Burlington, VT – Fresh off a runner-up finish in last week's Massachusetts Mid-Amateur Championship at Plymouth Country Club, where he fell to fellow Bay Stater Frank Vana, Jr. in a sudden-death playoff, Elmcrest Country Club's Jack Kearney carded a 3-under 68 in the first round of the 21st NEGA Senior Amateur Championship Tuesday at Burlington Country Club (Vt.) to take an early three stroke lead over the other 119 competitors in the field.
The 63-year-old Kearney, who has five top-10 finishes in the annual event dating back to 2010, tallied seven birdies and eight pars en route to his finish atop the leaderboard and will be in the final group when the second and final round returns Wednesday to Burlington Country Club.
Kearney's three stroke lead led him to finish as the only competitor under par and also bested two-time reigning champion Phil Pleat (N.H.) and Gary Shover (Vt.), who each finished at even-par 71.
After making par on each of the first two holes, Kearney, who splits his residency between Massachusetts and Georgia, bounced back from a third hole bogey by before carding birdie on four of the next five holes and avoiding any further damage on the par-4 sixth hole where he admits he found trouble and was lucky to card what he did.
Following the slight error, Kearney found a groove that ended with him making birdie on five of the final 12 holes to place himself atop the leaderboard.
Looking to better his 2016 performance, where he finished at T2 just one stroke behind New Hampshire's Phil Pleat, who has won each of the past two New England Senior Amateur titles, Kearney started the back nine just as he did the front nine – with back-to-back pars to put him in a good position heading down the stretch.
He made birdie on the par-4 12th hole, the par-3 14th hole and finished with one final birdie on the par-5 18th hole to complete his round.
Coming off a summer where he admits he wasn't playing his best, "shooting 80's and 77's" he said, Kearney adds that he is happy where he is at and hopes to continue building that as he returns tomorrow looking to secure his first career NEGA Senior title.
While Kearney topped the entire field, which consists of competitors aged 55 & over with a GHIN handicap index at a New England club, New Hampshire's Bill Everett led the group of 40 competitors eyeing the Super Senior title, which recognizes the top competitor in the field aged 65 and over.
Everett, who earlier this summer won the Senior Division of the New Hampshire Invitational, finished at 1-over 72 after carding three birdies on the front nine Tuesday morning. Everett also finished with seven-made pars to conclude his first round.
The second round of play will begin at 8:00 am Wednesday morning at Burlington Country Club in Burlington, Vermont. For more information about the New England Golf Association Senior Amateur Championship, visit: NEGAGolf.org.


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HomeLiberiaLiberia Makes Another History, Dillon, Partners Open First Mental Health Center
Liberia Makes Another History, Dillon, Partners Open First Mental Health Center
People of West African countries are said to be overwhelmed for the initiative been made by a member of the Liberian Legislature, Senator Abraham Darius Dillon and partners to establish the first in history a mental health center in Liberia,
Some international radio stations including the BBC have highlighted this initiative by the Liberian lawmaker, especially to establish a multipurpose newly renovated Center for Rehabilitation and Integration (CRI) which he financed to provide mental health counseling, rehabilitation, and technical vocational skills training for mental health patients and disadvantaged youth to become productive citizens.
The colorful dedication of this milestone project took place on September 30, 2021 at the rehabilitation facility in Cooper Farm Community, Paynesville, Montserrado County, brought together several current and past government officials.
Among those who graced the program were Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, former Vice President and Unity Party standard-bearer Joseph Nyumah Boakia and Liberty Party political leader and Grand Bassa County Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence.
Others attending the program were All Liberian Party political leader Benoni W. Urey, Justice Minister Cllr. Frank Musa Dean and Youth and Sports Minister D. Zeogar Wilson and several other members of the 54th Legislature.
Giving an overview of the project, Senator Dillon who also chairs the Board of Directors of the Center for Rehabilitation and Integration, said the project is in fulfillment of his dream to cater to mental health patients across the country.
"All my dream as a Senator is to rehabilitate a single Liberian citizen instead of constructing a school building in my name that children and [the] community will have to pay fees to me before they can attend," he said.
"However, the three thousand United States dollars that I cut from my salary monthly to make some intervention in the county through the Montserrado County Development Council will be directed toward this health project," Dillon explained.
According to him, Liberia made a great mistake after the war by focusing on disarming citizens and refused to focus its attention on the rehabilitation of youths across the country.
He disclosed that when former President Ellen Johnson – Sirleaf took office in 2006, the disadvantaged youth and mentally ill patients across the country were approximately between 15,000 to 20,000, and the government didn't focus its attention on rehabilitation.
Mr. Dillon narrated that it's so unfortunate that one government after another will continue to show little or no interest in rehabilitating youth across the country or even constructing rehabilitation homes or centers across the country.
The vocal Montserrado County Senator continued that after the war, the government's focus was on the silence of guns and establishing political power, adding that the issues of rehabilitation are a serious national concern.
Mr. Dillon indicated that people who lost their families and loved ones in their presence and other people who were affected by the war are going through trauma and need to be rehabilitated.
But he said since the government failed to do so, the number of disadvantaged youth and mental health patients has increased here.
He said that patients that will be at the facility will be treated freely and be given clothing and food free at the expense of him and his partners.
He noted that the center has professional and trained mental health doctors.
"Anything we are not able at this facility, we will inform that person and direct them to another health facility that is able [to do] their work. However, I have nothing to do with this facility and I will not be in front of anything. This project and facility will be run by all those professional rehabilitation doctors you are seeing here today," said Mr. Dillon.
Making a remark, the Director for Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the Ministry of Health, Madam Angie Tarr pledged the commitment and willingness of the ministry are working with Senator Dillon to cater to mental health patients, adding that they have professionally trained doctors to provide assistance.
In separate remarks, former Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai and the political leaders of Liberty Party Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence and All Liberian Party Benoni W. Urey called for inclusiveness in fighting drugs and substance abuse across the country.
They urged the Government of Liberia to strengthen the drug law in the country by making it non-billable and provide increased budgetary allotment to the Liberian Drugs Enforcement Agency to make it more effective in combating drugs across the country.
For their party, the Minister of Youth and Sports D. Zeogar Wilson and the Minister of Justice Frank Musa Dean, thanked Senator Dillon for the initiative, adding that the Government of Liberia is working in the said direction to mitigate the issues of drug, substance abuse, mental health counseling, and facilities across the country.
They added that the government of Liberia believes that by doing so, the crime rate across the country will be mitigated, and when people are rehabilitated, they can come back to society and make a positive impact in the country.
The friends of Dillon Global and MADDAS, speaking via WhatsApp from the United States of America, said they will continue to provide support to the program, adding that mental health issues are a serious matter that should claim the attention of everyone.

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JBR Surplus Auto Parts
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Bionic Auto Parts supplies our quality used auto parts to body shops, repair garages and retail cust...
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Campbellfield North Auto Parts
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Q: Google Analytics for Android not showing anything I was sure that I followed the documentation for the v4 API correctly, but maybe someone can spot what I've forgotten. I've been working on this for several days now, so I know it's not just Google Analytics taking its sweet time updating.
In my extends Application Java file I have
public class ASIUSU extends Application {

final private String PROPERTY_ID = "TRACKERIDHERE";
Tracker t;

public void onCreate() {
    GoogleAnalytics analytics = GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(this);
    analytics.getLogger().setLogLevel(Logger.LogLevel.VERBOSE);
    t = analytics.newTracker(PROPERTY_ID);
    }

public Tracker getTracker() {
    return t;
     }
}

And in my MainActivity.java file's onCreate() I have
Tracker t = ((ASIUSU) this.getApplication()).getTracker();
t.setScreenName("MainActivity");
t.send(new HitBuilders.AppViewBuilder().build());

For good measure, here's the log data that shows when I launch the app

09-08 12:20:48.882 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: connecting to Analytics service
09-08 12:20:48.892 23604-23604/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[main,5,main]: service connected, binder: android.os.BinderProxy@429d6040
09-08 12:20:48.892 23604-23604/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[main,5,main]: bound to service
09-08 12:20:48.892 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: connect: bindService returned true for Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.START cmp=com.google.android.gms/.analytics.service.AnalyticsService (has extras) }
09-08 12:20:48.892 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu I/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: No campaign data found.
09-08 12:20:48.892 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: Initialized GA Thread
09-08 12:20:48.892 23604-23604/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[main,5,main]: Connected to service
09-08 12:20:48.922 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: Loaded clientId
09-08 12:20:48.922 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: Loaded clientId
09-08 12:20:48.922 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: putHit called
09-08 12:20:48.932 23604-23622/com.csu.stan.asiusu V/GAV4﹕ Thread[GAThread,5,main]: Sending hit to service PATH: https: PARAMS: v=1, ul=en-us, t=screenview, ht=1410204044192, sr=1080x1776, a=1493402686, an=ASI/USU, tid=TIDHERE, aid=com.csu.stan.asiusu, cid=0de78828-82e6-4de7-9781-8642865f3c6b, av=2.0.0, _u=.nK-AL, cd=MainActivity,

Both realtime and the testing I did last Friday aren't showing up-- everything shows 0 users. Can anyone offer some assistance?

A: For anyone else who stumbles onto this, I successfully solved my problem. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my code, and it was trying to send to Google Analytics.
That said, I had an adblocker on my phone, which halts dispatches to Google Analytics. Just disable your adblock and try again, it should work.

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NYC 'Housewife' Slams DC 'Housewives'
Alex McCord calls the series debut boring and off-putting
By AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff
Published Aug 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM | Updated at 7:35 PM EDT on Aug 6, 2010
Alex McCord, known for extravagant shopping sprees, is apparently into resale these days.
"The Real Housewives of New York City" star Alex McCord brought out the claws while blogging about the debut of her sister Bravo show, "The Real Housewives of Washington D.C.," calling the series debut boring and off-putting.
Alex started her critique targeting a voiceover in the show's opening sequence — "the currency here is proximity to power."
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"So far, most of the 'DC Housewives' seem to be sitting in the balcony — about as close to power as Sarah Palin's ex-stylist's manicurist," Alex Tweeted.
When it came to Michaele Salahi – who made headlines this week for her war of words with "The View's" Whoopi Goldberg – Alex compared her to a recalled plastic doll.
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"Michaele seems to be the personification of that talking Barbie that said, 'math class is tough'" and was yanked off shelves in the '90s. Or possibly a pathological liar, like Jon Lovitz's character on 'Saturday Night Live,'" the NYC "Housewife" wrote. "She should not have been repaid for allegedly crashing every party in town, including the White House, by being kept on this show."
Alex ended her critique saying she hopes the Bravo series improves.
"Overall, I shuffled between being bored and turned off while watching 'The Real Housewives of DC'" she wrote. "I really wish we could have political candidates on the show, but they wouldn't do it, plus there are FCC rules about that. Lobbyists wouldn't because they'd never work again. So, we are left with four nice girls and a craven hair flipper, all of whom have that first season nervousness in front of the camera. Here's hoping it gets better!"
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Keepin' It Real With TV's Hottest Reality Stars!
Alex wasn't the only star who wasn't entirely happy with the show. "It's Complicated" star Denise Richards also posted her thoughts on the Bravo program.
"Something different with housewives of DC not sure…uncomfortable chemistry with some of them Original," she wrote.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Access' Top 10 Reality Romances Gone Bad!
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The available services mechanism does not currently support tempest plugins, as it includes several hardcoded lists within tempest itself (tempest/test.py, tempest/config.py) and within devstack (lib/tempest).
# if neutron isn't available, so always set to True.
We should extend or replace these mechanisms to support plugins.
Reason: Will followup in future with alternative..
As Tempest recommendation is to keep tempest plugin as separate repo, so it will not be much convenient to install plugin also to check service availability.


White 7" tablet tablet computer with 3 pin (UK) mains adaptor. Supplied in cardboard box.
The internal connections of the mains adaptor rely upon solder to maintain their position; a loose wire could reduce creepage distances and clearances. The adaptor pins are inadequately sized which could cause damage to the socket and the adaptor resulting in live parts being exposed. The product does not comply with the requirements of the Low Voltage Directive and the relevant European standard EN 61558 and the relevant national standard.


Watch the masters at work as two well-known Australian sculptors create iconic art work before your eyes on the Port Lincoln Foreshore from two 1.5 tonne Granite blocks through the SALT Festival. Sculptors Marijan Bekic and Silvio Apponyi, will create two inspired works and completed work is displayed as part of the Images of SA Exhibition at the Nautilus Theatre Rotary Gallery. Both events have been organised by Terry Krieg.
Silvio Apponyi migrated to Australia during Infancy, already confident with wood carving from the age of seven. Apponyi went on to study sculpture at the North Adelaide School of Art and during that time, he won a German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD); where he studied for a year at the Munich Academy. Since then he has had one-man shows and group exhibitions locally, interstate and overseas. He has won several prizes, accepted commissions, conducted workshops in Australia and Malaysia, and studied wood-block printmaking under a Japanese master. His work is featured in many private collections both here and overseas and in public spaces across Australia.
Marijan Bekic was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina and moved around central Europe finally achieving his ambition of a formal degree in arts and sculpting in Berne. He settled in Australia in 1969 and has a studio at Wudinna SA. He is best known for the giant granite sculpture the Australian farmer in Wudinna.
The Australian Farmer (also known as the Big Farmer) is a statue located in Wudinna, South Australia. Regarded as one of Australia's Big Things, the granite sculpture stands at 8 metres (26 ft) in height, and weighs in the vicinity of 70 tonnes. It took 17 years to produce from initial proposal to the final unveiling in 2009, and two years for the artist, Marijan Bekic (with the assistance of his son, David), to carve. The stylised work of a farmer represents the early settlers of the region, with carvings symbolising grain and sheep found within the sculpture.
Silvio and Marijan welcome the public to view their works in progress throughout the SALT Festival.


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Whom Are We Friends with and Why?
Hannah Jung | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1
On Philosophy and Friendship
That Americans are expert consumers is nothing new. That we are consumers of relationships, however, is disturbingly true. The hookup culture of college campuses and accruing friends on Facebook exemplify this current trend of a kind of libertarian individualism. In The New York Times article "Friendship in an Age of Economics," contemporary philosopher Todd May describes today's friendships in economic terms, as consumeristic and entrepreneurial.i Consumeristic friendship is the kind one consumes to satisfy one's own emotional needs or physical desire, typically in youth; entrepreneurial friendship is the kind one invests in an other in order to derive a future, external benefit (e.g. a job offer). Our culture's superficial, self-serving type of friendship should alarm us as relational individuals, especially knowing that it was criticized by the ancients. May's economic portrayal of consumerist and entrepreneurial friendship reflects not only Aristotle's taxonomy of pleasant and useful relationships, but also Cicero's assertion that most men do not invest in relationships unless profit can be derived, and when they do, a calculated balance is kept.ii Our time pushes these imperfect relationships upon us, often at the expense of true friendship—the virtuous kind based on man's goodwill for another, as described by the ancient philosophers. Our culture pressures us into climbing up the ladder by having the right connections instead of teaching us how to experience and love other human persons; the college hookup culture and high divorce rates across the country attest to our deprived state of meaningful relationships. In a time when personal gratification and material gain can be accessed via people, we so easily overlook the importance of those we call friends. Even the definition of "friend" is already blurred by Facebook. Why are we friends with the friends we have? Why be friends at all; what makes friendship important? And what does Christianity inform us about friendship that secular philosophy has not? This article demonstrates how the Christian perspective, instead of dislodging the classical philosophy on friendship, embraces it while also contributing a notion of spiritual friendship based on the theological virtue of charity as a gift from God.
Perhaps the finest articulation of the classic model of friendship lies in the Nichomachean Ethics of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (385-322 BCE), who classifies friendship under three causes—pleasure, utility, and virtue. Pleasure refers to physical satisfaction; utility, to practical advantage. When friendship is based on either or both these objects, it is susceptible to disintegration because it is not motivated by self-giving but by self-serving interest. One finds happiness not in the person of the friend, or in the relationship of friendship itself, but in an extrinsic quality (e.g. physical/ emotional pleasure, economic/social utility, et cetera). True friendship is "reciprocated goodwill"; it is only through virtue, or goodness, that friendship is complete.iii A friend is, according to Aristotle's definition, he who wishes good for his friend's own sake, like the tree in Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree, who gives selflessly for the boy's happiness. The tree does not give to the boy for the sake of her own happiness; rather, her happiness is in the giving, in the boy, and in the friendship itself. However, this children's storybook example is only half the picture; the boy exclusively takes the tree's gifts, making the relationship one-way, and hence not a virtuous, or complete, or true friendship. Even if the boy did give something back to the tree, the friendship is incomplete insofar as the giving is done for the sake of receiving something in return. A true friend is a virtuous person, whose friend is at the same time "another himself "; true friendships, therefore, can only exist between men who are alike in virtue.iv On this matter of equality, Aristotle poses a "puzzle": "do friends really wish their friend to have the greatest good, for example, to be a god?" for upon being a god, he will cease to be a friend.v You do not wish your friend to be a god—even if that is the greatest good—because by being a god both parties must forgo friendship, which is not only necessary for happiness, but also the greatest good attainable by man. Aristotle's conclusion, however, will be challenged later by Christian philosophy.
Nearly three centuries later Cicero (106-43 BCE), a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher, took Aristotle's classic model of friendship, specifically his emphasis on virtue, as the framework for his own. Positing friendship as the utmost priority of humanity's concern, Cicero argues that virtue initiates friendship and builds on Aristotle's model, adding that virtue is what sustains the mutual relationship. Cicero reveals the optional nature of friendship by contrasting friends to family: "once goodwill [virtue] has been lost, the friend is no longer a friend, but the relative is still a relative."vi Whereas family ties remain even if virtue is lost, friendship wholly depends on the human goodness we choose to give and receive. We cannot choose our family but we choose to have our friends, and the friends we do have come from decisions we have made ourselves. Friendship is therefore anthropocentric: man is to decide for himself whether to be and have a friend; neither a god nor any other man chooses our friends for us. Cicero further explicates the unnecessary character of friendship: because we are self-sufficient and our destiny is in our own hands, we feel no need to have friends.vii Hence it is not deprivation or need that drives us to friendship but rather a voluntary desire, rooted in our human nature, that begins a friendship.viii Paradoxically, however, Cicero argues that it is this optional quality that makes friendship so "universally essential," striking a keen resemblance to Aristotle's claim that friendship is necessary for man to live happily.ix The ancients therefore celebrated the good of friendship as a gift from the gods for man's happiness.
The medieval philosopher and Christian historian Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167), while embracing the secular thoughts of Aristotle and Cicero in Book I of De Spiritali Amicitia ("Spiritual Friendship"), diverges uniquely by imbuing it with Christian theology, particularly the Bible. Taking Christ as the model for true friendship, Aelred introduces the groundbreaking idea that friends must be willing to die for each other, just as Christ died for humanity on the Cross. Before his death Jesus says to His disciples, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."x Jesus is called the exemplar of a true friend because He defies His own superiority as God by taking the flesh of man and invites His disciples to be His friends: "I no longer call you servants… Instead, I have called you friends."xi Aelred's innovation, that true friendship is realized in Christ the Son of Man, stems from Jesus' death on the Cross—not as God but as man—and as a friend. Aristotle had treated the "puzzle" of wishing a friend to be godlike as unreasonable, and that of man's friendship with God, insoluble. To Aristotle, such an intimate relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary could not exist because communication of a finite being with God was impossible.xii But Aristotle could never have imagined the Incarnation, the Christian mystery in which God became Man: Jesus Himself, as God, calls us His friends by becoming man in the flesh, and we are invited to the friendship Aristotle rejected as unthinkable. Moreover, this same event, unimaginable to the Greeks and Romans alike, solved Aristotle's second paradox, the impossibility of wishing the highest good for one's friend—that he become a god. The redemption in Christ and His promise of eternal salvation resolves this kind of wishing that Aristotle lamented as inconceivable: the wish to become friends with a totally perfect god—without wishing him to be something alien to his personhood. This undreamt possibility of Christian revelation offers the way around Aristotle's dead end.
Aelred further expounds on his case for true friendship by disqualifying the pleasure and utility-based Aristotelean friendships as not true, calling the former carnal and the latter worldly friendship.xiii Both types of friendships mirror May's economic model of friendship: carnal friendship "is consumed by its own self "; worldly friendship burns out as soon as the spark of profit is extinguished.xiv True friendship, then, is spiritual friendship—in the spirit of Christ's undying love for man as a friend.xv Aelred describes this spiritual cornerstone of friendship as a "virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love."xvi Rather than diluting the ancient philosophy, Aelred enriches the virtue-based friendship by adding a spiritual, theological virtue to the natural, philosophical one. This spiritual virtue is what Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the foremost philosopher of the medieval Scholastics, denotes as charity (caritas in Latin; agape in Greek). Supporting Cicero's view that man becomes friends by nature, Aelred provides a theological basis that explains why we are inherently inclined to have and be friends. He reveals that God created woman to create friendship as an inspiration to charity:
How beautiful it is that the second human being was taken from the side of the first, so that nature might teach that human beings are equal and, as it were, collateral, and that there is in human affairs neither a superior nor an inferior, a characteristic of true friendship.xvii
It was the Creator's design to make humans not as disconnected individuals but as equal friends, and this point about equality and friendship echoes those made earlier by Aristotle, that friends are alike in virtue. However, Christianity expands Aristotle's frame that one can only love the lovable. Christianity agrees, yet it reveals that through the sacrifice of Christ, all people, according to their intrinsic human dignity, given through their being created in the image and likeness of God, are lovable. While friendship does depend upon equality of virtue, the lovable good in the character of the other—an equality received through the identity as children of God—opens the way for an even deeper friendship. Cicero had claimed that friendship originates from within us, not from an external need, and here we see that Christianity deepens this innate source of friendship: God has placed friendship at the innermost core of human beings, all made in the image of God.
Thomas Aquinas, arguably the most eminent medieval Christian philosopher, also develops his ideas using the philosophical foundations of Aristotle and Cicero, centering their secular notions of virtue-based friendship on the spiritual, theological virtue of charity, mirroring Aelred's account. As the ancients have discussed—that friendship (amicitia in Latin) comes from love (amor/philia)—Aquinas extends this derivation and applies it to Christianity. He articulates a specific kind of love—love based on fellowship with Christ—as charity, and this "charity is the friendship of man for God."xviii Aquinas calls charity a virtue but specifies it by describing charity as a theological virtue acquired not by man's own efforts but by God's gracious love. Thus, like Aelred's discussion of spiritual friendship, Aquinas' explanation of charity completes, rather than competes with, the famed accounts of Aristotle and Cicero, two of the greatest pagan philosophers. In fact, this spiritual attribute of friendship appears in ancient philosophy: the Greeks did not believe that friendship would end because they thought the human soul itself was spiritual.xix Aquinas' treatise on friendship does not replace but perfects the ancient archetype by defining the apex of virtue as charity, expanding the foundations of virtuous friendship to include not only human reason, but also heavenly revelation. Aquinas therefore presents friends as providential gifts of grace from God—gifts that human reason and natural virtue alone cannot merit.
Though exalted as one of the highest goods of human existence by both secular and Christian philosophers, true friendship has been largely ignored by modern society. It remains an under-researched relationship in sociology compared to the immense studies done on marriage and family relationships.xx Unlike marriage, friendship serves no biological purpose and has no direct legal ramifications. Exploring friendship as a kind of love in The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis (1898- 1963) argues that true friendship is rarely experienced, simply because it is biologically unnecessary. Lewis echoes Cicero's philosophy that friendship is mutually developed on purely voluntary grounds: "I have no duty to be anyone's friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine."xxi It is precisely this optional quality of friendship that makes it vulnerable and at the same time profound. Lewis, the former atheist who became a Christian apologist, further elucidates that "this love, free from instinct, wholly free from jealousy, and free without qualification from the need to be needed, is eminently spiritual."xxii Lewis takes the friendship between David and Jonathan as a salient biblical example of the true, spiritual kind as noted in the Book of 1 Samuel: "Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself."xxiii In David and Jonathan's friendship we see precisely Aristotle's (and Cicero's) definition of a true friend as one who is "another himself " and who is involved "more in loving than in being loved."xxiv Friendship is this heavenly kind of relationship that is based on love, the virtue ancient and medieval philosophers held as the centrality of true friendship. At the end of the chapter, though, Lewis presents an extraordinary thesis by defying the ancients. We think that we have chosen our friends. However:
In reality, a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another, posting to different regiments, the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting—any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances.xxv
Lewis maintains that for the Christian, it is God who has been at work for friendship to have begun between two perfect strangers. Jesus tells His disciples, "You did not choose me but I chose you."xxvi We do not choose our friends, but friendship itself is chosen for us. Hence friendship is selflessly theocentric: God allows us to cross paths with those whom we think we ourselves chose as friends, but whom in reality were chosen for us by God. Unlike Aristotle and Cicero who held that friendship revolves around human choices, Lewis, Aquinas, and Aelred all maintain that it is God who brings friends together in love, through their own cooperating volition, by His love for us. Thus, Christianity explains that our friends are not accidents but gifts.
Just as reason and faith need not collide against each other, the Christian philosophy of friendship does not contradict the ancient. Instead of dismantling the secular discourse on friendship, Christian thinkers cemented it with theology, capping Aristotle and Cicero's virtuous friendship with spiritual friendship. Establishing the theological virtue of charity as the highest virtue, Christianity views the voluntary nature of friendship as a providential boon from God. It is not by chance or luck whom we become friends with— or that we have friends at all—but from a work done by God out of love that spills over to our friendships, a love so great that God as man called His disciples His friends. While the ancient philosophies ultimately culminate in virtue-based friendship, the theological virtue of charity leads us to spiritual friendship that natural virtue and reason by themselves cannot attain. Christianity, therefore, offers a unique perspectivexxvii to the secular philosophy—both ancient and contemporary— by appreciating friendship as God's gift to us out of His love; our friends, then, are a blessing. As the ancient philosophers recognized the ease with which we can settle for less from our relationships, the current cultural context challenges us, diverts us from what it means to have a true friend and be one. In this age of economics, we must consider how we approach our friendships and, as Flannery O'Connor writes, push back against our age "as hard as the age that pushes against you."xxviii
i. Todd May, "Friendship in an Age of Economics," Opinionator The New York Times, 4 July 2010. Web. 15 June 2012. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/friendship-in-an-age-ofeconomics/
ii. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Terence Irwin, in Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, ed. Michael Pakaluk (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1991) 1156a-1156b; Cicero, De Amicitia, trans. Frank Copley, in Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, ed. Michael Pakaluk (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1991) XXI.79, XVI.58.
iii. Aristotle 1156a-1156b.
iv. Ibid. 1166a. Cicero makes a similar statement in De Amicitia: "the true friend is, so to speak, a second self " (Cicero XXI.80).
v. Aristotle 1159a.
vi. Cicero V.19.
vii. Ibid. IX.30.
viii. Ibid. VIII.27. "[F]riendship takes its beginning from our very nature rather than from our sense of inadequacy…"
ix. Ibid. VI.22, Aristotle, 1155a. Cicero absorbs the Aristotelian thought that friendship is the best gift and greatest good from the gods for human happiness: "of all the gifts the gods have given us, this [friendship] is our best source of goodness and of happiness" (Cicero XIII.47).
x. John 15:13, as cited in Aelred of Rievaulx, De Spiritali Amicitia, trans. Eugenia Laker, in Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, ed. Michael Pakaluk (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1991) I.30.
xi. John 15:15 NIV.
xii. James V. Schall What is God like? (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992) 146.
xiii. Aelred I.37, I.38.
xiv. Ibid. I.41, I.43.
xv. Ibid. I.45, I.9.
xvi. Ibid. I.21.
xvii. Ibid. I.57. In agreement with Cicero: "nature abhors solitude" (Cicero XXIII.88).
xviii. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, trans. the Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, ed. Michael Pakaluk (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1991) Q.23, A.1.
xix. James V. Schall, "Aristotle on Friendship," The Mind that is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008) 109.
xx. Kong, Kenneth C. C. "'Are You My Friend?': Negotiating Friendship in Conversations between Network Marketers and Their Prospects," in Language in Society 32.4 (2003): 489.
xxi. C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960) 71.
xxii. Ibid. 77.
xxiii. 1 Samuel 18:1 NIV
xxiv. Aristotle 1166a, 1159a.
xxv. Lewis 89.
xxvi. John 15:16 NIV.
xxvii. This article is not to argue that a Christian is any truer a friend than anyone else, but that Christianity opens up the possibility for us to discover and discuss even deeper, truer friendship.
xxviii. Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor Ed. Sally Fitzgerald (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979) 229.
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Collection of the classic public domain Max Fleischer Superman cartoons.
I took the Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman cartoons from the early 40s and edited them together into one continous 2 hour animated movie.
Highest available quality of the 1940s superman cartoon series from fleischer studios and famous studios. will update if a proper blu ray 35mm remaster is ever released. version shown in player is lower quality. Download mkv files for highest quality.
A mash-up tribute to the vision and artistry of Max Fleischer.
From the 1940s Fleischer Studios comes the first color Superman series.
The very first animated Superman feature.
This is a fix of a movie already in the archives. Hope you find it useful. There were complaints about the audio sync on this one, so I edited the soundtrack to get the video and audio synch'd, and also set the level to 98%. This is in Mpeg-1 format.
40s Superman cartoon copied in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"
(Public domain cartoon) Was amazed when I watched this 1941 Superman cartoon ("The Mechanical Monsters") and recognized that "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004) copied the opening robot attack almost shot for shot. Same angles, same flying robot design, and even the way they swing their arms while walking.
Classic episode of Superman, two Fleischer Gabby toons, Swing You Sinners and a Japanese cartoon from 1933.
1948 Screen Song "Camptown Races"
1948 Screen Song "Base Brawl"
1948 Screen Song "Little Brown Jug"
1947 Screen Song "Circus Comes To Clown"


With the Pentagon's 10 million dollar JEDI RFP deadline looming, cloud providers are scrambling to prove they have what it takes to secure the contract and deliver on the requested services. Microsoft Azure made headlines this week, when they launched Azure Stack for Government. This is a big step for Microsoft in the public sector, proving both their dedication to pursuing federal contracts as well as their ability to stand-up a project quickly.
That speed will benefit Azure as they formulate their bid on the contract, because Pentagon officials have stated the quick time-to-deployment as one of the primary motivations for choosing a single cloud provider. Azure Stack for Government is similar to Azure Stack, but comes with some additional federally-compliant security and monitoring features. On of those compliances achieved with the new product is FedRamp, a certification required for a cloud service provider to do business with the federal government.
Meeting this FedRamp certification is one of the necessary steps to fulfill on the contract. The Pentagon is allowing only 30 days after the September 17th RFP deadline to complete the listed unclassified requirements. Additional deadlines for as-yet unrevealed classified requirements will have to be met after the contract is secured.
The City of Sunrise Firefighters Pension Fund filed a lawsuit against Oracle this week, for allegedly "misrepresent[ing] the true drivers of the company's cloud revenue growth" in investor calls, press releases, and other official communications. Those pressing for the suit say that the true demand for Oracle Cloud has been fogged by false statements and lies of omission, being largely driven by pressure tactics rather than innovation as the company claimed.
The Florida pension fund claims that Oracle's true source of cloud sales was "threats and extortive tactics". One example listed in the lawsuit was threatening to audit existing Oracle products, with offers to resolve the problem if the customer purchased cloud products. The fund says these tactics are unsustainable and not in line with the prior statements made by the company- primarily about cloud growth being driven by innovative technology and excellent customer service.
Even the experts make mistakes- AWS officials included. This week Amazon S3 buckets made headlines again when it was discovered that Amazon themselves left data unsecured, this time regarding sales strategy and special pricing rates pertaining to GoDaddy, one of the world's largest Internet domain hosts.
The issue was originally found by UpGuard, a cyber-security sleuth that hunts for these kinds of leaks and notifies the companies involved. According to AWS the employee who made the files available was acting against company policy, and the configuration of the bucket was not adherant to best practices.
This week Alibaba partnered with Autonomic, recently acquired by Ford to help build their Transportation Mobility Cloud. The partnership is designed to build and offer a standardized platform where automakers can build services for their vehicles, and it'll be open to even Ford's competitors.
The service would be sold on a subscription basis to interested parties, both in China and elsewhere in the world. The stated goal is to form a communal transportation information infrastructure to connect with Alibaba City Brain initiatives, tying them into public transport and rental systems, self driving cars, and ride sharing services. The deal comes on the tail of a broader cooperation agreement penned by Ford, Deerborn, and Alibaba in December of last year.


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New Brunswick Department of Public Safety Chooses Fujitsu for Modernization
"Fujitsu has built a solid platform on which we can build. It is the foundation of our modernization program and will help us evolve as an organization so we can continue to keep the roads of New Brunswick safe for everyone"
Robert Cyr, Program Director, New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Branch
New Brunswick is the largest of Canada's three Maritime Provinces and was one of the first to join the Dominion of Canada in 1867. It today boasts a varied and increasingly multicultural population with a total population of 729,997.
The New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Branch was burdened with an out of date legacy mainframe system that was overly complex and costly to maintain. It wanted to migrate its business critical applications to a more flexible, modern platform to simplify support and lower costs.
Fujitsu used its PROGRESSION suite to automate the conversion of 1.5 million lines of code; 110 database tables; 40 million data records; and 867 business logic programs, migrating away both online and batch programs from the COBOL mainframe to a stable, reliable solution in a .NET environment.
The new system can be managed in-house without the need for expensive external consultants
The modern platform does not require specialist COBOL knowledge meaning finding new staff with the right skills is much easier
Its stability ensures maximum uptime and enables it to process 30 million transactions per year
The interface is identical to the previous mainframe solution so employees are comfortable with using it and no special training is required
Download the full New Brunswick Department of Public Safety case study (424 KB/A4, 2 pages)


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Why the world is suddenly so obsessed with Italy's constitution
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Awaiting his fate.
United States of Europe
By Annalisa Merelli
Published December 3, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
On Dec. 4, Italians will vote in a referendum that has been compared to Brexit, despite the Italian government's insistence that the stakes aren't nearly as high. Indeed, unlike the UK's in-out vote on EU membership, the Italian referendum will ask voters to approve a somewhat convoluted package of changes to the constitution, which must be put to a nationwide vote by law (the changes were initially proposed in early 2014). The reforms aim to cut costs and streamline government decision-making by clarifying the role of local legislative bodies and stripping the Senate of many of its powers, among a host of other measures.
Also, unlike Brexit, in the Italian case the government is the one lobbying for a change from the status quo, urging citizens to vote "yes" to the constitutional reforms. Opponents to the changes, meanwhile, come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, far-right Northern League, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and many on the far left.
Why this? Why now?
Most of the disagreements about the referendum center on the reforms of the role of the Senate. Although there is a general consensus that Italy's bicameral structure, in which the upper and lower houses hold equal power, needs to be changed, many disagree with the changes as currently proposed. Some think that the Senate should be abolished completely, instead of given a less powerful but vague new role. Others oppose the idea of a Senate where members aren't elected, as it seems to be suggested in the proposed reforms.
On the other side, prime minister Matteo Renzi and fellow supporters of the referendum see this as the most ambitious reform of the country's lawmaking process in a very long time. They promote it as a groundbreaking step forward in streamlining the country's famously slow-moving bureaucracy.
But in recent months the referendum has evolved into a vote of confidence in the government, as these exercises often do, instead of an assessment of the merits of arcane constitutional tweaks. This because Renzi doubled-down on the referendum by pledging to resign in case his side lost, a move that galvanized the opposition.
All of the latest polls (link in Italian) give a narrow but clear advantage to the "no" camp:
"Renzi made a mistake in personalizing the referendum," says Marco Castelnuovo, a political correspondent and mobile editor of Italy's largest newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera. And so, the "no" front now includes both left-wing progressives and anti-establishment populists, anti-fascist organizations and neo-fascist ones, and other unlikely pairings.
Voting intentions by age are also unexpected. "An interesting element is that the youth is most likely to vote 'no'," says Castelnuovo, "so those who should be more inclined to change, and risk, and in the end see themselves in a 40-year-old prime minister are actually voting against." Young Italians suffer from sky-high unemployment, especially in the south, and have grown frustrated with the government. This animus appears to override any feelings they might have about the suitability of the constitution.
Some are voting "no" in the referendum despite the chance it could take down the government, triggering a snap election with a highly uncertain outcome. Others reject the reforms precisely because that is a possibility. Renzi eventually admitted that putting his job on the line (link in Italian) was a mistake, hinting that his resignation may not be so automatic if the vote goes against him, though has recently confirmed (link in Italian) his plan to resign if defeated.
What's Trump got to do with it?
As the vote approaches, the volatile global political environment has been looming larger in voters' minds. In most polls, more than 20% of voters say they are undecided, and many of them may be influenced by what they've seen in Britain after the Brexit vote and, especially, America after Donald Trump's election victory.
On the one hand, the likes of Five Star's Beppe Grillo and Northern League's Matteo Salvini welcomed the US vote (link in Italian) as an affirmation of the anti-establishment wave washing over western democracies, promising that Italy's referendum will be the next "hit against globalization and revenge of brave people," as Salvini put it. On the other, Renzi has tried to co-opt his opponents' language by claiming that a vote in favor of the reforms is the true anti-establishment option.
For those caught in the middle, Renzi's personalization of the vote may help swing it in his favor: some who would have otherwise voted "no" may waver, worried more about the unpredictable political aftermath after a referendum rejection than qualms about the actual constitutional reforms referenced on the ballot papers.
For them, Trump's victory has cast the referendum as Italy's chance to repel the populist, xenophobic wave from washing over their country, too. (Remember that Barack Obama, the outgoing leader of the world's liberal order, honored Renzi by inviting him as the guest of honor at his final state dinner at the White House in October.)
While a "no" vote may slow down the pace of reform in Italy, what's new? "This is an important referendum but not in the least comparable with Brexit for the consequences it could have, not the election of Trump," notes Castelnuovo. Italian markets have been particularly calm in the run-up to the vote, despite the "no" camp's growing lead in the polls.
"Recall that Italy has had 63 governments in 70 years," wrote Wolfango Piccoli of Teneo Intelligence in a recent research note. "There is plenty of expertise on how to deal with a political crisis like the one that will ensue in case of a 'no' win."


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Five climate change protesters arrested as Britain braces for weekend of chaos
One man is led away outside King's College, in London - i-Images Picture Agency
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to global health, experts warn
Teachers warned not to let children walk out on 'climate strike'
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Why Australia, the US and Japan are banned from speaking at the UN's flagship climate summit
Police have arrested climate change protesters who were illegaly blocking Lambeth bridge after a day of global action, believed to be the largest climate protest in history.
So far, five protesters have been taken into custody for breaching public order conditions that restricted the gathering to the Millbank area.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "Lambeth Bridge has been occupied by protestors. You are free to leave and we encourage you to do so, because this assembly is in breach of the S14 conditions and you are liable to arrest."
The large group was forced off the bridge by police who arrived in vans from Westminster and were then escorted along Lambeth Road and made to disperse.
One police insider said that it was "massively peaceful, considering the number of people attending."
Looks like they're dancing their way into a kettle ... #ClimateStrikepic.twitter.com/fmw9hBEvpb
— Lizzie Roberts (@lizrob92) September 20, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of people led by school children took part in protests across the UK, calling for urgent action to tackle climate change.
Children and students walked out of lessons and lectures and were joined by parents, campaigners and workers as part of global climate strikes which look set to be the largest environmental protests in history once the figures are confirmed.
Organisers claim that around 100,000 people took part in a rally in central London, with more than 20,000 thought to have marched in Edinburgh and 10,000 in Brighton as crowds flocked on to the streets around the UK.
In London, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the youngsters in the crowd that "you and a whole generation have brought the issue centre stage and I am absolutely delighted about that".
He criticised US President Donald Trump for his failure to act on climate change and had a message for Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro that he wanted to work with him to preserve and protect the Amazon rainforest.
Protesters are beginning to gather ahead of the UK Student Climate Network's Global Climate Strike at Millbank in London Credit: Gareth Fuller/PA
Green Party politician Caroline Lucas was also present and told the PA news agency: "It feels like there is a real uprising. It feels like there is a real sense from young people in particular that they simply won't wait any longer.
"It is their future that is at stake and our generation, my generation is responsible for not having done nearly enough to address that.
"They have enormous moral authority when they tell us that."
Some of Friday's first protests were held in Australia, where an estimated 300,000 people gathered at more than 100 rallies calling for action to guard against climate change, with further demonstrations held across parts of Asia.
Protesters joining the climate strikes in Britain enjoyed a day of unseasonably warm weather as they called on businesses and politicians to cut emissions.
Children and young people across the country walked out of lessons and lectures, with thousands of workers joining them.
Police arrest a protester after issuing a section 14 notice at an Extinction Rebellion gathering Credit: Thomas Bowles
In Westminster, the protests started at 11am, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn set to address crowds this afternoon.
But the Department for Education has echoed teachers unions in warning that whilst they "encourage constructive engagement" it shouldn't "come at the expense of our children's education or excessive disruption".
Teachers were told that if they encouraged students to attend or fail to record absences they put themselves at risk of legal or disciplinary action.
Many teachers appeared to ignore the warnings.
The protests are part of a snowballing movement sparked by teenage activist Greta Thunberg's school strikes outside the Swedish parliament.
What happened in Britain today?
The UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) says more than 200 events were planned to take place across the UK, with - for the first time - adults being encouraged to join the youngsters as they strike.
Among the many trade unions throwing their weight behind the strikes are the TUC Congress, the University and College Union and Unite.
Some businesses actively supported their workers to take action, with outdoor clothing company Patagonia closing stores and offices globally, and taking out adverts to support the strikers.
The Co-operative Bank has also teamed up with Unite to support its workforce to take part in the climate strikes.
But business, energy and clean growth minister Kwasi Kwarteng said he could not endorse children leaving school to take part.
Business, energy and clean growth minister Kwasi Kwarteng said he could not endorse children leaving school to take part Credit: Victoria Jones/PA
He told BBC Breakfast on Friday that he supports the "energy and creativity" of students, but said time spent in school is "incredibly important".
When asked if the Government is listening to the young protesters, he added: "Their voices are being heard.
"What I do support is their energy, their creativity, and the fact that they have completely mastered these issues and take them very seriously.
"I am not going to endorse people leaving school because I think education, time spent in school, is incredibly important."
Why have people been arrested?
The Met police has issued strict instructions that restricts protests to a small area of Westminster.
In order to impose this condition, the Met required evidence that the procession may result in serious disruption to communities in London. Latest intelligence reports suggest that such serious disruption is an objective of this protest and is likely to occur, and as such, conditions have been imposed.
The conditions imposed under Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 stipulate that:
- Any assembly by organisers, members, participants, associates, supporters and sympathisers of "Global Climate Strike" (whether or not they are members of this group) must take place in Millbank and Abingdon Street London, SW1P, from the stage area on South of Dean Stanley Street, to the junction of Abingdon Street with Parliament Square.
- Assembly cannot take place in any other part of London.
- Any assembly must conclude at 15:30hrs on Friday, 20 September.
Arrests have been made this morning and this afternoon at the protests Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
The Gold commander for the event, Commander Dave Musker, said: "We respect the right to protest; however, what we will not tolerate are protestors committing criminal offences and disproportionately stopping people going about their lawful business in London.
"Anyone who knowingly fails to comply with these conditions or incites others to fail to comply will be committing an offence and will be liable to arrest. I will not allow the actions of a few to seriously hinder the day-to-day activities of the vast majority of Londoners, or visitors. The cumulative impact of these protests has been very significant in terms of serious disruption.
"I have a proportionate policing operation in place and we will be proactive in ensuring any impact on our communities is minimised; anyone who is intent on violence is dealt with swiftly and robustly.
"A designated area has been agreed for the protests to take place in and I urge those attending the Global Strike Youth 4 Climate protests to comply with the law and do so in that location."
What disruption is expected in the coming days?
On Saturday Extinction Rebellion plan to blockade the Port of Dover for four hours. The "No Food on a Dying Planet" action at the Kent port is expected to be mirrored across the Channel by other Extinction Rebellion groups.
On Sunday, as the Labour Party conference gets underway in Brighton, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that more than 20km of road in central London will be shut along with a further 340 streets which will be turned into "play areas".
But the move has been criticised as a "PR stunt" which will cost £1million which could have been invested in "proper measures to improve air quality".
On the Ground in London, with Lizzie Roberts
Our reporter Lizzie Roberts is on the streets of Westminster following the demonstration. She's been talking to students and teachers who have joined in.
I'm reporting the London #ClimateStrike. These kids from John Stainer school have come to "exercise their democratic right" said headteacher Sue Harte. pic.twitter.com/0JWsQPLW5U
She writes: A London primary school, John Stainer of Brockley, has accompanied over 100 children to the climate strike. Headteacher Sue Harte said the children, aged 4-11, are exercising their democratic right as part of their British values.
She said: "Our school council has been learning about democracy they are exercising their democratic right to protest, lots of other kids have come with their parents. That's one of the British values it's an important part of their education.
"With staff we brought the school council of 16 students but there are nearly 100 others being brought with their parents.
"I think they (schools which don't allow kids to protest) should realise that they could let the children exercise their democratic rights under British values. I expect that might change as these protests keep happening.
"The issue won't go away and the children want to exercise their democratic right so who am I to stop them?
"Obviously it has to be done safely but who am I to stop them?"
Kelly Devereux, from Serbiton, took her six year old son to the protest despite the school saying it would be recorded as an "unauthorised absence".
She said: "They said it was an unauthorised absence and we should have given two weeks notice, which is a bit po-faced if you ask me.
"It's really important, but he went to school first thing and then we took him out.
"I feel that education is obviously very important and by taking children out of school on a Friday shows this protest is very important."
Protests around the UK
This, from Sheffield:
Sheffield, you have done me proud #sheffield#Sheffieldissuper#ClimateStrike#ClimateChange#YouthStrike4Climate#YS4C@Strike4Youthpic.twitter.com/QVTeYxZeR3
— RooRooS (@PolaRooS) September 20, 2019
This from Canterbury:
#ClimateChange gathering outside Canterbury Cathedral. pic.twitter.com/TGbPYUGjZT
— Simon Jones (@SimonJonesNews) September 20, 2019
And this from Bristol:
Thousands now marching through the centre of Bristol #ClimateStrikepic.twitter.com/O98aPpOEnE
— Andy Davies (@adavies4) September 20, 2019
Protests around the world
The first large-scale protests of Friday's "global climate strike" took place in Sydney and Canberra, with demonstrators calling on leaders in Australia, the world's largest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas, to take more drastic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Similar rallies are planned for around the world, with 800 events set to take place in the US and 400 in Germany.
The protests come ahead of a climate summit at the UN next week convened by secretary-general Antonio Guterres to urge countries to up their climate efforts.
Much steeper measures are needed across the globe to prevent temperature rises of more than 1.5C (2.7F) or 2C (3.6F) to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
As if to underline the urgency of the issue, the mercury is set to hit 26C (78.8F) in parts of Britain this weekend - 8C above the average for the time of year.
People display placards during a rally as part of a global climate change campaign at Sanur beach on Indonesia's resort island of Bali Credit: AFP
India, by Joe Wallen
The protests were not restricted to the West, however, and more than 2,000 students and school-children took to the streets in Delhi to demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi declare an immediate climate emergency in India.
While the Indian economy has ballooned in recent years - the International Monetary Fund now ranks it as the fifth largest in the world - this rapid development has come at a cost.
Nine out of the ten most polluted cities in the world are in the country and the Indian Government's think tank Niti Aayog predicts that 21 major cities will run out of drinking water by 2020.
The peaceful march set off from the Lodhi neighbourhood of the city with protesters, some as young as nine-years-old, chanting slogans such as "We are unstoppable, another world is possible" and "There is no Earth B" and holding placards.
"We are not really doing anything to save our water resources, we are polluting our water resources and without water there is no life on Earth possible," said protester Shipra Sarangi, 19.
"We have some demands that the Indian Government should start using more renewable resources and stop using fossil fuels."
The procession ended outside the office of the Ministry for Climate Change where the marchers held a sit-in stopping traffic in Lodhi.
Chit Dubey founded Extinction Rebellion India in November 2018 and he said today was historic as it was the first time so many young Indians had taken to the streets to demand action over climate change.
"It seems this movement is going to grow bigger and bigger over the next few months because the youth of India are not going to sit silently and the energy was amazing today," he said.
"We are hoping to increase from 2,000 to 20,000 to 100,000 people and more."
Dubey will deliver a letter stating the group's concerns to the office of Prime Minister Modi tomorrow
Asia, by Nicola Smith
The Global Climate Strike has been spreading from the Pacific across Southeast Asia after kicking off in Kiribati, a tiny group of 32 atolls and former British protectorate in Micronesia.
With sea levels rising, many believe huge areas of Kiribati will be inundated within 25 years. Local children took time out to hold up signs saying "we are not sinking, we are fighting."
In low-lying Vanuatu in the South Pacific, the deputy minister spoke directly to the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand as countries "to blame for this threat to our survival" as hundreds took to the streets of Port Vila with colourful banners.
Children in the Solomon Islands arrived by boat to protest, wearing traditional grass skirts and carrying wooden shields in solidarity with the global movement.
Students attend a climate change protest in Marovo Island, Solomon Islands Credit: Reuters
The protests built up momentum across Asia, from the Philippines and Singapore to Thailand and Indonesia.
In Bangkok, which lies just 1.5 metres above sea level, about 200 protesters marched to the Ministry of Environment to deliver a letter calling on the government to declare a climate emergency.
Locals in the Indonesian region of Kalimantan focussed on the hazardous air that has been caused by weeks of forest fires, and which have caused breathing and eye problems both at home and in neighbouring Malaysia.
Australia, by Giovanni Torre
In Australia, more than 300,000 students gathered around the country including state capitals and outback towns like Alice Springs.
Kaelin Abrahams, a Year 11 student from North Albany High School, was a leading organiser of the strike and rally in Perth, Western Australia.
He told The Telegraph that young people are motivated by the "existential threat" climate changes poses.
"This is the greatest threat humanity has faced. It is a threat to us as a species and also a threat to biodiversity, to all life."
The 16-year-old said that his generation had "the most to lose" from unmitigated climate change.
Protesters push an inflatable globe into the air while holding placards and banners during the Global Climate Strike demonstration at the Domain in Sydney Credit: David Gray/Bloomberg
The Perth rally more than doubled in size from the equivalent action six months earlier, with at least 10,000 people rallying in the heart of the capital.
Melinda Tupling, a teacher at an international school in Perth, organised for a strike at her school - with the blessing of their director of studies.
"The majority of the students went to the strike and we marched together in the rally, it was brilliant," she said.
"The students described it as inspiring, epic, fascinating, empowering. They are all adult students from around the world studying English here in Perth."
Until last summer, the name Greta Thunberg was relatively unknown outside her family and friends in Sweden. The eldest of two girls, she is the daughter of actor Svante Thunberg and Malena Ernman, a well-known opera singer who came 21st in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. (She is also distantly related to Svante Arrhenius, the first scientist to predict that carbon emissions would lead to warming.)
Growing up with the family's two labradors, Moses and Roxy, near the capital, Thunberg was academically sound but quiet, and became interested in the subject of climate change when she was just nine.
Images of melting ice and polar bears in peril became stuck in Thunberg's mind. At 11, she was uninterested in mobile phones or the trends other children followed, and her sadness turned to a crippling depression; stopping her from going to school, eating and – aside from family and one particular teacher at school – speaking.
At around the same time, she and her younger sister, 13-year-old Beata, were diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, ADHD and other conditions. Thunberg says that her autism has helped helped her to focus on doing something about the subject that caused her depression.
By last summer, Thunberg's focus had outgrown the home. Frustrated by what she saw as weak-to-non-existent policies on climate change from the Swedish government, and provoked by the summer heatwave, she resolved to skip school and sit alone, every Friday, on the cobblestones in front of the country's parliament. "I am doing this because you adults are s****** on my future," said the leaflets she handed out to passersby.
Students in other countries followed, including the UK, and soon tens of thousands of teenagers had joined the strike. Thunberg was invited to the United Nations climate conference and the World Economic Forum, in Davos. At the latter, she told a roomful of business leaders that their financial success had "come with an unthinkable price tag" for the planet.
She has met Pope Francis and Jean-Claude Juncker, earned endorsements from Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio, and been touted for the Nobel Peace Prize.
"All my life I've been invisible, the invisible girl in the back who doesn't say anything," she said last year. No longer: "From one day to another, people listen to me."
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Ground staff worked through the night to try and get Latics game on
Snow scene at Boundary Park
Oldham Athletic's ground staff worked through the night in an attempt to get Saturday's match with Morecambe to go ahead.
The League Two tie succumbed to the weather, as snow and icy conditions hit the region.
The pitch failed an inspection on Saturday morning ahead of the match and a decision was quickly made to postpone the match.
It left caretaker boss Pete Wild frustrated.
He told the club's official website: "I thought with the efforts that everybody put in we were nearly there. I thought, given another 45 minutes to an hour, the game would have been on. But the referee's decision is final and, unfortunately, it's a tough one to swallow."
He revealed that the ground staff had worked non-stop overnight to try and get the game to go ahead.
"I'm gutted for the ground staff because they've stayed up all night trying to get the game on. I'm just really gutted we couldn't get it on because everyone has put so much work into this.
"I've just been and had a chat with them [the ground staff] to tell them their efforts were fantastic and I'm gutted for them that we couldn't get the game on.
"That shows again that people are willing to work hard. We've got some really good ground staff here, but you can only deal with the cards you're dealt.
"I felt they've given it everything overnight, in the last 24-48 hours to get the game on and they deserve enormous credit in what they've done, when you see clubs quite close to us across the country who just gave up yesterday."
The caretaker boss also saw a real community spirit in the town, with people turning out on Saturday morning to try and help out.
He added: "I thought you saw what I'd call good traits of Oldham people over the last two days, in the fact that everybody is prepared to muck in.
"Everybody was prepared to do their bit. I had to send the players in at one point because I didn't want them getting injured.
"It really shows that we've got some real good family values at this club, that everybody really wants the best.
"You put a simple call to arms on social media and you look this [Saturday] morning, we've got 50 people here.
"It's fantastic and shows people care and shows people want the best for the football club. You can see the disappointment on people's faces when it was called off. I'm gutted for them."
The postponement means the caretaker manager now turns his attention to Oldham's match with Crawley on Saturday.
Wild said: "We've now got a full week's training. We have a game on Tuesday behind closed doors that we'll probably give people a little bit more of a blast in and we'll work hard towards the game with Crawley on Saturday and see how that takes us."


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Voskresenski  es un jútor del ókrug urbano de la ciudad-balneario de Anapa del krai de Krasnodar, en el sur de Rusia. Está situado en la orilla izquierda del arroyo Tsybanova, que desemboca en el mar Negro, 8km al norte de la ciudad de Anapa y 130km al oeste de Krasnodar. Tenía 954 habitantes en 2010.

Pertenece al municipio rural Primórskoye.

Transporte
Por la localidad pasa la carretera federal M25 Novorosíisk-Puerto Kavkaz.

Referencias

 Este artículo contiene datos geográficos extraídos de Google Earth y el mapa de Rusia de Yandex.ru, accesible desde  este enlace.

Enlaces externos
 Mapa topográfico en maps.vlasenko.net .

Localidades de la Ciudad de Anapa del krai de Krasnodar

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