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Birthright Denied
Moment Magazine
Story and photos by Jacob Kushner
The campaign to expel the children of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic is impractical. Their labor—and that of their parents—helped propel the Dominican economy last year to grow faster than all but one other country's in Latin America, firmly establishing it as a middle-class nation. They are a significant part of the workforce in the booming construction and tourism industries that have helped transform the Dominican Republic into the most popular travel destination in the Caribbean.
But in a chaotic democracy that has adopted 38 different constitutions over a century and a half, anti-Haitianismo is the one enduring notion that mainstream parties across the political spectrum can invoke with impunity. It is driven by the fervor of Dominican nationalists, and, in particular, by one powerful, ultra-conservative family and its allies. Together, they are waging a political, legal and media war to defend the Dominican Republic against what they believe is the nation's gravest threat: Haitian immigrants and their children.
Read: Moment Magazine
September 14, 2015 December 30, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged Dominican Republic, human rights, immigration, migration, Photography, Refugees, statelessness
10 MURDERS, 3 NAZIS, AND GERMANY'S MOMENT OF RECKONING
Foreign Policy Magazine
Jesse Lenz
German authorities looked the other way as a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree. Now they won't look in the mirror.
Read: Foreign Policy Magazine
As featured on Longform
March 17, 2017 April 29, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, institutional racism, migration, NSU, terrorism, true crime
Citizenship shift leaves Dominican-Haitians stateless (PBS Newshour)
The Dominican government made headlines when it ended birthright citizenship for children born in the D.R. To undocumented parents.
Watch the segment I field-produced, or read the full transcript, at PBS Newshour.
April 8, 2019 April 29, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged birthright, birthright citizenship, Dominican Republic, Haiti, human rights, migration, Refugees, statelessness
Postcard From Dresden
What It's Like to Be a Refugee in Germany's Conservative Stronghold
One afternoon, in a plaza in the center of Dresden, a tall man with a fatherly face and glasses insists that our interview be videotaped. Tourists and natives sit on patios eating sandwiches and ice cream as the man's colleague tries to get the video camera working. An old man in a straw hat approaches me to admire my interview subject. "Just so you know—in anti-Islamic dialogue, he is the No. 1 in Germany! That's why they call him a Nazi. And he is definitely not a Nazi."
With the camera finally ready, the man begins his speech, gesticulating as though to a live television audience, even though only a couple curious onlookers are watching. He warns of a surge of radical Islam in Germany. It's the result, he says, of the masses of Muslim refugees—men in particular—who have arrived here in recent years on the pretense of seeking asylum.
"Islam is used as a legitimization of rape and the willingness to achieve power through terrorism," he tells me in German through an interpreter. "They have a totally different culture and a totally different attitude toward women and violence."
The man's name is Michael Stürzenberger, and he's one of the better-known figures in a movement called Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA. PEGIDA rose primarily in opposition to Germany's open-door refugee policy. In a calm, matter-of-fact tone, Stürzenberger tells his imaginary audience that the Muslims want to build 100 mosques in Munich. "They want to eliminate Judaism and Christianity," he says. "They are friendly to the outside. But that is all part of their agenda."
Within an hour, Stürzenberger's audience is no longer make-believe: He's on a stage in the center of the plaza, speaking before a crowd of some 2,500 PEGIDA enthusiasts. They've assembled to air their grievances against Islam, liberalism, and the media. They use terms like Lügenpresse ("lying press"), a rallying cry used by the Nazis that recently found its way from Germany to America, in the form of social media posts from certain Donald Trump supporters. "There is a TV crew here from Texas called Infowars," Stürzenberger tells the crowd. "They are the good ones—they are for Trump. Be nice to them."
Read the full story online or in the August/September 2017 issue of Pacific Standard. Reporting for this story was made possible by the American Council on Germany.
August 16, 2017 April 29, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged dresden, extremism, Germany, migration, pegida, Refugees
Permanent Displacement
/Jacob Kushner
Inside Kakuma, Kenya's 25-Year-Old Refugee Camp
In 1992, the U.N. formally recognized Kakuma as a refugee camp — a temporary shelter. A quarter-century later, Kakuma hosts more than 150,000 refugees — victims of all manner of East African calamities, from Ugandan homophobia to political unrest in Burundi. Presently, it is filling up once again with people fleeing civil war in South Sudan.
Long before the Syrian civil war, before millions of people began fleeing to camps in Turkey, Jordan, and elsewhere in search of safety, Kakuma was something of an icon in the global refugee crisis. Today, it stands as a solemn reminder of the permanence of humanity's displaced masses.
Read: Pacific Standard Magazine
December 5, 2016 April 29, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged human rights, Kenya, migration, Refugees
In Germany's epicentre of anti-immigrant politics, a haven for refugees
Refugee youth partake in the international cafe's theatre activities and perform skits based on their own experiences [Daniel Koch/Staatsschauspiel Dresden]
DRESDEN, Germany – Each week, a group of refugees and Germans gather at a nondescript cafe hidden from view, pushed back from Dresden's streets. The refugees come from around the globe and the cafe provides a safe space for them to mingle with the locals to chat, practise their language skills, and sip tea and juice. It's one of many spaces that have popped up across Germany to welcome refugees, help them with their asylum applications, teach them German, or just for engagement.
Here, immigrants tell stories about their homelands and laugh with German volunteers about cultural differences. Graffiti covers the walls, a sign on one wall reads, "Refugees welcome. Bring your families."
They do. Children play table football, while teenagers – mostly boys – lounge on couches.
But this particular space, known as the "international cafe", rests in an uncanny location.
Dresden, the capital of Saxony, is a stronghold for Germany's anti-immigrant politics. Each week, thousands of supporters of the right-wing, anti-Muslim, anti-refugee movement PEGIDA gather to demonstrate against Germany's liberal policies towards asylum seekers.
They chant that refugees should "go home" and denounce what they see as the Islamisation of Germany. Refugees often take care to avoid central Dresden on Monday nights out of fear they'll become targets of the protesters' angry speech, or worse.
Read the full story at Al Jazeera. This is the final story in a 7-part series.
July 27, 2017 May 14, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, migration, Refugees, welcome cafe
Rejected asylum: From Karachi to Germany and back again
Jacob Kushner for Al Jazeera
A lawyer and his family fled death threats in Pakistan and came to Germany only to face terrorism. Now, they're being forced to go home.
Salzhemmendorf, Germany – Late one summer night in this quiet village, a Molotov cocktail came flying through the window of the apartment where a Zimbabwean refugee and her three young children lived.
In the apartment next door, an asylum seeker from Pakistan who calls himself Mr Khan heard nothing. He was sitting at his computer with his headphones on, watching videos on the internet with news from Karachi. He and his family had fled Pakistan for Europe in 2012 after some of his colleagues – lawyers who were Shia Muslim – had been murdered by Sunni Islamic extremists.
When he heard a loud banging on his apartment door, he opened it to find a police officer, who ushered him and his family outside. The building smelled of smoke, and Khan surveyed the wreckage: The Molotov cocktail had destroyed the bedroom it was thrown into. It was the room in which the woman's 11-year-old son usually slept on a mattress on the floor. By chance, he was sleeping in his mother's room that night, which may have saved his life.
Outside, "I heard the sound of the fire brigade," Khan said. "If they did not come, this whole building could have been finished."
After Khan's building was attacked by xenophobic Germans, he wondered whether Germany would accept their asylum applications, and allow them to stay.
"Tomorrow, I don't know what will happen," Khan said. "Maybe Germany will say, 'Out!'"
In fact, it did.
Read the full story at Al Jazeera. This is the 6th article in a 7-part series.
July 20, 2017 July 27, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged foreign policy, Germany, human rights, migration, Refugees
In Germany, Police Struggle to Protect Asylum Seekers
Columbia Global Reports
Photo by Journalistenwatch, flikr.
Last week I wrote about an attack on a refugee housing complex in Altenburg, Germany, in which two baby carriages were set aflame. It occurred just two days after members of a right-wing, anti-immigrant movement called PEGIDA marched through the town. That piece grappled with the question of how Germany—a nation with an unparalleled record of confronting its past—has found itself once again home to a small but active collection of xenophobes willing to resort to hate speech or even violence against newly arrived refugees.
But what is Germany doing to protect asylum seekers from right-wing terrorism? In 2015, the newspaper Die Zeit counted 220 violent attacks against refugees but only four convictions. Last year, the number of attacks (including ones that did not result in violence) exploded to 3,500.
How to stop this proliferation? Read the full piece at Columbia Global Reports.
July 20, 2017 May 14, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, human rights, migration, refugee protection, terrorism
When Refugees Are Terrorized By the German Right Wing
Photo by Arnaud333, Wikimedia Commons.
On December 7, 2015, two baby carriages were set on fire at an apartment complex housing refugees in the pristine Thuringia town of Altenburg. Ten refugees, including two infants, suffered from smoke inhalation. The attack came two days after right-wing protesters marched through the town carrying signs that read, "Please continue your flight. There's nowhere to live here."
"On the ground floor there was a woman living with her baby who had to jump out without shoes," district administrator Michaele Sojka told me when I met her last June. "Everyone was really shocked that something like that could happen in our city.
Two men were arrested, and six months later one of them was found guilty of arson. The judge said the man had "acted on xenophobic motives." The other was handed a fine for repeating Nazi slogans. "One of them must have been drunk that night," Brit Krostewitz, a volunteer with the Altenburg Network for Integration, told me. "They are just stupid Nazis." Most Germans know the type.
This is Germany, a country whose leaders just 80 years ago tried to deport and then exterminate all non-Christians and "outsiders." A country so ashamed of its xenophobic past that to display any hint of nationalism, such as to wave a German flag during a soccer match, remained taboo. Germany, a liberal European state that goes so far as to limit speech—by criminalizing Holocaust denial—least anyone attempt to forget or manipulate that torrid past.
And yet, Germany has recently become a breeding ground for small pockets of xenophobic citizens to commit hate crimes and terrorism against foreigners.
Read the full story at Columbia Global Reports. This is the first part of a short series on refugees in Germany.
July 17, 2017 April 29, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, migration, Refugees, terrorism
Escaping Aleppo only to encounter violence in Germany
Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera
In Freital, Abu Hamid and his fellow refugees were attacked by right-wing Germans, who could be convicted of terrorism.
Freital, Germany – On Halloween night, 2015, in this town outside the Saxon capital of Dresden, Abu Hamid went into the kitchen to grab some food when he noticed sparks of light outside the window. Sensing danger, he and his roommates rushed out of the kitchen just as a booming explosion shook the house, shattering the windows and sending pieces of glass into one man's face.
"After that, we thought someone would come inside the home and attack us," Abu Hamid said. "One of my friends, he took a knife."
The explosion was caused by illegal fireworks, as they later discovered. It appeared someone had placed them on the windowsill that night to target those inside. For months beforehand, local police had failed to see a connection between a series of right-wing protests against refugee housing shelters and the bombing of a car belonging to a left-wing politician in Freital. Just one month before Abu Hamid's apartment was attacked, another, almost identical firework attack had been launched on the house of some Eritrean refugees in the town.
It wasn't until news outlets as far away as Berlin began pressuring authorities to take action that Germany's federal prosecutor took up the case. In a dramatic SWAT-style raid, federal and state police arrested five suspects believed to have formed an organised anti-refugee militia.
Read the full story at Al Jazeera. This is the fifth story in a seven-part series.
July 13, 2017 July 27, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, human rights, migration, Refugees, terrorism
Clausnitz: When a mob awaited refugees in a German town
A police car is parked in front of an asylum shelter in Clausnitz in March 2016 [Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters]
Once the face of anti-refugee sentiment in Germany, Clausnitz and its newcomers have learned to co-exist.
On a cold night last year, some 70 Germans, mostly men, surrounded a bus of refugees in this small town and began chanting at them to "go home".
It was February 2016, and nearly one million asylum seekers had arrived the previous year to Germany from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. As they waited to see if they'd be allowed to stay, they were sent off to live in different cities and towns across the country.
One bus with 15 asylum seekers from Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Afghanistan was sent one evening to the village of Clausnitz, in the eastern German state of Saxony.
Their hostile reception by protesters who shouted at them and blocked them from entering their apartments made international headlines. A video of the encounter circulated widely, reinforcing stereotypes of small-town Germans as racist and blemishing Germany's so-called "welcome culture".
The refugees pleaded to the driver to turn around and return them to the temporary shelters they'd been living in around Dresden, the Saxon capital. Neither the refugees nor the demonstrators wanted this. But then, neither had a choice.
Read the full story at Al Jazeera. This is the 4th story in a 7-part series.
July 6, 2017 July 27, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, human rights, migration, Refugees, terrorism
The forgotten murder of a 4-year-old refugee in Berlin
Refugees wait outside the State Office of Health and Social Affairs in the early hours of December 9, 2015 [Sean Gallup/Getty Images]
At the start of the refugee crisis, dysfunction and danger awaited those registering for asylum in Germany.
Before the wheels of Germany's asylum system were fully turning, hundreds of thousands of newly arrived refugees were piling up in cities throughout the country. In Berlin, tens of thousands were forced to sleep on the streets at night and fight for their place in line by day at the now-infamous Lageso , the State Office of Health and Social Affairs, while they waited to apply for asylum.
The climate of fear and tension at Lageso reached its climax one afternoon in October 2015 when a 32-year-old German man appeared at Lageso and, in the chaos of the crowds, enticed a four-year-old Bosnian boy named Mohamed away from his family and abducted him.
Read the full story at Al Jazeera. This is the 3rd story in a 7-part series.
June 29, 2017 July 27, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, human rights, migration, prejudice, Refugees
Revisiting Germany's Rostock Riots–the most disturbing resurgence of xenophobic violence since Nazism
Right-wing extremists run through spray from water cannons during clashes between police and demonstrators in Rostock, Germany, on Monday, August 24, 1992 [Thomas Haentzschel/AP]
This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the Rostock riots – the most disturbing resurgence of anti-immigrant violence in Germany since the rise of Nazism.
In the quarter of a century since, many foreigners arriving in Germany have experienced the warmest of welcomes – but a few have experienced chilling acts of hatred. This series explores how a small minority of ultra-xenophobic Germans has tarnished their nation's reputation as a haven for the world's displaced masses. These stories are primarily told through the experiences of immigrants and asylum seekers who survived xenophobic harassment or attacks.
Their stories are the exception to the norm: incidents of violent xenophobia are rare in Germany compared with other countries. Indeed, Germany has welcomed more asylum seekers in recent years than any other European nation – the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Austria, Hungary, and magnitudes more than the far more populous United States. When faced with the largest exodus of people since World War II, none of these nations welcomed refugees as unconditionally as Germany did. It's precisely because of this reputation that Al Jazeera is taking a hard look at what happens on the occasions when that welcome culture goes awry.
This is the first story in a 7-part series. Read it at Al Jazeera.
Story 2: Ibraimo Alberto, a Mozambican immigrant and child of former slaves, encountered many opportunities in Germany. But he also experienced racism, big and small, in the east and west– including the murder of a friend. Read his story at Al Jazeera.
Story 3: The climate of fear and tension among more recent refugees arriving to Germany reached a climax one afternoon in October 2015 when a 32-year-old German man enticed a four-year-old Bosnian boy named Mohamed away from his family and abducted him. Read the story at Al Jazeera.
Story 4: On a cold night last year, some 70 Germans, mostly men, surrounded a bus of refugees in the small town of Clausnitz and chanted at them to "go home". On the bus were 15 asylum seekers from Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Afghanistan. Their hostile reception by protesters who blocked their path made international headlines, reinforcing stereotypes of small-town Germans as racist and blemishing Germany's so-called "welcome culture." Neither the refugees nor the demonstrators wanted this. But then, neither had a choice. Read the story at Al Jazeera.
Story 5: On Halloween night, Abu Hamid went into the kitchen to grab some food when he noticed sparks of light outside the window. Sensing danger, he and his roommates rushed out of the kitchen just as a booming explosion shook the house, shattering the windows and sending pieces of glass into one man's face. Local police had failed to see a connection between a series of right-wing protests against refugee housing shelters. It wasn't until news outlets as far away as Berlin began pressuring authorities to take action that Germany's federal prosecutor took up the case. In a dramatic SWAT-style raid, federal and state police arrested five suspects believed to have formed an organised anti-refugee militia. Read the story, Escaping Aleppo only to encounter terrorism in Germany, at Al Jazeera.
Story 6: A lawyer and his family fled death threats in Pakistan, so they flee to Germany for safety. Instead, their building is attacked–firebombed–by right-wing Germans. Khan wondered whether Germany would accept their asylum applications, and allow them to stay. "Tomorrow, I don't know what will happen," Khan said. "Maybe Germany will say, 'Out!'" In fact, it did. Read the full story at Al Jazeera.
Story 7: Each week in Dresden, a group of refugees and Germans gather at a nondescript cafe hidden from view, pushed back from the street. The cafe provides a safe space for them to mingle with the locals to chat, practise their language skills, and sip tea and juice. It's one of many spaces that have popped up across Germany to welcome refugees, help them with their asylum applications, teach them German, or just for engagement.
But this particular space, known as the "international cafe", rests in an uncanny location. Dresden, the capital of Saxony, is a stronghold for Germany's anti-immigrant politics. Each week, thousands of protestors chant that refugees should "go home" and denounce what they see as the Islamisation of Germany. Read the full story at Al Jazeera.
June 29, 2017 July 27, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, history, immigrants, migration, Refugees, terrorism, xenophobia
35 years as a Mozambican immigrant in Germany
Ibraimo Alberto was born to former slaves in Mozambique when it was still a Portuguese colony. His parents worried he would be forced into slavery when he went to Germany [Jacob Kushner/Al Jazeera]
Their stories are the exception to the norm: incidents of violent xenophobia are rare in Germany compared with other countries. Indeed, Germany has welcomed more asylum seekers in recent years than any other European nation – the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Austria, Hungary, and magnitudes more than the far more populous
United States. When faced with the largest exodus of people since World War II, none of these nations welcomed refugees as unconditionally as Germany did. It's precisely because of this reputation that Al Jazeera is taking a hard look at what happens on the occasions when that welcome culture goes awry.
A child of former slaves, Ibraimo Ibraimo Alberto, a Mozambican immigrant, encountered many opportunities, but also experienced racism, big and small, in the east and west– including the murder of a friend. Read his story at Al Jazeera. This is the 2nd story in a seven-part series.
June 22, 2017 July 27, 2021 Jacob Kushner Tagged extremism, Germany, migration, Refugees, terrorism, xenophobia
In a World of Closed Borders, Deciding Who Deserves Asylum
The Nation & The Nation Institute Investigative Fund
Fenced in: Some refugees at Kakuma are segregated for special protection. /Jake Naughton
At Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, workers face few humane options
From Turkey to Pakistan, from Iran to Ethiopia, refugee workers are being forced to make painful choices regarding the future of more than 21 million refugees, part of a record 65 million displaced persons around the world. They must choose between political and economic refugees, individuals and families, the healthy and the sick, the elderly and unaccompanied children, gay and straight. They try to move those most in need of help to the front of the line for resettlement somewhere safe.
But when it comes to triaging the world's humanitarian crises, there are few humane choices.
Read in the February 27, 2017 edition of The Nation Magazine.
February 10, 2017 April 29, 2020 Jacob Kushner Tagged human rights, Kenya, LGBT refugees, migration, Refugees, resettlement, UNHCR


Kento Hatanaka to fight for first title on September 24th, Takeshima to face Marciano!
On September 24th we'll see WBO Flyweight champion Sho Kimura (17-1-2, 10) [木村翔] defend his belt against mandatory challenger Kosei Tanaka (11-0, 7) [田中恒成] in a mouth watering match up on CBC. It's now been revealed that that won't be the only title bout on the card.
The other title bout, was was revealed recently, will see unbeaten puncher Kento Hatanaka (6-0, 6) [畑中 建人] take on Indonesian foe Aprilianto Rumahpasal (1-2, 1) in a bout for the WBC Youth Flyweight title.
The match up isn't the most attractive on paper, but it is a chance for the 20 year old "Prince" Hatanaka to become a "King" and claim his first professional title, with more likely to come in the near future, as he steps up his competition and begins to chase national and regional honours.
The exciting Hatanaka, the son of former world champion Kiyoshi Hatanaka, has often been in a supporting role for Tanaka, as he is again here, and it looks likely that a win here could be the final time he acts as a supporting before branching out to become a championship fighter in his own right. It's also a safe looking first title bout, taking on a man who will be fighting on foreign soil for the first time.
Not too much is known about the Indonesian foe though he made his debut in April 2017, when he lost a 6 round decision to Hisar Mawan. He would fight all 3 of his bouts last year, and has been inactive since a December loss to Yohanis Tatul. He's not expected to put up much of a threat to Hatanaka, but he's yet to be stopped, and iut's unlikely that the Japanese fighter will want to see his perfect KO record end here.
It's also been confirmed that former Japanese title challenger Yushi Tanaka (21-2-3, 14) [田中裕士] will be on the card, against Rusli Yanto (2-1), and the highly regarded Koshin Takeshima (1-0, 1) [竹嶋 宏心] will be battling against Kiki Marciano (1-2).
Former champion Kosei Tanaka announces ring return!
Last week we reported that former WBO Minimumweight and Light Flyweight champion Kosei Tanaka (10-0, 6) [田中恒成] would be returning to the ring on March 31st to battle against unbeaten Filipino fighter Ronnie Baldonado (10-0-1, 7). Today that bout was announced, with Tanaka holding a press conference in Nagoya, along with his team from the Hatanaka gym.
The bout will take place at Flyweight and will be Tanaka's first Flyweight bout, and his first bout since last September when he suffered two eye injuries against Palangpol CP Freshmart. Although those injuries were from being hit in the face Tanaka had put them, at least in part, down to weight loss and the ill effects of weight loss on his performance.
The former world champion has scouted his foe and is full aware that Baldonado is an energetic puncher, who will be looking to stop Tanaka. The Japanese vighter stated their was some unease at facing such a fighter, given the injuries, but he seems to be aware that that unease should improve his over-all performance and concentration.
Reports from this morning's press conference is that the contest will be aired on CBC, live from 4PM local time, and the card will feature Yushi Tanaka (21-2-3, 14) [田中 裕士] and Kento Hatanaka (4-0, 4) [畑中 建人], though neither of those bouts are expected to get live television coverage.


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Of patients with chronic pain, 10% have a neuropathic component.
Careful assessment of affected patients is pivotal to a correct diagnosis.
Management of patients with neuropathic pain is always holistic.
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Q: Files in Atmel Studio First let me make this clear, I have read alot about this issue and i dont want similar answers.
I want to open a file from my pc stored on my HDD into atmel studio. Reading files is not part of my program, but I need to read this file because it contains example data. I can fill the arrays in my program manually but that would be exhausting.
I only need to read the file contents to the array, so that I can test my algorithm. I know on avr there is no filesystem and reading files makes no sense, but as I said reading files is not part of my algorithm.
Is there any work around to read files in Atmel Studio 6?

A: search for some tools bin2h bin2c or bin2hex or similar. that convert binary data to files with c-uint8_t-arrays that you can include.
Iam quite sure that the avr-gcc or winavr does include such a tool but i cannot remember the name.

A: For anyone else who wants a solution to this, here is my solution.
I didnt use any tool, instead I made a c++ function to read a file and write it in the form of an array, this function is to be used outside atmel.
    void writevectorf(const char *filename, vector<float> &myvector){
    FILE * pFile = fopen(filename,"w");
    if (pFile!=NULL){
        unsigned int size = myvector.size()-1;
        fprintf(pFile,"%s","#include <vector>\n\n");
        fprintf(pFile,"%s","float myfloats[] = {");
        for (unsigned int i=0; i<size; ++i)
            fprintf(pFile, "%0.7g, ",myvector[i]);
        fprintf(pFile, "%0.7g};\n",myvector[size]);
        fprintf(pFile, "%s = %d;\n","int datasize",myvector.size());
        fprintf(pFile, "%s %d %s","std::vector<float> input (myfloats, myfloats +",myvector.size(),");");
        fclose(pFile);
    }
    else
        cout << "Unable to open file: "  << filename << endl;
}

this function writes the file to a vector, it also writes to an array, feel free to modify it to suit your needs.

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Coach Florent Ibenge says Democratic Republic of Congo do not have "the slightest fear" about playing at the Malabo stadium where crowd violence marred an Africa Cup of Nations semi-final.
The Congolese are scheduled to face hosts Equatorial Guinea Saturday at the 15,000-capacity Estadio de Malabo in a third-place play-off.
Several Ghanaian supporters were slightly injured Thursday when attacked by missile-throwing Equatoguineans frustrated at a poor display by the host nation.
Ghana romped to a 3-0 victory after a game delayed more than 30 minutes near the end as security personnel battled to end the chaos.
But Ibenge was unperturbed as he told reporters in Malabo: "We are only thinking about football and winning the game.
"We know things happen in football, but these incidents are tiny in relation to the number of games staged around the world.
"We don't have the slightest fear and we are going to turn up to present football in a good light and to win our match. We aren't afraid."
Ibenge said DR Congo had made "no request" for any special security measures for the players or staff.
"We're here, we are training comfortably to approach the game in the best condition tactically and psychologically to win it.
"That's the only thing that we are thinking about," said Ibenge.


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Watch as shameless burglars break into Ilkeston chippy to steal the shop's till
They caused almost £1,000 worth of damage
Paige Oldfield
This is the moment brazen thieves broke into a chippy before making off with the till.
The callous burglars caused almost £1,000 worth of damage while breaking into Manor Fish Bar in Ilkeston.
The footage shows them using a crowbar to smash through the glass door in the early hours of Friday, December 6, reports DerbyshireLive.
They were in the South Street shop for around 10 minutes before eventually leaving with the till and several bottles of alcohol.
Although no money was stored in the machine at the time, the smashed door and till replacement has cost the firm £800.
George Andreau, 62, owner of the chip shop, said: "The till was empty, it's just the hassle of replacing the till and smashed window.
They were in the shop for around 10 minutes (Image: Manor Fish Bar)
"It's like they couldn't find anything so they turned all the lights on.
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List of rivers of Texas

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Q: Eclipse BPEL "assign" expression can't input I use eclipse to write a BPEL helloworld.But when I want to edit assign's expression,the textarea can't input anything.Why?And how to solve?

A: There is a bug in Eclipse BPEL designer. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=378997
You could use older version of Eclipse to work around this problem.
It works fine in Eclipse Indigo.


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Six regions hit new house price peak, says ONS
House prices have risen in every area of the UK over the past year, the ONS says
Six regions of the UK now have average house prices higher than their pre-financial crisis peak after values rose again in July, figures show.
The East Midlands, West Midlands and South West of England have joined London, the East of England and the South East of England in rising above the peak of late 2007 and early 2008.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said UK property prices were up 11.7% in the year to the end of July.
The biggest rise was 19.1% in London.
The figures were published as the ONS also revealed that inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, had slowed slightly to 1.5% in August from 1.6% the month before.
The ONS said that house prices in July rose by at least three times more than the inflation rate in August in every area of the UK.
Average house prices:
UK: £272,000, annual rise of 11.7%
England: £284,000, up 12%
Wales: £171,000, up 7.4%
Scotland: £198,000, up 7.6%
Northern Ireland: £139,000, up 4.5%
North East of England: £156,000, up 9.5%
North West of England: £175,000, up 7.7%
Yorkshire and the Humber: £174,000, up 5%
East Midlands: £187,000, up 7.6%
West Midlands: £198,000, up 7.3%
East of England: £282,000, up 10.6%
London: £514,000, up 19.1%
South East of England: £337,000, up 12.2%
South West of England: £246,000, up 7.1%
Source: ONS
Rising or plateau?
The annual rise in prices accelerated from June, when prices were up by 10.2%.
The increase in the year to the end of July was driven by prices in England - up 12% - and more specifically in London, the South East of England (up 12.2%) and the East of England (10.6%).
The slowest growth in property prices was in Northern Ireland, up 4.5%, and Yorkshire and the Humber, up 5%.
The data from the ONS lags behind some other house price surveys. Figures from the Halifax, based on its own lending data, suggested a slight slowdown in August, but the opposite was reported by its rival, the Nationwide.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors recently suggested that the housing market reached a plateau in August, with prices softening in London as flats and houses had become more unaffordable.
The ONS said that average property prices in London had now risen above £500,000, compared with £272,000 in UK as a whole.
Housing charity Shelter said that such figures meant that parents helping their children to get onto the property ladder gave them an average of £23,000 towards the deposit.
One in four of them had to cut back on their own day-to-day spending as a result, the charity said.
"This shocking rise in house prices leaves even more people priced out of a stable home. The dream of their own home is slipping so far out of reach for young people and families across the country," said Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter.


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Relesys A/S admitted for trading on Nasdaq Premier
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On 8 November 2021, Relesys A/S announced an EU Growth prospectus and the offer period ended on 22 November 2021.
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On Wednesday, January 30th, El Rancho High School went head-to-head against La Serna. La Serna was the home team for the game. La Serna took a very quick lead. The Lancers were leading at the half by a score of three to zero. Sarina Valenci, Kaila Garcia, and Jayden Romo each had a goal in the first half. There was not much action in the second half. The score remained the same the whole half. The final score was 3-0. With La Serna getting the win, they were declared league champs. La Serna will be hosting Yucaipa High School at California High School for the first round of CIF.


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Q: Route print job to a pc instead of a dot matrix printer I have a legacy system (black box) that does various calculations and prints to a dot matrix printer.  Instead of printing to a printer, I would like to get rid of the dot matrix printer and connect the legacy system (black box) to another computer and capture the print job, parse the data and store it for later use (store data in use for reporting).
Is this possible?  Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction to accomplish this goal?  The legacy system is currently connected to the following dot matrix printer:
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Q: Parsley JS - Custom error message %s format I'm trying to validate a YYYY-MM-DD date with the following code (parsley plugin), but i wish to show an error message with the %s value in DD/MM/YYYY format.
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Thx!
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A: Thank you!!
I added the following code when the validation fails and it works (it allows me to access the "%s" value to customize the message)
return $.Deferred().reject("custom message");


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Waldo County Search and Rescue
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What is "search and rescue"?
Search and rescue personnel work to locate, stabilize and extract individuals that are in distress. While there are a variety of types of search and rescue teams, such as dog search teams, high angle rescue teams, ocean and water rescue teams, etc., the Waldo County Search and Rescue (WCSAR) team is a certified "ground search" team.
WCSAR conducts ground searches for lost hunters, hikers, and others, including children and adults affected by dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and autism. We also assist in recovering evidence in suspected homicide investigations, both rural and urban.
What kind of conditions does the team search in?
Search conditions vary. Team members should be prepared for heat, rain, snow or cold; seldom do we search at night, but we prepare and are equipped for that possibility.
When, where and how often does the team meet?
The WCSAR team generally meets once a month for training and/or to discuss team business. Please refer to our calendar page to see our training and meeting schedule.
What are the team's health/fitness requirements?
WCSAR encourages physical fitness. Each member is expected to be in good health, able to walk long distances through very difficult terrain, and endure a variety of climate changes while on searches.
What is expected of a WCSAR team member?
All new team members will be assigned a mentor to answer questions and serve as a resource for team information. Team members are expected to:
– Attend monthly meetings/trainings, and to obtain and maintain certification according to Maine Association of Search and Rescue (MASAR) guidelines.
– Members are required to purchase and maintain their own personal equipment and supplies.
– And finally, call-outs: we are typically given a heads-up from our Director that we're being called out for a search.Often, this call comes in the middle of the night, and travel in the early morning or late evening hours is typically required.
How often is the team called out for searches?
Team members should expect to be called out between 6-12 times per year.
What is the minimum age to join WCSAR?
Waldo County Search and Rescue accepts applicants that have reached their sixteenth birthday. All minors will be mentored by a certified member of the team, until the age of 18.
WCSAR encourages people interested in joining to come to a meeting or two, and see what it is we do, and get any of your questions answered. After filling out an application, the Membership Committee checks references, and meets to discuss the applicant(s). At the next full team meeting, members then discuss the application and vote to accept or deny probationary membership. Probationary Members are then assigned a mentor. Full team membership is granted upon acceptable completion of certification tests and fulfilling all qualifications as stated in the WCSAR Team Handbook.
Why would my application be denied?
With a team as large as WCSAR, we have to consider whether or not we can efficiently process, train and get new members up to speed, while carrying out our regular training obligations and respond to searches. The team needs to keep a good balance, so our administrative duties don't outweigh our training duties! For this reason, we may suspend accepting new members; however, applications will be kept on file and WCSAR will contact applicants in the event of a team vacancy.
All applicants may be asked to submit to a criminal background check. The team officers reserve the right to deny membership to applicants who do not favorably pass the background check, or limit a member's participation level in line with their level of health and/or physical fitness.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc said on Tuesday that first-quarter operating profit fell 21 percent as higher fuel prices squeezed margins, even as revenue rose 7.3 percent.
Operating profit for the April-June quarter was 20 billion yen ($180 million), down from 25.4 billion yen in the same period a year earlier and below the 23.4 billion yen average estimate of two analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
But quarterly revenue grew to 484.8 billion yen, and ANA left its operating profit forecast for the full fiscal year unchanged at 165 billion yen.


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A Class A CDL license is the one that most truck drivers will need. If you see someone driving a tractor trailer down the road, then they have a Class A license. For people who want to drive buses, box trucks and dump trucks, they will need to get a Class B license. A Class C license enables a person to drive small passenger vans or ones with hazardous materials. Since I wanted to drive cross country in tractor trailers, I knew I would need to get a Class A license. When the factory did lay me off eventually, it was nice to already have this next part of my life already mapped out!


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Q: Affinity token missing from SessionId call I've recently tried using the Live Agent Rest API and I am unable to even establish a session. I'm following the official online documentation, and according to it when I do the initial SessionId call, I'm suppose to receive 4 parameters:
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id: "241590f5-2e59-44b5-af89-9cae83bb6947",
key: "f6c1d699-84c7-473f-b194-abf4bf7cccf8!b65b13c7-f597-4dd2-aa3a-cbe01e69f19c",
affinityToken: "73061fa0",
clientPollTimeout: "30"
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Unfortunately, what I get when I do the call (both to DE org and sandbox) is this:
{
id: "f6c1d699-84c7-473f-b194-abf4bf7cccf8",
key: "f6c1d699-84c7-473f-b194-abf4bf7cccf8!b65b13c7-f597-4dd2-aa3a-cbe01e69f19c",
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As you can see the affinity token is missing, which is quite unfortunate as I need to send the session key AND the affinity token in the header of each subsequent call. Needless to say, if I don't put the token in I get an "invalid session" error.
Has anybody tried using the Live Agent Rest API? Are you having the same issue?

A: Received an answer from Salesforce support:
First of all, header parameter names listed in the documentation are wrong. They should be:

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*X-LIVEAGENT-AFFINITY

*X-LIVEAGENT-SESSION-KEY

*X-LIVEAGENT-SEQUENCE

*X-LIVEAGENT-API-VERSION (this is the only one correctly named in the docs)

To have the sessionId call return the affinity token, along with the X-LIVEAGENT-API-VERSION you also have to send the X-LIVEAGENT-AFFINITY parameter with the value explicitly stated as 'null'. This will return all the parameters except the session timeout, but for now that value is 30 second.
Also some other tips around establishing a session:
When using the chasitorInit call, completely disregard the example given in the docs - use only the properties mentioned in the table for this call. The example a) has a completely faulty JSON that will not pass any JSON validator; and b) uses extra properties that, when included, will result in a 400 error (bad request).
For now I'm working on the long polling - I'm sending messages requests but so far I'm only getting a 204 (no content) and no notification on the agent side.

A: Thank you for the answer. Looks like the documentation has been updated regarding the header parameters, but it still does not include the information that X-LIVEAGENT-AFFINITY should be explicitly set to "null" in order to receive the correct token in response.


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Home Blogs Fink or Swim Rabbi Kelemen on Kids Leaving Orthodoxy (I Think He's Wrong)
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Basically, the real problem is bad parenting. He calls it parental selfishness.
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink
25 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013
Rabbi Lawrence (Leib) Kelemen
Last summer, The Jewish Action featured a panel of experts answering the "tough questions." One of the panelists was the great Rabbi Lawrence (Leib) Kelemen of Neve and Mussar Vaad fame. The question he was asked was: "Why are so many kids off the Derech?" (That's their term. I don't use it.)
Rabbi Kelemen starts off great. He says that kids don't leave Orthodox Judaism because of a cell phone or the Internet or even because they never experience the beauty of Shabbos. He even says that secular courses at college are not the problem.
Then he cites the research of the two foremost Orthodox therapists who deal with these issues in a paper published 15 years ago:
"First, there are child risk factors, such as attention deficit disorder (ADD), hyperactivity, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), learning disabilities, poor academic abilities, poor social skills and depression. Second, there are environmental risk factors, which include major medical or economic crises, corrupt rabbis and teachers, sexual abuse, physical abuse, lack of recognition of individual strengths and Internet abuse. Third, there are family risk factors, which include hypercritical or angry home environments, parents with poor parenting skills and lack of shalom bayis."
But Rabbi Kelemen says that the only real cause in this list compiled by professionals in the field, is the home. Forget the first two reasons mentioned in the paper. Basically, the real problem is bad parenting. He calls it parental selfishness.
He then discusses some other very important points and critiques of frum culture including: The emotional cost of being a frum Jew, teaching Mitzvos without appreciation for Mitzvos, the Shidduch system meat market, and overall misplaced values. These are all excellent points.
Despite the fact that I didn't love how Rabbi Kelemen latched on to one particular reason for kids leaving Orthodox Judaism and in essence blaming the parents, it was a pretty decent article. Made some good points, fell a little flat in others.
Apparently, not everyone saw it this way. It seems an avalanche of letters arrived in The Jewish Action mailboxes criticizing Rabbi Kelemen's take on the issue. They sensed that Rabbi Kelemen was being too hard on parents of children who had left Orthodox Judaism.
Rabbi Kelemen responds in the current Winter 2013 issue of The Jewish Action. He basically doubles down on his theory, and not only that, he expresses regret that he left wiggle room for anyone to think that the parents did not cause the child to leave Orthodox Judaism. In fairness, a letter from a third professional (this is in addition to the two cited in the 2013 article) lends some support to his theory that the parents are to blame, but the context of the letter was to answer a specific question, not to address the general issue.
He also cites R' Chaim Kanievsky who says that if the parents fought in the home then the children cannot be blamed for rebelling. This too, does not address the issue head on, it simply exculpates children from difficult homes from Heavenly Justice. Finally, he quotes R' Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg who said that almost every child who is struggling with their religion is seeking attention they could not get at home from their bad parents.
This response disturbs me.
First of all, I respect R' Chaim Kanievsky, but I don't think he is in a position to offer specific advice on this specific issue. I could be wrong, but I do not think that he has experience with formerly Orthodox Jews in any meaningful sense. I simply have never heard of him being involved with these kids. Other Gedolim have such experience. I don't believe R' Chaim is one of them. So while his thoughts are interesting and worth hearing, I don't see how his oblique statement should be taken more seriously than experts in the field. The same goes for R' Scheinberg.
Second of all, I don't like the assumption that there is a common or specific reason that people leave Orthodox Judaism which implies that without some sort of trauma or disability they would not leave. People leave for tons of reasons. And many people leave for intellectual or social reasons despite charmed childhoods. It's arrogant to think we can turn every born Orthodox Jew into an adult Orthodox Jew. It just doesn't work for some people. We have to acknowledge that possibility in any discussion of the topic.
Third of all, because there are completely healthy people who leave Orthodox Judaism, it's obvious that not all of them are scarred by bad parenting. Most children of bad parents actually don't leave Orthodox Judaism. Conversely, we all know excellent parents who have children who left Orthodox Judaism. The blame game here is silly and tired.
I remember when the Jewish Observer article on this phenomenon was released in the 90′s. The parents blamed the schools, the schools blamed the parents, the professionals blamed mental health issues, and the teens didn't blame anything. I heard from rabbis who attended the Nefesh conferences in those days that the sessions were basically arguing over who was to blame.
Has it never occurred to people that not everyone is going to be frum? Has it ever occurred to people that some people just don't get anything from Orthodox Judaism. Yesterday, I wrote about an heir to a Chasidic dynasty that did not feel comfortable in his religious environment. If not for an external factor, he may have left Orthodox Judaism too. (See: Book Review | Untold Tales of the Hasidim). The author of that book said in an interview that he was raised Orthodox, but just never felt or believed in God so he stopped practicing. It's not always something other than that! I recently talked with a young man who left Orthodox Judaism about his journey. I asked him when he felt like he was no longer Orthodox. He told me that he never actually felt Orthodox. Throughout his years of school he kind of just breezed right through it and knew in his head that when high school yeshiva was over, he was going to leave. No trauma, no mental illness, no story. Just left. He's not the only one.
When the question of "Why are so many kids off the Derech?" is asked, the only proper response in my opinion, is to say that each kid has their own reason and each kid has their own story and each kid has their own choice to stay or to go.
People would like to identify trends so that fewer born Orthodox Jews leave. If the reasons for their flight are understood, the thinking is that the community can reform its behavior and as a result more people will stay Orthodox. Unfortunately, this is a game of whack-a-mole. There are too many reasons and too many factors to effectively keep everyone in the fold.
However, there is something that can be universally implemented. Many teens or young adults experiment with a life outside the confines of Orthodox Judaism. Some people call these kids "at-risk". How we treat these kids is very likely to impact their loyalties as they grow older. If we marginalize them, infantilize them, insult them, hurt them, hate them, or judge them we are likely sealing their fate. So while I don't think we can possibly control all the factors that might push someone to leave Orthodox Judaism, we can adjust our attitude toward people who are on the margins. They must be made to feel comfortable, loved, accepted, important, smart, and capable of contributing positively to the community. That is something we can control and it is something that should be done regardless of whether it will keep more people Orthodox. But I have a feeling it would help the numbers too.
Finally, I do think there is a bit of a silver lining here. If frum people really think that mental illness, and learning disabilities, or even ADD is a huge factor in kids leaving Orthodox Judaism and that a peaceful home is of utmost importance to keeping kids frum and that we should instill positive Judaism in our education system in order that more people appreciate the beauty of Orthodox Judaism so they will want to stay Orthodox, go for it! I think it's a bit disappointing that we would only seem to address these issues as a way to prevent people from leaving Orthodox Judaism, but if that's what gets people exciting about solving these problems, I am all for it. I would prefer if these challenges were addressed simply because they are important issues on their own, but sometimes people need superficial motivation to do the right thing. At the very least we can justify putting more resources into solving these very real problems for the sake of all the people who are affecting by them, not just the kids who are at risk of leaving Orthodox Judaism.
Links: Jewish Action Summer 2013, Jewish Action Winter 2013
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MiriamRubinoff 25 Kislev 5774 – November 27, 2013 at 11:15 PM
I wonder how Rabbi Keleman accounts for those families in which some of the children left Orthodoxy, while others stayed, in some cases taking on a level of stringency beyond their parents'. As Rabbi Fink puts it, "Has it never occurred to people that not everyone is going to be frum?" For every person, the derech is different. And parents are hardly the sole influence on their children, especially once they reach the volatile teenage years. Laying the guilt on "bad parents" helps nobody.
Were you a successful parent, a "good" parent? These are the questions I would ask: Is your child proud to be a Jew? Is he or she a mensch? Does your son treat women with respect? Does your daughter respect herself, and expect men to treat her with respect?
Meg 25 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 12:11 AM
Why can't one of the reasons be the lack of acceptance and respect in the orthodox world? Think about it…
ChHoffman633 25 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 12:41 AM
You have committed the ultimate sin of the Jewish Press; you presented a rational and cogent thought.
Keep it up, and you'll be banished
Miriam Rubinoff 25 Kislev 5774 – November 27, 2013 at 11:15 PM
I wonder how Rabbi Keleman accounts for those families in which some of the children left Orthodoxy, while others stayed, in some cases taking on a level of stringency beyond their parents'. As Rabbi Fink puts it, "Has it never occurred to people that not everyone is going to be frum?" For every person, the derech is different. And parents are hardly the sole influence on their children, especially once they reach the volatile teenage years. Laying the guilt on "bad parents" helps nobody.
Were you a successful parent, a "good" parent? These are the questions I would ask: Is your child proud to be a Jew? Is he or she a mensch? Does your son treat women with respect? Does your daughter respect herself, and expect men to treat her with respect?
Ch Hoffman 25 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 12:41 AM
Keep it up, and you'll be banished
BatyaWhite-Novogroder 25 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM
I just read the recent Jewish Action anonymous letter to the editor just the other day & I agree with you whole-heartedly that it was unfair of R. Keleman to place the brunt of the blame of kids who choose to leave the fold, squarely on the shoulder of the parents. I realize that it might to easy for some to smugly go ahead & blame the parents, but it is simply unfair & unjustified. There are many wonderful parents out there whose kids have for one reason or another, decided that Orthodoxy was not for them & there are dysfunctional & horrible parents whose kids decide to continue to be observant despite growing up with lousy parents. Blaming the parents as R. Kelemen did in his article & in his response to the anonymous letter-writer to the editor is just simply WRONG & only causes parents who are already guilt-ridden to feel even more badly about themselves for NO reason.
Thank you R. Fink for addressing this issue b/c it really bothered me a lot when I read about it recently in the Jewish Action magazine.
Batya White-Novogroder 25 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM
SharonAdamsonJacobs 26 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 5:43 PM
"They must be made to feel comfortable, loved, accepted, important, smart, and capable of contributing positively to the community."
Thank you Rabbi Fink!
Sharon Adamson Jacobs 26 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 5:43 PM
"They must be made to feel comfortable, loved, accepted, important, smart, and capable of contributing positively to the community."
Aliza Rangott 26 Kislev 5774 – November 28, 2013 at 6:04 PM
Fantastic article. It's so sad that people say the parents r to blame ! They are hurt, confused and I'm sure almost all tried whatever they could to prevent their kids from going off. I feel it's based on each individual child and that all we can do is show how much we love them no matter what !!!
SimoneBlueskiesGabbay 26 Kislev 5774 – November 29, 2013 at 5:28 AM
very well said Batya!
Simone Blueskies Gabbay 26 Kislev 5774 – November 29, 2013 at 5:28 AM
DianaMelnick 1 Iyyar 5774 – May 1, 2014 at 12:04 AM
The issue is that there are great Jewish parents who do not fight, get along and raise their children well in the secular sense. They just do not instill a spiritual love of Judaism and Hashem into their children at all. Judaism becomes a dry FFB culture. That is the problem and you MUST blame the parents because nobody else is going to say Shema Yisrael with their kids at night and remind them WHO they are saying their brachos to at dinner and why. This is the parent's responsibility. The Why's and What's of True Emunah cannot be instilled at school or playgroup. Only by good 'ole fashioned (5000+ yrs) chinuch in the home.
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Madison, N.C. - Remington Outdoor Company, Inc. ("Remington") today announced a voluntary recall of Model 887™ shotguns manufactured from December 1, 2013 to November 24, 2014.
Madison, N.C. –The United States Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded Remington Defense a contract to provide up to 2,000 modular stocks, spares, and magazines in support of the Marine's M40 Sniper Rifle Modular Stock program. This award is the result of full and open competition.
Madison, NC – The Remington Outdoor Company ("ROC")is pleased to announce a new series of exclusive hosted hunt packages for 2015. The hunts will be hosted by a Remington team member at hand-picked locations by Remington Country Outfitters - a premier service that aligns sportsmen with the finest outfitters for first in class Remington Country hunting experiences.
Madison, NC – In the final major high-power rifle competition this competitive season, Team Remington shooters were recently awarded Overall Team and Match Rifle champions at the 2014 Western Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) Games and Creedmoor Cup matches held at Ben Avery Shooting Range in Phoenix, Arizona on October 14-19, 2014.
In the Team Championship, Team Remington won the overall and match rifle category with a winning score of 1945-56x.
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If you want to be in a relationship because you're tired of being lonely, then you're not ready for a relationship.
In order for you to be able to find the right kind of people for you to date, to be in relationships with, etc, you are going to have to know who the right kinds of people for you are. And you'll only know who the right kinds of people for you are if you know who you are. You can figure out who you are by spending some time with yourself.
Rather than lament your loneliness, use it as a tool for personal clarity.


Barker, R. M.; Adelaide Botanic Gardens (1998). Notes on Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae) in Australia including the descriptions of five new species and one new subspecies, revised keys and typifications.
Eichler, Hj. (1996). New taxa, new combinations, keys and comments on generic concepts of Zygophyllum and a new species of Tribulus (Zygophyllaceae) in the manuscripts of the late Hj. Eichler.
Eichler, Hansjoerg (1990). Four new species of Zygophyllum (Zygophyllaceae) and one lectotypification.


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Q: "Hardcode" passed variables from JQuery/Javascript into a PHP file I am creating an E-mail Reporting System to send scheduled e-mails (daily, weekly, etc.) with the results of certain SQL queries.
I have one HTML & JQuery page, generate.html, containing a form which allows a user to customize the report. The form enables the user to change certain variables of the SQL query to be executed.
These variables are passed to a PHP file, report.php, which contains the queries and handles e-mailing the results.

For Example
A user inputs an e-mail address on the HTML form and submits. report.php receives this variable through $input_email = trim($_REQUEST['input_email']);.
My problem lies in using cron to execute the report.php file on a scheduled basis. I have not tried it, but I am pretty sure that when cron executes report.php, it will see $input_email in the PHP file and not know what to do with it.

I see two solutions

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*Have cron not execute just report.php, but report.php with the added query string, so it looks like: report.php?input_email=user@email.com

*Duplicate the report.php file into a new file, hardcode.php, where all the $variables are replaced with their actual values, and then cron can just execute hardcode.php on it's own

I wish to implement the second solution, but cannot figure out how. I am relatively new to PHP and JQuery. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

A: Why not

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*insert all values sent into a database

*retrieve all values in a new email.php file and run a loop that sends all reports?

That sounds like a solution to me and you can cron the email.php file


The goal of these courses was to teach you how to train and lead your dog, to help you recognise possibly stressful situations early and learn how to (re)act in a deescalating manner. They helped you see and understand your dog's body language and that of other dogs. And finally it also highlighted what laws you must abide by and what rules you should follow in order not to be a nuisance or danger to the community and the environment.
Are you interested in learning more? Why not join one of my social walks? I cover many of the above elements during those walks and usually also have time for a personal chat and to see and evaluate your dog's behaviour 1:1.


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«Два тижні відпочинку» () — американська комедійна мелодрама режисера Вільяма Бодайна 1929 року.

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У ролях
 Дороті Макейл — Кітті Вівер
 Джек Мулголл — Дейв Пікетт
 Гертруда Естор — Агнес
 Джеймс Фінлейсон — Па Вівер
 Кейт Прайс — Ма Вівер
 Джед Пруті — Гаррі
 Едді Гріббон — Сід Вінтерс
 Діксі Гей — Мейзі Луміс
 Гертруда Мессінгер — Тессі МакКанн

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I am quite sure that many of you out there have noticed that Mr. Potato Head has been part of the pop culture since 1952, as that is when Hasbro first begun to distribute this mustached potato, and he has always been in production ever since without batting an eyelid. Of course, along the way, he did "grow up" in the bigger scheme of things, as in getting married, became a bona fide motion picture star of his own, and even been transformed into a Thanksgiving Day parade balloon. Here is the $12.99 Mr. Potato Head Mug that pays homage to all of his achievements in the past, arriving in full porcelain glory. Unfortunately, the Mr. Potato Head Mug made it to our list simply because he is unable to live up to his reputation of detachable facial parts, making this just nothing more than a pricey mug.


Are you visiting any friends or family for Christmas? Have you noticed how some people have an amazing ability to press our buttons more than others? I appreciate your time might be tight today, so for your 24th gift I share a 13 minute video that shares my 5 Tips for Warming the Heart of Your Relationships and a powerful 5-minute 'pink light' meditation that you can use today (and once a day for the next few days) to heal relationships and enjoy your time around your friends and family this Christmas. Enjoy!
Source: This video clip is an extract from the December 2018 Calm Clan eWorkshop. I was taught this meditation by my Spiritual Teacher and it's worked wonders in my own life and for those I've shared it with, too. It's simple, yet very powerful.
I love to hear from you! Let me know if you've enjoyed this advent calendar and how it's helped you. Please share your comments below.


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Богда́н А705.22 — 12-метровий міський автобус (модифікація автобуса Богдан А701), оснащений гібридним дизель-електричним приводом послідовної дії. Силова установка автобуса була розроблена фахівцями російського електротехнічного концерну «Руселпром». Вона включає дизельний двигун Cummins ISB 6,7 E 5350H (Євро-5) потужністю 230 к.с. або Cummins ISB 6,7 E E525OH (Євро-5) потужністю 250 к.с., електрогенератор, блок супер-конденсаторів фірми Maxwell сумарною місткістю 63 Фарад і тяговий асинхронний електродвигун потужністю 120 або 180 кВт.

У конструкції гібридного приводу передбачена можливість рекуперації енергії гальмування і подальше накопичення її в конденсаторах для наступних прискорень. За рахунок цього автобус Богдан-А70522 може витрачати на 35-40 % палива менше, в порівнянні з аналогічною моделлю з традиційним ДВС. Перші тести показали, що витрата палива в міському циклі коливається від 29 до 33 літрів на 100 км пробігу.

Пасажиромісткість гібридної машини становить 100 чоловік, включаючи 30 місць для сидіння. Інноваційний «Богдан» зараз проходить сертифікацію в Україні та в Росії, пізніше, можливо вже цього року, буде розпочато його серійне виробництво. Хоча ціна автобуса висока (перевищує 200 тис. євро), але на думку фахівців установка російського суперконденсатора замість американського дозволить істотно знизити вартість машини, що допоможе окупити її за кілька років.

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Top Sacramento IT Consulting Companies 2019 - Capital Network Solutions, Inc.
Once a year, Sacramento Business Journal publishes a list of the top information technology consulting companies in the Sacramento area. The area's leading business newsweekly, Sacramento Business Journal ranks local tech companies by the number of IT consultants they staff in local offices. This year's list came out on March 29, 2019. As usual, the list only includes companies with offices in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer or Yolo counties.
IT consulting is a broad topic and the companies that made the Sacramento Business Journal list specialize in services ranging from software development to network design to hardware sales. At Capital Network Solutions, we are proud to be one of the few managed-IT service providers in the Sacramento area to make this list for five years in a row.
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Federal judge again rules in favor of Williamson in lawsuit
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge in North Carolina has again ruled in favor of New Orleans Pelicans player Zion Williamson, this time in connection with a lawsuit he filed against a marketing agent two years ago in an attempt to break a contract.
U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs denied a number of motions filed by Prime Sports Marketing and Gina Ford, which entered an agreement to represent Williamson. The defendants were seeking to recover payment for the work they did for Williamson. Biggs denied multiple motions for summary judgment and to stay proceedings in the case regarding the contract.
The court ruled previously that because neither the company nor the agent complied with North Carolina law, their agreement was void and unenforceable.
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Sept. 11, 2001, psychological effects last
Mourners listen to the names of 9/11 victims read at a ceremony at Ground Zero in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. UPI/Peter Foley/Pool | License Photo
A woman and young girl participate in a flag stitching event for the National 9/11 flag to kick off the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July14, 2011. The flag flew near the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks and is being stitched back together in communities across America. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg | License Photo
Flowers fill the reflecting pool at Ground Zero during a ceremony in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. UPI/Don Emmert/Pool | License Photo
A mourner cries as the names of 9/11 victims are read at a ceremony at Ground Zero in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. UPI/Peter Foley/Pool | License Photo
A New York Fired Department fireman stands as an honor guard as family members of victims and volunteers hold a flag stitching event for the National 9/11 flag to kick off the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July14, 2011. The flag flew near the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks and is being stitched back together in communities across America. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg | License Photo
Mourners listens to the reading of the names of victims of 9/11 at a ceremony at Ground Zero in memory of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2010 in New York City. Thousands gathered to pay solemn homage on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. UPI/Peter Foley/Pool | License Photo
NEW YORK, July 26 (UPI) -- Following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, research has broadened the understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder, U.S. researchers say.
A special issue of the American Psychologist includes a dozen peer-reviewed articles, which examine the social, political and psychological impacts of the nation's worst terrorist attacks.
The issue illustrates how psychology is helping people understand and cope with Sept. 11, 2001's, enduring impacts and explores how psychological science helped people understand the roots of terrorism and how to prevent further attacks.
For example, Yuval Neria of Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, Dr. Laura DiGrande of New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Ben G. Adams of Columbia University examined the research literature on PTSD among highly exposed populations.
"The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, brought a substantial and enduring burden of post-traumatic stress disorder on those people who lost loved ones, as well as on firefighters and recovery workers," the study says.
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Offer Full Disk Encryption Option with LMDE just like in regular Linux Mint.
I think it'd be a good idea for there to be an option at installation of Full Disk Encryption with LMDE just like there is in the regular Ubuntu-based Linux Mint.
quake0	 Great idea. Just because your paranoid, does not mean they are not after me.
Why would I want to switch to Cinnamon? I never liked it. I use LM 17.2 MATE.
Thanks for the info. I will still stay with LUKS though.
Hammer459	 @RytronII The only security improvement you will see is if data-pertitions are encrypted. The path /usr contains static information such as the binaries you are running. Encrypting the binaries does not make your system more secure. Theoretically it could make it less secure since you could potentially use "known" files to reverse engineer your encryption key. What is a given is that every time you start or resume an application the binary must be decrypted as it is read. That may not be a massive load, but decrypt the megabytes in Office or FF a few times and it does add up. Without adding security.
Thus, encryption of /home, /opt and /var vill give security improvement the rest pretty much no difference.
And as @Rebel450 points out, LMDE is tergetting the advanced user and spending resources on this kind of low value feature is, IMHO, not in the scope of LMDE development.
Rebel450	 It is not only that LMDE is just based on Debian.
".... for the experienced user....."
This is no offence, but I suggest you to switch to Cinnamon better.
Could you clarify what you mean by "to decrypt the office binary". Also please clarify "encryption data and log" -- how does this differ from LUKS?
As I said I use full disk encryption with LUKS and my system is not noticeably slowed down -- it runs great -- sure if someone had a very low spec machine then I can see full disk encryption being an slowdown issue.
Why do you say full disk encryption brings no security improvement?
Hammer459	 It is a matter of resources. Mint has a very small team and full disk encryption is not a high importance issue IMHO, especially in the "techie" version. And It does slow the machine down to decrypt the office binary while not bringing any security improvement. Encrypting data and log does improve security while having almost zero performance impact.
I know LMDE is based on Debian and LM is based on Ubuntu. Just because LMDE is aimed at more advanced users doesn't mean it can't be a bit more user friendly. People are not necessarily paranoid just because they choose to use full disk encryption -- just being security conscious. I run full disk encryption on LM17 and my PC runs fine -- no slowness.
LMDE is also aimed at the more advanced user.
Applet to show Firewall Status.
Make a Driver Manager for LMDE like the SolydXK one.


Three years of collaboration with Sacred Stones and researchers at Cambridge University has enabled the construction of a beautiful, sincere and enduring monument on our farm.
The Soulton Long Barrow is only the second such monument to have been built for 5,5000 years and takes its inspiration from the Neolithic period, and, like those ancient monuments, is a focus for honouring loved ones we have lost, for contemplation and celebration of live, and for supporting community and each other.
The first chamber (there will be four in total) is now about 30% reserved.
For enquires about reserving niches in the barrow please make contact with Sacred Stones here, or alterntively call Toby/Bev on 01234 780 280.
There are periodic open days for the barrow.
These are set out on the events section of the Soulton Hall website, which is best found by scrolling down the home page (here), these are also on the our social media channels and on the Scared Stones homepage.
There is permissive access for the general public to the barrow site for the community, please park at the second drive for Soulton Hall (where there is a kink in a sandstone wall), safely cross the road to the north and follow the standing stones (pictured below).
One of the important but initially surprising things about the barrow is the way it develops and sustains community and mutual support. It is very uplifiting to observe. There is a growing community around the barrow, some of whom are active on social media.
You can see the group in the plug in below; the hashtage to use is #soultonlongbarrow if you wish to join in.
An essay about the barrow was written by Tim which you can read here.
The Soulton Long Barrow has actvated an inspiring amount of creativity for all kinds of artists attracted by both the requirement to create memorials and also by the power and beauty of the project -- you can find out more about this energy here.
We are fortunate that this project caught the minds for BBC Midlands and also Micheal and Rupert of Standing with Stones. Between the following three videos, a good sense of the motivations, the excitement and the fun and learning can be found.
The last word on this project belongs the the families the monument is built for -- Diana explains how she feels below.
A few videos to help with context and the history of barrows are set out below.
Below is some arial footage of the barrow in Wiltshire, and how it sits in its lanscape.
For those wanting learn a little more, or to put this project in context you may find the 'Standing with Stones' programe sequence of programes useful: an epic tour of the ancient standing stones of Britain and Ireland, a quest of discovery uncovers the extent and variety of our incredible megalithic heritage.
Memory and engagement with nature was important for early barrows, and is just as important in the revival of the structures. This is the mindwinter sun rise at All Cannings. The plan here is to have a similar alignment on midsummer, with a light aperture looking to the winter sunrise.
Building and involving the community from the very begining of the process is key to how we see this working to make a genuinly engaged and relevant monument for those that will find peace and memory there. The 'Shropshire Star' filmed this short video on the first Open Day, which had a great atmosphere.


United States Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch will speak on "The Rise of China: Implications for U.S.-China Relations" at 5:30 p.m. today, March 28, in the International Cultural Center auditorium at Texas Tech.
Bloch, the first Asian-American to hold the rank of an ambassador in U.S. history and the founding president of the U.S.-China Education Trust, will explore the meanings and implications of the rise of China.
Bloch served as the U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal in 1989. Her previous roles include vice president of the Bank of America; president and CEO of the United States-Japan Foundation; visiting professor and executive vice chair of the American Studies Center at Peking University; and distinguished adviser at the School of International and Public Affairs and visiting professor at Fudan University.


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Directorio de la red internacional de programas de teoría crítica
The Global Cultures Curriculum takes a radically new approach to the humanities. Students are invited to positively assume the "shock of the global" that is affecting our lives and societies. This means abandoning the secure shores of traditional Eurocentric and state-centered approaches and methodologies, in order to engage with the most innovative forms of contemporary research. The development of hybrid methods and research fields, experimentation with new forms of interaction between teachers and students, and a strong emphasis on cross-cultural and transnational connections are essential elements of these new critical perspectives on the study of the present and the past.
In keeping with our commitment to emerging fields including global history and post-colonial studies, Global Cultures seeks to give students a truly global outlook on the humanities. For us the "global" does not name only a particular geographical scale; nor is it a synonym for "world-wide" or a way of referring to the present as opposed to the past. More radically, the «global» names a process of "displacement" and "disorientation," an alternative to both the Eurocentrism and the "methodological nationalism" still dominant in the humanities and social sciences. Global Cultures therefore offers a truly interdisciplinary dialogue among three main research fields: history, anthropology, and critical theory. During their first year students acquire the fundamental methodological tools of all three fields, and the capacity to critically analyze the current dynamics of the global age. After this formative year, students build individual curricula according to their main interests along three main research lines: history (from ancient to contemporary), non-Western cultural traditions, and political and social thought.
The international character of the program is also assured by its strong emphasis on new tools and methods of teaching, which make faculty research more directly available to students in the form of seminars, labs, guided individual research, etc., with a special attention for the new opportunities offered by the increasing digitalization of humanities. The Master Degree in Global Cultures is designed for students seeking a career with an international dimension. Its interdisciplinary focus is particularly adapted for people seeking for careers in international organizations, NGOs, industries and company with a vocation for export, media and communications, museums and cultural institutions. It will also prepare for further studies at PhD level and academic or professional careers in leading universities or other research-oriented organization in public and private sectors.
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Apoyado por la Fundación Andrew W. Mellon para la Universidad de California, Berkeley y la Universidad Northwestern.
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Blogmas #3: A wintery trip to Edinburgh!
I've always heard such great things about Edinburgh Christmas Markets so when I had the chance to go this year, I jumped at the chance! Located in Princes St Gardens, the markets consist of a variety of stalls mapping the whole of the gardens. Edinburgh itself has such a wintery feel with the stone, traditional buildings and narrow streets so I loved visiting at such a festive time.
The first day we visited the fabulous Christmas markets.
Our first stop was the Bailey's Treat Bar where we enjoyed a lovely hot chocolate with the works - marshmellows and cream! This was so needed as we were freezing.
There were so many amazing food stalls, particularly ones with the perfect gifts. I loved these chocolate pick n mix stalls which were packaged beautifully. You could also buy three stacked Christmas boxes filled with a variety of them (these were way out of my budget though). I also love the homemade jams and spreads that are always on sale on the markets - they make me feel so festive and are the perfect hamper filler.
Of course, I couldn't visit the markets without some pancakes. These were incredible. The chefs cooked them in front of you. I opted for Nutella and trust me, they weren't stingy with the amount they put on! My mouth is watering just thinking of them!
I loved the stalls, particularly the ones selling candles and Christmas decorations. I wanted to buy everything!
Anyone who knows me will know that I am obsessed with the zoo so, of course, I had to visit while I was in Edinburgh. Sadly, the giant panda enclosure was closed on the day that we visited so I couldn't see them and the zoo doesn't have any giraffes. Let's not talk about that. The zoo was really good though and the weather was amazing! There were so many cute walkways and the zoo was decorated with so many pretty lanterns due to the Chinese Lantern Festival that was on the evening before. They looked just as pretty in the day unlit and were the perfect addition to the zoo scenery.
After the zoo we went to Castle Hill, the home of Edinburgh Castle, where we took in the views. We then enjoyed a stroll along the Royal Mile, taking in the festive decor and having a look round the shops.
One of my favourite places was a quaint little shop that was in fact the oldest building on the Royal Mile, dating back to the 1500s! This sold the cutest Christmas decorations and gifts, which of course we took advantage of.
The decor was beautiful in and around the Royal Mile. I loved the autumnal and festive touches added to shop windows. The displays were amazing.
We finished the trip in the most festive way possible; Christmas decoration shopping!
Edinburgh is the cutest city, especially around Christmas time. I would highly recommend a visit to the Christmas markets too!


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