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Kuwait records world's highest temperature this week
The temperature in the region of Mitribah touched 51.4 degree celsius on Tuesday
by Aarti Nagraj
Kuwait has recorded the world's highest temperature in the last 24 hours, with the northern region of Mitribah seeing highs of 51.4 degree celsius on Tuesday, according to world weather website El Dorado.
While Kuwaiti media reports quoted a Saudi astronomer as stating that the temperature hit 52.2 degree in Mitribah on Saturday, the data from El Dorado found Tuesday's temperature to be the highest so far.
Four other regions from Kuwait also featured among the 15 regions worldwide with the highest temperatures including Sulaibiya (50.9 degrees) coming second, Jahra (50 degrees) in the sixth place, Abdaly (49.6 degrees) in the ninth position, Kuwait International airport (49.5 degrees) in the 12th spot.
Mitribah currently holds the joint record for the highest-ever recorded temperature on earth at 54 degrees celsius recorded on July 21, 2016.
Read: Revealed: The highest temperatures ever witnessed in the GCC
The country is currently studying a draft law that will permit government departments in charge of public work to operate in the evening hours due to the soaring temperatures, Kuwaiti media reported.
MP Faisal Al Kandari submitted the draft legislation earlier this week, which recommends that government offices, especially those dealing with the public, must work from 5pm to 10pm in the summer months.
It also states that evening timings should be place from June 1 until the end of August, when temperature reach around 50 degrees celsius in the country.
The bill has to be passed by the National Assembly and the government to become a law, Kuwait Times reported.
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Austin Has One Snow Truck For Every 47,000 Residents
By Nathan Bernier • Feb 3, 2011
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An ice or snow storm that wouldn't even slow a northeastern city can cripple Austin, as it did in 2007. Our highway overpasses stretch into the sky, making them easily ice over when temperatures drop. And because it snows so infrequently, we don't have a legion of trucks ready to clear the streets.
"We have three sand trucks on standby right now, with another twelve available, if necessary," City of Austin spokesman David Matustik told KUT News. That amounts to about one truck for every 47,000 Austin residents.
City: No Power Outages Expected Today, But Just in Case Find Austin Energy's Map Here
By Crystal Chavez, KUT News • Feb 3, 2011
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**Update @ 7: 20 a.m.: ERCOT says the state's grid condition is improving but it's still urging people to conserve energy, especially before 9 a.m. From the press release: "Although immediate concerns for the possibility of rotating outages this morning are reduced, ERCOT will be monitoring the grid closely because additional unexpected major losses of generation could force operators to begin emergency procedures to avoid an uncontrolled statewide blackout."
School Delays February 3, 2011
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*updated 7:25 a.m. for weather conditions*
The Austin Independent School District will hold classes as usual at their regular start times . UT Austin and St. Edwards University will be operating as normal. All Austin Community College campuses will also be open today and on a regular schedule. That includes the Rio Grande Campus. .. . . . .
A wind chill advisory is in effect until 11 a.m. And a winter weather advisory is in effect from tonight at 6 until Friday at noon. The cold weather has prompted some Central Texas schools to delay classes Thursday.
Texas Grid Still 5,000 Megawatts Short, More Rolling Outages Possible Tonight And Tomorrow
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The periodic power outages mandated by the state's power grid operator could continue this evening and tomorrow.
"The grid continues to have more than 5,000 megawatts of generation out of service due to the effect of the extreme cold," the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said in a statement.
Fifty power generation units across the state stopped working overnight, ERCOT said, leading to an initial 7,000 megawatt loss of generation capacity. ERCOT said it was prohibited by market regulations from revealing which power plants they were.
Mayor Lee Leffingwell stressed at a late afternoon news conference today that Austin Energy was not among them.
How Are You Dealing With The Cold?
KUT News sent out interns Mario Carrillo and Liang Shi to ask people how they're dealing with the frigid winter weather. Let us know how you're coping in the comments section!
Austin Energy Says Rolling Outages Are Over...For Now
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Updated at 5:27 pm: Rolling outages implemented by the state's energy regulator are over, but the state's energy regulator is warning people that emergency outages could return. About 7,000 megawatts of generating capacity went offline last night due to cold weather. The Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked local utilities to draw down their consumption to help distribute the load, leading to rolling power outages across the state.
"ERCOT has issued a notice that rotating outages are no longer needed at this time; however, there is a strong possibility that they will be required again this evening or tomorrow, depending on how quickly the disabled generation units can be returned to service," ERCOT's Dottie Roark said in an email. "Energy conservation is still critical during peak demand hours this evening between 6 and 10 pm. "
Now that rolling outages are over, Austin Energy crews are able to address lingering isolated outages. If your power is still out, call 322-9100. Here's an Austin Energy map showing power outages across town.
Cold Weather Causes Rolling Power Outages Across Texas
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Cold weather caused about 50 generators to die across Texas overnight, reducing capacity by 7,000 megawatts and prompting the state agency responsible for managing power to request local utilities institute rolling power outages.
Capacity is slowly coming back online. KUT News is following the latest developments on this story.
Do you have any pictures that show the cold weather or how the power outages have affected you? Please email them to news@kut.org, or tell us your story in the comments below.
As Cold Grips Austin, Meals on Wheels Reaches Out to Clients
By Mose Buchele, KUT • Feb 2, 2011
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With Austin in the midst of an uncommon cold spell, and rolling blackouts striking parts of Central Texas, Meals on Wheels and More is calling clients to ensure that they won't be trapped in the cold.
"We'll just call [clients] and ask them how they're doing, how their homes are being affect by the temperatures, if they're feeling OK, if they need anything," Sarah Andrews with Meals on Wheels and More told KUT.
Andrews said that a lot of people receiving food are "elderly" or have "critical health needs."
Texas Power Outages Caused By 7,000 Megawatts Going Offline
More than fifty electricity generation units stopped working overnight because of severe weather, reducing capacity by 7,000 megawatts and leading to the rolling power outages across Texas today.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has asked utilities and transmission providers like Austin Energy to implement the rolling power outage underway now.
Here Is Where You Can Find Information on Power Outages In Austin
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We linked to it in an earlier post, but we want to make it as clear as possible about where to find this information. Austin Energy provides data on power outages through its Customer Outage Portal.
Top Morning Stories February 2, 2011
Statewide Power "Emergency" Means Rolling Power Outages in Austin
You may be wondering why your lights are out this morning. Austin Energy is doing rotating cut offs. The state's power grid operator ERCOT is requiring this. The state's power grid couldn't keep up with demand early this morning because some power plants went offline. Austin Energy says the lights are expected to be out for about 45 minutes at a time in certain neighborhoods.
Austin Film Festival and Texas Book Festival Come Together in 2011
By Kenn Zuniga • Feb 1, 2011
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Aficionados of books and film will have a golden opportunity to meet authors and screenwriters at the same time throughout the year and culminating in a joint festival this fall. The Austin Film Festival (AFF) will run October 20-27 in conjunction with the Texas Book Festival (TBF) October 22-23. Barbara Morgan, Executive Director of the Austin Film Festival, says both nonprofit organizations will benefit writers in the Austin community.
Homeless Feel the Chill
By Ian Crawford, KUT News • Feb 1, 2011
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The City of Austin has activated its emergency cold weather plan for the homeless. City officials say the program will remain up and running for the duration of the frosty weather, which could last into Friday morning.
The city's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management says those needing shelter should report to the ARCH or the Salvation Army downtown. Busses will then transport shelter seekers to other warm places to bed down for the night.
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Austin Power Outages
It's a windy, rainy morning as a cold front moves through Central Texas. A wind advisory is in effect until 6 p.m. Highs will only reach the mid 30s today. Over 2,000 Austin Energy customers were without power as of about 8 a.m. That's according to Austin Energy's Storm Map. The outages are spread out across the city. Crews are working to restore power.
Egyptian ACC Professor Watching Unrest With Concern And Hope
By Nathan Bernier • Jan 31, 2011
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Egyptian cities are bracing for major protests Tuesday as revolutionaries demand the ouster of that country's longstanding military dictatorship. KUT News has been speaking with Egyptians in Austin since the turmoil began. Today, we spoke by telephone with Austin Community College professor Roy Casagranda. He grew up in Egypt and still has family in Cairo.
59 Percent Of Austin's Inner City Residents Don't Live Near Park
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Austin is a long way from achieving a goal set in 2009 of having a park within walking distance of everyone in the city. Fifty-nine percent of inner city residents do not live near those kind of open space amenities, according to the city's Urban Parks Stakeholders Group (UPSG).
The UPSG made this presentation to the City of Austin's Planning Commission last week, and it included some stark comparisons.
Top Morning Stories January 31, 2011
By Crystal Chavez, KUT News • Jan 31, 2011
Texas Schools Calling Out to State Lawmakers
School districts across the state are planning to lay off teachers and considering school closures. Districts say they're left with few options as the state proposes to cut back billions of dollars in public education spending. Today superintendents and school board members from across the state are meeting at Austin's Convention Center.
Sunday Morning Update for January 30, 2011
By Ian Crawford, KUT News • Jan 30, 2011
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Enjoy today's warm weather, because temperatures are supposed to take a nasty, cold turn by midweek. The high this afternoon is forecast to be in the mid 70s, but an
Liz Carpenter Fountain Closes Till May 2011
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The Liz Carpenter Fountain in Butler Park will be closed for the next few months, as work begins on upgrading it. The City of Austin is making more than a million dollars worth of improvements to the fountain's filtration system.
Higher-than-expected use caused the system to shut down in the past, leading to potentially unhealthy levels of bacteria in the water. Work is expected to be finish on the fountain by May.
APD Says 39 Pounds Of Marijuana Sent By US Mail To 2 Austin Addresses
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Police say they seized 39 pounds of "high quality" marijuana that was shipped to two separate addresses in Austin. The bust was conducted by an APD K-9 unit, an APD SWAT team, and United States Postal Inspectors. You can see a slideshow of the alleged haul below.
Construction Worker Who Died In South Austin Was On "Makeshift" Scaffolding
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A 35-year-old man who died this week on a construction site in South Austin was working on a "makeshift" scaffolding, according to the Austin Police Department. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened an investigation into the accident at the Village on Little Texas.
Photo courtesy of the City of Austin.
City Green Lights Mobility Projects
Remember that transportation bond voters approved back in November? The Austin City Council has approved the first two projects from the $90 million dollar 2010 Mobility Bond.
Texas Senate Approves Voter ID
Senate Approves Voter ID
The Texas Senate passed controversial voter ID legislation last night. The Senate speedily passed the bill that Democrats had blocked in previous sessions. As expected, the vote came down along party lines.
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Senate Committee OKs Voter ID
For the third consecutive session, Texas GOP members are trying to get a Voter ID bill through the Senate. A Committee of the Whole Tuesday voted in favor of the bill, which would require voters to show photo ID, such as a driver's license, military ID, personal ID card, or passport, before voting.
Texas Senate Releases Its Draft Budget Proposal
First the House, now the Senate has released its projected cuts. The Texas Senate released its first draft state budget proposal yesterday, following the House's first draft budget released last week. It's $2.3 billion bigger than the House proposal at $158.7 billion.
Bull Creek Park Meeting Tonight
City officials will hold a public meeting tonight to discuss the future of Bull Creek District Park and get input from the community about that future. The meeting is set for 5:30 p.m. at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 Water St.
Sunday Morning Brief
By Ben Philpott, KUT • Jan 23, 2011
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Good morning from the KUT Newsroom. We hope the high cedar and mold counts don't have you feeling like us (nothing like going through a box of tissue first thing in the morning). Anyway...plenty of news to pass along this morning.
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Your Last Chance To Enjoy Barton Springs Pool Until March 12, 2011
With temperatures barely breaking into the 60s this weekend, a dip in Barton Springs Pool might not be the first thing on your mind. But it will be your last chance to enjoy the swimming hole until mid-March.
Opponents Of Proposed Disc Golf Course Produce Video Tour Of Site
This is a video produced by opponents of a proposed disc golf course at Roy Guerrero Colorado River Park in South East Austin. The video is intended to advance one side of the argument, but it still gives you an idea of what the area looks like.
For unbiased reporting on the city's plans, check out some of KUT's coverage here and here.
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Europol Arrests Criminals that Impersonated Crypto Exchanges
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) announced in a press release that it has detained six individuals that were involved in a $27 million crypto scam.
The release states that Europol worked together with two U.K.-based law enforcement agencies, the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit. The investigation also involved collaboration with the Dutch police and Eurojust, an E.U.-led judicial agency.
According to Europol, the crypto scammers were five men and a woman and were operating from the Netherlands and the U.K., committing the fraud by typosquatting. Typosquatting involves setting up fake websites which pose as legitimate ones in order to scam people.
"The five men and one woman were arrested in simultaneous warrants this morning at their homes in Charlcombe, Lower Weston and Staverton (UK) and Amsterdam and Rotterdam (the Netherlands)."
By mimicking legitimate websites, users unsuspectingly log into the site, with the attackers taking their credentials and entering into their original account to get their funds.
"The investigation relates to typosquatting, where a well-known online cryptocurrency exchange was 'spoofed' – or recreated to imitate the genuine site – to gain access to victims' Bitcoin wallets, stealing their funds and login details."
Europol explained that the criminals got the victim's login details by using fake domains. After they got their hands on the login info, they would then access the wallet and steal all the funds. It has been estimated that through this method, $27 million worth of cryptocurrency were stolen from 4,000 victims across 12 countries.
"The theft, which targeted users' Bitcoin tokens, is believed to have affected at least 4 000 victims in 12 countries, with the numbers continuing to grow."
Scammers usually target URLs that have a high traffic of users that sign in to that particular site. And websites that hold a large number of assets, such as crypto exchanges or banks, are constantly targeted because of this.


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Santa María de Melque
San Martín de Montalbán, Spain
This ancient Visigothic church might hide an ancient treasure.
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Santa Maria de Melque was an important monastic complex following the fall of the City of Rome. It was close to the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom in Toledo. It was also believed to be the hiding spot of King Solomon's famous treasure.
There was once a Roman farm with five dams that took advantage of two streams that surround the rocky mound. The use of unmortared granite blocks to construct the monastery are a reflection of the region's late Roman period.
The construction of Santa Maria de Melque began during the 7th century when Spain was still ruled by the Visigoths, although towards the end of their rule. Construction was interrupted when Arab forces invaded Spain during the 8th century and it was later completed in Mozarabic-Visigothic style. Although, it's also believed that these additions are Syrian in influence, as an Islamic settlement has also been discovered near the site.
When King Alfonso VI of Castile and León conquered Toledo in 1085, the temple recovered its liturgical function, but also maintained a defensive presence.
It continued as a church until the 19th century following the Confiscation. It's said that King Solomon's treasure arrived in Toledo in the hands of the Visigoths, who had stolen it from the Romans in 410 from Jerusalem.
The arrival of Muslim settlers on the peninsula in 711 forced the Goths to hide the treasure in Santa Maria de Melque. The wonderful Solomon's Table also known as the Mirror of Solomon was believed to be part of the treasure.
Santa María de Melque is 31 miles (50 kilometers) from Toledo by the CM-4000 road and then the CM-4009. The visit includes the church and the center of interpretation installed in the adjoining rooms. Admission for both is free.
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Frantz Massanet, a Trenton Catholic Academy Sr. and 2010 Drexel recruit, recently took time to do a Q&A session with The Capital Sports Report at the 2010 PrimeTime Shootout in Trenton. His interview is about his sports career.
* your biggest role model outside of sports
FM: "I would have to say my father. He's been a big part of my life. He showed me the good way to live."
* your favorite motto
FM: "This is my dream a lot."
* superstitions before games
FM: "I like to listen to the same song before games. I might wear the same boxers as the game before if I had a good game."
* how sports has impacted your life
FM: "It has impacted my life a lot, because of the area I live in. It's very easy to get caught up in the streets and do something bad."
* what keeps you motivated in sports
FM: "I want to be the best in basketball."
* a failure that you experienced, which has made you a better athlete today
FM: "I would say . . . I can't think of anything. I just have to stay grounded and be humble."
* going to Trenton Catholic Academy
FM: "The academic side of TCA is very good. Actually, it helps a lot of the students to have teachers that are always there for you."
* why he selected basketball to play
FM: "My father put a ball in my hand, so that's how I selected it to play."
* when he started to play basketball
FM: "I started to play around 6-years-old. And I haven't stopped playing since that time."
* your favorite player of all-time
FM: "LeBron James."
* any special meaning to his jersey number [10]
FM: "It is a number that I've always had. I used to have No. 1, but then I wanted to humble myself, so I decided to add the zero and become the number 10."
* why he chose Drexel University
FM: "I decided to go to Drexel, because it's a great academic school. Plus, they are a very talented basketball team."
* playing for head coach Bruiser Flint at Drexel
FM: "It's going to be good. He's a good coach, who will only make me a better player. I'm looking forward to playing for him."
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FATHER QUEST OF THE JEDI
The Father Quest described by Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth is a recurring theme in the STAR WARS saga.
The STAR WARS story is a classic Hero's Journey when we are first introduced to Luke Skywalker in EPISODE IV: He is an orphan seeking guidance from a mysterious mentor who sets him on a greater path and then dies, leaving Luke to complete the adventure on his own.
But Luke's mentor is not merely the mythic herald who helps Luke find his purpose. He bends the narrative a bit to set Luke on the path he believes the young hero should follow. The imperative of the Father Quest is introduced by Obi-Wan Kenobi, who does so in order to recruit Luke into his damned-fool crusade just as he had done with Luke's father before him. Luke is already aware of the actual mission (the delivery of the Death Star plans), but Kenobi offers the responsibility of honoring his father's legacy as an incentive to abandon his aunt and uncle. Even this is not sufficient to tempt Luke at first, but after their deaths he no longer has any local obligations and is therefore not restrained from joining in Kenobi's adventure.
Luke's moral obligation is to help Obi-Wan and Princess Leia, even though he doesn't know either one of them. His personal motivation after being separated from his last living relatives is to realize what he perceives to be his father's final wish for him: the fulfillment of a greater destiny. This false perception comes thanks to some loose interpretations of history provided by Obi-Wan Kenobi, who is emotionally manipulating Luke in order to gain both his trust and obedience. Kenobi establishes himself as an unassailable expert on all matters concerning Luke's history and his responsibility for his fellow man. He also dangles the irresistible carrot of teaching Luke to connect to a cosmic power no other living person can offer him. Kenobi informs him this path was also followed by his father, conveniently glossing over the terrible consequences that path had for Anakin. He tells Luke that his father died nobly at the hands of the evil Darth Vader, because telling him that his near fatal encounter with Anakin directly led to his former pupil's transformation into the worst villain in history may not have so easily won him Luke's awe and admiration. Luke is desperate for the level of affirmation offered by Kenobi's assurances that he is bred for better things, especially in the void left behind after his entire life on Tatooine was destroyed. He is more than happy to accept Kenobi's version of events without question.
"Vader Shmader... The point is, SOMEBODY murdered your father. Now what are you going to do about it?"
Obi-Wan becomes a surrogate father figure for Luke, which is apropos when you realize that all the hopes and aspirations Obi-Wan pretends Anakin had for Luke come in truth from Kenobi himself. He projects his need to redeem his mistakes onto Luke, just as he will repeatedly project Anakin's past failings onto Luke. This is one of the driving principles behind the Father Quest: The comparison between the son and the father that emphasizes the son's personal desire to (and often the universal responsibility to) surpass and succeed the father.
The death of Obi-Wan at the hands of Luke's real father will have some far-reaching effects: Vader is literally tearing down the illusion of the destiny that Kenobi had laid out for Luke. The shock of seeing this in EPISODE IV is later intensified for Luke when re-visited in EPISODE V. In response to Vader's apparent murder of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke is finally able to confront him as a Jedi. But rather than vindicating Kenobi's teachings through defeat and contrition, Vader tears down Luke's philosophical understanding of his former master by telling him the truth that Kenobi had withheld from him. At this point in the original trilogy, the Father Quest is no longer based on Obi-Wan's deception. Now that Luke knows the truth about Vader, the Father Quest in the story is real.
The final phase of this journey occurs in EPISODE VI, when Luke has had the opportunity to confront the memory of Obi-Wan Kenobi (conveniently available in the form of a literal ghost who offers up his rationalization for Luke's judgment). The finale of the original trilogy and Luke's emotional arc is when he can finally face Vader with all the information, fully realized in his purpose and having made his own choices as to what he intends to do to fulfill it.
This is the culmination of the Father Quest, the final reconciliation that Joseph Campbell calls the "Atonement with the Father". In The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Campbell further clarifies this as an "at-one-ment", a transformative graduation of the son replacing and subsequently becoming the father. If Luke had defeated Vader in EPISODE V, when Yoda and the spirit of Obi-Wan cautioned him that he was not ready for the confrontation, he may well have literally replaced Darth Vader and embraced the Dark Side of the Force just as they feared. Note that during the battle Luke gave in to fear, hate, and aggression, never once embracing the cornerstones of calm and passivity that Yoda told him were the hallmarks of the Light Side. If this had allowed him to defeat Vader, then he would have become him as a result.
But Luke's goal in EPISODE VI is not to destroy Vader in order to take his place as a Dark Lord of the Sith. His goal is to redeem Vader, allowing Luke to take his place not as the man Anakin Skywalker had become, but as the savior that Anakin Skywalker was always destined to be.
Followed by some traditional Skywalker father/son quality time.
That the state of "at-one-ment" is a transformative and redemptive process for both the son and the father is what is significant here. They are both redeemed in this confrontation and the son "destroys" the father both to demonstrate that he has outgrown the need for the father's authority and also so that he can succeed the father in his role. Having fulfilled his purpose, the father is able to transcend that role and leave it in the capable hands of the son.
Luke has the purest expression of this atonement act, much more so than we see later in the failed quests of Anakin Skywalker and Kylo Ren. Anakin, in particular, had the worst possible circumstance for a Father Quest, considering he did not actually have a father. Outwardly, his initiation was similar to that of Luke in EPISODE IV: A kindly wizard removed him from his banal existence on Tatooine to introduce him to a world of magic and adventure. The devil is in the differences though: Unlike Luke, Anakin was not orphaned. He willingly left his mother and literally had no father.
"No dad, huh? Bummer. Maybe this blood test will cheer you up. Don't tell your mom."
Anakin cannot be too harshly judged for abandoning his mother because he is a child who shouldn't be forced into making decisions of this kind and certainly can't be blamed for their consequences. Shmi Skywalker has no desire to be separated from Anakin, but wants him to have better than a life as a slave. In any event, Anakin's mother is not taken from him. The absence of a father figure in his life may leave Anakin more susceptible to the influence of a strong male figure who seems to have real interest in him, but he isn't driven by a burning desire to discover himself through his father.
Qui-Gon Jinn is responsible for Anakin's downfall, when you come right down to it. He pulls Anakin away from his mother because he is solely concerned with what Anankin means for the fate of the Jedi and he is in no way concerned about Shmi or Anakin's wellbeing. He fails to instruct Anakin and passes the responsibility on to Obi-Wan, who has no real interest in being a surrogate father to Anakin. Meanwhile, Anakin is influenced by another false father, Palpatine, who may have directly manipulated the Force to create him but also has no interest in developing a familial relationship with him.
Palpatine exploits Anakin's emotional need to have a father figure, exerting his influence for the same purpose that the Jedi Council exert their influence on Anakin: They are all concerned with reinforcing their ideology rather than nurturing who he is as a human being. This pressure and the absence of a nurturing mother or authoritative father push Anakin to the Dark Side. Initially he attempts the at-one-ment process by confronting Obi-Wan, his surrogate father figure who is influencing him to follow the path of the Jedi. Much like Luke's initial duel will be later in EPISODE V, Anakin's confrontation with Obi-Wan ends in failure and disfigurement, leaving him with no clear idea of his identity or purpose.
Though, of the two of them, I'd say Luke got off a lot lighter.
Anakin's next duel with Kenobi in EPISODE IV occurs, just as Luke's will, after he is fully informed of his circumstances and fully realized in his role. He has accepted who he is and embraced his role as the Dark Lord of the Sith, so the murder of his original father figure is symbolic of a fractured and distorted version of the at-one-ment process. By striking down his former master, he believes he is completing his transformation to Master of the Force, definitively replacing Kenobi's influence with his own ideals. Unwittingly, he is also replacing Kenobi as Luke's father figure, something neither he nor Luke will recognize until later on.
The completion of Anakin's atonement happens in EPISODE VI, in his final duel with his son. Not only is he defeated and succeeded by Luke (who also intends to overcome his father's influence in favor of his own ideals), he finally faces his own corrupting father figure, turning on and destroying Palpatine. Rather than seeking his own atonement, Anakin aids his son by tearing down the pillars of his own corrupt ideology and leaving a brand new world in which Luke can, as his replacement, rebuild into something better. In this way the fulfillment of Anakin's Father Quest lies in his acceptance of his role as the father.
Let's compare this to Kylo Ren in EPISODE VII. From what we know of Ben Solo's past, it does not mirror the circumstances of his uncle or his grandfather's initiation into the Force. Anakin was born lost, a slave from birth just like his mother. While Luke was born and raised to believe he was an orphan, he had loving parental figures to nurture him and build his character. Anakin's back story plays out more like a supervillain origin while Luke's is basically the Superman origin. In both cases, all of their best character traits are derived from their non-Jedi influences. Luke learns humility and responsibility from his aunt and uncle while Anakin's only sense of decency comes from his mother. It's only when removed from these positive influences that we see them begin to exhibit questionable qualities of character.
Ben Solo, unfortunately, was raised with an emphasis on the Jedi influence and a shocking lack of traditional emotional support. We know that Leia and Han both feared their son would be too susceptible to the Dark Side, so they sent him away to Luke to be properly initiated in the ways of the Jedi. This was in response not simply to any vulnerabilities of character young Ben may have demonstrated, but also to the physical threat of Snoke, who had already shown an interest in corrupting their son.
Unlike Anakin and Luke, Kylo is deliberately discarded by parental figures who choose to be unavailable to him. Anakin's mother only let him go because she didn't want him to live the life of a slave. Luke accepted Obi-Wan's call to adventure (a misguided effort to redeem the mistakes he made with Anakin by repeating them with Luke), but Luke did so only after his entire family was killed. He did not learn until later of his father's abandonment, and even then it was more the result of his being secreted away rather than a lack of interest on his father's part.
None of this is true for Ben Solo. His parents are alive and he is in their care, but they choose to send him away to be trained by Luke. It is not until years later that Leia admits this mistake to Han with the understanding that Ben did not need Luke to teach him how to be a Jedi, he needed his father to teach him how to be a man. This realization is delivered to Han in return for a promise that he will fulfill his duty to their son and put himself to the hazard of drawing him back again from the darkness.
Which did not go quite as well as he would have liked.
Just as we did with Anakin, we see the ensuing chaos that comes from Kylo's improper initiation. He rebelled against Luke and his teachings, allowing himself to be used and manipulated by Snoke. Like Anakin before him, Kylo rebelled against the chaos of his personal life by focusing on any path that promised the establishment of order.
Like Anakin and Luke, Kylo will also attempt a disastrous atonement with Han Solo, but this confrontation will prove to be even more disastrous in consequence.
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Glitter Chariot brings its' new performance Fountain Of Sorrow to the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Friday, January 6th for a one night only appearance. Fountain Of Sorrow is a heart-wrenching conversation between two long-term lovers, the temptations that pry between them and the voices of reason and reality that plague, aide and explain the heartache of a separation. Told through a song list from likes of Jackson Browne, The Motels, The Troggs, Chic and more, Glitter Chariot displays, as if on a platter, all the sorrows of a broken relationship. The band also will play a rare rock version of the show plus past Glitter Chariot hits at Bird's Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack Saturday, January 7th at 9pm.


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Home University History Page 1
Going to the source
Religion studies class
journeys to Holy Land
See page 3
LehighWeefc
The campus digest for innovation, news and events
Turning out the lights
Lehigh spoils Princeton's
first-ever night game
IR revamps
Frustration with passwords, the inability to use
personal internet information away from home,
and other computer nuisances may soon be a
thing of the past.
When students and faculty
returned to campus, they encountered changes designed to make
life easier for computer users and
operators.
Doug Reese, senior computer
consultant, says the changes will
help users work more efficiently,
and will tighten security and
help enforce Lehigh's policy of
restricting computer use to students, faculty and staff.
Changes include upgrading
the remaining public sites to
Windows 98, creation of a web-
based means of managing accounts (at http://www.lehigh.edu/
account), and mandatory LAN
logins at public sites. Users
changing password* via the web
interface need to remember only
one password. Other features,
such as IMAP and roaming access, may require a one-time setup procedure for returning users,
but will be nearly automatic for
new students.
Reese said the changes would
improve flexibility, enabling students to start a paper on their
personal PC and finish it in the
library. "The new system will be
smoother to use at different
places," he said. "Students can
take their work with them anywhere."
Temporary storage, or scratch
space, on the network will eliminate the need of carrying diskettes, Reese said. IMAP keeps
e-mail in a central location, making messages accessible anywhere on campus. Roaming access "remembers" personal e-
mail preferences and keeps address books and web bookmarks
Mandatory logins will enable
Lehigh to control access. Before,
unauthorized and off-campus
users caused two problems. They
monopolized limited resources.
And by gaining access to proprietary materials, they made it
difficult for Information Resources to negotiate licenses.
Professors can benefit from
the network upgrades by placing
assignments or reading in their
public folder so that students can
obtain the necessary information
for class.
The changes help Lehigh stay
in tune with the rapid advances in
hardware and software. "We are
trying to keep up with the cutting
edge of technology," said Reese.
-Joanne Snyder
Students give business a toehold
A sandal-maker who hopes
to sell his product world
wide believes the teamwork of Lehigh students enrolled
in an Integrated Product Development (IPD) program will help
make his dream become reality.
Mansour G. Mansour has
been working with the undergraduates since the spring semester. "Their work has been
beneficial, absolutely," he said.
"I don't think we've missed any
angle in this product."
After receiving a design
patent for his sandal, Mansour
sought help from the Ben
Franklin Technology Center at
Lehigh. In the IPD program, juniors and seniors in engineering,
business, and design arts work
on new product ideas with private companies. This fall, 18
companies are sponsoring 26
project teams involving about
120 students, said John B.
Ochs, IPD director and professor of mechanical engineering
and mechanics.
"For years, business leaders
and recruiters have said that college students have the technical
skills but are not used to working in teams or working in a
cross-disciplinary manner. The
IPD program addresses that,"
said Todd Watkins, an associate professor of economics who
helps coordinate IPD projects.
Photo by Rob Upton
Mansour G. Mansour, maker of patented sandals, meets with
his IPD team — seniors (from left) Robyn Stober, Suzanne
Cascarano, Joel Romig and Caroline Chang, and Todd Watkins,
associate professor of economics.
The students working on the
sandal have analyzed competition, pricing, marketing strategies, the survival rate of new footwear products, and consumer
taste and demand. They have
been studying how to make the
manufacturing process more efficient and how to improve the
sole design.
"I never had an experience like
this before," said Robyn Stober
'00, a finance and marketing
double major."The challenge has
been: People-think differently.
I've learned to work as a member
of a team — not just as a business student or a marketing student. I learned outside the classroom, working in the real world."
Other project members have
been Sandro Arbulu '00 and
Erik Burachinsky '00, both
mechanical engineering;
Suzanne Cascarano '00, business; and Caroline Chang '00,
economics; and Joel Romig '00,
mechanical engineering. They
received a $1,000 prize from an
Please see SANDAL, Page 2
121st Founder's Day
New deans to be installed
John Chen, dean of the P.C.
Rossin College of Engineering
and Applied Science and Carl
R.Anderson professor of chemical engineering, will be the featured speaker at the 121st
Founder's Day exercises, which
will be held in Packer Memorial Church at 4:15 p.m. on
Thursday, Oct. 7. A reception on
the lawn in front of Maginnes
Hall will follow the ceremony.
Chen will be installed as
dean during the ceremony, as
will Richard Durand, new
dean of the College of Business
and Economics. Seven endowed
professors and four department
chairs will also be honored.
The ceremony will also honor
top Lehigh students, including
Dean's Scholars from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science
and Business and Economics,
as well as Roy C. Eckert, lacocca,
Martindale, Tauck and
President's Scholars, and students on the Dean's List.
Chen was appointed as dean
this year. He joined Lehigh in
1970 and was named the
Carl R. Anderson Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1981. He has served
as chairman of the department of chemical engineering and has directed the Institute of Thermo-Fluid
Engineering and Science
at Lehigh since 1978. He
recently completed a sabbatical year abroad as an
Erskine Fellow at the University
of Canterbury.
Chen specializes in
multiphase transport phenomena, including various subjects in
heat transfer, multiphase flow,
energy conversion, and environmental technology. He is the author of over 200 journal and proceeding articles, and has received
many international and national
awards, most recently the Heat
Transfer and Energy Conversion
Division Award in 1997. Chen
also received the Libsch Award
in 1986 and the R.R. and E.C.
Hillman Award in 1996.
Durand was appointed the
Herbert E. Ehlers Dean of the
\4pJfr""X
College of Business and Economics earlier this year.
Previously, Durand was professor and chair of the faculty
of marketing at the Robert H.
Smith School of Business at the
University of Maryland, where
he helped develop undergraduate, MBA and doctoral programs, and worked with corporations to build research partnerships. He led the effort to
establish an undergraduate
career center for business students.
Author or co-author of more
than 40 refereed journal articles, Durand has served as a
Please see CELEBRA TION , Page 6
Bornstein to
step down;
at Zoellner
Eva Bornstein is stepping down as executive
director of the Zoellner
Arts Center, effective
Sept. 30.
"I am proud of my efforts to
increase the visibility of Zoellner
in arts circles around the world
and to have attracted some of
the top international talent to
perform here," Bornstein said. "I
have worked hard to expand the
range of artistic performances at
Zoellner through the establishment of the Premiere Series, now
known as the Guest Artists Series. Any time you work with
many creative, artistic individuals, there are bound to be occasional conflicts and differences
in operational philosophy. I feel
it is best to move on at this point
in my career. Zoellner is a wonderful facility and I wish the staff
Elizabeth Scofield, marketing director of Barrington Stage
Company in Sheffield, Mass.,
has been named managing director of Zoellner for an interim period. She will arrive on campus
later this week.
In announcing Bornstein's departure, President Greg
Farrington said, "I appreciate
Eva's efforts to increase the visibility and stature of Zoellner
and attract some of the top international talent to perform
here. I wish her the best of luck
in her new endeavors."
A national search will be held
to find Bornstein's successor. "We
obviously cannot afford to operate Zoellner without a director
— especially with the season in
full swing," Farrington said.
"Therefore, I have moved quickly
to identify an interim replacement."
Scofield has more than 20
years of experience in business,
marketing, communications and
event management. As marketing director of Barrington Stage
Company, she developed and
implemented marketing plans
for a 5-year-old regional theatre,
which was under the artistic direction of a Broadway director.
She was responsible for developing advertising, promotion,
public relations and media
strategies for the stage company.
She also was responsible for developing and overseeing major
fundraising events.
"I am looking forward to working with the faculty, staff and
students to make Zoellner the
finest education and arts facil-
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Full Text Going to the source Religion studies class journeys to Holy Land See page 3 Volume 13, Issue 4 LehighWeefc The campus digest for innovation, news and events Turning out the lights Lehigh spoils Princeton's first-ever night game See page 8 September 28,1999 IR revamps campus computer network Frustration with passwords, the inability to use personal internet information away from home, and other computer nuisances may soon be a thing of the past. When students and faculty returned to campus, they encountered changes designed to make life easier for computer users and operators. Doug Reese, senior computer consultant, says the changes will help users work more efficiently, and will tighten security and help enforce Lehigh's policy of restricting computer use to students, faculty and staff. Changes include upgrading the remaining public sites to Windows 98, creation of a web- based means of managing accounts (at http://www.lehigh.edu/ account), and mandatory LAN logins at public sites. Users changing password* via the web interface need to remember only one password. Other features, such as IMAP and roaming access, may require a one-time setup procedure for returning users, but will be nearly automatic for new students. Reese said the changes would improve flexibility, enabling students to start a paper on their personal PC and finish it in the library. "The new system will be smoother to use at different places," he said. "Students can take their work with them anywhere." Temporary storage, or scratch space, on the network will eliminate the need of carrying diskettes, Reese said. IMAP keeps e-mail in a central location, making messages accessible anywhere on campus. Roaming access "remembers" personal e- mail preferences and keeps address books and web bookmarks handy. Mandatory logins will enable Lehigh to control access. Before, unauthorized and off-campus users caused two problems. They monopolized limited resources. And by gaining access to proprietary materials, they made it difficult for Information Resources to negotiate licenses. Professors can benefit from the network upgrades by placing assignments or reading in their public folder so that students can obtain the necessary information for class. The changes help Lehigh stay in tune with the rapid advances in hardware and software. "We are trying to keep up with the cutting edge of technology," said Reese. -Joanne Snyder Students give business a toehold A sandal-maker who hopes to sell his product world wide believes the teamwork of Lehigh students enrolled in an Integrated Product Development (IPD) program will help make his dream become reality. Mansour G. Mansour has been working with the undergraduates since the spring semester. "Their work has been beneficial, absolutely," he said. "I don't think we've missed any angle in this product." After receiving a design patent for his sandal, Mansour sought help from the Ben Franklin Technology Center at Lehigh. In the IPD program, juniors and seniors in engineering, business, and design arts work on new product ideas with private companies. This fall, 18 companies are sponsoring 26 project teams involving about 120 students, said John B. Ochs, IPD director and professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics. "For years, business leaders and recruiters have said that college students have the technical skills but are not used to working in teams or working in a cross-disciplinary manner. The IPD program addresses that," said Todd Watkins, an associate professor of economics who helps coordinate IPD projects. Photo by Rob Upton Mansour G. Mansour, maker of patented sandals, meets with his IPD team — seniors (from left) Robyn Stober, Suzanne Cascarano, Joel Romig and Caroline Chang, and Todd Watkins, associate professor of economics. The students working on the sandal have analyzed competition, pricing, marketing strategies, the survival rate of new footwear products, and consumer taste and demand. They have been studying how to make the manufacturing process more efficient and how to improve the sole design. "I never had an experience like this before," said Robyn Stober '00, a finance and marketing double major."The challenge has been: People-think differently. I've learned to work as a member of a team — not just as a business student or a marketing student. I learned outside the classroom, working in the real world." Other project members have been Sandro Arbulu '00 and Erik Burachinsky '00, both mechanical engineering; Suzanne Cascarano '00, business; and Caroline Chang '00, economics; and Joel Romig '00, mechanical engineering. They received a $1,000 prize from an Please see SANDAL, Page 2 121st Founder's Day New deans to be installed John Chen, dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and Carl R.Anderson professor of chemical engineering, will be the featured speaker at the 121st Founder's Day exercises, which will be held in Packer Memorial Church at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7. A reception on the lawn in front of Maginnes Hall will follow the ceremony. Chen will be installed as dean during the ceremony, as will Richard Durand, new dean of the College of Business and Economics. Seven endowed professors and four department chairs will also be honored. The ceremony will also honor top Lehigh students, including Dean's Scholars from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science and Business and Economics, as well as Roy C. Eckert, lacocca, Martindale, Tauck and President's Scholars, and students on the Dean's List. Chen was appointed as dean this year. He joined Lehigh in 1970 and was named the Carl R. Anderson Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1981. He has served as chairman of the department of chemical engineering and has directed the Institute of Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Science at Lehigh since 1978. He recently completed a sabbatical year abroad as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury. Chen specializes in multiphase transport phenomena, including various subjects in heat transfer, multiphase flow, energy conversion, and environmental technology. He is the author of over 200 journal and proceeding articles, and has received many international and national awards, most recently the Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion Division Award in 1997. Chen also received the Libsch Award in 1986 and the R.R. and E.C. Hillman Award in 1996. Durand was appointed the Herbert E. Ehlers Dean of the \4pJfr""X Chen Durand College of Business and Economics earlier this year. Previously, Durand was professor and chair of the faculty of marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he helped develop undergraduate, MBA and doctoral programs, and worked with corporations to build research partnerships. He led the effort to establish an undergraduate career center for business students. Author or co-author of more than 40 refereed journal articles, Durand has served as a Please see CELEBRA TION , Page 6 Bornstein to step down; replacement named at Zoellner Eva Bornstein is stepping down as executive director of the Zoellner Arts Center, effective Sept. 30. "I am proud of my efforts to increase the visibility of Zoellner in arts circles around the world and to have attracted some of the top international talent to perform here," Bornstein said. "I have worked hard to expand the range of artistic performances at Zoellner through the establishment of the Premiere Series, now known as the Guest Artists Series. Any time you work with many creative, artistic individuals, there are bound to be occasional conflicts and differences in operational philosophy. I feel it is best to move on at this point in my career. Zoellner is a wonderful facility and I wish the staff well." Elizabeth Scofield, marketing director of Barrington Stage Company in Sheffield, Mass., has been named managing director of Zoellner for an interim period. She will arrive on campus later this week. In announcing Bornstein's departure, President Greg Farrington said, "I appreciate Eva's efforts to increase the visibility and stature of Zoellner and attract some of the top international talent to perform here. I wish her the best of luck in her new endeavors." A national search will be held to find Bornstein's successor. "We obviously cannot afford to operate Zoellner without a director — especially with the season in full swing," Farrington said. "Therefore, I have moved quickly to identify an interim replacement." Scofield has more than 20 years of experience in business, marketing, communications and event management. As marketing director of Barrington Stage Company, she developed and implemented marketing plans for a 5-year-old regional theatre, which was under the artistic direction of a Broadway director. She was responsible for developing advertising, promotion, public relations and media strategies for the stage company. She also was responsible for developing and overseeing major fundraising events. "I am looking forward to working with the faculty, staff and students to make Zoellner the finest education and arts facil- Please see ZOELLNER, Page 2 LEHIGH University LehighWeefc Office of Communications/Design 422 Brodhead Avenue Bethlehem, Pa. 18015-3067 MARIE C. INFO RES RM.3G6 LINDERMAN 80LTZ CLIENT SERVICES LIBRARY NO.030 NON-PROFIT MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? is een Amerikaanse biografische film uit 2018, geregisseerd door Marielle Heller en gebaseerd op de gelijknamige memoires van Lee Israel.

Verhaal

Lee Israel was een Amerikaans schijfster van biografieën van onder andere Katherine Hepburn en Tallulah Bankhead. De biografie over Estée Lauder flopte en bracht haar in financiële problemen. Om geld te verdienen begon ze met het vervalsen van brieven, zogezegd geschreven door overleden schrijvers en acteurs. Ze verkocht de brieven via haar vriend Jack Hock die uiteindelijk door de FBI gearresteerd werd waardoor haar bedrog aan het licht kwam.

Rolverdeling

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| Melissa McCarthy || Lee Israel
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| Richard E. Grant || Jack Hock
|-
| Dolly Wells || Anna
|-
| Jane Curtin || Marjorie
|-
| Anna Deavere Smith || Elaine
|-
| Stephen Spinella || Paul
|}

Productie
Can You Ever Forgive Me? ging op 1 september 2018 in première op het filmfestival van Telluride. De film kreeg positieve kritieken van de filmcritici met een score van 98% op Rotten Tomatoes, gebaseerd op 216 beoordelingen.

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A goes-with-anything cardigan, with lustrous silk at the back. Perfect indoors or out.
High collar with open front.
Finished with rib trim at cuffs and hem.
Two signature fabrics we adore: a merino jersey that's smooth and sensuous, and silk crepe de chine that reflects the light.
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Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has teamed with a group of colleagues to form a task force to craft a new legislative response to blunt the harmful impact from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision allowing corporations and anonymous special interests to spend unlimited sums to influence elections.
Along with Bennet, the task force includes Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island), Tom Udall (New Mexico), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Jeff Merkley (Oregon), and Al Franken (Minnesota). Senator Charles E. Schumer (New York), Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, formed the group late last year and has joined in their planning efforts.
The group will pursue all available legislative and administrative avenues to shine a light on who is influencing American elections and to stem the tide of secretive spending that is already having a corroding and corrupting influence on our political system.
"The unchecked flow of money into our elections corrodes our democracy and drowns out the voice of the people," said Senator Tom Udall. "Over the past few months, the unfair influence exerted by Super PACs has become abundantly clear to voters in New Mexico and elsewhere, and they are calling for sensible campaign finance reform. I'm honored to join a group of senators who share my concern and commitment to ensuring that our elections are by the people, not the millionaires, corporations and special interests."
"Our campaign finance system has gotten far off course, and we must put it back on track," said Senator Jeanne Shaheen. "I look forward to working with my colleagues as we urge the FEC to protect the transparency of our electoral process."
The task force has been established during a presidential election year that has already seen almost $90 million spent by outside groups, many of which are able to raise funds anonymously, from corporations, and in unlimited quantities. According to the most recently available data, of the millions raised by so called "Super PACs" associated with the presidential campaigns, more than 25 percent of it comes from just five small donors, illustrating the vastly increased influence the very wealthy now have over elections. The rate of spending will likely only increase as the Republican primary ends, the general election begins in earnest, and congressional races heat up.
Members of the task for have been actively working to reduce the impact of the Citizens United since the decision was issued by the Supreme Court in 2010. Bennet and Tom Udall have introduced a constitutional amendment to grant Congress and the states the authority to regulate the campaign finance system. Last month, Bennet led members of the task force in calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether organizations claiming tax-exempt status are engaging in a substantial amount of campaign activity. Members of the task force have also sponsored legislation requiring increased disclosure and asked the FEC and FCC to intervene so voters know who is funding campaign commercials.


Original source: New South Wales Government. Stamp Duties Office. Indexes to deceased estate files. Series 13341. The State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
This is open source data from New South Wales Government website. The index includes the deceased name, date of death, date that the duty was paid and reference information. For more information please see http://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/deceased-estate-files-1880-1923.
This collection contains images of the probate case files from the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Denmark. Online searchable database for four counties.
Criminal Depositions 1861-1885; Divorces 1861-1894; Equity files 1857-1895; Inquests 1859-1886; Instruments of renunciation 1915-1983 Justices of the Peace 1857-1910; Naturalisations 1851-1904; Trustees files 1889-1929; Wills 1857-1940.


While rich fodder for the wing-dizzies – has been bad news for his ratings.
According to The Observer's analysis of Nielsen data, in recent weeks, as criticism of Mr. Dobbs has continued to go up, his ratings at CNN have continued to go down.
Lou Dobbs will soon have what I call his Tom Willis moment – there was an episode of the Jeffersons where the sick-of-petty-crime-in-the-neighborhood Tom was invited to a meeting that turned out to be a KKK meeting….Tom actually brought George Jefferson and Mr. Bentley (in those days, foreign-born whites were taboo to such orgs) to that meeting but was roundly condemned, especially when George let slip about Helen. Lou Dobbs has a seniorita and some brownish LITTLE kids at home (Game!!!, or Viagara???). Thats why I dont trip over Michael Savage, either – half of the right wing nuttery out there believes he's a Zionist plant. Glenn Beck is more dangerous because he is lilly-white and has a lot of years ahead of him.
I don't think Dobbs believes 3/4's of the stuff he posits on his show. The guy is making one hell of a comfortable living by pandering to an issue which was a political hot-button – illegal immigration.
That is a lot easier sell, especially when there are high jobless rates – than the idea that the President isn't the President.
Dobb's audience is the white "everyman" who doesn't see himself as racist, and probably has little to no contact with either black folks or Hispanics in their daily lives. There is more uncertainty there than anything.
Birthers, however – cross the line of what that audience considers racist.
Also, Lou Dobbs had a lot of old and middle-age black people cred (tight with Carolyn Swain and other black immigration restrictionists) and he probably pissed it away with the birther crap. Thats your drop in viewers right there.


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Sam joined Movement to Work in February 2020, coming in as an experienced Whitehall senior civil servant where she held the position, Deputy Director for Social Work Reform within the Department for Education (DfE) driving two major workforce reforms. She also chaired the department's disability group, championing inclusion and diversity across the department. She was previously Deputy Director of the Business Partnerships team in the Cabinet Office with oversight of private sector engagement across a range of Prime Ministerial priority policy areas.
Before that, Sam was Director of Strategy and Development at St Christopher's Fellowship where she had lead responsibility for developing fundraising, marketing and communications strategies which would support the delivery of a sustainable future for the organisation. Previously, Sam spent 10 years working with Virgin Atlantic – highlights including the start-up of Virgin Nigeria whilst living in Lagos as the VAA Country Manager and developing a Multi-National Sales team.
She is a keen skier and a passionate supporter of her kids playing rugby, cricket and hockey. On weekends, Sam loves to cook for her friends and family.
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Comic-Con's Jean-Luc Museum Teases the New Frontier of Star Trek: Picard
Decades after disembarking from the Starship Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard (Sir Patrick Stewart) is finally returning where no one has gone before with Star Trek: Picard. The upcoming San Diego Comic-Con panel promises a new look at the series (and hopefully Picard's dog). But, for those wanting a deeper glimpse at what's in store, it's time to check out the Jean-Luc Picard Museum.
We recently had a chance to visit an exhibit out of San Diego Comic-Con all about one of Star Trek's greatest captains. "Jean-Luc Picard: The First Duty" is a special exhibition that boasts several props, costumes, and stories that trace Picard's journey through Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Star Trek films—including his Starfleet uniforms, the Captain Picard Day banner from "The Pegasus", and his Ressikan flute from the Next Generation standout episode "The Inner Light."
However, we also had a chance to peek at some of the new costumes and props from Star Trek: Picard. These included Picard's new civilian outfit, complete with a pin showing his family crest, and some bottles of Chateau Picard, vintage 2386. This is significant because, according to the placard, 2386 is the year Jean-Luc Picard took over the family vineyard following his brother's death in Star Trek: Generations. There are also several awards from his career—including a few that were awarded after 2379... the year of the final Star Trek movie featuring Picard, Nemesis. The docent confirmed they were props from the new series—as to whether they hint at Picard's story between then and now, she said we'll have to watch to find out.
Be sure to check out the video above for an in-depth look at one of the only times I've ever been psyched about going to a museum (just kidding, I like art and stuff). "Jean-Luc Picard: The First Duty" will be at Michael J Wolf Fine Arts in San Diego through Sunday, and even better—it's free and open to the public, no Comic-Con badge required! Star Trek: Picard debuts on CBS All Access later this year. We'll be covering Saturday's panel, which should hopefully include a new trailer and release date. And a dog.
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Deputy Terry Dabney had no idea he was about to experience a first in his 13-year career with the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office or that he would be recognized for what he considers his job.
It was the evening of Jan. 18, 2018 when Dabney had responded to a call on Fourth Street in Luling and was leaving when saw smoke billowing out of the roof of a house as he turned onto Paul Maillard Road. He rushed to the scene at 722 Paul Maillard Road, confirmed the house was on fire and called for backup.
"They had some people start to come out of their houses and saw the flashing lights," Dabney said.
Neighbors told him three children and their mother lived in the house that was burning.
Firefighters on the scene of the burning house in January of last year.
What Dabney did next earned him the recognition as VFW Post 3750's Safety Officer of the Year.
At the scene, the officers decided to breach the door of the residence. Now, accompanied by deputies Isaac Genova and Erin Flynn, they entered the burning house.
"We didn't even think about it," Dabney said. "There were people in there and we were doing what we needed to do. We were crawling on our stomachs and shortly after making entry, we saw a body."
Although it was difficult to tell exactly where they were in the house, Dabney felt confident they were near or in the living room. The woman, Keisha Davis, was carried outside to safety.
"The female was unresponsive and burned on several parts of her body," Dabney said. "I was thinking the kids were inside.
"I wanted to save the kids … thinking they're going to die if I don't get in there."
They attempted to re-enter the front entrance, but were driven back by heavy smoke and flames shooting out the front door. Instead, they busted a rear bedroom window with Dabney and Sgt. Jose Alvarenga both cutting their hands on the glass. Even with injuries, they tried to enter, but couldn't do it.
The Luling residence showing the burn marks of flames coming out of the house.
The Luling, Paradis and Hahnville volunteer fire departments, representing about 35 firefighters, followed on the scene. They also went to work hoping to find the children possibly trapped inside the residence, but did not find them either despite multiple searches.
A neighbor then told them all three were with a nearby relative that night.
"It was a great relief … like a weight was lifted off my chest," Dabney said.
But it wasn't until he was at the hospital getting stitches in his hand that he had time to reflect on what had just happened.
"Everything came full circle about what really happened," Dabney said. "You don't think about it until after the fact."
According to Sheriff Greg Champagne's nomination of Dabney, "Ms. Davis' survival is without a doubt a direct result of the immediate actions of Deputy Terry Dabney and assisting officers who put their own lives at risk to save her life."
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Deputy Terry Dabney receiving the VFW Officer of the Year award from VFW Post 3750 Commander Bobby Lovergne Jr.
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For Dabney, there was great appreciation for being able to do his job.
It was also actually an answer to a prayer that he says every day before coming to work where he asks God to protect them and bring them home.
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This blog post tells you all you need to know to make the most of FrameMaker's XSLT support – including choice of XSLT processors, using parameters, adapting smart paste behavior, running XSLT from ExtendScript or in code view, and installing another XSLT processor version in your FrameMaker environment.
Even if most technical authors are not aware of it, XSLT is an important part of their work today. It is what makes modern content creation and publishing systems function, and work together. Any web output from any document processing system will be using at least some XSLT, if not a whole lot of it. XSLT allows converting an XML document into anything else – another XML document, HTML, plain text, even a MIDI file that can be played on your sound system.
Where XML is the basic unified alphabet in which we define the structure for our content (using a myriad of XML standards, depending on our business domain and personal preferences), XSLT is the universal machine translation engine, enabling automated conversions between all these dialects. Structured FrameMaker would not be half as powerful without extensive XSLT suport.
The following sections show you all the points where XSLT is being applied in FrameMaker 2017 and, more importantly, where you can influence the various transformations. There is much more to write about all the options, so this blog post is only covering the basics. For more information, you are welcome to contact the author.
Even if you are not aware of it, FrameMaker may be using XSLT whenever you open, save or paste clipboard contents into a structured document. Which transformations are being applied is determined by settings in your structured application and in the smart paste options. Apart from these more or less hidden applications of XSLT, there are also ways to explicitly run a transformation, by calling an XSLT from ExtendScript, or by running transformations in the XML view. The following list gives some details about each of these methods.
The DOCTYPE of an XML document defines which structured application is called when reading the document into FrameMaker, or when saving the document back to XML. The structured application definition has an optional XSLT Preferences section, in which the XSLTs for import and output can be defined.
The stylesheet for Preprocessing is applied on import, before the read-write rules kick in. This allows renaming elements or attributes, or possibly completely reshuffling the XML before FrameMaker attempts to read the contents. On the way out, an optional Postprocessing stylesheet is applied after the read-write rules. Parameters can also be passed to the stylesheets.
Let's assume, we want to do some pre-processing of a DITA 1.3 topic file before we open it in FrameMaker and some post-processing when we close it. To do this we open the "Structured Application Designer" (Menu > Structure > Structured Application Designer) and enter the path and file name to the XSLT Prefences.
In this example we add an XSLT "Assign-IDs-to-Elements.xslt" that processes the DITA XML before it opens it in FM. This is the "Pre Processing Stylesheet. It scans the DITA XML file for elements that do not have an ID attribute yet and assigns an ID to those elements automatically. In addition we assign XALAN as the XSLT Processor.
In addition we assign a "Post Processing Stylesheet": "Create Change Report.xslt". It creates a backup of the DITA XML file before opening it in FrameMaker. When we change th the DITA file and save it, it compares the old file with the new one and automatically creats a change report for us. For this post processing we specify SAXON as the XSLT processor.
In recent years, a lot of development effort was put into creating the smart paste option in structured FrameMaker. This feature allows copying content from Microsoft Word, a web browser or another application, and pasting it into a DITA topic. This feature is implemented using XSLT and the good news is that you can replace the XSL if you need it to work in a different manner. The smart paste XSLTs are an optional part of the structured application definitions, as shown in this excerpt.
When you switch to FrameMaker's Code View, the XML content of your document is shown as plain text with tags and attributes. If you were viewing a document in WYSIWYG view, the document will be written to XML (using the read-write rules and possible Postprocessing stylesheets defined for the doctype in the structured application – see the previous section). Once the XML is created and saved, you can run transformations on this XML from the XSLT menu.
Before you apply an XSLT, you must select one, and there are several ways to do so. First of all, you can select a specific XSL file. However, browsing your file system to find the required XSL file may become tedious when you have a number of different scenarios. To make life a lot easier, the transformation file was created. This is an XML file that names transformations and supplies the path to the XSL file and optionally sets parameter values for each.
FrameMaker allows choosing between the default transformation file or one of your own that you have stored anywhere on your file system. But you can also associate transformation files with particular document types via the structured application definitions. The entry in your structured application definition is aptly called Transformation File and points to a transformation XML file that you may place anywhere on your file system.
Once you have selected the transformation file, the scenarios defined in that file are listed in the dialog, allowing you to quickly select the desired transformation and set it as the active one. Then click the Run button to execute the transformation. The Advanced Run option allows running the transformation on all open XML files, or on all XML files in a specific folder. This can greatly enhance your lunch or coffee break productivity.
One more area where you may want to use XSLT is ExtendScript. In several automation projects, I have completed over the past years, this has been a vital addition. Not all the transformations you want to do can be attached to the events of opening or saving a particular XML file, after all. With access to the XSLT processing engines from ExtendScript, there is virtually no limit to the level of automation you can achieve.
As this can become quite a tedious job to do, I have created a small script file with functions thar set all arguments as properties in an XSLT Object and then calls the transform. If you are interested in this, drop me a mail and I will make it available to you. This capability has certainly made a difference in my recent project work.
The FrameMaker 2017 product comes with two pre-installed XSLT processors: XALAN and SAXON.
XALAN (see xalan.apache.org) is part of the Apache open source project and has been around for a long time. Because of its Open Source nature, the scope is necessarily limited (as resources are) and even though XSLT has evolved quite a bit, XALAN still only supports XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0.
SAXON (see www.saxonica.com) is the stripped-down free version of a commercial product. As the company behind this processor, UK-based Saxonica, is making money selling the full version of the product, they can afford to keep up with developments in the standard. This is further helped by the fact that the founder of Saxonica, Michael Kay, has been chair of the XSLT standards committee ever since version 1.0. He is also the author of the 1,316-page XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 'bible'. The SAXON-HE (Home Edition) version shipped with Framemaker 2017 supports XSLT 2.0 and XPath 3.0.
If your transformation needs exceed what these two in-the-box processors have to offer, you can also add another XSLT processor to the options (see Installing and activating another XSLT processor below).
Conversion of result tree fragments to node sets. This means that you can now assign the result of a transform to a variable, which can then be used as the source to be transformed by another template. This allows for multi-pass transformations without the need to store transformation results in a temporary file, on which a second XSLT is then applied. As the style sheets called on XML import and output, and the ones called on smart paste, only allow a single transformation to be executed, this is an important feature for running XSLT in FrameMaker.
Multiple output documents. Depending on your use case, this may or may not be important. I have personally created a structured application that takes a single, very large, XDocBook file and splits it into 400 manageable single XML files. Without this XSLT ability, chunking large files into smaller components would require ExtendScript or Visual C++ programming in the FDK.
Built-in support for grouping. This may be useful when processing XML documents that hold large sets of data, which you need to shuffle into ordered sections or table rows. Grouping elements based on certain attribute values could be done in XSLT 1.0, but sometimes required a lot of code. This has become very efficient with the new <xsl:for-each-group> element in XSLT 2.0.
User-defined functions. With the new <xsl:function> it becomes much easier to define reusable pieces of XSLT to be called from multiple templates throughout your code. Before, you would have to create named templates and possibly use mode attributes. With a large set of reusable functionality, this could become quite chaotic and hard to debug.
XSLT 2.0 was established in 2007. Moving on, the XSLT committee defined another set of extensions, which were released with XSLT 3.0. As most of the additions in XSLT 3.0 relate to streaming, packaging and debugging, they may be of less importance for the types of transformations to be executed within FrameMaker. For this reason, I am skipping an overview of XSLT 3.0 here and pointing those who are terribly interested in the latest and greatest to this slide deck by Jakub Malý.
The available XSLT processors are defined in the maker.ini file, in the [XSLTProcessors] section. To replace the current version of an XSLT processor, install the package on your computer and change the path in the maker.ini file to point to the new installation. When using a relative path, the starting point is the home directory of the FrameMaker product.
Adding a processor is almost as easy. Just add a line to the maker.ini file and choose a unique name for the processor to be added to the list. After restarting FrameMaker, the new processor will be available in the various locations where you can choose the XSLT processor to be used. Move the Default keyword to the end of the required line.
Here is an example of my maker.ini file with the two commercial versions of the Saxon processor added to the list of available processors. The names at the start of the lines appear in dialogs and files (such as the structured application definitions).
There may be a lot more to show about the power of XSLT under the hood, as well as out in the open, in Adobe FrameMaker 2017. I have only been able to outline the main mechanisms in this blog post. If you are interested in more details on a particular item, get in touch.
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This is a great news! We are developing XSLT for many companies who have migrated to DITA-XML based documentation.
With this new feature, now any Technical Writer who is working on Structured FrameMaker can view the PDF output with applied XSLT on their machine locally. Also, this gives us the opportunity to add more clients to who wants to get their XSLT developed.
Adobe FrameMaker is evolving as one of the most user-friendly DITA-XML authoring tools with every passing year.


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FROM microsoft/cntk:2.2-gpu-python3.5-cuda8.0-cudnn6.0
# replace this with your application's default port

# wudi

RUN apt-get update && \
	apt-get upgrade -y && \
	apt-get install -y

RUN apt-get install -y emacs

RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common wget
RUN add-apt-repository http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu
RUN sh -c "wget -O - http://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -"

# http://askubuntu.com/questions/104160/method-driver-usr-lib-apt-methods-https-could-not-be-found-update-error
RUN apt-get install apt-transport-https

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install openfoam4

RUN apt-get -y install mlocate

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The French destroyer Opiniâtre was one of four s that was built for the Argentine Navy in the early 1910s. The ships were taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War in August 1914. She was scrapped in 1935.

Design and description

The ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of . They displaced  at normal load and  at deep load. Their crew numbered 140 men.

The ships were powered by a pair of Rateau steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by five mixed-firing Foster-Wheeler boilers. The engines were designed to produce  which was intended to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried  of coal and  of fuel oil that gave them a range of  at a cruising speed of .

The primary armament of the Aventurier-class ships consisted of four  guns in single mounts, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. They were fitted with a  AA gun for anti-aircraft defence. The ships were also equipped with four single mounts for  torpedo tubes amidships.

Construction and career
Opinâtre was ordered from Dyle et Bacalan and was launched in 1911 with the name of La Rioja at its Bordeaux shipyard. The ship was completed on 16 September 1914. She was struck in 1933 and broken up for scrap in 1935.

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1911 ships
Aventurier-class destroyers
Ships built by Dyle et Bacalan