To show support for the PCS initiative, Federal Premium has released a PSA featuring brand ambassador and professional shooter Julie Golob.
The following press release was issued by Vista Outdoor Inc.
Federal Premium® Ammunition announces its support of Project ChildSafe (PCS), a program initiated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) to educate the public about firearm safety. The program provides firearm and ammunition safety kits through local law enforcement agencies. The free kit includes educational information and gun locks for safely securing firearms. Over the last decade, the program has partnered with 15,000 law enforcement agencies to distribute 36 million free firearm safety kits.
To help raise awareness of firearm safety and to show its support for the PCS initiative, Federal Premium has released a public service announcement (PSA) featuring brand ambassador and professional shooter Julie Golob. The video encourages the public to safely secure firearms and ammunition. Watch the PSA with Golob below.
Federal Premium encourages firearm owners to sign the PCS pledge to respect and secure all firearms when not in use. Law enforcement agencies that are interested in providing PCS kits and locks can learn more visit http://www.projectchildsafe.org/for-law-enforcement.


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International and user-friendly new website with TYPO3
"How a German global player in sports surfaces is demonstrating its market leadership online – with a new international and user-friendly website. "
Database, Responsive, Website
Business, Football, Manufacturing
About Polytan GmbH
As a specialist in professional sports surfaces, Polytan GmbH has been a sought-after partner for the equipment of sports facilities in Germany, Europe and worldwide for more than 45 years. At its site in Bavaria, the technological leader in sports surfaces produces artificial turf for hockey and football and intelligent racetrack systems. An in-house development department is continuously optimising the company's high-quality products and regularly introducing new innovations. More than 300 employees ensure a consistently high product and material quality "made in Germany".
With open-source CMS TYPO3 already in use, it did not take long to find a suitable technical basis for the relaunch. TYPO3 not only offers the ability to design multilingual, responsive websites; the CMS can also be flexibly expanded without major structural changes, if required.
An information architecture was developed that enables clear, user-friendly navigation. Graphics templates were then converted into TypoScript templates by blindwerk. Navigation was taken back to the basics in the form of a dropdown menu realised by blindwerk. The menu provides plenty of space for the presentation of products, allowing them to become the focal point of the website.blindwerk also developed a product and reference database specifically for the website. This forms the new core of the site. Through the intelligent database system, products, brochures and references can be selectively integrated into the respective country/language version.
A one-off data import enabled the quick import of content such as product information, 3D visualisations, graphics and catalogues using linked folder structures via XML.
The new website
With the new website, Polytan GmbH can now underline its leading position on the international market as a single-source provider for high-quality artificial turf and sports surfaces online.
The content displayed varies according to the country of the visitor. The external effect is not only supported by the new corporate design, but also by the presentation of products and services using high-quality images and illustrative videos. The comprehensive database system allows general content to be conveniently adapted, while the respective country-specific branches can update their own content independently, thanks to the simple user management system. As a result, the relaunch met an important requirement of the customer, namely to save time and money in content and product management.
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Neurological Diseases
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R&D Commitment
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Do Not Go Gentle
New Era of Medicine
Collaboration & Events
Florida Clinical Trials
Advocacy / Policy
Recently, America's biopharmaceutical companies joined the American Cancer Society for the Cancer Action Network Clinical Trials Policy Forum at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
More than 100 attendees joined—including physicians, researchers, patient advocates, business leaders, media and policymakers—to help raise awareness about clinical trials in Florida and review strategies for recruiting more participants.
"Clinical trials are integral in advancing research and in providing patients with new treatment options," said Emma Van Hook, director of Policy and Research at PhRMA. "The benefits of clinical trials stretch so far beyond each patient, providing knowledge and insights that can lead to the next breakthrough."
The benefits of clinical trials go beyond new treatments and potential cures for society's most devastating and costly diseases. Additionally, this research results in significant economic impacts in communities like northern Florida. The state is home to 2,571 clinical trials and 119,256 clinical trials participants, and in 2013, $963 million was invested in clinical trials with a total economic impact of $2.7 billion in the state.
Still, there are important opportunities to improve clinical trials. Researchers from the state's leading research hospitals—Mayo Clinic, University of Florida, University of Miami and Moffitt—all agreed that clinical trials should be the standard of care and that streamlining the regulatory process could be helpful in bringing safe, effective treatments to patients quicker.
"It takes roughly 10-12 years to develop one new medicine," said Van Hook. "Clinical trials are the most time- and resource-intensive part of the research and development process for a new medicine, and biopharmaceutical companies support and conduct the lion's share of this work."
"Clinical trials provide access to promising new treatments for our patients and are essential to reduce the cancer burden in our state," said Tushar Patel, M.B., Ch.B., dean for research at Mayo Clinic's Florida campus. "Events like this one, which includes researchers from the leading cancer institutes across our state, help to remind all of us that improving access to clinical trials must be a priority."
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Presidential Pet Museum
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Bitten by an Alligator
February 21, 2018 By Andrew
By Andrew Hager, Historian-in-Residence
I grew up in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, an area named for the Marquis de Lafayette. I was taught about the Marquis from a young age–about his heroics during the American Revolution, about his friendship with George Washington, about how he worked to bring France into the war against Great Britain. You might say I have a sort of territorial pride about the man. When I was hired by the Presidential Pet Museum last summer, I learned from our website that he had given President John Quincy Adams the gift of an alligator in 1828, while touring the land he helped to free.
Lafayette was awesome, I thought to myself, and I tucked that bit of knowledge away for use in interviews and small talk.
But here's the thing: it's probably not true.
In December, I was contacted by a man named Howard Dorre. He was researching the alligator tale, and he couldn't find any primary documentation for it. In fact, he had traced the story to an article from 1888, some sixty years after the gift was supposedly made. Did I have any additional information?
I didn't, and neither did my colleague Melissa Smith, who has been researching presidential pets far longer than I have. I asked Mr. Dorre to please update us if and when he found confirmation.
As he notes in his very thorough (and quite funny) article summarizing his findings, the trail goes dry with that 1888 article. We do not currently know where the story originated, but that seems to be its first published mention.
The intrepid fact-checkers at Snopes were also on the case, and they couldn't find anything either. If John Quincy Adams ever had an alligator–or if the Marquis de Lafayette ever even captured one–no one in their inner circles wrote about it, which seems like a strange omission.
History is like science–it's an interpretation of the best data available. As the information available changes, so does the interpretation. At this time, the best I can say about John Quincy Adams' alligator is that it's a fun legend, like George Washington's cherry tree or Davy Crockett killing a b'ar when he was only three. The Museum (including me) is guilty of spreading a tall tale. For that, I apologize.
Both John Quincy Adams and the Marquis de Lafayette led fascinating lives, with or without giant reptiles. It might be amusing to imagine alligators in the East Room, but it's probably not true.
If you know of any primary sources that verify the Lafayette/Adams alligator story, please contact us. We want to hear from you.
(We do know that Herbert Hoover's son Allan had pet alligators, but they never lived at the White House. Snopes discusses that issue, too. Our website was not exactly wrong on Hoover, but the article as written was misleading. The wording was vague, and the timeline was muddled. A reader could be forgiven for believing that those gators had roamed the White House. This has been corrected.)
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Alligators in the White House Bathtub, Oh My!
September 5, 2013 By Presidential Pet Museum
Long before our nation had animal rights organizations and activists, some exotic animals took up residence at the White House.
The largest — and toothiest — of these are the alligators of not one, but two, presidents.
Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette received many gifts and honors during his tour of the 24 states in 1824 and 1825, but probably none more unusual than an alligator.
Accompanied, by his son, Georges Washington de La Fayette, the French general, who had championed the American ideals of freedom in France, traveled more than 6,000 miles via stagecoach, canal barge and steamboat during his visit. He was greeted along the way with parades, dinners and parties.
Gator: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Now what exactly does one do with the gift of a live alligator, you might ask?
Well, apparently if you are a French general who led troops alongside George Washington and fought in several crucial battles including the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania and the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia, you bring the animal with you to the White House.
Unfortunately, we don't know what President and Mrs. John Quincy Adams's initial reactions were to this unusual re-gifting. (Where's YouTube when you need it?)
However, we do know that President Adams did what any president should do: He lodged the gator in the White House's unfinished East Room and its nearby bathtub.
Sources report that Adams enjoyed showing the scary-looking animal off to disbelieving White House visitors for several months before it moved to a different home.
The White House's Second and Third Alligators
Large reptiles made another appearance a century later at the White House during the Depression, during Herbert Hoover's presidency in the early 1930s.
Hoover's younger son, Allan, had two pet alligators that frequented the White House grounds, amazing and quite possibly terrifying guests.
The gators certainly must have kept King Tut, Hoover's own German shepherd, on edge — not to mention the president's Secret Service agents!
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Hebert Hoover's Dog, King Tut
July 22, 2013 By Presidential Pet Museum
President Herbert Hoover (1929-33) poses with his uncomfortable-looking dog, King Tut, a Belgian shepherd. Circa 1928 photo courtesy Herbert E. French, Library of Congress.
When he ran for president in 1928, Herbert Hoover had experience as the wartime food administrator under President Woodrow Wilson and as secretary of commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
However, Hoover had never run for office, and his public image was somewhat stiff and severe.
So, in those days before TV, Hoover's campaign officials determined that a photo of Hoover with his dog might make him seem more personable and approachable.
Thousands of copies of this portrait of a smiling Hoover holding up the paws of his Belgian shepherd, King Tut, as if they both were begging for votes, were circulated around the country by the Hoover campaign.
The photo worked! Hoover was elected with an overwhelming majority of votes and high hopes for the future. The New York Times called it "one of the happiest pictures ever made" of Hoover.
About the Dog
Belgian shepherd and German shepherd breeds — commonly known simply as "police dogs" during Hoover's time — are known for their intelligence and for their extreme loyalty and protective nature toward their owners.
Once in the White House, King Tut patrolled the perimeter of the property's fences nightly, and he usually seemed worried about protecting Hoover from his many visitors.
But being a White House dog proved to be too much stress for King Tut — to the point that the dog eventually stopped eating. Hoover sent him to a quiet home away from the hustle and bustle of the White House in the hopes that he would recover.
King Tut's health did not improve, however, earning him the dubious distinction as the presidential dog who "worried himself to death."
King Tut died in late 1929, at age 8, after having "gradually faded away," according to an article in The Times [PDF].
Aug. 16, 1929, article about the declining health of King Tut.
Hoover in a Vacuum
King Tut had reason to worry. The same year Hoover took office, the stock market crashed — sending America into the Great Depression. The country also was experiencing unprecedented crime fueled by illegal sales of alcohol in response to Prohibition.
Renominated by the Republican Party in 1932, Hoover lost his re-election bid by a landslide to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal.
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ARISE / How Do Teachers Learn to Work Against Oppressive Systems?
How Do Teachers Learn to Work Against Oppressive Systems?
September 29, 2020 by Betty Calinger Leave a Comment
By: Grace A. Chen, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University
Samantha A. Marshall, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University
A group of students work together to solve the problems in their textbook during their precalculus class. Photo by Allison Shelley for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action
Why are some teachers able to expand students' access to STEM while others are not? Students from marginalized communities are systematically denied STEM learning opportunities, but some teachers manage to disrupt unjust policies and create more equitable learning environments. Schools are difficult places to make change (Little, 2003), so we wanted to better understand how teachers who were able to make changes in their schools did so.
Theoretical Perspective
We took a sociocultural perspective, seeing learning as dependent on the mediational means available in a setting (Greeno & MMAP, 1997). These mediational means, which are resources like discourses and tools, make particular opportunities in particular contexts at particular moments of time possible (Norris & Jones, 2005; Wertsch, 1994). We also drew on Goodwin's (1994) concept of professional vision— a socially-situated way of seeing– to understand how teachers make sense of their sociocultural settings. Professional vision has political consequences; what a teacher sees as significant within an oppressive system can change her approaches to the problem.
For the teachers in our study, using a systemic lens to focus their professional vision helped them identify ways to disrupt policies in their schools that they saw as oppressive.
This study took place in a research-practice partnership between researchers and a professional development (PD) organization that focused on STEM, pedagogy, and teacher leadership. Participants were secondary mathematics teachers in a large urban district in the western United States, and many of them were regarded as leaders by their colleagues and/or held official leadership positions in their schools.
We collected data in teachers' schools and in PD settings, emphasizing teachers' sensemaking and perspectives on these contexts. We took ethnographic fieldnotes and collected artifacts from classroom observations, teachers' collaborative planning meetings, and PD workshops. We analyzed data using grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1990) and constant comparison (Boeije, 2002), with the aim of understanding how teachers learned to disrupt oppressive systems.
We share findings from two cases where experienced (between 8-18 years) mathematics teachers effectively challenged oppressive policies, and one case where they did not (for an additional case, see our full paper). All of these teachers aspired to create more equitable learning environments for their students, but they differed in whether their professional vision focused on individual or systemic phenomena as they made sense of ideas like opportunity and justice in their settings. As they thought about what they might be able to accomplish, teachers who took a more systemic view saw their potential actions in different ways than those who took an individual view. In other words, their professional visions shaped what could be accomplished by the distributed agency in the sociocultural settings. These cases show how teachers can disrupt policies that limit students' access to important STEM learning experiences.
Lauren taught ninth-grade algebra to students who were often underprepared. For years, Lauren saw her classroom instruction as the primary factor in her students' algebra success, working hard to catch students up during 90-minute class periods every other day. This individualistic view overlooked other important mediational means, such as discourses that blamed students for academic failure and a schedule and student load that limited teacher-student interaction.
Later in Lauren's career, when she had developed a close relationship with her principal, she proposed adding "lab periods" to focus on remedial content in addition to the algebra periods that prioritized algebra content. Her principal agreed and adjusted the school schedule to enroll students in both an algebra class and "lab" class so that teachers were able to work with them every day, provide an online personalized learning program, and teach half as many students.
Lauren had long held strong ideas about increasing opportunities and justice for her students, but had limited her influence to own instruction and class periods. When her professional vision shifted to a systems view involving the school's schedule, her relationship with her principal, collaboration with other mathematics teachers, and an improvement grant awarded to the school, she was able to create change in a way she hadn't before; by focusing her professional vision on systemic change, Lauren marshalled the distributed agency of the setting to better support the mathematics learning of her algebra students.
Isabella felt that the "hodge-podge" and procedural nature of the teacher-created curricula being used in her school's mathematics department did students a disservice. At first, she focused on developing quality materials for her own students. When she took a more systemic view, however, she realized that reorganizing the entire district's mathematics course trajectory to pursue an integrated mathematics approach would enable the use of high-quality, professionally-produced curricula. She took a "be discreet" approach with her advocacy where she shared research articles, suggested to the assistant superintendent that they visit schools with integrated mathematics courses, and "very casually" chatted with teachers that she "knew were also skeptical." After diplomatic engagement with both administrators and teachers, Isabella convinced district leaders to adopt the integrated course sequence and pilot the curricula she suggested.
Among other mediational means, Isabella drew on a number of things: (1) her professional expertise; (2) the trust of her colleagues and district leaders she had earned by teaching at the same school for nearly two decades; (3) her attendance at a conference that enabled her to see integrated mathematics as a potential solution to the injustices in her district; (4) her access to relevant research; (5) the existence of nearby schools that were successfully implementing the integrated approach; and (6) high-quality curricula. Although some of these mediational means had existed for years, they only became opportunities for distributed agency when Isabella took a systemic view.
Kayla and Chloe
Kayla and Chloe taught at a high school that became a charter school in order to avoid district oversight. Among the reasons, according to Chloe, was that the school wanted a stricter attendance policy than the district felt was fair: students automatically failed the year after fifteen absences, and teachers were required to lock their classroom doors after the first bell to count tardy students as absent. Kayla and Chloe found the policy draconian but relied on individual teacher subversion or student agency to address it; Chloe secretly let students into her class when she felt they had valid reasons for being late, and Kayla noted that students could appeal their absence records. Their professional vision had an individual lens, overlooking their status as well-respected veteran teachers who have strong relationships with their colleagues and administrators, the material and social resources they could access in and outside of school, or other potential mediational means that they could leverage towards their stated intentions of social justice. As a result, the distributed agency within this system perpetuated patterns that limited, rather than expanded, their students' opportunities for STEM learning.
Discussion and Implications
Lauren and Isabella's systemic lenses enabled them to identify mediational means in their settings that could be leveraged to change policies that limited students' STEM learning. It was not merely their intentions or abilities as teachers, nor solely the available resources, but rather the interaction between their professional visions and the distributed agency in the system that led them to disrupt oppressive policies. By contrast, Kayla and Chloe similarly found a school policy to be limiting but saw themselves as individuals in opposition to a system rather than as participants in the agency distributed across a sociocultural setting, which foreclosed opportunities to act despite their desire for change. Based on this study, we recommend that:
Ask not only about changes that can be made in your classroom, but about the policies or practices behind injustices.
Think creatively about how changes can be made at the systemic level. Going through official channels to create change may not always be the most effective pathway.
Think expansively about with whom and where you may have influence, and when it might be best to discreetly advocate.
Principals / School Leaders
Be transparent with your staff about the external expectations you face in your position, and about where you do and don't have flexibility in making decisions.
Other Education Stakeholders
Look beyond just talking to teachers; think about others who might be able to change the policy or system.
Collect information from multiple perspectives about what is possible and who to talk to.
Consider a multi-fronted effort: approach multiple people at multiple levels of the system about what they can change.
Education Researchers
Examine how and why teachers' professional vision may be shifted from an individual to a systemic perspective.
Explore the conditions under which shifting teachers' professional vision leads to significant change for urban students.
Teacher Educators
Teach the history and social contexts of schooling as complements to pedagogical methods.
Provide pre-service teachers with opportunities to brainstorm multiple and systemic approaches to pedagogical and professional dilemmas.
Support pre-service teachers in building relationships with mentors, colleagues, administrators, and parents at their school sites.
When teachers have an individualized understanding of the institutional barriers to STEM learning, rather than a systemic view of the possible actors and opportunities within a system, it is difficult to mobilize the mediational means available to disrupt oppressive policies. A systemic view may not be sufficient for this kind of agentic action, but it seems to be an important facet of teachers' professional vision. Without it, our data suggest, they would not have been able to create the kind of change we saw. These findings point to the important role that teachers can play in removing institutional barriers to urban students' success in mathematics—in concert with school leaders, education researchers, teacher educators, and other education stakeholders—by seeing affordances within the distributed agency of the sociocultural setting to enact change.
Note about the Authors: Chen and Marshall contributed equally to this post and are listed alphabetically.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. DGE-1445197 and DRL-1620920. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Boeije, H. (2002). A purposeful approach to the constant comparative method in the analysis of qualitative interviews. Quality and Quantity, 36(4), 391-409.
Chen, G. A. & Marshall, S. A.* (2018). Mathematics teachers' learning to enact change in oppressive systems. In Richardson, S., Davis, A., & Lewis, C.W. (Eds.), The International Conference on Urban Education Conference Proceedings (pp. 52-64). Charlotte, NC: The Urban Education Collaborative. (*equal authorship)
Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional vision. American Anthropologist, 96(3), 606–633.
Greeno, J. G., & MMAP. (1997). Theories and practices of thinking and learning to think. American Journal of Education, 106(1), 85–126.
Little, J. W. (2003). Constructions of teacher leadership in three periods of policy and reform activism. School Leadership & Management, 23(4), 401-419.
Norris, S., & Jones, R. H. (2005). Discourse in action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Inc.
Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Wertsch, J. V. (1994). The primacy of mediated action in sociocultural studies. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 1(4), 202-208.
Grace A. Chen, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University
grace.a.chen@vanderbilt.edu
Grace A. Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University. A former secondary school mathematics teacher, she studies how, why, and what mathematics teachers learn about race, power, and equity, with particular interests in identity, ethics, and affect. Her work on Asian Americans in STEM has been published in Race, Ethnicity, and Education; work with preservice teachers in Cognition and Instruction; work on pedagogical responsibility in Pedagogy, Culture, & Society; and practitioner-facing work in The Best of the Math Teacher Blogs 2015. Chen is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, presented a Twitter Math Camp keynote on the politics of teaching mathematics in 2017, and received the Peabody Faculty Council Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Leadership Award in 2018. Her dissertation focuses on how secondary mathematics teachers make sense of relational work.
Samantha Marshall, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University
samantha.marshall@vanderbilt.edu
Samantha Marshall is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University. Her research seeks to theorize how teachers learn. She takes a sociocultural and sociopolitical perspective, collaborating with teachers and professional developers to both enhance practice and investigate teachers' learning through a justice lens. She uses ethnographic methods of data collection and engages design-based research. Prior to graduate school, she taught high school mathematics and computer science, and then served as an instructional coach and curriculum designer for non-profits and schools. Samantha is a first-generation college graduate and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has appeared in Pedagogy, Culture, and Society, The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, The Mathematics Enthusiast, Journal of Educational Foundations, and Journal of Teacher Action Research.


I'm currently at the Texas Municipal League Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.
The seminars are very informative. At the above link, you will find handouts we are using for many of the seminars. I hope you find this useful. I just completed a seminar on Dealing With Difficult Personalities, and I plan to attend additional seminars on economic development, marketing and federal updates.


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Q: Traefik: Access service via local IP address as well as externally (https)? I managed to setup a reverse proxy with my domain (https://MY-DOMAIN.COM), and I think I read that it's also possible to access the service on my local network (http://192.168.0.5:8123 or http://my-server.local:8123), not just externally via https.
Anyone know if this is true, and if so how I'd set that up?
Here's my docker-compose.yml code:
version: '3'

networks:
  proxy:
    external: true

services:
  reverse-proxy:
    container_name: ReverseProxy
    image: traefik
    restart: always
    command: --web --docker
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    networks:
      - proxy
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - ~/docker/traefik/traefik.toml:/traefik.toml
      - ~/docker/traefik/acme.json:/acme.json

  homeassistant:
    image: homeassistant/home-assistant
    container_name: home-assistant
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - proxy
    expose:
      - 8123
    volumes:
     - ~/docker/homeassistant:/config
     - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    labels:
      - "traefik.backend=home-assistant"
      - "traefik.docker.network=proxy"
      - "traefik.frontend.rule=Host:MY-DOMAIN.COM"
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.port=8123"
      - "traefik.default.protocol=http"

And here's my traefik.toml code:
debug = false

logLevel = "ERROR"
defaultEntryPoints = ["https","http"]

[entryPoints]
  [entryPoints.http]
  address = ":80"
    [entryPoints.http.redirect]
    entryPoint = "https"
  [entryPoints.https]
  address = ":443"
  [entryPoints.https.tls]

[retry]

[web]
address = ":8080"

[docker]
endpoint = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
domain = "MY-DOMAIN.COM"
watch = true
exposedbydefault = false

[acme]
email = "MY-EMAIL-ADDRESS"
storage = "acme.json"
entryPoint = "https"
OnHostRule = true
[acme.httpChallenge]
entryPoint = "http"

[[acme.domains]]
  main = "MY-DOMAIN.COM"

A: On your homeassistant docker-compose config change the following to allow your host to map 8123 to the container.
from:
expose:
  - 8123

to:
ports:
  - "8123:8123"

source: What is the difference between docker-compose ports vs expose

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2015 - Won three doubles titles on ITF Circuit.
2014 - Fell in WTA qualifying twice (incl. Australian Open).
2013 - Fell in WTA qualifying twice (incl. Australian Open).
2012 - Fell in WTA qualifying twice (incl. Australian Open).
2011 - Fell in WTA qualifying five times (incl. Australian Open).
2010 - Won three doubles titles on ITF Circuit.
2009 - Played first WTA qualifying (Istanbul); won one doubles title on ITF Circuit.
2005 - Played first event of career at ITF/Port Pirie-AUS.


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NBA Trade Season: Should the Raptors Look to Make A Deal?
With the first trade date of the season, December 15, recently passing by, our SB Nation basketball crew decided to discuss each of the basketball clubs we cover, and if our respective teams should be in the market for making a trade...
By Adam Francis Dec 19, 2012, 11:55am EST
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The Toronto Raptors are in a strange spot. They've won three in a row without their two supposed best players, are threatening to get out of the East's basement, but yet are a long ways off from the type of season most expected.
Should they make a trade?
We take a look...
Is your team a buyer, seller or both (please explain)?
Both. Based on President/GM Bryan Colangelo's pre-season comments, this year's edition of the Toronto Raptors was supposed to be fighting for a playoff spot.
Unfortunately, only a quarter of the way into the season, things came unravelled. Fast.
Now, a team that perhaps would have been looking to add a piece here or there to bolster a playoff run, finds itself a bit lost, even after winning its last three matches.
-Instead of being led by newcomers like Kyle Lowry and Landry Fields, the team is playing better without them on the court.
-The "13 game Bargnani" of last season that management hoped would return for a full season this year, indeed was the mirage many of us predicted.
-The team's defense that was such a pleasant surprise last season completely disappeared, and the offence has hardly improved to replace this drop-off.
So as a result, we're looking at a club sitting with seven wins, searching for answers, meaning the club is open to being a buyer and a seller in all likelihood.
If buyer, what are the needs?
Needs are aplenty but a wing that can defend, stretch opposing defences and facilitate an offense would be great. Easy right?
If seller, what are the objectives in potential moves?
As a seller, the main objective would be to move the sacred cow Andrea Bargnani (who is apparently on the trading block. It's beyond his play this season; Bargs just simply is the antithesis of what this new Raptors culture is supposed to represent. He has to go.
What are your top three trade ideas (please specify traded assets and briefly explain justification for each side)?
As a buyer, the team needs help on the wing. The return of Alan Anderson has helped, and hopefully Landry Fields can regain his moxy now that he's back from injury, but issues will likely remain. This is a team that sports a brutal PER of 7.9 from the small forward position.
The problem is, top wings aren't exactly a dime a dozen so there don't appear to be any easy fixes.
Nevertheless, here are three options the team might want to consider:
1) The Toronto Raptors trade Andrea Bargnani to the Chicago Bulls for Carlos Boozer.
This is simply two teams trying to swap problems. Boozer has fallen way out of favour in Chicago and Bargs, well, you read the first part of this piece. (You did right???) Toronto hopefully gets a boost to their enigmatic offense, and more importantly, Bargnani is no more.
This certainly doesn't lessen Toronto's financial situation though. Bargs is owed about $5M less per season over the next three, and could you really see Tom Thibodeau putting up with Bargs' spotty D?
2) The Toronto Raptors trade Andrea Bargnani to the Milwaukee Bucks for Ersan Ilyasova and Mike Dunleavy Jr.
This trade addresses two immediate needs for Toronto, moving Bargnani, and adding a legit small forward who can stretch the floor and facilitate an offense. After signing a massive extension this past off-season, Ilyasova has been one of the season's bigger disappointments and therefore fits into the Carlos Boozer "trading one problem for another" scenario. Ilyasova's style of play would also be a welcome addition to the Dwane Casey culture.
However problems abound with this scenario. For starters, Ilyasova can't be moved until Jan 15th. And the Raptors, with 15 players on their roster, would need to either waive someone, or move them to the Bucks.
And on the Bucks side, much like Thibodeau, would a hard-nosed defensive coach like Scott Skiles even consider obtaining a player like Bargnani? And with Mike Dunleavy playing great ball, why would the Bucks want to let him go, unless they really were keen to move Ilyasova's contract.
(Note - there are various versions of this trade that could make sense including swapping Jose Calderon and Beno Udrih as well, or adding a contract like that of Drew Gooden's to the mix as a penalty for taking on Bargs.)
3) The Toronto Raptors trade Andrea Bargnani to the Indiana Pacers for Danny Granger.
Here's an interesting one. The Pacers have been underachievers and have missed Granger's offensive traits. Would they be willing to move him and gamble on a player like Bargs, who could bolster their club now, using some of the same offensive skills?
Contractually this works, with the Raptors taking on about $3M more a season, but over two years, thus saving a year on Bargs' deal. And when healthy, Granger would give the Raptors some of the assets at the small forward position that it's been craving since Vince Carter left town.
However it's a bit of a risk. Granger's knees have never been exactly the sturdiest, and there's no telling when he'll be back at the level he was playing the past few seasons. (If ever - he's currently not expected back until February.) Toronto could ostensibly be moving Bargs for damaged goods. For a GM like Colangelo trying to win sooner rather than later, such a pill would be tough to swallow.
In all honesty, none of these trades though are great. The main problem facing Bryan Colangelo is that the bulk of these trades address issues that he thought he had addressed during the off-season, and due to a variety of factors, he's yet to see the fruits of said offseason work.
So I'm guessing he stands pat for now, sees how the club performs minus Bargs and Lowry, and then revisits trade options come the second-half trade deadline.


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Diego Ladislao Oyarbide (born in Rosario, Argentina,  is a former Argentine manager and footballer who played for clubs of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and El Salvador.

Teams as footballer
 Nueva Chicago 1993
 Regional Atacama 1994
 Newell's Old Boys 1994–1995
 Godoy Cruz 1995–1996
 Argentino (R) 1996–1997
 Huracán de Corrientes 1997–1998
 Atlanta 1998–1999
 Atlético Bucaramanga 1999
 Huracán de San Rafael 2000–2001
 Trujillanos FC 2001
 Águila 2002
 Isidro Metapán 2002
 Sportivo Las Parejas 2003–2007

Teams as manager
 Sportivo Las Parejas 2007 - 2008
 Studebaker (Villa Cañas) 2011 - 2015
 Sportivo Las Parejas 2015–2017
 Unión Futbol Club 2017
  Argentino de Rosario (2021)

References

1972 births
Living people
Argentine footballers
Argentine expatriate footballers
Nueva Chicago footballers
Newell's Old Boys footballers
Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba footballers
Argentino de Rosario footballers
Huracán Corrientes footballers
Club Atlético Atlanta footballers
Trujillanos FC players
Atlético Bucaramanga footballers
Regional Atacama footballers
C.D. Águila footballers
A.D. Isidro Metapán footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Expatriate footballers in Chile
Expatriate footballers in Colombia
Expatriate footballers in Venezuela
Expatriate footballers in El Salvador
Association footballers not categorized by position
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe

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Then and Now Space: Conceptual Mapping of Time and Space through Language in William Diehl's Primal Fear
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Absence of the Transcendental Signified: Tracing the Dynamics of Intertextuality in Selected Essays of Shoaib Bin Hassan
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Fragile beauty: ceramic art in Russia
Pottery counts among the oldest crafts on earth, yet is only now getting more and more popular as a medium of contemporary art. Meet five Russian artists who work with ceramics in unconventional ways.
Daria Krotova-Schlosser. Witnesses, installation, 2011 (detail). Faience. Courtesy Daria Krotova & Galerie Iragui
Daria Krotova-Schlosser. Shelf, 2017. 30x50x75 cm. Hand modeling. Ceramics, engobes, saults, glaze. Wooden shelf. Courtesy Daria Krotova & Galerie Iragui. Photo by Anna Pruzhevskaya
Daria Krotova-Schlosser. Bowl, 2017. Ø29 cm. Depth 8 cm. Ceramics, glaze, pigment, sault. Courtesy Daria Krotova & Galerie Iragui. Photo by Anna Pruzhevskaya
Daria Krotova-Schlosser
An artist, neuropsychologist and art critic, Daria Krotova-Schlosser (b. 1971) has been working with ceramics in Russia and France since 1997. She has also developed a ceramics course for children with autism and Asperger's syndrome at the State Tretyakov Gallery. At present, she is based in the Provence region in France. She often uses unfired clay for her conceptual installations and sculptures: untouched by fire or glazing, the material reveals its raw, natural substance. Visually arresting, her slightly surreal works give a lot of food for thought to the viewers. Her riddles always avoid direct interpretation, be it a host of angelic faces flying in the air or scattered porcelain bones from a fictitious archaeological site in Butovo, one of Moscow's remote dormitory suburbs.
Daria Neretina. Deja Vu, 2015. Porcelain, ready made.
Daria Neretina. Bower, 2018. Porcelain, ready made. Exhibition 'Synchronization 2. Synchronization of pulses', CCI Fabrica. Photo by Anastasia Soboleva
Daria Neretina. Eaten egg, 2017. Porcelain, ready made. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Neretina. Heart failure, 2018. Porcelain, ready made. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Neretina
Born in Moscow in 1988 and based there, Daria Neretina studied ceramics in her home town and at London's Goldsmith university, where she took part in a student exchange programme. From the very beginning of her career she started to develop a very complex visual vocabulary. Neretina's installations combine her own ceramic works with other materials, such as glass, wood and metal, as well as found objects, ranging from dried plants to toy railroads. The artist is fascinated by the beauty of organic forms: fruits and plants often recur in her works. She tries to re-interpret their traditional symbolic meanings, weaving them into a tangled web of allusions and not-so-obvious cultural references. Her works have been exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and other museums, as well as private galleries in Moscow, Venice and Milan.
Ludmila Krutikova. Object geometry, 2017. Stone mass, glaze, painting. Courtesy of the artist
Ludmila Krutikova. Beginning. Faience, glaze, decal. Courtesy of the artist
Ludmila Krutikova. Exhibition 'Light-shadow' at the MIZK Gallery, 2019. Courtesy of the artist
Ludmila Krutikova
The visual language of Moscow-based Ludmila Krutikova is an unconventional combination of graphics and ceramic sculpture. A skilled and passionate draughtsman, she explores the realm of geometric abstraction, both in 2D and 3D. Her colourful works can exist as single objects, but often develop into complex installations composed of many similar elements. The artist recently started to incorporate light into her sculptures. Her new series 'Litophania' consists of porcelain panels lit from behind, which can look strikingly different, depending on the lighting conditions. With the light on, they remind one of exquisite monochrome graphics, emitting a soft heart-warming glow. When the light is turned off, the interplay of shades instantly gives the work its third dimension: drawings turn into bas-reliefs as if by magic.
Daria Surovtseva. From the 'Archives', 2013. Porcelain. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Surovtseva. From the 'Illuz Number', 2011. Porcelain
Daria Surovtseva. From the 'Microcosm', 2013. Porcelain. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Surovtseva. From the 'Archives', 2014. Porcelain. 55x40x60 cm. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Surovtseva. From 'Illuz Number Do', 2009. Plexiglass, porcelain. 250x150x150 cm Photo by Svyatoslav Ponomarev. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Surovtseva. Fragment, 2009. Porcelain, plexiglass. Courtesy of the artist
Daria Surovtseva
"I create less an object than the vibrations that emanate from it," Daria Surovtseva says about her works. Born in Moscow in 1980 and based in Paris, she comes from a family of sculptors. Surovtseva's favourite materials are porcelain, stainless steel and plexiglass, which she often combines to create mysterious sophisticated forms, vaguely reminiscent of corals or fossils. "The subject of my sculpture is unreal, ephemeral," she says. "Only the movement of its impulses and the currents that animate it matter." Her creations are both abstract and organic, lifeless and alarmingly alive. Surovtseva's works are included in the collections of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Tsaritsyno Museum and Nature Reserve in Moscow, among others.
Sophia Israel. Bed-warmers from the project 'Museum and Cabinet' Faience, glaze, ceramic pencil, 2009-2019. Courtesy of the artist
Sophia Israel. From the project 'Multi-level profanity', 2015. Ceramics, glaze Courtesy of the artist
Sophia Israel
Moscow-based Sophia Israel (b. 1983) studied ceramics at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. The versatile artist creates witty conceptual sculptures, as well as quirky, yet fully functional teapots and cups, adorned with human and animal figures. She even tries to breathe new life into her fragile creations by shooting ceramics-based animation films. In many of her projects, Israel establishes surprising connections between her craft and science, from neurophysiology to philosophy. Her Museum of Brain project, dedicated to a real such museum, dating back to Soviet times and hidden within the premises of a research institute, is a witty take on Art & Science in general. Her series of ceramic bed-warmers decorated with portraits of writers and philosophers gives a new and humorous dimension to the intellectual cult of "iconic thinkers".
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Khalfun () fou el primer emir de Bari. Era, probablement, amazic.

Sembla que era un servidor, potser fins i tot potser un antic esclau aglàbida. El 847 dirigia l'expedició aglàbida que va conquerir Bari, que ja havia estat conquerida breument a finals del 840 o inicis del 841 per una expedició que no l'havia pogut mantenir. La seva conquesta depenia nominalment d'Ifríqiya però en la pràctica fou un sobirà independent. El seu govern fou breu i el va succeir Mufàrraq ibn Sal·lam.

Referències
 Kreutz, Barbara M. Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. p. 38.
 Giosuè Musca, L'emirato di Bari, Bari, Dedalo, 1978, pp. 20–22.

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Q: Only received 2 rep for an upvote Earlier today I was at 168 reputation for the day, when I received an upvote on an answer of mine.  Instead of receiving 10 reputation like I would have expected I only gained 2.  I don't mind much having 7 rep less, I would have liked to get a point towards epic, but I have plenty of time left to hit the cap.  However I couldn't find an explanation as to why this happened, so I thought I would bring it here in case anyone has experienced this before.

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Sum the upvotes you got today and you do have 200:

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A player that seems to be overlooked for criticism so far this season is Winston Reid. Truly appalling yet again last night, along with Cress, Obiang, Arnie, and yet some fans still have a pop at Joe Hart.
Zabaleta - Good going forward but looks like an OAP at times, out of positon, can't run. There's no point him playing right back as he's too exposed.
Reid, Fonte - Kind of just stand there not doing much, look disinterested.
Ogbonna - This bloke is literally Gary Breen.
Cresswell - Turned into Schemmel (Yes I know he was a right back), absolutely cannot defend.
Kouyate - What on Earth is this bloke? he isn't a footballer I don't think. He's turned into Diame.
Obiang - See all of the above.
Lanzini - Tries but looks completely lost.
Arnautovic - Hopefully the turning point over the last few games, but I'm not expecting much.
Antonio - Lazy, terrible decision maker.
Masuaku - Good crosser & dribbler, but hasn't got a clue about positioning & is completely and utterly clueless when it comes to defending. Doesn't help the defence when playing LB, doesn't help the LB when playing LM. An easy target for opposition.
Carroll - Lazy, looks completely fed up. 0 goals this season.
westham,eggyandchips wrote: A player that seems to be overlooked for criticism so far this season is Winston Reid. Truly appalling yet again last night, along with Cress, Obiang, Arnie, and yet some fans still have a pop at Joe Hart.
Agreed, I mentioned him the other day. He's meant to be captain and kingpin in our defence. Not impressed.
I got the impression from Reid that he just didn't fancy it, I said to my mate that he'd probably come off injured.
Briggsy - you are spot on with your criticism. However, for most of those players, we've seen what they can offer before. They're not performing to their best. We know that the likes of Lanzini and Reid are class players on their day. This is what makes it so frustrating. Man for man we've got a decent, if unbalanced, squad.
Patito, I think Reid being class is a bit of a myth.
Massive respect to all the brothers and sisters that made the trip north.
You are the true hero's. Spending your hard earned just before Xmas to watch that shower.
Always thought he is a big girl's blouse. But this season especially his general play has been pure ****.
The players, don't deserve the support the away fans give.
And for anyone going to Manchester this weekend, despite the inevitable outcome, I salute you.
We can count ourselves unlucky in many respects, but the reality is we offered nothing first half, and only played for about 20 minutes in the second half. Our defence is poor and our midfield woeful. Kouyate and Obiang offered nothing. Ayew and Arnautovic didn't get into the game, but the ball wasn't coming to them. Lanzini looked lost first half, I have no idea what has happened to him. Second half he was much better, pulling the strings, but by then it was too late.
He's put in some outstanding performances in the past for us and looked like a rock, on many occasions.
He's certainly injury prone, but I've seen him put in so many class performances for us, I can only see him as a very good defender personally (when he's at his best).
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The Gibbins wrote: Another disappointment for me has been Zabaleta personally. He looks like another on a long list of past it players to fill a spot at right back for West Ham. I admire his passion and his work rate but he can't keep up with play and is caught out any time he crosses the halfway line. Every time he is caught out he has to commit a foul and add yet more yellow cards to his tally, and then ease off tackles for the rest of the game therefore becoming ineffective in his position.
He's still a decent footballer but needs to adapt his game to one suitable to playing in a **** defence. Ie: don't be the furthest man forward for most of the game.
Patito wrote: Briggsy - you are spot on with your criticism. However, for most of those players, we've seen what they can offer before. They're not performing to their best. We know that the likes of Lanzini and Reid are class players on their day. This is what makes it so frustrating. Man for man we've got a decent, if unbalanced, squad.
I agree Patitio. I'm worried with Reid however, I don't know if he's just off form or just isn't the player he used to be. I'm hoping it's just that he's off form. I'll give a lot of credit to Reid, he's stuck with us for a number of years.
As for Lanzini, he just reminds me of Joe Cole in our relegation season. Trying hard and desperate to create, but lacking in goals & assists which that real kind of flair / luxury player needs to provide (I think Cole got hardly anything that season, although I may be wrong, so Lanzini is doing better). Don't get me wrong, I don't think Lanzini is to blame, but I just find the similarities to Cole a bit worrying!
As Pickford said after the game, they expected us to come out of the traps in the second half. Consequently they retreated in order to soak up the pressure.
It's not simply the case that we played well for 20 minutes, it's more that we were allowed to play.
My theory behind Reid's poor form has been paired with poor centre halves. He was at his best when he relied on the likes of Collins (when he was fit to play) and Tomkins (when he weren't benched or sold). Nowadays he's had to put up with babysitting the likes of Ogbonna and Fonte whilst Collins struggles to regain fitness.
I'd pair him with Rice in a heartbeat under the limited options now. He needs players he can trust around him and unless Collins comes back soon, I think Rice would be the next best thing although srill very raw. Not much other options available bar going 3 at the back which I'd prefer but Moyes doesn't seem to want to go down that route.
Spot on Briggsy, I too am very worried, "on paper" we should be too good to go down but how many times have we said that before and it's happened?
CNR - Rice in for Ogbonna every day of the week mate, I actually rate Ogbonna but he's all over the place at the minute and bar the missed pass at Newcastle, Rice has been solid.
Who else has a stream of well-wishers passing by their desk this morning?