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Japan struck by massive 8.9-magnitude quake, then tsunami
TOKYO, Japan - An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital.
editorMarch 11, 2011 12:38
TOKYO, Japan – An 8.9-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital.
Its epicenter was 373 kilometers (231 miles) from Tokyo, the United States Geological Survey said.
The quake rattled buildings and toppled cars off bridges and into waters underneath. In Tokyo, crowds gathered in the streets and tried to reach relatives via cell phone.
Scenes inside office buildings showed papers strewn all over the floor and people clinging onto seats and desks.
Such a large earthquake at such a shallow depth creates a lot of energy, said Shenza Chen of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Other reports are claiming that a video from national broadcaster NHK showed dozens of cars, large ferries and some buildings being swept out to sea in the port city of Kamaishi in the province of Iwai.
A tsunami in the Pacific was moving closer to other shorelines in other countries. According to the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, a tsunami warning was also in effect for Russia, Marcus Island and the Northern Marianas. It said a tsunami watch was issued for Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hawaii.
"Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis potentially dangerous to coasts outside the source region," it said.
"Based on all available data a tsunami may have been generated by this earthquake that could be destructive on coastal areas even far from the epicenter."
The quake was the latest in a series in the region this week.
Early Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the coast of Honshu.
A day earlier, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said.
The Wednesday quake lasted as long as three minutes, but did not cause significant damage. It could be felt in Tokyo, 267 miles (429 kilometers) southwest of its epicenter.
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Q: Referencing an Email In A Sub From A Specific range I am using the below as part of a macro to email some pivot data to a list of customers. but at the moment it only goes to one email address. I tried amending it to look in a specific range for the hyperlink and it errors and wont send the email. In the range J1 I also have a Vlookup formula running to match the ac and email address. Any help would be great.
Receiver = Sheets ("Pivot").Select Range("J1").value 'it errors on this line
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Attachment = strFilename

A: Avoid the use of .Select. See this
How to avoid using Select in Excel VBA macros
Change the line
Receiver = Sheets ("Pivot").Select Range("J1").value

to
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About Chris Norman
Known both for his solo hits in the '80s as well as his hits with the band Smokie in the '70s, Chris Norman is a British soft rock singer with an international following whose career spans several decades. A few years after the success of his 1978 Suzi Quatro duet, "Stumblin' In," he parted ways with Smokie and found solo success with his second album, 1986's Some Hearts Are Diamonds. In the decades that followed, Norman proved himself to be surprisingly prolific, delivering a new studio album every two or three years and maintaining a large fan base in Germany, where his chart success continued into the 2000s. Following a 2004 resurgence and Top Ten German hit with "Amazing," he continued releasing new material as well as career-spanning collections like 2009's The Hits! From His Smokie and Solo Years and its live companion album.
Born on October 25, 1950, in Redcar, North Yorkshire, England, Norman began his musical career in the band Smokie. Originally founded in 1965, the band changed its name several times before ultimately deciding upon Smokie in the mid-'70s. Comprising Alan Silson (lead guitar, vocals), Terry Uttley (bass, vocals), and Pete Spencer (drums) in addition to Norman (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Smokie made their album debut in 1975 with Pass It Around. Their second album, Changing All the Time (1975), broke them into the pop mainstream not only in the United Kingdom but also in parts of Western Europe, where the album's single, "If You Think You Know How to Love Me," was a Top Ten hit. Subsequent albums Midnight Cafe (1976), Bright Lights and Back Alleys (1977), and The Montreux Album (1978) were also international hits. Moreover, Norman scored an international Top Ten hit single in 1978 with "Stumblin' In," a duet with Suzi Quatro.
As Smokie's popularity trailed off around the turn of the decade, Norman split from the band and made his solo album debut in 1982 with Rock Away Your Teardrops. While his debut album was fairly unsuccessful, his second full-length effort, Some Hearts Are Diamonds (1986), was another story, spawning the international Top Ten smash hit single "Midnight Lady." Norman's popularity was greatest in Germany, where he racked up several additional hits during the late '80s, among them "No Arms Can Ever Hold You," "Sarah (You Take My Breath Away)," and "Broken Heroes."
While Norman released a new album every couple years from the mid-'80s onward, his popularity waned in the '90s, and not until after the turn of the century did he start hitting the charts again. Once again, his popularity was greatest in Germany, where he had a banner year in 2004 with the compilation The Very Best of Chris Norman, the new album Break Away, and the Top Ten hit single "Amazing." Subsequent albums including One Acoustic Evening (2005), Million Miles (2006), and Close Up (2007) were also well received in Germany, while the career-spanning compilation The Hits! From His Smokie and Solo Years (2009) was an international success. While touring in support of the compilation, Norman recorded a 2009 performance in Berlin, yielding the concert album/DVD set The Hits! Tour: Live from Berlin later that year.
Norman remained active in the studio at the start of the next decade and, beginning with 2011's Time Traveller, once again managed a new album every couple of years. Subsequent releases included There and Back (2013), Crossover (2015), and Don't Knock the Rock (2017).
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The accident happened after 8 a.m. Thursday near Kell West and Arthur Street.
An accident early Thursday between a motorcycle and another vehicle sent at least one person to a Wichita Falls hospital.
Shortly before 8:30 a.m., a utility van attempted to turn north onto Arthur Street, causing the motorcycle to strike it.
Officer Jeff Hughes, a Wichita Falls Police Department spokesperson, said the rider fo the vehicle was taken to United Regional Health Care System and then transferred to a hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The motorcycle rider reportedly had a "severe leg injury" from the crash, Hughes said.
Hughes said the injured man was wearing a helmet and his injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.


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Nanushka came into my life from my Mother. She saw Nanushka, whose real name is Nan Whitcomb, on TV and knowing my love of poetry gave me a book, The Thoughts of Nanushka one Christmas. I now have 4 volumes of Nan's poetry which inspire me in my life and remind me of my parents. Now I enjoy sharing her poetry with others. The way I write poems is based on the way she writes poetry I guess.
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Touching, the poem, what your mom wrote in the book and what you wrote. The picture is perfect. A branch representing your family tree?
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Responding to Megaterrorism after Paris
[Prefatory Note: the post below is based on an opinion piece published by Middle East Eye on December 1, 2015 under the title "A Different Response to ISIS after Paris." My modified text places its focus on the originality of megaterrorism and its distinctive challenges, suggesting that the choice of response needs to be extended beyond the iron cage of militarism and vengeance. Also, it is essential for analysts and leaders to envision the response to the response as well as being preoccupied with how best to hit back. Increasingly, American politicians treat the challenge as if playing poker whereas the realities of the situation call for a chess players' natural disposition to think ahead as many moves as possible. Finally, given the religious and civilizational dimensions of current versions of megaterrorism, it is vital to guard against various manifestations of Islamophobia.]
What separates megaterrorism from other more customary forms of terrorism is the theme of this post. It is not possible to give a precise definition of megaterrorism by pointing to a threshold of casualties or the magnitude of response. Each megaterrorist event is decisively shaped by its distinctive sociopolitical and psychological context. The focus here is take account of this radical new category of threat posed in a variety of settings, critique the 'war' reflex and the war/crime binary, briefly consider alternate paths of response, and recommend risk and cost assessments that take into account adversary responses to the prescribed response. The 21st century experience with responding to megaterrorist events does not create confidence in either most conceptualizations of the challenges being posed or the responsive strategies chosen to be implemented.
The horrific Paris attacks of November 13th challenge the West more deeply in some ways than did the 9/11 attacks 14 years ago. The attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center mounted by al-Qaeda were directed at the twin centers of American power: global military dominance, and were in reaction to especially large-scale deployments of American armed forces near the holiest of Islamic religious sites in Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s. There was a terrorist logic associated with striking such symbolic blows, although it aroused an American led unified Western response that was relied upon as a mandate for intervention in Afghanistan and then started to fracture when extended to Iraq after failing to win approval from the UN Security Council. These wars have had the major 'blowback' effect contributing to the origins and emergence of the current primary menace of ISIS, above all by its willingness to send suicide bombers to attack 'soft targets' of ordinary people that included in Paris a sports arena, a music hall, and several neighborhood restaurants in the city center. In other words, to a greater extent than even was the case with Osama Bin Laden's manifestos, ISIS has initiated a merciless totalizing campaign against the West, soliciting followers and recruits from around the world, and appears to have the will and capability to continue the effort for the foreseeable future no matter what retaliatory blows it receives as a result of intensified Western military efforts.
Such a grave crisis is deepened, rather than mitigated, by the bellicose stupidity of François Hollande who immediately after the event declared 'war' on ISIS, promising to be unremittingly merciless in response. Hollande's words to the French Parliament: "The acts committed on Friday night in Paris and at the Stade are acts of war. This constitutes an attack against our country, against its values, against its youth, against its way of life." In so framing the French response Hollande repeats the muscular mistakes of George W. Bush. It should be clear by now that 'war' with the West is not only what these movements claim and seek, but its nature is such that the capabilities at the disposal of the West, magnify rather than reduce or eliminate the threats posed. Or as maybe more precise, seemingly at first effectively reduce the threat, but later on find that the original threat has somewhat changed and been displaced, and is emergent anew in a somewhat altered, yet even more extreme form. In this regard, there was the belief that when Osama Bin Laden was found and executed, al-Qaeda had been most destroyed and substantially contained, Yet it did not take long that the earlier megaterrorist threat had shifted its locus to ISIS and its various 'cosmic warriors' (Mark Juergensmeyer) spread around the world who make it their mission to resort to mass indiscriminate violence against purely civilian targets as a matter of religious devotion.
One alternative response available to Hollande was to denounce the acts of 11/13 as a monstrous 'crime' that called for an unprecedented national and international law enforcement effort. This is the manner in which such non-state violence of political extremists has been addressed before 9/11 and should at least be considered in response to a metaterrorist event before leaping into the fires of war. It remains instructive to examine the Spanish response to the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings, a megaterrorist event as measured by the scale of the casualties and the fear generated. The political leader in Spain at the time, José Maria Asner, a junior coalition partner of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq defying Spanish public opinion that opposed such involvement. After the Madrid bombing Asner immediately pointed an accusatory finger at the Basque Separatist movement, ETA, which turned out to be wrong, and his fear-mongering was evidently resented by many Spaniards. The real culprits turned out to be Moroccan Muslim extremists. It happened that there was a national election in Spain a few days after the bombing, Asner was defeated, and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party prevailed, resulting in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero becoming the new head of state. As the new leadership promised in its electoral campaign, the Spanish government quickly announced the removal of its troops from Iraq and simultaneously embarked on an all out hunt for the criminals. In effect, by removing Spanish troops, the Spanish government was not only respecting the public will of its citizens but also indirectly acknowledging the legitimate grievances associated with the unlawful regime-changing attack and occupation of Iraq. This response to the megaterrorist challenge in Spain could not, of course, remove the deep and tragic personal losses resulting from the attacks, but Spanish society was allowed to move away from shadows of fear, and has not experienced subsequent major terrorist events.
This conjunction of circumstances in Spain will not always be present, and the originality of the megaterrorist challenge, neither can often not be met by the mechanical application of either paradigms of war or crime as traditionally understood. We lack the language or the public awareness needed to capture the dark originality of megaterrorism, and hence often seem to be acting ineffectively or even in a manner that increases the threats of recurrence. At times, the gravity of the event is so great that an aroused and frightened citizenry demands and expects an immediate and proportionate response that usually cannot be generated by acting within the crime paradigm, and yet the war paradigm while responding to public outrage tends to produce policies that spread havoc, expand the zone of strife and devastation, and in the name of security encroach excessively on domestic freedoms at home. This combination of action and reaction is descriptive of the American experience post-9/11. This American case was further complicated by the fact that neoconservative political leadership controlled the U.S. Government response, and as a result the counter-terrorist response became intertwined with quite distinct and controversial grand strategy goals in the Middle East that largely account for the American led decision to attack and then occupy Iraq in 2003.
The American Vice President, Joe Biden, seemed recently to retreat from 'the war on terror' discourse, but only slightly. Biden argued not for war, but unconvincingly urged raising the level of interventionary violence higher against ISIS as the right course of action after Paris, above all, to demonstrate an enhanced commitment to the defeat of ISIS. Biden believes "everyone knows what needs to be done and there's no doubt we'll prevail, but we need to do a hell of a lot more. We all have to step up our level of engagement: more troops, more planes, more money. This thing will go on for years unless we do." Depressingly, the Democratic presidential hopeful, Hilary Clinton, told the Council of Foreign Relations more or less the same thing a few weeks ago, just prior to the Paris attacks. Obama as is his way, seemed to recognize the undesirability of an open ended or permanent war posture without altering the analysis and essential response of his neocon predecessor in the White House. [See speech defending drone warfare at the National Defense University, May 23, 2013] After Paris, and in response to the shooting in San Bernadino, California there is a renewed insistence by the Republican opposition that America is 'at war' whether its elected leader acknowledges it or not.
All of these views, despite covering a range of tactical positions, hold in common a shared militarist definition of the proper response to the ISIS threat. Further the response is exclusively focused on offensive tactics and weaponry that are intended to destroy this elusive enemy, but without much prospect of doing so. There is no commitment discussed or made to defending those minorities that are threatened with 'boots on the ground' or exploring what kind of political options might make sense. It should not be forgotten that the core capabilities of ISIS arose in response to the anti-Sunni and oppressive tenor of the American led regime-destroying occupation of Iraq that lasted for more than a decade and had been preceded by a devastating UN authorized air war in 1991 that was followed by a punitive peace, featuring a sanctions regime imposed for over ten years that is believed responsible for several hundred thousand Iraqi civilian deaths.
The fact that some of the elements of this enormous crime committed in Paris were transnational is not decisive in altering its character. By elevating the status of ISIS to that of a belligerent against whom it is necessary to mobilize the society that was targeted perversely adds to the gains of the attacker, and creates incentives for it to do more of the same. If handled as a version of the most dangerous type of crime that deeply threatens human and state security, the society would still be fully mobilized to protect itself as fully as practicable, and other governments would become more inclined to do whatever they can by way of cooperative criminal law enforcement. The magnitude of the crime could be further recognized by prosecuting the Paris attacks as an international crime against humanity as well as the most serious of violations of French criminal law. This was the approach taken centuries earlier by many governments to international piracy. The entire world was presumed to have a shared interest in suppressing piracy, and many governments cooperated to prevent and punish, and continue to do so in response to modern piracy. The realization that the criminals engaged in the Paris attacks had grown up in the heart of Europe further compounds the mistake of externalizing the evil, situating the threat in the Arab World, antagonizing even more the people suffering in that already inflamed region, and in the process inflating the stature of the criminals as combatants in a war.
The Bush/Hollande way of reacting also is harmful in two other fundamental respects: it precludes attention being given to root causes and steadfastly refuses self-scrutiny that might lead to some acknowledgement that extremist motivations of the criminal perpetrators might have taken shape in reaction wholly or partly to legitimate grievances. The best sustainable remedy for terrorist violence, whether large or small, is to address its root causes and legitimate grievances. Otherwise, as even some conservative and militarist political figures have admitted (including Rumsfeld, Mubarak), recourse to warfare, whether by war through a concerted campaign (e.g. Iraq) or by a program of targeted assassinations (e.g. drones) quite possibly generates many more militants than it eliminates, and certainly spreads the zone of violence and devastation more widely causing massive displacements of people, generating refugee flows that give rise to the sort of deep alienation and anger that creates a new pool of recruits that can be attracted to extremist causes, as well as encourages a reactionary backlash in whatever countries are chosen as sanctuaries.
To consider the Paris attacks by a reductio of good versus evil has the further consequence of excluding diplomacy and political accommodation as instruments useful in restoring stability and human security. How many of the supposedly intractable conflicts of the past, including the conflict with Britain that occasioned the American Revolution, were resolved by bringing the terrorists in from the cold? I would not suggest that this is currently a plausible option with ISIS, but keeping open this possibility, however remote and distasteful it now seems, is to be sensitive to the 'lessons of history.'
More significantly, to avoid self-scrutiny by opting for unconditional war is to miss the best opportunity to undercut in the long-term the extremist rationale for attacking the West. It needs to be better appreciated that extremism does not flourish in a political and moral vacuum. It is probably the case that ISIS cannot be fully explained as a reaction to regional sectarianism, the Palestinian ordeal, and the mayhem brought to the people of Iraq, but absent the widespread sense of injustice associated with Israel's regional role and millions resultant deaths and displacements, which partly embody the outcomes of the U.S. geopolitical agenda, the emergence of al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and ISIS might never have happened, at least in their present form. Such a conclusion is reinforced when it is appreciated that the Arab governments, dependent on American protection, proved incapable, and in the end unwilling, to secure even the most minimal post-colonial interests and honor the values of Islamic and Arab peoples, including the provision of jobs and the elimination of extreme poverty. Arguably, given the Sykes-Picot legacies, including the artificial state formations of a century ago, the region has never yet managed to cast off the colonial mantle.
In conclusion, when dealing with the traumas and threats posed by megaterrorist movements it seems appropriate to acknowledge that neither the war nor the crime template as conventionally understood is capable of providing satisfactory answers. The context must be considered, and like skillful chess players a response should not be undertaken without evaluating the likely range of responses of ISIS and others to a range of possible Western responses. It is easy long after the fact to critique what the Bush presidency started to do on 9/12, but doing this in retrospect overlooks the actuality and intensity of the 9/11 challenge. Of course, when the Iraq War was folded into the counter-terrorist rationale that was initially internationally accepted with respect to launching an attack on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, it became obvious that other controversial American strategic goals were being pursued, and that the likely result would be a major foreign policy failure as well as an aggravation of the megaterrorist challenge. Beyond this, an unlawful invasion of a sovereign state by the leading member of the UN strikes a severe blow at the authority of UN Charter and the core norms of international law limiting force to situations of self-defense absent Security Council authorization.
As the French response to 11/13 confirms, nothing much has been learned about how to address the distinctive challenges of mega-terrorism. To encourage such learning four preliminary policy prescriptions can be endorsed: (1) the importance of restoring respect for UN authority and international law in the shaping of responses to megaterrorist challenges, including some further development of international law; (2) the need to develop a template for addressing megaterrorism that is more sophisticated than mechanically than opting for either/or logic of war or crime; (3) the revision of tactical and strategic thinking to include a process of looking ahead beyond the response to a megaterrorist event to envision as well as possible the chain of responses and counter-responses likely to ensue; (4) the practical desirability of making and taking account of assessments of root causes and legitimate grievances in clarifying the interpretation of the motivation of those who support, plan, and enact megaterrorism and with an emphasis on the reduction and eventual elimination of such threats to societal wellbeing.
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The Nuclear Challenge: 70 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Gorbachev's Response (3)
No public figure was more convincing and determined to pursue the ideal of a world without nuclear weaponry than Mikhail Gorbachev while he was the transformative General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between the years of 1985 and 1991. Of course, Gorbachev is appreciated in the West mainly as having presided over a political process that led to the nonviolent ending of the Cold War, the peaceful liberation of Eastern Europe, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet he was also perhaps the only head of an important sovereign state during the nuclear era whose commitment to nuclear disarmament and the conditions of a peaceful world reflected a deep realization that the existing world order was not sustainable and not serving the interests of the Russian people. His speeches at the United Nations and elsewhere exhibited ethical and political concerns that recognized that national interests could no longer be separated from the promotion of global and human interests.
Gorbachev believed then, and continues to believe, that nuclear war becomes more likely, a virtual certainty, with each passing year; as more governments continue to possess and others over time gain access to the weaponry the risk of nuclear war rises. Gorbachev believes that it is inevitable that the nuclear club will grow gradually larger, as it has, although more slowly than some had feared. He also believed, reflecting the Cold War context within which he governed, that the illusionary search for a winnable combination of weaponry and doctrine could produce an unwanted nuclear conflict between rival superpowers either by one side seeking a victory or by the other preempting an opponent it perceived as dangerous so as to lessen vulnerability and avoid defeat. In the mid 1980s the Soviet system was experiencing a complex and deep crisis of economic stagnation and bureaucratic rigidity, which meant that the nuclear arms race burdened an already acutely stressed Soviet reality.
In an August 16th interview with the German magazine, Spiegel, Gorbachev strongly reaffirms his anti-nuclear outlook, and recalls the successes and disappointments of his efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. His skepticism about disarmament negotiations back in the 1980s is even disheartening today than when Gorbachev was in power. The approach then prevalent he regarded as a hypocritical blend of posturing and useless meetings, a pathetic wordplay in which "diplomats pored over mountains of paper, drank wine, and even harder stuff..and it was all for nothing."
More helpful in Gorbachev's view were unilateral steps taken in Moscow that acknowledged a growing danger of catastrophe that could only be removed by the "complete destruction of nuclear weapons and a permanent ban on them." As significant as this serious affirmation of nuclear disarmament as a necessary and highly practical goal of state policy represented a shift in Soviet thinking and strategy that gave the highest priority to minimizing risks of war until a safer future could be brought into being by eliminating weaponry of mass destruction (including chemical weapons). This meant, in Gorbachev words, that instead of planning "for coming war" or seeking military advantages, the central policy effort was devoted to the prevention of "military confrontation with the West." That is, war avoidance as an interim approach that depended on a Soviet foreign policy that consciously reduced international tensions rejected threat diplomacy and provocative policy moves.
Gorbachev surprisingly found that Ronald Reagan, his American right-wing counterpart, shared his nuclear anxieties, and was ready to be a partner in joint denuclearization efforts. Already in 1985 they jointly declared that "nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." Gorbachev interprets this declaration as a commitment by the two governments not to seek a position of superiority based on developing new types of nuclear weapons (for instance, defensive shields that made an attack seem more plausible, and thus might tempt a potential target state to consider preemption), but claims that the United States never acted as if it understood this Reagan/Gorbachev declaration in this manner. Gorbachev does take appropriate note of Reagan's deep attachment to SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) as limiting the progress that the two leaders could make in relation to denuclearization, and incompatible with his recognition of what a horror nuclear war would be.
In this regard, Gorbachev considers United States militarism then and now to constitute the "insurmountable obstacle to a nuclear-free world." As this unfortunately seems to be a correct assessment, it entails a gridlocked nuclear future with no escape route. Gorbachev expresses his almost fatalistic view of human destiny if nuclear weaponry is retained: "The alternative is clear: Either we move toward a nuclear-free world or we have to accept that nuclear weapons will continue to spread step by step across the world." In effect, the only effective long-term nonproliferation regime is dependent upon a parallel regime of complete nuclear disarmament, and without such a regime nuclear war will occur at some point due to the sheer multiplication of nuclear actors.
As others have noticed, the highpoint in Gorbachev era nuclear diplomacy occurred at the Reyjkavik summit in 1986 when Reagan and Gorbachev seemed to be on the historic verge of agreeing on the obligatory elimination of all nuclear strategic weaponry, only to have the potential breakthrough immediately undermined on the home front in the United States by the bipartisan realist guardians of the nuclear status quo. This very robust move in Iceland that briefly 'threatened' to achieve nuclear disarmament was unnerving for militarists in the West. Always skilled at summarizing the hawkish mood of governing elites, Margaret Thatcher sounded the collective alarm: "We won't be able to handle a second Reyjkavik." And indeed, her words were heeded at the pinnacles of government, and there has not been another Reyjkavik, or anything approaching a high profile inter-governmental occasion at which ideas about nuclear disarmament were being seriously discussed and contemplated by the governments of the respective leading nuclear weapons states.
What has received scant notice is the missed opportunity of the period after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when the Cold War came to an end. It was then George H.W. Bush who was the American president, supposedly moderate, sensible, and knowledgeable about foreign affairs. And this is the depressing point. It was just his establishment realism that led Bush derisively to dismiss any ambition to take advantage of the new situation in the world to abandon the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and seize the opportunity to initiate a global nuclear disarmament process. Instead of exploring what could have been probably negotiated with Gorbachev, Bush notoriously rejected on principle fundamental reform as 'the vision thing,' which he happily admitted was not his cup of tea. And so this unprecedented moment of opportunity was tragically wasted, and instead the 1990s became a decade devoted to servicing neoliberal economic globalization being fashioned in a manner that produced a post-colonial predatory set of relations among the peoples of the world. This 'new world order' was driven by the logic of capital efficiency, which has led to steadily widening disparities between rich and poor within countries and regions and in their interplay as well as launched multiple threats to environmental sustainability.
In effect, after the Cold War even the fatuous nuclear disarmament diplomacy that Gorbachev decried disappeared, and a period of self-satisfied nuclear complacency ensued. Governments are more or less content with obscure ritual review conferences within the framework of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Regime. This failure of political imagination by Bush Sr. may be seen in retrospect as a most disastrous lapse in American global leadership, far worse than was the American refusal to join the League of Nations after World War I, and give that first experiment in war prevention on a global scale some slight chance of success. For these reasons I would not be astonished if a revisionist historian concludes that the Bush Sr. presidency was more harmful to the United States and the world than was the failed presidency of Bush Jr..
There is a final vital point that Gorbachev develops in response to skeptical questions from the Spiegel interviewer about the feasibility of nuclear disarmament. Gorbachev responds by posing a question of his own that is meant to answer itself by an implicit appeal to common sense: "And can we really imagine a world without nuclear weapons if a single country amasses so many conventional weapons that its military budget nearly tops that of all other countries combined?" He goes on to point out the obvious: "[t]his country would enjoy total military supremacy if nuclear weapons were abolished," and by implication, other countries will never be so foolish as to submit their societies to such hegemonic arrangements. In effect, Gorbachev is imagining that nuclear weaponry should be linked, not as in most liberal speculation to an affirmation of the nonproliferation regime, but rather to undoing geopolitical militarism, which means that if the United States ever embraces nuclear disarmament as policy rather than sentiment, it will have to terminate its global domination project. Gorbachev delivers here a powerful and persuasive message: if the United States ever becomes truly serious about wanting to implement the visionary conceptions of nuclear disarmament that Obama affirmed in his Prague speech with lofty generalizations, then it must simultaneously embark on a program of unilateral demilitarization.
With this concluding bit of insight from Gorbachev, which I find compelling, we should also acknowledge that it has been an odd deficiency in strategic thought in the West that most forms of strong advocacy of nuclear disarmament have not been organically connected with an overall demand for American demilitarization. Unless nuclear disarmament is implemented in a policy context that includes the demilitarization of geopolitics, it would give the United States the kind of political environment in which its massive military machine would be far more usable, less inhibited, and in all probability more menacing to the rest of the world. From this perspective one wonders why the realist cadres at the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, and the Beltway think tanks do not endorse nuclear disarmament as a prime strategic goal fully consistent with achieving the kind of global securitization administered from Washington that militarists have long favored as the keystone of American grand strategy since 1945.
Gorbachev doesn't venture onto this speculative terrain. His current belief is that unless American demilitarization becomes part of the nuclear disarmament package "talks toward a nuclear-free world will be little more than empty words." Although Obama is not mentioned, his Prague speech thus qualifies as 'empty words,' not only because of the absence of follow up, but more pointedly due to Obama's silence about the relevance of diminishing America's non-nuclear military capabilities as an essential aspect of making credible and beneficial the endorsement of a world without nuclear weapons.
It is also probably the case that when an American president possesses a determined commitment to a world without nuclear weapons he will make initiate a campaign to win over public opinion in Omaha, Denver, or Phoenix, and not Prague. What is said in the Czech Republic may play well in Oslo, but it is not going to shake the ideological and bureaucratic foundations of nuclearism in the United States.
In this short essay, it has been my principal intention to appreciate the humane wisdom of Mikhail Gorbachev, and to hope that even 70 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki an American leader will emerge in the dark of night to carry forward the struggle for a viable human future by championing nuclear disarmament to be accompanied by substantial American demilitarization. She will think and act against the grain of this delusional quest for absolute geopolitical control, and maybe rest long enough to thank
Gorbachev for showing the way, both as political leader and as engaged citizen, an exemplary instance of what I call 'citizen pilgrim.'
Tags: demilitarization, global securitization, grand strategy, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nuclear disarmament, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Ronald Reagan
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Derbyshire Police
Lamb killed and sheep attacked by dog in Derbyshire village
Police have made an appeal
Nigel SlaterLocal Democracy Reporter
A lamb was killed by a dog in Stanton By Bridge in Derbyshire (Image: Google Maps)
A lamb was killed after a dog attacked a flock of sheep in a Derbyshire village.
The distressing incident happened on Monday, June 28, at Stanton By Bridge, near Swarkestone.
Police are urging witnesses to come forward as they trace the dog's owner.
In their appeal, police say more than one dog could have been involved, but do not give a more precise location of the attack.
A police statement on the Melbourne SNT Facebook page said: "On the morning of Monday, June 28, a flock of sheep in a field at Stanton By Bridge were attacked by a dog (/s).
"Sadly a lamb has died from its injuries following this incident.
"It is important to know that the offence of livestock worrying is an offence with or without injury being caused.
"If a dog worries livestock on any agricultural land then the owner/person in charge of the dog at the time is then guilty of the offence under the protection of Livestock Act 1953."
Anyone with information should call Derbyshire police on 101 or direct message the force on social media quoting reference number 21000361374.
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Volatility trends were mixed but slightly upwards in general during July. Volatilities were almost all medium to High relative to their 12-month averages.
Realised volatility (of Eurostoxx equities over 30 days) fell fractionally from 24.8% to 24.1% (High).
Equity market price moves were upwards in all regions (with the exception of China). Volatility trends were all upwards too. Sector volatilities ranged from 9-17%. All major sectors had medium volatilities relative to the last 12 months, except Financials at High.
Sovereign bond prices were generally up during the month. Spanish bond yields fell back though, to 1.9%. Bond volatilities trends were flat to down ending at 5-7% (and 2.0% in Japan). All were High with the exception of Japan at medium.
In FX the Dollar strengthened while Sterling weakened vs the euro. Volatility moves were mixed: e.g. €/$ down to 10.3%. Volatilities were all medium, with the exception of €/£ at High compared to the last 12 months.
Option volatility will have been driven mostly by moves in underlying prices during the month. Volatility of volatility for the US fell fractionally to 147% (High).
Commodities' price moves were strongly downwards. Volatility moves were upwards: e.g. Oil up to 30% (medium).
Real Estate (equity) price moves were strongly upwards. Volatility changes were downwards: to 10% in the US (medium), and to 19% in Europe (also medium). Japan was up to 16% though.
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José Luis Montesinos (Tarragona, 1978) és un cineasta i guionista català.

Biografia
Enginyer en Imatge i So i graduat en Direcció en Cinematografia, ha treballat com a realitzador de Televisió de Catalunya en diferents programes.

El seu curtmetratge El Corredor (2015) va guanyar els Premis Goya 2016, i va ser premiat com a Millor Curt Europeu a la Setmana Internacional de Cinema de Valladolid, Premis Cinematogràfics José María Forqué 2016 al Millor Curtmetratge de l'any, nominat als Premis de la Acadèmia de Cinema Europeu (EFA 2015), qualificat per als premis Oscar de l'Acadèmia de Hollywood  i guardonat en els Premis Gaudí 2015 al millor curt per la Acadèmia del Cinema Català. al seu torn va ser nomenat Millor Director de l'any pel Col·legi de Directors de Catalunya en el 2015  i va ser triat com un dels 10 talents espanyols del 2016 per la revista Variety.

La seva passió pel cinema l'impulsa des de molt jove a realitzar diversos curtmetratges en vídeo fins que el 2002 dirigeix el seu primer curt en 35 mm., Físic , amb el qual obté alguns premis com el de Millor Guió al Festival de Càller (Itàlia). Amb la seva següent obra,  Final , recorre els festivals de mig món durant 2003 i obté 30 premis entre els quals destaquen els de Millor Curtmetratge al Festival Internacional de Cinema de Sant Sebastià, al Festival de Màlaga cinema en Català i el Festival de cinema internacional d'Orense. Ja l'any 2007 torna a posar-se darrere de la càmera per dirigir  Fest , una sàtira mordaç sobre el món dels festivals de cinema, i amb el qual aconsegueix 6 nous premis. Després vindria  matagats , una faula negra en clau western d'un violent joc de nens guardonat com a millor curt fantàstic en el FANT de Bilbao. Una de les seves obres de més èxit,  La història de sempre , va ser exhibida en més de 250 festivals de tot el món i amb un palmarès de 132 premis, sens dubte el curt català més llorejat de l'any 2010, formant part de seccions oficials i palmarès de festivals Internacionals tan prestigiosos com el de Hong Kong, Cartagena d'Índies, Sant Diego, Cleveland , Seattle, Varsòvia, Trieste, Rhode Island i la SEMINCI de Valladolid.

Filmografia
Curtmetratges

  Físic  (2002).
  Final  (2003).
  Fest  (2008).
  La història de sempre  (2010).
  Matagats  (2011).
  El Corredor  (2015).

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Fitxa de l'European Film Academy.

Directors de cinema catalans del sud
Artistes tarragonins

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Full-service web agency Palantir has a close-knit staff that celebrates collaboration. This is made remarkable by the fact that most team members work remotely.
Yes, the development and design firm has achieved this rare feat, a friendly culture with close relationships between people who see each other in person once a year. This is something that Colleen Carroll, Director of Operations for Palantir is incredibly proud of as the organization has grown and scaled.
While Palantir's headquarters are in Evanston, IL, its employees work across the country and communicate via tools like Slack, Google Hangouts, Zoom, and e-mail.
Collaborative work is the outstanding quality of Palantir, where the phrase "get better together," inspired by the Drupalsphere, is often heard. Carroll and others have fostered a culture in which a high level of input from the client is valued, and in which feedback is free-flowing among colleagues.
The video component of conferencing and workflow software is paramount in Palantir culture. Not only do colleagues see each other while working, but Carroll ensures everyone uses headsets that supply uniform sound quality. She stresses that being able to hear the conversations without dropped or scratchy sound is more than a technical nicety, but crucial to truly personable collaboration that can happen remotely, as long as the conditions are right.
There's a friendly vibe running through Palantir, a comradely ecosystem nourished by trust. Carroll favors the word "dorks" to describe herself, and—affectionately—her co-workers. There's much love for sci-fi books and movies, and also food. The team members know each other's interests and avocations, which are as diverse as stand-up comedy and intense fondness for pets.
Carroll asserts that a workplace with divergent viewpoints and experiences is a rich one in which a mix of opinions strengthens the final product. Palantir reveres the individual even as it promotes constant collaboration. When asked about the company's core values, Carroll is quick to point out that they carefully use the word "principles," a less emotionally-fraught term, explaining, "we don't want people to let go of their individual values."
Neither does the company strictly regulate the style and format of communication—the ethos seems to be the more the better. Palantir's 2017 Annual Report is more of an infographic, wherein the company proudly lists numbers of e-mails sent (781,556), Slack messages (32,216 per month), and so on.
"We trust people to do good work," Carroll says, explaining why team members have great latitude in terms of process. She adds, "we also trust that they will make mistakes, and we believe that they have the capacity and resources to fix those mistakes."
There are companies who boast a small number of e-mails and meetings, as an indicator of maximized productivity, but that's not the Palantir style. Carroll disagrees with regulating format or quantities of communication, saying, "that is a reaction to something, rather than solving a root problem."
Palantir is a living advertisement for collaboration software; by embracing cutting-edge technologies and integrating them wholly, the company allows flexible hours and working styles for their employees, an ideal that more companies should be meeting, according to optimistic predictions from decades ago.
The company facilitates its prolific collaboration with a culture of appreciation. If a Palantir employee shows flexibility, solves a problem, or even shares great recipes via Slack, they can expect kudos. The appreciation tool Disco is a staple at Palantir, giving the company a way of showing appreciation that makes sense to them more than earlier applications. Disco is integrated with Slack, tallying up the kudos ("plus-plusses" internally) and giving colleagues, in Carroll's words, a way to "demonstrate our silliness and our celebration of each other." She adds, "that goes beyond physical location."
Hear from Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, on the importance of employee happiness and how it directly impacts the customer experience
Rewards: when "thanks!" just isn't enough
Today we're launching Disco Rewards, the easiest way to give a boost to your employee recognition.


You don't have to understand how metaphors work in order to appreciate the value of the pitstop metaphor and model in the Growth Pitstop™. But if you did want to look behind the scenes and find out more about why the metaphor is used and how it works this article has been written for you.
Metaphors are as old as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, but it is only in recent decades that their role has been fully understood. Today psychologists understand that metaphors are not just a figure of speech, but rather they have the power to convey meaning, access emotions and shape experiences. That is why the metaphor plays such an important role in the pitstop.
What is a metaphor? Well, here is a great definition: A metaphor is "a weapon of mass understanding". That is how author Anne Miller describes a metaphor and its power (1).
Metaphors are a part of everday life. Indeed it seems we are hardwired to use metaphors in our thinking as well as our speech. In describing a person you might say that they are 'slippery as an eel', 'gentle as a lamb' or 'cunning as a fox'.
Open the pages of Shakespeare, the Bible or any other old book and you will find the metaphor plays a central role to play. As human beings, we seem to be hardwired to think in metaphor, and to communicate using metaphor.
Metaphors are particularly handy when we need to talk about something that is abstract, complex or emotional. We reach for them without actually realizing it.
However metaphors are not just a matter of words or language. They convey meaning. That is what gives them their power.
The metaphors we use influence the questions we ask and the answers we find (4).
The most important aspect of metaphors are the benefits of using them with teams in the Growth Pitstop™, or anywhere else. When people think and talk in metaphors the possibility of accessing new ideas, insights, emotions and connections emerges.
Using metaphors offers the prospect of new insights and awareness, new dialogue and new ideas and innovation. The use of the formula for growth metaphor in the pitstop gets people talking, thinking and seeing the issue of performance and potential in a new way.
1. Metaphors can communicate complex concepts, thoughts or emotions without a lot of words. They put abstract concepts into concrete and familiar (or easy to relate to) terms. This is important in dealing with an issue such as strategy that can mean different things to different people. It is also important for working with managers and teams from a diversity of backgrounds and with different native languages.
2. Metaphors condense information and convey meaning through image or association. Some of the most common associations with the racetrack are speed, competition and winning. Others include technology & innovation, driver skill & passion, risk and danger, as well as; discipline, teamwork, money, glamour and so on.
We believe that these associations are more powerful and relevant than the metaphors traditionally used in business: 'war', 'dog eat dog' or 'survival of the fittest.' By contrast the narrative of the Pitstop Meta-model™ is designed to focus on competition, speed and winning. Even the fact that car used to communicate the growth formula is red can have symbolic meaning.
3. Metaphors can allow us to think in deeper and more profound ways(1). They can provide new insights and ideas – the type of break through thinking that organizations need in terms of growth.
4. Metaphors can help us to say things that can be difficult to express. They take the concrete and make it abstract. The power of the growth formula metaphor in de-personalizing and de-politicizing the issue of performance is key to enabling new movement and unlocking revenue potential.
5. Using a metaphor can interrupt old patterns of thinking or talking about something. It can get you thinking about something in a new way and help you to to find (or attach) new meaning to it. This explains why break-through's and 'ah-ha!' moments are a regular feature of the Growth Pitstop and Strategy PitStop.
6. Metaphors can access, trigger or reveal emotions that might otherwise remain hidden. They can act as a bridge between the conscious and the subconscious mind. This is key to understanding the underlying attitudes and motivations in respect of growth; what we call the growth mindset.
7. Metaphors that are visual engage with a more imaginative, intuitive and holistic mode of thinking. They go beyond the linear, logical and analytical approach that can stifle creativity and innovation. This is an important part of the pitstop's ability to engage with both the 'left and the right brain'.
Even more exciting is the research showing that metaphors don't just reveal our thinking – they also shape our experiences. The tantalizing notion is that changing the metaphors we use could change our reality (as we experience it).
Bottom line, how you and your team talk about growth or performance and in particular the metaphors it uses (but may not be aware of) matter. The Growth Pitstop process is designed to put a renewed focus on competition, speed and most of all winning through the deliberate use of the Formula One metaphor.
The subliminal meaning of the Formula for Growth metaphor is let's start talking (and thinking) more about competition, speed, potential and most of all winning.


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The First Shock
Le Premier choc
1951120 x 190 mm
COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION IN THREE VOLUMES.
ONE OF THE 50 EXAMPLES ON PURE WIRE, the only large paper print.
Autographs signed on the first two volumes
Literature Remarkable origins Copy on large paper Top draw only First Edition Autograph
COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION IN THREE VOLUMES published from 1951 to 1953.
ONE OF THE 50 COPIES ON PURE THREAD, only large paper.
Signed autograph mailingss on the first two volumes:
On At the water tower (Volume I):
"For Anouk and Claude Souef, the novel by Paulette and Henri, our comrades. With my friendship, André Stil."
On The Gunshot (Volume II) :
"For my comrade Claude Souef, this novel of our activist life, seen from the inside, from the heart, A. Stil."
Philosopher, resistant, member of the Hand to the feather, founder of Eighty-one sheets and then from The future of surrealism, André Stil began his literary career under the patronage of Aragon. The first shock, sound his first novel received the Stalin Prize and made him immensely famous. Andrei Stil was the first non-Russian author to be distinguished in this way by what was then called "the Nobel of the East" and was translated all over the world. The writing of the novel was also marked by stays in prison, as were his editorials in l'Humanité, a two-month stay in May-June 1952 and another six-month stay the following year, so that it was in Fresnes that he finished writing his cycle of novels. Aragon defended him in a text with a resounding title, Today's Egmont is called André Stil.text taken up and completed in Mr. Duval's Nephew (EFR, 1953).
Resistance fighter and communist activist, Claude Souef was in charge of film clubs after the war and had worked for La Nouvelle Critique, before directing a few short films. Assistant director at the ORTF, he worked with the pioneers of public television. He then devoted himself to writing a book on youth in the Resistance and his last struggle was to support undocumented workers.
Unusual draw. Nice provenance.
Source : MATRON, Reynald Lahanque, Carnet de L'Humanité.
Paris,Les Éditeurs Français Réunis (EFR),1951, 1952, 1953.3 volumesIn-12, Softcover120 x 190 mm,256, 285 and 317 pp.
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André Stil
(Hergnies: 1 April 1921- Camelas: 3 September 2004)
Personal copy of the bookbinder Alain Lobstein
Requiem pour une nonne
Évenore et Leucippe
Alphonse
L'Évangeliste – Roman parisien
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Some people can be uncomfortable around women while they are breastfeeding. However, if you pull out a bottle of formula, there are those who may criticize you for not feeding your baby what they might consider "nature's perfect food" -- breast milk.
Welcome to mommy guilt. No matter what you decide, other people will surely have an opinion. Only one thing really matters: Which choice is right for you and your baby?
It's usually more easily digested than formula. So breastfed babies are often less constipated and gassy.
It may lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in the first year of your baby's life.
Breast milk may even help your child in later years, by reducing the risk of being overweight, and of developing asthma, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, and lymphoma.
But let's not forget a key reason many new moms want to breastfeed. It's a wonderful bonding experience with your baby.
Breast milk can also be pumped which will allow for public feedings and other family members to participate in feeding.
It's convenient. Formula-fed babies can be fed by anyone at any time.
It's flexible. You don't have to fit pumping into your work schedule. Instead, you can simply leave formula for your babysitter or day care center.
Scheduling feedings may be easier. Formula isn't digested as quickly as breast milk, so formula-fed babies don't need to eat as often, especially in the first few months.
Whichever way you choose to feed your baby -- breast milk, formula, or a combination of both -- the most important thing is that your baby is well fed, well cared for, and loved. So ditch the mommy guilt!
HealthyChildren.org: "Should I Breastfeed or Bottlefeed?" "Why Formula Instead of Cow's Milk?"
KidsHealth from Nemours: "Breast or Bottle?"
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine: "Understanding breastfeeding supply and demand."
American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Feb. 1, 2005.


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Q: Using serializable transactions in Celery and Sqlalchemy and serialization errors I have a flask project that relies on flask-sqlalchemy and celery to do a lot of things. Many of the celery tasks reach out to external API's, fetch some data, and read/update data on disk. When expanding my number of tasks that are being run, I see a lot of 40001 errors such as
(psycopg2.errors.SerializationFailure) could not serialize access due to read/write dependencies among transactions
DETAIL:  Reason code: Canceled on identification as a pivot, during write.
HINT:  The transaction might succeed if retried.

And other similar errors, all relating to transactions failing. We are using serializable transactions in SQLAlchemy.
I've tried to rerun the tasks using the builtin celery auto-retry features, but I think an architectural change needs to be made, since the tasks are still failing, even with several retries. The reading from remote APIs and storing to database logic is mingled in the tasks and my first idea was to separate this logic out as much as possible, first reading from database and API, then sending another task that would make changes to API/database, but I'm not sure this would help. I don't want to wrap every single call to db.session.query(Object) or similar in try/catch clauses if there's a better way?
Code looks like this (heavily redacted)
@celery_app.task(
  bind=True,
  autoretry_for=(
      HTTPError,
      sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError,
      sqlalchemy.exc.IntegrityError,
  ),
  retry_backoff=5,
  retry_jitter=True,
  retry_kwargs={"max_retries": 5},
)
def sync_db_objects_task(self, instance_id: int):
  instance = ObjectInstance.query.get(instance_id)
  if not instance:
      return

  # Run a query fetching objects of interest
  latest_local_tickets = db.session.query(..)

  if all([t.deleted for t in latest_local_tickets]):
      return

  remote_config = (instance.config.address, instance.config.port, instance.config.username, instance.config.password)

  # determine which ticket objects are out of sync:
  out_of_sync_tickets = out_of_sync_tickets(latest_local_tickets, remote_config)
  successes, fails = [],[]
  for result in out_of_sync_tickets:
      db_object = latest_local_tickets[result.name]
      try:
         #Sync
         #connect, update
         status, reason = connect.sync(db_object)
         successes.append(db_object.name)
      except HTTPError as e:
          status, reason = e.status_code, e.msg
          fails.append(db_object.name)
      db_object.update_state(status, reason)
      db.session.add(db_object)
      db.session.commit()
  logger.info(f"successes: {successes}")
  logger.info(f"fails:{fails}")

It usually fails in the call to update_state which looks like this:
@declarative_mixin
class ReplicationMixin:

  status = Column(types.Text, default="unknown", nullable=False)
  status_reason = Column(types.Text, nullable=True)
  last_sync_date = Column(types.DateTime, default=None)

def update_state(status:str, reason:str=None):

  self.status = status if status else "fail"
  self.status_reason = parse_reason(reason)
  self.last_sync_date = datetime.utcnow()

Like this:
[2022-07-29 09:22:11,305: ERROR/ForkPoolWorker-8] (psycopg2.errors.SerializationFailure) could not serialize access due to read/write dependencies among transactions
DETAIL:  Reason code: Canceled on identification as a pivot, during write.
HINT:  The transaction might succeed if retried.

[SQL: UPDATE tickets SET updated=%(updated)s, last_sync_date=%(last_sync_date)s WHERE tickets.id = %(tickets_id)s]
[parameters: {'updated': datetime.datetime(2022, 7, 29, 9, 22, 11, 304293), 'last_sync_date': datetime.datetime(2022, 7, 29, 9, 22, 11, 303875), 'tickets_id': 124}]
(Background on this error at: https://sqlalche.me/e/14/e3q8)

But i think it's a red herring, as its probably being subsequently read somewhere else.
Can I attempt to leverage db.session.refresh(object) or something else to make sure I commit and re-read data before changing it, or is there some other way to alleviate this issue?
I've been stumped for a week on this issue and I cant seem to figure out what the best way forward is. Very appreciative for any help I can get.


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Asbestos services introduced
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HSE to visit construction sites
Date: 10 February 2011 Over the next month, construction sites across the country will be visited as part of an intensive inspection initiative aimed at reducing death and injury in one of Britain's most dangerous industries. During 2009/10, 42 workers died while working in construction, nationally, and nearly three quarters of these occurred during refurbishment, repair and maintenance activities. These will be the main focus of the latest inspections by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). On the unannounced visits – starting on 14 February – the inspectors will ensure that sites are managing work at height safely and that they are in good order, as well as checking that the risk of exposure to asbestos is being properly managed. Last year inspectors visited 2014 sites and 2414 contractors. They were forced to issue more than 350 prohibition notices to stop dangerous work – much of it relating to working from height. Philip White, HSE's Chief Inspector of Construction, said: "This will be the fifth year that we have run the inspection initiative across Britain and we anticipate that that there will be examples of both good and bad practice – those where employers are taking all the measures they can to protect their workers and those where safety is way down the list of priorities. "A lax attitude to health and safety in one of the more dangerous industries is not acceptable, especially when many of the incidents are completely avoidable by taking commonsense actions and precautions. As we've demonstrated in previous years, we will not hesitate to take action if we find poor practice that is putting the lives of workers at risk. "This year, as part of ensuring risks from asbestos are properly managed, we will also be checking that, where appropriate, asbestos surveys have been carried out prior to any refurbishment work. Many workers believe that, because asbestos has been banned as a building material, it's no longer a threat to them. But that simply isn't true. Any premises built or refurbished before 2000 could contain asbestos." During the inspection initiative, HSE inspectors will be looking at whether: Jobs that involve working at height have been identified and properly planned to ensure that appropriate precautions are in place Equipment is correctly installed / assembled, inspected and maintained and used properly Sites are well organised, to avoid trips and falls Walkways and stairs are free from obstructions Work areas are clear of unnecessary materials and waste Falls from height remains one of the most common causes of fatalities and major injuries in the construction sector in Great Britain, with more than five incidents recorded every day. Further information on the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007 http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm.htm [1] Further information on falls and trips in the construction industry http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/campaigns/fallstrips/index.htm [2] Further information on asbestos can be found http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/index.htm


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using System.Web.Optimization;

[assembly: WebActivatorEx.PostApplicationStartMethod(typeof(TobyStudentManagementSystem.App_Start.BootstrapBundleConfig), "RegisterBundles")]

namespace TobyStudentManagementSystem.App_Start
{
    public class BootstrapBundleConfig
    {
        public static void RegisterBundles()
        {
            // Add @Styles.Render("~/Content/bootstrap/base") in the <head/> of your _Layout.cshtml view
            // For Bootstrap theme add @Styles.Render("~/Content/bootstrap/theme") in the <head/> of your _Layout.cshtml view
            // Add @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/bootstrap") after jQuery in your _Layout.cshtml view
            // When <compilation debug="true" />, MVC4 will render the full readable version. When set to <compilation debug="false" />, the minified version will be rendered automatically
            BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/bootstrap").Include("~/Scripts/bootstrap.js", "~/Scripts/bootbox.min.js"));
            BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/bootstrap/base").Include("~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap.css", "~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap-sticky-footer.css"));
            BundleTable.Bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/bootstrap/theme").Include("~/Content/bootstrap/bootstrap-theme.css"));
        }
    }
}

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Havířov (; ) is a city in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 69,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the region. Havířov lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.

Havířov was founded in 1955 and is the youngest Czech city.

Administrative parts
The city is made up of eight administrative parts:

Bludovice
Dolní Datyně
Dolní Suchá
Město
Podlesí
Prostřední Suchá
Šumbark
Životice

Etymology
In a competition to name the city in 1956, various names were suggested, such as Stalin, Gottwaldův Horníkov (after Klement Gottwald), Zápotockýgrad (after Antonín Zápotocký) and "Čestprácov" (derived from the Socialist-era greeting čest práci). Eventually it was decided that the city should be named Havířov (from havíř, i.e. "miner", with the possessive suffix -ov).

History
The first written mention of settlements in today's Havířov area is from 1305 (Horní Suchá and Dolní Suchá). Bludovice was first mentioned in 1335 and Šumbark in 1438.

Havířov was founded after the World War II as a coal mining town to restore hard coal mining in the region. Building of first housing estates for miners and their families began in 1947. Havířov was officially established in 1955 and in the same year received the statute of a town.

Havířov was built on top of several villages with significant Polish populations. The local people were given apartments in the newly built city, and most of their old houses were demolished to make room for new urban buildings. The majority of the population of Havířov emigrated from other parts of Czechoslovakia, many of them from Slovakia, as migrant workers, thus substantially altering the ethnic structure of the area.

Today, the original villages are administrative parts of the city and mostly lie on the outskirts of urban Havířov. In 1975–1990, Horní Suchá, now a separate municipality, was a part of Havířov.

Most of the buildings of the new city were built in the style of socialist realism.

Demographics

Sport

Football
The city's football club, MFK Havířov, competes in the Czech Fourth Division. In the past, the team appeared for several seasons in Czech 2. Liga. Football club MFK Havířov was founded in 1922 as ČSK Moravská Suchá. MFK Havířov has two pitches and one artificial pitch. They have nickname which is "indians" according to American bikers. Their matches are played on pitches in Prostřední Suchá.

Ice hockey
The ice hockey club AZ Havířov appears in the 1st Czech Republic Hockey League, the second-tier league of ice hockey in the country.

Rugby
RC Havířov competes in the highest division of rugby in the Czech Republic, the KB Extraliga.

Cycling
Havířov hosted the prologue and the third stage, both an individual time trial, of the 2012 and 2013 Gracia-Orlová.

Notable people

Jan Bystroń (1860–1902), Polish linguist
Józef Kiedroń (1879–1932), Polish mining engineer and politician
Martin Mainer (born 1959), artist and professor
Daniel Zítka (born 1975), footballer
Jan Laštůvka (born 1982), footballer
Dominik Graňák (born 1983), ice hockey player
Robert Mayer (born 1989), ice hockey player
Pavel Maslák (born 1991), sprinter
Kateřina Pauláthová (born 1993), alpine skier
Kryštof (founded 1994), music band
David Pastrňák (born 1996), ice hockey player

Twin towns – sister cities

Havířov is twinned with:

 Collegno, Italy
 Harlow, England, United Kingdom
 Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland
 Mažeikiai, Lithuania
 Omiš, Croatia
 Paide, Estonia
 Turčianske Teplice, Slovakia
 Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia

References

External links

Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Cities in Silesia
Populated places in Karviná District
Socialist planned cities
Populated places established in 1955
1955 establishments in Czechoslovakia


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Home The Arts Native women's "Sinew" art exhibit defies stereotypes
Native women's "Sinew" art exhibit defies stereotypes
catwhipple
1992 marked the quincentennial of Columbus's ruinous landfall. As state-sponsored anniversaries go, National pride and patriotic excitement was on a high that year. But, so was the critical voice. Natives did what they've done since 1492 and resisted triumphant expressions of colonization. Curators and some artists looked to frame many exhibitions with meaning derived from a critical, Post-Colonial context.
But not performance artist, James Luna. He viewed the swell of interest in Native Art as a fleeting "gold rush" as he fielded many call from curators suddenly looking for Natives to include in their exhibitions. He said "no" to 1992, refusing most exhibitions he was invited to participate in, with the simple phrase "Call Me in '93." He was effectively asking if anyone would still care the following year.
"Call Me in '93" has been on my mind lately. Currently, the Guerrilla Girls are in town, a radical artist group that exposes sexism and racism in the arts industry. As part of the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, a year-long residency where the Guerrilla Girls have spotlighted sexism in Twin Cities art institutions, many art institutions and galleries are presenting sympathetic exhibitions that focus on art made by women. The exhibition 'Sinew: Female Native Artists of the Twin Cities', on view at Artistry in Bloomington, is part of the takeover programming. I agreed to be one of the artists in this exhibition, but I've been wondering, as James Luna did, will anyone care next year?
The answer is assuredly, "no."
In the wake of the Guerrilla Girls residency, The Walker Art Center released its plans to expand the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, adding new works of art and redesigning its grounds. Under the subtitle "A Diverse Collection," The Star Tribune reported that, "With the new work, women and artists of color will have made about a third of the garden's art, roughly double their previous tally." In other words, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden went from having sculptures by 17% women/POC to a whopping 33%.
Furthermore, women and persons of color as a single category is another way of not having to say "white male" artists, who make up the lion's share of the collection. By not uttering the category "white men" we are affording them the power to make work beyond their experience, they have the authority to not have their ideas bound to the "white male perspective." It is hard to imagine a show subtitled, "White Male Artists of the Twin Cities." Exhibitions that specify race and gender is something afforded to women and minority artists.
How is all of this related to Sinew? This exhibition might be the first exhibition to exclusively feature female Native artists of the Twin Cities. It might be the very first of its kind. It also may, at first, seem narrow in focus. Specifying a location, race and gender of the included artists brings many assumptions to the table, and one might expect to find a succinct, codified voice. On the contrary, Sinew is rich in materials and defies stereotype. This is a point of pride in the exhibition. Everything is allowed.
No truer example can be found than in the work of Heid Erdrich and Louise Erdrich. Here is their materials list for Advice to Myselves (an art instillation): "manufactured typewriter, table and chair; BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) school coatrack; commercial clothing, mask, and mittens; mukluks by Nancy Jones; vintage ephemera; hand-lettering by Heid E. Erdrich; photos by Louise Erdrich; commercial watercolor set with photos by Anne Marsden and hand-lettering by Louise Erdrich; reproduction telephone with Louise Erdrich audio re-fabricated by Pallas Erdrich."
Firstly, I've never been more delighted by a materials list. Secondly, Advice to Myselves is no-doubt an assembled piece of objects that each have their own acknowledged origins, amassed, assembled and inviting activation. This is an investigatory piece that welcomes an empathetic response.
The material of Advice to Myself is supported by the film Advice to Myself 2: Resistance by Elizabeth Day, Louise Erdrich and Heid Erdrich. In this film, some of the objects included in Advice to Myselves debut as film props. In this video, Louise Erdrich's voice gives clear advice along the lines of not coddling loved ones, while the images of a person donned in a bear mask and the above listed winter gear, slumps around a wintery snow bank.
Maggie Thompson's installation piece, titled Fragments, consists of a bed made up with a quilt of shattered images. The quilt element appears to be created by photographs mounted on foam-core that has been cut into a prism of triangles and adhered to a fabric substrate. Although this presentation of objects might suggests comfort, Thompson's jagged treatment of the quilt's surface is sharp and physically threatening.
Carolyn Lee Anderson's mixed media triptych also present an uneasy message atop quilt-like objects. Anderson's Disillusion/Dissolution #1, #2 and #3 are named after various tree varieties: Silver Maple Northern Red Oak, Valley Oak and Sugar Maple. These are bright objects crown the exhibition.
Upon closer scrutiny, images of beautifully painted haloed portraits, G.I.s, legal documents, and National symbols are stitched in, painted over and layered in a brilliant patchwork of memories.
Other artists included are Julie Buffalohead, Dyani White Hawk and myself. Curated by Dyani White Hawk Polk, the exhibition runs February 12 to April 1 at Artistry at the Bloomington Center for the Arts, in the Inez Greenberg Gallery.
To find out more about the exhibit, see: www.artistrymn.org/visual_arts/sinew
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Accounts in Transit: Hemsworth Communications Picks Up Kenefick Ranch Vineyards; Publicis Groupe's Team One Adds Jacuzzi Brands; Strategic Heights Media Lands Odyssey Impact, Transform Films; Ink & Roses Wins Cannafloria Essentials
Thu., Oct. 3, 2019
Hemsworth Communications has been named PR firm for Kenefick Ranch Vineyards in Calistoga, CA. Hemsworth's scope-of-work will include creating a comprehensive communications plan to elevate the company's portfolio and position it as a leading Napa Valley wine producer. The agency will launch targeted strategic campaigns to promote the brand's positioning throughout top local markets and nationally, and will be responsible for driving awareness around the winery's future on-site tasting room. In addition, the agency has added The Local Culinary – a "dark kitchen" (i.e., a delivery-only establishment) that houses eight virtual restaurant brands – and Fort Lauderdale's Press & Grind Cafe to its client roster.
Publicis Groupe agency Team One has added Jacuzzi Brands to its client roster. Team One is tasked with promoting the company through branding and design strategies, advertising, media, marketing and public relations. "Team One came to the table with a deep understanding of what we are looking to achieve across our brands," said Jacuzzi Brands LLC senior vice president of marketing Ed Sofia. Team One has five North American offices, including its Los Angeles headquarters, Dallas, New York, Chicago and Atlanta. Its clients include Lexus, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, HSBC Premier, Expedia, Warner Bros. Interactive, VISA, Make-a-Wish and the It Gets Better Project.
Strategic Heights Media lands Odyssey Impact and its affiliated production company Transform Films. The agency will manage overall public relations efforts and media strategy for Odyssey and Transform, including the formulation and implementation of media strategy, leveraging partnerships and influencer relationships, and creating awareness around upcoming projects. Odyssey Impact builds and executes social impact campaigns around award-winning documentaries. Transform Films works with directors and producers to create documentaries. SHM has provided media strategy to leading brands including: BET Networks, WEtv, IFC, ASCAP, SmartWater, 20th Century Fox and Comcast Xfinity.
Ink & Roses has been named public relations agency of record for Cannafloria Essentials, a hemp-infused collection of aromatherapy, body and skincare products. The agency will lead the launch of the brand, including traditional media relations and social strategy to drive brand awareness, focusing on the cross-section of beauty and wellness. Founded by Sharon Christie, who has deep experience as a pharmacist, chemist, botanist and aromatherapist, Cannafloria Essentials are the first of what the company says will be a complete range of products that pair Christie's expertise in sensory sciences with her passion for the benefits of cannabis.


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Carmack asks judge to rule in his favor, award him $1M in lawsuit
Candice Williams
A controversial businessman is requesting that a federal judge rule in his favor and award him $1 million in his civil lawsuit against Detroit City Council Gabe Leland.
The request comes in a motion that auto shop owner Robert Carmack filed Sunday in federal court asking for a summary judgment. He first filed the lawsuit in March, claiming the city retaliated against him in a land dispute. He has since moved to remove the city, Mayor Mike Duggan and others from the lawsuit, leaving only Leland.
Carmack is the central figure in the bribery indictment against Leland. Carmack said he wore a recording device in talks with the councilman. Leland is accused of agreeing to accept $15,000 and free car repairs from Carmack.
Carmack wants U.S. District Judge Matthew Leitman to rule that Leland extorted him after Carmack said he delivered $7,500 cash in an envelope to a Leland campaign worker in late summer 2017, according to the lawsuit.
"Plaintiff respectfully requests this honorable court to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiff's remaining state-law claims against defendant Leland and grant plaintiff's motion for summary judgment," Carmack asks in the filing, filed by his attorney, Andrew Paterson.
Leland, in invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a June deposition in Carmack's complaint, "cannot present a defense or offer any evidence in opposition to" the motion for summary judgment, the filing asserts.
The motion is the latest involving Carmack's lawsuit.
Earlier this month, Carmack moved to dismiss the federal lawsuit. . A week before, Leitman said he had "very serious concerns" over how the lawsuit was being prosecuted.
"This is just the latest in a long line of ridiculous pleadings filed in this case," said Leland's attorney, Steve Fishman.
It is unclear why Carmack is asking for $1 million.
Carmack referred questions to his attorney.
"You have to ask for something," Paterson said. "That's what Mr. Carmack thinks he should ask for. I don't know where it will end up. Sometimes, it's more, and sometimes less."
Leland did not return a call seeking comment.
cwilliams@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CWilliams_DN


The purpose of this study was the implementation of a simulation for a subsea production system. This subsea production system is installed under environments with high pressure and low temperature. Most of the processes for oil and gas production occur in the subsea equipment. Therefore, an understanding and study of subsea production systems is very difficult because people cannot directly observe the processes occurring in the subsea production system. A simulation system can be a useful solution for this difficult problem. In this research, information models and a 3-D graphic model of the subsea equipment were built using the object-oriented technology and 3-D CAD. The entire system was implemented with the help of simulation software, 3-DVIA Virtools. The simulation system for the subsea production system was tested using several production process scenarios. The results of the tests showed that the simulation system is very useful for understanding a subsea production system and could be a good educational tool.
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