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New York City Cartoons
New York City cartoon 1 of 281
"I'm starting to get concerned about global warming."
cacti, global warming, environment, trees, new york city, street scenes, cactus, new york, evidence, sidewalk, sidewalks, desert, deserts, climate change, harbinger, harbingers, early sign, early signs, worry, worries, worrying, worrier
Pigeon Little
pigeons, bird, chicken little, sky, apocalypse, attention deficit disorder, distraction, bagels, food, pigeon, distractions, distracted, bagel, new york, new york city, add, adhd, attention deficit disorder, attention span, attention spans, short attention span, short attention spans
Realtor from the Black Lagoon
real estate, new york city, tribeca, snakes, swamps, spiders, property values, real estate, realtor, realtors, real estate agent, real estate agents, estate agent, estate agents, classic movie, classic movies, classic film, classic films, lagoon, lagoons, property value, property values, sales pitch, sales spiel, housing market, property market, monster movie, monster movies, monster, monsters
Walking Tours of New York
new york, new york city, walking tour, walking tours, dog, dogs, walk, walks, walking, dream job, dream jobs, job, jobs, career, careers, career opportunity, career opportunities, ideal job, ideal jobs, ideal fit, ideal fits
Time in the airport is all measured against the time in New York City.
new york, new yorker, new yorkers, self-centered, self-centred, self-interest, self-interested, center of the world, center of the universe, elite, elites, elitist, elitists, new york city, centre of the world, centre of the universe
Reaching the Summit
hiking, hike, hikers, hiker, climb, climber, climbers, climbing, sport climbing, sport climbers, rambling, rambler, ramblers, exercise, exercising, skyscraper, skyscrapers, tall building, tall building, view, views, admire the view, admiring the view, enjoy the view, enjoying the view, cityscape, cityscapes, city landscape, city landscapes, new york, empire state building, success, achievement, achieve, reach the top, reach the summit, pretentious, pretension, false sense of achievement, false sense of accomplishment, urban landscape, urban landscapes, ambition, ambitious, new york city, nyc
"On the other hand, the sand I'm burying my head in is in Amagansett."
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"Don't look now, but those onion bagels are following us again."
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"Brooklyn is the Manhattan of the other boroughs."
Sipress, David
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New York City cartoon 10 of 281
"I'm starting my own movement—Occupy Fifty-Seventh Street."
Acocella Marchetto, Marisa
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The Ancient Tea Ceremony of Astoria
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Additions to the Rainbow Curriculum
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"I'm a local craftsperson - I make money."
wall street, banker, bankers, banking, broker, brokers, stock, stocks, stockbroker, stockbrokers, trader, traders, market trader, market traders, elite, elites, elitist, elitism, make money, making money, capitalist, capitalism, bottom line, sleaze, sleazy, sleazebag, craftsman, artisan, artisans, local business, local businesses, new york, new york city, cocktail party, cocktail parties
"Still snowing upstate?"
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A massive ship pulls in in Central Park.
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The New York Rebellion - When the Natives Decided to Take Back the Streets
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Ancient Landmarks of New York City
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The Rejects.
Artist: Chast, Roz Search ID: CC68105 High Res: 2486x1179 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags: new york, new york city, ny, n.y., nyc, n.y.c., i <3 ny, spade, spades, diamond, diamonds, club, clubs, i heart ny, i heart new york, manhattan, advert, advertising, souvenir, souvenirs, merchandise, marketing, advertise, ad, ads, design, designs, sales, sale, deck, deck of cards, pack of cards, slogan, slogans, rejected, rejections, prototype, prototypes
Rashomon of West 84th Street
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The lion statues in front of New York City Library are replaced with spies.
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Stockopolis.
stock market, stock markets, investor, investors, capitalist, capitalism, investing, invests, wall street, stock broker, stock brokers, stockbroker, stockbrokers, new york, new york city, rich, money, making money, critique, critical, fat cats, boom, booms, bull market, trader, traders, trading, trades, frenzy, frenzied
Orpheus And Eurydice In Connecticut
orpheus, eurydice, myth, myths, mythology, mythologies, tale of orpheus, underworld, underworlds, new yorker, new yorkers, new york, new york city, vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, holidaying, vacationing, resort, resorts, don't look back, look back, looking back, suburb, suburbs, move, moves, moving, move away, moving away, social status, social statuses
QUINTUPLE BYPASSES EXPLAINED.
pun, puns, trains, train, subway, subways, subway line, underground, underground train, travel, travels, travelling, new york, new york city, nyc, n y c, bypass, detour, detours, diversion, diversions, distraction, distractions, distract, distracted, a train, f train, literal, journey, journeys, odyssey
Cab From Hell.
transport, transports, cab, cabs, cabbies, taxi, taxis, taximan, driver, drive, sign, signs, warning, warns, rule, rules, new york, new york city, awful, annoying, from hell, difficult, unjust, cheap, order, orders, strict, severe, harsh, authoritarian
Balcony hot air balloon.
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29.05.2018 Author: Grete Mautner
The West Prepares to Get Dirty ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Column: Politics
Region: Russia in the World
In theory, football like all sorts of other sport activities can seem to be the most apolitical matter on can come across, while in practice political concerns have been dominated sports for decades now. Sportsmanship in an age of unhindered political meddling and predatory business practices goes beyond far beyond the realm of pure entertainment. In fact, today football has become the cradle of patriotism, an opportunity to advertise a state and emphasize its significance on the international stage.
It's hard to establish when sports became a purely political matter, an indispensable element of hybrid warfare. This, in particular, was stressed by the iconic US President John F. Kennedy, who as early as 1960 announced that gold Olympic medals can be regarded as an equivalent of nuclear warheads. Indeed, both affect the prestige of a country and determine how much influence enjoys on the international stage, facilitating any state's steps aimed at addressing both internal and external political challenges. Sports have not just become a weapon of propaganda, but also a kind of substitute for real war, a means of satisfying political ambitions and reducing bills. It's no wonder then that bloodless war is waged through all means possible.
In the absence of other opportunities to express their political feeling, fans are engaged in manifesting their support of their national team, which have become an extension of political goals that those countries that they represent pursue. In recent years, sports stadiums provided an impetus for the revival of political patriotism and the demonstration of national feelings in public. If previously unhindered attempts to demonstrate one's sense of superiority were shamed by the public discourse, those days are long gone today.
One can recall the events of the recent sports history like the 1976 Montreal Olympics was boycotted by African countries, protesting against the match of the South African and New Zealand national rugby teams being held in New Zealand. The pretext for boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics was the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, as for the boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics by a number of Warsaw Pact states, it was provoked by Reagan's statement that Washington could not guarantee the safety of Soviet athletes.
It should be noted that sports competitions with Russia (and earlier with the USSR) have long been of special significance for Western political elites that have been constantly used to aggravate the ongoing anti-Russian propaganda by unleashing incorrect, provocative or even completely false narrative.
And it does take a historian to come up with a handful of examples, like a number of irritated threats release in the Western media about the intention of boycotting the 2014 Winter Sochi Olympics because of alleged "violation of the rights of sexual minorities" taking place in Russia.
The 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korean Pyeongchang, where Russian athletes were forced to compete and under the flag of the International Olympic Committee instead of their national tricolor, made me remember about how deep the ties between sports and politics run. The founder of the modern Olympic movement, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, while formulating the principles of Olympism, put a particular emphasis on the defense of two provisions – the amateur status of athletes and the complete separation of the Olympic movement from the political agenda of the day, but today those two principles are all but gone. The Olympic Games and other major sports competitions have long ceased to be a place for an honest competition of amateur athletes, instead they evolved into battlefields where professionals are pursuing those political goals that those in power back at home told them to pursue.
As we're witnessing the bitter confrontation between the West and Russia both in various regions of the world and across financial markets, the West has been preparing to get nasty on the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Indiscriminately and without any evidence, Britain has launched a Russophobe propaganda campaign based on the alleged chemical poisoning at Salisbury. While all the details of this the of this strange incident remain unclear, no evidence has been presented that could in any way link Moscow with the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Those are being aggravated even further by Washington's accusations against Russia about the alleged annexation of the Crimea peninsula and dubious actions in the Syrian war. Active attempts are being made to further promote the anti-Russian narrative by all sorts of media statements that there's a state-run doping system in Russian sports, although former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory and WADA informant, Grigory Rodchenkov has been unable to provide any evidence to back a great many of his previous claims at the hearings of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
For the last two years Russophobic Western politicians have been pursuing a policy of squeezing out officials that can be describe as tolerant from all international sports organizations, so Russia's interest could be disregarded at the highest level. The first official to suffer a sorry fate of many was the was the former president of the Olympic Council of Ireland and a member of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC), Patrick Hickey, who was arrested Rio de Janeiro on dubious charges of speculating with Olympic tickets. Even though the investigation resulted in nothing of substance being presented to the general public, he was stripped of all his posts and levers of influence, which sent other members of the IOC a clear message that they will suffer a similar fate if they allow Russian atheletes to represent their country at the 2018 Pyeong Chang Olympics. Additionally, Washington is trying to undermine the authority of those sports figures that are heading certain sports unions, as the case of the International Biathlon Union president Anders Besseberg, that was forced to step down due to yet another string of dubious accusations, has shown. It seems that the president of the International Ski Federation, Gian-Franco Kasper could be next in line, with a lot of sports officials to follow, since Washington is determined to show that is not going to tolerate those figures that are not actively participating in its ongoing anti-Russian propaganda war. Yet, there's those who don't seem to be too afraid of it, like the former secretary general of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) and now a CAS arbitrator, Michael Gaistlinger wrote an article in support of the legitimate reunification of the Crimea with Russia and, satisfied the appeals made Russian athletes on their unlawful discrimination.
In an effort to fuel Russophobic sentiments on the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a number of Western politicians have been going above and beyond, demanding their nations to boycott this sports event. In particular, countries such as Great Britain, Australia or Iceland are very actively discussing now the decision to boycott the World Cup, while spreading all sorts of horrifically sounding stories in the media about Russia to prevent their fans from attending the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
However, it matters not for Moscow whether Teresa May will attend the World Cup, or not. And, it highly probable that she herself would find itself unable to make this trip without expressing official apologies to Moscow for a series of the groundless accusations she voiced against Russia.
German politicians representing the coalition parties, as well as the opposition, reacted critically to the idea of boycotting the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, as they believe that a propaganda war that is being waged against Russia couldn't be represented as a healthy rationale behind such a decision. The chairman of the German Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen has recently announced in an interview with Der Spiegel that he was "against the political boycott" of the World Cup, since healthy sportsmanship should not be suffering because of today's political narrative, as it has always been promoting mutual understanding between the people. The foreign policy spokesperson of the CDU / CSU coalition in the Bundestag, Jürgen Hardt (CDU), has also rejected the idea of boycott as a viable course of action on the part of German, adding that he doesn't perceive such step as a viable instrument of modern diplomacy.
It should not be forgotten that a major football tournament is intended not only for politicians seeking to use any international event to advance their political narrative, but for fans that want to attend a possibly once-in-a-lifetime event. But this possibility could easily be ruined by individual politicians, who have been trying to destroy all channels of cultural communication linking certain states with the rest of the world.
Grete Mautner is an independent researcher and journalist from Germany, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook."


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A Frente de Libertação Nacional de Sidama, também conhecida como Frente de Libertação de Sidama  é um grupo rebelde na região de Sidama da Etiópia.  A organização aliou-se à Frente de Libertação Oromo em 2012 e à Frente de Libertação Nacional de Ogaden em 2015 contra a Frente de Libertação do Povo Tigray.

Criação
A Frente de Libertação Nacional de Sidama foi estabelecida em .

Objetivos
A Frente de Libertação Nacional de Sidama  descreve seu objetivo como autodeterminação do povo sidama. Em 2016, representantes da organização reuniram-se com outros grupos em Asmara, criando a Aliança Popular para a Liberdade e a Democracia, que protestou contra a "repressão brutal dos manifestantes desarmados em Oromia pela Frente de Libertação do Povo Tigray". A aliança manifestou-se contra as corporações multinacionais e o governo dominado pela Frente de Libertação do Povo Tigray expropriando recursos naturais de comunidades agropastoris pobres e deslocando os habitantes.

Alianças
Em 2012, a Frente de Libertação Nacional de Sidama (na época, Frente de Libertação de Sidama), fez uma declaração conjunta com a Frente de Libertação Oromo, acusando a Frente de Libertação do Povo Tigray de criar deliberadamente um conflito violento entre os grupos sidama e oromo "através de ataques multifacetados". As duas organizações conjuntamente pediram para os "povos subjugados em geral" e aos oromos e sidamas para que evitassem serem atraídos para o conflito e "em vez disso, formar seu comitê de anciãos comum historicamente eficaz e resolver seus conflitos da maneira tradicional estabelecida."

Em 2015, a Frente de Libertação Nacional de Sidama era aliada de dois outros grupos rebeldes, a Frente de Libertação Nacional de Ogaden e a Frente de Libertação Oromo, e lutava contra o governo da Etiópia, dominado pela Frente Democrática Revolucionária do Povo Etíope.

Referências

Partidos políticos da Etiópia
Grupos rebeldes da Etiópia

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/* $OpenBSD: tls_client.c,v 1.35 2016/09/04 12:26:43 bcook Exp $ */
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Joel Sing <jsing@openbsd.org>
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
 * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
 * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
 * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
 * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
 * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 */

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>

#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>

#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include <openssl/err.h>
#include <openssl/x509.h>

#include <tls.h>
#include "tls_internal.h"

struct tls *
tls_client(void)
{
	struct tls *ctx;

	if ((ctx = tls_new()) == NULL)
		return (NULL);

	ctx->flags |= TLS_CLIENT;

	return (ctx);
}

int
tls_connect(struct tls *ctx, const char *host, const char *port)
{
	return tls_connect_servername(ctx, host, port, NULL);
}

int
tls_connect_servername(struct tls *ctx, const char *host, const char *port,
    const char *servername)
{
	struct addrinfo hints, *res, *res0;
	const char *h = NULL, *p = NULL;
	char *hs = NULL, *ps = NULL;
	int rv = -1, s = -1, ret;

	if ((ctx->flags & TLS_CLIENT) == 0) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "not a client context");
		goto err;
	}

	if (host == NULL) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "host not specified");
		goto err;
	}

	/*
	 * If port is NULL try to extract a port from the specified host,
	 * otherwise use the default.
	 */
	if ((p = (char *)port) == NULL) {
		ret = tls_host_port(host, &hs, &ps);
		if (ret == -1) {
			tls_set_errorx(ctx, "memory allocation failure");
			goto err;
		}
		if (ret != 0) {
			tls_set_errorx(ctx, "no port provided");
			goto err;
		}
	}

	h = (hs != NULL) ? hs : host;
	p = (ps != NULL) ? ps : port;

	/*
	 * First check if the host is specified as a numeric IP address,
	 * either IPv4 or IPv6, before trying to resolve the host.
	 * The AI_ADDRCONFIG resolver option will not return IPv4 or IPv6
	 * records if it is not configured on an interface;  not considering
	 * loopback addresses.  Checking the numeric addresses first makes
	 * sure that connection attempts to numeric addresses and especially
	 * 127.0.0.1 or ::1 loopback addresses are always possible.
	 */
	memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
	hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;

	/* try as an IPv4 literal */
	hints.ai_family = AF_INET;
	hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST;
	if (getaddrinfo(h, p, &hints, &res0) != 0) {
		/* try again as an IPv6 literal */
		hints.ai_family = AF_INET6;
		if (getaddrinfo(h, p, &hints, &res0) != 0) {
			/* last try, with name resolution and save the error */
			hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
			hints.ai_flags = AI_ADDRCONFIG;
			if ((s = getaddrinfo(h, p, &hints, &res0)) != 0) {
				tls_set_error(ctx, "%s", gai_strerror(s));
				goto err;
			}
		}
	}

	/* It was resolved somehow; now try connecting to what we got */
	s = -1;
	for (res = res0; res; res = res->ai_next) {
		s = socket(res->ai_family, res->ai_socktype, res->ai_protocol);
		if (s == -1) {
			tls_set_error(ctx, "socket");
			continue;
		}
		if (connect(s, res->ai_addr, res->ai_addrlen) == -1) {
			tls_set_error(ctx, "connect");
			close(s);
			s = -1;
			continue;
		}

		break;  /* Connected. */
	}
	freeaddrinfo(res0);

	if (s == -1)
		goto err;

	if (servername == NULL)
		servername = h;

	if (tls_connect_socket(ctx, s, servername) != 0) {
		close(s);
		goto err;
	}

	ctx->socket = s;

	rv = 0;

 err:
	free(hs);
	free(ps);

	return (rv);
}

static int
tls_connect_common(struct tls *ctx, const char *servername)
{
	union tls_addr addrbuf;
	int rv = -1;

	if ((ctx->flags & TLS_CLIENT) == 0) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "not a client context");
		goto err;
	}

	if (servername != NULL) {
		if ((ctx->servername = strdup(servername)) == NULL) {
			tls_set_errorx(ctx, "out of memory");
			goto err;
		}
	}

	if ((ctx->ssl_ctx = SSL_CTX_new(SSLv23_client_method())) == NULL) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "ssl context failure");
		goto err;
	}

	if (tls_configure_ssl(ctx, ctx->ssl_ctx) != 0)
		goto err;

	if (tls_configure_ssl_keypair(ctx, ctx->ssl_ctx,
	    ctx->config->keypair, 0) != 0)
		goto err;

	if (ctx->config->verify_name) {
		if (servername == NULL) {
			tls_set_errorx(ctx, "server name not specified");
			goto err;
		}
	}

	if (ctx->config->verify_cert &&
	    (tls_configure_ssl_verify(ctx, ctx->ssl_ctx,
	     SSL_VERIFY_PEER) == -1))
		goto err;

	if ((ctx->ssl_conn = SSL_new(ctx->ssl_ctx)) == NULL) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "ssl connection failure");
		goto err;
	}

	if (SSL_set_app_data(ctx->ssl_conn, ctx) != 1) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "ssl application data failure");
		goto err;
	}

	/*
	 * RFC4366 (SNI): Literal IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are not
	 * permitted in "HostName".
	 */
	if (servername != NULL &&
	    inet_pton(AF_INET, servername, &addrbuf) != 1 &&
	    inet_pton(AF_INET6, servername, &addrbuf) != 1) {
		if (SSL_set_tlsext_host_name(ctx->ssl_conn, servername) == 0) {
			tls_set_errorx(ctx, "server name indication failure");
			goto err;
		}
	}
	rv = 0;

 err:
	return (rv);
}

int
tls_connect_socket(struct tls *ctx, int s, const char *servername)
{
	return tls_connect_fds(ctx, s, s, servername);
}

int
tls_connect_fds(struct tls *ctx, int fd_read, int fd_write,
    const char *servername)
{
	int rv = -1;

	if (fd_read < 0 || fd_write < 0) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "invalid file descriptors");
		goto err;
	}

	if (tls_connect_common(ctx, servername) != 0)
		goto err;

	if (SSL_set_rfd(ctx->ssl_conn, fd_read) != 1 ||
	    SSL_set_wfd(ctx->ssl_conn, fd_write) != 1) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "ssl file descriptor failure");
		goto err;
	}

	rv = 0;
 err:
	return (rv);
}

int
tls_handshake_client(struct tls *ctx)
{
	X509 *cert = NULL;
	int ssl_ret;
	int rv = -1;

	if ((ctx->flags & TLS_CLIENT) == 0) {
		tls_set_errorx(ctx, "not a client context");
		goto err;
	}

	ERR_clear_error();
	if ((ssl_ret = SSL_connect(ctx->ssl_conn)) != 1) {
		rv = tls_ssl_error(ctx, ctx->ssl_conn, ssl_ret, "handshake");
		goto err;
	}

	if (ctx->config->verify_name) {
		cert = SSL_get_peer_certificate(ctx->ssl_conn);
		if (cert == NULL) {
			tls_set_errorx(ctx, "no server certificate");
			goto err;
		}
		if ((rv = tls_check_name(ctx, cert,
		    ctx->servername)) != 0) {
			if (rv != -2)
				tls_set_errorx(ctx, "name `%s' not present in"
				    " server certificate", ctx->servername);
			goto err;
		}
	}

	ctx->state |= TLS_HANDSHAKE_COMPLETE;
	rv = 0;

 err:
	X509_free(cert);

	return (rv);
}

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Aspidella, from the Ediacaran Abut 560 Ma - Evidence for Cnidaria-Like Behaviour
According to the authors1 debate continues on when the first animals arose based on evidence in the geological record, and how far back before the Cambrian Explosion this occurred. The deepest divergence of the Metazoa that has been estimated by molecular clock is estimated to have occurred by the Ediacaran Period, 635-541 Ma, though evidence of animal activity from well below the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary has been rare and is often disputed on the grounds of this often being questionable evidence. The Ediacaran macrobiota remain enigmatic, as is emphasised by recent controversial claims that the Ediacaran forms from South Australia are actually terrestrial forms, and instead of being marine animals they may actually be terrestrially-based lichens and microbial colonies. In this paper the authors1 report evidence of animal-like behaviour in a submerged setting in Aspidella terranovica, Billings 1872, a key form from the Ediacaran, a discoidal fossil from the Fermeuse Formation, Newfoundland, Canada, dated to about 560 Ma. They describe sedimentary fabrics that indicate a vertical movement of an organism through sediment as a response to an aggrading sediment-water interface. As observed in partially buried marine animals, such as tube anemones, at the present, such equilibrium traces are also commonly known from the Phanerozoic. There are also horizontal tracks that are closely comparable to tracks that have previously been described from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, dating to about 565 Ma, that have now been linked to Aspidella. The findings of this study are believed to constitute evidence of movement, both horizontal and vertical, in a key Ediacaran taxon, that is consistent with an animal of cnidarian grade. Also, the evidence reported from this study conflicts with the proposed radical interpretation of Retallack of the Ediacaran fossil assemblage from the Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia, as Aspidella is also reported from the Rawnsley Quartzite.
Menon, Latha R., Duncan McIlroy, and Martin D. Brasier. "Evidence for Cnidaria-Like Behavior in Ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran Aspidella." Geology 41, no. 8 (August 1, 2013 2013): 895-98.


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Dysmetropsia: What is it like dating with Alice in Wonderland syndrome
by urevolution
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by nicole edwards
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by jordyn gualdani
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Dating and having sex with dysmetropisa can be complicated. Learn about Abbey's true-life story about dysmetropsia, sex, and relationships.
Dating and having sex with dysmetropsia can be complicated
This is an edited transcript of URevolution's Sex Like This Podcast | S1 E3 Dysmetropsia: What is it like dating with Alice in Wonderland syndrome?
I had quite a bad dysmetropsia flare-up mid-date, and I was quite scared. It's the first time that's really happened to me on a date. And I just kind of turned and said, "I don't want to scare you, but I think I might pass out." And I very, very quickly did a brief rundown of "I have this illness, it causes me to do this thing. I need to quietly sit with my head between my legs, and there's a chance I'll pass out. Could you please make sure my head doesn't hit the pavement? And he just went, "yeah, that's fine."
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. And most of us are looking for love. So if we couple off, you know, unless you've come up with a more interesting arrangement, that means there are theoretically about three and a half billion people in the world that could be the one for you. And counting. So, why do we always hear the same love stories with all of these options? The cookie-cutter, storybook version of what it's like to fall in love is told over and over again. Well, friends that stops here, you're listening to Sex Like This, a podcast brought to you by Uncomfortable Revolution about sex and dating with a chronic illness or disability.
I'm your host Health Journalist, Nicole Edwards.
Today we're exploring what it is like to date and have sex with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (also known as Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia)
Dysmetropisia for dummies
Abbey has been experiencing the symptoms of dysmetropsia since she was a little kid. When she hit puberty, the symptoms got a lot worse, and she spent a long time figuring out exactly what was happening to her. That's because the symptoms were really strange as you're about to hear.
Some people call it Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. It is also known as Todd's syndrome or dysmetropsia after a British psychiatrist, Dr. John Todd, who identified in the 1950s. He noted that anecdotes of this syndrome closely resembled the experiences of Alice Liddell in Lewis Carroll's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
The best way to describe my dysmetropsia symptoms was that it was just a feeling that nothing was entirely right. But it's tough to explain how that feels unless you've had it yourself.
Dysmetropsia is a feeling of being entirely out of your surroundings: of distorted perception and disorientation. A bit like if you were in a dream and you become aware that what is happening isn't reality. That's how I felt in reality, for most of the day, every day for about ten years.
By the time Abbey was 14, her dysmetropsia symptoms had taken her even deeper into Wonderland. She had dizzy spells, and she fainted a lot. Her mom got worried and took her to see a doctor to see if her dysmetropsia could be treated.
I knew in my heart that it was a physical thing that was happening to me. But they often were trying to frame it as, "you have an eating disorder," or "you're depressed, or you're stressed," because I would say things like, "well, it happens when I eat." And instead of taking that as a physical reaction, they take it as you're having kind of some kind of psychological reaction. And I suppose being a teenage girl, it's not unreasonable for them to think that. But they were kind of not keen to pursue many other lines of inquiry. And they would constantly ask me about school, pressure, and home life. And of course, those things were stressful because you're 14 and everyone's stressed.
It's a horrible time a lot of the time. But I found it really difficult to say to them, "yes, those things are stressful, but that isn't what this is." So then I started to be quite scared about describing some of the more "mad" things that were happening because I just thought, well, if they don't believe dizziness, they're not going to believe that I feel like I'm trapped in a nightmare I can't get out of. And they're not going to believe that I look in the mirror and I think my head's too big. Like that. Then I just shut down a little bit from really telling people what went on. Even my mom. Like, it's only been the last couple of years that I've told her some of the more "mad" things that I used to see and feel.
Getting diagnosed with Dysmetropsia was a struggle
The experience of something going wrong inside your body is already hard enough. So, it makes sense that Abbey would start to feel kind of hopeless as doctors fumbled for an answer to what was wrong with her.
After a few years, they started really to pursue the depression angle. And I think I was definitely depressed. To me, depression feels like drowning.
But I was depressed because I had an undiagnosed chronic illness that nobody took seriously.
There's a long history of doctors seeing women as overreacting when it comes to physical issues or life in general. It's actually where the term "hysterical" originates – from the ancient Greek word histericos, which means a suffering in the uterus. When Abbey thinks about whether or not this would have happened if she were a boy, she says.
100% no. Because for so long, they told me it was hormonal. They tried to put me on the pill to make it go away. And I think it was just dismissed as hysteria. l just wasn't doing what I guess "normal" teens and 20-year-olds were doing. So it was quite isolating. And that meant that I wasn't in that whole dating scene until quite a lot later.
I was sick a lot of the time, I was tired a lot of the time, and I just wasn't even that interested because I just felt so unwell. It wasn't really a priority for me. I wouldn't be out at parties. I wasn't able to drink alcohol. And, dating culture – I don't know what it's like everywhere, but – in London, it's very drink-focused.
But then, one night, at a party with her friends, Abbey meets a guy who's also not drinking. In fact, they seem to be the only two in the room who are saying no to cocktails, and they bond over that. Well, they bond over more than that. And suddenly, Abbey's in the midst of her first romance, but it wasn't easy for a few reasons. One, she was still fighting all these symptoms without much support and without a diagnosis. Two, her new partner wasn't very sympathetic to what she was going through.
So, it was always out there that this was a thing that was happening to me, but I think he didn't maybe realize how bad it was and what impact that would have on me, and the relationship in general. And, the huge problem that arose was first, I was so fatigued that I couldn't do a lot of things and I wouldn't want to go places. And I wasn't able to socialize as much, which is hard on whoever you're with. And then the second thing was that, with the problems with my digestion, one of the things that really happened would be I would eat but I would never not be hungry, because my food wasn't being digested properly. So, I was always starving. And I subsequently gained a lot of weight. And I was so self-conscious because, for me, it was out of control, and I didn't know how to stop it.
That was a real problem between us: he would make comments and would discourage me from eating, which is obviously not helpful. And it wasn't a good combination of personalities, I don't think. I think we were not the right people for each other. We were both people that probably needed a bit of support for different reasons. And you can't really have two of those people in one relationship, I think.
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My partner didn't accept my Dysmetropsia
Abbey eventually wrote her partner a letter, and she read it to him aloud. It was about how she thought it was time for them to go their separate ways. They were both clearly unhappy, and she wanted to move forward with her life. She wanted the same thing for him. So, they split. And then Abbey was solo again, still in Wonderland, still trying to figure out what the hell was going on with her body.
It wasn't until she started Googling her symptoms – which we all know is a slippery slope – that she finally found a neurologist in London that she thought might be able to help her. Remember, Abbey hadn't been telling the full truth about her symptoms for a while now. But, by this time she was in her mid-20s. And she had built up some more confidence. Plus, the doctor was highly recommended.
So, I plucked up the courage to go in and tell him every single "mad" thing that was happening. And he just sat there and took the whole thing and didn't bat an eyelid, which was a nice surprise.
And he said, "you have a form of dysmetropsia – and one of the symptoms is a very unusual form of migraine. So whilst you haven't been having headaches, the chemistry in your brain doesn't work properly. And these dysmetropsia attacks you're having are your brain being flooded with the wrong kind of chemicals and too much of them. And that's why sometimes you feel like you're having a stroke, and that is why sometimes you feel like you are going to faint, and sometimes you do."
That's why with dysmetropsia, I can sometimes smell electrical burning that's not there. Because it's an activated factory pathway in my nose wrongly for some bizarre reason. And that is why sometimes I can smell lemon cake!
And I remained calm, and he told me about various treatments we could do, various diets, and lifestyle things. But after that initial appointment, I came out of that office and sobbed. I don't think I had realized how much I had stored the stress up for so long. And there was a man working on a building site opposite and he – from his perspective – all he saw was a girl come out of a hospital and collapse onto the floor crying.
And I have to try and tell him it was happy tears, because he looked so concerned! It was such a relief to finally have somebody believe what happened, but also to be able to put a label on it – dysmetropsia – and not think it was weird and have an answer for every single symptom. It was a good day.
And so, Abbey finally gets to leave Wonderland. Not that the dysmetropsia symptoms are gone for good, but having a name for them has helped Abbey gain control over her health and her dating life. Instead of being nervous about telling people what's going on with her body, she can own it now. Naming her illness is something she's been trying to do for years now. So finally having something to call it has helped her move on a bit. And when she has time, she's playing the field.
Yeah, dysmetropsia doesn't feel like such a big deal anymore. And I think it's a combination of, like you say, having a name for it, being upfront about it – whatever that means – whether that's the first date or it's a few dates in. And me accepting it a bit more.
So now I treat it as just another thing about me. There are no know treatment options for dysmetropsia, so the way I manage my symptoms is to rest and wait for them to pass.
While my dysmetropsia symptoms can be disorienting, more so when I didn't know what was wrong with me, they aren't harmful and aren't an indicator of more serious issues. Over time I have started to experience fewer symptoms over time, and hopefully, according to my neurologist, my dysmetropsia syndrome may disappear over time.
And then there's some cool stuff, fun facts, about dysmetropsia. So, I found out the other day that women that used to have dysmetropsia back in the Victorian times would have been put into Bedlam, which was like the "lunatic" asylum. I found out that it was called "floating woman's disease." So, I just now consider dysmetropisia symptoms like a fun quirk.
And some of the dysmetropsia symptoms are quite funny! Like, you know, look in the mirror and see a massive head – that's weird. Like, it's just another aspect of who I am. You tell people that, and they're genuinely interested because what a "weird" thing to have wrong with you. And so, instead of hiding it, I'm just like, "yeah, this is the 'mad' stuff that happens." And it could be quite a good conversation starter!
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The events of world history have been sovereignly arranged by God for Him to carry out His purpose. As Acts 17:26 says, "He made from one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, determining beforehand their appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwelling." The rise and fall of the kingdoms of the earth and the boundaries of all the nations have been predetermined by Him.
In these messages, given in Anaheim, California, in the spring of 1981, we have tried to present a view of world events from this perspective. Since the church comes out of mankind, we as His chosen ones need to have this view of man's history.
God's move among men is wrapped up with the course of history. Whether we speak of His becoming flesh through the incarnation or of the spread of the gospel or of the raising up of the church life or of the preparation of the bride, all these aspects of His move require the proper environment, as far as the world situation is concerned.
We trust that these messages will make the reader more aware of God's arrangement of world affairs, more concerned about the crucial time in which we live, and more burdened for His ultimate move in what might be the ultimate world situation.
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El CAPS United Football Club és un club zimbabuès de futbol de la ciutat d'Harare.

Història
El club va ser fundat el 1973. Destacà a finals dels 70 i inicis dels 80 on fou conegut com a Cup Kings pels seus èxits en les competicions per eliminatòries. La creació del Black Rhinos F.C., controlat per l'exèrcit, a mitjans dels 80 provocà que molts dels seus jugadors s'unissin al nou club i la potencialitat del CAPS United disminuí.

Palmarès
 Lliga zimbabuesa de futbol
 1979, 1996, 2004, 2005

 Copa zimbabuesa de futbol
 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2008

 Trofeu de la Independència de Zimbàbue
 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997

 Charity Shield de Zimbabwe
 1996

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Web oficial

Clubs de futbol zimbabuesos
Clubs de futbol fundats el 1973


This Test Chamber is the fifth level of the game, and combines the basics of portal placement and the use of the Weighted Storage Cube.
Approach the cube dispenser to activate it.
Place a portal underneath the Weighted Storage Cube in the pit.
Collect the cube and place it on the button.
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From the still snow-strewn peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the budding wildflowers of Indians Peak Wilderness, spring in Colorado features a variety of vibrant landscapes. At this annual festive exhibition, 10 renowned Colorado artists will present their paintings, prints, and sculptures celebrating the beauty of the season of renewal in the Centennial State. Check out Peter Campbell's oil compositions of lupine flowers and Angus Wilson's acrylic sunflower paintings on wood panels.
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package com.mycompany.myproject.sample.simple;

import com.paypal.selion.platform.asserts.SeLionAsserts;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

/**
 * This sample demonstrates the Soft assertion capabilities that SeLion provides for.
 * Soft assertions are basically those assertions which represent a validation in order to determine the pass/fail state for a
 * test, but they are special as in, the validation failure doesn't abort the test execution right there itself but lets the test
 * run through to completion before reporting validation failures.
 *
 */
public class SoftAssertionsTest {

    @Test
    public void simpleTestMethod () {
        SeLionAsserts.verifyFalse(true, "Ensuring that falsy values are always falsy");
        SeLionAsserts.verifyEquals(null, "Krishnan", "Ensuring that the author of this test was Krishnan");
        SeLionAsserts.verifyNull("Rambo", "Ensuring that Null values stay that way");
    }

}


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State of the World's FGRs
The Food and Agriculture Organization's State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources (SoW-FGR) was developed through a country-driven process, building on country reports and with the participation of representatives from national institutions and nongovernmental and community-based organizations. This publication provides the basis for renewed efforts to realize national and international commitments to improved conseƒthe rvation, sustainable use and management of forest genetic resources (FAO, 2014).
The content and the structure of the country resports are in accordance with the recommendations and guidelines given by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the document Guidelines for Preparation of Country Reports for the State of the World's Forest Genetic Resources (2010).
These guidelines set out recommendations for the objective, scope and structure of the country reports. Countries were requested to consider the current state of knowledge of forest genetic diversity, including:
Between and within species diversity
List of priority species; their roles and values and importance
List of threatened/endangered species
Threats, opportunities and challenges for the conservation, use and development of forest genetic resources
Download the SoW-FGR
Country Reports of some APFORGEN countries can be downloaded below:
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Ashish Avikunthak
Born 1972 in Jabalpur, India
Ashish Avikunthak is an experimental filmmaker who has been making films in India since the mid nineties. His films have been shown worldwide in film festivals, galleries and museums. Notable screenings were at the Tate Modern, London, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, along with London, Locarno, Rotterdam, and Berlin film festivals among other locations. He has had retrospective of his works at Les Inattendus, Lyon (2006), Yale University (2008) and the National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai (2008), Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris (2012), Rice University (2014). He has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Stanford University and has taught at Yale University. He is now an Assistant Professor of Film Media at the Harrington School of Communication & Media, University of Rhode Island. Avikunthak was included as a "Future Greats" artist in 2014 by Art Review magazine.
Lives and works in Calcutta, Bombay and New Haven.


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Fork and Spoon Transposition
This effect was invented by Michael Weber. See his "Silverwhere?" in Michael Ammar's The Topit Book, 1983, p. 76. Weber came up with this in 1977 or 1978, after reading Dr. Hiroshi Sawa's spoon-bending effect "Gary Ueller" in Genii, Vol. 41 No. 1, January 1977, p. 25. Weber applied Sawa's idea to transform a spoon into a fork, and also to effect the transposition of those two items. Over the years, variants, embellishments and knock-offs have appeared on the magic market worldwide, most often without mention of Sawa and Weber. Among the embellishments is the the addition of a small piece of magnetic rubber or Blu-tack adhesive-putty to the gaff to make handling easier.
Chad Long has published a different and clever method that uses no extra utensils: "Transputensil" in M-U-M, Vol. 86 No. 10, March 1997, p. 23.


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Full of Eastern Promise
A light-hearted fundraising cabaret, reminiscent of the clubs of Cairo in the 1930's, delivers a pot of gold for a local dance company.
Written by John Williams
Photography by Carly Van Winkel
Starring a bevy of local film, TV, theatre personalities and dancers from The New Zealand Dance Company, Club Mystique hit the boards of the loft at Q Theatre on December 1st to great applause and raucous laughter.
Brainchild of distinguished choreographer Shona McCullagh and director Michael Hurst, the inspiration for Club Mystique came from the vaudeville shows of the 1930's. "Back then, foreign travel was prohibitively expensive for most people, so anything that was from a far off land seemed mysterious and opulent," she says.
In keeping with the theme, the event promised pyramids and poetic performances, amidst hookah pipes and hors d'ouvres, truths and turbans, all bound together by devilish dancing and shimmying sheiks.
It was also a fantastic opportunity for the NZDC to show off their many talents, alongside some of the country's most well know faces from TV and film (Michael Hurst, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Lynda Topp, Amanda Billing, Bruce Hopkins, and Arlo Gibson), to an invited audience of guests and patrons… and, of course, to have a bit of fun.
"This was by far our most successful fundraising event to date," says McCullagh. "As well as raising $62,000 towards our Youth and Community Engagement Programme, which will benefit a large number of young people who do not usually have access to the benefits of dance, we have gained support for our dancers through a Perfect Partners Programme, and opened the door to some new and very supportive relationships."
Amongst the invited audience was Ray White's Angela Saunders, a long time supporter of the NZDC, who booked a "star-gazing" table for her guests in support of the event.
"Angela has been a huge supporter of the NZDC for many years now, and has often attended our exhibitions, performances and other fundraising events. We are so grateful for her support,"
At the end of the evening there was a live charity auction, led by Ray White Ponsonby's Gower Buchanan. "We raised over sixty grand, which was fantastic," he says. "Amongst other things, we sold a wonderful original by Samoan painter Fatu Feu'u, plus luxury stays in Queenstown and Fiji," he says.
The highlight of the auction was, however, the $21,000 raised in crowd-funding for NZDC's Perfect Partner Programme, where dancers are partnered by donors or sponsors to enable full-time employment for them, a huge goal for the company to stop New Zealand's best talent leaving these shores.
"It was a brilliant night, full of laughter," says, McCullagh. "The cast were incredibly generous, as were our patrons, and Club Mystique is now set to become an annual event. With it being an exclusive event this year for only 120 people, next year's tables are already filling which is so exciting!"
The New Zealand Dance Company
Founded by two of New Zealand's most respected arts professionals, Shona McCullagh and Frances Turner, the New Zealand Dance Company has a long-term vision to create a permanent, high calibre, national contemporary dance company that, from its Auckland base, will represent New Zealand both nationally and internationally.
The vision for NZDC is to create new connections to dance by staging contemporary dance in highly engaging ways and different contexts; in ways that continue to break new ground. They also want to establish and maintain a sustainable home for the company, and create full-time opportunities for its finest practitioners.
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Q: How to override GOOGLE_ENTRYPOINT for my Google Function? I am developing serverless applications in Google Cloud using maven as a project build tool. My project has multimodule architecture:
root
- post-function
- repost-function-1
- repost-function-2
- repost-function-3

Therefore, I need to provide different target paths for each module to deploy them separately. Although I don't see the options of doing that. I am deploying my functions by executing this command from the root module:
gcloud functions deploy post-function --entry-point io.micronaut.gcp.function.http.HttpFunction --runtime java11 --trigger-http

Obviously, it fails, because my root module's target doesn't know about children's targets. Therefore, I tried to override GOOGLE_ENTRYPOINT to use java -jar post-function/target/post-function-0.1.0.jar instead of the default autogenerated launch script. However, I've got following error:

ERROR: (gcloud.functions.deploy) argument --set-build-env-vars: GOOGLE_ENTRYPOINT is reserved for internal use by GCF deployments and cannot be used.

Hereby, I need another way to specify which target should be used for each function in my project.

A: My suggestion would be to deploy one by one all your functions using a bash script, for example:
gcloud functions deploy post-function --trigger-http &
gcloud functions deploy repost-function-1 --trigger-http &
gcloud functions deploy repost-function-2 --trigger-http &
gcloud functions deploy repost-function-3 --trigger-http

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Q: How to create animation in html css and js? Hey am a new developer and am trying to build a website. The main goal of website is to provide a piece of text to the visitors. Some of my helpers gave me a javascript to copy the text inside a

 element and it gives a custom alert that the text is copied. But I needed a animation/transition that when I click the copy button the custom copy alert should come from left to right.

 var buttons = document.getElementsByClassName('copystatus');

for (let button of buttons) {
  button.addEventListener('click', function() {
     let statusElement = this.closest('.latestatus');
     let textToCopy = statusElement.getElementsByClassName('copytxt')[0].innerHTML;

    copyTextToClipboard(textToCopy);
    addCopyStatusAlert(this.parentNode);
  });
}

function copyTextToClipboard(text) {
  const copyText = document.createElement('textarea');
  copyText.style.position="absolute";
  copyText.style.display="none";
  copyText.value = text;

  document.body.appendChild(copyText);
  copyText.select();
  document.execCommand('copy');
  document.body.removeChild(copyText);
}

function addCopyStatusAlert(element) {
  if (!element.getElementsByClassName('status-copy-alert').length) {
    let copyAlertElement = document.createElement('span');
    copyAlertElement.classList.add('status-copy-alert')
    let copyMessage = document.createTextNode('Copied!');
    copyAlertElement.appendChild(copyMessage);

    element.appendChild(copyAlertElement);
    setTimeout(function() {
      element.removeChild(copyAlertElement);
    }, 700);
  }
}

Latest English Status

Life is good when you have books

       <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Google is an open source library by Larry Page and Sergey Brin!

       <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Cats are better than dogs.

       <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Cats are better than dogs.

       <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Custom alert is the  created by JavaScript.
Than in advance

A: As suggested by @A Haworth in comments below is the code snippet that uses css transformation.
I've updated timeout from 700 to 800 to make the span stay little longer.

var buttons = document.getElementsByClassName('copystatus');

for (let button of buttons) {
  button.addEventListener('click', function() {
    let statusElement = this.closest('.latestatus');
    let textToCopy = statusElement.getElementsByClassName('copytxt')[0].innerHTML;

    copyTextToClipboard(textToCopy);
    addCopyStatusAlert(this.parentNode);
  });
}

function copyTextToClipboard(text) {
  const copyText = document.createElement('textarea');
  copyText.style.position = "absolute";
  copyText.style.display = "none";
  copyText.value = text;

  document.body.appendChild(copyText);
  copyText.select();
  document.execCommand('copy');
  document.body.removeChild(copyText);
}

function addCopyStatusAlert(element) {
  if (!element.getElementsByClassName('status-copy-alert').length) {
    let copyAlertElement = document.createElement('span');
    let copyMessage = document.createTextNode('Copied!');
    copyAlertElement.appendChild(copyMessage);

    element.appendChild(copyAlertElement);
    copyAlertElement.classList.add('status-copy-alert', 'slide-in');
    setTimeout(function() {
      element.removeChild(copyAlertElement);
    }, 800);
  }
}
.slide-in {
  animation: slide-in 0.25s forwards;
  -webkit-animation: slide-in 0.25s forwards;
}

@keyframes slide-in {
  100% {
    transform: translateX(0%);
  }
}

@-webkit-keyframes slide-in {
  100% {
    -webkit-transform: translateX(0%);
  }
}

.status-copy-alert {
  position: absolute;
  background-color: #18b495;
  color: #ffffff;
  padding: 10px 10px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  left: 65px;
  transform: translateX(-100%);
  -webkit-transform: translateX(-100%);
}

.status-copy-alert:before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  height: 10px;
  width: 10px;
  background-color: #18b495;
  left: -5px;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  top: 39%;
}
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/animate.css/4.1.1/animate.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

Latest English Status

Life is good when you have books

          <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Google is an open source library by Larry Page and Sergey Brin!

          <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Cats are better than dogs.

          <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>

Cats are better than dogs.

          <button class="copystatus btn">Copy</button>


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We are aware that Parliament is PF – Lubinda
By Mukosha Funga Njenga,
Justice minister Given Lubinda
Justice Minister Given Lubinda says he is aware that people do not appreciate decisions made by parliament because the House is full of PF.
And Lubinda says if the Law Association of Zambia needs protection against attacks, it will take a complaint to his office.
Featuring on ZNBC's Sunday Interview yesterday, Lubinda said the issue of whether or not to leave the ICC could not be tabled in Parliament because it was going to be misunderstood bearing in mind the House was full of PF members.
"You have asked me 'why didn't you go to Parliament?' you have heard what has been said about Parliament, that Parliament is full of PF. So if we went to Parliament and debated this matter, you yourself would come on this programme and say 'but you knew that Parliament is PF'. The decision [made by Parliament] would be valid but the decision is bound to be misunderstood because the majority in Parliament are members of the ruling party and the ruling party, on this matter, would like to remain neutral. At least publicly, we would not like to declare where we stand," Lubinda said.
In this three-minute audio, Lubinda also says government is very surprised that the very people who always ask government to be consultative were in the forefront criticizing its decision to consult on whether or not to leave the ICC.
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Meanwhile, Lubinda also insisted that spending K2 million on consultations was not a waste of money.
"The views of the Zambian people are worth much more than K2 million. How much do you think a Referendum will cost? How much did the elections cost? The K2 million is a small little fraction of the cost of running a Referendum. Running a Referendum will cost us more than K20 billion. Then you are talking about K2 million. Is there any comparison?" Lubinda asked.
He also said he was impressed by the turnout in the consultation process so far.
"In Mumbwa alone, 163 people had submitted. In Kabwe, I watched a clip, Minister for Central Province was opening the hearing and the hall was full, in Ndola, they had to extend the hearing beyond 18:00 hours. In Chirundu, instead of hearing only on one day they had to hear on two days. In Chilanga, the response was overwhelming, where are those people coming from? Why do we think that because we in Lusaka, educated people, civil society leaders, church leaders, we are the only ones who know, the other ones don't know? That is not fair. There are people out there who also read, they may not have jobs but they know about the ICC. I am very happy with the response. If 200 people in Mumbwa can go and make submissions, that's very good," he said.
Lubinda added that after receiving submissions from the 30 districts, his ministry would have a national symposium on 11th and 12th of April after which a report would be produced and presented to Cabinet.
And Lubinda said if LAZ needed his protection from attacks, it would take a complaint to his ministry.
"It is not that I am not interested. There have been some people who have been attacking the judiciary, what have I said? I have said 'if you have any problem with any member of the judiciary, please don't castigate them in the press because they can't protect themselves. Go and present the matter to the judicial complaints authority'. For LAZ, a friend of mine, Bradford Machila, himself a member of the Law Association of Zambia, a good friend of mine, he calls a publication to say 'Lubinda even if he is not a lawyer, he must protect the Law Association of Zambia'. And my response was 'protect LAZ from what? And from who? What is the issue? I don't know the issue'," said Lubinda.
"If the Law Association of Zambia come to me and they tell me 'we are being attacked by this particular group for these reasons, yes, it is my duty. Now if an individual says the president of the Law Association of Zambia is partisan, what has that got to do with me? It has nothing to do with me."
Meanwhile, presenter Grevazio Zulu, who clearly did not do enough research, asked Lubinda to state whether the proposal "on the floor of the House being considered to replace the LAZ act" was not an indication that government was fighting LAZ.
On March 20, 2017, Kasama PF member of parliament Kelvin Sampa advertised a Law of Societies Bill proposal in the Zambia Daily Mail, seeking to introduce a Bill to repeal Cap 31 of the Republican Constitution which creates LAZ.
But Zulu alleged that the Bill was already before Parliament, to which Lubinda responded; "There is no such bill that is active at Parliament. I am not aware of any member of the PF who has proposed such a bill but that doesn't stop anyone from doing it. Any member of parliament is at liberty to present the bill to parliament but as I speak to you today, when we adjourned Parliament on Tuesday, no bill called the Law Association on Zambia Bill was presented."
In this eight-minute audio, Lubinda claims he is not aware of any moves to repeal LAZ and also explains that government's relationship with LAZ is cordial.
He also says the party's position on LAZ is not government's position on the association
Mukosha is interested in good governance and anti-corruption reporting.Email: mukosha@diggers.news
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Ask any random person, and if they've heard of The Rocketeer, more likely than not they'll refer to the 1991 Disney film. For us around here, however, as much as we enjoy the film, we love the late (yet still amazing to this day) Dave Stevens' original comic that the movie was based on even more. The high-flying adventures of Cliff Secord aka The Rocketeer, fighting gangsters and enemy agents, all while trying to balance his relationship with his gal, Betty, are the stuff of pure pulp joy.
Having already done several fantastic posters based on the comic, our friends at IDW (who shepherd the rights for the character, as well as publish the comic) asked us if we'd like to do anything else. My first instinct was to do a statue, but was a bit hesitant since there have already been some great ones in the past, and I wasn't sure what we could add that was unique.
One evening, while mulling over the idea, I found this fantastic article on ComicsAlliance.com by Andy Khouri: The Passion of Dave Stevens, Master of Good Girl Art and Pop Culture Pioneer. It's clear to anyone that's read that comic that pin-up legend Bettie Page was a major influence on Cliff's girlfriend, Betty. But what I didn't know was what started as an obsession Stevens had with Page, would later turn into a friendship that lasted for years until Dave's untimely death in 2008, with Bettie passing just a few months after.
I was inspired: a statue of The Rocketeer that also featured Betty - him at his most earnest and action-ready, and her with affection and whimsy. A fun juxtaposition, and having her in her swimsuit from the final page of the comic Stevens ever illustrated was just the added nod it needed.
I brought on designer Eric Sielbenaler to do some explorations of the concept. My one big note - NO FLYING. Seems obvious to make The Rocketeer fly, but I wanted to see if we could come up with something different. Here are some of those explorations:
A few of those I quite like, but it was felt they were a bit too "James Bond-y." I think we could've worked a few of those into an awesome statue, but there was an image I came across that I couldn't quite shake…
That's a piece of fan art by Paul Roman Martinez. It had everything I wanted - earnest action, affection and whimsy (gotta love that shoe falling off!), and I could imagine the flames as a means to support the characters. So I contacted Paul, worked out a deal, and set back to redesigning our piece with Eric (adjusting the outfit, having her head turned towards the viewer, and adding a second "Oooh!" head for the switch-out exclusive). I guess The Rocketeer would fly after all!
Once approved by the licensor, I asked sculptor Trevor Grove to come on board. Trevor is a BEAST of a sculptor, and always brings his A-game to everything he does. Here are a few in-progress shots:
Some final shots of Betty:
And some shots of the final full piece. Note that we switched the rocket pack from the one in our concept. The one in the concept is the pack Cliff first gets in the comic. The one we ended up going with is the second pack he gets, after the first is damaged. We went with this one because it's the one he mostly wears in the comic, and frankly, we liked it better. I love just how clean every detail came out, especially impressive since this was all sculpted traditionally.
Once done and approved, the sculpture was molded and cast expertly by Simon Garcia, and then off to the amazing Mara Ancheta for paint. A few behind the scenes of her process:
Here's the final piece! The warmth and glamor the paint brought to the sculpture is perfect. Overall, this statue was a massively satisfying to work on. From fantastic art (both old and new) to work from, a tight design to guide, crisp and detailed sculpting, to the final touch of beautiful paint, I really hope this piece honors Dave's legacy, even just a bit.
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package org.apache.ignite.internal.visor.node;

import org.apache.ignite.*;
import org.apache.ignite.cluster.*;
import org.apache.ignite.compute.*;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.processors.task.*;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.util.typedef.internal.*;
import org.apache.ignite.internal.visor.*;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.*;

import java.util.*;

import static org.apache.ignite.internal.visor.util.VisorTaskUtils.*;

/**
 * Collects current Grid state mostly topology and metrics.
 */
@GridInternal
public class VisorNodeDataCollectorTask extends VisorMultiNodeTask<VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskArg,
    VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskResult, VisorNodeDataCollectorJobResult> {
    /** */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 0L;

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override protected Map<? extends ComputeJob, ClusterNode> map0(List<ClusterNode> subgrid,
        VisorTaskArgument<VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskArg> arg) {
        assert arg != null;

        Map<ComputeJob, ClusterNode> map = U.newHashMap(subgrid.size());

        try {
            for (ClusterNode node : subgrid)
                map.put(job(taskArg), node);

            return map;
        }
        finally {
            if (debug)
                logMapped(ignite.log(), getClass(), map.values());
        }
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Override protected VisorNodeDataCollectorJob job(VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskArg arg) {
        return new VisorNodeDataCollectorJob(arg, debug);
    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    @Nullable @Override protected VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskResult reduce0(List<ComputeJobResult> results) {
        return reduce(new VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskResult(), results);
    }

    /**
     * @param taskRes Task result.
     * @param results Results.
     */
    protected VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskResult reduce(VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskResult taskRes,
        List<ComputeJobResult> results) {
        for (ComputeJobResult res : results) {
            VisorNodeDataCollectorJobResult jobRes = res.getData();

            if (jobRes != null) {
                UUID nid = res.getNode().id();

                IgniteException unhandledEx = res.getException();

                if (unhandledEx == null)
                    reduceJobResult(taskRes, jobRes, nid);
                else {
                    // Ignore nodes that left topology.
                    if (!(unhandledEx instanceof ClusterGroupEmptyException))
                        taskRes.unhandledEx().put(nid, unhandledEx);
                }
            }
        }

        return taskRes;
    }

    /**
     * Reduce job result.
     *
     * @param taskRes Task result.
     * @param jobRes Job result.
     * @param nid Node ID.
     */
    protected void reduceJobResult(VisorNodeDataCollectorTaskResult taskRes,
        VisorNodeDataCollectorJobResult jobRes, UUID nid) {
        taskRes.gridNames().put(nid, jobRes.gridName());

        taskRes.topologyVersions().put(nid, jobRes.topologyVersion());

        taskRes.taskMonitoringEnabled().put(nid, jobRes.taskMonitoringEnabled());

        taskRes.errorCounts().put(nid, jobRes.errorCount());

        if (!jobRes.events().isEmpty())
            taskRes.events().addAll(jobRes.events());

        if (jobRes.eventsEx() != null)
            taskRes.eventsEx().put(nid, jobRes.eventsEx());

        if (!jobRes.caches().isEmpty())
            taskRes.caches().put(nid, jobRes.caches());

        if (jobRes.cachesEx() != null)
            taskRes.cachesEx().put(nid, jobRes.cachesEx());

        if (!jobRes.streamers().isEmpty())
            taskRes.streamers().put(nid, jobRes.streamers());

        if (jobRes.streamersEx() != null)
            taskRes.streamersEx().put(nid, jobRes.streamersEx());

        if (!jobRes.igfss().isEmpty())
            taskRes.igfss().put(nid, jobRes.igfss());

        if (!jobRes.igfsEndpoints().isEmpty())
            taskRes.igfsEndpoints().put(nid, jobRes.igfsEndpoints());

        if (jobRes.igfssEx() != null)
            taskRes.igfssEx().put(nid, jobRes.igfssEx());
    }
}


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"I am so proud of this community," said Mayor David Bailey. "So many people have shown their love and concern for others during this time. We are a strong community and we are taking care of each other."
As the COVID-19 health emergency continued to evolve, Paramedics put out a call to the community for donations of personal protective equipment.
"The community has been beyond generous to us," said Russell King, Chief of Paramedic Services for the Brant Brantford Paramedic Services. "When we asked for help, over 40 people and businesses responded. We received much needed masks, gloves and gowns. In addition, restaurants stopped by and brought us meals. We sincerely thank you for helping us."
There are many things you can do to help the community. One simple but important thing is to stay home and if you must go out, practice physical distancing. This helps everyone stay healthy and protects the frontline healthcare staff and other essential service workers. You can also make a donation to the food bank and call someone who may be lonely to lift their spirits.
"Everyone has a role to play," said Mayor David Bailey. "We are in this together."
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What If? by Randall Munroe - This is a book about scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions, which sounds kind of amazing if you ask me.
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd - Even though I've never read anything by Sue Monk Kidd, I've been meaning to for years, so I buy all of her books when I see them. I also have a feeling that this particular book may come in handy for a future #BeatTheBacklist Instagram challenge.
Because I'm Worth It by Cecily von Ziegesar - This is the 4th book in the Gossip Girl series, and I enjoyed the show so I'm interested in reading the books to see if they're similar.
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo - You're probably all familiar with what this book is about. I'm not particularly optimistic about seeing results from putting it to use myself, but I need to try something because I'm a bit of a pack-rat and I need more room in my house for books.
Settle For More by Megyn Kelly - Ever since Kelly got the boot from Fox News, I've been interested in reading this book (almost makes me wonder if that was just a promotional trick to try to lure in liberals). I wasn't particularly interested in her making money off my purchase however (but I refuse to resort to book piracy.) When I saw a copy at my thrift store, I snapped it up right quick.
The Rose Labyrinth by Titania Hardie - So this book came with excerpted pages separately to help you try to unravel the mystery before the main character does...I mean, I may be missing some pages because I bought it used, but that sold me on buying it.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - This book is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and as I mentioned before, the literary snob in me is drawn to those sorts of things.
So that's all the books I picked up at the thrift store this week. I really can't decide which one I'm most interested to read because there are several that have me really intrigued. It was kind of a grand slam week at the thrift store for good books. And all this cost me just $3.75.
The Rose Labyrinth appeals to me the most. Whatever you choose to read first, I hope you enjoy them all!


In November of 2018, Michael DeVore and his 11-year-old daughter were walking in a marked crosswalk in California.
They made it almost all the way to the end of the crosswalk when tragedy struck. Just as they were about to reach the curb, they realized a car was not slowing down or stopping for them. In fact, it was speeding straight toward them.
Michael was certain that if he didn't do something, the driver was going to crash her car right into his daughter. He had one second to think fast.
That's when Michael became the ultimate hero — by pushing his daughter out of the way of the dangerous vehicle.
In turn, Michael was hit by the car himself, and thrown ruthlessly onto the sidewalk.
The car didn't even stop.
For the next three months, Michael was bedridden with a broken femur. And it looks like he might still need a knee replacement.
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Introduction – a break down of what you are going to learn.
Chapter 1: Build a Strong Foundation – why not make those important content marketing decisions now so you can lay a strong foundation? In this chapter, you'll get to know your objectives, your target audience, and your content strategy. You'll also learn the technology and work flow that will help you meet your objectives.
Chapter 2: Generate Clickable Ideas – having a content marketing plan isn't enough. You need to be able to generate enough content ideas to keep you going for months if not years. This chapter will teach you how to generate ideas for any industry.
Chapter 3: How to Plan Your Content For Maximum Productivity – there are a lot of time consuming aspects of content marketing, if you can't figure out how to make the most of your time you'll find yourself drowning in content creation. This chapter will teach you how to be productive.
Chapter 4: Learn to Write Content Like a Pro – I've blogged in the past about how I write my content, but now I've created a whole chapter on how you can become an excellent writer like Seth Godin.
Chapter 5: 12 Content Writing Secrets of The Professionals – in this chapter you'll learn what separates the pros from the beginners. If you want to be a great content marketer, you have to follow the secrets of the pros.
Chapter 6: Templates for Quick and Easy Content Creation – people have written content on all sorts of topics in different styles. There's no point in recreating the wheel… which is why I help you templatize everything.
Chapter 7: Overcoming Common Content Marketing Roadblocks – sooner or later you're going to get stuck. Whether it's on the creation side or the promotion side or within any other phase of content marketing, this chapter will teach you how to overcome the roadblocks you'll run into sooner or later.
Chapter 8: The Other Side of Content Creation: Optimize for Search – Google and Bing can drive a lot of traffic. If you want your content to do well you need to write it for humans and rank it on search engines.
Chapter 9: Promoting Your Content to Increase Traffic, Engagement, and Sales – if you can't generate revenue from your content marketing efforts you won't be doing it too long. This chapter will teach you how to get a ROI from your marketing.
Chapter 10: Driving Business Objectives With Content: 5 Simple Strategies for Monetizing Your Content – in this chapter, you learn five methods for monetizing your content without advertising. Not all of them will work for every business, but all of them are valuable strategies that are being used successfully by other content marketers.
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