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Thanks Palestinians!
By JOSH WEIXELBAUM
Published: NOVEMBER 2, 2015 13:21
"Good." "Finally." "Glad they came to their senses."
These were but some of the responses to the Palestinian announcement that they would drop their bid to rename the Western Wall as a Muslim holy site. People were happy that sanity had been restored to lunacy, a lunacy in which the Palestinians had the audacity to lay claim to a fundamentally Jewish holy site.
Then there were others who got angry at such reactions. They said things such as, "The Palestinian Authority said yesterday, 'I want to kick you.' Now they've agreed not to kick you. Why are we applauding such behavior? As a variation of Chris Rock's routine would go, you're not supposed to kick people!"
And there's truth in that second response. They shouldn't have ever made such a ridiculous claim in the first place, that applauding their withdrawal seems so pathetic, it's almost exactly what the Palestinian Authority wanted. They WANTED people to react that way. It's a classic bargaining tool. You overreach on price so that you can "settle" for a still higher price than one should ever pay. The Palestinians never expected to get away with claiming the Western Wall is Islamic. But by staking a claim to a site so intrinsically identified as Jewish only, they managed to steal all focus from anywhere else, so that when their claim was dropped, no one could do anything but cheer.*
However, even that response isn't enough. Because guess what else IS included in the heinous UNESCO resolution that passed: It called the Tomb of Rachel a Palestinian and Arabic site. It did the same for the Cave of the Patriarchs and even the Mughrabi gate to the Temple Mount which is a gate! It specifically did NOT recognize any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.
So really, the complaint goes like this: "The Palestinian Authority said they want to kick you, punch you, rob you, and stab you, but they decided not to kick you. How sweet of them."
Given that, it's scary the way many in the Jewish world are responding to this. Take the Cave of the Patriarchs as an example. This hosts the tombs of Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca and Leah (not to mention the head of Esau). Muslims can lay claim to 1.5 tombs, Adam/Eve and Abraham. Jews can lay claim to the whole Cave. So UNESCO has said that the whole structure is Islamic with no Jewish connection. This is the reality of 2015 – the Palestinians, through their UN friends, are delegislating the Jewish people's entire connection to the Land of Israel, and the Jewish community isn't saying boo.
We must stand up and fight this. And this is why Jews must ascend the Temple Mount. Not in just hundreds and not even in thousands. On holidays and vacations, thousands and thousands of Jews should attempt, every day, to ascend the Temple Mount! Provocation? Not at all. As Yinon Magal pointed out so incredibly well, it's extremist to say that Jews, in the Jewish State, have no right to ascend to the holiest site in Judaism. Because if you believe in denying our history, and you believe that in the face of terror, we should be "pragmatic," why believe in Israel? Why does any Jew live in Israel? The Palestinians don't want us here and will fight with every terror tool to get the Jews out. So wouldn't it be "pragmatic" to leave? Isn't it "provocation" to remain in Israel, almost "sticking it to the Palestinians?" Yet we stay. Because Israel is forever the nation homeland of the Jewish people.
I don't expect Mahmoud Abbas to give up the fight, and I don't expect the UN to suddenly wake up and say, "wait a second! In the 1920s, the Arabs specifically referred to the Temple Mount as the site of the 2 ancient Jewish temples. Why the change?" I don't expect the UN to ever recognize Jewish rights, regardless of where they may be.
However, we a community, whether it be Israelis, Jews, Zionists, or anyone who cares about history, humanity, and peace, cannot allow this to sleep aside without notice. We mustn't settle for the Palestinians dropping their bid to rename the Western Wall. We must proudly recognize the Temple Mount as ours. We must proudly recognize the Cave of the Patriarchs, the Tomb of Rachel, and the Tomb of Joseph (among others) as ours. And we must never be ashamed that Israel will forever remain the nation-state homeland of the Jewish people.
*It should be noted that the Western Wall is not actually a Jewish holy site. The Western Wall is simply the most accessible area to any of the Temple Mount retaining walls, built by Herod. (This was the case at least up until a few years when areas of the Southern Wall became just as, if not more, accessible.) The holy site in Judaism was the Temple which stood on Temple Mount, and the Temple Mount itself is the only area that actually maintains holiness. The Western Wall isn't even holy via proximity. It's simply holy as the site of so much prayer service there for the past 40 years, much like a synagogue. The Western Wall is nice, but by focusing our efforts on the Western Wall, the game is already lost.
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Natasha Litt, software engineer for New Relic Inc., a San Francisco-based software analytics and application performance monitoring software provider; Jeremy Steinert, DevOps practice lead at cloud consulting firm WSM, based in St. Clair Shores, Mich.; and Greg Sypolt, senior software engineer at Gannett -- USA Today Network and co-founder of Quality Element, a QA consulting firm, share their app sandbox environments.
Litt took a deep dive into Docker containers last year, so her application sandbox environment has been docked there, ahem, for a while. Now, she's exploring Dogestry for storing Docker images in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). A Docker Registry alternative, Dogestry was created and open sourced by New Relic. Open source Docker Registry is a server-side app for storing and distributing Docker images.
"I'm tinkering around with improving, pushing them and pulling them from S3, so you can see more easily what you've stored in S3," Litt said. "It's basically your own registry, without having to go to a Docker Hub or a key dot I/O. So, I'm tinkering around with how we can make that tool better."
I'm tinkering around with how we can make [Dogestry] better.
Litt is exploring storage options so that her SQL dump tool support session variables support large file extraction. "One goal is that when you have a really large file to extract from a database, you can set a variable that lets you have a longer timeout," she said. "And that applies to just you, and not all the rest of the users of the data."
By the way, Dogestry is named for the Doge meme. Of course, you knew that already, right?
Knowing his way around the JS stack is critical to working successfully with NodeJS on the server side, AngularJS on the front end, and test framework and tools, such as Jasmine and Protractor. "Along the learning journey, I will be thinking how to build out the testing architecture for Protractor, responsive testing and Web performance testing," Sypolt said.
Sypolt is researching Web performance testing tools -- including PhantomJS, BrowserMob and YSlow -- as a means to implementing mobile-first strategies. "As we begin the journey of rewriting the front-end app for desktop and mobile Web to be a single platform that is responsive, we need tools or technologies that allow us to monitor and measure the app performance from different breakpoints," he said.
Next on Sypolt's agenda is learning new ways to improve a mobile continuous integration (CI) pipeline. His goal is expand beyond only using simulators in a CI pipeline. "The plan is to continue working with Amazon Web Services Device Farm to execute our Android Espresso and iOS EarlGrey tests across multiple real devices and [operating system] versions as part of our CI pipeline," he said.
Steinert takes a traditional path, using his go-to tools in his sandbox environment to test application iterations and cloud implementations. "My sandbox typically includes Vagrant, to manage local development servers; Jenkins, to automate application testing and deployment; and Load Impact, for automated performance testing," he said.
Testing inside a sandbox has grown in importance, as iterative development and multicloud deployments have become popular.
Sandbox testing is beneficial for cloud and multicloud systems, because application, data and other components are always in motion, Steinert noted.
In iterative development, developers often are building on the work that others have done, or reusing general purposes code to handle certain requirements of an application. "When you're building on the work of others, there are opportunities to be inspired by something great or hindered by something poor," he said. Using others' in good faith is a bad idea.
In sandbox testing, Steinert often finds in previous developers' work inconsistent usage of tools and methodologies. Typically, Steinert writes in Ruby, and uses a standard set of tools and libraries; some are only used in development, others only in production.
"These days, a lot of developers are using third-party libraries or tools in some way as part of their development or codebase," Steinert said. "I find surprises or deal breakers in those third-party libraries."
In some sandbox tests, a library Steinert expects to work in one way ends up having a large, negative performance impact. So, he must remove the library and find another option. At other times, "I've found a brilliant piece of code that inspires me to refactor something I've done."
A modern fact of life, the demand for rapid deployment of new applications and technologies, makes application sandboxing a necessary practice, according to these software engineers. Constant change in tools already in his toolbox leads Sypolt to refresh his know-how on one tool, while learning about a new-to-him complementary technology. A new project that requires streamlined development and deployment spurred Litt to sandbox Docker. Steinert turns to sandboxing to find, and not perpetuate, mistakes in iterative development.
So, developers, what's in your sandbox?
Editor's note: Additional reporting was done by Joel Shore.
Software developers, what are you exploring in your sandbox environments? Why?


Session 208. This summer has certainly delivered some great winds. A cracking sea breeze came in this afternoon so I headed for Hampton. I took out my Lithium 12 in the 20+ knots as I want to get used to flying it in stronger winds, and it has a lot of power. I de-powered the kite for most of the session and it was fine.
I last used my twin tip board 27 sessions ago (at Inverloch). I was keen for a new (old) kitesurfing experience after all the training and distance kiting.
It was interesting to ride the twin tip again. I had to concentrate on edging it - I am now used to having good fins for upwind traction, so I found the twin tip skipping away down wind a bit. It was good fun boosting off some waves though. I did some nice jumps during this session, and one that resulted in a hard landing (kite headed back the wrong way).
I did a couple of reasonable jump transitions - the key is to fly the kite fast when you land to get going again. Speed runs in towards the seawall were nice.
I lost my board after a jump and was having some difficulty body dragging upwind. It was upside down and going nowhere - compared to the surboard and Sector 60 which both tend to get blown downwind quickly and are easy to retrieve. Rick assisting by moving my board in a bit. Thanks buddy! I was able to return the favour a short while later.
I noticed using different muscle groups - more torso work and less leg work.
At various times there were about a dozen other kiters out, including some guys doing nice wakestyle moves towards the end of the session.
However, Rick said someone crashed a kite onto a family on the beach - definitely not cool - and a kite crashed and nearly took me out when I was on a tack. It just brushed me.
Other than than - it was great to have a different session. I took a few pictures after the session.


With its wealth of fertile land, Ireland is perfect for groups looking for a Stately Homes tour with many fabulous houses and gardens that reflect the enthusiasm of their owners and staff.
With its wealth of fertile land, Ireland has many fabulous gardens to visit and reflect the enthusiasm of their owners and staff. See Powerscourt in Co. Wicklow, The National Botanic Gardens, Primrose Hill, Mount Stewart, Annes Grove Gardens and Mount Usher to name but a few. Wherever you visit you can be sure of a warm and friendly welcome!
We can provide 'Upstairs/Downstairs' style Stately Home Tours where you will see where wealthy families lived and their stories, along with the staff who served them and their conditions. We can arrange specialist tours with gardeners for those who would like a more in depth discussion into the upkeep of the properties. There are Hillsborough Castle in County Down, a Royal Palace, where you can enjoy afternoon tea in the drawing room and hear stories of the royalty that has been in residence. Or the more modest Wells House in Wexford, where the family will show you around their home.


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Hughes transfer nous can secure QPR safety
YOU HAVE to feel more than a small measure of sympathy for Neil Warnock after he was sacked earlier this week but you can't avoid the sense that club has taken a decisive step towards preserving their Premier League status with the appointment of Mark Hughes.
Warnock will always be remembered by the fans as the man who restored top-flight football to Loftus Road after a 15-year absence, but the success of fellow promotees Norwich and Swansea underlines why change was required.
Paul Lambert and Brendan Rodgers are two talented young managers whose teams have a distinctive style of play and a real identity – the same cannot be said for QPR.
Hughes, meanwhile, enjoyed success at Fulham and Blackburn, where his teams had a reputation for being hard to beat, especially at home, and played decent football at times, too.
His record in the transfer market is impressive and he possesses an extremely thorough knowledge of the European market. Rovers duo Christopher Samba and Ryan Nelsen stand out as his two stellar purchases, while it should also be remembered that he brought Vincent Kompany to Manchester City on the cheap.
Rangers will need him to unearth a few more diamonds if they are to beat the drop, but they are certainly better placed to do so with him at the helm.
Trevor Steven is a former Everton, Marseille and Glasgow Rangers winger who represented England at both the 1986 and 1990 World Cup.
The FA could consider name change in order to improve "arrogant" image says chief executive Martin Glenn
BBC Two to broadcast NFL games as part of new two-year deal
Everton manager Roberto Martinez and Thierry Henry use drones for tactical drills, says Michael Owen
Notion that Rickie Fowler is the most overrated golfer on the PGA Tour is nonsense
Morgan revels in lessons learnt as Taylor hits maiden ODI ton to instigate series comeback
History made as Wayne Rooney breaks England record against Switzerland
Radcliffe fights back after slur by parliament
Bale never came close to leaving Real for Old Trafford, says agent

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For the past few days, we have been working on the cab to the '52 Ford. We have the body work pretty well wrapped up. Here you can see we slid it into the booth for primer. We masked off the dash, we will use a different primer on that area later this week. Once this primer is set up and dried, we will block it out and re-prime the whole cab with our finishing primer. Once that happens, the next step is more RED paint.
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We discovered a malware that uses three different online services — including Slack and GitHub– as part of its routine. Analysis of the attacker's tools, techniques, and procedures lead us to believe that this might be a targeted attack from very capable threat actors.
MuddyWater is a well-known threat actor group that has been active since 2017. They have regularly targeted various organizations in Middle East and Central Asia, primarily using spear phishing emails with malicious attachments. We recently observed a few interesting delivery documents with similarities to the known MuddyWater tools, techniques and procedures.
The cybercriminal group Lazarus, and particularly its subgroup Bluenoroff, has a history of attacking financial organizations in Asia and Latin America. There seems to be a resurgence of activity from the group, and recent events show how their tools and techniques have evolved. We discovered that they successfully planted their backdoor into several machines of financial institutions across Latin America.
We noticed a series of testing submissions in VirusTotal that apparently came from the same group of malware developers in Moldova, at least based on the filenames and the submissions' source. It appears they are working on a new malware that — based on how they were coded — is most likely intended to spread through spam emails embedded with malicious attachments.
The downloader malware's payload is what makes it notable. It delivers a version of the Revisit remote administration tool, which is used to hijack the infected system. More importantly, it also delivers a malicious extension that could serve as a backdoor, stealing information keyed in on browsers.
We discovered a spam campaign that delivers the notorious cross-platform remote access Trojan (RAT) Adwind a.k.a. jRAT (detected by Trend Micro as JAVA_ADWIND.WIL) alongside another well-known backdoor called XTRAT a.k.a XtremeRAT (BKDR_XTRAT.SMM). The spam campaign also delivered the info-stealer Loki (TSPY_HPLOKI.SM1).
DUNIHI (VBS_DUNIHI.ELDSAVJ), a known VBScript with backdoor and worm capabilities, was also seen being dropped with Adwind via spam mail in a separate incident. Notably, cybercriminals behind the Adwind-XTRAT-Loki and Adwind-DUNIHI bundles abuse the legitimate free dynamic DNS server hopto[.]org. The delivery of different sets of backdoors is believed to be a ploy used to increase the chances of system infection: If one malware gets detected, the other malware could attempt to finish the job.


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A goatman is a terrible combination of a human and a goat, creating a dangerous monster. The legends of the goatman dates back to the 1950s, and since then several sightings of the deadly monster across states of the USA, like Texas, Kentucky and Wisconsin have been haunting people till today.
Here are the best goatman sighting stories which were recorded at different time through the years since 1950.
(1) In the 1960s hikers were killed mercilessly by the goatman in Louisville, KY. And this incident taking lives of 14 hikers was threatening enough for teenager and hikers to avoid the woods.
(2) A couple was walking through the Zug road near the woods in Huntington. The female noticed a strange creature watching them from the woods. It has human like features, tall height and ragged looks. It was the June of 1963.
(3) Once again in Huntington in April 1971, in the Fletchertown road, a farmer saw a huge human form which was strange looking, and was devouring on the remains of a pig. As it felt the presence of the farmer, it ran off.
(4) This one happened in September 1976 in the Woodmore Country Club. A landscaper found some bony remains of some unidentified animal on the golf course. He was looking through them, when he heard a low growling sound. As he looked above he saw the goatman.
(5) In the October of 1985 another man T Wilkes who was a policeman went on an investigation to the old Glendale hospital building. Some teenagers had reported unusual noises from the area. The officer could not spot the source of the noises, but the sounds were believed to be of the goatman only and none else.
(6) At Hyattsville, Maryland, there is a park called the Magruder Park. Once during a birthday party, a boy went inside the park after a ball. Next the guardians came in running when they heard the scream of the boy. The boy was shaking with fear as he said his mom that he saw the red eyed monster which he sees in his room too at night. This happened in Aug '1990.
(7) In the May of 1998, some teenagers were drinking in a public place popular for hanging out in Bowie. They noticed some movements in the local weeds, and two of them went to see what it is. They saw a huge human like creature running into the woods.
(8) In Glenarden a golf tournament was to be captured on camera by the WRC-TV in July 2007. The camera men were on work, when one of them noticed the strange goatman on a tree. He could manage to capture a footage of few seconds by which the animal disappeared.
(9) The Anansi's goatman story is very famous. Campers who were all teenagers were badly frightened by the goatman sightings and the story circulates a lot on the internet and several books have been written, and films were made on this.
(10) In 1957, in Maryland the goatman appeared in the lover's lane and tried killing and harming all couples passing by. Eventfully a dog got killed by the goatman.
These are all real stories and have been captured a few by eyes while some on cameras, thus making the incidents much more believable and posing questions about the existence of the horrific human goat hybrid. The legend still continues and searches are on for the goatman.


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Badass Teachers Association Blog
This is for every teacher who refuses to be blamed for the failure of our society to erase poverty and inequality, and refuses to accept assessments, tests and evaluations imposed by those who have contempt for real teaching and learning.
The Badass Teachers Association
MARLA KILFOYLE, Executive Director BATs
MELISSA TOMLINSON, Asst. Executive Director BATs
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BATs Board of Directors Statement on Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education
The Badass Teachers Association, a network of over 80,000 teachers and education activists throughout the United States, are appalled that Betsy DeVos has been selected Secretary of Education. We want to be clear as an organization, we will mobilize on a national level, at the state level, and the local level to STOP her agenda to dismantle public education in this nation. We will fight for our communities to have strong, sustainable, and well-funded public schools.
Betsy DeVos brings NO education experience, but she does bring a disturbing record of attempting to dismantle public education. She has used her family money and influence to push an agenda that will hand public tax dollars over to unaccountable for-profit corporations; she will promote vouchers schemes that have, according to research, no value in improving education, and she will funnel public money to church-sponsored schools. Students and families across the nation will pay for her lack of understanding that it is the responsibility of elected officials, and the public, to provide a quality public education for all children.
"Public education is not a business. Public education is not a competition. In competition and business there are winners and losers. Public education should be about nurturing our most valuable resource - our children. Our children deserve a Secretary of Education who is an advocate for public education not privatization." - Marla Kilfoyle, Executive Director BATs
"Children whose parents lack the means or ability to select a school and provide transportation for a child to a school far away from their neighborhood are left with little "choice." This will certainly be harmful to the most vulnerable children and families and will fall especially hard on those in poverty and those in isolated rural communities". - Kathleen Jeskey, Oregon BAT and BAT Co-Director of State Administrators.
"Trump's choice for Secretary of Education solidifies and makes tangible the very real concerns many in Public Education have about the disrespect shown and the callous disregard for our profession. It appears that the President-elect has doubled down on the efforts to privatize and commodify one of the cornerstones of democracy. Trump has in fact spat in the face of all who work tirelessly for the many children in public schools throughout the country by appointing someone with little regard for the work we do. As a public school teacher, I am committed now more than ever to bringing attention to the many challenges we face in trying to save Public Education from the greedy hands that seek to profit from our children and our communities. With this selection, Trump has revealed his true feelings and intentions when it comes to the students, families, and educators that comprise our Public Schools." - Gus Morales, BAT Board of Director Member
"Great! A Republican mega-donor who never held a job in her life will be the next Education Secretary. She's a perfect choice for Trump's plan to bribe state government to increase charter and voucher schools with our tax dollars." - Steven Singer, Director BATs Research, and Blogging.
" Why on Earth would someone who has no experience working with and for the public in our school system be appointed to oversee the same system they never worked within. Is the goal of this administration to improve Public Education or is it to pilfer the coffers that should be allocated for all the children of our country. This is unfathomable." - Becca Ritchie, NEA BAT Caucus Chair
"After the constant failure to deliver the promised results of improvements and closing of achievement gaps, BATs consider such a nomination as unacceptable. Public schools and teachers have seen and suffered for almost two decades the same dogmatic ideology she professes and its destructive policies." - Sergio Flores, BATs Board of Directors Member
"My teacher friends here in Michigan know that the choice of Betsy DeVos as the next Secretary of Education shows just how much we have to be concerned about in a Trump administration. Ms. DeVos is not just a charter cheerleader--her goal is to destroy our system of public education and turn a public good into a private profit center. Based on her track record in Michigan, we can expect an alarming lack of transparency and an unbecoming level of arrogance coming from a DeVos-run Department of Education. We must all be vigilant, and make a move from public school advocates to activists. It's that important." - Mitchell Robinson, associate professor and chair of music education - Michigan State University
BATs around the country will continue to advocate and fight at the federal, state, and local level to sustain our public school system and to make sure that every child in this country has a strong, sustainable community public school in their neighborhood. Betsy DeVos is unqualified and unfit to be Secretary of Education. The children, families, and teachers of this nation deserve better.
Please consider donating to BATs at http://www.badassteacher.org/ so that we can continue to fight for children and public education. You can make a one time donation or be a $10 a month subscriber. BATs is a 501c4 so donations are not tax deductible. You can also send a check made out to The Badass Teachers Association, Inc. Send it to P.O. Box 1390, Bellmore, NY 11710.
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The only comment I have is one that you might sit back from for a moment.
There is no reason that DeVos should be marked down for never working a professional job. AKA - a job where she got a paycheck. Here's why. Her family and the circles they live in have an expectation for the women in their families. They expect the women to run the foundations or sit at home caring for the home. And that's quite alright. It is a choice, a valid one.
But then this should not have happened: "Great! A Republican mega-donor who never held a job in her life will be the next Education Secretary."
Who cares if she's never worked a day in her life for money. Who cares if her experience is all volunteer work. Who. The. Heck. Cares. Because if this is what is important, why aren't we checking on how many years in school have made Ben Carson eligible for Housing and Human Develpment? Specifically the part where he is in charge of pretty much all the projects and low income housing that's avaialbel
Saying someone isn't qualified because "she" hasn't worked a day in their life may be true. BUt it's also sexist
You want qualified women - open schools to teach them then require then to work a certain number of months before they are allowed to leave the position. Women are some of the best in the goverment and should be utilized regardless of which party they are on.
Catherine Kail-Tucker November 23, 2016 at 11:17 PM
Please provide evidentiary sources that will allow your readers to confirm as facts the assertions made about Ms. DeVos in paragraph 2 above. Also, you should provide the links to those facts within your Facebook posts. Without voluntarily providing to your readers the sources of facts that backup your assertions and commentary, then everything you say or publish in print is mere rhetoric. Thank you for showing this consideration for the analytical intelligence of your readers and of those whom you seek to agree with and support your mission.
Appalachians in China November 24, 2016 at 1:25 AM
I have already written to my State Senator, David Perdue, urging him not to support his appointment. Billionaire wives with no education background have no business calling the shots on America's education system.
Charlie Ivy November 24, 2016 at 10:32 AM
I hear a lot of platitudes & empty rhetoric. One question: How is it working now? It's not.... Capitalism works; perverted Capitalism destroys... The elite attitude of the left justifies their arrogance & empty benevolance of the pretentious concern...
karen November 25, 2016 at 10:33 AM
So...this is what Republicans voted for? Well...It's always good to pick someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
Ms. Naomi Says November 25, 2016 at 11:33 AM
None of DT's nominations make any sense so far. It's like the worst of the worst are coming out of their swamps and getting another opportunity to lie steal and kill in the name of Democracy.
A politically uneducated pres-elect,possile potential naxi radical alt-right chief strategist and now a clearly inexperienced in educational knowledge for secretary of Education!!!! How many more IDIOTS has don lined up to demolish America!!! Stand up and say "NO!!!,I REFUSE TO BE A PART OF THE DIMISS OF MY FREEDOM AND HUMAN KIND!!!
AllyJoe November 25, 2016 at 10:22 PM
Did any of you here apply for the job?
Exactly. And, no, teacher's unions are not the problem.
If the Teacher's Union is so dead set against Trump's pick for Secretary of Education, she must be just the right person for the job. The TEA is the main problem with our public education system. Always want more tax money for their socialist agenda.
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Skin care and finding the right routine, is much like finding that perfect pair of jeans. How many pairs have you tried on? Which work well on your body type; Low rise, high-rise, boot cut or straight. Do you like jeans with big pockets, small pockets or no pockets at all? Welcome to skin care! Our skin changes through out our lives just like our jeans and thus, so do our skin care routines. So, my first recommendation is to book an appointment with a seasoned, licensed skin care professional. Have an expert give you a personal skin analysis and determine what is best for you.
You are born with your skin type so it's all about genetics and ethnicity. While your skin can change overtime, an individuals skin type is most often determined by the amount of oil your follicles produce. Skin types include normal, dry, combination, oily and sensitive. The goal in skincare is to balance the levels of oil and water in the skin and to protect the acid mantle (outer most layer of skin). Let's break it down into categories and find your skin type.
There is one more thing we need to keep in mind when trying to determine skin type and that is called the Fitzpatrick Scale. This is a numerical classification scheme and is a tool used by skin care professionals as part of their analysis. The Fitzpatrick scale, measures the skins ability to tolerate sun. Lighter skin will be more sensitive to sun exposure, will be more reactive and tends to burn more quickly. Whereas, those with darker skin types produce more melanin to begin with so consequently, they can tolerate more exposure. Let's determine your Fitzpatrick number.
If we combine your skin type with your Fitzpatrick number, we will better understand what products, procedures and treatments will be best for you.
There is a difference between one's type of skin and the conditions it may have. Keeping this is mind is an import part of skin analysis and ultimately, will help determine your personal skin care routine. Conditions are numerous and can include dehydration, pigment disorders, redness, rosacea, skin abnormalities, acne and aging. These are just a few of the many conditions that exist. All skin conditions will affect ones routine. The good news; you have the ability to control some of the factors that contribute to many of these conditions by making good product and lifestyle choices.


A Norbury Manor student's exemplary public speaking has been broadcast by BBC Radio 4.
Liberty Martin (pictured with Cathy Newman from Channel 4 News), won the regional final of the Speak Out Challenge in 2014.
Sarah Steed from Speakers Trust (who run the annual public speaking competition in conjunction with the Jack Petchey Foundation) stressed the importance of "stories and passions that we connect with"; she described Liberty as "one of my favourite speakers from previous years".
Liberty, who also won Best Reporter at the 2014 Local Guardian Young Reporter of the Year Awards, is determined to work in journalism following university. You can read some of her work, including an article detailing Cathy Newman's recent visit to the college, on the Croydon Citizen website and The Roundhouse's blog.
Listen to Liberty speaking on the BBC Radio 4 website here.


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First there were heavy metals, unacceptably high levels of lead and mercury, then the discovery of dangerous doixins, which forced a ban on commercial fishing in Sydney Harbour and warnings about how much fish is safe to eat. Now experts are concerned that traces of the contraceptive pill are leaching into our favourite waterway and feminising male fish.
Professor David Booth from the University of Technology said a cocktail of industrial products and waste chemicals is getting into the blood of male toad fish, and producing a yolk protein which causes them to become female.
Apparently, the problem is more widespread than we realise. Unlike fish kills, or diseased fish sporting lesions, gender-bending fish don't show signs of being unwell. They're seemingly content to flitter about the flats as fish do.
But there is now real fear that effects of absorbing too much estrogen could threaten entire species and potentially alter the dynamics of the marine food chain. Which is to say nothing of making sissies out of our otherwise scrappy sporting fish.
Talking with ABC Rural news, Professor Booth said gender-altering chemicals are leaching along the entire NSW coast and disrupting the reproductive pathways of many fish.
"The findings about the endocrine disruptive compounds suggest that it's not simply the lethal effects of things like pollution on fish, which are well publicised, and everyone sees the fish kill and realises it's happened, but it's the sub-lethal effects," Professor Booth says.
But there is no suggestion that consuming too many female fish will in any way alter the gender of seafood lovers. - David Lockwood.


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Helith Network (or just "Helith") is a hacker collective active since 1999 and is a globally spread community. It is suspected that Helith is affiliated to specialists in the field of malware and network security.

Name

The origin of the name came from accident German where the word Helith means "Heroes". It was chosen because the group beliefs that nobody cares for those who are poor or those who did not had the same chances like studied hackers. It was also chosen to point out that the members just do what they are ready to do even if it conflicts with laws or civil restrictions like beliefs or ethics.

The origin of the name may be traced to the fact that "Helith" was founded in Germany and thus accident German was chosen for the group name. Some of the founding members of Helith shared a belief and talked during a Chaos Communication Congress Congress in 1998-1999 in Germany at an improved round table conference about what needs to get done to reach this goal. At the conference Rembrandt was chosen to be the public link for Helith and thus making him the poster child and victim for federal forces. It is not known who is member of "Helith" nor how many members do exist or what they do in detail because very few information get public and Rembrandt itself is a very problematic character like Theo de Raadt.

History
Helith was founded in 1998-1999 in the Berlin area as a location for its members to share information without judging anybody about how they make their living or for whom they work. Their computer hardware and work on various projects like John the Ripper (partly SSE2 code, porting to OpenBSD), metasploit, medusa, hydra or nmap. In time, the members of "Helith" released several security advisories affecting even the most secure OpenSource Operating System OpenBSD, PF firewall, OpenSSH, NetBSD and vendors like Netgear or Nortel. On July 30, 2007, Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs wrote an article partly about "Helith" cracking the Deutsche Bank internal network.

The global links of Helith reach least from Germany where it was founded, to Russia, Romania, Columbia, several African countries and the USA.

Members
Helith Network membership varied but included at various times:
 benkei,
 ConCode,
 Cyneox,
 Rembrandt,
 Rott_En,
 noptrix,
 Skyout,
 Zarathu

A lot other members might be active but are not disclosed.
The list was created during research with Google and visiting the Helith-Website.

External links
 Washington Post article
 Current Helith Website
 ExploitDB posted Advisory of Helith about PF
 NetBSD security Advisory about a Bug in PF
 ExploitDB posted Advisory of Helith about a common WiMax router

Hacker groups

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Here's Theresa May on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show finally putting to bed any doubts we had that she isn't entirely across the tricky issue of what will happen to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, post-Brexit.
The exchange went viral because, well, have a read for yourself.
"If you have hayfever, you may sneeze in the summer."
"I have no plans to get hayfever."
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"I will not sneeze in the summer unless I get hayfever."
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Through OM the Lord is met face to face .
Science may not be able to explain this , but this is a fact which can be verified by experiment .
Woe unto science if it goes against the truth connected with the efficacy of the Sacred Syllable OM .
Renounce within all desires and live repeating OM .
without it , one cannot breathe the divine breath .
Without it one dies .
And chant OM with every breath .
The life in your breath is OM .
The sound which is the soul of your breath is OM .
This is then the most natural name for the Heaven within , the GOD , Supreme Spirit , that enlightens all spirits and all souls ; the Soul of all souls , the Life of all lives is OM .
Meditate on OM ! And be a GIVER of peace to humanity and not an expectant seeker .
Chant OM , OM . If you do that for a few moments , your whole being from head to foot becomes Light .
Why pray for Light when Light is your own Self ?
You become Light immediately .
Happy is one who lives , moves and has one's being in OM .
All the knowledge of the sacred scriptures of the Hindus was obtained when the writers of these volumes had thrown themselves into ecstasies by the humming of this syllable .
All the Vedanta , nay all the philosophy of the Hindus is simply an exposition of this syllable OM .
If you walk alone , and if you are a thinker , there can be nothing more beneficial to you than to begin to chant OM when nobody is around .
As you walk and chant OM , you will see that the very atmosphere will inspire you and in you will be evoked wonderful and marvellous thoughts .
The mantram OM does not belong to any special language .
Thinking it to be a Sanskrit word and not belonging to any other language , do not reject it . It is the name of GOD .
This syllable comes to you from within , nobody teaches you this syllable . It comes to you at birth .
The child's cry resembles remarkably the sound Oom , Om , Aam , a perverted form of OM .
The word OM comes from within to every child .
The last word of the Greek language is Omega which has the prominence of OM .
Also , in the English words , omnipresent , omniscient and omnipotent , the eminence of OM is distinct .
The presence of OM in these words is not just by chance .
It is on account of the word OM that these words give the indication of universalism .
While chanting OM , you must feel yourself to be one with this true " I AM " .
By this strong feeling , the mind is merged in the Reality . By this strong belief , by this living knowledge of the mind , the mind becomes , as it were , a bubble which bursts into the mighty Ocean of Reality .
This is the way to Realization ; this strong feeling , this living knowledge on the part of the mind laying hold of you , and dehypnotizing your false self , is the way to gain Truth , to free yourself .
The Divine Name can bring you face to face with GOD .
OM is the soul of your breath .
OM represents all names of GOD , because OM is the substratum or the matrix or the basis of all sounds or names . In OM all names or sounds or words are included . OM is the greatest of all sounds or words . OM is the ocean into which all rivers of sounds , names , and words flow .
Meditation on OM leads to the realization of Brahma Jnana .
Think of nothing other than OM .
OM is the Name of Brahman . Through proper understanding of OM and its right significance , you can find out the way to approach and realize Brahman .
Brahman is the highest of all . OM is Its name . So OM is to be adored . OM is everything . OM is the name or symbol of GOD , Ishwara , or Brahman . OM is your real name .
All words that denote objects are centered in OM . Hence the whole world has come from OM , rests in OM and dissolves in OM . . . All the letters of the alphabets of all languages are contained in this mysterious , sacred monosyllable OM . Therefore , it is quite proper to regard OM as the symbol or name of Brahman .
OM only is the solid Reality .
OM is the common symbol . It will represent all the symbols of GOD . The common symbol OM , the basis of all sounds and all languages , represents all names and becomes the head of all names of GOD . . . Therefore worship OM . Live in OM . Meditate on OM . Merge in OM . Rejoice in OM .
You will find in the Bible : " In the beginning was the word , and the word was with GOD and the word was GOD " .
This is OM , the word of power . No one can exhaust the subject of this sacred Mantra OM even if they have the water of the oceans as ink and all the trees of the world as pens . Volumes have been written in the Sanskrit language on the significance of OM , the sacred and the mysterious monosyllable . . . All Vedas , all Vedanta , all the sacred scriptures of the Hindus are contained in OM .
OM is the all-pervading sound that has come out of GOD . OM sound is the beginning of creation . OM has emanated from the cosmic vibration . OM is all in all .
That imperishable Brahmic seat or ineffable splendor , that indefinable , inexhaustible , illimitable Essence which pervades the whole universe , that which is called the continuum or the residuum or the noumenon by the Western philosophers , that place where all speech stops , all thoughts cease , where the function of the intellect and all organs stop , is OM .
Chant OM from the very bottom of your heart with profound feeling . When chanting OM , knowing its omniscience , omnipotence and omnipresence , feel that OM gushes forth with its true colour , from every nerve , every vein , every cell , every atom , every molecule , every electron and the very blood corpuscles of your body . Pour forth OM vibrations into the world with mighty vigor , speed , force and strength .
As GOD is all-pervading , Its name also should be all-inclusive . It is an inarticulate universalised vibration . It is not actually a letter or a word , but a vibration .
In a few seconds you will feel the difference . You feel as if you are a different person altogether . You are not the same body ; you were not even aware of that body for two seconds . It was melting , as it were , gradually melting .


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és un músic de jazz, compositor i percussionista luxemburguès, fundador de diversos grups, com ara el Quartet Pascal Schumacher. També toca i compon música clàssica de cambra.

Biografia

Educació
Schumacher va estudiar percussió clàssica al Conservatori de Luxemburg. Posteriorment, mentre seguia amb els seus estudis al Conservatori, va començar a estudiar al departament de jazz del Conservatori Reial de Brussel·les. Va aconseguir graduar-se als màsters de jazz-vibràfon al Conservatori Reial de L'Haia amb Frits Landesbergen i de musicologia a la Universitat Marc Bloch d'Estrasburg. Entre els qui li van assistir en els seus estudis s'hi troben Gary Burton, David Friedman, Stefon Harris i Charles Loos.

Carrera artística
Schumacher va cofundar el terme "Intercanvi" juntament amb el saxofonista Nadine Kauffmann (1995) i, el 2001, el grup de percussió experimental "Stroke X". A partir del 1997 començà a veure's implicat en la música improvisada, especialment en el jazz, tocant amb diverses bandes diferents i actuant amb una gran varietat d'artistes. El 2002 va iniciar el seu propi grup, anomenat Quartet Pascal Schumacher, juntament amb Jef Neve (piano), Christophe Devisscher (baix) i Teun Verbruggen (tambors). El seu primer àlbum, Change Of The Moon, fou publicat el març 2004, proporcionant a la banda l'oportunitat de recórrer Europa, així com Austràlia i Sud-àfrica. El seu segon àlbum, Personal Legend, fou publicat el 2005, i el seu tercer, Silbergrau, aparegué el 2007. En una preestrena de la participació del quartet al Festival de Jazz de Londres el novembre de 2010, Thomas Gris va definir a Schumacher (vibes) i a Franc von Chossy (piano) com a "improvisadors de recursos, amb una abundància d'idees lúcides fàcilment articulades sobre els molts canvis de metre. Mentrestant," comenta, "Christophe Devisscher (al baix) i Jens Düppe (als tambors) toquen amb una barreja de múscul, precisió i sensibilitat dinàmica exquisita."

Amb el seu quartet, Schumacher ha actuat a un gran nombre de festivals de jazz, com ara el Festival de Jazz del mar del nord (Rotterdam), al Festival de Jazz de Londres, el Festival de Jazz Wangaratta, i el Festival JVC Jazz (París). També han actuat a clubs i festivals a Melbourne, Sydney, Montreal, Ciutat de Cap, Saigon i Ciutat de Mèxic.

El 2004, Jef Neve i Pascal Schumacher van començar un duo (vibraphone i piano), tocant una classe nova de música de cambra que combina els sons de Claude Debussy, Steve Reich i Igor Stravinsky. El duo ha estat molt benvingut per part de la Filharmònica de Luxemburg per la sèrie de concerts "Estrelles Creixents" realitzades en algunes de les sales de concert més grans d'Europa, realitzats en associació amb l'Organització de Sales de Concert europeees.

Pascal Schumacher també és professor al Conservatori de Luxemburg.

Premis
 IKB Jugend-Förderpreis (1998)
 Prix Norbert Stelmes des Jeunesses Musicales Luxembourg (1999)
 Primer Premi i Premi del Públic, Tremplin Jazz Avignon (juntament amb el Quartet Pascal Schumacher) (2004)
 Django d'Or al nou talent, Belgian Jazz Trophy (2005)
 Pascal Schumacher fou seleccionat per al programa Rising Stars 2009-2010 de l'Organització de Sales de Concerts Europea (2008)
 ECHO Jazz, "Instrumentalist of the year International, special instruments, Vibraphone", Alemanya (2012)
 Premi Export Artist 2012 de l'oficina luxemburguesa de music export - Music:Lx.
 Premi JTI Eurocore Jazz 2013.

Discografia
"Change Of The Moon", Igloo Records, Brussel·les (2004) - CD
"Personal Legend", Igloo Records, Brussel·les (2006) - CD
"Silbergrau", Igloo Records, Brussel·les (2007) - CD
"Here we Gong", Enja Records, Munic (2009) - CD i vinil
"Face to Face", Enja Records, Munic (2010) - CD i vinil
"Bang my Can", Enja Records, Munic (2011) - CD
"The woman one longs for" amb Marlene Dietrich, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, Wiesbaden (1929/2012) - DVD
"Afrodiziak", MPS (Edel), Hamburg (2015) - CD i vinil
"Left Tokyo Right", Laborie Jazz, França (2015) - CD
"Drops & Points", Modulating Music, Luxembourg (2017) - CD i vinil
"Drops & Points Reworks", Modulating Music, Luxembourg (2018) - digital

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Quartet de Pascal Schumacher a YouTube

Compositors luxemburguesos
Persones de Ciutat de Luxemburg
Alumnes del Reial Conservatori de La Haia
Percussionistes europeus
Vibrafonistes


I originally trained as a musician and designer at York University and English National Opera Design School. Over years my work has stretched from live performance to curation and strategic development.
I am currently Director at DINA and Connect the Dots, its sister Festival, Welcome to Yorkshire and The MakerHub.


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File #: 140864 Version: 0 1 Name:
Type: Bill Status: ENACTED
File created: 10/30/2014 In control: Committee on Rules
On agenda: Final action: 12/11/2014
Title: Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by creating a new Central Roxborough /NCO for the area generally bounded by Henry Avenue, Acorn Street, Ridge Avenue, Hermitage Street, Silverwood Street, Leverington Avenue, Fleming Street, Monastery Avenue, Dexter Street, Roxborough Avenue, Manayunk Avenue, Rector Street, Mitchell Street, Roxborough Avenue, Ridge Avenue, Green Lane, Jannette Street, Monastery Avenue, and Henry Avenue.
Sponsors: Councilmember Jones
Indexes: ZONING AND PLANNING
Code sections: Title 14 - ZONING AND PLANNING
Attachments: 1. CertifiedCopy14086401.pdf
12/19/2014 1 MAYOR SIGNED Action details Not available
12/11/2014 1 CITY COUNCIL READ AND PASSED Pass 17:0 Action details Not available
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Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by creating a new Central Roxborough /NCO for the area generally bounded by Henry Avenue, Acorn Street, Ridge Avenue, Hermitage Street, Silverwood Street, Leverington Avenue, Fleming Street, Monastery Avenue, Dexter Street, Roxborough Avenue, Manayunk Avenue, Rector Street, Mitchell Street, Roxborough Avenue, Ridge Avenue, Green Lane, Jannette Street, Monastery Avenue, and Henry Avenue.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
TITLE 14. ZONING AND PLANNING.
CHAPTER 14-500. OVERLAY ZONING DISTRICTS.
§14-504. /NCO, Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District.
(7) Central Roxborough.
(a) Purpose.
The Central Roxborough/NCO intends to protect the existing walkable character of the frontages in the Central Roxborough section of Philadelphia. Walkability serves the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens by providing human-scaled design, interesting and pedestrian friendly facades, and "eyes on the street," all in close proximity to useful commercial destinations, parks, and transit.
These blocks and streets were selected for their relatively intact historic pattern. The design of new buildings should be consistent with the character-defining features of this overlay district, in terms of massing, vertical and horizontal articulation, fenestration proportions, and building materials.
(b) Applicability.
The Central Roxborough/NCO applies to properties in the area generally bounded by Gates Street (both sides), Ridge Avenue, Hermitage Street, Manayunk Avenue (both sides), Green Lane (both sides), Dexter Street (both sides), Lyceum Avenue, Manayunk Avenue (both sides), Roxborough Avenue (both sides), Ridge Avenue, Dupont Street (both sides), Lawnton Street, Green Lane, Jannette Street, Monastery Avenue, and H...


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Android, Information Security, Privacy, spyware, Top News
Spyware app exposes private photos, hosting provider steps in
Ayush Saraswat March 28, 2019, 6:50 PM March 28, 2019 277
A hosting company took down a database operated by a spying app this week after it was found displaying thousands of intimate images and recordings online.
MobiiSpy, an Android app that can be used to track what people do on their phones, left over 95,000 images and 25,000 audio recordings on a publicly accessible database according to a report by Motherboard on 22 March.
Although the database didn't include names or contact information, it did contain call records and photos that could be used to identify the phones' owners.
According to researchers, the app's developer had hardcoded the database URL directly into the app, which lets the operator read the target's phone contacts and texts and even trigger remote recordings without the target's knowledge.
The breach was so bad that Motherboard couldn't name the company while the databases were still up.
Security researcher Cian Heasley found the database and notified the publication, which then tried to get the vendor to take it down. The company's owner, John Nguyen, reportedly wouldn't respond to emails sent to multiple addresses.
Meanwhile, the app was still in use and the pictures and audio recordings were stacking up every day. When Motherboard originally reported the story, the data had been publicly available for at least six weeks.
Motherboard also tried to alert GoDaddy, which is the domain registrar for the Mobiispy.com website, but the company reportedly said there wasn't much it could do. At the time of publishing this article, the MobiiSpy website is inaccessible.
Codero, the hosting company that housed the exposed databases on its computers, wouldn't return reporters' emails, the publication said. However, it did leap into action after Motherboard published the story and finally taking down the database.
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This is the second case of negligent app developers failing to step up this month. Earlier this week, we wrote about React Apps Pty, whose Family Locator app enabled people to track family members online. It had failed to respond to journalist or researcher mails after leaving its database publicly exposed. That database included real-time user location data along with other personal information. Microsoft eventually intervened and took the site offline.
Aside from the fact that it was spewing peoples' intimate data onto the internet for anyone to see, the MobiiSpy app was designed to track unwitting users. Archived versions of the site offered customers the chance to:
MobiiSpy makes it super easy for you to keep a monitor on your children and employees anywhere and all the time.
Silently track text messages, GPS locations, call recorder, track WhatsApp without rooting.
This means that the highly-sensitive data could have been collected not only from children but from anyone else that the customer decided to stalk, without their consent or subsequent knowledge that their names, photos and other information has been made public. It's difficult to imagine a more egregious breach of privacy, or a less forgivable lack of response on the developers' part.
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Nissan has extended their warranty on a few interior items in the Nissan GT-R. Originally these items were covered by a 3 year/36,000 mile warranty, but that has been extended to 6 years, and unlimited mileage. Many of the Nissan GT-R owners I know, have had lighting failures on their instrument clusters. The lights that illuminate the fuel levels, and other parts of the cluster often go bad. These has been replaced under warranty, but this letter shows that Nissan has identified this issue.
They have also extended the warranty on the audio system out to 6 years. Although less common than the instrument cluster, I have heard of a few audio system/MFD failures.


How do I turn on client logging for CaliberRM 2006?
In order to enable client logging you will need to add the following registry key to the CaliberRM client machine.
Enter either 1 or 2 for the Value Data. 1 will create a log file and 2 will create a log file and a logging window will appear the next next you log into Caliber.
Can I change the location where the Client logs are saved to in CaliberRM 2006?
Please be aware that editing the registry can cause unrecoverable damage to your operating system and should therefore only be done with someone with experience of using the registry. We also advise backing up your registry before making any changes.


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Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
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Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), Admiral of the Fleet. Sitter in 70 portraits.
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002), Photographer. Artist associated with 156 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
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The Blitz continues with sustained Luftwaffe attacks on British cities. As the bombing went on the urban population got used to the black out, the air raid sirens and nights spent in shelter. The idea emerged (to some extent a myth) of the 'spirit of the Blitz' where people pulled together united, disregarding traditional class and social divisions.
Frank Whittle demonstrates the first test-flight of a plane powered by jet propulsion. Although the German, Hans von Ohain, built the first jet plane, Whittle was the first to patent a design for the jet engine (in 1930), and his subsequent work helped to advance the technology and made Britain leaders in the field.
The Soviet Union and America join the Allies. The Soviet Union was forced to switch sides after Hitler attacked in June 1941, reneging the Soviet-Nazi pact. Six months later the US Navy was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbour. The following day the USA declared war on Japan, and three days later Germany and Italy declared war on America.
Goddesses and Others
Centenaries and Centenarians
Yousuf Karsh
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The future of fitness is together but alone
Nikolas and Brittany Loecher spent their anniversary in Napa Valley, where they drank wine, enjoyed the warm spring days away from their home in Colorado, and made a side trip into San Francisco to visit a Tonal showroom. After seeing ads for the internet-connected weight training machine with guided workouts on screen, they wanted to see it in person before making the $3,000, plus $50 a month, commitment.
The Tonal would be their third — technically fourth if you count the FightCamp interactive boxing bag they tried but didn't love — addition to their connected home gym. It all started in 2017 when the Loechers bought their Peloton bike as a way to work off excess weight they'd gained over the years. When Brittany was pregnant with their first child, Nikolas had put on some extra pounds alongside her. "In solidarity," he jokes.
But soon after giving birth to their son, the Loechers received devastating news. Brittany had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and would have to undergo chemotherapy. "The news changed my entire life," Brittany, a former athlete, tells me. The chemo caused her resting heart rate to rise, which she says prevented her from working out as much as she used to. "I was worried that I was going to die from working out. I also gained weight from all the steroids I had to take." Nikolas, on the other hand, gained 90 pounds from stress eating through his wife's cancer treatments.
After Brittany received a clean bill years later, the couple wanted to get more serious about prioritizing their health but had to figure out how to do so with a young, growing family. The Peloton bike felt like the solution. To the new parents, being able to jump on a bike and stream on-demand classes after their two young sons went to sleep felt like a game-changer. The two quickly became so addicted to fitting the Peloton into their schedule that when the company announced a treadmill in 2018, they pre-ordered it the minute the site went live.
The Loechers just are two of the hundreds of thousands of people who've purchased a connected fitness equipment in recent years. The category is quickly growing, with a variety of devices offering at-home workout solutions where users stare at screens for guided instructions instead of an in-person fitness trainer. It was creepy at first, Brittany admits. "But everyone is constantly on their phone and society is moving that way anyway," that ultimately the convenience outweighed her initial qualms.
"This is the future of fitness," Nikolas says. "I can work out when I want, I don't have to deal with driving to the gym, I can keep track of my fitness goals, and still have time to spend with my family."
After spending over $10,000 on their connected fitness machines, now, the couple is preparing to literally invest in connected fitness. When news about Peloton's IPO filing broke, Nikolas immediately jumped at the opportunity, vowing to do whatever it takes to add it to his portfolio. "We called our stock broker and said we are getting that stock!" Brittany says. "I believe in this company, the product, and this future."
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Connected fitness used to refer to workout apps and fitness trackers, but Peloton added a new category when it combined both on an exercise machine with the launch its bike in 2014. It's basically an indoor cycling bike with its own workout-specific Netflix: you can choose live or on-demand classes based on music genre, low or high impact, length of workout, or the coach whose teaching style you enjoy most.
Today, there are a handful of imitators that have spun off from Peloton's concept — Hydrow for rowing, FightCamp for boxing, Mirror for cardio exercises, and Tonal for weight training — all with the goal of bringing the boutique studio exercise experience to the home. There are also copycats of the Peloton equipment itself; Echelon, a stationary bike that similarly lets you stream a class from its touchscreen, is offered as a less expensive alternative at $999 to Peloton's $1,999. Traditional fitness equipment NordicTrack has had to rework its collection, too, to offer on-demand classes across bikes, ellipticals, and treadmills to compete against Peloton's offerings.
Even luxury gyms like Equinox have had to rethink their membership strategies to avoid losing customers to at-home brands. In May, Equinox opened a public running studio that features custom treadmills and software designed to make the experience feel personalized the way these new, at-home exercise machines do.
The Mirror's cardio fitness equipment.
Group fitness has been part of US culture for decades, but it truly became part of pop culture around the 1960s, when the term aerobics was coined. Physician Kenneth Cooper authored a book that used science-backed evidence to explain why personal fitness was beneficial your health, changing the perception that working out was mostly for cosmetic reasons.
Cardiovascular exercises became even more popular in the following decade, partly thanks to the 1972 Summer Olympics. The men's marathon race had an unexpectedly dramatic finish, in which an impostor ran onto the tracks in the last kilometer to distract Frank Shorter, the American frontrunner. When Shorter maintained his focus to go on and win the gold, he became a household name, with enamored viewers taking up long distance running to follow in his footsteps. Across the nation, gyms began adding more treadmills and running classes boomed to help train Americans to participate in a growing number of races being held across the country.
Over the next few decades, group exercise would adapt to incorporate our TV screens — from VHS tapes and DVDs on traditional televisions to YouTube videos and fitness apps on the go. The Peloton model was a natural evolution of the way we receive content and interact with other people over the web, with classes that are offered both live and on-demand to suit the viewers' schedule instead of confining them to a set time of the day.
The comfort of exercising in your own home, whenever you want to, is exactly why connected fitness companies hope their products will become the next must-have gadget despite the big initial price tag. "The explosion of boutique gyms are because the customer understands that better quality workouts are worth the price point," Mirror CEO Brynn Putnam says, adding that some gyms are realizing that in-home machines are an opportunity for them to deliver their classes to new audiences, too. "The home will always be the most convenient place to work out."
"The formula for this to work at home is the financing program"
Tonal CEO Aly Orady says that similar to smartphones, which were first thought of as luxury items, the math may make more sense once the price of a machine is spread out over a couple years. "The formula for this to work at home is the financing program," he says.
Instead of dropping thousands of dollars at once, he says consumers can think of their monthly payments for a Tonal or a Peloton as a direct alternative to their gym subscription costs. "The way the cellphone is financed into the monthly mobile bill is how connected fitness will become accessible to the bulk of the market."
Almost all of the connected fitness vendors today offer some kind of financing option through lending startup Affirm (which also handles finance options for other trendy retailers like Joybird, Warby Parker, DJI, and Casper). The most affordable of the bunch is FightCamp, which starts at $60 a month for 18 months while Tonal runs $199 a month for 24 months. Hydrow does not offer finance plans, but recently began selling its rowing machine through Best Buy which offers payment plans through its credit card. These devices also charge anywhere from $38 to $49 a month to subscribe to class content that are updated daily or weekly.
With the cost running at least $100 to $250 a month, it's certainly higher than traditional gyms, which cost Americans around $60 on average. The monthly costs also don't factor in other accessories, like clip-in cycling shoes, heart rate monitors, or floor mats which could add another couple hundred dollars to the total package.
The Loechers, however, say the cost outweighs what they'd been paying since they're using their machines more often. "Once you started taking away the CorePower membership, the gym membership, the couple of boutique fitness classes, everything is pretty comparable," Nikolas says.
FightCamp's connected boxing bag.
Hydrow's interactive rowing machine.
One of the reasons the Peloton model has been so popular is due in part to society's growing interest in self-care and wellness, with people looking to technology in the hopes of easily finding it. Self-improvement was the number one app theme last year, while the hashtag #selfcare soared from 5 million to 17 million posts on Instagram between August 2018 and July 2019. Now that people are used to finding self-care at the tap of a touchscreen, the convenience of connected fitness machines have also made them more attractive over the past few years, says Stephen Intille, an associate professor at Northeastern University specializing in health technology.
"You've got a human who's trying to motivate you using humor and empathy," Intille says. "And being motivated by a talented human versus a computer — like a Fitbit which can give you prompts but not an experience that is as rich — makes you feel like a part of a group."
That encouragement can also be helpful to beginners who may be intimidated by the setting of a traditional public gym, says Matt Riccio, a behavioral psychology researcher at New York University who specializes in social factors that motivate better health.
A guided instructor also combats the fact that workouts can be boring
"Many individuals struggle to maintain individual, or what is known as intrapersonal, levels of things like motivation, self-control, confidence, and self-efficacy. In such cases, interpersonal support from others — even, in this case, when they are not physically present — can be extremely helpful," he says.
Working out with a guiding instructor — virtual or otherwise — also combats the fact that exercise can often be boring. Peloton offers dozens of instructors to match the needs of its customers, from those who want form-based guidance to others who just want to be entertained for 30 minutes.
Community is also a large part of keeping connected fitness machines engaging; all five companies offer Facebook groups for users to discuss their workouts and find people with similar goals or stats to digitally work out with. Live leaderboards, a feature that shows where the user ranks against other people who've taken the same class, can also help challenge people to push themselves further.
"We saw community engagement jump by 239 percent after releasing our leaderboard feature in March," FightCamp CEO Khalil Zahar says. Peloton has also begun hosting annual Homecoming events in which customers across the globe travel to the company's base in New York City to meet instructors and other members to take classes together.
Peloton's Leaderboard allows you to give virtual high-fives to fellow classmates.
Still, Intille cautions that leaderboards may not always be the best motivational factor, as those who start out consistently at the bottom may find it discouraging instead. To combat this, users have begun creating their own Facebook groups that merge other commonalities, such as the Peloton #ShortieTribe for petite members struggling to hit the output that taller members are able to achieve, or Kids of Peloton for younger riders seeking classes that feature family-friendly music.
This level of interpersonal connection is why Hydrow CEO Bruce Smith doesn't think connected fitness machines will have a negative social impact, and that the sense of community that typically form at brick and mortar gyms will be more distributed. "Connected fitness is about bringing your body and your screen life together," he says. "The more we move toward that sense of connection and the more real that can get, the better chance we have of surviving the digital age."
Intille says that in the short term, gyms are likely not in danger from this new wave of equipment. "It's not that different than how people haven't stopped going to movies because they can stream them at home," he says. But while the Pelotons of the world are more interactive and engaging, Intille warns that these devices are still dependent on goals that people set for themselves. Though most people buy exercise equipment to lose weight, they should be regarded as physical fitness machines rather than weight loss devices, he says.
People haven't stopped going to movies because they can stream them at home, so gyms are likely not in danger in the short term
"If people get these devices primarily for weight loss and they don't see results, they're gonna abandon it," Intille says, noting that to effectively lose weight, people have to adjust their diet — something these machines cannot directly help with.
"Behavior change is also easier than sustaining it," he adds, pointing out that these subscription models are exactly how traditional gyms make money. "The best customers are the ones who pay and don't show up."
Peloton claims to have a one-year retention rate of 96 percent, with the average customer completing nine to 10 workouts a month, but it does not offer rates beyond the one year mark. Other connected fitness devices have only launched in the past year, so they don't yet offer information on how consistently members have been working out over a long period of time.
Mirror's Apple Watch app.
If the Apple Watch and Fitbit's partnership with insurance companies like Aetna, Cigna, Humana, and Anthem indicate anything about where connected fitness is headed, the next wave of growth may be for these equipment companies to partner with research centers and health companies to provide incentives for consumers in exchange for exercise data. While Tonal's Orady and Hydrow's Smith say they aren't actively pursuing this path, the two also haven't ruled out that possibility. When pressed, both agree that if their companies were to partner with third parties, the choice for customers to share that data would need to be on an opt-in basis.
Mirror's Putnam, on the other hand, has ambitions beyond fitness. While other connected fitness companies focus on proprietary workout classes, Putnam wants Mirror to be the platform for other companies that want a slice of the at-home market. Traditional studios like CorePower Yoga, Pure Barre, and Physique 57 are now beginning to offer on-demand content, and Putnam thinks Mirror could be the go-to platform for customers to access all these types of classes. Mirror's latest partnership includes a dance program featuring celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson.
The Loechers painted a Fisher-Price bike to match their own Peloton | Photo by Brittany Loecher
"We think within the next year or two years, Mirror will be the platform for the best fitness experience," Putnam says. "In the next 5 to 10 years, we see Mirror as a platform within the home for learning by doing." She also foresees other commerce opportunities, like glasses fitting or virtual clothes try-ons at home. "There will certainly be folks who will buy multiple equipments in the home, but we offer a one-stop shop for experiences you want today and in the future."
For now, fitness is the target goal, and it's something the Loechers say they've achieved with the combination of Tonal and Peloton machines in their home. They've even gotten a Fisher-Price bike they painted to look like a kid-sized Peloton to encourage their sons to work out alongside them.
"This segment of home exercise equipment is still in its infancy and has so much room for growth," Nikolas says. And while he patiently waits for the Peloton IPO to drop, he's already making plans to add one more equipment to his home gym: whatever Peloton equipment is announced next.


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law. Fulton spoke with BET.com about her reflections of her son and the anniversary of his death.
BET.com: What is the main thing you want people to remember about Trayvon?
Sybrina Fulton: That he was an average teenager. He was special to us because he was ours. That he had a lot to look forward to. He had a lot of things going on for himself as far as life in general. He had goals and aspirations.
What do you reflect on when you think about him?
That he won't get a chance to graduate from high school or go to college, go to the prom, get married, have kids. I won't get that opportunity to see those things so I just want to remember him as the smiling teenager he was. He was very affectionate, loved listening to music, loved going to the movies, going to the mall, skating. He loved to travel. So I just want to remember those good times. I don't want to focus on the negative things.
What has this last year has been like for you?
It has been a journey. I always say that it is bittersweet. The sweet part is that I have met so many wonderful people. So many people that support us and so many people that have prayed for us and stood with us and rallied for us and signed a petition and you know, just were there. Just for standing up for something. So that's the sweet part. The bitter part is actually not having him on Earth and I'm still a mother.
At one point George Zimmerman, your son's killer, had indicated that he had a willingness to meet with you and Trayvon's father. How do you feel about that?
If he wants to meet with us, he can do it in the court system at the trial. We can meet him on June 10 [when Zimmerman's trial starts].
The trial is due to occur in June. What are your thoughts as the trial looms closer?
Well, prior to the trial, we have this Stand Your Ground hearing, which is April 29. I'm not an attorney. I just think that it's a part of the process, that it is something that has to be done. Hopefully, it moves to the next stage, which is the criminal trial, and we're looking forward to the June 10 date so that the person who caused all of this pain to us can be held accountable for what he's done.
You have become deeply involved in speaking against Florida's Stand Your Ground law. Why is that?
The Stand Your Ground law sends the wrong message. It sends the message that you can pursue someone. You can follow someone. You can cause a confrontation and shoot and kill the person and not be held accountable for it. I don't think that was the intention of the law but in hindsight, we're looking back now and saying this is something that needs to be revised. They need to make some changes when it comes to that specific law.
What is the work being pursued by the Trayvon Martin Foundation?
The foundation is going to help mentor teenagers. It's going to create scholarships for them to pursue their educational goals. It's going to try to amend the Stand Your Ground Law. It's called the Trayvon Martin Amendment and this is an extension from the Stand Your Ground law and it says that you cannot pursue, chase, follow someone, be the aggressor and then say you were standing your ground when you shoot and kill the person.
A little over a year ago, you were just an average person who worked a job.
But you have become a national figure, a symbol and an advocate. What has that experience been like for you?
I still think I'm an average person. I'm doing no more than what anybody else would do for their child. I mean, this was my son. This was my baby. So I have to do my very best at trying to make a difference for him. So even in death, I'm working for my son.
Looking forward, what gives you hope?
God Almighty. I don't think Sybrina could do this. I don't think Sybrina, the person, was strong enough to do this. So to me, God stepped in and he said: "Let me lift you up, let me give you the right words to say, let me help you speak, let me help you think, let me help you talk to these different people and inspire them." So I know that I can't give the credit to myself. I can only give the credit to God.


The Lakeview Cemetery is home to many persons responsible for the rise and success of the City of Ludington and the security of the freedoms our nation bestows upon each resident.
Lakeview Cemetery is home to burial sites of Soldiers belonging to the Grand Army of the Republic or G.A.R. G.A.R. was the first truly national veterans organization in the country. Membership was limited to veterans of the American Civil War who served as soldiers, sailors or marines during the period 1861 to 1865.


The latest in a line of no cost updates adding new features to DoView (Version 1.14) is undergoing final testing before release. This update will allow users to both insert hyperlinks onto a DoView page and to create web page models of their DoView models. Just clicking File>Create Web Page Model will create a fully navigable web page version of any DoView model The web page model will include some, but not all, of the functionality which is included within a model when editing it with DoView on a PC. This development means that once people have developed their outcomes models within DoView, they can then quickly share them with anyone they wish across an intranet or the internet. Corporate users are already chaffing at the bit to get at this update as they want to put their models up on their intranets.
The web page models will contain a particularly innovative feature in that it will be possible for the user creating the web page model from within DoView to include in the model a copy of the original DoView file and a copy of an automatically generated PDF of the file. Both of these will be available for those viewing the web page model to immediately download and start editing the model with DoView on their own PCs if they have DoView installed. Many examples of web page versions of DoView models are available at www.OutcomesModels.org.


One important career field that isn't taught at most colleges is culinary arts. Very few four-year colleges offer anything related to culinary training other than some schools have hospitality management degrees.
Students interested in actually working in the kitchen of a great restaurant will typically attend a specialized culinary arts school for a year or so. Many smaller cities do not have a culinary school, so students may have to look toward their local community college and take as many different cooking classes as they can.
You can look for culinary arts school in Georgia by clicking here or you can narrow your search somewhat by just looking at Atlanta area options.
Besides the culinary field, there are also plenty of other career fields that can be broken into without having a four-year degree. Students can earn either a one-year certificate or two-year associate's degree. The tuition at these schools is often reasonable. You can browse through some articles about different types of college majors or career training.
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