Humana and Walmart teamed up back in 2010 to offer one of the most price competitive drug plans in the history of the Part-D drug program, and they have been going strong ever since.
One of the reasons why their partnership is so successful is using a Walmart or Sam's Club pharmacy to fill your prescriptions will get you the lowest cost possible for your prescription drugs versus going to any other pharmacy.
Another reason for the success of the program is the four dollar generic prescription drug program that they have been pioneering for the last several years.
Last but certainly not least, the cost of the drug plan is so low that pretty much any senior looking for a drug card can afford it, especially if they are only taking generic or low-cost brand drugs. For 2015, the premium for the Humana Walmart RX plan is only $15.60 per month, with a co-pay as low as one dollar after the deductible is met if you fill your prescription at Walmart-branded pharmacies.
What's amazing is that some drugs can come at absolutely no cost to the consumer if they use mail order, after the deductible is met. The plan covers over 1,500 generic prescription drugs, which happens to be quite more than some of their competitors.
The deductible this year for this drug card is $320, and this is for all tiers of drugs. It includes your tier 1 cheap generic medications as well.
Lost my card for my Humana Walmart-Preferred Rx Plan (PDP). How can I replace it?
Please contact Humana directly to receive your replacement Member ID card.
It does not appear to be covered. You can see the Humana Walmart Formulary Here.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { pushState } from 'redux-router';

import values from 'lodash/object/values';

import createTransaction from '../actions/transactions/create';
import uploadImage from '../actions/images/upload';

import resetTransactionForm from '../actions/form/reset_transaction';
import appendTransactionForm from '../actions/form/append_transaction';
import validateTransaction from '../actions/form/validate_transaction';

import tags from '../ui/tags';
import vats from '../ui/vat';

import roles from '../constants/roles';
import PublicGroupThanks from '../components/PublicGroupThanks';
import PublicGroupSignup from '../components/PublicGroupSignup';

import fetchGroup from '../actions/groups/fetch_by_id';
import notify from '../actions/notification/notify';
import resetNotifications from '../actions/notification/reset';
import decodeJWT from '../actions/session/decode_jwt';

import ExpenseForm from '../components/ExpenseForm';

export class SubmitExpense extends Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      showThankYouMessage: false,
      showUserForm: false
    };
  }

  render() {
    const {
      onCancel,
      isAuthenticated
    } = this.props;

    if (this.state.showThankYouMessage || (isAuthenticated && this.state.showUserForm)) { // we don't handle userform from logged in users) {
      return (<PublicGroupThanks message="Expense sent" />);
    } else if (this.state.showUserForm) {
      return (<PublicGroupSignup {...this.props} save={saveNewUser.bind(this)} />);
    } else {
      return (<ExpenseForm {...this.props} onSubmit={createExpense.bind(this)} onCancel={onCancel} />);
    }

  }

  componentWillMount() {
    const {
      group,
      fetchGroup
    } = this.props;

    fetchGroup(group.id);

  }

  componentDidMount() {
    // decode here because we don't handle auth on the server side yet
    this.props.decodeJWT();
  }

}

export function createExpense() {
  const {
    notify,
    createTransaction,
    group,
    validateTransaction,
    transaction
  } = this.props;
  const attributes = transaction.attributes;

  return validateTransaction(attributes)
  .then(() => {
    const newTransaction = {
      ...attributes,
      amount: -attributes.amount,
      currency: group.currency
    };
    return createTransaction(group.id, newTransaction);
  })
  .then(() => {
    window.scrollTo(0, 0);
    this.setState({ showThankYouMessage: true })
  })
  .catch(error => notify('error', error.message));
};

export default connect(mapStateToProps, {
  createTransaction,
  uploadImage,
  resetTransactionForm,
  appendTransactionForm,
  validateTransaction,
  pushState,
  notify,
  decodeJWT,
  fetchGroup,
  resetNotifications
})(SubmitExpense);

function mapStateToProps({form, notification, images, groups}) {
  const transaction = form.transaction;

  const group = values(groups)[0] || {stripeAccount: {}}; // to refactor to allow only one group

  const usersByRole = group.usersByRole || {};

  /* @xdamman:
   * We should refactor this. The /api/group route should directly return
   * group.host, group.backers, group.members, group.donations, group.expenses
   */
  group.id = Number(group.id);

  group.hosts = usersByRole[roles.HOST] || [];
  group.members = usersByRole[roles.MEMBER] || [];
  group.backers = usersByRole[roles.BACKER] || [];

  group.host = group.hosts[0] || {};

  return {
    group,
    notification,
    transaction,
    tags: tags(group.id),
    enableVAT: vats(group.id),
    isUploading: images.isUploading || false
  };
}

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NEW DELHI, April 16 (Bernama) -- It was not the best of days for Malaysian camp, with Wong Mew Choo joining the vanquished list, after losing in the Yonex-Sunrise Badminton Asia Championship quarter-finals on Friday.
Mew Choo was completely outplayed by the marauding India's Saina Nehwal, who combined perfect drops and quick smashes, which trapped the Malaysian.
Saina, ranked first in the tournament, secured a commanding position after wining the first set 21-5, leaving Mew Choo helpless in the same court -- where other Malaysian players like Muhammad Hafiz Hashim also suffered a similar fate today.
A tired Mew Choo made a come back with her rallies forcing Saina to make several errors in the second set, but the composed Indian, buoyed by her home crowd, did not wilt under pressure.
Saina completed the second set of the women's singles 21-13 in just 28 minutes.
It was an equally bad outing for the Malaysian men's doubles pairs in the quarter-finals, as both teams crashed out. Mak Hee Chun-Tan Wee Kiong lost to Chinese Taipei's pair Chen Hung Ling and Lin Yu Lang 19-21, 21-15, 21-18 while Cho Gun Woo-Yoo Yeon Seong of South Korea ousted Hoon Thien How-Ong Soon Hock 21-18, 21-17.
However, Malaysia's women's doubles Vivian Hoo Kah Mun-Woon Khe Wei raised the team's spirits somewhat when they defeated Meiliana Jauhari/Greysia Polil of Indonesia 26-24, 11-21, 21-14.
Malaysia's mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying added more smiles in the camp when they trounced Japan's Hirokatsu Hashimoto-Fujii Mizuki 18-21, 21-16, 21-9.
Earlier, Muhammad Hafiz Hashim had failed to reach the semi-finals in the men's singles after losing to Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana 21-19, 17-21, 21-10.
Women's doubles: Kah Mun- Khe Wei (MAS) bt Meiliana-Polil (INA) 26-24, 11-21, 21-14.
Mixed doubles: Peng Soon- Liu Ying (MAS) bt Hashimoto- Mizuki (JPN) 18-21, 21-16, 21-9.


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Joshua Alexander
Rep. Joshua Alexander
Former Representative for Missouri's 3rd District
Alexander was the representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1921.
He was previously the representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915.
Contact Rep. Joshua Alexander
I live in Missouri's 3rd congressional district.
I want to urge Alexander to take an action on a bill.
Visit Rep. Joshua Alexander's website »
Look for a contact form on Rep. Joshua Alexander's website to express your opinion.
Visit Alexander's Website »
Head over to Rep. Joshua Alexander's website. If you are having a problem with a government agency, look for a contact link for casework to submit a request for help. Otherwise, look for a phone number on that website to call his office if you have a question.
Not all Members of Congress will accept messages from non-constituents. You can try your luck by visiting Alexander's website. Otherwise, try contacting your own representative:
You are currently on the website GovTrack.us, which has no affiliation with Alexander and is not a government website. Choose from the options above to find the right way to contact Alexander.
From Dec 1907 to Dec 1919, Alexander missed 151 of 1,615 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is better than the median of 25.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 1919. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Dec 1907-May 1908 270 20 7.4% 10th
Dec 1908-Mar 1909 42 1 2.4% 2nd
1909 Mar-Aug 36 2 5.6% 16th
Dec 1909-Feb 1910 18 0 0.0% 0th
1910 Mar-May 60 9 15.0% 35th
1910 Jun-Jun 18 0 0.0% 0th
Dec 1910-Mar 1911 68 6 8.8% 17th
1911 Apr-Aug 49 0 0.0% 0th
1912 Apr-Jul 57 3 5.3% 5th
1912 Aug-Aug 30 1 3.3% 12th
1913 Apr-Jul 22 3 13.6% 17th
Dec 1913-Feb 1914 24 14 58.3% 91st
1914 Mar-May 34 1 2.9% 5th
1914 Jun-Aug 62 6 9.7% 9th
1914 Sep-Oct 29 3 10.3% 26th
Dec 1915-Feb 1916 16 1 6.2% 17th
1916 Mar-May 53 2 3.8% 15th
1916 Sep-Sep 3 0 0.0% 0th
1917 Apr-Jun 43 1 2.3% 8th
1918 Sep-Oct 14 0 0.0% 0th
1919 May-Jul 62 0 0.0% 0th
1919 Aug-Oct 52 12 23.1% 32nd
1919 Nov-Nov 16 0 0.0% 0th
Dec 1919-Feb 1920 8 6 75.0% 95th
Joshua Alexander is pronounced:

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Back in March 2012 I was invited to present to a roundtable breakfast at Michael Page as part of their CIO Thought Leadership series. I presented on the then-rapid move towards a mobile future, and on how we in Fairfax Marketplaces were dealing with this move. We had a discussion after, which is presented in this video – the discussion focused on how we ran our tech team in Marketplaces, how we were shifting to more lean and agile processes, and how we ran the broader business.


For about a year and a half now, I've been very happy to be a part of Pro Deo, a theatersportvereniging (English: Theatresports). I thought I'd share a little about it.
Yesterday was the twice-yearly "mixtoernooi" (above picture from a previous one), where the teams (if you're thinking "teams? What teams?" – Go click those links) consist of players with varying levels of experience. These are always lots of fun, since its a good way for the less experienced players to learn to be "on stage" with a bit of a "safety net" provided by the players with a little more experience.
It was a good show. Quite a bit of audience, good atmosphere, and lots of energy.
We had two matches of about 45 minutes each, and I was in one of them, meaning I played a part in three improvised scenes of about 4 minutes each. Our team played a spacejump, a free impro, and a time for a song. It went well and afterwards I was real proud of each of my teammates for putting on a great show. Of course, we lost from the other team by a large margin, which is how it should be.
Theatresports teaches its practicioners how to listen, how to be a team player, how to feel confident about themselves, and much more.
Theatresports is an excellent way to learn how to feel confident on stage (once you dare step up there with a hundred people watching you and no clue yet what it is you're going to do in about 3 seconds, you dare do allmost anything), which is also a great way to learn how to feel confident when presenting or speaking in front of an audience.
Theatresports excels even more at learning how to be a team player. In order to function well as an improvisation theatre team, there needs to be a whole lot of trust between each of the players, and a high comfort level. And beyond that, nearly everything about the "art form" is there to encourage or even require healthy collaborative behaviour. Golden rules like "you should accept whatever it is that someone invents right there on the spot" (you don't really want to get into a discussion about it in the middle of your scene) go way, way beyond the "lazy consensus" that open source people may be used to.
Theatresports makes you a better listener. In order to be able to interact with other people on stage (and with the audience) in a witty and dynamic fashion, without any kind of script, you need to pay attention, and lots of attention, to what is going on around you, otherwise you'll misread your teammates intentions and the whole scene can go down the drain.
Of course, for me, these are really insignificant pluses compared to the joy of doing various silly things with friends. We have a few hours of lessons and practice tonight, and after that we'll frequently hang out in the bar until dawn.


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Brian Smith may refer to:

Academics and educators
Sir Brian Smith (chemist) (born 1933), British university administrator
Brian David Smith (born 1961), academic researcher, author and adviser in the area of strategic management
Brian Cantwell Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto
Brian K. Smith, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University

Arts and entertainment
Brian Smith (New Zealand musician) (born 1939), jazz saxophonist
Brian Smith (Canadian musician) (born 1949), guitarist of the rock band Trooper
Brian Smith (photographer) (born 1959), American sports and celebrity portrait photographer
Brian Reffin Smith (born 1946), British writer, artist and teacher
Brian Thomas Smith (born 1977), American actor and comedian
Brian J. Smith (born 1981), American actor
Brian Michael Smith (born 1983), American actor
Brian Smith (American musician) (born 1990), American musician with Biological Lovers
Brian Bowen Smith, American photographer
Brian S. Smith, character in the comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper

Politics and law
Brian Smith (Canadian politician) (born 1934), British Columbia politician
Brian Smith (Connecticut politician), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Brian Smith (Pennsylvania politician), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Brian Smith (Vermont politician), member of the Vermont House of Representatives

Sports

American football
Brian Smith (linebacker, born 1966), American football player
Brian Smith (American football coach) (born 1980), American football coach
Brian Smith (defensive end) (born 1983), American football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars
Brian Smith (linebacker, born 1989), American football player
Brian Smith (defensive back) (born 1990), American football player

Other sports
Brian Smith (baseball) (born 1972), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Brian Smith (cyclist) (born 1967), Scottish cyclist turned commentator
Brian Smith (ice hockey, born 1937), former ice hockey player
Brian Smith (ice hockey, born 1940) (1940–1995), former ice hockey player and Canadian sportscaster
Brian Smith (footballer, born 1955) (1955–2013), English professional footballer
Brian Smith (footballer, born 1966), English footballer who played for Sheffield United
Brian Smith (racing driver) (born 1975), racing driver from Argentina
Brian Smith (rugby league, born 1954), rugby league player and coach
Brian Smith (rugby, born 1966), rugby league player and rugby union player and coach

Others
Brian Smith (bishop) (born 1943), British bishop
Brian Smith (priest) (born 1944), retired Anglican priest
Brian L. Smith (born 1939), Royal Canadian Air Force officer

See also
Bryan Smith (disambiguation)
Brian Smyth (disambiguation)
Brian Schmidt (disambiguation)
Brian Kent-Smith (born 1935), British middle-distance runner

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Herself (2020)
Watch Herself (2020) Online
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one – from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Actors: Art Kearns, Cathy Belton, Clare Dunne, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Molly McCann, Ruby Rose O'Hara, Shadaan Felfeli
Tags:Added Today Movies 2020
Rob Roy (1995)
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle…
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Dark Blue (2002)
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Country: Germany, UK, USA
The Miracle Season (2018)
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes…
Genre: Drama, Sport
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man…
Country: France, West Germany
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away,…
Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an…
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Iceland Is Best (2020)
ICELAND IS BEST tells the story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland, and make her way to California.
As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she's broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President's military service….
Five Element Ninjas (1982)
A young martial artist seeks revenge on the ninja who kills his martial arts brothers and teacher.
Cell 211
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot — the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a…
Country: France, Spain
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after…
Country: France, Iran
Trailer: Herself (2020)


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HCM CITY (VNS) — Petrol smuggling via sea waters has brought huge profits to illegal ships, and has become increasingly difficult to control, the Viet Nam Petroleum Association has said.
"Petrol smuggling occurs in many places, especially in sea regions in the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, the northern city and provinces of Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Nam Dinh, and the southern provinces of Ba Ria–Vung Tau and Mekong Delta provinces," Trinh Quang Khanh, vice chairman of the association, was quoted as saying in Dau Tu (Viet Nam Investment Review) newspaper.
The Viet Nam Marine Police discovered on Sunday that the "Hoa Binh 06" ship, which was docked at Sao Mai Bay in the southern coastal city of Vung Tau, was carrying 70,000 litres of diesel oil without proper legal documentation.
In late August, the Viet Nam Border Guard stopped two ships, the My Hoa 03-AG10558H and PV Oil Trans 04-SG6413, which were illegally carrying 500,000 litres of petrol and diesel oil via sea waters near HCM City.
The General Department of Customs, in co-operation with the Ministry of Public Security's General Department of Security II, broke up a petrol smuggling ring led by Nguyen Truong Son, deputy director of Hoang Son Limited company in the central city of Thanh Hoa. It had smuggled tens of thousands of tonnes of petrol.
Smugglers have become more sophisticated and organised by setting up companies, and hiring gangsters to board boats masqueraded as fishing ships.
In addition, smugglers carry blank receipts to cope with authorities in case of searches.
Huge profits are driving the increase in smuggling. The price for diesel oil in Viet Nam is often higher than other neighbouring countries like Malaysia and Indonesia.
In addition, taxes and fees account for 43 per cent of the petrol price. Smugglers can export petrol to countries which have higher petrol prices and import petrol from other countries which have lower prices like Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and China.
Smuggling profits from each litre of diesel oil in the domestic market ranges from VND3,000 – 5,000 (15-25 cents).
According to the Viet Nam Petroleum Association, in the southernmost province of Kien Giang, there are around 250,000,000 litres of oil being used for seafood exploitation and most of these were illegally imported.
The State loses VND1.2 trillion (US$60 million) a year in petrol taxes because of petrol smugglers, experts have estimated.
The Hoang Son company illegally imports 5,000 – 10,000 tonnes of petrol each month, causing tax losses of VND20 – 25 billion ($1 – 1.2 million). The State budget has lost tens of millions of US dollars.
In another case, the Ninh Thuan NT90139 TS ship bought petrol from Thailand's Nang Nual for VND18,000 (85 cents) per litre and sold it for VND22,000($1).
Each year, the Ninh Thuan ship can smuggle 600,000 litres of oil and earn a profit of VND240 billion ($12 million).
"Management policy on petrol imports is still loose and State offices must become more strict," said Nguyen Van Can, deputy head of the General Department of Customs.
Under current regulations, if authorities discover and hold commodities without receipts, they must check them within three days.
"This is a good chance for smugglers to fulfill all necessary papers," Can added.
Recently, the Viet Nam Petroleum Association asked authorities to review all policies concerning management of petrol imports.


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Q: How to insert a default code into every new cpp file created by Visual C++ Express 2008 I am currently moving from Dev-C++ to VC++ Express 2008. I don't intend to use it for any development projects, but only codes for programming contests. Dev-C++ had a nice feature which inserted a default code into every new source file (Tools > Editor Options > Code > Default Source).
I wonder if that can be done in VC++ too.
And also,is there a way of getting cpp files to build and execute without being part of a project in VC++ ?
Thanks in advance.

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Suppose you are going to purchase heavy-duty truck diagnostic tool, you must choose X-431 V+, X-431 PRO3 or X-431 PAD II as host machine . If you have already bought X-431 V+, X-431 PRO3 or X-431 PAD II diesel configuration, now you want to test truck, just buy a heavy-duty truck module.
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Suppose you are going to purchase heavy-duty truck diagnostic tool, you must choose X-431 V+, X-431 PRO3 or X-431 PAD II as host machine. If you have already bought X-431 V+, X-431 PRO3 or X-431 PAD II diesel configuration, now you want to test truck, just buy a heavy-duty truck module.
5. Full comprehensive diagnostic software functions.


Deut.6  Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;  (For Yehovah thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of Yehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deut.8  And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Yehovah thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deut.11 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;  And then Yehovah's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which Yehovah giveth you.
Deut.18  But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Deut.28  And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Deut.30  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;  I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
Josh.23 When ye have transgressed the covenant of Yehovah your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of Yehovah be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
Josh.24 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Yehovah God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Judg.2 And they forsook Yehovah God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked Yehovah to anger.
 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of Yehovah; but they did not so. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Judg.10 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.
1Sam.8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
1Sam.26 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Yehovah have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before Yehovah; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of Yehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
1Kgs.11 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Yehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
2Kgs.5 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto Yehovah.
2Kgs.22 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook Yehovah God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
2Chr.28 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Yehovah God of his fathers.
2Chr.34 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
Jer.1 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
Jer.11 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
Jer.13 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Jer.22 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Yehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Jer.25 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jer.35 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Jer.44 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
Dan.3 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
Hos.3 Then said Yehovah unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Yehovah toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
1Cor.8 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Deut.4  Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that Yehovah he is God; there is none else beside him.
1Kgs.8  That all the people of the earth may know that Yehovah is God, and that there is none else.
 Thus saith Yehovah, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
Joel.2 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yehovah your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also Yehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
 Yehovah thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Yehovah hath said.
 And Yehovah shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
 And Yehovah shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for Yehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which Yehovah hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
 And Yehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of Yehovah, and unto all the elders of Israel.
 And Yehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 And Yehovah appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of Yehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.


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Prime Minister meets with Hai Phong voters
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with voters of Hai Phong's Do Son district on May 13 to listen to their questions in issues relating to economic development and anti-corruption.
PM updates Hai Phong voters on outcomes of parliament's session
Hai Phong should intensify environmental protection: PM
Hai Phong voters briefed about outcomes of NA's sitting
Gov't leader listens to voters from key port city
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Hai Phong voters (Source: VNA)
Hai Phong (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and other National Assembly (NA) deputies of northern Hai Phong city met with voters of Do Son district on May 13 to listen to their questions in issues relating to economic development and anti-corruption ahead of the legislature's third plenary session.
Most local voters hailed the efforts and good performance made by the Prime Minister and other cabinet members in managing and operating the national economy, ensuring defence and security, and increasing investors' confidence.
They expressed approval of anti-corruption measures taken by the Central Steering Committee for Corruption Combat and Prevention, the National Assembly and the the Government, especially the role played by the head of the steering committee - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, in directing the handling of 12 serious corruption cases in 2017.
On local issues, the voters asked the Prime Minister to consider adjusting the city's development plan and assist the locality in carrying out projects important to the city's development.
PM Phuc informed the voters that the upcoming 3rd meeting of the 14th National Assembly will focus on building laws and completing institutions.
He affirmed that the Government is focusing efforts on perfecting institutions and policies in order to better meet the requirements in socio-economic management and operation, thus bringing a better life to the people.
Phuc welcomed the voters' opinions on anti-corruption work, stressing that NA deputies and he himself will reflect the voters' aspiration to the legislature and Government, in order to increase the effectiveness of corruption and wastefulness prevention, and the settlement of serious corruption cases.
On behalf of the Hai Phong NA delegation, the PM explained to local voters the mechanisms and policies to support the implementation of a number of projects in the city, especially the coastal road project to connect six provinces and cities in the north, which the PM described as a vital contribution to Hai Phong's industry, agriculture, services and tourism development.
The same day's evening, PM Phuc attended an art performance programme which marked the opening of the 6th Hoa Phuong Do (Red Flamboyant Flower) Festival. The festival, comprising a series of cultural and tourism activities, has become a major annual event of the northern port city.-VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc National Assembly (NA) deputies Hai Phong voters economic development anti-corruption cabinet members serious corruption cases Hoa Phuong Do (Red Flamboyant Flower) Festival Related stories Hai Phong
Vietnam's public holidays are administered by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam (MOLISA).
As the 13th National Party Congress is scheduled to take place from January 25 to February 2, streets in Hanoi are now decorated with vibrant flowers, banderoles, posters, flags, etc.
InfographicPreparation for 13th Party Congress completed
Former deputy minister summoned for Vu Huy Hoang's trial
A former deputy minister and 18 others have been summoned for their alleged connection with the State property misuse and mismanagement case of ex-Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang at the Saigon Beer - Alcohol - Beverage JSC (Sabeco).


Hundreds of national fashion brands steeped in local content and produced with international standard quality will be displayed at the Indonesia Fashion Week 2014. Representing the collective creative wealth of Indonesia, the Indonesia Fashion Week will take place from 20th to 23rd February 2014 at the Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta.
Indonesia Fashion Week 2014 will highlight the Green Movement as the new wave in the local fashion scene. Eco-friendly fashion products, also recognized as sustainable fashion or eco-fashion are those that are produced considering their impact on the natural and social environments. Among considerations are the use of eco-friendly substances , long lasting products, the reduction of carbon traces, as well as the welfare of fashion workers.
Putting together runway fashion shows, trade shows, seminars and a fashion design competition, theIndonesia Fashion Week (IFW) has become a heavyweight landmark event that grows extensively each year. This year, the event boasts over 512 brands of various fashion products including women's wear (Muslim, Casual, Cocktail & Party, and others), men's wear, kid's wear, accessories, and more.
The event will feature some of the most renowned names in Indonesia's Fashion scene: Priscilla Saputro who stunned the audience in last year's IFW with her Javanese hand-drawn batik prints, is back again this year with her latest creations. Widely considered to be one of Indonesia's top couture designer and kebaya pioneer, Anne Avantie will also showcase her masterpieces. From the genre of muslim wear, Dian has managed to hold on to cultural roots, making it so adored by modern Muslim women. Hannie Hananto, on the other hand, puts a modern spin on traditional Muslim fashion, imbuing it with a quirky beatnik vibe that's full of fun and inspiration.
Indonesia Fashion Week 2014 will also bring four international designers from Argentina, Morocco, Japan, and the Kofia Fashion School of Italy. These international representatives are chosen by the World Fashion Week. On a special note, the Kofia Fashion School of Italy will showcase fashion designs based on Indonesian traditional masterpieces in Batik.


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Q: PHP help with preg_match patterns This is the heart of my plugin that I've been painstakingly developing. Though I've ran into some trouble with the patterns..
<?php

$s = '
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="single2" name="single2" src="http://api.realitylapse.com/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" flashvars="file=http://cerium.realitylapse.com/stream/bea352a230ebd36b52dc27d874f41f5a/4e3c5eca/default/xxxxx/xxxxx-lq.mp4&plugins=ltas&ltas.cc=inhldvymihzxqln&provider=http" height="424" width="659">

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.xxxxx.com/player9397/player.swf?" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="opaque" flashvars="provider=http&file=http://www.xxxxx.com/player9397/vb.php?id=TT175YivmF4y&type=video&backcolor=111111&frontcolor=cccccc&lightcolor=DE4949&stretching=fill" height="420" width="99%">

<embed src="http://www.megavideo.com/v/P5X0UOA267fb79acd04cdb29a057c3fa0066573a1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="100%" height="438">
';

$patterns = array();
$patterns[] = '<embed[^>]+src=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<embed[^>]+data=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<embed[^>]+flashvars="(.+?)["\']'; //Possible problem..
$patterns[] = '<embed[^>]+file=(.+?)[&]';         //
$patterns[] = '<iframe[^>]+src=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<iframe[^>]+data=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<object[^>]+src=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<object[^>]+data=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<video[^>]+src=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<video[^>]+data=["\'](.+?)["\']';
$patterns[] = '<video[^>]+file=(.+?)[&]';

$patterns = "#(?:" . implode("|", $patterns) . ")#si";

preg_match_all($patterns, ($s), $m);
if (!empty($m[0]))
{
    $edata = array();
    foreach($m[0] as $match)
    {

//Embeds:
if (preg_match('#realitylapse.com/stream/(.+?)[&,"\']#si', $match, $id))
     $edata[] = "<!--nextpage--><!--tab_title:CERIUM-->\n[cerium " . $id[1] . "]";

else if (preg_match('#http&file=http://www.xxxx.com/player9397/vb.php?id=(.+?)[&,"\']#si', $match, $id))
     $edata[] = "<!--nextpage--><!--tab_title:UNKNOWN-->\n[vb " . $id[1] . "]";

else if (preg_match('#http://www.megavideo.com/v/(.+)[&"\']#si', $match, $id))
     $edata[] = "<!--nextpage--><!--tab_title:MEGAVIDEO-->\n[megavideo " . $id[1] . "]";

    }

if (isset($edata[0])) {

$embeds = implode("\n", ($edata));

print $embeds;

}
    }

?>

This outputs only:
[megavideo P5X0UOA267fb79acd04cdb29a057c3fa0066573a1]

Every other player embed I have matches. Anything that is in the flashvars area does not. That may not be the real reason. ..Whereas something like the megavideo embed does. I appreciate any help, thanks!

A: Instead of using regexp, I would recommend using an html parser like:
http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
You can then easily read an elements attributes.
$html = str_get_html('<embed id="single2" height="424" width="659" flashvars="file=http://cerium.realitylapse.com/stream/bea352a230e" >');

$embed = $html->find('embed', 1);

$embed->height; // == "424"
$embed->flashvars; // == "file=http://cerium.realitylapse.com/stream/bea352a230e"


Who represents the public's interests?
One of the great divides between journalists and public officials is over access to public information. Stated simplistically, journalists want more access; public officials want less.
Journalists represent the public when they attend meetings and seek information. They do that, not because it's fun, but so they can pass the information onto readers and viewers. Obviously, voters put elected officials into office to represent their interests.
Who's right? Let's look and you decide. Courtesy of the N.C. Press Association, here are a few of the recent skirmishes between the press and elected officials.
From the Winston-Salem Journal: When the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board agrees to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle a lawsuit, it does so in closed session.
From the News & Record: Greensboro City Council voted to NOT notify the public when small groups of council members meet with city staff members to discuss policy.
From the Asheville Citizen-Times: The paper sues the Henderson County sheriff, the board of commissioners and the county's insurance carrier in an effort to force them to release details of a settlement involving the sheriff and a female employee.
From the Lincoln Times-News: The Lincolnton City Council met privately and decided to threaten to sue a local website for libel.
From the Brunswick Beacon: The chairman of the Board of Social Services may be removed from his chairmanship for repeatedly violating the state's open meetings law.
From the Alamance News: Burlington City Council met behind closed doors to order up a new city incentives policy.
Don't get me wrong; some of the actions above are allowed under state law. That doesn't mean, though, that they represent the best interests of the public. When people can't see what's going on they lose trust in government, and trust is a precious commodity these days.
The publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times said it best in the story about its lawsuit.
This entry was posted in Open government, Politics and tagged Alamance News, Asheville Citisen-Times, Brunswick Beacon, N.C. Press Association, News & Record, Winston-Salem Journal by John Robinson. Bookmark the permalink.
IANAL and God knows my memory ain't the greatest, but in North Carolina, aren't settlements of civil suits to which a public agency is a party presumptively open under the law?


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Sofijiwśka Borszczahiwka () – wieś na Ukrainie, w obwodzie kijowskim, w rejonie buczańskim, w hromadzie Borszczahiwka. W 2001 liczyła 6571 mieszkańców, spośród których 6226 wskazało jako ojczysty język ukraiński, 302 rosyjski, 1 bułgarski, 16 białoruski, 3 ormiański, 7 polski, a 16 inny.

Przypisy

Wsie w obwodzie kijowskim


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Q: NSManagedObject implementing Protocol - Warnings due to @dynamic I have the following problem:
As our app is going to be shown to potential customers it has to run offline in first version (due to dependencies to a backend that is not finished right now) and therefore all the data shown in the app will be retrieved by CoreData from a sqlite db.
As we want to avoid later refactoring we decided to put the CoreData entities behind protocols. A service will take care of all the data retrieval and hide the entities with the corresponding protocols.
In a later version of the app the UI developers will just switch the service to the backend one's and do not have to alter the rest of their code due to sticking to the protocols. For UI developer it does not make a difference if the entities will be NSManagedObjects or just NSObjects.
And now comes the problem.
We have declared the protocols (set- and get-Methods) for all the entities in our app and generated CoreData entities that fit to those protocols. CoreData is using @dynamic for all the set/get-Methods (that will we be generated during runtime from the CoreData framework).
All the NSManagedObjects should now implement their corresponding protocols, but the compiler is giving out warnings (because of @dynamic) that the CoreData-Object is not implementing the protocol.
I just want to give you ONE entity and the corresponding protocol to explain my problem in detail:
TaskCD.h
@interface TaskCD : NSManagedObject<Task> {
@private
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString * category;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSNumber * frequency;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSDate * validityEnd;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSDate * validityStart;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSNumber * periodicity;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString * descr;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSNumber * selected;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSSet* measurements;

@end

TaskCD.m
#import "TaskCD.h"
#import "MeasurementCD.h"

@implementation TaskCD
@dynamic category;
@dynamic frequency;
@dynamic validityEnd;
@dynamic validityStart;
@dynamic periodicity;
@dynamic descr;
@dynamic selected;
@dynamic measurements;

.... CoreData One-To-Many-stuff ....

@end

Task.h
@protocol Task <NSObject>

- (NSString*) getCategory;
- (void) setCategory:(NSString*) category;

- (NSNumber*) getFrequency;
- (void) setFrequency:(NSNumber*) frequency;

- (void) setValidityEnd:(NSDate *) date;
- (NSDate *) getValidityEnd;

- (void) setValidityStart:(NSDate *) date;
- (NSDate *) getValidityStart;

- (void) setPeriodicity:(NSNumber *) number;
- (NSNumber *) getPeriodicity;

- (void) setDescr:(NSString *) descr;
- (NSString *) getDescr;

- (void) setSelected:(NSNumber *) selected;
- (NSNumber *) getSelected;

- (void) setMeasurements:(NSSet*) measurements;
- (NSSet *) getMeasurements;

@end

I am not that experienced with ObjC and I am coming from Java Development. Maybe it is a design failure and not an ObjC issue. What we want to definitely stick with, is that in the productive version with the real backend the UI developer should NOT work with NSManageObject classes to keep away the CoreData stuff. He just sees one facade giving him an API to interact with the layers behind (First CoreData. Later REST backend). The UI developer should only see plain VOs or stick to protocols (interfaces).
I just want to know how to avoid those warnings. All proposals are welcome. ;)
Thanks in advance guys!!

A: One thing I can suggest off the bat: the accessors defined in Task.h should match the names of the @property declarations in the TaskCD interface. Instead of:
- (NSString*) getCategory;

you should declare it as:
// this is the more common Obj-C naming convention
- (NSString*) category;

Alternately, specify the name of the "get" accessor in the @property declaration (in TaskCD.h):
//meh... not so nice
@property (nonatomic, retain, getter=getCategory) NSString * category;

Also IMHO, with Core Data you're much better off using the dynamically generated accessors, rather than implementing your own.

A: First, I want to say that I agree with octy in that the best solution would probably be just to change your protocol to use more standard Objective-C accessor names.
However, I also wanted to throw out the option that you could create a category for each of your generated CoreData objects that essentially maps their accessor methods to the accessor names you want:
@interface TaskCD (Accessors) <Task>

...

@implementation TaskCD (Accessors)

- (NSString *) getCategory {
     return [self category];
}

...

This way, you can keep the generated files (and regenerate them however often you like) and still use your own accessor method names.
That being said, I still think it would be better to just stick with the Objective-C default accessor names.

A: there is another approach you could follow: keep core data even in your later REST version and simply update your local core data storage with the live data respectively use the NSManagedObjects. using core data in UI stuff is actually a good idea, because the you get a lot of benefits (e.g. feeding tableviews which successively fetch rows from core data when scrolling)


Definition - What does Glacial Acetic Acid mean?
Glacial acetic acid is the anhydrous (undiluted or free of water) form of acetic acid. Acetic acid is considered an organic compound and has the chemical formula CH3COOH.
A diluted solution of acetic acid is known as vinegar or ethanoic acid or ethylic acid. This acid is classified as a weak acid.


So, you are possessed of a perfectly shaped body and decide to go shopping. There is nothing available but low-rise pants and skirts that rest on the hip. The fashion industry and its manufacturers are saving big bucks on your back. You decide that to go against what seem to be the demands of current fashion is pointless, so you buy whatever looks prettiest on the hanger. Once it goes onto your well-toned corpus, something sinister happens: your legs now look a mere foot long, and your tight "abs" sit above the low-rise top of your skirt or slacks, looking for all the world like a beer-gut. What's happening here? The fashion industry is sabotaging your looks while saving themselves money on yardage. It's now impossible to find a pair of pants, tights, or a skirt that comes up to the natural waist; anything that does is derisively and incorrectly labeled "high-waisted".
If you must have your clothes made for you in order to avoid this sick, disfiguring fashion regime, there are ways to do it without breaking the bank. A well-constructed pair of corduroy, moleskin or tweed trousers will get you through the depression in style, last for many years, and what's most appealing about them is that they will make you look taller than everyone else (unfortunate fashion-victims that they are). Even a well-shaped jacket can be sabotaged by slacks, skirts, or trousers that hang below it. Last night's Academy Awards brought out a cavalcade of men whose crotches landed below the bottom edge of their jackets–poor misguided fellows, yet rich enough to get it right. Overly long slacks creating a puddle of fabric on top of men's shoes do not lengthen their legs visually–they just look wretchedly tailored.
A tasteful and reliable source for elegant, durable tweed jackets and trousers is Bookster U.K. They will guide you through the ordering process, and see to it that your clothes have an actual waist, so that your investment isn't a waste. The clothes are made by Bookster in England. There are plenty of British and American companies that copy the traditional English styles, but have them made inexpensively in China. Yet, these clothes are crafted the old-fashioned way, close to where the fabrics are milled in the United Kingdom. It may take a couple of months to have a great pair of trousers or elegant jackets made, but you just might be wearing them for a lifetime. Bookster U.K. is a small operation with a huge reputation for customer service and fine clothing. They specialize in equestrian and tweed clothes, which are perfect for town and country.
Don't let hip-hop fashion and cheap clothing manufacturers dictate your style. It is time for an uprising against the tyranny of low-rise clothing.


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Gunmen free more than 1,800 inmates from Nigerian prison
Published: APRIL 6, 2021 11:20
Updated: APRIL 6, 2021 11:21
More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison in the southeastern city of Owerri after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, the prisons authority said.
Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack, but a spokesman for the group denied involvement.
The secessionist movement in the southeast is one of several serious security challenges facing President Muhammadu Buhari, including a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the northeast, a spate of school kidnappings in the northwest and piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
"The Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo state has been attacked by unknown gunmen and forcefully released a total of 1,844 inmates in custody," a Nigerian Correctional Service spokesman said in a statement late on Monday. The attackers stormed the facility at around 2:15 a.m. (0115 GMT) on Monday, he said.
The attackers used explosives to blast the administrative block of the prison and entered the prison yard, police said in a separate statement.
Blinken meets with Palestinian leader Abbas
Russian missile hits Ukrainian synagogue, Chief Rabbi condemns attack
By MICHAEL STARR , ZVIKA KLEIN


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It was raining over Hasköy, one of those Istanbul rains that swirl around in the wind and, even though it's just a fine mist, can soak you to the bone in a second at a street corner; I carefully sheltered my camera in my raincoat, I had two rolls of 36-exposure colour film, ASA 400, a real archaeology these words are today – are the negatives still somewhere in my box of photos, it's highly likely. I also had a map of the city, which I knew from experience was very incomplete when it came to street names, and an entirely Viennese umbrella with a wooden handle. Getting as far as Hasköy was quite something: you had to go around by the north via Shishli, or else follow the Golden Horn through Kasimpasha, a forty-five-minute walk from Cihangir over the hills of Beyoglu. I cursed Sarah when a car spattered the bottom of my trousers with mud as it rushed past me, and almost postponed indefinitely this expedition that was starting out in the most inauspicious way, already covered in filth, raincoat spotted, feet soaking, just ten minutes after emerging from the house where Faugier, observing the clouds darkening the Bosphorus, hung-over from his raki from the night before, tea in hand, had kindly warned me: it's not a fit day to put an Orientalist out of doors. I decided to take a taxi, which I had wanted to avoid, obviously not out of stinginess, but simply because I didn't know how to explain to the driver where I was going: I settled for Hasköy eskelesi, lütfen, and after a good half-hour of traffic jams I found myself by the water, on the Golden Horn, in front of a little, entirely charming harbour; behind me, one of those very steep colourful hills so peculiar to Istanbul, a precipitous street whose asphalt was covered in a fine layer of rain, a transparent stream that gently trickled down the slope to join the sea – this strange aquatic ascension reminded me of our amusements by the mountain waterfalls in Austria; I would leap from one side of the lane to the other according to the whims of this urban river, not too sure where to go; the inconvenience of having wet shoes was largely compensated for by the pleasure of the game. I imagine the passers-by must have thought that a mad tourist afflicted with hydrophilia was mistaking himself for a trout in their neighbourhood. After a few hundred metres and a fruitless attempt to unfold my map under my umbrella, a man of a certain age with a short white beard came up to me, looked me up and down from head to toe and asked, in English:
'Are you a Jew?'
Since obviously I didn't understand, I replied What? or How's that again?, before he explained his question, smiling:
'I can do a good Jewish tour for you.'
I had been approached by a prophet who had just saved me from the flood – Ilya Virano was one of the pillars of the Jewish community in Hasköy, he had seen me lost and had guessed (as he himself acknowledged, the neighbourhood wasn't exactly overflowing with tourists) that I was probably looking for something that had to do with the Jewish history of the neighbourhood, through which he guided us, my camera and me, for the rest of the day. Mr Virano spoke perfect French, which he had learned at a bilingual school in Istanbul; his native language was Ladino, whose history he explained to me: the Jews who had been chased out of Spain and had settled in the Empire had brought their language with them, and this Renaissance Spanish had evolved with them in their exile. The Jews of Istanbul were either Byzantine or Sephardic or Ashkenazic or Karaite, by their order of arrival in the capital (the mysterious Karaites were more or less the last to arrive, most of them having moved there after the Crimean War), and it was absolutely miraculous to hear Ilya Virano recount the high points of this multiculturalism, through the buildings in the district: the Karaite synagogue was the most impressive, almost fortified, surrounded by high walls enclosing little wood-and-stone houses, some of which were inhabited, and others threatened with ruin – my naivety made Ilya Virano smile when I asked him if their occupants were still Karaite: it's been a long time since there were any Karaites here.
Most of the Jewish families of Istanbul have moved elsewhere, to more modern neighbourhoods – Shishli or the other side of the Bosphorus – or else emigrated to Israel or the United States. Ilya Virano explained all that without any nostalgia, very simply, in the same way he initiated me into the theological and ritual differences between the many branches of Judaism during our tour, walking alertly through the steep streets, almost respectful of my ignorance; he asked the family name of this ancestor I was trying to trace: it's too bad you don't know, he said, there could still be some cousins here.
Mr Virano must have been around sixty-five; he was tall, quite elegant, with an athletic build; his suit, short beard and slicked-back hair gave him the look of a young film star on his way to pick up a girl at her parents' to take her to the school dance, in a slightly greyer version of course. He talked a lot, happy that I understood French: most tourists on the Jewish Tours are Americans or Israelis, and he had little opportunity, he said, to practise this beautiful language.
The old temple of the Jews expelled from Majorca, the Mayor Synagogue, was occupied by a little workshop for mechanical things; it had preserved its wooden dome, columns and Hebrew inscriptions; its outbuildings served as warehouses.
I had come to the end of my first roll of film, and we hadn't yet reached the old lycée of the Alliance Israélite Universelle; it had stopped raining and, unlike my host, I felt an onset of slight melancholy, an inexplicable, vague sadness – all these sites were closed and looked abandoned; the sole synagogue still functioning, with its Byzantine marble pillars along the façade, was used only for special occasions; a quarter of the big cemetery had been removed by the construction of a motorway and had been taken over by weeds. The only mausoleum of importance, belonging to a great family, Virano explained – such a great family that it owned a palace on the Golden Horn, where some military institution is now housed – looked like an old Roman temple, a forgotten place of prayer, whose sole colours were the red and blue graffiti written on it; a temple of the dead that overlooked the hill where we had a bird's-eye view of the end of the Golden Horn, when it stops being an estuary and becomes again a simple river, in the midst of cars, factory chimneys and large blocks of buildings. The gravestones looked as if they were thrown here and there down the slope (laid flat, as custom dictates, my guide explained), sometimes broken, often illegible – he deciphered the family names for me, though: Hebrew resists the passage of time better than Latin characters, he said, and I had trouble understanding this theory, but the fact is that he managed to pronounce the names of these dead and sometimes find their descendants or relatives, without any apparent emotion; he climbed up here often, he said; ever since the highway was built there are no more goats, no more goats so fewer goat droppings but grass galore, he said. Hands in my pockets, strolling between the graves, I searched for something to say; there was graffiti here and there, I said anti-Semitism? He replied no, love, what do you mean, love, yes, a boy who wrote the name of his beloved, To Hülya forever, or something along those lines, and I realized that there was nothing here to desecrate that time and the city hadn't already desecrated, and that no doubt soon the graves, their remains and their slabs would be moved and piled up elsewhere to give way to excavators; I thought of Sarah, I didn't take any pictures of the cemetery, didn't dare take out my camera, even if she had nothing to do with all this, even if no one had anything to do with this disaster that was all of ours, and I asked Ilya Virano to please show me where the Alliance Israélite school was, as a fine sun was beginning to shine on the waters of the promenade called the Eaux-Douces d'Europe and illuminate Istanbul all the way to the Bosphorus.
The lycée's neoclassical façade was dark grey, punctuated by white pilasters; there was no inscription on the triangular pediment. It stopped being a school a long time ago, Ilya Virano explained; today it's a retirement home – I conscientiously photographed the entrance and the courtyard; a few very old pensioners were taking the air on a bench under a covered porch; I thought, as Mr Virano went to greet them, that they must have begun their lives within these walls, that they had studied Hebrew, Turkish, French here, that they had played on this patio, had loved here, copied poems and argued over insurmountable trifles, and that now, the circle closed, in the same slightly austere building with the immaculate tiled floor, they were gently ending their days, looking out of the windows, from the top of their hill, watching Istanbul advance with great strides into modernity.
As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the centre of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East. An immersive, nocturnal, musical novel, full of generous erudition and bittersweet humour, Compass is a journey and a declaration of admiration, a quest for the otherness inside us all and a hand reaching out – like a bridge between West and East, yesterday and tomorrow. Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, this is Mathias Enard's most ambitious novel since Zone.
'Crisply translated by Charlotte Mandell (as was Zone), Compass is Proustian in its set-up. [T]here are passages of pure delight with rare insight into the human condition.'
— Tobias Grey, Financial Times
'Few works of contemporary fiction will yield as much pleasure as Compass. Reading it amounts to wandering into a library arranged in the form of an exotic sweet shop, full of tempting fragments of stories guaranteed leaving you wanting more.'
— Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
'Compass is a challenging, brilliant, and – God help me – important a novel as is likely to be published this year.'
— Justin Taylor, Los Angeles Times
'One of the finest European novels in recent memory.'
— Adrian Nathan West, Literary Review
'The French novelist Mathias Enard is an unusual kind of regionalist. His great subject isn't a small town or neighborhood but the vast Mediterranean basin, and practically everyone within it. Enard speaks Persian and Arabic, and he has taught at universities throughout Europe and the Middle East. He sees the Mediterranean as a distinct literary and historical region, a "zone," as he called it in his novel of the same title. In nine books, three of which have been translated into English, he has charted a course through this zone, writing about sectarian violence in the Balkans; the varying tugs of jihadism, tradition, and globalization in Morocco; and a rogue's gallery of thieves, killers, and eccentrics. Enard's prose, which tends to pile descriptive clauses ever higher on top of one another (Zone is a single, five-hundred-page sentence), can be mesmerizing. But it's the larger project of his writing that bears particular consideration: in his fiction, Enard is constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistently misunderstood part of the world.'
— Jacob Silverman, New Yorker
'Enard is like the anti-Houellebecq, and he deserves far more attention.'
— Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
'[T]he beauty of Compass is the sheer breadth and density of its vision, calling forth a multitude of different worlds, bound only by the capacious mind of its narrator, an aging Austrian musicologist named Franz Ritter.'
— Jeffrey Zuckerman, New Republic
'Enard has written a masterful novel that speaks to our current, confused moment in history by highlighting the manifold, vital contributions of Islamic and other Middle Eastern cultures to the European canon. More than that, it points toward, as one character puts it, "a new vision that includes the other in the self."'
— Andrew Ervin, Washington Post
'[A] love letter to the cosmopolitan Middle East ... [a] strangely powerful work.'
— Steven Poole, Guardian
'In Charlotte Mandell's elegant translation, Mathias Enard's humane and erudite novel reminds the anglophone world of what it owes to Islam.'
— Ruth Scurr, Spectator
'In a novel as full of erudition and historical knowledge as Compass, what we find at its core is a story that revolves around 'that aporia, between self and the other, which is identity.' Franz loves Sarah, with a desperation that is only felt more keenly with the hindsight of time and the presence of his unnamed and grave illness. Their story is deftly and recognisably told, moving with the slow pacing of fine storytelling and even managing to incorporate a very realistic use of the Internet.'
— John Holten, Stinging Fly
'In a world that has become afraid of intelligence, Compass – slowly, I imagine, and carefully translated by Charlotte Mandell – is a deeply intelligent novel, a book that I could vanish into forever.'
— Anthony Brown, Time's Flow Stemmed
'A novelist like Enard feels particularly necessary right now, though to say this may actually be to undersell his work. He is not a polemicist but an artist, one whose novels will always have something to say to us.'
— Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine
'Lyrical and intellectually rich without ever being ponderous, reminiscent at turns of Mann's Death in Venice and Bowles' Sheltering Sky.'
— Kirkus (starred review)
'Compass is a book about boundaries and non-boundaries, smudged lines between countries, languages, cultures and times. Following this multi-directional flow is a pleasure, thanks in part to prose that – translated by Charlotte Mandell – buoys academic detours with aphorisms and scenes plush with emotional detail. … It is a book with ideas, but one that underpins its eruditeness with a sad, lovesick soul. For a novel overspilling with dead writers, Enard has created a story full of life, full of possibility for the oriental and occidental to find the self in the other.'
— Thomas McMullan, minor literature[s]
'Upon reading it for the second time ... I had the unshakable feeling that this book represented, not just a high-water mark for books in translation for 2017, but a landmark for the times through which we are passing.'
— World Literature Today
'[T]he poignant prose manages to convey the heightened sense of feelings and sets the scene with confidence, transporting the reader with the atmosphere of the various locations, whether it's within the heart of Paris or the Middle East. Overall this is a clever and ambitious piece of work about the interactions between the Western and Islamic worlds.'
— Buzz Magazine
Five Books interview Mathias Enard
Mathias Enard, born in 1972, studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Liste Goncourt/Le Choix de l'Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée and the Prix du Roman-News for Street of Thieves. He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, the 2017 Leipziger Book Award for European Understanding, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize for Compass.
Charlotte Mandell has translated fiction, poetry, and philosophy from the French, including works by Proust, Flaubert, Genet, Maupassant, Blanchot and many other distinguished authors. She has received many accolades and awards for her translations, including a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for Zone.
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2001 – Before the end of "irrational exuberance." I was making an obscene amount of money as interim director of marketing on Coffee-Mate managing projects like making sure that Coffee-Mate floor decals were produced.
One day, while hiking my favorite trail in the Santa Monica Mountains my identity crisis started taking shape: I cannot spend my career trying to get people to buy more artificial, processed non-dairy creamer. If, at the end of my life, I looked back and asked "how did I use my talents at work?" and the answer was "they bought more Coffee-Mate," I knew I would be devastated. I would have squandered my potential. I have more to offer the world.
I questioned, "Did I need to do something else entirely?" Psychology? Become an academic? A race car driver?
Then I asked another question: Are any brands doing something worthwhile?
That's when I realized, I was working on Coffee-Mate, but someone else was working on Nike. Down the hall sat the Carnation Instant Breakfast team but another team was working on Apple.
What was the difference? Was it simply sneakers and computers versus coffee creamer and breakfast bars? No, I didn't feel that one product category was "better" than another.
The difference was the underlying intention of the brand. I felt that the real difference between Nike and Apple and the Nestle brands was the impact that they would have on the lives of their customers.
Was Nike just trying to sell me a pair of sneakers? I didn't see it that way. I saw Nike — with the message, "Just Do It" — not so much as a product but a force that was propelling me to be a hero in my own life. Yes, maybe to work out, but also to start a business. Nike's primary purpose was to provide a meaningful experience, not just to sell me more stuff.
Coffee-Mate? Stuff. And not very good stuff at that.
I realized that there were some brands— great brands – that were doing something right. I needed to figure out what they were doing so that I could do it too.
Next installment: How I figured it out.
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Are any brands doing something worthwhile?
Yep. Mine. – thanks to you.
Well, call me a cynic (I'm not really), but I don't believe for a minute that Nike is selling anything more than 'stuff' like anyone else. They may want to appear otherwise, or want other people to think otherwise, and some inside Nike (or whomever) may even believe that… but I don't. If you take away ALL the "features" or benefits of the products as promoted, you still have a products company. But take away the products and you have zip. They sell products… and the sizzle is just an avenue of promotion.
I love Coffee Mate! But I don't use it anymore, unless there is absolutely no real half-and-half or even plain old milk available. I'm glad to know you had that epiphany and no longer promote a cancer-causing product. (Although now they say the brewing of coffee and baking of muffins causes cancer.) May you be remembered, Robert, for doing even the tiniest thing that has improved this world. Such as writing your blog.


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William Archer House is a historic home located at Brownville in Jefferson County, New York.  It is a stone house built about 1811.

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Paula Shannon (standing) and Anita Lamberth of the Portland Library have put together a new online project that focuses on interviews with citizens about their stories and Portland's history.
Leader photo by Terry McCormick
Library's storytelling project brings past back to life
By Terry McCormick Portland Leader tmccormick@portlandleader.net
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The Portland Public Library, through a new online project, is helping to make the community's history come alive through interviews and storytelling.
The library's website now has a place where interviews with people who have stories to tell about interesting topics or events in and around the Portland community can share those online for anyone to hear.
This idea came about from two different sources. First, the Highland Rim Historical Society had a number of interviews from the late '70s, the '80s and '90s with people from Portland on cassettes that they brought to Anita Lamberth at the library and wanted her to digitize them in order to preserve them.
The cassette interviews cover a wide variety of people - many of whom have now passed away - discussing stories of their lives, their family's lives and the Portland community.
"There are some out there from former teachers like Katherine Green and Florence Honeycutt. They were teachers, and somebody would start interviewing them, and they would have a conversation about how they got their teaching degree and stuff like that," said Paula Shannon, who works at the library and is also a member of the historical society.
Lamberth added that in one of the old
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interviews, a man spoke about how his grandfather had housed a runaway slave in his attic for a time.
But the tapes are only part of how the project began. The Portland Library's Summer Reading Program this year was titled, "A Universe of Stories," which had the library workers wondering if there was a way to tie the pieces together and create a new project related to people telling their stories.
"Basically it started because our summer reading program is called, 'A Universe of Stories.' I started thinking about that program and how to do it for adults and things like that," Lamberth said. "Paula had come to me at one point with a box of old cassette tapes, and said, 'Is there any way we can digitize these to keep them for future generations?' So that's when I started doing that and converting them from the old cassette tapes to a digital format.
"And in the process of doing that, our summer reading program came along with 'Universe of Stories.' So Deborah Elledge, the manager here, said, 'Why don't we tie it all together?' We basically thought everybody has a story. So why don't we combine the old stories that we had on cassette tapes with these new stories from people in the community?"
And so the old interviews from the past were placed on the library's website for people to listen to and reminisce about the past. There are 24 of them in all. But the old interviews helped to spawn another idea - interviews with contemporary citizens to build upon what is already archived on the site.
To date, there have been two new interviews posted - one with Wayne Pruett, who talked about his experience in local sports, and the other with long-time banker Wayne Lamberth, who is Anita's father.
An interview with Ray Dean Eidson, who has been a long-time administrator for Little League Baseball I Portland, is scheduled to post soon.
"We have a list of people we have thought of, but is somebody wants to come in and they have an interesting life story, or they have even someone they want us to try and talk to, we'll be happy to try and get in touch with them," Lamberth said.
People who would like to do an interview can contact the library at 615-325-2279 and set up a time to conduct the interview.
"We'll set up an interview. We've got a recorder and a scanner that if they bring pictures, we can scan them. Anita does a good job of putting it on her," Shannon said.
If they have related photos, the librarians would be glad to scan those and post on the website as well.
To listen to the interviews, you can go online at https://portlandtnlibrary.omeka.net. To see the pictorials online that the library has, go to https://pictorialhistoryportlandtn.omeka.net. You can also reach the site through links at the Portland Public Library's home page.
Even though the project is still in its initial stages, through Google analytics research, Lamberth said the site has already had visitors from California and Florida.
"We've had 80 to 90 responses, but a lot of people don't know about it yet," Lamberth said. "We've had some hits from California and Florida and Kentucky. People wanting to know about their roots. People are not just staying here in Portland anymore but yet they have roots here."
The other aspect of the project that excites Lamberth and Shannon is that the project is on-going and can be added to overtime in order to continue to tell the story of Portland and its people.
"That's one great thing with this display page, as I call it. We can continually add to this. We can add pictures. We can add oral stories. This is a living, breathing thing that is going to be going on hopefully long after we're done with it," Lamberth said.
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