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7 Most Outrageous Things Ever Done to Win in a Kenyan Election
Kenyan elections are never boring events.
They are the equivalent of gladiatorial fights, complete with an arena and a euphoric audience. In fact, often, as in Rome, winners are determined by who can better use sharp objects and who can transform euphoric chants into motivation. In such an environment of blood and paper, it is often hard for anything to stand out but once in a while, something sure comes up.
7. Hire a Militia
Pick any multiparty Kenya elections and someone somewhere had a militia 'campaign' for him or her. Tribal politics have led to 'tribal clashes' during elections which begun in earnest with the 1992 ethnic cleansing strategy in the Rift Valley, Baghdad Boys in Kisumu, the Kaya Bombo raiders and other militia in 1997, Mungiki in 2002 (when both leading candidates were from one tribe) and then hit a climax in 2007. Jeshi la Mzee, Jeshi la Embakasi, Nganda Nyenze's 'Ndeteleka Group' and other 'private armies'…the list is so long that one needs to only point to a spot on the map of Kenya to locate a place where a militia exists or has been. All the ones mentioned in this previous list were at some point used to win someone an election.
The logic is pretty simple and begins years before an election. In places where a majority might not be as defined as to provide the necessary tyranny of tribe, politicians employ militia to start a war against 'the other tribe, ' referred to as 'madoadoa' as recently as 2007. Not only does a private army give you clout, but it also means you never get to lose a brawl again. You get to determine who lives and who dies, who gets raped and who doesn't, who gets to give birth and who gets to miscarry. You are the evil overlord of your small electoral conquest, ruling from behind the shadows, conveniently away from the frontlines to not die in the counter attacks but always making sure your troops pass the message. If we didn't know better we would think you a deity.
Up until now, every militia in Kenya has been constituted on ethnic and gender lines; can't a good militia also be an equal opportunity employer.
6. Bring in the Mossad?
Not pictured: Said spy agency…
It is impossible to say enough bad things about Moi, formerly Citizen #1.. Never has one man does so much evil in less than quarter of a century, oh, scratch that, the man has peers. To be fair to the man, Kenya was never much of a country to begin with, just a small country with cobbled up diverse groups that had to learn to share a national cake that belonged to the 1 percent. Other than its strange borders and rampant avarice, Kenya had had more than a few massacres already. The national numbness was (still is) a dictator's dream and the women wore miniskirts to church….the good old days.
Upto 1990 at least, Kenyan elections had been simple cases of who was the better sychophant. Moi opposed multipartyism, even going as far as having his VP at the time, Kibaki, fence sitter extraordinaire make sure 'one-partyism' was law; arguing that it would bring tribalism and division. When he realized that couldn't win, he jumped onto that train-the tribalism one, although he had always been on it- like a boss, in fact he was the boss. The earliest attack in the lead up to the 1992 elections was an attack in October 1991 on members of the Luo ethnic farm in Meitei farm in South Nandi District. Over 300, 000 were displaced in the resulting attacks and counter-attacks. KANU blamed the clashes on the opposition, and the latter blamed it on the former, then everyone went back to their Muthaiga homes and laughed maniacally.
The never-released (at least officially) Kroll report (Thanks Assange, hope you get some sun soon) suggests that the 1992 clashes were the work of Moi's right hand man at the time, the 'Total Man'- whose feeble attempts at clearing his name are often hilarious- and ridiculously expensive. More specifically, one of the Total Man's 'business' associates, a Mr. Danny Vardi. said to be the same guy behind the disappearance of key Dr. Robert Ouko murder witnesses. Vardi is thought to have been a link to the Mossad although the claim is largely unsubstantiated-but given how unsure we are about the truth in what we know, not entirely implausible.
5. Rape your Opponent?
Immediately after the 2013 elections, the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association accused some unnamed male aspirants of using threats of sexual violence to force the female candidates to back down. While they did not name and shame the misogynists, their assertions were not new…or even surprising. Elections in Kenya have always been more testosterone than adrenaline, more where the meat comes from than if it is even safe for consumption.
The current levels of intimidation of female candidates in multi-party Kenya can be traced back to 1992 (again, this must have been the year of all shenanigans) when the political stakes went beyond simply being friends with Mwananchi #1-and throwing yourself prostate whenever he was around. Before 1992, if the Big Man said you were running, you were running, and winning, gender being inconsequential. From 1992 however, it was open season. Everyone woke up one day and realized would never be any progress without getting female candidates. The resulting interest in female candidates 'threatened men' when their campaigns drew mammoth crowds, the commonest way of gauging how effective your witchdoctor was. So politics went to the strays, predictably.
" For a good part of the campaign period, the media reported some of the most unlikely election tales. Married women candidates were accused of neglecting their families for personal gains. Widows were accused of having been the cause of their husbands' deaths. Divorced women were accused of having loose morals."
The TJRC Report, Volume 2A p 736, 86 contains an excerpt on unnamed female candidate who tells the story of how she was raped and beaten by a group of thugs who told her that she 'troubling men.' She says "One of them suggested that they leave because I was not proud. Then another one asked what they were going to say. That is when I realized that they had been sent."
You think we left this curse in the 1990s? That TJRC witness is talking about the 2007 elections and the KWPA was talking about events of less than three months ago…and a related one from 2013.
4. Outsource Witchcraft
www.dailymail.uk
No African election is complete without a half-dressed guy sitting on your head-and presumably farting on your face as he utters incantations and makes you regret going for aromatherapy. He also has to make you eat peppery things as he jumps around you and yells things to 'bless the ballot' and make you 'invincible at the vote.' If you are not sitting on a three-legged stool in a smoky hut talking to a guy who does not shower much, then you are probably doing it wrong. If you have a smoky hat and a three-legged stool and are not already advertising services for the byelections, you are also doing it wrong.
A few days before the last elections, Moses Wetangula, then a candidate for Bungoma Senator, claimed that he had concrete evidence that his rival was using witchcraft to 'bind voters' and "do funny things at various venues." The funny implied here being not 'funny ha-ha' but 'funny hhhmmm WTF?' While it is almost impossible to ignore the BDSM connotations in the choice of descriptors of said goal of witchcraft, it turns out that the 'witchdoctors' in question had been outsourced from a West African nation. We have all watched enough Naija films to know that a handkerchief, with the right amount of magic, can get a personality and an evil, almost electrical laugh followed by exclaims and unnecessary handclapping.
The candidate in question was Musikari Kombo [he outed himself to clear the rumor that he was part of said BDSM] who clarified that the alleged witchdoctors in question were actually Nigerian MPs. He said that the MPs had accompanied him during his campaign rallies (and implied that West African legislators cannot good withcdoctors make… Naija filmmaker, over to you). It turns out witchdoctors might be one of our largest expatriate population for the duration of the polls. Tanzania is kind enough to furnish us with the much needed expertise, if the advertisements nailed to the few remaining trees all over Kenya are anything to go by.
But its not all lost, just last year, 105-year-old John Dimo predicted that Obama would win re-election and surprise surprise, BO won! In one scene in the two part-video above (and below), the witchdoctors' rate Dennis Okari's chances of victory (his star is "…at 35 and it needs to be at 58…). Does anyone know the criteria for this rating, maybe it is more reliable than our opinion polls but then again, the witchdoctors in the expose never figure out that Okari is the same Okari on TV. Wait, what's that? Maybe they too do not watch KISS TV? Oh, yes, no one does…
3. Mlolongo System- The Dick-Measuring Contest
Why is that guy in the middle even impatient, its not like the queue is supposed to move…
Entry #6 up there already discussed how we should blame Moi for all that ails this badly drawn map. Still, if you think the man did his worst in and after the 1992 elections then you probably do not know about the joke that was the 1988 KANU elections. KANU was 'chama cha baba na mama' and the symbol of the party was (and still is), the cock, or cockerel, if we insist on writing the long version to avoid the hilarious ambiguity. Since winning the KANU nomination was winning the election outright, there was a lot of haggling and murdering and bribing whenever the nomination elections were held. There was also comparing Mwalimu #1 with the Christ in Christian and letting him know that he was your monarch through and through.
The Mlolongo voting system was a queue system where party members lined up behind the photographs of their preferred candidate. These elections were actually part of a larger plot; on February 5, 1988, Moi had announced the release of nine political prisoners followed quickly by a snap general election on March 12 that he christened the 'big broom.' The National Assembly had been expanded from 158 to 188 seats with 12 members appointed by the Father of the Nation, the man with the wand. Any candidate who won 70 percent of the nomination would go straight to the August House.
The idea behind this seemingly bad joke is that, ideally, the candidate with the longest queue wins the nomination and thus, the elections. It is sort of like how young boys choose opposite teams before a football match, only this were the actual elections. You can see the returning officers coming out of their stuffy offices, shielding their eyes from the sun to 'see far', and then declaring someone the winner right?
Like all dick-measuring contests, it turned out that length wasn't the only thing you needed, the girth of your queue, and presumably vigor of your sychophancy, also played a part.
"KANU made sure that whoever it wanted was the winner –long queue, short queue, it didn't matter."
If the line above does not sound like the typical dong-measuring contest then I don't know what does. It was the same the election that gave us the professor of mathematics and the man with his legs on both sides of the political divide, both former vice presidents, both dead, one politically, the other literally and politically.
2. Stage a Fake Kidnapping
In 1997, Uhuru Kenyatta (Now Landlord of the Nation) was a thin young man with a bad taste in suit jackets and zero knowledge about why you should wear your party colors during a campaign. His mismatched suits were just beginning to feel the pressures of being a feudal prince with a dynasty to propagate. Despite his otherwise unappealing prospects, Mkenya #1, HE Daniel, had seen something in him (dynasty!) that no one else, including the State House operatives, had not.
Moses Muihia, UK's erstwhile rival for the Gatundu South seat was more than just a simple parliamentary candidate, he represented the hopes and dreams of those who wanted to quash UK's political brand. This was a typical Kenyan election, you could kill the man's supporters, begin a tribal war, hire the Mossad, or even simply pay off the man to quit, but why would you when several pints of blood and a river could do the trick?
1997 was a different time, there was no internet in Kenya just yet and news was still pretty much oral…read, spread by the single guy in the village who could afford the newspaper. UK was a strong candidate and he had the support of Mkulima #1. Working with the knowledge that Moi was running in his last elections-which he had already won even before the ballot papers were printed-his Kitchen cabinet decided to frustrate the young prince's chances of succeeding him.
So they hired a group of former University of Nairobi's student leaders to make sure the young prince lost the election…on election day! Muihia was 'kidnapped' in a stage-managed plot that included plunging a car into River Thiririka and pouring some pints blood (from a nearby slaughterhouse) into the river. Then the town crier-equivalent made sure everyone knew about the 'kidnapping' of the Kenyatta rival. What did the voters do? Of course they voted for the guy whom they thought dead or kidnapped, a concept known in sham democracies as a 'protest vote.' At 2 pm the 'victim' appeared conveniently and told voters (who had just voted for him) that he was still alive. He had already won the election.
1. Amend the Constitution!
The age-old adage "Constitutions are paper, bros are forever"
While Kenyatta the Elder had his failures, this entry will show that if nothing else, he was the best wingman a man could ever have. During the 1974 elections, Paul Joseph Ng'ei prevailed upon his rival, Henry Muli, to withdraw from the race. Muli later filed an election petition against Ngei's win claiming that "… he (Ngei) had bound Kangundo voters to back him by administering an oath." The high court ruled that Ngei had indeed committed the electoral offence, nullified his win and disqualified him from the consequent by-election.
Mzee, ever the Lannister, made Njonjo and Moi (who had been part of the efforts to 'finish' Ngei politically) come up with a solution that had to be passed by Parliament in 12 hours. Since Parliament was scheduled to go for recess, Kenyan #1 declared that the recess was conditional; they could only go if they enacted the amendment…which they did with Moi proudly declaring "I support this amendment because we know that the President is above the law…"
The result? Constitutional Amendment Act. No. 1 of 1975, or as it is colloquially known, the Ngei Amendment. This seemingly harmless amendment extended the presidential prerogative of mercy to include annulment of the result of an electoral court (where an offence had been proven). Even more proof that this is the most outrageous thing ever done to win an election? As soon as the amendment had served its purpose (annulling the nullification of Ngei's election), it was repealed..presumably so no one could abuse it, no one else at least [sic!].
Ngei's hold over the Man with the Fly Whisk is said to have begun at Kapenguria where he saved the man from getting beaten by his jailers several times, and even foiled Kariuki Chotara's assassination attempt on the future president. When a man saves your life and even takes a beating for you in prison, that man owns you! He can walk into your compound anytime and eye any of your wives, and the implied Bro Code demands that you must comply. Ngei spent most of his time cashing in this blank cheque and pissing everyone off, once taking a Mercedes from a showroom and refusing to pay for it (aaaahhh…the good old days). He 'test-drove' it for 20 years.
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Timo Meškank (; * 4. Februar 1965 in Dresden) ist ein sorbischer Sprachwissenschaftler und Historiker, der am Institut für Sorabistik der Universität Leipzig als Privatdozent lehrt.

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Nach seiner Schulzeit von 1971 bis 1979 an Leipziger Schulen besuchte Meškank anschließend die Sorbische Erweiterte Oberschule in Bautzen, wo er 1983 sein Abitur ablegte. Nach dem Grundwehrdienst studierte er von 1985 bis 1989 Bauingenieurswesen an der Technischen Universität Dresden. 1988–1990 war er Redakteur der sorbischen Studentenzeitung Serbski student. 1989/90 absolvierte er ein halbjähriges Praktikum beim Domowina-Verlag in Bautzen.

Als Stipendiat der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung studierte Meškank von 1990 bis 1996 an der Universität Leipzig Sorabistik und Geschichte zum Magister Artium, unterbrochen von einem Aufenthalt 1992/1993 an der Karls-Universität in Prag im Rahmen des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes, wo er Sorabistik und Bohemistik belegte.

Nach Arbeitsaufenthalten in Bautzen, Prag und Warschau wurde er im Jahr 2000 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin mit der Arbeit Kultur besteht – Reich vergeht: Tschechen und Sorben (Wenden) 1914–1945 zum Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) promoviert.

Seit 2000 arbeitet Meškank an der Universität Leipzig. Seine Forschungsgebiete sind hier die sorbische Sprache der Gegenwart sowie die sorbische Zeitgeschichte. Im Rahmen des Projektes Sorbische Intellektuelle im Blick der Staatssicherheit befasst er sich systematisch mit dem Verhältnis des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit zu den Sorben.

2008 habilitierte er sich mit der Schrift Aussagenstruktur im Sorbischen: Untersuchungen zur Syntax und Satzsemantik (Verlag Dr. Kovac).

Neben seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit schreibt er auch sorbische Belletristik und Lyrik. Seit 2007 ist er Mitglied des Exil-P.E.N., dessen Präsidium er angehört.

Timo Meškank wohnt in Leipzig.

Werke (Auswahl)
 Rěč je hrajka (1992)
 Kostka w ręku (1997)
 Retrogradny słownik hornjoserbskeje rěče (2001)
 Aussagenstruktur im Sorbischen: Untersuchungen zur Syntax und Satzsemantik (2009)
 Kultura w słužbje totalitarneho režima (2011)
 Wjelki jědu (Herausgeber, 2013)
 Instrumentalisierung einer Kultur (2014)
 Prawopisny słownik hornjoserbskeje rěče. Hornjoserbsko-němski słownik / Obersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (Bearbeiter, 2014)
 Sorben im Blick der Staatssicherheit (2016)

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 Meškank im Autorenverzeichnis des Domowina-Verlages

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Director Tim Disney was born into Hollywood royalty as the son of Roy E. Disney, making him Walt Disney's grand-nephew. But that hasn't stopped him from making a name for himself as a filmmaker in his own right outside of the Disney brand, having helmed the acclaimed 2008 drama American Violet and a number of other projects over the past two decades. He's also an accomplished producer of documentaries and the upcoming Janis Joplin biopic. But Tim Disney's latest release is the science fiction family drama William, a fascinating fable about two biochemists who clone a Neanderthal and raise him as their own son.
I sat down with Mr. Disney this week to discuss the film, his roots at the Walt Disney Company, and his take on the morality of genetic engineering.
Mike Celestino, Laughing Place: Tell me a little about your history as a filmmaker prior to making William.
Tim Disney: My earliest exposure to fimmaking was from my father, who spent his career making Sunday night TV shows for Disney back in the day. One of my first jobs after college was working in the animation department at Disney. I had the great fortune to be there at the time when the animation department was being revived. I co-wrote the screenplay, with a couple other people, for the movie Oliver & Company, which at the time was a big deal and the biggest-selling animated feature of all time. It was eclipsed many times over by the next one, The Little Mermaid, and then the next one, The Lion King, and so on.
When I was working on the screenplay for Oliver & Company, Howard Ashman was in the next office writing songs for The Little Mermaid, which at the time I found annoying because I was trying to get some work done, but in truth it was just a great experience to be exposed to that at the time. I made lifelong friends there, I still have a strong connection to the animation business from that. I was really inspired by that. The main thing I learned from [working at Disney] was that it was a culture of quality. They were determined to make the best possible stories, products, movies. Everybody had good ideas, the good ideas would go into the mix, and then they would send us back out [to] come up with more good ideas, and more stuff. They just kept working things until they [were] the best they could possibly be.
It was difficult because you would get bored of stuff. Like, 'Enough already. Let's just go on and do the next thing.' They were relentless with their pursuit of just making the best possible thing. Most of us don't get the luxury of doing that. There isn't the time or the resources to do that, so I really enjoyed that experience. And then I went on and did some other things. After I left Disney, I did the exact opposite. I went and I produced a game show with a partner. So instead of doing one movie every five years, we did six shows a day. That was a great experience, too.
Then I got sucked off into other businesses. I was in the software business, and since then I've had a sometimes-career as a filmmaker [while] always doing other businesses at the same time. And maybe that's a good thing, because it's really kind of a terrible business, a very difficult business. And so I'm really focused on finding stories that really resonate with me, and just trying to do it outside of the normal pathway.
LP: Tell me about how you came up with the idea for William, and the writing process for this film.
TD: The idea really came out of a reading jag that I went on. I just really got interested in the emergence of humans as Homo sapiens, the modern incarnation of Homo sapiens as a species. I started reading a lot of material about that, probably avoiding more important work I could have been doing. And a few things just impressed me about that: one is how unlikely our existence as a species is. It was never a foregone conclusion that we would survive and come to dominate the Earth the way that we have. We might not have.
[Second is] that we coexisted with at least three other human species who [were] equals for some time, and the Neanderthals are the best known of those. There was a lot of discussion about why the Neanderthals died out where we survived. It came to sound very self-congratulatory, the discussion of that. I got kind of annoyed with it and I thought, 'What if the Neanderthals died out because they were better than us? What if it was the other way around? What if they died out because they were more virtuous than us? What if our special cultural characteristics that we congratulate ourselves on have a sinister side?
I think that takes the form of stories, and how we weaponize stories on an individual level, in our families, the stories we make up about our children that they rebel against to try to become themselves, and then on larger societal levels. That was the essence of the idea.
LP: How important was it for you to be scientifically accurate as far as the depiction of cloning in the movie? Can you tell me about the research process you underwent in preparation?
TD: I did some research. I won't claim that I did it on a fully academic level. I read a lot of popular literature about it, stuff that's written for more general audiences. I looked at a lot of stuff online, all these academic journals are there and available. It's amazing the amount of material you can get. I reached out and corresponded with some archaeologists about it. It was important to make the science plausible, but not allow it to dominate the story, because really I think the story is about these other things.
But I wanted the science to be for real, and I think that the basic process that we describe is plausible, has been used for other species, and it's important to understand that this is present, this is imminent. These things will happen, and we need to have conversations about them. The story is in part about the ethics of doing such a thing.
LP: As far as casting goes, how did you know when you found the right actor to play the adult William?
TD: It was hard to cast that part. We wanted, first and foremost, a very strong actor. But we also were looking for someone who had the physical attributes to sell the part. If we had cast a tall, skinny guy, we would have had to do all this extra work, prosthetics and costume stuff and all of that. That would have made it all a lot harder. We had to find the combo, and we were really lucky to find Will [Brittain, of Kong: Skull Island].
We knew instantly [when we met him], because we saw a lot of people, and some of them were really wonderful. But [with] Will, it was immediately obvious, as it often is in those processes, when he came in. He just killed it. He was great. In fact, I still have trouble looking at him without his makeup on.
LP: We also see flashbacks of William at several different ages throughout the film. How did you go about guiding those child actors to match what Will was doing in the role?
TD: It was difficult, because some of the ideas [like] 'What's a metaphor? Why doesn't he value them?' that are really built into the story in a very important way are difficult things to explain to a younger child. So I think we tried to keep their performances… I won't say muted, but restrained. Child actors sometimes fall back on emotive things. They're often trying to please the adults in the room when it's happening. So I tried to just keep a lid on it, because it seemed like that would be most in keeping with the character, and it worked out really well. The throughline of all the kids, amazingly to me, works pretty seamlessly. It was difficult, but it all adds up to something believable.
LP: How did you strike a balance between making a science fiction movie and making a family drama?
TD: I really thought of it as a family drama, primarily. Like I said, I wanted the science to be plausible and I wanted to have it present, but not to dominate. I really felt like we played very much in favor of the drama side of it, which operates on a lot of levels. It's a family story, it's about otherness, it's about growing up in a hostile world. After a couple of the recent screenings we've done, a lot of people have asked me about standardized testing, which I didn't realize was as much of a theme in the movie as it is, but it is: how the world selects against people who are different. It's just built into everything.
I was listening on my way over here [to] a really amazing podcast by people who are studying [Artificial Intelligence], and how AI is amplifying that phenomenon. Basically, AI is only as good as the data that it studies. It's going to be used in pre-screening, resumes for employment, law enforcement, education, et cetera, and basically all the data is infected with bias. So I really worry about what's going to happy to kids who are different. There's going to be this whole technological bias built against them as well.
Which is [why] it's important to tell these stories. We need artists and humanists involved in this. The engineers are great, but they're not enough.
LP: One thing I definitely wanted to talk to you about was the locations, because every spot you featured was so beautiful. Where was this film shot, and why?
TD: We shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, because it's a beautiful place [and] because there are certain production advantages to working there. They have a fantastic base of crew and talent there, so it's a great place to work. There's a lot of production in Vancouver as a result of that. Sometimes people will go there to get the tax credits and they [depict] it as [a different location], and we knew that would be a mistake. It's such a beautiful place that we played it for what it is. I think the primeval force [feeling] was very important for the movie, that [William is] drawn to some kind of source. It's a theme in the movie that we come back to, and figures into the ending. It was such a pleasure to work there.
LP: The film came across to me as very science-positive. What is your personal relationship with that topic?
TD: I'm a big science guy, but provided that we have a whole perspective. I spend most of my time now working in education issues, arts education in particular. And I worry that we're so obsessed with STEM education that we're forgetting that we think and communicate and feel on other levels. These are not add-ons, having band in high school is not some extravagance that we can't afford anymore. It's a core human activity. The cultures that we talk about in this movie were creating art, so it's just as important an activity as the tool-making was. In fact a lot of the artifactual evidence we have of them is that, as opposed to their more prosaic workaday existence.
I'm a huge advocate of the complete experience. Kids get left behind if they don't have these other means of communication.
LP: What are the questions that you hope the audience is asking about the morality of cloning as they're walking out of this film?
TD: I'll give you two answers to that: one is that the ethics of cloning are important to discuss. It's already happened in China. More of it is going to happen with other species as well as humans, so we need to develop ethics around this. And that's not something that any elite group can do, it's something that has to emerge organically out of the culture. That means that we have to all be talking about it. What does it mean? I don't know that it's 'wrong' in a simple sense. It's inevitable, so we have to develop ethics around it.
We can't just say, 'Don't ever do it, it's wrong.' It will happen. So we have to figure out, 'When is it okay? How is it okay? For what purpose are we doing it?' That's on the ethical side. As a story, I hope that people think about their relationship to narratives and how they use them in their own lives. At the time I was writing this, I had teenage sons who were going through that rebellion moment [of] adolescence. I think about the 'story' that I made up about them that they didn't accept. I didn't want to do that, but I did it anyway, as a parent. We need to be responsible with the stories that we tell, because they're not all good, and we can hurt people with them. We see that playing out in our culture at large in a gigantic way. There's an Armageddon of who controls the story happening, so I hope that people think about that.
William opens this Friday, April 12 in New York and Los Angeles.


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El Riss-Würm es un interglaciar también conocido como Ipswichiense en Gran Bretaña y Europa atlántica en general, Sangamoniense en Norteamérica y Eemiense en el norte de Europa, siendo el nombre Riss-Würm el que corresponde a la seriación climática alpina de Centroeuropa. Esta fase de clima templado tuvo lugar hace unos 140 000 años.

El interglaciar Riss-Würm pudo ser algo más cálido y húmedo que el clima holoceno, lo cual se sabe porque la extensión de los grandes bosques alcanzó un límite mucho más septentrional que el actual. Fue precedido por la glaciación Riss y es sucedido por el último periodo glaciar, el Würm.

En este periodo, tuvo lugar en Europa el apogeo del Musteriense, con la ocupación del hombre de Neanderthal.

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It started off with 63 competitors. Now there are more than 2500. A week before the 13th annual Challenge Wanaka, Sean Nugent takes a look at the history of the event and how it blossomed from humble beginnings into a bucket list triathlon and a staple in the Wanaka sporting calendar.
The waters of Lake Wanaka glisten on a cool, calm February morning.
Joggers and cyclists make their way down Ardmore St, alongside an empty Pembroke Park.
The atmosphere is relaxed, but that will all change in just a few days.
Organisers are preparing for the 13th annual Challenge Wanaka triathlon event, set to host up to 2800 people of all ages over a three-day period from Thursday to Saturday.
Six separate events events are scheduled for the 2019 edition: an individual and team half-ironman, an "aquabike" (swim and bike with no run), and a secondary schools, intermediate and junior triathlon.
For the first time, there will be no full ironman event, for individuals or teams, which race director Bill Roxburgh admitted was "a real shame".
"Worldwide, the trend for full distance has dropped off. It takes 16 to 20 hours a week to train for the full, and people can get away with half that time training for the half.
"Numbers for the full has dropped right back, so this year we had to make the call to take the full right out of our programme. It looked like we were going to be well under 100 individuals, which just doesn't make it a viable event, really."
Despite the loss, Mr Roxburgh said Challenge Wanaka's strength was its ability to adapt.
When it first began in 2007, the individual full ironman was the only event, and attracted a mere 63 athletes.
One of those, local GP Andrew McLeod said it was a "very small group" and "long stretches of road with no-one to see".
Challenge Wanaka was the first Challenge event outside Germany at the time, and Dr McLeod said there were "a lot of unknowns" regarding how the community would view the event and whether athletes would enjoy the course.
Both received a big tick of approval.
"The crowd support in town for the swim and run was amazing and the volunteers, then as now, were wonderful in providing their time and encouragement."
Two years later, 474 athletes from 19 countries took part in the individual and team formats, while a further 180 children aged between 6 and 15 took part in the first Junior Challenge.
The following year, entries jumped to over 1000, as the half ironman races were introduced, and an estimated 6000 spectators watched.
The growth was immense but it did not surprise Dr McLeod, who has competed in the event every year.
"The location, organisation and volunteers make the race, and all of these elements are of exceptionally high quality in Wanaka, so no it didn't surprise me that this has become an event that triathletes around the world have on their bucket list."
"Wanaka is a real mecca for people in sport.
"It's probably the place in New Zealand with the most professional triathletes living there.
"The lovely clear water to swim in. There's not many freshwater places you can swim in where it's so nice and clear.
"It really is a bucket list event".
That is the case for children, as well as adults.
Participation numbers have blossomed in the Junior Challenge, to the point where a separate intermediate race has been formed for year 7 and 8 athletes.
"We had so many [entered in the Junior Challenge] we had to change things," Mr Roxburgh said.
"We only want to race 1000 on the Friday and it looked like we were going to have 1200, so we took the year 7 and 8s and are now racing them separately on the Thursday."
Despite the positives, there have been regular concerns from local retailers and others in the community about the road closures and traffic issues during race day.
However, with the departure of the full ironman discipline, Mr Roxburgh said the effect on the roads would be a lot less.
"It's always been a struggle having the event out on the road for so long. This year we'll be starting at 6.45am and we'll have everyone through the town by 11am or so. The last cyclist should be off the road by 2pm, so it makes it a lot easier for road management."
More athletes, a shorter distance and for a shorter time — the event has certainly changed since its inception, and those changes will likely continue in the future.
"We just have to keep changing with the times," Mr Roxburgh said.
"You've got to be flexible."


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Q: run multiclass classification using spark ml pipeline I just started using spark ML pipeline to implement a multiclass classifier using LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS (which accepts as a parameters number of classes)
I followed this example:
import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
import org.apache.spark.ml.Pipeline
import org.apache.spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegression
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.{HashingTF, Tokenizer}
import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector
import org.apache.spark.sql.{Row, SQLContext}

case class LabeledDocument(id: Long, text: String, label: Double)
case class Document(id: Long, text: String)

val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("SimpleTextClassificationPipeline")
val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)
import sqlContext.implicits._

// Prepare training documents, which are labeled.
val training = sc.parallelize(Seq(
      LabeledDocument(0L, "a b c d e spark", 1.0),
      LabeledDocument(1L, "b d", 0.0),
      LabeledDocument(2L, "spark f g h", 1.0),
      LabeledDocument(3L, "hadoop mapreduce", 0.0)))

// Configure an ML pipeline, which consists of three stages: tokenizer, hashingTF, and lr.
val tokenizer = new Tokenizer()
      .setInputCol("text")
      .setOutputCol("words")
val hashingTF = new HashingTF()
      .setNumFeatures(1000)
      .setInputCol(tokenizer.getOutputCol)
      .setOutputCol("features")
val lr = new LogisticRegression()
      .setMaxIter(10)
      .setRegParam(0.01)
val pipeline = new Pipeline()
      .setStages(Array(tokenizer, hashingTF, lr))

// Fit the pipeline to training documents.
val model = pipeline.fit(training.toDF)

// Prepare test documents, which are unlabeled.
val test = sc.parallelize(Seq(
      Document(4L, "spark i j k"),
      Document(5L, "l m n"),
      Document(6L, "mapreduce spark"),
      Document(7L, "apache hadoop")))

// Make predictions on test documents.
model.transform(test.toDF)
      .select("id", "text", "probability", "prediction")
      .collect()
      .foreach { case Row(id: Long, text: String, prob: Vector, prediction: Double) =>
        println("($id, $text) --> prob=$prob, prediction=$prediction")
      }

sc.stop()

The problem is that the LogisticRegression class used by ML use by default 2 classes (line 176) : override val numClasses: Int = 2
Any idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks

A: As Odomontois already mentioned, if you'd like to use basic NLP pipelines using Spark ML Pipelines you have only 2 options:

*

*One vs. Rest and pass existing LogisticRegression, i.e. new OneVsRest().setClassifier(logisticRegression)

*Use bag of words (CountVectorizer in terms of Spark) and NaiveBayes classifier that supports multiclass classification

A: But your test samples only have 2 classes.. Why would it do otherwise in "auto" mode? You can force to have a multinomial classifer though:
https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.2.0/api/scala/index.html#org.apache.spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegression
val family: Param[String]
Param for the name of family which is a description of the label distribution to be used in the model. Supported options:

"auto": Automatically select the family based on the number of classes: If numClasses == 1 || numClasses == 2, set to "binomial". Else, set to "multinomial"
"binomial": Binary logistic regression with pivoting.
"multinomial": Multinomial logistic (softmax) regression without pivoting. Default is "auto".

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Homicide Detectives have arrested and charged an 18-year old Mooroopna woman with murder after the discovery of a man's dismembered torso buried in a Williams St backyard.
The charge followed yesterday's arrest of a 39-year old woman and her 18- year old daughter while driving. A 39-year old woman, the de facto wife of missing man Russell Frik, was questioned and released yesterday, while her daughter, Mr Friks step-daughter, was charged with murder.
The 18-year old woman has been remanded custody and will appear in the Shepparton Magistrates Court today.Mr Friks William St home, which he shared with his de facto wife, their three sons and his step-daughter, is the same address where the torso was discovered by police on Wednesday morning.
Homicide squad Detective Senior Sergeant Jeff Maher said he could not confirm the remains belonged to the missing man. The torso is currently undergoing DNA testing at the stat coroner's office and it could be some time before a positive identification could be made.
Pathologists were also conducting forensic tests on several rubbish bins belonging to homes neighbouring the William St property where the torso discovery was made.A search for body parts missing will begin at Cosgrove rubbish tip today.
Members from the police Search and Rescue team will this morning search the public toilets at the Maritz Bend parkland area at Toolamba for further evidence in relation to the murder investigation.
Let it go to court - then see why she did it.


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The Validity of Biblical History
Biblical History Is Pretty Trustworthy—
and near misses in other religions are good, not bad
This topic was inspired by a question in a friend's email. I address it only briefly, in part by comparing biblical with Zoroastrian narratives—because that's what my friend asked about.
My friend's question
One of the things I ran into in a book I've been reading was Zoroastrianism. I'd always taken it for granted that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament, and that he started the tradition that eventually resulted in the Bible. But according to this book, the tradition of putting things in writing did not happen until I think the Babylonian invasion of Israel, which would have been hundreds of years after Moses, but also hundreds of years after the events in the beginning of the Bible. . .so basically the historicity of it all is kinda shot by all that. But also according to this book, Zoroastrianism is one of the religions that the Jews were exposed to during the Babylonian captivity, and it is a religion that has ideas about God, and a devil, and the battle between them which we are caught between, and basically ideas about how everyone will be resurrected and judged at the end of times, and the good will go to heaven, and the bad will go to hell. You see the issue: If the Jewish exposure to this religion coincides with the putting into print of the Old Testament, then what exactly is the OT based on? Was it actually prophetic revelations from God? Or was it an attempt by the Jewish people to salvage their culture by making up these stories that were influenced by contemporary cultures and religions?
I think that's a big part of what has got me so down lately. It feels like without being able to locate the OT in history, then there is no real basis upon which my belief in God can rest.
It shouldn't be a surprise that glimpses of genuine spiritual reality circulated around the Middle East (or elsewhere, for that matter), if we understand that at various times God has communicated—or at least attempted to communicate—with people other than those in the direct line of what later became his "chosen people" (i.e., Abraham and his offspring). Even the history of Abraham's descendants explicitly describes individuals who were outside their group but who had some kind of knowledge of Yahweh. Check out Melchizedek and Balaam, as well as Moses' father-in-law Jethro (a Midianite).
The creation and flood stories in Genesis, at least in the forms in which we received them, are much more recent than the Mesopotamian stories. The most obvious conclusions a person of faith might derive from those stories are either (1) that the pagan stories contain glimpses of truth, derived from collective memories of what actually happened thousands of years earlier—but the biblical stories, whose authors presumably had God's Spirit cribbing for them, presented a more accurate picture; or (2) all the stories (I'm talking about Genesis 1-11 here) are essentially "myth" in the sense that they don't describe (in a fashion satisfactory to western rational thinking) what literally, physically happened—but the Old Testament versions do point to spiritual realities in a profound way, and are to be taken extremely seriously. People of faith (vs. people, including many "liberal" Christians, who dismiss it all as nonsense) take various other positions, but I think these are the two most defensible positions. Note that both perspectives assume you're going to see glimpses of the true story in places other than the Hebrew scriptures. Truth pops out all over the place, although it's almost always distorted in some way.
The Jewish scriptures are incredibly precise in their historic descriptions. Scholars have debated for centuries (and still debate) when Zarathustra lived, the variations including a range of hundreds of years, centering most recently on perhaps the 10th-9th centuries B.C., I believe. Scholars also debate dates within the Hebrew tradition, but on a vastly different scale. In this case, we're dealing with, for example, debates over whether the exodus occurred in the 1300s B.C. or as late as about 1240 B.C. And the date when David began his reign is generally pinpointed pretty close to a single year (1000 B.C.), give or take a variance in the single digits. Compare the stories in Samuel and Kings with stories from any other ancient source, and the contrast is astounding. The biblical stories have the unmistakable flavor of detailed eyewitness accounts—vs. narratives in other cultures, that resemble superhero stories more than they carry the ring of truth.
Throughout Kings and Chronicles, there are allusions to long-missing written records—from which presumably the authors/editors of our Old Testament histories obtained some of their information. (Check out I Kings 14:19,29, nine other references in I Kings, as well as many references in II Kings, to a missing "annals of the Kings of Israel"; and II Kings 8:23, 12:19, and ten other references in II Kings to "annals of the kings of Judah." I Chronicles 27:16 refers to "annals of King David." And II Chronicles 20:34 alludes to "annals of Jehu son of Hanani." Nehemiah 12:22 mentions simply the "Book of the Annals.")
Even to the extent that written records were not kept, remember that in preliterate societies people develop astounding memories (that's true even today), which means that oral traditions are not to be dismissed lightly. (N.B. At first the Iliad and Odyssey were passed down orally from memory!) So even if no one in Israel began keeping serious written records until, say, David's time (which many scholars believe, and their arguments seem pretty convincing to me), that doesn't mean the stories in Genesis through Judges are just someone's fantasy. Beginning with Abraham (but, I agree with most scholars, probably not before), the stories have an incredible ring of authenticity missing in any other ancient writings. I think it's therefore not overly naive, especially if one believes that God is in fact real and is in fact interacting in a purposeful way with human history, to assert that we can take the biblical records seriously.
It's relatively clear that the final versions of the biblical histories (Genesis through Chronicles) were not put together until Babylonian times, when Jewish scholars took the various histories and threaded them together into individual narratives. But the traditions these 6th century B.C. scholars used, both written and oral, were astoundingly solid. (If nothing else, they record too many highly specific yet extremely realistic details to have been made up on the spot.)
If Zarathustra got a lot of things right in his teachings about the nature of spiritual reality, power to him. Perhaps he had a much clearer ability than most to see through the encrustations of demonic doctrines that had gradually blinded human eyes for centuries and centuries. That's cool. There are elements within many if not most religious traditions that reflect some of God's truths rather nicely. That's a good thing. Better to get closer to the mark than further away.
Neither verities in other religions
nor apparent inaccuracies within the biblical traditions
should trouble a Christian's mind.
None of this has any relationship to what Jesus was about.
Jesus didn't come, and God's historic dealings with Israel were not intended,
to make sure that humans understand the right truths and principles and doctrines or even histories.
Rather, in Jesus, God was engaging in a historical/cosmic transaction
that secured the salvation of the world.
The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the world, and God determined all along that he would have his way with this planet and with human beings; in the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, that commitment—that eternal transaction—intersected human history in a tangible way.
It's legitimate to argue that knowing or believing the most accurate history or the most correct doctrines isn't particularly relevant. Consider: Between, say, the fourth and the sixteenth centuries A.D., what proportion of people who called themselves Christians had any clue to what the Bible said about almost anything? They may as well have been Zoroastrians or Confucians for all they understood about God. Even their view of Jesus in many cases was probably more pagan than valid. Are they therefore doomed because of their ignorance? I would argue No, just as I would argue that Zoroastrians and Muslims and Incas and everyone else aren't doomed because of their ignorance—for the blood of the Lamb was shed before the foundation of the world, and "in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us" (II Corinthians 5:19).
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BAY POST INTERNET: It's about time someone went after PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
It's about time someone went after PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The very one-sided approach of PBS and their affiliates should be enough to seal their fate as recipients of any form of public funding.
The new Trump Budget takes a major swing at a taxpayer support of the liberal left and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Long a safe haven for those pushing the left wing agenda, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting been attacked before but this time it looks like the new administration is really serious.
BY COLIN CAMPBELL ccampbell@newsobserver.com, NC's NPR, PBS stations would take a hit under Trump's budget .
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney argued, "Can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs?" Mulvaney said during a recent interview with MSNBC. "The answer was no. We can ask them to pay for defense and we will, but we can't ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
Logan Albright, Conservative Review, Trump is right to cut PBS/NPR funding.
PBS and NPR reflect a single segment of our society, and while they mask themselves in a university climate, and intellectual elitism, they are just a liberal, non-representative megaphone.
This past election and the very one-sided approach of PBS and their affiliates should be enough to seal their fate as recipients of any form of public funding.
Established under the umbrella of Sesame Street, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting quickly morphed into a "news" organization with a significant bias.
Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, which is opposed to public funding of broadcasters and other news outlets, said on Twitter that "there simply is no legitimate reason for government to fund left-wing media."
For more information see from the Federal Communications Commission: Non Profit Media.
Changes in technology and the way people get their news; information and entertainment have changed dramatically since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was established in 1967. As a concept, it has out lived its usefulness.
There will be much bleating from those claiming the great value of PBS to our society, but the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is just another governmental honey pot Universities, and the liberal elite dip their fingers into to promote their agendas.
Here is hoping the US Congress will remove this funding item from the budget. Almost all of these public-broadcasting outlets have a loyal following of donors and supporters. I am sure they will be willing to step up and fund those public broadcasting organizations worthy of their support.
In the interest of full disclosure, I once made small contributions to local public radio and television, I recently stopped contributing and ask my name be removed from the solicitation list. They have graciously complied with my request.
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Since the dawn of the new decade, the world has witnessed unimaginable change. From enduring an ongoing global pandemic, to requiring a new way of life, the modern 20's have forced people and businesses to adapt- Sinclair Public Affairs included.
2021 provided a new direction for Sinclair Public Affairs, including an expanded client base that spans new industries, award winning campaigns, successful ballot initiatives, and broader in-house design capabilities. The year not only challenged us, but fostered growth and progress, allowing our firm to enter 2022 atop a strong foundation…
Here's how we built it:
Website Revamp
Sinclair Public Affairs has undergone unprecedented growth since the start of 2020, and we wanted our website to reflect this progress in 2022. The new and improved Sinclair website now better reflects our award winning in-house design capabilities, allows visitors to easily familiarize themselves with our firm and staff through the 'Our Team' tab.
Traditionally a politically oriented public affairs firm, Sinclair Public Affairs has expanded into new industries, including the clean energy market, the healthcare and COVID-19 sectors, and added clients to our growing housing and development industry. Our firm's expanded in-house design capabilities allowed for expansion industries outside our traditional wheelhouse.
Some of our new clients include:
An Award Winning Firm, yet again
At Sinclair, we always pride ourselves on the quality of our work. We added four new accolades to our collection in 2021, including three dotCOMM awards at the platinum and gold level, and one Pollie award at the silver level. The dotCOMM awards honor excellence in web creativity and digital communication, and the Pollie Awards recognize leaders, innovators and exceptional work within the political communications and public affairs industries.
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New Team Members
In 2021, Sinclair added a new member to the Sinclair team! Kaitlin Coogan joined the Sinclair Public Affairs team as a digital media intern after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media, where she specialized in public relations and advertising. At the start of 2022, she accepted a full-time offer with the Sinclair Public Affairs team, and transitioned into a full-time account coordinator position.
As Account Coordinator, Kaitlin works alongside the digital and account services teams- supporting the team with a broad range of copywriting, graphic design and media relations efforts. Kaitlin is a talented addition to our team, and Sinclair is so excited to have her as a resource as we continue expanding into 2022!
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Despite Nucor Steel's efforts to block the project, construction for the $1.3 billion Big River Steel mill from Osceola will begin on September 22.
Nucor Steel accused the company of violating the Clean Air Act, and although the lawsuit remains unresolved, Osceola is moving forward with its steel mill and plans to employ over 500 workers.
After receiving $125 million in state bonds and $14.5 million from Mississippi County's economic sales tax, the Osceola steel mill will finally commence.
We will keep you updated on any s that come from Nucor Steel's lawsuit.


At the Imperial Physical Therapy we strive for your fast recovery. We also care about your financial well-being. That is why we routinely call a new client's insurance company in order to verify insurance coverage and benefits on our patients, so that there are no unknown financial surprises.
Please present your complete health insurance information when you call or when you come to the office to schedule your first appointment. We also may ask you to pay any co-pays, deductibles or any other fees due at each visit. We accept checks and cash.


OBJECTIVE: The ability to transfer genes to adult myocardium may have therapeutic implications for cardiac transplantation. We investigated the feasibility of adenovirus-mediated transfer of marker genes LacZ and Luciferase, as well as the potentially therapeutic gene of the human beta2-adrenergic receptor in a rat heterotopic heart transplant model. METHODS: Donor hearts were flushed with 10(12) total viral particles of one of three transgenes. Hearts were harvested at various time points after transplantation. LacZ-treated hearts were assessed by histologic staining and Luciferase-treated hearts were assayed for specific luminescence activity. Hearts treated with beta2-adrenergic receptor underwent radioligand binding assays and immunohistochemistry with the use of an antibody specific for the human beta2-adrenergic receptor. RESULTS: LacZ hearts revealed diffuse myocyte staining as opposed to none within controls at 5 days. Luciferase hearts demonstrated a mean activity of 970,000 +/- 220,000 arbitrary light units versus 500 +/- 200 for the controls (p = 0.001). Total beta2-adrenergic receptor densities (fmol/mg membrane protein) for hearts that received the beta2-adrenergic receptor transgene at 3, 5, 7, 10, and 14 days after infection were as follows: right ventricle, 488.5 +/- 126.8, 519.4 +/- 81.8,* 477.1 +/- 51.8,* 183.0 +/- 6.5,* and 82.7 +/- 19.1; left ventricle, 511.0 +/- 167.6, 1206.4 +/- 321.8,* 525.3 +/- 188.7, 183.5 +/- 18.6,* and 75.9 +/- 15.2 (*p < 0.05 vs control value of 75.6 +/- 6.4). Immunohistochemical analysis revealed diffuse staining of varying intensity within myocardial sarcolemmal membranes. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that global overexpression of different transgenes is possible during cardiac transplantation and, ultimately, adenovirus-mediated gene transfer may provide a unique opportunity for genetic manipulation of the donor organ, potentially enhancing its function.


If you try to use the transport of copies explicitly in any SAP system, say you have created a transport request DA1K910001 in DA1 system and you want to copy this request in a ToC type transport so that you can move it to just the QA1 system. System will not allow you to put these objects in the ToC type transport unless you release transport DA1K910001 as the objects are locked under this... Before ChaRM we used to create the TR in DEV, transport it to QAS then remove it from QA Approval queue and thats it, no problem. However now with ChaRM, we don't have the QA Approval anymore, we tryed to use the transport of copies but this implyes in releasing the task so the system can create a corresponding transport of copies, once released there's no way to delete it.
What you want to do is to transport the program from one system to the other one. Mainly it depends on your authorizations in both systems and on the settings of landscape, but in case you are authorized and the systems are both in the same transport domain, you can do the following (I …... 12/07/2018 · SolMan CHaRM together with TOCs leads to wrong config going to Production!
SAP Transport Standard text created in SO10 is not handled automatically in SAP when you create or save a text in SO10. Some Manual actions have to be done in order to transport SAP Standard text to an other SAP System.
You can try this ; - Go to SE01 - Request -> Create - Choose Transport of Copies - Enter description - Click Include Object button (Ctrl+F11) - Choose Object list from request -> Enter Request Number which contains object(s) you want to copy.


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Published in the print edition of the November 13, 1995, issue.
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.
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The New Yorker's editors and critics choose this year's essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
These series kept the medium kicking and fresh, and kept me watching.
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A new generation discovers that it's hard to balance work with a well-lived life.
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A defendant in an Ottawa battery case has been found mentally unfit.
Lamont C. Adams, 20, was charged in September with going into his neighbor's yard and repeatedly punching the neighbor, a man older than 60. The victim had minor injuries. At a court hearing last week, Circuit Judge Cynthia Raccuglia ruled Adams was mentally unfit for trial, based on a psychiatric report.
Adams is to be sent to the Illinois Department of Human Services for treatment. His status will be checked at a hearing Thursday, April 18.
At a hearing before Raccuglia in October, Adams wore restraints on his wrists and ankles for extra security. Defendants in county custody, during court appearances, are normally restrained at either the wrists or ankles, not both.


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Patient Engagement Series
Andrew Bolan of ProQR
Andrew Bolan is the associate director for patient & medical community engagement at ProQR, and regards his role as bridging the gap between the patient's lived experience and the science lab. He talks to RARE Revolution about the exciting times we are living in, in terms of scientific development, and the crucial role the patient plays in driving these advancements
PEO series: Meeting the beating hearts behind the rare brands
How new is the patient engagement role in your organisation, how has it evolved and what are your hopes for the role in the future?
Patient engagement has been a part of the ProQR organisational DNA since its founding in 2012. ProQR was founded by our current CEO, Daniel A. de Boer. A few years prior to this Daniel and his family were faced with the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis for his newborn son; an incurable rare genetic disease. Daniel sought help from experts in the field of drug development and formed ProQR to help people like his son.
All 'ProQRians' remain passionate advocates for the rare disease community and are determined to make a difference in the world. To achieve this goal, ProQR strives to integrate the patient voice into our decision-making throughout the drug development process as we believe that a patient-focused strategy is crucial to our success.
What does a typical week entail for you, and are there any specific projects you can tell us about?
Being the associate director for patient & medical community engagement I work across the organisation in a range of projects. From medical affairs discussions about our scientific platforms and how we talk about our science, to our clinical programme teams sharing the patient perspective in our protocol development and clinical trial recruitment. I also work very closely with our communications team to feature patient blogs, community statements and accessible educational materials on our webpage. We have a dedicated patient community page which I take great pride in being a one stop shop for anyone wanting to understand how we work at ProQR.
A specific project I am very passionate about is the ProQR Patient & Caregiver Steering Committee. This is a committee, launched in January 2020, which features 10 or so wonderful individuals living with Leber Congenital Amaurosis Type 10, Usher Syndrome Type 2a and Retinitis Pigmentosa. No subject is off the table and it has been a wonderful forum throughout Covid-19 to keep our company feet to the fire. We use the forum to speak about a range of topics, mostly as you can expect, throughout 2020 has been how we can help battle the Covid-19 isolation which has had a big impact on the inherited retinal disease community.
What were your personal motivations to taking up a role in patient engagement?
I have been incredibly lucky to work for some very passionate patient engagement directors throughout my career. Learning from them and understanding that as a patient engagement person in a pharmaceutical company, you have a huge responsibility to listen more than talk. I personally have always enjoyed learning about people and their personal journeys—the fact I can use this in my work to make a company's patient engagement better is a huge motivation.
Starting at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) in London, I saw the power of the patient voice across healthcare policy. That gave me a real passion to helping bridge the patient community with the life sciences industry bringing forward innovative treatments for areas of high unmet need. I continue to be an ardent believer in harnessing the growing importance of the lived experience of patients to improve and quicken the pace of medical research.
What makes the role of patient engagement officer important to your organisation?
I feel a large responsibility of bringing people who we are ultimately trying to help with our RNA therapies in front of my hard-working scientific colleagues. Bridging our RNA science and petri dishes with people and families outside the laboratory. In pharmaceutical companies, having worked in small, medium, and large organisations, the people living with the conditions you are trying to find solutions for sometimes are left out of the process. A patient engagement role really has an external and internal mandate to connect the real world with that of the scientific workspaces.
At ProQR I have really worked hard to bring those families into our weekly work. Since I joined in November 2019, we have hosted over 20 community speakers, many on Zoom due to the Covid-19 situation. However, it is not just community speakers which play a role in patient engagement. It is the daily, weekly, and monthly discussions with advocacy organisations who are working hard on health policy changes to increase genetic testing in different countries to make sure when therapies and solutions come along, people have accessibility to them.
In your role, how do you ensure the patient voice remains central?
Unlike other companies I have worked for, ProQR gives me access to all levels of the company from senior management to clinical team colleagues daily. Regularly updating all levels of ProQR about the importance of the patient voice and how it can improve what we are doing, speeds up our clinical research and helps with clinical trial participation.
In my role I get to work with wonderful patient advocates, patient organisations and our own ProQR Patient & Caregiver Steering Committee. Making sure their feedback is central to all updates I give to our clinical teams, regulatory and medical discussions. Working in inherited retinal disease being a sighted person, I must work closely with the community to make sure I am representing their voice correctly.
How do you reconcile operational business needs with elevating the patient voice?
Being founded as a company by Daniel, following the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis in his newborn son, the patient perspective is really elevated higher than I have seen it in any of the other pharmaceutical company I have worked in. Alongside this is working closely with the patient community to bring educational awareness to inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), which is a real win-win in helping people understand the big scientific paradigm shift happening in the disease space.
What are the most rewarding aspects of your role?
Getting to work with such passionate and dedicated patient advocates and individuals living with rare conditions. Being a non-scientific person, I studied politics at Swansea University, I see a big aspect of my work to showcase the fantastic genomic science we are doing in a language anyone can understand.
We are living in quite an amazing time for new treatments, techniques, and genomic science. However, this is not worth a lot if we don't bring people along with it.
What is your proudest moment in your career thus far?
That is a tough question. Probably helping my parents understand what RNA (Ribonucleic acid) stands for and how much of a crucial role it plays in protein development. It took a few cups of tea over Zoom to get them there!
I am very lucky to have worked across a wide range of conditions in my career to date, from asthma and chronic lung diseases, the central nervous system, Alzheimer's Disease and IRDs. I would not be able to pin down a single proud moment, as I think the more I can do as a non-scientist to bring the impact of genomic level research to the public is an achievement every day. If I can help someone navigate what an RNA future therapy might mean for them, then I am very happy.
What advice would you give someone considering working in the rare disease space?
I find the rare disease space one of the most powerful spaces to work in. I would encourage anyone who has a passion for hard work, tough discussions and a get stuck in attitude to really think about a career, role or time supporting the rare disease community. As the advancements in science continue, more and more treatments are coming for some of the hardest and rarest conditions. It is a very exciting time to get involved.
If you weren't Patient Engagement Officer of ProQR, what was Plan B? What did your 10-year-old self-want to do as a job?
If I could turn back the clock, I think my plan B would definitely have been either a professional cricketer, striding out to a packed house at Lord's to face the Australians in the Ashes, or singing in front of a packed Albert Hall covering big band classics like For once in my life and Beyond the sea.
To find out more about the work of Pro QR, please visit;
www.proqr.com


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Due to popular demand I have uploaded the available Ladies Low Cut Round Yoke Nightwear to the site in preparation for the photography that is due to happen this week. These don't include any of the Factory Seconds I have picked up which have the rust marks due to the packaging pins. I have 13 of these in various sizes and colours if anyone is interested I am happy to part with them for $5 rather than see them thrown away. I'd keep them myself but I have kind of run out of room in my drawers.
The images above give an idea of the Nighties when smocked and they really are a very practical everyday garment. The neck opening is flattering to most and the generous fullness of the nightwear allows for a very comfortable night sleep. Photos to come very soon, I just need a few less "helpers" around before I get started.


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Soekarno-Hatta Airport Partially Closed Until 1 June
Date 24 April 2020
Photo by: PT Angkasa Pura
The Soekarno-Hatta International Airport will be under "Terminate Operation" status from 24 April 2020 to 1 June 2020, state airport company PT Angkasa Pura II reported.
The status means that the Airport does not serve scheduled or unscheduled commercial flight operations to all domestic and international routes.
The policy is in line with Presidential Regulation and Regulation of Minister of Transportation regarding the ban on mudik (annual exodus ahead of Eid al-Fitr). The ban is implemented to break the chain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission.
Senior Manager of Branch Communication & Legal of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Branch of PT Angkasa Pura II Febri Toga Simatupang said that the airport still serves special flight and air cargo. The Terminal 1, Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 are closed to the public while the Cargo Terminal is still operating as usual.
The aforementioned special flights include flights for heads of the main institutions of the Republic of Indonesia, state guests/representatives as well as representatives of international organizations.
"We still serve repatriation of Indonesian citizens and foreigners as well as law enforcement operational and emergency services for flight officers," Febri said.
He also called on all service users or passengers who have purchased tickets to contact the relevant airline to get a refund or change the flight schedule. (PR of Angkasa Pura II/EN)
Translated by: Ridwan Ibadurrohman
Reviewed by: Lulu Wuliarti


Bo VAN PELT - 2013 : Equal 20th at The Masters (& =21st at U.S. Open) - U.S.A.
Masters: = 8th. in 2011, 17th. = 2112, 20th= 2013.
U.S. PGA: =17th. in 2005, =18th 2012.
Bo Van Pelt is seen here competing in the 2013 British Open at Muirfield.
He is seen on the sixth tee and the fifteen fairway during a round of 73.
On the final day he shot a 68, but was never in contention.


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Dive in! How forest bathing boosts the mind and body
By Laura Smith
October 21, 2022, 12:02 am Updated: October 21, 2022, 3:06 pm
© Andrew Cawley
As the poet William Wordsworth once observed: "Trees provide relief from the fever of the world."
It's a sentiment that anyone who has ever felt an overwhelming sense of contentment while walking through woodlands bathed in dappled sunlight, admiring ancient, towering trees and listening to the wind rustling their leaves, will agree with.
That includes author and positive psychology practitioner, Cheryl Rickman, whose new book, Tree Glee, sets out to explain why trees have a profound impact on our health and happiness.
"Being more connected to nature makes us happier and healthier but you don't need to hug a tree to feel better, although hugging anyone – tree or person – has been shown to release oxytocin," said Rickman, 48.
"Simply spending time with trees by walking in woodlands or in other green spaces, such as tree-lined parks, for just 20 minutes a day can calm our nervous system, reduce stress, boost our immunity, our cardiovascular health and even our cognitive ability, including our concentration, memory and mood."
She added: "When we walk through woodland and especially around trees, our nerves send electromagnetic signals to our brain, specifically to the hypothalamus, which literally flicks the switch to shut down our flight-or-fight stress response and, instead, engages the rest-and-digest calm response.
"Suppressing this stress response swaps the cortisol and adrenalin production in our adrenal glands for happy hormones such as oxytocin and serotonin in our pituitary glands as our calm response is engaged. Our breathing and heart rate slows down, and our stress and anxiety levels decrease, thus making us feel more relaxed."
Many scientific studies have found connecting with nature, particularly being closer to or in direct contact with trees, is good for our mental wellbeing, says Rickman. "According to electroencephalogram (EEG) readings of the brain's alpha waves, which appear during rest and relaxation, an Edinburgh University study found that nature activates our brains in a way that puts us into a more 'open, meditative mindset'," she said.
"An Exeter University study of 20,000 people also found those who spent two hours per week (20 minutes per day) in green spaces, woods, parks or other natural environments, whether at once or cumulatively, were more likely to report good psychological and physical health than those who didn't."
Fully immersing ourselves in nature is the best way to harness its benefits, from the tactile touch of tree bark (compounds derived from tree bark are often found in medicines, including many cancer treatments) to breathing in the scent of a forest. This is known as "forest bathing" – a concept that has roots in Japan.
"Forest bathing (or shinrin yoku in Japanese) is not simply about going for a walk in the woods," said Rickman, who runs forest bathing workshops near her home in Surrey. "It is about being in nature; slowing down, paying attention and immersing yourself in the forest so you can notice the beauty of trees, connect with your senses and access meaningful feelings of belonging that can counter loneliness, depression and anxiety."
The benefits of forest bathing were first discovered in Japan in the 1980s. The practice is still prescribed by Japanese doctors as preventative health care to improve sleep quality, mood, focus and stress levels.
Health experts across Scotland have more recently twigged these health benefits. GPs in Shetland began prescribing time in nature to patients in 2018, while doctors in Edinburgh trialled Nature Prescriptions in 2020.
"Trees make our bodies and minds feel better by producing a glorious cocktail of botanical compounds," said Rickman, "which works to soothe our autonomic nervous system and boost our sleeping ability. These compounds are a blend of essential oils called phytoncides and aromatic terpenes, which trees diffuse between each other to attract pollinators and protect themselves from bacteria, insects and fungi.
"When we're walking through the woods, we breathe these in from the woody air and absorb them via our pores."
That calming, positive effect is part of our evolutionary psychology, says Rickman.
"Geosmin, the name given to the soothing scent of the earthy forest floor after rain, is what alerted our ancestors to water sources, so we can detect it even at exceptionally low levels," she said. "We used to track it, so we remember this smell for survival. That's why being in nature puts us at ease."
More information: treeglee.co.uk
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Gold Coast has a huge range of hotels to suit all budgets. The region's most popular attractions, gay scene and nightlife are located in Surfers Paradise.
Our 2019 top Gold Coast hotels for gay travellers are listed below.
For more hotel choices, click here to search all Gold Coast Hotels.
Why this hotel? Unparalleled luxury. Central location. Free WiFi.
This contemporary high-rise hotel offers you unparalleled luxury: 4 pools, a seafood restaurant, cinema and more.
The Hilton is perfectly situated in the heart of Surfers Paradise, so gay bars, clubs and eateries are all on your doorstep, SinCity Nightclub is a 1 minute walk.
The rooms are what you expect of this brand; clean, modern and comfortable.
200 meters to the beach.
Why this hotel? 200 meters to the beach. Close to the gay nightlife. Free WiFi.
QT's location on Surfers Paradise means you have everything on your doorstep; beaches, bars, clubs, shops and attractions.
The hotel has a unique, quirky and colourful vibe, with rooms offering chic comfort.
On-site amenities include a sun-soaked garden and pool, sauna, tennis court and more.
Reviewers loved the hotel bar and restaurant, some claiming it is the best on the Gold Coast.


It is the aim of the Department to create an enjoyable, well-disciplined and lively learning environment. Religious Studies is taught by specialists from Years 5 to 8. Common Entrance and Scholarship exams are taken in Year 8. The department uses as its main texts the Lion Children's Bible, the NIV, the Good News Bible and Religious Studies for Common Entrance (Grenfell).
The Religious Studies department reflects in its teaching and ethos the beliefs and faith to which Monkton Combe School is committed, standing as it does within the evangelical tradition of the Church of England. Priority is given to the study of the Bible in all year groups thus seeking to enable pupils to link classroom study to the Christian way of living.
To find out more about Religious Studies at Monkton Senior School, please click here.


spirit of fellowship and service.
The badge of the Y.W.C.A., with its equal sides, symbolises the development of the body, mind and spirit of the whole person, while the central horizontal line represents the social relationship development. With an all-round development, one will lead an abundant life of truth, joy and peace, in rich contributions to the society.
With God's guidance, we strive for a society where justice, peace, health and human dignity are promoted and sustained through women's empowerment and leadership.


Maine's economy grew less than 1 percent in the first three months of 2018, ranking our state 46th in the nation. Our state grew at a weak 1.7 percent last year, well below the national rate. What can be done?
The answer lies in electing Janet Mills our governor. Always a fierce advocate for Maine, she's been effective at everything she has tackled as a legislator and as attorney general.
Her plans for our economy include paying attention to Maine's disintegrating infrastructure, providing funds for research and development, strengthening our educational environment to include more vocational and tech programs, providing coordinated and comprehensive broadband and finally approving MaineCare (Medicaid) for the more than 70,000 uninsured Mainers who desperately need it.
Much needs to be done in Maine, and I believe that Democrat Janet Mills is the dynamic leader Maine requires. Please join me in voting for her Nov. 6.