For the launch of his translation of Robert Musil's Intimate Ties, Peter Wortsman will be in conversation with the literary scholar and translator Kathrin Holzermeyr-Rosenfield and Fatima Naqvi, professor of German and Film Studies at Rutgers University, moderated by the writer and translator Tess Lewis.
How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In All the Land, Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegener's extraordinary journey from his childhood in Germany to the most unforgiving corner of the planet.
Jo Lendle is a German author and head of Hanser Verlag, Munich.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation among the author and current writer-in-residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU, Julya Rabinowich, the author and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and the acclaimed translator Tess Lewis on two novels exploring the young adult experience – Rabinowich's "Me, In Between" ("Dazwischen, Ich") and Silvana Gandolfi's "Run for Your Life" ("Lo dentro gli spari"). The conversation will touch upon the literary importance of coming-of-age novels, the refugee experience in Austria and Europe, and children forced to make decisions in an adult world.
Julya Rabinowich is one of the most prominent writers living and working in Austria today. Born in St. Petersburg, she moved to Vienna in 1977. Her work responds to the European refugee experience, but also engages intensively with the Austrian cultural heritage of the fin de siècle and beyond. She writes weekly columns addressing current issues for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
Tess Lewis has translated numerous books from the German and French, including Austrian authors Peter Handke, Alois Hotschnig, Doron Rabinovici, and Maja Haderlap's Angel of Oblivion, for which she won the 2017 PEN Translation Prize. Works by Julya Rabinowich she has translated include her debut novel Spaltkopf [Splithead] for Portobello Books in 2011 and an excerpt from her 2012 novel Die Erdfresserin [The Earth Eater].
The translators in our world who bring us translated literature are crucial to our understanding of word and art across all cultures and borders. Meet the translators behind prize-winning translations. Sponsored by PEN America's Translation Committee and moderated by Committee member Jonathan Cohen, this program showcases three translators talking about translation and reading from their works. We will hear from Pierre Joris, 2005 Poetry in Translation Award winner for Lightduress (Paul Celan); Tess Lewis, 2017 PEN Translation Prize winner for her translation from German of Angel of Oblivion (Maja Haderlap); and Sandra Smith, 2007 PEN Translation Prize winner for Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky). Moderated by Jonathan Cohen.
Listen to these translators perform as writers and make the foreign familiar.
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2018 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT.
Festival Neue Literatur's signature translation event returns and pays homage to works in translation that have enlarged our lives and countered literary, political, and cultural isolationism.
The event is free of charge and in English. RSVPs are required due to limited seating.
The translation of books facilitates the migration of text between languages and allows ideas and stories to travel. A discussion of the craft and challenges of translation through the lens of migrating text between languages.
Translators Tess Lewis, Susan Bernofsky, Kaiama L. Glover, and Katrine Jensen will read from their work, followed by a lively discussion on the vital importance of translating work by women, and their personal approaches to translation. Moderated by Alta L. Price.
Join Festival Neue Literatur for an intimate conversation about literature in translation with NYC's celebrated literary editors, translators, and writers discussing the importance of translating LGBTQ voices of people of color, voices of women, and voices of writers from countries recently affected by the U.S. immigration ban.
Featuring Susan Bernofsky, Rivka Galchen, John Keene, Sara Khalili, and more.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by award-winning translator, writer and editor Peter Wortsman from his new translation of Kafka's short prose, Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka. The reading will be followed by a conversation with Tess Lewis.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the Austrian writer Maja Haderlap from her recent novel Angel of Oblivion, followed by a conversation with translator Tess Lewis.
A prize-winning Austrian-Slovene novelist, poet, playwright, and translator, Maja Haderlap will discuss her novel Angel of Oblivion, recently translated into English by Tess Lewis and published by Archipelago Books. The novel won the highly prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize in 2011 and, in 2015, France's Prix du Premier Roman. The book's translator Tess Lewis received the 2016 ACFNY Translation Award.
Angel of Oblivion (Angel pozabe in Slovenian, Engel des Vergessens in German) is inspired by the experiences of Maja Haderlap's family and the Slovenian-speaking minority in southern Austria, many of whom fought as partisans against the Nazis during the Second World War. The story centers around a young girl learning to navigate the terrain between two hostile communities and two extremely burdened languages: Slovenian, a language of heroic resistance and continued humiliation; and German, an escape from her stifling rural upbringing but also the language of the camps which her grandmother barely survived and many other family members did not. Engaging with themes of tolerance and integration, the weight of history, the effects of conflicts on survivors and their children, and language's role in shaping identity, Haderlap's novel strikes at problems of paramount importance to our world today.
The event is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Slovenia and followed by a reception featuring a selection of Austrian and Slovenian wines and pastries.
Tickets: General admission is free and open to the public. There is no registration required.
The event is presented in cooperation with the European Division of the Library of Congress and the Embassy of Slovenia.
In his fast-paced, heart-wrenching novel, Doron Rabinovici confronts complex themes of identity, belonging, anti-Semitism, and Zionism through the prism of a Jewish family with a host of skeletons in their closets. The 'truth' in ELSEWHERE is relative and inscrutable. It changes depending on who speaks it and where it is spoken. Truth, in short, is always elsewhere, although versions of it are just barely within reach.
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current writer-in-residence Leta Semadeni, of her poems and from her debut novel Tamangur, followed by a conversation with the acclaimed translator Tess Lewis about Leta Semadeni's bilingualism and storytelling in German and Rhaeto-Romanic.
Leta Semadeni was born in 1944 in Scuol in Switzerland, and studied Languages at the University of Zurich. She worked as a teacher at different schools in Zurich and in the Engadin, and worked abroad in Latin America, Paris, Berlin, and New York. Her work has been awarded with many prizes, including the literary prize of the Canton Graubünden and the prize of the Schillerstiftung Switzerland in 2011. Tamangur, her first novel, was awarded the Schweizer Literaturpreis 2016.
Tess Lewis, Rüdiger Wischenbart, Ross Ufberg, and Michael Orthofer, moderated by Liesl Schillinger.
NYCT Vice President Alta Price and Program Director Ana Lis Salotti are pleased to announce the Circle's second annual workshop on the topic of literary translation, which will be held on the first Saturday in April. The event will feature a 1.5-hour Editors' Round Table with two professional literary journal editors/translators in conversation with NYCT Vice President Alta Price, an hour-long lunch and networking break, and a two-hour panel, "Surviving Translation," featuring five experts discussing various aspects of the field and moderated by Mary Ann Newman.
The event has been approved by the American Translators Association for 4 Continuing Education points. Certificates will be available at the end of the event.
Please note the addition of Antonio Aiello to the Morning Roundtable!
Come celebrate the launch of Trafika Europe 5 – Slovenian Interlude, with top visiting Slovenian poets, Aleš Šteger and Tone Škrjanec. They will be joined on stage by Tess Lewis, reading from her new translations of Maja Haderlap, the "lyrical voice of Slovenian Austrians".
Aleš Šteger is the most translated poet of Slovenia; his poetry, prose and essays have been translated into ten languages, appeared in hundreds of periodicals including the Times Literary Supplement and The New Yorker, and garnered numerous prizes.
Tone Škrjanec has been the organizer of a major Slovenian poetry festival. In addition to his exciting poetry, he also translates poems and novels from English, Croatian and Serbian.
Tess Lewis is former Board member of the National Book Critics Circle; Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review, and has recently served as curator of the Festival Neue Literature (the premiere annual festival of German literature in NYC). She's received much recognition and support for her translations, including a Guggenheim Foundation award, Max Geilinger Translation Award, National Endowment of the Arts Translation Fellowship, PEN USA award, and English PEN award.
She will be reading from Maja Haderlap's Angel of Oblivion, a novel about the Slovenian minority trapped in Austria during WWII. This beautifully lyrical work in translation has just won the Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize for 2015, and enjoys its English-language debut in Trafika Europe. She will also read from Maja Haderlap's poetry.
This event immediately follows the New Literature from Europe Festival (in various venues around NYC November 6-8).
New Directions presents a contemporary and retrospective reception of Josep Roth and Stefan Zweig: how their works and lives intersect, their respective popularities during their own lifetimes, the revival, to varying degrees, of interest in each writer more recently, and the factors contributing to it—reissued work, new biographies, and Wes Anderson! With Josh Cohen, Richard Panchyk, Tess Lewis, George Prochnik, & Sophie Pinkham.


The computer is a lovely companion. However, like most, it is not perfect. I was coaxing words out of it the other morning, had it up to 414 prosaic and eloquent words. Then, suddenly, crash! I was more than a little irritated. It was an article dealing with pets, hobbies and social occasions. It was the end of a five part series on health. It was, if I may say so, not bad. Suddenly the computer and I collided. I did something I shouldn't. It did something I didn't understand. With just a bit more moxey I could have salvaged the outcome. But, I hit the wrong buttons and the piece is now forever gone. It is requiring of patience to deal with anything technological, particularly if you aren't proficient in matters of complexity, logarithims, algebra, geometry, trig, and whatever other stuff , I never understood in high school, they have crammed into these increasingly small boxes.
The Internet often is no real help. Just when I thought the trouble was found, the problem solved, every last one of those 414 words completely left the face of the planet. It is as if Johnson never heard nor included them in his dictionary. I have a word. It is very familiar. In such cases it is quite appropriate: Damn!
So, here I am with four of the articles done for next week and one lost. It brings frustration and some slight anger, neither of which do any good. I will go about trying to recapture the theme, but the 414 words just won't be the same. This is the hazard of writing, the pitfall of trying to be at your creative best and then having it all dashed against the science of computers.
I have learned to Save Draft, I hope. Perhaps there is a fail safe way to avoid my own ignorance and to overcome my own errors and mistakes when typing. If I have learned it, then you will be freed from the sound of a primal scream making its way through these fiberoptic serpents that sometime seem to have us in their sights, and not very kindly.


Lake Gardsjøen is a small oxbow-lake surrounded by agricultural fields. It was formerly a part of the river Glomma. It can host a variety of ducks in the migration seasons. Also scan the surrounding fields for Cranes, plovers and the like.


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Covid-19: Kuwait to allow fully vaccinated non-citizens entry from August 1
Kuwait - From June 27, only vaccinated people would be able to enter restaurants and select public places.
Published: Thu 17 Jun 2021, 6:28 PM
Last updated: Thu 17 Jun 2021, 8:50 PM
Kuwait announced Thursday it would allow foreigners who have been fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus to enter the country from August 1, after a months-long suspension.
The Gulf country in February banned the entry of non-citizens in a bid to limit the spread of the virus, but has started to ease some of its Covid-19 restrictions in recent weeks.
Government spokesman Tareq Al Mizrem said foreign travellers will need to have been fully inoculated with one of the four vaccines that the Gulf country has approved — Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
Passengers must also hold a negative PCR test conducted a maximum of 72 hours before travel, and undergo another test during a seven-day quarantine in the country, Mizrem told a press conference.
Meanwhile, only Kuwaiti citizens who have been fully vaccinated will be allowed to travel abroad from August 1, he said, although some exceptions would be made, such as for pregnant women.
Previously, Kuwaitis were required to have had at least one jab in order to travel.
Kuwait ends quarantine for vaccinated travellers
Mizrem also announced that Kuwait would allow access to large shopping malls, gyms and restaurants from June 27 only for those who have been fully inoculated.
"The government has decided to allow those who have received a (full) Covid-19 vaccine... to enter restaurants and cafes, gyms, salons, shopping malls more than 6,000 square metres," said Mizrem.
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Live updates 2: Millions on streets for anti-Morsi protests; 4 dead in Upper Egypt
Hazel Haddon, Nada Hussein Rashwan, Randa Ali, Sherif Tarek, Salma Shukrallah, Bassem Abo El-Abbas, Osman El-Sharnoubi , Sunday 30 Jun 2013
Four killed in clashes in Upper Egypt while Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo is attacked; huge demonstrations in Cairo at presidential palace and Tahrir Square remain peaceful
00:20 That's all for tonight. Today saw unprecedented numbers take to the streets all over Egypt, calling for Morsi to resign. It's hard to estimate numbers, but it's clear that 30 June has been bigger than anyone predicted.
There was deadly violence in Beni Suef and Assiut, and there are ongoing clashes at the Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo, as we close. There were also 30 reported cases of sexual harassment in Tahrir Square - although none reported at Ittihadiya or at the ongoing pro-Morsi demonstration at Rabaa Al-Adawiya.
00:15 There are reports of ongoing clashes at the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Mokattam, Cairo, which was earlier attacked by protesters throwing Molotov cocktails. There seem to be clashes between those inside the building and those attacking it, with birdshot and possibly live ammunition. There are a number of injuries reported, but all unconfirmed so far by official sources. ##
00:10Crowds have thinned a bit but remain defiant and optimistic at the presidential palace, tooting their horns and calling for the president's resignation reports Ahram Online's Bel Trew. There seems to be strong pro-military sentiment at the palace, most of the people interviewed by Ahram Online were keen for some sort of intervention although they were unsure who should replace the president.
"We didn't expect anything from him but what he did was far worse, he made lost of promises but didn't fulfill any," says Om Maha, 53, housewife referring to the Brotherhood's Nahda (renaissance) project, that was centre peice to Morsi's presidential campaign but was largely dropped. Om Maha added that she didn't like any of the presidential candidates who ran last year such as Amr Moussa and Mohamed ElBaradei, "I don't think any of them are fit for the position, it needs to be someone outside of any existing political movemnet.
"The elections were a contract between the people and the president, he broke the rules and put himself first," says Ahmed Nagah, a 47-year-old English teacher. "I voted for Amr Moussa in the first elections only," Nagah added saying he didn't bother in the second round as he didn't want Ahmed Shafiq or Morsi.
Meanwhile further into the crowds Engineer Abdel-Rehim Kamal, 43, voicing a popular sentiment expressed both on Tahrir Square and at the palace, slammed Morsi for being "the same as [ousted leader] Mubarak."
Back on Tahrir Square, a little earlier, Fikra Mohamed, 52 director of a company showed Ahram Online his protest art: a tree of notices listing the "achievements, mistakes and economic failures," of the president during his first year in power.
"I voted for Morsi and I think I got fooled. I will not leave until Morsi steps down, my sons are with me - one of them has an exam - but he will no do his exam until Morsi resigns. This is not a second revolution, it is a continuation of the first one, we still haven't finished that battle yet."
"Egyptians don't have their basic needs, we have a massive problem of unemployment particularly within the youth, killing continues under his rule, then there is the breakdown of the state like train accidents and electricity outage," says Mohamed Ramadan Badawy, who had travelled from the Southern governorate of Qena to join Tahrir with a delegation of people from Upper Egypt. "Egyptian poverty is on the rise, to the point where people are eating from the rubbish."
00:00The president's spokesman has just denied that Hatem Bagato, minister of legal and parliamentary affairs, will submit his resignation, as was reported by Ahram Arabic earlier this evening.
23:55The 30 June coordinating committee has released a statement.
"Egyptians have shown they are worthy of freedom, democracy and social justice which they have been calling for since the January revolution. We thank the Egyptian people who have revolted in their millions for a free Egypt, free of fascism, tyranny and injustice."
Despite the fact that millions of people peacefully protested, said the statement, "the presidency has released a statement belittling us and our legitimate demands and our million man marches all over Egypt's squares."
The statement added that the 30 June coordinating committee "stand behind the people and their just demands" and calls for continuing the national strike which involves "the use of all democratic means to demonstrate, hold sit-ins and strikes and besiege all state institutions and we demand the trial all those responsible for torture, killing and announcing edicts inciting against the people and calls for terrorism which was called for by the Muslim Brotherhood."
The committee includes the Revolutionary Youth Union, the Front's youth organisation, the Maspero Youth Union, the Socialist Youth Union, the Liberal Youth Front, the Justice and Freedom Youth, the April 6 Democratic Front, the Mina Daniel Movement, and the National Salvation Front member parties - the Democratic Front Party, the Constitution Party, the Wafd Party, the Free Egyptians Party, the Egyptian Communist Party, the Egyptian Socialist Party, the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, the Tagammu Party, the Nasserist Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Karama Party, the Egypt Freedom Party, the Egyptian Popular Current and the National Association for Change.
23:50 Pro-Morsi demonstrators are still camping out at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City, a short distance away from the presidential palace.##
23:45The president's office is holding its second press conference of the day. The spokesman stresses the president's respect for the demands of the street, but says that dialogue is necessary.
"We respect the demands of the streets, and we acknowledge that the political scene in Egypt is continuously changing; however, initiatives are being made constantly and communications are ongoing.
"Those who have demands or visions must sit for dialogue," said spokesman Omar Amer who reminded the audience of the president's ongoing calls for dialogue which have been repeatedly rejected by much of the opposition.
Amer further stressed that the presidency will continue to protect the peaceful protests in assurance of the right for expression. He also praised the "nationalistic role played by security forces" in protecting the protests.
Asked about reports of police officers joining the anti-Morsi protests, Amer stressed that it is a matter to be judged by the ministry of interior, and not by the presidency.
23:40The Freedom and Justice Party's administrative office in Upper Egypt's Beni Sueif was torched by anti-Morsi protesters, reports Ahram Arabic.
According to Ahram, the empty office was bombarded with Molotov cocktails.
23:35From Damietta in the north of Egypt, Hatem El-Bayaa of the Socialist Popular Alliance tells Ahram Online that demonstrators in the city, estimated to be several thousand, have taken over the governorate headquarters and the offices of the local education authority. In coordination with employees within the governorate offices, anti-Morsi protesters are planning to occupy other government buildings to prevent Damietta governor Tarek Fathallah Khedr from entering his office.
Khedr is a police general who was appointed on 16 June by the president. He is a member of the liberal Ghad Al-Thawra Party, a rare liberal ally of Morsi.
23:25 Some shots of today's protests here.
23:20In Assiut, the site of today's most deadly clashes, army and police have been deployed at the governorate headquarters and at the Freedom and Justice Party headquarters, located 100 metres apart, reports Ahram's Osama Sediq.
Police are firing teargas in front of the FJP headquarters, where clashes are still ongoing and sounds of gunshots can be heard.
Clashes started when an anti-Morsi demonstration of several thousand passed by the FJP office. The FJP youth, who were forming a human shield to protect the office, thought protesters were attacking them, so they fired birdshot and live rounds, reports Sediq.
23:10 Sexual harassment seems to be worsening in Tahrir Square. Tahrir Bodyguards, a civil initiative fighting harassment, tweets:
Lots of reported cases of assault & harassment in #Tahrir. We recommend extreme caution in the area, especially for female protesters #EndSH
Another anti-harassment initiative, OpAntiSH, reports that the number of cases reported to them has gone up to 26, and tweets that:
There are men with sticks at the entrance of the metro station across from KFC in #Tahrir who are attacking women. Please avoid.
23:00Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party have released a statement claiming that the protester killed in Beni Suef earlier was a member of their group.
Atef Marzouk, a leading member of the Islamist group in Beni Suef, accused opponents of President Mohamed Morsi of initiating the attack by firing birdshot at a pro-Morsi march.
"We defended ourselves until one of us was martyred," said Marzouk.
Earlier, journalist Shaimaa Mafhouz told us that a thousand-strong anti-Morsi rally in Beni Suef was fired at. She said:
"A number of assailants, accused by protesters of being Islamist supporters of Morsi, attacked the rally...Some clusters of protesters scattered and hid inside the mosques surrounding the square; at the same time the armed forces mobilised to contain the situation. Assailants continued briefly to fire at the mosques where protesters were hiding but they ran away when the army arrived," Mahfouz said.
The Beni Suef office of the Egyptian Popular Current, a leftist group led by opposition leader Hamdeen Sabbahi, also claimed in a statement that 30 members of "the jihadist movement" in Beni Suef were the ones who fired at the protest and that several protesters were injured.
Mahfouz told Ahram Online she saw a child injured with a bullet to the shoulder.
Ahram Online has not been able to independently verify what happened in Beni Suef.
22:50Political forces protesting in front of Ittihadiya presidential palace have announced from the main stage that they will hold an open ended sit-in until "the fall of the regime", reports state-owned news agency MENA.
They are further calling on all workers and employees at state institutions to go on a general strike starting Monday until July.
22:40Thousands of protesters, many of them women, are gathering in front of Qubba presidential palace singing and chanting, reports Ahram Online's Ahmed Abdel-Rasoul.
An anonymous source had earlier told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that President Mohamed Morsi was at Qubba presidential palace, which is around three kilometres away from Ittihadiya.
22:30Ahram Online's Bassem Abo El-Abbas reports from the presidential palace where he says that fireworks are lighting up the sky as military helicopters continue to scan the palace perimeter.
Fathi Mabrouk, a 36-year-old bearded man in traditional attire told Abbas he is taking part in the protest because he doesn't believe in political Islam, adding that President Morsi "has been unjust to his people and thus he should be forced out of power for he disobeyed Islamic values."
"I am also against the return of military rule even for another transitional period. I approve of the scenario of the head of the High Constitutional Court replacing Morsi until new elections are held," Mabrouk added.
22:20Three protesters have been killed in Upper Egypt's Assiut, chief of security in the city General Abou El-Qassem Abou El-Deif has said in a press statement.
The three people were part of an anti-Morsi protest of thousands which was attacked by unknown assailants as they were marching near the Freedom and Justice Party's headquarters in the Upper Egyptian governorate.
According to Ahram Arabic, one of the slain, Abanob Atef, was killed after being shot in the head by gunmen on a motorcycle.
At least eight were injured in the attack, including a police officer.
22:15A military source told Ahram Arabic that the army helicopters hovering over Cairo aim to secure protesters and make sure everything is peaceful.The same source says Egypt's armed forces are securing the borders.
Ahram Online's Ayat Al-Tawy was in Tahrir around an hour ago, and she reported that the helicopters flying overhead were welcomed with rapturous applause, flag-waving, and pro-army slogans.
She spoke to protester Wafaa Mohamed, who was wearing the full face veil, about why she was in Tahrir today.
"The people in Rabaa Al-Adawiya are brainwashed. Morsi is a hypocrite, a liar; he's unjust."
22:05Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Judge Hatem Bagato, has written his resignation and will submit it on Monday, sources have told Ahram Arabic website.
22:00Egyptian Health Minister Mohamed Hamed confirms the death of 25-year-old Ammar Gouda, the protester who was killed in Beni Suef earlier when unknown assailants open-fired on an anti-Morsi protest.
Hamed also said that the injury toll across seven governorates had increased to 228 from 174, with 36 being discharged from hospitals. A lot of the injuries are related to the heat and crowds rather than clashes.
21:50In Assiut, Aswat Masriya reports, unknown assailants riding a motorcycle shot at an anti-Morsi demonstration, injuring one protester who took a bullet in the head. He was transferred to hospital.
Protesters in Assiut have said that they will start a sit-in.
21:45 The 6 April Youth Movement and the liberal Constitution Party have announced that they will hold a sit-in in front of Abdeen Palace in downtown Cairo.
The announcement said they had received information that Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil is currently inside.
"Our peaceful assembly in front of Abdeen Palace comes as another instrument of pressure against the government in order to achieve the people's demand of holding snap presidential elections," said spokesman Mohamed Adel in a press statement following the announcement.
21:30An eyewitness tells Ahram Online that she saw 12 people injured in the ongoing melee at the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters, saying the number of injuries is likely be higher and is expected to further rise the coming few hours.
The 26-year-old, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some were injured by birdshot, including a photojournalist who was shot in the eye.
An officer had his back wounded by birdshot, as did a female journalist who sustained a leg injury.According to the witness, the building was first attacked with Molotov cocktails and stones.
The eyewitness also stresses that birdshot is used by both Muslim Brotherhood members and their opponents.
21:20 OpAntiSH, one of the civil society anti-sexual harassment initiatives that is present in Tahrir Square tonight, reports on Twitter that there have been a number of incidents:
The total number of mob assaults in #Tahrir has risen to 13. Three took place near Hardee's,
and we were able to intervene.
Tahrir Bodyguards, another such initiative, tweets that the huge crowds in Tahrir are reducing mobility, creating opportunities for sexual harassment and making it difficult for the group's members to rescue victims.
Ahram Online's Ayat Al-Tawy who is in the square says that she has felt a bit uncomfortable at times, and has seen some minor harassment by groups of men surrounding girls and catcalling them.
"One girl screamed and slapped a guy who was approaching her. I don't know what started it, but a number of people surrounded her and asked her if she needed help."
21:15TheEgyptian health ministry reports that hospitals have received 174 injured protesters today in seven different governorates: Cairo, Alexandria, Daqahliya, Gharbiya, Menoufiya, Beni Suef and Beheira.
The ministry said four cases in Gharbiya were from birdshot wounds, with no official confirmation of the Beni Suef anti-Morsi protester who died, according to the city's police chief.
21:10It's now 9:10pm, and millions are filling squares in Cairo and in other locations all over Egytp, protesting against President Mohamed Morsi.
In addition to Tahrir Square and the vicinity outside the presidential palace, squares in Alexandria, in the Nile Delta and in Upper Egypt are also full of protesters.
There is relatively little violence so far, with the exception of brief clashes in Beni Suef where one person was killed. The army broke up the situation after unknown assailants fired on anti-Morsi protesters, and the situation is now calm, with the protest continuing.
Supporters of the president remain gathered at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City, where hundreds of thousands are holding their sit-in for the third day.
20:50 It seems that the protest areas in Cairo are so packed, mobile networks are overloaded and it's hard to get through to people in the area.
20:40Osman El-Sharnoubi, who is still at the presidential palace in Heliopolis, says that protesters are carrying flags bearing the face of revolution's slain protesters, like Mohamed 'Gika' Gabr who was killed during Morsi's rule, Mina Daniel who was killed during the rule of the military council, and Khaled Said who was killed under Mubarak.
20:37Prominent Sunni cleric Youssef El-Qaradawi, known for his support for the Muslim Brotherhood, has released a video statement calling on Egyptians to stay patient with President Mohamed Morsi, stressing that he is expected to make mistakes as he is a human being.
"If we have waited on the Mubarak's regime for 30 years, and another 30 years before him on the tyrants, why can't we wait on Morsi for a year?" asked El-Qaradawi.
El-Qaradawi further pointed out that President Morsi has been asking for dialogue.
20:35Thousands of protesters have joined rallies at Al-Shoun Square in key industrial city of Mahalla.
Protesters are chanting against President Mohamed Morsi, repeating slogans such as"Abdel-Nasser has said it before, the Muslim Brotherhood are not to be trusted," a famous chant referring to former president Gamal Abdel-Nasser whose era witnessed the persecution of several Islamist figures.
20:30American journalist Kristen Chick is at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo right now. She reports on her Twitter account that there is a fire in the yard and the sound of shots being fired. She tweets:
"We want to break in" one guy tells me at MB HQ. "why?" "Bc they are choking us" he says."
20:25Around two hundred protesters are gathering in front of President Mohamed Morsi's house in New Cairo, a wealthy satellite city outside of Cairo, as security forces deploy barriers to keep protesters away from the building.
20:25An enormous tent made of blankets is being erected near Omar Al-Eslam Mosque in Sidi Gaber for protesters to sleep under, reports Ahram Online's Yasmine Fathi.
One of the protesters in Alexandria, Wael Nabil, tells Yasmine thathe is determined to stay until Morsi leaves, even if it means waiting a year.
"Mubarak repressed us, but at least he gave us services; at least he didn't cut the electricity, water and petrol like now."
"Nothing has changed; my salary didn't increase. My wife is pregnant, how will I provide for my baby?" added Nabil.
20:23Ahram Online's Osman El-Sharnoubi reports that the vicinity of the Ittihadiya presidential palace is extremely crowded, with moving even small distances taking a long time. The crowd seems never-ending as one walks away from the palace. Fireworks are being lit from a building overlooking the avenue as the crowds cheer.
According to Osman, it's not possible to see the end of the crowd.
20:20Reports of violence at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo.
Around 500 people gathered at headquarters in Cairo's Moqattam district, hurling Molotov cocktails and stones at the building, says state news agency MENA, which quoted eyewitness as saying they had heard shots during the melee.
Senior FJP official Gehad El-Haddad says on Twitter:
No police on scene yet in #Moqatam. Security is dealing w/ attacking thugs. They were joined by othrs wearing blackblock uniform w/ firearms
A number of offices of the Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, have been attacked in recent days.
20:15Ahram Online's Yasmine Fathi says spirits in Alexandria's Sidi Gaber are high. "People are playing drums, clapping, waving flags," she reports.
Occasionally, helicopters pass over the protests and people cheer and wave, reports Fathi.
20:12In Gharbiya governorate's Kafr El-Zayat, hundreds are participating in anti-Morsi protests.
Crowds are chanting: "national unity against the Muslim Brotherhood" and "you who rule in the name of religion, where is justice and where is religion?"
20:10Leading labour activist Kamal El-Fayoumi, currently protesting in front of Ittihadiya palace in Cairo, tells Ahram Online that he will be heading back to the industrial city of Mahalla tomorrow.
"By then, if the regime hasn't been toppled we will join the sit-in and the calls for civil disobedience,"added Al-Fayoumi.
Amir Bassam, Shura Council member from the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, tells Orbit TV that crowds supporting President Morsi around Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo are more than all the anti-Morsi protesters, not only in Tahrir Square, but all across Egypt.
Given the numbers of people reported in Tahrir Square and at the Ittihadiya presidential palace - both packed to overflowing - this seems highly unlikely.
20:05The main opposition coalition group, the National Salvation Front, has issued a "revolutionary statement."
"In the name of the Egyptian people with all their factions, the National Salvation Front announces public endorsement of the ouster of the regime of Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood," the statement reads.
"The Egyptian population continue their revolution and will impose their will, which has become unequivocally clear in all Egypt's squares."
"The Salvation Front also trusts that the Egyptian people will protect its revolution until peaceful transition of power is fulfilled...we also call on all political forces and all citizens to remain peaceful…and refrain from dealing with the failed Brotherhood government until the fall of this tyrannical organisation."
20:00There are reports of deadly violence in Beni Suef in Upper Egypt.
Ibrahim Hodeib, chief of security in Beni Suef, said that one protester was killed and 30 injured following an attack by unknown assailants, in a phone interview with private satellite channel CBC.
Journalist Shaimaa Mafhouz tells Ahram Online that a thousand-strong anti-Morsi rally in El-Modereya Square, the main square in Muslim Brotherhood stronghold Beni Suef, was fired at.
The Beni Suef office of the Egyptian Popular Current, a leftist group led by opposition leader Hamdeen Sabbahi, claimed in a statement that 30 members of "the jihadist movement" in Beni Suef were the ones who fired at the protest and that several protesters were injured.
Hodeib told Ahram Arabic news website that one suspect behind the violence is Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya leader in the city named Ahmed Youssef.
Ahram Arabic reporter in Beni Suef Emad Abouzeid says the assailants fired birdshot at the protest, although others said that the assailants used live ammunition.
19:55Members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) have gathered in Aswan in front of their party headquarters to secure them, reports Ahram Arabic website.
Aswan, in Upper Egypt has also seen a heavy security presence securing police stations.
19:55Ayman Masoud, keyboardist for Egyptian band Massar Egbari, tells Ahram Online's Rowan El-Shimi that "there is a lot of energy among people marching to Tahrir," adding that in Alexandria, the hometown of the band, they are used to marching everywhere and not having sit-ins.
"Here everyone is excited and putting their energy into the chants," added Masoud.
19:50 Solidarity protests have been taking place at a number of locations around the world. Dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank held a small protest in Ramallah in solidarity with Egyptians demanding that President Morsi step down. Protesters held placards saying "No injustice, Egypt is the mother of freedom."
There were also reportedly protests by Egyptian expats in Jordan and in Norway, according to state news agency MENA.
19:45Heba El-Sayed, a nurse at the field clinic in Omar El-Islam Mosque in Alexandria's Sidi Gaber, tells Ahram Online's Yasmine Fathi that several people have been injured in sporadic scuffles between protesters. So far, however, Alexandria has not seen the kind of violent clashes that have been taking place over the last few days.
19:40Meanwhile, in Upper Egypt's Luxor, hundreds of boats are reportedly heading down the Nile to voice their opposition to President Mohamed Morsi.
Hundreds of other protesters are marching around the touristic city en route to their rallying-point at the governorate building, where they plan to hold a sit-in until their demands are met.
19:35 "If Morsi or the Brotherhood had any real presence, they would have organised a million-man march either here [Alexandria] or in Cairo, but they could only fill Rabaa Al-Adawiya," Sarah Mamdouh, one of the protesters at Alexandria's Sidi Gaber, tells Ahram Online's Yasmine Fathi.
Mamdouh added that Morsi had lost his legitimacy by "his dictatorial decisions and his inability to listen to other political opinions.
"He made people who were against each other unite against him, even the remnants of the former regime," added Mamdouh.
19:30From the vicinity of the presidential palace, former MP Mostafa El-Naggar tells Ahram Online that "talks of Morsi's legitimacy is null and void now and is used by the Brotherhood to scare people off the early elections scenario...there is a revolutionary legitimacy now. The legitimacy of millions in the street trumps the previous electoral legitimacy,"
He adds that the army's role should be to protect the transitional period.
19:30 Welcome to the second part of Ahram Online's live updates. Today, the anniversary of President Mohamed Morsi's first year in power, we are seeing virtually unprecedented numbers of protesters taking to the streets to demand that the president step down. Both Tahrir Square and the vicinity of the Itihadiya presidential palace in Heliopolis are packed with people.
There are also protests all over Egypt, including Mansoura, Damanhour, Alexandria, Mahalla, Suez, Minya and Sharqiya, and there have been some violent clashes reported in Tanta.
There is also a large demonstration and sit-in taking place in Cairo's Nasr City in support of President Morsi.
For the first part of Ahram's live updates, click here.


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People who live with chronic migraines suffer intense throbbing and pulsing, sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting.
Could a plant-based diet, credited with a variety of positive health impacts, also help ease these chronic symptoms?
Researchers in New York have published a case study of one man with severe chronic migraines who had tried everything to curb them, and then switched to a plant-based diet -- loaded with a lot of dark green leafy vegetables.
He quickly found significant relief from the headaches, doctors reported online Nov. 18 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
"This report suggests that a whole food plant-based diet may offer a safe, effective and permanent treatment for reversing chronic migraine," wrote a team led by Dr. David Dunaief, who specializes in nutritional medicine and has a private practice in East Setauket, N.Y.
One expert in migraine who wasn't connected to the study was cautiously optimistic about the findings.
"It is hard to make much from one case report, [but] it does illustrate the importance of all of these non-pharmacological, evidence-based treatments," said Dr. Noah Rosen. He directs Northwell Health's Headache Center in Great Neck, N.Y.
As the researchers noted, more than 1 billion people worldwide have migraines, defined as one-side, pulsating headaches, sometimes with a variety of other symptoms, that last between four and 72 hours.
Some migraines are episodic, meaning they happen fewer than 15 days per month. Others are chronic, with 15 or more migraine days per month plus migraine features on eight days per month.
To be considered successful, migraine treatment must cut the frequency and length of the attacks in half or improve symptoms.
The 60-year-old man whose experiences are detailed in the report had endured severe migraine headaches without aura for more than 12 years. Six months before his clinic referral, his migraines had become chronic, occurring anywhere from 18 to 24 days each month.
He had tried a number of potential fixes, including the prescribed medications zolmitriptan and topiramate. He also cut out potential 'trigger' foods, including chocolate, cheese, nuts, caffeine, and dried fruit. Beyond this, the man also tried yoga and meditation to curb the attacks.
None of those interventions had worked.
The man described the pain as throbbing, starting suddenly and intensely in the forehead and temple on the left side of his head. His migraines usually lasted 72 hours and also included sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting. His pain severity was 10 to 12 out of a scale of 10.
He didn't have high levels of systemic inflammation but had a normal level of beta carotene in his blood, possibly because he ate sweet potatoes daily. Sweet potatoes are relatively low in food nutrients known as carotenoids, which carry anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, the authors explained.
Leafy greens such as spinach, kale and watercress do contain high levels of carotenoids, however.
So, Rosen's team advised the man to adopt the Low Inflammatory Foods Everyday (LIFE) diet. It's a nutrient-dense, whole food, plant-based diet. The regimen advocates eating at least five ounces by weight of raw or cooked dark green leafy vegetables every day, drinking one 32-ounce daily green LIFE smoothie, and limiting intake of whole grains, starchy vegetables, oils, and animal protein, particularly dairy and red meat.
After two months on the diet, the man said his migraines had been dramatically reduced -- to just one migraine day per month, and even that headache was less severe.
At the same time, his blood tests showed a substantial rise in beta-carotene levels.
Soon, the man stopped taking all his migraine meds. His migraines stopped completely after three months and haven't returned in 7 1/2 years.
The man was allergic, and previously published research suggests that better control of allergies may also lead to fewer migraine headaches. In this case, the man's allergy symptoms also improved -- to the point that he no longer needed to use seasonal medication.
He was also HIV-positive, and HIV has been linked to a heightened risk of migraines. It is possible that the man's HIV status and antiretroviral drugs had contributed to his symptoms, the authors said, though it wasn't possible to study this further without stopping the antiretroviral treatment.
"While this report describes one very adherent patient who had a remarkable response, the LIFE diet has reduced migraine frequency within 3 months in several additional patients," Dunaief added.
For his part, Rosen said that "the role of proper diet and migraine has had a few studies demonstrating benefit."
Being properly hydrated, eating a healthy "low-glycemic" diet and getting lots of omega 3 fatty acids (such as are found in oily fish) have all been shown to have a positive effect on curbing migraines, he said.
Beyond food, getting good sleep, regular exercise and psychological interventions such as "cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness and progressive muscle relaxation" may also help, Rosen said.
Find out more about migraines at the American Migraine Foundation.
SOURCE: BMJ Case reports, news release, Nov. 18, 2021
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Our God is a just God, and He expects His people to pursue justice too. But influence pedaling is a major past time. Pastors or rabbis are untouchable. Money is king with a lot of people. Real justice is scarce. Many want to commit the Law to the rubbish heap so they can pursue their agendas unburdened by accountability or humility.
And don't try to sell me the lame concept that justice and love are separate. People try this all the time. You've heard it said (now where have I heard that statement before?) that we should exercise 'justice in love.' This is true, except that the two are not separate. Justice is love; love without justice isn't love.
If we use the Word properly, we are doing both. The reason Jesus had to die is because justice and love both had to be satisfied. One could not be exercised by God without the other. It was a very difficult thing for God to justify sinners without merely 'overlooking' sin. The resolution was the death and resurrection of God in human form. There is such a thing as being too harsh. But that is generally connected with condemnation, not justice. We condemn when we try to practice justice outside of God's Word, and fail to investigate according to the Word.
A number of times in the Word the Law is summarized. Some of them equate the Law to the fear of the Lord through the treatment of the widow and orphan and the proliferation of sorcery (probably connected with the use of drugs), adultery, oppression of the hired worker by stealing his wages (like our government) and those who swear falsely (such as politicians who take the oath of office to defend the Constitution and do not).
Some equate justice and righteousness to the treatment of the widow and orphan or the shedding of innocent blood (think of Benghazi, abortion or the Gosnell murders).
And some are more comprehensive, covering what is "just and right" whether it is ceremonial, civil or moral.
But His statutes and rules by any measure are the definition of justice and righteousness.


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Q: Ansible filter for json variable A little background info. I'm using netbox as a source of truth for our network automation and I am currently in the process of doing some test to automate juniper configuration. Netbox is currently used as my ansible inventory and is supplying host_vars.
I want to achieve a simple task of setting a "value" in my Juniper configuration based on a host var.
Problem
I'm most definetly using the wrong map/filter combination to achieve my goal of looping over the values within the dict "dns" but I've tried countless times without any success so taking my issue to the community for an advice.
I have the following host_vars:
{
  "ansible_host": "192.168.1.1",
  "config_context": [
    {
      "_utility": {
        "dns": [
          "10.10.10.10",
          "10.10.10.20"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "device_roles": [
    "leaf"
  ],
  "device_types": [
    "qfx5120-48y"
  ]
}

And my task currently looks like:
- name: Set DNS server
  juniper.device.config:
    config_mode: 'exclusive'
    load: 'set'
    lines:
      - 'set system name-server "{{ item }}"'
  loop: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility') | flatten | map(attribute='dns') | flatten }}"

Which is giving out a error message
Tried to debug it registering a variable and printing this using debug msg:
DEBUG
- name: Print var
  vars:
    - nameservers: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility') | flatten | map(attribute='dns') | flatten }}"
  debug:
    msg:
      - "{{ nameservers }}"

Result
ok: [poc-spine01-re] => {
    "msg": [
        [
            "10.10.10.10",
            "10.10.10.20"
        ]
    ]
}

But when trying too loop over the values withing the result I get another error
DEBUG
- name: Print var loop
  vars:
    - nameservers: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility') | flatten | map(attribute='dns') | flatten }}"
  debug:
    msg:
      - "{{ item }}"
  loop: nameservers

Result
fatal: [poc-leaf03-re]: FAILED! => {
    "msg": "Invalid data passed to 'loop', it requires a list, got this instead: nameservers. Hint: If you passed a list/dict of just one element, try adding wantlist=True to your lookup invocation or use q/query instead of lookup."
}
fatal: [poc-spine01-re]: FAILED! => {
    "msg": "Invalid data passed to 'loop', it requires a list, got this instead: nameservers. Hint: If you passed a list/dict of just one element, try adding wantlist=True to your lookup invocation or use q/query instead of lookup."
}

UPDATE
Hi, it worked for the loop!. I've adjusted my variables and am now contemplating if i should only get the value of the key dns1 or dns2 ( not in a loop )
host vars
{
  "ansible_host": "192.168.1.1",
  "config_context": [
    {
      "_utility": {
        "dns": {
          "dns1": "10.10.10.10",
          "dns2": "10.10.10.20"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "device_roles": [
    "leaf"
  ],
  "device_types": [
    "qfx5120-48y"
  ]
}

but can't get the map filter to properly display one value
task
- name: Set DNS server
  vars:
    ns1: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility.dns.dns1') | flatten }}"
  juniper.device.config:
    config_mode: 'exclusive'
    load: 'set'
    lines:
      - 'set system name-server "{{ ns1 }}"'

result
As you can see the value of 10.10.10.10 is quoted with brackets and a double quote instead of only the value string of 10.10.10.10
fatal: [poc-spine01-re]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "lines": [
                "set system name-server \"['10.10.10.10']\""
            ],

A: Your loop should be fixed as follow:
    loop: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility.dns') | flatten }}"

Moreover I would add some extra filters to make sure that:

*

*you don't loop over the same dns twice if it is declared in several config_context entries (i.e. unique)

*you always go other the list in the same order (i.e. sort)

    loop: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility.dns') | flatten | unique | sort }}"

Side notes

- name: Print var loop
  vars:
    - nameservers: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility') | flatten | map(attribute='dns') | flatten }}"
  debug:
    msg:
      - "{{ item }}"
  loop: nameservers

Three problems in this single task.

*

*Although it actually "works" with a list (which ansible automagically converts), your vars declaration should be a mapping:
vars:
  nameservers: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility') | flatten | map(attribute='dns') | flatten }}"

*You are looping over the string "nameservers". You want to loop over the content of the variable with that name:
loop: "{{ nameservers }}"

*In your debug message, you are asking to print a list which first element content is whatever value is inside the item variable. What you actually want is print the content of that variable directly, which can be acheived with
debug:
  msg: "{{ item }}"

or since you don't have any processing on the content by addressing the var directly
debug:
  var: item

Putting it all together and integrating my above fix which was the core of your question:
- name: Print var loop
  vars:
    nameservers: "{{ config_context | map(attribute='_utility.dns') | flatten | unique | sort }}"
  debug:
    var: item
  loop: "{{ nameservers }}"

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It was in 2003 that actress Laura Marano started her professional career in Hollywood. She debuted as Kate Malone on the show Without a Trace and played a voice role in the film Finding Nemo. She next had guest roles on Joan of Arcadia and Medical Investigation. She later played young Jackie in the movie The Jacket and starred on the show The X's. Following this, she played young Becca in the comedy film Superbad. At the same time, she appeared as a regular on the game show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? for its Season 1.
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Band Called Loser
After spinning heads with their 2018 debut EP Restless Noise, Melbourne outfit LOSER are due to release their full-length record Mindless Joy in early 2020. A compelling and clever 12 track offering, the release meets a hotbed of anticipation after the success the band found on their debut.
It was 2017 when a casual jam session between friends – Tim Maxwell, then playing in local riff-rockers Grim Rhythm, The Bennies bassist Craig Selak, and former drummer of The Smith Street Band Chris Cowburn – quickly turned into the first recordings under the LOSER banner. Flying off potent and immediate chemistry, the trio recorded the songs for Restless Noise after only four sessions together, and were subsequently snatched up and signed to Domestic La La – the record label founded by Violent Soho guitarist James Tidswell.
Released in October 2018, Restless Noise went on to garner immediate triple j and press support and saw the band invited to the likes of Falls Festival, The Hills Are Alive, Til The Wheels Fall Off, BIGSOUND and more. Having laid the foundation of anticipation for their next output, they soon buckled down to write, and invited more friends along for the ride.
Maxwell recruited his brother, Will, as an additional guitarist in the band, as well as Grim Rhythm drummer Jake "Cutter" Farrugia, who would swap his sticks for strings. The now five-piece hit the rehearsal room relentlessly, and by late-2018, the songs that would comprise their recently announced album Mindless Joy had been written. While Restless Noise had a rough-around-the-edges straight-ahead charm, LOSER's new material demonstrates a profound sense of depth and ambition.
Across 12 tracks, Mindless Joy is a propulsive slab of snarling guitars and anthemic melodies that finds singer-guitarist Tim Maxwell tackling his issues with anxiety and depression up against the theme of modern technology and its invasive role in our lives. Such concerns about technology inform the album's title, while the title track 'Mindless Joy' arguably sums up the whole record in one swoop, saying: "You can't ignore the fate that lies within your hands/We're working on our minds to change our future plans".
But despite such suffocatingly heavy themes, Mindless Joy remains an uplifting, celebratory listen. From the swirling, Beatles-esque melodies of 'Erase Me' to the snarling, mosh pit-destroying grunge anthem that is 'Meditate (Come To Terms)' and the Foo Fighters-indebted stadium rock of 'Golden Things' – a song Maxwell wrote about his desire to maintain complete creative freedom, even if it means never reaping commercial success – LOSER have crafted a compelling and infectious record.
Steeped in a powerful, unapologetic rock'n'roll ethos and propelled by a wall of guitars and unforgettable vocal hooks, Mindless Joy promises to be an essential modern rock listen.
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The hardware for the test rig has arrived, and the first leg has been set up!
The metal brackets are from Trossen Robotics and largely match the dimensions of their equivalent plastic parts from Robotis. Some parts do not have metal counterparts, so I used spare plastic parts from my Bioloid kit. I also ordered an ArbotiX-M controller (Arduino-based), which communicates with the PC via a spare SparkFun FT232RL I had. The test rig frame is made out of MakerBeam XL aluminium profiles.
Unfortunately, I thought I had more 3-pin cables than I actually did, so I can't control all the motors just yet. However, I've got an Xbox One controller controlling the IK's foot target position and a simple serial program on the ArbotiX-M which receives the resulting position commands for each motor.
The code for both the Python applet and the Arduino can be found on GitHub here.
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This entry was posted in Quadrobot project, Robotics and tagged ArbotiX-M, Arduino, FT232RL, Makerbeam, Python, quadruped, Serial, SparkFun, test rig, Tkinter, Trossen, XBox One Controller on April 27, 2017 by dxydas.
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The push-connectors are fairly hard to press down on, but guarantee a good contact and are much better than screw-based connectors.
Everything but the battery wired up.
Raspberry Pi 2 delivered! This may become the ROS brain in the near future.
The Bioloid, currently awaiting a heart and brain transplant.
5500 mAh LiPo battery powering Raspberry Pi 2 and Robotis hardware.
RRR robot GUI. The green square indicates the required target position that the manipulator end effector must achieve.
The idler block is attached to the extruder at the top with two long (40 mm) M3 bolts. The hinged bottom pivots on another M3 bolt (need to cut the excess thread or use a more suitable size).
Close-up of the x-idler bearing over which the x-axis timing belt is mounted.
Mostly intact after three outdoor practice flights!
The updated Motor Dials, controlling 18 AX-12 motors.
A closer view of the mounted extruder.
Yet another close-up of the working extruder. The solder which reinforces the copper wire did not show signs of melting from the high temperatures, as it is futher away from the tip, with a large area exposed to the air.
FSRs held on temporarily with sticky tape.


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Washington – In the face of sequestration, the Department of Labor on March 4 celebrated its 100th anniversary. In March 1913, President William Howard Taft signed into law legislation creating DOL and the Cabinet position of secretary of labor.
The anniversary comes days after automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration went into effect, reducing DOL's budget – and that of its agencies – by about 8 percent for the rest of the fiscal year.
"In a way, it's also fitting," said Carl Fillichio, head of DOL's public affairs office and chair of its centennial, in a blog post about the anniversary and sequester. "The establishment of the Labor Department came about only after decades of struggle and debate, so hardship and resilience are woven into our DNA."
Despite earlier statements from DOL that the sequester will lead to fewer OSHA inspections and the potential for increased workplace injuries, Fillichio said the department will continue to address workplace conditions and issues workers face in the years ahead.


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Principals are offering online learning for multiple reasons, including providing academic remediation (66 percent), keeping students engaged in staying in school (63 percent), and providing options for students who need credit recovery (61 percent).
Teachers who teach online classes, in particular, see a strong correlation between the use of technology and students' college and career ready skill development. More than half of these teachers say technology use helps students understand how to apply academic concepts to real world problems (58 percent), take ownership of their learning (57 percent) and develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills (57 percent).
Parental support of mobile device as part of learning does not appear to have an economic, community type, or grade level bias. Around 60 percent of all parents said they would like their children to be in a class where using one's own mobile device was allowed.
Two-thirds of community members and a similar number of parents of school-aged children expressed support for paying $.50 more per month on their phone bill if those funds were used to increase school access to the Internet for student learning.


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One of the most common questions about kidney stones—and really one of the most common health questions in general—is what our daily allowance of water consumption should be. The traditional, folksy wisdom is that you should drink about 64 ounces (eight 8oz cups) of water a day—depending on your size, activity level, and temperature. The thing is there aren't that many studies or evidence suggesting this to be the case. But, perhaps, an even better point is that there is no single metric for water consumption and overall health.
The most obvious metric, of course, is your hydration level. But here's the thing: Being overhydrated can be just as dangerous—and potentially life-threatening—as being dehydrated. Moreover, one of the most reliable mechanisms in the entire body is our ability to detect dehydration through thirst. This is why there's been promotional campaigns and viral YT videos to combat the myth that you need at least 64 ounces of water everyday—and that a much better strategy is to simply drink when you're thirsty.
This rule-of-thumb to drink whenever you're thirsty is an oversimplification as well—because your hydration level isn't synonymous with overall health. We've always tended to think about drinking lots of water as a crutch for other unhealthy behaviors. Drink alcohol and/or coffee? Sit all day for work and thus don't sweat out much of your body's byproducts? Tons of people only drink when they're thirsty, yet end up with a bright yellow color for urine that was formerly sitting in their bladder and kidneys. This indicates that plenty of uric acid had been sitting in your kidney stones and letting their mineral deposits settle to the bottom in the early formation of kidney stones.
This is why, it's also common, in the context of kidney stones, to hear the recommendation of ten 10oz glasses of water each day to prevent kidney stones. With all this in mind, there's a lot of technically true but misleading information. You've probably heard that you get a lot of your daily water from your food as well as other beverages. This is certainly true, but it's not like drinking water is the same as drinking soda, juice, or beer. A nurse once told me that, more than just how much you drink, it's what you drink. "Drinking is like doing your body's laundry. If you drink Diet Coke, it's like washing your laundry in Diet Coke." Which is almost surely just as much metaphor as medical fact, but it also makes intuitive and anecdotal sense—and isn't contradicted by any evidence or studies out there. And this is our best advice for drinking water and preventing kidney stones.


With the recent "How To Check Your Oil" video blog by fellow Pros Bob and Linda Caffee, I was reminded of a recent "oil check" addition I made to my routine in order to keep in top condition. Feeling the ever-increasing pressure of trying to increase my operational capacity and keep a level head during it all, I turned to essential oils. For a long time I had heard of using natures oils to help do everything from curb one's appetite, fight away headaches and sore muscles, or even improve the quality of your sleep. It wasn't until my "better half" felt their benefits from continued use that I tried them and was made a believer.
Sore muscles, stress tension, and even lack of quality sleep were all things starting to show themselves as a result of stress I had been under as of late. Not wanting to take over the counter "cure-alls" for these issues, I was witness to my wife and her putting into place research she had done on the use of essential oils to improve all of these conditions I just mentioned. I figured I would give it a whirl one day when I came home with a severe headache and was amazed at the results. Just by rubbing a little bit of an oil blend dubbed "Headache" from her newest pack of oils from "21 Drops" and a quick 30-minute nap, my borderline migraine was eliminated to the point I could get back to my afternoon routine in the home office without the searing pain in my cranium! "Sleep" blend, which of course is based on lavender oil, is another oil we have used each night by rubbing onto our pillowcases that has resulted in what seems to be a more restful and relaxed quality of sleep ever since.
Having bought several brands of oil, including everything from well-known multi-level marketing all the way to the newest brand in the pictures here that is available at our local Costco, making sure quality oils are used is the most important part of using essential oils. We have made sure the ones we use are non-synthetic, cruelty-free, organic and non-GMO. This kit from "21 Drops" seems to offer the best mix of quality-to-price throughout the different brands we have purchased, especially for those getting into essential oils for the first time. My continued use of oils to maintain balance and focus in my life has been a great mix into a daily routine to de-stress and stay level headed. Though I haven't given diffusing oils into the air a whirl yet, mainly due to the fact that some diffused oils are not pet friendly, their topically applied benefits have been evident enough to warrant their continual use. Give essential oils a try and even at the least, have a little bit of good smelling oil on your skin throughout the day or night with the added benefit of helping curb some common ailments!


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1.11 Media / Technology Use
The media landscape is rapidly changing. Whereas 20 years ago people would have said the screen they spend the most time looking at would be a television screen, the proliferation of cellular phones and computers in our day-to-day lives has dramatically changed our media viewing habits. While a great deal of research has assessed the media habits of the average American, far less research has looked at the media habits of those involved in a fandom with a strong online component such as the furry fandom.
To this end, we asked furries to indicate how frequently they engaged in 9 different digital media technologies1.
Furries and Media Use
Media Less than Once / Day Once a Day or More More than Once / Hour
Mobile phone (not for messaging or calling) 17.2% 82.8% 50.1%
Facebook or other social networks 25.0% 75.0% 29.4%
Sending / receiving e-mails on any device 32.7% 67.3% 18.6%
Browsing the Internet on any device 5.3% 94.7% 53.2%
TV / Movies on a computer 48.2% 51.8% 21.6%
Text messages on a mobile phone 18.9% 81.1% 43.2%
Interact online with someone you've never met in-person 27.5% 72.5% 43.4%
Playing digital games 27.7% 72.3% 38.2%
Watching TV / movies on a TV set 61.5% 38.5% 15.8%
The results suggest that furries spend a great deal of time using Internet-enabled mobile devices for the purpose of texting, browsing the internet, playing games, and using social media. By comparison, furries spend far less time watching television (whether on a television set or on a computer), a trend that opposed what media researchers observed in youth a decade or two ago. Going forward, we hope to compare these results to a demographically comparable group to determine whether these rates are higher among furries due, in part, to the fact that so much of their interaction with the fandom is Internet-based.
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Gerard Benedet is an experienced and dedicated senior executive with extensive knowledge of both the public and private sectors, including senior positions in Queensland State politics. Having worked at the National Rugby League, News Corporation, Careers Australia Group and as a Chief of Staff to a State Treasurer, Mr Benedet's strategic leadership and advocacy skills are a welcome addition to the Guild in Queensland. He was also the founding National Director of the not-for-profit mainstream advocacy organisation Advance Australia.
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I've been doing a lot of reflecting this week. I'm not big on what I like to call "gratitude bragging" - where someone lists off all the things they are grateful for on Instagram like some sort of backdoor brag - you know you've seen this! I won't bore you with that (I know you've got scrolling to do), but lately, I've been really grateful for this community.
So I just want to take a moment to say; for those of you who stayed with me as I transitioned this account from my personal quote collection to one of holistic wellness, thank you for investing in yourself and walking with me as I learn to do the same. And to those of you who have joined me recently; the ones on a path of self growth, spiritual growth, and healing - thank you. It sounds so cheesy but you have given me the space to step forward and I can't thank you enough for that.


Early July 2010 and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its forecast for global growth this calendar year, up from an expected 4.2% to 4.6%. At the forefront of this is China, suggested to grow at a rate of 10.5% in 2010.
According to the IMF, a robust Asia market is driving global economic growth, with the North Pacific Rim economies of South Korea and Taiwan experiencing increased growth forecasts. At the heart of it all though, is China. After the anticipated 10.5% growth this year, the IMF predicts a further 9.6% expansion in 2011.
And China is very much at the forefront of the industrial gases business right now too, with the backdrop of economic evolution intrinsically linked to a spike in the Chinese gases business.
This was a point alluded to in last month's gasworld interview of the month with Jinhong Gas, now one of the largest local gas companies in the East China region. Jinhong Gas has enjoyed a rapid rise to prominence since its formation in 1999 and sees the ongoing development in China as key to its next chapter of growth.
Another company exuding confidence in the growth prospects of Chinese gas & equipment companies, and the country's gases business as a whole, is Hangzhou Hangyang.
The company was launched on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on 10th June 2010, becoming the second major Chinese gas company to be listed in the stock market after Yingde Gases was floated last year (2009). Hangyang is now one of the top five ASU manufacturers in the world and has the largest market share in China.
Company revenue in 2009 was RMB2.686bn; equating to annual growth of 2.3%. Meanwhile net profit was RMB 251m; an increase of 16.9% from 2008, we were told in an interview last summer. Hangyang is now aiming to build on this even further with its strategic launch onto the stock exchange – which Managing Director Mr. JIANG Ming believes will 'substantially' enhance the company's foothold in the market.
This appears to be a preparation for growth shared by another local independent, the aforementioned Yingde Gases Group Company Limited. Citing itself as 'arguably the largest domestic independent industrial gas supplier specialising in onsite gas supply in China' (in terms of total revenue as at year-end 2008), Yingde Gases was successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Market in late 2009.
It represented the start of a whole wave of Chinese gas companies reportedly keen to launch on the stock market and reap the rewards. That's an especially interesting trend when considering that China gases scene is dominated by the independents; it's thought that 55-65% of the local industrial gas market is made up of independent gas producers & distributors.
If the China gases market is so robust in it's growth rates, what's the driving force behind this rapid expansion?
The general consensus appears to be that gases growth will be derived from the steel industry, solar cells, coal chemistry and perhaps predictably as we head for a greener and 'cleaner' future, hydrogen.
The usual indicators would suggest this too – several contracts with the major players have been signed in the past 12 months and in 2010 in particular. Further still, gasworld interviews during the past year have affirmed this belief, as Hangyang's General Manager Mr. Shao Rong MAO, Praxair China's David Chow, and Jinhong Gas' JIN Xianghua all confirmed the end-user potential.
A prime example of ASU activity for coal chemistry was demonstrated in April 2010, when Air Liquide signed two contracts in China to supply four ASUs for new clients in the coal-to-chemical industry.
In China, the Coal-to-Chemicals (CTC) industry is developing rapidly, and large quantities of oxygen are required to meet demand related to the Coal-to-Chemicals transformation process. Air Liquide is quick to capture the emerging growth and has signed the two new contracts in China – supplying four ASUs to be designed, manufactured and built by Air Liquide Hangzhou, the company's Engineering & Construction centre in China.
Two ASUs, each with a production capacity of 1,400 tonnes of oxygen per day, will be provided for the Yulin Energy and Chemical Corporation of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group. Two further ASUs, each with a production capacity of 2,100 tonnes of oxygen per day, will be delivered to the Shandong Hualu Hengsheng Group.
Air Liquide has also been busy securing contracts to the budding steel industry in China, signing long-term contracts with at least three steel producers and investing a total of around €115m to meet the needs of these new customers.
Deals were struck with the Bohai Steel group in Tangshan, Hebei Province (near Tianjin), the Jianbang Group in Linfen City, and Xilin Steel Group in Yichun, northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province.
China is the largest steelmaker worldwide with a production that rose 14% to a record 568 million tonnes in 2009 – nearly half the world's production. And as China's focus moves towards better utilisation of its steel-making capacities, oxygen is the key to enhancing productivity.
To that end, Air Liquide will provide oxygen and nitrogen to Bohai Steel Group from a large 2,200 tpd ASU, an 800 tpd oxygen unit for the Jianbang Group, and a 1,200 tpd ASU supplying oxygen, nitrogen and argon to the Xilin Steel Group. The latter ASU is due to be commissioned in Q1 2012.
Perhaps predictably, solar cells and clean energy are very much at the forefront of developments in the gases business of the People's Republic.
Estimates suggest the China gases business was already marching on towards a value of around $3.8bn at the close of 2009, and yet with the increasing rise of solar cells and cleaner energy technologies, this could push that figure even higher in the coming years.
Among other such deals agreed in the country, The Linde Group and its subsidiary, Linde LienHwa (LLH), have jointly announced several long-term gas supply contracts with leading Chinese solar manufacturers.
The multi-million dollar contracts will see Linde supply gases to the full solar manufacturing value chain in China, from polysilicon to major solar module manufacturers. These include GS Solar, Parity Solar, CNPV Solar Power SA, General Solar Power and Argus Power.
Linde's Greater China Regional Business Unit will construct and manage two steam methane reformers (SMRs) in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, for the supply of high purity hydrogen (H2) products for the rapid capacity expansion of polysilicon manufacturing. It's electronics-focused subsidiary LLH's new long-term gas supply contracts, on-stream this year in China, will provide delivery of bulk and specialty gases essential for solar cells manufacture.
As for hydrogen, Air Products has recetntly signed a long-term agreement to build a hydrogen production facility for PetroChina Company Limited, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world.
The joint venture will be based in Sichuan, China and constitutes the first state-owned refinery which will outsource its hydrogen requirements. The facility, a steam methane reformer (SMR), will produce hydrogen and syngas to support PetroChina's Sichuan refinery and petrochemical facilities. The plant will offer a daily capacity of over 90m ft³ of hydrogen, with production is scheduled to commence in early 2012.