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Q: Getting rid of  tags in parsing XML I'm parsing the XML from BART's website at http://www.bart.gov/dev/eta/bart_eta.xml
I want to parse a single station, lets say Millbrae:
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://bart.gov/dev/eta/bart_eta.xml');

foreach($xml->station as $station){
 if($station->name=="Millbrae"){
  foreach($station->eta as $eta) {
    echo $eta->destination;
    echo "
";
    echo $eta->estimate;
    echo "
";
    }}
  }
?>

That outputs the correct data from Millbrae, but the output has a lot of  tags-its as if it outputs the entire xml file until it gets to Millbrae, rather than just Millbrae.
Is there a way to get rid of all those  tags? I am just learning php and html, so I am not even sure if I'm asking this question properly.
Thanks

A: Look into PHP manual: strip_tags.
function strip_tags — Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string
You can do it like this:
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://bart.gov/dev/eta/bart_eta.xml');

foreach($xml->station as $station) {
 if($station->name=="Millbrae") {
  foreach($station->eta as $eta) {

    echo strip_tags ($eta->destination); //use strip_tags here
    echo "
";
    echo strip_tags ($eta->estimate); //use strip_tags here
    echo "
";
    }
  }
 }

?>

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Filmmaker Michael Pearce on how he created a Beast
by Andrew Parker June 11, 2018
written by Andrew Parker June 11, 2018
For his debut feature, Beast (opening in select Canadian cities on Friday, June 15 and expanding in the coming weeks), British filmmaker Michael Pearce decided to tell his story of murder and romance in a place he's well acquainted with: his hometown on the island of Jersey, located in the Channel Islands; a place of great wealth, privilege, class division, and a few opportunities for the people growing up there.
Although he admits in our interview over the phone last week to promote the film's upcoming release that he found living in Jersey both freeing and stifling at the same time, Pearce's goal with Beast was to tell a story about shifting empathies and allegiances within socially calcified communities.
A mixture of suspense, romance, relationship drama, and character study, Beast follows Moll (played by Jessie Buckley, in a performance that has garnered the young actress near universal praise), a 27-year old woman who has grown frustrated by a lack of stimulus and options in the island community. She sticks around mostly to help her ailing father, constantly finding herself under the thumb of her domineering mother (veteran actress Geraldine James). On the morning after her birthday, she meets Pascal (Johnny Flynn), a member of the island's agrarian class and decidedly an outsider within Moll's normal social circles. They fall quickly in love, but there's a good chance that Pascal is the prime suspect in the disappearance and murder of several young women on the island. Despite the accusations, Moll stands by her decision to take up with Pascal, inviting the audience to question if the otherwise outwardly refined young woman is actually much closer to the sometimes volatile temperament of her lover than they might have initially thought.
Pearce based his twisty moral thriller in part on the real life case of the Beast of Jersey, a pedophile who operated within the otherwise sheltered community for over a decade during the 1960s before being caught. But while that true life tragedy was a kernel of an idea for the writer-director, Pearce was more interested in telling a complex story of love and devotion within a community that he was well acquainted with; one that hadn't been previously depicted in British cinema in much of a critical or skeptical light.
We chatted with Pearce about his personal connections to Beast, creating a depiction of two marginalized characters within a homogenized community, his collaborative process with the actors, playing with an audience's sense of empathy, and the film's depiction of privilege and social structures.
Beast is largely the story of a young woman who has grown up in this kind of sheltered, stifling sort of lifestyle and has realized that there's nothing left for Jersey to offer her. You grew up on the island, yourself, so how much of your own experiences did you put into the character of Moll?
Michael Pearce: I definitely went through similar stages in my life growing up, and I really wanted to engage with that. But for me the main thing that I wanted to do is to show how the landscape becomes a part of that kind of personality. Traditionally, in British cinema, such landscapes and cultures are depicted a bit softer and more bucolic, and I wanted to do just the opposite of that, because if you live in a place like Jersey, you know that the image that's often depicted isn't true to the emotions or experiences. I wanted something a lot more genuine. There isn't very much art or cinema on the island, so it's always paradoxical to really portray such a location that you know so well as an artful sort of place.
I always felt trapped by it, which was why I left as a teenager with hopes of being in a place with a bit more diversity. In some ways, the island is a bit of a backwater, but it's a kind of refined backwater.
I think that distancing effect really extends to the casting of Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn in the roles of Moll and Pascal, because compared to everyone else on the island, they stick out as looking completely different, especially with regards to Moll's shockingly red hair and Pascal's scruffiness. Was that an intentional decision or something that arose naturally from the casting process?
Michael Pearce: Actually, that was just a happy accident. (laughs) They definitely looked out of place, which was great from a storytelling perspective, but really I just looked at their level of talent above anything else. They reacted so well to each other and to their surroundings.
I've often heard people characterize this as a genre film, and in some ways I guess it is, but it's more of a character driven investigation into the hearts and crimes of these people. The film really rests on their shoulders, and I never wanted to make my job or their jobs any harder by trying to make them fit into any sort of specific criteria for them to pay attention to.
I'm sure that subconsciously, though, something set in with them, because I remember on set – within the first two days of shooting – I remember looking at Jessie and Johnny in their costumes, and suddenly that's when I started to notice the different layers and textures to these characters. They're not overly refined people, but they have their own set look that runs counter to everyone else there. Pascal is someone who clearly stands out, but Moll, despite her background and upbringing, has a roughness to her. She's not a grouchy person, but she's a very earthy kind of person. They aren't keen on pretending to be worldly or sophisticated, and both would vastly prefer getting their hands dirty, and that's definitely a reflection of who Jessie and Johnny are as performers.
But no, I never thought about this at first, but it's definitely subconscious, which works when you want to depict to the audience that these two main characters are kind of categorized by the people around them as animals. No one likes the idea of these two people together because there's something untamed about them as a couple, and there's something very primal about the chemistry between these two characters. But this was totally accident, and not something that I was very particular about from the beginning.
There are a lot of moments in this film that has a lot of quieter moments that need to be shown more than they need to be scripted. For example, there's a great scene right at the beginning of the film where Moll is clearly unhappy, and she's practicing this fake smile that she's going to put on for the outside world. These are the moments that really establish for the audience a chance to know when Jessie and Johnny's characters are troubled or threatened by someone. What was it like creating those moments with them?
Michael Pearce: When I first started out, I made sure that I was trying to be incredibly precise in the script, which is the best starting point that you could have. I didn't change much in terms of the emotion, and I tried to stick as much as possible to the shooting script. The script was very precise about what these characters were thinking. I think if you were to just read the script, you would get a very vivid depiction of the emotion of the characters in every scene.
By that same token, I never wanted anyone to be completely beholden to the words on the page outside of those emotions. If there was a chance to showcase something that was true to the characters and true to the emotions, I wanted to give the actors every opportunity to discover new layers to these characters. There was always a chance to discover more, and I welcomed that, and I think the more developed that a script is from the start, you can really raise the platform or starting point for your actors on the day if they want to look for other layers.
I feel like it's quite alienating as a director to just execute what's on the page every day. At the same time, trying to find everything you need on the day isn't particularly welcoming, either. I think having a very particular and focused approach allows you to start shooting and to then discover more and more about a scene. You need to be emboldened by and open to new ideas, because like anything else, if you study something long enough like we all had, you do start to see those new layers forming.
I always wanted to encourage the actors to explore because I wanted it to feel genuine. I wanted them to be honest with me if the script was working or if they wanted to do something. I tried to get as close as possible to the page, but we were always hunting for those ideas that might have had the most promise. When you put this script in front of an actor and then that actor does a scene with another actor, there's a whole other level of alchemy there that wasn't present when I was writing the script. Now there are so many other dynamics in play that it seems foolish not to use the input of these great people. When you collaborate, you can find things new and exciting that can't be seen in the distance. I was always surprised by things we would find together.
The film is always playing with the empathy of the audience, and making us question if Moll is the same kind of person as Pascal or not. There's always a shadow of doubt in that relationship. During the writing process, how difficult was it to strike the right balance between making people understand Moll and being confused by some of her actions and reactions?
Michael Pearce: It really comes back to this general philosophy that I have where I don't like to portray people as either heroes or villains. I feel that putting people into such categories doesn't allow much room for complexity, contradictions, or paradoxes that most people tend to have, even at their most extreme. You can't really empathize with someone who's very cut and dry because you haven't had to work very hard to understand them. If you don't see the flaws in your heroes, you haven't gone deep enough to uncover them. And if you see someone as a villain, they could have a certain charm to them, even if that's the charm of a psychopath. Every villain has flaws, too, and they have cracks. I'm always trying to find a richer quality in my protagonists and antagonists because that's what interests me as a storyteller.
The plot mechanics of a serial killer drama work best if they're an investigation into the character of the people in it. I wanted the film to always have a challenging moral objectivity to it. The film is really about identifying these flaws in people and seeing where they take them. You don't want to court convention or moral judgments. You want this to function on a more intuitive level. It goes back to the comparison of these two characters to animals. I think that really informs how the characters are viewed by outsiders versus how they view themselves.
We make our judgments on who we identify with in life on a very emotional and intuitive level. It's not really based on reasoning, but more on animal instincts, and probably much more than we would like to admit. That's interesting to play with when you're making a film about a character who's choosing to believe and protect someone while suppressing any potential doubt they might have about them. I wanted the viewer to connect with Moll, but to also fear for her mental well being, and to dread what might be lurking inside her. I wanted her to be a character that you could empathize with but also be uncertain about. I wanted her to engage in this sort of manipulation of sympathies with the audience, where they might be compelled to shift their allegiance. You're able to create an intimate moment between the character and the viewer, but you also get a chance to destabilize that sense of identification that you might have with her.
That was what we were always trying to play with because the film doesn't feature any clues, or evidence, or subplots as to what the nature of these crimes are. It's a film that's more about why you identify with someone and where you come down on this moral question about whether or not you could defend someone that you were in love with no matter what the truth of the relationship was.
There's also something really interesting that this film has to say about privilege, and how the people of this community haven't really had to confront anything as horrible as a string of murders and disappearances before. Similarly, any time someone like Moll tries to push back against the established order of things, the people around her tend to be taken aback or act like they've been emotionally hurt. Was that something that was on your mind when you construct this sort of violent love story that's taking place in such a privileged, stifling place?
Michael Pearce: Yeah. It wasn't the main subject line, but it was definitely a B-subject line, for sure. There's a lot in here about status, class, and power, and looking at the particularities of how those manifest in Jersey. You've got different levels of power on the island. You have an extremely wealthy class there, which is why Jersey is known for being a tax haven. You have a lot of millionaires that have Jersey properties and accounts, and while they might not feature into island life every day, they have a dominant presence. The everyday dominant class, however, is the upper-middle class. They're the established class there, and they sort of function as the moral authorities. I always found something quite frightening about how little doubt these people had their authority and place in the world when I was living there, and that's definitely a part of this story. They were the ones who constructed and controlled the social framework of the island.
Below them was a small portion of everyday middle class people like you would find anywhere else around the UK. Then below that you had this kind of agricultural class; people who worked on farms that would often have large Nordic and Portuguese influences and their own social structures. In their own ways, they keep their own very specific sort of social orders.
But when it comes to Moll's family, there's a head of the household that very much adheres to that sense of being a moral authority, so much so that she's even able to turn Moll's brother and sister against her with very little effort. That's what you get from the creation of such structures and hierarchies, and I found that quite fascinating.
And when Pascal comes, he's from this almost foreign, working class background, and it's something that upends everything. Jersey itself is quite peculiar because most people are very British at heart, but there are very clear dividing lines of status. There's such a difference in income between most people on the island that it creates these fault lines between classes that only become pronounced. For Moll to go along with Pascal, it's both an act of rebellion and a perceived transgression. She's crossing a line in the sand.
Some of that actually came from nineteenth century literature, like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Wuthering Heights, and how they used class paradigms to look at a rebellious romantic relationship. They're about acts of rebellion because class boundaries are being crossed. Moll's crossing of a class boundary isn't only raising questions about established social norms, but also moral ones. It's a mixture of rebellious acts.
Beast opens in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox, in Ottawa at ByTowne Cinema, and theatres in Montreal and Vancouver on Friday, June 15, 2018. It expands to theatres in Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, and Waterloo on Friday, June 29, and to Regina and Saskatoon on July 13.
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Q: How to use the hungarian algorithm when there are more workers than jobs and how to link the copies of jobs back to the original? I am trying to use the Hungarian Algorithm to sort students into classes based on their preferences.
In my dataset, there are ~550 students, and each one has a list of top 5 preferences. Every preference is an ID that corresponds to a class. Each class has a minimum and maximum capacity (in my case a min cap of 15 people and a max cap of 27 people) and there are 21 classes in the dataset.
Here is an example dataset for every student:

Email
first choice
second choice
third choice
fourth choice
fith choice

email@gmail.com
4
7
1
8
21

email2@gmail.com
6
9
14
17
2

Here is an example dataset for every class:

Class Title
Class ID
Min Cap
Max Cap

Class Title1
1
15
27

Class Title2
2
15
27

Class Title3
3
15
27

I need to sort the students into their preferred classes while also following the minimum capacity as well as the maximum capacity. For that, I am planning to use the Hungarian Algorithm.
Because there are ~550 students and 21 classes and for the Hungarian algorithm to work, I was planning to make "copies" of the classes. I would first make 15 copies of every class (like class 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc.) to fill the minimum requirement of the class and then would add even more copies to the most popular classes among the students until there is an equal number of students and copies of classes.
Then, working with the copies and the preferences of the students, I was thinking of making a dictionary of dictionaries and use this implementation of the algorithm.
I have a couple questions:

*

*Is this plan a good one or are there better solutions for the problem I have?

*How do I make copies of the class that all link back to the original ID?

*When implementing it into the algorithm I am supposed to put the preferences of the students into the dictionary (as shown in the GitHub link) but if there are now IDs such as 1.1 and people's choice is 1 and there are no actual classes like that in the algorithm, how should I go around that?

Thank you in advance and let me know if you need any clarifications

A: *

*I think this should work, though I would make one change. Instead of starting with the minimum copies of each class, start with the maximum. With 550 students and 21 classes, all of the classes will be almost full. You shouldn't have to worry about the minimum.

*Just like you said will work. Class 1 becomes 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, and you can easily reverse that.

*Since you're "duplicating" the classes, you have to "duplicate" the ID's too. If class 1 becomes 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, then a student who prefers class 1 should be linked to classes 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 instead with the same priority.
The main problem I see with this though is that Python is slow, and it looks like you have 550 students * 5 choices * 21 classes * 27 capacity = 1,559,250 connections. This will take a lot of memory and a lot of time, and the open issues on that repository don't give me much confidence that it's capable of calculating this. I've tested a few specific cases myself, and it got stuck in an infinite loop on one of them. If you want to use Python for this I would recommend using Brian M. Clapper's implementation instead, as I have also tested that one and haven't had any problems with it.

A: Because students state only 5 choices, a perfect matching may not be possible. If you're not looking to produce a perfect matching, then you could use serial dictatorship. It will be much faster than the Hungarian algorithm.
A pseudo-code:
students = list of students
for stud in students:
    if the number of students yet to be matched is greater than total of minimum quotas:
        if [classes in stud's preference list that have not reached max capacity]:
            stud is assigned to their most preferred among them
            update the class's remaining seats
        else:
            stud is unmatched
    else:
        if [classes in stud's preference list that have not reached min capacity]:
            stud is assigned to their most preferred among them
            update the class's remaining seats
        else:
            stud is unmatched


One of London's top attractions is unsurprisingly, Buckingham Palace and with good reason. Buckingham Palace is the official London residence and the administrative headquarters of the British monarch, making it the top royal attraction in the city. It's one of the few remaining working palaces in the UK and a place for exhibitions, important art collections, special performances, lectures and multiple historical artifacts including drawings, books and paintings. Not all of the treasures are inside though – the palace's exteriors are also truly impressive and the architecture is widely regarded as some of London's finest.
Whether it's to see Changing the Guard or to marvel at its sheer size, thousands of people flock to the palace gates every week to see Buckingham Palace for themselves. You don't just have to stand outside though. If you really want to immerse yourself in palace life and get up close and personal with royalty, it's best to go inside and experience a Buckingham Palace tour.
If you're staying at the Grand Royal London Hyde Park you're lucky enough to be very close to Buckingham Palace, leaving you with a lot of time to explore the building and its neighborhood at leisure. From the Grand Royale London Hyde Park you can get to Buckingham Palace via foot – though the walk is around 40 minutes, so it may not be suitable for everyone – or via public transport.
There are multiple tours to choose from. Here are just a few of the highlights you can expect to see during a Buckingham Palace tour.
Out of Buckingham Palace's 775 rooms, 19 of them are designated state rooms. State rooms are so called because they are where the monarch will entertain guests, such as visiting dignitaries. Each state room boasts beautiful decor and interior design that is truly fit for a Queen.
What's a Queen without a throne? Buckingham Palace's throne room has been the backdrop for a number of royal wedding photos and it is where visitors can see the thrones used for special events.
It will come as no surprise that Buckingham Palace is awash with famous artworks by some of the world's most renowned artists; paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck are all housed in the palace. Visitors can also check out some of the most famous portraits of royals past and present.
The grand staircase is one of the most impressive parts of Buckingham Palace that can be viewed by the public. It was designed by John Nash in in the early 1800s and is made entirely from bronze, etched into detailed patterns.
Though a tour of Buckingham Palace is most enjoyable for those that have an interest in Britain's Royal Family, it can also be fun for those who don't. It's a great insight into London's history and highlights the type of life the royals of today are accustomed to.
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Pearsons' Perspectives
Oxfam - Good Guys or Bad Guys?
Yesterday, I went into my local Oxfam shop and spoke to the woman volunteer behind the counter about how she was finding the situation. She beamed at me and said, "We're the good guys!" Regardless of the evil that has been perpetrated in the name of the organisation that she represented, she was clearly intending just to keep on being a 'good guy'!
Organisational and personal failures do arouse divided responses. Thousands of people have decided that reports about Oxfam's 'bad guys' mean that they must withdraw their support from an organisation which has clearly failed to safeguard against predatory behaviour by some of its staff. Others have seen Oxfam as a flawed organisation of mostly 'good guys' who need their support. One day last week, an Oxfam spokeswoman reported, "that the number of regular gifts to Oxfam was the highest since March 2017".
It is certainly tempting to follow the binary, tabloid-news distinction between the 'good' guys and the 'bad' guys. Basically, I believe that, it is true that the voluntary sector is full of 'amazing, brave, committed staff and volunteers', as Oxfam chief executive, Mark Goldring, called them this week.
But my experience of working for voluntary organisations (including the church) teaches me that life is not quite as simple as that. When you are working in organisations who profess high ideals there are always organisational shadows to watch out for.
The pursuit of high ideals can be a flight away from personal difficulties. Many people in both voluntary organisations and the church seek escape from personal problems in service for others. And that may be a good thing. These 'wounded healers' can often have profound insight into neediness. But they are also likely to need as much care and support as those for whom they are caring. The value of skilled mentoring and coaching in voluntary organisations may not be underrated but it is often neglected for fear of increasing costs. Workers and end users are the healthier for it.
When members of one group of people see themselves as 'deliverers' or 'rescuers' or 'saviours' of another group of people, there are always difficulties. These may come from those in the rescuing group who will exploit or abuse the power of their position. And/or there may be those in the 'rescued' group who may exploit or manipulate those who wish to help them. If 'rescuers' and 'victims' get their personal issues confused with the primary 'helping and being helped' contract between them, many organisational hours can be spent unravelling the problem.
Donors to organisations don't always have time to know or understand the complex nature of the problem which they want to help solve. Every organisation I have ever worked for must strike an impossible balance in their fundraising. On the one hand, they need people's generous response to simple issues of poverty whether it is homeless people on the streets of the UK or starving children in war-torn countries. On the other hand, there needs to be wise use of donated funds by knowledgeable, trained professional people who understand the complexities of the problems their users face. And those professionals need to live, to use transport for their aid etc. etc. Whom would you most want to be helped by – someone who understood the roots of your problem and knows the resources to give you a hand up - or someone who would give you a handout?
Resources spent on the exercises of accountability and safeguarding are not a waste. Nor are they a recognition of an organisation's weakness – rather of its strength. Or, to put it more directly - It is never enough to believe that everyone who signs up to your organisation is totally trustworthy. As far as the church and other Christian organisations are concerned, it is puzzling to me that we so often preach human sinfulness and so rarely know how to safeguard against it or deal with it when it inevitably manifests itself in real life!
But… back to the woman in the Oxfam shop. There's a lot to be said for a continuing determination to be one of the 'good guys'. The existence of flaws in organisations and individual human beings is endemic. The only response in the power of most of us is to do things as well as we can, with all the love we can and all the professional wisdom we can. To withdraw support from caring organisations would leave even more people in need.
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Kyle Busch Tasting the Bricks with Help from the 'Rainbow'
21 Jul 2015	Speedway Digest Staff
Kyle Busch's 32 victories in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series have come at 17 of the 23 racetracks where it competes. Those 32 wins on layouts of virtually every shape and size are certainly proof of the Las Vegas native's versatility and fierce appetite for checkered flags.
Always looking for more, the driver of the No. 18 Skittles® Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is determined to add a place not currently on his Sprint Cup win list – Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the site of Sunday's Brickyard 400.
There are certainly reasons for optimism this year for Busch as he and the Skittles team are riding quite the hot streak. Busch has captured wins in three of the last four Sprint Cup events. The wins have come at three completely different styles of tracks, starting with the road course at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway June 28, then at the 1.5-mile, moderately banked Kentucky Speedway tri-oval in Sparta July 12, and finally last Sunday at the 1.058-mile, relatively flat oval New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.
With the three wins, Busch and the Skittles team have been making huge progress on their march to make the top-30 in Sprint Cup driver standings, which would ensure them a berth in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup playoffs. With seven races before the 16-driver Chase grid is locked in, Busch now sits just 58 points behind 30th-place David Gilliland. Busch has shaved an astounding 115 points off the deficit during the past four races, the only non-win being a 17th-place result at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. After finishing second at Indianapolis two of the last three years, along with seven top-10 finishes in 10 total starts at the historic 2.5-mile, four-cornered oval, Busch and team have plenty of confidence they'll continue to close the gap on the all-important 30th spot in the driver standings.
Sunday's race at Indianapolis also marks the return of the popular, red Skittles paint scheme for the No. 18 Toyota. Along with Busch's hopes of kissing the famed Yard of Bricks following Sunday's race – a tradition for the winning driver and his team at the century-old speedway – fans will also be able to "Taste the Rainbow" one more time this season as the Skittles car will be on track at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway next month. Busch, who counts Green Apple Skittles among his personal favorite, has already competed in the red Skittles scheme at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway and Dover (Del.) International Speedway this past spring.
So, earning the right to kiss Indy's famed "Yard of Bricks" come Sunday afternoon would shoot straight to the top of Busch's ever-growing list of accomplishments as he hopes to "Taste the Bricks" with a little help from the "Rainbow."
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Q: Using an opamp to reduce voltage of audio signal I want to feed an audio signal generated by a Cortex M into a legacy IC that accepts 0.9 V max, and draws 1.8 mA max.
Clever people told me that a voltage divider would drain too much voltage out of the Cortex M, and that I should use an opamp with gain 1/4 instead.
Of course I have no experience with opamps at all. Looking at the selection at Digikey, I don't even know what to filter for, since "gain" seems to be a mostly irrelevant term for most opamps there.
Assuming it is as simple as I imagine, can you point out what terms or values I need to look for?
And if it's more complicated than that, can you describe what kind of opamp and circuit I need for this?

A: It took a while, but I found a copy of the datasheet for the SN76494
This diagram from the datasheet shows a buffer amplifier for the audio in on pin 9.

I find no mention of the input impedance of the IC, but with the buffer there it would be reasonable to assume a fairly high input impedance.   Assuming it is at least as good as the ancient LM741, the input impedance ought to be several hundred kiloohms.
A relatively low impedance voltage divider should do just fine.  An opamp shouldn't be needed.

Assuming your processor operates at 3.3V, and the maximum current from a GPIO pin can be 25mA, then a voltage divider with a total resistance of 132 ohms would be allowed.
You probably don't want to go that far, though.
A voltage divider of a total 1.3k ought to be low enough to work without unduly loading the GPIO.
So, a divider using a 1.2k and a 390 ohm resistor ought to do.  That gets you about 0.8V out of 3.3V, and draws about 2mA from the GPIO pin.


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NASA gives up lead in space travel
By GWYNNE DYER - The New Zealand Herald | 5:30AM - Friday, October 29, 2010
China has already put unmanned vehicles into lunar orbit. — Photo: Associated Press.
DATA FROM NASA's mission to find out whether there are useable amounts of water on the Moon is promising.
There is plenty of frozen water on the Moon, plus frozen gases such as methane, oxygen and hydrogen that would be useful for making rocket fuel. This will be helpful to the Chinese and the Indians when they start to build their bases on the Moon.
The United States is not going back to the Moon. That plan died last February when President Barack Obama cancelled the first new US launch vehicles in 25 years, the Ares series of rockets. That put an end to NASA's hopes of returning to the Moon by 2020 and building bases there for further manned exploration of the solar system.
Obama promised to support the development of commercial manned spacecraft instead, but those will only be capable of low-orbit operations for the foreseeable future. General Charles Bolden, the current head of NASA, chimed in loyally with talk of a glowing future for the agency.
"Imagine trips to Mars that take weeks instead of nearly a year; people fanning out across the inner solar system, exploring the Moon, asteroids and Mars nearly simultaneously in a steady stream of 'firsts'," he burbled.
"That is what the President's plan for Nasa will enable, once we develop the new capabilities to make it a reality." Yes, and if we had some ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.
In reality, it looks like the US has already passed its Tordesillas moment (and so has Russia). As is so often the case, those who start out ahead in the race fail in the stretch, and others finish first.
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, two years after Christopher Columbus became the first European to land in the Americas, divided the newly discovered lands beyond Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian just west of the Cape Verde islands. It was immensely arrogant, of course, but there were no other countries in the business of maritime exploration at the time.
Within 100 years, the English, the French and the Dutch had piled in, too, and Spanish and Portuguese power was falling fast. In the end, England's success in appropriating large amounts of valuable territory led to English becoming the dominant world language.
This is neither a good nor a bad outcome, but it is certainly a significant one and it has some relevance to the current situation.
The recent confirmation by NASA that there is plentiful water as well as hydrogen, methane and ammonia available in frozen form in the lunar soil means that lunar bases are a viable option — and lunar bases are essential to any realistic programme that aims to go to the other planets of this system.
You can move beyond traditional rocket fuels and come up with a fancy new system to provide the energy to drive your space ships, but you still have to have reaction mass.
That will account for at least 90 per cent of the weight of any vessel that ventures beyond near-Earth space, and as long as you have to haul your reaction mass all the way up from Earth's immensely deep gravity well, space flight is going to remain cripplingly expensive.
If you could get it on the Moon, on the other hand, you would be dealing with only one-sixth of the Earth's gravity. What the recent mission shows is there is not just reaction mass there but the raw materials with which to make conventional rocket fuels and enough water, the heaviest element in any life-support system, to make human bases there a practical possibility.
But they are not likely to be US bases, nor Russian ones, either. Both programmes have run out of fuel and are now restricted to near-Earth operations as far as manned trips are concerned.
So are Chinese and Indian operations, so far, but the ambition is there and the money will be. Both China and India have already put unmanned space vehicles into lunar orbit and China has already carried out manned flights in Earth's orbit. These are probably the countries that own the future in space.
• Gwynne Dyer is a commentator on international affairs based in London. The updated and expanded second edition of his latest book, Climate Wars, is published in New Zealand by Scribe.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10683745
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Lost in space as shuttle winds down
NASA's Kennedy Space Centre is now full of men without a mission.
BLOOMBERG | 5:30AM - Saturday, October 30, 2010
Space shuttle Discovery at its launch pad
in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the first
of three final flights lifts off on Tuesday.
— Photo: Associated Press.
IT'S 9am, and 100 employees of NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, east of Orlando, Florida, are lining up for freelance work.
Film director Michael Bay will use the famed facility, origin of the Apollo Moonshots, as backdrop for Transformers 3, the finale of his alien-robot war trilogy, a Hollywood tip-of-the-hat to a place that once launched the future. Bay needs extras, and Kennedy has no shortage.
For 30 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has flown the space shuttle, built and maintained the International Space Station and overseen unmanned scientific probes. Now its main mission, launching shuttles, is ending, with no lofty new goal in sight.
The first of three final flights is scheduled for Tuesday. The last should take off next year.
With no manned government rockets ready to go, routine trips to low-earth orbit will be outsourced. Any US astronaut heading to the heavens in the next five years will have to get there by renting a seat in a Russian Soyuz or one of several corporate-owned spacecraft.
Eight thousand engineers, technicians and other employees are losing their jobs, most private-sector workers.
The 2100 directly employed by NASA aren't targeted for layoffs, right now. Florida towns built around Nasa's programmes — Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Titusville — are in a defensive crouch, like wobbly boxers waiting for a knockout punch.
In February, the Obama Administration cancelled Constellation, cutting to about US$10 billion the losses from the over-budget programme that was supposed to take Americans back to the moon for the first time since 1972, and then to Mars.
The White House has instructed the agency to marshal resources and chart a new course. But it's trapped in "a period of sustained ambiguity," says James Ball, a programme manager in Florida. There's no agreement within the agency or Congress over where the US should go next in space — and the public doesn't care about an answer.
Agency leaders have grasped at proposals that fell through for lack of support on Capitol Hill. To justify an annual budget now in the US$19 billion range, NASA has kept the shuttle flying, despite its late-1970s technology.
"It's just a phenomenal vehicle," says Robert Cabana, the director of the Kennedy Space Centre. A former test pilot for the Marines, Cabana flew on four shuttle missions. Today, he's in charge of thinning employees' ranks, scattered across the centre's 140,000 acres.
"NASA's not going away by any means," he says, while expressing his sense of loss. "I just said goodbye to 900 good people for the last time," he says of the latest lay-offs. "I can't put into words what that feels like."
In 2004, the agency commissioned a consumer study by the Centre for Cultural Studies & Analysis in Philadelphia. "Despite a strong emotional attachment to NASA," the think-tank reported, many of its achievements since the end of the Apollo programme have "failed to resonate, or even register" with the public."
The brand having eroded, the Bush Administration announced the shuttle programme would end this decade. Outside NASA and aerospace contracting circles, few people seemed to notice. "The space programme has become too much of a federal jobs programme," says Frank DiBello, a space industry consultant.
DiBello advised the Defence Department on missile performance and consulted corporations that manufacture and service rockets while working for KPMG for 25 years. In the 1990s, he launched SpaceVest Management Group, a venture-capital firm in northern Virginia.
Throughout, he watched as politicians and bureaucrats spread NASA resources around the US: launches at Kennedy, mission control at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, propulsion engineering in Huntsville, Alabama, rocket testing in southern Mississippi, management of astronomy missions at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"The programme gets pulled in different directions, based on which senator or congressman wants business for his or her district," says DiBello, who came out of retirement to lead a Florida-sponsored economic diversification initiative aimed at attracting technology-based businesses that might scoop up some of the laid-off NASA workforce.
To replace the shuttle, the Bush Administration said the Constellation programme would help rejuvenate the country and lead to a manned Mars landing. "We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives and lifts our national spirit," he said a year after the lethal explosion of space shuttle Columbia on February 01, 2003.
The shuttle's retirement was supposed to free up money for a family of long-distance, heavy-lift rockets. The funding was "grossly inadequate", DiBello says. The shuttle flies for about US$3 billion a year. Getting to Mars would come to half a trillion dollars over time, DiBello says. The latest White House plan has several components and as many risks. Private-sector corporations are to transport cargo and crew to the Space Station. Contractors such as Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies, started in 2002 by Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, are testing proprietary rockets. In June, Musk's company successfully flew its Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to Kennedy.
Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson said last week his Virgin Galactic wanted to be involved in the private-sector plan, either by teaming up with another company or going it alone. In theory, outsourcing low Earth orbit will make available resources for NASA to focus on farther-reaching manned exploration. How this strategy will be implemented, and at what cost over what period of time, remains unclear.
The US$58 billion, three-year NASA authorisation legislation passed by the US House in September, and earlier by the Senate, endorses Obama's mandate to use taxpayer money to spur commercial rocket development, while cutting money devoted to that goal.
The legislation, which Obama signed this month, instructs NASA to move ahead with a new spacecraft that could land on an asteroid by 2025. In a nod to Boeing, Lockheed Martin and lawmakers representing states with existing shuttle operations, Congress exhorts the agency to rely as much as possible on existing technology and personnel.
One assumption built into the Obama plan is that private industry will perform routine space work less expensively than the Government.
Given that corporations already do a lot of this sort of labour under contracts with NASA, the premise raises questions about how they will suddenly become more cost-effective, without sacrificing safety.
NASA and its contractors are hoping that, as space travel becomes more common, it will foster new commercial research and adventure tourism.
Branson said last week that Virgin Galactic wanted to be involved in the private sector plan, either by teaming up with another company or going it alone.
Virgin Galactic plans to start taking paying customers into space in 2012.
Corporations will be able to defray costs and reduce bills for taxpayers. The possible flaw in the argument is that, for the foreseeable future, there isn't much that must to be done in space, beyond launching and maintaining communications satellites.
DiBello says the greatest potential is in fields such as medical research and in yet-to-be-discovered technologies.
Space activity has produced valuable inventions such as global positioning devices that have had lucrative commercial applications.
Whether or not privatisation saves money, it has already changed attitudes at Kennedy Space. NASA officials for the first time are pitching the centre's capabilities to audiences of corporate executives, who will decide where to locate new commercial-space operations.
Last month, Boeing announced that it would enter the space-tourism and astronaut-transport business, with flights scheduled as early as 2015. Which site will host the launches hasn't been determined.
Avera Motors, a 2009 spin-off from Mainstream Engineering, Florida-based developer of energy conversion products, also aims to capitalise on the ferment at Kennedy. The company occupies a site in Florida where its 20-person team has fabricated a prototype of a low-emission, high-mileage sports car it plans to sell in late 2012.
In addition to privately raised seed money, Avera's chief executive officer, RJ Scaringe, 27, received US$2.5m in state financing, some of it secured by DiBello.
Scaringe, who has a PhD in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plans to step up hiring early next year. "The skilled technical workers becoming available because of the shuttle layoffs are perfect for us," he says.
Roberta Wyrick, 56, a United Space employee who oversees orbiter testing, says, "The tradition around space is what I'm worried will go away." Wyrick has a maths degree from the University of Central Florida and 31 years of experience at Kennedy. She heard there may be jobs at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia, where smaller research launches take place. She hasn't asked.
"I've got a house here, and I thought I would retire from Kennedy," she says. "I launch shuttles. When I see it on the pad, getting ready, my heart just starts beating faster."
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The Hope College softball team started the 2019 season with two dramatic non-league victories on Friday in Clermont, Florida.
The Flying Dutch edged Bowdoin College (Maine) by a 3-2 margin on a seventh-inning walk off single, then held off a Millsaps College (Mississippi) rally for a 6-4 victory.
Against Bowdoin (4-1), Hope sent five batters to the plate during the seventh inning for a decisive two-run rally.
Catcher Morgann Kanouse of Cadillac, Michigan (Cadillac) led off with a single. Pinch-runner Jordyn Diaz of Naperville, Illinois (Neuqua Valley) stole second and scored on a single up the middle by second baseman Arinn King of Hudsonville, Michigan (Hudsonville).
King moved up to the third on a groundout. After a walk, third baseman Shay Pinhey of Ann Arbor, Michigan (Pioneer HS), pictured, singled to center to plate King with the winning run.
Winning pitcher Avery Slancik of Scotts, Michigan (Vicksburg) tossed three innings of scoreless relief. She struck out one and allowed one hit.
Against Millsaps (9-13), Hope broke a scoreless tie with three runs during the third and fourth innings.
Nine different Flying Dutch recorded a hit, including a RBI triple from centerfielder Jo Cook of Birch Run, Michigan (Birch Run) and a run-scoring double by first baseman Kaelin Callow of Plainfield, Illinois (Plainfield).
Millsaps erupted for four runs in the sixth but were denied twice in the sixth and stranded two runners in scoring position.
Winning pitcher Chloe Haskins of Brighton, Michigan (Brighton) faced all but three batters and recorded 21 all outs for the Flying Dutch. She yielded five hits and was charged with allowing one run. She struck out five.
Hope is scheduled to play twice on Saturday in Clermont, Florida: 1:30 p.m. vs. Lake Forest College (Illinois) and 3:45 p.m. against Linfield College (Oregon).


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End of solo career for Johnny Cadillac: "I don't want to die on stage"
"The year after Johnny's death, in 2018, I did 187 dates. As far as near Nîmes, in the south of France. I played some weeks every day. And sometimes up to two or three gigs a day. It's exhausting."
Johnny Cadillac takes semi-retirement. ©© Jacques Duchateau
A half-retirement
This semi-retirement, Alexandre (his real first name) is obliged to take it."I'm stopping my solo concerts, so as not to have too many concerts. I had 3 malaises on stage, I don't want to stay in the 4th."
His solo career, he started 18 years ago. And since then, this fan and look-alike of Johnny has given almost 2000 concerts all over Wallonia but also in France. Mainly alone on stage, with recorded tapes on which he sings. But also in groups. A full band for a real Johnny Hallyday cover.
At the same time, he came up with another concept"The Old Scoundrels", where the group replays almost identically the concert of Johnny's Vieilles canailles with Eddy Mitchell and Jacques Dutronc. This project, he will continue it."That makes us about fifteen dates a year, that, I can always assume."
Secretly, he also keeps the hope of reforming a complete cover band."But for that, we'll see…"
It is in his small studio that Johnny Cadillac refines his covers of Johnny Hallyday. ©© Jacques Duchateau
Head full of memories
In the meantime, Johnny Cadillac willingly plunges back into his memories. A concert in front of 8,200 people in the parking lot of the Standard de Liège stadium. Another at the Zénith de Rouen where a room full to bursting, standing, chanting"Johnny-Johnny"… These are moments he won't soon forget."I will miss it for sure. But I have to think about my health."
A Johnny look-alike retires, but there are many more left."Yes, Johnny look-alikes, we have counted 600 of them in France and Belgium. But hey, some have the voice but not the face, and others have the face but not the voice". Always so cash…
Johnny Cadillac is retiring. ©© Jacques Duchateau
In a few weeks, Johnny Cadillac will give his last solo concert, in Burgundy on October 22. Before partially retiring for a well-deserved retirement. And to reappear, bit by bit, because he has music in him.
Johnny Cadillac will be in concert this Saturday August 20 at the Floreffe football ground.
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JOHN ALFRED WOOD
Remembered with honour Stockton-on-Tees (Durham Road) Cemetery: Plot A3, Row P, Grave 17.
He enlisted in Middlesbrough, Yorks, 7 November 1912 for 6 years' service with the Durham Light Infantry, Private 8467: an unskilled foundry labourer aged 17, 5'2½" tall, C of E. He was mobilised at Newcastle 5 August 1914, and transferred to the Army Cyclist Corps 5 December 1914. Posted to the B.E.F. 10 December 1915, was wounded in the right foot 26 December 1917, and was sent from No. 1 General Hospital with trench fever 8 March 1918. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 July 1915, and died of cerebral syphilis at 1.30pm at New End Military Hospital, Hampstead, London.
Son of Matthew and Mary Ann (nee McNAULTY) WOOD; husband of Ada FAY (formerly WOOD, nee JONES) of Middlesbrough.
His parents married 1891 in the South Shields, Co Durham, district. Mary died 1903 in the Sunderland, Co Durham, district aged 37.
John was born 1895 in Jarrow-on-Tyne, Co Durham, and married 1 February 1916 at Stockton-on-Tees Registry Office; they had one child. He resided in Stockton-on-Tees. Ada remarried 1919 in the Stockton district to Alfred FAY, and died 1939 in the Middlesbrough district aged 42.
On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a labourer aged 15, he was a boarder in Middlesbrough, with his widowed father and four siblings.
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Vancouver's Tesla sales centres likely to remain open
"There will be a pause on store closing and my suspicion is that the performance of the Vancouver stores are above average for Tesla sales and they may all stay open," electric-car analyst Matthew Klippenstein said.
David Carrigg
A decision by Telsa to back away from plans to close its retail outlets worldwide is good news for Vancouver, says electric-car analyst Matthew Klippenstein.
Klippenstein told Postmedia News that while the decision seemed rash, it meant Vancouver's three sales outlets stood a good chance of survival.
In a February 28 blog post on the Tesla website, it was stated that the electric-automaker would close most of its 378 stores worldwide. There are nine Tesla stores in Canada: three in Vancouver, four in Toronto, one in Calgary and another in Montreal. The local showrooms are in Downtown Vancouver, West Vancouver and on West 4th Avenue in Vancouver.
The Tesla dealership on West 4th Avenue is one of Tesla's three Metro Vancouver sales outlets. NICK PROCAYLO / PNG
The blog said that sales would be made online only and that drivers wouldn't need test drives as they could return the vehicle within a week or before driving 1,000 miles, whichever came first. As a result of the closures the electric-car maker would be able to keep the price of its new mid-market Model 3 at US$35,000.
"Over the next few months we will be winding down many of our stores with a small number of stores in high-traffic locations remaining as galleries, showcases and Tesla information centres," the blog went on to state.
However, on March 10, in a blog post titled Update on Tesla Stores and Prices, the company, led by high-tech maverick Elon Musk, stated: "Over the past two weeks we have been closely evaluating every single Tesla retail location, and we have decided to keep significantly more stores open than previously announced as we continue to evaluate them over the course of several months.
"As a result of keeping significantly more stores open, Tesla will need to raise vehicle prices by about three per cent on average worldwide. In other words, we will only close about half as many stores, but the cost savings are therefore only about half.
"Potential Tesla owners will have a week to place their order before prices rise, so current prices are valid until March 18. There will be no price increase to the US$35,000 Model 3. The price increases will only apply to the more expensive variants of Model 3, as well as Model S and X."
Tesla is set to reveal its Model Y crossover on March 14 at its Los Angeles design studio. So that makes it models S, 3, X and Y.
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Klippenstein said the change seemed to be impulsive, and "that's the last thing you would want at the helm of a corporation." He said Musk plays a very active role in the company board's decision-making.
But it was good news for Vancouver's Tesla owners and owner hopefuls, given Vancouver's appetite for electric vehicles.
"There will be a pause on store closing and my suspicion is that the performance of the Vancouver stores are above average for Tesla sales and they may all stay open," he said.
People look at a Tesla Model X displayed at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on March 10, 2019. VIVEK PRAKASH / AFP/Getty Images
A Tesla Model S is displayed at a shopping mall in Hong Kong on March 10, 2019. VIVEK PRAKASH / AFP/Getty Images
Tesla also announced Monday that it had bought car-hauling trucks and trailers from a California company in a stock deal worth about $14.2 million. Tesla paid for the purchase with about 50,000 previously authorized shares. Tesla wants to increase its vehicle transportation capacity and cut delivery times.
There were around 8,400 zero-emission vehicles sold in B.C. last year. Tesla made up the largest block of those zero-emission vehicles at 2,500, followed by the Nissan Leaf at 1,019 and the Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid at just under 1,000. The Outlander is considered a zero-emission vehicle because it can drive on streets and highways for more than half the average daily driving cycle on batteries, Klippenstein said.
Gartner analyst Michael Ramsey called Tesla's reversal "startling" and said it undermined the credibility of Musk and Tesla's management.
In this June 14, 2018, file photo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Attorneys tell a federal Kiichiro Sato / AP
"How else can you view it except to see it as a remarkable example of lack of foresight or planning?" Ramsey asked. "It's almost as if the decision was announced and made without any analysis of what the outcome would be."
The move made no sense to begin with because Tesla had spent millions fighting in courts and state legislatures trying to change laws that prevented companies from selling vehicles at their own stores, Ramsey said.
But he also said the move to close 10 per cent of stores and evaluate others is the right thing to do, and said most retail companies do that all of the time.
A Tesla spokesman declined to comment Monday beyond the company's statement.
Shares of Tesla Inc. edged up less than one per cent in Monday trading to US$291.
— with files from The Associated Press
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Evelyne, once again, it was wonderful spending time with you. I always progress in my painting skills with you! It is amazing to observe you in action and watch how you make an impression come alive with composition, color and your dancing brush.
But also, you are so inspirational in the way you live your life. You pass that inspiration along to people. You have had a major influence in my life, starting with meeting you in Santa Fe when you challenged me: "learn to draw and I will teach you to paint". I spent a year taking drawing classes and then got on that plane and the train to the South of France to learn watercolor painting from Evelyne Borne! I don't think I have ever looked at a challenge that I couldn't take on since then. In addition to your painting, you should be very proud of the inspiration you give to people.
You are an excelent artis and teacher a rare combination. Also impressed by your critiques , you say just the right things to each of us and what we need to do to improve .Doing the color wheel the first day is the best way to jump in . last of all its great fun!
What can a novice painter say but THANK YOU I was really concerned that my inexperience would be a huge problem but you were so welcoming and Patient that I Learned , learned and learned . It was all that I hoped for and then you added wonderful participants, breathtaking scenery and wonderful wine and food I am wholly grateful.
Once again I am full of gratitude. You spoiled us with each detail already planned . It's so much more then a painting workshop!
Monet move over! What a truly fantastic experience this has been for me – such an igylic spot and such delightful people . you are an inspiration to us all. so glad I decided to join you in your Provence painting party. and what a party it has been Gourmet cuisine to die for!!


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Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.
You and your people worship what you don't know; we worship what we know because salvation is from the Jews.
You people don't know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews.
You Samaritans don't really know the one you worship. But we Jews do know the God we worship, and by using us, God will save the world.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We Jews worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We Jews understand what we worship, since salvation comes from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We [C Jews] understand what we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews [C because the Messiah who brings salvation comes through the Jews].
Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for salvation is of the Jews.
You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship what you don't understand. We Jews understand what we worship. Salvation comes from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because · salvation is from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship something you don't understand. We understand what we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews.
You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know. Salvation comes from the Jews.
You people do not know what you worship. We Jews know what we worship. It is through the Jews that men are saved from the punishment of their sins.
You Samaritans worship you know not what. We know what we worship, for salvation comes of the Jews.
You worship what you don't know. We worship what we do know; salvation, you see, is indeed from the Jews.
You worship that of which you do not have da'as [MELACHIM BAIS 17:28-41]; we worship that of which we have da'as, because Yeshu'at Eloheinu (salvation) is from the Yehudim [Isa 2:3; Ro 9:3].
Your people don't really know the One they worship. We Jews worship out of our experience, for it's from the Jews that salvation is made available.
But the time is coming, yes, the time is here already, when those who worship God will worship him in spirit and in a true way. My Father is looking for that kind of people to worship him.
Ye worship that that ye know not; we worship that that we know; for health is of the Jews.


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The Married Virgin (also known as Frivolous Wives) is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Vera Sisson, Kathleen Kirkham and Rudolph Valentino (credited as Rodolfo di Valentina). During the early part of his career, Valentino was often cast as a villain or "heavy," his part in The Married Virgin reflects this typecasting.

Synopsis
Mary McMillan (Sisson) is the daughter of tycoon John McMillan (Jobson). She is deeply in love with Douglas McKee (Newburg), a promising young lawyer. Mary's dour "evil stepmother", Ethel (Kirkham) is carrying on an affair with the diabolical Count Roberto di San Fraccini (Valentino).

John McMillan is wracked with guilt over his involvement in a violent skirmish, in which a man was killed. While McMillan was not responsible for the murder, he did fire a weapon in the scuffle, and fears he could be implicated. He keeps the gun he used locked away in a safe in his office.

Ethel knows the secret, and shares it with Roberto. They arrange to have the weapon stolen from the office and extort McMillan for money for its safe and quiet return. McMillan meets with Roberto, but refuses his demands for money.

The lovers move on to Plan B, which involves the virtuous Mary. They plot to force Mary to marry Roberto, and use the dowry to escape to Argentina together. Mary is understandably reluctant to go along with the plan, but eventually acquiesces to save her father from a life sentence in prison. She writes to Douglas, calling off their engagement, sadly marries Roberto and retires to an unhappy existence in her home.

Roberto, at first, promises to stay away from Mary until she comes to him of her own free will. Eventually, when it is apparent Mary wants nothing to do with him, he attempts to break into her room and rape her. She is saved only through the intervention of the kindly family servant, Annie (Leighton).

Ethel grows increasingly jealous of the attention, albeit unwanted, that Mary is receiving from Roberto. On a drive through the hills, she brandishes a bottle of poison and threatens to use it unless Roberto takes the next boat to South America with her. Roberto attempts to take the bottle away from her, a struggle ensues, and the car loses control and tumbles off a cliff, killing Ethel.
Meanwhile, Douglas works tirelessly to clear McMillan and save Mary. He meets with Roberto, who agrees to permanently leave, dowry money in hand. He and Mary have a happy reconciliation.

Eventually, McMillan is completely exonerated. Mary's marriage to Roberto is annulled because it was never consummated, and she is free to marry Douglas.

Cast (in credits order)
Vera Sisson as Mary McMillan
Rodolfo di Valentini as Count Roberto di San Fraccini
Frank Newburg as Douglas McKee
Kathleen Kirkham as Mrs. McMillan
Edward Jobson as John McMillan
Lillian Leighton as Anne Mullins, the Maid

Production
The film was shot at the Hotel del Coronado.

Release
General Film Company announced plans to release the film in December 1918 but the film may have been shelved. The rights to the film were then acquired by Fidelity Pictures Company in 1920. The Married Virgin was subsequently re-edited (from seven reels to six reels) and released under the title its original title and under the new title Frivolous Wives. After Valentino became a star in 1921, the film's director Joe Maxwell released the re-edited version again to capitalize on Valentino's fame.

Film preservationist David Shepard later discovered the footage believed to have been cut from the original release in Belgium, Luxembourg, and at the Library of Congress. Shepard re-added the footage to the edited print to recreate the original print of The Married Virgin.

Preservation status
A print of The Married Virgin still survives and is held at the Library of Congress. The film has been screened at various film festivals, and has been made available to the public on both VHS and DVD.

References

External links

1918 films
1918 drama films
1910s English-language films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
1910s American films
Films shot in San Diego

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The Type of Permanent Secretary we Need in the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock
By Chisoni Mumba, PhD,
On 3rd September 2019, President Lungu made reshuffles at Permanent Secretary (PS) level. He indicated that he would not renew the contract of the current PS for the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock. This means that the Ministry will now have a new Minister and new PS. I do not wish to discuss the performance of the current PS whose contract ends this October, but I need to state that the problem at the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock is neither linked to individual Ministers nor Permanent Secretaries but systems failure. Professor Luo and the would-be PS maybe the best personnel for the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock provided they put in place robust systems at Ministerial Level, albeit general systems failure at a National level.
The would-be PS must know that the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock is unique, given a wide range of subsectors which can run independently of each other. I mean subsectors such as aquaculture, honey, dairy, beef, poultry, piggery, small ruminants and other production systems that encompass various animal categories.
The would-be PS must also know that the current Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has over the years morphed from Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, to Ministry of Agriculture, to Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, to Ministry of Livestock & Fisheries Development, to Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock, and finally to the current Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock. Despite all these transformations, the Ministry has remained with neither a clear livestock strategy nor a livestock policy.
You cannot develop the livestock subsector without a clear strategy, focus and livestock policy. Therefore, the would-be PS must have the prowess to come and answer the following questions:
• Where are we in the livestock subsector?
• Where do we want to be?
• How do we intend to go where we want to be?
• Who will play what specific roles in what place?
• How do we get to know that we have gotten where we want to be as a subsector?
To the powers that be, if you can give us a technocrat PS that will come with answers to these questions or at least a PS that can have the capacity to engage the stakeholders to provide answers to these questions, then we may finally put functional progressive systems in place, which will eventually see the transformation of our developing livestock subsector into the ultimate national bread or meat basket. With a collective vision, as well as working plans at all levels of the Ministry, we can strategically increase funding to the livestock subsector. This is key because without these strategies or functional systems in place, we are going nowhere but continue paying lip service to what is proposed in the Seventh National Development Plan and eventually fail to actualise the vision 2030.
(The author is a Senior Lecturer of Livestock/Animal Health Economics at the University of Zambia, School of Veterinary Medicine. Email: cmumba@unza.zm, Mobile: +260977717258)
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Dare Me by AOkay
by AOkay
Harry, Draco
Draco/Harry
Fluff, Romance, Action/Adventure, LGBTQA
Post-Hogwarts
Contains profanity, Mild violence, Scenes of a mild sexual nature, Scenes of a sexual nature
2019-07-03 12:00am
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Ch. #
Chapter Title
1 First
The game starts!
It's Draco's turn. And he chooses Dare.
3 Third
It's Harry's turn. And he chooses Truth.
4 Fourth
5 Fifth
It's Harry's turn. And he..... He might be done with this. It's too.....
Too much. Maybe he wants everything to stop. Maybe everything will stop. Or will the game continue?
6 Sixth
It's Draco's turn; But the game continues in a..... Different way. Kind of a short chapter....
7 Seventh
I suppose it's still Draco's turn. Will he continue the game? Or will he continue with this.... New version?
Thank you so much for 100 views!! I am honored.To celebrate, extra-long chapter!! ;3
8 Eighth
The game continues!
(I redid the chapter; Last time it didn't save right.... I am so sorry....)
9 Ninth
There's no use for these summaries anymore- You don't know what will happen, and most probably, don't want a hint.
10 Tenth
Oh my goodness gracious how the heck did I get 200 views
O-O
11 Eleventh
(I'm going to start actually titling chapters in the summary after this) (Not in the title because *scoffs* that's for normal people.....)
12 Twelfth
-The Beginning of the End-
13 -RANDOM SCENES I WANTED TO PUT IN BUT NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO-
....... The title is the summary..... >:3
14 Jeezus
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Playing Indian: Group presents Native culture with fake fires and tipis, phony tribal ID
Published in Indian Country Today in 2010. For more on topics like this, see my book, American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle...
The business-card-sized ID headed "Absentee Shawnee of Ohio Tribal Member" proclaims the bearer "is an enrolled member of this tribe." At the bottom, the name "Robert Taft " is stamped above the words "Robert Taft, Governor." The "o" of "Robert" includes an umlaut, though the diacritical mark is set under the vowel, rather than over it, as is usual. It seems that the letter-stamping kit with which the card was made may have run out of the letter "o." As a result, an upside-down ö had to stand in.
The cardholder, who lives in Davenport, Iowa, confirmed that several years ago the clan mother of the tribe's Bear Clan in Cleveland passed out five or six of these IDs, which purport to be issued by the state of Ohio, where Robert Taft was governor from 1999 to 2007. However, there are no state-recognized tribes in Ohio, according to its attorney general, whose representative said, "We are not aware of recognition of this group — even temporarily."
Indeed, the "Absentee Shawnee of Ohio" appear not to exist there or elsewhere, except perhaps in the mind of the clan mother and her acolytes, though the name closely tracks that of a federally recognized tribe in Oklahoma.
The card was duplicated onto copies of a letter passed out during a 2009 board meeting of an Iowa American Indian community organization, Native American Coalition of the Quad Cities (NACQC). The letter included the cardholder's request to demonstrate "the Native way of the Sweat Loge [sic]" to the group and described her credentials: life on the "Tuba City Navaho Reservation [sic]," where her Apache adoptive father taught her "the ways of the pipe and the sweat loge [sic]." Eventually, she became a "gifted pipe carrier" of the Navajo, her adoptive mother's people, and the Shawnee.
Now, the cardholder and her associates in the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois — have formed an organization that's applying for nonprofit status. The group will "respect and honor" Native culture in settings such as a recent event for hundreds of children and their parents, according to another group member. This September, it will run a major powwow on Council Island in Davenport, sponsored by the city and attracting potentially thousands of people.
Regina Tsosie, Navajo, NACQC board president, said she was shocked by these claims and activities. "We Navajos don't have pipe carriers. It's not our way. The ancestors of Native people died so we can be here today, so our children can be proud of who they are. We must stand up and protect that identity."
When queried, neither interviewee from the hobbyist organization could name a member who's tribally enrolled. However, one interviewee said the group is not a "segregated" one that accepts only "truebloods," though it has "special members" who do not attend meetings.
Indian Country Today contacted Iowa Native leader Vicky Apala-Cuevas, Oglala Lakota, for a comment on the boundaries between fact and fancy challenged here. Apala-Cuevas is an NACQC board member and a member of the Iowa Commission on Native Affairs, which is appointed by the governor.
Indian Country Today: Tell us about the phenomenon that the letter and the ID represent.
Apala-Cuevas: There have been many offenses to our peoples and cultures, and these are yet more. The desire to show us how to run a sweat lodge is an example of nonNatives feeling they can present Indian life better than the Indians. These people promulgate a mishmash of misinformation gleaned from Hollywood movies and similar sources. Believe me, being an Indian is the hardest thing anyone can do, and they are not up to it.
ICT: What about the letter's culturally related errors?
Apala-Cuevas: A Pueblo professor from the University of Illinois wrote to NACQC after watching one of the hobbyist group's members describing to a thrilled audience his school, church, and boy-scout demonstrations, which included an electric fire and tipi. She told us she shuddered at the thought of the fake fire and tipi and the stereotypical Indian imagery he affirmed.
ICT: The imitation Indians claim to be well meaning.
Apala-Cuevas: As the professor wrote in her letter, we've suffered under centuries of good intentions. People who play Indian are a problem countrywide. I see it as mental illness — a mass hysteria. An elder told me they have genetic memory of the genocide, so they carry fear within them and claim these relationships and this knowledge to alleviate the stress. Wilma Mankiller once sat next to Bill Clinton at a lunch, and the first thing he said to her was that he was part Cherokee. So you see, it's from the president on down.
ICT: Do "pretendian" activities affect the wider public?
Apala-Cuevas: Absolutely. We heard, for example, about a pond liner purchased to construct a sweat lodge. This is very dangerous, as plastic coverings — as opposed to natural traditional coverings — produce extreme temperatures and toxic fumes and may well have contributed to the recent deaths and hospitalizations at the non-Native pseudo-sweat lodge in Arizona. We contacted Iowa's health department, and they were concerned. We're also exploring consumer-protection laws, as some may receive funding under false pretences.
ICT: Are any Quad-City hobbyists Native, as far as you know?
Apala-Cuevas: I've heard some claim descent from tribes or historic leaders, though the claims change — it's Tecumseh, it's his brother; one visited a Lakota reservation and, wouldn't you know, he's Lakota now. This is an insult and, simply put, fraud. Race is not the issue, though. There are those with good hearts who work for the People in a humble, respectful way, whether or not they have Native ancestry, whether or not they are enrolled in a federally recognized tribe. Indeed, our relationship to the federal government is not based on race, but rather on the law, including treaties, legislation, and so on.
ICT: Final thoughts?
Apala-Cuevas: As Native people, we're confident and secure in our beliefs and ceremonies, which are part of a pure spiritual relationship. And we have a great sense of humor, which is good, because it's a never-ending battle.
Text c. Stephanie Woodard; image courtesy NACQC.
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In fact, inspections of various natures and degrees can actively pinpoint fall hazards before any member of the team gets hurt, or before state authorities find issues. According to Safe Work Australia, falls from a height continue to be one of the most common workplace hazards, up with being hit by an object, lifting heavy objects and repetitive movements.
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