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IRS target: 'Justice in their hands is a mockery'
Posted By Greg Corombos On 10/31/2015 @ 6:11 pm In Front Page,Money,Politics,U.S. | No Comments
On Friday, the Justice Department announced it was closing its investigation of former IRS official Lois Lerner and would not be filing any charges, chalking up the scandal instead to mismanagement.
However, the head of one of the grassroots organizations that endured unwarranted scrutiny by the IRS says the decision is simply more proof of a "lawless administration" that is making a "mockery" of justice.
On Friday, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, sent a letter for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and ranking Democrat John Conyers. It stated:
"Our investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia, leading to the belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted then based on their political viewpoints. But poor management is not a crime.
"We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other in appropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution. We found no evidence that any official involved in the handling of tax-exempt applications or IRS leadership attempted to obstruct justice.
"Based on the evidence developed in this investigation and the recommendation of experienced career prosecutors and supervising attorneys at the Department, we are closing our investigation and will not seek any criminal charges."
True the Vote is one group that endured years of IRS harassment over its application for tax-exempt status. Its president, Catherine Englebrecht, is disgusted but not surprised by the Justice Department's announcement.
"This is a lawless administration," she said in an interview with WND and Radio America. "They write the rules and then play by those if they choose to follow. It is certainly not a surprise at all that they've chosen to try to wipe the slate clean of the IRS scandal, as they have so many other scandals. They don't look to police themselves. They're not interested in the better interests of their fellow countrymen. They're interested in the survival of their party."
According to Englebrecht, the refusal to prosecute is not only a slap in the face to her group and many others but to American justice at large.
"Justice in their hands is a mockery," she said. "This is an arrogant and corrupt administration that holds no justice for the American people. It is my great hope and prayer that the American people will reassert themselves, through their vote, to take back the reins of this country."
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with True the Vote President Catherine Englebrecht:
Englebrecht also blasted the logic expressed by Kadzik, saying not only were crimes committed, but there is a mountain of evidence proving it that Obama's Justice Department ignored.
"I bet our organization alone submitted 500 documents or more that show clearly this was far more than 'mismanagement,'" she said. "This was not only intentional targeting in an attempt to silence what they perceived to be a political threat, but, beyond that, there was collusion between the IRS and other branches of government. We have the documentation that proves it all."
In the specific case of True the Vote, Englebrecht said there was obvious collusion between two critical figures in this scandal.
"The IRS was working closely with select Democrat congressmen, particularly in my instance Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who sought and received from Lois Lerner information, that when I requested it myself about me, came back redacted," she said. "So I can't get the information that Lois and Elijah shared, but somehow that's all excusable."
She said other documentation proves the Justice Department was in on the collusion as well.
"Absolutely. The Department of Justice, those are the attorneys that are defending the IRS in court. The thought that they would be the ones to head up an investigation makes a mockery of the process," said Englebrecht, who argued that the obvious decision should have been to appoint a special counsel to investigate that case, but the Obama administration wanted no part of that.
"A special prosecutor should have been assigned to this at the outset, and there is only one reason why that didn't occur," she said. "They didn't want the answers. If you don't want the answers, you engineer the system to not ask the questions. That's exactly what we've seen play out."
Is this the end of the scandal? Englebrecht says no.
True the Vote is taking the IRS to court, but suffered an early setback when a federal judge ruled True the Vote did get approved as a tax-exempt organization, and getting to the bottom of the controversy would be impossible since Lerner's emails had been destroyed. Since then, many emails have been recovered, and Englebrecht hopes that fact will reinvigorate her legal options.
"That gave us an avenue for appeal," she said. "We are anxiously awaiting being heard by the court, hopefully in the first few months of 2016."
Englebrecht said this entire ordeal has been miserable. She said the greatest lesson learned is that she was right to speak out as the IRS closed in because the more she spoke the less power the federal government had to intimidate her.
She said the administration may think it has covered its tracks, but she is confident the American people will have the last word.
"I think they are discounting too heavily that Americans will forget," Englebrecht said. "I think Americans have had enough, and I think that's going to be reflected next November."
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'Insurgent Math' is an arithmetic championed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was the commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan before Obama impressed him into the American army of the unemployed.
Now, with the coalition's war effort marred by major setbacks, it's increasingly likely that 'Courageous Restraint' will be dismissed along with McChrystal.
In February, the coalition launched a highly-touted offensive in the town of Marjah, which, after its takeover, was to receive a "government in a box." At the time, the local governor warned that the operation could last one month. It has lasted almost five.
In addition to these hitches, U.S. casualties have climbed considerably. June was the deadliest month for U.S. soldiers in the nine-year war and, at the current pace, 2010 will be the deadliest year.
High-profile articles in Rolling Stone and the New York Times report soldiers' frustrations with the stricter rules of engagement, which many feel put them in increased danger – and let the Taliban off the hook. "Some rules meant to enshrine counterinsurgency principles into daily practices, they say, do not merely transfer risks away from civilians. They transfer risks away from the Taliban," writes C. J. Chivers of the NYT.
The new commander, Gen. David Petraeus, says he plans to review these rules. It's doubtful he will eliminate them completely. Like McChrystal, he certainly believes that "you can't kill your way out of Afghanistan." Still, in response to a din of criticism about the progress of the war, he'll likely ease them.
Really, the general faces an intractable dilemma. The idea of 'Insurgent Math' is built on sound principles (and on some statistics); civilian casualties undoubtedly inflame popular hatred against the U.S. and its allies. But innocent lives will always be lost in war. While there's some indication that casualties decreased during McChrystal's reign, there were still 452 civilians killed by pro-government forces in 2009. By the general's own equation, that's 4,520 new insurgents.
To disregard 'Insurgent Math' would be both unproductive and unconscionable. Yet, at the same time, strict rules of engagement frustrate the fighting force, while high casualties increase already-prevalent public opposition.
Like the war itself, it's a no-win situation.
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KMPC, Los Angeles' Roger Carroll on Herb Alpert
Thread starter Michael Hagerty
Tuesday's Laradio.com has this quote from longtime (1959-1980) KMPC, Los Angeles DJ and Herb Alpert friend Roger Carroll:
"Herb Alpert did his first interview on my show. He was laid back, quiet and low-key, responses short but to the point. When Herb became popular and started doing live concerts his personality started to show. He was still low key, laid back but a very quick wit and very relaxed when being interviewed. With all his success, Herb has not changed - still low key, laid back and has that quick wit. "
---Michael Hagerty
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Thanks for that, Michael. I loved KMPC (and KGIL) back when I was a kid. My dad listened to them all the time. It's sad that KMPC is now KTZN and the LA outlet for Radio Disney...
--Mr Bill
KMPC was all my parents listened to. It's because of that station that I'm in broadcasting. KGIL was pretty good too...in fact, the first time I heard Sergio's "Crystal Illusions" was on a foggy, atmospheric Sunday morning on KGIL. As soon as the record stores opened, I bought a copy.
KMPC has actually morphed a bit more. It became KTZN in 1994, re-christening itself as "The Zone" a talk station aimed at a female audience. When it became Radio Disney, it assumed the new calls "KDIS". This past January, Disney/ABC flipped stations, moving Radio Disney and the KDIS calls to 1110 AM (the old KRLA) and making 710 KSPN, ESPN Sports Radio.
The KMPC calls went to a small AM station in Abilene, Texas until three years ago, when 1540 in L.A. (the old KPOL) grabbed them for its new sportstalk format. Last month, the station repositioned itself as "1540-The Ticket"...using the KMPC calls only once an hour for legal ID.
But in the 60s and much of the 70s, KMPC was amazing...and, because of relationships (not only is Roger Carroll a friend of Herb's, Johnny Magnus wrote the liner notes for Jobim's "Wave" LP) and physical proximity (go out the gate at 1416 N. LaBrea, hang a right at the first light and drive less than a mile to KMPC's old home on Sunset), it seemed for much of that time that if it was on A&M, it was also on KMPC.
For a great trip down memory lane, go to www.710kmpc.com
Here's a sample...a photo of Roger Carroll with both Herb and Burt Bacharach.
---Michael Hagerty[/img]
DAN BOLTON
Wasn't KMPC where Gary Owens from Laugh-In got his start?
KMPC is certainly where Gary Owens became famous. His start was in his hometown of Mitchell, South Dakota at KORN (honest!) in 1952. From there, it was KMA, Shenandoah, Iowa; KOMA, Omaha; KIMN, Denver; KILT, Houston; KTSA, San Antonio, WNOE, New Orleans; WIL, St. Louis, KEWB, Oakland; and KFWB, Los Angeles.
Gary moved to KMPC in 1962, and during the 6 years leading up to Laugh-In's debut in 1968, pretty much owned Los Angeles afternoon radio (along with Dave Hull on KRLA before 1965 and The Real Don Steele on KHJ after '65).
Gary continued at KMPC until 1980, and has since worked at KPRZ, KKGO, KFI and KJQY. He's now doing early afternoons on KLAC, Los Angeles and is also heard nationally on The Music Of Your Life.
Thanks so much for sharing the item about the story of Roger Carroll and his memory of his interview with Herb. I have been most fortunate to have been able to meet Roger via the i-net, thanks to a mutual ABC-TV announcer acquaintance in N.Y. It has been my privilege to chat with Roger who, as it turns out and wasn't known to me until last year, is one of my 3 all time favorite network television announcers from the 60's and 70's...Dick Tufeld (robot voice on old CBS-TV series Lost In Space and ABC & NBC network announcer) and Hank Simms (voice of all QM Production T-V shows like FBI/Streets of San Francisco/Barnaby Jones and Academy Awards in the 60s...being the other 2. These guys are the ones who inspired me to be an announcer. I must share with you that Roger is a very gracious gentleman and one heck of an announcer. If you are old enough to remember, he was the voice on NBC-TV show opens including (I can hear him saying this now because I used to tune in to hear him say it)..."McMillan and Wife!". Yeh, I know I'm weird but I gotta tell ya, Roger, Dick and Hank were the cream of the crop...the best of the best when it comes to fine network booth announcers! Also, Roger shared with me this same story about his interview with Herb on KMPC. He also says that he sees, as I recall, Herb and Jerry from time to time at a couple of spots in L-A and he says they are the same, friendly, gracious, down to earth guys as they were when whole TJB/A&M thing began for them in the early 1960'.s Let's hear it for the big guys, Herb, Jerry and, last but not least, Roger Carroll, who hit the big time nationally and still are gracious gentleman. Thanks guys!
Tom...(still admiring and striving for the voice dynamics/quality of Roger Carroll, Dick Tufeld, & Hank Simms!
I, too, have been fortunate enough to carry on an e-mail correspondence with Roger over the past six or seven years (an introduction made by my friend, former L.A. DJ Bill(y) Pearl. Especially meaningful for me, since Roger Carroll is the first person I remember listening to on the radio(a memory from age 4).A terrific guy who also lists among his credits having been the announcer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and all the Herb Alpert specials.
Roger and Herb's brother Dave are close friends and socialize.
Michael Hagerty said:
Wow! He certainly got around, didn't he? He has to be the quintessential DJ character stereotype, both in voice and on camera. Thanks for the info.
Dan, remembering Morgo, the Friendly Drelb...
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(an introduction made by my friend, former L.A. DJ Bill(y) Pearl.
Slightly off the path here--back in the mid 70's, our high school had a radio class. One of their featured shows was a Billy Pearl "countdown" of sorts. The older brother of the girl I grew up with brought all of the LPs of the show home (since he was in the radio class), and we played those a lot. It was the era of Sedaka, Captain & Tenille, Elton John, etc. I've wondered for years if I had the correct name in my memory banks...apparently so.
Rudy:
Billy Pearl (along with Roger Carroll and Wolfman Jack) did half-hour radio shows for the U.S. Air Force. Good filler material...only ads were for the air force, usually well-produced...and it boosted your public service annnouncement quota (back when there was such a thing) big time.
Billy, in my book, is the all-time best nighttime teen jock in L.A. history. A local kid who drove 70 miles each way to his first gig at KUTY in Palmdale and within a couple of years was on KKDJ (LA's first FM Top 40 station), K-100 and KHJ. Shortly after leaving KHJ, Billy went to law school. When he resurfaced on the air, he'd dropped the "y" and was Bill Pearl...did a very successful few years in afternoon drive at talkradio KABC, Los Angeles in a show called "Duelling Bills", with now-national commentator (but then an up-and-coming local guy) Bill Press.
For the past 15 years or so, Bill's been devoting full time to his law practice.
If you've never heard him, you can...a terrific aircheck of The Real Don Steele and Billy Pearl on K-100 from 1974 is at www.reelradio.com
the link to the aircheck itself is posted below. When you get to it, just press the green "play" button (assuming you have RealAudio).
http://www.reelradio.com/tt/index.html#rdsbpk100
And so no one can say this is totally off-topic, the aircheck ends with an A&M hit! You'll have to listen to find out which one.....
Mike McKenna
I was listening to "KINGS RADIO" 103.3 in Lindsay, California. I heard the announcer - Jay Stevens, a great LA Voice - and then the music. I thought to myself, "what a great play list, as close as I've heard to that old KMPC sound - but even better. The only thing missing is the voice. The VOICE of Roger Carroll". I remember back when I was lucky enough to meet him face to face. What a voice and a great person to match. I lived in Belmont Shore and Roger was the Grand Marshal of the local holiday parade. Jay Stevens is a friend and I think hes a great radio programmer as well as a DJ. But If KINGS RADIO had Roger Carroll - it would be the greatest radio station ever. And all of those A&M hits. WOW. You always think of what it would be like -- IF YOU were the station manager or PD. Jay Stevens and Roger Carroll would be on my stations.
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Why these startups think chat apps are the next big thing in workplace collaboration
Jonathan Vanian Aug 1, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post
With the cloud storage wars raging on, it's getting harder and harder for the big-time cloud storage companies as well as the file-sync players to distinguish themselves from one another beyond price cuts. But an interesting development seems to be occurring; these companies are now tacking on work-collaboration features on top of their storage services as a way to lure more customers who might be enticed to sign up because of the benefits the features might bring to the workplace.
While Amazon (S AMZN), Google (S GOOG), Box and the rest of the prominent cloud players may be working on their own work-collaboration features, there are now a host of startups like Slack and HipChat that have been developing their own tools to make it easier for workers to communicate with colleagues.
The idea is that workers are now spending their days immersed in the world of the chat box; a sort of modern-day equivalent of the office water cooler, where ideas and jokes can be shared, but also — thanks to software and the ability to link up to the storage-service providers — the place where documents can be stored, indexed and able to be easily accessed.
According to a recent Gigaom Research report by Stowe Boyd, this idea of contextual conversation "is likely to become the dominant social motif of the next generation of work-technology applications." As the rise of mobile has made people obsessed with their phones, people are now accustomed to staying hooked into their work environments. Add on top of that the popularity of chat tools like Whatsapp and Snapchat and you have an interesting opportunity.
But just like the cloud-storage wars have demonstrated, these startups are going to have to figure out a way to stand out from the pack.
Why chatting in the old days was a real bummer
If there's a common theme that dictates how many of these work-collaboration startups got their ideas off the ground, it's the fact that chatting and working over the web just less than a decade ago used to be a major drag.
Stewart Butterfield, president and co-founder of San Francisco-based Slack, recalled how when he first started the company in 2009 — which at the time was trying to make a massive multiplayer role playing game — his small development team was spread out in four different cities and used the old-school internet relay chat (IRC) technology as its primary method for communicating.
Because IRC didn't allow for the type of features that are now commonplace, like the ability to send messages when one user is not online, Butterfield said his team had to build "hack upon hack upon hack" to get IRC to function to the team's liking.
Graphic detailing Slack's interface
HipChat's founders faced a similar problem back when they used to work for Plaxo in 2006, said company co-founder Pete Curley. Curley and his team had to make due with using AOL instant messenger (AIM), but found its limitations — like the fact that when a employee left Plaxo his or hers profile would still be part of the chat interface — very annoying.
When Plaxo got acquired by Comcast in 2008, Curely was appalled to find that a company as big as Comcast (S CMCSA) was still using AIM. Curley and his co-founders then looked to the work-collaboration tools the big enterprise companies like Microsoft (S MSFT) were selling, but discovered that the process of getting those tools involved a lot of legwork, like having to deal with armies of salespeople. It was then that he and his team got the idea to create their own chat tool as they found that the market was lacking in an easy-to-setup enterprise chat interface.
"We wanted to make it easy for people to sign up for, like AIM, but [the tool] would have the features of an enterprise product," said Curley.
With new technology, comes better collaborating
While IRC and AIM had pretty limited abilities beyond simply sending a message to another person, Slack and HipChat as well as others have improved on the technology and each developed their own unique take on what chat can do.
Take Flowdock, for example. The Helsinki, Finland-based startup, now part of the agile development software company Rally, created a JavaScript application that functions as the chat interface with a back end that is comprised of 15 different services like Ruby on Rails and Node.js and a data store that includes MongoDB, Codepress and Redis, said Flowdock founder Otto Hilska.
Flowdock's interface resembles a large group chat, but it also contains a box to the right of the chat interface that lets users create work-related tasks and have them be checked off if completed; this is handy for coders who might need to sign off on whether or not a developer-related task — like performing an acceptance test — has been completed, thus negating the need to send an email to the right people.
Flowdock chat and box interface
Slack has focused on building streamlined search powered by Solr, so that if a user were to share a Word document in the chat interface, the file gets sent to the messaging server where it then gets delivered to the appropriate person as well as being indexed in the database.
Instead of solely concentrating on chat, San Francisco-based Convo touts its threaded-conversation wall, akin to Facebook, as a better way to organize work-related conversations and document sharing rather than having a big group chat, explained Convo CEO and founder Faizan Buzdar.
The roughly 40-person Convo team also decided to concentrate on mobile, and is working on making sure that images and documents load well on its mobile app, so that if a user tries to view a PDF or similar file, the image should look the same as it appears on a web browser.
"When business users wake up, the first thing they'll notice is the Convo icon on their iPhone," said Buzdar. "My most valuable conversation is there; in a lot of other platforms you reach for [service] after looking at your email."
Graphic showing Convo Mobile
HipChat's tool contains a chat interface but it also allows users to create special rooms for different groups in an organization, like a developer team or a testing team, said Curley. Using REST APIs, a user can configure services like Twitter or Github to send notifications to the right group as a way to notify colleagues of important events or changes.
The tool also archives every chat that gets sent and with Elasticsearch running in the background, users can supposedly search for specific conversations.
Old legal problems become new again
Of course, the fact that all these work-collaboration startups are archiving messages and documents (Slack, HipChat, Flowdock and Covo all store their data in the Amazon cloud) presents potential legal headaches for companies that use their services, albeit the legal issues aren't really new and pertain to the measures companies must be aware of when using any cloud storage service.
"Whenever you're using cloud storage and putting documents in a service like this, there is always a risk that law enforcement may issue a search warrant on the cloud provider, which could require the cloud provider to provide data to law enforcement," said Catherine D. Meyer, a senior counsel specializing in data privacy at the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
These services need to be able to handle the fact that some industries, like the financial sector, require for certain documents to be retained for a specific amount of time, explained Meyer. These startups need to also make sure that only the appropriate employees can access the service so as to ensure that when a person leaves a company, he or she won't be able to log in and grab sensitive information.
[pullquote person="Pete Curley" attribution="HipChat co-founder Pete Curley"]"I don't think they know what's going on, really. Google had seven permeations of chat in just a few years."[/pullquote]
To counter these problems, Butterfield said that Slack allows users to set expiration dates on the files they upload or the chats that take place, so a company could configure the service to have direct messages erased after seven days. Slack also has the option to set up access control so as to ensure that only the right people are deemed appropriate to use the service.
With HipChat, a customer would have to upgrade to its Plus service for an extra two dollars a month per user; with the Plus service, customers have more control around the policy aspects of the service and should be able to setup document retention plans depending on the industry.
Graphic displaying HipChat's interface
Companies that use work-collaboration tools also have to be aware that if they get sued, they "have an obligation to put a litigation hold on all the documents that have to do with that litigation," said Meyer. In this case, all of these services allow for users to export their data from the cloud so as to retrieve the information, but Convo takes it a step further with its E-discovery feature, in which a customer can choose an employee to act as the legal stewart in Convo's system that is in charge of keeping track of all sensitive information, said Buzdar.
The will to survive
With so many of these types of startups competing for market share, it's obvious that not every company is going to become the next hot multibillion dollar standout. In Boyd's research report, he wrote that he anticipates a potential acquisition spree where big companies like IBM or Google might try to snatch the best startup that they deem a good fit.
This trend already seems to be happening as Rally acquired Flowdock in 2013, Atlassian bought out HipChat in 2012 and Microsoft purchased Yammer for a cool $1.2 billion in 2012 as well.
Butterfield believes that slack will be around on its own for a while; he pointed to an April funding round of $42.75 million as evidence that investors have faith in his startup. Slack has a total of $60 million in funding.
Stewart Butterfield
Buzdar said Convo has $8 million in funding and will not be needing any more investment until next year.
In regards to the big companies like Google, Amazon and Dropbox stepping on their turf with their own work-collaboration tools, these startups are confident the big guys can't match their focus.
"I don't think they know what's going on, really," HipChat's Curely said when asked about Google and its enterprise endeavors. "Google had seven permeations of chat in just a few years."
Regarding Amazon's Zocalo work-collaboration tool, HipChat principal product manager Jonathan Nolen said that the tool doesn't replace the value of HipChat, which is meant to be activated and used by employees all throughout the day.
"Amazon has built momentary collaboration over a document," said Nolen.
But of course, all of these work-collaboration tool startups have to deal with their own public perception as they grow up and contend with bigger players. As we have seen with Dropbox and Box, things seem pretty rosy when a startup first starts getting a lot of nice attention and adulation from investors and the public. Once they grow up, however, and they start competing with companies with more resources, it gets a little more challenging to attract more customers who might be persuaded to go with the big boys.
Post and thumbnail images courtesy of Shutterstock user Sergey Nivens.
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Church to develop disaster strategy as Pacific islands disappear
Fe'i Tevi calls on the church to move from sympathy to partnership in the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Photo: Anglican Taonga
[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is to establish a "clear resilience strategy" to strengthen its response to future natural disasters in the Pacific islands. The move, adopted at the Province's General Synod, came as researchers announced that five pacific islands have completely disappeared and a further six are experiencing "severe shoreline recession" as a result of rising sea levels.
Writing in the online Environmental Research Letters journal, scientists say that aerial and satellite photos taken between 1947 and 2014 of 33 Pacific islands show that "five vegetated reef islands . . . have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession."
They say that two villages that have existed since at least 1935 have been destroyed. "Rates of shoreline recession are substantially higher in areas exposed to high wave energy, indicating a synergistic interaction between sea-level rise and waves. Understanding these local factors that increase the susceptibility of islands to coastal erosion is critical to guide adaptation responses for these remote Pacific communities."
This week, in a motion brought by Fe'iloakitau Kaho Tevi from the Diocese of Polynesia, the Province's General Synod has resolved to devise a strategy to strengthen its response to natural disasters in the Pacific islands; including linking with other relief agencies and forming a cadre of "church community trainers" to teach parish youth groups about disaster preparedness.
Fe'i Tevi painted a bleaker picture than the scientists, telling the Synod that seven Pacific islands had been lost since the Paris climate change talks in December. "I want to tell you about Cyclones Winston and Pam, that members of this synod lived through, that my family and I lived through," he said. "Imagine you are in a train station on the platform, a little way back from the edge of the platform. And a train goes through the station at 250km per hour.
"Imagine the force of that wind, the power of it passing by. The sound of that train to you is what Cyclones PAM sounded like. Except its winds reached 341km per hour. Thank God it was only six minutes of wind, if it had been ten, a lot more lives would have been lost."
He told the synod that a more strategic and thought-through approach was needed to disaster response, saying that well-meaning offers of help aren't always very helpful: "When a disaster happens, people act in sympathy they send second hand clothes, they send electrical kitchen appliances to places that don't have electricity. They send high heels, to people who get them and don't have anything to do with them.
"After the disaster in both Vanuatu and Fiji there was food past its use by date that came. These gifts sit in containers on wharves, and we are not too sure what to do with them. Sometimes we have to sell the clothes, to get some money for the things we need."
Other responses had been more helpful. A priest from Christchurch – a city that had experienced its own disaster when 185 people died in an 2011 earthquake – sent a container "filled to the brim with building materials and second hands tools," Fe'i Tevi said. "With that one container we were able to rebuild seven churches and also some vicarages.
"Perhaps we as the church need to shift from where we were at in terms of sympathy to towards partnership in action."
This article is based, in part, on a fuller report by Anglican Taongaabout the General Synod debate.
The motion as agreed by the General Synod of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
This General Synod / Te Hīnota Whānui 2016 therefore:
Mandates the Anglican Mission Board to work with other relevant service providers of the Church to:
a. Establish a clear resilience strategy that would strengthen the Anglican Church of Aoteraroa New Zealand and Polynesia's response to any future natural disaster.
b. Develop clear strategies linking the Anglican Church of Aoteraroa New Zealand and Polynesia with disaster relief agencies to enable a cadre of Church Community trainers who are then tasked in training the youth groups of the parishes in disaster preparedness.
c. Develop a Diocesan Rapid Response Plan that would allow the Anglican Church of Aoteraroa New Zealand and Polynesia to respond in a timely and strategic manner to any community affected by a natural disaster in the Pacific Island Countries under its jurisdiction.
d. Link into the Disaster Risk Reduction networks with a view to creating partnerships with other like-minded bodies involved in the area of jurisdiction of the Church.
e. Create a conducive environment for longer term partnerships between parishes in New Zealand and those in the Diocese of Polynesia with the objective of developing longer term twinning parish partnerships on resilience and preparedness.
f. Engage and empower Three-Tikanga young people to be involved at every level of visioning, strategic planning and implementation around building resilience and disaster preparedness.
Invites AMB to consider this motion as a priority in its work plan for 2016-2017.
Mandates GSSC to monitor the implementation of this motion in close collaboration with the AMB and other relevant partners and report back on its implementation at the General Synod / te Hīnota Whānui 2018.
Advocacy Peace & Justice,


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Q: Error: Invalid Hook Call when navigating to a particular link in react app I have been trying to solve this for sometime now. Whenever I navigate to a particular link in react app the console throws an error in firefox. However, when I navigate to the same link in chrome/edge there is no error. I have checked the component where the error is occuring and everything is fine. I am using hooks as they are supposed to be used. Here is the screenshot of the error in firefox:

How do I remove this error in firefox?
Edit:
Here is the code where the error occurs:

import {
  useState,
  useEffect
} from 'react'
import {
  useParams,
  useNavigate,
  Link
} from 'react-router-dom'
import {
  FontAwesomeIcon
} from '@fortawesome/react-fontawesome'
import {
  faTrashCan,
  faEdit
} from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons'
import Modal from './modal'
import ErrorModal from './errorModal'
import {
  useAuthContext
} from '../hooks/useAuth'
import {
  Remarkable
} from "remarkable"

function SingleBlog() {
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  const navigate = useNavigate()
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  const [error, setError] = useState(null)
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    user
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A: As far as I can see, you're not breaking the rule of hooks. So, I'd assume that your case is one of the two other cases mentioned by React:
https://reactjs.org/warnings/invalid-hook-call-warning.html

*

*You might have mismatching versions of React and React DOM.

*You might have more than one copy of React in the same app.

Could you check that?

A: Maybe you installed 'react-dom' outside of your project. Check it.

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Barry Long (1 augustus 1926 – 6 december 2003) was een Australische spiritueel leraar en schrijver.

Barry Long is geboren en getogen in Australië, en volgde daar slechts enkele jaren voortgezet onderwijs. Na zijn schooltijd ging hij werken als journalist en vervolgens als redacteur bij een zondagskrant genaamd The Truth, (later de Sunday Mirror), gericht op Sydney en omgeving. Hierna werkte hij enige tijd als perssecretaris voor het parlement van New South Wales. Voor in de dertig raakte hij gedesillusioneerd met het materiële bestaan en in 1954 verliet hij zijn carrière en gezin om in India te gaan mediteren. Hier ervoer hij een spirituele crisis die culmineerde in wat hij de Mystieke dood noemde, zijn Realisatie van Onsterfelijkheid.

Hij verhuisde vervolgens van India naar Londen en werkte daar in eerste instantie als redacteur in Fleet Street. In Engeland ontmoette hij zijn tweede vrouw, Julia, die hij zijn bhagavati of goddelijke vrouw noemde en die voor hem een bron van inspiratie was. In 1968 maakte hij een tweede intense spirituele crisis door die tot een bewustzijnstoestand leidde die hij Transcendente Realisatie noemde.

Zijn relatie met Julia duurde 13 jaar, totdat zij aan kanker overleed. Barry verzorgde haar gedurende de laatste fase van haar ziekte. In die tijd gaf hij meditatiecursussen en verdiende zijn geld met het geven van lezingen en workshops. In 1986 keerde hij terug naar zijn thuisland Australië met zijn derde vrouw en haar zoontje, waar zij een huis betrokken op Mount Tamborine in Queensland. Na hun scheiding verhuisde hij uiteindelijk naar New South Wales. Hierna onderhield hij nog twee langdurige relaties met vrouwen die hem ook hielpen met de internationale organisatie van zijn lezingen.

Lezingen
Barry hield geregeld bijeenkomsten in Sydney en aan de Gold Coast in Queensland, en gedurende 10 jaar reisde hij ook jaarlijks naar Engeland. In het begin van de jaren negentig was hij veel op reis om zijn lezingencycli The Truth of Life and Love en A Course in Being te geven. Vooral in Amerika reisde hij intensief, maar ook in Europa – Engeland, Duitsland, Finland, Zweden, Ierland, België, Denemarken en Nederland – trokken zijn voordrachten veel publiek.

In Nederland sprak Barry op grote jaarlijkse zomerbijeenkomsten in Veldhoven nabij Eindhoven - de laatste in 1998 trok meer dan 600 mensen -, in het Amsterdamse Tropenmuseum, Het Krasnapolsky hotel, het voormalige spiritueel centrum Kosmos (Barry's eerste voordrachten in Nederland) en in het congresgebouw in Den Haag.

Vanaf 1993 werd er een jaarlijkse bijeenkomst in Australië georganiseerd die werd bijgewoond door zijn wereldwijde publiek. De meeste van deze Master Sessions vonden plaats gedurende twee of meer weken in Cabarita Beach, dicht bij Byron Bay, het meest oostelijke punt van Australië. De laatste vond in 2002 plaats op de campus van Bond University aan de Gold Coast.

Barry Longs doel was niet om grote groepen mensen te trekken. Hij zei dat hij uitsluitend tot het individu sprak, zelfs als er honderden mensen aanwezig waren. Hij communiceerde nauwelijks met de media en verzette zich tegen het ontstaan van groepsbijeenkomsten in zijn naam. Zijn werk werd georganiseerd door een kleine stichting.

Invloeden
Hij beschouwde zichzelf als een originele leraar die buiten de gevestigde spirituele tradities viel. Hijzelf had geen spirituele leraar, maar hij heeft zijn dankbaarheid speciaal voor J. Krishnamurti uitgesproken. Andere leraren die hem tot inspiratie hebben gediend, speciaal in het begin van zijn spirituele zoektocht, waren Gurdjieff, Meher Baba en Sri Aurobindo.

Hij was een begaafd spreker en schrijver die naar eigen zeggen energetische boeken over zelfontdekking en het spirituele leven schreef. Hij communiceerde dezelfde energie van waarheid via een serie audioboeken over meditatie, bewustzijn, dood, liefde en karma. Op dit moment is zijn geschreven werk gepubliceerd in meer dan 12 talen. Veel van zijn voordrachten en seminars zijn beschikbaar als audiocassettes, video's, cd's, dvd's en in toenemende mate ook digitaal.

Belangrijkste werk
Tot zijn meest populaire werken behoren Meditation: A Foundation Course, ook vertaald in het Nederlands, en Start Meditating Now, oorspronkelijk uitgebracht als audiocassette. De metafysische basis van zijn werk legde hij vast in The Origins of Man and the Universe. De realisaties in het begin van zijn zoektocht legde hij vast in Knowing Yourself: The True in the False. In Only Fear Dies adresseerde Barry de wortel van psychologische angst en hoe hier vanaf te komen. Dit boek is vertaald in het Nederlands als Sterven om te Leven.

Barry's gehele werk heeft als voornaamste doel om ons van onvrede in wat voor vorm dan ook te bevrijden. Dit is het thema van Sterven om te Leven (Only Fear Dies). Sommige commentatoren hebben overeenkomsten ontdekt met het werk van Eckhart Tolle - auteur van de bestseller The Power of Now - die Barry's bijeenkomsten in Londen bezocht toen het boek voor de eerste maal werd gepubliceerd onder de titel Ridding Yourself of Unhappiness – 1985. Tolle heeft publiekelijk zijn waardering uitgesproken voor Barry's werk:

Liefde, seks en tantra
Barry Long zag zichzelf als tantrische meester en is bekend geworden door zijn ideeën over liefde en seks en wat hij oorspronkelijke tantra noemde, die vooral in de jaren 80 aansloegen bij Osho's sannyasins. De gereviseerde tekst van de oorspronkelijke Engelse audiocassettes is in het Nederlands als boek gepubliceerd onder de titel Liefhebben: de Weg van Seks naar Liefde (Engelse titel: Making Love: Sexual Love the Divine Way).

Laatste jaren
Barry Long overleed op 77-jarige leeftijd aan de effecten van prostaatkanker, de ziekte waar hij de laatste 8 jaar van zijn leven aan leed. Zijn boeken worden nog steeds gedrukt, in toenemende mate ook in internationale vertalingen, en het archief met audiovisuele opnamen van zijn voordrachten wordt beheerd door The Barry Long Foundation International in Australië.

Voornaamste punten
 Volgens zijn eigen woorden sprak Barry uitsluitend van Leven, Liefde, Waarheid, Dood en God.
 Een belangrijk deel van zijn missie was om het individu te bevrijden van wat hij ongelukkigheid (unhappiness in het Engels) noemt. Ongelukkigheid definieerde hij als: vandaag gelukkig, morgen ongelukkig.
 Hij bekritiseerde de heersende seksualiteit in de westerse samenleving. Ook zag hij de meeste problemen waar de mensheid op dit moment mee te maken heeft als gevolg van het feit dat man en vrouw niet meer weten hoe elkaar lief te hebben.
 Barry sprak zich uit tegen het toenemende materialisme, dat wordt ondersteund door de heersende wetenschappelijke en technologische ideeën, maar onwetend is met betrekking tot spirituele waarheid en liefde en het goddelijke ontkent.
 Hij onderwees de weg van de waarheid, stilheid en liefde. Dit pad wordt gevonden door directe persoonlijke ervaring en niet door het belijden van enig geloof of religieuze traditie.
 Hij adviseerde mensen om de waarheid van het leven en de liefde in het dagelijks leven onder ogen te zien; op het werk, met hun partners en kinderen. De weg van de waarheid is om je leven in harmonie te brengen.
 Barry heeft veel over de evolutie van het bewustzijn op aarde gesproken en geschreven. Hij presenteerde zijn ideeën binnen het raamwerk van een kosmologie die hij De Mythe van het Leven – 'The Myth of Life' noemde.

Gedeeltelijke lijst van publicaties
 The Origins of Man and the Universe (eerste druk Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984)  (Barry Long Books, herziene druk 1998) , (fragmenten)
 Meditation: A Foundation Course (The Barry Long Foundation, 1996)
 Stillness Is the Way (Barry Long Books, 1996)
 Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (Barry Long Books, 1996)  (fragment)
 Only Fear Dies (Barry Long Books, 1996)  (fragment)
 To Woman in Love: A Book of Letters (Barry Long Books, 1996)
 Making Love: Sexual Love the Divine Way (Barry Long Books, herziene druk 1998)  (fragment)
 Raising Children in Love, Justice and Truth (Barry Long Books, 1998)
 To Man in Truth: Enlightening Letters (Barry Long Books, 1999)  (fragment)
 The Way In: A Book of Self-Discovery (Barry Long Books, 2000)  (fragment)
 A Prayer for Life: The Cause and Cure of Terrorism, War and Human Suffering, (Barry Long Books, 2002)
 Where the Spirit Speaks to its Own: The Passion of Spiritual Awakening, (Barry Long Books, 2003)  (fragmenten)
 Start Meditating Now, How to stop thinking (audiobook - Barry Long Books 2007)
 A Journey in Consciousness: Exploring the truth behind existence (audiobook - Barry Long Books 2007)
 Seeing through Death, Facing the fact without fear (audiobook - Barry Long Books 2007)
 Making Love: Sexual love the divine way (audiobook - Barry Long Books 2007)
 How to Live Joyously, Being true to the law of life (audiobook - Barry Long Books 2007)
 Behind Life and Death: The Boundless Reality (The Barry Long Foundation 2008)  (fragment)
 My Life Of Love & Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography (The Barry Long Foundation 2013)

Nederlandse vertalingen
 Meditatie (Altamira Becht 1995), vertaalster: Thooft, Lisette,
 Liefhebben: de weg van seks naar liefde (Altamira Becht 2001), vertaalster: Thooft, Lisette,
 Sterven om te leven (Za Zen 2005), vertaalster: Thooft, Lisette,
 Stil van binnen (Altamira 1996)
 Wat is wijsheid (Altamira-Becht 2000), vertaalster: Thooft, Lisette,

Referenties

Externe links
 The Barry Long Foundation International
 Barry Long Books catalogus (incl. inhoud, boekbesprekingen en uittreksels)
 Lijst van tijdschriften en kranten waarin artikelen door of over Barry Long zijn gepubliceerd
 Original Tantra artikel (De essentiële principes van tantra gebruikmakend van de spirituele leer van Barry Long.)
 Barry Long biografie & additioneel materiaal op de EnlightenNext magazine website.
 Brieven in het EnlightenNext tijdschrift in reactie op een interview tussen Andrew Cohen and Barry Long
 Barry Long videokanaal op YouTube

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Seven Ages: The Story of the Irish State
Title Seven Ages: The Story of the Irish State
Publication Type Film
Authors Mórdha, Séan Ó.
Running Time 55 min
Date Released 2002
Distributor Radio Telefís Éireann, BBC Northern Ireland
Publication Language English
This documentary explores seven decades of the Irish Republic from its founding to the 1980s. Interviews with politicians, citizens, and scholars of Ireland and archival records and newsreels offer a contextualized and analytical perspective of divisive events like the Irish Civil War and the Troubles.
produced and directed by Seán Ó Mórdha
music by Bill Whelan
Each 55 minute episode covers the events of a decade. 1. The Birth of the New Irish State; 2. Depression and the Rise of Fianna Fáil to Power; 3. The Forties - Decade of Neutrality and Censorship; 4. The Fifties - The Make or Break Decade; 5. The Modernisation of Ireland; 6. The Seventies - A Decade of Terror, Tension and Transformation; 7. Haughey and FitzGerald - Great Adversaries of the Eighties.
Television/Netflix/Amazon Series
War & Nation/Nation-building
War & International Politics
Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919-23)
Irish Troubles (1968-98)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Ages


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The first in the "Star Wars Anthology" series of spin-off films, Rogue One will follow a rogue band of resistance fighters united to steal the Death Star plans and bring new hope to the galaxy. "It's the reality of war. Good guys are bad. Bad guys are good," director Gareth Edwards said at Star Wars Celebration.
John Knoll, the Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor who currently serves as chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic, is executive producing the film along with Simon Emanuel (The Dark Knight Rises, Fast & Furious 6) and Jason McGatlin (Tintin, War of the Worlds). Kathleen Kennedy and Tony To ("Band of Brothers," "The Pacific") are on board to produce with John Swartz (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) attached to co-produce. It was also recently confirmed that Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The King's Speech) will be providing the score.
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Blackhawks' Raanta honors Belfour with new mask
by Brian Hedger
CHICAGO -- Antti Raanta had a surprise in store for his Chicago Blackhawks teammates Sunday afternoon when they returned to practice after the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Instead of his normal mask, the Finnish rookie goaltender sported a throwback design reminiscent of former star Eddie Belfour. It was designed by Raanta's Phoenix-based mask painter for him to wear in the next installment of the 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series, an outdoor game March 1 at Soldier Field between the Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins.
"If you think about great Chicago Blackhawks [goaltenders], you think of Eddie Belfour and everybody says 'Eddie the Eagle,'" Raanta said. "I didn't have any ideas for the outdoor game mask and I was thinking it would be nice to respect a great goalkeeper in that kind of game. So, I got the idea for the mask from the Phoenix guy who painted it. He said it would be pretty awesome and it turned out to be pretty awesome. I don't know what Eddie thinks about that, but I hope he likes it."
The design is pretty much spot on with Belfour's old mask, right down to the dual bald eagles on each side. It quickly became a conversation piece among Blackhawks players who worked out on the ice.
"I said, 'I don't know if [Belfour's] going to be very happy about that,' forward Kris Versteeg said, smiling."But [Raanta] actually looked a lot like him. It was kind of weird. I think it looks awesome. If I was 'Eddie the Eagle,' I'd be pretty pumped. I think it looks pretty sweet."
Corey Crawford, the Blackhawks' No. 1 goalie, has his own mask redesign for the game. But Raanta further ramped up the style factor for the outdoor game and the mask will go nicely with his slick new goalie gear, which he released via a picture on Twitter. Raanta's new gear -- pads, blocker and catching glove -- is colored solid black with red-and-white accents.
"I love it," Crawford said, chuckling. "His whole getup is pretty cool. He's got some good style and he surprised us again with that mask. That's a good throwback. I hadn't seen it before. It's pretty cool, the throwback 'Eddie the Eagle,' look."
Chicago coach Joel Quenneville didn't feel quite as strongly as some of his players. Asked his thoughts on the new "Eddie the Eagle" at practice, Quenneville just smiled before answering.
"I didn't quite notice, but I thought the goaltending today was outstanding," he said. "I'm going to take a better look at it [Monday]."
Told that Raanta was going for the look to honor Belfour, Quenneville again smiled.
"That's good," he said. "Good ... I'm going to go look at it now."
Everybody should get a good look whenever he breaks it out the next week. Raanta said he doesn't know what the mask's future entails following the big game at Soldier Field.
"It would be awesome to keep it myself, but I don't know what everybody's thinking," Raanta said. "Maybe there's something [planned], but we'll see after the game. Maybe Eddie wants it back?"
No matter what becomes of the new mask, Raanta is getting excited about playing in front of so many fans outdoors. He played outside when he was younger, at home in Finland, but obviously on a much smaller scale.
"It's going to be an unreal feeling when you go out there," said Raanta, who started his first season in North America with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League. "It's been so long since I was outside with the goalie gear on. I have been outside skating and shooting the puck, but not with the goalie gear on. It's going to be a pretty awesome feeling and I'm getting new stuff for the game, plus the new mask, so it's going to be really nice."
Gear is ready! One game before special day!! #StadiumSeriesChicago pic.twitter.com/DMlIgZH6Nk
— Antti Raanta (@AnttiRaanta) February 24, 2014


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HomeEntertainmentGamesPS Plus December Games Tipped to Include Mass Effect Legendary Edition, More
If reports circulating in the media are to be believed, the PlayStation Plus free game titles for the month of December have been leaked online. Popular leaker Dealabs has claimed that the featured games in December would include titles such as Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Divine Knockout (DKO) and Biomutant.
Dealabs have been right about the title additions to the subscription many times in the past as well. The reports also suggest that the games will be available in PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium plans from December 6. Players would be allowed to claim the games until January 3, 2023. The leak further added that all the games will be accessible on PS4 and PS5 alike.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is surely going to be one of the major attractions out of three names leaked in the recent claims. It will be packing the entire sci-fi trilogy of Bioware, which is critically acclaimed and known for using its branching narratives. If we go by the subtitle, it appears that there will be visual enhancements tailored to a new generation. Moreover, it also indicated more than 40 DLCs from the three titles which further include armour, promo weapons, and packs.
Out of the three games, another that could be worth getting your hands on is Biomutant. It is a decently thrilling game that allows players to unleash hell in a post-apocalyptic world. Players have the option to get into gunplays and martial art combat. The third leaked title is Divine Knockout. It is a combat game, which will be launched across PlayStation and PCs along with the other two games on December 6.
It is being anticipated in the media reports that Divine Knockout would be the launch title along with Stray. Although both would be on PlayStation Plas, the former would be restricted to certain PS Plus tiers. Moreover, it is widely accepted now amongst players that no new first-party titles such as Horizon Forbidden West or God of War Ragnarök should be expected to be released on Sony monthly subscription service. The story, however, is different for Xbox models.
In a piece of separate news, Sony's financial report was released previously this month and it revealed how the company lost 2 million PS Plus subscribers. The drop was particularly registered after its relaunch that happened in June. The total number of subscribers dropped from 47.3 million to 45.4 million in a single financial quarter of the current financial year. The company financial report further suggested that the monthly active users of PlayStation Network (PSN) also registered a noticeable drop to 102 million. In terms of comparison, it is a 1.4 million decline as compared to the numbers from a year before.
As of now, PS Plus' Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium plan subscribers can go ahead can access Japan-set Soulslike sequel Nioh 2, the atmospheric physics game Heavenly Bodies, and the entire Lego Harry Potter Collection. The last date for making this selection is December 5, a day before the next month's titles are officially released to subscribers.
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The Mackenzie-Riverside Pizzeria and Lounge is throwing the First Annual ShuniahFest this September 8th and 9th 2017. We have received such overwhelming support from the community over the past year, but especially over the last few summer months that we felt we should do something to return the favour and give other small independent businesses a chance to get their name out and showcase what it is they have to offer.
This year, we have decided to allow these businesses and vendors free admission into the festival, and also have decided to donate 5% of our ticket sales to Macgregor Rec Centre in Shuniah, to go towards their children's programs. MacGregor Rec Centre is also donating their time Saturday September 9th 2017 between the hours of 1pm and 4pm to run children's activities during our Festival.
ShuniahFest is an eclectic mix of artists and bands, performing beside the Mackenzie Inn. We will be hosting an outdoor beer gardens, as well as BBQ food outdoors. The restaurant will be serving a modified menu throughout the weekend as well. The festival is all ages, and our experienced staff will be monitoring closely. We are offering Shuttle Service with ticket purchase, and have a bus route from the Hodder Tavern right up to The Flying J so patrons can have a safe, reliable way home.
We have an extensive line up of local talent coming out to play this weekend, including Jesse Horricks, James Marie, Plan B, 12 Gauge Prayer, High The Fire, Phineas Gauge, DJ Black Sheep, J Who Band, DJ Evan Woods, DJ Bevs, Wolfsmock, Big Bad Bobby Blues Band, James Boraski & MomentaryEvolution, Hard Rock and Co, Camden Blues Band, The Married Singlemen, EDLA, Genghis Chron, and last but not least… our headliner The Zep Show!
Tickets are $40 for a day pass and $70 for a weekend pass, and this price includes the use of the shuttle service for either the day or weekend, depending on ticket purchase. A Fireworks display is being donated by the Township of Shuniah and will close our festival Saturday night.
The Hodder Tavern and Flying J are turn around points for the buses.
We are still waiting to see just how many buses we we will have in rotation for a time frame but we promise we will have pick ups/drop offs as frequently as possible!
There is NO ATM out here at the Mackenzie! We definitely want to make our guests enjoy their time so please hit one up before you get all the way out here as drink tickets and food are both CASH ONLY!
5 percent of our tickets sales are being donated back to MacGregor Rec Centre to support all the awesome new youth programs they are offering!
Come help us rock Shuniah! And support our local small businesses, local talented musicians, and of course our kids!
4-5pm - Rock Hard & Co.


Thirteen future domain name registrars promise to voluntarily give the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers $1 for each sale of a domain name as the body struggles to stay afloat.
The cash-starved body anointed to manage some of the Internet's core functions has resorted to knocking on doors to fund its operations.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking money from Net businesses and asking its accredited domain name registrars to voluntarily hand over $1 for each sale of a name ending in ".com," ".org," or ".net," at least until next year. So far, 13 companies have pledged to pitch in.
ICANN had planned to collect the fee from all of the 50-plus new domain name registrars expected to come online through next year but abandoned the idea one day before a House subcommittee hearing in which lawmakers were expected to scrutinize it.
Since it signed an agreement with the Commerce Department in November to manage the Net's domain name system and to accredit new registrars to compete with Network Solutions, ICANN has blown through its initial $1.1 million start-up budget.
As previously reported by CNET News.com, ICANN is struggling with its finances. The California nonprofit company is $728,000 in the hole--$500,000 of which has gone to legal fees, according to the corporation's interim president, Mike Roberts.
NSI, which has registered more than 5 million domain names, hasn't signed an operation agreement with ICANN and therefore has made no commitment to help fund the body. Still, a small group of companies that hope to challenge NSI's market share will contribute to ICANN at the expense of their own bottom lines.
The new registrars want ICANN to stay in business so they can get a piece of NSI's billion-dollar domain name registration business. Under an evolving government contract, NSI has been the sole registrar for names ending in ".com," ".net," and ".org" for the past six years.
ICANN's dire financial situation could lead to the nonprofit's demise and derail the historical transition of control of the Net's technical underpinnings, which are critical in allowing any computer or Web site to go live on the global network.
"We're all interested in ICANN surviving--they need to raise money to continue breaking Network Solutions' monopoly of '.com,' '.net,' and '.org' registrations," said Per-Anders Hurtigh, chief executive of Port Information System, an accredited registrar that plans to donate money to ICANN.
But the money won't start flowing immediately, because only five companies have been given the green light to test NSI's shared registration system, and not all of them are online yet.
Moreover, the funds ICANN will get from the new handful of registrars will only be a drop in the bucket compared to ICANN's debt, which will keep growing.
"We're looking forward to any help we can get," ICANN's Roberts said today. "But it depends on how successful they are, and most of those folks are still waiting for the test period to end. It's anyone's guess how much business they'll be able to take from NSI."
Other registrars that have promised to help fund ICANN include Active ISP, Affinity Hosting, Animus Communications, CASDNS, Domain Bank, eNom, InfoRamp, InterQ Incorporated, Melbourne IT, Nominalia, PSI-Japan, and SiteName.


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Q: Sudoku - Loop scanner I'm currently making a Sudoku using java, however i can't seem to figure out how to loop my scanner properly. So far it prints this:
. 1 . | 3 . . | 8 . .
5 . 9 | 6 . . | 7 . .
7 . 4 | . 9 5 | . 2 .
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4 . . | . . . | 1 . .
. 2 8 | . 7 1 | . 6 3
. . . | 2 . 4 | 9 5 .
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6 . 3 | . . 9 | . . 7
. . . | 4 2 . | 5 1 6
. 5 2 | . 8 . | . 4 .
Next move, please (row , column , value )

And i'm able to change the chars '.' whith my code, but i want to loop that properly. So if the sudoku still contains the char '.', i want it to loop the scanner to edit it once more. I'm still fairly new to scripting
And this is the code i have made to edit it so far:
    public void moves(int row , int column , int value) {
        value += 48;
        if (list.get(row).charAt(column) == '.'){
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(list.get(row));
            sb.setCharAt(column, (char)value);
            list.set(row, sb.toString());
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception  {
        Sudoku s = new Sudoku("C:\\Users\\caspe\\Downloads\\Sudoku001.sdk");
        s.printBoard();
        s.errorCheck();

        System.out.println("Next move, please (row , column , value )");
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        int row = scanner.nextInt();
        int column = scanner.nextInt() ;
        int value = scanner.nextInt();
        s.moves(row, column, value);
        s.errorCheck();
        s.printBoard();
    }
}

So to sum it up, how can i loop the scanner until there are no more dots/'.'?

A: In your code, define an int called numDots that keeps track of the number of dots left. In your game logic, in case of a valid move, you reduce numDots by one.
For this, you can change move to:
public boolean moves(int row , int column , int value) {
    value += 48;
    if (list.get(row).charAt(column) == '.'){
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(list.get(row));
        sb.setCharAt(column, (char)value);
        list.set(row, sb.toString());
        return true;
    }
    else {
        return false;
    }
}

Now, in your main you can do:
Sudoku s = new Sudoku("C:\\Users\\caspe\\Downloads\\Sudoku001.sdk");
s.printBoard();
s.errorCheck();
int numDots = s.getNumDots();
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
while (numDots > 0) {
    System.out.println("Next move, please (row , column , value )");
    int row = scanner.nextInt();
    int column = scanner.nextInt() ;
    int value = scanner.nextInt();
    if (s.moves(row, column, value)) {
        numDots--;
        s.errorCheck();
        s.printBoard();
    }
}

To get the number of dots from your Sudoku, add the following method to your Sudoku class:
public int getNumDots() {
    int numDots = 0;
    for (String row: list) {
        for (int i = 0; i < row.length(); i++) {
            if (charAt(i) == '.') {
                numDots++;
            }
         }
    }
    return numDots;
}


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Three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past, but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Secrets are uncovered, and passions erupt as a way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end.
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley, read by Abigail Thaw.
Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their 20s. Thirty years later Alex and Christine are spending a leisurely summer evening at home when they receive a call from a distraught Lydia. Zach is dead.
In the wake of this profound loss, the three friends find themselves unmoored; all agree that Zach was the sanest and kindest of them all, the irreplaceable one they couldn't afford to lose. Inconsolable, Lydia moves in with Alex and Christine. But instead of loss bringing them closer, the three of them find over the following months that it warps their relationships, as old entanglements and grievances rise from the past, and love and sorrow give way to anger and bitterness.
Late in the Day explores the tangled webs at the centre of our most intimate relationships, to expose how beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives lie infinite alternate configurations. Ingeniously moving between past and present and through the intricacies of her characters' thoughts and interactions, Tessa Hadley once again shows that she has 'become one of this country's great contemporary novelists. She is equipped with an armoury of techniques and skills that may yet secure her a position as the greatest of them' (Anthony Quinn, Guardian).
I liked listening to this - it's impressive how Tessa Hadley kept my interest as she delved more and more deeply into this married quartet of best friends. Only a prolonged trip to Venice bored me - it felt like Hadley indulging herself in a recent visit to Venice.
It all starts with a phone call from Christine's best friend since school, Lydia, one evening. Lydia's husband Zachary is dead: Zachary the vibrant, energetic, bright one has had a heart attack and is unbelievably dead. Of course Lydia in her distress must move in with Christine and Alex.Can that work?
The rest of the novel weaves backwards and forwards in time, fleshing out the very close relationship between the four of them. Hadley does it all at such a leisurely pace with such delicacy, such insights into intimacy and marriage, the passing of time, the dependency of children and wives, bereavement, loss, letting go......that the quartet become totally real. When it all suddenly stops, it's quite a wrench.
Beautifully read - totally in tune with the content. A lovely voice from Abigail Thaw.
Now want to buy the print copy to read again. Must say Abigail's narration was nothing short of iconic - in the Juliette Stevenson league. Certainly not for the beach readers but a breath of Fresh air for the more literary reader. Doubt if I'll read a better book this year .
I came to this with high hopes as Tessa Hadley is sometimes spoken of as the best UK writer today. This completely escaped me. Competently written but not more And I found the story of middle class NorthLondoners dreary and unengaging. Not helped by the flat delivery of the reader.


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Following my college career he was instrumental in returning me to playing in high level adult competition following my ACL surgery in 2012. He has been a coach and mentor of mine as a volleyball coach, strength and conditioning coach, and a Crossfit coach.
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Q: How to get the creator of the event? I want get the creator of a Google Calendar Event, so I browsed the documentation page, specifically this section and I saw that there is an object called creator, but how can I extract this from an event taken by the calendar?
My code looks like this:
foreach ($events->getItems() as $event)
{
    $appointment = [
        'start_datetime' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($event->start->getDateTime())),
        'end_datetime' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($event->end->getDateTime())),
        'notes' => $event->getDescription(),
        'title' => $event->getSummary(),
        'id_user' => $operator_id,
        'id_google_calendar' => $event->getId(),
        'attendee' => []
        'creator' => ??????
    ];
}

A: This works:
foreach ($events->getItems() as $event)
{
    var_dump($event->getCreator());
}

(Tried in my code). See official documentation for this at https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/calendar/v3/php/latest/class-Google_Service_Calendar_Event.html

A: Either of these two options should work remember the creator will need to be uppercase first letter.
$event->Creator()

$event->getCreator()

If I recall
$event->Creator['email'] should also work.

This library is generated programmatic via the Discovery services API.  The documentation has not been generated there for a lot of it will not show up in the documentation its an experience thing.   When you have worked with the library for a while you get to know how its designed.


As a sweeping generalisation, I've found that developers who are really proficient with delegates / anonymous delegates seem to have a bit of an adverse reaction to seeing the lambda syntax in C# .NET 3.5. Luckily I'm proficient with very little, so the transition was easy for me :). This is a post to try and make the transition easier for people more competent than me :).
Say I have a Widget class, which just contains a Name and a WeightInGrams.
Now we want to search through an array of these and find how many are under 300 grams. Why? Er, why not? We'll use Array.FindAll to do this old skool (as opposed to fancy LINQy stuff like using Where()). FindAll takes an array of type T and a Predicate<T>, which is a delegate that takes a T and returns a bool indicating whether the predicate has been matched.
Clear as mud? Let's have a closer look at how we convert from delegate to a lambda expression.
//The C# 3.0 compiler has type inference, so we can also drop the argument type and let the compiler figure it out.
//so we can also drop the braces, end-of-statement semicolon and the explicit return.
Of course there's a catch. Actually, I can think of two, and they both relate to expression trees. To support a lot of LINQ magic, lambda expressions can be converted to expression trees at compile time. An expression tree is basically just a bunch of objects representing each part of the lambda expression. A query provider, like the one provided by LINQ to SQL, can then process the expression tree and execute the expression in a different way, say, by converting it to TSQL and running it against database.
So how does this relate to differentiating anonymous delegates and lambdas?
This second catch is that there is actually a difference between lambda expressions and lambda statements. A lambda statement contains braces and a function body, and can potentially have multiple lines like a standard delegate. A lambda expression is the single line with an implicit return. So in our original, Array-searching example, the following two statements are actually are different if you are trying to assign them to expression trees.
So in conclusion, lambdas are simply, for most intents and purposes, a neater syntax for defining delegates.


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1.3 Copenhagen Suborbitals
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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free Software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn's Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software programming languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a blog, is on pump.io and co-hosts the audcast, Free as in Freedom.
Copenhagen Suborbitals
Ken MacLeod ♂
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Topic: "Anything he thinks is important and relevant at the time". (He's a regular at FSCONS; in case someone doesn't know who he is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%A1ri_McCarthy http://smarimccarthy.is/ )