In an out-of-this-world opportunity, teacher Dr. Manuel Iris will join the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for its "Pops in Space" concert series January 18-20.
Dr. Iris, who teaches in DPCR's English Department, is Cincinnati's poet laureate. He was invited to read two poems during the "Pops in Space" concerts. He will read his newest poem, "To the Cosmic Concert," which he wrote especially for the Pops concerts. He will also read "High Flight," a poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. For inspiration while composing his poem, Dr. Iris listened to musical selections the Pops will play during the concerts.
"Pops in Space" performances are Friday, January 18 and Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, January 20 at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are available through the Cincinnati Pops web site.


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Davidson College Alumnus Runs Nonprofit Tech Helping Families Apply for SNAP Benefits
July 10, 2019 /0 Comments/in Blog /by Rick Hynum
By Danielle Strickland
Genevieve Nielsen graduated from Sullivan Foundation partner school Davidson College just five years ago and already has made a difference in the lives of more than 425,000 families—and counting.
Nielsen co-founded mRelief, a non-profit tech company that helps families find out if they qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. Families can answer 10 quick questions online instead of spending hours on the phone or in a waiting room.
"Our goal was to put something into the world that would be useful, and that turned out to be a tech nonprofit," said Nielsen. "We want to make it so anybody can access a social safety net, and that's where we're headed."
To date, mRelief has unlocked more than $91 million in SNAP benefits. There are currently nine million people in the United States who are eligible for but not receiving the benefit, simply because they don't know they can.
"About three million of the nine million live in California, so we've been doing a lot of work out there," explained Nielsen. "We focus on where we can make the most impact and where there are the most people to serve."
mRelief began while Nielsen attended a coding bootcamp the summer after graduating from Davidson, and she was inspired by a presentation about the inefficiencies related to social services in Chicago. Chicago is also Nielsen's home, where she and her family moved after leaving New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. She learned that, every year, 10,000 people apply for assistance in paying their rent but only 400-600 qualify, resulting in a huge waste of time for applicants and staff.
Nielsen's work focuses on SNAP benefits, but she sees real potential for expanding to other programs.
"We had some luck," Nielsen said. "By the end of that first summer, the city wanted case workers to use our program. That gave us the wind at our backs to keep going."
It costs approximately $13 to enroll a family and, on average, the family receives $1,000 in benefits within the first six months.
Creating something new has always been of interest to Nielsen, but it was at Davidson where she learned about her strengths and the areas where she needed more work.
"There is only so much you can learn by reading or getting advice; there's nothing like trying something and feeling it for yourself," she said. "During college, a friend and I tried to make a website that would benefit student organizations on campus. The main problem was that neither of us knew how to code. That really set me on the path I'm on now. Even though our project didn't work out, there's a lot to be said for giving it a shot, especially in college when you have the security to do it."
Nielsen's involvement with the Chidsey Leadership Program, as well as relationships with a few key professors, helped give her the confidence that she could learn new things and take on new challenges.
"I was always introverted, so I never saw myself as a leader," she said. "The Chidsey program helped me see that anybody can be a leader. It's not just one type of personality. It's really about mobilizing people to effect positive change – and any personality can do that."
This article was edited slightly from the original version appearing on the Davidson College website.
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Social Entrepreneur Lists 5 Competitive Advantages of a Mission-Driven Business
June 27, 2019 /0 Comments/in Social Entrepreneurism /by Rick Hynum
Entrepreneurs who believe business success and social impact are mutually exclusive have a lot to learn about business success, according to a recent article on Forbes.com by Sean Grundy, CEO of Bevi, a social enterprise focused on eliminating single-use plastic bottles.
While no one denies that "having to succeed on two fronts makes the job of a social entrepreneur even harder" than that of a regular entrepreneur, Grundy said a thriving mission-driven business has the potential to help change the entire world for the better.
"When business interests and social or environmental interests clash, business interests usually win," Grundy writes. "Yet when businesses truly support a cause, they can drive large-scale change quickly. And there's no time to better embed a mission into a company than at the very start, making the mission an inseparable part of that company's business model rather than an afterthought."
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Related: Why social entrepreneurship is a smarter way of doing business
In fact, Grundy believes social enterprises have some important advantages over traditional for-profit companies, including:
A better crop of job candidates. "When you can offer employees the professional development of a high-growth business with the impact of a nonprofit, you'll be amazed by the quality of candidates who apply to your startup," Grundy says.
Brand authenticity. While many profit-driven companies hire consultants to help them invent a "mission" other than making as much money as possible, social entrepreneurs know and believe in their mission from the start. And that sort of genuineness is favored by many consumers in today's market. "Industry incumbents may copy your product or your sales process, but they'll never be able to capture the authenticity of your brand in customers' eyes," Grundy notes.
Thinking bigger. Building a better world isn't a small-scale operation. "You need to go after multibillion-dollar markets and reshape the way you do business," Grundy writes. "In short, to really achieve your vision, you need to become a unicorn."
A stronger work ethic. "When you know your product will improve the world, you feel a moral obligation to succeed, even when the odds are stacked against you," Grundy points out. "When you're a mission-driven company in a sea of profit-driven competitors, you have to just keep swimming. Great investors recognize that mission-driven entrepreneurs are less likely to give up, and some even build this into their investment theses."
Far-ranging impact. Your social venture's success will inspire other mission-driven entrepreneurs and "show them a path to success," Grundy concludes. "If you fail, you may still lay the groundwork for a competitor to achieve your vision (which would be disappointing, but better than nothing). If you succeed, you'll give investors more confidence that startups can, in fact, do well and do good at the same time."
Forbes describes Grundy's company, Bevi, as "one of the fastest-growing beverage companies in the world." Conceived by Eliza Becton after she learned about the Pacific Garbage Patch, Bevi offers smart, eco-friendly water coolers for offices. Bevi machines allow users to mix up purified still and sparkling beverages—including both plain and flavored varieties—to create their own signature drinks with the push of a button on a touchscreen. "Our main motivation was cutting out the waste associated with plastic bottles, both from the actual manufacturing of bottles and the fact that most of them end up in landfills as well as just the trucking of full beverage bottles," Grundy told Boston Magazine in 2015.
Bevi's website claims the company's beverage dispensers have "saved the waste generated by over 65 million plastic bottles."
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Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller are part of the lineup for the new VINYL Festival that will take place on the weekend of May 5-7 at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin. According to Hotpress, they will discuss their mutual love of mod subculture, its range of influences, its music, and how it informs their lives, not to mention their recent collaboration, Jazz On The Corner.
Tickets go on sale on March 29th.
A new version for Japan of the Black Panther trailer has been posted, featuring new scenes with Martin As Everett K. Ross.
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by Jerome Weeks 5 Oct 2013
Only $9,000 left to raise – out of $95,000 for a documentary on the world-premiere collaboration between Police drummer-composer Stewart Copeland, the Dallas Symphony, conducted by Jaap van Zweden and the percussion ensemble D'Drum. But there's only 2 days left.
"Dare to Drum" is the Kickstarter campaign to fund John Bryant's documentary of the world-premiere collaboration of Police drummer Stewart Copeland, the Dallas Symphony, conducted by Jaap van Zweden, and the Dallas percussion ensemble D'Drum (check out the great video above) . This campaign's pretty special — beyond the incredible music — because the "kickback" rewards include Copeland hosting a film scoring master class (limited to five attendees) and a drumming master class (again, only five attendees). In addition to his worldwide success with the band Police, Copeland has had a successful career composing for film and TV, including Rumblefish, Wall Street and Desperate Housewives.
Other kickbacks include a private drum lesson with Copeland, a private performance from D'Drum as well as autographed percussion equipment from Copeland. "Dare to Drum" is trying to raise $95,000 — and they've raised just under $86,000.But there are only two days left!
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Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men's Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.
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Trump Tower Meeting Silently Looms Over Cohen's False-Statements Plea
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Michael Cohen exits Federal Court in Manhattan, November 29, 2018.	 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
Still no criminal 'collusion,' but there's potential for more embarrassing revelations
Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court this morning to making false statements to Congress regarding his involvement in efforts to build a Trump Tower complex in Moscow (the "Moscow project").
As our Jack Crowe has noted, Cohen's guilty plea is in connection with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and pertains to testimony Cohen gave to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Cohen pled guilty to a one-count criminal information.
In a nutshell, Cohen gave testimony to the committee that minimized the extent and duration of efforts made by the Trump organization on the Moscow project. In order to downplay Donald Trump's connections to Russia, Cohen told the committee that the project had ended in January 2016 (i.e., before the Iowa caucuses), and that Trump's personal involvement had been scant — limited to three conversations with Cohen.
In reality, Cohen now says efforts on the project continued well into 2016. Moreover, both Donald Trump and members of his family were extensively briefed on it. The efforts involved communications with Russian-government officials, as well as discussions of possible trips to Russia by Cohen and Trump, and possible meetings with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev.
For those who've been predicting an imminent end of the Mueller investigation, my sense is that this is not a "tying up the loose ends" guilty plea. There is a strategy here of proving collusion . . . even if Mueller cannot prove a collusion crime. (As we've frequently noted, collusion is a hopelessly vague term, referring to concerted activity that could be legal or illegal; it must be distinguished from conspiracy, which is an agreement to commit a crime — along with the activity in furtherance of that agreement.)
The collusion narrative held that Russia "hacked" the election and the Trump campaign was complicit. If that were true, it would be worthy of a prosecutor's attention because hacking is a crime, so "collusion" in it could rise to a criminal conspiracy. But there is no evidence to support a "cyberespionage" conspiracy — there are just the sensational, unverified claims in the Steele dossier (a product of the Hillary Clinton campaign).
Rather than ending the investigation because the suspected crime cannot be established, Mueller is apparently determined to prove "collusion" that is not criminal, however nefarious it may be made to appear. The prosecutor's objective appears to be to show: (a) that ties between Donald Trump and the Russian regime were more elaborate than Trump has let on, and (b) that the Russian regime offered help to the Trump campaign in the form of information that would be politically damaging to Hillary Clinton, and the Trump campaign knowingly and eagerly accepted that offer — i.e., collusion to affect the outcome of the election.
Now, such a showing of collusion could be politically damaging. It might even be something on which the Democratic-controlled House could try to build an impeachment effort. But it is not a criminal conspiracy because it does not establish an agreement to commit a federal crime.
Mueller is camouflaging this defect in his investigation by inducing people in the Trump campaign orbit to plead guilty to various false-statements charges. The anti-Trump press then reports that (a) Mueller is investigating Trump–Russia collusion, (b) many Trump-campaign figures have been convicted, and (c) many Russians have been charged. No mention is made of the inconvenient facts that the Trump associates' guilty pleas have nothing to do with Russia's interference in the election and that the charges against Russians have nothing to do with the Trump campaign.
If I am right about where Mueller is going, then all roads lead to the Trump Tower meeting.
That would be the now-infamous June 9, 2016, gathering at which three top Trump-campaign officials — Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner (the president's son-in-law), and Paul Manafort (then the campaign manager) — expected to receive damaging information regarding Hillary Clinton from a Kremlin-tied lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The meeting was arranged by Don Jr. and Aras Agalarov, a Russian real-estate tycoon with close ties to Putin (who communicated with Don Jr. through intermediaries — his pop-star son Emin Agalarov and British publicist Rob Goldstone). Aras Agalarov runs a company called Crocus Group. As the Washington Post's David Ignatius has recounted, he was quoted in state-run media in 2013 about participating in talks to be Trump's partner on a Trump Tower development in Moscow. That same year, he was also Trump's partner and host when Trump brought the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow.
In arranging the meeting, Agalarov communicated to Don Jr. that the purportedly damaging information about Mrs. Clinton was being transmitted as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump" in the 2016 election. But the meeting is said to have yielded no useful campaign dirt; it was largely used by Veselnitskaya to lobby the Trump campaign to oppose the Magnitsky Act (a bête noire of Putin's).
Obviously, this is why the meeting is in Mueller's crosshairs. The special counsel is especially interested in whether President Trump had foreknowledge of the meeting. Both the president and Don Jr. have denied that then-candidate Trump was told about it.
The Trump Tower meeting is not mentioned in the criminal information to which Cohen pled guilty today. But its specter is unmistakable if you're paying attention. And the special counsel wants you to be paying attention. Most criminal informations (filed in lieu of an indictment when a defendant agrees) are bare-bones, one-paragraph affairs; Mueller, however, uses this one as the opportunity to convey a nine-page narrative. Again, there's more going on here than just a false-statements plea. In this narrative, the timeline and the involvement of top-tier Russian officials are noteworthy.
The criminal information details that on January 20, 2016 (i.e., the point in time at which Cohen falsely told the Senate that the Moscow project had petered out), Cohen had an extensive telephone conversation with the personal assistant of "Russian official 1," who is further described as Putin's press secretary. (Consistent with Justice Department policy, the names of uncharged people are not mentioned — Trump, for example, is "Individual 1.") During the discussion, Cohen outlined the Moscow project, including a description of "the Russian development company with which the [Trump] company had partnered" (likely a reference to Agalarov's conglomerate). Cohen further "requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction."
Cohen had been referred to Putin's press secretary by his friend, Felix Sater, who is an interesting character, to say the least. Sater is a former business associate of Trump's, in addition to being a convicted racketeer and former (we assume it's former) government informant. Sater often boasted of ties to Putin. As the New York Times has reported, he wrote a November 3, 2015, email to Cohen that said:
Michael[,] I arranged for Ivanka [Trump] to sit in Putins [sic] private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins [sic] team to buy in on this.
The criminal information confirms that Sater served as an intermediary between the Trump organization and the Kremlin on the Moscow project. On January 21, the day after Cohen spoke with the assistant to Putin's press secretary, Sater sent Cohen a message asking him to call: "It's about [the President of Russia] they called today."
In the ensuing months, the criminal information relates that the Moscow project was discussed several times within the Trump company. Cohen says he separately discussed with candidate Trump and Sater the likelihood that Trump would travel to Russia in connection with the project, potentially to meet in person with Putin. On May 4, 2016, Sater sent a message to Cohen explaining that he "had a chat with Moscow," and that while Cohen could come to Russia for a "pre-meeting trip" at any time, they needed to address whether a potential Trump trip — for a meeting of "the 2 big guys" — would happen "before or after the [Republican] convention" in Cleveland. Cohen responded, "My trip before Cleveland. [Trump] once he becomes the nominee after the convention."
The day after this conversation (i.e., May 5), Sater informed Cohen that Putin's press secretary was extending an invitation for Cohen to be his personal guest at "the St. Petersburg Forum which is Russia's Davos," from June 16 to 19. There, Cohen would meet with one or both of Putin and Medvedev. Mueller's criminal information relates that this anticipated meeting would not be limited in scope to the Moscow project: "anything you want to discuss including dates and subjects are on the table."
Cohen quickly agreed to come to St. Petersburg. But on June 14, just two days before the forum, he abruptly told Sater he was pulling out.
When one reads the criminal information with the June 9 Trump Tower meeting in mind, Mueller's description of when and how Cohen aborted the trip is intriguing. Mueller states that beginning on June 9, Sater sent "numerous messages to Cohen about the travel, including forms for Cohen to complete." That went on until June 14, when Cohen met with Sater "in the lobby" of Trump Tower — i.e., he wouldn't even bring him up to the office — and informed Sater that "he would not be traveling at that time."
As I've previously observed, the best explanation of the Trump Tower meeting is that Putin played the Trump campaign: By simply taking a meeting with the hope of getting campaign dirt, the candidate (now president) was compromised. Even if no exploitable information was transmitted, Putin would be positioned to embarrass Trump with the details of the meeting at the moment of his choosing, and therefore able to drive harder bargains in negotiations if Trump became president.
When it turned out that Veselnitskaya had nothing useful to offer, did the Trump team realize they had been had? Did they sense that Putin was trying to maneuver Trump, and did they decide to distance themselves?
Not only was the decision that Cohen would not travel to Russia made in mid June; the criminal information indicates that this is also when discussions about the Moscow project, including "efforts to obtain Russian governmental approval," ground to a halt.
It should be noted that Cohen has not been charged with any offense involving Russia's interference in the 2016 election. Moreover, no deal was ever closed for a Trump project in Moscow.
Three months ago, Cohen pled guilty to several other charges brought by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. These included campaign-finance violations involving pay-offs to women who claim to have had extramarital liaisons with Donald Trump a decade before he was elected president. Cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on those charges on December 12.
At a minimum, this latest guilty plea in Mueller's investigation illustrates that the special counsel is scrutinizing the president's business connections to Russia. Shortly before being inaugurated, Trump tweeted, "I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NOTHING!" He elaborated at a press conference that his business dealings with Russians were limited to "selling condos," and one big real-estate deal in Florida, in which he sold to a Russian oligarch for about $100 million a mansion he'd purchased for about $40 million.
I would expect to see these assurances of minimal Russia ties repeated in Mueller's final report. They will, of course, be juxtaposed against the facts that the special counsel revealed today, using Cohen's guilty plea as the pretext. And I would expect to hear a lot more about the Trump Tower meeting.
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that Donald Trump was involved in the Miss America pageant in Moscow. Trump was involved with the Miss Universe pageant.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. @AndrewCMcCarthy


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Translation of mystic terms or metaphors is a very important portion of rendering a text from a source language to a target language, because some of mystic terms do not exist in the target language and this point makes the translation harder. Considering the mystic terms as one of the main issues in translation of poems, this research pursues the following objectives: Firstly, it is an attempt to find out what strategies have been used to find equivalents for source text mystic. Second, it is hoped that this study of the translations of the mystic terms in Attar's poems will further address and explore the problems in translating mystic texts, proposed by other Persian poets and suggest instructional points from Davis work for translation education. In order to deal with such a breadth of work, a new conceptual tool was developed, as explained by Van Doorslaer (2007). This study shows that according to Van Doorslaer map, the mystic terms can be transferred to the TL with their exact content of the SL, if the translator has a good choice for any term.


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Reactor promotes new report on Gender Based Discrimination and Labour in North Macedonia
Today, April 11, at the EU Info Centre in Skopje, Reactor - Research in Action promoted the new research report on Gender Based Discrimination and Labour in North Macedonia.
The report analyzes the shortcomings in the relevant legal framework related to gender-based discrimination and labour rights; the prevalence and nature of gender-based discrimination in the labour market; the extent to which people have filed claims; how institutions have treated such cases; and contains recommendations for improving the existing legal framework, institutional mechanisms and practices for protection against gender-based discrimination in employment and access to work.
The results of the survey show that gender based discrimination at work affects women more than men.
"Not to lose my job, I was forced to return to work 14 days after I gave birth."" At a job interview, I was told that the work they do could not be performed by women because women are less intelligent than men."; " In the same working position, with the same work responsibilities and the same level of education, I received 3,000 denars less than my male colleague." - are just a few of the testimonials of female workers surveyed in the research.
The gender-based discrimination that women face at work seems fuelled by sexism and gender stereotypes, which suggest that their 'reproductive and care roles, and domestic work' conflict with the work environment as it is perceived as a barrier for career development and progress by the employers and managers. Pregnancy remains a risky career move and women are often forced to choose between their careers or having children - this decision sometimes is predetermined for them by employers. Just because they are women, they are penalized with lower working positions (barriers in the promotion process) and lower salaries compared to men.
The findings of the study show that very few cases of gender-based discrimination against women at work have been reported to the different mechanisms available for prevention and protection from discrimination. The institutions responsible for addressing gender-based discrimination at work lack data about its prevalence. The precise prevalence of gender-based discrimination cannot be known given that cases often may not be reported. Interviewed stakeholders presume that gender-based discrimination is not reported due to lack of knowledge where to go, distrust in the institutions and lengthy and expensive processes to prove discrimination.
The panel will hosted several presenters: Sophie Beaumont, Programme Manager for education, gender equality and rights for persons with disabilities at the Delegation of the European Union; Jovana Trenchevska, State Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy; Olivera Lazarevska, State Labor Inspectorate; Kristina Ampeva, Glasen Tekstilec; and Igor Jadrovski, Network for Protection against Discrimination.
This research is part of the regional action "Furthering Women's Labor Rights", supported by the European Union (EU) implemented in six Western Balkan countries (North Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro). The research was done at the end of the year 2018.


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Tweede Kamerverkiezingen in het kiesdistrict Amsterdam III geeft een overzicht van verkiezingen voor de Nederlandse Tweede Kamer in het kiesdistrict Amsterdam III in de periode 1848-1850.

Het kiesdistrict Amsterdam III werd ingesteld na de grondwetsherziening van 1848. Tot het kiesdistrict behoorde een gedeelte van de gemeente Amsterdam .

Het kiesdistrict Amsterdam III vaardigde in dit tijdvak per zittingsperiode één lid af naar de Tweede Kamer.

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 vet: gekozen als lid van de Tweede Kamer.

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De verkiezingen werden gehouden na ontbinding van de Tweede Kamer, na inwerkingtreding van de herziene grondwet.

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In 1850 werd het kiesdistrict Amsterdam III opgeheven. Het tot het kiesdistrict behorende deel van Amsterdam werd ingedeeld bij het nieuw ingestelde meervoudige kiesdistrict Amsterdam.

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 Tweede Kamerverkiezingen in het kiesdistrict Amsterdam III (1897-1918)

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Aus den 5 eingereichten Projekten wählte die Arbeitsgruppe Forschung das Projekt von Frau Dr. Monika Lutters, Kantonsspital Baden mit dem Titel «Detection and prevention of delirium triggered by adverse drug events» aus.
Delirium is a frequent and serious ADE in hospitals. Its prevention may reduce length of hospital stay, mortality and costs, and avoid unnecessary and potentially harmful pharmacological treatment. The manual algorithm (checklist) and automated algorithm (source code) can be implemented in other hospitals, and be used by clinical pharmacists.
The project is associated with a large interdisciplinary, multicentric research project financed by the Swiss National Foundation (NRP 74, "Automatic detection of adverse drug events in the geriatric care", http://www.nfp74.ch/en/projects/all-projects) where pharmacists, clinical pharmacologists, geriatricians, epidemiologists, specialists in medical informatics, structured data mining and natural language processing closely work together. The experience gained with this project will facilitate the development of other algorithms to prevent ADEs.


Terraria is a world building open ended side scrolling action game. Think of it like Minecraft in 2D.
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Duffy trial reveals more problems with Senate
The fraud and bribery trail of suspended Canadian Senator Mike Duffy is now into its third week.
Duffy, the man who was once a political commentator for CTV News and was appointed as a Senator at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2009, is now facing 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust, bribery and frauds on the government, all related to allegedly inappropriately claimed Senate expenses. Suspended Senators Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin were also appointed along with Duffy to the Senate at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
On the fifth day of the trial we learned Duffy used public dollars to frame pictures of his family members and ordered for photos to be sent to former American first lady Barbara Bush.
The saga began in late 2012, when four Senators: Duffy, Mac Harb, Wallin and Brazeau allegedly claimed travel and housing expenses, which were not eligible.
Duffy was accused of claiming a primary residence outside of Ottawa in order to backhandedly claim living expenses for working in Ottawa, along with other expenses, totaling $90,172.
In February of 2013, a Senate committee determined Duffy, Wallin, Harb and Brazeau would be subject to an audit to gauge the appropriateness of their expense claims made with public dollars. After weeks of public and media scrutiny, Duffy paid back the expenses he claimed for his Ottawa residence, citing that the Senate rules on expenses were unclear. It was then revealed he allegedly received a personal cheque from the Prime Minister's Office from Nigel Wright to repay the public dollars from his expense claims. In May 2013 the RCMP were brought in to investigate Duffy's pattern of spending, not only for his living expense claims, but also expenses claimed from a vacation and election campaign costs. RCMP laid the 31 charges on Duffy in July 2014.
As the current trial evolves, it continues to highlight a larger issue with the current set up of the Senate — mismanagement of public tax dollars.
The Upper Chamber was designed by Sir John A. Macdonald and the fathers of confederation to act as a "sober second-thought;" to act in effect as a controlling and regulating aspect of the government. The current Senate consists of 105 members, give or take, all who are appointed by the Governor General upon the advice of the prime minister. Seats are assigned regionally and Senators can serve in the Upper Chamber until they are 75.
The approval of both houses, both the lower House of Commons and the Upper House of Parliament, is necessary for legislation, meaning before any federal bill is passed, the Senate has the ability, along with the Governor General to reject bills already passed by the House of Commons which is filled with elected officials. So, when's the last time we've even heard of a bill passed by the House of Commons not receiving Royal assent?
According to the Parliament of Canada web site, from 1867 to 1927, approximately 180 bills did not receive Royal Assent by being either rejected by the Senate or receiving amendments. As the years progress, the number of bills rejected by the Senate continues to decrease. Now in the 21st century, it's virtually unheard of but does on rarity occur.
According to the David Suzuki Foundation, in 2010, the Senate rejected the Climate Change Accountability Act. The bill involving greenhouse gas regulation was a mandate to commit the nation to a 25% reduction of emissions by 2020. The bill was successfully passed by all parties in the House of Commons, but was dead in the water when it came to the Senate.
So it begs the question, do Canadians continue to support such an ineffective branch of government?
It's clearly time to roll up that red carpet for good and abolish the Canadian Senate. It's time to channel the funds spent on Senators' various expenses and the operations of the red chamber towards much-needed aspects within our nation's social structure.
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McCarthy, Lawrence Dominic (1892–1975)
by W. H. Connell
in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10 , 1986
Lawrence McCarthy, c.1919
Australian War Memorial, P01383.016
Lawrence Dominic McCarthy (1892?-1975), named at birth Florence Joseph, soldier, commercial traveller and building superintendent, was born probably on 21 January 1892 at York, Western Australia, son of Florence McCarthy of Cork, Ireland, and his wife Anne, née Sherry. His parents died when he was very young and he was brought up in Clontarf Orphanage, Perth, and educated in Catholic schools.
McCarthy was working as a contractor when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 16 October 1914; he was posted as a private to the 16th Battalion and sailed for Egypt in December. On 26 April 1915 'Fat'—the appropriate and affectionate nickname earned by his 'ample frame'—landed at Gallipoli with 'C' Company. Appointed lance corporal on 13 May, he was promoted corporal on 19 July and sergeant on 1 September. That month he was evacuated because of illness, returning to duty in November. On 20 December he left Gallipoli with the last party of his battalion.
The 16th Battalion reached France in June 1916 and took part in heavy fighting around Pozières and Mouquet Farm in August. On 8 March 1917 McCarthy was appointed company sergeant major and on 10 April was commissioned second lieutenant. Next day he was wounded at Bullecourt and evacuated to England, rejoining his unit on 9 July. A lieutenant from 1 November, he received the French Croix de Guerre at Beaumetz two days later. From 31 January 1918 he was posted to the 13th Training Battalion, Tidworth, England, returning to the 16th in time for the offensive of 8 August.
Near Madam Wood, east of Vermandovillers, France, on 23 August McCarthy performed what the official war historian rated as 'perhaps the most effective feat of individual fighting in the history of the A.I.F., next to Jacka's at Pozières'. The 16th Battalion, with McCarthy commanding 'D' Company, had attained its objectives but the battalion on the left was unable to make headway. Accompanied by Sergeant F. J. Robbins, D.C.M., M.M., McCarthy attacked the German machine-gun posts which were preventing its advance. They raced into the enemy trench system, shooting and bombing as they went, destroying three machine-gun positions. When his mate fell wounded, McCarthy pressed on, picking up German bombs as he continued to fight down the trench 'inflicting heavy casualties'. Coming upon another enemy pocket, he shot two officers and bombed the post until a blood-stained handkerchief signalled the surrender of the forty occupants.
This feat of bravery, which resulted in the award of the Victoria Cross, had an extraordinary conclusion. As the battalion historian records, 'the prisoners closed in on him from all sides … and patted him on the back!' In twenty minutes he had killed twenty Germans, taken fifty prisoners and seized 500 yards (460 m) of the German front. This jovial hero believed that there was 'a V.C. in everybody if given a chance'.
On 21 November 1918 McCarthy was again evacuated, ill, to England. He returned home on 20 December 1919 and his A.I.F. appointment ended on 6 August 1920. In England, on 25 January 1919, he had married Florence (Flossie) Minnie Norville, at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Their only child Lawrence Norville was killed in action on Bougainville in 1945.
'Mac' moved from Western Australia to Victoria in 1926 where he joined the staff of the Sunshine Harvester Works. He remained with the company, mostly as a traveller in the Mallee, until the Depression forced staff reductions in 1934. From 1935 until his retirement in 1969 he was superintendent of the Trustees, Executors & Agency Co. Ltd building, Melbourne.
He attended the V.C. centenary celebrations in London in 1956 and was present at the opening of V.C. Corner at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, in 1964. A most popular, generous and unassuming man, he took a keen interest in community affairs.
Laurie McCarthy died at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne, on 25 May 1975 and was cremated with full military honours. He was survived by his wife who donated his V.C. and medals to the Australian War Memorial, which also holds his portrait by Charles Wheeler.
C. E. W. Bean, The A.I.F. in France, 1918 (Syd, 1942)
C. Longmore, The Old Sixteenth (Perth, 1929)
L. Wigmore (ed), They Dared Mightily (Canb, 1963)
Reveille (Sydney), Jan, Mar 1931
Freeman's Journal (Sydney), 26 July 1917
Herald (Melbourne), 26 May 1975
war diary, 16th Battalion A.I.F. (Australian War Memorial)
private information.
Trove search
World War I service file, B2455, item McCarthy L D (National Archives of Australia)
W. H. Connell, 'McCarthy, Lawrence Dominic (1892–1975)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mccarthy-lawrence-dominic-7307/text12677, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 28 January 2023.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, (Melbourne University Press), 1986
View the front pages for Volume 10
McCarthy, Florence Joseph
York, Western Australia, Australia
25 May, 1975 (aged 83)
army officer
travelling sales personnel
16th Battalion
Battle of Bullecourt, 1917
Battle of Mouquet Farm, 1916
Battle of Pozieres, 1916
Dardanelles campaign, 1915-16
Croix de Guerre avec Palme (France)
Key Places
Clontarf Boys' Town (WA)


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Peregrination
For Solo Bassoon
Also available for cello, clarinet, saxophone, euphonium or tuba
Duration: 1 minute
Demo Recording: Peregrination Peregrination for solo bassoon
Steve Johnson: Peregrination Peregrination for solo baritone saxophone
Suzanne Mueller: Peregrination Peregrination for solo cello
Peregrination, composed in 2014, is a brief journey through the territory of the low double reed, a pilgrimage and return. Originally composed for bassoon, Suzanne Mueller gave the world premiere performance on cello on July 27, 2014, at Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, New York.
Sheet music for Peregrination is available from J.W.Pepper and SheetMusicPlus.com.
Performance History - Bassoon
Nicholaus Tucker gave the world premiere performance on bassoon on January 30, 2015, at the Bohemian National Hall, New York.
February 6, 2015, by Nicholaus Tucker at the Firehouse Space, New York.
Performance History - Bass Clarinet
Luigi Marasca gave the world premiere performance on bass clarinet on March 14, 2015, at the Loggia Gran Guardia, Padua, Italy.
Performance History - Cello
Suzanne Mueller gave the world premiere performance on cello on July 27, 2014, at Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, New York.
July 10, 2016, by Suzanne Mueller at Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury, New York.
Performance History - Saxophone
Steve Johnson gave the world premiere performance on baritone saxophone on September 27, 2014, at Green Bay, Wisconsin.


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Metacheiromyinae (Метачеироминае — "поред Чеиромиса") је изумрла парафилетска потпородица плаценталних сисара, из изумрле парафилетске породице Metacheiromyidae унутар изумрлог реда Palaeanodonta, која је у периоду раног еоцена је настањивала подручје Сјеверне Америке и Европе. Ову парафилетску потпородицу сисара су чинили родови Metacheiromys и Palaeanodon. Стручни назив за чланове ове парафилетске потпородице сисара је метачеиромини.

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Представници парафилетске потпородице Metacheiromyinae су били полуфосоријални сисари, који су по својој грађи тијела наликовали на представнике Cingulata и Vermilingua. Ови сисари су били мирмекофагни сисари (тј. хранили су се мравима и термитима).

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Класификација парафилетске потпородице Metacheiromyinae:

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Доље приказан кладограм представља филогенетске везе парафилетске потпородице Metacheiromyinae.

Временска распрострањенст родова из парафилетске потпородице Metacheiromyinae унутар парафилетске породице Metacheiromyidae

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 Класификација сисара
 Metacheiromyidae

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Conference and training provider Salford Professional Development has recruited former BBC presenter and producer Lynne McCadden as head of its new digital and creative business unit.
McCadden has more than 25 years' senior experience in digital and media roles and spent 10 years at the BBC as a presenter, producer and reporter.
She is a former head of development at Creative England and director at Vision+Media and currently runs her own advisory consultancy, Morra. Her role at SPD will see her develop the firm's range of courses and conferences for the creative and digital sector, as well as building closer ties with the industry.
SPD has also promoted two staff to new director roles. Alice Birdwood, previously head of event management, has become director of programmes heading the team which manages SPD's expanding portfolio of training courses and conferences.
Stuart Thompson has moved from head of sales to sales director. Alexis May, who was previously a divisional director at the London Business Conferences Group, succeeds Birdwood as head of event management.
SPD is a subsidiary of the University of Salford, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The company delivers conferences and training across the UK and overseas.


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News17 Feb 2014
Sopot's ERGO Arena's athletics track officially opened
The athletics track at the ERGO Arena, the venue for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Polish city of Sopot, was officially opened on Sunday (16) and almost 6000 people flocked to the stadium to get a glimpse of where the most important athletics event of the year will take place.
Report15 Sep 2013
Warner and Melnychenko win in Talence – IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Damian Warner and Hanna Melnychecnko emerged as the winners of the 37th Decastar meeting in the French town of Talence, and for the latter there was double joy as she also took first place in the 2013 IAAF Combined Events Challenge on Sunday (15).
News31 Jul 2013
Throwers lead Polish team for World Championships
The Polish Athletics Federation (PZLA) has announced a team of 55 athletes for the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow.
Report30 Jun 2013
Mayer and Tyminska win in Tallinn as France take team title – IAAF Combined Events Challenge
It could not have been closer, it could not have been more dramatic, but the smile on the face of the French athletes told its own story in Tallinn on Sunday afternoon (30) at the European Cup Combined Events, part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge.
Mayer and Melnychenko lead overnight in Tallinn – IAAF Combined Events Challenge
France's Kevin Mayer and Ukraine's Hanna Melnychenko are the individual leaders after the first day of the European Cup Combined Events Super League in Tallinn on Saturday (29), which is part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge.
Previews27 Jun 2013
Close battles expected at European Cup – PREVIEW – IAAF Combined Events Challenge
The IAAF Combined Events Challenge will this weekend (29-30) be integrated into the European Cup Combined Events and exciting contests are in store in all three divisions.
Melnychenko scores world lead in Kladno, Krauchanka wins Decathlon – IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Ukraine's Hanna Melnychenko moved to the top of this year's season lists at the TNT Express Meeting in Kladno, the Czech leg of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge, while Andrei Krauchanka of Belarus won his second Decathlon of the 2013 series.
Krauchanka and Melnychenko lead overnight in Kladno - IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Belarus' Andrei Krauchanka held a 127 point lead over his main rival, Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Karpov, with a score of 4307 points in the Decathlon after the end of the first day of TNT Express meeting in the Czech town of Kladno, part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge, on Saturday.
Karpov and Krauchanka go head-to-head in Kladno - IAAF Combined Events Challenge
Both of last year winners are back in the Czech town of Kladno for the TNT Express Meeting, an IAAF Combined Events Challenge event, but Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Karpov and home crowd favorite Eliska Klucinova will not have easy tasks to retain their titles this weekend (8-9).


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Human Rights Groups: Golan Oil Drilling Contravenes International Law
Attorneys write to ministers after test drillings were approved earlier this month.
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One of Afek's Golan Heights drilling sites.Credit: Courtesy
Human rights groups active in the Arab community and in the Golan Heights have asked National Infrastructure Minister Yuval Steinitz and Interior Ministry officials to cancel the permits for oil drilling in the Golan Heights, saying they violate international law, which sees the Golan as occupied territory.
Unit of U.S. firm cleared to drill for oil for two more years in Golan Heights
Geologist reports major oil find in Israel; firm stays mum
Golan Heights oil explorer remains optimistic about prospects
Earlier this month the Northern District Planning Committee approved a request for a permit to carry out test drilling for oil on the Golan at 11 locations on the Heights.
"The rule under which force may not be used to lead to or cause a transfer or change of sovereignty constitutes one of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law," wrote attorney Suhad Bishara of Adalah, which works to protect the rights of Israeli Arabs, and Karama Abu Saleh, from Al-Marsad – the Arab Human Rights Center in the Golan Heights. "An expression of this fundamental principle is also found in Section 47 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which establishes, inter alia, the application of the convention to the population of an occupied territory, even if it has been annexed by the occupying force."
The lawyers also argued that under the Hague Convention and international law, the occupying regime is allowed to use the public assets it manages, and even its yields, to fulfill its obligations under occupation laws, but it may not destroy these assets, transfer ownership to others or deplete them.
With regard to the oil, they argued that exploiting the oil reserves in the Golan Heights would be considered using public assets in contravention of these rules. Since oil is a finite resource, its production constitutes harming public property and is considered a violation of the Hague regulations.
It should be noted that the proposals to drill for oil on the Golan Heights have also come under broad criticism by Israeli environmentalists.
Middle East oil


Do a paint party online wherever it is most convenient to you or opt to have it done in person! The minimum is $75 for two people. Each extra person is $20 for online parties and $25 for in-person parties [contact Sharon Jeffus at visualmanna@gmail.com for details of how to book for more than 2 people].
In doing the paintings on old barn wood, painters can decide to either use the borders showing the old wood as a frame, or cover the entire piece of wood.The different wood grains add interesting textures to the finished pictures.
Principles of atmospheric perspective are taught and participants learn how to paint beautiful and peaceful landscapes. Classes also are given in painting lions, eagles and horses, like the verses: "The righteous are as bold as a lion;" in Proverbs 28:1; and Isaiah 40:31, "They will mount up with wings as an eagle," and Proverbs 21:31.
If you are interested in hosting one of these paint parties or learning how to do it, feel free to contact Sharon Jeffus, Visual Manna owner, with any questions at visualmanna@gmail.com or sign up here.
We are interested in a painting party and would like to see if you have any available for Mothers Day Weekend for our church. Total will be between 20 – 50 ladies.
Hello. Are these paint parties still available?
Yes I just did one…you can email me any time. visualmanna@gmail.com.
Do you do church events? Is the pricing the same for larger groups? Can we choose a verse or do we pick from a list of verses provided?
Hi Catherine! This is Sarah, an assistant to Sharon. Thanks for your interest! For questions like these, please feel free to email Sharon at visualmanna@gmail.com if you are still interested and she can help explain and customize an event for your group.


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If you wish to reduce the possibility of grief, it's encouraged that you seek out a mayor or president who has a town with plots for sale and speak with them about obtaining a plot. For more information about obtaining plots in protected towns, and the rights of the mayors and presidents of a protected town, please see Section 4 of the rules.
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The eviction notice must contain the name of the town. Be sure to collect evidence of this for LWC Removal Requests and/or proof should it be required at a later date. It is crucial that the screenshot has a timestamp (double tap f2).
If the user being evicted has LWCs in the town and the Mayor intends to file an LWC Request to have them removed, the eviction notice must include a specific request that the user removes their locks within the 3 days.
The evicted user must have had the opportunity to view the eviction notice. If the user has not been online, in-game or on the forums depending on how the eviction notice was issued, during the 3 day period then the eviction is not valid. The mayor or co-mayor must wait until the user is inactive (at least 7 days offline) or has been online to view to the notice before removing the user from the town or filing an LWC Removal Request.
A Mayor has the right to immediately remove the town permissions of a user found to be griefing in the town either actively, or post-event to prevent further grief.
This removal of permissions from the town must be followed up with a valid grief report within 24 hours to proceed with any Eviction, Seizure of Property or LWC Removal. Requests.
You cannot attempt to LWC or seize the users items until after the grief report has been processed. Then you must proceed with the proper eviction process.
Only the Official Owner or the Legal Owner of the town may evict players who are region owners/co-mayors.
A user who has been banned for griefing in the town or warned by a staff member as a result of a Grief Report.
Players added to a region for a specific job upon completion of work or termination of employment.
A user has been issued a 3 day eviction notice that complies with the requirements above in Clause 3. Proof of the eviction notice must be provided.
A user has been banned for Moderate+ grief in the town.
Locks in the wild and locks belonging to the Official Owner of the town may not be removed.
You may not block access to any locked belongings of the evicted user at any time. Staff will deny all requests in which the LWCs have been blocked in an attempt to protect items.
If your request has been locked for this reason, you must re-issue the 3 day eviction notice and may only file a new LWC removal request once the 3 day eviction period has expired.
If the player was not issued an eviction notice as they had been offline for 7+ days, then you must still wait 3 days before re-filing the request.
If the town has the interact flag set to deny, players must still have perms to the town when the request is filed and may only be removed after a staff member has handled it. This is irrespective of whether the 3 day eviction period has ended.
A player who has been removed from the town for griefing under Section 4, Clause 3 above (Being warned by a staff member or banned for griefing in the town as a result of a Grief Report) does not need to be left added to the town.
Note: For a warning/ban for minor grief - A 3 day eviction notice must still be given under Section 4, Clause 3. During this time the player must still have the opportunity to collect their items. If necessary a town mayor can request the assistance of a staff member to supervise re-adding the player temporarily to collect their items to ensure that no further grief is committed.
The owners of the town are offline for a minimum of 6 months.
The owners of the town are permanently banned from the server, and a period of 7 days has passed since the ban was issued.
The owners of the town have signed and consented to the sale/transfer of a town officially, to be completed in full via the Town Claim Application.
When a user claims a town, the former Official Owner loses all rights to the town and its ownership. The user who has claimed the town becomes the Official Owner, and may apply for town features and have all the other benefits associated with being the Official Owner. This will not be reversed under any circumstances.
If you purchase another user's town not via a Town Claim or Town Transfer, be wary that the Original Owner may contact a GameAdmin+ at any time to request the town be returned to them, the request of which will be filled at the administration's discretion.
Town Transfer applications allow you to transfer a town via contract. The contract must specifically state that you are permitted to apply for a Town Transfer to gain Official Ownership of the town.
Please note that until a Town Transfer or Town Claim Application has been filed the town may be reclaimed at any point by the Official Owner at the discretion of the administration.
When a user transfers a town, the former Official Owner loses all rights to the town and ownership. The user who has claimed the town becomes the Official Owner, and may apply for town features and have all the other benefits of having a town in which they are the Official Owner.
Fly, speed, air build, teleport hacking, or any other types of hacks, are not tolerated. This includes x-ray hacking and x-ray texture packs. Using any unfair means (including glitches, bugs, and exploits) to get into server buildings is also not allowed and is unfair to other users.
Using any clients, specifically hacked clients, which may allow you to gain unfair advantages as deemed by ECC staff is strictly prohibited.
Users caught using any client deemed to be a "hacked client", as defined by and at the discretion of the staff, will be banned. There is no excuse for using a hacked client on EcoCityCraft whatsoever.
Discussion of hacked clients is not allowed - we do not allow them, and therefore we do not discuss them.
The use of any means to earn money without doing any work is prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited to, macromod scripts, autofisher mods, fully automated farms, and physical means to hold a button down while away from your computer.
Usage of automated means is allowed for mcMMO grinding, providing you are not generating money and are not afk (e.g. an autoclicker to train the swords skill on a player is allowed, an autoclicker to train the swords skill on a mob spawner is not).
If you are found to have used any kind of illegal automation, your relevant statistics/balance will be reduced and/or cleared entirely at the discretion of administration.
Be warned that we take this very seriously.
An individual person playing on multiple accounts is allowed as long as no financial benefits arise from doing so, and no accounts belonging to that player are banned.
Alternate accounts are not allowed to rank up past Resident or own towns.
There must be absolutely no financial interaction between multiple accounts that you own if they are for the sole purpose of funding an "alt" account.
Your "main" account is the account that has been used on EcoCityCraft for the longest period of time, and that you are mostly known for. If you do not understand this part of the rule, it's best to simply avoid any interactions between accounts. This rule is enforced completely at staff's discretion.
Direct or indirect transactions (via /pay, Chestshops, etc) are not allowed if they are financially benefiting your alt account.
If you have another account you wish to play on, and make money with, it cannot be used to fund other accounts.
Paying for absolutely anything on your main account with money from an alt account however is NOT allowed.
If any account owned by a player is banned, all the other accounts owned by that player will not be able to appeal until the account banned first has successfully appealed.
Exceptions may be made to this in certain scenarios such as inappropriate username bans.
If there are multiple accounts on the same internet connection/IP, either used by you or others, you must contact a member of staff immediately to inform them to avoid issues.
Users may be questioned for being on the same internet connection, or, in cases of suspicious activity and bans, immediately banned regardless of the reason for the same connection, to be appealed with an explanation.
Using any means (including water and fire/lava) to grief any protected area in the mining world (which can include protected warps and the main Mining World spawn) is not allowed.
Rising rules apply to all areas of the mining world, including trolling rules.
As the mining world is not PvP enabled, this includes rules about attempts to kill players in this world, no matter what the reason.
Please keep in mind that the mining world does not allow LWC locks, and therefore anything you leave in chests in that world is free for all.
The only rule regarding grief in the Nether and End is to leave spawn intact.
Although all users can use TNT in the Nether/End, doing so in a location which will affect spawn can and will result in the loss of Nether and/or End access.
There is to be no abuse of our teleport feature.
If someone denied your request, do not spam them with further requests.
Do not teleport someone into a PvP area without previously informing them that the area is enabled as such.
There is to be no abuse of our teleport compass feature. If someone asks you to stay out of a specific area, such as their town, you are to obey their request.
The teleport feature is not to be used to access areas that you otherwise would not be able to access.
Users who have the water and pyro features are not allowed to grief with those items in protected zones, including any and all spawn areas.
This includes attempts to kill people with these perks in non-PvP areas.
If caught you will immediately have those features removed from you and will face punishment on our server. This can include a rollback of your actions and a possible ban.
If you are asked by a staff member to undisguise momentarily you must obey the order. They will only ask you if deemed necessary.
Griefing while mob disguised will be treated the same as if you were not disguised. Our anti-grief tools will still detect this and you will still be logged.
Engaging in harassment or excessive stalking while mob disguised is against our rules. We have commands in place to detect this. If you are caught doing so you will be warned and punished as necessary.
You may not use mob disguise in order to PvP unless previously agreed upon by both parties.
Bypassing our rules against PvP in disguise by using potions is not allowed.
Do not abuse your ability to set your homes or back command in order to enter an area that you are not welcomed in to.
This includes, but is not limited to, protected towns, harassing other users, etc.
Any user caught abusing said commands to harass/stalk or cause any sort of grief for another player may face severe consequences.
Any user caught abusing bridges/doors/gates in anyway, such as killing unaware users in peaceful areas to steal items/harass players, will face punishment and have the feature immediately removed with no refund.
In addition anyone attempting to lag the server by constantly toggling bridges/doors/gates will face the same consequences with a most certain immediate ban.
Any user caught abusing the powertool feature that is a part of this feature in any way, such as spamming "/powertool pay bob 1" constantly, will face punishment and have the feature immediately removed with no refund.
As well there is to be no command spamming, such as binding the repair hand command to a shovel and using it. You are constantly executing the command by doing this thus spamming the console/log files. Bind your command, use it when needed, and clear it or use a different tool.
The staff/admins will never act upon any user's investigation. This is for your own personal needs as town owners; etc.
Submitting any of your own investigative information into any complaint/grief report will cause it to immediately be locked/ignored.
Any user caught trolling in any way using the investigator feature will have it removed from them immediately and may face a serious ban from the server. Staff can see vanished users and will act upon any trolling.
This feature is for players who have more locks/items than their rank allows. Using your LWC locks on items that are not yours for the intent of trolling is against the rules, and doing so excessively will earn you a ban.
There is to be no abuse of our Nickname or Nickname+ feature.


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Q: Expect redirect stdin I'm running a script on a remote server like using this command:
ssh root@host 'bash -s' < script.sh

Now I'm trying to use expect to handle the password prompt. This is the script:
#!/usr/bin/expect
set cmd [lindex $argv 0]

spawn -noecho ssh root@host $cmd

expect {
  "password:" {
     send "password\r"
   }
}

If I run the script, it gives no output:
./ssh.exp 'bash -s' < script.sh

I know that's not the way to use ssh without password, but this is not the question right here.

UPDATE I tried the idea of glenn jackman with a simple script but it's not working. This is the script I'm using:
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn ssh xxx@xxx

expect "*?assword:*"
send "pwd\r"

send "echo hello world"

This is the output I get:
[xxx@xxx bin]$ expect -d my.exp
expect version 5.43.0
argv[0] = expect  argv[1] = -d  argv[2] = my.exp
set argc 0
set argv0 "my.exp"
set argv ""
executing commands from command file my.exp
spawn ssh xxx@xxx
parent: waiting for sync byte
parent: telling child to go ahead
parent: now unsynchronized from child
spawn: returns {7599}

expect: does "" (spawn_id exp6) match glob pattern "*?assword:*"? no
xxx@xxx's password:
expect: does "xxx@xxx's password: " (spawn_id exp6) match glob pattern "*?assword:*"? yes
expect: set expect_out(0,string) "xxx@xxx's password: "
expect: set expect_out(spawn_id) "exp6"
expect: set expect_out(buffer) "xxx@xxx's password: "
send: sending "pwd" to { exp6 }
send: sending "echo hello world" to { exp6 }
write() failed to write anything - will sleep(1) and retry...

UPDATE I managed it to get my script to run. This is the result which works:

#!/usr/bin/expect

set user [lindex $argv 0]
set host [lindex $argv 1]
set pwd  [lindex $argv 2]

spawn ssh $user@$host bash -s

expect {
  "?asswor?: " {
    send "$pwd\n"
  }
}

while {[gets stdin line] != -1} {
    send "$line\n"
}
send \004

expect {
  "END_TOKEN_OF_SCRIPT" {
    exit 0
  }
  default {
    exit 1
  }
}

A: You need to send the script you read on stdin to the remote host:
while {[gets stdin line] != -1} {
    send "$line\r"
}

# then you may have to send ctrl-D to signal end of stdin
send \004

A: Use expect_user, as shown in the man page:
The following script reads a password, and then runs a program every hour that demands a password each time it is run.  The script supplies the password so that you only have to type it once.  (See the stty command which demonstrates how to turn off password echoing.)
send_user "password?\ "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
for {} 1 {} {
    if {[fork]!=0} {sleep 3600;continue}
    disconnect
    spawn priv_prog
    expect Password:
    send "$expect_out(1,string)\r"
    . . .
    exit
}

Here is what I currently have, still improving it though:
#!/usr/local/bin/expect

# For debugging make the following to be line 1:
#!/usr/local/bin/expect -D 1

set timeout 20

send_user "Username?\ "
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
set user $expect_out(1,string)

send_user "password?\ "
stty -echo
expect_user -re "(.*)\n"
stty echo
set password $expect_out(1,string)

spawn su

expect {

    "Password"  {send "$password\r"}

    "#"         {interact + return}

}

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SF Insider > san francisco museum > The Real Story on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Prank
The Real Story on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Prank
What to Know About the Marin Native American Museum Near San Francisco
Visiting the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco
About the San Francisco Bay Model Museum
A Look at the San Francisco Museum Earthquake Exhibit
Back in May of 2016, two teenagers from California went to the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and were, to put it simply, not very impressed by the exhibits and pieces of art being displayed. In fact, these two teenagers wondered if they could do something even better than what the museum was offering. This is when they devised a scheme to place a pair of eyeglasses on the floor of the museum. It didn't take very long for museum visitors to start gathering around the glasses, viewing them as one of the museum's pieces of art. Some of the visitors even took pictures of the glasses thinking they really were part of an exhibit.
Who Were the Teenagers Who Took Part In the Prank?
The two San Jose teenagers who devised the Museum of Modern Art prank were 16 and 17 years of age, and went by the names Kevin Nguyen and TJ Khayatan. These teenagers were greatly perplexed by the simplicity found in some of the exhibits featured at the museum especially the one that comprised a blanket with two stuffed animals sitting on top of it. Kevin did an interview and he made it clear that he didn't believe a blanket with two stuffed animals on it was art. TJ also made a remark that after they had looked at the simple exhibit, they said to themselves that they knew they could make an even better one themselves.
How Did the Prank Take Place?
The prank was pretty simple. All Kevin did was take his Burberry glasses and lay them on the floor of the museum. He then took a place card that described the theme of the gallery he was putting the glasses in and from then on out, museum visitors thought the glasses were a part of the museum's exhibits.
Did the Teenagers Persuade Other People To Look At the Exhibit?
No, the teenagers made it very clear in one of their interviews that they had no impact on visitors viewing the glasses on the floor. They did not stand around and look at them. They stood off to the side and watched as people looked at the glasses.
What Did Kevin Remember Most?
Kevin says he clearly remembers that without his glasses, he was unable to see the other people looking at his glasses. And because of the prank, he and his friend were unable to visit all of the museum's exhibits.


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Levantine Creep
From IxWiki
Levantine Creep is a series of related social phenomenon and theories, both related to the expansion of Urcea and the general spread of Levantine influence. The first, more common "Levantine Creep" is a conspiracy theory narrative in Caphirian discourse to describe an alleged conspiracy that Urcea and its allies aim to harm, weaken or annihilate the societal system of Caphiria by "building a ring of colonies and concession states to ensnare Caphirian interests". The perpetrators of the conspiracy are alleged to be mentiens latius (false Latins), itself stemming from another historical conspiracy. While the theory of the Levantine Creep is predominant in Caphiria, it has been slowly spread throughout Sarpedon as a result of the growth of Caphirian influence on the continent. The second "Levantine Creep" describes an observed expansion of Levantines into Punth, beginning with Burgundian interests in the south and growing with Urcean interests in the north. "Levantine Creep" in this context also refers to a social phenomenon within Urcea of the so-called "inexorable draw of the land of opportunity" of New Yustona and Punth in general, leading to widespread interest in migration eastward.
The origin of the Caphirian concept dates back to the mid 17th century, during the War of Urlazio where the coastal strip of the island of Urlazio was taken under Urcean control as a way to create a buffer between the two countries. This, as well as Urcean support for Veltorine independence in the late 18th century, contributed to a negative perception of Urcean interests and would spark several centuries of animosity between Caphiria and Urcea.
History of "Caphirian" Levantine Creep
The Caphirian theory of Levantine Creep began between 1625-1634, during the War of Urlazio. As a result of this conflict, Urcea took a beachhead on Urlazio in an effort to prevent Caphirian expansion into the Holy Levantine Empire. This war is generally agreed to be the genesis of the concept of "Levantine Creep".
In 1782, Urcea intervened in the Veltorine War of Independence against Caphiria, committing forces from the Holy Levantine Empire on Sarpedon for the first time in history. As a consequence of Urcean support, the House de Weluta was rewarded with the Kingdom of Dorhaven following the conclusion of hostilities. Dorhaven induced a brief "Urcean Scare" in Caphiria which dramatically enhanced the conspiratorial and what some have called "paranoid" nature of the Levantine Creep theory. Dorhaven served as a "forward operating base" to guarantee the independence of Veltorina against Caphirian reconquest. It was during this period that Caphirians began to include the Crusades, as part of the theory to show a long history of what was referred to as "Levantine meddling".
In 1798, various Levantine powers established the Legatation of Ankivara in Reçêpistan. Caphirian hawks became alarmed at the speed at which Levantine influence crossed the width of Sarpedon, increasing paranoia. Later, in 1826, Burgundie seized the island of Port de Vent and was able to withstand a Kiravian attempt to disestablish the Burgundian presence in the Kindreds Sea. In Caphiria, this was interpreted as a broader plan between Burgundie and Urcea to encircle and destroy Caphiria.
Urcea's focus on the Caroline Wars in the 18th and 19th century decreased fears of an imminent Urcean invasion somewhat despite the Urcean acquisition of Nolis in 1860, but the Caphirian theory of Levantine Creep entered its modern form during the Occidental Cold War, when it became the official state rationale for the nation's geopolitical opposition to Urcea. With the Assumption Accords and end of the Cold War, many have surmised that the "Creep" phenomenon in Caphirian society has entered into decline.
History of "Punthite" Levantine Creep
Similarities between the two phenomenon
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Do you know someone who'd like to participate?
We've talked about it for years and finally it's time to get started.
Many police and fire departments provide this daily phone call free of charge, but it's not happening in Mohave County. Our fire district was asked at the last meeting, but it wasn't on the agenda, so hopefully it will be discussed next month.
There are also several paid services STARTING at $15/month, but we'd like to keep it FREE.
Since we have no volunteers and no community whatsoever in Meadview, the people participating will make the calls.
I'll maintain a listing of all participants with their phone numbers, addresses and special instructions for calls and in case we need to check on someone.
We might rotate so that a participant makes the calls for a week and maintains the check-in list. Or maybe someone enjoys making the calls and volunteers for several weeks or longer.
We're starting with only 3 or 4 people and we'll see how it goes.
If you or someone you know wants to participate, please post here or contact me on Facebook, send me an email or call 928-224-9663 and leave a message.


Kingston TechnologyÆ manufactures two memory upgrade modules, KCS-VIP250D/64 (64MB) and KCS-VIP250D/128 (128MB), for the Cisco® 7500/7000 Series VIP2-50. The 7500/7000 Series VIP2-50 has a single 200-pin memory expansion socket, which as shipped by the factory includes a 32MB module. Memory can be expanded to 128MB via the installation of Kingston's KCS-VIP250D/128 module.
1. To access the 200-pin memory expansion socket, follow the instructions in your Cisco® 7500/7000 Series VIP2-50 User's Guide.
2. The 200-pin memory expansion socket is keyed to the memory expansion module. This ensures the correct module to expansion socket orientation. Insert the module into the socket as shown in the illustration. With the module and socket properly aligned, seat the module completely into the socket.
keyed notches in the module are properly aligned with the corresponding keys in the memory expansion socket.
3. Once you have installed your new Kingston module, close the router and replace any cables disconnected during the installation process.


Monse's clothes are all about expressing yourself and though they may look simple, these pants let you customize the fit. This pair has been made in Italy from checked wool-blend and adjusts with buckled straps along the waist, so you can scrunch up the silhouette or wear them a little slouchy. The tapered legs are finished with sharp pressed creases, and have an ankle-grazing length that's ideal for pairing with mules or boots.
Shown here with: Monse Sweater, Loewe Shoulder bag, The Row Boots, Dinosaur Designs Earrings.


Yoga is NOT for the the lily livered. You may start out weak and soft, but stick with it, and before long you feel the power. That's the yoga legend.
(FL) Negative thought loops are powerful forces. Just saying we want to change them doesn't guarantee success. What happens when we keep playing our failures over and over in continuous loop?


The proposal to dual some of the A40 and add a bus lane, has zero imagination or vision. This thinking is completely locked into failed 20th Century approaches and dominated by the vested interests subsidised with OUR money.
Dualling the A40 from the current end of the Witney bypass to the Eynsham roundabout with the B4449, only moves the problem 3 miles east and compresses it further into the bottleneck that OCC has designed in at the Cassington junction. The recent changes to Wolvercote and Cutteslowe roundabouts (which took 18 months to build) have had zero impact on journey times into and around Oxford – in fact, have made them worse due to unnecessary waiting at traffic lights when the roads are empty. And the problems at Cassington/Eynsham remain as they have for the last 15+ years.
Furthermore, these proposals do nothing to address the demand for road / vehicle-based journeys. You can only achieve so much simply by tinkering with available capacity. A truly integrated approach that is fit for the 21st Century and the digital age is urgently required. I have summarised such an approach which is available.
Constantly tinkering with marginal approaches will fix nothing. In fact, it will make things worse, MUCH worse. It always has and it always will.
Until and unless there is a quantum shift in thinking – in the politics, in the funding, the blinkered vision and lack of ambition in those that spend our money – we will still be having this discussion in 20 years' time. So, either we sit back and accept it and hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be marginal improvement, or we devise a properly integrated (not merely co-located) approach to ALL forms of transport, utilising technology that may seem to some to be cutting edge now, but which will be commonplace in 2-3 years' time (but still forward-looking), as well as tackling the ever rising demand for physical journeys. Basing a policy on what has gone 20 years ago, and expecting it to function 20 years ahead, is a monumental waste of money and a huge missed opportunity to provide Oxfordshire and the rest of the UK with an infrastructure that is even close to the quality of our European neighbours – who will soon be our competitors.


Abso Cushions correspond perfectly to this definition – composed only of sound absorbing foam inside a fabric cover made of Aeria stretched over a simple metal hoop, they are now 95 mm thick to ensure maximum acoustic efficiency.
Their shapes and sizes – be they round, oval, square or rectangular with rounded corners – have been specifically designed for use in harmonious combination, making it possible to 'pick and mix' a variety of cushions for use within large volumes.
Available in a range of 22 colours (Except the colour Violet Profond MR560 and Graphite MR520).
machine-washable cover made of sound transparent Aeria fabric.
Each Abso cushion is suspended from the ceiling in a horizontal position using 4 vertical cables (3 cables for round 1,000 and 1,250 cushions) made of galvanised steel (1.5 mm in diameter, 1,000 mm long), fitted with a threaded end-piece (M6) and an adjustable hook.
Each Abso cushion is suspended under 2 horizontal cables (not supplied) using 4 vertical cables (3 cables for round 1,000 and 1,250 cushions) made of galvanised steel (1.5 mm in diameter, 1,000 mm long), fitted with a stainless steel cross-shaped cable clamp and an adjustable hook.