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Curacao upends Californians in championship game
— Aug 30th, 2004
Starting pitcher Jordan Brower, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., looks at the scoreboard during a three-run first inning by Curacao in the Little League World Series Championship game in South Williamsport, Pa. AP photo by Gene J. Puskar
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) Carlos Pineda looked shaky when he started with three consecutive balls and then hit California's leadoff batter. But he got a lot better in a hurry.
Pineda struck out 11 and Jurickson Profar hit a two-run homer as Pabao Little League of Willemstad, Curacao, took an early lead and held on for a 5-2 victory over Conejo Valley of Thousand Oaks, Calif., in the Little League World Series championship on Sunday night.
Curacao coach Michelangelo Celestina said the early advantage was "very important, because it was the first time we were in a final game of the Little League World Series."
Teams from Curacao reached the international final game the previous three years, but lost each time to a team from Japan.
California scored both of its runs in the top of the sixth, and had runners on first and third with two outs. James Brady grounded to first baseman Christopher Garia, who won a race to the bag for the final out.
It was the first Little League title for the tiny island in the Netherlands Antilles, and the first for any team from the Caribbean. Jonathan Schoop, who earned the save, said he expected crowds at the airport and a lot of attention at school.
In the consolation game, Lamar National Little League of Richmond, Texas, beat Linda Vista Little League of Guadalupe, Mexico, 5-0. Randal Grichuk's second hit of the game for Texas tied the record for hits in a series with 12.
Curacao (6-0) never trailed, going up 1-0 in the bottom of the first on Schoop's RBI single. Facing a 1-1 count, Profar homered to left field his first home run of the series to make it 3-0.
"I did all the things good I wanted to do hitting, defense," Profar said through an interpreter.
After that, Pineda (2-0) kept his team out of trouble.
"He was throwing very hard," Celestina said. "I think the speed that he has is unbeatable."
But it wasn't so much the speed as the deft mix of Pineda's fastball, breaking ball and the occasional curveball to keep California (5-1) off balance. Pineda struck out seven straight from the first inning through the third but that was only after his rough start.
"I was not following through, I wasn't whipping the ball for that first batter. That's why I was wild," Pineda said through an interpreter.
After that, "I concentrated for the strikes," Pineda said.
It was almost a complete collapse for a California team that many expected to dominate. Conejo Valley committed just two errors in five games, but had three errors by the end of the third inning of the title game. On Saturday night, California shut out a Texas team that averaged more than 10 runs a game.
California's coaches refused to come to the postgame news conference.
Curacao broke the game open in the third on a strange RBI double by Quincey van Blarcum. Cody Thomson slid to make the play in right field, but the ball bounced in front of him and over his body. Charlton Martis scored easily, while Willie Rifaela and van Blarcum continued around the bases.
The runners appeared to be jammed when Rifaela held up at third and van Blarcum was caught halfway between second and third. But when Rifaela went home, the throw to the plate was off the mark, allowing Rifaela to score, making it 5-0.
Curacao almost had another run when Schoop hit a long fly ball to right field, but Thomson stretched over the wall to make the catch.
Sean McIntyre doubled in the top of the sixth, setting up Adam Justiniano's two-run homer that brought California within 5-2. John Lister reached base on an outfield error, and Thomson singled on a short fly to right field, advancing Lister to third. But Garia made the play on Brady's grounder to secure the win for Curacao.
Jordan Brower (1-1) took the loss.
Texas 5, Mexico 0, third place
Grichuk's 12th hit of the series gave Texas a 3-0 lead in the third. He drove in Joey Scheurich with a single to center, tying the record set in 1996 by Hsieh Chin-Hsiung of Fu-Hsing Little League in Kaohsuing, Taiwan.
Grichuk scored on Dustin Moehlig's ground-rule double, and Steven Crawford's RBI single made it 5-0. Grichuk struck out 11 for Texas (5-1) and had two RBIs on his two hits.
"I didn't even know about the hitting thing," said Grichuk, who was chasing a record for most home runs. With four in this series and two last year, he fell one short of the record.
Grichuk's drive down the left field line in the first inning scored Joey Scheurich for a 1-0 lead, but Grichuk was tagged out trying to get to third. Daniel Homann followed with his second home run of the series.
Mexico (3-3) had runners on second and third after Walter Montemayor's single in the bottom of the first, but Grichuk stranded the runners by striking out Victor Gonzalez. Alan Camarillo almost got Mexico on the board in the bottom of the sixth with a fly ball to center field, but Ray Cervenka caught it at the wall.
Finally, a sunnyending for Seattle
Seattle Mariners' Jeremy Reed, right, goes head-to-head against the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez as he dives into third during the eighth inning Wednesday. Reed doubled, went to third on an error and scored the tie-breaking run on a single by Miguel Olivo. AP photo ... [Read More...]
Seattle's struggles continue
Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki hits a double against the Los Angeles Angels' during the seventh inning. It wasIchiro's only hit of the game. AP photo by John Froschauer Seattle Mariners catcher Miguel Olivo talks with starting pitcher Gil Meche during the first inning where ... [Read More...]
World Series opens in Williamsport
Cody Thomson, center rear, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., gets a taste of Little League World Series rain in South Williamsport. AP photo by Gene J. Puskar SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) -- Center fielder Trevor Tallent knew he'd get a chance to redeem himself ... [Read More...]
Handful of veterans return to Series
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- With his unassuming look and his shy smile, Randal Grichuk hardly looks like a grizzled veteran. But at the Little League World Series, where repeat appearances are rare, Grichuk is like an old soul. Grichuk and his team from ... [Read More...]
M's Play an Unlucky 13
Philadelphia catcher Mike Lieberthal pumps his fist after Seattle's Rene Rivera struck out looking in the 13th inning to end the game Thursday, at Safeco Field in Seattle. The Phillies won 3-2. associated press Philadelphia's Jimmy Rollins is greeted at the visitors' dugout ... [Read More...]


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/**
 * Equivalence oracle instantiation for the SFA algebra.
 * @author George Argyros
 */

package algebralearning.sfa;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

import org.sat4j.specs.TimeoutException;

import algebralearning.oracles.EquivalenceOracle;
import automata.sfa.SFA;
import theory.BooleanAlgebra;
import utilities.Pair;

/**
 * Implements the equivalence oracle for SFAs.
 *
 * @param <P> The type of predicates in the target SFA.
 * @param <D> The domain of the algebra of the target SFA.
 */
public class SFAEquivalenceOracle <P,D> extends EquivalenceOracle <SFA <P,D>, List <D>> {

	private SFA <P,D> correctModel;
	private BooleanAlgebra <P,D> ba;
	private List <D> cachedCe;
	private Integer distinctCeNum;
	private Integer cachedCeNum;

	/**
	 *
	 * @param cModel the target SFA for which equivalence will be checked against.
	 * @param b the boolean algebra used by the cModel SFA.
	 */
	public SFAEquivalenceOracle(SFA <P,D> cModel, BooleanAlgebra <P,D> b) {
		correctModel = cModel;
		ba = b;
		distinctCeNum = 0;
		cachedCeNum = 0;
		// cachedCe contains the last counterexample and the model is checked against it before
		// invoking the more expensive equivalence test.
		cachedCe = null;
	}

    public List <D>getCounterexample (SFA <P,D> model) throws TimeoutException {
		if ((cachedCe != null) &&
				(model.accepts(cachedCe, ba) != correctModel.accepts(cachedCe, ba))) {
			cachedCeNum ++;
			return cachedCe;
		}
		Pair <Boolean, List<D>>p = correctModel.isEquivalentPlusWitnessTo(model, ba);
		if (p.first) {
			return null;
		} else {
			cachedCe = new LinkedList <D>(p.second);
			distinctCeNum ++;
			return p.second;
		}
    }

    /**
     * @return the number of cached counterexamples used so far.
     */
    	public Integer getCachedCeNum() {
		   return cachedCeNum;
    	}

    	/**
    	 * @return the number of distinct counterexamples used so far.
    	 */
    	public Integer getDistinctCeNum() {
 		   return distinctCeNum;
 	}
}

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The species name itself is a literal celebration of the remarkable canopy environment this lichen inhabits (canopeorum). This minute, yellow to bluish white lichen has a crust-like form that grows on the bark of coast redwood tree trunks in the central part of the coast redwood ecosystem. While the rainiest, lush green canopies of the redwood rainforests in Humboldt and Del Norte County seem like the place where we would be most likely to find new species hidden in the wild canopy, this species is unique to the warmer and drier forest of Sonoma and Santa Cruz Counties.
We often fear biodiversity loss under the threat of climate change's warmer temperatures and likely drier weather, but this new species is an exciting reminder that there are species specifically suited to a wide range of climatic conditions as it thrives in warm coast redwood treetops.
We have to marvel at how many other species remain undiscovered in these forests and continue our effort to catalog its biodiversity so that we can design the most comprehensive conservation strategies possible for the redwoods and the multitude of other species that call this forest home.
Save the Redwoods League is proud to sponsor research like this, to better understand the forests we are committed to protecting in perpetuity.
Learn more about what's growing in the canopies of the tallest trees in the world and watch the video below.
Did you hear that Lonely Planet named the coast redwood range the number one travel destination in the U.S.? If you're eager to go, now you can enter to win a trip for two!


God is moving in Detroit and we want you to be a part of it. Whether you are already involved in this community, or just following God's leading, your financial gift will assist us in reaching Detroit with the love of Christ & supporting the vision of Detroit Church.
If you feel God tugging you to partner with us and contribute your time, talent or treasure to Detroit Church, we'd love to hear from you!
At Detroit Church, we believe that we are called to not just be spectators, but to take part. We are called to take part by giving three things: time, talent and treasure. Each gift is equally important to furthering the Kingdom of Christ. It is often said that our time is our most valuable asset. We don't want to just go to church on the weekends, but rather be the church every day of the week. This takes time. Throughout scripture, Jesus makes it clear that we are each given various talents and the manner in which we use our talents is of the utmost importance. We want to give God our best. We each have unique talents and passions, it is only when we all bring our best that the body of Christ can work at its best.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Jesus makes it abundantly clear that money and the way we use and spend our finances is directly tied to the posture of our hearts. Giving not only helps the church run, but the act of giving illustrates our trust in Christ.


Submitted by Francois Budin on 08-10-2010.
This paper describes the implementation of a resampling filter for Diffusion Tensor Images (DTI) in the Insight ToolKit (ITK). ITK already contains a filter for resampling scalar and vector images as well as several transformation and interpolation classes. However, due to the directional nature of DT images, using the existing classes would result in losing the structural information of the image.
We developed a new resampling filter, specific to DTI, that preserves the structure by applying a rotation directly on the tensors while performing the transformation of the image. New transformation and interpolator classes have also been implemented to handle tensors correctly. The new transformation classes are based on algorithms described by D.C. Alexander et al. Finally, three filters have been written to correct symmetric semi-definite matrices that would no longer be positive after the resampling process and project them into the tensors' space. In addition, a software based on the new classes has been developed and is provided with this article.


Do you know how much bandwidth you Citrix solution will consume? How can you predict the bandwidth load on remote locations? In this blogpost I will show you how you can use some simple freeware tools to record a realistic workload and emulate x numbers of users. The result will be logged to a CSV file.
Some scripts that I will describe later in this blogpost.
Create your test users in AD with a common prefix and ending with a number from 1-X where X is the amount of users you want to emulate. Assign a mandatory profile or no userprofile to the users.
Add the testusers to the "Direct Access Users" local group on the XenApp servers you want to test with.
First you have to create the workload. I recommend using the first test user account for this. Start the Au3Recorder.exe and record the keyboard and mouse clicks from your applications. When finished, save the Autoit script.
Logoff and on again and try the workload script by executing autoit.exe with the .au3 file you created. Verify that the script executes without any failures. You are going to have to re-record or edit the script if it fails or stops.
Assign this script to the test users. Login with the test users and verify that it runs the GPUPerf tool and the .au3 script.
Execute the script and watch it create multiple XenApp sessions with a recorded workload.
When finished, go to the log share and open the .csv files in excel. You'll have to merge the content together and then you can create a nice chart like this to visualize you data.
You can now start playing with optimization policy to see how much bandwidth you can save.
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Please note -ABATALAY CONDO DESCRIPTION PLACED FOR INFORMATION ONLY. Project Abatalay condo is cancelled.
Residents and guest will enjoy the ground floor restaurant and pub, mini mart, laundry service, ATM and space for additional commercial servises.
Shuttle service provided to the beach and surrounding area.


Pax Atomica is one of the terms that has sometimes been used to describe the period of severe tensions without a major military conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The term is also at times used to describe the entire post World War II/ post-atomic-bomb era. In the phrase's narrower application, applying only to the Cold War era, the phrase refers to the argument that the stability between the two superpowers was caused by each side's large nuclear arsenals which led to a state of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). That is, if one of the superpowers would have launched a nuclear attack, the other would have responded in the same way. This threatened the complete destruction of both countries and probably the entire northern hemisphere. John Lewis Gaddis has described the period as the Long Peace.
In the phrase's broader application, applying to the entire post World War II era, the phrase refers to the argument that the possession of nuclear arms by several of the world's larger powers has tended to act to prevent the outbreak of full-scale warfare between any of these several powers, also due to the probability of MAD.
The phrase Pax Atomica is derived from the more popular terms Pax Romana, which describes the period of stability under Roman hegemony during the Roman Age.
^ Rödder, Andreas. Deutschland Einig Vaterland. Ch Beck oHG, München, 2010, p. 44.
^ a b Chicken Pax Atomica: The Cold War Stability of Nuclear Deterrence. By James Pasley. Journal of International and Area Studies. Vol. 15, No. 2, December 2008. Pg. 21.
^ Selassie, Bereket H. Eritrea and the United States. The Red Sea Press, 1989, p. 2.


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The Jewish Week, September 16, 2005
Several months ago, when I chose to bring a congregational tour to Israel this summer, little did I know that our journey would coincide with the Gaza disengagement. While Gaza was not exactly on our itinerary, every aspect of this trip suddenly took on new significance as we immersed ourselves in a bubbling cauldron of orange and blue.
Israel is a place where even the choice of luggage adornments has meaning. Our tour company innocently distributed orange luggage handles, all the easier to pick out on a baggage carousel. Orange, of course, has been the ubiquitous color of those opposing disengagement.
Concerned that we would be construed by El Al security as anti-government agitators flying to Israel a week before the D-Day, I hastily prepared talking points for group members to explain to agents that sometimes orange is simply orange.
Sometimes a visit to Masada is simply a visit to Masada -- except when, at the very moment my group was descending from the heralded rock in the desert, Masada's suicidal legacy was being played out in real time. First, a female settler set herself afire at an intersection near Gaza (the woman, Yelena Bosinov, later died of her wounds) and the madness continued as another settler, a man, dangled his baby Michael Jackson-style over the railing of his soon-to-be-abandoned home.
The "Masada scenario" was an oft-discussed topic during the weeks prior to disengagement. While no mass suicide-murder ultimately took place, the mere fact of it being discussed so freely attested to the grip ancient events have on the Israeli populace. Americans also invoke history freely, but we usually go back no further than a generation or two, to Vietnam or Watergate. Not so for Israelis, where ancient Herodian ruins are today's news and where the disengagement even before it had happened had already been rolled into the series of traumatic events recalled on Tisha b'Av.
The Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv celebrates the heroism of Israel's Greatest Generation, those who risked all to forge the new state. As my group learned about the internal conflicts between Ben-Gurion's centrist authority and the right-wing groups like the Irgun and Stern Gang, the Altalena incident was being re-enacted just a few miles down the coast, in Gaza. In 1948, you may recall, a ship loaded with weapons for the Irgun was sunk by Ben-Gurion's forces. And here, once again, an Israeli authority asserted its control over the far right using military might.
So the disengagement was either the work of a conniving Judenrat or a heroic Haganah; take your pick. Our group could not escape the crossfire of historical analogies, which is just how we wanted it. We were anxious to learn as much as we could. We even arranged for phone interviews with a soldier at the front and a disengagement opponent who somehow had managed
to join his brethren in Gush Katif.
On the second day of the trip, we traveled about 40 minutes southeast of Tel Aviv to Bet Guvrin, just a stone's throw from where David defeated Goliath and now a popular archaeological site where tourists dig for a day. The site is dotted with hundreds of limestone caves that were used as homes by Idumeans during the second century BCE, a period when the descendents of
the Maccabees were consolidating their rule.
The Idumeans were resident aliens and the king, John Hyrcanus, gave them the choice to convert to Judaism, leave or die. Most chose exile, and since they didn't want their enemy to enjoy the fruits of their affluence, they dumped their household pottery and other possessions into big piles in their basements -- these caves. Ironically, this scorched-earth policy, which was intended to bury forever the evidence of their residence, has made it much easier for us to rediscover the Idumeans today.
Meanwhile, down the road, our modern-day Idumeans were turning the homes and synagogues of Gush Katif into tomorrow's Bet Guvrin.
Late in the trip we had a bar/bat mitzvah affirmation service at the Western Wall. Midway through there was a quick announcement in Hebrew and then a sudden explosion. This was a controlled explosion, the routine detonation of a nearby suspicious object, but there was nothing routine about the incident for us. Shaken but undaunted, and feeling perhaps more
heroic than deserved, we resolutely went on with the service. The big bang was a startling reminder of what it really means to be a Jew choosing to take part in the greatest drama Jewish history has ever known: the State of Israel.
That night, just as I was settling into my hotel room to relax, I heard another sudden explosion. I quickly looked out my window and it was one of the most spectacular fireworks shows I'd ever seen, right over the Tower of David. The display celebrated the opening of a major international crafts fair, formerly an annual event but more recently a victim of the Terror War. And I thought, "Why not! Why should Israelis be denied the simple pleasure of having an explosion be just a few fireworks from time to time?"
Sometimes an explosion is just an explosion. In Israel, that's what normalcy is all about.
Maybe now, orange can go back to simply being orange.
Labels: Israel, Jewish Week "On One Foot" articles

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


So, it's on to the next project!! And this one is a bit different than what we've done before. Doesn't this look like a quintessential American farmhouse? The records show it was built in 1925 and it's on an unusually large lot, making me wonder if it was the original farmhouse for the area. Most of the surrounding houses appear to have been built in the 1930's, long after this one was finished.
And the farmhouse styling is evident on the interior as well. The moldings are very simple - 1x4 boards, with no ornamentation. The newel post and balusters are equally simple.
It's been meticulously maintained and has only had a few owners in almost 100 years. And this house has a warm, comforting 'vibe' that everyone seems to notice. Maybe it's because it was so well loved over the years, maybe it's the sunshine that comes streaming through the windows, but it's a really welcoming home.
1) Potential - This place has a LOT of rooms. And that means a lot of walls. Seriously, for someone that likes to open up walls to create large living spaces, well, it doesn't get much better than this! I'm so excited about the potential in this place! It's going to be amazing!
When you walk through the front door, you find yourself in the front porch. My guess is this used to be an open porch, but it's been closed up with lots of windows and knotty pine paneling.
Once you walk through the door at the end of the hall, you find yourself in a very large foyer. It has a big closet at the end of the room, flanked by the living room and dining room.
The living room appears to have been an addition at some point in time. It has lots of windows and a wood stove.
The dining room is really large, with wallpaper that I swear my mother had when I was growing up. It's a bit dark, which is typical when you have a full porch on the front of the house.
Don't you love the little hutch built in under the stairs?
The dining room leads to a narrow room that I don't quite know what to name. It's not big enough for a table, but it has the staircase to go upstairs, so I've nicknamed it the staircase room. And it has a very cool little built in china cabinet. Isn't it adorable???
I'm guessing the kitchen was updated in the 70's. Everything has been very well maintained, but it's certainly time for an update!
There is this extra space in the back of the kitchen that leads to the back door. I'm guessing some sort of mudroom? And see that window, that's the only view to the backyard. We need to change that!
Upstairs, we have more wallpaper - yikes! But aren't the funky angles kind of cool? Seems like a very modern layout for 1925!
There are three bedrooms and all of them have windows on two sides, which I really love for capturing a cross breeze in the summertime. This is the largest of the bedrooms. Plenty of room for a queen or king sized bed.
And this room is large as well.
The third bedroom is a bit smaller, in part because of the funky angled wall (off to the right of the closet door). But it's still fine for a twin bed and a dresser.
The bathroom is interesting. The front of it is pretty typical (and yup, it's pink!!! Deja vu!), but as you turn the corner, you discover a long hall with a built in chest at the back. Unique!!
And the house has a large, dry basement that has had the walls insulated. The boiler has certainly been a champ and could use an update, but I want to investigate changing to gas.
2) Privacy - this house has a really large, private backyard (with a big lilac tree in the middle). That is so rare in this area, where most homes are on one tenth of an acre. But unfortunately, with the current design, you really don't notice the nice backyard from inside the house. So, I'm planning to add french doors to a large deck that will maximize the views to the yard.
3) 2 Car Garage - If I had to guess, I'd say less than 10% of the homes in this area have a 2 car garage (the vast majority don't have any garage!). And when you live in Maine with our snowy winters - well that's a big deal!!! Not to mention a big driveway that would be perfect for a basketball hoop (when it's not snowing).
Wallpaper - seriously I'm going to be working overtime to remove all the wallpaper! And as many of you know, that can be a pretty miserable task. But it really doesn't fit into my design scheme!
But I love pretty much everything else. The original maple floors are in great shape and it's a good solid house. We started working on it a few weeks ago. So I've been taking a lot of photos and will try to catch you up on our progress. This one is going to be fun! Are you following on Facebook or Instagram? I share a lot of photos there as well! So glad you're joining to watch it unfold!
I'm in love with that wallpaper in the foyer. This looks like a great blank slate, I can't wait to see what you do with it!
This one is going to be a lot of fun to watch you design. Maybe the front door used to go into the room with the stairs? I think that little area of the kitchen by the back door was a breakfast nook...pretty common in that era. My in-laws had a house of that era with a breakfast nook, except there was a wall dividing the table area from the back door, and the table area also had an arch between it and the kitchen. I just know you will open up that porch. Love the property too.
Love it and can hardly wait. When is your finish date. Coming down from NS in Sept.
it definitely has great bones! I can't wait to see the finished project!
Looks like there is another built in cabinet in the wall opposite the little china cabinet in the stairway room. Also don't like the heat registers in some of the rooms above the baseboards, have never seen that before. This is going to be so much fun to watch come together. Wish I lived in SoPo so I could actually see one of your projects in person but I'm afraid ND is a bit too far away.
This is going to be fun seeing this charming house get redressed like Cinderella!
Looks like you've got another terrific project going! Have you thought about opening up that closed-in front porch? I think it would add a lot of charm to the front of the house. And provide a great place to sit & watch the world go by on a nice Summer evening!
Is it possible the staircase room used to be a foyer before the living room addition was added on? Sure looks like a foyer. Do you have a floor plan?
LOVE this one, although I say that every time. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
Was it originally this exact exterior/interior? It looks like huge dormer walls (for lack of a better term) were added to a gambrel roof at some point from the side view. Just curious! It's a neat house and that built in china cabinet is fantastic.
Farmhouse Demo Days - Knock Down Those Walls!!


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https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Emergency-food-pantry-dedicated-11618586.php
Emergency food pantry dedicated?
Pamela McLoughlin, Register Staff
Published 12:00 am EDT, Tuesday, October 5, 2010
NEW HAVEN -- The emergency food pantry at AIDS Project New Haven was dedicated Wednesday to a man who, whenever asked, "What do people with HIV eat?" replied, "Lobster and steak."
The late Ed Leduc, a former client who struggled for years with homelessness and drug addiction, used his ensuing years of sobriety to tell student groups of the importance of "staying safe" and "staying negative" from HIV.
Leduc died six months ago at age 52.
He also waived speaking stipends and, in exchange, asked students to collect food for the pantry. His audiences ranged from middle school to college students, often speaking at Southern Connecticut University, and when he didn't think a food collection was big enough, he'd go back and ask for more.
"Ed was an amazing guy," said Nicholas Boshnack, director of client services at APNH. "He made a difference, but he never made a big deal about it."
Boshnack said Leduc worked tirelessly and quietly loading his pick-up truck with donated food and in other ways, including helping others move, doing handyman jobs at clients' homes, helping with the Caring Cuisine program and serving as an advocate and community adviser at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale. He was a member of the Ryan White Planning Council.
The dedication of the food pantry Wednesday at APNH was attended by far more fans of Leduc's work than could fit in the neatly stocked food pantry.
His sister, Joanne Malave, chuckled, thinking of how her brother probably would have asked people to come to the dedication with their hands full of food.
Malave said that as he lived on the streets for years, Leduc knew what it was like to be hungry. "This is great, it's wonderful. ... He'd probably be happy," Malave said. "He had a big impact on many groups." And apparently on Malave's son, Johnny, a college student in Boston who is trying to start an AIDS network there.
Leif Mitchell, an official from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, said that as a 10-year member of the advisory board, Leduc "really kept it real," using his closeness to the community to help gauge which initiatives would and would not be effective.
"We miss Ed terribly," Mitchell said.
The emergency food pantry, used frequently during these trying economic times, APNH officials said, serves about 60 people per month; it is stocked through individual donations and a partnership with Connecticut Food Bank. Clients choose their own food, and some toiletries are available.
One of Leduc's favorite phrases was, "tickle your heart," and so the new pantry door plaque that bears Leduc's name, reads: Nourishment to "tickle your heart."
To donate, send checks or drop food, money or toiletries at the APNH office, 1302 Chapel St.


The amazing development of Christianity within the worldwide South over the process the 20 th century has sparked an both quick development in stories of ''World Christianity,'' that have dismantled the proposal that Christianity is a Western faith. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who've, for hundreds of years, been evangelizing within the international South? have been they in simple terms, as many have argued, brokers of imperialism out to impose Western values? In An Unpredictable Gospel, Jay Case examines the efforts of yankee evangelical missionaries in mild of this new scholarship. He argues that in the event that they have been brokers of imperialism, they have been terrible ones. Western missionaries had a depressing list of changing non-Westerners to Christianity. The ministries that have been so much profitable have been those who empowered the neighborhood inhabitants and tailored to neighborhood cultures. actually, effect usually flowed the wrong way, with missionaries serving as conduits for ideas that formed American evangelicalism. Case strains those currents and sheds new mild at the courting among Western and non-Western Christianities.
More cash, extra Ministry explores the position that cash has performed within the progress of North American evangelicalism during the last a hundred and fifty years - together with its uneasy, occasionally ambivalent position in evangelical attention. specialists at the modern spiritual scene speak about how evangelicals have lately thought of, used, and raised funds, having a look particularly at Christian nonprofit companies, fund-raising recommendations, advertisements and consumerism, evangelical greater schooling, monetary scandals, and the relationship among cash and theology.
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Marius Grout (born 8 November 1903 Fauville-en-Caux – 1 May 1946 Le Havre) was a French writer and poet.

Life
His father was a postman in St. Saire near Neufchâtel-en-Bray. He chose teaching. In 1932, he joined the Religious Society of Friends.

In the late 1930s, he befriended a group of writers, which included Emile Danoën and his former pupil Pierre Aubery.

In 1937 he published his first book, Kagawa, through the Society of Friends. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1943 for his novel Passage of rights.

He died at Le Havre and was buried in Incheville.

A school is named after him in Rouen, a school in Montivilliers, and the Primary School in Saint-Saire.

Works
 Kagawa, biographie, 1937
 Le Poète et le Saint, essai, 1938
 Le Déluge, théâtre, 1939
 Musique d'Avent, Paris, Gallimard, 1941
 Mysticisme et poésie, Paris, Albin Michel, 1942
 Le vent se lève, Paris, Gallimard, 1942
 Passage de l'homme, Paris, Gallimard, 1943, Gallimard, Prix Goncourt
 Translated in English, by Emerson Lamb et published with an introduction by Henry Van Etten for Vantage Press, New York, 1962, When the man passed by.
 Poèmes, Paris, Gallimard, 1944
 Un Homme perdu, Paris, Gallimard, 1945
 Poèmes à l'inconnue, Paris, Le Seuil, 1945
 À un Jeune Poète, Paris, Éditions du Pavois, 1945
 Kagawa, le Gandhi japonais, Préf. de Toyohiko Kagawa (en), Paris, Presses d'Île-de-France, 1946

Bibliography
 Georges Hirondel, Marius Grout: Prix Goncourt 1943: aventurier de l'absolu, Luneray, Bertout, ()
 Georges Hirondel, Marius Grout : Ecrivain de l'absolu – Essai d'une "revie" littéraire, Thèse à la carte A.N.R.T, ()

1903 births
1946 deaths
People from Seine-Maritime
Writers from Normandy
Prix Goncourt winners
French male writers
20th-century French male writers

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WATCH: Limerick publicans urge re-opening of bars in line with restaurants
Nick Rabbits
nick.rabbits@limerickleader.ie
PUBLICANS in Limerick have joined their colleagues across the country in urging the re-opening of bars at the same time as restaurants.
As part of the strategy to return Ireland to normality following the coronavirus outbreak, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced before the weekend that all going to plan, pubs will be able to open from Monday, August 10.
However, this is a full six weeks after restaurants and cafes are allowed to re-open under the plans.
Now, the Vintners Federation of Ireland (VFI), which represents publicans across the state, is preparing a plan which they hope could persuade government to allow them re-open at the same time as other eateries.
Local VFI spokesperson, Cllr Jerry O'Dea, who runs a bar in Mulgrave Street, says bar owners have proven they can be responsible with the immediate shutdown of pubs in March.
Read also: Limerick hairdresser ready for the surge of clients
"As publicans we are bitterly disappointed to be treated differently to restaurants. We feel all hospitality businesses should be treated the same. More food is sold in pubs then in restaurants," he said.
He believes the six-week time-gap will lead to many people heading into restaurants, ordering little food, and drinking "plenty of wine and beer."
Cllr O'Dea did acknowledge for some pubs, operating with social distancing in place may prove economically unviable.
But he said, at least with government direction, any publican will be able to make up their own mind.
Mike McMahon, who runs Mother Mac's in High Street said enforced social distancing may not only prove to be loss-making for his pub, but it might also harm the atmosphere in the landmark building.
"We are not about just serving alcohol. It's about the atmosphere, the camaraderie, the bit of banter. If that can't go on, the soul of the pub's not there. It's just another building," he told Business Leader.
Mr McMahon doesn't fear pubs being busy once the lockdown is lifted.
On the contrary, he feels people will be responsible and stay home.
"People will still be cautious. They'll still have a certain element of concern for their own health and wellbeing. in that respect, we as publicans have to weigh up the cost of opening against what we can turn over in that period. It's simple maths, and it may not add up," he warned.
Read also: Employers 'duty bound' to make Covid-19 updates to Health and Safety policies
Video by David Hurley


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Penman No. 258: A Boost for Art Education
Posted on July 3, 2017 by penmanila
Penman for Monday, July 3, 2017
I WAS going to write about something else this week, but it's impossible to avoid the elephant in the room, Ferdinand Cacnio's sculpture "UPLift," which has already stirred the biggest art controversy of the year on social media. That it's happening almost literally on our front yard in UP Diliman makes it even more imperative for me to say something, as people have been asking me to do—given that, with "Vice President for Public Affairs" as my official day job, I'm supposed to speak for UP on matters of public interest, and you can't think of something more public than sculpture.
That's also exactly why I have to preface whatever I'll say here with the disclaimer that I'm writing and speaking today as Butch Dalisay the arts columnist rather than Dr. Jose Dalisay Jr. the university spokesman, if you can separate the two.
With that out of the way, let's lay out some basic facts. Sometime ago, the UP Class of 1985 Council—a UP alumni group—initiated a project to install the Cacnio sculpture in front of the UP Theater as its donation to inspire "honor and excellence" in the UP community. Smaller versions of the statue were sold to help finance the project. The sculpture was completed and installed, and when the public saw the figure of the nude, golden lady levitating in the air, held up magically only by her hair, their reactions ranged from delight and wonderment to curiosity and agitation—and, sadly, suggestions of plagiarism.
Word began to spread online that the Cacnio piece too closely resembled the Dutch artist Elisabet Bea Stienstra's 2001 sculpture "Virgins of Apeldoorn"—a charge that Cacnio stoutly denied; he had never, he said, seen the Stienstra work. Soon, as images of other levitating figures in global sculpture emerged, a lively and impassioned discussion erupted over the possibility of plagiarism and the even larger issue of the work's representation of its subject.
So, what do I think?
First, plagiarism: the similarities may seem obvious, but then so many things in life and art are similar, whether by nature or by design, or even lurking in a kind of universal subconscious. The basic forms we encounter in everyday life—the human face and body, four-wheeled vehicles, trees, birds—are after all pretty much the same. (While we're at it, just count the number of statues of naked men with arms outstretched that you can find online, from ancient Greece to Africa.) Most portraits follow the same format, even the same pose, but no two faces will ever truly be the same.
When two art pieces are so strikingly alike, it's almost pointless to state the obvious—that one is a "copy" of the other. Rather, it's much more fruitful to observe and study the nuances that separate the two. When you come to think of it, art is much more about differences than similarities. And let's not forget that we live in an age of parody and homage, of memes that recycle the same fundamental image, with incremental changes.
As the painter Imelda Cajipe Endaya pointed out, however, worthier of discussion than plagiarism is the politics of representation: does the piece truly elevate women, or does it—being naked and supine—merely repeat what too many (and often male) artists have already said about women? (This reminds me how, in 1989, an anonymous group of women artists calling themselves the "Guerrilla Girls" plastered New York with posters asking, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?" They were responding to a 1984 MOMA show that had only 13 women out of a total of 169 artists.)
With all due respect to the artist whom I've never met, my own sense—and here I go with my street-level appreciation of the work—is that it was in a way too passively traditional, that it missed an opportunity to highlight aspects of the female body and psyche other than its idealization.
I know how annoying it is for artists to hear comments like this, but criticism comes with the territory, even if I firmly believe the artist's freedom of expression to be paramount, indeed near-absolute. It's tempting and natural for viewers to wonder how the same idea might be worked by another artist—say, Agnes Arellano or Julie Lluch (or the American M. L. Snowden). That kind of speculation, while moot, is also part of our education.
As I told the TV journalist who interviewed me as UP VP about the controversy (and this is as official a statement as I can make), "The work in question was donated and accepted in good faith. Matters of artistic judgment and intellectual provenance are probably best resolved by artists themselves, by courts of law, and perhaps ultimately by the court of public opinion."
No matter how "UPLift" appeals to us (or not), we should thank its creator for making this discussion possible, because very rarely does art capture the public imagination, as this work has. It's certainly been worth a semester's classes in Art Appreciation.
Our responses to art are conditioned by our experience, our preferences, and our projections—in a sense, by what we expect to get out of the work or what want it to be.
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Most Innovative Platform Solution of the Internet of Things Award
Eurotech wins the Internet of Things Award for the Most Innovative Platform Solution during the World Communication Awards Ceremony in London
Everyware Cloud honored for the Most Innovative Platform Solution
Amaro, ITALY – December 3rd, 2015 – Eurotech, a leading provider of embedded systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, today announced that Everyware Cloud – Eurotech's device and data management platform –received from Total Telecom the IoT Award for the Most Innovative Platform Solution.
The Internet of Things Awards is the first major program to recognize innovation and excellence within the IoT eco-system. The award from Total Telecom is a recognition of a clear evidence of innovation and a plan for sustainable success. The awards were open to the entire spectrum of companies involved in IoT, and the categories have been selected to recognize the impact on the individual and the wider impact on society.
"This award is a recognition of Eurotech comprehensive IoT proposition", said Giuseppe Surace, Eurotech's Chief Product Officer. "Eurotech will continue to stay focused on providing companies with the best in class tools and technology essential to make their products IoT enabled. This award reinforces the belief that our vision and investment to continue to be innovators were correct and is a further confirmation of our leadership in the world of IoT."
For additional information about the award: http://www.terrapinn.com/awards/internet-of-things/index.stm
About Total Telecom
Total Telecom meets the information and research needs of the Global Communications industry, from breaking news to expert analysis. It is the leading communications link between end users and the vendors, carriers and resellers of telecommunications technology and services. To its readers, Total Telecom Magazine is "The Economist of the communications industry".
Eurotech wins the Internet of Things Award for the Most Innovative Platform Solution during the World Communication Awards Ceremony in London.pdf


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Jeet Heer/ January 12, 2018
Trump's Global Bigotry
His "shithole" remark reveals the motive behind his immigration policies.
Meeting with leaders from both parties yesterday to craft a bipartisan immigration deal, President Donald Trump uttered words that are likely to define his presidency. When lawmakers raised the issue of protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries, the president reportedly asked, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" He added, "Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out." He suggested the United States should take more immigrants from countries like Norway.
Trump tweeted a partial denial on Friday.
The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!
Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said "take them out." Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!
Media outlets have been blunt in their assessment of the president's alleged comments. "The president of the United States is a racist," Don Lemon declared in the opening of his program, CNN Tonight. "It is clear that ignorance and racism are the inspiration for our president's latest round of uninformed commentary," Christine Emba wrote in The Washington Post. "Even so, our president has now stated outright that he wants more white immigrants and fewer 'shithole' black and brown ones."
Trump's remarks reveal the scope of his racism. Trump is not just setting up a domestic racial hierarchy of preferable Americans, with whites at the top and black and brown people at the bottom. By describing certain countries as "shitholes," Trump is outlining a global racial hierarchy, one that has profound implications for American foreign policy.
At the simplest level, Trump's insulting words are going to antagonize many nations. The Haitian government has already made its displeasure known:
I just talked to Haiti's Ambassador to the United States Paul Altidor who said he and the Haitian government "vehemently condemn" President Trump's comments which they believe are "based on stereotypes." "Either the president has been misinformed or he is miseducated."
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 12, 2018
Insulting other countries is a natural outgrowth of Trump's unilateralist approach to foreign policy. He considers international relations to be a dominance game in which other countries are trying to exploit the U.S., and thus has little interest in earning the good opinion of mankind. Rather, he seems to believe that flexing power—whether by declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel or threatening nuclear war against North Korea—is the only way to earn respect.
Trump sees the immigration system itself as part of a conspiracy to hurt the U.S. "They give us their worst people, they put them in a bin," Trump said in December, describing the visa lottery program. "But in his hand when he's picking them is really the worst of the worst."
Foreign policy in America, a white settler nation built on ethnic cleansing and slavery, has often been inflected with racism. As historian Matt Karp has demonstrated, slave owners played an outsized role in antebellum America, working hard to protect slavery not just in the South but also in Brazil, Cuba, and the Republic of Texas. The imperialist turn in American foreign policy begun during the Spanish-American War of 1898 was shaped in no small part by Social Darwinist ideas about the need to assert Anglo-Saxon superiority.
The rise of anti-imperialism in the twentieth century forced the U.S. to confront its own racism. This was especially true during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was quick to point out the hypocrisy of America claiming to be a democracy while treating African-Americans as second-class citizens.
As Secretary of State Dean Acheson admitted in 1947, "the existence of discrimination against minority groups in this country has an adverse effect upon our relations with other countries. We are reminded over and over by some foreign newspapers and spokesmen, that our treatment of various minorities leaves much to be desired…. We will have better international relations when those reasons for suspicion and resentment have been removed." Seeking to create an international order and win allies in South America, Africa, and Asia, Cold War presidents from Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson pushed for civil rights at home and anti-imperialism abroad.
American leaders continued to harbor prejudices about other nations, but they wisely kept those private. The diplomat George Kennan's private diaries revealed him to be a bigot, but his nasty opinion of foreigners (he described an Italian he met as a "typical dago ... talkative in a weak, ignorant, furtive, sneering way," and called Iraqis "a population unhygienic in its habits") came out only after his death. In private conversations with President Richard Nixon in 1971, Henry Kissinger said, "Well, the Indians are bastards anyway" because they were trying to call attention to violence in East Pakistan carried out by an American-friendly regime. That same year, Kissinger, in a memo, called Bangladesh a "basket case." When these insults were leaked to the press, they caused the administration much diplomatic embarrassment.
But Kissinger's indiscretion was a personal foible, while Trump's "shithole" remark speaks to his broader beliefs. Trump sees the world through a racial lens, which fuels not just his desire to keep out non-white immigrants, but also his contempt for the nations they come from. Unlike the Cold War presidents, Trump doesn't care about America's international reputation. He demonstrates no appreciation of soft power or the value of America holding the high moral ground—and the nation slipped further from that perch with Trump's comments on Thursday.
Jeet Heer @HeerJeet
Jeet Heer is a contributing editor at the The New Republic.
Donald Trump, Politics, George Kennan, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Dean Acheson


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I wonder if it would be possible to include a test case for this bug as well.


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Q: Seaborn.Distplot produces a histogram and a KDE line with different x-axis - how are they merged in the plot? Using this I'm pulling the plotted data from the Seaborn.Distplot. Surprisingly both histogram and KDE are returning different x-axis values. First, practical, question is how are these 2 x-axis combined in the same plot? Second, theoretical, question is why don't bins match - shouldn't both densities have been created with the same underlying bins?

A: I'm not sure exactly what kind of answer you're looking for with the first question, but they are plotted independently, and nothing in matplotlib requires that two artists drawn on the same axes have identical x axis data.
To answer the second question, kernel density estimation doesn't use binning. Roughly speaking, it replaces each observation with a kernel, sums the kernels at each point in an evaluation grid, and normalizes. (Illustrated here). The histogram is also normalized to show a density, so you can plot one over top of the other and they will match. But there doesn't have to be any correspondence between the histogram bins and the evaluation grid for the KDE.

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I pray that some day, in the near future, our children and our grandchildren will see an age when faith and life, art and scholarship, the rational and the intuitive will be so integrated that there will no longer be a need for this award.


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Global Citizen Festival Johannesburg 2-12-2018 (Pharrell Williams & Chris Martin)
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Honorary Coldplayer
guys you won't believe it but after almost 8 months of radio silence Anchorman just tweeted something... and deleted it again a couple of seconds later.
so yeah Pharrell Williams and Chris. Together, apparently? Could be interesting.
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Good morning. We're very pleased to announce that Chris will perform at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The free-ticketed event will take place on Sunday, 2 December 2018 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, and will also feature Beyoncé & JAY-Z, Cassper Nyovest, D'banj, Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, Femi Kuti, Pharrell Williams, Sho Madjozi, Tiwa Savage, Usher, and Wizkid
Activists and music fans can begin to earn their free tickets starting on August 21st and can sign up today at www.globalcitizen.org.za, demanding world leaders make major investments to end extreme poverty and take a stand for women and girls.
Said Chris, who is the curator for the event: "Nelson Mandela believed in people's potential for goodness, and inner potential to change things for the better, for each other and for ourselves. He believed that poverty and injustice were manmade problems that we could solve together. One hundred years on from his birthday, this year's roving Global Citizen Festival will be held in his honour – in Johannesburg on December 2nd. It has been such a pleasure to put together, and all of the artists have been amazing to work with, perhaps because this is a chance for us to show that we all believe in the same things he did: love, acceptance and forgiveness."
The "Mandela 100" campaign seeks to mobilise USD $1 billion in new commitments for the world's most marginalised people, with USD $500 million set to impact the lives of 20 million women and girls worldwide. These investments will be aimed at ending hunger and increasing access to good nutrition, ending neglected tropical diseases, reducing HIV transmission rates, ensuring every child receives a quality education, reforming and repealing sexist laws, providing funding for women's health and family planning, and ensuring access to clean water and safe sanitation worldwide.
Executive Producers of the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 include Dr. Precious Motsepe, Patrice Motsepe, Kweku Mandela, Dave Holmes, Declan Kelly, Liza Henshaw and Hugh Evans.
"It's a huge honour to be able to celebrate the legacy of this extraordinary man," said Executive Producer (and Coldplay manager), Dave Holmes. "Like Nelson Mandela, Global Citizen has a passion for change. Our festival in Johannesburg in December will celebrate Nelson Mandela's love and humanity, while allowing hundreds of thousands of people to raise their voices together to support our mission to end extreme poverty, discrimination and inequality around the world."
Kweku Mandela said, "My grandfather instilled in me the need to use your voice and actions to champion the struggles of your community. He believed that poverty is man made and could be eradicated by our actions – I am proud to be a part of a movement that reflects this and use citizen power to drive real change."
http://coldplay.com/chris-to-perform-at-global-citizen-festival-mandela-100-in-johannesburg/
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Mobile Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxgenfa_FfI
I guess he had just forgotten they don't do Twitter anymore? haha
Mobile Link: https://www.facebook.com/coldplay/photos/a.10150274960980253.534856.15253175252/10160560693320253/?type=3
Livin' life in Technicolor
Thanks for the message, here are sth. valuable found on the road: Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words From Freedom to the Future, Global Citizen London Office, and a website during a related search: http://www.nationearth.com/ [free version somewhere online]


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Is Pearl Jam Teasing A New Album?
Check out their cryptic social media posts
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Pearl Jam is gearing up for an active 2020 after taking the past year off. The band has already announced its first run of tour dates and their latest activity on Twitter suggests something is on the horizon.
Rumblings about a new album have been around for a while with guitarist Mike McCready saying in a 2019 interview, "We've got a bunch of songs ready to go, and I think we're going to get something cool this year. Hopefully it will be out, I don't have a date on anything yet though."
2019 came and went without a new Pearl Jam album. However, their recent Twitter posts show off new artwork leading some fans to believe an album is on the way.
The first tweet appeared overnight showing a new stylized Pearl Jam logo.
pic.twitter.com/cpHulqlCwd
— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) January 10, 2020
Several hours later, the band tweeted new artwork featuring three white designs on a blue background.
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Pearl Jam's last studio album was 2013's Lightning Bolt, which went on to debut at number one. Should they release an album this year, it'll mark only the sixth studio album since the turn of the millennium. Whenever Pearl Jam decides to release a new record, it'll end the longest gap between album's in the band's history.
Back in January 2019, bassist Jeff Ament confirmed the band was working on a new record, but were in a stage where they needed to put everyone's ideas together.
"We've gone in probably four or five times in the last couple of years, so we have a whole ton of unfinished stuff," Ament said. "We're just sort of in a little bit of limbo. I'm sure everybody's got a bunch more riffs, and I'm sure Ed's got a handful of journal lyrics. It's just going to take us all getting into a room together for six weeks and just knocking something out."
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Please pray the sadness of each day that my grandchildren are not with their mother is so overwhelming at times. I pray for all to be healed and the children want their mother and all four of her children will be reunited. It is heartbreaking, it hurts the soul. I pray and pray. I do not understand.


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12 reasons you are legally allowed to leave your home right now
12 January 2021, 1:53 pm ·6 min read
Home secretary Priti Patel at a Downing Street press conference on Tuesday. (Getty)
Priti Patel has insisted the nationwide lockdown rules are are clear, firm and "tough enough" during a press conference on Tuesday.
The home secretary said the government keeps the lockdown measures in England under "constant review" but said the British public "understand the stay-at-home message".
So far, nearly 45,000 fixed-penalty notices have been issued across the UK since March for breaches of social distancing restrictions.
But pressed on whether the rules are tough enough during the Downing Street press conference, Patel said: "The rules are clear, the rules are firm in terms of staying at home.
"The rules are tough enough – you've already heard 45,000 fixed-penalty notices have been issued just in the recent time since we've been in this pandemic."
Boris Johnson was accused of breaking the rules with a bike ride over the weekend. (file photo/Getty)
Current guidance posted on the government's website lists 12 situations in which people living in England have a "reasonable excuse" for leaving home.
The guidance says police can issue a fixed-penalty notice if individuals do not have an appropriate reason for being outside.
Travelling for work purposes "where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home", providing voluntary or charitable services, and carrying out "essential activities" are among the excuses.
Read more: What you can and can't do under current lockdown rules
According to the government, essential activities include "leaving home to buy things at shops or obtain services".
Education and childcare, meeting others in your support bubble and caring duties are also listed as viable reasons for going outside.
Watch: Priti Patel vows to crack down on people who break lockdown rules
Other excuses include: medical reasons, providing maternity services, to escape risk of harm, to visit someone who is dying, animal welfare reasons and attending a place of worship.
When exercising, people are asked to "exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble".
You can see the rules laid out in full at the bottom of this article, as per the gov.uk website.
Patel clarified: "When it comes to staying at home, that also means staying local.
"Exercise is important – it's important for people's health and wellbeing – and that equally applies to exercise."
The government rules state that exercise should be "limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area".
Alleged rule breaches
Patel was asked why two women were fined by Derbyshire Police last week for going for a walk five miles from their home while the prime minister was allowed to go for a bike ride seven miles from No 10.
She replied: "We all have to exercise our judgment and be very conscientious as to how we act.
"When it comes to exercising, I do say stay local – staying local is absolutely crucial."
She added it was important to stay away from other people, "which is clearly what the prime minister did when he was taking his daily exercise".
"I think, quite frankly, we all have to ask ourselves what can we do to keep everyone safe and absolutely reduce our contact with each other."
Patel insisted the rules were clear and that the British public understand the message.
"We are in a pandemic," she continued. "The British public are absolutely sensible, they are conscientious, they understand the stay-at-home message."
What does the advice actually say?
Here are the government's 12 "reasonable excuses" for leaving your home during the current lockdown. This list is not exhaustive, and the guidance does say individuals may need to fulfil other legal obligations, such as voting in elections or buying/selling a property.
You can only leave home for work purposes where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home. This includes, but is not limited to, people who work within critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing that require in-person attendance
You can also leave home to provide voluntary or charitable services.
Essential activities
You can leave home to buy things at shops or obtain services. You may also leave your home to do these things on behalf of a disabled or vulnerable person or someone self-isolating.
You can only leave home for education, registered childcare, and supervised activities for children where the child is eligible to attend. Access to education and children's activities for school-aged pupils is restricted. See further information on education and childcare. You can continue existing arrangements for contact between parents and children where they live apart. If you live in a household with anyone aged under 14, you can also form a childcare bubble.
Meeting others and care
You can leave home:
to visit people in your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)
to provide informal childcare for children under 14 as part of a childcare bubble (for example, to enable parents to work, not to enable social contact between adults)
to provide care for disabled or vulnerable people
to provide emergency assistance
to attend a support group (of up to 15 people)
for respite care where that care is being provided to a vulnerable person or a person with a disability, or is a short break in respect of a looked-after child.
You can continue to exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble. This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.You should maintain social distancing. See exercising.
Medical reasons
You can leave home for a medical reason, including to get a COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and for emergencies.
You can leave home to be with someone who is giving birth or, accessing other maternity services, or to be with a baby receiving neonatal critical care. There is NHS guidance on pregnancy and coronavirus.
You may leave home, to avoid injury or illness or to escape risk of harm (such as domestic abuse).
Compassionate visits
You may also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment.
Animal welfare reasons
You can leave home for animal welfare reasons, such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment.
Communal worship and life events
You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, to attend a funeral or event related to a death, to visit a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony. You should follow the guidance on the safe use of places of worship and must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble. Weddings, funerals and religious, belief-based or commemorative events linked to someone's death are all subject to limits on the numbers that can attend.
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Miami Neighborhood's Zika Outbreak Likely Curtailed by Aerial Spraying
New Zika cases in Wynwood have apparently stopped, but transmission continues in Miami Beach
Florida Gov. Rick Scott visited the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami on Monday to announce the apparent end of Zika virus transmissions there. In a report Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the aerial spraying of insecticide and larvicide likely interrupted the spread of the disease. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Aerial spraying to kill mosquitoes likely interrupted a Zika outbreak in a Miami neighborhood, the first time it has been shown to do so, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
New Zika cases stopped after the aerial spraying was initiated in early August to combat the first continental U.S. outbreak of Zika, in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, the CDC said in a report. Dr. Tom Frieden, the agency's director, said the combined aerial application of insecticide, which kills adult mosquitoes, and larvicide, to kill off young mosquitoes, was "a new tool and the strongest one" in the fight against an outbreak.
Florida officials on Monday declared an apparent end of transmission of Zika by mosquitoes in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, where at least 30 people were infected locally since the outbreak began in July. Public health officials are now battling the virus in tourist-heavy Miami Beach, where Zika continues to spread. As of Friday, Florida has reported overall 95 cases of locally-acquired Zika infection, including three new cases linked to Miami Beach.
Zika is transmitted by hard-to-kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects when pregnant women become infected. With no vaccine or cure for the virus, public health officials have made killing the pests and eliminating possible breeding grounds a priority. But use of aerial insecticides has met with opposition in Florida, Puerto Rico and Brazil, where opponents have said they fear spraying could harm the environment and public health.
Brazil's attorney general this month moved to halt planned aerial spraying of insecticides after the mosquito-control strategy won approval from the president.
Dr. Frieden acknowledged the public's concerns, but said U.S. officials follow specifications set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the safe aerial spraying of the insecticide Naled. Spraying also dispersed "very tiny" droplets of insecticide, he said, using one ounce of Naled per acre.
Officials took steps to limit Miami residents' exposure to aerial insecticides and monitored emergency room traffic for any uptick in visits after spraying, according to the CDC report. They found no change to emergency room visits for asthma, shortness of breath, vomiting or other symptoms they tracked. A Florida poison-information center received seven calls about exposure.
Spraying insecticide from a truck or backpack wasn't as effective as aerial spraying, which reduced mosquito populations more than 10-fold, the CDC reported. But without use of the larvicide Bti, mosquito populations rebounded. Using both insecticide and larvicide turned out to be the "one-two punch" that tamped down the resilient Aedes aegypti, said Dr. Frieden. The sustained drop in mosquitoes corresponded with the halt in new cases, which he called "very highly suggestive" that the strategy interrupted the outbreak.
The results may not be easy to repeat in nearby Miami Beach, where tall buildings make aerial spraying more difficult. However, mosquito populations dropped in Miami Beach after aerial spraying there began, by a similar amount to the drop in Wynwood, said Florida Surgeon General and Health Secretary Dr. Celeste Philip, on Friday. "We are cautiously optimistic," she said.
Write to Melanie Evans at Melanie.Evans@wsj.com
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I'm sure you have all heard the horror stories. Someone getting sick while travelling. Whether it was someone backpacking across Asia or an All-Inclusive hotel in Europe, it can happen anywhere. But the odds are higher when you are in a foreign country where food hygiene standards aren't what you're accustomed to. Or where the tap water isn't safe to drink.
Fortunately, there are things you can do to reduce the risk of becoming sick. These tips aren't fool proof, but they will certainly give you a better chance of staying healthy while travelling.
Buffet foods are home to bacteria, especially meat.
Flies are attracted to corpses, rubbish and faeces. Their hairs carry traces of faeces and bacteria and pass them onto the food.
In some places, it's ok but if you're not sure then avoid it. NEVER drink the tap water in India. It is the number 1 cause of dysentery and parasite infection in India and across the world. Drink bottled water that you have opened yourself and make sure the lid hasn't been tampered with. Order drinks without ice.
Seafood is ok if it's fresh. Some seafood dishes are notorious for causing intestinal problems. Shell fish is best avoided in certain places. I have eaten in restaurants which have told me the fish was fresh when it wasn't. Ask other travellers and locals to recommend a good seafood restaurant.
This is a good indication that the restaurant serves good food. If a place doesn't have good standards, then people won't usually go back. Food is more likely to be fresh in a busy restaurant rather than somewhere that has few customers. Local eateries are cheaper than tourist spots too.
Especially eggs and chicken. Order your food well done and if you're not sure then send it back.
Or carry a hand sanitiser. In some countries, such as India, it is tradition to eat with your hands. So best make sure your hands are clean first.
A banana leaf curry we ate in Kerala. No knives and forks required, it tastes better with your hands.
Peeled fruit is generally safe. But a fruit salad which may have been washed in local tap water should be avoided. This is how I got sick in India and I have never been able to eat a salad since.
Check the labels of cheese and yoghurts for evidence of pasteurisation. Canned milk is usually ok. The sweetened canned milk they use in Thailand and Malaysia to make iced tea tastes so good!
When we were living in Hong Kong Stu needed a CT scan. If our insurance hadn't paid out for it, it would've cost us thousands of pounds. Any hospital treatment abroad will cost a LOT of money unless you have comprehensive insurance. If you are travelling around the EU make sure you carry your EHIC card.
Unless it's a family. Even then be a little cautious and listen to your gut. In some countries, it's polite and a part of their culture to share food, especially in China. We were often given fruit and snacks by families during train journeys. A bit of common sense is required. Never accept a drink from anyone.
It is common in many parts of Asia for people to make 'home brew' spirits. Branded spirits are expensive to import so they make their own to save money, often using methanol as a cheap substitute. This is very dangerous. They may even pour their home-made version into a used Smirnoff vodka bottle for example, so it would be impossible for you to notice. Stick to local drinks which are not imported.
People drinking buckets of unknown spirits in Thailand. Check which alcohol is used and stick to local spirits rather than imported brands.
If you have just arrived to a new area and you're not sure where to eat or drink, use Tripadvisor to choose a highly rated restaurant.
Power cuts are common in many parts of the world. If a restaurant freezes their food, then consider your options carefully when ordering. Meat especially, should not be frozen, defrosted then refrozen. Eating fresh food is much safer in this scenario.
If you hear of other travellers getting sick, ask where they think it happened and avoid eating there. When we visited Hampi in India, so many other travellers were getting sick. It was one particular restaurant that was serving bad food.
Dioralyte sachets contain rehydration salts which replace body fluids lost because of acute diarrhoea. These will help. If you have been seriously sick for several days, seek advise from a doctor.
This will only apply if you're travelling to high altitude destinations, such as Cusco in Peru or La Paz in Bolivia. Stu got really sick in Cusco. Symptoms range from mild headaches to sickness and diarrhoea. Do what the locals do and drink coco leaf tea to help.
We stayed with this lady during our Lake Titicaca trip in Peru. Her family served us lots of coco leaf tea.
Check with your doctor or travel nurse before you travel to get the right medication and vaccinations for your destination. Remember to take malaria tablets regularly and read the information on the packaging carefully. Some malaria tablets need to be taken for a length of time after you have returned from your trip.
Mosquitos spread other viruses which do not currently have a vaccination, such as dengue fever. I have met travellers who have contracted dengue fever so always use an insect repellent. I personally use one containing Deet.
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The cost of college tuition is on the rise, and families are often concerned about how to make ends meet. However, there are ways to save on university costs with the help of financial aid, says Ian Welham of Complete College Planning Solutions. You just have to know when and how to approach it.
According to Welham, over 90 percent of students are overpaying for college, simply because they don't understand how the system works and aren't applying for financial aid when they need to. This leaves tens of thousands of unclaimed dollars on the table.
The first thing a student needs to do is fill out the FAFSA -- the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. This allows the student to be considered for government money, but he or she will want to get their application in as soon as possible. The aid is relinquished on a first-come, first-serve basis.
In general, it's a good idea to fill out the FAFSA right away. Many schools require that it be completed before they'll consider a student for merit-based aid, which is given to whom the school considers will be an asset to their student body. Merit-based aid can account for over one-third of college tuition costs.
Welham also suggests refraining from putting too much money in your child's name. The penalty counts four times what it would against the parents when being considered for financial aid. Also, you don't want the student to work too much in the year before heading to college, as the income will count against him or her and can affect the amount of aid received.
Gender also plays a role in applying for aid. Currently, 60 percent of college students are female, so schools are willing to offer incentives for males to attend their school. That being said, there are less women in the fields of engineering, science and technology, so universities may offer money to female students who are gifted in those areas.
The high costs of college tuition are a concern for many families, but by following these tips, students can potentially save thousands.


CFXC Districts: Girls Win! Boys run 5 Season's Bests!
The Girls finished 1st of 14 D2 District Teams. The Girls Top 5 ran an average of 19:40 (Fastest District Top 5 All-Time). The Top 5 wapread by 1:08. The Girls are now 35-5 in D2 competition.
The Boys finished 7th of 16 D2 District Teams. The Boys Top 5 ran an average of 17:58. The Boys Top 5 was spread by 0:59. The Boys finish 20-26 in D2 competition.


Summers are meant for family vacations and the Harrises are enjoying a fantastic time at the Atlantis Resort.
Although co-parenting can be difficult once a couple splits, Tiny and T.I. are committed to keeping their family close. One way to do it is by sticking to their family trips!
The musicians decided to spend their vacation this summer at Atlantis Paradise Island, one of the premier family resorts in the Bahamas.
Families and celebrities from around the world visit this luxury resort that features world's largest open-air marine habitat, a 141-acre waterscape and four miles of beaches. We know the Harris kids took full advantage of the vacation's amenities, and both Tiny and T.I. shared some pictures of some of the activities they enjoyed during their stay.
Now that's what a family vacation is all about!


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Which Band From Seattle Battled With Ticketmaster Over Ticket Prices To Their Shows?
Although Nirvana was the band that broke the mainstream market open for Grunge and Alternative Rock combos, it was their fellow Pacific Northwest outfit Pearl Jam who rode the Grunge boom to the longest and most commercially successful career. The Seattle quartet merged a heavy but melodic sound with an ambivalent attitude towards the trappings of success and a resistance to such standard music-industry practices as music videos and high ticket prices. That stance doesn't seem to have hurt the band's popularity, however, considering Pearl Jam's worldwide album sales of over 60 million.
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Pearl Jam was launched by guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament after the demise of their previous band Mother Love Bone, whose promising major-label career had been cut short in 1990 when singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose. After Wood's death, Gossard began writing new music and jamming with guitarist Mike McCready. Adding Ament, they recorded a set of instrumental demos, giving a copy to former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons. Irons passed the demo tape on to little-known San Diego singer Eddie Vedder, who wrote lyrics and recorded vocals for three of the songs. Gossard, McCready, and Ament were so impressed with the results that they flew Vedder to Seattle to audition and eventually hired him. With the addition of original drummer Dave Krusen, the band was briefly known as Mookie Blaylock, in honor of the NBA basketball player of the same name.
After signing with Epic Records, the band became Pearl Jam, releasing its first album, Ten, in 1991, in time to benefit from the then-current Grunge explosion. Combining catchy choruses, dark lyrical subject matter, and the band's melodic roar, the record struck a chord with the public, selling more than 13 million copies and remaining on the Billboard chart for more than two years.
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Ten — along with relentless touring to support it — established Pearl Jam as a major commercial force, a status the band has maintained in the years since, with such popular albums as Vs., Vitalogy, No Code, Yield, Binaural, Riot Act, Pearl Jam, Backspacer, and Lightning Bolt. Pearl Jam also backed influence Neil Young on his 1995 album, Mirrorball.
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Pearl Jam battled with Ticketmaster over the service charges that the company added to the price of the band's concert tickets, leading to Gossard and Ament testifying before a Congressional subcommittee in 1994 as part of an investigation of concert industry pricing practices. The band's feud with the powerful company resulted in a considerable loss of income for the group, who cancelled a summer 1994 tour after Ticketmaster wouldn't agree to lower its service charges. In another unconventional move, the band decided to release professional recordings of all 72 shows of their 2000 tour; they would continue the practice on future tours, although not in such elaborate quantity.
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Welcome to the internet home of the Darke County Pheasants Forever. A Local Pheasants Forever Chapter in Ohio. Pheasants Forever (PF) is a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of pheasant and other wildlife populations in North America. Read more about PF and our chapter.
Welcome to our new website for Darke County Pheasants Forever. Our new website is designed to keep our chapter members updated with the current happenings, as well provide an opportunity to those individuals who are interested in joining Pheasants Forever.
Please take a moment to explore our website and discover more about the Ohio. You'll find detailed information on all our activities and upcoming events. If you are interested in becoming a member,we welcome you to connect with with us. ENJOY!
Darke County Pheasants Forever, a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of pheasants and the upland bird populations in North America. Please take a moment to read more about us by following the link below.
As an active Chapter in Ohio, we have an endless amount opportunities to actively help or be involved. Take a moment to view our upcoming monthly meetings, youth events, banquet events or even our hunting outings. As a chapter we would welcome all to join, feel free to get involved!
We are excited for our annual banquet, as every year this is the highlight of our local Darke County Pheasants Forever Chapter. Each year we have a lot to feature and showcase for the upcoming banquet. We look forward to seeing you in attendance! For 2019 We have moved the banquet to Romer's Catering in Greenville, OH. Check out the events section for more information.


Seraphin Enrico's Jardin de l'Eden, an art environment with a variety of colourful sculptures from concrete, doesn't exist any more.
Just some sculptures have been saved, like a group of bathers around a small pond, currently exposed in the Musée-jardin de la Luna Rossa in Caen.
Olivier Thiébaut, who in the 1990's was behind the initiative to start this private museum, is also closely related to the unearthening of some of Enrico's dumped sculptures.
The story has been told by Thiébaut himself on Bruno Montpied's weblog (march 23, 2008, text in french).
What follows is a resume.
Séraphin Enrico (1898-1989) was born in Mougrando, Italy. After the first World War he left for France to find a job as a mason. From 1925 on he had a house in the community of St Calais, in the Sarthe area, east of the city of le Mans.
In 1959, when he was in his early sixties, he began making sculptures as a decoration of his house and garden, a creative activity he continued for over ten years.
The site became a popular place to visit and in the 1960's and 70's it attracted a lot of people.
picture from magazine "Vie Mancelle et Sarthoise"
However, when Enrico became older he had to leave St Calais for reasons not listed in the available documentation, but probably against his will. He joined other members of his family, who lived in Divonne-les-Bains.
That was in 1972. Enrico died in 1989 and it is presumed that he has never been in St Calais again..
Soon after he left, the site must have been demolished, although it is not quite clear to me how and by whom.
Anyhow, in 1995 Thiébaut. who was very interested in outsider environments in western France and who was preparing a book about the subject, got the idea to ask permission to do some digging on a plot, an old pond, where as some inhabitants of St Calais said, items of the garden might have been dumped.
And bingo, Thiébaut and the friends who helped him, discovered a number of buried sculptures, most still with the lively colours Enrico had used to paint them. Moreover, Enrico had constructed his sculptures so robustly, that they emerged out of the dump in their entirety.
The rescued sculptures currently are out in the open again, facing the skies, displayed in the garden of the Musée de la Luna Rossa in Caen.
Like a real work of archaelogy. What a look that somebody take the job to look after those great sculture pieces and a luck that they successfully managed to find them. And it makes me think if it could be possible that several many others art works like that may be now lying under the earth, without we having any news about their existance. Hope at least that some curious archaelogist or researcher from nowadays or from the future, got to bump with them once.
The wonderful thing is that Seraphin's work are protected in the Jardin de la Luna Rossa, in Caen, Calvados(14). At the very start was, there was Olivier Thiébaut, an artist passionate about Outsider Art/ Art Brut. The land was formerly owned by a lady resident of the street, right next to the garden; she left it to the town with the agreement it will remain a garden. When the Association started looking for some land for the Luna Rossa Garden, the town proposed this property which it still owns. The garden was abandoned for 25 years, so there was a lot to do to get it back in shape. Olivier Thiebaud was interested in the Outsiders. He traveled across France, discovered artists who had never been recognized for what they were: Artists!. The Art works at the garden come from donations or loans.
About forty works by ten different artists installed in the garden of about 950 m2. From the Sarthe to the Orne via Calvados, the works of the garden of Luna Rossa are in the image of the artists who shaped them: a mosaic of influences and representations.
The garden's name comes from a work exhibited there; "Luna Rossa", is inspired by a statue of Seraphin Enrico, on whose buttocks this mention.
The garden is maintained by a team of voluntars who do some repairs, painting, cleaning.


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Q: How to convert array with ranges in to alone array in ruby I have some array
>> a = ["a..c", "0..2"]
=> ["a..c", "0..2"]

I need convert this array to another array
>> b = ("a".."c").to_a + (0..2).to_a
=> ["a", "b", "c", 0, 1, 2]

How I can do it?

A: a.flat_map do |string_range|
  from, to = string_range.split("..", 2)
  (from =~ /^\d+$/ ? (from.to_i..to.to_i) : (from..to)).to_a
end
#=> => ["a", "b", "c", 0, 1, 2]

A: a = ["a..c", "0..2"]
b = a.flat_map{|str| Range.new(*str.split('..')).to_a} # => ["a", "b", "c", "0", "1", "2"]
p b.map!{|v| Integer(v) rescue v} # => ["a", "b", "c", 0, 1, 2]

A: what about this?
a = ["a..c", "0..2"]

b = a.map { |e| Range.new( *(e).split('..') ).to_a }.flatten

no flat_map used so it works the same on all versions
as @steenslag correctly mentioned, this version does not convert to integers.
here is a version that does:
b = a.map do |e|
  Range.new( *(e).split('..').map{ |c| c =~ /\A\d+\Z/ ? c.to_i : c } ).to_a
end.flatten

see it in action here