Strokes usually come out of the blue and can bring dramatic and unexpected changes to people's lives. Most of the people we spoke to were initially shocked and worried about the changes in their body and how they would cope with the things they were so used to doing.
Several people said that they felt overwhelmed and hopeless and had broken down in the hospital. Sometimes, however, this initial hopelessness turned into a determination to get better.
He broke down in the hospital when he had to be hoisted onto the toilet but although he initially felt desperate this turned into a determination to get better.
Is a married father of 2 adult children and retired charity worker. Ethnic background/nationality' White/English.
One thing you just touched on earlier was the, I suppose you'd mentioned about depression and perhaps feeling very emotional and crying at different stages. Would you mind talking a little about that?
No, one of the, one of the symptoms of stroke is emotional instability if I can put it that way and I remember I burst into tears the first time I, my, my son came into the ward. My youngest son, my eldest boy is in, in the Navy and he wasn't able to see me at all during the stroke, but yes, and, and I got very emotional a few times and when I was taken to the toilet the first time in this sort of cage, I mean, I burst into tears after that because I thought, 'Oh dear, what on earth, you know, what on earth, am I going to be like this for the rest of my life?' being carried to the loo like a, and I overcame that by, by will and I turned it into determination that I was going to get better. I wasn't going to let this thing beat me into the ground. But I'd say most people get emotionally, very emotional. It's probably something to do with hormones or the brain or something.
Others felt that the stroke had very little emotional impact on them or that they were optimistic that they could beat it right from the start.
She was initially a little angry at having a stroke but quickly became determined to get better.
Is a widow with 1 adult child and is a retired writer. Ethnic background/nationality' White/German.
Mother' Yes. I was not at all depressed [laughs].
Mother' About the change. Yes.
And how did you feel when you realised that it was a stroke that you'd had?
Mother' [Sighs] I felt a little bit sad but not long, not very long.
And you were very determined to get better?
Mother' Yes. Yes. Yes. Absolutely.
And do you think that helped you to get back to normal?
Mother' Yes absolutely. And the cheerful atmosphere in the house and the lovely family [laughs]. It was more important than my behaviour.
"Why me?" was one of the commonest questions that people asked. Some people felt angry that the stroke had happened to them and found it difficult to come to terms with the new person they felt they had become. Others reflected it was just one of those things and older people sometimes felt it was just a consequence of their age. A man who had a strong faith reflected that it was just a natural thing that perhaps was meant to happen to him.
Although she was initially frustrated at the loss of independence she has accepted her stroke as just part of getting older.
His religious faith has helped him come to terms with his stroke.
Is a widow with 1 adult child and is a retired shopkeeper. Ethnic background/nationality' White/Scottish.
Do you think it's changed you emotionally at all?
No. I don't think so' Except it's' it's' I get frustrated' with not being able to do what I used to do but I've accepted that now. I don't know whether I'll be able to go back to being independent again. I'll be dependent on other people.
How do you come to accept something like that?
Oh well, I accept it quite' quite readily' maybe because I realise my age' You can't live forever [laughs].
Why do you think? What has helped you?
Because if you have faith and obviously if something happens, you've got to accept nature. This is nature. You've got to help yourself and nature will help you but if you sit tight, then you haven't got a chance. So I go myself, my mind, no, it shouldn't happen to me. It can happen but at least it has happened so I have to fight this battle myself. This fight is what I do my will to live, my will to do something. That's why I'm here. Other than that, I don't think I could have made it.
When you said if you have faith, do you mean religious faith?
And that has made the difference?
That makes a lot of difference, yes.
And are there religious people who have been in any way involved in?
Oh yeah. When I was, when I was in hospital, they used to come there, a lot of people used to come there, encourage you, encourage you, as preacher, you know that they do.
Others, who had previously had a strong faith, felt it had been shattered although some said that their faith returned with time.
Some people found that their stroke had a huge impact on their life and felt that they were no longer the same person. One man felt that he was no longer 'a fighter', another that he had a different outlook on life and that whereas he had been outgoing previously he now preferred to sit quietly. Another commented that life would never be the same again.
Many struggled with the idea that they had become disabled. This was exacerbated by other people's reactions to disability, such as not looking at people in wheelchairs, and by how difficult it could be to go places if you have limited mobility and if buildings or transport was not accessible. Some people said that part of a process of acceptance was accepting the "new you", learning new ways to manage the disabilities and finding new activities to replace those that were no longer possible.
The transition from hospital to home was sometimes particularly difficult as some felt that they had settled into a new world in the hospital and no longer belonged in the outside world.
She felt out of place being in a wheelchair in a world where she had previously worn high heels and didn't like leaving the hospital.
How long were you in, in the hospital there?
I was in the hospital, the major hospital for 7 weeks. Yeah. I would have been less if I could have got out quicker actually because I was, as I say, I was, I was not very happy in there although I did see quite a lot of my friends because I was in London, so lots of people came to see me.
But one of the things I became increasingly aware of, was that I no longer belonged, and they used to want to take me out when I got stronger, in my wheelchair. They used to wheel me across the busy London road, I was, they were allowed to do this, and take me for a cup of coffee or something like that. And I went out into the world and I thought, 'I don't like this'. I used to walk out here in this world in high heeled shoes and I can't do that now and I don't want to be out here anymore and I don't belong out here in this world. And what happened to me in a way was hospital became home. It felt safe and it felt like where I belonged because I was newly disabled I also had a lot, a very bad short term memory problem, you know, my brain was quite, still quite fuzzy really. And I felt safe there, and the whole of the outside world that I absolutely love and I love London I no longer, I no longer wanted to be out there.
And that was particularly brought home to me in a way because when I would go from the twelfth floor, which we were on, the neurology ward, down to the ground floor to the, physios, down to the physiotherapists, usually in lifts in the wheelchair, and that was when it started really because children were then my height and they'd stare at you, like children do, 'Hmm, what's she doing in there?', and I used to look up at adults and they would not look at me. They wouldn't look down. They would just, they would look and move their heads so as not to look at me and I thought, 'God, I'm an embarrassment, they don't want to look at me', and that made me think, 'I don't belong anymore and I'm different and I'm disabled'. And that made me absolutely determined to get out of the wheelchair. I was absolutely determined to walk. That I was not going to live in a wheelchair for the rest of my life because I had been told that I would never go home and that I would have to live in care for the rest of my life.
Fear of having another stroke was a constant worry for some making them feel vulnerable about being left alone. One man who had been on his own when he had the stroke did not like being alone now and always made sure his wife had her mobile phone.
He is frightened of having another stroke and does not like to be left alone. He also finds emotional situations like funerals difficult.
Is a married father with 2 adopted, adult children. He is a retired lecturer. Ethnic background/nationality' Indian/English.
The one thing which always bothered me was this experience always made me feel as though I'm not far from death, it could happen any day and that way I used to get anxious very soon. I used to feel that my wife should be around me, she should not go out, if she goes much more than an hour, then I'll begin to phone and find out where she is and she doesn't carry mobile, she doesn't keep in technology and whole lots of that. But because of the good neighbour she has gone away, somebody will come and sit with me to talk to me and find out what I need. So in that way I think I've been very, very lucky. Someone or my friends who their children all, they call me uncle and they will come down, you know, to stay with me for a while, ask aunty that what uncle needs and so they kept busy but this, the doctor thought that it's symptoms of depression I think started developing which was a bit sad. Every time I will see at funeral, if I will go to the funeral, to anybody, it will be very difficult. Normally if I'm going to funeral, I have to speak there and that is first thing I learned that, no, I should not. But some of the family would expect me to, even though I speak a sentence but they would have want me to say and of course attended many funerals of my friends who passed, passed away and was a bit of shock and my wife realised that attending a funeral is not a very good thing. So recently there has been two or three but I couldn't make it.
But the doctor recommended some sort of, it is not that antidepressant but yes it definitely keeps my nerves control, citalopram, 10mg dose, and that has given me a bit of patience now. At night, I can be by myself I will not be scared of it. But still, you know, all the time, the key's in the door [laughs], when I lock it and go upstairs. It will come to my mind that if, if something happens, how would they open the door.
Some were fearful about the limitations of their body, particularly fear of falling, or felt vulnerable when they were out and about because they now had to use a stick or wheelchair. People whose ability to speak had been affected sometimes felt anxious about speaking in public.
Fear and anxiety could often lead people to feel less confident about doing things they would have previously done without thinking. This could even affect things that were not necessarily limited by the stroke. Confidence could be regained but it had to be built up over time by practicing the problematic task. Some people found it helpful to talk with a health professional and learn techniques to deal with anxiety.
She feels that having a stroke can take away your confidence and that you have to build it back up again.
After his stroke he felt anxious about things like filling out forms and planning. He saw a psychologist who identified his anxiety and has helped him with relaxation.
How about your sort of confidence in everyday activities and doing things in your life? Has that been affected?
Stroke takes away all your confidence completely. That is one of the things definitely. It takes away your confidence completely. You have to learn to build up your confidence. It takes a long time. I don't think you ever regain full confidence completely. No. You're always wary of things, you're not sure about anything, even just going for a walk, you don't know that you're not going to fall over or you're, something's going to happen. You're scared.
The one thing they tell you, that scares you a bit because when you, before you leave hospital, they say to you, 'Now you've got to, you've got to walk. It's important that you set yourself goals so when you get home and you start to walk, do a little walk, a little bit one day and then the next day maybe do a few more steps. But always make sure that if you're going on a walk that's a little bit longer, make sure there are seats so that you can sit down.' That scares you a bit because you're sort of thinking, 'Oh dear, you know, I'm not going to be able to go anywhere where there are no seats, you've got to have seats everywhere, you've got to sit, always be able to sit down'. That is scary and so going for a walk suddenly becomes a big thing. I miss walking. I think more than anything I miss walking. I can't walk very far and I miss it. Having a dog I think is a really good thing because I had to go out every day, even if it's just a tiny little walk down the road, I've just had to do something and that has made me push forward. I feel, in company, I feel' I don't know how to describe it but this, it's this feeling of confidence. Whereas once upon a time I would have been able to stand and feel quite OK, quite confident about everything, I'm not any more. I'm thinking all the time, 'Am I going to be able to stand here? Will I be able to sit down? Is the pain going to be really bad? Am I going to start perspiring?' Everything. You're thinking all these things all the time. So complete lack of confidence really. I don't think you ever get that back. I think that is one thing that goes completely. You're very aware that you're physically abnormal.
Yeah. Again, my sister-in-law, the GP, when she saw me about a year ago, she made some suggestions as to what I could do and that was one of the things. I was beginning to feel a bit depressed and she suggested a cognitive behavioural therapist and I did go to that a few times but I didn't think it would help very much.
What sort of things were they doing at the, the therapist?
Oh, just basically talking to me like we are now, a bit like that. But since then, my GP has arranged for me to see a psychologist via the NHS, which is quite impressive because usually it takes ages to see these people and I've seen him a couple of times and he's given me some, well, he did some diagnostic tests first of all which I never got with the CBT specialist and he said it wasn't so much depression it was anxiety more than depression.
What sort of things do you feel anxious about?
Well, anything that's a bit sort of, that is going to require me to you know, to tackle something that I might not be up to, you know, even if I get several things in brown envelopes in the post in the morning, I think, 'Oh what on earth this, is this something that I have to cope with', you know, forms the tax inspector or anything like that, I sort of think 'Oh', you know, 'I am going to have trouble coping with this', although I don't actually seem to have it, I do actually have had forms from the tax inspector and I have managed to reply and write letters to people and that sort of thing, so I am managing to do it but it doesn't alter the fact that I do worry, I do sort of feel concerned about whether I'm going to be able to cope. Whereas before, I used to consider myself a great coper. Also, I was a great planner. I loved planning and I had a great sense of time. I always knew what the time was and how much time I'd got to do things and I worked things out so I didn't have to do anything in a, in a rush. And that's something I did a lot of and enjoyed. I can't do that. I don't do that any more.
Many people, and particularly men, had noticed that they more easily became emotional and cried. Although this sometimes happened in emotional situations such as funerals or on hearing bad news it could also happen in unlikely situations, for example watching sport on television, hearing the national anthem or listening to a Christmas carol. Some found it improved over time but others found that it remained and would occasionally happen when they were least expecting it.
He was surprised when he cried during a Christmas carol even though there was nothing to cry about. He had not been told it was normal to be more emotional after a stroke.
Is a married father with 1 adult child and is a retired lorry driver. Ethnic background/nationality' White/Scottish.
So you were saying about how the stroke's affected you emotionally?
Well'I was' one time I was at a Christmas meeting where the minister was singing songs and'he came out with a song, song that I couldn't just bear for him to sing it. And you know what it was? It was' I can't mind what it was now that, that one with' I can't just think what it was.
How did it make you feel when he was singing it?
I just told him stop because I couldn't listen any longer and it was nothing wrong there 'Oh' he said, 'You're not the only one that happens to'. 'But', I said, 'Well', I said, 'You can go, you can go ahead now and I'll try and have a cry'. But I actually cried. And he was singing this song anyway but I just couldn't bear it. And it really was' it wasn't nothing to cry about either but I couldn't help it.
Do you find that with other things that, that suddenly upset you for no reason?
Oh yes. There was other things and it would start the same way likely but it has, I was at a wedding once and it was the same thing there. They started and I just, I couldn't do nothing about it.
Do you understand that that's part of having a stroke?
Aye. That maybe came with the stroke, you see.
Has anybody explained that to you?
Emotional lability is a very common problem after stroke. Some people had been told this by a health professional and found this simple knowledge reassuring. Others were unaware that it was normal and had felt embarrassed about talking about it.
After his stroke he became much more emotional and angry but he had been reassured that this was a normal part of stroke.
His doctor had reassured that becoming more emotional was part of having a stroke.
Obviously, it's been a really hard time for you?
And I was wondering, how has it affected your emotions?
Well, at first, I used to cry all the time but now I get, I can do anything.
And you say you were crying a lot of the time?
Did you get any help at all?
Well, yeah. The nurse and the speech therapist, the OT and that, everyone helped. Yeah.
And did they explain why you were feeling like that?
Oh, they said because your, my, your emotions are all over the place.
And did that help to hear that?
Yeah, yeah. Like everything else, it's getting better and better.
Yeah. And did you ever have to take any medication for that?
No? OK. And how about your temper? Did that, was that affected?
Yeah. Oh I used to swear and that. I just used to crack up sometimes.
What sort of things used to make you angry?
Right. And how did you take that out on people around you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. [my partner] had to all the time at first.
You know, we talked earlier about sometimes people worry that they could become more emotional?
Aye. Oh yes, well that is a problem, I'm sure but it's, but it, it's alright, people get to know you and understand that this is all part and parcel of the, of the disease and it will perhaps get better, I don't know but he said it would, it would be a long time, it would bother you for a long time, the doctor, and he was a very good doctor on strokes and the first thing he said to me, you see, so it's obviously, must be something that even the doctors must know to tell you so that you're prepared for it, you see. So as I said, otherwise, I think it is getting, it is getting better now a bit but oh, when you come home, when at first it was very easy to break down but it gets, it is, it is easing off now and' as time goes on. I think a lot of it too depends on what's happening in your life.
It was common for people to feel down after their stroke and many people we spoke to said they would occasionally feel down or depressed when they realised they could no longer do something. Some, however, had found themselves down and lacking in motivation most of the time and were eventually diagnosed with depression. One woman described it as being "locked in a box". People who have depression after a stroke were sometimes prescribed an antidepressant which could help. A few had some counselling although this was not always readily available and there were long waiting lists.
Ralph talks about feeling depressed after his stroke and describes it as a normal response to a drastic change in one's health.
It's something that's bandied around as if, "Oh you might suffer from depression if you've had a stroke." Well, you might. But it's not so much the clinical effects, it's the fact of having your life hit the buffers. (You've died without dying*).
I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, there's nothing sick about that. I mean, anybody can be depressed about anything... It doesn't mean that they're depressive. It just .....means they've had an enormous problem to deal with in their life. I mean, if you lost a baby or something like that ... you would be depressed. Not just clinically but the (actual) trauma.
And I think that people need to remember that's the case with stroke. That people are depressed because they're shattered. (They want support not antidepressants*). They have to adjust to this enormous, profound... (sudden) change.
*text added after the interview by Ralph.
The Stroke Association and Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland have useful publications on emotional effects of stroke.


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He's in prison for murdering Michael Jordan's father. New evidence could change everything.
Kyle Swenson, The Washington Post
Published 4:52 am PST, Thursday, December 6, 2018
Daniel Green, 35, serving a life sentence for the July 1993 death of former NBA basketball star Michael Jordan's father James Jordan, listens to questions during an interview at the Harnett County Correctional Institute in Lillington, N.C., Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Green's case is one of 190 cases flagged for further review in a report on North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations crime lab practices. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis) less
Daniel Green, 35, serving a life sentence for the July 1993 death of former NBA basketball star Michael Jordan's father James Jordan, listens to questions during an interview at the Harnett County Correctional ... more
Photo: Sara D. Davis, Chronicle Wire Services
The body was found in Gum Swamp, a twisting finger of black water bordered by leaning walls of longleaf pine near South Carolina's northern border. A local fisherman, hunting for catfish and perch, spotted the man face down in the creek tangled on a branch, as a summer thunderstorm cracked overhead. It was Aug. 3. 1993.
He was fully dressed but missing shoes. Authorities from the nearby town of McColl, South Carolina, could find no identification. The heat and water had badly eaten away his features. A later autopsy determined a single .38 bullet was sunk into the anonymous victim's upper right breast. The county was rural, it's coroner a part-timer who owned a construction company. He noticed expensive dental work inside the corpse's mouth, so the jaw bones were saved, as well as the hands, in case anyone stepped forward to identify the remains.
Within days, South Carolina authorities realized the body did not belong to a local or a drifter, but James Jordan, the father of NBA supernova Michael Jordan.
In 1996, two young men from area, Daniel Green and Larry Demery, were sent to prison for life for their roles in James Jordan's death, in what prosecutors described as deadly carjacking by two thrill-seeking troublemakers. That story, however, could be upended soon.
This week in North Carolina, Green and his attorneys appeared before Superior Court Judge Winston Gilchrist to argue for a new trial. Green, who has admitted his involvement in disposing of Jordan's body but maintained his innocence in the murder since his arrest, has a placed a mountain of legal issues and new evidence before the court, including ballistics, now-refuted blood evidence, and shocking ties between local drug traffickers and police steering the Jordan investigation.
"It's been stressful for him," Christine Mumma, Green's attorney with the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, told The Washington Post in an interview. "He's been feeling like his voice has not been heard."
The state, as well as the prosecutor who originally tried the case, have maintained Green's motion is meritless.
"He's never going to own up to what he did," Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt told the Chicago Tribune in August. "He just won't accept it."
According to the Associated Press, Gilchrist announced on Wednesday he will make a ruling at a later date.
Michael Jordan was sitting on the Everest peak of global fame and fortune when his father was killed. Jordan had led the Chicago Bulls to three straight championships, and his turbocharged competitiveness and ambition came from his father, who basked in his son's achievements. As the Tribune reported earlier this year, James Jordan wore his son's 1986 NBA All-Star ring. And the elder Jordan's red 1992 Lexus SC400′s was adorned with a vanity license plate - UNC0023 - that celebrated both Michael's alma mater, the University of North Carolina, and his jersey number.
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James Jordan was last seen alive motoring off in the same car on July 22, 1993, leaving a co-worker's funeral in Wilmington, N.C.
Daniel Green was born in Philadelphia but moved to North Carolina's Robeson County when he was in the third grade. His speech tripping up on a stutter, he was lonely and self-conscious until meeting Larry Demery, a classmate from a local Native American family. The two quickly became close.
"When you got a person who won't pick on you, when he is patient and not suggest words for you . . . he was a friend all the time," Green has explained.
But Green says that bond is what got him involved in the Jordan murder.
Green's account of the night James Jordan died, and his role in dumping his body in Gum Swamp, have been consistent since his first trial.
On July 23, 1993, both Green and Demery were at a party at a friend's house. According to motions filed on Green's behalf, around 1:30 a.m. Demery left the festivities on his own while Green stayed behind. Later, Demery returned visibly upset. He asked Green to come along with him, and together the two left the party at 4:30 a.m. for a canal bank nearby a local drug and prostitution hot zone called the Quality Inn. Demery explained he had gone earlier in the night for a drug deal. Instead, Demery had gotten into a confrontation with a man in a red Lexus and fatally shot him. Together, the two placed the dead man just over the state line in South Carolina, but not before taking his possessions.
In the days following the murder, both men used the Lexus and the car's phone. The calls eventually led investigators to both Demery and Green.
Demery pleaded guilty to charges related to the murder and agreed to testify against Green. When Green's murder trial opened in January 1996, the state's entire case rested on Demery's account. He told the jury that both he and Green had encountered Jordan sleeping in his parked car off the highway. Green shot Jordan as the victim was just waking up in the front seat, Demery said.
Two pieces of testimony bolstered Demery's story. A state forensic investigator named Jennifer Elwell told jurors that blood was found inside the Lexus, consistent with Demery's account that Green shot Jordan there. "[I]t is my opinion that you do have blood," she told the jury, according to a court filing.
Another state investigator introduced the shirt Jordan had been wearing when he was killed. The clothing, the agent testified, showed a bullet hole surrounded by a "dark ring" consistent with gunshot residue in the upper right chest area, where the fatal shot entered.
But now, Green's attorneys are calling those two key pieces of testimony into question.
According to the filing, Elwell had not been accurate in her testimony about the blood testing. In fact, while two initial tests suggested there could be blood in the car, four follow-up tests failed to find any. And Green's original trial lawyers never learned about those negative tests.
In 2011, Elwell told Green's defense team that she was no longer definitive about her testimony. "I didn't know . . . whether it was blood or not blood," she said, according to the court filing. "It could have been anything."
The blood evidence in the case was also destroyed almost immediately after the trial, according to Green's motion. Elwell later admitted it was out of the norm, and the head of the lab also told the legal team the evidence had been destroyed without his knowledge.
The shirt evidence is also now questionable. According to Green's court filing, when a forensic pathologist originally performed an autopsy on Jordan in 1993, his report noted there was no hole in the clothing corresponding with the bullet wound in the upper chest. Instead, there were three holes lower in the shirt, suggesting it was pulled up during the shooting. Yet, a second report introduced at trial did mention a hole in the upper chest. Green's attorney now suggest the second report bolstering the state's theory of the crime is suspect.
"The absence of a hole in the right chest area, coupled with the three holes in the lower part of the shirt, contradict the State's theory that Mr. Jordan was lying in his car when he was shot," Green's filing argues. "It also gave strength to the defense theory that there was an altercation between Demery and Mr. Jordan."
Green's motion for a new trial also hinges on mistakes and errors made by his attorneys during the 1996 trial.
Despite telling the jury they would provide an alibi for Green during the murder, the attorneys failed to adequately put on enough witnesses who could say Green was still at the party after Demery left, his attorneys now argue. Trial counsel also failed to recognize that a juror had previously been accused by one of Green's witnesses of sexual assault.
But by far the most troubling aspects alleged in Green's new trial motion are the lengths investigators went to steer the Jordan case away from figures directly connected to the Robeson County Sheriff's Office, the agency who handled the arrests.
Records indicate that on the night of the murder, a call was made from Jordan's car phone to a local number belonging to Hubert Larry Deese, who worked with Demery at a mobile-home company located within a mile of where Jordan's body was dumped. Deese was also friends with members of the Robeson County Sheriff's Office, including Mark Locklear, the head of the agency's narcotics unit and one of the lead investigators on the Jordan murder.
Deese was also the son of Hubert Stone, the sheriff of Robeson County.
And Deese was also a major drug trafficker at the time. Seven months after Jordan's murder, federal authorities arrested Deese on conspiracy to traffic cocaine, according to records. "He wasn't no street dealer," Locklear later told Green's legal team. "We're talking pounds and kilos."
But those connections were never detailed to Green's original defense team, according to the filings, despite the fact that authorities knew of the links. Green's attorneys allege Demery was working for Deese at the time of the murder - a suggestion Locklear himself later admitted he had no knowledge of but "wouldn't surprise me."
Underscoring the problematic link between law enforcement and Demery, Green's lawyers point out that investigators interviewed all the people Demery and Green called on Jordan's car phone - all expect Deese.
"I don't have an answer," Locklear told Green's lawyers when asked why Deese was not interviewed in the Jordan case, according to the court filings.
In the early 2000s, the Robeson County Sheriff's Office was caught up in a federal corruption probe called "Operation Tarnished Badge." Twenty-two officers were charged with crimes ranging from perjury, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
Neither Locklear nor Sheriff Stone were caught up in the federal probe, and Stone died in 2008. His son Deese served out his four year federal sentence and was released in 1998. He has since denied any involvement in Jordan's death.
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Mr Micha Gelber was the keynote speaker at the moving United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony on January 23rd at the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex. Local media provided extensive coverage of Micha's visit and the moving UNHMD 2017 ceremony, including this Hong Kong Economic Journal article.
In the beginning of 2017, the HKHTC have had wonderful press coverage for the visit of Dutch Holocaust survivor Micha Gelber.
During his 9-day visit in Hong Kong in January, Mr Gelber toured 11 high schools and universities and addressed thousands of local and international students.
Please click here to read the SCMP Young Post full-page article.


Erica Lewis is from the YWCA of Australia. She shares her thoughts on the first day of the International Women's Summit.
I heard many interesting and inspirational things yesterday – and if you're interested in a list then try #iws or #wc11 on twitter – but two have stuck with me through the day.
At her press conference Michelle Bachelet said that empowering women wasn't just the right thing to do it was the smart thing to do, and earlier in the day she had described the growing and overwhelming evidence that investing in women and girls is the best way to address a whole range of social and economic ills.
So, the obvious question is – why aren't governments investing more in women and girls?
women fully enjoy their human rights in order to strengthen all of our communities.


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Bërdicë e Sipërme is a settlement in the former Bërdicë municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Shkodër.
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If you're a gamer, you're probably interested in knowing what the top 10 games in the world are right now. And you're not alone! With the recent release of games such as Metal Gear Solid V, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Sonic Hedgehog, there's a lot to look forward to in the gaming world.
The latest installment of the Grand Theft Auto series, Grand Theft Auto V, is one of the best games of its generation. This sandbox game has a compelling storyline and a wealth of gameplay content.
In addition to the single-player campaign, the game features a multiplayer mode that lets players team up with friends to take on missions. There are also many side quests to earn money and experience.
The game features colorful characters and a mature satire. It contains violence and drug abuse, which makes it inappropriate for kids. However, it is still a fun and exciting video game that is worth every cent.
Apex Legends is one of the most popular battle royale games on the market. You can compete for glory on the global series, and also play against lesser known players. With a huge range of characters, it's not easy to decide which is the best. Here is a look at some of the most popular characters.
One of the most popular Apex Legends characters is the aptly named, Wraith. This character features powerful, survival-based abilities that can help you take the fight to your opponents. The small hitbox and high mobility makes this character perfect for aggressive plays.
Another top pick is the Bloodhound. The hound has a long list of skills and can be played both offensively and defensively. Its abilities are designed to detect and hunt enemies. A good Bloodhound player needs to be strategic with their moves.
Metal Gear Solid V is a video game that is arguably the best play online pokies in Australia game in the Metal Gear series. It's also one of the greatest stealth games of all time.
The Metal Gear series is a franchise developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan. The series' protagonist is Solid Snake, a mercenary who has appeared in the previous titles of the Metal Gear line.
Metal Gear Solid V is an open-world military simulation. Players can use a variety of weapons to help them infiltrate and destroy enemy bases. They can also build a workforce, which they can use to accomplish missions.
The story of the Metal Gear series has been a winding one. Kojima has had to struggle to make his ideas fit into the game structure.
Sonic the Hedgehog was Sega's first attempt at a 2D platformer. The mascot was a fast-paced character who was full of attitude. It was designed to be a rival to Nintendo's Mario. As a result, it had a recognizable design, high-speed gameplay, and a variety of different zones to traverse.
It also featured a nifty pinball-like gimmick. One thing that stuck out was the fact that Sonic could collect rings.
Although Sonic was originally designed to be a rival to Mario, he ended up being a cultural icon instead. He's appeared in many games over the years, most of which have been released on various modern platforms.
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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is an open-world role-playing game. Its plot centers on a Spartan mercenary fighting on both sides of a war. The game takes place during the Peloponnesian War. As a player, you can choose to play as Kassandra or Alexios.
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While it's certainly a worthy addition to the Assassin's Creed series, the game has some mechanical flaws that keep it from being perfect. However, it's certainly one of the best games of the year.
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"""Script that preprocesses a Python command then runs it.

This script evaluates expressions in the Python command's arguments then invokes
the command.
"""

import argparse
import atexit
import json
import logging
import os
from pathlib import Path
import platform
import shlex
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from typing import List, Optional, Tuple

try:
    from pw_build import gn_resolver
    from pw_build.python_package import load_packages
except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError):
    # Load from python_package from this directory if pw_build is not available.
    from python_package import load_packages  # type: ignore
    import gn_resolver  # type: ignore

if sys.platform != 'win32':
    import fcntl  # pylint: disable=import-error
    # TODO(b/227670947): Support Windows.

_LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_LOCK_ACQUISITION_TIMEOUT = 30 * 60  # 30 minutes in seconds

# TODO(frolv): Remove these aliases once downstream projects are migrated.
GnPaths = gn_resolver.GnPaths
expand_expressions = gn_resolver.expand_expressions

def _parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
    """Parses arguments for this script, splitting out the command to run."""

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
    parser.add_argument('--gn-root',
                        type=Path,
                        required=True,
                        help=('Path to the root of the GN tree; '
                              'value of rebase_path("//", root_build_dir)'))
    parser.add_argument('--current-path',
                        type=Path,
                        required=True,
                        help='Value of rebase_path(".", root_build_dir)')
    parser.add_argument('--default-toolchain',
                        required=True,
                        help='Value of default_toolchain')
    parser.add_argument('--current-toolchain',
                        required=True,
                        help='Value of current_toolchain')
    parser.add_argument('--module', help='Run this module instead of a script')
    parser.add_argument('--env',
                        action='append',
                        help='Environment variables to set as NAME=VALUE')
    parser.add_argument(
        '--touch',
        type=Path,
        help='File to touch after the command is run',
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        '--capture-output',
        action='store_true',
        help='Capture subcommand output; display only on error',
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        '--working-directory',
        type=Path,
        help='Change to this working directory before running the subcommand',
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        '--python-dep-list-files',
        nargs='+',
        type=Path,
        help='Paths to text files containing lists of Python package metadata '
        'json files.',
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        '--python-virtualenv-config',
        type=Path,
        help='Path to a virtualenv json config to use for this action.',
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        'original_cmd',
        nargs=argparse.REMAINDER,
        help='Python script with arguments to run',
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        '--lockfile',
        type=Path,
        help=('Path to a pip lockfile. Any pip execution will acquire an '
              'exclusive lock on it, any other module a shared lock.'))
    return parser.parse_args()

class LockAcquisitionTimeoutError(Exception):
    """Raised on a timeout."""

def acquire_lock(lockfile: Path, exclusive: bool):
    """Attempts to acquire the lock.

    Args:
      lockfile: pathlib.Path to the lock.
      exclusive: whether this needs to be an exclusive lock.

    Raises:
      LockAcquisitionTimeoutError: If the lock is not acquired after a
        reasonable time.
    """
    if sys.platform == 'win32':
        # No-op on Windows, which doesn't have POSIX file locking.
        # TODO(b/227670947): Get this working on Windows, too.
        return

    start_time = time.monotonic()
    if exclusive:
        lock_type = fcntl.LOCK_EX  # type: ignore[name-defined]
    else:
        lock_type = fcntl.LOCK_SH  # type: ignore[name-defined]
    fd = os.open(lockfile, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT)

    # Make sure we close the file when the process exits. If we manage to
    # acquire the lock below, closing the file will release it.
    def cleanup():
        os.close(fd)

    atexit.register(cleanup)

    backoff = 1
    while time.monotonic() - start_time < _LOCK_ACQUISITION_TIMEOUT:
        try:
            fcntl.flock(  # type: ignore[name-defined]
                fd, lock_type | fcntl.LOCK_NB)  # type: ignore[name-defined]
            return  # Lock acquired!
        except BlockingIOError:
            pass  # Keep waiting.

        time.sleep(backoff * 0.05)
        backoff += 1

    raise LockAcquisitionTimeoutError(
        f"Failed to acquire lock {lockfile} in {_LOCK_ACQUISITION_TIMEOUT}")

class MissingPythonDependency(Exception):
    """An error occurred while processing a Python dependency."""

def _load_virtualenv_config(json_file_path: Path) -> Tuple[str, str]:
    with json_file_path.open() as json_fp:
        json_dict = json.load(json_fp)
    return json_dict.get('interpreter'), json_dict.get('path')

def main(  # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments,too-many-branches,too-many-locals
    gn_root: Path,
    current_path: Path,
    original_cmd: List[str],
    default_toolchain: str,
    current_toolchain: str,
    module: Optional[str],
    env: Optional[List[str]],
    python_dep_list_files: List[Path],
    python_virtualenv_config: Optional[Path],
    capture_output: bool,
    touch: Optional[Path],
    working_directory: Optional[Path],
    lockfile: Optional[Path],
) -> int:
    """Script entry point."""

    python_paths_list = []
    if python_dep_list_files:
        py_packages = load_packages(
            python_dep_list_files,
            # If this python_action has no gn python_deps this file will be
            # empty.
            ignore_missing=True)

        for pkg in py_packages:
            top_level_source_dir = pkg.package_dir
            if not top_level_source_dir:
                raise MissingPythonDependency(
                    'Unable to find top level source dir for the Python '
                    f'package "{pkg}"')
            # Don't add this dir to the PYTHONPATH if no __init__.py exists.
            init_py_files = top_level_source_dir.parent.glob('*/__init__.py')
            if not any(init_py_files):
                continue
            python_paths_list.append(
                gn_resolver.abspath(top_level_source_dir.parent))

        # Sort the PYTHONPATH list, it will be in a different order each build.
        python_paths_list = sorted(python_paths_list)

    if not original_cmd or original_cmd[0] != '--':
        _LOG.error('%s requires a command to run', sys.argv[0])
        return 1

    # GN build scripts are executed from the root build directory.
    root_build_dir = gn_resolver.abspath(Path.cwd())

    tool = current_toolchain if current_toolchain != default_toolchain else ''
    paths = gn_resolver.GnPaths(root=gn_resolver.abspath(gn_root),
                                build=root_build_dir,
                                cwd=gn_resolver.abspath(current_path),
                                toolchain=tool)

    command = [sys.executable]

    python_interpreter = None
    python_virtualenv = None
    if python_virtualenv_config:
        python_interpreter, python_virtualenv = _load_virtualenv_config(
            python_virtualenv_config)

    if python_interpreter is not None:
        command = [str(root_build_dir / python_interpreter)]

    if module is not None:
        command += ['-m', module]

    run_args: dict = dict()
    # Always inherit the environtment by default. If PYTHONPATH or VIRTUALENV is
    # set below then the environment vars must be copied in or subprocess.run
    # will run with only the new updated variables.
    run_args['env'] = os.environ.copy()

    if env is not None:
        environment = os.environ.copy()
        environment.update((k, v) for k, v in (a.split('=', 1) for a in env))
        run_args['env'] = environment

    script_command = original_cmd[0]
    if script_command == '--':
        script_command = original_cmd[1]

    is_pip_command = (module == 'pip'
                      or 'pip_install_python_deps.py' in script_command)

    existing_env = (run_args['env']
                    if 'env' in run_args else os.environ.copy())
    new_env = {}
    if python_virtualenv:
        new_env['VIRTUAL_ENV'] = str(root_build_dir / python_virtualenv)
        bin_folder = 'Scripts' if platform.system() == 'Windows' else 'bin'
        new_env['PATH'] = os.pathsep.join([
            str(root_build_dir / python_virtualenv / bin_folder),
            existing_env.get('PATH', '')
        ])

    if python_virtualenv and python_paths_list and not is_pip_command:
        python_path_prepend = os.pathsep.join(
            str(p) for p in set(python_paths_list))

        # Append the existing PYTHONPATH to the new one.
        new_python_path = os.pathsep.join(
            path_str for path_str in
            [python_path_prepend,
             existing_env.get('PYTHONPATH', '')] if path_str)

        new_env['PYTHONPATH'] = new_python_path

    if 'env' not in run_args:
        run_args['env'] = {}
    run_args['env'].update(new_env)

    if capture_output:
        # Combine stdout and stderr so that error messages are correctly
        # interleaved with the rest of the output.
        run_args['stdout'] = subprocess.PIPE
        run_args['stderr'] = subprocess.STDOUT

    # Build the command to run.
    try:
        for arg in original_cmd[1:]:
            command += gn_resolver.expand_expressions(paths, arg)
    except gn_resolver.ExpressionError as err:
        _LOG.error('%s: %s', sys.argv[0], err)
        return 1

    if working_directory:
        run_args['cwd'] = working_directory

    # TODO(b/235239674): Deprecate the --lockfile option as part of the Python
    # GN template refactor.
    if lockfile:
        try:
            acquire_lock(lockfile, is_pip_command)
        except LockAcquisitionTimeoutError as exception:
            _LOG.error('%s', exception)
            return 1

    _LOG.debug('RUN %s', ' '.join(shlex.quote(arg) for arg in command))

    completed_process = subprocess.run(command, **run_args)

    if completed_process.returncode != 0:
        _LOG.debug('Command failed; exit code: %d',
                   completed_process.returncode)
        if capture_output:
            sys.stdout.buffer.write(completed_process.stdout)
    elif touch:
        # If a stamp file is provided and the command executed successfully,
        # touch the stamp file to indicate a successful run of the command.
        touch = touch.resolve()
        _LOG.debug('TOUCH %s', touch)

        # Create the parent directory in case GN / Ninja hasn't created it.
        touch.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        touch.touch()

    return completed_process.returncode

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main(**vars(_parse_args())))

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Repetitive stress in the hands and wrists can lead to painful and debilitating conditions, like carpal tunnel syndrome and osteoarthritis.1,2,3 These are progressive conditions that are often caused by frequent motions performed while working in offices, factories, and in outdoor environments.
While some hand and wrist conditions can't be avoided, ergonomic tools, occasional breaks, and simple stretches can help workers stay comfortable and mobile for years to come.
Here is some information about how repetitive stress can lead to painful arthritic conditions of the hands and wrists and a few exercises that can help delay their onset. Just a few minutes of stretching per day can make a huge difference in one's performance and long-term health.
The carpal tunnel is a passageway that provides protection for the nerves and tendons at the base of the hand, specifically the median nerve.4 One of the most common causes of carpal tunnel syndrome is repetitive motions that expose the wrists to vibration, repeatedly use the fingers, and use extreme ranges of motion.1,8 Examples of common causes include repeated use of vibrating hand tools and typing on a computer keyboard. Farmers who milk cows, assembly line workers in factories, cashiers who use laser scanners, gardeners who pull weeds by hand, and musicians who use bows for stringed instruments are also at risk.
Similarly, repetitive stress can also lead to the onset of osteoarthritis in some people.5 This condition results when the joint cartilage is weakened, sometimes due to repetitive motions that put excess pressure on weight-bearing joints. While osteoarthritis is often associated with aging and genetics, it can be triggered by repetitive motions in a work environment as well. The joints that are most commonly affected by repetitive motion include the spine, elbows, and knees. Good posture, maintaining a healthy body weight, ergonomic devices, and arthritis pain relief creams6 like JointFlex may help workers stay pain-free and productive.
Practicing hand and wrist exercises take very little time out of a worker's day but can be very valuable to preserve long-term functioning.7 One easy exercise to start with begins by making a fist. Then, extend the fingers out until they are straight and touching each other, and repeat ten times with each hand. As a variation, fan out the fingers after making a fist for some repetitions.
It also helps stretch out the wrists and fingers to simply shake them, in a way similar to air drying the hands after washing. For a deeper stretch, individuals can extend one arm out in front with a straight elbow, extended wrist, and fingers pointing down. Use the other hand to apply light pressure to the hand and stretch the wrist. Hold each stretch for about 20 seconds before switching hands and repeating a few times on each side.
Each of these exercises can help prevent or delay the onset of carpal tunnel syndrome and osteoarthritis caused by repetitive motions. As a general rule, practice one of these hand and wrist exercises for a minute or two each hour to maintain to good flexibility and overall wellness.
1. Steinberg, D. R. (2018 August). Carpal tunnel syndrome. The Merck Manual: Consumer Version. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/bone,-joint,-and-muscle-disorders/hand-disorders/carpal-tunnel-syndrome.
2. Kontzias, A. (2017 July). Osteoarthritis (OA). The Merck Manual: Consumer Version. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/bone,-joint,-and-muscle-disorders/joint-disorders/osteoarthritis-oa.
3. Osteoarthritis of the hands. Arthritis Foundation. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/osteoarthritis/articles/hand-oa.php.
4. Carpal tunnel syndrome. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases–conditions/carpal-tunnel-syndrome/.
5. Osteoarthritis. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/osteoarthritis#tab-causes.
6. Osteoarthritis treatment. Arthritis Foundation. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://www.arthritis.org/about-arthritis/types/osteoarthritis/treatment.php.
7. 5 exercises to improve hand mobility. Harvard Health Publishing. Retrieved October 26, 2018 from https://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/5-exercises-to-improve-hand-mobility-and-reduce-pain.
8. LeBlanc, K. E. & Cestia, W. (2011 April 15). Carpal tunnel Syndrome. American Family Physician, 83, 952-958. Retrieved October 26, 2018 https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0415/p952.html.
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Pitso Mosimane says that Sundowns are no longer prepared to pay 'exorbitant salaries.' (Picture: Twitter)
Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane says they are no longer prepared to pay what they feel are exorbitant salaries.
It was confirmed on Monday that long-serving central defender Ramahlwe Mphahlele had left the Premiership champions for Kaizer Chiefs.
Mphahlele's contract with the Brazilians had ended, and with Chiefs offering a better deal, he decided to depart for Soweto.
Sundowns, with mining magnate Patrice Motsepe at the helm, have over the last decade or so become known as South Africa's biggest and most extravagant spending club.
But Mosimane says a different approach is being taken these days, as Downs are not prepared to be held to ransom to what they may feel are unrealistic demands.
"It is [Mphahlele] his business with his agent and they got [from Chiefs] what they felt they deserved. We have to move on, but you have to understand that gone are the days when Sundowns was paying, paying and paying. No, we have moved away from that," he told The Sowetan.
Mosimane added that giving into Mphahlele's demands could have caused disharmony in the camp.
"It was his choice and I have to look after the dressing room," he added. "It is me and the board, so we have to make a decision to say that if we go to this level what's gonna happen in the dressing room?
"So and so says, 'how can Rama get this when I'm scoring the goals?'. It becomes a problem and I have to manage the dressing room."
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We integrate our core strengths into programs shaped to assist local communities as they make the journey from relief to self-reliance. Training underpins all of what we do.
Because disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, the ability to respond even in the most remote areas of the world is essential for effective emergency response. And with the acute phase of disaster response measured in just hours –that brief window of opportunity when most lives can be saved and life-threatening disease contained—deployment speed is critical.
Efficient, well-organized and well-supported health services can be life-saving and life-changing. More than 3 million children under 5 years of age and more than 300,000 pregnant women who die each year globally from preventable deaths could be saved by access to well-equipped, well-trained and motivated health care professionals.
Families and communities remain central to the well-being of all who are part of them—from the very young to the very old. The strength and health of these fundamental social building blocks lie at the core of achieving the United Nations-led effort to attain the Sustainable Development Goals for ending poverty and advancing social development and better health for all by 2030.
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Survivors of conflict and disasters are at higher risk for psychological distress and mental health conditions due to continued and overwhelming chaos and uncertainty, as well as the enormity of their loss that often includes homes, community, loved ones and livelihoods. As one of the few international relief organizations to prioritize prevention and treatment of mental health and psychosocial needs in humanitarian crises, we have the capacity to respond to these immediate needs.
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Q: Join Expression Not Supported - MS Access 2013 I am developing an Employee Management System and here I need to make a JOIN on judges and postings tables but the MS Access says "JOIN Expression not supported". I can not understand where is error.
Under is my Full Query.
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[d.crt_name]&' '&[d.crt_loc]) AS location, [a.emp_teh] AS tehsil,
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FROM employees a, designation b, courts d, postings c
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WHERE [c.des_id] = [b.des_id]
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In this week's parasha, parashat Va'eira, we read of the first seven plagues that the Al-mighty visited upon the Egyptians in Egypt.
The Torah reports that when the first plague of blood struck the Nile, all the fish and all life in the river died, and the Nile became foul. Despite the fact that there was blood throughout the land of Egypt and there was no water to drink, Pharaoh hardened his heart, especially after the Egyptian magicians were able to replicate the plague by turning water into blood.
The Al-mighty then instructed Moses to warn Pharaoh that if he refuses to let the Israelites leave Egypt, the entire land will be struck by a plague of frogs. And so it was. After the plague struck, the entire land of Egypt was covered with frogs. This time as well, the Egyptian magicians were able to replicate the plague and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
In desperation, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and begged them to remove the frogs from him and his people. Pharaoh even agreed to allow the Israelites to leave Egypt so they could send offerings to their G-d. Taking Pharaoh at his word, Moses then cried out to the Al-mighty and all the frogs quickly died, they were piled up into heaps, and the entire land of Egypt stank.
In Exodus 8:11, the Torah records Pharaoh's reaction, וַיַּרְא פַּרְעֹה כִּי הָיְתָה הָרְוָחָה, וְהַכְבֵּד אֶת לִבּוֹ, וְלֹא שָׁמַע אֲלֵהֶם, כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר השׁם, But when Pharaoh saw that there was a relief, he hardened his heart, and did not heed them, as G-d had predicted.
The Da'at Sofrim insightfully notes that there is a natural tendency for people who are rooted in evil to feel greater sensitivity for their bodies than they do for their minds and hearts. As long as the plague caused pain to his body, Pharaoh agreed to comply. But, as soon as the pressure ceased, Pharaoh returned to his evil ways, and looked back upon his earlier decision to cooperate as impetuous and premature.
The Yalkut May'am Lo'ez points out that it is quite understandable that Pharaoh hardened his heart once the plagues ended, especially if there were no lingering signs of the plagues and no negative after effects. However, in this instance, the entire land of Egypt was filled with dead frogs, resulting in a noxious stench that made life in Egypt unbearable. And yet, Pharaoh continued to harden his heart.
These patterns repeated themselves. Whenever Pharaoh actually felt the pain of the plagues, he ran to Moses and begged for him to pray to his G-d for relief. But, as soon as relief arrived, he reverted back to his own stubborn self, refusing to acknowledge that G-d will likely bring other plagues. Although Pharaoh experienced relief for only a short time, he did not seem to care.
The Midrash Rabba (Exodus 8:11) describes this behavior as the "way of the wicked." As soon as circumstances change and things become tolerable, the wicked forget about the Al-mighty and reject accountability for their deeds, reverting back to their old, wicked ways.
Unfortunately, it is not only the wicked who behave this way. So-called, "good people" do as well. How often do good people cry out to G-d when they suffer pain or loss, or when things do not go the way they had hoped they would go? But, too frequently, even good people take their blessings for granted, forgetting to acknowledge all the good and blessing, that has been their lot.
At the Passover Seder, three important elements of the Passover experience are featured: פֶּסַח–"Pesach", מַצָּה–"Matzah" and מָרוֹר–"Maror." Pesach represents the Paschal sacrifice that was brought by the people of Israel in Egypt before the redemption. Matzah underscores the speed with which the salvation took place. And Maror, of course, recalls the bitter persecution and enslavement.
Perhaps the author of the Haggadah should have put Maror first, since it was the bitterness of enslavement that was experienced first. On the other hand, perhaps the author of the Haggadah was trying to remind future generations how critically important it is for people to always keep in mind the Maror, the suffering, so that they would better appreciate the liberation and the good times. Particularly, those who have been liberated and freed from challenging circumstances must acknowledge that Jewish destiny depends upon their own future actions. All must thank G-d not only for what they have received in the past, but, hopefully, for what they will yet receive in the future, due to the goodness of G-d and His compassion.
We dare not delude ourselves like Pharaoh, and think that because we experience a brief respite from pain, we will no longer be held accountable. Even good people cannot revert back to their sinful ways, without paying a price.
Consequently, it is important for all to appreciate the respites, and regard them as true gifts from G-d, without allowing themselves into being deluded into thinking that because the pain was temporarily relieved, all is good, and all will continue to be good.
All will be good — if we make certain to earn it and deserve it!
Tagged: -The Dangers of Self Delusion, "way of the wicked", 2017, 5777, accountability, bitterness of enslavement, blessings for granted, blood, dead frogs, Judaism, Maror, Nile River, pain of the plagues, Rabbi Buchwald, relief, respites, the first seven plagues, Va'eira.


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SARASOTA — Sarasota County commissioners asked for more details about a topic that that some critics are claiming is partisan.
Raised in late February and again during the April 9 meeting, Commissioner Nancy Detert suggested the commissioners consider redistricting now in advance of the November 2020 general election and the annual census that occurs every 10 years.
Detert, along with Commissioner Mike Moran, will face re-election in 2020 in what will be the first election since the 1990s that commissioners will run from single-member districts. Voters overwhelmingly approved the change to single-member districts last November.
In the past, commissioners ran countywide races although each represented a single district.
While Detert might be correct in her assessment considering the explosive growth in South County, she was referencing only the numbers of registered voters in the five commission districts.
According to data provided by Supervisor of Elections Ron Turner's office, the number of registered voters in each district do tend to confirm Detert's assertion.
While County Attorney Rick Elbrecht confirmed that state election laws allow the commission to fix the boundaries "from time to time," the statutes also requires the boundaries to be based on population, not voter registrations.
The law also requires that redistricting be done in odd-numbered years, meaning that the commission would have to complete the task in 2019.
With local Democrats seeing an opportunity to finally pick up a seat on the Republican dominated commission under the new scheme, they were quick to claim partisanship was at play.
Sarasota Democratic state committeeman Kevin Griffith charged that it was nothing more that partisan gerrymandering in a statement to the Sarasota Herald Tribune.
Kindra Muntz, one of the leaders of the single-member district movement, saw it as an attempt by powerful local interests to protect their control of the commission.
Despite knowing that criticism would follow, commissioners decided to move forward tentatively. They requested that County Administrator Jonathan Lewis investigate what population data sets might be available to use in the effort, and that Elbrecht provide information about any legal issues involved.
Lewis said he expects to have the information available for commissioners in May, and they will decide at that time if they want to proceed with the exercise.


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The official website of the artist is here. It has stills of the video.
Apparently, the real name of Alex Roman is Jorge Seva. His first works date back from 2001.


Happy 2018, y'all! I hope this new year is treating you better than the old one.
2017 was a lot of things. Difficult. Challenging. Depressing. Exhausting. It was also hopeful. Fun. Exciting. Life-changing.
This year, I asked those close to me a question when I wished them well in the New Year: what's one thing you've done/tried/bought/whatever in the past year that I should adopt in the year ahead?
I love starting the New Year off with these kinds of contemplations. It put me outside of my own box, and got me thinking about what I should try.
Buy real adult face lotion "like a grown-up" – Ahava is what was recommended.
Mary's Gone Crackers from Sprouts – healthy AND tasty and apparently very good with smoked cheeses.
A make-up eraser is pretty much the MUST HAVE thing I should add to my beauty box.
Daily morning meditation (suggested by two different people). I've been meditating most mornings and I can stay that I feel the benefits.
Walk/exercise first thing in the morning, especially so you can't convince yourself you're "too tired" at the end of the day.
Letting go more and having a more "go with the flow" mentality; not trying to control everything.
Bullet journaling to keep all my goals in check.
Dating Jess (according to the boyfriend, known here as Mr. Peanutbutter).
Travel with someone you love.
Use Tools for Writers from Christie Yant.
Participate in Codex's Weekend Warrior challenges and work on writing flash fiction.
Join the Get Your Words Out community.
Read "The Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday.
I love these ideas and I'm glad that I asked a question beyond just wishing people a happy New Year.
If you need more inspiration, you can't do better than Neil Gaiman.


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AVA, U.S. Secretary of State said NATO needed to consider its role in the Syrian crisis, including how it would respond to a potential chemical weapons threat.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that NATO needed to consider its role in the Syrian crisis, including how it would respond to a potential chemical weapons threat. "We need to continue to consider NATO's role as it relates to the Syrian crisis," Kerry said in a statement prepared for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, adding that the planning that the alliance had already done was appropriate. "We should also carefully and collectively consider how NATO is prepared to respond to protect its members from a Syrian threat, including any potential chemical weapons threat," he said.
NATO, a U.S.-led military alliance of 28 countries, has said repeatedly it has no intention of intervening militarily in the Syrian civil war. It has though sent Patriot missiles batteries to neighbouring Turkey to help defend the NATO member against possible missile attack from Syria.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst said Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons - probably nerve gas - in their fight against rebels trying to force out President Bashar al-Assad.
Brigadier-General Itai Brun made the comments at a Tel Aviv security conference a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on a visit to Israel that U.S. intelligence agencies were still assessing whether such weapons had been employed.
U.S. President Barack Obama has called the use of chemical weapons a "red line" for the United States that would trigger unspecified U.S. action.


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Yale-developed software program boosts cultural preservation efforts
CHER-Ob, a flexible and expandable integrated platform developed at Yale could help to coordinate interdisciplinary research into cultural artifacts.
By William Weir
A tablet that contains one of the most famous mathematical texts from ancient Mesopotamia, dated to the 19th or 18th century BCE. The tablet was scanned and digitized at Yale's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. (Courtesy of Yale Babylonian Collection)
Researchers from multiple disciplines can learn a lot from a single artifact. A tombstone, for instance, can tell historians about an era's lettering patterns and its stone industry, while biologists can study the wildlife growing around it.
Experts from differing fields, though, have differing methodologies, and finding a way to coherently gather such a wide-ranging body of research has long proved a challenge for researchers. CHER-Ob, a flexible and expandable integrated platform, could be the answer.
Developed by Yale researchers in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) at Yale's West Campus, CHER-Ob is an open-source software program designed as a single virtual environment for collaborative cultural heritage research, accommodating many kinds of media.
Holly Rushmeier, a professor of computer science, said work on cultural artifacts is often stymied by the disjointed ways that different research teams collect and archive their findings. While current technologies focus on providing better tools for data representation and processing, she said, the importance of analysis and sharing hasn't received much attention.
"A lot of people are juggling with a lot of different data types, and we need some coherent way to manage them," she said.
CHER-Ob — led by Rushmeier and Stefan Simon, director of Global Cultural Heritage Initiatives at IPCH — grew out of an earlier project called Hyper-3D. Both projects were funded by the Seaver Foundation.
With CHER-Ob, research teams will not only have better access to contributions from individual members of their own team, but to those of previous research projects on the same subject.
"You do this whole project and save it, and then someone else can come along and not just read static reports, but interact with all of its assets," Rushmeier said.
One innovation of CHER-Ob is the concept of the Cultural Heritage Entity (CHE), essentially a container for all the information collected about a particular item. It also features an annotation system designed to allow conservators to better track their own thoughts and share their perspectives.
"If you were talking about what software we would like to have, CHER-Ob would be my dream, where I can use any kind of data together in the same platform," said Kiraz Goze Akoglu, a postdoctoral associate at IPCH and one of the developers of CHER-Ob.
Akoglu is also part of a research team studying the tombstones of Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, which was built in the late 18th century. As part of the project, used as a case study for CHER-Ob, the researchers collected multiple types of data, including aerial photographs, 3D models of the stones, density measurements of the tombstones, reflectance transformation imaging images, and topographies of the stones' surfaces. CHER-Ob is set up so that additional research projects focusing on the cemetery can be merged into the CHE, allowing for a holistic approach to studying the cemetery.
"This is all in this one platform," Simon said. "In the past, all those things were in my notebook, or in a different computer, or a different format — never in the same place. To link all that is terribly difficult. That's why we say this is our dream."
Simon said he expects CHER-Ob will also be very useful for another project known as Anqa, which involves digitally archiving and making accessible cultural heritage artifacts from areas in the world where they're in danger. Acting as junior partner, Yale is working with the project's coordinator, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and CyArk, a nonprofit organization that digitally preserves cultural heritage sites. The first efforts of Anqa will focus on the cultural heritage of Syria.
For more information about CHER-Ob, visit the computer science website.
Yale leads effort to protect cultural heritage
Students 'visit' a lost archaeological treasure via virtual reality
Part of the In Focus Collection: Creativity in motion: how Yale engineering puts theory to practice
William Weir: william.weir@yale.edu, 203-432-0105


The Argentine football icon, who is coaching the second-division Mexican team Dorados de Sinaloa, has on several occasions expressed support for Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, saying that he would fight for him as a soldier if need be.
At the last hearing, the Russian media watchdog said that it had requested information from the tech giant regarding the localisation of servers with personal data of Russian users, but did not receive it. According to Russian laws, social media firms are obligated to store user data on servers located in Russia.
India's National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday slapped a fine of INR 5,000 million (approximately $72 million) on German car-maker Volkswagen for violating emission norms using cheat devices in its diesel vehicles.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Google has paid the 500,000 rubles ($7,520) fine for non-compliance with Russian law that required the search engine to remove links to resources with illegal information from search results, the spokesman for the Russian telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Vadim Ampelonsky, told Sputnik Friday.
For a long time, the elderly Italian has been going to prostitutes openly. Rimini police noticed him long ago, but never stopped him because the man was considered too old to be a client of prostitutes in Rimini. In fact, the 85-year-old resident of Pesaro province travelled to the seaside resort almost daily to entertain himself.
Wayne Rooney's spokesperson claimed the arrest came after the footballer was left "disorientated" by prescribed sleeping tablets he took on a return flight from a one-day business trip to Saudi Arabia.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Google intends to pay a 500,000 ruble ($7,350) fine issued by Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor for failing to comply with a law that requires search engines to remove links to resources with illegal information from search results, the press service of the company told Sputnik Monday.
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced an $87,507 settlement with Cobham Holdings, Inc. for selling components to a company that made S-400 air defence systems.
The United Kingdom's data watchdog has announced it would slap a fine on Banks's insurance company and the campaign that played a decisive role in the 2016 EU membership referendum outcome in Britain.


Whoopi Goldberg and Jeanine Pirro got into an explosive screaming match Thursday on "The View" -- and it spilled over to an even uglier confrontation backstage.
According to Page Six, Goldberg hurled profanities at the Fox News host backstage, telling her to "get the f*ck out of this building."
"I thought she was describing the Trump White House, Liars, Leakers and Liberals," CNN's Ana Navarro quipped, to roars of approval and applause from the liberal audience.
The fiercely anti-Trump CNN contributor Navarro was reportedly filling in for Joy Behar, which apparently took Pirro by surprise.
The conversation started off fairly tame, but things escalated pretty quickly.
Asked why she wrote the book, Pirro explained that she wasn't "an ideologue," but because she had been in "the crime business for over three decades," she knows "a con" when she see one.
At that point, one of the women on the panel (either Navarro or Whoopi) probably made a face because the audience burst out laughing.
After Pirro talked about how the FBI's investigation of President Trump was based on "a fake document by an opposing candidate," Navarro changed the subject, asking Pirro if she thought Trump was actually a conservative. "Do you think he's an ideologue that is faithful to conservative policies?" she asked.
"You know, I'm not here to talk about what Donald Trump is and isn't," Pirro replied. But Whoopi broke in and said she had to answer the question, as Navarro sat back smiling smugly.
"You want to talk about Donald Trump?! You tell me what metric in this country is worse off? Unemployment is lower than it's been in 50 years," Pirro pointed out to a smattering of applause from the confused audience. "Minorities, Hispanics, African Americans have jobs ..."
"Hate crimes are worse off," an unsmiling Navarro shot back. But Pirro wasn't through.
"The GDP [gross domestic product] under Obama was barely 1," she continued. "We're going up to 4!" The feisty Fox News host turned to Navarro and snapped, "You want to talk about hate crimes? I fought for a law for hate crimes!"
The View's lone conservative, Meghan McCain, chimed in, saying, "I also think it's important, as we said, 89% of the Republican Party still supports him, he still has huge popularity in the country and if Democrats don't get their you-know-what together, he's certainly going to get elected."
As Whoopi was moving on to the next question, Pirro quipped, "You're suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome!"
"I am not -- Judge!" McCain replied, thinking Pirro was referring to her.
"No," Pirro replied, gesturing toward Whoopi.
"Oh -- yeah," said McCain.
This is where it went off the rails.
"Did you just point at me?" Whoopi demanded hotly.
"Let me tell you what I have!" she barked. "I'm tired of people starting a conversation with 'Mexicans are liars and rapists!'"
As incoherent as that was, the audience loved it and roared with approval.
"I'm tired of people starting a conversation about this country!" she continued. "Listen, I'm 62 years old; there have been a lot of people in office that I didn't agree with, but I have never, ever seen anything like this! I've never seen anybody whip up such hate!" she exclaimed, whipping up the cheering, Trump-hating audience. "I've never seen anybody being so dismissive!" the unhinged host added.
"One of the things that you talk about a lot -- and I'm curious about it -- is the deep state," Whoopi said, changing the subject. "How long has the deep state been there and who's running it?" she asked, with a dismissive look toward the camera.
"I want to answer your question," Pirro began, but Whoopi interrupted her, saying, "I didn't ask you a question!"
While Whoopi continued arguing, Pirro insisted that Trump wasn't horrible. "You know what's horrible? When people who shouldn't be here end up murdering the children of American citizens!"
"You know what's horrible? When the president of the United States whips up people to beat the hell out of people!" Whoopi bellowed, her arm flailing wildly. "Say goodbye! I'm done!" she bellowed, as the frenzied mob audience cheered in approval.
According to Page Six, the fireworks continued offstage when the two crossed paths during a commercial break.
ABC show's producers and Goldberg reportedly reached out to Pirro "to have a conversation about what happened."
It's not clear why she felt the need to apologize to the liberal "View" audience, who obviously loved every minute of it.


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