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Posted by Robert Bicket on December 30, 2011
The Film You Are About To See Today is an Homage to the "No Reason"
Fabio strikes again! Today at work, Fabio was struck by satanic intervention and remembered a movie that he wanted to force me to watch. All I knew about the movie ahead of time is that it had a tire on it's cover. He knew a little bit more, knowing that it was about a killer tire. Neither of us knew what he would be getting me into. But, it was available on Netflix streaming, and he did suggest it, so I watched it. Today's review will be for a movie called Rubber, written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, and starring Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Robert the tire, Roxane Mesquida, David Bowe, Remy Thorne, Wings Hauser, Ethan Cohn, and Charley Koontz.
What you are about to read is not a joke. Well, it may be a joke, but it was over my head. What I mean is I am actually telling you the story of this movie with no embellishment, but I will also spoil it. Lieutenant Chad (Stephen Spinella) pulls up to the camera and delivers a speech about how things in movies don't make sense. He then drives away leaving an accountant (Jack Plotnick) to hand out binoculars to a group of people including a man in a wheelchair (Wings Hauser) and two movie fans (Ethan Cohn and Charley Koontz). The group of people turn their attention to the distance, and we join them in watching a tire (Robert, not a joke) stand up on it's own and roll around, falling down occasionally as it learns to … walk? It also seems to be a bit sadistic as it rolls over a plastic bottle and a scorpion for no reason. When it finds it can't crush a glass bottle, it discovers that it can cause things to explode by vibrating. It then sets out looking for adventure. It comes across a girl named Sheila (Roxane Mesquida) and follows her to a hotel, where it starts watching TV. In the morning, it kills the cleaning lady (Tara Jean O'Brien). This brings Lieutenant Chad back into the picture to investigate. A young boy (Remy Thorne) saw the tire move by itself, but his dad (David Bowe) won't hear any of it. Back at the spectators, the accountant brings them a turkey after they've been out there for two days, but it's been poisoned and they all die. All but the man in the wheelchair. He didn't eat. Lieutenant Chad thinks the movie should be over because the spectators are dead, but the accountant tells him that one is still alive, so the movie must continue. The tire continues on it's killing spree as the accountant tries to get the man in the wheelchair to eat some poisoned food, but he won't. The accountant gets to watching the tire and forgets about the food, eating some himself and dying. Eventually, and with the help of Sheila, Lieutenant Chad lures the tire out of a house it was in. The man in the wheelchair interrupts, telling them that their ending could be better. Lieutenant Chad gets annoyed, goes inside, and kills the tire with a shotgun. He then tosses the tire at the man in the wheelchair and says "The End". OR IS IT?! Nope. The tire is reincarnated as a tricycle and kills the man in the wheelchair, then it starts going to Hollywood, collecting more tires on the way, leading to the inevitable Rise of the Planet of the Tires sequel.
I am so fucking serious right now when I say every word of that (even the fact that the tire apparently shares my name, or so the credits say) was the truth. That is what I just watched. Even stranger than that is the fact that the movie was not horrible, but was super far away from good. This movie has a few things in common with Thankskilling (which you may have read my earlier review for), but differs in that it looked good, had some interesting effects, and one or two laughs. But, having anything in common with Thankskilling is not a compliment. The idea of the movie was interesting enough for a little bit. They were very up front with how ridiculous the concept of their movie was, but opening the movie talking about much better movies that just didn't answer EVERY question that could be asked about it does not give you license to make your movie completely nonsensical. Yeah, one of the Texas Chainsaw Massacres chose not to show the characters using the restroom or washing their hands, but your movie was about a tire that killed people for an audience. It was kind of novel in the beginning that we were like one of the spectators watching this movie, so it kind of broke the fourth wall. But then it kept doing it over and over again so that it more broke the fourth wall, kicked it in the dick, and peed on it. I think I was already finding it annoying about 20 minutes in. Also, it seemed as if they came up with the idea for the murderous tire, but then immediately realized it was lame, so they bookended it with a group of hipsters talking about how lame it was. But here's the thing: it was lame, and you still made it. Adding those people in there is just tedious and more lame. It's vaguely clever, but it's just not very good. I really have no interest in watching a tire watch TV for 10 minutes. But, this movie did a couple things well. It looked good, for instance. I feel like anybody should be able to make a pretty good looking movie nowadays as you can walk into a Best Buy and purchase an HD camcorder without breaking the bank. But the effects were also pretty good. The creatures exploding were somewhat realistic, and I found myself watching and paying particular attention to try to figure out how they made the tire and the tricycle move by themselves. I assume some sort of animatronic was involved. Also, the music in some parts seemed to either really want to annoy me, or like it was rejected from a Zelda game.
The performances were okay, but nothing really special. Stephen Spinella did a decent job playing a straight cop and then turning into a person who knew what was going on and wasn't taking the movie seriously, then getting annoyed that he had to keep going. Jack Plotnick was decent as the fidgety accountant, but it's also the character I'd already seen him play in Reno 911. Wings Hauser didn't have to do a lot of legwork as the guy in a wheelchair (yeah, thems a good pun right there), but he performed adequately. Everyone performed pretty adequately. Roxane Mesquida didn't seem to speak English very well though.
This is a movie I can recommend you skip. It's pretty ridiculous, slightly clever, but just not very good. It looks decent, and the performances aren't bad, but there's just no reason to sit through an hour and a half of this movie. It seemed like they were trying to talk me out of watching their movie for the bulk of the movie, and that being the case, I recommend you take their advice. Even though you can stream it on Netflix, you can also stream something else and use your time better. Rubber gets "The way I look at it, this scene makes no sense at all" out of "Hey wait. It's not the end. He's been reincarnated as a tricycle."
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I can not believe that my four months college holidays has now come to an end, heading back to study for my last year and after 5 years I just want it to be over. Trying to get organised by working every minute of this last week was not made easy by my wi-fi modem deciding to die and Telstra being their normal less than helpful selves. So for the weekend I have been residing at Michaels in refuge to use his internet to do the basics. I will be looking out like a crazy person for my new one to be delivered tomorrow.
As everyone is well aware it has switched over to Autumn here in Australia which means the start of layering. It's time to whip out the light knits, and throw basics under everything strappy. A must for this is a high neck on the basic and daintier straps on the throw over piece. In this case my choices were a top by Three of Something and strappy number by Lola vs Harper. Something else that I have been layering is dainty jewellery - this week it has been all about brands 32.4 & Louise Jean. I will be posting up a delicate stacking post in the coming weeks.


Returning to her condo, Orihime is composing some housekeeping guidelines for Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto and Captain Tōshirō Hitsugaya. On her wrist is an arm jewelery given to her by Ulquiorra Cifer that makes her noticeable just to Arrancar, also has conceding her elusiveness. Furthermore, Ulquiorra has given her 12 hours to say farewell to one and only individual, inasmuch as that individual does not sense her vicinity. At Kisuke Uraharas underground preparing zone, third Seat Ikkaku Madarame and fifth Seat Yumichika Ayasegawa are being gauzed up for their injuries while Hitsugaya watches over them. Seeing that Urahara has been somewhere down in thought since the time that the Arrancar departed, Hitsugaya considers that they were so fortunate to get out with just this much harm against every one of those Espada. He realizes that the Arrancar arrangements are now finished, so they need to hustle with their own particular arrangements. Be that as it may, they are experiencing difficulty reaching Soul Society.
Inoue, in the interim, is strolling through the roads when she coincidentally finds somebody, yet that individual cant see her. She then notification that she has no appearance in a store window and that she can pass her hand directly through it. As yet contemplating who she is going to say farewell to, Inoue heads to class and gazes at Ichigos work area. When she hears a few understudies coming, she covers up in the front of the room, however incidentally thumps over Ichigos seat simultaneously. The two understudies end up being Mizuiro Kojima and Keigo Asano, and seeing the thumped over seat, they begin discussing how Inoue, Yasutora Sado, and Rukia Kuchiki have all been missing. At the point when Keigo believes that he and Mizuiro have been let alone for something, Mizuiro proposes that they are most likely by all account not the only ones and refers to Tatsuki Arisawa as well. This causes Inoue to begin pondering her recollections with Tatsuki, and she sees Tatsuki strolling with the karate club a brief time later. Tatsuki faculties something when a soccer ball gets kicked towards Inoue and goes through her head, yet Tatsuki escapes by her club before it is possible that she or Inoue can act.
Later that night, Rukia is experiencing difficulty reaching Inoue, who despite everything she supposes is in Soul Society. Rukia is in Ichigos room viewing over him as he rests after Hachigen Ushōda had recuperated him. Rukia is left pondering who the Visored are, what power Ichigo is attempting to get, and why the Arrancar all of a sudden withdrew. She contemplates going to Inoues loft when she hears Yuzu Kurosaki and Karin Kurosaki outside the room, and she finds that the two have brought supper. In the wake of eating, Rukia washes her plate and has a brief visit with Ichigos father, Isshin Kurosaki, who conceives that Ichigo got beat up by understudies from another school. She then leaves for Inoues loft, yet unbeknownst to her, Inoue touches base at Ichigos house before long. Utilizing her wristbands energy to go through his window, Inoue goes into Ichigos room and tells the as yet dozing him that shes come to say farewell despite the fact that there are a considerable measure of other individuals she needs to say farewell to as well.
Noticing Ichigos sisters thinking about the floor close to his bed with the filthy dishes adjacent to them, Inoue surmises that they needed to eat with him in his room after he had been away for so long, and this makes her understand this is the first occasion when shes go to his room without anyone else. With Ichigos notice surrounding her, Inoue twists down and tries to kiss him, yet she stops simply short and begins crying rather, not able to do it. Stepping back, Inoue concedes that she had a ton of things she needed to do, including turning into an instructor, turning into a space traveler, running her own cake shop, setting off to the donut shop to arrange everything, and heading off to the frozen yogurt shop to arrange everything. She considers how decent it would be to carry on with her life five times over so she could be conceived in five better places, eat five distinct things, and have five unique occupations. For every one of the five times however, she feels that she would go gaga for the same individual. Inoue then expresses gratitude toward Ichigo and says goodbye to him. Back in her own room, on the scratch pad she had been writing in before, Inoue had closed down with the words Farewell. Halcyon days.
This Episode is licensed and distribute by Crunchyroll. you may visit the website here Returning to her condo, Orihime is composing some housekeeping guidelines for Lieutenant Rangiku Matsumoto and Captain Tōshirō Hitsugaya. On her wrist is an arm jewelery given to her by Ulquiorra Cifer that makes her noticeable just to Arrancar, also has conceding her elusiveness. Furthermore, Ulquiorra has given her 12 hours to say farewell to one and only individual, inasmuch as that individual does not sense her vicinity. At Kisuke Uraharas underground preparing zone, third Seat Ikkaku Madarame and fifth Seat Yumichika Ayasegawa are being gauzed up for their injuries while Hitsugaya watches over them. Seeing that Urahara has been somewhere down in thought since the time that the Arrancar departed, Hitsugaya considers that they were so fortunate to get out with just this much harm against every one of those Espada. He realizes that the Arrancar arrangements are now finished, so they... more..


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not exactly torture…….well actually if done the way they do it sawing back and forth across the throat………yep torture before you die.
Ask any of the guys that have been released from gitmo if they would like to trade places. I bet they all say no for sure.
I understand that we are supposed to be the civil ones here. But heck all is fair in love and war right??


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Published: May 31, 2018 at 8:18 a.m.
If you're short on cash and bills are piling up, a payday loan may be a solution.
That's how Cash Money promotes its outlets online, but a financial adviser says there are better fixes.
"They serve a small value but overall I can't support payday loans," said John Eisner, president of Credit Counselling Services of Atlantic Canada.
There are 42 payday loan outlets in Nova Scotia, including 22 Money Marts. The Cash Money Cheque Cashing Inc. storefront on Chebucto Road at the Armdale Rotary in Halifax is one of a chain of five in the province.
The Chebucto Road lender sports signs reading "Cheque cashing, Payday advance." Another sign offers potential customers a $300 loan for $20, on a first loan only.
Still another sign promises "simple, fast, friendly cash money." And the outlet is open seven days a week.
But on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, business is far from brisk. Only two customers emerge over a 20-minute period.
She didn't want to give her name and the man who accompanied her had nothing to say, as if they were embarrassed by the transaction.
The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board will hold a hearing in September about the payday loan industry to discuss, among other issues, placing restrictions on concurrent and repeat loans.
Halifax lawyer David Roberts is the Nova Scotia consumer advocate and he will make a presentation to the UARB. He said recurring loans and the possibility of reducing the maximum cost of borrowing permitted, which is now set at $22 per $100 loaned, will be on his agenda.
Roberts said he would like to see that maximum cost number dropped to $15 per $100, as is the case in New Brunswick.
In preparation for the board hearing, Roberts commissioned a report from Michael Gardner of Gardner Pinfold Consultants in Halifax.
• 29 per cent reported only taking one loan in the past three years.
The total number of loans granted in Nova Scotia in 2017 was 209,000, 117,896 of which were repeat loans.
A loan payment is usually taken from the borrower's account or from a post-dated cheque. When a non-sufficient funds charge is applied to a loan payment, Nova Scotia allows charges of up to $40. The estimated cost of NSF charges to provincial borrowers increased from $13,304 to $16,020 from 2013 to 2017.
"While payday loan regulations in Nova Scotia prohibit the granting or acquisition of rollover loans, there is no system of tracking that would identify a borrower who acquires a loan from one lender to pay the loan held by a different lender," Gardner's report says.
Federal regulations prohibit the charge of more than 60 per cent interest on payday loans, but Eisner suspects with all the fees attached, interest often exceeds 60 per cent.
Eisner said personal lines of credit and other bank loans are much more affordable than payday loans.
Eisner said some people never learn how to manage money.
And if we learn to take expensive loans, the repercussions can be lasting, he said.


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The Commission on Investing in Health
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New Study on Feasibility of Sustainable Development Goal for Health
The stark disparities that exist in health today across countries and communities can be greatly reduced, creating more equal opportunities for survival and well-being everywhere, say the authors of a new study published in PLOS ONE (October 9).
At the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting last month, the UN adopted a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which includes one goal for health (SDG 3). The health goal includes a set of targets to be achieved by 2030, such as reducing the global maternal mortality ratio by two thirds (from 210 to 70 per 100,000 live births) and reducing the child mortality rate in all countries to 25 per 1000 live births or below.
How feasible are these targets? Colin Boyle, deputy director of Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues addressed this question in a study in which they modeled what would happen if all low-income countries (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) were to build strong health delivery systems and to aggressively scale up the delivery of existing medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests, and other health tools and any new tools that will become available in the next 15 years.
The Commission on Investing in Health's Global Health 2035 report estimates the investment case for a grand convergence in health outcomes globally. In this study, Achieving a "Grand Convergence" in Global Health: Modeling the Technical Inputs, Costs, and Impacts from 2016 to 2030, Boyle and colleagues estimate what the grand convergence investment case might achieve – and what investments would be required – by 2030.
The authors found that, on average across all LICs and LMICs, the maternal mortality ratio would fall to about 169 for LICs and 69 for LMICs per 100,000 live births by 2030 and the child mortality rate would fall to 27 for LICs and 13 for LMICs per 1000 live births. The authors conclude that "by 2030, the time horizon for the SDGs, an integrated investment plan for low-income and lower-middle-income countries could yield under-5 mortality rates comparable to upper-middle-income countries today, and set the stage for continued convergence with high-income countries"
"The last 15 years have seen unprecedented improvement in human health in low-income settings. Our analysis suggests that we have just scratched the surface of what is possible," Boyle said. "We hope that policymakers striving to achieve the SDGs will see this convergence analysis as an indication that further dramatic, rapid gains in health are both possible and affordable."
Read the study at PLOS ONE Achieving a "Grand Convergence" in Global Health: Modeling the Technical Inputs, Costs, and Impacts from 2016 to 2030.
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Don passed away peacefully at the Laurels of Galesburg on Sunday, January 20, 2019. He was born in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, on August 27, 1934, the son of Adrian and Mary Alice (Belt) Rutherford. Don moved to Augusta as a teen and spent his life in the Galesburg-Augusta area.
At Galesburg-Augusta High School, Don excelled in basketball and tennis. He was on the State Champion tennis team and graduated in 1952. He also met the love of his life there, Nancy Eldridge. They were married on August 21, 1954, and were very happy together for almost 58 years until her death in 2012.
Don graduated from Western Michigan University in 1956. He worked as an accountant/controller for the A.M. Todd Company in Kalamazoo for 27 years, retiring in 1991. He also had his own successful tax business for many years.
Don cared deeply for his family and was an excellent provider. He enjoyed traveling and took the family on several memorable vacations including Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and a particularly special trip to Haiti in 1979. After retirement, Don and Nancy purchased a cabin in Moran, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where they had many happy vacations with family and friends. He could often be found walking his property in the morning, bird-watching during the day, telling stories around the fire pit at night, and visiting the casino. Don often said those were the best times of his life.
Don will be dearly missed, but his family is comforted in knowing that he and Nancy are reunited again. He was preceded in death by his parents, his stepfather James Truman, and his brother Marion. He is survived by his children, Dana Rutherford, David Rutherford, Mary (Mark) Scott, and Amy (Steve) Martin. He particularly enjoyed his grandchildren Paul (Katie) Scott, Jennifer Snyder, John Scott, Sarah Reck, and Mary Monaghan, and great grandchildren Logan, Savannah, Sophia, and Brooklyn Scott.
The family would like to thank Borgess Reverence Hospice for their care and kindness. Memorials in Don's memory can be directed to them.


Our usual work day here at SMADC consists of meetings, proofreading and deadlines. But today we got to shuck corn! Seems a little weird, right?
Well SMADC is excited to be featured in one of the chosen recipes, Slow-Roasted Goat Tacos with Sweet Corn Succotash, at the 11th Annual Buy Local Cookout held by Governor Larry Hogan on Thursday, July 19th! Submitted by SMADC staffer, and renowned local Chef, Craig Sewell, the recipe will include Southern Maryland Meats products from Monnett Farms in Calvert County, produce from Sassafras Creek Organic Farm in St. Mary's County, and artisan tortillas from Nottingham Store in Prince George's County. Learn more about the other outstanding recipes selected here. Congrats to all the chefs and producers who were chosen!
The entire SMADC staff will be headed to the Government House on Thursday to help prepare the dish for more than 400 guests. This event is traditionally known for being held on the hottest day of the year, but the forecast is looking 84 and sunny right now. We'll take that!
All recipe submissions will be published in the 2018 Buy Local Cookout Recipes Cookbook that will be available online in August. You can download past cookbooks for free here.
The Governor's Buy Local Cookout is the kickoff to the Buy Local Challenge Week and our 2nd Annual Buy Local Challenge Celebration on Monday, July 30th is the bookend. 12 Days, 3 amazing events, and lots of fun!


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#include <string>
#include <cassert>

#include <hx/CFFI.h>

class NativeData_Impl : public NativeData
{
	public:
		void setup(int lengthInBytes);

		void setupWithExistingPointer(uint8_t* existingPtr, int lengthInBytes);
		void cleanUp();

		void writeData(const NativeData *d);
		void writePointer(const void* pointer, int lengthInBytes);

		void resize(int newSize);
		void trim();

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		NativeData_Impl();
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NativeData_Impl::NativeData_Impl()
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void NativeData_Impl::writeData(const NativeData *d)
{
	assert(offset >= 0);
	assert(d->offset >= 0);
	assert(offset + d->offsetLength <= allocedLength);
	assert(d->offset + d->offsetLength <= d->allocedLength);
	memcpy(ptr + offset, d->ptr + d->offset, d->offsetLength);
}

void NativeData_Impl::writePointer(const void* pointer, int lengthInBytes)
{
	assert(offset >= 0);
	assert(offset + lengthInBytes <= allocedLength);
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void NativeData_Impl::resize(int newSize)
{
	if(externalPtr)
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			memcpy(ptr, prevPtr, allocedLength);
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			memcpy(ptr, prevPtr, newSize);
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{
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     data->cleanUp();
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Q: Targetcli can't load modules qla2xxx and ib_srpt I've installed targetcli from ubuntu repository and when I start targetcli as root, it starts and display following info:
Welcome to the targetcli shell:

 Copyright (c) 2011 by RisingTide Systems LLC.

Visit us at http://www.risingtidesystems.com.

Can't load fabric module qla2xxx.
Using iscsi fabric module.
Can't load fabric module ib_srpt.
Using tcm_fc fabric module.
Using loopback fabric module.
/>

I've tried modprobe qla2xxx and it doesn't solve the problem.
ib_srpt is not even present in my system, only ib_srp could be found and loading it also didn't solve the problem.
I don't really know what could I do with that.
It's not related to bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/targetcli/+bug/1000490
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: Looking at the docs here:
http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/QLogic
It appears you might need to be running with kernel 3.5 for the qla2xxx driver to be in the kernel, Precise Pangolin (12.04 LTS) is using 3.2
I have need to do this very same thing in the near future so I will endeavour to post back once I have the Qlogic hardware and have tried to make it work.
Further to this, I think that ib_srpt / ib_srp are referring to infiniband module/s so might not be a concern unless you were hoping to get LIO working using IB?

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With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an "irregular presence" of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus casually saying NATO would likely sink Vladimir Putin's Black Sea fleet if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it's perhaps time for a few questions:
First, can we discuss a situation that could very well result in thermonuclear war — and the end of life as we know it — intelligently and rationally? Or must all questions about our Dr. Strangelove policy be met with childish name-calling (e.g., "stooge of Putin!") designed to silence debate?
Second, is it a good idea to essentially tell a man who controls 6,200 nuclear weapons, and who our pseudo-elites may label "crazy," you want to kill him? This is what Joe Biden's and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for Russian "regime change" really amounts to, mind you.
It's important realizing that this conflict means infinitely more to Putin than it does to us. Our pseudo-elites are playing some kind of geopolitical game (with our lives and our children's) as is their wont.
To Putin this is an existential crisis.
Our globalist chicken hawks have ensured that.
Putin currently has no graceful exit from this situation. It's apparently all or nothing, victory or death. Do you really think the wounded Bear will collapse into the waiting arms of those who'd devour him and not lash out, no-holds-barred, driven by self-preservation? Do we know what the phrase "Nothing to lose" means?
It's time now for some realpolitik (there is a moral component here, too; more on that momentarily). In the early 19th century, we formulated the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that foreign intervention in the Americas could be considered a hostile act against the United States. Now, question:
Does Russia have a right to its own Monroe Doctrine? Or, a better question may be, can we realistically prevent it from effecting such?
Some may now say that Putin had no right to invade Ukraine. Fair enough. But we invaded Mexico in 1846 and overthrew Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in a CIA-backed coup in 1954, to mention just two of our Latin American interventions. Whether we had a "right" to do so, or were right in doing so, is not the point here. We could enforce our will in our sphere of influence because we had the power. Saddam Hussein's Iraq, for example and in contrast, could not — i.e., when annexing Kuwait — because it didn't have the power. Yet Russia is no Iraq.
So, is this all about "Might makes right"? Not exactly. One element of what's known as Just War Doctrine is that for a proposed military action to be moral, it must do more good than harm. Is this the case with our playing of chicken with Putin? The best-case scenario is that we help an internationalist pseudo-elite, Zelenskyy, retain power and preserve the borders of what even the left-wing Guardian called in 2015 "the most corrupt nation in Europe."
The worst-case scenario is global thermonuclear war.
Do we really need the Fugaku supercomputer to do the cost-benefit analysis here?
Some may now wonder, "Why do we have to back down?" The answer is simple: Russia's "Monroe Doctrine."
Consider: President John F. Kennedy took a firm stand during the Cuban Missile Crisis, establishing a naval blockade of Cuba after the USSR deployed missile bases on the island. JFK took this hard line because it was our backyard, and you can't back down at your own doorstep without losing an unacceptable amount of credibility on the world stage.
And so it is with Russia, with Ukraine being its Cuba. Like it or not, you can't stomp around in another great power's backyard like a t-Rex in Jurassic Park. That a Moscow defeat in this war means it would lose too much face globally is, along with Putin's existential concerns, another reason why Russia won't back down in Ukraine.
Yet if this analogy is valid, what was the equivalent here of the USSR having put missiles in Cuba? Answer: The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO.
Putin said, repeatedly, that this was a red line for him. A little history is in order here, too.
NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union; thus, that evil empire's early-'90s collapse made it rational for NATO to, in a sense, stand down. This is especially true since after the Berlin Wall's fall, Russia pulled its army back to within its borders and arguably began behaving in a more pro-American fashion. Why, there was perhaps an even opportunity to forge friendly ties with Moscow, which, being characteristically European and Christian as we were, could've been a culturally congruent ally against China.
Instead, the pseudo-elite globalists expanded NATO to Russia's very borders, the equivalent of Moscow or China forging a military alliance with Mexico, Cuba, Canada and the Bahamas. In fact, despite then-U.S. secretary of state James Baker assuring Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO would extend "not one inch [farther] eastward," there are now on Russia's borders four NATO members: Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Again, what's the cost-benefit-analysis verdict here? It's clear how this military pact — and our Founders warned us about entangling alliances and involvement in European wars — benefits Estonia. But if there's a Red Dawn and Russia or China lands troops on our soil tomorrow, will we say, "You know, normally I'd be beside myself. But let not your heart be troubled: Estonia's got our back!"?
The insanity continues now, too. Finland and Sweden are poised to join NATO, and Ukraine is applying for expedited alliance membership. Of course, the latter could mean triggering WWIII with Russia, immediately. Is this rational?
Some do, of course, liken Putin to Hitler and warn that if we don't take a stand now, it's Ukraine today, the world tomorrow! This is more unserious, reckless talk at a perilous moment. Our planet is replete with evil leaders (it's basically the norm), but not all are Hitler. Hitler was 44 when assuming power in 1933, and within six years had begun his war of conquest. Putin is 69, has been at the pinnacle of Russian power for more than two decades, has never exhibited world-conquest ambitions and perhaps is in his twilight years. But if the Hitler analogy must be entertained, alright, let's follow it out.
Imagine it's April 1945, and Hitler is in his bunker seeing his empire crumbling around him. But instead of being entirely impotent, he has at his disposal 6,200 nuclear weapons. What do you think he'll do?
There could be a reason to risk atomic annihilation — that Red Dawn scenario comes to mind. But does it make sense to possibly turn Putin into a man who just may want to see the world burn? All, too, over a corrupt nation in Russia's backyard, whose battles are not our own?
And what's with the regime-change obsession, anyway? China annexed Tibet and perpetrates cultural and demographic genocide there, and the Soviets rolled tanks into Czechoslovakia in 1968. But we don't arm the Tibetans and didn't do so with the Czechs, and in neither case is/was regime change a goal. We did invade Panama in 1989 and remove strongman Manuel Noriega from power, but he couldn't incinerate the planet. Taking this position with one of the world's three nuclear superpowers is unprecedented — and seems far crazier than Putin could ever be.
Our "betters" — the same people who messed up Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and who managed COVID with not even that level of competence — may say, as Lindsey Graham has, that a Putin underling would shoot him before allowing him to launch nukes. Well, that's a lot to bet our lives on.
But, hey, our pseudo-elites may have well-equipped fallout shelters to retreat to. And you?
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This pattern is growing so big, so quick, the agricultural experts at the U. S. Division of Agriculture have given it a title, "exurban microfarming." One purpose this pattern is expanding so fast is the zoning laws about large cities and cities, exactly where land division is limited. This has still left a big number of smaller sized 2 to 5 acre parcels. Owners of these parcels quickly discover that they can either mow a great deal of grass or put the land to more effective uses.
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Matilde Moraschi (11 April 1910 – 16 April 2004) was an Italian sprinter and basketball player. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics. her basketball teams were six times champions of Italy:
Canottieri Milano: 1934 and 1935;
Ambrosiana-Inter: 1936, 1937, 1937-1938 and 1938-1939.

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Chiral recognition in protonated cinchona alkaloid dimers has been studied in mass spectrometry experiments. The experimental setups involved a modified 7T FT-ICR (Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance) mass spectrometer (MS) and a modified Paul ion trap both equipped with an electrospray ionization source (ESI). The Paul ion trap has been coupled to a frequency-doubled dye laser. The fragmentation of protonated dimers made from cinchonidine (Cd) and the two pseudoenantiomers of quinine, namely, quinine (Qn) and quinidine (Qd), has been assessed by means of collision-induced dissociation (CID) as well as UV photodissociation (UVPD). Whereas CID fragmentation of the dimers only leads to the evaporation of the monomers, UVPD results in the additional loss of a neutral radical fragment corresponding to the quinuclidinyl radical. The effect of the excitation wavelength and of complexation with H2SO4 has been studied to cast light on the reaction mechanism. Complexation with H2SO4 modifies the photoreactivity of the dimers ; only evaporation of the monomeric fragments, quinine, and cinchonidine is observed. Comparison between the mass spectra of the cinchona alkaloid (CdQnH+) or (CdQdH+) dimers resulting from the UVPD of (CdQnH2SO4H+) and that of bare (CdQnH+) helps propose a fragmentation mechanism, which is thought to involve fast proton transfer from the quinuclidine part of a molecular subunit to the quinoline ring. CID and UV fragmentation experiments show that the homochiral dimer is more strongly bound than the heterochiral adduct.


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SYNOPSIS: Irwin S. Lerner was aboard a B52 shot down by a Surface to Air (SAM) missile over Hanoi on December 20, 1972. His B52 was one of many involved in the successful "Christmas Bombings" of Hanoi that finally convinced the Vietnamese to sit at the peace table.
There were a total of 12 men missing in close proximity to each other from B52 aircraft on December 20. It is unclear which men were together on any given plane, although it seems clear that the four missing were on the same plane as Madden and Martini, as Defense Department notes that two men were released from Lerner and Perry's plane. The total number listed exceeds a normal B52 crew capacity, which is six. Lerner's craft was third in a flight of three B52s over Hanoi that day. The fate of all three planes is uncertain.
Chief Master Sergeant Arthur V. McLaughlin, Jr., Gunner.
One thing that amazed analysts about the B52 bombers that were shot down over Hanoi during this period was the high survival rate of the crewmembers. Many more were returned as POWs than was expected. The B52s that were shot down were downed in extremely hostile territory with little or no chance of rescue.
Major Irwin S. Lerner, a Stratford, Connecticut, native, was laid to rest with full honors Friday under a cold, cloudless blue sky at Arlington National Cemetery, 31 years after he died in the Vietnam War.
Lerner, an electronics warfare officer with the 307th Strategic Wing, was aboard a B-52 bomber shot down over Hanoi on December 20, 1972. His remains were only recently identified using new DNA techniques.
The ceremony began at 11 a.m. when a B-52 aircraft from the 93rd Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana flew overhead. Lerner's flag-draped casket was carried along a tree-lined road to the gravesite on a black artillery caisson pulled by six white horses.
About 50 mourners, including Lerner's three children and four grandchildren, bundled against a steady bone-chilling wind, followed the caisson and an Air Force honor guard up the road to the gravesite.
Lerner's gravesite, within sight of the Pentagon and Washington Monument across the Potomac River, is next to the site where his wife, Roberta Reilly Lerner, is buried. She died, never having remarried, in 1995.
Eight U.S. Air Force Honor Guard pallbearers carried the casket from the caisson to the gravesite where Rabbi Marvin Bash delivered a brief service in English and Hebrew. Lerner's three children, Mark, 38; David, 36; and Jennifer Clary, 32, who now live near Atlanta, sat by the gravesite. David's daughters, Mary, 6, and Holly, 8, sat on their laps. Behind them were other family members as well as two Connecticut couples who were friends with Lerner, Jim and Pauline Simon of Stratford and Jim and Connie Buchta of Norwalk.
Following Bash's words, a seven-member firing party, dressed in Air Force blue overcoats, fired three volleys and a lone bugler played Taps.
Brigadier General David E. Clary presented a folded American flag to Mark Lerner and offered his condolences on behalf of the Air Force and a grateful nation. Included in the flag case were Lerner's nametag, wings and medals.
"It was very emotional," said eldest son Mark. "We have closure."
A banker in Atlanta, Mark Lerner said his family was grateful to the Air Force for the military honors and to members of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. and Rolling Thunder who attended the ceremony.
"I was very pleased with the service the salute, Taps, the honor guard, the flyover and the caisson they all were very impressive," Mark Lerner said.
Simon, a boyhood friend of Lerner, said the ceremony was "absolutely beautiful.
"It is so impressive and sad," Simon said.
During the ceremony Simon said he kept thinking about the promise he had made to Lerner's father years before to remember his son and keep the MIA issue alive.
Simon, 63, said Lerner's father, Eli Lerner, kept him informed about Lerner's tour when they worked together as machinists. Simon said Eli Lerner, who died years ago, never gave up on seeing his son again. In 1985, Simon saw to it that Lerner's name was added to Stratford's Vietnam veteran's memorial at Academy Hill.
"I said I wouldn't forget and I didn't," Simon said.
Lerner was on a mission during what became known as the "Christmas bombings" of Hanoi. The intense fight convinced the Vietnamese to sit at the peace table. A total of 12 men were reported missing near each other from three B-52 aircraft shot down during the December 20 mission.
It is unclear which men were together, but two, reportedly from the same aircraft Lerner was in, later were reported as prisoners of war. The other four on board, including Lerner, 31, were not found. In 1978, his status was administratively changed by the Air Force from missing in action to "killed in action, body not recovered."
In November, a Hawaiian lab was able to confirm that remains recovered in 1985 from an excavated crash site in North Vietnam were those of Major Lerner. The lab used DNA samples found through the help of a genealogist, who tracked down a maternal cousin of Lerner's living in California.
After three decades, the military says it has finally identified the remains of a Stratford Air Force officer.
Air Force officials say Major Irwin Stuart Lerner's B-52 was shot down with a surface-to-air missile in Hanoi in December, 1972.
Military officials thought they found his remains in 1985. But it took nearly two decades to confirm them with D-N-A testing. Lerner left behind a wife and three children when he died. His wife, Roberta, died in 1995.
He will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery later this month with full military honors.
STRATFORD, Connecticut -- The remains of an officer who died in Vietnam in 1972 have been identified after a three-decade wait.
Maj. Irwin Stuart Lerner died in Hanoi on December 20, 1972 when his B-52 was shot down with a surface-to-air missile, Air Force officials said.
Military officials believed they had his remains in 1985. But it took two decades to confirm them through DNA testing, said Kathy Shemeley, president of the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action CT Forget-Me-Nots Inc.
"It's important for a family to have closure. A family always wonders what happened to a loved one," Shemeley said.
Lerner will be buried this month at Arlington National Cemetery. He was 31 when he died, leaving behind a wife and three children.
His wife, Roberta Reilly Lerner, died in 1995. His three children, Mark, 38, David, 36 and Jennifer, 33, live in Georgia, where they moved with their mother once she found out Lerner was missing.
"I don't know what it's going to do for me," said Jim Simon, a childhood friend who pushed a plan for a Stratford monument built in Lerner's honor. "When I went to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington and saw his name among the missing, I cried."
Simon, 63, said Lerner's father, Eli Lerner, kept him informed about Lerner's tour when they worked together as machinists.
Simon said Eli Lerner, who died years ago, never gave up on seeing his son again.
"He'd say to me: 'I expect Irwin to walk through that door,"' Simon said.
at the casket of Air Force Major Irwin S. Lerner, of Stratford, Connecticut, during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, Friday, January 16, 2004.
Lerner, daughter Jennifer Clancy, son Mark Lerner, and unidentified children.


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St Thomas's Church, Osbaldwick
Osbaldwick is mentioned three times in the Doomsday Book as Osboldewic. It is named after Osbald, an earl in the kingdom of Northumbria. The history of St Thomas's Church goes back nearly as far, to the 12th century. Within the church there are several reminders of its great age – the windows on the North wall date from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, and the 15th century East Window also remains, although re-sited in the 1960s in the South Transept wall.
During its life the church has undergone three major restorations or re-orderings. The first, in 1877, changed the building from a "wretched condition", according to the Parish Almanac of 1897, where it was "most unsightly and as a place of divine worship the church was uninviting as it possibly could be". The architect for this work was J.A. Scott, son of the celebrated Sir Gilbert Scott.
The second major reordering, in 1967, saw the addition of the South transept, vestry, porch, WC and heating system. The interior height of the building was reduced by means of adding a vaulted ceiling.
The third reordering, completed in 2005, greatly improved the entrance foyer, provided a kitchen and replaced the pews with comfortable seating. This has enhanced the versatility of the Church as both a place of worship and a social centre for the whole community.
Items of special interest
A feature of St Thomas's Church is the repeated use of the triple cross motif. The principal example is the cross hanging above the altar, given in 1967. This is designed to provide a 'cross' focus for worshippers in both the Nave and the South transept and also along the 'line of the sacraments'. The motif can also be seen in the windows and the Vicar's prayer desk.
The octagonal altar and the rails were made from the original 17th century woodwork of the church prior to the 1897 renovation. This architectural design aligned the symbols of the three main sacraments of Baptism (the font), the Word (lectern) and the Eucharist (altar).
The Mary Ward Memorial Stone was brought in from outside the church and was mounted in the South wall of the Nave.
In the North West corner of the churchyard can be found the very simple plain gravestone of Eliza Raine from the early 19th Century.
The church is open every day throughout the year.


and are actively supporting governments in Yemen and Bahrain that are doing almost exactly - if less noisily - what Qaddafi is doing. Obama made no attempt to reconcile these inconsistencies because, one suspects, there is no rational reconciliation to be made.
Secondly, the president argued that the ghastly violence in Libya is destabilizing the region, and threatening world peace. Really? More than Qaddafi's meddling throughout Africa for years? More than the brutal repression in Iran? And even if it is destabilizing, Libya is not, according to the Obama administration itself, a "vital national interest". So why should the US go to war over this?
None of this makes any sense, except as an emotional response to an emergency. I understand the emotions, and sympathize with the impulse to help. But I can think of no worse basis for committing a country to war than such emotional and moral anxiety. One fears this is Bill Clinton's attempt to assuage his conscience over Rwanda, rather than Obama's judicious attempt to navigate the Arab 1848. And as Obama said things like "Qaddafi has a choice," did you not hear echoes of Bush and Saddam?
At least Bush argued that Saddam posed a threat to the US. No one can seriously argue that Qaddafi poses such a threat. To launch a war on these grounds is to set a precedent that would require a kind of global power and reach that not even the most righteous neocons have pushed for. And I look forward to the actual Arab contributions to the military action. Presumably Egypt and Saudi Arabia will be involved. Or will it be what we now have - Qatar and, er, that's it? The Arab League has no real skin in this game. And one suspects, in the end, the narrative will be America bombing the Arabs again. How many civilians might the US kill in such an action? More civilians than we are currently killing in Pakistan and Afghanistan? Have we learned nothing?
The proper response to this presidential power-grab is a Congressional vote - as soon as possible.
That will reveal the factions that support this kind of return to the role of global policeman, and force the GOP to go on the record. I also look forward to the statements of the various Republican candidates in support of this president.
But it seems clear enough: exactly the same alliance that gave us Iraq is giving us Libya: the neocons who want to see the US military deployed across the globe in the defense of freedom and the liberal interventionists who believe that the US should intervene whenever atrocities are occurring. What these two groups have in common is an unrelenting focus on the reason for intervention along with indifference to the vast array of unintended consequences their moralism could lead us into. I do not doubt their good intentions and motives. No human being can easily watch a massacre and stand by. Yet we did so with Iran; and we are doing so in Yemen and Bahrain as we speak, and have done so for decades because we rightly make judgments based on more than feeling.
A congressional vote is also important to rein in the imperial presidency that Obama has now taken to a greater height then even Bush. No plane should lift off, no bomb released, until the Congress has voted. I don't see why Obama should oppose this. He needs some Congressional support in an open-ended military commitment to ensure the protection of civilians in Libya.


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Edge-O-Dells Resort is 21 and older April to October. Located just 5 minutes from downtown Wisconsin Dells.
The Journey of the Edge-O-Dells started in the 1950's as a Root Beer Stand and Go-Kart track. It remained so until the 1970's, when it was converted to a bar, containing only 15 barstools. The bar was locally known for having the best burgers in the county. Later in the 1980's the bar was known as Noras. Then in 2001, Tim Roberts purchased the bar and Go-Kart track. He immediately began the first of many phases of construction and renovations. Tim's sons, Kenny and Lantz operated the Go-Kart track. Over the years, the bar grew from 25×25' to the 5000 sq. ft it is today. The Go-Kart track occupied along with the adjacent property was used to accommodate the construction of the 21 and older camping & RV resort after Kenny and Lantz left for college. Currently the grounds consist of 78 campsites, 21 new rental cabins, 2000 sq ft. pool, tiki bar, hot tub, volleyball and horseshoes.
Why 21 and older? We are campers and as our kids grew up we had great gatherings with our friends on our "adult weekends".
We wanted to provide a place where groups of adults can get together and enjoy each other's company without the kids! Rock bands late at night, pool party for us adults with volleyball & basketball, DJ. Outdoor volley ball courts, horseshoes…. You get the picture!
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Chase started in radio while earning his Master's in diplomacy and international commerce at the University of Kentucky. He was bitten by the radio bug while volunteering at Radio Eye (a local equivalent to NIRIS) and soon became a reporter at WUKY. After four years of reporting in Kentucky's Bluegrass, Chase traveled north to join WNIJ as Morning Edition producer. He organizes our morning broadcast, making sure the host is well-supplied with interesting, fresh content. In addition to his pre-dawn duties, Chase reports on a variety of developments in our broadcast area but is particularly drawn to anything with a political or international connection. He is also an avid board gamer.


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Trojmezí (německy a do roku 1947 ) je vesnice v okrese Cheb, místní část města Hranice. V roce 2011 zde trvale žilo 26 obyvatel. Rozprostírá se v úplném severozápadním koutu České republiky. Na tomto místě se nachází také trojmezí historických zemí, Čech, Bavorska a Saska.

Historie

První písemná zmínka o Trojmezí pochází z roku 1356, kdy jej vlastnili Neubergové. V 16. a 17. století se v okolí těžila železná ruda. Pozůstatky těžební činnosti jsou dodnes patrné. V té době také vznikalo v okolí, podél potoka Rokytnice několik mlýnů, a později barevna. Vesnice je rozptýlena na větším území, proto byly vždy problémy s docházkou dětí do školy. I tak byla v roce 1903 postavena moderní škola.

V nejseverozápadnějším koutu Trojmezí se nachází trojmezí s Bavorskem a Saskem, přičemž ještě před vstupem České republiky do Schengenského prostoru zde byl turistický přechod. Dnes je možné se tudy dostat na několik německých turistických cest. Dříve na tomto místě stál mlýn a hamr. Ty již neexistují, ale zachoval se zde smírčí kříž.

Po druhé světové válce a odsunu německého obyvatelstva bylo Trojmezí téměř vylidněno. Velká část Čechů, která zde zůstala, musela odejít v roce 1951 poté, co zde bylo zřízeno hraniční pásmo, a jejich domy byly strženy. Později zde byla vystavěna budova Pohraniční stráže, která byla jen sporadicky využívána, ale nakonec dlouhá léta chátrala. V květnu 2008 byla však konečně prodána místním podnikatelům, kteří z ní hodlají udělat ženskou věznici.

V současné době se v obci nachází jen 11 domů, ve kterých žije 34 obyvatel, kasárna a opuštěný hostinec, který zažíval svůj boom po otevření hranic s Německem.

Přírodní poměry
Trojmezí leží přibližně dva kilometry západně od Hranic a dvanáct kilometrů severozápadně od Aše, v nadmořské výšce 602 metrů. Dříve se Trojmezí dělilo na Trojmezí (), Dolní Trojmezí () a Kozí hřbet (), a součástí obce byly také samoty Richterovy Domky,  a Císařský hamr (). Některé prameny uvádějí také Mäcklovy Domky.

Severozápadně od vesnice, podél státní hranice, leží část národní přírodní památky Bystřina – Lužní potok.

Obyvatelstvo
Podle sčítání 1930 zde žilo v 163 domech 845 obyvatel. Jeden obyvatel se hlásil k československé národnosti a 747 k německé. Žilo zde 33 římských katolíků a 732 evangelíků.

Památky

 Pomník obětem v prusko-rakouské válce v roce 1866
 pomník obětem první světové války
 smírčí kříž

Turistika
Přes Trojmezí vede cyklistická trasa 2058 z Hranic do Aše, a červeně značená turistická trasa. Je možné dostat se z obou do německé obce Prex a dále po německých turistických trasách například do měst Rehau nebo Regnitzlosau.

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Externí odkazy

Literatura
 Města a městečka západočeského kraje, Jan Pelant (1988)
 Obce Ašska v proměnách času, Kolektiv autorů, vydal Domovský spolek okresu Aš, Muzeum Aš (2008)
 Historicko-turistický průvodce č.15, Kolektiv autorů, 2000, vydalo nakladatelství Českého lesa

Vesnice v okrese Cheb
Ašský výběžek
Sídla ve Smrčinách
Hranice (okres Cheb)
Sídla na trojmezí
Sídla na česko-německé státní hranici


Grand Opening Weekend of Fun at the Art Studio/Gallery!
You are invited to join us for a fun weekend of art and music. Attend the Grand Opening of our new art studio & gallery, Don Woodard ARTWORKS, and enjoy viewing some beautiful artwork as well as enjoy the amazing sounds of Fingerstyle Guitarist, Jim Deeming.
The gallery features Western, Wildlife, and Landscape artwork by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, including: Edward Aldrich, Susan von Borstel, Don Weller, Don Woodard, Barbara Woods, Dennis Bennett, Rose Red Elk and Chip Garofalo, as well as emerging artists, Janae File and Malaya Woodard, with additional artists joining us in the near future.
You are also in for a special treat with music performed by recording and award winning Fingerstyle guitarist, Jim Deeming. When Jim first begins playing, audiences know they're in for something special before the first song is over.


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Greek Books – Global Ideas: Greek Books at the 68th Frankfurt Book Fair
The journey of Greek books at international book fairs continues, after Beijing (24-28 August) and Moscow (7-11 September), where Greece was the Guest of Honour, to the Frankfurt Book Fair that will take place between 19 and 23 of October 2016 with Flanders and the Netherlands as the Guest of Honour.
At least 500 Greek books from the recent production of 150 publishing houses will be displayed at the Greek Stand, organized by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, with the support and under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, in collaboration with the Greek publishers, the Consulate General of Greece in Frankfurt, and the Greek National Tourism Organization office in Frankfurt.
This year the number of publishers participating with their own stand has increased, reaching 20, in place of 14 in 2015 and 11 in 2014. The participating publishers: Agra, Aiora, Angelakis, Cube Art, Diaplasi, Enalios-Oceanos, Hestia, Ikaros, Kastaniotis, Kazantzakis, Kedros, Mamaya, Melissa, Metaichmio, Nefeli, Ocelotos, Opera, Papadopoulos, Patakis, Romiosini, as well as the literary agencies Ersilia and Iris all contribute to the new dynamic presence of Greek books outside the borders of Greece.
This dynamic presence is also reflected in the Greek Books in Translation Catalogue that includes, for 2016, 33 titles that will be published by 64 foreign publishing houses, an impressive number, especially taking into account that there are no funding programmes to support translations. The respective numbers for translated Greek books were: 8 in 2011, 31 in 2014 and 22 in 2015.
Children's books, contemporary Greek poetry and prose, new literary voices from Greece, essays, Greek books translated in other languages and art books are the main categories of the new Greek books on display under the title "GreekBooks – GlobalIdeas". Special attention will be given to Contemporary Greek Art, with great editions, not only form Greek publishing houses but also from institutions and foundations (Benaki Museum, Onassis Cultural Centre, Frissiras Museum, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, DESTE Foundation etc.)
The presence of Editions Romiosini of the Centre for Modern Greece (CeMoG) which is based in Berlin, with 14 new editions and reprints of modern "classic" literature in German, is also important. CeMoG will present the creation of a digital library of modern Greek literature and Modern Greek Studies in German, which includes translations of modern Greek literature and of books concerning Greek culture, all available for free to the public (http://www.cemog.fu-berlin.de/el/edition-romiosini/index.html).
Mrs. Maria Zissi, the Consul General of Greece in Frankfurt, will head the opening of the Greek Stand on Thursday October 20, at 5pm, while a drinks reception, sponsored by the Greek National Tourism Organization office in Frankfurt, will follow.
The Greek Stand at the 68th Frankfurt Book Fair [19-23 October 2016].
EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / ACTIONS AT THE GREEK STAND
Many events, actions, exhibitions and screenings will take place at the Greek Stand during the five days of the Fair, presenting to the thousands of professionals from around the world and the Fair's visitors versions of Modern Greek Culture focusing always on books as the main vehicle of culture and extroversion.
Giorgos Veltsos will present his latest play "Magda Goebbels" (Agra, 2015) through an interesting discussion – comment on the chronicle of the rise and fall of the Hitler worldview through a cruel personal retrospection. Spiros Moskovou, Head of the Greek Department of Deutsche Welle, will converse with the writer.
Discussion – presentation for professionals of the rise of translations of Greek books and their circulation outside of Greece with the title "30+3 translated Greek books: extroversion as an antidote to the crisis". With the participation of: Evangelia Avloniti, literary agent at Ersilia Literary Agency and poets Eleni Galani and Efterpi Kostareli who both live in Germany.
"The Greek book market at the time of the financial crisis: Flexibility, Innovation & Change": presentation of the new publishing landscape as it has been formed in the recent difficult years, by Sokratis Kampouropoulos, advisor on book matters and member of the book policy working group of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Events for children at the Greek stand
Following last year's successful collaboration with two European schools of the wider area of Frankfurt, the Hellenic Foundation for Culture has planned events for three groups of students that will visit the Greek stand on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The programme includes skype meetings with the writer Angeliki Darlasi and the screening of a video by illustrator Myrto Delivoria which presents her work in an imaginative way. These two meetings between students and the writer and illustrator were organised after the suggestion of the Circle of the Greek Children's Book, as both the writer and the illustrator were included on IBBY's honorary list this year.
In addition, children will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the work of 16 Greek illustrators, with the Greek Illustrators' Exhibition, and take part in the activity "Playing with colours and images" as well as in other art activities.
TWO INTERESTING EXHIBITIONS
Two interesting exhibitions aimed at international professionals as well as at the public that will visit the fair in the weekend will be on display at the Greek Stand:
Greek Illustrators' Exhibition
16 Greek illustrators that participated in the action "The Illustrator's Wall" are presented through samples of their work: Agnantopoulos Vangelis, Aspromourgos Antonis, Despoina Karapanou, Dimitriou Giorgos, Galatis Antonis, Giareni Vaso, Kamperi Ifigeneia, Labretsa Demetra, Mexi Marilena, Parissi Diatsenta, Psaraki Vaso, Stamatiades Daniela, Vakali-Sirogianopoulou Filomila, Vavouri Elisa, Veroutsou Katerina and Xigkas Konstantinos.
Traditional typography and engraving – collectors' editions exhibition
Eight rare collectors' editions of traditional typography and engraving will be displayed in special cases at the Greek Stand. Editions with original engravings, typeset by hand, and printed on a flat press at the printing facilities of the last Greek "Gutenberg", as Nikos Vozikis, who founded Diatton Publishing in 1984, has been described.
Editions on display: 1) Giorgos Veltsos, Dreams *etchings by Chronis Botsoglou, 2) Dionysis Kapsalis, The crack of time, *engravings Michalis Arfaras 3) Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, *block prints – lithographs Giorgis Varlamos 4) Haris Vlavianos, The surface of things, *screen-prints Yiannis Psichopaidis 5) Homer, The Odyssey, translated by D.N. Maronitis, * watercolours Costas Tsoclis 6) Solomon, The Song of Songs, *block prints Yiannis Kiriakidis 7) Alexandros Papadiamantis, The Rosy Shores, *etchings Christos Santamouris 8) Yiannis Ritsos, Moonlight Sonata, *block prints Yiannis Stefanakis.
TWO IMPORTANT CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE GREEK STAND
Additionally, the Greek Stand will also present, through posters and informational material, two important international cultural institutions that will take place in the Greek capital in the next two years:
DOCUMENTA 14 – The Parthenon of Books
The exhibition Documenta 14, which for 2017 will work around the guiding principle "Learning from Athens" and which will be hosted on equal terms both by the Greek capital and Kassel, will be presented, in collaboration with its organisers, at the Greek Stand. The participating artists have been invited to think of and create art driven by the relation that will emerge between the two cities, presenting one work in each location.
In addition, during the Frankfurt Book Fair an open call concerning the work The Parthenon of Books by Marta Minujín will be announced: it is an invitation for the public, publishers and authors to donate books for the construction of a replica of the temple on the Acropolis in Athens, on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, where in 1933 countless books were burned by the Nazis. The material for this construction will be banned books from all over the world. This work is a symbol of resistance to censorship, to the banning of writings and to the persecution of their authors. During the announcement of the action Greek publishers will be invited to donate banned books.
The program at the Greek Stand
Athens, World Book Capital 2018
The international distinction of Athens that was chosen by UNESCO to be the "World Book Capital 2018" will be promoted at the Greek Stand with posters and informational material in collaboration with the working group of the City of Athens.
"UNESCO's decision is an honour, it reflects the international appeal of Athens and strengthens our strategic aim to make our city a modern culture destination." Giorgos Kaminis, the Mayor of Athens, commented at a press conference with UNESCO on the subject of Athens being the World Book Capital 2018.
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Q: Checked exceptions and File.exists() in Java I have primarily a C# background (and am very much a newbie) so forgive me if my assumptions based on this are the problem.
Simply put, one of the features in a piece of software I'm working on (in Java) has the user input a file name. What I intend to do is have the program loop and append a string to the end of the file name from an array of possible append strings, to see if a file exists, and if it does, open it. I am guaranteed to have only ONE file of a given name, so breaking out of the loop on the first success isn't a bug (if the file name the user specifies is "foo" and the appendStrings array has "bar" and "baz" inside of it, I am guaranteed there will never be both a "foobar" and "foobaz" in the directory). What I eventually came up with was similar to this:
public FileReader LocateFile(String fileName)
{
    FileReader toReturn = null;
    for(int i = 0; i < appendStrings.length; i++)
    {
        File locatedFile = new File(fileName + appendStrings[i]);
        try
        {
            toReturn = new FileReader(locatedFile);
        }
        catch(FileNotFoundException ex)
        {
            continue;
        }
    }
    //...handling in case I didn't find a file.
}

Great, it works just fine. Except for two problems:

*

*The compiler is upset with me that I'm declaring a variable (ex) that I'm not using. I suppose I could log the exception or something, but that seems ridiculous because this will happen often and I'd rather not fill my log file with excessive noise just to make the compiler happy.

*I've read from countless sources that you don't use exceptions to control the flow of the program; you use them for exceptional circumstances.

My question is: is there a way to please the compiler in this situation? I have to catch that FileNotFoundException, so using File.exists() won't really solve my problem. Am I doing things backwards, or is this just how Java rolls?

A: You are right, you shouldn't use exceptions to control your program flow.
You have already written the algo in plane strings just convert it into java code.
public FileReader LocateFile(String fileName)
{
    FileReader toReturn = null;
    for(int i = 0; i < appendStrings.length; i++)
    {
        File locatedFile = new File(fileName + appendStrings[i]);
         if(locatedFile.exists()) {
             toReturn = new FileReader(locatedFile);
             break;
        }
    }
    //...handling in case I didn't find a file.
}

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I've read from countless sources that you don't use exceptions to control the flow of the program; you use them for exceptional circumstances.

You should be testing whether the file exists with File.exists() instead of using the exception for this purpose. You are right in that you still need to catch the exception when creating the FileReader object, however as pointed out by other people, a file may exist and you still may not be able to read it with a FileReader. These two situations must be accounted for separately.

The compiler is upset with me that I'm declaring a variable (ex) that I'm not using. I suppose I could log the exception or something, but that seems ridiculous because this will happen often and I'd rather not fill my log file with excessive noise just to make the compiler happy.

Indeed. However as said above, you should test with File.exists() first, if the file seems to exist yet you cannot create the FileReader, then that is a problem you should handle.
By the way, neither my compiler nor my IDE are warning about this unused variable. Maybe a setting in your IDE?

A: First thing you're right about exceptions, they should be only used on exceptional circumstances.
A second point, with your code the continue; isn't necessary. If an exception is thrown, then you continue looping, but what happen if no exceptions are thrown ?
Well, you continue looping.
And a third point, the compiler isn't upset because of the ex variable, it's only your IDE which tells you that the variable isn't used, no worries it happens a lot.


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Panel discussion and documentary film screening
We are proud to partner with the Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and the Embassy of Romania to the United States for an evening of conversation and film that revisits the most seminal moment in Romania's recent history, the Revolution of 1989, which set the foundation for a tremendous development that transformed a decrepit, isolated communist dictatorship into a thriving democracy, part of NATO and the European Union.
Held under the patronage of Ambassador of Romania Andrei Muraru, who will offer the opening remarks together with Ambassador Andrew Bremberg, the Director of the Museum, the event features a stellar panel of experts in the history of communism in Romania and Eastern Europe: Professor Dennis Deletant, Woodrow Wilson Public Policy Fellow; Dorin Tudoran, famous anti-communist dissident, poet, essayist, and journalist; and Professor Melissa Feinberg, Professor of History and Department Chair at Rutgers University. The panel will be moderated by the RCI Director, Dorian Branea.
The evening will conclude with a screening of Dobrivoie Kerpenisan's documentary, Rebels with a Cause (2019, running time: 55') about the Revolution of Timișoara and how it changed the life of some of its protagonists, met again 25 years after.
The event will take place at the Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in Washington, DC on Friday, December 2, 2022 at 6:00 PM. Please RSVP at washington@mae.ro
Cover photo by Dobrivoie Kerpenisan
Photo credit: Ioana Buliga
Romanian Revolution of 1989
Dennis Deletant
Dorin Tudoran
Melissa Feinberg
Dobrivoie Kerpenisan


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Lynn F. Hovland (1916 – August 15, 2014) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Washington University in St. Louis from 1959 to 1961, compiling a record of 3–23.

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§ 4–202.04. Council to adopt rules. [Repealed]
Repealed.
(Apr. 6, 1982, D.C. Law 4-101, § 204, 29 DCR 1060; Apr. 20, 1999, D.C. Law 12-241, § 2(e), 46 DCR 905.)
For temporary repeal of section, see § 2(e) of the Self-Sufficiency Promotion Emergency Amendment Act of 1998 (D.C. Act 12-372, June 9, 1998, 45 DCR 4270), § 2(e) of the Self-Sufficiency Promotion Legislative Review Emergency Amendment Act of 1998 (D.C. Act 12-425, July 31, 1998, 45 DCR 5682), § 2(e) of the Self-Sufficiency Promotion Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 1998 (D.C. Act 12-552, December 24, 1998, 46 DCR 521), and § 2(e) of the Self-Sufficiency Promotion Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 1999 (D.C. Act 13-19, February 17, 1999, 46 DCR 2492).
For temporary (225 day) repeal of section, see § 2(e) of Self-Sufficiency Promotion Temporary Amendment Act of 1998 (D.C. Law 12-230, April 20, 1999, law notification 46 DCR 4143).
§ 4–202.05. Mayor to issue rules.


Who doesn't recall the date June 12 as the historic '419' date when the former military President Ibrahim Babangida, (Rtd.) dribbled Nigerians who after undertaking a series of democratic process, woke up to realised that their votes were meaningless?
Emphatically dubbed as Nigeria's "Maradona" IBB, as he is fondly called, orchestrated a military to civilian transition programme which remains the best ever – a two party system: the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and the National Republican Convention, NRC, without any intention of handing over to a civilian government.
IBB's legerdemain didn't start or end with June 12. The manner in which he played gullible Nigerians in an attempt to institutionalize himself politically earned him the name Maradona, with June 12 as the masterpiece referrer.
According to Chief Olu Falae former SGF who worked with IBB for years, the name Maradona was coined from IBB's inability to say no to people. Falae noted that "the only problem I had with him was that he never liked to say no to anybody, he tended to say yes to everybody. That's why he is called Maradona".
The accumulated resultant of IBB gamesmanship of political intrigue, his vaunted mastery of manipulative craft led to the annulment of June 12, 1993 elections won by MKO Abiola.
Many years after that episode, another June 12, (419) has resurfaced. This time around, an incumbent president, M. Buhari who is desperately desirous to win the 2019 presidential election did not only awoken sleep; has also murdered sleep – just like Macbeth did in the book Macbeth.
He has in an attempt to gain political relevance, popularity in the country and sway the minds of voters in the south west declared Mko Abiola hero of democracy, winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election and proclaimed the date as the authentic National Democracy Day. All these are coming on the heels of a growing dispassionate of his administration by prominent Nigerians and a running battle with the National Assembly who has threatened to apply constitutional means to checkmate executive rascality if not curtailed.
PMB latest moves has exposed his desperation to win second term by every means possible using executive orders to drive his ambition. There is no justification to advance the June 12 action of Mr. President order than to score cheap political goals. In the first place, who supervised the arrest, intimidation and lock-up of MKO Abiola other than Abacha, President Buhari long time hero and admirer. The Abacha regime incarcerated Abiola for 5 years, his wife Kudirat Abiola gruesomely murdered, limbs maimed, his businesses and properties worth millions of naira perished.
That same Abacha who perpetuated all these evil is PMB well known hero.
Speaking after a remembrance prayers to mark 10 years of the death of Abacha on June 8, 2008, in Kano, Buhari said that the late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, did not loot the national treasury contrary to the general impression.
Also at the time when billions of dollars looted by Abacha were being repatriated back to Nigeria from the Swiss Bank, PMB speaking at the Presidential Villa in Abuja recently, was quoted to have praised Abacha that "I don't care about the opinion you have about Abacha, but I agreed to work with him and we constructed roads from Abuja to Port Harcourt, Benin to Onitsha and so on. We also touched education and health institutions", all in an attempt at self-glorification.
Ironically, the man who incarcerated Abiola is the same man that PMB continues to hold in high esteem leaving him with three heroes on different sides: the good – Abiola; the bad – Abacha; and the ugly – Obasanjo, who he acknowledged possitively before 2015.
Pertinent questions have risen from PMB's action. How can you glorify the man who initiated the destruction of what you are honouring? Is president Buhari sincere in his June 12 moves? If Buhari truly wants to genuinely honor heroes of democracy, what about Kudirat Abiola who lost her life fighting to sustain the mandate of her husband, why didn't he honour her? Another ruminating question also is, if PMB is sincere, why didn't he avoid impending controversies by waiting to get second term in 2019 before declaring MKO hero of democracy? Afterall having waited for three years, nine months wouldn't have hurt him. Was June 12 part of PMB many unfulfilled campaign promises in 2015? Why is Buhari now so much in a haste?
The answer is simple. June 12 is another staple in the hands of PMB and his herds of fortune tellers who imagined that the west will fall for another gimmick. Though few Nigerians has hailed the decision of Mr. President, many has condemned and question the timing. No good intentions done to attain pecuniary gains is worth any accolades.
To prove that PMB has just lunched another June 12, 419 is the declaration by the presidency that June 12 will not be a public holiday or a new date for hand over as the May 29 democracy day still stands, thus the president is not only making June 12 irrelevant, he is confusing the polity by maintaining two democracy days with one standing as his instrument of political gains for 2019.
There is no doubt that PMB has more jokers such as the June 12 postcard in his sleeves and Nigerians should expect more quality policy statements in the days ahead. He has already asked that beneficiaries of Npower be absorbed into he federal civil service, increased the maternity leave of pregnant women to four months, signed the not-too-young to run bill, grant autonomy to State House of Assembly and the Judiciary without asking questions.
All these are just before the 2019 elections. Believe me, there are more from where all these came from.
I wouldn't be surprised if president Buhari decides to declare free education in the country, start the process of restructuring the country, increase the allowance of Corp members to fifty thousand naira and roll out hundreds of caterpillars to the south east to construct "overnight" roads. There is absolutely nothing that reelection can't do.
But Mr. President has erred. Nigerians are now very enlightened and awake – they say once beaten, twice shy. They will keep on applauding PMB to do more but they will never forget where they kept their PVCs. PMB has all of sudden found speed to work. Pray he sustains the tempo of his newly found feet and attitude to work but in all, he got these and many others wrong.
He has murdered sleep, and sleep he will see no more because Nigerians are resolute more than ever to vote him out in 2019.