A few minor fixes will be applied overnight to resolve a few bugs that were reported after the major release last week. The fixes will resolve an issue with selecting available page designs in Website, and a modification to web forms in Database to provide more details around payments in the automated emails.
As always if you are having any issues, please contact our support team immediately.
If your church is using Deluxe Suite and has not yet experienced the benefits of the online portal, take a look at portal resources in our help center designed to make it easy for your church launch the responsive online portal, and be sure to take a look through our online help center for how to add the portal to your church website.
may seem like a foregone conclusion in today's culture, but this means everything to those of you attempting to reach your community.
You can have every powerful product in the market, but if user's find the experience cumbersome, it should come as no surprise that they won't use it.
The best experience is leaning on modern web-based portal solutions that recognize the user through authorized access, even linking to their social accounts. But if you consider the earlier stat on how people access, browser-based access isn't enough and mobile responsive access will contribute to a much higher use (or adoption) rate when there's no more pinch and swipe to get to where they need to go.
you can project confidence to your congregation. Win/Win.
intuitive platform, you eliminate the struggles of a cluttered calendar filled with past due events.
etc.) with a platform to facilitate small group management eases the burden of management and instead, keeps the focus on ministry. If generosity is in the way of financial, provide a way for your congregants to give generously through online tools found in the very same portal. But donations aren't enough, these same tools should provide a way for those congregants to see their contributions – including pledge status – without having to interrupt your front office folks.
Today's technology can mean the sharing of information and files is very fragmented. With the ability to append notes and curriculum excerpts to a small group, you can ensure that your small group leaders are resourced with the necessary contents for their upcoming sessions in an easy to access location.
And speaking of resources, using small group finder included within your mobile responsive portal leaves no question of what small groups are still open to new attendees, who's leading them, and where they are hosted in proximity to a community member's location.
Community pastors struggle to find ways to form, communicate, and equip home groups. Find the platform, like the Elexio Deluxe Suite ChMS, to manage these critical points of engagement.
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Well brothers and sisters it's that time of year again! Summer is just around the corner and that means Vacation Bible School (VBS) is upon us. We're adding some new planning tips and strategies to consider this year, as we have done with the past VBS planning posts, which will help make your VBS go smoothly!
As any church event should begin, start with prayer. Prayerfully consider your VBS program director and leaders, then select the best candidate that God has inspired for your church. Work with the new director to pull together a team of dedicated leaders and pray for them.
Once your team is ready you can choose a VBS curriculum and order a starter kit. Most publishers run sales on their kits starting early in the first quarter, and Christian bookstores like Lifeway often have the kits on hand so you can look through to help make a choice.
When your VBS kit arrives, you can get down to the real planning, such as recruitment, training, and requesting donations of money and supplies.
Finding dynamic, kid-friendly personalities can be a challenge. It's also one of the reasons that the kids get used to seeing a lot of the same faces each year. Keep in mind that it's always important to try and bring new volunteers into the fold, not only to avoid burnout, but often to reveal undiscovered spiritual gifts.
At this point, you should have a curriculum mapped out including supplies needed for each day & event, as well as how many volunteers you'll need for each station. Communicating with the leadership of the church regarding any budgetary needs is also very important during this time.
Fundraising through events like trivia nights, silent auctions, and church meals is a great way to raise money for the program to cover costs that might exceed your church's budgetary limitations. At our church we hold a trivia night and silent auction at the same time, where the questions relate to the theme of the VBS program. We register teams from the church members who then compete that night for an actual trophy that is displayed throughout the year in a common area of the church. This year we're using Group Publishing's Cave Quest theme, so all of the questions will relate to caves in some way based on Trivial Pursuit style categories.
Promoting the VBS program and keeping the community and the congregation in the loop is incredibly important. Churches vary on whether or not to charge for Vacation Bible School programs, so be sure to make your position clear from the beginning as it can help with fundraising.
Don't forget to start allowing families to register their children around 3 months out. Today's busy families start mapping out their summer plans in the spring, so be sure to allow registration – and make it easy! Consider using a system like Elexio Deluxe Suite or Essentials Giving that enable online event registration for programs like VBS. These systems can even process payments, if needed.
Don't wait until the last minute on any of these. With the latest changes to law, at least where I'm at in Pennsylvania, requirements on volunteers for background checks and training are time-intensive and involved for whomever is coordinating VBS.
Elexio's integrated background check system can help reduce some of that workload, but you definitely don't want to take this to the last minute. Finding volunteers can be a challenge for many churches.
Training is important, too. Not only can you begin to identify a volunteer's strengths and weaknesses, training will help both of you identify the best station or place for that volunteer to help. Many programs offer training materials, but churches can and should also include their own guidelines that are required by both state and federal laws, as well as any additional requirements from within your own denominations.
Pre-registration should be well underway at this point, and you should be able to start building group rosters and assigning volunteers.
Depending on how involved your decorations will be, 3 months before launch can be a good time to start assessing your needs for decorations and any sets. Last year, we ran Group's "Everest" program and we started planning and buying materials around 3 months out. Within 2 months of our program we began building our set pieces, like small mountains, holding routine set building days for a few hours each Saturday.
During the last few weeks you should be pretty much ready, just putting the finishing touches on training, set building and decorations, or any last minute volunteer recruitment.
The last week before is always a rush. Many decorations and set pieces cannot move into place until the day you launch the program, and many times our volunteers are turning in clearances and paperwork at the last second. That doesn't even take into consideration the mass of registrations that will all happen the "day of".
For these reasons, we recommend scheduling a time of group prayer before you enter into the fray and welcome all of those young souls into your fold.
Who have been our key donors?
Who has the spiritual gifts appropriate for this kind of ministry?
Who has volunteered in the past?
Who has registered in the past?
How much have we spent before, and on what?
Even better, when you can pre-register families through a web form and even take payment, you've effectively reduced the workload of your registration volunteers.
Take a closer look at Elexio church software solutions today and you'll find out how you can focus on your ministry, not the management.
Elexio is now proudly offering Elexio Financials, a web-based church accounting software package. Financials can be accessed from any computer as well as mobile devices, and is incredibly easy to use.
Created specifically for the needs of churches, Elexio Church Accounting Software was designed to manage church accounting simply and powerfully. Fulfilling the needs of your financial committee and providing scaleable add-ons to create the financial and accounting software package that works for you is easy with this cloud-based software solution.
Learn more about Elexio Financials church accounting software here, watch the overview video, and don't forget to sign up for a webinar!
Elexio is proud to announce the new Essentials Suite, featuring two new products in the Elexio lineup: Essentials Community and Essentials Giving.
Community is a new a-la-carte, web-based church management software package that enables churches of any size to manage their church from any device. The Community ChMS was developed to serve the churches that want to ramp up quickly by taking our out of the box solution and begin managing and engaging members immediately.
Learn more about this new church management software (ChMS).
Giving, another a-la-carte piece of the Essentials Suite, is a standalone online giving solution for churches. The Essentials Suite Giving tool empowers churches to leverage technology that can increase giving and make it easy for church goers to give from any device, anywhere, at any time.
Learn more about this new online giving tool.
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Lucifer Cut Images Are Filled With F-Bombs
Lucifer Showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson have revealed why the DC drama series only had its titular character drop the F-bomb once.
In an interview with TVLine to promote the DVD release of Lucifersixth and final season, Modrovich and Henderson were asked if they ever considered improving the language or sexuality in Lucifer after the series moved from the Fox streaming network to the Netflix streaming service. "In Season 4, we played around with saying fk a lot because it was kind of like, 'How edgy are we, how dark are we?'" Henderson said. "So we have a bunch of deleted scenes of actors dropping F-bombs pretty much everywhere, because we realized we have three seasons of shows that don't use that word consistently, and we also have a show that people unexpectedly watch with their family. So we wanted to keep that tone and that world as we played with our new toys."
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Henderson went on to say that it was more rewarding to wait for the perfect opportunity to drop an F-bomb, which came during LuciferThe fifth season of. "That's where the genesis of us finally using it in season 5 came from, when we said, 'Okay, if we're going to make this something very special, how do we hear it in the least special way possible?'" — on por So much for Lucifer to be as petty as possible," the showrunner explained. Modrovich added, "'He shot me.' What was also funny is that our actors were like, 'Hey, we're on Netflix!' So even if it wasn't even in the script half the time, they were just like, 'I really think I should say 'Fuck you' here. Then they'd say it and we'd say, 'I don't think we should use it here.'" This led Henderson to proclaim that Netflix needed to "Release The F–k Cut."
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Lucifer premiered in January 2016 and aired its first three seasons on Fox before moving to Netflix for its final three series with the series finale releasing in September 2021. The series is based on the DC Comics character created by Neil Gaiman , Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg. , who was played by Tom Ellis in all six seasons of the show. The series initially focused on Lucifer Morningstar, the retired ruler of Hell, who ran a nightclub called Lux in Los Angeles while serving as a civilian consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department, working with Detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German) to solve homicides.
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Although Ellis's performance as Lucifer was praised throughout the series, the actor was not asked to reprise the role for Netflix. The Sandman Serie. Gaiman explained in May 2022 that the reason they chose to recast the DC character for The Sandman was "because [Ellis'] Lucifer, while inspired by the Lucifer in Sandmanis so far in terms of Sandman continuity at the end of LUCIFER, which is easier for everyone to go back to the comics version. And so you don't know what our Lucifer is going to do. Tom's is adorable." Gwendoline Christie was cast in January 2021 as Lucifer Morningstar and made her debut as the character in The Sandmanthe first season of.
The six seasons of Lucifer are currently available to stream on Netflix. The DVD of the sixth and final season will be available on Tuesday, September 13.
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Kurds are savages, aren't they?
The beards are a good example. The beards that were shaved off by men in Diyarbakir and other south-eastern cities and towns, because they feared that if they did not shave their beards, they would come under attack from pro-PKK Kurds for being 'Islamists' or 'IS supporters'.
Many papers published articles about it, everybody took up the subject, and the juicy story even made it to many foreign media outlets. The stupid thing is, of course, that nobody actually checked it. Well, one journalist did. Pinar Tremblay of Al-Monitor. She quoted Nurcan Baysal, a Diyarbakir-based columnist for the T24 website, as saying: 'I do not think this news is accurate. Around here, many men wear beards, and neither Kurdish Hezbollah nor IS members are concerned about hiding their identity'. Then Tremblay wrote: 'None of the members of Huda-Par (a Sunni Islamist party) that Al-Monitor contacted had shaved their beards.'
Murder squads
Being a Diyarbakir resident myself, I too had my doubts about the story. Men who once chose to wear a beard shaved their beards off in a half panic out of fear for their lives? As if there were murder squads roaming the streets of the city looking for bearded men to kill. Unfortunately, I couldn't pursue the story myself, as I was busy with other stories and on the road again, travelling to Suruc and to Istanbul for work.
What exactly are the beards and the endlessly repeated and unchecked stories a good example of? A very subtle form of 'hate speech' in the media. Hate speech is usually defined as speech that incites people to violence, but at a short symposium about the subject from the Hrant Dink Foundation last week in Istanbul, several examples of more subtle forms of manipulative and hateful reporting were discussed. Such media behaviour adds to the negative image of certain groups in society, usually minorities that are already being oppressed.
And what is the implicit message of the beard story? Kurds are savages and naturally inclined to kill people, especially pious Muslims.
Uncivilized Kurds
This message that Kurds are savages perfectly fits the narrative about Kurds that has been going strong in Turkey for decades, or in fact for around a century now. The Dersim massacres of course were a good example. Uncivilized Kurds were living there, they were involved in an uprising and these savages had to be subdued by the state. But Said Riza, a leader of the Dersim Kurds at the time, was not a rebel leader, he was a resistance leader. The massacres in 1937 and 1938 were carefully planned, Seid Riza and other leaders knew exactly what was coming and they resisted their fate with all the power they had. But the savage Turkish state was way better equipped than the Kurds and determined to wipe the people of Dersim off the face of the earth. And so they did.
Portraying the PKK as a terrorist organization that had nothing to do with Kurdish rights was also part of the denigration of Kurds. An example is the Güclükonak massacre of 1996, in which a minibus was attacked and eleven men were burnt to death. The PKK had carried it out, the security forces claimed, and the whole of Turkey was made to believe that version of the truth because the media were controlled by the state. But it was the army that had attacked, eagerly putting the blame onto the PKK.
But it's not only such murders that depicted the PKK as terrorists, it was the whole context in which the Kurdish issue was placed that contributed to the image not only of the PKK, but also of Kurds in general being murderous and terrorist. To this very day, many Turks believe the southeast of the country is a dangerous area, that the people there are violent in nature and that some terrorist can kill you at any moment.
Fertile ground
See the fertile ground the beard story was planted in? In western media, the beard story often ended up in the 'remarkable' sections of papers and websites: you know, the corner where somewhat funny news ends up. Media are unfortunately unaware of how harmful this reporting actually is. Maybe you can't blame the desk editors at a media outlet in some country in the world for that, but the Turkish media should be aware of these dynamics. I don't think most of them deliberately try to picture Kurds as savages, but it is the result of such stories, even if it is only on a subconscious level. Media consumers should be aware of such dynamics as well.
Turkish Media should know that for decades they helped create this fertile ground, and that such viral beard stories do not contribute to creating an atmosphere in Turkey that leads to peace. However 'juicy' the beard story is, check before you publish, and if it's untrue, don't publish.
Which leaves me to add that such stories don't contribute to peace, but, of course, neither do attacks on members of religious parties, which is what actually did happen in Diyarbakir earlier this month when the tension over Kobani got totally out of hand. I saw the video, I saw the pictures, and I read parts of the autopsy reports. It was vicious and disgusting, and the ones responsible should be found and brought to justice.
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Kürtler, veya: yüzeyin altındaki kimlik ne? The lack of democracy is creeping up on me


Are you ever thinking of sending tomorrow email by today? Not understand? Then you should check out this web site – EmailFuture.com. EmailFuture.com is a free way for you to send email in the future. You may use this as your reminder email or auto message to your future self in some time later.
But not put too much hope in this service, it is just have a very simple function where you can only set the email address, subject, email body, email sending date time, and time zone. At the same time, you may also set your email content to be seem by public or only can be seem by the sender and receiver.
E-mail yourself reminders on important dates such as when sporting or concert tickets go on sale.
Send yourself an Email at the end of the day to remind yourself to buy milk, eggs or any other errands that you may need to run.
Emailing yourself in the past. I haven't quite figured out how to build the flux capacitor yet to time travel. Maybe soon though!!!
Sending emails to addresses that don't exist….. or is it?
Sending yourself reminders for the wrong dates. If yo can't correctly remember your anniversary, then you're pretty much hosed.
I hope I can actually get a chance to try these.


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Home SPORTS The beer pong world series
The beer pong world series
by The Other Press September 21, 2016
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Event in Las Vegas offers $50,000 for first place winners
By Chandler Walter, Assistant Editor
Beer Pong. You may have played it some drunk night out at a friend's house, participated in a buy-in tournament at your local pub, or maybe you have absolutely no idea how ping pong balls and beer could have any relation whatsoever.
When brought down to the very brass tacks of the game, it's about throwing a ball into a cup. Think ping-pong meets basketball, or competitive drinking meets chess. The strategy involved in defence, offence, house rules, and unwritten courtesies would more than fill up this page, so let's just leave it at its basics. Two teams of two stand at opposing ends of a long table, with a triangle of red solo cups in front of them (it could be a different colour, but red is always the preference). The teams take turns throwing a ping pong ball into the opposing team's cups, and if they do so, the other team drinks that cup. Once all the cups are gone, it's game over.
Though many may just see beer pong as some drinking game played at a party to combat the awkwardness of just having a conversation, it has also found itself being played at a higher, more competitive level. Many pubs and bars, or backyards, as entrepreneurial players such as me have done, host beer pong tournaments. They charge a buy-in that would cover beer, and offer the potential of prestige, glory, and sometimes even a cash prize.
Take this to the extreme, and you have the World Series of Beer Pong, a five-day event hosted in Las Vegas during the summer, which offers a $50,000 cash prize and the title of "World Beer Pong Champions" to the winning team. This past July, the champions of the 11th annual tournament who took home the cash prize was the team History in The Making, made up of Michael Popielarski and Brandon Clarke. It was Popielarski's third win of the World Series. There were roughly 600 competitors from around the globe who came out to compete in the event.
Cash prizes ranging from $300–5,000 were awarded to the 2nd–16th place finishers. That's not a bad payoff for being skilled at throwing a ball into a cup.
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District 14 State Senator Bruce Thompson (R, White) speaks at the Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce one day before Georgia's gubernatorial election.
District 14 State Senator Bruce Thompson (R, White), didn't mince words at Monday's Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce meeting: in his opinion, if Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams wins today's election, the end result won't just be legislative gridlock under the Gold Dome — "I think it will be chaos."
Indeed, Thompson conjectured the upcoming legislative special session scheduled to convene Nov. 13 is only superficially about the state's response to Hurricane Michael.
At the heart of the legislature's trepidations, Thompson said, is the subject of taxation.
"I have zero interest in bringing another software company to the state of Georgia if you're telling me that we're going to go up 13-14 percent on my corporate taxes — why would I do that?" he said. "We've got partners in other states that are more 'business-friendly,' let's just say that."
He asked attendees why they would "radically change" the state's policies after Georgia has been cited as one of the nation's best states to do business for several years.
"If you do, that's going to cause a different kind of gridlock. It's going to slow things down because it just, by nature, will," he said. "If she gets elected, she, just like any governor, wants to make their mark … just taxes alone, are any of you so independently wealthy you want to pay more in taxes?"
Thompson said he fears an Abrams' governorship would also drastically alter the way the state attracts corporate investments.
"If a certain party wins, the tax incentives for any development are probably going to go away because they've made it clear that they need to raise taxes so you can't really do incentives," he said. "We have a little over $2 billion in a rainy day fund, we have taxpayers' money right now that could be diligently used to help spur growth, it's a benefit of everyone. I'm not a believer in rewarding companies that are here. I am a believer in being able to bring industry to our state that might then be able to give us a much better return on investment."
On the subject of Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp's accusations that members of the Democratic Party of Georgia have attempted to hack the state's voter registration system, Thompson said such is absolutely possible. But as to whether such is probable, he couldn't say.
"The environment exists where they could be hacking — clearly, I had that legislation last year saying we need to be able to have paper ballots," he said. "Do I really know whether or not the Democrats have hacked in or whether there's been an alteration or not? The reality is, I don't think we know at this point."
If those accusations prove to be true, Thompson said he'll leave it to the courts to figure out the next course of action.
"The judicial system's the one that makes that decision, not me," he said.
Regardless of the political affiliation of Georgia's next governor, Thompson said the General Assembly will almost certainly weigh in on legislation seeking to overhaul the state's elections standards in the next session.
"Our machines and the sacred ability to be able to cast a vote and make sure that vote counts for who you chose is important," he said. "We couldn't get the House to agree, so I had to kill my own bill on the last day because of some things that happened. But I'm telling you, that's going to come back up."
Thompson said another of his failed bills from last year, Senate Bill 315, "should have passed."
The bill, which would've created a new criminal category relating to unauthorized computer access, was vetoed on May 8.
The Electronic Freedom Foundation was highly critical of SB 315, referring to it as "misguided" and likely to "severely chill independent researchers' ability to shine light on computer vulnerabilities."
Thompson responded to those in opposition to the bill. "Still, to this day, I have a few individuals who say 'We should be able to do this, we're the guys who find out and research it,' and you know what my answer to it is? Fine, become a nonprofit and do it for free."
He said that bill — in some incarnation — is almost certainly a lock to be reintroduced during the 2019 legislative session.
Thompson also touched upon a local economic development — the abandoned Avatron Park project, the property of which is now being pursued by Jacoby Development, Inc. as the potential site of a mixed-use complex that would include 2,000 residential units and as much as 1 million square feet of retail, commercial and entertainment developments.
"Certainly, the Jacoby [Group] and what they did at Atlantic Station is very interesting to this area. I think it's been no secret that they have a strong interest in here, and I think it's no secret your local officials have done everything that we can in a legal way to make it a cooperative effort if something can come to fruition," he said. "I do think that something will happen there, and I think that when it does, it's going to benefit not only the tax base but it will benefit all the residents and, really, the state of Georgia."
Thompson concluded his presentation by floating a proposal that he said could increase accountability in Georgia's General Assembly — expanding the term limits for state senators.
"Most states have gone to four years, at least, in their senate," he said. "That discussion's been going on for a long period of time, and you might want to at some point look at that. I'm not going to be the guy to introduce it … I'm saying from an investment standpoint of view, you've elected people to serve, do you think two years is your way to be able to check and balance?"


RALEIGH – Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that UPM Raflatac, a leading global supplier of pressure sensitive labelstock, will expand in Henderson County. The company plans to create 51 jobs and invest $11.5 million during the next three years in Henderson County. The project was made possible in part by a $150,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund.
UPM Raflatac produces pressure sensitive labelstock that is designed to meet the needs of demanding applications in a vast array of end-uses. A subsidiary of Finnish-based UPM, the company has operated in Henderson County since 1985 and currently employs 342 in North Carolina. The grant will help the company expand its current production capabilities.
Salaries will vary by job function, but the average annual wage for the new jobs will be $34,653 plus benefits. The Henderson County average annual wage is $32,240.


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Hungary Aims To Restore Normal Living & Economy ASAP As Far As Possible
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With staggered regulations, the epidemic can be controlled, and the time is soon coming to restore normal living and the economy as far as possible, László Palkovics, the minister of technology and innovation, told the daily Magyar Hírlap.
The minister said the government took mathematical and epidemiological modelling into consideration during its decision-making, which has given rise to a "staggered" system of controls. This means "pulling back and letting go" when it comes to restrictions.
Three basic criteria determine this mechanism: the spread of the virus and the parallel of how many patients need hospital treatment; the state of the economy; and the quality of social and community life, he said.
Various restrictions have been introduced to slow down the spread of the epidemic by drastically reducing physical contact, with a view to increasing hospital capacity and purchasing protective equipment, he noted. This, he said, was the "pull" phase.
But the corresponding impact of the economy and the suffocation of community life is unsustainable, so a "let go" phase is planned for next week, he said. Gradually, restrictions will be eased based on a strict schedule, and the life of the nation and its economy can begin to be restored, he added.
As personal contacts intensify, the number of infected is expected to increase. "But we are ready to care for them properly." Should the epidemic cross a defined threshold, the "pull" policy will be reintroduced to slow down the spread of the virus once again, Palkovics said.
The minister said the hard part of decision-making was ahead of the government: how to gauge optimal intervention and apply the "pull, let go" mechanism.
"We have control, regulation and intervention tools in place, and measurements of the virus's transmission. It's not easy to keep the epidemic on a level we've achieved with total repression. But now we must fine tune the restrictions so the economy and people [can recover] while keeping the virus at bay."
The government is continually analysing the state of the economy and consulting with economic players, he said. In some sectors such as tourism, life has come to a virtual standstill, and here it would be right to speak in terms of a complete relaunch, he said. The state of manufacturing and agriculture is less onerous.
Car manufacturers and their suppliers are retooling and in many sectors and places, work has not stopped. "I think industrial production will recover faster than many people think," Palkovics said.
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Arnab Goswami Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts
Arnab Goswami Wiki, Biograph
Arnab become born in Guwahati, Assam, India, on 7 March 1973 – his zodiac sign is Pisces, and he holds Indian nationality. He's an information anchor and journalist, who's possibly acknowledged excellent for being the editor-in-leader and coping with director of Republic TV.
Early lifestyles and training Arnab changed into raised in Guwahati along his sister, by way of their mom Suprabha Gain-Goswami, who's an author, and father Manoranjan Goswami.
Manoranjan became a member of the Indian Army for 30 years, retired as a colonel, then have become a candidate in the course of the Indian popular election in 1998, having previously joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since then, Manoranjan has written many columns and books, and turned into in 2017 presented with a Sahitya Sabha Award.
The own family moved regularly while Arnab changed into developing up, typically due to his father's work within the Army; Arnab completed his tenth Standard board exams at Delhi Cantonment's St Mary's School, while he handed his twelfth Standard board tests at Jabalpur Cantonment's Kendriya Vidyalaya college.
Arnab then enrolled on the University of Delhi's Hindu College, from which he graduated with a Bachelor's diploma in sociology. He endured his schooling at Oxford University's St. Anthony's College (England), graduating with a Master's degree in social anthropology in 1994.
Career as a journalist Arnab released his career in 1995, working at the Indian day by day newspaper "The Telegraph", a activity for which he had to move to Kolkata, West Bengal, India. In 1996, Arnab moved to Delhi to paintings at New Delhi Television Ltd as their journalist.
He spent the subsequent 10 years with them, and gained popularity for anchoring their indicates "News Tonight" and "Newsnight", and won a 2004 Asian Television Award for Best News Anchor of Asia for the latter.
The news channel Times Now become launched in 2006, and within the same yr Arnab changed into hired as their editor-in-leader. He hosted the 9p.M. Display "The Newshour", as well as the special software "Frankly Speaking with Arnab", in which he interviewed severa politicians, together with the previous UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the previous Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Arnab cease running at Times Now on 1 November 2016, stating that he didn't have enough journalistic freedom.
The channel Republic TV become released on 6 May 2017, particularly funded by means of the baby-kisser Rajeev Chandrasekhar, at the same time as Arnab and his spouse collectively with the educationists Ramakanta Panda and Ramdas Pai were buyers;
Arnab became employed to paintings as editor-in-chief. By May 2019, he had bought many stocks inside the enterprise to emerge as most people proprietor together with his eighty two percentage stake. Other works Arnab is an creator, and posted his e book "Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge" in 2002.
Controversies In May 2017, Arnab and Republic TV have been sued for defamation by using the Indian former global diplomat Shashi Tharoor; the Delhi High Court dominated in Shashi's want, and the community was to take down the movies wherein he turned into referred to between eight and thirteen May 2017.
A video became uploaded onto diverse social media networks on 25 August 2018, which featured Arnab regarding a collection of human beings as a 'maximum shameless bunch of Indians I have ever seen'. It turned into to start with believed that he become relating to Keralites, even though it changed into later revealed that he turned into really relating to 'Tukde-Tukde Break India forces'.
Image supply The News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) of India has requested that Republic TV trouble a public apology on two events: first of all on 30 August 2018, for using irrelevant phrases to describe people attending a political rally, and the second time in October 2019, after Republic TV refused to co-operate while Arnab was accused of spiritual and racial stereotyping.
Arnab turned into arrested on 4 November 2020, in terms of the 2018 suicide of Anvay Naik; Anvay had written in his suicide note that the reason in the back of his suicide became now not having been paid dues by Arnab and different people. Arnab became released on bail per week later.
Awards In 2003, Arnab turned into supplied with an Asian Television Award for Best Presenter or Anchor, and in 2007, he gained a Society Young Achievers Award.
The 12 months 2010 saw him win both the New Lives Assamese of the Year Award and an Indian Express Group Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Wife and kids Arnab prefers to hold the information of his love life away from the media's interest, but it's nonetheless widely known that he's today a married man.
His spouse is Samyabrata Ray Goswami, an Indian writer and entrepreneur who's also the co-owner of Republic TV. Neither of the two has shared the date in their wedding, however it's believed that they have been married for around a long time now; Samyabrata gave start to their son Che Goswami, who became named after the Argentine Marxist modern Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.
Arnab hasn't spoken of every other girls whom he has possibly been with, in order of March 2022, he's married to Samyabrata Ray Goswami, and that they have a son collectively.
Hobbies and different hobbies Arnab appears to enjoy the eye which he's receiving from his near 50,000 followers on Instagram, and has uploaded nearly a hundred images onto the network, most of that have been taken for the duration of his ordinary lifestyles; Arnab additionally uses Instagram to proportion the today's information along with his enthusiasts.
He enjoys watching sports activities, and his favorite is cricket. Arnab's into touring, and his profession has taken him to numerous US states and European countries. He likes to watch Indian films in his spare time – his favorite actor and actress are Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, even as a couple of his favored movies include "My Name is Khan", "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" and "Pathan".
Age, top and net worth Arnab's age is 49. He has short black hair and brown eyes, his height is 5ft 10ins (1.8m) and he weighs round 175lbs (80kgs).


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The honey badger (Mellivora capensis), also known as the ratel ( or ), is a mammal widely distributed in Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Because of its wide range and occurrence in a variety of habitats, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.

It is the only living species in the genus Mellivora and in the mustelid subfamily Mellivorinae. Despite its name, the honey badger does not closely resemble other badger species; instead, it bears more anatomical similarities to weasels. It is primarily a carnivorous species and has few natural predators because of its thick skin, strength and ferocious defensive abilities.

Taxonomy
Viverra capensis was the scientific name used by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1777 who described a honey badger skin from the Cape of Good Hope. Mellivorae was proposed as name for the genus by Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr in 1780.
Mellivorina was proposed as a tribe name by John Edward Gray in 1865.

The honey badger is the only species of the genus Mellivora. Although in the 1860s it was assigned to the badger subfamily, the Melinae, it is now generally agreed that it bears few similarities to the Melinae. It is much more closely related to the marten subfamily, Guloninae, and furthermore is assigned its own subfamily, Mellivorinae. Differences between Mellivorinae and Guloninae include differences in their dentition formulae. Though not in the same subfamily as the wolverines, which are a genus of large-sized and atypical Guloninae, the honey badger can be regarded as another, analogous, form of outsized weasel or polecat.

Evolution

The species first appeared during the middle Pliocene in Asia. A number of extinct relatives are known dating back at least 7 million years to the Late Miocene. These include Mellivora benfieldi from South Africa and Italy, Promellivora from Pakistan, and Howellictis from Chad. More distant relatives include Eomellivora, which evolved into several different species in both the Old and New World, and the giant, long-legged Ekorus from Kenya.

Subspecies

In the 19th and 20th centuries, 16 zoological specimens of the honey badger were described and proposed as subspecies.
, 12 subspecies are recognised as valid taxa. Points taken into consideration in assigning different subspecies include size and the extent of whiteness or greyness on the back.

Description

The honey badger has a fairly long body, but is distinctly thick-set and broad across the back. Its skin is remarkably loose, and allows the animal to turn and twist freely within it. The skin around the neck is  thick, an adaptation to fighting conspecifics. The head is small and flat, with a short muzzle. The eyes are small, and the ears are little more than ridges on the skin, another possible adaptation to avoiding damage while fighting.

The honey badger has short and sturdy legs, with five toes on each foot. The feet are armed with very strong claws, which are short on the hind legs and remarkably long on the forelimbs. It is a partially plantigrade animal whose soles are thickly padded and naked up to the wrists. The tail is short and is covered in long hairs, save for below the base.

The honey badger is the largest terrestrial mustelid in Africa. Adults measure  in shoulder height and  in body length, with the tail adding another . Females are smaller than males. In Africa, males weigh  while females weigh  on average. The mean weight of adult honey badgers from different areas has been reported at anywhere between , with a median of roughly , per various studies. This positions it as the third largest known badger, after the European badger and hog badger, and fourth largest extant terrestrial mustelid after additionally the wolverine. However, the average weight of three wild females from Iraq was reported as , about the typical weight of male wolverines or male European badgers in late autumn, indicating that they can attain much larger than typical sizes in favorable conditions. However, an adult female and two males in India were relatively small weighing  and a median of . Skull length is  in males and  for females.

There are two pairs of mammae. The honey badger possesses an anal pouch which, unusual among mustelids, is eversible, a trait shared with hyenas and mongooses. The smell of the pouch is reportedly "suffocating", and may assist in calming bees when raiding beehives.

The skull greatly resembles a larger version of that of a marbled polecat.
The dental formula is: . The teeth often display signs of irregular development, with some teeth being exceptionally small, set at unusual angles or absent altogether. Honey badgers of the subspecies signata have a second lower molar on the left side of their jaws, but not the right. Although it feeds predominantly on soft foods, the honey badger's cheek teeth are often extensively worn. The canine teeth are exceptionally short for carnivores. The papillae of the tongue are sharp and pointed, which assists in processing tough foods.

The winter fur is long, being  long on the lower back, and consists of sparse, coarse, bristle-like hairs, with minimal underfur. Hairs are even sparser on the flanks, belly and groin. The summer fur is shorter (being only  long on the back) and even sparser, with the belly being half bare. The sides of the head and lower body are pure black. A large white band covers the upper body, from the top of the head to the base of the tail. Honey badgers of the cottoni subspecies are unique in being completely black.

Distribution and habitat

The honey badger ranges through most of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Western Cape, South Africa, to southern Morocco and southwestern Algeria and outside Africa through Arabia, Iran, and Western Asia to Turkmenistan and the Indian Peninsula. It is known to range from sea level to as much as  in the Moroccan High Atlas and  in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains.

Behaviour and ecology

The honey badger is mostly solitary, but has also been sighted in Africa to hunt in pairs during the breeding season in May. It also uses old burrows of aardvark, warthog and termite mounds.
It is a skilled digger, able to dig tunnels into hard ground in 10 minutes. These burrows usually have only one entry, are usually only  long with a nesting chamber that is not lined with any bedding.

The honey badger is notorious for its strength, ferocity and toughness. It is known to savagely and fearlessly attack almost any other species when escape is impossible, reportedly even repelling much larger predators such as lion and hyena. Bee stings, porcupine quills, and animal bites rarely penetrate their skin. If horses, cattle, or Cape buffalos intrude upon a honey badger's burrow, it will attack them.In the Cape Province it is a potential prey species of the African leopard. African rock pythons,

Diet

The honey badger has the least specialised diet of the weasel family next to the wolverine. It accesses a large part of its food by digging it out of burrows.
It often raids beehives in search of both bee larvae and honey. It also feeds on insects, frogs, tortoises, turtles, lizards, rodents, snakes, birds and eggs. It also eats berries, roots and bulbs. When foraging for vegetables, it lifts stones or tears bark from trees. Some individuals have even been observed to chase away lion cubs from kills. It devours all parts of its prey, including skin, hair, feathers, flesh and bones, holding its food down with its forepaws. It feeds on a wide range of vertebrates and seems to subsist primarily on small vertebrates. Honey badgers studied in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park preyed largely on geckos and skinks (47.9% of prey species), gerbils and mice (39.7% of prey). The bulk of its prey comprised species weighing more than  such as cobras, young African rock python and South African springhare.
In the Kalahari, honey badgers were also observed to attack domestic sheep and goats, as well as kill and eat black mambas. A honey badger was suspected to have broken up the shells of tent tortoises in the Nama Karoo. In India, honey badgers are said to dig up human corpses.

Despite popular belief, there is no evidence that honeyguides guide the honey badger.

Reproduction
Little is known of the honey badger's breeding habits. Its gestation period is thought to last six months, usually resulting in two cubs, which are born blind. Its lifespan in the wild is unknown, though captive individuals have been known to live for approximately 24 years. The voice of the honey badger is a hoarse "khrya-ya-ya-ya" sound. When mating, males emit loud grunting sounds. Cubs vocalise through plaintive whines. When confronting dogs, honey badgers scream like bear cubs.

Relationships with humans
Honey badgers often become serious poultry predators. Because of their strength and persistence, they are difficult to deter. They are known to rip thick planks from hen-houses or burrow underneath stone foundations. Surplus killing is common during these events, with one incident resulting in the death of 17 Muscovy ducks and 36 chickens.

Because of the toughness and looseness of their skin, honey badgers are very difficult to kill with dogs. Their skin is hard to penetrate, and its looseness allows them to twist and turn on their attackers when held. The only safe grip on a honey badger is on the back of the neck. The skin is also tough enough to resist several machete blows. The only sure way of killing them quickly is through a blow to the skull with a club or a shot to the head with a gun, as their skin is almost impervious to arrows and spears.

During the British occupation of Basra in 2007, rumours of "man-eating badgers" emerged from the local population, including allegations that these beasts were released by the British troops, something that the British categorically denied. A British army spokesperson said that the badgers were "native to the region but rare in Iraq" and "are usually only dangerous to humans if provoked".

The honey badger has also been reported to dig up human corpses in India.
In Kenya, the honey badger is a major reservoir of rabies and is suspected to be a significant contributor to the sylvatic cycle of the disease.

References

Further reading

External links

Weasels
Carnivorans of Africa
Mammals of Africa
Mammals of South Asia
Mammals of the Middle East
Mammals of Central Asia
Tool-using mammals
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Extant Pliocene first appearances

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A huge fire that gutted a warehouse in Sharjah on Saturday was found to have killed a worker, civil defence officials have said.
The victim is believed to have suffocated while sleeping in the warehouse when the fire broke out at around 5:30am. Five other men were also asleep in the warehouse at the time, but managed to escape to safety before the fire intensified.
"We are still trying to find out if it is true that the man was sleeping inside the warehouse since the company has staff accommodation quarters nearby," said Captain Mansour Al Suwaidi, director of Fire Services at Sharjah Civil Defence, to 7Days, a Dubai based newspaper.
The warehouse was situated in Industrial Area 6 of Sharjah and fire fighting sources said that it took eight hours to bring the blaze under control. The building was used to store freezers, compressors and water coolers.
A fire fighter told the newspaper that he suspected oil lubricants were also being stored in the warehouse, which may have contributed to the spread of the blaze.
One of the workers at the site, Shafiq Kalam, said that he heard a loud explosion and saw thick smoke coming from the warehouse roof.
No other injuries were reported, Sharjah Police said.


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It may only be one horsepower, but this Fiat Uno certainly gave traffic cops a run for their money as it sped along the motorway with a foal on the back seat. The driver had bought the 260 lbs foal at a livestock market near the Polish capital Warsaw and was driving 150 miles to his farm in the north of the country. By the time police caught up with it driver Hieronim Kapuscinski had pulled over when the car's engine conked out. Inside the car the pony stood waiting patiently to be fed while the driver's two pals - who'd been crammed into the front - checked that the rear seat was secure on the ramshackle roof rack. Police fined the driver 50 GBP for inappropriate use of a car and confiscated the horse until its owner can arrange for a proper livestock transporter to pick it up.
Cow rides in back of car In Beirut.
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Internet dog feeder
This dog feeder was made in under 1 hour!
Simple but very effective.
That kid needs to patent that thing and then get a manufacturer on board.
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8 Babies Born to Stunned California Parents
Doctors in Bellflower California methodically delivered a mother's seven babies, five boys and two girls, just as they had repeatedly rehearsed.
Then came the eighth.
The surprising sixth boy and eighth child made Monday's mass birth not just remarkable but historic.
"It is quite easy to miss a baby when you're anticipating seven," said Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine and one of 46 doctors, nurses and assistants who delivered the children by Caesarean section at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center. "Ultrasound doesn't show you everything."
Just five minutes after the first birth, the unexpected eighth baby came out at 10:48 a.m.
"My eyes were wide," Dr. Karen Maples said.
It was just the second live octuplets birth in U.S. history.
"The babies are all doing well, and the mom is also doing well," Henry said. "There were no complications from the surgery to the best of my knowledge."
Hospital officials would not release the mother's name nor say whether she had used fertility drugs.
They did say she planned to breast feed all the children.
"She's a very strong woman, so she probably will be able to handle all eight babies," said Dr. Mandhir Gupta, a neo-natologist who cared for the infants.
The mother checked into the hospital in her 23rd week of pregnancy and gave birth seven weeks later. The babies — dubbed with the letters A-through-H — will probably remain in the hospital for at least two months and the mother should be released in a week, Maples said.
Octuplets? No, that's a litter!
Running for Laughs
Schoolteacher running for world record marathon dressed in a clown costume.
A school teacher from Radley is believed to have broken a world record after running a marathon dressed as a clown.
Paul Fernandez, 34, completed the Glouc-ester Marathon last Sunday in full clown costume in 2hr 50min 34sec — more than half-an-hour faster than the Guinness World Record of 3hr 24min.
Mr Fernandez, a biology teacher at Radley College, was second overall in the race out of about 250 runners.
His time has to be verified by Guinness Book of Records officials.
Before the race, the 34-year-old teacher said: "My personal best is 2hr 39min, which I did at Abingdon last year.
"Gloucester is a small marathon and the winner only did it in 2hr 53min last year, so in theory I could be near the front, which could be a bit embarrassing.
"I'm hoping to go 30 seconds a mile slower than my personal best and still come in at under 2hr 50min."
He was struck with the idea after looking at feats of endurance.
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Abbeylara gears up for Lip Sync Battles
Shannon O'Reilly, Aine Tierney (Ballymachugh), Louise Battrim, Carmel McGivney (Mullinalaghta) and Lauren Burke who attended the Abbeylara GFC Lip Sync Battles launch night in Crawford's
Abbeylara GFC will run its biggest ever fundraising event when they will host a Lip Sync Battles competition in the Park Hotel in Mullingar on Sunday, March 18.
Chairperson of the organising committee Irene Lynch, explained that this major fundraiser forms part of the overall strategy of the club to raise funds to complete the final stage of the development of the grounds to include new meeting facilities, upgraded dressing rooms, gym and tea making facilities etc.
"This is a project that will benefit current and future generations of footballers and club members alike for years to come."
Lip Sync Battles was launched on Saturday night in Crawford's, Abbeylara with a number of participants and sponsors in attendance.
For the past number of months, a dedicated committee have been working away planning the upcoming Lip Sync event and the community are now really looking forward to the big night in the Mullingar Park Hotel.
Over fifteen groups will compete for honours on the night and the competition promises to be intense as the Committee are donating €750 to the overall winning groups charity of choice and an additional €750 to the charity of choice of the group that raises the most funds on the night.
Ms Lynch remarked, "It is hoped that this event will be attended by over 1,100 spectators with the audience coming from near and far."
Ms Lynch outlined that the joint main sponsors are 'Fields The Jeweller' and 'James J Doherty Ltd', adding that a huge number of business have generously supported the initiative and the club are most grateful to them for that.
She said, "All sponsors and contributors will be acknowledged in the event booklet on the night. If anyone wishes to be associated with the event or would like to purchase tickets and have not been approached, all you need do is contact anyone within the club and we will discuss the details with you.
"The evening represents a unique opportunity to advertise your business to a wide and varied audience covering the Longford, Cavan and Westmeath regions."
Mullinalaghta brothers 'spice up' Lip Sync contest
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Inc Magazine Honors Cockroach Labs on Best Workplaces List 2021
Lindsay Grenawalt
Cockroach Labs was named for resilience and survival. The last year has tested us all in unimaginable ways, and it was the strength and resilience of our team and our community that kept us afloat and propelled us forward.
So it is an absolute honor that, after the year we've all had, we have been named to Inc. magazine's annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2021.
The list is the result of a wide-ranging and comprehensive measurement of American companies that have created exceptional workplaces and company culture. Inc. collected data from thousands of companies, and every company took part in an employee survey that covered management effectiveness, perks, and fostering employee growth. The companies on Inc.'s Best Workplaces list set an example that we all can learn from. We are humbled to be named alongside them.
"The definition of a positive workplace has changed drastically over the past year," says Inc. magazine editor-in-chief Scott Omelianuk. "Stocked fridges and nap pods were no longer perks many companies could rely on once work went remote. So, this year's list is even more important as it reveals organizations that continue to enrich the lives of its employees amid a pandemic."
From the very beginning, our goal was to build a human-forward business where our employees can balance their careers with their personal lives. Over the last several years, we have challenged the status quo and built programs for better recruiting, more flexibility, better support, more opportunities in and out of the office, and fostered an environment where diversity of thought exists and is celebrated. We will continue to strive for an innovative and inclusive workplace for all.
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US Marines Baptized Aboard the USS Wasp
Afloat in the contentious East China Sea, US Navy Chaplain (Cmdr) Steven Stougard offers an invocation during a baptism ceremony on the flight deck of Read more
Mikey Weinstein, MRFF Defend Christian Chaplain…or Did They?
Michael "Mikey" Weinstein bristles at accusations his organization is "anti-Christian", despite a deep well of examples to bolster that characterization. To defend himself, Weinstein frequently touts the unsupported — and irrelevant — claim that "96% of his clients" and many of his friends and family are Christians. He and his research assistant, Chris Rodda, are also quick to tout instances in which the MRFF (says it) has defended Christians to rebut the accusation it spends all of its time attacking Christians, and Christians alone.
To that point, the MRFF recently said it had "assist[ed] [a] senior Christian military chaplain" with regard to a complaint that arose as a result of his chapel sermon. As published by the MRFF [emphasis added]:
A senior active duty Christian Military Chaplain [sic] contacted MRFF President/Founder Mikey Weinstein for assistance in responding to an investigation initiated after a sermon he preached during a worship service at his military base chapel. This investigation resulted from…complaints levied by a congregation member alleging Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and Contempt for the President of the United States based on the content of this MRFF client's sermon.
Briefly, the Navy chaplain declined Read more
RAdm Brent Scott Newest Navy Chief of Chaplains
Chaplain (RAdm) Brent Scott recently replaced the retiring Chaplain (RAdm) Margaret Kibben as the Chief of Chaplains for the US Navy.
Chaplain Scott had previously been the Deputy for the Chief, which also Read more
Marine Commandant Describes Using Religion During Iraq War
15 June 2018 JD
Gen Robert Neller, Commandant of the Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently attended an iftar meal ending Ramadan fasting in Baltimore. Generally speaking, such events should be non-events, though senior military leaders publicly attending religious events occasionally brings criticism (normally when they're Christian events).
One notable statement from Gen Neller [emphasis added]:
Neller shared some stories about his travels as a Marine to places where he was the minority as a white, Catholic American. He spoke about using what he knows about Islam to find common ground with Iraqi leaders during a year spent in Anbar province.
"We're all sons of Abraham – why are you fighting me?" Neller recalled telling them.
It's a fascinating statement on several levels. It's a valid Read more
Coast Guard Chaplain to Be Next Chaplain of Marine Corps
US Navy Chaplain (CAPT) Thomas Walcott recently became the Chaplain of the Coast Guard, replacing US Navy Chaplain (CAPT) Gregory Todd.
Chaplain Todd has apparently been nominated to the rank of Rear Admiral, to become Read more
Breaking: Navy Rebuffs Mikey Weinstein over Missing Man Bible
20 April 2018 JD
Update: In response to this denial, Mikey Weinstein is now demanding the POW/MIA table be piled with books of various other spiritualities. This is standard Weinstein fare (he's used it before) for trying to try to milk the "controversy" timeline and make the situation as annoying as possible in hopes he'll be placated. Meanwhile, who, precisely, is being "honored" by this?
As reported at the San Diego Tribune, the US Navy has rebuffed Michael "Mikey" Weinstein's attempt to have a POW/MIA display "investigated" because it contained a Bible:
In a letter dated April 17 and mailed to New York attorney Donald G. Rehkopf Jr., San Diego-based Rear Adm. Paul D. Pearigen said that "neither further review nor an investigation of this matter is necessary."
Initially, it appeared the Navy had asked "how high?" when Weinstein Read more
Civilian Marine Serves God, Country, Corps
The Marine Corps published an interesting article about José Rodriguez, a civilian who works for the Marine Corps Systems Command — and who is also an Episcopal Priest:
With encouragement and support from the command, Rodriguez brings that same passion to the Orlando community where he serves as an Episcopal priest at Iglesia Episcopal Jesús de Nazaret.
Although it is rare in the Episcopal Church for a priest to have two careers, Rodríguez chose to work at TRASYS because his job goes hand-in-hand with his mission as a priest.
It's an interesting example of a man integrating Read more
Mikey Weinstein Goes after Okinawa POW Bible. Again.
By now you've probably seen the reports saying Michael "Mikey" Weinstein filed a complaint (PDF, through his lawyer) about a Bible at a POW/MIA display at Okinawa, Japan. What these reports don't seem to convey is this is just Mikey being Mikey. Every couple of months he makes these kinds of complaints; they hit a high point every now and then, fade into the background later, and maybe catch peoples' attention again.
The POW/MIA display is a piggy bank for Weinstein. If his coffers get low, he can pull one of these from his files and try to get attention.
To prove the point, consider that the subject of this latest complaint at US Naval Hospital Okinawa is a POW/MIA table that is on permanent display. It's been there for years. Nothing Read more


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Six years ago today, the bodies of 1,138 garment factory workers were found amongst the rubble of what was once a commercial complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh known as The Rana Plaza Collapse. The tragedy, enabled by political corruption and fueled by corporate greed, is the deadliest garment factory collapse in history. In addition to the death toll, there was more than 2,500 workers injured, most of who were women and children.
For the first time ever, this tragedy-shed light into a very real global problem - that fashion can be deadly. In response to the disaster and the international conversation around the social impact, two designers from the UK, Carry Somers and Orsola de Castro, founded Fashion Revolution.
Fashion Revolution is a non-profit organization committed to enacting genuine change and encouraging transparency in the fashion industry. The organization has designated the anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh as Fashion Revolution Week where millions of people around the world call on brands to answer the question, "Who Made My Clothes," by using the #whomademyclothes via social media.
There has been progress made, but the same issues that caused the plaza collapse five years still exist today. Last year alone, there were 426 garment workers die in a total of 321 workplace incidents. We can't stop our work until people stop dying in factories, and on an even more basic level, start being treated fairly. Consumers may be more critical and brands more conscious, but a genuine long-term change means continual engagement in our efforts and in long-term systemic change.
Want to know more ways to get involved? From altering your buying habits to writing your policymaker, click the link below for a more comprehensive list of ways to support this organization and the movement towards a more transparent future in fashion.


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.. _i18n:

Internationalization
====================

As a platform intended for use around the world, Kolibri has a strong mandate for translation and internationalization. As such, it has been designed with technologies to enable this built in.

Writing localized strings
-------------------------

For strings in python files, we are using standard Django tools (``gettext`` and associated functions). See the `Django i18n documentation <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/i18n/>`__ for more information.

For strings in the frontend, we are using `Vue-Intl <https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-intl>`__, an in house port of `React-intl <https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-intl>`__. Strings are collected during the build process, and bundled into exported JSON files.

Messages will be discovered for any registered plugins and loaded into the page if that language is set as the Django language. All language setting for the frontend are based off the current Django language for the HTTP request.

.vue files
~~~~~~~~~~

Within Kolibri .vue components, messages are defined in the ``

.js files
~~~~~~~~~

In order to translate strings in Javascript source files, the namespace and messages are defined like this:

.. code-block:: javascript

  import { createTranslator } from 'kolibri.utils.i18n';
  const name = 'someModule';
  const messages = {
    helloWorld: 'Hello world',
  };
  const translator = createTranslator(name, messages);

Then messages are available from the ``$tr`` method on the translator object:

.. code-block:: javascript

  console.log(translator.$tr('helloWorld'));

ICU message syntax
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All frontend translations can be parameterized using `ICU message syntax <https://formatjs.io/guides/message-syntax/>`__. Additional documentation is `available on crowdin <https://support.crowdin.com/icu-message-syntax/>`__.

This syntax can be used to do things like inject variables, pluralize words, and localize numbers.

Dynamic values are passed into translation strings as named arguments in an object. For example:

.. code-block:: javascript

  export default {
    name: 'anothetComponent',
    mounted() {
      // outputs 'Henry read 2 stories'
      console.log(this.$tr('msg', {name: 'Henry', count: 2}));
    },
    $trs: {
      msg: '{name} read {count} {count, plural, one {story} other {stories}}',
    },
  };

.. _crowdin:

Crowdin workflow
----------------

We use the Crowdin platform to enable third parties to translate the strings in our application.

Note that you have to specify branch names for most commands.

.. note:: These notes are only for the Kolibri application. For translation of user documentation, please see the `kolibri-docs repository <https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri-docs/>`__.

.. note:: The Kolibri Crowdin workflow relies on the project having the "Duplicate strings" setting set to "Show – translators will translate each instance separately". If this is not set, the workflow will not function as expected!

Prerequisites
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

First, you'll need to have GNU ``gettext`` available on your path. You may be able to install it using your system's package manager.

.. note:: If you install ``gettext`` on Mac with Homebrew, you may need to add the binary to your path manually

Next, ensure you have an environment variable ``CROWDIN_API_KEY`` set to the Learning Equality organization `account API key <https://support.crowdin.com/api/api-integration-setup/>`__.

Finally, you'll need to install the Perseus Plugin (``kolibri_exercise_perseus_plugin`` Python package) in development mode. This is done by `checking out the repo <https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri-exercise-perseus-plugin#development-guide>`__ and then installing it to Kolibri by running:

.. code-block:: bash

  pip install -e [local_path_to_perseus_repo]

This will allow the scripts to properly upload sources and download translations from and to the Perseus plugin, which may then need to be released if any strings have changed or if new languages were added.

See the `Perseus plugin development guide <https://github.com/learningequality/kolibri-exercise-perseus-plugin#development-guide>`__ for more information on setup and publication.

When uploading or downloading strings, ensure that your Perseus repo is in a clean checkout state with the correct Perseus branch.

Extracting and uploading sources
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Typically, strings will be uploaded when a new release branch is cut from ``develop``, signifying the beginning of string freeze and the ``beta`` releases. (See :ref:`release_process`.)

Before translators can begin working on the strings in our application, they need to be uploaded to Crowdin. Translations are maintained in release branches on Crowdin in the `Crowdin kolibri project <http://crowdin.com/project/kolibri>`__.

.. warning:: You *must* have the Perseus plugin installed for development as described above, or not all strings will be extracted!

This command will extract front- and backend strings and upload them to Crowdin, and may take a while:

.. code-block:: bash

  make i18n-upload branch=[release-branch-name]

The branch name will typically look something like: ``release-v0.8.x``

Pre-translation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After running the ``i18n-upload`` command above, the newly created branch should have some percentage of strings in supported languages shown as both translated and approved. These strings are the *exact* matches from the previous release, meaning that both the string IDs and the English text is exactly the same.

At this point, it is often desirable to apply some form of pre-translation to the remaining strings using Crowdin's "translation memory" functionality. There are two ways to do this: with and without auto-approval.

To run pre-translation without auto-approval **(recommended)**:

.. code-block:: bash

  make i18n-pretranslate branch=[release-branch-name]

Or to run pre-translation with auto-approval:

.. code-block:: bash

  make i18n-pretranslate-approve-all branch=[release-branch-name]

.. warning:: The exact behavior of Crowdin's translation memory is not specified. Given some English phrase, it is not always possible to predict what suggested translation it will make. Therefore, auto-approval be used with caution.

Displaying stats
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Every release, we need to let translators for each language know how much work they will have to do. In order to see how many new strings and words are in a particular release, run:

.. code-block:: bash

  make i18n-stats branch=[release-branch-name]

This will give you some output like this:

.. code-block:: text

    Branch: develop-alpha

    New since last release:
    -------------  ---
    Total strings   67
    Total words    402
    -------------  ---

    Untranslated:
    Language                        Strings    Words
    ----------------------------  ---------  -------
    ** average, all languages **         49      370
    Arabic                               48      366
    Bengali                              47      370
    ...
    Yoruba                               50      375
    Zulu                                 49      367

This information can be provided to translators; it's also available on the Crowdin website.

Downloading translations to Kolibri
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As translators work on Crowdin, we will periodically retrieve the latest updates and commit them to Kolibri's codebase. In the process, we'll also update the custom fonts that are generated based on the translated application text.

First, you need to download source fonts from Google. In order to do this, run:

.. code-block:: bash

    make i18n-download-source-fonts

Next, we download the latest translations from Crowdin and rebuild a number of dependent files which will be checked in to git. Do this using the command below. **It can take a long time!**

.. code-block:: bash

    make i18n-update branch=[release-branch-name]

This will do a number of things for you:

* Rebuild the crowdin project (note that builds can only happen once every 30 minutes, as per the Crowdin API)
* Download and update all translations for the currently supported languages
* Run Django's ``compilemessages`` command
* Regenerate all font and css files
* Regenerate Intl JS files

Check in all the updated files to git and submit them in a PR to the release branch.

.. note:: Remember about Perseus! Check if files in that repo have changed too, and submit a separate PR. It will be necessary to release a new version and referencing it in Kolibri's ``base.txt`` requirements file.

.. _new_language:

Adding a newly supported language
---------------------------------

In order to add a new supported language to Kolibri, the appropriate language information object must be added to the array in ``kolibri/locale/supported_languages.json``.

.. warning::

  Always test a newly added language thoroughly because there are many things that can go wrong. At a minumum, ensure that you can run the development server, switch to the language, and navigate around the app (including Perseus exercises). Additionally, ensure that the fonts are `rendered with Noto <https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2013/09/DevTools-answers-What-font-is-that>`__.

The language must be described using the following keys, with everything in lower case

.. code-block:: javascript

  {
    "crowdin_code":   "[Code used to refer to the language on Crowdin]",
    "intl_code":      "[Lowercase code from Intl.js]",
    "language_name":  "[Language name in the target language]",
    "english_name":   "[Language name in English]",
    "default_font":   "[Name of the primary Noto font]"
  }

* For ``crowdin_code``, see `Crowdin language codes <https://support.crowdin.com/api/language-codes/>`__.
* For ``intl_code``, see `Supported Intl language codes <https://github.com/andyearnshaw/Intl.js/tree/master/locale-data/jsonp>`__ and make it lowercase.
* For ``language_name`` and ``english_name``, refer to the `ISO 639 codes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes>`__. If necessary, use `this backup reference <http://helpsharepointvision.nevron.com/Culture_Table.html>`__. If the language is a dialect specific to a region, include the name of the region in parentheses after the language name.
* For the ``default_font``, we use variants of Noto Sans. Search the `Noto database <https://www.google.com/get/noto/>`__ to see which font supports the language you are adding.

If the language doesn't exist in Django, you may get errors when trying to view the language. In this case it needs to be added to ``EXTRA_LANG_INFO`` in ``base.py``. Additionally, for this language to work during development, the django.mo files for the language must be generated and committed to the repo. After running ``make i18n-update`` as described above, add the new file:

.. code-block:: bash

  git add --force kolibri/locale/[lang_code]/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo

The ``--force`` flag will bypass .gitignore

Updating font files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We pin our font source files to a particular commit in the `Google Noto Fonts <https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/>`__ github repo.

Google occasionally adds new font files and updates existing ones based on feedback from the community. They're also in the process of converting older-style fonts to their "Phase III" fonts, which are better for us because they can be merged together.

In order to update the version of the repo that we're using to the latest HEAD, run:

.. code-block:: bash

  python build_tools/i18n/fonts.py update-font-manifest

You can also specify a particular git hash or tag:

.. code-block:: bash

  python build_tools/i18n/fonts.py update-font-manifest [commit hash]

Make sure to test re-generating font files after updating the sources.

.. note:: We attempt to download fonts from the repo. It is possible that the structure of this repo will change over time, and the download script might need to be updated after changing which version of the repo we're pinned to.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The first pre-transplant cross-matches were performed using complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and showed immediate clinical benefits. Current HLA antibody test methods rely on Luminex single antigen bead (SAB) technology allowing for the sensitive identification of multiple DSAs even in highly sensitized patients. However, the clinical relevance of the HLA antibodies identified by the Luminex platform remains ill defined. The addition of C1q detection to the Luminex assay allows for the identification of complement-fixing HLA antibodies. This manuscript describes details of this assay and compares data to normal Luminex results and CDC results. It also shows data from a small number of clinical cases where antibodies detected by C1q better correlated with clinical outcomes than antibodies normally detected by Luminex.


The Paint class holds the style and color information about how to draw geometries, text and bitmaps.
The members of Android.Graphics.Paint are listed below.
Create a new paint with default settings.
Create a new paint, initialized with the attributes in the specified paint parameter.
Create a new paint with the specified flags.
HintingOff PaintHinting (0). Font hinter option that disables font hinting.
HintingOn PaintHinting (1). Font hinter option that enables font hinting.
Alpha Int32. Helper to getColor() that just returns the color's alpha value.
AntiAlias Boolean. Helper for getFlags(), returning true if ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG bit is set AntiAliasing smooths out the edges of what is being drawn, but is has no impact on the interior of the shape.
Color Color. Return the paint's color.
ColorFilter ColorFilter. Get the paint's colorfilter (maybe be null).
Dither Boolean. Helper for getFlags(), returning true if DITHER_FLAG bit is set Dithering affects how colors that are higher precision than the device are down-sampled.
ElegantTextHeight Boolean. Get the elegant metrics flag.
FilterBitmap Boolean. Whether or not the bitmap filter is activated.
Flags PaintFlags. Return the paint's flags.
FontFeatureSettings String. Get font feature settings.
FontSpacing Single. Return the recommend line spacing based on the current typeface and text size.
Hinting PaintHinting. Return the paint's hinting mode.
LetterSpacing Single. Return the paint's letter-spacing for text.
MaskFilter MaskFilter. Get the paint's maskfilter object.
PathEffect PathEffect. Get the paint's patheffect object.
Rasterizer Rasterizer. Get the paint's rasterizer (or null).
Shader Shader. Get the paint's shader object.
StrokeCap Paint+Cap. Return the paint's Cap, controlling how the start and end of stroked lines and paths are treated.
StrokeJoin Paint+Join. Return the paint's stroke join type.
StrokeMiter Single. Return the paint's stroke miter value.
StrokeWidth Single. Return the width for stroking.
TextAlign Paint+Align. Return the paint's Align value for drawing text.
TextLocale Locale. Get the text Locale.
TextScaleX Single. Return the paint's horizontal scale factor for text.
TextSize Single. Return the paint's text size.
TextSkewX Single. Return the paint's horizontal skew factor for text.
Typeface Typeface. Get the paint's typeface object.
Xfermode Xfermode. Get the paint's xfermode object.
Return the distance above (negative) the baseline (ascent) based on the current typeface and text size.
Measure the text, stopping early if the measured width exceeds maxWidth.
Return the distance below (positive) the baseline (descent) based on the current typeface and text size.
Applies any/all effects (patheffect, stroking) to src, returning the result in dst.
Allocates a new FontMetrics object, and then calls getFontMetrics(fm) with it, returning the object.
Return the font's recommended interline spacing, given the Paint's settings for typeface, textSize, etc.
Return the font's interline spacing, given the Paint's settings for typeface, textSize, etc.
Return the paint's style, used for controlling how primitives' geometries are interpreted (except for drawBitmap, which always assumes FILL_STYLE).
Return in bounds (allocated by the caller) the smallest rectangle that encloses all of the characters, with an implied origin at (0,0).
Return the path (outline) for the specified text.
Return the advance widths for the characters in the string.
Return the width of the text.
Restores the paint to its default settings.
Copy the fields from src into this paint.
Set or clear the paint's colorfilter, returning the parameter.
Set or clear the maskfilter object.
Set or clear the patheffect object.
Set or clear the rasterizer object.
Set or clear the shader object.
This draws a shadow layer below the main layer, with the specified offset and color, and blur radius.
Set the paint's style, used for controlling how primitives' geometries are interpreted (except for drawBitmap, which always assumes Fill).
Set or clear the typeface object.
Set or clear the xfermode object.


BCPL land ownership can not exceed the 77,844 acre cap.
Land purchases must increase timber management efficiencies or improve public access.
Manage the land more efficiently.
Improve public access for hunting, fishing and recreation.
Increase value of School Trust lands.
Sold 15,462.06 acres and purchased 13,856.86 acres.
Increased productive timber base by a total of 19%.
Increased acres accessible to the public by nearly 18%.
This realignment has increased the value of School Trust Lands significantly. It has also greatly increased our ability to generate future timber revenues. BCPL now harvests about 33% more timber than before Land Bank due to a larger timber base and greater management efficiencies.
In 2009 the BCPL began the process of offering for sale its isolated, unproductive tracts to private parties by sealed bid. An independent appraisal of those lands is conducted prior to offering the parcels for sale. Criteria for evaluating potential land acquisitions include: the potential for good timber production, ownership of the parcel provides improved public access, and whether the parcel blocks well with existing Trust Lands, thus improving timber management efficiency.
All School Trust Lands are open to the public for hunting, fishing, trapping and other forms of public recreation. Some School Trust Lands, however, are surrounded by private property and we urge visitors to respect private property rights by requesting permission to cross private lands to access them. For information on how to access School Trust Lands, contact our Forest Supervisor.
To view a map of School Trust Land total acreage by county, click here.