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The Theology That Inspired the Poway Synagogue Shooting (and New Zealand) Remains Strikingly Commonplace
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May 9, 2019, 1:36pm Ivan Strenski
Concerned as we rightly are about the immediate human cost of Lori Gilbert Kaye's awful murder and the trauma inflicted on the Poway and national Jewish communities, hardly anyone has delved into the theological causes behind Earnest's actions, as confused as they may be.
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John T. Earnest, the alleged Poway Chabad Synagogue shooter, like those "many fine people" bearing torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, didn't much want Jews to "replace" him. No, that would send time's arrow off its providential course in the wrong direction. His Orthodox Presbyterian theology made it clear who was being replaced, and who would be doing the replacing. The "who's who" of replacement was all preordained in purest Calvinist fashion. But just to make sure that Divine Providence was doing a thorough job of it, Earnest felt compelled to lend a bloody hand, depriving Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of a couple of fingers in the process.
Concerned as we rightly are about the immediate human cost of Lori Gilbert Kaye's awful murder and the trauma inflicted on the Poway and national Jewish communities, hardly anyone has delved into the theological causes behind Earnest's actions, as confused as they may be. Does the fact of the crossed wires in Earnest's theology—both affirming predestination, but also needing to hasten it—matter? Why the talk of "replacement" by Earnest or the Charlottesville mob? Would knowing about any of this have helped prevent the killing?
In a heartfelt letter of public apology, Earnest's parents—sincerely, no doubt—assured us that:
Our son's actions were informed by people we do not know, and ideas we do not hold…he was raised in a family, a faith, and a community that all rejected hate and taught that love must be the motive for everything we do. How our son was attracted to such darkness is a terrifying mystery to us, though we are confident that law enforcement will uncover many details of the path that he took to this evil and despicable act.
Perhaps Earnest was indeed in the grips of people the Earnest family "do not know, and ideas we do not hold." Still, it seems unpersuasive to say so. We know Earnest was active on the internet site chan8/pol/—a self-styled "politically incorrect" space in the ether for parking all sorts of postings. Some salute Christian white nationalists like "Saint John of Poway and Saint Brenton of Christchurch" (sic). Others assume insincere passive-aggressive, self-pitying stances. One, posted by Owen Benjamin pleads, "I did not want to kill Jews. But they have given us no other option…the Jew—with his genocidal instincts—is insistent on poking the bear." Yeah, right.
Or, another post, this time anonymous, reads "Vigil Held For Annihilated Parasites Of Poway Synagogue Shooting." To be fair, many other posts on chan8/pol/ offered sympathy for Poway victims, made appeals for mutual understanding, and generally denounced hatred. But those quoted stood out for their resemblance to Earnest's wish to eliminate Jews and other perceived enemies.
In particular, the same site hosts numerous posts voicing ideas that the Earnest family would find all too familiar. Populating these sites is a supersessionist or "replacement" theology native to the Earnest family's Orthodox Presbyterian creed. Some of these posts make portentous apocalyptic anti-Semitic threats. These, tellingly, articulate the same "replacement" ideology/theology made notorious in Charlottesville's white Christian nationalist chant of "Jews will not replace us." So, we read in another anonymous angry post:
Even when they're trying to fuck with the truth, the jew has to be the one damaging the world. It's jew pathology, the victim and the aggressor. they cannot see any other way to try to control the narrative. Fuck it jew, we've passed the tipping point and the narrative is now ours to write. [Emphasis mine.]
The author of this post is not about to let Jews "replace" him any more than John T. Earnest accepted that Jews would "replace" him.
Not to single out the Orthodox Presbyterians, it should be noted that all three Abrahamic religions deploy supersessionist talk and often a bloody history to go with it. Each successive installment of Abrahamic religion at some point sees itself as a new and improved version of the older. Each new stage of Abrahamic religion in some way "fulfills," "completes," "supersedes," "replaces," and most often pushes aside the older. The Qur'an marks progress over the New and Old Testaments of the Bible, as the New Testament improves upon the Old. Islam replaces Christianity as Christianity replaces Judaism, and so on. (This is not to say that all or even most Christians, Jews and Muslims believe this, but it is undoubtedly a part of those traditions.)
Typically overlooked by the players in this game of religious "leapfrog" is the fundamentally subjective, and often actively violent, nature of the stories each party tells itself. The ancient Hebrews superseded the Canaanites and Philistines by taking action physically to replace them as inhabitants of the holy land. But who today knows what the Canaanites and Philistines reported about such self-serving Hebrew claims?
In their turn, Christians likewise see themselves as superseding Jews as the Chosen People, establishing a New Israel, allegedly justified in doing so by the genius of Christian "fulfillments" of ancient Jewish prophecies, matched only by the uncanny anticipation those Jewish prophets had of the Christians to come. But last time I checked, no one seems to have polled the Jews about their replacement by Christians as Yahweh's chosen. Such an oversight!
In their confidence of Christian success at displacing Jews from their role as Chosen People, the Earnest family's Orthodox Presbyterians are not special. They line up predictably with a two millennia-long line of Christian apologists. This line of Christian theologians essentially shares the same view of the supersessionist course of salvation history with respect to Judaism.
Unfortunately for Christians, Abrahamic supersessionism doesn't halt for their convenience. Muslims view Muhammad as the "Seal of the Prophets," and Islam as the latest and final stage in a long line of succession and supersession. Small wonder with a serious challenge to Christian supersessionism appearing on the horizon, that Earnest boasted online of his March arson attack on a mosque in Escondido, San Diego County. So, Earnest wasn't prepared to leave matters to Providence here, either, but instead nudged it along by seeking to replace the new Muslim replacers all the while making sure that the long-replaced Jews in Poway stayed securely in place.
So however sincere the Earnest family may have been in absolving their religious community of any connection to the Poway attack, the flood of all that "replacement" theology makes one wonder. When and how can one disaffiliate young John T. Earnest's attempts actually to "replace" Jews and Muslims by physically eliminating them, on the one side, from the theological vision of their "replacement" incessantly preached in his church, on the other? Is someone going to argue that everyday behavior and religious formation occupy different universes of discourse and practice? If so, why bother with preaching, teaching or theologizing at all?
In fixating on Earnest's Orthodox Presbyterians, let's not forgot the Christian figures and denominations that have countered the notion of the replacement of the Jewish people by their alleged divine abandonment. Prominent here is Pope John Paul II's 1980 statement that God's covenant with the Jewish people had never been revoked. This and the earlier work of Vatican II reversed the supersessionist teaching of recent documents, such as Pope Pius XI's Cum Supremae (1928). The LDS Church has likewise rejected it, as have mainline denominations like the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, and the United Church of Christ.
I end, not with solutions, but with two broad clusters of questions.
First, how is it that, despite owning theologies of supersession, few of those Christians have taken up the murderous path of a John T. Earnest? Does this mean that Christians, even in churches retaining a supersessionist outlook, simply don't take replacement theology seriously? By contrast, does Earnest represent what happens when religious beliefs are taken seriously and put into action? Put otherwise, why did Earnest feel obliged to operationalize supersessionist theological discourse into murderous "replacement" practice, when one would have thought he'd trust Divine Providence to accomplish His purposes and do the deed? Or, why do others, equally committed to the same "supersessionist" theology, get by with garden variety bigotry?
Second, by what sort of intellectual gymnastics can religious communities like the Catholics, long committed to supersessionism, all of a sudden dismiss it? Thus, while celebrating the Vatican's refusal to further subscribe to "replacement" theology, how can we square that with what I would call the "deep" supersessionism inscribed into so much Christian theological, institutional, architectural, aesthetic and liturgical discourse and practice? With a well-documented memory of supersessionism at their disposal, Catholic intransigents today never tire of calling out this uneasy disjunction between a dense supersessionist past and a shallow progressivist present. Finally, what does the Orthodox Presbyterian rejection of moves like the Vatican's decision to squelch supersessionism tell us? Does it warn of an excess of theological subtlety and complexity? Does it speak to an appetite of the popular religious partisan will for a more straightforward and uncomplicated kind of theology? Does it speak to a Trumpian passion for "winning," so ably represented by an us/them supersessionism?
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A meeting of mayors
THE LORD Mayor of the City of London visited Manchester in a bid to strengthen ties with key players in UK business. The Rt Hon Nick Anstee is also international ambassador for the financial and professional services community in the UK and and was in the north west to raise the profile of the the industry.
Mayor of the City of London, the Rt Hon Nick Anstee
THE LORD Mayor of the City of London visited Manchester in a bid to strengthen ties with key players in UK business.
The Rt Hon Nick Anstee is also international ambassador for the financial and professional services community in the UK and and was in the north west to raise the profile of the the industry.
He met his counterpart, Lord Mayor of Manchester, Coun Alison Firth, along with prominent business figures from the city and across the region, including representatives from NWDA, pro.manchester and MIDAS.
The event also marked the Manchester launch of TheCityUK, a new promotional body for the UK-based financial and professional services industry.
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The film based on the life of slain SFI activist Abhimanyu, will be hitting screens in the second week of January
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Padmavyoohathile Abhimanyu, a film based on the life of slain SFI activist Abhimanyu, will be released in the second week of January. Vineesh Aradhya directs the film from a story and script penned by himself.
"The film is not just about politics but also serves an important reminder for college students to realise and react against the instances of religious terrorism in campuses. We don't want to see another student experience the same fate," says the filmmaker.
According to Vineesh, a few additional characters were added for dramatic effect. The cast comprises some familiar faces along with new ones. Abhimanyu is played by Akash Aryan, a journalism student from Wayanad, and the female lead is played by Shruti Menon, who is a model and Mrs Kerala runner-up. The film also features Indrans, Anoop Chandran and Sona Nair in supporting roles.
"We believe that we have done justice to Abhimanyu's soul through this film. A sizeable portion from the profits will be set aside for fulfilling his dreams," says Vineesh. One major highlight of the film is the presence of SFI veteran Simon Britto, who plays a role along with his family.
Padmavyoohathile Abhimanyu was majorly shot in Kozhikode, Ernakulam, and Vattavada, the hometown of Abhimanyu. The crew shot in Abhimanyu's house with the blessings and permission of his family. They also filmed at Maharaja's College, Polytechnic College, and Kozhikode Arts and Science College.
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Webster Ave in Cambridge
history, transit
How right-of-ways change over time is fascinating to me. Most of the time, they are only added, which isn't too exciting. Sometimes, though, they are removed, leaving behind clues to past routings.
I first noticed something was weird with webster ave looking at a current map:
There's a weird discontinuity in webster av between cambridge st and willow st. It looks like it wants to run in a straight line, but then it stops for some houses. A closer look:
You can see that there are at least three discontinuous fragments of webster ave left. There are some buildings angled to align with a street that isn't there. And all the houses that don't match look very similar in similar roof coloring, angling, and sizing.
I was pretty sure that there had once been a single webster ave that went through the area, but wanted to find out for sure. Looking at a 1930 map, it's pretty clear that there was:
Looking a little later, a 1969 USGS aerial survey shows what I think is the development under construction, but could be some sort of industrial use of the space:
My guess, primarily from the time of the construction, is that this was built as some kind of public housing development, but I can't find anything to support this online.
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Famous People Born on August 22
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Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908)
French photojournalism pioneer who snapped the liberation of Paris
Corden, James (1978)
The host of TV's The Late Late Show
De Long, George (1844)
The polar explorer who led the U.S.S. Jeannette
Harper, Valerie (1939)
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Libby, Lewis "Scooter" (1950)
Dick Cheney's chief of staff, 2001-2005
Parker, Dorothy (1893)
The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table
Proulx, Annie (1935)
The author of The Shipping News
Riefenstahl, Leni (1902)
Filmmaker who documented Hitler's Germany
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman (1934)
U.S. General during the Persian Gulf War
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Gov's E-Cig Rules Vaporize Ban On Flavored Alternative Nicotine Products
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's emergency rules banning flavored e-cigarettes were released Wednesday without a ban on "flavored alternative nicotine" products, which had been in an earlier rules draft.
Rep. Matt Hall (R-Emmett Twp.) called on Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to drop the ban on the alternative nicotine products, as he hadn't heard kids were using mints or gum at high levels.
Hall's House Oversight Committee held a hearing on the proposed rules last week, and the publicly-available testimony documents include a draft of the rules outlawing the sale of a "flavored vapor product, or flavored alternative nicotine product" in Rule 2(1).
The rules DHHS issued Wednesday feature no such reference to flavored alternative nicotine product in Rule 2(1)(a), which had been defined in the draft rules as "any alternative nicotine product that imparts a characterizing flavor."
Asked about the change, DHHS spokesperson Bob Wheaton said Wednesday at the time the previous rules were being considered in Hall's committee, "we were still discussing and getting input from people — including legislators — so the final rules reflect the further discussion and input."
The rules go into effect immediately and give retailers 14 days to comply, which ban them from selling, transporting and possessing flavored e-cigarettes with the intent of selling them. The penalty for breaking the rules is a misdemeanor, with up to six months in prison, a fine of $200, or both, as possible punishments.
In an open letter to the Governor, Hall commended Whitmer for removing two concerns he said were raised in committee. In addition to the alternative nicotine ban, Hall said the Governor also removed the "presumption that possession of four or more products constitutes an unlawful intent to sell," which Hall said, "could have unfairly criminalized unintentional violations of the rules."
But Hall raised further concerns about Wednesday's rules, including moving up the timeline for retailers to comply from the originally mentioned 30 days to 14 days.
Hall also raised an issue with the advertising regulations applying to all vaping and alternative nicotine products, not just flavored ones, saying it "goes far beyond the purported health emergency." He also said the inclusion of mint and menthol as prohibited flavors is "overly and unnecessarily burdensome."
Other provisions of the emergency rules include:
– A ban on retailers using "imagery explicitly or implicitly representing" a flavor to sell a vapor product.
– A prohibition of using "fraudulent or misleading terms" to sell vapor products, listing examples such as "clean," "safe," "harmless," and "healthy."
– A ban on advertisements for vapor products "within 25 feet of the point of sale" and within 25 feet of "candy, foodstuff or soft drinks."
The DHHS has also filed a request for rulemaking with the intention to finalize permanent rules, as these emergency rules would stay in effect for six months and can be extended another six months.
"Today's filing is necessary to protect the public health," said Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, chief medical executive and chief deputy director for health at DHHS, in a statement. "Youth vaping is a public health emergency and has been declared an epidemic by the U.S. surgeon general. Nicotine in e-cigarettes is harmful to developing brains and has dangerous long-term health consequences such as heart disease and cancer."
The DHHS noted President Donald Trump, as well as New York and California, have followed Michigan in recent weeks in announcing similar actions against flavored e-cigarettes.
Meanwhile, Rep. Beau LaFave (R-Iron Mountain) Wednesday introduced legislation – HB 4996 — to block the Governor from banning flavored vapor products.
"This ban is an over-reach that will potentially make criminals out of adults who are trying to use a safer alternative to kick the habit of traditional tobacco cigarettes," he said. "This will undoubtedly create a black market for these products which could be even more dangerous to public health."


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Human rights sector objectivies are Enhancing human rights practices by raising awareness among the Ministry personnel. Setting plans and developing programs necessary to support human rights according to national law and constitution, in addition to international instruments which Egypt adopted. Communicating with citizens, organizations and institutions concerned with the same field according to the national law.
-Enhancing human rights practices by raising awareness among the Ministry personnel.
-Setting plans and developing programs necessary to support human rights according to national law and constitution, in addition to international instruments which Egypt adopted.
-Promoting human rights culture among the Ministry personnel through training courses, conferences, seminars, and workshops in coordination with all competent bodies of MOI.
-Detecting any violation of human rights that may occur in any of the police facilities to be considered and recovered by Information and Public relations Sector.
-Coordinating with security authorities to oversee reconciliation committees at all Security Directorates. Such committees aim at controlling actions of retaliation and avoiding serious consequences in order to maintain stability all over the country.
-Inspecting police stations, administrations and sectors that render various services to citizens such as: Traffic- Passports-Civil Status-Work Permits).This inspection aims at ensuring adherence to national law and constitution, and raising awareness of officers and sub officers to achieve their missions with respect to all citizens.
The idea of his presence began in the form of a Higher Committee for Human Rights since the issuance of Ministerial Decision No. 22562 of 2001 and its amendments. It was then developed until the Minister of Interior's decision No. 2694 for the year 2012 regarding the establishment of the human rights sector in the Ministry of Interior. On the definition of the specific competences and duties of the organs of the human rights sector.
-Spreading the culture and concepts of human rights among employees of the ministry.
-Holding training courses and organizing conferences, seminars and workshops in coordination with the competent ministry.
-Monitor any violations of human rights in policing sites and identify the causes and motives, and discuss ways to remove them and how to remedy them and information about the facts through the media and relations with the ministry.
- Spreading the culture and concepts of human rights among employees of the ministry.
- Holding training courses and organizing conferences, seminars and workshops in coordination with the competent ministry.
- Monitor any violations of human rights in policing sites and identify the causes and motives, and discuss ways to remove them and how to remedy them and information about the facts through the media and relations with the ministry.
- Coordinating with the security services to follow up the work of reconciliation committees in all security departments with the aim of contributing to contain the revenge deductions to prevent any security repercussions.
Firstly . The Ministry of Interior is responsible for the interaction of the human rights sector with the aim of interaction, cooperation and positive communication with governmental and private bodies, institutions and organizations following coordination with relevant ministry bodies, including transferring ideas and experiences, exchanging experiences and knowledge, and eliminating any causes that cause tension between The police and its components.


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Armed Herdsmen Kill 5 In Benue
Suspected Fulani herdsmen have killed five farmers at Ukemberagya district, near Anyii, in Logo local government area of Benue State.
Anyii is the country home of former Governor of the state, Gabriel Suswam and was the last Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp Vice President Yemi Osinbajo visited before returning to Abuja later on Wednesday.
The Vice President visited the state on a peace mission on Wednesday.
A community leader, Chief Joseph Anawah, told The Nation on phone that the attackers who were armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the settlements in Ukemberagya at 6:30 a.m. and operated for about three hours.
"They moved from one village to another, shot sporadically and razed houses," he said.
Anawah listed those killed as Bem Torjem, Apedzan Chia and Ikpuku Korya.
The spokesman of the state police command, Moses Yamu, said he has not been briefed on the incident.


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Amy Grant Receives 2022 Kennedy Center Honor
Congratulations to Amy Grant on the 2022 Kennedy Center Honor
GRAMMY® Award winner Amy Grant receives the 2022 Kennedy Center Honor.
The Kennedy Center Honors recognize artists and their work in music and film.
Alongside Amy Grant, notable actors and musicians such as George Clooney, U2, and Gladys Knight were also inducted as Kennedy Center Honorees.
Grant writes,
"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine ever receiving this prestigious Kennedy Center Honor."
"Through the years I've watched so many of my heroes serenaded by colleagues and fellow artists, always moved by the ability of music and film to bring us together and to see the best in each other."
"I cannot wait to celebrate with my fellow honorees, friends and family. Thank you for widening the circle to include all of us."
"Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Amy Grant became the first artist to bring contemporary Christian music to the forefront of American culture, then equally thrived after crossing over into mainstream pop with hit after hit, and today is revered as the 'Queen of Christian Pop.'" David M. Rubenstein, Kennedy Center Chairman, shared in a statement.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine ever receiving this prestigious Kennedy Center Honor," Amy Grant shared on Facebook.
"Through the years, I've watched so many of my heroes serenaded by colleagues and fellow artists, always moved by the ability of music and film to bring us together and to see the best in each other."
"I cannot wait to celebrate with my fellow honorees, friends, and family. Thank you for widening the circle to include all of us."
The Kennedy Center Honors ceremony will be broadcasted this December on CBS. For more information about the Kennedy Center Honors, click here.
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Nell Painter. Counterpoint, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-64009-061-3
A history professor in her 60s takes a break from teaching at Princeton University to go to art school in this witty and perceptive memoir. After enrolling at Rutgers University in the fall of 2007, Painter (The History of White People), quickly immerses herself in her drawing and painting classes as she wryly observes her younger classmates "upholding art-school sartorial drama in bright yellow hair and piercings." She notes that her fellow students, who know far less of the world than she does, are better painters, and she explores how her thinking as a historian hobbles her as an artist. Her "20th century eyes favored craft... narrative and meaning" while her 21st century classmates and teachers preferred the "DIY aesthetic" and appropriation from popular culture (e.g., cartoons, pornography). Painter goes on to attend graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she feels like a misfit as the oldest—and only black—student in her class, and is also unappreciated for her intellectual sophistication, though she ultimately develops her own aesthetic and confidence in her work. This is a courageous, intellectually stimulating, and wholly entertaining story of one woman reconciling two worlds and being open to the possibilities and changes life offers. (June)
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Pipeline opponents in Quebec and Ontario launch buying campaigns in support of B.C. wines
by Travis Lupick on February 7th, 2018 at 4:11 PM
Alberta's boycott of B.C. wines could have an unintended effect of raising sales across the rest of Canada.
Yesterday (February 7), Premier Rachel Notley announced Alberta would ban wine imports from B.C. The boycott is in response to Premier John Horgan ordering additional reviews of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline project that will likely delay construction.
Albertans spend about $70 million a year on B.C. wines and so the boycott could really hurt West Coast vineyards. But now wine drinkers in other provinces are pledging to purchase the grapes that Albertans don't want.
"Ottawa residents have staged a #BCwine buycott in response to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's announcement," reads a 350 Canada Facebook post. "Her plan has backfired and now people across the country have been going out to buy BC wine, and posting selfies using the hashtag #toastthecoast. That's because not only is BC wine great, but also because people across Canada respect science, Indigenous rights, our climate, and all of the local businesses that support communities from coast to coast."
https://twitter.com/equiterre/status/961289862757396481
Even further east, residents of Quebec are buying B.C. wines and posting photographs of their purchases with the hashtag "#QCLovesBCWine".
"Let's go buy wine en masse from the west coast to show our support for the opposition to Kinder Morgan," reads a Facebook page in support of that campaign (translated from French).
https://twitter.com/patbonin/status/961275044260470784
A video posted on the Ontario group's Facebook page shows a small crowd of pipeline opponents purchasing every bottle of B.C. wine that was available in the liquor store they visited.
"We officially cleaned them out," a woman says. "They don't have any B.C. wine left."
Today (February 7) Horgan said that B.C. would not respond to Notley's wine boycott with any punitive move against commodities exported from Alberta.
"I don't think it's in anyone's interests to have dueling premiers," he told reporters.
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Premier Rachel Notley announces halt to B.C. wine imports into Alberta


This might be a little premature because I don't have my copy, yet, but the documentation for the new version along with the latest Standalone software is up, and I've been sifting through both to check out the new features. Not a lot of new stuff, but the new stuff is pretty cool. I'm going to start with the stuff that isn't mentioned in the new version marketing on Digi's website.
First up is a little thing buried towards the back of the documentation, but this is one of the coolest features for me because it was my idea and I specifically requested this feature. It is a very simple thing; you can now bypass a snapshot crossfade. This is so cool because if you are a snapshot junkie like me, you've probably got a lot of different cues with varying crossfade times. However, I think in any type of programming situation there are times when you need to get everything to just jump into place because someone went off script. Now you simply recall the same snapshot at anytime during the crossfade, and it instantly recalls. Here's another place I'll use this. I like to step through all my cues in a given event, but sometimes those crossfade times can draw this out–I've used 45 second crossfades before… Now when I'm checking things, I can quickly move through my cues to make sure everything is working right.
Another great addition is the ability to remove unavailable plugins from the plugin drop down lists. If you've only mixed on one Venue and haven't moved show files between different systems this shouldn't have been much of a problem. In past versions, however, any plugins you might have used or installed at one time would remain in the plugins list whether they were available on the system; unavailable plugins would be in italics. When I first moved down here I started with some old shows I had and infected the NP Venue by adding plugins to the list that we don't have. The problem soon spread up to Browns Bridge and is probably getting passed between Buckhead as well now that some of us are moving from campus to campus. Our plugin libraries are not currently consistent between campuses as the audio staff at each has slightly different tastes as well as different packages that were available when the consoles were purchased. Our plugin lists are very long at NP, but first thing I'm going to do when I install the new software is clean all that extra stuff out of my templates so that I can find the stuff we do have much faster. Very nice.
One of the feature mentioned on Digi's site was the ability to export system information. While that probably won't get a lot of use from me at present, they have modified the standalone software patch list export to match the system info export. This was previously exported as a text file, but is now an HTML file. I initially had mixed feelings about this because I used to import those text files into Excel to incorporate into our input lists. I think the new format in some ways will help because the previous exports only included inputs that were in use so if there were any gaps between inputs it could throw off my data imports. Now you get a list of all available I/O whether it's in use or not. The patch list export and system info export tweaks will probably benefit the touring set more than myself, but I think I'll be able to make them work. Excel will open HTML files so there shouldn't be a lot of tweaking involved in my system.
Now the biggest feature I was looking forward to when the upgrade was announced was the ability to add blank channels. These are basically spacers you can insert between channels that take up no DSP. The advantage is if you are running a show with less than 96 channels, you can move things on the lower banks so that you don't have channels way out of reach because those banks aren't filled. I played with this for a while on the standalone software, and I have to say it feels a little clunky to me. I think it will be easier to do sitting at the console so this is probably not something I would be setting up in advance on the standalone software. Once a channel blank is inserted, it can't be easily moved. Moving a channel(s) to the left or right of the blank will shift the blank(s), but you can't just move the blanks in the same way you move a real channel. Inserting multiple blanks is done by selecting x number of channels for x number of blanks you want to insert in front of the selection of channels. For quickly shifting a few channels from the left of the desk closer to the master section, this should be OK. However, for doing more specific setups to put blanks under channels I want to bank safe, it's probably going to take some time to get everything set just right. I'll experiment more with this when I have the upgrade installed hopefully in time for the concert this week.
That's all for now I think. There are a couple more things I might comment on once I have the software installed. All in all, this is looking like a must-have update for the Venue. The channel blanks and bank safe ability(I'll comment on that after playtime) alone will be worth it despite any clunkiness. I'll post an update when I've tried things on the console instead of just the standalone software.


When we lived in New Jersey, our dear friend and neighbor would make us Corn Souffle for Christmas Eve. I have been looking for her recipe for years and finally found it. It's also called Sweet Corn Spoonbread in the south. Being from the west coast, I just know that it tastes amazing!
If you love cornbread, you are going to go bonkers over this Easy Sweet Corn Spoonbread! I made it for Christmas Eve supper and when I tasted it, I wanted it all to myself! Too bad my family smelled it and they all wanted to know what I was cooking.
It was gone in a matter of minutes! I heard a lot of "mmmmmmm so delicious Mom"! It's super easy to make and it is now my favorite side dish. Although I could eat it just as my main meal! It's like a corn souffle but so much better!
Here's What You Will Need for this recipe: Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, Cream Style Corn, Whole Kernel Corn, Butter, Sour Cream, Eggs, Salt.
Pour the mixture into a greased 2 Quart Casserole Dish.
Bake until the spoonbread no longer jiggles.
I'm telling you this is so delicious! You are going to love it!
A delicious side dish! Spoon it into chili, serve with soups or just have it as a main meal!
Preheat the oven to 375° and grease a 2-quart casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray.
Bake 45 to 50 minutes, or until the spoonbread is set and not jiggly.
This the most delicious corn bread pudding I have ever had.
Hard to eat just a little of it. thanks Nettie for posting this.
Your Sweet Corn Spoonbread looks fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday, we have really enjoyed it. Hope you have a great day and come back soon!


When you are first getting started at affiliate marketing is very easy to fall victim to some common pitfalls. Here are a few common ones below.
One of the most common pitfalls for new affiliate marketers is to think that you have to know and learn everything before you build your website. It's easy to get caught up in this type of thinking. The best way to learn affiliate marketing is to simply apply what you read. One of the best pieces of advice I've come across is that for every one hour you spend reading/studying affiliate marketing, spend one hour implementing those techniques.
Another common pitfall for new affiliate marketers is getting caught in a cycle of buying every single program that is presented to you. It's very easy to get caught up in this.
You want to learn about affiliate marketing. You go online do some research and come across a site that offers great tips to get started. They have an offer to give you a free "getting started course" if you join their email list. You figure "why not? What do I have to lose?" So you join their email list and they give you a lot of valuable information. So far, so good.
After that they email you with a "must have" system that's "newest and greatest thing" that will have you making more money in one month in one month than the average person makes in a year. As if that isn't great enough, they claim that you can make this time of money in less than a month!
Since this person already gave you great information you trust them, and you end up buying the course. A few days later you might get another email, this time they are promoting a different product that is a "must have". You can see how knowing this information will help you build your affiliate marketing business, so you buy it.
Every so often you get a new product promotion. As you buy each new product you get added to a new email list. Each new email list that you are added to promote what they think are the best products. You keep on buying. Each new product fits into the vision that you have for your affiliate marketing business. Each new product is going to give you the edge over other people.
A few months later, if you're lucky, you realize that you have nothing to show for your "efforts". All you really have done is spend hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars(like me) on internet marketing courses. You don't even have a website .
A lot of these courses you might not even have gone through before you moved onto buying the next course. Instead you placed them on the "backburner". They're sitting in a folder on your desktop and you'll come back to them once you have time, but you never have time since you're always chasing the "magic bullet" that will make you easy money online.
If you can avoid the two pitfalls I've mentioned above then you are already ahead of the game. Basically what you want to do is find a solid affiliate marketing training course. Once you found one that you like and is suitable to you stick with it. Don't go purchasing other courses. Implement it. You'll learn far more by implementing than you will just by buying courses.
Things may not go to plan. Be willing to persist and work through problems as they arise. If you can't figure how to do something, be proactive and ask for help or search for solutions. Don't just call it quits for the day, every time you do that you delay your success.
The best suggestion I can make is do something every day. Your efforts in affiliate marketing are cumulative. Over time a simple action such as making a blog post every day leads to massive results. If you make one blog post a day in a year you will have 365 pieces of content on your website. That is a lot of content.
Now imagine the opposite thing. If you go around buying course after course what will you have in one year? Most likely an empty checking account, and MAYBE a blog with 20 posts.
One of the hardest things to do, for me at least, is to focus and take consistent action. I believe if you can do those two things you are setting yourself up for success.


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September 2017 Camino report
We had no speaker for the September meeting, and were instead treated to a slide show of photos with commentary, from the successful Caministas who are safely returned from their adventures.
The route chosen by Penny (an experienced tour guide on the Camino) took them through south-western France and then across the top of Spain to Santiago de Compostela, though some of the trip was taken on wheels. It's a very long and demanding trip; the group walked all the nicest bits and clocked an impressive number of kilometres. [photos: Jude Dodd]
There was surprisingly little said about spiritual uplift; more on the inexplicable shortage of vegetables in the rest stop kitchens; quite a lot about sore feet and getting lost or starting late. A lot of photos were breathtakingly beautiful. The non-walkers wished we had been there, but didn't begrudge the ones who went.
Photos here show the group in Paris about to leave on the train; a stop in a Camino castle/hostel in the Lot; and a meeting in Santiago with Carlos Mella, secretary general of the Galician branch of the "pensionistas y jubilados" organisation for pensioners and retirees, CCOO
(Comisiones Obreras, Workers' Commissions, the largest trade union in Spain). (Galician retirees are called "xubilados" as the language spoken is closer to Portuese than Spanish is; either spelling sounds great to me, and preferable to the English "retiree" which we have to put up with.)


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Shukran Rewards High Performance, Going the Extra Mile
Fifteen staff members were honored with the Shukran award for exceptional professional performance and dedication to AUC in a special ceremony this week. Recipients received gifts and certificates at the award ceremony, organized by the Office of Human Resources, which honored the following individuals.
Dr. Suzan Michel Fouad, physician, Office Medical Services
Nader Mohamed Tewfik Abdalla, manager, Office of Business Support
Rehab Farouk Mohamed Habashy, executive assistant to chair, Department of Architecture
Amira Mohamed Mahmoud El Deeb, Department of Career Development, School for Continuing Education
Mariam Gamal Demian, video conference and streaming media service officer, Classroom Technologies and Media Services
Hanaa Shawki Mahmoud Abdel Aal, coordinator III, Office of the Controller
Fatma Mohamed Soliman, team leader, housekeeping, Office of Facilities and Operations
Alaa Eldin Hassan Ali, representative, ID services, Office of Safety and Security
Ahmed Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed, nurse, Office of Medical Services
Maha Mohamed Ramy Hussein Tantawy, accountant, Office of the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Iman Abdalla Shehata, coordinator I, psychology lab and clinic, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology
Ayman Hassan Maamoun Serag, senior specialist, ELI computing support, Department of English Language Instruction
Mona Mohamed Ali Khalil, specialist, student certification, Strategic Enrollment Management, School of Continuing Education
Sabry Abdallah Anglew, clerk 1, program, Engineering and Science Services
Ramadan Mohamed Afifi Abdel Moneim (deceased), Driver, Office of Transportation
"What I've detected since coming here are these pockets of positive energy at AUC," said President Francis J. Ricciardone. "It is these pockets, groups and individuals that will help us all go from very good to great, and also to go from 'me' culture to 'we' culture. The performances of people like today's awardees are what will get us there."
Brian MacDougall, executive vice president for finance and administration, also commended this distinctive group at the reception. "This program identifies high performers across the University who made an important contribution to its overall success," he said. "For a university to work, everyone needs to have focus and commitment, and all of our honorees display the character of the staff that we are so proud of. Collectively, all the honorees have provided 200 years of service to the University, and that in itself is an impressive accomplishment."
For Shehata, who has worked at AUC for 26 years, the University is a second home. "Being appreciated by the Shukran award strengthened my sense of belonging to the lovely AUC community," she said. "This award would have not been possible without the inspiration of the psychology faculty."
Habashy has also dedicated about 20 years to AUC, working for three different departments and gaining valuable experience along the way. "I feel proud and happy to receive this award," she said. "It is a motivation for further hard work and stronger devotion to my job."
Habashy also expressed gratitude for her colleagues who have supported her during her time at AUC. "Many colleagues helped me during those years. Specifically, Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeid supported and encouraged me a lot. Currently, Ahmed Sherif, the chair of the Department of Architecture, is giving me support and encouragement, as well as all faculty in the department."
Tantawy also thanked her colleague Mohamed Ahmadein for his continuous support and guidance, his diligence in clarifying the scope of work, which directly reflected on her work and resulted in her receiving Shukran award. "This kind of award, as well as appreciation through kind words, motivates us recipients in a way that improves productivity and enhances performance," she noted. "I feel very fortunate to be able to work in such a positive environment. This unexpected recognition of my efforts gives me a sense of security and confidence. I will redouble my efforts in serving AUC to the best of my abilities. I will enjoy doing so, as I find great satisfaction in working here, and I really like my job."
Following his recent passing, Moneim was specially honored. Moneim has served AUC for 20 years. According to his colleagues, he exemplified a positive attitude and high performance, and he carried out a wide variety of tasks dilligently throughout his service. Moneim's son accepted the award on his father's behalf.


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Before the coronavirus-induced quarantine gripped New York City in mid-March, passing thoughts of designing a vegetable garden for his weekend home elicited hesitation for Andrew Joseph. "It seemed like too much work for a weekend getaway," says the PR agent who represents designers and industry pros that include Kyle Bunting and Victoria Sanchez.
But over the past four-plus months, as Joseph and his romantic partner, Paul Pearson, typically based in Manhattan, have been working remotely from their weekend home—set off a country road on four acres "without a neighbor in sight" in the Catskills region of upstate New York—the garden idea began to take hold.
A view of Andrew Joseph's vegetable garden from the house.
"We thought we might be here a few weeks or a month, but it seems more like we'll be here through 2021 unless we see a vaccine in the near future," says Joseph, who has owned the property since May 2017. He'd already spent time caring for the grounds. "The very first purchase I made when we signed off on the house was a lawn mower and bamboo for the front gardens. Over the next two years, I spent weekends filling in the slope down the hill to our yard in the back of the house and filling out the front with flowers and bushes of all varieties. In March, at the beginning of 'lockdown 2020' when things seemed much more uncertain than they do now, my client Alan Tanksley sent me a quote from Audrey Hepburn: 'To build a garden is to believe in the future.' That's when the seed [for a vegetable garden] was planted in my mind."
Roses grow just alongside the vegetable garden.
He began by shopping local nurseries for seeds, planting them in recycling tins and bottles, and "scouring Pinterest" for several potential design options. "I narrowed the designs down to seven and then ran a social-media contest to ask friends to vote on what they liked—the resounding winner was my favorite, and I went with the design you see," he explains.
He tapped Maryline Damour, principal designer at design/construction firm Damour Drake, who happens to be a client. Damour also designed and built the tables and benches.
The pair's timing was ideal. "I was really lucky that I started the process in late March, early April. At that time, contractors were not allowed to be in homes but were allowed to work outside. If you want to hire a contractor in the Hudson Valley from May forward, good luck! Everyone is booked through the end of the year," says Joseph. "As everyone who is captive to their homes knows, improvements are front and center," particularly during shelter-in-place orders.
Recent bounty.
Damour approached the garden as though it were an outdoor room of the home. "As an interior designer who also designs gardens, I think of them as rooms in nature with walls, floors, et cetera," she says. "I started with the fence design because it's the biggest element. To maintain a modern look, I made the gate disappear by treating it as part of the overall fence design and installing hidden hardware. The design and placement of the raised beds provides visual interest when nothing is growing—and pea gravel is a good textural contrast to the smooth wood. I also announced the entrance to the garden with beds on either side of the gate outside the fence. This, along with the flagstone path connecting the garden to the house, gives a bit of ceremony to entering this outdoor space."
Joseph is honing his caretaking techniques.
For Joseph, the growth of the garden's bounty has coincided with his firm's growth during an otherwise chaotic period. "Damour/Drake built the garden in no time flat, and I was up and running about two weeks after making the decision to move forward with my 'pandemic victory garden,'" he says. "The plan for the garden was simple—and complex."
Maryline Damour of Damour/Drake imagined the garden as an additional room of the house.
"Luckily, my business did not take a significant hit once the pandemic took hold," he continues. "Yes, I lost some clients towards the beginning, but I have also signed on some very talented designers and makers.… Everyone knows there are copious benefits from gardening: eating healthier, keeping your immune system boosted with both exercise and vitamin D, improving your mood, reducing stress. And, ultimately, through the process, finding the symbolic parallels that gardening has with public relations—or for that matter, growing any business, small or large."
Inside the garden.
The build, maintenance, and growth of the garden have provided a discipline, and a satisfaction, that impacts both Joseph's daily routine and his approach to work. "I think I have improved my craft as a public relations professional through the art and science of gardening," he says. "I water every day at 6 a.m., the minute the sun is up. It is the quietest part of my day before news and podcasts and client calls and emails. What I believe I have learned: Growing a garden requires labor and keen attention. Watching little pods turn into full-grown plants is quite a joy. Making your garden thrive is not an occasional blitz. It requires long hours of dedicated nurturing, digging, watering, and weeding."
Currently Joseph is focused on harvesting late-summer vegetables.
Now, as the summer's dog days roll on, he is occupied with harvesting. There are also structural updates to be made and tweaked; recently, he worked with Chris Valencia of Valencia Landscapes on a garden addition.
"Since we are in the Catskill mountains, I quickly learned digging new beds is not as simple as it seems, as there are not just rocks but boulders in the ground. I worked with Chris to build an extra flower bed that surrounds the 25-by-25 foot, fenced-in veggie garden," notes Joseph.
"I am about to harvest a good part of the garden and am learning what plants you can replace for a late summer yield," he reflects: "okra, eggplants, onions, kale, green beans. What I really need to learn next is how to savor the season for the duration of the year, enjoying the fruits of my labor. And patience."
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From the poetry collection From Sarajevo with Sorrow, translated by Amela Simic and published by Biblioasis in 2005.
without rules, without a farewell.
and then withdraw before news of the war.
like a breeze through the curtains of an abandoned apartment.
And we forget their names.
was shelled so heavily we had to hide in his grave.
and piled them in a shoebox.
they started to make paper airplanes.
They were written in invisible ink.
before we carried him out of the basement.
He had never bought batteries or tried to switch it on.
It is snowing outside. Just like last year.
Or have I already deciphered the message?
for letters to nobody, and diaries in which nothing is written?
While it is snowing outside. Just like last year.


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Q: Model selection: Comparing nested models without likelihood Say I have a set of three models $M = \{M_1, M_2, M_3\}$ that are nested, i.e. $M_1$ is a constrained version of $M_2$ which again is a constrained version of $M_3$. I have a set of data $X$ with some empricial (univariate) distribution. Each of my models generates data with some univariate distribution like this and I would like to know which model fits the empirically observed distribution best. At the same time I would like to penalize model complexity, i.e. the number of free parameters. Unfortunately I can not calculate the likelihood of the data under each of my models and use a BIC or AIC for model selection.
Is there any way I can assess goodness of fit of nested models (while penalizing complexity) that is not likelihood-based?
Ideally, the criterion for goodness of fit would be some distance measure betweeen the distributions.


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Cervical Spondylomyelopathy (Wobbler Syndrome)
What is cervical spondylomyelopathy (wobbler syndrome)?
Cervical spondylomyelopathy, commonly referred to as wobbler syndrome, is a disease of the spine within the neck, resulting in poor transmission of nerve signals between the brain and the body.
There can be various morphological problems of the bones of the neck in affected dogs. Most frequently, these bony abnormalities predispose to problems with the intervertebral discs, which degenerate and protrude against the spinal cord. Accompanying problems are instability of the spine in the neck region and reactive changes of the facet joints. These changes can result in further compression of the spinal cord.
In addition, compression of the spinal cord may be affected by different positioning of the neck. As a result, movement of the neck in affected dogs may result in repetitive trauma to the spinal cord. Lastly, these dogs may also be affected with spasms of the muscles of the neck.
What is the cause of wobbler syndrome?
Wobbler syndrome is primarily genetic in cause, however dietary factors may be contributory. There is evidence in the literature to suggest that affected Doberman Pinschers have a reduced size of the neck spinal canal compared to normal dogs of the same breed, which may increase their risk of development of the disease. In addition, increased rotation of the 'lower' neck spine may explain why wobbler syndrome commonly affects that area.
How do I know if my dog has wobbler syndrome?
Affected dogs tend to be large or giant breeds. Dogs can show signs of wobbler syndrome throughout life. Giant breeds such as Great Danes are often affected when they are young adults, whereas Doberman Pinschers are often middle-aged when they first develop clinical signs. Clinical signs vary according to the severity and duration of spinal cord compression. The most common clinical sign of wobbler syndrome is a 'wobbly', uncoordinated gait, with a tendency to stumble and scuff their feet. Some dogs have neck pain, although many do not show any sign of discomfort. Signs can progress to complete paralysis of all four limbs.
Various other diseases produce clinical signs similar to wobbler syndrome. These include spinal fractures, tumours of the spinal cord, other congenital abnormalities, clotting disorders, metabolic disease (such as hypothyroidism and Cushing's syndrome), meningitis and even certain parasitic infections.
How is wobbler syndrome diagnosed?
Typical gait pattern that may be observed in a dog with cervical disc disease.
Wobbler syndrome is caused by pathology associated with the intervertebral discs between the bones of the vertebral column or a malformation of the bones that make up the cervical vertebral column. The diagnosis is confirmed using an MRI scan to examine the spinal cord and the discs between the cervical vertebrae. A CT scan can then be used to examine the shape of the bones of vertebral column. In some dogs, adjunctive tests such as blood tests or spinal fluid collection may be indicated to help confirm the diagnosis.
How is wobbler syndrome treated?
The best treatment for wobbler syndrome depends on the cause and severity of the problem, as well as the suspected duration of spinal cord compression. Your neurology clinician will advise you of the most suitable treatment for your dog on an individual basis.
Non-surgical management
Non-surgical management may allow some stabilisation of the condition, at least in the short term. It is only recommended for dogs with mild pathology (small disc bulges) and very slow disease progression. Ongoing physical therapy is vital and this is facilitated by the support of our fully equipped Rehabilitation Service with a team of chartered physiotherapists and hydrotherapists. The following non-surgical treatments are available:
Exercise modification – absolute rest in the short-term and modified exercise in the long-term.
Physical therapy, manipulative therapies, laser therapy, ultrasound therapy.
Decompressive surgery (ventral slot)
A good analogy for the intervertebral disc is a jam doughnut. Disc disease can involve either extrusion (akin to the jam squeezing out) or protrusion (akin to a bulge in part of the spongy part of the doughnut). For dogs affected only by extrusion or protrusion of the intervertebral disc with no evidence of instability or compression of the nerve roots, surgical decompression by ventral slot may be appropriate. This involves removal of a window of bone within the casing of the spinal canal, allowing us to remove any bulging or ruptured intervertebral disc material that might be compressing the spinal cord.
Vertebral distraction-fusion
Over recent years, we have developed a very effective surgical treatment for dogs with wobbler syndrome where compression of the nerve roots is present and pathological instability is suspected. In addition, cervical vertebral distraction-fusion will address spinal cord compression associated with different positions of the neck (dynamic lesions) and prevent ongoing repetitive trauma to the spinal cord.
This technique involves distraction (stretching) of the adjacent vertebrae by placing a custom-made titanium bolt as a spacer device called a FITS (Fitz intervertebral traction screw) and using a universal linkage system called the Fitz Universal Spinal System (FUSS). A cervical Fitzateur was also developed specifically for this technique. Bone marrow harvested from the upper arm bones (humeri) encourages permanent biological fusion of the vertebrae facilitated by the plates, rods and screws. Because the implants are custom made and 3D printed based on the patients CT scan, the implants fit like a glove and this considerably reduces the risk of one of the screws damaging the spinal cord.
This unique spinal fusion system was designed and developed by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and has been used successfully in a number of dogs with wobbler syndrome. This system is currently only available at Fitzpatrick Referrals and we offer more options for cervical vertebral distraction-fusion than anywhere else in the world.
In a recently published study of dogs undergoing cervical vertebral distraction-fusion for wobbler syndrome at our orthopaedic hospital, bone fusion was documented in all dogs with long-term CT scan assessment. In addition, 94% of cases improved significantly six weeks postoperatively.
Success rates for the surgery largely depend on the duration of the problem and the presenting clinical severity. Dogs able to walk at the time of presentation have a significantly better prognosis compared with paralysed dogs. High-quality postoperative care is particularly important to avoid complications and to allow full rehabilitation after surgery.
The new Spinal Fitzateaur – This unique spinal fusion system was designed and developed by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and has been used successfully in a number of dogs with wobbler syndrome.
Should your dog have surgery with us, they will be cared for by a multidisciplinary patient care team to include our ward nurse team, ward auxiliary team and chartered physiotherapists. The chartered physiotherapists will design a unique physiotherapy plan designed exclusively for the patient on an individual basis.
Cervical disc prosthesis (disc replacement)
Cervical disc replacement was developed due to the potential benefit of preserving motion of the neck in dogs affected with wobbler syndrome. The preservation of motion may prevent wobbler syndrome developing in adjacent locations in the dog's neck.
The Fitz-Disc is a revolutionary new spinal disc replacement developed by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and has been used in a number of clinical cases to offer bespoke solutions to unique spinal issues. The implants are manufactured using CT scans and consist of titanium bone on-growth plates placed between the vertebrae with a dome of cobalt chromium gliding on a saucer-shaped disc of a special plastic called polyether ketone. The implant is anchored to the adjacent vertebrae using screws. Early clinical data has been encouraging.


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Q: Merge two Documents in Solr I have two Documents(.csv), i want to merge it. Is it possible?
Here a example
Document1:
<doc>
 <arr name="id">
  <long>200000000</long>
 </arr>
 <arr name="Name">
  <str>Sample</str>
 </arr>
 <arr name="first_name">
  <str>Sally</str>
 </arr>
</doc>

Document2:
<doc>
 <arr name="id">
  <long>200000000</long>
 </arr>
 <arr name="Street">
  <str>Any Street</str>
 </arr>
 <arr name="State">
  <str>Any State</str>
 </arr>
</doc>

It should look like this:
<doc>
 <arr name="id">
  <long>200000000</long>
 </arr>
 <arr name="Name">
  <str>Sample</str>
 </arr>
 <arr name="first_name">
  <str>Sally</str>
 </arr>
 <arr name="Street">
  <str>Any Street</str>
 </arr>
 <arr name="State">
  <str>Any State</str>
 </arr>
</doc>

How can I do this in Solr? Should I create a second core and merge it somehow?
Or what can I do?

A: Yes it is possible, you just do these:

*

*index first doc Document1

*using partial updates you update that doc, with the additional data:
{"id":"200000000",
"Street":{"add":["Any Street"]},
"State":{"add":["Any State"]}
}

There is just a requirement: all your fields must be stored (stored="true") or docValues(docValues="true")

A: Merging cores won't help here. As mentioned in detail at Apache Solr Reference, to merge indexes, they must meet some requirements:
The two indexes must be compatible: their schemas should include the same fields and they should analyze fields the same way.
Now it depends on your use case.

*

*In case you have both updates csv files available at same time you can write a DataImportHandler(for multiple sources) to merge data from both csv files and index on Solr

*You can define fields for both documents in schema. And can index the first csv file. And partial update the index with second csv file

A: You should merge those csv files yourself if possible. It is a common problem, you could - for example - use a Unix join utility.
If you absolutely have to do it on the Solr side AND you cannot convert one of the files into atomic update, you can keep an eye out on SOLR-9530, but it is not yet released.


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City Council Unanimously Passes Pasay Environmental Code
Todo Bira News 10/17/2015 05:39:00 PM
(Landowners, Businesses, Lessees Required to Green Area;
Bans Use of Plastic-based Bags Even If Classified As "Compostable")
Members of the Pasay City Council unanimously passed the "Environmental Code of Pasay" effective last October 6 to "ensure that residents of the City, present and future generations, will enjoy a balanced and healthful ecology in accord with the rhythm and harmony of nature".
Pasay City Mayor Antonino Calixto said that "this landmark legislation stresses the resolve of the City Government to address the climate change concern and the issue of sustainable development. We will implement the full force of the Law."
An important provision of the Pasay Environmental Code is Section 9 where all landowners, whether public or private, are required to plant herbal medicinal, vegetative, ornamental, shade and fruit bearing trees. If and when the flora dies, it must be replaced.
Moreover, every owner or lessee of newly built structures will be required by the City Engineer and Building Official of Pasay to put up a greening area/portion of the land where the building is to be constructed.
Household and small businesses such as as salons, sari-sari stores and clinics are required to maintain a minimum of 3 pots of plants.
Buildings, establishments such as condominiums, factories, companies, hotels, convention centers and malls are required to devote 10 percent (10%) of the total floor areas for Pasay greening program.
Further, commercial and industrial establishments are mandated five percent of their total floor area.
The City Engineer or the Building Official of the City Government will not issue and/or approve the building permit unless the said area allocated for greening shall have been set aside and complied with.
"In an urban setting such as Pasay, we need to maximize our spaces but we should still provide green spaces for plants to grow," the Mayor said.
In addition, the Pasay Environmental Code bans of the use of all forms of plastic carryout bags. The provision stated that "no person, business establishment, operator, seller, or any similar entity, shall provide a plastic carryout bag, whether or not such bag has been classified as compostable."
The use of all forms of styrofor products for packing, storing or serving food products or packaging of other goods is also banned.
"We have noticed that plastic bags consist of 90% of the total waste materials in our waterways. This has been the major cause of clogging and flooding in areas near the riverside," Calixto stressed.
Any store or business establishment that violates or fails to comply with the Code provision, after a due written notice has been served, shall be guilty of an infraction.
For subsequent violations, the following penalties have been imposed upon the owner or operator of the store; Warning for the first violation; an Administrative Fine not exceeding P1,000.00 for the second violation; and, P3,000.00 for the third violation.
Closure of the business or cancellation of the Business Permit will be meted for the final violation.
The Environmental Code also requires every barangay to set up a Barangay Environmental Desk to address and report violations of the Environmental Code.
"The role of the barangay is very important. We should educate each and every citizen of Pasay to do its part to save the environment. I believe that this is the first step towards a cleaner and greener Pasay," Calixto said.
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Photovoltaics International Archive
Understanding moisture ingress and packaging requirements for photovoltaic modules
Photovoltaics International Papers, Thin Film
Outside of the challenges of fabricating state-of-the-art photovoltaic devices, further care must be taken to package them such that they can withstand environmental conditions for an accepted lifetime of 20-plus years. Moisture ingress is a big adversary to hermetic packaging. The diffusion of water through barriers and edge seals can be minimized by careful choice of materials and package/barrier architecture. However, at present, there exist no solutions for extremely water-sensitive materials for flexible applications. Presented in the following is a review of the physics of permeation, the means of measuring permeation, current architectural strategies for semi-hermetic packages, and a brief evaluation of some common encapsulant materials.
Characterization and monitoring technologies for CIGS
Among the various thin-film solar module options available, CIGS is especially interesting as it exhibits the highest efficiency potential. These chalcopyrite-based solar cells are manufactured on glass or flexible substrates using various thin-film coating methods for each layer. The central CIGS absorber layer is deposited by co-evaporation, selenization of elemental layers, and other methods. In order to achieve highest quality and reproducibility, the absorber properties must be properly monitored and characterized. In this contribution we shed some light on the most important analysis methods used for CIGS solar cell research, development, and production such as x-ray fluorescence, surface analysis, and Raman spectroscopy.
Boosting performance and reducing the cost of thin-film photovoltaics with rotary magnetrons
A variety of thin-film technologies are now entering a volume manufacturing phase. The benchmark has already been set by First Solar, Inc. in its conversion efficiencies, volume ramp and lowest cost-per-watt in the PV industry. Large-area thin-film deposition is a critical process step, dictating cell performance, reliability and manufacturing throughput. However, adoption of thin-film solar cells has been limited in the past by relatively complex and costly manufacturing processes. The advent of rotating cylindrical magnetrons for sputtering is demonstrating the potential to significantly reduce thin-film manufacturing costs. In this paper we discuss the basics of the technology and the developments taking place with some of the leading suppliers of sputtering target technology for the PV industry.
Flexible CIGS thin-film PV establishes module manufacturing base, moves closer to BIPV market readin
Despite the low-cost, high-efficiency, radical form factor promise of many thin-film photovoltaic technologies, scaling these materials to large-volume production has presented a wide array of challenges. Because of the recent polysilicon shortage, an incredible amount of resources have been focused on this goal and many thin-film alternatives are now available. One of the most intriguing of these materials, copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), has great potential to reset the thin-film market and make new applications cost effective and viable. CIGS technology is differentiated from competing PV materials by a combination of factors. The manufacturing cost of thin-film cells can be very inexpensive since they require few raw materials and can be made with an efficient, scalable roll-to-roll process. CIGS has been established as the most efficient thin-film technology in converting sunlight into electricity. A flexible substrate will ultimately enable energy and building-integrated applications beyond the capability of rigid, heavier PV products.
"We don't sell modules, we sell electricity": a conversation with First Solar's Bruce Sohn
At First Solar's corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, a morale-boosting slogan adorns posters stuck to the outside of cubicle partitions: "MILESTONE MADE! TEN ONE ONE." That's "Ten," for 10 years in business - at least in the company's First Solar incarnation. The original firm Glasstech Solar, led by visionary Harold McMaster, actually set up shop in 1984, then became Solar Cells, Inc. in 1992, which begat the present entity in 1999. The middle "One" stands for the gigawatt's worth of panels produced in the solar module factories in Ohio, Germany, and Malaysia - as well as the annual production capacity that will be ramped by the end of 2009. The final "One" stands for perhaps the biggest accomplishment of all - the dollar-per-manufactured-watt standard beaten by two cents by First Solar in the final quarter of 2008, a cost that has since shrunk to 93 cents per watt in the first quarter of 2009. But then, "Ten/One/0.93" doesn't quite have the same ring.
Transparent conducting oxides for advanced photovoltaic applications
Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are a special class of materials that can simultaneously be both optically transparent and electrically conducting and, as such, are a critical component in most thin-film photovoltaics. TCOs are generally based on a limited class of metal oxide semiconductors such In2O3, ZnO and SnO2, which are transparent due to their large band gap energy and can also tolerate very high electronic doping concentrations to yield conductivities of 1000S/cm or higher. However, these thee basic TCOs alone do not meet the TCO performance needs of emerging PV and other applications.
Using a field-assisted simultaneous synthesis and transfer method to print CIGS thin-film PV devices
In recent years, a new generation of solar electric products has emerged from the lab into the global market: thin-film technologies that employ approximately 1% of the active, expensive photovoltaic material used by standard crystalline-silicon cells. Through a combination of cost advantages and new product applications, CdTe, a-Si and CIGS thin-film PV have the potential to foster a paradigm shift toward distributed electricity generation at cost parity with other forms of energy. But until recently, the photoactive compound has not had a reliable, rapid manufacturing process that could scale effectively to multi-megawatt-scale volume production and provide significant amounts of electricity at the point of use. This article describes a novel process, known as field-assisted simultaneous synthesis and transfer (FASST) printing, a manufacturing approach that enables the rapid printing of microscale CIGS films with p- and n-type nanodomains that are critical for achieving the highest efficiencies possible.
Laser scribing exposed: the role of laserbased tools within the solar industry
Laser-based tools have become increasingly visible within R&D labs, pilot production lines, and as the preferred technology used by many turnkey suppliers. As equipment types however, relatively little is known about the differences in the laser-based tools used for solar applications within each of the c-Si and thin-film segments. This paper explains the key components of a laser-based tool, and how they are adapting to meet the demands from next-generation production line equipment required by the solar industry.
CIGS, CdTe thin-film PV equipment sector emerges, but standardization remains elusive
Although the entire solar manufacturing industry, from raw materials to finished modules, has enjoyed strong double-digit growth rates over the past several years, few sectors have soared like the amorphous-silicon thin-film photovoltaic equipment space. Much of this prodigious multibillion-dollar booking activity can be attributed to the acceptance of the turnkey production packages offered by the likes of Applied Materials, Oerlikon and Ulvac. These suppliers' plug-and-play, standard toolset solutions are attractive to companies seeking to get into the TFPV module business on a fast track and then scale up their capacities in multimegawatt chunks to achieve grid-competitive cost-per-manufactured-watt metrics.
Analysis and minimisation of plasma process instabilities during thin silicon film deposition
With the thin-film silicon industry facing the problems of high-quality material deposition at high rates and narrowing deposition process windows, the "no-drift regime" is an important part of this development. In the case of the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of thin silicon films, the inconstancy of the concentration of silicon-containing particles (SCP) in the plasma leads to changes in deposition conditions, causing a deterioration of film properties, and, therefore, decreasing the performance of the solar cells. During the last few decades, evidence about the process instabilities has been accumulated in different laboratories. In this study, Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy (FTIR), optical emission spectroscopy (OES), self-bias voltage and plasma impedance controls were applied as in-situ process diagnostics during the deposition of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon thin-films. Results of the study were then discussed.


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Sania reviews Ehsaas activity in Neelum Valley
APPPublished September 7, 2020
MUZAFFARABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar shakes hands on Sunday with a young member of a family at a village in Neelum Valley, whose house has been damaged in unprovoked shelling by Indian forces from across the Line of Control. — APP
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister's Special Assistant on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar visited the Jura sector near the Line of Control (LoC) in Neelum Valley on Sunday to review arrangements for Ehsaas Cash disbursal to the families residing in villages around the LoC.
Dr Nishtar also oversaw digital disbursement of Rs12,000 Ehsaas Cash handouts to vulnerable families living along the LoC in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), said a news release issued here.
She interacted with women who came to the Jura Bazar to collect cash grants.
Under Ehsaas, the government is disbursing some Rs3 billion among all the families residing in 219 villages near the LoC.
Visits houses hit by Indian firing
All families in 219 villages near the LoC in AJK are under the persistent risk of unprovoked attacks and have sacrificed their lives, livestock, and properties. All families in these villages have been included in the Ehsaas programme, said Dr Nishtar.
In the last week of June 2020, the prime minister had announced Ehsaas Cash package for around 138,275 families of 219 villages living. The families will receive a monthly stipend of Rs2,000 as well as an emergency cash payment of Rs12,000 to be given to the women of these households.
The SAPM appreciated the steps taken by the Pakistan Army and district administration of Neelum Valley for assisting Ehsaas in the process of updating lists of households ensuring that none remains deprived of Ehsaas Cash in line with the cabinet's decision.
Dr Nishtar met the victim families in Jura Bazar who had suffered severe damage to their properties as a result of unprovoked attacks by Indian troops.
She lauded the measures being taken by the district administration and Pakistan Army for provision of financial assistance to the poor along the LoC.
The ongoing Ehsaas national socio-economic registry survey was also discussed along with the opening of registration desks in AJK after survey completion.
To roll out the survey in AJK, training of teachers as master trainers is just commencing in collaboration with the Education Department of AJK.
Published in Dawn, September 7th, 2020
Second phase of Ehsaas cash assistance package soon
Ehsaas programme being enhanced from Rs144bn to Rs203bn
AJK people tell foreign journalists tales of pain caused by Indian firing
South Africa rest leading players for T20 series against Pakistan
Govt no longer worried about PDM's long march after seeing attendance at ECP rally: Rashid


Join John for a magical workshop in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. We'll be in appreciation of the history of oak and its acorns as food. Ireland was once covered in oaks and there is now a movement to restore Ireland's oak forests.
We'll explore deeper connection to the landscape and the plants in it drawing on the gifts of our ancestors to reconnect with the lost treasures woven throughout. Herbalism is an ancient practice in Ireland. We'll look at some of the healing herbs in the area and how to begin working with them in a variety of ways.


We raise heritage breed laying hens. They take longer to get to maturity, they live longer, they are beautiful and they make the best eggs. These birds are good out foraging in the open and have the good sense to take cover when the hawk flies over. They get back on the roost at night, and eat up everything that moves in their vicinity.
So as we keep adding varieties of chickens to our mix, we thought about breeding some of the more endangered birds. The Sicilian Buttercups are listed as threatened on the American Breed Conservancy chicken list, the hens are quiet and beautiful, the eggs are a nice shaped white egg. What a perfect bird for anyone, especially a resident of a less rural area. So we grew a few roosters, selected one to be our breeder (beautiful, with an even temperament) and put him in a pen with a few of the Sicilian Buttercup hens.
And our boy turned out to be a dud. Never did his job of getting us fertilized eggs. Hens sat on the egss, we put them in the incubator for the right number of days, and nothing, just rotten eggs. Time passes, still nothing from the rooster, the eggs continue not to be fertile. Then the weather warms, the sun comes out every day. The rooster, who has been crowing at a regular interval, becomes an early morning crower. As in 3:45. Every single morning. And he does not stop at one crow, he gives a good one every 15-20 minutes or so. Our neighbor (about a half mile away) has a rooster who answers. Sleep..forget it!
And we had an all time first yesterday: a visitor from South Dakota! We are certain the residents of the state missed him..they have to all know each other don't they?!


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Posted inBlog, Books
Go-Go Live Author Says Politics & Prose Silenced Her Mix CD, Store Disagrees
by Will Sommer July 31st, 2012 October 8th, 2020
A reading of Go-Go Live, a new book about D.C.'s homegrown sound,at Chevy Chase's Politics & Prose last night turned into a parody of race relations in the District, according to author Natalie Hopkinson.
Hopkinson brought a mix CD of funk and go-go songs to play during the signing. But 30 seconds after the first track, Parliament's "Chocolate City," began playing, a white customer complained to the store's owner that the song was racist, Hopkinson writes on her blog today.
An employee for the store turned it off, and then skipped to another song, Chuck Brown's "Run Joe," according to Hopkinson.
"The fact that such people live in D.C. and have these views is not surprising," Hopkinson writes. "What is surprising is that the deciders at Politics & Prose would go along with it."
But Bradley Graham, who owns the bookstore with his wife Lissa Muscatine, says Hopkinson's account of the reading is wrong. In a statement, Graham and Muscatine deny keeping the CD off.
"This idea that we silenced discourse or didn't allow the music to play or whatever is really a distortion," he said in a phone interview.
According to Graham, before the reading started, the "Chocolate City"-hating customer asked an employee to turn off the song. The employee turned it off while he waited for Graham to come over. Graham says he then put the CD back on.
Graham points out that Politics & Prose has been prominently featuring Hopkinson's book, suggesting that the store isn't hostile to go-go.
"I'm dumbfounded that this incident should have attracted the attention that it has," he says.


Chaired by Professor Ewen Ferlie of King's College London Department of Management, the second London-based International Health Conference brought together researchers aiming to promote health and wellbeing through improved health services in Europe and around the world.
The 2016 conference in London welcomed delegates from across 40 countries presenting over 160 oral and poster presentations. Invited speakers included: David Armstrong, King's College London, Pamela Riley, The Commonweath Foundation, Graham Thornicroft, King's College London, Rosalind Raine, University College London, Ricardo Araya, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Jennifer Dixon, The Health Foundation, Tim Rhodes, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Bangor University, Ian Kessler, King's College London, Vjenka Garms-Homolova, Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin.
The event highlighted the link between research and practice by gathering together a wide range of papers on health and health services research close to practice and/or policy. Coming from the full range of allied disciplines including primary care, acute medicine, public health, psychiatry, paediatrics, and ageing as well as economics, psychology, statistics, social science and ethics, clinical trial design, health informatics and implementation research the conference represented a cross-discipllinary approach.


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La Börse München est la Bourse de Munich, fondée en 1830.

Histoire
Comme les autres Bourses allemandes, Munich a été durablement pénalisé par Krach du 13 mai 1927 à la Bourse de Berlin, qui a vu l'indice boursier  chuter de 31,9% en une journée (de 204 points à 139 points), deux ans avant le Krach de 1929, après avoir progressé de 182,8% en 16 mois. La Grande Dépression a ensuite causé une forte baisse à la fin des années 1920.

De 1963 jusqu'à octobre 2007, le siège de la Bourse de Munich a été le bâtiment de la Nouvelle Bourse.

Direction

 2000 à 2012 : Christine Bortenlänger

Notes et références

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Kyra is a member of many IT related fields. She is involved with FIRST Robotics Competition, Cyber Patriot, and SkillsUSA. Kyra has achieved many things throughout the involvement of her FRC team, 5801. She has helped the team to achieve a ticket to the World Competition for 3 years in a row. In the future, she plans on studying Cyber Security in college to help her achieve her future goal ; enhance the protection of the US Government.