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Leigh Dale
New Directions : Introduction
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Ralph Spaulding
Joyce Eyre and Australian Literature at the University of Tasmania
Discusses the establishment and teaching of a course in Australian literature, the first of its kind, at the University of Tasmania between 1947 and 1950.
Brenton Doecke
Challenging History Making: Realism, Revolution and Utopia in The Timeless Land
Among the many historical novels written in Australia during the thirties and forties, The Timeless Land is unique for the way it foregrounds the journals, letters, and official documents on which it is based. In her prefatory remarks Dark acknowledges…
Patrick Buckridge
'Greatness' and Australian Literature in the 1930s and 1940s : Novels by Dark and Barnard Eldershaw
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Graeme Turner
Nationalising the Author: The Celebrity of Peter Carey
Anthony J. Hassall
A Tale of Two Countries: 'Jack Maggs' and Peter Carey's Fiction
Peter Carey has generally preferred to fictionalise Australia at a remove, to reimagine it, shape-shifted out of its present appearance by science fiction transformations, or by movements out of present time. The mirror his fiction holds up to late-twentieth-century Australia…
Ian Syson
Michael Wilding's Three Centres of Value
Michael Wilding's 'Canal Run', a story from The West Midland Underground (1975), fuses two of his powerful early influences, D.H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe. In so doing it introduces a number of themes which come to typify his creative writing…
Veronica Kelly
Colonial 'Australian' Theatre Writers: Cultural Authorship and the Case of Marcus Clarke's 'First' Play
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Jennifer Strauss
Un-Australian Activities?: Mary Gilmore's Version from the Spanish
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Stephen Holden
Short Story Anthologies and 'the Solid Body of Australian Fiction'
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Horst Priessnitz
Why Australia? Or Against the Fragmentation of English Literary Studies
The concept of Australian literary studies is becoming increasingly the object of critical debate as exemplified, for instance, by the forum in the previous issue of ALS and in Southerly (Carter; Dale; I. Henderson; M. Henderson; Hughes-D'Aeth; Moore; Syson; Treagus…
Brigid Rooney
Writers Behaving Badly : Stead, Bourdieu and Australian Literary Culture
Uses Pierre Bourdieu's theories to explore unresolved contradictions in Christina Stead concerning her feminism, politics and reputation.
Man, Work and Country: The Production of Henry Lawson
Lee conducts a semiotic analysis of the reception of Henry Lawson and his works, revealing the connections critics made between the work, the hand of the author and truth. Lee finds that the work of a colonial realist like Lawson…
Carol Hetherington
In the Club : Australian Crime Fiction in the USA 1943-1954
Carol Hetherington investigates the inclusion of Australian authors in Doubleday's Crime Club lists in the period 1943-1954. She argues 'that the important common factor in their selection by Doubleday was not that they were Australian writers, but rather that they…
The Bridled Pegaroo, or, Is there a Colonial Poetics of Intertextuality
Dieter Riemenschneider
Literary Criticism in Australia: A Change of Critical Paradigms?
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AMLO promised that there will be economic growth, employment, support to agriculture, support for the producers, support for the youth and that their right to study and work will be guaranteed.
"There is a great commitment with the Sinaloans, we are going to support productive activity and well-being, that is what I can tell you right now, in general terms," AMLO said.
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Chapter 27: The Ice demi-god
"–My dear people!"
The voice of Emperor Friedrich is heard. The sound of his voice is profound and full of tremendous power. Even if it is just a human voice, it would run through the vast expanse of the hall, but amplified through magic, it becomes a loud voice and shakes the sky.
Friedrich speaks to the people below. On this day, the people gathered were in a corner of the castle that had been specially prepared for this occasion, in a hall used for the emperor's speeches.
A horde of people that would be troublesome to count, and the hustle and bustle of the lower ground that grew proportionately. However, as soon as Friedrich's loud voice resounded, it suddenly stopped.
"What a splendid thing. As expected of the Dragon Emperor."
"His Majesty is loved by the people."
Lute and Liselotte exchanged words in the shadow of Friedrich, who was speaking impassionately, in a position where the people in the hall below the balcony could not see them.
"Even so, I never thought you would prepare such a place for the unveiling…"
"It's to make the existence of a new demi-god widely known."
"I know. This is also a necessary act."
Friedrich's current speech is designed to publicize the existence of Lute, the demi-god, in a big way. By publicizing the super power of Lute at home and abroad, Friedrich aims to revitalize the country as well as the country's domestic economy. And outside the country, the purpose is to check the neighboring countries, especially the most hostile country, The Republic.
One more point.
"──With this, we are also husband and wife in name and reality, aren't we, sir?"
"It's still an engagement."
"The marriage is finalized, so sooner or later it will be."
It was also the occasion for the announcement of the engagement between Lute, the Empire's new demi-god, and Liselotte, the Third Princess.
──Lute first learned of these plans half a month ago. When Azure was appointed as his secretary, she brought along a document describing Lute's future course of action.
The document briefly stated the following:
Assigned Azure Milch Rembrandt as secretary to Lute.
・The war with the Kingdom of Land ceases after the empire has acquired the entire region. Lute and his men, who had been captured by the Empire, were officially declared to belong to the Empire as prisoners of war because the Kingdom of Land refused to pay the payments that would have been incurred upon their return.
・In accordance with the attribution, Lute will be given the rank of Grand Duke, a title reserved exclusively for demi-gods. In addition, Lute's subordinates will officially join the Grand Duke's command.
・In order to strengthen the relationship with the Empire, the engagement between Liselotte and Lute is decided. When Liselotte turns 14, the marriage is formalized.
・Upon her engagement, Liselotte is given a Duchess title and the name [Gascoigne]. From then on, she should act as the head of the Duchess of Gascoigne family, not as a Princess.
・Upon his attribution and marriage, Lute will be given the intermediate name of [Sail] as proof of Imperial nobility. Also given the name [Coin]. Thereafter, he shall be known as Lute Sail Coin. After marriage, he shall be known as Lute Sail Gascoigne.
・In conferring the dukedom, the territory of Sandelica, a coastal territory under the direct control of the Imperial Household, will be given to the duke. Liselotte, the head of the dukedom, will be in charge of managing the territory. Lute shall only exercise his power at his own discretion or in the event of a crisis in the territory or at the order of the Emperor.
・The official schedule will be announced later, but please keep in mind that we will be preparing a grand unveiling to make the world aware of the existence of the new demi-god.
And, well, that's pretty much what it looked like.
As for Azure's appointment as secretary, Lute had no particular reason to refuse. All of Lute's subordinates were military officers, and they weren't used to such things as schedule management.
Heinrich would be able to handle it without any problem, but he is also in an important position for Lute, so he does not want to assign him too many chores. In that sense, Lute feels that having someone on hand who is familiar with the Empire's way of doing things would be a win-win situation. He decided that it would be a good idea to have Azure as a secretary, given the fact that he would be receiving various instructions from the upper echelons of the empire.……Since all of them are ugly old men, there is also the aspect that he felt like asking for flowers.
As for the Land Kingdom affair, it is not known how the two countries exchanged information, and Lute is not interested in the matter as long as it is over, so he is satisfied that that is the way it is. At best, he may have felt a sense of pity mixed with dismay for his former home, saying, "The empire must have rolled them over brilliantly. ……".
I had already heard about the Grand Duke's position, so I don't have any impressions about it.
The marriage with Lieselotte…..it is so important that I gave up saying anything about it, since I could not refuse it from the point of view of the law. It was important to the extent that Friedrich and Axia jointly urged me not to refuse if possible. Even without that, the blood contract called marriage is extremely significant amongst the nobles, so there was no option for Lute, who was a member of the nobles, to refuse. ……Even if the other party is a 12-year-old cat-clad princess. Even if they don't have any kind of romantic feelings for each other.
Regarding the house and territory, he plans to leave it entirely to Liselotte, the head of the family, so he has almost no intention of intervening. Although there was a part called "coastal territory" that clearly relied on Lute's freezing power, for the most part Lute was willing to stick to non-interference. In any case, since he purposely avoided learning, Lute, who had no such know-how, and Liselotte, who was a princess but had received some education, had no doubt that Liselotte was the superior of the two. He's the kind of guy who prefers to step back gracefully rather than messing around with things and stirring up the situation…
Of course, there is also the aspect of taking into account Lute's personality. However, more than that, the upper echelons of the empire must have placed Liselotte as the "head of the family" based on a similar decision.
"What can I say, ……. Now that I think back on it, it's brilliantly put together in a way that doesn't clash with me."
"That's only natural. After all, our country has come this far after repeated mergers and acquisitions. Negotiations are a thing of the past."
"I see. Now that you mention it, it's natural."
This way, the expectations of the upper echelons and Lute's expectations intertwined, and as a result, it led to the present grandiose unveiling party without any particular complications.
"By the way, you were forced to become the head of the family for my own reasons. How do you feel about that?"
"It's no problem….On the contrary, I am rather excited that it is a good experience. In my country, there are quite a few daughters who aspire to be the head of the family, while other countries are not so fortunate…..whether or not they can actually become one is another matter entirely."
"Why is that…Oh. Axia-dono. I see. In this country, a female head of the family is a familiar thing."
Remembering the female goddess who had gone to the limits of her eccentricity in front of him, Lute voiced his approval. In other countries, female heads of families are rare, but in the Empire, there is the precedent of the 'goddess of fire'. It seems that she is now in semi-retirement, but she used to be the Grand Duke and the head of the Heisenberg family, and she is said to have been very successful. For that reason, it seems that the fact that she, a female, is the head of the family is relatively accepted in the empire.
"That being said, I'm actually looking forward to the time of the unveiling. I can't wait to introduce my wonderful husband to my people."
"Isn't it a mistake for an 'incompetent' to be nurtured by my fiance'?"
"Oh.it's your job to be there, isn't it?"
"I see. Well then, let's get to work."
『──Come on, come! ! The Empire's new demi-god, the [god of Ice] who will make a pair with [god of Flame]! ! 』
The time has come. The signal is given in the name of the emperor. The demi-god's name was chanted.
Lute walks forward. From human to divine realm. Lute walks, to stand alongside the emperor. Luto walks with shining blue phosphorescence and is clothed in divine supremacy.
Well, here we are. The people below are looking up at us with dumbfounded faces. They are looking up at the absolute powerhouse, a being of a different caliber.
"—-Watch."
On that day, a blue demi-god descended on the empire, no, on the world.
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My over arching philosophy is to ride the waves of the S&P 500, minimizing draw downs and staying with any short-term trends that present themselves. The approach is fully automated, using a 60-minute bar on the E-Mini S&P 500, an oscillator, and money management techniques. It does not hold overnight, but does start early when the London markets open.
... I do need to build up real-time performance with the current version of my system and this will take time ... it might be attractive in the future if my results are stellar (and consistent) on a risk-adjusted basis.
If you have a fully automatic system, you might consider back testing it now, so you don't have to wait for an indicator of its attractiveness.
You might also consider taking your feelings about <wanting it now> to Tribe.
I was short May coffee from 157.60 and look where it is now. I am just disgusted as to why I cannot sit on my hands and let trades work for me.
Yes, I made money, but I left thousands on the table. I cannot say Thank you enough for your reply to my e-mail. Thank you for your act of kindness.
I have read numerous books and it seems everyone kind of had a mentor they trained under. Everything I have read about you is incredible. What a journey Mr. Seykota.
I am not getting what I want out of the markets, I am so close,,,,have a great weekend Sir, and Thank you again for your response.
Respectfully. Thank you for sharing your process.
In Tribe, we hold that everyone gets what they want, including claiming they don't.
You might consider taking your feelings about <so close> to Tribe.
I read the TTP Extensions. I think about the Rocks Process. You write how the Stressor stresses the Rock Donor and Client. The Rock Donor gives a medicinal rock to the Client. Then the process unfolds with fore-giving the Rock Donor and moving to the Heart Rock.
Can you help me understand how the process may differ if there is no Rock Donor to the Client (or the client is the Rock Donor).
A real example: my girlfriend grows up with only her mother and is the oldest of three siblings. There is a lot of anger, verbal abuse, lack of intimacy, etc.
The Stressor is the mum who gives stress to my girlfriend (and in turn to the younger siblings).
My girlfriend however has no Rock Donor and is by default her own Rock Donor. Or perhaps a possibility is the Stressor also being the Rock Donor - can this happen? Does this change the process? Or in this situation does the client fore-give themselves and move straight to the Heart Rock?
To discover the donor, you might consider noticing what form of medicinal behavior your girlfriend exhibits in response to stress, such as shutting down, running away, taking sedatives, engaging other drama, etc.
A Rock contains a link between an emotion and a response.
You might consider asking your girlfriend who else in her family uses this strategy in dealing with stress.
Incidentally, the savior generally evolves into the victim in the next round.
I received the Govopoly in the 39th Day book and finished reading it. VERY INFORMATIVE! Nice job. I tried running some of the Models on your website after installing Java 8 as instructed. However there appears to be a problem with setting the security settings to medium. Java 8 version 20 (and later) only have high or very high options for security. Java 8 version 19 was the last one with the option to set security to medium according to Oracle. So the modeling won't run.
Thank you for sending me the heads up.
The latest browsers and versions of Java no longer support Java applets - even ones like the Govopoly models that do not allow text input. This decision addresses security issues with Java.
You can still run the models with previous browsers and versions of Java - although I find this rather impractical.
At this point, I see no easy way to publish interactive models online. Ultimately, I may have to republish the models as videos in which I run most of the experiments.
can you help me to be a better trend follower please.?
I wonder what part of trend following you consider problematic.
I am a second year Math/Econ student at [university]. I've been writing my own trading systems since I learned JAVA my sophomore year of high school and have read several books regarding trend following, the turtle traders, technical analysis, and systems trading.
I was hoping to get any advice I could from you on what I can do to get exposure to trading as a career. What kind of internships/jobs should I look for or books should I read? I feel that investment banking and wealth management would only expose me to people with opinions and interests that deviate from my own (fundamentalists). Unfortunately I can't just go to my career center and ask how I can trade for a living.
If anything, I hope you know now that I find you inspiring and strictly abide by much of your advice in developing my own trading philosophy and strategy. Thank you very much for your time.
You might consider taking your feelings about <wanting to follow someone else> to Tribe.
Alternatively, you might consider leading your own way.
I thought you might like this video....maybe post on your website.
I have some experiences to report. I have enumerated the second half of the report to help clarify my thinking and keep it concise.
Part 1 - Intimacy uptrend.
Intimacy centric communication with my wife and children is becoming more and more automatic. I find it is becoming my default process in all but the most emotional and stressful situations. Even those stressful situations, it is becoming much easier to remember to initiate intimacy centric relating. I like the results.
Surprisingly it has even "spiced things up". I share how I'm feeling and ask my wife if she would like to do the same. I encourage her to share he feelings and through sharing we feel really close.
I tell her that I miss the physicality of our relationship and that our commitments to our small children have resulted in less physical intimacy than before having babies. I share that I see three facets to our relationship: Partnership in raising our family and in our businesses. Friendship & Camaraderie and Attraction and Physical intimacy. I notice we feel happier, more energetic and more stable when we have real intimacy and connection on all three fronts.
Suddenly the children are really tired and fall asleep early. We find our selves in the throws of a very intense and deeply intimate connection. Spicy details respectfully witheld.
Part 2 - Nowness drawdown then breakout.
1. The hardware consistently crashes. I miss automated signals as the software hangs and stalls (entries and exits). The errors are all negative resulting in worse than expected results.
2. I use a newer version of and misconfigure my trading software causing orders to be rejected by the exchanges. As a result I miss signals (entries and exits) and notice I feel very sad and afraid.
"I don't know what's going to happen". I'm baffled because manual entries at the same or nearby prices execute.
3. I overreact and try to "save the system" and make up for the late and erroneous entries by adding aggressively to existing positions and taking profits early, afraid that the automation won't work and that I'll be in worse shape than taking an early exit. The net contribution of my frantic and unplanned trading is negative. I feel disconnected and frantic while this happens. I feel regretful and disoriented.
4. The system experiences a typical (but large) drawdown, more than doubled by my technical errors and attempts to compensate for them.
5. I find that my week of vacation has passed and I've more or less been in some other place of future profitability and avoidance. I'm disoriented. I re-engage my family and they seem glad.
6. Although I work on my paper intermittently between our last meeting and when I submit it, I discover it is my intention to be late when I check my email on the plane home and see that I've missed my opportunity to meet my commitment to exchange Trading System Lab papers with my fellow Tribe Members on time. My paper still needs work. I feel like I "blacked out". I wonder how I let this happen. I feel some shame and regret.
7. We get home, I share feelings with my wife about a number of things. My feelings calm down after heating up in a good way.
8. I assess the preceding week. I notice the "blackout" and "regret" behavior.
10. I feel afraid that I don't know what is going to happen. I feel it.
11. I work on my paper. It's still a long way from where I would like it to be but I feel like I'm progressing towards clarity and congruence with myself. I will be able to continue clarifying and reducing scope until it is right.
12. I research the technical errors I experienced automating my systems and find the well documented solutions.
13. I create a "pre-flight check" for the systems that is similar to the "pre-flight check" I use when trading discretionarily.
14. Monday, I implement my "pre-flight check" and technical solutions for my automation problem.
15. The systems trade. All 17 trades execute as expected. I experience price improvement and slippage. The net difference is equivalent to about $2 price improvement over my backtest and expected system fills per contract/side traded.
16. The system has one of it's lowest % accuracy days of the year at 17% accuracy vs a more typical 40% accuracy.
17. I notice that the ranges were very small. I also notice that there were opportunities to exit many of the trades at a profit greater than the average profit for trades in each system. I decide to investigate mean reversion and price spike profit taking exits in the context of small range and low ADX days. I also make a not to look into what average trade really means so that I can have a better understanding of how my system works and if there is a way to reduce risk or retain profit without ruining profitability.
18 . E.O.D. I am still in drawdown and the systems have had a typical losing day.
19. E.O.D I'm surprised the day feels like a total success despite the net loss. I feel glad and sure that the longer the drawdown and small range environment lasts, the more likely a great trending period will eventually follow.
"I don't know what's going to happen, and I'm going to make the most of it!" It feels very energizing.
It's been nearly three weeks since our last PR Tribe meeting and my hotseat. I relate the difference in how I experience "I don't know what's going to happen" to our process.
It is a major improvement.
The Walt Disney Company for the 27th consecutive year has once again raised the price of a single-day admission ticket to its Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World.
For the 18th straight year, Disney's annual ticket price increase has far surpassed the latest official rate of U.S. price inflation!
Based on the U.S. government's phony/fake consumer price index (CPI), America's latest official full year price inflation rate is only 0.676%.
From the 1971 grand opening of Disney World through today, Magic Kingdom ticket prices have increased at a compound annual growth rate of 8%, which is double the CPI's compound annual growth rate during this same period of only 4%!
Considering that Magic Kingdom ticket prices have been rising 2X faster than the CPI over the past 45 years, 3X faster than the CPI over the past 5 years, and 9X faster than the CPI over this most recent year - the CPI no longer accounts for the cost of maintaining the same standard of living in America.
The U.S. government has been manipulating how the CPI is calculated - with the goal of reporting artificially low price inflation rates, which allow it to overstate GDP growth while keeping Cost-Of-Living Adjustments far below what is needed to preserve the purchasing power of Social Security benefits. Thank you for sharing your observations.
Which seems worse: bombs or welfare?
Japan has no welfare system.
Thank you for sending me the photos that graphically indicate how the Govopoly System assimilates the Free Competition Sector, wipes out the middle class and eventually kills the economy.
"I came up the hard way" by Eddie Clearwater.
Seven members present, one from interstate is absent. I decide to be a bit more low key this week and after asking for homework reports I hand over to #3 to chair the meeting.
Everyone did their homework. One or two have good results from in mainly goal setting. No-one got hot from it though.
Update on my hot seat from last time: I find I am no longer having frequent disturbing flashbacks of the incident. When I do think about it, it seems paler, faded, more distant. A few days after the hot seat, I find my fingernails have grown to the point where I need to file or cut them. After many attempts to stop chewing my nails, which used to help me feel less stressed, I give it up spontaneously.
The first person who reports being hot is #5. His girlfriend dumps him a while back by leaving the country and cutting all contact. This follows a 3am argument concerning her accusations about infidelity, looking at other women, watching pr0n etc. He "proves" she is "wrong" then flies into a rage and leaves the apartment and the town for a few days. When he gets back she is gone and he hears nothing from her since. Then he finds out recently she has moved into the apartment block that he lives in. He feels dishonoured, devalued, she owes an explanation. Her presence is a constant nagging reminder of all this.
On freezing the intense feelings in the hot seat, he recalls some argument with his mother in which she dismisses him, doesn't listen, disrespects him. He flies into a rage and goes into his room. He lies on the floor, fists clenched so hard and shaking that he feels he is levitating off the floor.
We reenact this scenario in which his father donates the strategy to "go away" "feel angry" "show the other person they are wrong using logic".
He decides he wants new strategies. We reenact, with HS forgiving the old rock and taking on the new rocks of receive and listen to the other person, ask about their feelings not just their facts, take a few moments to be in the moment and feel the feelings that come up, which gives you time to respond in a more proactive way rather than a knee jerk fashion.
HS likes these new strategies.
On checkout, some discussion that some of this material is old ground, and sometimes there are layers of old rocks and trauma that need to be peeled away. HS realizes for the first time how he creates the situation with his girlfriend leaving him, something he could not see before. And perhaps he chooses her as someone who would play that part well.
Feels fear and doesn't like it. Fear wells up out of proportion in response to mundane and not-so-mundane situations. He had some long term concerning health challenges - various medical tests being run from time to time to monitor developments. During hot seat, he recalls losing his school bag and feeling frightened of getting into trouble. His teacher notices something is up, but he doesn't tell anyone the problem. His mother donates the strategy to panic at the slightest cause.
After reenacting this, HS decides he wants new strategies and forgives the old rock.
He decides to allow himself time to feel the feeling of the situation, which will then give him time to process the information and decide how he wants to respond. Most of the situations that come up here don't involve another person directly eg a medical test comes back with an ambiguous result, the tax authorities sent you a nasty letter. He like being real and feeling the feelings for his strategy.
On checkout, a few people comment how the hot seat issue resonates with them and the healing seems to rub off on them too.
I say I feel very happy m#3 has opened up like this.
Likes the company he works for but doesn't like his boss. He and his boss share the work but the boss palms it all onto him (except in peak times) and surfs the internet. He gives the excuse that HS needs to learn the skills.
At the peak of the hot seat, he recalls cleaning his house and his step father always findings something wrong - perhaps he even plants dirt or rubbish so he can complain. He then makes HS do it all again, or kneel on a hard floor for long periods of time. HS's mother donates the strategies of "don't worry about it" "It's not so bad" Similarly at work, HS puts up with a mediocre situation without doing too much about it. He looks for new jobs to some degree, he accepts the personnel departments ruling he much stay in the one job for 2 years before he can transfer to another department.
HS wants a new strategy.
We offer numerous new rocks including the heart rock in various guises. HS decides he prefers the new rock of "setting boundaries" and feels happy with that.
On checkout, we comment on the lack of a heart rock. HS decides to think about this over the next couple of days.
On checkout M#5 comments that since his last meeting we now run a much tighter process with very little amateur psychoanalysis etc.
1. Identify a feeling you don't like.
2. Ramp it up to levels that you cannot ignore.
3. At the peak moment, allow a previous incident to come into your mind that represents the situation, perhaps the first time it happened.
4. Reenact that incident and associated strategies.
5. Reenact with new proactive strategies.
Step 5 is the key - it reprograms the mind with the new strategies which then become automatic. No effort is required, no willpower. Just willingness to let your old strategies go.
I sense a shift in your implementation of the Rocks Process - away from analysis and control and toward intimacy.
Per #6, you might consider identifying the specific resources in the "Setting Boundaries" Rock. If it merely contains <declare your boundaries> it might might not know how to implement and manage actual boundaries.
The Heart Rock empowers establishing rapport, listening to the other person's feelings and sharing your own feelings. Boundary management seems to follow naturally and automatically	from	these	resources.
4.3 Fore-give the medicinal rock to the Rock Donor.
4.7 Accept and practice using the Heart Rock.
The Trading Tribe book is published in 2005. I work now on implementing the TTP structure for investment management.
I wonder what modifications if any have been made over the years. If there have been any can you tell me what they are or point me in the right direction.
TTP and Govopoly help me direct my life. I feel deep gratitude for your work. I focus on adaptive investing and helping others.
Trading Tribe Extensions (2014) updates The Trading Tribe, presents the Cartography of the Mind and details the Rocks Process.
You can download it for free (PDF), or purchase a hard copy on-line. See Resources, above.
I just want to share a book that I find useful for me. It covers some stuff that rings true for me and that I come to you for but hadn't manned up yet to acknowledge. I think it may help others that read your site as well.
I hope to join you for Tribe in the near future.
Thank you for wanting to share.
You might consider sharing your experience of the book - and how you find it useful in your life..
I have pushed through it and the view is great from the other side.
I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing your process and your appreciation.
I wonder how many 44 rounds you need to stop a water balloon.
This may sound a little weird to you and quite direct but I know of no other way. I want to request you to please teach me Risk and Money Management in Trading.
I assure you that I would go to any length to learn.
My commitment will be absolute and I am ready.
Risk control has to do with setting limits on the length to which you would go.
While you ponder this, you might consider reading the article on Risk Management at Resources, above.
greetings and gratitude to you!
I have the privilege of being invited to a TTP session with Newbury Tribe in 2014 and I fall in love with the process.
After the second session I have the desire to start a new Tribe closer to home.
Chief [Name] kindly guides me, supports and attends two sessions which I organise in Hertford, and we co-manage the process.
I also get invited to attend a session with the London tribe, and I take the opportunity.
I get to have two TTPs in quick succession, one on Sunday and the second following Thursday.
After my first TTP sessions I end up in a blissful place of peace, love and enthusiasm.
I set this expectation of all sessions, but this doesn't happen in my latest sessions.
However, I feel that I'm doing good work and trust the process, so I want to carry on.
I have an amazing session with the London tribe.
I'm the only female and only non-trader in the group.
There is a different energy, different dynamics, so I learn a lot.
I learn to worry less about the rules of process managing and be less ''shy'' with the questions and encouragement (particularly of forms). I can take a risk in managing, I can experiment, as long as the intention is there.
So, I think the Hertford Tribe is born, and I intend to register it very soon.
I read your book and BTW, I love the cover. (I'm fascinated by shamanism).
I also love the fact that a sense of humour is welcome in the process.
It is only when I read about the ''Fredian approach'' in your book that it clicks :-).
I hope this finds you well, and it would be lovely and very special to hear form you.
I would like to receive reports from your Tribe as you go along - as I would like to learn what, if any, special touches a female Tribe leader might bring to the process.
Since our last tribe meeting I find myself reflecting on the family dynamics that were brought up.
The venomous use of children in the struggle between parents.
The role of victim and victimizer among siblings.
Thank you for bringing these issues to Tribe and doing the work.
These themes continue to haunt my thoughts and feelings.
In Tribe we aim to fore-give patterns of shutting down and holding it in - and then to reference the Heart Rock to share and receive feelings.
During role playing, the client returns the shut-down rock to the rock donor and gains and learn to use the Heart Rock to share and receive feelings with the other participants in the critical incident.
This gives the client tools with which to address currently abusive situations - and to stop attracting such situations.


국제앰네스티 마두 말호트라(Madhu Malhotra) 아시아•태평양국 부국장은 "국제앰네스티는 스리랑카의 책무성을 확립하고 화해를 도모하는 신뢰성있는 조사위원회에 참석 할 수 있는 기회를 환영할 것이다"라면서도 "우리는 효과적인 자체조사는 인권보호와 책무성확립에 있어 매우 중요하다고 믿지만, LLRC는 필요조건을 만족시키지 않는다"라고 밝혔다.
국제앰네스티, 휴먼라이츠와치, 국제위기감시기구는 지난 14일 공동서한을 통해 현 교훈화해위원회는 국제기준으로 볼 때 독립성과 불편부당성이 결여됐기 때문에 위원회에 참석하지 않을 것 이라고 발표했다.
국제앰네스티는 스리랑카의 교훈화해위원회(Lessons's Learnt and Reconciliation Commission; LLRC)의 초대를 거절하고 전쟁범죄와 전쟁 중 자행된 다른 종류의 인권침해에 대한 국제조사를 다시 한번 요구했다.
과거와 마찬가지로, LLRC는 정부가 계속되는 인권침해와 책무성 문제를 다루는데 실패해왔던 맥락에서 볼 수 있다.
국제앰네스티는 2009년 보고서 "20년간의 속임수: 스리랑카의 조사위원회"에서 스라랑카의 길고 긴 불처벌의 역사와 실패적이었던 대통령 직속 조사위원회에 대하여 기록한 바 있다.
14 October 2010Amnesty International has declined an invitation to appear before Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and calls again for an international inquiry into the evidence of war crimes and other abuses during the civil war.
In a joint letter released on Thursday, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group announced that they would not appear before the Commission, saying it did not meet international standards for independent and impartial inquiries.
"Amnesty International would welcome the opportunity to appear before a credible commission of inquiry aimed at securing accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka," said Madhu Malhotra, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Asia-Pacific.
Like its predecessors, the LLRC exists against a backdrop of continuing government failure to address accountability and continuing human rights abuses.
Amnesty International documented Sri Lanka's long history of impunity and the failed Presidential Commission of Inquiry in its 2009 report Twenty Years of Make-believe; Sri Lanka's Commissions of Inquiry.
"The LLRC's mandate, its composition, its procedures, and the human rights environment in which it is operating all conspire to make a safe and satisfactory outcome for victims of human rights violations and their families extremely unlikely," said Madhu Malhotra.
Amnesty International has received numerous credible reports from witnesses that both the government security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) committed serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law during the armed conflict, particularly in the final months of the war.
Some of their testimony was included in Amnesty International's 2009 briefing Unlock the Camps; Safety and Dignity For The Displaced Now. But the LLRC's mandate does not require it to investigate these allegations, which include summary executions, torture, attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and other war crimes.
"The hundreds of civilians who sought to testify before the LLRC in Killinochchi in September did so without guarantees of protection or any real hope of justice. Their willingness to come forward shows the need of Sri Lanka's war survivors for news about what happened to missing relatives and for justice," said Madhu Malhotra.
Amnesty International said it remains committed to contributing to any genuine effort in Sri Lanka to find a just way forward from the decades of civil war and human rights abuses.


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Astrophysicist Uses Computer Simulations to Explain Millisecond Pulsars
TOPICS:AstronomyAstrophysicistAstrophysicsMax Planck InstituteMillisecond PulsarsPulsarsRoche-lobe Decoupling Phase
By Max Planck Institute February 9, 2012
An artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar magnetosphere.
Astrophysicist Thomas Tauris from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Argelander Institute for Astronomy in Bonn used computer simulations to explain the paradoxical conclusion that some millisecond pulsars are older than the universe itself. By using numerical calculations on the base of stellar evolution and accretion torques, he showed for the first time that the millisecond pulsars loose about half of their rotational energy in the so-called Roche-lobe decoupling phase.
Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter on the Earth would weigh hundreds of millions of tons. A sub-class of them, known as millisecond pulsars, spin up to several hundred times per second around their own axes. Previous studies reached the paradoxical conclusion that some millisecond pulsars are older than the universe itself.
The astrophysicist Thomas Tauris from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Argelander Institute for Astronomy in Bonn could resolve this paradox by computer simulations. Through numerical calculations on the base of stellar evolution and accretion torques, he demonstrated that millisecond pulsars loose about half of their rotational energy during the final stages of the mass-transfer process before the pulsar turns on its radio beam. This result is in agreement with current observations and the findings also explain why radio millisecond pulsars appear to be much older than the white dwarf remnants of their companion stars – and perhaps why no sub-millisecond radio pulsars exist at all. The results are reported in the February 03 issue of the journal "Science".
Millisecond pulsars are strongly magnetized, old neutron stars in binary systems which have been spun up to high rotational frequencies by accumulating mass and angular momentum from a companion star. Today we know of about 200 such pulsars with spin periods between 1.4 to 10 milliseconds. These are located in both the Galactic Disk and in Globular Clusters.
Since the first millisecond pulsar was detected in 1982, it has remained a challenge for theorists to explain their spin periods, magnetic fields and ages. For example, there is the "turn-off" problem, i.e. what happens to the spin of the pulsar when the donor star terminates its mass-transfer process?
"We have now, for the first time, combined detailed numerical stellar evolution models with calculations of the braking torque acting on the spinning pulsar", says Thomas Tauris, the author of the present study. "The result is that the millisecond pulsars loose about half of their rotational energy in the so-called Roche-lobe decoupling phase." This phase describes the termination of the mass transfer in the binary system. Hence, radio-emitting millisecond pulsars should spin slightly slower than their progenitors, X-ray emitting millisecond pulsars which are still accreting material from their donor star. This is exactly what the observational data seem to suggest. Furthermore, these new findings help explain why some millisecond pulsars appear to have characteristic ages exceeding the age of the Universe and perhaps why no sub-millisecond radio pulsars exist.
The key feature of the new results is that it has now been demonstrated how the spinning pulsar is able to break out of its so-called equilibrium spin. At this epoch the mass-transfer rate decreases which causes the magnetospheric radius of the pulsar to expand and thereby expell the collapsing matter like a propeller. This causes the pulsar to loose additional rotational energy and thus slow down its spin rate.
"Actually, without a solution to the "turn-off" problem we would expect pulsars to even slow down to spin periods of 50 to 100 milliseconds during the Roche-lobe decoupling phase", concludes Thomas Tauris. "That would be in clear contradiction with observational evidence for the existence of millisecond pulsars."
This work has profited from a recent effort to bridge the Stellar Physics group at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at University of Bonn (led by Norbert Langer) with the Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy group at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (led by Michael Kramer). The stellar evolution models used for this work were made using state-of-the-art code developed by Norbert Langer. A significant part of the observational data was supplied by the pulsar group. Michael Kramer and his colleagues use the 100 metre Effelsberg Radio Telescope to participate in several ongoing searches and discoveries of millisecond pulsars.
Thomas Tauris has been working at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy as a visiting research professor since 2010. Some of his recent work on the recycling of millisecond pulsars has been published in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" in joint publications with Norbert Langer and Michael Kramer. On February 27 they host an international one-day workshop in Bonn on the "Formation and Evolution of Neutron stars".
Image: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Dana Berry
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"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown."
and safer than a known way."
as if you had chosen it.
To tread its paths alone!
And I will give thee rest."
What will the New Year bring me?
is a Paradise of Beauty and Light.
For the things He has done.
and draws back to himself positive results.
In the Garden of Faith, Hope & Love"
be wasted in anything less than the positivity of who we are in GOD.
hope for yourself and those you love.
I was made weak, so I would then believe.
I was given infirmity, to do eternal things.
to learn what's truly wise.
so I'd have need of God.
I was given life, to find eternal light.
but all I need and more.
to the way the Spirit of God works in us,..
before we worship Him ourself.
garnering the simple goodness of life.
"True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends.
better than you could ever imagine."
for having me and nurturing me.
Ring in the love that is to be.
we think about our blessings and all that you have brought us through this year and we thank you.
We know that for many, it has been a hard year with many losses and many struggles.
when we could feel you and even when we couldn't.
Lord. You are our faithful Father and we would be so lost without you Lord.
and Lord I know many here are doing that now.
that you see their pain. You know their every need and their every desire.
may each one here remember that suffering lasts only for a short while, but joy is coming.
Your death was not in vain. You died to set us free and to give us hope.
you'll be with us tomorrow and you'll be with us forever.
Thank you Lord!! You don't want to just protect us or bless us, but you want to give us more of you.
You are our great reward.
May that fill each of us, with peace and comfort and hope Lord.
a time where many feel alone and feel regret and sorrow.
with your peace and comfort. May they feel your presence and know that you are with them.
Help them to look ahead to the hope that awaits each of us...better days are coming.
compared to our joyful eternity which will last forever.
Being in your presence will be our eternal reward and we will forget all the pain of this world.
or things we wish we had done differently.
Help us not feel like everyone else has it together and we are all alone in our pain.
Please hold closely Lord, those who feel alone today and may they be filled to overflowing with your love.
Go before us this day Lord and stir within us a desire for you like we've never known.
Change us and mold us and help us to see ourselves and our lives through your eyes.
Please rain down your mercy and grace on each one.
Wishing you all a safe, blessed New Year's Eve!
We thank you for this new day...the first day of a new year.
for all that you have seen us through in this last year.
our deliverer and the one who renews and restores us.
We know that you are not done with us yet, that is why we are still here.
and that you have a good plan for each of our lives.
Lord, we come before you and we give ourselves to you.
We ask that you would lead and guide us in all that we say and do in the days ahead.
We ask that you would continue the healing work that you have begun in all of us.
We pray that you will continue to walk beside us and be all that we need.
we ask for your continued healing.
We ask for your comfort and the strength to carry on during the difficult days.
that tie them down and hold them back.
pride and all self-injuring and self-defeating thoughts and actions.
and experience your overcoming power in our lives.
brave warriors in the battles we will encounter.
but by yours that we overcome.
We ask for your help to engrave your words of truth, on the tablets of our hearts.
May we hear your voice above all others.
May we trust your word instead of things we might see or feel.
may we never grow so impatient that we settle for less than your best for us.
Make us men and women after your own heart Lord.
We commit our families, our lives and our needs to you Lord.
so we stand on your promises and take you at your word.
We know that you love those that we hold dear.
will open, so they may receive your saving grace.
with those closest to us and then to everyone else we meet.
May the world see you in us and be drawn to you Lord.
Lord, we pray for our countries and our leaders.
please give them fearless, bold hearts of courage to loudly make a stand for you.
and then may they seek to serve you in the roles that you've given them.
Lord, please use us all to be lights in the darkness that point the way to you.
Our hope is not in man, or our leaders or governments. Our hope lies in you alone.
Lord, a new year is a chance at new beginnings and renewed hope.
A time to leave the old behind.
Help us to dream big and not put you in a box.
You are a big God. Much bigger than anything we will ever face.
We seek to know you more Lord. We seek to experience all that you have for us.
We long to live in the fullness of your joy and love. Help us to rise from the ashes.
We long to see the beauty you will bring from those ashes.
Lead us from the dark valleys into your glorious light.
We look forward to all you have for us in this coming year Lord. We love you Lord.
We are grateful for you and for all you've given us.
for all that you will do in us, though us and for us this year.
In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.
Praying God's richest blessings for you all!
then endure what can't be mended?
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?"
Jesus has a wonderful way of restoring us when we fail Him! He does not humiliate us. He does not criticize us. He does not ask us to make a resolution to try harder. Rather, He takes us aside and asks us to reaffirm our love for Him.
Peter miserably failed his Lord when he fled with the other disciples from the Garden of Gethsemane. Later, he publicly denied that he even knew Jesus. Peter must have wondered if he had been capable of being Jesus' disciple when he was unfaithful to Jesus in His most crucial hour.
As we begin a new year, we may be painfully aware that we fail in many ways. Perhaps not being faithful. Perhaps disobeying His word. Perhaps denying Him by the way we live.
Jesus takes us aside, as He did Peter. He will not berate. He will not humiliate He will examine our love for Him. He asked Peter, "Do you love Me?" If our answer, like Peter's, is "Yes, Lord," He will reaffirm His will for us.
If we truly love Him, we will obey Him (John 14:15).
Jesus does not need our resolutions, our re-commitments, or our promises to try harder this year. If our resolve to obey God last year did not help us to be faithful, it will not make us successful this year. Jesus asks for our love.
in the new year will be as He would love.
I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.
and the happiness you have brought.
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
And for the opening one.
To make an end is to make a beginning.
blessed by His goodness more abundantly.
And in all things, may you know the shalom peace of God—encouraging you to move forward, empowering you to boldly take each step, greeting you as you turn a new corner, calming your heartbeat as you walk through dark valleys, softening each footstep as you climb rugged mountains, and increasing your courage as you follow your Shepherd wherever He leads.
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the wilderness become a lush pasture, and the hillsides blossom with joy.


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Q: Firebase function unexpectedly redirecting to accounts.google.com I have a simple Firebase Function shown below. When accessed via javascript (CORS), the function's pre-flight option's request (part of the CORS standard) returns a 302 redirect to a url beginning with
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=ah&passive=true&continue=https://appengine.google.com/_ah/conflogin%3Fcontinue%3D
and ending with my function's URL. Here is the entire function in question:
import * as functions from 'firebase-functions';
import * as express from 'express';
import * as cors from 'cors';

const app = express();

app.use(cors({ origin: true }));

app.post('*', async (req, res) => {
  res.setHeader('X-Test', 'OK');
  res.setHeader('Set-Cookie', ['__session=ninja']);
  res.send('OK');
});

app.get('*', async (req, res) => {
  res.setHeader('X-Test', 'OK');
  res.setHeader('Set-Cookie', ['__session=ninja']);
  res.send('OK');
});

export const testing = functions.https.onRequest(app);

As you can see, the function does not contain any redirect logic. If I manually navigate to the redirect link in my browser (the accounts.google.com one), it shows some sort of Google Compute Engine security page, asking for access to my Google Account. Recently, all of my functions, previously working, have started replying with this 302 redirect when I access them via javascript. This is preventing all of my functions from working as intended.
I can't be sure, but I think it started after I tried publishing a function using the Google Cloud Functions cli (rather than the Firebase Functions cli). It feels like publishing a function using the gcloud cli might have triggered a settings change of some kind? I can't find any information on this issue.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

A: On my goodness, the issue was I had a typo in the functions name! The name of the function was userAccount-testing and I was calling userAccount.testing. Apparently, when you call a non-existent function you get a 302 redirect in response.
I was copy and pasting the different function names in when trying to diagnose this issue and just so happened to never update the . to a -. face palm

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The Occupation Demolished a House and a Cistern in Farsh Al-Hawa area / north Hebron.
الاحتلال يهدم منزل وبئر مياه في فرش الهوى شمال الخليل
The Israeli Occupation Demolishes Jawa'ada family home in Sekka village / West Hebron
الاحتلال يهدم منزل عائلة جواعدة في قرية سكة غرب الخليل
الاحتلال الإسرائيلي يهدم منشأة تجارية في قرية حارس بمحافظة سلفيت
The Israeli Occupation Demolished a Store in Haris Village / Slfit Governorate
Demolition of two shelters and an agricultural facility in the village of Jinba in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron
Violation: demolishing homes and an agricultural facility.
Date of violation: 02/09/2020.
Location: Jinba – Yatta town / Hebron governorate.
Perpetrator: the so-called Israeli Civil Administration.
Affected people: Mahmoud and Fadl Rabei.
Violation details:
On Wednesday, September 2, 2020, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished two residential rooms and an agricultural facility owned by citizens in the village of "Jinba" in Masafir Yatta, south of Hebron, under the pretext of building them without a permit.
Just before noon, a force from the occupation army and the so-called border guards and the Planning and Building Department of the Civil Administration raided the village, accompanied by workers belonging to an Israeli civil company, a bulldozer produced by VOLVO company, and another one produced by JCB company belonging to an Israeli civilian company as well.
After the occupation soldiers had surrounded the site of the two rooms and the fodder store which belong to brothers Mahmud and Fadel Isa Rabe'i, the company workers accompanying the occupation authorities emptied the two rooms of their assets and property, as they removed the citizens' luggage from the rooms and dumped them in the open, and they, also, emptied the store from its contents, then the demolition was carried out.
Photos 1-3: Demolition scene in Jinba
The first destroyed room is 40 M2, built this year of concrete walls and roofed with tin sheets and houses a family of 4, including 2 children.
The second room is, also, 40 M2, built this of brick walls and roofed with tin sheets, and houses 8 family members including 5 children.
The third demolished facility is 120M2 fodder store built in 2011 of tin sheets and owned by the aforementioned two brothers used for calve fattening.
In addition, four solar energy panels, installed on the roof of the fodder store were damaged by the Israeli saboteurs.
It should be noted that the village of Jinba, located in Masafir ( eastern slopes) of Yata, is one of many Palestinian villages vulnerable to displacement, as the occupation seeks to demolish the homes of citizens there in favor of colonial projects and in favor of military use because it comes within the Israeli announced firing zone No. 918.
Legal Commentary:
The demolition of Palestinian homes and installations by the occupation authorities is part of their violations of international and humanitarian law, and a violation of a right of Palestinian citizens guaranteed by international law and international treaties, which is the right to adequate housing, within the following articles:
Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which states that "Destruction and usurpation of property in a manner not justified by military necessities, in an unlawful and arbitrary manner. These are grave breaches of the convention."
Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1948 prohibits the destruction of property, as this article states the following: "The occupying power is prohibited from destroying any fixed or movable private property related to individuals or groups, the state or public authorities, or social or cooperative organizations. Unless the war operations inevitably require this destruction.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed.
Paragraph 'g' of Article 23 of the Hague Convention of 1907 AD also warned against destroying or seizing the enemy's property, unless the necessities of war necessarily require such destruction or seizure.
Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, dated December 10, 1948 states that "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property".
Ethnic Cleansing in Jenin Camp
Demolition of Kiosks and Stalls on Haris village lands / Salfit governorate
Demolishing number of Kiosks south Aj-Jalama / Jenin governorate
الاحتلال يهدم 4 منشآت في خشم الدرج شرق يطا
"منذ بداية الانتفاضة الاحتلال هدم 25 مسكناً بذريعة الأمن"
تدمير وإغلاق شقة عائلة السكافي بمدينة الخليل
قوات الاحتلال الاسرائيلي تستهدف منطقة الاغوار بمزيد من أوامر الهدم و الاخلاء
هدم بركسات زراعية في قرية الزبيدات شمال مدينة أريحا
Stop-work Order for a Residence in Al Khader


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import { ActivatedRoute } from '@angular/router';
import { NgbActiveModal, NgbModalRef } from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';
import { EventManager, JhiLanguageService } from 'ng-jhipster';

import { User, UserService } from '../../shared';
import { UserModalService } from './user-modal.service';

@Component({
    selector: 'jhi-user-mgnt-send-activation-dialog',
    templateUrl: './user-mgnt-send-activation.component.html',
})
export class UserSendActivationLinkDialogComponent {

    user: User;

    constructor(
            private jhiLanguageService: JhiLanguageService,
            private userService: UserService,
            public activeModal: NgbActiveModal,
            private eventManager: EventManager,
    ) {
        this.jhiLanguageService.addLocation('user-management');
    }

    clear() {
        this.activeModal.dismiss('cancel');
    }

    sendActivationLink(login) {
        this.userService.sendActivation(login).subscribe(() => {
            this.eventManager.broadcast({
                name: 'userListModification',
                content: 'Sent activation link a user',
            });
            this.activeModal.dismiss(true);
        });
    }

}

@Component({
    selector: 'jhi-user-send-activation-dialog',
    template: '',
})
export class UserSendActivationLinkComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {

    modalRef: NgbModalRef;
    routeSub: any;

    constructor(
            private route: ActivatedRoute,
            private userModalService: UserModalService,
    ) {
    }

    ngOnInit() {
        this.routeSub = this.route.params.subscribe((params) => {
            this.modalRef = this.userModalService.open(UserSendActivationLinkDialogComponent, params['login']);
        });
    }

    ngOnDestroy() {
        this.routeSub.unsubscribe();
    }
}

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GAZA, Israeli navy on Sunday detained five Palestinian fishermen of the same family as they were sailing offshore al-Sudaniya area in the Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.
Israeli naval forces opened gunfire towards the fishermen, before they detained Hasan Baker, a fisherman, and his brother and three sons. The navy seized their boats and took them to the Ashdod port in southern Israel.
To be noted, Israeli navy targets Palestinian fishermen and their fishing boats almost on daily basis.
Palestinian fishermen are targeted by Israel on daily basis despite sailing within the allowed six-nautical-mile fishing zone and the agreement reached between Israel and the Palestinian in August 2014.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, Israeli attacks against fishermen in Gaza coincided with the restrictions imposed to increase restrictions and prevent them from sailing and fishing.


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Why the Attacks on Chuck Hagel?
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But first, some quotes on the reality of war: Obama, Chuck Hagel, and his opponents:
Obama in his Nobel Prize Speech:
"The instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace. And yet this truth must coexist with another — that no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy. The soldier's courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious" — Churchill had called it that — "and we must never trumpet it as such. So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths — that war is sometimes necessary and war at some level is an expression of human folly."
Bob Woodward in his Washington Post article remarked that "[this quote] is probably the best definition of the Obama doctrine on war. Applying such a doctrine in today's dangerous and unpredictable world will be daunting — but on these issues Obama seems to have found a soul mate [in Chuck Hagel]."
Chuck Hagel to President Obama in 2009:
"We are at a time where there is a new world order. We don't control it. You must question everything, every assumption, everything they" — the military and diplomats — "tell you. Any assumption 10 years old is out of date. You need to question our role. You need to question the military. You need to question what are we using the military for."
Hagel's Doubters:
"I fear that Hagel will be a staunch advocate for, or even accelerate, the continuation of this administration's misguided policies… And on many of the security challenges facing U.S. interests around the world, Hagel's record is deeply troubling. Too often, it seems, he is willing to subscribe to a worldview that is predicated on appeasing our adversaries while shunning our friends." – Senator Jim Inhofe
"I think there will be a lot of tough questions for Sen. Hagel, but he will be treated fairly by Republicans in the Senate," – Senator Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader
According to NBC News, when Hagel left the Senate, McConnell called him "a clear voice on foreign policy and national security."
"But I think another thing that's going to come up is just his overall temperament, and is he suited to run a department or a big agency or a big entity like the Pentagon…There are numbers of staffers who are coming forth now just talking about the way he has dealt with them," -Senator Bob Corker, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
"Typically, there's a tension. The Defense Department presses for weaponry and making sure that our country is safe. The State Department presses for nuclear arms agreements and reductions. And so in the event this person is confirmed, that balance is not going to be there." – Senator Bob Corker, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
"I have serious concerns about positions Senator Hagel has taken on a range of critical national security issues in recent years, which we will fully consider in the course of his confirmation process before the Senate Armed Services Committee." – Senator John McCain
There does not seem to be any restraint or even serious debate on the merits of many of Sen. Chuck Hagel's past views and votes by those who are opposing his nomination as Secretary of Defense. They seem to oppose him primarily because he is the choice of President Obama and the Republican right wants to derail Obama's second term even before it starts. This does not bode well for any hope of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy and national security issues. This view is bolstered by recent attacks on the nomination of Jack Lew as Secretary of the Treasury for no apparent reason but to embarrass again the new administration at its start. Lew, one needs to remember, has been confirmed many times for past senior positions he has held in government.
But the Hagel confirmation "problem," as we noted above, has many added dimensions since one of the key aims of the neo-con right is to undermine any serious rethinking of national security policy and structure that might lead to a more considered and thoughtful evaluation of our threats and priorities and trying to match them with our resources. That includes a reduction and cuts in those projects and weapon systems that are aimed at maximum profits to the military industrial industry and are the least useful in any way to the reality of the 21st century threat landscape. And again, there will be areas where additional resources are needed, but they should be justified by real American security present and future challenges rather than profit and cold war mentality.
The issues on which the right wing neo-cons are most vocal include Iran, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the direction of the DOD budget, and especially how our strategic posture is likely to be configured in the second term. Behind some of this is the belief that Hagel will be more reluctant to urge hasty military action in place of less costly "preventive diplomacy," which produces fewer profits for the paymasters of the GOP. But, it may mean fewer American lives lost in combat.
Both Hagel and Senator Kerry, who is on his way to being Secretary of State, have served in combat, and those who oppose Hagel and even some Kerry (but not often openly) have largely been the neo-cons who blindly sent our solders into combat in Iraq and largely have declined to serve in wars themselves. The people like John Bolton, former Vice president Dick Cheney, and the likes at American Enterprise Institute, Heritage, or publications like the Murdoch News Corp's Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard have all joined in opposition, but are really only fueling the drums of war and also placing money in the hands of the arms providers.
I like all the quotes of Hagel above; they seem for our times to be prudent, not isolationist and not wanting true security, but thoughtful and tested.
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Downtown Lansing Inc.'s 9th annual competitive food drive: the Downtown Lansing Food Fight, Fight Against Hunger, is proud to make a big impact in the amount of food and monetary contributions collected to benefit the Greater Lansing Food Bank! 12 organizations from around downtown Lansing teamed up to help bring in $3,313 in monetary donations and nearly 6,000 pounds of food for the Greater Lansing Food Bank.
For this competition only, each dollar donated was converted into one pound of food. After combining monetary donations with food donations, each team had a total number of adjusted pounds donated. The Golden Can Trophy winner is determined by the highest amount donated per team member. R.E. Olds Transportation Museum won the Golden Can Trophy.
For the fourth year in a row, the winner of the Downtown Lansing Food Fight Heavyweight Award, the trophy awarded to the team that collects the most pounds of food, is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, whose team collected an impressive 4,112 pounds of food.
The Greater Lansing Food Bank estimates that with the donations from the Downtown Lansing Food Fight, they will be able to provide nearly 40,000 meals to those in need in metro-Lansing during this holiday season.
The event is coordinated by the Organization Committee of Downtown Lansing Inc., with the purpose of bringing the downtown Lansing business community together to help in an increasing time of need for our community as a whole. On Tuesday, November 21, businesses, offices, and individuals in the downtown district dropped off food donations in front of the Capitol Building. All proceeds from the event benefited the Greater Lansing Food Bank.


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The CBSE results were announced on Sunday, with the topper scoring 99.6 percent. According to The Indian Express, there has been an increase of 7.3 percent in the number of students scoring 95 percent and above — from 9,351 last year to 10,091 this year. Furthermore, a perfect 100 has been achieved by a few students in almost all schools this year. This has caused considerable concern for students seeking admission, with cut-offs expected to soar coupled with competition from other boards in securing admission.
Could the marks moderation policy be the reason for the soaring cut-offs? News 18, in a report, said that CBSE has announced the results retaining the marks moderation policy, in accordance with the Delhi High Court ruling.
Moderation policy is a practice where "students are given extra marks in subjects regarded as difficult, or when there have been differences in the sets of question papers."
According to The Indian Express, in 2015 to 2016, cut-offs rose by 0.5 percent to one percent across various streams. However, the News 18 report hinted that cut-offs may decline if the moderation policy was scrapped: "Sources at the DU admission department said that there were chances of the cut-offs seeing a dip this year if the school boards had gone ahead with scrapping the moderation policy."
However, Hindustan Times reported that only marginal rise in cut-offs would be noted. In Delhi, the number of students securing 95 percent and above has decreased — from last year's 2,927 to 2,326. But the decrease would not translate into lower of cut-offs at the Delhi University since the university accept applications from all regions in India. The results may cause worry among Delhi students as they might find it difficult to get into a college of their choice.


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With Easter around the corner I thought I would share this Easter Theme Birthday Party. The party was created by A. Party Style. What a cute chick party invitation.
She used green utensils and orange napkins and with a little twist of some green pipe-cleaners, she had cute little carrots.
The guest didn't know the Easter basket was the cake…great cake!
The table was covered in AstroTurf setting the tone for the table.
These carrot jelly bean bags are always so cute!


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Change to fuel economy standards could affect consumers
DETROIT - President Donald Trump plans to re-examine federal fuel economy requirements for new cars and trucks.
The requirements were a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's strategy to combat global warming. But Trump appears to be making good on a pledge to car company CEOs to reduce "unnecessary regulations."
Here's what's happening:
Q. What are CAFE and GHG standards?
A. CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards are mile-per-gallon targets for cars and trucks set by the U.S. government. The standards are based on size and are weighted by sales. Each manufacturer has a different requirement based on the models it sells.
Congress required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop CAFE standards in 1975 after gasoline shortages during the Arab oil embargo. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles in 2007. The agencies work together to produce CAFE standards.
The standard for passenger cars stayed at 27.5 mpg from 1990 until 2007. In 2009, the government set a fuel economy standard of 34.1 mpg for cars and light trucks by 2016. In 2012, it set a new target of 54.5 mpg by 2025.
Q. Under the current standard, would my car get 54.5 mpg in 2025?
A. No. Manufacturers can apply credits for various fuel-saving technologies to arrive at that figure. Real-world mileage would be closer to 36 mpg.
Q. What's happening now?
A. In the last days of the Obama administration, the EPA completed a review of the standards for model years 2022-2025 and left them unchanged, saying car companies have many affordable options to help them comply. The industry protested, saying the review was too hasty and didn't consider the fact that gas prices have fallen and few consumers want the smallest, most fuel-efficient vehicles. President Trump is reopening the evaluation process.
Q. Why would the government consider changing the standards?
A. President Trump wants automakers to expand production in the U.S. and hire more workers. In exchange, he has promised to cut regulations and taxes. Gasoline is more than $1 per gallon cheaper than it was in 2012, when the standards were issued. The low prices hurt demand for more fuel-efficient cars. If those cars don't sell, their high mileage can't be counted toward an automaker's corporate average fuel economy.
Environmental groups say weakening the standards would increase pollution and require consumers to spend more on gas.
Q. How are automakers improving their fuel economy?
A. Manufacturers have introduced all-electric cars like the Chevrolet Bolt and increased the use of lightweight materials like aluminum. Engine technologies, such as direct fuel injection, and more efficient transmissions are also contributing. The standards give manufacturers extra credit for new technologies, such as hybrid engines for pickup trucks and stop-start systems, which automatically shut off the engine when the vehicle stops in traffic.
Q. Do those added technologies make vehicles more expensive?
A. Yes. In its final ruling in January, the EPA estimated the fuel economy standards will cost $875 per vehicle. A study commissioned by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers estimates the cost of compliance at $1,249 per vehicle. However, the EPA says the standards would save consumers up to $1,620 in gas over the life of their vehicle.


When was "the heyday of the great seaside amusement park piers" anyway? Perhaps we can figure that out from the "vibrant graphics" on the four custom billboards in this corner of Yester Paradise Pier.
The first billboard features Coca Cola. A kid is drinking Coke from a glass bottle. In the background, the Mickey head shape on California Screamin' and the stylized California Sun of the Sun Wheel fill much of the bright blue sky.
But what decade is it? Perhaps the 1950s? Coca Cola ads prior to the 1960s used painted illustrations; then Coca Cola switched to photographs. The returnable glass bottles also suggest that it's many decades ago, long before plastic bottles and aluminum cans took over. But the font on the billboard is from the 1970s. And the kids are dressed in beach apparel from the 1990s—just look at the sneakers, swimwear styles, and the fabrics. In other words, it's impossible to pin this billboard to a particular decade.
The second billboard promotes the Games of the Boardwalk, just a short walk away past Boardwalk Betsy's World Famous Strips, Dips 'n' Chips and Malibu-Ritos.
The cartoon people on the billboard are reminiscent of drawings from the 1930s and 1940s, such as the mascot from the game Monopoly (1935). The style of the large "Games" in the center seems to harken back to the 1920s and 1930s. The scrolls represent an even earlier period. The color palette and the use of gradients in the ovals suggests the 1990s. Again, it's a billboard that's all over the 20th century. But at least the drawings are kind of fun.
The third billboard isn't really a billboard. It's a set of two photo opportunities. The left one lets someone pose behind a cutout representation of a Golden Zephyr rocket. Once again the iconic Mickey head shape and Sun Wheel are in the background. The right one simulates the top of the California Screamin' loop. When you get your prints back from the drugstore, put that picture in your photo album upside down so that the Orange Stinger and Mickey head loop are right-side up. Clever, eh?
There's just one problem. The square backgrounds would be perfect if film frames were square. But it's 2001. Most people these days capture rectangular images—whether with a common 35mm film camera or with one of those new-fangled digital cameras that people are now buying. Perhaps you can dust off your old Kodak Instamatic camera from the 1960s; it produces square images using "126" film cartridges.
Once again, it's hard to tie the billboard to a particular decade. More than any other period, the artwork has the look of the 1990s.
The final billboard advertises Burger Invasion, the McDonald's-sponsored quick-service eatery that looks like a cross between a hamburger and an alien spaceship. Don't miss the pun on the sign. The California Adventure park of 2001 is known for many puns.
Because the billboard uses comic book art, we could associate this billboard with the 1940s, which many consider to be the middle of the Golden Age of Comic Books. Or maybe it's meant to look like a movie poster illustration. Then again, the art is also somewhat reminiscent of the Star Tours and Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters murals in Disneyland.
We have failed to identify the heyday of California amusement piers from these billboards. But, in a way, the billboards of 2001 are a perfect metaphor for Paradise Pier in 2001. Just as the billboards lack a cohesive story and sense of time and place, so does Paradise Pier.
When Disney's California Adventure opened in February 2001, the park had four custom billboards in a row. The row is still there, but the billboards have all changed over the years—each at least twice.
The first original billboard to go away was the photo opportunity spot. In August 2002, a custom billboard for Coppertone Suncare Products replaced it.
Tan, Don't Burn. Get a Sun Wheel Tan.
The new billboard was based on the classic Coppertone advertising image of a little girl's embarrassment when her dog exposes her untanned skin by pulling down part of her swimsuit. Only in the Disney version, the dog revealed nothing—not even a distinct tan line. The Disney version of the suit was apparently made from very stretchy material.
The next billboard to disappear was Games of the Boardwalk. In January 2005, Disney and Georgia-Pacific announced a 10-year strategic alliance. Among various promotional tie-ins, Brawny paper towels would sponsor the new Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show at the Studios park in Florida. Quilted Northern toilet paper signs then showed up on walls in U.S. Disney parks.
The new billboard showed a brawny man using Brawny paper towels to polish a gleaming convertible from around 1949—garnering admiration from beautiful women and a guy in a white tee-shirt. The same billboard also appeared atop Mickey's of Hollywood at the Studios park. Never mind that the car was too new for the period of either Paradise Pier or Hollywood Blvd. At least this billboard projected a sense of place and time, even if it was the wrong time.
After a different strategic alliance ended—the one between Disney and McDonald's—another billboard changed. The former Burger Invasion billboard became a beach scene with Paradise Pier in the background—without the Sun Wheel or the Mickey head on the roller coaster. It was December 2008, and it was the first billboard to roll back time to the early 20th century.
What had been a mishmash of 20th century styles with no clear time period began a transformation. It began with the opening of Toy Story Midway a half year earlier and continued with other enhancements to Paradise Pier over the following years.
When Cars Land opened nearby in 2012, its rockwork became a new backdrop for the billboards. Instead of being a visual intrusion, the rugged rock structures suggested the cliffs along many Southern California beaches. It worked surprisingly well.
In May 2012, the newest billboard on billboard row became the oldest. The original Coca Cola billboard, the Brawny billboard, and the Coppertone billboard were all replaced. Finally, all four billboards had a consistent style and place in time.
In June 2018, Disney split Paradise Pier into two new lands: Pixar Pier and Paradise Gardens Park.
The billboards, located in Pixar Pier, needed to change. And they did.
So experience the adventure of Pixar Pier; find your special moment there; enjoy all its family fun—and please recycle your recyclables and properly dispose of your trash so it doesn't wind up in the ocean.


"21st Century Medicine: Promise and Peril"
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Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D., Ph.D., is the John A. Creighton University Professor, and an associate professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, at Creighton University. He received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics, and a Ph.D. in bioethics, from Georgetown University. His research efforts focus on the utilization of reflection in medical education, the investigation of abnormal gene expression in cancer, and on ethical issues in biomedical research and medical genomics. He has published educational, scientific, and ethical articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and in the popular press.
Fr. FitzGerald has given presentations nationally and internationally, and often been interviewed by the news media, on such topics as human genetic engineering, cloning, stem cell research, and personalized medicine. He is a founding member of Do No Harm, a member of the ethics committee for the March of Dimes, and a member of the Genetic Alliance IRB. In addition, he currently chairs the Ethics Advisory Council for the Geisinger Health System MyCode biobank project, which includes a Return of Results process for exome sequencing of project participants.
In addition, Fr. FitzGerald has been a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life since 2005, and a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture since 2014.
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