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Titans-Browns, Rams-Cardinals Headline Week 13 Slate
Week 13 in the NFL is upon us, a week with no Thursday game to kick off the card but instead two Monday night matchups and a Tuesday tilt due to COVID-19 rearrangements. For many fans, it also marks the final regular-season game of their Fantasy Football season before that world embarks on their playoff schedule.
The Week 13 slate does not appear very strong on paper, with only two games featuring both teams with winning records. But on the eve of the final quarter pole of the season, teams like the Saints, Packers, Seahawks, Chiefs, Raiders, Dolphins, and Colts cannot afford a slip-up against their inferior opponents. The Steelers, Bills, and Ravens are in similar positions on Monday and Tuesday. That leaves the two marquee matchups noted above, so let's take a closer look.
Titans & Browns Battle for Ninth Win
Tennessee and Cleveland have identical 8-3 records as they get set to take the field in Nashville on Sunday. It's the Browns' best start since 1994, when they managed to get to 9-3, and they are aiming for their first playoff spot since 2002. The Titans tasted playoff success last year, going all the way to the AFC Championship in a season that started with a 43-13 romp of these Browns in Cleveland in Week 1 of the 2019 campaign.
These two are the top two rushing teams in the NFL, so it's worth monitoring which attack can wear the opposing defense down the most in the second half.
Sunday's game is undoubtedly a measuring stick game for the Browns as none of their victories this season have come against teams with winning records. The Titans are 9-1 to the OVER in Ryan Tannehill's last 10 regular-season starts while the trends are not in the Browns' favor coming in. Cleveland has failed to cover five of their previous six, they're 1-7 ATS in their last eight conference games and 1-4 ATS in their past five on the road. The Titans are six-point favorites in this one, with the winner remaining or taking over the No. 3 seed in the AFC playoff picture.
Rams & Cardinals Meet in NFC West Showdown
Los Angeles and Arizona square off in the first of two critical meetings on Sunday, separated by just a game in the ultra-competitive NFC West. The two will meet again in Week 17 in what could be a win-or-go-home scenario, depending on how the next few weeks play out. Both are in playoff position entering this week, but a Cardinals loss would logjam the seventh and final spot with three teams sitting a game back of Arizona coming into Week 13. A Cardinals win means three NFC teams would have seven wins, with the idle Bucs joining these two.
The Rams have won six straight in this series, including five straight in the desert, but Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins are two of the reasons this time is much different than the Rams have been used to recently. The Hopkins-Jalen Ramsey matchup is certainly worth keeping an eye on, but that's not the only one.
The Cardinals rank first in the NFL in rush yards per game, but the Rams have allowed the fourth-fewest rushing yards per game (93.5) this season.
Los Angeles is installed as the chalk in this one, laying three points on the road


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Roe's legacy of false freedom
A young pro-life woman wonders when some Millennials are going to wake up to the big lie about reproductive freedom.
Meg T. McDonnell | Jan 26 2013 |
HBO's "Girls" ... Representing a generation betrayed by Roe's false freedom.
As the United States marks the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, there's been a lot of talk about who's winning and who's losing in the contentious debate over abortion rights. A focal point in that debate has been Millennials like myself, who've lived their entire lives with a constitutional "right to abortion".
In the pro-choice camp, baby boomers like Nancy Keenan, former president of NARAL, are balking at the lack of youth enthusiasm for their cause. Meanwhile, Millennial women in the pro-choice camp are firing back at their older counterparts, one claiming that they only "prioritize the needs of white, middle class, straight … women, and work within the Democratic party politics system to achieve their goals" whereas the younger set see abortion rights as a part of an ongoing cultural change.
Meanwhile, the pro-life movement boasts an enthusiastic youth wing that has even taken people in the pro-choice ranks by surprise. Year after year, youth fill the National Mall in Washington DC, with bright signs and lively chants -- and this year was no different, with perhaps the largest March for Life crowd in its history. Some polling indicates that U.S. youth are more "pro-life" than other age-groups."
And yet, Pew Forum just released data indicating that Millennials as a whole are not too concerned about abortion. According to Pew, roughly 57 percent of individuals ages 18-29 did not know that the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade involved abortion. Additionally, 62 percent of individuals in that age group do not think abortion is a critical issue facing this country.
The general apathy of my generation towards abortion is troubling, especially considering just how much Roe has affected their lives. Collectively, we have sustained much loss.
The effects begin with the 55 million lives that have been lost—individuals who would have been peers and friends, even brothers and sisters, whose unique lives we will never get to know. Then there are the women, many of whom are our friends, who have had abortions and have come to regret the decision to end their child's life.
But, additionally, Roe v. Wade and subsequent cases regarding abortion, alongside contraception, have had a significant effect on my generation's understanding of sex, relationships, and children; more significant than most Americans may realize.
Take this story I heard recently from a young college-aged woman I was seated next to on a train. When the subject of my pro-life work came up, she eagerly volunteered that she was "pro-life" and "against abortion". She then proceeded to tell me a sad tale.
She was a freshman in college when she lost her virginity, she explained. A few weeks later, she took herself to the hospital with what she thought was unusually heavy bleeding. As it turns out, she had been pregnant and had miscarried.
It never occurred to her that she could get pregnant, she said. They had used a condom. She wanted children some day, but obviously not at eighteen. I could sense her relief that she didn't have to face the full ramifications of an unplanned pregnancy. Who knows what she would have done, ultimately, about that?
As I listened to her story, I couldn't help but think about what a confused understanding of sex and its purposes she holds. Of course she was having sex, but why? Because she could. Because contraception and its backup programme, abortion, had separated sex from one of its natural consequences, pregnancy. She had reached early adulthood with the idea that protected sex was not committed, married sex, but contracepted sex. In her mind it was "unprotected sex [that] makes babies."
And yet, how terribly deceived our generation is about "protection".
The Guttmacher Institute reports that 54 percent of women seeking abortion were using contraception during the month they got pregnant. We can blame such a statistic on method failure or human error, but the fact of the matter is this: sex always involves the possibility of forming new life. Roe is proof that the "protection" of contraception is a myth. Together, contraception and abortion have robbed tens of millions of children of their lives, and removed the protection of marriage from two out of every five children born today and their mothers. They have left a generation confused, like my young travel companion, about the purposes and risks of sex.
And all this in the name of "freedom". Reproductive freedom. Freedom of choice. Freedom to "define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life," as stated in the Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Sadly, this freedom is a farce. Those seduced by it, women especially, face being shackled with depression induced by the effects of multiple sexual partners. They are given the "choice" between killing their child, raising him mostly alone, or giving him or her to someone else to raise — each of these options often carrying a substantial degree of suffering. And they lack an understanding of sex, and to a degree love, for all the commitment and mystery it wonderfully bears.
Admittedly, a pro-life understanding of sexuality and procreation is difficult to sell in a culture which is saturated with messages reducing sex to a fun recreation that doesn't always need commitment. But perhaps the conclusion of my conversation with my travel companion can serve as a ground for hope.
When I asked her if her miscarriage had caused any changes in her thinking and behavior she explained that she is definitely more careful about whom she has sex with, recognizing that she wouldn't want to find herself pregnant by a man she wasn't deeply committed to. It's a step. If only she could go a little further and aim at nothing less than marriage.
Meg McDonnell is the communications director for the Chiaroscuro Foundation and a coordinator at Women Speak for Themselves
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David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes – Wonderful Reggae Cover: Australia's Jahrukus…
Australian soulful roots-reggae collective Jahrukus join forces with Soul Messin' Records to release a sunshine-drenched cover of David Bowie's 1980 classic, "Ashes To Ashes".
The B-side of the 7″ release is the infectious "Island Girl", featuring a gorgeous vocal from the late Kingston, Jamaica singer Bunny Rugs of Third World and Inner Circle.
The two classy tracks are taken from the Melbourne-based band's 2008 self-titled debut CD (and their sole recorded output ) – digitally remastered and now on vinyl for the first time. Hear both tracks, below….
Jahrukus (Jah-ruckus) pay homage to the early Tuff Gong era, active on the Melbourne club scene circa 2005-08, the five-piece ensemble won local and international acclaim and a clutch of major awards nominations and 13 years after "Ashes To Ashes" and "Island Girl" were first released, Soul Messin' Records, Australia's home of soul, roots and jazz drops the the two cuts.
Believed to be the first reggae version of Bowie's timeless classic "Ashes to Ashes", it was recorded above a crash-repairs shop in the south of Melbourne between one and five o'clock in the morning after a gig, and before the shop opened. It was a fan attending a concert who gave the band the idea, when they said: "This band is so good, you could re-work any song into a reggae jam". So they did!
"Island Girl" penned by the band's members: Heerah, Hirini, Kopa, Bekker, Clark and Mason, is their first original track released to wax, featuring Bunny Rugs joining the band for a one-off recording session during his brief tour to Melbourne, adding the authentic sounds of Jamaica to the band's makeshift loft studio.
The lineup features:
• Tony Kopa: Maori lead vocalist known for his work with band The Truth. Tony has performed with acts such as Cold Chisel and INXS – currently touring with Jon Stevens.
• The late Dion Hirini: Maori guitarist and vocalist who worked with acts such as Renee Geyer, Ross Wilson, Kate Ceberano and Vika and Linda.
• Chris Bekker: South African bass guitarist and vocalist who has performed with Tina Arena, Mark Seymour, Richard Clapton and Ian Moss to name a few.
• Jason Heerah: Mauritian drummer and vocalist who has performed at the UK's famed Glastonbury Festival and at The Royal Albert Hall in London, with his soul outfit Electric Empire. He rose to mainstream acclaim as a finalist on The X Factor.
• Jake Mason: Keyboards. Soul-Jazz organ maestro, twice nominated for an ARIA award. With his trio Cookin' on 3 Burners, they recently received the APRA 1 Billion Streams award.
Soul Messin' Records is Australia's newest soul and jazz imprint and home to Australia's Cookin' on 3 Burners, Jake Mason Trio and The Soul Messin' Allstars.


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The 2002 WNBA Playoffs was the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2002 season which ended with the  Western Conference champion and defending WNBA champion Los Angeles Sparks beating the Eastern Conference champion New York Liberty, 2-0. Lisa Leslie was named the MVP of the Finals.

Format
The top 4 teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs.
All 4 teams are seeded by basis of their standings.

Road to the playoffs
Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Note:Teams with an "X" clinched playoff spots.

Playoffs

First round
- New York defeats Indiana, 2–1
Indiana 73, New York 55 (Aug. 16)
New York 84, Indiana 65 (Aug. 18)
New York 75, Indiana 60 (Aug. 20)

- Washington defeats Charlotte, 2–0
Washington 74, Charlotte 62 (Aug. 15)
Washington 62, Charlotte 59 (Aug. 17)

- Los Angeles defeats Seattle, 2–0
Los Angeles 78, Seattle 61 (Aug. 15)
Los Angeles 69, Seattle 59 (Aug. 17)

- Utah defeats Houston, 2–1
Utah 66, Houston 59 (Aug. 16)
Houston 83, Utah 77 (2OT) (Aug. 18)
Utah 75, Houston 72 (Aug. 20)

Conference Finals
- New York defeats Washington, 2–1
Washington 79, New York 74 (Aug. 22)
New York 96, Washington 79 (Aug. 24)
New York 64, Washington 57 (Aug. 25)

- Los Angeles defeats Utah, 2–0
Los Angeles 75, Utah 67 (Aug. 22)
Los Angeles 103, Utah 77 (Aug. 24)

WNBA Finals

- Los Angeles defeats New York, 2–0
L.A. 71, New York 63 (Aug. 29)
L.A. 69, New York 66 (Aug. 31)

See also
List of WNBA Champions

References

External links
Link to WNBA Playoffs series, recap, and boxscores

Playoffs
Women's National Basketball Association Playoffs

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In what must have been a formality, Laura Albanese was confirmed as the Liberal candidate for York South–Weston last week.
If the NDP does not support the budget on Thursday, there will soon be an election. Nobody has yet said that they will oppose Albanese; for decades, though, only the NDP has ever been a serious contender for the provincial seat.
I already got a polling phone call tonight…said NO to Albanese..
Good for you! Having the same old, same old is wearing very thin here. Albanese has done nothing to endear herself to her constituents and I hope we can resist her machine.
I have a totally opposite view. I have found Laura and her office staff to be very helpful. They hepled me out on an issue where I was being shuffled around and no one would take accountability. I find her very personable and down to earth.
I am not too impressed with Horwarth's leadership. Because of our flawed electoral system, I think I m going have vote strategically that means if YSW votes to help prevent a Tim Hudak majority. That means voting for party instead of local candidate.
Wynne is more of an NDP'er than Horvath. She's a liberal by convenience.
How can the ndp vote against the budget that was brought down today? Liberals are putting the squeeze to horvath with this budget. I think this riding stays red. Please no hudak.
Well it's official Horwarth rejected the budget. Even though Albanese and Libs screwed up big with Metrolinx/GO/Airlink construction, I'm going have hold my nose and vote Lib to prevent Hudak majority.
Thats too bad. Budget hit all the right notes. I was watching Horvaths press conference and she was criticizing the Liberal scandals as the reason why she cant support the budget. So whats the difference between this year and last? This years budget was much more progressive than last. Anyways, who knows what happens, but like others, I pray Hudak does not come to power.
Looks like we are heading for a vote on June 12. Too bad. I think horvath has played into the liberal trap here. I think she should have let this one pass. This budget was one of the most transformative budgets that would have helped working families. I tend to vote ndp mostly but have voted for liberal time to time. I like Wynne and from what I've heard from her I think I will be voting for albanese locally. Like others on this board, no way to hudak. Don't want a repeat of the Harris years.
I was really surprised that Horwath chose this budget to vote against. This was the first budget to include electrification, which is supposedly important to her Members along the line, even though we know the truth on that one now. I won't be voting for her, she has essentially secured the Premier's seat for the sneering joke that is Hudak.
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<?php

namespace Components\Support\Site\Controllers;

use Components\Support\Models\Report;
use Hubzero\Component\SiteController;
use Hubzero\Utility\Sanitize;
use Hubzero\Utility\Validate;
use Request;
use Pathway;
use Config;
use Event;
use Route;
use Lang;
use User;
use Date;
use App;

include_once dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . DS . 'models' . DS . 'report.php';

/**
 * Report items as abusive
 */
class Abuse extends SiteController
{
	/**
	 * Method to set the document path
	 *
	 * @return  void
	 */
	protected function _buildPathway()
	{
		if (Pathway::count() <= 0)
		{
			Pathway::append(
				Lang::txt(strtoupper($this->_option)),
				'index.php?option=' . $this->_option . '&controller=index'
			);
		}
		Pathway::append(
			Lang::txt(strtoupper('COM_SUPPORT_REPORT_ABUSE')),
			'index.php?option=' . $this->_option . '&controller=' . $this->_controller . '&task=reportabuse'
		);
	}

	/**
	 * Method to build and set the document title
	 *
	 * @return  void
	 */
	protected function _buildTitle()
	{
		$this->_title  = Lang::txt(strtoupper($this->_option));
		$this->_title .= ': ' . Lang::txt(strtoupper('COM_SUPPORT_REPORT_ABUSE'));

		\Document::setTitle($this->_title);
	}

	/**
	 * Reports an item as abusive
	 *
	 * @return     void
	 */
	public function displayTask()
	{
		// Login required
		if (User::isGuest())
		{
			$return = base64_encode(Request::getString('REQUEST_URI', Route::url('index.php?option=' . $this->_option . '&controller=' . $this->_controller, false, true), 'server'));
			App::redirect(
				Route::url('index.php?option=com_users&view=login&return=' . $return, false)
			);
			return;
		}

		// Incoming
		$refid    = Request::getInt('id', 0);
		$parentid = Request::getInt('parent', 0);
		$cat      = Request::getString('category', '');

		// Check for a reference ID
		if (!$refid)
		{
			App::abort(404, Lang::txt('COM_SUPPORT_ERROR_REFERENCE_ID_NOT_FOUND'));
		}

		// Check for a category
		if (!$cat)
		{
			App::abort(404, Lang::txt('COM_SUPPORT_ERROR_CATEGORY_NOT_FOUND'));
		}

		// Get the search result totals
		$results = Event::trigger('support.getReportedItem', array(
			$refid,
			$cat,
			$parentid
		));

		// Check the results returned for a reported item
		$report = null;

		if ($results)
		{
			foreach ($results as $result)
			{
				if ($result)
				{
					$report = $result[0];
				}
			}
		}

		// Ensure we found a reported item
		if (!$report)
		{
			$this->setError(Lang::txt('COM_SUPPORT_ERROR_REPORTED_ITEM_NOT_FOUND'));
		}

		// Set the page title
		$this->_buildTitle();

		// Set the pathway
		$this->_buildPathway();

		// Output HTML
		$this->view
			->set('title', $this->_title)
			->set('refid', $refid)
			->set('cat', $cat)
			->set('parentid', $parentid)
			->set('report', $report)
			->setErrors($this->getErrors())
			->setLayout('display')
			->display();
	}

	/**
	 * Save an abuse report and displays a "Thank you" message
	 *
	 * @return  void
	 */
	public function saveTask()
	{
		// Check for request forgeries
		Request::checkToken();

		// Incoming
		$cat = Request::getString('category', '');
		$refid = Request::getInt('referenceid', 0);
		$returnlink = Request::getString('link', '');
		$no_html = Request::getInt('no_html', 0);

		// Trim and addslashes all posted items
		$incoming = array_map('trim', $_POST);

		// Initiate class and bind posted items to database fields
		$row = Report::blank()->set(array(
			'report'      => (isset($incoming['report']) ? $incoming['report'] : ''),
			'category'    => (isset($incoming['category']) ? $incoming['category'] : ''),
			'referenceid' => (isset($incoming['referenceid']) ? $incoming['referenceid'] : 0),
			'subject'     => (isset($incoming['subject']) ? $incoming['subject'] : 'Other')
		));

		$row->set('report', Sanitize::clean($row->get('report')));
		$row->set('report', nl2br($row->get('report')));
		$row->set('created_by', User::get('id'));
		$row->set('created', Date::toSql());
		$row->set('state', 0);

		// Store new content
		if (!$row->save())
		{
			if ($no_html)
			{
				echo json_encode(array(
					'success'  => false,
					'message'  => $row->getError(),
					'id'       => $refid,
					'category' => $cat
				));
				return;
			}
			Request::setVar('id', $refid);

			$this->setError($row->getError());
			return $this->displayTask();
		}

		// Get the search result totals
		$results = Event::trigger('support.onReportItem', array(
			$refid,
			$cat
		));

		// Send notification email
		if ($this->config->get('abuse_notify', 1))
		{
			Lang::load($this->_option . '.abuse', dirname(__DIR__));

			$reported = new \stdClass;
			$reported->author = 0;

			// Get the search result totals
			$results = Event::trigger('support.getReportedItem', array(
				$refid,
				$cat,
				0
			));

			// Check the results returned for a reported item
			if ($results)
			{
				foreach ($results as $result)
				{
					if ($result)
					{
						$reported = $result[0];
						break;
					}
				}
			}

			// Get any set emails that should be notified of ticket submission
			$defs = str_replace("\r", '', $this->config->get('abuse_emails', '{config.mailfrom}'));
			$defs = str_replace('\n', "\n", $defs);
			$defs = explode("\n", $defs);
			$defs = array_map('trim', $defs);

			$message = new \Hubzero\Mail\Message();
			$message->setSubject(Config::get('sitename') . ' ' . Lang::txt('COM_SUPPORT_ABUSE_REPORT'))
					->addFrom(
						Config::get('mailfrom'),
						Config::get('sitename') . ' ' . Lang::txt(strtoupper($this->_option))
					)
					->addHeader('X-Component', 'com_support')
					->addHeader('X-Component-Object', 'abuse_item_report');

			// Plain text email
			$eview = new \Hubzero\Mail\View(array(
				'name'   => 'emails',
				'layout' => 'abuse_plain'
			));
			$eview->option     = $this->_option;
			$eview->controller = $this->_controller;
			$eview->report     = $row;
			$eview->reported   = $reported;
			$eview->author     = null;

			$plain = $eview->loadTemplate(false);
			$plain = str_replace("\n", "\r\n", $plain);

			$message->addPart($plain, 'text/plain');

			// HTML email
			$eview->setLayout('abuse_html');

			$html = $eview->loadTemplate();
			$html = str_replace("\n", "\r\n", $html);

			$message->addPart($html, 'text/html');

			// Loop through the addresses
			foreach ($defs as $def)
			{
				// Check if the address should come from site config
				if ($def == '{config.mailfrom}')
				{
					$def = Config::get('mailfrom');
				}

				// Check for a valid address
				if (Validate::email($def))
				{
					$message->addTo($def);
				}
			}

			// Send e-mail
			if (!$message->send())
			{
				$this->setError(Lang::txt('Uh-oh'));
			}
		}

		if ($no_html)
		{
			echo json_encode(array(
				'success'   => true,
				'report_id' => $row->get('id'),
				'message'   => Lang::txt('COM_SUPPORT_REPORT_NUMBER_REFERENCE', $row->id),
				'id'        => $refid,
				'category'  => $cat
			));
			return;
		}

		// Set the page title
		$this->_buildTitle();

		// Set the pathway
		$this->_buildPathway();

		// Output HTML
		$this->view
			->set('title', $this->_title)
			->set('report', $row)
			->set('refid', $refid)
			->set('cat', $cat)
			->set('returnlink', $returnlink)
			->display();
	}
}

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Q: Does detailed cloud watch monitoring on Auto Scaling cost me extra money? https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/details/#aws-element-7f11f2a8-f306-41c4-b081-1a8e7f39b3501
This document said no additional charge for Auto scaling groups, but does it mean no additional charge for installing software or no additional charge for detailed monitoring? Because when I tried to enable detailed monitoring on Auto scaling groups, that page implied that it will cost me extra money. So I guess the document I paste up there is trying to say no additional fee for installing software ?.........

A: The document says:

No additional software needs to be installed.

This means, you do not need to install any software to get extra Auto Scaling metrics in CloudWatch.

Auto Scaling groups: seven pre-selected metrics at one-minute frequency, optional and for no additional charge.

When using Auto Scaling, you will get 7 metrics (of Amazon's choice) for free, at 1 minute intervals.
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Syracuse to Host "Deaccessioning After 2020" March 17-19, 2021
Posted by Nicholas O'Donnell on March 1, 2021 at 4:08 PM
I am pleased to be a presenter and panelist at an event later this month on a topic of evergreen currency: museums and deaccessioning. As we've covered here, the pandemic has put pressure on museums in ways that were hard to foresee only 12 months ago. The response by museums, museum associations, and attorneys general has taken a variety of approaches. Just in the last year alone from Brooklyn, to Baltimore, to Syracuse, and most recently the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whether, when, and how museums should handle sales of their collections remains a volatile subject.
Topics: Donn Zaretsky, Dallas Museum of Art, New York University, Deaccessioning, Williams College, Christie's, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, Sotheby's, 17 U.S.C. § 106A(a)(3)(A)-(B), Nicholas M. O'Donnell, ARTnews, Jakob Dupont, Sarah Douglas, Brooklyn Museum, Syracuse University, Anne Pasternak, Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, Museum Hue, Dean Craig M. Boise, Andrew Saluti, Agustín Arteaga, Joseph Thompson, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Courtney Aladro, Mark Gold, James Sheehan, Steven Lubar, Brown University, Everson Museum of Art, Emily Stokes-Rees, Cara Starke, Sally Yerkovich, Brian Frye, University of Kentucky College of Law, Silberman Zaretsky, PC, Peter Dean, Randolph College, Andria Derstine, Oberlin College, William Eiland, Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery, Christy Coleman, Ken Turino, Nina del Rio, Hindman Auctions, Michael Shapiro, Allison Whiting, Julia Courtney, Christopher Bedford, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Julia Pelta, Fisher Museum, Thomas Campbell, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Linda Harrison, Glenn D. Lowry, The Museum of Modern Art, Tracey Riese, Melody Kanschat, Museum Leadership Institute, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Betsy Bradley, Mississippi Museum of Art, Michael O'Hare, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, Erin Richardson, Frank & Glory, Smith Green & Gold LLP, New York State Department of Law, Michael Conforti, Amy Whitaker, Stefanie Jandl, Deborah Kass, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Meleko Mokgosi, Wendy Red Star, Carrie Mae Weems, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Roxana Velásquez, The San Diego Museum of Art, University of Georgia Museum of Art, Jamaal Sheats, Fisk University, Kristina Durocher, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Historic New England, Lawrence Yerdon, Strawbery Banke Museum, Scott Wands, American Association for State and Local History, When is it Okay to Sell the Monet?, Glenn Adamson, Bern University of the Arts, Michelle Millar, The Newark Museum of Art


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No Man's Sky Origins update makes me want to jump back in — Here is why
By Rami Tabari 23 September 2020
Dynamic fauna, flora, planets, weather, buildings and lore
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No Man's Sky Origins brings the game into its 3.0 stage where the team has created a stranger, richer and more varied universe for players to explore by expanding nearly every visual element.
Hello Games detailed all of the cool updates in its blog, which we will break down below just for you.
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No Man's Sky Origins update detailed
This new update will birth planets in new and old star systems, some now introducing binary and ternary stars. The structure of the terrain has been completely reimagined to be more dramatic by increasing the scale of the worlds.
On the surface of the planets, you'll find never-before-seen flora and strange new combinations that comprise a more diverse world. There is also new alien fauna, which can be harvested for edible produce. You'll even find giant sandworms tunneling through the planet.
Just above the surface, there is more variety in clouds and weather, as Hello Games has upped the overcast quality. There's also a new biome called marshes, which is thick with mist and fungal growths.
Apparently, Hello Games has also increased the color variety, which is interesting because this game already looks like a wild trip. You'll also see in the world more historical stories, planetary infestations of anomalous lifeforms and vegetative growths, anomalous buildings, volcanoes, firestorms, storms, meteors, gravitational anomalies, tornadoes, lightning, planetary NPC encounters, insect life, wild robots and colossal archive buildings.
Additionally, the user interface has been refreshed with new colors and the teleporters have been improved to offer clearer information. Photo Mode has also been completely revamped.
This update is definitely one of the most ambitious so far. By enhancing the world design, Hello Games has breathed new life into No Man's Sky and I can't wait to dive right in.
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TechCrunch's Picks: The Top 8 Startups From Y Combinator's Summer '13 Demo Day
Convenience tech, developer assistance, and services for senior citizens were the big trends amongst the 45 startups that pitched on the record today at Y Combinator's Summer 2013 Demo Day. After conferring with 25 of the most prolific venture capitalists and huddling the TechCrunch team, we've picked the eight startups we believe have the most promise.
We got more consensus than usual that these eight startups are special. They could make us healthier, safer, and richer, while helping businesses with efficiency. Though mobile is still a focus for YC companies, financial services were popular this season, and there were plenty of "Uber for X" startups on stage.
You can read our write-ups of all 45 startups that pitched in Batch 1, Batch 2, and Batch 3 today. Most were polished, and showed off big ideas or smart business modela. Here are our highlights, in unranked order:
SpoonRocket – On-demand organic meal delivery
SpoonRocket's Demo Day pitch was filled with hype like "Fast Food 2.0" and "Uber for food", but their early data backs up those claims. The company cooks and delivers meat and vegetarian organic meals for $6 each, in supposedly as little as 10 minutes. By cooking just two different meals a day in bulk, it can pass on savings to customers, and in-car heaters keep food warm. SpoonRocket says it already has a $2 million a year run rate and is growing 112% per week. In its first market, Berkeley, California, it says it does more deliveries per day than GrubHub does in a month, and the local college students aren't even there yet. It plans to expand to urban centers across the country, though less dense area may be tricky. SpoonRocket wants to make the world eat cheaper, faster, and healthier.
Check out our earlier coverage of SpoonRocket here.
Panorama Education: School surveys
Panorama has a big ambition: To bring data analytics to every school in the United States, by powering polls of students, teachers, and parents and logging and analyzing the results.
The startup started small, as a side project for Panorama Education's three co-founders during their junior year at Yale, helping out school districts in the New Haven region with data analysis. By the time the founders graduated this past May, Panorama had evolved into a much bigger entity, having earned more than $500,000 in revenue. And the growth keeps coming — more than 3,600 schools nationwide are now paying customers of Panorama Education, and the company is profitable. Going forward, Panorama endeavors to power "a national dataset that every school will use to improve its performance."
Check out even more coverage on Panorama Education here.
Amulyte: The Modern Life Alert
Amulyte is targeting the 20 million senior citizens in the United States, providing a pendant and online portal that tracks their movements to provide help in case they fall. The pendant connects to cellular networks and has GPS, Wi-Fi and an accelerometer to detect falls. If a senior falls, it will alert contacts immediately and keep track of any movement.
The pendant sells for $149 and the service is $29 a month to provide a little peace of mind to seniors and their families. The company is working with a retirement home on a test of the service and to get it deployed in the market, but it sees a $10 billion market opportunity just in the U.S. alone.
Check out our earlier coverage of Amulyte here.
Buttercoin: Fast And Legal Bitcoin Exchange
Sending money across international borders is a huge $500 billion a year remittance industry characterized by exorbitant fees.
Buttercoin aims to disrupt it by letting you send money quickly, inexpensively, and legally via bitcoin. The company says its technology lets it send bitcoins 200,000 times faster than its competitors, and the whole thing is legal thanks to partnerships with licensed financial service providers in each country.
Buttercoin has found a way to transfer money at no cost to itself, and only charges a small fee to competitors when customers convert money into or out of bitcoin. By drastically reducing the fees people pay to send money home or transfer it around the world, Buttercoin is trying to become the default for international remittance. While it sounds complicated, we're told Buttercoin is the real deal.
Check out our deeper write-up of Buttercoin here.
True Link: Credit Cards For Old People
True Link Financial is building a "safe" credit card for cognitively impaired senior citizens who might not have the ability to see through scams or recognize when people are trying to take advantage of them.
They give out credit cards to the elderly and route all transactions in the Visa network through their own servers, where they double-check the transactions to see if they're reasonable (like spending a few dollars at an ice cream parlor) or to see if they're from known scams. The company says credit card companies make $1.9 billion a year from this demographic.
Check out more coverage of True Link right here.
EasyPost: Simplified Shipping
It's a big hassle for technologically savvy businesses to integrate with antiquated shipping services like UPS, USPS, and FedEx. EasyPost removes the friction by sitting between developers and the shippers, and offering a RESTful JSON API to connect them. This lets developers access the best shipping rates, tracking information and more. It charges $0.05 per shipping label, and is aiming to take a nice cut of the $26 billion shipping industry. It's been growing 179 percent month over month, has handled 70,000 shipments, and raised $850,000 from investors, including SV Angel. It's facing competitors like Postmaster and ShipHawk, but hopes to win the market by specializing in top-notch support so businesses always know where their shipments are.
Check out our earlier coverage of EasyPost here.
Standard Treasury: API For Commercial Banks
Standard Treasury is working on APIs for commercial banking that help ease transactions like transfers. They're currently in negotiations with 16 banks, including three of the five largest ones in the country. Those contracts could be worth anywhere from roughly $2 million to more than $15 million and they have potential banking clients asking for APIs down the line that tap into mobile and core banking.
Check out our earlier coverage of Standard Treasury here.
7 Cups Of Tea: Listener Marketplace
Everyone has a time in their lives when they just need to talk about their troubles — when they're going through a divorce, an illness in the family, issues with anxiety, and the like. There are typically two options for them: Family and friends, which is free but often comes with baggage; or therapy, which is expensive and often intimidating. 7 Cups of Tea aims to situate itself in the middle of those two options, with an online marketplace that connects people anonymously with trained "active listeners" that provide an empathetic ear for free or a voluntary fee or "tip." 7 Cups, which takes a 40 percent commission on all transactions, has seen solid growth since it launched eight weeks ago: It now has 160 active listeners on its platform and is now fielding more than 1,800 call and chat requests per week.
Check out our earlier coverage of 7 Cups here.
Congratulations to all the startups who sprinted through these last few months to prepare for today.
Additional reporting by Colleen Taylor, Kim-Mai Cutler, Ryan Lawler, and Jordan Crook.


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Howard Schoenfeld and his daughter Zahava stumbled upon a mysterious gravestone while strolling on the Long Island beach, July 2014.
BALTIMORE (JTA) – Howard Schoenfeld and his teenage daughter Zahava set out for a stroll along a Long Island Beach in New York on a recent Sunday morning.
Zahava likes to collect shells, so after parking at Oak Beach, a popular spot for vintage-car enthusiasts, they walked along the inlet.
Above the English appeared eight lines in Hebrew, each of the first letters spelling out the deceased's first and middle Jewish names, Hinda Rachel. The middle of the stone had her name and her father's, Simcha Asher.
Neither Schoenfeld nor his daughter knew what to make of the sight. Why would a gravestone be lying in the water, nowhere near a cemetery?
Turns out the Schnur gravestone wasn't the only one. Schoenfeld said an "uncountable" number of flat-lying gravestones combined to form the jetty they encountered that day. All but two – the other didn't seem to be for a Jewish person – faced down, he said.
"They couldn't have washed up somehow," Schoenfeld said. "They had to have been put there."
But by whom, and why? And who was Hannah Schnur?
Schoenfeld, a computer salesman from nearby Queens, used his smartphone to record the water splashing onto the graves. He posted the video on the Facebook page of Dan's Deals, a Web-based bazaar popular in the modern Orthodox community, and asked for assistance.
A subsequent article in the New York Post newspaper didn't mention the Schoenfelds or Schnur, but said the town of Babylon, where Oak Beach is located, had utilized gravestones to reconstruct a jetty damaged during Hurricane Gloria in 1985.
A town official said the granite stones were solicited from monument companies and cemeteries, which donated those containing misspellings or other flaws and apparently were going unused. The jetty's gravestones were supposed to be placed face down, the article said.
Schoenfeld, meanwhile, also posted an appeal on FailedMessiah.com, another Jewish website. One reader wrote that he learned of Babylon's using more than 800 gravestones for several jetties.
Another FailedMessiah reader found in researching Hannah Schnur that she was buried in Brooklyn's Washington Cemetery. The reader, who logged in as Mee-Samcha?, said he visited the cemetery the morning of July 22, several days before the Post story, and went to the gravesite, confirming through the death date and the Hebrew names of the daughter and father chiseled on the stone that it was the same Hannah Schnur. The only discrepancy appeared to be in one letter of her Hebrew name.
The present-day marker, the writer added, covers Hannah and her mother, Ester, who apparently died in 1962. Mee-Samcha? posited that "when Ester Schnur passed away, the existing (and in my opinion beautiful) stone was discarded and was replaced by a modern, simple joint stone." Hannah's sister Fannie, who died in 1967, is buried nearby. Her grave, too, states in Hebrew that she is the daughter of Simcha Asher, Mee-Samcha?wrote.
"Seeking Kin" called Washington Cemetery and learned from an employee that no one named Fannie Schnur or Ester Schnur is buried there. No next of kin for Hannah Schnur appears in the cemetery's records, he said, but a woman named Bella Schnur was paying for annual care of the grave until about 25 years ago.
The employee added that he could not determine whether the same information applied to Fannie without knowing the surname.
As to the original gravestone's ending up at Oak Beach? The man didn't know, but indicated that the cemetery today would not be involved.
"If there's an error on the stone, the family would have to deal with the monument company," the employee said. "We're not allowed to touch the stones."
Pat Vassilaros, a Pennsylvanian who has assisted "Seeking Kin" on several searches (http://www.jta.org/2014/04/14/life-religion/in-berlin-giving-wronged-olympians-their-glory) verified through U.S. and New York City census records that all were members of the same family.
In 1920, she said, Hannah Schnur worked as a bookkeeper for an importer. Her father, Samuel, owned a dance hall; he and his wife, Ester, were immigrants from Galicia. The family lived at 90 Columbia St. on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Hannah was the second of six children living there, with sisters Sadie, Annie, Bella and Fannie along with brother Jacob.
By the 1940 census, Vassilaros said, Samuel was dead and Ester, Annie, Bella and Fannie were living on West 173rd Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood.
This gravestone found on a Long Island, N.Y., beach set off a search into how it reached there and who was Hannah Schnur, the name on the stone, July 2014.
Schoenfeld said he feared that the gravestone found at the water's edge may have been desecrating the person's memory - a similar feeling that had struck him two years ago in Barcelona when he saw a Jewish gravestone embedded in a brick wall.
If Schnur kin come forward, "I'd tell them I saw [the gravestone is] there," Schoenfeld said.
"What else is there to tell them? They'd have to decide what to do with it."
Please email Hillel Kuttler at seekingkin@jta.org if you know the relatives of the late Hannah Schnur. If you would like "Seeking Kin" to write about your search for long-lost relatives and friends. Please include the principal facts and your contact information in a brief email. "Seeking Kin" is sponsored by Bryna Shuchat and Joshua Landes and family in loving memory of their mother and grandmother, Miriam Shuchat, a lifelong uniter of the Jewish people.


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Skills Training in Bangladesh Aimed at Local, Refugee Women
By Lisa Schlein
FILE - Rohingya refugee women fill their canisters with water at the Leda refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Dec. 16, 2017.
GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency calls a new training project in Cox's Bazar a potential "game changer" for local Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugee women who are learning potentially money-making skills.
The UNHCR has teamed up for the project with a local nongovernmental organization, the Ayesha Abed Foundation.
The program, which began in February and is now being scaled up, aims to provide income opportunities to hundreds of impoverished women by teaching them skills in craft production.
The U.N. refugee agency says the goal is to train 500 women by the end of the year. Half that number will be Rohingya refugee women and the other half will be women chosen from among the Bangladesh communities hosting them.
The UNHCR reports the women will receive a small stipend during the training period. If the project is successful, it says, it hopes to expand it to include hundreds more women.
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FILE - Rohingya refugees gather at a market inside a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 7, 2019.
The camps in Cox's Bazar hold more than 750,000 Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled to Bangladesh to escape violence and persecution in Myanmar in August 2017.
UNHCR spokeswoman Liz Throssell agrees the number of women enrolled in the training project represents only a tiny fraction of the vast refugee population. But she told VOA the worth of the project should not be based on numbers alone.
"Small numbers? Yes. But you have to start somewhere," she said. "It is providing income sources to these women. It is providing training, and as we have underscored, we are hoping that this will be expanded. So, it is offering income sources both for the local community and for the refugees."
Throssell said the local and refugee women are being taught different skills. She said local Bangladeshi women are learning silk screening, block printing and tailoring techniques. The refugee women in the camps, she said, are being taught to produce a variety of hand-sewn embroidery pieces.
She noted that most of the Rohingya refugee women in the program are widows or single-mother households aged between 18 and 40. None, she said, have had any previous sewing experience.
The items produced by the women will be sold in one of Bangladesh's best known retail outlets.
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Efforts Underway to Help Rohingya in Bangladesh Weather Next Monsoon Season
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and partners are scaling up emergency preparations to help hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees withstand a second monsoon season in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Heavy rains are expected in a few weeks. Aid agencies are racing to shore up flimsy shelters and stabilize shaky terrain before the monsoon season begins. UNHCR says the work ahead is monumental but preparations are off to a better start this year than last. …
UN: Climate Change in Bangladesh Could Rob Future from Millions of Children
The U.N. Children's Fund says climate change in Bangladesh is threatening the lives and futures of 19 million children or one-third of all children under age 18 in the country. The report forecasts a grim future for millions of children who live in Bangladesh's flood- and drought-prone lowlands in the country's north and in the storm-ravaged coastline along the Bay of Bengal. They are the areas most likely to be devastated by floods, cyclones and other…
UN: Hundreds of Thousands of Rohingya Refugees Face Uncertain Future
Investigator says Bangladesh's welcome of Rohingya refugees is wearing thin and the situation in Myanmar is too dangerous for them to return
Bangladesh Tells UN It Cannot Accept More Rohingya Refugees
Bangladesh has told the United Nations Security Council that it cannot take in any more Rohingya refugees.Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque told the body Thursday: "I regret to inform the council that Bangladesh would no longer be in a position to accommodate more people from Myanmar." He accused Myanmar of making "hollow promises and various obstructionist approaches" in the negotiations to return the Rohingyas to Myanmar."Is Bangladesh paying the price for…
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Lang Lang thrills Ravinia gala crowd
By By Candace Jordan and Special to Tribune Newspapers
Lang Lang at the Ravinia Festival Women's Board Gala at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois on Saturday July 28, 2013. (Yvette Marie Dostatni, Chicago Tribune)
On the elegant, manicured lawns of Ravinia, the Women's Board presented its annual black-tie gala July 27 with more than 800 guests in attendance. The evening featured renowned classical pianist Lang Lang, whose career was launched 14 years ago on the Ravinia Festival stage and who now enjoys global appeal. He performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ravinia music director James Conlon, in a program that included works by Verdi, Beethoven, Britten, Prokofiev and Wagner.
The evening began with a reception on the north lawn, followed by the concert, which sold out all 3,400 seats of Ravinia's pavilion. Party Scapes' artist Lothar Speer was on hand, painting the event as it happened, while guests mixed and mingled around the Fernando Botero and Lynn Chadwick sculptures on this cool summer night.
During the concert, Lang enjoyed multiple standing ovations.
"I work with the World Wildlife Fund, whose purpose is to save more tigers, so tonight we have a special version of 'Fanfare for Tigers,'" Lang said before his surprise premiere performance.
Conlon concluded the concert with Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries."
An Asian-themed dinner catered by Jewell Events Catering followed, with decor by Event Creative, in a special marquee tent.
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Co-chaired by Caroline Huebner and Lisa Brown Tribbett, the event raised $1.2 million to support America's oldest not-for-profit music festival and its Reach*Teach*Play educational programs. More than 75,000 people are served through these programs each year. "The funds we raised help us put instruments in the hands of students in public schools without music programs of their own, just as it helps us to bring new listeners to classical concerts at the festival," said Ravinia Women's Board Chair Jeanne Denison.
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Staff Sgt. David W. Textor, 27, was killed July 15 while conducting combat operations in Mosul, Iraq while serving with Company A, 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne).
He deployed in support of Operation Iraq Freedom in May 2008 as a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula. This was his first deployment in support of the War on Terror.
Textor, a native of Jamestown, N.Y., attended Randolph Central High School where he competed in football, wrestling and track. He volunteered for military service in May 2002 as an infantryman. Upon completion of his initial entry training at Fort Benning, Ga., he was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Textor began the Special Forces Qualification Course in May 2005, and he earned the coveted "Green Beret" in November 2006. He was then assigned to 3rd Bn., 1st SFG (A) at Fort Lewis, Wash., as a Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha weapons sergeant.
Textor's military education includes the Warrior Leaders Course, Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape Course, Basic Airborne Course, Ranger School and Special Forces Qualification Course.
His awards and decorations include Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal with campaign star, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, NCO Professional Development Ribbon with Numeral "2" device, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Combat Infantryman Badge, Expert Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab and the Special Forces Tab.
Textor was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal and Meritorious Service Medal and Combat Infantryman Badge (all are reflected in the in the awards and decoration section above).
Textor is survived by his wife, Colette, and their five children Caleb, McKenna, Ryan, Boden and Jadon of Olympia, Wash.; his father Bill Textor, of Pine City, Minn.; his mother and stepfather, Jennie and Kevin Lindberg of Roanoke, Va.; and his five sisters, Laurie, Michelle, Terra, Karen and Kellie.


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Q: Attachable property not found in generic type I have a generic class GridViewItemDragDrop<T> in which a DependencyProperty is RegisterAttached:
namespace MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Library.Model.DragDrop
{
    public class GridViewItemDragDrop<T> where T : class
    {
        public static readonly DependencyProperty IsEnabledProperty =
            DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("IsEnabled",
                                                typeof(bool),
                                                typeof(GridViewItemDragDrop<T>),
                                                new PropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback(OnIsEnabledPropertyChanged)));

Now, when I want to instantiate this property from within a GridView like the following:
<UserControl x:Class="MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Library.Controls.WorkItemGridView"
             xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
             xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
             xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Library.Controls"
             xmlns:telerik="http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation"
             xmlns:area="clr-namespace:MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Model.Area;assembly=MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Model"
             xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
             xmlns:aggregates="clr-namespace:MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Library.Aggregates"
             xmlns:dragdrop="clr-namespace:MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Library.Model.DragDrop">

<telerik:RadGridView x:Name="grvWorkItemItems" AllowDrop="True" dragdrop:GridViewItemDragDrop.IsEnabled="True"
                     d:DataContext="{d:DesignInstance Type=area:WorkItemViewItem}">

I get this in the error list:

The attachable property 'IsEnabled' was not found in type 'GridViewItemDragDrop'.

and get this in the build output

The property 'GridViewItemDragDrop.IsEnabled' does not exist in XML namespace 'clr-namespace:MobileAccess.ProjectExplorer.Library.Model.DragDrop'

I have a feeling that this has something to do with the class being a generic class. I can't seem to find a way to make it work. A little help is much appreciated.


The injustices of life in government, oppression and death can cloud our vision of the heavenly life. Don't be shocked by injustice. It is the result of man's fallen nature. Don't give in to injustice. Be a difference maker. Seeking God in prayer allows Him to penetrate our hearts for this hurting world.


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Gautegiz Arteaga () is a town in Biscay, in the northern Spanish autonomous community of the Basque Country.

It is located on the right bank of the Urdaibai estuary.

Its most emblematic building is the Arteaga Tower, a medieval castle rebuilt in the 19th century for the French empress Eugénie de Montijo.

References

External links
 GAUTEGIZ ARTEAGA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)

Municipalities in Biscay


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by admin-eric | Feb 17, 2017 | Fine Arts America | 5 comments
How do artists describe their love affair with art? Take a look!
"I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red."
"I hardly ever paint people unless I'm rather in love with them."
— Sylvia Sleigh
"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist himself has fallen in love."
— Alfred Sisley
"After a thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint."
— Rex Brandt
"I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."
— Andrew Wyeth
"I so love carving. It seems to me to be the most rhythmic and marvelous way of working on live, sensuous material."
— Barbara Hepworth
"It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman. He must love to caress his canvas, too."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Throughout the time I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it."
— Joan Miro
"Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it'? But hopefully it is beautiful."
Francesco Clemente
"When Vincent and I were together in Arles, both of us insane and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red and he loved yellow."
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
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Judith Desrosiers on February 18, 2017 at 8:59 am
I know with myself and the canvas,it is just myself the paints and the canvas,they are never going to be to busy for me,they are never going to have to suddenly send a text or message someone more important,no they are there for the duration,they will stay by my side constant and loyal companions,seeking only to deliver what I desire with my heart,what better love can there be ?after that everything is imperfect and flawed,the beauty of the canvas lives on,a story which keeps on being told,and the paint sits proudly,aware of the part played,thank you dearest companions
Trilby Cole on February 20, 2017 at 4:45 pm
Only an artist can understand how meaningful each one of these statements are
Ronda Breen on February 21, 2017 at 1:37 pm
I start a conversation with my canvas by applying paint randomly, and then like a friend I trust wholeheartedly the painting will guide me to the finish without fail.
Debra OBrien Warburton on February 21, 2017 at 6:10 pm
Art has the ability to stimulate the brain, the heart and the spirit into a feeling of pure joy and wellbeing. Debra OBrien
donna de la cruz on February 22, 2017 at 2:34 am
enjoyed hearing the artist's speak to us of their love affair with painting/art/color/shapes/the love of my life (after Jesus). thank you for sharing this.


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Mangaluru, Apr 12: Sixteen students of Centre for Advanced Learning (CFAL), Mangaluru have been selected for the prestigious Kishore Vaignanik Protsahan Yojana' (KVPY) fellowship, informed Severine Rosario, coordinator, CFAL.
KVPY which is one of the most prestigious examinations conducted in India is initiated and funded by the department of science and technology, government of India. The objective of the exam is to identify students with talents and aptitude for research, help them realize their academic potential, encourage them to take up research careers in basic science and ensure the growth of the best scientific minds of research and development in the country. These examinations require analytical skills and logical thinking – rote learning or memorization will not yield results. CFAL has a progressive record of nurturing KVPY scholars year after year with highest percentage, selections and ranks and the students have consistently attained the top ranks in Mangaluru.
Programme coordinator of CFAL Vijay Moras and selected students were present.


Discouragement can be difficult to identify because it often masquerades as something else. It can wear the disguise of frustration, leading us to believe that our best efforts will never result in anything useful. It can cloak itself in fear of failure, making us think that we might try but won't ever accomplish the things we dream of. Or it may wear the costume of self pity, causing us to think that no one has it as tough as we do.
How do we deal with such a destructive enemy that hides behind these false fronts? Nehemiah fought off discouragement by focussing on the big picture in the face of difficulty.
Our God is a truly awesome God, and we get the big picture, acknowledging Him in all His power and glory, we will not be discouraged. We will be able to uncloak discouragement in all its disguises and take heart in God's power and might.


The word "Nixonian" started trending on Twitter and Google saw a spike in searches for "Saturday Night Massacre" after President Trump suddenly fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening.
Why are we seeing comparisons to former President Richard Nixon? Nixon, as his presidential library pointed out Tuesday night, never fired his FBI director. But he did fire the man leading an investigation into his White House.
In May of 1973, Archibald Cox was appointed as a special prosecutor by the Nixon administration's Justice Department. He was tasked with investigating the June 1972 break-in by Republican operatives at the Watergate Hotel, where the Democratic National Committee was headquartered in the summer leading up to that year's presidential election.
The Nixon administration had provided Special Prosecutor Cox and his office with summaries of taped recordings that documented conversations held in the Oval Office between President Nixon and White House officials. But Cox was not content with the summaries alone and issued a subpoena to Nixon for the tapes themselves. Nixon refused to comply with the subpoena, and a day after it was issued, he began to make moves in firing Cox.
On Saturday, Oct. 20, 1973, Nixon reached out to Attorney General Elliot Richardson, the only person with the power to fire Cox, requesting that he dismiss the special prosecutor. Richardson refused and resigned from his position, transferring power to Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, who also refused to fire Cox and resigned.
Was the President's decision to fire James Comey "Nixonian"?
With the two top posts of the Justice Department vacant, the third-ranking official, Solicitor General Robert Bork, became the acting Attorney General. He then complied with Nixon's order and fired Cox. Bork also told the FBI to seal the offices of the special prosecutor and transfer its responsibilities to the Justice Department.
"Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people," Cox said in defense of his investigation into Watergate.
The firing of Richardson, Ruckelshaus, and Cox was immediately dubbed the "Saturday Night Massacre" by the press. Nixon was heavily criticized at the time and began the downward spiral to his resignation on August 8, 1974.
In this way, Comey's firing is reminiscent to some of the Saturday Night Massacre. Both cases have provoked outcry from Republicans and Democrats alike, with many of the latter demanding the appointment of a special counsel to conduct an investigation.
The dismissal of Comey, who was only three years into his ten-year term, raised eyebrows because the FBI is currently investigating alleged ties between the Russian government and some of Mr. Trump's associates.
Trump, acting under the requests of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who months earlier recused himself of all Russia related matters, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, claimed that Comey's firing was related to his handling of his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Until Comey, the only other FBI director to have been fired was William S. Sessions, who is not related to Jeff Sessions. In July 1993, former president Bill Clinton fired the Reagan-nominated director after Attorney General Janet Reno said that Sessions "can no longer effectively lead the bureau."
Clinton had asked Sessions to resign on these grounds, in addition to his unethical spending of government money for personal use, but after Sessions refused, he was dismissed.


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Q: Attempting to create index for MySQL query I don't have a lot of experience yet with MySQL and with databases in general, though I'm going head on into the development of a large-scale web app anyway. The following is the search query for my app that allows users to search for other users. Now that the primary table for this query dev_Profile has about 14K rows, the query is considerably slow (about 5 secs when running a query that returns the largest set possible). I'm sure there are many optimization tweaks that could be made here, but would creating an index be the most fundamental first step to do here? I've been first trying to learn about indexes on my own, and how to make an index for a query with multiple joins, but I'm just not quite grasping it. I'm hoping that seeing things in the context of my actual query could be more educational.
Here's the basic query:
SELECT
  dev_Profile.ID AS pid,
  dev_Profile.Name AS username,
  IF(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, st1.lastActivityTime, UTC_TIMESTAMP()) > 300 OR ISNULL(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, st1.lastActivityTime, UTC_TIMESTAMP())), 0, 1) AS online,
  FLOOR(DATEDIFF(CURRENT_DATE, dev_Profile.DOB) / 365) AS age,
  IF(dev_Profile.GenderID=1, 'M', 'F') AS sex,
  IF(ISNULL(st2.Description), 0, st2.Description) AS relStatus,
  st3.Name AS country,
  IF(dev_Profile.RegionID > 0, st4.Name, 0) AS region,
  IF(dev_Profile.CityID > 0, st5.Name, 0) AS city,
  IF(ISNULL(st6.filename), 0, IF(st6.isApproved=1 AND st6.isDiscarded=0 AND st6.isModerated=1 AND st6.isRejected=0 AND isSizeAvatar=1, 1, 0)) AS hasPhoto,
  IF(ISNULL(st6.filename), IF(dev_Profile.GenderID=1, 'http://www.mysite.com/lib/images/avatar-male-small.png', 'http://www.mysite.com/lib/images/avatar-female-small.png'), IF(st6.isApproved=1 AND st6.isDiscarded=0 AND st6.isModerated=1 AND st6.isRejected=0 AND isSizeAvatar=1, CONCAT('http://www.mysite.com/uploads/', st6.filename), IF(dev_Profile.GenderID=1, 'http://www.mysite.com/lib/images/avatar-male-small.png', 'http://www.mysite.com/lib/images/avatar-female-small.png'))) AS photo,
  IF(ISNULL(dev_Profile.StatusMessage), IF(ISNULL(dev_Profile.AboutMe), IF(ISNULL(st7.AboutMyMatch), 0, st7.AboutMyMatch), dev_Profile.AboutMe), dev_Profile.StatusMessage) AS text
FROM
  dev_Profile
  LEFT JOIN dev_User AS st1 ON st1.ID = dev_Profile.UserID
  LEFT JOIN dev_ProfileRelationshipStatus AS st2 ON st2.ID = dev_Profile.ProfileRelationshipStatusID
  LEFT JOIN Country AS st3 ON st3.ID = dev_Profile.CountryID
  LEFT JOIN Region AS st4 ON st4.ID = dev_Profile.RegionID
  LEFT JOIN City AS st5 ON st5.ID = dev_Profile.CityID
  LEFT JOIN dev_Photos AS st6 ON st6.ID = dev_Profile.PhotoAvatarID
  LEFT JOIN dev_DesiredMatch AS st7 ON st7.ProfileID = dev_Profile.ID
WHERE
  dev_Profile.ID != 11222 /* $_SESSION['ProfileID'] */
  AND st1.EmailVerified = 'true'
  AND st1.accountIsActive=1
ORDER BY st1.lastActivityTime DESC LIMIT 900;

The speed of this query (too slow, as you can see):
900 rows in set (5.20 sec)

The EXPLAIN for this query:
+----+-------------+-------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table       | type   | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref                                         | rows  | Extra                                        |
+----+-------------+-------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | dev_Profile | range  | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | NULL                                        | 13503 | Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st2         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 1       | syk.dev_Profile.ProfileRelationshipStatusID |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st3         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.CountryID                   |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st4         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.RegionID                    |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st5         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.CityID                      |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st1         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.UserID                      |     1 | Using where                                  |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st6         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.PhotoAvatarID               |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st7         | ALL    | NULL          | NULL    | NULL    | NULL                                        |   442 |                                              |
+----+-------------+-------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------------------------------+

It's also possible that the query can have more WHERE and HAVING clauses, if a user's search contains additional criteria. The additional clauses are (set with example values):
AND dev_Profile.GenderID = 1
AND dev_Profile.CountryID=127
AND dev_Profile.RegionID=36
AND dev_Profile.CityID=601
HAVING (age >= 18 AND age <= 50)
AND online=1
AND hasPhoto=1

This is the EXPLAIN for the query using all possible WHERE and HAVING clauses:
+----+-------------+-------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table       | type   | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref                                         | rows  | Extra                                        |
+----+-------------+-------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | dev_Profile | range  | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | NULL                                        | 13503 | Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st2         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 1       | syk.dev_Profile.ProfileRelationshipStatusID |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st3         | const  | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const                                       |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st4         | const  | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const                                       |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st5         | const  | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | const                                       |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st1         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.UserID                      |     1 | Using where                                  |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st6         | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 4       | syk.dev_Profile.PhotoAvatarID               |     1 |                                              |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | st7         | ALL    | NULL          | NULL    | NULL    | NULL                                        |   442 |                                              |
+----+-------------+-------------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+-------+----------------------------------------------+

I'm not even sure if this is TMI or not enough.
Is an index the right step to take here? If so, could someone get me going in the right direction?

A: The right step is whatever speeds up your query!
With your original query, I would say that you end up doing a table scan on the dev_Profile table as there are no indexable conditions on it. With your modified query, it depends on the number of different values allowed in the column - if there are may duplicates then the index may not get used as it has to fetch the table anyway in order to complete the rest of the query.
I have read your plan correctly then you are joining all of your other tables on an indexed non-nullable column already (except for st7, which doesn't seem to be using an index for some reason). It therefore looks as if you should not be using left joins. This would then allow the use of an index on (EmailVerified, accountIsActive, lastActivityTime) on table st1.

A: One should use indexes that are relevant for frequent queries. An index just slightly degrades write-performance while immensely speeds searches. As a rule of thumb, objects own IDs should be indexed as PRIMARY key and it's a good idea to have an index on column-groups that appear always together in a query. I figure you should index GenderID, CountryID, RegionID, CityID, age, online and hasPhoto. You should provide the schema of at least dev_Profile if you think that the right indexes are not used.
Notice that country/region/city IDs might represent redundant information. Your design may be suboptimal.
Notice2: you're doing awfully lot of application logic in SELECT. SQL is not designed for these lots of IF-in-IF-in-IF clauses, and because of the URLs the query is returning much larger a table than if would if you just requested the relevant field (i.e. filename, genderID, and so on). There might be times when those exact interpreted values have to be returned by the query, by in general you are better off (in the aspects of speed and readability) to code these processing steps into your application code.


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Historian Randall Balmer made the case recently in the pages of Politico that the Christian Right did not emerge as a response to loosened abortion laws. Rather, the "real" roots of the New Right, Balmer argues, were in the defense of racial segregation. Unfortunately, the argument looks more like punditry than history.
The Roots of Racist Academies?
In other words, in the late 1970s, evangelical Protestants got involved in politics in big numbers because they were worried about preserving their status as a certain sort of favored class in American life. This included things such as racial segregation, but to say that racial segregationism drove the movement is woefully misleading. It was a broad sweep of issues, most urgently educational issues, that drove evangelicals back into politics in the 1970s.
Balmer makes the solid case that abortion did not spark the emergence of the New Christian Right. The timing just doesn't work. In the immediate aftermath of the Roe v. Wade decision, evangelicals seemed largely indifferent to the issue of abortion. For readers who find this hard to believe, a look at Daniel Williams' book God's Own Party will help.
What DID motivate conservative evangelicals, Balmer notes, was the increasing pressure on private religious schools from the IRS. In the wake of decades of desegregation laws, the federal government had begun revoking tax exemptions from private schools that discriminated on the basis of race. As Balmer correctly points out, this anti-federal animus motivated far more conservative evangelicals in the 1970s than did pro-life campaigns.
the real roots of the religious right lie not the defense of a fetus but in the defense of racial segregation.
It is true that school segregation played a role in the rise of the evangelical private school movement. And it is certainly true that Bob Jones University maintained a rigorous white supremacist position long after most other white conservatives had abandoned it. But to argue that racial segregation somehow formed the "real roots" of the New Christian Right oversimplifies the historical realities.
Please don't get me wrong: I'm no apologist for racism or for conservative evangelicalism. I agree that many white conservative evangelicals, like other white Americans, had and have a shameful attitude toward racial equality and racial integration. My argument is an academic one: If we want to understand the history of conservative evangelicalism, we won't get far by insisting that racism was the "real root" of their political activism in the 1970s.
That sort of argument is sadly similar to attempts by conservatives to smear all Democrats by citing the radical words of leftists such as Saul Alinsky or Bill Ayers. It's not that some Democrats don't sympathize or even follow Alinsky or Ayers. But to say that such folks are the "real root" of liberal thinking is just not accurate.
To make a better historical case, Balmer should have argued that issues about schooling motivated evangelicals in the 1970s to get involved in politics. Those issues included racial segregation, but they also included questions of school discipline, perceived drug use at schools, perceived immorality at public schools, and a host of other issues. For all these reasons, a burst of new private schools popped up to serve conservative evangelical families. And the defense of such schools drove many evangelicals into politics in the 1970s.
Were these schools "segregation academies?" The history is clear, but not simple. Certainly, some white evangelical parents—along with white non-religious parents—chose private religious schools as safe racist harbors in the days of school desegregation. The timing proves it. Though many evangelical parents may have cited 1960s Supreme Court rulings such as Engel v. Vitale (1962) or Abington v. Schempp (1963) as the time when public schools went to hell, the burst of private Christian schools did not happen until the late 1970s.
Not coincidentally, those were the years when large school districts came under pressure for the first time to desegregate by race. But we commit an intellectual error if we conclude glibly that such schools ONLY represented racist havens. I've wrestled with the question of "Christian day" schools and racial segregation in a book chapter a few years back. Consider a couple of complicating factors.
The situation in Louisville, for instance, seems at first to confirm the hypothesis of racial integration as a primary factor in the growth of private evangelical schools. After that city's court order to bus children in 1974 as part of an ambitious desegregation plan, there was a spike in enrollment at the city's existing Catholic and secular private schools. In addition, a crop of new evangelical schools immediately opened to serve white families who did not want to bus their children. One study found that most of the parents at these new evangelical schools identified desegregation as their primary reason for leaving the public schools. Another academic study of Louisville's desegregation history, however, suggests some important qualifications. At two private evangelical schools that had existed for years before the 1974 court order, only one of sixty-eight fundamentalist families used the schools as a "haven" from busing. Although whites fled from public schools to a range of private schools, this indicates that at least some of the existing evangelical schools did not take advantage of the surge of white interest in private education.
Another statistic that confounds glib conclusions about the primarily racial motivation for new Christian schools is that the largest recipient of white students fleeing from desegregation was not private evangelical schools but rather the booming suburban public high schools of the 1970s and 1980s. Contrary to popular impressions, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the numbers of students attending private schools nationwide dropped from 13.6 percent in 1960 to 9.8 percent in 1990. Meanwhile, the proportion of white students attending public elementary and high schools nationwide increased markedly. Those students, however, had moved mainly into suburban public schools. For instance, the suburban schools surrounding Atlanta served ninety-eight percent of the area's white students in 1986.
Throughout the twentieth century, conservative evangelicals cared deeply about education. In the 1970s, savvy political organizers recognized that many evangelicals thought schooling had become threatened. As Professor Balmer correctly points out, part of that perception came from the perceived "threat" of racial mixing in schools. But that was only one element of the perceived danger to education.
The real roots of the Christian Right can't be limited only to racism. Rather, we will do well to understand how profoundly important educational issues were to the new political mobilization that swept evangelical America in the 1970s.