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IsraAID Sends Team To Texas Flood Relief
Syrians Cross Border Into Israel for Treatment
Israel-based humanitarian relief agency IsraAID has sent a team of volunteers to flood-ravaged Texas to help with relief efforts. This is not the first time the Israeli organization has sent disaster relief aid to the US.
The latest team of seven volunteers will help with removing debris from damaged houses in the Wimberley area.
"IsraAID will be mobilizing its relief team from Israel to support the thousands of people impacted by these latest storms," said Shachar Zahavi, IsraAID's founding director.
"The goal is to provide immediate relief and guide local communities in their efforts to clean out destroyed homes, as well as lay the groundwork for future rehabilitation and reconstruction initiatives," reads an IsraAID fundraising statement. "This cleaning stage is crucial to avoid major health and hygiene issues from contaminated water, and open sewage. In addition, there is a psychological added value, as home owners are often so overwhelmed by the devastation and the loss of their entire lives' valuables, that they are paralyzed by the situation. Coming in to clean up the mess and move them on to rebuilding helps create a positive momentum towards rehabilitation and recovery."
IsraAID has also partnered up with US disaster relief organization Team Rubicom to help homeowners connect with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and receive assistance.
In the past, IsraAID sent disaster relief following floods in Denver and Detroit, hurricanes in Oklahoma, New York and New Orleans, and wild fires in Washington, among other sites.
CNN reported that so much rain has fallen this month in Texas that it could cover the entire state with eight inches of water.
US President Barack Obama declared the flooding a major disaster.
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Production Co: Marvel Studios
Studio: Disney
Producer: Kevin Fiege
Writer: Edgar Wright/Joe Cornish/Paul Rudd/Adam McKay
Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Mackie, Judy Greer, Michael Peña, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery, Martin Donovan
Marvel's Midas Touch continues. When movie fans first heard about Ant-Man many figured it would be the first Marvel film to fall down in a heap. Sure, MCU films had done spectacularly well in the past, but who among the general movie-going public had ever heard of a superhero who shrinks to the size of an ant? And if they had, how could a big budget modern blockbuster make such a premise the least bit cinematic?
But cast your mind back to early 2008, when nobody apart from a few comic-collecting nerds had ever heard of Iron Man except in passing. What Marvel did with the script and casting is now Hollywood legend, and with the first entry into the company's famed cinematic phase three, it shows no signs of slowing down. Never heard of Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange or The Inhumans? You'd never heard of Guardians of the Galaxy either, and look how that turned out...
If there are any tricks that make Ant-Man as creatively successful as Iron Man, it's that uber-producer Kevin Fiege apparently instructed director Peyton Reed and whatever screenwriter is most responsible for what's on screen (writing work by former creative team Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish is still credited) to amp up the laugh factor.
Downey Jr shined as Tony Stark for the same reason, and Ant-Man is full of jokes for their own sake – like Michael Pena's chatterbox comic sidekick – as well as tongue in cheek nods about how frankly ridiculous an ant-sized superhero is. You'll hear more laughs in the cinema at the sight of a 30-foot Thomas the Tank engine flattening a police car than in plenty of the so-called comedies of 2015 so far.
But despite maintaining a level of jocularity about the premise, the film manages the impressive trick of making an ant-sized superhero as exciting and thrilling as that of any other MCU character.
Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is a master burglar and safe-cracker who gets out of prison determined to stay on the straight and narrow and finally be a good example to – and a positive influence in the life of – his daughter.
But after finding it hard to re-enter society he agrees to do just one more job, robbing the safe of a local retired industrialist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas).
The safe is a bust, containing nothing other than what seems to be motorcycle leathers and a weird helmet. The cops are called, Scott is caught and just when it seems his big chance at redemption is evaporating Hank himself visits him in the lock-up, explaining that he's chosen Scott to bring a unique technology to life – a shrinking and super-strength serum he developed decades before and decided was too dangerous to use.
Pym's former protégé Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), who now runs his company, is trying his hardest to develop the serum for himself, knowing he has a goldmine waiting to happen with the military brass lined up to buy it.
The race is on to use the miniature suit (which comes with the ability to control and marshall insects around the wearer) to stop Cross in his tracks before he can unleash his own fearsome version called the Yellowjacket and save the world in the usual Marvel fashion.
From the get go you know you're entering a world of absolute brand association, so if you're sick of superhero movies you'll want to like it a lot less than you do. All the familiar elements are there, but Marvel have worked some magic to make it engaging – and certainly funny.
One wonders what original director Edgar Wright would have made of it before his very high profile exit from the project, but the usual marvel X factor is very much in place. For a little longer yet, it seems the Marvel badge over the title is enough to bring punters through the cinema doors in droves.

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Daytripper which is taking place this year on the June Bank Holiday weekend in Waterford City has announced that the RTE Concert Orchestra along with Jenny Greene will take to the stage on Friday night the 31st of May.
As the organisers of Daytripper said "Ever since catching their brilliant debut at Electric Picnic in 2016, we have been trying to bring this amazing show to Daytripper. Since then they have sold 40,000 tickets in Dublin, 25,000 tickets in Cork, 12,000 tickets in Killarney and 8,000 tickets in Galway. Finally, the 48 piece RTE Concert Orchestra will be making their South East debut on Friday, 31st of May, playing all your favourite dance music classics of the 90s with DJ Jenny Greene and vocalist Gemma Sugrue. That night is also the 40th Anniversary of 2FM so some added surprises are promised for this PARTY of all parties"!
Other's playing this year at Daytripper are Gavin James, Hudson Taylor and Brave Giant. More acts are due to be announced in the coming weeks.
If there is one place you want to be this June bank holiday weekend then it's Waterford city and Daytripper.
Tickets are on sale at 9am Friday the 8th of February at www.daytripper.ie and No. 21, The Glen, Waterford.


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Assessing the progress made by Recovery Audit Contractors from March 2005 through March 2008, CMS says that most of the improper payments occurred because providers submitted claims to Medicare for services that were not medically necessary or were incorrectly coded, as well as a focus on inpatient hospital claims that gave them the highest rate of return.
CMS also noted that RACs had undertaken actions to recoup those overpayments and prevent future improper payment but conceded that it would be "difficult" to prevent all improper payments since over one billion claims are processed annually.
In explaining the relatively high rate of improper payments to inpatient hospitals, CMS acknowledged that since RACs were paid on a contingency fee basis, their claims review strategy focused on high dollar improper payments such as inpatient hospital claims, giving them the "highest return" relative to expenses associated with reviewing claims and medical records.
CMS also said that during the demonstration, RACs were prohibited from reviewing certain types of claims like physician visits. Other claims excluded for the review process were those previously reviewed by other Medicare contractors and claims under review for potential fraud. Hospice and home health services claims were also excluded.
CMS said it did not instruct RACs as to which claims should be reviewed, reporting instead that claims selection methodology was left up to individual RACs. CMS did say that RACs used reports from the OIG and GAO that highlighted Medicare services that were vulnerable to improper payments.
Incorrect Coding: CMS reported that almost 50 percent of the improper payments were the result of incorrect coding such as a provider submitting a claim for a procedure but the medical record indicated that a different procedure was actually performed.
Medical Necessity: Approximately one-third of improper payments were related to medical necessity. CMS said payments were made for services that were not medically necessary or did not meet Medicare's medical necessity criteria for the setting where the service took place; for example, a claim from a hospital for three colonoscopies for the same beneficiary on the same date of service when only one colonoscopy per day is medically necessary.
Duplicate Claims: Other errors were identified as hospitals not having or not providing medical records as requested by RACs, billing separately for services already included in other payments, submitting duplicate claims, using outdated fee schedules or being paid twice because duplicate claims were submitted.
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By Bryan Lynch on June 9, 2020
10 Best Urban Survival firearms
Survival situations do not always happen in the far reaches of the ocean or in some vast wilderness landscape. They can present themselves in even the most civilized environments. Urban survival firearms need to be mobile, quick to present, extremely reliable, fast on the reload and able to handle close quarter conditions, and anything else the concrete jungle can throw at them. Weigh in on the list below and vote for the 10 Best Urban Survival Firearms!
1. Remington 870 Police Magnum
If you desire a powerful, reliable and versatile weapon, you can't go wrong with the Remington 870 Police Pump Action Shotgun. The Remington 870 Police Pump Action Shotgun is known for delivering massive power at close range, making it a great choice for a shotgun.
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2. Glock 17 Gen 3
Each Glock Pistol was conceived and designed to accomplish specific objectives while incorporating all the same characteristics and advantages Glock has come to represent.
3. Ruger SR45
Packed with versatile features, the Ruger SR45 Semi Auto Pistols are lightweight and perfect for just about anything - plinking, target shooting and even small game hunting. It is easy to field strip, fun to shoot, and will run reliably with a wide variety of ammunition (not just high-velocity ammunition).
4. SIG Sauer 1911
The legendary 1911 design has been brought into the 21st century with the refinement today's shooters demand. The Sig Sauer 1911R TACOPS Semi Auto Pistols proves that close tolerances equal complete reliability and need not be incompatible in an off-the-shelf pistol.
5. Springfield Armory XDM
The Tactical, 5 inch, XD 9MM pistol utilizes the same superior safety features standard on the XD
6. Smith & Wesson M&P15 13304
Features: We The People Engraved on Mag Well, 1-9 Rifling; Sling Swivel Attachment, Dust Cover, Forward Assist
7. Ruger Scout Rifle
The Ruger Gunsite Scout .308 Winchester/7.62 NATO Bolt-Action Rifle features a laminate stock and a 10+1-round capacity.
8. Springfield Armory M1A Loaded
For many, some of the most memorable times in one's life are those spent hunting with family and friends. For those moments, rifles like the Springfield M1A Loaded Semi Auto Rifles are great to have.
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1. Rose: Giving a bouquet of roses is often seen as a display of love and romance (it is the favorite flower on Valentine's Day). Rose essential oil has been used for years in many cultures to inspire passion. Its scent evokes a calming, relieving affect perfectly for setting a romantic mood.
2. Ylang Ylang: This oil is known for its ability to affect the hormones, uplift a mood and to boost libido.
Oils can be so confusing! There are so many ways to use them. Look at Kelly's exact daily routine to see how you get use them all day long.
The oils I use first thing in the morning for clear skin and digestion.
Stress management oils and which to use before bed.
3. Neroli: Slightly orange, slightly floral scent, this oil may help calm the nerves and stimulate romantic feelings. Neroli has been used for centuries for its aphrodisiac properties.
4. PASSION: Inspiring Blend will help to rekindle feelings of excitement, passion, and joy.
5. Sandalwood: This oil is known to help create a peaceful environment, and aid in stimulating romantic encounters. It is a favorite aphrodisiac oil from centuries ago.
Another great way to make use of oils in the bedroom beside diffusing them is to add some lemongrass and lavender to coconut oil and massage your partner.


The billion dollar CEOs – lessons in SaaS.
Last week I attended SaaStr Annual 2018 in San Francisco, the world's largest SaaS industry event, with over 10,000 SaaS founders, VCs and executives in attendance.
The presentations were given by a selection of very successful founders, CEO's, executives and investors from around the global SaaS industry. I found myself referring to many of the CEO/founders who had achieved business valuations in excess of $1B as the "Billion dollar CEOs".
SaaStr spanned three days, and I attended on behalf of my company Datagate Innovation as part of a 100 person delegation of SaaS entrepreneurs from New Zealand, organised by Callaghan Innovation and NZ Trade & Enterprise. Our delegation also attended some excellent presentations from New Zealand SaaS business founders that have physically moved to North America and were generous in sharing their experiences of doing so.
Recognizing the common patterns, challenges, ups and downs of starting up a SaaS business. Despite my own experiences, it's still good to hear of the billion dollar CEOs going through the same or similar challenges and reaching a massively successful outcome. The value of this kind of psychological reinforcement cannot be overstated. In any industry it's important to know what is normal and what is not, on the path to success. It also helps to know that you're not alone and others face the same challenges as you on a daily basis.
Learning new concepts, strategies, common metrics, KPIs and how the SaaS industry operates internationally. It's easy to get caught up in your own business, in your own locality without seeing the bigger, wider picture.
Making new industry contacts. I was fortunate to gain new American contacts at SaaStr and New Zealand contacts from within the Kiwi delegation itself. Conferences like this are ideal to widen your business network, because you have so many people with a common interest from all over the world, in one place, at one time.
The New Zealand SaaStr delegation, meeting at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, prior to SaaStr.
The short concise sentence above sums up how SaaS companies should transition from their start-up stage to their growth stage. I think in many ways it encapsulates the essence of SaaS.
During the "Nail It" stage, the focus should be on understanding your customer, building your minimum viable product (MVP) that addresses the needs and wants of your customer, determining your unique selling points, your messaging and your sales strategy. Ideally you should work with a small set of early-adopter customers to refine your offering based on their real-world feedback. Focus on understanding and maximizing the value you are creating for your customers, aim for minimum churn, maximum customer satisfaction – before you even start focus on major revenue growth.
Setting aggressive revenue targets too early will drive the wrong behavior from your team. You don't want to cut corners to get on to the next sale until you've nailed your product and your service offering. Once your offering has reached "nailed it" stage, there should be no need to cut corners when you get to "scale it".
Aggressive revenue targets should be applied only when you reach the "Scale It" stage, once you've nailed your product or service offering. If you scale too early, you are effectively damaging your reputation and your future potential.
This "Nail It before you Scale It" approach illustrates why SaaS start-ups require such strong support from their investors in the early stages.
It's extremely important to "know your customer" and ensure that the messages you are putting out in sales & marketing resonate well with them. One very successful serial CEO said that when he moved into a new business, one of the first things he would do is personally spend time with customers and end users to get a better understanding their needs and what value they were (or weren't) getting out of his company's product.
A lot of the on-line sales processes today are heavily automated. There are tools to track the on-line activity of prospects and keep them updated regularly with a stream of sales & marketing material so they won't forget you! The amount and depth of research that can be done on prospects automatically on-line is staggering.
Sales & Marketing work differently in the SaaS world than in the conventional scenario. In SaaS, marketing operates more in parallel with the sales team. Prospects bounce between marketing and sales throughout their buying journey. The two functions, sales and marketing must work tightly together with a common unified message and strategy.
Your team dynamic, your culture and your brand are extremely important to the success of your business. Don't retain people who damage your team dynamic or harm your culture, regardless of how well they might perform on their own. You will find it easy to attract good people to your business if you have a good culture, reputation and brand.
Diverse teams work better than mono-cultural, single-gender teams. Research has proven that on average, businesses with more diverse teams perform better. The top performing companies seem to have the highest diversity. SaaStr themselves have their own diversity and inclusion program and claimed to have 45%+ women speakers at SaaStr this year and over 60% women + multicultural speakers.
Seek to partner with a larger, established American business that targets the same customers as you do, but has a complementary product to yours (definitely not a competing product!). Make your product work well alongside their product and attend their trade shows to meet their customer base. This is the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way to get direct access to a lot of your target customers.
Americanize your offering by working with your first early-adopter American customers to ensure your offering works well and is valuable for them. Every country has subtle (and not so subtle) requirements that differ from other countries (in the case of my business Datagate, we've had to do a lot of work with taxation and regulatory requirements for the American market). Publish case studies of American customers using your product. Testimonials from customers outside America are not as effective as American ones.
You need to build an American credit history by working through American banks and/or other institutions. Credit ratings from outside America don't count inside America. Opening a bank account for your NZ-owned company can be difficult without an American credit history. It was suggested that it's easier to open a personal bank account and use that first, to build up some history, allowing you to open a business account later on.
Due to the larger market size, you can be more focused on a narrower vertical market in America than you than you need to in a smaller economy such as New Zealand, where you tend to have to go wider to get enough sales volume.
It's almost essential that the CEO of an American-focused business is located in America, in order to be taken more seriously by American customers, investors and banks.
American work visas can take a lot of time and effort to obtain, even if you are providing your own employment and employment to American citizens. Don't leave this until the last minute!
There might be challenges in getting into America, but it's a huge market and well worth the effort.
The "as-a-service" approach to business is gaining more and more traction across many industry sectors. Consumers are developing a preference for subscribing to services as opposed to buying things.
The Internet, Cloud Computing and mobile apps have been high-profile influencers on people's buying patterns, which have promoted an "as-a-service" mentality. XaaS (anything as a service) is regarded as a new "disruptive" approach to satisfying consumer demand, even though the subscription business model itself has been alive and kicking for centuries in industries such as newspapers, magazines, telephony, insurance and leasing, to name a few.
We are now seeing professional service businesses that traditionally charged by the hour start to charge by fixed subscription instead. This is shown to greatly improve productivity and effectiveness in delivering value to customers. Customers are more inclined to engage and use their subscribed services, rather than hold back to avoid hourly charges. Questions and arguments about billing are significantly reduced. The subscribed model invokes an on-going partnership instead of a series of one-off transactions or interactions.
I.T. businesses that used to sell servers and other hardware items have moved to selling on-line subscriptions to hosting services and have extended their businesses to sell subscribed telephony and data services. They have learned that subscribed business is regular predictable business that they can rely on, so long as they look after their customers. Subscribed business is the best kind of business for the customer and the supplier!
At Datagate, our specialty is enabling service re-sellers to efficiently process, report and bill measurable subscription services, such as telephony, data circuits, hosting, Cloud & mobile apps, electricity, water, gas etc. All of these billing models include a combination of monthly fixed and variable billing. The variable component of the bill is normally derived from a data feed from the supplier of the service that details the service consumption quantities.
I find it interesting that we are encountering many new "as-a-service" businesses that fit Datagate's fixed and variable subscription model. Some of these are "traditional" as-a-service businesses and others are revolutionary and disruptive approaches to markets formerly served by product or time sales.
At the coal face we see the shift to an "as-a-service" world is very real.
I have to be careful about what I say about Datasquirt because it's a publicly listed company on the Australian stock exchange (ASX:DSQ) and being a non-executive director and chairman, there are strict rules about what I can and cannot say, without making an announcement to the ASX.
Firstly, I have to say that Datasquirt is a cool company, made up of people who are passionate about what they do. Datasquirt's product is called CONTACT and it's a SaaS, Web deployed Communications Console for Corporate Businesses to enable their Contact Centers (formerly Call Centers) to interact with their customers, suppliers or staff using SMS text, Instant Messaging, email, fax etc.
I was one of the founders of Datasquirt and so my involvement dates back to when the company started up in 2001. This was soon after I (and some of the other Datasquirt founders) sold our previous business, Exonet.
In the early days we did a lot of experimenting to see how SMS Texts could be used for business purposes. After several years of building custom SMS applications for various industry verticals, we started to see what common functionality everyone wanted and realized that all the big customers had Contact Centers – so we designed and built CONTACT as a product to satisfy this market need.
Being web deployed, CONTACT can be run from any browser on the Internet, so requires minimal effort by the customers' IT departments to get it up and running. The product integrates with the customer's internal databases such as CRM, ERP etc and has advanced logic algorithms to pre-process messages automatically and/or distribute them to applicable call center operators. Templates and automation facilitate a speedy response to incoming messages and advanced reporting functions enable all types of reports and analysis – including the types of reporting normally expected in corporate contact centers.
In today's world of advanced and instant world-wide communications, it is more important than ever for businesses to engage with the new communication technologies and new social media types like Twitter, Linked-In, Facebook etc. Accordingly, these are exciting times for Datasquirt and its product CONTACT which empowers corporate business customers to communicate directly, instantly and intimately in the new communications age!
Watch this company this year!


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Full Circle: What The NB3 Foundation Cross-Country Team Teaches Us About Strengthening Community Through Play
A group of girls from the NB3 Foundation Cross-Country Team run together.
In New Mexico along the banks of the Rio Grande, framed against the 79,000 acres composing the Pueblo of Santa Ana, is a path approximately one mile in length that the kids call "The Loop." Beginning at the edge of the Tamaya Wellness Center, a giant multipurpose recreational space solely for the community, this dirt path is where the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation Cross-Country Team is practicing on a Wednesday autumn evening before they run in the region's youth cross-country championships a few days later. For some of the kids, ranging in age from third- to eighth-grade, the upcoming race is the largest organized event they've competed in.
The team is running two miles tonight for practice, but of course, miles are the exercise language of adults, so the coaches speak in different terms as they corral the kids to the path. "How many laps are we running today?" The kids immediately shout over one another, some holding up one finger, others stretching out all 10. The kids teasingly groan when the coaches hold up two fingers. With no time to contemplate how those miles will feel to their legs, they toe the imaginary starting line in the dirt and take off on the coach's mark, chasing the trail and following the fall evening's golden hour.
The kids gather near the tree that marks the beginning of The Loop. Of the 28 kids on the NB3 Foundation Cross-Country Team, only three have run recreationally before joining.
The NB3 Foundation unofficially began in 2005 as a family operation between professional golfer Notah Begay III, a Native American icon in the state's sporting history (he's one of the only Native American and Indigenous competitors to have played on pro golf's professional tour), and his father. The premise was to give back locally and provide opportunities for young Native American children to play in sport, including running. The effort started as a direct program with little to no official infrastructure — family members coached and did community outreach. As the organization grew, so did the overwhelming reality of the Native American youth struggles with obesity and type 2 diabetes. So began a recognition of overall health and wellness that's followed the organization for the last 15 years, leading to the creation of salaried coaching staffs, all led by Native American teenagers and adults in the community.
"Our philosophy doesn't focus on coming up with a solution," says Begay, "but in lifting up a solution that already exists in that community, and to support the capacity for people to manage, evaluate and conduct their work, recognizing that the tribes we work with have different values and traditions. We ask, 'How do you respect that?'"
"The Loop" is roughly a mile in length and circles the Tamaya Wellness Center in the Pueblo of Santa Ana.
A philosophy of getting kids moving and active rings in the missions of both the NB3 Foundation and Nike Social and Community Impact. One shared method between the two groups is particularly effective: a collective-impact regranting model, identifying Native American-led organizations who strengthen their communities and facilitate effective methods to other Native American-led organizations to ensure positive impact.
One example is the annual Native Youth on the Move event in Albuquerque, in which the NB3 Foundation and Nike distribute up to 10 grants of $20,000 to Native-led community partners in the Albuquerque metro area to inspire kids to engage in sport, physical activity and unstructured play. Money is directed toward a number of areas, like collaborative days of play among the numerous pueblos and professional development within organizations to address systemic and preventable health issues while promoting healthy behaviors and self-efficacy. During the last four years, the NB3 Foundation has given 136 grants to Native-led community organizations across the country.
"Both NB3 and Nike believe in the power and strength of our young people," says Begay. "Being healthy, physically active and civically engaged are important cornerstones to being a member of your tribe and being a human being."
The last few years of the NB3 Foundation have brought another evolution to the program that's more aspirational in scope. Coaches want the kids to see themselves at different levels of running, an idea that punctuates the children's excitement to represent their tribes in the regional race.
Among the kids who run in the program, not even a third will join their school teams because many are put off by the environment of competition, says Clint Begay, brother of Notah and the lead cross-country coach of the NB3 Foundation team. That's where the NB3 Foundation staff strives for the coaching curriculum to hit home; they want these kids to believe in themselves, however they see a run — or a game, or a workout — measured on the rubric of their childhoods.
The kids set the pace as a cooling dusk wind nips at their feet.
The majority of kids on the NB3 Foundation Cross-Country Team are girls.
The training runs are divided into three categories: The Loop, long runs (sometimes up to four miles) and hills, which guide the kids through the rolling terrain along the Rio Grande.
One of the last events of the night is a leadership game designed to model a good habit that the kids can take home with them. This game, called "Blind Tanks," is a combination of Marco Polo and dodgeball, and teaches kids the importance of listening.
The coaches of the NB3 Foundation Cross-Country Team.
Later that weekend at the regional race, the team's success was stamped in the form of times and personal victories. The 8-and-under girls team placed first in their age group and qualified for the national race in Madison, Wisconsin. One of the boys rounded out his 94-person age group, but his time was his best all season, and he wore the same playful levity during the race as he did in practice.
"For my son, this race was just another run around The Loop, and he's happy with that," says his father. "He's out here having fun. He's building friendships. He's staying healthy through exercise. He's learning life lessons. For him, cross-country is doing exactly what it should in his life."
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No Job Is Too Small For Our Company In The Boothgate Area.
Whereas other companies may charge you high prices or not be interested at all in carrying out the small jobs, we promise budget-friendly rates and excellent work.
We do not enforce any charges on our clients up until our handyman reaches your home or properties to do the job. Expect a one-hour minimum charge and only half-hour increments afterwards. When the job comes to completion, simply make the payment to the handyman and then place your signature on the work order. It's that basic.
.Our handymen are well-trained and certified in numerous trades, consisting of joinery, pipework, electrical, roofing, masonry, landscaping, simply to name a couple. On top of that, they are disciplined, well-disposed, and well-informed when it concerns health and wellness, asbestos awareness, and manual handling. You can, therefore, trust us to deal with simply about any job within our field in a professional and appropriate manner.
Whether you are a house owner, property manager, industrial business or letting representative, we have the resources and capacity to handle your unique needs and requirements. Whatever work you have to be done in your home or property, we always match the right handyman to the task in concern, to your location, or when you need the job to be done. This is to enable the work to be done appropriately, to be completed on time, and to your complete satisfaction.
Part of our goal is to leave an enduring impression so as you have every reason to hire us again. Thus, we pay attention to information and always make sure that your needs are met. In case you are not completely pleased with the work we've brought out, the assigned handyman will go back to re-do the work and you won't be charged anything extra.
Granted, you may have the ability to fix your leaky faucet, paint your living-room, or undertake garden works, however not many people have the time and resources, leave alone the competence to do such work or things like pipes as a genuine expert would.
We could also mention that accidents could take place or even the very same problem may repeat again quicker than you expected because of the method that the work was done.
That, and the factors below explain why you ought to leave your home remedial jobs or property repair work and upkeep work to a professional.
Safety– Incorrect fixes or shoddy work when performing jobs such as pipework etc could result in much larger issues later on, putting your home and family in possible danger and forcing you to invest more on fixing the problems.
Health– Take the case of sluggish leaks resulting out of a bad repair work. This could result in a standing water scenario where mould spores can flourish, ultimately exposing you and your family to mould infection.
Financial risks– Whenever you try to fix a structural problem in your house without success or maybe effectively but only for the problem to resurface again, most likely worse than previously, you may wind up parting with larger amounts of cash to have it fixed.
Likewise, leaving basic issues in your house like a damaged window, malfunctioning electrical switches, broken fences ignored for a long duration of time (because you are hectic or pay less focus on them) could result in much larger issues that may cost you huge amounts of cash in future.
Taking a look at all these scenarios, there's clearly a lot to gain when you work with a professional handyman to look after the structural issues in your house or home.
When you've shown us your list of requirements, we'll recommend on exactly what ought to be bought/ordered. If you would like to us to bring the products, we'll happily do so and show you the invoices prior to passing the cost on to you.
We will also offer all the technical assistance you need, consisting of having our proficient handymen supply the smaller sized products required for the job, consisting of things like screws, glues, fillers, tacks, tap washers, and so on.
If you find that you are in need of a competent, trusted, and professional handyman to fix your home or property, trust us to deliver beyond your expectations. If it's an emergency situation, we'll get among our knowledgeable handymen to your location on the same day. We are also available during the evening and on the weekends in the Boothgate Derbyshire DE56 2 East Midlands area.


Hey guys back again! In this post I decided to call it "The Thrifter" because my entire ensemble was attained at the thrift stores throughout the years. So I decided to make a post about my second hand clothing and how anyone can look brand new or a mess depending the way you see it. Let me know what you guys think? W.D.G.
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awesome coat! which thrift stores do you go to?
I usually go to the stores in Brooklyn, more options for men .
I tip my hat off to you, this is some top notch thrift finds.
Top of the line brands and well put together. You look great!
I love the coat detailing, looks sharp!
Great men's look. I love it when everything is layered. Bravo!
Great post! I love discount shopping. Shopping on budget is my thing. It doesn't matter if its thrift store shopping, consignment shopping, garage sales or estate sales.
You look great. I love how you pulled all that together.
You gave me an idea for a blog I will have to post soon. I will reference this post for the fellas!
That coat is sick! Love it! Thanks for stopping by and the "like" at beingzora!
The leather detailing on that coat is really cool! Those are some great finds!
Nice outfit! Love the coat, and the boots.
OMG, I love it. Looks sophisticated and tasty!!
Thanks for the compliment and of course I don't mind 🙂 Happy Sunday!
Love love love the boots!!


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Généalogie
Le nom propre de l'empereur avant son avènement au trône était . Il était le cinquième fils de l'empereur Reigen.

 Les femmes de l'empereur Higashiyama:
 Impératrice Yukiko (幸子女王) - devenue Shōshū (承秋門院),
 Kushige Yoshiko (櫛笥賀子) - devenue Shin-syuken (新崇賢門院)
 Reizei Tsuneko (冷泉経子) - religieuse bouddhiste
 Les fils de l'empereur Higashiyama:
1er fils : Ichi-no-miya (一宮)
  fils : Ni-no-miya (二宮)
  fils : Kōkan (公寛法親王) - devenu prêtre bouddhiste
  fils : Hisa-no-miya (寿宮)
  fils : Yasuhito (慶仁親王) - devenu l'empereur Nakamikado
  fils : Kan'in-no-miya Naohito (閑院宮直仁親王) - père de Kan'in-no-miya Sukehito (閑院宮典仁), - grand-père de l'empereur Kokaku
 Les filles de l'empereur Higashiyama:
 fille : Akiko (秋子内親王)
  fille : Tomi-no-miya (福宮)
  fille : Kōmyōjyō'in-no-miya (光明定院宮)
  fille : Syōsyuku (聖祝女王)

Biographie
Asahito est devenu empereur après l'abdication de son père en 1687.

L'ère Jōkyō
 Jōkyō 4, le  du  () : l'empereur abdiqua en faveur de son fils, Asahito, qui devint l'empereur Higashiyama.

L'ère Genroku
 Genroku 2 (1689) : on bâtit à Edo le temple de Confucius (le Yushima Seidō ou shoheiko); et Hayashi Razan (林羅山, 1583-1657), fut nommé pour le desservir.
 Genroku 4 (1691) : on bâtit à Edo le temple Zeï do.
 Genroku 5 (1692) : le célèbre voyageur Engelbert Kaempfer était au Japon.
 Genroku 6 (1693) : le pont Shin Ohashi-bashi fut construit à Edo. Ce pont n'était pas loin du pont de Ryōgoku, qui s'appelait alors « Ohashi ». Aujourd'hui, le pont actuel, datant de 1976, remplace celui construit en Genroku 9.
 Genroku 8, le  de la  (): il y eut un grand incendie à do; et dans la même année, on plaça sur le revers des monnaies de cuivre le caractère 元 (ghen ou yuan en chinois, signification "rond, arrondi").
 Genroku 9 (1696) : on bâtit le pont Eitai-bashi à travers la rivière Sumida à Edo. Aujourd'hui, le pont actuel, datant de 1924, remplace celui construit en Genroku 9.
 Genroku 10 (1697) : grand incendie à Edo.
 Genroku 11 (1698) : il y eut encore un grand incendie à Edo. Une nouvelle salle fut construite dans l'enceinte du temple de Tó ye san.
 Genroku 13 (1700) : on rebâtit le temple Kitano-jinja à Miyako.
 Genroku 16, le  de la  () : il y eut un grand tremblement de terre à Edo; et le jour suivant, un vaste incendie éclata dans la ville.

L'ère Hōei
 Hōei gannen ou Hōei 1, le  (août 1704) : une partie de la ville d'Edo est submergée par une inondation.
 Hōei 2 (1705) : on rétablit le temple du Daibutsu à Nara.
 Hōei gannen ou Hōei 4, le  de la  () : la ville d'Osaka souffre beaucoup d'un tremblement de terre très violent.

 Hōei 4, le  de la  () : l'éruption du mont Fuji de l'ère Hōei commence, dont les cendres tombent comme une pluie dans les provinces de Suruga, de Kai, de Sagami, de Musashi, et d'Izu.
 Hōei 5, le  de la  () : il y a un grand incendie à Miyako.
 Hōei 6, le  de la  () : l'épouse du shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi le tue à coups de poignard et se perce ensuite le cœur. Ce dictateur, adonné au vice contre nature et n'ayant pas d'enfants, a jeté son dévolu sur l'un des fils du daimyo de Kai pour l'adopter et en faire son successeur. L'épouse du shogun, qui est une des filles de l'empereur, prévoyant que ce choix révolterait tous les grands du Japon, et qu'il est à craindre qu'il ne s'ensuivît une révolution dans l'empire, met tout en œuvre pour le dissuader de sa résolution. Ce n'est que quand elle voit que ses représentations sont vaines qu'elle le sacrifie à la tranquillité menacée de l'empire. C'est pour cette raison que la mémoire de cette princesse est encore aujourd'hui révérée dans tout le Japon.
 Hōei 6, le  (mai 1709) : Minamoto-no Tokugawa Ienobu, neveu de Tsunayoshi, lui succède comme shogun.
 Hōei 6, le  de la  () : l'empereur abdique.
 Hōei 6, le  de la  () : mort de l'empereur.

Les ères du règne de Higashiyama-tennō
 Ère Jōkyō (), 1684-1688
 Ère Genroku (), 1688-1704
 Ère Hōei (), 1704-1711

Haplogroupe du Chromosome Y
L'Empereur Higashiyama appartenait à ADN-Y D1b1a2 (D-IMS-JST055457/CTS107), avec l'échantillon de la muqueuse buccale prélevé sur sa descendance paternelle. Par conséquent, tous les hommes qui appartiennent à cet haplogroupe ADN-Y sont les descendants de la maison impériale du Japon. Dans cette mesure, il est naturel d'attendre qu'il y aurait plus de 60 % de probabilité de l'empereur japonais descendent de l'ère Jomon du Japon.

Références

Bibliographie

  Ponsonby-Fane, Richard A. B. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: The Ponsonby Memorial Society.
  Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
  Titsingh, Isaac. (1820). Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon, avec la description des fêtes et cérémonies observées aux différentes époques de l'année à la Cour de ces Princes, et un appendice contenant des détails sur la poésie des Japonais, leur manière de diviser l'année, etc.; Ouvrage orné de Planches gravées et coloriées, tiré des Originaux Japonais par M. Titsingh; publié avec des Notes et Eclaircissemens Par M. Abel Rémusat. Paris: Nepveu. --On ne peut pas lire ce livre rare en ligne, mais la bibliothèque de l'université de Stanford l'a déjà numérisé le 22 mai 2006.
  Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō (), 1652]. Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: [Royal Asiatic Society] Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--Deux exemplaires numérisés de ce livre rare ont été maintenant rendus accessibles en ligne : (1) de la bibliothèque de l'université du Michigan, numérisé le 30 janvier 2007 ; et (2) de la bibliothèque de l'université de Stanford, numérisé le 23 juin 2006.

Empereur du Japon du XVIIe siècle
Empereur du Japon du XVIIIe siècle
Naissance en octobre 1675
Décès en janvier 1710
Mort de la variole
Décès à 34 ans
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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 confirmed to happen on February 1, might introduce its flagship Galaxy S23 Series
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The upcoming series is likely to include Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra.
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Leaving all speculations and leaks aside, Samsung today announced the date for its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event. The South Korean electronics behemoth will be hosting an in-person event in San Francisco on February 1. Since the COVID-19 epidemic, this will be the first Galaxy Unpacked event held in person. The Samsung Galaxy S23 series, which will include three new models, is likely to be announced during the Galaxy Unpacked Event, although it is yet unknown what else will be unveiled.
The date of the 2023 Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event has been officially confirmed for February 1. The Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event will take place in San Francisco, and it will start on February 1 at 10.30 AM PST or 11.30 PM IST. The company is anticipated to present its newest flagship Galaxy S23 series at the occasion. Three versions, the Samsung Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra, are rumoured to be part of the upcoming series.
The Unpacked event will be live-streamed on Samsung.com, Samsung Newsroom India and Samsung's YouTube channel.
The company in its announcement said, "A new era of Galaxy innovation is coming. Our innovations are designed to enable incredible possibilities for people today and beyond. The new Galaxy S series will be the epitome of how we define the ultimate premium experience. We're raising the bar and setting new standards for what's epic."
The Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Ultra were seen in botanic green, cotton flower, misty lilac, and phantom black colours in leaked renders.
The upcoming Galaxy S23 series is anticipated to be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The Galaxy S23 Ultra may also include a quad back camera arrangement, with a 200-megapixel main sensor. Other remaining devices S23 and S23+ are likely to include a triple rear camera set up.
According to rumours, the regular Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23+ will have 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. While the Galaxy S23 Ultra would reportedly have 12GB of RAM and 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB of storage.
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In terms of pricing the Samsung Galaxy S23 smartphones are rumoured to cost about the same as the Galaxy S22 range.
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Looking for Colorful Wildlife Images? Stay Home, Stay Inside & Open the Window
I know someone who calls these photographs my Alfred Hitchcock Project. You know, The Birds through a Rear Window. Nice touch, but the truth is the Master of Suspense was not in my thoughts when I began to shoot.
Cardinals are very cautious—they're always on the lookout for predators, and they'll throw up their wings as if they're ready to fly. Birds show a lot of predictive and reactive responses to the environment; know those responses and you'll be prepared to get photos like this one. © Deborah Sandidge
The project was pretty much the only self-assignment that made sense when travel was severely limited, extremely inadvisable, or downright impossible. And, on the very positive side, it offered an obvious advantage: while I'd rather travel to pursue wildlife, here wildlife would be coming to me.
I began with a simple plan: the photographs would be about the birds, not what attracted them. I was after bird portraits; there would be no traditional feeders or other distractions in the photos. I would pretty much limit shooting to the early hours of the morning, and I'd photograph from inside my house. Temperatures in Florida at the time were in the 90's, so rather than hang out in the hot backyard and scare off my subjects, it would be better to shoot from an open window when the birds would be looking for breakfast—and I'd be supplying it.
A Catbird on a vine-twisted branch threaded into a pipe on the post. The feeding platform itself was deliberately small—about 4x6—so I wouldn't have depth-of-field challenges when the birds landed to feed. © Deborah Sandidge
First, there was some homework. What were these birds, anyway? And what did they like to eat? A little online research turned up the answers, and then I was ready to set up my inside/outside bird photography studio.
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My plan was to keep it convenient and uncomplicated. Outdoors I'd offer some seed on a feeder platform, include a perch, and provide a birdbath. Indoors I'd set up my camera on my desk so it'd be about 18 ft. from the birds, open the window in the early morning after spreading some seed, and wait for my portrait subjects to arrive. I could work at the computer and take my cue from the birds' sounds. They'd let me know when it was time to take pictures.
I'm convinced Brown Thrashers are obsessed with dried, crunchy mealworms. As soon I put them out, the birds would dive in, grab as many in their beaks as possible, and take off for the woods as I shot and watched the action on my camera's tilt-out monitor. For a head-shot portrait like this one, I'd switch the Z7II to DX mode to take advantage of the 1.5 magnification factor. © Deborah Sandidge
The camera-lens combo for the portraits was my Nikon Z7II and Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 mounted on a Wimberley Classic Head so I could swivel to cover the feeder, the birdbath, and the trees beyond. The gimbal head was mounted on my Platypod, which made for a low, perfectly flat desk mount.
As you might expect, fast shutter speeds are absolutely required; mine typically ranged from 1/400-1/4000, with ISO settings often up to 4000. My go-to apertures were f/5.6-f/7.1 to balance depth of field with non-distracting backgrounds, as the photos were all about the birds, not the setting.
Outside, the whole area was designed to attract birds with food, water, even a play area—a trellis that would also serve as a staging area for birds waiting their turn at the feeding platform. Since I also planned to shoot video, I wanted to capture the birds' sounds to mix to the footage, so concealed behind the feeder post was a Rode Wireless GO transmitter/microphone that would send sound to a receiver atop my camera.
I'd change the platform every once in a while so it wouldn't be boring in the photos or get too familiar to the birds—here, a Red-bellied woodpecker. Because birds are very wary and my camera was about 18 feet from them, a natural-looking feeder was vital. © Deborah Sandidge
I'd foil the nemesis of bird feeders and photographers everywhere with a Wild Birds Unlimited squirrel/raccoon baffle for the 4x4 post that supported my feeder platform. A branch holder—so the birds would have an inviting perch on which to pose for me—also came from Wild Birds Unlimited. I'd keep changing the sticks and branches to keep the birds curious and my compositions changing. (You're thinking, "So the birds didn't get bored?" Right, and so I didn't either.)
The plan worked perfectly. The birds were irresistible. Colorful, active, various, interesting, and funny, they got the picture right away as the sound of the screen door in the morning became a signal: fresh seed, guys! Come and get it. And I got their pictures with relative ease and comfort.
The birdbath needed to be attractive for the photos and practical for the birds. The pebbles were sized and placed to provide a shallow area for small birds, deeper water for larger ones. I got this Brown Thrasher with a 24-70mm lens on my Z6II, set up outside for two-second interval time-lapse photography at 1/1250 second, f/5.6, ISO 5000. © Deborah Sandidge
I could either keep my eyes on the camera's LCD or work at my desk, and then, alerted by the sounds of the birds—I got used to their different voices, so I knew what type of bird was going to be there—I'd check the LCD and start shooting.
All in all, it was a whole lot better method than being out in the yard in the Florida heat with my camera, lens, and tripod, remaining stock still, concealed in foliage, hoping to get striking compositions. That kind of plan could've brought on Vertigo.
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Washington – With world financial markets watching nervously, top Democrats and Republicans in Congress each scrambled Sunday to put together new proposals to avert a looming government debt default and a potential global financial crisis. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada drafted a new plan that would allow a multi-year increase in the nation's debt ceiling, offset by an equal or greater amount of spending cuts spread over the coming decade. Significantly, it would not include tax increases. House Speaker John Boehner planned to outline a new blueprint on Monday amid warnings from their leader that they must find a solution that can get through the Democratic Senate. They all failed to meet their own deadline for a bipartisan agreement before markets opened in Asia on Sunday evening U.S. time, the first markets to open since talks broke down at the White House Friday evening.
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Washington – With world financial markets watching nervously, top Democrats and Republicans in Congress each scrambled Sunday to put together new proposals to avert a looming government debt default and a potential global financial crisis.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada drafted a new plan that would allow a multi-year increase in the nation's debt ceiling, offset by an equal or greater amount of spending cuts spread over the coming decade. Significantly, it would not include tax increases.
House Speaker John Boehner planned to outline a new blueprint on Monday amid warnings from their leader that they must find a solution that can get through the Democratic Senate.
They all failed to meet their own deadline for a bipartisan agreement before markets opened in Asia on Sunday evening U.S. time, the first markets to open since talks broke down at the White House Friday evening.
Financial markets appeared to be watching cautiously, but initial trading made it clear that they were unshaken as yet.
Market jitters are expected to rise each day from now on that the United States government fails to raise its $14.3 trillion legal limit for borrowing before its Aug. 2 deadline. If the ceiling isn't lifted by then, that could force the government to stop paying paychecks or benefit checks — or to default for the first time in history by failing to pay bond holders debt already owed. That could panic financial markets and kick the weak U.S. economy back into recession.
President Barack Obama was largely a bystander Sunday as leaders of the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House prepared their own last-ditch proposals.
Sen. Reid, D-Nev., started writing a plan that would increase the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion — enough to maintain current government spending through the 2012 elections. Democrats do not want to face the threat of default again before that. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Sunday on ABC's 'This Week' that the cloud of uncertainty over the debt ceiling must be removed decisively from the economy to reassure investors, and that a short-term debt extension would only prolong uncertainty, menacing the economy.
Reid's plan also would call for cuts in spending totaling $2.7 trillion over several years, according to a Democratic official familiar with the proposal. Reid's cuts would exclude Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — important Democratic priorities, and key to retaining Democratic votes for any such plan.
Reid would not propose tax increases, which Democrats have demanded as a way of making the wealthy share the pain of deficit cuts with the poor and working class who might bare the brunt of federal spending cuts. Reid's omission of tax hikes is an important concession to Republicans and could prove pivotal to getting a final deal.
Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Cal., her party's leader in the House of Representatives, briefed Obama on the plan at the White House Sunday evening. Afterward, Reid was expected to brief his fellow Senate Democrats.
House Speaker Boehner, R-Ohio, appeared ready to urge an increase in the debt ceiling of about $1 trillion – enough to keep the government in operation into next year and avoid default – but small enough to force lifting of the debt ceiling again next year after another round of debate on more spending cuts.
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The White House threatened to veto any short-term solution, saying that would keep the threat of default hanging over the economy.
"The president believes that …we must get this uncertainty out of the system," White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Treasury Secretary Geithner said markets would react negatively not only to failure to achieve a deal, but to any small, short-term deal that meant another budget fight and threat of default next year.
"We have to take that threat off the table through the election," Geithner said on the Fox News Sunday program.
Financial markets, he said, "are going to look at…not just whether we avoided a default crisis, which I'm very confident we will. They're going to look at whether we lift the cloud of default off the American economy. And they're going to look at the quality of savings and reforms we put in place."
Geithner sidestepped questions about contingency plans for which bills he'd pay and which he'd ignore if the Congress doesn't vote to raise the debt ceiling. Without new authority to borrow, Treasury will collect enough revenue only to cover about 60 percent of monthly bills.
"We write 80 million checks a month. There are millions and millions of Americans who depend on those checks coming on time. Not just people in the military, but people who get Social Security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid benefits….Congress will be putting 80 million check payments at risk."
In a 40-minute conference call with House Republicans Sunday afternoon, Boehner pressed his colleagues to compromise enough to get legislation that could pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Otherwise, he warned, Obama might be able to use the threat of default to get what he wants – a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt ceiling – enough to maintain current government spending through the 2012 election – without any real guarantee of equal or greater spending cuts later.
"To stop him, we need a vehicle that can pass in both houses," Boehner said, according to a partial text released by his office. "What can we pass that will protect our country from what the president is trying to orchestrate?
"…The path forward, I believe, is that we pull together as a team behind a new measure that has a shot at getting to the president's desk," he said. "I do think there is a path. But it's gonna require us to stand together as a team. It's gonna require some of you to make some sacrifices."
He added: "No one is willing to default on the full faith and credit of the United States."
From Texas, one House Republican said he and others are mindful of the threat of default.
"We're all concerned about it," said Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. "The feedback we're getting from constituents was that they want to see it fixed, but they want to see it fixed the right way."
Maria Recio contributed to this report.
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Steven Thomma
William Douglas


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#include "vdp_py_usb_filter.h"
#include "vdp_py_usb_urb.h"
#include "vdp/byte_order.h"

static int getint(const char* func, PyObject* obj, const char* name, int* res)
{
    PyObject* name_obj;
    PyObject* value_obj;
    int value;

    if (!*res) {
        return 0;
    }

    name_obj = PyString_FromString(name);
    value_obj = PyObject_GetItem(obj, name_obj);
    Py_DECREF(name_obj);
    if (!value_obj) {
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_AttributeError, "%s: attribute '%s' not found", func, name);
        *res = 0;
        return 0;
    }

    if (!PyInt_Check(value_obj)) {
        Py_DECREF(value_obj);
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value of '%s' is not numeric", func, name);
        *res = 0;
        return 0;
    }

    value = PyInt_AsLong(value_obj);
    Py_DECREF(value_obj);

    return value;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status ret_to_status(const char* fn_name, PyObject* ret)
{
    int status = PyInt_AsLong(ret);
    Py_DECREF(ret);

    if (!vdp_usb_urb_status_validate(status)) {
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError, "%s: invalid status value", fn_name);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    return status;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_get_device_descriptor(void* user_data,
    struct vdp_usb_device_descriptor* descriptor)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;
    int res = 1;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "get_device_descriptor", NULL);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        return ret_to_status("get_device_descriptor", ret);
    }

    descriptor->bLength = sizeof(*descriptor);
    descriptor->bDescriptorType = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bDescriptorType", &res);
    descriptor->bcdUSB = vdp_cpu_to_u16le(getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bcdUSB", &res));
    descriptor->bDeviceClass = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bDeviceClass", &res);
    descriptor->bDeviceSubClass = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bDeviceSubClass", &res);
    descriptor->bDeviceProtocol = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bDeviceProtocol", &res);
    descriptor->bMaxPacketSize0 = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bMaxPacketSize0", &res);
    descriptor->idVendor = vdp_cpu_to_u16le(getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "idVendor", &res));
    descriptor->idProduct = vdp_cpu_to_u16le(getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "idProduct", &res));
    descriptor->bcdDevice = vdp_cpu_to_u16le(getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bcdDevice", &res));
    descriptor->iManufacturer = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "iManufacturer", &res);
    descriptor->iProduct = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "iProduct", &res);
    descriptor->iSerialNumber = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "iSerialNumber", &res);
    descriptor->bNumConfigurations = getint("get_device_descriptor", ret, "bNumConfigurations", &res);

    Py_DECREF(ret);

    return res ? vdp_usb_urb_status_completed : vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_get_qualifier_descriptor(void* user_data,
    struct vdp_usb_qualifier_descriptor* descriptor)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;
    int res = 1;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "get_qualifier_descriptor", NULL);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        return ret_to_status("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret);
    }

    descriptor->bLength = sizeof(*descriptor);
    descriptor->bDescriptorType = getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bDescriptorType", &res);
    descriptor->bcdUSB = vdp_cpu_to_u16le(getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bcdUSB", &res));
    descriptor->bDeviceClass = getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bDeviceClass", &res);
    descriptor->bDeviceSubClass = getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bDeviceSubClass", &res);
    descriptor->bDeviceProtocol = getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bDeviceProtocol", &res);
    descriptor->bMaxPacketSize0 = getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bMaxPacketSize0", &res);
    descriptor->bNumConfigurations = getint("get_qualifier_descriptor", ret, "bNumConfigurations", &res);
    descriptor->bRESERVED = 0;

    Py_DECREF(ret);

    return res ? vdp_usb_urb_status_completed : vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_get_config_descriptor(void* user_data,
    vdp_u8 index,
    struct vdp_usb_config_descriptor* descriptor,
    struct vdp_usb_descriptor_header*** other)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;
    PyObject* ret_descriptor = NULL;
    PyObject* ret_other = NULL;
    int res = 1;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "get_config_descriptor", "i", (int)index);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        return ret_to_status("get_config_descriptor", ret);
    }

    if (PyTuple_Check(ret)) {
        if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(ret, "O|O:get_config_descriptor", &ret_descriptor, &ret_other)) {
            Py_DECREF(ret);
            return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
        }
    } else {
        ret_descriptor = ret;
    }

    if (ret_other) {
        Py_ssize_t cnt, i;

        if (!PyList_Check(ret_other)) {
            Py_DECREF(ret);
            PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a list", "get_config_descriptor");
            return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
        }

        cnt = PyList_Size(ret_other);

        if (cnt > 0) {
            for (i = 0; self->descriptors && self->descriptors[i]; ++i) {
                free(self->descriptors[i]);
            }
            free(self->descriptors);

            self->descriptors = malloc(sizeof(self->descriptors[0]) * (cnt + 1));

            for (i = 0; i < cnt; ++i) {
                PyObject* desc;
                int desc_type = 0;
                const char* desc_data = NULL;
                int desc_data_size = 0;

                self->descriptors[i] = NULL;

                desc = PyList_GetItem(ret_other, i);

                if (!PyTuple_Check(desc)) {
                    Py_DECREF(ret);
                    PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a tuple", "get_config_descriptor");
                    return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
                }

                if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(desc, "it#:get_config_descriptor", &desc_type, &desc_data, &desc_data_size)) {
                    Py_DECREF(ret);
                    return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
                }

                self->descriptors[i] = malloc(sizeof(*self->descriptors[0]) + desc_data_size);

                self->descriptors[i]->bDescriptorType = desc_type;
                self->descriptors[i]->bLength = sizeof(*self->descriptors[0]) + desc_data_size;
                memcpy(self->descriptors[i] + 1, desc_data, desc_data_size);
            }

            self->descriptors[i] = NULL;

            *other = self->descriptors;
        }
    }

    descriptor->bLength = sizeof(*descriptor);
    descriptor->bDescriptorType = getint("get_config_descriptor", ret_descriptor, "bDescriptorType", &res);
    descriptor->bNumInterfaces = getint("get_config_descriptor", ret_descriptor, "bNumInterfaces", &res);
    descriptor->bConfigurationValue = getint("get_config_descriptor", ret_descriptor, "bConfigurationValue", &res);
    descriptor->iConfiguration = getint("get_config_descriptor", ret_descriptor, "iConfiguration", &res);
    descriptor->bmAttributes = getint("get_config_descriptor", ret_descriptor, "bmAttributes", &res);
    descriptor->bMaxPower = getint("get_config_descriptor", ret_descriptor, "bMaxPower", &res);

    Py_DECREF(ret);

    return res ? vdp_usb_urb_status_completed : vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_get_string_descriptor(void* user_data,
    const struct vdp_usb_string_table** tables)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;
    Py_ssize_t cnt, i, j;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "get_string_descriptor", NULL);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        return ret_to_status("get_string_descriptor", ret);
    }

    if (!PyList_Check(ret)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a list", "get_string_descriptor");
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    cnt = PyList_Size(ret);

    if (cnt > 0) {
        for (i = 0; self->string_tables && self->string_tables[i].strings != NULL; ++i) {
            const struct vdp_usb_string* strings = self->string_tables[i].strings;
            for (j = 0; strings[j].str != NULL; ++j) {
                free((void*)strings[j].str);
            }
            free((void*)strings);
        }
        free(self->string_tables);

        self->string_tables = malloc(sizeof(self->string_tables[0]) * (cnt + 1));

        for (i = 0; i < cnt; ++i) {
            PyObject* table;
            int language_id = 0;
            PyObject* strings = NULL;
            Py_ssize_t strings_cnt;
            struct vdp_usb_string* tmp;

            self->string_tables[i].language_id = 0;
            self->string_tables[i].strings = NULL;

            table = PyList_GetItem(ret, i);

            if (!PyTuple_Check(table)) {
                Py_DECREF(ret);
                PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a tuple", "get_string_descriptor");
                return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
            }

            if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(table, "iO:get_string_descriptor", &language_id, &strings)) {
                Py_DECREF(ret);
                return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
            }

            if (!PyList_Check(strings)) {
                Py_DECREF(ret);
                PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a list", "get_string_descriptor");
                return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
            }

            strings_cnt = PyList_Size(strings);

            self->string_tables[i].language_id = language_id;
            self->string_tables[i].strings = malloc(sizeof(self->string_tables[i].strings[0]) * (strings_cnt + 1));

            self->string_tables[i + 1].language_id = 0;
            self->string_tables[i + 1].strings = NULL;

            for (j = 0; j < strings_cnt; ++j) {
                PyObject* str_obj;
                int index = 0;
                const char* str;
                tmp = (struct vdp_usb_string*)&self->string_tables[i].strings[j];

                tmp->index = 0;
                tmp->str = NULL;

                str_obj = PyList_GetItem(strings, j);

                if (!PyTuple_Check(str_obj)) {
                    Py_DECREF(ret);
                    PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a tuple", "get_string_descriptor");
                    return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
                }

                if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(str_obj, "is:get_string_descriptor", &index, &str)) {
                    Py_DECREF(ret);
                    return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
                }

                tmp->index = index;
                tmp->str = strdup(str);
            }

            tmp = (struct vdp_usb_string*)&self->string_tables[i].strings[j];

            tmp->index = 0;
            tmp->str = NULL;
        }

        self->string_tables[i].language_id = 0;
        self->string_tables[i].strings = NULL;

        *tables = self->string_tables;
    }

    Py_DECREF(ret);

    return vdp_usb_urb_status_completed;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_set_address(void* user_data,
    vdp_u16 address)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "set_address", "i", (int)address);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "value is not numeric");
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    return ret_to_status("set_address", ret);
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_set_configuration(void* user_data,
    vdp_u8 configuration)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "set_configuration", "i", (int)configuration);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "value is not numeric");
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    return ret_to_status("set_configuration", ret);
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_get_status(void* user_data,
    vdp_u8 recipient, vdp_u8 index, vdp_u16* status)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;
    int ret_urb_status, ret_status = 0;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "get_status", "ii", (int)recipient, (int)index);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        return ret_to_status("get_status", ret);
    }

    if (!PyTuple_Check(ret)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a tuple", "get_status");
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(ret, "i|i:get_status", &ret_urb_status, &ret_status)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!vdp_usb_urb_status_validate(ret_urb_status)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError, "%s: invalid status value", "get_status");
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    *status = ret_status;

    Py_DECREF(ret);

    return ret_urb_status;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_enable_feature(void* user_data,
    vdp_u8 recipient, vdp_u8 index, vdp_u16 feature, int enable)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "enable_feature", "iiii", (int)recipient, (int)index, (int)feature, (int)enable);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "value is not numeric");
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    return ret_to_status("enable_feature", ret);
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_get_interface(void* user_data,
    vdp_u8 interface, vdp_u8* alt_setting)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;
    int ret_urb_status, ret_alt_setting = 0;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "get_interface", "i", (int)interface);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        return ret_to_status("get_interface", ret);
    }

    if (!PyTuple_Check(ret)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, "%s: value not a tuple", "get_interface");
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(ret, "i|i:get_interface", &ret_urb_status, &ret_alt_setting)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!vdp_usb_urb_status_validate(ret_urb_status)) {
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError, "%s: invalid status value", "get_interface");
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    *alt_setting = ret_alt_setting;

    Py_DECREF(ret);

    return ret_urb_status;
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_set_interface(void* user_data,
    vdp_u8 interface, vdp_u8 alt_setting)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "set_interface", "ii", (int)interface, (int)alt_setting);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "value is not numeric");
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    return ret_to_status("set_interface", ret);
}

static vdp_usb_urb_status vdp_py_usb_filter_set_descriptor(void* user_data,
    vdp_u16 value, vdp_u16 index, const vdp_byte* data,
    vdp_u32 len)
{
    struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self = user_data;
    PyObject* ret;

    ret = PyObject_CallMethod((PyObject*)self, "set_descriptor", "iis#", (int)value, (int)index, data, (int)len);

    if (!ret) {
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    if (!PyInt_Check(ret)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "value is not numeric");
        Py_DECREF(ret);
        return vdp_usb_urb_status_stall;
    }

    return ret_to_status("set_descriptor", ret);
}

static struct vdp_usb_filter_ops vdp_py_usb_filter_ops =
{
    .get_device_descriptor = vdp_py_usb_filter_get_device_descriptor,
    .get_qualifier_descriptor = vdp_py_usb_filter_get_qualifier_descriptor,
    .get_config_descriptor = vdp_py_usb_filter_get_config_descriptor,
    .get_string_descriptor = vdp_py_usb_filter_get_string_descriptor,
    .set_address = vdp_py_usb_filter_set_address,
    .set_configuration = vdp_py_usb_filter_set_configuration,
    .get_status = vdp_py_usb_filter_get_status,
    .enable_feature = vdp_py_usb_filter_enable_feature,
    .get_interface = vdp_py_usb_filter_get_interface,
    .set_interface = vdp_py_usb_filter_set_interface,
    .set_descriptor = vdp_py_usb_filter_set_descriptor
};

static int vdp_py_usb_filter_init_obj(struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self, PyObject* args, PyObject* kwargs)
{
    return 0;
}

static void vdp_py_usb_filter_dealloc(struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self)
{
    int i, j;

    for (i = 0; self->descriptors && self->descriptors[i]; ++i) {
        free(self->descriptors[i]);
    }
    free(self->descriptors);

    for (i = 0; self->string_tables && self->string_tables[i].strings != NULL; ++i) {
        const struct vdp_usb_string* strings = self->string_tables[i].strings;
        for (j = 0; strings[j].str != NULL; ++j) {
            free((void*)strings[j].str);
        }
        free((void*)strings);
    }
    free(self->string_tables);

    Py_TYPE(self)->tp_free((PyObject*)self);
}

static PyObject* vdp_py_usb_filter_filter(struct vdp_py_usb_filter* self, PyObject* args)
{
    PyObject* urb_obj = NULL;
    struct vdp_py_usb_urb* py_urb = NULL;
    struct vdp_py_usb_urb_wrapper* urb_wrapper;
    int res;

    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O", &urb_obj)) {
        return NULL;
    }

    py_urb = vdp_py_usb_urb_check(urb_obj);
    if (!py_urb) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "urb object is expected");
        return NULL;
    }

    urb_wrapper = (struct vdp_py_usb_urb_wrapper*)py_urb->urb_wrapper;

    res = vdp_usb_filter(urb_wrapper->urb, &vdp_py_usb_filter_ops, self);

    if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
        return NULL;
    }

    if (res) {
        Py_INCREF(Py_True);
        return Py_True;
    } else {
        Py_INCREF(Py_False);
        return Py_False;
    }
}

static PyMethodDef vdp_py_usb_filter_methods[] =
{
    { "filter", (PyCFunction)vdp_py_usb_filter_filter, METH_VARARGS, "Filter an URB" },
    { NULL }
};

static PyTypeObject vdp_py_usb_filtertype =
{
    PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT(NULL, 0)
    "usb.Filter", /* tp_name */
    sizeof(struct vdp_py_usb_filter), /* tp_basicsize */
    0, /* tp_itemsize */
    (destructor)vdp_py_usb_filter_dealloc, /* tp_dealloc */
    0, /* tp_print */
    0, /* tp_getattr */
    0, /* tp_setattr */
    0, /* tp_reserved */
    0, /* tp_repr */
    0, /* tp_as_number */
    0, /* tp_as_sequence */
    0, /* tp_as_mapping */
    0, /* tp_hash  */
    0, /* tp_call */
    0, /* tp_str */
    0, /* tp_getattro */
    0, /* tp_setattro */
    0, /* tp_as_buffer */
    Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE, /* tp_flags */
    "vdpusb Filter", /* tp_doc */
    0, /* tp_traverse */
    0, /* tp_clear */
    0, /* tp_richcompare */
    0, /* tp_weaklistoffset */
    0, /* tp_iter */
    0, /* tp_iternext */
    vdp_py_usb_filter_methods, /* tp_methods */
    0, /* tp_members */
    0, /* tp_getset */
};

void vdp_py_usb_filter_init(PyObject* module)
{
    vdp_py_usb_filtertype.tp_new = PyType_GenericNew;
    vdp_py_usb_filtertype.tp_init = (initproc)vdp_py_usb_filter_init_obj;
    if (PyType_Ready(&vdp_py_usb_filtertype) < 0) {
        return;
    }

    Py_INCREF(&vdp_py_usb_filtertype);
    PyModule_AddObject(module, "Filter", (PyObject*)&vdp_py_usb_filtertype);
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Gabriël Metsustraat 8 te Amsterdam is een gebouw aan de Gabriël Metsustraat in het Museumkwartier in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid.

De straat werd vanaf 1899 langzaam volgebouwd, maar was eerst nog bekend als de verbinding tussen de "Van Baerlestraat en de Ruysdaelkade". Rond 1907 werd er aan die straat gebouwd aan de Nieuwe Huishoudschool ontworpen door Willem Leliman. De school en internaat was een afsplitsing van de Amsterdamse Huishoudschool aan het Zandpad, dat in de ogen van enkele onderwijzeressen, met name Martine Wittop Koning, ouderwets begon te raken. De afsplitsing vestigde zich eerst in Jan Luijkenstraat 92, maar kon zichzelf een nieuw gebouw veroorloven. Leliman kwam met een gebouw ontworpen in een stijl die een kruising tussen rationalistische stijl en Arts & crafts. Leliman liet een zichtbare scheiding zien tussen de onderwijsfunctie (benedenetages) en woongedeelten (bovenetages). De tekst "De Nieuw School" is ook in de 21e eeuw nog hoog in de gevel leesbaar.

De ouders hadden er vertrouwen in want ongeveer 200 meisjes volgden de vernieuwingsgezinde onderwijzeressen naar de nieuwe school. Een van de vernieuwingen die werden doorgevoerd betrof het onderwijs op voedingsgebied. Nadat eerst een huisarts uit de buurt de meisjes er onderwijs in gaf, was het rond 1935 de beurt aan Martine Wittop Koning. Ook daarvoor was de populariteit hoog, blijkend uit het toevoegen van Gabriël Metsustraat 10 aan het gebouw in 1930/1931. Er zou nog lange tijd een school in het gebouw gevestigd zijn. Zo was vanaf 1995 de Opleiding Restauratoren in het pand gevestigd.

Op 10 augustus 2009 werd het gebouw tot gemeentelijk monument verklaard.

In 2015 stond het leeg, maar er werd onderzoek gedaan of het gebouw betrokken kon worden door de bibliotheek en het documentatiecentrum van het Van Gogh Museum. Die had, behalve voor de functie museum, allerlei ruimten in de stad in gebruik en dat werkte niet prettig. Voordat het Van Gogh Museum er gebruik van kon maken, moest er uitgebreid verbouwd en gerenoveerd en moest het gebouw voldoen aan de hoogste BREEAM-eisen. In 2016 trok zij het gebouw in.

Bijzonder is dat de architect en de plaatsvervangend hoofdonderwijzers Maria Emalia Bosch dusdanig contact hadden voor de bouw, dat zij in 1908 trouwden. Zijn schoonvader was toen al overleden, voor diens weduwe ontwierp Leliman Krugerlaan 26 in Baarn ook wel Villa Eureka genaamd en ook een gemeentelijk monument.

Gemeentelijk monument in Amsterdam
Bouwwerk in Amsterdam-Zuid


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Een stille liefde is een Nederlandse film uit 1977, geregisseerd door René van Nie.

Dit was de derde lange speelfilm van regisseur René van Nie en de eerste hoofdrol in een speelfilm voor acteur Cor van Rijn. In de film wordt zijn zoon gespeeld door Sem de Jong, die vóór deze film geen acteerervaring had. Mede om die reden is de film chronologisch opgenomen in Nederland en België.

Verhaal

Cor heeft zijn zoon, Sem, al een half jaar niet meer mogen zien nadat hij is gescheiden van zijn vrouw en besluit zonder toestemming zijn zoon mee te nemen (ontvoeren) op vakantie. Cor vertelt Sem dat zijn moeder ook mee op reis gaat, maar dat ze later komt. Over en weer belt Cor met zijn ex-vrouw, die uiteindelijk de politie inschakelt, wat ervoor zorgt dat vader en zoon uitwijken naar België. Uiteindelijk besluit Cor terug te keren naar Nederland, wat grote gevolgen met zich meebrengt.

Rolverdeling
 Cor van Rijn als Cor
 Sem de Jong als Sem
 Mariëlle Fiolet als Mariëlle
 Chris Lomme als de vrouw uit België

Trivia
 Ondanks de goede recensies was de film een flop in de bioscoop.
 René van Nie was zelf na zijn tweede film Kind van de zon gescheiden.

Film uit 1977
Nederlandse film
Dramafilm


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PROLONGED APNEA AND THE SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS
Alfred Steinschneider
Pediatrics October 1972, 50 (4) 646-654;
PROLONGED APNEA AND THE SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS - June 01, 1994
Little is known of the final physiologic mechanism(s) resulting in SIDS. Five infants participated in this study, three of whom were referred at about 1 month of age because of cyanotic episodes of undetermined etiology. Respirations and eye movements were recorded during several sleep sessions on each patient. In addition, patients were observed on an apnea monitor and a record was kept of the incidence of prolonged apneic episodes (≥ 15 seconds).
The laboratory sleep studies revealed frequent periods of apnea (≥ 2 seconds) which (1) decreased in amount after a certain age and (2) were most frequent during REM sleep. All infants had a number of prolonged apneic and cyanotic episodes during sleep, some requiring vigorous resuscitative efforts. Prolonged apnea most often occurred in conjunction with an upper-respiratory tract infection or when frequent apnea was noted in the laboratory. Two of the infants subsequently died of SIDS.
These data support the hypothesis that prolonged apnea, a physiological component of sleep, is part of the final pathway resulting in sudden death. It is suggested also, that infants at risk might be identified prior to the final tragic event.
Received January 24, 1972.
Copyright © 1972 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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