Before I begin with this post, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Here's hoping it will turn out to be a happy, healthy and prosperous one for all of us!
Recently I read a blog post by Kristen Lamb on the 5 Areas We Need Permission for Success. One of those was to allow ourselves the permission to fail. This is a big one as I believe that for me at least, this one area works like a domino affect as it creates all the others that she mentions.
Being the youngest of three daughters, I was labelled 'different' from an early age. I was imaginative, observant and a bit of a loner. The quiet one, or 'shy' as some would call it. My mother would call me 'different' as if it was a bad thing (yeah, still does). It's as if there is something wrong with me. I always had the feeling that I didn't quite fit in because I'd be compared to my sisters. When I started high school, teachers also started comparing me to my elder sisters, but it didn't last long; I was 'different'. There was always a level of high expectation. If I didn't meet them, I was a 'failure', causing low self-esteem. I was afraid to try new things.
This fear of failure has resulted in being a perfectionist. I grew up with the belief that everything had to be perfect the first time around. It has become ingrained. During my University studies I would stall at starting any assignments which were all essays. The thought of writing something made me anxious, but I had a deadline to meet and once I began writing, I was fine. It's the same these days when it comes to writing, only I don't have any deadlines. Right now, I'm doing this for me. Perfectionism is the worst form of procrastination there is as I use different things to distract me; go on social media, play on the ipad, listen to podcasts, watch Netflix (yeah, I think you get the picture). I fail to try because I don't want to fail.
The thing is though failure can be good for us. We learn what our strengths and weaknesses are. We learn through our mistakes and in order to make ourselves better, we work on them. We put in the hard yards until we are satisfied with the results. There can be times when mistakes can even take us down paths we never would have tried otherwise. Without making the effort to try, we'll never know what we are capable of. We may live the rest of our lives with regrets.
I believe that I will be taking the path to self-publishing. That now is my biggest challenge. In all honesty just the very thought of it frightens the living daylights out of me. It is revealing myself to the world, revealing what has been private for so many years. Just writing this post is a frightening prospect, but this is why blogging has been such an enormous help. If I fail, then at least I know I've tried. And that's all anyone can really ask for.
Are you afraid of failure? Has the thought of failure made you a perfectionist? Do you plan to step out of your comfort zone and do something different in 2018?
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I'm willing to bet that most of us writers were considered different. I know I was. *shrugs* But moving on, I used to be afraid to put down a wrong word, which really held me back from writing. Because, you know, the need to be perfect and everything. But someone told me to lower my standards. And it worked! You can't edit a blank page, and editing is where the real perfection comes from.


In last week's post—"Prepare to Win"— I noted that building a base of solid functional strength and durability keeps you in the fight and prevents weakness in general when inevitable challenges arise.
Of course, building that base requires a dedicated focus. It requires that you elevate your training to the same level of importance as fueling and recovery. I consider those the three pillars for a powerful foundation from which to launch yourself toward mastery. But without that foundation, you will inevitably falter at some point on your journey.
Wandering around a big box fitness center looking for an available exercise machine or treadmill is not considered training in the manner I am speaking of. This is more "wishful exercise" in that you wish for results while exercising, which is better than sitting on the couch. However, you will see little, if any, progress with this approach.
Building the right foundation requires the intention of a lifetime approach to training health and functional readiness. The discipline to sustain training through the peaks, valleys and plateaus that this journey has in store for you requires dedicated focus and a winning attitude.
Find the fun. Finding the fun in training is key. Most people dread working out, but at SEALFIT you will learn to have a blast. The energy that drives our training comes from (at least) three things: First is the fun of training with a team and the camaraderie it builds. Second is the exhilaration that comes from succeeding at difficult tasks. Finally, we have the joy of constantly learning and improving. All of these make a disciplined training plan fun and sustainable.
Now you may find other reasons for fun, such as the fun of making progress toward realizing a huge goal or challenge, like preparing for 20X Challenge or Kokoro camp, or training for a special ops selection program like BUD/S. Or the fun may be losing excess weight and packing on muscle. Finding the fun that will fuel you during tough training sessions is key, and a personal thing. It's not about what someone else wants for you; it's about what makes you motivated – seek to understand who you truly are and what drives you.
Appreciate hard. You may not enjoy pain, soreness, occasional injuries or being defeated, but with the right attitude you will reframe these and value their inherent positive lessons. You can look back on the snags and realize they were important stepping stones necessary to achieving your goals. Consider them part of your training and appreciate them, and you'll soon be growing emotional resiliency.
Freedom through discipline. Consistent effort and showing up to do the work – this is discipline. Discipline is a habit, the only habit that leads to true freedom in life. Be steady, week in and week out. As mentioned above, integrated training, fueling, and recovery are the three pillars of optimal health, so discipline yourself with them now! Don't bump a training session without serious thought and consideration. If you must, make it up. When you travel, you train. When it snows, you train. When you're injured, you train. Make the decision now and allow for no excuses. Freedom is earned.
Measure your progress. Many of you have worked with a coach or private trainer who has tracked your progress. Good enough…but it is better to develop the awareness to notice and track your own progress. Then you can celebrate your new achievements and milestones. Day by day, in every way, you get better and better. Forward…march.
Grow. Lock in your growth mindset in every area of your life. Five mountain training leaves no openings. Learn to love to grow, adding new awareness, knowledge, and skills in a steady upward (vertical) and outward (horizontal) growth. Soon you'll see through the eyes of a kid again – which is when you will know your cup is finally empty and the world is your playground!
Developing these attitudes will greatly aid your success in any pursuit –especially one as demanding as SEALFIT integrated training. So find some time for yourself, open up your journal, and ponder where you stand with these attitudes. Then go get busy.
P.S. If you're interested in taking the first steps toward mastering the full-range of SEALFIT training principles and programming, you should join my elite coaching team and me at SEALFIT HQ, November 14-15, for the Basic Training Certification. Click Here to learn more.
Always appreciate your blogs. They always let me know that my team mate are on the right path of becoming SEAL FIT.
Excellent material! Thank you for following your passion and inspiring others to new levels of success.
Wow, this post was extremely powerful for me. Thank you. I had my journal open from the first paragraph to take notes. I listed exactly what it means to me to train, fuel and recover physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It's a lot- it's no small joke. But I know I can do it. I do half of it already. It's just organizing and then showing up to be able to do it completely.
Thank you again for this post. It is just what I needed this morning!


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OrganizedWisdom, the "Mahalo For Health", Raises $2.3 Million
Jason Kincaid	@jasonkincaid / 13 years
OrganizedWisdom, a human-powered search engine that focuses exclusively on health, has raised $2.3 million in a Series A round led by ETF Venture Fund, Esther Dyson, and a number of other investors.
OrganizedWisdom has compiled a database of over 10,000 "wisdom cards" that list the most relevant and useful information related to health searches. Links are separated into groups according to the topic they pertain to (Symptoms, Causes, etc.). Each Wisdom Card is created by the company's team of doctor-guided health and patient advocates, who scour the web in an attempt to pick out the best content. (You can see an example card here.)
The model is very similar to Mahalo, which also provides a human-powered search engine but also covers a much broader range of topics. Because OrganizedWisdom focuses exclusively on health, the company says it has been able to create ten times as many health-related topics as Mahalo. The company plans to use the money to help expand its library of Wisdom Cards and its RequestWisdom program, which allows users to request information on diseases that haven't been covered yet.
OrganizedWisdom is a member of the very-crowded health advice space, and sees competition from the likes of WebMD and Healthline.
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Suncorp Super Class Action
What is the Suncorp Super Class Action about?
The class action was commenced in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (NSW) by the Plaintiff on behalf of all "Group Members" against Suncorp Portfolio Services Limited (SPSL), as trustee of the SPSL Master Trust (formerly known as the Suncorp Master Trust), Geoffrey Edward Summerhayes, and Sean Carroll.
The subject of this class action concerns certain fees charged by SPSL to superannuation accounts and certain payments made by SPSL to Financial Services Providers (including financial advisers) relating to the period 1 July 2013 to 21 June 2019.
Settlement of the class action
On 27 October 2022, the New South Wales Supreme Court approved the settlement of the class action.
Please click here to view the Court's judgment and click here to view the Court's orders approving the settlement of the class action.
In accordance with the Court approved settlement terms, many of the steps that need to occur before payment can be made to Registered Group Members cannot start until after 15 December 2022. As a result, it is likely that the settlement distribution process will not begin until early 2023.
Updating registration details
If you have already registered a claim in accordance with the Court's orders and wish to update any details, please sign in and select "My Claims". If you have not already registered a claim, there is no longer any further registration allowed. For any other enquiries, please email: SSFClassAction@enterclaim.com.
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The latest edition of the popular M Class SUV has surely done a world of good to Mercedes Benz India. The German carmaker has sold almost 400 units of SUV in June-September period. Such has been the response to the updated M Class that the carmaker is not just betting big on the Indian innings of its new M Class, but is also pretty much struggling to meet the increased demand and.
Mercedes Benz India felt that such high demand justifies local assembly and has hence, come up with an 'assembled-in-India' version of the M Class. Christened as the Mercedes Benz ML250CDI, the new variant of the M Class full sized SUV comes with an attractive price tag of INR 45.6 lakhs (ex showroom, Pune). Another advantage of locally assembled cars over Completely Built Unit (CBU) imports is that the former can be registered at a considerably lower amount than the latter. All this means that the latest variant of the M Class SUV is around INR 11 lakhs cheaper than the ML350CDI which is a CBU import. However, Mercedes plans to begin local assembly of the new car from next month.
The new Mercedes Benz ML250CDI is powered by a 204bhp, 2.2 Liter, four cylinder turbo diesel engine and comes with a seven speed automatic gearbox. The car also has a start-stop feature to boost fuel efficiency.
The car comes with almost all the bells and whistles that are found in the larger ML350CDI and makes for quite a value for money proposition.


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Texas: The Death of the Natives
September 21, 2006 issue
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The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875
by Gary Clayton Anderson
University of Oklahoma Press, 494 pp., $29.95
The Conquest of Texas was the last book Barbara Epstein sent me for review. My words are in her honor.
Gary Clayton Anderson, author of this thunderclap of a book, lives in Norman, Oklahoma, which is just a hop, a skip, and a jump from Texas, far too close, I would think, for a scholar who has now suggested that the Texas Rangers—our heroes, our protectors—are pretty much the moral equivalents of certain paramilitary units from the former Yugoslavia—Balkan death squads, in effect. If I had made that comparison I would immediately check out the housing situation in Spitzbergen, where there's lots of dark to hide in. Certainly I would settle as far as I could get from the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, which is in Waco, Texas, a very short distance itself from the famous ranch house where it was once suggested that Laura Bush sweep the porch.
Already Byron A. Johnson, director of the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, has come out fuming, in a review that accuses Professor Anderson of being ignorant of a host of disciplines and study areas that he ought not to be ignorant of.* Why is Byron A. Johnson fuming? Probably it's because The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820– 1875 is the most intense and persistent attack on the character of nineteenth-century Texans, including the Texas Rangers, that I have ever read. The subtitle is important—I'll get to it in a minute.
The Texans I know, and I live there, are almost wholly unaccustomed to thinking of themselves—much less their revered forebears—as the bad guys. Aren't the Dallas Cowboys still America's team? Aren't the Mavericks improving? What could be so bad about whatever Great-Great-Grandpa did to those sneaky Indians or those avaricious Mexicans? And aren't the old histories, books such as T.R. Fehrenbach's Lone Star, really the best? In the old history Texans were upright and righteous people, and that's the way it should be.
Most Texans, I think it's safe to say, have never given a moment's thought to historical revisionism, of the sort practiced by Patricia Nelson Limerick in The Legacy of Conquest, her revisionist classic. (When I first picked up Gary Anderson's book I thought his Conquest might harken back to W.H. Prescott's Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru. Nope. He's harkening back to Patricia Nelson Limerick's conquest of triumphalism.) At one point Gary Anderson refers to David E. Stannard, author of American Holocaust, as an "excoriating revisionist"; but if Professor Anderson's searing critique of the character and behavior of our former heroes, the Texas Rangers, isn't "excoriating revisionism" I just don't know what is.
To give the reader some idea of how nearly automatic the resort to violence was on the Texas frontier, here are two short descriptions of Ranger behavior. Both occurred in the spring of 1848. The captain in charge of the first group was Samuel Highsmith, said by those who knew him to be "high-strung." Captain Highsmith was also spoiling for a fight:
In early April 1848 his scouts reported Indians. They had stumbled onto a hunting party of twenty-six men and boys who had camped to make dinner in a valley well south of the Brazos River. Most of the Wichita and Caddo Indians in the camp had hung up their arms as they lounged about the cooking fire. Highsmith's troops crept to within one hundred yards and then charged the Indians, firing Colt revolvers at man and boy alike.
The startled Indians had little chance. Some jumped into the nearby stream and were shot in the back. Others reached the bank on the far side and tried to escape up the bluff, making easy targets. When the smoke cleared Highsmith counted twenty-five dead Indians.
Highsmith and his men were hailed as heroes in San Antonio, but, a few days later, a troop led by Lieutenant Thomas Smith
spotted a sixteen-year-old Caddo youth who, [Robert] Neighbors [the officer sent to investigate the event] later reported, "had given no offense—whatever." Twenty rangers gave chase and shot him down. They fired nearly a dozen times. Five bullets penetrated his body, and two shattered his skull. While poking at the corpse, they discovered that the boy had served them faithfully as a hunter for several months over the past winter.
It's hard to put much of a shine on the killing of that Caddo boy.
Those are but two incidents from hundreds that illustrate what an extraordinary level of violence was commonplace in early-day Texas. Few on the frontier were ever really safe—housewives, soldiers, merchants, all were attacked. Despite their usefulness, many military men disliked the Rangers. General Zachary Taylor, hero of the northern campaign in the just-finished Mexican war, actually dismissed the Ranger troops at one time but the dismissal didn't hold. Other attempts were made to get rid of the Rangers, or at least to curb their power, but all such efforts failed. People wanted the Rangers, at least as symbol, and two generations of Texas historians (Walter Prescott Webb, Eugene C. Barker, Rupert N. Richardson, T.R. Fehrenbach, Robert Utley) have written protectively of the Rangers, always downplaying Ranger misbehavior, keeping the symbol untarnished. I took a swipe at the Rangers in a novel called All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers but then wrote Lonesome Dove. I thought of it as a mythbuster but instead it merely gave the myth new life, and the balloon may rise even higher when a six-hour prequel, Comanche Moon, is aired on CBS next year.
A few tough-minded studies, nearly as critical of the Rangers as Gary Anderson's, have appeared: Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler's The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910– 1920is unsparing in its treatment of the Rangers; Gunpowder Justice: A Reassessment of the Texas Rangers by Julian Samora, Joe Bernal, and Albert Pena is also important, since it gives the Chicano point of view.
But when Professor Anderson speaks of the need to demythologize Texas I can only wish him luck. He'll be lucky if he demythologizes it for a few historians and their graduate students. At this late date demythologizing Texas is beyond anyone's power.
The above is not meant to suggest that all Texas Rangers were bad, or that their use of violence was more destructive than the violence used by their opponents. The Indians and the Tejanos—people of Mexican descent—were just as violent, just as frequently. A short time after they disposed of the defenders of the Alamo, the victorious Mexican soldiers marched 350 men out of the village of Goliad and shot them down on the road.
As for the Plains Indians—Comanche and Kiowa particularly—a long record of violence speaks for itself. Rachel Plummer, who survived her capture by the Comanches and wrote about it in an important captivity narrative, told her rescuers that she had not been raped—"the fate worse than death" occurred less often than was popularly supposed, at least in some parts of the West; fears about the impurities of white women may have been inhibitory.
Though Rachel Plummer escaped rape, she was pregnant when captured and had the agony, as soon as her baby was delivered, of seeing it dragged to death behind a horse. Mrs. Harris, another captive, saw her three-year-old killed as well. Comanche mothers, who lost one child of three, probably reasoned that these white children had no chance to survive. Any child likely to slow the band down, or give its presence away, was quickly killed.
The imposing Kiowa chief Satanta, while helping to carry out the Warren Wagon Train massacre in 1871, tied an unfortunate teamster to a wagon wheel and cheerfully roasted him; he then rode to nearby Fort Sill, where he bragged to a US Indian agent about the torture, which might have been the appropriate thing to do, in his culture, but led to his being arrested, tried in Jacksboro, and sent to prison, where he committed suicide, after being paroled and then arrested again. It was, on the whole, a rough frontier, and institutions that might have made it more orderly—such as a solid legal system—were slow to develop in Texas.
How, then, does Professor Anderson's subtitle, Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875, fit with the situation in nineteenth-century Texas? In this case I agree with Byron Johnson of the Texas Ranger Museum that the term "ethnic cleansing" doesn't fit at all. The former Yugoslavia was not a frontier: Belgrade was not Jacksboro, Texas. The ethnic enmities that existed in the former Yugoslavia were a very old business; Rebecca West's Black Lamb, Grey Falcon is still the richest study of this long, twisting history.
Ethnic conflict in frontier Texas was, instead, a rapidly evolving struggle between people who hadn't known one another very long, and, in the main, never came to know one another very well. Indian removal as a policy, however terribly it afflicted the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, and others who were hounded down the Trail of Tears, did not result in extermination. Those Indians, of course, had been settled people; removing them was one thing. But how do you "remove" the Comanches, those nomadic will-o'-the-wisps? Many settlers and most Texas Rangers would probably have preferred that the Indians be exterminated, but for much of this period, the military—regular or irregular—simply didn't have the muscle to do it.
The Anglo influx into what is now Texas but was then Mexico became serious during the 1820s—some 30,000 Anglos seeped in during that decade—a number about equal to the Indians and the Tejanos, who were already there. The seepage quickly became a flood. By the time Texas became a state, in 1845, about 160,000 Anglos were there; when the Civil War came there were, Professor Anderson claims, 600,000 Anglos in Texas, which seems a lot.
With numbers like that pitted against them it's surprising that the native people lasted as long as they did. At least a dozen tribes were scattered through the state—Kickapos, northern and southern Comanches, Wichitas, Wacos, Lipan Apaches, Caddos, Coushattas, Karankaways, Tonkawas, and Cherokees. Many of these tribes were small and weak; most of the strength lay with the Comanches and the Cherokees.
Mexico achieved its independence from Spain in 1821, and quickly developed very liberal colonization policies. An Anglo immigrant could receive almost five thousand acres of land, free; but Mexico had also abolished slavery, so who was going to work the five thousand acres? Cotton then was the preferred cash crop, and cotton doesn't weed or pick itself. Once Texas was free of Mexican rule, slaves began to be brought in in sizable numbers and lots of cotton got weeded and picked.
Professor Anderson regards the Texans' war for independence as essentially a land grab, which seems a little reductive. No doubt a fair percentage of the world's many wars are to some extent land grabs, but at least as powerful a reason for the Texas war of independence was that white Anglos didn't want to be governed by brown people. One of Anderson's points is that Texans had no tolerance for ethnic diversity. Texas was part of Mexico for fifteen years. Many alliances were formed, and even a state—Coahuila-Texas—but the alliances did not change the fact that two people with very different governmental traditions were headed for a clash.
As the 1820s became the 1830s, with Anglos flowing into Texas in ever-increasing numbers, no less a person than Andrew Jackson, president of the United States, began to give some thought to buying Texas. Jackson shook his old friend Sam Houston out of what Gary Anderson calls "a four-year drunken stupor" and hustled him off to Texas to check out the prospects. For all his drinking, Houston was a shrewd, pragmatic politician. He was also possessed of an almost inexhaustible vitality. When war came he was made commander in chief of the Texas army and soon won the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, capturing Santa Anna, the Mexican leader, in the process. Santa Anna was also practical. He readily agreed to let Texas have its independence.
Sam Houston was twice president of the Republic of Texas, served more than a decade in the US Senate, and then became governor of Texas, from which position he tried in vain to keep Texas from seceding. He refused to pledge allegiance to the Confederacy and was forced out of office as a result.
Professor Anderson doesn't supply much in the way of biography; his interest is in the broader forces that drive peoples into conflict. He is particularly good on the run-up to the Alamo, when broader forces were complicating the futures of Texans of all races and hues:
As this ever-tightening web of ethnic conflict and intrigue unfolded—as the men at the Alamo faced their martyrdom, as immigrant and Plains Indians considered their choices, as Houston and Santa Anna raced to meet their destinies—the cultural circumstances, the ethnic and racial differences and the personalities that drove Texas history, soon led inevitably to war. Men such as Moore, Burleson, Dimitt, Bowie, and Travis—men of the South who put honor, chivalry, and a belief in the inevitable rightness of Anglo rule above all else—rose to defend Texas. And Santa Anna marched to strike them down. In this increasingly opaque struggle, notions of "loyal" Tejanos and Indians became obscured by the myopia of war. Texans soon became convinced that only their beliefs, though at times prejudicial, hateful, and violent, were glorious and righteous.
War came, the Texans won, but nothing became any less opaque. The conflict with the Plains Indians was to go on for another forty years, with neither side able to gain a clear advantage. In 1840 some poorly informed army leaders decided to trick a number of Comanche headmen—they would lure them in under a flag of peace and then arrest them. This treacherous effort led to the famous Council House fight at San Antonio. Sensing the trap too late, the Indians made a desperate effort to cut their way out. Thirty warriors and five women and children died, an awful toll for the Comanches to absorb, and a huge blot on the trustworthiness of the Texans. Some among them probably thought they had taught the Indians a decisive lesson.
Such optimism faded in the autumn of that year when a Comanche-Kiowa war party numbering at least seven hundred drove straight down through Texas, hit the town of Victoria, and went on to Linnville, a small coastal warehouse village. The Indians helped themselves to long rolls of cloth and accumulated about 1,500 horses, some of which the Rangers managed to recapture as the Indians went back north. They had, in some degree, avenged their dead—very few Texans could see any reason to feel complacent when the Plains tribes could still muster seven hundred men.
If the Council House ambush marked a low ebb for Texas honor, the Linnville raid was one of the last great demonstrations of Comanche power—still, thirty-five long years were to pass before the Comanches ceased to be a threat. A book I used to read and reread was Rupert N. Richardson's The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement (1933). One reason for my keen interest was that my paternal grandparents were very aware of that barrier when they journeyed to Texas to begin pioneer life. Even after the Comanches were consigned to a reservation in 1875, tales of the Comanche terror were so many and so recent that they held the power to frighten for a full generation after the Comanches had done anything frightening.
The years from 1840 to 1875 were seesaw years. The Anglos were slowly winning but the Indians still conducted many effective raids. During the Civil War years, with the frontier sparsely defended, the Indians won back patches of their former territory. By the late 1850s, Professor Anderson concludes, West Texas was in a state of complete anarchy. So bad was it on the western frontier that many failed to notice that East Texas was becoming more and more stable. There the rule of law could usually be counted on.
One of the strangest aspects of Texas governance in the middle years of the nineteenth century was the government's incessant and almost wholly futile efforts to establish boundaries within which somebody or other might agree to stay—until they changed their minds. Few of any race really understood these boundaries and no one bothered much about them.
One of the few Comanches who did understand boundaries was the great Penateka Buffalo Hump, who, because of the peace treaty of 1865 between the federal government and the Comanches and Kiowas, at last felt that he had been given the homeland he wanted, near the headwaters of the Brazos, the Red, and the Canadian. But the treaty of 1865, whose first article optimistically pledges that "perpetual space shall be maintained between the people and Government of the United States and the Indians parties hereto," was the result of war exhaustion. The Texas government, at this point in wild disarray, had no idea that the victorious Yankees were actually giving West Texas land to Indians. The treaty of 1865, like all treaties, soon got watered down.
By 1865 the Plains Indians, northern or southern, knew that something very grim was happening in their hunting grounds: the buffalo were being exterminated. The buffalo was their larder, their commissary. General William Tecumseh Sherman, who favored extermination, saw clearly and early that the advance on the railroad would bring the hunters who would wipe out the buffalo and doom the Indians. He was all for it, but it didn't work out quite that way because the Indians had large herds of horses and didn't look askance at horsemeat. They liked buffalo better but horses would do.
All this Gary Clayton Anderson understands and reports. But the unusual thing about his book is its long and persistent critique of violence. Here is his stark conclusion:
Texans never agreed to accept the existence of western Plains Indians in the state under any circumstances. It was this denial, this refusal to accept ethnic diversity—seemingly inevitable under the Southern code—that condemned Texas to a history of violence and instability. Once started, once viewed as heroic and honorable, such violence was difficult to bring under control—it became simply the price of what Texans perceived as "civilization."
I grew up on what had long been the Comancheria and do not want to leave the field without mentioning two figures who loomed large in that country.
The first is Quanah Parker, the son of the famous white captive Cynthia Ann Parker and the Comanche leader Peta Nocona. While father and son were on a hunting trip the Rangers came, discovered that Cynthia Ann was white, and took her and her young daughter Prarie Flower back to the settlements with them. Both Prarie Flower and Cynthia Ann soon died, the latter of grief. Quanah mourned his mother all his life. His band, called the Qua-ha-das (Antelope), lived deep in the arid Llano Estacado; Quanah kept some few of the Qua-ha-das apart from whites until the spring of 1875. But once he yielded to the inevitable he worked well with the whites and did much to ease the passage of his people into captivity. When Quanah came in to surrender he brought three eagle feathers with him. Recently, in Santa Fe, my partners and I and our filmmaking colleagues were honored with a blessing ceremony in which we were touched by Quanah Parker's eagle feathers. We had not expected such a blessing; we were much moved, for Quanah was their great man and he was great. For the Comanche people Quanah Parker's spirit still broods over those long plains.
The other figure who should be remembered was the brilliant young cavalry officer Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, whom the Indians called Bad Hand. The Qua-ha-das Comanches never supposed a white man could go where they could go. Mackenzie proved them wrong. He may not have gone as deep in the Llano Estacado—part of what was once known as the Great American Desert—as Quanah, but he went deep enough. In September of 1874 he followed several Comanche bands into the Palo Duro Canyon. Most of the Indians got away but their horses didn't. They numbered nearly two thousand—Mackenzie had every one killed. And that was it. The Red River War was over, and so was a way of life.
As his wedding day approached, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie became insane, and he remained insane. There's your legacy of conquest, Texas.
More by Larry McMurtry
What Woody Wrote
On the rediscovered 'House of Earth'
April 25, 2013 issue
The Star Attraction
January 10, 2013 issue
A Great Day for Books
Larry McMurtry's novels include The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove (winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Folly and Gloryand Rhino Ranch. His nonfiction works include a biography of Crazy Horse, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Paradise, Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West and Custer.
See The Quarterly of the National Association for Outlaw and Lawmen's History (Summer 2006), pp. 54–57. ↩
Wisława Szymborska
The She-Pharaoh
July 15, 1999 issue
October 16, 1975 issue
The Opening Editorial
November 7, 2013 issue
Short Review
April 3, 1975 issue
Jason Epstein
February 1, 1963 issue
Richmond Lattimore
Brief Encounter
December 12, 1963 issue


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This study is a sociological analysis of participatory-democratic organisations in 'third world' contexts. Firstly, it assesses the degree of participatory democracy in each enterprise studied. Secondly, it explores whether cooperative development is a process. Thirdly, it assesses the applicability of existing theory in the field for organisations in 'third world' contexts. The data used is predominantly qualitative, though quantitative information is utilised. Qualitative data is gathered from in-depth interviews using semi-structured questionnaires, observation and the examination of primary sources. Empirical information is analysed in the light of theoretical constructs reviewed and practical constraints identified by other researchers in the field. The key construct is an 'ideal-type' participatory-democratic organisation. Significant findings include the following: (a) cooperatives in 'third world' contexts are formed and joined primarily for material reasons; (b) specific constraints include a severe lack of basic education among cooperators, relationships of dependency between co-ops and service organisations, and a 'survival' consciousness among cooperative members; (c) the nature of relationships between cooperatives and service organisations have significant implications for co-op development; (d) there is a relationship between organisational structures and viability as an economic unit and (e) members in different positions in the enterprise have different conceptions of cooperation. The study concludes that cooperative development is a process involving different stages characterised by different degrees of participation in decision-making, viability, organisational development and cooperative consciousness.
Erasmus, Z. 1991. Organisational democracy and economic viability in producer cooperatives in the Western Cape Region of South African and in Zimbabwe : case studies and comparative analysis. University of Cape Town.


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Startup news	• 18 Jun 2021
Behind the numbers – meet the people who need our job creation efforts [Opinion]
By Supplied
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This week the country marked Youth Day. We must continue to bear in mind the work that needs to be done to restore dignity to young South Africans today. I say this in light of the figures in Statistics SA's Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the first quarter of 2021, which showed that 32,4% of people aged 15 to 24 years were not in employment, nor education or training. One in three young South Africans has completely given up on even the prospect of finding a job one day.
During my tenure as the City of Cape Town's Mayoral Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, I've seen just what economic opportunity – and a lack thereof – means for people.
One in three young South Africans has completely given up on even the prospect of finding a job
There is no one-size-fits-all magical solution that works for all countries or even cities as each environment comes with its unique challenges. Here in SA, a myriad of issues – from load-shedding to unreliable public transport to unaffordable data costs – affects everyone from the business owner, to the intern, to the disaffected 20-something.
Affecting real change
This is why our economic recovery efforts take into account the global village in which Cape Town exists and the City's unique social landscape. What my team and I have begun to witness is that by working on the ground in specific sectors, we can effect real change.
Over the past five years, the City, via the Department of Enterprise and Investment, has put more than R233 million towards training and job placements in key sectors.
The result is 27 137 jobs have been created, a further 11 025 persons trained in work readiness, and R22,68- billion reaped in the form of commercial investments, which in itself, has created countless more employment opportunities.
Our approach is to work closely with Strategic Business Partners (SBPs) in what we identified as high growth sectors. These SBPs are at the coalface in communities, recruiting people for jobs and training. For the sake of brevity, I'm going to focus on just four sectors: clothing and textile, call centres (also known as Business Process Outsourcing), technology, and renewable energy production.
The clothing and textile industry had previously been decimated by the influx of cheap imports. But with programmes such as the SME Business Accelerator Project, which connects small enterprise manufacturers with large retailers, much industry knowledge has been brought back into the market, while a new generation of artisans is being trained in new trends and technologies.
As a result, we are globally competitive, with exports to Africa, the United States and elsewhere flourishing.
To meet this growing demand, we have rolled out the Cape Skills and Employment Accelerator Project, which focuses specifically on creating employment opportunities for marginalised youth and women. Under the initiative, the City is contributing R55-million over three years towards training and work placement in companies in the clothing and textile and call centre sectors.
Cape Town's call centres are another example of enabling industry to effect stellar growth, even amid the pandemic.
Between July 2018 and March 2021, the City allocated R28,5-million towards skills development and training via its SBP, CapeBPO.
Now, the sector employs more than 60 000 people in Cape Town across the domestic and foreign market. The City accounts for more than half of the international operations in SA.
A pivotal factor in these programmes is reaching people where they are so that we foster new economic hubs across the city. This helps to grow community economies and simultaneously eases the burden for residents in spending time and money on transport to faraway jobs.
The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative
For instance, our tech SBP, the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) set up SA's only township-based tech hub, Bandwidth Barn in Khayelitsha. Community members have access to meeting spaces and WiFi as well as business development workshops. Through these initiatives, CiTi has supported more than 3000 entrepreneurs.
So great is the growth of Cape Town's tech and call centre sectors, that the city has become a major drawcard for business giants such as Amazon, which will be setting up its new headquarters here.
And equally, our investment efforts into frontier markets, such as green technology production, are paying off. With the local industry set to be worth approximately R110.5-billion by 2035, Cape Town has already begun capitalising on this growth through the Atlantis Special Economic Zone.
And it is locals from the area who stand to benefit the most with training – from welders, boilermakers to manufacturing wind, solar, waste, and water-energy technologies. These are wide-ranging skills that set them up for highly sought-after work in an industry that will surely dominate the energy production landscape in just a few short years.
Returning to Labour Force Survey Q1 2021, we glean that the vast majority of the tens of thousands of people who are becoming employed, are between the ages of 18-35 and are from historically low-income communities. About 60% of them are women.
While we can take some comfort from these facts, we have much work ahead in creating further access to opportunities for those who fall into Cape Town's unemployed bracket. This is the basis for our recently–launched programme, JobsConnect, which has two distinct purposes: to link businesses, particularly SMMEs (who absorb up to 80% of the country's workforce) and Corporates to the appropriate talent, and to provide knowledge, training and employment opportunities to job seekers.
I've found in my interactions with businesses that one of their biggest struggles is sourcing the talent and skills that they need to maintain and grow their operations. At the same time, there are thousands of people who are eager to work, but who haven't received enough training or guidance in how to make themselves job-ready and available to companies, or quite simply, don't know that these opportunities exist.
These are just a few of our programmes, focussing on job readiness, talent matchmaking and staying current with what businesses need. We know that each year more job seekers enter the market, and our competitive edge is to be flexible and relevant so that as work skills evolve, we must be ready for change.
Because behind all the statistics are the people for whom jobs not only help to put food on the table but bring a vital sense of dignity. This is why we must work harder than ever to help the people of Cape Town and SA to be ready for the opportunities that lie ahead.
This article was written by Alderman James Vos, Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management for the City of Cape Town.
Read more: Cape Skills Accelerator creates employment opportunities for young Africans
Featured image: Alderman James Vos, Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management (Supplied)
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6 - St. BARTS, a gripping Romance novel box set by Emme Cross - This is books 1-4 in the St Barts romance series, so I would expect a great location, and hopefully hot and steamy scenes! Probably would only read the first book as the full box set is scaring the living daylights out of me at over 700 pages!
33 - The Ex Factor by Eva Woods - This is being published on Thursday, and I enjoyed the author's previous book out last year, so hoping this is also good.
38 - The Hope Family Calendar by Mike Gayle - I'm a huge fan of Mike Gayle's books, I think I have read all of them, so was very excited to be accepted for this one on Netgalley.
39 - Cut to the Bone by Alex Caan - I am hearing good things about this thriller, to the extent I requested a copy to read for myself. Of course finding the time is another matter!
Well four out of five of these I am desperately looking forward to reading, so I'm sure they will all appear on the blog sooner rather than later, however I do need you to pick one of them for me to read this week. I also enjoy seeing your thoughts and comments, so please do get involved. Depending on what you say even if your choice isn't the most popular, it may be enough for me to move the book higher up my "virtual pile that doesn't have an order!"
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Cut To The Bone - just read it; you'll whizz through it! Great stuff.
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It's got to be cut to the bone!! It's fab!
@gilbster1000 I loved The Hope Family Calendar!
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@gilbster1000 The Ex Factor. They all look really good!


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Q: Dropping rows in pandas with .index I came across the below line of code, which gives an error when '.index' is not present in it.
print(df.drop(df[df['Quantity'] == 0].index).rename(columns={'Weight': 'Weight (oz.)'}))

What is the purpose of '.index' while using drop in pandas?

A: As explained in the documentation, you can use drop with index:
   A  B   C   D
0  0  1   2   3
1  4  5   6   7
2  8  9  10  11

df.drop([0, 1]) # Here 0 and 1 are the index of the rows

Output:
   A  B   C   D
2  8  9  10  11

In this case it will drop the first 2 rows.
With .index in your example, you find the rows where Quantity=0and retrieve their index(and then use like in the documentation)

A: this is the detail about .drop() method:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.drop.html
.drop() method need a parameter 'label' which is a list of index labels(when axis=0, which is the default case) or columns labels (when axis=1).
df[df['Quantity'] == 0] returns a DataFrame where Quantity=0, but what we need is the index label where Quantity=0, so .index is needed.

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Felix Pivec putting the new Vader through it's paces – seems to go ok!
FKM: How are riders responding to your boards?
BF: Our kitesurf business continues to grow. We saw a significant ramp up with the release of Daniel Thomson's Vanguard, which changed the industry's perspective on what a great kiteboard could be. The Vanguard set the standard for a new design trend and riders quickly recognised the benefits of this shape for the kiteboarding industry. Our business continues to grow on a global level fuelled by the release of these models and the continual improvement with new shapes.
FKM: What is some positive feedback you have received?
We consistently hear from our customers about how different the ride and feel of the Vanguard and Vader is compared to other boards on the market. Riders have said that the upwind performance is fantastic and the way the board responds to rider input and turns is instantaneous. However, the boards are still extremely stable due to the parallel outline. There's also more surface area in a smaller outline. Then there is the modern planing hull design versus a displacement hull.
You can think of a traditional shaped board as being similar to a boat bottom in that it is designed to sit down in the water. A MPH is designed specifically to create lift, produce less drag and plane higher in the water. This is why our boards generate so much speed, flow and responsiveness as told by our customers.
Just that the boards can be hard to find due to the high demand. We regularly check in with our riders, forums and dealers and are constantly looking for feedback regarding improvements on board characteristics. Some riders have mentioned that they initially felt they had to purchase a larger size within the Tomo range. It can be tough for some people to get their head around riding such a small board when traditional shapes dictate a much longer board. It was quickly realised that smaller sizes could still maintain the float for a rider (thanks to the modern planing hull design) and they moved to.
FKM: Have you noticed all the kite brands now release similar shapes? What do you feel Firewire still has over these?
BF: Absolutely. Unfortunately there's a misconception that simply cutting off the nose of a board, making the rails more parallel and marketing a ton makes a great board. The reality is there's much more going on with our boards than our competitors have tried to recreate. This comes first hand from many of our customers who thought they needed the same board brand as their kite manufacturer or figured the bigger kite brands couldn't be wrong, but later found our boards to be on an entirely different performance level. The truth is it's not only the outline but the unique performance bottom design combined with the rail, nose and tail design that make our boards outperform anything else on the market. The bottom of our MPH designs are extremely technical and complex, applying years of research and Tomo's mathematical formulas into the mix.
FKM: Any new models on the horizon?
BF: We will soon see the release of the Evo, our most symmetrical kiteboard outline to date and a butter smooth ride. The Evo, with its double inside single concave into a split quad concave bottom design and nearly symmetrical outline, develops even more float than prior MPH models. The amount of lift this board creates is immediately apparent and it feels as though it's levitating above the water as you build speed. It's an extremely stable ride with minimal drag and high speeds. Its willingness to connect carving turns feels like a fluid magic carpet ride. The Evo's bottom contours generate so much lift it's intended to be ridden even smaller than prior MPH models. The Evo will be released in a 4'10", 5'1" and 5'3", will come in a 5 fin configuration and you can scale down from the Vanguard or Vader by 1"-2" shorter accordingly.
FKM: What are your thoughts on the market for the boards? Kitesurfing is so small compared to surfing, are you finding it worth your while?
BF: Yes. Firewire is one of the largest board manufacturers in the world and in collaboration with leading designers it produces some of the top shapes ridden by today's surfing professionals. We are extremely fortunate to have access to such impressive designers and to build technology to bring to the kiteboard industry. While there are kiters that ride our standard surfboard models and construction these boards aren't designed for jumping and heavy riding. We felt it was beneficial to provide the kiteboard community a select group of kiter tested shapes that had additional structural reinforcement to withstand the added forces that kiteboarding places on a board. While kitesurfing is a small portion of our overall business, it's a unique area that continues to grow and we see this area constantly evolving.
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On behalf of Steven J. Gaba posted in Divorce on Thursday, November 7, 2013.
In the movies and on television one person declares in the middle of an argument that he or she wants a divorce. The story then proceeds directly into court. There is no further discussion or decision to be made regarding whether or not the end the marriage. Life is not always that simple. For many Maryland couples, making the decision to divorce is not easy.
Many couples will separate before making any final decisions about ending their marriage. This arrangement can go on for months and even years without either party making an affirmative move toward filing for divorce. Eventually, however, a decision may need to be made for several reasons.
For instance, Clint Eastwood and his wife, to whom he had been married since 1996, separated some time ago. In Sept., his wife filed for a legal separation, but then withdrew the papers just two days later; then, on Oct. 22, she filed for divorce. It has taken Eastwood's wife several months to make the final decision to end her marriage to the actor/director/producer. In those papers, she is asking for physical custody of the couple's teenage daughter, alimony and attorney fees. There was no report indicating whether the couple has a prenuptial agreement to govern property division; if they do not, that is something else that the couple will need to work out as part of the divorce proceedings.
These are just some of the things that all couples need to deal with when they file for divorce. Once the parties have decided to end their marriage, the work will begin to address a myriad of issues. Maryland couples will then have to decide how their divorce will proceed. If issues can be worked out amicably or are governed by a prenuptial agreement, things may go more smoothly for everyone involved.


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RFR Story
John Henry, Co-Owner
Green Means Go
Ryan Newman – Kentucky Advance
ADVANCE NOTES
Newman at Kentucky Speedway
Newman will make his ninth MENCS start at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday. In eight prior races, Newman has an average finish of 15.1 with three top-five finishes.
Newman has two third-place results at Kentucky, the first in 2014 after starting seventh, and the second in 2016 after lining up 14th. He also crossed the line fourth in the first-ever Cup series race at the 1.5-mile track back in 2011.
Newman's average qualifying effort at Kentucky is 14.5 with four top-10 starts, the most recent coming last season where he turned the 10th-quickest time.
Scott Graves at Kentucky Speedway
Graves has three MENCS starts at Kentucky as a crew chief – one with Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and two with Daniel Suarez.
His best finish of 15th came with Suarez just last season. His best qualifying effort at the 1.5-mile track of ninth occurred back in 2017.
Graves also called six Xfinity Series events at Kentucky – four with Chris Buescher and two with Suarez – recording four top-10s, two of which were top-five results. He finished runner-up with Suarez in the second race at the track in 2016 and third in the first race that year.
QUOTE WORTHY
Newman on racing at Kentucky:
"Kentucky is another track with a lot of character and one that is unique to me having won one of the first races there back in 2000 in ARCA. Our 1.5-mile program has continued to improve this season and we're hoping that is the case this weekend as we head down the stretch in the playoff battle. Our team has been working hard to simply get more raw speed in the cars, so we're looking forward to the weekend in our Acorns Ford Mustang."
Tracking the Playoff Hunt
Newman's 32 total points in Daytona and fifth-place result catapulted him back inside the cut line for the playoffs, sitting 16th in the driver standings with eight races until the playoffs begin in Las Vegas.
The battle for the coveted top-16 continues to remain close as just 14 points separate the 15th-18th place drivers. Newman is 31 points out of 14th (Kyle Larson), and just 32 points from 13th (Jimmie Johnson).
On the Car
Acorns makes its fifth appearance of the season as the primary partner aboard Newman's No. 6 Ford Mustang this weekend at Kentucky.
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Recapping Daytona
Newman found himself in the right place at the right time in Sunday's postponed race at Daytona, sitting fifth when inclement weather forced NASCAR to call the race 33 laps short.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – Darlington Advance
Ryan Newman – Darlington Advance
Newman Not Content with Playoff Standing
Sitting Inside the Playoff Standings, No. 6 Team looks to Bristol
Ryan Newman – Michigan II Advance
Newman Finishes 25th at Watkins Glen
Newman Finishes 14th in Return to Pocono
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Port of Falmouth is located in Falmouth, the capital of the parish of Trelawny, and home to one of the Caribbean's best preserved Georgian towns with buildings dating from the nineteenth century. Falmouth was a wealthy town in a wealthy parish and the most important region of Jamaica for the sugar and rum trade at that time.
Among being one of the original ports in Jamaica, it was one of the busiest trading ports in the Caribbean, shipping sugar, molasses, rum and coffee bound for England.
Today it stands as a redeveloped world-class cruise ship port destination and commercial development centre listed on the Western Caribbean cruise itinerary. At the Port of Falmouth you may find a nice array of entertainment and services including retail stores, shops, fast food restaurants, craft market with local artisans and artistes creative art pieces etc.
Inspired by a rich Georgian architectural history, an eclectic mix of colonial, warehouse, kiosk, and open-air market architecture makes the Historic Port of Falmouth come alive for visitors, providing a rich and interesting destination experience. The historically-based design gives visitors and locals alike a glimpse back in time-- to the West Indies of yesteryear.
Capitalizing on Falmouth's rich history and Georgian architecture, the Historic Port of Falmouth utilizes local woods, limestone, brick, and corrugated metals in its design.
Port of Falmouth is located in Falmouth the capital of the parish of Trelawny, home to one of the Caribbean's best preserved Georgian towns with buildings from the nineteenth century due to being the most important region of Jamaica for the sugar and rum trade at that time. Among being one of the original ports in Jamaica, it was one of the busiest trading ports in the Caribbean, shipping sugar, molasses, rum and coffee bound for England. Today it stands as a redeveloped world-class cruise ship port destination listed on the Western Caribbean cruise itinerary. On the Port there is a nice mix of services including retail stores, shops, fast food restaurants, craft market with local craft vendors and entertainment.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Harmony of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, is slated to make its inaugural call to Jamaica in November 2016 scheduled to dock at the Port of Falmouth in Trelawny.


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Q: BIOMOD Error message: argument of length 0 I'm using the package BIOMOD in R to modelling habitat in rodent species. The data formatting works but I'm getting this error message when I run Modelling:
## Conputing the models ##
myBiomodModelOut <- BIOMOD_Modeling(biomodDataL,
                            models = c('GLM','MAXENT','GAM'),
                            models.options = myBiomodOption,
                            NbRunEval = 2,
                            DataSplit = 80,
                            Yweights = NULL,
                            VarImport = 2,
                            models.eval.meth = c('TSS','ROC'),
                            SaveObj = TRUE,
                            rescal.all.models = TRUE)

  ################################################################################ Creating suitable Workdir...

                    ! Weights where defined to rise a 0.5 prevalence !

-=-=-=-  Lemming  Modeling Summary -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
1  environmental variables ( X2 )
Number of evaluation repetitions : 3
Models selected : GLM MAXENT GAM  Total number of model runs : 12
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-=-=-=- Run :  Lemming_PA1
-=-=-=--=-=-=- Lemming_PA1_RUN1    Model=GLM quadratic with no interaction
    Stepwise procedure using AIC criteriaError in 1:ncol(explVar) : argument of length 0

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The explanatory variable is an index of productivity (i.e. NDVI). This raster, with explanatory variable (2'x 2' resolution), and vector with the response variable are in the same projection. Do you know why I have this kind of message?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Mary

A: You are getting an error because the GLM is trying to use a stepAIC and you are only including a single variable.


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Former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl champion Jared Lorenzen dead at 38
By WWOS staff
Former quarterback for the New York Giants and Super Bowl champion Jared Lorenzen, 38, has died after battling several health problems, including an infection and kidney and heart issues.
"We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Jared today, July 3, 2019," they wrote. "We appreciate all of the warm wishes and prayers, but as a family, we would request your respect and privacy."
"We will offer arrangement information in the coming days," the family continued. "Please keep Jared's family and especially his children, in your thoughts and prayers."
Lorenzen served as a back up quarterback for the Giants from 2006-2008, serving as Eli Manning's deputy in their upset win over the New England Patriots. The NFL franchise confirmed the news in a tweet.
"Jared was a special person, and a beloved Giant," the NFL organization wrote
"He was an important member of our 2007 team, one that created its own destiny. Our thoughts are with Jared's family and friends who loved and appreciated him so much, just as our organization and fans did."
The former quarterback's death comes less than a week after his family told Kentucky Sports Radio that he was admitted to hospital for an infection and kidney and heart issues.
"On Friday, June 28, Jared began playing a bigger, more important game than he's ever played before," the statement read. "Jared had not been feeling well for a few weeks and that finally caught up with him. He was brought to the hospital and fairly quickly was admitted to the ICU."
"He is fighting with everything he has and his immediate family is by his side," the family added.
Unfortunately, his condition deteriorated and he died about a week later.
jared lorenzen
NHL trailblazer Nathan Walker signs with Stanley Cup champion St Louis Blues
Jorge Masvidal records the fastest knock-out in UFC history with devastating flying knee


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Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships
Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships is an American Academy project that aims to articulate the benefits of international collaboration and recommend solutions to the most pressing challenges associated with the design and operation of partnerships. This initiative seeks to identify policy recommendations and best practices to mitigate challenges for international science collaborations, including physical facilities, distributed networks, and peer-to-peer partnerships.
In this rapidly changing world, and in light of recent movements against globalization, international scientific collaborations can bring not only new scientific insights but also cultural, economic, and political benefits. Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships examines impediments to these collaborations and identifies potential policy changes and best practices that could make the U.S. a better partner in international science partnerships. The project, co-chaired by Arthur Bienenstock and Peter Michelson, examines these challenges through two major foci:
The Large-Scale Science working group approaches international collaborations through the lens of issues particular to large scale science and not peer-to-peer or small-scale international work. This group has been tasked with exploring how the U.S. can enhance their role in these partnerships, both in physical facilities (e.g. the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and distributed networks (e.g. the Human Cell Atlas). This group is focusing on recommendations to target U.S. government agencies and Congressional branches to enable the United States' ability to partake in large-scale collaboration efforts as meaningful and engaged partners. This working group is co-chaired by Drs. Bienenstock and Michelson.
The Emerging Science Partners working group is exploring issues particular to U.S. scientific collaborations, at all scales, with countries seeking to boost their scientific capacity, particularly those with limited resources to do so. In particular, this working group will frame discussions on how the U.S. can be a better partner in its partnerships with countries in the Global South, and avoid the historical problems associated with "parachute science." This group will prioritize identifying and examining difficult issues facing resource-limited researchers, such as the challenges facing women researchers in the developing world. This working group is co-chaired by Shirley Malcom and Olufunmilayo Olopade.
Project Chairs
Arthur I. Bienenstock
Peter F. Michelson
Claude R. Canizares
Matthias W. Hentze M.D.
John G. Hildebrand
William F. Lee
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Shirley Mahaley Malcom
Cherry A. Murray
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade
Geraldine L. Richmond
Vaughan C. Turekian
Caroline S. Wagner
Amanda Vernon
Hellman Fellow
John Randell
John E. Bryson Director of Science, Engineering, and Technology Programs; Senior Program Director and Advisor to the President
Rebecca Tiernan
Program Associate for Science, Engineering, and Technology
Kathleen Torgesen
Program Coordinator for Science, Engineering, & Technology and Global Security & International Affairs
Engineering and Technology Expert Cautions Against U.S. Restrictions on Collaboration with Chinese Nationals
Arthur Bienenstock, co-chair of American Academy project on the Challenges of International Scientific Partnerships, argues new legislation may endanger the U.S. science and technology workforce and limit the effectiveness of U.S. academic research.
Stanford | Freeman Spogli Institute
Support for the Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships project is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.


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Q: Junos custom-attack signature pattern syntax I am stuck at a point with the configuration of a custom-attack signature in Junos. According to the Junos Custom Attack Definition documentation page, I can set up a custom attack based upon a signature in the packet. In the documentation you can specify a "pattern" to match, but it fails to describe what the pattern syntax should be. Particularly, I want to match the HEX values of

8C 00 13 00

in the first four bytes of the TCP data payload. Does anyone know how to accomplish this correctly?

A: You could look at other patterns on the defaul attack objects whit the command
show log /var/db/idpd/sec-download/SignatureUpdate.xml
here are a few exadecimal examples:

<Pattern><![CDATA[.*\xeb 2c 5b 89 d9 80 c1 06 39 d9 7c 07 80 01\x.*]]></Pattern>
<Pattern><![CDATA[.*\xffff ff2f 4249 4e2f 5348 00\x.*]]></Pattern>
<Pattern><![CDATA[.*\x7FFF FB78 7FFF FB78 7FFF FB78 7FFF FB78\x.*\x408A FFC8 4082 FFD8 3B36 FE03 3B76 FE02\x.*]]></Pattern>
<Pattern><![CDATA[.*\xeb23 5e33 c088 46fa 8946 f589 36\x.*]]></Pattern>

so your pattern shoul be:
<Pattern><![CDATA[.*\x8C 00 13 00\x.*]]></Pattern>


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Q: PowerShell Get ACL For Folders In A Text File I have a text file with the exact paths of the folders that I want to get permission information from, and I am trying to use PowerShell to get the information from each folder. I want to add the information to a text file, with a delimiter value of ":"
Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong...
$FullList = Get-Content "C:\Temp\ListofFoldersToCheck.txt"

$DataOutFile = "C:\Temp\PermissionInformation.txt"

Foreach ($Folder in $FullList)
{
    $ACLs = get-acl $Folder.Fullname | ForEach-Object { $_.Access }

    Foreach ($ACL in $ACLs)
    {
        $DataOutInfo = $Folder.FullName + ":" + $ACL.IdentityReference
        Add-Content -Value $DataOutInfo -Path $DataOutFile
    }
}

It is returning the error message: Get-Acl: Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Path'. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try
the command again.
The $FullList data is separated by new lines, if that makes any difference.
Please help, this is driving me insane...

A: In your Foreach loop, the $Folder variable is a string. Strings do not have a Fullname property.


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Honolulu Jazz Quartet- The Music of Gershwin
Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
3/1/2019 9:30:00 PM3/1/2019 9:30:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesHonolulu Jazz Quartet- The Music of Gershwin At Medici's Jazz Club2754 Woodlawn Drive, Unit 7-103, Honolulu, HI 96822Website: https://musicatmedicis.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=1109240FalseMM/DD/YYYY
Tickets for this event are not on sale.
NOTICE: On-Line Tickets for Friday, May 10 have been sold out in the main room. Limited seating (less visibility, but you can still hear the music) will be available at $20 per person at the door at the bar and the lounge near the bar -- first-come, first- served.
The fabulous Honolulu Jazz Quartet will be presenting music of the iconic George Gershwin, including tunes such as "I Got Rhythm," "Summertime," "Strike Up the Band," and a plethora of other equally famous and well-loved songs. This will be a don't-miss event.
Since emerging on the scene in 2001, the Honolulu Jazz Quartet, founded by bassist John Kolivas, has quickly established itself as one of the most compelling and exciting ensembles on Hawaii's jazz scene. The aggregation of John Kolivas on bass, Tim Tsukiyama on saxophones, Danny Del Negro on piano, and Noel Okimoto on drums presents not only a tenacious and logical progression in the great tradition of post-bop jazz in Hawaii, but the group's sound reflects the diverse scope of the bandmembers' talents and their wide-ranging influences and interests.


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If I switch to Liberty 12 - Boost 25, do I have to use your Wi-Fi modem? I already have a Wi-Fi modem?
"And to make a point, you have more upset customers than happy ones."


South Florida Water Management District officials made no commitments to several dozen environmental activists who begged them Thursday to buy land south of Lake Okeechobee for Everglades restoration, and for the first time they laid out the hurdles and risks they face in making such a buy.
"It's not as simple as buying land and moving water south," said district board member James Moran. "To come in here and lecture us — just buy the land and move water south —if it was that simple it would have been done already."
Environmental groups, spearheaded by the Everglades Foundation, want the district to exercise an option to buy 46,800 acres of land south of Lake Okeechobee from U.S. Sugar at fair market value. The option expires in October. If the district wants the U.S. Sugar land after that, it would have to meet the conditions of another option, which would require the district to buy the 46,800 plus another 106,200 at fair market value.
Environmental groups believe that the district could use the land to build a reservoir to store water, which they say would reduce harmful discharges of water from the lake into the St. Lucie Estuary and Caloosahatchee River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases water from the lake into the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee when water levels rise and threaten the aging earthen dike that protects farmland and communities around the lake.
As the meeting got underway on Thursday, the Corps announced it was increasing releases from the lake into the estuary and river because recent rains have pushed the lake level to 14.81 — about a foot higher than it was at this time last year.
"Today's event is just further proof that we need to buy land in the Everglades Agricultural Area and build a permanent storage solution," said Thomas Van Lent, director of science and policy for the Everglades Foundation. "If a reservoir were in place today, these precautionary dry-season releases would not be happening."
The land deal was not on the agenda of Thursday's monthly board meeting. However, more than two dozen environmentalists from organizations including the Sierra Club, Florida Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society, Everglades Foundation and Martin County Conservation Alliance filled out comment cards to each speak for three minutes during the public comment segment of the meeting.
All of the speakers supported a land purchase, which the board has not discussed during its meetings. Many asked for the board to hold a special meeting about the land deal or place it on its agenda for its March meeting.
"I'm frustrated to be standing here to be making general public comment on an item that certainly is important enough to be placed on your agenda," said Cara Capp, the national chairwoman of the Everglades Coalition. Capp reminded the board that it was the district, not environmental groups, that included the option in a larger land deal the district made with U.S. Sugar in 2010. "This deal was negotiated by district staff."
The district has expressed little interest in purchasing the land but has not ruled it out. Spokesman Randy Smith said the district is "keeping all of its options open" and is looking at storage opportunities both north and south of the lake, but for now, it is focusing on completing projects already approved or underway.
Among those projects are the C-44 reservoir and stormwater treatment area in Martin County, which will store and treat stormwater before it flows into the estuary.
District Executive Director Blake Guillory and Tom Teets, the district's director of Everglades policy, also explained that buying the land without a project approved by the Corps could put the district in a dicey financial situation.
The Corps is obligated to split the cost of Everglades restoration with the district, with responsibility for project design and land purchase falling to the district, and responsibility for construction falling to the Corps. The district already has outspent the Corps by $1 billion, and if the district were to go forward with a land purchase and project on its own before the Corps approves, the district could be stuck paying all of the cost, Guillory said.
Pumps, canals and other structures that water leaving the lake must pass through are not capable of moving large volumes of water from the lake to the Everglades.The Endangered Species Act and other federal environmental regulations limit how much water can be moved south to protect migratory birds and prevent nests from being inundated.Strict water regulation schedules set maximum limits on water depth in conservation areas.The East Coast Protective Levee, which protects western neighborhoods in Palm Beach and Martin counties from flooding from the Everglades, could be compromised by higher water levels.An agreement in a federal lawsuit prohibits the district from moving water with high levels of phosphorous south. Doing so would put the district in violation of the agreement.
No representatives from U.S. Sugar spoke at the meeting. Contacted after the meeting, Judy Sanchez, head of the company's communications and public affairs, said the company has heard nothing from the state, district or other agencies. She blames the Everglades Foundation for convincing residents in the Treasure Coast that purchasing land south of the lake would help the estuary.
"In order to be relevant they have to have something to fight against," Sanchez said about the foundation's efforts. "Now it looks like they've morphed into the estuary foundation."


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Q: Get the Response from POST request I would like to obtain the response from a HttpsURLConnection POST request.
If I try to do the request with PostMan, I have one message as response (es: 1520). I have to save this code, but I find the method for read just the getResponseCode() (200) or getResponseMessage() ("OK"). I should use another libraries? Because in the HttpsUrlConnection method I don't find anything useful (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html)
My code is:
  HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) obj.openConnection();

  con.setSSLSocketFactory(sslContext.getSocketFactory());
  con.setDoOutput(true);
  con.setUseCaches(false);
  con.setRequestMethod("POST");
  con.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
  con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", w_AECONTYP);
  con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", w_AEACCCHA);
  con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", w_AEACCENC);

 StringBuilder postFile = new StringBuilder();
  byte[] postFileBytes =w_FileToSend.getBytes("UTF-8");
  con.setDoOutput(true);
  try {
    DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
    wr.write(postFileBytes);
    wr.flush();
    wr.close();
  } catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println("Connection Failed");
    e.printStackTrace();
  }

  int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
  // get 200 code "OK"

      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));

  String inputLine;
  StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();

  while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
  response.append(inputLine);
  }

  in.close();

But when arrived at the WHILE loop, it doesn't enter in the cycle.
How I can do this?
The file is in JSON format, but that isn't the problem.

I need to save that 915 code!!

A: You could use HttpResponse and HttpPost for getting a response from server (as well as the Response Code):
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(new HttpPost(URL));
InputStream inputStream = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();
InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
String bufferedStrChunk = null;
while((bufferedStrChunk = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null){
    stringBuilder.append(bufferedStrChunk);
}
// now response is in the stringBuilder.toString()

I hope this will help you.


Mix minced chicken with all the above ingredients except stock and shape into walnut sized balls.
Bring stock to boil and drop balls into it. Continue boiling for 10 minutes. Remove balls and keep aside.
Save any leftover stock for soup.
Boil stock, put vegetables and chicken balls, salt, pepper and China salt. Bring to boil and remove from fire.
Vegetables should be half cooked and crunchy. Mix egg whites with 2 tbsp of water and mix into hot soup.
Serve immediately sprinkled with Amul cheese.
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Here are some sample photos from the Copertino wedding that we shot earlier last month. More of these to come later. The wedding was held at the Lake of Isles, which is a beautiful 36-hole golf course on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation in southeastern Connecticut. The weather didn't cooperate, but the facility was able to stand on its own and provide a wonderful setting for the ceremony and reception. Congratulations to Scott and Christine, We had a great time shooting your wedding!


Unusual Egyptian Afghani Area Runner with rust, yellow and ivory mix border and have blue ground gives outstanding look. This rug is handmade in 100% wool and cotton material and can be used as a featured rug in any given room.
Rust border with royal blue and ivory base. Egyptian pattern with herbal washed tassles. The design of this Afghan rug has an Egyptian influence and this is evident from its bright vibrant colors. The intricate pattern of this designer rug makes it a unique one and can also be used as a featured rug runner in any given space.
As seen in the image, this Rugsandbeyond beauty has a unique sheen to it. Will be shipped within 48 hours of order placed.
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