed by District and Site staff. Creating a school strategic plan can be tedious and challenging especially considering the number of stakeholders that must take part in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation processes of the document. School Strategic Plan Ipswich High School has set out an ambitious five-year plan that aims to establish clear organisational goals, reflecting the new vision for the school as we embark on the journey to a Diamond Model education for boys and girls. By September 15, 2012 Appropriate Administrators Present the strategic plan to staff. 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Taking Stance in English as a Lingua Franca
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Maicol Formentelli, "Taking Stance in English as a Lingua Franca"
2017 | ISBN-10: 1443886386 | 230 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English is undoubtedly the lingua franca of global communication and plays a major role in the internationalisation of universities, where it is increasingly being used as the medium of instruction. The use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in higher education has spread at different speeds throughout Europe over recent decades, with Nordic and central-western countries leading the way and the regions of southern Europe lagging behind. In Italy, English-taught programmes are a rather new and emerging phenomenon which needs to be empirically investigated to uncover the complex mechanisms of classroom interaction in this foreign language. The present volume focuses on one aspect of ELF academic exchanges that is deemed crucial in the transmission of knowledge in the educational setting, namely the management of interpersonal relations and the expression of interpersonal stance in the classroom. To this end, a model has been developed along the four dimensions of formality, power, social distance and respect, and has been applied to the analysis of a corpus of ELF lectures recorded in an Italian university. The examination of naturally occurring ELF lectures reveals a complex combination of linguistic strategies that lecturers exploit at the macro-level of discourse (interpersonal episodes) and at the micro-level of lexis and morpho-syntax (direct questions, comprehension checks, imperatives, personal pronouns, and terms of address) to express interpersonal meanings and build rapport with their students, in response to specific expressive and communicative requirements brought about by ELF academic interaction.
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Stevie Lopez with her Brandman degree and AVID students at 2017 South San Joaquin Valley Commencement.
Stevie Lopez beams like a proud parent when talking about her AVID students at Tulare Western High School in Tulare, California. She has been with them for the past three years, starting when they were freshmen. The AVID program (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a college readiness program that helps students develop skills they need to be successful in college. Most AVID students are aspiring first-generation college students without support to pursue college. Lopez can relate to her students because she was once an AVID student at the very same high school where she now teaches.
As a first-generation college student, Lopez's path to a degree was not a straight line. She left Tulare to attend Fresno State University. Then, an opportunity for a softball scholarship took her to Alcorn State University in Mississippi. Degree program changes at Alcorn led her back to Fresno where she completed her bachelor degree.
Back home in Tulare, Lopez worked at the front desk of a hotel while substitute teaching in elementary schools on the side. Both jobs made her realize that the hospitality industry and elementary education were not where she was meant to be. Encouraged by a colleague, Lopez went back to school at Brandman University to get her single-subject teaching credential and Master of Arts in Teaching to begin teaching at the high school level. Lopez graduated this May and participated in the Visalia commencement ceremony with some of her AVID students looking on.
How did going back to school help you and your career?
There are definite financial advantages to getting a master's degree. You have the ability to max out on the pay scale. Initially, this was a motivator for me, but once I got into my master's program and saw how I could apply what I was learning in my classroom, it wasn't about the money so much. I had my most successful school year in 2016 during the last year of my program. I could directly see the benefit of what I was learning for my students.
One of my colleagues, Krishna Adams, encouraged me to pursue my single subject credential so that I could teach at the high school level. It was her encouragement that pushed me to go back to school.
My academic advisor Jonathan Brooks was a great support system. He was my advisor throughout my master's program and he took the time to learn about me personally so we could make the best schedule to accommodate my life.
My parents have been a constant source of inspiration. I am a first-generation college student. My parents have always shown me how to work hard whether it was working in the fields, as a truck driver or at the local grocery store. They inspired me to work hard and do more.
That it is never too late! No matter how many obstacles are in the way, it is never too late. I was 25 without a stable career but I kept moving toward my dream. We are given our own paths for a reason. I now get to inspire kids every day. I can be a supporter and motivator for students who don't have that in their lives.
The workload surprised me. I had to remind myself that I am in graduate school. I can't miss a class and I have to put in the work. Initially, it was more work than expected.
Nothing really, because I think I kind of figured it out. By the time I got to grad school, I had a plan. I had to juggle work, school and personal life. It was tough to manage my time, but I don't think I could have done anything different to make my experience any more enjoyable.
My students motivated me while I finished school. I reminded my students that I was in school, too. I wanted them to know I was in the same boat. At graduation, many of my AVID students came to cheer me on, which was so rewarding to me.
Stevie Lopez, right, enjoying the Alumni event, a Padres game in San Diego.


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How to travel Singapore on a student budget
Daniel Clark at Loughborough University
The island city-state Singapore has earned a reputation for being lavish and expensive. Most recently featured as the setting for Crazy Rich Asians and known as the kind of destination where it is easy to splash out a few hundred Singapore dollars on a meal in a Michelin-starred restaurant, many students assume that it is impossible to travel Singapore on a budget. Since moving to Singapore six months ago, I have discovered that this assessment is wholly wrong.
While it involves some trial and error, exploring Singapore on a student budget is possible if you know how.
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If one thing is for certain, the Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) is a student's best friend. The MRT is clean, reliable and, best of all, cheap as chips.
MRT trains require you to purchase an EZ-Link card for roughly $12. However, $5 of this price is a refundable deposit and the remainder is your credit usable for transit. $7 goes a surprisingly long way since journeys lasting approximately one hour often cost only $1.80.
The MRT system is extremely extensive so it can take you almost anywhere in the city. Just make sure you do not drink or eat on the trains, or you will face a big fine.
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Taxis in Singapore are fairly expensive but they can be useful for returning home following a boozy night out in the city or as a mode of transportation from the airport to a hotel. If, like me, you prefer not to spend two hours on the MRT after a 14-hour flight from the UK, taxis are an ideal option. Since Singapore is relatively small, taxis can take you from one end of the island to the other in approximately 40 to 50 minutes.
The only problem with taxi companies in Singapore is the surcharge which is levied after midnight especially in prominent locations like Marina Bay Sands or Changi Airport. This is why I recommend using Grab, Singapore's version of Uber, which is a good deal cheaper. The Grab app will tell you the exact fare and it lets you track the nearest rides.
Popular tourist activities in Singapore include the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest in Gardens by the Bay, in addition to the theme park Universal Studios.
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These top attractions are generally more expensive, so it may suit students to make the most of free activities too.
Walking around Gardens by the Bay is free, as are the daily lightshows at 7.45pm and 8.45pm. The Marina Bay Sands lightshows are also free, running between 8 and 9pm Sunday to Thursday and at intervals of 8pm, 9pm and 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
Other free attractions include the Marina Barrage dam, the Botanic Gardens, and the iconic Merlion statue. For an active day out, the MacRitchie TreeTop Walk gives views of monkeys or you may prefer a leisurely stroll in Fort Canning Park or the Chinese and Japanese gardens. On a sunny day, head to the Sentosa beaches: Palawan, Siloso and Tanjong. Prepare for expensive food by bringing your own.
Chinatown. Image credit: Daniel Clark
There are certain attractions such as the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) and the National Gallery which offer significant discounts for foreign students. The ACM cuts the price by 50% and the National Gallery by 25%. Local exchange students, if they have a valid student pass, get in free.
You can also visit the cultural hubs of Singapore including Chinatown, Arab Street and Little India for free. These streets offer authentic experiences in their respective cultures, offering a vast array of cheap and tasty food.
For club nights, ladies can make the most of free entry and drinks on Wednesday nights.
Singapore's culinary reputation is globally recognised due to its huge variety of very cheap but delicious food. Singapore is renowned for chilli crab, chicken rice, Laksa, Satay and too many other dishes to name.
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To keep things cheap, avoid restaurants and head to your nearest Hawker Centre. Effectively a large canteen offering a range of different dishes from all around Asia, the Hawker Centres are hubs of culinary and social activity.
Some of my personal favourite Hawker Centres include Lau Pa Sat, Maxwell, Old Airport Road, Chinatown complex, Tiong Bahru and Chomp Chomp. In terms of the food on offer, you simply need to follow the queues to get the best grub. The bigger the queue, the better the food.
Food prices range from $2.50 to $10, significantly cheaper than food purchased in most restaurants.
Singapore is also home to the cheapest Michelin-starred meal on the planet, Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice, endorsed by Anthony Bourdain. The dish costs only $3.50, but be prepared to wait for a while.
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