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Iranians in mullahs' grip and isolated from world as presidential elections approach
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The mullah regime is working on a continuous basis to adopt a method of repression and dictatorship against the Iranian people who reject their policies that have entered the country during recent years in the tunnel of crises due to the rampant corruption and mismanagement of the ruling class, which has in turn negatively affected the living conditions of citizens and led to a complete economic collapse, in addition to the health collapse caused by the Iranian government's failure to deal with the corona pandemic, not to mention Tehran's remarkable failure in managing international files such as the nuclear agreement, which is witnessing a slow death after the United States withdrew from it in May 2018.
'Halal internet'
With the approaching Iranian presidential elections scheduled for June 2021, the ruling regime, under the direction of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, resorted to activating the role of the "halal internet" by tightening censorship on social media sites that allow citizens to express their opinions and transmit their voices to the world, exposing the corruption and crimes of the ruling regime.
In this context, many international media revealed in recent few days the Iranian regime's efforts to hide the remaining features of the freedom to use the internet by imposing the idea of a "halal internet", under the name of preserving the values of the Iranian state, according to the Times.
Although the mullahs banned a number of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, keeping Instagram as one of the windows through which young people can communicate directly and freely with the outside world, whether to follow fashion or celebrity news or to organize protests against the regime, in recent months, the regime has sought to impose new restrictions on the internet and ban all social media applications, and then replace them with a national alternative that can be censured and monitored.
According to the Times, if the Iranian regime applies the national internet, then ordinary people will not be able to access Google, Instagram, or other sites, resulting in the isolation of Iranian citizens from the rest of the world, placing them in grip of the authorities.
Source of concern
Dr. Masoud Ibrahim Hassan, an academic who specializes in Iranian affairs, explained that Iran began to view the internet as a fueling factor for foreign interference following the repression that took place in 2009 after the presidential elections were rigged in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At that time, large protests appeared in the Iranian street, and citizens began to publish pictures of those protests, which was condemned by human rights organizations.
Hassan told the Reference that as a result, the Iranian regime established the Supreme Council for Internet Control in 2012, and among its actions was to establish a national internet isolated from the global network, as well as to disable all sites that pose a threat to the Iranian regime. That mission belongs to the Revolutionary Guard, which has succeeded in suppressing protests, monitoring citizens, and arresting anyone who opposes the ruling regime.
Supreme Leader's candidate
Hassan noted that the internet will have an effective role in the upcoming presidential elections, given that the Iranian people have lost confidence in the current regime and its management of foreign files, the most important of which is the nuclear agreement. Therefore, the regime resorted to using what it called the national internet to support a specific candidate who would be from the hardliner current and supported by the Supreme Leader and the Revolutionary Guard.
Hassan added that all of this comes within the framework of the Iranian regime's policy of oppression and tyranny against its people, especially those opposed to its policies and ideas of restricting their movements, restricting their actions, and ultimately arresting them and even executing them, which indicates the restriction of the freedoms of the Iranian people who are still waiting for the opportunity to break free from the mullah regime.
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The 2017 SJIM Symposium on "How Europe can partner with India in both India's development and environmental sustainability" was organized by the St. Joseph's Institute of Management (SJIM) Bangalore, on Saturday, 4th March, 2017. The panelists for the symposium included Mr. Francois Gautier, Consul General, France; Mr. Dominic McAllister, Deputy High Commissioner, UK; Ms. Andrea Christ, Deputy Consul General, Germany; Ms. Conny Camenzind, Deputy Consul General, Switzerland; Dr. Venuprasad, IFS, Conservator of Forests; Dr. Caren Rodrigues, Professor, SJIM and Ms. Poornima S, student at SJIM.
The panelists discussed and exchanged relevant ideas about the topic. The European Consul Generals spoke about their respective countries' outlook, as well as current areas of collaboration between their country and India in areas such as pollution, wildlife, farming, green energy, and climate change. The Indian Conservator of Forests brought India's perspective to the panel.
Panelists concurred that environmental sustainability reinforces, and does not inhibit economic growth. They also spoke of how sustainability can be a driver of growth and jobs. Drawing from each of the five countries, they spoke of ways in which communities can be drawn away from environmentally harmful occupations while retaining their sense of culture and pride.
The inspiration for this symposium was Laudato Si, Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment or more formally, On Care for Our Common Home, which called for dialogues about how we are shaping the future of our planet.
The student audience for this symposium was selected competitively. Students from thirteen different Jesuit schools and colleges in Bangalore, which together have a student strength of over 11000 students, took part in painting, poetry and essay competitions that had environment sustainability as their theme. Over eighty students with the highest quality submissions were invited to be a part of the symposium. Cash prizes for the first, second and third place in each category were announced. The symposium concluded on a high note with the host SJIM students synchronizing a "flash-choir" around Michael Jackson's "Heal the World".


I went by an afternoon concert in High Point on Sunday and heard neighbor and Grays Chapel native Gerald Hampton play his mandolin with the band Molasses Creek. A hot evening produced some hot music. Along with Gerald, Gary Mitchell, Dave Tweedie, Marcy Brenner and Lou Castro (all four from Ocracoke Island), produce tight instrumentals and smooth vocals. Their repertoire goes from Bob Wills tunes to Peter Paul and Mary to original work with Cape Breton style fiddle. It goes from the Ink Spots to Dolly Parton and to traditional bluegrass with the addition of world class banjo picker, Stan Brown from Coleridge. For more info and to hear the band, go to http://www.molassescreek.com.


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Q: list of objects to Collections.map Given a list kinda like (simplified):
type foo(n:string,m:string,l:string) =
    member f.name=n
    member f.val1=m
    member f.val2=l
let dates = [
    foo("a","aa","aaa")
    foo("b","bb","bbb")
]

How can a a immutable dictionary-type structure (eg, Map, IDictionary...any others?) of the form key:foo.name,value:foo be made?
My best guess was
let fooDict = for f in foo do yield f.name,f

But that for-comprehension syntax can only be used to make a list, array, or seq?

A: I ended up with the more verbose (and ignorant of pipes):
Map.ofList([for f in foo do yield (f.name,f)])

A: Check out the dict function -- it takes a sequence of key-value tuples and creates an immutable dictionary from them.
With a list like the one you provided, you could use Seq.map to create the sequence, then pipe it into dict.

A: To create an immutable dictionary (the interface is mutable, but will throw an exception if you try to modify it)
[ for f in dates -> f.name,f ] |> dict

or
dates |> Seq.map (fun f -> f.name, f) |> dict

To create an immutable Map:
[ for f in dates -> f.name,f ] |> Map.ofSeq

or
dates |> Seq.map (fun f -> f.name, f) |> Map.ofSeq

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The Perfect Valentine's Day Plan - Done For You!
Here is our recipe for a perfect, romantic date, that doesn't break the bank and focuses on what matters... you two!
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The secret to a successful and fun Valentine's day is making your Valentine feel special and enjoying time with each other, and nothing does that like making something special with your sweetheart's favorite spirits.
Set the mood for the night with a special Valentine's day cocktail. Bring out the good glassware. Stock up on decadent garnishes like chocolate covered strawberries, cut fruit into heart shapes, and have chocolate sauce on the ready.
Gift idea: Stop using water glasses and purchase a nice set of martini glasses for tonight and other date nights!


Our school behaviour policy is 'Stay on Green', which is underpinned with positive behaviour management and the restorative approach.
Gold, silver and bronze awards are given to children who demonstrate excellent learning behaviours.
In addition to the Gold Award given to one child per week from each class; one child, across the school, will have the opportunity to receive a Gold Award in PE, Spanish, Art or Music each week.
Group Points – Are given for following the Learning and Behaviour Standards and making the right choice. Classes agree a total of points that they should try and achieve, when the class hits their target a reward is picked from their green point men. Green class rewards may be a fancy dress afternoon, baking, a pyjama party, free ICT time etc.
Praise – Class celebrations: fireworks, whoop, marshmallow clap, clam clap, motorbike!
Sometimes, children do not meet our behaviour expectations. When this happens, we follow our behaviour policy to get them back on track as quickly as possible.
Learning mentor to record on log and notify parent.
When children reach a second red this is deemed to be very serious. Parents will be notified and it will be recorded on the school's database. Whilst the child will receive a sanction, the emphasis will always be on returning to the expected Green behaviour as quickly as possible.


We find out what happens to Pan on "Save Henry" 3x09. This episode premieres December 1, 2013.
"The legend of Peter Pan comes to a startling conclusion. Anyone who thinks they know how it will end ... guess again."
"If we can hurt him... we can kill him."
"There's only one place you'll be reunited ... in death."
Is This the End of Pan?
I don't mean to intrude on your bliss. Some folks don't like to have plot points revealed to them in advance. So, if you found your way here by accident, and you don't wish to see any "Once Upon a Time" spoilers, now is the time to mosey on over to another page.
However, there are always folks who don't want to wait if they don't have to. Perhaps they will be travelling, or simply are very excited about certain characters and want time to prepare for what happens to them. Even if you are reading this page years after the original air date of this episode (whose title we don't even know at the time of this writing), you may be running through the episodes sequentially and not want to know a plot point in advance.
I actually did that with the original television show "Dallas" once, watching it from start to finish. Believe me, that taught me that it can take a long time and much effort to watch an entire show's run. "Dallas" aired for a dozen years, which was so long that they even had the luxury of throwing out an entire season's worth of episodes and characterizing those episodes (among the series' best) as nothing but a character's "dream." But I digress.
The picture below is a clear spoiler of what will happen to the central character of Pan. It was filmed on November 6, 2013, which means the scene likely will air some time in December 2013.
The actors are Robert Carlyle and Robbie Kay, who play Rumpelstiltskin and Pan, respectively. They were filming on the streets of "Storybrooke," which we all know is not featured much during the third season of "Once Upon a Time." Obviously, that is about to change.
All right, I will drag this out just a bit to leave a bit of space here for those of you who might have arrived accidentally.
All right, below is the picture.
Following the picture is a brief description of what you are seeing, in case it doesn't make much sense (it didn't to me at first). But again, I'm just telling you so that you can skip that, too, if you wish.
What we see is Rumpelstiltskin apparently tricking Pan into a friendly embrace. Rumpelstiltskin, however, unleashes the dark one's magic dagger and plunges it into the eternal boy, Pan. At this point, the young Pan (Kay) was switched out and replaced by an older actor. What happened seems pretty obvious.
Anyway, hope you enjoy (or enjoyed, depending upon when you read this) the episode.
3x08 ABC Promo "Think Lovely Thoughts"
Once Upon a Time 3x07 Promo "Dark Hollow" (HD).
"From under the sea, to the shores of Storybrooke - the battle to reunite their family comes home - now, the fate of Neverland is in their hands! Once Upon a Time is all new next Sunday on ABC."
Once Upon A Time 3x06 Sneak Peek #1 "Ariel" Ursula and Ariel. Ariel and Ursula have a little chat at night.
Once Upon A Time 3x06 - Ariel (Sneak Peek 2). A key moment in series three, when we meet new character Ariel.


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Pairing: Arthur/Lancelot, Tristan/Galahad
Feedback: Yes, please.
Disclaimer: Versions from the movie.
Notes: Lancelot, Tristan and Galahad are all around seventeen. Arthur's twenty-two.
Summary: Humorfic. First times.
I. First Try
"Arthur?"
Who stopped polishing his saddle and looked up, then smiled. "Oh, Lancelot. Did you need anything? Or have you decided to volunteer your help for once?"
The other man seemed a bit affected by the heat of the day, which had been enough to make Arthur strip to the waist a few hours before. Cleaning the tack was always a boring, exhausting task, but it vaguely irritated Arthur's eye to see little flecks of filth on the leather. In addition, their lives often depended on the quality of the gear that held them on the horse and not under it, so it was an important responsibility to attend to.
Lancelot sidled around Arthur and hopped up on the rail beside the saddle, grinning. He stuck two fingers in the collar of his shirt and pulled, thus showing that his flush was rather extensive. "My help? And what kind of reward would I get for providing that…service?"
Something in his tone sounded…strained. Arthur straightened and gave Lancelot a closer look in an attempt to figure out the reason for it, since Lancelot wasn't often uncomfortable around him. That flush was rather deep—it wasn't far enough into summer for the fever season, but nevertheless it might be possible. "The satisfaction of a duty fulfilled," Arthur dryly said, leaning in to check Lancelot's eyes. They seemed clear, even if the pupils appeared to be spasming. "Lancelot, are you well?"
"Perfectly." The other man leaned right back, a faint hint of mockery in his stance. "I…don't suppose you'd like to take a break and show me how to properly rub something else?"
Arthur blinked. Twice. It still wasn't that long of a pause.
Lancelot's amused expression suddenly went irritated and he jumped off the rail, stalking toward the door. "Never mind. Have fun with your tack. Stupid thick Romans…"
A. Consultation
"What do I have to do, throw myself in his lap?" With rather more than the necessary touch of drama, Lancelot threw up his hands and smacked his head against the table. He remained bent over and growled at the planks, kicking at Galahad beneath the top. "I'm speaking to you."
Tristan, on Galahad's other side, briefly looked over. "Gawain's going for the redhead."
"I noticed," Galahad snapped, finally dragging his half-mournful, half-furious gaze from the flirtations going on at the other end of the tavern. He slurped his drink as if he could kill it that way, and considering how messy he was being, he probably could. A slight flicker of exasperation crossed Tristan's face, but he seemed intent on repairing his knife and didn't show any further reaction.
"Well, pardon me for interrupting your longing looks." Lancelot drew his finger through one of the frothy pools Galahad had just spilled and flipped a few droplets at Galahad. "At least I'm trying. You just sit and watch. And then you annoy him later and he has no idea why you're so upset."
Galahad tried to punch over the table, but something deflected his wrist down. That same something shoved Lancelot back in his seat when he attempted to retaliate. Huffing, red-faced, the two of them turned to Tristan.
He apparently hadn't moved, and was calmly wrapping the handle of his knife in fresh leather.
Eyes rolling, Lancelot slouched back over his mug. "You think maybe hitting him would work?"
"No." The beer was dripping off Galahad's jaw and he took a moment to wipe it off, then to suck his fingers clean. Tristan abruptly sat up and changed knives. "Maybe he does know, and it's some Christian thing? I hear some of their priests swear never to fuck, as a sign of their purity."
II. Second Try
This time, Arthur was suspicious from the very first moment. But whatever the motivating cause, it wasn't his place to question why someone came seeking knowledge. At least, not directly. "You've never shown that much of an interest in Christianity before. Aside from what you need to know to argue with me."
The man pawing through the cluttered top of his desk paused and glanced over a shoulder, which pose made Lancelot look rather adorable. Something like a cat caught in the act of stealing the fish. "Hmm, really? Well, I'm curious. You hear some bizarre things about Christians down in the barracks."
Arthur carefully walked around the rummaging man and started snatching official documents away from Lancelot, keeping his distance in case Lancelot decided to turn it into a debate on Roman secrecy. Unusually for him, Lancelot merely gave the papers back and sat on his heels in Arthur's chair. His collar was open to halfway down his chest again, his sleeves were a bit short, and his trousers were worn thin enough for the outlines of his muscles to be clearly seen; Arthur made a note to drag Lancelot to the supply-warehouses and get him new clothes. "You're always free to ask for clarification, any time. I hope you know that by now."
"Of course I do." As Arthur moved, so did Lancelot, swiveling so he could keep that worryingly intense stare on Arthur. "So is it true Christians think some of our customs are sinful?"
And of course it wasn't going to be an easy discussion, even if Lancelot had apparently chosen to be slightly more polite about it. Mindful of his error—though he still wasn't quite certain as to what that had been—last time, Arthur answered right away. "Yes…some do. Christian doctrine does forbid several practices, such as polygamy and intercourse outside of marriage."
"What about intercourse between men?" A more innocent expression couldn't have been found on a little girl.
"That too." While Arthur freely admitted that his perception had its limits, he was not completely blind, or stupid. Oddly enough, he also felt rather more disappointed than he'd expected—though now was certainly not the time to think selfishly of himself. "But doctrine is less important than faith, in my opinion. We as human beings were given the gift of free will, and I believe God has more than enough understanding to see past bare rules to the true motivations of men. Moreover, it's important that the Christian faith be freely chosen; I will never force it or its rules on any of you."
That reply seemed to satisfy Lancelot, but only for a moment. His intelligence soon was chewing through the response, and the lack he found in it was quite clear in his eyes. "Arthur—"
"So you and all my knights are perfectly free to pursue your own interests among yourselves," Arthur added, hoping that would fix whatever he'd left undone.
Lancelot's mouth twitched. Then he pinched at his nose and rubbed the skin there, as if he had suddenly been afflicted with a massive headache. "You idiot."
B. Consultation
When he was lying in the grass like that, Lancelot greatly resembled a rotting trunk, felled by some strong wind. Except for the whining and the rise of his ass, which Galahad was tempted to hit, if only to get the man to shut up.
"…and now he thinks I'm…oh, great. I don't even want to think about who he thinks I'm chasing." The muffled moaning made the grass whisper and rustle, so that neither of them noticed Tristan till he was sitting in front of them. "Shit! Tristan!"
"Sorry." Tristan obviously wasn't, but he'd brought food, so Galahad decided he could forgive him this one time.
The berries were good—somehow, Tristan always managed to find the best fruit—and they were almost sweet enough to take away the bitterness of having to hear Gawain go on and on about how flexible that redhead had been. Sometimes Galahad thought he would have to sit on Gawain and stifle the man in his bedroll if he wanted any peace. But then he remembered that no, he couldn't do that, because then Gawain couldn't smile and show him the best way to do things. Well, for the moment. The sheer annoyance of it all was rapidly overwhelming Galahad's desire for…for…he couldn't remember, he was so irritated.
"I don't see what's so special about her," Galahad muttered, mashing the words through a mouthful of berries.
"Nothing." The expression on Tristan's face shifted a little as he looked at Galahad. After a moment, he reached out and took away the other berries. "You're a man, not a pig."
Glaring, Galahad tried and failed to retrieve the fruit. "You're not my mother. And what do you mean, nothing? There's got to be something if he—"
"There isn't. He just likes her." With a shrug, Tristan flicked the remaining berries into his mouth, expertly catching them on the downward fall. "That's how it works."
"You—" Fed up, Galahad lunged. And then tumbled, and accidentally grabbed a few parts because Tristan was more slippery than a greased snake, but that was hardly his fault. It certainly wasn't Galahad's fault when their mouths collided—and Tristan tasted rather nice with berry juice. He also knew what to do with his tongue.
Somebody coughed. Feeling rather dizzy and trying to figure out many things at once, Galahad dazedly pushed himself up to see Lancelot's smirking face. "Very cute."
Tristan reached out and gave Lancelot a push in exactly the right place to get the man rolling down the steep hillside. Then he turned back and looked down at Galahad, utterly blankfaced. His hands were trembling a little.
"You know, you need to laugh more." Galahad thought for a moment about Gawain, who was nice but who wasn't around long enough to figure out what annoyed him. Then he thought about the man lying above him, who did know exactly what annoyed him. And what didn't. "Gawain's an idiot."
"He's my friend," Tristan said in a faintly reproving tone, just before proving again that he was very attentive to what Galahad thought of the world. "Though in this case, I'll agree."
III. Third Try
Arthur opened the door and was promptly assaulted.
By the time he disentangled Lancelot from himself, someone had kicked the door shut, someone else had slammed the bolt home, and they were both missing a few layers of clothing. Lancelot, panting and flushed and fed-up, glowered at Arthur. "Did you or did you not like that?"
"That's what you were trying to say?" A little aggravated himself, Arthur turned them around so if they fell, the bed would cushion their fall. "Why didn't you just tell me?"
"Why didn't you—" Lancelot abruptly jumped to twine his legs around Arthur's waist "—tell me?"
He punctuated his demand with a long, slow lick up Arthur's neck; Arthur hissed and bit down a groan. "You're my knight, and you're barely seventeen. Coming from me, how would you know I wasn't trying to force you? I don't ever want you to feel as if you're—"
"Arthur, shut up and fuck me."
As it turned out, they still managed to miss the bed. But there was a nice rug on the floor, which Arthur would have to clean later. Still, it was worth it.

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Tightening up the various nuts and bolts on your bike is normally a bit of guesswork; if it doesn't slip then that's fine. However, anyone who has tried to get an over-tightened bolt undone with lashings of WD-40 will tell you it's a tricky business if you get it wrong. Worst of all, if you over-tighten screws etc you could end up damaging the component resulting in a cost repair or even injury. Fancy carbon parts are especially prone to this.
A lot of compnents like the stem pictured above already have the correct torque setting written on them, in the case of this Ritchey stem it says 5nm (Newton Meters). Most torque wrenches have this unit on them (but not Park Tools who use the USA measure'inch pounds') so it's a simple case of setting the dial to the required setting and tighten the bolt.
Most torque wrenches are different so always read the instructions. Some click when the setting is reached, other like ours rock at the head to tell you the correct torque has been applied.
If you are serious about looking after your bike or are working on other people's rides then you might want to consider investing in a torque wrench. It takes the guesswork out of cycle maintenance and may save you a few quid in the long-run.


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Home News Cannabis capers: A look back at burglary attempts at dispensaries
Cannabis capers: A look back at burglary attempts at dispensaries
by Garrett Rudolph November 7, 2014
written by November 7, 2014
By Patrick Wagner
Across the country, states have become steadily more accepting of cannabis, either for medicinal or recreational use, in lieu of scrutinizing the plant for its black market roots. This change of heart led to a boom in medical marijuana dispensaries across the U.S., as well as recreational retailers in Washington and Colorado.
Anti-marijuana lobbyists have often championed that accepting the marijuana trade would be the lynchpin that would trigger a spike in neighborhood crime rates. As time has passed, most research indicates that to be nothing more than fear-mongering.
Still, the newest green currency just happens to also be one of the oldest and many who still cling to the black market shadows find the allure of an unmanned, cash only dispensary too much to resist. In spite of the cameras, the fences, the actual warning signs placed in windows and along entrances, burglars still try to beat the odds and make a getaway into the night. Often these failed capers still offer good lessons for small business owners who wish to learn from these would-be Ocean 11s.
Bathroom bandit
SEATTLE — An unusual break-in occurred at Choice Wellness Center in North Seattle, when a burglar drilled through an adjacent bathroom wall to rob the dispensary.
The burglar broke into the laundry room housed in the lower level of the same building, ascended the stairwell in order to cut through a wall shared between the apartment community and the Choice Wellness Center.
Owner Dawn Darington's business has been burglarized three times in the two years since she opened her doors in 2012. In this case the burglar looks to be the same individual that committed the previous robberies and security camera footage obtained from the dispensary helps to solidify that notion.
"We've certainly jacked up our security," Darington told Marijuana Venture.
"Motion lights are really some of the best security you can have," she said. "Most people don't realize that."
Darington stressed the effectiveness of motion lighting, citing her early days as a security specialist. She also encouraged the use of high-end deadbolts to detour criminals.
Darington also warned about the reliance on panic alarms, noting that the police will outright ignore them. She encourages a good line of communication with the local authorities and a good security company that will call the police directly.
Deadbeats defeat deadbolts
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Southeast Portland dispensary was robbed of 10 marijuana plants after Bradley Smith, 48, kicked in the dispensary's front door and began uprooting the plants. FOX 12 in Portland reported that store owner Nathan Little was notified of the burglary by a call from his security company.
Little then notified the police, who caught Smith a block from the scene. The police returned the stolen plants to the dispensary, however Little said that the plants were beyond salvaging.
Smith was identified from the surveillance cameras that showed him kicking down the door and stealing the plants. Although Smith was booked on a second-degree burglary charge, Little was still unable to supply all of his patients due to the unforeseen loss, FOX 12 reported.
As per the investigation, local authorities speculated that the break-in could've been avoided altogether if the dispensary was fortified with a more secure door.
A similar string of three break-ins in North Seattle circulate around a pattern of doors being simply kicked in. As in the Portland case, authorities emphasize the value of a secure door.
Alarm system aids investigation
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — Police responded to a break-in that occurred at Soul Shine Medical Consulting in Breckenridge at roughly 1 a.m. to find that the suspect had already fled the scene through a back window. A walkthrough of the store by the Breckenridge officers revealed that no property was stolen in the burglary attempt, according to a story by the Summit Daily.
Investigators collected DNA samples from the break-in, theorizing that the suspect may have cut himself while entering through the broken window; however it is was suspected that it was the alarm that most likely triggered the suspect's early departure.
Alongside the DNA evidence, the police were able to retrieve video of the break-in from an infrared surveillance camera installed at the facility. While the footage gave the police a rough description of the suspect, investigating officers noted that the race and facial characteristics of the suspect are still in question due to the limitations of the infrared camera.
The cameras and alarms that helped and notified the police were installed as per state law requirements and according to local authorities they were key tools that have led the investigation.
Child locks only keep out children
SEATTLE — Many times an unguarded window or overlooked backdoor incites even the dimmest crooks to try their luck. According to the Seattle police blog, SPD Blotter, two teens were arrested while in the process of burglarizing a dispensary.
One of the two teens was found looking out from the dispensary's broken window when police arrived at the scene. The duo were caught in possession of a backpack filled with marijuana products and more than 50 marijuana joints, concentrates and containers.
Despite the youths' naiveté, the robbery was foiled and the products were recovered. However when two teenage boys were able to enter the facility without a scratch, perhaps a security walkthrough should be in order.
Darington, the owner of a different dispensary, recalls her last burglar who had to cut through an adjacent wall to break into her dispensary.
"Nothing's going to keep somebody out if they're bound and determined to get in," she said. "You just need to deter them enough that they just move down the street."
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It's only been 3 years since I won the CAEP grant (Communication between Emergency Physicians and Consultants: A qualitative study to define a model for Teaching Junior Learners in the Emergency Department) (2010), but I must say that It's been a great 3 years. I was but a lowly PGY-2 resident, embarking on her first independently driven research project. With strong mentorship from local experts, I applied and won a CAEP grant to support my research on consultations from the Emergency Department.
Fast forward 3 years later, and I am happy to report that the CAEP grant has allowed me to flourish as a early researcher. The CAEP grant has allowed me to complete my project, and it has resulted in multiple abstracts (one of which was selected as the Top Resident Abstract at CAEP 2012), and three peer reviewed publications! The support for my project from CAEP also helped me win subsequent grants (the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons grant for Studies in Medical Education 2011) and gain entry into Graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The lessons learned from writing the CAEP grant have also carried through into helping me collaborate upon and win two subsequent grants.
Moreover, the research that has resulted from the first CAEP grant have actually placed me in positions I have never thought possible as a PGY-4/5 resident. In 2012 because of my work on ED consultations, I was invited to take the lead on a consensus conference paper at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine's consensus conference on Medical Education research.
Currently, I am a Clinical Scholar in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. Clinically, I work as an attending physician at the Hamilton Health Sciences. For the foreseeable future, I am working on my Master's Thesis, and using the lessons learned from my first CAEP-sponsored project to make me more successful with my second round. I am 100% certain that many of my successes in my burgeoning career have been a direct result of the support from the CAEP grant. I am indebted to CAEP for their early support and encouragement via the CAEP grant.
Teresa Chan (EM educator) continues to work on her education research and is a co-editor and author on the CAEP Feature Education Innovations and CAEP GEMeS Series. She has been profiled as part of our Canadian EM Educator Bios.


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Q: AWS CLI V2 "AWS firehose put-record" complaining about Invalid base64: I have used to be able to send a record to firehose without any problem like this
aws firehose put-record --delivery-stream-name my-stream --record='Data="{\"foor\":\"bar\"}"'

But since I have updated my cli to version 2 I am getting this error:
Invalid base64: "{"foor":"bar"}"

I have tried to convert {"foor":"bar"} to based64 but then I got InvalidArgumentException
aws firehose put-record --delivery-stream-name my-stream --record='Data=e1wiYXNkZlwiOlwidGVzdGFtXCJ9Ig=='

An error occurred (InvalidArgumentException) when calling the PutRecord operation: This operation is not permitted on KinesisStreamAsSource delivery stream type.

A: If you're using v2 of the AWS CLI, use this command to invoke a putRecord call to Firehose:
aws firehose put-record --delivery-stream-name STREAM-NAME --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --record="{\"Data\":\"1\"}"

A: In My case, I was using Kinesis via Windows Powershell CLI.
aws kinesis put-record --stream-name First-Kinesis --data "Sign In" --partition-key user222 --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out

Adding below cofiguration resolved my issue.
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out

I hope this helps your purpose.

A: Try using "--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out" with your original command (the one without the base64 encoded record). AWS CLI version 2 passes binary parameters as base64-encoded strings by default.
Refer to the following link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cliv2-migration.html#cliv2-migration-binarypara

A: I received the same error message:

An error occurred (InvalidArgumentException) when calling the
PutRecord operation: This operation is not permitted on
KinesisStreamAsSource delivery stream type.

... and none of the above solutions helped.
There is another cause of this error message: it happens when your delivery stream is configured to use a Kinesis stream as a source.
When you create your stream, there is a choice of the stream source. It can be either:

*

*"Amazon Kinesis Data Streams" - choosing this will give you the error,

or

*

*"Direct PUT" - choosing this option will let you write to your stream with the CLI.


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Path to varsity status opens up for men's volleyball team
Charley Dutil
2019/11/24, 5:04 pm
The men's volleyball team could soon become the U of O's 10th varsity team. Photo: Colin Wilson/Provided
Volleyball club looking to bridge the financial gap between now and when new sports facility opens on campus
The University of Ottawa men's volleyball competitive club has been offered a path to a full varsity team status by the school's Sports Services. But for the men's volleyball team to achieve that status, they have to prove to the university that they can generate the revenue to cover the basic operations of the team.
This is a condition similar to the one the men's rugby had to fulfill in order to obtain their varsity club status back in 2017.
"Sports Services has given us the task to bridge the financial gap between now and until the new (sports) facility can be built," said Colin Wilson, head coach of the volleyball club. "If we can do that, (Sports Services) said they could even look into putting us in the RSEQ ahead of the opening of the new facility."
According to its campus masterplan from 2015, the U of O is looking to build a new sports facility that would include a triple gym with a capacity of up to 2,500 fans, along with a fully functional press box.
The new facility would also include a 50-metre swimming pool with a viewing capacity of roughly 1,000 and additional training/exercise rooms. This facility is planned to be built in what the university identifies as the Mann Avenue precinct area.
It is unclear, however, when this facility will open its doors. According to Wilson, construction was supposed to start within three years, but it's now looking more like three to five years.
"With the new facility, Sports Services says it doesn't make sense that they don't have a men's varsity volleyball program," Wilson said about Sports Services' reasoning. "It's a major sport in Canada and most universities have it, so why don't we as the third-largest university in Ontario? As with everything, the big issue is money."
Sports Services is "saying with a new facility, the possibility of a new varsity men's volleyball program would become viable because we'd be able to generate more revenue," said Wilson.
The club has already begun fundraising through a few different avenues, including looking to alumni and local businesses for donations and sponsorships.
The club also plans to run community programs and volleyball camps at the U of O that would create revenue for both the club and Sports Services. The Gee-Gees are looking to bring in the local volleyball community to help with programming and events as well.
The U of O used to have a varsity men's volleyball team in the 1960s that holds the distinction to this day of being the only university from Ontario to ever win a USport men's volleyball national championship, a feat accomplished way back in 1968.
Financial troubles at the U of O forced the team to become a club shortly after, and it was dissolved in 1984. In 1988, a new iteration of the club was created and has since been a part of the university landscape ever since at the U of O.
Competitive club closeup: Men's volleyball
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We decided to get nostalgic and dig through the archives in honour of our final print issue to present you with some of the classic hits from days of yore: Arts through the decades.
Men's Basketball wins important shootout on the road
Zack Goobie
Following an emotional loss to the Ravens at the Canadian Tire Centre, the Gee-Gees responded by defeating the sixth-ranked Laurentian Voyageurs in foreign territory on Feb. 9.
Gee-Gees shining in the community
This year, U of O varsity teams have been giving back to the community in many different ways—some donating blood, others going to developing countries to teach their respective sports, while still others focused on more local causes.
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Driver who sped through U of O campus sentenced to 39 months in prison
UOSU revokes club status of anti-abortion group
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Inside the world of sugar dating
A brief history of pornography until 1910
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Property Council research into rating policies in main cities paints a bleak picture for Wellington commercial property owners according to Mike Cole, Wellington Property Council Branch President. He says he is astounded by the differences bought to light in the report.
"Counterintuitively, the rating burden is falling disproportionately on those who are helping the city to grow and become more prosperous.
"We need a vibrant commercial property industry in Wellington to help drive economic and social prosperity for the city. We want jobs growth for our residents.
"There needs to be an objective and robust facts based debate on how essential services and infrastructure is funded in Wellington. For example, the Regional Council has consistently failed to provide a logical reasoning as to why commercial property owners are paying ten more in targeted rates than residential ratepayers who use the public transport system.
"Wellington City Council and Greater Wellington Regional Council must come to the party with stakeholders to develop a positive and transparent vision as to how essential services, infrastructure and economic growth projects are funded in the future".
Yep. And you get nothing for it either. With three businesses in hand, the rates bill is astronomical. If I could move to Lower Hutt or Porirua, I would.
I think they forgot to include Nick Leggett's authorisation statement on this PR.
The business sector needs to get real. Have any of them bothered to check the residential differences between Wellington and Auckland. Thought not! Besides, they don't pay the rates anyway, they add it on to their prices and act as tax collectors and no doubt have a collectors margin factored into their costings. Then of course, according to John Milford, they expect the residential ratepayers to front up for their airport extension and all the other 'good for business nice to haves' that they demand and most of the Councillors support.
Ian – nothing to stop you shifting. Do it and stop the bleeding moaning. There is really nothing to stop you, or is it far more profitable to be in Wellington despite the rates?
Leggett's property campaign funder mates are signalling here what the payback will be if Nick is elected mayor. Commercial load down. Relief on heritage rules. Seismic strengthening subsidies up. Paid for by residential rates up, more user pays. Will he close pool days and library hours like in Porirua?
What does Justin Lester, the executive member of the Property Council, have to say about his organisation's bleating? He, no doubt, realises that the residential differential between Wellington and Auckland is at least 50% higher than the commercial rate!
Looks like Leggett's got the property developers doing his bidding (again). No surprises given tonight's murmurings on Twitter that the latest polls show Coughlan could take the mayoral race.
Time for a change: you are signalling no change if Leggett gets in (God forbid)? Look at the promises of the other main contenders – increased rates are on the way at an even heavier residential loading.
If businesses want stupid loss-making liabilities like the convention centre and runway extension they should pay more rates, not less.
Another irrelevant cost spin. What about ratepayer costs in subsidized profits for these big companies most owned by foreign interests? People and the WCC have forgotten the function of WCC. It's not tourism, not "competition with other cities", not supporting big private companies or trying to "attract" foreigners .


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24h Le Mans 1978 – 24–godzinny wyścig rozegrany na torze Circuit de la Sarthe w dniach 10-11 czerwca 1978 roku.

Wyniki
Źródło: experiencelemans.com

Przypisy

Wyścigi 24h Le Mans
1978 w sportach motorowych
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#pragma once
#include "exceptions.h"
#include "constants.h"
#include "adaptor/adaptor_base.h"
#include <boost/bimap.hpp>

namespace unicbor {

class object {
public:
	enum type {
		UINT,
		NEGATIVE_INT,
		BYTE_STRING,
		TEXT_STRING,
		ARRAY,
		MAP,
		/*TAG,*/
		FLOAT,
		// Other are subtypes of FLOAT
		BOOL,
		UNDEFINED,
		NULL_VALUE,
		SIMPLE
	};

	object() {reset(UNDEFINED);}
	object(type type) {reset(type);}
	virtual ~object(){}

	void add_tag(tag tag){
		tags_.push_back(tag);
	}

	/* Definite payload types */
	void set_payload(const void* data, size_t size, type type){
		reset(type);
		payload_.assign((uint8_t*)data, ((uint8_t*)data) + size);
	}

	void add_payload(const void* data, size_t size){
		payload_.insert(payload_.end(), (uint8_t*)data, ((uint8_t*)data) + size);
	}

	// Binary string (aka Binary Large OBject aka BLOB)
	void set_bin(const void* data, size_t size){
		set_payload(data, size, type::BYTE_STRING);
	}

	// UTF-8 string
	void set_string(const char* data, size_t size){
		set_payload(data, size, type::TEXT_STRING);
	}

	/* Definite sequence types */
	object& add_item(){
		if(!is_sequence()) throw add_mismatch();

		items_.emplace_back();
		items_.back();
		return items_.back();
	}

	void add_item(object child){
		object& child_ref = add_item();
		child_ref = child;
	}

	template<class T>
	void add_item(T value){
		add_item().set(value);
	}

	template<class T>
	void add_item(const T* data, size_t size){
		add_item().set(data, size);
	}

	// Unsigned integer (uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, uint64_t)
	void set_uint(uint64_t value){
		reset(type::UINT); content_.uint_content_ = value;
	}

	// Negative integer in format std::abs(integer)-1
	void set_neg_int(uint64_t value){
		reset(type::NEGATIVE_INT); content_.uint_content_ = value;
	}

	// Simple values
	void set_simple(simple_value value){
		switch(value){
			case simple_value::TRUE_VALUE:
			case simple_value::FALSE_VALUE:
				reset(type::BOOL); break;

			case simple_value::UNDEFINED:
				reset(type::UNDEFINED); break;

			case simple_value::NULL_VALUE:
				reset(type::NULL_VALUE); break;

			case simple_value::BREAK_CODE:
			case simple_value::HALF:
			case simple_value::SINGLE:
			case simple_value::DOUBLE:
				reset(type::UNDEFINED); break;
			default:
				reset(type::SIMPLE);
		}
		content_.uint_content_ = (uint64_t)value;
	}

	// Boolean
	void set_bool(bool value){
		set_simple(value ? simple_value::TRUE_VALUE : simple_value::FALSE_VALUE);
	}

	// Null value
	void set_null(){
		set_simple(simple_value::NULL_VALUE);
	}

	// Undefined value
	void set_undefined(){
		set_simple(simple_value::UNDEFINED);
	}

	// Floating-point number
	void set_float(double value){
		reset(type::FLOAT); content_.float_content_ = value;
	}

	void reset(type type){
		type_ = type;
		payload_.clear();
		items_.clear();
		content_ = {0};
	}

	/* Getters */
	const std::vector<tag>& tags() const {return tags_;}
	type get_type() const {return type_;}

	uint64_t get_uint() const {return content_.uint_content_;}
	double get_float() const {return content_.float_content_;}

	const std::vector<uint8_t>& payload() const {return payload_;}

	std::vector<object>& items() {return items_;}
	const std::vector<object>& items() const {return items_;}

	/* Generic "set" functions */
	void set(const void* data, size_t size){set_bin(data, size);}
	void set(const char* data, size_t size){set_string(data, size);}

	template<class T>
	void set(T value){
		adaptor::set<T> setter;
		setter(*this, value);
	}

	template<class T>
	T as() const {
		adaptor::as<T> getter;
		return getter(*this);
	}

	template<class T>
	object(T value) : object() {set(value);}

	template<class T>
	object(const T* data, size_t size) : object() {set(data, size);}

	/* Properties */
	bool is_sequence() const {return type_ == ARRAY || type_ == MAP;}
	bool is_payload_type() const {return type_ == BYTE_STRING || type_ == TEXT_STRING;}

private:
	std::vector<tag> tags_;
	type type_;
	union object_union {
		uint64_t uint_content_;
		double float_content_;
	} content_;
	std::vector<uint8_t> payload_;
	std::vector<object> items_;
};

} /* namespace unicbor */

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Q: Zipping files to specified path in python I have been learning python since few weeks. In one of the problem I have to zip the files contained in list to the specified path. I am using python in Windows.
python zipall.py C:\temp C:\example
should extract particular type of files from C:\example, which I did successfully in some list (say listX). Now the job is to make zip file C:\temp consisting of the all files in listX in zipped form. How to perform this operation in Python?
I have to make zip file in specified path (here C:\temp) containing all files that are contained in list (here listX).
I tried zipfile.ZipFile() as below:
zip_name = zipfile.ZipFile(tozip, 'w')
l=len(listX)
ctr=0
for thelist in listX:
    zip_name = zipfile.ZipFile(tozip+str(ctr), 'w')
    if ctr<=l:
        ctr+=1
    zip_name.write(thelist,'zip')

It certainly creates 'l' zip files but I have to create 'l' zip files within path given by tozip ('C:\temp' above)

A: zipfile.ZipFile creates the output ZIP archive for you in the location you want the ZIP file written to. But you need to give it a filename, not a directory name. From your description it sounds like tozip was set to C:\temp. In which case you should use os.path.join to construct a filename, like this:
import os.path
tozip = os.path.join(r'C:\temp', 'out.zip')

That should get you an archive created in the directory you want. Note that you may do this instead, using the handy 'tempfile' library to avoid hardcoding a Windows path into your script:
import os.path
from tempfile import gettempdir
tozip = os.path.join(gettempdir(), 'out.zip')

Now, as you're iterating through the list, I think you want to add each file one at a time to the single archive you're creating, right? Your code is looping through listX, but for each file in listX it's creating a new ZIP archive, and adding that file to the new archive. Also, as it goes through the list, because each time you're assigning the new ZIP archive to zip_name, you've completely forgotten about the archive that you really want to have your output in. So I think you want this instead:
theZip = zipfile.ZipFile(tozip, 'w')
for elem in listX:
    theZip.write(elem)


As the sun shone bright on Orlando, Fla., and radio insiders from around the world poured into the conference hotel for the industry's largest U.S. convention of the year, one man was out by the pool … with his radio.
"I'm interested in the local formats, what they're playing … and it's entertainment," said Carl Marcuzzi, senior editor with Radio & Television Business Report, explaining to the Free Radio Alliance why he takes a radio with him wherever he goes. "These stations are the voice of the community," he said.
The word "community" surfaced over and over at the Radio Show to describe the way radio entertains, creates jobs, serves as a lifeline in times of disaster and provides promotion for emerging artists.
At this year's Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show, an event hosted by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to recognize stations and individuals for excellence and performance in radio, the enduring power of radio was on full display.
"Whether it's delivering a lifeline or playing the music everyone loves, America's radio stations are vital to our communities," said Matt Nathanson, multi-platinum recording artist and host of the awards ceremony.
Twenty-one radio stations from California to Puerto Rico were recognized for entertaining and informing communities, saving lives in times of disaster and reaching millions of devoted listeners.
WKAQ-AM of San Juan, P.R., won the Spanish Station of the Year Marconi Award for using everything from duct tape to cell phones to stay on the air and broadcast vital updates during Hurricane Maria.
Pat Kerrigan, news director at KSRO-AM in Santa Rosa, Calif., praised her station's work protecting and informing the community as wildfires swept the region in 2017.
"When I think about impact now, I think about how many lives were saved by this glorious medium we call radio," Kerrigan said as she accepted her Marconi Award for Medium Market Personality of the Year. KSRO-AM also took home the Marconi Award for Medium Market Station of the Year.
The Urban Station of the Year Marconi Award went to WWPR-FM in New York, N.Y., owned by iHeartMedia. The station is home to "The Breakfast Club," a nationally-syndicated morning show with 2.7 million subscribers on YouTube and four billion minutes consumed.
News/Talk Station of the Year Marconi Award-winner WTOP in Washington, D.C., will celebrate its 50-year anniversary of 24/7 news broadcasting in 2019.
"Wherever you are, radio is the heart and soul of your community," said Randy Gravely, president and CEO of Tri State Communications, Inc.
Refer your friends and colleagues to the Free Radio Alliance!
Be a citizen advocate – Share your personal story with your legislator. Research shows constituent voices matter to decision makers.
Take action – Ask your legislator to support the Local Radio Freedom Act, or thank them if they've already signed on.
The Free Radio Alliance also raffled off a pair of Bose® noise-cancelling headphones. Best of all, a student DJ won the prize!
As conference attendees and exhibitors packed up and headed home to their respective cities, towns and radio stations, the words of one Marconi Award-winner stuck with the Free Radio Alliance.
Rob Quicke, communications chair at William Paterson University and general manager of its student-run station, WPSC-FM, accepted his station's Non-commercial Station of the Year Marconi Award together with Station Manager Sebastian Escobar.
Read the full list of NAB 2018 Marconi Radio Award winners.


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ELSTON HOWARD
Born: February 23, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri
Died: December 14, 1980 in New York City, New York
Player Career
Bat: Right Throw: Right Height: 6' 2" Weight: 196
First Game: April 14, 1955 ; Final Game: September 29, 1968
Named AL Most Valuable Player by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1963)
Named catcher on The Sporting News AL All-Star Team (1961 and 1963 to 1964)
Won AL Gold Glove as catcher (1963 to 1964)
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Elston Howard This article was written by Cecilia Tan and is presented in part, courtesy of the Society for American Baseball Research Elston Howard was born February 23, 1929, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Emmaline Webb and Travis Howard. A schoolteacher in Sikeston, Missouri, Emmaline fled to St. Louis when Howard, her principal, refused to marry her. She worked to become a dietician, and when Elston was 5 years old, she married Wayman "Big Poppy" Hill. Elston attended the Toussaint L'Ouverture school as well as the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The church's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah M. Baker, became Elston's godfather, and the boy was raised to work hard and eat right (thanks to his mother's dietician's know-how).In the summer of 1945, Howard, then 16, was playing baseball in a sandlot when Frank Tetnus "Teannie" Edwards approached him. "The biggest kid on the field was hitting the ball so hard and far that it made Teannie mad," wrote Arlene Howard in her book Elston and Me. "When he got to the field he found out that the big kid was, in fact, one of the youngest on the lot." Edwards, a former Negro Leagues player himself, helped run the St. Louis Braves and he wanted Elston. Convincing Emmaline was the hardest part. Edwards had to promise that young Elston would eat properly. On Easter Sunday 1946 (April 21), Howard debuted in the Tandy League1, catching in a game against Kinloch. He had two hits and threw out two runners trying to steal second in a 5-4 loss.The following year, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the Major Leagues. Now 18, Howard was working at Bauer's grocery store and finishing at all-black Vashon High School. After Robinson's debut, Vashon hastily formed a baseball team. Elston was already a star athlete at Vashon, playing football, running track, and making all-state in basketball. He was easily the best player in baseball, as well, and after graduating from Vashon, he played another summer with the Braves.
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1980-It's-My-Turn (in person), 1964-1964-World-Series (in person), 1963-1963-MLB-All-Star-Game (in person), 1962-1962-World-Series (in person), 1961-1961-World-Series (in person), 1960-1960-World-Series (in person), 1958-1958-World-Series (in person), 1956-1956-World-Series (in person), 2001-Boston-Red-Sox:-100-Years-of-Baseball-History (Other), 1964-1964-MLB-All-Star-Game (in person), 1963-1963-World-Series (in person), 1955-1955-World-Series (in person), 1960-1969-The-Ed-Sullivan-Show (in person), 1977-The-Way-It-Was (in person), 1967-1967-World-Series (in person), 1957-1957-World-Series (in person)
ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 140462
ELSTON HOWARD Elston Howard signs an index card in blue ink. Signature: "Elston Howard", 5x3 index card. Elston Howard (1929-1980) was the first Black American to play for the New York Yankees (1955) and the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1963.
ELSTON HOWARD Signature in blue ink, encased with a PSA/DNA authenticating label Signature: "Elston Howard". Signed on un-lined card, encased with PSA/DNA authenticating label #D54455, to an overall size of 5½x3½.
ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: DICK HOWSER - HFSID 276687
ELSTON HOWARD and DICK HOWSER Two baseball heroes who died too young (age 51). Book Page signed: "Elston Howard", and on verso"Dick Howser", 5½x3½, encased in plastic with an authenticating label to an overall size of 7¼x4¼.
ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL CO-SIGNED BY: ORLANDO "THE BABY BULL" CEPEDA, JIM BIBBY, BOB GIBSON, PHIL RIZZUTO, DAN DRIESSEN, JOE GARAGIOLA - HFSID 111629
Regulation baseball signed in blue ink by the following: "Elston Howard, Orlando Cepeda, Bob Gibson, Joe Garagiola, Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bibby and Dan Driessen" in all 6 signatures
ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 292345
ELSTON HOWARD Postcard photo in Red Sox uniform with bat and mitt, encased with PSA/DNA certification Postcard Photograph signed: "Elston Howard", encased with PSA/DNA authenticating label #D54453, to an overall size of 3½x5½.
ELSTON HOWARD Black and white printed photograph of Elston Howard batting in his New York Yankees uniform. Printed Photograph signed: "Elston Howard". B/w, 4¾x6¾ overall, image 4¼x5¾ (one surface).
THE NEW YORK YANKEES - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: VIRGIL TRUCKS, WHITEY FORD, JIM DELSING, EDDIE LOPAT, GENE WOODLING, ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD - HFSID 140453
NEW YORK YANKEES: WHITEY FORD, ED LOPAT, ELSTON HOWARD and 3 others Card signed by six who wore the pinstripes Signature: "Elston Howard", "Whitey Ford", "Gene Woodling", "Virgil Trucks", "Ed Lopat" and "Jim Delsing", 3¼x4 yellow card. All six signers were Yankees, but not in the same year.
THE NEW YORK YANKEES - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL CIRCA 1960 CO-SIGNED BY: YOGI BERRA, ART DITMAR, JIM COATES, BILL "MOOSE" SKOWRON, ELI GRBA, CLETE BOYER, HECTOR LOPEZ, BILL STAFFORD, BOBBY RICHARDSON, JACK REED, LUIS "YO-YO" ARROYO, BOB CERV, TONY KUBEK, DALE LONG, ELSTON "ELLIE" HOWARD, JOE DeMAESTRI - HFSID 283611
Baseball signed by 15 members of the pennant-winning 1960 New York Yankees, with signatures of Hall of Famer and three-time American League MVP Yogi Berra, 1963 AL MVP Elston Howard, 1957 Rookie of the Year Tony Kubek and All-Stars Bill Skowron, Bobby Richardson, Luis Arroyo, Dale Long, Jim Coates, Bob Cerv and Joe DeMaestri
THE NEW YORK YANKEES - COLLECTION WITH YOGI BERRA, BILL "MOOSE" SKOWRON, ANDY CAREY, JERRY COLEMAN, TOMMY BYRNE, EDDIE (WILLIAM EDWARD) ROBINSON, BOBBY RICHARDSON, BOB CERV, CHARLIE "SWEDE" SILVERA, WHITEY FORD AND OTHERS - HFSID 90972
NEW YORK YANKEES: 1956. The only perfect game in World Series history. Comprises: (1) Photo-Typescript signed: "To Dale Mitchell--/Better Luck Next Time!/Don Larsen/#18/October 8, 1956". B/w, 8x10.


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'Laughter' shows power of expressing joy
By M.S. Mason Television critic of The Christian Science Monitor
Indian film director Mira Nair ("Mississippi Masala," "Salaam Bombay") was stuck in a traffic jam in Bombay, steaming with impatience like everyone else in the cars around her, until she looked up and saw about 2,000 women in white saris crossing the street and laughing in unison. The banners they carried said "World Laughter Day."
"My frustration at being stuck in a traffic jam just dissolved," said Ms. Nair in a recent interview. "So I mentioned it to a friend of mine, a photographer named Adam Bartos, and he thought it would make a great film. I wanted to make an absurdist film on the power of laughter. But then, when we got there, like life, you think it's for one thing and it turns out to be for another." The charming documentary she did make is The Laughing Clubs of India (Cinemax, Aug. 28, 7-7:35 p.m.).
People gather in parks, factories, or even in prisons, and spend 20 minutes a day laughing. There are actual exercises for laughter - and proponents find it quite relaxing and even life-changing, as she has witnessed.
What Nair found was that people who take laughter "seriously" in their lives, learn to love. She was deeply touched by the people she met. Like Americans, Indians are getting too busy to make room for laughter. So the clubs developed in a way that provides a feeling of community and joy that can be helpful to the perpetually stressed, she says.
Her own philosophy of filmmaking is generous toward her characters. And this film follows in that line of sly affection for the human. "I cannot think of doing any film without being deeply invested in it personally.... But I don't reflect on the journey. These subjects call to me and don't let me go. Ordinary people are extraordinary, and if you can capture them in their complexity, that's good - good for the world - because that's what life is like."
Joe Mantegna plays a lot of tough guys. One of my personal favorites is the Mafioso Fat Tony on "The Simpsons." He's back, as Robert B. Parker's tough but tender private eye, Spenser (this is his third Spenser film) in Walking Shadow (A&E, Aug. 26, 9-11 p.m.). The plot is far-fetched, but Mr. Mantegna makes it an enjoyable mystery with his deadpan cool and his occasional jowly scowl.
Spenser is asked by his girlfriend (Marcia Gay Harden) to investigate the stalking of a theater company director, and ends up in the mayhem of Asian mobsters and unhappy actresses.
As for the many cons, tough guys, and louses he's played - that's all acting. He keeps his real life separate from his working life. "I gravitate toward the way the British actors I've known work - more from the outside in," he says. "I can probably get as much from a pair of shoes a costumer gives me, as from going out on the street and living like a bum for a month in order to play a bum."
He's had a lot of variety in his career and has played a lot of leading men. But he always thinks of himself as a character actor. Part of the excitement of acting for him is never knowing what is coming next. That's how he found "Searching for Bobby Fisher" and "House of Games."
"We all have fantasy aspects of our characters we can tap into, but I make a clear distinction between what I play and my life," Mantegna says. "When I look at a script, as long as I feel that what I need to create that character is in there, that's all that concerns me."
Filmmaker Mira Nair tells stories 'no one else will'
'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' has a great cast and timely story
'Haha' vs. 'LOL': What your style of e-laughter says about you
https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0824/p19s1-altv.html


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Tash From Port Joana — The Psychology Of Choosing What To Give A Fck About
I have a very special guest today in the Grow Podcast: Tash from Port Joana. Natasha Nomathamsanqawenkosi Manzungu is as awesome as her name is long.
I am very happy that she found some time in her busy schedule to do the podcast with me. One of the goals of my psychology podcast is to portray extraordinary people who are successful in their own way. Tash definitely fits these criteria. She has a playful and hilarious way of describing her journey from Zimbabwe to the stages of Germany, where she entertains thousands of people.
To me, success is when people actively design their life after their true desires and add value to the world. Even when it means to go against the grain. Tash very early on decided against taking over her family empire because she wanted to follow her own calling in life. I think in this conversation there is a gold nugget for everybody.
Tash's journey is nothing short of a spectacular success story, and I am excited to see what is next in her adventure.
Listen on: Soundcloud, Itunes, Stitcher.
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Who is Natasha Nomathamsanqawenkosi Manzungu?
Natasha Nomathamsanqawenkosi Manzungu is an actress, musician, and lyricist born and raised in the city of kings, Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. She is a determined lover of all arts who exerts herself into learning from the arts, as well as expressing herself through arts.
She aims to inspire and motivate through her music and also to talk about forbidden topics and politics to keep people aware of the poison in the world. Her concerts have been said to be comical, but also pregnant with food for thought. Her personality shines through her eclectic music and her soul through her ability to house a role.
What Is This Episode About?
in our wide-ranging conversation, Natasha and I discuss, and I cover many topics, including:
How she became a singer
What her childhood looked like
The dangers of humility
What it takes to become a professional singer
Dealing with loss and grief
What a perfect day would look like to her
The importance of tears
Who she thinks of when she thinks of the word successful
Why she hates the word moist
Why she decided for art and against taking over the design empire of her mother
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Jerry Hoeck has had a long and distinguished career in advertising and public consulting and public service. In politics, he was particularly active in directing the campaigns and advising U.S. Senators Warren G. Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson. At UW, Hoeck worked on The Daily and for Columns, the campus humor magazine. On December 7, 1941, during his senior year at UW, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Hoeck and his Daily coworkers rushed to put out a special edition of the paper. He was later inducted into the UW Communication Alumni Hall of Fame.
At first, Hoeck wanted to join the Army Air Force; instead he stayed at UW to study Japanese. In spring, he was recruited to join the Navy's first Japanese Language School. He fought at Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. After the war, he was a founding partner of a Seattle advertising agency: Miller, McKay, Hoeck and Hartung. The agency was well known for its innovative creative work.
Hoeck's greatest passion was politics, and he soon became involved in the Democratic party. He worked on Warren Magnuson's 1948 Congressional campaign and his 1950 U.S. Senate campaign. In 1952, Hoeck helped young U.S. Rep. Henry M. Jackson in his U.S. Senate race, as well.
In 1960, he took a three-month leave of absence from the agency, and served as the advertising manager of the Democratic National Committee. After the election, he returned to Seattle, and continued to work for local Democrats, playing a major role in the 1964 election of four Washington state congressmen: Tom Foley, Brock Adams, Lloyd Meeds, and Floyd Hicks. In 1972 and 1976, he worked on the Jackson presidential campaigns.
Hoeck has been very active in community service, offering his advertising and marketing expertise to a wide variety of causes and organizations, including: the bond election for the Seattle Center, Civic Unity Committee, numerous Seattle School bond campaigns, Forward Thrust, and the slogan for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair "Century 21," a term that Hoeck and one of his business partners coined—as he says, "before there was a real estate company by that name!
The 25 years I spent in the ad agency business in Seattle (1946-1971) were marked by enormous change in both the city and the business. It's true that Seattle boomed during World War II with Boeing cranking out B-17s and the shipyards turning out ships night and day…but when the war ended, things went quiet and Seattle reverted to its former status of a slow-growth little "village" in the Northwest corner of the United States.
Things didn't start roaring again until the late 1950s.; It pays to remember that Boeing flew its first commercial jet passenger in 1958…and that changed Seattle and the entire world. Everything became "half as far away." Instead of 12 hours away, New York became only six hours away. And Los Angeles was only two hours away. And instead of taking all day, you could go to Honolulu for lunch. And Seattle in the eyes of rest of the United States became a reachable and real city. Steve Hannegan, the famous Hollywood publicist who promoted Sun Valley for Averill Harriman, once turned down a group of Seattle businessmen who wanted to hire him to publicize Seattle because he had only been to Seattle once and he thought "the best kept woman in town probably had a pull-down bed." So much for Seattle's reputation in the 1950s!
It was in this atmosphere that we started a tiny agency in the old Central Building on 3rd Avenue.It was just three guys and a girl: Wally Mackay, Marlowe Hartung and myself. We had been close friends at the UW.Wally had been the Daily editor, Marlowe had been editor of the Tyee yearbook and I had edited the Columns, the humor magazine. We all came out of the war at the same time and joined Wally's dad who had a one-man shop.
For the next eight years we really scrambled. We had no money and no real background. Any account was an account regardless how much they spent. If a furniture store spent $300 a month in radio spots, we handled them. The big accounts in town – the beers, the banks, Boeing, Weyerhaeuser – were all handled by the old-fashioned agencies like Cole & Weber, Honig-Cooper, Ruthrauf & Ryan, Botsford-Constantine-Gardner, McCann-Erickson. We weren't in their league and didn't pretend to be.They were conservative and more traditional. And that proved to be our opportunity.
The opportunity was television – a high school football game – we all gathered at the old Washington State Press Club to watch because they had the only one TV set downtown. After the show, I walked back to the Cobb Building with Loren Stone, the general account manager of KIRO, and asked his impression. He answered, "Well, it's interesting and entertaining but it will never replace radio." So much for the TV revolution!
It took us eight years to build up $1 million in total billings with perhaps a dozen clients – a lot of small start-up businesses run by people like Harvey Swenson with Sweden Freezer, Milt Charboneau with Tree Top Apple Juice, Phil Bayley with Olympic Stain, Nick Bez with West Coast Airlines and Ole Bardahl with his weird oil additive in Ballard.
Bardahl was kind of a fluke. In the beginning, like in 1947, they were a five-man operation with distribution only in western Washington with a budget of maybe $5,000 a year. By 1965, they had worldwide distribution and were spending millions in spot television. We got our feet wet in television with Bardahl. The first spot we ever made for Bardahl was filmed at Criterion Films, a studio over on Fairview opposite the Seattle Times. It was probably the only studio in town at the time. It was live action with a model named Marcia from the Bon Marche. Marcia later became Marcia Rosellini, the wife of Seattle's famous restaurateur.
But the spot that really built Bardahl was an animated spot …the first "Dragnet TV" parody. In 1952, I went to Hollywood for the first time with a storyboard and hired Ray Patin and Gus Jekel to do the animation. When the finished answer print came back to Seattle, I had to go to Tall's Camera Shop to look at it because the agency did not have a film projector – so much for the sophistication of Seattle ad agencies! The spot was named the best TV commercial of the year by Billboard Magazine and the New York Art Directors. But more importantly, it sold millions of cans of Bardahl across the U. S. and set up our agency as a young Seattle group that knew how to handle this new medium.
Shortly thereafter, we got a phone call from Jim Miller (Miller & Co agency) who wanted to merge. Jim was an account guy with Western Agency that handled Rainier Beer, and when Emil Sick fell out with the owner of the agency, he called Jim and told him to set up shop and he could have the account. So Jim had one account but it was worth $1 million. Jim, who was an old friend that I had gone to high school with, thought it was a good idea to merge the two agencies and we thought it was a good idea. Thus was born Miller, Mackay, Hoeck & Hartung – and it was a long, happy and successful marriage until we sold the agency to McCann-Erickson in 1964.
The 1960s brought on not only social change. It brought on change in what an agency was really supposed to do.The word 'creative' replaced 'media' and 'account service' as to what was the most important function an agency provided. Clients wanted the magic that agencies could provide in TV. It didn't matter whether the agency was in Seattle, New York City or Timbuktoo. We lost Rainier Beer for a couple years because Al Ferguson wanted the magic of Bill Bernbach in Manhattan. At least he went to the best. We got it back a few years later when we were McCann-Erickson.
Meanwhile, we scored some hits of our own, like taking a small meat packer with a brand of Bar-S and spread its fame so successfully with TV spots that Cudahy bought the company and moved the account to Omaha. That became the big headache in the business; the better job you did, the greater chance that somebody would buy the client and move the business.It happened to us with a paper client, an airline and a bank.
Now I'd like to conclude by talking about unusual people we met as clients. Let's start with KING Broadcasting Company.Everybody knows about Dorothy Bullitt, the fabled owner, but I would like to talk about the small crew that really built this broadcasting empire. The smartest move that Mrs. Bullitt ever made was when she brought young Otto Brandt from ABC in New York to run Channel 5. She already has a program director, Lee Schulman, and an advertising unit with Al Hunter, Jim Neidigh and Danny Starr that were better than she ever knew.
But Otto welded the group together and they became what I thought was the most imaginative and enterprising station in the country. They did things that no other station did. Otto took on civic problems and dramatized them on TV. Almost single-handed KING alerted the whole city to the fact that the Port was 'dead,' the harbor was empty of ships, we needed revamping of the Port Commission and an upgrade in our Port facilities.
The public responded and in 1960 elected a whole new Port management and passed a bond issue that re-built the Port. In less than 10 years, the Port was bustling with trade from Japan and the Far East. That was just the beginning. Brandt's sales team staged huge 'Treasure Hunts' in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco where hundreds of agency time-buyers participated every year in wonderful worldwide parties. Needless to say, in the minds of agency people thousands of miles away, KING-TV was the only station in Seattle.
Unfortunately, after years of amazing growth, for no explainable reason, Mrs. Bullitt replaced Otto Brandt with her son and the station was never the same. Otto became the RCA distributor and the rest spread to the winds. Lee Schulman became program director of the NBC television stations in Los Angeles and Chicago. In fact, he hired my daughter, Heidi, as political reporter under Tom Brokaw, then anchor at channel 2 in Virginia.
The brightest and most challenging person we ever met in the advertising business was Walter Straley, president of Pacific Northwest Bell. He was the perfect client; smart, creative, open to new ideas and he welcomed ads and initiatives that were 'out-of-the-box.' If this doesn't sound like the typical phone company executive, you are right! He wasn't. When AT&T broke up the national unit into regional operating companies, they decided to send a different kind of 'bird' to run the show in Washington and Oregon.
Probably the thought in New York HQ was that we were too far away to do much harm, so why not experiment? Walter started out as an actor; handsome, articulate, he was one of two announcers at the radio station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa. The other was a guy named 'Dutch' Reagan who later took the job of President of the United States. Walter said that Reagan chased a secretary to LA and that's how he ended up in the movie business and eventually as governor of California. Walter, like Otto Brandt at KING, made Pacific Northwest Bell a lively part of the community. His agency became a second tourism department for the state and the Governor.
We were asked to create large-scale conferences on the environment and urban development. Making ads was only one part of the agency's job, but the ads better be good and unusual. And to make sure, his ad manager was a lively, hard-charging guy named Dan Hutchins. When Straley later became head of all advertising and public relations for AT&T in New York, he took Dan with him. Sadly, one day, Dan's career ended with a heart attack at lunch at Club 21 in Manhattan.
The last fellow I want to mention may not appear to be part of the advertising business, but he was. He was my closest friend; John Haydon, a remarkable man. His last four jobs were President of the Port Commission, Governor of Samoa, owner of a garden nursery and manager of the Makah Tribe at Neah Bay. But he started out as an advertising salesman and writer for the trade magazine, Marine Digest. He became the first advertising and public relations director of the Port, then became advertising and sales manager for Bardahl Oil before he bought Marine Digest and ran for the Port Commission.
John was a navigator on B17s flying over Europe, was a writer and a hell of an idea man. As Port PR Director, he conceived the idea of the first 'Japanese Trade Fair' shortly after the war at the Edmondson Pavilion at the UW. As Dan Evans would gladly tell you, he probably wouldn't have been elected Governor without Haydon setting up dozens of support committees and organizing a huge direct-mail campaign, the likes of which this state has never seen. Also, when Haydon became Port Commissioner in 1960, he looked around and saw no black or minority employees, which was true of city and county government. Haydon changed that. Today over 15% of employees are minorities.
Today, thank God, due to some civil rights laws passes in the 1960s and the enlightenment of the general population, things are different. Minorities can get jobs in advertising. They can do anything. In fact, a black may become President.


With an eye toward reducing medical costs, the Cook County Health and Hospitals System is proposing to spend up to $70 million with a new for-profit company to coordinate the treatment of about 80,000 Medicaid patients.
That company, Medical Home Network ACO, is a spinoff of a nonprofit created five years ago to use data analysis to help local hospitals and clinics offer better treatment to Medicaid patients who often received care from multiple providers. Cook County Health, Rush University Medical Center and Sinai Health System were among the hospitals that contributed their patient data to the nonprofit, Chicago-based Medical Home Network.
The new company will build on the nonprofit's data experience and pass some of the contract proceeds on to doctors to hire care coordinators. For example, hospitals and clinics that are part of the network receive near real-time alerts if their patients show up at the ER or are admitted to the hospital. A care coordinator would meet the patient in the emergency room and set up a follow-up appointment with a primary care doctor to make sure that patient isn't using the ER unnecessarily.
Other care coordination efforts include visiting patients in the hospital before they are discharged to make sure they understand how to take their medication at home.
"It's really those types of things, really tightening up those transitions of care that are going to make a difference," said Dr. Art Jones, chief medical officer of Medical Home Network ACO.
Cook County Health is one of the largest public health systems in the nation and historically has treated a predominantly poor and uninsured population. The network includes John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital on the Near West Side, Provident Hospital on the South Side and several clinics.
In 2012, Cook County Health launched CountyCare as a pilot insurance program. In July, that pilot effort became a full-fledged Medicaid managed care program that made the health system an insurer in addition to a care provider. The program has about 100,000 enrollees, and that number is expected to double as the state mandates that half of the roughly 3 million Medicaid recipients in Illinois enroll in a managed care program by 2015.
The money for the new contract would come from the per-person allocation that CountyCare receives from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The proposed contract "is an initiative of the CountyCare health plan to see if we can lower the cost of care," said Steven Glass, who oversees managed care for Cook County Health.
The county health board is scheduled to vote on the contract Aug. 29.
The proposed contract highlights the increasing number of providers and payers, such as private insurers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that are teaming up to coordinate patient care. The idea of ACOs, which emerged in the wake of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, is to financially reward physicians and hospitals for improving patient care while lowering medical expenses and penalizing them if they don't.
ACOs do that, in part, by transforming the way doctors and hospitals get paid. Traditionally they were paid for each service provided, which did little to encourage physicians to monitor how many tests they performed or how much medicine they prescribed.
La Rabida Children's Hospital is one of the providers sharing its data with Medical Home Network and has also invested an undisclosed amount of capital to launch the ACO. The Far South Side hospital specializes in treating children with complex medical needs, and the bulk of its patients are on Medicaid.
CEO Brenda Wolf said the ACO is a robust model of care that prompts providers to pore over data to analyze how to improve patient outcomes, such as making sure patients see their doctors within a few days of an ER visit or hospital discharge.
"It really starts getting people to start thinking about their practices," Ms. Wolf said.


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