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Q: Bounds of the probability of weakly typical set Theorem 3.1.2 of the book Elements of Information theory states:
\begin{align}
Pr\{A_\epsilon^{(n)}\} > 1 - \epsilon
\end{align}
The bound becomes weaker as $\epsilon$ increases. From the definition of $A_\epsilon^{(n)}$ it seems that more and more sequences are included as $\epsilon$ increases so the probability should increase. So the two results seem to contradict each other. Obviously, the theorem will still hold but it seems to me that this is a side effect of simplifying the notation by choosing $\delta = \epsilon$ in the proof below. Am I correct in saying that in reality the probability increases as $\epsilon$ increases, or am I misunderstanding something?

A: Notice that the inequality is only valid "for $n$ sufficiently large".
Granted this, you are right.

Am I correct in saying that in reality the probability increases as $\epsilon$ increases, or am I misunderstanding something?

For a fixed $n$, yes, of course, $Pr\{A_\epsilon^{(n)}\} $ increases as $\epsilon$ increases.
From this point of view it's perhaps perplexing that the bound goes in the other direction, but this (a consequence of choosing $\delta=\epsilon$ - an arbitrary but valid choosing, which "will conveniently simplify notation later") doesn't matter. In that context, we are only interested in what happens for large $n$ and small $\epsilon$.

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Xavier guard Trevon Bluiett, right, played a key role in the Musketeers' upset of Maryland and hopes to lead the team past Florida State for a spot in the Sweet 16.
Trevon Bluiett's success can be tracked back way before he stepped foot at Xavier.
Growing up in Indianapolis, he was pushed by his father and coach, Reynardo Bluiett.
He was tough on Trevon Bluiett. The practices were never easy, but they instilled confidence in Bluiett.
Xavier is reaping the rewards.
Bluiett is leading the charge for 11-seeded Xavier as the Musketeers prepare for a showdown against No. 3 seed Florida State Saturday at 6:10 p.m. in the Amway Center with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.
He leads Xavier in scoring, averaging 18.2 points per game. The junior was named a first team All-Big East selection for the second time in as many years on March 5.
Bluiett was also named to the Big East All-Tournament Team for the second consecutive season after averaging 19.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in three games.
"I've known Trevon since he was a freshman in high school, and he's been a terrific player at every step of the way," Xavier coach Chris Mack said. "I think his game just continues to evolve.
But even with Bluiett's success, he's had his doubters.
They say he's not athletic enough. That he's a one-dimensional player.
Bluiett has learned to ignore the critics.
His teammates witness Bluiett's talent daily in practice.
Freshman forward Tyrique Jones quickly found out Bluiett is hard to stop.
Junior guard J.P. Macura still has trouble defending Bluiett.
Bluiett showed Maryland just how good he is on Thursday. He scored 18 of his 21 points in the second half on 6 of 7 shooting as the Musketeers upset the sixth-seeded Terrapins 76-65.
It'll be up to Bluiett to lead Xavier against an athletic FSU team. The Seminoles will focus on him and try to slow him down.
However, he's confident Xavier can overcome and move onto the next round.


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Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro creates another haunting movie that leaves you questioning your sense of reality. El Orfanato revolves around a mother tries desperately to find her missing adopted son soon after her and her husband move into her old orphanage. But the past horrors of the orphanage will not let her son be found so easily.
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This movie is like thriller-candy. It is full of twists, it is very atmospheric, and in nicely predictable fashion it will deliver that excitement rush we (most of us) love. Accused of murder, a wealthy entrepreneur hires the best witness preparation expert he can find. They have three hours before the trial to come up with the most solid, plausible defence. But ?, a new witness surfaces. Don't expect anything overly original, but expect to be entertained.
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A heart-wrenching tribute to victims of natural disasters that is one of despair, suffering, and hope. And it wouldn't be so damning if it weren't based off a true story surrounding the tragedy that killed more than 230,000 people. Boxing Day 2004 was one of the most memorable dates for wedded couple, Henry (Ewan McGregor) and Maria (Naomi Watts, for an Oscar nominated performance). Just two days prior, they arrived at Orchid Beach Resort in Thailand to celebrate the Christmas holidays together with their three children. After a squabble with the crew regarding their room reservations, they are granted the privilege of staying in a peaceful villa and all seems to be well. Nature had other plans in mind, though, and facing it head-on is the bittersweet reality.
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Virginia Beach Neptune Festival's 2017 "Symphony By The Sea" Series Begins in July. Symphony By The Sea concert dates are 7/6, 7/27, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24 and 9/7, and take place in Neptune's Park, 31st Street at the Oceanfront, 7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m. For more information call 757-498-0215 or visit www.NeptuneFestival.com. Rain dates, if needed, will be announced at a later time.
(Virginia Beach, VA) – Under the watchful eye of King Neptune, beachfront pops will once again fill the air with six magical evenings of music by the sea as the Neptune Festival's Symphony by the Sea concert series, presented by The Breeden Company, gets underway in July. The first concert in the series of six dates features the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and is scheduled for July 7th. Three additional concerts by The Virginia Symphony Orchestra and two concerts performed by Symphonicity, the Virginia Beach Orchestra will take place through September 7 with the final concert also featuring fireworks over the Atlantic.
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The Virginia Beach Neptune Festival is a private, non-profit 501-C3 organization, producing over 40 events per year. The Festival has an annual operating budget of $2.1 million, which is derived through corporate sponsorships, admission tickets, merchandise sales, and site revenues. The high quantity and wide range of sponsors and non-profit partnerships contribute to the charitable, educational, cultural, recreational, and economic development of the Hampton Roads region. Events annually generate approximately $18 million in economic impact, approximately $700,000 of direct municipal taxes, and shares over $100,000 with partnering charitable organizations such as EQUI-KIDS, The Governor's School for the Arts, Toby's Dream Foundation, Achievable Dream Foundation, Virginia Beach Rotary, Town Center Kiwanis Club, Virginia Beach Police Foundation, Virginia Beach Jaycees, and Virginia Musical Theater, among others. The Festival has vast geographic coverage and is well respected in the special events industry as demonstrated by the consistent recognition of its flagship event Neptune Festival Boardwalk Weekend, as one of the Top 100 Events in North America by the ABA and among the Top 20 Events in the Southeastern US by the Southeast Tourism Society. Neptune Festival Boardwalk Weekend 2017 is Friday, September 29th – Sunday, October 1st and is among the largest annual special events in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The weekend's signature event, Neptune's International Sandsculpting Championship is considered one of the best competitions of its kind in the country. For more information on the 44th Annual Neptune Festival, please call the Festival office at 757-498-0215 or 1-866-NEP-FEST or visit www.neptunefestival.com.


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Jezebel in KingsJezebel and BaalJezebel: a woman of power?A woman-at-the-windowA woman wrongly accused?Further reading
Jezebel is presented as the most ruthless and evil queen in Israel's history, who turned the people to the worship of false gods, slaughtered the prophets of YHWH, the god of Israel, and led others to do evil as well.
Her name, more correctly "I-zebel," means "where is the prince," which was a ritual cry honouring Baal in worship ceremonies during times of the year when he was thought to be absent in the underworld.
Jezebel in Kings
Read 1 Kgs 16:30-33; 18-19; 21; 2 Kgs 9:30-37.
She is introduced in 1 Kgs 16:31 as the wife of Ahab, son of Omri and the King of Israel – the Northern Kingdom. Jezebel was a Phoenician princess, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Tyre (as "Sidonians" in 1 Kgs 16:31 means Phoenicians more generally). The marriage would have cemented the alliance between the Omride dynasty and Tyre. Jezebel is presented as a devoted worshipper of the Phoenician deities Baal and Asherah, and a bitter adversary of YHWH and persecutor of his prophets.
Ahab's marriage to Jezebel is presented as a highpoint of sin. 1 Kgs 16:30-33 reports that he did more evil that all the kings who went before him. Like them he followed 'the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat', that is (probably) the worship of YHWH in the form of the 'calves' at Bethel and Dan (1 Kgs 12:25-33), which the Deuteronomistic editor of Kings denounces as the sin of each and all of the kings of Israel. But then, 'as if this was not enough', he married Jezebel, went and served Baal and made an Asherah (a wooden post or sacred 'tree' used to worship the goddess Asherah), which "angered YHWH." Thus his worship of these deities is presented as the direct result of his marriage to her.
In the story, Jezebel seems to wield considerable power and influence over Israel in her own right, almost like a co-regent with Ahab. She exterminates prophets (1 Kgs 18:4, 13; 19:2), and personally orders the elders to execute Naboth in 1 Kgs 21, so that his vineyard can be seized as royal property. The 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah eat at her table, not Ahab's, in 1 Kgs 18:19; so she seems to have her own court, as well as the financial means to maintain it. But the most remarkable sign of her influence, though it is not spelt out, is that in 1 Kgs 18 Elijah has to fight for Israel to retain YHWH, rather than Baal, as their God, and complains in 19:14 that they have deserted YHWH.
She is killed in the coup by Jehu against Ahab's son Joram (2 Kgs 9:30-37), ordered by Jehu to be thrown down from the window where she is looking out. This is said to fulfil the prophecy of Elijah in 1 Kgs 21:23.
For Jezebel's children, see the end of this article.
Jezebel and Baal
The 'Baal' of Jezebel would have been Melkart, the state god of Tyre. 'Baal' was a title applied to many gods, including local Canaanite gods worshipped by Israelites according to, e.g., Hos 2:14. Although these are often presented in the Old Testament as foreign gods, 'the gods of the peoples who were all around them' (Judg 2:12), they are much more likely to have been local. They should not be confused with Jezebel's Baal, the Baal in 1 Kgs 18, who is a state god, and the issue in 1 Kgs 18, between Elijah and the prophets of Baal and Asherah, is this: YHWH is the god of Israel; is YHWH to be replaced by 'Baal', the god of Tyre? This is the issue forced by Elijah, who accuses the Israelites of hesitating between them rather than making a clear decision (1 Kgs 18:21).
Whether it was historically true that Jezebel tried to make her god the state god of Israel and persecuted the prophets of YHWH (1 Kgs 18:13; 1 Kgs 19) is very doubtful. It is difficult to find precise parallels in ancient history: normally ancient peoples were content to let each people worship its own gods.
Jezebel: a woman of power?
The power which Jezebel is shown as wielding over Ahab and over Israel in the biblical story may have some historical justification.
According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Ethbaal, Jezebel's father, was high priest to the local goddess Astarte. This is Ashtoreth in the Hebrew Bible; but this name does not occur in Jezebel's story, and it seems that all the Canaanite goddesses were becoming confused in Hellenistic and Roman times. It has been suggested (Brenner-Idan) that corresponding to practice known from Mesopotamia, Jezebel might have been high priestess to the male god Baal (Melkart), a role carrying considerable political as well as religious power, which might explain her devotion to this god, and also the power that she claimed to wield in her adopted home.
The biblical writers may have remained silent about Jezebel's role as high priestess because they refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of female priesthood or authority, but it is more likely that they simply refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the entire Baal cult altogether, and any role that Jezebel might have played in it. Jezebel is pictured as a usurper of authority and power in what is really, in their minds, YHWH's kingdom, not Ahab's. So the biblical writers would have little interest in acknowledging any role or source of authority that she felt she had whilst usurping God's reign.
A woman-at-the-window
The depiction of Jezebel looking down from the window in 2 Kgs 9:30 is quite similar to the 'woman-at-the-window' motif found widely in both literary and pictorial sources throughout the ancient Near East, which represented the goddess. Jezebel is presented as a powerful woman, sitting in her window and assuming the posture of the goddess herself. This is confirmed by the mention of her doing her hair directly before sitting in the window. For a defining feature of the woman-at-the-window image in the material sources was carefully done hair, in the style characteristic of the Egyptian goddess Hathor, who elsewhere was understood as Asherah. Jezebel is portrayed as the woman-at-the window, an imitation of the goddess Asherah. Jehu's confrontation with her may then be seen implicitly as a confrontation with Asherah herself, so that her death, and the destruction of her body, is depicted as a rejection of this goddess, who contested the power of YHWH. Her remaining body parts – her skull, the palms of her hands and feet – also happen to correspond to the appendages that the goddess Anath wore as symbols of her power, so that the irony of this detail in the story may be that Jezebel, who sat as a powerful goddess in the window, is reduced to these appendages, and destroyed by her allegiance to the very gods whom she thought would protect her.
A woman wrongly accused?
The biblical material presents a thoroughly negative picture of Jezebel, and many have questioned whether she is judged unfairly, However, we know virtually nothing about her apart from what we read in the Bible, so the material for answering the question is lacking. What we can say is that the biblical writers have made her a symbol of all that is opposed to the acknowledgment of their own God as supreme, so that in a way she transcends history, and even in the New Testament (Rev 2:20) her name is used to abuse a prophet who gives teaching that the writer of Revelation disagrees with (and probably distorts). There is a large measure of misogyny in this presentation of a woman who is both evil and powerful—so powerful that she can impose her will on one of Israel's most powerful kings.
One hard fact in the biblical account goes against this picture. We know the names of three of her children: Ahaziah, Joram, and Athaliah. Strictly speaking only Joram is stated in the biblical text to be Jezebel's son (2 Kgs 9:22), but it seems very likely that Ahaziah, who was Ahab's immediate successor (1 Kgs 22:51), was also the son of Ahab's principal wife; and Athaliah, who married king Jehoram of Judah, was the mother of king Ahaziah of Judah (2 Kgs 8:25-27), and took over the reins of power in Judah when her son was murdered (2 Kgs 11:1), is certainly presented as a woman in the mould of Jezebel. However that may be, all of these names, Ahaz-iah, Jo-ram (short for Jeho-ram [in Hebrew pronounced with a y at the beginning]), and Athal-iah honour YHWH (also called Yah and Yaho), not Baal. Is this the sign of a woman who always got her own way?
Ackroyd, Peter H. "Goddesses, Women and Jezebel." Pages 245-59 in Images of Women in Antiquity. Edited by Averil Cameron and Amélie Kuhrt. London: Croom Helm, 1983.
Brenner-Idan, Athalya. The Israelite Woman: Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative. 2nd ed. London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Cogan, Mordechai. I Kings. Anchor Bible 10. New York: Doubleday, 2000 (now published by Yale University Press).
Cogan, Mordechai, and Hayim Tadmor. II Kings. Anchor Bible 11. New York: Doubleday, 1988 (now published by Yale University Press).
Everhart, Janet S. "Jezebel: Framed by Eunuchs?" Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72, 4 (2010): 688-98.
McKinlay, Judith E. "Negotiating the Frame for Viewing the Death of Jezebel." Biblical Interpretation 10 (2002): 305-23.


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Home / Metal News / / Refined lead supply exceeded demand in 2015, says ILZSG yearly report
Refined lead supply exceeded demand in 2015, says ILZSG yearly report
Mar 21, 2016 09:08 CST
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The International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) has released the preliminary data for world lead supply and demand for the entire year 2015.
By Paul Ploumis (ScrapMonster Author)
March 18, 2016 08:32:59 AM
SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) has released the preliminary data for world lead supply and demand for the entire year 2015. The provisional data indicates that the refined lead metal supply exceeded demand by 63 kt during the year.
According to ILZSG, the total reported stock levels at the London Metal Exchange (LME), Shanghai Future Exchange (SHFE) and producers and consumers dropped by 83 kt during the year. The reported inventories totaled 503 kt at the end of the year.
The overall lead mine supply during the year totaled 4.347 million tons, 12.1% down when matched with the previous year. The falling mine output from China has contributed to the year-on-year decline in global lead mine supply. The Chinese mine production plunged heavily by 25.2% over the previous year. The mine supply from India, Peru and Sweden increased during the year. On the other hand, fall in output was recorded in Australia, Ireland and the US.
The global refined lead metal production declined by 7.8% during the year. This was primarily on account of lowered production from China. Incidentally, the Chinese refined lead metal production during the year dropped to the lowest level in almost six years. The production by the country fell by 18%. The metal production refined in the UK. Ongoing suspension of operations at the La Oroya plant has led to zero output from Peru during the year.
The global demand for refined lead metal witnessed a decline of 8.3% during the year. The apparent usage of refined metal by China and the US fell by 17.9% and 5.1% respectively. The apparent lead usage by the European region held steady during the year. Demand in the UK and Czech Republic witnessed downtrend whereas, those in Germany and Poland increased.
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Global Zinc Supply Shortage Climbed to 39,800 Tons in September
According to ILZSG, the global zinc supply shortage climbed to 39,800 tons in September, more than 38,700 tons in August.
Global Zinc demand likely to reach 14.30 million tonnes in 2017
The global demand for refined zinc metal is forecast to total 14.30 million tonnes in 2017, marginally higher by 2.6% over the previous year. The demand had witnessed rise of 3.1% in 2016.
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Global Refined Lead demand likely to grow to 11.39 million tons in 2017
The global demand for refined lead metal is forecast to total 11.39 million tonnes in 2017, marginally higher by 2.3% over the previous year.
Zinc Price Forecast, November 2016: Global Demand to Increase
The International Lead and Zinc Study Group's recent Portugal session revealed global demand for refined zinc metal will increase a little more than a half percent this year.
Hunan Shuikoushan Reports Profit in May
Hunan Shuikoushan Nonferrous Metals Group realized 2.14 million yuan in profit in May, according to cnmn.com
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Henan's Minshan Nonferrous Metals Puts 20,000 tpy Zinc Project into Production
Henan's Minshan Nonferrous Metals Co.'s 20,000 tonne per year zinc smelting project yielded Minshan zinc in early June, SMM understands.
Little Downside Room in Sight for LME Lead Next Week, SMM expects
LME lead is forecast to test support from USD 1,680/mt next week, SMM lead analysts predict.
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ILZSG releases zinc supply and demand trends for 2015
The latest statistics published by the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) indicates that global refined zinc market was in surplus of 123,000 tons during the entire year 2015.
A New Type Medium Lead-Zinc Mine Discovered in Anhui
A new type of low temperature hydrothermal lead and zinc mine was found in Anhui's Tongling, according to 365jia.cn.
ILZSG: Refined zinc metal demand to grow in 2015 and 2016
According to ILZSG forecasts, global demand for refined zinc metal is likely to grow by 1.1% to 13.90 million tonnes in 2015.


Cybercrime has caused a tremendous loss both direct and indirect results. To amass thousands of dollars and already affecting time and productivity has become a growing concern among small time business owners.
Businesses relying on Internet and online transactions are susceptible to fraud and theft. It's hard to track hackers or cybercriminals as they are lurking in anonymity but they have one thing in common: to sneak and get your money and property.
According to Phil Huggins, the vice-president of security science at global digital risk and investigations firm Stroz Friedber that being linked in the internet makes company vulnerable to any kind of cyber crimes.
Washington Post reported incidents in realty sector note that a hacker took close to $80,000 in closing funds by hacking into a buyer's agent's email account and providing false bank transfer instructions.
They come in different styles and attacks like sending an email attachment that can infect computers, phishing or collecting sensitive information in credit card like birthdays and other personal data. Most often than not, they are now wreaking and luring people in the social media by pretending to be colleagues asking for financial favors. Social media ethics taught us not to openly post social security ID in Facebook bearing the SSS ID, complete name and birthdays. Data are used for fraudulent activities like loan application, credit card theft, anything to make use of your personal identity online. There are also targeted attacks when they're holding up valuable information about you in exchange of money.
Accessing your bank account and personal email accounts can be made easy with the password attacks employed by the hackers. There are different types of password attacks: a brute-force attack, guessing at passwords until the hacker gets in; a dictionary attack, uses a software program to try different combinations of dictionary words; and key logging, keeping track of a user's keystrokes, like passwords and log in IDs.
In financial sector, cybercriminals have a way of knowing the important persons of the company. They pretend to be as CFO's and ask you to divert payments to their bank account. Some also conduct fraudulent calls or sending email notifications by asking accounting staff to update the supplier or company's bank account details.
In a 2014 Global Economic Crime Survey conducted PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) notes the impact of cybercrime on businesses. Out of 5,128 respondents, with one in four saying they had experienced and the common victims are in the financial service sector.
Since technology is changing rapidly and being keen on what information need to be disclosed or not should be the topmost priority of the organization. Company should be responsible in safeguarding the intellectual property, safety and financial aspects by tightening the online security measures. While companies are reaping the fruits of keeping the activities online but sometimes, it's best to keep it simple: less is more.


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Checkmate, Twitter: Facebook 'status tagging' live
Much like Twitter's @-replies, this will let Facebook members link to one another in their profiles, with big implications for Facebook-Twitter turf wars--and marketers.
Caroline McCarthy
Sept. 11, 2009 6:35 a.m. PT
Caroline McCarthy Former Staff writer, CNET News
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos.
Here's a visual of how status tagging works on Facebook.
Facebook on Thursday announced that members can now link to other members' profiles in their status messages by using the @ symbol. The move is clearly inspired by the popularity of Twitter's "@-replies."
This new feature basically means that you can link to the profiles of your friends and other pages on Facebook, and that your friends will be informed when they've been tagged. It's currently rolling out to members' profiles.
Engineer Tom Occhino explains it in a post on the Facebook blog:
Now, when you are writing a status update and want to add a friend's name to something you are posting, just include the "@" symbol beforehand. As you type the name of what you would like to reference, a drop-down menu will appear that allows you to choose from your list of friends and other connections, including groups, events, applications, and (fan) pages.
The feature will soon expand to third-party services that let you update your Facebook status, presumably including status message aggregators such as TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop.
The development prompted some of my industry competitors to use the word "BREAKING" in their headlines (Really? Can we please leave this term for things on the level of earthquakes, election results, and stampedes at Jonas Brothers concerts?) because it's yet another big sign that Facebook is gradually but aggressively encroaching upon Twitter's territory in its attempt to own the Web's trove of real-time conversation. Twitter is nowhere near the size of Facebook, nor is it anywhere near as feature-rich, but it's enough of a disruption in the space to make Facebook keep trying to get the upper hand.
As you may recall, this back-and-forth has included Facebook's failed attempt to buy Twitter, the "real-time stream" upgrades to the social network's home page, and its acquisition of FriendFeed, a streaming feed aggregator.
On an unrelated note, for brands using Facebook's fan pages, this could result in an interesting analytics product. The company hasn't yet said whether or how the managers of fan pages will be notified that they have been tagged--for a brand with a lot of fans, this could be a lot--and you might imagine that some of the demographics regarding who's talking about them and how often could be packaged into a nice marketing tool.
It'd also be a formidable rival to the "analytics dashboard" that Twitter plans to start selling to businesses later this year, which would be the San Francisco-based company's first concrete revenue model.


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Q: Emacs shortcut to switch from a horizontal split to a vertical split in one move? I often find myself switching from a horizontal view of two windows in emacs to a vertical view. This requires me to first do C-x 1 and then C-x 3 and then C-x o followed by C-x b <RET> to switch to the other buffer or something like that. I would like to only have to type C-x | (analogous to how, in Ediff, you hit | to toggle the split view).
I found this in the emacs wiki site:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ToggleWindowSplit
But how do I map that to the key combo I want? Or whether there is a simpler way to do it (taking less .emacs space).

A: Making it easier for other people that also happened to be looking for the script (in this link), already modified with the other answer's keybinding:
(defun toggle-window-split ()
  (interactive)
  (if (= (count-windows) 2)
      (let* ((this-win-buffer (window-buffer))
         (next-win-buffer (window-buffer (next-window)))
         (this-win-edges (window-edges (selected-window)))
         (next-win-edges (window-edges (next-window)))
         (this-win-2nd (not (and (<= (car this-win-edges)
                     (car next-win-edges))
                     (<= (cadr this-win-edges)
                     (cadr next-win-edges)))))
         (splitter
          (if (= (car this-win-edges)
             (car (window-edges (next-window))))
          'split-window-horizontally
        'split-window-vertically)))
    (delete-other-windows)
    (let ((first-win (selected-window)))
      (funcall splitter)
      (if this-win-2nd (other-window 1))
      (set-window-buffer (selected-window) this-win-buffer)
      (set-window-buffer (next-window) next-win-buffer)
      (select-window first-win)
      (if this-win-2nd (other-window 1))))))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x |") 'toggle-window-split)

A: The last line is where the key combo is defined. It should be (global-set-key (kbd "C-x |") 'toggle-window-split)


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Genesis G70 may gain a high-performance variant
If 272kW and 510Nm isn't enough, there might be another G70 coming to tempt you.
The Genesis G70 is no slouch, especially with its 272kW/510Nm 3.3-litre twin-turbo V6, but a more hardcore version could be on its way.
"A big effort with the [Genesis] G70 was thermal management, to make sure that this car will hold up," Mike O'Brien, the head of product planning for Hyundai USA, told Road & Track during a discussion about the Veloster N and how it was designed to withstand long track sessions.
Although he didn't explicitly state whether a high-performance variant has been approved, O'Brien noted "we're building for the future".
Should such a model come about, it's unclear if it will feature Hyundai's N branding or use something different. According to O'Brien, Genesis is still in the process of working out what any future performance variants will be named.
The aforementioned focus on thermal management, O'Brien stated, has been particularly intense since Albert Biermann joined Hyundai from BMW's M division.
Biermann was recently promoted to be head of research and development at the Hyundai Motor Group after running the brand's N division for a few years.
Although Hyundai is placing a greater emphasis on its motorsports activities, as evidenced by the just-unveiled Veloster N TCR, O'Brien says it's "way too early to speculate" on whether Genesis will go down a similar path.
He did concede "we need to build awareness and excitement around" both the core Hyundai marque, as well as Genesis.
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In his 83 years, Tā Tipene O'Regan ONZ has been many things to many people. He is perhaps best known for his leadership of Ngāi Tahu in the final years of Te Kerēme, particularly during negotiations for the fisheries settlements of 1989 and 1992, and the Ngāi Tahu settlement of 1998. This year, Tā Tipene was awarded two of the highest honours our country offers; Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year, and appointed to the highest Royal Honour in the New Zealand system – the Order of New Zealand.
Over the years we have all become familiar with the public figure, and in honour of these milestones and a lifetime of achievements, kaituhi Anna Brankin sits down with Tā Tipene to learn more about his life – behind the scenes.
Te Tapu o Tāne
In the heart of Murihiku, four papatipu rūnaka have come together to establish Te Tapu o Tāne, an enterprise founded on the principle of kaitiakitanga – for whānau, and for te taiao. Now in its second year, Te Tapu o Tāne is providing education and employment for rangatahi Māori, and is working with local partners to lead catchment rehabilitation.
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Foye's mission: short-term stability in New London
Richard P. Foye, interim Superintendent of Schools for the City of New London, in his office at the Board of Education in New London, Monday, August 4, 2014.
Richard Foye says he wants to ensure a smooth opening for the new school year and keep the New London school district stable during his 90-day tenure.
New London — Richard Foye found himself back in familiar territory this week. Sitting in the same office he occupied more than a decade ago, the city native reflected on the path that led him back to the helm of New London Public Schools.
"Certainly two months ago it would have been hard to imagine a scenario where I would come out of retirement and be sitting back in this office," Foye, 61, said Monday.
On Wednesday evening, the Board of Education voted unanimously to make Foye the district's interim superintendent through the end of October. He will be paid $39,512 - a prorated amount based on an annual salary of $158,050.
"I'm enthusiastic about this," board member Mirna Martinez said. "Mr. Foye was my principal when I first came to New London and went to Bennie Dover."
In an interview Monday, Foye, a New London High School graduate who later served eight years as principal of Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School, said he views his role as interim superintendent as having three major components: ensure a smooth opening of the new school year, calm any choppy waters within the district administration and then prepare the school system for an eventual transition to a permanent superintendent.
"There are certainly many positive things in the system to build on, and in the interim role, my job is to make sure the district continues to move forward with positive steps," Foye said.
Foye has served as interim superintendent in New London once before, after controversial Superintendent Julian Stafford abruptly departed in 2003. Foye was a candidate for the permanent job, but the Board of Education offered the job to Christopher Clouet, who was superintendent of the Thomaston school district at the time.
Shortly thereafter, Foye left the district for the job of headmaster/superintendent at Woodstock Academy. He held that post until he retired in 2009.
Foye will lead the school system while the Board of Education and state education officials await the results of an investigation into the background and academic record of Terrence P. Carter, whom the board unanimously chose as its next superintendent in June.
Before the board ratified Carter's contract, news reports revealed that Carter may have been misrepresenting himself as having a Ph.D. for more than five years before he completed his doctoral studies. Subsequent reports indicated similarities between Carter's job application and writings previously published by others.
The board's investigation is expected to be complete in about two weeks.
"Any turmoil that might be in the newspaper or in the political world, my job is to make sure that those things don't affect the students," he said. "If there is a sense of stability and a sense that the administration has things under control and we're moving forward, that helps morale of the teachers, which helps delivery of the curriculum, and in the end our focus is first and foremost to the students, what we're providing them, and their achievement."
During an executive session intended to discuss what to do about Carter, the Board of Education asked state-appointed Special Master Steven J. Adamowski to recruit Foye to serve as interim superintendent, Adamowski said last week.
Foye said he was following the Carter situation and later met with Adamowski to discuss the job. After consulting with his wife of 33 years, Foye decided to come out of retirement to run the district once more.
"As things unfolded, it seemed clear that I could serve a useful purpose to the students of our city, and I have always loved the students of our city, the people who teach them and all the folks who support them," Foye said. "In the end it was the right thing to do to help out the city and help out the students."
Because he is retired through the state's Teachers' Retirement Board, Foye is limited in how long he could serve as a superintendent and how much he could earn in salary.
But since he was named acting superintendent last week, friends and neighbors at the post office, at CVS and around the city have had one question on their lips: Would Foye accept the permanent superintendent's position if it were offered to him?
"I said I would do it for 90 days," he said. "And I will leave it at that."
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One of the mainstays of Civil War clichés is the concept of the young man fighting, and sometimes dying, in his own farmyard. It's cliched, of course, because it's true. Southerners – mostly Confederates but let's not forget the thousands of Southerners in blue, as well – routinely found themselves marching and fighting in their own neighborhoods.
Chickamauga is no exception. For Company I, 2nd Battalion, First Confederate Regiment, Jackson's Brigade, Cheatham's Division; the battlefield was home. Originally recruited as Company I, 3rd East Tennessee, then re-designated Company H, 26th Tennessee; the company was transferred to the 1st Confederate (Georgia) on November 8th, 1862.
According to Walker County historian James A. Sartain, Company I contained a number of familiar names: a Snodgrass, two Brothertons, a McDonald, a Kelly, a pair of Brocks, and two Dyers. All of them, along with many of their neighbors, had been sworn to service in 1861 by Captain James Clarke Gordon while he stood on a large rock outside his father's mansion at Crawfish Spring. However, the First Confederate regiment is one of the more confusing units in the Rebel army. Company I was not the only transfer; it seems that the regiment had its origin in a unit first known as the 36th Georgia, and there may have been two company I's that merged. Then the regiment was split, half staying at Mobile and half joining Bragg. James C. Gordon was by this time a major and commanded the half that joined Bragg.
In any case, only some of those locals can be found in the unit's Consolidated Service Records, or CSRs. (These days, the CSRs can be used online, via Footnote.com, for a very reasonable monthly or annual fee.) What records do exist make for some interesting reading.
None of the locals I found suffered injuries in the battle. Perhaps because so many of them had been re-assigned as guides, they avoided the heavy losses suffered by the bulk of the battalion: Gordon led 194 men into the fight, and lost 83, or 43%. Sartain relates the story of John Brock, supposedly slightly wounded in the head while fighting on his own farmstead; but Brock's CSR suggests that he was furloughed for a head wound after Stone's River, not Chickamauga.
Gordon himself is an interesting study. His father was a Unionist, at least discretely. Wilder described him as such during the campaign. James C., however, fought the war as a Confederate, rising to Lt. Colonel in command of the regiment by the end. It appears that his brother William L. Gordon enlisted as a lieutenant, rising to Captain.
The younger Gordons might not have had pro-Union feelings, but it is possible that others did. At the very least, once the gloss had worn off the novelty of soldiering, many of the privates decided to leave the fight before the very end.
I found the CSRs of seven of those listed in Sartain's history, named above, as well as a third Brotherton. Of these 7 originals, James L. Brotherton, Thomas Brotherton, John Brock, and Charles L. Snodgrass are all listed as "deserters" in the summer of 1864. That's an interesting notation, because several of them were actually captured in May, as shown on Union records, but listed as Deserters by their company commander in June or July. It is possible that this means they went over to the Federals voluntarily, but that has to remain speculation.
However, James Brotherton enlisted in the Galvanized Yankees (Federal troops recruited from Rebel prisoners to fight Indians) in October, 1864.
Thomas Brotherton tried to enlist as well, but was too sick – he was rejected and subsequently took the oath of allegiance and was released on October 26th, 1864. However, he was apparently so sick that he re-entered prison – Camp Morton, in Indianapolis – where he died on November 6th of that year. Interestingly enough, the Camp Morton authorities record his re-entry as being recaptured as an escaped prisoner from Rock Island.
A younger Brotherton – W. J. – joined the company on November 24th, 1863. He deserted on January 26th, 1864. The battle of Missionary Ridge was apparently enough soldiering for him.
John Brock is listed as a deserter on 1 July, 1864, dying of sickness at Rock Island that November.
Y. B. Brock shows up on the muster rolls briefly, only in 1864, with the notation that he was "never paid."
Charles L. Snodgrass deserted in Walker County in the summer of 1864, was shipped to Louisville by the Federal authorities, and on December 28th, 1863, 'took the oath' and was released north of the Ohio River.
George W. Kelly (or Kelley) was promoted to sergeant, and last appears on a muster roll for August 31st, 1863. It is possible that he was a casualty, given the abrupt termination of his CSR, but there is no indication of it that I have found.
There is only one Dyer listed in the regiment, D. W. He is found in company K, not company I. He deserted "near Chattanooga" on September 11th, 1863, took the oath of allegiance at Stevenson Alabama, and was released at Nashville, upon condition that he go north of the Ohio River. I don't know if this Dyer is a Chickamauga Dyer.
There were other local men in other units, of course. Most famous was Larkin Poe, a teamster in the 5th Georgia Cavalry, who found his home in ashes the day after the battle. He finally located his family, refugees in the hills north of the Snodgrass farm with about two dozen other local citizens.
This is really only an outline of the men of Company I (or K) who found themselves embattled on their own family homesteads that September, and there is much more to be discovered by a determined historian/genealogist. the beauty of the internet is that sometimes, questions beget answers. As for the local boys of Chickamauga, I have far more questions than answers…
Women and War, Politics and Bedfellows
That Jefferson Davis is some piece of work…
No, not the guy in Richmond. I'm talking about Jefferson C. Davis, Union Brigadier General. You know, the guy who personally killed a Yankee Major General and got away with it. The other Davis barely got his hands dirty.
For those who might not be awareof the incident (though, since it's one of the favorite stories of the war, if you read any ACW history I don't see how you couldn't be) on September 29, 1862, Jef. Davis shot William "Bull" Nelson in the lobby of the Galt House in Louisville, KY. The offense was a matter of honor, and essentially trivial by modern standards – Davis flipped a card in Nelson's face, for which Nelson slapped him; all stemming from Nelson ordering Davis out of the department a few days previously. Davis grabbed a gun, Nelson died minutes later.
Davis was indicted, but never tried, and served through the war, essentially out on bail. The indictment was quashed in 1864. Davis of course had powerful friends, (Oliver P. Morton comes to mind) and Nelson was widely regarded as a bully, so many folks thought Nelson deserved it.
But that's not why I'm writing today. At Chickamauga, Jefferson C. Davis was a divisional commander in McCook's 20th Corps (where possible, I prefer not to use the roman numerals for corps – it's not accurate to the period.) Davis' men were routed off the field at Stone's River, and hence carried a stigma from that defeat. Never mind that they actually mounted a pretty good fight before they broke, or that they were outflanked and had little choice, all everyone remembered was the rout.
This led to tension between Davis and his senior brigadier, William P. Carlin. Carlin thought Davis' report of the battle slighted him, and wrote a lengthy rebuttal, touching off a slow simmer of feud between the two men. Carlin would later confide to William T. Sherman that he felt like he was "under command of an enemy."
Nor was this all. Colonel Hans C. Heg was heading up another of Davis' brigades in 1863; Heg didn't like Davis either. Heg, you see, was friendly with Carlin, and even more importantly, was a staunch Abolitionist. Davis, by contrast, was not. In fact, there were rumors going around that Davis was spreading copperhead attitudes. Certainly Davis disliked army commander William Starke Rosecrans' welcoming attitude toward emancipation – and black soldiers – and made his opinions known. In January 1863, Heg and Davis quarrelled, with Heg telling Davis off in no uncertain terms. Describing the incident to his wife, Heg wrote later that he had no intention of going "into another battle under his command."
Naturally, these were the two men whom Davis led into the fight at Viniard Field at about 2:15 p.m. on September 19th, 1863.
So why does the title of this post talk about women?
Because for the first part of the campaign, from the time that Davis's men crossed the Tennessee River on August 29th until September 12th at Alpine – and in blatent contravention of army orders – Marietta Davis and her friend Clara Pope accompanied the general in the field. the women were given every courtesy. There were parades, musical serenades in the field, and inspections. The command spent four days at Valley Head, staying at Colonel Winston's manor, where Marietta was quite active. For one thing, she visited Hans Heg several times – trying to win the Colonel over by charm? Hegt found her "a young, fine, intelligent woman, but not handsome." No comment on whether or not he softened towards Jef.
By the way, Davis deliberately took to signing his name "Jef." to distinguish him from that fellow in Richmond.
What I find most interesting about all this is that Marietta's friend, Clara, was the wife of John Pope. You know, John Pope of Second Bull Run fame, whom Samuel Sturgis didn't care a "pinch of owl dung" about.
General Pope was, among other things, a Republican and eventually an abolitionist. He would pursue reconstruction agressively after the war, and apparently really believed in Civil Rights for the black population. He and Davis developed a strong friendship from serving together in Missouri early in the war, a friendship that obviously lasted. Davis had other radical friends: notably Morton, Governor if Indiana, who was hardly a Copperhead.
Davis' command was again mauled at Chickamauga. His division was cut to peices on the 19th and, outnumbered nearly 5 to 1 on the 20th, routed of another battlefield. Davis, however, was in the thick of it all, and his reputation as a fighter was sustained. He eventally rose to command a corps under Sherman, though official promotion came slowly, doubtless due to that little matter of killing a fellow General in 1862.
Davis is also famous for one other incident of the war: Ebenezer Creek. In December 1864, already frustrated with the clouds of former slaves dogging the steps of his command and slowing progress, at Ebenezer Creek Davis deliberately shed his column of women, children, and the infirm, allowing only able-bodied contrabands who could be of use to the army to cross the pontoon bridge, and then immediately taking that bridge up so as to leave the rest to recapture by Wheeler's Rebel Cavalry. Even within the army, outrage spiked. Davis was called a monster and a fiend by men in his own command. His supporters pleaded military necessity, but still, the incident rankled.
Davis viewed himself as a hard-bitten soldier, and left few excuses for his conduct, so we don't have any evidence of his own thinking beyond the extant orders. But we do know that iron resolution to duty cut both ways; when he was appointed military commander of Kentucky in 1866, many Republicans feared that Davis would prove a lenient, even pro-Rebel administrator.
He was not. Orders were orders, and he enforced his with the same ruthless efficiency that left split families apart in Georgia. He pressed state authorities – unsuccessfully, as it turned out – to allow Negro testimony in the courts so he could more vigorously prosecute crimes committed against them. He was directly involved in creating Negro schools across the state, advancing Black educational oportunities, in a very successful program.He created a Freedman's hospital, and fought for Black Civil Rights. His tenure in this post was short – only 8 months – but at the end of it Oliver O. Howard freely admitted he was wrong to fear Davis' appointment.
Davis went on to other duties – in fact, the army seemed to be his whole life. He served in Alaska, and in the Modoc War. He was active in Reunion affairs. In fact, his health was already fragile when he attended the Army of the Cumberland Reunion in Washington DC in 1879, where the statue of George H. Thomas would be unveiled. Returning from that trip, Davis died at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago on Sunday, November 30th, 1879. His old friend Phil Sheridan was in attendence.
A successful Study Group 2010 weekend
I've been away too long again. Sorry, time is ever fleeting.
I just got back from the annual Chickamauga Study Group tours, held this weekend every March. Once again, we had a great time, and once again, rain was the theme.:)
We had between 35 and 40 people each day, including a number of new faces, which was great to see. I don't raise a lot of money with these tours, but we do charge a fee for the bus on Friday, so we do see some income – any excess is donated to the park in the form of library aquisitions. Last year we added about fifteen volumes to the library. This year, we have $320 to spend, and I hope to add something a little special. More on that when I know it will happen.
In the meantime, it was a great stomp. I think we gave some folks a little food for thought concerning General Bragg, though we didn't go easy on him by any means. Saturday morning's exploration of Cleburne's attack was, I thought, also a solid success.
For the first time ever, I had to break away on Saturday afternoon to get home to Chicago – personal reasons intruded. My father had a pace-maker installed, and while he now appears to be fit as a fiddle, he gave us all a bit of a scare earlier. Fortunately, everything is OK, and of course, with Jim Ogden leading Saturday afternoon's tour, the Study group was in good hands.
On another personal note, I would like to thank Jim for all the work he has put into these tours. Jim is the Park Historian, and he is a cultural resource unto himself. He is also a first-rate presenter, so no one will get bored on an Ogden tour. I like to think that the Study Group offers Jim a chance to do something a bit different than most of the tours and staff rides he leads: to zero in on just a segment of the battle and share that wealth of knowledge that more comprehensive tours don't have time for.
Much to my surprise, we had press coverage on Friday, as a staff reporter and a photographer from the Chattanooga Free Press showed up. Apprently they found details of our little expedition on the web, and so we got a nice write-up in the Saturday morning edition of the paper.
Ah, sweet fame – it must be my fifteen minutes…
Seriously, I was pleased that the park and the group received the attention. It has long been my opinion that Chickamauga-Chattanooga has been one of the more under-appreciated parks in the system, considering its size and legacy. Moreover, while visitation is important, the right kind of visitation is doubly important. I'm not trying to sound snobbish. I want the parks to be widely used for their historical purpose of education and memorialization, not just as large recreation areas. Recreation is fine, but it's still a battlefield. Ergo, a press piece noting a group there to study the field in depth is greatly encouraging.
Here is a link to the article.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/mar/13/study-group-tracks-braggs-route-at-chickamauga/?local


The Successful have found their courage, a trait that you don't realize you have it until it exhibits itself when it is needed, which can start at early age when you start school, get your first haircuts, vaccination, and other significant events that require a little guts to get through the experience.
You have to summon courage to overcome the inner voice that insists you can't possibly achieve your goals and attain your dreams, to win the internal argument battling within until you finally decide with the help of your courage to take action. Remember that disbelief will always be the enemy that you yourself create, and you your hunger for success must be great enough to battle and overcome, and courage will help you build your internal hunger, build it and fire you up, locate your backbone and help you take that first difficult step and continue.
You must completely understand that with your courage you can start that business, lose that weight, quit smoking, write that book, be a better parent, complete the education, earn your own self-respect, and be everything you want to be, and most important, that thing the world needs you to be. You must also understand it requires your courage and faith, both of which you have control over and which you can muster, but it requires effort that can only come from within you, that only you can find and set in motion.
Understand that most of us settle for what we have, rather than pursue what we want, we accept, and our lives become huge celebrations of the status quo and passivity, and we knowingly undervalue our work and create our perception of nothing we can do about it, becoming slaves to our paychecks and dial down our efforts and phone in our daily routines continuing to compulsively consume things in an attempt to numb and hide our hope of the pursuit of success and happiness.
The corners of our lives that we paint ourselves into is no way to live, and if you wonder where's the adventure, the passion, the hunger for change, just remember the relentless optimism of your youth you once had, the goals you planned and wished to someday achieve, before you settled in to the life you convinced yourself to settle for. They are still there, and you just need to nudge yourself to find them again, with the flame of the courage within you, that only you yourself can ignite to burn brighter and move you to take action.
The Successful know, develop and use their courage, are blind to any limitations and corners in their lives, and actively look for ways to feed their optimism, passion, and relentless hunger for change, growth, and the continued accomplishments of successfully reaching goals, milestones, and finding elusive happiness among the way.


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The Latest: Off-duty deputy shot by Colorado officer dies
January 19, 2019 GMT
DENVER (AP) — The Latest on an off-duty sheriff's deputy who was shot by a police officer following a car chase (all times local):
An off-duty sheriff's deputy who was shot by a police officer in Colorado following a car chase has died.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office says Deputy Jesse Jenson was removed from life support Friday. He was shot by a LaSalle police officer Wednesday night.
Authorities were chasing two vehicles going more than 90 mph (145 kph) and eventually were able to stop them. The LaSalle officer ended up shooting one of the drivers, identified as Jenson, and detectives are investigating if the drivers were racing.
Greeley police Sgt. Joe Tymkowych says the deputy wasn't doing police work when he and the other driver sped through a rural area, adding that he was not in a marked patrol car and "there was no legitimate pursuit."
Jenson started his career with the sheriff's office in 2016, and he was assigned to the Jail Division.
Investigators say a sheriff's deputy who was shot by a police officer in northern Colorado following a car chase was not on duty at the time.
The Denver Post reports the Adams County deputy, whose name hasn't been released, remains in critical condition after he was shot by a LaSalle police officer Wednesday night.
Authorities were chasing two vehicles going more than 90 mph (145 kph) and eventually were able to stop them. The LaSalle officer ended up shooting one of the drivers, who was the off-duty deputy, and detectives are investigating if the drivers were racing.
Greeley police Sgt. Joe Tymkowych says the deputy was not doing police work when he and the other driver sped through rural Weld County, adding that he was not in a marked patrol car and "there was no legitimate pursuit."


Joe fought this battle up and down the cobbled streets of the Vatican, arguing his case every chance he got. And finally he won. However, this "ugly American" had made a name for himself among those who hated change, and just a few months later, they kicked him out of Rome. Joe came to Indianapolis, and not too long ago the governor of Indiana refused to allow an influx of helpless Syrian refugees to enter the state for fear of terrorism. Joe fought for the refugees and he won.
Now I know why Pope Francis chose him: Joe's a fighter.
Joe learned to fight in the Redemptorist Order. Both Joe and I were raised as Redemptorists. The order was founded by an Italian named Alphonsus who fought the nobles in Naples because they abandoned the poor and the helpless. Joe and I grew up in that order as teenagers and we drank in that exciting culture for many years. We lived and thrived on the give-and-take atmosphere that taught us how to fight against injustice.
Pope Francis had a similar background. Instead of a Redemptorist, Francis grew up as a Jesuit. The founder of the Jesuits had been a soldier. Ignatius Loyola was wounded in the battle of Pamplona when a cannonball injured both his legs. His Jesuit Order is famous for fighting ignorance; they run 324 secondary schools and 167 colleges and universities in the world.
Joe and Francis will make a great team. I'm waiting to see what their fighting agenda will be.
In my time in Rome, (back in the '50s) the fight was against the corrupt Vatican Bank run by the Mafia, and the equally corrupt Vatican Curia, which dictated all the rules and restrictions on Catholic living. My hero and mentor, Pope John XXIII, waged war against both evils, but he died before he could totally root them out.
So what issues will our new team pick? We know both of them think alike on the sad condition of women in the church. The Catholic Church is one of the few Christian denominations that ban women ordinations. Joe and Francis have both spoken about promoting women. Will we soon see a woman priest saying Mass in Saints Peter and Paul's Cathedral in Indianapolis? Who knows?
I know one thing. Both of these men fight against injustice. Objectors may think they have misjudged some particular situation or failed to understand some cultural background, and they may be right. But once these two men are convinced of their position — they come out fighting like leaders. They know they can't win if they don't fight.
And they both have a history of winning.
Dr. Bill Cummings is the CEO of Cummings Consolidated Corporation and Cummings Management Consultants. His blog is www.progressiveheretic.com.


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I hit a bit of a low point with venturing out following an assault on the way out to a trip to the woods. It left me a bit shaken and nervous about heading out.
After scratching a couple of planned nights out, either due to the weather, work shifts, or bottling out. Everything lined up and I finally forced myself out the door with the intent of a night in the woods.
The plan was simple, take the train a few stops, cycle up the hill, bivvi in the woods, enjoy the evening, cook breakfast, break camp (making note to fix it later), cycle down the hill, and come home. All pretty simple.
Step one was to load up my bike – a Brompton folding bike, with my camping gear, and as much water as I could sensibly carry. Before I added water, but including food, the whole lot came to about 7kg. To which I added 3.25L of water. 300ml to rehydrate dinner, and just under 3 litres to get me through the night.
Touring Brompton on the way out.
The honest answer is – very. The Brompton is a lovely bike, I've modded it to have 8 gears, and it's a joy to ride. But it's not really designed for hills… So I ended up pushing it up about 2km of the hill. To a max height of 190masl.
Elevation profile of my ride.
Having reached the summit, I then cruised down into the woods, past families returning from their afternoon walk. Past dog walkers, and deeper into the trees. Eventually I departed from the path and headed cross country in search of a bivvi site.
I found a spot in the shelter of a large mound, by some trees. I did a scan for widow makers, pulled out my sit mat, and collapsed by a tree. Phew. By now I had about 20 minutes until sunset and the sweat I had produced from the push up the hill was making me cold. Time to make camp.
I had brought with my my flecktarn tarp, along with a 10m ridge line. I tied one end to a tree, and walked over to the other tree I wanted to use for the other end. Stopping at the end of the ridge line about 1m short of the tree. With a James May like exclamation, I retreated to the original tree, and pondered my options. Rummaging in my bag I realised I had a pair of heavy duty bungees that had attached the dry bag to the rear rack, so I put these round both trees, and had enough ridge line to string it up between the two bungees. Phew. Tarp went up in a lean to config with one end pinned down to shelter me from the wind. The weather forecast was for no precipitation, and a light breeze, so the tarp was largely for concealment, as well as from the breeze. Tarp up, I folded the bike up, wrapped it in my old flecktarn poncho, and tried to lock it to the tree. Discovered that my bike lock wasn't long enough, and sat down to have a cup of tea.
Tea and rethink complete, I locked the bike to the luggage, making it unwieldy and noisy to steal, so that I should at least wake up if someone tried. Wrapped in the poncho, I stuck it in the back of the tarp, and set about making the bed.
At this point I was getting very cold even with all my coats on, the sweat from the hill climb was really chilling me down, and even tho it wasn't yet 1700, I crawled into my sleeping bag stuck some radio 4 on, and tried to warm up.
I was laying there listening to the radio when a light flashed across the inside of my tarp. Slightly confused I sat up and looked in the direction of the light. It shone around all over the place, flashing straight in my face again. It belonged to 2 dog walkers, who walked by about 50m from my position. I don't know if they saw me, or realised what they had shone their light on, they didn't disturb me. But it did get my heart rate going. The only other people I saw during the night were a couple of mountain bikers who cycled past 100m or so away.
Turns out, yes, tho he did walk past first, and then turned round to spot me… he'd very helpfully brought me a litre of water, and a bar of chocolate as "house warming" gifts. Both were very gratefully received.. We had a chat and warmed up with a hot chocolate. I was still fighting the cold, even in my sleeping bag my toes were numb, but that was nothing compared to the fight I was having with my meths stove.
I've only ever used the stove in the summer before, and it's always worked fine. In the -2°C of the woods. It wasn't working nicely. After a few minutes with the ferro rod doing nothing, I dug into my Staying Alive Cold kit for my lifeboat matches. This got the stove going and allowed me to make the hot chocolate. But I couldn't keep doing that, I only had 5 matches in my SAC kit. After messing around trying to warm the meths up with body heat, I eventually had a eureka moment. My SAC kit has a US aircrew fire kit in it, this is a spark thingy like you get on a cigarette lighter, and a load of tinderquik. Using this I was able to get the stove going reliably.
My friend left and I went back to trying to defrost my toes. I nodded off for a bit and woke to a grumbling stomach. Excellent, curry time.
I dug out the curry pouches from my pack, and relit the stove using the tinderquik. It took me 3 fills of the stove to get enough hot water for the pouch of Korma sauce, the rice, and a mug of tea. Until I had the eureka moment, of using the second pot from my firemaple set as a lid. This made an instant improvement on the efficiency of the stove.
Unfortunately it turned out the curry was vile. After a few mouthfuls, I gave up and put it in the rubbish bag. Ew. I fell back on the chocolate my friend had kindly brought along. Very glad for the extra food.
Eventually I managed to get my toes warm, and snuggled down to listen to the owls. I counted 3 different species of Owl calling out.
I had expected that I would be woken by the sunrise, around 8ish. Not as it turns out by a full bladder, at 1030… oops.
It took me quite a while to summon the courage to crawl out of my toasty warm sleeping bag, into the freezing cold morning. Nature called, I returned to the warmth of my bag to plot my exfil. Only to wake up at half 1 and exclaim loudly. I packed up quickly, trying to stay warm. Reloaded the bike, and hit the trail.
The advantage of the 150m hill I climbed to get in, was the 150m hill I got to free wheel down to get home. Hitting in excess of 30mph on the Brompton on the way down, I cruised into the station for a train back to civilisation, and a fry up.
Not everything had gone to plan, I'd had trouble with the stove, had to deal with very cold toes, overslept, and forgot the frying pan to cook breakfast in. But I had managed a night out in the woods, on my own, in the middle of January, with sub zero temperatures. and survived! I've proved to myself that I can do it.
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