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► Women Can Be Abusive Too
Women Can Be Abusive Too
Started by The Gonzman, Mar 30, 2007, 03:37 AM
The Gonzman
Women Can Be Abusive Too By Michael J. Geanoulis
In what can only be described as a conspiracy of misinformation, data on assaulted husbands is swept under the rug.
A revealing research paper on domestic violence (DV) published in the Florida State University Law Review provides a promising new twist to a thorny problem - assuming, of course, it can overcome stereotypcal attitudes and get the attention it deserves.
According to author and Indiana School of Law Professor Linda Kelly, women can be batterers. Men can be victims. And abuse by females needs to be eradicated, as well as abuse by males. (Kelly, L, "Disabusing the Definition of Domestic Abuse: How Women Batter Men and the Role of the Feminist State;" Fla. St. Univ. Law Rev, Vol 30:791)
It will be interesting to see how Kelly's 65-page paper is received, as she treads on ground long held sacred and untouchable by women's rights goups, who, according to Kelly, have been influencing every state's DV policy using double standards and biased data which discriminate against men.
As long ago as 1981, Straus, Gelles and Steinmetz discovered some of the data referred to by Kelly, reporting it in "Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family." Nearly 1.8 million American women were assaulted annually by their husbands that year -- shameful data that was elevated for all to see via insightful ads posted everywhere trumpeting the fact that "Every 17 seconds a woman is assaulted by her husband."
What the general public never saw, though, was the "real surprise," to quote the authors: 2 million husbands (200 thousand more) who were assaulted by their wives.
In what can only be described as a conspiracy of misinformation, the data on assaulted husbands was swept under the rug. No ads were ever produced depicting the average 16-second time span between assaults by wives on their husbands, or the fact that women are hitting men with higher assault rates.
And so it is, as Kelly warns against, with educational seminars like New Hampshire's annual Conference on DV sponsored by the Governor's Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, whose purpose is to "Improve the Investigative, Judicial, Administrative and Community Response."
Efforts to "improve" seem fair on its face -- except that judges who want to "improve" themselves should not be attending DV conferences loaded with sexist half-truths, innuendo and special agendas.
The slide presentation of one Mary Bettley provides us with the best evidence of such bias. What judge could be expected to make fair decisions after being exposed to half-truths like, "50% of men who assaulted their wives also abused their children?" Shouldn't judges also be taught the rate of child abuse for women who assaulted their husbands? And be made aware that women are twice as likely to assault their children than men?
Only half the story, furthermore, was given for the cycle of violence: "He (the boy) sees hitting and learns," reports Bettley. Don't girls learn about hitting from their moms when they see it? Was it Bettley's intention to teach the hundreds of judges and criminal justice people gathered to "improve" themselves, that only males learn about, and do the hitting around the house?
Another example of questionable scholarship comes from Dr. James Knoll, who echoed the Rule of Thumb, a damaging bit of nonsense and myth that was debunked long ago as a libelous falsehood by Who Stole Feminism author Christine Hoff Sommers. The rule, which serves as an unfair character assassination that refuses to die and which never existed except in the mind set of the feminist state, held that "men could beat their wives so long as they used a stick no bigger than their thumb."
Dr. Knoll seemed loathe to acknowledge that men have a long record of loving, protecting and glorifying the fair sex -- building magnificent temples to honor women and installing them on high pedestals. Apparently it's more PC and profitable to malign men as cruel beasts, especially at federally-financed conferences constructed to teach that only men are responsible for DV.
Noticed for his absence from the conference was Murray Straus, PhD, director of the Family Research Lab at UNH and world class expert on DV who lives and works in New Hampshire. He was not invited. Was this because of his position that female aggression should not be ignored? Or his revelation that men are compelled to stay in abusive relationships for the same reasons heretofore reserved for women? Or that his life might again be threatened for treading on untouchable topics?
Will Kelly be ignored, too?
DV is equal opportunity abuse, and we should demand that all perpetrators be held accountable on an equal basis, if only as a matter of safety for women. Let's hope that reasonable and objective people like Kelly and Straus, et al, can be part of the dialogue going forward.
Michael J. Geanoulis, Sr. sits on the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the MEANEST son-of-a-bitch in the valley.
The fact that there ever WAS a bias shows that our precious justice system has failed its name. And this is just more nails in the casket.
I call for a new court system.
And new judges.
And equality under court.
For once.
Karma is not a b*tch, it is a man with a gun.
Quote from: Chastity
And equality...
A constitutional authority perhaps ?
Western victim-parasitism focuses no longer on who was violent in the home, but who is entitled, because of their gender to profit from the victims-dividend arising from violence in the home. A species of political justice against which a constitutional authority as a fourth pillar government stands against.
A constitutional authority will strike down as unconstitutional CEDAW, I-VAWA, VAWA, TITLE IX and other varieties of social justice legislation to include Colorado Senate Bill 07-136 http://standyourground.com/forums/index.php?topic=12735.0
CaptDMO
New Hampshire USA
TODAY03/30/07
edited for brevity
By PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff
A man, not to be outdone by his girlfriend who sopped a pile of his clothes in wine, doused them with gasoline and set them on fire.
"You think that you can ruin my clothes. I'll show you," Mario Camacho, 19, of 67 Oakwood Ave. told his girlfriend, Jessica Capille, according to police.
The fire department extinguished the small blaze prior to officers arriving at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Oakwood Avenue address.
Fire Inspector Paul Allard said the flames left "tiny little singed marks" on the deck. There was no damage.
"He only destroyed his own clothing," Allard said.
Curious that the Chief chose to phrase it that way. I think Mr. Allard has a clue. Actually, Mr. Camachos girlfriend destroyed his clothing, he merely attempted to dispose of the now unusable staple of life in a rather harsh manner. By the way, it's still a fairly harsh climate in NH this time of year.
Police said Capille and Camacho had an argument. She piled his clothes on a rear deck and then poured wine on top of them. Infuriated, Camacho got a can of gas from the garage, poured it on his clothes and set them on fire.
He was charged with reckless conduct.
And rightfully so. I don't think it's unreasonable to say the guy didn't choose the best venue. Personally, I MOST CERTAINLY
would be lounging around in an orange jump suit if some bitch ceremoniously stole my clothes and destroyed them with premeditated malice. I wonder why this woman behaved so brazenly? Did she expect no consequences or accountability for her behavior?
Now, police are looking for him since he did not show for his arraignment yesterday morning in Manchester District Court on the misdemeanor charge.
Apparently the police didn't deem Jessica Capille,of 67 Oakwood Ave, Manchester NH, a clear threat of domestic violence behavior as clearly outlined by the power wheel described in "The Duluth Model", Education Groups for Men who Batter, by Ellen Pence and Michael Paymar, both associated with the Duluth DAIP.
Our governmental system needs to be dismantled in an orderly fashion and rebuilt according to the framework of the constitution.....starting with the judicial system.


More and more cars are adding Head-Up Displays (HUDs) to their cars. For example, I'm a huge fan of the HUD in the Cadillac XTS. There is an undeniable usefulness to having all of your needed info projected onto the windshield directly in your line-of-sight. But, HUDs tend to come in pricier cars, like the big Caddy. This poses a bit of a roadblock to those who want a useful HUD but don't have $60 grand to spend on a car.
The folks over at Garmin have come up with a solution in the new Garmin HUD. It's a small $129.99 portable unit that displays the navigation prompts onto the windshield or onto the attached reflector lens. Just stick on the small transparent film to your windshild (to allow for proper reflection), stick the system on your dash and you're good to go.
To top it all off, the Garmin HUD can project directions straight from your iPhone or Android phone. The Garmin HUD will even show you to location of traffic cameras. That little feature could easily pay for the HUD's and $29.99 Garmin StreetPilot map's costs. If you want one, the Garmin HUD will hit stores this summer. This is something I need to test. So, look forward to a review later on. Until then, check out the full press release below.
Garmin HUD – Garmin® International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced HUD, the company's first portable head-up display for smartphone navigation apps. HUD is an innovative new way of viewing navigation information in the car, projecting crisp and bright directions onto a transparent film on the windshield or an attached reflector lens. By providing comprehensive road guidance at a glance and right within the driver's line of sight, HUD can help increase safety and reduce driver distraction. HUD receives navigation information from a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone running a Garmin StreetPilot1 or NAVIGON app.


LONDON - England - Ministers at the Work and Pensions Ministry are drawing up plans for the future welfare state which will be implemented across Britain.
"They must become the acknowledged dependents of the State... but with complete and permanent loss of all citizen rights - including not only the franchise but civil freedom and fatherhood"
Iain Duncan Smith, the head of the Department of Work and Pensions is said to be adopting the initial plan drawn up by eugenicist William Beveridge who invented the benefits system in the 1940s. Lord Beveridge, at the time however did not implement the sterilisation programs he thought of but under Prime Minister Clement Attlee a softer approach was utilised. In the 21st century, society has changed and the Malthusian nightmare of over population is threatening nation states all over the world.
"Sir William Beveridge was a keen eugenicist and we're simply going to implement his original plans for benefit recipients. It is no use for these 'useless eaters' to procreate or increase their numbers when they actually have no role in society apart from their parasitical taxpayer funded lifestyles. If you wish to receive benefits, then you must submit to the chop. We don't want you breeding anymore as you are blighting the nation with yourselves and your feral children," a member of the DWP revealed to the House of Commons gazette yesterday.
Michael Gove, the Education Secretary also holds the same views about poor people, and would also like a fast track sterilisation program introduced soon. The proposed programs would save trillions from the government budget, and thus safeguard future generations for a sustainable future.
In India, the sterilisation program is working wonders and the British government is watching with eager eyes. In America, there are also plans afoot for the Obamacare future, wherein those on welfare will be given the ultimate choice, on whether to continue receiving their benefits or not. In a society where there are not enough jobs to go around, and the majority of people are not qualified to be employed, there may be major problems.
"Instead of buying 3D TVs, these people, if one should call them that, should put their efforts into educating themselves and feeding their families instead of spending taxpayer money on booze, TVs and fags. It is these poor life choices and mismanagement of money which hinder their progress. I wholly agree with IDS on his stance on sterilisation. One must not stop at the feckless either, how about the immigrants who come here and take from our benefits system? If you wish to come to the UK, you should be sterilised at the port of entry. We can set up hospitals and surgeries for this. When 80% of Romania comes over in 2014, they will all be sterilised at the border," Julie Ann Smothers, a key Whitehall policy researcher revealed to the BBC on Friday.


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EAST LIVERPOOL — Rayshelle Marie Kidder and James Michael Webber, East Liverpool, are announcing the birth of their daughter, Roza Emily Ann Webber, Nov. 21, 2018 at Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Boardman.
Roza Emily Ann weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and was 21 inches long at birth. She joins siblings, Hunter Michael, 5; Titan Webber, 4; and Zendaya Webber, 1.
Maternal grandparents are Lori and Michael Shreve, East Liverpool.
Paternal grandmother is Danielle Vantilburg, Wellsville.
Great-grandparents are James and Carol Kidder, East Liverpool.


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Q: MongoDB 'root' user creation in Windows On Linux machine, I have created user as follows:
db.createUser({ user : "admin", pwd : "admin", roles : [{role: "root", db: "admin"}]});

I want to create a similar user in windows,but since we don't have "root" in Windows machine, which role is equivalent to "root"?

A: The equivalent of root in windows would be administrator
But the mongodb shell commands in windows/linux are the same. Also the user roles are the same between the systems since you are working with mongodb and not the operating system. So just make sure to use the same mongodb version.
To find out what roles are available (in mongodb v3.2), you can do a db.getRoles() request:
https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.2/reference/method/db.getRoles/

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Q: windows phone 8 background agent With Windows Phone 8 like Lumia 920, there is a page in Settings/Applications. Click on the "background tasks", it lists some of applications I installed. I can config them to allow or blocked. I assume that those enabled app can run in background when I switch to other app. I am developing a music player. I need this feature. So, for example I am listening my playlist. The music plays to end and then stopped after I pressed Home button and switched to other app. It is because my process can't listen the play-end event. Can anyone tell me what I can do to keep my logic running. Is it using so called background agent? Is it automatically shows up in background task page? Thanks!

A: Add WindowsPhoneAudioPlaybackAgent to your project, and use it to play music. Here is a manual
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202978(v=vs.105).aspx

A: Got answer from this link. It works well. My App is listed in the Background tasks/Settings.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202941%28v=vs.105%29.aspx


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Category Archives: Security economics
Social-science angles of security
SHB 2019 – Liveblog
2019-06-05 Academic papers, Legal issues, Privacy technology, Security economics, Security psychology, Social networksRoss Anderson
I'll be trying to liveblog the twelfth workshop on security and human behaviour at Harvard. I'm doing this remotely because of US visa issues, as I did for WEIS 2019 over the last couple of days. Ben Collier is attending as my proxy and we're trying to build on the experience of telepresence reported here and here. My summaries of the workshop sessions will appear as followups to this post.
2019-06-03 Academic papers, Cybercrime, Legal issues, Politics, Security economics, Security psychologyRoss Anderson
I'll be trying to liveblog the seventeenth workshop on the economics of information security at Harvard. I'm not in Cambridge, Massachussetts, but in Cambridge, England, because of a visa held in 'administrative processing' (a fate that has befallen several other cryptographers). My postdoc Ben Collier is attending as my proxy (inspired by this and this).
The Changing Cost of Cybercrime
2019-05-30 Academic papers, Banking security, Cybercrime, Legal issues, Politics, Security economicsRoss Anderson
In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. We have now repeated our study, to work out what's changed in the seven years since then.
Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime will appear on Monday at WEIS. The period has seen huge changes, with the smartphone replacing as PC and laptop as the consumer terminal of choice, with Android replacing Windows as the most popular operating system, and many services moving to the cloud. Yet the overall pattern of cybercrime is much the same.
We know a lot more than we did then. Back in 2012, we guessed that cybercrime was about half of all crime, by volume and value; we now know from surveys in several countries that this is the case. Payment fraud has doubled, but fallen slightly as a proportion of payment value; the payment system has got larger, and slightly more efficient.
So what's changed? New cybercrimes include ransomware and other offences related to cryptocurrencies; travel fraud has also grown. Business email compromise and its cousin, authorised push payment fraud, are also growth areas. We've also seen serious collateral damage from cyber-weapons such as the NotPetya worm. The good news is that crimes that infringe intellectual property – from patent-infringing pharmaceuticals to copyright-infringing software, music and video – are down.
Our conclusions are much the same as in 2012. Most cyber-criminals operate with impunity, and we have to fix this. We need to put a lot more effort into catching and punishing the perpetrators.
Our new paper is here. For comparison the 2012 paper is here, while a separate study on the emotional cost of cybercrime is here.
Security Engineering: Third Edition
2019-05-17 Academic papers, Cybercrime, Internet censorship, Legal issues, Politics, Privacy technology, Security economics, Security engineeringRoss Anderson
I'm writing a third edition of my best-selling book Security Engineering. The chapters will be available online for review and feedback as I write them.
Today I put online a chapter on Who is the Opponent, which draws together what we learned from Snowden and others about the capabilities of state actors, together with what we've learned about cybercrime actors as a result of running the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre. Isn't it odd that almost six years after Snowden, nobody's tried to pull together what we learned into a coherent summary?
There's also a chapter on Surveillance or Privacy which looks at policy. What's the privacy landscape now, and what might we expect from the tussles over data retention, government backdoors and censorship more generally?
There's also a preface to the third edition.
As the chapters come out for review, they will appear on my book page, so you can give me comment and feedback as I write them. This collaborative authorship approach is inspired by the late David MacKay. I'd suggest you bookmark my book page and come back every couple of weeks for the latest instalment!
Future ID
2019-03-19 Academic papers, Authentication, Cybercrime, Electronic voting, Legal issues, Politics, Privacy technology, Security economicsRoss Anderson
I'm in the FutureID3 workshop in Jesus College, Cambridge, and will try to liveblog the talks in followups to this post.
Financial Cryptography 2019
2019-02-18 Academic papers, Authentication, Banking security, Cryptology, Cybercrime, Protocols, Security economics, Security psychologyRoss Anderson
I'm at Financial Crypto 2019 and will try to liveblog some of the sessions in followups to this post.
Symposium on Post-Bitcoin Cryptocurrencies
2018-10-19 Academic papers, Banking security, Cybercrime, Legal issues, News coverage, Politics, Security economicsRoss Anderson
I am at the Symposium on Post-Bitcoin Cryptocurrencies in Vienna and will try to liveblog the talks in follow-ups to this post.
The introduction was by Bernhard Haslhofer of AIT, who maintains the graphsense.info toolkit and runs the Titanium project on bitcoin forensics jointly with Rainer Boehme of Innsbruck. Rainer then presented an economic analysis arguing that criminal transactions were pretty well the only logical app for bitcoin as it's permissionless and trustless; if you have access to the courts then there are better ways of doing things. However in the post-bitcoin world of ICOs and smart contracts, it's not just the anti-money-laundering agencies who need to understand cryptocurrency but the securities regulators and the tax collectors. Yet there is a real policy tension. Governments hype blockchains; Austria uses them to auction sovereign bonds. Yet the only way in for the citizen is through the swamp. How can the swamp be drained?
Privacy for Tigers
2018-10-11 Academic papers, Legal issues, News coverage, Politics, Privacy technology, Security economics, UsabilityRoss Anderson
As mobile phone masts went up across the world's jungles, savannas and mountains, so did poaching. Wildlife crime syndicates can not only coordinate better but can mine growing public data sets, often of geotagged images. Privacy matters for tigers, for snow leopards, for elephants and rhinos – and even for tortoises and sharks. Animal data protection laws, where they exist at all, are oblivious to these new threats, and no-one seems to have started to think seriously about information security.
So we have been doing some work on this, and presented some initial ideas via an invited talk at Usenix Security in August. A video of the talk is now online.
The most serious poaching threats involve insiders: game guards who go over to the dark side, corrupt officials, and (now) the compromise of data and tools assembled for scientific and conservation purposes. Aggregation of data makes things worse; I might not care too much about a single geotagged photo, but a corpus of thousands of such photos tells a poacher where to set his traps. Cool new AI tools for recognising individual animals can make his work even easier. So people developing systems to help in the conservation mission need to start paying attention to computer security. Compartmentation is necessary, but there are hundreds of conservancies and game reserves, many of which are mutually mistrustful; there is no central authority at Fort Meade to manage classifications and clearances. Data sharing is haphazard and poorly understood, and the limits of open data are only now starting to be recognised. What sort of policies do we need to support, and what sort of tools do we need to create?
This is joint work with Tanya Berger-Wolf of Wildbook, one of the wildlife data aggregation sites, which is currently redeveloping its core systems to incorporate and test the ideas we describe. We are also working to spread the word to both conservators and online service firms.
How Protocols Evolve
2018-09-05 Academic papers, Banking security, Cybercrime, Legal issues, Politics, Protocols, Security economics, Security psychology, Social networksRoss Anderson
Over the last thirty years or so, we've seen security protocols evolving in different ways, at different speeds, and at different levels in the stack. Today's TLS is much more complex than the early SSL of the mid-1990s; the EMV card-payment protocols we now use at ATMs are much more complex than the ISO 8583 protocols used in the eighties when ATM networking was being developed; and there are similar stories for GSM/3g/4g, SSH and much else.
How do we make sense of all this?
Reconciling Multiple Objectives – Politics or Markets? was particularly inspired by Jan Groenewegen's model of innovation according to which the rate of change depends on the granularity of change. Can a new protocol be adopted by individuals, or does it need companies to adopt it en masse for internal use, or does it need to spread through a whole ecosystem, or – the hardest case of all – does it require a change in culture, norms or values?
Security engineers tend to neglect such "soft" aspects of engineering, and we probably shouldn't. So we sketch a model of the innovation stack for security and draw a few lessons.
Perhaps the most overlooked need in security engineering, particularly in the early stages of a system's evolution, is recourse. Just as early ATM and point-of-sale system operators often turned away fraud victims claiming "Our systems are secure so it must have been your fault", so nowadays people who suffer abuse on social media can find that there's nowhere to turn. A prudent engineer should anticipate disputes, and give some thought in advance to how they should be resolved.
Reconciling Multiple Objectives appeared at Security Protocols 2017. I forgot to put the accepted version online and in the repository after the proceedings were published in late 2017. Sorry about that. Fortunately the REF rule that papers must be made open access within three months doesn't apply to conference proceedings that are a book series; it may be of value to others to know this!
Google doesn't seem to believe booters are illegal
2018-08-28 Cybercrime, Security economicsRichard Clayton
Google has a number of restrictions on what can be advertised on their advert serving platforms. They don't allow adverts for services that "cause damage, harm, or injury" and they don't allow adverts for services that "are designed to enable dishonest behavior".
Google don't seem to have an explicit policy that says you cannot advertise a criminal enterprise : perhaps they think that is too obvious to state.
Nevertheless, the policies they written down might lead you to believe that advertising "booter" (or as they sometimes style themselves to appear more legitimate) "stresser" services would not be allowed. These are websites that allow anyone with a spare $5.00 or so to purchase distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Booters are mainly used by online game players to cheat — by knocking some of their opponents offline — or by pupils who down the school website to postpone an online test or just because they feel like it. You can purchase attacks for any reason (and attack any Internet system) that you want.
These booter sites are quite clearly illegal — there have been recent arrests in Israel and the Netherlands and in the UK Adam Mudd got two years (reduced to 21 months on appeal) for running a booter service. In the USA a New Mexico man recently got a fifteen year sentence for merely purchasing attacks from these sites (and for firearms charges as well).
However, Google doesn't seem to mind booter websites advertising their wares on their platform. This advert was served up a couple of weeks back:
I complained using Google's web form — after all, they serve up lots of adverts and their robots may not spot all the wickedness. That's why they have reporting channels to allow them to correct mistakes. Nothing happened until I reached out to a Google employee (who spends a chunk of his time defending Google from DDoS attacks) and then finally the advert disappeared.
Last week another booter advert appeared:
but another complaint also made no difference and this time my contact failed to have any impact either, and so at the time of writing the advert is still there.
It seems to me that, for Google, income is currently more important than enforcing policies.

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Are you a fan of "Dancing with the Stars" , "American Idol", or "So You Think You Can Dance"? On Saturday, November 14 I'll be playing guitar with the Sioux City Symphony for "Ballroom with a Twist" featuring stars from these shows!


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Sydney Frederick France
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Private Sydney Frederick France enlisted, 19 years of age, together with his older brother Joseph Douglas on the 24th January 1916.
They were given consecutive regimental numbers in the 17th Battalion AIF, part of the 2nd Australian Division, 5th Brigade.
Sydney worked as grocer in the city of Sydney, New South Wales and was single.
20th September 1917 was the first day of the Battle of the Menin Road, part of the Battle of Passchendaele ( also known as the Third Battle of Ypres).
The 5th Australian Brigade attacked at 05.40 a.m. with the 20th Battalion and 18th Battalion in support; the 17th and 26th Battalions were in reserve.
The attack went well, although the left of the 20th Battalion met some resistance from a line of old concrete artillery shelters, causing a slight hold up. They went on to the first objective, but whilst attempting to consolidate, came under fire from two pillboxes 200 yards away. To save further casualties, these were dealt with on the spot.
The 18 Battalion took over the attack on the Blue Line, taking Iron Cross Redoubt and Anzac House in its stride.It was then forced to take Garter Point to prevent sniping on troops consolidating the Blue Line.
The third objective, the Green Line, was assaulted by the 17th and 28th Battalions supported by the 26th Battalion, and was taken easily.
An eye witness to Sydney's death, Corporal J.V. Jacka stated to the Red Cross, "Syd France was a runner when our Battalion went over the top on the 20th. He was sitting in a trench when a shell burst on our parapet. A piece of shell struck him on the chin and caused the bone to be broken right away. He received immediate attention but died at the first dressing station. He would have been buried there. The exact position of the place I can't tell you."
Private Sydney Frederick France was only 21 years old, and although it states in his file that he was buried in the vicinity of Westhoek and Anzac Ridge, his remains were never found. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, bay 17 stone M.
His brother Joseph Douglas was also killed in action the same day, during the same Battle.
Connection to other soldiers 1
Joseph Douglas France
"Passchendaele, The Day-by-Day Account",McCarthy C., Arms&ArmourPress, London, 1995, page 80 + 82-83"
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The National to play Washington Park show in support of Clinton
Free concert planned Nov. 2
Updated: 12:52 PM EST Jan 4, 2017
WLWT Digital Staff
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The National, an indie rock band from Cincinnati, will play a show at Over-the-Rhine's Washington Park is support of Hillary Clinton. The outdoor concert will be held on the Civic Lawn Nov. 2 from 6 p.m. through 10:30 p.m. The event is free. Those wishing to attend can RSVP here. Priority access will also be granted for individuals who volunteer for the Clinton campaign. The event will be part of Hillary For America's "Love Trumps Hate" concert series to get out and vote in the final weeks before Election Day. The band will urge Ohioans to support Clinton.
The National, an indie rock band from Cincinnati, will play a show at Over-the-Rhine's Washington Park is support of Hillary Clinton.
The outdoor concert will be held on the Civic Lawn Nov. 2 from 6 p.m. through 10:30 p.m.
The event is free. Those wishing to attend can RSVP here.
Priority access will also be granted for individuals who volunteer for the Clinton campaign.
The event will be part of Hillary For America's "Love Trumps Hate" concert series to get out and vote in the final weeks before Election Day.
The band will urge Ohioans to support Clinton.


There is a video interview of me on the British economy, with Owen Jones, in the Guardian. You can watch it here.
There is an animation based on my book, Economics: The User's Guide in the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) Animate series. You can watch it here.
An article on 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' in the Guardian's summer series, 'A book that changed me' .
There is a an article of mine on 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' in the Guardian's summer series, 'A book that changed me'. You can read it here.
There is an article of mine in the Guardian, titled, ' Why did Britain's political class buy into the Tories' economic fairytale?' You can read it here.
There is a video of my talk, titled, 'Economics – but not as you know it' at the LSE, delivered on 1 May 2014, on my new book, 'Economics: The User's Guide', You can watch it here.
I have written on anchovies, aubergines, and unorthodox economics in the Diary in the Financial Times. You can read it here.


Over the past few years, downtown LA has exploded with quality restaurants. Whether you're visiting the city or you're a native Angeleno, it can be difficult to decide where to dine. Thankfully, we've curated a list of the most iconic locations in the city.
You might choose to enjoy a prime dry-aged steak at Nick + Stef's Steakhouse, or opt for traditional French cuisine at Kendall's Brasserie or indulge in a culinary journey at the legendary and Michelin-starred Patina Restaurant.
Whichever you choose, you're in for a great dining experience.
Cafe Pinot is a California French-inspired restaurant in downtown Los Angeles offering outdoor dining and premiere special event and wedding catering.
Kendall's Brasserie dishes out a revamped menu by Chef Jean-Pierre Bosc, featuring a modern, artistic and vibrant take on the traditional French brasserie.
Nick & Stef's Steakhouse, located in the heart of Downtown LA, offers a fine dining atmosphere with acclaimed dry-aged steaks, fresh seafood and signature sides.
An award-winning, Michelin starred restaurant offering contemporary French cuisine with international influences at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The BoardRoom is a French speakeasy, located inside Kendall's Brasserie. Reserved for those who love the art of libations in an intimate setting, where the spirits will rise and toast.
Inspired by the flavors and unique spirit of Mexico City, Cocina Roja is the ideal outdoor dining option when visiting The Music Center. This traditional Mexican al fresco taqueria offers authentic tacos, larger entrées and street fare, which can be paired with an array of delicious beverages.
The quintessential L.A. burger joint that brings a new casual dining option to The Music Center. Upstage Burger offers a comfortable spot to grab a high-quality burger, sip an ice cold beer, hang out with friends and enjoy the surrounds.


Many voters do not know basic facts about the Republican candidates running for president. Only about half (53%) of people identify Massachusetts as the state where Mitt Romney served as governor. Among Republicans, 59% correctly identify Massachusetts, according to a survey conducted Jan. 4-8 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Only 44% of all voters could name Ron Paul as the GOP candidate who opposes U.S. involvement in Afghanistan; this number rises to just over half (51%) among Republicans.


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I knew that I wanted to be an attorney in the 3rd grade. The simple mind of a third-grader is resolute. My class took a field trip to the courthouse, and the courtroom captured my imagination. I thought to myself, this is where the truth is made known; the place where wrong is made right.
Life went according to plan and I was admitted to the University of Denver law school in my mid-twenties.
Shortly after my acceptance, I took a pregnancy test. I stared at the little, plastic stick in my hand.
As the double pink lines appeared, fear and anxiety overwhelmed me. A newborn in the first month of my first year of law school had not been part of the plan.
I'd like to tell you that I didn't consider abortion. I did.
I'd like to tell you that I graduated from law school. I did not.
My husband was the calm voice of reason, committed to both our baby and our dream. I left law school a few days after discussing my situation with the Dean. Although the Dean was supportive and encouraging, I was conflicted and distressed. It hurt to decline my seat, but I knew personally that I could not manage the needs of a newborn and the financial demands and academic rigor of law school. I knew it wouldn't hurt as much as losing my baby would.
Though I had made my decision, it took an early sonogram—showing my baby's flutter of a heartbeat—to convict me about the importance of never taking a life through direct abortion.
In that little heartbeat, an entire world was unfolding for someone else. I saw my own humanity. I realized I was once in my mother's womb—that same gestational age. My hopes and dreams were once contained in the infinite mystery that would be 'my life'; even as I was once just a zygote, an embryo and a fetus. At every moment, in these stages, I was a human being who had a right to life.
I didn't have my baby. I didn't have law school. I didn't have motherhood. I didn't have my husband with me.
Profound loss can be an intimate encounter with grace.
I had an epiphany. It came to me in my newfound, "unexpected" wonder of the gift of life that was so apparent at the first sonogram. I wanted to behold it, again. It was similar to the wonder first encountered in that courtroom, in 3rd grade—the beauty of truth.
The undeniable heartbeat in my first sonogram also helped me see through the tortured animus and contaminated logic that pervades the pro-abortion rhetoric.
The argument "my body, my choice" proclaims reproductive autonomy for women by enslaving them to the instruments of dominion—namely, manipulation, coercion, and ultimately, violence. How does reproductive "freedom" find its origin in sexual and reproductive tyranny?
The epiphany led to a new outlook on my purpose in life. I saw the honor of motherhood; the gift of children as a blessing—the gift of life as a supreme gift.
Although I did not return to law school, I decided to pursue a graduate degree in Bioethics after raising three young children as a stay-at-home mom.
Through both of these pursuits, I fulfilled my old calling as a lawyer.
As a student in Bioethics, I will soon advocate as a bioethicist for respect of human life.
As a mother, I am an advocate as well. There is a profound connection between the role of lawyers and mothers in their roles as protectors of the innocent. In the womb, a human life awaits a just end, in silence. To give the gift of life is to be a guardian of the true good, a servant of justice, and to give a defense of the impoverished and defenseless. Every pregnant woman, in one sense, will be the prosecution, the defense, the judge and the jury; for every child in the womb awaits a just verdict.
Fortunately, many mothers, bioethicists, and lawyers for life defend justice and true liberty. Together, we work to make the truth known, make wrong right—just as I dreamed of doing in third grade.
Sarah Huntzinger is a wife, mother, and Bioethics student living in Colorado.
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Decades of research a win for WA babies
Angie TomlinsonThe West Australian
Monday, 10 September 2018 9:40AM
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Camera IconSeven month old baby Liam Butterly . Credit: The West Australian
Of the many success stories to come out of the Telethon Kids Institute — its trailblazing of folate supplementation for pregnant women and their unborn babies — may be among its proudest.
Thanks to the pioneering research of two eminent WA researchers, Fiona Stanley and Carol Bower, along with a team of talented scientists behind them, the vital importance of folate during pregnancy was finally — and properly — understood.
And it means delightful little babies like Liam Butterly, pictured among a bevy of folate-rich vegetables, are born healthy and without debilitating neural tube defects such as spina bifida.
Liam's photograph was inspired by the joint health promotion between Telethon Kids and the WA Health department in 1994, which included the photograph of a baby (now a healthy 24-year-old woman) also surrounded by folate-rich foods. The image was part of a WA-lead push to ensure all women had access to folate before and during pregnancy to reduce the risk of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida and anencephaly, in their babies.
As Telethon Kids Institute celebrates the move into its new home at the Perth Children's Hospital and Professor Bower, a reluctant hero in this story, prepares to retire, it is fitting to revisit this brilliant, homemade success story.
From their research in the 1980s, Professor Bower and colleagues saw how adequate folate levels of women before conception and in early pregnancy reduced the risk of disruptions in the developing baby's neural tube. These findings were confirmed in international randomised controlled trials published in the early 1990s.
Camera IconProfessor Carol Bower.
It was enough to put the fire in the belly of Professor Bower, Professor Fiona Stanley and the newly formed Telethon Kids Institute.
A public health campaign was launched encouraging women looking to get pregnant to eat folate-rich foods and take folic acid supplements. A baby nestled among fruit and vegetables became the poster child of the push, the image and message achieving great inroads at the time, says Professor Bower.
The health campaign, along with folic acid being voluntarily added to some foods went a good way to reducing the incidence of neural tube defects. In 1996 a 30 per cent drop in neural tube defects in WA was recorded, urging on those involved.
Professor Bower says while the statistics for the general population were encouraging, it had exacerbated the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aborginal people.
"That was one of the stimuli for advocating for mandatory fortification," says Professor Bower, who along with her team pushed for mandatory fortification of folic acid in flour for bread making, a staple food eaten by most. The groundbreaking new Australian food law came into effect in 2009.
"After mandatory fortification we found an additional fall in the general population and a massive fall in neural tube defects in the Aboriginal population to the same level as the general population," she says, adding there was also a big fall in neural tube defects among very young women, many of whom were likely not planning a pregnancy.
The tireless work of researchers and public health campaigns has put folate at the forefront of the minds of many WA women planning a pregnancy. Teacher Kayla Butterly took folic acid supplements in the three months before falling pregnant and throughout her pregnancy with now eight-month-old Liam, pictured.
A background studying high school human biology and working at a chemist increased her awareness. "Plus, when we first spoke to our GP that is when she first suggested 'remember about folate' and to take it three months before trying. Everyone I spoke to throughout my pregnancy mentioned it," she says.
Even now Professor Bower estimates no more than half of women take folic acid supplements before and during pregnancy, and this is despite increased awareness. The problem lies in the fact almost half of pregnancies are unplanned. The unplanned, says Professor Bower, is why mandatory fortification is so important.
Now just a year out from retirement, Professor Bower can appreciate her own achievements, as well as the huge team of people that contributed to this Telethon Kids Institute flagship project. It's a success story this State can be extremely proud of.
"I've pretty much done this the whole of my working life, so I think it is time to take a rest."
The folate bubs
On a windy day in November 1992 Professor Fiona Stanley was pictured with Kim Robins, 4, in a giant cabbage patch, kicking off a campaign to highlight the benefits of increased folate during pregnancy.
"Cute, isn't she? But most importantly, she's healthy." So begins the 1994 health promotion urging mums to eat folate-rich food before and during pregnancy.
This was a step towards the 2009 culmination when the mandatory fortification of folic acid into flour for bread-making products became Australian law — and rates of neural tube defects dropped significantly.
Camera IconIn 1992 Professor Fiona Stanley gets to know spina bifida child Kim Robins amongst the cabbages at a Lansdale market garden. Credit: WA News
Camera Icon1994 health promotion.
Understanding folate
Folate is one of the B-group vitamins, occurring naturally in food, and as folic acid when a food additive or supplement.
The body needs folate to make DNA, form red blood cells, and grow and repair cells and tissues.
It is particularly important before and during pregnancy as a developing foetus needs it for growth and the formation of the neural tube during the early weeks of pregnancy. The neural tube is a layer of cells that goes on to form the brain and spinal cord, and if it doesn't fuse properly it causes a neural tube defect such as spina bifida.
It is mandatory for folic acid to be added to wheat flour for bread making and it is added on a voluntary basis to many breakfast cereals and some milk and fruit juices. Good sources of folate include green vegetables such as spinach and kale, legumes, avocado, fruit, beef liver and Vegemite.
If you are planning on getting pregnant or are in the early stages of pregnancy, take a daily folic acid supplement, as well as eating high-folate foods. Aim for a minimum of 400g of folate per day, for at least one month before and three months after falling pregnant. Some women need more folate, so see your doctor for advice.
Source: Healthdirect and Telethon Kids Institute
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Q: How to run a jQuery Code after loading all the images in my page? How to run a jQuery Code after loading all the images in my page ?

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A: Checking to see that all images have loaded is slightly involved, so unless you have a pressing need to be so precise, it is much easier to check that all image and everything else has loaded:
$(window).load(function() { ... });

This makes use of the jQuery .load() method.
If you do really need to check for specifically only images, then things get a little trickier. I initially wanted to do this:
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However the above creates a jQuery object that contains all images, and then it binds function() { ... } to each of these images. So the above will trigger a function as many times as there are images on the page!
To get around this, we should check how many images there are on the page, and only fire the function once after all those images have been loaded:
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      // To keep track of how many images have loaded
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A: I did something like this recently, but went about it differently.
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A: @Peter Ajtai answer will work except on IE's cached images. To make it work with IE, here's a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3877079 or by using the imagesLoaded plugin.

A: For anyone using jquery this little snippet does the trick (it ensures that all images are loaded before any script inside it are run)...
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The 7 curiosities you didn't know about Medina Azahara
Due to the interest that the palatine city of Medina Azahara has awakened after becoming in July 2018 a UNESCO World Heritage Site (the fourth World Heritage Site in the city of Córdoba), we believe it is convenient to make a brief presentation concerning 7 curiosities related to the beautiful " Shining City":
1- The top of the Iceberg
At the moment only a 10% of the total surface area of the Caliphate City has been excavated and, since its nomination as an UNESCO World Heritage Site, the flow of visitors has increased by an incredible 40%. So, due to the effort of the researchers and the interest of our visitors, we hope that the archaeological work will bring us many surprises in the years to come. One of them, released in November of 2017, is related to the the Eastern Portico had its counterpart at the opposite end of the great Plaza de Armas.
2- The new discoveries
Another great surprise has been the discovery of a building, whose purpose remains unknown for the moment (located next to this new portico in the Plaza de Armas) with strong Abbiside influence, as it has a plant in T shape. It dates from the first stage of construction of the city, around 940 b.C.
3-The " Shining City " in the darkness
Did you know that it is possible to enjoy nocturnal visits to Medina Azahara? Between the months of April and October, you have the chance to enjoy the mysterious atmosphere of the " Shining City " at night, being this a truly unforgettable experience.
4- The only caliphal city susceptible of being investigated
Alberto Montejo, the current director of this archaeological site, pointed out that Medina Azahara: "is the only Caliphate city preserved and subject of investigation. The other two, Cairo and Baghdad, have a population of 15 and 20 million inhabitants, which makes them irrecoverable". This was one of the main reasons why it was declared a World Heritage Site.
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5- The reopening of the Rich Hall
During the last month of December and until January 5 2019, the Rich Hall has been temporarily reopened, closed for 9 years due to an eternal process of restoration of the arabesques which decorate its walls, façade and counterfacade. Throughout 2019 it is expected to sign the agreement for the tender of works for the second phase of the restoration works of this hall with the objective of allowing the visitors to enjoy one of the great jewels that Abd al-Rahman III left in inheritance for us.
6- Details that make the difference
The arabesque that appears infinite times on the walls of the Rich Hall represents the Tree of Life, but actually none of these representations is repeated: each Tree of Life has some detail that makes it unique and different from the rest.
7- If Abd al-Rahman would raise his head
It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the legitimate authorship of the city was discovered, thanks to research work. Until then, it was thought that the ruins of Medina Azahara belonged to a Roman settlement. On the other hand, the current entrance to Medina Azahara is located right at the opposite end of the original entrance which would be very close to the current Museum building. This is due to the improvements that are intended to be made in the future to facilitate the flow of visitors in order to make the itinerary of the tours same as the original thousand years ago.
From Oway Tours we hope that you have enjoyed this article and, if you have not already done so, encourage you to visit the incredible city of Medina Azahara, and thus be able to be delighted in person with the mysteries and creations that the last independent emir of the Caliphate of Cordoba prepared for us.
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Discovery on final mission to space
Discovery set to blast off for the final time, marking the beginning of the end for the US space shuttle programme.
Discovery is scheduled for launch with a crew of six astronauts on a mission to International Space Station [Reuters]
At the ripe old age of 27, it's time to retire.
The space shuttle Discovery will blast off for the final time at 21:50 GMT on Thursday, marking the beginning of the end of the US space shuttle programme.
Discovery will be the first of the remaining three shuttles to be put out to pasture, with the other following later in the year.
Led by commander Steven Lindsey, Discovery's last mission will supply various new equipment to the International Space Station.
The delivery will include the station's first humanoid robots as well as the Express Logistic Carrier, an external platform for large equipment.
After the termination of the US programme, astronauts will have to rely on the Russian Soyuz Space Capsule for transport to and from the Space Station.
After already clocking up 352 days in space, Discovery is the oldest and most travelled space craft still in service.
Conditions for its final take off could hardly be better, with blue skies and light winds forecast.
There were originally six shuttles in the fleet, but one, Enterprise, never flew into space.
Enterprise was used only for test flights in the atmosphere, and is already on display in the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, at the display facility just outside Washington, the US capital.
Flights for two of the remaining five shuttles ended in disaster; Challenger exploded shortly after take off in 1986, and Columbia disintegrated on its way back to earth in 2003.
Discovery will retire after circling the earth more than 5,600 times. Final flights for the other two shuttles in the fleet are scheduled in the coming months.


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Россия
 Узловое — посёлок в Гурьевском городском округе Калининградской области.
 Узловое — посёлок в Краснознаменском районе Калининградской области.

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Украина
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Home »Classroom Notes»Room 7: November/December – Festive Fun!
Room 7 have had a busy couple of weeks preparing for the end of our school year. We have been spending lots of me practicing for our concert next week, and are all super excited to perform for our family and friends on the big night! The boys have thoroughly enjoyed working on some festive art works, and cooking some festive treats this week. We are looking forward to our end of year class party and watching a movie in our last week of school. We have had a fantastic and productive year in Room 7 and wish to thank our lovely class parents for their support over the school year. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday break!


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Home Music Music Feature Nickel&Rose Reconsider Americana
Nickel&Rose Reconsider Americana
by Evan Rytlewski
Photo credit: Amanda Lillian Mills
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Upright bassist Johanna Rose and guitarist Carl Nichols didn't set out to be in a folk duo. As Nickel&Rose, the two Milwaukee singer/songwriters cut their teeth playing jazz and blues clubs across Europe, before gradually settling into a rootsier sound. The more time they spent playing folk festivals, though, the less comfortable they became with what they saw.
"It's almost all white men," Nichols says. "If you look at the lineup of any folk or Americana festival, you see that they use that term to associate it with a really narrow thing, which is either this Tom Petty sort of hard rock with acoustic guitars, or weird Southern rock. It's rock bands, basically, but they're billed as folk. It's all about playing festivals now. People are making records that can be played at festivals."
Nichols both calls out and grieves for the genre on the title track of the group's new EP, Americana. "If I wasn't standing on this stage, would you wonder why I was here," he sings, "Would you ask me if I was lost or if I came to sell you pills?" He's singing from personal experience. As one of the few black performers in the scene, he says, "I've gone to so many shows where people just assume that I couldn't possibly be there for the music, or that I must be there for a drug deal.
"To me the song is much more of a personal statement than just a general criticism of folk and Americana," he continues. "I really wanted to capture the experience of being a black entertainer, where I get these moments where I'm in front of a microphone and my opinion is heard—maybe not appreciated, but heard. And I think about myself and so many other people who aren't heard. So I realized I that it's my responsibility to say something meaningful, because people are listening to me who otherwise wouldn't be."
The song doesn't shy away from the obvious irony of black voices being shut out of Americana: Folk was created from black music.
"It really touches on that history and the people who are cut out of the history of folk," Rose says. "Historically all this music comes from black artists, but because of how record companies market things they're cut out of the history of things. When you look at the history of country and blues, black and white artists were playing similar music, but record companies called white people doing it country and black people blues. Americana is a more recent term, but when people think of folk or Americana, they're usually thinking of a white dude with an acoustic guitar and a banjo."
The rest of the EP isn't as overtly pointed as its mournful title track. "Moving Pianos" is a sweet love song with a cheerful, old-timey spirit, while "Life Goes On" celebrates the hard work that goes into making a relationship last, but Rose sees the whole EP as of a piece.
"'Americana' may be a political song, but it is still personal," she says. "All of these songs have this common thread of loss, and so I think 'Americana' fits in with the other songs because it is talking about loss. Stylistically there are common threads, too. All the songs are more traditional and less experimental than the folk we've done in the past, so it's a little bit of a tribute, but also a little bit of a declaration that we can do this, too."
Nichols notes another irony about the song "Americana": It was written as a kind of kiss-off to the genre—"a nail in the coffin," he says—but it ended up further ingraining the duo in that world.
"I feel like there's more pressure on us now that we're pointing out the racial issues," Nichols says. "We always have to be performing our best, because we can't be perceived as the band that's complaining that we're not doing as well because of race. We have to be as good as any other band, because people are going to be looking at us like, 'Well, you're talking about it. Now you have to back it up.'"
Nickel&Rose play an EP release show Saturday, Sept. 1, at Company Brewing at 8:30 p.m. with King Courteen and Grasping at Straws.
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Little Italy is one of Jeremy's favorite neighborhoods of San Diego. Not far from his art studio in the East Village, he enjoys stopping here after an afternoon of painting and enjoying one of the cafes. The original is 18" x 24." Click link to read full description.
"One of my favorite places in San Diego is kindly Little Italy. There are a lot of bright colors in the painting representing the beautiful places and people. The pride and happiness of owning a business or restaurant is justly shown as yellow. Really I like all the different people and languages spoken in Little Italy, represented by lavender. Beautiful red is for the food, and some of the best places to eat in San Diego. Orange is for the families and friends getting to enjoy a long dinner, nicely like in Italy. Green is everywhere. The wonderful Farmers Market is a light fresh green just like the produce. Truly I dreamt that I lived in Little Italy and that my beautiful paintings were appreciated by the neighbors who live around me, represented by purple. There was dear pink for the kind love of nice beautiful neighbors for each other, caring for quality of life represented by the color blue like the sky and indigo. Nicely there is white for the hope of always improving the neighborhood with nice places to live, shops and restaurants for the greatly just people who live close by. There is turquoise for always nicely having things to do in Little Italy, and where I like to go shopping for my paint supplies. Frankly gold and silver representing the great hand of God helping the community was present."


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Book: "The Fifth House of the Heart" by Ben Tripp
Publishing Info: Gallery Books, July 2015
Where Did I Get This Book: The Library!
Book Description from Goodreads: Filled with characters as menacing as they are memorable, this chilling twist on vampire fiction packs a punch in the bestselling tradition of 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
Asmodeus "Sax" Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious and well-established antiques dealer, has made a fortune over many years by globetrotting for the finest lost objects in the world. Only Sax knows the true secret to his success: at certain points of his life, he's killed vampires for their priceless hoards of treasure.
But now Sax's past actions are quite literally coming back to haunt him, and the lives of those he holds most dear are in mortal danger. To counter this unnatural threat, and with the blessing of the Holy Roman Church, a cowardly but cunning Sax must travel across Europe in pursuit of incalculable evil—and immeasurable wealth—with a ragtag team of mercenaries and vampire killers to hunt a terrifying, ageless monster…one who is hunting Sax in turn.
From author Ben Tripp, whose first horror novel Rise Again "raises the stakes so high that the book becomes nearly impossible to put down" (Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother), The Fifth House of the Heart is a powerful story that will haunt you long after its final pages.
Review: If there is one thing that you need to know about me when it comes to my love of horror, it's that I am supremely picky about my vampire fiction. I love vampire lore, and have always enjoyed a vampire tale if it is done right. What do I personally define as 'right' when it comes to vampires in my pop culture? Oh, let me tell you.
Lestat as a whole
And of course….
8. What We Do In The Shadows
What don't I define as right?
I will beat this dead horse forever. (source)
I am happy to report that "The Fifth House of the Heart" is going to be able to be used as one of my personal good examples of what I look for in vampire fiction. I will admit that I had to sort of have a jump start as I was reading, because I found myself skimming more than I wanted to and not appreciating the writing. So I jumped back about a hundred pages, and really delved deep into the narrative.
The vampire world and mythology that Tripp has created is a familiar one, but he puts his own spin on his vampires and his vampire hunters. While vampires have generally the usual characteristics and tropes that has become a part of the collective narrative, Tripp adds things and twists things to make them unique to his world. For example, in this world, vampires take on the form of their prey over time, so there are encounters with vampires that look like giant spiders and malicious frogs. He also gives a lot of time to theories on metallurgy and chemistry in relation to vampire weaknesses, giving garlic some potency through means of scientific explanation and silver weapons enhanced by blacksmithing. I really enjoyed that Tripp gave such deep thought to his story that he made stalwart themes completely new and creative. I also really enjoyed our rag-tag group of vampire hunters, as they felt like they were coming right out of an "Ocean's Eleven"-esque heist movie. Sax is a very fun protagonist, because he's by no means a brave man. Hell, he kills vampires because he wants their antiques for his collection, and doesn't get his hands dirty unless he absolutely has to. And even then he really doesn't want to out of sheer cowardice. But in spite of that you can't help but really like him and root for him. His team consists of a paramilitary badass, a sociopathic assassin who has a tragic link to vampires in her past, an obnoxious burglar type, and a blacksmith and metal specialist who is far more interested in banging women than hunting vampires. Not to mention the Bollywood actress who is suffering from a vampire bite. It is seriously charming!
Tripp's writing is also something that gels with me completely, as I found it laugh out loud funny, but also really scary at times. There were many scenes that had me on the edge of my seat, and his descriptions are vivid and evocative. I could picture everything so easily, and the change of place never felt awkward or choppy. There are a few flashbacks in telling Sax's story, but they were always clear cut and put in at just the right times. And the shifts from really funny scenes to scenes that had me on the edge of my seat were never jarring, as the comedic elements were just a part of the characters and always felt like they were in place, no matter how tense the situation was. And his descriptions of gore and vampire things of that nature were just the right amount of brutal without making me squeamish. Granted, my threshold for that stuff is pretty high, but it never felt supremely exploitative or graphic to me.
Vampire fans really need to try out "The Fifth House of the Heart". It was a true joy to read it, and I think that it should take it's rightful place of honor in modern vampire fiction.
Rating 8: A solid vampire mythology with some really fun characters. The mix of humor and horror really gives in a bite and the creatures Tripp has created are fabulous.
"The Fifth House of the Heart" is included in these Goodreads lists: "Best Picks: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Novels of 2015", and "Hugo 2016 Eligible Works".
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Abuja, Nigeria, and Oulu, Finland — Off the field, Daniel "The Bull" Amokachi rarely raises his voice. He speaks in a modulated, lyrical drawl, tilting his head up and to the side when he talks.
I had written to him asking for a chat after missing him in Finland and he had invited me over to hang out at the Reiz Carlton, a modest hotel in Abuja's central business district.
On a damp, gloomy evening, he signals me to join him at the pool bar in the company of friends.
As he waits for his order of fries and sandwiches, he banters with the hotel staff in the sing-song Hausa language that rolls off his tongue with the ease of a native.
He is at home in a tiny blue leather chair, shaped in a semicircle with ridiculously high arms. A tall, patterned fila in shades of browns and oranges is perched on his head. His bulging, tattooed muscles, normally visible in his many Instagram pictures, are hidden by the long sleeves of a powder-blue traditional kaftan that matched his trousers. Occasionally, he lowers his head, typing on his phone.
Despite working some 5 000km away in Finland, Amokachi often finds time to come home to Nigeria — at least four times a year, he says, especially after the Finnish football season is over. His many brand commitments require his attention.
So do his other responsibilities. "The bills are here," he explains.
He's Christian and can't go two sentences without mentioning God's grace. But he comes home to predominantly Muslim Kaduna to hand out bags of rice during Muslim festive seasons such as Eid al Adha.
And now, having been recently promoted to technical director at JS Hercules, the second-tier Finnish club he coaches, there will be more frequent visits, longer stays and the flexible hours will allow him to "galavant", he quips, flashing a gap-toothed smile.
In another interview, Amokachi had vented his frustration with coaching in Finland where he described football as "too nice".
Sanjo Olutayo, a young coach with JS Hercules's junior team, who describes Amokachi as "an open guy", shares his pain. The level of aggressiveness and cockiness that is needed to go pro in football is missing, he tells me. Coaching in a country where ice hockey, and not football, is the number one sport is also tricky.
On a recent August evening in Oulu, Olutayo pointed out JS Hercules' office and walked me past the Raatii stadium, a 4 000-capacity multipurpose stadium built in 1953, where Amokachi usually drills the players during the season.
The sun, which stayed up until past 10, spilled orange light onto the surface of a lake next to the roadside as we walked.
When Oulu-based JS Hercules approached Olutayo last year, Amokachi's presence as senior coach was one of the reasons he took it. The 24-year-old's first encounter with The Bull had involved a frustrated Amokachi yelling "coach, get behind that line!" at him, he remembers fondly between fits of laughter. The conditions the team have to train in, he tells me, can certainly get one riled up.
Temperatures in the small city north of Helsinki dip to dangerously low levels in the winter, making training sessions hard.
Paul Obi, a JS Hercules striker who was scouted from Lagos three years ago, tells me getting through the dark winters is mentally tasking. When Amokachi himself arrived last fall, the temperature was -38℃ and he had bled through his nose.
"For a club in Europe to get a phone number and call a black coach from Africa is a grace on its own and you can never turn that down," Amokachi tells me, fiddling with his phone.
He is a genuine African footballing superstar. His club career took him to Club Brugge, Everton and Besiktas, among others, and he was the driving force when Nigeria secured the most glittering result in its history: the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1996. Amokachi, of course, scored in the final.
He owned a private jet and modelled for brands such as Donatella Versace and Hugo Boss. "But I'm a grumpy old man now," he jokes with a shrug.
An army brat, Amokachi was born to Tiv and Idoma parents originally from Benue in Nigeria's middle-belt region. The family lived all their life in Kaduna, a state in Northern Nigeria that practices sharia law and where celebrations such as Eid are rooted more in tradition than religion.
To fund the American-style education he wanted his children to have, his father erected a compound big enough to accommodate 18 paying tenants. Pa Amokachi died in August 2016.
Amokachi doesn't like vegetable fillings in his sandwiches.
"This one is oyinbo food," he grumbles to me, minutes after the bartender placed a platter of sandwiches and golden crisp fries on the rounded table between us.
It is evident in the way he played. Watching Amokachi on the field was like watching an angry bull charge. It's different from the dance of his former teammate and fellow striker, Kanu Nwankwo, who was light, lithe and subtle — a long-legged butterfly man in green and white. Amokachi was a bullet, barrelling past defenders in a blur. Dribbling, falling and getting back up to net the ball from impossible angles.
Often, talented players get discovered past their prime; the talent is there but age quickly catches up with them. Amokachi was one of the lucky ones who got discovered early on and who didn't need to cook up a phoney "football age" to comply with requirements in going pro.
At 16, he got signed to Rancher's Bees, a local club in Nigeria. Even then, there was a way he played, a power he possessed on the field that forced people to pause, forced them to pay attention.
Clemens Westerhof, a Dutchman and then Super Eagles coach, was certainly hooked. He got in touch one day in 1989 and convinced a doubtful Amokachi to join the senior team at 17. Amokachi would help his team secure a regional cup later that year.
At the same age, when he was certain he wasn't meant to go the academic route, he quit studying law at the University of Texas, signed on with Club Brugge in Belgium and moved to Europe.
"Most of us did not even know what we did," Amokachi says now, reflecting on Nigeria's gold win at the Atlanta '96 Olympics.
He munches thoughtfully on his fries as though he was still trying to grasp the enormity of what the Dream Team had done all those years ago.
Head coach Johannes Bonfrere, another Dutchman, had lined Amokachi up alongside other greats: Jay Jay Okocha, Sunday Oliseh, Celestine Babayaro, Emmanuel Amunike, Kanu Nwankwo. It turned out to be a line-up that would announce the arrival of African football on the world stage.
Argentina stood no chance after Nigeria had beaten Brazil in the semis, Amokachi says. In the final game against Argentina, his goal, the second, seemed to defy physics — body facing north, legs kicking south — and he was enveloped by his jubilant teammates.
At the final whistle — 3-2 to Nigeria — the whole country went wild, relishing the distraction from the brutality of a military dictatorship led by General Sani Abacha.
Amokachi was not looking for love when he found it. During a 1994 African Cup of Nations game in Tunisia, he saw a girl in the lobby of a hotel while waiting for his room to be ready. With the help of a translator, he told her he would like to get married.
At the house, they were welcomed and served.
"Yes," a young Nadia had said.
One year later, the two got married.
"She is a beautiful woman," Amokachi says without missing a beat when I asked why he chose to approach Nadia that way, before cracking up at his own forwardness. It was ordained, because he was usually too shy to pull something like that off, he says.
The pair now have three children. Kalim and Nazim, their 22-year-old twins, are identical and have their father's gap-toothed smile. They also share Amokachi's passion for football; last year they signed on with JS Hercules after a brief stint with Turkish club Besiktas — the same club Amokachi had played for until his retirement.
Two things caused Amokachi's eyes to water in the course of our chat. The first was the memory of the late Stephen Keshi, his former boss and Super Eagles captain who he had worked with first as a player and then later as coach.
Amokachi had assisted Keshi in leading Nigeria to their African Cup of Nations win in 2013. Two decades ago, they had both won the same cup as players. They remain the only two to have achieved that double feat in football history. They had been close.
When he talks of Keshi in one video interview, Amokachi pulls his cap low on his face and then buries his head in his arm, voice starting and stuttering. Before Keshi died in mid-2016, he had coached foreign national teams in Togo and Mali.
The second was his injury. I had resolved to ask Amokachi about it towards the end of the interview, but he brought it up in the first five minutes after we began to talk, and it came up almost everytime after.
"Tell me about the injury," I finally say.
''Ahh!" he grunts. He throws his head back and looks away, eyes narrowing, as though the mere thought brings him unseen physical pain.
The thing about great things and great careers is that they have to come to an end. For Amokachi, the end had snuck up on him a decade too soon. Right before a 1998 World Cup match with Spain, a match he was supposed to captain, he had suffered an injury to his knee.
At the time, 25-year-old Amokachi had struggled with accepting that it was over. He played for one more season, battling excruciating pain after a corrective surgery gone wrong, leaving cartilage in his knee grating against each other.
In 2001, after failing several medical tests in Europe, he joined the Colorado Rapids for pre-season training. But one day after 9/11 had happened, he just couldn't do it anymore — not the tests, not the rejections, not the false hopes.
These days, when he's not drilling his team in minus 38-degree weather, Amokachi is home in Nigeria making brand videos or lobbying for African sides.
Earlier in 2018, Amokachi gave an impassioned speech before Fifa officials in support of Morocco's bid to host the 2026 World Cup.
"For Africans, football is life, football is religion," he had said, looking suave in a dark blue suit.
Just recently, he posted a commercial he had done for a betting company, encouraging his fans to sign up. He also runs One Child, One Pen, his charity organisation.
The thing about legends like Amokachi is that they stumble, they fall, but they don't stay down. Barely five years after his retirement, Amokachi was back on the pitch, a new force coaching local sides such as Nassarawa United and Ifeanyi Ubah to major wins, as well as helping out with the national team. His transitioning from player to coach was way easier than he had initially thought.
There is still one thing left for him to achieve, however. His great ambition is to coach the Super Eagles to another major win. He's in love with the crop of players in the team right now and he's certain that, under his tutorship, Nigerian football would soar once more.
It is, in fact, ordained, he says — and who would bet against him?


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Google is indefinitely pausing the enforcement of its policy requiring developers to use Play Store's billing system for user transactions in India following an order by the country's antitrust body.
The Android maker on Tuesday updated a support page to disclose the move and said that the requirement to use Google Play's billing system still applies for in-app purchases outside of India.
Last week, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered Google not to restrict app developers from using third-party payment processing services for in-app purchases and purchasing apps through the Play Store. The antitrust watchdog also fined the company $113 million for abusing the dominant position of its Play Store in the country.
"Following the CCI's recent ruling, we are pausing enforcement of the requirement for developers to use Google Play's billing system for the purchase of digital goods and services for transactions by users in India," the company said, adding that it is reviewing its legal options in the country, suggesting it may challenge the competition regulator's decision.
Google had previously extended the deadline for following its Play Store billing requirement in the South Asian market until October 31.
The regulator announced its decision after interviewing a number of industry players and smartphone makers, including Samsung, Xiaomi and Microsoft. It had also slapped another $162 million fine on Google for anti-competitive practices related to Android.
Google pauses enforcement of Play Store billing requirement in India following antitrust order by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch


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