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Father speaks about son left in UI hospital trash: 'He's a happy, healthy baby boy'
Stephen Gruber-Miller
Press Citizen
A boy left in a hospital trash can by his mother as a newborn is alive and healthy 16 months later, his biological father said.
Despite the boy's "traumatic entry into life," his father, 27-year-old Brandon Addison of Davenport, said his son Matthew Addison couldn't be doing better.
"He's a happy, healthy baby boy," Addison said.
Both Matthew and his sister, Ahnna Addison, are in their father's care. The children's mother, 24-year-old Ashley R. Hautzenrader, received five years of probation last week for leaving Matthew in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics trash can after he was born.
Police say Hautzenrader gave birth to Matthew in a UIHC bathroom on May 8, 2016. Police said at the time that Hautzenrader thought the child was dead and tried to flush him down a toilet before leaving him in a pillowcase in the trash, then cleaned the bathroom and left.
Police say Hautzenrader told officers at the time she did not know she was pregnant and that she admitted to leaving Matthew in the trash after she thought he had died. He was found alive by hospital employees a short time later.
Hautzenrader said in court last week that she was at UIHC at the time so Ahnna could be treated for a heart condition. Addison confirmed that story in an interview Wednesday.
Ahnna, who will turn 3 years old later this month, needed a heart transplant when she was 3 months old and has needed ongoing therapy and 24/7 care, including tubes to help her breathe and eat, Addison said.
While she has a weak immune system, Addison said Ahnna is doing "phenomenally" now.
At Hautzenrader's Sept. 1 sentencing, a psychiatrist told the court she believed Hautzenrader was suffering from post-traumatic stress after the months of hospitalization Ahnna had dealt with due to her heart condition. The psychiatrist also said Hautzenrader suffered from a condition known as "pregnancy denial."
Addison said even if Hautzenrader does suffer from post-traumatic stress, she shouldn't have done what she did.
"She very well might have it, I don't know," he said. "I can't speak for Ashley, but even if she does it's no excuse for what she did."
Judge Marsha Bergan said at Hautzenrader's sentencing that giving her probation was "not an easy decision," but she considered Hautzenrader's lack of prior convictions, her age and her willingness to immediately seek treatment for post-traumatic stress after the incident at UIHC before making a ruling.
A no-contact order also is in place, preventing Hautzenrader from seeing or communicating with Matthew for five years, court documents show.
Still, Addison said he is disappointed with the sentence. Hautzenrader could have faced up to 10 years in prison for neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, a class C felony, and two years for child endangerment, an aggravated misdemeanor. A plea deal with prosecutors dropped an attempted murder charge that could have landed her with 25 years in prison.
"I'm incredibly disappointed with the outcome of the verdict," he said. "It sends a horrible message across Iowa and other states that if you do this to your kid, you're just going to get a slap on the wrist."
Iowa has a safe haven law that Addison said more people should be aware of. While he said raising a child should be any parent's first priority, the safe havens are there "if you don't think you're capable."
Iowa's law, in place since 2002, allows parents to leave an infant up to 14 days old at a hospital or other health care facility without fear of prosecution for abandonment. UIHC and Mercy hospitals display informational signs about the law, but Addison said they should be more prominent.
Even though raising his kids and making sure they have proper medical care as the legal process has unfolded has been "a lot to deal with," Addison said seeing his children meet each other for the first time has been one of his most rewarding experiences.
"She saw Matthew for the first time and you could see that she fell in love," he said of Ahnna.
And Ahnna has learned from her brother. Seeing Matthew develop and walk, eat and talk has improved her own development as well, Addison said. Last month, she began walking on her own for the first time.
"Seeing them work as a team to grow with each other brings a smile to my face," he said. "All this trial, all the drama, all the headaches just disappears and makes me focus on them even more."
Addison has set up a GoFundMe to help raise money since he has been unable to work and raise both his children at the same time, even with nurses helping at night, due to Ahnna's need for constant care.
"Right now, my main goal is to make sure Ahnna stays healthy and to raise Matthew," he said.
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MR. TITO STRIKES BACK - RAW Brand's Lack of a Midcard and Undertaker's WWE Return
Nov 4, 2016 - 12:20:13 AM
So we're 1 day after the Hell in a Cell Pay Per View where TWO title changes happened and RAW was also featuring the 2nd appearance of Bill Goldberg. No Major League Baseball playoffs or Presidential Debates, only NFL Football whose ratings have been down for the year (ESPN's coverage on Mondays has been declining for the past few years anyway). The result? Average viewership of 2.6 million for the week, which is lower than last week's show and recent averages of around 2.7 million viewers... But that 3rd hour was a complete disaster by being under 2.5 million viewers.
The Bill Goldberg nostalgia lasted for ONE SHOW. Wow... I figured that it would flame out soon, but damn, not this fast. When Bill Goldberg had his peak 1998 run for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), most teenage wrestling fans were still swimming around in their dad's balls. Bringing back a "Monday Night Wars" era wrestler will pop viewership for one week thanks to older viewers but it risks discouraging younger viewers on follow-up shows. Who is this old guy, they ask, and why is he getting a match with Brock Lesnar? Worse yet for the WWE was how Goldberg easily manhandled Rusev who is coming off multiple losses to Roman Reigns. Are we still pissed over that TMZ engagement leak, WWE?
That leaves Roman Reigns, Kevin Owens, and Seth Rollins as the Main Eventers... Yikes... I have already statistically proven that major weaknesses that Rollins and Reigns have as World Champions. Both are at or close to reducing 1 entire ratings point! I'll go easy on Kevin Owens because he was rushed into the WWE Universal Title, but I'm starting to see Chris Jericho outshine him as a sidekick. Furthermore, Owens has to wrestle either Reigns or Rollins without much other choice on the RAW roster. Part-timer Brock Lesnar haven't proven to be much of a RAW draw lately either.
But the Main Event is just PART of the reason for the Monday Night RAW viewership decline or WWE's decline in general. For RAW, you have to fill THREE hours of content for wrestling fans to enjoy. Sure, the Main Event wrestlers can eat away at that time with 20 minute in-ring promos and endless backstage segments, but something else has to happen within the 3 hour timeframe.
It comes down to the MIDCARD. For RAW, it absolutely stinks and thanks to WWE Hell in a Cell 2016 and recent events, two divisions are almost dead already with one waiting for an old record to break. Last nights Perkins vs. Kendrick match was weak and very controlled compared to the expectations of what a true Cruiserweight match should look like. Furthermore, TJ Perkins wins a tournament against the BEST OF THE BEST in terms of Cruiserweight wrestlers in the freakin' world and he barely gets a WWE Cruiserweight Title run. He wrestles WWE veteran Brian Kendrick and drops the title to him... Where's the unique Cruiserweights that we saw from the tournament? Then, the Women's Division... If you're name isn't Charlotte, just get out of the way. Since the Draft, the Women's Title has traded hands 4 times now between Sasha Banks and Charlotte. Sasha wins RAW televised matches and Charlotte wins the Pay Per View matches. Meanwhile, WWE is making a joke out of Bayley with early losses and Nia Jax may have been promoted too early... Can someone else from that division please stand up?
With the WWE wanting to erase Demolition from the record books interms of Tag Team title reign length, everybody is just waiting for the New Day to break the record... Meanwhile, teams like the Club and Enzo/Cass are just existing until that point. Can you name a legitimate 4th team on the RAW roster? Oh yeah, that Sheamus & Cesaro tag team is working out real well... That's right, they have an amazing 7th match in their best of 7 series and instead of giving us more matches between the two, let's kill their heat by forcing them to tag up.
Could anybody name me the contender list for the United States title? Yeah, I couldn't either...
If you look at ANY and I repeat ANY successful wrestling promotion run, you'll observe that it coincides with a STRONG Midcard to complement the Main Event.
Don't believe me?
Hulkamania Era of the late 1980s and early 1990s actually drew well with the Intercontinental Championship being defended on secondary houseshows. WWE did nice business during 1989-1990 when they had the luxury of having Hulk Hogan as WWE Champion and Ultimate Warrior as the Intercontinental Champion. But that Tag Team division back then... Oh damn! Hart Foundation, Rockers, Demolition, Brainbusters, Powers of Pain, etc. Even simple things like the "King" or the Million Dollar Belt could draw interesting feuds in the midcard. Thick roster of midcards and all midcard titles mattered.
Late 1980s NWA/WCW had depth as well... Look at the Four Horsemen, for example, they had it all. Great Tag Team with either Ole/Arn or Tully/Arn. Always having a midcard level champion holder like Lex Luger or Barry Windham. And of course, Ric would carry the show from the top as World Champion. Lots of great tag teams (Midnights, Rock N Roll, Road Warriors, Doom, Steiners, SST, Fantastics, etc.) and the TV and US Titles were fought over like they were really important.
WCW during the mid-to-late 1990s... Eric Bischoff raided ECW and Mexico and built amazing depth of wrestlers to go after the Cruiserweight Title, TV Title, US Title, and the Tag Titles. The Cruiserweight Division worked because it featured GOOD wrestlers that nobody has ever seen before. Dean Malenko, Rey Mysterio Jr., Ultimo Dragon, Psychosis, Syxx, etc. All-time great Tag Teams like the Steiner Brothers and Harlem Heat. Many more former WWE and ECW wrestlers would join and thicken up the roster. I'd argue that the Main Event scene was more interesting with promos on television but featured lackluster Main Event matches on Pay Per Views. Hulk Hogan mostly underwhelmed on Pay Per Views but it didn't matter... You were treated to a great 3 hour show thanks to the THICK midcard.
WWE's Attitude Era had Rock, Steve Austin, Owen Hart, and Triple H wrestling for the Intercontinental Title between 1997-1998. Seriously... Then, as 1998-1999 wore on, more wrestlers were called up from WWE developmental and more WCW/ECW free agents began to join the WWE. As the midcard kept getting thicker and thicker, the ratings for the entire show of RAW kept going up through 1999-2000. The Tag Team division between Dudleys, Hards, and Edge/Christian was amazing! At a moment's notice, the WWE had a THICK midcard roster that it could easily promote someone feuding over the Intercontinental Title to the WWE Title scene.
WWE Smackdown during 2002-2004 was the better BRAND because it had a stronger midcard scene to complement its Main Event. Some of the best Tag Team matches that I ever witnessed came from Smackdown during this period of time. Remember the "Smackdown 6" and then the World's Greatest Tag Team? And then you had a midcard that could develop and elevate stars to the top like Eddie Guerrero and John Cena. Need I say more? If you remember RAW back then, they actually merged the Intercontinental Title and World Heavyweight Championship into one during 2002... Gee, why was RAW the inferior brand back then? Because in addition to Triple H dominating everybody as the Main Eventer, besides HBK, the Midcard had nothing to show for it.
You see my point and if you think that I'm full of crap, just watch the WWE Network of the eras mentioned above. OR just look at viewership numbers and see that those eras dwarfed today's WWE.
RAW now has a Main Event that lacks top drawing ability and a midcard that has no depth or is poorly booked.
And that's why RAW will forever be permanently under 3.0 million following the Brand Split.
It's so simple... You use your MIDCARD like a FARM SYSTEM... Your stars of tomorrow are competing over the Tag Titles or the United States/Intercontinental Titles, or no titles. While they are wrestling on the early portion of the card where expectations are much lower, they can develop their craft as wrestlers. This includes personality, gimmick, mic skills, in-ring ability, etc. If a wrestler breaks out from this midcard mold, meaning they can actually DRAW as a Midcard Champion and whatnot, then that's when you promote them. Big Cass, in my opinion, is following this formula well. He's kept within the tag ranks yet he's not overpushed to the top. Meanwhile, he's learning how to work and talk while existing on the WWE midcard while we get to enjoy Enzo & Big Cass as an entertaining midcard act. When the time is right and Big Cass appears ready to be on his own, then you push him. I'd argue that Big E is the same way... As part of the New Day, he was allowed to develop his personality and mic skills.
But that's just a few examples of it existing in the WWE... The midcard is mostly forgettable on both rosters with RAW being poorly booked and Smackdown's roster being way too thin.
And let Midcarders have SOME creative freedom while on the mic. Is it so hard to notice that since the Miz cut the "coward" promo on Daniel Bryan during Talking Smack, he's drastically improved as a wrestler and personality? Considering all that he has to wrestle is Dolph Ziggler, he's doing pretty well for himself...
Isn't it time for the WWE Corporation to perform legitimate job evaluations of its Creative Team members? The character development and the writing just isn't there...
The WWE just announced that the Undertaker will be appearing on the November 15th edition of Smackdown LIVE, which is the show's 900th episode. That should help Smackdown get near or possibly exceed 3 million viewers but we'll see. Smackdown has been averaging roughly 2.4 million per show lately and they'll use the 'Member Berries nostalgia ('member the Undertaker? Oh I remember the Undertaker!) to entice older fans to return. If you'll notice, the WWE actually advertises this well in advance.
But WHY is he returning? Is he wrestling at Survivor Series 2016?
I don't know... However, what I do know is that the WWE needs to be BOLD here towards the future. Give us something to look forward to... There's ONE "dream match" that we have yet to see where both guys are at a Main Event level. I know, they've had a few matches in the past but they weren't Wrestlemania.
The Undertaker should appear on Smackdown to CHALLENGE John Cena for a match at Wrestlemania 33.
From the Undertaker's WRESTLEMANIA resume, there are 4 glaring omissions: Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Rock, and John Cena.
Bret Hart probably couldn't have happened during the 1990s due to the hosses that the Undertaker faced during much of that decade. Rock/Stone Cold matches could have happened but both men were tied up in other high profile matches. That leaves John Cena for Wrestlemania.
WWE needs something BIG for Wrestlemania following what was Wrestlemania 32 held together with duct tape. Seriously, Shane McMahon vs. Undertaker was your legitimate draw on that card with the allure that Shane McMahon would kill himself by jumping off the Hell in a Cell (which he did). By example, Wrestlemania 28 did CRAZY business when they announced Rock vs. Cena a year in advance. Announcing Cena/Undertaker right now will boost early Wrestlemania 33 ticket sales and probably sell the place out.
I would very much look forward to John Cena vs. Undertaker at Wrestlemania 33. I approve!

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Going Strong Quotes
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver
Pioneering Going Strong quotations
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
— Roy Bennett
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary.
Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
— Shams Tabrizi
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Visualise all those meaningful going strong quotes
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down.
— Swami Vivekananda
I hate to see somebody get locked up, especially someone as talented as Lil Wayne. You know Wayne is a strong figure in the hip-hop marketplace, and for him to go away for 8 months, you know it's sad for hip-hop as a whole.
— Fabolous
Be strong, go with your heart, and believe in miracles because anything, anything can happen .
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for.
I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
— Clara Barton
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me." – Janis Joplin
— Janis Joplin
I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.
— Katherine Stinson
Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what you deserve
I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.
— Calamity Jane
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
— RuPaul
Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.
— Trevor Dunn
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I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
— Tina Turner
All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong
— Audrey Hepburn
It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
— Georgy Zhukov
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.
— Harold S. Kushner
Every person and every team will be tested on their journey.
It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion.
— Jon Gordon
The body does not want you to do this.
As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
— Jacqueline Gareau
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.
— John Petrucci
Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.
— Kevin Gates
You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.
— David Robinson
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
— Virginia Woolf
You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control.
Deal with things and stay mentally strong.
— Jonathan Toews
You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.
— Colleen Hoover
If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.
— Shannon Miller
Thierry is the best striker in the world.
By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.
— Patrick Vieira
When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.
— Joel Osteen
It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.
— Stephenie Meyer
Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
— Demi Lovato
If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.
— Ray Lewis
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore.
They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.
Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
— Lori Loughlin
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Category: World Heritage
Split (WHS #130)
July 26, 2019 Travel Pictures
For the first part of our adventure in Croatia we were based in Split. We budgeted only a single day for exploring the town, but we also returned to the city core every evening for 5 nights, so by the end of that stay we could plausibly claim a pretty…
Chasing World Heritage: #129 (Évora)
As my Portugal photo-essay series over the last couple of months clearly shows, our traveling targets in the country were heavily aligned with my well-publicized pursuit of the World Heritage. And yet, practically all of the places that we visited would likely feature – or at least be considered as…
Chasing World Heritage: #128 (Sintra)
Sintra is one of the most impressive and attractive places to visit in all of Portugal. It is also one of the most maddeningly overcrowded. We were there in late April; boarding the local bus to drive up to the higher-situated sights, navigating the sole road that leads to those…
Chasing World Heritage: #127 (Belém)
June 22, 2019 Travel Pictures
We started our exploration of Lisbon with a morning trip to Belém to take a look at the World Heritage site that consists of a monastery and a commemorative harbor watchtower. Together, this complex is recognized as representation of Portuguese power during the Age of Discoveries. Here is the perspective…
Chasing World Heritage: #126 (Convent of Christ)
The third point of the Portuguese World Heritage monastic triangle, along with Alcobaça and Batalha, is the Convent of Christ in Tomar. The oldest of the three, it has been built and improved upon for several centuries; the variety of the styles in its construction came to symbolize the opening…
Chasing World Heritage: #125 (Batalha)
Our drive from Porto to Lisbon started with the rain-out in Aveiro. We had two more sightseeing stops along the way, and unfortunately we kept dragging the rain behind us everywhere we went. Thankfully, the moments of downpour alternated with periods of calm and blue skies, and in Batalha we…
Chasing World Heritage: #124 (Guimarães)
June 6, 2019 Travel Pictures
The first capital of Portugal way back in the 12th century, Guimarães is recognized on the World Heritage list as an authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town. Its historic center is a homogeneous architectural ensemble in a style that is native to the…
Chasing World Heritage with wine: #123 (Douro Valley)
May 24, 2019 Travel Pictures
There are several properties on the World Heritage list that celebrate historic and famous wine-producing regions. My fairly well-known affinity for wine notwithstanding, I have never managed a visit to one of those sites that would actually revolve around wine. Which made our day-trip to Alto Douro the first of…
Porto (WHS #122)
The very first adjective to use to describe Porto has to be colorful. Yes, the city has a lot of history and quite a few significant monuments and points of interest – which is the main reason why it as a whole is a World Heritage site – but it's…
Coimbra (including WHS #121)
Coimbra is the fourth-largest city in Portugal, and its former capital for a bit over a century quite a few centuries ago. As any city over a thousand years old, it is not without charms, but on balance it falls short of making an exceptional impression. It is nice, but…
Chasing World Heritage: #120 (Alcobaça)
May 3, 2019 Travel Pictures
Our itinerary in Portugal was structured around two "hub-and-spokes" legs in Porto and Lisbon. There are roughly 300 kilometers of driving from one to another, with quite a few interesting sights in between. Seeing more than a couple of them requires more than one day. One solution to that would…
Chasing World Heritage: #119 (Royal Houses of Savoy)
January 4, 2019 Travel Pictures
Why did we go to Turin in the first place? If you guessed that in addition to visiting a city that we have not been to before it gave me a chance to add to my roster of visited World Heritage sites, you would be entirely correct. Over a dozen…
Chasing World Heritage: #118 (Venetian Fortifications at Bergamo)
December 27, 2018 Travel Pictures
The city of Bergamo as a whole (covering both the Upper and the Lower City) has been on the tentative World Heritage list for over a dozen years. Although I have already seen a couple of inscribed places less deserving the recognition, in my humble estimation, it feels about right…
Chasing World Heritage: #117 (Last Supper)
December 19, 2018 World Heritage
The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie is a curious specimen on the World Heritage list. It is not altogether unremarkable, but also not in any sense surpassing to warrant special recognition. And although its name is fully spelled out on the entry to the list, the inscription is entirely…
Chasing World Heritage: #116 (Mycenae)
December 9, 2018 Travel Pictures
The last ruins that we visited in Greece was Mycenae, the center of the Late Bronze Age civilization that was the main precursor to the classical Ancient Greek culture. Mycenaeans' period of domination over the Mediterranean came around the time when the Minoan civilization – which we encountered on Crete…
Chasing World Heritage: #115 (Delphi)
Delphi was the sacred center of the world for the Ancient Greeks and undoubtedly a remarkable achievement of purposeful architecture, a sanctuary built into the challenging landscape to inspire awe and worship. Unfortunately, very little is left of its former glory, and the visual impact is fairly muted. After experiencing…
Chasing World Heritage: #114 (Hosios Loukas Monastery)
Three geographically dispersed monasteries in Greece are inscribed together on the World Heritage list as the great examples of the golden age of Byzantine art. We could only fit one into our itinerary, and our choice fell on Hosios Loukas, the largest and likely the oldest of the three. The…
Chasing World Heritage: #113 (Acropolis)
November 27, 2018 Travel Pictures
I always find myself awed by grandiose edifices. Beholding the Parthenon up close, unfailingly grandiose despite its ruined state blended with a construction site, made the visit to Acropolis instantly worthwhile. Built in the 5th century BC to honor goddess Athena, the patron of the city, the temple survived rise…
Chasing World Heritage: #112 (Delos)
November 6, 2018 Travel Pictures
For all of the obvious associations between Greece and the ancient cultures, it has a surprisingly modest number of recognized World Heritage sites: 18 properties spread across 37 individual locations. There are none on either Crete, Santorini, or Naxos, so my first chance to improve my visited count came well…
Chasing World Heritage: #111 (Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye)
My opportunistic attitude towards visiting World Heritage sites was on full display on our last day in France. The town of Poissy is situated roughly half-way between Giverny and Paris, so on the way back to the capital after having thoroughly enjoyed Monet Gardens, we made a brief detour to…


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Tower Theatre is Oklahoma City's most iconic, live music venue…with a sordid past.
The Tower Theatre opened in 1937 and is one of Oklahoma City's last original movie houses with an intact auditorium and neon marquee. After many years of movie premieres and historic runs of classic films, the grand dame of Uptown 23rd Street was reduced to showing adult movies before closing in 1989. She reopened briefly in the 1999 as a live music venue, and was shuttered again in 2000.
The building was purchased in 2005 by Marty and Mike Dillon, who began renovations. In 2014, Oklahoma City development group Pivot Project, comprised of David Wanzer, Ben Sellers, and Jonathon Dodson, stepped in to complete the project. Now, the beautifully renovated Tower Theatre is smokefree and vapefree and strives to be so. They host a variety of concerts and events, check out their Facebook or website to see what's going on.


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import org.bridj.Pointer;

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	public static <T extends Number> void copyToPointer(List<T> iList, Pointer<T> oPointer) {
		for(int i = 0; i < iList.size(); i++) {
			oPointer.set(i, iList.get(i));
		}
	}

	public static <T extends Number> List<T> copyFromPointer(Pointer<T> lPointer) {
		return Lists.newArrayList(lPointer.asList());
	}

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	public static List<Byte> copyFromPointerByte(Pointer<Byte> bPointer) {
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If your notion of William Randolph Hearst still revolves around a famous sled named "Rosebud," have I got a book for you. David Nasaw's biography The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst deftly restores Hearst to a central place in the history of American culture and politics. This is a terrific read about an astonishing and exasperating demagogue of a man who re-invented himself more often than Madonna, and had the time to do it, his life spanning from 1863 to 1951. With his newspaper empire, mansions, castles, and his cavorting with Hollywood stars and heads of state, Hearst was larger than life. Nasaw's re-interpretation of Hearst is also a surprisingly positive and sympathetic one.
ascended to the U.S. Senate, Will Hearst took over his father's newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner. The newspaper had never done very well, but Will quickly turned it around. He observed the latest trends in newspaper publishing, stealing ideas that seemed the most innovative. As Nasaw notes, the person to watch at the time was Joseph Pulitzer in New York, then giving birth to a new kind of journalism that appealed especially to working men and women. Hearst extended Pulitzer's strategy further. He developed sensational headlines and stories; he paid more attention to crime and to salacious stories of government corruption. He made the writing tighter and more colorful. He added more and higher-quality illustrations.
And Will's paper was, in Nasaw's words, "defiantly pro-labor, anti-capital, and anti-railroad." It took the same positions that any white union man of the day would have. The Examiner strongly defended the right to unionize and strike, and fiercely attacked the presence of cheap Chinese workers, who allegedly stole jobs from Americans. But Hearst's paper stood up for the interests of European immigrants, building support among Italian and Jewish communities in particular. Within a few years Hearst had made his paper essential to white working people: "Like the workingman's saloon and the political clubhouse, Hearst's newspaper served as an unofficial public agency, an honest broker, and unpaid intermediary between the people and their government."
These tactics would serve as Hearst's basic formula for success in the years to come. He gradually refined them and added an element of spectacle, using his newspapers to create news as well as report it. Although Nasaw nimbly analyzes and rejects the notion that Hearst pushed the United States into the Spanish-American War ("That Hearst has received so large a measure of credit or blame for that 'glorious war' is a tribute to his genius as a self-promoter"), he also shows how Hearst cagily benefitted from and exploited the war.


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Apr 23, 2019 Upcoming EPA Deadlines Require Risk Assessments and Emergency Response Plans for Community Drinking Water Systems
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Last October, the President signed America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018, which requires water utilities to develop or make updates to risk and resilience assessments and emergency response plans for their community water systems. This notice was published in the Federal Register on March 27, 2019 and includes requirements and compliance deadlines for systems serving more than 3,300 people.
Many utilities will need to act soon, especially those who haven't previously conducted a risk and resilience assessment. The assessment parameters incorporate elements such as:
the risk to the system from malevolent acts and natural hazards;
the resilience of the pipes and constructed conveyances, physical barriers, source water, water collection and intake, pretreatment, treatment, storage and distribution facilities, electronic, computer, or other automated systems (including the security of such systems) which are used by the system;
the monitoring practices of the system;
the financial infrastructure of the system;
the use, storage, or handling of various chemicals by the system; and
the operation and maintenance of the system (EPA 2019).
EPA is expected to publish a baseline threat document to further guide development of assessments on August 1, 2019.
Compliance Deadlines
Under AWIA, utilities are required to submit certification documentation of completed risk/resilience assessments to EPA by the following deadlines:
March 31, 2020, for systems serving a population of 100,000 or more;
December 31, 2020, for systems serving a population of 50,000 or more, but less than 100,000; and
June 30, 2021, for systems serving a population greater than 3,300, but less than 50,000.
Additionally, each entity must also provide documentation of its emergency response plan within six months of providing the risk/resilience certification. After the initial compliance deadline, each entity will be required to review its risk and resilience assessment every five years.
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John Belushi is an American celebrity, musician and comic best recognized as among the first members of Saturday Night Live. He was known for his raunchy comedy and lively fashion. He was an alumnus of Wheaton Central High School Illinois, USA. Belushi was formerly wed to Judy Jacklin. On March 5, 1982, he expired in La, California at age 33. He died of heroin and cocaine mixture overdose.


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At the funeral of Desmond Tutu, the tribute of South Africans to their last giant
January 2, 2022 by Susan Qnenly
Desmond Tutu's coffin in St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa on January 1, 2022. JACO MARAIS / AP
He left without fuss. Nobel Peace Prize winner, hero of the fight against apartheid and tireless defender of injustice, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 90, wanted it so. No stadium, no farandole of speeches, few flowers. Just a handful of carnations on her little light pine coffin. As cheap as possible, he had demanded. Saturday 1is January, South Africa simply said goodbye to the last of its giants at St. George's Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town.
Simply, and almost on the sly against the background of a pandemic. While some countries still apply severe restrictions on trade with South Africa after the discovery of the Omicron variant in the country in November 2021, the King of Lesotho, Letsie III, was the only sitting foreign leader present at the ceremony. Despite the rain of tributes that accompanied the announcement of the archbishop's death, on December 26, 2021, the image offers a stark contrast to the funeral of the other South African giant, Nelson Mandela, which had attracted more of 500 dignitaries from all over the world in 2013.
"Many Nobel Prize winners see their aura diminish over time, his has shone more and more strongly", However, noted the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, religious leader of the Anglican church to which Desmond Tutu belonged, in a video message broadcast during the ceremony attended by a hundred people, health regulations oblige.
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Present alongside former South African heads of state Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, the current president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, summed up the archbishop's spirit through two images. That of determined activist Desmond Tutu defiant "A police cordon armed to the teeth" during a demonstration against the apartheid regime in Cape Town in 1989 and that of the sensitive peacemaker at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, bursting into tears while listening to a veteran of the liberation struggle recount, in 1996, the tortures suffered at the hands of the apartheid security services which left him in a wheelchair.
As the South African President pointed out, the Nobel Peace Prize struggles did not end there. Even if the disease had made him more discreet in recent years – he was suffering from cancer – Desmond Tutu simultaneously defended the LGBTQ cause, worked against child marriage, supported the fight against HIV through a foundation, or called to fight climate change. "We cannot continue to feed our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. Because there will be no tomorrow ", he wrote in a column in 2014.
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This prompt led to my short story "The Alchemist's Contract", which appeared in Swords and Sorcery Magazine in November 2013.
"Beware the alchemist," the man said from the shadows of the tavern. I wasn't sure if he was truly real at first- I could see only the glow of his pipe, the shine of his glassy false eye, and his oversized black boots emerging, crossed, from the shadows. The soles were crumbling and peeling, looking more eaten at by some creature than by wear and years.
The room grew quiet as our party turned toward the man.
"Pay no mind to him," someone behind me said.
"Don't mind me, then," the man in the corner said. He leaned forward. I expected gruffness, a man who'd lived a harsh life. His skin was smooth and pale. His one eye reflected distress and concern.
"Is this at all true?" my companion asked the barkeep.
The keep looked away and began to polish glasses.
"I'd like such a theft," I said, three beers in.
"Well then, take yourself to the alchemist." He stood and walked out the entryway, with the gait and pace of my grandfather.
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Hello, I am an aspiring writer, and I really like the alchemist contract short story you wrote. My question is, where did you draw your inspiration for how alchemy works in your short story? How exactly does it work?
That story arose from a prompt my writing group did. I don't write a ton of fantasy, though I read it when I was younger. Initially, I was mildly bummed that prompt was so fantasy oriented, but I think I was able to be more playful in a genre that had less pressure for me. I can't recall reading any books on alchemy, so I mostly made it up.
So… I did little to work out the specific mechanics beyond what is contained in the story. In scifi, I usually have more back story than I know what to do with. I hope that's not a disappointment as a reader! As a writer, it was exciting to get swept away with something organic and unplanned.


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Despite the constant cry that South Africans need to tell their stories, local movie-making has not had a history of huge success. Leon Schuster's gross-out comedies such as Mr Bones head the list of the top money-spinners here, while serious movies such as Boesman and Lena with Danny Glover and Promised Land lag behind.
This week distributor Ster-Kinekor releases a South African movie that hopes to crack the mainstream market. Malunde, written and directed by Stephanie Sycholt, was completed in 2001 and has already travelled the world's film-festival circuit, winning a German critics' prize.
It is not a movie that will be confined to art-house cinemas; this is a serious stab at mainstream success, and Ster-Kinekor has high hopes for it.
Malunde is a German/South African co-production with Ian Roberts and Kagiso Mtetwa as an Afrikaner and a street child respectively. Together they take an improbable but charming journey across South Africa to find the kid's missing mom. In the process, of course, they find themselves.
Helen Kuun, local product manager at Ster-Kinekor, who is at the coalface of local distribution, says that 'Malunde is not an art-house film so there is no sense in screening it at Cinema Nouveau. There is nothing arty about it whatsoever. It's a fairly straight-forward and charming tale depicting quite a realistic version of South Africa, but without getting caught up with political chanting. The film is accessible and easy to understand. It aims to entertain and tell a story.
Yet, says Kuun, 'We cannot afford to buy into the guilt trips of the past whereby films were released purely because they were South African. Audiences do not go to the cinema purely because a South African film happens to be screening. Films like Promised Land and God Is African function on different levels, the one for an art-house audience the other for a contemporary black youth market.
'The industry is moving in the right direction," says Kuun. 'The National Film and Video Foundation is doing amazing things — producers are coming up with innovative ways of financing and making films that are outside and within the traditional ways. We should look at novels written here and elsewhere, catchy and quirky stories that will resonate with the emotive in any human being, South African or not. Soon there will be a Big Fat Something-or-other Wedding or a Bend it like Beckham from South Africa that charms everyone.
Is the idea of the Great South African movie fallacious?


Building 141 was an exterior window replacement project. The use of this building is as the Headquarters Veterans Administration Building for the State of Montana. The building had its windows retrofitted once before as you can see in the pictures below. The fact that this building had been retrofitted before created some challenging detailing design early on to retrofit cleanly for both performance and aesthetics. The owner required a high performance window thermally, and to eliminate water and air leakage to the building.
The historic nature of this building also required the aesthetics to represent original concepts such as the window gridding as you can see in the pictures below. Although the building remained occupied during installation, the installation process went smoothly due to careful planning. The cooperation between tenants, building management and the General Contractor all lent to success the on this project.


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Poet Kevin Young debuts 'Book of Hours'
By Elaine Justice | March 7, 2014
Kevin Young 's latest poetry collection, "Book of Hours," confronts themes of birth, death and rebirth. Photo by Melanie Dunea/CPi.
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Young to give reading
Kevin Young will give a reading of "Book of Hours" at 7 p.m. Monday, April 7 at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum Theater, 441 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta.
This A Cappella Books event, co-sponsored by Emory's Department of English, is free and open to the public.
Award-winning poet Kevin Young says he's never really finished writing a book until he can hold it in his hand and read from it, so in coming weeks, Emory's Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing will be crisscrossing the country, bringing to completion his newly published volume, "Book of Hours."
"Book of Hours" marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Young's father, and the intervening years saw the birth of his son, now seven. His latest collection confronts themes of birth, death and rebirth, moving between and beyond his life's milestone events. "These are poems that have been brewing for awhile," Young says.
On teaching poetry
Young is teaching an advanced poetry workshop at Emory this spring, and his students are writing poems based on a busy roster of visiting writers this semester, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Tracy K. Smith, Paul Muldoon and Sharon Olds (coming as part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, curated by Young, on March 20).
This past week students were writing elegies, "not just to people, but to things, places; whatever absence they wanted to confront." Young hopes they will produce poems of real weight that explore this longstanding tradition of poetry.
His approach to teaching is a combination based on "reading and writing" and "showing students how to do it in an oblique way that is both sped up and intentional, but is also a good model, you hope."
Young's models included Seamus Heaney, who taught him shortly before winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. As a teacher he taught him "how to live life as a poet, which I really appreciated."
"I didn't grow up knowing poets," says Young, "so having a chance to study with someone who was writing about a world that was far away but not so very different from rural Louisiana where my parents are from was really a tremendous gift."
What Young discovered, he says, is that poetry is "about the long haul, and finding the language to explain not just experience, but also history and a little bit of the future."
Young is curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory and the author of seven previous books of poetry, including "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels," winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and "Jelly Roll," a finalist for the National Book Award. Young's book "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness," won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and won a PEN Open Book Award.


Last Friday was a bloody day in Gaza as Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians taking part in demonstrations within the Gaza Strip. Of at least 17 Palestinians killed that day, 12 were killed at the protests. Hundreds more were injured by live gunfire.
The use of live ammunition against unarmed persons who pose no danger to anyone is unlawful. It is even more blatantly unlawful in the case of soldiers firing from a great distance at demonstrators located on the other side of the fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip. In addition, it is impermissible to order soldiers to fire live ammunition at individuals for approaching the fence, damaging it, or attempting to cross it. Obviously, the military is allowed to prevent such actions, and even to detain individuals attempting to carry them out, but firing live ammunition solely on these grounds is absolutely prohibited.
Given the open-fire regulations as reported (in part) in the media ahead of last Friday, the high number of casualties was predictable and expected. The military knew in advance of the demonstrations planned for Friday. However, in line with the instructions given the civilian leadership, the preparation by senior military officials did not focus on attempting to minimize the number of casualties. Quite the contrary. The demonstration was framed in advance as an attempt to harm the safety of the State of Israel, as if this were a case combat. Accordingly, Israel made far-reaching threats, including stating that soldiers would use live fire against anyone going any nearer the fence than some 300 meters. In addition, bus companies in Gaza were warned not to transport Palestinians to the demonstrations; and a video clip was released showing a Palestinian being shot in the leg as he approached the fence, by way of a warning as to what would happen to people taking part in the demonstrations. Israeli officials also eschewed in advance any responsibility for the demonstrations, declaring the responsibility lay squarely on Hamas in the event that the military killed or injured Palestinians.
That said, it is also a criminal offense to obey manifestly illegal orders. Therefore, as long as soldiers in the field continue to receive orders to use live fire against unarmed civilians, they are duty-bound to refuse to comply.


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General Electric stock buyers preach patience, eye progress
Investors who have scooped up decimated shares of General Electric Co are willing to wait years to reap a solid return but also hope the U.S. conglomerate will show progress in its turnaround plan and avoid more negative surprises.
FILE PHOTO: The General Electric logo is pictured on the General Electric offshore wind turbine plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne, near Saint-Nazaire, western France, November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo
29 Jan 2019 02:50AM (Updated: 29 Jan 2019 04:15AM )
NEW YORK: Investors who have scooped up decimated shares of General Electric Co are willing to wait years to reap a solid return but also hope the U.S. conglomerate will show progress in its turnaround plan and avoid more negative surprises.
GE shares, which traded above US$32 at the end of 2016, sank to US$6.66 late last year, and remain at levels not seen since the financial crisis a decade ago. The stock, an original component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was replaced in the blue-chip index last year.
The dramatic plunge has lured investors who see worth in GE's jet-engine, healthcare equipment and power turbine businesses and are confident in new CEO Larry Culp, as shareholders seek to capitalize on the stock's steep slide.
"Based on what we believed the business is worth, it is one of the best investment returns, even on a risk-adjusted basis, that we can find in the large-cap space," said Gary Lenhoff, chief investment officer at Great Lakes Advisors in Chicago, which Lenhoff said was buying GE shares in the second half of last year and said his timeline was three years.
Even those with long-term investment horizons will keenly watch fourth-quarter results on Thursday. GE is trying to restore profitability at the power division, which manufactures and services turbines. The unit is expected to realize virtually no earnings this year, according to analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv.
"The actions that need to be taken in the power business – it's not a quick fix, it's not something that you can achieve in six months," said Michael Kon, portfolio manager with Golub Group in San Mateo, California. "Usually a turnaround of that magnitude takes a year or two to be complete and you can then start seeing the fruit of it."
Investors will also watch GE's moves to shore up the balance sheet and reduce debt, including updates on planned asset sales. They hope GE, which booked billions of dollars in charges last year, can avoid negative surprises.
Daniel Babkes, senior research analyst at Pzena Investment Management, said GE's stock price already accounts for some potential negative news, including prolonged struggles for the power business and dour assumptions for liabilities.
Pzena bought GE shares last year, the first time in the value investment firm's more than 20-year history that it has made a significant investment in the company's stock.
"We are in this period of peak uncertainty," Babkes said. "What is particularly attractive about the investment is not just the fact that the path forward can look better, it's that none of that is priced in."
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Several investors expressed enthusiasm for Culp, named GE's chief executive officer on Oct 1 with a compensation package linked to stock price performance. Culp is well-regarded for previously running industrial company Danaher Corp, whose shares soared during his tenure.
"I think people are probably buying Larry rather than buying GE at this point," said Graham Copley, industrials and materials analyst at SSR LLC. "There is an expectation that he can make something better than lemonade out of this lemon."
GE shares have rebounded more than 30 percent from their low in December. Yet many remain skeptical. GE is saddled with heavy debt, and income-driven investors have likely been chased away after Culp slashed GE's quarterly dividend to a penny a share to preserve cash.
There are serious concerns about the GE Capital lending arm and the power division. GE posted a third-quarter loss of US$22.8 billion, including a massive writedown of goodwill from the power business, mainly from its 2015 acquisition of assets from Alstom.
Granite Investment Advisors plans to play the long game, buying GE shares again after selling some at the end of 2018 for tax purposes, said Scott Schermerhorn, chief investment officer.
Granite believes "fair valuation is about double where it is right now," Schermerhorn said. "I just think if you own the stock right now and you just ignore it for two years, you're going to be happy you have it two years from now."
(Additional reporting by Alwyn Scott; Editing by Alden Bentley and David Gregorio)
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Solid State Disks Ltd has launched SCSIFlash-Tape which provides a CompactFlash-based, solid state replacement for traditional SCSI-based, electro-mechanical tape drives on legacy computer-based telecommunications systems that are either obsolete or nearing the end of their life. SCSIFlash-Tape provides a drop-in replacement for the popular DDS DAT, DLT and QIC tape drives on a variety of host systems.
The first thing you'll notice about the TiVo Bolt is its odd shape -- it looks like someone bent the case in an industrial press. The unique shape helps keep the Bolt cool as air is drawn in from the bottom.
The Bolt and the new Bolt+ are TiVo's latest models that are designed to replace your cable box/DVR and your streaming box (Apple TV, Roku).


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using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Cassandra.Mapping;
using Cassandra.Mapping.Statements;
using Cassandra.Metrics.Internal;
using Cassandra.SessionManagement;
using Cassandra.Tasks;

namespace Cassandra.Data.Linq
{
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    /// Represents a Linq query (UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE) that gets evaluated as a CQL statement.
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    public abstract class CqlCommand : SimpleStatement, IInternalStatement
    {
        private readonly Expression _expression;
        private readonly StatementFactory _statementFactory;
        protected DateTimeOffset? _timestamp;
        protected int? _ttl;
        private QueryTrace _queryTrace;
        private IMetricsManager _metricsManager;

        protected int QueryAbortTimeout { get; private set; }

        internal PocoData PocoData { get; }
        internal ITable Table { get; }

        internal IInternalStatement InternalRef => this;

        /// <inheritdoc />
        public override string QueryString
        {
            get
            {
                if (base.QueryString == null)
                    InitializeStatement();
                return base.QueryString;
            }
        }

        /// <inheritdoc />
        public override object[] QueryValues
        {
            get
            {
                if (base.QueryString == null)
                    InitializeStatement();
                return base.QueryValues;
            }
        }

        StatementFactory IInternalStatement.StatementFactory => _statementFactory;

        public Expression Expression => _expression;

        /// <summary>
        /// After being executed, it retrieves the trace of the CQL query.
        /// <para>Use <see cref="IStatement.EnableTracing"/> to enable tracing.</para>
        /// <para>
        /// Note that enabling query trace introduces server-side overhead by storing request information, so it's
        /// recommended that you only enable query tracing when trying to identify possible issues / debugging.
        /// </para>
        /// </summary>
        public QueryTrace QueryTrace
        {
            get => Volatile.Read(ref _queryTrace);
            protected set => Volatile.Write(ref _queryTrace, value);
        }

        internal CqlCommand(Expression expression, ITable table, StatementFactory stmtFactory, PocoData pocoData)
        {
            _expression = expression;
            Table = table;
            _statementFactory = stmtFactory;
            PocoData = pocoData;
            QueryAbortTimeout = table.GetSession().Cluster.Configuration.DefaultRequestOptions.QueryAbortTimeout;
            _metricsManager = (table.GetSession() as IInternalSession)?.MetricsManager;
        }

        protected internal abstract string GetCql(out object[] values);

        /// <summary>
        /// Executes the command using the <see cref="ISession"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public void Execute()
        {
            Execute(Configuration.DefaultExecutionProfileName);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Executes the command using the <see cref="ISession"/> with the provided execution profile.
        /// </summary>
        public RowSet Execute(string executionProfile)
        {
            if (executionProfile == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(executionProfile));
            }
            return WaitToCompleteWithMetrics(ExecuteAsync(executionProfile), QueryAbortTimeout);
        }

        public void SetQueryTrace(QueryTrace trace)
        {
            QueryTrace = trace;
        }

        public new CqlCommand SetConsistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel? consistencyLevel)
        {
            base.SetConsistencyLevel(consistencyLevel);
            return this;
        }

        public new CqlCommand SetSerialConsistencyLevel(ConsistencyLevel consistencyLevel)
        {
            base.SetSerialConsistencyLevel(consistencyLevel);
            return this;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets the time for data in a column to expire (TTL) for INSERT and UPDATE commands .
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="seconds">Amount of seconds</param>
        public CqlCommand SetTTL(int seconds)
        {
            _ttl = seconds;
            return this;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Sets the timestamp associated with this statement execution.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>This instance.</returns>
        public new CqlCommand SetTimestamp(DateTimeOffset timestamp)
        {
            _timestamp = timestamp;
            return this;
        }

        protected void InitializeStatement()
        {
            string query = GetCql(out object[] values);
            SetQueryString(query);
            SetValues(values, Serializer);
        }

        public ITable GetTable()
        {
            return Table;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Evaluates the Linq command and executes asynchronously the cql statement.
        /// </summary>
        public Task<RowSet> ExecuteAsync()
        {
            return ExecuteAsync(Configuration.DefaultExecutionProfileName);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Evaluates the Linq command and executes asynchronously the cql statement with the provided execution profile.
        /// </summary>
        public async Task<RowSet> ExecuteAsync(string executionProfile)
        {
            if (executionProfile == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(executionProfile);
            }

            var cqlQuery = GetCql(out var values);
            var session = GetTable().GetSession();
            var stmt = await _statementFactory.GetStatementAsync(
                session,
                Cql.New(cqlQuery, values).WithExecutionProfile(executionProfile)).ConfigureAwait(false);
            this.CopyQueryPropertiesTo(stmt);
            var rs = await session.ExecuteAsync(stmt, executionProfile).ConfigureAwait(false);
            QueryTrace = rs.Info.QueryTrace;
            return rs;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Starts executing the statement async
        /// </summary>
        public virtual IAsyncResult BeginExecute(AsyncCallback callback, object state)
        {
            return ExecuteAsync().ToApm(callback, state);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Starts the async executing of the statement
        /// </summary>
        public virtual void EndExecute(IAsyncResult ar)
        {
            var task = (Task<RowSet>)ar;
            task.Wait();
        }

        internal T WaitToCompleteWithMetrics<T>(Task<T> task, int timeout = Timeout.Infinite)
        {
            return TaskHelper.WaitToCompleteWithMetrics(_metricsManager, task, timeout);
        }
    }
}


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Q: How to hook notebook's hardware keys? I've got an Acer Aspire 5740G and I want to intercept the hardware buttons. I wrote a C# application using SetWindowsHookEx().
For the volume buttons, for example, I receive VolumeUp and VolumeDown messages, all are fine. But for the wifi button and bluetooth button, I only receive LBUTTON, OEMCLEAR(KeyCode 255). So how can I differentiate between those two?
I've also read, that this, buttons may inaccessible because they would be treated like Fn-Keys which are below the OS. But there's an Acer software, called Launch Manager, which shows OSD messages and show a bluetooth/wifi logo. So it must be possible(at least in theory) to differentiate these buttons at the OS level.
So, how to hook these keys?

A: Here is a related question

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*Intercepting the Fn key on laptops
Don't know if you ever wrote Windows drivers.
Windows drivers, well, it's a long history.
Modern Windows has two mode of device drivers:

*

*kernel mode driver, see Kernel-Mode Driver Framework

*user mode driver see Windows User Mode Driver Framework
Since you've found that those two buttons have identical windows message, it is possibly controled by the kernel mode drivers.
Some hardware singals might not have a WM_ messages definition, sometimes they simply mapping to one identical windows message, but the kernel mode driver can distinguish them. There are tons of, for example, Ke bla bla and IRP_ bla bla stuffs; some even can only wrote in C/C++, that is, native code; and you would possibly have no way except look into the driver.
If you are really interested in Windows drivers, take a look of Windows Driver Development, and WDK(Windows Driver Kit) is free for download.
Finally, if you STRONGLY want the technical support from the manufacturer(Acer), leave a comment to let me know if we shall get in contact and I'll reply with my email.

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> Format>Preloved music>I love the sunshine of your smile, Hoffman & Macdonald
I love the sunshine of your smile, Hoffman & Macdonald
Used, printed sheet music for the song "I love the sunshine of your smile"
Published by New World Publishers Ltd, 1951. 2 pages.
Instrument: Vocal with piano accompaniment and chord symbols.
Key: G
Composer: Jimmy Macdonald
Lyricist: Jack Hoffman
See below for notes on the condition of the music.
This is a piece of used sheet music, in good condition for its age.
A former owner has written their name on the front in ink.
There are no musicians' markings on the piece.
It is slightly yellowed with age. There are four small tears, which do not obstruct reading of the music.
Edges are slightly battered in places.
The music itself is fully legible.
The picture shows the first page only of the music.


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Begin practicing by feigning exacerbation. Rolling is one of the simplest eye works out! Without stressing your eyes (make sure to stop on the off chance that it harms), turn upward to the extent you can. At that point, look down. Rehash this multiple times. Presently look to each side, rehashing multiple times. From that point forward, look in every inclining heading. At last, feign exacerbation in a counter-clockwise movement around multiple times, at that point switch the development and move them clockwise.
Get a pen and hold it at a careful distance, ensuring the pen is at eye level. Concentrate on the tip of the pen as you draw it nearer to your eyes. Stop when you get around six inches from your face, and spotlight on the tip as you move it back to a safe distance. Make sure to do this gradually and center around the tip of the pen. Rehash around multiple times.
Back rub your eyes in the wake of working out. To start with, knead your sanctuaries with your fingertips or one of your knuckles. Move in a clockwise movement a few times, and after that change to a counter-clockwise movement. Back rub over your eyebrows and under your eyes also.
When you're finished practicing and kneading, apply warmth to your eyes yet again by scouring your palms together. On the off chance that your eyes are truly worn out, close them and rest for a couple of minutes. Resting your eyes as often as possible, as depicted in the past area, is critical to safeguarding the soundness of your eyes!
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The story and narration was wonderful. Start by the cover I never thought the story would tell about the distress and hardship, but somehow it tell the reality in life. It will make us think about our world, there is no future which is not built in the present. I liked the way the book was split into the section of age and characters. It help us to understand the story from different perception.
I like the most in Childhood day. Its the most happiest time, when the kid still having a lot of fun even in some predicament. Children never bound to who they play with, friends everyone. Adolescene part is the transition time where they start to face the reality. There are some dark story in this part and how they life become stumble and fall. Hard decision and teach some lesson in life. Adulthood is how the future life looks like. This time when machine and computer play the most part in life. Human been count by their profitable. Idleness is evil, work is virtuos, must do everything to keep them occupied.
I'm glad that I got a chance to read the book from the group in exchange for the honest review.
38.42% "I'm so sick of the Protokian soldiers, so cruel"


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AUM - The Model of Universe
"Aum" has been an enchanting word, for several centuries in the Indian sub-continent.
"Aum" is pronounced more as "Om".
It has gained a religious connotation throughout these years, as a way of communicating with God. But Aum, I suspect, was designed by our rishis with a different idea.
Aum, in my view represents the Universe as defined in the Standard Model.
Mandukya upanishad explains Aum in its entirety. People think Aum is made of three sounds. But it is made of four quarters. Three sounds followed by a Silence.
Aum needs to be followed by a silence always. Without the silence, Aum is not complete. Including the silence, Aum is made of four quarters, as Mandukya Upanishad calls it.
When we say 'A', (the start of O)our lips part and the sound is produced from the vocal chord, coming out, without disturbed by our lips. It is a raw sound emanating from our vocal chords. It is a gross sound.
When we say 'U', (the end of O, just before we start 'M') our lips come closer and the sound produced from the vocal chord is modulated by our lips. It is a subtle sound.
When we say 'M', our lips close and the sound is a reverberation of the vocal chord only. It is a kind of sleepy sound or idle sound that can put us to sleep.
My contention is that Mandukya Upanishad explains AUM as a representation or model of the Universe. How this model was perceived by the Rishis in those days is not known to me. May be they made a model based on their inner experiences or analogies. But, I find that AUM can be mapped to existing standard model of universe.
Mandukya Upanishad says, AUM is the representation of the Brahman (the evolution) or the evolving Universe.
AUM represents the standard model of universe by depicting particle representation, force representation, dark matter and dark energy. AUM by indicating the very composition of this universe itself, depicts the Universe as in the Standard Model.
Let's see how..
Mandukya Upanishad says AUM has four quarters. As explained previously, 3 sounds and silence form the four quarters from a linguistic perspective.
Vaisvanara - The Particle representation
According to Mandukya Upanishad, the first quarter is Vaisvanara, which is defined a state of waking up, enjoying gross elements, where the consciousness is outward or superficial. Vaizvanara means Universal (vizva) mortal matter (nara). It is the 'Sthula' state according to Mandukya Upanishad. Stula roughly is equivalent to the particle (gross) representation.
From a scientific perspective, thus Vaisvanara is equal to the fundamental particle representation (Stula) as in the Standard Model .
Mandukya Upanishad further says AUM in Vaisvanara state has 7 limbs (saptanga). There are seven fundamental parts in the Standard Model.
Quarks (Bayons, leptons and matter that arise from decay of Quarks), Gluon, W Boson, Z Boson, Higgs Boson, Photons and Mesons (and other anti-matter) are the seven fundamental parts that make up the matter.
From the primordial matter cloud comes the Quarks (and their anti-Quarks), Electrons (and their positrons), Neutrinos (and their anti-neutrinos) due to action of weak force. From Quarks comes protons, neutrons and from them evolve the atoms, molecules, elements, compounds and biological life.
But these seven parts here are the fundamental parts that originate and trigger the evolution of Universe according to science.
Mandukya Upanishad says AUM in Vaisvanara (Particle) state has 19 faces (ekonavimzati mukah) through which it is expressed outside.
Modern scientists define the following states of matter, which they have been able to observe in labs or hypothesize for the sake of completeness. The states of matter are Amorphous solids, Crystalline Solids, Liquids, Liquid Crystals, Gas, Supercritical Liquid, Colloid, Plasma, Electron-Degenerate Matter, Neutronium, Quantum Hall of 2 dimensional electron systems, Quantum Spin Hall state, Bose Einstein condensate, Fermionic condensate, Supersolids, Superfluids, Quark-gluon plasma, Weakly Symmetric matter and strongly Symmetric matter. These add upto 19 states in which matter can express itself or the faces of matter.
Taijasa - The wave/force representation
According to Mandukya Upanishad, the second quarter is Taijasa, where consciousness is deep and inward. This is the state in which subtle elements are experienced. Taijasa means one that is made of light.(from Tejas)
From a scientific perspective, thus Taijasa is equal to the fundamental force representation as in the Standard Model.
Mandukya Upanishad says AUM in Taijasa state also has 7 limbs (saptanga) and 19 faces, which is same as that of Vaisvanara state.
Inertia (or Gravity exhibited by Matter), Strong Force (Corresponding to Gluons), Weak Forces mediated by W Boson that causes elastic scattering, Weak force mediated by Z Boson that causes inelastic scattering, Property of Mass (Caused by Higgs Boson), Electro-magnetic force (Photon) and Nuclear force(residual strong force mediated by Mesons) are the Seven forces corresponding to the Seven particles.
It is because Taijasa and Vaisvanara are same but different representations of the same states. One is the Stula (particle) representation and another is 'Tejasa' (Light/force) representation.
According to Standard model, fundamental particles possess duality of force (Taijasa as in MU) and particle (Sthula as in MU) nature. It is the same as what is stated in Mandukya Upanishad between Vaisvanara and Taijasa states.
Prajna - The Dark Matter
The third quarter is Prajna, which indicates deep sleep. Prajna means consciousness. This quarter is a bundle of undifferentiated mass filled with eternal bliss, that is deep inside, sleeping ever and cannot be perceived so easily.
From a scientific perspective, one which does not express itself, one which is not visible to our consciousness or tools is the dark matter. It is a vital part of our model of universe, but one which cannot be detected. Hence it is called 'dark'. It plays a key role in the standard model of our universe.
From a scientific perspective, Prajna is the quarter that pertains to dark matter.
Mandukya Upanishad says that face of this quarter is consciousness (ceto mukah). It means that in this quarter there is no parts or expressions of its own, unlike the previous two quarters. It can be felt only by the impact it makes on others. It can be felt only by consciousness.
The dark matter does not have any parts or states. It cannot be seen or detected. It can only be experienced by the impact it makes on matter.
The Dark Enegy - Unutterable
According to Mandukya Upanishad, the fourth quarter is soundless: unutterable, a quieting down of all relative manifestations, blissful, peaceful, non-dual.
Mandukya Upanishad also says that "This is the Lord of All; the Omniscient; the Indwelling Controller; the Source of All. This is the beginning and end of all beings"
Mandukya Upanishad further says "It is neither inward-turned nor outward-turned consciousness, nor the two together; not an indifferentiated mass of consciousness; neither knowing, nor unknowing; invisible, ineffable, intangible, devoid of characteristics, inconceivable, indefinable, its sole essence being the consciousness of its own Self; the coming to rest of all relative existence; utterly quiet; peaceful; blissful; without a second: this is the Atman, the Self; this is to be realised"
From a scientific perspective this is equivalent to the energy that is expanding the Universe, that originated from the Big Bang. The dark energy is the representation of the energy that originated the Big-Bang, which is the source and end of all human beings.
As science progresses, human beings will evolve tools that better detect, better sense and better understand the dark matter and dark energy that occur around us. But still, like the silence beyond all sounds, there will be an unknown that will ever need to be explored, which is neither this nor that, which is indefinable, the energy that originated the Universe, which keeps expanding ever.
Mandukya Upanishad says that AUM is the Brahman or Atman or The Self. From a scientific perspective Particles, forces, dark matter and dark energy constitute the Universe. AUM indicates that Universe in a word.
Thus AUM by indicating the Universe with its components and states indicates the Universe as represented in the Standard Model.
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Majid started his athlete career in 1989, in both athletics and table tennis. He quickly moved from local and national level competitions to regional and international events.
After about ten years of experience as an elite para-athlete, Majid was asked to manage the UAE Athletics team at the 1998 Birmingham Athletics World Championships. Since then, he has led with success various teams at a number of national and international events, including in his role of Chef de Mission during the Athens 2004 & London 2012 Paralympic Games.
In addition to his vast sporting experience, Majid has always worked on improving his administrative skills, working closely with the UAE Disabled Sports Federation and the UAE NPC. He became Secretary General for these two organisations in 2008, then Vice-President in 2012.
Majid is also CEO of the Dubai Club for the Disabled, a local organisation sponsored by the Dubai Sports Council supporting the rights of people with an impairment to play their developmental role in the community in sports, cultural and social fields.
In these various roles, Majid has gained a lot of experience in the media field both at the national and international level. He has participated in many radio, TV programmes, conferences and forum about raising awareness about sports for people with an impairment and the Paralympic movement, and is also the designated spokesperson of the UAE Disabled Sports Federation.


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Q: Intent.getIntent method not taking empty argument, Android studio showing error I am trying to use the method Intent.getIntent() in the onCreate method of my activity but Android Studio is showing an error.
The Error:'getIntent(java.lang.string)' in 'android.content.intent' cannot be applied to '()'
The Code:
public class RedirectActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    Intent intent;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_redirect);
        intent = Intent.getIntent();
        //...
    }
}

I am also being alerted that the method has been deprecated, but that should not throw an error as far as I know. Why is this happening?

A: There isn't any static method getIntent() without parameters in the Intent class.
The static method available in the Intent class is the one which takes Uri as an argument which creates a new Intent by parsing the supplied Uri
You should probably get the intent from the activity.
Instead of:
intent = Intent.getIntent();

Simply use:
intent = getIntent();


For the last few days I've felt restless. It feels like big changes are coming. I guess it's time to take stock of my activities, not that there are that many, but, I need to do some life evaluation. One of the things I've decided to do is sit down and do the audiobook recording of my novel, The Space Between Time. It's a long book so it will take some time just to read, then there is the editing to do, which I'm learning to do myself. I also want to clear space to do more work on my second novel, Time's Echo.
Since I'm rather single minded, this means I may not be writing regular posts for a few weeks. No doubt something will come into my head that I'll just have to share with you, and I'll check in every once in a while to let you know how my projects are coming along, but it's time to take another little break from writing these twice-weekly posts.
I hope you take some time for a vacation, or some kind of get away that relaxes your mind as well as your body. See you on the other side.
Just a reminder that both my books are half off at Smashwords through the end of July. Happy reading.


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