The article analyzes the semantics of the lyrical themes related to the situations of the festivity in its different variations: funeral processions, circus performances and others. It is deduced that the importance of these lyrical subjects in the contest of the city's image and in the aspect of their connection with the inner life of the lyrical hero. It should be noted that there are cases of contamination of different type of festivity in a single poetic text. Nevertheless it doesn't mean that the individual content and form of each type of festivity's system is missing. The author marks the motives of festivity's lack of organicity, participants' tiredness from their own dissembling. The situation of festivity is included in the context of ontological bases of being, principles of time and death. The importance of festivity's catastrophic conclusion, when the man is unable to defend himself from tragic state of the world is deduced. Those texts in which emerges the phantasmagoric scene of the Ball of the dead men occupy a particular position. This scene represents the generation of the lyrical hero-poet's inner world. This kind of festive plots' transformation incarnate the idea of tragic bases of creative gift.
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French Teen Periscopes Her Suicide
A young French woman broadcast her last moments in a haunting livestream video.
Erin Zaleski
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PARIS — More than 1,000 people are believed to have watched the young woman kill herself.
They watched her calmly discuss her decision to die, just as they watched her slip on her sneakers before heading to a nearby station and throwing herself in front of an oncoming suburban RER C train.
No one watching was able to approach the platform, or yell for her to stop, or to do anything else that may have prevented her from carrying out her desperate act, because no one could. The hundreds of people who witnessed her last moments watched the drama unfold behind their phone screens.
At the Egly train station south of Paris on Tuesday, a French teenager broadcast her suicide on Periscope, a smartphone app that allows users to stream live videos. The video has reportedly been removed from Periscope, but footage of the minutes leading up to her death has been posted on YouTube.
While suicide, and even public suicide, is nothing new, the age of social media makes such acts of despair accessible in a way they have never been previously. Indeed, Tuesday's tragedy near Paris is not the first time a young person has broadcast a suicide on social media. In 2010, a 21-year-old Swedish man hanged himself on a live webcam broadcast. And a young woman in Shanghai documented the events leading up to her suicide on Instagram in 2014, uploading a series of disturbing images, including one in which her legs are dangling out of the window of a high-rise apartment.
"I will haunt you day and night after I'm dead," she reportedly posted on the photo-sharing app in a message to her ex-boyfriend before jumping to her death.
In its guidelines, Periscope, which is owned by Twitter, prohibits what it deems "explicitly graphic content or media that is intended to incite violent, illegal or dangerous activities." However, with some 10 million active users, monitoring every account 24/7 would be daunting, if not impossible.
"Why do you say you love me, you don't even know me?" asks the pretty young woman seated on a red couch in her apartment and facing the camera. She is pale with long brown hair and piercings, one in her left nostril and two just beneath her lower lip. A prospective suitor has messaged her, but she calmly and firmly rebuffs his advances.
"Yes, I am single, but I am not looking for that. Really."
She rolls a cigarette before continuing.
"What is about to happen is very shocking, so those who are underage should leave."
She takes a long drag and continues to field questions from users. She tells them that she is 19 and works at a retirement home. Her determined, unemotional demeanor is a bit unsettling to watch. As is the way she calmly answers questions, sometimes even cracking a smile or unleashing a soft giggle.
"Why are you asking me who I am?" she asks with a chuckle before taking another drag. "I am no one."
At one point she stops speaking and continues to smoke while scrolling through messages other Periscope users are sending her—mostly lame pick-up lines and other typical online inanities. Footage of her final act has been replaced with a black screen, but the faint voices of emergency personnel can be heard on the audio track, and messages from fellow users shift from playful banter to disbelief to concern.
"Stop messing around," one of them reads.
"Where did she go? Call the cops!" reads another.
Indeed, it was a fellow Periscope user who alerted emergency services, but by the time they arrived at the station yesterday afternoon it was too late. French police have reportedly launched an investigation into her death.
Before she died, the young French woman reportedly claimed to be a victim of a sexual assault and named her alleged attacker. Whether it was the trauma of rape or another reason that drove her to violently end her life is not known. More unnerving is her decision to broadcast her death to hundreds of strangers. It's not clear whether it's a cry for help, since in the video she refuses to divulge any personal details, including her name and location. Had she wanted to feel less alone? Was she seeking empathy? Or in today's digital world, where we joke that an event never really happened unless it's posted, tweeted, or streamed, was she merely seeking to document, and thus, validate, the last moments of her life?
"What I want to make clear is that I am not doing this for the hype, but to send a message, to open minds," she explains in the video.
The precise nature of the message she was hoping to send may never be understood. Instead, we are left a troubling glimpse of a young woman in pain, whom no one could help in time.

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This new Flash character has possibly the worst name ever
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The Speed Force is strong in The Flash at the moment, what with Jay Garrick having entered the fray and Wally West soon to show up. Now, it would appear that it has another representative, with Allison Paige (Bev in Days Of Our Lives) having been cast as new supervillain Eliza Harmon, aka…. Trajectory. Yep, that's actually her name. We're not joking.
Anyway, we digress – there isn't all that much to go on the character by way of her comic-book appearances (she's basically a scientific guinea pig of Lex Luthor who gains powers as a consequence, so expect this origin to be substantially changed for The Flash), although the official synopsis for episode 16, in which she's scheduled to make her first bow, has the following description to shed light on things:
"Having arrived in town intent on creating maximum chaos, Trajectory's antics are misinterpreted as having been perpetrated by the Flash himself. Barry thus must (act) quickly (to) uncover the mystery of who is the girl under the mask — as well as what is driving her mad desire for speed and destruction."
Allison Paige has been cast in The Flash
Putting aside the dreadful name (and it really is dreadful), it's not a bad piece of casting. Paige was good value in her Days Of Her Lives appearances, and while we're not especially familiar with the rest of her credits, there's every chance she can make a name for herself here.
She joins a returning cast that includes Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Carlos Valdes, Danielle Panabaker, Jesse L Martin, Tom Cavanagh, Shantel VanSanten and Teddy Sears, as well as Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West.
The Flash: Season 2 will return to Sky 1 later in the year. You can find out more about the characters and the comics that inspired them by picking up the latest edition of 100 All-Time Greatest Comics.
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This developed project work for parents and their children's. The parents and children's both should have GPS based smart phones. The application is used to track the child's location using their smartphone. To access this application, parent need to create an account by filling up basic registration details and create a login id and password. Using valid login credentials, parent can login and access the application modules.
After successful login, parent need to add their child details and also need to create a login id and password for their child in order to track their location. While registering their child name, parent need to set a geo fence around their children by selecting a point on map. Parent can also update the fence around their child. Besides geo fencing, a new user can register by selecting the application type and access a module which will be helpful in their day-to-day life. Add task is the module which allows registered users to add a task for a particular location by selecting a point on map and filling up the task description. Application will store the task and will alert the user when user reaches the task location via notification. User can perform the desired task and finish the task once the desired task is performed. Another type of module is setting boundary where user first need to register and select the type of user. Setting boundary is useful for those people such as fishermen as well as peoples who lives nearby boundary between two countries. User need to select the boundary area to get notified once he/she reaches nearby boundary. This module will notify the user whenever user reaches nearby to boundary.


Whether due to its simplicity or cross-development for console, Deus Ex 2 had surprisingly few bugs, and just about no Showstoppers are present. There are a few annoyances, however, and a few things you should look out for if you are trying to avoid having to repeat any areas.
Non-bugged tools. Thankfully they are the majority.
These multitools are bugged in that they will not stack with "Normal" multitools. They will stack with each other, indicating that they are just a different class of item that somehow made their way into the game. Given that a single stack of normal tools can go up to 20, and there are plenty throughout the entire game, there's no reason to waste an extra slot picking up these ones.
These are the funny ones. They are similar to the non-stacking multitools in that they will not stack with normal multitools. Furthermore, if you attempt to pick these ones up and fail (Which will likely happen, since your inventory will likely be full by the first time you encounter one), it creates a duplicate tool in the same spot. For each attempt you make to pick one up, it once again duplicates itself. It's very easy to end up having hundreds of multitools in one single spot. While you could abuse this, duplicating 20 and then creating a new stack, that's an obvious cheat and not suggested.
It is possible to escape the map in certain areas. If you happen to do this, accidentally or not, you inevitably die. Be careful of this when exploring.
The first example is Mako Ballistics - it's very easy to jump over the edge of the wall that Ava plants you next to, as it is a shorter climb than many jumps you've already made. Yet, if you do this, you'll find yourself trapped in a dead space with broken textures on one side.
The only verified report of this is with Billie Adams, and only if you kill her when you first meet her in Tarsus. It's confirmed that this will crash the game on the Xbox version if you enter the Order Mosque in Cairo. It is unconfirmed if it also crashes the PC version.
NPCs in Deus Ex are very determined to use their proper patrol paths. So determined, in fact, that if you try to blockade them with objects such as heavy crates or barrels, they most often can simply obliterate the object or send it flying. They will casually kick aside barrels, crates, bodies, et cetera.
Uncommon, but it still happens. Occasionally, a defenseless NPC will run with reckless abandon away from you or another enemy, even if it means putting themselves in lethal danger. The scientists in Tarsus, for instance, can be spooked and may decide to run towards the hallway you came from, after which the automated turret will fire upon them.
Other times, a neutral NPC may run towards a gas cloud, prox mine or other danger.
Often if you go hostile in an area or some other form of violence happens that spooks the locals, many of the unimportant and unarmed NPCs will flee. The game has a habit of making these NPCs disappear forever if they leave your line of sight. This doesn't happen to any plot-critical characters, but can be an annoyance if you are looking to unload a storm of justice all over some innocent townsfolk face.
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With the All England championships, less than a week away, I sit here reflecting on my preparation in the lead up.
I have been plagued by a niggling injury, competed 2 weeks ago, in an equipped Bench only that I probably shouldn't have, and am off to assist the GB equipped Bench team at the world championships in Lithuania just 2 days before All England!!
Now, I see preparation as a very personal thing. There are many many articles, videos, blogs etc from coaches stating "you should do this, you should do that" but in reality, we are all different. As with your programming, you are very different from the next man (or woman). If you go with the crowed, you're never going to stand out from it!
So, spending the time to find out what works for you is very important. You spend all that time in the gym, on the field, or courts. Spend money on memberships, equipment, and treatment, to put all that hard work in jeopardy because you didn't invest the time or effort to prepare properly.
Be it Rugby, or a strength sport, I have always had my own way to prepare that I feel worked well for me. From a team sports point of view, the regularity of the competition is a massive factor. Training would be more to a conjugate format, so I was never really aiming to peak for one specific moment. I didn't need to hit weight, I didn't have to focus on any specific opening numbers, it was more about nutrition and mental preparation. From a Strength competitors point of view, there is a lot more to this process. Its duration can be up to 12 weeks in the making. But for this article I will focus on the immediate run up to the competition.
This phase, for me, is about 7 days. 7 days out I will start my waster load. Though I compete in the u93kg category, and sit at about 92kg, I like to compete under 90kg. Someone recently asked me "why do you want to cut weight if you don't need to?". The answer to this is simply because, I feel more efficient at this weight, and the process of the water manipulation me helps me psychologically prepare. I think the hardship of it makes it more rewarding.
My last sessions are 7, 6, and 5 days out. These sessions are my warmup protocol for comp day. I'll do each component on separate days, and work up to 90% of my openers. From 5 days out I'll start to drop off my carb intake. Then by 2 day out carb intake is minimal.
16 hours out from weigh-in I'll cut water out completely. And if I feel the need, I'll have a salt bath 10-12 hours out.
Food intake is minimal pre weigh-in. I'll consume things like Rice cakes, bread sticks, thin crackers, ryvita etc. Foods that are dry, and high in carbs. So the only extra weight you take on is food weight.
Once I've weighed in, it's time to refuel. Firstly, I'll consume a sachet of Dioralyte in 500ml of water. Then I'll consume some high carb foods, like Flapjacks, Fig Rolls etc, along with another litre of water. It's important not to rush the consumption of this, as you may make yourself ill, or give yourself stomach cramps. Take your time to re-plen.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.
Before joining the Sunday morning team, she served as an NPR correspondent based in Brazil, Israel, Mexico, and Iraq. She was one of the first reporters to enter Libya after the 2011 Arab Spring uprising began and spent months painting a deep and vivid portrait of a country at war. Often at great personal risk, Garcia-Navarro captured history in the making with stunning insight, courage, and humanity.
For her work covering the Arab Spring, Garcia-Navarro was awarded a 2011 George Foster Peabody Award, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club, an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Alliance for Women and the Media's Gracie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement. She contributed to NPR News reporting on Iraq, which was recognized with a 2005 Peabody Award and a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton. She has also won awards for her work on migration in Mexico and the Amazon in Brazil.
Since joining Weekend Edition Sunday, Garcia-Navarro and her team have also received a Gracie for their coverage of the #MeToo movement. She's hard at work making sure Weekend Edition brings in the voices of those who will surprise, delight, and move you, wherever they might be found.
Garcia-Navarro got her start in journalism as a freelancer with the BBC World Service and Voice of America. She later became a producer for Associated Press Television News before transitioning to AP Radio. While there, Garcia-Navarro covered post-Sept. 11 events in Afghanistan and developments in Jerusalem. She was posted for the AP to Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion, where she stayed covering the conflict.
Garcia-Navarro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in international relations from Georgetown University and an Master of Arts degree in journalism from City University in London.
Former COVID-19 Patient Thanks Hospital With 800 Homemade Tamales
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Dec 20, 2020
Staff at Cedars-Sinai in LA got a surprise from a former COVID-19 patient last week: 800 homemade tamales. Margarita Montanez spent five days making them as a "thank you" for her care last spring.
Tennessee Faces COVID-19 Vaccine Delay While Leading In New Case Numbers
By Blake Farmer & Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Dec 20, 2020
A snafu with Operation Warp Speed leaves at least 14 states short of the vaccine doses they were promised. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with WPLN's Blake Farmer about what that means in Tennessee.
The 'Mega-Hack' Revealed This Week Has Been Raging Since March
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Thomas Rid of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies about Russia's alleged hack on the U.S. government and tech companies.
Asian American And Pacific Islander Turnout Helped Hand Biden Georgia
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Dec 4, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden carried Georgia with less than a 13,000-vote lead, a tiny margin made possible, in part, by historic turnout among Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the Peach State. It's the first time in nearly 30 years that Georgia voters chose a Democrat for president.
News Brief: COVID-19 Bill, Trump Mulls 2024, Doctors Call For Climate Action
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Steve Inskeep • Dec 3, 2020
Leaders in Congress seem to agree on one thing, at least - they need to pass a coronavirus aid package before the end of the year.
Quarantined Health Workers Compound Staffing Shortages At California Hospitals
The number of coronavirus cases in California has topped 1.2 million, leaving the state's hospitals near a breaking point. There are projections that the state could run out of intensive care beds before Christmas. And Gov. Gavin Newsom says he's considering another statewide stay-at-home order to stop the surge.
U.K. Regulators Approve COVID-19 Vaccine For Widespread Use
By Frank Langfitt & Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Dec 2, 2020
News Brief: Pfizer Vaccine, Election Probe, Calif. COVID-19 Cases
By Steve Inskeep & Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Dec 2, 2020
Today, the world is one small step nearer normal.
News Brief: Coronavirus Pandemic, Biden Transition, Census Court Case
By Rachel Martin & Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Nov 30, 2020
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The U.S. has seen more than 13 million documented cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., and we're now adding more than 150,000 new cases every day.
Kate Winslet's 'Ammonite' Takes On Paleontology, Patriarchy And Passion
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Nov 15, 2020
Mary Anning was just 12 years old in 1811 when she unearthed the skeleton of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that lived some 200 million years ago – and yet, most people have never heard of this self-taught, British paleontologist. With her new film Ammonite, Kate Winslet hopes to change that.
Anning's hands were always raw from digging, Winslet says. "She made so little money, she was completely impoverished. And yet she was remarkably uncomplaining. This was a stoic, kind, compassionate person."
Once Enthusiastic, Americans' 'Cooking Fatigue' Simmers As Pandemic Drags On
Months into the coronavirus pandemic, the initial novelty of whipping up more homemade meals is fading.
Earlier this year, people busied themselves with batches of sourdough and banana bread. Americans bought groceries like never before, and embraced the chance to dabble in elaborate cooking projects.
Actor Buys A Crumbling Home For 1 Euro And It Turns Into A 'Big Italian Adventure'
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Nov 1, 2020
An American actor buys a 200-year-old Italian home for 1 euro. What could go wrong? Well, a lot, as it turns out.
Lorraine Bracco is best known for her roles in The Sopranos and Goodfellas. In her new HGTV show, My Big Italian Adventure, Bracco renovates — really renovates — the abandoned house she bought in Sicily.
The Consequences Of Dehumanizing Language In Politics
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Oct 18, 2020
United States politicians are no strangers to using unkind language against their opponents. It's a trend that dates back to at least 1800 when, during the presidential campaign, Thomas Jefferson hired James Callender to slime John Adams. But Alexander Theodoridis, who teaches political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that today's partisanship can lend itself to particularly dehumanizing language not only between political opponents, but also between regular Americans who belong to opposite political parties.
In 'Missionaries,' Phil Klay Explores How 'Wars Bleed Into Each Other'
National Book Award winner Phil Klay's new novel Missionaries takes readers around the world, from the chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan to turmoil in rural Colombia.
"The more that I thought about the way that we wage war in the 21st century, the more it seemed to me insufficient to just talk about one theater of conflict," Klay explains. "I wanted to talk about the ways these wars bleed into each other."
'Charm City Kings' Is An Exhilarating Tale Of Bikes, Boyhood And Baltimore
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Oct 4, 2020
In Baltimore, summer Sundays are the time to ride — on warm evenings, dirt bikes and four wheelers roar through the city's streets with young riders popping wheelies and pulling gravity defying tricks.
Filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto says Baltimore's bike culture is unlike any other: "It's one of the most exhilarating and emotional spectacles of talent that I have ever seen, streetwise ..." he says. "They were literally like dancing on top of their bikes while popping a wheelie. I've never seen anything like that."
Dylan Farrow Spins A Tale Of Truth, Lies And Power In 'Hush'
Right now, young adult fiction is a genre that is really allowing compelling voices to tackle hard subjects in interesting ways.
In a new book, Hush, a cabal of magical men have literally stolen people's ability to distinguish fact from fantasy. The main character Shae is on a quest to find out who killed her mother and uncover what is really behind a plague that is destroying the land. Along the way, she learns that the most dangerous thing is to speak the truth.
Not Heinous At All: Bill And Ted Are Back To 'Face The Music'
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Aug 23, 2020
Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan have been to heaven and hell, the past and the future. They've befriended Abraham Lincoln and Joan of Arc. They've bested the Grim Reaper in a game of Battleship.
A Boy Avenges His Murdered Father, With The Help Of A Magical 'Ikenga'
Writer Nnedi Okorafor was born and raised in the U.S., but she says her immigrant parents were always talking about Nigeria. "We had the American experience, but they also didn't leave home behind ..." Okorafor says. Nigeria "didn't feel like a place of the past. It felt like a place of the now and the future."
'Hatemonger' Tracks How Right-Wing Media Shaped Trump Policy Architect Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller is the architect of Donald Trump's extreme policies on immigration.
And leaked emails have shown him pushing white-power ideology cloaked in pseudo-science.
So how did an affluent kid from the California suburbs — who liked mobster movies and wore gold chains — get on the path that led him to where he is now?
An Atomic Bomb Survivor On Her Journey From Revenge To Peace
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Aug 9, 2020
Koko Kondo was 8 months old and with her mother when the first atomic bomb hit her home city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Her father, Methodist minister the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, had left earlier that morning.
"Suddenly, the whole house crashed," Kondo recounts. She was trapped beneath the rubble with her mother.
COVID-19 May Never Go Away — With Or Without A Vaccine
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro & Christianna Silva • Aug 9, 2020
Humans have never been particularly good at eradicating entire viruses, and COVID-19 might not be any different.
Biden Shares New Details Of His Plan For Overturning President Trump's Agenda
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Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Here's How To Stop The Cycle
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Jul 19, 2020
So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more time.
You see that coronavirus infections are up. Maybe your kids can't go back to school. The economy is cratering.
Still, you incessantly scroll though bottomless doom-and-gloom news for hours as you sink into a pool of despair.
Richmond, Va., Photographer Watches Familiar Anger Resurface In Recent Protests
For the past month, as anti-racism protesters across America have revived the campaign for the removal of statues, many eyes have focused on Richmond, Va. — the former capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond is home to Monument Avenue, a long stretch with towering statues dedicated to Confederate figures like Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
Some of those monuments have been toppled by protesters; others have been taken down by the city.
Q&A: Are Face Mask Requirements Legal?
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Jun 28, 2020
As the number of new coronavirus cases spikes in several states across the U.S., governors, county officials and business owners have been crafting laws and guidelines that mandate the use of face masks to help prevent the spread of the virus.
But even a simple cloth face covering has become political.
Kevin Kwan's New 'Sex And Vanity' Is A Summer Romp With A Satirical Sting
The settings: A lavish Capri wedding, Italian villas, mansions in the Hamptons and a mega-yacht.
The love interests: George Zao, a Chinese-Australian surfer, and Lucie Tang Churchill of, yes, those Churchills.
The book: Sex and Vanity. And it could only be written by Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians, who says he felt like it was time to move on from the decadent, glamorous world of that series.
For This 'Party Of Two', Distance Isn't The Only Bump On The Road
Olivia Monroe has just moved to Los Angeles to open her own law firm.
Max Powell is a U.S. Senator who usually spends his weeks in D.C.
After a meet-cute at a hotel bar, they begin a casual, weekends-only long-distance fling. Or is it more? That's the setup for novelist Jasmine Guillory's new romance Party of Two. And it has some timely themes — Olivia is black, Max is white.
'Taste The Nation' Proves Who's At The Heart Of American Food: Immigrants
Padma Lakshmi — the host of the cooking competition Top Chef — is on a new gastronomical journey, taking her to places you've probably heard of, like Chinatown in San Franscisco, and others you may not, like Little Lima in New Jersey.
The new show is called Taste the Nation, and Lakshmi does not shy away from the complicated history and politics that remind us who is really at the center of our favorite "American" dishes: immigrants.
Doctors Race For Answers As Kids Fight Rare Inflammatory Syndrome Tied To Coronavirus
By Peter Breslow & Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Jun 7, 2020
The first sign that something was wrong came with stomach pains. It was April 30, and 9-year-old Kyree McBride wasn't feeling well.
His mother, Tammie Hairston, thought it might have been something that he ate. But soon, young McBride was battling a 102-degree fever.
Worried he may have contracted the coronavirus, Hairston took her son to the hospital. "It was a quick in and out of the emergency room," she said. Doctors told her to take him home and monitor him.
Mysterious Set Of Symptoms Related To The Coronavirus Is Appearing In Kids
By Lourdes Garcia-Navarro • Jun 1, 2020
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What is David Holmgren really saying?
Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture, taking on one of his heroes, calls Holmgren "naive and irresponsible" and then quotes Nicole Foss out of context to boot. Guy McPherson was (apparently) even less kind to Foss. Kevin O'Connor at C-Realmcalls him out on it and sets the record straight. [Kevin goes under the nom de webof "KMO"].
My deepest hope is that after all this discussion ABOUT Holmgren's ideas, that people will actually read his work, especiallyPermaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. The theme of the book is energy descent, the same theme as the latest paper. The book rises above any particular strategies associated with Permaculture and offers broad principles that can be applied at any scale to the problems of a society that has reached the limits of growth.
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The consumption economy, the finacialized system of debt dependent on exponential growth to generate interest and earnings growth – these things *will* crash. There's no need to "help" them crash, they'll accomplish that fine on their own. What makes the difference is to have a means to continue living *after* that inevitable crash – I suspect that's what Holmgren is concerned with and planning for.
Thanks for this interesting post and drawing attention to the debate.
One hidden aspect to this debate is I think, an urban/rural perspective.
I.E. hard-core Collapseniks are generally rural-focused, as they view the capital and resource intensity of cities as unsustainable. But within more 'reformist' spheres, you get quite vibrant debates about whether affluent Western lifestyles are less resource-intensive in an urban setting (via use of public transport, more sharing of parks and other resources etc) than rural or ex-urban ones.
(Holmgren is part of an interesting small sub-set here, arguing for lower density suburbia to be re-purposed towards home-based production as a viable, or at least non-futile, strategy).
We then get the useful concept of 'resilience' from people who study large human societies like cities emerging. Looking at how effectively systems can deal with change as it comes – and that the concentration of physical and intellectual capital cities represent can be a positive force here, not just a handicap. I think this is potentially a more useful direction than a strict collapsitarian – utopian distinction.


After reading a little bit about the Sunrail that connects Orlando to Winter Park I had to look at some other transportation options that their were instead of the Sunrail. There may be no other logical way to make the endeavor to Winter Park from Orlando. You really don't want to or maybe might want to rethink riding your bicycle for miles at a time even though it would be a great workout. The only logical substitution would be to make the drive. Whether its from street light to street light trying to find the back way to Winter Park or the dreaded drive on I-4. Either or is not an easy task. This article speaks on the on going constrcution of the long awaited and still basically development of The I-4 ultimate Project. The project is estimated to take up to 6 and a half years to construct fully. During that extensive process traffic is predicted to be one hundred times worse than it already is. With lane closures and exit closures being a main cause of this, along with the wait comes more accidents , more traffic and more reports of road rage. Also, the gas that is wasted just sitting in traffic will definitely hit the wallet a bit harder if you ask me from experience. Maybe those back roads and street lights don't seem like a bad idea at all. The Sunrail might also be seeing a spike in popularity pretty soon also. Well at least in the next 6 and a half years at least.
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I've been absent for awhile- please forgive me! As are most of you, I am struggling with all of the changes in instruction that our state has made. Between writing SLOs (student learning objectives) and I CAN statements, working on Prom, and working my part time job at my parents' furniture store, something needed to go for awhile. Alas, it ended up being the blog, but I am hoping to be back full force very soon.
I will be posting about SLOs and I CAN statements soon, but let's start with something FUN. Here are some photos from our Prom that was held in April. I think this qualifies as ART because we made soooo many of the decorations by hand. The theme was Wonderland and it turned out simply magical.
We glued cupcake liners to lanterns to make these funky lights.
A mom made these beautiful flowers!
Candy buffet they filled their jars with.
that are larger than life.
More photos of the dance floor. The kids painted that huge swirl on sheets of cardboard.
I hope you enjoyed the photos. I will post more photos of what has been keeping me busy this summer!
The Wonderland prom theme turned out AMAZING!!!!! WOW!! I might not be an artist, but I've done enough elaborate concerts that I know how much work all of that decorating takes... but that was seriously amazing! Glad I found your blog!
I am glad you found my blog too!
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Oh my gosh! This would have been so much fun to experience!
No laminating and they have held up great for two plus years now!


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Q: React Charts - Display pie chart despite zero values (Equally distribute sections and display colorized chart when all the values are zero) So react-charts-js-2 by default hides the chart when both values are zero. We're trying to avoid 'No data available' sort of messages or displaying icons that represent no value.
What we desire to achieve is to display the chart regardless of whether the values are zero or not, halve the chart (preserve the calculated colors (one primary color and one lightened up color)) and also display the zero values on hover.
Is this achievable ?
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import { ArcElement, Chart as ChartJS, Legend, Tooltip } from "chart.js";
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const LimitChart = ({ data, sectorNameBySectorCode }: { data: ISectorLimit, sectorNameBySectorCode: string }) => {

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A: Conditionally rendering super small values resolved my issue.
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Pursuing Justice and Peace
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Sunday, September 11, 2022 • 4:45-6:00PM (PT)
@ 4:45 pm PT
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EDINA LEKOVIC
(authoritative voice on American Muslim landscapes)
RECENTLY ANNOUNCED HONOREES!
DOLORES HUERTA
(labor activist and a leader of Chicano civil rights movement)
(acclaimed singer-songwriter)
REV. LOUIS A. CHASE
(minister of community outreach, Holeman United Methodist Church)
MEDEA BENJAMIN
(co-founder of CODEPINK, social justice activist)
JODIE EVANS
With Special Guests
REV. JAMES LAWSON
(Holman United Methodist Church)
LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ
(poet and community & peace activist)
With Musical Performances by
AGAPE INTERNATIONAL CHOIR AND GLOBAL CHOIR
Only days after the devastating 9/11 attacks, the late Rev. George F. Regas brought together Christians, Jews, Muslims, Quakers, humanists and people of many faiths and beliefs to found Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace. Acutely aware that this dire moment posed a grave threat to peace and justice, George knew instinctively that peacemakers needed to create a place to gather, organize, pray, and act together united by the fundamental principle that Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War and Violence.
Since its founding, ICUJP has remained true to George's vision. Meeting at over 1,000 Friday Forums, ICUJP has heard from speakers from all over the world; organized mass demonstrations, vigils, and acts of civil disobedience; presented numerous conferences and webinars; held an annual Close Guantanamo rally; sent many delegations to meet with elected officials; issued a variety of statements, petitions and policy papers on a wide range of international and domestic issues; provided scholarships to deserving peace activists; supported the work of our allies in the cause of peace and racial and economic justice; and provided a loving, safe, and compassionate home for anyone committed to the struggle to replace war with peace and oppression with justice.
To celebrate the ongoing work of ICUJP, to honor George's life and legacy, and to recognize deserving individuals with the 2022 George F. Regas Courageous Peacemaker Award, please join us at:
ICUJP 2022 George F. Regas Courageous Peacemaker Virtual Awards Presentation
Sunday, September 11, 2022 • 4:45-6:00 pm live streamed online
We're delighted to recognize the following remarkable individuals as 2022 George F. Regas Courageous Peacemakers:
Watch for the announcement of additional special guests!
ICUJP operates as a largely volunteer organization with a small part-time paid staff. We have survived for over 20 years through the generosity of individuals and organizations like you. Like so many other organizations, our ability to raise donations has been hampered during the COVID pandemic. The annual George F. Regas Courageous Peacemaker Awards event is our primary fundraising activity of the year. We are eager to sustain - and expand - our work. We are committed to doing that with your generous help.
DONATE TO ICUJP
Instructions to donate:
1. Visit ICUJP's donation page and input your donation amount next to "REGAS EVENT: Donation or Tribute Book" Follow the instructions to complete your donation.
2. For checks, please mail to the address below. Please write "Regas Awards 2022" in the "memo" or "for" line of the check.
ICUJP
c/o Rod Sprott, Church-Biz
1125 N Fairfax Ave #46836
Please become a co-sponsor of Pursuing Justice and Peace. The benefits included at each level of sponsorship are shown below. Please purchase a package and submit a Tribute Ad honoring the life and legacy of Rev. George Regas, or the inspiring work of the extraordinary individuals we are honoring, or the over 20 years of important work done by ICUJP, or all of these in the largest Tribute Ad you can afford.
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Ad in online tribute book will rotate on screen before and after event which will be posted online indefinitely
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Individual sponsor tickets to help underwrite our expenses are $25, $50, $70, and $100 apiece. To spread our vision of peace and justice, the live streamed online event will be free to anyone around the world and will be posted indefinitely on our website.
Please let us know of your interest in submitting an ad for the tribute book by completing this form. The deadline to submit a request is Friday, September 2nd, 2022.
Thanks very much for your generous support. We look forward to your co-sponsorship.
Our Host
Edina Lekovic is a Montenegrin-American who defines herself as a strategist, storyteller, and trainer who works in multi-faith spaces throughout the country. Edina Lekovic has served as an authoritative voice on American Muslim landscapes for many public media outlets for over a decade. During her experience as the Communications Director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Lekovic regularly spoke on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, the History Channel, and other national sources sharing American Muslim perspectives. For over 15 years, Edina Lekovic has served as a voice on American Muslims and an inter-community builder between diverse faith traditions. She is a co-founder and board member of New Ground: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, a board member of multi-faith house of worship The Pico-Union Project, and a lay leader at the Islamic Center of Southern California. From 2017-2018, she was also an On Being Fellow, an opportunity she used to launch her own podcast, which was named one of the best new podcasts of 2018. In each episode of "Meeting the Moment", Edina talks with people she admires about their journey and how they have been able to find opportunities within life's big challenges. In 2015, she was named one of L.A.'s 10 most inspiring women game-changers by Los Angeles Magazine. She was also named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in 2009.
Announcing the 2022 Honorees!
Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.
Born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico, Huerta was the second of three children of Alicia and Juan Fernandez, a farm worker and miner who became a state legislator in 1938. Her parents divorced when Huerta was three years old, and her mother moved to Stockton, California with her children. Huerta's grandfather helped raise Huerta and her two brothers while her mother juggled jobs as a waitress and cannery worker until she could buy a small hotel and restaurant. Alicia's community activism and compassionate treatment of workers greatly influenced her daughter.
The recipient of many honors, Huerta received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. As of 2015, she was a board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, and the President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to No. 1 on the Country Charts and is now regarded as a classic of the Americana genre. Subsequent releases like The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), and TOWNES (2009) received consecutive GRAMMY® Awards. Restlessly creative across artistic disciplines, Earle has published both a novel and a collection of short stories; produced albums for other artists such as Joan Baez and Lucinda Williams, and acted in films, television (including David Simon's acclaimed The Wire), and on the stage. He currently hosts a radio show for Sirius XM.
In 2009, Earle made his off-Broadway theatre debut in the play Samara, for which he also wrote a score that The New York Times described as "exquisitely subliminal." Earle wrote music for and appeared in Coal Country, a riveting public theater play that dives into the most-deadly mining disaster in U.S. history, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Earle was also previously nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2010 for Outstanding Music and Lyrics in the drama series Treme.
His 2020 album Ghosts of West Virginia was named as one of "The 50 Best Albums of 2020 So Far" by Rolling Stone. Mr. Earle was recently (Nov. 2020) inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and released his 21st studio album J.T. in January 2021 as an homage to his late son Justin Townes Earle. In May 2022, Earle released his most recent album Jerry Jeff, a 10-track collection comprised of hit tracks and deep-cuts from Jerry Jeff Walker to pay tribute to the colorful cowboy troubadour who passed away in October 2021.
OUR OTHER REMARKABLE HONOREES!
The Rev. Louis A. Chase is currently Minister of Community Outreach at Holman United Methodist Church, Los Angeles. He serves on the Board of STAND - LA. (Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling) an environmental justice coalition of community groups that seeks to protect the health and safety of Angelenos.
He entered the retired relationship in the California - Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church after serving for two years at Magnolia UMC, Burbank 2013-2015, Hamilton UMC for fifteen (15) years (1997-2013) and at Lynwood UMC for eleven (11) years (1986-1997), and internships at Compton United Methodist Church, with Dr. Odis Fentry and Holman United Methodist Church with Dr. James M. Lawson in the Long Beach and Los Angeles Districts, respectively.
He is a graduate of Claremont School of Theology, CA (Master of Divinity). There he obtained the Pomona Trinity Urban Award and the Wilshire Preaching Award and was the second black student to receive this award. The first was Rev Dr. Cecil "Chip" Murray, pastor of First AME Church, Los Angeles. He also underwent training at the Vancouver School of Theology, Canada and Ruskin College, Oxford, England (Diploma in Development Studies) He also underwent studies at Warwick University, Coventry, England (Sociology) and Cliff College, Calver, England (Cliff College Diploma)
He served in several capacities during his years in the local parish, including, Chairperson of Missions in the Long Beach District, and at the Conference level, Chair of Religion and Race and Chair of Peace with Justice ministries. Louis also served as Chairperson of the Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA) and Black Methodists for Church Renewal (BMCR) and served on the national boards, including Witness for Peace During this time, he visited Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras and Haiti during seasons of political instability.
Louis is a community activist and a fierce advocate for equality and justice for all. He was a member of a Wednesday morning group engaged in opposition to the dictatorships, and violence in El Salvador and American foreign policy in Latin America.
CODEPINK was founded in 2002 as a response to President GWBush frightening the American people into a war in Iraq with color-coded alerts of orange, red, and yellow. We called CODEPINK for peace and have worked for the last 20 years to end war and bring the money home to the life-giving needs of our communities.
Your event is 20 years after we called CODEPINK outside the white house, on the steps of Congress and in a Congressional hearing. We have not stopped calling out power to end their militaristic ways and instead cultivate peace.
Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. Described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide.
She is the author of ten books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection. Her most recent book, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is part of a campaign to prevent a war with Iran and instead promote normal trade and diplomatic relations. Her most recent book is War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War.
Her articles appear regularly in outlets such as The Guardian, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams, Alternet and The Hill. Medea can be reached at: [email protected] or @medeabenjamin.
Jodie Evans has been a peace, environmental, women's rights, and social justice activist for over fifty years. She is the co-founder of CODEPINK which works to stop US Military interventions overseas and promotes diplomatic solutions and Peace. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential campaigns. Her books include "Stop the Next War Now" with Medea Benjamin and "Twilight of Empire." She has produced several documentary films, including the Oscar and Emmy-nominated "The Most Dangerous Man in America," And "The Square." and Naomi Klein's; "This Changes Everything". Jodie is the board chair of Rainforest Action Network and sits on many boards, including 826LA, Institute for Policy Studies, Global Girl Media, and the California Arts Council.
Thanks for everything you do in pursuit of justice and peace.
On behalf of ICUJP's Board of Directors,
Stephen Rohde
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My love hate affair with you began around the time when all those screen pixels metamorphosed into the image of Francois Mitterrand as president. The world around me leapt up and went dancing in the street. I was newly married, struggling with the language and lost in an ocean of strangeness. The Eiffel Tower had lost its magic by then. The doctor with the power to award me a medical certificate, a legal requirement to start proceedings for acquiring French citizenship, requested that I remove all my clothes so he could take my blood pressure and then asked for a cash payment that was beyond my means at the time. I went home to get the money and came back with my "French pedigree" husband who, with the aplomb of a medieval knight, took the prize and tossed a coin at the cad's feet. I left the surgery jubilant, fascinated and flummoxed by what was obviously a French flair for histrionics albeit chivalrous outrage at swinish behavior.
France, you taught me what it is like to feel inadequate, powerless and angry. I knew that before meeting you but learning your language gave me words to understand the experience of a stranger in a strange land. You looked down your long Gallic nose at me and sniffed, "your choice my dear".
France, you can be so damned smug at times; so certain of your fatal attraction; so stuck in your fabulous ways that, even after 30 years within your boundaries, I am still hopelessly seduced by your beauty, your irascibility, your irrationality, your philosophers, your history, your towns and villages and, believe it or not, your sense of humor.
Tomorrow I am going to vote in the final round of your presidential election. I voted for the first time two weeks ago. I was amongst the 2.3% of the 80% who went to the polls on April 22nd to screen tap a green vote. I understood that you wanted me to vote with my heart the first time round so I thought it worthwhile to vote for your well being. I have walked your spectacular landscapes, eaten your magnificent cuisine, made friends with your people and admired the love and care your citizens lavish upon you so I wanted to imagine that someone in power could defend your interests. I am also predisposed to listen to a politician who appears to speak from a moral stand point and is willing to antagonize her team members and risk ridicule to be your voice in the wilderness.
I know you are in debt but I don't know if it is because you've been on a wild shopping spree for years or because you have sold off a lot of your assets and expertise to pay for a quality of life that is the envy of others. Maybe it is just because you want all your citizens to be happy and to keep everything they spent years ungallantly fighting for: comfort, security, a well paid job for a 35 hour week, a long annual holiday in the sun, a nice place to live, a bank loan with a low interest rate, free healthcare, a good education, cheap electricity and not too many uninvited neighbors.
Now that I have "wasted" my first vote I am worried about my "real" vote tomorrow. I know who won the debate last Wednesday night but I can't make up my mind about who has the longest magic wand. You have given me so much, France, over the last 30 years that I would like to be able to vote in favor of your kindness; to say thank you for all that you have given me; all the opportunities that the generosity of your system has enabled me to benefit from. I am not keen on your swallowing that "austerity pill" that Britain and Germany feel would do you the world of good and no doubt bring you down a peg or two.
Both contenders in tomorrow's joust are carrying your colors and promising to defend your honor. I am going to join the queues and declare my support for one of your knights despite their poor display of chivalry in the debate. I shall be watching as those screen pixels metamorphose again as they did in 1981 but this time I shall be a part of it declaring victory or strike action along with the rest of your citizens.
A privileged citizen in your care.


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October 12, 2020 by Lynn Taylor
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Voting is both a public and a personal activity. Whether we go to the polls to cast our vote alongside fellow citizens or we fill out our ballot in the comfort of our homes, the reasons why we exercise our right to vote are varied and personal. The Gabber asked readers to share some of the reasons why they will vote on November 3 – or why they already have.
Margie Davis
First, I always vote – to honor the women and men who fought so hard and won the right for women to vote in this country. I will not squander that hard-fought right nor my civic duty to participate in the governance of my beloved country. The primary issue driving me to vote this year is not political – it's personal. As in personality. I am voting to put people with empathy back in the White House and in all the other offices that are up for election. The same motivating force, empathy, drove me to donate to U.S. Senate candidates in states I have never lived in. I strongly believe that we, the people, need to watch out for one another.
Sheree Greer
I stand on the shoulders of Black women activists like Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, who fought for my right to vote. Every ballot I complete is a thank you, a resistance and a march toward everyone's full protection and full participation in American democracy.
Phyllis Marcum
There's flaws in our system. But to fix it, I have to have my voice heard. I believe in our democracy. What if no one voted? Would I have federal, state, local representatives who'd support the issues I believe in? Or vote for the amendments important to my life. Real change happens when we come together. Otherwise so much could be lost. I vote for my family, my community and my friends. Every vote matters, including mine.
Vincent Spina
I'm voting to protect the environment and to restore respect for science. Confidence in our government and in science must be restored. I won't go into politics, but a state of doubt and total disbelief plagues us today.
Ingrid Bredenberg
Voting is always important because it is the only time that most U.S. citizens have the opportunity to select their representatives and weigh in on policies that can have a direct impact on their wellbeing and lifestyle. As with any investment of time or money, it's wise to invest a little time to understand ballot issues as well as hear how candidates intend to fulfill their responsibilities. Pinellasvoterguide.com is a non-partisan resource to learn about 2020 candidates and ballot choices.
Caroline Duvoe
Fear is rampant in this country right now. Fear of death or permanent disability due to COVID-19, fear of people who think differently or look different than we do, fear of the loss of our income, our home, our loved ones, fear of standing up for our beliefs, fear of not having sufficient (or any) healthcare, fear of changes in the environment going unchecked, fear of our country becoming a dictatorship, the list is endless. The smell of fear in the air is so ripe you can almost taste it. I have never been afraid of living in America until now. I will vote to put leadership in place who has a plan to repair the damage that has been done to our environment, our country and our people. I will vote to erase the lines that separate us from our brothers and sisters, and unite us in repairing the problems that keep us up at night, and make it feel safe to be an American again.
Ryan Daugherty
The reasons I am choosing once again to vote this year is because of all the injustice in this country, especially racial injustice. I want to see unity and plans for the future brought back to this country. In a country where there is a lot of division and fighting, I would like to see some peace.
Mike Fagan
I feel a responsibility, a choice to be heard. To make a difference.
Michael Taylor
Why vote? I will vote this year in an effort to elect new leadership that will reestablish common sense, decency and civility to our democratic government. A successful set of strategies has been employed to tear apart the current rule of law, destroy legislation intended to rein in planetary pollution, and enable the wealthy segment of the population to increase their wealth at the expense of the lower economic segments. The American people need new leaders who will attempt to unify rather than divide the population, strive to create a justice system that is equal for all citizens, and pass legislation that will try to save rather than destroy the climate of our planet.
Bret Umstead
It's a privilege and my civic duty to vote. I think everybody should vote.
Colleen Murphy
I vote because our country is a republic run by the will of the people. That "will" cannot occur without the participation of a knowledgeable voter.
Brit Chism
The court packing is a done deal so getting balance back into the judiciary is a biggie. Education needs a big boost. Healthcare is on life support. Social Security is headed for the crapper.
Barbara Poore
It's really simple. I want to see Medicare for all, the best public education in the world, great paying jobs for everyone and the elimination of racism. I want to restore civility and respect to our national conversation. Voting is my superpower, but only if I use it.
Kelli Umstead
I vote, because I really believe my vote matters. My high school government teacher drilled into our heads how important it was for us to vote and I believe that to this day. There was a time when women weren't allowed to vote, and it wasn't that long ago. From small local elections to the national elections, I'm proud to vote, win or lose.
Early Voting in Pinellas County
Early voting runs from October 19 to November 1, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., daily.
There are two early voting sites in southern Pinellas:
Supervisor of Elections Office, County Building, 501 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg
SPC Allstate Center, 3200 34th St. S., St. Petersburg
Voters may go to any early voting site, and must present both picture and signature identification. You can also drop off your completed, signed ballot at one of 25 locations around the county up to election day, including the Gulfport Neighborhood Center, St. Petersburg Main Library and the St. Pete Beach Public Library. Request a ballot by October 25, and find more drop-off locations at votepinellas.com or call 727-464-VOTE (8683).
by Lynn Taylor
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The plot revolves around three lives - a superstar, a young director and a theatre actress - and how their coming together during the process of making a film, changes them forever.... AUTOBIOGRAPHY I Petal King, was born in Tobago on the twenty seventh of July nineteen eighty eight. I am presently living at the nurses hostel in Port-Of-Spain and attend COSTAATT(College Of Applied Arts Of Trinidad and Tobago).
Definitions of Uttam_Kumar, synonyms, antonyms, derivatives of Uttam_Kumar, analogical dictionary of Uttam_Kumar (English)... Uttam Kumar's funeral -- mourned by hundreds of thousands of Bengalis spilling into the streets as a slow-moving procession with his garlanded body moved along the major arteries of Calcutta -- was an elaborate, yet ultimately a simple affair.
Uttam Kumar was the eldest of three sons (Arun, Barun and Tarun) of Satkari Chatterjee and Chapala Debi. The youngest, whose screen name was Tarun Kumar, acted in several Bengali films and grew to become an actor of considerable repute, in screen and on stage.


« Passing the buck – who pays for IT?
These days, some automated financial services are taken for granted; automated telling machines (ATMs) or cash points have been around since the 1960s, internet banking since the 1990s. Few these days write cheques made out to cash or visit banks to make transfers.
Now there is a new wave of automation underway, driven by software robots (or bots), that are changing not just how financial organisations interact with customers but how they deal with each other. Among other things, bots can provide financial advice and carry out trades. Bots are especially good at complex repetitive activities such as producing wealth assessments and gathering the data to populate price comparison sites, for example to show comparative quotes for insurance.
All this automated activity can benefit both banks and their customers, however, there is a down side; criminals are using bots too. In 2017, robbing a bank is much more likely to be perpetrated by a cybercriminal with an army of bots than a mobster with a sawn-off shotgun. So-called bad-bots are hard at work cracking access credentials, seeking out vulnerabilities in web sites and online applications, obfuscating targeted criminal activity with volume denial-of-service attacks and so on.
The trouble is distinguishing the good-bots from the bad and working out what some of the ones in-between are up to. Credential cracking bots, testing bank accounts for the use are of commonly used passwords need to be blocked, only an organisation's own vulnerability scanners should be allowed to probe infrastructure, screen-scrapping bots from price comparison sites may be OK, those from unscrupulous competitors not so.
Fortunately, there are now technologies to help sort bots out based on policy. Quocirca's Ultimate Guide to how bad bots affect financial services is free to download and provides more detail about how bots are operating in financial services and how to let the let the good ones through the stop the bad ones in their tracks. The full list of Quocirca's Cyber-Security Threat Series on Mitigating Bad Bots can be viewed HERE. These e-books were sponsored by Distil Networks.


Forensic evidentiary backlogs are indicative of the growing need for cost-effective, high-throughput instrumental methods. One such emerging technology that shows high promise in meeting this demand while also allowing on-site forensic investigation is portable mass spectrometric (MS) instrumentation, particularly that which enables the coupling to ambient ionization techniques. While the benefits of rapid, on-site screening of contraband can be anticipated, the inherent legal implications of field-collected data necessitates that the analytical performance of technology employed be commensurate with accepted techniques. To this end, comprehensive analytical validation studies are required before broad incorporation by forensic practitioners can be considered, and are the focus of this work. Pertinent performance characteristics such as throughput, selectivity, accuracy/precision, method robustness, and ruggedness have been investigated. Reliability in the form of false positive/negative response rates is also assessed, examining the effect of variables such as user training and experience level. To provide flexibility toward broad chemical evidence analysis, a suite of rapidly-interchangeable ion sources has been developed and characterized through the analysis of common illicit chemicals and emerging threats like substituted phenethylamines. Graphical Abstract .


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Soon after Cabinet cleared 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment in single-brand retail and 51 percent in multi-brand retail, the topic exploded across the Twitterverse.
Soon after Cabinet cleared 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment in single-brand retail and 51 percent in multi-brand retail, the topic exploded across the Twitterverse. Businessman Anand Mahindra weighed in with this: 'As far as I'm concerned, opposition to FDI in retail is regressive and short-sighted.


Behind every old photo there is a story, or even someone's whole life, with all its peaks and troughs of grief and happiness. These images remain silent witnesses to the events and atmosphere of an era that has already passed into history, never to be experienced again. Unless we invent a time machine, of course!
An officer holds a cigar with two canaries perched on it, 1918.
Twenty-two students cramming into a telephone booth to try and establish a stacking record, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, 1959.
Leonid Brezhnev (a Communist Party official who was the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years) visits a factory owned by the Pepsi-Cola Company, 1974.
Princess Anastasia takes a puff from a cigarette from the hands of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, 1916.
Queen Elizabeth II driving a car with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 1957.
The writers of 'The Simpsons' hard at work, 1992.
Marilyn Monroe having fun with a distorting mirror, 1950.
Walking a pet crocodile, 1950.
A woodcutters competition in Sydney, 1957.
A mama cat stops some traffic, New York, 1925.
The models used for the painting 'American Gothic' by Grant Wood, 1930.
Ernest Hemingway shares his dinner with a cat.
From left to right: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the 29th President of the United States Warren G. Harding, and businessman Harvey Firestone, in 1921.
Elvis Presley backstage during a break between performances, 1956.
Muhammad Ali talking a suicidal man down from a ledge.
A farmer paints a cow during World War II to make sure it would not became the victim of a vehicle collision, UK, 1939.
The future 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, with his cousin, 1910.


Home Opinions Asia Cup 2018: The worst scheduled tournament ever?
July, August and September are the worst months to live in the Gulf. Temperatures are 40+ (Celsius, in case someone from the US reads it and wonders what is the big deal), humidity is high and it is a nightmare just to step outside.
Walking from your car in the parking lot to your office building can leave you sweating profusely. In such glorious weather, we are watching international cricketers play 100 overs of intense top-level cricket. Whoever organised this tournament must really hate the players involved and wants to punish them as much as possible.
If weather conditions weren't difficult enough as it is, organisers have added another difficulty level by keeping matches on consecutive days as well. First India played Hong Kong and Pakistan on consecutive days and now we have Bangladesh playing Afghanistan and India one after the other. Bangladesh has had to travel from Abu Dhabi to Dubai as well while playing 2 matches in 2 days.
It is better to chase if one looks at the pitch as it quickens up as the day progresses thanks to a bit of dew but nobody wants to field in the sun in this weather so Captains are choosing to bat to avoid that. It is absolutely brutal on the bowlers and we will be lucky if we don't see a bowler collapsing due to the sheer exhaustion of playing in these conditions.
Many people have pointed out the empty seats during most of the matches, even during the evening after offices close. However, the temperatures don't drop much even after sunset and the humidity levels rise. Going out to watch a meaningless tournament in high heat and humidity is not exactly a very attractive proposition. India-Pakistan is the only match that is going to bring the crowd in and that is why they came up with a format to maximise the number of India-Pak matches.
Yes, there is a limited window for tournaments like Asia Cup thanks to the nonstop cricket most of these players are playing. Yes, the tournament had to be relocated to UAE from India because of India-Pakistan tensions, but surely there is a better way than making them play in a desert during the summer.


Creating labs for online science courses is always a challenge. One of my favorite approaches is to ask students to analyze the physics of a video game.
If Angry Birds uses realistic gravity, then how large is the slingshot?
In Plants v Zombies, when will the fast zombie pass the slow one?
In the game Osmos, is momentum conserved?


Bundee Aki has been named Barbarians captain for the clash against England.
Arno Botha has signed a one-year contract with Munster.
Djibril Sidibe has been linked with a move to Manchester United over recent weeks.
Gareth Southgate has come out in support of his star striker Harry Kane.
Warren Gatland has been forced to drop three English-based players from the summer tour squad.
According to Cesc Fabregas, last season's FA Cup final defeat still rankles with him.
Manchester United are set to face Chelsea at Wembley this weekend.
Jurgen Klopp is sure Liverpool deserve to have reached the Champions League Final.
According to Paul Hill, he can kickstart his England career following the change of management at Northampton.
David Moyes has left West Ham after six months in charge.
Emre Can is in a race against time to be fit for the Champions League Final.
Juan Figallo has agreed to sign a new contract with Saracens.
Romelu Lukaku is in a race to be fit for the FA Cup Final.
Jorginho has been linked with a host of different Premier League clubs.


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The Montblanc 1858 Collection Is Infused With 160 Years of Tradition
The Montblanc 1858 Collection derives from the 160 years of tradition that its in-house manufacture Minerva has been manufacturing timepieces.
By Gear Patrol Studios
Tradition is not something that happens overnight. When Charles-Yvan Robert founded a watch workshop in the Saint-Imier valley of Switzerland in 1858, the Minerva era was born. The in-house movement for Montblanc, Minerva became known throughout the years for its innovative power and highly developed time measurement technology.
To celebrate those 160 years of watchmaking tradition, Montblanc has put together the 1858 Collection that it is a reinterpretation of the Minerva pocket watches and chronographs from the 1920s and 1930s that were purposed for mountaineers and the military. Boasting high accuracy, legibility and robustness for use in extreme conditions, the 1858 Collection finds its inspiration from the world of exploration.
Featuring a wide array of timepieces that utilize Minerva's innovative power and highly developed time measurement technology, the 1858 Collection is a superb homage to the legacy of the European watchmaker's prowess.
The Montblanc 1858 Geosphere
The anchor of the 1858 Collection is certainly the Montblanc 1858 Geosphere. It is an ode to the heroes of mountain climbing in every sense. Owning a manufacture world-time complication developed by the Montblanc watchmakers, the dial displays two domed hemispheres, turning in opposite directions, that complete a full rotation in 24 hours. On those globes are red dots, signifying the legendary Seven Summits of the World that have mesmerized and challenged explorers for decades. Paired with the calfskin bund strap, it breaks the mold of world timers giving frequent travelers an outdoors-inspired watch they can strap on their wrist.
The Montblanc 1858 Automatic Chronograph
The spirit of the Minerva tradition shines through impeccably with the Montblanc 1858 Automatic Chronograph. Combining aesthetics with precise chronographic functions, it is the first piece in the collection to have bi-pushers to activate the chronograph. The stainless steel 42mm case juxtaposes well with the black dial, which provides a backdrop for the bi-compass counter positioned at 3 and 9 o'clock (reminiscent of Minerva's historic chronographs). While the stainless steel case also comes available housed on a NATO strap, we like the calfskin strap shown here as a sleeker option.
The Montblanc 1858 Automatic
Featuring all the distinctive design elements of the 1858 Collection while introducing a smaller case size, the Montblanc 1858 Automatic is the entry point of the series. With its clean and high readability, the vintage-inspired dial is especially reminiscent of the Minerva heritage. This look is enhanced with a bronze bezel and fluted crown to accent the 40mm stainless steel case.
It also features two new interpretations of the historical Minerva timepieces: one with a smoked champagne-colored dial and beige luminescent Arabic numerals and one with a black dial and beige luminescent Arabic numerals. The smoked champagne-colored dial comes adorned on a calfskin strap while the black dial is available in both the calfskin strap and a black NATO strap (shown here). The results are traditional yet adventurous.
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MOL acquires North Sea assets from Wintershall for $375m
Hungary-based oil and gas company MOL has closed its previously announced deal with German BASF Group member Wintershall and acquired offshore assets with 14 licenses in the North Sea for $375m.
Under the share purchase agreements signed with Wintershall on 12 December 2013, MOL has acquired offshore assets on the UK Continental Shelf.
According to MOL, the portfolio includes non-operated equity stakes in the Broom (29%), Catcher (20%), Cladhan (33.5%), Scolty and Crathes fields (50%).
Wintershall's equity share in Sullom Voe Terminal and Brent Pipeline System's infrastructure assets were also part of the deal.
"Wintershall's equity share in Sullom Voe Terminal and Brent Pipeline System's infrastructure assets were also part of the deal."
MOL Group E&P executive vice-president Alexander Dodds said: "The North Sea is a very attractive area, and MOL will continue to develop its presence in the region.
"We intend to take part in upcoming licensing bid rounds and aim to become operators ourselves."
The deal, which is said to be of strategic value for MOL, provides the company with an opportunity to acquire a foothold in the attractive North Sea area.
In December, the companies also signed a strategic cooperation memorandum to develop their partnership and pursue E&P opportunities in both the North Sea and the Middle East region jointly.
Recently, MOL opened an office in Aberdeen in a bid to support its operations and its future expansion in the region.
Cairn Energy's Subsidiary Acquires Nautical Petroleum for $642m to Balance E&P Portfolio and Complement its Parent's Asset Base in North West Europe
Enbridge to Acquire 50% Interest in Seaway Crude Pipeline from ConocoPhillips for $1.15 Billion - Following the Deal, Enbridge Announces Plan to Reverse Pipeline Flow
Athabasca Oil Sands to Sell Remaining 40% Interest in MacKay River Oil Sands Project to Cretaceous Oilsands - Debt and Cash Management Step by Athabasca
MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc


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In liner shipping, the pursuit of Economies of Scale (EoS) through bigger and bigger ships is something like the pursuit of the Holly Grail. Thirty years ago, the largest containership would just pass through the locks of the Panama Canal and it had a size of roughly 4,700 TEU (known as a Panamax-size ship).[1] Today, the size of the largest containership is five times that, i.e. about 22,000 TEU. What are therefore those EoS, and are they as important as carriers tend to believe?
Economies of Scale (EoS) refer to the situation where unit costs (i.e. cost/dwt or cost/slot), in other words the costs relevant to pricing and competitiveness, decline as ship size increases. This decline is more pronounced in the case of shipbuilding costs, manning costs and fuel costs. Simply put, you don't need twice the amount of steel in order to build a ship twice the size, nor twice the crew to sail it, or fuel to move it. In the case of shipbuilding (capital) costs in particular, the above figure speaks for itself when it comes to the relationship between cargo-carrying-capacity (CCC) and ship dimensions: The almost doubling of CCC, from 3,500 to 8,000 to 15,000 TEU requires only moderate increases in ship dimensions and, most importantly, draft. This shouldn't surprise us: The amount of steel I need to build a ship increases linearly while CCC increases in the cube of dimensions.
The bottom part of the figure (borrowed with many thanks from the Port of Hamburg) is even nicer: The larger ship (March 2018) is the CMA CGM 'Antoine de Saint Exupéry': 400 meters long, 59 meters wide, with a container capacity of 20,776 TEU. In her gut (May 1968), like Jonah in the gut of the whale, is the "American Lancer": 213 meters long, 26 meters wide, with a container capacity of 1,200 TEU. The Antoine is just twice as long and about twice as wide as the Lancer, but it can carry 17.3 times more cargo (20,776/1200)! What better example could one need to explain economies of scale? The question however is: can our ports continue to cope with this kind of gigantism? Should they? My answer is clear and unswerving: They can (could) but they shouldn't.
[1] The size of a panamax ship was determined by its beam which could not naturally exceed the 33.53 meters width of the Miraflores locks of the Panama Canal. As the 'beam to length' ratio of a ship is fairly fixed ( in heavy weather, a 'sausage' type ship could easily break in two if, when loaded, it found itself at the top of two wave crests), the maximum size of a panamax containership was about 4,700 TEU. At a beam of 33.5 meters, the ship can carry 33.5/2.5=13.4, or 13 containers across (counting containers astern is an easy way to impress your interlocutor, when asked about the size of a ship…).
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Description: Muryoko-in was founded by the fourth son of Shirakawa Emperor (1092-1153) during the Heian-Period.
This temple has 30 Japanese style guest rooms all without private baths or toilets, and during winter season the rooms are equipped with gas stoves.
Bathrooms are shared and there is a nice hot traditional Japanese bath (one for women and one for men).
This Buddhist temple serve Shojinryori which is a traditional Japanese vegetarian food. Dinner will be served around 18:00 (Please check-in before 17:00) and breakfast at 8:00am after the morning ceremony.


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There was no reason for starting them on this program other than preventative measures. If felt I would rather prevent problems than find out after it's too late.
My Malamute is getting older, but she seems to be acting younger. Even after a major surgery last year. She suffered "Bloat" and luckily I was home to notice it in time. She is doing great now. She barks and howls like never before. It's amazing.
My Vet. Doctor Linda Attig at the Orland Park Small Animal Clinic noticed how great they looked instantly. She said, "whatever you're doing...keep doing it." I told her about your product and she was very familiar with it. She also told me what a great product it is.
Also...Max just took first place in his obedience class and is now moving on to advanced off lead training as well as agility.


In order to facilitate the creation of C dynamic libraries using EiffelStudio, a wizard helps generate the definition files used to define the contents of the shared library. If for some reason you need to override the wizard, the syntactic rules of the definition files are available, but their knowledge is not necessary to use the generation of dynamic libraries in EiffelStudio.
The wizard is accessible in the Tools/ Dynamic library builder menu.
The dynamic library window that appears when selecting this menu is mainly composed of a list which contains all features that should be exported. This list is course empty at first.
Note: The layout of this wizard is slightly different on Windows and on Unix systems, because the index and calling convention fields never appear on Unix systems.
Pick the feature from any place in EiffelStudio and drop it into the list. If several creation procedures exists in the container class, a dialog is popped up to give the choice between all possible creation procedures.
Or, use the Add command in the Edit/ Add menu. This pops up a dialog where it is possible to enter manually all parameters for the exported feature.
Other commands of the Edit menu allow you to remove exported features or to modify their export parameters .
It is also possible to check the validity of the definition file. This command performs both a global check, to ensure that for example two features do not have the same name or same index in the library, and also local checks, that check for each feature that the parameters are valid.
Other commands, located in the File menu, give standard file operations, such as opening a definition file, creating a new definition file ,or saving the current definition file .
Tip: Although the wizard can handle several files during the same EiffelStudio session, remember that only one file can be used in the project settings to effectively generate a shared library.