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LZ Granderson: Bill Belichick deserves a medal for turning down honor from President Trump
LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times
President Donald Trump holds a New England Patriots Super Bowl jersey next to coach Bill Belichick, left, and owner Robert Kraft, right, as he welcomes the Super Bowl champion Patriots to the White House on the South Lawn on April 19, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Molly Riley/Pool/Sipa USA/TNS)
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Facing a vigorous wave of bipartisan criticism as well as the threat of an unprecedented second impeachment, President Trump sought to use New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick as a human shield this week by offering arguably the greatest coach in NFL history the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Recognizing what was going on, Belichick, who is (or perhaps was) a friend of Trump, not only declined the offer, he drew an undeniable line in the sand, saying in his statement: "Above all, I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation's values, freedom and democracy. I know I also represent my family and the New England Patriots team. One of the most rewarding things in my professional career took place in 2020 when, through the great leadership within our team, conversations about social justice, equality and human rights moved to the forefront and became actions."
Translation: Missed me with that one, homey.
Given Trump's reported role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, declining was Belichick's only sensible decision. But then again, if making sensible decisions were easy, seditionists wouldn't have consumed the Turkish delight offered by the Orange Witch to begin with. Apparently the six-time Super Bowl winner may be willing to secretly record the sideline of his opponents, but he draws the line at hanging the vice president of the United States — just one of the many chants heard from the armed terrorists Trump called "very special" in a video message afterward.
It is as awful as it seems.
And as we try to pick up the pieces from not only last week's attack but really much of the last four years, Belichick's rejection of the nation's highest civilian honor epitomizes the damage done to some of our most sacred traditions and customs during the Trump administration. It's as if the president ripped the pages of Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart" from the book's spine and handed them out as a how-to as opposed to a cautionary tale.
A championship team's visit to the White House used to be a fairly innocuous photo op. Sure, individual athletes in the past have opted not to attend in protest of a president such as Green Bay Packers tight end Mark Chmura, who said he wouldn't accept President Clinton's invitation because of his inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Of course, Chmura later found himself in court explaining why he was in his underwear — drunk — in a hot tub with teenage girls at 3:30 a.m. ... but alas, hypocrisy is an indictment of character, not a crime.
Anyway, a player here or there skipping out is not unusual, but an entire team or rather entire teams? Over the last four years, ironically with a loud "stick to sports" battle cry as his soundtrack, Trump has purposefully politicized sports to the point where team logos can double as MAGA hats and White House visits are misconstrued as policy endorsements.
Before Lakers legend and Clippers consultant Jerry West accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom in September 2019, a source familiar with the situation told me West was concerned about how it would look, recognizing how polarizing the office itself had become.
Can't say that I blame him.
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Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times
Remember, this was all unfolding just as the nation was learning Trump tried to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into announcing an investigation of then-candidate Joe Biden in exchange for foreign aid. It was a revelation that led to Trump's impeachment. And just as he tried to do with Belichick, the president selected a New England sports legend — in that case Celtics legend Bob Cousy — to come to the White House for the medal as either a distraction or ego boost. For his part, Cousy not only accepted but he called Trump "the most extraordinary president in my lifetime." West, who voted for President Obama in 2008, accepted but I'm told he did so out of respect for the office, not as an endorsement of any politician or party.
Fast-forward to today and here Trump is again trying to employ the same playbook — except that Belichick saw the blitz coming and scripted a play so complete in its rebuke of Trumpism that the only thing missing was Chris Berman saying, "He-could-go-all-the-way."
More than half of the recipients of this administration's medals have been athletes — highlighting Trump's genuine love of sports. That's one of the few things he has in common with his immediate predecessor, who not only awarded the medal to icons such as Bill Russell and Billie Jean King but leveraged relationships to help support his administration.
I was at the White House in 2014 covering the announcement of Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative and seeing an impressive collection of sport figures including Magic Johnson. I remember seeing former San Diego Chargers quarterback Jack Kemp making campaign stops with a football as Bob Dole's running mate in 1996 and First Lady Nancy Reagan receiving a Washington Football Team jersey that read "Just Say No" to promote her anti-drug initiative of the same name in 1988 at RFK Stadium just before kickoff. Political figures have long tapped into the nation's unbridled passion for sports to push their agenda, and in that Trump is no different from most any other president.
Where he sticks out is using sports to stoke fires the country has been been trying to put out since 1865 or using the Presidential Medal of Freedom for political spin. Basketball — both college and pros, men and women — has been largely snubbed. The Philadelphia Eagles were disinvited. Megan Rapinoe and her World Cup-winning teammates said, "Nah, we're good." It's been predominantly thorns and no Rose Garden for most everyone except hockey, NASCAR, Alabama's Nick Saban, LSU's Ed Orgeron and Clemson's Dabo Sweeney, who loves the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. but hates protests.
I'll let you try to figure that one out.
I don't know how much of a sports fan President-elect Biden is, but he has campaigned on bringing the country together and returning to the civility we once took for granted. I assume that would mean the Lakers will be invited to the White House — no NBA team has since 2017. The Dodgers too. Who knows, maybe even the Rams. And if they are invited, and accept, my hope is I forget which day they're scheduled to show up. Not out of protest but because the ceremony is supposed to be inconsequential.
Just as the Presidential Medal of Freedom is supposed to be an honor, not a scarlet letter or distraction. Belichick deserves a medal for remembering that part alone.
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Yep, they told me what you say. And i tried that version. But after i generate my sound bank, i still can't hear my sound even if my events appear in "ace".
Unfortunately the answer was negative.
As far as i know it's not possible. Each of them has got their own working methods. Although they've got the same name, particle.
The only logical way is pausing game for me for now. Because, time'll be running if you don't pause the game.


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Athlone-born skater Jean-marc Johannes. moe_thephotographer
Documentary on Athlone-born skater set to screen in April
By Keagan Mitchell Jan 15, 2022
Cape Town - A local professional skater's goal is to inspire the world, his country and every community in Cape Town.
Jean-marc Johannes is the focus of a documentary titled A Kid From Athlone, which is set to screen for local audiences in April. The documentary tells us the story of Johannes' life before anyone ever knew he was a skateboarder and the struggles he's never spoken about such as family pressure, peer pressure, bullying and mental health.
Other topics include the role spectators play at competitions and the tragic losses and wins that made him the person he is today.
The Athlone-born skater said he felt honoured to be the subject of a documentary.
"I feel that it is important to bring my documentary to life as it discusses real life topics that affect everyone. I am ready to be open about the difficulties, to talk about what very few in my life know about and its significance towards my career. I feel it's important to show my battles before skateboarding came into my life as it is real. I'm excited and really looking forward to the much-anticipated video," he said.
Jean-marc Johannes doing a front-side flip trick. moe_thephotographer
He said it was important to speak up about mental health and bullying in sport.
"It is important that we as athletes acknowledge both. Things that are done repetitively become a habit, can affect one negatively and there is always a long-term effect," said Johannes, who has broken many records in South African skateboarding and has his own professional skateboard wheels.
"My sights are set and I'm more ready than I've ever been. I feel very motivated and inspired since recently being announced as the newest addition to the Adidas South Africa team, alongside one my biggest inspirations, Wayde van Niekerk," he said.
Producer Jacques Buys said Johannes was a great community symbol and inspiration.
"JM is one of the most humble people I've ever met. His calm demeanour and down to earth personality make him an absolute pleasure to be around. His role in skateboarding at the moment is huge. He has helped put skating in the limelight over the last year or two, and he inspires skaters from all walks of life," he said.
Skater Tyrese Adams said: "JM has always motivated us skateboarders. He is humble, has a good heart towards others and is the reason I am not giving up on skateboarding."
Ashraf Mahatey, a member of the Penlyn Estate Civic Association, said Johannes had been an inspiration since his career as a skateboarder started.
"Jean-marc has been an inspiration to the community. He has a very humble personality and has always stayed true to his roots. He has always been willing to assist and support development in underprivileged communities. This is an important part of creating a better life for all, if everyone does a bit to better the communities who need it," he said.

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Burning Star Core
The Very Heart of the World
Thin Wrist
by Zach Baron
C. Spencer Yeh's latest batch of ambient drone features contributions from members of Wolf Eyes, Hair Police, and Eyes, among others.
On my turntable, pre-Burning Star Core, was Songs of the Humpback Whale, part of Capitol's brief foray into selling the sounds of the natural world. On a different label (say Eclipse, or Important), the whale might have made it big: Underwater anyway, humpbacks run a huge sound game. Like some above sea level, humpbacks perform by circling for hours around groups of repetitive phrases sung together, incorporating individual whale improvs as they arise; from gradual changes, they evolve new songs. On land, or without a sonograph, background noise is more prosaic: Screaming florescent lights, gurgling computers, ambient traffic noise, wind, floorboard creaks. What's heard, vs. what's meant to be heard, well, who knows, but for sound as Sound, Burning Star Core's gurgle is positively baleen.
C. Spencer Yeh's Burning Star Core has been around in one form or another since 1993, though The Very Heart of the World is only their second widely available release, after 2002's Brighter Summer Day. This album finds Yeh joined by Midwestern noise notables Robert Beatty, Mike Connelly, and Trevor Tremaine of Hair Police (Connelly now performs with Wolf Eyes as well); the full cast of KY's Eyes and Arms of Smoke; and others, among them players from Noumena and Apples in Stereo, taking turns on percussion, "presence," electronics, guitar, and strings. Yeh's Drone Disco imprint is also alive and well, as is his impossibly prolific solo and collab career: A duo with Magik Markers' Pete Nolan late last year, a trio with John Olson and Jessica Rylan, BxC splits with Comets on Fire, plus infinite stacks of CD-Rs and tapes. Yeh's dictum, like Mark E. Smith's: If he's in the building, it's a Burning Star Core gig, cassette release, limited-edition silkscreened print, and, probably, forgotten the next day.
Though Yeh runs with the circuit breakers and benders, he rolls chronic and sheet music with the same ease: Tony Conrad's the obvious touchstone, and Yeh can play, but he also doesn't mind mucking up the works with the wet noise, gibberish talk, and free percussion that gives The Very Heart of the World its elevation-of-everyday-life punch. "Benjamin" layers late night, outside-the-bedroom-window ambient music-- a car-crash violin drone toys with a cricket chirp, while branches tap glass. "Catapults" marches over windy keys and wake-up snares for zone-outs leisurely and eerie. Tremaine's hits move Yeh's violin drone past minimalism to a less formal, cluttered quiet.
While most BxC subliminals work up low-key disruptions into aural legibility, Yeh & co. are more than capable of lowering the brow. "Come Back Through Me" rediscovers an inclination toward hitting big, tapping sticks, loosing guitar chords, and violining lines in and out of phase. This is their most whale song of whale songs: One short phrase worked over through time, built big and long-range with key improvs, string scrapes, and a low-grade electronic wash. The frenzy's nice, but it begs another record flip. Back to the beginning.


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Top Union Boss Huffs and Puffs, But Cannot Blow the Facts Down
(Source: June 2010 Forced-Unionism Abuses Exposed)
It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes or an Hercule Poirot to deduce that state policies promoting "exclusive" union bargaining and forced union dues and fees in the public sector have played a major role in driving multiple states to the verge of insolvency this year. All it takes is the willingness to look at, and respect, the facts.
In 2009, according to respected labor economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, 41% of public employees nationwide were subject to a contract negotiated by their employer with a union monopoly-bargaining agent.
However, in 22 states, none of which authorize forced union dues for government employees and most of which don't authorize public-sector union monopoly bargaining, either, fewer than 30% of public servants were unionized. Not one of these 22 low public-sector-unionization states was to be found on Business Insider's list, published just last month, of the nine states "most likely to default."
And Business Insider ranked Illinois, California, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Massachusetts and Wisconsin as the worst default risks for a totally objective reason: Traders who wish to buy protection against the possibility of default by these nine states have to pay higher premiums (technically known as "CDS spreads") than do traders seeking protection against default risk for any of the other 41.
The Hirsch-Macpherson data show that an average of 61% of public-sector employees in the nine worst default-risk states were under union monopoly bargaining in 2009. That is, overall public-sector unionization was 20 percentage points higher than in the typical state. All but one of these states, Nevada, had public-sector unionization at least 15% higher than the national average in 2009. Nevada was also the only one of the nine not to authorize public-sector forced union dues and fees.
In the nine worst default-risk states, from 1999 to 2009, aggregate private-sector jobs fell by 4.2%, but heavily unionized state and local government jobs increased by 9.0%. Since annual state and local government employee compensation costs nationwide come to $1.1 trillion, or half of all state and local government spending, it's not hard to see that the Big Labor-driven, seemingly relentless growth in government payrolls is a fiscal catastrophe for states like California, Illinois, and New Jersey.
But to Gerald McEntee, president of the mammoth American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union (AFSCME/AFL-CIO), even calling attention to the fact that for years government payrolls have grown while private payrolls have shriveled is tantamount to an "assault on public employees."
In a commentary bearing that heading, prepared last month for readers of the Huffington Post, among other audiences, Mr. McEntee thundered that the only acceptable solution to the intimidating fiscal problems faced by states like California, Illinois, and New Jersey is for elected officials to squeeze even more taxes out of beleaguered private-sector employees and businesses.
For Mr. McEntee, the idea that state budgets might be balanced largely by rolling back unwarranted increases in government payroll expenditures that occurred over the past decade isn't even worthy of discussion. But for all his bluster, he can't keep New Yorkers, for example, from noticing that, while the number of Empire State pupils enrolled in K-12 public schools fell by more than 121,000 between the 2000-01 and 2008-09 school years, schools added 14,746 teachers and 8655 non-teaching professionals to their payrolls.
Gerald McEntee and his government union cohorts can't prevent the facts from getting out. Nor can they do much about the fact that public sentiment in state after state is turning strongly against public-sector union kingpins who fight elected officials' attempts to get government employee compensations costs back under control.
But the government union hierarchy could have the last laugh if fed-up taxpayers and their allies limit themselves to going after bloated public-sector payrolls, unsustainable public pension plans, and other symptoms of monopolistic unionism, rather than the problem itself.
State laws empowering government union officials to negotiate the contract terms for all the front-line employees at a public agency, even those who haven't joined the union and want nothing to do with it, are behind the messes in Sacramento, Springfield and Trenton. Closely related state labor laws that authorize the firing of public servants for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union make matters even worse.
Long-term solutions to state budget crises will require addressing the core problems of union monopoly bargaining and forced union dues in the public sector.
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Q: Определение элемента при onclick Есть следующий код JS, который вызывает обработчик onclick
var imagejs = document.getElementsByClassName("image");

for (var i=0; i<imagejs.length; i++) {
     imagejs[i].onclick = function (){
        console.log(i); }
}

И неопределенное количество элементов с классом image. Но когда возникает событие (на любом элементе) в консоли отображается полное количество элементов с классом image, а не тот, на котором сработал onclick. Подскажите, пожалуйста, как определить элемент?

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from ...util.log import getLogger
from .base import Action
from ..const import CMD_TYPES as CTPYES
from ..const import EVENT_TYPES as ETYPES
from ..const import USER_STATUS as USTAT
from ..events import SendMessageEvent, UserRegisteredEvent, CollectInfoEvent, UserUpdatedEvent, StructuredMessageEvent
from ...api.storage import validate_slack, set_weapon, set_location, info_locked, profile_is_complete, check_profile_completion, set_status, get_user
from ...api import auth as AuthApi
from ...util.config import config

_log = getLogger('action.user')

class UpdateUserAction(Action):
	log = _log
	def _install(self, proxy):
		proxy.register(ETYPES.USER, 'user_update', self)

	def _process(self, event):
		self._log.debug('Received update info event for user %s'%event.user)
		if info_locked(event.user):
			return SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user, text = "You can't update your %s in the middle of a game!"%event.key))
		self._log.debug("Updating %s's %s to %s"%(event.user, event.key, event.value))
		ok = True
		if event.key == 'weapon':
			if not set_weapon(event.user, event.value):
				ok = False
		elif event.key == 'location':
			if not set_location(event.user, event.value):
				ok = False
		if ok:
			return (SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(
						user=event.user,
						template = config.resp.info_set_confirm,
						args = dict(key=event.key, value=event.value))),
					UserUpdatedEvent('user_updated', dict(user=event.user)))
		else:
			return SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user,
												text = 'There was a probem updating your %s, please try again'%event.key))

class ValidateSlackAction(Action):
	'''
		This actions checks if a slack user needs authorizing,
		if so it querys the auth service for a validation url,
		then push a message to the slack user containg the url
	'''
	def _install(self, proxy):
		proxy.register(ETYPES.USER, 'user_validate', self)

	def _process(self, event):
		self._log.debug('Received slack validation event for %s'%event.user)
		if event.validated:
			if validate_slack(event.user, event.uid):
				with get_user(slack=event.user) as user:
					self._log.info('Successfully linked 42 uid %s with slack %s'%(user.uid, user.slack.name))
					self._put(SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user,
										template=config.resp.registration_success,
										args=dict(uid=user.uid))))
				self._put(CollectInfoEvent('user_info', dict(user=event.user)))
			else:
				self._log.error('Failed to link 42 uid %s with slack %s'%(event.uid, event.user))
		elif not event.validated and event.failed:
			self._log.error('Failed to validate slack user %s, they probably denied our oauth request'%event.user)
		else:
			self._log.debug('Generating validation url for %s'%event.user)
			uid, url = AuthApi.validate_user(event.user)
			if not url and not uid:
				self._log.error('Failed to retrieve validation url for slack user %s'%event.user)
				ev = SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user, text=config.resp.register_error))
			elif url:
				self._log.debug('Retrieved vaidation url for %s'%event.user)
				ev = StructuredMessageEvent('msg_structured', dict(user=event.user, content=config.resp.validation, title='Sign in with Intra', title_link=url))
				# ev = SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user, template=config.resp.validation, args=dict(url=url)))
			elif uid:
				self._log.debug('slack user %s is already authenticated'%event.user)
				validate_slack(event.user, uid)
				ev = SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user, text=config.resp.already_registered))
			self._put(ev)

class CollectInfoAction(Action):
	def _install(self, proxy):
		proxy.register(ETYPES.USER, 'user_info', self)
		proxy.register(ETYPES.USER, 'user_updated', self)
	def _process(self, event):
		if event.topic == 'user_info':
			self._log.debug('Received info collection event for user %s'%event.user)
			# ev = SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user, text = config.resp.collect_info))
			ev = StructuredMessageEvent('msg_structured', dict(user = event.user,
																content = config.resp.collect_info.pretext,
																fields = config.resp.collect_info.fields
																))
			self._put(ev)
		elif event.topic == 'user_updated':
			if not profile_is_complete(event.user):
				if check_profile_completion(event.user):
					ev = UserRegisteredEvent('user_registered', dict(user=event.user))
					self._put(ev)

class NewUserAction(Action):
	def _install(self, proxy):
		proxy.register(ETYPES.USER, 'user_registered', self)

	def _process(self, event):
		set_status(event.user, USTAT.FREE)
		return [SendMessageEvent('msg_send', dict(user=event.user, text=config.resp.new_user))]

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'Unacceptable': Peter Dutton demands more co–operation from Muslim leaders on terrorism
Bourke Street attack
By Michael Koziol
November 11, 2018 — 6.10pm
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has thrown down the gauntlet at the Muslim community to work more closely with police to prevent terrorist attacks, appearing to accuse Islamic leaders of withholding information from authorities.
In the aftermath of Hassan Khalif Shire Ali's knife-wielding rampage in the Melbourne CBD, Mr Dutton also flagged an attempt to reintroduce stricter tests for Australian citizenship, and pressed for the speedy passage of laws to give police the power to bust encrypted communications.
He strongly backed Prime Minister Scott Morrison calling out "radical, violent, extremist Islam that opposes our very way of life", and accused Labor of lacking the resolve to keep Australians safe.
"We need to be realistic about the threat," Mr Dutton said. "It is a time for community members to step up.
"The idea that [Islamic] community leaders would have information but withhold it from the police or intelligence agencies is unacceptable.
"We're best to be honest about the problem so we can address it, because otherwise more Australians will lose their lives."
Mr Dutton took aim at Muslim Labor MP and counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly, who was critical of Mr Morrison's blunt remarks about extremist Islam following Friday's attack.
The West Australian MP had accused Mr Morrison of using divisive language because he was "politically desperate", and said the PM should "read a book" about religious extremism.
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said it was "unacceptable" for Muslim leaders to withhold information from police. Credit:AAP
Mr Dutton accused Ms Aly of seeking to "deny that there's a problem" with Islamic fundamentalism. He also said it proved Labor "doesn't have the ability, frankly, to put in place the laws, to put in place the resolve to keep our borders secure and country safe".
Labor leader Bill Shorten also condemned violent Islamic extremism at the weekend, saying it had become "prevalent in a very small part of a radicalised minority".
Police have described Shire Ali - who killed beloved Melbourne restaurateur Sisto Malaspina and left the city in shock - as a lone-actor terrorist who was known to authorities but was not known to be planning an attack.
Sources close to the family indicated Shire Ali had mental health and substance abuse issues.
On Saturday, Mr Morrison decried radical Islam as "the greatest threat of religious extremism in this country".
Rodger Shanahan, a terrorism analyst at the Lowy Institute, said Mr Morrison was clearly "correct" and should not have his remarks misinterpreted or re-purposed for political gain.
"People won't listen to the nuance," he told Fairfax Media.
"They'll go off on their own tangent, sometimes because they didn't listen to what he said, or in [Ms] Aly's case because she's a politician from the opposition and she wants to make a political point.
"It's a sensitive topic, but you can either talk around it or you can talk at it with all the nuances that it requires – which I think is what [Mr] Morrison did."
Mr Dutton said there were "always lessons to learn" from such attacks, and named the government's failed crackdown on citizenship applications as something the Coalition should again pursue. He also stressed the need to pass a bill currently before a parliamentary inquiry that would assist police to bust encrypted communications, The Assistance and Access Bill 2018.
Mr Dutton confirmed Shire Ali had been questioned by ASIO and had his passport cancelled in 2015. He said early investigations suggested Shire Ali was inspired by Islamic State rather than affiliated with the terrorist group.
Flowers outside Pellegrini's Espresso Bar on Bourke Street, whose proprietor Sisto Malaspina was killed by Shire Ali. Credit:Timna Jacks
It was close to impossible for authorities to foil terrorists who used readily available materials such as a car and a kitchen knife, Mr Dutton said, and thus they relied on tip-offs from the public.
"My plea is to people - within particularly the Islamic community, but across society otherwise - [is] that if you have information, if you see a behaviour of an individual or family member, [or] somebody in a workplace, that caused you concern: provide that information," Mr Dutton said.
Coalition MP Andrew Laming told Fairfax Media the government needed to maintain a "full court press" on Islamic leaders to identify potential terrorists.
"An attack against them would only ever diminish the likelihood of that co-operation," he said.
Mr Laming also cautioned against a "culture war" approach that tried to pigeonhole attackers as either cunning terrorists or mentally unwell.
"On the spectrum of mental health on one end and pure terrorism on the other – the answer is probably somewhere in the middle," he said. "Let the experts work out where that is."
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Having served in the United States Marine Corps, Ryan Cappadony has watched leadership manifest in several different forms. But it wasn't until he stepped away from his time in the military that he found true, spiritual leadership.
"Inspired by God" explores authority and its use in the Bible. Cappadony examines styles of command and shows how the theories are implemented in Biblical text and practiced for godly purposes. Each chapter features insight on godly wisdom that centers on dignified positions within a group. With his work, Cappadony challenges readers to investigate their personal approach to management and provides guidance on how to be an effective advisor.
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Poets in Profile: Stan Rogal
Submitted by Open Book on April 18, 2011 - 3:01pm
Open Book is celebrating National Poetry Month with daily profiles of today's "unacknowledged legislators of the world." Find out what inspires, confounds and delights the poets behind this spring's new releases by following our series.
Whether you're a long-time fan of Stan Rogal or new to his work, you'll delight in the collection Dance Monster! (Insomniac Press), which brings together 50 of Rogal's best poems from the past 30 years. The poems find inspiration in sources as diverse as folksong, linguistics, chaos theory and sexuality. According to Don McKay, it's as if "Rogal had snuck up on a whole regiment of stock cultural myths and assumptions, armed only with a folksong, imaginative muscle, abundant mother wit and a wicked talent for subversive wordplay: it's the surprise that enlivens; the trickster's art."
Can you describe an experience that you believe contributed to your becoming a poet?
Stan Rogal:
I suppose there were two experiences. The first was a Grade 11 English class (way back in the hippy-dippy 1960s) when we were visited by a student teacher who was a young, blonde blue-eyed beauty who had broken her leg on a ski trip and arrived with a cast up to her hip decorated with crazy flowers and paisley shapes and peace signs and goofy get well wishes. She introduced us to the songs of Leonard Cohen and explained that he was a poet as well as a songwriter. I figured if someone like her could enjoy poetry, maybe there was something to it.
Of course, like many youthful testosterone induced experiences, that passed, and it wasn't until Simon Fraser University in the 1970s that I met a very hip and renegade male professor (also a poet) with a Van Dyke beard who suggested that trying my hand at writing poetry might serve to tighten my prose. He introduced me to the work of Richard Brautigan and the realization that poetry could be humorous and sexy as well as dark and deathly serious.
What is the first poem you remember being affected by?
I guess Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," which the gorgeous young student teacher said was a song as well as a poem. Funnily, it was at SFU that the hip professor showed me how the poem differed slightly from the song — the alteration of one word at the end — that failed to complete the circle of love, which is the usual course for a pop song, whereas a poem tends to upset expectations.
What one poem — from any time period — do you wish you had been the one to write?
At the risk of sounding clichéd (especially as a bad movie version just came out), probably Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
What has been your most unlikely source of inspiration?
Probably my reading of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Chaos Theory by James Gleick.
What do you do with a poem that just isn't working?
Keep at it until it does work. If nothing else, I'm persistent.
What was the last book of poetry you read that really knocked your socks off?
I guess that would be John Berryman's Collected Dream Songs.
What is the best thing about being a poet…and what is the worst?
The best thing about being a poet is that when you admit this to people, they get very excited and complimentary. There seems to be more of an admiration factor for being a poet than simply saying you're a writer. The worst thing is that most of these same people who get all excited and complimentary also are quick to admit that they neither buy nor read poetry. The next worse thing is that many of these same folks will then hum and haw and reveal (in a way that a stranger might admit to downloading porn) that they too write poetry, not very well of course, and so on and so forth, and they never show it to anyone but keep it hidden in a dark drawer in a dark room — but if I'd care to look at it...
Stan Rogal is the author of the novels Bafflegab and The Long Drive Home, as well as the short story collections What Passes for Love and Restless, all published by Insomniac Press. Rogal has also published six books of poetry, including Sweet Betsy from Pike and Geometry of the Odd (Wolsak & Wynn). He is the co-artistic director of Bald Ego Theatre, and his plays have been produced across Canada. He lives in Toronto.
For more information about Dance Monster! please visit the Insomniac Press website.
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The 2010–11 College Hockey America women's ice hockey season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive ice hockey among College Hockey America members.

Offseason
 August 2: Former NCAA All-American player Sabrina Harbec will join the Syracuse Orange coaching staff for the 2010-11 season.
 August 27: Mercyhurst Lakers player Meghan Agosta was announced as a finalist for the Women's Sports Foundation's 2010 Sportswoman of the Year Team Award. It is awarded to the top female athlete (NCAA, Olympic, professional) who has demonstrated exceptional play in helping her team win a championship.
 September 28: In the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll, the Mercyhurst Lakers have been voted as the pre-season Number 3.

Preseason

College Hockey America Preseason Coaches' Poll

Exhibition

Season standings

Regular season

News and notes

October
 October 1: Mercyhurst Lakers player Meghan Agosta joined Jesse Scanzano as only the second Mercyhurst player to have 100 career assists. She picked up the assist in the second period of the game against WCHA team St. Cloud State.
 October 1: By tying Northwestern in the season opener, it marked the first time that the Syracuse Orange started the season unbeaten. Stefanie Marty had two goals in the game. Northeastern featured her twin sister Julia Marty. It was the first time the sisters had ever played against each other in their NCAA careers.
 October 8: With a 4-2 defeat of New Hampshire, the Orange is off to its best start in program history (1-0-1). In the win, senior transfer Ashley Cockell scored her first career goal for the Orange. Freshman goaltender Kallie Billadeau made 26 saves as she played in her first game for the Orange.
 October 15: Bailey Bram registered two assists, including her 100th career point, in a game against the Bemidji State Beavers. She became the 11th Lakers player to crack the century mark in the 4-0 win.
 October 16: In a 7-1 win against Connecticut, Isabel Menard recorded the first hat trick in Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey history (and added an assist).
 October 16: Dayna Newsom of Robert Morris accumulated a game-high three points (goal and two assists) against Northeastern. She tied her career high and it was her second multi-point game within the first five games of the season.
 As the Lakers went 6-1-0 in October 2010, Christine Bestland scored four goals, including two in a 7-3 defeat of the Robert Morris Colonials. In addition, she had six as¬sists. In her first game as a Laker, she scored a goal. She registered points in five of the seven games played and finished the month with a plus/minus rating of +13. For her efforts, she was recognized as College Hockey America's Rookie of the Month.

November

January
 January 15: Bailey Bram registered two goals and four assists for a career-high six points as Mercyhurst defeated Brown 12-0. Mercyhurst notched 12 goals in a game for the first time since the 1999-2000 season.
 January 21–22: Meghan Agosta recorded five points on two goals and three assists in a two-game sweep of Robert Morris. With the five point effort, Agosta is now just seven points away from breaking former Harvard player Julie Chu's mark of 285 points to become the NCAA all-time points leader.

February
 On February 4, 2011, Meghan Agosta became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women's hockey history with three goals and one assist in Mercyhurst College's 6-2 win over Wayne State in Erie, Pennsylvania. Agosta's four points gave her 286 career points, one more than ex-Harvard forward Julie Chiu's record of 285 set in 2006-07. Agosta, who also owns the record for most short-handed goals and game-winning goals, added three assists in the Lakers' 3-1 win over Wayne State on February 5.
 February 25, 2011: Meghan Agosta scored her 151st career goal to become all-time leading goal scorer in NCAA history. She accomplished this in a 6-2 victory over the Robert Morris Colonials women's ice hockey program at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. She surpassed Harvard's Nicole Corriero, who set the record at 150 during the 2004-05 season. The goal was scored on the power play at 15:18 of the second period with the assist going to Bailey Bram. She later added her 152nd goal in the third period.

National rankings

In season honors

Players of the week
Throughout the conference regular season, College Hockey America offices names a player of the week each Monday.

Defensive Players of the week

Rookies of the week
Throughout the conference regular season, College Hockey America offices names a rookie of the week each Monday.

Monthly Awards

Player of the Month

Defensive Player of the Month

Rookie of the Month

Postseason

2011 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament

Postseason awards
 Meghan Agosta was named CHA Tournament MVP
 Meghan Agosta, Mercyhurst, CHA Player of the Year
 Ashley Harper, Mercyhurst, Top Scholar-Athlete in College Hockey America
 Thea Imbrogno, Robert Morris, CHA Rookie of the Year
 Hillary Pattenden, Mercyhurst, 2010-11 CHA goaltending champion
 Michael Sisti, Mercyhurst, CHA coach of the year

First Team All-CHA
 Meghan Agosta, Mercyhurst
 Jenni Bauer, Niagara
 Vicki Bendus, Mercyhurst
 Cassea Scholls, 2010-11 First Team All-CHA selection
 Pamela Zgoda, Mercyhurst

Second Team All-CHA
 Bailey Bram, Mercyhurst
 Erica Owczarczak, Niagara
 Hillary Pattenden, Mercyhurst
 Jesse Scanzano, Mercyhurst
 Jill Szandzik, Wayne State

CHA All-Rookie team
 Christine Bestland, Mercyhurst
 Cari Coen, Wayne State
 Thea Imbrogno, Robert Morris
 Kristen Richards, Niagara

All-Americans
 Meghan Agosta, Mercyhurst, First Team selection

See also
 National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship
 2009–10 CHA women's ice hockey season
 2010–11 WCHA women's ice hockey season
 2010–11 ECAC women's ice hockey season
 2010–11 Hockey East women's ice hockey season

References

CHA
College Hockey America

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Tom Hayden : Chicago 1968 / Denver 2008
Posted on August 9, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer
Veteran activist and former California state Sen. Tom Hayden. Photo by Chris Schneider © The Rocky Mountain News
The New Left leader from four decades ago thinks Denver should be skeptical of federal authorities' warnings about violent protest.
By M.E. Sprengelmeyer / August 8, 2008
CULVER CITY, Calif. — On a steamy spring day, in a cramped office that hot air can't escape, the archetypal child of the '60s does something truly radical.
He wears a necktie.
This is not the hairy, scary leader of the New Left who had Chicago locking up its daughters for the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
It's a clean-cut Tom Hayden, retired California state senator, prolific writer, blogger and sage to a whole new generation of street activists.
Still, he knows most people still picture him as a sort of cartoon version of himself: shirtless, shouting down authority or scuffling with cops on the streets.
"I can't get past that," he says of the stereotypes. "I can't help them with their problem. They can't see me. I can be, like, 68 years old and I'm still trouble, because they're thinking about something in Vietnam or they're thinking about Jane Fonda. Or they think I slept with their daughter. They think I burned my draft card. It's like a big Rorschach of things that I did or did not do."
If speaking out still means "trouble," then maybe Hayden really hasn't changed that much.
Forty years after he helped lead the anti-war protests that ended in violent confrontations outside the '68 convention, he just put out a new book, Voices of the Chicago Eight, about the circus-like conspiracy trial for protest organizers and the consequences of attempts to come down hard on dissent.
He offers regular takes to Huffington Post readers and was an early member of the group Progressives for Obama. He lectures on college campuses and offers an updated version of the Port Huron Statement — the 1962 manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society that challenged young people to boldly venture into "participatory democracy."
And behind the scenes, Hayden closely monitors protest plans for the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions, advises organizers and warns that authorities appear to be falling into a predictable pattern of hype and overreaction.
"I think that Denver officials would be well-advised not to believe everything that the FBI warns them about," Hayden says. "That's how things can get out of hand, due to fabricated, exaggerated projections about violence or protest."
As the convention approaches, federal dollars pour into the security effort and law enforcement agencies flex muscle with high-profile exercises.
"They don't learn," Hayden laments. "What you saw in 2000 was the claim that 75,000 anarchists were descending, the secret funding of permanent police equipment, the denial of permits for protesters. You saw the same thing in 2004. You will see the same thing in 2008."
He thinks Big Brother posturing helps scare away peaceful protesters, gives the community a false sense of security and can, in some cases, provoke confrontations at demonstrations that would otherwise be routine and mostly peaceful.
"So they have their view," Hayden says of security planners. "They've learned nothing from 1968."
Nation, party were both divided
As demonstrators get ready for Denver 2008, 40-year-old memories are front and center. One coalition operates under the "Re-create 68" banner, conjuring images of the street clashes that overshadowed the Democratic Convention itself, galvanizing the anti-Vietnam War effort and undermining Democrats' hopes in that long-ago fall.
But Hayden was there in 1968. And there's really no comparison to 2008, he says.
True, there was a war then and there is a war now.
But back in 1968, the country — and the Democratic Party — were more starkly divided over the battle waging overseas.
The Tet offensive by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces at the end of January obscured the light at the end of the tunnel in the war. Hundreds of young U.S. troops were dying every week. Facing a rising voter backlash, wartime President Lyndon B. Johnson was forced to prematurely end his re-election bid at the end of March.
Within days, the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. caused rage to explode into riots, arson and looting in 75 cities. Robert F. Kennedy calmed a shocked crowd in Indianapolis, telling them his brother, too, had been killed by a white man. But weeks later, the younger brother, too, was shot dead, fraying emotions even further. The nation was on edge heading into the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Until then, some protest organizers held out hope of getting the needed permits to avoid confrontations at marches and park demonstrations. But Hayden says he knew trouble was inevitable.
"I planned for multiple scenarios, not knowing which one would play out," he says, sitting in the cramped office while his research assistant continues working nearby. "But certainly, after the murder of Kennedy, coming on the murder of King, to me it was in the air that we were going to be busted and face serious harm unless we surrendered and left the city and simply went along with the plan . . . just go along with our own disappearance."
They didn't, even though they knew — from personal contacts — that the FBI was tracking their every move, around the clock.
One declassified FBI memo included in Hayden's new book expresses anger that bureau officials were unaware of his involvement in a student occupation of buildings at Columbia University until after his picture appeared in Life magazine.
"In evaluating this case, you should bear in mind that your prime objectives should be to neutralize him in the new left movement," the memo states.
Clashes played out on TV
Other organizers still held out hope of getting permits for access to streets and parks for demonstrations. But Hayden says he was pessimistic — and in the end proven correct.
The city rejected permits for the Youth International Party — the so-called "Yippies" led by the late Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman — to hold a massive "Festival of Life" concert.
Some thought permits would come through at the last minute — a way of giving a nod to free expression only after turnout had been dampened. But that didn't happen, either.
Hayden says Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was "hoodwinked" into believing that "thousands of hairy Yippies were going to have sex in public while drinking from the LSD-laden waters of Lake Michigan. They actually believed that. And this sex in the parks on acid would occur at roughly the same moment that black revolutionaries would storm the convention with guns."
So the stage was set for constant confrontations, games of cat and mouse between police and protesters, and then bloody clashes on television, just as Democrats also were struggling to show they could maintain order among squabbling delegates inside the convention hall.
It culminated on Aug. 28, when Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota was to accept the presidential nomination. That afternoon, while delegates waged a contentious debate over Vietnam War planks in the party's platform, police allowed a "legal" anti-war rally at Grant Park.
Things broke loose after a shirtless teenager climbed a flagpole, ostensibly to turn the flag upside down as a distress symbol. Police swooped in to make an arrest, the crowd surged and some threw stones or dirt clods at a police car, and the scene quickly deteriorated. Thousands of police, soldiers and National Guardsmen surrounded the area. Calm was restored, but by twilight, many protesters were more determined to make unsanctioned parades to reach the convention site or the Hilton hotel, where delegates were staying.
That night, after moving through the city disguised with a fake beard, Hayden ended up in a police skirmish at the hotel's Haymarket Lounge — "named, strangely enough, in memory of Chicago police killed by an anarchist's bomb during a violent confrontation between police and protesters in 1886," Hayden writes.
By the time the week's convention ended, 668 people had been arrested, 101 people were treated at local hospitals for their injuries, and hundreds more reportedly received first aid or treatment by protest medics.
And the Democratic Party's hopes of retaining the White House were the ultimate casualty. Republican Richard Nixon was elected with more than 100 electoral vote margin.
"It simply didn't have to happen," Hayden says of the Chicago chaos, 40 years later. "It takes two for a riot to occur. And if it wasn't for the FBI advisers, Chicago '68 would not have happened — repeat, would not have happened."
City's posture sparks concern
Despite the "Re-create 68" sentiment of some Denver protest organizers, Hayden saw little chance of a chaotic rerun when he sat down in April in his Culver City office to discuss the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Back then, when the battle between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton still raged and there was talk of superdelegates throwing the nomination to Clinton, Hayden imagined there could be some sort of drama on the streets if people thought the election had been stolen. But it never came to that.
More likely, he predicted, were smaller demonstrations to keep up the pressure for Democrats in Denver to take tougher anti-war stands, with more fierce protests against the "war-makers" at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota.
By early July, however, Hayden said he was growing concerned about the city's posture toward protesters and the worst-case scenario security exercises, with black helicopters roaring through the downtown skyline.
The ACLU and protest organizers went to court challenging the location of a so-called free-speech zone on the far edge of a parking lot. Planners of "Tent State University," who hoped to use City Park to house tens of thousands of anti-war activists, were told they would have to clear the park at 11 each night. The ban on camping and curfew enforcement raises the specter of the nightly crackdowns at Lincoln and Grant parks in Chicago '68.
"I do think they are playing around unnecessarily with the rights of protesters to protest," Hayden said in a follow-up interview. "I don't know how the negotiations will come out, but you know, naming something a protest zone but then not allowing it to be heard or seen, it's a mockery of the First Amendment. Most importantly, it's not necessary.
"It does seem to me there's a legitimate right to protest at stake," he said. "I don't think the protests will be very large if Obama is the nominee. I don't see the point in interfering with them . . . It's particularly crazy because most of the delegates at the Democratic convention have been in many demonstrations themselves."
The security exercises, with helicopters buzzing the city, reminded Hayden of something out of the movie Dr. Strangelove.
"The implication is very unsettling," he said. "The message was that the people coming to protest deserve this kind of repression if they get out of hand . . . They're just trying to scare the public into justifying more tax dollars for a false sense of security — more gadgets for the police department."
He said people don't realize that in Chicago, the initial protests were rather lightly attended, with about 1,500 people in the parks. But the numbers swelled to an estimated 10,000, in part as a reaction to the police crackdowns, Hayden says.
"If they had given us permits . . . I doubt there would have been much confrontation at all," he says. "What caused the rioting in the streets was the lack of permits and the lack of a place to stay. Too much order creates disorder is the way I've always put it."
One might think that Hayden, one of the pre-eminent social activists of the '60s, would be disappointed with the anti-war efforts and the other movements of today.
He isn't.
"I think it's a remarkable peace movement," he says. "You don't have the draft. You have one-fifteenth of the American casualties now that you had at this point during Vietnam. The establishment is doing everything it can to keep this war from impacting the American people. And yet, people have seen through it."
The public at large turned against the Iraq war by the end of 2004, he says, "which I think means the ghosts of '68 are still with us. People know a quagmire when they see one."
Source / Rocky Mountain News
Thanks to Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog
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2019 High School Recognition Program Awards
(June 11, 2019 — Melville, NY) The Long Island Music Hall of Fame (LIMHOF) is proud to announce the recipients of their third annual High School Music Department Recognition Program. Six Long Island High School music programs were awarded recognition and will be an integral part of the LIMHOF Youth Holiday Concert November 17th at The NYCB Theatre at Westbury.
Based on an extensive application submitted by the schools, the Hall of Fame acknowledged six high schools this year with Gold and/or Gold+ Distinction. The schools receiving this prestigious recognition are
Great Neck North High School, Farmingdale High School, Great Neck South High School, Longwood High School, St Francis Preparatory, and Uniondale High School
The LIMHOF School Recognition Program is designed to identify Long Island High School music programs that are creating notable music experiences for their students and that are incorporating the National and NY State Standards for The Arts in creative and meaningful ways. LIMHOF accepts applications from Brooklyn, Nassau, Queens and Suffolk counties for this prestigious review. Application categories included program details, inclusion of national and state standards for music in curriculum, facility, staffing, and community and board support. Applications were reviewed by a panel of music educators, some of whom have been recognized as the Long Island Music Hall of Fame's "Music Educators of Note." Submissions for 2020 will be accepted starting January 1st, 2020 and all schools are welcome to submit an application.
For more information on this award or Education scholarships and grants offered by LIMHOF please visit www.limusichalloffame.org/scholarshipsgrants/ or contact LIMHOF's Board Member for Community Outreach, Kelly Leung at (516) 938-1626 or kellyl@limusichalloffame.org.
Founded in 2004, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame is a 501(c) (3) organization dedicated to the idea that Long Island's musical heritage is an important resource to be celebrated and preserved for future generations. The organization, which encompasses New York State's Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, and Kings (Brooklyn) Counties, was created as a place of community that inspires and explores Long Island music in all its forms. To date, the organization has inducted more than 100 musicians and music industry executives, and also offers education programs and scholarships to Long Island students, sponsors the Long Island Sound Award, and features traveling educational exhibits, including a state-of-the-art mobile museum. Visit their website at http://www.limusichalloffame.org/.
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Sounds logical since the UK is one of the older nations without a T10 LT line. Also, since quite a number of British LTs were wheeled, with the release of French wheelies to the game, that barrier is now no longer there. I do believe WG also said they are monitoring all stats regarding the WVs, so depending how much 'data' they need to either a) rework the French wheelies before releasing any other or b) use that data to 'refine' any future wheeled lines, I would think Q4 of this year the earliest possibility (maybe even a December release).


Endoglin, Cell surface MJ7/18 antigen, CD105, Eng, Edg.
The Endoglin protein consists of a homodimer of 180 kDA with disulfide links. Endoglin has been found on endothelial cells, activated macrophages, fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells. Furthermore, Endoglin has been found to be part of the TGF-beta1 receptor complex. Endoglin thus may be involved in the binding of TGF-beta1, TGF-beta3, activin-A, BMP-2, and BMP-7. Beside TGF-beta signaling endoglin may have other functions. It has been postulated that endoglin is involved in the cytoskeletal organization affecting cell morphology and migration. Endoglin has a role in the development of the cardiovascular system and in vascular remodeling. Endoglin expression is regulated during heart development . Experimental mice without the endoglin gene die due to cardiovascular abnormalities.
Endoglin Mouse Recombinant produced in Sf9 Baculovirus cells is a single, glycosylated polypeptide chain containing 563 amino acids (27-581 a.a.) and having a molecular mass of 60.9kDa (Migrates at 50-70kDa on SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions).
Endoglin is expressed with an 8 amino acid His tag at C-Terminus and purified by proprietary chromatographic techniques.
Endoglin protein solution (0.5mg/ml) containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (pH 7.4) and 10% glycerol.