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Yazidi refugees flee advancing ISIL forces near Sinjar on August 10, 2014.
The administration steps up to help the Yazidis but leaves Iraqi Christians to fend for themselves.
While President Obama has finally taken action in Iraq, his administration continues to ignore an ongoing genocide. Our president may have stepped in to save the helpless Yazidis who were stranded on Mount Sinjar, but what about the thousands of Christians and other religious minorities who are being systematically slaughtered across the region now controlled by the Islamic State?
Sources from the time I spent in Iraq are telling me that it's only getting worse. Christian churches are being burned and abandoned. Christian women and children are having their heads lopped off and throats slit. Women are being raped as a tactic of war. And yet the Obama administration has been largely silent.
These true refugees haven't even been offered refugee status by our country. Isn't it time for President Obama to follow France's lead and open the country's doors to these people who face imminent death?
At the president's press conference announcing his plan to protect the Yazidis, a small and ancient religious minority, virtually nothing was mentioned about protecting the Christians who face the same threat. Saving the Yazidis is a good idea, but why the narrow focus?
Apparently, saving these Christians is not a priority for this president. The Obama administration has bent over backwards to offer de facto refugee status to hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children who are entering the country illegally. While these children may not come from rosy circumstances, do they face the same threat of extinction as do the Iraqi Christians?
Not even close. President Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Mo., to interject the administration into a local law-enforcement issue. Has President Obama asked Secretary of State John Kerry to do his job and recruit other nations to accept Christian refugees? No, he has not.
It's time for President Obama to lead and defend persecuted Christians with both words and military action. The limited air strikes he approved to protect the Yazidis and take back a few Kurdish objectives are nothing but pinpricks to the Islamic State. They do nothing to change the fundamental realities on the ground.
The air strikes didn't even save many Yazidis; in fact, the Islamic State massacred scores of fleeing Yazidis after the Obama administration said we accomplished our mission. We needed to rescue them, as well as the Christians, now.
A real rescue mission won't be easy. First, President Obama will need to build a coalition of nations that will be open to accepting these refugees. Next, he will have to start taking the Islamic State more seriously.
The Islamic State currently controls 50 oil wells in Syria and 20 in Iraq. If it controls an oil-filled region, it will only be a matter of time before it has the resources to target our allies and eventually the American homeland. At this point, Obama's claim that the Islamic State is a junior-varsity squad appears fatally ridiculous — it now has more wealth and land than al-Qaeda ever came close to controlling.
Al-Qaeda is a movement; the Islamic State, as it calls itself, is a country.
Saving Christians and religious minorities from well-funded Islamic State jihadists will mean deploying ground troops, but it should not require an invasion force. We need troops to coordinate air strikes and conduct rescue missions. While Americans may be war-weary, every American should want to stop this preventable genocide.
The war between the Islamic State and the Iran-backed governments of Syria and Iraq may resemble a chaotic mutiny on a pirate ship, but it is possible to rescue non-Muslims — including Christians — from the Islamist bloodbath.
Anyone who claims to care about human rights needs to stand up for these persecuted Christians. Anyone who had demanded action in Darfur or Rwanda needs to press this administration to stop these atrocities. As we learned from those other genocides, if America doesn't act, no one will.
— Hugh Iwanicki is a former emissary to Iraq and author of the recent book Shock and Alarm: What It Was Really Like at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. He has been a recent guest on Fox News and national radio shows, as an expert on radical Islam.


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Scott Monroe successfully defended his 2005 title with a win in this year's National Singles Championship at the Garden State Combined Driving Event.
Allentown, N.J., May 8, 2006 -- "Let's go to the videotape" is a phrase usually used in the context of football or basketball reporting, but this weekend it was effectively applied to settle a dispute in combined driving.
Scott Monroe, defending his 2005 National Singles Championship at the Garden State Combined Driving Event, had a marvelous marathon Saturday. Or so he thought, until the scores came out, and he found he had been charged 20 penalties for allegedly taking the gates out of order at "Old Glory," the last of eight hazards on the course at the Horse Park of New Jersey.
Scott was quite sure he had negotiated the hazard properly. There's more than one route through such a winding hazard, and while his way was different, it was legal. But how to prove it?
Then Adam Skipper, who likes to take videos at driving events, popped up with the tape he had taken at the hazard.
"That was heaven-sent," said Scott.
The ground jury hiked up to the hazard, Adam showed the tape and Scott explained how he had driven his black Morgan, Bethesda After Dark (better known as Shadow), around Old Glory's many twists and turns. The 20 penalties were removed and he was declared the winner of the marathon. The whole process took two or three hours.
"As one person said, I was the only one who had to do two marathons in one day," said Scott. "It was stressful enough to do the marathon and then to have to go through this, when everything could be taken away from you, when we knew we were right. But we needed proof and the video was the proof."
Of course, there was still another day of competition to come, with the cones segment the final proving ground for the championship.
Fred Merriam, a former national champion, won the dressage with another Morgan, Gaitwood Lightwing, and was still in the lead by 4.65 penalties after the marathon when the scores of the two phases were added together, because Scott placed sixth in dressage.
Fred, a Vermonter, told me he had given Gaitwood Lightwing a year off after the last world championship.
"We drove around the farm and looked at the trees and leaves. We didn't look at the inside of a dressage ring," he said. "It rejuvenates the system." He felt the Morgan deserved a break because in competition, "He's a very dedicated horse. He gives 200 percent all the time, I don't want to cook his brain."
At the Horse Park, the cones phase involves a course divided between two rings, an unusual vision with the horses going from one to another as they hustle to finish within the tight time allowed.
Such times can be "unrealistic," Scott suggested, and it's particularly tough to make on the hard-packed surface at the park, where carriages going too fast can skid. "It was a very challenging course; it makes us better, but everyone had time penalties," he pointed out.
Scott, next-to-last to go in the cones, finished with time penalties (but no balls down) and headed off to the stable. He didn't bother to watch Fred's round; after all, Fred was the first American to win an individual medal in a world driving championship when he took the bronze in 2002. Scott naturally figured Fred would keep his lead. Then someone ran up to Scott and said, "You won." It wasn't exactly an official announcement, so he was a bit skeptical.
"But word started to spread that he'd had a ball down and time penalties, and we'd won. It was a surprise and a thrill and an honor," Scott said. He wound up with 125.56 penalties to 129.5 for Fred. Eleanor Gallagher was third on 134.25 with her black Gelderlander, Kashmier, while Sterling Graburn, who has a striking gray Belgian warmblood gelding, Quincey, finished fourth with 137.31.
Sterling, by the way, is a fourth-generation horseman. When I asked if his great-grandfather was involved with driving, Sterling smiled graciously and replied that he was "by necessity." No cars in those days, remember?
The Advanced Single Horse Division drew 22 starters, because there was more than a title at stake here. The event was a selection trial for this summer's World Singles Championships in Italy.
"I'd like to eat pizza in Italy," said Scott, a true amateur who works as an arborist in Connecticut. He doesn't travel to Florida, so he missed the trials down there earlier this year and thus cannot skip the final trial in Bromont, Canada.
He's been pleased by Shadow's progress.
Scott works with Margaret Beeman, and always gives credit to her as well as his horse.
The trophy was presented to Scott by Margot Hoffman Miller, the daughter of the late George Hoffman, a former president of the Gladstone Equestrian Association.
Heather Walker, who formerly ran the Gladstone Driving Event, is the organizer of Garden State.
"I want it to be a competitor's event," she said. Garden State doesn't have "a lot of bells and whistles," but it has good footing and interesting hazards that she hopes to see landscaped more picturesquely over the coming years. A new course designer, Barry Hunter from Great Britain, gave the marathon a fresh look. I loved one of his hazards, the ant hill, a neat little tower that had personality.
There was no four-in-hand division, since the fours went off to Aachen, Germany, the week before for the pre-World Equestrian Games show there, and there was only one horse pair, so the focus really was on the singles.
There was another, unrelated competition called Garden State in northern New Jersey over the weekend: The state's largest hunter/jumper show, put on by the old Junior Essex Troop. It was a junior cavalry organization that took a fatal hit during the Vietnam War when uniforms and marching weren't in vogue. But the troop alumni stage a very successful show for five days every spring at the Sussex County Fairgrounds, better known as the home of the Sussex show that goes with the county fair in August, the one with the bright lights and whirly rides that scare some horses.
Garden State ends with the $50,000 Dimensional Health Care grand prix that draws big names--Chris Kappler, Anne Kursinski, Laura Chapot, etc. But this year the winner was 17-year-old Brianne Goutal, the same one who took the equitation world by storm last year after winning every championship there was between the 2004 and the 2005 seasons. Remember her from Animal Planet's "Horse Power: Road to the Maclay"? Now the grand prix world is hearing her thunder.
Although this was her first grand prix victory, I'm sure it won't be the last! She and Onira beat Laura Chapot and Sprite in the 9-horse jump-off. How often do you see someone go faster than Laura Chapot? In fairness, Laura had to go first, so she wasn't as bold as she usually is. But Brianne knew just where to do what she had to do to wind up the winner. She had a great team behind her from Beacon Hill--Frank Madden; his wife, Stacia, and Max Amaya. But in the end, it's Brianne who does the riding and makes the decisions, and she knew just how to alter the game plan to make sure she won.
This summer, Brianne will be spending a month in France riding with Katie and Henri Prudent. Her father is from France, and she has dual citizenship. I'll bet both the U.S. and French teams will be bidding for her services one of these days.
And finally, do you believe that Andrew Hoy of Australia won Badminton the week after he won Rolex Kentucky? Different horse, of course! He rode Moonfleet to the honors this time, once again finishing on his dressage score. That gives him two legs on $250,000 Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing. Now all he has to do is win Burghley this fall (easier said than done) and the bonus is his!
I think that's enough from me today--driving, show jumping and eventing. We've covered a lot of terrain. Next up is the Devon Horse Show, so I'll be sending you an EquiSearch postcard from Philadelphia's Main Line at the beginning of June.
Seniors dominated the 2005 Garden State Combined Driving Event, where 67-year-old Fritz Grupe and 61-year-old Bob Koopman won the National Pair and Single Horse Driving Championships, respectively.
Scott Monroe won his first national championship with Bethesda After Dark at the 2005 USEF National Combined Driving Singles Championship on September 25.


IMAX and exhibitor and mall operator SM Prime Holdings have struck a deal to install five digital IMAX projection systems at SM shopping centres across the Philippines.
The new theatres will be located in Las Piñas City, Fort Bonifacio, Davao City, Angeles City and Manila.
Three of the IMAX theatre systems are expected to be installed in 2011 and two in 2012.
"The tremendous success of our first two IMAX theatres demonstrates how consumers in the Philippines love The IMAX Experience, and based on this success, the next logical step for our business is to add more locations," said Hans Sy, President, SM Prime Holdings Inc.
"SM's commitment to add five additional locations demonstrates how the success of our theatre business model is driving repeat business from our existing exhibition partners. We also believe that an endorsement from a prominent and successful IMAX operator will further stimulate exhibitor interest in the IMAX business in the Asia-Pacific region," added IMAX's Chief Executive Officer Richard L. Gelfond.
The deal follows the market success of SM's two existing IMAX theatres in Manila and Quezon, with the IMAX Manila ranking as the highest grossing screen in the country. For the recent release of Toy Story 3, the two current IMAX screens generated a per screen average that was more than seven times the national per screen average for the film.
SM will also open another location under a previous agreement in the city of Cebu this month in time for the release of Inception.
The new theatre deal brings the total number of IMAX system deals announced this year to 89, which compares to 35 system signings in 2009.


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Because that "complete stranger" was wearing a badge, a'course. It's the doctrine of custodial infallibility. No-one watches the watchmen anymore, their decisions cannot be questioned. Just as the process of election transforms a human from one of the stupid/evil plebes (who must be rigidly controlled to prevent them from falling prey to evil and/or foolishness) into a morally enlightened and intellectually superior over-man (who can be implicitly trusted to administer those controls), the acquisition of a police badge transforms it's wearer into a sublime master of both law and tactics, who sees things we mere citizens cannot and does things we are forbidden. As Judge Dredd puts it, "I am the Law" and thus, by way of extension, anything I do is legal.
No, I'm not bitter at all. Why?
At some point, they are going to start killiing people with those things (if they already haven't done it.)
We've had at least two local taser deaths in recent times...one just was ruled on a few days ago. The coroner stated cause of death was homocide by taser, but the judge let the cops off. Something about they had no way of knowing that they would kill the guy by tasering him, so it's not their fault. Tasers can mess with your heart and if you've got any kind of heart problem you could be in big trouble if you get tasered. A lot of people don't even know they have heart problems and I'm sure cops aren't going around asking people if they have any health conditions before they taser them.
It seems like cops have gone taser silly lately....whatever happened to pepper spray? (Not saying they should pepper spray a 6 year old.)
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I don't know about those so-called "responsible adults" in that situation...
I had a 5-year-old grandkid who figured that he was just gonna ignore what I said one time a while back. Until I went over to where he was, picked him up, put him down in front of me, and said it again (whatever it was). Had him up off the ground under one arm, most of his weight on my hip, and his arms immobilized. I *DID* get his attention that time, and he's gotten a whole lot better about that sort of things since then. :-)
The story about the broken glass and all was a bit much -- this sounds like something an older kid would do, not a 6-year-old.
I noticed while watching the local/CBS news a little bit ago that they covered both this incident and the other one that's being discussed in another thread, said that "the police were reviewing their procedures" (hah!) and even showed a bit of video of the 12-year-old girl who got zapped. I find that interesting, that it got that far into the notice of the media, but also note that we've been talking about it in here for what, a week or so now? As usual, they lag behind...
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I think what catches my attention the most about this is the "we have to call in the authorities" attitude of the hand-wringing-politically-correct-Oh-Myers. Any responsible adult would have taken the glass, given the 6 yr old a swat of the butt or two, and called a parent.
The actions recounted in this story reflect a larger problem. Specifically that more and more people in this society will not take direct action but instead will defer to some government agency who will (as in this case) defer to yet another government agency who will take an action that is totally inappropriate. A 6 year old child with a piece of broken glass scared four adults (three of them trained security professionals) so badly that they had to resort to the same force used on criminals resisting arrest. How many guards with machine guns would it take to herd these same people into a box car.
Oh, and the "psychological evaluation" would only last as long as it took me to get a leather belt and apply it to the backside of said 6 year old.
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." Marion Morrison
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2ndmouse
I loved my charges like my own, but at 6 if they whipped out a glass shank in school.... I would have tazered them myself.
Laughing Bird
I have two 6yo grandsons, and even at my advanced age, I can't imagine not being able to handle anything they can dish out.
ultralongrunner
They've killed plenty of people with pepper spray also.
It's just that pepper spray isn't as "effective" as tasering people, it lasts longer and the spray can get your fellow officers. Also, if you pepper mace someone in our area, you need EMS to help the person who has been sprayed. Tasered people simply need the barbs pulled out and they are fine--unless their heart has stopped.


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Q: Complex comparison with multiple columns simultaneously I have a following pandas sample dataset:
    Dim1    Dim2    Dim3    Dim4
0   1   2   7   15
1   1   10  12  2
2   9   19  18  16
3   4   2   4   15
4   8   1   9   5
5   14  18  3   14
6   19  9   9   17

I want to make a complex comparison based on all 4 columns and generate a column called Domination_count. For every row, I want to calculate how many other rows the given one dominates. Domination is defined as "being better in one dimension, while not being worse in the others". A is better than B if the value of A is less than B.
The final result should become:
    Dim1    Dim2    Dim3    Dim4    Domination_count
0   1   2   7   15  2
1   1   10  12  2   1
2   9   19  18  16  0
3   4   2   4   15  2
4   8   1   9   5   2
5   14  18  3   14  0
6   19  9   9   17  0

Some explanation behind the final numbers:

*

*the option 0 is better than option 2 and 6

*the option 1 is better than option 2

*option 2, 5,6 are better than no other option

*option 3 and 4 are better than option 2, 6

I could not think of any code that allows me to compare multiple columns simultaneously. I found this approach which does not do the comparison simultaneously.

A: Improving on the answer:
My first answer worked if there were no equal rows.  In the case of equal rows they would increment the domination count because they are not worse than the other rows.
This somewhat simpler solution takes care of that problem.
#create a dataframe with a duplicate row
df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2, 7, 15],[1, 10,12,2],[9, 19,18,16],[4, 2, 4, 15],[8, 1, 9, 5],[14,18,3, 14],[19,9, 9, 17], [14,18,3, 14]], #[14,18,3, 14]
                 columns = ['Dim1','Dim2','Dim3','Dim4']
)
df2 = df.copy()

def domination(row,df):
    #filter for all rows where none of the columns are worse
    df = df[(row <= df).all(axis = 1)]
    #filter for rows where any column is better.
    df = df[(row < df).any(axis = 1)]
    return len(df)

df['Domination_count'] = df.apply(domination, args=[df], axis = 1)
df

This will correctly account for the criteria in the post and will not count the duplicate row in the domination column
    Dim1    Dim2    Dim3    Dim4    Domination_count
0   1      2       7       15       2
1   1      10      12      2        1
2   9      19      18      16       0
3   4      2       4       15       2
4   8      1       9       5        2
5   14     18      3       14       0
6   19     9       9       17       0
7   14     18      3       14       0

My previous solution counts the equal rows:
df2['Domination_count'] = df2.apply(lambda x: (x <= df2).all(axis=1).sum() -1, axis=1)
df2

    Dim1    Dim2    Dim3    Dim4    Domination_count
0   1       2       7       15      2
1   1       10      12      2       1
2   9       19      18      16      0
3   4       2       4       15      2
4   8       1       9       5       2
5   14      18      3       14      1
6   19      9       9       17      0
7   14      18      3       14      1

Original Solution
I like this as a solution.  It takes each row of the dataframe and compares each element it to all rows of the dataframe to see if that element is less than or equal to the other rows (not worse than).  Then, it counts the rows where all of the elements are not worse than the other rows.  This counts the current row which is never worse than itself so we subtract 1.
df['Domination_count'] = df.apply(lambda x: (x <= df).all(axis=1).sum() -1, axis=1)

The result is:
    Dim1    Dim2    Dim3    Dim4    Domination_count
0   1       2       7       15      2
1   1       10      12      2       1
2   9       19      18      16      0
3   4       2       4       15      2
4   8       1       9       5       2
5   14      18      3       14      0
6   19      9       9       17      0

A: In one line using list comprehension:
df['Domination_count'] = [(df.loc[df.index!=row] - df.loc[row].values.squeeze() > 0).all(axis = 1).sum() for row in df.index]

Subtract each row from all remaining rows elementwise, then count rows with all positive values (meaning that each corresponding value in the row we subtracted was lower) in the resulting dataframe.
I may have gotten your definition of domination wrong, so perhaps you'll need to change strict positivity check for whatever you need.

A: A simple iterative solution:
df['Domination_count']=0 #initialize column to zero
cols = df.columns[:-1]  # select all columns but the domination_count
for i in range(len(df.index)):   # loop through all the 4 columns
    for j in range(len(df.index)):
        if np.all(df.loc[i,cols]<=df.loc[j,cols]) and i!=j:  # for every ith value check if its smaller than the jth value given that i!=j
            df.loc[i,'Domination_count']+=1  #increment by 1

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Q: [UT][Catch2] Several test cases or one with several sections Let's say we want to test one file (or class). What should be better approach (always? maybe in special cases?)?
Framework Catch2: https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2

*

*Several test cases
TEST_CASE("First", "[some_details]")
{
  Class obj;

  REQUIRE(obj.firstFunction() == 1);
}

TEST_CASE("Second", "[some_details]")
{
  Class obj;

  REQUIRE(obj.secondFunction() == 1);
}

TEST_CASE("Third", "[some_details]")
{
  Class obj;

  REQUIRE(obj.thirdFunction() == 1);
}

*One test case with several sections
TEST_CASE("Check functions", "[some_details]")
{
  Class obj;

  SECTION("First", "[some_details]")
  {
    REQUIRE(obj.firstFunction() == 1);
  }

  SECTION("Second", "[some_details]")
  {
    REQUIRE(obj.secondFunction() == 1);
  }

  SECTION("Third", "[some_details]")
  {
    REQUIRE(obj.thirdFunction() == 1);
  }
}

I think we ought to use TEST_CASE for each functionality separately (if it is possible). If it's not then we can use SECTION in case of some dependence. I also think that SECTION are good when we want to check several outputs from one function, for example:
TEST_CASE("Check function first", "[some_details]")
{
  Class obj;

  SECTION("Positive", "[some_details]")
  {
    REQUIRE(obj.firstFunction() == 1);
  }

  SECTION("Negative", "[some_details]")
  {
    REQUIRE(obj.firstFunction() == 0);
  }
}

What's your opinion? Which approach is better (and when)? You got some suggestions?

A: The main difference is:
Using TEST_CASE you can test each case individually. With SECTION this is not possible in some IDEs (like CLION.


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We're all desperate for hope. Ted Lasso is here to deliver it.
Zac DavisMarch 12, 2021
Jason Sudeikis in "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV+)
"You're acting like we lost the game already!" Thus does the local football coach, Ted Lasso, confront dour fanatics in the local pub. The titular character in Apple TV's latest hit, Coach Lasso wants a little more optimism."Why don't you have a little hope?"
They reply, earnestly but defeated,"Haven't you lived here long enough to realize it's the hope that kills you?"
It's the hope that kills you. Consider it the latest translation of one of the most cutting lines in the Gospels: "We had hoped" (Lk 24:21) is what the two disciples on the road to Emmaus say to explain their desolation after the crucifixion of Jesus. They had hoped that Jesus, their friend and teacher, would be something else. Instead, he was murdered like a common criminal.
Our world and our moment is desperate for hope. A year into the pandemic, good news beckons. Vaccines and economic relief are on the way. Tantalizing daydreams of crowded stadiums and family reunions, packed bar booths and church pews flitter through the minds of a weary people.
While we wait for the realization of that hope or for the shots of vaccines to find our arms, it is the perfect time to sink into the couch and run through the most hopeful show on television: "Ted Lasso."
It is the perfect time to sink into the couch and run through the most hopeful show on television: "Ted Lasso."
Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis, who just took home a Golden Globe for his performance) is a Division II college football (American version) coach who accepts a head coaching job on a fictional football (English version) club in the English Premier League. It is quite the promotion, considering that Ted Lasso doesn't know the first thing about the sport (we see his assistant coach, "Beard," reading Soccer for Dummies on the plane above the pond in the first episode).
Is Ted Lasso just another man hired for a job he was not remotely qualified for? Yes. But the reasons behind his hiring are more sinister and serve as the driving force behind the show's plot. Ted's new club, AFC Richmond, has a new owner: Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), who takes over the team after a messy and public divorce from her ex-husband, Rupert (Anthony Head). After suffering the humiliation of seeing Rupert's infidelities spread all over the English tabloids, Rebecca is ready to drive her ex-husband's beloved football club into the ground. Hiring an amateur American football coach who doesn't know that soccer games have two halves or can end in a tie is the linchpin to her plan.
But Ted Lasso starts to defy expectations. Despite his insistence that he doesn't care about wins and losses, the team begins to win. Egos deflate. Cold shoulders melt away.
Along the way, we are charmed into witnessing the character development of every unlikely and unlikeable character. It is the closest vantage point to God a viewer can have on television today. It's not particularly realistic to expect everyone to change for the better, but it isn't impossible, either. And what is art but sublime meditations on what is idealistic and unlikely yet all the while still true?
A show this positive runs the risk of being what critics call "cheesy." It is anything but.
It would be a mistake just to chalk up Ted Lasso's (the character and the show) mood to a positive attitude or optimism. It demands more spiritually mature language. It's hopeful. It can be difficult to parse the difference between optimism and hope, like trying to describe the difference between love and infatuation to a middle schooler who has his or her first crush. The great spiritual writer Henri Nouwen got at much of the difference: "The optimist speaks about concrete changes in the future. The person of hope lives in the moment with the knowledge and trust that all of life is in good hands."
It would be a mistake just to chalk up Ted Lasso's mood to a positive attitude or optimism. It demands more spiritually mature language. It's hopeful.
There is a beautiful rumination on marriage in the biopic "Frida" that also gets at the distinction between the trivial and worthwhile:
I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion—these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.
In the face of despair, hope is a revolutionary act. If it fails to look reality and suffering in the face, it is shallow optimism. Hope is different. Hope resists the cruel and unforgiving determinist logic of the world. It is not the defeated, resounding sigh of "Look on the bright side of things." It stands in defiance: Things do not have to be this way.
So much of the spiritual life is learning to give ourselves permission to grieve, to be angry and yes, to hope. When faced with an invitation to hope, the temptation to despair—to talk yourself out of it—stalks closely behind. In a year where hope has been tough to come by, it's imperative to let yourself feel it when it comes. And if remembering how to hope is difficult, 30 minutes in prayer will probably help. And if remembering how to pray is also difficult, 30 minutes with "Ted Lasso" might just do the trick.
More stories from America:
Netflix's 'Bridgerton' is a feminist disaster. But it (almost) redeems itself.
Golden Globe winner 'Nomadland' is a portrait of late-stage capitalism in America
HBO's 'Judas and the Black Messiah' is a Christ-like tale of betrayal — minus the redemption
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What was Paul's greatest ambition?
What did Paul count on would be te the result of that ambition?
Paul did not want to go to preach where others had gone before him not because he was prideful, but because he knew there were many who had never heard the name of Jesus and were lost in their sinful ignorance. He wanted to preach the good news to those people so they could see and understand what God had done for them.
Ask your children what organizations do they know of that are reaching those who have never heard of Jesus today? Look up on the internet some groups like Wycliffe Bible Translators and The Jesus Film. Read on how they are reaching the lost and then pray for their work. You might consider investing other resources in these works as well. Do your children know anyone who has never heard the gospel? Maybe they live next door.


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If students are to be prepared solely to be chewed up by cogs of the economic machine, Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Kurt Evans throws the proverbial monkey wrench into those cogs by taking Daugaard's premises to their logical ultimate conclusion and then prompting a question that the Governor seems to ignore.
We may need a social consensus for state government to teach elementary students literacy and basic arithmetic, but if a vo-tech does things you don't like, no government should force you to pay for it.
If the goal of education is to create citizens who can reason and knowledgeably participate in discussions in the public square, then the public should pay for education. If, however, the purpose is solely to prepare someone for a specific job, the public requires only basic literacy and arithmetic. After all, no one wants people holding up the line in the grocery store incorrectly arguing that the person behind the counter gave them the wrong change. In a world of economics uber alles, people still need to read the advertisement copy.
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The purpose of education should remain developing citizens who can think creatively and communicate effectively. Schools can improve, but turning them into institutions that create workers prepared for a job that will disappear in 10 years is not going to provide that improvement.


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Liberal Education and the Humanities
Confronting Contingency: Faculty Equity and the Goals of Academic Democracy
The Trouble with Diversifying the Faculty
Following the Cuts: How Is the Recession Affecting Faculty Work?
It's about Time: What to Make of Reported Declines in How Much College Students Study
Seven Lessons Learned from General Education Reform at Saint Mary's College
The Humanities Are Not a Luxury: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century
Learning about Learning Outcomes: A Liberal Arts Professor Assesses
By: Carol Geary Schneider
Readers of this journal will surely agree that the humanities are necessary and central to a liberal—and liberating—education. As this issue of Liberal Education goes to press, we are all witnessing dramatic demonstrations of the struggles for justice and meaningful democratic inclusion both here in the United States and around the world. As educators committed to justice and greater inclusion—and to the mission of educating informed and globally engaged citizens—we must all raise our voices to ensure that the humanities remain a vital part of our educational systems. While funding for the humanities is under attack, it is encouraging to me to see that there are now some very powerful voices beyond those in the AAC&U community who are helping make the case for the importance of the humanities in higher education and in our society.
Why have members of Congress—both Republicans and Democrats—called for the formation of a new national commission on the arts and humanities? Why has Cornell's President David Skorton, a physician and scientist by training, publicly decried—in the Washington Post—the proposals to decrease funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities?
These national leaders—along with myself and thousands of dedicated faculty members in many fields and colleges all across the country—understand how important the humanities are to this nation's future. For too long, however, we have not clearly and loudly articulated why the humanities are so important to our shared futures.
The humanities help us make sense of the complexity of the world we inherit—including our histories, values, and cultural traditions. They help us to explore competing visions of the past and future, and to probe what it means to be human. All these themes are vitally important to individuals and to our society as a whole. One of the academy's most fundamental responsibilities is to explore and teach about global issues and democratic aspirations and realities at home and abroad. These explorations and the root commitments to equality, liberty, and the expansion of justice all depend fundamentally on the humanities' heartbeat.
While there are other important dimensions to liberal education, as AAC&U has made clear in the Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative's articulation of "essential learning outcomes," it is absolutely impossible to provide students with the benefits of liberal learning absent a strong grounding in humanities questions, disciplines, and perspectives. As Martha Nell Smith so passionately asserts in this issue, the humanities are not a luxury. They are necessary to any student's preparation for success in college and to any institution that claims to provide a high-quality college education.
With the exceptions I cite above, however, most of the discussion about higher learning today, especially in policy circles, ignores the humanities completely—a neglect that could prove disastrous to our nation's future. If one looks, for example, at the majority of the for-profit institutions that now occupy so much policy attention (pro and con), one sees that the great majority of them have no capacity to teach the humanities at any level of acceptable quality. (That is the scandal we should be investigating.)
Yet, as Dan Edelstein noted in this journal last year, "by providing students with the best opportunities for learning how to innovate, the humanities play a determining role in producing the entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers that make the American economy so productive." This point was recently reinforced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs's high-profile recognition of the key relationship between the humanities and innovation. Speaking at the March 2nd unveiling of the second-generation iPad, Jobs explained that "it's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough; it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing. And nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices."
Moreover, the humanities challenge graduates—regardless of their profession—to raise larger questions about the wisdom and implications of their choices. And, as one faculty member pointed out to me, when life comes knocking at our door, the humanities help us ensure that a full human being will be ready to respond.
In that spirit, I was mightily encouraged by the gift that the Andrew Mellon Foundation has just given to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in support of the humanities. As Chancellor Biddy Martin put it when announcing the grant, "philosophy and history are at the core of the cultural legacy that makes us, in part, who we are." Martin noted further that "the funding will allow [the university] to strengthen fields that are essential to the education of our students and to the body of scholarship that preserves and reinvents culture."
We are, indeed, in the midst of a radical reinvention of our culture—and of our higher education institutions. Part of that reinvention entails exciting new designs for learning and new ways to integrate technology into our classrooms, including our humanities classrooms. This reinvention is also, however, happening in the midst of profound economic, civic, and educational challenges.
At the heart of meeting these challenges, and of reinvigorating the humanities and reenergizing our society's commitment to them, is a set of realities sketched out powerfully in this issue of Liberal Education. Tens of thousands of faculty members—full-time and part-time, with and without tenure or the prospect of tenure—have committed their lives to research and teaching in the humanities. Tens of thousands more faculty in many other fields are strongly committed to partnering with their colleagues in the humanities to help students "connect the dots" of their own learning about complex societal issues. The challenges these faculty members face, however, are profound. As a community, we must find a way to ensure a continuing commitment to the humanities as central to educational excellence. Yet, the humanities will not survive unless we also find ways to ensure that the faculty of the future have the support they need to continue to reinvent how they teach the humanities to future generations.


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Бу́льба (tuber) — видозмінений (потовщений та м'ясистий) пагін, стебло якого, що включає одне чи кілька міжвузлів, сильно розростається і накопичує запасні речовини, переважно крохмаль, рідше — олію.

Орган поновлення дво- та багаторічних рослин, який витримує несприятливі періоди. Часто слугує для вегетативного розмноження. Інколи бульби формуються шляхом розростання гіпокотиля (цикламен). Бульби мають недорозвинені листки, пазушні бруньки яких називають «вічками» (картопля), зрідка взагалі позбавлені листків (цикламен). Розрізняють надземні та підземні бульби. Підземні бульби — потовщення підсім'ядольного коліна (редька), підземних пагонів (картопля) або бічних чи додаткових коренів (жоржина, батат, чуфа) — часто виникають на столонах (картопля та інші). Надземні бульби формуються в основі головного (кольрабі) або бічних пагонів (епіфітні орхідеї)та несуть зелені листки. Дрібні бульби виникають в пазухах листків (пшінка), часто в області суцвіття (гірчак живорідний), у вигляді вивідкових бруньок.У бульби є ічка , бровки,міжвузля , корені

Від бульб потрібно відрізняти кореневі шишки, тобто запасні додаткові корені (жоржина, батат), і так звані коренеплоди, в утворенні яких поряд з стеблом участь бере головний корінь (редька, буряк).

Розгляньмо утворення бульби на прикладі картоплі. Спочатку з бруньки виростає тонкий довгий підземний пагін. З часом його верхівка потовщується, накопичує крохмаль і до осені перетворюється на бульбу. Кожна бульба містить кілька вічок, частина з яких проростає наступного року, а решта бруньок — сплячі. Хлорофілу бульба не має, але на сонці зеленіє. Хоча надземні бульби мають зелений колір.

Див. також
 Бульбоцибулина

Джерела
 Биологический энциклопедический словарь. — Москва: «Большая Советская энциклопедия», 1986.
 Лікарські рослини: Енциклопедичний словник. — Київ: Головна редакція УРЕ, 1989. стор. 499.

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Pregler Coat of Arms / Pregler Family Crest
The associated coat of arms for this name are recorded in J.B Rietstaps Armorial General. Illustrated by V & H.V Rolland's. This Monumental work took 23 years to complete and 85,000 coats of Arms are included in this work. This surname of PREGLER was an Ashkenazic Jewish and German habitation name from the city of Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. The name may also have been applied or taken by someone who came from elsewhere in Bohemia, the name of the nearest large town being preferred to a more precise local designation. It is also possible that in some cases the name may derive from PRAGA on the Vistula opposite Warsaw known in Yiddish as PRAGE. The name is also spelt PRAGERMAN, PROGER, Van PRAAG, Van PRAAGH and PRAZAK. When traditional Jews were forced to take family names by the local bureaucracy, it was an obligation imposed from outside traditional society, and people often took the names playfully and let their imaginations run wild by choosing names which corresponded to nothing real in their world. No one alive today can remember the times when Jews took or were given family names (for most Ashkenazim this was the end of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th) although many remember names being changed after emigration to other countries, such as the United States and Israel in recent years. The name is also spelt PREGL and PREGELER. Fritz PREGL (1869-1930) was the chemist, born in Laibach, Austria. He studied at the university of Graz, with which he was associated for most of his life, and where he became director of the Medico-Chemical Institute in 1913. He was awarded the Novel Prize for Physics in 1923. Among the humbler classes of European society, and especially among illiterate people, individuals were willing to accept the mistakes of officials, clerks and priests as officially bestowing a new version of their surname, just as they had meekly accepted the surname they had been born with. In North America, the linguistic problems confronting immigration officials at Ellis Island in the 19th century were legendary as a prolific source of Anglicization.


One of my earliest posts talked about my fits of sleeplessness as we started the cycle. Although I felt all of it was directly related to nervousness surrounding IVF, in the absence of the impending ART reality, it could just as easily have been about anything I might have had on my mind — good, bad, or otherwise. I've had similar fits since childhood. I'm a chronic late-night thinker — talker, too; but I don't do much of that anymore because DH is a chronic falls-asleep-like-a-hibernating-bear something-er.
Typically, I am slow to fall asleep, stressed or not. My head hits the pillow, and I am alert, no matter how tired I felt minutes before. (Family, DH, former roommates, and friends from my prime slumber-party years can vouch for that.) For as long as I can remember, I've been accustomed to experiencing at least one night a week in which I just don't sleep well. And whenever I feel stressed, I tend to follow up that one bad night with several nights of sleeping poorly and one night of crashing hard. Then the cycle starts fresh at Sleepless Night One and repeats itself until whatever mini-storm has passed.
I noticed shortly after posting about not sleeping that suddenly I was sleeping through the night. Every night.
The magic of blogging? I doubt it. I'm thinking it might be a result of pushed-down stress. My theory is that the effort it takes to maintain the even keel I've been on results in a super-tired brain/body at night. And so I sleep when normally I would not. Or maybe I am simply handling it well. Or, maybe acupuncture helps, or BOOM, I broke a lifelong behavior pattern without even trying.
Tough to know. Then again — does it really matter? Sleep is good for me right now. It's probably best to let sleeping "rhymes with w!tches" lie.


I have been pursuing a line of thought that Akavia represented a distinct school from that of Hillel and Shammia and the defining characteristic of his school was extreme individualism. With this in mind, a certain well known Talmudic passage becomes more intelligible.
Our Rabbis taught(Shabbos 31a): A certain gentile once came before Shammai and asked him: "How many Torot do you have?"
There is a Halachic problem with what Hillel did, which Rashi points out. Talmud says in Bechoros 30 that a convert who accepts all of the Torah except for one matter is not allowed to convert. How could Hillel take in a convert who did not accept the Oral Law. Rashi answers that this convert did accept the Oral Torah; he just didn't believe that it was given by Hashem. This is a kind of answer that generates volumes of discussion, and it did exactly that in the subsequent generations.
It appears to me, however, that this convert did believe in Oral Law but he did not trust either Shammai or Hillel to transmit their versions of it to him. This is why he said: "In regard to Oral Law, I don't believe you". He did not say that he did not believe in it, only that the did not believe Shammai and HIllel. He was quite an individualist and he wanted to learn it from someone like Akavia ben Mehallel.
You see from here an indication, if not a proof, that an alternative formulation of Oral Law existed in the days of Hillel and Shammai, presumably that of Akavia ben Mehallel.


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STATE DOT IS REHABILITATING THE BRIDGE ON ROUTE 34 OVER THE BOYS HALFWAY BROOK. DURING BRIDGE REPLACEMENT, THERE WILL BE ALTERNATING ONE-WAY TRAFFIC CONTROLLED BY A TEMPORARY TRAFFIC LIGHT NEAR THE LAKE ZOAR DRIVE IN.


PTS Enhanced Polymer Airsoft M4 Stock - Dark Earth Tan color. This is the next generation fo polymer stocks from PTS. The rear stock is manufactured from authentic Dupont Zytel polymer for superior wear and damage resistance. The stock features dual fixed side compartments for battery storage for all your power needs. The side compartments are approximately 20x15 MM and are large enough to handle most 9.6v nun-chuck batteries as well as most stick and butterfly type lipos. This awesome stock also features two QD Sling points.
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Over the past few years I've gotten in a better practice in organizing, with my writing especially.
I had files scattered, drafts placed here and there, several notebooks in various places. I had to look for things I KNEW I had written, but where did I put it. *sigh* I began (slowly, but surely) to gather things and put them in the same area. Then I began to organize that better. I finally have things where I can find them. *YAY* It takes time. I thought I would pass on some of the things I'm doing and maybe you can incorporate it and make it work for you too.
Laptop -In the past few months I had to save everything to thumb drives. *Yes, I needed plural* As I was reloading, it gave me the perfect opportunity to reorganize. I deleted duplicate copies. For manuscripts, I created folders and made sure all my revisions were placed in them. I was able to get my workload refocused. Creating folders, and sometimes subfolders, helped organize all my work. It took a few days… Okay a week, but it is done and I can pull things up and bam-o it's all there!
Notebooks – I still love to write long-hand. Most of my first few drafts are long-hand. While it's a great way to show students how I do what they do, it can amount to a lot of paper. I have several notebooks with stories in various stages. I gathered them all together and went through them one by one. On the inside front cover I wrote the titles of all the stories included in that particular notebook. This way I can simply open the notebook and see if it is the one I want. Bam-o!
Ideas – I have a few things I do to keep my ideas together. I have an ideas notebook, an ideas file, and an ideas jar.
I use the ideas notebook for challenges that I do, like #PiBoIdMo. This way I can start a new page with every idea.
I use an ideas file on my laptop for the ideas which have more potential on becoming an actual draft. If/When the idea forms into a draft, I move the document into my stories file.
I use an ideas jar to keep all my best ideas where I can see them. REALLY see them. I have a jar (large pickle jar that I've cleaned to be precise) on my table next to my laptop. Inside that jar is scraps of paper. On each paper is an idea. Whenever I get stuck, feel in a rut, or just blah about my writing, I pull out my stack of papers and go through them. Something will trigger in my brain and there goes my imagination.
The thing I've found about keeping my ideas up front and center is that it keeps my muse happy. A happy muse and you're writing. Bam-o!
Thumb drives – Or as I say back it all up and then back it up again. Back in the dinosaur age of computers, I used floppy disks to back up my writing. One day my floppy disk stopped working and said it was corrupted. THANKFULLY it was at the beginning of my career. I didn't have many stories. Most of them were mailed *yes, mailed* out on submissions and I got those back. Three weren't. I remembered the jist of two and lost the other one. Lesson learned! Now I back up my stories on a thumb drive (organized by files), on email, and I have a hard copy printed off. Overkill? Maybe, but I have it. 😀 Thumb drives are wonderful, compact, and have multi uses.
Maybe this can help you on your journey. Let's start 2016 in a positive note. One where we have a writing right where we need it to be, so we can push it further!
How are preparing for the new year?
Do you have different ways to organize your writing?
What are some things that work for you?
Great tips! Thank you very much Tracey!
Mom smiled when she read about writing longhand and writing ideas on papers and keeping them in a jar. It's so heartfelt and vintage…. 🙂 Scraps of paper do not exist in this house. Ideas are in Mom's phone, and stories are uploaded to a folder in her Dropbox. In other words, if the Internet goes down, she's not a writer!!!
Cupcake, Your mom has got her stuff together! 😀 I like the feel of pen(cil) & paper too much.


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A New Perspective on the 54th Massachusetts & Fort Sumter
By Chris Lese June 2, 2014 Fort Sumter Fort Wagner Morris Island Old Charleston Jail
Most people have seen the movie "Glory" which depicts African American soldiers, many former slaves, who fought in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. The movie's climax presents the dramatic charge against the Confederate held Fort Wagner on Morris Island. Indeed, the island was one of many forts that protected Charleston. You can watch a short clip of this movie here:
Clad in his faded blue uniform, Joe McGill led our group aboard a charter boat to Morris sland which has fallen victim to massive erosion over the years. The exact spot of the battle has been swept away by the Atlantic Ocean but part of the 54th's approach may still be there. Regardless, enough of the beach exists to provide excellent means by which to imagine the battle. Especially, if you go there with Joe who spoke in character as a member of the 54th and described how that soldier fought for his nation and African American freedom. This boat adventure combined with our experience at the Old Charleston Jail, where members of the 54th were incarcerated as prisoners after this failed attack made the battle all the more real and familiar. Just an amazing experience.
We then boarded a ferry that sailed us to Fort Sumter. Again, another iconic Civil War site that our group was very excited to see. But it was information gleaned there that helped place the topic of slavery and theme of Hope further into focus. Slaves were held at Sumter and forced to rebuild the fort's defenses during bombardment; dozens were killed during this extremely dangerous job. But it was the fact these slaves were held in "fox holes" or "hot boxes" on the side of Sumter that faces Morris Island that intrigued me the most. Jacob Stroyer, a slave who survived these harrowing conditions later wrote:
"The principal work of the negroes was to secure the top and other parts against the damage from the Union guns. . . The work could only be done at night, because, besides the bombardment from Fort Wagner, which was about a mile or little less from us, there were also sharp-shooters there who picked men off whenever they showed their heads on the rampart."
Ms. Blaze inspects an artillery shell in Sumter's walls fired from Morris Island.
At one point, perhaps a mile mile separated the 54th Massachusetts and their free African Americans on Morris Island from these poor slaves held in horrific conditions and forced to do incredibly dangerous work at Sumter. Joe has been planning on portraying and interpreting one of these slaves inside Sumter and our discussion of this proximity of freedom and slavery and the themes of hope and despair will surely enter into his script.
Adam, Louis and Evan walk along Fort Sumter's east side. Morris Island lies in the near background.
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Samsung Electronics paused all merger and acquisition (M&A) activities and major investments in recent months as its chief Jay Y. Lee was in the middle of a trial on corruption, bribery, embezzlement, and perjury which yesterday saw the Korean prosecutors demand a 12-year prison sentence for him. The Seoul Central District Court is expected to rule on the case on August 25 and could significantly affect the fate of the South Korean original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that's has been without a leader since February when Mr. Lee was originally detained by the authorities.
Some industry watchers are speculating that a long-term prison sentence for Samsung Group Vice Chairman and heir apparent could put an end to Samsung's dominance in the industry that was largely enabled by the company's bold investments approved by its top leadership in the last decade. Ten years ago, Samsung Electronics was in the red and managed to bounce back by implementing a so-called "super-gap strategy," investing $20 billion in display panels and semiconductors for two years and ultimately returning to profit after driving some of its competitors out of business. A similar approach was implemented in 2012 in order to further extend Samsung's lead in the semiconductor industry and capitalize on the fact that the Tokyo, Japan-based Elpida was close to bankruptcy. Samsung then invested over $13 billion into displays and semiconductors, with the latter segment allowing it to post record profits in recent quarters by becoming the world's largest chipmaker in Q2 2017.
Such major and risky investments are what allowed Samsung to bounce back from the 2008 financial crisis but aren't possible under the current circumstances, with Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee reportedly being in a comatose state since 2014 and his son and Vice Chairman facing a long prison sentence, some analysts believe, stating how the company currently has no one left to approve significant investments. The Seoul-based consumer electronics manufacturer has yet to signal that it's thinking about replacing Mr. Lee in any capacity as the company is apparently still hoping that he will avoid prison time and return to lead the chaebol in the immediate future. It's currently unclear how close is the competent court to ruling against Mr. Lee in the aforementioned case that the defendant claims was completely fabricated by the prosecutors.


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«Марий Эл» — скорый фирменный пассажирский поезд (№ 058Э/058Г) совместного формирования РЖД (ФПК) и ТКС, курсирующий ежедневно по маршруту Йошкар-Ола — Москва — Йошкар-Ола. В Москве поезд прибывает на Казанский вокзал. Время в пути из Йошкар-Олы в Москву составляет 13 часов 34 минуты, время следования из Москвы в Йошкар-Олу — 14 часов 12 минут, общая протяжённость маршрута 861 км, бо́льшая часть пути для удобства пассажиров приходится на ночное время.

История

Первый поезд на станцию Йошкар-Ола прибыл в ночь с 21 на 22 октября  года. С этой даты стало технически возможным осуществление железнодорожного сообщения между Йошкар-Олой и Москвой. Однако, регулярные пассажирские перевозки в Москву начались только с  года, а фирменный поезд «Марий Эл» начал курсирование с 3 июня  года. Своё название поезд получил в честь Республики Марий Эл, столицей которой является город Йошкар-Ола.

С 1 декабря  года пущен в общий оборот с поездом Ульяновск — Москва, сохранив статус фирменного поезда.

Исторически внешний дизайн вагонов представлял собой тёмно-зелёный фон с узкой жёлтой полосой под окнами и крупной надписью «Марий Эл» вдоль всего борта. В деталях внутренней отделки повсеместно присутствовали национальный марийский орнамент. Исторической особенностью оформления поезда было написание названия республики через дефис: «Марий-Эл», что постепенно было исправлено только к концу 1990-х годов.

После объединения в общий оборот с фирменным поездом «Ульяновск» в 2010 году в составе поезда присутствовали вагоны фирменной расцветки этого поезда (тёмно-синие вагоны с надписью «Ульяновск» вдоль борта).

В настоящее время вагоны имеют корпоративную раскраску РЖД и ТКС.

Оформление
В настоящее время в составе поезда присутствуют только серые вагоны фирменной окраски РЖД. Проводники поезда одеты в фирменную одежду.

Состав
 В поезде «Марий Эл» представлены купейные и плацкартные вагоны, а также спальные вагоны повышенной комфортности (СВ). Один из вагонов поезда оборудован купе для пассажиров с ограниченными возможностями. Каждый из вагонов оснащён кондиционером и биотуалетами. Первые два вагона поезда являются нефирменными вагонами фирменного поезда.
 Поезд обслуживается Федеральной пассажирской компанией. В состав поезда входят фирменные вагоны ТКС.
 Обеспечение горячим питанием пассажиров осуществляется работниками вагона-ресторана в вагоне согласно меню. На выбор пассажирам представлены несколько вариантов меню.

Схема поезда
 01 вагон — плацкартный (3Л НФ) 52 места (ФПК);
 02 вагон — плацкартный (3Л НФ) 52 места (ФПК);
 05 вагон — плацкартный (3Л) 52 места (ФПК);
 06 вагон — плацкартный (3У) 52 места (ФПК);
 09 вагон — купе (2Э УСЛ) 24 места (ФПК);
 10 вагон — купе (2Э ИНВ) 2 места (ФПК);
 11 вагон — купе (2Э УСЛ) 36 мест (ФПК);
 12 вагон — СВ (1Э УСЛ) 18 мест (ФПК);
 13 вагон — СВ (1Б М/Ж УСЛ) 18 мест (ТрансКлассСервис);
 14 вагон — купе (2У М/Ж УСЛ) 32 места (ТрансКлассСервис);
 15 вагон — купе (2У УСЛ) 36 мест (ТрансКлассСервис);
 16 вагон — купе (2У УСЛ) 36 мест (ТрансКлассСервис);
 вагон-ресторан;
 Вагоны повышенной комфортности ТКС

Общая информация

 Поезд формируется в вагонном депо станции Ульяновск Куйбышевской железной дороги.
 За январь-апрель  года фирменный поезд «Марий Эл» перевёз 96,8 тыс. человек.
 По пути следования поезд проезжает через 7 субъектов Российской Федерации, а именно Республику Марий Эл, Республику Татарстан, Чувашскую Республику, Нижегородскую, Владимирскую, Московскую области и Москву, а также пересекает крупные водные артерии: реки Оку, Суру и Волгу.
 На участке от Йошкар-Олы до станции Зелёный Дол поезд идёт под тепловозной тягой, на станции Зелёный Дол происходит замена локомотива на магистральный электровоз.
 В  году подвижной состав поезда почти полностью обновился за счёт новых вагонов, заменивших старые, производства ГДР, отработавшие свой нормативный срок . Вагоны новой серии 61-4194.05 с Тверского вагоностроительного завода, предоставляют пассажирам современный уровень комфорта — здесь установлены кондиционеры, туалеты закрытого типа, которыми можно воспользоваться в санитарных зонах крупных городов и на стоянках. В купе проводника имеется бортовой компьютер, который следит за параметрами работы различных приборов и оборудования. Есть бегущая строка с информацией для пассажиров.
 При отправлении поезда со станции Йошкар-Ола и по прибытии поезда на станцию, играет гимн Республики Марий Эл.

Происшествия
 4 апреля  года на 24 км перегона Помары — Илеть (Казанское отделение Горьковской железной дороги) в районе озера Яльчик был обнаружен провал грунта под железнодорожным полотном. В 7 часов 20 минут, за 1 час 20 минут до прохода по участку поезда «Марий Эл», движение было закрыто. Пассажиров поезда со станции Зелёный Дол отправили в Йошкар-Олу на автобусах. Вечером пассажиры были доставлены на станцию Зелёный Дол на автобусах для отправки в Москву. На следующий день движение поездов было восстановлено.
 6 июня  года фирменный поезд «Марий Эл» на 559 километре перегона Пильна — Княжиха (Муромское отделение Горьковской железной дороги) в половине второго ночи на железнодорожном мосту совершил наезд на стадо коров. В результате инцидента погибло 29 животных, был серьёзно повреждён электровоз, движение на перегоне было парализовано в течение полутора часов. Никто из пассажиров и железнодорожников не пострадал. Виновником произошедшего признан фермер, не уследивший за своим стадом.
 7 марта  года фирменный поезд «Марий Эл» на 5 километре участка Зелёный Дол — Йошкар-Ола (Казанское отделение Горьковской железной дороги), в 20 часов 20 минут по московскому времени, на неохраняемом железнодорожном переезде столкнулся с автомобилем Hyundai Getz, пытавшимся переехать пути на запрещающий сигнал светофора. В результате инцидента пострадали пять человек: водитель автомобиля и четверо его пассажиров. С травмами различной степени тяжести они были доставлены в зеленодольскую городскую больницу. В поезде пострадавших нет, движение на перегоне было полностью восстановлено через 1 час 20 минут.

Расписание

Примечания

Поезда России
Горьковская железная дорога
Транспорт Йошкар-Олы
Железнодорожный транспорт Марий Эл


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Q: kivy multicolor ListView i want to define unique color for all element in listview
actually i create list view like this :
from kivy.adapters.listadapter import ListAdapter
from kivy.uix.listview import ListItemButton, ListView

data = ["blue","green","yellow","black","white"]

list_adapter = ListAdapter(data=data,
                           args_converter=args_converter,
                           cls=ListItemButton,
                           selection_mode='single',
                           allow_empty_selection=False)

list_view = ListView(adapter=list_adapter)

all elements have green background i want multicolor listview, i want that  blue item have blue background, black item have black background...etc.
it's possible ?
thanks for advance for your help

A: You have to use args_converter, and pass the data in a list of dictionaries:
from kivy.adapters.listadapter import ListAdapter
from kivy.uix.listview import ListItemButton, ListView

data = [{"text": "blue", "color": (0, 0, 1, 1)},
        {"text": "green", "color": (0, 1, 0, 1)},
        {"text":"yellow", "color": (1, 1, 0, 1)},
        {"text": "black", "color": (0, 0, 0, 1)},
        {"text": "white", "color": (1, 1, 1, 1)}]

args_converter = lambda row_index, rec: {'text': rec['text'],
                                         'deselected_color': rec['color'],
                                         'selected_color': rec['color'],
                                         'size_hint_y': None,
                                         'height': 25}

list_adapter = ListAdapter(data=data,
                           args_converter=args_converter,
                           cls=ListItemButton,
                           selection_mode='single',
                           allow_empty_selection=False)

list_view = ListView(adapter=list_adapter)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from kivy.base import runTouchApp
    runTouchApp(list_view)


The Victorian Baillieu government is drawing up plans for the future of Melbourne. And they've got quite a task ahead of themselves as Melbourne's population is expected to increase by half again from the current 4.1 million. This means an extra 2 million residents in less than 40 years.


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AlexFM was een Nederlandse televisieserie die tussen april 2005 en begin 2006 werd uitgezonden op muziekzender The Box.

AlexFM ging over het wel en wee van het personeel van het fictieve multiculturele radiostation AlexFM. De hoofdpersonen zijn de dj's Lin, Gina en Nissrin. Het programma maakte deel uit van een blok van programma's tussen 17 en 20 uur op de zender. De overige programma's van het blok Alex on The Box waren Mocca en de hitlijst 411. De serie, die officieel geen soap genoemd werd, maar gelabeld werd als daily drama, was scripted-unscripted opgezet (geen uitgeschreven scripts, maar alleen uitgewerkte verhaallijnen die de acteurs zelfs invulden met tekst).

Voor de kleine zender The Box was AlexFM een relatief duur programma en vanwege tegenvallende kijkcijfers beëindigde de eigenaar van The Box MTV Networks het programma voortijdig begin 2006. Tot september 2005 positioneerde zender The Box zich met het bijschrift Alex on the Box waar de titel van de serie ook op inspeelt.

Op maandag 27 juni 2011 maakte TeenNick bekend dat AlexFM vanaf maandag 4 juli 2011 weer te zien is op de zender. Op 4 oktober 2011 start TeenNick ook in Vlaanderen en zal ook AlexFM in de programmering opnemen en zal daarmee voor het eerst buiten Nederland te zien zijn op tv.

Sinds oktober 2012 is AlexFM niet meer te zien op TeenNick en is vervangen door onder andere Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Acteurs en rollen
 Loes Haverkort - Lin Peters
 Dunya Khayame - Nissrin
 Karien Noordhoff - Gina
 Mimi Ferrer - Sonja Sin
 Miryanna van Reeden - Karin
 Eva van der Gucht - Fatima
 Oren Schrijver - Sunny
 Horace Cohen - Nate Blumgarten
 Janna Fassaert
 Edwin Jonker - Max
 Monique van der Werff - Tinus
 Nabila Marhaben - Samira
 David Goddyn - Lukas
 Vincent Vianen

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Fans of "value investing" venture into unpopular sectors that most dare not enter, but what are the shares that contrarian investors should be considering snapping up at the start of 2015?
Research by Stockopedia.com, the specialist website, aims to answer this question for Telegraph Money readers.
While there are many ways of judging which shares are cheap, the firm has analysed the 644 shares in the FTSE All Share index and ranked each share by its Cape ratio, which compares a company's market value with its profits over the previous 10 years. Cape stands for "cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings".
Using this ratio, rather than a standard p/e valuation, strips out short-term anomalies and gives investors a better idea about whether a share is nearing a peak or at extreme lows. You can learn more about how Cape works here.
For the purposes of the exercise Stockopedia.com only included companies that have made profits in at least five of the last 10 years.
According to Ed Page Croft, chief executive of Stockopedia, this cuts out companies whose numbers may be skewed.
Of course, it's mostly shares that have recently tumbled that make the list.
This certainty rings true with the "cheapest" - oil and gas exploration company JKX Oil & Gas. Over the past year its share price has fallen 83pc, rocked by the plunging oil price, which has halved since June from $116 a barrel to $55 today.
The same also applies to eight of the other nine shares with the lowest Cape scores. Other big fallers over the past year include platinum producer Lonmin (falling 43pc) and Ladbrokes, whose share price has plunged (losing 38pc over the past year) after the Government upped the taxation of betting terminals.
The exception to the rule is Brit, an insurance company, which listed on the main market in March, moving across from the Aim junior market.
Mr Croft said speculative investors buying in today should view the heavy falls as an opportunity, if there is a long track record of profitability. Cape, after all, was developed and popularised by investor Benjamin Graham, who was mentor to the billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
"Legendary investor Benjamin Graham taught that valuations tend to mean revert and when this occurs the popular, expensive stocks often underperform as they run out of buyers, while value stocks often outperform as they run out of sellers," said Mr Page Croft. Mr Graham's fortune was built on contrarianism, placing large bets on groups of out of favour stocks, and letting the market do its magic,"
At the other end of the scale shares that have performed well in recent years are now deemed "expensive" on the Cape measure.
This does not mean investors should quickly press the sell button. Shares can remain "expensive" for several years and continue performing well.
The share with the highest Cape score is healthcare company BTG. Since 2009 the share price has more than doubled, from 379p to 795p.
Other shares in the ten expensive share list have also shot the lights out over the past five years, including Righmove (up 363pc), ITV (up 315pc), Hargreaves Lansdown (251pc) and Cineworld (up 175pc).
"Reviewing the two lists an investor would not be alone in feeling that the 'expensive' portfolio is a more promising collection, but those who fish for cheap shares will not find any here," Mr Croft said.


Paul Merson believes Xherdan Shaqiri could prove to be one of the wisest pieces of transfer business this summer.
The Swiss international has teased an underestimated importance at Liverpool with a superb pre-season after signing from Stoke City.
Shaqiri arrived for what looks to be a bargain fee of £13million, and has since raised eyebrows with an encouraging audition as an asset in both wider and central attacking positions.
A stunning overhead kick against Manchester United has been the pick of his contributions so far, not to mention a perfectly-weighted cross to assist Daniel Sturridge against Torino.
Liverpool's failure to sign an orthodox replacement for Philippe Coutinho has carved an opening for Shaqiri to play a key role this season.
The 26-year-old serves as much-needed strength in depth in wider areas, with a blend of scoring prowess and invention capable of slotting in for the likes of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane when necessary.
His tendency to cut inside and operate centrally can also see him help fill the club's no.10 void as a feeder to the runs of the Reds' front three.
Using him as a central playmaker would prove a valuable ploy in drawing defenders out of position as a means of breaching compact setups.
He may not be a regular starter, but Shaqiri will be another source of flexibility for Klopp to make good use of.