Trump has a godawful, 40%-56% (negative 16-point) approval rating in VA-10. This is clearly NOT good news for someone like Barbara Comstock, who votes an eye-popping 98% in lockstep with Trump. Also, this is clearly NOT what VA-10 voters want from their Congressperson.
On the important issue of preventing gun violence, Comstock – one of the top recipients of NRA blood money – is also WILDLY out of step with voters in her district. For starters, VA-10 voters OVERWHELMINGLY (88%-9%) support requiring background checks before the sale of any gun.
On other gun-related issues, VA-10 voters overwhelmingly (65%-28%) support "a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines"; again overwhelmingly (73%-13%) support "allowing law enforcement, close family members, and others who believe a person may be a danger to themselves or others to ask a court to temporarily remove firearms and prohibit that person from buying or possessing a gun while they are in crisis"; overwhelmingly (77%-15%) think arming teachers is a worse idea than using federal school funding for "mental health programs, drug and violence prevention services, and health and physical education"; etc.
The bottom line is that on gun violence prevention policy, as on SO many other issues, Barbara Comstock isn't just out of sync with VA-10 voters, she's basically on a different planet. In stark contrast, on issue after issue, Democratic nominee Jennifer Wexton is on the same page as VA-10 voters. On November 6, I urge every VA-10 voter to cast their ballot for the candidate, in this case Jennifer Wexton, who is with you on the issues and not 98% in lockstep with Trump and the NRA.
Next articleWith Brett Kavanaugh, We're In the Endgame Now. What Are YOU Going To Do About It?


Learn about triangular relations through hands on kit.
Explore triangular relations by studying right triangles and by building the Spiral of Theodorus. These hands-on activities aid in the conceptualization of abstract mathematical ideas. Kit contains 18 wooden triangles, as well as labels, pen and instruction guide.


Hello, this is our first article in a series that wants to help residents of Vail, Eagle County and throughout Colorado prevent costly roof replacements, re roofings as well as getting the best out of your roof for as long as necessary. A lot of times an inexpensive roof repair is all you need.
As we know roof replacements can be costly, on average every homeowner has to replace their roof once in their lifetime, that doesn't sound so bad right? But, unfortunately even some repairs can be costly. The average cost of a new roof if approximately $15,000 – $40, 0000 (Depending where you live).
So, how can we prevent and rapidly asses a roof problem?
Living in Colorado, we are exposed to a variety of climates and rough weather conditions. Most of the problems occur after the winter, when inches of snow have accumulated on our roof for months. Moisture and water are with no doubt your roofs shingles biggest enemies, specially if you live in a ski resort like Vail.
Shingles : Walk around your house and inspect them often, look for damaged, warped or missing shingles in your roof. This is the first sign that moisture has gotten to it. Fortunately Roof Shingles are an easy and inexpensive fix.
Leaks : Look up at your ceiling, do you see signs of mold or moisture. If you do, you might have a leak and most likely is coming from your roof. We advice to get a moisture meter and compare it to other areas of your home. Sometimes sealing cracked mortars or caulking around your chimney will be all you need. If you don't know where the leak is coming from, call your roof repair contractor.
Gutters: Clean your gutters often, specially at the change of season. A clogged gutter is the main cause of roof leaks and water damage in your house. The purpose of your gutter is to keep the water flowing to protect your roof and walls. This can also be an easy fix if spotted on time.
Debris: This is by far the easiest fix. Look around for leaves and dirt and sweep them away. This might not seem like a big deal now but trust us, it will be over time and it will also clog your gutter.
Snow Removal: Living in an area where snows at least for 5 months out of the year it's important to consider having your roof clean at least once during the winter season. Not only it takes all the weight off your roof but it helps preventing moisture and leaks get into your house. Approximately one square foot of snow weights 1lb. Doing the math, this can be dangerous for your roof!


text:
DNA-binding proteins are proteins that have DNA-binding domains and thus have a specific or general affinity for single- or double-stranded DNA. Sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins generally interact with the major groove of B-DNA, because it exposes more functional groups that identify a base pair. However, there are some known minor groove DNA-binding ligands such as netropsin, distamycin, Hoechst 33258, pentamidine, DAPI and others.

Examples
DNA-binding proteins include transcription factors which modulate the process of transcription, various polymerases, nucleases which cleave DNA molecules, and histones which are involved in chromosome packaging and transcription in the cell nucleus. DNA-binding proteins can incorporate such domains as the zinc finger, the helix-turn-helix, and the leucine zipper (among many others) that facilitate binding to nucleic acid. There are also more unusual examples such as transcription activator like effectors.

Non-specific DNA-protein interactions
Structural proteins that bind DNA are well-understood examples of non-specific DNA-protein interactions. Within chromosomes, DNA is held in complexes with structural proteins. These proteins organize the DNA into a compact structure called chromatin. In eukaryotes, this structure involves DNA binding to a complex of small basic proteins called histones. In prokaryotes, multiple types of proteins are involved. The histones form a disk-shaped complex called a nucleosome, which contains two complete turns of double-stranded DNA wrapped around its surface. These non-specific interactions are formed through basic residues in the histones making ionic bonds to the acidic sugar-phosphate backbone of the DNA, and are therefore largely independent of the base sequence. Chemical modifications of these basic amino acid residues include methylation, phosphorylation and acetylation. These chemical changes alter the strength of the interaction between the DNA and the histones, making the DNA more or less accessible to transcription factors and changing the rate of transcription. Other non-specific DNA-binding proteins in chromatin include the high-mobility group (HMG) proteins, which bind to bent or distorted DNA. Biophysical studies show that these architectural HMG proteins bind, bend and loop DNA to perform its biological functions. These proteins are important in bending arrays of nucleosomes and arranging them into the larger structures that form chromosomes. Recently FK506 binding protein 25 (FBP25) was also shown to non-specifically bind to DNA which helps in DNA repair.

Proteins that specifically bind single-stranded DNA

A distinct group of DNA-binding proteins are the DNA-binding proteins that specifically bind single-stranded DNA. In humans, replication protein A is the best-understood member of this family and is used in processes where the double helix is separated, including DNA replication, recombination and DNA repair. These binding proteins seem to stabilize single-stranded DNA and protect it from forming stem-loops or being degraded by nucleases.

Binding to specific DNA sequences

In contrast, other proteins have evolved to bind to specific DNA sequences. The most intensively studied of these are the various transcription factors, which are proteins that regulate transcription. Each transcription factor binds to one specific set of DNA sequences and activates or inhibits the transcription of genes that have these sequences near their promoters. The transcription factors do this in two ways. Firstly, they can bind the RNA polymerase responsible for transcription, either directly or through other mediator proteins; this locates the polymerase at the promoter and allows it to begin transcription. Alternatively, transcription factors can bind enzymes that modify the histones at the promoter. This alters the accessibility of the DNA template to the polymerase.

These DNA targets can occur throughout an organism's genome. Thus, changes in the activity of one type of transcription factor can affect thousands of genes. Thus, these proteins are often the targets of the signal transduction processes that control responses to environmental changes or cellular differentiation and development. The specificity of these transcription factors' interactions with DNA come from the proteins making multiple contacts to the edges of the DNA bases, allowing them to read the DNA sequence. Most of these base-interactions are made in the major groove, where the bases are most accessible. Mathematical descriptions of protein-DNA binding taking into account sequence-specificity, and competitive and cooperative binding of proteins of different types are usually performed with the help of the lattice models. Computational methods to identify the DNA binding sequence specificity have been proposed to make a good use of the abundant sequence data in the post-genomic era.

Protein–DNA interactions
Protein–DNA interactions occur when a protein binds a molecule of DNA, often to regulate the biological function of DNA, usually the expression of a gene. Among the proteins that bind to DNA are transcription factors that activate or repress gene expression by binding to DNA motifs and histones that form part of the structure of DNA and bind to it less specifically. Also proteins that repair DNA such as uracil-DNA glycosylase interact closely with it.

In general, proteins bind to DNA in the major groove; however, there are exceptions. Protein–DNA interaction are of mainly two types, either specific interaction, or non-specific interaction. Recent single-molecule experiments showed that DNA binding proteins undergo of rapid rebinding in order to bind in correct orientation for recognizing the target site.

Design
Designing DNA-binding proteins that have a specified DNA-binding site has been an important goal for biotechnology. Zinc finger proteins have been designed to bind to specific DNA sequences and this is the basis of zinc finger nucleases. Recently transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) have been created which are based on natural proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria via their type III secretion system when they infect various plant species.

Detection methods
There are many in vitro and in vivo techniques which are useful in detecting DNA-Protein Interactions. The following lists some methods currently in use: Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) is a widespread qualitative technique to study protein–DNA interactions of known DNA binding proteins. DNA-Protein-Interaction - Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbant Assay (DPI-ELISA) allows the qualitative and quantitative analysis of DNA-binding preferences of known proteins in vitro. This technique allows the analysis of protein complexes that bind to DNA (DPI-Recruitment-ELISA) or is suited for automated screening of several nucleotide probes due to its standard ELISA plate formate .DNase footprinting assay can be used to identify the specific sites of binding of a protein to DNA at basepair resolution. Chromatin immunoprecipitation is used to identify the in vivo DNA target regions of a known transcription factor. This technique when combined with high throughput sequencing is known as ChIP-Seq and when combined with microarrays it is known as ChIP-chip. Yeast one-hybrid System (Y1H) is used to identify which protein binds to a particular DNA fragment. Bacterial one-hybrid system (B1H) is used to identify which protein binds to a particular DNA fragment. Structure determination using X-ray crystallography has been used to give a highly detailed atomic view of protein–DNA interactions.
Besides these methods, other techniques such as SELEX, PBM (protein binding microarrays), DNA microarray screens, DamID, FAIRE or more recently DAP-seq are used in the laboratory to investigate DNA-protein interaction in vivo and in vitro.

Manipulating the interactions
The protein–DNA interactions can be modulated using stimuli like ionic strength of the buffer, macromolecular crowding, temperature, pH and electric field. This can lead to reversible dissociation/association of the protein–DNA complex.

See also
 bZIP domain
 ChIP-exo
 Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software
 DNA-binding domain
 Helix-loop-helix
 Helix-turn-helix
 HMG-box
 Leucine zipper
 Lexitropsin (a semi-synthetic DNA-binding ligand)
 Deoxyribonucleoprotein
 Protein–DNA interaction site prediction software
 RNA-binding protein
 Single-strand binding protein
 Zinc finger

References

External links
 Protein-DNA binding: data, tools & models (annotated list, constantly updated)
 Abalone tool for modeling DNA-ligand interactions.
 DBD database of predicted transcription factors Uses a curated set of DNA-binding domains to predict transcription factors in all completely sequenced genomes

DNA-binding proteins
Molecular genetics
DNA replication
Transcription factors
Biophysics

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Monireh Askari is a freelance artist, researcher and urban designer born in Isfahan, Iran.
During her practice she has worked in various creative disciplines such as art, graphic design and urban design and with different mediums such as photo, video, collages, diagrams, texts and interactive sculptures with installation.
She has been exploring the possibilities through her research and discovering the relation of subjects and defining their means are at the cornerstone of her interactive practice. Her works borrows concept and imagery from propaganda, media, history and futuristic practices/fantasies.
She works as a creative director and one of the main members running the first Fab-Lab in Isfahan since 2017.


1966-1984 (18 years) — Worked on wildfires for the Forest Service in Montana both as basic firefighter and a supervisor; was a fire prevention and fuels management assistant before moving to Oregon.
1975-1984 (9 years)–Active EMT, co-founder and president of a volunteer ambulance service for a community and service area of approximately 2500 people in a small town in western Montana.
1986 to present – (29 years) — Active participation on both national and area Incident Management Teams that has mainly responded to large wildfires but also involvement on notable all-risk assignments such as the World Trade Center (9/11), Columbia Space Shuttle Recovery, Hurricane Ivan, and the 2002 Winter Olympics.
of Cascades View Estates Road District – 5th year.
Nathan (Nate) Starr has lived in Central Oregon since July of 1998 when he came here to work with Bend Lock and Safe as a locksmith and still works weekend emergency calls for them. In 2001, Nate transitioned into healthcare maintenance with Bend Memorial Clinic and has been the Director of Facilities since 2008. While at BMC he has been in charge of building development and remodels. His recent accomplishment was the 815 Bond Street building where was in charge of the remodel and conversion of the 42,000 sq. ft. building into the BMC primary care clinic. He also was in charge of the conversion of the 17,800 sq. ft. Redmond Clinic from a shell building into another BMC primary care facility.
Nate served our country as an Army Infantryman stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Nate and his wife Rita have two children, Katelyn 21 and Daniel 19. Nate enjoys the outdoors, fishing and hunting. He is involved in many activities in within the Alfalfa community.
1984- Graduated Fort Collins H.S.
1987-1992-Leroy's Lock and Key, Fort Collins, CO.


Gymnastics Work and a Partner AMRAP for Thursday! Read "Five Weeks & Five Years" as a CrossFit Open reflection and thoughts on Amplify's 5-year anniversary.
THURSDAY Skill Work Toes to Bar [YouTube] Practice technique and efficiency.


text:
Q: I am trying to process a file passed as a command line argument I am trying to process a file passed as a command line argument.  Right now there is only one argument, but I plan to add others.
Here is my code so far:
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Sample arg parsing")

parser.add_argument('-f',type=file)

try:
    print parser.parse_args()
except IOError, msg:
    parser.error(str(msg))

I can't figure out how to pass the argument to file handle to open and process.
And yes, I am a n00b.
The try block is just there for testing.

A: You need to pass the filename as a string. Then, you can use open() to open the file from the filename. Refer to the python docs here (7.2 - Reading & Writing Files).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Omicron wave sweeps across northern England and puts pressure on UK healthcare system
Ambulances in front of the emergency entrance to Bradford Royal Infirmary in Bradford (Great Britain), January 5, 2022. OLI SCARFF / AFP
A few encouraging signs in London, a critical situation in the south-east and a landscape which is darkening at high speed in the north of England: the Omicron wave continues to impose considerable pressure on the British healthcare system (the famous National Health Service, NHS), further highlighting its serious structural weaknesses.
In the capital, epicenter of the Omicron epidemic, the rate of hospitalizations certainly seems to have slowed down. According to the latest official data, the number of new infections, over the seven days before 1is January, is down 25.5% in the City and the borough of Hackney (in the east of London). In contrast, over the same period, infections jumped 130% in Cumbria (north-west England) and 124.7% in Northumberland (north-east). Thursday, January 6, 179,756 positive cases had still been counted at the national level during the last twenty-four hours.
Read also Article reserved for our subscribers In the UK, Omicron's progress is "staggering, never seen before"
"The growth in the number of new positive cases is clearly slowing in London. But the wave is now reaching older populations, and it is too early to observe the effect of the reunion of the end of the year holidays and the return to school ", warns Chris Hopson, director of NHS Providers, an organization representing hospitals. "The pressure is moving from London to the rest of the country, with hospitalizations linked to the coronavirus on the rise, and staff absences are combined with an already very tense hospital situation", adds the specialist, worried that establishments in the north of the country, less well endowed than those in the south, will have more difficulty in coping with the shock.
Long wait for an ambulance
Downing Street confirmed on Wednesday 5 January that "More than twenty" hospitals (all outside London) reported a "Critical accident" these days, that is to say a maximum level of alert meaning that they are no longer able to ensure, with their internal staff, an adequate level of care. In the South West, hospitals in Bath, Poole or Bournemouth are concerned: there were only 4 beds available in Poole on Wednesday, and 25 in Bournemouth. The 17 hospitals in Greater Manchester (in the north-west) have deprogrammed non-emergency operations, while the number of hospitalizations has tripled in two weeks, rising to 1,200.
Read also Article reserved for our subscribers British hospitals are resisting the Omicron wave for now
It is not sure that "The health system manages to overcome" the wave, warned Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester. National media even reported that in the north of the country, people fearing cardiac arrest and calling the emergency number 999 were advised to go to the hospital on their own, both waiting times for an ambulance are long. "Here, we always advise people feeling unwell to call 999 for an ambulance", nuance the doctor Brian McGregor, president for Yorkshire (North-East) of the British Medical Association, the main British union of doctors.
You have 37.99% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.
We would like to thank the author of this post for this incredible content
Omicron variant: in the face of the "tidal wave" in the United Kingdom, the press beats the recall
A long queue has formed around the pharmacy in Sevenoaks (England), in the hope of…
Germany adopts new restrictions to deal with Omicron
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and Mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, after a meeting with…
Europe closes nightclubs again thanks to the Omicron variant
short Music Non Stop no FacebookGermany currently registers the rate of 69.4% of its population…
Categories World News Tags England, healthcare, northern, Omicron, pressure, Sweeps, wave Post navigation
Nearly a million culled barn birds in the Netherlands – Foodlog
Avatar Sequels' Vin Diesel Casting Has A Meta Fast & Furious Link

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


One of Tuscany's most famous sons regularly sings in the theatre close to his birthplace: Andrea Bocelli sings in Lajatico, a small town near Pisa.
Daily Mail travel writer John Carter has praised Tuscany for its incomparable views and delicious wines and says he has treasured memories from his trip to the region.
In 2015, from March to June, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence hosted a beautiful exhibition of Hellenistic Bronze Sculpture, in collaboration with the Getty foundation.
The most photographed monument in Italy was never meant to lean - building on the vestiges of a sandy marshland gave the famous tower its perilous tilt.


text:
Q: What should I use instead of "get player controller" to make a Multiplayer game (Top Down Game Unreal Engine) Earlier in the day i figured out why my game doesn't work on multiplayer. The reason is that I use the "get player controller" which gives me the index 0 so i can't work. But i use this to get location where my player has to look at (for the get hit result under cursor) and I also use that for make spawn the projectile that my player launch.
Do you have an idea of what i could use to make my game work on multiplayer.
Here are 2 screen. Let me know if you need some other informations.
event to launch a projectile;
function rotate to face cursor

A: On the Character or Pawn, you can simply use GetController and cast it to a PlayerController

A: Remember that you cannot get a client's player controller from another client. Controllers exist only on server and who owns it (the player).


text:
Kamsamoliec (pol. Widohoszcz, biał. Камсамолец, ros. Комсомолец) – wieś na Białorusi, w obwodzie mińskim, w rejonie mińskim, w sielsowiecie Józefowo.

Dawniej majątek ziemski, gniazdo rodowe Iwaszeńcewiczów. W czasach Rzeczypospolitej ziemie te leżały w województwie mińskim. Odpadły od Polski w wyniku II rozbioru. W granicach Rosji wieś należała do ujezdu mińskiego w guberni mińskiej. Ponownie pod polską administracją w latach 1919 - 1920 w okręgu mińskim Zarządu Cywilnego Ziem Wschodnich.

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Widohoszcz na mapie WIG

Wsie w rejonie mińskim
Sielsowiet Juzufowa


Toni Braxton is going through money woes again.
According to The Blast, the R&B singer owes four different tax liens -- two from the state of California and two from the federal government.
When you break it down, Braxton owes the State of Californa $113,500.93 and $116,870.07 in back taxes from 2015 and 2016, respectively. As for Federal, the singer owes $310,223.28 and $240,214.01 for 2015 and 2016, respectively. Add it all up and Braxton's debt comes to $780,808.29.
Braxton, who is engaged to Cash Money Records CEO Birdman, has dealt with money problems before. She filed for bankruptcy twice, once in 1998 and again 2010.
In an interview with ABC News in 2012, the Grammy-winning attributed her debt to her record label and her outlandish spending habits. "I love dishes and house things, so I kind of lost it a little bit on the houseware," she said (via MSN) adding that she fell in love with "girly things" like plates, Faberge eggs and 1,000 thread-count sheets.
"That's what I indulged in. I loved that part of it," she said. "I'm a little odd."
Reps for Toni Braxton has no comment on the matter.


The Perry County Health Department offers educational programs to groups, organizations and schools.
Special requests for presentations are considered and welcomed. For more information on the presentations, call the Health Department at (573) 547-6564.
A Chronic Disease Self-Management Program for Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema, and many others.
Living a Healthy Life is a six week workshop for adults living with a chronic condition and their family members. Participants will receive a book, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions book and Relaxing CD.
We also offer a Diabetes Self-Management Program that provides similar information as the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. In this program you will learn to understand and manage your diabetes.
The Perry County Health Department (PCHD) is contracted with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MDHSS) to inspect Child Care Facilities. For more information, log on to MO DHSS here. Inspections are conducted at each site to assure that safe sanitation measures are being implemented.
Child care may be provided in a family child care home, a group home, a child care center, or a licensed-exempt facility (nursery school or a facility run by a religious organization). Licenses are issued to family child care homes, group homes and child care centers based on compliance with state regulations. Nursery schools and child care programs operated by religious organizations (called license-exempt facilities) are not required to be licensed. Child care is regulated through various aspects such as staffing and education, the ratio of children to adults and the ages of the children. Sanitation rules apply as well as childhood injury prevention and fire safety. Background screenings are required in addition to staff training and education, environmental health issues, physical plant requirements, space requirements and equipment requirements, all designed to make the child care setting a safe place.
A Child Care Health Consultation Program is available here at the Perry County Health Department.
Log on here for laws regulations and manuals.
Redefined Meaning of "Term Pregnancy"
Why the new change in the definition of what is considered a "Full Term" pregnancy? This change has been the result of research over the past several years that show that every week of the pregnancy matters for the health of the baby. The last weeks of pregnancy lets the baby's brain and lungs to fully mature.
You may not be able to choose when you have your baby, particularly if there is a problem with the health of the mother or baby; but if you have a choice to schedule your baby's birth, wait until at least 39 weeks.
Post Term - 42 weeks and beyond.
Take a minute to view this video from the March of Dimes website - "Is It Worth It". This video really does a great job of explaining why every week of a pregnancy is best for your baby.
The Perry County Health Department now offers a Certified Lactation Counselor to assist women with establishing a successful breastfeeding outcome.
All CPR/First Aid classes given by the Perry County Health Department are accredited by the American Heart Association. CPR/First Aid classes are set up by appointment only. Classes will be given in groups, not on an individual basis. Therefore, a single individual will be placed on a waiting list until there are an adequate number interested to hold the class. Businesses with groups of people needing to take the classes can all be set up together.
Perry County Health Department is following the American Heart Association guidelines for upgrading the equipment used and has recently purchased new manequins for this training- it is equipped with sensors that will notify the participant if they are applying adequate pressure for compressions as well as appropriate breaths for a more thorough training. We have included below our prices for the various classes.
Upon completion of the class, the participant will receive American Heart Association Certification.
For more information or to enroll for a class, call the Health Department at (573) 547-6564.


text:
.preview-image {
	max-width: 400px;
	max-height: 300px;
	position: absolute;
	padding: 3px;
	border: 1px solid #666;
	background: white;
}

.preview-trigger .preview-image-container {
	position: relative;
	display: none;
}

.preview-trigger:hover .preview-image-container {
	display: inline-block;
}

.preview-trigger {
	cursor: pointer;
	color: #666;

	&:hover {
		color: #777;
		text-decoration: underline;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


On this day, November 12th, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is born in New York, New York. Stanton would go on to play an influential role in the suffrage movement. She traveled the country giving speeches as well as speaking in front of Congress several times on the issue. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked side by side to help the next generation of suffragettes reach their goal.


text:
You are making a difference today.
Fund an urgent project
YOUR DONATION AT WORK
Maryan's Story
The Divine Mercy Message
Maryan The Divine Mercy Foundation provides food, shelter, medical care, and education to Iraq's most vulnerable people. The following stories illustrate some of the real needs experienced in Iraq and the real results that the organizations we sponsor achieved:
Raised $95,210.23 to support our current programs
Filled and shipped a 40' container with disaster relief goods to internally displaced people of Iraq that was distributed to 940 families:
- 300 Families in 3 smaller towns around Duhok
- 600 Families in some towns around north of Zakho
- 40 Families in a small town around Suliamanya area
Distributed a value package worth 150,000 Iraqi Dinars to 70 families through our Lady of Salivation Charitable Organization in Baghdad
Contributed to Campaigned Together Mission to fill a container with disaster relief aids shipped to South of Iraq
Contributed to the Mission of helping Iraqi Refugees in Jordan.
Allocated $4000 US toward helping orphans that lost their parents during ISIS invasion.
Partnered with other Canadian charities to distribute collected aids that was more fitting for those in need in other countries.
- Mission for the poor in Canada
- Welcome Home Children Center Mission in Haiti
- Canadian Food for Children (International Mission)
- Mission to serve an Orphanage in Guatemala
- Heralds of the Gospel Mission in Brazil
Sahar Koki
Sahar Koki is a young lady, while she was temporarily residing in Turkey away from home, waiting for a refugee settlement in Canada got sick and lost her ability to move. She was diagnosed with a mass in her spine that put her at a great risk of a complete paralysis. Her family asked MTDMF for an immediate and urgent help The medical report been translated from Turkish to English and a Neurologist in Canada been consulted to confirm the medical urgency. The cost for the surgery was $25,000 US and immediate funding was needed. The surgeon felt that the family is in a great need and due to Sahar's young age and the financial situation he dropped the fee to $10,000 US. MTDMF was able to contribute half of the cost and helped to make a difference in Sahar's well-being and future.
St. Joseph Center:
Maryan the Divine Mercy Foundation is involved in not only putting mentally and physically challenged children in school, but also equipping the schools where these children study, so that children can have access to quality education that meet their individual need. Maryan the Divine Mercy Foundation provided also the funds for the purchase of a school bus for St. Joseph Center, to transport the children to and from the Center.
It only takes a few minutes to donate … but the difference you make will last a lifetime.
© 2013 Maryan - The Divine Mercy Foundation
Charity# 834055204RR0001


That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
shook my hand, patted me on the head, left gifts of foodand clothing on my bed. They moved me to uncontrollable fitsof laughing and crying.
"Anything special?" she asked when greetings were exchanged.
"Only Mrs. Pollzoff. She ought to be here any minute," Mr. Trowbridge replied.
"Howe is coming in this morning," Mr. Wallace added.
"She has been handling a job that is dull as ditch-water," Wallace put in quickly.
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is anoose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonethelessif he's not careful.
country muchtoo cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligentpeople with bad hairdos. Anyway, I have nothing to go hometo in Pondicherry.
Richard Parker has stayed with me. I've never forgotten him.
the human heart. I still cannotunderstand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously,without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once.
"A small one. Several governments—ours and a couple of others, are trying to trace down illegal seal fishing; catch the lads who don't follow the rules.
Contact." They were off, and Roberta inquired no more about the government work because Phil's account of it sounded quite as tame as piloting Mrs.
a notch above, people like Edwin Land, Bill Hewlett, and David Packard. And the best way to achieve all this was to return to Apple and reclaim his kingdom.
And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy.
a few days a week, and I drove up to Pixar for one or two days.
It was a nice life.
periodic demonstrations, but each time he came away unimpressed. "The Macintosh was truly unique, but I personally don't understand what is so unique about Steve's new computer," he told Fortune.
as Paul Rand had. "Sometimes you have to use a big stick with Steve," he said. Like Rand, Esslinger was an artist, so Jobs was willing to grant him indulgences he denied other mortals.
was a Jobsian example of design desires trumping engineering considerations. The circuit boards, which fitted nicely into the traditional pizza-box shape, had to be reconfigured and stacked in order to nestle into a cube.


text:
Q: OpenGL Normal transformation in shaders I am trying to create some basic lighting shaders in LWJGL. Everything seems to be working except that when I change the rotation of the camera, the lighting changes. I think it is because of the rotation of the normals being messed up as well when I rotated the camera.
Here is my original Vertex Shader:
uniform vec3 lightDir;
varying vec3 normal;

void main()
{
    normal = gl_NormalMatrix*gl_Normal;
    gl_Position = ftransform();
}

My Fragment Shader:
varying vec3 normal;

void main(){
    vec3 color = vec3(1,1,1);
    vec3 lightDir = vec3(1,1,0);
    float inten = 1;
    color = color*dot(normal, lightDir)*inten;
    gl_FragColor = vec4(color,1);

}

To transform the camera I used:
public static void applyTranslations() {
    glPushAttrib(GL_TRANSFORM_BIT);
    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
    glRotatef(pitch, 1, 0, 0);
    glRotatef(yaw, 0, 1, 0);
    glRotatef(roll, 0, 0, 1);
    glTranslatef(-x, -y, -z);
    glPopAttrib();
}

I realized that this method of transforming the camera might be actually changing the model while the camera remained static, which would have messed up the normals, so I tried to input a uniform matrix containing the model's rotation to transform the normals, but that doesn't seem to work either. Now the entire model is black. (It was working before, except the rotation.)
I used this to pass the changes to the Shader:
Vector3f scale, rot, trans;
Matrix3f modelMatrix = new Matrix3f();
modelMatrix.setIdentity();
scale = new Vector3f(1,1,1);
rot = new Vector3f(xRot,yRot,zRot);
trans = new Vector3f(x,y,z);

Matrix4f.scale(scale, modelMatrix, modelMatrix);
Matrix4f.translate(trans, modelMatrix, modelMatrix);
Matrix4f.rotate((float) Math.toRadians(rot.z), new Vector3f(0,0,1), modelMatrix, modelMatrix);
Matrix4f.rotate((float) Math.toRadians(rot.y), new Vector3f(0,1,0), modelMatrix, modelMatrix);
Matrix4f.rotate((float) Math.toRadians(rot.x), new Vector3f(1,0,0), modelMatrix, modelMatrix);

FloatBuffer modelBuff = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(9);
modelMatrix.store(modelBuff);

int loc = ARBShaderObjects.glGetUniformLocationARB(e.m.shader.programID, "modelMatrix");
ARBShaderObjects.glUniformMatrix4ARB(loc, false, modelBuff);

And then I changed my vertex shader to:
uniform vec3 lightDir;
uniform modelMatrix;
varying vec3 normal;

void main()
{
    normal = modelMatrix*gl_Normal;
    gl_Position = ftransform();
}

Is this what I should be doing the create and pass transformation matrices? Also is there another way to rotate the camera without using glRotatef()?

A: vec3 lightDir = vec3(1,1,0) is constant while normal is transformed every time the camera changes.
To prevent this make sure lightDir and normal are in the same space. Compute the dot before transforming normal or, transform lightDir by gl_NormalMatrix then compute the dot.
In addition to the effect you want to achieve you have an issue in the fragment shader:  normal is not normalized. This is because a linear interpolation of unit vectors won't always produce a unit vector.
What you should do is something like:
color*dot(normalize(normal),  transform_to_same_space(lightDir))*inten;

Some minor issues in the second part:
You're declaring modelMatrix without a type.
You cannot transform vec3 with a 4x4 matrix. You can pad gl_Normal with a 0 since it's a vector or cast down the matrix to float3x3.
You're using Matrix4f.scale with Vector3f(1,1,1) and the translation won't affect vectors so modelMatrix is orthonormal.
However, in the general case you should transform gl_Normal with the transposed inverse of modelMatrix.


text:
Carmine Infantino, 1925-2013
Paul Brian McCoy
Leading Questions: A Scrooge McDuck-Sized Vault of Money
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Leading Question
Sunday Slugfest: Nameless #5
Image, Indie, Reviews, Slugfest
Keeping It Ghastly: Goth
Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga
Stan Lee: A Look at Stan's New Project Time Jumper
Interviews, Video Interview
New VOD Release 'Chris Claremont's X-Men' is the DVD Bonus You Wanted
Classic Comics, Marvel Comics, News, Reviews
Exclusive Advance Preview: Shadowman #9 from Valiant Comics
News, Valiant
ICYMI -- Small Press Comics Criticism and Whatnot for 5/29/17 to 6/4/17
ICYMI, Small Press
Review: 'Prisoner 155' is a Remarkable Portrait of a Political Revolutionary
Building the Bat: The Dark Knight (2008)
Columns, Shot for Shot
Christopher Nolan's first Batman film, Batman Begins (2005), hit at a time when superhero movies were experiencing a downward slide. In the years just before and after, another Warner Bros. film, the DC/Vertigo property V for Vendetta, was the only other well-reviewed comic book film released. A few films, Fantastic Four (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Superman Returns (2006), and even Ghost Rider (2007) brought in respectable totals worldwide, with Spider-Man 3 (2007) topping them all with $891 million, but none garnered very good reviews.
Batman Begins stood out as the most well-received comic book film since Spider-Man 2 in 2004, and it wouldn't be until 2008 when another crop of quality superhero films were released, including Iron Man, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and Nolan's return to Gotham City, The Dark Knight.
Christopher Nolan and his brother, Jonathan, wrote the screenplay, based on a story idea by Nolan and David S. Goyer, building on the final scene of Batman Begins with the introduction of the Joker and the idea that things will have to get worse in Gotham before they get better. Jonathan Nolan suggested that their presentation of the Joker should be influenced by his first two appearances from 1940, avoiding an origin story and presenting him fully-formed as a foil for Batman.
Then, in July 2006, Warner Bros. announced the start of production and Heath Ledger was signed to play the Joker. Ledger's casting set off the obligatory flurry of internet complaints doubting his ability to pull off the role. The main complaints centered around him being too pretty, lacking charisma, and of course, for being best known for playing a gay cowboy. However, Ledger immersed himself in the role, holing up in a hotel alone for a month to develop the character's voice and movement, all the while keeping a diary in the voice of the Joker.
Fan reaction calmed over the next year as the marketing began releasing hints about Ledger's performance coupled with the news that Aaron Eckhart was going to play Harvey Dent. Dent's character arc would form the spine of the script, with the Joker weaving in and out of the story as a force of pure chaos, pushing the heroes into more and more difficult moral decisions. In the process, Batman kind of slipped into the background as a supporting character in his own film.
Ultimately, this was a smart move, given the energy and life that Ledger brought the film. Batman worked best here as a shadow of the Joker, defined in contrast to the chaos the Joker brings to Gotham. This, combined with Nolan's approach to this film – it is treated more like a semi-straight crime film rather than a comic book movie – make this one of the best received Batman films ever and pushed the commercial response through the roof.
Unfortunately, Ledger would not live to see the release of the film. On January 22, 2008, he was found dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose. His father, mother, and sister accepted his eventual Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – his only Oscar – and he swept most of the awards ceremonies that year for his tour de force performance as the Joker.
If it weren't for Ledger's performance, I don't know if the rest of the film would have held together as well as it does. Visually, Nolan continues the realistic approach that marked Batman Begins, but this time out he actually allows scenes to play out without all the obsessive cutting back and forth. Instead we have a number of scenes where the camera circles the actors as they work their way through the action.
It's far more effective and demonstrates a level of trust in the actors that maybe wasn't there in the first film. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman continue to ground the film with their believable and effective interpretations of the characters, allowing us to cut some slack to the weaker, but not bad, performances of Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, and Maggie Gyllenhaal (who takes over the role of Rachel Dawes for this outing).
It seems far more likely that any weaknesses were the result of directorial interference than anything the actors brought to the table. Eckhart's Harvey Dent suffers an abrupt and awkward shift into madness mainly because the script wouldn't work without it. Bale's Batman growl is absurdly silly, and once again, the emotional connection between Wayne and Dawes is skeletal at best. And while Gyllenhaal brings more life to the role than Katie Holmes did, she's still left without much to do besides die as a convenient plot point.
There was also some controversy over Batman's willingness to sacrifice the personal privacy of everyone in Gotham in order to stop the Joker. This compromise, while emphasized as a one-time-thing, does call into question the political morality behind the film. Luckily, in the film, we have a single man of conscience breaking the law in order to stop terrorism, rather than an entire department of the government pushing that boundary, so the metaphor is limited at best, but The Dark Knight eagerly joins other recent films and television works that emphasize the supposed need to illegally sacrifice our privacy, or engage in torture, in the name of defending ourselves from terror.
Interestingly, in all of these films and shows, it's only the good guys who break the law like this and there are, of course, never any negative repercussions.
Tying into this, the most impressive thing about the film is really the thematic exploration of corruptibility Nolan is trying to make. The Joker's main goal is to push both our heroes and eventually the citizens of Gotham into sacrificing their humanity in exchange for safety. Of course, in the end the Joker loses thanks to the goodness in us all – but not before pushing Gotham's White Knight, D.A. Harvey Dent into madness and murder.
Shockingly, the film ends with Batman sacrificing his own reputation, taking the blame for Dent's actions as Two-Face, so that Gotham will have a hero who doesn't skulk around in the shadows wearing an outlandish costume. This is a bold choice for the ending and really breaks with what should have been considered possible for the character and the franchise.
However, what we have here is a conscious decision to focus on these films first and foremost as an isolated (eventual) trilogy that tells one complete story. Unlike earlier incarnations, this Batman isn't intended to keep going and going.
The Dark Knight racked up box office records, earning an eventual $533 million in North America alone, and $469 million overseas, becoming the twelfth highest grossing film of all time worldwide – records that would stand until the 2012 release of Marvel Studio's The Avengers.
Paul Brian McCoyShot for Shot
Sword of Desperation DVD Review
Squinting Through a Dusty Window: On "Boycott Atlus" and Narrative Interpretation
Paul Brian McCoy is the Editor-in-Chief of Psycho Drive-In, writer of Mondo Marvel, and a regular contributor/editor for Comics Bulletin. His first novel, The Unraveling: Damaged Inc. Book One is available at Amazon US & UK, along with his collection of short stories, Coffee, Sex, & Creation (US & UK). He recently contributed the 1989 chapter to The American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1980s (US & UK) and has kicked off Comics Bulletin Books with Mondo Marvel Volumes One (US & UK) and Two (US & UK). Paul is unnaturally preoccupied with zombie films, Asian cult cinema, and sci-fi television. He can also be found babbling on Twitter at @PBMcCoy.
"The Long, Strange Trip of Deathlok the Demolisher"
Review: 'Agent Carter' 1.01 "Pilot" & 1.02 "Bridge And Tunnel"


Price: Pre-First through Fifth Grade	- $25,405; Sixth through Twelfth Grade	$29,275.
Westminster School is a coeducational Christian, Independent day school for students in grades pre-first through 12 located in Atlanta, Georgia. This school is dedicated to providing talented students with an educational environment where they learn to thrive and become leaders of great conscience. Westminster invites students to apply for 2019-2020.
The first step to apply to Westminster is to register in Ravenna, the online admissions portal. This portal gives students access to all admissions materials, registration forms, and more. This form is not available until mid-October. Before then, each student should contact Westminster through Ravenna to schedule a Parent Information Session, tour, or Open House. This will give each family the opportunity to learn more about and connect with Westminster faculty, staff, and students before the formal application process begins. Open houses are available on November 10, November 30, December 1, and January 11. Check Ravenna to ensure the proper date to visit, depending on grade level and athletic status.
Applications can be reviewed and submitted in October. All materials are due by January 11, 2019. Testing is also required for each student. Parents should schedule JATPS exams for Lower School applicants, and SSAT exams for Middle and Upper School applicants. Students should also submit the Shared Applicant Information Form and Parent Supplement. After these two items are submitted, the Admissions Office will schedule a required campus evaluation visit for Lower School applicants or the Interview visit for Middle and Upper School applicants.
Decisions will be rendered on March 30 via the online portal. Candidates interested in financial aid should notify the school in the application process. The application process is need-blind, so need will not be considered during the application review. Parents will be required to submit certain documentation of their financial status, all of which are available on the School and Student Service for Financial Aid portion of the Westminster website.
Westminster is dedicated to using financial aid to help families bridge the gap between Westminster's tuition, which ranges from $25,405 to $29,275, and the family's income. Approximately fifteen percent of all students receive financial aid. More information may be received by contacting financialaid@westminster.net.


The title of this post says it all. SmallTask, a very simple, nice looking, free app… now syncs with a free Mac Desktop version.
SmallTask has been popular as that 'other' ToDo list manager that many of us use. Is has a paper like user interface where we can put our tasks. Those tasks can be date based too. Then, the app syncs those tasks via the free cloud service DropBox to other iPads and iPhones. Making this a big hit for those quick lists we need to work with others on.
SmallTask is not a high-end robust Task Manager for doing big projects (where you would use Omni Focus of Things). It does simple task lists, quickly, which are easy to share through DropBox cloud service.
Now that there is a free SmallTask for the Mac too, we might be seeing the app open on more people's desktops for their daily tasks. Many of the other apps that sync through the WiFi network keep getting blocked by the company security folks so the DropBox option is pretty reliable.


text:
CLAY JENKINSON: Future In Context — The Revolutionary Lives Of Malcolm X And MLK In The Time of George Floyd
Posted on May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021 by Clay Jenkinson
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X rose from markedly different backgrounds to assume leading roles in the civil rights movement, and though each died violently while playing his respective part, neither man fully exited the stage. Both remain to this day celebrated figures in the fight for racial and economic justice.
Their much-publicized differences, most notably violence versus nonviolence, have rendered portraits of the two men as opposing figures, but Dr. Peniel Joseph, in his dual biography "The Sword and Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.," argues that these contrasts have been taken out of context. The two men eventually grew into alter egos of one another, he asserts, and each transformed the other in important ways as their visions converged. Dr. Joseph recently spoke with Governing Editor-at-Large Clay Jenkinson about these two iconic African American leaders.
Peniel Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. (Photo courtesy of Peniel Joseph.)
Dr. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where he serves as founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Sword and the Shield" is the latest of several books he has written on African American history. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
They Said It Plain, They Said It Loud
Governing: In "The Sword and the Shield," you suggest that Malcolm X, as a kind of alter ego or a critical cousin of Martin Luther King, was able to push King toward a more strenuous critique of American life. It doesn't seem that the influence went the other way, with King softening Malcolm X or teaching him the virtues of nonviolence.
Cover image of "The Sword and Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King." (Courtesy of Basic Books.)
Peniel Joseph: King's political thought and practice went beyond nonviolence, though nonviolence was huge. His was a revolutionary project to end structural violence and racism and inequality against everyone on the planet. It was that big. But no, Malcolm was pushing for radical Black dignity and King was pushing for radical Black citizenship. Malcolm was constantly arguing a case against white America that was rooted in the dehumanization and denigration of Black people. He was the boldest critic of white supremacy, but he also told Black people that their freedom would eventually rest with political self-determination defeating the structures of racism and white supremacy. That's why he was so interested in Africa and the Middle East.
But King impacted Malcolm when he talked about radical Black citizenship. King said that citizenship was not just ending racial oppression. It was about a universal basic income, decent housing, racial integration in public schools and neighborhoods. It was all-encompassing. King was a big believer in American democracy. You see his real impact on Malcolm with the "Ballot or the Bullet" speech [April 3, 1964], which was him admitting and coming to terms with the need for dignity and citizenship.
The Ballot or the Bullet speech by Malcolm X on April 3, 1964
The Question of Democracy; Or, Questioning Democracy
Peniel Joseph: Malcolm never believed in democratic institutions. He had faith that Black people themselves could somehow transform these institutions. He started to talk about voting rights. He visited Coretta Scott King in Selma, while on his way to visit Dr. King in jail, and he told her that what Dr. King was doing was right. Throughout 1964, he was telling people that he and Dr. King had the same goals of human dignity, just different tactics. So you could see the impact. I argue that as early as 1963, which was Malcolm's last year in the Nation of Islam, you could see him being drawn to King. Malcolm was an organizer, and even though he called the March on Washington a farce on Washington, he was there. He watched from a hotel room, but he was in and out the whole time. Malcolm appreciated King's ability to mobilize. He understood that King was not a demagogue. He was trying to listen to King and to see why people were so inspired by him.
With nonviolence versus self-defense, they never agreed, but that's something that I push back on in the book. People get too focused on that. Malcolm X was never calling for some kind of revolutionary race war against white people. If anything, he argued that white supremacy was so pernicious in the United States that if civil rights bills and voting rights acts were passed, it would bring a race war because whites were so violently opposed to Black economy. That's not a controversial thing if you look at the recent assault on the U.S. Capitol, or the policy assaults on voting rights going on right now. If you read American history, it's not a controversial thing to say that prospects of Black voting equality always bring out a violent white response, en masse. Whether it's Donald Trump or Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan or Andrew Johnson or George Wallace, they all tried to bridle that wild force. But they didn't invent it.
White House address on Civil Rights by President John F. Kennedy on June 11, 1983
When Everything Closed in on Both Leaders
Governing: Your book leaves the reader with the sense that the assassinations of King and Malcolm X were more anthropological than the actions of any sort of agent.
Peniel Joseph: Absolutely. There is this inexorable feeling that all sides were closing in on both of them. It was a combination of the federal government, local law enforcement in Malcolm's case, and obviously the Nation of Islam. But the NOI was filled with informants, and so was King's organization. Our federal government and our police state had informants everywhere. We're certainly culpable in some way.
The accumulation of deaths really shifted history. How does the 1970s look with the Kennedy brothers alive, with Malcolm X and Medgar Evers alive, with the Panthers not in jail? You have to say that the accumulation of these assassinations changed the course of history. Think about the right wing. How does the country look if Ronald Reagan hadn't lived past the 1960s? He was a special figure. Chappaquiddick led to Jimmy Carter's presidency. These things do impact.
King to America: You Are Doing Democracy Wrong
Governing: In the book, you say that Malcolm X considered the program of Martin Luther King to be fundamentally wrong-headed. Blacks should not be asking to join the club. There was no dignity, no Black pride in that approach.
Peniel Joseph: Malcolm said that they were separatists, not segregationists. He said that with segregation, they're telling you that you can't be a part of it. With separatism, you're saying you don't want to be a part of it. King's powerful repudiation was that this is a democracy and we have human rights and citizenship rights. Just because they're doing wrong doesn't mean we have to double down on that wrong. King brought a lot of light into that, saying it's not undignified to demand recognition of our humanity. And in a way, that won Malcolm over. That's why when you look at the press conferences from 1964, Malcolm was saying that white people can be a part of the movement, if they're sincere. Over time he saw that what most Black people really wanted was equality.
"Malcolm impacts King's radical critique against white supremacy and racial violence and economic injustice, and King transforms Malcolm's understanding of citizenship and the need for Black citizenship."
Dr. Peniel Joseph, 2021
Violence and Poverty Are Not Inevitable
Governing: Is it fair to say that a Malcolm X critique of Martin Luther King would say, first of all, that there's going to have to be some violence? And secondly, that by sitting with Johnson and Kennedy, King is too willing to accommodate in order to be part of the establishment?
Peniel Joseph: That's where the critique starts, but it evolves. By the time Malcolm was doing "Ballot or the Bullet" and getting deeper into statesmanship, he saw the need for meetings. You have to meet with white folks, Black folks, Asian folks, Latinx folks. That's the world. Malcolm became a better diplomat as he grew older. King was a mainstream diplomat when he was younger, but he lost his diplomatic privilege when he started to talk about United States as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.
Governing: And that poverty was not finally race dependent.
Peniel Joseph: It's not that poverty and race are inextricably combined with violence. That's why he said it's militarism. Racism and materialism. He also had a critique of capitalism, but King was like a social Democrat. He wanted democracy, but he wanted the bigger floor that other people have. Everyone's never going to live in the same house on the same block, but what is the floor for people who are down and out in terms of health care, basic income, all these things that are basic, elementary human rights. JFK, in his civil rights speech on June 11, 1963, said, "Look, some of these things are elementary. Negros should be able to go to restaurants and parks." JFK, one of our country's biggest aristocrats, the American version of royalty, thought it was elementary that people be able to go eat somewhere. He was exasperated at the fact that he had to even say that.
King went deeper by saying, "Look, militarism, racism, materialism, these are the triple evils facing humanity." Malcolm would have said that violence was going to happen, though not necessarily self-defensive violence. Malcolm was criticizing the state-sanctioned violence that was normalized. We still normalize it, with police brutality but also with poverty. Demographically, we know empirically that Black folks, all poor folks but disproportionately Black and brown, live next to the most environmentally toxic places in the United States. This has been for decades. That's where race and class are inextricably linked. King understood that, so he's not getting into a Marxist critique where it's class and not race, nor is he getting into some nationalist critique where it's race and not class. Race and class are inextricably linked, along with gender. Race, class and gender.
MLK and Malcolm X Were Each Other's Alter Egos
It's interesting to me King and Malcolm do become each other's alter egos. Malcolm impacts King's radical critique against white supremacy and racial violence and economic injustice, and King transforms Malcolm's understanding of citizenship and the need for Black citizenship. The reason Malcolm was so receptive was not because he believed in American democracy, but because he believed in Black people. Black people's belief in American democracy swayed him. Some people get to democracy that way.
If you're a Black, it's hard to get to the point where you fundamentally believe in democracy. One of the reasons King did and Malcolm didn't was their class status. King was coming from an upper-middle-class, African American Georgian family. When Malcolm first went to jail, King was a sophomore at Morehouse. By the time Malcolm left jail, King had managed to get not only a bachelor's degree, but also his seminary degree at Crozer. When Malcolm stepped out of prison on Aug. 7, 1952, King had finished the first year of a Ph.D. program. You would never have thought that those two humans would ever meet or be on the same stage, unless one's going to attack the other.
Is America Closer to King's Dream?
Governing: The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were not stillborn, but they didn't accomplish what they were intended to accomplish. And Malcolm said that the Civil Rights Bill wasn't going to accomplish it, either. You can't enforce these things. For all we love about King, was Malcolm more right about America?
Peniel Joseph: They were both right. King would say that these amendments provided a context for the civil rights struggle, a context to transform American democracy and be true to what the founders put on paper. King saw that glass as half full and Malcolm saw it as half empty, but even seeing it as half empty, it was a provocation for people to do something to change the status quo.
Governing: Martin Luther King dreamed that his own children would "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Are we closer in 2021 than we were in 1963?
Peniel Joseph: Dr. King understood that we were going to see difference. He just didn't want us to attach negativity to difference. (01:02:55): As to whether we're closer, it depends on where one looks. When King was around, we probably couldn't have dreamed of having a two-term Black president, of Oprah Winfrey, of the Black cultural wealth, political success, economic success. In certain siloed ways, we are closer. But collectively, when you look at racial outcomes and disparities, we're not there. This movement for racial and economic justice is ongoing.
You can hear more of Clay Jenkinson's views on American history and the humanities on his long-running nationally syndicated public radio program and podcast, "The Thomas Jefferson Hour," and the new Governing podcast, "The Future In Context."
"The Sword and Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr."black americablack citizenshipblack dignityBookscivil rightscivil rights actclay jenkinsondr. martin luther king jr.future in contextmalcolm xnonviolencepeniel josephracismreadingunheralded.fishvoting rightswhite supremacy
JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — Like Rats On A Sinking Ship …
PAULA MEHMEL: Shoot The Rapids — The Truth Will Keep Us Free


Last October I held a hastily scheduled psychotherapy session with a teenager facing a disastrous start to her college career. When we met, she somberly shared that she was on her university's radar for her uncontrolled drinking and had a coming court date for a disorderly conduct charge. Her parents wanted her to withdraw right away, but she had just started to make some solid friendships at college and was reluctant to go home. I saw her point, but understood where her parents were coming from: Given that she was clearly struggling, it was hard to imagine how she would handle the additional strain of trying to recover from her faltering start.
Every fall, I find myself in meetings like this one. Sometimes they're with a teenage who slept through three midterms and is afraid to talk with his professors about how to set things right; sometimes with a student who is doing well academically but terrifying her parents with news that she is cutting herself or feeling suicidal. By the time they're in my office, these adolescents are in a terrible position. If they haven't already been sent home from college with heavy conditions for their return, they're often calculating whether it's better to drop out midsemester or to try to salvage some credits by taking leave at the end of the term.
When I ask about the events leading up to our meeting, I almost always get the same story: They spent their senior year of high school and usually several years before that hinting, if not sky-writing, that they weren't ready to go to college. They were already drinking too much, missing due dates, or struggling to care for themselves in any number of ways. While I am sure there are examples out there, I have yet to see a student implode in the first year of college because of difficulties that arrived completely out of the blue.
Sitting with the young people who land in my practice, I imagine what one or two years of work or service would have done for them before heading off to college. The upsides of a gap year for all kinds of students have been documented and, to me, teenage years are like dog years: a year of maturation at age 18 is worth at least seven in later life.
Along with the benefits of a gap year we should also consider the stunning costs, both emotional and economic, of sending students to college prematurely. Taking unexpected leave from college can be humiliating and expensive. When it's time to try again, students who transfer must disclose their dismissal or withdrawal from their first college, and they are almost certainly looking at options that would have been safety schools, at best, in their first round of applications.
Let's not equate college admission with college readiness. The skills needed to graduate from high school and get into college have surprisingly little in common with those needed to manage, much less thrive, away from home in an undergraduate setting. There should be no shame in "taking time off." On the contrary, we should admire the parents and teenagers who recognize that getting in isn't the same as good to go.
Lisa Damour is a psychologist in private practice in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a clinical instructor at Case Western Reserve University and the director of Laurel School's Center for Research on Girls. Her book about parenting teenage girls will be published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House. Follow her on Twitter: @LDamour.


This house is one of a kind with a marvelous historic feel. Original wooden molding throughout house. The home is located on a large corner lot with 2 bedrooms on the main floor and one bedroom in the basement (no egress windows) A covered sun porch wraps around two sides of the house. Very wide front door.
ALL SHOWINGS ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. Please contact Tracey at (406)855-1696 for more information.


Zimi Cloud Connect lets you manage your home's energy use from anywhere in the world, enables voice commands and monitors your power use to recommend potential savings.
Zimi Cloud Connect lets you take your home with you. Connect to the internet from anywhere in the world to monitor and control your home's lighting, appliances and energy use.
Switch it off when your out and about.
About to go on holiday?
Control it like you're still at home.
We'll make sure the lights are on when you get home.
Zimi Cloud Connect lets you use voice commands, giving you hands-free control for all those simple tasks around the home.
See your energy history over time. With cloud connect and Zimi you can map your home's power use, identify hot spots and recommend schedules to deliver cost and energy savings.
With no special installation required, it only takes a few minutes to put automation at the centre of your home. Optimise energy use, lower your bills and enjoy the convenience that comes with letting your home take over the simple tasks.
Fitting in the palm of your hand, this little device supercharges your Powermesh network with added intelligence. Unleash all of the features in Zimi and enjoy the convenience of home automation based on your lifestyle.
• Integration with Google Home and Google Mini voice assistant.
• Control your Powermesh devices anywhere in the world.
• Monitor the power usage of all your appliances with Energy History.
Please note this product requires an Internet connection via your Wi-Fi modem or router.


We at Humbugonline are known for, and sometimes celebrate our hypocrisy. While the primary purpose of our blog is to encourage a facility for debunking the arguments of others (in the service of truth), sometimes we need to frankly acknowledge the enjoyment to be had through winning an argument by foul means.
One of the scurrilous techniques I have recently developed is the Ju Ju mug.
1. Get an image of the person who you expect to have a disagreement with.
2. Photoshop the image until it is highly insulting, but distorted to such a degree that no-one could be absolutely certain that the image is intended to be a depiction of the target person (see an actual example of my handiwork adjacent).
3. Have the image copied onto a coffee cup.
4. Invite your interlocutor for coffee, and drink from the cup while engaged in discussion.
5. His or her gaze will constantly and inexorably drift to the cup, he or she will frequently lose the thread of the argument (through distraction) and you can move in for the kill.


text:
AHFA Board of Directors Meets in December
The AHFA Board of Directors met December 18. The business of the meeting included the annual election officers and an election to convert expiring 2016 private activity bond cap to Mortgage Credit Certificates. The Board also approved resolutions honoring members Peter Weiss, who passed away in November, and Ted Watts, whose term is ending.
Board Recognizes Vice Chairman Ted Watts at His Last Meeting as a Member
At its December 18 meeting, the AHFA Board of Directors recognized Ted Watts for 32 years of distinguished and outstanding service to the citizens of Alabama as a member of the Board.
Mr. Watts was first appointed in 1988 and has been reappointed four consecutive times. He will complete his last term on January 1, 2020. In 1995, Mr. Watts was elected as Vice Chairman of the Board and has been reelected as Vice Chairman annually ever since.
Mr. Watts has brought a wealth of experience and talent to the Board as a builder, including service as President of the Alabama Home Builders Association and as Chairman of the Alabama Home Builders Self Insurance Fund, and 48 years working in the home building and commercial real estate industries.
Mr. Watts has honorably served AHFA and the citizens of Alabama with dignity and integrity and has earned the respect and admiration of everyone associated with AHFA and the affordable housing industry.
AHFA commends Ted Watts for his invaluable contributions and extensive work as a member of the Board helping to increase housing opportunities for low-to-moderate income citizens in the State of Alabama.
Success Story: Raven Peggins, McCalla
While the list of many accolades that Raven Peggins can claim includes honors graduate, Blazers cheerleader, hip-hop dance teacher and nurse, it is move-up homebuyer and two-time Step Up customer that brought AHFA staff to her door in December.
The 26-year-old family nurse practitioner decided to sell her townhouse in Helena and purchase a house in her hometown of McCalla to make the commute to her job at UAB's Kirklin Clinic more convenient.
Peggins used AHFA's Step Up program with her first home purchase in 2016 on the advice of her lender Dolan Williams with First Bank in Birmingham. She was happy to use Step Up again when he recommended it for her new home purchase.
Step Up provides down payment assistance and a competitive 30-year, fixed interest rate for homebuyers who earn less than $97,300 and meet standards for creditworthiness. The down payment funds are secured by a 10-year second mortgage and are combined with a 30-year, fixed-rate first mortgage.
For even greater savings, Step Up can be combined with a Mortgage Credit Certificate - a tax credit that frees up income to qualify for a mortgage.
AHFA's down payment assistance and mortgage tax credits make homeownership affordable across Alabama.
Register for AHFA's 2020 Application Workshop in January
Registration is now open for AHFA's HOME/Housing Credit/Housing Trust Fund Application Workshop scheduled for Friday, January 10 at the Montgomery Marriott Prattville Hotel & Conference Center at Capital Hill in Prattville.
During the workshop, AHFA staff will discuss changes in the 2020 Plans to include application, underwriting, environmental and compliance procedures, and new DMS online application elements.
For more information or to register, visit https://conta.cc/2PvrSvG.
Housing Trust Fund Application Cycle Opens for Approved 2018/2019 HOME/HC Projects
Applications for the National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Program are being accepted by AHFA for the remaining 2018 and 2019 allocated funds. To be considered for this funding pool, applications must be received by AHFA prior to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 6, 2020.
New construction projects that received AHFA HOME or Housing Credit awards may also submit an application for HTF. Previously funded projects must have committed to provide 5 percent of the total proposed units for tenants with disabilities or homeless populations and be in compliance with the HTF program, inclusive of the 30 percent AMI restriction and the 30-year affordability period.
For more information, application forms and instructions, visit http://bit.ly/2ktkyUa .
AHFA Announces Our First Step Up TPO Partnership
Earlier this year, we announced a change to the Step Up program in order to improve accessibility and began allowing participating lenders with wholesale TPO Operations to deliver third party-originated loans.
On December 5, AHFA staff hosted a training for Renasant Bank in Birmingham as the first participating lender to offer this service.
This service essentially opens up the Step Up program to all mortgage lenders. Step Up is AHFA's flagship homeownership program designed specifically for low- to moderate-income homebuyers who can afford a mortgage, but need help with the down payment.
All servicing is retained by AHFA and serviced in house. We do not compete for bank customers, and institutions are able to continue their relationship with customers without any threat of cross-selling from us.
If your institution is interested in delivering third party-originated Step Up loans, contact Cathy James at cjames@ahfa.com for more information.
In 2000, the Alabama Affordable Housing Association (AAHA) created an education scholarship program for residents of member-owned apartment properties in Alabama. The scholarship funds are donated by the owners, contractors, architects, accountants, property management companies, investors, lenders, developers, and various vendors that make up AAHA's membership as well as other non-member individuals. Since its inception, the AAHA resident scholarship fund has awarded more than $750,000 in college and vocational scholarships.
Meet Paris Morgan of Alexander City:
A resident of Cornerstone Apartments in Alexander City with her mother and her younger brother, Paris is a 2019 graduate of Benjamin Russell High School and started her college career at Central Alabama Community College.
"I want to go to our local community college, Central Alabama Community College, and later transfer to South Alabama for pre-med, get into medical school, and become an OB-GYN," she said.
Composed and focused, Morgan was a very involved student, including serving as co-captain of the cheerleading squad, in addition to holding down a part-time job. "I worked at Dominos," she said. "Having a job … that was just extra money that was coming in. It really showed me how to be organized."
Since she is a resident of Cornerstone, a 56-unit family development financed in part by HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds and Housing Credits administered by AHFA, Morgan was able to apply for the AAHA scholarship. "We've been living there ever since I was in second grade," she said. "Cornerstone is very lovely and peaceful. We love it."
As a 2019 AAHA scholarship winner, Morgan will receive $1,500 to use toward her college expenses. "It's going to benefit me a lot," she said. "I don't want to go into debt. That's one thing I really don't want to do. This scholarship will help keep me out of debt."
The first child in her family to go to college, Morgan is excited about the challenges ahead of her. "I get to be a role model, but it's pretty exciting just to have my mom happy," she said. "The most exciting thing is that I get to venture into a new environment and a new setting … to do something different."
Morgan, along with the other 2019 scholarship recipients, was honored during AAHA's annual conference last May. For more information about the resident scholarship program, please contact Arrice Faught, AAHA's executive director, at arrice@theaaha.org or 205.758.1158.
Welcome, CenterState Bank!
AHFA is pleased to welcome CenterState Bank as a participating lender in the Step Up program.
Step Up provides down payment assistance and a competitive 30-year, fixed interest rate for homebuyers who earn less than $97,300 and meet standards for creditworthiness.
CenterState Bank has offices conveniently located in Auburn, Birmingham, Fairhope, Gulf Shores, Huntsville, Madison and Opelika to serve potential home buyers. For more information, visit https://www.centerstatebank.com/ .
AHFA Offices to Close for January Holidays
AHFA, ServiSolutions, and Hardest Hit Alabama will be closed Monday, January 20 in observance of the King/Lee holiday. Please make a note of this date.
Alabama Housing Finance Authority | Montgomery, Alabama | 334.244.9200 | Email | Website


Associate Professor & Head, Deptt of Political Science, S D College,Ambala Cantt.(INDIA). Besides this, involved in public affairs as well as research dealing with the major issues in contemporary politics and society.The area of interests are :casteism,communalism,corruption,criminalisation. regionalisation,party system,electoral politics, scheduled castes/scheduled trbes,women and politics ,minorities,ethinicity, panchayati raj and human rights etc. Paricipated and presented papers in local/regional /national and international seminars/conferences /workshops/colloquiums/trainings and meetings etc.


text:
Q: Files owner and nsapplication, appdelegate In the apple docs it states that nsapplication is the file owner of the main nib.  Is this just set up by the template or must the first nib to be loaded, be loaded in this way?
Also, I read through the rest of the posts about the file owner and something still confuses me.  Can IBoutlets only point to objects, if the Iboutlet is a property of the nibs file owner, and the object is found within that nib?  Why does the nib even need to know the class of it's owner In addition to the object?  What is enabled or disable by knowing or not knowing this?
One more, where does the appdelegate fit into this picture? Can you even change the app delegate?
Thanks :-)

A: Xcode's application template sets up MainMenu.xib to be loaded with NSApp as its owner.  This is done by the NSApplicationMain function.  NSApplicationMain looks up the NSMainNibFile key in the app's Info.plist file.  If it finds that key, it uses the corresponding value as the name of the nib file to load.  Xcode's app template sets NSMainNibFile to MainMenu.
It doesn't have to be done that way.  You can change or delete the NSMainNibFile entry in Info.plist.  You could even not use NSApplicationMain. Instead you could initialize NSApp yourself (by calling [NSApplication sharedApplication]), and then create your user interface programmatically or by loading nibs, and then call [NSApp run].
The nib loader can only connect outlets to objects in the nib it's loading, or to File's Owner, First Responder, or Application.  The outlet itself doesn't have to be on File's Owner; it can be on any object in the nib.
When you set the class of File's owner, Interface Builder scans your source code to find the declaration of that class.  That's how it knows which outlets and actions File's Owner should have.
The app delegate is generally the top-level controller for the application.  It is notified when a variety of application-level events occur.  Look at the NSApplicationDelegate Protocol Reference.
In Xcode's app template, the application delegate is an object in MainMenu.xib (you can have non-user-interface objects in a nib), which is wired to File Owner's delegate outlet.  You can modify the class however you want.  You can even delete the object from the nib entirely.  But any serious app will need an app delegate.


I think we need to evaluate this one on the same terms as Plant health. Think we add the menus on the right for the 3 divisions of construction? INSTALL, RENOVATION, & RESTORATION and then seperate this one page into 3 other pages? We have the most images for this one, and the pages would look nice and not be too vertical. This one takes a lot of scrolling and we have a fraction of the images I want in here. have a few before and afters. These images should speak versatility, scope, and creativity.
We work for Home owners, Developers, Commercial Property Owners, Facility Managers, Builders, Architects and Designers.
Water: All landscapes need some water. Even in our semi arid climate the sight and sound of running water is a proven therapeutic tool. Being around water is calming. It has the added benefit of providing many creatures with a place to live or visit.
PLANTING: Proper plant selection and placement for ideal mature growth habit, and water usage are the two main factors that SHOULD be considered when designing a landscape. Fruit, Flowers, Fall Color and habitat that plant creates are all secondary benefits of having the right plants in the right places. We all have seen the 60′ Blue Spruce planted 8′ off the corner of a house when it is 6′ tall. It is important to have the right amount of turf, the right type of turf, and understand the pros and cons of all landscape plants.
IRRIGATION: We are all aware of the cost of water, and our global responsibility to manage this precious resource. Irrigation and plant technology has come a long way in just the past 5 years. Almost every irrigation system in the ground could run more effeciently, and effectively with todays technology in place. We feel it is our responsibily to educate everyone on what is possible in 2012. We get a lot of opportunities to revist old designs and make some improvements to the total landscape area and water usage, or lack of water management. We will save you water. Let us show you how.
HARDSCAPE: Eventually Concrete cracks. No real way around that, It is Colorado. Moisture and freezing temperatures will break even the biggest mountains over time. Our hardscape professionals can take on all aspects of outdoor hardscape.
LIGHTING: Every landscape provides more value when you see it more than just daylight hours. We like the idea of a 24 Hour landscape. Landscapes are beautiful. Especially when you can see them. Outdoor lighting can make the difference between good and great! Let us set up our Demo kit and show you what your landscape would look like at night. It is worth the time, guaraneed!
Unfinished areas in the landscape? Distrubed site? Damage from nature? Construction? Enviromental conditions? poor original plan & execution? Erosion control?
These types of projects are part of our daily routine. We can help, just ask.