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Evangelism: Press, or Bless?
It takes way longer than three weeks, but it works much better.
By Christy K Robinson
Remember when the pastor said, while trying to whip up excitement about personal evangelism, "Shepherds don't make sheep; sheep make sheep," and you cringed because you didn't want to witness door to door, or spread tracts at the park or on car windshields—and you were not about to enlarge the church by giving birth to numerous children? Remember the time when a little booklet about the state of the dead appeared on your doorstep, titled "Our Glorious Dead," and you were embarrassed that your neighbors received the same piece? Remember the pressure to bring someone to church to hear the sermon, or don't come at all? (That one didn't work very well.)
I worked for an independent nonprofit that specialized first in radio and TV ministry, then concentrated more heavily on short-term evangelism. They sent volunteer teams around the world to preach in villages and towns, and baptized people at the end of about three weeks. The volunteers raised their own funds for travel and the expenses of nightly meetings, but the sermons were not their own. They pledged to use only the words and materials of the scripts they were provided. It was exciting to see scores or hundreds of the attendees come forward to request baptism. Whether we were on scene or supporting back at headquarters, we were part of it.
But we saw some things that disturbed us. The people who were baptized at the end of the meetings weren't the same ones who had attended our meetings. They'd been in baptismal studies for months with local pastors, and the ones who came to the meetings wouldn't be baptized until they had taken months of classes themselves. There were claims that 5,000 or 20,000 people had been baptized, but the numbers included people who were already members, being rebaptized. We didn't know if "our" converts had been allowed to be baptized without completing training in the 28 Fundamental Beliefs.
In some campaigns, along with the nightly sermons, our organization conducted dental or eye clinics, or construction projects like chapels or school building additions. At the close of meetings, our people went home and local churches were to tend and nourish their new brothers and sisters. But when we went back to villages where we'd constructed chapels 10 years before, the buildings were disused and falling apart. No one remained to worship or learn or pass the torch.
When we heard reports from sister ministries of 20,000 and 50,000 baptisms after their efforts, it put me in mind of Vladimir, prince of Novgorod and Kiev, who in 988 marched his people into the Dnieper River at the point of a spear, and called them Christians. (Vladimir was canonized for his evangelism outreach.) How many of those cold, wet pagans embraced Christianity?
But do those masses of converts stay in the church? In 2013, the General Conference hosted a global summit on the subject of membership loss, recognizing that the world church had lost a third of its members in the last 50 years, but the rate of loss had accelerated to 43 percent in this century.
There are at least two problems with declining church membership: fewer new accessions, and member retention.
Researcher Monte Sahlin (who is also the executive director of Adventist Today) believes that people don't leave because of doctrines or church practices, but because the church doesn't meet their personal needs when they're going through tough times like prolonged unemployment, domestic conflict, or health crises.
For the people who do leave because of doctrine or toxic situations, there's a large online support network of those with similar experiences, in addition to the fellowship and services (and service opportunities) available in community, non-denominational, and mainline churches.
The Blessers
As a professional church musician, I've observed the workings of other denominations as well as mine for more than 30 years, from the piano and organ benches, as a teacher and elder, and in committee or church board meetings.
At first, having enjoyed services at university churches for years, I was a snob about the intellectual content of the other, the first-day church, sermons, which could be boiled down to "God loves you and saved you. Go forth and love your neighbor as God has loved you." Not for them the distinctions between the covenants, sanctification and justification, or the various eras, empires, and beasts. They've never known a time when they feared they'd been lost, or believed that despite all their efforts, they'd never attain heaven. They believed their pastor, and lived and loved as they were loved.
They'd have monthly or weekly Communion services. These Protestant churches initiated backyard fruit harvests that boosted the Catholic food bank; they collected shoebox gifts for homeless and domestic abuse shelters; they prepared food served to street people three times a day; they made meals and quilts and they babysat for people recovering from surgery. They arose before dawn on Saturdays to distribute food boxes to hundreds of needy families a month. They blessed others and were blessed by these works of the Spirit. They would merge choirs with nearby churches for Christmas and Easter without worrying that they'd lose a sheep to another fold, and carpooled members and friends to arenas for women or youth ministry rallies. They didn't forget their own members' social needs, either: there were weekly vintage movies, evening Bible study, Tuesday prayer groups, busing the seniors to a museum or sporting event or flea market. They had an interchurch drama group, parents' night out (while directing the kids in crafts), twelve-step groups and divorce recovery. And there was a committee to learn how best to include gay members in worship services or support them when they'd been rejected by family or community. They never held evangelistic efforts or revivals. Instead, they planted a new church with some of their members.
The Converters
Meanwhile, on Saturdays, I watched people write out checks for ADRA or Community Services projects and seal them in envelopes; teach Sabbath School for 20 years without a break; prepare a weekly luncheon for visitors; move chairs and tables and dust mop the fellowship hall; direct the choir or play keyboards, and many other nuts-and-bolts jobs that helped the local church and wore them out, so they needed an afternoon nap to recover. I remember parents keeping their children in Christian school by working evenings as custodians and handymen. The members worked hard and donated a lot of money to keep their church property lovely. They regularly invited neighbors and relatives to attend services with them.
They often invested in expensive Revelation Seminars driven by guest speakers, in an attempt to bring in new converts. The seminars were sometimes preceded by vegetarian cooking or smoking cessation classes. Most of the baptisms were church members who were rededicating their lives to the Lord.
As we went over the membership records, name by name, we found that half the names weren't attending services even once a year. We sent them letters and the elders visited them. A few were content to stay on the books; others said they could be dropped. Even the dropped names went onto colored cards so they could be later invited to a Revelation Seminar or be visited by a Bible worker. While they'd been members, they had been taught that all other churches were apostate, and if you turned from the Light of our distinctive beliefs, you'd be lost. So they didn't usually join another fellowship. They just stopped anything to do with church.
As a member of the church staff, I was upset to learn that the Conference set goals for baptisms and tithes/offerings, and the pastor could be dinged for not meeting the goals.
I now accompany the choir at a community church that's grown to two large services (300-350 people each) in only a few months. The choir grew from an octet to more than 30 and they had to enlarge the stage, with standing room only. The board is considering adding a third service or moving to a larger space in the business park. The pastor's sermon last week was about evangelism. I sat up straighter in my chair. "What? This place holds doctrine seminars?"
He talked about some of the outreach going with church members: a fundraising golf tournament for families of seriously ill children, preparing and serving food to street people, and other initiatives. "Um, what about the framework of teachers, preachers, support personnel, and audiovisual equipment you need for evangelism?" I wondered.
And then, as if he couldn't discern my puzzled thoughts, he spoke about a book called Finding Your Way Back to God, which reports a research study done in Thailand. Half of the 12 "business as mission" organizations had a goal of converting people as they worked in the community, and the other half of the missionary businesses focused on creating jobs and small businesses, and benefiting the Thai economy.
The latter group, the blessers, made more money, hired more Thai employees, and—surprise!—had a 48 times greater conversion rate than the converters.
What made the difference? The blessers practiced the acronym BLESS:
Begin with prayer.
They determined to evangelize by seeking God's direction to the place and the people he had in mind. They listened to the joys, sorrows, and needs of the people they targeted. They ate (fellowshipped, practiced hospitality, etc.) together, as Jesus did with the tax collectors, prostitutes, and everyday neighbors. They served one another in ways that built personal relationships and partnerships. And finally, after getting to know these people as close friends, they could tell the story of what Jesus has done in their lives.
As the pastor finished, he thanked the congregation for their sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's leading, and charged them to go forth and bless. It sounded a lot like those simple sermons I've heard every Sunday for 35 years.
More on blessers and converters:
5 Habits of Highly Missional People
BLESS Missional Practices as Sideways Step into Evangelism
Five Simple Practices for Putting Your Church on Mission
Finding Your Way Back to God, by Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson
Christy K Robinson is a self-employed editor, author, music teacher, and church keyboardist. She is the author of the five-star reviewed books: We Shall Be Changed(2010), Mary Dyer Illuminated (2013), Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This (2014), The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport (2014), Effigy Hunter (2015), Anne Hutchinson, American Founding Mother (coming in 2017)
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#include <linux/signal.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/personality.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/tracehook.h>
#include <asm/ucontext.h>

struct rt_sigframe {
	struct siginfo info;
	struct ucontext uc;
#define MAGIC_SIGALTSTK		0x07302004
	unsigned int sigret_magic;
};

static int
stash_usr_regs(struct rt_sigframe __user *sf, struct pt_regs *regs,
	       sigset_t *set)
{
	int err;
	err = __copy_to_user(&(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs), regs,
			     sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch));
	err |= __copy_to_user(&sf->uc.uc_sigmask, set, sizeof(sigset_t));

	return err;
}

static int restore_usr_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rt_sigframe __user *sf)
{
	sigset_t set;
	int err;

	err = __copy_from_user(&set, &sf->uc.uc_sigmask, sizeof(set));
	if (!err)
		set_current_blocked(&set);

	err |= __copy_from_user(regs, &(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs),
				sizeof(sf->uc.uc_mcontext.regs.scratch));

	return err;
}

static inline int is_do_ss_needed(unsigned int magic)
{
	if (MAGIC_SIGALTSTK == magic)
		return 1;
	else
		return 0;
}

SYSCALL_DEFINE0(rt_sigreturn)
{
	struct rt_sigframe __user *sf;
	unsigned int magic;
	struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();

	/* Always make any pending restarted system calls return -EINTR */
	current_thread_info()->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;

	/* Since we stacked the signal on a word boundary,
	 * then 'sp' should be word aligned here.  If it's
	 * not, then the user is trying to mess with us.
	 */
	if (regs->sp & 3)
		goto badframe;

	sf = (struct rt_sigframe __force __user *)(regs->sp);

	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, sf, sizeof(*sf)))
		goto badframe;

	if (__get_user(magic, &sf->sigret_magic))
		goto badframe;

	if (unlikely(is_do_ss_needed(magic)))
		if (restore_altstack(&sf->uc.uc_stack))
			goto badframe;

	if (restore_usr_regs(regs, sf))
		goto badframe;

	/* Don't restart from sigreturn */
	syscall_wont_restart(regs);

	return regs->r0;

badframe:
	force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
	return 0;
}

/*
 * Determine which stack to use..
 */
static inline void __user *get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka,
					struct pt_regs *regs,
					unsigned long framesize)
{
	unsigned long sp = regs->sp;
	void __user *frame;

	/* This is the X/Open sanctioned signal stack switching */
	if ((ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_ONSTACK) && !sas_ss_flags(sp))
		sp = current->sas_ss_sp + current->sas_ss_size;

	/* No matter what happens, 'sp' must be word
	 * aligned otherwise nasty things could happen
	 */

	/* ATPCS B01 mandates 8-byte alignment */
	frame = (void __user *)((sp - framesize) & ~7);

	/* Check that we can actually write to the signal frame */
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, frame, framesize))
		frame = NULL;

	return frame;
}

/*
 * translate the signal
 */
static inline int map_sig(int sig)
{
	struct thread_info *thread = current_thread_info();
	if (thread->exec_domain && thread->exec_domain->signal_invmap
	    && sig < 32)
		sig = thread->exec_domain->signal_invmap[sig];
	return sig;
}

static int
setup_rt_frame(int signo, struct k_sigaction *ka, siginfo_t *info,
	       sigset_t *set, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	struct rt_sigframe __user *sf;
	unsigned int magic = 0;
	int err = 0;

	sf = get_sigframe(ka, regs, sizeof(struct rt_sigframe));
	if (!sf)
		return 1;

	/*
	 * w/o SA_SIGINFO, struct ucontext is partially populated (only
	 * uc_mcontext/uc_sigmask) for kernel's normal user state preservation
	 * during signal handler execution. This works for SA_SIGINFO as well
	 * although the semantics are now overloaded (the same reg state can be
	 * inspected by userland: but are they allowed to fiddle with it ?
	 */
	err |= stash_usr_regs(sf, regs, set);

	/*
	 * SA_SIGINFO requires 3 args to signal handler:
	 *  #1: sig-no (common to any handler)
	 *  #2: struct siginfo
	 *  #3: struct ucontext (completely populated)
	 */
	if (unlikely(ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_SIGINFO)) {
		err |= copy_siginfo_to_user(&sf->info, info);
		err |= __put_user(0, &sf->uc.uc_flags);
		err |= __put_user(NULL, &sf->uc.uc_link);
		err |= __save_altstack(&sf->uc.uc_stack, regs->sp);

		/* setup args 2 and 3 for user mode handler */
		regs->r1 = (unsigned long)&sf->info;
		regs->r2 = (unsigned long)&sf->uc;

		/*
		 * small optim to avoid unconditonally calling do_sigaltstack
		 * in sigreturn path, now that we only have rt_sigreturn
		 */
		magic = MAGIC_SIGALTSTK;
	}

	err |= __put_user(magic, &sf->sigret_magic);
	if (err)
		return err;

	/* #1 arg to the user Signal handler */
	regs->r0 = map_sig(signo);

	/* setup PC of user space signal handler */
	regs->ret = (unsigned long)ka->sa.sa_handler;

	/*
	 * handler returns using sigreturn stub provided already by userpsace
	 */
	BUG_ON(!(ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_RESTORER));
	regs->blink = (unsigned long)ka->sa.sa_restorer;

	/* User Stack for signal handler will be above the frame just carved */
	regs->sp = (unsigned long)sf;

	/*
	 * Bug 94183, Clear the DE bit, so that when signal handler
	 * starts to run, it doesn't use BTA
	 */
	regs->status32 &= ~STATUS_DE_MASK;
	regs->status32 |= STATUS_L_MASK;

	return err;
}

static void arc_restart_syscall(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	switch (regs->r0) {
	case -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK:
	case -ERESTARTNOHAND:
		/*
		 * ERESTARTNOHAND means that the syscall should
		 * only be restarted if there was no handler for
		 * the signal, and since we only get here if there
		 * is a handler, we don't restart
		 */
		regs->r0 = -EINTR;   /* ERESTART_xxx is internal */
		break;

	case -ERESTARTSYS:
		/*
		 * ERESTARTSYS means to restart the syscall if
		 * there is no handler or the handler was
		 * registered with SA_RESTART
		 */
		if (!(ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_RESTART)) {
			regs->r0 = -EINTR;
			break;
		}
		/* fallthrough */

	case -ERESTARTNOINTR:
		/*
		 * ERESTARTNOINTR means that the syscall should
		 * be called again after the signal handler returns.
		 * Setup reg state just as it was before doing the trap
		 * r0 has been clobbered with sys call ret code thus it
		 * needs to be reloaded with orig first arg to syscall
		 * in orig_r0. Rest of relevant reg-file:
		 * r8 (syscall num) and (r1 - r7) will be reset to
		 * their orig user space value when we ret from kernel
		 */
		regs->r0 = regs->orig_r0;
		regs->ret -= 4;
		break;
	}
}

/*
 * OK, we're invoking a handler
 */
static void
handle_signal(unsigned long sig, struct k_sigaction *ka, siginfo_t *info,
	      struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	sigset_t *oldset = sigmask_to_save();
	int ret;

	/* Set up the stack frame */
	ret = setup_rt_frame(sig, ka, info, oldset, regs);

	if (ret)
		force_sigsegv(sig, current);
	else
		signal_delivered(sig, info, ka, regs, 0);
}

void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	struct k_sigaction ka;
	siginfo_t info;
	int signr;
	int restart_scall;

	signr = get_signal_to_deliver(&info, &ka, regs, NULL);

	restart_scall = in_syscall(regs) && syscall_restartable(regs);

	if (signr > 0) {
		if (restart_scall) {
			arc_restart_syscall(&ka, regs);
			syscall_wont_restart(regs);	/* No more restarts */
		}
		handle_signal(signr, &ka, &info, regs);
		return;
	}

	if (restart_scall) {
		/* No handler for syscall: restart it */
		if (regs->r0 == -ERESTARTNOHAND ||
		    regs->r0 == -ERESTARTSYS || regs->r0 == -ERESTARTNOINTR) {
			regs->r0 = regs->orig_r0;
			regs->ret -= 4;
		} else if (regs->r0 == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK) {
			regs->r8 = __NR_restart_syscall;
			regs->ret -= 4;
		}
		syscall_wont_restart(regs);	/* No more restarts */
	}

	/* If there's no signal to deliver, restore the saved sigmask back */
	restore_saved_sigmask();
}

void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
	/*
	 * ASM glue gaurantees that this is only called when returning to
	 * user mode
	 */
	if (test_and_clear_thread_flag(TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME))
		tracehook_notify_resume(regs);
}

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Janusz Romwald Dukszta (born May 27, 1932) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1981. He represented the riding of Parkdale.

Background
Dukszta was born in Poland in 1932.  He and his brother, Andrzej, escaped with their mother from Poland near the end of World War II and settled in London where they were educated at Christ College, Blackheath. Their father was responsible for resettling and educating Poles in England. He was trained in medicine in Dublin and served his psychiatric residency in North Bay, Ontario.

Politics
He was elected in the 1971 provincial election in the Toronto riding of Parkdale. He was re-elected in 1975 and by more than 2,400 votes in the 1977 before losing by 900 votes in the 1981 provincial election to Liberal Tony Ruprecht.

Dukszta attributed his defeat, in part, to an anti-gay campaign by a group called "Positive Parents" that targeted NDP candidates in several Toronto ridings because of the party's support for an amendment to the Ontario Human Rights Code to prohibit discrimination in housing and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. The group distributed literature that claimed Dukstza was gay while a second group, Campaign Life, distributed literature denouncing him for supporting maintaining coverage for abortions under Ontario Health Insurance Plan.

At one all-candidates' meeting Dukszta held up a hand-made pink triangle and a yellow star to illustrate the danger he saw in anti-homosexual sentiment being used against New Democrats. "I saw this sort of thing in Poland during the war, when the Germans made homosexuals wear pink triangles and Jews had to wear the star," Dukszta told the Globe and Mail saying of the anti-gay organizations "These groups are dangerous.... It is the start of fascism.... Are we going to go through another McCarthy period when minorities will be attacked allegedly in the name of the moral majority?" Dukszta claimed he was also the target of a smear campaign that falsely accused the psychiatrist of providing abortion services. "Some of their canvassers were saying I was doing abortions in the back room. Our canvassers were hearing it."

Dukszta helped write the NDPs health and education policy. As a member of the NDP caucus he served as critic for housing and, subsequently, for culture and recreation.

Dukszta had also taken time out of his re-election campaign to treat fellow NDP MPP Tony Lupusella who had suffered a nervous breakdown and was unable to campaign but was nevertheless re-elected by 231 votes.

After politics
Dukszta returned to psychiatric practice following his defeat and, by 1986, was head of medical staff at Queen Street Mental Health Centre in Toronto.  Since retired, he still sees private patients.

Dukszta is dedicated to the arts, the visual arts in particular. Over his almost half-century living in Canada he has purchased and commissioned hundreds of works of art, many of which have been donated to museums and galleries. In particular, many of the commissioned works include portraits of himself in a variety of poses. In 1985, he had collected about 30 such pieces which were displayed in his Rosedale apartment.

In 2010, the University of Toronto Art Centre held an exhibition entitled Portrait of a Patron that showcased artwork that Dukszta had commissioned since 1953.

Works
By Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm,

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1932 births
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Living people
Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs
Politicians from Toronto
Polish emigrants to Canada

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The Best Markers for Graphic Designers Are Ideal for High-Quality Sketches
Occupy Museums Targets MoMA Trustees
By Brian Boucher
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On Friday, The Museum of Modern Art was once again targeted by Occupy Museums, bringing their protest inside the building on a bitterly cold evening. Occupy Museums has staged a number of demonstrations since October; this was a homecoming of sorts, since the first protest took place at MoMA.
Over the two-hour event, protesters, ranging in number from one to several dozen, led a group discussion about art, capitalism and class struggle in the galleries devoted to the exhibition "Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art," and held a general assembly in the second-floor atrium. They were joined by representatives of the Arts and Labor Group of Occupy Wall Street, artists' group 16 Beaver and Occupy Sotheby's.
The main thrust of the occupiers' complaints was that two MoMA board members, James Niven and Richard E. Oldenburg, are also involved with Sotheby's (as a vice chairman and consultant, respectively), which has locked out its unionized art handlers over a contract dispute. A representative of OWS Labor Outreach (who gave his name only as "Alex") proclaimed in the Rivera exhibition, "The fact that MoMA will show Diego Rivera while breaking labor is a disgrace." Noah Fischer, the artist who is the main organizer of Occupy Museums, repeatedly asserted that Sotheby's has spent more on locking the workers out than it would have on their wages.
Friday's protest aimed at a more specific and relevant target than some of the group's previous actions. Occupy Museums was widely derided in the blogosphere at its inception, partly due to the Khmer Rouge undertones of Fischer's call to action, which opened, "The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%." Their second protest, after beginning at MoMA, was to proceed to the Frick Collection, to criticize union-buster Henry Clay Frick, whom they called "the worst CEO in history." This was greeted online by a collective shrug.
In the Rivera galleries, protesters distributed, and partially read aloud, a 1938 text signed by Rivera and Andre Breton, titled "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art." Security guards interceded only to prevent photography, which is prohibited in special exhibitions. Protesters asserted loudly in the crowded galleries that art is not a luxury item, but rather part of the commons, the inheritance of all people.
Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, a participant in the protest, pointed out that while The New York Times was slow to cover Occupy Wall Street, it was fascinated with the Egyptian revolution. He saw a similar phenomenon in MoMA's exhibition of Rivera: "Rivera can be abstracted from the present. Would he really want us to passively enjoy his murals? If you really love this show you'll get off your ass and overthrow your boss!"
The occupiers chose MoMA's Free Fridays, which are sponsored by Target, partly for historical reasons: free public hours grew out of demands by the Art Workers' Coalition, a group of artists protesting war and capitalism in the sixties. "It's now branded as free Target day," said Rene Gabri, an artist representing 16 Beaver. "It's absurd."
Christopher Kelly, visiting New York City with his family from the upstate village of Painted Post, engaged the protesters with pointed questions: Why is Target suddenly so evil? Doesn't someone have to pay the guards, and to keep the lights on? And doesn't someone always have the power when money is involved? "But brands destroy art," Thompson rebutted. Another protestor called out, "But everything today has become a commodified product."
During a general assembly in the second-floor atrium, currently home to the show "Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence," protesters briefly hung a banner from a fifth-floor walkway. It read, in part, "Hang art, not workers. End your lockout." The protesters cheered, then broke out into smaller groups to discuss, as Gabri suggested, "What kind of resistance will be necessary to alter the trend of corporatization of public institutions, including art institutions?"
Various suggestions were floated, such as art historian Ben Young's recommendation to use sympathetic spaces such as New York's ABC No Rio, a center for activism; another demonstrator called attention to the threat of tuition being charged at Cooper Union. But soon enough, it was 8 P.M., closing time, and the protesters made their way out of the museum along with the rest of its visitors.
Visitor reactions varied. "Some of us came to see the art," one woman huffed in the Rivera galleries. Christopher Kelly's 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, was optimistic. "As long as they stay organized," she predicted about the protesters, "they'll go far."
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Wayne State University receives $2.4 million NIH center grant to develop a cleaner, healthier environment in Detroit
DETROIT -- With over $2.4 million in new federal funding, Wayne State University researchers, regional collaborators at Henry Ford Health System, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, and community partners will study how exposures to stressors that are prevalent in the urban industrialized environment -- both chemical and non-chemical -- impact human health in Detroit and beyond.
The grant, Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES), is one of approximately 20 select P30 Core Centers funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. CURES places special emphasis on understanding how environmental exposures during life windows of heightened susceptibility can adversely affect health, particularly in vulnerable persons such as children and adults of low socio-economic status, older adults, first responders, and refugees. At the heart of CURES is a grass-roots community engagement program committed to improving healthy living and working environments in the city of Detroit. CURES applies team-based approaches that integrate multiple disciplines to address pressing environmental health problems.
CURES is co-led by Wayne State faculty members Melissa Runge-Morris, M.D., director of the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (IEHS) and professor of oncology, and Bengt Arnetz, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.Epi., deputy director of IEHS and professor of family medicine and public health sciences.
"The focus of CURES is to study how diseases that compromise the quality of life in an industrialized urban environment such as Detroit occur as a consequence of dynamic interactions between an individual's genetic and epigenetic make-up, nutritional status and environmental stressors such as chronic low-level toxicant exposures as well as psychosocial and physical stressors," said Runge-Morris. "Our team of researchers, along with community members, will explore the role of environmental exposure on immune disorders, metabolic disease, cancer and mental health."
"We are very pleased that Wayne State University has received this important and prestigious P30 Center grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences that will be of significant benefit for the city of Detroit and the many communities that we serve," said Stephen M. Lanier, Ph.D., vice president for research at Wayne State. "The CURES team is exceptional, and this initiative will focus on nurturing healthy communities in Detroit through environmental disease prevention and creating cleaner living and working environments, all of which are important building blocks to improving this great city."
The award number for this National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health grant is P30ES020957.
Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world. For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.
Photos: (Top) Bengt Arnetz; Melissa Runge-Morris
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Email: julie.oconnor@wayne.edu


HP LaserJet 3392 Driver and Software for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux – HP LaserJet 3392 All-in-One Printer has 11 Watt Power Consumption in Sleep mode. While standby, it consumes 15 watts of electricity. While working or in operational mode, it consumes various level of electricity, but 355 watts on average.
HP LaserJet 3392 All-in-One Printer has enough copying speed capability. For example, its maximum copying speed is up to 21 pages per minute with up to 600×600 dpi resolution which is fulfilling the standard between other printers in its class. HP LaserJet 3392 All-in-One Printer could print in Black and White, grayscale, and halftone of the paper with the same page per minute speed and resolution.
This website is the one that you are looking for if you want to find the driver and software to help you with the LaserJet 3392 e-All-in-One Printer. That is because this website offers you all of the driver software that you need based on the types of your Printer.
How To Install a Driver and Software for HP LaserJet 3392 Printer Series?
When the process has started, you just need to click next after answering some of the options related to the HP LaserJet 3392 All-in-One Printer such as the installation location and the additional contents.
If you are thinking about installing all of the features that you can get from this HP LaserJet 3392 Printer Series driver, you need to know these things first.
This kind of installation helps you to get the most recommended features that many people usually need from their HP LaserJet 3392 Printer All-in-One Printer driver.


You will need 4 dice, 2 or 3 players, pen and paper each.
Start: You have 3 lives.
Each turn. Throw all 4 dice. Choose 2 of them and make the smallest fraction you can. For example, if you throw 3,3,4 and 6, the smallest fraction is 3/6 or 1/2. That is the number of lives you have to lose (by doing a subtraction).
You are dead: When the number of lives goes to zero, or goes negative. The winner is the last man standing….
Differentiation – one or all of the players may use a scientific calculator. It's good practice in keying in fractions!
How do "borrow" when you need to do so?
You will need to think about common denominators. What is the largest one you may need?
If you want to play a fast round, start with only 2 lives.


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#include "Detector.h"

Detector::Detector(int frameWidth, int frameHeight, double *bb, Classifier *classifier) {
    width = frameWidth;
    height = frameHeight;
    initBBWidth = (float)bb[2];
    initBBHeight = (float)bb[3];
    this->classifier = classifier;
}

double Detector::bbOverlap(double *bb1, double *bb2) {
    // Check whether the bounding-boxes overlap at all
    if (bb1[0] > bb2[0] + bb2[2]) {
        return 0;
    }
    else if (bb1[1] > bb2[1] + bb2[3]) {
        return 0;
    }
    else if (bb2[0] > bb1[0] + bb1[2]) {
        return 0;
    }
    else if (bb2[1] > bb1[1] + bb1[3]) {
        return 0;
    }

    // If we got this far, the bounding-boxes overlap
    double overlapWidth = min(bb1[0] + bb1[2], bb2[0] + bb2[2]) - max(bb1[0], bb2[0]);
    double overlapHeight = min(bb1[1] + bb1[3], bb2[1] + bb2[3]) - max(bb1[1], bb2[1]);
    double overlapArea = overlapWidth * overlapHeight;
    double bb1Area = bb1[2] * bb1[3];
    double bb2Area = bb2[2] * bb2[3];

    return overlapArea / (bb1Area + bb2Area - overlapArea);
}

vector<double *> *Detector::detect(IntegralImage *frame, double *tbb) {
    // Set the width and height that are used as 1 * scale.
    // If tbb is NULL, we are not tracking and use the first-frame
    // bounding-box size, otherwise we use the tracked bounding-box size
    float baseWidth, baseHeight;

    if (tbb != NULL) {
        baseWidth = (float)tbb[2];
        baseHeight = (float)tbb[3];
        //initBBWidth = baseWidth;
        //initBBHeight = baseHeight;
    } else {
        baseWidth = initBBWidth;
        baseHeight = initBBHeight;
    }

    if (baseWidth < 40 || baseHeight < 40) {
        return new vector<double *>();
    }

    // Using the sliding-window approach, find positive matches to our object
    // Vector of positive patch matches' bounding-boxes
    vector<double *> *bbs = new vector<double *>();

    // Minimum and maximum scales for the bounding-box, the number of scale
    // iterations to make, and the amount to increment scale by each iteration
    float minScale = 0.5f;
    float maxScale = 1.5f;
    int iterationsScale = 6;
    float scaleInc = (maxScale - minScale) / (iterationsScale - 1);

    // Loop through a range of bounding-box scales
    for (float scale = minScale; scale <= maxScale; scale += scaleInc) {
        int minX = 0;
        int currentWidth = (int)(scale * baseWidth);
        int maxX = width - currentWidth;
        int iterationsX = 30;
        int incX = (maxX - minX) / (iterationsX - 1);

        // If bounding-box width >= frame width, make only 1 iteration of the
        // following for loop
        if (incX <= 0) {
            maxX = 0;
            incX = 1;
        }

        // Loop through all bounding-box top-left x-positions
        for (int x = minX; x <= maxX; x += incX) {
            // Same for y
            int minY = 0;
            int currentHeight = (int)(scale * baseHeight);
            int maxY = height - currentHeight;
            int iterationsY = 30;
            int incY = (maxY - minY) / (iterationsY - 1);

            // If bounding-box height >= frame height, make only 1 iteration
            // of the following for loop
            if (incY <= 0) {
                maxY = 0;
                incY = 1;
            }

            // Loop through all bounding-box top-left x-positions
            for (int y = minY; y <= maxY; y += incY) {
                // Classify the patch
                float p = classifier->classify(frame, x, y, currentWidth, currentHeight);

                // Store the patch data in an array
                // [x, y, width, height, confidence, overlapping], where
                // overlapping is 1 if the bounding-box overlaps with the
                // tracked bounding box, otherwise 0
                double *bb = new double[6];
                bb[0] = (double)x;
                bb[1] = (double)y;
                bb[2] = (double)currentWidth;
                bb[3] = (double)currentHeight;
                bb[4] = (double)p;

                if (tbb != NULL && bbOverlap(bb, tbb) > MIN_LEARNING_OVERLAP) {
                    bb[5] = 1;
                } else {
                    bb[5] = 0;
                }

                // If positive, or negative and overlapping with the tracked
                // bounding-box, add this bounding-box to our return list
                if (p > 0.5f || bb[5] == 1) {
                    bbs->push_back(bb);
                } else {
                    delete [] bb;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return bbs;
}

Detector::~Detector() {
}


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package daemon

import (
	derr "github.com/docker/docker/api/errors"
)

// ContainerUnpause unpauses a container
func (daemon *Daemon) ContainerUnpause(name string) error {
	container, err := daemon.Get(name)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := container.unpause(); err != nil {
		return derr.ErrorCodeCantUnpause.WithArgs(name, err)
	}

	return nil
}


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Q: Resolving InvalidOperationException from AppDomain I am using plugins running in AppDomains basically with this code
AppDomain appDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("MyDomain");
PluginLoader loader = appDomain.CreateInstanceFromAndUnwrap(
    Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, typeof(PluginLoader).FullName);
loader.LoadPlugIns();
AppDomain.Unload(appDomain);

LoadPlugIns loads and runs the plugin assemblies using Assembly.LoadFrom().
This seems like a typical design pattern that's well documented (e.g. How to Load an Assembly to AppDomain with all references recursively?). The one exception may be that multiple AppDomains may be loaded concurrently which in turn load the same assembly files. I don't see any reason though why this should be causing problems.
However, in my case from time to time an InvalidOperationException is thrown with this stack trace:
System.InvalidOperationException: Handle is not initialized.
  at System.WeakReference.set_Target(Object value)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.IdentityHolder.SetIdentity(Identity idObj, String URI, DuplicateIdentityOption duplicateOption)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.IdentityHolder.FindOrCreateIdentity(String objURI, String URL, ObjRef objectRef)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.InternalUnmarshal(ObjRef objectRef, Object proxy, Boolean fRefine)
  at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.CreateProxyForDomain(Int32 appDomainId, IntPtr defCtxID)
  at System.AppDomain.GetDefaultDomain()
  at System.AppDomain.get_EvidenceNoDemand()
  at System.AppDomain.get_Evidence()
  at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorage.InitStore(IsolatedStorageScope scope, Type domainEvidenceType, Type assemblyEvidenceType)
  at System.IO.IsolatedStorage.IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore(IsolatedStorageScope scope, Type domainEvidenceType, Type assemblyEvidenceType)
  at MS.Internal.IO.Packaging.PackagingUtilities.ReliableIsolatedStorageFileFolder.Dispose(Boolean disposing)
  at MS.Internal.IO.Packaging.PackagingUtilities.ReliableIsolatedStorageFileFolder.Finalize()

I am struggling to understand why this is happening and how it can be fixed. It seems the exception is not triggered from my code. So there is no chance to catch it in a try/catch block. I tried registering the AppDomain as suggested in Unregister Lease throws InvalidOperationException to no avail.

A: Just in case anyone else is experiencing the same issue, creating the AppDomain like this seems to resolve it.
Evidence evidence = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Evidence
AppDomain appDomain = AppDomain.CreateDomain("MyDomain", evidence);

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In a media-saturated world, children nowadays worry about things that we didn't have to – like the state of our precious planet and pollution.
LiveScience reported on several studies done recently, which reveal that children are definitely not worry-free and deal with many more ominous issues.
In a study done by the environmental organization, Opinion Research for Habitat Heroes, 500 children ages 6-11 were polled and revealed that their top concern these days is whether or not our planet will be a good place to be in the years to come. Of the kids, one in three worried that Earth would not exist when they grew up. An overwhelming 56% did not feel Earth will be a good place to live when they grow up.
Interestingly, minority children worried even more about large scale issues -- with 34% of black children being concerned about air and water pollution, versus 27% of white children. Of Hispanic children, 30% also feared these environmental issues.
LiveScience included several other recent studies done on children's concerns – and the overall consensus seems to be that children currently worry about much larger-scale issues – from their parents' marriages to global warming. In contrast, they reported on a study done in 1999 by Ohio State University– where boys' biggest concerns were snakes and theme park rides and girls feared thunderstorms.


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"Witches Of East End" premiere set for October on Lifetime
•• Get ready to meet the "Witches of East End." The newest Lifetime drama, inspired by Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, will premiere on Sunday, October 6 at 10 p.m. ET, just in time for Halloween.
"Witches of East End," which stars Julia Ormond, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Mädchen Amick and Rachel Boston, follows the Beauchamps, a family of witches who live in East Haven, a sleepy, secluded seaside town.
Ormond plays free-spirited Joanna, mother to wild-child bartender Freya (Dewan-Tatum) and shy librarian Ingrid (boston). Freya's engaged to the man of her dreams, Dash Gardiner (Eric Winter), but she's also drawn to his brother Killian (Daniel DiTomasso) — sound familiar, "Vampire Diaries" fans? — and she starts to notice some bizarre things happening around her. Though neither Freya nor her sister knows about their bewitching birthright, their aunt, Wendy (Amick) arrives with a warning that forces Joanna to reveal the truth.
The 10-episode Lifetime series, which new mom Dewan-Tatum noted at the Television Critics Association Summer 2013 press tour feels a lot like the 1998 movie "Practical Magic," also features "Grey's Anatomy" alum Jason George as Ingrid's love interest Adam, and "Sideways" star Virginia Madsen as the Beauchamps future in-law, Dash's mom Penelope Gardiner.
"Witches of East End" will premiere on Sunday, October 6 at 10 p.m. ET.
WIGS Series JAN Debuts on Hulu TODAY
"The Hot Flashes" is now available on DVD!


Krieger fell into a vat of toxic waste and Kriegerpus was born.
The genesis of Kriegerpus was simple. I was looking at Krieger's pod and thinking how nice and modular it could be, and it suddenly occurred to me that it would be super easy to make a hex with it. I changed the X plates to hex plates and that was pretty much that.
Most FPV hexes aren't symmetrical – the front rotors are splayed out to make room for the cams. The fact that everyone's flying so much faster now is really liberating for me. There's no need to put the cams up front for a clear view any more, just stick them in the middle and tilt them waaaay back.
One cool thing about drawing up a perfectly symmetrical hex is that its minimum size is prop length x 2, no trigonometry needed here. There's a certain beauty to the hex, since circles naturally want to nestle into a 60 degree grid. The minimum size for a 4" hex is 202mm (8"), and the 4" Kriegerpus is 210mm. So close to ideal, and so much easier to tune, no custom motor mixes needed.
Now a quick aside on miniquad design. Much of miniquad design up to now, some of mine included (but not the Fast Forward), has focused on 'coolness'. Designers made them look pretty, nasty, like a UFO, like an animal...they swept the arms one way or another instead of taking the shortest and most direct route to the motors, making them heavier, weaker, and flexier...they gave them curves or jagged edges...they laid out the motors in dead cat configurations...they made them 'aero' but not in the most common direction of flight. None of those features enhanced performance, in fact many of them hurt performance.
For me, Krieger and Kriegerpus are an acknowledgement that a multirotor is nothing but a force vector in space, and it works best when its motors are symmetrically spaced and its weight is as central as possible – that's what the code was written for. It is nothing but an arrow that pushes in one direction, and when added to gravity's and aero drag's vectors they yield a direction of flight. None of the cool looking parts of most quads contribute to that math. When I look at Krieger I think, 'never has something that looks so slow flown so fast'.
The prototype was drawn up without a 4mm filler between the body plates. That will be added to the production version. I cut arms for a 4" version and a 5" version. Alex and Jay are building the big boys.
The first build flew great, pretty close in feel to Krieger on pid controller 1 but really weird in luxfloat. Here's a quick video of me getting used to it and making like Zoolander.
I used 2204/1960 Cobras and it felt somewhat underpowered (likely 'cause I'm usually coming from a Krieger), so I switched to 2204/2300 Tigers. Unfortunately one motor wanted to stop under high throttle so testing slowed while I hunted for the culprit. I reflowed the solder, swapped the esc, then the motor, then the signal wire, then wired that motor to a different output on the Dodo, all to no avail. I finally rebuilt the whole thing with a new pdb and a new Dodo, and that finally fixed it.
Right about this time is when I got arrested for flying at my usual testing spot, so I had to bike 90 minutes each way to get this maiden in. Nothing special here, just me trying to get the feel of it. It took me a while to coordinate yaw and roll (I was rusty and yaw was more responsive than I'm accustomed to), and I didn't need to pull back on pitch as much or at all to carve turns. I only have so many 1800's so day one didn't go much beyond this. I was happy that the 2300kv motors were much better suited to 4" props, and I didn't have to go full throttle to hold altitude in sharp turns any more.
Day two and I rode to Randall's Island and flew at what seemed like a great spot. But video wasn't good beyond the trees so I just stayed close and carved around them. Starting to get the feel of it better, and really enjoying the smooth railing.
Day three, and I went to a wide open spot with just enough trees to Immelmann, and I'm really falling in love with this thing. Jay built up a 5" version, and he described it as being similar to a Fast Forward, it just wants to go and keep going. I wish I had more than 4 good 1800's so I could have more than 12 minutes of flying each time, but this is as fluid as I got on this day. As you can see I'm not yet 'at one' with it, but still enjoying it immensely nevertheless. Maybe it's the fear of a heavier, more expensive craft, but I land with more adrenaline coursing through me with this than my other frames.
Meanwhile, here's Jay and Alex's Kpus'.
I gave mine to Steve Z for a proper thrashing.
Here's Alex's maiden of his 5" Kpus.
Both Alex and Jay Dremel'd the vertical plates so that the side motor wires wouldn't have to loop around the pod. This seemed like a real sound mod so I incorporated it into the final drawing.
When I drew up Kpus I wasn't sure if it was just going to be an oddity, but the more I fly it the more I love it. It has a real tendency to lock in to forward flight and just hold speed as it screams along. Hope you like it too, the preorder page is here.


I think that the apex m800 is a great keyboard it feels nice to use and it doesn't make as much noise as other mechanical keyboards. It is great for gamers as it logs every touch no matter how slight so that you can play to the best of your ability.
Editor's Note: We've had such great feedback on the APEX M800 compared to other keyboards that we are giving this our reviewed and approved badge. You can buy this for the gamer in your life with confidence. Right here.


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Q: Why 90VAC from a synth's chasis that uses 12VDC PSU? I have Korg's Wavestate synth. https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/wavestate/
It uses 12VDC PSU with two prongs, hence it has no ground pin. My power outlet is 220VAC. When I connect the synth to the power without turning it on, and no other cable connected to it, I can feel electrical sensation from the front metal panel. Of course, this goes away when the chasis is grounded to the wall outlet ground pin.
I measured the VAC between the metal plate and my hand with a digital multimeter and it was over 80VAC. The amperage between the metal plate and a ground pin from the wall outlet was measured at around 0.2mA AC. It wasn't high but I can definitely feel the electricity while operating the synth.
What I really wonder is how that 80 VAC comes out if it's powered from 12VDC adapter? I couldn't find any clue from my search.

A: As you noticed there's generally a capacitive connection between the DC output and the high voltage side of the power supply. The given comment directs you to an explanation which tells it reduces radio interference. It unfortunately in ungrounded systems bring mains AC voltage onto your hands through capacitors.
The capacitive impedance is high enough to prevent painful shocks, but you can easily feel it. If you wipe with your fingers on a very thinly insulated, say anodized aluminium surface the electric field can be so strong (volts per meter) that it changes the friction (via changing the force) of the wiping and you feel 100Hz roughness which do not depend on how fast you move your finger.
If you have one device in your system properly grounded the effect vanishes because also the synth is grounded and that shorts the leaked AC. But that is also a danger. The grounding happens via signal cables. If you connect or disconnect an audio cable so that the signal terminal connects first or last the audio circuit can enjoy the leaked mains AC and get destroyed. The hot tip of a 1/4 inch audio plugs virtually every time touches metal (=gnd) first when plugging in and last when disconnecting.
The danger grows by a magnitude if you have devices which have grounded mains AC plugs but someone has inserted tape or otherwise broke the grounding to reduce ground loops which catch unwanted noise to the audio system. They say "it's grounded via signal cables, it's safe". Maybe it's grounded but only as long as the signal cables are connected. I cannot accept that thinking, because power supplies which are designed to have grounded AC supply leak easily 1000% more than your power supply. If the grounding doesn't happen very painful shocks are probable. In addition removed grounding make the system illegal, it's an intentional safety code violation. The ground remover is treated as a criminal in case something happens, say a fault which causes damages.
What to do: have one device in the system as grounded but be sure nobody connects or disconnects inter-device cables before the mains AC cables of the system are 100% unplugged from the mains AC outlets. I have seen how music bands have only a single mains AC plug to keep things under control.


Erdenstern is a popular perfume by April Aromatics for women and men and was released in 2014. The scent is earthy-sweet. It is still in production.
If Middle Earth were a real place, this might be the smell of elves hanging out there while smoking sweet tobacco. This is a beautifully complex, long-lasting fragrance that is amazing as it is all-natural. It smells very earthy and somehow has a mossiness about it, although I don't see moss listed as a note anywhere. But it smells like fertile earth. There is cocoa here, and I do smell it, but it's not a chocolate-y, gourmand fragrance in any way. Gorgeous stuff! I adore this house. Sillage is great, and so is longevity, I give them both 9/10.
Write the first Review for Erdenstern!


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Q: How to turn off different items in a select box through jQuery? Working with Wordpress (contact-form plugin by iDeasilo ) and needed help performing a certain task. I've searched Google, but was unable to find what I was looking for. New to working with jQuery, so any help will help.
My question is:
How would I be able to hide or not allow a user from selecting other option in a select box, if he/she clicks on a specific radio button?
So if there is three different radio buttons (sandwich, taco and pizza), and I was to click on "pizza". The select box option should stay just at it's default. When I click the select box, all other options should disappear or be disabled so you can't choose from the list. But this should only happen when you click on "pizza".
How would I accomplish this?

A: I would attach an event handler to the one control (radio button), which affects/changes the options in the select control:
$('#myRadioButtonInput').click(function() { $('#theSelectToAffect option.Conditional').hide(); });

Just attach the 'Conditional' class to the conditional options when you make the drop down/select.


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Q: Instantiation model class object from pure SQL query? I'm working on my first proper web-app, following the 'Flask Mega-Tutorial'. It's helped me get started with SQLAlchemy ORM and given me some understanding of how to use this tool.
For instance, I have a class Pet. I can call
foo = Pet.query.filter_where(id=1).first()

this results in foo of class Pet. The definition of Pet has many attributes, but each is of they type 'db.Column', which makes sense because each Pet is a record in the Pets table.
Where I'm confused is now I want to execute more sophisticate SQL against the Pet table but still have access to those records as Pet objects.
pets = db.session.execute('SELECT * FROM pet WHERE blahblah = blahblah').fetch_all()

And now I have this pets List which all of the attributes for each Pet record returned by the query.
How do I now instantiate objects of class Pet for each of these records? When I query with the ORM, I get objects back. My Pet class as defined in app/models.py does not have an init that accepts any arguments.
Right now I am taking the list of results, grabbing the "id" value from the results, and then in a for loop creating all of them as objects
pets = db.session.execute('SELECT * FROM pet WHERE blahblah = blahblah').fetch_all()

pet_objects=[]

for p in pets:
  record_id = p.id
  pet_object = Pet.query.filter_where(id=record_id)
  pet_objects.append(pet_object)

From which point I can treat my list of Pet objects as I would the results of a query using the ORM which would return objects automatically.
My question is, am I doing this correctly? Seems incorrect because for each record I hit the db initially with my SQL and then again to instantiate the object by its 'id' but I am not sure of how else to go from record -> Object in this framework.
Sorry for the long question, but I've been grappling with this for a while.

A: Correct me if I'm wrong, you want to achieve the result of this query SELECT * FROM pet WHERE blahblah = blahblah using sqlalchemy.
You can use filter_by method in the base query class:
for example for your query you can use this:
pet_objects =  Pet.query.filter_by(blahblah='blahblah').all()
You can create even more sophisticated queries using a join or  simply add more where constraints with adding more arguments to filter_by for example:
query.filter_by(col_1= 'something', col_2 = 'another thing')


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We're begging people to work for us, the social care white paper does nothing to solve the current crisis
Staff at my care charity are taking to the streets and engaging passers-by to ask them to come to work for us
The adult social care workforce shrunk by between 50,000 and 70,000 between April and October (Photo: Getty)
By David Brindle
December 2, 2021 12:38 pm(Updated 12:41 pm)
Staff at the care home organisation and charity I chair, Ambient Support, are taking to the streets and engaging passers-by – not to hassle them for donations or direct debits, but to ask them to come to work for us to keep our services going.
For all the fine aspirations of the Government's white paper on the future of social care in England, published on Wednesday, it offers nothing to help the beleaguered care sector survive this winter or to reward low-paid care workers for their astonishing dedication throughout the pandemic.
The picture is increasingly desperate. When the local authority social services leaders' organisation ADASS says that "red lights are flashing right across our dashboard", it is not exaggerating. Ambient is typical in looking to hand back contracts for services we can no longer sustain because we simply don't have the workers.
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Years of under-investment and cost-cutting in social care are yielding an inevitable result as tens of thousands of care workers, mostly paid at or just above the legal minimum, vote with their feet for often significantly higher wages and far less responsibility in the retail and hospitality sectors. Some have chosen to quit rather than accept mandatory Covid vaccination.
The Nuffield Trust thinktank estimates that the overall adult social care workforce shrunk by between 50,000 and 70,000 between April and October, sending the vacancy rate soaring from an already critical six per cent to a wholly unsupportable nine per cent, or almost one in 10 of the sector's 1.5 million jobs.
It is against this backdrop that the white paper must be judged. Admittedly it takes the long view, setting out a 10-year vision for transforming social care and acknowledging that it merely describes the first steps of that journey. Admittedly, too, it ticks most of the necessary boxes of a transformation delivered in partnership with people who need care and with unpaid carers.
But as even former Tory health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has observed, in the absence of any acknowledgement of the current crisis, let alone any action to address it, the 103-page document feels like three steps forward and two steps back.
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What's good? The vision of a future system offering older and disabled people choice and control over the kind of support they need to live independent lives, the commitment to services of outstanding quality and the pledge of fairness and equality are all very welcome principles.
On practical detail, promises to include new forms of supported housing in local health and care strategies, to boost adoption of assistive technology like falls monitors and to pilot new models of care are certainly positive signs – even if the overall available funding of less than £600m a year for the first three years is absurdly inadequate.
But in truth this is a white paper that is workmanlike rather than inspirational, B-plus rather than A-star. The examples it cites of new models of care, for instance, are all well-known in the sector and likely to remain niche solutions. As Hunt says, there is nothing in the document to force change at scale like Denmark's move to ban the opening of any more residential homes for older people who do not require nursing care, enabling them to remain in their own homes.
Ambient, in common with many care providers, is keen to explore alternatives to traditional residential care. We recognise that the baby boomer generation, now starting to need a bit of support in older age, is going to prize continued independence in the community. But if we are to offer that, we need a bridge to get from here to there.
Right now, as we send our staff out in search of recruits just to keep the present show on the road, that bridge seems lost in the fog of a day-to-day battle for survival.
David Brindle is a care sector commentator and chair of Ambient Support
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Category: Sports History
Explaining the Final Matches of the World Cup Group Stage
It's almost fitting the final round of group stage matches for the 2018 FIFA World Cup begin today, June 25th. This day will mark the 36th anniversary since one of the great scandals in World Cup history that eventually changed the tournament for the better.
On June 25, 1982, in Gijón, Spain, West Germany took on Austria in their final group stage match of the 1982 World Cup played in Spain. The day prior, Algeria and Chile (who shared Group 2 with West Germany and Austria) played their final group match, a 3-2 victory for Algeria that put them in position to qualify for the next round. The issue was, West Germany and Austria knew the exact result they needed for both sides to advance and leave Algeria on the outside looking in.
A West Germany victory by two goals or less, meant both sides advanced to the next round. After ten minutes of play, West Germany took a 1-0 lead and jumped to the top of Group 2 for the time being. After the opening goal, knowing full well both sides were in a position to advance, both West Germany and Austria stopped trying. For the next 80 minutes, the teams simply passed the balls among themselves until the final whistle blew. It amounted to essentially fixing the game.
El Molinón, site of the "Disgrace in Gijón"
Cries of match fixing went up immediately but an investigation determined neither side broke any rules and were allowed to continue their tournament. The infamous match earned the title of "Disgrace of Gijón" or Anschluss, which carries a much darker historical context.
Issues of match fixing plagued the 1978 World Cup and this just piled on the embarrassment for FIFA. Beginning with the 1986 World Cup in 1986, FIFA instituted a new rule that all final matches of group stage play for each group would be contested concurrently. This meant the matches would be playing at the same time, thus preventing collusion between two sides to stage the outcome of a match. All four teams in a group would have to play their final match without the knowledge of the happenings in the other match.
Jumping ahead to present day, the busiest days of the 2018 FIFA World Cup taking place in Russia are about to begin. Between June 25th and June 28th, the final group stage matches will be contested to determine who moves on to the Round of 16 and who will be heading home. During those four days, four separate group stage matches will be played each day, beginning with Group A and Group B on Monday.
Every day at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM, two matches will be going on at the same time and both matches will be teams from the same group. This is all to prevent another "Disgrace in Gijón" and has proven an effective method since being implemented back in 1986.
Here's what a typical daily schedule will look like for the final round of group play this week:
Group C & D: Tuesday; Group E & F: Wednesday; Group G & H: Thursday
So, if you're tuning into the World Cup this week and wondering why two matches are running at the same time after they have been staggered up this point, you can place the blame on West Germany and Austria for their bit of collusion that changed the World Cup forever. It can make watching all the matches a bit more difficult (having to flip between channels) but ultimately it makes for a better tournament in the long run.
Posted on June 25, 2018 June 25, 2018 Author Rob N.Categories 2018 World Cup, By Robbie, FIFA, Soccer, Sports, Sports History, Sports Scandals, World CupLeave a comment on Explaining the Final Matches of the World Cup Group Stage


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The Brackley LTC Tournament was a late Victorian era combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament staged only one time from 1 to 6 August 1882 at the Brackley Lawn Tennis Club, Brackley, West Northamptonshire, England.

History
The Brackley LTC Tournament was a tennis event held between August 1st and August 6th 1882 as part of the Brackley Show. The gentleman's singles event was won by Mr. Francis Regner Brooksbank Pinhorn who defeated Mr. William Blencowe. The mixed doubles event was won by Mr. John Boyd and Miss Mary Blencowe who defeated Mr. Patrick Smyth and Mrs. Winifred Barlow.

Results

Mens Singles

Mixed Doubles

References

External links
Official Site: Brackley Tennis Club

Grass court tennis tournaments
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom


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Join a Q&A session with the police to address your community issues
"If communities don't talk to us, we're deaf and blind" say London Police as they met with community members
Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) invited the local police force in north London to attend an open meeting with members and leaders of the community to address their issues and queries on October 16, 2017.
AOHR UK called for this meeting after the organisation's Director, Mohammed Jamil, met with the head of the complaints department in the British police force after the Finsbury Park attack. Chairing the meeting was barrister Rhys Davies.
Rhys Davies' – barrister at law chair of the meeting opened the session by sharing the age-old proverb of how it takes a village to raise a child – and that while by no means does it belittle the role parents play, it serves as an emphasis this day and age to the vital and enhanced role communities play to support justice and a well-functioning society. Regarding community work, Davies said "It is vital that the Met Police's role in fostering good community relations is successful." He stressed the ability of community policing depended on positive relations with society at large.
Attending Commander for North London, David Musker, then took the stage. The senior police officer started by telling the audience that the ethos the police live by is that, "The police are the public and the public are the police." Musker mentioned terrorism, emphasising the role of the police in serving the communities: "Communities fight terrorism, communities give us information, then we take it seriously." He ended by saying: "The only way the police work, is if communities talk to us. If communities don't talk to us, we're deaf, dumb and blind."
Next to speak was Superintendent Mike Hill, responsible for the Response Unit in Camden and Islington, with a focus on public order matters. Hill mentioned how the police "get it right day after day after day, but there are occasions when we get it wrong." He listed all the roles and responsibilities that police officers deal with in the community.
Last to speak before the floor was opened to the audience, was leading international human rights barrister Toby Cadman. Cadman is also a domestic and international prosecutor and defender, involved in many high-profile cases nationally and internationally. Cadman was asked to discuss counter-terrorism and the impact of counter-terrorism on the human rights act and how it breeds into community relations. Cadman mentioned the importance of the work undertaken by the police and that "working with communities is particularly important so that the community can have greater access to the police and understand what they are trying to do."
"It is important when we think of what the police have to deal with now in having to develop effective counter-terrorism and counter-extremism policies that they work very closely with the communities; that they are held accountable because we have the Human Rights Act: there are very stringent standards that the police and all aspects of the criminal justice system have to comply with."
Regarding racial profiling and the stop-and-search procedures, Cadman stressed the importance of the communities seeking opportunities to speak with police officers to understand their policies. If a person is taken in for questioning, there are human rights standards which must be complied with, such as adequate legal representation, Cadman told the officers and the audience. "It is important that individuals understand what their rights are, both by talking to lawyers and by talking to senior police officers, so communities can understand."
Upon opening the floor for questions, a common concern flagged by numerous members of the public, was the rising levels of hate crimes, racism and Islamophobia being witnessed, and their frustration in failing to see anything being done to prevent this rise. Attending Commander David Musker assured the audience however, that all hate crimes, no matter how small, should be dealt with and that the police force holds a zero-tolerance approach towards hate crimes. "If the matter has not been dealt with, follow us up" advises the commander.
Cadman added, "Sometimes, it helps to get a lawyer and to give them a call. If you feel your complaint has not received the necessary response, get a lawyer on the phone to follow it up."
Diversity is an issue which police officers and members of the public alike can agree on as a stepping stone towards greater cooperation. A more representative police force is likely to encourage more youth in marginalised communities to feel safer and appear more approachable. "Unfortunately, the police force is not changing quick enough at the pace London is," Musker acknowledges, "However, we can see in the latest intake in Brent for instance, we have the most diverse officers ever."
Despite the cuts faced by the British police service, they have taken a conscious decision to invest more than ever in community officers, knowing that there is more to cooperation, but rather the critical role it plays in our society.
Open discussions such as the one held last evening are pivotal in ensuring members of the public feel reassured and listened to, and is a step towards making sure their concerns are tackled.
Session Announcement
Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) invites you to attend an open meeting with the British Police at Borough in north london. The meeting will be attended by high-level specialised officers who will provide a detailed explanation of the work undertaken by the Complaints Department and how it deals with various crimes, as well as listening to queries from the community. The meeting will also be attended by lawyers who will discuss the importance of police work in maintaining security, and how to deal with any abuses by the police.
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Monday October 16, 2017
Venue: Nadi Park Royal, 260 Old Oak Common Lane, London, NW10 6DX
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Jimmy Dimora's claims in Cuyahoga County corruption investigation raise the question: When does a goodwill gesture become a bribe?
Published: Jul. 11, 2009, 9:52 p.m.
John Caniglia, cleveland.com
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Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora.
Read full coverage of the public corruption investigation.
Jimmy Dimora said last month that he is no angel, just a typical public official.
Dimora's implication was clear -- that in the course of his doing a job that gives him power over who gets millions of dollars worth of contracts, sometimes people go out of their way to buy him a drink, pick up the check at lunch or do other niceties for him.
Do those constitute bribes?
Dimora's remarks at a news conference two weeks ago were his longest to date on the widening bribery and corruption investigation that could change the course of Cuyahoga County's government and upend its leadership. His comments were delivered in an off-the-cuff mix of exasperation, annoyance and defiance.
But behind the statement of the Cuyahoga County commissioner and Democratic Party leader is a theme often sounded by public officials ensnared in federal corruption investigations: that they simply accepted gifts -- whether meals, tickets to sporting events, loans or golf outings -- from longtime friends who just happened to do business with the government. A week after those comments, federal prosecutors filed charges against a contractor that implied the Cuyahoga County commissioner accepted a lot more than meals. Prosecutors said Dimora took tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash payments and expensive improvements to his home, dating to 2002. The contractor's charges came on the heels of related ones in which prosecutors suggested Dimora accepted bribes paid through a first-class flight to Las Vegas, gambling chips, limo rides and undefined "personal services."
The commissioner has not been charged with a crime, and he is not identified by name in the charges or plea agreements. But the description of the man prosecutors refer to as "Public Official No. 1" in filings matches Dimora. He has denied wrongdoing.
"I'm not an angel, but I'm not a crook," Dimora said during the news conference. "I have not done anything that any other public official hasn't done."
The statement raises a question that is central in any bribery scandal: When is a gift a bribe and when is it simply a goodwill gesture among friends? Is buying a council member lunch and a beer a bribe? What about flowers for a funeral?
Legal experts say the extremes of bribery are easy to spot, but free lunches and drinks often fall in the gray margins of the law.
And public officials from Northeast Ohio who have tried to use the defense in front of a jury often ended up in a prison cell.
For Dimora, the challenge appears clear.
Charges filed last week indicated contractor Steven Pumper paid Dimora $33,000 in cash and added more than $58,000 in renovations to the commissioner's Independence home in exchange for job referrals, county loans, extensions repaying the loans and Dimora's help getting a favorable result in a lawsuit. Pumper is expected to plead guilty this week.
It appears that Dimora and Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo, longtime powerbrokers in the local Democratic Party, are the key targets in a wide-ranging corruption investigation that went public last year, when 175 federal agents raided the homes and offices of Dimora, Russo and others seeking evidence of contract-steering by county officials in exchange for cash and other favors.
In the news conference June 29, Dimora blamed a Republican conspiracy with the U.S. Justice Department for starting the investigation.
Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman said that he can't speak for other public officials but that he has been concerned and paranoid about such ethical issues since he took office in 1998.
"The problem is that [the corruption investigation] casts a pall over everybody," Cimperman said.
There have been several politicians, government officials and people getting government contracts in Northeast Ohio who walked an often-murky line on the ethics of public life and ended up in a jail cell. Many of them -- from former U.S. Rep. James Traficant to former East Cleveland Mayor Emmanuel Onunwor, from Cleveland consultant Nate Gray to former Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation financial chief Terry Gasper -- are still locked up.
Others walked free after convincing juries that what federal prosecutors called bribes were actually just tokens of courtesy common in the business world.
Federal prosecutors charged local investment brokers Michael Lewis and Daniel O'Neil with bribery after buying $200 lunches for Gasper, offering him a Florida condo and sending him flowers after he had a stroke. Gasper had previously pleaded guilty and said the items were bribes paid to get state investment business.
The lunches were actually trays of $8 sub sandwiches for the entire BWC investment staff, and the brokers required Gasper to pay them when he used their Florida time share. At trial in 2006, O'Neil and Lewis were acquitted of bribery.
"Is one lunch a problem? No," said Peter Henning, a former federal prosecutor who handled white-collar cases and now teaches law at Wayne State University in Detroit. "Are 20 lunches at the best restaurant in Cleveland a problem? That's pretty close.
"Buying a public official a beer isn't a bribe. Buying a public official a case of champagne may be," he said.
He said federal prosecutors handling public-corruption cases often want to hear from the person who paid the bribe, to make sure the intent behind the deal is clear.
Frank Perry, a retired FBI agent, helped form the Foundation of Ethics in Public Service, a national initiative to weed out public corruption. He agreed that many bribes -- such as cash payments -- are hard to miss.
But deals between longtime friends or with unique circumstances can be less clear.
"Let's say I live in the mountains of North Carolina, and I like your work as a legislator so much I go out and buy you a Mercedes. There's no problem with that," said Perry, from Raleigh. "It may sound foolish, but if you report it, and I'm never heard from again or ever ask for anything, it's fine.
"But if I buy the car, give it to you and want something in return, then that's a felony."
If politicians decide to accept gifts from those who do business with them, they should report anything they receive to state ethics officials, a move required by Ohio law that allows the public to discern who is giving gifts to government leaders. If the gifts are cash or loans, elected officials are required to pay taxes on them.
"To err is human. To cover up is indictable," Perry said.
Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft was convicted in 2005 of misdemeanor ethics charges for failing to report golf outings and small gifts. Onunwor failed to disclose cash payments that he called loans from Gray, a longtime consultant and the closest confidant of former Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White.
Prosecutors called the payments bribes, and Gray and Onunwor are in federal prison.
Traficant, the former Youngstown Democrat, once said that he was just doing his job as a congressman when he lobbied the White House to help a local business stuck in an overseas business hassle. Federal prosecutors said he accepted a $26,000 addition to his horse farm for the trouble. Traficant was convicted at his 2002 trial and is expected to be released from prison in September, records show.
In September, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland surprised some Ohioans with his Puritan ethical standards, which a Plain Dealer editorial called "Boy Scout behavior." He returned two tickets to see "Beauty and the Beast" and two model Jeep cars, as well as a framed honorary law degree.
Dimora was an advocate on behalf of three companies tied to Pumper, according to the federal charges revealed last week. In one case, Pumper got county loans to clean a vacant building downtown of asbestos in hopes of turning it into apartments.
D-A-S Construction, where Pumper served as an executive until April, did extensive work on Dimora's patio roof, a bath house and the area around Dimora's grill. At the time of the raid, Dimora's lawyer acknowledged D-A-S did the work but got no favors in return.
The charges also suggested Dimora occasionally asked for invoices for the work, but none came until after Pumper was questioned by the FBI about paying bribes to a city building inspector.
There seems to be no murkiness over the cash that prosecutors said Pumper gave to Dimora, usually in payments of $2,000 to $5,000.
Douglas Berman, an Ohio State University law professor, said bribery laws are often vague, though an attempt to influence must be clear. He said that if a resident pays for a council member's dinner in which they discussed work on city parks, it is not an attempt to offer a bribe. But if the resident brings up his family construction company and the fact that the meal would be a payment to help the company get a contract for concrete at the parks, then bribery can become an issue.
"The hypervigilance makes it easier to avoid problems," he said. "If you're not conscientious about how blurry these issues can become, it makes it easy to head down the slope of misguided behavior."


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