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Feature: The modern role of BME housing associations
Posted on 01/12/2010 17/01/2011 by BMENationalIn Aksa, Bangla, BMENational, Features, Innisfree, Tung Sing6 Minutes Read
Thumbing through the newsletters provided by England's array of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) housing associations is like embarking on a whirlwind tour through the world's most unique cultures. Resplendent with vibrant colours, the publications leap at the reader, full of inspirational stories of people – migrants and their descendents – who now call England their home.
Born in the late 1970s and early 80s out of a need to counter discrimination against immigrants – signs of "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs" were commonplace in towns and cities across the country only 20 years earlier – today's BMEs represent the whole spectrum: from Jewish Orthodox to Kurdish, afro-Caribbean to Pakistani. BME HAs are now recognised as an irreplaceable part of a diverse and tolerant England.
However, now the challenge for BMEs is finding their role in 21st century Britain as rising numbers of mainstream housing associations are responding to the needs of their diverse tenants. Accordingly, many have tweaked their services and are representing their minority tenants admirably, but BMEs can no longer claim to exclusively offer culturally-sensitive services.
Clare Winstanley, the eloquent chief executive of Innisfree, believes they still have a prominent role to play. Originally created to care for an Irish diaspora that felt ostracised from British society, Innisfree, like many other BMEs, now caters for the wider or non-BME community.
Inspired by William Yeats' evocative poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree, a tale of a man yearning for peace and tranquillity, the London-based association is still unwaveringly proud of its origins and its value-driven focus on housing and care for tenants – with acclaim appearing from unlikely quarters.
Two years ago Clare noticed that a tenant's survey filled out by a Somali family indicated it was "very important" that Innisfree was an Irish organisation, so she sent her housing director to discover why. "They said that because we understood the importance of identity we were more likely to respect other people's."
"The majority of staff and board members are Irish or of Irish descent," she adds. "There's an unspoken understanding between people, a shared culture and history. The sense of community and identity – it's a particular issue with older and vulnerable client groups."
Des is a tenant with Innisfree, a BME housing association with Irish roots.
Clare cites the example of Clochar Court in the London borough of Brent, an "incredibly happy place" that houses older and elderly Irish tenants. She believes it would be different if the staff and most of the tenants weren't Irish. "Memory becomes very important when you're older," she says. "It therefore becomes important to be with people for whom those memories are relevant."
Des, 63, is a Clochar Court resident from Dublin. Made redundant in 1986, he travelled to London the following year where he juggled bartending and labouring to earn a living. For nearly 18 years Des lived in a flat in Wembley, north-west London, until his landlord suddenly decided to sell.
He hadn't the money for a deposit or enough points to qualify for council housing and found himself homeless. Following nine months in an emergency hostel, he was referred by the Brent Irish Advisory Service (BIAS) to Innisfree. "When I turned 60, purely by luck, a flat came available," he says. "I've been quite happy here ever since."
"It's not everything, but it's nice," he says, responding to whether being housed by an Irish organisation was important. "It makes a huge difference to some who find it more difficult. As people get older and a bit more vulnerable they appreciate the closeness of their community," he adds. "There's a lot said about integration, but how's a 70-year-old woman going to integrate?"
Integration with the local community and British society is a key issue for BMEs and a topic that regularly develops into a contentious public debate. As Steve Hodson, Oldham-based Aksa HA's director of operations, saw in Oldham during the 2001 race riots, emotions can boil over spectacularly – in this case, partly due to misunderstandings over the regeneration of areas inhabited mainly by Asian families.
A burnt-out car in the wake of the Oldham race riots.
Aksa was praised by the consequent Ritchie report, a major race-relations review commissioned by the government following the troubles, and they regularly meet with Oldham borough council on how to promote integration: a product of recent consultations is a new school merging a predominantly Asian school with a predominantly white school.
"We make sure that we don't simply build in areas that are, at the moment, exclusively Pakistani or white British. We're keen to provide homes on the periphery of those areas," Steve says. "We also have joint events with our tenants like our Christmas event where we bring 150 tenants together and celebrate Eid and Christmas. Some of our non-Muslim customers, for the first time, understand and appreciate what Eid is about and vice-versa."
Kaye, 32, was the victim of an abusive relationship with her ex-partner while also battling alcoholism. A mother of two, she was struggling to find a way out of her situation until she was introduced to Adele Stretch, an Aksa housing support officer, two years ago.
Kaye stands beside one of her paintings. She one day hopes to practice art therapy for children. Photo: Sean Hansford, Oldham Advertiser
"Adele's support was massive," Kaye says. "It's not just about housing. I wouldn't have been able to go through all this on my own. With Aksa there was no judgement; a lot of compassion, understanding and genuineness."
Kaye took her mother to a Bollywood event organised by Aksa at a time when their relationship was severely strained. "It was a great experience because I saw the other cultural side of things. We were made to feel very welcome," she says. "There was also a discussion about the estates and what people wanted to change.
A key issue to integrating ethnic minorities into British society is communication, a problem which housing associations have been attempting to combat by holding English classes. Encouraging participation is not so straightforward, as Bashir Uddin, chief executive of London's Bangla housing association, explains.
"Our staff speak Bengali, Hindi, Urdu," he says. "They're bilingual and that helps build a relationship of trust, especially with the women, who tend to be more reserved." Women like Nasima, a 32-year-old mother of three who followed her husband from Bangladesh in 1998. For the first six years Nasima was mostly at home looking after her children. She rarely ventured out alone, embarrassed by her poor English language skills.
"I felt very lonely because I couldn't speak. I had no friends," she says in English. Nasima then met a member from Bangla and received help and guidance, even though she wasn't a tenant. "They could explain things in Bengali I did not understand."
Bangla HA's female tenants attending English language classes.
Bangla organised female-only English classes for Asian women as many families don't allow them to attend mixed classes. "I slowly built up my understanding of English and now I'm studying childcare in college." Nasima hopes to get a job at a local nursery, a clear demonstration of empowerment that, according to Bashir, emphasizes the value of local, culturally-aware organisations.
"There are lots of things that our colleagues in the mainstream probably wouldn't understand," he says. "Like taking your shoes off when walking into an Asian, particularly Muslim, household. The women also tend to retire, go to another room. It's just the custom: that's the way they behave, how they're brought up and you have to acknowledge that."
Many in the BME HA community see themselves as the crucial, trustworthy link between migrants and their local communities and they continue to work tirelessly in promoting social cohesion. However, their raison d'etre is driven by goals that, if met, would cancel the need for their autonomous existence. It's a paradox that's not lost on Ed Duguid, chief executive of Manchester's Tung Sing, a BME formed 25 years ago to address the needs of an ageing Chinese community.
"What we've tried to effect is the attitude of the mainstream housing organisations towards integration and towards equality," he says. "But in another generation you won't have BME HAs any longer – they'll disappear as a brand. Gradually you'll get a complete overlap; bigger associations that remain culturally sensitive and very aware of how to deal with people appropriately – which applies to customers in any business. But it won't happen yet."
Ed believes that BMEs still have plenty issues to address. "Discrimination and prejudice remain and as long as people come to us because they feel we can deal with their cultural issues and be more sensitive, then there's still a job for us to do."
Robert Szmigielski
This article is reproduced courtesy of 24Housing magazine.
Tags: Aksa, Bangla, BIAS, BME housing, BMENational, Brent Irish Advisory Service, Clochar Court, housing association, Innisfree, integration, Oldham race riots, Ritchie Report, social housing, Tung Sing
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Mallorca deny requesting postponement of Barcelona fixture
Xavi had claimed that Mallorca requested the postponement of the game / Soccrates Images/GettyImages
RCD Mallorca have denied claims from Barcelona head coach Xavi that they asked to postpone Sunday's meeting with the Blaugrana.
Barcelona travel to the Balearic Islands to face Mallorca late on Sunday evening as La Liga's season resumes following a short winter break.
Barça boss Xavi said in the build-up to the fixture that his squad were feeling the effects of injuries and Covid-19, and that Mallorca had in fact requested its postponement.
"It's the right time to postpone the match," Xavi said. "Mallorca have also requested it. Games have been suspended due to absences, we have to apply common sense. It's not a complaint, it's not an excuse, it's the reality."
However, Mallorca confirmed to Spanish outlet Marca that Xavi's claim was baseless and that they are planning for the game to go ahead.
Mallorca manager Luis Garcia Plaza said: "We're the side with the most absences in all of La Liga. But because there's a situation now at Barcelona, a lot of people are talking about it.
"It seems as though Barcelona are the side with problems. Their substitutes could be starters here. Whichever team wins, it won't be because of absentees."
Barcelona return to action sitting seventh in La Liga's table, but only two points off the top four.
Sunday's trip to Mallorca will be followed by an away tie with Linares Deportivo in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday before travelling to Granada.
Barça then jet off to Saudi Arabia to face Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup, before finally returning to Camp Nou on January 18 against top four rivals Rayo Vallecano.

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Basic science and immunology
Impaired replication of protease inhibitor-resistant HIV-1 in human thymus
30 July 2001. Related: Basic science and immunology, Resistance.
HIV that has become resistant to powerful drugs called protease inhibitors may not be a dire sign of decline after all, researchers from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology have shown.
Published in the June issue of Nature Medicine, the study shows that drug-resistant HIV is less able to infect the thymus, the organ that churns out virus-fighting T cells. These patients can then continue to produce new T cells even in the face of high viral loads.
"It's potentially good news for patients who are on drugs and tolerating them," said lead author Cheryl Stoddart, PhD, staff research scientist at Gladstone. "Just because they have high viral loads and drug-resistant virus, it doesn't necessarily mean that their T-cell counts are going to plummet."
The presence of drug-resistant virus could just be a sign of the drugs at work, said senior co-author Joseph M. McCune, MD, PhD, an investigator at Gladstone and a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco.
"Though the drugs don't eradicate the virus, they're effective in treating the disease because they produce drug-resistant virus, which appears to be much less capable of causing damage to the thymus," McCune said. "The study is informative in that it gives us a clue as to how patients and virus might be able to coexist."
Many AIDS patients take protease inhibitors to stop HIV from growing and spreading throughout the body. Often, however, the virus mutates and becomes resistant to the effects of these drugs. Once drug-resistant, HIV can divide and grow, increasing its numbers in the blood. In the case of virus resistant to another class of drugs that includes ZDV, the viral load normally increases, leading to a decrease in the number of T cells. The opportunistic infections characteristic of AIDS, which is caused by HIV, soon follow.
However, in patients with HIV that is resistant to protease inhibitors, earlier research from co-author on the Gladstone study Steven Deeks, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, has shown that the T-cell counts often remain high. A clue to this phenomenon came when researchers previously discovered that the drug-resistant viruses don't replicate as well in various cells. The new study shows that this impairment is much greater in the thymus, which remains healthy and can continue to supply the body with plenty of T cells.
In the study, Stoddart and her research team inoculated both non-resistant ("wildtype") virus and drug-resistant virus into human thymus, which was implanted into mice. Weeks later, the wildtype virus grew substantially and began depleting the thymus of its cells. Drug-resistant virus, on the other hand, barely replicated and didn't tamper with the cells of the thymus.
"The difference in the way the virus grew could not be more extreme," Stoddart said. In another experiment, the researchers added virus to cell cultures derived from human thymus. They again measured viral replication by detecting p24, an HIV protein, in the cells. Whereas many cells were infected by the wildtype virus, far fewer were infected by the drug-resistant virus.
They found the same with virus obtained from actual patients. Wildtype HIV isolates taken from patients when they were not on protease inhibitors were readily able to divide in the thymus cells. Drug-resistant virus, taken from the same patients when they were on protease inhibitors, didn't grow well at all. On average, 12 times fewer thymus cells became infected with drug-resistant virus than were infected with wild type virus.
The researchers also measured the size of the thymus in 14 patients using a CT (computed tomography) scan. Many of those who had developed resistance to protease inhibitors had more abundant thymus tissue than would be expected of people their age, suggesting that the thymus was indeed spared in these patients.
Next, the researchers will focus on studying the thymus cells to figure out exactly why the virus is less able to infect them.
Co-investigators of the study include Staff Research Scientist Teri J. Liegler, PhD, Senior Research Associate Valerie D. Linquist-Stepps, Research Associate Matthew S. Hayden, and Investigator Robert M. Grant, MD, PhD, all of Gladstone. Research Director Francois Clavel, MD and Research Scientist Fabrizio Mammano, PhD, both of the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), Hopital Bichat-Claude Bernard in France, were also involved.
Source: UCSF News
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How Many Cases of Zika in Costa Rica in 2020
by Mike Vance November 10, 2020
written by Mike Vance November 10, 2020
The Zika virus may seem as though it's a relatively new virus that has been going around, but it's actually been around since at least the 1920s. Zika is spread through the Aedes mosquitos which are active during the daytime and cause an illness that is similar to dengue fever.
There are actually at least two different strains of the virus, one Asian and one African, and these mosquitos have carried this illness all over the world, but especially into the more tropical locations such as Central and South America, the Caribbean, and parts of Africa.
While many locations are not at a high risk of being exposed to the virus, Costa Rica is one of the countries that have experienced outbreaks of the Zika virus since 2016.
The areas of Costa Rica that are most susceptible are those areas that have an elevation under 6,500 feet because the mosquitos which carry the virus normally don't live at that elevation. Unfortunately, most of the country is under 6,500 feet.
According to recent data, in 2019 there were only a total of 201 cases of Zika reported. This is a huge improvement compared to when Zika first started showing up in 2016 when Costa Rica saw nearly 2,000 cases as well the following year when there were more than 2,000 in 2017.
2018 was the year that things really started improving as there were only about 400 cases reported, most of them occurring in the Limón area.
Currently and fortunately, while Costa Rica does have a history of Zika virus transmission, there is no immediate evidence of any large-scale outbreaks. That doesn't mean that those who live in Costa Rica or who may be visiting should not take precautions, because an outbreak could always occur at anything and without much notice.
So when is the best time to visit Costa Rica in light of this information and how can you plan your trip?
While it is very unlikely that you would contract Zika in Costa Rica, there are a few things you can do to help reduce your risk even further.
The first thing you can do is try to plan your trip at a time when the mosquitos are least active. On the Pacific side of the country, this would be between January and late April. On the other side of the country, late September through early November, which is the dry season, is going to be the best time.
Outside of choosing when to visit, there are some other things you can do to reduce your risk of contracting Zika.
When choosing a place to stay such as a hotel, make sure that you're choosing lodging that has adequate air conditioning or fans. Air conditioning is going to be optimal, but fans will help some.
I would highly recommend you talking to a travel agent who is an expert about Costa Rica because they're going to be able to help you with making proper lodging arrangements.
Wearing sunscreen and bug repellent as well as dressing properly such as wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants, high socks, and boots are going to be the best things that you can do when going outside of your hotel room.
So overall, is it safe to travel to Costa Rica? Yes, there is no imminent threat of contracting Zika right now. I think that you can rest assured that if you plan a family vacation, a honeymoon, or just a fun trip to Costa Rica, you will be able to have a worry-free and fun trip.
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Charging to Play at the FLGS
There was a discussion of game stores on EN World a few weeks back and the hot topic was a proposal that they should be charging players for playing space at their tables. I decided to chime in with some history and my own personal views. I thought it was a good discussion so I thought I would share my post - edited to remove other names and for some context.
Let me dive into this with one perspective - I've been playing RPG's since 1979 when I was ten years old and I've never gotten away from the hobby. My longest break is measured in months, not years, so it's pretty much continuous for almost 40 years now.
I've never played a single RPG session in a store.
I live in DFW and have for most of this time and there are plenty of FLGS's within a 60 minute drive.
We have always played at someone's home. When we were kids that's because that was the easiest place to go. We sat around somebody's kitchen table and played for hours.
Once we could drive we still did it this way because it still worked.
College - it was somebody's apartment, house, or dorm.
As adults it's the same way - most of us have a dining room or living room where we can do this and some of us have a dedicated game room set up for it.
So in my experience you don't need a dedicated neutral space to play. I get why it's convenient for some and if it works for you that's cool but for at least some of us it's a total non-factor. I have all of my books, miniatures, props, mats, markers, dice, and all of the things you accumulate for gaming organized and stored at home. If I play at someone one else's home they typically have the same situation.
The idea that people should have to pay to play in your space ... I get the economics from that side but I've never seen a store that was nice enough that it made me say "wow I'd pay to play here." Especially in the sense that it had more positives, and fewer negatives, than playing at home. You buy books specifically for a game, you buy dice for a game, but space - space is the easiest thing to find and it's not something specifically tied to the game. Paying for some kind of special event - sure, I get that. Paying for 4-5-6- friends to get together and play a session? You'd better have a truly compelling "something" there or it makes no sense at all to me.
I simply don't understand why there is such pushback: you don't balk at paying for bowling, miniature golf, billiards, target shooting, batting cages, and the like; and what you're paying for are the tools to do the thing with and the space. Why are FLGS so incredibly different? There's not much money in the people who only play at home--but there is a definite need for a place to *play*.
I don't have a bowling alley at home; I don't have a mini golf course at home; I don't have batting cages in my backyard; I don't have a 75 foot wide movie screen at home. Those are specialized things necessary for a certain experience and I will pay to use them. Pretty much everybody has a table and chairs or some couches or some beanbag chairs and some empty floorspace - those are all that's needed to play an RPG. Some hobbies require the use of specialized facilities, from bowling to drag racing - RPG's do not. So attempting to monetize your space means you're swimming upstream right from the start, business-wise.
The entire FLGS industry owes its origins to RPGs and minis games. In the 80s, they were the only places you could get them
Well, in the 80's you could buy RPG's and wargames (and the associated miniatures) everywhere from Toys R Us to Kmart to Target to Michael's craft stores, not to mention the Sears catalog and various mail-order houses. There were also "Hobby Shops" that covered a variety of hobbies and games were just one of many things they included. The FLGS wasn't a thing in much of the country until later.
More importantly, the only way you could meet other people to play those games with; and from there grew everything we have now.
Oh no no no - you realize there were at least 3 separate generations of D&D'ers that got started without game stores being a thing right? The OD&D crowd mostly seems to have picked it up in college. The Holmes edition basic players like me mostly bought it at a retail store and started up our own crew or joined in to one we knew at school. A few years later the Moldvay Basic set brought in another wave and again it was not store-centered playing that drove this - it was playing at home or at school with your friends or through some kind of high school / college gaming club.
Most Magic players in the early days were RPG players first. Without a space to play, these days, the games all die.
Magic, 40K, X-Wing are all competitive type games with a tournament/event component that drives playing with strangers in a neutral space. RPG's are an entirely different animal. Without that neutral space those games might die, but they also seem to be where stores make most of their money so that seems to be a self-settling kind of thing, right?
When the online competition to buy product makes the margins & volume so low that FLGS go out of business...the space goes away, and the people and communities go away, and the home game groups eventually age out, so there's no one new and enthusiastic to greet and play with people face to face...and the future is nothing but virtual tabletop, less human interaction, and less friendships built.
How many Napoleonic miniatures players do you come across in stores? How many WW2 mini gamers? Heck, how many historical miniatures players period? How many people do you see playing ASL or other board wargames in stores? These games are still produced, supported, and played. They still have a community. Much of it is online these days because stores do not support those hobbies. There are events like meetups and cons where face to face play does happen.
As for home game groups aging out leaving no one new ... it's a good thing none of us are raising kids who are interested in some of these things and who then go off the high school and college and find new players and start their own gaming groups - except that we are.
I have nothing against the FLGS. I've spent plenty of time in them over the years and I have one in particular that I use and like. But I do not know how you get to "stores have to charge people for playing space or they're all going to close and then RPG's are going to die out". The FLGS is a cool thing when done well but it is not a necessary thing for RPG's to exist.
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Q: BYACCJ: How do I include line number in my error message? This is my current error handling function:
public void yyerror(String error) {
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This is the default error function I found on the BYACC/J homepage. I can't find any way to add the line number. My question is similar to this question. But the solution to it doesn't work here.
For my lexer I am using a JFlex file.

A: It's not that different from the bison/flex solution proposed in the question you link. At least, the principle is the same. Only the details differ.
The key fact is that it is the scanner, not the parser, which needs to count lines, because it is the scanner which converts the input text into tokens. The parser knows nothing about the original text; it just receives a sequence of nicely-processed tokens.
So we have to scour the documentation for JFlex to figure out how to get it to track line numbers, and then we find the following in the section on options and declarations:

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Turns line counting on. The int member variable yyline contains the number of lines (starting with 0) from the beginning of input to the beginning of the current token.

The JFlex manual doesn't mention that yyline is a private member variable, so in order to get at it from the parser you need to add something like the following to your JFlex file:
%line
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}

You can then add a call to GetLine in the error function:
public void yyerror (String error) {
  System.err.println ("Error at line " + lexer.GetLine() + ": " + error);
}

That will sometimes produce confusing error messages, because by the time yyerror is called, the parser has already requested the lookahead token, which may be on the line following the error or even separated from the error by several lines of comments. (This problem often shows up when the error is a missing statement terminator.) But it's a good start.

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Q: Error tokenizing data. C error: EOF inside string starting at row 148480 with groupby function (dask) I'm working with a dask dataframe and as I want to apply the groupby method, I get the following Parse Error :
ParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: EOF inside string starting at row 148480
I'm pretty new to python, I don't see how to fix a parsing Error that occurs when using a method
here's my code :
df1 = df.groupby('date')[['compound score']].mean().compute()
where date (srting) and compound score (float) are two columns of df (a dask dataframe)
Each date appears in many rows of the dataframe, that's why I want to use the groupby method.
I was expecting df1 to be a new dask dataframe with only 2 columns, the date and the mean of compound score for each date. Instead I get the parsing error.
I see many people are having this issue with pandas.read_csv(), but none with the groupby method.


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Q: Flutter Azure Devops publish bundle on Google Play I have a Flutter application that I build with Azure Devops. I generated a bundle of . aab format
I use the Google Play Release Bundle task to publish my package to the store but get the following error: package not found.
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Jouaignes és un municipi francès situat al departament de l'Aisne i a la regió dels Alts de França. L'any 2007 tenia 166 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Jouaignes era de 166 persones. Hi havia 56 famílies de les quals 8 eren unipersonals (8 dones vivint soles i 8 dones vivint soles), 24 parelles sense fills i 24 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 75 habitatges, 58 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 13 eren segones residències i 3 estaven desocupats. 74 eren cases i 1 era un apartament. Dels 58 habitatges principals, 44 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 12 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 2 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 3 tenien dues cambres, 9 en tenien tres, 13 en tenien quatre i 34 en tenien cinc o més. 42 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 22 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 32 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 115 persones, 83 eren actives i 32 eren inactives. De les 83 persones actives 77 estaven ocupades (40 homes i 37 dones) i 7 estaven aturades (1 home i 6 dones). De les 32 persones inactives 8 estaven jubilades, 13 estaven estudiant i 11 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Jouaignes hi havia 58 unitats fiscals que integraven 159 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 15.789 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 3 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 2 eren d'empreses de construcció i 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils.

Dels 2 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una lampisteria i 1 electricista.

L'any 2000 a Jouaignes hi havia 4 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 504 hectàrees.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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New Delhi, April 7: India' Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a US$ 1.5 billion World Bank aided program to clean up India and end open defecation. But the ambitious project is only partial success as many obvious flaws have not been attended to, writes P.K.Balachandaran in DailyFT.
Since open defecation has been an eyesore and a major cause of diseases in India, the Narendra Modi Government launched a 'Clean India' campaign named Swachch Bharat Mission (SBM) on 2 October 2014, four months after he came to power.
The day, 2 October 2014, happened to be the 145th birth anniversary of the 'Father of the Nation,' Mahatma Gandhi, who was also the country's first campaigner for a 'Clean India' with a special emphasis on building and maintaining hygienic latrines to end the degrading practice of open defecation.
In fact Gandhi deliberately lived in the Bhangi Colony or Sanitary Workers' Colony in Imperial Delhi to turn it into a clean place where everybody, including himself, would keep the environment, including the toilets, clean.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given the Swachch Bharat Mission the task of ending open defecation by 2 October 2019, to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and also the completion of his five-year term of office.
Inspired by Modi's initiative, Bollywood actor and director Akshay Kumar made a film in 2017 entitled 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha,' which earned INR 1.3 billion in the box office. The film featured a 'Toilet Anthem' sung by Khiladi Kumar.
"The intention to create this song was to make people realise the importance of having toilets in their homes. I want everyone to educate their kids so that they can grow up and bring this big change," Akshay said.
The aim of the Swachch Bharat Mission was to build almost 65,082 lakh toilets by 2019. A $ 1.5 billion World Bank loan, to be repaid over 18 years with a five-year grace period, was taken for what was legitimately dubbed as the "largest cleaning campaign in the world". The World Bank would disburse the funds in tranches upon the submission of a report by an independent evaluation agency.
SBM was by no means a totally new project. The predecessor United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government led by Dr. Manmohan Singh had its own Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Expedition) running, and had some achievements to its credit. But Modi changed the name and gave the movement a new thrust and a new sense of urgency.
The primary aim of both the NBA and the SBM was to eradicate open defecation, establish a system of door to door waste collection, and construct toilets in every household and in public places.
Considering the vast difference in the sanitation requirements between cities and villages, the SBM was divided into SBM (Urban) and SBM (Gramin or Rural). The former is under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs while the latter is handled by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
The SBM also envisages the creation of awareness about sanitation and health and improving the quality of life in rural areas by promoting hygiene and cleanliness.
The SBM could obtain loans from the Government for setting up rural sanitary marts and to receive funding for constructing community sanitary complexes and setting-up solid and liquid waste management projects.
As per Government figures, sanitation coverage in rural areas was 42.01% at the time of the launch of the SBM in October, 2014. This increased by over 15% in the next couple of years and stood at 58.75% at the end of 2016. Meanwhile, 130,000 villages had been declared 'Open Defecation Free' by 2016 end.
By October 2019, 65,082 lakh toilets are to be constructed. By the end of 2017, 3,851 lakh toilets had been constructed, achieving 58.5% of the target. However, the achievement was uneven in the country as a whole, with success varying from state to state.
Andhra Pradesh led by the progressive Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, showed an achievement rate of 172% and Prime Minister Modi's State of Gujarat was next with 137%. The tribal State of Jharkhand registered 114%. But Delhi State, where the national capital is located, and Meghalaya, Tripura and Assam in Eastern India achieved less than 1%.
Progress in the construction of community or public toilets was less. Only 44% of the target of building 500,000 public toilets was achieved. However, 1,100 towns and cities across India were declared Open Defecation Free.
Garbage collection from house to house showed 50% success. Door-to-door collection was introduced in 41,000 of the 81,000 municipal wards targeted. Municipal waste processing improved from 16% in 2014 to 22% in 2017.
Waste segregated in individual households is collected by garbage trucks and taken to a secondary segregation centre, from where it is transported for processing and treatment. As per Government data, almost 1.65 lakh tons of compost was produced in 2016, with the current waste-to-energy production level being 88.4 megawatts.
But the country has a long way to go in waste disposal. Even big cities like Delhi still have mountains of unprocessed garbage.
The SBM is not just a Government program. Private and public companies have been roped into it. Toilet construction in schools, 'Swachch Vidyalaya Program,' is part of corporate social responsibility programs.
However, the SBM has its critics too. There is no dispute over the need for such a mission, but its claims, approach and implementation have come under fire.
While the Modi Government claims stupendous success, the funding agency, World Bank, in its report dated 5 February 2017, said that the SBM's achievements were "moderately unsatisfactory".
The World Bank had delayed its tranches on the grounds that the Government had not submitted evaluation reports by an independent third party agency as per the undertaking.
According to the National Family Health Survey Series 4, only 48% of the households in India are using improved sanitation facilities. In the rural areas, only 36.7% of the toilets unconstructed are actually used as toilets. In other words, peopled defecate in the open outside, even if they have built a toilet in their homes. Only 29% of the households in the 'Achievement List' had actually constructed toilets.
There is corruption as in other Government-funded schemes. According to a survey, only 24% of households which had constructed toilets in their premises had received dues from the Government under SBM.
According to a review conducted after the first year of the SBM, public sector undertakings had only achieved 11% of their target. The private corporate sector, on the other hand, performed even more poorly meeting only 8% of its target, having built just 424 toilets.
A major hurdle in the way of the SBM is the scarcity of water. Public toilets in metropolitan cities have been reported to have no water supply at all. Non-availability of water in many parts of rural India makes people avoid a household or a public toilet and opt for open defecation instead. In the open, nature takes care of the disposal of bodily waste.
"This leads one to question whether building toilets serves any purpose in the absence of water supply," as one observer put it. Therefore the Government has to ensure water supply first.
The other problem is created by the Government's methods of enforcement. According to a report, in certain villages in Rajasthan, the local authorities had instructed ration shops not to issue dry rations to households which had not built toilets. But this could be mean starvation in the case of poor agricultural labourers belonging to the lowest Dalit caste.
Poor disbursement of funds by the Government is another inhibiting factor. A household needs INR 20,000 to 30,000 to build a sanitary pit for a toilet. But the poor, who are the majority, cannot afford to pay this from their own pocket. Therefore, toilets are either not built at all, or only built partly.


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Creech: Bears' reputation claws way back under Matt Rhule
Opinion // Jenny Dial Creech
By Jenny Dial Creech, Staff writer Dec. 7, 2019
Head coach Matt Rhule of Baylor calls a play as the Bears take on the Oklahoma Sooners in the fourth quarter of the Big 12 championship at AT&T Stadium on Dec. 7, 2019, in Arlington. Oklahoma won 30-23 in overtime.
Photo: Ron Jenkins, Stringer / Getty Images
Matt Rhule and his Baylor Bears couldn't completely do it. They couldn't take down Oklahoma and win the Big 12 at AT&T Stadium on Saturday.
But they came pretty darn close.
Close enough that it's safe to laud Baylor for its complete turnaround.
From 1-11 and a severely tainted reputation to playing in the Big 12 championship game and nearly beating regular-season conference champion OU with a third-string true freshman quarterback.
It's pretty remarkable.
Baylor didn't just rebuild and become a respectable, competitive football team again.
The Bears became downright likable. They earned fans they never had and helped put Big 12 football back in the spotlight.
Rhule should be given every coach of the year award and his staff and team celebrated for pulling off what seemed unthinkable just three years ago.
When it was all said and done Saturday afternoon, OU did what it was supposed to do and won its fifth straight Big 12 championship with a 30-23 overtime win over the Bears. The Sooners put themselves in position to take one of the top four spots in the College Football Playoff rankings.
Baylor finished the regular season 11-2 and should remain in the top 10 of the CFP rankings and in a desirable postseason bowl game.
The game didn't disappoint.
It was competitive, full of drama, showcased Oklahoma's defense, which needed the boost after some inconsistency, and highlighted Rhule's coaching. The Bears used three different quarterbacks and still were right there with the Sooners the whole game.
This game was precisely what the Big 12 needed to prove that its championship game matters and that the conference belongs in the CFP conversation even when its other flagship team in Austin is underperforming.
Baylor played a very good Oklahoma team twice this season and showed that it very much belonged on the field in both games.
In overtime, the Bears failed to convert on a fourth down to keep the game going. It was a crushing loss for the team that came so close.
Rhule won't count this or any other as a moral victory, either.
But as Baylor left the stadium to head back to Waco and prepare for a bowl game, there was a lot to celebrate.
In 2013 and 2014, the Bears sat at the top of the conference. They were regularly in the mix, a team to keep an eye on full of NFL prospects. Then-coach Art Briles had transformed the program into a winning one.
Just after the 2015 season, Briles — among others — was fired from the university amid sexual-assault allegations, Title IX violations and a report that claimed the football progam "acted above the rules."
A season later, the rest of Briles' staff cleared out. While many of them have landed at other universities, the stigma they carried from Baylor remains, as do so many questions about what exactly happened and who allowed it.
While Briles was shunned from college football — and others on his staff should have been — Baylor turned to Rhule, a coach far removed from Baylor, Texas and anyone involved in the scandal.
Rhule, who coached at Temple before taking the job in Waco, was highly sought after. He said the fit at Baylor seemed right. It was a place where he could make a difference.
He's done that.
Rhule isn't perfect and doesn't claim to be. Instead, he strives for transparency and goes all in on his players and the program.
He wants to win and also wants Baylor to be seen in a good light again.
Rhule believes in what he's doing. He's genuinely enjoying the role and it shows.
While he's pushing his team to focus on football, recruiting players to come to a revitalized program at Baylor and trying to move forward without forgetting the program's past mistakes, Briles has become an afterthought.
For years after his firing, Briles' strong following has defended his honor on social media, at games with signs of support and by continuing to speak out.
As the Bears kept improving on the field, those cries all got quieter.
Rhule showed he could run a program under a lot of scrutiny and win games while doing it.
Briles is at Mount Vernon, where he's experienced controversy with ineligible players in his first year of coaching at the small East Texas high school. When his name was brought up for the recent UTSA coaching vacancy, the athletic director quickly shut it down. His name has been linked to other coaching searches and he could end up at the college level again.
But the reputation of Briles and his Baylor assistants won't go away. And it's a tough one to shed.
Baylor still has work to do. The university still has pending lawsuits, victims it needs to attempt to care for (despite it being too late) and changes to make from the top down to ensure the safety and well-being of its students.
Hopefully, the school is as committed as it seems to be to do all of those things the right way.
One thing it can be proud of is the turnaround of its football program — an area that needed a fresh start.
Nothing will ever make what happened at Baylor OK. Dozens of brave victims have told their stories. Those are important and matter more than any football game ever will.
Still, this season the Bears have a lot to celebrate. On Saturday, despite coming up a win short of a Big 12 championship, it was clear the football team has turned it around.
Rhule took a terrible situation, committed to fixing it and put Baylor back into the conversation it wants to be in — one about winning football games.
And doing that the right way.
jenny.creech@chron.com
twitter.com/jennydialcreech
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Delfino Cruz
Delfino Cruz, Jr. passed from this life on December 22, 2021, at the age of 63. He was born November 3, 1958, in Lockhart to Delfino and Carmen Cruz. On July 22, 1977, he married Christina, and they shared 44 years together. He was a graduate of Lubbock High School and worked for 21 years at Sodexo in maintenance at Coronado High School. He attended Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church. Delfino enjoyed spending time with his family, attending all his children's and grandchildren's extracurricular activities. He enjoyed camping and was a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. He will be remembered for his big heart, his love for his family, and especially his love for his Babe. He was funny, loved to dance, and would make up silly songs and nicknames.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife Christina Cruz, three daughters Carmen Cruz (Thomas), Carolina Jaramillo, Crystal Cruz (Julian), nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild, sisters Mary Helen, Jase, Virginia, and Ernestine, and brothers George and Noe.
Delfino is preceded in death by his parents Delfino and Carmen Cruz, his brother Gabriel Cruz, his sisters Cecilia Rivero and Maria Cruz.
Pallbearers will include David Cruz, Nicholaus Paez, Ray Mojica, Jr., Jayson Jaramillo, Jaquin Sonia, and Julian Olivarez. Honorary pallbearers will include Seth Olivares and Ethan Cruz Vasquez.
Visitation will be held Thursday, December 30 from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. with the Holy Rosary Prayer at 7:00 p.m. at Guajardo Funeral Chapels.
The funeral mass will be held Friday, December 31 at 2:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church with Father Rudy Crasta officiating. Burial will follow at Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park.
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David Fincher: The Social Network (2010)--NYFF
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Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake in The Social Network: "This is our time!"
Algorithms and power
The Social Network, David Fincher's brilliant and timely new movie based on Ben Mezrich's book Accidental Billionaires, begins with a huge irony: The young founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, isn't social. And he isn't nice either. Not so indirectly, the film suggests that perhaps the brave new world of programming and Internet personal revelations is a corruption and downgrading of human interaction (as well as a systematic invasion of privacy). If computer nerds rule, our moral compass may be out of whack. The opening scene, packed with Aaron (West Wing) Sorkin's nasty-smart rapid-fire dialogue, shows both Mark Zuckerberg's steel trap intelligence and his total lack of human warmth. He's so coldly condescending toward his Boston U. girlfriend Erica Albright (Rooney Mara, who's to be the US Dragon Tattoo girl) that she decides right then to break up with him. She demolishes him with the closing lines: "Listen. You're going to be successful and rich, but you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a geek. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."
Facebook grows out of this insult. Stung, Mark rushes back to Kirkland house, his Harvard dorm, drunk, and begins blogging his resentments toward Erica and simultaneously writing Facemash, a website onto which he hacks Harvard girls' ID photos and puts them in pairs so students can pick which one they prefer. (Mark abandons an earlier idea of comparing girls with farm animals.) He has gotten the site completed by using an algorithm provided by his well-off friend Eduardo Savarin (Andrew Garfield), who will emerge as the most likable character in the film. In hours Facemash goes locally viral. It's October 28, 2003. This breach of Harvard security gets Mark six months' academic probation. It also makes him famous at Harvard. The patrician, rowing champion, final club member Winklevoss twins Cameron and Tyler (both played with panache by Armie Hammer) decide Mark is the man to construct the Harvard social network they have dreamed up. Mark is flattered at being invited to talk to what he later calls "the Winklevi" at Porcellian, Harvard's most elite club (though he was only allowed in the bike room). He's also impressed that the tall, godlike twins "work out." In the verbal sparring with Erica he has talked about the desirability of entering an exclusive Harvard club. (Note: the real Mark Zuckerberg has denied that he ever wanted to join such a club, and the film omits mention that he not only graduated from an exclusive Eastern prep school, Phillips Exeter, but was captain of the fencing team there.)
The twins ask Mark to build their site and he agrees. But Mark thinks bigger -- and tells no one. He strings the twins and their pal Divya Narendra (Max Minghella) along for weeks with stalling emails. (We start getting this through inter-cut scenes of legal meetings when the principals in the events are deposed.) But he has realized the idea is too good not to steal. Facemash is replaced by what is at first called "The" Facebook. Eduardo remains Mark's business partner, but Mark does not share everything with him.
All this happens very fast, almost too fast to think -- this is the smart, competitive world of East Coast colleges where the pace is brutal and the stakes are high. There are juicy images of Ivy League party times. "The" Facebook spreads to other colleges. Eduardo's story is a foil for Mark's. He's Facebook's chief financial officer, but he's a nice guy, a guy who reaches out. He gets into some trouble, while punching for another final club, Phoenix, exposed in the Harvard Crimson for feeding a chicken chicken meat in a restaurant as part of club initiation. Later Mark's accused of tipping off the Crimson to discredit Eduardo. The friends eventually aren't.
There are many actors, including producer Douglas Urbanski as Harvard president Larry Summers, who haughtily rebuffs the Winkelvoss's request to intercede on their behalf for what they see as Mark's stealing their idea. Mark says the twins don't deserve recognition as co-creators of the site and are just upset because once in their life things haven't gone their way. The other major figure in the movie is Sean Parker (a lively Justin Timberlake), Napster's bad boy creator. As Sorkin's screenplay depicts it, Parker is a main cause of Eduardo's greatly reduced role and eventual expulsion and humiliation. But Parker is an ally and protector of Mark's interests. He knows Mark is onto something huge, and gets him bigger funding and dreams of moving Facebook not only beyond colleges and out into the rest of the USA, but to other continents. All this while Mark is still working with a mere $19,000 investment. It's Parker who, at a sushi lunch, with two sexy girls who've latched onto Eduardo and Mark, stuns them with the word "billionaire" -- and also says Mark has got to move to California, to Silicon Valley, home of the young Web rich. The big split comes when Eduardo spends a summer in New York ostensibly as a financial intern, and Mark moves out to Palo Alto.
The final focus of the movie, which makes much of the conflicts between Zuckerberg and the twins and Savarin through the deposition scenes where they confront each other at various stages, is on Mark's loneliness. He has millions of "friends," but nobody likes him. He's gained the whole world and lost his own soul -- if he ever had one. Yet he's not unsympathetic. And partly his loneliness is the loneliness of genius. He has not only gained the whole world -- which he doesn't care about: both the movie Mark and the real one are indifferent to money -- but he has changed it.
The settlements are various. No one present at the creation of Facebook has wound up a pauper. Though Mark's lack of connectedness is a theme, he's neither Machiavellian nor cruel, just cut off from people. On a Facebook page (!) about Eduardo Savarin, we learn that, "He owns a 5% share of Facebook, worth US$1.1 billion as of May 13, 2010." The twins, their father, and their partner Divvya Narendra, one source says, received a settlement that including Facebook shares is now worth around $121 million. The twins also came in sixth in the last Olympic rowing competition, and are still in training.
The movie has a subtly distinctive look that can best be called muted. Without forcing anything, Fincher and his crew bring dialogue to life without any artificial jazzing up. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's music blends nicely with ambient sound, which is often important. Great skill is exercised in conveying young people talking in loud party or club settings while still keeping tricky dialogue audible. Needless to say, Eisenberg anchors the piece amazingly. He showed in Holy Rollers that he could give life to a nerdy, peculiar guy; that ability explodes here, with an impersonation that is creepy, funny, stunning, and sometimes appealing. Garfield is equally good as a kind of foil, an innocent, but warm and when needed, combative. Timberlake creates a character that is not only wild and dangerous but smart and relatively worldly wise.
Fincher's movie relies heavily on Aaron Sorkin's writing, which makes characters and events come to life. A criticism is that the witty dialogue is so infectious all the characters begin to talk the same "Sorkin-speak." But Sorkin has a great knack for depicting power struggles among rapidly changing and spreading events. This is above all a series of riveting scenes with great, memorable dialogue. Erica's initial put-down is just one of a host of zingers. This is a classic story of greed, jealousy, and rapacious free enterprise. It may metastasize faster in the world of x's and o's, but it's old-fashioned Americana. Besides this we get character studies of boys growing into men that is a whole set of coming-of-age tales, but above all an ensemble piece. This is not a "biopic." Actually, we don't know who Mark Zuckerberg is, or who any of the main players are. That means some controversy, but that only tightens the movie's vice-grip on the zeitgeist. The Social Network is not only one of the best American films of the year but one of the most significant.
Seen and reviewed as part of the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, where it was the Opening Night film September 24, 2010. The Social Network opens wide in US and Canadian theaters October 1, 2010. Facebook is everywhere, and this film will open in at least 29 other countries over time. It's probably going to make Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake (already famous anyway) as well known as Mark Zuckerberg, or more so.
Todd McCarthy's review on his IndieWIRE site Deep Focus. David Denby's eulogistic piece in The New Yorker, Oct. 4, 2010, "Influencing people, David Fincher and 'The Social Network'," calls it a lot of flattering things.
YouTube videos (5) of NYFF press and industry Q&A with Sorkin, Fincher, Eisenberg, Garfield, and Timberlake Sept. 24, 2010 begin here.
A "making of" begins here.


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Q: Android MediaPlayer unexpectedly stops playback (without being finalized) I just stumbled across problem with it's this not-so-obvious solution and thought it might be helpful to some if I share my findings.
There are lots of similar questions but they didn't help me solve mine. (are different)
I have a activity that plays a video with sound, then displays an image for 3 seconds, then displays an animated mapview for 10 seconds and then plays another video.

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*video1 (~60sec)

*image (~3sec)

*animated mapview (~10sec)

*video2 (~30sec)

the arose when trying to play audio from the moment the first video finished.
the audio played fine for the duration of the mapview, then stopped.
I tried all sorts of scenarios but the music always stopped when something changed, although some combinations worked (e.g. without map and video2 (just blackscreen instead)).
I did take a very close look at all the logs but didnt find anything helpful.
The issue is not that the mediaplayer is being gc'd or finalized somehow before finishing.
private static MediaPlayer mediaplayer;

and in OnCreate:
    mediaplayer = new MediaPlayer();
    AudioFocusRequest.Builder mp;
    mediaplayer.setAudioAttributes(
            new AudioAttributes
                    .Builder()
                    .setContentType(AudioAttributes.CONTENT_TYPE_MUSIC)
                    .build());
    try {
        mediaplayer.setDataSource(getApplicationContext(), Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.audio));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Log.e("audio_management","error trying to set data source for audio");
    }
    try {
        mediaplayer.prepare();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        Log.e("audio_management","error preparing");
    }

Here's an example of how I play the videos
        z.schedule(new TimerTask() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    playPart2();
                }
            });
        }
    }, PARTONELENGTH + MAPDISPLAYTIME + IMAGEDISPLAYTIME);

and this is the playPart2() function:
    public void playPart2() {
    ImageView imgbg =  findViewById(R.id.imageView);
    ImageView agO = findViewById(R.id.agent1);
    ImageView agTw =  findViewById(R.id.agent2);
    ImageView agTh =  findViewById(R.id.agent3);
    ImageView agFo =  findViewById(R.id.agent4);
    ImageView agFi =  findViewById(R.id.agent5);
    ImageView agSi = findViewById(R.id.agent6);
    VideoView player =  findViewById(R.id.videoView);
    MapView mMap = findViewById(R.id.map);

    mMap.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    imgbg.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    agO.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    agTw.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    agTh.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    agFo.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    agFi.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    agSi.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
    player.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

    Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.part2);
    player.setVideoURI(uri);
    player.start();
}

I really dont know what is going on - I 've read through all the documentation concerning MediaPlayer and VideoViews. It says that it is possible to output 2 streams of audio at the same time. But it doesnt work.

A: turns out the videoView starting playback somehow paused the mediaplayer.
what solved the problem was just calling mediaplayer.start() again. it did resume where it had stopped all the times before. the (apparently existing) short break in playback is not noticeable.
why is this behaviour of mediaplayer/videoview not mentioned anywhere?
issue-solving-code:
        z.schedule(new TimerTask() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    playPart2();
                    mediaplayer.start();
                }
            });
        }
    }, PARTONELENGTH + MAPDISPLAYTIME + IMAGEDISPLAYTIME);


I remember when my older daughter first got her glasses when she was about eight years old. We were driving home from the optometrist's office and she looked out the car window at a stop light and said, "Wow, Dad, I can see the individual leaves on the trees!" The world had come into focus for her -- illustrating the need for and the power of focus. Clarity of vision, prioritization and the elimination of distractions produce a clear, compelling picture of goals that those with Focus naturally create and then continue to work to achieve. There is an inherent concentration in Focus that blocks out all the noise -- both literally and figuratively. It is not uncommon for students with strong Focus talents to be able to study anywhere, anytime, tuning out all the noise and distractions that would impede the concentration of most others. Focus sees the end goal and then sets out to achieve it. Those high in Focus like to get a lot accomplished, but make conscious decisions about which tasks to undertake; only tasks that get them closer to the goal are worth completing.
• You create goals, prioritize and set a direction. This not only helps you make and keep track of your progress but also is an advantage for the teams you are a part of.
• You plan your work -- and work your plan -- creating timelines and setting milestones. This keeps you and your team moving forward.
• You have an innate ability to tune out distractions. This allows you to "keep your eyes on the prize" and get results -- for yourself and your team.
• As a team leader, you help the team raise the bar and set stretch goals. Efficiency and productivity increase as you help your team reach the next level.
• You can get so engrossed in what you are doing that you may often neglect the needs of others -- especially if you are a team leader. Be intentional about scheduling time to connect with the members of your team.
• Your intense single-mindedness in pursuit of a goal may blind you to alternatives that would more efficiently and effectively gain you the results you seek. You may "ram the wall" over and over again until you break through -- not considering that it might be better to go around, under or over it.
• Because of your intense Focus, you may be perceived as inflexible and unwilling to consider new information -- once your mind is made up, you tend to "go for it." Be intentional about seeking input from others and exploring new options.
• You may be perceived as "aloof and unapproachable" -- even if you have an "open door" policy. An open-door policy is effective only if you notice when someone is at the door. Situate your workstation so it faces the door -- so you can see who's there.
• The Power and Edge of Focus: Those with Focus among their Signature Themes are able to set goals and prioritize actions that will help them achieve their goals. They determine what they want to accomplish and then set out to make it happen.
• The Vulnerabilities of Focus: With their single-minded intensity, those with strong Focus can fail to take in and apply new information that would make them even more effective. They also may be so intent on accomplishing their priorities that they shortchange their relationships with others.
• How do you assess, keep track of and adjust your priorities?
• What has been your greatest success -- either at work or in your personal life? How did your Focus talents contribute to that success?
• When was a recent time that you helped someone set goals and create steps to achieve them? What was the result?
• How do you know you are achieving the right outcomes? How do you incorporate new information into your prioritization process?
• What is your biggest challenge right now? How are you prioritizing people, time and resources to meet this challenge?
• What situation at work or in your personal life is scattered, distracted and suffering from unclear goals? How can you help? How will you help?
• What relationships in your life need your focused attention? How will you make these relationships a priority so they get the attention they deserve from you?


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The story of the month for February 2011 comes from Unity J. Schmidt Healing with Unity.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Unity a few years ago, and be part of her incredible transformational journey of health and healing, into optimal wellness. Unity's story is one that addresses such important concepts of how our current medical system is often times more invasive and disruptive to the natural balance and healing ability of our bodies, than beneficial, and the benefits and power of natural healing modalities.
Most important Unity's message shines brightly for each of us to listen to our own inner guidance system. Listen to your body. She is living proof of the power proper nutrition, movement, water and most importantly an open mind have on the state of our health and wellness.
It's been a long journey. One that began when I was younger than I can remember. It started years ago when I was just a baby and was diagnosed with juvenile rheumotoid arthritis. Of course, that had the medical community poking and peering all around me (so to speak), and my parents hard-wired-focused on my health and wellness. And as you can imagine, from almost the very beginning I found myself mistrusting, skeptical, and almost instantaneously disenchanted by every promise made by the modern medical community (positive and negative): the pills, the splints, the physiotherapy, the cortisone shots, and so forth.
The first time I said a firm "No," to the choices presented to me was when I was being wheeled around in a wheelchair and they (the doctors) were about to do knee surgery (I was 7 years old). I felt a strong voice within me say, "No. They can't do that. If they do, you'll never be able to walk the same again." I shared that voice with my Mom with an intensity that I'll never forget. And I was blessed to have a Mom who listened to her 7-year old daughter, even though I know she was just as frightened as me.
Fast forward through the years, more drugs (aspirin, sulfasalazine, gold treatments, prednisone (steroids), methotrexate) more physio, more splints, and finally, in highschool I said "No" to them all. I wasn't seeing any positive differences, but I was experiencing the side effects: nausea, stomach pain, joint deformity, weight gain, to name a few, and I was hearing the warnings about the future, "You won't be able to get pregnant or plan a family on this drug. Your child would be at high risk of being born with major birth defects." It just wasn't making sense what was happening to me. The crazy ride had begun when I was just over 1 year of age. I knew it wasn't a ride I planned on staying on and I was determined to get off, to reclaim my life, and to figure out why this journey was mine and what I could do with it. Anyhow, the path's definitely been a long and winding one, but where I am today is very exciting and quite different from where I started years ago!
The number one strategy for change, may sound cliche to some, but for myself, it's been very true: follow your heart's inner guidance system. If there are areas in your life that are unsettling, stressful, or unhealthy in any way, then access from your heart why these areas exist and then begin to search out what steps you can take to begin the healing process. When you do, the answers will come, and if you ignore them, they will continue to come again and again!
For myself, I'd already been down the road of doctor's, hospitals and modern pharmaceuticals, and that just wasn't the answer for me. Where I really began having success, was the day I walked away from that 'already decided' approach, and instead decided for myself to open up every other limitless potential of alternative healing pathways that were available.
I started by deepening my relationship with Great Creator and sacred space. And then I continued to follow my heart. From that sacred space, I was led to a wealth of healing modalities and beautiful friendships that led me to guided chakra meditations to naturopathic therapies, to reiki energy to angel therapy, from psychic awareness and mediumship practices to shamanic medicine and sound healing, and the list continues.
From the path of a healer, I continually sought new sacred wisdom. And so I saw Great Creation bring up again and again Nutrition and body movement. But to be honest, I didn't trust either category. I'd heard and experienced too many false promises as a child, so I didn't believe any hype regarding something I ate or placed into my body, little alone trust into how I should move my body. This would be the next transition, the next metamorphosis of healing that would take years for my heart and mind to be ready to embrace and fully awaken to. But like it happens with everyone on a path of healing, the messages I was asked to share to others, were also the messages Source was attempting to share with me.
I began to find myself receiving visions, encountering book after book, and consistently hearing clairaudient information on healing remedies revolving around nutrition and movement. The angels, signs and synchronicities kept sharing: Give yourself healthy waters. Return to the earth for healing. Give your body the nutrients it needs to grow anew. Detoxify your life.
Then suddenly, here I was, finally ready to receive the messages I was delivering but not yet engaging upon in full embodiment. This has meant so many lifestyle changes, yet two of the most paramount ones were water and food consciousness.
For over a year now, our family (myself, my husband, and our son and daughter) only drink and cook with natural spring water which we actually drive out into the woods to collect. It's rather funny because this natural spring is only a winding road away from the holistic clinic where I conduct the in-person healing sessions with my clients.
Within months of changing our water source, we also heard the call (my husband is quite intuitive and wise) to transition into a vegetarian lifestyle. And from there, we've been called to incorporate healthy elixirs, healing tonics, grounding/earthing technology, magnesium baths, essential oils, super foods and herbs, and raw food into our lifestyle approach as well!
The difference between the woman I am today, and the woman I was becoming years ago are night and day! My body is stronger, healthier and happier than it ever was before. Years ago, when I was on all those drugs (which the doctor's warned I should never just drop) I was stiff, suffering from joint inflammation, and at times, afraid of the future ahead. Now, I'm happy to greet the day, to be jumped upon for morning hugs and kisses by our little ones, and to start off with a raw cacao healing elixir and a nature walk DVD while rebounding on a mini-trampoline! Who knew? I can't help but laugh as I think about the change. What a gift!
My energy is clearer and continues to strengthen and brighten daily. My knees and soul move me through life with new reliability and assurance. And my vision as a healer, a wife, and a mother, are to continue to evolve, to firewalk, and to deepen my own experiences as a healer healing, as a wife loving, and as a mother setting the course for the two greatest miracles life will ever bestow upon me. I am truly blessed because I simply decided to let the blessings arrive (and to take action)!
I plan on continuing this walk of truth from the space of sacred love and consciousness. I plan on continually growing the inner landscape in every avenue possible, that matches the vibration that I feel inside. I envision myself as getting even stronger and healthier, as incorporating hot yoga into my lifestyle design, learning more and more yummy, nutritious recipes that my children will scramble over and that no one will ever have to feel guilty about.
As a woman committed to healing, I must always work towards healing myself, and exploring every element of sacred potential with a visionary heart to succeed, to share, and to change my life and the lives of those around me, with compassion and openness at the forefront of every frontier – body, mind, emotion, soul and cosmic Universe.
Lastly, you can achieve it, and you can do so with joy! If you are not finding that joy on your walk of healing, then ask yourself, "What is holding me back?" "What work can I do to release my fears and my energetic blocks?" And dust off and sparkle up that vision of yourself succeeding, healing, and sprinting along the road of success. And please, trust yourself, do open your heart to trust the possibilities that are merely a footstep away!


I am the 9th of 10 children in a big, Mormon family. My childhood consisted of rooms with two sets of bunk beds, recipes that needed quadrupling, lunches made assembly style, and lots and lots of love. There is a 14 year age gap between the youngest and oldest sibling which meant there were always 3 or 4 siblings attending the same school at one time. We grew up very close and when my parents divorced when I was 12, the 10 of us grew even closer. That's why it breaks my heart a little more each time I miss out on witnessing the most important ceremony of their lives. 7 of my 9 siblings have been married in the temple so far and I haven't witnessed a single one. I've missed 7 yeses, the equivalent of 7 "I do's", and I'll never get that back. Initially, because of my age, and now because of my worthiness, I've been deemed the eternal babysitter. I wait outside with a baby on each hip, doing my best to wrench apart 3 fighting toddlers, trying my hardest not to think about what I'm missing.


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Forbes interviews Stephanie McMahon and Triple H
Forbes.com has an interview with WWE's power couple – Triple H and his wife Stephanie McMahon.
HHH talked about the Attitude Era, describing it as "wild and crazy time" but a lot of fun due to a bit of "a free reign" that he and others such as The Rock and Steve Austin enjoyed.
When the two were asked what keeps the fire burning between the two of them, Stephanie said she couldn't answer that one publicly, but her husband immediately fired back an answer.
"A big log. It keeps the fire burning," the former champ joked.
You can read the two-page interview at http://onforb.es/13BlSpB.
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The season of Lent, 2022
At Mildmay Mission Hospital the focus for our chapel and zoom prayer services during this Lent is the plight of the people of Ukraine, and indeed, the people of Russia. We pray that this atrocious war will cease and that the Ukrainians can return to their own country where everything has changed and so much of life, for them, will never be the same.
What does Lent mean?
Lent, in the Christian tradition, is a period of about six weeks before Easter. It is a time in which Christians are supposed to be quiet and thoughtful, preparing themselves for Easter. We are invited to reflect more, to pray, to give to others of our time and, what we can and perhaps to give up some of the things they might otherwise do for pleasure.
What do the 40 days of Lent represent?
Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. Lent recalls the events leading up to and including Jesus' death.
How is Lent different from the rest of the year?
Some people do count the Sundays in Lent toward the 40 days. However, those that do not argue that, although Lent is a season of fasting, every Sunday in the Christian year is a feast day. Every Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
What happens in the first week of Lent?
The scripture reading from this Sunday was taken from Luke's gospel, relating to us the story about of the temptations of Christ; a timely reminder that we are not in total control and that it is wholesome to recognise this fact and reflect on it during this week
A letter from Pope Francis given 6 March First Sunday of Lent
Rivers of blood and tears are flowing in Ukraine. It is not merely a military operation, but a war, which sows death, destruction and misery. The number of victims is increasing, as are the people fleeing, especially mothers and children. The need for humanitarian assistance in that troubled country is growing dramatically by the hour.
I make a heartfelt appeal for humanitarian corridors to be genuinely secured, and for aid to be guaranteed and access facilitated to the besieged areas, in order to offer vital relief to our brothers and sisters oppressed by bombs and fear.
I thank all those who are taking in refugees. Above all, I implore that the armed attacks cease and that negotiation - and common sense - prevail. And that international law be respected once again!
And I would also like to thank the journalists who put their lives at risk to provide information. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for this service, a service that allows us to be close to the tragedy of that population and enables us to assess the cruelty of a war!
Thank you, brothers and sisters.


The Four Winds Society, an international research and training organization, is preserving a thousand year old tradition of knowledge to achieve personal and planetary healing. Founded by psychologist and medical anthropologist Dr. Alberto Villoldo, The Four Winds Society provides a scientific framework through which we can learn the ancient art of energy medicine. Our Healing the Light Body School trains practitioners in luminous healing, and our Master Practitioner of Soul Retrieval and Destiny Retrieval program offers certification in destiny work, the path to discovering a client's high calling.


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Repent?
His Word
Embarking
How Big?
Wright on Evolution
Trees of Life
Ape to Man?
Creation Timetable
Early Genealogy
Kingdom BC
Where Is the King?
A Psalm and Prayer
Progress of History
Pattern of History
Noah and the Flood
Abraham in Caanan
Jacob becomes Israel
Moses and the Exodus
1500-600 BC
600 to 5 BC
Jesus 5 BC – 30 AD
Jesus or Yeshua?
Ministry 27-30 AD
Living Teachings
The Way In
Proclaimed Teachings
Kingdom Parables
Life Parables
Miracles and Wonders
Passion Week+
Kingdom AD
30 to 2000 AD
Pentecost 30 AD
Expansion 30-100 AD
Growth 100- 500 AD
Early 500-1000 AD
High 1000-1300 AD
Late 1300-1500 AD
Discovery, 1500-1650
Enlightenment 1650+
Late Modern, 1800+
Postmodern, 1960-2000
Epitaph or Epilogue?
End-Time Timetable
2000 AD to End
Agape & Eros
Now and Onward
Thoughts About Now
Next Omega
Compiler Biography
Website Backstory
His Kingdom Press
Stage 6: 5 BC to 30 AD – The Life of Jesus
You'll notice that everything in Chart 6 above, which focuses entirely on the remarkable life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, is highlighted and and marked in bold red to be examined in more detail in the following pages. In keeping with the timeline scheme we've been following this singular time period is known as Stage 6 and marks the central turning point which divides world history into BC ("before Christ") and AD (Anno Domini – "in the year of the Lord"). These identifiers have been secularized as BCE (before current era) and CE (current era) without altering the world-changing significance of the turning point.
The present Kingdom
Then the King Himself comes to Earth! Jesus, Son of God, opens His ministry with these words: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1.15). In Vaughan Roberts' words, "God's king had come to establish God's Kingdom". He teaches about God's Kingdom and demonstrates God's sovereign power through His miracles. His death and resurrection strikes the decisive blow against Satan and deals fully with sin and all its fallout. His victory paves the way for God's Kingdom to come in power.
A Remarkable Savior
The arrival of Yeshua (יֵשׁוּעַ – which means "Savior" or "Deliverer" in Hebrew and is transliterated as "Jesus" from the Greek Iesous) was foreseen by the Old Testament prophets, foretold by an archangel, recognized by His mother and close associates, heralded by a heavenly host of angels, and honored by simple townspeople as well as devoted servants in Jerusalem and educated seers who traveled from afar. He was sovereignly protected from the jealous wrath of Herod the Great and raised in a simple home in Nazareth of Galilee as the presumed son of a local carpenter.
Only when he had been called and set apart, immersed in the Jordan by John the Baptist, filled with the Holy Spirit, found victorious through a grueling 40-day spiritual battle, and launched into an anointed ministry of proclamation and miraculous demonstration did it become clear to virtually everyone that something dramatically remarkable had happened. For many He was an answer to their prayers that God would send His promised Savior to Israel with love, truth, healing, and salvation. For others Jesus presented a very serious threat to their authority. As John reports:
John 7:40-46 – When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" The officers answered, "No one ever spoke like this man!"
Think for a moment about all the famous people who have lived and died throughout human history. Can you identify anyone who has been able to say and do so much in 3 brief years of public life? Has anyone else's life had the profound and lasting impact that the life of His has had? As the result of Jesus' brief ministry and the power in which He came, the world is now filling up with Christian churches, ministries, human services of compassion, and cultural evidences of the life and teachings of this remarkable man. According to recent global statistics, approximately one-third of the world's population (nearly 2.4 billion people) identify as Christians. What do we know of the man whose ministry, truth, and witness spawned and inspired such an amazingly vibrant and robust following? The most authoritative source of definitive information about His life can be found in the contemporaneous accounts of four of His early followers in what are known as the Four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Even what has been written and preserved in these accounts only captures the highlights, however, as John noted:
John 21:25 – Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
The Scope of our Narrative
What we will be able to cover within the broad scope of this website will only be only an introduction to the monumental birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection of the Savior of the World, a subject that can occupy a lifetime of prayer, study, and devotion. While reading what's here, it may be helpful to begin or deepen your commitment to studying the Bible in an organized way on a regular basis, perhaps starting with the overlapping and corroborative testimonies recorded in the Gospel accounts (see Guide to the Four Gospels). It's also a very helpful commitment to join or continue with others in the fellowship of a believing church where you can grow in your appreciation, knowledge, and trust of the God of the Universe.
Navigation Notes
By continuing to use the Up and Down buttons in the middle you can navigate directly through our timelines. In this section I have further subdivided the material in Chart 6 into three main time periods: Life to age 30, Ministry from age 30-33, and Passion Week. For each timeline we will continue taking a detour using the side buttons to investigate all the events and topics noted on the current chart. In the Ministry period we will look more closely at Jesus' amazing public witness about the Kingdom of God with separate pages on His teachings, parables, and miracles with illustrative examples of each.
600-5 BC
God Incarnate Is Light!


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Mos Cafe offers a comprehensive a la carte lunch and dinner menu which is a favourite among Sydney's financial and law professions. A contemporary breakfast menu and bar license allows Mos Café to provide a unique experience in Sydney's CBD.
Mos Café's chef'ss have a natural flair for producing the finest modern Australian cuisine with Mediterranean and Asian influences. The buzzing atmosphere and the impeccable service keeps our customers returning in addition to a fabulous seasonal menu.
Mos has a team of chef's dedicated to producing fine modern cuisine with an emphasis on using the best local produce. Standout signature dishes utilising Australian produce are the foundation of Mos Cafe creating a unique culinary experience in Sydney's fast paced CBD.
Mos Cafe has a unique setting for a breakfast with a difference in the heart of the down town. With our famous eggs hollandaise and omelettes coupled with our private blend coffee, Mos Café is also popular for business meeting breakfasts or long extended breakfasts in the sun on the forecourt.
The cafe's sandstone, marble and glass interior spills out onto a wide, open forecourt, making it a perfect outdoor dining venue whether it be a business lunch meeting, pre-theatre dinner or group dining experience. The café's sleek interior has a stylish bar and a communal table made from 4000 year old ancient red gum.
Mos Cafe is fully licensed with an extensive but predominantly Australian wine list that will cater for all tastes and 30 available by the glass. Coupled with a modern cocktail and champagne list and a 'drink only' bar license Mos Cafe is a fantastic setting for any celebration or after work drinks.
Positioned in the heart of the financial district and captures Sydney's historical past being located on the site of the earliest foundations of British colonisation. Moments from Circular Quay, the harbour Bridge, the Opera House and the city's buzzing nightlife.
Ideally located at the Museum of Sydney, the public transport terminals for ferries, buses and trains located at Circular Quay are a short stroll to MoS Café. There is metered parking available in the surrounding streets and also in nearby parking stations at the InterContinental Hotel, The Sir Stamford Hotel and Young Street.


In honor of Valentine's day, here are a couple of paintings I did a few years before I actually got around to sculpting Watermelon Man. It's an image I've been creating and doing variations on as far back as 1994. Enjoy!


When I was in the UK in August I was lucky enough to be invited to read at one of the Unsung Stories gigs with awesome talents Malcolm Devlin, Rob Boffard and Elie Lee.
The noise file is now available.
I'm reading a new story, "The Red Forest", which will be out in my new short story collection from PS Publishing, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales. Big thanks to Olivia at Jo Fletcher Books and the lads at Unsung Stories for organising this, and to Haralambi Markov for his excellent critting of the story.
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