People wonder why I attend a house church. Isn't it obvious? Blogger Matt Walsh is upset with Christians in South Carolina, for voting Donald Trump in big numbers, but we should all ask ourselves the question: why would we expect anything else? Why would we expect self-identified Christians to be sophisticated policy thinkers? Why would..


(1932-1998) Canadian teacher and writer whose first novel, The Wabeno Feast (1973), can be read as sf, but which benefits as well from a fantasy understanding. The Wabeno himself is a Shaman who represents a heart of darkness for the 18th-century white man who encounters him beyond the circle of a civilization which is already fatally Thinning the world; in the other two narrative strands – one set in the present, the other in the near future – the wilderness gradually comes to represent the last breath of the ruined planet. WD's next novel, Dragonslayer * (1981) – novelizing Dragonslayer (1981) – is an efficient expansion upon the original. After an sf trilogy, WD published a second movie tie, Willow * (1988), which competently translates Willow (1988).


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APD: 2 more officers fired for arrest of college students pulled from car
Two more Atlanta police officers fired in connection to college student incident
ATLANTA - The Atlanta Police Department has fired two more officers who were accused of using excessive force in the arrest of two college students during protests over the death of George Floyd.
Wednesday, a spokesperson for the APD said that Sergeant Lonnie Hood and Officer Armon Jones were terminated due to their involvement in the May 30 incident, which involved a Spelman College Student and a Morehouse College student.
A body-camera video released by police shows a group of officers shouting orders, smashing the driver's side window, deploying stun guns and pulling Taniyah Pilgrim and her boyfriend Messiah Young from the sedan. Throughout, the couple can be heard screaming and asking officers what is happening.
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Police body camera shows APD officers pull college students from their car during protests in the city Saturday night.
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Young suffered a fractured arm and required 20 stitches. He said the arrest was "one of the hardest things that I've ever experienced in my life."
The two were out getting something to eat Saturday night when they got snarled in traffic along Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta, their lawyers said. A friend of theirs, another Morehouse student, was standing in the street talking to them while they were stopped when police began to take him into custody, Young's lawyer Mawuli Davis said.
The day after the incident, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said at a news conference she and Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields decided to immediately fire two of the officers involved, Investigator Ivory Streeter and Investigator Mark Gardner, and placed three others on desk duty pending an investigation.
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"Use of excessive force is never acceptable," Bottoms told reporters. Shields called the footage "really shocking to watch."
A week ago, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said arrest warrants had been issued for all six officers involved in the incident. Five of the officers are charged with aggravated assault, in addition to other charges.
Hood has been charged with aggravated assault against both Young and Pilgrim for using a Taser against both of them, an arrest warrant says. He is also charged with simple battery for violently pulling Pilgrim from the car and throwing her down on to the street, a warrant says.
Jones is charged with aggravated battery for hurting Young's left arm when he dragged him from the car and slammed him onto the street, a warrant says. He's also charged with pointing a gun at Young.
Mayor: Officers seen pulling college students from car have been fired
Mayor Bottoms and Chief Shields announced that two officers have been terminated after they say excessive force was used during an arrest Saturday night involving two college students during protests.
In a statement, the attorneys for Young and Philgrim said that they are "are pleased" with the firings of Hood and Jones.
"It is encouraging that Mayor Lance-Bottoms is making every effort to right a wrong that was obvious to all when watching the officers' body cameras," the lawyers told FOX 5 in a statement. "We can't continue to allow members of law enforcement to recklessly abuse the citizens they are sworn to protect."

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I actually made that simple tahini sauce from Food52 the same day i saw it! Seriously delicious even with my substitute of agave for the maple (ran out of maple syrup).
Hope that you're able to get a good night of sleep tonight, going into the week a bit sleep deprived makes everything tougher.
Good sleep is everything isn't it? I miss it a lot when I don't get it. Not enough of it really colors the rest of my day.
I enjoyed the letter from Lauren to her younger self. The letter writing idea is a good one. I did a mental one not long ago while trying to fall asleep. Both introspection and retrospection are really valuable tools I think.
Go forth and conquer this week!:) Thank you for another great roundup!


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Notice 2020-1: FinCEN Extends FBAR Filing Requirements for Certain Financial Professionals
December 21, 2020 Alert
Salvatore R. LaScala
On December 11, 2020, the US Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued Notice 2020-1, which further extended the deadline for certain Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) filings until April 15, 2022, with an automatic six-month extension until October 16, 2022. Notice 2020-1 is a continuation of previous extensions granted by FinCEN for certain individuals with signatory authority over but no financial interest in one or more foreign financial accounts.1
The final FBAR regulations issued by FinCEN on February 25, 2011 (the 2011 FBAR regulations) require US persons who hold a financial interest in, or signature or other authority over, a bank, securities, or any other financial account in a foreign country, to electronically file a FBAR if the aggregate value of these financial accounts exceeds $10,000 at any time during the calendar year. The 2011 FBAR regulations also provide exemptions for officers and employees of certain federally regulated entities who have signatory authority over the entities' foreign financial accounts, but do not have a financial interest in those accounts.2 Shortly after publishing the 2011 FBAR regulations, FinCEN received several questions about the application of the signature authority exemptions due to the following:
Instances of "overlapping," in which an officer of a parent company has signature authority over the foreign financial account of a controlled subsidiary entity, or vice versa. Pursuant to the implementing regulations, individuals must be "an officer or employee of" the entity that holds the account to qualify for this exemption, regardless of affiliated corporate structures.
Officers and employees of SEC Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) who have signature or other authority over (but not financial interest in) the foreign financial accounts of persons that are not registered investment companies. Pursuant to the implementing regulations, individuals may only qualify for this exemption if they are an officer or employee of an Authorized Service Provider3 who owns or maintains a foreign financial account for an investment company registered with the SEC.
In response to these concerns, FinCEN issued two notices, 2011-1 and 2011-2, that provided relief in connection with these scenarios, extending the filing deadline until June 30, 2012. In each subsequent year, FinCEN has provided identical extensions, the latest notice being 2020-1 issued on December 11, 2020.
2016 FBAR Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
As a result of the industry questions and comments regarding FBAR exemptions, FinCEN proposed to expand and clarify the exemptions for certain US persons with signature or other authority over foreign financial accounts. Specifically, in a 2016 NPRM, FinCEN proposed to replace the current exemptions with a more streamlined definition, that:
"…would eliminate the requirement for officers, employees, and agents of US entities to report on accounts owned by the entity over which the officer, employee, or agent has signature authority solely due to their employment when those accounts are already required to be reported by their employer, or any other US entity within the same corporate or other business structure as their US employee..."
"Under the proposed signature authority exemption an officer, employee, or agent of an entity need not submit a report to FinCEN regarding signature or other authority over a foreign financial account in which such entity, or a subsidiary, parent entity, or other entity within the same corporate or other business structure of such entity has a financial interest, if the officer, employee, or agent has no financial interest in the account and the account is required to be reported under 31 CFR 1010.350 by the entity or any other entity within the same corporate or other business structure."
Importantly, the proposed rules do, in certain situations, require US persons to file an FBAR when they have signature or other authority over a foreign financial account with no financial interest, as the NPRM states "the exemption for employees to report their signature authority over the foreign financial accounts of their employer would not extend to US persons in instances in which no entity within their employer's corporate or other business structure has an obligation to report to FinCEN its financial interest in such accounts." As such, an individual employed by a non-US entity with no obligation to report its foreign financial accounts (and is not included as a subsidiary of a US entity that is filing) must file if they meet the FBAR criteria. Furthermore, under the proposed rules, FinCEN is requiring employers to maintain information identifying all officers, employees, or agents with signature authority over, but no financial interest in, foreign financial accounts for a period of five years, and to make such information available to FinCEN upon request.
Important Considerations
A purpose of the proposed changes in the NPRM is to prevent double filing on the same account, and provide relief to US persons who are employees, officers, and agents of a US entity that is already required to report foreign financial accounts to FinCEN. As such, FinCEN's proposed exemption changes are not limited to certain federally regulated entities under the 2011 FBAR regulations.
The 2016 NPRM does, however, narrow the scope of certain exemptions when compared to the FinCEN notices on FBAR filing extensions. Pursuant to Notice 2020-1, individuals with signatory authority (but no financial interest in) foreign financial accounts are not required to file an FBAR, regardless of whether the account is included in another US filing. The 2016 NPRM diverges from Notice 2020-1 in that FinCEN would require US persons to file an FBAR if their employer is not already reporting the account to FinCEN. Second, employees and officers of SEC RIAs who have signature or other authority over (but not financial interest in) foreign financial accounts of non-US investment funds may be required to file an FBAR.
The FBAR filing extensions introduced by FinCEN in notices 2011-1 and 2011-2, and then continued through notices issued in each subsequent year, have effectively served as exemptions since implementing the 2011 FBAR regulations. As expected, Notice 2020-1 further extends the filing deadline to April 15, 2022, given the prior notices and in light of the 2016 NPRM.
Although FinCEN has not yet issued the final rule, US persons should consider collecting relevant data in preparation. It is unclear whether the final rule will be implemented as drafted in the NPRM or amended to provide additional administrative relief. At minimum, US persons will likely have to maintain information on individuals with signature authority over foreign financial accounts and make such information available to FinCEN upon request, even if a final rule exempts an annual FBAR filing.
Special thanks to Gene Bolton for co-authoring this article.
1 See FinCEN Notices 2019-1, 2018-1, 2017-1, 2016-1, 2015-1, 2014-1, 2013-1, 2012-1 and 2012-2, along with Notices 2011-1 and 2011-2.
2 31 CFR 1010.350(f)(2)(i)-(v).
3 An ''Authorized Service Provider'' is defined as an entity that is registered with and examined by the SEC and that provides services to an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. See 31 CFR 1010.350(f)(2)(iii).
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Joint Venture to promote Road Safety Awareness
District Officer Jim Quinn and Councillor John Hurst-Knight, Chairman of Bridgnorth District Community Safety Partnership and member of Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority pictured with a Bridgnorth Council refuse collection vehicle|Pictured with the Bridgnorth Fire appliance are back: Connie Baines of Brignorth Town Council, Chris Ammonds of Safety Camera Partnership and Tracy Johnson of Bridgnorth District Community Safety Partnership; front: Retained Support Officer Dave Jennings, District Officer Jim Quinn and Kerry Rogers of Bridgnorth District Community Safety Partnership|Placing the new posters on to the local council vehicles|Placing the new posters on to the local council vehicles
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has teamed up with Bridgnorth District Community Safety Partnership and the West Mercia Safety Camera Partnership in a joint road safety venture which entails displaying road safety messages on Bridgnorth District Council refuse collections vehicles and town council utility vehicles.
The venture is seen as an important step forward in promoting road safety through hard hitting advertising campaigns and the three organisations involved are delighted that they have been able to work together to make the venture possible.
District Fire Officer Jim Quinn explained:
"Last year Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service attended more than 350 road traffic collisions in which there were 17 deaths and 121 casualties. Much of our time is now spent at road crashes across the county and we want to get the message across to Shropshire motorists that they must take more care on our roads".
Councillor John Hurst-Knight, Chairman of Bridgnorth District Community Safety Partnership and a member of the Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority, also outlined his reasons for backing the campaign:
"This venture will support the Fire Authority's road safety strategy and enhance the work of partner organisations in reducing road deaths and injuries".
Meanwhile, Trevor McAvoy, Project Manager for the Safety Camera Partnership in West Mercia, expressed his pleasure at linking up with the two other organisations on this project.
"We are delighted to be a part of this venture and are grateful for the opportunity to show our support for this campaign. The adverts used have been extremely successful when used elsewhere and the chance to have them emblazoned on additional vehicles is too good to turn down.
"We are confident that they get the road safety message across in a clear and thought provoking way and are hopeful that we will be able to form further partnerships of this sort in the future."


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IFAI Announces Partnership With The Makers Coalition
Oct 13, 2014 8:57 am by Chris Blagden
The Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) today announced an agreement with The Makers Coalition (TMC) to partner on a nationwide workforce development initiative. TMC was started in Minnesota by a group of manufacturers to provide sewing machine operator training and fill unmet needs in the local manufacturing community. A curriculum was developed and offered at Dunwoody College of Technology, a Minneapolis-based technical school.
"There is an on-shoring trend in the United States which is creating a demand for skilled machine operators. At the same time, there is a shortage of people who have been steered into manufacturing careers and trained to operate equipment," said Mary Hennessy, president and chief executive officer of IFAI. "As a local group of manufacturers, TMC has had phenomenal success and wants to play a role in helping other communities address this important issue."
IFAI is a 102-year-old trade association with more than 1,500 corporate members. Both IFAI and TMC see opportunities to duplicate the model, and together they have the expertise and resources to help meet the demand for skilled labor in the sewing industry.
"Our goal has always been to create a national model that other cities could replicate in order to fill these jobs with the skill that the industry is in need of filling," said Jen Guarino, founder of TMC. "This partnership will give us access to their considerable industry experience and outreach to achieve that goal and we are excited about all the possibilities."
TMC will continue to exist as a foundation with its mission of developing curriculum and coordinating with training institutions, workforce development agencies and economic development organizations. IFAI will create a new division (one of 14 that serve specific member initiatives and markets) to be called the Makers Division, and will seek interested companies to support the training programs with industry expertise, trainers, apprenticeships and job placement.
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Apple trialing iPhone 6s Plus production in India in bid to cut costs
Friday, April 13, 2018, 06:15 am PT (09:15 am ET)
Apple's lone assembly partner with a footprint in India, Wistron, has reportedly entered trial production of the iPhone 6s Plus there —despite that device being nearly three years old.
Wistron has set up a line for the 6s Plus at its Bengaluru facility, which currently manufactures the iPhone SE, according to two senior industry executives cited by India's The Economic Times. Commercial production will allegedly begin within the next couple of weeks.
While it might initially seem counterintuitive to run 6s Plus production in 2018, the phone is still technically in Apple's modern lineup, and the company has a marginal presence in the Indian smartphone market because wages and "premium" pricing —exacerbated by import costs —often put a new iPhone out of the average person's reach. The company has enjoyed some success within the high-cost segment.
Apple has often resorted to selling iPhones considered outdated in other markets. The iPhone 6 was estimated to account for as much as a third of Indian iPhone sales in 2017.
The executives quoted by the Times suggested that the cost of the 6s Plus could be further reduced by 5 to 7 percent with local manufacturing, at least once Wistron is able to grow capacity. The company is also said to be talking to parts makers and other assemblers like Foxconn about expanding their Indian presence. Apple has already added two more sourcing partners in India, namely Salcomp and Shenzhen YUTO Packaging Technology, allowing it to secure adapters, chargers, and packaging.
There are now said to be five supplier plants in India, versus the single facility Apple had about a year ago.
Apple has been rumored as wanting to launch an "iPhone SE 2" sometime this year, possibly even assembling it exclusively in India. That's unlikely however, since though the SE is due for an update the company would need capacity beyond what Wistron has in India to meet global demand.
Aside from getting around import fees, local manufacturing may also help pave the way for the country's first Apple stores. Single-brand retailers such as Apple must normally meet a 30 percent sourcing requirement, which has stopped the company from making any concrete plans.
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NFL 2019: Mahomes encore could depend on defensive makeover
ARNIE STAPLETON
August 22, 2019, 7:57 PM UTC
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes passes in the first half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger)
Melvin Gordon's prolonged holdout and Derwin James' foot injury in L.A., Antonio Brown's head-to-toe spectacle in Oakland, and a spinning turnstile of head coaches and quarterbacks in Denver all complicate efforts to unseat the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West.
Not that it's status quo in KC. The Chiefs' defensive makeover features new coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and as many as eight new starters.
Patrick Mahomes, the MVP who threw for 5,000-plus yards and 50 touchdowns in his first season as a starter, never touched the ball in overtime of the AFC championship because Kansas City's defenders couldn't get off the field against the Patriots after New England won the coin toss.
That rendered the biggest breakout star of 2018 another sad spectator at Arrowhead Stadium as Tom Brady and Bill Belichick hoisted their ninth Lamar Hunt Trophy together.
"We were super close," Mahomes said. "We fell just short."
Mahomes has just about everyone back in his quest to get the Chiefs to their first Super Bowl in 50 years, including star receiver Tyreek Hill , cleared to play by the NFL following an offseason domestic violence investigation.
Among the Chiefs' new defenders are free safety Tyrann Mathieu and pass rusher Frank Clark, who replaced Dee Ford, whose offside penalty in the AFC championship negated Charvarius Ward's interception in the final minute of regulation.
As painful as that loss was, coach Andy Reid called it "a great learning tool."
"I think it's great for our football team to have that opportunity, to see the intensity that it takes to play at that level," said Reid, whose Philadelphia Eagles lost three straight NFC championships before breaking through with a trip to the Super Bowl following the 2004 season.
The Chargers are the Chiefs' biggest threat in the AFC West, where Denver and Oakland continue rebuilds:
CHARGERS' CHAGRIN
The Chargers are considered one of the AFC's top teams, but they didn't have a smooth summer with Gordon's holdout; left tackle Russell Okung missing camp with blood clots; wide receiver Keenan Allen dealing with an ankle injury; and safety Nassir Adderley, a second-round pick, hampered by a pulled hamstring.
Then James, their All-Pro safety, broke his right foot at a practice against the New Orleans Saints in mid-August and required surgery that's expected to sideline him for at least three months. He'll be replaced by Adrian Phillips.
This is the second straight year the Chargers go into the season without one of their top defenders. Pass rusher Joey Bosa missed the first nine games last season with turf toe, although Philip Rivers led Los Angeles to a 7-2 start on its way to a 12-4 season before the second-round exit from the playoffs.
The 17th overall pick in 2018, James made a team-high 105 tackles to go with four interceptions, 3½ sacks and 13 pass breakups his rookie season.
Gordon's holdout ahead of the final year of his rookie contract allowed Justin Jackson and Austin Ekeler to show why they should be in the mix for more carries in 2019.
BURNISHED BRONCOS
Joe Flacco is the latest in a long line of quarterbacks Broncos GM John Elway has acquired since Peyton Manning's retirement in 2016.
"It's a hard position to fill," Elway said. "We tried to shake all these trees around here the last four years and quarterbacks didn't fall out of it."
Saying Flacco is in his prime at age 34, Elway might be trying hard to sell his latest QB acquisition to an antsy and skeptical fan base that suffered through flops by Mark Sanchez, Trevor Siemian, Brock Osweiler, Paxton Lynch, Case Keenum and Chad Kelly.
No matter the motivation, Flacco appreciates Elway's flattery.
"I definitely feel that way," Flacco said. "So it feels good to hear somebody say that. I mean, shoot, with Tom Brady now, quarterbacks are playing until they're about 60 years old."
Speaking of sexagenarians, Elway's latest head coach is 61-year-old rookie Vic Fangio , the architect of the Chicago Bears' stingy defenses from 2015-18, who replaced Vance Joseph (11-21 in two seasons).
LAME-DUCK RAIDERS
When Brown arrived at training camp for the Raiders in a hot air balloon, coach Jon Gruden joked he expected more drama from his star receiver.
Brown provided that drama by missing significant practice time dealing with frost-bitten feet suffered while getting cryotherapy treatment in France, and waging a battle with the NFL over the use of his outdated helmet.
He lost a grievance to allow him to use the helmet that's no longer certified as safe and returned to camp. But after he skipped another workout, general manager Mike Mayock issued an ultimatum for Brown to be "all in our all out."
The Raiders acquired Brown from the Pittsburgh Steelers as the cornerstone to an offensive upgrade around Derek Carr that also features first-round running back Josh Jacobs, deep-threat receiver Tyrell Williams, and elite pass blocker Trent Brown.
An improved offense won't matter much if the Raiders can't also upgrade a pass rush that generated an NFL-low 13 sacks last season after trading away star Khalil Mack.
PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH
Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Raiders
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Home Stalking the Wild NoogaYorker
Stalking the Wild NoogaYorker
by Rich Bailey
Photo by Lesha Patterson (a recently transplanted NoogaYorker photographer)
NoogaYorkers
The birth of a new science is notoriously difficult to pinpoint. When did natural history—amateurs collecting specimens in the countryside—become biology? No one knows a date, but at some point in the 18th or 19th century the dilettante with a butterfly net gave way to the professional in a lab coat.
It's possible, just possible, that the much-beloved pastime of tracking transplants to and from Chattanooga may be undergoing just such a transformation from hobby to science. Who among us has not dabbled in collecting quasi-genealogies of newcomers to the Scenic City or of Chattanooga expatriates in the big world outside? With no thought of transcending such amateurish pursuits, I recently stumbled into a line of inquiry that may give unexpected insight into the seemingly random comings and goings from our fair city.
After moving from Chattanooga to New York City in 2010, and then moving back in 2011, I began to suspect the existence of a new hybrid, neither Chattanoogan nor New Yorker. Indeed, I suspected myself to be one, having left my wife and daughter in New York and now going back and forth frequently. So in the same spirit as the amateur botanist of the 19th century whose carefully gathered plant and animal specimens eventually formed the basis for the systematic science of biology, I humbly—and with tongue only partially in cheek—offer the following field reports on a potential new species ... the NoogaYorker.
Two New York Actors in Chattanooga
During my first year in New York City, I visited Chattanooga several times to meet with clients and see family. It occurred to me that I might be considered a NoogaYorker, but that limited back and forth hardly seemed to justify the idea of a location-based hybrid identity. When we needed a new apartment at the beginning of year two, idle fancy grew into a wild surmise. The apartment we found and sub-let was owned by a family that had moved from Manhattan to Chattanooga within two weeks of our migration in the opposite direction. We didn't know each other until becoming landlord and tenant.
Kate Forbes and Stevie Ray Dallimore were accomplished professional actors in New York City. Kate grew up in Chattanooga, but had not lived here since leaving for college. In 2010, they founded the Muse of Fire project in Chattanooga, which teaches playwriting to middle school students and produces the resulting one-act plays with adult actors. They also teach acting classes at UTC, a new venture for Stevie Ray but familiar territory for Kate, who has taught acting at New York University, Fordham University, Lincoln Center and The Public Theater.
More interestingly for my NoogaYorker hypothesis, both continue to act in New York City and elsewhere using Chattanooga as a home base. Stevie Ray has had recent movie roles in "Joyful Noise" and "American Reunion" and has filmed scenes with Harrison Ford in the science-fiction film "Ender's Game," slated for a 2013 release. Kate played a major role in a regional theater production of "The Crucible" at the Hartford Stage. She actually had to turn down roles in two plays because of obligations in Chattanooga, including finishing up an audio book of Appalachian folktales that she has produced using a MakeWork grant. Kate has recorded over 150 audio books and has won national awards for her work.
The couple relishes their ability to bring their New York energy and ideas to Chattanooga and said they hope to be part of creating more professional theater opportunities here.
"This feels like a place that's ripe for creation, for making things happen," said Stevie Ray. "We've been able to come and make things happen here. People are very excited about what we're doing."
The roster of former Chattanoogans in entertainment includes familiar names such as Samuel Jackson, Usher and Leslie Jordan, as well as others that don't get as much ink in Chattanooga, like The Lady Bunny (birth name: Jon Ingle), one of the country's best-known drag queens.
"It cannot be denied that this city has produced literary artists, visual artists, performing artists," said Kate. "So there's something going on here that's right. It's just that they have to leave here to make a living. Wouldn't it be cool if there were a way for them to come back and work?"
Rum Sunday: 20-Something Chattanoogans in New York
Still, before professional entertainers can come back to Chattanooga, there's just no other way to become a successful professional than to leave the city. It's no surprise to find fledgling entertainers from Chattanooga trying to make it in New York. But the size of the Chattanooga expatriate community—including many holding dual citizenship in the New York theatre community—is astonishing.
Eric Grimm, a manic and flamboyant 2008 graduate of the Center for Creative Arts (CCA), counts at least 30 Chattanoogans in his own circle. Most are 20-something students and recent graduates working their way up in their fields, including my daughter Alexandra and her friend Su Hendricks, CCA alums who just graduated from New York University with acting degrees. Some already have significant early successes, like Trent Cresswell, a Sarah Lawrence student who last year had a staged reading of one of his plays at a professional theater.
The smaller 30-something cadre, with a few more years in the city, are even more accomplished: Canedy Knowles (daughter of two more NoogaYorkers, Rex Knowles and Sherry Landrum, who lead the Actor Training Program at Chattanooga State) is a working actor; Steven Malone is music director for the Broadway musical "Newsies;" Steven Rummer works in marketing for Dreamworks.
Grimm is a prolific organizer of social events, like the weekly Rum Sunday salon that meets at a walk-up rum bar in the East Village and the annual Memorial Day Fish & Grits party to introduce Yankee friends to the tradition of Southern hospitality.
Rum Sunday itself is very hospitable, with its own unique and quirky traditions. Grimm introduces everyone and invents all the facts in their fully fictionalized biographies. The drink is always communal bowls of rum punch. Rum Sunday virgins pick the first round, and the second round is chosen by rock-paper-scissors. After every round, Grimm unbuttons one button. Several times a night, a bathroom becomes a photo booth for as many people will fit. The first Sunday of the month, the dress code is black tie.
The New York Pizza Dept. in Hixson
Even more than Rum Sunday draws Chattanoogans in New York, a new pizza joint in Hixson is becoming a magnet for New York transplants in Chattanooga. The New York Pizza Department opened its doors in March.
As in New York, the NYPD serves both slices and whole pies. The pizza is made entirely in house using family recipes from Uncle Sal's pizzeria on Long Island and ingredients from New York suppliers. "We have everything except the water, which is 10 percent of the taste of New York pizza," said Kurt Cilen, who came to Chattanooga in a sales position with PlayCore. His brother Eric relocated this year to help create the restaurant.
"Living here five years, I may have met three New Yorkers," said Kurt. "Within the last two months of us being open, I think I've met 500 that I had no idea were actually here. They all come in to say, 'I'm from New York, I'm going to tell you how good your pizza is.'
"The majority of people from the South look at New Yorkers as a bunch of tough guys, but in actuality, they're really truly family people," he added. "Ninety-five percent of the people I meet from New York are the most lovable, caring, family-oriented people I've ever met."
The Cilen brothers' grandmother came to New York from Turkey, via Russia and the Ukraine, fleeing war and looking for a safe place for her children. Kurt's father learned English as a teenager in New York pool halls, playing with champions like Fat Cat Willie Mosconi, who had a cameo in the 1961 film "The Hustler." At 17, he started as a stock boy in the parts department of Manhattan's Mercedes Benz dealership. Fast forward a few decades and their father owns an auto parts wholesaler in Fort Lauderdale and is investing in his sons' New York pizzeria in Chattanooga.
After just two months in business, the Cilen brothers are already launching expansion plans. The first restaurant will more than double in size this summer. They plan three more suburban locations and eventually a downtown flagship that will be not just a restaurant but also a "unique pizza experience."
"Take Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and imagine pizza instead of chocolate," said Kurt. "The kids will absolutely love it."
NoogaYorker Field Research Gets Strange
My NoogaYorker field research has taken some unusual turns. As the deadline for this article approached, I made an unexpected research trip to New York Pizza Department (two slices, very tasty). On the way, at a time of day when I would normally not be in my car listening to the radio, I heard an interview on WUTC-FM with Chris Grabenstein, a New Yorker who spent his teen years in Chattanooga, went to college at UT in Knoxville and returned to New York for good in 1979.
His best-known mystery series features John Ceepak and Danny Boyle, two cops solving murders in a kitschy Jersey Shore beach town. (Think pastel police cruisers and lots of fried food.) When I tracked Grabenstein down, he said, "My high school friends point out that all my rides [the Ceepak series titles come from amusement park rides, like Tilt A Whirl and Whack-A-Mole] are named after ones we used to go on in Lake Winnepesaukah when I was a kid. Not intentionally, but it seems like in my subconscious they are. We used to go there on school trips when I was in elementary school on Signal Mountain."
Even more synchronicity/research showed up a few days later: The cover photo for this article was taken by Pulse photographer Lesha Patterson in New York City, not because The Pulse sent her on assignment, but because she just moved from Chattanooga to New York to pursue her dream. Yet another Pulse alumni, Jennifer Grelier, the paper's former advertising designer, preceded her by nine months.
Some NoogaYorkers are more Yorker than Nooga, having long left Chattanooga behind for the Big Apple. These Chattanoogans have become more or less natives in their adopted hometown of New York City, and rarely, if ever, reappear on the local scene save for a rare family reunion. Even then, they slip in and out of town quietly.
Like so many, these NoogaYorkers were drawn to the city for its renown as the arts capital of the world and are notable for both their achievements as well as their close relationships and concentrated migration. This small gaggle of Chattanooga actors, playwrights and entertainers include four top acting talents who graduated from Hixson High School in the early 1980s, studied theatre together at UT, and launched a dramatic group assault on New Yorker soon after.
Actor, director and playwright Anthony Patton, who is now director of operations for Ballet Hispanico in New York, still recalls the period with excitement. Patton and his brother, Jon Marc, along with Don Stephenson and Patton's future wife, Leigh, were all stars of Hixson High's drama department who took their high school productions seriously.
"Graduating from Hixson High School culminated for us with a very special show in drama of Bernard Pomerance's play, "The Elephant Man," Patton recalled. "After graduation, Leigh and I joined some fellow Hixson alumni to study theatre at UT, where there was a professional theatre company. Along the way, Leigh and I fell in love there. After a brief trip up to New York City to secure an apartment, we came back to Trinity Lutheran Church in Hixson—where I attended and my mother, Janet Patton, had started a community theatre and we had many friends—got hitched, then loaded up the Volkswagen Dasher and, joined by my brother Jon Marc, headed up to the Big Apple to seek our fortunes."
Almost right away, Leigh was cast in the lead role of a new play at the 13th Street Repertory in Greenwich Village. That next year, a play Patton had written about racism, "Old Flames," in which Leigh played one of the lead roles, got picked up by a producer for a year-long Off-Broadway run. Jon Marc, who is a singer/songwriter, lent his music to the show. Stephenson and his then fiancé, Emily Loesser, whom he'd met in New York acting class, and another Hixson High drama alum, Theron T. Hudgins, had been a part of the very first workshop. "An amazing first few years," Patton recalled. "We were very fortunate."
There were many other success, Patton said, but the demands of a new family led him into nonprofit arts administration and his wife, who is now a teacher, back to school. The couple have two daughters, Amanda, 12, and Charlotte, 8, whom he said are both "native New Yorkers with, we feel, some smiling, Southern grace abiding." Because their families also migrated away from Chattanooga, they have less reason to return, but Patton said he keeps track of the happenings in town through friends and news reports.
Stephenson went on to higher visibility as an actor. A song-and-dance man, Stephenson's goals were never vague—he was headed for Broadway. Since arriving in New York, he has been a cast member and star of a number of Broadway shows, including "Titanic" and "The Producers," as well as appearing in Off-Broadway productions, touring and regional productions. Stephenson's resume also includes numerous film and TV credits. On the silver screen, he has appeared in such movies as "Little Brother" and "It Had To Be You." On the small screen, he has appeared in soap operas ("Another World," "All My Children"), the dramas "Law and Order" and "Now and Again," as well as commercial work. Stephenson is married to Emily Loesser, daughter of famed Broadway composer Frank Loesser, perhaps best known for "Guys and Dolls."
For those following in their footsteps, Patton recommends education and a preemptive strike. "If you're considering taking the Big Leap, looking back we're glad we'd visited first," he said. "You need a plan and some connections. We also feel taking time to create a supportive environment for yourself in the city is supremely important. Read all you can, especially The New York Times, cover to cover, every day—and you can on the subway!"
More Field Research is Needed
My field observations seem to confirm the existence of a new type of hybrid identity in which individuals live in and fully identify with two distinct places. Increasing hybridization can be expected, although surely only a mad scientist would envision eventual replacement of all Chattanoogans and New Yorkers by hybrid NoogaYorkers.
Unfortunately, I believe all of these synchronicities I was obligated to report may reduce the possibility of scientific acceptance of the NoogaYorker hypothesis. Meaningful coincidences are, well ... meaningful and all, but so-called "science" has no use for them!
This lack of scientific acceptance comes at a particularly sensitive time, as hybrid populations in New York and Chattanooga show definite signs of growth, but follow no discernible patterns. I have also received unconfirmed reports of additional hybrids: ChicagoNoogans and NoogaLaskans. And as Volkswagen's German employees return to the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg after several years in Chattanooga, we can expect to see the appearance of Wolfsburger-Neue-Noogans—or perhaps Chatta-burgers. Only time will tell.
OK, I'm not sure I can call this stuff research, and I'm pretty sure it would be impossible for another researcher to duplicate in order to confirm my observations. The academic field of NoogaYorker studies is in its infancy, of course, and foundation grants will surely be difficult. The only certainty is that further field research—especially in Germany—is urgently needed, although The Pulse seems reluctant to fund that particular trip. So I appeal directly to my research subjects: If you think you may be a NoogaYorker or any other bi-locational hybrid, send your story to me (seriously) at noogayorker@gmail.com or post your story to Facebook.com/NoogaYorker.
—Additional reporting by Bill Ramsey


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It is quite interesting to note that individuals considering committing to a college degree nearly always exclusively consider campus-based programs. Very few even think about taking an accredited online degree, which is just as good as campus learning in the real world. Many potential students baulk at the idea of taking a university online degree because it means venturing into the unknown. Very few people actually know enough about accredited online college degrees in order to make a decision, and very few attempt to do the research to find out! The purpose of this article is therefore to give you a quick guide to university online degrees so you are quipped to judge whether it will suit you or not.
All degrees from recognised schools are hard work. Accredited online college degrees are no different, so if you think for one second that this option will provide you with an easy ride then you are sadly mistaken. Often, course content varies very little between the two but the methods of learning have very little in common, which is why you must investigate both in order to determine the one that suits you best.
University online degrees are all about self-discipline. If you are a weak person, prone to procrastination or laziness, then a university online degree will not suit you at all. You have to be able to motivate yourself because nobody else is there to do it for you. Campus degrees, and the various classes that are incorporate into them, are run by a variety of tutors who are all employed to watch over students and make sure that there are enough reminders issued about deadlines and ongoing work. They are also there to help individual students out during class time. They effectively spoon feed students the course content. Whilst this my sound harsh and unfair to anybody that has attended a campus university, it is true in comparison to the outside input a lot of online students receive. University online degree students do not have that and have to be organized in order to remember all of their deadlines by themselves, as well as keep on top of ongoing work and find their own research sources. It is very easy to leave work if nobody issues you reminders of what you are supposed to be doing.
require sheer hard work and effort if you want to get something out of them. In effect, you reap what you sow. If you do not think that you will be able to effectively organize your own education or if you doubt that you will possess this sort of motivation or determination, then a university online degree is not for you. You must see an accredited online college degree as a challenge in order to benefit. However, if you believe that you are up to this challenge then go for it. A university online degree can certainly prove that you possess the necessary skills to survive in the workplace and world of business.


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import re

class Shelper():
    REGEX = None

    def check(self, m):
        if not self.REGEX:
            raise NotImplementedError
        if re.match(self.REGEX, m) != None:
            return self.run(m)
        else:
            return []

    def run(self, m):
        raise NotImplementedError
        return []

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7) Science, how many sides does a 'nonagon' have?8?
18) Science, which is the largest planet in our solar system?..The Sun?
19) Classical music, who composed his 'Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 36', popularly known as 'The Enigma Variations'?...Paganini?
21) Food and drink, the Fr**ch call this food 'Boudin Noir', what do we call it? Black pudding?
A very respectable 13 correct, well done you.
A really excellent 19 correct, very well done.
5) The cup, or bowl, Jesus was said to have used at the Last Supper is known as what? The holy grail?
7) Science, how many sides does a 'nonagon' have? 9?
17) Which country's national anthem opens the Beatles song 'All You Need is Love'? USA?
20) History, in which British city did the body snatchers Burke and Hare operate? London?
21) Food and drink, the Fr**ch call this food 'Boudin Noir', what do we call it? Black olive?
22) Geography, which narrow stretch of water separates North Africa from Spain ? Red Sea?
From what 1965 hit does the above verse come? I got you babe? Sonny and Cher?
BQ1) What does the title of Adolph Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" mean? My life.
hardest questions ever tonight Ray!
A really excellent 19 correct, very well done you.
I make that 23 correct.
4) Film, who played Mary in the 1998 film 'There's Something About Mary'? ??????
7) Science, how many sides does a 'nonagon' have? Nine?
9) Sport, which Championship football club's home ground is Carrow Road ? ?
23) Literature, who wrote the 2009 Man Booker Prize winning novel 'Wolf Hall'? ?????
From what 1965 hit does the above verse come? ???????
STINKER) What Ministry Department did Jim Hacker work for in the TV series 'Yes Minister'? ??????
TRICKY) What new name was given to the Millennium Dome in London in 2007? ??????????
6. A Vegetable, Something like a cross between a cabbage and a lettuce.
A most excellent 20 correct LL, well done you.
A super 20 correct Gassey, well done.
You're very welcome AWP, well done you tonight.
A most excellent 22 correct Mester Corks.
25. I got you babe.
stinker minister of ministerial affairs.
You're very welcome Jo Anne, well done tonight.
A most excellent 14 correct, well done you.
Many apologies, I marked you out of turn.
A lot of posts were done close together and I got a little flustered.
Its quite all right Rmj, as long as we all get marked it doesn't really matter what order its done in.


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Q: Creating multiple Criterion Benchmarks at once This code compiles and runs without problems:
module Main where

import Criterion.Main

main :: IO ()
main =
  defaultMain
    [env (return $ [1,2])
         (\is ->
            bgroup "group" (benchmarks is))]

timesTwo :: Int -> Int
timesTwo i = 2 * i

benchmarks :: [Int] -> [Benchmark]
benchmarks is = [ bench "foo" $ nf timesTwo (is !! 0)
                , bench "foo" $ nf timesTwo (is !! 1) ]

Yet if I change the benchmarks function to look like
benchmarks :: [Int] -> [Benchmark]
benchmarks is = map (\i -> bench "foo" $ nf timesTwo i) is

it still compiles but I get this runtime error:
ghci> main
*** Exception: Criterion atttempted to retrieve a non-existent environment!
        Perhaps you forgot to use lazy pattern matching in a function which
        constructs benchmarks from an environment?
        (see the documentation for `env` for details)

How do I resolve this?
As you can see, my goal is to map over a list from obtained from the environment in order to turn it into a list of Benchmarks that I can use with Criterion.
Note: I eventually want to use way more elements than just two, so tuples are not what I want here.

A: For benchmarking at different sizes, I usually do something like this:
module Main (main) where

import Criterion.Main
import System.Random
import Control.Monad

import qualified Data.List
import qualified Data.Sequence

int :: Int -> IO Int
int n = randomRIO (0,n)

benchAtSize :: Int -> Benchmark
benchAtSize n =
    env (replicateM n (int n)) $
    \xs ->
         bgroup (show n)
           [ bench "Data.List"     $ nf Data.List.sort xs
           , bench "Data.Sequence" $ nf (Data.Sequence.sort . Data.Sequence.fromList) xs
           ]

main :: IO ()
main = defaultMain (map benchAtSize [100, 1000, 10000])

env is useful for ensuring that two different functions are compared on the same sample, and it's not designed to compute your whole dataset before running the benchmarks. Also, because all of the data created by env is kept in memory during the benchmarking of anything in its scope, you want to minimize it as much as is possible, to reduce overhead while benchmarking.

A: env is very picky with strictness. You can't use it here. The structure of the benchmarks created under env cannot depend on the environment. That is, the environment can be used by the code that is being benchmarked, but the way the benchmarks themselves are organized, named, etc. cannot use it. This is because criterion will sometimes pass _|_ instead of the real environment, when it wants to just inspect the structure of the benchmarks without executing them. When you use !!, the organization of the benchmarks is given by hand, and is intact even when is = _|_:
benchmarks _|_ = [ bench "foo" $ nf timesTwo _|_ -- _|_ !! n = _|_; nf is not strict
                 , bench "foo" $ nf timesTwo _|_ ] -- "bench"s are still there

But map breaks this:
benchmarks _|_ = map _etc _|_
               = case _|_ of -- definition of map
                      [] -> []
                      x:xs -> _etc x : map _etc xs
               = _|_ -- benchmark structure gone

Your best bet is just not using env:
main = do is <- _ -- however you calculate is
          defaultMain $ bgroup "group" $ benchmark is

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At some point in everyone's work life we encounter that person — boss, peer, senior manager, or subordinate that simply "gets under our skin". There is something about them — their style, voice, mannerisms, daily behavior, attitude, routine commentary, or perhaps a specific event — that arouses strong negative emotions, and sometimes makes us crazy and altogether irrational when we encounter or think about them. Because we often have no choice but to work with this person, coping with our negative feelings and the strong emotions they often arouse in us is a major challenge.
As a manager, successfully coping with such people is critical because failure to do so undermines your ability to successfully carry out essential aspects of your job. It does no good pretending you don't feel like you do, or feeling ashamed that you are not able to rise above such petty biases. You're simply human after all. What you require is the maturity to realize that you must devise a strategy for managing your reactions and the strength to execute it.
Assume the person that gets under your skin is your boss or a superior with whom you frequently interact. As a manager, your subordinates expect you to successfully manage relations with your superiors so as to insure the best outcomes for them and your organization. Your subordinates will not appreciate it if your feelings towards your superiors have a negative impact on resources, their advancement potential, or your organization's overall bureaucratic influence.
Or assume the person that gets under your skin is a subordinate. Good managers cultivate a fair, objective, and unbiased perspective on every subordinate when it comes to assignments, opportunities, daily treatment, and the evaluation of their performance. Yet, it is extremely hard to prevent negative emotions from clouding your judgment in any of these matters.
Ultimately every manager must find his or her own way of dealing with their feelings and emotions, especially as they relate to those individuals who just seem to irritate the daylights out them. Over the years I have found that it helps to formulate a coping strategy by attempting to answer one of the most valuable questions any manager can ever ask themselves: DOES IT MATTER?
By MATTER, as I use the term, I am referring to a reasonably objective judgment on your part concerning: (1) whether your feelings and emotional reaction to an individual are interfering with the execution of your managerial responsibilities; or (2) whether what bothers you constitutes unprofessional or performance-hindering behavior that you as a manager should address?
Concluding that it does not matter in either of the above ways points you in the direction of finding a way to simply live with your feelings and occasional irritation in the knowledge that your emotions are not undermining your ability to do your job. However, if you believe it does matter — that your emotions are clouding your judgment and interfering with the execution of your managerial responsibilities — then you must act to confront the behavior in question in some way.
Discussing behavioral issues with either a superior or subordinate is an unpleasant and difficult task. But when the matter is impacting your performance, it is an essential task. The key, as I have discussed in previous articles, is to focus on the impact of the behavior in question on you personally, or on the workplace environment where applicable. Phrasing your comments as a personal attack is almost certain to fail.
Whenever I discuss this issue, I recall an incident involving myself and a young subordinate that I share here as a shining example of how to do this right. For reasons I will never fully understand and which were completely unconscious on my part at the time, she claimed that I had failed to affirm the value of her comments in a series of meetings, while I had been quite praiseworthy of the comments of others. My initial reaction was disbelief and embarrassment, but I quickly came round to the conclusion that it must have happened because this subordinate was someone whose veracity I trusted and who had the reputation of telling truth to power. The true impact of her feedback, however, was her description of the work-related consequences of my lack of affirmation: "because you — the group leader — seemed to ignore my input" she said, "the rest of the predominately male group did so as well".
I will never know how difficult it was for this young woman to confront me regarding the importance of affirmation in the eyes of all subordinates but it had a lasting impact on my conduct of meetings from that point on. That she accused me of nothing, nor pretended to know why what she perceived had occurred, provided me with the emotional room I needed to focus on the impact of my behavior on her potential contribution and to resolve that I would not let that happen again.
Her feedback was a valuable gift that kept giving over the years.


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The Chinese group plans to build two production sites, one in Luzhou in Sichuan Province, and the second in Guigang which lies 300km west of Guangzhou.
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DETROIT — High school economics teacher Jay McDowell says he didn't like where the discussion was going after a student told his classmates he didn't "accept gays," so McDowell kicked the boy out of class for a day.
In return, the teacher was kicked out of Howell High School in Michigan for a day — suspended without pay for violating the student's free speech rights.
The incident has sparked intense debate in Howell, about 45 miles northwest of Detroit, over defending civil rights without trampling the U.S. constitution's right to free speech. It's gained far wider attention since a local newspaper released video of a 14-year-old gay student from another city defending McDowell at a Howell school board meeting.
On Oct. 20, McDowell told a student in his classroom to remove a belt buckle with the Confederate Flag, the symbol of the southern confederacy that seceded from the United States over slavery, kicking off the Civil War in the 1860s.
She complied, but it prompted a question from a boy about how the flag differs from the rainbow flag, a symbol of pride for the gay community.
"I explained the difference between the flags, and he said, 'I don't accept gays,'" said McDowell, 42, who was wearing a shirt with an anti-gay bullying message.
McDowell said he sent the boy out of the room for a one-day class suspension. Another boy asked whether he also could leave because he also doesn't accept gays.
"The classroom discussion was heading in a direction I didn't want it to head," McDowell said.
McDowell soon received a reprimand letter from the district that said his actions violated the students' free speech rights as well as school policy. It also said he "purposefully initiated a controversial issue" by the wearing the T-shirt featuring the anti-gay bullying message.
"I thought it was a really great, teachable moment," McDowell said of his decision to remove the student from class.
Graeme Taylor is among those who agree. The 14-year-old, who does not go to Howell schools, says he is gay and attended a recent school board meeting to praise a teacher who "finally stood up and said something."
"I've been in classrooms where children have said the worst things," the boy told the board. "The kinds of things that drove me to a suicide attempt when I was 9 years old."
Video of Graeme's comments had been viewed on YouTube more than 13,000 times as of Monday evening, when Howell schools convened a community diversity forum that district spokeswoman Kim Root said was meant to be a step forward.
"We can learn some things from this episode," she said, adding the district hoped to receive recommendations from the public to improve "the tolerance of the district and enhance diversity efforts we already have in place."
Jay Kaplan, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) Legal Project, credits McDowell for trying to create a "welcoming environment for all students." But Kaplan said the "teachable moment" would have come if the students stayed in the classroom.
"We believe, based on those statements — as offensive and upsetting as they were — they were protected speech," Kaplan said. "The only way we're going to create a better environment in schools is to start talking about this."
Kaplan said Howell schools have expressed interest in accepting the ACLU's offer to provide in-person training to students, faculty, and staff. He said such training could provide a better understanding of what can be said and done.
McDowell has filed a complaint against the district over the discipline he received, but said Monday he primarily wants to "force the school to look at itself."
"I want to force adults to look at what situation we've created," he said. "I would really like us to be more aggressive in our policing of harassing and bullying."


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Trump Pokes The Totalitarian UN… Again! "If The Righteous Many Do Not Confront The Wicked Few, Then Evil Will Triumph."
Last year, President Donald Trump gave the first real address from an American point of view in a long, long time. This year, he came back to poke at them again, and while many of the totalitarian and failed regimes that make up the Communist/Socialist/Islamic body, Trump told them the truth about their failures.
While Trump touted his administration's achievements, the media only wanted to focus on the laughter from the totalitarians in the General Assembly.
Since he has taken office, Trump has been steadily defunding certain portions of the United Nations.
He slashed 2018 contributions to the UN by $285 million.
The administration also defunded the United Nations Population Fund, which is responsible for implementing the UN's sick population control.
The Trump administration also pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council after more than a year of not seeing any change from the UNHRC.
Other cuts have been made as well.
However, the UN will never be reformed. Why we put any money into it is beyond me, in fact, we could make the argument that by doing so, we are acting unconstitutionally against our own interests by funding international criminal cartels and crimes against humanity.
We need to completely abandon the UN and kick the organization off our soil. The United Nations has been run by Socialists and Communists from its inception in 1945. We have legislation in Congress now that would pull us completely out of the treaty with the UN and restore our sovereignty, but no one is pushing it.
Here's what the White House had to say about Trump's Speech.
President Donald J. Trump helped kick off the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City yesterday. Along with a series of bilateral meetings with allies this week, the President is addressing the full Assembly in a major speech Tuesday morning.
"The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the United Nations is based," President Trump told the Assembly last September. "They respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries."
One year later, the bold diplomacy of the Trump Administration has diminished many of the threats the President cited that day, including the most critical ones from North Korea, Iran, and ISIS.
Among these accomplishments, the historic Singapore Summit with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-Un stands out, marking the first-ever face-to-face meeting between an American President and a North Korean head of state. At the summit, the two leaders committed to the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
At last year's UNGA, President Trump foreshadowed this development. "It is time for North Korea to realize that denuclearization is its only acceptable future," he said. Just last week, leaders from both North and South Korea met to reaffirm that vision and begin drafting a plan to achieve it.
Last year's speech identified another significant threat to the American homeland: terrorism originating from turbulence in the Middle East. Two bad actors, ISIS and the Iranian regime, share much of the responsibility for the death and destruction. "We must deny the terrorists safe haven, transit, funding, and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology," President Trump said. The President has also condemned regimes' and terror groups' use of hostage-taking and prioritized the recovery of Americans held hostage or detained overseas.
To eradicate the first of these threats, ISIS, President Trump changed the rules of engagement on the ground, empowering U.S. commanders with broader authority. The results are unmistakable. ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which was liberated in less than 18 months under the Trump Administration.
The chips fell quickly. In October 2017, ISIS' self-proclaimed capital city of Raqqah was liberated. By December, the Iraqi government announced that all Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS control.
On Iran, President Trump used last year's UNGA speech to reiterate his profound objections to a nuclear deal that put the interests of diplomats ahead of the Iranian people—and, indeed, peaceful people the world over. By lifting sanctions and unfreezing financial assets, the Obama Administration's deal gave the Iranian regime a cash windfall while failing to advance America's national security interests.
"Rather than use its resources to improve Iranian lives, its oil profits go to fund Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent Muslims and attack their peaceful Arab and Israeli neighbors," President Trump said. "This wealth, which rightly belongs to Iran's people, also goes to shore up Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, fuel Yemen's civil war, and undermine peace throughout the entire Middle East."
In May, the President made good on his promise to withdraw the United States from that deal. A new agreement, he emphasized, must permanently deny Iran any path to a nuclear weapon and address the totality of the regime's malign activities, including its support for terrorism.
While North Korea, ISIS, and Iran constituted three of the biggest threats to peace, they were far from the only aggressors President Trump called out in New York last year:
"The actions of the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad, including the use of chemical weapons against his own citizens—even innocent children—shock the conscience of every decent person." In April, the United States joined Britain and France in launching precision air strikes on targets associated with those chemical weapons capabilities.
"The Venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed. This situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch." In March, the Trump Administration expanded its sanctions against Venezuelan leaders, upping pressure on the corrupt Maduro regime.
"In America, the people govern, the people rule, and the people are sovereign. I was elected not to take power, but to give power to the American people, where it belongs. In foreign affairs, we are renewing this founding principle of sovereignty." In keeping with that vision, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced this month that the Trump Administration would take all necessary steps to protect American soldiers and citizens from unjust prosecution by the unaccountable International Criminal Court.
By prioritizing peace through strength, the rate of progress for American foreign policy over the past 12 months has been staggering. President Trump makes it clear that this work is only just beginning. On Tuesday in New York, he will build on last year's message to the U.N.—that strong, sovereign nations must work side-by-side to confront the gravest threats to our civilization.
"If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph."
There is a lot that Trump is doing that is right on, and then, there are several things that he really needs to begin acting constitutionally on, especially concerning foreign policy. However, all I can say is, his next address to the UN should be one where he declares that the united States is no longer a part of it. See how they laugh about that!
Article posted with permission from Sons Of Liberty Media


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MacKenna: A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows
100,000 words, estimate
Something is missing...
The creature whose memories were recorded on the ancient data disc called himself a 'human', from a world called 'earth', but no one had ever heard of humans or earth—or their stellar sphere, or the near wars they faced at various times, or their considerable impact on the last two centuries in general. It was gone—all of it—as if it had never happened.
Who was this mysterious human who called himself Brian MacKenna? Where did he come from? Why did the 'Grays' have his identity recorded on an ancient computer disc? And most troubling of all, where did the last two hundred years of Ic'nichi history go?
He desperately needed to find the answers, and he wouldn't let them quit...ever...until they found them...
Mac MacKenna is back from the dead once again, and this time he faces the ultimate mystery. The entire human race has vanished! For someone who devoted his life - several lives - to preserving humanity, this is an afront not to be endured. What to do about it, on the other hand, is the real question...
Author's Comments:
Development of this story has been seriously delayed by a combination of circumstances. Release date is uncertain, but will hopefully be in 2020. I'm sorry about this hangup, but it couldn't be helped.
Over the course of writing the Concord, Admiral 'Mac' MacKenna has become one of my favorite characters. Strong - immensely iron-willed - but brittle, Mac is a study in the terrible human cost of war and the mindset of those who excel at it. A callow youth forged for decades in the white heat of conflict, he seems on the outside to be a soulless machine. But inside, behind the iron fascade, is a man driven, haunted by the past, and grimly determined to make his life-long sacrifice matter. When it came time to close out the MacKenna trilogy and the Concord Saga, it seemed only fitting to confront Mac with the ultimate challenge any genuinely patriotic person can face - the daunting prospect that it was all for nothing. But then, Mac was never one to take 'no' for an answer...
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Reading: 'Wherever the Heart finds Love, I will go to' – Linda Ejiofor
'Wherever the Heart finds Love, I will go to' – Linda Ejiofor
Gist Of The Day Published October 29, 2018
For Linda Ejiofor, there's no ruling out where she finds love because it is wherever her
heart finds love that she's okay with.
Linda Ejiofor is definitely not ruling out the possibility of meeting or finding a husband and life partner in the Nigerian entertainment industry.
Linda neither hesitated nor shied away from the question when she decided to speak with us for a total of 10 minutes during the promotion of DSTV's new campaign, I am, in Ikeja, Lagos.
"I don't know, wherever the heart finds love, I will go to. I am not ruling it out," the pretty actress and model simply dropped.
The Tinsel actress, who became popular for her role as Bimpe Adekoya in the Africa Magic production, said she had always loved acting.
"There is nothing as beautiful as doing something you love doing and acting makes me happy and all that," Linda told Pulse.
However, she never got her dad's consent. Hence, she concentrated on her studies at the University of Port Harcourt, where she graduated with a degree in Sociology.
And like many Nigerian graduates, Linda looked forward to getting a job since her dad never gave his consent to her heart desire – acting.
Linda once told The Nation newspaper in an interview in 2013 that she almost picked up a job at an advertising agency until she decided to give acting another try. And this time, it was without the consent of her dad but her good friend and actor, Adesua Etomi.
In 2008, Linda got her break when she got herself the role of Bimpe Adekoya in Tinsel and acted for 12 months before she decided to have the conversation of her choice of career with her dad.
"Yes, I did had a conversation with my dad on my decision to go into acting. First of all, my dad didn't want me acting after school, I went for some auditions but he still didn't want me to act.
"Then eventually, I started doing it and I did it for a while and I didn't tell him and I thought to myself, you know what, I have been taking care of myself, I have been doing this and this is something I love doing and I am happy doing it.
"So, I went through my mum and when I told my dad, he said, okay so you have been doing it for a year and I didn't know about it and you have been a good girl, I have not heard anything bad about you, you can take care of yourself.
"I have always been cautious of where I come from and that is why i don't have any negative scandal about me because I always think of where I come from or what my father will say or said and I know the difference between right and wrong," the actress said.
The 36-year-old movie star says though she has not been stereotyped or confined to just some roles in the industry, she strives to get more challenging roles.
She says she open to more challenging roles even though every role she has played comes with its unique challenge. For Linda, the challenging roles she seeks are such roles that will set her apart from her peers and get her not only local recognition but international nods.
Unknown to many, Linda she gets nervous when she's going into every character because she fears failing. Hence, she puts her all into every character to not only impress but surpass her previous achievements.
Linda can't wait to get three different roles. And these are a role in an action film, playing a psychotic and a character with multiple personality disorder.
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"I have envisioned playing so many roles but I have envisioned myself playing a character in an action film, which I haven't done yet, Nigeria is getting better. It involves getting special trainings to act out action movie roles and since I haven't gotten such script, I am looking forward to getting one. I will also like to play a psychotic as well as a character with multiple personality disorder. Those kinds of role will challenge you because you will have to come out of your comfort zone," she told us.


This post is an attempt to clear the air a little bit around this issue. First off I want to make it clear that, in my opinion, the theoretical distinctions between the two concepts are not important enough for teams to change anything they're doing to produce good software. In other words, who cares what you call it?
However, it is useful to understand what each concept is. This allows you to have clear conversations about issues and solutions, and it also makes it easier to see what needs to be done at every level to improve the overall throughput of the team or organization (or, indeed, of the entire value-stream.) The way I see it, Agile and Lean are similar in many ways, and they really complement each other the rest of the way.
Agile is a framework that focuses on iterative-development and feedback to build out a software product. Agile focuses on quality by making things like test-driven-development, continuous integration, and refactoring essential pillars of the process. By definition, agile fosters the creation of an adaptable and evolving team process – it accommodates the fact that each project is different, and processes need to fit the situation. Agile also emphasizes communication and collaboration over documentation – thus, it enables teams to move quicker by resolving things face-to-face. It also considers the customer a part of the team, thereby ensuring maximum feedback reaches the ultimate users, and allowing them in turn to change the course of the work product.
Agile methods usually measure things within the software development world – number of stories (scope), estimates (time), velocity (speed). This in turns drive costs and budgets.
Overall, Agile can be thought of as a framework for the software-construction (planning, development/QA, release) part of creating a product.
Lean, on the other hand, is a management philosophy. Ultimately, it focuses on throughput (of whatever is being produced) by taking a strictly systems-level view of things. In other words, it doesn't focus on particular components of the value-stream like code-construction or QA, but on whether all the components of the chain are working as efficiently as possible so as to generate as much overall value as possible. Value, of course, includes things like high-quality, and optimized for time and resources.
Lean is based on several things – queuing theory, the theory of constraints, concurrent engineering (set-based development) and delaying commitment to the last responsible moment. Careful metrics (only the ones that truly measure throughput: this often means going one level up) is an important part of lean – this allows everyone to be objective about everything. Speaking of which, Lean software recommends measuring things across the value chain – and as extended as that chain can be. It recommends measuring return on investment (ROI), customer satisfaction, customer usage patterns, market share, and so on. This in turn drives budgets and costs within the software organization.
Both Lean and Agile focus on people – over pretty much everything else. They both focus on inspecting and adapting – in order to improve the work-product and efficiency in producing it. In other words, feedback is critical – from people, from customers, from stake-holders, and from the product itself. They're both quality focused, and they encourage early discovery and more importantly, prevention of defects.
The area where they complement each other most, is in the breadth of their world-view. Agile is usually focused very much within the software development team or organization, Lean focuses on the entire system that includes as many workers, partners, customers, external stakeholders as possible.
Having made these remarks, I'd like to present this picture – it is a way I like to think of the way Agile and Lean fit together. It is sort of a stack – Lean is a foundational framework, Agile sits on top of it. I've also taken a shot at depicting some of the building blocks within each.
I've found that after incorporating more and more aspects of Lean into your Agile processes, the distinctions start to blur. In the end, Lean subsumes everything, and ultimately, the only thing that matters is whether the organization delivers what customers want and like, how fast they can deliver it, and how much money the organization and its customers can make together.
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Alternate Dietary Options: Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Gluten-Free
Photo Courtesy Phoebe Hanson
Annika Tamte , Staff Writer
It cannot be denied that over the past few years, the presence of veganism and vegetarianism has increased in popular culture. The availability of products that allow people to follow other diet plans has greatly increased as well, which makes it easier and easier to buy plant-based products or other products that support different diets. Why is it that so many people are now following a plant-based or alternative dietary option?
Mara Levine, '21, says she is a vegan because it is "better for the environment and more sustainable" and also believes that "even making small changes in your diet makes a huge positive impact on the planet […] so you don't have to be 100% vegan; it's just about doing what you can."
Five alternative dietary options that have become more popular recently are the vegetarian, vegan, ketogenic, pescatarian, and gluten-free lifestyles. These lifestyles and their important differences are described below.
Vegetarians don't eat any meat and generally get their protein from plants and other sources. Cutting out meat can lower blood pressure and chances of heart disease, but a drawback of being vegetarian is a lack of nutrients, such as protein, if people don't have a correct balance.
Vegans don't eat any animal products, which improves kidney function and protects against certain cancers, but this diet also includes possible iron deficiency.
The ketogenic diet requires high fat and high protein foods. Benefits include suppression of appetite and improvement of cognitive functions, but downsides include an adoption process because of its irregular restrictions on certain food groups.
Pescatarians don't eat meat, but do eat fish. Although this style of eating can be pricey and contain too much mercury from the fish, it is rich in vitamins and minerals and promotes healthy bones.
Becoming gluten-free has also been another popular alternative dietary option. Many people have to be gluten-free because of certain illnesses, but being gluten-free introduces higher-quality grains and leads to eating fewer processed foods; however, it may cause a lack of fiber.
Most alternative dietary options are heart healthy, but almost all cut out certain nutrients. It is extremely important to continue to receive those nutrients.
Margaret Dow, a health teacher at Minnetonka High School, says that alternative dietary options can become negative if "you're not approaching it in a healthy way" and advises that if " you are doing it for weight loss, make sure you are getting enough protein and fat."
Still, these alternative dietary options can also be extremely beneficial because "focusing on greens, a plant-based diet is a really healthy way to think about eating," she said.
Even though you have to be especially careful about the food you consume, alternate dietary options can be exceptionally rewarding both personally and globally.
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Based on the award-winning play, Doubt will leave you breathless. Father Flynn (Hoffman) is accused of a heinous act by Sister Aloysius (Streep), the uptight principal of the school where he works. Sister James (Adams) believes the priest is innocent, but even without a shred of proof, Sister Aloysius stands convinced of his guilt. Streep and Hoffman's turbulent standoffs are astounding. It's a fight to the end, but that reinforces the title.


Abstract: University Circle, Incorporated was created in 1957 as the University Circle Development Foundation to oversee and coordinate development of the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. Becoming University Circle, Incorporated in 1970, it operated under a 20-year master development plan to preserve the physical environment and reinforce the commitment of members to the area. UCI, Inc. serves as a "land bank" for its members, purchasing, leasing and maintaining properties, and reselling land to members to further their development and promote common purposes. UCI, Inc. also acts as a land use and development consultant, initiating and overseeing construction and assisting environmental and historic preservation projects. It maintains parking facilities, a bus service, and a private security service for the area. It has also entered into urban revitalization projects and cultural, educational, and medical programs in order to strengthen and stimulate relationships with the surrounding communities, particularly the Hough and Fairfax areas. Neil J. Carothers served as UCI's first president, followed by Joseph Pigott, Oliver Brooks, Murray Davidson, and others. The collection consists of articles of incorporation; records of the board of trustees and the executive committee (consisting of members' files, correspondence, minutes, operating policies and plans); officers' records (consisting of presidents', vice-presidents', and executive vice-presidents' files, files of the Circle development director, and correspondence); organizational records (consisting of affiliated and member institution files, correspondence, reports and proposals, property files, UCI police dept. files, and miscellany); special project records (consisting of Community Circle Inc. records, Cleveland New-Town-in-Town project records, housing files, general files, including correspondence, reports, blueprints, speeches and purchase orders, University Circle files, architectural and design review consultants' files, and Euclid-Mayfield Triangle Development Project files); and miscellany. Various document types are present, including news bulletins and brochures, newspaper clippings, and photographs.


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package org.batfish.question.nodeproperties;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import org.batfish.common.util.BatfishObjectMapper;
import org.batfish.datamodel.questions.NodePropertySpecifier;
import org.junit.Test;

/** Tests for {@link org.batfish.question.nodeproperties.NodePropertiesQuestion} */
public class NodePropertiesQuestionTest {

  @Test
  public void testJsonSerialization() {
    NodePropertiesQuestion q =
        new NodePropertiesQuestion("nodes", NodePropertySpecifier.NTP_SERVERS);
    assertThat(BatfishObjectMapper.clone(q, NodePropertiesQuestion.class), equalTo(q));
  }
}


The Cannon longboard Deck is much like its name refers to, built strong and built for speed. It has a medium tub concave and small 3D gas pedals which allow you to lock in for your heel side slides and its sharp edges let your foot dig in for your toe sides. Constructed from 9 ply Canadian maple the longboard deck is super stiff. The Peg Cannon Deck is one of the shortest performance boards we currently create at 36", with the max width at 9.8" across the centre.


Chinese local gazetteers (fangzhi or difangzhi) are handbooks about Chinese administrative regions, structured according to subject matter. The genre emerged during the Northern Song era in the 11th century and continues to exist to this day. The number of volumes from the beginnings until 1949 is more than 8300. Since 1949 about 2000 new works have been composed.


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Q: How do I set TargetNullValue to a date? I'm using the WPF toolkit's Calendar control to allow users to select a date. If the date is not yet selected then the property the SelectedDate is bound to is Null. This makes the Calendar default you January 1, 0 AD. I'd like to do something like
SelectedDate="{Binding UserPickedDate, TargetNullValue=Today, Mode=TwoWay}"

But both "Today" and "Now" throw binding errors. Can I use TargetNullValue to set the default date to Today or Now?

A: Try this:
xmlns:sys="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
...

TargetNullValue={x:Static sys:DateTime.Now}