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The Mother of All Speeches
President Barack Obama's electrifying first speech to a Joint session of Congress on the night of February 24, can be adjudged as the mother of all landmark speeches. The address of the American president, to the Joint Session of the Congress invariably outlines the broad policy perspectives and enunciates the strategies and goals of his administration, in both the domestic and the external domains.
I shall presently talk of his awesome brilliance, his unmatched diction and style, his unrivaled eloquence, his inimitable articulation that were the outstanding features of his first traditional address to the Congress after taking the office of the president of the United States. Irrefutably he is gifted with a mammoth memory. He seldom stumbles. The torrent of well chosen words and lucid phrases pour out of his lips incessantly and impact the listeners readily. With force and ease, he spoke for almost 52 minutes and every minute he was profusely applauded. Such was the mesmerizing degree of his address. He is not a firebrand speaker: he is more than that. With sobriety and logic, he articulates his convictions with fluency and vigor.
While fully knowing the enormity of the challenge that he faces and the stinging and un-obliging mood of his detractors for a variety of reasons, president Obama is seldom sarcastic, cynical, emotionally reactive or venomous in his rebuttals. He is in the habit of stating his views in a simple, truthful, coherent and direct manner.
He blends the seriousness of his message and agenda with the candor of superb declamatory fervor that makes the audience spell bound. He seldom digresses from his main themes and keeps a tight tab on his emotions. Without shouting or raising the pitch of his voice, President Obama, in a stable and sustained tone, injects a serene stress on every word and sentence that flow out of his lips. His political rivals may differ with his policies but they too cannot help adoring him for his oration.
As ever, this time too he looked scholarly and meditative while delivering his discourse. His sincerity of utterance corresponded with the poise that is manifest in his gaze and sleight of his head and hands and indeed a broad cheerful smile. With an abiding charm of his speech and a reservoir of splendid ideas, like a visionary, he portrayed and stressed the express need of reinventing the side-tracked ideals of American nation. After a phase of eight years that degenerated every aspect of American life, America is certainly fortunate for having a leader of the ability and talent of Barack Obama to lead the nation. The noble values of liberty, openness democracy, together with a robust and free economy have all along been the crowning distinctions of America. But these were dealt a severe blow during the administration of former president G.W. Bush by engaging America in wasteful and futile military pursuits and the so called war on terrorism , depleting the economy and halting the fast pace of an all embracing progress.
President Obama's task to put America back on track is, therefore, massively arduous. Besides an unscrupulously instilled scare of terrorism by the former administration, there is a pervading fear psyche among the American society about the jobs, social security, health care, education and spiraling cost of living etc. In the end neither the terrorism has been bridled nor were the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won. The American economy is in bad shape and the people seem subdued. America has wasted three trillion dollars in this bad bargain.
Obama's economic stimulus is basically for reconstruction and less for war spending. His economic package aims not only at resuscitating the sick economy but heralds a giant step towards putting America on the threshold of a new era of innovation and reformation. It is a new social contract to overhaul America. It aims at technological and social revolution. Innovation, peace and social uplift are its prime features. Accountability and transparency are central to the reconstruction vision of Obama. The stimulus funds and their spending will carry strict checks and a transparent accountability process. It takes care of the middle and the lower middle classes by way of social benefits such as health care education, pensions and tax cuts etc.
But understandably, the economic recovery of United States is going to be a long haul. By the year 2019 America's projected budget deficit would be about $712 billion and the national debt around $23.1 trillion. One may imagine how severe the economic cataclysm America is caught in is. It is hoped that the agenda of change that Obama has set for himself would alleviate America's economic afflictions to a large extent.
The Impending Waterloo
How daringly, the PPP co-chairman and the incumbent President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari goes back upon his solemn commitments and well meaning pledges held out to both his political allies and the people of Pakistan! Can even a commoner, let alone the President of Pakistan, be so appallingly and audaciously deceptive as to sweep a revolutionary agenda under the rug of political exigency? In a year's time of its being in power, the PPP has been totally oblivious of country's chronic problems and the people's massive sufferings. It has dismayed the people and antagonized and alienated its staunch political cohorts. By protecting one man whose name is General Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan Peoples Party has downgraded its political standing and is being fast denuded of public support and esteem.
How long the PPP praetorians can cash on the legendary and revolutionary image of its founder ZA Bhutto and the assassination of his illustrious daughter Benazir Bhutto? There is a limit to people's compassion as well as their woes. People remember President Zardari's honeyed smile and the categorical statement to the affect that the first gift he would give to Pakistani Nation would be the annulment of 58-2/B: the draconian caveat that gives sweeping powers to the president. He promised to re-instate the superior courts' judges who were deposed by former president through an illegal order.
So the agitating lawyers are back with renewed fury and furor on the streets. Most of the opposition political parties have joined their ranks. From March 12 onwards, there is going to be another Waterloo in front of the parliament building in Islamabad. This time it would be staged against one of their erstwhile supporters: the PPP government. What a shame that the PPP leaders have so much belittled themselves in the public estimation by turning a deaf ear to judicial community's genuine demand and bending over backyard to continue the policies of a former dictator, who had become a sore in the people's eyes and who is responsible for much of the prevailing chaos What kind of politics is this? The PPP leaders falsify or hide the facts and then with sheepish submissiveness acknowledge the divulged information and when the beans are spilled by others.
One case in point is the Drone air attacks on tribal areas. It was being vehemently denied from president down to the defense minister that these killer aircrafts were being operated from Pakistan's territory. Following the disclosure of Dianne Feinstein, Chairperson, US Senate's Intelligence Committee that the Drones were using Pakistan's territory; the Pakistan government hastily, endorsed that too. The moral fiber and the element of dignity or sanctity of the spoken word are alien and anathema to the PPP stalwarts. Are they ruling a nation of morons, dumb cattle and handicapped or slaves that they would like to lie to any extent and then conveniently, get away with unabashed impunity? Why such morally bankrupt or spineless leaders are leading a bewildered and bruised nation that is ever waiting for the redeemers since its coming into existence some six decades ago.
Just imagine a person who happens to be the president of Pakistan. Despite professedly knowing the murderers of his wife, he assigns the task of finding her assassins to the United Nations. Why doesn't he disclose the names of these callous individuals in a press conference and save the nation from a hefty 40 million bill to be spent on the UN investigation? Isn't it all funny? Why is he trying to hide the heinous criminals who killed an outstanding political leader and by whose efforts and political craft these guys have now become the power wielders? If you cannot catch or bring to justice the assassins of your own chairperson of the party under fear or favor, then how the people at large would receive a fail deal?
Notwithstanding their hob-knobbing with the former president, the fact is that the PPP least expected that it would soon sail into power galore and precisely for this reason they had not done their homework to deliver on good governance. The present crop of the PPP leaders is not only novice and an assemblage of upstarts in politics but have scant ideological fervor and revolutionary spirit that used to be the crying hallmarks of the rank and file of the PPP cadres from top to bottom in yester years. Now you have wrestlers and cronies and opportunists and fair weather birds who harbor personal interests than to serve the country in a patriotic and selfless spirit. Maintaining status quo or pedaling adhocism is their principal motto.
God had given Asif Ali Zardari a rare and golden opportunity to atone for his alleged wrong doings such as money laundering and amassing ill gotten wealth. A simple ordinance by a disgraced and unpopular, quasi dictator catapulted him from a lowly to the highest status in Pakistan. But by his dubious machinations not only has he saddened the more thoughtful members in his own party but disrupted the climate of consensus politics in Pakistan. The people of Pakistan made monumental sacrifices for PPP and therefore pinned hopes in it for splendid change from its governance. As the leader of a nation and head of state one cannot afford to stage a faux pas and play tricks with the country as well as the peer political forces.
After almost a year in power saddle, The PPP and its government with its poor track record of performance stands alienated and its popularity scale has drastically plummeted. The fiasco to be followed by the Lawyers resumed long march and sit one would be a hard blow to the stability of the existing shaky political set up under the PPP. New elections would, therefore, become imperative. It is highly improbable that the PPP can stage a come back. The favorite party is now Muslim league (N) that might form a coalition with the political parties siding with the Lawyers' mission. The PPP suffers from the leadership crisis. It may take a long time for it to resurface as a potent and popular political force in Pakistan. Is it not time for this party to refurbish its smeared image and save itself from a point of no return?
The Do-Nothing Government
Let us frankly admit that president Zardari is a jolly good person but he is not a visionary. He is not a Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto that we expect of him to be in these turbulent times that seem to be a replica or re-run of 1971 events, albeit with different settings. Zaradri's friends say he is a remarkable figure and a trust worthy friend in that he is steadfastly following the tribal Sindhi culture of hospitality and goodwill and even an edifying spirit of altruism for his close friends and palls.
He has to his credit countless friends. But most of those with whom he made friendship during his several years in Jail (Benazir his spouse called him Nelson Mandela for his long incarceration) were killed along with Benazir Bhutto in PPP's public rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. He is by temperament a merry maker, a person who likes extravaganza, fun and revelry. He is cast in a mould of not doing serious things as is manifest in his broad grin, unguarded witty remarks and spicy repartees (with Sara Palin to hug her). He is fond of good food, nice company and partying. One of the high profile wedding festivities was held at the presidential palace with both Asif Ali Zardari and his illustrious prime minister ensconcing the bride and the groom. The food was plentiful and the dishes numerous. The law of one dish applies to the land and the people beyond the president's residence.
Such is the level of lavishness and flamboyancy exhibited by our incumbent rulers as if the country called Pakistan was the promised paradise where honey and milk flow. The president of Pakistan gives a non-challant and carefree countenance as if he cares a damn even if the country he is presiding over was slipping into an abyss of extremism and total breakdown. The prime minister in tandem with the father-figure president blurs out the cacophony and loathsome refrain that the incumbent administration was going to complete its five year term. By this they mean that they were not concerned even if the country was going to dogs, they would stay at the helm for the stipulated period.
The woeful state of affairs and the complacency of our governing elite remind one of the funny parables of a beggar who was chosen out of blue by the residents of some city to replace the deceased king. The beggar king's first order of the day was to serve him pudding that he ate heartily. He voraciously kept on eating variety of puddings every day. Now it so happened that the army of a neighboring country attacked the city of the beggar king. When asked to issue orders for counter-attack he instead ordered for pudding. When the enemy army drew close to the palace, he was again beseeched to issue royal decree to fight back. Instead, he grabbed his worn out blanket, put it on, and shot out of the place by saying" I was here only for pudding"
This fable may be analogical to some extent to the prevailing coterie of rulers of Pakistan. But perhaps they may sooner than later opt to leave power citadels and even the country by quipping" We were in power to serve ourselves and not the people: good bye Pakistan and good bye its people"
The fight for power for the ruling cabal was in fact not hard won. The fruits were windfall that had fallen into their laps not through a long drawn and rigorous political movement or strenuous struggle for change. Before assuming power, the top notch leaders were in foreign lands. They landed in Pakistan after agreeing to maintain the status quo and to allow Musharraf to remain president, ostensibly for the American led war on terrorism to continue unabated. That plan agreed between the foreign underwriters, the then military command and the PPP was patently against the wishes of the people who were up against the former president and the filthy system in vogue.
It was the civil society most notably lawyers, media corps, and human right activists who were clamoring against the dictator and his decadent system. The 9th March 2007 proved to be the first spark that started the prairie fire of resistance to Musharraf's dictatorial regime and that continues to this day. The then chief justice for his own reasons or as a matter of principle braced against the oppressive manipulation of the self confident head of state who least expected such a defiance. The role of political parties in the ensuing countrywide anti government agitation was either minimal or half hearted.
But all said and done, we must admit that president Zardari should not be expected of playing the role of a revolutionary like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Deng Xiaoping of China or Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Truthfully, he is neither a politician nor a statesman, an ideologue or some one who should be much concerned about state, rule of law, supremacy of the constitution, people's aspirations, the need of a civil society, human rights, relgious extremism or harmony, the difference between the interests of his own country and those of a hostile neighbor et al.
He did not beg nor struggled for the highest office in the country. It was bestowed upon him by luck. He is not obligated or beholden to any one except of course to his own wife for donning the mantle of party's leadership after her death. And lo and behold! She did die and Asif Ali Zardari did become the Chairman of the party and finally the president of Pakistan. He doesn't owe any debt of gratitude, whatsoever, to any one except to his wife, although the deceased leader did acknowledge the sacrifices and campaign of lawyers for restoration of democracy in Pakistan and indeed for the rule of law. He is the one who now calls shots in place of his predecessor President Gen. Musharraf. The difference is in name and not in style of governance. Why should, he therefore, stick to the written or oral agreements as for him these are not worth the paper written on?
So if the government is docile and is doing nothing to ameliorate the lot of the people and rid the hapless country of a plethora of problems, The blame is not on the PPP regime because even though it came into power with the peoples' mandate yet the ground for it to contest elections was originally leveled by the back door forces in and outside of Pakistan. That is how the political exiles were allowed to return to Pakistan. It is here that the key role of Josef Biden to facilitate PPP leaders' return to Pakistan and work with Musharraf comes into limelight. Prime Minister Gilani is absolutely right when he joyously gives all the credit to Biden and discounts the role of lawyers and the civil society in restoring the country to a representative form of government.
Every individual is endowed with a particular talent or expertise in which he excels. Mr. Zardari is not cut for politics or social reforms. He would be in his finest form if you tell him to run a club or a business enterprise. Therefore, let us not bother him or the saintly prime minister of Pakistan to curb the proliferating threat of extremism, recall Pakistani armed forces from tribal regions, provide electricity, water, food, health care, jobs, clean administration, law and order, curb abductions and kidnappings of the defenseless citizens, bridle the goons rampaging the entire length and breadth of Pakistan, lower the spiraling prices, overhaul all the nation building institutions and so on and so forth.
So let president Zardari laugh heartily, enjoy his presidency to the maximum, disregard public woes, willfully break his pledges, hold weddings in presidency, make foreign junkets, take easy the encompassing national chaos , not to take seriously the public outcry and the renewed lawyers movement and then leave at the end of the day. Quaid-e- Azam's successors are no less than a pudding crazy beggar.


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Gelfond–Schneiders sats eller Gelfonds sats inom matematiken säger att om α och β bägge är algebraiska tal (med α ≠ 0 och α ≠ 1) och β är irrationellt, är αβ transcendent. Detta bevisades 1934 av Alexander Gelfond och oberoende av honom av Theodor Schneider året därpå. Resultatet utgjorde en dellösning till det sjunde Hilbertproblemet.

Av satsen följer exempelvis att Gelfond–Schneiders konstant 2√2 samt √2√2 är transcendenta tal. Även Gelfonds konstant eπ är transcendent, eftersom detta tal är ett värde av det flertydiga uttrycket (−1)(−i) där i betecknar den imaginära enheten (i är algebraiskt men inte rationellt). I det fall αβ är flertydigt gäller satsen för samtliga värden.

Ett angränsande resultat är Lindemann–Weierstrass sats av vilket bland annat följer att e och π är transcendenta. Både Gelfond–Schneiders och Lindemann–Weierstrass satser skulle följa som specialfall av Schanuels förmodan, som ännu inte bevisats.

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Do You Know These Offbeat Characters Of The Christmas Holiday Season?
When it comes to Christmas, we all know Santa Claus, that white-bearded, big-bellied, reindeer-ridin' gift-giver from the North Pole.
But the holiday hosts a cast of other beloved characters. Some of them may be less familiar or have less name recognition than jolly old Saint Nicholas. Some of them are older than you might guess, with interesting origins. Yet others are far newer than you realize.
And then there are mythical figures, like the Krampus, that would have Santa scrambling back up the chimney! So, without further ado, here are some of the offbeat, lesser-known, or surprising characters of Christmastime.
Krampus is the horrifying version of Saint Nicholas. He's one part demon, the other part goat. He's known to frighten children (or even beat them with birch branches) so they end up on the nice list. But if children are bad, Krampus is happy to pull them down to hell, where he resides.
His name is thought to originate from the German word Krampen, which means "claw." The German legend is that Krampus shows up on December 5th—Krampus Night—to see which children were bad before Saint Nicholas comes later that month to reward the good children with presents.
When you think of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, you probably think of him leading the pack of Santa's sleigh with his bright nose. But, what's the real deal with this lovable Christmas character?
Robert L. May created Rudolph back in 1939 in a storybook for the department store Montgomery Ward gave to children on Christmas that year. May's brother-in-law composed a song for the character, famously performed by Gene Autry in 1949. Rudolph came to the screen in a 1964, stop-motion Christmas special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The rest is Christmas history.
But, Rudolph could have gone by a different name! May also considered the names Rollo and Reginald. Good choice, Robert.
Like Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman is a beloved Christmas character with origins in song and animation. Again, Gene Autry helped make him famous when he recorded the now-classic song, "Frosty the Snowman," in 1950 (on the heels of his 1949 Rudolph hit).
Frosty literally came to life in a 1969 TV special, when local children put him together and placed a "magic hat" on his head.
Apparently, Frosty the Snowman wasn't originally a Christmas song—even though it's associated with the holiday today. There are no actual lyrics related to Christmas, just wintertime itself. But, the creators of the television show swapped out the last line of the song: "I'll be back again some day" with "I'll be back on Christmas day" to give it that festive feel.
Want to decode the meanings of other Christmas carols? Check out our investigation here.
Bumble, the Abominable Snowman
Speaking of snowmen, next up is the Abominable Snowman. Except this mythic snowman, unlike Frosty, isn't made of snow: It's a large, hairy, humanoid creature storied to live in the Himalayas.
The Abominable Snowman is also known as the yeti (among other names), from a word for the legendary creature in the Tibetan language of the Sherpas. The phrase Abominable Snowman came to be in 1921 from a bad translation of a Tibetan phrase following a Mount Everest expedition.
The problematic phrase was metoh kangmi: "filthy snowman." One reporter took the word for "filthy," however, as abominable: "repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome." But the phrase metoh kangmi was probably misrendered from the Tibetan mi t'om, meaning "man-bear," and k'ang mi, for "snowfield man."
Maybe Snowfield Man-bear doesn't have the same ring as Abominable Snowman, though we here at the dictionary value getting translations right—and love learning about different languages.
You might remember the Abominable Snowman by a different name: Bumble, which Rudolph and friends have to flee in that reindeer's 1964 stop-motion classic.
Yukon Cornelius
OK, just one more character from 1964's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, we promise. The TV special is practically synonymous with Christmas for so many us. Plus, who can resist a name like Yukon Cornelius?
Yukon Cornelius is a big-bearded, pickax-wielding prospector, searching the arctic regions for silver and gold—thus the name Yukon, a territory far to the northwest of Canada known for its Klondike Gold Rush in 1897–99.
In the show, Yukon joins up with Rudolph during his adventures and eventually brings the Bumble, Abominable Snowman, into the fold. He never does strike gold—but, after such a story like this, who needs it?!
Dr. Seuss was the mastermind behind the cranky, green-haired character the Grinch. He wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957. The Grinch (whose name basically means a total killjoy) is a loner, and a grumpy one at that, living high up on Mount Crumpit away from the others in Whoville. Yet, folks can't help but love this cranky character with a heart that's "two sizes too small."
Over the years, society has labeled one who doesn't like Christmas (or who isn't happy during the holiday season) as a grinch, usually spelled with a lowercase G. However, there's always the chance you'll help them change their ways—and help their heart grow a bit bigger, too.
Great trivia question! What's the name of the Grinch's dog?Max.
Want to learn more about the magical language of Dr. Seuss? Read our exploration here.
Buddy the Elf
Buddy the Elf might not have been around for too long, but that doesn't diminish his stature as a holiday icon. The giddy, eager-to-please boy-raised-as-elf was created for the Christmas comedy Elf, played by Will Ferrell.Buddy, which means "a comrade or chum," is the perfect name for this Christmas-obsessed elf-child who brings joy to (almost) everyone he meets in New York City. And an elf is a mythical sprite or fairy, known to cause mischief to humans in folklore.
And, even though Buddy isn't the elf on the shelf, the book The Elf on the Shelf was written just two years after the movie's release.
How about one more elf for good measure? No, we don't mean Hermey, the dentist-aspiring-elf from the already well-covered 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.Elf on the Shelf is one the newest characters to enter the Christmastime troupe. This elf looks like he's keeping a secret—and he is. He comes from a 2005 children's picture book and toy, Elf on the Shelf, that tells how Santa's elves keep tabs on whether children are naughty or nice by hiding all over the house.
The book was written by Carol Aebersold and one of her daughters, based on a family tradition. Now, their tradition has become part of many other families' traditions.
Baby New Year is a rather dapper character, sporting a top hat and sash while symbolizing something new and shiny—like a brand-spanking new year.
The exact origins of Baby New Year aren't clear, though its symbolism (new year, newborn) is clear. Between 1907–43, Joseph Christian Leyendecker illustrated New Year's babies for the Saturday Evening Post. These babies, sealed in some people's memories as Baby New Year, humorously commented on the events of the days.
Today, we see plenty of Baby New Year references on television, media, and at parties, when some adults dress in diapers and sashes in hopes of bringing in a fruitful new year.
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Don't let the rain get you down -this month we are featuring a few plants that like it wet! Come to the Garden to see these shade-loving beauties in person!
Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice', Sweet Pepperbush (Located at the Railway Garden)
Clethra alnifolia, commonly known as Summersweet or, is a deciduous shrub that is native to swampy woodlands, wet marshes, and stream banks in eastern North America. This member of Clethraceae (the Clethra family) is a rounded, densely-branched, woody shrub that typically grows to 3-6 feet tall and forms colonies via root suckers. It produces showy, sweetly fragrant white flowers which appear in narrow, upright panicles (2-6 inch long racemes) July to August. 'Ruby Spice' is a cultivated variety noted for its fragrant rose-pink flowers that bloom in late summer. It was discovered in 1992 as a sport of Clethra alnifolia 'Pink Spire'. The flowers (white or pink) are very attractive to butterflies and bees. Glossy dark green leaves turn attractive shades of yellow to golden brown in the fall. This low maintenance shrub is easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade with consistently moist, acidic soils. It tolerates heavy shade, clay soil, wet soil, and reduces erosion. If a naturalized look is not desired, root suckers can be removed without harm to the plant. It has no serious insect or disease problems and pruning is rarely needed. Sweet Pepperbush is a great problem-solver because of its ability to bloom in shady locations in late summer when few other shrubs are in bloom, and it thrives in troublesome boggy areas. It excels in cottage gardens, wild gardens or naturalized areas and its compact size makes it ideal for smaller gardens.
Hymenocallis occidentalis, White Spider Lily (Located in the Mathews Nature Trail)
Hymenocallis occidentalis, commonly called White Spider Lily, is an herbaceous perennial bulb that occurs in swamps and moist woods. This member of Amaryllidaceae (the Amaryllis family) is native to the southeastern United States and looks like a spidery daffodil. Five to ten fragrant, white, spidery flowers (to 6 inches across) are held on an 18-22 inch stalk that emerges from the center of the strap-shaped, amaryllis-like foliage (each leaf gets up to 17 inches long) in August. This low maintenance plant is best grown in medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade, and has no serious insect or disease problems. It should never be dug up for transplanting to a home garden from the wild because they are somewhat rare. Chose cultivated bulbs from reputable nurseries instead. Synonymous with and sometimes sold as Hymenocallis caroliniana. Best used in moist open woodland gardens, bog gardens or along streams and ponds. May also be grown in a border as long as the soil moisture requirements can be met – never let it dry out.
Rudbeckia lacinata, Cutleaf Coneflower (Located in the Mathews Nature Trail)
Rudbeckia laciniata, commonly known as Cutleaf Coneflower, is a herbaceous perennial which occurs in moist soils in woodlands, thickets, and along streams in North America. Also known as Tall Coneflower, it may grow to 9 feet tall in the wild, but typically only grows 3-4 feet tall and 1-3 feet wide in cultivation. This member of Asteraceae (Aster family) features long-blooming daisy-like flowers up to 3.5 inches across with drooping yellow rays and dome-like, green center disks. The foliage is striking – bold, pinnate, and deeply lobed light green leaves make a statement even before flowering July to September. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerates deer browse and hot and humid summers while attracting butterflies with its showy flowers. Great for naturalizing, it can colonize if conditions are favorable. Deadheading will encourage a fall re-bloom. No serious insect or disease problems. Taller plants may need support.
Onoclea sensibilis, Sensitive Fern (Located on the Mathews Nature Trail)
Onoclea sensibilis, commonly known as Sensitive Fern, is a large, coarse, deciduous fern that occurs in wet woods and thickets and in moist soils along streams and springs in eastern North America. This member of Onocleaceae (a small family of terrestrial ferns) grows up to 4 feet tall and wide. While it has no true flowers, it features long-stalked, deeply pinnatifid, bright green, vegetative (sterile) fronds with leathery, triangular leaflets (pinnae) which have distinctively netted veins. Shorter, erect, woody (fertile) fronds (to 12 inches tall) covered in brown bead-like segments emerge in late summer and persist through winter. The combination makes for a striking foliage plant for shady, moist borders. It is resistant to rabbit browse and tolerates heavy shade, clay soil, wet soil, and Black Walnut. It is called Sensitive Fern because the green vegetative fronds suffer almost immediate damage from the first fall frost. Sensitive fern has no serious insect or disease problems, but it is intolerant of drought. Best grown in wet woodland gardens and moist locations along streams and ponds and shaded areas where it can naturalize.
Illicium floridanum, Purple Anise (Located on the Mathews Nature Trail)
Illicium floridanum, commonly known as purple anise, is an upright, rounded, aromatic, evergreen shrub that grows to 6-10 feet by 4-8 feet tall. Purple anise is a member of Schisandraceae, a family of three genera and approximately 90 species of flowering plants that consist of mostly tropical and subtropical woody plants that are primarily pollinated by beetles. Purple anise is native to wet soils in marshy areas, low wooded ravines, and stream banks in the southeastern United States and northern Mexico. Smooth, glossy dark olive-green leaves emit an anise-like aroma when crushed. While the dark red flowers with strap-shaped petals bloom April-May, the fruit is the star in August. The attractive and unusual fruit is literally a starburst-shaped cluster of follicles that split open when dry to release the seeds. Best grown in part- to full shade in medium to wet soils. This is a great problem-solver for landscapes with heavy shade, erosion, and/or wet soil. It tolerates full sun as long as soils are kept uniformly moist, has no serious insect or disease problems, and makes an excellent care-free evergreen shrub for moist shady locations. Purple anise will colonize by root suckers if conditions are favorable. Purple anise is widely available in nurseries as both the species and cultivated varieties, but wild populations are protected in Florida as a threatened species.
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii, Turk's Cap Mallow (Located in the Mathew's Nature Trail)
Malvaviscus arboreusvar. drummondii, commonly known as Turk's Cap, is native to the Southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. This member of Malvaceae (mallow family) typically grows as a coarse deciduous shrub that reaches 3-6 feet tall and wide. Turk's Cap is more common in south Alabama in light shade near streams. Showy red flowers bloom in the leaf axils on short stalks July – Sept (depending on weather and geographic position). The overlapping petals are fused with the calyx for 2/3rds of its length, making it appear as though it is never fully "open", giving it a unique twisted shape. Turk's Cap Mallow is widely available from nurseries and prefers a site with full to partial sun and well-draining soil. It is drought tolerant, deer resistant, and attracts large numbers of butterflies and hummingbirds. Close relatives include okra and cotton along with numerous genera that include herbs, shrubs, and small trees in tropical South America.


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Crater-Scraper is a Porous Structure to Capture Light and Water
By: Danielle Del Sol | March - 12 - 2013
Xiaomiao Xiao, Lixiang Miao, Xinmin Li, Minzhao Guo
The Crater Scraper project is an imagined solution for the healing of the Earth's surface as the planet suffers the impact of major asteroid strikes. Asteroid craters could be filled in with built settlements, holding communities of different sizes (depending on the size of the crater).
As cities historically form at a core and extend peripherally, Crater Scrapers too have a central core that connects the settlement as a whole vertically and horizontally. Elevator systems link infrastructure vertically, from the bottom of the crater to the Earth's surface; at the top, a separate transportation system links the community across the expanse of the filled-in indentation. At the bottom of the city, people traverse its length on foot.
The crater is filled with towers and structures that are covered by a roof system that has large holes, causing the built community, from an aerial view, to resemble mesh. Imagining that top-down view, each cylindrical opening of the mesh holds a type of development that is needed for the community to function, from residences to shops and offices to hospitals to recreational spaces. The community as a whole is developed with the garden city model in mind, featuring a central park located at the core and open green spaces interspersed throughout.
The roof allows for sunlight to stream in thanks to the holes, but it also holds vegetation on its solid structure, which allows for water capture, is ecologically advantageous to the Earth's surface and also provides insulation for the crater city below. The water that falls onto the roof surface is redirected so that it falls into the crater community on the edges of the actual crater, creating a water curtain, and is also partially directed into the central park to create a beautiful waterfall.
The concept as a whole, the designers say, is to unify opposites: ground and underground, artificial and natural, disaster and rebirth, to create a utopian reality in the aftermath of the disaster of an asteroid strike.


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Skinned sea otter spurs investigation
Updated: 5:17 PM PDT Oct 23, 2017
WEBVTT DAN: NEWS AROUND THE STATETONIGHT THE DEPARTMENT OF, -- THE U.S. AND CALIFORNIADEPARTMENTS OF FISH AND WILDLIFEARE INVESTIGATING THE DEATH OF ASOUTHERN SEA OTTER FOUND SKINNEDLAST MONTH IN SAN SIMEON.REPORTER BROOKE MARTELL WITH THESTORY.REPORTER: THE SKINNED FEMALEOTTER WAS FOUND ON THE 26TH OFSEPTEMBER BY A PERSON WHO WASWALKING ARROYO DE LA CRUZ BEACHHERE IN SAN SIMEON.FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICIALS SAYTHIS CRIME IS NOT COMMONLYCOMMITTED HERETHE SOUTHERN SEA OTTER ISPROTECTED UNDER STATE LAW ANDTHE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT.>> A REGULAR BEACHCOMBER FOUNDTHIS ANIMAL HIGH UP ON THE BEACHAND TOTALLY SKINNED.THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVEINDICATES THAT IT WAS A FRESH,DEAD ANIMAL AND IT HADN'T BEENSCAVAGED.REPORTER: THE REASON SOMEONEWOULD REMOVE ITS PELT IS STILLUNCLEAR, BUT MIKE HARRIS OF THECALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISHAND WILDLIFE SAYS THESE MAMMALSHAVE THE DENSEST FUR OF ANYANIMAL ON THE PLANET.>> WE HAVEN'T HAD A CASE THAT IRECALL WHERE I SEA OTTER WASSKINNED AND THE HYDE WAS REMOVEDAND TAKEN AWAY.YOU CAN'T HAVE PARTS OF A SEAOTTER, OR ANY MARINE MAMMAL FORTHAT MATTER AND YOU CAN'T TAKETHEM HOME.REPORTER: TODD TOGNAZZINI OF SANLUIS OBISPO FISH AND WILDLIFESAYS THIS ISN'T THE ONLY SEAOTTER DEATH ON THE NORTH COASTTHAT'S BEING INVESTIGATED.>> A SEA OTTER THAT HAD BEENLOCALLY REHABILITATED AND WASBEING TRACKED WAS FOUND DEAD ONSEPTEMBER 12.THE SEA OTTER THAT WAS LIVING INCLOSE PROXIMITY TO TARGET ROCKWAS EITHER SHOT FROM A BOAT OR SHOT FROM LANDSIDE BY SOME PERSON WHO HAD SOMEMALICE TOWARDS THE SEA OTTER ANDKILLED IT.REPORTER: SUSPECTS IN BOTH CASESHAVE NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED, BUTOFFICIALS SAY THEY WOULD BEPROSECUTED FOR UNLAWFULPOSSESSION OF MARINE MAMMALPARTS UNDER STATE AND FEDERALLAW AND FACE UP TO A 100,000DOLLAR FINE AS WELL AS JAILTIMEREPORTING IN SAN SIMEON, I'MBROOKE MARTELL.DAN: IF YOU DO SEE A DEAD ORINJURED OTTER, WILDLIFEOFFICIAS SAY YOU SHOULD LEAVEIT ALONE AND REPORT IT TO THE
San Luis Obispo investigators are still trying to identify the person who skinned a sea otter at Arroyo de la Cruz Beach in San Simeon.Sea otters are protected by California law. Killing a southern sea otter is punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and possible jail time. Wildlife officials say removal and possession of a southern sea otter's pelt without a permit is also illegal, even if the otter was already dead when it was found.The sea otter was found on September 26 by a beachcomber, according to Mike Harris with California Department of Fish and Wildlife. "The evidence that we have indicates that it was a fresh, dead animal," Harris said.Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal on the planet. They were nearly eliminated during the fur trade.Todd Tognazzini of the San Luis Obispo County division of Fish and Wildlife says this crime isn't commonly committed."We haven't had a case that I recall where a sea otter was skinned and hide was removed and taken away," Tognazzini said. "You can't have parts of a sea otter, or any marine mammal for that matter. And you can't take them home."This isn't the only sea otter death that's being investigated. A sea otter that was locally rehabilitated was found dead September 12 in Morro Bay. "The sea otter that was living in close proximity to Target Rock was either shot from a boat or shot from landside by some person who had some malice towards the sea otter and killed it," Tognazzini said.Three sea otters were fatally shot in Santa Cruz in August of 2016. They washed ashore between the Santa Cruz Harbor and Seacliff State Beach.Anyone with information about sea otters being harmed or killed is urged to call the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) tip line at 1-888-334-2258 or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at (916) 569-8444.If you find a dead or injured otter, wildlife officials say you should leave it alone and report it to CDFW at (805) 772-1135.
SAN SIMEON, Calif. (By KSBY and KSBW) —
San Luis Obispo investigators are still trying to identify the person who skinned a sea otter at Arroyo de la Cruz Beach in San Simeon.
Sea otters are protected by California law. Killing a southern sea otter is punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and possible jail time. Wildlife officials say removal and possession of a southern sea otter's pelt without a permit is also illegal, even if the otter was already dead when it was found.
The sea otter was found on September 26 by a beachcomber, according to Mike Harris with California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"The evidence that we have indicates that it was a fresh, dead animal," Harris said.
Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal on the planet. They were nearly eliminated during the fur trade.
Todd Tognazzini of the San Luis Obispo County division of Fish and Wildlife says this crime isn't commonly committed.
"We haven't had a case that I recall where a sea otter was skinned and hide was removed and taken away," Tognazzini said. "You can't have parts of a sea otter, or any marine mammal for that matter. And you can't take them home."
This isn't the only sea otter death that's being investigated. A sea otter that was locally rehabilitated was found dead September 12 in Morro Bay.
"The sea otter that was living in close proximity to Target Rock was either shot from a boat or shot from landside by some person who had some malice towards the sea otter and killed it," Tognazzini said.
Three sea otters were fatally shot in Santa Cruz in August of 2016. They washed ashore between the Santa Cruz Harbor and Seacliff State Beach.
Anyone with information about sea otters being harmed or killed is urged to call the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) tip line at 1-888-334-2258 or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at (916) 569-8444.
If you find a dead or injured otter, wildlife officials say you should leave it alone and report it to CDFW at (805) 772-1135.


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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him…
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Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
The Pagan King
Northern Europe. 13th century. Last pagan settlement near the Baltic Sea. The evil and cynical warrior crusader Max von Buxhoveden is trying to destroy the pagan beliefs of the people…
Country: United Kingdom, Latvia
Pil's Adventures
Pil, a little vagabond girl, lives on the streets of the medieval city of Roc-en-Brume, along with her three tame weasels. She survives of food stolen from the castle of…
BloodRayne
In 18th-century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human-vampire hybrid Rayne escapes and plots to take down her father, Kagan, the evil vampire king. When…
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Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny,…
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For almost a decade, Ostend Airport was a major cargo center, handling everything from emergency relief flights to daily trips bringing in car parts for a nearby Volvo factory. The aircraft involved were mainly former Soviet transports or elderly 707 and DC8 freighters, making this previously little known airport one of the most interesting around.
Filmed on digital video, this DVD is a testament to the skills and patience of cameraman Patrick Vereecke, who spent hours there, capturing such exotica as a HeavyLift Belfast, FIA CL44 Guppy and ADB AN22, as well as Air Atlantique DC6 bump-starting one of its engines.
Being right on the Belgian coast, Ostend gets its fair share of stormy weather and we have an amazing series of contact between AN12s and Belgium, where it's difficult to decide who is the most rugged! For what has to be the most heart-stopping crosswind landing ever, the 85 degree angle of Hydro Air's 747 to the runway is hard to beat. A little further round and it would have landed backwards!
Those are some of the highlights. What about the daily routine at Ostend? There isn't many. MKs natural metal 747 might be followed by a Libyan Cargo AN124. Air Memphis' unique hush-kitted 707 mingles with AN12s, IL76, the occasional CV580 and a clutch of DC8s. It was a wonderful era, now gone, but fortunately captured on this great DVD.
In NTSC DVD format with runtime of about 75 minutes and region-free.


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It is the light of the sun that brings Barbara Barrow to life. Intently, she watches the flakes fall from the sky. There are no rays today. It looks as though a baker is shaking powdered sugar over an ice-skating rink. Barbara started out seeking the stage. In this winter of winters, this warm-weather woman gathers her construction-site-scarred parka around her and sighs. "If there's a patch of sun, my face will be in it," she says wistfully. Barbara's interest in light…
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The Guy Driving the '55 Chevy
There's no seatbelt. Pete D'Andrea throws back his head and laughs. It's going to be a loud, rough ride. He can't wait to rev up the engine. Pete's crazy for classic cars. When he does, the 1955 Chevy roars like a jet taking off from LaGuardia with Pete bouncing along for the ride. "These cars are masters of the racetrack," he yells above the deafening noise. Pete, a lean mustached man with sad brown eyes, has been the owner of the Regal Turquoise and India…
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Sooyah Jun must get off the bed — now! It's big and white and puffy like a cloud, and it's so comfortable that she's in danger of nodding off in mid-sentence. She was out late last night and the night before that and the night before that … Sooyah works in a law office. This has pretty much been going on for the last three years, ever since she started doing stand-up routines after work, and her lack of sleep is starting to catch up with her big time. Ah, the big…
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Spurs Steal Game from Thunder: 86-84
Tony Parker scored five points in the final 28 seconds to overcome a late deficit and knock off Oklahoma City at the buzzer.
By Matthew Tynan Nov 2, 2012, 2:37am CDT
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Danny Green was asked if Thursday night's 86-84 buzzer-beating victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder felt like a continuation of last year's Western Conference Finals, minus the stakes. Green jumped right in, saying there was certainly a level of intensity facing off with the team that eliminated the Spurs from the playoffs last season.
"Yeah, you could say that," he said after scoring 13 points, including three 3-pointers. "But that is a little bit of a reach."
Reach or not, when Tony Parker's jumper from the left wing arched its way over Serge Ibaka's outstretched hand and through the net framed in a bright red light, it felt pretty good.
Parker's buzzer-beater capped off a game with an incoming story-line that has dominated headlines in recent weeks as both teams entered the game without their outstanding sixth men of years past. Manu Ginobili missed his second straight game with back spasms but is expected to return on Saturday. James Harden, on the other hand, will likely never take the floor again for the Thunder after signing a max contract extension with the Houston Rockets following last Saturday's trade.
This isn't the same Oklahoma City side the Spurs are accustomed to seeing in recent years and the pieces to its puzzle have yet to fit, but this is still one of the best teams in the league. Beating them without the services of Ginobili is a win San Antonio will take.
As if there was still any doubt, Parker - who also had 11 assists - continued to prove himself as the Spurs' go-to guy, especially without Manu on the floor. His corner three with 28 seconds left tied the game at 84, and his buzzer-beater following Kawhi Leonard's fifth steal - his tenth in two games - snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
After drawing up a play for fellow Frenchman Nando De Colo to hit a game-winner during a preseason game against the Hawks, it was Parker's turn to take the shot, though it was Gregg Popovich who diagrammed this one.
"It was a play for me to come off the pick. I was kind of open and then I took a dribble because I knew we had six seconds left to make sure we had the last shot," Parker said of his shot over Ibaka. "I put it up and it went down."
A reporter interjected, "Could you see the rim?"
"I saw (the rim), but I was like, 'I have to shoot fast.' He was coming very fast."
Parker's brilliance came after a mostly sub-par performance from the field. He was 4-for-11 shooting prior to the final 28 seconds, but his timely shot-making pulled San Antonio out of a fourth-quarter slump. The Spurs hit just seven shots in the final period, but it was better than the Thunder's six. Regardless of Harden's presence, or lack thereof, holding Oklahoma City to 84 points is commendable.
"I think (the defense) was excellent. The activity, the communication, the transition 'D,'" Popovich said. "But more than anything we took care of the ball. They are a great team as far as blocking shots and creating turnovers.
"We didn't let that get in our way tonight and that was really a key in the playoffs last year," he continued. "We did that poorly (last year). So that was really nice to see that we did take care of the ball."
It's been a common theme for roughly a century now, but Tim Duncan once again played like anything but a 15-year veteran. He hit the 20-point plateau and blocked three shots for the second straight game while finding yet another way to put Ibaka on a poster. This just isn't what a player in the twilight of his career is supposed to look like.
"He's looked like this for the last three or four years. He's really taken great care of himself in the summer," Pop said of Duncan. "He watches what he puts in his body and does what he needs to do to keep slim and long.
"You're seeing a player who really is a pro in every way, shape, and form."
It's not that we've forgotten about what we've seen from Duncan in recent years, it's that it never ceases to amaze. The "when will it end" conversation just continues with the 36-year-old power forward, and at this rate the end does not appear imminent. Regardless, this clearly isn't a player ready to hang 'em up any time soon.
The new season has only just begun and unfamiliar faces are still trying to find their places all across the league, but a newly Harden-less Oklahoma City might be the final first-class ticket the old man needs to return to the Finals.
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Final - 11.1.2012
Oklahoma City Thunder 24 16 26 18 84
San Antonio Spurs 21 24 21 20 86


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Anise shares a family favorite in our next recipe of the Salty Running in the Kitchen series! Every family has that special dish that makes you remember childhood fondly and creates wonderful memories. My mom was a SAHM who baked, cooked, cleaned, and took care of her four kids like it was her job. We always had homemade cookies (except Oreos, because, well, it is hard to make them taste "real"), but the Christmas cookies were special.
This recipe may have originated on a box since it's on paperboard, but it was well before I was born and nobody remembers the exact source. Proper credit intended.
These are the best sugar cookies ever. They can have food coloring added to make them festive, they can have a variety of decorations added and we've used them for other holidays depending on the cookie cutters for the shapes. Here's where they become "anise" — while the recipe calls for either vanilla or a combination of vanilla and almond extracts, I have preferred using anise. I am one of those licorice-loving people and there is nothing better than making these with anise.
Sift together in a bowl the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, add butter or margarine, water, eggs, and extract. Beat with mixer or wooden spoon until light and fluffy. If using food coloring, add it as well.
Add in flour mixture with mixer or spoon slowly, blending until smooth.
Chill 1 hour or until firm. Keep extra dough in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Roll a small amount of dough at a time onto a floured board, about 1/8″ thick. Cut into desired shapes with cookie cutters and put on greased cookie sheets. You can also use parchment paper or non-stick cookie sheets.
Bake in a preheated oven (375º F) for 8 to 10 minutes until pale brown.
Remove to wire racks to cool.
Once cool, decorate as you like!
Makes about 4 dozen 3-inch cookies.
Anise's notes: I have successfully put everything in my KitchenAid stand mixer at once.


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			$details = "
\n$list
\n";
		}

		return self::get_wrapped_section( 'malware', $status, $description, $details );
	}

	protected static function get_malware_details( $results ) {
		$status = 'clean';
		$description = __( 'Malware', 'better-wp-security' );
		$details = false;

		$list = '';

		if ( ! empty( $results['MALWARE']['WARN'] ) ) {
			$status = 'warn';

			foreach ( (array) $results['MALWARE']['WARN'] as $entry ) {
				list( $message, $url ) = explode( ':', $entry[0], 2 );
				$message = trim( $message );
				$url = trim( $url );

				$message_lowercase = strtolower( $message );

				if ( 'security warning in the url' === $message_lowercase ) {
					$message = __( 'Security warning in the URL', 'better-wp-security' );
				} else if ( 'malware found on url' === $message_lowercase ) {
					$message = __( 'Malware found on URL', 'better-wp-security' );
				}

				if ( '&' === substr( $url, 0, 5 ) ) {
					$payload = html_entity_decode( $url );
					$url = get_site_url();
				}

				$message .= "
\n";
				$message .= sprintf( __( 'Infected URL: %2$s', 'better-wp-security' ), esc_url( $url ), esc_html( $url ) );

				$parts = explode( "\n", $entry[1], 2 );

				if ( isset( $parts[1] ) ) {
					if ( preg_match( '/(.+)\. Details: (.+)/', $parts[0], $match ) ) {
						$type = $match[1];
						$documentation_url = $match[2];

						if ( '*Known Spam detected' === $type ) {
							$type = __( '*Known Spam detected', 'better-wp-security' );
						}

						$message .= "
\n";
						$message .= sprintf( __( 'Type: %1$s', 'better-wp-security' ), $type );
						$message .= "
\n";
						$message .= sprintf( __( 'Documentation: %2$s', 'better-wp-security' ), esc_url( $documentation_url ), esc_html( $documentation_url ) );
					}

					$payload_raw = trim( $parts[1] );
					$payload_raw = html_entity_decode( $payload_raw );

					if ( preg_match( '/
(.+)<\/div>/', $payload_raw, $match ) ) {
						$payload = trim( $match[1] );
					}
				}

				if ( ! empty( $payload ) ) {
					$message .= "
\n";
					$message .= sprintf( __( 'Payload:
%s
', 'better-wp-security' ), esc_html( $payload ) );
				}

				$list .= sprintf( '
%s
', $message ) . "\n";
			}
		}

		if ( ! empty( $list ) ) {
			$details = "
\n$list
\n";
		}

		return self::get_wrapped_section( 'malware', $status, $description, $details );
	}

	protected static function get_system_error_details( $results ) {
		if ( empty( $results['SYSTEM']['ERROR'] ) ) {
			return '';
		}

		$status = 'error';
		$description = __( 'The scan failed to properly scan the site.', 'better-wp-security' );

		$details = "
\n";

		foreach ( $results['SYSTEM']['ERROR'] as $entry ) {
			$details .= sprintf( '
%s
', $entry ) . "\n";
		}

		$details .= "
\n";

		return self::get_wrapped_section( 'system-error', $status, $description, $details );
	}

	protected static function get_wrapped_section( $type, $status, $description, $details = false ) {
		$html = "
\n";

		if ( 'clean' === $status ) {
			$status_text = __( 'Clean', 'better-wp-security' );
		} else if ( 'warn' === $status ) {
			$status_text = __( 'Warning', 'better-wp-security' );
		} else if ( 'error' === $status ) {
			$status_text = __( 'Error', 'better-wp-security' );
		}

		$status = "$status_text";

		if ( false === $details ) {
			/* translators: Scan result listing. %1$s is the status. %2$s is the description. */
			$html .= "
" . sprintf( _x( '%1$s %2$s', 'scan status, scan description', 'better-wp-security' ), $status, $description ) . "
\n";
		} else {
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			/* translators: Scan result listing. %1$s is the status. %2$s is the description. %3$s is the details link. */
			$html .= "
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\n";

			$html .= "
\n$details\n
\n";
		}

		$html .= "
\n";

		return $html;
	}
}


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This book highlights stories of the women behind the Hindi film industry
By Gayatri Rangachari Shah , Mallika Kapur 18 September 2018
The conversation around women in cinema has never been louder. Meet five of the 20 female icons featured in Changemakers here
We know much about Hindi cinema's female stars—we see them on TV shows, magazine covers, we see them act, dance and sing, walk down red carpets, and diligently follow their Insta-updates. Yet, there's hardly any mention of the women who work behind the scenes. But Bollywood has more women working in it now than ever before, even though the gender ratio in the Indian film industry is clearly uneven—6.2 men to every woman, according to a report by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. And while gender pay parity is yet to be realised and India's response to the global #MeToo movement has been tepid at best, women are asserting themselves and changing the dynamic of the Hindi film industry. Bollywood is no longer the all-boys club it once was. And yet, one cannot but wonder why we don't know the stories of these women from the film world.
In our book, Changemakers (Penguin Random House), we highlight 20 highly talented women who have carved a niche for themselves in different disciplines within the industry. By no means is ours an exhaustive list. Instead, we selected our subjects based on a combination of achievement and sheer grit. We wanted to tell a handful of stories, through words and portraiture (by award-winning photographer Vijay Bedi), of the women who have changed Hindi cinema. Meet five of our key changemakers.
Guneet Monga, producer
Why: With over 30 films to her name, she seamlessly merges critical acclaim with commercially viable cinema. Known for: Masaan (2015),The Lunchbox (2013), Gangs Of Wasseypur (2012) She says: "I used to meet people in food courts in malls and say, 'Mere paas 50 lakhs hai, aapke paas story hai?'
Charu Khurana, makeup artist
Why: On November 14, 2014, Charu Khurana made history. She stood inside the Supreme Court of India, six months pregnant, as Justice Dipak Misra read out his verdict in the case of Charu Khurana vs Union of India. It gave women the right to provide makeup services in the movies, a right they had been denied for 59 years by the Cine Costume Make-Up Artists and Hairdressers Association (CCMAA). Known for: Baahubali 2 (2017), Raavan (2010), Unnaipol Oruvan (2009) She says: "They simply said, 'We don't accept women members'. It came as such a shock. How can such unconstitutional things happen in India?"
Anaita Shroff Adajania, costume designer; fashion director, Vogue India
Why: One of the guiding lights of the fashion world, she paved the way for styling to become a profession in India and has given us many memorable cinematic looks, which, in turn, have inspired millions to dress up. Known for: Cocktail (2012), Finding Fanny (2014), Dhoom 1/2/3 (2004-13) She says: "As a stylist, I always ask the people I work with what they think, however young or inexperienced they may be. That's my way of staying younger and fresher. Team effort is way better than what I can do individually."
Shubha Ramachandran, script supervisor
Why: Known for her meticulous work, she is Bollywood's pre-eminent script supervisor, who maintains a visual-error-free cinema scape with next-to-zero continuity issues. Known for: Gold (2018), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), Manorama Six Feet Under (2007) She says: "On set, don't behave in a subservient way, but don't have an ego. Behave as an equal."
Anvita Dutt Guptan, lyricist/writer
Why: The award-winning wordsmith is part of a small crew of new-age female dialogue and songwriters making an impact in a space historically dominated by men. Known for: Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016), Queen (2013) She says: "I always imagine that there are words, like dust particles, all around me. So when I breathe, I move, they bounce off me. I feel if I am still and I don't really do anything, the right words follow and they just kind of sit."
Images courtesy: Vijay Bedi
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Many a time we do not get what we want for the simple reason that we are not wanting it badly enough. I believe in the Law of Passion, as opposed to the Law of Attraction.
Although the higher we climb, the harder we fall (if we do fall), we should climb anyway (provided the climb is worthwhile and the necessary precautions are taken).
Great dreams are not what happen when we are asleep. Great dreams are what we make happen when we are awake.
Everything starts with a belief. Without belief the likelihood of something happening could reduce from 99% to 1%.
Some failures are necessary for later successes.
All relationships have an invisible 'Fragile' label. They should be handled with care.
Perhaps the best response when we feel like arguing is to calm down and keep quiet. In any argument we are either right or wrong. If we are right, staying out of an argument does not change the fact that we are right. If we are wrong, at least we avoid making a fool of ourselves. By arguing we might prove our point but we might also lose a friend or someone's goodwill.
Having people respect us because of the position we hold is one thing. Having people admire us because of the person we are is another.
The praises given by people who are not very close to us are often more meaningful if they are agreed upon by the people who are closest to us.
Happiness shared is happiness doubled. Grief shared is grief halved.
What is the most important thing in life? Common answers: love, family, health, money, career, God, friendship. My answer: HAPPINESS. Because at the end of the day we hope that all of the above would bring us HAPPINESS.
We will never be able to get rid of UNHAPPINESS in life. The secret to HAPPINESS lies in having enough happy things to outweigh the unhappy ones.
People can be classified into two categories: willing to learn or unwilling to learn; not smart or stupid.
We stop learning the moment we think we are smart enough.
We can only be as smart as the people whose brains we pick.
We are what we eat. We are also what we read.
Truly inspiring article! It speaks thru experience and healing on soul as well! Keep on man!


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A photographic look at the golden era of skateboarding
August 10, 2020 | Skateboarding
"'93 til: A Photographic Journey Through Skateboarding in the 1990s" is a deep dive into a unique period of time when the sport was searching for an identity.
Pete Thompson is currently focusing his work and time on the moments that capture the essence of life.
However, and for two decades, he threw himself exclusively into skateboard photography.
The new publication released by Goff Books is a collection of images spanning from 1986 to 2004, which illustrates skateboarding's golden era.
Pete Thompson discovered skateboarding when he was 10, in a time when "it felt like the sort of thing that only the weird, hyperactive kids were into."
"It's easy to see why skateboarding has become so influential to culture on a global scale," notes Thompson.
"In fashion, art, and music because whether it's what we wear, how we talk, what music we listen to, the art we create, or just the way we push down the street."
"As a photographer for the last three decades, I see my time in skateboarding as the body from which my confidence and creativity to become an artist was sparked, and it's been an incredible journey, to say the least."
"'93 til" is a stunning ride down memory lane that brings us the black-and-white intensity of photography and the original, vibrant, and non-digital colors of the 35 mm film.
Thompson grew up admiring vert skaters, so there are plenty of pictures featuring members of this "secret society" getting ready and performing at the highest level in "sacred ceremonies."
A Cocktail of Nonconformity
The stunning 250-page hardcover coffee table book has samples of nearly all of skateboarding's greatest phases.
You'll find smiles, shakas, bad boy expressions, V-signs, middle fingers, stylish skating poses, tattoos, blood, filming sessions, and all types of tricks and maneuvers performed in dozens of different environments.
Every once in a while, the reader is invited to discover a few short stories and descriptions of events, memories, and unusual stories and anecdotes.
Expect thoughtful and unexpected words from Arto Saari, Geoff Rowley, Guy Mariano, Jamie Thomas, Nyjah Huston, Stevie Williams, Tony Hawk, and others.
The shots were taken all over the world, but the sense of unity and uniformity within skateboarding is one of the most surprising feelings you'll experience after flipping through the book.
Times have changed. Social media and the corporatization of skateboarding have dramatically altered the status quo.
The modern-day street skateboarder will be surprised by the limitations, challenges, and trends that helped create these timeless images fueled by an emerging hip hop culture.
They were closed in a box for a couple of decades, but now they've seen the light of day for the first time, and deserve to be appreciated.
The new book by Pete Thompson will surely become one of the best-selling and most influential skate publications of all time.
And, as a bonus, the photographer made sure to edit a short documentary about the sport's early days in Tampa, Florida.
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Protests related to the American flag have always been a hot-button topic. President Trump only ratchets up the temperature.
If social media is any significant part of your online habit, your feeds have most likely become overwhelmed with posts about NFL protests in which players or entire teams took a knee or locked arms during the national anthem.
The madness began Friday night when, during a speech in Huntsville, Alabama, President Trump shamelessly pandered to his base by calling for players who knelt during the anthem to lose their jobs.
How very patriotic (the Sun editors said sarcastically).
An outgrowth of the Black Lives Matter movement, Kaepernick's protest spread to other players and other sports, even to Worcester where Doherty's Michael Oppong made headlines last fall when he knelt during the anthem for the first time prior to a game against Leominster.
The issue grew in magnitude Saturday and exploded on Sunday when teams from around the NFL, including the New England Patriots, engaged in various forms of silent protest, from not being on the field during the anthem, to linking arms, to going down on one knee.
As expected, Trump continued to trample across the dignity of the Oval Office and took to Twitter to respond, inflaming the situation.
And, in response, social media soon became consumed in a five-alarm maelstrom.
We pause now not to relitigate the arguments for and against this form of protest. Rather, we pause to reflect on the underappreciated role that sports can play in bridging racial divides, the root cause of the protests.
It has been long understood that sports, while not completely devoid of racial incidents, demonstrates a greater degree of racial inclusivity than nearly any human endeavor.
From T-ball and Pop Warner football to Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NFL, players are taught and understand that success depends on the ability of those in similar uniforms, not on the race of the people inside those uniforms.
Us vs. Them takes on an entirely different meaning on the field of play, whether as a participant or a fan.
Working together, finding common ground is mandatory.
Unfortunately, most who play organized sports finish doing so by their mid-teens, leaving many susceptible to pernicious forces that can take hold as self-segregation but can metastasize to fear, jealousy and misunderstandings that lead to hate.
Professional athletes eschew, for the most part, the label of role model. And many times they are correct; they are human beings subject to the same flaws as any of us.
However, there are rare times when you get a glimpse of what is possible when these athletes band together, without regard for race, and work as one. Players may not be adequate role models, but teams certainly can be.
Our society needs more of this, and we need to appreciate this more.


I worked for four weeks in Cambodia on an exhibition in memory of the Khmer Rouge rule. My colleague was Sebastian Brandt, a young German artist from Erfurt, who was one of my students during my guest professorship at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. The project was supported by the Goethe Institute and took place parallel to the international tribunal against five leaders of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh.
The participating Cambodian artists contributed very realistic paintings in oil, showing torture scenes, blood and piles of skulls.
In contrast, we worked with mud from the Mekong River. Sebastian got the idea, when looking out of the plane at the brown fields of rice below during the dry season, traversed by the brown water of the rivers that mould all the country.
And so we went to the Mekong River. The river has been since the times of Angkor the lifeline of Cambodia and the base for rice cultivation, fishing and transport. The Mekong River carries each year a new layer of fertile mud and is also a reliable witness of the past.
We filled sacks with the dry mud from the Mekong River banks and transported them to our exhibition room in the Meta House in Phnom Penh. Softening the dry soil once again with water of the Mekong and thus filling the whole floor of the room with the mud. After a week of natural drying at the Cambodian temperature of 35 degrees Centigrade the mud became chapped. Fragments of slogans from the red book of Pol Pot in Khmer letters appeared through the cracks. We had covered the whole floor with his quotations prior to filling the room with mud. Visitors walked, as is the Cambodian custom, barefooted on this ground and recognised fragments of the past, which is still covered by a taboo in Cambodian society.
Only a few Cambodians spoke to us about the Khmer Rouge past (but all the foreigners we met did speak about it). The majority remained silent and just smiled. A group of Buddhist monks from the same monastery, where Pol Pot when young used to be a monk before becoming a political leader, very openly discussed with us this dark period of genocide: a quarter of the Cambodian population was killed by the Khmer Rouge.
We put a fries on the walls of our exhibition room, where we combined two very different buildings. We confronted the antique sandstones floors of the national Cambodian symbol, the Angkor Temples, with the tiled floor of Tuol Sleng torture prison of the Khmer Rouge time. We cut the sandstone floor fugues of Angkor out of the photographs and through the blank spaces the visitors could see fragments of the floor of the prison that only six prisoners survived. Today it is a museum.
In the fries the safe ground of Angkor seems to move and the heavy sandstones seem to float like ice floes on the tiles of Tuol Sleng.
We attached the cut-outs of the in between spaces to plastic bags and placed them under the photo montages of the two different floors and put labels with the names of memory objects that Sebastian and I had previously collected during our stay in Cambodia into the bags. The real objects were shown in the next gallery room along with the paintings of the Cambodian artists. It was an attempt to demonstrate how we as foreigners from a completely different cultural and historic background tried to approach the subject of Cambodia and its Khmer Rouge past.
Apart from our collection of objects there was a second table with several objects that Cambodian people had brought us as their own memory objects of the Khmer Rouge time.
The big difference between the two collections of memory objects and between our installation with Mekong mud and the paintings of the Cambodian artists showed very clearly the void between our western approach and the experience of the Cambodian people. We were not able to understand in this short period of time this poor country with its chequered history that appeared dominated by foreigners, Non Government Organisations (NGOs ) and US-Dollars with very hard cuts between the rich and the poor.
We, as artists from Europe, invited by a German institution to work on the memory of the Khmer Rouge were part of this system: development aid that reminded us sometimes of colonial times.
During our stay in Cambodia Sebastian and I gained sensitiveness for our own limits in understanding another culture which was very alien to us. So Cambodia was in a way, a form of developing aid for us too.
The official title of our exhibition was: underGROUND.
But our project was named: The Own and the Alien.


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Saint-Illide – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Owernia-Rodan-Alpy, w departamencie Cantal.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 701 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 18 osób/km² (wśród 1310 gmin Owernii Saint-Illide plasuje się na 313. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 101.).

Bibliografia

Miejscowości w departamencie Cantal


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From 13 to 100: Chew On This!
Canada Without Poverty > News > From 13 to 100: Chew On This!
This past August was a historic month for many in Canada's anti-poverty community.
The release of the long anticipated poverty reduction strategy, Opportunity for All, had groups from coast-to-coast-to-coast celebrating what this could mean for millions of people in Canada living in low-income. And although it's not perfect, the plan finally gives us something to chew on as we await what will come next.
As a new addition to the team at Canada Without Poverty (CWP), I was eager to see how the proposed strategy would impact the population it is meant to serve. Luckily for me, I arrived at the perfect time to tackle the 6th consecutive Chew on This! campaign. This annual campaign mobilizes people inside and outside the anti-poverty movement across the country, giving them a chance to educate people in their community and take direct action with policy makers, from Parliament Hill to individual neighbourhoods. I was keen to know how the government planned to implement a national strategy for a country as vast and diverse as Canada.
Chew on This! campaign organizers – CWP and Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) – are using the momentum from the new poverty strategy to shed light on what is still needed for this plan to become a reality. This year is an important time for constructive critiques of the strategy, as well as a pivotal time to push for human-rights based legislation and dedicated funding in 2019. Chew on This! events are scheduled to take place in every single province and territory. With almost 100 groups joining this movement, 2018 will be our largest campaign to date.
Some of the critical calls of this year's campaign include the government's securing of the strategy within a human rights based Poverty Reduction Act this fall. In fact, in the August announcement, the government announced that they will include that Canada's new Official Poverty Line and the National Advisory Council on Poverty be enshrined in law.
So, why do we think this is so important for people in Canada? Securing the strategy in rights-based legislation and allocating sufficient funds for its success will promote social inclusion, strengthen social security and make a real difference for the 1 in 7 households that would directly benefit from this strategy.
The reality in Canada is that 4 million people across the country live in food insecure households.
We all seem to understand the risks associated with continuing to neglect, or underfund, a poverty reduction strategy, yet we are still waiting on the necessary legislation and execution. And while many continue to wait, individuals on the front lines of poverty relief are battling with various other systemic issues that emphasize why Canada as a whole will benefit from the proposed plan.
Poor health resulting in higher health care costs, increasing demands on social and community services, family distress, diminishing educational success for young people and the unsettling loss of productivity and economic capacity for many, are some of the consequences the Chew on This! campaign aims to highlight.
This is the true cost of poverty we continue to claim we cannot afford.
Hundreds of organizers and volunteers from all over Canada will take to the streets October 17th to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Their goal? To show that Canada can no longer be idle on its commitments to poverty reduction at home and on the world stage.
At events across the country, campaigners will hand out various materials from magnets, to snacks, to postcards addressed to the Prime Minister calling for the plan to be strengthened, legislated, and fully-funded in Budget 2019. Whether you are a member of an anti-poverty organization, a faith-based group, a campus initiative or you are a passionate volunteer, participating in the Chew on This! campaign shows policy makers that their constituents understand the true cost of poverty and the importance of helping all people in Canada live with dignity.
Chew on This! may be the real opportunity for all to partake in the conversation from Iqaluit to Nanaimo about what poverty really means in our own backyards. Standing alongside engaged and enthusiastic communities across the country, we are able to come together and share a platform that demands for a poverty-free Canada. How will you get involved this October 17th?
Alexandra Zannis is a Placement Student at Canada Without Poverty in the Carleton Bachelor of Social Work program.
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Q: Cannot find module 'har-schema' I am trying to make ionic2 app. But npm is not supporting. It always gives me this error.

A: Try to install previous version of npm:
npm install npm@5.2 -g

Unfortunatelly, current version(5.3) has a lot of bugs.

A: I found solution of it. Solution is uninstall node and npm completely from your PC and then re-install it.
to uninstall node and npm completely check this link.
How to completely remove node.js from Windows

A: This worked for me:
npm install -g --only=production --save har-schema

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