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OSA – Outsider Scents Award is the international competition that celebrates the best original olfactory compositions created by debutants. The award intends to encourage the experimental use of the language of perfume, acknowledging the role of handcrafting, self-production, and the work of those who feel they are outsiders to the composition of perfume, in stimulating an ever more popular olfactory expertise, innovation, and the birth of future talents and creative excellence.
The acronym for the Outsider Scents Award is "OSA", which means to dare in Italian. It is a call to overcome industry fences in the production of perfume, making room for the outsiders, often with skills that are synergic with the values and ideas in the market. It is a stimulus to dare to create perfume compositions regardless of the intrinsic limits related to the use of perfume as an expressive language, acknowledging the known problem of access to training and the tools of the craft. It is an invitation to "dare" to create a fertile context for comparison and exchange as much for aspiring perfumers as for operators.
OSA – Outsider Scents Award offers a topic that must inspire the submissions. Proposals sent in will be judged independently by jury from outside of the promoter's organization, made up of industry experts whose names will be announced at the time of the assignment of the award.
Submissions must be received by the organizators before 4 March, 2018.
La cerimonia di premiazione si svolgerà durante la nona edizione di Smell – Festival dell'Olfatto.
1. Who can participate?
The competition is open to debutants. They may be aspiring fragrance creators, self-production enthusiasts, and anyone who is inspired to compose an olfactory interpretation of the theme proposed by the competition. Excluded from the Award are professional fragrance creators who have made perfumes released to the market and can't be defined "debutants", owners of perfume brands already known to the public, or anyone participating for a commercial brand.
2. Requirements for Perfumes
The perfumes submitted to the competition must be the candidate's original creation. They must also be completely unknown, and therefore cannot be present on the market as a product (at least until the end of the competition). The violation of these requirements will lead to immediate disqualification. Furthermore, the perfumes must be pertinent to the topic proposed.
3. Topic Proposed
Participants in the Outsider Scents Award 2018 are invited to submit their creative interpretation, through the language of perfume, on the topic of the Ninth Edition of Smell Festival dell'Olfatto, which is "PLAYTIME". The inspirational presentation of the topic of the year is available on the website www.smellfestival.it. Creations that are capable of conceptualizing the topic with a clear bond between the olfactory composition and the author's reflection are of specific interest.
4. The Jury
OSA – Outsider Scents Award employs a Professional Jury that, in its composition of members, reflects the multiple aspects and interests of perfume and creative experience. The Jury is nominated by the Award's promoters. Until the end of voting, the name of its members is kept strictly confidential. The judging parameters are announced and made known to the participants in this competition.
The names of the finalists and the winner will be announced publicly with complete respect for transparency. Finalists will be contacted by telephone or e-mail before the award ceremony.
In addition to the Professional Judges, a Jury composed by Adjiumi's members (the Italian Community of fragrance enthusiasts), will assign a special mention to one of the finalists.
5. Results and Award
The names of the OSA finalists will be made public a few weeks before the award ceremony through the Smell Festival website and other communications channels used for the event.
The OSA Award consists in:
a prize certification for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place fragrances
a prize certification for the Adjiumi special mention award
The prize will be awarded during a public ceremony during the 9th edition of Smell – Festival dell'Olfatto. Timing and details for the event will be provided on the website: www.smellfestival.it.
6. Technical Requirements for the Composition
European Candidates: The composition (max. 1 per participant) must arrive in an alcoholic solution in one (1) 50 ml vial. The vials must be simple bottles with a screw cap, without labels or writing. Not decoration or personalization is allowed.
Extra-UE Candidates: To facilitate shipment, the composition (max. 1 per participant) must be sent to the OSA mail address in an undiluted form (therefore: no alcohol) in a sufficient quantity to make 50 ml of the scent. The candidates must indicate in detail, with an annexed document, the procedure for the alcoholic dilution (percent, method of maceration and filtering) which will be performed by OSA personnel. The vials must be simple bottles with a screw cap, without labels or writing, without decoration or personalization. It is recommended that compositions be sent at least 15 to 20 days before the competition deadline.
7. How to participate
All materials must reach the organizators before and no later than than March 4, 2018.
1) Visit the webpage http://osa.smellfestival.it/en/ and:
a - Click on "Submission" and pay € 30.00 as a contribution for organizational expenses
b - Once that has been done, login to the website and fill in the Participation Form with the information requested for the fragrance: title, concept, list of ingredients (without quantity details).
c - Attach to the Submission Form a picture of yours and the Release Form as explained on the website.
2) Send the fragrance in a package no larger than 145x145x400 mm. Write your name on the package and on a paper sheet that you will include in it. Ship to: ORABLU, P.O. Box 25, via del Pontiere 3, 37122 Verona VR - Italy
8. Parameters for Judging
Relevance to the olfactory topic proposed: Up to 10 points
Balance of the composition: Up to 8 points
Careful selection of the raw materials: Up to 8 points
Originality of the composition: Up to 8 points
Mastery of expressive tools: Up to 8 points
Originality of concept: Up to 8 points
Total 50 points maximum
9. Standard of Behavior
In order to promote the impartial evaluation by the Jury Members and the anonymity of the compositions for evaluation, all participants are requested to keep the details for their application confidential. Specifically, no information that could make identify the fragrance should be shared on public websites. Furthermore, candidates must not reveal or share any confidential information of which they become aware (names of judges, finalists, etc.) without prior authorization from the organization.
Lack of respect for these standards of behavior can lead to the exclusion of a submission from the competition under the incontestable judgment of the organization. The judges commit to maintaining their nomination secret and confidential until the organizers release the official news of the composition of the Jury at the end of the evaluation period. Furthermore, the Jury commits to not entertaining personal relations with candidates, which could compromise the anonymity of the compositions submitted and the impartiality of their judgment.
10. Personal Information
Participants must give their authorization (using the dedicated release form provided with the application form) for:
1 – Distribution of the materials sent within the activities of the OSA competition.
2 – Public presentation of the composition and relative information provided during Smell – Festival dell'Olfatto and the OSA award ceremony.
3 - Any publication of personal photographs relative to the prize ceremony.
Furthermore, participants must authorize the ORABLU association *using the dedicated release form provided with the application form) to handle their personal information for their participation in the "OSA – Outsider Scents Award" 2018. The data will be handled according to the current regulation (Italian Legislative Decree 196/03) and for the sole use associated with the award competition. The data will not be shared with any third parties.
INFORMATION STATEMENT – Information statement according to Italian Law 169/2003 as modified regarding Protection of Personal Information. The data handling, for which we guarantee maximum confidentiality, is performed for the sole purpose of the award competition in which you are participating. The participants' personal information will not be communicated or shared with any third parties and the participant can request that his/her data be deleted and/or modified by writing to the ORABLU association | Smell - Festival dell'Olfatto at the addresses provided in the announcement for participation.
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Experts Claim Corsica 'Cat-Fox,' Once Thought to Be a Myth, Could Be Its Own Adorable Species
Matt McNulty
People June 18, 2019
Researchers at the National Office for Hunting and Wildlife claim the Corsica "cat-fox" could be a new species of feline, following a study on the animal presented on Friday, Radio France Internationale reports.
Although the "cat-fox" initially appears to be a regular domesticated cat, it is actually quite bigger than the average feline, with larger ears and a body measuring around three feet in length, according to researchers involved with the study.
The Corsica "cat-fox" also has overly-developed canine teeth and black tufts of fur at the end of its tail.
"It's a very discreet, nocturnal animal," says Pierre Benedetti, an environmental technician and researcher with the National Office for Hunting and Wildlife. "This is an extraordinary discovery"
VIDEO: In the Asco forest in Corsica, two agents of the National Hunting and Wildlife Office (ONCFS) show AFP what they think is a new feline species pic.twitter.com/txeLeqzjhw
— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 14, 2019
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While the Corsica "cat-fox" may be a newly discovered species, Bendetti says the animal has been written about in literature in the past, and accused, by local shepherds, of killing smaller livestock.
However, Friday's presentation was the first time the cat's existence has been scientifically proposed.
Carlu-Antone Cecchini, a scientist in charge of wildcat research for the organization, told the Agence France-Presse that the "cat-fox" feline species has been considered a myth, and that many people "thought they were crazy" for pursuing it.
A lone Corsica "cat-fox" was initially discovered after getting caught in a chicken coop in Olcani on the Mediterranean island back in 2008, when researchers first began tracking the wildcat.
Since then, 12 of the felines have been captured and examined by researchers before being released back into the wild.
Corsica 'Cat-Fox' | PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFP/Getty
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Hair taken from infrared traps showed that the DNA of a Corsica "cat-fox" differed from that of European wildcats, prompting researchers to take a further look into the potentially newly-discovered species.
The male cat depicted in the video and photos above, aged between four and six years old, was implanted with an electronic chip to track its movements. The cat was also fitted with a GPS collar, according to researchers.
While Friday's presentation on the species certainly illuminates the existence of this furry "cat-fox" hybrid, it will take more time to fully comprehend the animals eating and reproductive habits.
"It could've arrived at the time of the second human colonization which dates back 6,500 years before our era. If this hypothesis is confirmed, it's origin would be considered middle-eastern," Benedetti posited.
"Ultimately, we would like to see this cat recognized and protected."
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Roberta Gambarini: Roberta Gambarini: Easy To Love
By VICTOR L. SCHERMER
Roberta Gambarini
Easy To Love
Kindred Rhythm
I first heard vocalist Roberta Gambarini perform a few years ago at the Jazz Standard in New York, soon after she arrived in America from Italy. It was clear even then that she had star potential and, as expected, she has now begun to take her place among the jazz greats, with nowhere to go but over the top. This debut CD is long overdue.
Gambarini has thorough command of a pure, clear soprano voice, perfect pitch, and a natural and intuitive grasp of jazz. Her timing and articulation are exquisite. That is why she has performed with, and garnered the support of, such significant musicians and groups as Hank Jones, James Moody, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band, and Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Quintet.
What is totally mind-blowing about Gambarini's singing is the way she does scat. You have to hear it to believe it—she improvises with an agility, virtuosity and nuance of phrasing that are beyond all expectation. If Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan had heard Gambarini, they might have felt the need to go back to music school. She is perhaps the first female vocalist so fully to build bebop and post-bop influences into her scatting. She sings like Charlie Parker played the alto sax—with a lightness, ease and mastery that is never strained, but at times achieving an intensity, not through volume or dramatic inflections, but in her musicality itself. In this respect, she is unique among even the greatest jazz singers, past or contemporary.
"On The Sunny Side Of The Street" is a good example of Gambarini's bebop-derived combination of scat and vocalese. Brief syllabic mentions of Sonny Stitt (get the pun to the tune's title?) and Dizzy tell us what the singer is up to. On "Lover Come Back To Me," on the other hand, she shows that she can outdo Vaughan and Fitzgerald when it comes to pre-bop, swinging scat.
The other tracks on the album do what those on a debut CD are supposed to do—provide examples of contrasting flavors and nuances. Gambarini's beautiful rendition of "Porgy, I's Your Woman Now/I Loves You Porgy," for instance, shows her lyrical expressiveness and emotional depth. "Only Trust Your Heart" shows how she can handle a cool bossa nova sound. In "The Two Lonely People" she delivers an existential blues commentary on modern alienation. Then there are standards such as "Lover Man" and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" which prove her mettle with the Great American Songbook.
On "Centerpiece," James Moody joins Gambarini in trading scat choruses. At first it seems like Moody and his bizarre inflections will win the duel (he even has a stab at yodeling). But Gambarini adds some fireworks at the end which put Moody to shame.
Whether in person or on a recording, Gambarini carries herself with a genuineness and insouciance that can distract from awareness of what a vocal sensation she is. She offers a pleasant contrast to the ultra-stylized, intensely controlled singers we hear most from these days. Her persona reminds me of the Johnny Mercer tune, "When The World Was Young:" she tells us "where the stars were strung," when we all still had a touch of youthful innocence and spontaneity.
When listening to Roberta Gambarini, you will have to forgo the sophistication and minimalism of some other current singers—but if you do so, you'll find within her singing a treasure trove of honesty, precision and virtuosity. Simply put, Gambarini is a fabulous jazz singer, and this album does her prodigious talent proud.
Tracks and Personnel
Tracks: Easy to Love; Only Trust Your Heart; Lover Man; On The Sunny Side Of The Street; Porgy, I's Your Woman Now/I Loves You, Porgy; Lover Come Back To Me; The Two Lonely People; Centerpiece; Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry; No More Blues; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes/All The Things You Are; Too Late Now; Multi-Colored Blue; Monk's Prayer/Looking Back.
Personnel: Roberta Gambarini: vocals; James Moody: tenor sax and vocals (3,8); Tamir Handelman: piano (1, 3-14); Gerald Clayton: piano (2); John Clayton: bass (2, 3, 5, 8, 11); Chuck Berghofer: bass (1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14); Willie Jones III: drums (1-3, 5, 8, 11, 14); Joe LaBarbera: drums (4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13).
Title: Roberta Gambarini: Easy To Love | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Kindred Rhythm
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Paper Man 2009
There are several reasons why I occasional stretch the boundaries of what I consider a "superhero movie", sometimes it's because I already decided to watch the film and didn't want to feel like I had wasted my time on it, other times it gives me an excuse to watch something that's very much unlike a typical superhero movie. This one falls very much in the latter category even though I knew next to nothing about this film before I put it on aside from the fact that it starred Jeff Daniels and it had Ryan Reynolds playing yet another superhero, albeit an imaginary one. As it started playing, I quickly fell in love with the cast and really enjoyed the rather quirky dramedy about this struggling writer developing a completely non-sexual relationship with a teenage girl played by the always lovely Emma Stone.
Jeff Daniels plays Richard Dunne. He's essentially a failed person. He's in a failed marriage where his wife, played by Lisa Kudrow, treats him like a child while she ships him off to this small house in the outskirts of an East Coast fishing town so he can start writing his second book after his first one failed. He's very much an introvert with no real friends of his own aside from his imaginary friend Captain Excellent played by Ryan Reynolds. For most of the film, Captain Excellent pops up when no one else is around to help give him a quick confidence boost even as he insists to his wife that the Captain is nowhere to be found.
What really works here is the chemistry between Daniels and Stone once they meet for the first time. Initially, it seems like it's going to head towards inappropriate territory as he convinces her to come over to his house to be a babysitter to a baby which he soon reveals he doesn't have. But since he hired her, she still agrees to stay while he goes out for the night since that's what he would have done had he actually needed a babysitter. It's great because there's a hint that Stone catches on to what he was playing at and wants to see how far it will go, but during the next shift she goes off on him when he comes back drunk and touchy-feely. The film does a good job during this scene to give the audience the impression that Daniels wasn't actually coming on to her sexually, but had more of a fatherly love for her that continues to develop throughout the movie. But it also straddles the line that he knows that their relationship appears inappropriate as he hides her presence from his wife even though he constantly invites her over on Fridays when he knows his wife comes by on Saturdays.
Their relationship isn't entirely one-sided either, when we're introduced to Stone's character, we see that she has an emotionally unavailable and callous boyfriend who is only using her for sex and a creepy best friend who follows her around everywhere because he has a crush on her as well. There is a twist around the midpoint of the film after we learn of Stone's twin sister who died when she was eight where we find out that her creepy best friend is also imaginary, when he has a brief conversation with Reynolds about their tours of duty as it were. It's also interesting how both of the two characters eventually leave their respective imaginary friends. Daniels has Captain Excellent fly off into the distance, while Stone sees her friend hang himself in her bedroom. The one slight downside is when it's time for Daniels to leave and say goodbye, the two do share a single kiss that could be a platonic kiss, but it borders on something more romantic. It just felt like a cop out when it could have easily been something more mundane.
Through this relationship with Stone, Daniels also struggles with starting his second book. His character is someone who easily gets hung up on random things that he uses as an excuse to procrastinate in his writing. Instead of using the brand new laptop that his wife bought for him, he insists on using his hipster-but-not-presented-as-hipster typewriter. But what the film uses more than anything else to exemplify this is a hideous couch filled with mismatched pillows in the center of the living room. As he continuously repeats the first line of his book that starts with the ever-changing name of his main character as he "regarded his solitude as something sacred", he keeps getting distracted by this couch while the film frames him as being trapped within the bars of the outside window. He even takes the couch outside, along with eventually nearly the entire living room set. Not only that, but he orders cases of his failed book and builds a replacement couch out of them. But it's not until he finally realizes that the name of his book's main character is his own name that he finally writes the first page of his book which also shows him once again framed within the bars of the window, but this time he's on the other side of that cage.
Paper Man didn't really do anything extraordinary, but it was a refreshingly quirky comedy without over-relying on quirk that made me laugh quite a bit. It also made me care about the characters and what happens to them. It has a great cast that doesn't really have any bad guys aside from Stone's douche of a boyfriend who simultaneously feels like someone who couldn't possibly exist, at least from a guy's perspective, but also quite possibly exactly like someone who does exist, sadly. It was a film that I greatly enjoyed, and my wife came it at one point and liked it so much that I started it over for her and she really enjoyed it as well. There isn't much superhero in it, but there's enough for me today. Until next time, this has been Bubbawheat for Flights, Tights, and Movie Nights.
Posted on May 16, 2016, in 00's movies and tagged drama, film, movies, review, Superhero. Bookmark the permalink.	4 Comments.
newguy87 | May 17, 2016 at 3:28 pm
I did enjoy this one, i saw the trailer but it took years to come out in the UK under the name Unlikely Hero.
Bubbawheat | May 22, 2016 at 8:00 pm
I did not notice that this had a different title in the UK. Seems like it flew under the radar for most people.
Wendell | May 23, 2016 at 11:48 pm
I've heard of this one, but never bothered. You make it sound quite interesting so I might give it a shot.
Bubbawheat | May 23, 2016 at 11:52 pm
Other reviews seem to be fairly middling but my wife and I really enjoyed it.


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WhatsApp Web came just over a month ago but did so with certain limitations. While iPhone users have not yet received official support, users of other platforms could only use WhatsApp Web with Google Chrome on their computers. Now, however, the company Mark Zuckerberg updated the platform to provide compatibility in Firefox and Opera web browsers.
Web WhatsApp for iPhone is about to get officially.
ChatSim, a card to use WhatsApp worldwide for just 10 euros per year.
Although they are trying to adapt to the demands of forced marches users, the fact is that WhatsApp takes some months leaving evidence excessive clumsiness. While adaptation for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus too long in coming, the Design Interface Material is held in delay for Android. Now, having been released WhatsApp Web, users expect an improvement that is not based solely on the reflection of notifications mobile-PC, but an independent client computer without duplicate notifications.


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I install little pothole gardens on the pavement around London, creating little moments of happiness.
People always ask me how they can get involved in the project. While I've had loads of pothole gardens sent to me from across the globe, I wanted to give people the opportunity to water my pothole gardens (virtually!).
Now, through my Just Giving page, you can water my pothole gardens by donating to Water Aid. All the money goes directly through Just Giving.
By donating, you'll be helping to provide safe, clean water to those in need.


For many years, anyone claiming to be a private pet owner was free to sell his dogs and its offspring. Owners did not undergo any licensing or inspections; there were no limitations or requirements.
In 2011, the AFCD found that of more than 11,000 dogs being sold over 18 months, pet shops reported that 2% of their puppies came from licensed breeders. 22% were imported and 74% or over 8,000 dogs came from self-claimed private pet owners. 60% in Hong Kong's biggest pet shops were knowingly getting all their dogs from only 1 or 2 "private pet owners". These suppliers were clearly not private pet owners, these were commercial breeders.
The new legislation closes this loophole by requiring all breeders, even private pet owners, to be registered with the government, either through a license or a permit.
This legislation becomes effective as of 20th March 2017 and applies to new license holders only.
Holders of licenses prior to this period will only be subject to these new conditions when their licenses are up for renewal.
For more information, please visit the AFCD website.
All dog breeders need to be licensed to sell their dogs.
Traders cannot sell dogs to a person under 16 years. Traders may ask for documentary proof of age.
The dog breeder's license number must be displayed on any advertising.
For any pet owner who sells an individual dog that he owns.
Dog has to be licensed under the owner's name for at least four months.
A maximum of 2 permits will be issued to the same person in a 4 year period.
If you are considering adopting a dog, good for you!
Do note that organisations and individuals carrying out re-homing activities are also covered under this legislation. They will be issued an exemption number under this legislation.
AFCD found that some sellers avoid animal trading legislation by offering animals for "adoption" (instead of 'sale') on condition that buyers purchase pet food and other products, give a red packet or "donation" or other considerations in exchange (food, gifts etc).
The new legislation covers all transactions that involve a transfer of an animal, making such arrangements illegal.
This will affect genuine not-for-profit organisations and individuals that charge adoption fees or accept donations to cover the care, treatment and desexing when re-homing animals.
Thus, Animal Welfare Organisations, like the SPCA, need to be screened by the AFCD and apply for an exemption.
The exemption number needs to be listed on any promotional materials.
Animals promoted for adoption must have their microchip number displayed on the material.
The seller must scan the dog in your presence. The microchip number must match all the paperwork.
Why does the SPCA support the three licences/one permit system?
1. It closes the private-pet-dog-owner loophole.
2. It regulates all dog breeding for gain and all dog sales.
Why does the SPCA support breeder licensing?
A. We believe that companion animals should be sourced from where they are born or from a reputable rehoming organisation. We would rather people visit dog breeders than pet shops if they are not going to help rehome an unwanted dog in need.
If dog keeping, dog breeding and sale of dogs are allowed then there should be proper legislation and measures in place to help regulate and monitor the trade as well as safeguard the welfare of the dogs.
We also believe that the trade should be more transparent with information on breeders and the dogs they breed freely available. Breeder licensing and related instruments will help with this.
If the SPCA has some issues with the legislation, why do you support its introduction?
A. We have waited over 20 years for the government to finally start working on this issue. The loophole that handicapped the 2008 proposal has been closed but it has taken eight years to get to this stage with amended legislation about to be presented for approval. Failure to do this will be a lost opportunity and means that we revert to the status quo: large numbers of dogs being bred and traded will not be under any protective or regulatory mechanism.
No law is perfect and improvements can be made over time, especially if unforeseen problems occur. Additional conditions and codes of practice – the secondary legislative tools – really help to make a big difference to the daily lives of the animals being bred and traded. Once the amended legislation is in place for dogs, we can then use it as a base model from which to start looking at and improving the breeding and trade regulations in other species such as cats, which are similarly deficient.
Why does the SPCA support two types of breeder licence (ABLA and ABLB)?
A. The SPCA is against large-scale puppy farming/milling that can be carried out under licence type ABLB.
But we recognise that as there are already licensed breeders who have large numbers of breeding females, so we need to have a system that regulates larger-scale breeding but does not encourage it.
We prefer that should dog breeding be carried out it is done on a smaller scale in a loving home environment, i.e. a well-educated owner amply equipped in the area of dog welfare and breed planning who has the welfare interests of the breed and the individual at heart.
These dogs and their offspring should be part of the family and should receive individual attention – get walked and be played with.
This concept matches more with licence type ABLA – someone breeding from four or less female dogs in a home, free-range environment. We also advocate restricting the number of ABLB licences issued and the number of dogs that can be kept under each licence to avoid inadvertently allowing dog breeding developing into automated factory farming.
The Scottish SPCA recently discovered that large-scale puppy farms/mills were being developed – with automated feeding systems often used in intensive farming systems to reduce cost and human input.


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UI Becomes TETFund Centre of Excellence In Agriculture
The University of Ibadan has been designated as a TETFund Centre of Excellence in Agriculture.
The information was officially communicated to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Kayode Oyebode Adebowale, FAS, mni, in a letter dated Friday 16 September, 2022 signed by the Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, Dr Yemi Akinbamijo.
This feat was achieved through a presentation by the Vice Chancellor to stakeholders, at a meeting held in Abuja. Professor Adebowale had argued that the Centre was a necessary condition for UI to implement the Agricultural Research and Innovation for Africa (ARIFA) programme and it was approved.
UI will join the list of TETFund Centres of Excellence in Agriculture across the country. Other Centres include the University of Lagos, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, University of Calabar, and Bayero University, Kano. The Centre will host the Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA) programme.
Since 2020, the TETFund has been funding ARIFA through Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the technical arm of the African Union Commission and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA), with a goal of systematically infusing a new crop of academics into tertiary institutions. The aim of the programme is delivery of commensurate competencies in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D).
The partnership leverages the best practice of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) strategy of FARA to contribute to building a knowledge-based economy through TETFund Centers of Excellence (TCoE) across the country.
The ARIFA programme targets five hundred (500) Fellows drawn from a cohort of Nigerian tertiary institutions to undertake tailor-made MSc and Ph.D. programmes in various fields of sciences related to agriculture in Brazilian Universities led by the Brazilian Federation of International Education (FAUBAI) and the Universidad Federal de Viçosa (UFV) – Federal University of Viçosa.
The programme will involve the establishment of ARIFA Innovation Platform (IP) to serve as the science-business mechanism for delivering livelihoods to host communities. It will be managed by the ARIFA Fellows upon return to Nigeria.
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The 2018 World Watch List launched in January, revealing the top 50 most dangerous countries in the world to follow Jesus. China, a nation with a well-known history of persecution, came in at #43.
In 2011, China was ranked as the 21st hardest place to be a Christian. In 2012 China was ranked at 37. And now the country's steady decline on the World Watch List suggests questions of a changing China.
I decided to see for myself what life was like for believers in China. And what I found was a realisation that I still had a lot to learn about the current state of Christianity in China.
In 1981, China found itself in a period of transition. Chairman Mao had died and left behind a strong Communist grip on the country. Christians weren't allowed to gather together at church or own a Bible. Many believers were imprisoned, tortured or even killed for their faith.
That year, on a secluded beach, a team of dedicated Christians from Open Doors smuggled one million Bibles into China - overnight. The word of God flooded into the country.
Image: A Chinese Christian reading one of the Bibles that was delivered on the beach.
Present day China is hardly the same. Political, economic and social shifts have all greatly impacted the church. The Han Chinese (majority ethnic population) experience relative freedoms in the cities to follow Jesus and share the gospel.
Freedom of religion is granted under the constitution. Christians can also attend church on Sunday. They have the choice of a 'Three Self Church' (run by the government) or a house church. The Three Self Churches operate under strict guidelines from the government, and many house churches are still 'hidden' in plain sight.
Image: A Three Self Church service in Beijing.
Li* and Fu were two young church leaders in Beijing.
Pastor Li has a large house church with many members who attend regularly. He chose not to register with the Three Self Church Movement.
Many churches continue to send missionaries to Muslim countries and have pledged to release 20,000 missionaries by 2030.
As these Han Chinese leaders have experienced new freedoms in recent years, they also expressed gratitude for their brothers and sisters around the world who stood with them while they faced extreme persecution.
Image: A house church meeting.
This degree of freedom isn't the case for everyone. China's movements down the World Watch List also doesn't mean Christians aren't persecuted for their faith.
Pastor Askar* is from Xinjiang, a province in the north-western part of China, bordering countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. In recent years, Islamic extremism had taken root in Xinjiang and there had been violent attacks. The local government were fearful of any religious gatherings. For this reason, Pastor Askar and his church were forced to meet in secret.
"It can be difficult to do everything that Christians are called to do when we are forced to meet in secret, but we have found ways to follow God's commands," Pastor Askar said.
If Pastor Askar and his congregation were caught meeting together, they could face several years in prison.
Na* is a Christian leader originally from a Muslim family. When she became a Christian 14 years ago, she took a great risk. Many new believers are seen as traitors and bring shame to their family. Some are even kidnapped and threatened until they return to Islam.
Despite the increased cost to one's personal safety, many Muslims continue to come to Christ.
On January 11, 2018, one of China's most notorious mega-churches fell to the ground. The church was demolished by the state as part of a routine removal of illegal (unregistered) buildings.
The church began in 1992 and was made up of 50,000 members. In 2009 the same church was also targeted and Bibles were confiscated. Some church leaders were sentenced to prison.
The future is uncertain for Christians in China. Though their freedom to follow Jesus has increased, new religious regulations coming into place on 1 February 2018 could severely impact the activities of unregistered churches. The regulations could mean house church leaders receive serious fines, and Christian publishing and online activity could also be affected.
As we thank God for changes experienced by the church in China, it's important to continue to pray for those still suffering for their faith. Now is also a significant time for the body of Christ to lift up the nation in the days to come.
Get the latest stories and prayer requests in Frontline Faith Magazine.


The champion earns a nominal $10 per second while they remain the champion, whether the quiz bouts are in progress or not, until they are defeated by a challenger. Defeated champions only convert their nominal prize into an actual payout if they are the reigning champion at the end of the million seconds or if they are one of the four most successful defeated champions along the way, and there is set to be an extra competition at the end of the million seconds to pay out an extra bonus to one of them.
As I type, I've seen the first four episodes of the show and I've enjoyed them. The action is at sufficient pace that the shows have vitality and excitement, and the continuation of the action from one show to the next really conveys the sense of an overarching, ambitious, continuous game. I have not found the narrative at all confusing, though accept that not all gameplay elements were originally introduced to the viewer in the ideal order.
Full disclosure dictates that I reveal that I know staff working on the show and I believe they tend to be working on the questions. I've enjoyed the questions, particularly for their unusually up-to-date nature and reliance on prompt current events. A little of the question wording has been criticised and the criticism looks reasonable to me, but overall I consider the standard unusually high and interesting.
We consider the general issue of whether to double or double back a single question, and we make the massively simplifying assumption that we consider it in isolation of the state of the game. In practice, the remaining time and the score of the game to date have considerable effects on optimal strategy under specific circumstances that this analysis will not cover.
As an example, the first televised bout in the third episode had a good example. With fewer than ten seconds remaining, one contestant was down 14-23 and doubled the final, three-point, question. With six points at stake, the other contestant should just have answered and won 20-23 even if they had answered incorrectly to concede the six points. However, they made an objectively poor decision by making the only play that risked them losing and doubled back; this redoubled the question value to 12, and the initial doubler answered correctly to jump from 14-23 to win 26-23.
t is the base value of that question. So far, permissible values of t have been 1, 2, 3 and 4. It is possible that the TV show might change the gameplay over time.
c is the probability that you correctly select the answer to that question, and thus lies between 0 and 1 inclusive.
o is the probability that your opponent correctly selects the answer to that question, and thus lies between 0 and 1 inclusive.
c* is your opponent's estimate of the probability that you correctly select the answer to that question, and thus lies between 0 and 1 inclusive.
o* is your estimate of the probability that your opponent correctly selects the answer to that question, and thus lies between 0 and 1 inclusive.
In each case, we care about the change in the gap between your score and your opponent's score as a result of that question. Ideally, we want this to be positive and as high as possible, reflecting a large increase in your score and no increase in your opponent's score. A negative change reflects no increase in your score and an increase in your opponent's score.
If nobody doubles, then there is a c probability that you will answer correctly and score t points. However, there is also an o probability that your opponent will answer correctly and score t points. Accordingly, you expect to score ct points and your opponent expects to score ot points, so the expected increase in the gap is t(c-o) as a baseline.
QUESTION TWO: If my opponent doubles a question to me, should I double back?
The analysis for question one will rely on the result for question two, so we will consider this first. Suppose your opponent has doubled a question to you, so you can either answer or double back. We will consider these two cases separately.
There is a c probability that you will answer correctly and score 2t points. However, there is a 1-c probability that you will answer incorrectly. In such a circumstance, you will score zero and your opponent will score 2t points.
This means that there is a c probability that the gap will increase by 2t and a 1-c probability that the gap will increase by -2t. Consequently the expected increase in the gap is 2tc - 2t(1-c) or 2t(2c-1) points.
Case (b): you double back.
There is a o* probability that your opponent will answer correctly and score 4t points. However, there is a 1-o* probability that your opponent will answer incorrectly. In such a circumstance, your opponent will score zero and you will score 4t points.
This means that there is a o* probability that the gap will increase by -4t and a 1-o* probability that the gap will increase by 4t. Consequently the expected increase in the gap is -4to* + 4t(1-o*) or 4t(1-2o*) points.
With this in mind, we can use this to inform our decision whether to double back or not. We will choose to answer if the expected increase in the gap between scores is higher - and thus more favourable to us - by answering than if the expected increase in the gap between scores is higher by doubling back.
This illustrates a conclusion that the decision on whether or not to double back depends twice as much on whether you think your opponent knows it than on whether you know it. Even if you are almost certain about the answer, you should choose to double it back if your opponent is guessing completely by chance.
QUESTION ONE: Should I double a question?
It is key to consider the previous result and your opponent's likely reaction to your double. We assume that the opponent will act rationally and then use the same logic to make a decision from their perspective. The opponent will estimate whether they think you are likely to know the answer or not, which is the definition of calculating a value for c* and we can use the logic from question two.
If the opponent prefers your chance of answering the question to theirs, they will choose to answer. This is the green situation.
If the opponent prefers their chance of answering the question to yours, they will choose to double back to you. This is the blue situation.
We need to analyse the two cases separately. We will analyse the blue situation first.
Case (a): your opponent doubles back.
There is a c probability that you will answer correctly and score 4t points. However, there is a 1-c probability that you will answer incorrectly. In such a circumstance, you will score zero and your opponent will score 4t points.
This means that there is a c probability that the gap will increase by 4t and a 1-c probability that the gap will increase by -4t. Consequently the expected increase in the gap is 4ty - 4t(1-c) or 4t(2c-1) points.
With this in mind, we can use this to inform our decision whether to double or not. We will choose to double if the expected increase in the gap between scores is higher - and thus more favourable to us - by doubling than if the expected increase in the gap between scores is higher by not doubling. This calculation relies on the result derived above and the result from the baseline case.
This illustrates a conclusion to this case that, if you can make the assumption that the opponent will double back, the decision on whether or not to double depends seven times as much on whether you know it than on whether your opponent knows it. Even if you are almost certain your opponent knows the answer, you should choose to double it if you have a nearly 50:50 chance of being right.
We can use this result to analyse the green situation now.
Case (b): your opponent answers.
There is a o probability that your opponent will answer correctly and score 2t points. However, there is a 1-o probability that your opponent will answer incorrectly. In such a circumstance, your opponent will score zero and you will score 2t points.
This means that there is a o probability that the gap will increase by -2t and a 1-o probability that the gap will increase by 2t. Consequently the expected increase in the gap is -2to + 2t(1-o) or 2t(1-2o) points.
This illustrates a conclusion to this case that, if you can make the assumption that the opponent will answer, the decision on whether or not to double depends three times as much on whether your opponent knows it than on whether you knows it. Even if you are almost certain you know the answer, you should choose to double it if your opponent has much less than a 50:50 chance of being right.
We pull these half conclusions together to solve the overall question.


Thank you, Paulo. One of the reasons I love my 50 Summicron so much is how it 'draws' (I hate the language of some of this stuff…) faces and heads out near the edges of the frame. Just absolutely perfect. I don't think the Zeiss 50 1.5 or (speaking sacrilege) the 50'Lux does quite the same job. To my eye anyway. For me, and his picture exemplifies it, you can see the very classic Leica-look that was implanted in all of our aesthetic sensibilities by the greats shooting 50 Crons and even larger format cameras.


CW 59 Fresno is a TV broadcaster located in Fresno, CA. It's an entertainment channel that airs a carefully-chosen mix of daytime and primetime programming, including scripted and unscripted TV shows, talk shows, and films. You can watch the channel online via its video-on-demand collection, updated regularly.
CW 59 Fresno KFRE is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. It is a member of the CW network.


For us, the quality of our nuts is paramount. So we took our top-shelf jumbo hazelnuts, and using our family recipe for candied pistachios, created our remarkable candied hazelnuts. For each batch, we bring the liquid sugarcoating to its most sticky and delectable state. We then enshroud the hazelnuts in the syrup, letting the fundamental flavors comingle and take shape. We divide each batch of crisped hazelnuts into serving-sized pieces.
Approximately 28 pieces / Net wt. 1.00lb.


The University of Pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is a public, comprehensive university. It offers students an outstanding array of educational options. The Pittsburgh campus is home to 16 schools, ten of which offer undergraduate programs and 14 of which offer graduate programs. Programs are offered in the Colleges of Business Administration and General Studies; the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; the Schools of Dental Medicine, Education, Engineering, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Information Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work; the Graduate Schools of Public Health and Public and International Affairs; and the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. Students can avail themselves of scholarship programs, undergraduate research opportunities, international studies programs, a semester-at-sea, the Engineering Cooperative Education Program, internships and volunteer outreach programs. The university's Honors College offers challenging course work and an optional Bachelor of Philosophy degree. Outstanding freshmen are guaranteed admission to several of the graduate schools, including the School of Medicine. Affiliated with the six schools of the health sciences is the internationally renowned UPMC Health System. As a member of the Association of American Universities, the University of Pittsburgh is among the top 61 research institutions in the U.S. and Canada. To supplement the high-quality academic life found at the school the campus' location in the very livable city of Pittsburgh provides easy access to cultural events, professional sports complexes and other entertainment venues. Its 132-acre campus is located in Pittsburgh.


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Q: How to apply css to text inside an ionic alert? I have an alert where I have some text and one ionicon and I want to change its color and adjust its size and position (center) and I created a css class tried to apply it but it doesn't work, even thought HTML seems to work, I used the <b> tag just fine.
My code:
async presentAlertError(data) {
    const alert = await this.alertController.create({
      header: 'Confirmation',
      message: '<ion-icon name="close" class="custom-icon-notfound" > </ion-icon>'  + "Registration " + data.statusText,
      buttons: [
        {
          text: 'Cancel',
          role: 'cancel',
          cssClass: 'secondary',
          handler: (aux) => {
            console.log('Confirm Cancel: aux');
          }
        }, {
          text: 'Scan Next',
          handler: () => {
            this.scanCode();
            console.log('Confirm ');
          }
        }
      ]
    });
    await alert.present()

Should I do this in a different way?

A: The ion-alert isnt displayed in the home page or (whatever page/component you have the alert on) shadow DOM so styling wont affect it if you add it there, you have to add the styles to an element which is in the same scope as the alert. I added the class to variables.scss as that has the highest scope:
variables.scss-
   .secondary {
            color: #A0A !important;
            font-size: 2em !important;
        }

   .custom-icon-notfound {color: red}

also need added !important so it ignores its previous styling.

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One of our more popular units for the past 30 years, the MN-10 is familiar, easy to use, and reliable. Covering 100KHz within a given frequency, users have the capability of tracking up to 10 transmitters on one unit. Each channel consists of 10KHz of coverage to allow for a fine tune for clear and precise tracking abilities.
Optional: Add the Dual Function Meter (DFM) for $25.00. This will give you a lighted meter with a battery tester.
Purchase the receiver only to use with an existing antenna, or upgrade to the setup price and get the receiver, antenna, and cable. Choose from the Yagi Antenna or the Quick Fold Antenna.
- Operates on two 9-volt transistor radio batteries, can switch between the two for a built in backup.


Lightweight and easy to assemble and use!
When you need extra storage but not extra furniture!
Great for laundry, toys, diapers, etc.
White finish on the wood. Brown with White Polka Dot drawers. Beadboard-style top panel.
Easy pull out drawers are a breeze to load and unload.
Stoppers on the drawer tracks prevent the drawers from being pushed out the back of the unit.
Drawer bottoms have supportive hard panels so contents won't cause the drawers to sag.
Canvas drawers are 80% cotton and 20% polyester.
Overall unit measures 15 inches W x 14-1/8 inches D x 29.5 inches H. Height from floor to top shelf: 26-3/8 inches H.
Drawers each measure 12 inches W x 11.5 inches D x 6.5 inches H.
Canvas drawers are removable from the drawer frames and can be spot cleaned as needed.
Some easy assembly required with a screwdriver.


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Council Houses (Improvements)
Mr. Cartwright
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out the number of local authority dwellings in each region of Great Britain for which improvement works were approved during 1979–80 together with the total estimated cost and the unit cost.
Mr. Stanley
Available figures for 1979 and 1980 on local authority dwellings converted or improved, at completion stage in the English regions and at approval stage in Scotland, appear in table 2.17 of "Housing and Construction Statistics, Part 2, No. 6", a copy of which is in the Library. Total costs of these works in England up to the third quarter of 1980 appear in table 2.16 of the same publication, but cost information for the regions and for Scotland is not available.


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The Columbia Larrimer Building is a historic building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building is significant for its storefront design and craftsmanship, along with the front interior installed by the Bott Brothers when they moved their bar there in 1905. The building was home to the Clock Restaurant in the mid-to-late 1900s, and currently Elevator Brewery & Draught Haus.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbus, Ohio

References

External links

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Commercial buildings completed in 1895
National Register of Historic Places in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Register properties
Buildings in downtown Columbus, Ohio
High Street (Columbus, Ohio)

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The all black ultrasonic with the attractive European design is constructed out of contoured durable ABS. The heated 2.6 quart tank provides extra cleaning power and can be used as a back-up to a commercial grade ultrasonic.


My Daily Slog Blog: Hot!
Today it's 45 degrees celsius with the humidex. Had to mow the lawn, because I really couldn't put it off any more, and I know with temperatures like this there will be a thunderstorm following soon, and then it will be too wet to mow. So out I went, and worked in the yard for 2 1/2 hours. I don't think I've ever felt more filthy and yicky after doing yard work. The dust just clings to your skin in humidity like this, until I looked like I'd been rolling in it. Now I'm showered, cool, and on the couch and refusing to go out the rest of the day.
Not that the dogs want walking anyway. I let Brio and Maple into the backyard, and they were back at the door pawing to get in within about forty seconds. Definitely a day for stretching out on their bellies on the tile floor indoors.
I do love a good thunderstorm, though, I have to say. First the trees start to dance, and the sky boils up with gray clouds, and then there's a sickly yellow cast to the light, and then boom! Because it's so flat here, you can see the lightening for miles. I used to love it when it stormed in Utah, when I was growing up. The thunder would get caught in the canyon and just ricochet around, magnified, like a volley of cannons. That ozone smell as the dust begins to grow damp is one of my favourite smells.
And I have a new Cathy Kelly novel to read, and a wind-up lantern in case the power goes off. And Monday I have off work because of Canada Day. Woohoo! Bring on the rain.


@Warren Plats. The No Step fragmented honeycomb (bottom two photos above)looked to me as though it had been crushed but the corrosion you attribute it to seems closer to the mark. But some musing pops up. Why the total separation just in that zone? A quality problem, in epoxy for example?
Secondly what about the blue/green sheen on the under (outer) skin and the apparent deposit on the opposite inside skin, about matching, where the honeycomb is missing? Part of the deposit seems to match white pock marks on the top skin. They might therefore have been in contact.
Thirdly, the other bald patch on the inside skin where honeycomb is missing has no cover from the inside skin and is a darker green. Maybe that has been exposed to sun on the beach, the colour difference of the two greens giving a clue how long it has been there?
Any ideas? Could await the inspection results but detail of them could be a while.
for "…on the inside skin where honeycomb is missing…" read outside for inside.
I have been very interested in this story ever since the first news reports began to come in back in March of 2014. I have been lurking on this site for some time but have not contributed anything to the discussion as I do not have any special expertise in the field of aviation. When I read today that some of you had seen a recent news article about MH370 that was written in French, I thought that perhaps I could make a small contribution to the forum by translating the article into English and posting it here in the comments section. The article appeared on the Swiss news site "20 Minutes." I have done my best to translate it into idiomatically correct English for those of you who are not fluent in French.
A French journalist has investigated the mysterious disappearance of the Boeing aircraft belonging to Malaysia Airlines. She considers a lack of transparency to be the "major shortcoming" in this affair. Interview.
Two years after the disappearance of flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the French journalist Florence de Changy, who has investigated this matter, feels that "the official version is not credible" and that "there are people who know." In her book, "Flight MH370 Has Not Disappeared," the correspondent for the Monde and RFI in Hong Kong has explored every path. She considers a lack of transparency right from the beginning to be the "major shortcoming" in this affair.
You explain that the official version does not hold up.
"My investigation effectively demonstrates that the official version is not based on any hard evidence. It's a story that is being pushed on the families of the 239 people who have disappeared, and they are being asked to accept it without the smallest piece of verifiable evidence. Above all, it is a story that is not credible. A Boeing 777 does not simply disappear, particularly when on a routine flight in ideal weather conditions in one of the most heavily watched areas of the planet. I have not encountered one military person who believes that version of events.
"I think that France, because it is responsible for this piece of the investigation, still needs to provide many answers to questions about the flaperon. Once again, there was just a statement made affirming that the piece came from MH370. But the families had no right to participate in the analysis of this piece in Toulouse (in southwest France). Why?
Could the physical characteristics of the flaperon be made known: its height, its weight, its mass, its volume? Could the public be allowed to know the results of the buoyancy tests that were done on the flaperon which, in any case, performed remarkably well by staying afloat for more than 500 days and traveling more than 4000 kilometers, as the crow flies, across the Indian Ocean (thus, perhaps even farther)? More than 500 days, even though the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stated that no debris from the plane would still be able to float 50 days after it was lost.
@JDB, Thank you very much! A valuable contribution.
In my understanding the engines were functioning in the case of SilkAir. The takeoff weight was 51,856 kg. The engines were 2xCFM 56-3B2, meaning 2×98 = 196 kN additional downward force, or 4 m/s^2 acceleration on top of the gravity. The dimensions of B737 are smaller than dimentions of B777. To make a fair comparison I need to do some calcs.
I'm not qualified to speculate about the effect the engine would have on the way water impinges on the flaperon. We have or rather, the French have, an item that shows all the signs of having come off in the wash.
I think I've said my piece on the flaperon – as Jeff suggested, probably better to wait and see what the experts say.
Turning now to the engines themselves; would not two windmilling Trent engines absorb enough energy to limit the speed during descent. All I know is an unfeathered prop can ruin your whole day.
I was particularly interested in de Changy's remarks relative to the French forensics which I interpret to be negative. I certainly support that interpretation.
It is simply not plausible that the French are still investigating the flaperon. Even if you give them the wildest possible benefit of the doubt, why would an interim report not be forthcoming? de Changy does not speculate that the French have provided details to the Malays which the Malays are not sharing, which has been my working assumption. Who knows? In any case the lack of any forensic results in the public domain is truly appalling.
I have a lot of alternatives running around in my brain relative to the Mozambique debris, but I feel enough has already been said here with respect to that, and I prefer to wait for the official results to be made public.
Yet another piece of possible plane debris found, this time on the S. coast of S. Africa near Mossel Bay. "Could be from an inlet cowling of an aircraft engine".
See also Reddit for images with partial RR logo.
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Gunmen detonate a car bomb and storm a beach restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people.
At least 10 people have been killed after al-Shabab fighters attacked a beach restaurant in the capital Mogadishu with a car bomb before entering into a gunfight with security forces, according to police and the group.
"A car bomb exploded at Banadir beach restaurant at Lido beach and there is exchange of gunfire. We have no other details so far," Major Ahmed Ibrahim, a police officer, told Reuters news agency on Thursday.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group claimed responsibility for the attack.
"We attacked the Banadir beach restaurant and now our fighters are fighting inside it," Abdiasis Abu Musab, its military operation spokesman, told Reuters.
The Associated Press news agency reported that a car bomber had prematurely detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the new Turkish embassy compound in the capital, according to a Somali police officer.
Al-Shabab has carried out a series of deadly attacks in Somalia to try to topple the Western-backed government.
In January, its fighters stormed another restaurant on Lido beach, killing 17 people.
On Thursday, Reuters witnesses near the scene of the beach attack said the restaurant had been sealed off by security officers and that the attackers had lobbed grenades at the officers and fired at them.
They said they had also seen two bodies lying on the ground.
Internal Security Minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed said on his Twitter account: "Warning: People near the blast scene should stay in the hotels and in their houses in which they are inside. Cars should not enter Lido beach area."
Al-Shabab was pushed out of Mogadishu by the African Union peacekeeping force AMISOM in 2011 but has remained a potent threat in Somalia, launching frequent attacks aimed at overthrowing the Western-backed government.
In a separate incident in southern Somalia, a roadside bomb believed to have been planted by al-Shabab fighters wounded at three people in Baardheere town in Gedo region, Colonel Hussein Nur, a police officer in the town, told Reuters by phone.
On Sunday, more than 20 people were killed when its suicide bombers detonated two car bombs at a local government headquarters in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region.


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Q: Rerunning same Ansible task a few times I am trying to implement a task that runs in a loop, for example, ten times.
Currently, the task runs only once.
I am trying something like the following:
my_role/tasks/main.yaml
---

- set_fact:
    counter: 0

- name: "Iteration"
  import_task: my_task.yaml
  until: counter <= 10

...

my_role/tasks/my_task.yaml
---

- name: "task 1"
  ...

- name: "task 2"
  ...

- set_fact:
    counter=={{ counter | int + 1 }}
...

I expected "task 1" and "task 2" to run ten times.
I would be happy to get some ideas on how to implement such loop.

A: Ansible is an automation tool that is commonly used to configure and manage servers, networks, and other IT infrastructure. One of the key features of Ansible is its idempotence, which means that running the same task multiple times on the same system should produce the same end result, regardless of how many times the task is run.
Here is a plan on how to rerun the same Ansible task multiple times:
Create or open an existing Ansible playbook. A playbook is a YAML file that contains one or more plays, which are a list of tasks that are executed on a specific set of hosts.
Define the task that you want to rerun in the playbook using the Ansible modules. These modules are pre-built scripts that can perform specific actions on the remote systems, such as installing software, creating users, and configuring services.
Run the playbook using the ansible-playbook command. You can run the playbook on one or more specific hosts by specifying the -l option, or on all the hosts defined in your inventory file by using the -i option.
Ansible uses the idempotence feature to make sure that the same task is executed only once on the same host. If the task has already been executed and the state of the host hasn't changed, Ansible will not execute the task again.
If you want to force the task to rerun even if the state of the host hasn't changed, you can use the --force-handlers or --force-rerun options when running the ansible-playbook command.
To check the results of the tasks, you can check the log files generated by Ansible or the output of the ansible-playbook command.
Here is an example of how to run the same task multiple times using ansible-playbook command:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml --extra-vars "var1=value1 var2=value2"

You can run this command as many times as you want and Ansible will make sure that the task is executed only once, unless you use the --force-handlers or --force-rerun options.
Please note that if the task is modifying a state of the host, rerunning the task will have an effect and will change the state of the host.

A: You should use include_tasks module and loop over it.
my_role/tasks/main.yaml
---

- name: "Iteration"
  ansible.builtin.include_tasks:
    file: my_task.yaml
  with_sequence: start=1 end=10

...

my_role/tasks/my_task.yaml
---

- name: "task 1"
  ...

- name: "task 2"
  ...

...

A: How to implement task(s) that runs in a loop?
To do so, you may have a look into Loops and a minimal example like
---
- hosts: localhost
  become: false
  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

  - name: Example loop

    debug:
      msg: "{{ item }}"

    loop: "{{ range(1, 11) | list }}"
    register: result

resulting into an output of
TASK [Example loop] **********
ok: [localhost] => (item=1) =>
  msg: 1
ok: [localhost] => (item=2) =>
  msg: 2
ok: [localhost] => (item=3) =>
  msg: 3
ok: [localhost] => (item=4) =>
  msg: 4
ok: [localhost] => (item=5) =>
  msg: 5
ok: [localhost] => (item=6) =>
  msg: 6
ok: [localhost] => (item=7) =>
  msg: 7
ok: [localhost] => (item=8) =>
  msg: 8
ok: [localhost] => (item=9) =>
  msg: 9
ok: [localhost] => (item=10) =>
  msg: 10

whereby it is possible to replace the current single task debug against an import_task for a task file.
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My thoughts on the top--and top-ish--stories in this week's political, sports, and pop culture news.
In my last newsletter, I discussed a comment one of my subscribers made about the merits of Hallmark movies. This week, I'm going to refer to another subscriber, SJ Rozan, who pointed out that the old proverb Vox populi, vox Dei ("The voice of the people is the voice of God") that Elon Musk uses when running his polls on Twitter has more to it. He inspired me to do a little research and he was right: In 798, Alcun (an English scholar and clergyman, wrote a letter to Charlemagne, a king who united much of Europe, commenting, "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." Which means, "And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness." Alcun didn't come up with the proverb, he was just warning that we need to be wary of mob mentality.
That got me to thinking about how often we misuse quotes to make the opposite point than the original intended. One of my favorites is people quoting early American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." This line is offered up with smug gotchya smirk. They have used one of the great minds of history to defend their own inconsistency—a characteristic of the bad athlete, evil politician, and lame thinker.
The problem is that the full quote is: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." When you use the full quote, you get the opposite meaning.
Same with "Curiosity killed the cat," which is used to dissuade someone's curiosity. But the remainder of the phrase—"but satisfaction brought it back"—reveals that curiosity is a risk, but ultimately more rewarding than lacking curiosity. Also in this category is "Money is the root of all evil." This phrase is meant to shame those who seek their fortune. But the full quote from 6:10 of 1 Timothy is "The love of money is a root of all sorts of evil." Pursuing money isn't the evil, it's the love of money, which means abandoning other morals in its pursuit.
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Social Media: Musk's Poll Was a Misdirection
Elon Musk Keeps Silent After Twitter Users Say He Should Quit as Boss (The New York Times)
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SUMMARY: Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter asking whether he should step down as head of the company and promising to abide by the poll results. The poll concluded he should step down.
MY TAKE: Elon Musk's erratic behavior since buying Twitter has alarmed, frustrated, and angered many people, including some of his die-hard supporters, many of whom have since left Twitter. But Twitter was the least of his problems: Tesla lost most of its value as its core car-buying demographic of middle and left-leaning customers abandoned his car company, one referring to it as "the new MAGA hat." In addition, he's feeling political heat ("Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Tesla's board accusing Elon Musk of 'unavoidable conflicts' at Twitter and possible 'misappropriation of corporate assets'").
Naturally, Musk then conducted another of his famous Twitter polls, asking whether he should step down from his duties running the company—and promising to abide by the poll. The response was overwhelming, with 57.5% of the 17 million votes urging him to step down.
But this is not one man listening to popular opinion, which he has openly and loudly ignored in the past (including calls to better regulate hate speech). Instead, it's a calculated plan to save face. Realizing he and his company was hemorrhaging billions—he lost $85 billion of the value of his stake in Tesla while Tesla's value dropped $550 billion—he needed an escape strategy that would serve his business needs as well as his desired image as a savior-of-the-people. He probably already intended to step down to save his other, more profitable businesses, but by using this poll, the outcome of which he already knew, he was able to step down and still look like a hero who abides by the will of the people. He did a similar thing a few months ago when he conducted a poll to see if he should sell off stock while, according to Forbes, he already had the plan in motion.
It's all rather duplicitous and insulting to his Twitter customers, whom he clearly sees as easily manipulated with a few buzz words about free speech, will of the people, yadda yadda. He has since agreed to remove himself from daily operations—as soon as he finds someone worthy of the position. Which was his plan all along.
His desperate supporters will cling to the PR fantasy because they need their heroes the way a crying toddler needs its favorite teddy bear. Or the way Trumpites need their digital trading cards.
Voting Rights: Republicans Hate Majority Rule
How Republicans are trying to block voters from having a say on abortion (The Guardian)
Police arrest pro abortion demonstrators who were trying to stop anti-abortion activists from walking from the Old St Patricks Church to a Planned Parenthood clinic, December 3, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
SUMMARY: "Ohio advocates hoping to replicate a string of abortion rights victories fear being stymied by Republican lawmakers who are attempting to make it harder to pass citizen-initiated constitutional amendments.
"Ballot initiatives put directly to voters have proven a winning strategy for abortion rights activists since Roe v Wade was overturned this summer, with six referendums delivering favorable results for pro-choice advocates.
"In Ohio, Republicans want to bring their own legislation, raising the threshold for successful ballot initiatives to 60%, up from the simple majority currently required to amend the state constitution."
MY TAKE: I used to see this all the time in pick-up games. A team would lose and then one or more of them would complain they didn't really lose. They were fouled, the score was called wrong, a travel wasn't called, etc. The good players would lose and practice to get better.
When some Republicans lose elections, they don't regroup to figure out how to make their political platform more appealing, they simply claim they didn't lose the election and they go about making it harder for the voice of the people to be heard. Pretty much the opposite of democracy.
Ohio's Secretary of State Frank LaRose explained why Republicans were taking this action, saying it will "protect the Ohio constitution from continued abuse by special interests and out-of-state activists." LaRose uses trigger words meant to jolt conservatives into support. But what does he mean by "special interests"? Women who wish to have control over their reproductive systems rather than leaving it up to the government so committed to ending those rights?
And who are these "out-of-state activists"? Yes, Planned Parenthood and ACLU are fighting this vote-block (they both have local Ohio locations). But don't Republicans take money from out-of-state activists like the NRA? Why, yes they did: the NRA contributed $310,000 to Ohio politicians since 2010. And didn't out-of-state agitator Donald Trump recently visit in support of J.D. Vance's senatorial campaign? And so on.
The New York Times recent polling suggests 59.1% of registered voters in Ohio would vote to secure abortion rights in the state constitution. Not if Republicans have their way. They follow the sports philosophy of Tonya Harding's ex-husband, who had Harding's ice skating rival Nancy Kerrigan attacked with a metal baton: If you can't beat 'em with talent, beat 'em with a pipe. For Republicans it's "If you can't beat 'em with ideas, beat 'em by not letting them play at all."
Arts & Education: Sour Song of Sex Abuse
Amid allegations at Juilliard, classical music leaders demand change (The Washington Post)
A Juilliard student playing the viola. Does she have the added burden of worrying about being sexually exploited. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
SUMMARY: "An open letter calling on the Juilliard School to take disciplinary action against composer Robert Beaser for alleged "decades-long abuse of women and power" has attracted the signatures of about 450 composers, musicians, educators and arts leaders.
"By late Friday, after an initial 120 people had signed the letter, Beaser, 68, a former chair of the prestigious Manhattan music school's composition department, had taken leave from his teaching post as the school launched a third-party inquiry into the allegations."
"…Last week, the Berlin-based classical music website VAN magazine published the results of a six-month investigation into allegations of misconduct against several Juilliard faculty members, including Beaser, who, the magazine said, 'faces multiple, previously-undisclosed allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct from the late 1990s and 2000s.
"These include alleged 'repeated sexual advances to sexual relationships with students,' as well as claims that these relationships directly affected critical decisions Beaser enacted as department chair at Juilliard."
MY TAKE: My father was a cop, but he was also a trained musician who played with many jazz greats. He got his formal training at Julliard. That's why I'm especially sad to read about another institution rocked by sexual misconduct.
Last week I wrote about sexual misconduct and exploitation of women in the National Women's Soccer League, the week before about similar issues among youth soccer, and the weeks before that about the same thing elsewhere and seemingly everywhere. The exploitation isn't always about sex, it's also about keeping women from advancing their careers. It's about control. This systemic misogyny can't exist without the knowledge and enabling of others. It is inconceivable that over the past 25 years no one else at Julliard was aware of this behavior. Yet, they let it continue.
Whether it's misogyny, racism, anti-LGBTQ+, or any of the other horrific behavior that demeans others, its existence is possible by the silent cohorts who say and do nothing. All these sports and school organizations are supposed to protect their young and vulnerable members, not create an atmosphere that exploits them.
It's not enough to fire the perpetrators, the enablers must also be punished.
How dyslexia became a social justice issue for Black parents
California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to kindergartners about his new kids book about dyslexia and his struggles with it. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
SUMMARY: "An estimated 5 to 15 percent of the population has dyslexia, the most common language disability, which hinders a person's ability to read words correctly and efficiently. But in Boston and countless other communities, Black and Latino families have a much harder time than their White peers accessing two key tools to literacy: an instructor trained in how best to teach struggling readers the connections between letters and sounds, or a private school focused on children with language disabilities. Nationally, these teachers and schools are scarce and coveted commodities, generally accessible only to those with time, money and experience navigating complicated, sometimes intransigent bureaucracies.
"In recent years, some dyslexia activists across the country have joined forces with Black and Latino leaders distraught over unequal access — jointly positioning "the right to read" as a revived civil rights movement."
MY TAKE: The article offers some stunning statistics showing the disparity of access to specialists in predominantly White schools versus predominantly Black schools. The many Black and Latino families with dyslexic children consider this a major civil rights movement. I agree. Children with learning challenges already face an uphill-to-mountainous battle in education.
Federal law requires schools to identify students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. Most states have passed legislation to help dyslexic students. But states often don't sufficiently fund or enforce the laws. Voting for the law looks good on their resume come re-election time, but after that, there's minimal political commitment to helping these children, White or Black. For Black children, there's even less concern.
With only 5-15% of the population with dyslexia, this is not a priority issue for politicians seeking large voting blocks. Remember that the next time you hear one blustering on about "protecting the children." Think about all the time and money spent on banning books that could be used to help other children actually read.
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Social Media: NYC Has a Plan to Fight Online Hate Speech
Eric Adams Wants New Laws to Curb Twitter Hate Speech (The Daily Beast)
Mayor Eric Adams. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images)
SUMMARY: "Antisemitic hate crimes are soaring in New York City, and Mayor Eric Adams is proposing legally enforced federal regulations to cut hate speech and antisemitism on social media platforms.
"…Adams advocates American legislators consider a U.S. equivalent of the European Digital Services Act, a law passed in October 2022 that aims to compel social media companies such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to combat disinformation, disclose how their platforms amplify problematic content, and to stop targeting ads based on information regarding an individual's ethnic group, religion or sexual orientation.
"The New York mayor is confronting a tsunami of anti-Jewish crime at home. The New York City Police Department reported 45 antisemitic hate crimes in November, a tally amounting to one attack every 16 hours, an increase of 125 percent from the same month last year."
MY TAKE: I would prefer that social media platforms self-regulated, but when that doesn't happen, it's reasonable for the government to step in. It's pretty much like having the FDA inspect a food-processing plant to make sure it's not poisoning the public. Hate speech is a kind of poisoning of the public that leads to assaults and violence. But it also creates a relentless threatening environment of daily fear for those being subjected to this hate.
Free speech is not absolute. None of our rights are. As a society, we struggle to balance our rights with our beliefs, both personal and political. Our lines in the sand have to moved whenever we measure benefit versus cost to our people. I have not always agreed with Mayor Adams (his excessive crime rhetoric, ideas about bail, forcibly hospitalizing some mentally ill homeless people), but he might be right about this issue.
Kareem's Quick-Take Guide to What to Watch
Here are a few TV shows that I've been enjoying lately.
Wednesday (Netflix)
I wasn't going to watch this because I had no interest. I tuned in just to see a few minutes just for nostalgia because I enjoyed the original 1964 TV series, The Addams Family when I was a kid. Man, was I surprised. Basically, this is a Sherlock Holmes mystery set in a school for werewolves, gorgons, vampires, and other monstrous outcasts. Despite the macabre setting, Wednesday is Holmes, digging for clues to a a series of murders that is more than meets the eye. Turns out, the mystery plot is pretty good. The humor and the characters are clever and finally Thing gets his close-up, Mr. DeMille. The show has already racked up over a billion viewing hours, making it one of the most popular series ever. (The above video of Wednesday dancing has gone viral, and for good reason. It's hysterical.)
The Recruit (Netflix)
This fish-out-of-water series about a 24-year-old newbie CIA lawyer is one of the most entertaining shows around. The CIA is portrayed as a dysfunctional corporation in which everyone is backstabbing each other while desperately clinging to reasonable deniability about everything. The story has enough complexity not to be predictable, enough humor to keep it enjoyable, and enough action to keep it suspenseful.
Tulsa King (Paramount)
Sylvester Stallone stars as a Mafia wiseguy who gets out of jail after 25 years looking for restitution for keeping his mouth shut. Instead, he gets sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma to start from scratch. He battles local criminals, the feds, his estranged daughter, and his Mafia family trying to restart his life. The show is created by Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan. I'm not going to oversell the show, but it's definitely entertaining watching Stallone playing a 75-year-old swaggering around, beating up people, and having sex. The look on one woman's face after sex when she finds out how old he is is priceless. I was surprised by how addictive the show is.
Music: Grammy-Nominated Reunion
Joshua Redman Brad Mehldau Christian McBride Brian Blade: LongGone
MY TAKE: Reviewer Matt Collar called this album "relaxed" and I can't think of a better adjective to describe the triumphant second reunion album of saxophonist Redman, pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Brian Blade.
The quartet started out as bright young guns back in 1994, with each evolving into successful solo artists. LongGone is the "relaxed" music of musicians with nothing to prove, confident in their ability, and comfortable in their relationship. As with any great work of art, the audience has to feel enough trust in the artist to surrender to the experience in order to fully appreciate it. Listen to the first minute of the video and you will surrender—and be glad you did.
One of the aspects of this newsletter I most like is the diversity of topics we cover, from education to politics to music to television and more. If you appreciate our eclectic approach then please subscribe. That's what makes it all possible.
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Adding to your post on the misuse of quotes, Carl Shurtz, a 19th Century German immigrant, is often quoted as saying "my country, right or wrong." But the whole quote, is ""My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
Colin Boggs
I also am surprised by the recruit. It has been an enjoyable light watch. It's so funny when we are watching a show and my wife asks - hey this is good how did you hear about it? Then I say Kareem Abdul Jabbar and at first she was surprised now she just goes with it. .
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