This somewhat cryptic error message turned out to be that Oracle SQL Loader didn't have write permissions in the work directory i.e. in the directory where I executed the sqlldr command. Once I fixed the directory permission everything worked just fine.
It's very useful to be able to see what is included in your class path especially when you're trying to track down a troublesome dependency. Recently I had an issue with a JDOM dependency; however I had not defined a JDOM dependency in my pom.xml file and I couldn't quite figure out why this dependency existed. This is where Maven's excellent dependency plugin comes to the rescue.
In a project you may have dependencies on libraries like Log4J or Freemarker. These libraries in their turn may have dependencies on other libraries, this is also known as transitive dependencies.
scp -l 500 big-file.tar someuser@someserver.com:backups/.
Logitech has yet to release updated keyboard and mice drivers for OS X 10.6 / Snow Leopard. I'm quite fond of my Logitech MX 510 mouse and wanted this problem fixed as soon as possible.
I used the instruction from the link below which tells you to download the "Logitech Control Center", locate the "Logitech Control Center.mkpg" file inside the "Logitech Control Center Installer.app" and execute it. This will by-pass the OS X version check inside the Logitech installer.
I however wanted to use the installer for my mouse MX 510 which uses the "LCC Installer 2.app". I followed the same instructions, located the "Logitech Control Center.mkpg" and executed it which successfully got the driver installed.
I wanted to add the Spring 3.0 M4 milestone early access release to a Maven project to test out some of the new features. However Spring milestone releases are not readily available in the standard public Maven repositories, so what do you do?
Unfortunately on Linux the cp command doesn't have an option to automatically answer this question with a 'y' or 'n' answer. There's more than one solution to this problem depending on what you want to do, and one solution is to use the Unix "yes" command. This command will output a string repeatedly until killed. If we want to avoid overwriting any of the files in the destination directory we could use the "yes" command to answer all questions with a no "n". Below you can see how the "yes" command is used to automatically provide the answer "n" to the "cp" command. Use "man yes" for more information about the "yes" command.
yes n | cp source/*.txt destination/.
This successfully copies all files with the exception of the "b.txt" file which is what we wanted. The "yes" command automatically provided the answer "n" to the "cp" command question whether or not we wanted to overwrite the destination file.
Since JUnit offer several methods that are very similar the compiler can not always determine which one to use. In our case we have the number 12345 which is an int and result.getValue() which is an Integer. You'd think that the compiler could figure out to convert the number 12345 to an Integer object which would give us a match on "assertEquals(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object) method, but instead it throws the above error.
The reason for this is that Java uses best match to try to determine the method that will require the least conversion of the parameters. In this case one method requires boxing, and the other method would require un-boxing. Both of these methods have equal priority and that's why there is ambiguity since none of the methods are more specific than the other.
to resolve this problem. The second solution that converts 12345 to an Integer object is most likely the better once since Java will auto-box a null value to the number 0 which may not be the correct behavior for the class you're testing.


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The rugged Samsung Rugby Smart will make a rough landing on AT&T on March 4.
Anyone who has lost a smartphone to a particularly hard drop on the floor or a dip in the sink will appreciate the Samsung Rugby Smart, a rugged Android smartphone for those in need of an extra-tough device. It will be available from AT&T on March 4.
The Samsung Rugby Smart meet U.S. military spec 810F for dust, humidity, rain, shock, and temperature. When all of its ports are tightly closed, it can be submerged in up to 3 feet of water for 30 minutes, so it should be more than capable of surviving the accidental dunk.
On the spec side of things, the Rugby Smart runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and features a 3.7-inch WVGA (800-by-480-pixel) Super AMOLED display. There's 4MB of free internal memory, along with a microSD card slot that supports up to an additional 32GB of storage. There's a 5-megapixel, rear-facing camera with flash and auto focus as well as 720p video capture. A 1.3-megapixel camera is on the front for video chat. The Rugby Smart will run on AT&T's HSPA+ network, though there's no info if that's HSPA+ 14.4 or 21. There's also no info yet on the speed or type of processor being used.
The phone measures 4.8 by 2.6 by .5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.2 ounces, so it should be small and light enough to fit in your pocket or tool belt without a problem. The 1650mAh battery should be good for up to 8 hours of talk time and up to 16 days of standby.
The Samsung Rugby Smart will be available from AT&T on March 4 for $99.99 with a two-year contract. Check back with PCMag for a full review soon and to see if the Rugby Smart can take whatever pain we can dish out.


More than an estimated 50 million people suffer from autoimmune diseases, according to the American Auto Immune Related Disease Related Association.
But having an autoimmune diseases can be reversed by addressing the root causes. And there are some steps you can take to repair your system:There are as many as 80 types of autoimmune diseases. Many of them have similar symptoms, which makes them very difficult to diagnose. It's also possible to have more than one at the same time.
Having a leaky gut is one of the primary causes of developing an autoimmune disease. A leaky gut allows undigested food particles, microbes, toxins, and more to escape your gut and enter your bloodstream, which causes inflammation that triggers or worsens any autoimmune condition.
Replenish enzymes and acids necessary for proper digestion.
Make sure you have plenty of friendly bacteria to support your immune system.
Provide the nutrients and amino acids needed to build a healthy gut lining.
The foods you eat play a major role in two key components of autoimmune disease — gut health and inflammation. Try removing all toxic and inflammatory foods for 30 days.The gut heals quickly and after that period you can start to add foods back into your diet to see which ones contribute to your symptoms and which ones your body is okay with.
Remove processed food and junk food from your diet.
Stop eating grains, dairy, legumes, eggs, corn, and soy, which can all contribute to leaky gut and inflammation.
Think about going gluten free as gluten triggers the release of a chemical called zonulin, which tells the walls of your intestines to open up and is highly inflammatory.
Toxic chemical are all around us - in our air, water, food, products we use and more - and they are absorbed by the body.
The two main things you should be doing include prevention and detoxification.
Research has linked a number of viral and bacterial infections to autoimmune disease, including Epstein-Barr (the virus that causes mono), Herpes Simplex 1 and 2, E. coli, and more.
Stress revs up your immune system and produces a wave of inflammation. But then it also suppresses your immune system because sustaining a high level of inflammation is dangerous. Chronic stress sends your immune system on that rollercoaster of revving up and slowing back down over and over again. That is so taxing on your immune system and causes it to stop functioning properly. Managing that stress can be done in a variety of ways that work for you.


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Q: Search String from a variable using Powershell I am trying to Search a String from a Variable.
I am dumping Azure Activity Logs in a variable and trying to find a specific line for that log. Here is my codes below.
$log=Get-AzLog -ResourceId "/subscriptions/SubscriptionID/resourceGroups/ResourceGroupName/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/qcsqldw/databases/DatabaseName" -StartTime 2020-04-01T00:30
$find=$log | Select-String  -Pattern 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/resume/action'
Write-Output $find

I am trying to Search this Line "Action    : Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/resume/action" from the Log
While running the above script I did not got any output.
Please help me on this.

A: It seems you are searching the the Authorization Action property from your Azure Activity resource logs. If this is the case then you don't need to do any string searching, and simply reference the Authorization.Action property. Get-AzLog will give you a System.Object[], which can just be queried normally with Foreach-Object or Where-Object. You can find out this type information with (Get-AzLog).GetType().FullName.
You could run this query to get all your results with Foreach-Object:
Get-AzLog -ResourceId $id -StartTime 2020-04-01T00:30 | ForEach-Object {$_.Authorization.Action}

Which will give you the Authorization.Action property from all your logs that ran from the start time 2020-04-01T00:30.
If you want to modify this query to search for a specific action, you can filter with Where-Object, then select Authorization.Action from the results:
(Get-AzLog -ResourceId $id -StartTime 2020-04-01T00:30 | Where-Object {$_.Authorization.Action -eq "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases/resume/action"}).Authorization.Action

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where she left it, sitting outside under her tree. She said a little prayer, thanking her drum for showing her the way home, for opening her heart, for filling her up with love and tapping into her very own heartbeat! She reached out to touch her drum, caressing the flesh. It was soft and flexible, yet strong. She ran her hands along the wood as if it was the earth, as if it was her. Her drum was radiating! It was a work of art, organic and alive. Then came the telling moment, it was time. Her drum was ready to reveal its sound! She sat before her drum, holding her hands to her heart. She breathed with a sense of letting go. Angie reached for her drum, one end covered in the sacred hide, the other end hollow. She leaned the drum sideways over her lap, wrapping her hands around the hide, as though she had been drumming all her…
Phantom Of The Opera Movie Analysis
Cue a black and white scene of present France. The camera leisurely zooms into an opera house abandoned and covered in cobwebs. It pans to an older generation of people with a chandelier lying broken on the wooden floor. As the auctioneer points to the chandelier, powerful music cues as it rises from the ground, unveiling the opera house as its prime. Black and white shifts to a vibrant array of colors. Christine Daae is the rising star and the Phantom is causing a string of terror. The Phantom…
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Blue People: Family of Troublesome Creek Martin Fugate and his wife Elizabeth Smith moved onto the bunks of Troublesome Creek, an area in Appalachian Kentucky. Martin and Elizabeth together had seven children. The family tried to hide out in the mountains because of the blood disorder that they carry with them. The blood disorder makes their skin turn blue. The blood disorder of how and why the family's skin turns blue. Some facts about the blue people of Kentucky. The family has lived in the…
The ever growing surveillance state of today's most powerful nations poses an even greater threat. The use of state media throughout history has already been discussed, and there are even some examples today. Countries such as North Korea, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan possess some of the most censored media. Glenn Greenwald is a journalist that works for a newspaper called The Guardian, and is renowned for his role in publishing the top secret government files given to him by Edward Snowden. In…
The Mask That Veils And Hides
The Mask that Veils and Hides Laurence Dunbar's poem titled We Wear the Mask is a story about genuine human emotion. The poem speaks on the nature of humans. Dunbar uses first-person pronouns to help connect the reader with the emotions he desires them to feel. The main emotion expressed throughout the poem is fear. The fear is of others seeing someone for who they really are inside, and not the mask that they portray. The mask is used to display feelings that are not real to hide what lies…
Nothing To Hide Analysis
In the article, Nothing to Hide, there is the reference to the various aspects of information privacy, with consideration of the inherent risks existing in the structure as it stands, concerning the advancement of the digital era. The author notes that "the nothing-to-hide argument pervades discussions about privacy." The historical context of the argument is laid out where reference is made to the origins of the "nothing-to-hide" narrative, in the cultural and legal contexts. The policy is…
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To Solove, this is the main problem with the nothing-to-hide argument, as by accepting this myth we allow those in power to control and manage the information we may want to legitimately hide. The nothing-to-hide argument focuses on the leaking of personal information and surveillance (Solove 2011, 29), ignoring legitimate privacy concerns. Bruce Schneier adds that privacy is an inherent human right and need, required to preserve humanity's societal dignity. Without privacy, surveillance…
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The Debate of Privacy from the Government A Critic of "The Nothing-to-Hide Argument" The author of "The Nothing-to-Hide Argument", Daniel J. Solove, discusses the different perspectives and opinions of various people including how the government may view personal information. The article demonstrates this through examples of what people say and the opinion of the article himself. In the article, Solove argues that the information-gathering programs the government uses to track and record…
Hide And Seek Poem Analysis
Both 'Half-past Two' and 'Hide and Seek' portray the theme of being left alone through the use of language, form, and structure of each of the two poems. In 'Half-past Two', a child is put into detention for doing "Something Very Wrong" until half-past two; he doesn't know how to tell the time. As a result, doesn't know when to leave, he stays there daydreaming until the teacher remembers him, and she sends him away. 'Hide and Seek' is also about a child who is left alone. The poem is a story…
Dj Hide Character Analysis
Melody is a main character. She impacted the story by making it interesting. She changed overtime. Melody changed by getting her singing voice back, growing feathers, convincing people to do stuff, learning she's a siren (a siren is a bird that has a very beautiful voice) and that she belongs somewhere. Her role in the story was to make everyone like her by growing feathers stoping Bekka, and helping Hailey. Jackson and DJ Hide aren't main characters. Jackson impacted the novel by making it…
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Q: Why use a context path when can just deploy to webapps folder Why use a context path to describe where an app is located when it can be just deployed to webapps. Are there advantages of using one over the other ?

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SB 829 makes it a class D felony for anyone who engages in the unauthorized practice of law without having a license to practice law.
Prohibits any person from engaging in the unauthorized practice of law unless the person providing legal services pursuant to statute or rule of the superior court.
Provides that it is a class D felony for a person to engage in the unauthorized practice of law. (Previously, it was a class C misdemeanor).
The bill generally increases the penalty for the unauthorized practice of law from a class C misdemeanor to a class D felony, which is punishable by up to five years in prison, up to a $5,000 fine, or both. A class C misdemeanor is punishable by up to three months in prison, up to a $500 fine, or both.
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The 21st Century Bank Run | Dude, Where's My Freedom?
As a rule, I don't generally write about Bitcoin, because I don't generally know much about it or care passionately either way. I have a very small "investment" I made in it about a year ago just for fun, but for the most part, I still consider myself a casual observer rather than an interested party. Libertarians as a whole are sharply divided on this issue, with some considering Bitcoin to be the greatest thing in the history of the world, while others consider it to be a giant scam that the government secretly loves and supports.
You may have heard that Mt. Gox, the biggest and most well-known Bitcoin exchange, has recently shut down, and will almost certainly be stiffing its depositors. This event is something of a scandal, and opponents of Bitcoin can be seen eagerly sharpening their knives, ready to declare this unholy creature completely and totally dead.
But we might benefit from taking a step back to examine what really happened here. The problem seems to be isolated to Mt. Gox itself, rather than Bitcoin in general. From my understanding, Gox had some crappy security, got a bunch of Bitcoins stolen from it, and, as such, was no longer able to make whole their depositors.
This type of activity is hardly unique to digital currencies. Picture, for a moment, a small bank in a frontier town in 19th century America. The main purpose of this bank is to keep secure the gold of its various customers. But the security leaves something to be desired, and the bank is robbed. A gang of outlaws absconds with the gold, and the bank can no longer return the gold to its customers. The customers are now essentially screwed – their gold is gone, and although they may be quite angry and have a legitimate complaint with their banker – they can't get it back from him, because he simply doesn't have it anymore. Does this event tell us anything meaningful about gold as a unit of exchange? Is this proof that gold itself is a scam? I wouldn't say so. I would say the only real conclusion we can draw from this event is, "Gee, that bank had pretty crappy security." And so it is with Bitcoin and Mt. Gox.
Now, back to the present day. Today, banks must be approved by the government in ordered to be allowed to exist. What happens today when a government-approved bank fails? Well, as you know, that's sort of a trick question. Many government licensed banks aren't allowed to fail. They're bailed out, with taxpayer money! Even in the case where a bank itself fails and "goes out of business," depositors are made whole via the FDIC. The "stolen gold" is returned, via premiums paid by all banks. Nobody has to suffer any losses at all!
Back in 2008 during BailoutMania, libertarians and supporters of the free market were lining up left and right to oppose the bailouts. The (correct) logic was that allowing bad banks to fail was essential to the free market system, because otherwise, moral hazard would encourage further risk-taking by other banks in the future. The same is true in the case of Mt. Gox. Although it's very unfortunate for everyone who had money there, the fact of the matter is that Mt. Gox has to fail. While we can express deep sympathy to everyone who has lost large sums of money due to this failure, it still beats the alternative – which would be everyone having to pay so that those who made the poor decision of trusting their money to Mt. Gox could have it all refunded and that a crappy exchange could continue to operate. The gold was already stolen, the bandits have already escaped. Some people made a very conscious decision to avoid Mt. Gox because of questions surrounding its stability. Should these people be forced to pay to "make whole" Gox depositors?
In a way, the failure of Mt. Gox represents both the best, and the worst, of free market economics. The worst is the sense that someone can fraudulently run off with money you entrusted to them, and leave you with basically zero recourse to do anything about it whatsoever. Gox and Bitcoin operate outside the realm of government, and no burdensome regulation also means no big bad monopoly authority figure to run to for protection. The best is the sense that although the failure of Mt. Gox is tragic for its own depositors, those who had the foresight, or just plain good luck, to avoid Mt. Gox aren't being punished for the mistakes of others. There will be no bailout. Future BTC exchanges will not see an obvious incentive to make risky decisions and be lax on security, because the customers of BTC exchanges will now be very leery of such behavior. The overall system will improve, because the free market was allowed to properly function.
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Indian peacekeepers in Haiti administered cholera vaccines
United Nations: The UN has administered cholera vaccines to Indian peacekeepers who arrived in Haiti without being vaccinated, with the world body saying it is the responsibility of the troop-contributing country to ensure their personnel meet all medical requirements for deployment.
"The UN Mission there (United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti – MINUSTAH) says that all Formed Police Units who were not already vaccinated at the time of their arrival in the Mission have now been given the vaccine," UN Secretary General's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters at the daily briefing here yesterday.
He said that a second dose, for those who have not yet had it, is being administered or will be in the coming days.
The vaccine was administered to the 140-member police unit from India, which landed in Haiti in August last year. It had emerged that the troops had not been administered the cholera vaccine.
He said cholera vaccination is mandatory for all peacekeepers deploying to peacekeeping operations and "it is the responsibility of member states to ensure their personnel receives all mandatory vaccinations prior to deployment".
In the event of troops being deployed to a mission area without the required vaccination, the supporting Mission takes measures to provide them and all costs incurred are deducted from the reimbursement to the troop and police contributing countries, Dujarric said.
Amid reports that the UN was investigating Indian peacekeepers deployed in Haiti without the mandatory cholera vaccination, Dujarric had earlier said that the world body wants more information from India on the issue.
On whether there has been communication between the UN and the Indian government over the matter, Dujarric had said "we are trying to get more information, obviously, from the Indian authorities".
The UN has been part of a massive effort to contain the disease in Haiti. The Indian soldiers had landed in Haiti in August last year and reportedly India had certified that they were administered the cholera vaccine.
Haiti has been dealing with a cholera outbreak since October 2010, some nine months after it suffered a devastating earthquake. The outbreak has affected an estimated 788,000 people and claimed the lives of more than 9,000.
Concerted national and international efforts, backed by the United Nations, have resulted in a 90 percent reduction in the number of suspected cases.
Last year, then-UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon had apologised to the people of Haiti for the world body's role in failing to properly address the cholera epidemic. In addition, he had announced a USD 400 million two-track plan to stem the outbreak and provide long-term support for those affected.
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I traveled over there for brunch one Sunday and decided to see what all the buzz was about with this scenic restaurant on the water that started in Louisiana and now has over 24 locations.
Good thing I got there early, it was packed ! The wine list was good, nothing special. I went with the J.Lohr Cabernet Sauvignon which was juicy with great black cherry/vanilla notes, a dark blackberry flavor and a smooth finish. But I have to admit , they are known for their 21 ounce Mai Tai's, so I gave in and It was delicious!
Watch this video to see what the hype is all about for this restaurant that claims to have the BEST seafood and see how the wine measures up with WineChannelTV !
I loved it… Will try with Steak Diane. When do you hit the Big Apple?
I really got to visit Florida!
Florida is the place to be! I will be in the Big Apple early April Diane!


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La bataille d'Aspindza (en géorgien ასპინძის ბრძოლა) est une bataille menée entre les forces géorgiennes du roi Héraclius II de Kartl-Kakhétie et l'Empire ottoman, dans le cadre des guerres turco-géorgiennes de l'Époque moderne.

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Dans les années 1760, peu avant la formation du royaume uni de Kartl-Kakhétie en Géorgie orientale (1762), le roi Héraclius II de Kakhétie et son père, le roi Teimouraz II de Karthlie, tentèrent à maintes reprises d'établir une alliance militaire avec l'Empire russe contre les musulmans qui occupaient toute la frontière sud du royaume (Ottomans au sud-ouest et Perses à l'opposé). Plus tard, durant la guerre turco-russe de 1769, l'Impératrice Catherine II dépêcha une force expéditionnaire forte de  sous le commandement du général Gottlieb Totleben en Géorgie et le roi Héraclius II ouvrit dès lors un second front contre la Sublime Porte. En mars 1770, les forces russo-géorgiennes marchèrent sur la vallée de Bordjomi et prirent la forteresse de  le 14 avril. Trois jours plus tard, ils assiégèrent , dans le sud de l'actuel pays, mais le roi géorgien et le général russe rentrèrent bientôt en conflit. En effet, ils n'étaient pas d'accord sur la manière stratégique avec laquelle continuer la campagne. Héraclius II voulait profiter de ses succès et continuer les conquêtes jusqu'à Akhaltsikhé, la capitale du Caucase ottoman, mais Totleben refusa de lui venir en aide et resta à Atskhouri.

Bataille

Pendant ce temps, le gouverneur ottoman d'Akhaltsikhé rallia ses troupes pour sauver Atskhouri. Victorieux dans ses premières avancées, il propagea la peur dans les troupes alliées dont le contingent russe profita de la situation pour quitter la Géorgie le 19 avril, abandonnant littéralement les Géorgiens. Alors, le roi Héraclius II n'avait plus d'autre choix que de battre en retraite, poursuivi par les troupes turques qui tentèrent de couper les lignes de défense géorgiennes afin de les rabattre sur la ville d'Aspindza.

Dans la journée du 20 avril, le roi Héraclius fait d'abord dérouter la garde avancée des Ottomans, composée de . Par cette astuce, il laisse passer les quelque  des principales forces turques qui arrivent bientôt aux bords de la Koura, qui passe par Aspindza. Durant la nuit de ce 20 avril, les troupes ottomanes commencent à traverser l'unique pont reliant les deux rives de la rivière, dans le but d'avancer secrètement jusqu'à Tbilissi. Or, un groupe de Géorgiens, menés par Aghabab Eristavi et , détruisirent ce même pont, avant même l'action des ennemis et bientôt, une forte armée géorgienne surprit les Ottomans. Le flanc gauche était dirigé par Giorgi Batonichvili, fils du roi même, le centre par Héraclius II en personne et la droite des troupes par le général David Orbéliani. Les Turcs sont mis en déroute et perdent environ , dont le chef avar Kokhta-Beladi, des commandants et des pachas. Les survivants réussissent à traverser la Koura à la nage.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Blake Bortles threw two touchdowns passes in three drives and gave the Jacksonville Jaguars an early lead against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who rallied to win 27-21 in the preseason Saturday night.
Second in the NFL last season with 35 TD passes, Bortles connected with T.J. Yeldon for a 14-yard score in the first quarter and then lofted a 24-yarder to Allen Hurns in the back of the end zone in the second.
Bortles completed 8 of 11 passes for 85 yards, with no sacks and few mistakes.
Jameis Winston had a slow start, misfiring on his first six passes, but rebounded against Jacksonville's second-team defense and found Mike Evans on a fade route for a 4-yard score. Winston finished 3-of-10 passing for 28 yards, with an interception.
Tampa Bay (1-1) and Jacksonville (0-2) held two joint practices during the week, so they had plenty of in-person preparation before a mostly meaningless exhibition.
Buccaneers: First-round pick Vernon Hargreaves III had two interceptions in a span of six plays. Hargreaves stepped in front of Chad Henne's pass late in the first half and returned it 28 yards to set up a field goal. He picked off Henne again during the opening drive of the third quarter. Roberto Aguayo missed a 32-yard field goal and a 49-yarder. A second-round pick from FSU who finished his college career as the most accurate kicker in NCAA history, Aguayo missed an extra point in the preseason opener at Philadelphia.
Jaguars: CB Jalen Ramsey, who made his NFL debut after sitting out the preseason opener, had three tackles in his first two drives. LB Myles Jack played with the second-team defense and finished with two tackles.
Buccaneers: CB Johnthan Banks, a former second-round pick who dropped on the depth chart following the additions of Hargreaves and Brent Grimes, had an interception.
Jaguars: Backup CB Dwayne Gratz, vying for a roster spot in the final year of his contract, had an interception. LG Mackenzy Bernadeau played well despite getting flagged for a false start early.
Buccaneers: RB Doug Martin (ribs) and DT Gerald McCoy (ankle), both Pro Bowlers, were held out with minor injuries. Reserve WR Evan Spencer left the game with a knee injury.
Jaguars: S Peyton Thompson and OT Jeff Linkenbach were evaluated for concussions. CB Nick Marshall left the game with a finger injury. DT Abry Jones left with a right quad contusion. LT Kelvin Beachum (knee) missed his second straight preseason game.
Buccaneers: "Well, it's great to get points, but we should have more." — Bucs coach Dirk Koetter on failing to score after long, opening drive.
Jaguars: "I thought the guys did a really good job of rebounding and coming back and putting up some points." — Bortles on scoring two touchdowns after an ugly first series.


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Tonight I had a guest approach me, wanting to share that his server was doing an excellent job. She is a newer server and he was worried that another one of her tables was being difficult. He expressed that she was handling it very well. This man went above and beyond to make sure I was aware of the situation and that the server was taken care of, because of this I chose to RAK the table. He was taken back, and told me that he really does believe in karma.


Dennis and Patton are here for some man time with Andy.
Dennis and Patton are ready for anything. Bring it, Andy.
What kind of parenting traits do Dennis and Patton have?
Behind the Clubhouse bar, say hi to Rotten Tomatoes' Grae Drake!
Patton is doing a great job being a Clubhouse virgin!
Dennis Quaid isn't even trying to flex and we can't stop looking at his arms.
Andy couldn't have asked for a better duo.
Patton is a natural at making the funniest jokes.


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Phillip Phillips | OK! Magazine.
American Idol Phillip Phillips Talks New Album, Collaborators and.
May 6, 2013. From the blog The Juice: Phillip Phillips may have been crowned the winner of " American Idol". Phillips and his girlfriend, Hannah Blackwell.
@HannahBlackwell we're looking at u at the audience, but no hannah ... so consumed with the obsession of being Phillip Phillips' girlfriend.
I wish I took a photo but I'm too eager to meet Phillip so I focused on the .. @ HannahBlackwell: @NewRecMgmt @Phillips hahaa we WISH it .
May 3, 2012. Phillip Phillips is the talk of American Idol for all the wrong reasons this. rebutted with a shot in the audience of Phillip's girlfriend, Hannah.
Idol Champ Phillip Phillips: Coping with a Kidney Crisis. - People.
Feb 4, 2013. Since winning American Idol, we've learned a lot about Phillip Phillips, including the identity of his much speculated-about girlfriend.
Phillip Phillips is currently dating Hannah Blackwell. He has been in one celebrity relationship.He has never been married.
Jun 7, 2012. American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips is on the road to wellness. Phillip Phillips and Girlfriend Hannah Blackwell: Cute Couple Alert!
Who is Phillip Phillips Dating? | Relationships Girlfriend Wife.
Said it before, saying it again, Hannah Blackwell is NO Selena Gomez. But on the GF thing, I heard Phillip is a Christian and religious. So that .
Hannah Blackwell �@HannahBlackwell ... wrapped up almost every other tweet by Hannah is Phillip and I or Me and Phillips or whatever..it is .
The woman of P2 fan's envy! American Idol heartthrob Phillip.
'American Idol' Winner Phillip Phillips Praises Girlfriend: "I Love Her To Death". Phillip relished praise upon his girlfriend Hannah Blackwell during a call with .
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High waves and dusty conditions have also been forecast during this period.
The weather office has urged people to be cautious and avoid going to the sea in view of the expected conditions, while also advising them to follow latest updates through its official social media accounts.
In a report on Tuesday, the Met department said a "ridge of high pressure" is expected to affect the country from dawn Thursday until Saturday (January 12). It will be accompanied by "fresh to strong" northwesterly winds.
These conditions will result in high waves and rising dust, especially in open areas, as well as a significant drop in temperature. The mercury level will go down by about 4-6C compared to the previous days, the report states.
The maximum temperature in Doha is expected to drop to 22C and the minimum to 15C during this period. Also, the minimum temperature may drop to below 10C in the southern parts of the country.
The report also points out that the "apparent temperature" will be lower due to the "wind chill effect", and cold conditions will prevail in the country – particularly at night and early in the morning.
According to information available online, "apparent temperature" is the temperature equivalent perceived by humans, caused by the combined effects of air temperature, relative humidity and wind speed.
Offshore, the wave height is expected to range from 4ft to 8ft during the above-mentioned period, going up to 13ft at times.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's forecast says strong winds are expected by late tonight, while poor visibility is likely in most areas in the morning.
Also, strong winds and high seas towards the north have been forecast in offshore areas on Wednesday, with poor visibility prevailing in some places in the early hours of the day. The wind speed may go up to 12-22 knots by late at night in inshore areas and 15-25 knots in offshore areas towards the north.
The forecast also says it will be misty to foggy in most places by this morning, and relatively cold by night. Visibility may drop to less than 2km in the morning.
The minimum temperature expected in the country on Wednesday is 14C in Al Khor, while in Doha it will be 18C. The maximum, on the other hand, will be 28C in Doha and Abu Samra.
Tuesday, the minimum temperature was 14C in Al Khor and 18C in Doha.


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Pegnitz – miasto w Niemczech, w kraju związkowym Bawaria, w rejencji Górna Frankonia, w regionie Oberfranken-Ost, w powiecie Bayreuth. Leży w Szwajcarii Frankońskiej, nad rzeką Pegnitz, przy autostradzie A9, drodze B2, B85 i linii kolejowej Monachium – Drezno.

Miasto położone jest ok. 20 km na południe od Bayreuth, ok. 33 km na wschód od Forchheimu i ok. 45 km na północny wschód od Norymbergi.

Dzielnice
W skład miasta wchodzą następujące dzielnice:

Polityka
Burmistrzem od wyborów komunalnych w Bawarii w 2020 roku jest Wolfgang Nierhoff z Pegnitzer Gemeinschaft(PEG). Rada miasta składa się z 24 członków:

Współpraca
Miejscowości partnerskie:
 Guyancourt, Francja
 Slaný, Czechy

Zabytki i atrakcje

 rynek z ratuszem z 1347
 źródło rzeki Pegnitz
 młyn Zaußenmühle z 1450
 ruiny zamku Böheimstein
 miejski Kościół Parafialny pw. św. Bartłomieja (St. Bartholomäus) z 1900
 góra Schloßberg z wieżą widokową z 1923
 pomnik przemysłowy "Erwein II"
 pomnik świniopasa,
 modernistyczny Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego (Herz-Jesu), architekt Peter Leonhardt

Powiat Bayreuth
Miasta w Bawarii


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The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) aims to establish a comprehensive regulatory and supervisory framework for Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) and the Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) they manage.
First drafted in April 2009, the Directive came into force on 22nd July 2011. Each EU Member State was required to adopt the Directive into national legislation by the 22nd July 2013. There is, however, a transitional period that extends the implementation deadline to 22nd July 2014.
An AIF is defined as a 'collective investment undertaking that is not governed by the UCITS Directive. This includes hedge funds, private equity funds and both retail investment and estate funds. It also includes both open and closed funds, as well as listed and non-listed funds. There is no strict legal definition for a 'collective investment undertaking' but it is typically deemed to be a vehicle that contains pooled capital, a defined investment policy and pooled returns. The Directive details specific fund types that are excluded from this legislation.
The AIFM Directive covers several key themes:
Organisational requirements
This includes a range of standards that must be in place, for example "appropriate and consistent procedures…" regarding the valuation of an AIF. It ensures there is no conflict of interest between the appointed external valuer and the appointed depository for the AIF.
Depository standards
A single independent depository must be appointed by the AIFM for each AIF it manages. The depository carries out several safekeeping functions, such as monitoring AIF cash flows; holding financial instruments that can be held in custody and verifying ownership of those assets that cannot. Additional depositary responsibilities have been defined that include ensuring the value of shares or units of the AIF is calculated in accordance with national laws within the Member States.
Leverage requirements
The leverage requirements focus on the portfolio management aspects of the AIF and also determine the thresholds of what funds fall under the full scope of the AIFMD rather than a subset of restrictions. The leverage is calculated as the ratio between a fund's exposure and its NAV. The Directive sets out the following two methods that must be used:
Gross method – This measures the absolute exposure of the AIF and includes any transaction which would increase the overall exposure of the fund. This calculation does not permit any hedging arrangements.
Commitment method – Similar to the UCITS commitment approach, this exposure calculation takes into account a series of hedging and netting arrangements based on a strict set of criteria.
Increased transparency
Detailed requirements have been defined regarding the information that must be given to investors and regulators. For example, annual reports must be issued to investors on request for each AIF and these reports must be filed with the appropriate authority for the Member State in which the AIF is operating.
Marketing and cross-border authorisation
The marketing of EU AIFs to professional investors within the EU is permitted for AIFMs authorised under the Directive. In addition, such authorisation includes the ability for AIFMs to manage AIFs across Member States.
A number of principles have been introduced regarding firms' remuneration policies and practices. This aims to ensure they are "consistent and promote sound and effective risk management and do not encourage risk-taking".
Key AIFMD dates:
30th April 2009 – European Commission proposed the first draft of the Directive
1st July 2011 – AIFMD published in the Official Journal of the European Union
22nd July 2011 – Directive came into force
22nd July 2013 – Deadline for the Directive to be transposed into national law
22nd July 2014 – End of transitional period to transpose the Directive into local legislation
21st July 2015 – European Commission to have reviewed leverage calculation methods to ensure they are sufficient for all AIFs
Last updated 11th March 2014


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Report: LSU freshman DB arrested, accused of grabbing woman's neck
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The Daily Reveille is reporting that LSU freshman defensive back Jeryl Brazil was arrested Friday.Click here to read the Daily Reveille's report.The report says officers were called to West Campus Apartments Friday at 3:34 a.m. in response to a disturbance.According to the report, a woman told police that Brazil grabbed her by the neck, pushed her onto a sofa and punched a hole in the wall.Brazil, 19, was arrested on charges of simple battery and criminal damage to property, according to the Daily Reveille.The arrest came the day before LSU's loss at Ole Miss.Brazil has only appeared in one career game. Despite his listing as a defensive back, he carried the ball twice versus UAB for 10 yards.Related content:Mississippi shocks No. 6 LSU 27-24Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news right in your inbox. Click here from your desktop computer to sign up; on our mobile website, use the drop down to the right to "Get Email Alerts."13484466
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The Daily Reveille is reporting that LSU freshman defensive back Jeryl Brazil was arrested Friday.
Click here to read the Daily Reveille's report.
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Mississippi shocks No. 6 LSU 27-24
The report says officers were called to West Campus Apartments Friday at 3:34 a.m. in response to a disturbance.
According to the report, a woman told police that Brazil grabbed her by the neck, pushed her onto a sofa and punched a hole in the wall.
Brazil, 19, was arrested on charges of simple battery and criminal damage to property, according to the Daily Reveille.
The arrest came the day before LSU's loss at Ole Miss.
Brazil has only appeared in one career game. Despite his listing as a defensive back, he carried the ball twice versus UAB for 10 yards.
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I had a great, relaxing holiday season, how about you? The 3 of us hung out at my parents' place in Arlington, TX with my brother and small cast of assorted old friends for Christmas. (Through all kinds of weather, see above photo for proof, the Friday pictured was Xmas Day.) Then for New Year's Eve just us adults went down to Austin and spent time with other assorted old friends then hopped down to San Antonio to kick it with sister- and brother-in-law. God bless happily babysitting grandparents! Then yesterday we went and saw Kehinde Wiley: A new Republic at the FW Modern. So good, and closes Sunday! The show was at Brooklyn Museum earlier in 2015 and will subsequently travel to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art later this year.
Below, a The Toast-heavy linky list:
Confession: New York City took my marshmallows.
The most powerless people in the art world, from Hyperallergic.
On emotional labor, revelatory on its own but do some more reading, mmkay?
Best of Art F City in 2015.
18 Children's books with female main characters, from Cup of Jo.
Catching up with friends in other ways than getting drinks or coffee.
Hot dudes…of color, helloooo nurse!
Marvelous cousin doing important research, quoted in WaPo, and the original HBR article that piqued their interest.
Recently hooked on Jessica Jones – article contains sorta spoilers, but watch the show and read the article.
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An Anti-Racist Lens over a Background of Privilege
I've spent a lot of time in my adult life thinking about privilege, gender, race, power, and prejudice. I always felt "not racist" coming from a liberal middle-class white family and I had the good fortune to grow up in a place where not everybody looked like me. It didn't quite feel like good fortune when I was in middle school and getting treated like an "other" for being white and not wearing all the fashions of the day. But I say wholeheartedly that it was good to have diversity in my neighborhood and schools.
I read Peggy McIntosh's "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" when I was high school aged (after we'd moved from Houston to more-segregated Arlington). I got the message to a degree but didn't internalize the the term "white privilege" until after college, when I attended a Unitarian Universalist conference for young adults in 2003 (as of this writing, 12 years ago. It comes into play later in the post). At the conference, during Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression workshops when white privilege was brought up, my visceral internal reaction was "But I'm a woman! Sexism!" It weirdly helped my understanding of intersecting oppressions / privileges that during the same workshop, a white man who grew up poor had a similarly visceral, and much more vocal, reaction to the idea of having privilege. Without realizing it at the moment, I used my white privilege to get him to simmer down. Hearing that he had white-skin privilege (even if he'd been marginalized for being poor) from a woman of color made him react as though she was saying directly to him "you are a bad person for being white, you are oppressing me." From me, someone also being "accused" of racism, it was easier for him to understand. (I realize now that him taking up a lot of the group's time and energy with *his* discomfort is itself an often-unrealized-by-privileged-people symptom of privilege.)
Anyway, I've spent a lot more time in workshops and conferences about racism and privilege since then, and I wanted to write today to give some example of how I still do some racist shit (gratuitous use of scare quotes ahead):
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The Road to Basquiat
It started with a movie, "Basquiat," a bio-pic starring Jeffrey Wright, that came out when I was in high school. The charisma and mystique of the real-life character of Jean-Michel Basquiat as portrayed by that actor plus a great supporting cast (Gary Oldman, David Bowie, among others) at that impressionable age, got me interested in the work of Basquiat. I didn't really "get" the art itself at the time, it seemed so scribbly.
So for many years I have had a soft spot in my heart for Basquiat because of the film, but never further than that, no real understanding of the work, just the artist as character. Fast-forward to October 2014 when I rushed to the Whitney Museum to catch the last days of their last exhibition programmed for the Marcel Breuer building: Jeff Koons. I made it to the show, I saw celebrities in line, I bumped into a good friend, all in all it was a great visit to the museum.
One of the greatest things about it was finding the variety of permanent collection works on display on the top level, after many floors of Koons. The exhibition of collection gems was the perfect palate cleanser after the balloon & toy explosion on the lower floors. After a museum-full of these kinds of things:
Kids enjoying art: say what you will about Koons, the young 'uns loved it!
Museum "selfie" with the most famous art basketball. Photo by Kara Meyer.
I came up and got some air at the top of the Bauhaus behemoth. After a couple of turns, there it was.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Hollywood Africans" 1983, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Douglas S. Cramer. Thank you Douglas S. Cramer, thank you.
I had never seen "Hollywood Africans" before and it hit me, "This is why people love him!" I spent at least 20 minutes on this work alone. In retrospect, maybe I never really got Basquiat before because I'd never seen his work in person? But seeing this field of rich yellow and the strong striking contrasts of the cobalt blue and red and black messages was like nothing I'd seen. Fantastic.
Soon after that, I read a review in Hyperallergic of an exhibition put on as part of Prospect.3 in New Orleans. Upon reading, I was seriously interested in seeing the show, Basquiat and the Bayou, curated by P.3 creative director Franklin Sirmans. Hmm, how to work this? I was living in NYC, that bi/triennial was in New Orleans. I had tried to talk my husband into going to see Prospect.1 in 2008 on a road trip to Texas but we skipped it at the last minute to spend more time with the family we were going to go visit.
And then we decided to drive to Texas again, in 2014 for Christmas and entering the new year of 2015. Okay! My plan-averse husband didn't have any big ideas for the trip, just that we wanted to see our families, we wanted them to see our darling son, and that we wanted our dear dog to come along. Plans came together, and in all the discussions I inserted my desire (nay, my need) to go see that show, every. single. time. it came up.
Road trip entertainment tips: sock puppets. Dog is unimpressed.
We had an impressively easy journey down and some wonderful time with family and friends. Then it took us an inordinately long time to get ourselves to New Orleans once we set out for that leg of the trip. After many days trekking around Texas to see our people with no problems at all, the cruddy rainy weather and terrible traffic made a 5-hour drive into an 8 hour one. It started to seem like I was being punished for doing something just for us (OK, me) before we headed back to Brooklyn. We finally made it and had a late dinner at our hotel, which was literally around the corner from the museum that housed the show, the Ogden. That was a stroke of genius; I'd considered booking a different hotel, closer to other shows and cool things in NOLA, but went with the Modern and I'm so very glad.
I had hoped to get to the museum bright and early, but a 40-year-old husband and a 16-month-old child make their own time. Once we got there it was as I had hoped, phenomenal.
Jean-Michel Basquiat, "Zydeco" (1984). Installation view in "Basquiat and the Bayou" at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. Photo by John d'Addario.
On the wall of the hallway leading to the exhibition was an extensive timeline of Basquiat's life. In those moments of reading about Basquiat's short time in the world it was like the grief of his death was finally (or starting?) to sink in. God, what might his work have been like in his later years? And it was affecting me in a different way too, as I lost my youngest brother to a heroin overdose less than a year before. And so the reality of the universe losing a bright star due to drugs really, truly hit home.
The show was tight and very carefully lit, an excellent touch. It was a quiet Sunday when we went in, but more and more people arrived as I cruised the gallery a second and third time. There was also an exhibition of Herbert Singleton's wood carvings in an adjacent gallery, a very nice compliment.
I was in such a daze the rest of our visit, high on art. We saw a lot of great stuff at that little museum, an extensive local collection of "outsider" art, a permanent collection galleries with both new and familiar names, and I snapped up the last catalogue of the show on the shelf (the clerk assured me there were more in storage). We didn't end up seeing any other shows in P.3, even at the Contemporary Art Center across the street, but I was still satisfied. That one show, those 9 paintings plus the pleasant Ogden, made that trek to New Orleans worthwhile to me. Big thanks to John d'Addario for the review that led me there.
We did also get to go to the build shed of Krewe du Vieux (links to image search, possibly NSFW) with floats in various stages of construction. I love New Orleans!
Bonus shot: Baby's first beignets.
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Permanent Collection Re-Hang at the Fort Worth Modern
Visiting the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was a pleasant rediscovery, since I'd been in New York for the majority of the time the Modern has been open in its Tadao Ando-designed building in museum district. Full disclosure: I may be biased, I have such warm fuzzy feelings for that area of Cowtown. I went to high school in nearby Arlington and spent many hours on the Kimbell Museum's lawn in high school and during college breaks. I only went to the Modern once before they opened the Ando building in 2002, and didn't have the faintest idea how strong their collection was.
In a new installation of permanent collection works the curators have given us fresh eyes to see the undersung collection. In the smaller of the second floor gallery spaces, usually reserved for director-favorite Sean Scully, is a Robert Motherwell survey of 70+ works, all from the museum's extensive holdings. For some reason I did not have it in my head that Motherwell was making his Elegies to the Spanish Republic until as late as 1990. Schooled! That is one long-running series, as he began making them in 1948.
Not an Elegy: Robert Motherwell, "The Garden Window (Open No. 110)," 1969.
The first floor galleries give a fresh look at items in the collection that have spent some time in storage, as over half of the 60+ pieces currently on view were not in the previous permanent collection installation. Also new is that the works are not arranged strictly by chronology, but in a more narrative theme of movements. Beginning with the figurative, led by heavy hitters like Picasso, Francis Bacon, and Milton Avery, and followed by an entire gallery of Philip Guston, the viewer is led through abstract works, pop art, then into the minimal. Some of my favorites included Ben Shahn's "Allegory," several Morris Louis canvases that do not disappoint, and "Male Head IV" by new-to-me artist David Bates.
The museum has a strong showing of permanent installations, most notably works with spaces designed around them: Martin Puryear's ever-so-tall "Ladder for Booker T. Washington," and Anselm Kiefer's "Book with Wings" in its unusual round gallery. I am as impressed by that round gallery as I am by the artwork itself (which is to say, I don't love the sculpture but I do love the oval-shaped home). Two other permanent highlights of a visit to the museum are Richard Serra's "Vortex" in the front of the building and Roxy Paine's "Conjoined" on the back lawn. Visible from many angles within the museum and cafe, "Conjoined" gleams silver in the sunlight, set off by the green lawn across the reflecting pool, a welcome bit of shiny irregularity against the careful vertical and horizontal lines of the building itself. Interesting note: when looking up the Paine trees on The Modern's site and in a Google image search, I found that I disliked many of the images. Nearly all are taken from the vantage point of the back wall of the sculpture garden, with the building in the background. Truly, the building is lovely, but those shots don't do the sculpture much justice. A fresh reminder of how important it is to see art in person whenever possible, eh?
Straight lines and reflections: #museumselfie with a Jenny Holzer in the background.
Once I've seen the full exhibition of Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (through Jan. 10, 2016) I'll share here, and there is a Frank Stella retrospective in the pipes, to open April 17, 2016.
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Greetings Earthlings! Transitions and Impressions
Leaving Brooklyn, oy vei!
After 10 years in Brooklyn, NY, I have returned to my home state of Texas. I left Dallas in 2005 to go to graduate school full-time in Visual Arts Administration at New York University. After completing the program in 2 years, my husband Jonah and I stayed on in our adopted city of Brooklyn for 8 more. We returned in August 2015 and are currently based in Waco.
Two things I miss about NYC so far: street art and fall color
We had a blast in "The City" and we're making the most of our time in Texas while we're relatively unscheduled. I've visited lots of museums and art organizations in our short time back, it's fun to be a tourist in a place you already know. Fort Worth has long been a favorite because of the wonderful Kimbell and I had a chance to visit the Fort Worth Modern's new permanent collection re-installation (more on that in a later post), and to have a tiny peek into their since-opened Kehinde Wiley survey as it was being installed. Rumor has it that the artist thinks it looks better in Fort Worth than at its first stop at the Brooklyn Museum. (Don't worry BK, you're still one of my favorites!)
Speaking of the Brooklyn Museum, one of their current shows is an exhibition we saw during its first stop at Austin's Blanton, Impressionism and the Caribbean: Fransisco Oller and His Transatlantic World (through Jan. 3, 2016). Absolutely worth your time if you are able to see it. There are quite a few lovely Oller paintings, a few pieces by familiar masters (Cézanne, Monet, Church, Homer)*, and several of the contextual pieces by less-known contemporaries were what really took my breath away.
My favorite of the Oller works in the exhibition, very Courbet.
A nice surprise from our August visit to the Blanton was Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm (through Nov. 15, 2015). Exploring the earliest, darkest Grimm fairy tales, the artist envisions key scenes from both well-known and unknown Grimm stories in vibrant, sometimes disturbing drawings. The exhibition is a quickie-but-goodie, and the catalogue is high on my Christmas list.
* Big props to the museums that own these artworks for having their info available online! My beloved Brooklyn Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum
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As West points out, there's no historical marker to be seen in the pretty, upper-middle-class neighborhood. The history has been effectively airbrushed. He also notes that the human zoos were not strictly an American thing. They were an international phenomenon.
Actually, this fact has caught some attention recently. Last month NPR reported on painful reawakened memories in Belgium of crimes committed against the country's Congolese colonial subjects, including, yes, displaying natives in a zoo.
The Royal Museum for Central Africa began as a temporary exhibition in 1897 in Tervuren, where [Belgium's King] Leopold had his country estate.
The most talked-about part of the exhibition was the "human zoo" — a mock African village set up in the estate's woods and ponds. King Leopold, who never set foot in Congo, imported 267 Congolese men, women and children to Tervuren and displayed them behind a fence.
"When Leopold heard they were getting sick because of candy they were eating that was tossed to them by the crowd, he put up an equivalent of a 'Don't Feed the Animals' sign at a zoo, saying, 'the blacks are fed by the organizing committee,'" [author Adam] Hochschild said in a documentary based on his book.
That this demonstrates the shameful history of racism and colonialism is obvious. But guess what gets left out? You got it: any mention of the prestige science of the day, Darwinism, that emphatically classed Africans as barely a step above animals. The NPR story caught the attention of paleoanthropologist John Hawks, who highlighted it on his blog. With his specialty in human evolution, Hawks too missed the evolutionary angle.
An interesting footnote: A friend points out that the St. Louis World's Fair connects to political personalities of our own time. Among the organizers was prominent local businessman George Herbert Walker, the grandfather and great-grandfather of two U.S. Presidents, contributing the "W." in both of their names. His summer home in Maine, Walker's Point, was the "Summer White House" under President George H.W. Bush. Small world.
Find Human Zoos on Amazon or see it now on Amazon Prime Video. More background about the St. Louis World's Fair is available at the Human Zoos website.


Take your casual walking pace up a notch.
a bonus day off (bonus only available to those who walk). Check out trails in your local parks.
Got a kid who has soccer practice twice a week? Probably a trail in that park or sidewalks nearby.
Your first mile walk may take a half hour and you will be a sore the next day.
But after a day off, stretch out those muscles with another mile walk.


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Name Duff McAllister
Position Federation News Service Reporter
Callsign (Fighters Only) Duff
Hair Color Silver
Eye Color Green
Physical Description Duff has a short stocky build, his eyes are close together and he wears glasses even though surgery could easily fix his eye site. He has a tattoo on his left bicep of the McAllister family crest.
Spouse none
Children none
Father Angus McAllister
Mother Heather McAllister
Brother(s) Dylan McAllister
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General Overview Duff is a former Starfleet Intelligence Officer. After an accident on an away mission nearly destroyed his left leg he retired. His naturally inquisitive nature has led him to become a reporter. He has a love for writing and reading, especially early American Westerns.
Strengths & Weaknesses Duff's strength is his mind and ability to solve puzzles and riddles, which comes in handy as a reporter investigating news stories. His biggest downfall is his inquisitive nature, he tends to stick his nose in other people's business.
Ambitions Duff's ambition is to write a story one day about a historical event that will be published throughout the universe and to have his writing immortalized and admired by future generations.
Hobbies & Interests Duff's hobbies include restoring and repairing antique books, as well as reading them. He also enjoys vacations to earth and spends most of the time fishing.
Languages Common, Vulcan
Personal History Duff grew up on the Gulf Coast just outside New Orleans. His father owned and operated a bookstore, that also repaired antique books. Growing up with a nearly unlimited library fueled Duff's desire to learn and gave rise to his inquisitive nature. Duff's favorite novel was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, his dream as a child was to become an explorer.
On his 18th birthday he enlisted in Starfleet. He graduated four years later as an Ensign. Throughout his Starfleet career he was stationed on several ships; his last assignment was as the Intelligence Officer for Admiral Churchill.
The admiral was at a speaking engagement when the group was attacked. Duff stepped in front of the admiral and bore the blow of a grenade that was tossed towards them. The resulting injury left him with a slight limp in his left leg. Though the scars are virtually invisible the after affects still sometimes haunt Duff. He chose to retire and live a quieter life.
Leaving Starfleet was not easy for Duff, but through some of his former connections he has obtained a job as a reporter on board a Starbase.
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02. WALLS - I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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The double A-side Urals/I Can't Give You Anything But Love sees Walls releasing on the Kompakt-imprint Ecstatic for the first time, with a pair of mind-expanding dancefloor-focused compositions. Limited to 300 hand-stamped white-label copies for the world. "Urals" creates a pulsating, hypnotic atmosphere through its trippy synth melodies, and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" is a clash between the heavy acid sound of Armando or DJ Pierre with the towering guitar squalls of My Bloody Valentine.
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It's incredible that was not photoshopped at all!
This happens to me so often. xkcd has really been on a roll lately.
The worst is when they edit their own post and say, "Nevermind, fixed it." Tell me what you did, you sonofabitch!
How are tens of thousands of people "liking" this meme? Brilliant, hilarious, awesome? NO! The lyrics are wrong. This doesn't make sense. Make it stop! Am I overreacting?


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Q: SwiftUI - List order I'm noticing when adding items to a List they are out of order. The items are being added using Core Data, in my main View I show a sheet and then a user selects an item it's added to my main List. I assumed the items would be added in some kind of order from first to last.
My main view fetching CoreData items
@FetchRequest(sortDescriptors: [], animation: .default)
private var items: FetchedResults<Items>

List {
    ForEach(items, id: \.self) { item in
        Text(item.city)
    }
}

Core Data saving items in the sheet view.
func addCity(_ city: String) {
    let fetchrequest: NSFetchRequest<Items> = Items.fetchRequest()
    fetchrequest.predicate = NSPredicate(format: "city = %@", city)
    do {
        let items = try viewContext.fetch(fetchrequest)
        if !items.isEmpty {
            presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()
            print("item exists")
        } else {
            let items = Timezone(context: viewContext)
            items.city = city
            try? viewContext.save()
            presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()
        }
    } catch {
        print("error")
    }
}

A: Adding a date key to my Core Data Entity to keep a timestamp worked. And sorting using @FetchRequest(sortDescriptors: [NSSortDescriptor(key: "date", ascending: true)], animation: .default) fixed the issue.


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I always try to hit my numbers early on in the year because I know I won't be able to read much during Q4 (aka The Holidays). As you can see, I only listened to three audiobooks this quarter. They were all really good, though, so I feel really happy on how I wrapped up this year.
Do you have a TBR list for 2019? I'm trying to make mine, but I always have such a hard time sticking to it. Either way, I'm looking forward to hitting more reading goals in the upcoming year!


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Prepare Yourself: Officer Darren Wilson Probably Won't Be Charged for Shooting Mike Brown
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the results of the official autopsy performed on Mike Brown in the immediate aftermath of his shooting on August 7th of this year. Among the findings: there was a "significant altercation" at Officer Darren Wilson's car and Brown appeared to have tried to grab the gun from out of his hand.
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There's a better-than-average change that Officer Darren Wilson won't be indicted in the shooting of Mike Brown. If he is indicted, it likely won't be for murder but for a drastically lesser charge. We may as well face this right now.
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatchpublished the results of the official autopsy on Brown in the immediate aftermath of his death. The procedure was done by the St. Louis medical examiner's office and the Post-Dispatch consulted with two local medical examiners not associated with the case for its report, in an effort to independently analyze the details of the autopsy. Those details seem to corroborate at least part of Wilson's story regarding what went down on Canfield Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th of this year.
Wilson has maintained that he shot Mike Brown because, after being attacked by the unarmed teen getting out of his police SUV, Brown briefly retreated then turned and charged back toward him. According to medical examiner Dr. Michael Graham, the report "does support that there was a significant altercation at the car." He says that at least one shot traveled from the tip of Mike Brown's right thumb toward his wrist and that "products discharged from the barrel of a firearm" in the wound would seem to indicate that the shot was fired at close range. Dr. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist from San Francisco, takes it a step further, saying that the autopsy "supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun, if he has gunpowder particulate material in the wound... if he has his hand near the gun when it goes off, he's going for the officer's gun." The Post-Dispatch claims that a source has told it that Brown's blood was found on Wilson's weapon.
It gets more detailed from there:
Melinek also said the autopsy did not support witnesses who have claimed Brown was shot while running away from Wilson, or with his hands up.
She said Brown was facing Wilson when Brown took a shot to the forehead, two shots to the chest and a shot to the upper right arm. The wound to the top of Brown's head would indicate he was falling forward or in a lunging position toward the shooter; the shot was instantly fatal.
A sixth shot that hit the forearm traveled from the back of the arm to the inner arm, which means Brown's palms could not have been facing Wilson, as some witnesses have said, Melinek said. That trajectory shows Brown probably was not taking a standard surrender position with arms above the shoulders and palms out when he was hit, she said.
According to the Post-Dispatch, these findings correspond somewhat to the findings of renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who arranged a private autopsy for the Brown family in the wake of Mike Brown's shooting. Baden, however, said that given what he had access to the shots may not have been fired at close range. (There's a third autopsy report that was ordered by the feds but the results of it haven't been made public.) Other details within the official report that stand out: skin from Mike Brown that was found on the driver's side door of Wilson's vehicle and the presence of marijuana in Brown's blood and urine that indicates the recent use of it, which may only go to impairment but certainly not state-of-mind.
Raw Storyrelays an interview that former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch gave to KMOX in which he tied all of this up in a nice little bow and explained just why we're seeing it now, as a grand jury debates whether or not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting. He claims that federal investigators are likely allowing these leaks to happen as a way of "letting people down slowly" and preparing them for the fact that Wilson probably won't face charges.
"There was a struggle over the weapon. Law enforcement, we know that about half the officers killed every year with firearms are killed with their own," he said. "If there was a struggle inside that car over a firearm, it sounds to me like Officer Wilson would have been justified in taking the action he did if he pulled the trigger and actually shot Michael Brown in the vehicle area."
"If Michael Brown was truly turned around and basically charging the officer, he already went for round one fighting over his handgun. Are you going to go for round two and take the chance of losing it this time?" Fitch asked. "I think that would be a more logical explanation as to why Officer Wilson would have discharged his firearm at Michael Brown."
The bottom line here is that Wilson will probably get off because the grand jury will believe he was justified in shooting Mike Brown. And there will be violence in Ferguson, Missouri on a biblical scale.
I spent almost a week in Ferguson back in August, during the first round of sometimes violent protests against the killing of Mike Brown and an even more violent police crackdown on those protests. I got maced directly in the face by the police while attempting to cover the story on the ground. I won't even pretend to claim that I understand what it's like to be black in America or specifically in Ferguson: to face a lifetime of injustice as the system ignores you and the police seem able to shoot you with impunity. The explosion of outrage in Ferguson isn't simply the result of Mike Brown's death -- it's the result of the deaths of thousands of other young black men throughout the years, often at the hands of authority figures. No one should argue with this. No one should dare claim that this plight and the institutional racism behind it isn't real and that the furious response isn't justified.
That fact acknowledged, I have no idea exactly what went down between Mike Brown and Darren Wilson on the afternoon of August 9th. When I returned from Ferguson the question I was asked most is, "What happened?" as if some great truth or magical moment of omniscience would be revealed to me just because I'd breathed the humid summer air of the area where a seismic cultural event had taken place. I've learned not to entirely trust eyewitness accounts just as I've learned not to entirely trust "police sources." Therefore, all I've got to fall back on is the evidence in a case. That's the one thing that can be counted on to be unbiased. If there's evidence that Mike Brown and Darren Wilson got into a physical altercation and Brown tried to grab the weapon away from Wilson, then there may very well have been justification for the shooting from a strictly legal perspective. (Whether or not it's morally justified is a completely different story.)
This isn't to say that there isn't a history of harassment and violenceagainst black people on the part of the police or that there aren't, in fact, racist and generally out-of-control cops on the Ferguson police force and within police departments all across the country. This also isn't to say that the justice system isn't unconscionably stacked against minorities. It's merely to say that the evidence of what happened on that day, at that moment, won't take any of that into account. And the grand jury, if it does its job correctly, won't consider much more beyond the facts of this particular case and will judge them according to its conscience and the law. That law, by the way, may be completely out of whack, but the mission of the grand jury isn't to rewrite the law, only to interpret it as it currently exists. I'm inclined to think that at the very least Darren Wilson should face charges and a trial that will determine his guilt or innocence, but again, I'm not on the grand jury and I don't have access to all the evidence in the case.
No matter what the grand jury decides, nothing is going to bring back Mike Brown. What happened on Canfield Avenue on August 9th was a goddamn shame. No kid should be harassed by the police without cause -- no human being should be treated like an animal in a zoo -- and if such a situation escalates no cop should be able to hide behind his or her badge when dispensing unnecessary deadly force. By the same token, no legitimate police stop that ends in violence should immediately be assumed to be the fault of the cop. Just because there are myriad instances of police brutality we can point to doesn't automatically mean that's what we're dealing with each time there's a new shooting involving an officer. Mike Brown deserves justice but so does Darren Wilson. Given that justice is supposed to be blind and a term with neither a positive nor negative connotation, if everything works the way it's supposed to a single decision has the ability to provide what's fair to each. What that decision is going to be, we'll learn soon enough.
The only thing I know for sure is that I'm glad I'm not on that grand jury. I wouldn't want to have to decide this case. Not in a million years.
Update 10.23.14: Dr. Judy Melinek, the forensics expert from San Francisco, is pushing back against the way her comments were characterized in the Post-Dispatch piece. She says her comments were taken out of context. Last night on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, she said this:
"What happens sometimes is when you get interviewed and you have a long conversation with a journalist, they're going to take things out of context. I made it very clear that we only have partial information here. We don't have the scene information. We don't have the police investigation. We don't have all the witness statements. And you can't interpret autopsy findings in a vacuum."
RELATED: The people of Ferguson are a diverse group and they're not being represented properly by the media on the ground there. Here's that story, from Ferguson. Also, are these information leaks planned, biased and intended to soften the blow for what's coming from the grand jury? Read about that here. Finally, there have been plenty of stories of police brutality against people of color over the past couple of months. Here's just one.
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BREAKING: Officer Darren Wilson Won't Be Indicted in Ferguson Shooting
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Ferguson PD: Darren Wilson Shot Mike Brown, Who Was Maybe Violent Cigar Thief
Supporters of Mike Brown's Killer Selling White Badge T-Shirts
Grand Jury Docs: Darren Wilson Told His Sergeant That Mike Brown's 'Hands Were Up'
Why Did The New York Times Only Tell Part Of Darren Wilson's Story?
Local Fox Station's Website Wrongly Reports Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson Indicted
How Many White People In St. Louis County Think Mike Brown Deserved To Die?
The Ferguson Grand Jury Was Set Up To Fail and So It Did


Given the lack of recreational amenities in southern Dallas, you can't fault Dwaine Caraway for fighting to keep the city's public swimming pools in his district open next year.
It's not just shameless political posturing by the grandiloquent council member, either.
It's a principled stance guided by Caraway's dogged assertion that City Hall can't keep taking away all the fun stuff — whether it's the Fourth of July fireworks show, an underutilized city-owned skating rink or swimming pools — to balance its checkbook.
"Park and Recreation is supposed to provide two things: a park and recreation for the people," Caraway said, noting that neighborhood pools are an invaluable resource in poorer, working-class communities such as his.
At issue is a fluid proposal by the Park and Recreation Department to close five of its 17 community pools next year to help offset a $300,000 budget cut.
The move comes at a time when the department is crafting a plan to eventually phase out all of its decades-old pools and replace them with a chain of modern aquatic centers replete with fancy slides and "lazy" rivers.
Therein lies the rub — the city doesn't have the dough.
So swimming pools, you see, aren't the whole problem. They're symptomatic of a perennial if not intractable problem, and it's a big one: City governments across the country are struggling to take care of basic infrastructure and provide basic services.
Many towns have concluded that public swimming pools are draining their coffers of precious resources, and some are taking drastic, if not draconian, measures. Fort Worth, our neighbor 35 miles to the west, shuttered all of its pools to save money, although the city is now trying to resuscitate them for next year.
"In general, cities that have the age and quantity of needs that we have, they're struggling as we are," said Winters.
Dallas, like other big cities, has done a lousy job of keeping its pools properly maintained and up to date. The average age of the city's 17 pools is 50.4 years, and the newest neighborhood pool was built when Gerald Ford was in the White House.
That's why the city had to shell out more than half a million bucks this year just to get the community pools ready for use.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said city leaders must make sure that the city keeps as many of its pools open as possible until it can build the aquatic centers.
"Making sure we have at least 17 pools open across the city is something we should do as opposed to what Fort Worth is doing," he said.
Before he became mayor, Rawlings, as chair of the city's park board, appointed the task force that began looking for ways to modernize.
The city is looking to create more, albeit smaller, venues like Bahama Beach, the popular family water park built a few years ago in Oak Cliff. The city's community pools collectively average about 629 visitors a day, while Bahama Beach now draws far more than that by itself.
So the writing's on the wall when it comes to the future of Dallas' ancient swimming holes.
The trick for park officials and turf-conscious politicians is to figure out how to bridge the past and the future on a shoestring budget.
It's at least a battle well worth waging.