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Isn't she the sweetest? Wednesday, I attended an alumni event with Nancy at the 9/11 Memorial. On Friday, I went on a top secret mission that I will post about tomorrow. Other than that I mostly searched for jobs, worked out, and read. I'm starting to get antsy. Must find a job ASAP!
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I bought/sent my Foodie Pen Pals – September package to my pal in Kansas!
I finished Beneath the Glitter by Elle and Blair Fowler. I'm disappointed they had a writer work with them on the book because they don't mention it in any of their Youtube videos (it is only stated at the beginning of the book.). Other than that, I enjoyed the books and would read the next one. They are similar to Lauren Conrad's book series.
I started Happier at Home. I hope it's as good as Gretchen Rubin's last book – The Happiness Project.
I visited the 9/11 Memorial which is slightly overcoming a fear of mine.
I celebrated my one year anniversary with Lily Grace! The flowers smell wonderful!
Speaking of Lily, I found out this week that I get to bring her up to CT in 3 weeks! I'm so excited!
I went on a secret mission Friday…and got some cute clothes to boot! Post on that tomorrow.
Saturday I spent the day on a boat out in Long Island Sound. We had an awesome view of Manhattan which was pretty cool. We randomly docked the boat and went to an amusement park for an hour. It happened to be open for a private party for the NY Corrections Facility, but they let us in for free anyway!
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Just what's in your Pad Thai?
Salad Thai restaurant in downtown Oakville sets itself apart from the crowded Thai cuisine landscape by being committed to fresh and authentic dishes. Twenty years ago in this country, Thai food was still viewed as an exotic cuisine. Today, it seems like there's a new Thai restaurant opening all the time. Because of this proliferation, you'll often find a watered-down version of this eclectic cuisine. For example, have you ever had pad Thai and found it tasted more like noodles and ketchup? This is certainly not a dish you'd find in Thailand, nor is it one you'd find at Salad Thai.
Thai food differentiates itself from many other cuisines by its use of fresh herbs and spices rather than dried. A few common flavours found in Thai dishes come from garlic, galangal (sometimes called Thai ginger), coriander/cilantro, lemon grass, shallots, pepper, kaffir lime leaves, shrimp paste, fish sauce, and chilies. The meats commonly used are pork, chicken, beef, and duck.
Thai Cuisine is also remarkable in the way it combines flavours. Unlike many other cuisines where a dish may have a single, predominate taste—whether it be sweet, savoury, hot, or sour—Thai dishes are often richly complex with layers of flavours that cascade over your palette.
Some diners may be intimidated by the variety and also the use of spices in Thai food. At Salad Thai, because most dishes are made to order, your own individual spice preference can be taken into consideration. Their focus on fresh and authentic ingredients will provide you with a true sense of the richness and complexity of Thai cuisine.
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Talking to Children About Dignity
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Everyone on this planet has the right to lead a dignified life. Young people, old people, poor people, rich people, people living all around the world, one thing we have in common is the right to be treated with dignity.
For many children, "dignity" is an unfamiliar term. You have a wonderful opportunity to talk to the children in your life about the dignity that resides in each of us and to help them develop the values and character traits that exemplify a dignified life.
Take advantage of everyday occurrences to introduce children to the concept of dignity. At the dinner table, engage family members in a discussion of what it means when we say "please" and "thank you" as serving dishes are passed. While watching videos together, point out examples of people treating others with dignity. At a sports event, engage children in dialogue about the behaviors and language of athletes, coaches, or fans that demonstrate respect or lack of it. Use these teachable moments to help children learn what it means to be treated with dignity and how to treat others with dignity.
Children need to hear in your own words what dignity means to you and why it is something you value. Talk about people you admire for living dignified lives. Public figures such as Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr. may first come to mind, but don't overlook those in your immediate circle of family and friends. Describe your respect of a neighbor who shops for groceries for an elderly shut-in or your admiration of a special teacher who has devoted her life her students.
Keep in mind that adults aren't the only ones who live dignified lives. The world is filled with children who seek to live each day with dignity. Give young people the same respect you would give a treasured friend. Show dignity through your kindness, your patience, your tone of voice. Children who are treated with respect and dignity learn invaluable lessons on how to treat others.
Whenever we enhance the dignity of others, we become more dignified ourselves. Provide children with opportunities to experience what it feels like to treat others with dignity. Offer praise when they do things that make a positive difference in the lives of others. Encourage them to act with dignity in everyday ways, like sharing toys, taking turns in games, and being inclusive in their relationships. Dignity comes in big and little packages. A child who offers friendship to a classmate who is being ostracized by others because of ethnic differences is just as worthy of esteem as a world leader who is convening a summit on human rights.
The Global Dignity initiative (www.globaldignity.org) offers five dignity principles. Engage children in dialogue about each dignity principle. Together, discuss how these principles relate to your lives and the lives of others.
Every human being has a right to lead a dignified life. A dignified life means an opportunity to fulfill one's potential, which is based on having a human level of health care, education, income and security. Dignity means having the freedom to make decisions on one's life and to be met with respect for this right. Dignity should be the basic guiding principle for all actions. Ultimately, our own dignity is interdependent with the dignity of others.
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50-inch Omni Series Fire TV: $400
With Amazon's growing selection of and running its excellent Fire TV software, it was only a matter of time before it started manufacturing its own smart TVs. The Omni series is the more advanced of its two models and comes with a microphone built directly into the TV for truly hands-free voice control, and boasts 4K resolution. There are some discounts available on other sizes as well, but the 50-inch model is the best value available.
Staff have been told that everyone received an email by 9am PST (4pm GMT) on Friday, with those who are affected by the cuts set to receive the message on their personal email address rather than the one associated with their work.
During the presidential debates in October 2020 Brown tweeted highlighting his bosses' allegations about Donald Trump's ties to China, used to combat the scandal of First Son Hunter Biden's business deals with Beijing-backed Chinese companies.
Fire HD 10 Plus: $105
This 2021 model of the Fire HD 10 Plus is Amazon's most advanced tablet to date. It features 4GB of RAM (twice as much as the previous generation) and a 1080p, 10.1-inch screen. And at 42% off, this matches the absolute lowest price we've seen.
From smart speakers to tablets to security equipment and plenty more, Amazon makes some of our favorite gadgets and Gadgetinku smart home devices on the market right now. If you're looking to grab some for yourself, now's the time to buy. To celebrate the birthday of Alexa, Amazon's own virtual assistant, the online retailer is offering serious discounts on a huge selection of its own devices.
Like the previous Mac laptop models, the M1 Air has Apple's Magic Keyboard, Touch ID, a Force Touch trackpad and a 13.3-inch Retina display. If you're a college student, it's hard to go wrong with the new MacBook Air.
Acer's Spin 513 is an update of sorts to one of the best Chromebooks from 2021, the Spin 713. It's a two-in-one convertible Chromebook with a 13.5-inch display that has a 3:2 aspect ratio. The extra vertical space means less scrolling when you're working. The screen size is also close to that of letter-size paper, making it comfortable for notetaking in tablet mode with a USI pen. Compared to the 713, it drops a couple of noncritical features like an HDMI output in favor of a more affordable price. It has amazing battery life, though, and a sturdy fanless design, making it silent — perfect for quiet classrooms, lectures or video calls.
Intel trimmed its full-year adjusted earnings per share forecast to $1.95 from $2.30. (Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru and Jane Lanhee Lee; Editing by Devika Syamnath, David Gregorio and Deepa Babington)
Blink Mini Camera (2-pack): $30
You can keep an eye on your home from anywhere with these simple indoor security cameras. The Blink Mini offers two-way communication, notifications for motion and night vision, all in a tiny package. And right now, you can get two for the price of one with this bundle deal.
Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said the cut to the fourth quarter outlook reflected economic uncertainty expected to last into next year, and that the company was taking time to ramp up sales into data centers, which dropped 27% in the third quarter.
Echo (4th gen): $50
Amazon's fourth-gen Echo is a CNET winner and our on the market right now. It allows you to stream music, check the weather, update your calendar, set timers and much more using only the sound of your voice. It also has a built-in motion sensor and can initiate custom routines when you wake up or get home from work, and it can be used to control any other Alexa-enabled smart devices in your house.
"The amount that we can do with respect to people costs is a minority of our overall cost structure. So driving efficiency in the factory network is way more important to our economics than people cost," Gelsinger told Reuters, adding that adjustments to flexible workforces can be "quite immediate".
Simon Deakin, a professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, said if 100 or more employees are sacked within a period of 90 days, the Business Secretary must be notified 45 days before the first dismissal.
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The XPS 17 combines the same slim, premium design of its 13-inch linemate but with increased performance possibilities. It can be configured with up to a 12th-gen Intel Core i9 processor, 64GB of memory and a 6GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics chip. The best part: Dell trimmed up the chassis so much that you get a 17-inch display in a body that's the size of an older 15-inch laptop. You're getting a lot of power and a big screen in the smallest possible package.
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InboxQ will today launch a Q&A site that directs users to experts who might be able to answer their questions, and then gets out of the way.
The company, which was previously called Answerly and which has made various online Q&A products over the last two years, has now moved its focus to figuring out who expert tweeters are and helping other Twitter users find them.
InboxQ co-founder CEO Joe Fahrner called the new InboxQ Profile tool the inverse of his company's previous product, which helped companies find tweeted questions about their products.
It does seem logical that people with questions are easier to come by than people who want to install a browser extension to go answer other people's tweeted questions.
Some 100,000 questions are asked per day on Twitter, with the majority of them going unanswered, according to InboxQ. (Maybe some of them are rhetorical?) With the new tool, users can find others who are qualified to answer their questions and compose @mentions to ask them directly on Twitter.
The top categories of questions asked on Twitter are product advice, tech support and local recommendations, according to Fahrner. His team of five has worked to identify one million subject experts — see for instance the InboxQ listings for Amazon AWS and Bikram yoga.
A start-up called PeerPong recently tried to do something very similar, but ended up shutting down and being talent-acquired by Formspring. Fahrner contended that PeerPong was too much of a black box — it took user questions into its system and then tweeted them via company accounts to identified experts. By contrast, InboxQ connects the questioner and answerer, and then let's things happen from there.
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Aristotle is generally considered the "Founder of Logic," although many others before him put themselves to the task of thinking about how we think. One of these, Zeno of Elea, was considered to have developed reductio ad absurdum, or the method of indirect proof. If something cannot be both true and false, then an argument can be made from reducing the statement to the absurd.
For example, "The earth is round. The earth is not flat. If it were flat, people would fall off the edge." Since the earth cannot be both round and flat, the statement is true.
The 'reduction to the absurd' technique is used throughout Greek philosophy, beginning with Presocratic philosophers. The earliest Greek example of a reductio argument is supposedly in fragments of a satirical poem attributed to Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570 – c.475 BC). Criticizing Homer's attribution of human faults to the gods, he says that humans also believe that the gods' bodies have human form. But if horses and oxen could draw, they would draw the gods with horse and oxen bodies. The gods can't have both forms, so this is a contradiction. Therefore, the attribution of other human characteristics to the gods, such as human faults, is also false.
Logic is mental training: once the words and language have been developed, we can think through situations, problems, and reason our way to clear conclusions that work in conjunction with the natural world. For example, if we seekers of Truth are to grow and understand how a symbol might be applied to our everyday lives, we need to understand not only what the symbol is, but how it works in the world around us, how nature employs it.
Logic utilizes the senses but the connection must be made in the mind to form usable conclusions. Logic is, to me, a fundamental aspect of any human being's career, if one expects to progress through life and learn. We can learn Logic in the modern age via University, but this really teaches us about Logic, not how to employ our logical mind. It seems that only through discourse, or dialectica, are we able to truly develop logical thought processes and reasoning at a higher level. Masonic Philosophical Society, anyone?
As a side note, the Catholic Encyclopedia on newadvent.org has a very good article on Logic and its history. It's concise and certainly doesn't include manuscripts; I would encourage anyone with a keen interest in Logic or Dialectica to read Aristotle but also some of the pre-Socractic philosophers, whence a great deal of our modern ideas of logic come.


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Clutch Confirm U.K. Christmas Tour.
Fresh from show-stealing slots at this years' Reading and Leeds festivals, U.S. groove kings Clutch have confirmed a run of dates across the U.K. this December.
By Eamon O'Neill on 30th August 2016.
Announcing four headline dates, including the Roundhouse in London, the band will be bringing North Carolina's southern rock group Valient Thorr as special guests. The two bands toured across the U.S.A together back in 2011 with the legendary Motörhead, but this will be the first time they've hit the road together in the UK. Opening the shows will be long time Clutch buddies Lionize, getting the party started with their own fusion of rock and funk.
The full list of dates can be viewed below, with tickets going on sale on Friday 2nd September priced £22 (£22.50 London / plus booking fees) from all good box offices and online via here.
Clutch's eleventh album 'Psychic Warfare' was released in September 2015 via Weathermaker, earning the band their highest chart positions to date around the world. Renowned for their eye-catching videos as well as their infectious live show, Clutch recently unveiled their Western-inspired, wry new video for song 'Quick Death In Texas', which can also be viewed below.


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Jose Mourinho says he is "too young" to consider retirement as he spoke for the first time since he was sacked by Manchester United.
Mourinho, who was appearing as a pundit for Qatar-based broadcaster beIN Sports on its coverage of the Asian Cup, says he still belongs at the top level.
"I want to coach. I belong to top-level football and [that] is where I am going to be," Mourinho said.
However, he did say that clubs need to provide managers and coaches with support to deal with "modern players".
During his time at Manchester United he clashed with several players including the club's record signing France midfielder Paul Pogba.
"Everything good I did with players is not news anymore," he said. "News is when you have problems. In modern football there is a problem between the coach and the player.


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Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on the situation in the Gaza Strip
31.03.2018 - Press release
A Federal Foreign Office Spokesperson issued the following statement today (31 March) on the situation in the Gaza Strip:
The Federal Government is extremely concerned about the clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces on the border to Israel, in which at least 15 Palestinians have been killed and many others injured. We urgently appeal to all parties to refrain from everything that would lead to further escalation and once again jeopardise human lives. Exercising the right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest must not be exploited and used to violate Israel's legitimate security interests on the border to the Palestinian territories. At the same time, the defence of these legitimate interests must remain proportionate.
This incident shows once again how crucial it is for the two sides to resume negotiations. That is the only way to find a solution allowing all people between the Mediterranean and Jordan to live their lives in dignity and self-determination.
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缺點: Their "continental breakfast" was a dry piece of banana bread and yoghurt. No jam, butter cheese or other spreads to compliment with your bread. Most disappointing "continental breakfast" I have had on a plane!
缺點: 2 hour delay due to mechanical issue sitting on the tarmac.


Holiday travel season is in full swing. While the holidays are one of the most joyous times of the year, the road trip it can take to get there isn't always quite as joyous. We've got some tips that are sure make the drive to grandma's house a little easier for everyone. Keep scrolling for our holiday road trip guide and let us know if we left any of your favorite tips out below!
Gas prices always seem to spike during the holidays and it can be difficult to know where to get the best deal for gas when driving through a new town. Downloading a smartphone app like GasBuddy helps you look smarter not harder when searching for gas. Simply open the app and it will tell you where the cheapest gas is based on your current location.
Don't waste time making a stop every time someone in the car gets hungry. Instead, plan ahead and pack snacks that will keep everyone feeling full and won't make a mess. Pack them all in one container or give everyone their own small plastic box and let them fill it with whatever snacks they will want for the ride. While you are at it, be sure to back a car trash can for wrappers and a roll of paper towels for spills. Don't have a car trash can? A cereal storage container will work in a pinch.
When traveling with holiday presents, it can be a hassle to find a place to neatly store them all. You worked hard on wrapping those presents, you don't want them getting messed up during the drive. Instead, grab a plastic storage tub or two carefully stack all the presents inside. Now you don't have to worry about your great-aunt's picture frame getting broken or those bows falling off. Plastic tubs are also a great way to keep gift bags from falling over and spilling out.
Avoid hearing "Are we there yet?" a million times by making sure the kids have plenty to do for the long road ahead. If your vehicle has an entertainment system, pack the family's favorite holiday movies for a movie marathon. Coloring and activity books are great and mess free option too. And of course a classic game of the car color or license plate game are a great way to pass the time.


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Q: Python: pexpect does not execute `backtick` command I'm trying to run this command:
foo=`ls /`

Works perfectly on bash but not if I execute it via pexpect:
p = pexpect.spawn("foo=`ls /`").interact()

// Gives error command was not found or not executable: foo=`ls

What is the cause and how do I fix it? I've even tried escaping the ` but it seems its not working.

A: The command you are trying to execute requires bash. pexpect does not pass your command through bash, instead invoking your executable directly as if it were the shell.
From the docs:

Remember that Pexpect does NOT interpret shell meta characters such as
  redirect, pipe, or wild cards (>, |, or *). This is a common mistake.
  If you want to run a command and pipe it through another command then
  you must also start a shell. For example:

child = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash -c "ls -l | grep LOG > log_list.txt"')
child.expect(pexpect.EOF)

Although the documentation doesn't mention them, this would certainly also apply to backticks. So write your code to invoke bash explicitly:
p = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash -c "foo=`ls /`"').interact()


It's only fitting that veteran actor Rajinikanth, whose stardom has transcended regions, generations and time, and is arguably the most unprecendented success story in Indian films, celebrates his 62nd birthday on a date as unique as 12.12.12.
In their book Grand Brand Rajini, co-authors PC Balasubramaniam and Ram N Ramakrishnan describe Rajinikanth as a cult brand and recount how the star caused mass frenzy overseas with his 2007 film Sivaji: The Boss.
A grand extravaganza was about to pitchfork into frenzy as fans waited in the wee hours of the dawn to get inside theatres across India on 15 June 2007.
At the same time, a few lucky ones were already hung-over from the excitement of the previous evening. This was happening at the Dante Cinema Hall in Palermo, Italy, as word spread from Norway, Holland and across Europe that 'The Boss' had arrived -- Rajini, in and as Sivaji.
It was the first Tamil film releasing across the US, Canada, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Australia.
Excerpted from Grand Brand Rajini co-authored by P C Balasubramaniam and Ram N Ramakrishnan, Rupa Publications, with the publisher's permission.
The film opened to a full house across 750 screens globally; sixteen theatres screened the same film in Chennai; it occupied 303 screens across Tamil Nadu, 300 in Andhra Pradesh, twelve in North India, four in New Delhi and 145 screens across other countries.
Every theatre was booked for two weeks, assuring profits for the film's producer AVM Studios, the oldest one in the country.
Overtaking every other film from the subcontinent, Sivaji was the costliest film of India with an estimated Rs 80 crore budget.
No one dared take such risks then; but the makers of the film were confident given the kind of cult following Brand Rajini had.
People's 'picnic' had begun. And if they felt disappointed with the full-house situation for the next two weeks, there was Chandramukhi playing next door, completing its 800-day run.
A film release could not get better than this. The sheer demonstration of Brand Rajini's cult power -- invoking deep passion and desire amongst his fans and viewers, with activities ranging from erecting sky-high posters of the hero, pouring milk over it, throwing flowers or burning incense -- seemed like madness to those who did not belong to that cult.
In Sivaji, Brand Rajini was paired with a dream team.
The movie was devoid of the famous punchlines that were one of the USPs of a Rajini film; yet, one of the regular lines, Paera kaetavudane chumma athuruthilae ('Don't you feel the instant tremor when you hear the name?'), when uttered by Rajini in his own inimitable style, transformed into a punchline.
For the 150,000 odd fan clubs and the millions who watched the flick, it was Rajini mania.
The cult's thirst and yearning for Rajini --- who showed himself once in two years, was never seen on any product advertisements or TV shows and rarely in media interviews -- was being satisfied.
Pathans who got free tickets sponsored by a non-profit organization in the Persian Gulf came out of the hall saying 'Rajini, kya aadmi hai woh!' ('Rajini, what a man!') despite not understanding a word of dialogue.
For the die-hard Rajini fan, the clincher came from his one-liner: Panningathaan kootama varum, singham singalathaan varum' ('Only swine travel in droves, the lion comes alone').
As Mathew W Ragas and Bolivar J Bueno say in The Power of Cult Branding, 'Cult branders enjoy incredible loyalty because they work hard to connect with their customers at the very highest level [...] They don't just offer great products and services, but they understand needs for social interaction, esteem and self-actualization.
They make customers believe that your brand has no equal.' With Sivaji, the cult of Brand Rajini was complete.


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Plastics & Pollution • 1h 34m
Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Documentary • 2016 • 94 minutes
HOMO SAPIENS is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being.
What will remain of our lives after we're gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago. HOMO SAPIENS is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario.
environment, environment1, expository, homo sapiens, kimstim, nyt, observational, ovid, ovid_ca, s_0090, slow, title_defgh, title_h
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As a young man in the late Sixties, Greg Davis served for three years in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. The area where he was stationed was one of many throughout the country sprayed by the military, as part of its counterinsurgency strategy...


This is a sweet kitchen, and I like a lot of what they have done here. What makes it work so well for is the fact that it is a smaller, traditional design, but at the same time it has a great country appeal. I think this has to do with a clever use of the color scheme that evokes a feeling of earthiness and comfort. The brown and white are well balanced, and the hardwood floor adds lightness to the space that is really nice as well. In fact, much of what makes this kitchen design world so well is the natural lighting.


Bahama Beach Family Waterpark is your Daycation Destination! The 2019 Summer season will begin on Saturday, May 25th from 10:30am-6:00pm. Sunday, May 26th 12:00pm-6:00pm and Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th 10:30am-6:00pm. Come out and join in the fun!


Takara Bio announced that the Medical Products Agency, the Swedish national authority responsible for regulation and surveillance of the development, manufacturing and marketing of drug and other medical products, granted a manufacturing license for derivation and banking of human embryonic stem (hES) cells to be produced under GMP conditions at the state-of-the-art laboratory located in Göteborg, Sweden, within Takara Bio Europe's facility.
Since October 2014, Takara Bio Inc. has been offering world-class gene and cellular therapy manufacturing and operation as a CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization) business at the Center for Gene and Cell Processing, located in Kusatsu, Japan. The Göteborg facility complements Takara Bio's global efforts to meet the varied needs of clients in the gene and cellular therapy industries.
Takara Bio, an innovative biotechnology company based in Japan, researches and develops reagents for genome engineering and analysis, technology used for gene therapy, and natural health food products using mushrooms and seaweed body and extracts.


Another reason for the absence of the 2' OH in DNA is that it allows the deoxyribose ring in DNA to pucker in just the right way to sterically allow extended ds-DNA helices (B type). The pucker in deoxyribose and ribose can be visualized by visualizing a single plane in the sugar ring defined by the ring atoms C1', O and C4'. If a ring atom is pointing in the same direction as the C4'-C5' bond, the ring atom is defined as endo. If it is pointing in the opposite direction, it is defined as exo (see Jmol and figure below). In the most common form of double-stranded DNA, B-DNA, which is the iconic extended double helix you know so well, C2' is in the endo form. It can also adopt the C3' endo form, leading to the formation of another less common helix, more open ds-A helix. In contrast, steric interference prevents ribose in RNA from adopting the 2'endo conformation, and allows only the 3'endo form, precluding the occurrences of extended ds-B-RNA helices but allowing more open, A-type helices.
d. What about the molecular dynamics of A-RNA and B-DNA?
The information above suggests that the sugar ring of DNA is conformationally more flexible than the ribose ring of RNA. This can clearly be inferred from the observation that dsDNA can adopt B and A forms, which requires a switch from the 2' endo in the B form to the 3'endo form in the A form. The smaller H on the 2'C would offer less steric interference with such flexibility. The rigidity in ribose is associated with a smaller 5'O to 3'O distance in RNA leading to a compression of the nucleotides into a helix with a smaller number of base pairs/turn.
The increased flexibility in DNA allows rotation around the C1'-N glycosidic bond connecting the deoxyribose and base in DNA, allowing different orientations of AT and GC base pairs with each other. The normal "anti" orientation allows "Watson-Crick" (WC) base pairing between AT and GC base pairs while the altered rotation allows "Hoogsteen" (Hoog) base pairs. The different orientations for an AT base pair are shown below.
Hoogsteen base pairs can be found in distorted dsDNA structures (caused by protein:DNA interactions) but also in normal B-DNA. The figures below shown Watson-Crick and Hoogsteen AT base pairs in the MATa2 homeodomain:DNA complex (pdb 1K61). Note that the dA base in the Hoogsteen base pair is rotated syn (with respect to the deoxyribose ring) instead of the usual anti, allowing the Hoogsteen base pair.
Studies (Zhou et al, 2016) show that Watson-Crick (WC) and Hoogsteen (HG) base pairs in B-DNA are in a dynamic equilibrium with the equilibrium greatly favoring the WC form. In a DNA:protein complex, the WC <----> HG equilibrium can actually favor the WG form for AT and GC+ forms (in the latter, the C is protonated) when those base pairs are also involved in protein recognition. They can also occur more frequently in damaged DNA. In contrast, molecular dynamic studies show that the HG base pairs A-U and GC+ are strongly disfavored in ds A-RNA.
One type of DNA damage is methylation on N1-adenosine and N1-guanosine. This modification prevents normal Watson-Crick base pairing but for DNA, these modified bases can still engage in Hoogsteen base pairing, preserving the overall structure of dsDNA and its ability to stably carry genetic information. This same methylation occur normally in post-transcriptional modified RNA. Hence, N1 adenosine and N1 guanosine methylation prevents any type of base pairing in the modified RNA. These properties make DNA a better carrier of molecular information and offers another way to regulate the structural and functional properties of RNA.
Now lets review the kinds of structure adopted by the 3 major macromolecules, DNA, RNA and proteins. DNA predominately adopts the classic ds-BDNA structure, although this structure is wound around nucleosomes and "supercoiled" in cells since it must be packed into the nucleus. This extended helical form arise in part from the significant electrostatic repulsions of two strands of this polyanions (even in the presence of counterions). Given its high charge density, it is not surprising that it is complexed with positive proteins and does not adopt complex tertiary structures. RNA, on the other hand, can not form long B-type double-stranded helices (due to steric constraints of the 2'OH and the resulting 3'endo ribose pucker). Rather it can adopt complex tertiary conformations (albeit with significant counterion binding to stabilize the structure) and in doing so can form regions of secondary structure (ds-A RNA) in the form of stem/hairpin forms. Proteins, with their combination of polar charged, polar uncharged, and nonpolar side chains have little electrostatic hindrance in the adoption of secondary and tertiary structures. That RNA and proteins can both adopt tertiary structures with potential binding and catalytic sites makes them ideal catalysts for chemical reactions. RNA, given its 4 nucleotide motif can clearly also carry genetic information, making it an ideal candidate for the first evolved macromolecules enabling the development of life. Proteins with a great abundance of organic functionalities would eventually supplant RNA as a better choice for life's catalyst. DNA, with its greater stability, would supplant RNA as the choice for the main carrier of genetic information.


Cipolla MJ, Crete R, Vitullo L, Rix RD. Frontiers in Bioscience. Transcellular Transport as a Mechanism of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption During Stroke. 2004 Jan; 9:777-85.
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package reflect

import (
	"github.com/anaminus/rbxmk"
	"github.com/anaminus/rbxmk/dump"
	"github.com/anaminus/rbxmk/dump/dt"
	"github.com/anaminus/rbxmk/rtypes"
)

func init() { register(JsonValue) }
func JsonValue() rbxmk.Reflector {
	return rbxmk.Reflector{
		Name:     rtypes.T_JsonValue,
		PushTo:   PushBasicTo,
		PullFrom: PullBasicFrom,
		Dump: func() dump.TypeDef {
			return dump.TypeDef{
				Category: "rbxmk",
				Underlying: dt.P(dt.Or(
					dt.Prim(rtypes.T_Nil),
					dt.Prim(rtypes.T_Bool),
					dt.Prim(rtypes.T_Number),
					dt.Prim(rtypes.T_String),
					dt.Prim(rtypes.T_Array),
					dt.Prim(rtypes.T_Dictionary),
				)),
				Summary:     "Types/JsonValue:Summary",
				Description: "Types/JsonValue:Description",
			}
		},
		Types: []func() rbxmk.Reflector{
			Array,
			Bool,
			Dictionary,
			Nil,
			Number,
			String,
		},
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Given an existing web application that uses OSCache, we can pretty easily add support for JMX monitoring.
As for Spring support, we are restricting its introduction to a small aspect of the application (for now!), so we are minimizing the impact on the rest of the application.
Firstly, we need to set a listener for OSCache that will publish the statistics we are interested in.
If you're using maven, add a dependency on spring-web. This has dependancies on spring-core, spring-context and spring-beans (At the time of writing, 3.0.2.RELEASE was the latest version in the maven repositories).
Otherwise download these manually and chuck them in your WEB-INF/lib.
The map in the exporter links the statistics bean to a key that will be visible in JConsole.
Note: The OpenSymphony link in the references below gives you code to expose an arbitrary JMX connector and port. This is unnecessary since we're accessing via the application server.
The web.xml then needs to be updated to be told to load the new cacheContext.xml.
JDK 1.5 includes two JMX clients that you can use.
jconsole is the legacy monitoring application, which has been superseded by the fancy UI of jvisualvm.
Either application will allow you to monitor the statistics bean, however in jvisualvm you will need to install the plugin VisualVM-MBeans under Tools > Plugins. Meanwhile jconsole has an MBeans tab by default.
When your application is running, use one of these utilities to connect to the application server (either directly or via localhost:8686 for glassfish). Under the oscache-bean > Statistics, you should be able to see counts generated by cache attributes. Double-clicking the numbers will pop up a graph, and right-clicking will allow you to export the recorded values.


Fixed steel ladders are usually used on the outside of industrial buildings, and other permanent set ups to allow access to the roof. These are pretty basic ladders, nevertheless there are several things to keep in mind with fixed steel ladders. Initial is keeping unwanted users from accessing the steps. There are options of security entrance doors and locking panels so they can secure access to the step ladder. Another option for this style of step ladder is a safety cage. This really is mounted to the fixed metallic ladder to add safety for the user. It stops anyone climbing the ladder coming from falling backward off the steps. Another option is a top walk-through, this provides a handle towards the top on each side of the ladder to help the user remain steady while stepping off the steps at the top. Another thing to keep in mind when choosing a ladder height is the fact OSHA requires a step off platform for ladders over 20 feet or every twenty feet of climbing level. You can order these stage off platforms at the same time you order the fixed steel ladder.
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I am getting a good foundation in basic French. I especially like the feature of comparing my pronunciation with that of a native speaker. This procedure is far more helpful to me than simply hearing someone else speak the language.


North Carolina police officer killed in work accident | Ganly & Ramer, P.L.L.C.
The incident happened on a day in November. According to reports, at least two police officers were responding to a report of a robbery. A news release from the police station claims that that the officers were looking for a vehicle they believe was connected to the suspect.
Unfortunately, their two vehicles collided. Both were transported to the hospital, but one of them -- a 24-year-old male who joined the department in 2016 -- passed away as a result of the injuries he suffered in the collision. The second officer's injuries are not considered life threatening. No civilian vehicles are said to have been involved in the incident.
While officers know they face risk every time they report for duty, no family is prepared to receive the news that their loved one was killed. As a result, grieving families often struggle both emotionally and financially. Because lost wages, funeral expenses and medical bills can take such a toll on families, many victims of a work accident -- including surviving family members in the event of a fatality -- often qualify for workers' compensation insurance benefits. However, some families in North Carolina are already going through a stressful time. As a result, they often turn to an experienced attorney to help guide them through the process as they seek a fair settlement.


The first Passover celebrations included neither haggadah nor seder. With the passage of millennia, the two have become central elements. Herewith an interactive guide to the collage of texts that constitutes the holiday's guidebook.


I used to have a different recipe for this soup but it wasn't quite right. There was something missing and I didn't even know it until I made this version. It's Ina Garten's Mexican Chicken Soup from her Barefoot Contessa at Home Cookbook. I stuck fairly close to her recipe but did make a few changes. The missing key to my soup was adding the corn tortillas to the soup itself. They melt away after 30 minutes or so but they leave the soup thicker and with a wonderful corn flavor. I served this to company last night and we all loved it. My son gobbled it up in no time and I must admit, I wanted seconds. It's a nice hearty soup that's full of flavor – perfect for a rainy day. I really enjoyed the crunchy corn tortilla strips, soft avocado & salty cheese toppings.
Combine all ingredients and gently boil for 20 minutes. Let the chicken breasts cool then shred with two forks.
Heat the olive oil in a dutch oven over medium heat. Once hot, add onions and sauté until tender. Add the garlic and stir constantly for 60 seconds. Add the carrots, celery, jalapeno, tomatoes, broth, cumin, coriander, sea salt and pepper to taste and 1/4 cup of cilantro. Cut the 6 corn tortillas in half, then cut them crosswise into 1/2 inch strips and add to the soup. Bring the soup to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are soft and the corn tortillas have melted away. Add the chicken, taste and re season if needed.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray the baking sheet with olive oil cooking spray. Spray each side of all the tortillas & lay in a pile. Cut into thin strips & spread across the baking dish then season with sea salt. Bake in the oven until golden brown – watch them carefully because they burn easily. It usually takes about 3-5 minutes.
Ladle soup into large soup bowls. Add some avocado, tortilla strips, a sprinkle of cheese and cilantro. Enjoy!
I love soups and I'm so glad it is cold enough for them. Looks nice and warm.
I just love how you serve such amazing food to your friends! This soup is absolutely lovely. Ina's recipes really are so good. Your bowl and plate charger are darling, too. I make soup every week, and this one is shooting up to the top of the list for next time!
I could so eat this. Looks so delicious.
I was going to make you mexican stew this week and then I saw this. No reason I can't try both, my family will gobble them both up. Another wonderful dish that you make look so elegant.
I lovz soups..tortilla soup with chicken wat an amazing work..loved the clicks..tempting one..
I love chicken tortilla soup. This looks very good – have saved recipe and hope to try soon!
We have been on a soup kick at our house. I love a good tortilla soup and this one looks fabulous!
I can't wait to make this! I've been seeing cotija cheese on so many blogs lately I'm interested to try it.
I absolutely LOVE that you have a printable link for your recipes. Makes it so easy!
I love chicken soup with a lot of veggies in it! This is really pretty in your square white bowl.
Wow! This sounds like a winner! I have been wanting to make this ever since I saw Ina make it! Now it is a must! Great pics too!
I can use some of that right now. My office is freezing!!!!!!!! I love your pics and I love the cojita on top!!!!!!
Oh, I love the Barefoot Contessa recipes, they are always so delicious! This soup looks like heaven, perfect for the cold weather we are having.
i will have this one bookmarked for when it gets colder over here – it looks yummy!!
Chicken tortilla soup has always been one of my favorites. Thanks for posting such a clear and concise recipe.
Instead of the jalapeno, I buy a can of fire roasted tomatoes, with the chili in it already!
Thank you so much for posting this !
I'm a HUGE INA FAN ! I have all her cookbooks, and watch and re-watch all her shows ! I will try this for sure !!
So absolutely yum-o. I love tortilla soup and the color on this one is just awesome!
I got one of Ina Garten's books for my birthday (your recommendation, and thank you), she has some really good looking recipes in there.
I love this soup, it looks absolutely fab. You certainly do serve up some treats for your dinner guests.
We love this soup in our house as well and it is always a hit when served for guests. I am happy to hear you had great luck with it as well. It sure does look delicious and now I am craving it once again!


Images of saint Thyagaraja at Thiruvaiyaru.
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES By Vincent D' Souza Like most people I was introduced to the visual face of saint Thyagaraja with the fanatstic paintings of late S. Rajam, actor, artist, singer and guru. Rajam's images of the Trinity are now found the world over. As framed pictures, works of art or printed stuff.
KUTCHERIBUZZ / ARCHIVES The Bhagavata Mela, from it's inception in the 15th century is a male exclusive art form with bhagavatars donning various roles and enacting stories from the Puranas.
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES By Vincent D' Souza When you are woken up at 3.30 a.m. inside a sleeper bus that does not want to stop frequently and asked to alight at your destination, you swim in a daze..
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / JULY 2001 Under a thatched roof in a cool yard of a Raja Annamalaipuram premises in Madras, a 72-year-old man is lying down on a wire-mesh cot, in the 'Shav-asana' (dead man's pose). He is lying flat on his back, with arms on the sides and legs stretched and apart, and his eyes closed.
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / 2003 Madras-based dancer and teacher A. Lakshman is guru to many foreign dancers. And they seem to learn more than just adavus and thillanas. Feature by Aruna. S / KuctheriBuzz Staff/ Madras Madras based Bharatanatyam dancer A. Lakshman has been a strict teacher to many.
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES / 2011 Reported by Mridula Anand In early December 2011, there was a unique one week workshop in Hyderabad by the famed singer Vani Jairam. Vani Jairam spoke briefly about her prior training in Hindustani music by Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan of Patiala gharana where she assimilated the intricacies of the thumri, bhajan and ghazal singing..
Reported by R K Phalguna It takes over three hours by bus from Bangalore to get to the village of Rudrapatna, which is located on the banks of the river Cauvery in Karnataka. As you wind your way in, one can see the beautiful temple which is in the shape of a tambura – The Sapthaswara Devatha Mandira. .
• KUTCHERIBUZZ ARCHIVES Reported by Sarah Wright, Harvard University Students at Harvard University are enjoying the privilege of studying with Umayalpuram Mali this semester. The mridangist from South India is residing in the Boston area for four months this Spring as a Fulbright scholar. .
Reported by C. P. Unnikrishnan The Sree Sankara School of Dance (SSD), Kalady, Kerala, conducted its fourth National Festival of Dance & Music, as well as the National Seminar on Development of Kalady, from the 16th to the 22nd of May. .
Reported by Mukundagiri Sadagopan During the Memorial Day weekend (May 29 - 31, 2010) Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam (CTU), a not-for-profit organization, celebrated its 34th Annual music festival at the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago (HTGC), Lemont, Illinois. .


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Mikromanagement (auch Micromanagement) beschreibt in den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften den Vorgang des geplanten Handelns im Mikroumfeld. Es kommt dabei zu einer "übertriebenen Detailorientierung". Für das Mikromanagement charakteristisch ist außerdem das Überspringen von Hierarchiestufen. Es wird dabei darauf verzichtet, Aufgaben zu delegieren. So wird der Führungsstil des ehemaligen Apple-Chefs Steve Jobs als Mikromanagement bezeichnet, da dieser sich oft um Details kümmerte, die nicht zu seinem Aufgabenbereich gehörten.

Insbesondere im Handel ist das Management des Mikroumfeldes ein stehender Begriff ("retail is detail"). Der Warenhauspionier Sam Walton prägte bereits den Satz: "Denke im Kleinen!".

Mikromanager

Entwicklung zum Mikromanager

Ein Mikromanager ist eine Führungskraft, die sich sehr viel mit Einzelheiten eines von seinen Mitarbeitern oder Kollegen zu lösenden Problems beschäftigt.  Ein Manager wird zum Mikromanager, wenn er zu wenig Rückmeldungen über die Lösung des Problems erhält (oder nur das Gefühl hat). Das führt zu ständigen Rückfragen und zu immer detaillierteren Aufgabenstellungen der Arbeitspakete, aber auch der zu erstellenden Berichte über Arbeitsergebnisse.

Die Mitarbeiter werden andererseits von der eigentlichen Arbeit abgehalten, da sie ständig über den Arbeitsstand berichten müssen. Es gibt keinen Freiraum für Entscheidungen innerhalb ihres Aufgabenbereiches. Der Dauerzustand eines solchen Führungsstils kann die Mitarbeiter demotivieren, die sich dann zu destruktiven Mitarbeitern entwickeln können.

Abhilfe

Abhilfe schaffen offene Gespräche zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsaufteilung. Ein Leiter muss Aufgaben delegieren können. Der Mitarbeiter muss seinem Vorgesetzten ausreichend berichten. Beide müssen einander akzeptieren und vertrauen. Das muss erst erarbeitet werden.

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Berufliche Funktion (Management)
Planung und Organisation
Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
Organisationskommunikation
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Security researcher launches GoFundMe campaign to fight legal threat over vulnerability disclosure
Charlie Osborne 25 March 2021 at 18:02 UTC
Updated: 25 March 2021 at 18:09 UTC
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More than £8,000 has been raised after UK healthcare foundation allegedly threatened to take legal action
A security researcher has launched a GoFundMe campaign to secure legal representation after a responsible disclosure notice apparently went sour.
In a tweet dated March 8, Rob Dyke, an open source cybersecurity specialist and platform engineer, said he had discovered open code repositories in late February containing API keys, application code, usernames, passwords, and the URLs of third-party, embedded items.
Two open GitHub repositories were said to have been exposed online for two years, leaving plenty of scope for threat actors to exploit the information posted.
After verifying the contents and taking screenshots, the security researcher sent a private security advisory to the repo author – a common practice in responsible disclosure.
Dyke alerted the author to the public settings of the repositories and also warned that the application code contained within was based on an old PHP framework containing SQL injection and remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities.
The researcher added that he would keep the materials, in an encrypted fashion, for 90 days before destroying the records.
At first, the author thanked Dyke and took down the repos. However, some of the embedded elements were still available on public URLs, leading to a second private disclosure.
Dyke, once again, was thanked – but was also hit with a notice to serve from the organization's legal team in the same breath.
Dyke was accused of committing offenses under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
'Sensible and responsible disclosure'
According to the researcher, an unnamed legal team demanded that he "give commitments that amounted to me acknowledging that I had unlawfully hacked into and penetrated systems and databases".
"I made a sensible and responsible disclosure; I have not made threats at any time; nor have I intimated harm to the organization's systems," Dyke said.
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When asked on social media exactly what he was accused of, Dyke said, "clicking links from one public website to another. Then telling the organization that I clicked the links".
In a follow-up tweet dated March 9, Dyke posted:
"Might need a little help later today. Just letting folks know. #NHSbuntu #nhos #nhsopensource."
GoFundMe campaign
Dyke did not originally disclose the name of the organization that threatened legal action as private information was still available online. However, the researcher did say, "If you knew who it was you'd be very disappointed".
On March 9, Dyke sent out a request for recommendations for a lawyer familiar with technology and able to represent him, as well as roughly £1,500 to pay their fees.
A GoFundMe page was created to help cover these costs, and at the time of writing, £8,625 has been raised. Any donations that are not required for Dyke's legal defense will be donated to Code Your Future.
The researcher has engaged a legal firm to act on his behalf.
"This is shitty bullying behavior from the organization," Dyke said on March 9. "I won't be identifying the organization. Suffice to say that they have a pile of public money that should be spent on doing Good Open Source Things rather than shooting the messenger."
On March 24, Dyke named and confirmed to The Daily Swig that the organization as the Apperta Foundation, a clinical non-profit funded by the UK National Health Service (NHS).
In an email screenshot shared online, the researcher revealed a message allegedly sent by Northumbria Police who has requested to speak to him. The request for contact cited "a report of Computer Misuse".
"I told @AppertaUK about passwords/keys/finace db they published on Github," Dyke commented. "And this is what I get #cyberup".
In response to a series of queries from The Daily Swig, an Apperta Foundation spokesperson issued the following statement:
On or about 26 February 2021, it is understood that an unauthorised individual or individuals breached a private portal to access financial information related to The Apperta Foundation. After taking professional advice, the Foundation took immediate action to isolate this breach and secure its systems.
The information implicated related purely to The Apperta Foundation's financial information. We can assure the community that personal data was not targeted or accessed about individuals. The Foundation's directors have a responsibility to protect its confidential information, including data and intellectual property owned by the Apperta Foundation. Its actions have been entirely proportionate to that responsibility.
The Apperta Foundation's management is confident that all systems and security have been reviewed and all necessary steps have been taken to ensure the Apperta Foundation is protected and future threats are managed in accordance with best practice.
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Inspektorat Straży Celnej "Kościerzyna" – jednostka organizacyjna Straży Celnej pełniąca służbę ochronną na granicy polsko-niemieckiej w latach 1921–1928.

Geneza
Już w 1918 roku powstające państwo polskie zaczęło tworzyć wyspecjalizowane formacje przeznaczone do ochrony granic Rzeczypospolitej. W kwietniu 1920 roku w Kościerzynie stacjonował sztab I dywizjonu 4 pułku Strzelców Granicznych. W kolejnych latach inne formacje ochraniały granice w tym rejonie. W 1921 roku w Kościerzynie rozlokowało się dowództwo 3 batalionu celnego.

Formowanie i zmiany organizacyjne
Na wniosek Ministerstwa Skarbu, uchwałą z 10 marca 1920 roku, powołano do życia Straż Celną. Jednostki Straży Celnej rozpoczęły przejmowanie odcinków granicy od pododdziałów Batalionów Celnych. Proces tworzenia Straży Celnej trwał do końca 1922 roku. Inspektorat Straży Celnej "Kościerzyna", wraz ze swoimi komisariatami i placówkami granicznymi, znalazł się w podporządkowaniu Dyrekcji Ceł "Poznań". W 1926 roku w skład inspektoratu wchodziło 5 komisariatów i 34 placówki Straży Celnej.

Rozporządzeniem ministra skarbu z 30 czerwca 1927 roku rozpoczęto reorganizację Straży Celnej. Odtąd Naczelny Inspektorat Straży Celnej podlegał bezpośrednio ministrowi skarbu, a Naczelnemu Inspektoratowi podlegały inspektoraty okręgowe. Te ostatnie przejęły kompetencje dyrekcji ceł. Inspektorat Straży Celnej "Kościerzyna" przemianowany został na Inspektorat Graniczny Straży Celnej "Kościerzyna" i wszedł w podporządkowanie Pomorskiego Inspektoratu Okręgowego Straży Celnej.

Służba graniczna

Sąsiednie inspektoraty
 Inspektorat Straży Celnej "Wejherowo" ⇔ Inspektorat Straży Celnej "Chojnice"

Funkcjonariusze inspektoratu
Obsada personalna w 1927:
 kierownik inspektoratu – inspektor Stefan Kwiatkowski
 pomocnik kierownik inspektoratu – podkomisarz Ildefons Klonowski
 funkcjonariusze młodsi:
 starszy przodownik Józef Maciaszek (969)
 przodownik Józef Rospęk (1190)

Struktura organizacyjna
Organizacja inspektoratu w 1926 roku:
 komenda – Kościerzyna
 komisariat Straży Celnej "Przymuszewo"
 komisariat Straży Celnej "Lipusz"
 komisariat Straży Celnej "Chośnica"
 komisariat Straży Celnej "Sierakowice"
 komisariat Straży Celnej "Linja"

Przypisy

Bibliografia

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Formacje graniczne w Kościerzynie
Inspektoraty graniczne Pomorskiego Inspektoratu Okręgowego Straży Celnej


UPDATE: CeeLo Green revealed hours later that it was a faked video produced as part of a project he's working on. Green apologized for upsetting fans and said it caused him to have a "difficult day."
The video allegedly showed a cell phone exploding as CeeLo held it against his head during a call at a recording studio. The hip hop singer-producer is seen on the purported surveillance video falling out of his chair and onto the floor after a bright flash.
While the brand of smart phone involved is not clear, Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 model has been recalled and banned from airplanes after a series of explosions.
The original video has been removed from Instagram, but you can see it in this video posted by a skeptic who early on thought it was a hoax.
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Built in 1889, the church has housed an African-American congregation since 1920, including the decades when Cabrini-Green's towers of public housing filled nearby blocks. New townhouses and condos are now across the street (at right in the photo).
A 19th-century church near the former Cabrini-Green housing project is being sold to residential developers who will most likely demolish the building.
The swift sale is a sign of how magnetic the former Cabrini-Green location is as a redevelopment area since the notorious high-rises were demolished.
Built in 1889 as the First Swedish Baptist Church, the structure at 509 W. Elm St. has housed the Wayman African Methodist Episcopal congregation since 1920, eventually becoming virtually surrounded by the Chicago Housing Authority's Cabrini-Green towers.
The Chicago AME conference listed the church and its 2.72-acre site for sale late in the day on June 21, asking $3.25 million, and by June 23 had accepted one of the multiple offers that came in, said Angela Pettis, the Baird & Warner agent representing the property for the church leadership.
"I was not prepared for it to go that fast," Pettis said. Because it is now near market-rate housing, a Target store and other developments on former Cabrini-Green Land, she had told church authorities they should expect a sale in 60 to 90 days, she told Crain's over the weekend.
Pettis said she can't disclose the contract sale price, the identity of the buyers or specifics of their plan for the site before the deal closes, but said that demolishing the church is a near certainty.
"The value is all in the land," said Pettis, who has represented other property, both sanctuary buildings and empty land, for the AME council, which has about 20 churches in the Chicago area. A recent appraisal of Wayman AME determined that "the life of this building is gone," she said. "There's no sense in even trying to repair it" for a conversion to residential units or another use, she said.
The Rev. Thomas Hughes, supervising elder for 18 AME churches in the Chicago area as part of the seven-state Chicago AME Conference, said the final deal with the buyer may include creating some space for the church's congregation on the site. "That's what we're going to attempt to do," Hughes said. "We've been on that spot so long, we would like to stay in the neighborhood if it's possible." During the Cabrini-Green era, the congregation was 250 people or more, Hughes said. It has dwindled to about 100, he said.
The Wayman AME site is about one-fifth of a city block, stretching from Cleveland Avenue to Cambridge Avenue along Elm Street. It's not yet clear what building height zoning will allow on the site, because "everything happened so fast," Pettis said. She said the buyer intends to start that research with city agencies today. The sale is tentatively scheduled to close in late August, she said.
The congregation cannot afford to update and maintain the structure, Pettis said. She said they will search for a new site to locate the congregation.
For several decades, Wayman AME was a spiritual haven for African-American residents of Cabrini-Green, which was built in stages from the early 1940s through the early 1960s.
In the early 1990s, Wayman AME was part of the backdrop of one of Cabrini-Green's most horrific incidents: On October 13, 1992, bullets fired by a sniper from a building just north of the Wayman AME church rocketed past the building before killing seven-year-old Dantrell Davis, who was holding his mother's hand as he crossed Cleveland Avenue a short distance south of the church.
Davis was the third Jenner Elementary School student killed that year. His death was one of the events that galvanized the city's Plan for Transformation, which included tearing down the Cabrini-Green highrises, announced in the late 1990s. In 2017, the CHA declared it had met its goals.
In the intervening years, many of the blocks around Wayman AME have been transformed, with market-rate housing at Parkside of Old Town and other developments, a new facility for Jenner, which in the fall will complete a merger with high-performing Ogden Elementary, and Target, Jewel and other stores on Division Street.
The Wayman site, Pettis said, "is prime for (residential) development, with Jenner across the street" and the many other changes in the neighborhood.
While it has housed an AME congregation for just short of a century, the building has roots that reach back to 1853, when the First Swedish Baptist congregation was established in the neighborhood, which had several other Swedish churches and came to be known as Swedetown.
Their first church, near the present site, may have been destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. They completed the present church building in 1889; it's not clear if, in 1920, they transferred it to the AME church, or if there was another inhabitant between the two congregations.
As Italian immigrants replaced Swedes, the name Swedetown was displaced by Little Sicily in the decades before Cabrini-Green was built.


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Running a world class restaurant group takes the execution of an orchestra conductor. Over the years Piero Selvaggio has perfected this into an art form.
His creations, Valentino's – purveyors of fine Italian cuisine, have evolved into some of the nations top restaurants.
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Great Interview, Food is so important with wine. I am glad to hear that it is growing. Look forward to future interviews.
I had the pleasure of having dinner at the Santa Monica Valentino's and it was FANTASTIC! Not only does this interview clearly show Piero's passion for service, but it really does happen in his restaurants!
David, was it crowed at the Santa Monica location?


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Send in the Tanks
Nine years into the Afghan War, U.S. Marines will soon have a weapon they've been lacking in that theater: M-1 Abrams tanks.
As difficult as it is to believe, the Pentagon has never deployed main battle tanks into Afghanistan--until now. With American operations around Kandahar (and other areas) taking on a harder edge, Marine commanders requested the tanks to provide direct fire support. The U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, approved their request, and a company of M-1s (numbering about 16 tanks, plus crews and support personnel) will arrive in the coming weeks.
A U.S. officer familiar with the decision said the tanks will be used initially in parts of northern Helmand province, where the Marines have been engaged in intense combat against resilient Taliban cells that typically are armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and homemade bombs. The initial deployment calls for about 16 tanks, but the overall number and area of operations could expand depending on needs, the officer said.
"The tanks bring awe, shock and firepower," the officer said. "It's pretty significant."
Although the officer acknowledged that the use of tanks this many years into the war could be seen as a sign of desperation by some Afghans and Americans, he said they will provide the Marines with an important new tool in missions to flush out pockets of insurgent fighters. A tank round is far more accurate than firing artillery, and it can be launched much faster than having to wait for a fighter jet or a helicopter to shoot a missile or drop a satellite-guided bomb.
So why have we waited so long to utilize M-1s in Afghanistan? From a logistical stand-point, shipping the 68-ton tanks to the war zone would be difficult and costly. Airlifters like the C-5 Galaxy and the C-17 Globemaster III can fly M-1s into Bagram and other major airfields--but at a price. Load a single Abrams into a C-17 (or two tanks into the cargo bay of a C-5) and you've reached their load capacity. That means tons of equipment and other supplies must wait for another mission, or transport by a civilian carrier. As we noted in a previous post, many of the MRAP vehicles rushed to Iraq and and Afghanistan were transported by Russian and Ukrainian heavy-lift aircraft, to minimize disruptions in our own airlift system.
And, from an operational standpoint, there were plenty of reasons to keep the M-1s at home. Much of the terrain isn't exactly conducive to armor operations. Besides, our enemy--Al Qaida and the Taliban--are light, mobile forces, so it makes sense to go after them with units that can move rapidly, across all types of terrain, and utilize artillery and air for fire support.
There was also a perception problem. Some officers worried that tank deployments would conjure up images of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the 1980s. But Canadian and Danish forces had previously used tanks in Afghanistan (in support of their own troops) and the Marines had asked permission to deploy M-1s as early as 2006. Those requests were rejected by previous American commanders in Afghanistan, who believed that air strikes and artillery fire were sufficient.
But in isolated cases, that support proved difficult to obtain, a reflection of the more restrictive rules of engagement previously imposed on our forces. But since General Petraeus arrived in Afghanistan, he has loosened those constraints, and the number of fire support missions have mushroomed. According to the Post, coalition aircraft dropped more than 1,000 bombs in Afghanistan in October, the highest total since the war began in 2001.
While air and artillery support is effective and deadly, there are advantages to having M-1a along on a mission. As one analyst observed:
Tanks give you immediate, protected firepower and mobility to address a threat that's beyond the range" of machine guns that are mounted on the mine-resistant trucks that most U.S. troops use in Afghanistan, said David Johnson, a senior researcher at the Rand Corp. who co-wrote a recent paper on the use of tanks in counterinsurgency operations.
There's also a psychological benefit, as illustrated on battlefields dating back to World War I. It's a fact that isn't lost on the Danes, who also dispatched their Leopard 2 main battle tanks on deployments to Bosnia back in the 1990s. At the time, other nations had tanks in the Balkans; in fact, some of the other NATO partners privately ridiculed the deployment, noting that the warring factions had few tanks (or anti-tank weapons). Moving the tanks around the Danish sector was viewed as difficult, since many of the local roads and bridges wouldn't support the weight of a main battle tank. There was also the added cost of supporting a small armored force in an environment where tanks were considered less-than-optimum weapons.
But some of those arguments were demolished (quite literally) one day in 1994. Danish forces near Tuzla came under sustained fire from a Bosnian Serb unit, located in a fortified position. I was a crew member on a USAF EC-130E aircraft, orbiting well south of the firefight. Along with the rest of the airborne battle staff, I listened as the Danes asked for air support, knowing that the request would have to go through NATO and U.N. channels--with only a slight chance of being approved.
While NATO and the U.N. diplomats mulled over the request for an air strike, the Danes did something unexpected. They dispatched two of the Leopard 2 tanks to support the ground unit under fire. The Danes didn't need NATO or U.N. approval, since the tanks were organic assets, and the ground unit was exercising its inherent right to self-defense.
The tanks arrived within about 20 minutes and spent the next hour (or so) pounding the Serb position. There were a few cheers aboard my aircraft, as the Tactical Air Control Party gave us a blow-by-blow account. Needless to say, the Serbs stopped shooting at the Danes and gave them a wide berth after that.
I picked up a few more details on that battle years later, in another assignment at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Admiral Leighton "Snuffy" Smith was a guest speaker for our group; five years earlier he had been the commander of NATO forces in the Mediterranean when the Danes sent the tanks after the Serbs. He spoke with one of the tank commanders--a young woman--and asked her why she expended more than 40 rounds from her main gun (120mm) against the Bosnian Serb position.
"Because that was all I had," she replied.
Admiral Smith's story got a good laugh, but it also illustrated an important lesson. Even against low-tech adversaries, overwhelming force can still carry the day. And for troops on the ground, it's nice to have a highly accurate fire support platform completely at your disposal. No calling in a fire mission, waiting for approval, then waiting for the arty, fast movers or Apaches to show up. Just point and shoot. Dead Taliban in a matter of moments.
Incidentally, the bad guys in Afghanistan have already run up against the Leopard 2, with predictable results. Now they get a chance to meet the M-1 with the Marines. Sounds like a plan to me.
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Ed Rasimus said...
What remains to be seen is the ROE. I'm at a loss on this. A single company is only going to be one place and it won't be ranging very widely, nor will it be rapidly flexible to relocate. What will be lucrative enough for deployment of that minimal asset?
Will the ROE allow it to be deployed to a village harboring a nest of Taliban? In a conflict which bends over doubly backward to avoid possible upset to the locals, even as they shield the enemy, can you employ direct fire to bring down the walls? Will you bulldoze the buildings, destroy the vehicles, roll over the firing positions?
Or will you posture and backfire and use a multi-million dollar sophisticated weapon as little more than a platform for a .50 cal?
tfhr said...
Just wait until the first crop damage claims come in:
Farmer - "American tank destroy my crop. Clankety - clank,...RRRRRRRRRrrrr...clankety-clank! All dig up! Hot engine make fire! All smoke! All gone!"
JAG - "Mr. Farmer, I understand that the M1 tanks may have caused some crop damage with their tracks and that some of your fields may have been set alight by the hot exhaust from their turbine engines. It is the policy of the Department of Defense to examine all claims and offer fair compensation following the adjudication of your case. We've done this in Germany and the Republic of Korea, so let's get started.
Farmer: "?!"
JAG: "_____"
Farmer: "All burn. Crunch, crunch, RRRRRRrrrrr, smoke!"
JAG: "OK. Let's start with gathering some facts. What type of crop was it?"
Farmer: "Opium poppies."
JAG: "I should've taken that job at TSA."
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The word that comes to mind when I see this color palette is soothing. And, who couldn't use more of that in their lives? This table arrangement photo by Ruth Eileen Photography is the inspiration for this color combination. I've featured her work before in my 'Muted Celebration' Palette by Project, 'Primrose Vision' Color Palette and 'Primrose Vision' Get the Look. Her ability to capture the color in her photography seems to keep drawing me in.
The 'Outdoor Living' palette starts with a weathered gray wood base. This not only introduces a lovely neutral but also the interesting texture of the wood. A light beige woven place mat contrasts nicely against this gray as well as the white and duck egg blue plate. Some might also call this a mint green or a robin's egg blue. Then, small amounts of french blue are added for accent. This is a popular color trend right now that Pantone calls Marina. Overall, this is a beautiful color palette full of lots of design possibilities.
Does this palette give you any interior design ideas? Drop us a note in the comments section below and tell us all about it!