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Romantic Polytheism
Exploring the project of a modern public religion for a secular society
Tag Archives: Wordsworth
Poet as Priest
Posted on March 24, 2015 by Todd
"The substitution of poetry for religion as a source of ideals, a movement that began with the Romantics, seems to me usefully described as a return to polytheism. "
-Richard Rorty, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism"
The civil religion philosopher Richard Rorty characterizes as "romantic polytheism" starts from a premise of toleration for diverse personal religious explorations, but not-too-subtly wishes for a move away from the paternalistic and authoritarian institutions of traditional monotheism. (He sees a substituting of science as less than adequate, it should be noted.) He espouses "hope for a religion of literature, in which the works of the secular imagination replace Scripture as the principal source of inspiration and hope of each new generation." And further: "We should cheerfully admit that canons are temporary, and touchstones replaceable."
"Once you become polytheistic," Rorty says, "you will turn away not only from priests but from such priest-substitutes as metaphysicians and physicists–from anyone who purports to tell you how things really are." If there is need of such a figure as a priest, however, he nominates the poet, "[f]or poets are to a secularized polytheism what the priests of a universal church are to monotheism."
Can poet prove priest and poetry, canon? Rorty clearly sees Walt Whitman as something like a paradigmatic figure in his preoccupation with "futurity" and "his sense of glorious democratic vistas stretching on indefinitely." In such visions, Whitman "tells us that nonhuman nature culminates in a community of free men, in their collaboration in building a society."
Nietzsche's attempt to "see science through the optic of art, and art through that of life," like Arnold's and Mill's substitution of poetry for religion, is an attempt to make more room for individuality than can be provided either by orthodox monotheism, or by the Enlightenment's attempt to put science in the place of religion as a source of Truth. So the attempt, by Tillich and others, to treat religious faith as "symbolic," and thereby to treat religion as poetic and poetry as religious, and neither as competing with science, is on the right track. But to make it convincing we need to drop the idea that some parts of culture fulfill our need to know the truth and others fulfill lesser aims.
-Rorty, op.cit.
"Truth" is a much misunderstood and often maligned word these days. For some, it only refers to the empirically verifiable. For others, it points to transcendent verities that both include and transcend "mere" physical reality. There is, of course, no reason that the word cannot contain both senses within it, as required. The "polytheism" of Romantic Polytheism encompasses a notion of personal Truth that does not intrude on social consensus and collaboration. (As Rorty characterizes it, this is a polytheism of many "goods.") This is–in an important sense–the Romantic inner quest for the Self, tempered in the forge of an awesome Nature. I would argue that there is here an implicit call for personal authenticity as much as personal responsibility (to the social collective).
In the older Irish societies, the poet (Irish, fili) served the ruler personally and the tribe more generally as holder of tradition, but also as arbiter of traditional codes of justice and virtue. The poet was understood to have genuinely visionary gifts and could wield the greatest weapon available against misuse of authority: satire. The ruler was holder of the highest aspirations and virtues of the People and was expected to embody fir flatha, the King's truth. The intrusion of selfishness or greed into the society on the part of its fit representative was occasion for debilitation, both of the King and of the Land. This could be brought about by the power of the poet's words (holding Power to Truth, if you will). For some, the poet stood in for the Land in a sacred marriage with the King, who stood in for the People, and the poet's words reinforced the highest virtues of the society and provided a necessary corrective against degeneracy into egoism.
Down through long years of colonial oppression, the Irish poet and the bardic schools and courts that sustained the poetic tradition carried forward a narrative of the society and its values, not only in poems praising worthies of the past, but also in the aisling, the visionary poem of the embodiment of the Nation in the figure of a woman.
It should be noted–more than just in passing–that the poet's work in ancient Ireland was embedded in a world filled with ritual. Religion was not separate from other cultural institutions: It was inextricably part of the fabric of daily life. The poet's work and its importance was supported by ritual. Much the same can be said, of course, of the work of the tragedians of ancient Greece, which was composed for performance in civic festivals at which attendance was compulsory.
Whitman's work encapsulated much of the nature of a people building a democratic and egalitarian society. Like the Romantic poets of Europe, he drew on an ensouled Nature as embodiment of the Divine and cast it as partner to the uniquely American proletarian characters of his verses in constructing a Self and a future. Rorty clearly prizes Whitman's regard for the future. Rorty does also, though, recognize the value of the "pantheism" of Wordsworth. If Whitman is the poet-priest of the dawning fraternity of urban America, Wordsworth offers the divinity of solitude and communion with numinous Nature, often paired with deities from the Classical past.
As political philosopher Jason Boffetti has noted in his insightful analysis of Rorty's gesture toward a "new public religious faith," it is a bit "fuzzy" (a word Rorty uses himself, to be sure) as regards doctrine, but more "concrete" in terms of inspiration. Literature, especially poetry (and I would add, drama), are understood to work on the soul of the individual and to point to, in the words of Paul Tillich, "a symbol of ultimate concern," towards which all individuals can aspire and collaborate.
As a doctrine, perhaps, then: Abstracting just slightly from a parochial concern with American democratic institutions, following the inspiration of the poets of the Romantic Era who freshly minted the forms of old Gods to serve the modern Soul–and the poets of the bardic past of Ireland–a project of "perfecting our Union," not only among ourselves as "We, the People," but between ourselves and the natural world embodied in our Land. Sacralizing our Union and our Land, not because they have been supernaturally ordained or blessed, but because they are precious to us as individuals and as society, ought to be the first doctrine and thus the object for personal reflection and virtuous actions, as well as for social collaboration.
Posted in Principles	| Tagged Bardic Tradition, Ireland, poetry, Richard Rorty, Romanticism, Whitman, Wordsworth
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Putting this all to work – A ritual
Intentions in RP ritual
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U.S. intelligence chief warns of increased cyberattacks against 2016 campaigns
'As the campaign intensifies,' a senior U.S. official said, 'we'll probably have more of it.'
Eric Geller
Published May 18, 2016 Updated May 26, 2021, 6:23 pm CDT
U.S. officials are helping presidential campaigns resist a rising tide of digital attacks, the nation's top intelligence official said Wednesday.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at a Bipartisan Policy Center event in Washington that officials had "some indications" of hackers trying to break into presidential campaigns' computers. "As the campaign intensifies," he added, "we'll probably have more of it."
Clapper added that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security were "doing what they can to educate both campaigns against potential cyber threats."
The intelligence director's office declined to provide any details about specific attacks or to further describe U.S. government outreach efforts to the campaigns.
"We're aware that campaigns and related organizations and individuals are targeted by actors with a variety of motivations—from philosophical differences to espionage—and capabilities—from defacements to intrusions," Brian Hale, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said in a statement.
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment on specific cyber incidents affecting presidential campaigns. A DHS spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Congressional committees have requested intelligence briefings on the attacks because of their apparent severity, Reuters reported, citing a government source.
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump's campaigns did not respond to emails seeking information on their contacts with government officials about cyberattacks.
There have been no documented cases of 2016 campaign data breaches, but hackers have repeatedly tried to send a message by targeting the most famous and controversial candidate.
The hacking group Anonymous has repeatedly attacked and defaced Trump's campaign and business websites, and on March 15 the group declared "total war" against the businessman, who is now the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.
Although the economy and national security have dominated the 2016 presidential campaign, as they do in most election cycles, cybersecurity got an unexpected boost in national attention when media outlets revealed that Clinton, as secretary of state, had exclusively used a personal email address linked to a private email server at her New York home.
Cybersecurity experts harshly criticized the setup, warning that government networks, while imperfect, were the best protected against data breaches and were the only ones suitable for handling classified material.
Americans are concerned about cyberattacks disrupting the 2016 election, with 64 percent of registered voters telling the data-security firm PKWARE that they fear an election-season hack. Despite Clinton's email server woes, 42 percent of respondents to the PKWARE survey said she would be the best positioned to defend the country from cyberattacks, with 24 percent picking Trump.
The credit monitoring company Experian, in its third annual data-breach report, predicted that the 2016 campaign would provide irresistible fodder for hackers.
"It is likely that one of the presidential candidates, their campaigns, and/or a major donor [base] will be hacked," the company said in its report, issued in December 2015. "Because campaigns today are being won and lost online and are driven by big data analytics, the potential for a politically motivated attacker to take aim is potentially significant."
Hackers attacked both the Obama and McCain campaigns in 2008, and McCain's running mate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had her email account hacked in September 2008.
Update 4:18pm CT, May 18: Added FBI response.
H/T Politico
*First Published: May 18, 2016, 2:50 pm CDT
Eric Geller is a politics reporter who focuses on cybersecurity, surveillance, encryption, and privacy. A former staff writer at the Daily Dot, Geller joined Politico in June 2016, where he's focused on policymaking at the White House, the Justice Department, the State Department, and the Commerce Department.

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Q: matching date column within date range columns and summing values column in pandas I need to sum the daily values in pandas column (sample_sales) if they fall within date range, represented by 2 columns (payment_start and payment_end), matched in the same row with the daily date column (date). I want to output next month payment to monthly_payment column, monthly_payment is the desired output. I entered just the beginning monthly values to save space, but the range here is daily.
    date        payment_start    payment_end    sample_sales   monthly_payment     next_month_duration
    2017-11-05  2017-10-01       2017-11-04     1               0                  28
    2017-11-06  2017-10-01       2017-11-04     2               0                  28
    ...         ...              ...            ...             ...
    2017-12-03  2017-11-05       2017-12-02     2               3                  28
    2017-12-04  2017-11-05       2017-12-02     2               3                  28
    ...         ...              ...            ...             ...
    2017-12-31  2017-12-03       2017-12-30     3               4                  35
    2018-01-01  2017-12-03       2017-12-30     3               4                  35
    ...         ...              ...            ...             ...
    2017-02-04  2017-12-31       2018-02-03     4               6                  28
    2017-02-05  2017-12-31       2018-02-03     4               6                  28

The duration of months follows the following repeating pattern 35, 28, 28 days, so it's not as easy to shift the sample_sales by a month.
I am currently using this function where I added next_month_duration:
    df['monthly_payment'] = df.apply(lambda x: df.loc[(df['payment_start'] + df['next_month_duration'] <= x.name) & (x.name <= df['payment_end'] + df['next_month_duration']), ['sample_sales']].sum(), axis=1)

The problem that I'am facing is that by pushing the sum of sample_sales by next_month_duration, leaves blanks values or double sums because of 28 and 35 days month duration.
Ultimately, I want to sum the values in monthly_payment from previous month based on the date range and to assign the summed value to each date in the following month inside the monthly_payment column.

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package text

import (
	"strings"
	"unicode/utf8"

	"github.com/mattn/go-runewidth"
)

// Constants
const (
	EscapeReset     = EscapeStart + "0" + EscapeStop
	EscapeStart     = "\x1b["
	EscapeStartRune = rune(27) // \x1b
	EscapeStop      = "m"
	EscapeStopRune  = 'm'
)

// InsertEveryN inserts the rune every N characters in the string. For ex.:
//  InsertEveryN("Ghost", '-', 1) == "G-h-o-s-t"
//  InsertEveryN("Ghost", '-', 2) == "Gh-os-t"
//  InsertEveryN("Ghost", '-', 3) == "Gho-st"
//  InsertEveryN("Ghost", '-', 4) == "Ghos-t"
//  InsertEveryN("Ghost", '-', 5) == "Ghost"
func InsertEveryN(str string, runeToInsert rune, n int) string {
	if n <= 0 {
		return str
	}

	sLen := RuneCount(str)
	var out strings.Builder
	out.Grow(sLen + (sLen / n))
	outLen, isEscSeq := 0, false
	for idx, c := range str {
		if c == EscapeStartRune {
			isEscSeq = true
		}

		if !isEscSeq && outLen > 0 && (outLen%n) == 0 && idx != sLen {
			out.WriteRune(runeToInsert)
		}
		out.WriteRune(c)
		if !isEscSeq {
			outLen += RuneWidth(c)
		}

		if isEscSeq && c == EscapeStopRune {
			isEscSeq = false
		}
	}
	return out.String()
}

// LongestLineLen returns the length of the longest "line" within the
// argument string. For ex.:
//  LongestLineLen("Ghost!\nCome back here!\nRight now!") == 15
func LongestLineLen(str string) int {
	maxLength, currLength, isEscSeq := 0, 0, false
	for _, c := range str {
		if c == EscapeStartRune {
			isEscSeq = true
		} else if isEscSeq && c == EscapeStopRune {
			isEscSeq = false
			continue
		}

		if c == '\n' {
			if currLength > maxLength {
				maxLength = currLength
			}
			currLength = 0
		} else if !isEscSeq {
			currLength += RuneWidth(c)
		}
	}
	if currLength > maxLength {
		maxLength = currLength
	}
	return maxLength
}

// Pad pads the given string with as many characters as needed to make it as
// long as specified (maxLen). This function does not count escape sequences
// while calculating length of the string. Ex.:
//  Pad("Ghost", 0, ' ') == "Ghost"
//  Pad("Ghost", 3, ' ') == "Ghost"
//  Pad("Ghost", 5, ' ') == "Ghost"
//  Pad("Ghost", 7, ' ') == "Ghost  "
//  Pad("Ghost", 10, '.') == "Ghost....."
func Pad(str string, maxLen int, paddingChar rune) string {
	strLen := RuneCount(str)
	if strLen < maxLen {
		str += strings.Repeat(string(paddingChar), maxLen-strLen)
	}
	return str
}

// RepeatAndTrim repeats the given string until it is as long as maxRunes.
// For ex.:
//  RepeatAndTrim("", 5) == ""
//  RepeatAndTrim("Ghost", 0) == ""
//  RepeatAndTrim("Ghost", 5) == "Ghost"
//  RepeatAndTrim("Ghost", 7) == "GhostGh"
//  RepeatAndTrim("Ghost", 10) == "GhostGhost"
func RepeatAndTrim(str string, maxRunes int) string {
	if str == "" || maxRunes == 0 {
		return ""
	} else if maxRunes == utf8.RuneCountInString(str) {
		return str
	}
	repeatedS := strings.Repeat(str, int(maxRunes/utf8.RuneCountInString(str))+1)
	return Trim(repeatedS, maxRunes)
}

// RuneCount is similar to utf8.RuneCountInString, except for the fact that it
// ignores escape sequences while counting. For ex.:
//  RuneCount("") == 0
//  RuneCount("Ghost") == 5
//  RuneCount("\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0m") == 5
//  RuneCount("\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0") == 5
func RuneCount(str string) int {
	count, isEscSeq := 0, false
	for _, c := range str {
		if c == EscapeStartRune {
			isEscSeq = true
		} else if isEscSeq {
			if c == EscapeStopRune {
				isEscSeq = false
			}
		} else {
			count += RuneWidth(c)
		}
	}
	return count
}

// RuneWidth returns the mostly accurate character-width of the rune. This is
// not 100% accurate as the character width is usually dependant on the
// typeface (font) used in the console/terminal. For ex.:
//  RuneWidth('A') == 1
//  RuneWidth('ツ') == 2
//  RuneWidth('⊙') == 1
//  RuneWidth('︿') == 2
//  RuneWidth(0x27) == 0
func RuneWidth(r rune) int {
	return runewidth.RuneWidth(r)
}

// Snip returns the given string with a fixed length. For ex.:
//  Snip("Ghost", 0, "~") == "Ghost"
//  Snip("Ghost", 1, "~") == "~"
//  Snip("Ghost", 3, "~") == "Gh~"
//  Snip("Ghost", 5, "~") == "Ghost"
//  Snip("Ghost", 7, "~") == "Ghost  "
//  Snip("\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0m", 7, "~") == "\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0m  "
func Snip(str string, length int, snipIndicator string) string {
	if length > 0 {
		lenStr := RuneCount(str)
		if lenStr > length {
			lenStrFinal := length - RuneCount(snipIndicator)
			return Trim(str, lenStrFinal) + snipIndicator
		}
	}
	return str
}

// Trim trims a string to the given length while ignoring escape sequences. For
// ex.:
//  Trim("Ghost", 3) == "Gho"
//  Trim("Ghost", 6) == "Ghost"
//  Trim("\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0m", 3) == "\x1b[33mGho\x1b[0m"
//  Trim("\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0m", 6) == "\x1b[33mGhost\x1b[0m"
func Trim(str string, maxLen int) string {
	if maxLen <= 0 {
		return ""
	}

	var out strings.Builder
	out.Grow(maxLen)

	outLen, isEscSeq, lastEscSeq := 0, false, strings.Builder{}
	for _, sChr := range str {
		out.WriteRune(sChr)
		if sChr == EscapeStartRune {
			isEscSeq = true
			lastEscSeq.Reset()
			lastEscSeq.WriteRune(sChr)
		} else if isEscSeq {
			lastEscSeq.WriteRune(sChr)
			if sChr == EscapeStopRune {
				isEscSeq = false
			}
		} else {
			outLen++
			if outLen == maxLen {
				break
			}
		}
	}
	if lastEscSeq.Len() > 0 && lastEscSeq.String() != EscapeReset {
		out.WriteString(EscapeReset)
	}
	return out.String()
}

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Ever been on a horrible, almost painful date? Not one where the guy is a douche or unreasonably cheap or self-centered, but one where the guy just keeps talking and talking and talking, yet not saying a single thing?
That was Bachelorette Rachel last night as she grinned through her date with Jack Stone. Yes, Jack Stone is the guy that Twitter could not even remember from previous episodes on the show.
He was also Rachel's worst date of the entire show. Yes, that includes that awkward let-me-kiss-you-so-you-can-feel-absolutely-nothing moment with Fred from two episodes ago.
I mean, this guy had nothing to say, but literally said all of the things. What made the date even worse was that he thought the nothingness between them was a connection.
Rachel, I've been there, done that, and I feel for you, lady.
To avoid this black hole of a date in the future, let's recount a few of the empty statements that Jack Stone made so we can all identify the early signs of a date who is all talk and zero chemistry.
Was anyone else gagging when Jack Stone told Rachel that he wanted to get her out of South Carolina and back to Dallas?
What would you do? If you could take me away to Dallas, what would we do? Where would you take me?
Stone explained that he would bring her back to Dallas so that they could "lay in the bed and chill."
Yeah, because laying in the bed and chilling in one state is sooo different from doing it in another state. Somebody book a red eye so that these guys can hop to that immediately.
His response was empty and dry because his initial statement was empty and dry.
Rachel's reaction was the easiest, quickest way to test whether or not someone is truly present to what they are saying. Don't just say, "Awww!" Ask those follow-up questions!
2. He Uses Clichés To Establish A Connection, Instead Of Actually Doing The Work To Create One.
The entire date, Stone kept reiterating how close he felt to Rachel, and he even commented on how her beauty kept him from concentrating while they were learning a new dance.
Meanwhile, Rachel didn't seem moved by his affectionate words at all.
When you spend more time with someone, you learn more about them. I don't necessarily feel closer to him in a romantic kind of way.
If Stone had actually spent the time connecting with Rachel instead of telling her about how he feels connected to her, then he might have been able to stay in the house.
Another reason why Rachel probably didn't feel at all close to Stone is because he didn't share anything about himself. He only talked about her and how she made him feel. He didn't even give Rachel a chance to learn about him and like him beyond him just being the surface-level nice guy.
It's important to beware of people who talk about themselves too much and of people who talk about themselves too little. Conversations — with potential mates or even friends — should be an easy-flowing, even exchange.
Jack Stone kicked off his date with Rachel talking about how the houses they rode by on a horse and carriage were "clearly haunted houses."
His attempt to start a conversation fell completely flat because he's said things with zero reasoning. Womp!
Jack shared with Rachel that he likes to crack jokes on people and how he likes it when they can take it. No one asked him for this bit of information.
I don't know. We'll soon find out I guess.
Yeah, he should have totally not even inserted this into the conversation, especially since he can't even fulfill his own expectations.


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package com.glub.secureftp.client.cli;

import com.glub.secureftp.client.framework.*;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.*;

public class HelpCommand extends LocalCommand {
  public HelpCommand() {
    this("help", CommandID.HELP_COMMAND_ID);
  }

  public HelpCommand( String commandName, short id ) {
    super(commandName, id, 0, 9999, "[command1 command2 ...]",
          "print local help information");
  }

  public SecureFTPError doIt() throws CommandException {
    SecureFTPError result = super.doIt();

    PrintStream out = SecureFTP.getFTPSession().getPrintStream();

    ArrayList helpArgs = getArgs();
    if ( helpArgs.size() > 0 ) {
      try {
        for ( int i = 0; i < helpArgs.size(); i++ ) {
          Command helpCmd = CommandParser.parseCommand((String)helpArgs.get(i));
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            out.println("Invalid help command: " + helpArgs.get(i));
          }
          else if ( CommandID.AMBIGUOUS_COMMAND_ID == helpCmd.getId() ) {
            out.println("Ambiguous help command: " + helpArgs.get(i));
          }
          else {
            String tab = "\t";
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            if ( commandName.length() <= 7 ) {
              tab += "\t";
            }
            out.println(commandName + tab + helpCmd.getHelpMessage());
            out.println("\t\tUsage: " + commandName + " " +
                               helpCmd.getUsage());
          }
        }
      }
      catch (ParserException pe) {
        out.println(pe.getMessage());
      }
    }
    else {
      int count = 1;
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      Command[] commands = CommandParser.getCommands();

      int maxRows = (int)Math.ceil(commands.length / maxCols );

      out.println("Commands may be abbreviated. Commands are:");
      out.println("");

      for ( int i = 0; i < maxRows * maxCols; i++ ) {
        int item = row + (col * maxRows) - 1;

        String commandName = "";

        if ( item >= commands.length ) {
          commandName = " ";
        }
        else {
          commandName = commands[item].getCommandName().trim();
        }

        if ( count % 5 == 0 ) {
          out.println( commandName );
          row++;
          col = 0;
        }
        else {
          out.print( commandName + "\t" );
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            out.print( "\t" );
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      if ( (count - 1) % 5 != 0 ) {
        out.println("");
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      out.println("");
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    return result;
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}

class QMarkCommand extends HelpCommand {
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    super("?", CommandID.QMARK_COMMAND_ID);
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}


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Home > News > India
Congress Mocks Prime Minister Modi For Attempting to Appropriate Netaji's Legacy
Earlier in the day, PM Modi had slammed UPA government and alleged that it promoted only one family
Published: October 21, 2018 5:16 PM IST
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday mocked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for attempting to appropriate the legacy of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and accused the RSS-BJP of trying to distort history. Talking to reporters, spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, " The only reason that can be ascribed to the Prime Minister being in politics mode 24X7 and constantly making allegations is his desperation to try and appropriate the legacy of Netaji and the legacy of Independence Movement."
His comments came hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed UPA government and alleged that it promoted only one family and ignored the contribution of Netaji and other icons of India. He was speaking during an occasion of 75th anniversary of the Azad Hind government formed by Netaji.
PM holds a constitutional post&talks about politics 24/7&blames others. Was it right for him to talk about that on an auspicious day like today? He sometimes drags Netaji into politics, sometimes he drags Sardar Patel. Is it befitting of a PM?: Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Congress pic.twitter.com/oBDVH66ruK— ANI (@ANI) October 21, 2018
Rubbishing Modi's allegations that the previous Congress governments did not follow the legacy of Netaji and Sardar Patel, Singhvi said both the leaders were completely against the philosophy of sectarianism and bigotry espoused by Modi's ideological parent – the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha.
Seeking to substantiate his assertion that the RSS had "zero role" in the Freedom Movement, Singhvi read out excerpts from then RSS Chief M.S. Golwalkar's letter to the RSS spokesperson Krishna Rao Wadekar, asking the Sangh to stay away from the "Quit India movement".
"Today, the RSS and the BJP are praising Netaji for his military endeavours to liberate India, but their ideological ancestors had done totally the opposite. When Netaji was revamping the Azad Hind Fauj in Japan and Gandhiji had given the 'Quit India' call, the RSS was hand-in-glove with the British. The Hindu Mahasabha under Vinayak Savarkar's leadership organised recruitment camps for the British armed forces," said the Congress leader.
Addressing the gathering at Red Fort, PM Modi remembered Subhash Chandra Bose and said, "Netaji had promised an India where everyone has equal rights and equal opportunities. He had promised a prosperous nation which was proud of its traditions, development in all areas. He had promised to uproot 'divide and rule'. Even after so many years, those dreams remain unfulfilled."
Congress Releases List of 7 Candidates, Romesh Sabharwal to Contest Against Kejriwal
BJPCongressNetaji Subash Chandra BosePoliticsPrime Minister Narendra Modi
Published Date: October 21, 2018 5:16 PM IST


Before I proceed with this review, I need to clarify: this isn't one of those Shades of Grey books. We keep things clean here at the Nauvoo Times. Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray tells the story of a Lithuanian teenager's exile in Siberia during Stalin's reign, much to the chagrin of several people that came to Sepetys' book signings thinking she wrote the other Shades of Grey books.
Between Shades of Gray opens with Soviet officers arriving at fifteen-year-old Lina's house at night to arrest the family. The novel documents her multi-year and 6500-mile journey through multiple prison camps, and her own internal journey to find hope and strength in the face of brutality and despair.
Lina learns to recognize and emulate the different kinds of strength she encounters in her family and fellow prisoners, and how to use her art to find healing. She learns that love and hope are not only possible in horrible circumstance, but essential.
I'm most impressed with Sepetys' ability to strike the right balance with the atrocities she documents. The Soviets killed millions during Stalin's reign, and the lives of those deported were horror-filled.
Sepetys doesn't shrink away from the ugliness and pain — the topics she faces include starvation, forced sexual servitude, and senseless killing. Sepetys faces these topics honestly, but also keeps the level of detail appropriate for a young adult audience. Her focus remains on celebrating resilience instead of despairing about cruelty.
I also have a soft spot for authors that utilize their family history in their fiction. Between Shades of Gray is especially interesting to me in this regard because she tells the story of those her family left behind. Lina's family was deported for their role in assisting family out of the country; Sepetys' father escaped, but her relatives that stayed in Lithuania were sent to Soviet prison camps.
The novel is a beautiful tribute to those that paid a huge price for the freedom her family enjoys.
Between Shades of Gray gave me a deeper understanding of a part of history that I'd possessed a limited knowledge about. Sepetys' writing was powerful and beautiful, haunting and hopeful. It is an important story to tell, and I'm glad Sepetys used her considerable gifts to tell it.
You understand the importance of telling the stories of those in history that have suffered, especially the less familiar stories.
You love celebrations of the power of art to bring hope — Lina finds great strength through the work of Edvard Munch and in creating her own art.
You like highly accurate and highly readable historical fiction.


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Q: Snackbar onDismissed() callback not coming while destroying the activity I am creating a snackbar in the activity(with a callback defined for dismissal of snackbar) and when the snackbar is still shown I am rotating the device.
So ideally onDismissed() should be called while the activity is being destroyed and new activity is being created for the new device orientation.
But the onDismissed() callback is not coming while current activity is being destroyed.It only comes after the new activity for the new device configuration is created.
Below is the code snippet and logs:
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private String LOG_TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName();
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    Log.d(LOG_TAG,"MainActivity : onCreate");

    Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.bt_snack);

    button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Snackbar snackbar = Snackbar.make(v,"Snackbar!",Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG)
                    .addCallback(new BaseTransientBottomBar.BaseCallback<Snackbar>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onDismissed(Snackbar transientBottomBar, int event) {
                            super.onDismissed(transientBottomBar, event);
                            Log.d(LOG_TAG,"Snackbar dismissed!");
                        }
                    });
            snackbar.show();
        }
    });
}

Logs:

05-20 04:16:42.299 12353-12353/com.gururaj.snackbartest D/MainActivity: MainActivity : onCreate
  05-20 04:16:42.330 12353-12353/com.gururaj.snackbartest D/MainActivity: Snackbar dismissed!

Can someone point out what is going wrong here?


These are Sci Fi rivets and as such can do magic things!
I got a few hours out in the Mancave today, so I'll show you what I've been up to.
First off, what are these bits for? I'll show you in a bit. Yes, it's a Golf Tee.
Along the edges of the sides I'd glued on pieces of tube and today I glued in split pins. This is rear right.
Some pieces of Christmas tinsel (which looks like rope in close up) and we have safer walkways. Hurrah!
Here is the front end with half a table tennis ball glued on. It's an anti gravity generator really. But you knew that.
In front of it, a dome for the ground mapping radar.
Here at the back end we have two anti G generators and a grey thing in the middle which is for the thrust engine.
The grey thing was, sometime in the 70's, when I originally built the kit, the gun pod for an Airfix Henschel Hs 129.
Next to the hull those pieces have assembled themselves into a radar pod to go up top. If I can find room.
And this is the state of play as of tonight. Thin superglue pretty much melted the TT balls into place.
I did a bit of work on the cabin too. I think we are close to paint point! At least, a first coat of primer.
Nice to see recycling of Christmas fodder, very green....oh, I did it !
I turn my back for a while and you get all sci-fi on me.
Reminds me of a story, probably apocryphal, about a conversation between a NASA scientist and a Star Trek scriptwriter. When the scientist asked how the artificial gravity worked on the Enterprise, the script writer replied "Very well".
Amazingly I managed to get more time out there this morning.
Plastic card and odds and sods from the spares boxes yielded these results.
The back wall got these bits. On the left we have a cupboard & on the right is a collection of bits that look like they might be something useful.
In the front we get a control desk (screens are made and will be added later) with a couple of greeblies which were original ship kit bits.
Looking through the doorway, it's the useful thing. The grey bit is Airfix railway (bridge?) then card, the green bit Russian tank and the top bit?
To go in there is this seat. Ex Kubelwagen, on a stand. The blue thing on the front was a button! Now a vent.
And so to the roof. This is almost straight from Misfit 1. I've added the radar pod, a vent for the privy & a greeblie behind the searchlight.
And on the bow, the grey thing, I added fuse wire. So that is now the distillation coil for the Henson* drive.
The white bit gets vent pipes either side that were in the original kit. It looks finished now, and that, I think, is the secret of this sort of modelling.
Things need to look fit for purpose and to look as if they belong where they are placed.
In my opinion its a boat so bridge. Wether she floats on water or air its still a boat ? However I did check up on wiki. Dirigibles or "airships" use a cockpit if that matters ?
What's the backstory with that then? I mean, what if the Klingons attack????
You'd definitely need that privvy if you get an attack of the Klingons!
I meant to take a picture of the back wall of the privy.
Well, I had these Oxygen tanks from a 1/24th Spitfire. And I just thought, yeah, why not?
This is fantastic. I can't drink at the moment due to medication.
My life was a little dull without the odd 'wee dram'.
Then I found this thread.
A void has been filled.
Incredible creativity Pete, definitely watching an artist at work. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Where it's going next, I have no idea, which is a good thing and makes it even more fun.
I'm glad to be of service and must say that it's good to see you back amongst us.
(Keep your arms inside the vehicle and wear the seat belt provided).
I just finished a glass of Aussie red with dinner, so I'll dedicate that one to you.
I'm enjoying it enormously, I also like the fact that no one can say it's wrong!
' Ooh no, they changed the colour in 1941 and then back again in '42 you know' etc.
whether it's time to add primer and exactly how to do it. It passes the miles.
Work today was spent whizzing around Nottingham and it's shire and lasted exactly eight hours for a change.
This meant I got home at about 15:20. Kettle on, into the mancave! It's been forever since that last happened.
Grey acrylic primer applied to the decks, holds and underneath the hull. I let that dry for an hour and took a tentative look.
(best thing for it) and plastered applied as directed, as required. A couple of places just needed a dab of correction fluid.
doing family stuff and cutting down trees (as you do). We shall see what happens.
I have used tippex as a filler. The spirit based one is better than the water based one.
Sands well, and doesn't seem to shrink quite so much as other fillers, I have found.
Yes folks, Tippex/correction fluid. I thought everyone knew about this one.
Get it cheap from Home Bargains in a blue plastic squeezy thing.
It will fill small gaps, can be wiped over with IPA to remove excess and can be rubbed down too.
And it dries fast too. Marvelous stuff.
Can You use this if You don't make a mistake?
Great progress, love the subject and build, keep it comin!!
Coming along nicely Pete, soon be ready for the Grand launch.
For some reason I've run out of likes.
More will no doubt be along later.
It's been a busy couple of weekends with the trees and associated parts thereof. Spent two evenings just burning the twiggy bits.
The garden is all tidied up now (though there's more felling next weekend) and I managed a couple of hours in the manshed this afternoon.
for the steering vents under each end, and mixed up some thin cockpit green and painted the wheelhouse/bridge/whateveritscalled.
Why cockpit green? Well, like everything on this build, it just seemed right. Not enough progress to warrant pictures. Perhaps next time.
And we're back yet again. Day one of my time off work. Not back until the 12th! Got to use it up before the 31st, y'know.
Today, in modelling land I built up the stand for Misfit & gave the sides of said boat a coat of white primer.
Oh look, a green wheelhouse/bridge etc. Also in view we have the oxygen tanks for the privy.
I'm still not too sure what the yellow cone is for on the roof. I found it in a spares box & it seemed right at the time.
And this long shot shows the white primer (I wanted a contrast on the top coat. It might work) And look at that fence on the back of the dock.
I wanted something to 'make the break' at the back and this is it. Would you believe it's a sheet of tile spacers? Had them for decades!
Here at the front is a gas bottle sitting in it's new cradle. Drill hole in card, cut in half & voila!
There will be a pipe from the back of the bottle to the small widget behind it.
A view of the base. It's all done with thin superglue and tippex, folks!
And a view from the other side, with the old six inch ruler to show the size of things.
In case you forgot, that's Faller platforms, Grey Airfix turntable and station platform bits, & brown Ikea bits.
The small holes in the platform bits were for the roof supports. Here they can be drainholes.
And now it's all the same colour. Good job I remembered to remove the perspex boat supports before I sprayed then.
Just cheap grey primer to show up the faulty bits. Not too bad, bit of wood filler required though.
This weekend is more tree felling tomorrow, I'm off to Peterborough model show on Sunday, then Leicester for Family stuff & back home on Tuesday.
I quite often wish my dunny came with oxygen tanks.
a card shim under it from about the centre of the boat out to the LH side so the boat then sits level.
Port side sir, port side.
You know, the one in Egypt.
I prefer, 'Left hand down, Mr Phillips'.
Anyway, it's set 800 years hence so it could be in Chinese by then!


Fall Star Party — 7 to 10 p.m., Chimney View Campground North Sterling State Park.
Windsong Chorus "True Colors" — 3 p.m., Sterling High School auditorium. Cost $12, children 12 and under free with adult. Tickets available at the door or from chorus members.


Aaron James "A. J." Hawk is a former American football linebacker who played 11 seasons in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers fifth overall in the 2006 NFL Draft and he would later win Super Bowl XLV with the team over the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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British Airways proposes to freeze pension plan
Sophie Baker
British Airways is proposing to freeze the New Airways Pension Scheme, London, under new retirement arrangements for the aviation company.
The proposal forms part of a consultation that aims to address "the significant and growing funding deficit faced" by the £15.5 billion ($20.1 billion) pension fund, said a statement provided by a BA spokesman. The consultation will begin in the coming weeks, he added.
"The proposed changes would help protect the pension benefits NAPS members have already earned and improve the company's ability to invest in the customer experience," said the statement. The fund was closed to new entrants in 2003 and has about 17,000 participants. Since 2003, the airline "has pumped £3.5 billion into NAPS," but the deficit has been hit by low interest rates and increases in life expectancy, growing to £3.7 billion in March. "It is the largest of all U.K. company pension deficits relative to the company's overall financial value," said the statement.
The deficit has risen 32.1% vs. figures as of March 31, 2015.
The sponsoring employer advised employees that in October it would be consulting on future plans for retirement arrangements and has been looking at options with its trade unions.
BA has an agreement in place with NAPS trustees to contribute between £300 million and £450 million a year until 2027 to plug the deficit.
"If NAPS remained open to future accrual, the cost to the company of providing future benefits to NAPS members could rise to 45% of individual's pensionable pay in 2018 — more than four times the typical employer contribution of U.K. airlines," said the statement.
British Steel Pension Scheme, Tata Steel U.K. agree to pension plan severance
BMW workers accept deal to freeze 2 pension funds, move to DC plan
GKN freezes U.K. pension plans
U.K. Court of Appeal overturns decision that IBM breached duty in freezing DB p…
Corporations continue to freeze plans
British Airways to freeze pension plan, lift off with new DC plan
Rolls-Royce launches new DC plan
British Airways will not have to pay discretionary pension benefits trustees ap…
Underfunded public plans facing a new round of woes
NISA pension surplus risk index, funding down in January
PPF 7800 index funding deficit falls in September


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Q: Validate inputs with jQuery Objective:
Validate all input from a form. If everything is okay, then submit it, otherwise return an error to the user.
Problem:
I want to validate some inputs in my form, but I don't know how to do it cleanly.
How I can validate a form safely without heavy validation libraries?

A: try like this:
    function validate() {
        if (validatefield(document.form.field1) &&
            validatefield(document.form.field2) &&
            validatefield(document.form.field3) &&
            validatefield(document.form.field4) &&
            validatefield(document.form.field5))
           return true;
        else
           return false;
    }

 function validatefield(field)
{
  //your condition of validation
}

A: Like this: http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_form_validation.asp
Basically, your "onsubmit" calls a function that returns false if the checks fail so that the form does not submit.  If everything passes, it submits.

A: jQuery validation is very simple and easy thing to use. What is the problem? You can download and check the demo here. http://plugins.jquery.com/validate/

A: *

*The first point to keep in mind that the code must be object oriented as possible.

*Should be understood that must be validated both the client side and the server side.

*You have to know that in addition to receiving the data with expected values, still may not be safe for use in queries to the database

So after these points, proceed to give a clear example.
index.html
    <!DOCTYPE html>

      <meta charser="utf-8" />
      <title>Form Validation</title>

        <form action="form_proccess.php" method="post" class="must-validate">

Nick<input type="text" name="nick" class="input-validate"/>

Password<input type="password" name="password" class="input-validate"/>

Email<input type="text" name="email" class="input-validate"/>

Name<input type="text" name="name" class="input-validate"/>

Country<input type="text" name="country" class="input-validate"/>

Birthday<input type="text" name="birthday" class="input-validate"/>

          <input type="submit" value="Send!" />
        </form>

*

*Basic HTML document, in which we validate the form with javascript [in this example I used jQuery, but works perfectly without it].

*when you submit the form in question, the browser runs an event in which we proceed with the validation.

*A variable contains regular expressions and messages from them. Can add as many as you like.

*We compare the values of the inputs, (must have the class .validate input); sure that you can change and modify it.

*finally, if all goes well, will send the form data to the server. By contrary, if there is an error, then show the user the details so he can correct them. You can remove the error messages if you want, but this would not be very accessible to the user, and this should be as predictive as possible.

Validator.php

/**
 * All the regular expressions to be used
 */
private static $_rules = array(
        "nick"      => '/^[0-9a-zA-Z_]{5,20}$/'
      , "password"  => '/^.*(?=.{8,})(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).*$/'
      , "birthday" => '/^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{1,2}-[0-9]{1,2}$/'
      , "email"     => '/^[_a-z0-9.-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/'
      , "name"      => '/^[a-zA-Z -]+$/'
      , "country"   => '/^[a-zA-Z]+$/'
);

/**
 * The flag contains the names of all the input that must be validated;
 * Note that the flags elements must match with some of the rules elements.
 */

private $_flags;

  /**
   * Set the flags
   */

public function __construct ( Array $flags ) {
    $this->_flags = $flags;
}

/**
 * Set the data to be validated
 */

public function validate ( Array $data ) {

    $passed = true;

    if ( count ( $data ) == 0 ) {
        $passed = false;
    }
    else {

        foreach ( $this->_flags as $key ) {

            if ( ! in_array ( $key, array_keys ( $data ) ) )
                $passed = false;

            if ( $data [ $key ] == null )
                $passed = false;

            if ( ! preg_match( self::$_rules [ $key ], $data [ $key ] ) )
                $passed = false;
        }
    }

    return (bool) $passed;
  }
}

*

*In this class, we have all the regular expressions in a static variable.

*The constructor has a parameter that lets you specify which items should be considered to be validated, making clear the regular expressions that we use.

*Finally, the function validate() takes as a parameter an array() of all the values we want to analyze.

form_proccess.php
<?php
require_once 'Validator.php';

$validator = new Validation( array (
      "nick"
    , "password"
    , "email"
    , "name"
    , "country"
    , "birthday"
  )
);

$passed = $validator->validate( $_POST );

if ( $passed ) {
    /**
     * The data received was validated :)
     */
}
else {
    /**
     * Some error ocurred!
     */
}

I hope this has helped.-


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NCAA Basketball Rankings: Texas Longhorns Steady At #3
By Brett Perryman Feb 7, 2011, 5:36pm CST
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Texas held steady in the third spot in today's new AP college basketball poll, after another successful week in the Big 12. The Longhorns manhandled the Aggies in College Station Wednesday night and followed that 20-point win with a 76-60 win over Texas Tech Saturday. They travel to Norman to take on the Sooners, before hosting Baylor Saturday.
Unbeaten Ohio State was unanimously voted #1 again this week, with Kansas in the #2 spot. The Big East continues to dominate the poll, with eight ranked teams, including seven of the top 12. The Pac 10 has just one team in the top 25: Arizona at #15.
Missouri fell to #19 after a 1-1 week that moved them to 4-4 in the conference. A&M dropped to #22 with two losses during the week and were the only other Big 12 team to stay in the poll. Baylor received four votes after topping the Aggies in overtime Saturday.


Drought inducible OsDhn1 promoter is activated by OsDREB1A and OsDREB1D, 2013, Journal of Plant Biology.
OsDREB genes in rice,Oryza sativaL., encode transcription activators that function in drought-, high-salt- and cold-responsive gene expression, 2003, The Plant Journal.
Colinearity and similar expression pattern of rice DREB1s reveal their functional conservation in the cold-responsive pathway, 2012, PLoS One.
An AP2/EREBP-type transcription-factor gene from rice is cold-inducible and encodes a nuclear-localized protein, 2003, TAG Theoretical and Applied Genetics.
ENAC1, a NAC transcription factor, is an early and transient response regulator induced by abiotic stress in rice Oryza sativa L., 2012, Mol Biotechnol.
Allele mining across DREB1A and DREB1B in diverse rice genotypes suggest a highly conserved pathway inducible by low temperature., 2015, J Genet.
Double overexpression of DREB and PIF transcription factors improves drought stress tolerance and cell elongation in transgenic plants., 2016, Plant Biotechnol J.


I have a headcanon that Hermione insists her children attend some primary muggle schooling before Hogwarts, just as she had done. Now, imagine Arthur Weasley attending his grandchild's science fair, being the ultra proud grandfather….and yet also completely geeking out over absolutely EVERYTHING.
An entire series of Arthur Weasley discovering Muggle technology would be a delight. I'm picturing him being introduced to a smartphone and being just overwhelmed with questions.


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Перегар — метод обработки земли в сельском хозяйстве, который использовался в засушливых районах для борьбы с корневищными растениями-сорняками. Его суть заключалась во вспашке на глубину залегания корневищ заросшего сорняками поля в жаркую погоду и оставлении вспаханных пластов для высушивания. После высыхания корневищ поле боронили, «вычёсывая» и собирая их остатки, которые позже сжигались.

Данный метод не нашёл широкого применения в колхозных и совхозных хозяйствах из-за сильного обезвоживания плодородного слоя почвы. Помимо этого, одним из его последствий считалась высокая рыхлость почв, которая становилась благоприятной средой для развития неубранных фрагментов корневой системы.

Примечания

История сельского хозяйства
Приемы обработки почвы

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Home » Politics » Pelosi's pledge that this is her last term as speaker looms amid wave of Dem retirements
Pelosi's pledge that this is her last term as speaker looms amid wave of Dem retirements
Pelosi Passes Build Back Better
But will America buy Biden's argument that more government spending is the way to fix inflation?
Eighteen House Democrats are taking a hike come January 2023, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's spot up top may be available for another Democrat if the party holds onto their razor-thin majority.
Pelosi, D-Calif., has yet to officially announce her decision for 2022 and beyond. Last year, she implicitly reaffirmed a 2018 promise that her current term would be the last one she would serve as speaker of the House.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Pelosi's office did not respond to Fox News' inquiry on whether the speaker would stand by her promise.
The speaker said back in 2018 that she would limit herself to two terms — or four years — as the top lawmaker in the House.
More recently, Pelosi has dodged questions about whether she will run for reelection.
If Pelosi decides not to run in next year's election, she'll join a long list of Democrats who are bowing out ahead of what is projected to be a tough midterm election for their party.
Rep. Thomas Suozzi, D-N.Y., this week became the 18th House Democrat to say he would not run for reelection in 2022. Suozzi is running for governor of New York instead.
FILE – Rep. Thomas Suozzi, D-N.Y., pauses while speaking with the media, Sept. 13, 2017, in Washington. Suozzi is joining a competitive primary race for New York governor that became wide open when Andrew Cuomo resigned. Suozzi told reporters at a virtual news conference Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 that he's jumping into the 2022 race. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Suozzi's move will likely embolden Republicans hoping to flip his congressional district from blue to red in next year's midterm elections, where the GOP needs a net gain of just five seats to regain the chamber's majority.
The congressman was on the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC) list of most vulnerable Democrats heading into the midterms.
Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed reporting
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Mark Wahlberg and his teddy bear co-star, "Ted," will be presenters on the Oscar(R) show, telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.
"We are happy to make it possible for Mark and Ted to make their debut appearance on the Oscar stage," said Zadan and Meron. "And we won't deny that Ted used his pull with our host to get himself the booking."
Wahlberg and Ted starred in the hit summer comedy "Ted," which is now the highest-grossing R-rated original comedy of all time.
Wahlberg has twice been nominated for Academy Awards(R), in 2006 for his supporting role in "The Departed" and in 2010 as a producer of the Best Picture nominee, "The Fighter."
Wahlberg and Ted join a stellar list of previously announced Oscar performers, including Adele, Norah Jones and Barbra Streisand. Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre(TM) at Hollywood & Highland Center(R), and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.


I'm sure you noticed that Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer is not exactly like what we pray each Sunday? The Lord's Prayer is actually found in 3 different versions in early Christian documents. The first two are in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The third is in the Didache, which is, so far, the oldest collection of Christian teachings that have been found (but it wasn't included in the New Testament). The version we now use most closely matches the one written in the Didache.
In the early church, people would prepare for baptism as adults over 2 or 3 years. The final journey of the teaching would be during Lent in preparation for baptism on Easter. During this time, the Bishop would teach the seekers the Lord's Prayer. This prayer was only taught and said by Christians. You couldn't look it up in a book (there were no printed books then.) It was one of the special things you were given as you prepared for your baptism. You would learn it by heart and teach it to your household. Think about this for a minute, this special prayer has been used by every generation of Christians that has ever been.
The disciples recognized how important prayer was to Jesus and I think it is gratifying to us to realize that the disciples didn't know everything when Jesus called them. They knew they needed to learn to pray. They must have also seen Jesus' relationship with the Father. How wonderful that Jesus gave us this lesson where he invites us all into his intimate relationship with the Father, as he also teaches us how to have such a relationship.
The opening of the Lord's prayer acknowledges Jesus' own intimate, family approach to the Creator by addressing God as Father. He then affirms God's holiness and majesty. When he says "Your kingdom come" – to Jesus this would have been both a present and a future coming. The kingdom was already breaking in through Jesus and still, even now, we are looking for its fulfillment. Jesus is inviting us into his relationship with God and into the ultimate fulfillment of the kingdom.
Then Jesus gives 3 very simple petitions. There is no flowery language and no long sentences.
First, "Give us bread." Just give us what we need to survive, both literally and figuratively. And give it to us every day. Throughout Jesus' ministry, he fed people, both literally and figuratively, so of course he needed to pray for this in order to continue his ministry. Just as we need to imitate Jesus in prayer, we also need to imitate him in ministry.
Then, "Forgive our sins. As we forgive others." Now maybe Jesus didn't pray to have his own sins forgiven because we believe he was sinless. But he knew that we would sin and that we would need to be able to forgive others. And forgiveness, God's freely given forgiveness, is another foundation of Jesus' ministry.
And lastly, "Save us from the time of trial." Not the end times, like this is sometimes interpreted, but rather protect us from circumstances that test or imperil our faith. Jesus was tested often, just as we are tested.
So Jesus taught us to pray just like he prayed. His private prayer formed the undercurrent of his life and public work. The prayer that Jesus gave us embodies his own prayer life and his wider kingdom ministry in every verse.
Jesus prayed. He prayed before he chose his disciples. He prayed when he fed the 5000. He prayed the night before he died and from the cross itself. He taught us to pray. And we pray. Sometimes it seems there is a never ending stream of hashtag prayers for us to recite. Pray for Orlando. Pray for Baton Rouge. Pray for Munich. And forgive me, but I didn't check the news this morning to see who needs my prayers today. It's heartbreaking and it's spiritually draining. We pray to a God who is silent much of the time. I feel this silence anyway. In his book, A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis talks about how when we are happy, and we turn to God with gratitude and praise, we are welcomed – or so it seems – with open arms. But when we go to Him when our need is desperate, when all other help is vain, what do we find? A door slammed in our face and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.
But, Jesus must have known this and must have known that we'd get weary because he continues this teaching today with a parable wherein he tells us to be persistent. To keep knocking. Just do it. Just pray.
There is an ache in the world. Maybe those that are aching are asking but not receiving, searching but not finding, knocking but no door is opening for them. We blame guns, terrorists, mental illness, political parties, etc. We blame because we don't know how to deal with the pain, helplessness, despair and grief that have caused these hashtag prayers. But the Lord's Prayer is a prayer of action. Jesus tells us to ask for these things so we can do this ministry, so we can help heal the ache. So we can help the world receive and find Him, so we can open the door.
This prayer gives us all the help we need to love and serve and give and sacrifice and mourn with the world. So many hungry, hurting, invisible, disregarded, brutalized people are so, not because God hasn't heard our prayers but because we are acting like we haven't prayed them at all. We haven't grabbed the power this prayer is giving us. We are acting like we haven't prayed at all.
We were made for this ache. For all of our own lives, and indeed for all of Christianity, we have been learning all that we need to help the hurting world. We don't have to fix the entire world all at once, but we can open the door to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
And so we pray the Lord's Prayer, which you might not have thought was sufficient before. We pray for our daily bread so we can go out and feed the world, both literally and figuratively. We pray to forgive and to be forgiven, because great forgiveness provides the opportunity for great love. We pray that we are not distracted from our faith so that we can have the strength to be Jesus to the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Amen.


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Teaching excellence in spotlight with the 2021 Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards
A total of 19 finalists will compete for the top prizes at the 2021 Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.
The Awards recognise innovative and effective teaching practices, and the positive outcomes that come from working with tamariki, rangatahi, whānau, iwi, hāpu and the wider community to support all learners to succeed.
This year's finalists were from Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Manawatū-Whanganui, Nelson, Northland and Waikato regions. They are:
The Excellence in Engaging Award
Frimley Primary (Hawke's Bay)
Te Kura Taumata o Panguru (Northland)
Avondale College (Auckland)
Wesley College (Auckland)
The Excellence in Leading Award
Redoubt North School (Auckland)
Achieving @ Waitakere (Auckland)
Hastings Girls' High (Hawke's Bay)
The Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award
Whakarongo School (Manawatū-Whanganui)
Northland College Teen Parent Unit (Northland)
Sylvia Park School (Auckland)
The Excellence in Wellbeing Education Award
Morrinsville College (Waikato)
Henry Hill School (Hawke's Bay)
Nelson College for Girls (Nelson)
The 2021 Focus Prize: Excellence in Environmental and Sustainability Education
Kadimah School (Auckland)
Manurewa Intermediate School (Auckland)
Ngunguru School (Northland)
Oruaiti School (Northland)
"After a year like no other, the Awards is a great opportunity to showcase the inspiring work of our educators across the country that made a positive impact to our learners," says Ministry of Education Deputy Secretary for Early Learning and Student Achievement Ellen MacGregor-Reid.
"These awards are about collaboration, and teachers working together and with their students and communities to make positive changes. I congratulate all the finalists and look forward to celebrating with them at the Awards ceremony," Ellen says.
The independent Judging Panel will visit finalists between June and August to see their programmes in action.
Judging Panel(external link)
The winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony in September. Winners will receive a financial award and a professional development opportunity. Find out more about this year's finalists on the Prime Minister's Excellence Awards website.
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Schweighofer's Weinstube Heuriger offers its diners a number of well known dishes and a well stocked wine cellar. With a focus on organic and sustainable produce, the restaurant's cured meats are purchased directly from the farmers and are smoked without using salt, whereas its pumpkinseed oil and sheep's cheeses come from small farms, where there is no intensive land-use farming.
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Набережная реки Монасты́рки — улица в Центральном районе Санкт-Петербурга. Огибает большую часть Монастырского острова, включая Митрополичий сад и Александро-Невскую лавру. Протяжённость улицы — 850 м.

В начале одной из излучин реки Монастырки (севернее пешеходного моста) улица прерывается и продолжается только через 250 метров, перед Лаврским проездом.

Здания и сооружения
 д. 1 — Свято-Троицкая Александро-Невская лавра; Никольское кладбище; Санкт-Петербургское епархиальное управление; Свято-Троицкий собор; детская монастырская школа
 д. 1/186 — Свято-Иоанновские богословско-педагогические курсы
 д. 1А — городская станция переливания крови (донорский отдел)
 дома 3—6 — комплекс зданий бывшей пересыльной тюрьмы (архитектор Томишко), ныне на территории НПО ЦКТИ им. И. И. Ползунова
 д. 3 — ЗАО «НевДорСтрой»

Транспорт
 Автобус № 58
 Метро: Площадь Александра Невского (250 м)
 Ж/д вокзалы: Московский вокзал (1400 м)
 Ж/д платформы: Навалочная (1300 м)

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Sometimes they returned items for cash at branch stores other than the ones where they made the original purchases, and some of the checks were stolen, according to court documents.
All of the co-conspirators have pleaded guilty, the release said, and seven have received sentences ranging from seven to 78 months. One person has not been sentenced yet; and another entered a diversion program, which will wipe the crime from her record in exchange for community service.
Elliot was given a much longer sentence — 200 months — because of his role as a leader in the group and because of a lengthy criminal history, including previous convictions for assault, forgery, burglary and drug possession, among others, the release said.
Kentucky State Police confirm remains of Savannah Spurlock found
Lexington police chief describes shooting of 23-year-old man by officer
Threats or jokes? Jurors to decide if ex-Dunbar student intended to shoot up school with AR-15.
By Rebekah Alvey
During opening statements in the trial of a former student accused of threatening to shoot up a Dunbar High School, the defense claimed the "threats" were jokes, while the prosecution said classmates had reasons for concern.
It's one of Lexington's biggest mysteries. Why police are digging again after 40 years.
He rammed a knife through a door before taking a child, police say. Kentucky man charged.
Police searching for suspect after woman found dead in Hazard park
Funeral arrangements set for Savannah Spurlock, missing mom whose remains were found this week


It comes on like a fast-food joint–bright light, counter service, plastic plates–but it takes just one bite to see that this kebab house in Silver Spring's Cloverly neighborhood serves slow food at its purest, the kind that scorns short cuts and lets flavors develop in their own sweet time.
Consider the superlative lamb chops, marinated in a paste of ginger, chili flakes, and garlic, set over a charcoal flame until the surface darkens, then sprinkled with sumac. You also get a puffy round of naan–kneaded and treated to the tandoor as soon as you order–along with fluffy rice and such sides as the marvelous chickpea stew called lahori chole.
Kebabs are excellent–go for the minced beef or bone-in chicken–but to make your visit only about the meats is to miss the chance to be transported by the chaat samosa, a sort of Pakistani panzanella, or the haleem, a chicken-lentil stew served on weekends.
Also good: Mughaz (lamb brain) karahi; chicken seekh kebab (minced spiced chicken).


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Commercial real estate investment to reach W17tr
MarketsFeb 24, 2021
The entire volume of commercial real estate investments in the South Korean market is forecast to reach 17 trillion won ($15.3 billion), similar to last year's level, analysts predicted. "Foreign investors are paying keen attention to the local market due to the country's relatively successful containment of the pandemic, and Seoul was named in the top three most attractive markets, according to...
FSC chief urges local insurers to join ESG trend
Financial Services Commission Chairman Eun Sung-soo said Tuesday that the emerging environmental, social and governance trend could provide local insurance firms with new business opportunities. "The insurance segment, which often handles long-term services and investment, is closely related to ESG management, which is aimed at achieving long-term sustainability," Eun said at an event for the CE...
'Partnership with Naver might work on raising Mirae Asset's stock price'
Local brokerage Mirae Asset Daewoo could see a boost in stock price in a partnership with Naver which runs fintech and artificial intelligence businesses, a report said on Monday. Mirae Asset Daewoo has been maintaining a partnership with the online platform company since it created a fund with the internet firm in December 2016. In line with the partnership, the two companies made an investmen...
South Korean unicorns take big leap with greater global presence
Going global has been a long shot for many South Korean startups despite their advanced services and products. But planned stock listings and mergers and acquisitions of Korean unicorns, including those for Coupang, Woowa Brothers and Hyperconnect, are raising expectations for local companies to grow their international reach. "The series of recent megadeals made in the startup sector here have ...
Gold prices drop to 10-month low while bitcoin rally continues
Gold prices have skidded to a 10-month low while bitcoin, which is considered by some as a digital replacement for gold, has been on a bull run. The price for a gram of gold declined for five trading days in a row on Thursday as it closed at 63,900 won ($57.67), down 0.48 percent from a day earlier, according to the Korea Exchange. The closing price is the lowest since April 6 when the gold pri...
REIT investment grows amid tough regulations on housing market
Real estate investment trusts, which allow individuals to make indirect investment in properties, have gained traction recently from investors facing heavier regulations on home buying. The entire value of assets owned by REITs stood at 61.4 trillion won ($55 billion) in January, up 26.3 percent on-year from 48.6 trillion won, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Th...
Insurance firms' performance in alternative investment under par
Although the insurance industry fared well overall last year in terms of profit amid the coronavirus pandemic, its performance in the foreign alternative investment segment was disappointing, according to data announced Wednesday. Mirae Asset Life Insurance saw its operating profit drop 17.7 percent on-year to 115.8 billion won ($104.56 million) in 2020, although it secured a market share of mor...
Viva Republica teams up with Samsung Life to expand mobile insurance platform
Fintech company Viva Republica said Tuesday that it will work with South Korean life insurance firm Samsung Life Insurance to advance its platform for insurance planners. Viva Republica, the operator of money transfer app Toss, launched insurance affiliate Toss Insurance in 2018, rolling out non-face-to-face insurance services. The company is also running Toss Insurance Partner, a platform to su...
Local stock brokers' profits rise thanks to 2020 bull run
Local brokerage firms benefited from recent stock market rallies after a March plunge in 2020 as the companies' profits jumped sharply, data showed Monday. The combined operating profit of South Korea's 20 local stock brokers, including Mirae Asset Daewoo and Korea Investment & Securities came in at 7.85 trillion won ($7.1 billion) last year, up 36.7 percent from 5.74 trillion won posted in the ...
Coupang chooses NYSE for IPO to take advantage of dual-class share
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang appears to have chosen to go public in the US, not in its home base, to keep its chief's control over the company under a dual-class share system that is not allowed here. The initial public offering application filed at the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed that shares that will be issued by the Seoul-headquartered firm will consist of two classe...
Seoulites in 20s and 30s prefer property investments north of the Han
'Ma-yong-seong,' a portmanteau of three Seoul districts -- Mapo, Yongsan, and Seongdong -- is where Koreans in their 20s and 30s most want to invest, while Gangnam is the place favored by those in their 40s, according to poll results recently released by property data provider Zigbang. A survey of 1,796 Zigbang subscribers showed that 15.5 percent of participants said they think real estate prop...
GameStop was January's 2nd-most traded foreign stock
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Despite the recent stock price saga of US video gaming retailer GameStop, the company was not the most-traded stock among South Korean investors in January, according to data on Monday. In data compiled by Korea Securities Depository, a post-trade service provider, the gaming retailer came second in terms of stock transactions last month, with the trading volume reaching $2.4 billion. Korean tra...
BC Card names new chief executive
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Line Bank gets license for Taiwan
Line, a Tokyo-headquartered mobile messenger subsidiary of South Korean tech firm Naver, said Friday that it had won a license from Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission to launch an online bank in Taiwan. Since Line received a permit to set up an online banking business in the nation in 2019, Taiwanese financial authorities had been carrying out due diligence procedures on the internet-only ...
Extension of shorting ban receives mixed reviews
South Korea's top financial regulator's recent decision to extend a temporary ban on stock short selling has garnered mixed reviews from market analysts and retail investors. Financial Services Commission Chairman Eun Sung-soo said on Wednesday that the temporary short selling ban will be lifted from May 3 on 200 stocks listed on the main bourse Kospi and 150 stocks on the tech heavy Koadaq. The...
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Q: Numpy TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple, how to change the code?    def on_pushButtonTwo_clicked(self):
    img = np.asarray(Image.open("testtwo.tif").convert # read image, convert it('L'))
    img = 1 * (img < 127)

    areasplit = np.split(img.ravel(), 24) # here we are splitting converted to 1D array
    for i in areasplit:
     area = (i == 0).sum()
     print area

    maxr =  areasplit[argmax(sum(areasplit == 0, axis = 0)), :] # selecting subarrays with min and max white pixel numbers
    minr = areasplit[argmin(sum(areasplit == 0, axis = 0)), :]

    distance = cityblock(maxr, minr) # computing distance between subarrays
     print distance

    Result: type error: areasplit[argmax(sum(areasplit == 0, axis=0)), :]
    TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple

Is there any way to select subarrays with min and max number of white pixels?
   How to change the code correctly? Thank you

A: areasplit is a list of ndarrays, not an ndarray, so it cannot take a second index. This should work:
maxr =  areasplit[argmax(sum(areasplit == 0, axis = 0))]
minr = areasplit[argmin(sum(areasplit == 0, axis = 0))]

Alternatively, convert your list of ndarrays to a 2D ndarray before those calls:
areasplit = numpy.array(areasplit)


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Ismaila Sarr
Quick Facts About Ismaïla Sarr
Smiley Sarr
Senegalese
Saint-Louis, Senegal
Abdoulaye Sarr Naar Gaad
Marieme Ba
Papis Sarr, Kine, Ndeye Ami, and Badara
Oumar Syr Diagne School
€6 million
€1.3 million annually
Body Build/Type
Rob Edwards
Ismaila Sarr, a Senegalese professional footballer, is well-known for his creativity in creating scoring opportunities. He is a player of great pace or dribbling ability so as to provide cut-backs or crosses from which strikers can score. With his exceptional skills, speed, and accurate crossing ability, he supports the forward and striker to score goals.
Who is Ismaila Sarr?
Ismaila Sarr is a Senegalese professional footballer. He currently plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Watford. Since 2016, he has represented the Senegal national football team at the international level. This 24-year-old star has been described as the most anticipated player on the Senegal National Team and among the most expensive winger in the EFL Championship.
Sarr begin his football journey by joining the youth set up of the Dakar-based football club "Generation Foot" at the age of eleven in 2009. On 13 July 2016, Sarr signed his first professional contract with FC Metz for five years. He made his league debut on 13 August 2016 against Lille OSC at Stade Saint-Symphorien.
Sarr has transferred to Ligue 1 side Rennes after signing a four-year contract on 26 July 2017. On 8 August 2019, Sarr joined Premier League club, Watford, on a five-year contract. He scored his first goal for Watford in an EFL Cup tie against Coventry City on 27 August 2019.
Where is Ismaila Sarr from?
Ismaila Sarr was born on 25th February 1998 in Saint Louis, the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. His birth name is Ismaïla Sarr. He holds a Senegalese nationality and belongs to the black ethnicity. His star sign is Pisces. He is a follower of Muslims.
Ismaila Sarr was born into a middle-class sports background family. His father, Abdoulaye Sarr Naar Gaad, is a former Senegalese international who played for the West African country during the late 80s while his mother, Marieme Ba, was a housemaker. He grew up with his four siblings: Papis Sarr, Kine, Ndeye Ami, and Badara.
Sarr was interested in football since childhood. But his parents persuade him to go to school to get a good educational qualification. due to his poor school performance at Oumar Syr Diagne School, he didn't study further and began to focus on football.
Who is Ismaila Sarr dating?
Ismaila Sarr has been dating a mysterious girl whose name is not revealed yet. The Senegalese winger and the gorgeous lady have opted to keep things low-key and private. However, one thing is for sure, the pretty lady was also born in Senegal and she has been dating the Senegalese footballer long before he came to the spotlight via football.
If we check on Ismaila Sarr's bio on Instagram, it shows that the footballer is engaged because he placed a ring emoji on his bio. Based on this, their relationship is very deep and the possibility that it could lead to marriage is very high. Hence, as the football world is waiting to see the next club Ismaila Sarr will move to, the world is waiting to see when the two lovebirds will get married.
How much is Ismaila Sarr's net worth?
As of September 2022, the net worth of Ismaila Sarr is estimated to be €6 million. In August 2019 the right winger signed a contract with Watford that nets him a whopping salary of 1.3 million euros annually. His current market value is around €27 million. His hard work has made him able to buy a luxurious apartment in Watford which is worth half a million euros. He drives a black Volkswagen.
How tall is Ismaila Sarr?
Ismaila Sarr is 6 ft 1 inch tall and his body weight is around 76 Kg. He has an Athletic build body. As a football player, he regularly does workouts and gym exercises to keep him fit and active. He has a buzz-cut hairstyle that is black in color. His eyes color are also black as well.
He always does heavy exercise which includes weight lifting, push-ups, Single-leg squats, Dumbbell bench step-ups, and others. He arrives every morning at Watford FC football training center for warm-ups and training. He is a simple guy with no tattoos carved on his body parts.
Facts About Ismaïla Sarr
#1He wears Nike Mercurial Vapor 14 Elite soccer cleats in 2022-2023.
#2His Fifa 22 rating is 77.
#3He picked the transfer to Rennes over a move to FC Barcelona.
#4He is ranked no.1 among all players in EFL Championship.
#5 He is Right-footed.
#6He knows the basics of tailoring.
#7He's an extremely ambitious guy.
#8He does not like tattoos.
#9He once worked alongside Sadio Mane on charity.
#10Only Sadio Mane made more dribbles than Sarr at the 2018 African Cup of Nations.
Watford F.C.
Senegal national football team
Senegalese football player


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ChillCrow is currently in the midst of developing a "dark mystic action adventure" game by the name of Kologeon, where you play as an "immortal soul" in a world overrun by various "demons and spirits." From the two minutes of gameplay featured in Kologeon's Kickstarter trailer, ChillCrow has already established that their game is unlike any other, boasting some frenetic, warp speed combat and mystical abilities to boot.
Kologeon aims to be progressive yet unrepetitive, centred around a procedurally-generated world, where "death is still a setback" but where you won't have to "memorize levels and replay the same thing over again." And about those mystical abilities; as an immortal soul you'll be able to do cool things like "realm travel" and use "time disruption" and "memory echoes." To expand on one, for example, the "time disruption" ability will enable you to slow down your perception of time, although this will damage your body (I'm presuming in health points and perhaps in other ways as well.) I'd like to see this particular gameplay mechanic featured in the trailer, even if it's a matter of just pointing it out when it occurs, especially as the game seems rather chaotic at the moment (or maybe it's just a matter of my untrained eye).
Some sort of demo would be very welcome as well, especially as Kologeon already seems quite polished judging from the deluge of screenshots posted in the ChillCrow site. It would definitely get the campaign rolling, which has only raised about $2,200 of the $35,000 it's asking for so far.


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The Tremante Family Story . . . Marco, Andrea, Alberto
"How long will this Genocide last?" by Georgio Alberto Tremante, August 26, 2015
Scroll down to watch video, "I'm Alive" by Alberto Tremante
To prove how much damage vaccinations can do, so indiscriminately used on families from all over the world, I think it is necessary for me to tell my story. Unfortunately my story is not considered a sole and sporadic case in itself, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. Vaccinations are still being forced onto people through fear based tactics.
My family has been the victim of vaccine injury and three of my four children have been irreversibly damaged.
I state that my three children affected by vaccine reaction, were born perfectly healthy and that the manifestations of the disease appeared only after the first Sabin polio vaccine. My eldest son's recorded clinical symptoms, which had appeared after the Sabin polio vaccination and correlated through the pediatrician to the anti polio vaccine, were as follows . ocular nystagmus, tremors and speech defects. It was interesting to see the diagnosis of the pediatrician being interpreted differently by other doctors, as they had assumed the sudden health problems were to be attributed to brain tumors or degenerative encephalopathy, never confirmed by any analysis performed on the child.
My eldest son died in 1971 at age six. With the second child, born in 1970, there were no problems – despite vaccinations received, but the drama came up again with the birth of twins in 1976.
Despite my fierce opposition to have my twins vaccinated, a law made it mandatory and without any prior investigation, that the shots be administered. Already the very next day side effects began to emerge and the first signs of change was perceivable and clearly visible.
I submitted the medical records of my twins' first hospitalizations to various Universities in the United States, in England and even in Russia. In the latter country it was assumed that my children were plagued by a drastically impaired immune system, that confirmed the direct cause and link to the vaccinations given to them. My children were diagnosed with "Metachromatic Leukodystrophy Type" by doctors of my city, Verona, Italy. The above mentioned condition is a degenerative disease of the nervous system, and has never been confirmed by genetic tests to which we subjected ourselves too.
Later, Andrew, one of the twins, had a deterioration of his health and was hospitalized for dehydration. Despite my recommendation not to make use of immunosuppressive drugs, because the child was Immuno Compromised, an infusion of cortisone was administered and five hours later Andrew died. Later I learned, that the same drug was also administered to my first child before death.
Despite the fact that we would have had useful information to save the life of the twins, it was not accepted because we were denied the presence of the coroner at the moment when our first son died, so that the examination performed by the pediatrician could not be validated and applied to our research. One month after the death of Andrew, also Albert, the other twin brother, had to be hospitalized.
Foregoing the opinion of doctors to let him die, we were able to have our request granted to move him to a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and we had a virologist from Naples (Dr. Tarro) come to attend and who had previously examined the child. This doctor from Naples advised to apply immuno stimulants. Subjected to treatment with "interferon", the boy began to slowly improve. After six months in the hospital the child was brought home with no letter of discharge from the hospital. Some time later, medical records that we requested, I noticed that they were different from those we photo copied daily during the time of hospitalization. Due to this discrepancy we presented a judiciary complaint. As a result of our legal action the Attorney of the hospital counter sued and declared that this was a case of "Public falsification of records".
Alberto, the twin brother, was admitted at the same hospital in Verona as Andrew was too and also in other ICUs: the Policlinico of Milan, in the province of Como, Merate, Melegnano, near Milan, and finally was transferred to the office from Melegnano to the Hospital of Verona.
During all the various hospital stays my task was to ensure that immune therapies were practiced which had given positive results before. These therapies were always recommended to us by Professor Tarro of Naples, who had been a student of Professor Sabin. It was always difficult, if not nearly impossible, to apply this type of therapy to Alberto, since the medical faculty had already ruled that my son should die. This was supported because the cause of the injury had been directly correlated to the discovery that it was caused to the vaccines given, despite the child was already partially immuno compromised.
Although our case had gained the interest and direct involvement of the Italian President, Mr. Sandro Pertini, and despite pressure onto the Minister of Health, to bring to life a Ministerial Commission through Mr. Renato Altissimo, it all fell through due to the falsified data that did hide the truth of the damage my son suffered through the vaccine.
During the last treatment my son underwent at the Albert Hospital of Verona, the doctors were the opinion that my son would die soon. I then tried desperately to bring home my baby, since that was their way of thinking and because the only solution to the problem for them was the culmination of our whole nefarious affair.
At that point a children's judge of Venice did revoke my "parental authority", which I right away fought and refused to let happen. I tried to make him understand that he was committing a gross error. I managed to convince the judge to reinstate the parental authority, beginning early 1984. I was able to reverse the decision of the court by creating a "recovery room" in our home, right in our bedroom. During all hospital stays my wife Franca Albert was at our son's side each and every day and every night in order to protect our child from any possible medical abuse or more damage.
Health care institutions did not want to admit that vaccines were the cause of his illness and death of his brothers and thus they tried every possible maneuver to erase leads on it. Finally, in 1995, by resorting to the law 210 of 1992, recognized by the State, the jugde saw the "causation" of the damage suffered by subjecting our children to the vaccination requirement.
During all these years I ADOP was established. An association in Italy that has been gathering information and data from people who have suffered damage from vaccination practices; I also tried to push for a law, to remove the mandatory practices of administering these vaccines, but this goal was not achieved in Italy, because, in my opinion, the health care industry has been dominated by the corrupt power of the Multinational Drug monopolies. All this is proving that even in this area, some pseudo-science of gross arrogance and devoid of all scruples, tramples on people and the vaccine victims. Illegal practices that did override all human and civil rights. It imposes its power based primarily on speculative interests without giving any accurate information on the potential dangers associated with vaccines, but rather of a deliberate misinformation and complete cover-up up to promoting that it is to the prophylactic prevention of illnesses.
Marco Tremante Andrea Tremante
Alberto Tremante
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"It is not the intention of this site terrorize people on immunization, but the intention is to make us ask questions in order to understand if we parents we are sufficiently informed of what may happen to our children, when subjected to these practices .
We can start with fairly trivial questions that will certainly help us when we should begin to worry about anything because of negative happen to our children if we decide to accede to these risky methods. Let us remember that the risks are and there are many, not virtual, but real!"
Giorgia Tremante
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Josh Rine, son of Jeff and Karen Rine, Barbours, member of Boy Scout Troop 172, Farragut, received a certificate of merit at a Court of Honor Ceremony which was held on Nov. 6 at the Farragut schoolhouse.
Harry Seltzer presented the award on behalf of the Susquehanna Council of Boy Scouts. This award was presented in recognition of the meritorious action, due to bravery and courage. Rine came upon an accident along Route 87, who involved his previous Scout leader for Cub and Webelos. He was on his way to a scouting event with his troop. He went above and beyond the call of duty until medical help was summoned.
Rine is serving as a Quartermaster for his troop. He is an eighth-grade student at C.E. McCall Middle School, Montoursville.