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Category: Arts & Rights
Black, Feminist, Queer, Transgender, Gender non-conforming
"The revolution is black, female, queer, transgender, and gender non-conforming"
– Lhola Amira
Accra is evolving at a fast-pace. Recently named Africa's capital of cool by the New York Times, the unremitting music (and radio) is joined by a bursting art scene. What characterizes the art scene in this city, however, is its markedly political character. Art is imagined to elicit discussion and it does so in different forms. At Chale Wote – an art festival that should not be missed – artists displayed paintings that called for respect for people with disabilities or screamed #blacklivesmatter (literally). The Accra Theater Workshop put together a play – An African Walks into a Voting Booth – in which artists performed six sketches that satirized Ghanaian elections. The sketches were followed by a debate on the political situation in the country and the director, Efua Sutherland, encouraged both the elder and the youth present in the room to exchange opinions and ideas.
Most recently, Lhola Amira, in collaboration with The Studio Accra, presented "Looking for Ghana & The Red Suitcase." The performance took place in a white room decorated with underwear hanging from the ceiling, a table in which the artist had her computer, wine, a cutting board with onions, and her notebooks. Amira, who calls herself an utopianist despite a world that remains anti-black and anti-women, read excerpts that were her own as well as texts from others who had resonated with her, yet most of the evening consisted of debate, discussions in which the public expressed their views on what Africa is and what is in it.
Afropolitanism, Afrofuturism, the decolonization agenda, formalized versus honorary people's knowledge, and the role of education, among many other issues, were discussed. To some, being African was presented as contrary to being Westernized and recovering traditional, "authentic" practices (what is authentic, however, remains unclear); to others, "my Africa is not the Africa in which you must eat fufu and wear kente." It meant pushing to create local products and stories, "taking pride in what we have," changing perceptions, and taking back the narrative.
"The idea of these underwear is that you take one and write your heart's desire. One day, I'll wear them and give birth to them. I will give birth to your dreams"
To manifest Revolutionary LOVE | A continental working class movement | To truly not give a fuck about nonsense
Across the different artistic expressions that I have witnessed, some themes reoccur with persistence. Firstly, the need to take the narrative back, to construct a system in African terms (sometimes, pan-African terms). Tied to these theme, is the notion of self-pride and self-worth. As Amira put it, currently there is no space to exist as radical self-loving beings.
The third and less obvious theme is the notion of art as "a class thing." Albeit this is a concern brought up during Amira's performance, it was less evident but still obvious in the rest. Art has the potential to contribute greatly to social justice – it can be a means to increase self-worth, trigger needed conversations, expose injustices, and advance great causes – but how to do this in a way that reaches all layers of society (or has an impact for all of them) and not just the highly educated elites?
Most of the questions posed remain unanswered and many of the opinions were rapidly contested or build on, yet the fact that these spaces exist demonstrates the wealth in Accra, Ghana, the continent. I am not speaking in terms of material wealth; the wealth resides in the willingness of the youth to engage in dialogue, use art to contest the status quo, and work hard to extend their conversations beyond their own milieu. The revolution will be intergenerational, interclass, feminist, and may I add, for people with different abilities.
"We need to find ways to deconstruct the system and come in plurals. Collaborate."
Threads of Art by Yaw Obuobi
The best thing about London is its wealth of art galleries, museums, and cultural events. The Gallery of African Art is currently displaying "Threads of Art" by Ghanaian-British artist Yaw Obuobi. Upon entrance, the pieces catch the spectator's eye. They are colourful and evocative. Upon closer inspection – and this can only be completely appreciated in person – one sees that the medium of choice is not paint but yarn.
The works of Obuobi speak about many of the most salient issues in the African continent and among the "Afropolitan" community. His works discuss the role of the diaspora and the self, the sense of identity and the perception that one has of the world once s/he has set roots in different parts of the world. Yet his pieces do not speak only to this particular community, the themes are connected to social justice issues that are a product of the global context which we inhabit.
"Our individual perception of the world is dependent on our life's themes which consist of sub-themes woven together with our life's script thread."
Fragmented, 2015. The restorative power of creating a home within the body, of (re) imagining our existence, making peace with the fragmented pieces of our being. […] decolonial imaginaries. Fragmented, but whole.
Artists like Obuobi create a type of art that trascends the innovative technique and the topics represented directly in the artworks or written about in the captions. Obuobi connects the present and the past, the tradition with the current reality of many human beings. He opens up a window for discussion of a global system – a way of interacting between powers, humans, and with the colonial past – that needs to be examined in its own context and over the long durée.


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Rio Tinto fined for breaching Fair Work Act Rio Tinto's Hail Creek coal mine has been fined $50,000 after illegally standing down an injured miner. The worker, Michael Haylett, was originally injured in bulldozer accident in 2009, which caussed a spinal injury. In 2014 Haylett was awarded $626,280 in damages for these injuries sustained while operating the bulldozer. Rio Tinto had formerly admitted fault for the injuries, which necessitated spinal surgery, and retrained Haylett for duties as a drill rig operator , a position he operated in for three years. However, Rio Tinto then stood down Haylett after he was awarded compensation in 2014, asserting that he didn't hold a valid health assessment. Haylett retained his position in August 2014 after challenging Rio Tinto in the Supreme Court, but a year later Rio Tinto requested a second health assessment. The judge at the time said Hail Creek had "prevailed upon" a doctor to change his medical assessment of Haylett to state he was unfit for work – despite it stating he was fit subject to restrictions , when they were dissatisfied with the outcome of his examination. Based on the revised assessment, Hail Creek stood down Haylett without wages in September 2014 , an act which saw Haylett take Rio Tinto to court. Now a Federal judge has handed down the $50,000 penalty against Rio Tinto for breaching the Fair Work Act, with the CFMEU stating the company has been 'victimising' the miner. Justice John Reeves described the attempt to influence the assessing doctor as "disgraceful", and said the case had a remarkable history which was characterised by the resilience of Haylett and "recalcitrance" of Rio Tinto . "It's not something that the employer can use to dispose of workers because they're suffering from a disability," Justice Reeves said of the health assessment scheme. "It's a process that requires assessment in the interests of the worker every five years to ensure that they're not being affected by working in a coal mine." CFMEU mining and energy division district president Steve Smyth has welcomed the new judgement, calling the case a 'David and Goliath battle' against Rio. "Michael Haylett, Hall Payne Lawyers, and the union have been fighting this case for three years, and Michael is finally getting justice against one of the world's biggest mining companies for his unfair sacking," Smyth said. "Rio Tinto has been running a vendetta against Michael Haylett for years, and the way the company acted in this matter – beginning with the heavy-handed and illegal sacking of a worker, to ignoring a Supreme Court order – is appalling and the penalty of $50,000 against them is deserved. "Haylett has been through three years of legal proceedings to hold Rio Tinto to account for their improper actions, and today is his victory." The CFMEU went on to state that the Federal Court found Rio Tinto's decision to stand down Haylett was made in direct retaliation for him winning his damages claim, and was in breach of the Fair Work Act. "Justice Reeves made clear in his judgment that he did not think Rio Tinto has any remorse for its treatment of Haylett, and that it acted deliberately to break the law to sack a worker out of spite." The judgement will now allow for Haylett to be awarded compensation, as well as back pay for the time he spent stood down by Rio Tinto, the sum of which will be determined later this week.


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Niall Scott Kilgour Booker (born September 1958) is a Scottish banker who was Chief Executive of The Co-operative Bank from May 2013 to December 2016. Previously, he spent 30 years working for HSBC, where his roles included country or regional heads in India, Thailand, the Middle East and North America. He has been described as a "clean-up expert", having helped HSBC in North America to recover from sub-prime lending losses and from money-laundering issues.  Currently he is Chair of Monument Bank, a Non Executive Director of Non Standard Finance plc and Chairman of the Council at Glenalmond College.

Personal background
Booker was born in the Middle East, where his father was working for the British Colonial Service. He grew up in Scotland and went to Glenalmond College in Perthshire. He then studied history and law at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.

Professional career
Booker joined HSBC in September 1979 after university and worked for the bank continuously until retiring in 2011. He was promoted through the ranks, becoming chief executive of HSBC India where he grew the Bank's market share. He moved to work in the United States in 2002 before heading up the Dubai-based HSBC Bank Middle East in 2006 where he oversaw record profits. In 2007, he moved to HSBC Finance Corporation, HSBC's US sub-prime lending business, which had been making heavy losses, initially as chief operating officer and then chief executive.

After successfully restructuring the sub-prime business he became chief executive of HSBC North America in August 2010 and joined HSBC's Group Management Board. He oversaw the reduction in the bank's US activities including the sale of its 195 Upstate New York branch network to First Niagara Financial Group in August 2011 for about $1 billion. He left HSBC in October 2011 as part of a management reshuffle, when the post was merged with the CEO of HSBC USA. He earned a reported £2m in his final year.

In 2013, he came out of retirement when he was appointed chief executive of the Co-operative Bank, Britain's largest mutual bank and ninth largest retail bank. The Co-op had just reported a £600m loss and a six notch downgrade by Moodys. When he was appointed, analysts estimated the bank was facing a capital shortfall of over £1bn. Booker was also appointed the deputy chief executive of The Co-operative Group but stood down three months later when the bank's shareholding was restructured and the Co-op Group lost its majority stake.

Six months after he took over, Booker oversaw a £1.5bn recapitalisation of the bank through a bail-in of its subordinated debt and a capital injection from hedge funds which had bought up much of the debt. As a result, the Co-op Group lost majority control of the bank. To safeguard the bank's ethical reputation among customers it introduced an "ethical code of conduct"  In March 2014, he oversaw an additional £400m rights issue to cover additional losses as the bank's capital ratio was close to the regulatory minimum.

Political views
In advance of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, Booker signed a letter from the "Better Together" campaign urging people to vote against independence from the United Kingdom.

Arts patronage
Booker lists his interests as opera, art and golf. He is a friend of the Hampstead Theatre and the Royal Opera House. He also has a keen interest in cricket having been a member of the MCC for over 40 years.

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People educated at Glenalmond College
Scottish bankers
The Co-operative Group
Living people
1958 births

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Ocean Prosperity Programme Anniversary
Today [June 5] marks the one year anniversary of the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme [BOPP], a partnership between the Government of Bermuda, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences [BIOS], and the Waitt Institute
A spokesperson said, "This Friday marks the one year anniversary of the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Government of Bermuda, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, and the Waitt Institute to form the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme [BOPP].
"This partnership vowed to create a binding marine spatial plan to sustainably manage Bermuda's ocean environment and identify sustainable growth possibilities for ocean industries like fishing and tourism.
"The partnership also commits to preserving 90,000 square kilometers [50,000 square miles] of Bermuda's waters as fully protected areas in order to support ocean livelihoods well into the future.
"One year in, the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme continues to build a fair and comprehensive process that is based in science and, most importantly, aligns with the needs and desires of the Bermudian people.
"This anniversary takes place under the shadow of the COVID19 pandemic, inspiring the BOPP administrative team and partners to further prioritize activities which focus on Bermuda's economy, such as renewable energy and food security.
"This Blue Economy Strategy will be a 10-year plan for Bermuda's marine sectors, which will identify areas of sustainable growth, focusing specifically on sustainable fisheries, tourism, and ocean renewable energy."
Walter Roban, Deputy Premier and Minister of Home Affairs, said, "This unprecedented situation really makes us appreciate our island. We are one of the most beautiful places on earth and we need to look after our marine environment so that it continues to provide the many services that help our economy."
The spokesperson said, "The BOPP is being guided by a Steering Committee comprised of representatives from Government Departments, Boards, quangos, BIOS, and the Waitt Institute. To ensure the process is based on the best available science, a Science Committee was also formed, which includes experts from the Waitt Institute, BIOS, the Government, and independent local scientists.
"This committee is working to develop the guiding principles of the marine spatial plan, and is collating the scientific data that will inform the spatial analyses. The public will have the opportunity to provide input through stakeholder consultation and digital tools in the coming months. B
"OPP Site Manager Cheryl-Ann Mapp and Communications Coordinator Weldon Wade, along with other programme leaders, will continue to engage stakeholders and connect with communities throughout the process to further introduce BOPP's mission, answer questions, and ensure everyone's voice is heard.
"Despite the need to shift deadlines because of COVID19, the work continues to build an inclusive and diverse team of stakeholders to inform guiding objectives and priorities for the marine spatial plan. All Bermudians have a voice in how best to manage and protect marine resources, and the BOPP continues to build out those processes while putting the health of citizens first.
"Another developing BOPP initiative in collaboration with local fishers is the Fish Aggregation Device [FAD] pilot study. The FADs will be placed in deep water beyond the Bermuda Platform and will be used to attract large pelagic fish species [such as tunas and wahoo]. This could boost fish catches and encourage more offshore fishing. The FAD trials are now due to start in Spring 2021.
"Bermuda is an island with tremendous potential. It is no coincidence that this MOU was signed on World Environment Day, which falls just before World Ocean's Day on June 8th. Bermuda is leading the way in this global effort to protect livelihoods and the planet.
"The Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme is committed to developing strategies to support the sustainable growth of marine industries, which will aid our economic recovery from the pandemic leading to a prosperous future.
"To get involved, visit here, the BOPP Facebook page, or the Instagram page."
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Q: How to put each result of a MySQL query into a text file one by one? while($row= mysql_fetch_object($result)){
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How can I put $row->products_id ." ". $row->products_price into a txt file with one row a time?

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Q: What is the meaning of something like `string[7]` in TypeScript? While working in TypeScript today, I wanted to type a field to a string array with a set size. Though I know how to actually do this in TS, my C instincts made me write:
interface MyInterface {
  arrayField: string[7];
  // ...
}

I noticed that neither linter nor compiler complains about this, but it appears that arrayField is now simply typed to string. Does anyone know what's going on here?

A: I believe it is a mistake. I think it should have been a string[].
While this notation string[7] is valid from TS perspective, it does not make any sense.
string is just a primitive type. Because all values are objects in javascript, string type has also a set of allowed methods/indexed properties.
In plain javascript "abs"[0] returns a. Since TypeScript does not have a char type, it should be compatible with javascript. Hence string[10000] returns just a
string.
Here you can find all built in properties of string type:
type StringProperties= {
  [Prop in keyof string]: { key: Prop, value: string[Prop] }
}

How do we make a fixed length string in TS ?

Only with help of conditional types. You should  iterate over each char and put this char into array. Then you need compare the length of the array with expected string length.
See example:

type ToArray<T extends string, Cache extends readonly string[] = []> =
  T extends ''
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type IsValid<T extends string[], Len extends number> = T['length'] extends Len ? true : false

type IsLength<T extends string, Len extends number> = IsValid<ToArray<T>, Len> // ok

type Result1 = IsLength<'hello', 6> // false
type Result2 = IsLength<'hello', 5> // true

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If you are interested in string validation techniques, you can read my blog

A: Fixed length can be done easily:
interface MyInterface {
  arrayField: [string, string, string, string, string, string, string];
}

Well it is possible but for big integers it's pretty bad. You can write into dev tools simple code:
function array(length, type = "string") {
  return `[${Array(length).fill(type)}]`
}


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Magna Charta, the Great Charter, or the " Charter of Liberties," as it is commonly called by English writers, a constitutional instrument executed by King John of England, guaranteeing to the people in perpetuity the enjoyment of certain rights and privileges. Our word charter shows that the Latin charta, which meant simply paper, was at length used in the sense of a legal instrument, much as the word paper is sometimes used now. The word charter was however most commonly used to signify the written evidence of grants of land or of privileges from a feudal lord to an abbey or other religious house. From this it was extended to mean the records of all grants from feudal superiors to their subordinates, whether civil or ecclesiastical, and all agreements between them. The Great Charter is of this description, but is from the sovereign to the people. It begins: "John, by the grace of God, king," etc, to various dignitaries and officers, describing them not by name but by office, and " his other faith-ful subjects: Know ye, that we, for the health of our soul, etc, and by the advice of [sundry persons enumerated], have granted . . . and confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever." But while, in form, the charter was only a gift of certain rights and liberties by the king, it was a very different thing in fact.
The Anglo-Saxon institutions and usages, which were very favorable to liberty, had been almost suppressed by the Norman conquerors. The Norman kings, perhaps from the necessity which belonged to their position in England as sovereigns of an invading and conquering race, who needed to hold full and unchecked powers to enable them to preserve what they had won, had claimed and exercised an almost despotic authority. This began to alarm and perhaps to oppress the nobles; and after some struggles and conflicts the feudal possessors of the land of England succeeded in wresting from the feeble hands of John the important concessions contained in the Great Charter. These were very far, however, from being original concessions. There is scarcely one of them, of any importance, which may not be traced back in its principle, if not in its form, to Anglo-Saxon times. The nobles found that these usages, or principles, were all that they wanted to secure their own rights; and by demanding them only they secured the cooperation of a great part of the clergy and of all the cities and burgesses, and thus were enabled to gain such a superiority over the forces which John could bring to his aid, as to compel him to a peaceful acquiescence in their demands.
The preliminaries were agreed upon; the principal provisions of the charter were determined upon and ratified in a preliminary instrument by the king; and then he met the deputies of his nobles, and some of his clergy, at Runnymede, and there, on June 15, 1215, the charter was executed. It bears the seal of the king, and of a large number of nobles. Many copies were made at once, probably one for each county and diocese, and for some other bodies. Two of these originals, for all may be called so, are still preserved in the Cottonian library in the British museum; and there are copies extant made at later periods. Some doubt still rests upon the text, however, in passages of some importance. That printed at the beginning of the first volume of " Statutes at Large," in folio, is in fact a translation of the great charter of Henry III., which purported to be a confirmation of the charter of John. It was however duly enacted by the three estates of parliament, which the charter of John never was. Sir William Blackstone published an edition of it from the Cottonian original (Oxford, 1759). It was drawn up in the Latin language, and the translations into English vary considerably.
Thus the famous section 2D (sometimes numbered 45), which has been called the essence and glory of Magna Charta, runs thus: "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or banished, or anyways injured, nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, unless by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." The phrase which we put in italics is an exact translation of nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus; but it has been much disputed what this means. In Coke's opinion it is, that no man shall be condemned in the court of king's bench, where the king is supposed to be present, nor before any commissioner or judge whom the king may depute or delegate to try him. The meaning of some other passages is equally obscure; but it is made so only by the lapse of time, and the disuse of phraseology once well understood. For the searching and thorough protection of right and suppression of all wrong afforded by the provisions of this remarkable instrument, and the singular force and precision of much of the language used, prove that those mailed barons had men among them, or at their call, who could employ in their service all the resources of the best cultivated intellects.
It was regarded at the time as of so great importance, that the barons compelled the king to put into their possession the city and tower of London, to be held by them for a certain time as a pledge for the due observance of the charter. They also required him to consent that 25 of their number should be chosen as " guardians of the liberties of the realm," with power to make war upon the king if he should violate the charter. In the subsequent reigns it was repeatedly confirmed, the sovereigns of England finding that when they were in peril and their subjects disposed to resist them, they could do nothing so popular as make a solemn confirmation of the "Charter of Liberties." This circumstance, and the traditional reverence for Magna Charta, together with its actual value, have caused some mistakes concerning it. The nobles who procured it are often called the patriots of their age, and are believed to have contended for the rights of the people. This is not quite true. Everything in the charter itself, and whatever is related concerning it in contemporaneous history, lead to the conclusion that the purpose of those who formed it was mainly to preserve the rights and privileges of their own order; and the provisions for the security of merchants, and of freemen generally, while dictated probably by some desire to secure their rights, was the readiest way to obtain that cooperation of various interests which was necessary to insure success.
In the loth century the villeins or serfs were probably the majority of the inhabitants of England; but the word villein occurs in Magna Charta but once. In one section it is declared that if a freeman be amerced for crime, it shall be "saving his contenement," by which word is meant the means of his livelihood, as the tools of a mechanic or the like; and a merchant "saving his merchandise;" and (in the next section) a villein "saving his wainage," and while these (his plough, wagons, and cattle) were certainly the tools of his trade, it is, from the character of the whole instrument, and of the times in which it was made, a not unreasonable inference that this single precaution for the benefit of the villein was at least recommended by the fact, that it preserved to him those implements without which he would be of little use to his lord. In truth, Magna Charta was intended mainly for the nobles and landholders of England; but it embraced in its terms all freemen. It was admirably contrived, and never lost its force; and as, in succeeding ages, villeinage gradually disappeared, and the serfs rose into the condition of freemen, they rose also into the protection and came within the benefit of Magna Charta. Hence there was a constantly increasing class who looked up to it with reverence and with confidence.
Its force was never lost by disuse, and its principles were never forgotten. It made the habeas corpus act and similar securities for personal rights and liberties possible; and in this way it may deserve the epithet which Mr. Hallam uses, when he calls it "the keystone of English liberty." - The general provisions of Magna Charta may be stated briefly. It confirmed the liberties of the church, and redressed some grievances incidental to feudal tenures. It prohibited unlawful amercements, distresses, or punishments, and restrained the royal prerogative of purveyance and preemption. It regulated forfeiture of lands, and prevented the grant of exclusive fisheries, or of new bridges injurious to a neighborhood. It established, or at least founded, the right of the owner of personal property to dispose of it by will, and it put the law of dower on the footing on which it has ever since stood. It protected merchants, required uniformity of weights and measures, and forbade alienation of lands in mortmain.
It guarded against delays and denials of justice, and brought the trial of issues within reach of all the freemen by means of assizes and circuits; and it asserted and confirmed those liberties of the city of London, and all other cities, boroughs, towns, and parts of the kingdom, from which, as from so many centres, political freedom afterward spread through the land. It protected every freeman from loss of life, liberty, or property, except by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land; and by it the king promised that " We will sell to no man, we will not deny or delay to any man, right or justice." Magna Charta is often appealed to in the discussion of constitutional questions in the United States, and its promise of protection by "the law of the land" is incorporated in some form in every American constitution.
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I would like to bind my EJB object (container managed or bean managed) to Oracle 8 DBMS_ALERT or DBMS_PIPE so that my object is notified whenever there is an update in the database by some batch process. Is it possible to do? If so, how?
If you use Oracle 8 you can use ORACLE ADVANCE QUERYING and subscribe for it with JMS, so you object can register some message listener, which will be notified when message sent by your batch process will arrive. For more detail information how to lookup Oracle Advance Querying system and to subscribe your JMS receiver or subscriber, look http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/appdev.817/a85456.pdf. (You may need to register yourself on technet.oracle.com first).


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Bland et al. v. United States et al, 185 F.2d 395 (5th Cir. 1950)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - 185 F.2d 395 (5th Cir. 1950) November 30, 1950
C. C. McKinney, Cooper, Tex., M. M. Wade, Dallas, Tex., for appellants.
Warren G. Moore, U. S. Atty., Royce Whitten, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., Joe A. Keith, Sherman, Tex., for appellees.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and McCORD and BORAH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
Conflicting claims to the benefits arising under a contract of National Service Life Insurance issued upon the life of Harvey L. Smith in the sum of $10,000.00, being policy No. N-1,136,357, were resolved by findings that, beginning when the veteran was eleven years old and continuing until his death, the claimant Minnie Alverson, the aunt of deceased, had stood in loco parentis to him, and that she was entitled to the proceeds of the policy.
One of the claimants, the natural mother of deceased, appealing from the judgment based on these findings, is here insisting that the judgment is not supported by the findings and must be reversed.
Her grounds for reversal are two. One is that it appears from the findings that appellee was not, as required by the statute when the policy was issued, designated as beneficiary. The other is that it appears therefrom that the deceased was an adult person at the time he entered the armed services, and she could not, therefore, have stood in the relation of loco parentis to him. We cannot agree.
The first ground, the failure to designate appellee as beneficiary, is without merit. Section 802(g) was amended in 1942, 38 U.S.C.A. § 802(g), before the insured's death, to eliminate entirely the restriction that a person in loco parentis would be considered a parent only if designated as beneficiary by the insured. Leyerly v. U. S., 10 Cir., 162 F.2d 79.
The second ground is no better taken. It is true that there is a conflict of authority as to whether the in loco parentis relation can arise with regard to one who is at the time of its claimed inception an adult, and this Circuit stands with those courts holding that it cannot. U. S. v. McMaster, 5 Cir., 174 F.2d 257. There is no real conflict of opinion though, indeed there could not in reason be any, upon whether the relation having arisen during minority may continue after majority. Leyerly v. U. S., and U. S. v. McMaster, supra.
The judgment was right. It is
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Anthony Joshua delivered a stunning finish to stop a game Alexander Povetkin and retain his world heavyweight titles at Wembley Stadium.
The IBF, WBO and WBA champion, criticised in some quarters for failing to finalise a deal with the division's other high-profile names, responded emphatically with a seventh-round stoppage of the Russian, who had never been beaten inside the distance.
After an early chess match in which Joshua suffered a bloodied nose before cutting his rival, the Briton grew in confidence and a savage right hand followed by a left hook began an onslaught which would prove telling.
Another right-left combination downed Povetkin, who somehow made the count, only to stagger into a left hook which saw him slump into the ropes, leaving referee Steve Gray with no option but to intervene.
Roars poured down to ringside as the rain had all day, with Joshua's corner ecstatic and rightly so. His display showcased poise, intellect and power, sending a message to the heavyweight division that the champion will take some stopping.


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Nipsey Hussle To Posthumously Receive Humanitarian Award At 2019 BET Awards
Glennisha Morgan	June 13th
The marathon continues.
The Marathon Continues ???????? We are honoring the legacy of #NipseyHussle with the Humantarian Award this year at the #BETAwards! Don't miss the celebration of his life SUN JUN 23 8/7c!
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Nipsey Hussle will posthumously receive the Humanitarian Award at the 2019 BET Awards. On Thursday, the BET Awards made the announcement via its official Instagram page.
"As a prolific artist and leader, Nipsey Hussle was zealous about driving change for the betterment of his community, empowering and employing those in need and being an influential and highly respected leader," said BET's Executive Vice-President, Head of Programming, Connie Orlando.
"His passing was a tremendous loss to the entertainment industry and to the culture. We will continue to remember his advocacy and be inspired by the groundwork he set forth and his dire commitment to social change."
The "Victory Lap" rapper made a commitment to serving marginalized communities, especially in Los Angeles, prior to his passing.
"We are forever grateful, humbled and honored to have experienced his presence and we are invested in doing our part to ensure that the marathon will indeed continue," Orlando continued. "It is an immense honor for us to recognize him with this year's Humanitarian Award."
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Herman L Bell was born on April 13, 1912. He died on August 15, 2000 at 88 years of age. We know that Herman L Bell had been residing in Irving, Dallas County, Texas.
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1912 - In the year that Herman L Bell was born, Arizona was admitted to the United States in February (on Valentine's Day). It became the 48th state in the Union. Previously a Spanish - then Mexican - territory, the U.S. paid $15 million dollars for the area in 1848. Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the United States.
1914 - When he was just 2 years old, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
1944 - At the age of 32 years old, Herman was alive when on November 7th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term as President of the United States. Running against Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York, Roosevelt won 53.4 of the popular vote, Dewey got 45.9%.
1946 - At the age of 34 years old, Herman was alive when pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock's book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" was published. It sold half a million copies in the first six months. Aside from the Bible, it became the best selling book of the 20th century. A generation of Baby Boomers were raised by the advice of Dr. Spock.
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Tieks ft. Chaka Khan & Popcaan - Say a Prayer
London-based producer and songwriter Tieks returns with latest release 'Say a Prayer' on Ministry of Sound/Sony. The track, featuring the vocals of legendary R&B singer Chaka Khan and Jamaican reggae artist Popcaan is out now and acts as the follow-up to Tieks' huge 2015 hit 'Sunshine.'
Featuring soul-rich gospel sounds, Tieks uses chimes to create an uplifting melody, which gives the release a highly emotive feel. Displaying his highly polished production skills, Tieks' underpins the track's bass-led breakdown with the smooth vocals of Chaka Khan and Popcaan, with all three artists featuring as emoji caricatures in the vibrant and colourful lyric video. Having released debut single 'Sing That Song' featuring Celeste in 2014, Tieks' follow-up track 'Sunshine' amassed over 30 million Spotify streams and peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in addition to being heard as the track featured in the colourful Fiat 500 television advert.
Chaka Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide in a career spanning five decades. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance artist of all time.
Popcaan (AKA Andre Hugh Sutherland) is a Jamaican DJ, singer and songwriter signed to Mixpak Records. One of Jamaica's most successful dancehall artists, known for singles 'Love Yuh Bad' and'Ova Dweet', Popcaan has also collaborated with a number of artists, including Drake, Jamie XX, Pusha T and Gorillaz.
A unique and melodic production utilising the talents of all three artists, 'Say a Prayer' is out for release today.


Sean Blanda, SMC '09, Brian James Kirk, SMC '09, and Christopher Wink, CLA '08, resuscitate Philadelphia's technology scene.
Brian James Kirk, SMC '09 (top left), and Christopher Wink, CLA '08 (right of Kirk), are the co-founders of Technically Philly, a quickly growing, Philadelphia-based technology news company.
The sea of bicycles parked outside Johnny Brenda's, a pub and music venue in Philadelphia's Fishtown neighborhood, puzzled Sean Blanda, SMC '08. It was a Wednesday night in June 2008 and the place was packed. There was not even a well-known band playing. Instead, the venue was hosting the first-ever IgnitePhilly event—a sort of round-robin idea-fest for the city's creative class. This was supposed to be an event for nerds, he thought. He had not bought a ticket, and now, thanks to a great influx of said nerds, he was stuck outside of a sold-out venue.
The night was not a total loss for Blanda. In the following months, he would start talking with two people who had the foresight to get tickets to the event—his friends and former Temple News colleagues.
Brian James Kirk, SMC '09, and Christopher Wink, CLA '08—about what exactly a bar full of tech geeks on a weeknight represented: a market—a whole community of potential media consumers going underserved.
Over the next weeks and months, they plotted how to take advantage of the yawning gap that the slow shrink of traditional media had left them. They were young, the job market was proving less than bountiful and they were mostly broke. Why not give it a shot?
By February 2009, the discussions were becoming serious. There was a meeting at Wink's apartment in Frankford. Over pizza and Yuengling lager, a business plan was sketched out: They would launch a city-specific technology news operation called Technically Philly, which would focus not only on building an audience, but also on building community. They would be reporters and ringleaders. And they would make journalism—a business in the midst of an existential and economic crisis—a profitable enterprise again.
Wink notes that there has always been a tech scene in Philadelphia—it just has not always been this vibrant. Hampered by brain drain, the dotcom bust and the allure of West Coast technology meccas, Philadelphia had become an afterthought by the mid-2000s. The lot of the city and its tech culture has improved since then, Wink says. Philadelphia is keeping more of its young graduates; Silicon Valley's monopoly on talent and money has loosened.
Though the night at Johnny Brenda's underscored it, the Technically Philly trio had long been aware of the city's growing scene. Kirk had written tech columns for Philadelphia City Paper and the blog Philebrity after graduation. Blanda, who was working as a web editor at City Paper, played the role of motivator, pushing Kirk to make it happen and offering IT support. Wink, fresh from a reporting fellowship in Harrisburg, Pa., joined the team with business reporting skills and a head full of steam.
Those roles were not rigidly defined, but as they started building the business, something much like that happened. "Sean was tech guy, I was the operations guy. Chris was the guy who could make us press the hell out of each other," Kirk says.
Writing was a common responsibility. They covered all things related to technology in Philadelphia—product launches, venture-capital moves, the dearth of internet access in some parts of the city. As their audience grew, they started ditching their other gigs and coming on full time: first Blanda in summer 2010, then Wink in January 2011 and finally, Kirk in June 2011. "One by one, every six months or so," Kirk says.
By far, their biggest engagement initiative is Philly Tech Week, a series of events at locations across the city, featuring everything from robotics expos and gamer parties to entrepreneur meetups and programming boot camps. They held the first Tech Week in April 2011, attracting more than 4,000 attendees to 65 events; in 2012, more than 10,000 people attended 88 events.
"Tech Week is one of the most important events of the year," Independents Hall's Hillman says. "There are opportunities to get involved [in tech events] year round. But this is the big un-missable button to hit." It also subsidizes Technically Philly's journalism, with revenue from the event paying for a full-time reporter.
In addition to events, the group also is funded by project-based grants and consulting work. Two major clients are the National Constitution Center, which the company is helping launch a daily site tied to constitutional issues in the news, and PlanPhilly, which is looking to explore revenue-generating and sustainability models. "We are bootstrapping," Kirk says. "We aren't seeking outside investment, so we look to consulting as a way to make the numbers work." It is the math of modern journalism.
Any future refocusing will now happen without one of the founders. "I just knew that I love those guys and that I love that company so much, and if I wasn't 110 percent in on something, that I should get out of the way," says Blanda, who left in June 2012. "It was tough admitting that to myself." The breakup was amicable, say all involved. Blanda still retains a small ownership stake.
Kirk and Wink are pushing on. There is a long-overdue web redesign slated for later this year. They are making stable profits. Technically Philly site traffic continues to climb. They even expanded by launching Technically Baltimore, with its own dedicated writer, in late July. "We want to get into a handful of markets and scale up," Wink says. Scaling—its one of those things that a business could do to interest a potential buyer. And Kirk and Wink have talked about what would happen if someone approached them with a bag of money and asked for the keys. "We said from the beginning that we really want this to last," Kirk says. And right now, the work feels unfinished.
Dan Morrell, SMC '04, is a Boston-based writer and editor. His work for The New York Times, Fast Company, Slate and more can be found at danielmorrell.com.


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What Can AI Actually Learn on Its Own
What Can AI Actually Learn on Its Own and Self-learning AI Development Methods
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. AI's, as we're promised, are predicting weather conditions, helping companies find unhappy customers, making ourselves better in selfies, arranging our holiday pictures, scheduling appointments with doctors, and what not. Supervised Machine Learning, an AI technique, takes labeled data as an input to produce desired output for unseen data. In a similar manner we teach children to recognize a cat or a dog, supervised learning technique teaches the system to see patterns.
As businesses keep integrating AI into their applications, technophiles are brainstorming to take AI development beyond supervised machine learning. This is where the AI system owns capabilities like humans and is able to learn on its own.
Interesting Read: How AI and ML in Retail Will Boost Ecommerce Sale This Holiday Season
Is Artificial Intelligence Capable of Learning its Own?
Humans can understand and learn from different situations. We adapt to different environments. We can figure out how to solve a given problem by learning from historical experiences. While AI cannot replicate human brains- the Terminator scenario of AI ruling the world is still far to see- general intelligence gets us the closest. This critical element could help AI to reach the level of human intelligence.
It's Time to Go Beyond Supervised-Learning
Supervised learning depends on labeled data including images, audio, text, etc. Being highly data-dependent, such models require intensive computational power. To prevent the exponential usage of computational power, AI development has to utilize other machine learning approaches namely self-supervised learning to augment AI with general intelligence. This kind of learning technique does not learn from human-trained data sets, but from the data environment where it is placed into.
What Can AI Learn
Top AI companies like Facebook and Google have remarkably done well with the applications of AI such as web search and Facial Recognition respectively. Even more, companies in different domain alike, XpresSpa, for example, has worked out an intelligent solution to accurately forecast daily sales for their airport spa business by leveraging AI techniques. Businesses nowadays are heavily investing in AI to solve operational problems that previously were stagnating their growth.
But moving further, scientists are planning to surface AI to take on much tougher challenges that require common sense. For example, chatbots that can learn itself to explain the news, autonomous cars that can handle dense traffic on roads, and robotic assistants that nurse elderly.
Here's what can AI learn on its own.
AI powered robots will take a leap from discretely defined environments to explore real-world environments and just play within their new settings and learn. For example, a Toyota Human Support Robot (HSR), designed to perform physical tasks at home, works on instincts like humans. It possesses two humanlike instincts. First, the HSR decomposes challenges into smaller pieces just like human does. And the second is to reason about goals that are being asked to perform, the way human's instinct works toward a goal. To surprise, upon asking HSR to get a red cup, when there are only a black cup and a red plate in the surrounding, it uses good sense to pick the black cup and avoid the red plate.
Scientists are working on interaction networks to empower AIs with the same intuitive behavior that babies have. Just like infants deconstruct the world into interacting entities, AI systems quickly learn objects' properties and relationships to make sense in the real-world scenarios.
Different Methods to Develop Self-learning AI
The AI is learning to achieve general intelligence to match the level of human intelligence by developing common sense through promising techniques such as reinforcement learning and generative adversarial networks.
Reinforcement learning is a machine learning technique that trains algorithms using a system of reward for desired behavior and punishment for undesired behavior, respectively. This unsupervised form of learning allows algorithms to learn tasks simply by a trial-and-error basis. Set an objective, and reinforcement learning will start work toward that objective through trial-and-error method until it starts getting rewards in a uniform manner. With repetition, the behavior of the algorithm improves and hence performance improves. In most of the scenarios, the learning intelligence surpasses the human abilities as long as the environment is representative of the real-world.
One befitting example is AlphaGo Zero, an AI system built by DeepMind using reinforcement learning, which defeated its predecessor AlphaGo. The system works on a neural network that has no understanding about the game. It then plays against itself by placing stones randomly on the board. Over time, the neural network gets better at evaluating board positions and identifying the best moves possible. It also learns various canonical elements of Go strategy and finds new strategies all its own.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
This semi-supervised machine learning technique involves two networks – the Generator and the Discriminator. The first network, the Generator, attempts to create forgeries of human-created work, say the work of Claude Monet. The second network, the Discriminator, works on distinguishing the forgeries (fake images) from the real-world images. With practice, the two networks compete against each other and gradually get better to refine their understanding about a concept.
The power of GANs to generate increasingly realistic data can reduce the need of vast labeled data created by humans. In fact, this ability is matching with human creative thinking to harness knowledge from one context and then applying it within another. For example, University of California, Berkeley, is working on 'cycle-consistent adversarial network' to transform video or horses into the one of zebras. In this context, AI is detecting the basic shape of a horse in the first video and can work on the aesthetic of that image, and then seamlessly swapping the brown skin with white and black stripes while the image is in motion.
Such work is taking a stride in autonomous driving field, the AI that can enable self-driving cars to adapt to unfamiliar road conditions and prevent accidents. Also, using GANs, the AI can generate realistic images of different types of tumors, helping scientists in the diagnosis process.
AI is Learning on Its Own
Yes, AI is learning on its own to see, think and take action. Self-supervised learning methods like reinforcement learning and GANs are making AI systems to explore their learning environment and build up the general knowledge. This suggests that evolved version of AI work not only on the rules, but also in the real-time situations – much like amateurs who grow into artists by practicing over and again.
The promise of AI is enormous; and the tools, techniques, processes involved are taking this innovation a way further. Whatever you are struggling in your business, you can consult with our AI experts and strategically plan growth.
How AI Development Will Transform Software Development Processes
AI's impact is everywhere. Machine vision, smart predictions, virtual assistants, autonomous vehicles, and more. And software is the backbone of all such advancements, which are making our lives better. So, how can this be untapped by AI? AI Development is redefining the software field- accelerating the development of customized software and enhancing the whole development lifecycle. It is no longer about writing if-then-else statements. Instead, it has become more about choosing the right data set to feed neural networks which would solve a given problem without much human intervention.
Companies must prepare themselves for a big shift in the field of software development where AI assists human developers to code, program, test, and deploy. Take a look at what role AI is playing in the development process and what benefits it is extending to the developers.
How AI and ML will Impact this holiday shopping season For Ecommerce
The modern retail industry never really sleeps. After a demanding back-to-school season, retailers are now quickly shifting gears to lock in their holiday strategies for this year.
The holiday season is typically the harvest season for many online and offline businesses around the globe. Be it the beautiful red and gold decorations, delicious food, or gifts, people visit their favorite stores to spread the holiday cheer every year.
Already hindered by fears over supply chain disruptions and longer waiting times, this year's holiday season will be one of the most daunting the industry has ever seen. And with that, brands are finding better ways to deliver a seamless experience to the customers. AI and ML are proving to be the key assets in bridging those gaps in retail.
Why Digital Innovation is Important for Businesses
Today, Digital Innovation is at the heart of every business that is looking forward to setting up a new transformation example in front of the world. The Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and 3 D Printing, for example, are some of the emerging technologies, building the backbone for that seismic shift.


It seems I'm having a bit of a problem with color lately. It's hard to brew pale beers with extract on an electric stove. The Chinook "Golden" IPA with Wyeast #3522 has turned out much darker than I thought. I realize the color could fade with age, but this is a beer that I think is going to be consumed fresh for it's hoppy flavor. That said, I will try and reserve some bottles to see how it cellars. Tasted from the fermenter the fresh Chinook hoppiness is outstanding. The nose is not hoppy, but rather shows off the yeast esters. The finish is bitter, but really more resinous, with grapefruit and blood orange. The dark candi sugar seems to have added some complexity and perhaps has contributed to the nose. A lot to say about a beer from the fermenter. It could be whole different animal in a few weeks or months. Tasting this next to the Eastchester Amber has informed me that a lot of the "Eastchester" flavor is not the hops but the Wyeast #1318 yeast. The 1318 yeast adds a lot of fruitness and interesting rose water note, while the #3522 is more banana and hard to pin down higher alcohol esters. I fermented the #3522 at the top of the optimal range around 72F-74F. I did not use my Brewjacket like I did for the Eastchester. It was a warm October so I used the jacket to keep the Eastchester at 72F. Not sure what I'll brew next. I still have some Chinook whole hops left (about four to five ounces) so I'd like to use those. Maybe something dark next time.
The Chinook red came out more amber. It's a bit more Ruedrich's Red Seal than Santa's Private Reserve but I'm okay with that. There's a pleasant (not too assertive) Chinook hoppiness that mixes well with the malts and English yeast.
The saison is bottled and sits for awhile. Gravity dropped from 1.049 to 1.006. Not bad. Saved the yeast to brew again. Color was darker than I expected but I guess that's okay as long as it's dry. Would like to brew a batch of beer I've called Japanese Sunshine. Japanese hops, rice, a touch of wheat and a bunch of pils malt fermented with a saison yeast. A friend recently sampled a bottle from long ago and was very pleased so I've decided that I should brew this beer again.
One may argue there's no point to posting as this blog has just been a series of fits and starts for the last couple years, but I've decided to brew again. It seems like the hardest part is just getting to the homebrew shop. Sure, I could mail order, but I have access to a pretty awesome local homebrew supplier and I'd rather shop local.
I plan to brew a simple all extract saison tomorrow. I have six pounds of amber malt extract, three ounces of Kent Goldings hops and pack of Wyeast 3724 which I pitched into a starter yesterday. I'll be fermenting around 75-77 degrees. It'd be nice if it was warmer but it's only June in northern Illinois. As long as temperatures stay steady I should be OK. If the notorious 3724 does get stuck, I'll probably pitch some Safbrew T-58 to finish things off.
I'm drinking a saison that I brewed last October and it is quite good. There is a rose water fruitiness a light bitterness and dry finish. About all you can hope for in a traditional saison I suppose.
I've been very busy with life outside of brewing the past few months but I've been thinking about getting back to it. One of the brews I still have around is a bit disappointing. My Chinook bitter seems to have succumbed to an infection that has caused it to be over-carbed. It tastes okay, but it's a fizzy mess. The Chinook saison, on the other hand, shows no evidence of any Chinook hop flavor but is pretty tasty. There is an oddly floral aroma with a light caramel sweetness but that is countered by a dry rusticity. I typically brew a couple saisons once the weather starts getting warm and I think it might be time. The key to a good saison in my experience is time. All of saisons ways taste a little more complex after one year. In that way, brewing saison is kind of like brewing wine. I find this interesting as the Dupont strain of yeast is rumored to have come from a wine yeast.


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Smart grid freebies: apps, maps and more
By Liz Enbysk, SGN Managing Editor
We've put together a collection of freebies that's sort of a smart grid goody bag for grown-ups. An app that shows the most EV-ready cities and one that calculates how distributed power solutions can save money and energy. There's a map that pinpoints states with the most renewables and an animated IBM video that explains the benefits of big data for smart grid technology. Fun stuff; scroll down and see for yourself.
Which cities are most EV ready? According to Xatori, a Palo Alto, CA company that builds software for electric vehicles, Portland tops the list, followed by Dallas, Nashville, the San Francisco Bay area and Seattle. The list is based on public charging locations per 100,000 residents. If you want to drill down further, check out Xatori's free PlugShare app.
What's the big deal with big data? Ask the folks at IBM and they'll tell you that evolving technologies, including smart meters and smart grids, can provide utilities with unprecedented capabilities for forecasting demand, shaping customer usage patterns, preventing outages, optimizing unit commitment and more. They've spelled it out in their Big Data, Big Opportunities video and a free white paper Managing big data for smart grids and smart meters.
Crunching energy savings on an iPad. That's the idea behind Capstone Turbine Corporation's interactive iPad app – Capstone World 2.0 available for free at the iTunes store or via Capstone's Distributed Energy Calculator. According to Capstone, with just a few quick keystrokes on an iPad, anyone worldwide now can determine the potential savings in energy costs and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions if certain city buildings switch from utility power to low-emission microturbines, solar, and wind turbines.
Where or where do renewables roam? You can get the answer in this state by state renewable energy comparison map that tracks solar PV, concentrated solar, wind, biomass and geothermal across the country. The information comes from the DOE's National Renewable Energy Lab, but this Forbes report takes a deep dive into each sector.
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Off the coast of Cannes, France is the island of St. Honorat, home of a Cistercian monastery. The landscaping and gardens tended by them make this island a paradise to visit. I was lucky enough to walk in silence among the monks and other tourists in the summer of 2010. This painting is based on a photograph I took while there.


The title is not lying, this is actually one of my good ol' movie reviews! Trying to get back into the swing of blogging every once in a while. I hope you enjoy it!
On Sunday night, JC and I went to see Shutter Island (avoid Wikipedia links if you haven't seen the movie and don't want to read spoilers). It is really nice to have a new movie buddy and we've seen a few movies recently. None have really made me want to run out and blog though.
On Valentine's Day I brought her to a wonderful dinner at Portobello Trattoria at Downtown Disney and then we caught a showing of Valentine's Day. I enjoyed the movie and it has everyone in it. EVERYONE. Cute, romantic comedy and I believe a perfect Valentine's Day movie. Don't expect me to write a post about it and don't expect me to buy the DVD. But if you want to rent a cute movie next Valentine's Day? Check it out.
Back to the real reason for the post, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. This movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and brought up an interesting thought on my part: Have I ever seen a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio? I can hear you, well, most of you. You just scoffed at the notion that I hadn't seen a DiCaprio movie. I have never seen Titanic. Of course I've seen parts of the movie, but I've never seen it from beginning to end, something JC plans on changing. While working on this post I spent time going through every film on DiCaprio's filmography (thanks to Wikipedia) and I can honestly answer the previous question. No, I have not seen any of Leo's movies.


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Cornish Pirates / Joe Earns His Contract
Joe Earns His Contract
The latest player news from the Cornish Pirates confirms that centre/fly-half Joe Elderkin has signed a one-year contract with the club.
Joe, aged 22, made one appearance for the Pirates in a pre-season friendly played in against Exeter Chiefs in 2017, whilst in May this year he was used as a replacement in the fixture at home to Hartpury.
A former Truro School and Truro RFC youth team player, who has studied and played at Exeter University, Joe has represented Exeter Chiefs under 18s/Academy, has featured for the Chiefs in the Singha 7s, and for the Exeter Braves team. He has also played for Redruth, Plymouth Albion, and for Cornwall.
Speaking reference this latest signing, Cornish Pirates' joint head coach Gavin Cattle said:
We have been aware of the promise that Joe has shown. An intelligent and well-balanced personality he trained with us in the past and has been on trial voluntarily during the Covid period.
His attitude and commitment have been excellent, and now earning a contract is a just reward for his efforts. Also, of course, it gives him an opportunity to learn from accomplished players and compete for a place in the team.
As for Joe, he has commented:
Growing up in Cornwall and loving watching the Cornish Pirates play from a young age, it is an honour to be able to get the chance to be a squad member.
I am very excited to get started and get stuck into pre-season with what is a great group of guys.


Having an increase of 3,000 or 5,000 new believers in one single day was quite common during the Early Church Period. The cause for such a dramatic growth was not only the work of the Holy Spirit, but also the messages of the apostles. Unlike the false prophets in the Old Testament whom God "did not send...or command," and who did not "furnish this people [the Israelites] the slightest benefit" (Jer. 23:32)-the apostles were sent by God and had the presence of God. The messages they preached pierced people's hearts, causing them to worship God and proclaim that God was truly among them (ref. 1 Cor. 14:25).
In recent years, I have had ample opportunity to preach to different Chinese churches at home as well as abroad. Through these occasions of involved contact and observation, the one conclusion that can be drawn for the stagnation in many churches is: Their pastors have yet to learn the art of preaching in a way that can satisfy the spiritual needs of their congregations.
Not too long ago, when I was preaching at a Chinese church on the East coast, the leaders of that church commented, "If our pastor can preach a sermon with substance only once every three months, we will be content!" Can a pastor who is incapable of such preaching and such feeding be called and sent by God? The answer, unfortunately, is obvious.
Years ago, a professor of Systematic Theology from a seminary on the West coast made this remark: "I think teaching and preaching are exactly the same!" I could not disagree more. Teaching and preaching belong to two totally different categories. As a seminary professor, he could not even differentiate between teaching and preaching. Can his students preach then? Again, the answer is a clear "No."
Standing at the pulpit, many seminary graduates of today can only give a lecture, but not preach a message. A pastor who does not know how to preach is likened to a chef who does not know how to cook! It is simply a fantasy to think that a restaurant with an unskilled chef will have a booming business.
A pastor has to be sent by God and be gifted in preaching before a church can have any growth. Otherwise, that pastor may need to consider another livelihood, so as to avoid deceiving himself, misleading others and, later, being judged by God.
The personnel for the kingdom of heaven are not volunteers (ref . Matt. 8:19), but an elite task force selected and called by God Himself! If on top of God's calling and gifts, a pastor also has seminarian training, then, of course, that would be superb. It would be like a beautiful peony being decorated with jade green leaves, each bringing out the beauty of the other.
The desolation in the Church of the last days is not due to the lack of pastors, but an abundance of pastors who serve without God's sending. Since they are not sent by God, how can. they expect God to be responsible for them and provide them with His message? Not only is God not responsible, but He may also be against them (Jer. 23:30-31).
The foremost task of a pastor is not visitation, but the distribution of spiritual nourishment to his congregation. It should be given at the proper time and according to their capacities, so as to sustain their spiritual needs. In addition to preaching on fifty-two Lord's days, there are other small meetings as well. A pastor therefore should have at least a hundred messages prepared each year for any contingency. If he does not have continuous provisions from God, the mere "canteen of water" collected from the seminary will soon run dry, and he will have no more messages to preach. His only choice is either repeating the same message again and again, or moving on to another church. Pastors who are truly sent by God should have an inexhaustible well of living water that they can draw from. Jeremiah has said, "They [God's lovingkindnesses and compassions] are new every morning'' (Lam. 3:23). Praise the Lord!
Because of famous chefs and delicious food, many five-star restaurants in America are always packed, regardless of their remoteness. The same is true for a church. If a pastor receives his message from God every Lord's day, the sermon he preaches will make a significant difference. It will reveal the innermost secrets of the unbelievers so that, with humility, they will fall on their knees to worship God. It will also renew the minds of the believers so that gradually they will have the likeness of their Creator. Such a church will naturally grow, day by day.
Among all pastoral duties, the most difficult and most important task is to know, without doubt, the message God intends for him to preach each Lord's day. Sometimes, with God's blessing, the message may come on Monday, and then that week will be the most enjoyable week. But sometimes, even by Thursday, the message to be preached is still unclear. H the latter is the case, then the pastor should fast and pray fervently before God on Friday. Our spiritual awareness is often unblocked as soon as we start fasting and praying, and the message God intends will become crystal clear. This is speaking from my personal experience. Dear co workers in Christ, please give it a try!
To those pastors who are uncertain of God's calling, I sincerely suggest the following as a remedy. Our Lord Jesus said, "Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers..." (Matt. 9:38). This verse teaches us to pray to God if we want Him to send out workers.
The church I first pastored (in 1933) was a small one whose congregation constantly fought against one another. Following Sunday service each Lord's day, the two parties would pound on the table fighting and accusing one another as a matter of course. After pastoring them for half a year and seeing no improvement in sight, I started to doubt if I was called and sent by God. I began fasting and praying to God earnestly. One day, in a vision, I saw an angel summon me to an examination. After the examination, this angel told me, "You have passed. God has called you to preach to the world, that they may be convicted concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgment." From that moment onward, not only have my sermons been empowered by the Holy Spirit, touching those who listen, but God Himself has also been in charge of all situations, solving every problem that arises.
Our God is a faithful God! He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. Dear co workers in Christ, if you are uncertain of God's calling, please try fasting and praying to Him directly. He will answer you and guide your way according to His plan.
A pastor's own conviction of God's calling is of course essential to the growth of a church, but the congregation's love and prayer for their pastor are of equal significance. I often tell the brothers and sisters of my church, "If you don't pray for me, then, please don't blame me for not being able to preach a good sermon!"
In the past, pastors in mainland China were called "the gentlemen in-charge." To put it bluntly, the title meant "janitors." Pastors received no love, no respect and no encouragement from their congregation, but constant demands for harder work with little pay. The congregation seemed to be saying, ''We want a fine horse that does not eat hay!"
A congregation that disrespects God's servant also disrespects God. How can they expect to have God's presence and have church growth when they are not reverent towards God? On the other hand, when a congregation and its pastor love one another and pray earnestly for one another, then the Almighty God Himself will certainly be with them. It is absolutely impossible for a church that has God's presence not to have growth.


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Posted on September 27, 2019 by greg
Here's a curious thing. Comrade Trump fired (by tweet, of course) Dan Coats, the Director of National Security, three days after Trump made his disastrous telephone call to newly-elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. You know, the call in which Trump leaned on Zelensky to reopen a closed investigation into Joe Biden's son. The call that's sparked the current impeachment crisis.
Coats didn't have much relevant experience in intelligence when Trump selected him to be the DNI, but he was a decent, mostly thoughtful, establishment Republican. He wasn't a Trump loyalist, though, so he was often in conflict with the president. He was the last member of the Trump administration to publicly disagree with the president. Clearly, he had to go. Although the timing is a tad suspicious.
Former Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats
Here's another curious thing. The law clearly stated that in case of a vacancy at the DNI position, the Principle Deputy Director of National Intelligence would assume the role of acting DNI until the Senate could confirm a new DNI. This was because lawmakers felt it was critical for the president to have continuity in regard to national intelligence, as well as reasoned, experienced, expert advice. But the PDDNI was Susan Gordon.
Susan Gordon was a career intelligence officer — a true intelligence professional. She'd risen through the ranks from a CIA analyst to become the CIA's Director of the Office of Advanced Analytic Tools (the cyber nerds), then the Deputy Director of the CIA, then Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, before taking the second seat as Deputy Director of National Intelligence. She wasn't just the legal option for acting DNI, she was the best choice to become the permanent DNI.
Former Principle Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Susan Gordon
But the Trump team felt Susan Gordon wasn't "sufficiently loyal" to Trump. They let it be known there was no place in the Trump administration for her. So she did the decent thing; she resigned on the same day as Director Coats. Three days after Trump's call to Zelensky. Gordon wrote one of the shortest and most honest resignation letters ever.
Mr. President — I offer this letter as an act of respect & patriotism, not preference. You should have your team. Godspeed, Sue.
Who did Comrade Trump want to replace Coats and Gordon? Trump loyalist and Texas Republican John Ratcliffe, a two-term Congressman. Ratcliffe was best known for (and I swear I'm not making this up) 1) asserting the existence of a "secret society" within the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI devoted to preventing Comrade Trump from being elected and 2) claiming the Mueller Report was written by "Hillary Clinton's de facto legal team." In other words, Ratcliffe is a classic Republican from Texas fuckwit.
Current Nitwit and Conspiracy Theorist, John Ratcliffe (getting some serious side-eye from fellow Texas Republican Will Hurd)
Not surprisingly, Ratcliffe was so unqualified even Senate Republicans couldn't support him. Five days after nominating him, Trump pulled the nomination.
The fact is, Comrade Trump doesn't want intelligence experts. In fact, he doesn't want any experts around him at all. He wants to be the expert. He wants others to defer to him and his judgment. He wants others to recognize his genius. Having people around him who are knowledgeable, who have expertise, makes him uncomfortable; they might correct him. And to a narcissist like Trump, that would be intolerable. That's why the Department of National Intelligence lost both its director and deputy director on the same day. Three days after Trump made his call to Ukraine President Zelensky.
And that leads us to yet another curious thing. If you read the whistleblower's complaint, it reads like it was written by an intelligence analyst. Or at least somebody familiar with intelligence memoranda. The format, the detail, the underlying evidence, the footnotes that support the narrative — it's exactly how an analyst prepares a memorandum. Can we think of anybody with experience as an analyst, or who is familiar with such reports? Somebody who is a patriot and a professional, maybe even a career intelligence officer? Somebody who might be willing to be a whistleblower in order to throw light on a shady subject?
I'm just thinking out loud here.
EDITORIAL NOTE: I'm not saying either Coats or Gordon is the whistleblower. I'm just saying…you know…you never know. Is what I'm saying.
This entry was posted in awful people, comrade trump, current events, despicable behavior, election 2020, ItMFA, republicans from texas by greg. Bookmark the permalink.
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Irene on September 28, 2019 at 12:36 am said:
"Curiouser and curiouser!" Also in Alice, "The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!"
"You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."
Perhaps your thoughtful blog might reach your member of Congress.
greg on September 28, 2019 at 10:14 am said:
My member of Congress has, at long last, come around; she's finally stated she supports impeachment proceedings. It's a disappointment that it took so long, but it's her first term and I suppose she's being cautious.
singlyphoto on October 9, 2019 at 6:40 am said:
« The call that's sparked the current impeachment crisis. »
would there have been a time when this would be called an "impeachment proceedings"? I agree that crisis is the best descriptor now. just wondering if at a civilised time, it would have another term such as proceedings.
greg on October 9, 2019 at 7:38 am said:
The problem, I think, is that Congress dawdled and fretted so long that impeachment became a crisis.
I had not thought of that aspect of it: the dragging causing it to be a crisis.
I read that there is a difference to Mueller: for general consumption, there was difficulty in making it clear, while the GOP had a clear reply (even though, as we expect, it is a lie), and now the matters are reversed, in that there is a simple line for impeachment, and the lies are not as easily formulated.
but I hold my breath… not sure if the proper force will be applied.
The problem, in my opinion, with the Mueller Report wasn't that it was unclear; it was very clear. There problem was that Attorney General Barr was given the chance to frame the report in a way that was deliberately inaccurate and misleading. That shaped the way the report was discussed. When the actual report was released, it didn't comport with Barr's explanation, so people got confused.


I know many people cringe when thinking about silk or artificial flowers. There is a sense that they look tacky, or cheap, or well, artificial. And on some level, I would agree.
But, there is a whole world of wonderful colours and textures and height out there where artificial flowers are concerned and I really am a big fan of incorporating them into a party design or home decor.
And, I'm not just saying that, I actually believe and live it myself.
I used a combination of fresh and artificial flowers for my own wedding. For the ceremony, I opted to use fresh flowers at the front of the Church but, I lined the pews with drapings of silk soft pink tulips, cream blooms, artificial greenery and elegant ribbons . I also used artificial flowers for little moments like this easel piece, which I still have today.
I also decorate in my home by using interesting blooms.I like how artificial flowers add the interest I crave for in my living spaces, and that, like a pillow or great throw, I can instantly change the look by experimenting with different colours or flowers.
You can incorporate hues that might not be available naturally, but that work with your colour palette or theme. Can't find that exact right blue or purple in your fresh flowers? I bet you'll be able to find it in an artificial floral.
There is an abundance of variety in size and texture and you can create arrangements that go beyond anything you're able to create with fresh flowers.
Don't get me wrong. Fresh flowers are always welcomed and should be incorporated into your daily life and party planning. But, don't shy away from using artificial flowers.
The only tools you'll need are a good pair of wire cutters should you wish to alter the height of your florals, but if you're cool with the height as they are, then all you need is a really fantastic container.
Not sure about using an abundance of silk or artificial florals; then opt for tall branches with buds, or wispy grasses that fall loosely from the container or vase.
Just try it. I think you'll have a lot of fun creating your look.
Do you have any questions about your party planning or home space? I provide one-on-one consulting and guidance for party design and development, and home interiors. All virtually through Skype, email and phone. Just send me an email to get started. I'd love to work with you.


One of the most surprising new features introduced with iOS 10 is raise to wake. Borrowed from Apple Watch, the new function will make the iPhone detect when it is raised, be it from your pocket, table or another surface and turning on the screen by itself. Moreover, once you put the phone down the function will turn off the screen automatically.
Raise to wake is very useful when you want to quickly check the time on your iPhone or read new notifications on the fly. In fact, once you get used to it you'll quickly forget about pressing the Home or Power button to wake your phone's screen. Just pick up your iPhone and it's good to go.
And yet the raise to wake function can easily turn into a nightmare. Basically the iPhone's super sensors can not differentiate between an intentional or accidental movement which obviously could cause many problems. Many users complain of low battery life, which is not surprising because every time the screen is on means additional energy consumption.
So if you're unhappy that your iPhone's screen turns on and off automatically, follow the steps below to see how to safely turn off raise to wake function.
Please note that raise to wake function works only on iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus basically Apple device's equipped with M9 co-processor running iOS 10.
Once successfully disabled the raise to wake function, lock the iPhone's screen and move it without touching any buttons. You'll notice that the screen does not wake, the behavior being identical to the older iPhone models.