text:
Ray L. Snyder
Ray L. Snyder, 80, a lifetime LaPaz resident and known to many in the area as "Snyder the Decorator", has died. Ray, who resided at 13010 W. 1st. Road, died following an illness at the home of his daughter Pam, in Bristol, Ind.
Born on October 30, 1920 in Lapaz, Ind., he was the son of Solomon F. and Cacelia M. Boone Snyder. He attended Lapaz schools and served his country in the U.S. Army during WWII in the Philippines where he received the Bronze Star.
At the early age of sixteen, Ray joined his father in the painting and decorating business which he continued until his retirement in 1998. Ray was known for quality work and having a friendly disposition.
On February 11, 1950, in South Bend, he and Marcia L. Hostetler, were married. Marcia died suddenly, one year ago, May 10, 2000.
Ray took pride in helping others by fixing and repairing things, sometimes a challenge, but eager to try. He also enjoyed gardening, cooking and reading.
A member of the Nappanee First Church of God, where he was involved in the W.H.O. 'We Help Others', adult Bible class. And had also served as a Sunday School teacher. He was a former member of the LaPaz First Community Church of God.
He is survived by one son, Dean R. and Theresa Snyder of Defiance, Ohio, two daughters, Pam J. and Terry Garber of Bristol and Deb K. Snyder of Goshen. Eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren survive along with one sister and two brothers. They are, Betty and Rev. Hilton Bryant of Hammond, Roy and Lorena Snyder of Plymouth and Paul and Eyvonne Snyder of Bremen. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
Ray was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Jean Fay, a twin to son Dean, his parents, spouse and two brothers, Leo and Don Snyder.
Friends may visit with the family today Tuesday, June 19, from 4 – 8 p.m. in the Johnson – Danielson Funeral Home, 1100 N. Michigan St. Plymouth.
Funeral services for Ray will be conducted by the Rev. Emeritus Robert Fields, of the Nappanee First Church of God and family friend Bro. Dave VanCuren. The funeral will be held in the LaPaz First Community Church of God, 601 S. Michigan St. LaPaz at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2001, where friends may call one hour prior services.
Burial will be in Fair Cemetery, northwest of LaPaz. Military graveside services will be accorded Ray by the Lapaz American Legion Post 385.
Memorial gifts in Ray's memory may be made to the Nappanee First Church of God, LaPaz First Community Church of God or the Goshen Hospital Community Hospice Program.


Getting a second opinion is never a bad idea.
Most people recognize the need for Life Insurance but cannot identify which type of policy would be suitable for them. Some of the types available are Whole life, Term Life, and Universal Life. We have the ability to shop multiple carriers to find a suitable quote for you. This is advantageous for you because of the differences in pricing and underwriting procedures.
Whole life and Universal life policies that build internal cash values can have benefits beyond the Insurance Face value. Very often, people will hold onto older life insurance policies without reviewing their benefits annually. What happens is the policy accumulates a cash value that exceeds the original insurance or Face Value. The existing policy cash surrender value could be used to convert the policy into paid up life insurance or used to create an income.
Do you have a life insurance policy that has been in force for over ten years? Would you like to see how to maintain an insurance policy without having to pay any more premiums? Have you considered whether or not your coverage is enough? Inflation has caused the cost of final expenses and funerals to increase significantly over the past decade. Getting a second opinion is never a bad idea.


text:
Q: Storing the result of LARGE_INTEGER / LARGE_INTEGER I'm trying to develop a simple Timer class for a game I'm making. Right now, all this class does is calculate how long a frame is taking to render for some FPS calculations.
I am using Window's QueryPerformanceCounter function (here) to get the highest possible resolution (I already got my computer's counter frequency via QueryPerformanceFrequency)
Here is my function for getting the last frame's time in seconds:

void update_time()
{
    last = current;
    counter(&current);
    last_frame_time = current.QuadPart - last.QuadPart;
    last_frame_time_secs = last_frame_time / timer_frequency.QuadPart;
}

Currently, last_frame_time_secs is a double variable. When I compile, I get a warning:
 warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'LONGLONG' to 'double', possible loss of data

and last_frame_time_secs is always 0.0. I assume this is because the result of the division is so small that doubles cannot store it? Is there any larger data structure I can use?

A: Whoops, I completely forgot that doing integer division gets rid of the fractional part, no matter how you're storing it :) Changing the last line to this:
last_frame_time_secs = (double)last_frame_time / (double)timer_frequency.QuadPart;

fixed it.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
... in cities
Capital or the erosion of the social farbric of the city
05 Sep 2014 | 1024 words | capitalism delhi india cities urbanism
Capital by rana dasgupta
This is the second book i have read this year that has the words 'capital' and '21st century' in its title. While this smells a lot like free-riding on the popularity of the other book, it is not 1.
Capital by Rana Dasgupta chronicles the last one-and-a-half decades of the Indian capital Delhi. It is a mix between encounters (not in the indian sense of the word) with (moneyed) inhabitants of Delhi, snippets of history and more abstract reflections on the city in an globalized world.
It is a fascinating book that describes a city that is torn loose from its history and thrown into the maelstrom of globalization. I have been privileged to vist the Delhi a number of times between 2003 and 2006 and observing some of the transitions that Dasgupta describes. I also spend some time among the 'bohemian artists and intellectuals' that he found himself among and who were fueled by the energies unleashed by Delhi's transformation:
But the anticipation of those years has a much larger scope than the city itself. It sprang from a universal sense: What will happen here will change the entire world.
The people i met were cosmopolitans, and they were delighted to see the walls coming down around india. They disdained nationalism and loved the new riches that reached them via the internet. But true to their own skepticism – and the history of anti-imperialist thought in this part of the word – they were also critical of the economic and social bases of western societies – and the last thing that they wanted from this moment of India's opening-up was that a similar society be established here, Much of their intellectual inspiration came from Western capitalism's internal critics: from American free software theorists, from the squatter movement in the Netherlands, from artists in Great Britain who challenged corporate food and property cultures, from Harvard and Oxford legal scholars who imagined alternative possibilities for the ownership of seeds, images and ideas.
Mingling with these people has had an enormous influence on my own intellectual development and the same is true for witnessing the transformation of the urban landscape of Delhi. Compared to what was going on in Delhi at the time, the social dynamics back home felt stagnant. The most obvious illustration of this was provided by the Delhi Metro2: When i first came to Delhi the first section of the Delhi metro had just become operational, yet by the time of my last visit at the end of 2006 the Delhi metro was already having more daily riders than the entire dutch railway system.
Delhi metro - a dream comes true
During those years I have spend a fair amount of time in the city exploring it by bicycle and i recognize lots of places that Dasgupta describes in Capital (most vividly parts of a hike along the west bank of the Yanuma that he describes towards the end of the book). While i am familiar with many of the localities featured in the book i have been almost entirely unaware of the secluded oases of wealth that Dasgupta describes rather vividly. Reading about them, and the role played by the moneyed business elites explains a lot of what i observed but did not really comprehend back then.
This is also where Capital comes very close to Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Woven through Dasgupta's book is a recurring theme of how a small business elite is ruthlessly riding the wave of transformation and harvesting almost all the wealth generated by it. In this sense Capital can almost be read as a case study illustrating the effects described by Piketty (r > g) in a turbo charged economic catch-up scenario3. In line with Piketty's main argument Dasgupata recounts how the business elites leveraged existing capital assists (mainly in the form of real estate) to disproportionally benefit from the transformation of the urban economy.
Unfortunately for Delhi and the majority of its inhabitants, this accumulation of wealth is unlikely to benefit the city as a whole. In what is maybe the most important insight provided by Dasgupta he points out that the relationship of Delhi's elites with the city that provides the foundations for their wealth is fundamentally different from the relationship between the past elites of places like New York, Amsterdam or Berlin and 'their' cities. He observes that 21st century elites seem to have stopped to invest in the social fabric of their citie because the incentives to do so have largely disappeared in a globalized world:
Delhi does not hold the overwhelming significance for the super-rich that New York did for the [American elite of a century ago]: it is just a place where the accumulate income, and they have rather little inclination to turn it into an urban masterpiece. They have no personal need of such an enterprise because they have been used to seeing the world's existing ressources as their own: they do not need to build great universities for themselves because they have already been built for them – in the United States.
Such a feeling is not confined to Delhi. It applies to elites everywhere. members of the Dehi elite are identical to their peers from Paris, Moscow or São Paulo – in that they possess houses in London, educate their children in the United States, holiday in St. Tropez, use clinics in Lausanne and keep their money – offshore, nowhere. That circumstance in which great quantities of private wealth were ploughed back into the needs and concerns of one place, which was 'our place', no longer pertains. Not here not elsewhere.
I have to admit that when an internet search for Piketty's book turned up this one i almost filed it away as click-bait. Only when i noticed the name of the author i realized that this might actually be worth reading. ↩
The impact of the then new delhi metro is beautifully captured in Vivek Narayanan's poem 'In the early days of the Delhi Metro' ↩
If you trust Amazons frequently bought together feature this seems to be exactly what people doing' ↩
On organisations stunning ability to absorb nonsensical claims about technology
20 Apr 2014 | 1046 words | cities urbanism smart cities technology
So i have finally managed to finish Adam Greenfield's Against the smart city (i had lapsed soon after this picture was taken). The book is well worth reading and contains a number valuable insights but there is one passage that stands out for me.
Towards the end of the book (or pamphlet as Adam refers to it) he explains why his method of examining the language of marketing and promotional copy of IT vendors is important even though the same vendors, when challenged on the claims contained in it are quick to dismiss its as mere marking language. This passage is one of the best explanations of how marketing language (and more particular: claims about technology) gets absorbed by organisations (in this case municipal governments):
But refusing to take this sort of language seriously means succumbing to a certain naïveté about the ways in which knowledge tends to be reproduced nowadays, and the processes through which it does its work in the world.
At the launch of any new corporate smart-city initiative, content promoting it and aligning it with the enterprise's overarching brand proposition is generated by the marketing department, and released into the wild on the global website, where it will be indexed by Google in less than a minute. This initiative almost immediately comes to the attention of the planet's several thousand technology bloggers, writing for outlets of various provenance, who generally have automated keyword searches set up to notify them whenever an item of interest is published. Because these bloggers are simultaneously under intense contractual pressure to post several times a day, are by definition enthusiastic about technology and are, by and large, unschooled in the arts of skeptical reportage, they tend to take the claims they are offered at face value. (This is true of bloggers writing for the Guardian or the New York Times every bit as much as it is of their less well-positioned peers.)
In a manner of minutes, talking points from the original press release are paraphrased in the blogger's idiom of choice and bundled into a new post, and this may happen across dozens of competing sites in a very brief span of time. Links to these posts are, in turn, instantaneously produced by automated Twitter accounts, endlessly replicated both on Twitter itself and via other social-media channels linked to it through its API; these in turn spur a wave of response from a far larger number of people around the world who are equally excited at the prospect of living in the future, and within a few hours at most a rich loam of online commentary has been laid down. Very little of this commentary evaluates what is being claimed in any depth, or even compares the item at hand to previous assertions made by the same institution, but the volume of buzz is impressive. And due in no small part to the way Google itself works, this distributed colloquy creates an immediate impression that there is a there there. Over the space of a few hours, a framing or perspective originating in a deeply interested party has simply become an unquestioned part of the fabric of consensual knowledge.
What happens on the receiving end, inside the municipal bodies that constitute the primary presumptive audience for such a marketing campaign? Low-level bureaucrats, pressed for time and starved for insight, stumble onto this thicket of conversation via a cursory keyword search; they copy-and-paste a few lines from the first reasonably credible-looking search result into their PowerPoint slides, unmodified; and these slides then get submitted up the hierarchy. The language propagates across the institution — and, what's more, it meshes with that found in the hurriedly-downloaded white papers on the subject that someone found on the website of a name-brand management consultancy. The savvier staffers start to feel confident using these terms: speaking in them, thinking in them. While misgivings may in fact be prevalent, there are likely to be relatively few in the bureaucracy who are able to express them forthrightly — that is to say, who are sufficiently comfortable with the technology to understand precisely what is being proposed, familiar with the way their city works to convincingly articulate why this is problematic, assured of their own position to feel safe in doing so and passionate about the issue to willingly shoulder the risk involved. (If, as the saying has it, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, it's also the case that one may find oneself on shaky ground contradicting something printed straight from the IBM website.) When finally pressed to make a "recommendation as to how the city's resources should be allocated, the easiest thing for a committee member to do is go with the flow, to at least outwardly agree with the person at the table who seems to know what they're talking about, simply to bring the drawn-out process of decision-making to a close.
This sort of thing, of course, happens across the entire range of issues a municipal agency may be asked to face. But it appears to be especially true where questions of information technology are concerned, given the unusual amount of mystification that shrouds even consumer-grade products and services, to say nothing of the degree of intimidation otherwise competent adults routinely feel in their presence. Where there is a decision to be made, a confident point of view being advanced and no party with the necessary bona fides stepping forward to challenge it, the natural, the human thing to do is defer. And so this body of ideas gets reproduced, just as surely as code libraries are when they are downloaded from open-source repositories like Github or SourceForge. And every time this happens, a very particular set of valuations and priorities is reproduced alongside them. What was once merely a sequence of words crafted by a marketing department for their euphony, service to a business model and alignment with a particular set of brand values becomes inscribed in, or as, a city's official program.
This, in broad outline, is how a premature and preemptive consensus formed around the desirability of something called the smart city. I should emphasize that the individuals
If you like this passage you almost certainly should read the entire pamphlet which can be obtained here.
Tehran has no more pomegranates!
01 Dec 2007 | 257 words | film movies review iran cities tehran
Watched a screening of 'Tehran has no more pomegranates!' by Massoud Bakhshi this afternoon, which turned out to be a beautiful film that manages to pay homage to the incredibly strange and complex reality of the city of Tehran. While Tehran is one of the least likely city to fall in love with it had a certain strange attraction to me. tehran has no more pomegranates! manages to somehow capture this attraction and to turn it into an extremely entertaining complex portrait of the city. Bakhshi intelligently juxtaposes old documentary footage (and extremely beautiful pictures of bearded men) with footage he has shot in Tehran over the last 5 years or so (including lots of time lapse shots of crazy traffic). The film starts off with the observation by someone called Asar-o-blad (no idea who that is since google returns exactly 0 results) who in 1241 remarked that:
Tehran is a village near the city of Ray. It's inhabitants live in anthill like underground holes. Tehranis' main occupation is theft and crime. They fight each other and can't obey any king. They grow excellent pomegranates which are found only in Tehran.
The film then goes on to portray various stupid rulers, collective opium addiction, visits by Stalin, Churchill ('You really have big oil wells') and Roosevelt, the fall of the Shah and the explosive growth of the metropolis with all of its magnificent transportation problems. Well worth watching (apparently there will be a DVD release by the Jan Vrijman Fund later this year or early next year)
Tehran traffic ...
18 Nov 2007 | 392 words | iran tehran traffic urbanism cities public transport motorcycles
… so i am back from Iran after having spend the last two days in Tehran. it is pretty much difficult to make sense of Teheran in 4 days, which is probably due to the sheer size of the place. there are about 14 million people living in the metropolitan area of Tehran and one would guess that at most 5 of them are working as city planners. On the other hand every second inhabitant has at least one car (either a pre-historic Paykan or a grey Peugeot 206) which, during rush hour, is too much for the extensive highway system to absorb.
The metropolis of Tehran enjoys a huge network of highways (280 km) and of interchanges, ramps & loops (180km). In 2007 there were 130 kilometers of highways and 120 kilometers of ramps and loops under construction. [source: wikipedia]
Highways or not, during rush hour it takes at least 90 minutes to get from the southern end of the city center to the northern end of the city center. unfortunately public transport does not really offer a viable alternative
In 2001 a metro system that had been in planning since the 1970s opened the first two of seven envisaged lines. Work has been slow and coverage remains very limited. Development of the Tehran metro system had been interrupted by the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. Problems arising from the late completion of the metro led to buses taking on the role of the metro lines, serving mainly long distance routes. Taxis filled the void for local journeys. The taxis only drive on main avenues, and only within the local area, so it may be necessary to take several taxis to get to one's final destination. [source: wikipedia]
The only for of transport that will get you from A to B fairly efficiently (and cheaply, a cross town ride is less than €1) are motorcycle taxis. They are a bit difficult to spot (as they are just regular motorcycles cruising the streets) but once you have managed to spot them they make the city much more accessible. Of course it helps to have a bit of a death-whish (the driver has a helmet and you don't and they will go pretty fast on stretches of highway where the traffic is relatively light) but then it is actually really good fun…
Rudas fürdő
13 Sep 2007 | 279 words | budapest cities turkey civilisation
I guess it is since i first read Enki Bilal'sPartie de Chasse that i wanted to go visit the various public bath houses in Budapest. there is a scene in Partie de Chasse where Vassili Alexandrovitch Tchevtchenko comes to Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1966 to talk to Tibor Illyes, the local stalinist party leader, in a thermal pool to convince him to step down. later Illyes is found dead in the pool and officially it is said that he committed suicide. It is a fairly small scene, but it has somehow etched itself into my memory. Last week i finally had the chance to visit some of the bath houses in Budapest myself. my favorite is the Rudas, an old turkish bathhouse from 1566 that as been recently renovated (but essentially left unchanged):
If i was living in Budapest i could imagine myself spending a lot of time there (like a lot of the old fat locals do). The best thing about the Rudas is that it is open for mixed bathing till 4 in the morning on friday and saturday night (normally it is men only), which makes it an excellent last destination when having a night out (although going out with swimming shorts in you pockets feels a bit strange).
The Rudas was build in 1566 by the Turks, when Budapest was part of the Ottoman Empire, which makes me think that it is a shame that the Turks did not conquer all of Europe so they could have build places like this all over the place. Gives me one more reason to dislike the Austrians even more than i did before coming to Budapest.
Favela Dubrovnik
15 Jun 2007 | 70 words | creative commons conference photos cities dubrovnik work informal housing
So i am at my third summit in three weeks. first summit in Berlin, then the copyright summit in Bruxelles and finally the iSummit in Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik is absolutely amazing, which is best summed up by someone from FGV in rio de janeiro who's first comment was. 'whow! this place looks like a medieval favela' (which of course brings up fond memories from last years iSummit).
Photo by Joi Ito
Mike Davis: Fear and Money in Dubai
15 Dec 2006 | 550 words | dubai emirates bombay india terrorism cities
Coming back to the Waag i found the printout of Fear and Money in Dubai by Mike Davis on my table (placed there by the invaluable Patrice, who seems to have never heard of such things as emails and hyperlinks, but then you can read printouts in your bathtub, which is not a bad thing either). The article turns out to be an excellent piece about the state of affairs in Dubai, with a number of interesting observations about piracy/smuggling/terrorism/falcon-hunting:
The platform for Dubai's extraordinary ambitions has been its long history as a haven for smugglers, gold dealers and pirates. […] Pearl fishing and smuggling were the mainstays until oil wealth began to generate increased demand for Dubai's commercial savvy and port services. Up to 1956, when the first concrete building was constructed, the entire population lived in traditional 'barastri' homes made from palm fronds, drawing water from communal wells and tethering their goats in the narrow streets. […]
Following Khomeini's revolution in 1979, it also became the Persian Gulf's Miami, providing refuge to a large community of Iranian exiles, many of whom specialized in smuggling gold, untaxed cigarettes and liquor to their puritanical homeland, and to India. More recently, Dubai under the tolerant gaze of Tehran has attracted large numbers of wealthy Iranians who use the city "more like Hong Kong than Miami" as a base for trade and bi-national life-styles. […] Building on such clandestine connections, Dubai in the 1980s and early 1990s became the Gulf's principal dirty-money laundry as well as a bolthole for some of the region's most notorious gangsters and terrorists. […]
Indeed, since 9/11 a huge investigative literature has explored Dubai's role as 'the financial hub for Islamic militant groups', especially al-Qaeda and the Taliban: 'all roads lead to Dubai when it comes to [terrorist] money', claims a former high-ranking us Treasury official. Bin Laden reportedly transferred large sums through the government-owned Dubai Islamic Bank, while the Taliban used the city's unregulated gold markets to transform their opium taxes, paid in gold bullion, into laundered dollars. In his best-selling Ghost Wars, Steve Coll claims that after the catastrophic al-Qaeda bombings of the us embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, a cia scheme to target bin Laden with cruise missiles while he was falcon hunting in southern Afghanistan had to be aborted because he was in the company of unnamed Emirati royalty. […]
In addition, al-Maktoum for almost a decade provided luxurious sanctuary for Bombay's Al Capone, the legendary gangster Dawood Ibrahim. His presence in the sheikhdom in the late 1980s was hardly low-key. 'Dubai', writes Suketu Mehta, 'suited Dawood; he re-created Bombay in lavish parties, flying in scores of the city's top film stars and cricketers as guests, and took a film starlet, Mandakini, as his mistress'. In early 1993, according to the Indian government, Dawood, working with Pakistani intelligence officials, used Dubai as a base for organizing the infamous 'Black Friday' bombings in Bombay that killed 257 people. Although India immediately requested Dubai to arrest Dawood, he was allowed to flee to Karachi, where he is still sheltered by the Pakistani government […]
Read the full article here. Also 2 clicks away from endnote 48 is one of the most deadly restaurant critiques i have ever read (especially if you are british!)
(banned) in Dubai
26 Nov 2006 | 303 words | emirates cities dubai public transport airtravel internet censorship
Spend a day in Dubai yesterday and that place is positively insane. will post in more detail later, but in the meanwhile some initial observations.
About the first thing i noticed – even before leaving the transit area of the airport – was that the local authorities do not have much love for this blog. in fact they have so little love for it that they censor it:
No clue what i have done to piss-off the sheiks, but my guess would be that they also assume some kind of connection between me and 9/11 (see here for a more detailed explanation of their censorship policies).
Now if that is the case then i would not let me into their country (which they did) and if i were them i would reconsider censoring the Internet in the transit zone of an international airport, which is even more pointless that censoring the Internet in general.
Of course they Sheiks themselves like their Internet uncensored, so the wireless network of the Emirates First Class Lounge (which leaks outside the lounge) does not block any pages.
Spend most of the rest running through construction sites taking pictures and talking to a fair amount of construction workers (more on that later). next to the incredible construction boom that makes europe look extremely 20th century the most striking feature is how well maintained public services are:
One would assume that given all the individual wealth that is enjoyed by the Emiraties there would be no incentive to maintain a fairly decent public transport system (which like all other road transport becomes completely useless during rush hour), well regulated taxis or well maintained public parks on prime beach front locations, but all of these do exist and seem to be fairly accessible to a wide range of the population.
Spectacular city...
04 Nov 2006 | 168 words | public transport photos exhibition sao paulo urbanism cities
Is the title of a photo exhibition at the Netherlands Institute of Architecture in Rotterdam (on show till the 7th of january 2007). the exhibition consists of about a 100 mostly large scale large-scale reproductions of – well – spectacular urban landscapes, exceptional buildings and all kinds of eerie views. Many of the pictures contain very little traces of human live (which has a strange calming effect on me). One notable exception is São Paulo, Sé by Andreas Gursky:
On display this picture is something like 3 x 2 meters and which puts you face to face with the waiting subway passengers the picture perfectly captures the monstrosity of the Se subway station in central São Paulo. Looks like he did digitally add a a level or two (see my own impressions and pictures here).
The rest of the exhibition is pretty amazing as well, especially the ministry of transportation building in Tiblisi (via we-make-money-not-art, which made me aware of the exhibition in the first place. thanks Regine!).
15 Oct 2006 | 530 words | cities lille france bombay exhibition public spaces future
Absolutely no idea why it is called lille 3000 and not some other arbitrary number, but apparently the local government decided that 3000 sounds mighty futuristic (and 2006 would be so last year in three months anyway) and here we go… I am also not sure if lille 3000 is the same as the 'Bombaysers de Lille' (the sexual pun is apparently intended) exhibition that was opened with much French pompousness this weekend. Like the city of lille the exhibition is definitely worth a visit: Ashok has a great piece (called GPS) installed on the Place du Theatre and the 'Maximum City' exposition (after Suketu Mehta's must-read book with the same title) is pretty impressive (although it contains too many pictures of black and yellow taxis, but then it is about Bombay so i guess you can't avoid them..) and there is other gems hidden across the city (try to find the tourism office, without getting misdirected by the signage).
My favorite piece is the photo series 'Monrachs of the East End' by Gavin Fernandez, which is part of the 'rich mix' group exhibition in the Maison de Follies de Wazemmes. I want some of of those, badly!
But back to the lille 3000 business: the whole exhibition (which in a sense is the continuation of the the cultural capital activities of 2004 by other means but with the same esthetic and conceptual drive) seems to be part of an aggressive attempt to re-position Lille as a city of the future (the past can be seen in the extensive ruins of its former industrial glory around the northern suburb Tourcoing on the border with Belgium – a small scale version of Bombay's mill lands that occupy much of central parts of the city).
Exhibitions and impressive architecture aside the fact, that lille is indeed about the future is most evident when one looks at the local population: This weekend it looked like two thirds of the people in the streets are teenagers, which makes me wonder what they do to the old people (they probably ship them to the Belgian coast, but that is something for the next post). Maybe this abundance of kids is the result of the city actively collecting kids that can be deposited at designated locations:
Even more futuristic are the public spaces (and i am not speaking of that but ugly Euralille complex, which shows once more that Mr Koollhaas should stop actually realizing buildings and continue to publish books instead) but the public parks. It is well-known that the french are nazis when it come to their parks: ('no walking on the grass' and closing them at 5 in the afternoon for no good reason other than to piss of park-goers) but encircling a park by 4 meter high, red, state-of-the-art prison fence (complete with diagonal supporting poles, so that the fence cant be pushed down), is quite an extreme measure, to keep the kids from lying in the grass and smoking a joint after 8 pm if you ask me (but then fences are fashionably european these days, so it might just be an esthetic statement):
Comes with built in bench! (tres chique!)
back to top | older posts
meanwhile... is the personal weblog of Paul Keller. I am currently policy director at Open Future and President of the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain. This weblog is largely inactive but contains an archive of posts (mixing both work and personal) going back to 2005.
I also maintain a collection of cards from African mediums (which is the reason for the domain name), a collection of photos on flickr and a website collecting my professional writings and appearances.
Other things that i have made online:
NoBorder network
NoBorder Camp Strasbourg
The Virtual People Smuggler
Deportation Class
Deportation Alliance
WSIS? We Seize!
Expert Base
Superspoed Racing News
Wireless Bijlmer

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Yoga for Surfers® Teacher Training
About Peggy Hall Yoga for Surfers Contact
YFS TT Grads
Peggy Hall
Yoga for Surfers
Location & Travel/
Surfing/
Photos & Videos/
YFS TT Grads/
Apply Now/
Not just a training program -- it's a transformation program
About Peggy Hall
Yoga for Surfers® Creator Peggy Hall
Called a "legend" by Surfer magazine, Peggy Hall is an avid surfer and inspiring teacher. Peggy is recognized as the pioneer of the global surf + yoga movement as the first person to popularize yoga and surfing with her best-selling Yoga for Surfers® Instructional DVD Series, which has helped thousands of surfers around the world surf better – and live better!
Peggy trains teachers exclusively in her Yoga for Surfers® style, which is a flowing, "feel-good" style of yoga designed to replenish energy and stretch and strengthen the very muscles needed for the rigorous demands of the ocean. The Yoga for Surfers® Teacher Training Program draws participants from all over the world and sells out every year.
As an avid surfer, former competitive swimmer and water polo player, long-distance ocean swimmer, certified yoga instructor, holistic nutritionist, published author, radio personality and television host, Peggy inspires everyone she meets with her infectious enthusiasm, pure positive energy and sunshiny outlook on life. Her signature catch-phrase is "The best is yet to come," and she lives what she believes.
Peggy teaches her signature style of healing and energizing yoga Better Living Yoga in Aliso Viejo. She received her Certificate in Yoga Studies from the University of California, Irvine and has completed -- and led -- many dozens of advanced teacher training workshops. Peggy is also frequently sought after to share her secrets for "Living Swell®" at corporations, major resorts and spas.
Peggy has been appeared on television over 100 times over the past few years as the national wellness expert for America Now, an Emmy-nominated lifestyle television program broadcast on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. She is also the featured health and wellness expert for the ABC Radio Network and since 2007 she has been appearing weekly on the syndicated "Hits and Favorites" radio show.
Peggy frequently writes for and appears in major national and international media with over 200 hundred published articles in magazines such as Yoga Journal, Clean Eating, Oxygen Women's Fitness, First for Women, Women's World Magazine, Life & Style, Shape, Self, Surfer, Tracks, Outside, Men's Journal, Muscle & Fitness Hers, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and US News & World Report among others.
Passionate about making healthy living easy, Peggy has created a line of organic health and beauty products including her signature Youth Serum and best-selling Fat-Burning Fiber.
Prior to her splash in the wellness field, Peggy had a rewarding career in international education and taught English and writing at the university level. For several years, she was the Director of Teacher Education at the University of California, Irvine and has over 25 years experience in training teachers, which is her true gift and passion.
Peggy holds a Master's Degree in International Relations and speaks fluent French and Arabic. A world traveler, she lived in Paris for a short time and also spent several years in Morocco, first as an English teacher with the Peace Corps and later as a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble in Casablanca. Upon her return to the US, Peggy started her own corporate training company, Global Learning, where she designed and delivered cross-cultural communications programs, keynote speeches, seminars and workshops for major international corporations.
Peggy lives, writes, teaches and surfs in her native Southern California with her husband and their dog and four cats. Peggy is a passionate animal welfare advocate and promotes hope, healing and humane education through her non-profit group, Compassion for All.


Self love… just do it.
When you start living and believing that you are enough right this moment, life will start unfolding in ways that supports that. When you start living and believing that you are loved, right this moment, life will continue to unfold in ways that makes this truer and truer for you.
Gratitude. A way of living.
…we are in constant dialogue with life. Whether we understand it, believe it or realize it. Our thoughts and words matter, and will be reflected back to us. Like the way a mirror reflects to us our image. What we choose to say and think, we will see more of.
Until you forgive, you will keep giving your future to the past.
Choosing your thoughts… Just do it.
Not everything is going to be in your control to change or manipulate. But how you think about that particular situation is always going to be in your control. So why not control it to be in your favor, in a way that will help you feel better, feel less stress, judgmental or hateful?


text:
Rails and
History of the
Penhold Base
Rail History
and Area
Paul's
Springbrook Alberta is a hamlet in the County of Red Deer, Canada, developed after the sale of Canadian Forces Base Penhold to private developers in 1995. The original residential area built in the early 1950's was once called Mynarski Park, named after a World War II fighter pilot hero who died saving another as their plane went down in combat.
The hamlet includes what was once the active military base, now referred to as Harvard Park, and includes a training facility, several businesses and a new residential area. The barracks area is still used for cadet training in the summer.
Adjoining Springbrook is the Red Deer Regional Airport, home to several businesses, most of which are aviation related. It is also home to the Red Deer International Air Show staged every couple of years in early August.
Situated in the centre of one of the fastest growing economic and transportation corridors in the country, Springbrook has a current year round population of around 1000 but will likely expand dramatically over the next five to ten years.
Located about 7 km. from the city of Red Deer and about 4 km. from the town of Penhold, Springbrook is adjacent to the main Edmonton-Calgary Canadian Pacific Railway line and Highway 2A. About 1 km. east is Queen Elizabeth 2 Highway, part of the Canamex north-south continental highway system. Also nearby are Gasoline Alley (a commercial and industrial strip south of Red Deer), the Red Deer River, the historic Calgary and Edmonton Trail and a major trestle across the river on the abandoned right of way of the Alberta Central Railway.
The community boasts a private recreational facility built for the armed forces that includes a gymnasium, weight room, theatre (now the community centre), curling rink (now a hockey training facility), a general store, restaurant-lounge, 3 new playgrounds (one named after A.C. Mynarski), an all-purpose pad, a new fire hall and meeting and training facilities.
Future plans include the expansion of the airport, residential and industrial development, a new major sports field, an elementary school and possibly a new regional high school, a new community centre, new trails including a section of the Trans Canada Trail, an aviation museum, a second road access, and possibility high speed rail in the next 10 years.
(proposed Heritage Urban Design Plan 2007)
Waskasoo Creek meanders along the Hwy. 2A - CPR corridor from south-east of Penhold, past Springbrook, through Red Deer College to the Red Deer River in central Red Deer. Waskasoo is a Cree word for 'red elk' or 'wapiti', named after the abundance of elk in the area. The Red Deer River was named by the aboriginals as 'Waskasoo Seepee' or 'Elk River'. The early settlers renamed it after thinking the local elk were related to the 'red deer' of Scotland.
Springbrook is the largest hamlet (pop. 1,000) in Red Deer County and contains about one third of the population of Division 3.
Summary of Issues Impacting Springbrook and Division 3 (Photo Summary)
Summary of Issues Impacting Springbrook and Division 3 (Detailed)
History of the Penhold Base
My vision for Springbrook
A vibrant, diversified and beautiful community with its unique small town character that values its:
- military heritage and history,
- people of all ages and backgrounds,
- peaceful environment, and
- convenient location.
© Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved. Copyright, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy


Premier League: West Ham United stun Chelsea 1-0, Tottenham Hotspur thrash Stoke City 5-1, Swansea City beat West Brom 1-0.
 *E-FPB* – Electronic Focal Point Branch.
 *E-Ledgers* – E-Cash, E-Credit, E-Liability.
A 16-year-old boy who murdered his mother and younger sister in a Greater Noida felt his parents did not love him after being scolded at home, police said on Saturday.
The boy used a cricket bat, scissors and a pizza cutter to commit the murders and then left the city, police said.
He was traced to Varanasi based on a call he made to his father from a passerby's phone and brought back late on Friday.
"The boy has confessed to the crime. He said his mother had scolded him on December 4 afternoon for studying on the sofa," Love Kumar, Gautam Budh Nagar senior superintendent of police, said.
When he refused to move, she scolded him and beat him up. In September, his father had confiscated his cell phone for not doing well in studies. Enraged, he murdered his mother and sister late that night when they were sleeping, Kumar said.
Later, he booked a cab and went to Old Delhi railway station from where he took a train towards Jammu. He got down at Ludhiana and travelled to Chandigarh, Shimla, Ranchi and finally reached Varanasi from where he called his father and broke down during the conversation, police said.
Shimla, Dec 9 (PTI) The mercury is likely to drop in Himachal Pradesh with heavy rain and snowfall predicted in parts of the state next week.
The local MeT office said heavy rain and snowfall are likely on December 11 and 12 and the wet spell may continue till December 15.
An active fresh Western Disturbance over the region may lead to precipitation at many places in the state on December 11 an 12, MeT office director Manmohan Singh said.
Meanwhile, dry weather conditions prevailed in the region while gusty winds lashed the mid and higher hills.
There was no significant change in minimum temperatures but maximum temperatures dropped by two degrees Celsius at several places.
Manali and Bhuntar recorded a low of 0 and 2 degrees, Kalpa 3, Sundernagar 3.5, Una 5, Solan 5.5, Palampur and Dharamsala 7.5, Shimla 8.9 and Nahan 9 degrees Celsius.
CRPF jawan opens fire at a camp in Chhattisgarh, kills 4 colleagues, injures another: Officials.


text:
Broken Soup
Von: Jenny Valentine
Gesprochen von: Fipsi Seilern
4,0 out of 5 stars 4,0 (1 Bewertung)
Für 8,95 € kaufen
An intriguing, compelling, and moving new novel from the award-winning author of Finding Violet Park.
When the good-looking boy with the American accent presses the dropped negative into Rowan's hand, she's sure it's all a big mistake. But the next moment, he's gone, lost in the crowd of bustling shoppers. And she can't afford to lose her place in the checkout queue – after all, if she doesn't take the groceries home, nobody else will.
Rowan has more responsibilities than most girls her age. These days, she pretty much looks after her little sister single-handedly – which doesn't leave much time for friends or fun. So when she finds out that Bee from school saw the whole thing, it piques her curiosity. Who was the boy? Why was he so insistent that the negative belonged to Rowan?
©2008 Jenny Valentine (P)2010 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ungekürztes Hörbuch
Kategorien: Kinder-Hörbücher
Kinder-Hörbücher Literatur & Belletristik
Kritikerstimmen
"A wonderful debut for many reasons…. What marks this book out is not just its charm, warmth and wit, but also the skill with which Valentine braids together the threads." (The Guardian)
"No plot summary can do justice to the particular flavour of this book, both witty and with moments of genuine sweetness.… Excellent." (Books for Keeps)
"Ultra-original and brilliantly written, this will have you laughing and crying too." (Mizz Magazine)
"Has the originality of Mark Haddon, the immediacy of Jacqueline Wilson and the emotional connection of Kevin Brooks. It really does work." (Jill Murphy, The Book Bag)
"A captivating novel from a compelling new voice in teen fiction…hilarious and dramatic in turns." (Liverpool Echo)
"I loved every page of this extraordinary book; a completely unique and involving story…a great book which deserves to be read over and over again." (Redhouse Review, Hannah Pitts, age 15)
"A great story, with a witty and believable main character." (tBk mag)
"If Jenny Valentine doesn't start you reading, I'm not sure what will…. A very creative and highly original plot…. I would also recommend it to sneaky parents who like to snoop around their children's bookcases. But make sure you have time to spare, as you will be unable to put this book down!" (Emily Decker, South Wales Argus)
"An unpredictable story full of suspense… If you are looking for an original, creative, page-turner that is filled with mystery, look no further." (Megan Davies, South Wales Argus)
Weitere Titel des Autors
A Girl Called Joy
The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight
Planet Joy
Das sagen andere Hörer zu Broken Soup


text:
Q: Sort the result obtain after join using $lookup in mongoose I have used $ lookup to make left join but I am not able to sort the result by created_at field in posts
My query
pipeline =  [{$match: { "_id" :  mongoose.Types.ObjectId(req.body.celebrity_id)}},
               {$lookup : { from : "posts" , localField : "_id" ,foreignField : "celebrity_id", as : "posts"}},
               ]`

User.aggregate( pipeline )
.exec(function(err , user){

    console.log(user)
    if(err){

      res.json({'success' : false , msg : 'Something went wrong please try again'});
    }else{

      res.json({'success' : true  , msg : 'success' , 'data' : user });
    }
})

Now I want to sort the posts array in descending order by created_at field


LCS SensorTrack is a 5" straight track section equipped with an infra-red receiver that reads data beamed out of all LEGACY locomotives that are equipped with the an infra-red transmitter It is a simple hookup with pre-made LCS LCS SensorTrack™ is a 5" straight Fastrack section equipped with an infra-red receiver. This receiver reads data beamed out of all Lionel Legacy and Vision locomotives that are equipped with an infra-red transmitter. Click here for a PDF list of compatible locomotives. When a compatible locomotive crosses a SensorTrack, engine details like TMCC ID, road name, number, engine type, lighting options, fuel levels and direction of travel are retrieved by the track and transmitted through your LCS installation.
Go to the LCS page learn more.
Preset and Custom Action Commands: Use any of the eight pre-programmed actions or create your own automated routines that your compatible locomotives will follow each time they pass the LCS SensorTrackTM. Pre-programmed actions include whistle and horn blows, engineer dialog, CrewTalk, and bell ringing. LCS SensorTrackTM even knows which direction your locomotives is going and performs dialog actions such as arrival and departure announcements accordingly.
Record your own series of up to 200 commands from your Legacy CAB 1L, CAB 2, or LCS App. These commands will then be played back automatically each time any IR-compatible loco passes over the track. Alternately, you can make loco-specific recordings so just one engine performs your custom actions. Preset Action commands and custom user recordings are stored locally in the memory of each SensorTrack on your layout.
Instant CAB-2 Updates: When your LCS installation includes a LEGACY base and CAB-2 remote, SensorTrack™ automatically programs LEGACY CAB-2 remote with vital engine information. This instant "roll-over update" includes road names and road numbers, current fuel level, lighting options and more. This feature is especially useful when your layout hosts visiting locomotives. It effectively replaces Legacy orange locomotive memory modules.
Real time location information: When your LCS installation includes an LCS WiFi, Apple iPad™ and the free LCS App, SensorTrack™ delivers real time location updates on the LCS App. See each compatible locomotive's ID, name and number appear on your iPad each time one crosses any SensorTrack™ on your layout.


There are many people that are more interested in investing in stocks to gain profit and the investments can range from utilities, consumer discretionary,energy, healthcare, technology, utilities,financial, industrial,consumer staples, telecom, real estate, and materials.
Technology stocks are one of the sectors that consists of software developers, electronics manufacturers, and information technology firms. And since the continued advancement of technology and such growth have translated into the stocks, then many interested investors are looking into the future of such sector.
Investing on technology stock is something that is good and challenging thus it is important that you have the right knowledge on how the technology industry thrives and select the right company and technology to invest in that shows a promising return on investment. To be able to successfully have a good investment and efficiently make money out of what you have invested, check this few points to help you in the process.
The success of a company is usually dependent on the cycle of acquiring new products, services and the more they are focused on maintaining to meet this cycle the better is that company to invest in. Another determining the factor to where to put your investment is on those companies that are head to head with the current innovation and are tacked in with the latest trends in technology promising a potential growth.
Remember that in any stock market investment, there is always two side of the coin, winning and losing, and if you know that the investment that you have is losing, sell it right away and retain those that seems to sustain and gives good returns. One last thing, it will be wise if you will choose companies that are established and seasoned as that can ensure to be a high quality, highly profitable strong cash generators for your investment, not going for the new ones.


text:
Paperback 
The book (paperback) will be shipped to you.
HAVE A QUESTION? Mariana will help you find what you are looking for.
Call: 1-800-526-8630 EMAIL Mariana REQUEST A CALL BACK
Tropical Extremes
Elsevier Science and Technology
Tropical Extremes: Natural Variability and Trends features the most up-to-date information on present and future trends related to climate change and tropical extremes. Including contributions from the foremost experts in the field, this important reference addresses the science behind climate change and natural variability in relation to tropical extremes. The book also includes practical insight into modeling and observation approaches. In a warming world, the increase of weather extremes presents a scientifically complex and societally relevant challenge. The book confronts these challenges with observational evidence, modeling studies and expected impacts. This is an essential reference for researchers, modelers and students in the fields of climate and atmospheric science looking to better understand the causes and effects of tropical extremes and natural variability.
Illuminates the role of natural variability and climate change in determining the fate and state of tropical extremes
Offers a robust guide for analysis relating to the impacts of extremes, thus providing a potential roadmap for navigating the future of risk analysis and the water-food-energy nexus
Edited by a diverse team of global experts
Includes contributions from leading researchers in the field, comprising the most up-to-date understanding of tropical extremes
Please Note: This is an On Demand product, delivery may take up to 11 working days after payment has been received.
1. An Atlas of Tropical Extremes
2. South Asian Monsoon Extremes
3. Overview of Climate Models and Tropical Extremes
4. Hotspots of relative sea level rise in the Tropics
5. South American Monsoon and its Extremes
6. Investigating Tropical Extremes Impacts on Public Health and Food Security: Case Studies from South America and West Africa
7. Extreme Rain Evolution in West Africa
8. Extreme El Niño events
9. Tropics as Tempest
Vuruputur, Venugopal
Venugopal Vuruputur is an Associate Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science. He received a PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he was also a research associate and affiliate member of the Graduate Faculty. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Water Resources Research (AGU) and has contributed to over 20 published journal articles. His research interests include tropical rainfall and its extremes, stochastic hydrology, and hydrological modeling.
Sukhatme, Jai
Jai Sukhatme is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science. He received his PhD in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. He has been an Associate Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (UK) since 2014. He has contributed to 19 published journal articles.
Murtugudde, Raghu
Raghu Murtugudde is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. He has been an invited keynote speaker and distinguished lecturer on many occasions and has contributed to over 200 published journal articles and edited one book and contributed more than 10 book chapters.
Roca, Rémy
Rémy Roca is Research Director at CNRS. He received his HDR from University Pierre et Marie Curie 6 and his PhD from University Denis Diderot Paris 7. He is co-chair of the International Precipitation Working Group and has contributed to over 50 published journal articles. His research interests include water and energy cycle in the tropics, monsoon meteorology and hydrology, mesoscale convective systems, severe weather systems, rainfall, and satellite measurements.
Regionalizing Global Climate Variations
 Book
Geological Records of Tsunamis and Other Extreme Waves
Indus River Basin
€105EUR$121USD£93GBP
Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability
Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation
Paperback The book (paperback) will be shipped to you. €119EUR$137USD£105GBP


text:
Q: Android Show/Hide custom SurfaceView I'm trying to implement an easy "show/hide" function of a custom SurfaceView.
Many of suggested methods on this forum doesn't work for me...
for example:
1) surfaceView.setVisibility(SurfaceView.GONE);// or INVISIBLE or VISIBLE
2) relativeLayout.removeView(surfaceView); it works but, destroy the view.
3) surfaceView.setZOrderOnTop(true) or false, dinamically changed doesn't works
4) surfaceView.getDrawingCache(): this method return the SurfaceView as a bitmap so , the sequence is
Hide

*

*get the bitmap from surfaceView and save it (Bitmap btm = surfaceView.getDrawingCache())

*create new dummy canvas with saved bitmap, dummyCanvas = new Canvas(btm);

*clear the canvas ( Canvas instance is in the MainActivity and initialized in the run() mehtod of the SurfaceView thread.)
Show

*

*surfaceView.draw(dummyCanvas);

Also the last one method don't work, it return a black(jpeg) or empty(png) image.
This is a part of the code:
class CustomSurfaceView extends SurfaceView implements Runnable{

    Thread thread = null;
    SurfaceHolder surfaceHolder;
    volatile boolean running = false;

    public CustomSurfaceView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.setWillNotDraw(false);
        this.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
        this.setZOrderOnTop(true);

        this.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
        this.buildDrawingCache();

        // get the holder to create the canvas into the Thread.run() method:
        // "canvas = surfaceHolder.lockCanvas(null)"
        surfaceHolder = getHolder();
        surfaceHolder.setFormat(PixelFormat.TRANSPARENT);
    }

    //getDrawingCache() seems to be the only way to get a bitmap from the
    //SurfaceView, because my canvas is not "Canvas c = new Canvas(Bitmap)
    //BUT this method only return EMPTY BUT NOT NULL image.
    public Bitmap getBitmap(){
        return this.getDrawingCache();
    }


text:
Charlotte-area schools to receive 'Safe Space' kits
Educational materials, posters and stickers designed to increase LGBT student safety
Matt Comer	on January 31, 2013
GLSEN's Safe Space Kit will be distributed to 187 local middle and high schools in the Charlotte area. Photo Credit: GLSEN.
GLSEN's Safe Space Kit will be distributed to 187 local middle and high schools in the Charlotte area. Photo Credit: GLSEN.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Time Out Youth, a local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth services agency, and the national Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), have teamed up to provide 187 local middle and high schools with kits designed to promote safer schools for LGBT students.
"The question I most frequently get from educators is not so much 'Why should I support these students?' but, 'How can I support these students?'" Time Out Youth's Director of School Outreach Micah Johnson said in a release.
Johnson, who works to promote safer, more inclusive schools, hopes the new kits will increase awareness and help teach educators about the importance of being an ally for LGBT young people.
"Being a visible support for LGBTQ youth is an active, not passive, process," he said. "This kit allows educators to identify ways that best work within their school environment and professional comfort level."
The Safe Space Kits usually cost $20 per school. Time Out Youth and GLSEN have partnered to provide them for free to every public middle and high school in Mecklenburg, Lincoln, Cabarrus, Union, Iredell and Gaston Counties, as well as York County in South Carolina.
Time Out Youth said the kits will allow educators to be better prepared to help LGBT students and "promote positive social, emotional and academic outcomes."
The kits provide educational information for teachers and other school staff as well as safe space stickers and posters that can be displayed in classrooms as a sign of support for LGBT students.
"If I were to have had some teacher, or even my bus driver, who was willing to step up, and step in, I would've been more prone to reporting my experiences with bullying and wouldn't have been so fearful that no one would listen or worse: do nothing," said Loan Tran, a Charlotte-area high school senior and Time Out Youth Board of Directors member. Tran also volunteers as a GLSEN Student Ambassador.
Time Out Youth, which provides support and education for LGBT youth ages 11-20, hopes school staff and administrators will take advantage of the safe space kits and other opportunities for education on LGBT issues.
"While the kit is designed as a stand-alone resource to educators, school personnel have the additional opportunity for follow-up consultation and training on LGBTQ issues through Time Out Youth," the group said.
National research data on the experiences of LGBT youth in schools suggests that LGBT young people experience greater rates of harassment and bullying when compared to their straight peers. A 2011 national climate survey of students by GLSEN found that more than 80 percent of LGBT students reported being verbally harassed at school within the past year. Nearly 40 percent had been physically harassed and 18 percent had reported physical assault.
A recent survey of rural students released in December shows slightly higher incidents of harassment and physical assault for students in rural schools and communities.
info: Learn more about the Safe Space Kits at safespace.glsen.org and more about Time Out Youth at timeoutyouth.org.
Time Out Youth staffer to step down, attend law school
National safe schools leader to visit Charlotte this week
Charlotte student, high school get a national shout out from GLSEN
New study: gay youth face challenges after foster care
New grants seek to fund LGBT youth and senior programs
QList: The Best of LGBT
Charlotte 2013
Tag: Charlotte
Posted by Matt Comer
Matt Comer previously served as editor from October 2007 through August 2015 and as a staff writer afterward in 2016.
Previous: Previous post: Boy Scouts to consider ending anti-gay policies
Next: Next post: Moorecox hits the stage with a 'BANG!' this weekend
3 Replies to "Charlotte-area schools to receive 'Safe Space' kits"
jerry	 February 2, 2013 at 7:25 pm
you gotta be fn kidding me. theres no way in hell my kid would ever go to a cms school
msmac	 February 3, 2013 at 1:40 pm
People need to get over the whole "eewww, gay" issue. The reality is that homosexuality, while not agreed upon, embraced or encouraged by most, is a fact of life in this day and time. You may not like it, but that is not going to change. I think this is a realistic approach and could possibly make a world of difference in how teacher/administrators help the students at their schools.
BS Exposer	 February 4, 2013 at 8:12 am
This is great coming from one of the largest bullying and economic terrorist groups in the nation…


Preheat oven to 400°. Roast sweet potatoes on a small rimmed baking sheet until skins are browned and potatoes are tender all the way through, about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and, using a heavy spatula or small pot lid, smash potatoes, then drizzle with 1 Tbsp. oil; season with salt. Continue to roast until flesh is lightly browned, 12–15 minutes longer.
There's a saying in my family that my mom definitely invented called "not-shopper's regret." It's when when you see something in a store that you like and want—say, the perfect shoe in your size—but then, for whatever reason, don't buy. And then you regret it, and it becomes a torture and a torment. The lesson is that it is better to have shopped and returned than never to have shopped at all. Remember that.
Right now I am in the throes of "not-cooker's regret" and it's because we didn't make these twice-cooked sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. I know! I should just be grateful the bloating has gone down and happy that my socks aren't leaving deep elastic crease marks in my calves anymore. But no—I'm in deep sweet potato turmoil, and it's all my fault.
Last year, my dear colleague Andy Baraghani was working on the recipe for these alt-sweet potatoes right around the time that my Thanksgiving planning was underway. Because I loved them and because I wanted to do something different, I put them on our menu.
There are a million reasons why this dish could have scandalized several family members and had me banished from hosting for life. First of all, we already have a sweet potato dish we all love, a chipotle-spiked puree that my aunt makes, and no one in my family likes change. Secondly, the sweet spuds Andy was working on were baked, charred, and glazed with brown butter and honey before being served on top of an insanely garlicky puree called toum, which can cause fire-breathing in otherwise healthy adults. The whole situation is topped with nigella seeds, which look at first glance like black sesame seeds but taste a little bit like onion-pepper sprinkles. Let's just say it's wasn't a very predictable addition to our Thanksgiving menu, which is harder to exert influence over than a hysterical toddler during a tantrum. But: my house, my rules. They made their debut.
Look at all the colors of sweet potatoes available to you.
The surprise was that everyone loved them. Like, love loved. My father, the stubbornest of us all, couldn't stop with these sweet potatoes. He said things like, "Oh we always have to have those," and "Everything was great, but that sweet potato dish!" I told Andy all about it.
And then, what happens: A year goes by and everything that was good became meaningless and forgettable?? I guess so, because I didn't care enough to lobby for last year's breakout star, and now I can't stop thinking about the way the honey sticks to the charred surfaces, so that they're kind of chewy and creamy at the same time. I miss the way you can drag a forkful of fluffy potatoes through the toum to get a perfect sweet-hot-spicy bite. I have special regrets about the way the narrow end of the sweet potato gets extra roasty and brown and candy-ish in the oven. And basically I'm just mad about everything. This is what it's like to have not-cooker's regret.
And that is why, now that the holidays are over and I am in charge of my everyday eating menu, I'm going to do what's right. I'm going to cook these sweet potatoes tonight, and again this weekend, and another night next week, and for when people come over, and whenever the sweet potatoes are looking good at the market, and also for meal prep on Sunday, and any other time I please. I made a mistake this one time. All I can do is try to make it up to myself.
Why Casserole Your Sweet Potatoes When You Can Shingle Them?
The most divisive food decision at Thanksgiving isn't white meat or dark meat, pecan or pumpkin, stuffing inside or outside the bird. It's if your guests are Team Sweet Potato With That Marshmallow Topping Situation or well, not.
Sweet potatoes can skew sweet or savory.
When you put marshmallows on them, they are a dessert.
If you want to serve them as a side dish with the main course, consider a more savory approach.
Enter, shingled sweet potatoes with harissa. Putting taste aside for a second, this is a superior sweet potato aesthetic—layered discs of sweet potatoes nestled close together to create the perfect messy-chic arrangement. It looks like something that takes a long time to put together, even though the mandoline really does most of the heavy lifting. You peel the potatoes, slice on the mandoline, and then stack 'em like coins on their side in concentric circles.
This particular recipe leans a bit spicy thanks to a mixture of harissa, olive oil, and white wine vinegar. And, the dukkah (a mixture of pistachios, sesame seeds, and fennel seeds) add a nice crunch. It's simple, it's flavorful, it works.
But, if you're really feeling the Thanksgiving spirit, you could use this as a (very good, rigorously tested) template more than a must-follow. As in, shingle your sweet potatoes with whatever fat you like, plus any spice combination your heart desires—just make sure there's enough oil to keep the potatoes from drying out in the oven. And, as the recipe instructs, check on them every 15 minutes to brush any accumulated oil in dish back onto the sweet potatoes.
When it all comes out looking toasty and impressive, you'll forget there was ever any other way to cook them. And your guests? Well, they won't even miss the marshmallows. Sorry, marshmallows.
Sweet potatoes are available year-round, but the peak growing season runs from fall through early winter. Choose tubers with smooth skins, firm pointed ends, and no soft spots.
They may look tough, but sweet potatoes can bruise quite easily. Keep them in a cool, dry place and use within a week. If using unpeeled, just give them a scrub first.
Orange: Chances are when you think of sweet potatoes, you think of these. Use them for everything from marshmallow-topped casseroles to curries to oven fries.
Japanese: These white-fleshed sweet potatoes have reddish-purple skins and a chestnut-like flavor. Steam or bake whole to prevent them from drying out.
Purple: Purple inside and out, these spuds sport dense flesh that's full of antioxidants. Roast, sauté, or fry them rather than boil to preserve their pretty color.


text:
Q: Proof that the intersection of any finite number of elements of $\tau$ is a member of $\tau$, if $(X,\tau)$ is a topological space. Let $(X,\tau)$ be any topological space, verify that the intersection of any finite number of elements of $\tau$ is a member of $\tau$. Prove by mathematical induction.
My trial is attached this post. What is missing in my proof?
I feel it's not balanced yet.
Proof:  We are given that $(X, \tau)$ is a topological space and we are to show that the intersection of any finite number of elements of $\tau$ is a member of $\tau$.
Using mathematical induction, let $x_n \in X$ and $ \{ x_n \} \in \tau$.  Let $n=1$, so that $x_1 \in X$ and $ \{ x_1 \} \in \tau$ is true.  Let $n=k$, so that $x_k \in X$ and $ \{ x_k \} \in \tau$ is true.  And let $n=k+1$ so that $x_{k+1} \in X$ and $ \{ x_{k+1} \} \in \tau$ us also true.  Since $ \{ x_{k+1 \} \in \tau$, let
$$A = \cap_{k=1}^{\infty} x_{k+1}.$$
Since each single set belongs to $\tau$, then the intersection of every singleton will also belong to $\tau$; i.e., $A \in \tau$ and $$A= \{ x_1 \} \cap \{ x_2 \} \cap \{ x_3 \} \cap \ldots \cap_k^{\infty} \{ x_{k+1} \}.$$

A: Your proof is off in a couple of respects.  First, any open set is a potential member of the intersection.  Not only is it possible that there are open sets that aren't singletons, in fact in most topologies that you run across, singletons won't be open sets.  Second, it's simply not true that an infinite intersection of open sets (i.e., sets in the topology) is necessarily open (i.e., in the topology).
We often designate open sets in a topology by $U$ and $V$.  Assume $U_1, U_2 \in \tau$.  Then by the definition of a topology, you know that $U_1 \cap U_2 \in \tau$.  That's the base case of your induction.
Now assume $U_1, U_2, U_3 \in \tau$.  Then $$U_1 \cap U_2 \cap U_3 = (U_1 \cap U_2) \cap U_3.$$  We know from the previous step that $U_1 \cap U_2 \in \tau$ and we've assumed $U_3 \in \tau$, so the right-hand side is an intersection of two sets that are in $\tau$, so it also must be in $\tau$.  Thus, $U_1 \cap U_2 \cap U_3 \in \tau$.
Do you see how to complete the inductive step now?  If not, try to mimic the proof for $k=4$ and you should get there.  As a bonus, do you see why this proof doesn't work for infinite intersections?

A: A model solution following Robert's hint:
We'll prove by induction on $n \ge 1$ that
$$\forall O_1, \ldots O_n \in \tau: \bigcap_{i=1}^n O_i \in \tau\tag{$\phi_n$}$$
holds.
For $n=1$ the statement is trivial. $O_1 \in \tau$ implies $O_1 \in \tau$.
Suppose $\phi_n$ holds for some $n \ge 1$. To see that $\phi_{n+1}$ then also holds, let $O_1, \ldots, O_{n+1} \in \tau$ be arbitrary. Then
$$\bigcap_{i=1}^{n+1} O_i = \left( \bigcap_{i=1}^n O_i\right) \cap O_{n+1}\tag{1}$$
By $\phi_n$ we know that $\bigcap_{i=1}^n O_i \in \tau$ and so by the intersection axiom for topologies it follows that $\bigcap_{i=1}^{n+1} O_i \in \tau$ too, so $\phi_{n+1}$ also holds.
So we've proved the statement by induction on $n$.
If we're really going wild, I could run the induction from $n=0$ onwards, using the common convention that $\bigcap_{i=1}^0 O_i = X$ (intersection of empty family) and it still would work out fine as $X \in \tau$ for any topology and $(1)$ also holds for $n=0$ in that case..


text:
Oreotelia är ett släkte av flockblommiga växter. Oreotelia ingår i familjen flockblommiga växter.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life:

Källor

Flockblommiga växter
Oreotelia

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Horace Trahan and the Ossun Express performed during the late afternoon on the Fred Charlie Music Stage in downtown Eunice the Sunday before Mardi Gras March 3, 2019. The children's Mardi Gras courir was originally scheduled to roll through downtown Eunice at 3 p.m., but the run ended at noon after a cold front brought rain and chilly winds through the area.
For a listing of Cajun and Zydeco bands and Mardi Gras photos included on these Flickr pages, go to www.cajunzydecophotos.com or www.cajunzydecophotos.com/mobile.


This is not a book for dodgy business people. It's not a book for financial gurus seeking to take advantage of other's misfortunes.
It's not for scoundrels. It's not for people trying to find a way to avoid paying their debts or looking for ways to cheat the system, to cheat their creditors and engage in unscrupulous behaviour. That's not who this book is for. Its intention isn't to show you tricks to avoid your debts and scam your creditors or to scam anyone else. It's about debunking the myths surrounding bankruptcy and giving people affected a clear path back to normality. It's about educating those in the industry to be more effective in dealing with the parties involved.
I can appreciate that some may view it this way. In particular I imagine that aggressive debt collectors, lawyers, trustees and liquidators, all of whom make a living out of pursuing companies and individuals who are under financial pressure, would rather that I hadn't written this book. They would I imagine, rather that I hadn't exposed the truths about bankruptcy and insolvency that they would prefer remain shrouded in mystery. These people are experienced in debt collection, bankruptcy and insolvency and dealing with inexperienced people with very little money to get advice.
Some may say that I too make my living from what some would call the "misfortunes of others". I do believe however that the basis of the laws of bankruptcy and Insolvency which were created to provide a "compassionate solution for those experiencing financial hardship" and the ability for individuals and companies who had reached the "end of their line", to draw a line, push the pause or reset button, should be upheld. A society which preys on those individuals already in distress is not a society with much hope in my mind.
This is the first book of its kind in Australia, because it does not focus on the legal and financial rules and laws but focuses on the individual. Thus, it's important that I am as clear about this as I possibly can be. This book is about bankruptcy (personal) and insolvency (company) and how it works and the stories of other people and how they dealt with it. It's a guide book if you like, to help you avoid financial calamities. And, if they aren't avoidable, how to minimise the damage they can do to your emotional health, your relationships and your attitude to the future.
The stories you read within this books pages you won't find in any textbook. You won't find them on the internet and it's highly unlikely any of your professional services people – the lawyers, the accountants and the like – will provide you with the knowledge they have. It's not that they don't want to, it's more likely that they just don't have the experience or knowledge that you need. I'm hoping that people pass this book on to their professional services firms. My job would certainly be a lot easier if they had a stronger working knowledge of the principles within the book.
In writing this book my desire is to share my experiences both personal and of those of people I have worked with, to help people in financial difficulty looking for the way out. There is no quick fix; the only thing to do is to fix it quickly and, apart from paying the debts (wether immediately from a loan or sale of assets), the only other way is to set yourself free through the insolvency process. I believe the worst thing you can do is let these debts linger. Debt destroys people; not owing the money but all the worry, scrimping, arguments and blame that go with over-committing, on what you can pay – regardless of the reason.


text:
Wednesday , Feb , 01 , 2006 C.Y. Ellis Tweet
Pistons try to get back on track against Minnesota
(Sports Network) – The Detroit Pistons try to get back on the winning track
this evening when they welcome new head coach Flip Saunders' former team, the
Minnesota Timberwolves, to the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Saunders, who was fired by the Timberwolves in February 2005 after 9 1/2 years
of service, received a rousing ovation a little over a week ago in his first
game back in Minnesota, as the Pistons rolled to a 107-83 victory.
Detroit, though, had its 11-game winning streak stopped on Tuesday with a
91-84 setback at the hands of the New Jersey Nets at Continental Airlines
Arena.
Chauncey Billups led all scorers with 30 points and Richard Hamilton added 19
points, seven rebounds and six assists for the Pistons, who lost for just the
second time in its last 13 tries and fell to a still incredible 37-6 on the
A loss tonight would give Detroit its first losing streak since dropping three
in a row from March 22-25.
The Pistons, who will hit the road for three games after tonight's encounter,
are an incredible 20-2 at home this season.
Minnesota, meanwhile, comes in on a winning note after Marcus Banks came back
to haunt his old team by scoring 20 points and dishing out six assists as the
Timberwolves crushed the Boston Celtics, 110-85, on Monday at the Target
Center in the first meeting between the teams since last week's blockbuster
trade.
Last Thursday Minnesota dealt forward Wally Szczerbiak, center Michael
Olowokandi, forward/center Dwayne Jones and a future first-round draft choice
to Boston for guards Ricky Davis, Banks, center Mark Blount, forward Justin
Reed and two conditional second round draft choices.
Blount contributed 16 points and 10 rebounds and Kevin Garnett netted 15 and
pulled down nine boards for the Timberwolves, who have won two of their last
three games.
Minnesota, which will be starting a four-game road trip tonight, is 7-14 away
from home this season.
The Pistons should have the advantage tonight, as the home team in this series
has won eight of the last 10 matchups. Minnesota has also lost three of its
last four in Detroit.
DET MIN


text:
COVID-19 - Oman - 20-11-27
Data from JHU, ca. 9:00 CET
Oman is included in the following groups: Western Asia - Asia - UNR Asia and the Pacific Group - WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Oman has a landborder to: Saudi Arabia - United Arab Emirates - Yemen
cases per 100.000
abs. development
rel. development
5 days/average
122579 2627.7 0 0.0% 0.08%
7332 157.2 0 0.0% -0.27%
1391 29.8 0 0.0% 0.16%
113856 2440.7 0 0.0% 0.1%
Deaths per infected
Recovered per infected
Active per infected
Deaths per recovered
Total Case Percentage
Gives the time necessary to double the existing infections - to reach a million from the existing status, or to reach the population limit of the given group (which can well be below a million). This assumes the exponential growrate of the last day or average of the last five days continues - which it does not, as there will be saturation towards the maximum. Please take these calulations with two grains of salt. As long as there is turning point in sight the data may well hold, though.
Last days rate
Last average rate
Time to double cases
Time to reach a million cases
Time to saturate the population
A ranking may taste a bit fishy, as this is not a competition between countries, but to compare the relative efficiency of measures taken, or for detecting which countries are likely to get critical next, this ranking imho deserves a place in this overview.
Average grow rate (5 days)
The ranking is made over all groups and countries, including small or recent that are ommitted in the table on the front page - which may lead to minor discrepancies between both!
Neighbours of Oman
Saudi Arabia - United Arab Emirates - Yemen
Oman in its groups
Western Asia - Asia - UNR Asia and the Pacific Group - WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Heinsberg study
A study of the University of Bonn on the spread of Covid-19 at Heinsberg - the most affected county in Germany - showed a rate of deaths to infected of 0.37%. As this is the first reliable data on this ratio I use it as a projection from the number of reported deaths to the spread of the disease in the whole population, given as percentage. Note that locally other factors, like a developing spread, unreported deaths or a situation where people are more prone to die due to an overstretch of the health system will affect this number. Countries with a different population structure (eg. more young vs. old) may also get other ratios, so take this with a grain of salt - I will keep an eye on the developing scientific results.
Links (German):
Preliminary results - Press coverage: Die Welt


It's another day ending in the letters D-A-Y, so that means there are a gazillion new press releases from HSUS's media department. (OK, maybe just a dozen or six.) One of them in particular caught our eye.
It's never a good thing to see an animal injured. And the newsworthiness of HSUS's complaint is, we suppose, not for us to determine. But it's ironic, considering some other news we're reading about HSUS and its own abysmal record of horse care.
This particular story won't appear in any press releases or self-congratulatory videos HSUS puts together.
We've been following the case of an Arkansas woman whose property HSUS raided last November. The animal rights group seized 25 horses belonging to Denisa Malott, and made accusations of animal neglect.
Along with several complaints that have been raised about the HSUS raid on Malott's property, what happened after the horse seizure is of particular concern. HSUS initially said in a press release that Malott's 25 horses would be going to "The Rescue Wranglers" pasture about 3 hours away.
Her animals never made it there.
The horses were later found abandoned in a field not too far from the seizure site. They didn't have ready access to feed or clean water (HSUS apparently failed to make arrangements for this). Meanwhile, Malott wasn't allowed to feed or water her own horses because of the charges pending against her.
We were asked to temporarily house the animals. The HSUS requested $1,900 in restitution to cover the cost of care over 30 days and Coggins tests for each animal [ed: this test checks for Equine Infectious Anemia], at a rate of $24 per animal; the request reflected that we spent approximately $1.73 per horse, per day, to feed and care for the herd, well below the amount we actually spent. The restitution sought excluded labor, travel, and veterinary expenses.
HSUS claimed the 25 horses received coggins testing and feed in excess of $1,900.00.
Ms. Malott reimbursed HSUS $1,974.00 but still has not received proof of coggins testing, or feed bills.
HSUS claimed Ms. Malott's 25 head were under HSUS control; however, the Court eventually ordered Ms. Malott to tend to the health and welfare of her horses because they were starving.
Isn't it ironic? The woman HSUS accused of mistreating her animals ended up rescuing them from starvation after HSUS had them for a month.
And HSUS is concerned about three horses injured in Kentucky? Really?!
What about the 25 horses in Arkansas? If anyone else were responsible for ignoring their care, HSUS would be screaming bloody murder and asking for criminal charges.


text:
Wrexham Council
Proposals to demolish Wrexham pub
Westminster Arms in Bwlchgwyn could be replaced by five bedroom dwelling if plans are approved
The Westminster Arms, Bwlchwgyn, which could be demolished (Image: Google)
Plans have been submitted to demolish a former pub.
Wrexham council has received proposals to bulldoze the Westminster Arms, on Ruthin Road, Bwlchgwyn, Wrexham, and replace it with a five bedroom detached dwelling.
The plan will be discussed by Wrexham council's planning committee at a later date.
It is another symbol of the beleaguered pub industry in the Wrexham area.
Last week councillors approved plans to demolish the Brynteg Inn, in Brynteg and replace it with houses.
That was despite local opposition, including a petition signed by 86 people.
The Inn closed its doors more than two years ago and was put up for sale in January 2013, but no offers to run the building as a pub or community facility have been made.
Press manager for Camra (Campaign for Real Ale), Neil Walker, said: "We have seen a rise in the closures of pubs in the UK which now stands at 31 a week.
"We are trying to implement a few measures, with the 'Pub Matters' campaign which means a pub always has to get planning permission for another use and a third party Ombudsman for tenants and companies to rule on disputes."
Bwlchgwyn
AngleseyUK pub chain to reopen Anglesey hotel ahead of a major long-term refurbishment The Victoria Hotel was closed in November after a deal was done with pub retailer and brewer Greene King
Anglesey man, 52, killed in A55 Britannia Bridge crash as police confirm arrested trucker is local
A55The man is from the Amlwch area and his next of kin have been informed
People10 venues kids from North Wales will remember celebrating a birthday atSome have been loved and lost across the generations
A55Police release update on fatal A55 Britannia Bridge crashA 52-year-old Anglesey man died in the tragedy and a local lorry driver was arrested
The official Covid symptoms recognised by the NHS, WHO, CDC, and ZOE
CoronavirusThere are now a wide range of indicators acknowledged by the main health bodies in the UK and the US
Coronavirus infection rates for each area of North Wales on January 21
CoronavirusAnother two people have died


This is a placeholder page for Larry Strickland, which means this person is not currently on this site. We do suggest using the tools below to find Larry Strickland.
You are visiting the placeholder page for Larry Strickland. This page is here because someone used our placeholder utility to look for Larry Strickland. We created this page automatically in hopes Larry Strickland would find it. If you are not Larry Strickland, but are an alumni of Paxton High School Paxton, FL, register on this site for free now.


Serval - Clinical use of quantitative computed tomography and peripheral quantitative computed tomography in the management of osteoporosis in adults: the 2007 ISCD Official Positions.
Clinical use of quantitative computed tomography and peripheral quantitative computed tomography in the management of osteoporosis in adults: the 2007 ISCD Official Positions.
Engelke K., Adams J.E., Armbrecht G., Augat P., Bogado C.E., Bouxsein M.L., Felsenberg D., Ito M., Prevrhal S., Hans D.B., Lewiecki E.M.
The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) has developed Official Positions for the clinical use of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and non-DXA technologies. While only DXA can be used for diagnostic classification according to criteria established by the World Health Organization, DXA and some other technologies may predict fracture risk and be used to monitor skeletal changes over time. ISCD task forces reviewed the evidence for clinical applications of non-DXA techniques and presented reports with recommendations at the 2007 ISCD Position Development Conference. Here we present the ISCD Official Positions for quantitative computed tomography (QCT) and peripheral QCT (pQCT), with supporting medical evidence, rationale, controversy, and suggestions for further study. QCT is available for bone mineral density measurements at the spine, hip, forearm, and tibia. The ISCD Official Positions presented here focus on QCT of the spine and pQCT of the forearm. Measurements at the hip may have clinical relevance, as this is an important fracture site; however, due to limited medical evidence, definitive advice on its use in clinical practice cannot be provided until more data emerge.


Kindly post all news about cricket pertaining to Afghanistan in this cricket thread.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Half of Kabul ground to a halt in celebration when the Afghan cricket team returned home this week after beating the West Indies at the World T20 tournament.
Men on the streets danced the traditional attan, President Ashraf Ghani called the team to congratulate the players and a string of dignitaries met them at the airport Tuesday.
But the same hero's welcome was not extended to the nation's soccer team a day later. They arrived home after a beating Singapore in a vital World Cup qualifier to only a handful of fans at the airport.
These different welcome parties are symptoms of a dangerous ethnic divide that still scars war-torn Afghanistan.
"Politicians do use the sport for their political purposes and that exacerbates ethnic tensions," said Hamid Elmi, a politics and sports analyst based in Kabul.
Pashtuns have for centuries been the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan. Tensions between them and other groups, such as the Tajiks and the Hazaras, burst into the open during the country's civil war in the 1990s.
After the Pashtun Taliban was toppled in 2001, there have been efforts to heal the divisions. But this schism still exists on the country's sports fields, where ethnic loyalties play out with bats and balls instead of guns.
Pashtuns dominate cricket, the country's other groups tend to be more involved in soccer.
Afghan refugees who fled to Pakistan during the Soviet invasion in the 1980s were predominantly Pashtuns. It was there they learned cricket, a sport that, similar to baseball, requires batsmen to score runs against a fielding opposition.
Today, cricket's enduring popularity among Pashtuns has led the sport to be used as a political tool, Elmi said. It is this ethnic politicking that prevents cricket from becoming a true national sport, he added.
"Most Pashtun politicians support the cricket team for their own political advantage because their constituents are Pashtun," Elmi said. "This hurts the sport and makes its progress slower."
In terms of its ethnic mix, soccer is "in much better shape than cricket," he added. "The team is much more diverse and includes players from all ethnic groups."
This situation means that many Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzebeks, and other non-Pashtun groups do not feel that cricket is their sport.
"Although it makes me happy when I see the cricket team win a match, I still do not see it as a national team," said Zahir Sadat, a Tajik member of Afghanistan's parliament. "It is not a national team. It is not made up of all the ethnic groups and until that changes it will remain an ethnic team."
But this is not because minorities are being excluded or segregated, young Pashtun players say. They believe the divide is a reflection of how cricket was introduced to Afghanistan and that someday it will become a true national sport.
Ardent cricket fan Farid Mohammadi, a Pashtun from Wardak, said the segregation can be explained by looking at where the different ethnic groups fled after the Soviet invasion in 1979.
"Pashtuns went to Pakistan and most non-Pashtuns went to Iran and Central Asia," where soccer is the dominant sport, Mohammadi said. "After the fall of the Taliban, both sports found their place among different segments of society."
Mohammad Akbar, a Pashtun in his 20s living in Nangarhar Province, agreed.
"It is true that cricket is mostly played by Pashtuns," he said. "But it is not because the sport has any identity. It is because of the circumstances and geography."
Angar Bani, a 28-year-old economist from Jalalabad, said that "in a country like Afghanistan, where we have a recent history of ethnic conflict, this can be a problem."
The political influence over sport goes beyond who greets the teams at the airport. It extends into the institutions that govern them.
"There is definitely double standards on the part of the government in how it treats football and cricket," said Sayed Ali Kazemi, spokesman for the Afghan soccer federation.
Whereas the Afghanistan Cricket Board is a government-sponsored federation, the Afghan Football Federation, which oversees soccer, does not receive financial support.
"I respect cricket players but I do not relate to them," said Tajik soccer fan Omar Parwani. "I don't see myself represented in cricket."
"In other countries, sports bring people together and affect politics," he said. "In Afghanistan, politics is affecting sports."
I would like to see some Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks in the national team.
I am a fan of Afghan cricket team, but it is full of Pathans. Will not hurt to see a little spreading of the game among all ethnicities.
There was a great Tajik leader by the name of Ahmed Shah Massoud ' Lion of Panjshir '. He was assassinated by Al - Qaeda just 2 days prior to 9/11.
Among current Afghan players, Rashid Khan is by far the best. The team has some very good spinners.
bolero wrote: I would like to see some Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks in the national team.
Well as you know most Pashtuns immigrated to Pakistan and developed a love for cricket. There already more than 35 million pashtuns in Pakistan. Our guys surely got inspired by Afridi, Younis Khan and other Pashtun cricketers.
The Tajiks and Hazara mostly went to Iran.
For many years the Tajiks undermined the Afghan cricket team performance and even wanted us to stop playing cricket, because they say it's a "pakistani" sport. The Pashtun on the other hand has adopted the sport. The Tajiks will eventually take a liking to the sport as well watching the succes of our team.
What I am trying to say is there is an natural explanaition as to why we only have Pashtun cricketers.
With time it will change.
Ok, nice to hear the clarification from a native Pathan.


text:
Rally with Andy Murray
Meet the two-time Wimbledon champion.
Visitors to Wimbledon could meet a volumetric capture of Andy Murray as part of the VR tennis challenge "Champion's Rally" on the HTC Vive.
Check out Wimbledon champion John McEnroe trying Champion's Rally
Step onto Centre Court
In an exclusive experience for Amex cardholders at Wimbledon 2019, Andy Murray would oversee the player's efforts to hit targets, and give a rating based on their performance.
Become a champion
The game experience was made in collaboration between Flight School and Momentum Worldwide, with the volumetric capture of Andy Murray provided by Dimension.
"The level of detail and accuracy is amazing, it really does feel like you're stepping out on to one of the world's great sporting arenas."
Contact the team to discuss your next project.


text:
Newburgh är en ort i Storbritannien.   Den ligger i rådsområdet Aberdeenshire och riksdelen Skottland, i den norra delen av landet,  km norr om huvudstaden London. Newburgh ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Newburgh är platt. Havet är nära Newburgh åt sydost. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km nordväst om Newburgh.  Närmaste större samhälle är Aberdeen,  km söder om Newburgh.

Kustklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är augusti, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är februari, med  °C.

Kommentarer

Källor

Orter i Aberdeenshire


Ask the driver for a ticket (£30 contactless limit applies).
Place you contactless card/device over the card reader.
Enjoy your journey with Plymouth Citybus.
I can vouch for it working as I am now using it in the mornings saving me trying to find enough cash to pay the fare.
It should speed up boarding time, once people get used to paying this way.
seems to me to take slightly longer than paying cash at the moment, new machines are not so good for environment as they did out twice as much paper, they also probably count towards some off city bus increase costs as they use twice as much paper and the cost of taking contactless payments charged by the card companies. also puts a cost on the council tax payer as there is double the amount off waste ticket paper to dispose off.
Does PCB really still issue that many paper tickets?
Here in Brighton IMX most people use Key cards or M-tickets. Isn't that the case in Plymouth?
I have been using cashless every day since it started and I haven't noticed it taking any longer than a cash transaction, especially now that all the drivers are used to using the new machines. As for the ticket - its hardly twice the size - maybe about 1 third bigger at the most. Cant see how that will make any difference to waste costs! As for the bank charges - operators also have to pay the banks to handle all the cash transactions too, so I cant see that they will end up out of pocket through bank charges - If the operators were having to pay that much more money to the banks then I doubt very much that they would be that bothered about introducing all these new machines, or at the very least they would be putting up fares to cover the additional costs yet some operators are passing on saving to their customers on some tickets at least.


text:
2.0.24

    - Rename Object to BaseObject (as Object is reserved keyword from PHP 7.2)

2.0.23

    - Made all string equality check strict
    - Remove coveralls.io from dev dependencies to travis

2.0.22

    - Add better random id function
    - Add coveralls.io and test on PHP 5.6

2.0.21

    - Fix issue with null in Acl isAllowed

2.0.20

    - Add priority for rule.

2.0.19

    - Add license.

2.0.18

    - Update README.md

2.0.17

    - Minor refactoring

2.0.16

    - Fix problem with resetting aggregates

2.0.15

    - Add ability get aggregate from rules and RuleResult

2.0.14-2.0.12

    - Start using recursive iterators for walking by objects

2.0.11-2.0.1

    - Last added Role (Resource) to RoleAggregate (or ResourceAggregate) wins

2.0.0

    - Last added rule now win
    - Child resources NOT grant access to their parents
    - Child resource inherit access from parents
    - Add priorities

1.0.0-1.0.2

    - First version

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub