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Email Blacklisting
Email blacklisting is a necessary evil in the world of today's computers. Without blacklisting organizations, no email account would be safe from the onslaught of spam emails floating around the internet.
While in practice, this is normally great, but unfortunately it is possible to have legitimate email servers added because of other users on the server. This is why you may see our shared servers sometimes become blacklisted.
In this article, we will discuss how it happens, how to help prevent it, and how we handle each situation.
How does this happen?
This normally only happens shared servers where you have more than one account on a server and one of these accounts have become compromised (e.g. the hosting account password was cracked, the email password was cracked, scripts are out of date, etc.).
For more information about what a compromised account is, please click here.
When this happens, spammers use this as an outlet to send massive amounts of unsolicited emails to people. When people that receive this spam report it, blacklists are made aware of the spam and the source, and in turn block the server.
From that point, any email provider that respects the organization's blacklist will automatically stop allowing any emails sent from the blacklisted server to make it to intended recipient, and in most situations, will bounce the email back to the original sender.
What can we do as users to help prevent it?
While it may not be your account causing the issue, it is a good idea to take preventative measures to help ensure that your account is never the cause of a blacklist. You can do this by making sure that your email accounts have strong, secure passwords. For information on how to create secure passwords, please click here.
You can also help by making sure that if you have any scripts, that you keep them up to date so that they can't be used as spam email sources. For information on how to upgrade some of the more popular web applications, please click here.
In addition, you can help prevent breaches by ensuring you have secure passwords on any FTP accounts that you have. Again, for information on how to create a secure password, please click here.
By doing all the above, you help prevent your account from being used to send bulk emails and in turn helps the server remain in good grasses with the black lists organizations.
What does the Datacentre do to help prevent it?
There are many organizations that work with us directly by informing us of emails that have been reported as spam before they blacklist the server. This gives us the opportunity to look into the spam messages and track down the account they are being sent from. From there, we work with that client to help prevent any more spam messages from being sent. This process is known as a Feedback Loop, or FBL. For more information about how the FBL system works, please click here.
You can see the organizations that work with us via this method below.
What happens if the server gets blacklisted? What does Datacentre do?
If an organization adds our server to a blacklist, we start immediate action to have the blacklist removed and to prevent future spam messages being sent from the source that triggered the listing. This process varies from organization to organization. Some organizations allow us to simply submit a form, while others require us to email them directly.
Unfortunately, there are some organizations that we simply can't request a removal from. In situations like this, we have to do the best we can to clean up the account that sent the messages and simply wait for them to remove us on their own. There is no way to tell how long this process can take as it varies from case to case.
No matter the organization, any delisting request can take time for the request to be approved and processed.
Black List Organizations
Works with us via FBL
American Online (AOL)
Sorbs
URIBL
SenderBase
SpamHaus
SpamCop
MX Logic
Doesn't Work With Us
Backscatterer
UCE


I co-created the Mediation Clinic at California Western School of Law (hereafter CWSL) with my colleague Linda Morton in 1996 to provide students the opportunity to learn the process of mediation and to mediate live disputes in the community. We recognized the importance of "soft skills" such as communication, collaboration, initiative, and adaptability and therefore we sought to create an experiential learning opportunity for the students that encouraged them to nurture those skills. We wanted to teach students conflict resolution skills and to have them work together to use those skills to help individuals in the community resolve actual disputes. Simultaneously, we sought to expose the students to an under served population with whom most of them were not acquainted (incarcerated juvenile offenders) and to show them the value of helping others resolve their disputes peacefully, in a non-adversarial way. Moreover, we sought to teach the students that their new role as mediator required them to act professionally and ethically.
After teaching the class for approximately 15 years I became curious about what our students were doing. I was interested in learning whether they were practicing law and whether they were serving as mediators. I wanted to ascertain whether they were getting paid to mediate or whether they were mediating pro bono. This curiosity led to other areas of inquiry, such as determining the type of mediations the graduates were doing and the frequency of those mediations. Moreover I also wanted to know if they were using the communication skills we had taught them in the Mediation Clinic in their mediations, in their professional and personal lives.
This article, The Parts Are Greater Than The Sum, is the description and analysis of what I learned from the survey I sent to the graduates of the Mediation Clinic. Fortunately I received a very high response rate -- over 50% of those who received the survey responded to it.
I found the responses illuminating. I have learned that although the students were interested in mediation, this was not their initial motivation for participating in the clinic. Only a small percent of the graduates were mediating. Nonetheless, the graduates appreciate and use many of the communication skills they learned in the clinic in their professional and personal lives. Due to what I have learned from the graduates' responses to the survey, I have changed the way I teach the class. I now place more emphasis on the discrete skills used in mediation, rather than on the entire process of mediation.
I believe that others who teach mediation can also benefit from the data I accumulated and analyzed. I am sharing this data through this article so that others may learn something about their programs and may re-consider their program's goals and outcomes.


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'A Quiet Revolution': Director Talks Trans Representation In Queer Biopic 'Colette'
Peter Gray 7 months ago 242 Views
Groundbreaking new biopic Colette details the life of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), her unorthodox marriage, struggle to be recognised as a writer, and her relationship with a gender-defying aristocrat. Peter Gray from QNews Magazine caught up with co-writer/director Wash Westmoreland.
Congratulations on the film. You co-wrote the script with your partner Richard Glatzerm who has since passed away, and I wanted express my sorrow for your loss.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. In my mind I co-directed the film with Richard.
What drew you to Colette?
She was an exceptional person. In her writings you come into contact with her tremendous personality. Richard discovered her and started reading her works.
What was the script-writing process like?
Initially, the writing process was a dream. We went to France and found an abandoned house in the countryside… no phones, no internet, nothing to distract us. We wrote the first draft in ten days. We thought 'let's get this made'… and that was years ago.
When we pitched the idea, people did not connect with the script because they thought it was too out there. Colette's expression of sexuality was said to make it a 'niche film'. All these years later, she's still too radical.
The script was written in 2001 so I gather Keira Knightley was not the first actress in mind?
Keira was 14 in 2001. Over the years we considered different actresses, but when we seriously starting looking around 2015 we thought, 'Who could go from 19 years old to 34 years old? Who could project Colette's confidence and sense of humour?' We settled on Keira. She's an amazing actress. We sent her the script and she connected with it.
Willy, played by Dominic West, was a fascinating character.
It's the story of their marriage. Willy exploited his wife. He is very much the villain of the piece, but why were these two people together? Why was Colette tied to him? Dominic brought so much to role as someone who is treacherous and gets away with it.
Is the final movie much different from the original conception?
Every year for 17 years we went back and attacked the script. We just kept thinking 'Why can't we get this made?' But we kept working at it. Her life provided enough material for 10 seasons on HBO!
The character of Missy truly owns her sexuality. How was it writing and casting that role?
Missy is an extraordinary character. Richard and I, as gay filmmakers, were excited to have this giant LGBTQ explosion in the middle of a heterosexual marriage! Colette starts exploring her sexuality, and we meet Missy. It was an incredible opportunity to present someone really barracking for the transgender community.
'He' lived very publicly as a male, wore trousers, wore a monocle, smoked cigars, was called 'he' by many of his associates… Missy very much impacted the way Colette thought because Missy was so far ahead of everyone, living her own truth.
You cast Jake Graf in the film – a transgender actor.
Part of the process of casting Missy was workshopping and meeting with a lot of transgender actors. Missy had the body of a cisgendered woman, so we ended up with a cisgendered actor to play that role.
But in the process of casting we met many transgender actors who stated that they don't only want to play trans roles, so I cast transgender actors in the movie without drawing attention to it. A quiet revolution happened. A great actor can play anything.
Colette opens in Australian cinemas this Thursday (December 20). Watch the trailer below:
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Trans and gender diverse rally in Melbourne
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Breastscreen Victoria receives Rainbow Tick
Another anti LGBTIQ clergyman caught molesting boys
Lady Gaga's Stonewall appearance

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George Boardman: Dignity Health can't get love, magical thinking, and first impressions count
Columns | November 17, 2019
George Boardman
Laura Mahaffy/lmahaffy@theunion.com | The Union
Observations from the center stripe: Survivor edition
AFTER THE next round of closings, the Grass Valley Kmart will be one of just 182 Kmart and Sears stores left in the country. That's down from 2,000 five years ago … I'M GUESSING California is the only state that will soon induct a drag queen (that would be RuPaul) into its hall of fame … I NEVER thought I'd write this so soon: The Sacramento Kings are better than the Golden State Warriors … HOW TIMES have changed: If the 49ers lost to Seattle by three points last year, it would have been considered a moral victory. This year, it's a disaster …
Dignity Health, whose affiliates include Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, has been promoting the concept of human kindness in its marketing, but it's not getting much love from activists who don't like the way Dignity practices kindness in the real world.
The latest incident occurred in Sacramento, where Dignity backed out of a sponsorship deal to put its name on Broadway Sacramento's theater-in-the-round, where it produces the popular Broadway at Music Circus series every summer.
Dignity withdrew from the deal after protests from the capital city's LGBTQ community over the health system's policy of denying gender-affirming surgery for transgender individuals. Evan Minton of Sacramento is currently suing Dignity for canceling his hysterectomy two days before the surgery was scheduled to take place.
"We didn't want our partnership to become a distraction as Sacramento Broadway opens a new season," said Laurie Harting, president of Dignity's Greater Sacramento division. "After discussion with Broadway Sacramento and a number of community stakeholders, we have agreed that the best course is to find another way to support Broadway Sacramento's work."
Earlier this year, protests scuttled a planned partnership between Dignity and UCSF Medical Center. The two entities have been negotiating for three years over plans to share branding and medical services, but UCSF backed out of the deal after pressure from community activists.
Dignity, formerly Catholic Health Care West, abides by "ethical and religious directives" that reflect the teaching of the Catholic Church. As a result, Dignity hospitals prescribe restrictions for abortions, contraceptives, sterilization, in vitro fertilization, and end-of-life procedures such as assisted suicide that are not popular with a wide swath of the population.
Faith-based medical providers received a big boost from the Trump administration earlier this year when it proposed a rule making it easier for health providers to refuse to provide any medical care to which they have religious or moral objections.
They have also lobbied for a rule that would undermine enforcement of the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination provision, especially bans on discrimination related to gender identity, sex stereotyping and termination of pregnancy.
Dignity's defenders point out that the system is the largest provider of MediCal services in northern California, that it was among the first to offer services in response to the AIDS crisis in the '80s, and that it recently partnered with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to hold a conference on transgender care in San Francisco.
I think we can safely say the days of Dr. Kildare are over.
Magical thinking?
When Nevada City recently doubled the rate for parking meters, it said the new rate would generate an estimated $276,000 a year in revenue, up from $100,366 in fiscal year 2018-19. In other words, a 100% increase in price would result in a revenue increase of 175%.
The implication that people are eager to pay more to park in the Queen of the Northern Mines contradicts every economic model ever developed. Revenue tends to flatten out or decrease when prices are increased. When a corporation manages to increase revenue after raising prices 4 or 5%, it's lauded by Wall Street as a market leader with pricing power.
Granted, Nevada City has a monopoly on metered parking in the town and there are plans to add more parking spaces, but past behavior is working against the town. You can achieve a 100% increase in revenue if the same number of motorists are willing to pay 50 cents for the same number of hours they consumed when the rate was 25 cents an hour, but experience tells us that's not going to happen. Some people will start shopping elsewhere, and others will curtail their use of metered parking.
Nevada City would have to replace that lost revenue while encouraging new people to use metered parking to hit the 175% mark. I sent City Manager Catrina Olson an email seeking an explanation of how the town is going to hit $276,000 in revenue, but she didn't reply. She may have been preoccupied with other matters such as the potential removal of Mayor Reinette Senum or the recall of the other city council members.
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to chalk this up to magical thinking.
It's no secret that Nevada County law enforcement agencies have a hard time recruiting and retaining personnel because nearby cities and counties pay more, so I took notice recently when I saw a recruitment ad for the sheriff's office next to one for the Placer County Sheriff's Office.
The ads, on the cover of the Valley Yellow Pages edition that covers Auburn and the nearby area, announced that each department was hiring. It's the image each ad projects that caught my attention.
The Nevada County ad shows a dirty patrol car next to what appears to be a stagnant pond of water. The picture was shot in woods, probably after the vehicle was used to bust some guy for growing 10 illegal pot plants.
The Placer County ad shows the sheriff's patrol boat cruising across a blue lake with a cloudless sky in the background. Except for the sheriff's insignia on the side of the craft and the absence of bikini-clad lovelies, it could be an ad for the manufacturer or some tropical paradise.
Guess which sheriff's office looks more attractive to me.
George Boardman lives at Lake of the Pines. His column is published Mondays by The Union. Write to him at boredgeorgeman@gmail.com.
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What should Nevada County resolve to do in 2020?
Solve the homelessness/lack of housing issue
Focus on wildfire prevention/preparedness
Complete infrastructure improvements, including broadband
Lower crime rates
Stop PG&E's Public Safety Power Shutoffs
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Q: Why is the pandasql query returning max value when i didnt specify it to return import pandas as pd
from  pandasql import sqldf
pysqldf=lambda query:sqldf(query=query,env=globals())
df=pd.read_csv('https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.udacity-data.com/courses/ud359/weather_underground.csv')
query="SELECT fog,maxtempi from df GROUP BY fog"

print(pysqldf(query))

output
   fog      maxtempi
0    0        86
1    1        81

In this I understood the table is getting grouped by is group fog into 2 categories but I didn't understand why maxtempi are getting those values as I didn't explicitly specify to return the max temperature.

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For a very long time now I've been toying with the idea of making YouTube videos and today after what feels like weeks of trying to get the damn video to upload, I've finally done it! Check it out!
I jumped on the What's in My Bag? tag and emptied the contents of my everyday work bag. FYI it's a little Rebbeca Minkoff Bowery number which has started to look a little beaten up… But then I've always liked the rugged look.
Anyway, by watching this back what I have realised is that I have an extremely expressive face and that my eyes easily wonder. I'll try harder next time. Enjoy!


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require 'spec_helper'

describe ICU::Normalizer do
  context 'nfd decomposed' do
    subject { ICU::Normalizer.new(:nfc, :decompose) }

    describe '.normalize' do
      shared_examples "normalization example" do |encodings|
        encodings.each do |encoding|
          it "should normalize a string - decomposed" do
            expect(subject.normalize("Å".encode(encoding)).unpack("U*")).to eq [65, 778]
          end
        end
      end

      it_should_behave_like "normalization example", %w(UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32 ISO-8859-1)
    end
  end

  context 'nfc composed' do
    subject { ICU::Normalizer.new(:nfc, :compose) }

    describe '.normalize' do
      shared_examples "normalization example" do |encodings|
        encodings.each do |encoding|
          it "should normalize a string - composed" do
            expect(subject.normalize("Å".encode(encoding)).unpack("U*")).to eq [197]
          end
        end
      end

      it_should_behave_like "normalization example", %w(UTF-8 UTF-16 UTF-32 ISO-8859-1)
    end
  end
end

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trained by JP Cure Coming - 60 servings
Cure-Coming, an ultra-absorbable curcumin for whole-body health support containing ultra-potent patented BCM-95® Curcumin which has been shown to aid in lowering systemic inflammation, brain/immune/digestive health as well as antioxidant support (60 Servings)
400mg BCM-95® curcumin Tumeric extract
TrainedbyJP Nutrition brings to you Cure-Coming, an ultra-absorbable curcumin for whole-body health support containing ultra-potent patented BCM-95® Curcumin which has been shown to aid in lowering systemic inflammation, brain/immune/digestive health as well as antioxidant support.
Curcumin, the bioactive component of turmeric, Curcuma longa has an exceptionally wide spectrum of activities most notably its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Most recently, it has also been postulated to have anti-depressive properties in major depressive patients as well as positive cognitive outcomes in older populations.
Curcumin inhibits pro-inflammatory transcription factors such as nuclear factor-kappa beta (NFK- B) which can effect joint inflammation. It also activates peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ) and Nrf2 cell signaling pathways, leading to the downregulation of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6), and upregulates adiponectin (the hormone involved in blood glucose and fatty acid breakdown made by adipose fat tissue).
In simple terms, curcumin has the potential to lower C-Reactive Protein (CRP; a measure of inflammation in the body), induce autophagy through mTOR inhibition (the selective destruction of damaged cellular organelles), protect against cardiac hypertrophy, and potentially decrease artherosclerosis risk.
Despite the promising nutritional and pharmacological properties of curcumin, it exhibits low aqueous solubility, poor gastrointestinal absorption and poor bioavailability.
Its high rate of metabolism, metabolic inactivation and rapid elimination from the body makes it difficult to yield appreciable plasma concentrations. Because of its poor oral absorption, it is difficult for orally administered curcumin to reach blood levels sufficient to exert its bioactivities. Poor absorption from the gut and avid metabolism in the body is cited as reasons for the lack of systemic availability.
To overcome this problem, several curcumin preparations with drug-delivery systems (DDS) have been developed to increase the bioavailability of curcumin after oral administration.
Combinations with piperine have been most common. Piperine, an inhibitor of phase II liver metabolism and intestinal glucuronidation. In rats, the bioavailability of curcumin increased by 154% with piperine compared with a control group without piperine. In humans, piperine (20 mg/kg) was co-administered with curcumin (2 g) and the bioavailability was 20-times that of the control group. However, enhancing bioavailability by inhibiting phase II metabolism must be carefully carried out since many compounds are detoxified through this liver route which may be slowed by adminstering piperine.
BCM-95® is a novel bio-enhanced preparation of curcumin with the addition of phosphatidylcholine and turmeric essential oils (most notably aromatic tumerone volatile oil), which leads to enhanced and sustained absorption. In a human study, 2 g administration showed the bioavailability of BCM-95 (based on curcumin Area Under Curve (AUC)) to be almost 6.93-fold higher than that of a control curcumin formulation with no additive. The half life was shown to be approx. 4.96 h compared to 2.6 h for the control. 2 g/day dose levels are well tolerated without even mild adverse reactions. However, the mechanisms of these enhancements are unknown.
TrainedbyJP Nutrition stands by this long standing patented form of BCM-95® curcumin and we are proud to produce Cure-Coming; a supplement which we believe supports the health of nearly every organ in your body.
Formulated alongside Dr Dean St Mart.


Peace to you O two Walis of Allah. Peace to you O two Proofs of Allah. Peace to you O two lights of Allah in the darkness of the earth. Peace to you O two about whom Allah modified His will. Peace to you O two ones of Allah. Peace to you O two Imams of guidance. I have come to you while I believe in your rights, I am inimical to your enemies and I befriend your friends. I believe in that which you believe in and I disbelieve in that which you disbelieve in. I deem right that which you deemed right and I deem wrong that which you deemed wrong. I ask Allah, my Lord and your Lord, to bless Muhammad and his progeny as my reward for coming to this Ziyarah and to sustain me with accompanying you in Paradise along with your righteous ancestors. And I ask Allah to release me from Hell, to sustain me with your intercession and with accompanying you, to introduce me to you both. I ask Him not to remove your love and the love of your righteous ancestors from my heart, not to make this the last time I come to your Ziyarah and to raise me with you in Paradise with His mercy. O Allah, sustain me with their love and make me die while I believe in their religion. O Allah, curse those who oppressed the rights of Aale Muhammad (a.s.) and take revenge from them. O Allah, curse their first and their last and increase Your chastisement on them. Degrade them, their followers, their lovers and those who follow their lovers to the lowest levels of Hell. Indeed, You have power over everything. O Allah, hasten the reappearance of Your Wali and the son of Your Wali and relieve us with their relief. O most merciful of the merciful ones.
Then pray sincerely for you and your parents and choose a supplication to recite there. If you are performing the Ziyarah near their grave, continue by praying two Rakats by the graves. But if you enter the mosque besides the graves and pray there, pray for that which you want. Indeed Allah is near, ready to answer. This mosque, besides their house, is where they used to pray.


A MULTI award-winning Sunshine Coast gelato has a mouthwatering birthday gift for all its customers.
Gelato Mio, in Coolum Beach, which is celebrating its 15th year will give all customers a free "upgrade" with any ice-cream cone or cup order during its newly introduced "happy hour".
And the best news is the birthday party will run for the rest of the year and happy hour is two hours long, from 4pm to 6pm at Gelato Mio.
Owners Shane and Helen Bosley bought the popular gelato shop two years ago because of their own love affair with the mouth-watering product.
The couple had gelato on their first date in Sydney and Shane proposed to Helen in a gelato cone.
"I wondered what the tissue was at the bottom of the cone," Helen said.
Their wedding was held at Coolum Beach's First Bay and Gelato Mio, then owned by someone else, supplied the desserts.
When the couple were visiting Coolum for their first wedding anniversary, they decided they "had to move here".
They spoke to the owners about selling and as luck would have it, they were interested.
"We made them an offer they couldn't refuse," Shane said.
They then spent nearly $100,000 buying the original gelato recipes of Claudio and Karen Giulietti that have seen the business win award after award.
"I've travelled the world but I've never tasted gelato anywhere near this good," he said.
"It's the unique way it has been designed to store the natural flavour. It's all imported from Italy, except the cone is made in Australia.


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Ed Medina
Edward Joseph Medina, Sr., 77 of Yolo, CA passed away on January 26, 2021 after a brief illness due to Covid-19. Edward was born December 13, 1943 to Trinidad and Helen E Medina in Woodland, CA. After graduating from Woodland High School, he joined the United States Army where he was a heavy machinery mechanic. After returning from the military Edward married Shirley Ann Feliz of Colusa, CA, and they had three children, Teresa Ann, Edward JR, and Ann Marie. Edward worked for Pepsi Cola Woodland, and retired after 26 years with the company. He then went on to work for Cache Creek Casino until his final retirement.
Edward was a force of nature, determined to provide for his family, and give them the life he felt they deserved. His family meant more to him than anything else in the world, something he often mentioned. He was unendingly proud of all his children and grandchildren, and always tried his best to support them.
Edward also enjoyed sports and was a diehard LA fan for baseball, football, and basketball. He enjoyed the outdoors, and was often found outside working in his yard and garden. He enjoyed fishing at the river, and barbequing with family and friends, and as he would say, "Enjoying a cold one!" Anyone who knew Edward, knew that he was funny, and a loving father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and friend. He had nicknames for everyone he met, and his nickname was Jerry (Lewis), given to him by early childhood friends for his sense of humor.
Edward was predeceased by his father, Trinidad Medina; his mother, Helen E Medina; brother, Trinidad E (Tony) Medina; brother-in-law, Larry Cruz; nephew, Michael R Sha, and grandson, Brett Alexander Reynolds. He is survived by his true love, Clara Medina; sister, Lydia Cruz (Larry); sister, Mary Houpt (Leonard); stepdaughter, Lydia Lindsey, daughter, Teresa Martinez (Mike Hill); son, Edward (Sonny) J Medina Jr.; daughter, Ann M Reynolds (Corky Barrows); grandchildren, Nina Coyle (Arron), Bryant Reynolds, Blake Reynolds (Mercedes), Danielle Medina, Nicholas Medina, Alexandria Holten (Tim), Matt Nunez, Meagan Barber (Tye), Morgun Barrows, Savanah Hill; great-grandchildren, Evan Bettencourt, Isabella Vazquez Medina, Angelo Barber, and Boston A Reynolds; as well as nieces, nephews, and extended family. There will be a funeral service on September 24, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. at The Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, 5810 Midway Road, Dixon, CA 95620. Masks are required. There will be a celebration of life at a later date. Any donations or memorials on behalf of Edward are to be directed to the American Legion Post 77, 523 Bush Street, Woodland, CA 95695. Notes or cards can be sent to the Medina family, PO Box 73, Yolo, CA 95697.On behalf of the family we would like to thank Dr. Elisabeth Abdin (Sutter Medical Group Woodland/Davis) for the special care she gave our father, and all the staff at Sutter Medical Group and Sutter Davis Hospital, especially his ICU care team.


In the summer of 1997, I applied for a job at the Department of Education in Agusan del Norte. After the competitive exam, the interviews, and the teaching demonstration, I emerged sixth among the more than two hundred applicants from the entire province.
Three months later, I still didn't get a position while those who ranked lower than me had already been assigned as substitutes in our own town, Nasipit. My co-applicant, a neighbor of mine, said knowingly: "Bisan unsa pa ka kataas sa ranking ba ug wala'y lakas, 'la man jud." No matter how high you rank in the exam, if you don't know anyone, it will all come to naught.


Outstanding! Congratulations, brother and to the rest of the team.
What will you have on the taps!?
Tony Collelo have you heard of this place??
Congratulations! Can't wait to stop in!
We will all be in Florida but will stop in when we get home!
Perfect! I'll be there since my kid has wrestling practice upstairs that night.
Amber!!! I knew it was opening soon with the windows all being covered.
I'm ready to stake out my favorite stool at the bar! Can I be your Norm from Cheers?
Is there an opening date yet?
Will there be any NEIPA's being brewed?
Can you be more specific?? 😛 Looking forward to it!
Sew Hop'd is at Sew Hop'd.
Love it. Can't wait to come check it out.
That is beautiful. Well done!!
I remember getting fresh Bordon Milk delivered to our door every two days and on Friday we would get fresh butter and whip cream!
Can't wait to have a beer there!
Amazing history! I can't wait!
I did a painting of the Borden Building, as I will always call it...my Dad was a Borden, home delivery milkman.
Thank you to Visit McHenry County, Illinois for stopping by to tour the brewery today! We are so excited to share our progress with you all. Beer is coming soon!We are SO excited for our new neighbors Sew Hop'd!
They will be brewing up their craft beer in a unique, and historic taproom in the heart of Village of Huntley, Illinois!
Keep your eyes open for more details about their grand opening! They are aiming for mid-April!
I see an awesome spot for a shuffleboard table. Let's hope your shuffleboard buying skills are better than my Photoshop skills.
So excited !! Looks great !
YESSSSSS. Hope you guys are planning to get shuffleboard!
When do you plan to open the doors to the public?
I'm so excited for you all!
Congratulations, it's a great day!
You guys gonna do a mug club??? This is a critical piece to a successful brewery business. I will happily sign up for mug #1 if you do!
When do you plan to open?
Hopefully a nice clean IPA, can't wait to try it!
Don't care what the first batch will be. I just know I'll be drinking it whatever it is. 😂🍺🍺can't wait!
IPA's are something brewed with Centennial, one of those? How many taps were you planning to have on opening day?
Hoping for a double IPA!!
So exciting! If I wasn't sick, I'd be knocking on the door right now.


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from __future__ import division
from builtins import str
from builtins import range
from builtins import object
from past.utils import old_div
import os
import math
import numpy as np
from osgeo import gdal

class RasterParameters(object):
    def __init__(self, raster_x_size, raster_y_size, geo_trans, srs, number_of_bands, nodata, data_types,
                 driver_short_name=None):
        self.RasterXSize = raster_x_size
        self.RasterYSize = raster_y_size
        self.geo_trans = geo_trans
        self.srs = srs
        self.number_of_bands = number_of_bands
        self.nodata = self.check_value_length(nodata)
        self.data_types = self.check_value_length(data_types)
        self.driverShortName = driver_short_name

    def __repr__(self):
        from girs import srs
        s = srs.srs_from_wkt(self.srs)
        geocs = s.GetAttrValue('GEOGCS')
        projcs = s.GetAttrValue('PROJCS')
        srs = (geocs if geocs else '') + (projcs if projcs else '')
        data_types = ','.join([str(gdal.GetDataTypeName(dt)) for dt in self.data_types])
        return 'DIM[{}, {}, {}] ND{} DT[{}] DRV[{}] SRS[{}] TRANS{}'.format(
            self.number_of_bands, self.RasterXSize, self.RasterYSize, self.nodata, data_types,
            self.driverShortName, srs, self.geo_trans)

    def get_coordinate_system(self):
        return self.srs

    def set_coordinate_system(self, srs):
        self.srs = srs

    def check_value_length(self, v):
        n = self.number_of_bands
        try:
            if n < len(v):
                v = v[:n]
            elif n > len(v):
                v = v[:-1] + [v[-1]] * (n - len(v) + 1)
        except TypeError as te:
            v = [v] * n
        except:
            raise
        return v

    def set_nodata(self, nodata):
        self.nodata = self.check_value_length(nodata)

    def pixel_size(self):
        x_min, y_max = self.pixel_to_world(0, 0)
        x_max, y_min = self.pixel_to_world(self.RasterXSize, self.RasterYSize)
        return old_div((x_max - x_min),self.RasterXSize) , old_div((y_max-y_min),self.RasterYSize)

    def pixel_to_world(self, x, y):
        return self.geo_trans[0] + (x * self.geo_trans[1]), self.geo_trans[3] + (y * self.geo_trans[5])

    def get_extent_world(self):
        x_min0, y_max0 = self.pixel_to_world(0, 0)
        x_max0, y_min0 = self.pixel_to_world(self.RasterXSize, self.RasterYSize)
        return x_min0, x_max0, y_min0, y_max0

    def world_to_pixel(self, x, y):
        """

        :param x:
        :param y:
        :return:
        """
        return int(math.floor(float(x - self.geo_trans[0]) / self.geo_trans[1])),\
               int(math.floor(float(y - self.geo_trans[3]) / self.geo_trans[5]))

    def extent_world_to_pixel(self, min_x, max_x, min_y, max_y):
        u_min, v_min = self.world_to_pixel(min_x, max_y)
        u_max, v_max = self.world_to_pixel(max_x, min_y)
        geo_trans = list(self.geo_trans)
        geo_trans[0], geo_trans[3] = self.pixel_to_world(u_min, v_min)
        return (u_min, u_max, v_min, v_max),  geo_trans

    def set_driver_short_name(self, filename):
        filename = filename.lower()
        if filename == 'mem':
            self.driverShortName = 'MEM'
        else:
            try:
                self.driverShortName = gdal.IdentifyDriver(filename).ShortName
            except AttributeError:
                self.driverShortName = filename

    def get_default_values(self, values):
        try:
            if self.number_of_bands < len(values):
                values = values[:self.number_of_bands]
            elif self.number_of_bands > len(values):
                values = values[-1] * (self.number_of_bands - len(values))
        except TypeError:
            values = [values] * self.number_of_bands
        except:
            raise
        return values

    def create_array(self, value=np.nan):
        array = np.empty((self.number_of_bands, self.RasterYSize, self.RasterXSize))
        for i in range(self.number_of_bands):
            array[i] = np.empty((self.RasterYSize, self.RasterXSize)) * value
        return array

    def clip(self, x_min, x_max, y_min, y_max):
        """

        :param x_min:
        :param x_max:
        :param y_min:
        :param y_max:
        :return:
        """
        (u_min, u_max, v_min, v_max), geo_trans = self.extent_world_to_pixel(x_min, x_max, y_min, y_max)
        return RasterParameters(u_max - u_min , v_max - v_min, geo_trans, self.srs, self.number_of_bands,
                                self.nodata, self.data_types, self.driverShortName)

def get_parameters(ds):
    """Return the raster parameters defined in the dataset

    :param ds: dataset or filename
    :type ds: gdal.Dataset
    :return: raster parameters
    :rtype: RasterParameters
    """
    try:
        if ds.endswith('.zip'):
            ds = gdal.Open('/vsizip/' + ds + '/' + os.path.basename(ds[:-4]))
        elif ds.endswith('.gz'):
            ds = gdal.Open('/vsigzip/' + ds + '/' + os.path.basename(ds[:-3]))
        else:
            ds = gdal.Open(ds)
    except Exception:
        if isinstance(ds, RasterParameters):
            return ds
    xs = ds.RasterXSize
    ys = ds.RasterYSize
    gt = ds.GetGeoTransform()
    rs = ds.GetProjection()
    nb = ds.RasterCount
    nd = [ds.GetRasterBand(i+1).GetNoDataValue() for i in range(ds.RasterCount)]
    dt = [ds.GetRasterBand(i+1).DataType for i in range(ds.RasterCount)]
    ds = ds.GetDriver().ShortName
    return RasterParameters(xs, ys, gt, rs, nb, nd, dt, ds)


Forest Green Rovers lifted themselves into the League Two play-off places following a 1-0 win against Crewe Alexandra at The New Lawn.
A Joseph Mills left footed deflected strike just before half-time was enough to give Forest Green the win and puts them into the top seven at Christmas.
Despite the late pressure from Crewe to force an equaliser, Rovers held on firmly at the back to keep the clean sheet and the three points.
The Green Devils will now be looking up the table rather than over their shoulders as they look towards fellow promotion chasers Newport County before Cheltenham Town.
Forest Green manager Mark Cooper said: "We need to play a lot better than that but full credit to the players who grinded a result out and when you're a successful team you have to win when you're not playing particularly well.
"We've played an awful lot better than that and not won but we were too direct in our play and that's what happens when you keep booting the ball forward.
"We think if you whack the ball as far away from your goal as you can, you're safe, but you're not because the opposition have the ball and they can attack you again so we need to be better.
"Farrend (Rawson) is in a real good run of form and he needs to continue that and concentrate all the time, he had one lapse of concentration but apart from that he was faultless.
The game took a while to come to life in the opening twenty minutes and the contest became a very cagey affair with both sides having limited chances.
Ryan Wintle had the first proper chance of the game when his left footed strike from the edge of the box was almost fumbled by James Montgomery, but he managed to hold on firmly.
Forest Green then had their first chance when a left footed cross was met by Reuben Reid who set it back to George Williams who had his shot deflected for a corner.
Despite the slow start, Forest Green sparked into life in the later stages of the second half and took the lead when Mills' strike was deflected in to give Mark Cooper's team a half time lead.
Reece Brown had a chance to double the lead when his left footed effort inside the box was hit way over the bar.
James Jones then came close for Crewe when he had time and space on the edge of the box to pick a great strike which went narrowly wide of the post.
Reid almost doubled the lead when his strike was deflected off the line and the follow up from Dayle Grubb was turned behind for a corner.
Jordan Bowery then also had a chance cleared off the line by Farrend Rawson which was Crewe's best and final chance to steal a point.
Forest Green Rovers: J Montgomery; F Rawson, G Gunning, N McGinley; L Shephard, R Brown (T Archibald 71), L James, C Winchester, J Mills; G Williams (D Grubb 63), R Reid (T Campbell 81). Subs not used: L Thomas, L Collins, M Worthington, B Morris.
Crewe Alexandra: B Garratt; C Whelan (P Green 63), G Ray, E Nolan, H Pickering; J Jones, P Ng, R Wintle, C Ainley (C Kirk 68); S Miller (L Reilly 63), J Bowery. Subs not used: D Richards, C Porter, O Dale, N Hunt.


GLOBAL. Christmas Eve might have passed but the decorations haven't come to an end.
In Georgetown, Washington, D.C., the Christmas season is still in full swing. On this brownstone, a pair of lions is decorated for the festivities.
Christmas carols, too, are still being sung.
And in Spain, where the Reyes Magos don't come until January 6th, Santa is on graffiti sprayers' minds.
Sometimes, he even comes with a tutu.
Other times, Frosty, the Snowman is on the windows.
Be it Feliz Navidad or Merry Christmas, the message is the same.


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Q: Censoring for events that don't occur I have data on when the time between two events A and B. However, I am assuming if the time between them is more than 5 hours then the two events are unrelated and so we assume that on these occasions B does not occur.  I've been told to run a proportional hazards model on the data set and censor for times greater than 5 hours. However, censoring appears to be for unknown lengths of time which doesn't seem to fit here.
Is there a standard way to approach this?


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Belgium targets Facebook tracking
Social network could face lawsuit if it doesn't comply, but claims lack of jurisdiction
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By David Meyer
May 15, 2015 1:45 pm CET
Facebook should limit the amount of information that it collects about its users as they surf the web, the Belgian Privacy Commission said Friday.
The regulator, which has banded together with its counterparts in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain in order to tackle Facebook, said the company must be more transparent about its use of so-called cookies — small pieces of software that it installs in people's browsers in order to track them around the web.
These cookies record the user's identity and information such as their language. The privacy commission said Facebook must be clear about the information it records, and must stop using cookies to track people when they are logged out of Facebook or have deactivated their accounts on the social network.
The Belgian regulator also told the company to stop collecting information through its "like" and "share" social buttons, which are installed on many websites, unless people have given their explicit consent to being tracked in this way.
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The regulator recommended that people should use browser add-ons such as Ghostery and Disconnect to limit Facebook's tracking, and urged website operators who use Facebook's social buttons to install special software that stops them automatically tracking people.
The regulator does not have powers to fine companies, although the government recently said it would give the Belgian Privacy Commission such powers by the end of the year. At a press conference Friday, the agency said Belgian prosecutors could take up the case if Facebook does not comply with its recommendations.
A Facebook spokeswoman said the company intended to review the Belgian commission recommendations. The firm has 30 days to reply.
"As we expressed to the (commission) in person when we met, there is nothing more important to us than the privacy of our users and we work hard to make sure people have control over what they share and with whom. Facebook is already regulated in Europe and complies with European data protection law, so the applicability of (the commission's) efforts are unclear," she said.
Facebook tracks people's behavior across its services and web pages that connect to its services, so it can create detailed profiles of them. It then sells blocks of like-minded profiles to advertisers so, for example, they can specifically present their ads to women in a particular age group who live in a certain area and have similar tastes.
When people use Facebook, the service puts a cookie in their browser. This cookie will then interact with websites that they visit that include Facebook's "like" and "share" social buttons, telling them who the users are so that their profiles can be built up over time. Sometimes, websites with these social buttons can themselves install the tracking cookie.
Facebook introduced a new privacy policy at the end of January. According to the Belgian commission, it ignored requests from privacy regulators such as that in the Netherlands to delay the introduction, so the watchdogs could first investigate any changes.
When Facebook published its new policy, the Belgian Privacy Commission asked researchers from the University of Leuven and Flemish research center iMinds to study the guidelines. The report, issued at the end of March, showed that Facebook tracks people across the web even when they have explicitly opted out of being followed, logged out of the service or deactivated their accounts.
Facebook even tracks people who are not on the social network, the researchers noted. The company responded by claiming this was unintentional. It also said that it honors users' requests to opt out of being followed.
In a statement on Friday, the commission said Facebook's response to the queries of European privacy regulators had been "sparing with precise answers." It described correspondence with the company as "unsuccessful."
The regulator also hit back at Facebook's assertion that it is only answerable to the Irish interpretation of EU data protection law, as that is where its European headquarters are based. The commission insisted that Facebook is "bound by the national privacy legislation" of the countries where it operates, and noted that it does have a local office in Belgium.
"The argument that Ireland is the headquarters is false. No decisions are taken there," said commission vice-president Stefan Vershuere.
In a post on Thursday, Facebook Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Stephen Deadman argued that the Belgian, Dutch and German privacy regulators were ignoring earlier audits by their Irish counterpart. He claimed that Facebook and even smaller European companies would suffer if they had to tailor their policies to each country they serve.
The incoming General Data Protection Regulation, which is being negotiated between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, would explicitly allow people to complain to their own national regulators about how companies treat their data, rather than having to go to the regulator in the country where the company has its headquarters.
If there are disputes between various national regulators, a new European Data Protection Board would have the final say.
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner did not respond to a request for comment.
Nicholas Hirst contributed to this report.
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patiently waiting in their burlap robes.
Editor's Note: Deep into a September heatwave, the cool snow of this poem reminds me that every season has its moment where patience is necessary. I might as well scratch increasing joy into the dust on the sidewalk today, and practice waiting, too.
Photo courtesy of Ralph Culver and Chickadee Chaps and Broads.
This is truly delightful. What I have often wanted to think, but could never have expressed.


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Wispy fractures cut through cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea in this high resolution, 3-D image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image shows a level of detail not seen previously.
This 3-D view is a mosaic made from 11 different black and white images that were taken from slightly different viewing angles. The images are combined so that the viewer's left and right eye, respectively and separately, see a left and right image of the black and white stereo pair when viewed through red-blue glasses.
Although Rhea's surface is mostly densely cratered, indicating little geologic evolution, the area depicted in this image tells a different story through evidence of tectonic activity. A set of closely spaced scarps and troughs that vary from linear to sinuous cuts through older, densely cratered plains. While the densely cratered plains imply that Rhea has not experienced much internally-driven activity since its early history, these imaging data suggest that tectonic stress has been active in more recent geologic times, at least in some regions. Troughs and other fault topography cut through the two largest craters in the scene, which have few smaller craters superimposed on them, indicating that these large craters are comparably young. The image also indicates the tectonic forms transecting the large craters' rims and floors are comparably young. The fractures seen here reach depths of as much as 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles). In some places, material has moved down-slope along the scarps and accumulated on the flatter floors.
The images were projected to an orthographic map with a scale of 140 meters (460 feet) per pixel for both stereo partners. The anaglyph is centered at 12 degrees north latitude, 273 degrees west longitude. Terrain seen here is on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea (1,528 kilometers, 949 miles across). The images were taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 21, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from Rhea.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org .
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Hythloday, speaking in Book 1, agrees with Plato and the people of Utopia that "as long as everyone has his own property, there is no hope of curing them and putting society back into good condition." (48) More disagrees and believes, along with Aristotle and Aquinas, "that no one can live comfortably where everything is held in common. For how can there be any abundance of goods when everyone stops working because he is no longer motivated by making a profit, and grows lazy because he relies on the labors of others." (48)
Before entering teaching in 1994, Dr. Alfred Brophy was a law clerk to Judge John Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals (Fourth Circuit), practiced law with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York, and was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University. Brophy joined the UNC faculty in 2008, from the University of Alabama.
Utopia was the book that invented a new genre of fiction. It was the first book to use a made up world, a "Utopia" in its framing. This spawned books and stories that have continued to dominate the industry of storytelling to this day. Books like "The Hunger Games," and "Divergent" can all trace their origins back to Thomas More's most famous work (Getty 321). More wrote this story to make a point about collectivism, whether in defense or as a criticism of. It could be argued, however, that Utopia's greatest impact could be in its world creation. More was the first to create his idealistic world, and the framework he created has stuck around for hundreds of years (Getty 321).
Utopia is a society under full and strict regimentation. Its culture is, in effect, nothing but what is a consequence of social regimentation. Nothing exists in the culture that is not a result of this pervasive social control. Utopians believe they do not live in a tyranny only because they accept and desire the collective regimentation under which they live. They are the perfect slaves.
What happens to those slaves (bondsmen) who helped feed the citizens of Utopia by butchering animals for food and thus suffering the apparent moral consequence of diminished compassion is not stated. Perhaps Utopia uses only slaves gotten from outside the citizenry of Utopia for their necessary killing. Utopia has slaves captured in wars they fought and other "foreigners who have been condemned to death" which the Utopians "acquire [...] sometimes cheaply, more often gratis and take them away." Foreign slaves are kept "constantly at work" and in chains. (95) Utopia also has slaves who entered into slavery by choice. These are "poor, overworked drudges from other nations [...] who chose to be slaves among the Utopians." Such slaves can relinquish their slavery whenever they choose, but in doing so they leave Utopia, although they are not "sent away empty-handed." (96)
(Shanghai) China presents a spectacular array of historic traditions, stunning landscapes, and magnificent architecture including its vast and iconic Great Wall. Cultural opportunities are endless with the chance to meditate in a Tibetan monastery, converse with Buddhist monks, or practice the Chinese art of Tai Chi at sunrise while overlooking the bustling city of Shanghai. In Hong Kong, SAS students may partake in a junk boat project to aid in the recovery of plastic pollution in local, oceanic waters.
Thomas More lived from 1477 to 1535. He was convicted of treason and beheaded in 1535 for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. Utopia, written in Latin, was published in 1516. It was translated to English by Ralph Robinson in 1551. The translation by Clarence Miller was published by Yale University Press in 2001. [This review is based on the Miller translation.]
The "Aloha spirit" is universal, and certainly contagious, when you set foot onto the Pacific paradise of Hawaii and the port of Hilo. The small, archipelago state presents a beautiful tapestry of natural sights, including secluded beaches, magnificent waterfalls, and a vast rainforest filled with fauna. Among the extensive list of geographic must-sees is Hilo's National Volcano Park, home of the most active volcano in the world.
AS someone who has brought almost 50 cars over the years I must day that Sands Ford has been my best experience ever.I went to look at a specific explorer that I saw on the internet, told the salesman Paul Boyer what my price range was and a deal was worked out in no time at all,my total tome at the dealership was about 2 hours and that was mostly waiting for the car to be serviced and after the sale Paul spent probably 30 minutes explaining everything about the car to my girlfriend and myself he even set up our phones for us and didn't leave is go until we we're comfortable knowing everything about the car we purchased.I would recommend seeing Paul and Sands Ford as the prices are very good. I also want to point out the finance manager Don, usually by the time you get to that part they try to tack on all kinds of additional expenses but Don wasn't pushy and explained everything to me and worked with me and I for what I needed found him to be a nice friendly man and talked about motorcycles and Ford pickups.I also would like to let it be known about his honesty , while at his office I left my wallets on his desk with not only my credit cards,drivers license but several hundred dollars in cash but Don tracked me down and returned it. Kudos to him .I will be going back to Sands Ford next year to purchase my King Ranch truck as I believe they are a reasonably price dealership with good honest employees.
In George Orwell's 1984 (1949), the society of the year 1984 which Orwell projects for us is based on the assumption that a "limited" nuclear war of the 1950s had left civilization severely crippled and that government controls were seized by well-organized opportunists employing the familiar methods of a police state to maintain power. London, the scene of the novel's action, is the capital of Oceania, one of three superpowers. The other superpowers are called Eastasia and Eurasia. The city of London contains a few enormous government buildings and a small number of fine apartment buildings, but the vast majority of the buildings are eighteenth- or nineteenth-century houses in dilapidated condition which provide shelter for the common people. There are also a good many neglected bombed-out areas. Certainly this is not a picture of somebody's dream city.
Minority Report is a movie about a dystopian society in the year of 2054 in Washington D.C. The story is about a "Pre-Crime" police force unit, which revolves around three psychics, "Pre-Cogs", with special power to see into the future and predict crimes. Police manipulates these visions and arrest criminals before the offenses are even committed. Main protagonist, "Pre-Crime" Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise) has the tables turned on him when he is accused of murder in the future. He must find a way to prove his innocence, for the thing he has yet to do.
The Islands of Wisdom (1922) by Alexander Moszkowski – In the novel various utopian and dystopian islands that embody social-political ideas of European philosophy are explored. The philosophies are taken to their extremes for their absurdities when they are put into practice. It also features an "island of technology" which anticipates mobile telephones, nuclear energy, a concentrated brief-language that saves discussion time and a thorough mechanization of life.
There is, of course, nothing new in all of this program, nothing fantastic such as Huxley's "Hatchery and Conditioning Centre." The reader, while he cringes at the horror, keeps repeating to himself, "It can't happen here." Nevertheless, Orwell compels us to recognize not only Nazi devices but also certain telltale symptoms in our own social and political practices that cannot help but undermine our complacency.
In this lecture, Moody will describe the common elements of near-death experiences, as medical doctors in many countries have studied them. Also, he will describe shared death experiences, an identical phenomenon reported by bystanders at the death of some other person. Moody traces debates on these topics back to Plato and Democritus, who argued about whether near-death experiences indicate an afterlife, or just a dying brain. Moody will discuss fascinating new ways of studying such experiences and their relationship to humanity's biggest question: what happens when we die?
More was beheaded in July 1535 and his property was attained due to his refusal to subscribe to the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. More believed Henry's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon was valid. He believed that by marrying Anne the King of England was not in obedience to God's law. More believed the church should be governed from Rome rather than be ruled by the King of England. He hated Martin Luther condemning him to hell. More was inimical to the Protestant Reformation. His faith was in the old church which had governed Western religion for a millenium.
In August 2012, Alderman joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee after serving as a professor of geography at East Carolina University since 2000. He recently completed service on the Council of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) as Regional Councillor and Chair of the Association's Publications Committee. Alderman is the former President of the Southeastern Division of the AAG and a former co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Southeastern Geographer.
Bacon left this work unfinished, and it is impossible to say how he planned to treat other aspects of life in New Atlantis. He did not discuss the social and governmental systems of the islanders; hence, we do not know what his attitude toward communism was. Marriage was held sacred. His Atlantians exhibited a love of finery in costumes and jewelry that sets them apart from the typical utopians.
Utopia has a more playful tone than one might think. While More's world is illustrating whatever point he is trying to get across, he is having fun engaging in creating his own world, as is demonstrated in the way he phrases "Then let me implore you, my dear Raphael,' said I, 'describe that island [Utopia] to us!"(Getty 323). He also says "When Raphael had finished his story, I was left thinking that quite a few of the laws and customs he had described as existing among the Utopians were really absurd." This demonstrates that he realizes his world is bizarre, and wants others to realize how out of place it was in their society. More is quite anxious to create his world, and pieces it together in great detail, taking pleasure in what makes world different from our own. However, he wants the reader to take his story seriously, which is why he bases it in reality, saying it is a part of the "New World." This being the parts of America and its surrounding islands discovered by Amerigo Vespucci in 1497.
People are re-distributed around the households and towns to keep numbers even. If the island suffers from overpopulation, colonies are set up on the mainland. Alternatively, the natives of the mainland are invited to be part of these Utopian colonies, but if they dislike them and no longer wish to stay they may return. In the case of under-population the colonists are re-called.
The soundtrack was released as an album on April 10 on iTunes and the PlayStation Network.[33] The album is a collection of the soundtrack's "most important" pieces, arranged by Wintory to stand alone without the context of the player's actions.[28] The album comprises 18 tracks and is over 58 minutes long. It features the voice of Lisbeth Scott for the final track, "I Was Born for This". After its release, the soundtrack reached the top 10 of the iTunes Soundtrack charts in more than 20 countries.[32] It also reached No. 116 on the Billboard sales charts, with over 4000 units sold in its first week after release, the second-highest position of any video game music album to date.[34] The soundtrack was released as a physical album by Sumthing Else Music Works on October 9, 2012.[35] In 2012 Wintory released a download-only album of music on Bandcamp titled Journey Bonus Bundle, which includes variations on themes from Journey and Flow.[36] The soundtrack itself was subsequently released on Bandcamp on June 19, 2013.[37] An album of piano arrangements titled Transfiguration was released on May 1, 2014, on Bandcamp as both a digital and physical album.[38] A two-record vinyl version of the album was released in 2015.[39]
The methods employed by the Party to maintain control and to manipulate the population are copied directly from the records of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Any opposition to the system in deed, word or thought is summarily stamped out. Naturally freedom of speech and of the press are suppressed. Spies are everywhere. There are hundreds of posters throughout the city showing the enormous head of a man with steely eyes and heavy black mustache. The caption of the posters reads: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Monitoring screens for official spying are in public places, in hallways, and even in apartments. One's every action or word may be under surveillance. It represents something of a refinement over wiretapping. People live in constant fear of being detected in some fault or of being suspected of some fault, and there is always present the dread of a banging on the door in the middle of the night. Confessions are wrested even from innocent persons by refined methods of torture.
One of the first signs of renewed enlightenment in England, after the rude and bloody 15th century, was the appearance of a group of "humanist" scholars that flourished at Oxford and in London in the early decades of the 16th century, notably John Colet, William Latimer, Thomas Linacre, Reginald Pole, and Thomas More — a group that Erasmus pronounced both congenial and distinguished.


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Stealth Overlander: E-bike with impressive motor power
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E-bikes are currently almost as popular as e-cars. That's why we're happy about every new announcement. A brand-new bike that is apparently in the starting blocks is the Stealth Overlander. Among other things, it wants to convince with an impressive drive. It offers a torque of 100 Nm even in the strictly regulated EU. US drivers can even look forward to 110 Nm.
Stealth Overlander relies on crowdfunding campaign
The Urtopia Carbon One (test), among others, has proven that exciting e-bikes can result from crowdfunding campaigns. The Stealth Overlander, which is also very sporty, is heading in a very similar direction. This is not only because the manufacturer Stealth Electric Bikes has started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogoe especially for its ambitious project. The looks are also very reminiscent of the Urtopia. Thus, both offer a very sporty design.
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However, a closer look then reveals clear differences. For example, both models clearly have their respective hobbyhorses. While the Urtopia weighs an ultra-light 14 kg thanks to a frame made entirely of carbon, the Stealth Overlander weighs 21 kg with its aluminum frame, according to the manufacturer. However, the focus of the sporty e-bike also lies elsewhere. So it wants to offer plenty of performance.
Also interesting: Fiido presents numerous new e-bikes
Impressive torque
While the Urtopia should be miles ahead in terms of weight, the Stealth Overlander offers one very distinct advantage that should make many potential buyers overlook the seven extra pounds. And that is the power of the electric motor. According to the manufacturer, it should be able to provide 100 Nm of torque. Experience shows that the support is limited at 25 km/h, but the acceleration up to the top speed should be impressive according to the technical data. For comparison: the Urtopia offers 35 Nm of torque. Users in the USA can even look forward to a so-called R version of the two-wheeler. As with automobiles, the letter of course stands for more sportiness.
In this version, the Stealth Overlander then offers 110 Nm and a maximum speed of 45 km/h. The other technical components also read well for now. Thus, the standard version of the e-bike should be able to offer an 800 Wh battery, which should be able to lift a range of up to 100 km. Hydraulic disc brakes and a gear shift with ten gears round out the equipment. The motor offers a total of five support levels and also a pushing aid. With the latter, it facilitates pushing up a hill, for example. Remaining battery, speed and other statuses are always kept in view with the help of a 3.5-inch display.
As mentioned, the Stealth Overlander is a campaign on the Indiegogo platform. Those who want to support Stealth Electric Bikes and buy the e-bike will have to dig quite deep into their pockets. However, experience shows that the campaign price is significantly lower than what you would have to pay at market launch. The EU version with 100 Nm is available from $3,323. The R version of the Stealth Overlander, on the other hand, costs 3,656 US dollars. However, the latter is uninteresting in our area anyway, since the motor should not be used to its full potential and a smaller battery would have to be accepted. According to the manufacturer, the delivery of the e-bikes will start in May.
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E-bikes are currently almost as popular as e-cars. That's why we're happy about every new announcement. A brand-new bike that is apparently in the starting blocks is the Stealth Overlander. Among other things, it wants to convince with an impressive drive. It offers a torque of 100 Nm even in the strictly regulated EU. US … (Weiterlesen...)


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.. _opal-psr:

======================
OPAL Power Shift Ratio
======================

Sometimes power management firmware needs to throttle power availability
to system components in order to keep within power cap or thermal limits.
It's possible to set a preference as to what trade-offs power management
firmware will make. For example, certain workloads may heavily prefer
throttling CPU over GPUs or vice-versa.

.. _OPAL_GET_POWER_SHIFT_RATIO:

OPAL_GET_POWER_SHIFT_RATIO
==========================
OPAL call to read the power-shifting-ratio using a handle to identify
the type (e.g CPU vs. GPU, CPU vs. MEM) which is exported via
device-tree.

The call can be asynchronus, where the token parameter is used to wait
for the completion.

Parameters
----------

=== =======
=== =======
u32 handle
int token
u32 \*ratio
=== =======

Returns
-------

:ref:`OPAL_SUCCESS`
  Success
:ref:`OPAL_PARAMETER`
  Invalid ratio pointer
:ref:`OPAL_UNSUPPORTED`
  No support for reading psr
:ref:`OPAL_HARDWARE`
  Unable to procced due to the current hardware state
:ref:`OPAL_ASYNC_COMPLETION`
  Request was sent and an async completion message will be sent with
  token and status of the request.

.. _OPAL_SET_POWER_SHIFT_RATIO:

OPAL_SET_POWER_SHIFT_RATIO
==========================
OPAL call to set power-shifting-ratio using a handle to identify
the type of PSR which is exported in device-tree. This call can be
asynchronus where the token parameter is used to wait for the
completion.

Parameters
----------

=== ======
=== ======
u32 handle
int token
u32 ratio
=== ======

Returns
-------

:ref:`OPAL_SUCCESS`
  Success
:ref:`OPAL_PARAMETER`
  Invalid ratio requested
:ref:`OPAL_UNSUPPORTED`
  No support for changing the ratio
:ref:`OPAL_PERMISSION`
  Hardware cannot take the request
:ref:`OPAL_ASYNC_COMPLETION`
  Request was sent and an async completion message will be sent with
  token and status of the request.
:ref:`OPAL_HARDWARE`
  Unable to procced due to the current hardware state
:ref:`OPAL_BUSY`
  Previous request in progress
:ref:`OPAL_INTERNAL_ERROR`
  Error in request response
:ref:`OPAL_TIMEOUT`
  Timeout in request completion


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Trolls put picture of Harvey Price on BANK CARDS
Disabled teenager's face printed on Barclays card and shared in Facebook group Will Mellor from..
Disabled teenager's face printed on Barclays card and shared in Facebook group
Will Mellor from Manchester shared photo, writing: 'New bank card has arrived.'
The SLAMBER-CITY car group celebrates the 'offensive' humour of its members
The post comes after Ebay removed items with Harvey's face printed on them
Merchandise also bore an explicit phrase the boy uttered on ITV's Loose Women
By Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline and Katie French For Mailonline
Published: 06:23 EDT, 3 November 2017 | Updated: 06:23 EDT, 3 November 2017
Disgusting trolls continue to mock Harvey Price as the disabled teenager's face has been printed on a custom Barclays debit card.
A picture of Katie Price's blind son, who suffers from Prader-Willi syndrome and is on the autistic spectrum, was put on a bank card after others used sold mugs on ebay bearing his face and an explicit phrase he said on ITV's Loose Women.
Will Mellor from Manchester shared the photo in a Facebook group called SLAMBER-CITY, which has 162,809 members and requires users to answer three questions before they can join.
Will Mellor from Manchester shared the photo in the group after printing Harvey's face on his Barclays card
One of the questions is: 'If you had to either sit on a d*** and eat a cake, or sit on a cake and eat a d***, which would you choose and why?'
SLAMBER-CITY describes itself as the 'best f****** car group on facebook' and warns newcomers: 'We don't give a f*** about you.'
The group boasts it 'rarely bans anyone', but says 'genuine' hate speech as well as personal attacks based on race, colour, creed or sexual orientation could result in a ban.
Harvey appeared with Katie Price on Loose Women, where he was asked what he would say to internet bullies and replied: 'Hello, you ****.'
But it also celebrates the distasteful sense of humour that connects its members, who are referred to as M9s, which means 'mates'.
'If you find something offensive, this may not be the group for you,' it says.
'M9's are blunt, rude and crude f******. We're also one of the tightest knit car communities on facebook who'll come together and do what's right when needed. Stick with us, and you'll go far.'
The post comes after Ebay was yesterday forced to remove t-shirts and mugs mocking the 15-year-old.
Products including t-shirts and mugs were listed on the popular site branded with a phrase Harvey said on television last year.
He appeared on ITV afternoon chat show Loose Women alongside his mother to talk about internet trolls.
The custom card was shared in a Facebook group the day after Ebay removed this mug from its site
Price asked Harvey how he would respond if someone said something horrible to him and he replied: 'Hello, you ****'.
The phrase, along with a still of him from the show, was printed on mugs and t-shirts later sold on the site.
Ebay removed the items after deeming them 'offensive' because the products poked fun at the disabled youngster.
The t-shirt is emblazoned with the response Harvey gave when asked what he would say to internet trolls.
The seller, who went under the name rooby3333, advertised the shirts for £13.99 while the mugs were on sale for £8.99.
An eBay spokesman said: 'While we loved Harvey standing up to his bullies, unfortunately these items aren't allowed on eBay because of offensive language printed on them.
'We have removed these items and we will contact the seller on this.'
When asked about his products the seller said: 'It depends which way you look at it at the end of the day.
'He [Harvey] responded to a question regarding his haters and trolls, and I think he did a great job. As for being offensive, not at all.'
Just last month, England cricketer Ben Stokes was forced to apologise after he was filmed mimicking Harvey's phrase in a Snapchat video.
Speeding motorist who killed a pensioner jailed
Bearded men showcase their VERY questionable facial hair


I just added Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow to the site. If the name Cory Doctorow sounds familiar, it might be because you've read his posts on BoingBoing or various other print and online media. You might be thinking that this book doesn't really fit in with the rest of the books since it was published in 2003 but luckily Cory released it on a Creative Commons license. His site has a short post describing why he is releasing his books this way. It's great to see someone adapting to and profiting from technology instead of trying to lock their creations down as tightly as possible. After hearing good things about his writing (although come to think of it most of it was on BoingBoing), I'm looking forward to reading this one.
It was pretty good. A good take an aspect of the modern world and extend it type of book. I ended up reading ahead and finishing it early. A nice modern break from all the older books on here.


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The National Agricultural Policy Center (NAPC) (), was established in 2000 through the work of the Project GCP/SYR/006/ITA of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, funded by the Government of Italy, to be part of the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform. The project is now in its third phase. It is a center of research and analysis in the field of agricultural policies in Syria, and therefore strives to provide policy analysis for relevant stakeholders and policymakers in the field.

History

The FAO Project GCP/SYR/006/ITA started in April 1998, and sought to respond to the Government of Syria's initiative to move from a socially planned economy to a social market economy. After background work and training from the Project the NAPC was established in 2000 as part of the Project's first phase (April 1998 - October 2001). In the second phase (November 2001 - October 2004) of the Project extensive training was delivered to the now fully staffed NAPC, an organizational structure was developed and a mid-term work-plan established. In third phase (November 2004 - October 2007), the Project assisted in consolidating the work of the NAPC with a view to its future independence and sustainability.

Establishment Aims
To meet the long as well as short-term needs of decision-makers for in-depth and rigorous analysis for policy options on issues of relevance. Including:
 undertaking policy analysis studies enabling the formulation of integrated, coherent and effective agricultural strategies and policies
 suggesting policy directives to help relieve and overcome agricultural problems and constraints
 preparing and publishing policy studies and reports to enable the integration of the agricultural sector within the economy
 conducting training courses with a view to helping in the capacity building in policy analysis and planning within the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform and other related Ministries and Institutions.

NAPC Structure and Focus Areas
The NAPC is divided into four different divisions, each with a specific mandate related to the subject of agricultural policy analysis in Syria. These divisions are as follows: Trade Policy (TPD), Agro-Food (AFD), Rural Development (RDD) and Information and Communications (InfoCom). The focus areas of each division can be given as follows:

Trade Policy
International Trade Agreements
Investment
Trade Policy
Agricultural Marketing
Competitiveness

Agro-Food
Comparative Advantage Studies
Supply and Demand
Food Policy
Food Standards

Rural Development
Gender
Poverty
Migration
Natural Resource Management
Sustainable Development
Nutrition and Food Security

Information and Communication
Syrian Agricultural Database
Event Organization
Publications
ICT in Agriculture
Library Services
ICT for Development

Publications
The major publications of the NAPC are the two Periodical Reports that it produces. One of which, Syrian Agricultural Trade (SAT) is published annually, the other of which, The State of Food and Agriculture in Syria (SOFAS) is biannual. These are substantial studies which give a regular overview of the situation of agriculture and agricultural trade in Syria.

In addition to these publications the NAPC regularly produces Policy Studies, Working Papers, and Policy Notes on a wide range of different issues. Furthermore, the NAPC makes available the proceedings of various seminars and workshops. All of the publications are made available through the NAPC website.

Syrian Agricultural Database (SADB)
Is a fully disaggregated and detailed database for Syrian Agriculture based on FAOSTAT format. The database is fully browseable and searchable through the NAPC website and is made available to the general public. It includes data on areas such as trade, national economic data, census, inputs and outputs, production, natural resources, fertilizers, machinery. The SADB has been available since 2003 and is updated each year to reflect the most recent data available.

External links
NAPC Homepage
Syrian Agricultural Database
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Syrian Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform
Syrian Ministry of Irrigation

References

Agricultural economics
Agrarian politics
Agriculture in Syria
Sustainable agriculture
Rural community development
Research institutes in Syria
Agricultural research institutes
2000 establishments in Syria

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While City Hall and activist patrons quarrel over the future of the Boston Public Library, thousands of the world's oldest and most valuable books sit on its shelves, slowly rotting away. It's up to Stuart Walker, Lord help him, to wage the lonely, page-by-page battle to keep them from being lost for good.
By William Martin·	 2/19/2008, 2:36 a.m.
Go in past the bronze statues that guard the entrance of the Boston Public Library, up the grand staircase and around the marble lions commemorating a pair of Civil War regiments. Go up to the top of the stairs, to the landing, where the full grandeur of art and architecture hits you with the sense that this is a place that matters.
But it is also a place in trouble. So keep going.
Up another flight of stairs, down increasingly dusty corridors, across worn carpeting, and toward the double doors of the library's rare books department. Step through them and into the soft, dim glow that protects the treasures displayed there in glass cases: some of the oldest and most valuable books on earth.
On the left of the room, scores of incunabula—books published before 1501—are shelved in neat rows. Each of these volumes, born at the dawn of the printing age, is priceless; the library boasts more than 500. Above, along a balcony that encircles the room, the personal library of President John Adams looms out of reach. Composed of some 3,510 volumes, it was among the great collections of its day—and, as one of the few 18th-century libraries still intact, would be a stunning prize for the library even if its provenance could not be traced to one of the country's founding fathers.
Here, in this low light, a visitor is a world away from the crammed shelves on the airy floors downstairs. Some of these volumes are huge folios, others octavos small enough for a pocket or purse. Their leather bindings peer from the past like the bodies of the mummified popes that look out from their glass altar-caskets in the Vatican. Unlike the popes, though, these books are still alive.
And for that, you have Stuart Walker to thank. The library's conservator of rare books is in his workroom, just to the left of the display space. It's the windowless sacristy to this sanctum of books, and also a battlefield where, every day, Walker fights acid, mold, and all the other insidious enemies that the passage of time is using to destroy the library's treasures. The lab is spartan: four sinks, two light tables, a book press that calls to mind a medieval torture device. His tools are rudimentary: a variety of chemicals; a few dozen sheets of Japanese paper called tengujo, used for fixing torn pages; an array of needles and threads, for the meticulous task of resewing bindings.
Walker has been with the library since 1982, when he was hired through a grant to oversee a restoration project. When it ended, the BPL kept him on board. At 59, he has the calm, no-nonsense demeanor of someone who puts on his blue apron every morning and gets down to business. But he's a bit nervous today. He's running filtered water into a large bowl, which is overflowing into an even larger tray. He's about to wash a book.
Near Walker's sink sits Volume II of A History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ, published in England in 1786 by a Unitarian named Joseph Priestley. It's in pretty rough shape. The edges are so flaked that flipping the book open produces a puff of paper dandruff. Its pages are pulling apart at the gutter. And it looks as though it's been defaced, the margins covered in pen scratchings.
But it's those notes that make the Priestley book worth worrying about, because they were written by John Adams. When he read, he used the margins of his books to carry on a personal dialogue with authors who pleased him or piqued him. More than two centuries later, we can still eavesdrop on the conversation—so long as Walker doesn't screw up. He knows that plunging the pages into water will remove the ancient glue and chemicals that are destroying them. The risk is that it will wash away Adams's notes, too.
A caretaking effort like this is part of the mandate that brought the four-volume Priestley here in the first place. The trustees of the Adams estate transferred the collection from the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy, where it had been held, to the BPL in 1894, figuring the library's yet-unopened Copley Square location would be a better facility for safeguarding the national treasure. But in 2005, when the BPL's Adams curator, Beth Prindle, was preparing the first public exhibition of the president's library, she opened the first Priestley volume to find that the marginalia was flaking away. Prindle rushed the book across the hall to Walker, whose reply was simple: "This can't happen." He laid out the crumbling bits of paper and carefully fit Adams's brain droppings together like a jigsaw puzzle. Then he restored the whole book so that it was ready to display.
Three years later, Walker's only now getting around to volume II. A manpower shortage is the problem. Once, there were six people in his department. But over the past two decades, budgets have been slashed, so that today it's just Walker and assistant conservator Albert Lizotte. The dwindling resources make for an ironic footnote in the dustup over the ouster of the library's president, Bernard Margolis, who, it was said, lavished too much attention on the central library—on collections like John Adams's—at the expense of the neighborhood branches. Not that Walker has time to worry about political spats. Untreated, the Priestley book will grow brittle; Adams's scrawled notes will break apart and become lost for good. And of course, that's just that one volume. The story is the same with scores and scores of books desperate for Walker's care.
Rescuing the BPL's rare books is a job of jaw-dropping proportion. Including those on display, the library holds half a million titles and a million manuscripts. The most valuable aren't the ones on view on glass-fronted shelves. Interested in The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in North America? The library's got two. Want to see the handiwork of Johannes Gutenberg, the father of modern printing? The BPL has a page from his Bible, and one of the few copies of his Catholicon. Shakespeare? Unless you have a really good reason, you probably won't get to see the famed 1623 First Folio, the original collection of his plays. That one's kept in a vault.


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