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School Starts Sept. 9
School begins for students in the Long Beach Unified School District on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
Registration and Immunizations
Last-minute pre-registration for students new to the Long Beach Unified School District begins Aug. 24 for high schools, Aug. 27 for middle schools, and Sept. 1 for elementary schools. Most students already registered during the spring. Pre-registration of students new to the school district is done on a first-come, first-served basis at each school. Most schools still have a few openings. If classes fill up at a neighborhood school, parents will be advised of the options available for their children to attend other schools in the district. To be eligible to enroll in kindergarten, children must be at least five years old by Dec. 2, according to state law.
Each school provides a registration packet with the required forms. An immunization record and proof of residency (current utility bill with name and address) are required. In kindergarten, a birth certificate is required. Schools can provide assistance in obtaining a birth certificate if it has been lost.
Proof of tuberculosis test results and records of all state-required immunizations against nine other childhood diseases are required for all kindergartners and other students new to the Long Beach Unified School District.
Low-cost immunizations are available from the Long Beach Health Department. For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call 570-4221.
The latest information about swine flu precautions and vaccination efforts can be obtained from the City of Long Beach Health and Human Services Department website.
Under the National School Lunch and Breakfast Program, family size and income are used to determine eligibility. Children from families whose income is at or below certain levels are eligible. Children who receive Food Stamps, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS), Kinship Guardian Assistance Payments (KinGAP), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) benefits are automatically eligible regardless of the income of the household in which they reside. Eligibility for a foster child is based on an indi-vidual application and on the student's personal use income.
Free and reduced-price meal applications have been mailed directly home via U.S. mail. Except for the foster child, only one application per household is required to participate in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. For households that do not receive one in the mail, applications are also available in the Nutrition Services Branch office, (562) 427-7923. Applications will be available at traditional-calendar schools during registration. Completed applications may be returned to any school site during registration or to the Nutrition Services office.
Applications may be submitted at any time during the school year. At the beginning of the school year, approved applications from the prior year are valid for a maximum 30 operating days or until a new application is processed.
A PIN, or a meal card with a corresponding bar-code for scanning purposes, is required for all students to be served a reimbursable meal. Students not qualifying for free or reduced-price meals must pay for their meals. A prepayment option, using their PIN, is available to all paid students. More detailed information is included in the meal application packet that has been mailed to households. At the elementary level, a paid student who does not have money for his/her meal will be given a meal and have the meal charged to his/her prepay account. This service will be discontinued once a negative balance of $10.00 is reached. Notification outlining the repayment process will be sent to the student's parent and/or guardian.
To find out what's for lunch in the school cafeteria, parents may call the Lunch Line at (562) 427-7923, ext. 400 on any school day before 11:30 a.m. or after 2:30 p.m. or visit www.lbschools.net and click on Nutrition Services in the A-Z index. Parents of students with special dietary needs may contact the Administrative Dietitian in the Nutrition Services Branch office at (562) 427-7923, extension 247.
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Spectacular views over the turquoise sea and when the sunset arrives in shades of orange your best spot is in of the two gazebo's on the seafront terraces. The natural materials used throughout this 580 m2 villa give it a robust and open character. The tropical courtyard garden and magnificent high ceilings are unique. Kas Dorrie is a true rockstar paradise.
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Niagara Academy of Sports camp will introduce your child to different sports in a fun and structured setting. Our camps focus on fun, training and development, mixed with frequent game-play, to create a varied and dynamic week of camp. Throughout the week, campers will learn and enhance a number of related skills through drills, practice and games, both indoors and outdoors, while also developing other important attributes of sport such as team building, co-operation, sportsmanship and responsibility. We focus on developing good habits, nurturing a positive sports mentality and building great moral character and leadership. In addition, campers will enjoy many other fun activities such as spirit events, other sports, crafts, and special events.
Multi-sport camps and activities are a great opportunity for participants to develop a variety of athletic skills in a supportive and fun environment. These types of programs teach a wide variety of sports in one session, such as tennis, baseball and soccer.
Campers from outside the region are placed with host families living in the local area. Campers can choose the types of sport activities that they will participate in during their prolonged stay. This is a great opportunity for campers to interact with new sports that they may not otherwise have access to, including tennis, rowing etc.
Local campers may want to have the option of trying new sports and activities. Depending on the type and duration of day camp, programming could focus on a different sport each day, or could focus on a particular sport each week.
Niagara Academy of Sports Coaches and Teachers are qualified, experienced, and CPR/First Aid certified. We recruit staff and coaches who are undergraduates and graduates, with full time experiences coaching and working at camps. We value a team that has a wide variety of sporting experiences and coaching certifications. Our coaching model follows the guidelines of the sport specific LTAD plan (long term athlete development) and our teachers adhere to the Ministry of Education course outlines for athlete development.
English as a second Language classes can be added to the Sports camp program for any international students who which to add to their camp experience.


Jason Knight was on the scoresheet for Republic of Ireland Under-19s against Azerbaijan today.
The young Derby County midfielder helped his country make it two wins from two in the UEFA Under-19 Championship qualifying Elite Round.
Knight, who started and played the full 90 minutes, got the second goal as Ireland beat Azerbaijan 3-1 in Russia.
Tyerik Wright put Ireland in front four minutes before the break, and then Knight doubled the lead with a finish just after the hour mark.
Kamran Guliyev pulled one back for Azerbaijan with 17 minutes left, but Jonathan Afolabi made the game safe 11 minutes later.
Fellow Rams Academy product Festy Ebosele was sent on as a substitute in added time.
Kyle McAllister made his Scotland Under-21 debut on Friday.
The winger, currently on loan at St Mirren from Derby, started the international friendly against Mexico – which ended goalless.
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McAllister was replaced five minutes into the second half by Celtic's Mikey Johnston.
Scotland had a golden opportunity to win the game in added time, but Johnston missed a penalty.
Rams duo Timi Elsnik and Sven Karic had a mixed afternoon on Friday.
Like McAllister, the Derby pair made their under-21 debuts, for Slovenia against Georgia.
Young goalkeeper Harry Halwax played the full 90 minutes as Republic of Ireland Under-17s were beaten by Finland.
A goal on the hour mark from striker Eetu Rissanen was the difference in the international friendly.


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MSIB: Cyberattack impacts MTSA facility operations
By Posted by LT Amy Midgett on December 30, 2019
The Coast Guard published Marine Safety Information Bulletin 10-19, "Cyberattack Impacts MTSA Facility Operations," Dec. 16, 2019, to inform the maritime community of a recent incident involving a ransomware intrusion at a Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulated facility.
Forensic analysis is currently ongoing but the virus, identified as "Ryuk" ransomware, may have entered the network of the MTSA facility via an email phishing campaign. Once the embedded malicious link in the email was clicked by an employee, the ransomware allowed for a threat actor to access significant enterprise Information Technology (IT) network files, and encrypt them, preventing the facility's access to critical files. The virus further burrowed into the industrial control systems that monitor and control cargo transfer and encrypted files critical to process operations. The impacts to the facility included a disruption of the entire corporate IT network (beyond the footprint of the facility), disruption of camera and physical access control systems, and loss of critical process control monitoring systems. These combined effects required the company to shut down the primary operations of the facility for over 30 hours while a cyber-incident response was conducted.
More information about the Ryuk ransomware is available on U.S. Cert's website.
At a minimum, the following measures may have prevented or limited the breach and decreased the time for recovery:
Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems to monitor real-time network traffic
Industry standard and up to date virus detection software
Centralized and monitored host and server logging
Network segmentation to prevent IT systems from accessing the Operational Technology (OT) environment
Up-to-date IT/OT network diagrams
Consistent backups of all critical files and software
The Coast Guard recommends facilities utilize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and NIST Special Publication 800-82 when implementing a Cyber Risk Management Program.
The Coast Guard urges maritime stakeholders to verify the validity of the email sender prior to responding to or opening any unsolicited email messages. Additionally, facility owners and operators should continue to evaluate their cybersecurity defense measures to reduce the effect of a cyber-attack. This release has been issued for public information and notification purposes only.
For more information on ransomware-related best practices and other resources please visit the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ransomware resource page.
As a reminder, suspicious activity and breaches of security, including breaches of telecommunications equipment, including computer, system and network security measures which support functions described in the facility security plan or could contribute to a Transportation Security Incident (TSI), must be reported to the National Response Center (NRC) at (800) 424-8802. For additional guidance on the defining and reporting of cyber incidents refer to CG-5P Policy Letter 08-16, "Reporting Suspicious Activity and Breaches of Security."
The Coast Guard encourages companies and their facilities to remain vigilant in the identification and prompt reporting of suspicious cyber-related activities. Questions pertaining to this bulletin may be directed to the Coast Guard Office of Port & Facility Compliance's Domestic Ports Division at (202) 372-1109.
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Al-Dana is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate. As part of the Dead Cities, Al-Dana, and its vicinity contain numerous ancient ruins which date back to the 3rd and 4th-century AD. A well-preserved Roman pyramid tomb, made of yellow stone and bearing elaborate carvings, is located to the north of the modern town center. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of Ancient Villages of Northern Syria in 2011.


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The Duke of Cambridge joins a Heads Together Father's Day breakfast
The Duke of Cambridge talked to dads and children of all ages along with mentors and the children they support, at a Heads Together Father's Day breakfast earlier this week.
Heads Together is encouraging people who are celebrating Father's Day to take the 'Heads Together Father's Day Challenge'. The Duke compèred the light-hearted quiz challenge for some of the dads, father figures and children at the Father's Day breakfast as well as hearing their personal experiences of parenthood and mentoring.
The people that The Duke talked to at the breakfast included:
Michael Conneely from Northamptonshire and his 5 year-old triplets, Michael, Ciara and Tadgh, who were born premature.
Father and daughter from Truro, Chris and Harriet Skidmore (21). Harriet was supported by her dad when she took a year out from university due to extreme Generalised Anxiety Disorder.
Lone father Brian Matthews and his son Dante Matthews (9) from north London who have sought support to improve their communication and relationship.
Don Simpson, a father from Kent who developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder through his experiences in the military and his adult daughter Carly.
David Wright, a dad from Acton in west London who sings in Chaps Choir, and his son Sugar-Ray Wright (11).
Paul and Norman Scates, a father and son from Bournemouth that support each other with their bipolar disorder.
Single Dad Peter Perren and 6 year-old son James, who were supported when James first moved to London to live with his Dad a year ago.
Scott Casson-Rennie, a father in a same-sex couple and their adopted son Jacob Casson-Rennie (9), who live in Cambridgeshire.
Carl Reid a mentor who has founded a community sports club from a south London, with the son of a family friend, Brendan Brown (13), who he has supported with mentoring, school work and life skills.
I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.
The Duke also wrote an article for the Heads Together website about how the campaign, which he is spearheading with the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, wants to help dads and father figures have the confidence to talk to children and each other about their feelings:
Today I celebrate my third Father's Day as a father. For me it is a day not just to celebrate how fortunate I am for my young family, but to reflect on just how much I've learned about fatherhood and the issues facing fathers in all walks of life. In particular, it is a time to reflect on my responsibility to look after not just the physical health of my two children, but to treat their mental needs as just as important a priority.
Along with Catherine and Harry I have been spending a lot of time working on issues around mental health.
What we have seen time and time again is that so many of the issues that adolescents and adults are dealing with can be linked to unresolved childhood challenges - addicts that were not getting treatment for a serious psychological condition that started in their teens; men who committed suicide who had been depressed since they were in primary school; homeless teenagers who could not confront significant emotional challenges.
While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had found it easier to talk openly about mental health challenges in the home. And I have been really disheartened to learn that even with all the progress made in recent years, many parents would still be ashamed if their children had a mental health problem.
Recent surveys have found that over half of parents have never broached the topic of mental well-being with their children, and a third would feel like failures if their child needed help. That's so sad - no parents whose child needs help is a failure. Taking the next step and actually getting help is what matters.
We know that fathers find asking for help harder than mothers. Less than a third of fathers say they believe that the emotional needs of their children is a fundamental priority. It is often said that fathers can often find it hard to talk about their own feelings so there's no wonder they struggle to speak to their son or daughter about the topic.
But we don't really have a choice. I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.
One of the great generational shifts that has taken place in society is how much attitudes to mental health have changed: we know today what was not well known or acknowledged in the past. A fifth of children will have a mental health issue by their eleventh birthday. And left unresolved, those mental health issues can alter the course of a child's life forever.
So on this Father's Day, I encourage all fathers to take a moment to ask their children how they are doing. Take the opportunity to discuss how you are coping with life and fatherhood with your wife, partner or with your friends. And know that if your son or daughter ever needs help, they need their father's guidance and support just as much as they need their mother's.
Let's get our #HeadsTogether
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Are you a resident of Hawthorne, at least 18 years old, and suffer from a painful or serious medical condition? Then you might be a good candidate to purchase and use medical marijuana. Under newly updated Florida laws, those who are recommended by a licensed doctor may now qualify to legally use cannabis in their treatment plans.
After you submit your application, your marijuana ID card will be issued to you within 30 days if approved. The card is valid for one year and can be renewed by scheduling a follow-up meeting with your doctor. This card allows you to purchase cannabis at any licensed dispensary in the state such as Knox Medical and Trulieve in Gainesville. The professional staff at these dispensaries can help you navigate which treatment option is for you. Though you may not buy any type of marijuana that can be smoked under Florida state law, you can buy other types such as pills, topicals, and edibles. The dispensary staff will be able to answer any questions you might have about the best type of cannabis for you.
If you've tried other treatment plans or you don't like the side effects of your current medication, consider scheduling an appointment with a doctor who can determine if you're an ideal medical marijuana candidate.
To qualify to purchase medical marijuana, you must suffer from a serious medical condition and have exhausted all other treatment options. You also must be a legal resident of Florida. Schedule an appointment today to be seen by a licensed medical marijuana doctor to find out if you qualify. There a few doctors you can choose to see near you in Gainesville including Compassionate Care Clinics, DoctorsRx Medical Marijuana Center, and Florida Medical Marijuana Doctors. When you visit with your doctor, he or she will extensively examine you and your medical history in order to determine if medical marijuana is an appropriate treatment plan for you. Qualifying medical conditions include chronic pain, cancer, Parkinson's, epilepsy and similar conditions. If it's determined that you qualify to be a medical marijuana patient, the doctor will write a recommendation. After you receive the recommendation, submit it, along with an application, to the Florida Department of Health.


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Home More How To Survival Guns: Advantages of the 20-Inch AR-15
Survival Guns: Advantages of the 20-Inch AR-15
On the left, the Del-Ton AR-15A2, on the right the Century International Arms C15A1. Note the shorter overall length of the C15A1 versus the A2 Del-Ton. The C15A1 has been set up for multiple patrol and entry duties with the addition of an Inova carbon fiber tactical light on a Midwest Industries tower sight rail adaptor. A SIG mini red dot sight has been mounted on the carry handle via a Tapco carry handle rail adaptor. The author used the lightest weight red dot and light available so as not to destroy the near perfect weight and balance of the original M16A1 rifle configuration.
20-Inch AR-15 as a Survival Gun
My primary survival rifle is the C15A1 produced by Century International Arms. Using an original surplus M16A1 upper receiver—forward assist, no case deflector, birdcage-enclosed flash suppressor, original triangular handguards, and fool-proof sights, Century added a new 20-inch, 1:9 barrel, a new forged lower receiver, and topped it off with an original, shorter, exactly-right-the-first-time A1 buttstock.
I'm here to tell you, this is the gun I would keep if I could keep only one for civil survival. I keep it absolutely stock, just as it came from the factory , and it rides in my personal vehicle as my primary off-duty arm. With it I can respond to active shooters, barricades, warrant service, or entry. The C15 snaps quickly up to the shoulder, swings like a lively field shotgun, can be carried all day with a basic weight of 6.5 pounds (you gotta love that) and, because of the 20-inch barrel, retains the full ballistic potential of the 5.56 round.
If the Marines hadn't gotten their way in the development of the A2 version in terms of adding the longer buttstock, heavy barrel, and overbuilt sight system (as a corps of riflemen, their reason for the changes wrought was the enhancement of long-range accuracy and so I find no fault with the concept), there would have been much less need for the M4 carbine, which is replacing the full-length rifle in all branches of service.
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Other advantages of the 20-inch C15A1 include:
It is much smoother shooting than M4-type carbines with their short gas tube. There is definitely less abruptness to the operation.
Heat buildup is not as bad, due to the longer distance that the tapped gasses follow back to the bolt carrier during firing.
It gives a longer sight radius for iron sight use.
It gives longer reach with a bayonet mounted.
There is no fooling with stock adjustment, it is always right.
If you desire, electronic sights can be mounted on the carry handle or with a forward scout-type system.
A weapons light can be added with a front sight tower adapter. (Midwest Industries is a great source for these.)
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Scott Wagner is a 32-year law enforcement veteran. Currently a police sergeant in Baltimore, Ohio, he spent 20 years with the Union County Ohio Sheriff's Office as a Reserve Deputy where he worked patrol, training and SWAT, and was the assistant SWAT team leader and a team sniper. Wagner has been a state-certified police firearms, fitness and defensive tactics instructor for 26 years, and has been a criminal justice professor and police academy commander for 20 years at a community college in the Midwest. He is the author of the Gun Digest books, "Tactical Shotguns,", "Own the Night—A Guide to Tactical Lights and Laser Sights," and Survival Guns.
nate89 July 13, 2015 at 10:55 pm
I seriously hope nobody is taking this article seriously. I understand if you have a 20″ gun and are looking for options to improve it for yourself, and I understand if you like 20″ guns, there is nothing wrong with that. I do hope that the cheap optic in a cheap mount raising the optic to where chin weld would be optimistic, the very though of a 5″ further reach with a bayonet as a police officer (please cite one instance where any officer in the United States has ever legitimately used a bayonet in the line of duty), and other discrepancies here turn serious students away and towards a more credible and logical source of information.
ourichie July 20, 2014 at 9:21 pm
I believe Magpul's MOE Rifle stock is roughly the same LoP as the A1.
This is a great article. It was very informative and shows that the full size AR15 is still extremely viable in today's world. It is what I prefer to the shorter carbine.


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Vladimir Putin deploys troops to Ukrainian border in response to NATO exercises
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As NATO carried out its biggest exercise in Poland since the end of communism in 1989 – complete with a display of thousands of paratroopers – it emerged that Russian troops have been deployed to the Ukrainian border.
Scores of U.S. troops and then military vehicles parachuted into a spacious, grassy training area on the outskirts of the central city of Torun.
The force's mission was to secure a bridge on the Vistula River as part of the Polish-led Anakonda-16 exercise that involves about 31,000 troops and runs through mid-June.
Nineteen NATO member nations and five partner nations are contributing troops to the exercise that will train and test their swift joint reaction to threats on land, sea and in the air.
Scores of U.S. troops and military vehicles parachuted into a spacious, grassy training area on the outskirts of the central city of Torun
Camouflage: Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division General Richard D. Clarke, left, runs after jumping during a multi-national jump
M3 Amphibious Rigs from 23 Amphibious Engineer Troop and Pionierbattalion 130 of the German Bundeswehr ferried some of the US 2nd Cavalry Regiment across the River Vistula in Poland as part of the biggest exercise in Poland since the end of communism in 1989
But 750 miles due east in the Russian town of Klintzy on the northern Ukrainian border, President Putin is building a new army base, the latest in a chain of new military sites along what the Kremlin sees as its frontline in a growing confrontation with NATO.
The defence ministry has not acknowledged the deployment of troops to Klintsy, which usually serves as a stop for truck drivers travelling between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
However, a town council official said Klintsy had been chosen as the site of a newly-formed division, and that so far about 240 soldiers had arrived. 'What's to hide? That they've come? They've arrived,' said council deputy chairman Oleg Kletny. 'They're going to be garrisoned here.'
When completed, the base will be the latest component in a build-up of forces along a line running from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.
In a complex operation that was precisely planned and timed, troops of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division flew directly from their U.S. base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina – their Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft were refueled in midair
The Western alliance, which says it's responding to Russian military intervention in Ukraine, was this week staging one of its biggest exercises in eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War
On the western side of the line, NATO has been rotating troops and equipment in greater numbers to members states that were part of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact during the Cold War.
The Western alliance, which says it's responding to Russian military intervention in Ukraine, was this week staging one of its biggest exercises in eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.
In a complex operation that was precisely planned and timed, troops of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division flew directly from their U.S. base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Their Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft were refueled in midair. The British troops flew from a NATO base in Ramstein, Germany, while the Poles arrived from their base in Krakow, in southern Poland.
The exercise 'confirmed that we can count on our friends who are capable of flying over the Atlantic to be here with us in a matter of hours,' said Polish Gen. Miroslaw Rozanski, deputy commander of the exercise. 'We can look into the future with calm. We have good allies and good partners.'
The British troops flew from a NATO base in Ramstein, Germany, while the Poles arrived from their base in Krakow, in southern Poland
British Airborne forces joined NATO counterparts in mass parachute jumps and air assault operations as part of a simulated mission to restore stability to a troubled region as part in Exercise Swift Response
Russia considers NATO troops' presence close to its border as a security threat. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Tuesday in Moscow that the military exercise in Poland 'does not contribute to the atmosphere of trust and security on the continent.'
Poland and other nations in the region, as well as NATO leaders, say that any military presence or exercises are purely defensive and deterrent measures.
The drill is being held just weeks before NATO holds a crucial summit in Warsaw expected to decide that significant numbers of NATO troops and equipment will be based in Poland and in the Baltic states.
US troop's heavy equipment lands with parachutes at the military compound near Torun, central Poland
But 750 miles due east in the Russian town of Klintzy on the northern Ukrainian border, President Putin is building a new army base, the latest in a chain of new military sites along what the Kremlin sees as its frontline in a growing confrontation with NATO
Russia considers NATO troops' presence close to its border as a security threat. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Tuesday in Moscow that the military exercise in Poland 'does not contribute to the atmosphere of trust and security on the continent'
The drill is being held just weeks before NATO holds a crucial summit in Warsaw expected to decide that significant numbers of NATO troops and equipment will be based in Poland and in the Baltic states
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⬅ I Don't Know What To Pray!
I love reading mystery novels. I love the twists, the turns & the unknown ending. The whole point of a good mystery is that you know the ending will turn out well. There will be lots of questions, confusions & troubles. But in the end things will turn out right; turn out with the hero or heroine of the story solving the problems & saving the day.
Mark wrote a story to people who were facing impossible situations. His whole point was to tell them – help is here. You don't have to solve this mess on your own. You are not alone. Someone with great power & authority is with you to help you in the middle of your mess.
The time promised by God has come at last.
Turn from your way of handling life.
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven.
He sat at the right hand of God.
The disciples went out & preached everywhere.
The Lord worked with them.
He confirmed his word by signs that accompanied them.
We are right in the middle of Easter Week. Globally & maybe for you personally it has been a frightening & confusing week. We woke up yesterday to terrorist attacks in Brussels. Have you asked the question or thought the thought: God, Where are you?
We have a real Enemy who wants us to move into panic & fear. He wants us to hide in our homes. He wants us to suspend activities. Suspend life!
Let's look at that last sentence in Mark's story. Remember, Jesus had gone back to heaven. Look at what happened next.
My prayer for you & for me is that we will experience Resurrection Day 2016 in a new & life transforming way.
Keep checking in over the next few days as we explore the depths of the familiar story.
May you be filled with Joyful Anticipation because you now know the ' end of the story'.


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Westerhout 49-2 (W49-2) is a very massive and luminous star in the H II region Westerhout 49. At a mass of 250 solar masses (although with significant uncertainty) and a luminosity of over , it is one of the most massive and most luminous known stars.

Properties
Westerhout 49-2 is located within the H II region Westerhout 49, about 11.1 kiloparsecs from the Sun. The star is heavily reddened, by nearly 5 magnitudes in the K band, the most of any star in the region. Westerhout 49-2 is classified as an evolved slash star, with a spectral type of O2-3.5If*. The star is one of the most luminous stars known, with a luminosity of , and has a temperature of about 35,500 K, corresponding to a radius of over 55 times that of the Sun.

Uncertainties
There is significant uncertainty about Westerhout 49-2's properties.  One estimate using mass-luminosity relations finds a mass between 90 and .  Its mass is likely higher than the theoretical upper limit of 150 M☉, which means it could be a binary, if x-rays are detected. Westerhout 49-1, 49-2 and 49-12 are all bright x-ray sources, which means they could all be binary stars and their masses would be lower than the predicted mass if they were single stars.

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BU senior finds success with NYC theatre productions
Student uses skills from campus courses to produce musical shows
By Melanie Gulbas - September 5, 2019
A Binghamton University student is using skills developed in her courses to produce theatre shows in New York City.
Last summer, Molly Heller, a senior majoring in theatre, interned at Feinstein's/54 Below in the programming department and took an interest in producing. Using the knowledge she gained in her internship, she signed a contract with the New York City cabaret and restaurant as a producer.
Heller solo-produced two shows at Feinstein's/54 Below, with her June show, "54 Sings the '90s," becoming a sold-out success. Heller said her latest production, "54 Sings Ed Sheeran," helped her build a network of cast members that she can call to help her with future productions.
"I am so lucky to work with some of the most kind and talented people," Heller wrote in an email. "With '54 Sings Ed Sheeran,' I was so much more confident, as I had already produced a successful concert earlier this summer."
Heller will be co-producing two upcoming shows at the same venue. One of the concerts is "54 Celebrates Music of Empowering, Female Pop Icons," which will be co-produced with fellow BU student Carly Heitner, a junior majoring in English. Heller will also be co-producing "54 Sings Carole King."
Heller and Heitner have worked together on previous shows, with Heitner helping Heller on her very first show this past summer.
"These next two will be the first time I have a co-producer, so it will for sure be nice to have a partner in crime," Heller wrote.
"54 Celebrates Music of Empowering, Female Pop Icons" will highlight Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Beyoncé, Shania Twain, Whitney Houston and more. Heller said the show will celebrate the empowerment of women and pure fun.
She also said she is excited to produce "54 Sings Carole King."
"I was shocked that '54 Sings Carole King' has not already been done, so I jumped at the chance," Heller wrote. "I love her music and her story, so why not celebrate her music?"
When it comes to producing, Heller said she tries to give the performers some freedom in choosing what songs they sing. Essentially, she runs the booking, chooses the cast, hires the music director and comes up with the ideas.
"I really just hope everyone has fun!" Heller wrote. "That's why we do this. To make people smile and sing and have a good time."
There are no auditions for Heller's shows. Instead, she contacts performers that she believes would enjoy singing the genre of music she chooses. Most performers spend less than an hour rehearsing with the music director in the days leading up to the show.
"Everyone I have worked with is so talented and kind," Heller wrote. "I have really made such incredible friends through this while gaining the best experience I could ask for."
To help balance her time, Heller plans her concerts during breaks from BU and during other periods when she has a lighter workload. She said she has utilized skills that BU courses have taught her, such as being able to look at music and art from different viewpoints, as well as enhancing her performance skills.
"[Broadway for Beginners course] helped immensely with my communication skills and helped get rid of my crippling stage fright," Heller said. "I would not be able to get on stage at my shows if it were not for that class."
At 21 years old, Heller said she feared not being respected in the industry, but she has been pleasantly surprised.
"I have received so much love from colleagues and cast members and it truly warms my heart," Heller wrote. "I also value the guidance that I have received from other producer friends and am excited to be able to give advice to new and aspiring concert producers."
Heller said she hopes she can inspire others to take a risk by meeting and talking to as many contacts as possible. She said it is important to ask for advice, and she still leans on her friends when she needs guidance.
"Breathe, stay calm," she wrote. "Things are bound to go wrong, but everything can be fixed as long as you keep your head on straight and have a positive and calm mindset. Be yourself, be kind, be confident and take chances. Don't let anyone tell your passions and dreams are invalid."
"54 Celebrates the Music of Empowering, Female Pop Icons" will be held on Jan. 4 at 11:30 p.m. at Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City, and "54 Sings Carole King" will be on Feb. 2 at 9:30 p.m. For tickets and info, call 646-476-3551.
Editor's note: Carly Heitner was a contributing writer for Pipe Dream's Arts & Culture section from November 2017 to February 2019.
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Poll: 73% of College Democrats Support Removing Statues of Founding Fathers
A new poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of college democrats support the removal of statues of America's Founding Fathers. Students around the nation have launched campaigns that call for the removal of campus statues of American icons such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Only four percent of college republicans agree.
According to a poll by the College Fix, 73 percent of Democratic college students support recent efforts to remove statues of American icons. By contrast, only four percent of Republican college students said that they supported the removal of statues of the Founding Fathers.
Although some leftist respondents conceded that the Founding Fathers made positive contributions to American society, they argue that they should not be "memorialized" on American college campuses because of their attitudes on race.
"The founding fathers did some good things. They also did some bad things. I don't see why we need to memorialize them," one Democratic student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater said.
Some students pushed back against recent campaigns to erase America's history. One student pointed out that leftists often minimize the flaws of progressive icons like Martin Luther King Jr.
"We don't expect these people to be perfect, we expect them to be excellent. And by the way, Washington freed his slaves after his death and so did Jefferson (not all, but some). Would you support taking down MLK's statue because he was homophobic?" a student from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute argued.
Even some educators have been arrested after participating in the destruction of statues of individuals that have shaped the United States. Breitbart News reported in June that Rhode Island middle school teacher Derrick Garforth was arrested in connection to the vandalism of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island.
Breitbart News reported in June that protesters tore down a statue of Thomas Jefferson at a high school in Portland, Oregon. "We're taking this city back," one protester said. "One school at a time. One racist statue at a time."
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WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? – Review by Loren King
January 4, 2019 January 6, 2019 Loren King 0 Comments astra taylor, cornel west, documentaries, efimia karakantza, silvia federici, what is democracy?
At a time when pundits, philosophers and politicians routinely talk about the attacks on democracy all around the world, and when critics of the current US president observe that he regularly runs roughshod over democratic norms, could there be a more vital film right now than What is Democracy? Filmmaker and activist Astra Taylor offers a thoughtful examination of the meaning and origins of democracy as she traces its evolution from Plato to the current rise of autocrats in Europe and the US.
Canada born Taylor's previous films — Žižek! (2005) about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Examined Life (2008) about contemporary philosophers — also explored the big questions. What is Democracy? is a fascinating overview and a provocative critique that is rooted in recent movements such as the Arab Spring, anti-austerity protests in Greece, and Occupy Wall Street.
Taylor herself appears on camera to interview scholars and philosophers, most of them women. They include Italy's Silvia Federici who is the down-to-earth professor you'll wish you had at any level of school. She uses a church mural in Siena, Italy to guide us through the early days of European democracy. There's also Greek scholar Efimia Karakantza who enthusiastically but cogently explains, tracing lines in the dirt, how ancient Athens conceived of a system that forced citizens to work together. American scholar Cornel West brilliantly breaks down how democracy can't work for all when the majority is an oppressive one.
None of this comes across as dry or academic. Taylor travels around the globe to interview her subjects and the settings, particular Greece, are spectacular. I don't need to see or hear one more ill-informed Trump supporter cheer MAGA or defend a border wall, but Taylor's film essay includes ordinary folks as well as scholars, the bottom as well as the top. This seems crucial to one of her film's most salient points: that global capitalism and multinational corporations are antithetical to democracy because they directly causes economic inequality. Even Plato observed that a wealth gap will lead to a rise in tyranny and the downfall of democracy.
Democracy is complicated and demanding. What is Democracy? is a searing reminder of what's at stake and the vigilance that's required for such a complex system to work. If that sounds depressing, well, we just have to look around and see the consequences of inaction and complacency.
EDITOR'S NOTE: What is Democracy? is AWFJ's Movie of the Week for January 11, 2019
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Loren King's features and film reviews appear regularly in the Boston Globe, Boston Spirit magazine and the Provincetown Banner. She writes Scene Here, a localfilm column, in the Boston Sunday Globe. A member of the Boston Society of Film Critics since 2002, she served as its president for five years.


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My first experience with the concept of a plumb line was watching one of our parsonage homes being built. I was in kindergarten and completely impressed with the earth movers, cement trucks and piles of building supplies. Each day we would visit the site to see the progress. Early in the process a group of fellows came out and placed a large yellow tripod in the middle of the site where the house was going and they began to all around carrying a tall yard stick. They hammered stakes in the ground and tied strings around the stakes where the corners of the house would later stand. It began to rain and they left. After the rain my dad and I went back to look at the work. He attention was diverted to with one of the trustees. I saw how the water had made the stakes loose and the strings a bit droopy. So I found a rock and knock the stakes in good and tight again and straitened the strings to they looked nice and tight. For some reason those men had to come back the next day and start all over..
The first time I bought a chalk line to measure tiles for a floor. I did not a buy the chalk to go with the plumb device. My assumption was that the chalk was only used to maintain the life of the line inside the plumb and since it was new I could probably save a couple dollars and buy the chalk later. We got read to measure of the sections in the floor and I pulled out my brand new plumb line. It was shiny chrome with a easy grip crank and a weighted hook on the end. The foreman at our mission trip seemed impressed that this young fellow has brought the proper tools for the job and asked me to snap a few lines. Honestly, I had no idea what he meant. Obviously I had never use this tool before. But it seemed reasonable that i needed to pull out the string and give it a snap in the place we needed to measure. As we started the task he commented that he had never seen one with white chalk on the line. I replied, this is a new one and it didn't need any of that old-school chalk. He directed from a distance and we pulled the string tight and i pulled back the string and POP! I snapped my first line. It left no mark, of course, I tried again, with a good snap, I though it was simple to get the slack out of the line. I grabbed my pencil and started marking a pencil line along the string. The forman ran over and said, what in the world are you doing. I said, I'm drawing a line. After he snapped the line and saw no chalk his began to howl with laughter. The good news was he had a container of chalk, and I got my first lesson in drawing lines for construction. The chalk left the mark of where the line had been drawn.
The prophet Amos had been a landscape engineer and an animal care technician by trade and suddenly God places him as a prophet with a building project and new tools. Namely the plumb line. It is a very ancient tool. We look structures built thousands of years ago with perfectly straight lines and alignments with celestial bodies and precise measure of seasons and we know the plumb line has been around for a long, long time.
The flexibility of the string, the adaptabilty of the strings length, the weight of the point, gives an ancient awareness of the effects of gravity and the perspectives of distance, space and trigonometry, long before these forces and principles were given science and definition. The tools that measure what we do not fully understand but can trust their accuracy are at the heart of the prophet's message and authority.
Amos was the first to affirm that it was not his words, but God's words. It was God's leading and motivation and not his experience nor his idea. Much like Noah's rainbow was a sign set in the sky to remind God of God's promise. Amos's plumb line is a chalked marker for God not to forget. Q: Does God have a memory problem? No.
The answer is in the prophet himself. We don't know a great deal about Amos, but we know he is willing to listen, trust and speak God's mind rather than his own.
Who is willing to remind our leaders what is Godly? Truth, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Justice, Mercy, Care for the Widow and the Orphan.
Amos was a messenger to the kings and the people. Where is the voice of Amos today? Some would say it is dangerous to mix politics and faith. But I would suggest that Amos is a clear demarkation in the structures of both politics and worship that calls for God to be remembered, revered and respected.
God's words to Amos is this, "We cannot not claim ignorance nor apathy any more than God can." If you have not voted early, what are your waiting for. It's not appropriate for me to tell you who to vote for, but if the voice of God is not repeated by God's people, then WHO will remind us? God has not forgotten.
Who among us will speak up with Amos and point out the lines of justice, righteous, mercy, justice, purpose and even love.
Who will our children listen to about respecting piers, marriage, and family?
Who will our youth turn to what they face failures, trials and questions?
Who will our adults turn to when we are lulled to believe someone else will lead, speak or go?
Who will our families and households trust when faithless folks promise prosperity, happiness and success?
Amos' witness has remained over two thousand years, and his actions still remind us, but he is one voice. What are you doing with your voice, your witness? your faith?
God has a standard and the world around us has forgotten it, not God. Who will speak up? Who will keep silent?
I'm not able said Amos, God said, " Go point out my heart and truth, and go now." Who is with me?
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Twenty years later, Tark's Rebels still carry an unparalleled mystique
Andy Glockner
Five Runnin' Rebels stand proudly in front of the stars and stripes, looking left in unison. "First Team All-America" it says on top, and in their stately red jerseys with the almost-baggy shorts, Anderson Hunt, Greg Anthony, Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon and George Ackles look every bit the part.
"They don't make them anymore," Grossman said of the poster. He could have been referring to the team itself. For one season, that 1990-91 season, UNLV was all of America's team. Twenty years later, we still haven't seen one quite like it.
Those Rebels were the defending national champs and returned three future high-first round draft picks -- Johnson (No. 1 overall), Augmon (9), Anthony (12) -- because leaving early for the pros wasn't yet the norm. There was a coach comfortable wearing a black hat, although if you looked closer, it contained considerable shades of gray. There was infighting on campus, with an administration trying to derail the juggernaut that simultaneously was building and undermining the school's reputation.
Then there was Vegas itself, with all its implications and reputations and characters who got a little too close for anyone's comfort. And the NCAA, rightly and/or overzealously, hounding the program at every turn. And the 34-0 start and the massive margins of victory and the fastbreak dunks. Lots of dunks.
Most important to these Rebels' lasting mystique: There was relatively little TV coverage. We all saw the scores and the highlights, and we wanted to see more.
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Of course, the '90-91 Runnin' Rebels fell two wins short of a national title (and perfect season). But that doesn't reduce the colossal imprint this group left on the national sports spectrum.
Here is the story of that UNLV team, the most compelling college squad of the modern era, through the eyes of people who did watch them play.
"Wow, that team was the best team I have ever coached against," Pacific coach Bob Thomason said without hesitation. "They really had a perfect starting lineup and the guys coming off the bench -- they played seven and they had two other guys who helped a little. I was always impressed by how hard they played and the type of defense they played. They all knew their roles."
Thomason, now entering his 23rd season at the Stockton, Calif., school, was just in his third year there when his Tigers lost by 20 at home and then by 21 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Big West play. The faint silver lining was that both results were better than how the Rebels' average opponent fared (UNLV's average margin of victory was about 27 points). The Tigers even had the nerve to make a run at the Rebels in the second half in Vegas.
"Then all of a sudden, they came out and went to Larry Johnson -- bang, bang, bang, bang," Thomason recalled. "He scored a basket and got fouled a couple times. I called timeout and I couldn't even hear in that place. I couldn't even talk to the guys because it was so loud."
The Big West has fallen off the national radar since UNLV left for the WAC in 1996 and Thomason knows firsthand what the Rebels meant to the conference.
"A lot of players that we had come into our program was because Vegas was in our league," he said. "They helped a lot of teams recruit. People wanted to play against Vegas because they knew they were a national power."
Brad Rothermel's tenure as UNLV's athletic director ended a few months after the Rebels won the 1990 national title. In his words, he was tired of acting as the referee in the escalating battle between coach Jerry Tarkanian and school president Dr. Robert Maxson, and took a role as a professor.
That's not to say he's neutral in his opinion of what was happening behind the scenes.
"What we did that was remarkable was to win it in '90 when we had maybe the only university president in the history of the NCAA who didn't want his team to win the national championship," Rothermel said. "To overcome that was extraordinary."
In a 1992 hearing called by the state in the aftermath of Tarkanian's eventual firing, Rothermel testified that Maxson had asked him as early as 1984, when Maxson first arrived at the school, about whether Tarkanian had done anything that was cause for dismissal. Like a modern-day Ahab, Maxson's pursuit of "The Shark" never waned, and Rothermel believes a lot of UNLV's perception as a renegade program -- one that was portrayed by multiple people interviewed for this story as media overhype -- was created and nurtured by Maxson and his allies.
"The important thing about that was [the image] was created by our own institution," said Rothermel, who is back with the athletic department in an advisory role. "Our own president and his administration wanted to give the perspective that we were thugs and we were uncontrollable and were not very good students academically."
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Rothermel makes sure to note that 10 of the 14 members of the 1990 national championship team have earned their UNLV degrees.
Current BYU associate coach Dave Rice was the "other junior college transfer" who arrived in the fall of 1989 with Larry Johnson. Needless to say, he and the other reserves didn't see much playing time over the next two seasons, but it may not be why you think.
"Maybe at times the perception was that it was a team that wasn't overly deep," Rice said. "Not to be self-serving, but I'd probably disagree with that a little bit. It's just the fact that the guys who were playing the minutes were so good."
Rice, who spent 11 seasons as an assistant coach with the Rebels after graduating with a 3.95 GPA, also gives added credence to claims that perceptions of UNLV's attitude were overblown.
"Swagger is a word that epitomized that team, but it was a confidence that came from a coaching staff that every single day talked about hard work and that we deserved to win because we worked harder than anyone else," he said.
"Practices often were more competitive than some of the games. When your best players are also among your hardest workers, and those guys were as good as they were, you have a chance to be very successful."
ESPN and CBS analyst Jay Bilas was a Duke assistant coach for both the 1990 national title game, UNLV's 103-73 rout, and the following year's 79-77 Final Four upset that stopped the Rebels two games short of hoops immortality.
In his recollection, neither game fits snugly into its established reputation.
"In the '90 game, I think after the game, the [Duke] coaching staff just said, 'They're just better than we are,'" Bilas said. "It got away from us, though. They were better, but they weren't 30 points better. When the game started going downhill, we didn't do the things that we needed to do to stop it."
In the days between the 1991 regional finals and the Final Four, the staff held a preparatory meeting before the rematch with the Rebels. The assistant coaches were in agreement that the Blue Devils shouldn't watch the film of the first meeting, figuring there was no point in reinforcing memories of the blowout. According to Bilas, coach Mike Krzyzewski immediately overruled, wanting to point out exactly how many of the mistakes in the 1990 game were actually of Duke's own doing.
"What Coach K sold to the team was if you clean these things up and play the way you're capable of playing, we're going to be in the game at the end," Bilas said. "And if we're in the game at the end, we're going to win because that's what we do. They've not been there all year long."
Two days after shocking the Runnin' Rebels, Duke beat Kansas for its first national title. The Blue Devils were champions, but still not necessarily No. 1.
"Even though this sounds like blasphemy, they were the best team," Bilas said of the '91 Rebels. "The best team doesn't always win in college basketball and the NCAA tournament. But that was the best team. They had proven it all year long."
After Duke knocked off the Rebels, Las Vegas was devastated. Ultimately, so was the UNLV program.
"It's 20 years later. I have not watched that game fully since myself," said Marc Ratner, a UFC vice president and longtime Vegas resident who also operates the shot clock during UNLV home games. "The whole town, we were all watching. I think people went in mourning after that."
The following season, with an NCAA tournament ban from multiple transgressions finally hanging over their heads, the Rebels started to lose their cachet. With Tarkanian as a lame duck, recruits began to look elsewhere, and ticket scalpers began to vanish. Eventually, what was a true Vegas experience -- fireworks, rabid crowds and a full-throttle style -- went the way of the city's once-legendary $3.99 buffets.
Tarkanian did enjoy one more good laugh at Maxson's expense, going 25-2 in 1992 with five new starters and no postseason as a reward. The Rebels finished seventh in the final AP poll. In 1994, Maxson left for Long Beach State -- ironically where Tarkanian got his start -- and was widely praised for his work at that school when he stepped down as president in 2006.
"The way it all ended here with the university president on one side and the fans dividing them up, it was a horrible, horrible way to end this could-be dynasty, or would-be dynasty," Ratner said.
The mastermind of it all is spending the summer of his 80th birthday down in San Diego, whiling away the days at Del Mar racetrack with other retired coaches, but Jerry Tarkanian is happy to talk about the best team he ever coached.
"I've said over and over again, it was the only year in my entire career where I went into games basically thinking we were going to win," he said. "There was no way we were going to lose. I mean it was just an incredible year. We were so good. We didn't have a close game the whole year until we lost to Duke."
The Big West, generally noted as a weak point in UNLV's alltime greatness argument, actually was a three-bid conference in 1990 and sent two teams in 1991. Still, the league really was a one-team show, with UNLV winning it 11 straight seasons from 1983-1993. It was in nonleague play where Tarkanian really tested his teams, and the way the Rebels handled those challenges -- including a comfortable win at No. 2 Arkansas in February 1991 -- created new problems.
"We played some tough teams and we played them on the road and we just killed everybody," Tarkanian said. "All year long, I was telling our guys how tough the games would be and then we'd go out and blow them away."
You can tell the losses still bother him. He was complimentary of those who beat him, but also noted the circumstances of several of his toughest defeats, including the debatable charge on Greg Anthony that fouled out the Rebels' floor leader with more than three minutes remaining against the Blue Devils in the fatal 1991 semifinal.
He also will talk about the NCAA and how Anthony was suspended for a game once over a can of hotel nuts. He truly believes college's governing body was out to get him, and the $2.5 million harassment settlement he won in 1998 gives him some ammunition. That doesn't mean you should forget about the host of violations around the recruitment of Lloyd Daniels or the infamous hot tub picture of three Rebels with felon Richie "The Fixer" Perry or how Long Beach State was slammed with two years of probation right after he left or any of the other indiscretions, real or alleged. It does, though, provide some nuance.
In closing, Tarkanian sums up everything about the Rebels' glory years and why his teams resonated.
"It was a unique time. It really was," he said. "The town was really in love with these kids."
So were we.


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I was so busy working that I completely forgot about Jay.
Vice regrets telling Syun his telephone number.
Jerrie makes his own wine at home.
Brandy's smarter than you, you know.
Panacea is an unlucky guy.
Liber wanted revenge for the death of Josip.
Wilson and Piete have been friends since high school.
I heard that you helped Christina find a job.
Gunter bought a camera that was over-priced.
Shamim gave a lot of suggestions, but I didn't like any of them.
Toft intends to live in Boston for more than a year.
Hilda took heart and, sure enough, on New Year's Eve he was able to hobble along to a party.
Lindsay is afraid of Dawson, isn't he?
Peter bought a scarf for Sandra on Monday.
I haven't seen Oliver since he left.
Fritz gave me a black eye.
I promise that I'll take care of Alvin.
I had to wait until Lui was asleep.
Lord told Mechael what he'd seen on TV.
Can't Elliott get someone else to do it?
Elisabeth and Hotta like to sing.
Tharen was so flirting with you.
Delbert and Elliot are still playing ping pong.
Kolkka can sleep in my room.
Kerri is the best man for the job.
Hon walked into Warren's office.
Marlena took off all his clothes.
Ramanan was by far the best singer tonight.
Sam wanted me to come get him.
Dirk can't talk right now.


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Google 2, Oracle 1: The Fast-Growing API Economy Survives a Major Scare
In 2010 Oracle sued Google over patent infringement regarding the use of 37 Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to accelerate the development of its Android OS for smartphones and other mobile devices, and thus compete with Apple's highly successful 2008 launch of the iPhone.
The latest of three lawsuits – following the original 2010 case and the 2012 appeal that overturned the 2010 verdict in favor of Google's right to make use of the APIs – just ended in favor of Google. Software developers, customers and industry participants everywhere can all breathe a sigh of relief.
Assuming this verdict sticks it will undoubtedly reinforce current business practices around APIs and in the process enable the continuation of API-fueled growth of business and consumer applications, which is very good news for the tech industry as a whole.
As is common knowledge, Oracle just sued Google for $9.3bn. in damages, alleging that Google has made upwards of $21bn. in profits from Android as a result of "illegal" use of 37 existing APIs developed in Java. Oracle's case was that much of these profits should revert to Oracle because of the opportunity they have (supposedly) lost in exploiting the growth of mobile smartphones and apps for their benefit. Quite apart from the fact that this six-year legal battle makes Oracle look like a lowly patent troll, there was a highly consequential issue at stake around the widespread current practice of treating APIs like open source offerings for vendors everywhere to leverage, rather than a proprietary asset for Oracle to exploit. APIs define how different types of code communicate to each other, how they inter-operate, something which is in every customer's, vendor's, and system integrator's interest because they make it much easier for software developers to make their systems work with other new or legacy applications. APIs have become a vital element in facilitating the rapid growth of business applications in the past two decades, on mobile phones as well as in data centers, and Java's APIs have had a pioneering influence on this growth.
In a sense, APIs occupy a no-man's-land between the copyrighted private IP of different software developers on either side of a complex system. If, to borrow another military analogy, this DMZ is now to be regarded as non-existent, how on earth are developers supposed to assure customers that disparate systems will communicate without custom code having to be written by one or other party on either of the front lines?
Consider for a moment these three different points of view on the key issue at stake in the dispute – whether Google made fair use of the Java APIs when it produced the Android OS:
Mitch Stoltz, attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in an interview before the latest verdict: "That (i.e., a potential judgment in favor of Oracle) is really going to create a radical shift in how software is developed worldwide. If it requires permission each time APIs are used and code calls other code, then you've upended the economics of software."
Google spokesperson, quoted from an email today, following the verdict: "Today's verdict that Android makes fair use of Java APIs represents a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming community, and for software developers who rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative consumer products."
Dorian Daley, Oracle's general counsel, in another statement immediately following the judgment: "We strongly believe that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market. Oracle brought this lawsuit to put a stop to Google's illegal behavior. We believe there are numerous grounds for appeal and we plan to bring this case back to the Federal Circuit on appeal."
Potted history of Java
Oracle did not develop Java, indeed its involvement with Java began after it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2009. Many observers believed at the time that Java was one of the main reasons for the acquisition due to the massive developer ecosystem and thought leadership halo that it had acquired since its launch in 1995. Java had been originally designed by James Gosling at Sun in the early 90s, and it evolved from a project designed originally for use with interactive television. As the Wikipedia history states, there were five primary goals in the creation of the Java language: It had to be "simple, object-oriented, and familiar", "robust and secure", "architecture-neutral and portable", "high-performing", and "interpreted, threaded, and dynamic". The overarching goal was for developers to be able to Write Once, Run Anywhere, and by being practically the first software code to achieve this elusive goal for enabling rapid deployment of web applications, Java gained widespread adoption.
One of the reasons for Java's prevalence today in web-based and cloud/mobile software applications everywhere is the fact that from 2006-2007 on Sun, the owner at the time, made it available to developers as an open source language and toolkit, despite identifying a small amount of Java code as proprietary. Its success as a free offering for developers to use led indirectly to the large-scale adoption of other open source technologies such as the Linux OS, Google's Apache Hadoop project for developing and managing big-data applications, and Android itself – which is now used in 80% of the world's smartphones, though in somewhat differing versions – as generally occurs with open-source technology. While the Java language itself is free to use, Oracle decided that Google had infringed copyrights in 37 Java APIs when building Android and had not made fair use of the language. Some Java copyrighted code does indeed exist, although – as the term Fair Use suggests – if a company is found to have made fair use of the code they may not be punished for technically infringing the copyright. Oracle's appeal of the 2010 verdict was successful in 2012, with a judgment that Google had infringed Oracle's copyrights. Intriguingly, however, no mention was made as to whether Google had made fair use of the copyrighted code or not, a critical missing element in the judgment. Shortly thereafter Red Hat, Yahoo, HP, and other companies joined Google in an appeal to the Supreme Court to hear the case. Yet other companies including EMC, Microsoft, and NetApp urged the Court to let the Federal Circuit ruling stand. In the end the Supreme Court decided not to hear the case. Thus the opportunity was available for Oracle to sue Google again, which resulted in this latest case.
There are technicalities surrounding the declaring code in the APIs that I won't go into here. More importantly to my mind, the Java language itself is free to use. And, as stated in Joe Mullin's May 8 article in Ars Technica, by building Android Google did something truly new and useful with Java – which is exactly the kind of initiative that is supposed to occur when the Fair Use test in copyright law is applied in an appropriately enlightened manner.
Why open APIs are so important to the explosion of XaaS applications
I must give credit to Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures for his excellent May 21 article on "The Rise of APIs". Murphy explains why APIs have become so crucial to the efforts of startups and other developers in launching products quickly while enabling more widespread inter-operability between different systems. As he points out, APIs were important even before Java, when for example companies developed applications for a specific established platform, as occurred with Microsoft Windows in the early 90s. Today, newer players such as Google, Facebook, Amazon (AWS), and Salesforce offer APIs to accelerate the launch of third-party apps on their platform, all in the enlightened self-interest of increasing the network effect that benefits the platform owner. Now we see third-party API dev specialists such Twilio (telephony), Stripe (payments), and Factual (location-based data) appearing to take advantage of the new distributed, modular infrastructure and applications that are replacing the monolithic, proprietary client-server and mainframe systems. Murphy provides an estimate that today there are more than 15,000 APIs on the market. This movement to openness and inter-connectivity is important for a number of reasons:
APIs basically remove the friction of different apps and systems not working together. If a developer has to build APIs for every system that they intersect with, they end up doing a lot of non-differentiating work that customers don't want to pay for.
Thus API providers allow application developers to focus on their unique value-adding functionality, surrounding it with fully functional and distributed processes developed by other specialists which they access through APIs. This enables every developer to focus more of their resources on what they do best – which is a developer's dream since they never ever feel that there are enough resources or hours in the day to complete everything they have on their plates.
Consequently everyone can get their offerings to market more quickly, with less risk that they'll be bogged down in endless connectivity and "integration".
Third-party APIs are likely to just be better, because they focus on just building the best possible API.
Existing developers can expose their unique functionality as an API, turning their application into a platform on which other companies can build products. Murphy reports that Salesforce, eBay, and Expedia generate a large percentage (i.e. in excess of 40%) of their revenues from their API businesses. Besides the revenue incentive, these companies continue to increase the power and leverage of their platforms.
Strategic Implications for Oracle and Google
What does this latest judgment mean for each of the protagonists in this case? Neither Google nor Oracle need someone like me to defend them. They are powerful and well-armed enough to defend their own interests. However, it is important to acknowledge that customers, software vendors, and other stakeholders in the industry do have a right to look out for their interests. And I would argue that the genie is out of the bottle with respect to the acceptance of open source software, especially the programming language that arguably contributed most to pioneering the move toward openness for web and mobile application development, which in turn has powered the growth of a million startups. So I would argue that it's a bit late for a major player such as Oracle to start trying to exploit Java through legalistic means, though of course they should continue to exploit it commercially by building a Red-Hat style business around certification and support of the Java language, tools, APIs, and applications for enterprise and government customers.
Another welcome move that I believe would buy Oracle some friends in the industry – and this fading star could certainly use more friends despite Larry Ellison's preference for regarding all outsiders as enemies – would be to open Java up unconditionally for third parties to use. In other words, treat every developer initiative using Java as Fair Use. This is what's called a strategic act of generosity, something that can result in a company becoming more powerful even if they don't directly profit from the gesture.
Google has a different problem, reflected in the EU's latest lawsuit against it: its chronic secretiveness, which engenders so much mistrust of its motivations as a competitor, partner, and corporate citizen. Their former motto, Don't Be Evil, now seems to have been a particularly disingenuous way of "protesting (their good intentions) too much"; come to think of it, why is it that Google, as well as Apple, Amazon, Uber, and now Facebook seem to espouse secrecy and opaqueness as a strategy? What are they afraid of?
Thanks to last week's unanimous verdict, software developers are free (for the time being) to pursue their use of Java as one of their development languages, and the use of Java APIs in particular. This is definitely a Good Thing, since programmers can now focus their energies on creating differentiated products instead of having to contend with the non-differentiating drudge of building interfaces for each system they come across in the marketplace. And thanks to Google's initiative in leveraging the Java APIs and other tools of the language to launch Android in 2009 or so, the world is a better place for having a strong competitor against Apple's otherwise dominant presence in mobile systems. More to the point, note that the open operating system now has 80% of the market for mobile devices against Apple's 20%.
Note: Detailed reference is made here to the May 8 article "Second Oracle v. Google trial could lead to huge headaches for developers", by Joe Mullin, dated May 8, 2016. Also to Matt Murphy's article on "The Rise of APIs" in the May 21, 2016 edition of Techcrunch.


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JA Solar Achieves New Class A Fire Rating Test in Accordance With UL1703 for Type-1 Modules
BookmarkSHANGHAI, China | JA SOLAR — JA Solar's standard modules successfully passed the Class A fire test in accordance with UL1703 standard for Type 1 modules. During the test, all six sets of BOM used for JA Solar's type-1 modules passed the UL Class A fire test conducted by Intertek, making JA Solar the first company mass producing PV modules in China to pass the test. In recent years, as the installation of solar electricity generation has been rapidly grown worldwide at a unprecedented pace, the standard and criteria for the reliability certification of PV modules have been constantly updated […]
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SHANGHAI, China | JA SOLAR —
JA Solar's standard modules successfully passed the Class A fire test in accordance with UL1703 standard for Type 1 modules.
During the test, all six sets of BOM used for JA Solar's type-1 modules passed the UL Class A fire test conducted by Intertek, making JA Solar the first company mass producing PV modules in China to pass the test.
In recent years, as the installation of solar electricity generation has been rapidly grown worldwide at a unprecedented pace, the standard and criteria for the reliability certification of PV modules have been constantly updated and expanded in order to meet the increasing demand for PV products with better quality and higher reliability from the end user of solar electricity, as well as the more stringent safety, environment, and hazard regulations for PV installations by legislatures and governments at various levels.
The Class A fire test for Type 1 PV modules set forth by UL-1703 requires the tested module to endure direct torch burning for more than 10 minutes from gas flame (the temperature of flame is 760±28oC, with wind speed at 5.4±0.2m/s, allowed flame spreading distance is under 1.82 meters). The criteria of this Class A test is far stricter than that of the previously commonly accepted Class C standard, which only requires the tested PV module to take 4 minutes of direct burning (with the flame temperature at 704±28oC, the wind speed at 5.4±0.2m/s and allowed flame spreading distance at under 3.9 meters). It turned out that, during the Class A test conducted at Intertek, the JA Solar's Type-1 modules subjected to the test not only withstood the inferno-like heat without becoming self-flammable; the flame torch was not even able to burn through the PV panel.
The fact that JA Solar's Type-1 modules passed the UL1703 Class A test once again demonstrates the long-term commitment of JA Solar to provide our customers with high-performance, high quality and reliable PV products, and to meet the ever increasing demand for clean energy through technological innovation and performance improvement.
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Side by Side is an amalgam of two solo but parallel shows by Burcu and Selen, who have been sharing a mutual dream since 2007 and finally Maden Contemporary Jewellery Studio since 2011. Side by Side, the result of a long working process, emerges as a response to the passion and the need to create. In that regard, it is the fruit of not only a spatial cooperation but is also a meeting of the hearts. After Hasbelkader, the first show Burcu and Selen put on "together" in 2012, this second exhibition.


This volume brings together correspondence from the last decade of Marsilio Ficino's life, spanning the period late 1489 to spring 1491. Written during the preparation of his translation and commentaries on the Enneads of Plotinus, Ficino's philosophical letters to his friends and fellow Florentines in this volume provide an insight into what was uppermost in his mind at the time.
This volume introduces us to an intriguing group of people (Ficino was clearly a member) who met informally under the name of 'Mammola'. It appears to have been a company of like-minded citizens seeking to deepen their understanding of the great philosophical works Ficino was translating and exploring how to make practical the idea of philosophy as a way of life rather than just an intellectual pursuit.
The letters also give us an insight into the political context in which he was working. The Church had sought to prosecute him for magic, predictive astrology and spirit-worship following the publication of his controversial Three Books on Life in 1489. To protect himself, Ficino made strenuous efforts to gain and maintain the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici and other powerful figures in law, medicine and the clergy, revealing his often precarious social position during this period.
Above all else, this collection of letters traces the final development of Ficino's interest in the relationship between God, the Soul and the eternal truths that he believed were to be found in Plato. His ideas on religion and immortality articulated in these letters transcend his historical moment and have as much to teach us today as when they were written. Not long after his death, the Church accepted the immortality of the soul as dogma.