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«No 5 : 31 December 1968»
Samizdat is a specific medium for exercising freedom of expression in our country. During the last few years samizdat has evolved from a predominant concern with poetry and fiction towards an ever greater emphasis on journalistic and documentary writing. This is particularly true of 1968.
In this year samizdat has not been enriched by a single major prose work [1], as it was in past years by such works as the novels of Solzhenitsyn, the memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, the collections of stories by Shalamov, and the novels by Chukovskaya, Maximov and others; during the year no literary miscellany such as Syntax or Phoenix has appeared. On the other hand the readers of samizdat (they are also its volunteer publishers) have received during the year a regular flow of documents, open letters, speeches, commentaries, articles, news items, etc. In other words samizdat, in addition to its role as a supplier of books, has begun to carry out the functions of a newspaper.
The following survey will probably not be a full one. Furthermore, the notes on some of the materials are too brief – but this is due to force of circumstances, and does not mean that they are of lesser importance. Consistency has not always been shown in deciding whether to include various materials of 1967 which were circulated mainly in 1968. The Chronicle feels, however, that the task of giving readers a survey of the samizdat now in circulation is so important that it does not wish to restrict itself by considerations of a formal bibliographical nature.
Kostyorin, Yesenin-Volpin, Marchenko, Sakharov
Materials on Czechoslovakia
1.1 Translations from Czechoslovak articles and documents
The first document to appear in this category was a speech made last year [1967] by Ludvik Vaculik at the 4th Congress of Czechoslovak Writers. This speech gave a detailed account of the workings of a totalitarian regime. Attacking an undemocratic regime based on the triumph of "mediocrities", Vaculik emphasized in the strongest terms that "in criticizing the State regime, I am not casting aspersions on the ideals of socialism, for I am not convinced that all that has happened in this country was inevitable and, furthermore, I do not identify the power in question with the idea of socialism …"
In the spring and summer of 1968, a great variety of materials from Czech and Slovak newspapers and periodicals was circulated. Among them were interviews with the widows of Slansky and Clementis [the communist leaders executed in 1952], and other materials about the trials of the 1950s; speeches by Dubcek, Smrkovsky, Cisar and other leaders of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Particularly important was the fact that samizdat made available the full text of the declaration known as "Two Thousand Words", which in the official Soviet press was described in a misleading way. Samizdat has also put into circulation an example of a truly free, non-totalitarian polemic: Joseph Smrkovsky's "One Thousand Words in Reply to Two Thousand Words".
The "Czechoslovak Spring" was interrupted by brute force at the end of the summer. There are several samizdat documents relating to the first days of the occupation: leaflets addressed to Soviet soldiers, and messages to the population. "On the third day of this treacherous aggression we are still free," begins a message from the historians of Prague to their fellow-citizens: "this brutal invasion has not brought our people to its knees'.
In the months since the Moscow Agreement [of 26 August 1968] only very few Czechoslovak materials, unfortunately, have come into circulation via samizdat. The most important of these was the speech by Joseph Smrkovsky on 29 August, in which the President of the Czechoslovak National Assembly said outright that "the country has suddenly been occupied by overwhelming military force". He admitted that the Czechoslovak leaders in Moscow had been forced to accept a tragic compromise which had been dictated, however, not by cowardice but by a feeling of responsibility towards the population of the country. "The talks and the decisions arrived at weigh heavily on our shoulders," Smrkovsky said in conclusion. "We are obliged to conduct this debate in the shadow of the tanks and aircraft that have occupied our country. The only way out of these difficulties is through the unity of the people and the government, through obedience to the call: 'we are with you, as you must be with us'."
Of the later documents one may mention the appeal of the Czech writers of 31 October and the "Ten Points" of the Students' Union of Bohemia and Moravia which formed the political basis of the student strike of 18-20 November. The Ten Points are an expression of complete support for the "action programme" of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; they condemn any return to press censorship and government by an inner caucus, and demand guarantees of civil rights and liberties.
1.2 Open letters and articles by a Soviet author
about the issue of Czechoslovakia
Before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, at the end of July 1968, when the Soviet press was conducting a particularly violent campaign against the democratization in Czechoslovakia and when the threat of intervention seemed more real than at any time before or after, there had already appeared two documents expressing sympathy for Czechoslovakia and indignation at the propaganda campaign: a letter to all members of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the whole Czechoslovak people [CCE 3.1] signed by five Communists, P. Grigorenko, A. Kostyorin, V. Pavlinchuk, S. Pisarev and I. Yakhimovich; and an open letter by Anatoly Marchenko [CCE 3.1] to the Czechoslovak newspapers Rude pravo, Prace and Literarni listy.
The sending of Soviet troops to Czechoslovakia under the guise of "fraternal help', unanimously approved in the pages of the Soviet press, met with various forms of protest from individual Soviet citizens. Among the samizdat reactions to these tragic events may be mentioned:
the letter of Ivan Yakhimovich;
"September 1969" by Valentin Komarov;
"The Logic of Tanks", an article by an anonymous author;
"An appeal to Communists" signed "Communist';
a letter by P. Grigorenko and A. Kostyorin; and also a letter to the Party's Central Committee from A. Kostyorin, resigning from a party "which has become the gendarme of Europe'.
All these documents, though differing in style and form, make the same points: (a) the intervention in Czechoslovakia is the result of a revival of Stalinism; (b) the real reason for it was a wish to suppress democratization, freedom and the rule of law, and to destroy a dangerous experiment in combining socialism with democracy; (c) the invasion was a moral defeat for the occupiers; (d) our people and intelligentsia are collectively responsible for what has happened, and all honest, thinking people in our country must unite.
Materials on the trial of Ginzburg, Galanskov,
Dobrovolsky and Lashkova
The main letters on this trial [CCE 1.2] were listed in the first issue of the Chronicle. Apart from these, there are samizdat versions of the speeches by the defence lawyers B. A. Zolotukhin and D. I. Kaminskaya, as well as of the final pleas of the defendants Alexander Ginzburg and Yury Galanskov, for whom they appeared. There is also the letter to the editors of Literaturnaya gazeta from Vadim Delaunay, in which he shows, from his knowledge of the preposterous evidence given by Dobrovolsky in the investigation of the case in which he (Delaunay) was implicated together with Bukovsky and Kushev, that the sentences in the [Galanskov] trial were based on false evidence by Dobrovolsky. Also circulating in samizdat are letters sent by various people to Larissa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov after their statement [about the Galanskov trial] – the best known of these is the letter signed by twenty-four school children.
Among the people listed in the second issue of the Chronicle as having been subjected to extra-judicial repressions were the schoolteachers Yury Aikhenvald and his wife Valeria Gerlina [CCE 2.1] who were dismissed from their jobs after signing one of the letters on the trial. Their dismissal was carried out in such a flagrantly illegal way that the school had to reinstate them after a court order. The record of a discussion of Gerlina's case at a trade union meeting at her school and in the education department of the local Soviet is circulating in samizdat. Apart from its purely documentary value, which derives mainly from the light it throws on how little the concept of legality means to the mass of educated people, this record is one of the few documentary works of the past year which can be read for literary pleasure as well as for the information it provides.
Materials about the forcible confinement
of Alexander Volpin and Natalya Gorbanevskaya
in psychiatric hospitals
This event was reported in the first issue of the Chronicle. The confinement of Volpin in a mental home [CCE 1.3, item 2] gave rise to a whole number of documents: the note which Alexander Volpin left for his wife when he was taken from his home; a record of his conversations with the doctors; his appeal to his friends; a letter from his wife, Victoria, to the Minister of Health, B. V. Petrovsky; a letter from 99 mathematicians in his defence; a note written by his wife and mother, about the conditions under which he was held in the hospital; the text of the order by which he was forcibly confined, and other materials.
The story of how Gorbanevskaya was sent to a mental hospital is told in her own account entitled "Free Medical Care".
Materials concerning
the 25 August demonstration on Red Square
The main letters connected with this [CCE 4.3] were listed in the Chronicle. In addition, there is now a letter addressed to the deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet and the RSFSR Supreme Soviet. The main point made in this letters that the sentences imposed on five of the demonstrators is an infringement of fundamental civil rights.
The letter was signed by 95 people, including the leading actor Igor Kvasha, the writer on church affairs A. Krasnov (Levitin), the Doctor of Biological Sciences A.A. Neifakh, the writer Victor Nekrasov, the historians Leonid Petrovsky and Pyotr Yakir, Doctor of Philology L. Pinsky, and the pianist M.V. Yudina.
Some of the most striking samizdat items of 1968 were the final pleas at their trial of Larissa Bogoraz, Pavel Litvinov, Vadim Delaunay, Vladimir Dremlyuga and Konstantin Babitsky, and the speech made in her own defence by Larissa Daniel [Bogoraz].
The case of the
demonstration on Pushkin Square of 22 January 1967
The documents on this case have been assembled by Pavel Litvinov. Included among them are verbatim records of the trial of Victor Khaustov and of that of Vladimir Bukovsky, Vadim Delaunay and Yevgeny Kushev. A number of other documents, which have been circulating in samizdat since the beginning of 1968, are reproduced in this collection. In the autumn it was also published [in Russian] in London, but unfortunately this edition – for some unaccountable reason – omits the letter of P.G. Grigorenko which forms the logical conclusion to the whole collection. [The letter is included in the English-language edition].
Andrei Sakharov's Reflections on Progress
[Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom]
The author of this study, an Academician and "Father of the H-Bomb", attempts an rigorous and objective approach to world problems. He shows that the world is threatened by a number of dangers: thermonuclear destruction, famine for half of mankind, uncontrolled changes in the environment, threats to intellectual freedom, the growth of racism and nationalism, and the emergence of dictatorial regimes.
In Sakharov's opinion the only solution is to be found in overcoming the divisions among humanity, attempts to bring the two economic systems closer to each other, an intellectually rigorous, objective and democratic approach to the formulation of domestic and foreign policy, intellectual freedom, aid to underdeveloped countries through a drastic reduction in military expenditure, and the observance of geo-hygiene. In line with these basic propositions Academician Sakharov makes concrete recommendations to the leaders of our countries.
Sakharov's study has evoked a response from members of Estonia's technical intelligentsia. In an article entitled "To Hope or to Act?" [2] they maintain that Sakharov "puts too much faith in scientific and technical means, in economic measures, in the goodwill of those who control society, and in people's common sense", and that "the root causes he sees and the remedies he advocates are external, material ones, while the inner, spiritual, political and organic ones are ignored'. The article says that what we need most of all is a moral revival of society, since, "having destroyed Christian values, the materialist ideology has not created new ones'. This has given rise to a society in which solidarity is an external, mechanical thing, and one which is actually based on socially alienated individuals who are fearful of their neighbours and feel insignificant and lonely before the state machine. New moral values are essential. The authors of the article demand not only intellectual freedom, but also political freedom, real democracy and a renunciation of the doctrine of militant, aggressive communism in foreign policy. The authors of the article conclude that the "leading minds of our society" should apply themselves to working out new social, political and economic ideals.
Appendix to Anatoly Marchenko's My Testimony
Marchenko's book, which gives an account of the life of Soviet political prisoners during the current decade, came into circulation in 1967. One can form a partial idea of it from the letter by Marchenko [CCE 2.6] included in the second issue of the Chronicle. This letter, together with a number of other documents, forms part of an appendix to the book compiled in the autumn of 1968, when Marchenko was sentenced for infringement of the identity-card regulations and sent to a strict-regime camp in the north of the Perm Region.
The appendix includes:
Marchenko's letter to A. Chakovsky, editor of Literaturnaya gazeta [the weekly "Literary Gazette"], in reply to a sentence about political prisoners being kept "at public expense" in the latter's "Reply to a Reader";
Marchenko's open letter to the President of the Soviet Red Cross [and Red Crescent Societies] and to a number of other officials about the situation of political prisoners; the reply to this letter from the Vice-President of the Soviet Red Cross Executive Committee, F. Zakharov;
Marchenko's open letter to the Czechoslovak newspapers;
a statement by eight friends of Marchenko concerning his arrest;
Larissa Bogoraz' letter, "On the arrest of Anatoly Marchenko"; and a statement by the same author in connection with the arrest of Irina Belogorodskaya.
Documents concerning Solzhenitsyn
These consist of: Venyamin Kaverin's letter to Konstantin Fedin; Solzhenitsyn's correspondence with the secretariat of the Union of Soviet Writers; and a record of the discussion in the secretariat of his novel Cancer Ward. For an account of these documents see the second issue of the Chronicle [CCE 2.5].
Two letters by Lydia Chukovskaya
The first letter, "Not an Execution, but Thoughts, Deeds", was written in connection with the 15th anniversary of Stalin's death and is about the threat of a revival of Stalinist methods of ideological repression.
The second letter, "The responsibility of a writer and the irresponsibility of Literaturnaya gazeta", is concerned with Solzhenitsyn, his readers and his critics.
A letter from P. Grigorenko to Yu.V. Andropov
An account of the author's "prophylactic chat" at the KGB.
Speech by Grigorenko at a dinner in honour
of the 72nd birthday of A.E. Kostyorin
This speech is about Alexei Kostyorin's life, the support which he has given to the cause of the Crimean Tatars, and the tasks which confront their movement. [3]
The Funeral of A.E. Kostyorin
The writer Alexei Yevgrafovich Kostyorin died on 10 November 1968. He was a member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1916, a former prisoner of Stalin's camps, and an active fighter for the rights of men and justice for small nations. He was buried on 14 November. Between 300 and 400 people were present at his funeral [4].
The samizdat booklet on this event consists of:
– a preface by the chief compiler [Pyotr Grigorenko];
– a description of the funeral ("Yet another mockery of sacred feelings") written by P.G. Grigorenko;
– an obituary written by a group of Kostyorin's friends and read out by Anatoly Yakobson at the morgue of the Botkin Hospital in Moscow;
– speeches at the morgue by Muarrem Martynov (Crimean Tatar poet), S. P. Pisarev (member of the Communist Party since 1920), Ablamit Borseitov (school-teacher) and [Reshat] Dzhemilev (engineer);
– speeches at the crematorium by Professor Refik Muzafarov (Doctor of Philology), and P. G. Grigorenko (Master of Military Sciences);
– speeches at the subsequent memorial meeting by Pyotr Yakir (historian), Khalid Oshayev (Chechen writer), Andrei Grigorenko (technician), Zampira Asanova (doctor), Leonid Petrovsky (historian), and an unknown man to whom the compilers of this collection of documents have given the pseudonym "a Christian".
Information bulletin, issued by representatives
of the Crimean Tatars in Moscow
As in past years, in 1968 these bulletins continued to describe the activities of the Crimean Tatars' representatives in Moscow, and to provide information about the persecution of individual members of the movement as well as about large-scale acts of repression (such as the events in Chirchik [Uzbekistan] on 21 April and in Moscow on 16-17 May). The Bulletins also contain various appeals by the Crimean Tatars' representatives [CCE 2.4] to cultural figures and to world public opinion. One of these appeals was reproduced in the second issue of the Chronicle.
Crimean Tatars on Trial
This anonymous pamphlet describes the tragic expulsion of the Tatars from the Crimea, the struggle they have waged for their rehabilitation and recent repressive court proceedings in which "every document containing information about the national movement … is regarded by the local authorities as being anti-Soviet, while peaceful demonstrations and meetings … are described as 'mass disorders'." The author of the pamphlet recalls the events in Chirchik, the police raids in Moscow and the Crimea, and the suppression of the national movement for justice for the Crimean Tatars.
Nikolai Alexandrov, "Our short memory"
A pamphlet about historical "forgetfulness", which is not only an insult to the memory of millions of innocent victims, but also a real threat to the future of our people.
Anatoly Krasnov, Christ and the Master, Stromati,
"The situation of the Russian Orthodox Church"; "Drops under the microscope"
Christ and the Master is an attempt to discuss several basic questions of Christian teaching through a literary and philosophical study of [Mikhail] Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. The thread of the argument is provided by the chapters in the novel about Christ. The book is written in a free, discursive manner with frequent digressions into the author's personal reminiscences and reflections.
The Greek word stromati literally means "carpet', but in the figurative sense of "miscellany" it was used by various ancient teachers of the Church as the title for their books. Written in the form of observations loosely tied together by the general theme of the part a Christian should play in society, Krasnov's book deals with such questions as the moral responsibility of a Christian to society, the role of the Church in the life of society, and the collaboration of Christians with people of different views in the solution of common moral and political tasks. The author gives a brief survey of the various political trends at the present time and states his attitude towards them. At the end of the book the author gives his political credo, which he defines as "democratic humanism', and calls on people of different persuasions to unite on this basis.
His letter on "The situation of the Russian Orthodox Church" is addressed to the Pope, and it gives an account, based mainly on the author's personal observations, of the attitude of different generations of Russians to religion and the Church, the way in which some young people are turning to the Church, and the relations between different faiths. He raises the need for an inner revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, and examines the difficulties in the way of this. The author speaks of the criticism which he and others have made of the Russian bishops, and contends that such criticism is both justified and necessary. The question of uniting the Western and Eastern Churches is also touched upon in this letter.
The article "A Drop under the Microscope" is about the difficulties which have arisen at the parish level in the Russian Orthodox Church as a result of a change in the parish administration. This change consisted of taking the administration of parish affairs out of the hands of the priest and transferring it to the council of twenty laymen headed by a church elder. The author shows that this reform is in conflict with canonical tradition, and he points out the practical consequences which it entails in conditions of constant interference by the authorities in the life of the church: infringement of the rights of the priest, unchecked power for the elder, who is appointed by the state authorities, etc. As an illustration, the example of the Nikolo-Kuznetskaya church [in Moscow] is described in detail. The author also treats the more general question of the way in which the Russian Orthodox Church has been denied its rights in the Soviet Union, and of the responsibility of the Church hierarchy itself for this state of affairs.
Two letters to the Pskov Priest, Father Sergei Zheludkov
In a letter to Pavel Litvinov, S. Zheludkov expresses his support for the appeal by Litvinov and Larissa Daniel, " To world public opinion" , and speaks of the aims shared by all " people of goodwill" irrespectively of how they define their views.
The "Letter on the Day of St Nicholas and Victory Day" (9 May 1968) is addressed to the heads of various [foreign] churches. It was written after reading Marchenko's book My Testimony. Referring to this book, the author of the letter speaks of the grievous situation of political prisoners in the USSR and calls on all Christians, and particularly their spiritual leaders, to speak up in their defence.
Archbishop Ermogen, Letters to the Patriarchate
"On the 15th anniversary of the re-establishment of the office of Patriarch
(notes on its historical, canonical and legal aspects)"
The first of the letters written by Archbishop Ermogen to the Patriarchate (in which he disputes the legal validity of his dismissal) was written in November 1967, and the second in February 1968.
In these letters he not only shows the illegality of his dismissal (brought about under pressure from the authorities as a reprisal for his staunch resistance to actions detrimental to the Church), but also attempts an analysis, from the point of view of both canon and secular law, of the whole question of relations between Church and State in the USSR.
There is an even more detailed study of this question in his article " On the fiftieth anniversary of the re-establishment of the office of Patriarch" (25 December 1967) which makes numerous references to the decisions of the Ecumenical and National Councils of the Orthodox Church (including the National Council of the Russian Church of 1917-18).
Open letter to the Kiev community
of Baptists and Evangelical Christians
This letter is the latest in a series of similar letters which appeared in 1967 and is in defence of the Baptist preacher G[eorgy] P. Vins who was arrested in 1967 and is being subjected to cruel treatment in a camp. The letter is signed by 176 members of the community in the name of four hundred Baptists and Evangelical Christians in Kiev.
B.V. Talantov, "Statement to the USSR Procurator-General"
This statement contains protests against the persecution to which the author, who lives in the city of Kirov [Volga District], is being subjected for his opposition to interference by the Soviet authorities in the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, and against the acquiescence in this interference by the church hierarchy.
G. Pomerants, "Three levels of being"; "Man of air"
The first article is about the roots of religious feeling in man. The author examines the various levels of being which arise with the awakening of different of the human psyche. The author concludes that there is an "amorphous" mystical sense of religion, which is outside the Church and is not limited to the dogmas and Holy Scriptures.
The second article is about the concept of "the people". The author concludes that the concept has no real content.
In 1968 there were three new collections of verse: Alexander Galich, Book of Songs, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, The Wooden Angel (verse of 1967), and Yuly Daniel, Verse of 1965-7. Apart from these there are, as usual, many individual poems circulating in samizdat – they include "Farewell to Bukovsky" by Vadim Delaunay, and several poems by unknown authors written under the impact of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Human Rights Year in the Soviet Union:
Four issues
No 1 : 30 April 1968
Description of the trial of Yury Galanskov, Alexander Ginzburg, Alexei Dobrovolsky and Vera Lashkova. A list of the main [Soviet] newspaper articles on the trial. A list of the main letters concerning the trial. Information about the first cases of reprisals against signatories of such letters. The appeal to the Presidium of the consultative meeting [conference] of Communist Parties in Budapest. Information about the trial of the members of the All-Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of the People. News in brief.
No 2 : 30 June 1968
Cases of extra-judicial political persecution in 1968. Appeal from the Crimean Tatars to world public opinion. Materials on Solzhenitsyn. Letter by Anatoly Marchenko about the situation of political prisoners, and the reply from the Soviet Red Cross. News in brief. Corrections and additions to Chronicle No 1.
No 3 : 30 August 1968
The shortest issue of the Chronicle, concerned almost entirely with events during the invasion of Czechoslovakia and those preceding but closely linked with it. There is information about the arrest of Anatoly Marchenko and his trial; about other arrests in Moscow and Leningrad; about various forms of protest against the occupation Czechoslovakia (including the demonstration on Red Square), and about the trial of Boguslavsky, a Leningrad resident.
Court proceedings in the case of the 25 August 1968 demonstration on Red Square. Exile for Babitsky, Bogoraz and Litvinov. Short commentary, the Soviet press on the trial, samzdat documents concerning the case. Information about some political prisoners condemned for "Betrayal of the Motherland" [Article 64]. A "new" method of conducting house searches. Supplement to the collection of materials on the Sinyavsky-Daniel the White Book). News in brief.
Posted in: Church & religion, Czechoslovakia, Sakharov & Solzhenitsyn, Samizdat update, The "Chronicle" about itself | Tagged: Bukovsky V.K.*, Crimean Tatars*, Czechoslovakia, Daniel Yu.*, Ginzburg A.*, Gorbanevskaya Natalya*, Grigorenko P.G.*, Kostyorin A.Ye.*, Litvinov P.*, Marchenko A.T.*, Samizdat update, Volpin A.S.*
A letter by Anatoly Marchenko, April 1968 (2.6)


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Pierre Grimange, a Parisian café-goer, sipped on a glass of Bordeaux and toasted his nation "for not being so dumb as the United States after all."
"A lot was at stake today: the future of our liberal traditions and our democracy itself," he said. "But by far the greatest loss of all would have been our right to look down on Americans."
"Grâce à Dieu, that has been secured!" Grimange exclaimed.
But, sitting a few tables away, Helene Commonceau, another Parisian, admitted that she did not understand what all of the celebrating was about. "We are smarter than the Americans, true, but they have set the bar very low, no?" she said.
From coast to coast, Trump voters expressed jubilation at being relieved of the burden of being insured in the event of catastrophic illness.
"Someday I'll be able to tell my kids that I met the President and taught him about history," one student said.


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Wisdom of the Authors: Bestselling Novelist Alice Hoffman on Her New Book "The World That We Knew"
Cynthia Ross Cravit | September 13th, 2019
Author Alice Hoffman. (Photo: Deborah Feingold)
Fearlessly exploring the world of good and evil, Alice Hoffman — bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites — focuses her lens on the Second World War, telling the story of a German Jewish mother's determination to save her twelve-year-old daughter, Lea, from the Nazi death camps in The World That We Knew.
Following Lea as she flees Berlin to France accompanied by a rare and mystical Jewish creature known as a golem, The World That We Knew is a tender yet heartbreaking journey of love, sacrifice and magic in a world that has gone dark.
In preparation for writing the novel, Hoffman spoke to a number of Holocaust survivors.
"I have always been writing about love, loss, and survivorship. I wanted to know how it was possible for people to survive the darkness of the Holocaust and still be loving, joyous people who valued life," Hoffman told Zoomer. "It was such an honour to interview child survivors who are now in their 80s and 90s. I was tremendously inspired by their courage."
The World That We Knew is available on Sept. 24 and can be ordered here.
We continue our Wisdom of the Authors author series by asking Hoffman for her thoughts on aging, inspiration, writing and finding happiness.
Wisdom of the Authors: Q&A With Alice Hoffman
1. What advice would you give your 25-year-old self?
Don't forget to have fun!
You still have time to write another novel. Or two.
3. What do you know for sure?
Books matter. And hopefully they always will.
4. What have you learned?
Everything you want takes work.
5. What will you never learn?
I'll never learn how to lie.
6. What was the best advice you've had?
Write what you can imagine.
7. Did it work?
Thirty books later- yes. It gave me the freedom to write outside of my life. And I do believe that if you can feel it you can write it
8. What inspires you?
Survivors.
9. The moment that changed everything?
When I walked into a library.
10. Happiness is…
A book, a dog, time.

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When it comes to race relations, a similar rule applies. Four hundred thousand civilians have been murdered in Darfur, but one death of a black man in Missouri allegedly due to white police brutality is infinitely more newsworthy. The national media are currently obsessed with Michael Brown's killing by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, just as they obsessed over Trayvon Martin's killing in Sanford, Florida.
Our media aren't in the news business. They're in the narrative business, and one of their favorite narratives is that America is deeply racist (something that electing a black president twice in no way disproves). In this liberal view, Ferguson is not atypical, but the rule. It's what white cops do to innocent black folks.
PBS set the table by suggesting "every town in this country" is Ferguson. If you think the media are interested in peacemaking, you're incredibly misguided. The media are like Al Sharpton. Journalists arrive on the scene to exploit racial tension and build it, not to relieve it. Their presence in Ferguson is intended to pour salt in the wound, and push for more protest and disorder, not less.
It's why Rush Limbaugh famously dubbed them the "drive-by media."
The endless hours of national media obsession in Ferguson far outweigh the attention to much deadlier black-on-black violence, like we've recently seen in Chicago. Take ABC, for example. Over a three-day span in April, 44 people were shot. The ABC morning show gave that 19 seconds. Over the July 4 weekend, there were 82 shootings. ABC gave that 11 seconds.
The Chicago Tribune reported the number of shooting victims between this year through August 14 is 1,254, more than half the number of shooting victims (2,185) reported for all of 2013. There were 89 homicides Chicago this summer, with 11 of those occurring in the first two weeks of August. ABC finds all this violence far too boring to notice. Blacks killing blacks is not important.
The Sharpton agenda and the media agenda are identical. As Andrea Mitchell replied ridiculously to Riley: "that is actually not his agenda, because he's actually there on a peace mission today."
We do not know if the cop was right to shoot Mr. Brown. The investigation should give us the answer. The news media have rendered their judgment. Ignorantly and maliciously.


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I was counting on a couple more weeks before the cold and snow hit but it didn't work out that way. The snow got me worrying about getting around and this 1986 GMC Jimmy 4x4 would work just fine.
An older jimmy would be cool too. The vehicles go quickly when you post them.


Today I would like to introduce a new breakout board to read temperature values from the most used sensors in the industry such as PT100 and PT1000 (well at least in France).
It's not the first time I want to measure sensors but one of the most used in industry are the PT100 and PT1000, and a friend of mine asked me several times to be able to easily measure temperature with these sensors.
I wanted this board to be small and efficient and the ability to measure all PT100 ot PT1000 sensors, the one with 2, 3 or 4 wires. So I added several on board jumper pad to select the different mode.
I wanted also to use an existing pinout, so I choosed the well known NRF24L01 one. Which is really (almost I think so) the most used on sensors boards. The connector is present on my boards design such as ArduiPi and ULPNode boards. But you can also find it on several Arduino boards, even if pining may be different.
You can use this breakout board with any embedded card such as Arduino (or ESP8266, Spark Core, Photon, OAK, …) . You just need to do some wiring if the NRF24L01 connector is not on the board. But it's just 8 wires, it should be straightforward with some dupont cable.
Here another picture of the final board, you can zoom in clicking on the picture.
Let get a look to the NRF24L01 connector. Picture below is the top view.
And now the MAX31865 breakout board, pretty the same.
So there are 8 pins, described as follow and this is the same pinout for the MAX31865 breakout board divided into 3 groups. in parenthesis I indicated the Arduino pin where it's generally connected to.
VCC/3V3 connected to 3.3V, do not connect it to 5V !!
If you want the demo sketches do works, you need to connect the pin according to the definition above.
Mainly you can have 2 values type of sensor, PT100 and PT1000 and for each 3 connections type, which are 2,3 or 4 wires.
Before the first use, you need to put some solder on the pad to select which type of sensor you want to connect on. Here are the different options that are present on the bottom of the board. You will find in the picture below how to setup the board.
The RED bullets represent on which pad you need to put solder to setup the configuration.
The Orange where you need to connect the sensors wires. Of course if you use terminal block and if they are soldered on board, you just need to put the wires into and fix them with the screw.
You will need the modified MAX31865 Arduino library to be able to test the board. The library can be found on my github here. If you want to connect an optional OLED display you will also need the u8glib library.
You can now upload the sample sketch named Full_Test_Serial.ino or Full_Test_Oled.ino if you connected an I2C Oled on you board and let your serial monitor to 115200kbps.
Full_Test_Serial.ino Jul 16 2015 17:10:10 2	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 1 status=00 => OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 2 status=00 => OK! Starting conversion...(in 62ms) Status:00 RTD:9255 Ohms => Temp:26.1 C Done! 4	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 1 status=00 => OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 2 status=00 => OK! Starting conversion...(in 62ms) Status:00 RTD:9256 Ohms => Temp:26.1 C Done! 22	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 1 status=20 => OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 2 status=08 => RTDIN- < 0.85x V_BIAS F- Open Done! 24	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 1 status=20 => OK! Checking manual fault detection Stage 2 status=08 => RTDIN- < 0.85x V_BIAS F- Open Done! 38	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...No communication, is breakout board plugged ? Done! 40	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...No communication, is breakout board plugged ?
2	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK!
Checking manual fault detection Stage 1 status=00 => OK!
Checking manual fault detection Stage 2 status=00 => OK!
4	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK!
22	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK!
Checking manual fault detection Stage 1 status=20 => OK!
24	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...Found OK!
38	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...No communication, is breakout board plugged ?
40	Checking MAX31865 SPI chip...No communication, is breakout board plugged ?
Want to get this breakout board ?


The first written records concerning the village of Bibury in England date back to the 11th century. The village owes its characteristic landscape to the architecture from the 17th century. Honey-colored stone was the basic material used to construct the buildings there. In the 1980's the Arlington Mill museum was founded – presently there is a private residence. The building of the local court that dates back to the first half of the 17th century is currently the largest edifice of Bibury. The village hosts the horse riding club which has operated since 1693 – today it is the oldest club of this kind in the world.


After teasing fans with clues via Facebook and Twitter yesterday, Panic! At The Disco have announced dates for their fall headlining tour. Supporting acts have yet to be announced. Pre-sale will be available to the band's fanclub starting Wednesday with general on sale beginning at the end of next week. Check out a message from the band and the full run of dates below.
Thanks for playing along with the shenanigans yesterday – if you were paying attention you've probably figured out that we're announcing a FALL TOUR today! We're very happy to say that we're going to visit 25 cities in the US that we haven't been to recently and are really excited to see you guys again. And for the rest of you overseas- no need to worry, we'll get to you all soon!
Northern Downpour members should keep an eye out for pre-sale starting on Wednesday, and general on sale will be at the end of the week!


Almost a year ago I stumbled upon a great bundle of software on the internet. A year later, I'm still using this software on a weekly basis and am bringing you a series of reviews on the software. The bundle I am reviewing, developed by LSoft Technologies Inc., is called Active@ Data Studio.
Active@ Data Studio is marketed as a collection of disk utility software, with "All Disk Tools in One Package!". This bundle is a composition of LSoft's core software, designed for a variety of disk utility purposes, thrown together and sold as a package.
Most of this software is self-explanatory in what it does, and as you can see, this package offers a wide range of uses, doing things on your computer that seemed impossible to do without a specialist.
Of the software included in this package, I must say that at the heart of this bundle are Active@ File/Partition Recovery, Active@ KillDisk, Active@ Boot Disk and Active@ Disk Image. These programs are what you're really paying for when you purchase this bundle.
I'll delve into more in-depth reviews on these programs later, but I must say that, a year later, I'm still using some of this software regularly.
In short, these programs can recover deleted files and data; completely wipe a disk from any data, without any possibility of recovery; create reliable backups of your computer and transform a USB into a bootable disk, from which you can start up your computer and do whatever you want from there.


This is a comic recapping an episode of the ABC's "Q&A". It appeared on Crikey that week. The panelists often play that show like it's a game, so the style made good sense to me. Takes ages to draw this stuff, though.
An illustration from a comic I did for issue 488 of Australian MAD (Nov. 2014) about how wonderful the Spring Racing Carnival is!
Kanye cleans some TMZ out of his gutters.
A panel from a comic I did for Australian MAD, issue 487 (Sep 2014).


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Q: Live float from serverside into javascript I'm currently stuck in a project.
I have this javascript graph, which updates the data every second. Thing is, I would that data to be the latest variable from my serverside, or the latest rows in a database.
My current code looks like this.
events: {
    load: function () {

        // set up the updating of the chart each second

        var series = this.series[0];
        setInterval(function () {

            var x = (new Date()).getTime(), // current time
            y = <%= serverVar%>
            series.addPoint([x, y], true, true);

        }, 1000);
    }
}

Or at least, the relevant part. This is where the graph updates every second. But even though y is set to a serverside variable, it does not get the latest?
What have I done wrong?
The serverside language is ASP.net (C#)

A: You can not access the server side variable in client. These server side variable are use only when html is generated before sending the response to client. You need to send ajax call to get the value from server side.
This is very good article to understand how you would send call to server side to fetch data. I think you will need to send sync call instead of async so that you do not need to wait for response in call back function. You can send sync call by setting async:false in jQuery ajax function
 $.ajax({
    url: "file.php",
    data: "a=" + id,
    type: "POST",
    async: false,

A: The server side variable gets rendered only once during the initial page load. Then every time your code executes at the interval it will find the same value and hence you are seeing the updates.
To fix this in the setInterval you make an ajax call and fetch the latest value there. Once you have latest value you can add it to the graphy using your logic.

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Q: Error when trying to install iRedMail I'm trying to install iRedMail mail server, but when I run the installation script, I get the following error message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  php5-common: Conflicts: php5-mhash
  php5-mhash: Depends: phpapi-20060613
              Depends: php5-common (= 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.5) but 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

I'm not really sure what this means. I've tried reinstalling php5-common but that doesn't make a difference.
The full log is below. Thankyou for any help with this,
Dan.

< INFO > Installing package(s): apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2.2-common libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-cli php5-imap php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-ldap php5-mhash php-pear postfix postfix-pcre awstats mysql-server-5.1 mysql-client-5.1 postfix-ldap slapd ldap-utils libnet-ldap-perl postfix-policyd dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d amavisd-new libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libmail-dkim-perl clamav-freshclam clamav-daemon spamassassin altermime libmail-spf-perl python-ldap libapache2-mod-wsgi python-mysqldb python-ldap python-jinja2 python-netifaces python-webpy python-ldap bzip2 acl patch cron tofrodos php-net-ldap2 phpldapadmin phpmyadmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apache2 is already the newest version.
apache2-mpm-prefork is already the newest version.
apache2-mpm-prefork set to manually installed.
apache2.2-common is already the newest version.
apache2.2-common set to manually installed.
libapache2-mod-php5 is already the newest version.
libapache2-mod-php5 set to manually installed.
php5-gd is already the newest version.
php5-gd set to manually installed.
php5-mcrypt is already the newest version.
php5-mcrypt set to manually installed.
php5-mysql is already the newest version.
mysql-server-5.1 is already the newest version.
mysql-server-5.1 set to manually installed.
mysql-client-5.1 is already the newest version.
mysql-client-5.1 set to manually installed.
bzip2 is already the newest version.
acl is already the newest version.
cron is already the newest version.
phpmyadmin is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  php5-common: Conflicts: php5-mhash
  php5-mhash: Depends: phpapi-20060613
              Depends: php5-common (= 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.5) but 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
< ERROR > Installation failed, please check the terminal output.

A: You should clean up your sources.list file. It seems that there are several package conflicts between PHP 5.2.6 and 5.3.2.
After you've removed the unofficial package source from your sources.list, run aptitude update and start the iRedmail installation script again.


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Why Sourav Ganguly is still an inspiration even after 12 years of his Retirement
by Rashmi Poddar July 16, 2020 July 27, 2021
Sourav Ganguly is considered as one of the most successful and inspirational captains in the modern cricket world. He is best remembered for his unique batting style and contribution made towards Indian cricket team in his 15 years career. He is not only one of the best overseas test captains but also a great leader and president of BCCI today who gives voice in Indian cricket. People look Sourav Ganguly as a great person, cricketer, fighter and an inspirational model who did not succumb in front of ruthless time that turned its course against him. This is the reason we assume Sourav Ganguly as an inspirational sportsman even after 12 years of his retirement.
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Sourav Ganguly early life
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly was born on 8th July 1972 in West Bengal Kolkata. He was the youngest son of his Mr Chandidas and mother Nirupa Ganguly. Sourav Ganguly father owned a flourishing print business and was among the rich personalities in the city. This is the reason Sourav Ganguly led a very lavish life king style in his childhood. He was nicknamed as 'Maharaja' meaning the king.
Football is one of the favourite games played in Kolkata which made Sourav Ganguly attracted towards it. Due to concern showed by his parents regarding his academics, Sourav Ganguly was initially not allowed to play football or cricket by his parents. However, his elder brother was an established cricket player in Bengal cricket team and hence Sourav Ganguly got great support from him to get enrolled in cricket coaching camp.
Do you know Sourav Ganguly is right-handed?
Very fewer people know that Sourav Ganguly is right-handed by birth but, he learnt to bat left-handed so that he could use his brother's sports equipment for practising. When he showed some great stunt in batting, Sourav Ganguly was enrolled in a cricket academy.
When Sourav Ganguly played the under-18 match against Orissa team, he scored a century and was made captain in St Xavier's School's cricket team. Whenever he was asked to tour with a junior team where he got 12th rank, he simply refused to participate as he believed more in playing rather than getting enlisted in cricket team for namesake only.
Sourav Ganguly unforgettable debut
In 1990-1991, Sourav Ganguly played for Ranji cup following which he scored three runs in ODI debut while he played for Indian cricket team against West Indies in 1992. Sourav Ganguly was dropped immediately by the association claiming that he was quite arrogant. The cricket association questioned his attitude and rumours were made that he carried drinks for his teammates. Though he commented that it was not true, he was removed from the Indian team.
He started playing domestic cricket and scored heavily in the early 1990s and Ranji seasons. He was again called to play with the National team after he scored 171 in one of the innings for the Duleep Trophy. He got to play in one single ODI but was removed from the team after the first test. Meanwhile, Navjot Singh Sidhu claimed being ill-treated by Mohammad Azharuddin which made Sourav Ganguly play his Test Debut in the second match against England. Sourav Ganguly scored a century though England won the match. Till date, the highest scores made by a debutant in ODI is 131 scored by Saurav Ganguly.
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Making of a Legend
Sourav Ganguly, also known as 'Prince of Kolkata' became one of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time despite his career showed bumpiness and several halts periodically. He became a good leader or the captain of his team where young players played and won every match. While critics claimed that he could not bear bouncers in the field, others praised his mastery in the field and called him 'God of the side'. Together with Sachin Tendulkar, he formed one of the best pairs in the history of ODI in cricket. However, he was again blamed for lack of athleticism and fitness to be a cricket player in a National team.
Sourav Ganguly secret marriage
Sourav Ganguly is married to his childhood flame Dona Roy. The couple got officially married on 21st February 1997 in Kolkata. Dona Roy is a classical trained Odissi Dancer who loves dancing. She started learning dancing when she was 3 years old. Just like her husband, Dona Ganguly belongs to a reputed Bengali business family. The Ganguly's and the Roy's lived nearby as neighbours and shared a common boundary wall. Needless to say, Sourav Ganguly and Dona Roy were attracted to each other. During their courtship period, Sourav Ganguly had said, "While playing football, while going somewhere. I could see her, maybe way too much."
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You will be amazed to know that the couple married twice in their lifetime! Well, this was disclosed six months before they got married officially in 1997. After Sourav Ganguly returned home playing against England as a debutant, he and Dona got their marriage registered in August 1996 following a mini-ceremony with their friends. The couple kept their marriage as a secret for six long months till a local newspaper got a hint of their secret marriage and ran a column in the front page.
This was the time when they revealed their love and marriage in front of their families and got married lavishly in February. Although the families of the couple were once great friends, we're facing disputes regarding business and property. But they were left with no choice and had to accept the marriage of their children.
Was Sourav Ganguly in relationship with Nagma?
News about Sourav Ganguly and Nagma started flashing over the media in 2001 as they were spotted together in a temple in Andhra Pradesh. Together they performed a ceremony that can be performed only by a married couple which made news and media flash their love story in the front page. This made Dona Ganguly consult a divorce lawyer too and get herself shifted to her parents' house next door with her one-year-old daughter Sana. Nagma and Sourav Ganguly met each other in London during the World Cup 1999. However, both of them denied having any relationship between them.
With the denial from both the parties and Sourav getting support from his family, the story behind him and Nagma faded with time. Later in 2003, Nagma consented in one interview that she had some connection with Sourav Ganguly but the couple separated for the better good and greater cause. She said, "There was a career at stake, besides other things, so one had to part. One had to weigh a lot of things, rather than be on an ego trip and insist on being together."
Sourav Ganguly and the Greg Chappell Saga
Everything was going good in Sourav Ganguly's life. He scored 10,000 runs in ODI and proved to be a great captain. In 2005, Indian cricket team was introduced to an Australian coach Greg Chappell. It is said that it was Sourav Ganguly who had backed him for the job as a coach of the cricket team. Though, his support turned out to be the biggest mistake in Sourav Ganguly life and career.
Many changes were made by the Australian coach, starting from the players till the batting sequence. Many players indeed complained that Greg Chappell tried to implement a divide and rule policy and wanted Sourav Ganguly to step down from captainship post. Things became worse in a few months and eventually, Sourav Ganguly lost his captaincy.
It was only after Sachin Tendulkar's issue stating that the coach is hurting the attitude of the players, Chappell decided to leave his post as the coach of the Indian team. On 12th December 2007, Sourav Ganguly made his maiden double entry while playing against Pakistan and scored 239 in the first innings. He became the fifth run-scorer in 2007 ODI scoring 1240 runs.
Sourav Ganguly retirement and IPL
After the fallout with the Australian coach, Sourav Ganguly made a splendid comeback in the test cricket. Though he retired shortly after playing international cricket in the year 2008 against Australia. Post-retirement, he played for his state team and also got selected for the Indian T20 league. Till 2010, he represented the franchise but was surprisingly omitted in the 2011 auctions as no one made a bid for him. Pune signed him in place of Ashish Nehra who got injured that time. The next year, he led his franchise in place of regular skipper Yuvraj Singh and he became the mentor of his team. Dada did commentary as well. On 29th October 2012, Sourav Ganguly announced that he will not play IPL from the next year and desired to take retirement from the game. In 2018, an autobiographical book was published on his life named, "A Century is Not Enough".
Sourav Ganguly administrative career
In 2015, Sourav Ganguly was appointed as the President of the Cricket Association of Bengal. In 2019 October, he became the President of the BCCI i.e. Board of Control for Cricket in India.
Amazing records made by Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Ganguly is one of the most successful Test Captain overseas and held the captaincy position for the longest time.
He captained more than 28 matches among which 11 matches were won by India. In 2019, his record has been broken by Virat Kohli, the present captain of the Indian cricket team.
He is the only cricketer to win the man of match award consecutively in 4 matches in ODI.
In the history of ODI's Sourav Ganguly is the world's eight and second in India to score highest run-score in ODI.
He was the fastest batsman in the ODI's to score 9,000 runs. Though, his record was broken by AB De Villers of South Africa in 2017.
He is among the 5 great cricketers to achieve the unique feat of scoring 100 catches, 100 wickets and 10,000 runs in ODI.
He is among the 9 cricketers in the world to score a century and take 4 wickets in one single match.
He is also among 12 cricketers to score a half-century and take 5 wickets in one match.
In the history, Sourav Ganguly is the first cricketer to score three centuries for ICC Championship Trophy.
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JTATE
Editorial: What We Learned About Technology and Teacher Education in 2018
Emily Baumgartner, Richard E. Ferdig, Kent State University, United States
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Volume 26, Number 4, 2018 ISSN 1059-7069 Publisher: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, Waynesville, NC USA
We include two main editorials each year in the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE). In the second issue of the year, we report quantitative and qualitative results of the review process of all manuscripts submitted the prior year (see Ferdig & Chenowith, 2017). In the fourth issue (this one), we look back at what we learned from published articles in the current year. The recap is not meant to supplant the value of reading and interpreting the articles individuals to gain full understanding and impact. Rather, it is to reflect on the broader categories of influence and to give JTATE readers a 30,000 foot perspective on recent publications. Both editorials are part of our continued efforts to increase communication between the editors, editorial review board members, international advisory board members, and current and potential JTATE authors.
Baumgartner, E. & Ferdig, R.E. (2018). Editorial: What We Learned About Technology and Teacher Education in 2018. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 26 (4), 509-517. Waynesville, NC USA: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. Retrieved January 21, 2022 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/207493/.
© 2018 Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education
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News has been coming out rapidly about the COVID-19 vaccinations. In this vaccine debrief, WSS breaks down everything you need to know.
Annie Schwartz, Online Copy Editor|December 17, 2020
It's been almost a year since the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. Although it seems like COVID-19 has been around for a millennium, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel, due to recent developments in the world of vaccines. It can be hard to keep up with the updates and news being thrown at you every hour, so here's your guide to the vaccine race.
The first thing you need to know is the process vaccines go through before they become available to the public. There are six stages in the development of a vaccine, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), these are the exploratory stage, pre-clinical stage, clinical development, regulatory review and approval, manufacturing and finally quality control. Many of these stages also have sub-stages. Clinical development, for example, has three phases. The process from an outbreak to research to a lab to testing to being approved to being distributed is a long one, usually taking around 10 years and $500 million.
Currently, there is only one vaccine you really need to know about. The vaccine was created jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11. CDC Director Rober Redfield also signed off on the vaccine allowing vaccinations to begin on Dec. 14. Among the first planned to receive the vaccine are health care workers, high ranking government officials such as President Donald Trump and long-time care facility residents. As the availability increases, more and more people will receive it. One important thing to note, however, is that if you're under the age of 16 you will not be eligible to receive the vaccine. There are three other vaccines currently in stage three (clinical trials). These include AstraZeneca's, Jansenn's and Moderna's. Moderna's vaccine is expected to be approved Friday, Dec. 18.
People have many concerns about receiving a vaccine that was created so quickly, however, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been tested on 44,000 people age 16 and older, and the FDA found "no specific safety concerns." There are some mild side effects, including pain at the injection site, a short fever and swelling, however, these side effects do not outweigh the benefit of receiving this vaccine. The UK began vaccinating this past week, and have only had two or three cases of a strong allergic reaction. It's important to note that in these cases the recipients had a history of reactions to vaccines. The FDA released a fact sheet, outlining how to use the vaccine, possible reactions, requirements and more if you'd are interested in seeing more in-depth information.
The question on most people's minds is: when can I get the vaccine? That depends on a couple of things. If you're under the age of 16, the answer is when you turn 16. Although the CDC has yet to release the groups in line after health care workers, long-term care residents and government officials, many states, including Iowa, have released their plan. After the first "tier" receives their vaccine, it's on to the next one.
This tier includes "people who play a key role in keeping essential functions of society running and cannot socially distance in the workplace," such as emergency and law enforcement officials and teachers. Also included in this tier are Iowans age 65 and up and high-risk adults. No further information has been released, but as vaccinations progress more information is predicted to be released.
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'Do you think Dan Biggar gives a f*** what people think!' Rhys Webb's staunch defence of under-fire Wales star
JJ Williams claimed Wales have no chance of winning the World Cup if Biggar starts at 10
Rhys Webb has defended Dan Biggar (Image: WALES NEWS SERVICE)
Rhys Webb has become the latest Welsh rugby player to launch a staunch defence of Dan Biggar in the wake of criticism from Wales legend JJ Williams.
Webb spoke out after Williams stood by his remarks on the Wales outside-half, insisting Warren Gatland's side had no chance of winning the World Cup if he started at 10.
That viewpoint has sparked a big reaction among some of Biggar's current and former team-mates, with Webb taking to social media to make his views clear.
Writing on Twitter, he said: "Dan Biggar is a world class 10. I know everyone is entitled to to their own opinions but do you really think he gives a f*** what people say? I know he'll do his taking on the pitch."
Webb's comments follow similar from Dragons outside-half Sam Davies who wrote: "What a stupid comment! He's done wonders in the Welsh jersey."
And Welsh hooker Scott Baldwin, speaking to WalesOnline added: "A lot of ex-players have opinions, and this isn't about JJ Williams, but a lot of players become better players when they retire.
"They forget that they made mistakes, they had bad games and they had off days.
"I'd just like to see them get behind the team. If we'd won last week, Wales would have been the best team in the world.
"Now we're saying that we're not going to win the World Cup because Gareth is injured and Dan's at 10. Come on now. That's a bit out there.
"It's a bit frustrating for me, not only as a friend, but as a player."
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Legend Williams ruffled feathers in an initial article in the Telegraph before doubling down on his view Jarrod Evans should now be picked ahead of Biggar in the wake of Gareth Anscombe's injury during an interview with the BBC.
He said: "If we start with Biggar, we will go back to where we were 12 months ago and we don't want that.
"You know what you're going to get with Biggar. He will take you so far, but you're not going to win the World Cup with him.
"He can come on for the last half-hour if needs be, but I'd give Jarrod a go. We tried to develop our game with Anscombe, but Jarrod must be the way forward."
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Q: Find Value in JSON using python I have json file contains :
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How can I return the only results for agent_id  394903921554
enter code here

{
    "agent_timeline": [{
            "agent_id": 394903921554,
            "engagement_count": 0,
            "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:00.000000Z",
            "status": "invisible",
            "duration": 901.929878
        },
        {
            "agent_id": 397330457313,
            "engagement_count": 0,
            "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:00.000000Z",
            "status": "invisible",
            "duration": 901.929878
        },
        {
            "agent_id": 401565578994,
            "engagement_count": 0,
            "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:00.000000Z",
            "status": "invisible",
            "duration": 4.664595
        },
        {
            "agent_id": 394903921554,
            "engagement_count": 0,
            "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:11.000000Z",
            "status": "online",
            "duration": 901.929878
        }
    ]
}

A: I assume in the file, the out-most bracket is square bracket ([]), otherwise it's not a valid json file.
You can read with:
import json
with open(FILENAME, "r") as f:
    r = json.load(f)

Then, you will get a list of json objects. From there you can just do a simple filter to get the info you want:
result = [x for x in r if x["agent_id"] == 394903921554]
result = result[0] if result else None

The last line will take care of the case when agent_id is not in the file.

A: Suppose that you assign the full json result to a variable named results then you can filter it simply as following.
filtered = filter(lambda x: x['agent_id'] == 394903921554, results)
for item in filtered:
    print(item)

This will give you a generator.

A: Assuming that structure is an array in the format of:
x = [
 {
    "agent_id": 394903921554,
    "engagement_count": 0,
    "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:00.000000Z",
    "status": "invisible",
    "duration": 901.929878
},
{
    "agent_id": 397330457313,
    "engagement_count": 0,
    "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:00.000000Z",
    "status": "invisible",
    "duration": 901.929878
},
{
    "agent_id": 401565578994,
    "engagement_count": 0,
    "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:00.000000Z",
    "status": "invisible",
    "duration": 4.664595
},
{
    "agent_id": 394903921554,
    "engagement_count": 0,
    "start_time": "2020-06-15T06:00:11.000000Z",
    "status": "online",
    "duration": 901.929878
    }
 ]

You could do the following:
[item for item in x if item['agent_id'] == 394903921554]

A: Try this:
import json

# load json from file, and covert to a Python object, in this case, a list of dictionaries
with open('my_file.json') as fp:
  lst = json.load(fp)

# use built-in filter() method to filter the list
matches = filter(lambda o: o["agent_id"] == 394903921554, lst)

# grab your dictionary
obj = next(matches)

Note that your text is not a valid json - assuming it is a list, it should be surrounded by '[]'


Posted May 4, 2016 by Tyler J. Smith & filed under Success Stories.
Tyler Smith successfully prosecuted an appeal before the Maine Law Court, State v. Pinkham, 2016 ME 59, resulting in the Court vacating three convictions for Aggravated Trafficking in Scheduled Drugs (Heroin).
Maine's drug trafficking laws provide that one way that someone can "traffick" in scheduled drugs is by possessing 2 grams or more of heroin, even without evidence of intent to sell. Similarly, a person is guilty of Aggravated Trafficking when he or she trafficks in 6 grams or more of heroin. The question on appeal was whether the State can include the weight of the cut—i.e., the substances with which the pure heroin is mixed—when calculating the amount of total "heroin" in a person's possession.
The Law Court agreed with Attorney Smith that the word "heroin," as used in the drug trafficking laws, means the actual heroin itself. The Law Court also agreed the evidence offered during the trial was insufficient to prove that the client possessed 6 or more grams of heroin, since the only evidence at trial was that the client possessed 6 or more grams of a mixture containing heroin, not the weight of the actual heroin allegedly in the client's possession.
As a result of Attorney Smith's success, the client's fourteen year sentence was vacated, and the case has been sent back to the Maine Superior Court for further proceedings.


Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. It's been 53 years since the assassination. Since that fateful November day, conspiracy theories have abounded. However, when we sift through the disinformation and look at only verifiable facts, we find no need for theories — as the conspiracy was a fact.
In 2015, while the world debated the Kardashians and Miss Universe, the CIA quietly declassified a report showing that former CIA director John McCone was complicit in withholding information regarding the assassination– a de facto conspiracy.
As Politico noted, according to the report by CIA historian David Robarge, McCone, who died in 1991, was at the heart of a "benign cover-up" at the spy agency, intended to keep the commission focused on "what the Agency believed at the time was the 'best truth'—that Lee Harvey Oswald, for as yet undetermined motives, had acted alone in killing John Kennedy." The most important information that McCone withheld from the commission in its 1964 investigation, the report found, was the existence, for years, of CIA plots to assassinate Castro, some of which put the CIA in cahoots with the Mafia. Without this information, the commission never even knew to ask the question of whether Oswald had accomplices in Cuba or elsewhere who wanted Kennedy dead in retaliation for the Castro plots.
"If the commission did not know to ask about covert operations about Cuba, he was not going to give them any suggestions about where to look," the CIA report notes.
While the report may be referred to as 'benign' by the CIA as an attempt to downplay its significance, it was a cover-up nonetheless — a cover-up that halted any further investigation into Oswald and his potential ties to Cuba and any of his possible connections or accomplices.
McCone's conspiracy effectively rendered any further investigation into Oswald impotent as he directed the CIA to only provide "passive, reactive and selective" assistance to the Warren Commission. In fact, the report notes that McCone attempted and was successful at steering the direction of the investigation into his sole control.
Initially stamped "SECRET/NOFORN," meaning it was not to be shared outside the agency or with foreign governments, the report makes no mention as to why McCone was motivated to go to such great lengths to cover up this information. However, it does suggest that the White House may have directed him to hide it.
Outside of the bombshell admission of a CIA cover-up, the report also admits that the CIA was actually in communication with Oswald before the assassination, and the spy agency had been secretly monitoring his mail.
As the corporate media remembers JFK, you can rest assured that they will most certainly avoid any mention of this report. While it is certainly not the holy grail, it does add credence to the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans do not believe the official government story — as they have every reason not to trust a word the CIA says.


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Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. In an attempt to ward off a potential attack from the U.S., Iraq has increased diplomatic activity in the Mideast.
Baghdad—After 12 years of devastating economic sanctions and regular U.S. bombings, Iraqis have become accustomed to history repeating itself through successive U.S. administrations. With "little Bush," as Iraqis call the current U.S. president, threatening to change the regime in Baghdad, people are again bracing themselves for war.
Baghdad TV has been broadcasting videos of Iraqi special forces training for a U.S. invasion, and the chant "Down, down Bush" (originally aimed at Bush's father during the Gulf War) is making a comeback in Iraqi cities and villages.
For many here, the question isn't whether Bush will attack, but rather when and under what pretext. Late last month, the United Nations announced that a new round of talks with Iraqi officials, aimed at returning U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq, will be held in Vienna in early July. As with the U.S. bombing in December 1998, all signals point to the inspections issue as a possible breaking point for war.
In an interview at his office in Baghdad, Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister and a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, Iraq's central decision-making body, told In These Times that the Bush administration may seek to use the inspectors "to prepare the ground for a military attack."
"Iraq is not producing any weapons of mass destruction," Aziz insists. "All the pretexts which are being used against Iraq and its leadership are false pretexts. The issue is oil; the issue is to impose American imperialistic control over Iraq."
Aziz says the Vienna talks will not be helpful unless weapons inspectors return as part of a comprehensive U.N. plan to end Iraq's isolation. "The inspectors stayed in Iraq for around eight years," he says, "and they did not report honestly to the Security Council that their mission had been accomplished. If they return and go back to the previous vicious circle, that's not going to solve any problems for the people of Iraq."
Officials in Baghdad want a clear timeline for U.N. inspectors to verify that Iraq is complying with Security Council resolutions. They say inspectors will be permitted to enter the country only if the process produces a specific road map for lifting economic sanctions. But the Bush administration, like Clinton's before it, says bluntly that this will not happen as long as Saddam Hussein is in power. Asked if he believed sanctions would ever be lifted with Saddam in power, Aziz says, "I don't have illusions about the policies of the United States."
The sanctions were first imposed in 1990 to force Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait. Following the Gulf War, they were amended to require certified destruction of Iraq's non-conventional weapons. After repeated crises over the issue of weapons inspections, key officials during the Clinton administration, including the president himself, consistently undermined U.N. negotiations with Iraq by insisting on "regime change" as another precondition for lifting sanctions. This policy has been codified under the current Bush administration.
But despite the hostilities emanating from Washington, Iraq's actions are giving ordinary people here some hope that war could be averted. In recent months, when U.S. officials like Vice President Dick Cheney toured the region to drum up support for attacks against Iraq, Baghdad dispatched its own diplomats to each capital in advance to shore up opposition.
The stepped-up diplomacy occurs at the same time that Iraq has resumed trade with several countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon. At least publicly, there is almost no support in the region for a new U.S. war against Iraq.
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For the past 12 years, most ordinary Iraqis have subsisted in utter misery, trapped between a repressive regime and devastating sanctions. Many Iraqis live in fear of the government. Saddam's name is almost never uttered in any context on the streets, or in the souks and taxis.
Still, people here universally view Washington as their main oppressor. They live with the stark reality that the source of their misery—the sanctions—feeds and nurtures the power of a repressive government over which they have no control. Conservative estimates, drawn from U.N. data, conclude that more than a quarter of a million children under the age of five have died as a direct result of the sanctions. Other estimates put the number much higher.
More than a decade after Washington's "triumph" in the Gulf War, "little" Bush is resurrecting his father's unfulfilled promise to bring down Saddam. Iraqis are not alone in the Arab world when they ask, at what cost? "Has [Bush] thought of how many innocent Iraqis will have to die, how many cities will have to be razed to the ground, how many American troops will lose their lives?" asks Baghdad political scientist Jasim Z'boon. "Will he think of this before he sets off to 'save' us?"
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