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Educational Director Lisa Gittelman-Udi welcoming a slithery guest to Hebrew School at last Sunday's Noah's Ark petting zoo.
Mazal tov to Lisa as she celebrates the wedding of her son Adam to Maya Lewin-Berlin
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Shabbat Shalom!
TBE congregants continue to contribute to our community in the most creative ways. Mazal tov to Caroline Temlock Teichman, whose exhibit (see photo above), "Changing Perspectives," is continuing at the gallery of the JCC.
And mazal tov also to bestselling author, TBE's Sarah Darer Littman, whose new young adult novel is out this month. Details on the book launching can be found at the bottom of this O-Gram.
This week's portion is Lech Lecha - the story of Abraham and Sarah's journey to...
Sorry, I've been a bit preoccupied with canines lately.
Anyway, for Abraham, leaving home was the only option. Maimonides mocked the inhabitants of Abraham's hometown, writing in the Mishneh Torah (Laws of Idolatry, chapter 1):
He had no teacher, nor was there anyone to inform him. Rather, he was mired in Ur among the foolish idolaters. His father, mother, and all the people were idol worshipers, and he would worship with them. But his heart was exploring and growing in understanding.
Somehow Abraham was able to surmount the limits of his little town, gaining insight and even picking up a few proselytes along the way, but the going was slow and at times dangerous. He made some significant enemies, including the king, who desired to kill him. His father Terach remained not just any old idolater, according to the famous midrash, but he was owner of the Macy's of idolatry. Then, just before the moment of decision, Terach died. Abraham's break with the past was complete in every sense, except geographically. Now more than ever, he needed to leave his past behind.
So that's how the world's first Jew also became the world's first Jewish refugee.
This Shabbat we are proud participants in National Refugee Shabbat. See the list of communities around the country who will be participating in this special Shabbat. There are dozens - but we are the only ones in Fairfield County. You can read more about it on the HIAS website. Join us on Friday night and again at Shabbat-in-the-Round on Saturday morning (beginning with breakfast at 9:30).
Welcoming the stranger is a key theme Jewish sources. It was also the theme of last week's Interfaith Seder at Grace Farms. Click here to see the supplement we put together for that Seder.
At services on Passover this year, I dug down into the topic of migration, Jewish values and the Exodus. I shared an excellent source packet, "Immigration in the Haggadah and in Jewish Law" created by Rabbi David Siff, which intersperses Jewish quotes laws from the Middle Ages about migration between communities.
Also see "Loving the Neighbor/Loving the Stranger," a packet by Rabbi David Seidenberg, which includes every Torah law that mentions the stranger.
HIAS explains the rationale behind this effort:
"We are witnesses to one of the largest humanitarian crises in human history. There are now more than 65 million people who have fled their homes due to persecution and violence. And, yet, in this moment of unprecedented need, our government is grinding the U.S. refugee admissions program to a halt and cutting humanitarian aid. This year, the United States is poised to admit tens of thousands fewer refugees than in years past.
The Jewish movement for refugees in the U.S. has grown exponentially since 2015 - with individuals, congregations, and organizations volunteering, raising awareness, and advocating for refugees around the country and the world. The involvement of our community has made a difference.
This is a moment when we must give voice to our values as Jews and as Americans and stand up for the safety and the lives of people around the world. "
WHY HIAS? https://www.hias.org/history
Every Jew should be proud and grateful of the legacy of this organization. Read below about its history.
Founded in 1881 originally to assist Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe, HIAS has touched the life of nearly every Jewish family in America and now welcomes all who have fled persecution.
From our beginnings in a storefront on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a group of American Jews organized to provide much-needed comfort and aid to thousands of Jews fleeing waves of anti-Semitic riots. While those who arrived were refugees - people who were being killed in their homelands because of who they were - the world did not yet have a legal concept for people who needed safe refuge outside their homelands.
In New York City, the once tiny Russian Jewish population swelled by the thousands. They formed the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to provide meals, transportation and jobs for the new arrivals to Manhattan.
A shelter was established on the Lower East Side providing dormitory space, a soup kitchen and clothing to any needy Jew.
HIAS established a bureau on Ellis Island in 1904 providing translation services, guiding immigrants through medical screenings, arguing before the Boards of Special Enquiry to prevent deportations, and obtaining bonds to guarantee employable status. We lent some the $25 landing fee and sold railroad tickets at reduced rates to those headed for other cities. We even installed a kosher kitchen, which provided more than half a million meals to new arrivals on Ellis Island.
HIAS also found relatives of detained immigrants. Six hundred immigrants were detained during just one month in 1917 because they had neither money nor friends to claim them. HIAS was able to locate relatives for the vast majority who were then released from Ellis Island.
We became famous worldwide - and in many languages - as HIAS, the abbreviation that was our first cable address.
In 1921, HIAS bought the former Astor Library on Lafayette Street in Manhattan to serve as a shelter providing housing, kosher kitchens, a small synagogue, classrooms for job training and civics education, a playground, and a weekly bazaar for the thousands of immigrants who passed through the doors each year.
In the 1920s laws changed to recognize the need for safe haven but countries like the United States established legal requirements for resettlement. HIAS expanded to ensure that Jewish refugees could find welcome and safety.
The outbreak of World War I brought the largest influx of Jews from Eastern Europe yet; more than 138,000 in that year alone. But soon after, restrictions limited the number of immigrants allowed into America to no more than 2 percent of the total of each nationality residing in the U.S. in 1890, severely restricting the entry of Jews from Eastern Europe.
Though precious few refugees were rescued during World War II, due to the restrictive National Origins Quota of 1924, HIAS provided immigration and refugee services to those who were. It was not until 1965, through the aggressive work of HIAS, that the National Origins Quota was replaced with a new law, liberalizing decades of restrictive admissions policies.
After the war, we were instrumental in evacuating the displaced persons camps in Europe and aiding in the resettlement of some 150,000 people to 330 communities in the U.S., as well as Canada, Australia, and South America.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the 1951 Refugee Convention became the basis for U.S. asylum law, giving HIAS the basis for all future work to assist refugees no matter where they were.
1956 - HIAS assisted Jews fleeing the Soviet invasion of Hungary and evacuated the Jewish community of Egypt after their expulsion during the Sinai Campaign.
1959 - HIAS set up operations in Miami to rescue the Jews fleeing Cuba's revolution.
1960s - HIAS rescued Jews from Algeria and Libya and arranged with Morocco's King Hassan for the evacuation of his country's huge Jewish community.
1968 - HIAS came to the aid of Czechoslovakia's Jews after the suppression of "Prague Spring" and to Poland's Jews after pogroms racked that country.
1975 - Following the fall of Saigon, the State Department requested HIAS' assistance with the resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians. That year, HIAS found new homes for 3,600 in 150 communities in 38 states. While not the first time HIAS had assisted in the resettlement of non-Jews, the organization's assistance with this large-scale refugee crisis garnered a special thank you from President Gerald Ford. HIAS continued to assist refugees from Southeast Asia through 1979.
1977 - HIAS helped evacuate the Jews of Ethiopia, which culminated in several dramatic airlifts to Israel.
1979 - The overthrow of the Shah precipitated a slow but steady trickle of Jews escaping the oppressive theocracy of Iran. HIAS helped hundreds of Iranian Jews with close family living in the U.S. resettle here.
In two modern waves, the Jews of the former Soviet Union have found their way to freedom with thehelp of HIAS. The first wave peaked in 1979. The second wave, which began in the late '80s, has so far brought more than 140,000 Jews to these shores for reunification with their relatives. (While not traditionally considered refugees, the U.S. Congress created a special refugee status for religious minorities from the former Soviet Union, which now allows for resettlement of Jews, Christians, and Baha'is from Iran.)
In 2001, HIAS celebrated our 120th anniversary with a "HIAS Day" festival in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Two days after the joyful celebration, Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked America, throwing the entire U.S. immigration system into turmoil. HIAS mobilized its network to continue serving refugees, despite extreme delays in the arrival process brought on by increased security measures and the reorganization of the Immigration and Naturalization Service into the Department of Homeland Security.
Because we have helped more than 4.5 million people escape persecution, HIAS is uniquely qualified to address the modern refugee situation, which has mushroomed into a global humanitarian crisis.
We understand better than anyone that hatred, bigotry, and xenophobia must be expressly prohibited in domestic and international law and that the right of persecuted people to seek and enjoy refugee status must be maintained. And because the right to refuge is a universal human right, HIAS is now dedicated to providing welcome, safety, and freedom to refugees of all faiths and ethnicities from all over the world.
Starting in the 2000s, HIAS expanded our resettlement work to include assistance to non-Jewish refugees, meaning we became involved in the aftermath of conflicts from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Hungary, Iran, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Tunisia, Vietnam, and the successor states to the former Soviet Union. We began to work in countries where refugees fled to identify those in immediate danger to bring them to safety. We realized that there were many refugees who would not be resettled and that it was important for us to help.
We began a new chapter in 2002 when we established operations in Kenya to provide protection to refugees from several African countries plagued by conflict, to advocate on their behalf, and to resettle the most vulnerable. This was the beginning of HIAS' work to build safe communities for refugees in the countries of first refuge where the majority now remain indefinitely.
HIAS recently celebrated 130 years of helping refugees escape persecution and resettle in safety; reuniting families who have been separated; and helping them build new lives in safety and freedom. HIAS continues to resettle the most vulnerable refugees of all faiths and ethnicities from all over the world. We facilitate the application process for the most vulnerable refugees who can be resettled in countries around the world. In the U.S. we work with local social service organizations around the country to welcome refugees and help them integrate into their communities and build new lives.
Finally, we continue to be on the front lines, working with refugees in camps and cities from Kenya to Ecuador. We are the only Jewish organization whose mission is to assist refugees wherever they are.
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
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Lillian Gish, a century of cinema
December 12, 2021 by Sally Scully
Lillian Gish in 'The Birth of a Nation'.
Griffith's muse was able to make the transition to sound and was active practically until the end of his days
If in the early years of cinematographer Mary Pickford (nicknamed 'America's Bride') was the star that drove millions of viewers into theaters, Lillian Gish was the actress, one of the strongest in silent movies,
musa de David Wark Griffith, but that he continued his career with notable success in the sound scene during the 20th century, with such iconic films as 'The night of the hunter', 'Duel in the sun', or 'The whales of August', his latest work, in which he starred with 93 years.
Lillian Gish (1893-1993) was actually called Lillian Diana de Giche and she was born in Springfield, Ohio. In 1899, when she was just six years old, she began to act in the theater, and would be on stage, always with her sister Dorothy, two years younger, until 1912. It was on that date that the young Lillian met David W. Griffith thanks to the sisters' relationship with then-budding star Mary Pickford. Griffith was so impressed by the talents of the two sisters, but especially Lillian's, that he made her the lead in 'The Invisible Enemy' (1912) and offered her work in twelve other films.
It is said that Lillian and Dorothy Gish were so similar that Griffith asked them to dress differently in order to distinguish them.
Lillian Gish in 'The Night of the Hunter'.
With Lillian Gish's theatrical baggage behind her, she always took her work very seriously, preparing her characters thoroughly. His fame would come in 1915 with
'The birth of a nation'. The colossal success of the film makes Lillian Gish one of the greatest, most admired and idolized actresses in cinema, a representative figure of the time and interwar mentality. Griffith turns Gish into one of the great heroines of the screen
('Hearts of the world', 'Intolerance', 'The fault of others', 'The two orphans', 'The two storms') and in 1920 the actress made her directorial debut in 'Remodeling Her Husband', in which her sister Dorothy was the lead.
In the 1920s, the actress went one step further by accepting more complex characters than she always came out with with enormous success: 'The White Sister' (1923), by Henry King, 'La Bohème' (1926), by King Vidor and the two best films directed in Hollywood by the Swede Victor Sjöström,
'The Scarlet Letter' (1926) and 'The Wind' (1928), as well as the great pacifist film by Fred Niblo,
'The enemy' (1928). Before, in 1926, she signed a contract with MGM, managing to be one of the few actresses with power over the cameras and the director: When the filming of 'The Wind' was planned, she imposed the director and protagonist.
With the arrival of the sound, which withdrew so many actors from the screen, she chooses to pause until she checks the direction that the cinema is taking, and returns to the theater, although soon, after the death of David Wark Griffith, who had failed in his His debut in the talkies, and whom he helped financially in his last years of life, when he had been relegated from the world of cinema, would reappear on celluloid. And other actresses who had gone from mute to sonorous with ease like Greta Garbo always recognized Lillian Gish's skill and inspiration.
In 1946, again by the hand of his friend King Vidor, he played Laura Belle McCanles, the great matriarch of
'Duel in the sun', which earns her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Lillian Gish seeks more strong characters than leads. She works in films like 'Jennie', 1948), but her great work in these types of characters is when Charles Laughton calls her for her directorial debut with
'The night of the hunter' (1955), as a mature, strong and brave woman who saves a group of children from the criminal disguised as a preacher played by Robert Mitchum. Her character has made history and remains one of the great women in film history.
Lillian Gish in her latest film, 'The Whales of August', with Bette Davis.
In 1960 John Huston claims him for 'Those who do not forgive', he continues with titles such as' Twenty dozen sons' (1966), 'The Comedians' (1967), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe,' A day of wedding '(1978) under the command of Robert Altman o
'Sweet freedom' (1986). In addition, Lillian Gish is intensely active as an actress in television series, from 'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour' to 'Vacation by the Sea'.
In 1971, three years after the death of her sister Dorothy, Lillian received the honorary Oscar. But she keeps working, until sixteen years later, at the age of 93, Lillian stars in her latest movie,
'The whales of August' along with Bette Davis, Vincent Price and Ann Sothern, under the command of Lindsay Anderson. Lillian Gish died on February 27, 1993, a few months before her 100th birthday, in New York. With her died a century of film history.
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Five festive films that actually have LGBT storylines
For when the weather outside is frightful, here's a few Christmas movies with queer and trans narratives
By Chris Dupuis Dec 22, 2016, 11:02 AM EST
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From sappy rom-coms to blood-drenched slasher sagas, queers narratives can now be found in nearly every kind of film. But one genre where our stories are still rarely represented is the Christmas movie.
Whether you're craving a little gay flavour to accompany your eggnog or just need an escape during the annual family chalet week, Xtra has assembled a variety of holiday distractions to warm your heart in unexpected ways.
Female Trouble (1974)
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The classic Christmas film often chronicles a curmudgeonly creature undergoing a personal transformation leading to a climax around an over-dressed evergreen. Perennial provocateur John Waters' third feature doesn't follow that formula. But why would you expect someone who shot to fame by filming a drag queen eating dog shit to follow in anyone else's footsteps?
Instead, the film opens with an ill-fated family Christmas that propels its main character into a life of self-destruction. Featuring Waters staples — Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce and Mink Stole — Female Trouble follows in the depraved footsteps of his previous shocker Pink Flamingos, at the same time it continues to challenge fatphobia and the boundaries of decency. Definitely the right thing to pop into the Blu-Ray if you need to traumatize your Trump-loving uncle into speechless submission.
The Family Stone (2005)
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Sarah Jessica Parker's first post–Sex and the City outing is more straightforward holiday fare, with queerness as the side dish rather than the main course. But the team, no doubt intent on capitalizing on the show's gay following, peppered the project with material for homo audiences, including a subplot about Thad and Patrick, a couple adopting a child.
Parker plays an uptight executive meeting her boyfriend's wacky family for the first time. Convinced they despise her, she repeatedly puts her stilettoed foot in her mouth with her attempts to win their affections.
Amid the chaos, Thad and Patrick occupy an unusual space for queer characters in a straight narrative; while everyone else is battling their personal demons, they're the only ones who aren't totally messed up. Equal parts slapstick and romantic comedy, The Family Stone will pluck at your heartstrings in exactly the right ways.
Holiday Heart (2000)
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Ving Rhames is known for hyper-macho roles like drug lord Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction and zombie-fighting cop Kenneth in Dawn of the Dead. So his turn as a church choir leader who moonlights as a drag queen marks a major departure. Holiday (Rhames) is mourning the death of his lover when he befriends struggling drug addict Wanda (Alfre Woodard) and her daughter Niki (Jesika Reynolds), hoping he can help them find a better life.
Originally released as a TV movie, the film's attempt to mix heartwarming moments and dire tragedy make it less Christmas-y than producers likely intended. But Holiday Heart stands out as both an early depiction of a gay black character on screen and a reflection on the unique ways in which queer families are constituted.
Make the Yuletide Gay (2009)
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We've seen a handful of low-budget stabs at the gay holiday flick like 1999's 24 Nights and 2005's Regarding Billy. But Rob Williams' 2009 film is one of the first to have the slick feel of a major motion picture. Gunn (Keith Jordan) is a politically active college student who's out to everyone in his life except his parents. This comes as a shock to his boyfriend Nathan (Degrassi's Adamo Ruggiero), when he shows up unexpectedly at Gunn's place for the holidays after his own parents ditch him for a swanky cruise.
What follows is an innuendo-laden comedy of errors that feels like a film gay folks might watch with their straight friends. The laughs are often predictable and the performances are uneven. But the film succeeds by addressing the reality many queers face of having to remain closeted around their families. If you give it a chance, Make The Yuletide Gay turns out to be an unexpected tear-jerker at the same time that it points out just how far gay rom-coms have come.
Tangerine (2015)
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There's very little that's touching about this smartphone-shot film about a trans sex worker's quest for truth on Christmas Eve. Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is fresh out of the slammer and happy to reconnect with her pal Alexandra (Mya Taylor). But when Alexandra lets it slip that Sin-Dee's lover Chester (James Ransone) has been screwing around while she's been locked up, she sets out to settle the score.
Despite being set on Dec 24, it may be the least Christmas-y film of the bunch. But if you're looking for something to transport you away from the tinsel-laden sentimentality of the holidays, this is definitely one for your roster. At its heart, Tangerine becomes an unexpectedly moving exploration of queer kinship. And in a year that delivered the transphobic mess [re]Assignment, it's fitting to ring in the holidays with a film that has deep, complex trans characters played by actual trans actors.
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Yeadon leads the charge as Irish split weekend matchups
Observer Sports Staff | Monday, September 3, 2018
Notre Dame completed two games as they took on Oakland at home before heading to face in-state rival, No. 20 Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, over the weekend. The Irish (4-1) continued a strong start to the season with a sweep of Oakland (3-3) in three sets Friday. It was a dominating performance on the part of the Irish as Oakland didn't post a positive hitting percentage (more kills than errors) until the final set.
Junior outside hitter Jemma Yeadon's 12 kills highlighted the contest, but it was a full team effort. Everyone contributed to the victory, including freshman setter Zoe Nunez's 31 assists. However, defense was key to the win as senior libero Ryann DeJarld tallied 20 digs and fellow senior middle blocker Meg Morningstar dominated the net defensively with a season-high nine blocks.
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Notre Dame sophomore libero Madison Cruzado looks on as freshman setter Zoe Nunez plays the ball during Notre Dame's win over Oakland on Aug. 31 at Purcell Pavilion.
Freshman right-side hitter Sydney Bent set the tone early in the match, racking up three aces to give Notre Dame the early lead. Oakland's timeout did little to stifle the Irish as they took the first set 25-14. The second set unfolded in similar fashion as the Irish jumped out to an early lead and finished strong to win 25-16. The third set was more competitive, but Notre Dame handled their business and completed the sweep with a 25-20 differential.
Purdue posed a tougher challenge to Notre Dame. In their first road test, they fell to the Boilermakers (5-0) in four sets. The Irish posted a season-high 26 errors and, as a result, a season-low hitting percentage of .168. Despite a tough effort in a very competitive contest, Purdue emerged victorious, due in large part to the Irish errors in the first two sets.
Notre Dame managed to establish a lead of 12-7 in the first set, but the Boilermakers rallied after using both timeouts to gain the upper hand. The Irish were handed their first set loss of the year with a 25-22 defeat. The second set saw the roles reversed as the home team gained an advantage until Notre Dame stormed back to take an 18-17 lead. However, Purdue managed to claw out a 25-21 set win, putting Notre Dame in a 2-0 hole.
Notre Dame responded with a hot start to the third set. The set went back and forth with both teams having bursts, but the Irish managed three kills to close the third set and get on the board with a 25-23 margin. In the fourth set, fatigue took its toll as Notre Dame fought hard but fell behind 24-18. With a match point at stake, Notre Dame mustered two more points before the final score to give Purdue the win.
In spite of the loss, several Irish players shined. Yeadon led the team in kills and digs with 13 and 22, respectively, while freshman outside hitter Charley Niego and senior outside hitter Rebecca Nunge each provided 12 kills. Additionally, Nunez contributed a season-high 41 assists, and Morningstar had six blocks on the night.
The Irish get a break before returning to the road Sept. 7 to take on Western Kentucky, Miami (Ohio) and Chattanooga in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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Reducing gun violence discussed at Stanford Medicine symposium
Firearm violence as a public health problem was the focus of a recent Stanford Medicine forum. Physicians should conduct more research on gun violence and advocate for gun safety with patients, presenters said.
Author Erin DigitalePublished on March 20, 2018
Physicians and medical schools can work to provide a healthy environment for all patients by helping to decrease gun violence, said Daniel Bernstein, MD, the associate dean for education at Stanford Medicine, in his opening remarks at a forum addressing gun violence and public health held March 14 on campus.
"One of the other missions of a medical school is to encourage and foster dialogue," Bernstein said. "There's no way to move forward on an issue as politically charged as this one without learning how to talk with our colleagues and friends about it."
The forum included presentations on a variety of topics related to guns and public health. Among the highlights:
--Understanding the U.S. gun-violence epidemic requires defining which piece of the problem you intend to address, said Jahan Fahimi, MD, PhD, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. "Are we talking injury or death? Homicides or suicides? Black or white? These three [categories], at the very minimum, are needed to get us to a place of understanding the scope of the problem in a more nuanced way," Fahimi told the audience. He showed data demonstrating that homicides and assaults drive non-fatal gun injuries, and homicides are the biggest contributor to gun deaths among black Americans, while gun deaths among white Americans are predominantly suicides.
--Stanford trauma surgeon Lisa Knowlton, MD, spoke about her experiences caring for gunshot victims. "As trauma surgeons we like to think we are prepared for anything, but there are few injuries as violent as those from firearms," she said. Knowlton described the process of assessing and caring for a gunshot victim and the priorities in trauma surgery for treating gunshot wounds. Patients who survive the initial surgery face "multiple surgeries, prolonged stays in the hospital, complications, loss of work, depression, mental health issues, PTSD; the impact can really be very devastating even if they do manage to leave the hospital alive," Knowlton said.
--Financial costs of firearm injuries can be measured many different ways, with the annual total cost in the U.S. estimated at $174 to $229 billion, Stanford medical student Sarabeth Spitzer told the audience. Last year, Spitzer was lead author of a study of the costs of initial hospitalizations for gun injuries, which totaled $734.6 million per year nationwide. Other costs, such as lost wages or the toll on quality of life following a gunshot injury, as well as who bears the costs, are harder to measure, she said. "The more reliable and transparent the data, the more informed public health decisions can be," Spitzer said.
--The United States has a smorgasbord of gun laws that are not easy to explain or navigate, medical and legal scholar David Studdert, LLB, ScD, told the audience. "Most of these laws do not exist at a federal level," he said. "A state like California is a national leader in implementing and formulating such laws, while others such as Virginia and Wyoming have virtually none." He also described 2017 Pew Research Center data that shows widespread agreement between gun owners and non-owners on several proposed gun control measures, such as expanding background checks to include private gun sales and banning concealed carry without a gun license.
--Pediatrician Michelle Sandberg, MD, of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, explained how physicians can advocate for gun safety with their patients. Doctors should broach the subject of gun safety from a health perspective, Sandberg said. "Firearm counseling should be non-ambiguous and non-judgmental, like counseling about medication safety or storing poisons," she said. She also encouraged physicians to promote the ASK campaign, in which parents ask anyone who might be supervising their children "Is there an unlocked gun where my child plays?"
In response to questions from the audience about specific measures to reduce firearm deaths, Studdert emphasized the need to change prevailing ideas about firearms. According to one study, those with guns in the home are 22 times more likely to injure themselves or a family member than to use a gun in self-defense. And yet, he said, many gun owners have purchased a firearm to keep their families safer. "The evidence shows that no, it doesn't, and the best thing we could do would be to convince them otherwise," Studdert said. "Clinicians clearly have a role to play in that changing of hearts and minds."
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On 02/19/2010 at 11:38 PM, by Nick DiMola
A solid, but still flawed follow-up to Travis Touchdown's first outing.
As you all know, around two weeks ago I played through No More Heroes for the first time. With the second game already out, it only made sense to keep on going and jump right into No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
No More Heroes Review Rewind
Inspired by the release of the second game, Nick revisits No More Heroes for PixlBit's second Review Rewind.
I definitely missed the boat with No More Heroes. Sure, I bought it near release, but the best I ever did was wipe out the first boss and get into a few side jobs. Other things seemed to come up and the game got shelved indefinitely. As we all know, the second title in the series has just been released, which incidentally acted as a pretty good motivator to go back and finish what many called one of the Wii's greatest games.
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DC Nonprofit Helps…
DC Nonprofit Helps Disadvantaged Children Learn Tennis, Life Skills
Educación Salud US Noticias
VOA NEWS-Faiza Elmasry
WASHINGTON — After a long day at school, 10-year-old Andrea Nichelson likes to play tennis. She's been doing this for five years now, and she loves it.
"What I like most about tennis is the game. It really gets my attention than anything I do. It brings up the fire in me," she said.
She's one of about 900 kids in the nation's capital who benefit from the free services offered by the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation (WTEF).
The foundation started in 1955 to give children ages 8 to 18 an opportunity to play tennis and gain a variety of skills they need on the court and beyond. Through combining athletic and academic tools, the organization helps kids stay engaged and focused on their studies.
The Washington Tennis and Education Foundation gives young children the skills they need to excel in life, on the court and beyond.
Skills and sense of belonging
In one of WTEF's programs, coaches go to schools around the city and teach the game to students there. But in the after-school programs, kids come to the tennis facility to learn the game and do many other activities such as doing homework, designing robotics and playing chess.
WTEF's Operation Coordinator, Audra Bell, says kids are transformed when they commit to the program.
"They learn discipline and they learn mental toughness and all the things that tennis teaches you as a whole, it's really amazing to see," she added.
WTEF President Rebecca Crouch-Pelham agrees.
"You're on the court playing singles, you're by yourself, and you're relying on yourself," she said. "That's absolutely the exact same stamina, and kind of resilience that our kids need in the classroom."
Kids in the program are excelling academically, and Crouch-Pelham says all children deserve this type of access to sports and educational services. It gives them a sense of belonging to a community.
"We see older kids coming back all the time to work in summer camps. They are the tennis coaches for young children," Crouch-Pelham said. "We also have two pros here that grew up in the program and now they work here full time tennis coaches."
Mike Ragland is one of those two pros. He says joining the program at age 13 changed his life. He credits tennis for keeping him off the street and away from trouble. It also gave him a path in life. Because of his skill on the court, Ragland went to college on a full scholarship and started a career as a tennis coach.
"When they [WTEF] called and said they were building this facility, they wanted us to come back and do the program, I wanted to give back," he said.
Coaches, in many cases, are father figures for young players. That's why they're expected to teach kids more than how to play tennis. They talk to the kids about life, how to carry themselves, and how to behave.
"We give them something that they can go forward with," Ragland said. "The way you carry yourself in tennis is probably the way you carry yourself in life, to make those life time decisions."
Life is like tennis
Eighteen-year-old Xxavir Boone has been taking part in the program for eight years, since Coach Ragland visited his school to get young kids interested in playing the sport.
He says the program helped him learn a lot about tennis and life, like the importance of never giving up. He learned that on the court, "because anything can happen during a match."
"It teaches you to just kind of push through life," he said. "You might be down right now, but you can always pick it up sooner or later. Everyone here is doing very well in school, and that just has everything to do with tutors and teachers we have here."
WTEF coaches say a few of their kids go on to become tennis pros. Others excel in other fields and receive full scholarships, while the rest, officials say, get a solid foundation to help them succeed in whatever they do in life.


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Frederick E. Hyde Fjord is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland.

History
The fjord was named by Robert Peary during his 1900 expedition after Frederick Erastus Hyde, one of the founding members and first vice-president of the Peary Arctic Club in New York. Peary did not explore the fjord owing to thick fog. The inner fjord branches were mapped and named by Lauge Koch in the course of aerial surveys from the 1920s onwards.

The landscape of this desolate fjord caused an impression on Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth:

Geography
To the east Frederick E. Hyde Fjord opens into the Arctic Ocean with its mouth just to the north of Cape John Flagler and south of Cape Bridgman. The fjord extends  in a WSW direction until the Harebugt at its head. The Nordpasset is a glacial valley that extends a further  in a WNW direction until the head of O.B. Boggild Fjord, part of the De Long Fjord complex.

Freja Fjord, Thor Fjord and Odin Fjord are branches on the southern shore of the fjord, about ,  and  from its mouth respectively;  smaller Citronen Fjord lies about  from the mouth. Frigg Fjord is an offshoot on the northern shore located  from the mouth.

The Roosevelt Range, the northernmost mountain range on earth, stretches from west to east on the northern side of the fjord along with its subranges. Hans Egede Land extends to the south of the fjord from its middle reaches to the mouth area.
The  high Nordkrone plateau is located on the southern side of Frederick E. Hyde Fjord. Nordkrone has many glaciers and is intersected by deep ravines with steep sides.  high Wistar Bjerg, one of the highest points in Peary Land, rises above the fjord between the Freya and Thor fjords at the edge of the plateau.

See also
List of fjords of Greenland

References

External links
Picture of Frigg Fjord

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Englishman Hatton stars again in Scotland
Tyrrell Hatton produced another fine round on the second day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland on Friday as he looked to win the title for a third time.
The Englishman shot a second-round 70 at a windy Kingsbarns after a superb 64 at the notorious Carnoustie course on Thursday in an event that is played at three different venues.
Hatton heads into the third round on 10 under par, one shot clear of compatriot Daniel Gavins and two ahead of 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett and China's Li Haotong as he heads towards the Old Course at St. Andrews, 'the home of golf'.
For Hatton, his first two rounds in Scotland this week came after he was involved in Europe's 19-9 hammering by the United States in the Ryder Cup.
"I'm happy with how I scored," said Hatton. "It was really tough out there. It was quite easy to make mistakes, very easy to hit bad shots.
"I guess I was fortunate at times where when I did hit a bad shot, I didn't end up in too much of a dodgy position. I was able to get it on to the green.
"I'm happy with how I fought out there today in tough conditions."
Hatton, starting at the 10th hole, went to the turn in level par with three birdies and three bogeys but gained shots on his back nine to go to the top of the leaderboard.
Elsewhere, Gavins shot 68 at Carnoustie, while Willett signed for a 69 at Kingsbarns and Li a 72 at St Andrews to make his first cut in 14 events in 2021.
Tommy Fleetwood, a Ryder Cup team-mate of Hatton, was seven under after two rounds alongside Dane Jeff Winther, one shot clear of a group containing another 2021 Ryder Cup player in Irishman Shane Lowry, his compatriot John Murphy, Scot Ewen Ferguson and Englishman Oliver Fisher.
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The Verona pendant, designed by Sven Middelboe and produced in 1970 by Nordisk Solar Compagni, is a true classic in the history of Danish lighting design. The slats of the Verona are funnel-shaped and positioned in such a way that light is reflected of their top and bottom. This reflection creates a slightly transparent form that seems to float in space.
The Danish trade and wholesale company Nordisk Solar Compagni was founded in 1919 by a young businessman, Jacob L. Jørgensen selling electricity meters. Later on other electrical components such as lighting fixtures -initially under the name of Solar Lighting- were being produced for the fast growing electrical market. The company worked with famous designers like Preben Fabricius & Jørgen Kastholm and Sven Middelboe. After acquiring the Swedish company Hans-Agne Jakobsson Solar Lighting became Jakobsson.


we quickly had it reinforced to us that the West Texas Section is huge. We only covered a small portion of it and drove 800 miles!
As we all know, Field Day is a special day and time for radio amateurs. Decisions regarding the where, number of stations and antennas to be used and who does what are normally held well in advance of Field Day. As the time nears, clubs either start setting up their operation on a remote site on the Friday afternoon preceding the start of Field Day or they set up their stations on the morning of Field Day. Other folks chose to fine tune their station at home preparing to operate either part or all of the 24-hour Field Day period. In addition to radio operations, Field Day is a great time to visit with friends we haven't seen for a while and to eat a good meal usually on the Saturday evening during Field Day. Other more adventurous clubs have breakfasts and lunches served before and during setup and early operations.
Speaking of a club that likes to eat well, my first stop was at my home clubs operation at the Shriner's clubhouse. The Key City ARC had rented the clubhouse for Field Day. They will operate 3A WTX.
Upon our arrival at the Shriner's clubhouse preparations were well under way and the breakfast bell had been rung so folks were heading to breakfast. We did manage to get a photo of folks at work before they ate.
Brett KG5NLW and Kathryn KG5THK finish installing a dipole antenna before breakfast.
The KCARC Field Day Crew enjoy a hearty breakfast before the event begins. Starting in the foreground left side: Peg KA4UPA, Henry AE5SL, Jim N5COT, Allen KF5SPQ, and Mike KF5ZQB. Right side Jim K1UQI Druann KC5QOP, Kendall KC5FFQ, Bill KG5ZRC, Ann KG5AQX, Nathan AF5FJ.
After a brief visit with the Key City folks our next stop was Quanah, Texas 138 miles nor th. The folks at Quanah are not organized into a formal club but work together and have formed a very cohesive group. They have the support of their community and work closely with Emergency Management, the mayor, sheriff and county judge.
A highlight of the Quanah Field Day exercise was having the new young hams build their own dipole. Mark KY7D intently watches the process.
Jackson KI5AFQ on the air 2F WTX operating in the EmComm trailer.
We had a wonderful time watching the young hams work together to get the dipole constructed and put on the air. Jackson KI5AFQ is 13-years old and working on his Extra class license. Hunter is 18-years old and also working to upgrade. Luke is studying for his technician license. A great group of young people!
Moving on down the road our next stop was Childress at the Prairie Dog ARC where they had set up their Field Day activities in the Childress Fair Park where they operated 1A WTX. This was the shortest drive we had.
What the Prairie Dog ARC lacked in size they made up in enthusiasm and operations.
Leaving Childress our next stop was Lubbock. When we arrived in Lubbock we began our visit by stopping to meet with a group of hams who had set up operations on the lawn of TV station KLBK Channel 13. Participating in this Field Day operation was the Lubbock County Sheriff Offices Emergency Coordinator and several licensed Deputy's.
The Lubbock Amateur Radio Club, K5LIB decided to hold its Field Day operations in Meadow, Texas 28 miles away. After our visit with the group set up at the TV station we headed to Meadow.
At Meadow we found the club held their Field Day operations in the Community Center Building. Since we arrived fairly late in the day most folks had eaten and left for the day. Randy Reeves KA4AJL and Everett McArthur KE5QVC were still active onsite.
After a short visit with them we headed on to Midland where we would spend the night and visit the Midland and Odessa club Sunday morning. We arrived at our lodging in Midland at 9:30 p.m.
It didn't take long after we checked in to the motel to be fast asleep! Morning came way too early and we were up and heading for the Midland Amateur Radio Club. This year the club was holding its Field Day operations at the National Weather Service (NWS) campus. The HF stations were set up in the old NWS building and the 6 meter and GOTA station was set up in the Conference Room of the new NWS building. Their operating class was 3A WTX.
Field Day operations in the Red Cross building at the Midland International Airport where they operated as a 1F WTX station.
The Odessa folks were using the Ham Radio Station recently set up in the Red Cross building by John and Diann. Field Day was an excellent time for them to test operational capabilities.
Upon completing our visit with the Odessa Club we headed on to Big Spring. The Big Spring Amateur Radio Club has its own clubhouse where they held this year's Field Day activities.
Foreground to rear Daren W5DTB, Henry KN3RD, Russ KF5PDF, and Pepper WF1RE Operating as 3D WTX.
As Field Day operations were drawing to a close I promised the San Angelo Club I'd visit them during Field Day. So, we said our good byes to our friends in Big Springs and headed to San Angelo.
The San Angelo Amateur Radio Club held its Field Day operations on the parade ground of Fort Concho. I arrived with minutes to spare before the official close of Field Day. Whew! Two stations were set up. One in a 5th wheel travel trailer and the other in a motor home.
We had the opportunity to talk with Mike KD5URW, Chad KD5SMK, Robert W7IKT and Carol N5CBQ.
Shirley and I said our goodbyes to the San Angelo folks, headed into town to grab a bite to eat and headed home for a much needed rest. Once at home I plopped down in my recliner and refused to get out of it until bedtime.
As I thought back over our almost 800 mile trip from Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon I recalled the many folks I visited with who were having fun and were actively involved with the operational spirit that makes ham radio the great hobby it is. All the Field Day sites I visited commented on how poor propagation was, but that did not dissuade them from enjoying the activity.
I was especially impressed with the group of young hams at Quanah who were engaged and eager to learn and to participate. As well know, youth is the future of our hobby! My hat is off to Bill Price, WA5NBP and the crew there for taking the time to ensure young people are involved.


The Lotus Twin Cam is a 1558 cc engine developed for the 1962 Lotus Elan and also used in a variety of other vehicles up until mid 1970s. John Smirthwaite and his team at JS Motorsport have decades of experience in rebuilding and providing race support for championship-winning Lotus Twin Cam engines. Having earned an unparalleled reputation for excellence and attention to detail, the team is pleased to offer its expertise to customers across the country and also offers wide range of high spec components for Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engines.
The cylinder head has hemispherical combustion chambers similar to that first used by Peugeot on their 1912 Grand Prix car and subsequently refined by Jaguar in their XK engine of the 1950s.
Valve sizes used are 1.530" diameter inlet and 1.325" diameter exhaust on all engines except the "big valve" Lotus Elan Sprint and Europa models which have an inlet valve measuring 1.565" diameter.
For more information on any assistance required with your Lotus Twin Cam engine, please call John Smirthwaite at JS Motorsport on 01827 830096.
Collated over many years, photos from the past and the present.
JS Motorsport Ltd, Primrose Cottage, No Man's Heath Lane, Austrey, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 3EW.


Sunday I went out for lunch and drinks in the city. I wore my op shopped Saba top, high waisted Portmans skirt, Wittner sandals and silver coin necklace.
We went to Northbridge. Lot Twenty for lunch, Ezra Pound for Tom Collins, The Bird for Pimms and The Standard for gin!
Thursday I went to watch Dior and I at Luna cinema in Leederville. I wore my vintage dress from Melbourne, lobster socks from Dangerfield and loafers from Wittner!


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Q: Populating DropDownList using AJAX Method Error 500 I am trying to populate a dropdownlist using AJAX and i have been getting the method error 500. I've spent a whole day trying all the things I found on several forums but nothing seemed to help.
If anyone can help me here, it would be great. Thanks!
ddl.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ddl.aspx.cs" Inherits="TSS.Administrator.ddl" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="ajax" Namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" Assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:ScriptManager runat="server">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
    <div>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCourseLevel" runat="server">
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <ajax:CascadingDropDown ID="ccdCourseLevel" runat="server" Category="CourseLevel"
            TargetControlID="ddlCourseLevel" PromptText="---Select CourseLevel" LoadingText="Loading Countries.."
            ServiceMethod="BC" ServicePath="~/WebServices/ws1.asmx">
        </ajax:CascadingDropDown>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
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ws1.asmx
<%@ WebService Language="C#" CodeBehind="ws1.asmx.cs" Class="TSS.ws1" %>

ws1.asmx.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Configuration;
using AjaxControlToolkit;
using System.Web.Script.Services;

namespace TSS
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for ws1
    /// </summary>
    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
    [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
    [System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
    // To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
    [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
    public class ws1 : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {

        dbConnection dbConn = new dbConnection();

        [WebMethod]
        public CascadingDropDownNameValue[] BC(string knownCategoryValues, string category)
        {

            DataTable dt = new DataTable();

            //CourseLevelDAL _courseLevelDAL = new CourseLevelDAL();

            dt = Admin_Course_WebService.PopulateCourseLevel();

            //create list and add items in it by looping through dataset table
            List<CascadingDropDownNameValue> courseleveldetails = new List<CascadingDropDownNameValue>();
            foreach (DataRow dtrow in dt.Rows)
            {
                string Name = dtrow["Name"].ToString();
                string Id = dtrow["Id"].ToString();
                courseleveldetails.Add(new CascadingDropDownNameValue(Name, Id));
            }
            return courseleveldetails.ToArray();
        }
    }
}

A: I used the debugging tool Fiddler and found that It could not find the Web Method BC and the reason it could not find it was because it was a static method. I changed it to public and added the attribute [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]. It worked!

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Q: Visualize timestamped data in JSON for analytics purposes I have a JSON output of my users doing things on my website (via Firebase backend) that looks something like this:
{
"24iKM1Zublcm2XhVV3yVHNcxilg1" : {
"1488592280222" : "logIn",
"1488592283993" : "shop_home",
"1488592285337" : "about",
"1488592288721" : "onBoardingOnSlideChanged_1",
"1488592288725" : "onBoardingSkip_1",
"1488592313524" : "shop_cat_shirts",
"1488592317712" : "shot_cat_shoes",
"1488592348853" : "shot_cat_shirts",
"1488592353155" : "shop_home",
"1488592360107" : "logOut",
"1488659428635" : "logIn",
"1488659430033" : "shop_home",
"1488659438844" : "shop_cat_shoes",
"1488682041437" : "logOut",
},

...and so on, for each user.
I'm trying to get some analytics here. For example, how many times did the user above visit the "shop_cat_shoes" page over a date range.
Are there any off-the-shelf tools I could use?
If not, what set of libraries and what steps do I need to take to normalize this data?
Any help is appreciated.


The most common reason why webinars do not convert is because the webinar creator has not identified the right webinar attendee avatar or, in most cases, doesn't even know that there are 4 key webinar attendee avatars to begin with.
(An avatar is essentially the personality type that the majority of the webinar attendees fall into – and just as a well developed customer avatar is essential in the marketing campaign to get someone into the webinar through an effective ad campaign, it is JUST AS IMPORTANT in actually getting someone to take action on your offer).
Planners are traditionally slow decision makers and are people who love security.
A prime example of a planner is someone in middle or senior management, someone who loves the security of a paycheque every 2 weeks.
Planners are also very detail orientated and systematic. They need a logical webinar with lots of real-life numbers and case studies.
If you are creating a webinar for offline marketing and targeting businesses like accountants, lawyers, dentists, consultants, blue-colour managers etc – these will all be planners.
As I mentioned earlier, planners are slow decision makers and do not adapt to change very quickly. As a result of this, you will find that the majority of your sales will come not on the actual webinar, but in the follow-up emails and sequence that follows.
Usually, you can find that up to 70% of sales or leads will come in the post-webinar follow-up.
Most people don't even understand that there are 4 different webinar attendee avatars and they create their webinar based on their own personality and thought processes (which if you are a marketer will most likely not be a PLANNER personality) and, as a result, there will be a big disconnect.
Most people put little to no effort in the follow-up sequence and, as I mentioned earlier, up to 70% of results for a PLANNER webinar, will be in the follow-up.
It is fundamental to ensure that you are using the right language for PLANNERS, they do not like change and they expect processes that take time. They do not believe they can make a million dollars in 30 days, they are very structured and grounded with their thoughts and belief systems, and it is important to reflect the title, theme and content of your webinar around this.
Activities – What type of activities does your avatar like to do on the webinar? Would they prefer a spreadsheet based activity or a brainstorming/ creative activity, for example.
Time – How long does your avatar have to spend on a webinar? Is it 60 minutes exactly or can the webinar extend to 1.5 to 2 hours + FAQs?
Region – Naturally, where they are located is also important as each culture has a different way of evaluating opportunity. In the USA, people are generally more entrepreneurial, whilst in the UK they take a bit longer to make a decision, for example.
If your webinar isn't converting, or if you are looking to create a webinar, make sure you have a good understanding of the webinar attendee avatar as unless you have that right, there will be a big disconnect with your audience and your webinar simply won't convert as a result of this.


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Michael Erwin (born 6 June 1943) is a former Australian rules football player who played in the VFL between 1962 and 1964 for the Collingwood Football Club and from 1965 to 1968 for the Richmond Football Club.

Erwin crossed to Coburg in the VFA during the 1968 season and was captain/coach from 1969 to 1972, leading the Lions to the 1970 2nd Division premiership. He played in the Port Melbourne 1974 VFA premiership side and went on to coach Prahran to the 1978 VFA premiership.  He commenced the 1982 season as reserves coach at Collingwood before taking over as senior coach from Tom Hafey after he was sacked in the middle of the 1982 season. He coached the Magpies for the final twelve games of the 1982 season. Erwin, however was not retained as Collingwood Football Club senior coach at the end of the 1982 season and was replaced by John Cahill as Collingwood Football Club senior coach.

References
 Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, Melbourne 1996

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1943 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Collingwood Football Club players
Richmond Football Club players
Collingwood Football Club coaches
Coburg Football Club players
Port Melbourne Football Club players
Coburg Football Club coaches
Prahran Football Club coaches


Cleansis is a Awesome Masonry blog style theme that allows you to choose from a 8 Post Formats. Cleansis Blogger Template will surely amaze you at the first sight. It is the fully responsive HTML5 & CSS3 template that best used for blogging, personal portfolio, even business portal. The template layout and mechanism are enhanced to deliver all images and graphics with WOW effect. Cleansis blogger template works seamlessly on a wide range of devices including PCs, mobiles, laptops, etc. It has the sophisticated layout with colorful design and carefully crafted graphic (that is retina supported) helping you to attract more visitors to your website.


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Each year, about 90 million new people are added to the planet. This rate of growth will swell our population from today's 5.6 billion to about 8.5 billion by 2025. At present growth rates, global population will be 40 billion by 2100. The United Nations estimates, however, that growth rates will drop and world population will be 11.2 billion by 2100. This is still more than double today's total.
Asia and Africa are adding more people each year than are other continents, even though the percentage of people they add is not as high as in some countries. The huge number of people currently living on these continents translates into a large number of people added even with relatively low growth rates.
For example, China's annual growth rate is only 1.2 percent, but the country's population base of 1.2 billion people means that there is a net increase in China's population of 15 million people every year. Population growth in Asia and Africa puts tremendous pressure on wildlife habitat on those continents.
Population is not the only determinant of impact on the environment. The rate at which people consume resources is critical. The United States has a particularly heavy impact on resources because of its high consumption rate, even though its population is relatively low.
For example, the environmental impact of a human baby born in the United States is 35 times that of one born in India, and 140 times that of a baby born in Bangladesh.
People in developing countries understandably aspire to the same level of consumption as that of developed countries. The combination of population growth and increased consumption rates, along with technology that allows us to exploit resources more effectively than ever before, will put intolerable pressure on the Earth's resources.
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On this day…25 March
March 25, 2014 JamesJoyce
On 25 March 1909 Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer sent Joyce his cantata.
Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882-1957) was a composer born in England of Irish parents who composed settings for many of Joyce's poems. A graduate of Oxford, he studied at the Royal College of Music from 1904 to 1907 under Irish composer CV Stanford. In 1910 he moved to Mallow, Co. Cork, where he had a position as an organist, and later in his life lived with his sisters in Sandycove.
Palmer wrote to Joyce in 1907, not long after the publication of Chamber Music, asking permission to set some of the poems to music. Joyce was ill with rheumatic fever at the time and his brother Stanislaus wrote to Palmer and to Elkin Mathews, publisher of Chamber Music, to say that Joyce was happy to have Palmer set the poems to music if Mathews was agreeable.
In February 1909 Joyce wrote to thank Palmer for settings of five poems which he had just received, adding that he hoped Palmer would attempt a setting of the poem 'Bid Adieu' which Joyce himself had tried to set to music.
After that, Palmer seems to have sent Joyce a cantata. It seems likely that this was The Abbot of Inisfalen – A Killarney Legend (op. 5, 1908), scored for baritone, choir and orchestra. The cantata was a setting of a poem of the same name by William Allingham (1824-1889) published in 1865.
In his letter thanking him for the cantata, Joyce told Palmer that it was a bit low for his own voice and therefore probably wouldn't suit John McCormack's voice either. Joyce added that he was pleased to hear that Palmer was setting more of his poems, and admitted that he was very flattered that Palmer liked his poems enough to set them. Enclosed with the letter was a copy of Joyce's article on Oscar Wilde from Il Piccolo della Sera, written on the occasion of the performance of Richard Strauss' opera Salome in Trieste in March 1909.
By July 1909, Joyce was writing again to thank Palmer for the settings of another three poems. He told Palmer that these three pleased him even more than the previous five and said that he would take the songs to Dublin with him in the hope of generating interest in them there. Joyce hoped that Palmer might set all the poems and that he had intended that the poems should be set to music.
In all, Palmer set thirty-two of the thirty-six poems of Chamber Music.
Sources & Further Reading:
Ellmann, Richard: James Joyce – New and Revised Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Fargnoli, A Nicholas, & Michael Patrick Gillespie: James Joyce A-Z – An Encyclopedic Guide to his Life and Work, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1995.
Joyce, James: Letters of James Joyce, vol. I, edited by Stuart Gilbert, London: Faber & Faber, 1957; vol. II, edited by Richard Ellmann, London: Faber & Faber, 1966.
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Hydropower failures in DRC put Africa's largest rainforest in danger
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The inability of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to harness its huge hydro-electricity potential at a faster rate is putting the country's vast forest resources at risk, President Felix Tshisekedi has warned.
At 500 million acres, the Congo Basin forest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world and plays a crucial role in countering global warming. The forest absorbs global carbon emissions together with the Amazon and South American rain forests.
The forest, which covers two-thirds of the DRC or around 1.5 million kilometres (km) square, is threatened by the production of charcoal, a key energy resource for inhabitants because of the lack of electricity supplies. A colossal 40 million people depend on the Congo Basin for their livelihoods and over time, the expansion of industrial logging has posed a great threat to their lives and wellbeing.
The lack of programs to deliver clean and renewable energy is a direct threat to the country's forests, President Tshisekedi said. This is because more than 90 percent of the energy consumed in the DRC comes from wood. "At the current pace of population growth and energy demands, our forests risk extinction by 2100," Tshisekedi declared at an energy forum this week.
Regarding the huge untapped hydropower potential the DRC possesses, the leader said the country must get past the "paradox of being a country that is one of the world's top five in hydroelectric potential but one that ranks among the worst in access to electricity."
According to the International Hydropower Association (IHA), DRC hosts the largest concentration of hydropower potential in the world at the Inga Falls, about 150 km from the mouth of the Congo River. With this, the country could provide a significant portion – up to 40 percent – of Africa's electricity demand but harnessing that potential has not been particularly easy.
Late last year, DRC authorities announced a deal for a Spanish-Chinese consortium to develop the Inga 3 hydro-electric mega-dam project on the Congo River rapids, which is one of the world's most powerful and centre to the country's energy plans. The country presently has two Inga projects that were completed in the 1970s and 1980s respectively.
'Give the Congo Basin Forest a Chance' banner in Matadi, DRC. Photo credit: True Africa
However, the $12 billion project which has been on the cards for many years, and part of the proposed Grand Inga project, has faced significant barriers to progress. IHA says that the plans have been revised several times to increase the likelihood of attracting sufficient finance in today's investment climate. Originally envisioned in the 1950s, the current Inga site plans include a total of eight power stations, two of which are completed (Inga 1 and 2).
The plan has also been delayed by likely local impact of the hydroelectric project, expected to be Africa's largest, with both residents and environmental activists expressing concerns, as well as experts doubting its viability.
In 2013, independent economist, Ian Cruickshanks said that although the project would provide sub-Saharan Africa with cheaper and cleaner electricity than is currently produced in coal power stations, transporting it to the southern part of Africa would be a challenge.
"My one concern follows experiences of the Cahora Bassa Dam project on the Zambezi River in Mozambique. It generates electricity, but the transmission to customers in South Africa isn't efficient," Cruickshanks said. Apart from transmission challenges, he also pointed out the huge security problem of giant power lines running across the DRC, which is "at war with itself."
Another analyst noted that the project's size, the complex political landscape as well as problems of the DRC and the region were key obstacles in the implementation of the project. "The DRC is politically unstable, there is rampant corruption and it lacks credible institutions. These factors hinder the implementation of a long-term multi-billion dollar project," Senior Research and Strategy Analyst at Frontier Advisory, Simon Schaefer, said some years ago.
As observed by analysts, a major and recurrent barrier to implementing the hydropower project after many years of conception was the political instability in the DRC. With relative stability now in the country after President Tshisekedi came into power earlier this year, the DRC has to move fast to save Africa's endangered forest resources, which also suffers from illegal logging.
The Congo Basin is Africa's largest contiguous forest and the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world. Along with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the swamp-struck tropical forest covers portions of Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon, spanning about 695,000 square miles.
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Q: setting visual bell to flash in iTerm I am using iTerm on OSX (leopard) to ssh to a linux machine. I run screen on the dev machine to save my work between sessions. I am not a big fan of audio bell and I don't like screen's default 'Wuff Wuff' bell (or any other little message shown at bottom of the page). What I like though is to have flash (foreground and blackground colors swapped for a fraction of a second) as my visual bell. I used to use PuTTY and it is as simple as ticking a checkbox but I can't find such an option in iTerm. My question is how can I set my visual bell to flash?
The ideal answer would work with iTerm on local computer, iTerm sshed to a linux server, and  iTerm sshed to a linux server and ran screen.

A: In newer versions (I'm in 2.0.0.20141103 on OS X Yosemite), it looks like they moved the setting to Profiles → Terminal → (Default profile) → Terminal. This doesn't switch the foreground and background colors like you're asking for, but it does display a big visual bell in the middle of the terminal. See this image of the settings page:

A: Sometimes the simplest things are the most tricky.

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*Go to the preferences of iTerm.

*Go to the advanced section of your scheme (or those you use).

*Set visual bell and unset audio bell

That should work.

A: Thanks to @George the required behaviour can be achieved by following the previous answers first by setting the bell in the Preferences:

And then go to the Advanced settings and configure the following as well:

A: See my answer in this thread: the code change is already checked in and iTerm2 will have it in the next release.