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These Concrete Relics in Arizona Helped Satellites Spy on the Soviets
Julie Anand and Damon Sauer
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Calibration Mark X47 with Satellites
Laura Mallonee
They were once part of a top secret spy operation. Today they lie in ruin.
Venture into the Sonoran Desert about an hour south of Phoenix and you'll eventually stumble upon a concrete cross. More than 100 dot the terrain, each of them 60 feet across and spaced precisely one mile apart. The government used them to calibrate the world's first spy satellites as they peered down on Russia and China while photographing more than 750 million square miles of the planet.
The 95 satellites of the once top-secret Corona project sent their last images in 1972, but the calibration markers still stand in a grid that once measured around 16 square miles. "It's such a massive thing in terms of its scale, but it pales in comparison to the scale of history that it's a part of," says Julie Anand. She and Damon Sauer have spent the better part of three years photographing the markers and mapping the satellites that pass over them for Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks.
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President Eisenhower authorized the Corona project in 1958 to photograph Earth from space to keep tabs on Russia and China. The idea was simple, even if the execution was not: Satellites with one (and later two) cameras loaded with 70mm film would orbit the planet, snapping pictures and periodically ejecting a pod of exposed film. As the film fell toward earth beneath a parachute, a passing plane would snatch it out of the sky.
As crazy as it sounds, the system worked. Eventually. After 13 failed launches, Corona flew its first successful mission on August 18, 1960, when it photographed 1.6 million square miles of Soviet territory. The images proved the Russians were greatly exaggerating their intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities.
Over the next decade, the Air Force, the CIA, and private contractors continued refining the technology. Among other things, Corona revealed a Soviet bomber base 400 miles west of Nome, Alaska, mapped Russia's 25 long-range missile bases, and revealed when and where China would conduct its first nuclear explosion. It also photographed much of the United States, images that provided the basis for many government maps.
As to those enormous crosses, the government built more than 250 of them in 1967 to measure the scale of objects in the photographs. You can think of the concrete and stone markers as a ruler visible from space. Although the feds removed many crosses when Corona gave way to Landsat, more than 100 remain. "They're unsung monuments to the Cold War," Anand says.
Anand and Sauer live in Phoenix and heard about the crosses in 2011. Two years later, they decided to make a trip into the desert, where they found one cross along a lonely highway and another on Casa Grande Mountain. Intrigued, they did a little research and started mapping the remaining crosses on Google Earth. They've photographed more than 40 so far.
They trek into the desert each spring and fall when the weather is mild, hauling a medium format camera, tripods, and a jib. They shoot as many as 12 images of a single cross, stitching them together in Photoshop to create a high-resolution image. Then they plug the GPS coordinates and altitude, along with the date, time, direction, and angle of the photograph, into the satellite mapping system SkySafari. That provides a list of satellites orbiting overhead. Anand and Sauer use that data to draw arcs representing each satellite's trajectory. "It's making a technology that was invisible, visible," Anand says.
Their sweeping images juxtapose the past and present in a reminder of how ubiquitous satellite technology, once the stuff of science fiction, is today.
Laura Mallonee is a writer for WIRED covering photography.
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Gotane is a small village in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is located in the Dhule taluka of Dhule District in Maharashtra.

Location
Gotane is located on the Maharashtra Other District Road 98 (ODR98).

Demographics
As of 2001 census, Gotane had a population of 2,879 with 1,570 males and 1,309 females. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. In Gotane, 1% of the population is under 6 years of age.

There are total of 495 households in the village and the village border area is spread in the area of 956 hectares.

Economy
Gotane farming economy is included in the states income & expenditure accounts. As for budget year 2007-2008 Gotane village had accounted for an income of Rs. 230,000.00 whereas the total expenditure was Rs. 230,000.00.

Administration
Gotane has as Village Gram Panchayat for day-to-day administration. The District Zilla Panchayat headquarters is at Dhule and the Block Panchayat is also at Dhule.

Gotane has no commercial banks, co-operative banks, agricultural credit societies, non-agricultural credit societies or other credit societies present within the village.

Drinking water facilities
Gotane has numerous drinking water facilities which are mainly available through a common tap or a common well. There are two wells and two hand pumps available within the village as drinking water sources.

Education Facilities
Gotane has one primary and one secondary school (R.G.V.Goatne). For all higher education, village students have to go to the bigger cities close by. There is also 1 government funded childcare and mother-care center (Anganwadi) within the village as part of the Integrated Child Development Services program started by the Indian government to combat child hunger and malnutrition in 1975.

Medical Facilities
Gotane has no medical facilities present within the village.

Communication Facilities
Gotane has no postal, telegraph or telephone facilities within the village. The closest post office is at Chaugaon which is 3.2 km from the village.

Recreation & Cultural Facilities
Gotane has no recreational facilities, such as cinemas or video halls present within the village.

Gotane has no cultural facilities like sports-clubs, stadium or auditorium present within the village.

Transport

Rail
Gotane has no railway station of its own, the closest railway station is Dhule which is 12 km from the village.

Road
Gotane has bus station and direct state transport (ST) connectivity. Villagers have to rely on the local vehicles for transport to nearby towns.

Air
Gotane has no airport of its own, the closest airport is at Dhule.

See also
 Chaugaon
 Udane
 Dhule City
 Dhule District
 List of villages in Dhule District
 List of districts of Maharashtra
 Maharashtra

References

 Census Of India: 2001: Population for Village Code 00157700
 Government of India: Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Villages in Dhule taluka
Villages in Dhule district

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The Rowdy Life Of Roddy Piper
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You most likely remember him from his stunning starring role as the explosive codpiece-clad Sam Hell in the 1988 sci-fi masterpiece Hell Comes to Frogtown (we'll get into that later), but did you also know that Roddy Piper was also a professional wrestler? Of course you did. The controversial, witty, brash, and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper was a fan favorite back when the WWE was the WWF in the 1980s and early '90s. The mouthy wrestling superstar and somewhat successful actor had a reputation for creating a scene.
What Culture tells us that Piper once broke one of Cyndi Lauper's gold records over an opponent's head and put out talk show host Morton Downey Jr.'s cigarette with a fire extinguisher. Although he had quite a few wins and other accolades under his belt (or should we say kilt?), including being a headliner of the very first WrestleMania in 1985, Piper's skill in the ring really came from his ability to turn himself into the most hated man in the arena. As What Culture put it, Roddy Piper "relished ... his villainy" and loved to "be the Lex Luthor to Hulk Hogan's Superman." He once even shaved an opponent's head to the cheers and jeers of the roaring crowd at WrestleMania III. But it was exactly this love for being the antagonist that ultimately made him one of the WWE universe's most iconic wrestlers of all time.
Roddy Piper's rowdy behavior outside the arena
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His official WWE bio tells it best: "'Rowdy' Roddy Piper claimed he was born to cause controversy, and his wild, freewheeling life proved that statement to be more than hyperbole." One such example of Piper's freewheeling wildness was recorded by The Fresno Bee. After the wrestler's death in July 2015, the paper recalled an event from 1986 that, in classic "Rowdy" fashion, ended up endearing him to the California town.
One wild night after a wrestling event, Piper and fellow grapplers "Cowboy" Bob Orton and Don "The Magnificent" Muraco ended up at a local bar just after last call. After an argument with a patron ended with Piper showing him what a professional-grade body slam feels like, the three escaped in a rented car, but they didn't get too far. They got their ride stuck on some railroad tracks and abandoned it in order to cause more mayhem.
The cops were quickly called after the drunken trio returned to their hotel. Piper and Orton were arrested for public intoxication. When the police arrived, they found Orton naked as the day he was born on his fifth-floor balcony, screaming challenges for them to come up and fight him. "He answered the door in his cowboy boots and not much else," said the officer who arrested him. The two spent the night in jail, but the charges were dropped the next day, and neither Piper nor Fresno would forget that night.
'Rowdy' Roddy Piper in the movies
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Moviegoers are now used to wrestling stars like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Dave Bautista, and John Cena making successful crossovers out of the ring and onto the big screen, but those guys probably wouldn't have been able to do so had Roddy Piper not paved the way for them decades before. According to Pro Wrestling Stories, Piper appeared in more than 50 feature films and TV shows, but he always struggled with being typecast as a wrestler. We agree with Pro Wrestling Stories when they call Hell Comes to Frogtown at once "a shameless Mad Max rip-off with giant frogs, misogynistic themes, terrible dialogue, awful acting, and Roddy Piper constantly getting electrocuted" and "a must-see movie." Oddly enough, Piper himself didn't feel the same way. "Unfortunately, the movie really got a lot of attention," Piper said. "I guess some people have actually bought it. I try to tell them, 'Listen, you're wasting your money.' But the more I talk them out of it, the more they buy it!"
Piper's most notable role was in 1988's They Live, directed by John Carpenter of Halloween fame. The movie follows Piper as a drifter named Nada who finds a pair of sunglasses that reveal the truth to him: The media and lower classes of society are being controlled by aliens that live among us. Later in his life, Roddy played a maniacal wrestler (tough gig) on the comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Don't Mess With Texas — or Colorado
Posted on April 11, 2020 April 28, 2020 by TL Livermore
It's a darn good thing I didn't broach this as a topic yesterday — I would have missed so much blog fodder. Na Ki'o was a huge, huge help in writing this; every last typo is entirely his fault.
Just about 100 years ago, the world was in the grip of a viral pandemic while also in the throes of Word War I. Although the carnage of war was far more sensational while simultaneously senseless (the young men of Australia and New Zealand sacrificed needlessly on the shores of Turkey, for instance), the death toll from influenza was far, far higher.
It was called the Spanish flu, not because it originated in Spain (it could have come from Kansas), but because it infected the Spanish king before people started taking it seriously, much as it may have taken covid-19 taking down the British prime minister before at least his own country started taking the current virus seriously.
While Philadelphians 100 years ago were sent out into the streets for one morale-boosting parade that brought about 12,000 deaths (a very clear warning for us modern folk whether we heed it or not), in one little obscure corner of the United States the citizens took the opposite approach and refused to let anyone, at the point of gun, disembark from the trains coming through. No one allowed in, and when the viral dust cleared, everyone in Gunnison County was still standing — not a single case of Kansas-Spanish flu.
For the better part of a century, this was not really part of the local lore, not a point of local pride nor anything taught to schoolchildren. It may have rated a single sentence in a bestseller a few years back that documented the worldwide pandemic, which was where I first learned this interesting factoid. Gunnison County: the only county in the U.S without a single case of Kansas flu.
But now we in Gunnison County are treating this as our birthright, our touchstone, our biggest claim to fame that sadly we can't duplicate this time around, because we already have 97 confirmed cases of covid-19, based on extremely limited testing. But we're still trying for our national notoriety.
There are 3,242 counties or equivalents in the U.S., if we care to believe a disgruntled letter writer in this week's Crested Butte News. And of those counties, he writes, only one has closed its doors to people who own property but don't live full-time in that county.
I can't vouch for any other county, but that is indeed what Gunnison has done. I don't think the message works very well as intended: we love you, but you'll only be in our way if you're here. The fifth amended public health order, issued last week, devoted great effort to defining primary residents and telling secondary ones they have to file an exemption if they want to be here — most of which have been denied.
Postcards went out to second homeowners, perhaps more polite than a gun but the message just as pointed: "You ain't a-gettin' off'n that there train," which is how I'm quite sure they talked in Gunnison 100 years ago.
At least one of these second homeowners must have friends in high places, down in the low country of Texas.
Let's talk about the Colorado-Texas relationship. Texans have often pushed north into Colorado, and no matter how many cattle herds or dollar bills they bring with them, they are very often derided. People, and here I may perhaps possibly be including myself, who otherwise frown upon making remarks along racist or ethnic lines, seem to have no trouble disparaging Texans, especially in jocular fashion.
The truth is, Colorado needs Texas. Maybe not the cattle herds so much any more, but definitely their dollars. Lots and lots of Texas dollars. It's likely one of our leading imports. Certainly in Gunnison County it is. It's all about biting the hand that feeds us.
Which appears to be what the attorney general of the entire state of Texas seems to think Gunnison County did last week, and with nothing more pressing on his plate, his "special counsel" put pen to paper to take umbrage with our public health edict.
I don't know about all of Gunnison County, but our public health officials are trampling on the "constitutional rights" of Texans, and that just ain't right. Texans want to be "treated as a welcome visitor, rather than an unfriendly alien" to quote a quoter of the Constitution. [When we start talking aliens, my interest increases.]
Case law is cited; suppositions are made; aspersions are cast. A demand is issued: "We would appreciate confirmation that you will modify your Order to protect the rights of non-resident homeowners." The letter is not signed with love.
This opening salvo, which drew national attention, mayhap didn't hit the mark directly, but it certainly seems to have stung. Our county attorney had his "special counsel" (his deputy) draw up a reply, bringing the total onslaught to eight pages of indication that unless you're a divorce attorney, you must not have a lot to do these days.
Case law is cited (and cited, and cited); arguments are declared spurious; one might even venture so far as to say some fun is had at the expense of Texans — all while eating that cake as well. "We want to be abundantly clear that Gunnison County cherishes and welcomes visitors to its County, including visitors and non-resident homeowners from Texas." But if you're planning to sue, we find your case laughable.
Then, to prove the point I'm sure I made that publicly-paid attorneys may not be as essential as they think, Colorado's attorney general weighed in (through his own lackey), although he avoids case law and holds to a pithy three paragraphs while still managing to call Texas "misguided."
If these aren't expressions of love, I don't know what could possibly be. Texas and Colorado may be headed for divorce court, if only we could find some attorneys with time on their hands.
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Our Bglobal experience was definitely a turning point. Since then, we've had opportunities to serve at a manufacturing plant in Mexico, in our own business in Kalamazoo to bring life into a poor neighborhood, and to finally work in Europe. Last year we spent six months in Freiburg, Germany. Applying what we learned has positioned us exactly where God planned.


I'm told that men want to be known as strong, and women want to be known as beautiful. I don't know; maybe I'm greedy, but I always wanted both. In my games as a child, I didn't identify with passive princesses. I was Robin Hood. I was a pirate. I was a sword fighter, a spy, a dragon-slayer. In every game, I was someone brave.
Although God does not call us to act tough, He does call us to be strong.
As I grew older, games faded into actual goals. I was determined to become strong in every sense of the word: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If I was hurt—oh baby. If I was hurt, I'd grind my teeth and set my jaw— but I could never cry. Voicing pain was for weaklings. Tears were for wimps.
But pretending to be a hero is foolish when you can't even get out of bed in the morning. My tough girl attitude softened up in my teens, as I lost my physical strength through chronic illness. I began to permit myself to cry, and I began to learn vulnerability.
Christian articles and posts about being "real" are a dime a dozen these days. We're the generation of authenticity. Away with masks! We are imperfect; we are people who weep, and we are people who fail. We are weak and our weakness is okay—these days, this is the collective shout of the Internet.
When we own both our weaknesses and the power of Christ, someone does get glory: Christ.
And I approve. The drop-away of our tough girl act reveals a humble, healthy honesty. It is good to be vulnerable. It is essential to express our neediness. In one sense, it is good to admit weakness.
But there is another side to this coin. There is a bad kind of weakness. Bad weakness is what settles in when we allow our frailty to define us. Although God does not call us to act tough, He does call us to be strong.
What does it mean to be "strong" in a biblical sense? If strength doesn't mean keeping a "stiff upper lip," what does it look like?
Strength as the world defines it starts and ends with you.
Are you tough enough? Do you have what it takes? Can you grit your teeth and muscle your way through?
Strength as God defines it starts and ends with Him.
"Wait for the Lord." To make his point unmistakably clear, the Psalmist repeats himself. "Yes, wait for the Lord." This is what it means to be strong and courageous. Strength is the exercise of confidence in God's power. Our strength is in Him.
We are not called to simply acknowledge our weakness, fold our hands in our laps demurely, and comfort each other with the shared acknowledgement that we are pitifully frail. We are called to own the strength of God and live in light of the power of Christ.
Take note of Paul's final sentence in verse 9—he says he will talk openly and freely about his own weaknesses, and so far, this is familiar territory on the blogosphere. We're a mess, our houses are a mess, our lives are mess. We're just being real.
Let's keep up the honesty, but Paul doesn't stop at airing his weaknesses in public. He goes on.
What does this look like, practically, in your life and mine?
Owning the weakness of a quick tongue . . . then owning the superior power of God to forgive you and to tame your tongue.
Owning the weakness of physical pain and exhaustion . . . then owning the superior strength of God to empower you in and through that trial.
Owning the weakness of our faith . . . then owning the superior power of God to give us grace and fill us with fresh faith.
If Paul simply put his weaknesses on display, no one would get any glory. Who would be interested in following a Savior who can't change anyone?
But when we own both our weaknesses and the power of Christ, someone does get glory: Christ.
How would you define true strength?
Have you ever felt the need to be "strong"? How did you go about seeking strength?
What does Paul seem to be saying about weakness and strength?
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Alfonso Fuentes is better known for his classical work that has been performed – and recorded – by musicians of some of the most celebrated symphonic orchestras in the world. But like the great composer and pianist Nikolai Kapustin, he is drawn to a considerable freedom in ideation which often results in the dissolution of borders or boundaries that seem to separate styles and periods in music. Not surprisingly – also like Mr Kapustin – he was inspired to record this music, which is completely improvised and – more importantly – absolutely expressed in the moment. Here, as a Puerto-Rican pianist of Afro-Caribbean heritage he, naturally gravitates to the rhythmic side of his personality. Also he naturally reveals himself to be a pianist in love with his left hand. Thus we hear places in this music – which he calls Plena because it has been inspired by "the beat of panderos (Puerto Rican hand drums) accompanying a solo leading voice…" as he says, in his booklet notes – where the improvisations signal that it (his left hand) should dominate.
But Mr Fuentes is also quick to seek out by ways and inner voices that lurk beneath the top line. The left hand often leads the ear, cherishing motivic snippets, highlighting an arresting harmonic progression, recalibrating the terms of discourse. It can be seductive as in the case of "Cortaron a Elena", and rarely if at all, distracts or undermines (from) the bigger (melodic) picture. In that song, for instance, his distinctions between solo and ripieno intertwine beautifully so that both become fused in a crystalline articulation; each of the individual layers being sensitively managed at an ideal tempo forestalling maudlin , and the finale (of the piece) fairly fizzes as the piece – and storyline – is brought to its ultimate dénouement.
Remember this is a pianist who has almost always been immersed in the western classical tradition of music, but that is where the intellect leads him from all his study and practice, he is also seduced by the traditional sounds of Puerto Rico that swirl around him. And so in the programme we have such gems as "Canción para Thaís", a gleaming gem that celebrates the vivacity of his daughter. And even though the programme seems to have flowed somewhat unplanned the mind has roamed the island's history and what have also become vivid stories that concern life and letters in the Puerto Rico of today. The former is captured in the two variations of "Montuno" and most memorably in "Memorias Campesinas" and the latter in "Plena al Pensamiento Crítico" which becomes a veritable roar of anguish as the dissonant elements develop through the middle and end of the piece. "Audabe: Canción Para Este Día" is the only through-composed work here and is also taken at a fair lick, which takes no hostages in its whirligig velocity. It is muscular, exhilaratingly voiced and utterly lucid.
This is music that is in the moment; but like much music that unfolds in this manner nothing is wasted. Everything Mr Fuentes plays bedazzles and delights from start to finish.


For my inaugural foray into interactive media mimicry, I thought I'd treat you guys to something a little special. I've been meaning to discuss this particular gem for quite some time as it is a guilty pleasure of mine. It also addresses the mystery of just who that strange blue lad in my avatar and blog header is.
In the past, I've mentioned that I spent my early years in Japan where my father played baseball. As a Famicom child, it would follow that I played a game or two that never found its way to the West. Power Blazer was such a game.
And heaven help me, it looked like Mega Man. If I at the tender age of five could tell that I was playing a crass knock-off, someone out there better be ready to throw down some yellow flags on this case of foul play.
Though this title in its original form never left Japan, you may have heard of another game called Power Blade. A Nintendo product evaluator saw some merit in Power Blazer but had quality concerns and thus reworked the game into something a little more palatable. The hero was replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger's Chevrolet-inspired twin Nova, the game's mechanics were tweaked, and the linear levels of the original were scrapped for ones with multiple paths and tighter platforming. Except for the music and a few enemy sprites, the entire game was overhauled and the result was one the best rarely mentioned classics on the NES.
Power Blazer is not that game.
In the late 21st century, all the nations of Earth are managed by a central computer called the Brain Master, but one day it goes Skynet and causes machines the world over to freak out. You are Steve Treiber, a super soldier decked out in a blue bicycle helmet, a black wife beater and the only man able to stop the madness. Oh, and you use a boomerang.
How many games assign a boomerang as your default weapon and not just as a sub item? Ty the Tasmanian Tiger and… uhhh? To be honest, it's an interesting tool with some clever implementation. At the outset, your boomerang has a very short range as indicated by your power meter. Collecting a certain item extends the meter and allows you to hurl the weapon farther, but each throw drains the meter and reduces the range of subsequent throws unless you allow it time to refill completely. The boomerang returns upon contact with an enemy, but by overshooting a baddie the boomerang can skip along its backside, scoring multiple hits.
Aside from boomerang gimmick, game progression is straightforward. You select from one of six stages, all of which must be completed before you can gain access to the final level. You square off against a gamut of themed robo-nasties in locales such as a military base, a weather station, and an abandoned residential zone. Quite by-the-numbers.
If guiding a short, blue wonder boy around a stage select screen with the goal of wrecking a mechanical master at the end of each world sends waves of déjà vu down your spine, the levels themselves won't do anything to erase that sensation. Every obstacle seems to have an analogue in the Mega Man universe. Large robotic frogs, gargantuan-yet-immobile pellet launchers, and little hard-hatted critters that expose themselves for only a moment to fire a shot or two. Hell, even the damn vanishing blocks that are the bane of every long-time Blue Bomber fan make an appearance.
This wouldn't be too much of an issue if the game at least played like Mega Man, but Steve plods at a pace somewhere between Simon Belmont and a Slinky and gets about as much air as a forklift. Those skills are invaluable when it comes to hopping from falling platform to falling platform or across foot-wide gaps to ledges that are a block higher than your current elevation. But the best parts are the long stretches of nothing save for a gaggle of migraine-inducing jokers who track your relentlessly. After all that, the bosses don't even have the courtesy to offer you a weapon upon their defeat.
So if you were to follow the flowchart of this game's design, you'd begin with a typical Mega Man game, replace the gun with a limited-range weapon, eliminate all athletic prowess of the protagonist while keeping the enemies just as capable as ever, then alternate level terrain between barren and frustratingly ridiculous. Not to worry, though. Should the game prove too much to handle, you are allowed to store up to four E canisters that refill your health instantly. Golly, where ever did they come up with that?
Yet as mediocre (and short) the entire experience is it remains one of my favorite games of all time. A large part of that love is thanks to the thick lenses on my nostalgia glasses. Another part is that Mega Man is my favorite game franchise of all time, and so great is my appreciation of it that the love extends to the weeds that sprout in its footsteps. But most of all, I love the music. If nothing else, Power Blazer features some catchy tunes composed by the same chick who did the music for the original Castlevania.
Also, one of the robot guardians is named "Brian D. Danger." Does the "D" stand for "Danger" as well? "Brian Danger Danger"? "Danger's not just my middle name but my last name as well!" Did Goichi Suda work on this game?
Years ago, I gave this game along with the rest of my Famicom collection to my uncle's family for them to do Lord-knows-what. It left a burning desire in my heart that intensified whereupon I snatched up a complete-in-box copy off of eBay some months ago on a whim. With the game back in my possession, I came to the realization that Steve Treiber is the greatest gaming icon in the history of forever.
Think about it. Against the deadliest metal nightmares mankind has wrought, he shows up to the party with a boomerang. A boomerang! It takes some serious cojones to thrust yourself into the thick of battle with something that can be purchased at your local dollar store, but if Jason Bourne can beat a man senseless with a rolled-up newspaper then Steve Treiber can chuck a goddamn boomerang.
Even his name is brilliant! "Mega Man," "Nova," those are not names but handles that denote excellence in their profession. "Steve," on the other hand, is just an Average-Joe name. "Steve" is your buddy! "Steve" will buy you drinks at the tavern! He certainly doesn't look the part of a super soldier. His profile in the game manual makes him appear lean, tall, and equipped with the latest survival gear. It's in stark contrast to his box cover and in-game appearance which pegs him as a short man with a beer gut and lax standards of dress.
Steve Treiber represents the everyman, lacking athleticism yet applying just enough effort to get the job done. He is my hero. And he uses a boomerang. And I will fight you all to the death if you do not agree with me.
So... yeah. Power Blazer. It's Mega Man with the lazy All-American can-do spirit. And a boomerang. Maybe that floats your boat. It definitely floats mine.


Sensitivity is the new buzzword in corporate circles these days, much like Friday Dressing and Power Lunching. Today, building solidarity with your employers and colleagues go way beyond mere efficiency on a project – showing team spirit is as much about caring through thoughtfully-chosen gifts as it is about doing overtime with everybody else. Building quasi-friendly relationships in the workplace goes a long way towards making the atmosphere light, stress-free and easygoing, which studies have proved lead to better output. While office decorum insists that V-Day celebrations be kept discreet, there's no rule that says the celebrations must pass you by!
Pick soft shades of warm colours like a delicate pink, muted orange, a discreet red, a pale yellow etc, and deep (not bright) shades of cool colours like a sea green, teal blue and mature purple. Warm colours tend to be too eye-catching and distracting when selected in their vibrant shades, and cool colours tend to be cold and hard when chosen in their bright shades.
Keep the roses on the backburner – they're too mushy and traditionally smack of love, but you can always stick other flowers in vibrant shades in your modern equivalent of an ink-hole and gain an aura of old-world charm.
Calendars: The only real option you have here is picking one with themes. Calendars come in a variety of love themes from raunchy K-S positions (strictly not recommended for the office!) to historical facts and figures about Saint Valentine would reduce any romantic feeling to dust. Select one that is easy on the eye, un-embarrassing to the recipient and gets the romantic feel across without giving rise to office gossip.
Watches: Keep the straps slim, the dial delicate with diamantes embedded in it, and pale colours for women. For men – go the traditional way with bulky black straps; after all, men have to be men!
Clocks: They come in various colours other than the usual black and brown ones, and in interesting shapes and sizes. Stay away from the ones whose faces are painted with hearts and teddy bears though as well as musical clocks – they are too distracting in a workplace.
Chocolates are the least fussy gift one can give to a person at the workplace – and the most innocent of all Valentine presents!
Celebrations are about marking the passage of time, but each need not be a raucous, loud expression of excitement. It is easy to set the right Valentine mood at the workplace without becoming unprofessional. However, it is always wise to find out from old-timers what the office protocol is, and then take it from there.
Have a look at millionhearts.org for brighter idea. We are building the Heart from human love.


POLITICAL TIDBITS: Hearty congrats to our own Pia Wurtzbach for bagging Miss Universe title and for her advocacy to raise awareness vs HIV scourge. Pia's victory seems very Filipino in plot and style, full of last-minute suspense and confusion, as emcee Steve Harvey gets all mixed up re top winners. But at least he owns up to his mistake quickly---unlike Smartmatic, now engaged in source-code review that our IT experts denounce as 'grand thievery.' Read about racket in foreign duty-free airports that makes NAIA's "laglag bala" seem like child's play---frightful and chilling.
Hearty congrats to our own Pia Wurtzbach for bagging Miss Universe title and for her advocacy to raise awareness vs HIV scourge. Pia's victory seems very Filipino in plot and style, full of last-minute suspense and confusion, as emcee Steve Harvey gets all mixed up re top winners. But at least he owns up to his mistake quickly---unlike Smartmatic, now engaged in source-code review that our IT experts denounce as 'grand thievery.' Read about racket in foreign duty-free airports that makes NAIA's "laglag bala" seem like child's play---frightful and chilling.
Amid the feeling of desperation of the populace over recent political developments, devastating typhoons, traffic, the airport scams, etc., a most welcome and much-needed glimmer of cheer appears in the horizon---just in time for a merry Christmas celebration.
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, daughter of a Filipina mother and a German father (she was born in Stuttgart in western Germany and is also a former movie actress who answered to the name of Pia Romero), bags the Miss Universe title in the recent pageant in Las Vegas---42 years after Margie Moran won it. But to make Pia's victory more exciting---very Filipino in plot and style, in fact, full of last-minute mix-up, suspense and confusion---pageant emcee Steve Harvey of "Family Feud" fame, erroneously announced that Miss Colombia, the first runner-up, had won the title (which would have made Colombia the consecutive two-year winner). Within minutes, however, Harvey realized his mistake and called out an astounded Pia Wurtzbach---a stunning standout in an electric blue gown by Albert Andrada---as the real winner.
The cameras fully capture the swirling emotions of the cast involved, most especially our Miss Philippines who at first didn't quite know how to handle the erstwhile winner from Latin America who had to be uncrowned right there. As Harvey acknowledged his embarrassing mistake and apologized profusely, real winner Pia went up to the runner-up to perhaps console her, but the latter turned away, perhaps too emotionally distraught (can anyone blame her?). The cavernous hall, full of flag-waving Pinoys, burst into thunderous applause for Pia.
Those who know Pia Wurtzbach stress that her key advocacy is to promote HIV awareness, which is wonderful, for statistics bear out that this world-wide scourge is now prevalent even in our own country. Also, it's good to know that Pia's beauty is all hers---a genuine gift of Mother Nature. As someone who knows her says, she has done nothing by way of a repair job, though she had to lose some 25 lbs. for the competition.
This Filipino-German beauty indeed represents the best of our multi-racial strains over the centuries that have made the Filipina by now legendary for her beauty. At Last Vegas today Pia added terrific grace, poise and composure to the battery of winning Filipina attributes---despite the hostilities she experienced from sympathizers of the dethroned Colombian girl. Pia looked every inch a queen as she never lost her dignity.
As I listened to the news and thrilled to the rectification by the harassed emcee of his mistake, the thought suddenly came to my mind: at least Harvey made a manful, honest confession of it. I couldn't help but think of Smartmatic, the provider of election machines for our past two elections and already contracted for the 2016 elections, and how it has failed to rectify the grave injustice to the Filipino people of stealing their votes---or at the very least, refusing to acknowledge its grievous sin of failing to give us clean, honest and credible elections.
At this point, the Filipino IT practitioners are again unanimous in denouncing the on-going review of the source code for those machines, as required by RA 9369, the Automated Election System (AES) Law. Our IT experts have devoted enormous time, resources and energy to detailing the hideous aspects of the AES and the company repeatedly contracted to provide the machines for it. Smartmatic, however, has been so influential with the powers that be that the IT experts' opinions---as well as efforts of former Biliran Rep. Glenn Chong who, after being cheated in the elections of 2010 in his province, has made it his life advocacy to document and spread the gospel of cheating through the Smartmatic machines---have fallen on deaf ears all this time.
Here's just a sample of the opinion shared by our IT experts, from Professor Toti Casino of Asia-Pacific College: "The on-going source code review is some kind of evidence being concocted by the Commission (on Elections) to be used for their claim of being compliant with the law, though it's hardly attended by any more notable and qualified reviewers EXCEPT AMATEURS WHO HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN NATIONWIDE-SCALE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AES. Even Smartmatic with its discovered failures in 2010 and 2013 tries to make it look as seamless as an ATM installed nationwide; but it's rather A GRAND SCHEME OF THIEVERY in the AES. Justifying the fraud-ridden 2016 PCOS-AES elections as truthful would depend on who can put up the ante among these operators" (emphasis BOC's).
Mabuti pa talaga si Steve Harvey, unaamin sa pagkakamali niya. Ang Smartmatic, kahit kalian hindi aamin, sa tulong ng sindikato sa loob ng Comelec.
If we Filipinos have been riled up over the "Laglag Bala" scams in our country's premier international airport, it seems that hindi tayo nag-iisa. A newspaper in India reported about another scam that appears to be plaguing the international airport in Bangkok which could be even worse than our native-spawned scam that has made NAIA notorious around the world. This story was also reported by the BBC.
The report said that an Indian national was detained in the Thai capital for stealing a box of cigarettes in a duty-free shop in Bangkok International Airport. He had paid for chocolates and a carton of cigarettes, but it seems that the cashier put an additional packet of cigarettes extra into his bag and he thought it was free. The passenger was arrested for shop-lifting and report alleged that Thai police had asked for 30,000 baht for his release.
The report also alleged that the Indian national spent two nights in jail and paid 500 baht for an air-conditioned cell, 200-300 baht for each visitor and 11,000 baht for his final release. The report alleged that the police shared the money in front of the victim. Moreover, he was charged in court and fined 2,000 baht by the magistrate, handcuffed and escorted to his plane. But what made it even more terrible was that his passport was stamped "Thief".
His relatives requested help from the Indian Embassy and were told that it's helpless, as many Asians are victimized similarly daily and letters and phone-calls to Thai authorities are ignored.
The report alleged that the passenger shared a cell with a Singaporean the first night who paid 60,000 baht for his release. The second night it was a Malaysian national who paid 70,000 baht.
The media advisory stressed that the episode had happened not in a shanty shop in downtown Bangkok but in a duty free shop at the Bangkok Int'l Airport and there were corroborating testimonies from various victims. But apparently the scam is not limited to that airport, as someone else went through the same ordeal in Dubai. A Duty Free attendant put a bottle of cologne in his shopping bag (he did not even see it happen) and he was arrested for stealing, before he even picked up his luggage.
The report said this passenger sat at the airport jail the whole day---NO FOOD, NO WATER for one day and only after he paid a fine (bribe?) of US$500, all he had in his pocket at the time, was he let go.
The report emphasized that all of these episodes appear pre-planned--- some duty free employees intentionally put extra items to victimize passengers---and they know whom to target. The advice is: ALWAYS GET A RECEIPT FOR ANY FREE GIFT THAT THE DUTY FREE SHOP GIVES. One should also be WATCHFUL WHEN YOU ARE BEING BILLED AND ITEMS PACKED IN INTERNATIONAL AIR PORTS (DUTY FREE SHOPS).
My own comment: a dilemma like the above that seems to be happening in various airports could really be scary for any traveler, especially if he or she is down to his last few bucks while in some transit airport, and the scammers won't take anything but cash, so that a credit card would be useless. Of course, there's the ATM, but not all passengers have that access.


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package com.tle.admin.usermanagement.ldap;

import com.dytech.gui.TableLayout;
import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import com.tle.admin.usermanagement.ldap.LDAPDirectoryTree.TreeNode2;
import com.tle.beans.usermanagement.standard.LDAPSettings;
import com.tle.common.Check;
import com.tle.common.applet.client.ClientService;
import com.tle.common.i18n.CurrentLocale;
import com.tle.core.plugins.AbstractPluginService;
import com.tle.core.remoting.RemoteLDAPService;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.dnd.DragSource;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ItemEvent;
import java.awt.event.ItemListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionAdapter;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComboBox;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.ListSelectionModel;
import javax.swing.ToolTipManager;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;

/** @author cofarrell */
public class LDAPMappingPanel extends AbstractLDAPPanel implements ActionListener, ItemListener {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  public static final int NAME = 0;
  public static final int DISPLAY = 1;
  public static final int VALUE = 2;

  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  protected static final List<String> ATTRIBUTES_NAMES =
      Collections.unmodifiableList(
          Arrays.asList(
              "username",
              "id",
              "groupId",
              "groupName",
              "surname",
              "givenname",
              "email",
              "memberOf",
              "member",
              "memberKey"));

  private LDAPDirectoryTree directory;

  private AttributeTableModel attributeModel;
  private JTable attributeTable;
  private JScrollPane groupScrollPane;

  private JButton left;
  private JButton right;

  private String dragString = "";

  private JTextField personField;
  private JTextField groupField;
  private JComboBox presetsCombo;
  private JButton manageDns;

  private RemoteLDAPService ldapService;

  public LDAPMappingPanel(ClientService services) {
    createGUI();
    ldapService = services.getService(RemoteLDAPService.class);
  }

  private void setupChangeDetector() {
    changeDetector.watch(attributeModel);
  }

  private void createGUI() {
    JPanel all = new JPanel(new BorderLayout(5, 5));
    all.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));

    all.add(createTop(), BorderLayout.NORTH);
    all.add(createMiddle(), BorderLayout.CENTER);

    setupChangeDetector();

    setLayout(new BorderLayout());
    add(all);
    setSize(800, 600);
  }

  @Override
  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  public String getTabName() {
    return s("mappings");
  }

  @Override
  public void showPanel() throws Exception {
    super.showPanel();

    updateButtonText();

    directory.setLDAPSettings(settings);
    directory.setLdapService(ldapService);
    directory.reload();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  private JComponent createTop() {
    JLabel personLabel = new JLabel(s("personal"));
    JLabel groupLabel = new JLabel(s("group"));
    JLabel presetsLabel = new JLabel(s("presets"));

    personField = new JTextField();
    groupField = new JTextField();
    presetsCombo = new JComboBox(LDAPPresets.getAll());
    presetsCombo.addItemListener(this);

    final int width1 = personLabel.getPreferredSize().width;

    final int[] rows = {
      TableLayout.PREFERRED, TableLayout.PREFERRED, TableLayout.PREFERRED, TableLayout.PREFERRED,
    };
    final int[] cols = {
      width1, TableLayout.FILL,
    };

    JPanel all = new JPanel(new TableLayout(rows, cols, 5, 5));
    all.add(presetsLabel, new Rectangle(0, 0, 1, 1));
    all.add(presetsCombo, new Rectangle(1, 0, 1, 1));
    all.add(personLabel, new Rectangle(0, 1, 1, 1));
    all.add(personField, new Rectangle(1, 1, 1, 1));
    all.add(groupLabel, new Rectangle(0, 2, 1, 1));
    all.add(groupField, new Rectangle(1, 2, 1, 1));
    all.add(groupLabel, new Rectangle(0, 3, 1, 1));
    all.add(groupField, new Rectangle(1, 3, 1, 1));

    return all;
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  private JComponent createMiddle() {
    manageDns = new JButton(" ");
    manageDns.addActionListener(
        new ActionListener() {
          @Override
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            ManageDNsDialog d = new ManageDNsDialog(ldapService);
            d.show(manageDns, settings);
            updateButtonText();
            directory.reload();
          }
        });

    left = new JButton(new ImageIcon(LDAPMappingPanel.class.getResource("/icons/left.gif")));
    right = new JButton(new ImageIcon(LDAPMappingPanel.class.getResource("/icons/right.gif")));

    left.addActionListener(this);
    right.addActionListener(this);

    JComponent mapping = createMapping();

    directory = new LDAPDirectoryTree();
    directory.addMouseListener(
        new MouseAdapter() {
          @Override
          public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            TreePath path = null;
            if (directory.isSelectionEmpty()) {
              path = directory.getPathForLocation(e.getX(), e.getY());
            } else {
              path = directory.getSelectionPath();
            }

            if (path != null) {
              TreeNode2 tmp = (TreeNode2) path.getLastPathComponent();
              dragString = tmp.toString();
              setCursor(DragSource.DefaultCopyNoDrop);
            }
          }

          @Override
          public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
            setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.DEFAULT_CURSOR));
            if (canDrag(e, getSelectedComponent()) != null) {
              right();
            }
            dragString = "";
          }
        });
    directory.addMouseMotionListener(
        new MouseMotionAdapter() {
          @Override
          public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
            Point p = canDrag(e, getSelectedComponent());
            if (p != null) {
              JTable table = getSelectedTable();
              p = canDrag(e, table);

              int row;
              if (p != null) {
                row = table.rowAtPoint(p);
              } else {
                row = table.getRowCount();
              }

              table.changeSelection(row, 0, false, true);
              setCursor(DragSource.DefaultCopyDrop);
            } else if (dragString.length() != 0) {
              setCursor(DragSource.DefaultCopyNoDrop);
            }
          }
        });

    ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().registerComponent(directory);
    JScrollPane treeScrollPane = new JScrollPane(directory);

    final int height1 = manageDns.getPreferredSize().height;
    final int height2 = left.getPreferredSize().height;
    final int width1 = left.getPreferredSize().width;

    final int[] rows = {
      height1, TableLayout.FILL, height2, height2, TableLayout.FILL,
    };
    final int[] cols = {
      TableLayout.FILL, width1, TableLayout.FILL,
    };

    JPanel all = new JPanel(new TableLayout(rows, cols, 5, 5));
    all.add(manageDns, new Rectangle(0, 0, 1, 1));
    all.add(treeScrollPane, new Rectangle(0, 1, 1, 4));
    all.add(mapping, new Rectangle(2, 0, 1, 5));
    all.add(left, new Rectangle(1, 2, 1, 1));
    all.add(right, new Rectangle(1, 3, 1, 1));

    return all;
  }

  private JComponent createMapping() {
    attributeModel = new AttributeTableModel();
    attributeTable = new JTable(attributeModel);

    attributeTable.setModel(attributeModel);
    attributeTable.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.SINGLE_SELECTION);
    attributeTable.changeSelection(0, 0, false, true);

    return new JScrollPane(attributeTable);
  }

  @Override
  public void applySettings() throws Exception {
    settings.setPersonObject(personField.getText());
    settings.setGroupObject(groupField.getText());
    settings.setAttributes(attributeModel.getAttributes());
  }

  public JTable getSelectedTable() {
    return attributeTable;
  }

  public JComponent getSelectedComponent() {
    JComponent component = getSelectedTable();
    if (Objects.equal(component, attributeTable)) {
      return attributeTable;
    }

    return groupScrollPane;
  }

  public void right() {
    TreePath path = directory.getSelectionPath();
    if (path == null) {
      return;
    }
    TreeNode2 tmp = (TreeNode2) path.getLastPathComponent();
    JTable table = getSelectedTable();
    int row = table.getSelectedRow();

    table.getModel().setValueAt(tmp.toString(), row, 1);

    table.updateUI();
  }

  // / ************ LISTENERS **************//

  @Override
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    if (e.getSource() == left) {
      JTable table = getSelectedTable();
      int row = table.getSelectedRow();
      attributeModel.setValueAt("", row, 1);
      table.updateUI();
    } else if (e.getSource() == right) {
      right();
    }
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  class AttributeTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    private final String[] COLUMNS = {s("name"), s("value")};
    private Map<String, String> attributes = new HashMap<String, String>();

    public AttributeTableModel() {
      for (String element : ATTRIBUTES_NAMES) {
        attributes.put(element, "");
      }
    }

    public Map<String, String> getAttributes() {
      return attributes;
    }

    public void setAttributes(Map<String, String> attributes) {
      this.attributes.putAll(attributes);
      fireTableCellUpdated(0, attributes.size() - 1);
    }

    @Override
    public String getColumnName(int col) {
      return COLUMNS[col];
    }

    @Override
    public int getRowCount() {
      return getAttributeDisplay().length;
    }

    @Override
    public int getColumnCount() {
      return COLUMNS.length;
    }

    @Override
    public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
      String value = null;
      if (col == 0) {
        value = getAttributeDisplay()[row];
      } else if (col == 1) {
        value = attributes.get(ATTRIBUTES_NAMES.get(row));
      }
      return value;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int col) {
      return col == 1;
    }

    @Override
    public void setValueAt(Object value, int row, int col) {
      attributes.put(ATTRIBUTES_NAMES.get(row), (String) value);
      fireTableCellUpdated(row, col);
    }
  }

  public Point canDrag(MouseEvent e, JComponent table) {
    Point p2 = table.getLocationOnScreen();
    Point p1 = directory.getLocationOnScreen();
    Point p = e.getPoint();

    Point p3 = new Point();
    p3.x = p1.x + p.x - p2.x;
    p3.y = p1.y + p.y - p2.y;

    if (table.contains(p3) && dragString.length() != 0) {
      return p3;
    } else {
      return null;
    }
  }

  public void save(LDAPSettings settings) {
    settings.setAttributes(attributeModel.getAttributes());
    settings.setPersonObject(personField.getText());
    settings.setGroupObject(groupField.getText());
    settings.setBases(settings.getBases());
  }

  public void load(LDAPSettings ls) {
    this.settings = ls;
    attributeModel.setAttributes(ls.getAttributes());
    personField.setText(ls.getPersonObject());
    groupField.setText(ls.getGroupObject());
    updateButtonText();
  }

  @Override
  public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e) {
    if (presetsCombo.getSelectedIndex() > 0) {
      setPreset((LDAPPresets.Preset) presetsCombo.getSelectedItem());
    }
  }

  private void setPreset(LDAPPresets.Preset preset) {
    groupField.setText(preset.getGroupObject());
    personField.setText(preset.getUserObject());

    attributeModel.setAttributes(preset.getValues());
    attributeTable.repaint();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("nls")
  public String[] getAttributeDisplay() {
    return new String[] {
      s("username"),
      s("id"),
      s("groupid"),
      s("groupname"),
      s("familyname"),
      s("firstname"),
      s("email"),
      s("memberof"),
      s("groupmember"),
      s("memberkey")
    };
  }

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Description: Screwhead, Plan_C and Bass-Ic invite you to join us at Bain Mathieu for some Drum And Bass madness to start the week off on the right (or left) foot!!!
Mc Special S will be hosting the evening!
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WICKED VIBES - a VERY big M E R C I to Simon for letting Us do our show at the bain Mathieu!! More to come.. hope all you locals will come RRRRince it with US next time!
40 minutes to go! ...hmm... I'd better head out!
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On the October 12 episode of the hit SBS variety show "Running Man," both Yoo Jae Suk and Lee Kwang Soo were given a "special mission" by the staff that would determine how brave they are.
Lee Kwang Soo, the "Kwangvatar," and Yoo Jae Suk were told that they had to cross another building by walking through a wooden plank that connects both sides while blindfolded.
Thinking that it's a true test, the two weren't able to hide how they really felt about the mission and showed how scared they were as they proceeded.
As Lee Kwang Soo was guided by a "Running Man" staff while he made his way to the roof top and to the ledge where the steel bridge was located, he couldn't hide his fear and even told the staff that they're crazy. Eventually, he mustered up enough courage and went on the mission while shaking and proceeding with caution.
Yoo Jae Suk, on the other hand, went through the course without stopping. Although it wasn't easy for him, he carefully made his way towards the other end.
After the two finished the knee-shaking mission, they were told to remove their blindfolds and discovered that it was actually a plank that was installed on the roof top!
Lee Kwang Soo laughed in embarrassment and said, "It's really embarrassing. Couldn't you just edit it to show that I'm lying on the ground? Please put some grand background music. Please cut my screaming a bit," requesting for the producers to lessen his embarrassment by editing his footage.


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Inquiry document says Bergen, PM talked about setting 'bad precedent' with convoy
OTTAWA — Notes taken during a conversation between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former Conservative leader Candice Bergen shed more light on their discussion about reaching out to "Freedom Convoy" protesters.
Details of that Feb. 3 phone call have been released by the Public Order Emergency Commission, the public inquiry examining Trudeau's decision to use the Emergencies Act to clear blockades around Parliament Hill and at several U.S. border crossings.
Trudeau and Bergen spoke on her first day as the interim Opposition leader after the Conservative caucus ousted former leader Erin O'Toole.
The inquiry previously learned that one of Trudeau's aides suggested Bergen privately acknowledged there were "significant concerns" around engaging with protesters and "setting a bad precedent" during the call.
At the same time, Bergen was pressing Trudeau to extend an "olive branch" to the protesters blockading Ottawa's streets in the House of Commons.
In a statement Thursday, the former leader said she remembered raising that with Trudeau, but said it was the prime minister who said he didn't want to set a bad precedent.
Notes taken by a staffer in the Prime Minister's Office show Bergen said she wanted to see some resolution to the protests, to "find a way for people to head back home."
"If you have some ideas or some things you think could be done, extending an olive branch is one way of putting it, we'd love to be able to even work together to make that happen," Bergen said, according to the summary.
In response, Trudeau agreed there may be opportunities to work together, but said some of the things protesters were called for are "non-starters."
"I'm worried about setting a precedent where if anyone wants something they can set up a blockade on Wellington Street," he went on, according to the notes.
The notes show Bergen agreed and added, "I think that you do have to be cautious and as PM don't want to set a bad precedent. I'm sure you're talking and coming up with some ideas."
Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press
$38 Lululemon mini belt bag is a '10 out of 10' wardrobe staple — here's why
Lululemon reviewers are "shocked" by how much they love this $38 mini belt bag — here's why.
Canadian TV host gets real about the impacts of social media: 'Draining and toxic'
The Toronto-based personality has been vocal about perfection and beauty standards in the past.


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Q: Save value in a database field based on the entry of the user name which was saved I installed the sonata-admin, sonata-user and forsuser on my symphony2 installation (2.1.2)
Everything works fine. I can create a user and can also login into it.
Then I added to my Entity/User class one additional field, which should be filled by a method which needs the entered username as import. (License Field).
My Problem now is, that I don't know how to do this. I created also my own userAdmin class to create the form.
But everything I try I have no clue or find out how to implement the mentioned aspect.
The idea would be that the user is entered in the form and after the button create user a method should be called which get's the username and returns the value which should be stored in the database.
Can somebody helo me out and give me some hints to identify where I have to change something, where I have to store my method hand how to call this?

A: I don't fully understand your problem but looks like you could use Sonata's saving hooks to solve it.

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Forex trading in Urdu i will Teach you online Forex Training in urdu you will be forex Trading Account to learn Basic Forex in Urdu Here you also learn Forex Guide in urdu. Learn Complete Forex Trading in Urdu.
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Often cited as one of the world's top fingerstyle, steel-string guitarists, Grammy nominee Alex de Grassi brings a unique voice to the art of acoustic guitar with his evocative compositions and arrangements, a highly orchestrated sound, and sheer virtuosity. This DVD features a dozen lessons on acoustic guitar tone and technique, taught by a fingerstyle master. Topics covered include: accents, cross string picking, dynamics, glissandos and slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, polyrhythms and cross rhythms, string stopping, timbre, tone production, vibrato and pitch modulation. 1 hr., 40 min.


The architects have given their work space at the MVRDV House a complete makeover, creating a truly colourful mix of open and enclosed rooms at an industrial building in Rotterdam. Organised like a small town, their office environment underscores and fosters creative processes, making it a second home in which the architects live, eat and naturally also work together.
MVRDV's new home base has a rectangular ground plan and consists, as appropriate for a town, of several "houses" covering a total of 2,400 square metres. Five segments, each with a double-pitched roof and lined up in a row, combine to form a collective, unified whole, a home for 200 employees.
Programmatically the MVRDV House is divided into three lengthwise sections: one to the south, one to the north and one in the middle. The side sections have transparent glazed walls, opening them up to the central core, which links them and provides them access. Along with fulfilling an acoustic purpose, the glazed walls serve as gigantic sketch pads, bearing witness to creative processes in the individual departments.
Entering the unconventional office building from the south takes you immediately into the heart of the building, which the architects lovingly refer to as the Family Room. Here everything required in a real home is to be found – a plant-covered chandelier over the reception counter, and to its left and right a "living and dining room" complete with seating areas and a 30-metre-long table. The northern longitudinal section consists of a huge open-plan office; the southern section, on the other hand, is the only one divided into two storeys and features a gallery looking down onto open workspaces. The offices in this section are enclosed, each in a striking colour of its own and each fulfilling a different purpose. Bright green, yellow and orange as well as dark blue and a warm brown make the rooms easily recognisable and lend structure to the MVRDV House.
The colourful mix of open-plan and enclosed office spaces provides plenty of room for creativity to unfold. No matter whether for conversations in private or formal meetings, the varied spaces and their specific furnishings meet all requirements. MVRDV has designed their new home as a dynamic answer to forward-looking working methods, also implementing it in a way appropriate to the creative environment in the industrial building, which also houses start-ups, design firms and modern leisure offerings.


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Minor League Tour Career Earnings: $5,343.34
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10/15/2020 Florian Kolberg fires 76 (5-under par) to win at Palm Beach Par 3
Justin Peters 2nd at 77 followed by two players at 79
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Florian Kolberg, Marc Mazza, Michael Werenski and Josh Goldenberg tie for second at 69
10/31/2019 Mike Miller earns his 11th MLGT win on the 6th extra hole at Indian Spring CC
Miller tied Florian Kolberg, James Driscoll and Matt Hill in regulation at 69
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Florian Kolberg barely missed birdie on the final hole to force a playoff
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'Papa George' retires after 20 years as Birth Center nurse in Steamboat
Kari Dequine Harden
kharden@SteamboatPilot.com
Tracie and George Detwiler visit with Blaize Hilton, who was born on Feb.19, and his mom Kendra Huyard inside the special care nursery at the Birth Center at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center. George, a registered nurse, is retiring after 20 years working in Steamboat Springs. His wife, Tracie, who is neonatal nurse practitioner at the hospital, is expected to follow him into retirement this summer. (Photo by John F. Russell)
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — After 20 years caring for the tiniest and most vulnerable of Routt County residents, George and Tracie Detwiler are saying goodbye to the special care nursery at the Birth Center at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs.
Best known as "Papa George," George, a registered nurse, retired Tuesday.
"He's a big teddy bear," said co-worker Kelli Beckvermit-Prine. "He's the most caring and conscientious person, with a heart of gold."
She said she'll miss his personality, fun and laid-back spirit and ability to go with the flow.
"And his level of expertise," Beckvermit-Prine added.
Tracie, his wife of eight years and a neonatal nurse practitioner, will officially retire this summer.
George began his career as a psychiatric nurse in Pennsylvania, before deciding to take a break and move to Colorado. In Durango, he worked for his cousin's flooring business.
After a few years he was ready to get back into health care and decided to head to the Yampa Valley, where his sister Faith Detwiler worked as a nurse.
Doing an initial phone interview, George recalled, "They said, 'We love your sister. If you are anything like her, we'll take you!'"
George didn't have much experience with babies, but when he saw Faith sitting in a rocking chair bottle-feeding a baby, he was sold.
And working with babies came very naturally to George. His favorite part about caring for "God's little miracles," he said, is the incredible potential waiting in those tiny wriggling figures. He also loves interacting with the families.
"I think fathers really appreciated having a man with big hands caring for their babies," Tracie said. "And saying to them, 'Come over here and change a diaper.' He helps fathers get more comfortable in taking care of their babies. It's a huge bonus for our team."
The close-knit unit is tasked with caring for babies 32 weeks and older and over a certain weight specification. They also care for babies born with health issues.
"It's great to be able to keep those babies here," Tracie said, as opposed to being transported to Denver.
The babies stay under the watchful care of George, Tracie and the rest of the team until they are strong and stable enough to go home. Mothers usually stay nearby.
The nurses provide feeding and respiratory support, monitor vitals, help new mothers and stabilize babies who have to be transported to Denver.
A newborn can get very sick very quickly, George said, and they've had "a lot of close calls but always with happy endings." George remembers one particularly harrowing night caring for a 28-week-old baby that had to wait out a snowstorm before going to Denver.
As a guy surrounded by women, George said he learned kindness, compassion and caring.
"And it spilled over to the rest of my life," George added.
George and Tracie also find great joy when grateful parents come up to them around town, proudly showing them their growing children. It happens about once a week, they said.
Growing their own relationship within the walls of the Birth Center, George and Tracie were friends for about 10 years before they started dating.
When Tracie was deep in grief after putting down a beloved dog, it was George whom she instinctively called. After he helped her through the particularly traumatic ordeal, she thought, "This is more than a friend. This is a really good guy."
When George says he "owes a big debt of gratitude" to his sister Faith, it is not only for leading him to a new professional calling and a community he loves, but also to his wife.
As for what's next, George first will get used to sleeping in.
The couple plans to stay in Steamboat and do some traveling. One of the things George is most looking forward to in retirement is more volunteering.
"He's Mr. Volunteer," Tracie said.
To reach Kari Dequine Harden, call 970-871-4205, email kharden@SteamboatPilot.com or follow her on Twitter @KariHarden.
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Occupied Palestinian territory | News | Press releases | 2013 | International Day of Persons with Disabilities: "Equal Rights for Palestinians with Disabilities"
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: "Equal Rights for Palestinians with Disabilities"
Disabled woman, the Gaza Strip, 2013 @ WHO3 December 2013, Jerusalem – As the world celebrates the special occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Health Organization in the occupied Palestinian territory is using this opportunity to promote the rights of persons with disabilities to equal treatment as a step towards a more equitable community.
According to the Palestinian disability survey carried out by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs in 2011, using a narrow definition of what is a disability, at least 110,000 Palestinians are living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza with a disability. "The main challenge that faces persons with disability is not their disability," pointed out Dr. Mahmoud Daher, acting head of the WHO office in Jerusalem. "The problem is the way that people interact and respond to the person who has a disability."
The Palestinian Authority issued the Palestinian Disability Law in 1999 with the goal of promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. Article II provides: "the disabled have the right to enjoy a free life, dignified living, and various services in a manner equal to that of other citizens and he/she have the same rights and obligations that are within his/her capabilities. It is not permissible to prevent any disabled from enjoying these rights because of his/her disability." Yet persons with disabilities have not witnessed noticeable changes in their treatment. Many persons with disabilities find they are excluded from education, jobs and social life by society's attitudes, and find physical accessibility to even public buildings and transportation a constant challenge. Integrating persons with disabilities into the community is the responsibility of not just government but also society as a whole and individuals. All Palestinians should respect the rights of persons with disabilities to the same treatment and opportunities as others in the Palestinian community. Civil society organizations, led by organizations of persons with disabilities, see the implementation of the Palestinian Disabilities law as an important milestone toward this end.
The World Health Organization stresses that institutions and people need to be pro-active in integrating persons with disabilities into educational facilities, the job market and in social activities, and to ensure that services can be accessed by those with a visual, hearing, mobility or mental disability. Persons with disabilities are a highly vulnerable group especially in the Palestinian community, and strengthening their role in the community will achieve a healthier equal environment for everyone.
This month the World Health Organization will launch a programme within government and UN agencies in the occupied Palestinian territory that aims to raise awareness and to mainstream respect for disability rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, as guaranteed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The programme will involve WHO and five UN agencies; ILO, UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, and UNSCO and counterpart ministries in practical methods of ensuring protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in education, health, employment and social sectors.
Press Release - English
Press Release - Arabic
WHO, Dr. Tasneem Atatra


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[**v1_positions_get**](POSITIONS_API.md#v1_positions_get) | **Get** /v1/positions | Get open positions

# **v1_positions_get**
> v1_positions_get (exchange_id:  detachable STRING_32 ): detachable LIST [POSITION]

Get open positions

Get current open positions across all or single exchange.

### Parameters

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[**LIST [POSITION]**](Position.md)

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No authorization required

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The holiday season is just around the corner and this is always my busiest time of year. As a professional pianist for over 25 years, I have played at holiday parties that were a wild success and others that could have been improved with some better preparation. A big element that people sometimes gloss over when planning their event is the music, or more specifically, the live music. Maybe this is because there are so many other things to be dealt with such as the food, bar, staff, guests, and decor, that people figure the music will just take care of itself somehow. Well, the fact is that the music might actually be the most important factor that separates a good event from an over-the-top success!
I often experience the same (easily solve-able) issues over and over again, so I thought it would be helpful for me to publish my own suggestions for working with live musicians for your holiday party.
Dates during the holidays fill up quickly – especially Friday and Saturday nights. I have many clients that book me for their party every year, and I start getting bookings for December holiday parties by September. Bottom line: if you want the best musicians for your event, it definitely pays to plan ahead.
There are a lot of musicians out there with a wide range of skill level and experience. Any professional musician that you are considering working with should have their own website with videos, audio samples, and photos so you can get a sense of what they look and sound like. Questions you may want to consider and ask: How much experience do they have playing for the type of party you are planning (formal, corporate, casual, social)? What is their repertoire like? Do they have reviews online that you can research on websites such as Yelp? Is there a place where you can go hear them play live before making your decision?
Do you want the music to provide ambiance in the background, or be more lively and prominent?
Are there different portions of the party where you will want the music to signal a shift?
Do you want holiday music played? Corporate parties sometimes prefer very little or no holiday music. Others want almost entirely holiday music. And some want a variety. Whatever you prefer, make sure the musician knows this in advance. You may also want to ask for a repertoire list to make requests or provide specific guidance about the type of music you and your guests will enjoy.
Will there be children at the party? If so, it's great to have the musician prepared for this with some favorite children songs.
Do you envision your guests singing along? If so, it is good to determine at what point this should happen and a cue to begin getting the guests involved. Of course, often times this just happens organically and that's great too. Some of my favorite times playing holiday parties are with people gathered around the piano singing. I even have lyric sheets for many popular holiday songs that I often bring along – just in case!
Here's a video of me playing a variety of Christmas and festive holiday music. You can also listen to my solo piano Christmas album here on my website.
Of Course, this only applies if a piano is being used. But, since this is my instrument, I can tell you from my personal experience that there is nothing more depressing than showing up to play for several hours on a beautiful, out of tune piano. With all the work and preparation that has gone into the event, this is one "key" area not to be missed! If the piano is provided by the venue you are using, check with your point of contact at the venue to find out when it was last tuned and ask if it has been moved or disturbed in any way since. Ideally, the piano should have been tuned within the past month or so and with no major disturbances since then. If the event is being held in a private residence and their piano being used, it is a good idea to go ahead and plan to have it tuned the day before or morning of the event. (Unless you are absolutely certain that it was recently tuned and is still in tune.) Speaking for myself, even if the piano is only slightly out of tune, I notice it and it puts a damper on my ability to play my best and focus on connecting with the guests. In my opinion, an out of tune piano can create a subtle disharmony that hovers in the subconscious of the entire party. We have a great piano tuner we can refer you to if you need one – but keep in mind it's a super busy time of year for him too, so it is best to plan ahead and schedule in advance.
Ok, what's worse than an out of tune piano? Playing in an empty room while all the guests are enjoying cocktails, food, and each other's company in the real party room of the venue – by the bar! People will ALWAYS congregate wherever the food and drinks are. It seems obvious, but I can't tell you how many times I've shown up to play an event where they somehow thought it was a good idea to separate the bar and the music. Their rationale goes something like, "Oh, we thought there would be more room this way" or, "This way people will move around more." No. They won't. You know how when you go to a house party and everyone congregates in the kitchen? It's because that is where the food and drinks are. So, unless you have a stage for the musician, my recommendation is to place the music right where the action is – in the same room as the bar. If your space doesn't allow for the food, drink and music to all be in the same room, then split up the food and drink and put the musicians by the bar. If you follow this advice, your party will be rocking all night!
I hope this information is helpful for you and that your next party is a big success because of it! Of course, Kim and I would love to work with you directly for your upcoming holiday party so please don't hesitate to contact us to see if I am available!


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