Pixar have a wonderful knack for creating films that promise laughter and tears, for child and adult alike. Inside Out is no different. In fact, with its fascinating insight into the human mind, for the viewer the lasting impact of the story - much like one of Scripture's more overlooked books - may just be more tears than laughter.
Inside Out follows the mind of Riley, an 11-year-old girl facing the turmoil of moving from her happy life in Minnesota to San Francisco. In Riley's mind are five characters - Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger and Fear - each of whom, according to the emotion they personify, seek to take control of Riley's mind at appropriate moments.
Leader of the pack is Joy, who seeks to ensure Riley's life is a happy one. With the upheaval of moving, Joy looks to suppress any hint of sorrow and instead put in Riley's mind a positive spin on the move. Riley's mother also urges her daughter to remain optimistic. She is, after all, their 'happy girl'.
Things don't go to plan, with the story going on to show the importance of giving Sadness space for expression. It is here Inside Out echoes a key message from one of the Old Testament's poetic books.
Lamentations is the graphic and anguished account of Jerusalem's destruction in 587BC, with the author (likely Jeremiah) weeping over the desolation of the land (2:11), the silence of surrounding nations (4:17) and the absence of God (5:20). 'My eyes fail from weeping,' comes the lament. 'I am in torment within, my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city' (2:11).
I am conscious of the disparity between the real and immense suffering presented in Lamentations and the fictional story of an animation movie. That said, sorrow and suffering comes in varying degrees and from multiple causes, and though one person's suffering may seem futile compared to another's, the pain is equally real and it matters to God.
In this respect, amongst its many other lessons, Lamentations is invaluable, as it encourages us to give expression to our own sorrows and the questions that often follow: Where are you, God? Why is this happening?
Or in the case of Riley, it lets Sadness take her place.
For whatever reason, however, like Riley we can feel compelled to keep the sadness that resides and the questions that linger within a small chalk circle: fear of what people may say or think, of who we may let down, the lack of faith it could show, the seeming folly of our pain compared to others, the question of whether God even cares.
Whatever it is, these laments - along with the likes of Moses, David, Job, Habakkuk and Jesus - give us license to be, before God and each other, equally honest with our own pain and questions.
Through the grief and questions, the author could still say, 'Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness' (2:22-23). Often it is only by letting the tears fall that we, too, can begin to utter again these same words.
Something similar happened with Riley. Joy eventually let Sadness take her place, leading to an expression of sorrow which helped rebuild the fractured relationship with her parents and provide a foundation for her to establish herself in San Francisco. Joy's oversight now took on a more measured form.
Whilst our transformation may look different, Riley's story is a reminder that being real with God and each other gives further opportunity for Joy to take her rightful place. As Ecclesiastes 3:4 puts it, there is 'a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance'. When your time comes for weeping or laughter, mourning or dancing, let it flow. Don't stay within the circle.


Using loan level data, we investigate the lending behavior of a large subprime mortgage originator, New Century, prior to its bankruptcy in the beginning of 2007. We provide evidence of sudden risk-shifting in New Century's lending behavior in 2004. This change follows the sharp monetary policy tightening implemented by the Fed in the spring of 2004, which resulted in an adverse shock to the large portfolio of loans New Century was holding for investment. Most notably, New Century reacted to the shock by massively resorting to deferred amortization loan contracts ("interest-only" loans). We show that these loans were not only riskier, but also that their returns were by design more sensitive to real estate prices than standard contracts. New Century was thus financing projects with a high beta on its own survival, as predicted by a standard model of portfolio selection in financial distress. Our findings shed new light on the relationship between monetary policy and risk taking by financial institutions. They also contribute to better characterizing the type of risk taken by financially distressed firms.


Greetings friends and fellow crafters, LeeAnn here today, it is the first Friday of the month and that means it is time to reveal the July Challenge. This month our theme is... Red White and Blue!
Using Paper from several of the Quick Quotes sets I put this project together, and hope you enjoy it.
Using Serenade QQP-SR103 I cut a 6x6 panel to cover my canvas.
Using Serenade QQP-SR102, Anchors Aweigh QQP-AW100, Adventure Awaits QQP-AD101, and a Pine Needle Die I ran each panel through my Big Shot and turned the cut upside down to simulate fireworks.
I used my Canon Selphy to print a photo from our fireworks my husband set off this year. This machine is the easiest printer I have ever use. I just open the Canon Print app on my phone, choose the image I want to print and hit print. It goes to the printer and does its thing.
I used Buttercup and Sunset Powderpuff inks to blend a sunset at the bottom of the 6x6 panel. I then used a small piece of the opposite side and stamped out Happy 4th of July using Royal Blue and Red Lipstick Powderpuff inks. I blended the Buttercup and Sunset along with Warm Grey over the top so that it would blend in with the background. This I cut with an oval die, and used foam dots to pop it up.


Elevated and bordering the famous Shotover River is this stunning flat and usable 12 acre land site with consented building platform and all services in place, you will only be limited by your imagination when creating your new home. As you enter the gated and fenced driveway you are immediately at awe with the stunning aspect to the Remarkables mountain range. As you approach the house site you are treated to the Crown Range, Gibbston Valley, Coronet Peak and Ben Lomond. This opportunity is under the Overseas Investment Consent size and makes for an excellent investment as Queenstown continues to grow on the international stage.


We had so much fun taking these close-up photos of the new yarn! Aren't the colors so nice? The Lion Brand Suede is called Spice, and it is so soft. The Paton's Bohemian is called Artistic Taupes and has so many pretty colors in it. I am almost finished with Mary's hat in the Bohemian. It is so very soft! I will post a picture of it when I am done. I am also finished with the Piggie Bag Holder and, of course the Bunny Towel Holder and both are now photographed. I just have to put the bow and the windchimes on the Lamb, and she is completely done also!
Here is the pictures of the Paton's Bohemian and the Lion Brand Suede I bought yesterday. I also got a close-up picture of the individual strands I will post next. I love the colors!
>Mary's hat is almost finished! The Paton's Bohemian works up so quickly and so nicely! It is so soft also. I used a K hook, and I crocheted the hat up very fast. This is a very nice yarn for chemo hats, especially for the wintertime. I will try to get some pictures posted tomorrow.


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Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned from the US Department of Homeland Security
Donald Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen before she began her brief tenure at DHS.
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Ephrat Livni
Today Kirstjen Nielsen put to rest rumors swirling about her resignation as secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security. Nielsen is leaving, she told president Donald Trump in a Sunday afternoon meeting. The commander in chief promptly tweeted the news, as well as the name of her interim replacement.
The president thanked Nielsen for her service and immediately followed up with the announcement that Kevin McAleenan, the current Customs and Border Protection commissioner, will become acting secretary of the DHS, writing, "I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!"
Nielsen's departure comes just as Trump has announced that he wants to take a harder-line approach to illegal immigration. On April 5, in Calexico, a town in California at the border with Mexico, Trump made clear that the tougher approach would also apply to asylum seekers, saying some who come to the US seeking refuge are actually gang members and calling asylum "a scam" and "a hoax," CBS reported. Nielsen was by his side at the border visit and there was no indication from either her or the president of her impending resignation.
Still, no one is surprised and it's unlikely that she will be missed. Nielsen has presided over the DHS during very turbulent times and talk of her leaving started months ago. She defended the administration's stance on child separations from their parents and family at the border last year, despite the known long-term trauma this causes children and outrage about the policy expressed by many Americans. Quartz's White House correspondent, Heather Timmons, wrote in November that Nielsen's legacy at the department is "ugly" and explained that her failures go beyond supporting the controversial policy, stating:
Nielsen leaves the agency responsible for threats to US transportation systems, borders, internet, air, and water weakened, disorganized, and dangerously politicized, security experts say. Many top jobs still haven't been filled. Senior DHS officials described her to Quartz as indecisive and as having a dangerous tendency to over-promise to the White House.
"Kirstjen Nielsen's tenure at the Department of Homeland Security was a disaster from the start," said Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House committee on homeland security, after her resignation was made public. The Trump administration policies on immigration "that she enacted and helped craft have been an abysmal failure and have helped create the humanitarian crisis at the border."
It is not clear based on public statements whether Nielsen resigned voluntarily or was pushed out under pressure from the president. In November, Trump said he would decide her future "shortly," less than a year after she assumed the DHS post in December 2017. Based on his prior statements and the relatively terse tweet announcing her resignation today, it seems safe to assume the president isn't too broken up about the news she's out.


We've been having a busy couple of months with the Edinburgh Midweek Group this season, having completed several projects in and around Edinburgh and the Lothians, as well as a huge display of teamwork and hard work at the Seven Lochs project in Glasgow where we worked alongside the Stirling and Glasgow volunteers for eight weeks!
Volunteers from Edinburgh, Stirling and Glasgow Mid Week Groups.
Back in February the group started helping out at the beautiful Howden Walled Garden in Livingston. Here our aim was to create an edible walkway around the garden's walls for the community to enjoy. The first task was to clear the walls and the ground to make room for some fruit trees and bushes – no easy feat! Fortunately someone had kindly left a supermarket trolley in the grounds to help us with the moving!
The volunteers were also kept busy repairing a beautiful walkway made of willow, for the local community to enjoy.
A few weeks later we returned to the garden to plant the fruit bushes; raspberries, gooseberries, cherries and strawberries, among a few others. What a difference!
At the end of February we started work at the Seven Lochs Wetland Park in Glasgow; an urban nature project focused on protecting and enhancing the biodiversity and heritage of the wetland area, as well as providing a space for locals and visitors to enjoy (GCV Green Network Partnership).
Alongside the Stirling and Glasgow teams, our volunteers worked hard over the course of almost two months! We undertook a variety of tasks; preparing the land for wildflower planting, digging ponds and creating water channels, as well as some general woodland management work.
We also worked hard to improve the boardwalk at Hogganfield Park, placing non-slip grip strips (try saying that quickly three times!) along each plank of wood to make it safer for visitors to enjoy the beautiful views over the loch.
Our favourite project (or mine at least!) was helping to create floating bio-havens to sit on top of the loch. These bio-havens were made of recycled materials and adorned with various wetland plants (gathered by our volunteers). They will be providing a key shelter for birds and pond life on the loch.
Across April and May we've been doing various bits and pieces of work at the Peebles Community Action Network (CAN) Garden. Our first big job was to help lay the wooden foundations of the new flower beds and path within their brand new poly tunnel.
The next time we visited we spent an amazingly sunny (and very warm!) couple of days building an incredible 16 new raised beds for the garden. It was a brilliant team effort and we had some fantastic help from the local families who would be using the beds, giving them the opportunity to see how they were built and to be part of the building process. Even the little ones were keen to help!
Although we've been busy doing work elsewhere, we certainly haven't forgotten about our local Edinburgh parks!
In the lovely Figgate Park near Portobello our volunteers helped with some path clearance, working to make the stairs safer and more accessible. We were also helping to stabilise the river bank by panting native shrubs and trees, which will also help to increase biodiversity and create wildlife habitats.
We've also been busy in Starbank Park this year, working closely with their 'Friends Of' group. Some of the tasks we've been involved in were neatening their path edges, trimming bed borders, clearing away vegetation in preparation for summer growth, lots and lots of weeding and, of course, the most coveted job; helping to turn and cycle their compost area.
Last but not least, we were in the beautiful Braidburn Valley Park doing path edging. What a difference we made!
It's been a wonderful and jam-packed few months and we're all looking forward to spending some more time in the sun (and the rain) over summer!


A while back someone asked me what I like to do with my free time, and it took me a second to come up with an answer that was simply about me. Before having kids, I loved going on long walks, cooking, reading a book (often in just a day), learning, and going to movies. Since having kids, I've read three books in five years, I rarely cook something other than the necessary dinner cooking, and I can count on one hand the number of movies I've seen in a theater since Shiri was born. And I don't remember the last time I stayed awake through a movie at home. About the only thing I still do for me alone anymore is long walks. Those are essential.
When the world around us gets busy, and life starts to consume us, sometimes we have to let go of pieces of ourselves in order to continue growing. Our Torah portion this week, Parshat Vayishlach, reminds us of what it might be like to live fully as yourself, even as the world around you is changing. Jacob is preparing to meet his brother Esau after their fallout and struggles in his dream with the angel who changes his name to Israel. The brothers meet and part in peace, and the story continues with the birth of more sons to Jacob and the different ways in which his children misbehave. But before all the fun begins, Jacob has a realization about his character while living with Laban.
There are so many ways in which our interactions in the world are influenced by those around us. From the ways in which we behave day to day to the hobbies we take on, we are influenced by our status in life, and the relationships in which we find ourselves. When we're around people who make bad choices, we're often more likely to do the same. But, when we surround ourselves with positive role models, we may follow suit.
What can be difficult is choosing to do the right thing, even when depravity seems to surround us. As Hillel teaches in Pirkei Avot, "In a place where there are no people, strive to be a person." May we all be like Jacob, hold true to ourselves, our values, our core beliefs, and may we help others to shine out in the world around us.
Seemingly incompatible temperaments can work together. My husband Duncan and I are a prime example of this. We could not be more different when it comes to our emotional response and tolerance. We compare ourselves to the way different materials react to heat. I tend to be like aluminum: I get frustrated very easily, but then I usually calm down and relax very quickly. I don't hold on to my frustration for long periods, except on rare occasions. On the other hand, Duncan is like glass: he's very patient, and it takes a lot of heat to really frustrate him and get him to combust, but once he's there, it takes just as long if not longer for him to cool down. This means that when we have a disagreement, we're often on opposite sides of the emotional spectrum. I'm already on my way to cooled off as he's just reached his hottest point. I'm ready to forgive as he's ready to blaze.
In our Torah portion for this week, Parshat Vayishlach, we read about Jacob preparing for his meeting with his brother Esau after their estrangement. Jacob struggles with an angel during his dream before their meeting, and then their meeting is uneventful. Jacob and Esau meet, they hug, they forgive, and they move on. The parshah ends with Jacob's daughter Dinah having an incident in Shechem and a list of the final events in the life of his family before the Joseph storyline begins.
Earlier in our story, Jacob and Esau anger each other, they have some time apart, and in the buildup to this moment it appears that Jacob is not so sure whether his brother is glass or aluminum, whether he is ready to forgive or might need some more time. These twins are clearly as different as siblings get, and Jacob is fearful of a war being waged, so he prepares himself physically by separating his children to avoid mass casualties. His restless behavior shows his distress. Is he himself ready to forgive? Perhaps he's not so sure of that either.
It turns out they were both ready to forgive. The brothers meet, they run to each other and embrace, and they forgive and move forward. Yes, for the time in between they carried the grudge, the fear, the concern with them, and it clearly messed with Jacob's psyche, manifested in his crazy dreams. But in the end, it was family that really mattered to them.
These brothers carried around a lot of baggage leading up to this point. Their family dynamic changed dramatically when Jacob won the birthright, and then again when their parents picked favorites. They were estranged as they entered into adulthood. There was no obvious reason to forgive, but they discovered forgiveness simply felt right and helped them let go of the burden they carried for so long.
Vayishlach means "and he sent." What is being sent away is not a person or an object, but rather anger and fear. The emotional baggage is being discarded in favor of love. Oddly enough, the more we can learn to let go of certain things, the more we can hold on to each other.
The Bible is a kissing book. Who knew? In fact, kissing in the Bible serves a significant purpose, and it's not always a romantic one. This week's parshah, Vayishlach, again shows us interaction between Jacob and his brother Esau. The last time these two were together, Esau didn't seem too attached to his birthright blessing until it had been given to Jacob, and Jacob didn't care much about his brother's right to the blessing until his brother threatened to kill him. Now, twenty years or so later, we find the brothers on a path to meet again. Both are now married and fathers of large clans, and both have large flocks with them.
When the brothers are reunited there is a scene that, on the surface, appears to be a straightforward reconciliation between two estranged brothers. They hug, they kiss, they move on. But anyone who is familiar with sibling relationships knows that this is no ordinary reconciliation. After all, Esau is usually looking out for himself and no one else, and his actions are almost always motivated by hatred. To see him kiss and hug his brother as only a close family member would feels foreign based on previous passages in the Torah.
Shiri loves to give silly kisses. At bedtime we used to go through at least a dozen different silly kisses before she'd finally agree to go to her crib. There was the tiny kiss, the baby kiss, the monster kiss, the pineapple kiss (not even the silliest one, believe me). Each one had some different noise or expression that went with it, and you can bet Shiri would let me know if I did the expression wrong.
Clearly kisses can mean a variety of things, so what did the kiss between Jacob and Esau mean? Was it simply an act of fraternal love, or was it shallow and conciliatory and just for show? Certainly this is one of those Torah portions that asks us to draw our own conclusions. Kisses from mother to daughter, from spouse to spouse, and from sibling to sibling are all very different, even without the baggage that Jacob and Esau brought to their reunion. So perhaps the meaning, like the gesture itself, is to remain between two people and two people alone.
Good luck will rub off when I shake hands with you. Or blow me a kiss, and that's lucky too. –"Chim Chim Cheree" from Mary Poppins.
Truly life-changing moments are few and far between. A specific encounter can touch your heart, or a story on the news can make you think, but very few of these moments reach us so deeply that our lives are never the same again. The instances that typically alter our lives are the ones you'd expect, like significant lifecycle events or major traumatic experiences. However, occasionally an event which seems superficially insignificant can lead to an unexpected transformation.
This is the case in parshat Vayishlach, which we read this week. The portion is filled with what should have been huge, life-changing moments for Jacob. Jacob and his twin Esau reunite and make up after a 20-year estrangement. Following this, Jacob's daughter Dinah is involved in a violent incident in Shechem that prompts her brothers to take revenge on her behalf, Rachel dies in childbirth, and Jacob's father Isaac dies. All of these significant events likely impact Jacob in one way or another, but it's before these at the beginning of the parshah when his life is changed completely.
When Jacob and Esau reunite, Jacob is overcome with emotion. In Chapter 33, verse 10, Jacob proclaims, "Seeing your face is like seeing the face of God." The text in Genesis Rabbah, a 5th century commentary on the Torah, suggests that Jacob is talking about his own transformation, not about his brother's appearance. Jacob is sharing with Esau that he has seen the face of God and is a changed man, not the deceitful brother who tricked his twin. He no longer sees Esau as a rival, but as an equal, deserving of honor and dignity. Clearly Jacob is a new person.
It's a cliché to simply say "people can change." Our parshah reminds us that change is really about having our perspective shifted so that we may see the world differently. The hope is that we recognize in ourselves not only these significant moments when they happen, but the potential for them to occur at all.


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Karachi, February 20, 2014: The second day of Fashion Pakistan Week Spring/Summer 2014, organized by Fashion Pakistan Council and HUM Sitaray, is association with Toni & Guy, TDAP, Bank AlFalah, Nestle Everyday and Nishat Linen, opened with upcoming designer Fahad Hussayn.
Fahad Hussayn enthralled the attendees with his unique sense of colours and cuts. Fahad Hussayn couture aims to provide its clients with high end fashion and trousseau clothing. The range focuses on grandeur in terms of designs and aesthetics. The designer presented Trousseau collection, an exquisite couture bridal-wear.


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- Picture of the Month 309 -
Caerleon Scouts
We go back to the 1930's for this month's picture. Here we have Scouts and their supervisor from the 3rd Newport (St Cadocs, Caerleon) who were winners of the Peter Wright Cup at the annual swimming gala. The event involved each member swimming two lengths of Newport Baths in clothes. (Probably explains why they aren't wearing shoes!)
Their supervisor, Bert Butcher (centre) obtained permission for the team to practice in clothes early on Sunday morning at the Bulmore Lido.
The scouts are:
back left Kenny Baulch, back right Eric Wright, Front left Arnold Voss and right John Voss.
Andy Broadwell sent the picture and told us:
1st Caerleon Scout Group are celebrating 90 years of Scouting in Caerleon this year (2009). We have some details of the history over the 90 years, but I (with the help of the Scouts) would like to fill in as many gaps as we can.
Below you will find some pictures and text, relating to Caerleon scouts, sent to us over the last few years.
We start we with a photograph from Steve Wilmot's album. It shows a demonstration of First Aid being carried out by the 3rd. NEWPORT (CAERLEON) Scout Troop. This was part of a pageant held on the Racecourse, on 23rd. May 1959, to celebrate 40 years of scouting in Caerleon. The stretcher bearers are Les Porter and Chris Pember, wearing white coats borrowed from Mr Len Avery, a local butcher!
Steve also sent us a newspaper cutting from the South Wales Argus, Monday May 25 1959, and the pennant (right). Text below:
CAERLEON'S 40 YEARS OF SCOUTING
Forty years of scouting were celebrated in Caerleon on Saturday with a colourful two-hour pageant and display of scout and cub activities.
The celebration was the idea of one man - "Skipper" Reg Greenland, group scoutmaster, who is the only surviving active member of the first Caerleon troop formed in 1919.
He and his two brothers, Ted and Alan Greenland founded the troop after the first world war.
Although his brother later left, Mr. Greenland kept the troop going and apart from a short break has been with the Caerleon Scouts ever since.
He formed a rover crew in 1952 and the following year was appointed group scoutmaster.
"I thought this year would be a good occasion to mark forty years of continuous scouting in Caerleon," he said.
Opening the display Councillor D. Stewart, chairman of Caerleon Council said: "Scouting provides a healthy recreation, good moral guidance and a first-class training for citizenship. We are proud of our scouts in Caerleon."
Sixty scouts and cubs from the 3rd Newport (Caerleon) troop appeared in the pageant and display which depicted all aspects of scouting.
Scouts built a model camp and gave demonstrations of trail-laying, rescue work and bridge building. Films shown included scenes from the 1957 world scout jamboree.
Scouts and cubs from Caerleon troop attended morning service at Caerleon Parish church on Commonwealth Sunday.
Colin Green told us:
I don't know where or when 1st Caerleon came into being, but in 1947 the scouts met in an old wooden scout hut in the allotments opposite the town hall. It was then known as the 3rd Newport. At that time the troop was run by a family ( I cannot remember their name) who lived in the Gas Works House - on Gas Works Lane off the Usk Road.
It is also worth knowing that between 1950 and 1953 the cubs took part in the Newport cubs football league ....For the 3 seasons they won every game and only conceded 1 goal (own goal ).
The following brief history of the Caerleon Troop comes from their website:
"Caerleon Scout Group was formed in 1919. It was initially formed as a joint group, along with the 3rd Newport Scout Group, Sir Garrod's own Scout Troop of Victoria Avenue, Congregational Church, Newport. The group was known as 3rd Newport (St. Cadocs) District. The Butcher family ran both troops with Assistant Scoutmaster, Mr R. Harding and Cub Master, Miss D. Greenland. Another group within Caerleon was known as 1st Caerleon (Lower East Valley District). At the beginning of the war Scouting went into decline and the two Troops joined forces to become one Troop, The 1st Caerleon Scout Group."
Brian Blythe left Caerleon many years ago, but still has happy memories of life in Isca. Here are some of his recollections of the scouts:
Talog Davies, the teacher of the top class in the boys school, was the scout master but he was called up during the war. The scouts tried to carry on and learnt semaphore with flags. We became quite proficient. We could send messages from one end of the hut to the other or even along the street. One day we decided to try it for real and half the troop went up the hill one one side of the river while the rest climbed the other side. We waited and when we saw them our appointed first signaler stood up and started to send a meesage but we could make no sense of the reply. Then someone said " Look there they are over there". The first group was just some walkers waving to us. When we started to send, they were also sending at the same time. When we decided to wait for them to start they also stopped. When we eventually recognised some letters from we found that we must have missed the beginning. At tea time we gave up and went home. We agreed that we needed some special signals. We looked in the book and found some positions of the flags which were not used and agreed that this position meant "I wish to send" and other signs meant , Ready to receive, About to start, Please repeat, Message understood, and so on. We invented new signals when we found them necessary. Many years later I told this story to a Technical College evening class to whom I was teaching computer technology. A computer talks to its printer through a multiple wire cable. The computer connects a six volt supply to one wire which the printer recognises as meaning that the computer wants to send a character. The printer replies by putting a voltage on another wire to mean I am ready to receive. When the computer sees this and not before it sends on another wire that it is about to start and then sends the character. The printer causes a votage to be put on the 'busy line' until it has finished printing the character. This exchange of signals between a computer and any of its peripherals is known as a handshake. There are many different cables and connecting methods each with its own handshake.
The hut was set on the edge of an allotment patch and beyond was a large building which had something to do with the electricity supply.
You can read more of Brian's recollections of Caerleon 1935 - 1950 by following this link.


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Nokia is reportedly considering selling its Vertu branch for luxurious smartphones. According to the Financial Times sources, the Finns are hoping to use the money from selling Vertu to fund their smartphone business, which hasn't been doing so well lately.
The asking price for company is still unclear as Vertu doesn't publish its financial results separately, but evaluation is said to be currently taking place. The Vertu annual revenue is estimated to be somewhere between €200 million and €300 million, which seems like a lot considering the small market niche that Vertu services. Furthermore, the company is said to making a healthy profit each year, though there were no specific numbers mentioned.
Nokia has, reportedly, appointed Goldman Sachs to oversee the sale of its subsidiary. Vertu is said to have attracted quite a lot of interest from private equity groups and luxury goods brands, but talks are still at early stages.
Nokia has declined an official comment on the story, but more info should start coming up as negotiations advance.
How the once great has fallen.
Dude, given the fact that Stephen Elop *IS* a CEO and you're not one, chances are he knows what he's doing at least more than you do!


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Q: Expression Language with CDI not work i have a simple ear file that includes a war. I have only one Named- Bean and one xhtml.
On glassfish all works fine. But on websphere it does not works.
I does not works mean all EL- Tag will be ignored. I can reproduce this in glassfish when i delete my beans.xml in /WEB- INF. I tried to put the beans.xml in every single folder.
And i read this (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1301_stephen/1301_stephen.html):

The beans.xml file must be placed in one of these locations:
      For a library JAR, EJB JAR, application client JAR or RAR archive, it needs to be in the META-INF directory.
      The WEB-INF/classes directory of a WAR.
      For a directory in the JVM classpath containing classes, the code will be scanned if the beans.xml file is located the META-INF sub-directory.

But nothing works. When i use @ManagedBean and Faces Session Scope instead all works fine.
I don't know what i can do else. Please help.
Here my example code and my structures:
XHTML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">
<h:head>

</h:head>

<h:body>
 <h:form id="tableform">
    <h:outputText value="TEST"/>
    <h:outputText value="#{personBean.helloWorld}"/>
    <p:commandButton value="#{personBean.helloWorld}"/>
</h:form>
</h:body>
</html>

Bean:
@Named
@SessionScoped
public class PersonBean implements Serializable{

private String helloWorld;

@PostConstruct
public void init() {
    setHelloWorld("HELLO WORLD");
}

public String getHelloWorld() {
    return helloWorld;
}

public void setHelloWorld(String helloWorld) {
    this.helloWorld = helloWorld;
}
}

Structure:
Ear
-Meta-Inf
--Application.xml
-WAR
--WEB-INF
---beans.xml
But i tried to put it in WEB-INF/classes, META-INF, META-INF from ear. Nothing works. :(
Result on Glassfish with beans.xml:

Result on Websphere / Glassfish without beans.xml:

I get no exception or error or something else.

A: WebSphere 8.x bundles JSF implementation (MyFaces) and only that default implementation works with CDI. You need to have beans.xml in WEB-INF folder.
However based on your page fragment, you are using custom one (PrimeFaces).
Check this page for more details : CDI integration with JavaServer Faces

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Header image by ElStrawFedora on Deviantart.
Pokémon Sun and Moon released today, and the word is no matter which version you choose, they're both excellent. Pokémon and Overwatch have been in the news a lot recently since they both had a huge game launch earlier this year. Last week, Overwatch players got a giant patch that introduced a new character and lots of other modes. This week, Pokémon players will finally get to explore the Alola region and check out some new characters of their own. Coincidentally, today marks the beginning of a free weekend in Overwatch, so those who'd like to check out the new features can do so even if they haven't bought the game.
Back in late May when Pokémon GO and Overwatch were just starting out, I started a series of articles looking into what might happen if these two franchises were to cross over. What Pokémon would the Overwatch agents use against one another? One of Overwatch's strengths is that you can tell a lot about the attitude and background of its heroes just by looking at them. Overwatch and Pokémon have a lot in common, with large pools of diverse, iconic characters. They even form into groups of six to battle other teams!
The rules I set for myself were as follows. Each of Overwatch's heroes will be assigned a group of three Pokémon based on their lore, their abilities, and their personality. No two agents can use the same Pokémon. None of the new Pokémon were available when this was written, so creatures like Mimikyu won't be showing up on anyone's team just yet. I'll explain why the Overwatch character might select these Pokémon, provide analysis of the trainer's team including strengths and weaknesses, and then the characters will battle.
When I initially finished the series, two of the characters that are available now hadn't been released yet. Today I'll be taking a look at these new characters, Ana and Sombra. There's a complete set of these posts for all of the other heroes, including a battle royale that ended with a surprising victor. If you're interested in seeing more like this, you can check out the earlier entries below.
I added quite a bit of crossover artwork I found at the end of the article, so if this subject matter interests you, take a look at the bottom of the page for some work by talented artists on the same topic.
Ana image and the header are both by ElStrawFedora. They've done a whole series of Pokémon/Overwatch crossovers. Check it out!
Reason: Ana is the Overwatch team's sniping support, and uses her Biotic rifle to heal allies and harm enemies. Kingdra and its evolutionary line can all share the Sniper ability, and Kingdra is the strongest of the line. One of Ana's defining characteristics is her age and experience, and you can tell just by looking at Kingdra that it's lived through some tough times. If you try and snipe Pokémon with a real gun though, you're probably doing it wrong.
Reason: Duskull and its evolutionary line all share a design element in that they each have one eye. Ana shares this trait; she hesitated once while on a mission, and it cost her one of her eyes. Ana was one of the original members of the team, but was thought dead and went into hiding when the world turned against Overwatch. She's been on the run ever since, but couldn't stop helping people -- sort of a one-woman A-team. She's referred to by other characters as a ghost, and Dusknoir is one of the strongest Ghost types around. Much like Kingdra, it's the most highly evolved version in its line, implying that it's lived for a while and gained considerable experience. Coincidentally, it takes a Reaper cloth to evolve Dusclops into this final form, and we've seen that Ana has some history with Reaper herself.
Reason: Ana doesn't share fellow oldster Soldier: 76's disdain for new ideas, but has an appreciation for the classics. Kangaskhan was one of the original 150 Pokémon, and it gained the ability to Mega Evolve in the sixth generation. All Kangaskhan are females, and each of them is a mother. Ana wasn't around while her daughter Pharah was growing up, but kept a memento, a holographic photograph, as a reminder. Now that they've reconnected, Ana and Pharah seem to have bonded, just as Kangaskhan forms a Parental Bond with its joey.
Analysis: Ana has a strong team that'll be difficult to overcome. Her complementary Ghost and Normal type Pokémon can deal with almost any situation, and Kingdra's typing means it resists or takes normal damage from everything but Fairy types and other Dragons. All three of her Pokémon have decent defenses and high HP, so she'll be able to take a few hits while assessing the situation, then react accordingly.
Reason: Sombra's best known as a hacker, and her ability in Overwatch disrupts enemy players, keeping them from using their abilities. She's been in hiding for a long time, keeping to the shadows, collecting information and waiting for the most strategically advantageous moment to reveal herself. Rotom's a literal ghost in the machine, a Pokémon that possesses electrical devices and takes them over, sort of like the hackermagic employed by Marcus in Watch Dogs 2. Although Rotom can change its element type and form to one of six, I think Sombra would want her Rotom to stay in Ghost form, ready to assist her in taking over any machinery she needs help with.
Reason: Sombra moves as easily in cyberspace as she does through the real world, a trait she shares with the Porygon evolutionary line. Sombra's origin story shows that she was nearly caught once, which is why she decided to give herself a hardware upgrade. Porygon-Z requires not one but two upgrades from the standard Porygon before attaining its final form. It's a highly evolved digital creature used to working with all sorts of computers, though occasionally it messes up.
Reason: Sombra's moveset in Overwatch includes invisibility, the ability to be in two places at once, and the tools to prevent opposing players from using their abilities. They have more in common than just their shared spiky purple hair, as both Gengar and Sombra love to play combat tricks. Gengar can use Disable and Toxic, and it was depicted in the show and the original games as staying invisible most of the time to aid it in playing pranks on people. The player required a Silph Scope before they could even see any of the ghosts in Lavender town. What's more, Gengar is a highly upgraded form of Gastly, and it requires a fair bit of technology to get one, since you have to trade a Haunter electronically to make it evolve.
Analysis: Ghost types, like Dragons, are super effective against themselves, and Sombra's team may be hurt by having two Ghost types featured so prominently. That said, having Porygon-Z as her support means she may be able to bait out a Ghost move and switch it in to counter, since its Normal type gives it immunity to Ghosts. Rotom's ghost form is weak but has the Levitate ability, meaning it gains a useful immunity to Ground damage. It also has access to lots of combat tricks, and should be able to paralyze and confuse an opponent before it gets taken out. Porygon-Z tends to be underrated and has the stats to tank an attack and return fire with a wide variety of elements. Gengar's Poison type has always been trouble and gives it an unwanted weakness to Psychic moves, but gives it access to Toxic. Fortunately, it also has the Levitate ability, though this changes to Shadow Tag and prevents the opponent from switching their Pokémon out when it evolves to Mega Gengar. Doing this means Gengar will gain a weakness to Ground type moves, so Sombra should make sure the opponent isn't packing any before she triggers the evolution.
With the teams set, these ladies are ready to battle.
Ana's Kingdra is more than a match for Sombra's Rotom, but Rotom uses Confuse Ray as sort of a judo move, causing Kingdra to become confused and hurt itself. Rotom manages to land paralysis on Kingdra as well before Kingdra connects with enough Water moves to take it down. In its weakened state, Kingdra falls quickly to Porygon-Z, and Ana switches in her Dusknoir to counter. Dusknoir can't hit very hard, but has high defenses and is good at stalling while damage over time moves like Will-o-wisp and Curse damage the opponent. Curse cuts Dusknoir's own HP by half when used though, so both Dusknoir and Porygon-Z go down in the same round. It comes down to the final creature for both trainers, and Sombra thinks she has the advantage when she sees Ana throw down Kangaskhan. Her plan is to hit it with Gengar's Toxic and just run out the clock, since Normal types and Ghosts can't usually hit each other. Unfortunately for her, Kangaskhan can learn the Dark type move Crunch, and its Parental Bond means that it hits twice, dealing massive damage before Gengar can Disable it, ending the battle with a win for Ana.
And that's that! There's been a lot more fan art combining these two franchises since I first started writing these, and I thought you might like to see some of the mashups I found while doing research for the article. If you liked this or think one of the trainers should have used a different Pokémon, let me know in the comments.
Mercy's team, by Vy!! Source.
Symmetra and Pikachu by Qichaowang. Source.
Mei's team by Calvanitas. Source.
Bastion's Team by Risachantag. Source.
The following are all by a Korean artist named Han Seok-bum. There's a few more on their page if you like these.
3DROD made this back when Ana first came out, well before Sun and Moon released.
Finally, here's D.vaChu, by Frankie Franco.


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The wrong doctors
By Giles Peaker | Published 13/04/2019 13/04/2019 Leave a comment
R(Al-Ali) v Brent LBC (2018) EWHC 3634 (Admin) (not on Bailii. We have seen a judgment and it is also reported in March 2019 Legal Action Housing: recent developments).
There is, I think little of legal significance in this judicial review permission decision, but there are some helpful hints for anyone thinking of fabricating evidence. The main one being, don't. Just don't.
Mr Al-Ali had applied to Brent as homeless. He asserted that he and members of his household (wife, her two children and uncle) and medical needs and produced letters from doctors.
Brent's investigations made them suspicious, firstly that Mr A-A's wife was not in fact his wife (there is mention of a marriage certificate between her and someone else altogether) and that the medical evidence and letters provided were not entirely genuine.
Brent decided no duty was owed. Mr A-A sought a s.202 review of that decision and continued temporary accommodation pending review. Brent refused to continue temporary accommodation and Mr A-A sought a judicial review of that decision.
It may not surprise you to learn, in view of the following, that Mr A-A's solicitors had withdrawn and come off the record. Mr A-A continued in person. It did not go well.
From the judgment:
For present purposes, what is important is the medical evidence that has been put in on behalf of Mr Jaber Al-Ali. First, he has told me today that Dr Jones is not, in fact, the registered GP of Mrs Salerno. Secondly, he has told me that Dr Jones is not, in fact, the registered GP for Brandon Anderson. Consequently, it seems the letter dated 7 November 2016, at p.26 of the bundle, which says that he has "looked after the above family as their GP for 25 years" is not one that contains reliable information.
Secondly, Mr Jaber Al-Ali has accepted that he altered letters purporting to come from Dr Salmon. He says that he panicked. He says that he changed the date on the letter from Dr Salmon. On any analysis, that means that the letter that was provided would not be reliable, up-to-date evidence.
I pause to note that the defendant has, in fact, contacted the Southmead Practice and the practice manager there has written as follows:
"You are asking for a report re Brandon Anderson, we have Jones, 22.9.1996. He left the practice in 2010 and was never seen here."
That would certainly appear to confirm, as a minimum, the suggestion that the letter altered by Mr Al-Ali was not up-to-date information. It may suggest, but I do not need to resolve that matter, that the contents of the letter, as well as the date of the letter, has been forged.
There is also the medical evidence from Dr Foale. The defendant has contacted Dr Foale. The secretary for Dr Foale has written to them as follows:
"Re Mrs Carmen Salerno. I can confirm Dr Foale has no record, either within the NHS or private sector, of the correspondence post-2016. We would be grateful if now you could let us know the source of this correspondence, which did not arise from Dr Foale's office and which appears to be fraudulent."
Brent's refusal of temporary accommodation was in a letter that was apparently compliant with Regina v Camden London Borough Council, Ex Parte Mohammed (1998) 30 H.L.R. 315.
On Mr A-A's submissions, the court held:
In my judgment, on the basis of all the material before the authority at the time, there is no arguable basis at all for concluding that the defendant was in any way in error in reaching the decision that it did. On the basis of the information before them, the defendant was entitled to form the view that on the merits of the case there was a very strong case that the claimant had, in fact, been seeking housing on the basis of fraudulent information and, as a very minimum, they were entitled to conclude that no proper, valid medical evidence had been put forward to establish even prima facie any case to housing. No new information was provided to them, I have dealt with the new information provided to this court and there are no other circumstances in their view that justifies granting interim accommodation.
In my judgment, there is no arguable basis for saying that decision is in any way legally flawed. I therefore refuse Mr Al-Ali permission to apply for judicial review of the decision of 12 November 2018. As there is no serious issue to be tried, as I have refused permission, there is no basis for granting any interim relief. I therefore refuse the application by Mr Al-Ali that an order be granted requiring the authority to continue to provide accommodation until the end of January 2019.
The application was certified as totally without merit and Mr A-A ordered to pay costs of £3,620.35
Although the court set out its very strong disapproval of Mr A-A altering letters and getting someone to say that they were a person's GP when they weren't, an extended civil restraint order was not made, in the hope that Mr A-A had learned his lesson.
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Readers: Proclaimers of God's Word
Readers are called to serve the whole community by proclaiming God's Word at Mass and other liturgical services so that all can hear and understand clearly; spoken in such a way that holds everyone's attention. To perform this sacred duty requires a desire to know God through scripture. A reader should be very familiar and comfortable with reading scripture and be willing to practice all readings as assigned and attend formation workshops.
In proclaiming the Word of God, readers exercise their responsibility in the liturgical celebration. God speaks to the faithful through them, and the effectiveness of their proclamation depends on their conviction, preparation, and delivery. (Introduction to the Order of the Mass, pg 10)
The faithful, by hearing the readings from the sacred texts, may conceive in their hearts a sweet and living affection for Sacred Scripture. (Constitution of Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 24)
The scriptural readings include a variety of literary forms to convey the message of salvation: ranging, for example, from narratives and the poetry of the psalms to prophetic oracles and parables, from theological expositions to apocalyptic visions. An awareness of the literary form of a particular reading or psalm and a knowledge of the sacred author's style enables the lector to proclaim more fully and with greater understanding the tone and content of the text. (Introduction to the Order of the Mass, pg 10)
What I tell My Altar Servers by Fr. Dwight Longnecker
John Bechmans: Patron Saint of Altar Servers
Altar servers are a vital part of the liturgical ministry, because altar they not only perform a functional role, but more importantly, a symbolic one... and symbolism is the language of worship. Their actions in the Mass are symbolic of much more than you think and the way they serve can lead people closer to God. In short, the role of the Altar Server is to assist the Priest in the celebration of the liturgy during Mass. Some of the Altar Server responsibilities include:
Caring for the altar candles
Bearing the cross and candles in the entrance procession
Assisting with holy water, water, wine and offertory gifts at Mass
Assist the priest celebrant and deacon as necessary.
All children grades 3 and up who have received their First Communion are eligible to become altar servers. If you are interested in becoming an Altar Server, please contact the parish office.
It is the responsibility of the EME's to assist the ordinary ministers (Bishop, Priest or Deacon) with the distribution of communion to the congregation during Masses and other Eucharistic celebrations. They also can be trained to bring the Eucharist to the homebound and those who reside in other healthcare facilities. To be an EME, one must be baptized and confirmed members of our faith community who have receive their First Eucharist, Confirmation, and are a person of prayer. Most importantly, you must have a love of the Eucharist. All EME's are appointed by the Pastor of the parish.
With large number of the faithful receiving Holy Communion, the priest celebrant may need assistance in distributing Holy Communion, so that the rite is not unduly long. (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, No. 281)
All ministers of Holy Communion should show their greatest reverence for the Most Holy Eucharist by their demeanor, their attire, and the manner in which they handle the consecrated bread or wine.
Prayer and a love of the Eucharist are essential aspects for each minister.
EHMC also serve the unity of the worshipping community by taking Holy Communion to those members who are prevented by sickness, old age or other cause from taking part in the congregation.
"Since the Eucharistic Celebration is the Paschal Banquet, it is desirable that in keeping with the Lord's command, his Body and Blood should be received as spiritual food by the faithful who are properly disposed. (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, No. 8)
EMHC serve a parish terms of 3 years and can be renewed.
Adult Sacristans
The Sacristan is an important part of a successful Liturgy team. The Sacristan prepares the Sacred Vessels and the Altar before the Mass. Our Adult Altar servers, usually our Sacristan, serve primarily at our daily and funeral Masses.
Ushers/Sextons
Although St. John and St. Margaret uses the term usher, and St. Mary uses the term sexton, the responsibilities are the same. These individuals are an extremely important part of our community. They serve as the 'front line' of our liturgical celebrations, and provide the very important first impression to those entering our house of worship. It is the goal of our ushers and sextons to help maintain and improve the church-going experience for not only our regular parishioners, but those who are visitors among us.


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Smarter Living|Getting to Appreciate the Unloved Turn Signal
Smarter Driving
Getting to Appreciate the Unloved Turn Signal
They help avoid accidents and just make the roads so much safer, but drivers say they have their reasons for not bothering. What's your excuse?
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By Norman Mayersohn
Around the poker table, the last thing you want is to let anyone know how you'll play your hand. On the road, it's just the opposite: Everyone around you should get fair warning of your intentions.
If only drivers followed that practice rigorously. For one thing, there might be less fist-shaking by drivers and bicyclists cut off by thoughtless lane-changers. And fewer tickets as well.
Last year, the New York State Police issued 15,127 tickets for violations of the state's section 1163 law, including failure to signal, not signaling at least 100 feet before making a turn or misusing a signal. It's no small matter: New York will also award you two points on your driver's license.
Drivers whose livelihood entails hustling eighteen-wheelers on the highway regularly cite the lack of turn-signal discipline as a pet peeve.
"Please use your turn signals; that is the only way that we know what you are going to do," a trucker from Michigan told The Times in 2017.
Truckers' Message for You: Chill Out, Stop Texting, and Have Respect
A trucker from Ohio pleaded, "B-L-I-N-K-E-R! Please please please. The blinker is the most powerful tool on the road. Not enough drivers use it. If and when it is used properly, it can save lives and avoid accidents!"
No wonder truckers are irritated. A 2012 Society of Automotive Engineers study based on observing the actions of 12,000 drivers on public roads found that nearly half neglected to signal before making a lane change.
The benefits of signaling are obvious, and the simple finger flip that turns them on takes a fraction of the effort of another common automotive no-no: thumbing out a text message. Failure to signal is an inconsiderate act that makes the roads less safe, causing panic braking, sudden swerves and fender-benders or worse. The few seconds advance notice of an impending maneuver that a turn signal gives other drivers are often enough to avoid such mayhem.
According to the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research, an affiliate of the State University of New York, in 2018 there were 542 crashes in the state where turn signal violations were a contributing factor.
So what's the problem here? Why don't many drivers take this simple safety precaution? When asked about their bad habits in a national study, their explanations seemed confounding.
The study by Response Insurance of Meriden, Conn., found that 42 percent of drivers claimed they didn't have enough time to signal before turning. Nearly a quarter of drivers blamed laziness, while 17 percent said they skipped signaling because they were apt to forget to cancel the blinkers. Worth noting: Men admitted that they were more likely, by 62 percent to 53 percent, to change lanes without signaling.
Is it that some drivers just don't care about the other guy? If that's the case, consider this: There is evidence that the act of signaling provides a cognitive benefit to the driver.
"When you turn on the turn signal, you're turning on your brain," said Chris Kaufmann, a driving school instructor who specializes in teaching people who drive V.I.P.s.
Mr. Kaufmann, a former Los Angeles Metro police officer who also conducts firearms training, which he said demands a level of focus and concentration similar to safe driving, equates the act of clicking the blinkers to declaring intentions to yourself.
"It's the start of a checklist to look left, look right, signal, look left, look right," he said in a telephone interview. That level of mindfulness, Mr. Kaufmann said, can reduce the possibility of an unintentional gaffe — what could be considered an honest mistake that may have serious consequences.
So not only do the blinking lights alert other drivers, but the touch on the turn signal stalk also tells the driver to prepare for the unexpected — for example, a car suddenly squeezing into the gap where you planned to merge.
Turn-signal nirvana may not arrive until autonomous cars do, when drivers have been removed from the decisions. Experts at companies developing self-driving technology said that the capacity to trigger the appropriate signals when turning or changing lanes would be part of any fully autonomous driving package. The same applies to responding to the turn signals of other cars. Laziness will not be a factor.
The transition to an autonomous future has already begun, and more fully autonomous cars will eventually be sharing the road with less-precise human drivers. The ones, you know, who don't signal.
Would autonomous vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence and hyper-speed computers be able to anticipate the moves of those drivers? How will an autonomous car following all of the rules interact with cars that follow only some?
That's tough to say, as predicting the actions of human drivers is one of the greatest challenges in computer science. The outlook for a zero-collision future is uncertain so long as there's a mix of cars on the road driven by people who think they have legitimate reasons for not doing the right thing and cars that are programmed with no excuses.
Smarter Driving is a new series all about how to buy, own, drive and maintain your car better. Have something you'd like us to cover? Reach out to Smarter Driving's editor, James Schembari, at jimschem@nytimes.com.
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Исламская культура () — многогранный термин, который в узком смысле обозначает средневековую культуру и традиции подвергнутых исламизации стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока, Средней Азии, Северо-Западной Индии, Северной Африки и Юго-Западной Европы. В более широкой интерпретации — классическая и современная культура исповедующих ислам народов, которые проживают на территории его распространения. «В обоих смыслах (особенно во втором) она является довольно условным понятием, нередко — результатом отождествления религии и культуры».

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Известный историк ислама Маршалл Ходжсон в своём трёхтомном исследовании «История ислама: Исламская цивилизация от рождения до наших дней» отметил трудность религиозного использования слов «ислам» и «мусульманин», в отличие от их академического применения. Он предложил использовать эти слова только для чисто религиозных явлений, а в качестве обозначения всех культурологических аспектов мусульманских народов предложил использовать термин «исламский мир». Однако его определение не было принято и путаница в этих терминах существует до сих пор.

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Natalia López Gallardo (* 1980 in La Paz) ist eine mexikanisch-bolivianische Filmeditorin, Filmregisseurin, Drehbuchautorin und Schauspielerin.

Leben und Werk
Nach einem Filmstudium in Mexiko begann Natalia López ab Mitte der 2000er-Jahre als Filmeditorin in Erscheinung zu treten. Ihre erste Arbeit war der Schnitt an dem preisgekrönten argentinischen Dokumentarfilm La palomilla salvaje von Gustavo Gamou (2006). Im selben Jahr gab sie ihr Debüt als Filmregisseurin und Drehbuchautorin mit dem 20-minütigen Kurzfilm En el cielo como en la tierra (internationaler Titel: In Heaven like in Earth). Das Werk um zwei von ihren Müttern verlassene Jugendliche, die zueinander finden, brachte López Preise in Mexiko sowie Einladungen zu internationalen Filmfestivals ein. Im Jahr 2007 wurde En el cielo como en la tierra unter anderem in der Nebensektion Semaine de la critique des 60. Filmfestivals von Cannes gezeigt.

Nach der ersten Erfahrung als Filmemacherin konzentrierte sich López auf ihre Karriere als Filmeditorin. So schnitt sie die preisgekrönten Spielfilme Stellet Licht (2007) und Post tenebras lux (2012) des mexikanischen Regisseurs Carlos Reygadas, den sie auch ehelichte. Zu ihren weiteren Arbeiten im lateinamerikanischen Kino gehören der Dokumentarfilm Havanyork von Luciano Larobina und die preisgekrönten Spielfilme Heli (2013) von Amat Escalante und Jauja von Lisandro Alonso (2014). Für ihre Leistung an Stellet Licht und Heli wurde López jeweils für den mexikanischen Filmpreis Premio Ariel nominiert.

Unter Ehemann Reygadas gab López in dem Spielfilm Unsere Zeit (2018) ihr Debüt als Schauspielerin. Darin war sie als Ehefrau eines mexikanischen Stierzüchters (dargestellt von Reygadas) zu sehen, die sich nach Eigenständigkeit und Selbstbestimmung sehnt und eine Affäre mit einem US-Amerikaner eingeht.

Im Jahr 2022 stellte López mit Robe of Gems ihr Langfilmdebüt als Regisseurin, Drehbuchautorin und Filmproduzentin fertig. Das Spielfilmdrama stellt drei Frauen in den Mittelpunkt (dargestellt von Nailea Norvind, Antonia Olivares und Aida Roa), die direkt oder indirekt mit dem lokalen Drogenhandel in Konflikt geraten. Robe of Gems erhielt im Jahr seiner Veröffentlichung eine Einladung in den Wettbewerb der 72. Internationalen Filmfestspiele Berlin, wo die Wettbewerbsjury um M. Night Shyamalan López den Silbernen Bären – Preis der Jury zuerkannte.

Aus der Ehe mit Carlos Reygadas gingen die beiden gemeinsamen Kinder Rut und Eleazar hervor. Beide übernahmen Schauspielrollen in den Filmen ihres Vaters (Post tenebras lux und Unsere Zeit). Daneben leitet sie das Postproduktionsstudio Splendor Omnia in der Nähe von Mexiko-Stadt.

Filmografie
Filmeditorin
 2006: La palomilla salvaje (Dokumentarfilm)
 2006: En el cielo como en la tierra (Kurzfilm)
 2007: Es muy fácil (Kurzfilm)
 2007: Stellet Licht
 2009: Havanyork (Dokumentarfilm)
 2012: Post tenebras lux
 2013: Heli
 2014: Jauja
 2016: Las tinieblas
 2022: Robe of Gems

Regie und Drehbuch
 2006: En el cielo como en la tierra (Kurzfilm)
 2022: Robe of Gems (auch Produktion)

Schauspielerin
 2018: Unsere Zeit (Nuestro Tiempo)

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)

 2006: 3. Platz beim Internationalen Studentenfilmfestival Fresh Film Fest (En el cielo como en la tierra)
 2006: Bester Video-Kurzfilm beim mexikanischen Kurzfilmfestival (En el cielo como en la tierra)
 2006: Bester Experimental-Kurzfilm beim Festival Internacional De Cine De Morelia (En el cielo como en la tierra)
 2008: Nominierung für den Premio Ariel für den besten Schnitt (Stellet Licht)
 2014: Nominierung für den Premio Ariel für den besten Schnitt (Heli)
 2014: Nominierung für den Premio Fénix für den besten Schnitt (jeweils für Heli und Jauja)
 2022: Silberner Bär – Preis der Jury der 72. Berlinale (Robe of Gems)

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Filmeditor
Drehbuchautor
Filmregisseur
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Filmproduzent
Mexikaner
Bolivianer
Geboren 1980
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Department for Education written question – answered on 18th October 2021.
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Matthew Offord Conservative, Hendon
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensue that Muslims can access student finance.
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Michelle Donelan Minister of State (Department for Education) (Higher and Further Education)
The government understands the concerns held by some Muslim students and their families about student finance. The department have been carefully considering an alternative student finance product, alongside wider reforms to the higher education system, and an update will be provided alongside the conclusion to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding. The interim conclusion of the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding was published on 21 January 2021, and we will conclude the Review in full at a future date.
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I am not a football fan. But hearing about such a young man who has a whole life ahead of him is such a loss to this family and friends and the world in general. rest in peace sir. my heart felt condolences to all who knew him.
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So sorry for the loss of your beloved Brandon, he will be missed. God bless 🙏 the family, relatives, football family and all who care about Brandon.
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Prayers are with his whole family.
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He was a great football player..My thoughts and prayers go out to his family,friends and fans. Godspeed big B..
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The Savoy Theater (next to the Savoy Hotel, both named for Savoy Manor, which once stood on the site on the Strand in London) was destroyed by fire. Happily, the theater was rebuilt and opened again in 1993, where a revived D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performs from time to time.
In 1983, the Board changed the name from the Maynard Savoyards to the Savoyard Light Opera Company (SLOC), recognizing that they derived their players and audiences not only from the Maynard area but also from all of eastern Massachusetts, and anticipating the possibility the group might wish to depart from the strict canon of G&S operettas, thus infusing new blood and new musical versatility and attracting new audience members.
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The Company espouses the ambition to produce shows of near professional quality, featuring full orchestra. We produce one show a year and auditions are required of all performers, including the ensemble. The Company has been fortunate in attracting some of the best talent in the area.


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RIVALRY: FSU Wins Fourth Straight over Florida, 31-13
By TBSD Staff
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher improved to 17-1 all-time against teams from the Sunshine State on Saturday night with a 31-13 win against No. 15 Florida.
Fisher is now 6-1 just against the Gators — including four wins in a row versus Florida.
"It feels great (to get the win), but I ignore all the rumors. I ignore it and move on. I love Florida State, love what we're doing and I think we can do it for a long time," Fisher said. "When you're successful, people (mention your name for other jobs). It's just part of it. I love the hell out of it (here), and I've been upfront and honest with everyone the whole time."
No. 14 Florida State's regular season ended with its fourth straight win, and the Seminoles will now await their bowl-game pairing. But the Gators' year isn't over; they'll play for the SEC Championship in Atlanta next week against No. 1 Alabama.
Seminoles running back Dalvin Cook made a late Heisman Trophy push with 26 carries for 153 yards and one score in the win, becoming the school's career touchdown leader one week after he broke the Seminoles' all-time rushing record. The junior, who is expected to jump to the NFL after this season, received a huge standing ovation from the home crowd late in the fourth quarter in what was likely his final game in Tallahassee.
"No. 4 …" Fisher said of Cook before pausing for several seconds and then adding: "I mean, wow. I'm blessed to coach him. You see the player, you see the toughness, but don't forget about his selflessness, his leadership. I don't know what else to say about him. Just outstanding. What a dadgum football player and person."
When Cook was asked whether he'd played his final game at Doak Campbell Stadium, he simply smiled and said, "I can't answer that. We enjoyed our year, man. Now we just need to go finish it the right way."
The Seminoles led 10-6 midway through the third quarter of a tight game when Florida State quarterback Deondre Francois gave his team some breathing room with a 46-yard touchdown pass to receiver Travis Rudolph.
The Seminoles' very next drive also ended with a touchdown, this time a 27-yard run from fullback Freddie Stevenson with 12:51 left in the fourth quarter to put Florida State comfortably ahead 24-6.
"He led us and made some plays and kept his poise," Fisher said of Francois. "For a young player, in the magnitude of a game like that against Florida, to keep your poise is hard. You have no idea for a quarterback how hard that is to do."
Francois — the top-rated rookie quarterback in FBS — finished 15 of 26 for 138 yards, one touchdown passing and another score rushing, the latter touchdown coming with one minute left to play to seal the win. Rudolph led the Seminoles' receiving attack with four catches for 63 yards.
For the second straight year, the Gators — who were 0-for-12 on third-down conversions Saturday — failed to score an offensive touchdown in their meeting with the Seminoles. Florida lost last year's game 27-2 in Gainesville.
The lone Florida offensive points Saturday night came from two field goals by kicker Eddy Pinerio — one in the first half, one in the second. The Gators' only touchdown Saturday was the result of a scoop-and-score by defensive back Marcell Harris on a fumbled Florida State punt return early in the fourth quarter.
"We couldn't block. We couldn't protect, but I'm proud of those guys in that locker room. This hurts," Florida head coach Jim McElwain, who was asked if he was concerned about Alabama. "We'll get home about 3 in the morning probably. I don't know whether they'll come back or not. It's going to be a heck of a test. … Yeah, I'm concerned. These guys have been through a ton now and they played their tails off today and it hurts, but you know, as a competitor you tear off the rearview mirror and you go forward. Our team will be ready. I have no idea what kind of question that was, but to question that locker room right there and those players."
The Florida State defense held Florida to 207 total yards of offense, and Gators quarterback Austin Appleby struggled to a season-low 149 yards passing.
"I know this Gator team. I know this Gator offense," Appleby said. "(This loss) stung. But we're gonna come back."
Florida State added to its FBS-leading sack total with six more Saturday night, including two from defensive lineman DeMarcus Walker, who now leads the nation with 15 on the season. Linebackers Matthew Thomas and Josh Sweat led the Seminoles' defense with seven tackles each.
Florida had a chance to deliver the first blow in the 61st edition of the Sunshine State rivalry Saturday night, driving all the way down to the Seminoles' 2-yard line on the opening possession before falling short on third down and facing a fourth and goal.
But rather than take an easy try at a 19-yard field goal and the first points of the game, McElwain opted to go for it. Appleby's pass attempt, however, was incomplete, turning the ball over on downs to Florida State.
The Seminoles looked to be on their way to taking advantage of the early mistake, driving 61 yards on their opening march to Florida's 33-yard line. But when the drive stalled, Florida State tried a 50-yard field-goal attempt, which was missed badly by kicker Ricky Aguayo.
Florida took over, but two plays later, Appleby was strip-sacked by Sweat and Walker recovered. Two plays after that, Cook and the Seminoles hit pay dirt with a 17-yard rushing touchdown to go ahead 7-0 with 4:40 left in the first quarter.
The score was Cook's 45th career touchdown at Florida State, breaking the school record of 44 held by former running back Greg Allen (1983).
Aguayo redeemed himself on Florida State's third drive by hitting a 22-yarder to put Florida State up 10-0 with 13 seconds gone in the second quarter.
The Gators finally got on the board with 8:19 left in the second quarter after a 16-play, 54-yard drive was capped by a 38-yard field goal from Pinerio to trim Florida State's lead to 10-3.
Aguayo had a chance to make it 13-3 with under a minute left before halftime, but his 44-yard field-goal attempt was blocked, sending the Seminoles to the locker room ahead by seven. Aguayo was benched after that miss and backup kicker Logan Tyler handled kicking duties the remainder of the game.
"Jimbo Fisher's put a hell of a program together," McElwain said. "He's got some really good players and they play the game the way it should be. My hat's off to what he has done here and what he has built."
GAME NOTES: Florida State lost a Seminoles legend this week when former two-time All-America defensive back Monk Bonasorte died after a long battle with brain cancer. Bonasorte, who served as the school's senior associate athletic director, was honored with his No. 42 jersey in two ways Saturday night: The hash marks at the 42-yard line on both sides of the field were painted black, and Florida State players work "MB42" decals on their helmets. In Bonasorte's final game against Florida in 1980, he was key in the Seminoles' 17-13 win with nine tackles and three pass breakups. … Florida, which still has one game left in the SEC Championship next week against Alabama, is the lowest-ranked defending SEC champion since the conference created a title game in 1992. The Gators were ranked No. 23 when they clinched the SEC East title with a 16-10 win against LSU last week. … Florida State sophomore running back Dalvin Cook was named a finalist for the Doak Walker Award this week — an honor given to the nation's best running back. Florida State has never had a Doak Walker Award winner. Cook came into Saturday with 4,166 career rushing yards and is the school's first 4,000-yard rusher. … The announced attendance for Saturday night's game was 78,342.
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