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package com.jetbrains.python.psi;

import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiRecursiveVisitor;

/**
 * @author yole
 */
public class PyRecursiveElementVisitor extends PyElementVisitor implements PsiRecursiveVisitor {
  public void visitElement(final PsiElement element) {
    element.acceptChildren(this);
  }
}


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GBP/USD is stuck in the lows, just like Brexit
GBP/USD is trading in the lower end of the recent range as the Brexit impasse continues.
The government and Parliament will try to find a way forward, 15 days to Brexit.
The technical picture is worsening for cable.
GBP/USD is trading below 1.3150, at the bottom end of the recent range: 1.3140-1.3265. While markets find it hard to assess how Brexit will end, the mood is getting gloomier.
There were two significant developments on Wednesday and both do not bode well for a solution.
The UK Parliament voted on eight alternative Brexit options in non-binding indicative votes and rejected all of them. A softer version of Brexit with deeper economic ties was voted down by the closest margin. The option for a second referendum got the highest number of votes. Many MPs abstained. Parliament will likely have another go on Monday.
The second development is that PM Theresa May told her backbenchers at the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee that she will resign once she seals Brexit. Some of her colleagues want to see a different approach in the next stage of talks about the future relationship and some seek to replace her. Boris Johnson, David Davis, and others have swiftly switched to supporting her accord.
However, it may not be enough. There are some 25 hardliners among the ranks of the pro-Brexi European Research Group (ERG) that prefer a no-deal exit over anything else. And no less importantly, the Northern Irish DUP remains against the accord. Party leader Arlene Foster said that abstention was never an option.
The government aspires to bring the Brexit agreement to a vote on Friday, holding a third Meaningful Vote (MV3). Apart from the apparent lack of a majority, it is unclear how the vote could come about. House Speaker John Bercow repeated his stance that only a motion that includes a substantial change could be voted upon.
Parliament was able to approve the statutory change needed to push back the Brexit date to April 12th, following the decisions taken at the EU Summit. That leaves 15 days to find a way forward.
Elsewhere, global stocks continue sliding alongside bond yields on fears of a recession. The mood helps the safe-haven Japanese yen and US dollar.
GBP/USD Technical Analysis
GBP/USD lost the 1.3140 level that held it earlier and marked the bottom of a choppy range. It is now holding above the 200 Simple Moving Average on the four-hour chart. Momentum is developing to the downside and the Relative Strength Index is beginning to lean lower. All in all, the technical picture is worsening.
If cable loses the 200 SMA, the next support line is at 1.3080 which was a swing low last week. More importantly, 1.3005 was a double bottom during March and it is followed by 1.2960, the trough of this month. 1.2895 is next.
Resistance awaits at 1.3225 that capped the pair early in the week and then by 1.3265 that was a high point earlier in the week. A move above this level on Wednesday did not go too far and proved to be a false break. GBP/USD was rejected at this level.

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package com.libre.om.mock;

import com.google.common.io.Files;
import com.libre.om.Doc;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import nl.jqno.equalsverifier.EqualsVerifier;
import nl.jqno.equalsverifier.Warning;
import org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert;
import org.hamcrest.Matchers;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;

/**
 * Tests for {@link MkDoc}.
 *
 * @author Krzysztof Krason (Krzysztof.Krason@gmail.com)
 * @version $Id$
 * @since 0.3
 * @todo 95:30min method MkDoc.delete throws IOException if File.delete
 *  return false. Lets add unit test to check it. You need to find way
 *  to return false in File.delete (maybe make file Read Only via
 *  File.setReadOnly).
 */
public final class MkDocTest {
    /**
     * Temporary folder.
     * @checkstyle VisibilityModifierCheck (5 lines)
     */
    @Rule
    public final transient TemporaryFolder folder = new TemporaryFolder();

    /**
     * MkDoc exists can return false for missing file.
     * @throws IOException In case of error
     */
    @Test
    public void existsReturnsFalseForMissingFile() throws IOException {
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            new MkDoc(new File(this.folder.newFolder(), "foo"), "", "")
                .exists(),
            Matchers.is(false)
        );
    }

    /**
     * MkDoc exists can return true for existing file.
     * @throws IOException In case of error
     */
    @Test
    public void existsReturnsTrueForExistingFile() throws IOException {
        final File file = new File(this.folder.newFolder(), "bar");
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            file.createNewFile(),
            Matchers.is(true)
        );
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            new MkDoc(file, "", "").exists(),
            Matchers.is(true)
        );
    }

    /**
     * MkDoc can delete a file.
     * @throws IOException In case of error
     */
    @Test
    public void deletesFile() throws IOException {
        final File file = new File(this.folder.newFolder(), "test");
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            file.createNewFile(),
            Matchers.is(true)
        );
        new MkDoc(file, "", "").delete();
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            file.exists(),
            Matchers.is(false)
        );
    }

    /**
     * MkDoc can read from file.
     * @throws IOException In case of error
     */
    @Test
    public void readsFromFile() throws IOException {
        final File file = new File(this.folder.newFolder(), "readable");
        final String content = "read";
        Files.write(content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), file);
        final ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        new MkDoc(file, "", "").read(stream);
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            new String(stream.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8),
            Matchers.equalTo(content)
        );
    }

    /**
     * MkDoc can write to file.
     * @throws IOException In case of error
     */
    @Test
    public void writesToFile() throws IOException {
        final File file = new File(this.folder.newFolder(), "writable");
        final String content = "store";
        final byte[] bytes = content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        new MkDoc(file, "", "").write(
            new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes), bytes.length
        );
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            Files.toString(file, StandardCharsets.UTF_8),
            Matchers.equalTo(content)
        );
    }

    /**
     * MkDoc can retrieve file URL.
     * @throws IOException In case of error
     */
    @Test
    public void shortenUrl() throws IOException {
        final File file = new File(this.folder.newFolder(), "url");
        final String content = "shorten me";
        final Doc doc = new MkDoc(file, "", "");
        final byte[] bytes = content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        doc.write(
            new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes), bytes.length
        );
        MatcherAssert.assertThat(
            doc.shortUrl(),
            Matchers.equalTo(file.toURI().toURL().toString())
        );
    }

    /**
     * SafeDoc conforms to equals and hashCode contract.
     */
    @Test
    public void conformsToEqualsHashCodeContract() {
        EqualsVerifier.forClass(MkDoc.class)
            .suppress(Warning.TRANSIENT_FIELDS)
            .verify();
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: Selecting php out with JQuery This is a code snippet I have and I would like to be able to select the out of PHP. When I try to grab the PHP output and store it into a variable, I receive "undefined".
<h1 id=<?php echo '$test; ?> class="list-name--original">

My last attempt I tried this code:$("h1.list-name--original")[0].outerHTML);

A: Why not just put all your PHP output in a variable

You can then set the contents of an H1 tag like this

A: Try
<h1 id="<?php echo $test; ?>" class="list-name--original">

in jQuery
$(".list-name--original").html();

or
$("#<?= $test ?>").html();

A: Try this:
<?php $test = "Hello world!"; ?>

<?php echo $test; ?>

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A drawing in pop-art colours. In big letters on a yellow sign: "bagages". In the top-right corner, a small signature and a date: "Ciriani '71". The figurehead of neo-modernism worked with Marc Jung to design an airport terminal as part of a study launched alongside the competition to build a new airport facility in Luxembourg.
As this cover indicates, issue 156 of l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui published in June 1971 looks at airports, an area of growing importance with the rise in air travel. The magazine is full of proposals and projects with finely calculated geometries. Readers find out about different types: terminals with finger piers (boarding bridges), satellite terminals, bussing (with bus systems), developed (or decentralised) terminals, mixed terminals… The design of such a facility would be "the outcome of a compromise between functional, technical and financial requirements." So much for poetry! Jean Ellenberger, co-author of a project for the Geneva-Cointrin Airport, asserted, in his "informal discussion", that he surprised himself by "only speaking of technical aspects" while his intention "was to speak about architecture". He noted, "although the word 'monument' is no longer used, the fact remains that architecture must play the role of a machine designed to elicit emotions". However, many airports are non-places. Architects see them more as "phases" rather than finished products: "these airport terminals are redeveloped, improved", he says. Paul Andreu states that an airport is not intended to be "a goal", but a "place of transition and waiting" characterised by its "lack of composition" and a "rejection of all forms of monumentalism". Roissy 1 and 2 are, however, in terms of form, a subtle (and rare) tribute to forward-thinking, and even futurology. The architect cannot help but betray a taste for the "symbolism of forms"…
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Beastie Boys name new album
News Reporter May 26, 2009 11:46 am BST
The Beastie Boys, from left to right, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, and Adam "MCA" Yauch, arrive to pickup a Webby Award, June 5, 2007 in New York. They join Madonna, heartland rocker John Mellencamp and premier dance acts Donna Summer and Chic among the nine nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who were announced Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
Rappers spill the beans in email to fans
Beastie Boys' new album will be named 'Hot Sauce Committee', the trio have revealed.
The hip hop veterans unveiled the title in an email message to fans yesterday (May 25).
'Hot Sauce Committee' will be the trio's first album since 2007's instrumental set 'The Mix-Up'.
Bandmember Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horowitz had previously told Billboard that the album will be a more traditional Beastie Boys affair.
"It's a lot of vocals – very wordy," he said. "It's political, depending on what you call political. You know, if toilet talk and fart jokes are political, which they can be, in that sense yeah, very."
Beastie Boys recently gave away two new tracks as hidden vinyl extras inside box-sets of 'Check Your Head'. It is unclear whether they will feature on 'Hot Sauce Committee'.
The new album, which had the previous working title 'Tadlock's Glasses', does not yet have a release date.


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Does Travis Scott's New 'Cacti' Hard Seltzer Live Up To The Hype? We Tried It To Find Out How Lit It Is
#hard seltzer
by Connor Toole March 19, 2021
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Over the past few years, Travis Scott has established himself as the KAWS of the hip-hop world, as the man who became a sensation after emerging from the Los Angeles rap scene at the beginning of the previous decade has seemingly never encountered a merchandising opportunity he doesn't like.
While the Houston native has been at the receiving end of a fair amount of criticism for capitalizing on the hypebeasts who will spare no expense when it comes to securing his branded apparel and an action figure that's currently being offered for thousands of dollars on the secondary market, it's pretty hard to knock Travis Scott for the hustle that's seemed to work out pretty well for him.
Last year, the rapper teamed up with McDonald's to debut the appropriately dubbed "Cactus Jack" combo that was accompanied by dozens of pieces of synergetic merch, including a $25 styrofoam cup and a Chicken McNugget body pillow that retailed for $90—all of which was quickly snapped up by the army of fans who caused a Quarter Pounder shortage thanks to their undying thirst for anything and everything Travis Scott attaches his name to.
As a result, it came as no surprise that his loyal legion flocked to stores around the country to raid shelves after Scott decided to get in on the hard seltzer game with the release of Cacti, which managed to sell out in less than a day after being released this week (although Anheuser-Busch has promised another drop is coming soon.)
The folks behind the hard seltzer were nice enough to send a couple of variety packs my way so I could give it the same treatment I've given the countless hard seltzers I've sampled since they became all the rage a couple of years ago. Without further ado, here is my…
Cacti Hard Seltzer Review
Earlier this week, I got my hands on Topo Chico's new hard seltzer and was surprised the brand that's been operating in Mexico for 125 years declined to go the agave route that seemed like a natural marriage. However, the (once again appropriately named) Cacti has attempted to set itself apart from the pack by harnessing the plant that tequila relies on for its taste (specifically the blue agave variety.)
Cacti is also a bit bolder than most of the hard seltzers on the market, as it clocks in at a pretty hefty 7% ABV. This means you're going to want to exercise the restraint I failed to when I made my way through the three different cans I popped open while conducting this review.
While I'm a big Tequila Guy, I haven't been particularly impressed with most of the agave-based hard seltzers I've tried, and I can safely say Cacti is easily the best one I've encountered so far.
Cacti eschews artificial flavors in favor of extracting the essence of the actual fruits that it's infused with and I have to say it shows, as you won't encounter the sickly sweetness far too many hard seltzers fall victim to. If you manage to score one of the highly sought-after nine-packs, I'd suggest easing into things with the lime offering, which is essentially a more subdued interpretation of your traditional tequila soda.
While the lime provides a nice balance between the citrus and agave, I do think the plant takes a bit of a backseat when it comes to the strawberry and pineapple variety, but with that said, they still work pretty well, as I was surprised that the latter ended up being at the top of my power rankings (I'd probably give lime the silver and the strawberry the bronze, but they all manage to hold their own.)
There's a good chance you encountered this article and thought "Oh good, another hard seltzer," but Cacti is actually a pretty solid offering and a pleasant departure from your usual fare by virtue of the agave. I wouldn't necessarily suggest you spend hours refreshing the website or line up outside a liquor store before it opens in an attempt to snag some, but if you manage to stumble across it in the wild, I'd recommend giving it a whirl.
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Crystallography Reports -- March 2000
Volume 45, Issue 2, pp. 169-348
DIFFRACTION AND SCATTERING OF X-RAY AND SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Specific Features of Diffraction Patterns from Weakly Absorbing Objects Recorded by the "Refection" Method
A. V. Kurdyumov
pp. 169-171 Full Text: PDF (42 kB)
THEORY OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
Search for Possible Structures of Cubic Approximants of Icosahedral Quasicrystals
A. A. Gorokhovskii
pp. 172-181 Full Text: PDF (109 kB)
Hydrodynamics of Layered and Cubic Quasicrystals
O. A. Belyaev and V. A. Koptsik
Hyperphasons and the Effect of Incommensurate Modulation on Elastic Properties of Quasicrystals
O. A. Belyaev
Reliability of Maximum Likelihood-Based Figures of Merit
T. P. Skovoroda and V. Yu. Lunin
Simple Criterion of Division of Two-Dimensional Space of a Periodic Lattice into Arbitrarily Shaped Polyominoes
V. G. Rau
Mathematical Dynamics and Migration of Silver Ions in Superionic Conductor AgI
V. I. Polyakov
STRUCTURES OF INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Synthesis, IR Spectra, and Structures of Double Metaphosphates MNi(PO3)3 (M = Na or K)
A. A. Kapshuk, P. G. Nagornyi, and O. V. Petrenko
Crystal Structure of Loparite
N. V. Zubkova, A. V. Arakcheeva, D. Yu. Pushcharovskii, E. I. Semenov, and D. Atencio
Low-Temperature X-ray Studies of Crystal-Lattice Parameters and Thermal Expansion of KTiOPO4 Crystals
A. U. Sheleg, E. M. Zub, L. A. Stremoukhova, and S. A. Guretskii
Crystal Structure of a Hyperzirconium Analogue of Eudialyte
R. K. Rastsvetaeva and A. P. Khomyakov
STRUCTURES OF COORDINATION COMPOUNDS
Crystal Structure of Cobalt(III) Compound with Ethylenediamine-N,N[prime]-Di-3-Propionic Acid, [Co(H2Eddp)(HEddp)]Br2 · 4H2O
I. N. Polyakova, A. L. Poznyak, and V. S. Sergienko
Crystal Structure of Aqua[S-Prolinato-N-Monoacetato)copper(II) Dihydrate [Cu(Proma)H2O] · 2H2O
I. F. Burshtein, A. L. Poznyak, and L. V. Stopolyanskaya
Crystal Structure of Triethanolammonium Bis(1-Hydroxyethane-1,1-Diphosphonato)diaquazincate Pentahydrate, [(OHCH2CH2)3NH][Zn(H2O)2(H2.5L)2]·5H2O
V. S. Sergienko, G. G. Aleksandrov, and E. G. Afonin
A Study on the Phase Transition in Decamethylosmocene Crystal over a Wide Temperature Range
I. I. Vorontsov, K. A. Potekhin, M. Yu. Antipin, and I. E. Zanin
STRUCTURES OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Crystal and Molecular Structures of 11-Hydroxy-7-Oxodrim-8(9)-ene
Yu. M. Chumakov, Yu. A. Simonov, M. D. Mazus, D. P. Popa[dagger], and P. F. Vlad
Crystal Structure of (Z)-1-(sec-Butyl)-3-(4-Dimethylaminophenyl)-2-(1H-1,2,4-Triazol-1-yl)propen-2-one
S. T. Malinovskii, M. Z. Krimer, E. P. Styngach, and Yu. M. Chumakov
Molecular and Crystal Structures of 2-Amino-5-Benzoyl-4-(2-Nitrophenyl)-3-Cyano-4,5-Dihydrothiophene
V. N. Nesterov, L. N. Kuleshova, A. A. Samet, and A. M. Shestopalov
Molecular and Crystal Structures of 8,9-Dimethoxy-5[prime],5[prime]-Dimethyl-1,2,3,5,6,10b-Hexahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinoline-1-Spiro-2[prime]-Cyclohexane-3,1[prime],3[prime]-Trione
A. S. Lyakhov, D. O. Ivashkevich, A. A. Govorova, and A. L. Mikhal'chuk
Crystal and Molecular Structure of 11,12-Dihydroxydrim-8(9)-en-7-one
V. Kh. Kravtsov, E. K. Gorinchnoi, G. N. Mironov, M. N. Koltsa, Yu. A. Simonov, and P. F. Vlad
X-ray Mapping in Heterocyclic Design: III. Diffractometric Study of the Crystal Structure of 1-Methyl-2-Oxo-2,3-Dihydroimidazo[1,2-a]pyridinium Bromide
V. B. Rybakov, S. G. Zhukov, E. V. Babaev, O. S. Mazina, and L. A. Aslanov
LATTICE DYNAMICS
Dislocations (Solitons) in Anharmonic Crystals
A. K. Emaletdinov
Dynamic and Static Orientational Disorder in Mixed K1 – x(NH4)xI Crystals
L. A. Shuvalov, U. Natkaniec, and L. S. Smirnov
Entropy Theory of Metamorphic Transitions in Coals
M. I. Novgorodova, Yu. M. Gufan, N. F. Losev[dagger], and I. N. Moshchenko
New Type of a Shear Surface Acoustic Wave in Piezoelectric Crystals
S. V. Tarasenko
Phase Transition and Domain Structure in Iodoform Crystals
N. V. Sidorov, Yu. N. Krasyukov, É. I. Mukhtarova, and D. M. Shkrabo
REAL STRUCTURE
X-ray Diffraction Study and Quantitative Measurements of High Dislocation Densities in Superlattices and Single Crystal Layers of Heteroepitaxial Systems with Pronounced Lattice Mismatch
G. F. Kuznetsov
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CRYSTALS
Thermal Expansion of Sm–Tb Orthoferrites in the Region of the Spin Reorientation Transition
I. D. Lomako and V. P. Popov
Spectroscopy Studies of Pure and Chromium-Doped Calcium Gallogermanate Crystals, Ca3Ga2Ge4O14
Z. B. Perekalina, T. F. Veremeichik, K. A. Kaldybaev, and A. D. Tynaev
Helical Disclinations in a Cylindrical Capillary with Nematic Liquid Crystal
V. K. Pershin and I. I. Klebanov
The Energy of Radial and Hyperbolic Defects in a Long Cylindrical Capillary
V. K. Pershin and T. V. Kouchnareva
On an Unusual Azimuthal Orientational Relationship in the System Gallium Nitride Layer on Spinel Substrate
A. N. Efimov, A. O. Lebedev, V. V. Lundin, and A. S. Usikov
Model of Packing of Cellulose Acetomyristinate in Langmuir–Blodgett Films
A. K. Khripunov, Yu. G. Baklagina, N. D. Stepina, L. G. Yanusova, L. A. Feigin, V. M. Denisov, A. Ya. Volkov, and V. K. Lavrent'ev
CRYSTAL GROWTH
Migration of Liquid Inclusions in a Solid under Asymmetric Temperature Oscillations
V. Yu. Gershanov, S. I. Garmashov, and I. Yu. Nosuleva
Fluctuations in Growth Rate of Gypsum Crystals
V. F. Komarov, A. V. Severin, and I. V. Melikhov
Polarization Characteristics of Polydimethylsiloxane-Based Composites during First-Order Phase Transitions
N. N. Matveev and A. S. Sidorkin
CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE
A Windows Application: Program for Qualitative Phase Analysis of Polycrystalline Mixtures
E. M. Burova and B. M. Shchedrin
JUBILEES
Valentin Ivanovich Simonov (On the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday)
Daniel Moiseevich Kheiker (On the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday)
Galina Nikolaevna Tishchenko (1926–1999)


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What's a Jewish Republican to Do with Lieberman on the Other Ticket?
Joe Lieberman at a campaign rally in New Hampshire in October 2000. (Darren McCollester/Newsmakers/Getty Images)
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If you are a Jewish Republican, you might want a leader who would support school vouchers, encourage fiscal conservatism, protect values, strengthen Israel and want to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Sounds like Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
In fact, the man Al Gore picked to be his running mate is someone Republicans have trouble attacking and Jews may find difficult to stay away from.
The campaign of Texas Gov. George W. Bush stressed the differences between Gore and Lieberman and has even gone so far as to paint Lieberman as akin to a Republican.
"Al Gore has chosen a man whose positions are more similar to Gov. Bush's than to his own," Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
Lieberman responded to those charges Tuesday when he was officially introduced as Gore's running mate.
Republicans "responded to the news that Al Gore had picked me by saying that George Bush and I think alike," Lieberman said. "With all due respect, I think that's like saying that the veterinarian and the taxidermist are in the same business because either way you get your dog back."
Will the historic choice of the first Jew on a national party ticket make any difference at the polls for Jewish Republicans come November?
"I doubt if Jewish Republicans will change their minds," says Murray Friedman, an American Jewish historian who heads the American Jewish Committee office in Philadelphia.
The real meaning of Lieberman's selection, Friedman said, is that it shows Jews are moving toward the right, though he admitted that Gore may pick up 1 or 2 percent more of the Jewish vote now that he has an Orthodox Jew at his side.
Gore is expected to win around 80 percent of the Jewish vote.
Friedman believes that ultimately Jewish voters will go the polls with their eyes focused on the choice for president, not vice president.
Nevertheless, some of Lieberman's policy stances will most likely appeal to Jewish Republicans.
Lieberman has advocated pilot programs where the federal government would provide parents with vouchers to use to pay their children's tuition at private or parochial schools. He also has hinted at privatization of Social Security, led a fight against violence in the entertainment industry and championed a strengthening of national defense.
In a statement, the Republican Jewish Coalition also contrasted Lieberman's positions with Gore's. The RJC questioned what Lieberman was doing in the "party of AI Sharpton, the party that refuses to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the party that opposes parental choice in education."
Jewish Republicans are bursting with pride that a fellow Jew got the call, said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks, "but that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to vote for him."
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Topics we investigate are broad and varied and can guarantee to whet any appetite.
The Hawke's Bay Theosophical Society welcomes anyone who is in sympathy with our Three Objects, to join in our exploration of the Timeless Wisdom.
The purpose of our branch is to create a forum where people of similar interest can join in the spirit of harmony to listen learn and discuss, and can serve each other and our branch with practical love and kindness.
When: 7:30pm -- 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the Month, in which we discuss various Theosophical topics.
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Where: The Staff Room, Napier Intermediate School, 3 Jull Street, Napier.
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Understood thoughts and things of that kind?
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Another retro project that has been occupying my thoughts for some time now. I have a pair of Sinclair C5 electric vehicles (released in 1985) sat in the garage.
One of the main problems with the C5 is the motor gearbox components are no longer available, which means if you're gearbox disintegrates due to a bit a harsh acceleration (or just old age) then you face a challenge finding replacements.
The first things I'm doing is recreating the gearbox components in CAD. The aim is to make them as close to the originals as possible. The main exception being the main gearbox cog which I intend to have 4 posts rather than 3. This will spread the load out better making it stronger and better prepared for the higher speeds that you get when running the motor at 24V (another mod for the future!).
So, first up is the outer gearbox housing. This differs from the original in that it is intended to be bolted to the motor for extra strength and also for those with motors with snapped "fingers". The original outer gearbox is on the right.
The next item is the main cog. This has to be extremely strong and will be printed in Steel. The difference between this and the original gearbox main cog is this contains 4 posts rather than 3 which the original had. As before, the original cog is on the right side.
These are the small cogs that sit on the posts. They are very similar to the originals except we have filled in the holes in this design for a bit of extra strength. We will be using 4 of them rather than 3 which the original gearbox used.
To make these strong they will be printed in Nylon and Steel. As my printer is unable to print in these materials I am using the excellent 3D Printing Services of Shapeways to turn the designs into solid reality.
We shall be testing the components seperately, so on this motor we are testing the new outer gearbox housing in a nice Red colour. Everything else in this gearbox is original.
And on this motor (which is mouted in the C5) we have the Metal main cog with the 4 Yellow small cogs inside.
If you're interested in following the progress I will be updating this article in the future. You can also follow progress and ask questions by posting comments below or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
Is there any further progress on this project, there is mention of testing the product, but nothing on the results. I have, like everyone else an ageing gearbox / motor with little hope of buying spares, so these results would be very interesting for the winter overhaul / rebuild.
Hi,I am very interested to see your progress on the gear box,I myself have been working and testing various ideas on the gearbox for some years now.Chas told me that 4 cogs dont work because 3 of them engage with the internal gear but the forth cant turn enough to take the load at the same time the other 3 are all in contact with there 20 degree pressure angle with the internal gear ,but i dont see why it woudnt,i think he is measuring something wrong,anyway through my experimenting i have found that 6 planet gears work perfectly one every 60 degrees,the planet gears interlock with each other and doing it this way is incredably strong.I dont yet know how you are making the metal cogs,but i can tell you that you can not have steel on steel the friction and heat and metal debris will be mental,you have to bore out the mod 1 gear to 12mm and fit a oilite bush 12mm o/d 8mm i/d and ream out to fit the dowell pin nicely,and also you cannot run this metal cog version on grease,the metalic debris with the grease turns to an abrasive soup like valve grinding compound and the gogs will be worn out in no time,i have tried i know,what you have to do is run it with 6ml of ep 90 gear oil,what i have done is fitted 125mm of 6mm o/d (looks like car window washer tube)but in actual fact i have used a old car battery breather tube because i found the i/d was larger.I then drilled a 5.75 mm hole at the lowest point of the gearbox and glued it in with JB weld,i then got a strong neo ring magnet 6mm i/d 10mm o/d and slid it up the tube so it is about 10mm away from the outside of the bottom of the case this then attracts all the metal debris out of harms way.The fill/drain tube is blocked off with a m5 bolt and a small o ring.a small hole about the same size as the bottom hole must be drilled in the top of the gearbox,not as a fill tube but a breather so as no pressure is built up,the posistion of the 2 holes are critical.Do not fill from the top as the oil is so thick it wil take over a day to trickle down to the drain/fill tube and air is trapped in the tube.Go to the chemist and buy a 5ml measuring syring,you can just get 6ml in there and fill from the bottom this eliminates any air in the tube and the need to wait for the oil to eventually fill the tube and exspell any air.If you try my idea you will notice that after filling with 6 ml of oil for the first time that only about 3/4 ml will drain out because 2 or 3ml is left coating the internal gear and cogs,but the second time you do an oil change 6 ml should drain out(only drain the oil when it has been in use and is hot.)Use a 2 RS rubber shielded gearbox bearing(these are not the best for friction and heat but will stop any oil seeping out.In the case of chas,s gearbox insert it is made of ally which is the fastes metal known to transmitt heat,so with the friction on the dowel pins this heat is conducted to the HTD-5 drive cog and it can really get hot,very hot,so i have made a external heat sink out of 2mm ally that looks about the size of a cd (11cm) with many holes drilled in it like a disk brake and is fitted to the end of the insert with heat sink compound and a m5 bolt,this really helps the heat situation,i have all the data about heat but it is far to involved for now.Moving on to your gearbox internal gear case,i think it is a good idea but allthough nylon is low friction i would be very amazed if it could handle the heat and tourqe,can you not 3d print in delrin ?this is what material was originaly used.My mod1 planet gears have 3 2mm holes drilled through them at 120 degrees spacing to allow oil to be forced through to the dowell pins as the teeth mesh together,the motor cog is metal and is bored out to 9.98mm and is a press fit and has no oilways,all my steel gears are made from EN24 grade steel.Hope you find this helpfull.You can email me if you want to know more at simonmd61@yahoo.co.uk If you want someone to test this prototype i would be glad to help,Yours sincerly Simon Deane.


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Celebrating its 100th anniversary on 31 May 2019, Hilton has served guests across the world and been host to some of the most famous cultural moments in history. One such moment happened on 25 March 1969 (50 years ago on Monday) when John Lennon and Yoko Ono held 'Bed-In for Peace' in Room 702 of the Hilton Amsterdam — turning their honeymoon into a weekend promotion for global harmony.
In celebration of the golden anniversary, Hilton has created a new limited video series called Room 702. The series is inspired by the room's spirit, as personified through some of the Hilton team members who bring that spirit to life today.
The first stories of the series include Serby Castro, a suite attendant at an Embassy Suites by Hilton in Orlando, where she champions a life-saving programme that recycles leftover hotel soap and distributes it in regions without ready access to the basics of hygiene.
Another is Ismaeil Dawod, a refugee who sought new opportunities in Germany, who found a job at Hilton Frankfurt where he is now engaged in an apprenticeship programme. Ismaeil's moving story shows his determination to start his life over. Along the way, he uses his new language skills to assist other refugees.
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The AMPRO system is comprised of different modules to cover organization-wide asset management requirements. These include the Administration module, which sets up all the information in tables required throughout the program. The Assets module improves and organizes the way companies manage their assets, while the Contact module is where all supplier, manufacturer, and employee contacts are centralized. The Inventory module quickly and easily manages all spare parts and inventories. The Purchase Orders module efficiently creates and manages purchasing tasks via one central location. The Jobs module is where users can manage tasks that are either manually created or automatically generated from recurring tasks.
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Event: Launch of The Englishman's Cameo by Madhulika Liddle.
More: Liddle will read from her book and then be in conversation with Amit Varma, followed by audience Q&A.
And?: And high tea after that.
Ooh! Venue?: Oxford Bookstore, 3, Dinshaw Vachha Road, Mumbai.
When is this?: 6.30 to 7.30pm, Saturday, October 10.
The Facebook page for the event is here; and here's the Facebook page for the book.
Regardless of whether you can make it for the event, I recommend you check out the book. It's being slotted as "a Mughal murder mystery", and is set in 1656, in Shahjahan's Delhi.
It is wonderfully evocative, and makes you feel you're actually in that time and place: during a break from reading the book, I found myself reaching for the paandaan, reminding myself not to stain my choga this time. More importantly, it's a wonderful read, and hard to put down once you've started.
It stars Muzaffar Jang, a maverick minor nobleman of Shahjahan's court who unwittingly begins to do detective work when one of his friends is accused of a murder he didn't commit. One thing leads to another, more murders take place, and a minor character, bemused by Muzaffar's passion for the strange bitter brew called coffee, hits upon the idea of diluting it with milk. It's terrific fun, and I hope it's just the first of a series.
Anyway, be there, meet the author, ask her questions, get the book signed by her, and have high tea. And just think, later you can act all snobbish and tell your friends that you went to a literary launch. Much pomposity is possible!


It has been my goal for the last couple of years to introduce Classic Films to my sons Ben and Alex. This isn't being done to them against their will. They are very willing to watch these films, but this doesn't mean that all of the movies have been a success. They both enjoy mysteries and comedies. Rear Window has been watched several times, and It Happened One Night stayed with them to the point that my youngest, Alex, was interested in trying raw carrots after watching Clark Gable eat one. Darker more dramatic movies didn't always work with them. The movie Rebecca didn't hold their interest as much as I had hoped, but they at least experienced it. I feel that watching these movies is necessary to their education, and to make them better well-rounded individuals. These classic movies are referenced all the time, and this generation is just not getting it. I love that if I brush my finger on the side of my nose Alex will do the same because he knows it is the conman's signal from watching The Sting. Plus, I just plain want to share my love of these movies with them. Last Saturday we watched the Marx Brothers' comedy, A Night in Casablanca, and it was received better than my wildest dreams.
I knew that they really enjoy visual comedy, which is evident in their love of both Charlie Chaplin and Peter Sellers movies. With this in mind, I thought that a Marx Brothers' movie would be a good choice for movie night. My youngest sits down to watch, and immediately starts with questions about the movie. He wants to know what type of movie it is. I explain to him that it's a "slapstick" comedy. This answer results in more questions, because he doesn't understand the term. He asks if it is going to be live-action, because my explanation of "slapstick" made it sound like the over-the-top antics usually found in an animated movie. I explain that the people will be real — slightly crazy — but real. When the title comes up my oldest jokingly asks if this movie is a sequel to Casablanca. These questions show that these boys are going into this movie knowing absolutely nothing about the Marx Brothers. Quite frankly, how does one explain the Marx Brothers? It is best to just experience them.
Well, if I had any doubts about them liking the movie, it was resolved in the first twenty minutes when Alex started rolling on the floor in a laughing fit over Harpo's dueling scene. When the scene ends, he declares that Harpo is his favorite. Harpo might be his favorite, but both boys are very impressed with Chico's piano playing. The funny thing is that they didn't really have much to say about the most famous brother, Groucho. I think the reason for this is that his humor is less visual, and they don't really get the double entendres that is his thing. One of the last scenes takes place in a hotel room, and there is a bit with the closet doors that have both boys laughing out loud. The finale scene with Harpo piloting a plane (I did mention he was the favorite) has Alex beginning to annoy his brother with his repeated statement of "I love this guy".
When the movie ends and the credits roll they are both shocked to see that the names that I have been referring to during the movie are their actual names. "Who would name their child that?" was the reaction of my oldest son, Ben. This reinforces the total lack of previous knowledge of these people before watching the movie, and I found their complete innocence on the subject rather sweet. I explain to them that these are their stage names, and their parents are not responsible for giving them these names. My youngest, Alex wants to know more about them, "Do they have any other movies?". He wants to know more about their career, and is curious to know if other people know about them. He asks if they are planning on showing any of their movies at the film festival that I have been talking about these days, and if they are, then he is "so jealous". Yes, he is just that adorable.
The evening ends with Alex declaring that he wants to see more "really old movies" and he starts to re-watch his favorite *cough* Harpo *cough* parts. Guess who is getting some Marx Brothers' movies for Christmas? Ben has always been the one that has shown a greater interest in the classic movies, so this did my heart good to see that this might be when Alex becomes a classic film buff too.
A BIG THANK YOU to Pam for sharing another wonderful post with Classic Movie Hub. You can follow Pam on Twitter at @FallonThornley ; Pam always shares such wonderful Classic Movie Facts and Quotes with CMH on Twitter!
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[Review] "Abzu" On PlayStation 4
Posted on: October 7, 2020 Last updated on: October 21, 2020 Categorized in: Reviews, Video Games Written by: Michael Wayne
"Abzu" is beautifully designed game and it was a lot fun to play. "Abzu" is out now on all platforms and is currently free to claim on the Epic Games Store.
Abzu is beautifully designed game and it was a lot fun to play. Giant Squid Studios did an incredible job with developing this game. Abzu is out now on all platforms and is currently free to claim on the Epic Games Store.
There isn't a clear plot for Abzu, but the goal of the game is fairly obvious. Your main goal in the game is to unlock certain waypoints on the map. Unlocking the waypoints is really easy but the game isn't mean't to be challenging. Abzu is a beautiful game and its big selling point is with it's design. You will travel across an enormous map filled with all kind of aquatic life. If you're lucky, you might even find Nemo (sorry, I had to). Once you unlock one of the waypoints, you'll be presented with a beautiful visual of a specific that you would have seen during that level. You even can ride on certain animals!
There is more background to the game that remains a mystery. Through the game you will pass through these giant prisms that look like they might be alive. There is also a Great White Shark that seems to follow you as you progress in the game. Each level has a certain thing you must do before you can pass; it could either pulling on a chain or finding a certain fish. There might not be a serious story to follow, but the game is mysterious and is just simply beautiful.
The visuals are very pleasing and is a big reason why this game is as good as it is. The aquatic animal were each very well designed and were simply amazing. My favorite part was when you get to swim with the whales. The lighting underneath the water was really good and I was very impressed.
I didn't notice any drops in the frame rate, even when there was a lot going on in the game. The developers paid attention to the details and you can tell once you go further down in the ocean. The color nice and vibrant at times and overall the game had a very nice aesthetic.
The controls can be annoying at first because of rotating the camera works, but thankfully the game does offer you the chance to change whenever you want. L2 lets you ride on animals and R2 lets you move. The Circle button lets you do flips; it doesn't really provide a purpose to the other than doing cool flips. The X button lets you speed up; this becomes very useful towards the end of the game. Lastly, Square lets you select items to use them.
Abzu features a pleasant and soft soundtrack. The soundtrack doesn't do anything as much as creating excitement, but it fit well with the game's overall tone. The soundtrack was a joy to listen to while you're swimming around the map. The sounds of the water and the aquatic life was amazing and sounded almost realistic in a way. The shark eating the robot was loud and was a good jump-scare.
The game's beautiful design and layout is all the replay value you need. Plus, trying to figure out what the giant prisms are is definitely a reason to keep playing or to even play it again. Also, this game is very relaxing and is overall a game that everyone should try.
Overall, Abzu is a fun, beautiful, and aesthetically pleasing game. The game's stunning environments are a big reason why it is so good and it's complimented with a very pleasing soundtrack. I'd highly recommend playing Abzu since it's now free to claim on the Epic Games Store. Abzu is one those games where you actually have to play it to understand how good it is.
Below you can watch the official trailer for Abzu:
Abzu is available now on all platforms and is currently free to claim on the Epic Games Store
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints Shirin Fozi as the Paul and Jill Ruddock Associate Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that, following an extensive search, Shirin Fozi will be joining the Museum as the Paul and Jill Ruddock Associate Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. Dr. Fozi is currently Associate Professor in History of Art and Architecture and Director of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh; she will start at The Met this summer. In her new role, Fozi will be responsible for developing exhibitions that showcase The Met's holdings of medieval art, contributing to public programs, engaging with donors and collectors, recommending significant acquisitions, and researching and presenting the Museum's collections in ways that capitalize on her areas of expertise.
"Shirin Fozi is a highly respected scholar in her field with an exceptionally rich knowledge of medieval art. We look forward to the wonderful scholarship she will bring to the Museum," said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. "We also extend our gratitude to Paul and Jill Ruddock for their continued support of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters."
Fozi said, "It's an exciting time to be a medievalist because we are seeing more and more evidence of how much Europe, Africa, and Asia were interconnected during the Middle Ages. The Museum is likewise prioritizing new ways of seeing connections across different parts of its collection, with more collaborations between departments than ever before. My hope is to see this reflected in the Medieval Art Department, and particularly at The Met Cloisters, where we have a unique opportunity to represent medieval Europe as a vibrant and complex space that was in constant dialogue with its neighbors."
About Shirin Fozi
Fozi earned her BA from Williams College (2001) and her MA (2005) and PhD (2010) in the history of art from Harvard University. As a graduate student, Fozi worked as a lecturer at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2002–10) and served as a research intern in the Art of Europe Department and lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2003–10).
Fozi's dissertation on Romanesque tomb effigies was awarded the Romanik-Forschungspreis, Europäisches Romanik-Zentrum for the best dissertation from any discipline on the period ca. 1050–1200 in Europe. Her subsequent monograph, Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Europe, 1000–1200 (Penn State Press, 2021) received a Millard Meiss Grant from the College Art Association, and her essay on Reinhildis of Riesenbeck (published in Speculum) was recognized as the February 2015 article of the month by Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index. Together with Gerhard Lutz, Fozi co-edited Christ on the Cross: The Boston Crucifix and the Rise of Monumental Wood Sculpture 970–1200 (Brepols Publishers, 2020). In addition to her research on monumental sculpture in the 10th through early 13th century, she has published several essays on the modern history of collections of medieval art in the United States.
Fozi has taught courses in Museum Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, including seminars that culminated in an ongoing digital exhibition of medieval manuscript facsimiles (A Nostalgic Filter: Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh). She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art and the Council of the Medieval Academy of America.
The Met Cloisters. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Floto Warner
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using AtataSamples.SpecFlow.Components;
using TechTalk.SpecFlow;

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Q: LOAD FILE,wrong output in the last row and column This is sql file
# mo.sql

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS mo;
#@ _CREATE_TABLE_
CREATE TABLE mo
(
  name CHAR(30),
  age INT,
  salary INT
);
#@ _CREATE_TABLE_

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'moja-2001.txt' INTO TABLE mo;

I run it from Linux terminal
mysql -p cookbook < mo.sql

No warning,no errors.
SELECT * FROM mo;
+--------------------------+------+--------+
| name                     | age  | salary |
+--------------------------+------+--------+
| jova jovic               |   24 |   NULL |
| ceda prashak             |   25 |   NULL |
| toma grobar     28 20001 | NULL |   NULL |
+--------------------------+------+--------+

I have created txt file with geany text editor
jova jovic      24 999
ceda prashak    25 1000
toma grobar     28 20001

Why is salary column wrong?Why is third row wrong also?

A: The last row does not use the correct separators for values. I suspect the other rows separate the values using tabs and the last one uses spaces. The same for column salary.
Make sure you use the same separator for values. It's better to use comma (it is visible and less error prone) and use the FIELDS TERMINATED BY clause of the LOAD DATA statement to inform MySQL about it.
Change the file to look like this:
jova jovic,24,999
ceda prashak,25,1000
toma grobar,28,20001

and import it like this:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'moja-2001.txt' INTO TABLE mo FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';

Read more about the LOAD DATA statement.


Chapter 3 Deconstructed from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
The Syracuse University Library was full. There was no room left on the shelves. This is not an uncommon problem with libraries of all sorts, and the solutions range from throwing things away (weeding) to constructing new buildings. Syracuse tried the first, then the second, but finally settled on off-site storage. The librarians were going to take items not checked out in about 10 years or so and ship them to a warehouse five hours away. If an item from the warehouse was needed, it would be shipped back to Syracuse or digitized and sent directly to the computer of the professor or student who requested it.
You might think that there wouldn't be that many books going unused over a decade span, but you would be wrong. In fact if you pick just about any library you will run into something called the 80/20 rule. Of a collection, 80% of use will be from 20% of that collection. Put another way, you could throw away 80% of the books and still meet 80% of the requests from the community. So, why keep the rest? Well, you never know if one of those 20% of users will use one of those 80% of low-use books to cure cancer—and there is no way to know ahead of time.
While the librarians were expecting some resistance to the off-site plan, the level of pushback took them by surprise. For years, the librarians had been increasing use of the library. Through the introduction of a learning commons, lots of meeting spaces, a cafe, power strips, and new services, the library was being used more than ever. The library was full not only in terms of books, but in people. The problem was, the humanities scholars didn't see the coffee and undergraduates plugged into power strips as an appropriate use of the space. Every table was a place for more shelves and more books. That, they said, was the purpose of the library—holding books and materials, not meeting spaces and coffee.
This idea, that libraries are about books, is hardly limited to humanities faculty. A few years earlier in Syracuse (apparently a hot spot for library controversy) the county started a book recycling program. Once a year residents could box up their old books and drop them off to be pulped. There were immediate cries from concerned citizens calling upon the public library to intervene. Don't recycle the books, donate them to the library! The library said no, not because it was full, but because it was too busy.
The library didn't have the staff to sort through the hundreds and hundreds of books looking for the right ones to keep—at least that is what they said initially. When community members started to organize the Boy Scouts to sort through the books, the real reason came to light. It turns out the librarians had already gone to the book recycling collection point and found old and rotting books of little value. They also found that residents took this as an opportunity to recycle items like Hustler magazine. The librarians weren't that interested in sorting through these shoulder to shoulder with Boy Scouts.
School libraries regularly receive donations of National Geographic because they "must" be valuable. Never mind that there is no place to store the physical magazines and the entire run of the magazine is available digitally.
In Glendale, an affluent suburban village outside of Cincinnati, the citizens started their own library with donated books. They lined the shelves and opened the doors. After the first week, traffic evaporated. It seems folks weren't looking to read the books that they had donated and were willing to drive to the three other public libraries within a five-mile radius.
All of these stories highlight one of the biggest myths about modern libraries—libraries are about books. You can be forgiven if this is what you thought, too. After all, libraries have been very successful in the book business, and, moreover, many libraries have been building this book-library brand in their communities over the past century or so.
Clearly, the idea that libraries are about books is deep in the DNA of librarianship.
However, take a look at those rules again. How central are books to those laws? Had Ranganathan lived 2,000 years ago, would he have said "scrolls are for use?" If you replace the word "books" with "eBooks" or "web pages," do these ideas still hold true? I think they do. These laws really state that the center of the library is the community. The job of the library is to fulfill the needs of the community members, not simply to house materials.
Yes, that is the same department. Working tables, natural light—a space more for people and learning than for books. To be clear, the books were still in the library, they were just brought out of closed storage upon request. Open spaces were for people, closed spaces for materials.
When did we start thinking of libraries as book havens? Libraries have always housed collections of materials, but even this concept of repository is a relatively modern one. It was formed when libraries were seeking to create comprehensive collections at the same time as a dramatic drop in prices of paper and printing. It was only in the twentieth century that mass-produced books starting filling up libraries as well as living rooms and schools.
This bibliophilia changed how we look not only at libraries today, but libraries across history.
Let's take a look at the Library of Alexandria mentioned in the first chapter. The original library was a wonder of the ancient world. Today, those who know of it think of it as an enormous collection of documents from the ancient world—and it was. My favorite story is about ships that would pull into the port of Alexandria, one of the busiest ports in the world at the time. Soldiers would meet the ships and confiscate any documents they had on board (including those used as ballast). The documents would be taken to the library, copied, and the copies were returned to the ships.
But if you are thinking of the ancient library as a huge document storehouse, like the current picture of the Free Library of Philadelphia, you would be wrong. In fact, the Library of Alexandria was much more akin to the universities of today. There were multiple buildings on the campus. One of the first was a temple dedicated to the Muses called the Musae—where we get the word for museum. The main building of the Library was as much a dormitory as it was a warehouse. Scholars from the known world were brought together and encouraged to talk and create. It was, in fact, one of the earliest think tanks and innovation centers in history. The librarian was one of the closest advisors to the rulers of the city-state not because he had access to materials, but access to thinkers.
When the Library of Alexandria was destroyed, much of the collection eventually found a new home in Moorish Spain. There, these documents did not sit around but were translated, augmented, and used. This became apparent during the first crusades at the end of the medieval times. As crusaders "liberated" the city of Toledo, they found library after library after library. It must have been stunning to see that one of the 80 libraries held more volumes than did the entirety of France. More remarkable though was that the citizens of Toledo weren't simply preserving manuscripts, they were using them to develop new forms of architecture, new aqueducts, new modes of governance, and a little thing called algebra (including the whole concept of zero by the way). In fact, one historian credits the living libraries of the Muslim world with the creation of universities and the Renaissance.
In Victorian England, public libraries had gaming parlors. Andrew Carnegie built over 2,509 libraries around the world to encourage democratic participation and social opportunity. Public libraries have been art galleries. They have added children's collections when the modern concept of childhood was virtually created with the advent of child labor laws. Librarians have even ripped the shelves out of bookmobiles to transform them into moving Makerspaces. The Frysklab in the Netherlands is a mobile Makerspace filled with laptops, 3D printers, and laser etchers that travels the northern provinces of the Netherlands, stopping at schools to bring much needed curricular enrichment to students.
The mission of a library is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in the community.
To be clear, this is my wording, but the underlying concepts can be seen historically where scholars used to run libraries to advance the research agenda of their colleges. It can also be seen in the librarians of Kenya and Ferguson who started off this book. Bad libraries only build collections. Good libraries build services (and a collection is only one of many). Great libraries build communities.
Stone tablets became scrolls, scrolls became manuscripts, manuscripts became books, and books are rapidly becoming apps. The tools that libraries use to achieve the mission, any mission, will change. The purpose of using those tools (and new tools) remains steady over long periods of time. Libraries should be about knowledge, not tools.
The rest of this book will take a look at what you need to expect out of a library based on components of the above mission statement (what do I mean by improve, by knowledge, by facilitate, etc.?), but before we do that we need to tackle two issues: reading and the general utility of a mission.
When folks ask me about libraries, reading, and my proposed mission they are normally asking "can't I just use the library to read a good novel or borrow a DVD without worrying about saving the world? Isn't there value in just reading for recreation?" My answer is yes and that fiction is as important to learning and building knowledge as is non-fiction. Stories are how we dream and how we test our ethical bounds. A good novel can reveal fundamental truth in ways no academic tome of philosophy ever can. What's more, the ideas and inspirations for great action often come when we least expect it.
Much of library literature focuses on concepts of information and empowerment, often ignoring or silently assuming that libraries can still support recreation and reading development. To be sure, this book is focused on libraries as places of social engagement and learning. The question isn't "should libraries support recreational reading?" The answer to that question is dependent on the community—like supporting the arts or parks. The real question revolves around individuals who want to turn recreational reading into something social, or geared towards some larger goal.
So I read a book and love it. That may be enough for me. But what if a beautiful piece of fiction inspires me to write my own novel, or invent some new device, or form a group of others who love the book and seek to act. It is not the role of the library to predetermine the outcomes of reading (or inventing, or movie making)—that edges too close to telling people what to read and why. Rather, it is the place of the library to be a platform for the community members to turn their love and passion into something for the good of the community and/or themselves.
The more we do of something the better we get. So we need to support reading of all kinds where appropriate (in the library, in school, on the playground, on vacation, in the laboratory, in video games). When you read the words "knowledge" and "learning" throughout this book, don't think I am limiting that to just to the ideas that end up in textbooks and research articles. Poetry, novels, and a good science fiction story all carry equal weight to me in knowledge creation. However, I believe that we should also expect libraries of all kinds to be ready to support the outcomes of that reading.
So let us now turn our attention to how libraries tackle these ideas in their mission statements.
You can't get much better than advancing knowledge and strengthening communities.
Note that it is clear in defining its community: the American people, but only after the Congress and the federal government.
I love them—love them all. They show you that, across a range of institutions, the mission can be short and meaningful. They can also be about the impact the libraries want to have, not the stuff they collect. It is no accident that these organizations have international reputations.
With that in mind, let me turn to some not-so-inspiring missions. I have changed the names of all of the libraries to "MyTown" or "MyCollege" to protect the not so innocent.
The MyTown Public Library provides materials in a variety of formats and services for persons of all ages, to help community residents obtain information that meets their personal, educational, and professional needs. All library services are vigorously promoted to increase public awareness and thereby increase the quality of life for MyTown citizens.
Aside from the fact that this mission is clearly about the stuff the library collects, one feature of this mission drives me nuts. It is the mission of the library to promote the library? And not just to promote itself, but do so vigorously?! Isn't it a bit arrogant to say that simply by knowing the library is there, life will improve for citizens? Also, what should you expect from this library? Stuff, yes, but also a sort of "me first" attitude.
Provide for the recreational needs of its patrons by supporting leisure time activities through the provision of library materials and services.
Provide for the collective and individual information needs of its patrons by selecting, acquiring, cataloging, organizing, and distributing information and materials.
Provide for the cultural enhancement of individual patrons and the MyTown community by providing materials and attendant activities that foster understanding of the development of international, national, community, and individual heritage and lifestyle.
Provide for the continuing educational needs of its patrons by supporting learning beyond that required for attaining academic degrees or meeting job qualifications by providing materials that enhance daily life, personal interests, and job performance.
The MyTown Library recognizes the impact of technology, specifically electronic communication and information, upon the MyTown community. The Library strives to identify, to retrieve, to organize, and to provide access to technology in its various formats.
In fulfilling its mission, the MyTown Library fully supports the principle of freedom of expression and the public's right to know. The Library will foster an atmosphere of free inquiry and provide information without bias or discrimination.
Wow! Can you see printing that on a T-shirt? My main complaint here is that it is all about pushing out materials, not co-owning or creating them with the community. This is not about the library as a service, but instead about the library as a servant. It shows another interesting aspect of old versus new librarianship's worldview, namely the relationship of the library to the community.
Libraries "for the people" is an old way of looking at libraries. It sees the library as apart from the community, a service the community can use and pay for, but ultimately ignore or discard. The new view is the library "of the people." The community is an integral part of what the library does, and librarians are full-fledged members of the community. Librarians do their jobs not because they are servants or because they are building a product to be consumed by the community, but ultimately to make the community better. Community members don't support the library because they are satisfied customers, but because the library is part of who they are.
This concept of a library is analogous to democratic government. When the people feel part of the government, their views are represented, their voices are heard, and they are governing themselves (of the people). When, however, they feel the government is a sort of distant standing political class, dissatisfaction occurs (or, in the very extreme, you get the Arab Spring). Libraries must be of the people, not for them. When a member of the community walks into a library (or clicks into it), he or she must see an opportunity to contribute, to have a voice, and to improve the institution. Otherwise, the library is just another Borders or Blockbuster – content delivery efforts destined to be replaced or superseded.
Likewise, the librarian seeks to provide excellent service not only out of an altruistic drive but out of a selfish desire to improve his or her own condition. If the librarian does his or her job well, the community will improve, and an improved community then improves the situation of the librarian. It is a virtuous circle.
The University Library strengthens the MyCollege academic enterprise by providing, presenting, and preserving a wide range of information resources. We utilize innovative approaches in working with faculty and students to help them discover, use, manage, and share the array of information that supports their research, teaching, and learning.
To be honest, this one isn't too egregious, but it is still very much about strengthening an institution by providing stuff (information resources). Also, while innovation is good, it only extends to library functions in this case. It is not about helping innovators or fostering innovation within the community. It is also very much saying that faculty and students will improve by working with the library, but not about the library learning from (and preferably with) the community.
The mission of the MyCollege Library is to support the research and curricular needs of its faculty and students by providing a superb collection of legal materials and by offering the highest possible level of service. To the extent consistent with its mission, the Library supports the research needs of the greater MyCollege community as well as scholars from outside the MyCollege community requiring access to its unique collections.
In other words, come get your stuff here, and it is really great stuff.
The MyTown Library, a public service agency, is to provide all residents of the MyTown with a comprehensive collection of materials in a variety of media that records man's knowledge, ideas and culture, to organize these materials for ready access, and to offer guidance and encouragement in their use. Special emphasis is placed on popular materials in all formats to all ages and on providing a lifelong learning and education center for all residents of the community. The Library especially serves as a place for children to discover the joy of reading and the value of Libraries.
Where to start in this sort of kitchen sink, stuff-based example? How about doubting that this library has a comprehensive collection of man's knowledge, ideas, and culture? Talk about overpromising and under-delivering. Add to that serving everyone, and do we really want anyone indoctrinating children?
So libraries are on a mission: to improve society through knowledge creation. Of course, the mission of libraries is unique among most other institutions. The mission of the library almost always sits within the mission of a larger organization. A public library is part of a city or county. An academic library is part of a college or university. School libraries are there to propel the overall mission of a school. Corporate libraries are there to contribute to the bottom line.
We will return to how the mission of improving society is ultimately shaped and shapes a community when I discuss what exactly I mean by "improve society" in Chapter 5. For now, let us turn to the more immediate concern of how libraries actually fulfill their mission. That is, first and foremost, what does a library do? To know this is especially important since a library does much more than simply collect books.


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Brothers in Arms, Part 2: Race and Abortion from Roe to the Reagan Years
Posted on January 22, 2018 by Matt
This article is our second installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and opposition to abortion. Previously, this series examined how fears of immigration — and racist notions that associated abortion with the barbarism of so-called "savage" races — fueled the opposition to abortion that led to its prohibition in the late 1800s. This installment examines the social forces that helped racism and opposition to abortion converge again in the first years after Roe v. Wade.
Replica of a banner used at NAACP headquarters from 1920 to 1938
A principle of democracy holds that while majority rule should serve as the guiding force of government, at times it must be reconciled with the rights of individuals and minorities. It was an idea Thomas Jefferson captured in his inaugural speech of 1801:
All … will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail … that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect.
With that understanding, the framers wrote the Constitution to include provisions for a judicial branch, composed of judges whose lifetime appointments would free them from the pressures of elections and afford them greater independence in their decisions. The branch would serve as the nation's highest judicial body, above state and local courts.
Before his obsession with abortion and Tinky Winky, Jerry Falwell fought civil rights and integration.
For much of U.S. history, local, state, and federal judicial systems existed alongside another judicial system, one far less formal and conceived not in the interest of protecting minorities, but often in meting out the harshest possible punishments for them. It was the vigilante justice of lynching, sometimes known as Lynch law. Named after the Virginia plantation owner Charles Lynch, it was a form of mob justice that took root in the Revolutionary War era, before an official court system was fully established. It came to mean quick trials that ended in public hangings.
Though lynching was initially used against British loyalists, eventually Southern blacks became the overwhelming majority of its victims. Many Native Americans, Asians, Jews, and Mexicans were also lynched. According to the NAACP, between 1882 and 1968, in the period of racial tension in the post-slavery and civil rights years, 4,743 lynchings took place, and 3,446 of its victims were black. Rather than taking place under the cover of night or in countryside seclusion, many lynchings were staged in broad daylight, even in front of courthouses, and they were often advertised beforehand in newspapers — a blunt assertion of their existence as a separate judicial system for people of color. Though associated with the South, they took place in the North as well. In fact, only a few states — Alaska, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island — had no lynchings between 1882 and 1968. Continue reading →
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Abortion: What's Faith Got to Do with It?
Posted on December 19, 2016 by Gene Twaronite
Plenty, actually. Whenever I hear a politician claiming he or she is a person of faith, I cringe. All too often it's followed by the words: "I believe in the sanctity of all life, which is why I'm against abortions and will work to defund Planned Parenthood."
[I]n one sense, faith is a belief in a supreme being or in a particular religion. Not all religions are opposed to abortion, however. A 2013 Pew Research article reveals a wide range of opinions.
Traditional Judaism, for example, approves abortion as "a means of safeguarding the life and well-being of a mother." Most of the branches openly support a woman's right to safe and accessible abortions.
Let's build bridges across our beliefs, instead of building ideological walls between one another.
Though Buddhism has no official position on abortion, many Buddhists hold the belief that human life begins at conception and that, therefore, abortion is morally wrong. However, in Japan, with a large Buddhist population, abortions are common.
Traditional Hinduism condemns abortion except in cases where the mother's life is at risk. It follows the general value system "that the correct course of action in any given situation is the one that causes the least harm to those involved."
Although Islamic scholars disagree over exactly when life begins or when abortion is acceptable, most view terminating a pregnancy after four months — "the point at which, in Islam, a fetus is thought to become a living soul" — as not permissible. Many also believe that, prior to four months, abortions should only be permitted in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger. Continue reading →
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If you have either the Echo from Amazon or the Google Home device, you likely already use it to play music, get news updates, and ask for information about the weather, but thanks to integration with the If This Then That (IFTTT) platform, you can do much more—including finding your phone when it's lost.
Setting up either device to ring your phone when it's fallen into the Bermuda Triangle of devices takes a few steps, but they're fairly straightforward and once complete, will make getting your iPhone or Android back in your hands as simple as speaking a short phrase out loud.
First, a bit about IFTTT.
IFTTT is a free online platform that lets you take advantage of applets you either create yourself, or select from pre-made offerings. Applets are basically short sets of instructions that tie different Internet-connected devices or services together. So, for example, you could get WiFi-enabled lights in your home to turn on when your WiFi-connected front door lock is opened. For either Google Home or Amazon Echo to be able to find a lost phone, you'll need to create different applets. Here's how.
You'll first need to sign up for an account (or log into an existing account) at IFTTT. Once that's taken care of, click on "Search" at the top of the screen and enter "Google Assistant." Google Assistant is Google's answer to Siri, a voice-activated responsive search feature.
Once you get to the screen showing a range Google services, click on Google Assistant. You'll then be asked to choose which Google account you'd like to use with this service. Be sure to pick the same account you have already linked to your Google Home device.
Next, go back to the search feature and look for "Phone Call." On the resultant screen, click on "Phone Call (US Only)" (yes, this feature only works for US residents). You'll then need to go through a verification process in which you'll enter your phone number and receive a call back with a PIN number. Enter that number where prompted, and you'll be good to go with the Phone Call service.
Normally, you'd have to now link the two services together to create an applet, but that's already been taken care of you by Google, so all you need to do is visit that applet page and click "turn on." You can then leave the applet as is, or you can customize it by clicking the gear icon in the upper right corner of the black box. Do so, and you'll see three different phrases you can speak to find your phone. You can leave those as they are, or you can customize them in any way you'd like by changing the text. You can also enter in the phrase you'd like your Home device to speak back to you after it has recognized your command, as well as the message you'll hear should you choose to answer your phone when it rings.
The setup for Echo is much the same as for Google Home. You'll need to also enable the Phone Call service, so follow the instructions above to make that happen.
Then, simply click here to access the applet and click the "turn on" button. You'll then be able to enter the phrase that will initiate the applet that will, again, ring your phone if it is lost. Unlike Google home, you will have to use the Echo phrase "trigger" before any chosen phrase. So for example, if you want the phrase to be "I lost it again," you'll need to say: "Alexa, trigger I lost it again." You can also customize the message you'll hear if you answer your phone when it rings.
With both applets, you can check to see if they are working by clicking the "Check now" button and watching for the results in a band that will flash across the top of the screen.
Also, it's important to remember that these will only work providing your phone still has power left, has its ringer turned on, and is not in "do not disturb" mode.


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The World is Askew, and 'Big Bang Theory' Actors Still Make the Most Money in TV Comedy
By Moze Halperin
Variety has released its list of TV actors' estimated salaries (based on "extensive research"), and some of these exceedingly high numbers seem far more earned than others. Obviously, few of them seem truly earned, insomuch as any of these salary sums are pretty absurd. But within the inflated scale of Hollywood salaries, one can gauge who among these across-the-board disproportionate earnings makes an amount that's disproportionate even to all of the other disproportionate amounts. Variety has separated the lists into comedy and drama actors.
The first grouping on the comedy actors list doesn't come as a surprise, as it's been that way for a while: The stars of the Big Bang Theory make the most money, with Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, and Johnny Galecki earning approximately $1 million per every episode of their interminable series. It's also very much worth noting that apart from seeming merely artistically askew, the tops of both the comedy and drama lists are very white.
Following the anomalously high salaries of the Big Bang Theory actors, there's a major drop in pay — Dwayne Johnson's next, earning $400,000 for HBO's Ballers. After that are a gaggle of actors in upcoming Netflix series: Drew Barrymore for Santa Clarita Diet (which, per Variety, will follow "a married couple who are real estate agents leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita, until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending both their lives down a road of death and destruction — but in a good way"), with $350,000; and Emma Stone and Jonah Hill for the Cary Fukunaga-directed series Maniac, an adaptation of a Norwegian series about the fantasies of a man in a mental institution — also with $350,000 per episode each.
Next on the list are a series of Simpsons actors, followed by critical favorites Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent ($275,000) and Julia Louis Dreyfus for Veep ($250,000); yes, that's right, Julia Louis Dreyfus makes a quarter of what the Big Bang Theory actors make. Other notable actors — who've received high praise for their parts — come in at the bottom of the list (still, of the top-paid actors), with Gina Rodriguez earning $60,000 per episode of Jane the Virgin, Tracee Ellis Ross earning $80,000 for Black-ish, and the rest of Transparent's Pfefferman family earning $100,000 per episode.
MEANWHILE. In the world of drama, the salaries start dramatically lower (while still being dramatically high) — with Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel each earning $750,000 for their Netflix Gilmore Girls revival. Next comes Mark Harmon for NCIS ($525,000) and Kevin Spacey for House of Cards ($500,000), and then a pack of GoT actors likewise making $500,000 per episode. Claire Danes isn't doing so badly on Homeland ($450,000), and the upcoming HBO series Big Little Lies (adapted from the novel of the same name) is paying Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon quite well. Perhaps the biggest head-scratcher is the amount the Empire cast gets paid — $175,000 per episode for both Taraji P. Henson and Terence Howard, and $20,000 per episode for the Lyon kids.
It's refreshing to see so much immense talent on these lists. But it's also dishearteningly unsurprising that the way to earn the highest salary in Hollywood television is to be a white person on a corny television series about people who find themselves witty and speak with annoying speed.