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Outlander Series, Book 1
NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES
Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon's work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.
Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
• An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon's Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series
• An interview with Diana Gabaldon
• An Outlander reader's guide
Praise for Outlander
"Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading."—San Francisco Chronicle
"History comes deliciously alive on the page."—New York Daily News
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Excerpts-
Jamie made a fire in a sheltered spot, and sat down next to it. The rain had eased to a faint drizzle that misted the air and spangled my eyelashes with rainbows when I looked at the flames.He sat staring into the fire for a long time. Finally he looked up at me, hands clasped around his knees.
"I said before that I'd not ask ye things ye had no wish to tell me. And I'd not ask ye now; but I must know, for your safety as well as mine." He paused, hesitating.
"Claire, if you've never been honest wi' me, be so now, for I must know the truth. Claire, are ye a witch?"
I gaped at him. "A witch? You -- you can really ask that?" I thought he must be joking. He wasn't.
He took me by the shoulders and gripped me hard, staring into my eyes as though willing me to answer him.
"I must ask it, Claire! And you must tell me!"
"And if I were?" I asked through dry lips. "If you had thought I were a witch? Would you still have fought for me?"
"I would have gone to the stake with you!" he said violently. "And to hell beyond, if I must. But may the Lord Jesus have mercy on my soul and on yours, tell me the truth!"
The strain of it all caught up with me. I tore myself out of his grasp and ran across the clearing. Not far, only to the edge of the trees; I could not bear the exposure of the open space. I clutched a tree; put my arms around it and dug my fingers hard into the bark, pressed my face to it and shrieked with hysterical laughter.
Jamie's face, white and shocked, loomed up on the other side of the tree. With the dim realization that what I was doing must sound unnervingly like cackling, I made a terrific effort and stopped. Panting, I stared at him for a moment.
"Yes," I said, backing away, still heaving with gasps of unhinged laughter. "Yes, I am a witch! To you, I must be. I've never had smallpox, but I can walk through a room full of dying men and never catch it. I can nurse the sick and breathe their air and touch their bodies, and the sickness can't touch me. I can't catch cholera, either, or lockjaw, or the morbid sore throat. And you must think it's an enchantment, because you've never heard of vaccine, and there's no other way you can explain it."
"The things I know -- " I stopped backing away and stood still, breathing heavily, trying to control myself. "I know about Jonathan Randall because I was told about him. I know when he was born and when he'll die, I know about what he's done and what he'll do, I know about Sandringham because ... because Frank told me. He knew about Randall because he ... he ... oh, God!" I felt as though I might be sick, and closed my eyes to shut out the spinning stars overhead.
"And Colum ... he thinks I'm a witch, because I know Hamish isn't his own son. I know ... he can't sire children. But he thought I knew who Hamish's father is ... I thought maybe it was you, but then I knew it couldn't be, and..." I was talking faster and faster, trying to keep the vertigo at bay with the sound of my own voice.
"Everything I've ever told you about myself was true," I said, nodding madly as though to reassure myself. "Everything. I haven't any people, I haven't any history, because I haven't happened yet.
"Do you know when I was born?" I asked, looking up. I knew my hair was wild and my eyes staring, and I didn't care. "On the twentieth of October, in the Year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and eighteen. Do you hear me?" I demanded, for he was blinking at me unmoving, as though paying no attention to a word I said. "I said nineteen eighteen! Nearly two hundred years from now! Do you hear?"
I was shouting now, and he nodded slowly.
"I...
Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels--Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood--as well as the related Lord John Grey books Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; one work of nonfiction, The Outlandish Companion; and the Outlander graphic novel The Exile. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband.
Reviews-
Absorbing and heartwarming, this first novel lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland, quickening both with realistic characters and a feisty, likable heroine. English nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall and husband Frank take a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands in 1945. When Claire walks through a cleft stone in an ancient henge, she's somehow transported to 1743. She encounters Frank's evil ancestor, British captain Jonathan ``Black Jack'' Randall, and is adopted by another clan. Claire nurses young soldier James Fraser, a gallant, merry redhead, and the two begin a romance, seeing each other through many perilous, swashbuckling adventures involving Black Jack. Scenes of the Highlanders' daily life blend poignant emotions with Scottish wit and humor. Eventually Sassenach (outlander) Claire finds a chance to return to 1945, and must choose between distant memories of Frnak and her happy, uncomplicated existence with Jamie. Claire's resourcefulness and intelligent sensitivity make the love-conquers-all, happily-ever-after ending seem a just reward. Doubleday Book Club main selection, Literary Guild alternate.
After being separated by seven years of World War II, Claire and Frank Randall return to the Scottish Highlands for a second honeymoon. Left to her own devices while her husband immerses himself in historical pursuits, Claire inadvertently enters a circle of standing stones and is plunged back 200 years to a Scotland on the verge of the second Jacobite uprising. Her pluck and skill as a nurse win the Scots' grudging respect, but only marriage to a Scot will save her from the clutches of Frank's vicious forbear, Black Jack Randall. Though first novelist Gabaldon uses time travel primarily to allow a modern heroine, this is basically a richly textured historical novel with an unusual and compelling love story. The author, an assistant professor of research in environmental studies, was encouraged to publish by fellow users of CompuServe and has two more books contracted. If these fulfill the promise of the first, they should win a devoted audience. Literary Guild alternate; Doubleday Book Club main selection.-- Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.
Copyright 1991 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
People, on Written in My Own Heart's Blood Praise for Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels "Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading."--San Francisco Chronicle, on Outlander "History comes deliciously alive on the page."--New York Daily News, on Outlander "Gabaldon is a born storyteller. . . . The pages practically turn themselves."--The Arizona Republic, on Dragonfly in Amber "Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer."--Publishers Weekly, on Voyager "Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail."--The Cincinnati Post, on Drums of Autumn "A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]."--CNN, on The Fiery Cross "The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters."--Booklist, on A Breath of Snow and Ashes "Features all the passion and swashbuckling that fans of this historical fantasy series have come to expect."


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import os
from os import path
from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify  # NOQA

PROJECT_DIR = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
    ('{{ cookiecutter.author_name }}', '{{ cookiecutter.email }}'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': 'dev.db',
        'USER': '',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': '',
    }
}

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache',
        'LOCATION': '{{ cookiecutter.project_name }}',
        'TIMEOUT': 60,
        'KEY_PREFIX': os.environ.get('MEMCACHED_KEY_PREFIX',
                                     '{{ cookiecutter.project_name }}'),
        'OPTIONS': {
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            'CULL_FREQUENCY': 3,
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    }
}

# Hosts/domain names that are valid for this site; required if DEBUG is False
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/settings/#allowed-hosts
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

# Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
# although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
# In a Windows environment this must be set to your system time zone.
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Paris'

# Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
# http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

SITE_ID = 1

# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True

LOCALE_PATHS = (
    path.realpath(path.join(PROJECT_DIR, '..', 'locale')),
)

LANGUAGES = (
    ('fr', 'French'),
    ('en', 'English'),
)

# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
# calendars according to the current locale.
USE_L10N = True

# If you set this to False, Django will not use timezone-aware datetimes.
USE_TZ = True

# Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
# Example: "/var/www/example.com/media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = path.realpath(path.join(PROJECT_DIR, '..', 'medias'))
if not os.path.isdir(MEDIA_ROOT):  # pragma: no cover
    os.makedirs(MEDIA_ROOT)

# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://example.com/media/", "http://media.example.com/"
MEDIA_URL = '/medias/'

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ''

# Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
# Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
# in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
# Example: "/var/www/example.com/static/"
STATIC_ROOT = path.join(PROJECT_DIR, '..', 'static')

# URL prefix for static files.
# Example: "http://example.com/static/", "http://static.example.com/"
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'static'),
)

# List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
# various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
    # 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
SECRET_KEY = 'tw0v@dg(p%kn!l3wj(r8h450n)=a!qg5hpww98e4p%ooa*fj8^'

# List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
    # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
    "django.core.context_processors.request",
    "django.core.context_processors.debug",
    "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
    "django.core.context_processors.media",
    "django.core.context_processors.static",
    "django.core.context_processors.tz",
    "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
)

ROOT_URLCONF = '{{ cookiecutter.project_name }}.urls'

# Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
WSGI_APPLICATION = '{{ cookiecutter.project_name }}.wsgi.application'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    path.realpath(path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'templates')),
)

TEST_RUNNER = 'django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner'

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'django.contrib.admin',

    'registration',
    'autoslug',
    'bootstrap3',
)

LOGIN_URL = '/accounts/login/'
LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
LOGIN_ERROR_URL = '/accounts/login-error'

ACCOUNT_ACTIVATION_DAYS = 2

# A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
# performed by this configuration is to send an email to
# the site admins on every HTTP 500 error when DEBUG=False.
# See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for
# more details on how to customize your logging configuration.
LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
        'require_debug_false': {
            '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse'
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'propagate': True,
        },
    }
}

if 'DB_PORT' in os.environ:
    from .docker_settings import *  # NOQA

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for most of us there will come or there has been the time when we must say goodbye to our family and move into our own first flat. Whether you start studying or working in a different city or you want to start your own family one day the day will come. It will probably be a sad but also an amazing day speaking from my own experience. Of course, it can be hard to leave home and start living a different life all on your own but when one door closes another one opens, right? I am definitely not saying this to make moving sound easy since this is clearly not always the case but when you come to the point in your life where you have to move then you should try to stay positive. There are so many wonderful things that are going to happen and you will gain so much experience and in the end, you will not be gone forever. There is always a chance to come back home.
This may already be one of the reasons I think moving abroad is always a good idea. After graduating high school I've now already lived in another country and moved to the Netherlands just a few weeks ago, as some of you might have seen over on Instagram. It was actually not my plan to move into another country again until I found a study program that really interested me and just so happened to take place in the Netherlands. Even though I've only really lived here for a few weeks I have already experienced so many things that I don't think I would've experienced at home and so I thought that today I would talk to you about why I think moving abroad could be just the right thing for many of you.
As I've already mentioned moving abroad is not the end of the world, you can always go back home for the holidays or even move back home after living abroad for a little while. But maybe you will like it so much that you don't even want to go back. For myself I don't know if I'm ever fully going back to Germany but I could imagine going back after graduating. There is nothing to loose in trying.
When living abroad you get confronted with a completely different culture and so many different people that you would've never gotten to know without moving there. After a few weeks, I have already seen plenty of differences to my home country and I'm so interested to get to know even more about the traditions and people here in the Netherlands.
Another thing might also be the landscape in the new country. Here in the Netherlands I'm living in a big city that is also close the North Sea and even though I would have had the chance to move to the North Sea in Germany this is still very different. So, if you're in love with the mountains why not move to Austria or if you love warmer weather you could move to a country that is more in the south.
One of the most important things I want to mention is also the language. Besides the culture and the people, you will also get the chance to learn a new language or internalize a language you have learned in high school or college. Learning languages is always good so that you can communicate with even more people and it will also not look bad on your letter of application.


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Meghan King Edmonds Reveals How She Met Boyfriend Christian Schauf
Unconventional romance. Meghan King Edmonds got real about the early days of her relationship with boyfriend Christian Schauf amid her divorce from Jim Edmonds.
"When I knew I had worked through my pain to the point where it wouldn't define me or scar me but instead teach me, I knew I was ready to really date," the Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 35, wrote in a blog post published on her website on Wednesday, June 17. "I shot for the stars and made a list of every last minute detail of the man I was looking for – my list was pages long – and daily I'd ask God to open my heart to the possibility of loving again."
Meghan King Edmonds and Christian Schauf. Courtesy of Meghan King Edmonds/Instagram
While perusing a dating app, Meghan met Schauf. "Christian and I connected via one of these dating apps and did the whole 'quarantine dating' thing with lots of FaceTiming but I never thought it would go anywhere since he lives in Utah and I live in St. Louis and work in Los Angeles – but what the hell, it was quarantine and I wasn't physically seeing anyone anyway… until we did," she explained. "After 2 COVID-free tests and much vetting through a close mutual friend, Nancy Anderson, we had the most unusual first date IRL: a masked airport pickup (reading this back makes it sound very, very creepy but I promise it was safe, just strange)."
She added: "It wasn't until weeks into our dating relationship when we finally went to a coffee shop, got a drink at a bar, and ordered a meal at a restaurant – this order felt a little backwards and old-fashioned to us but it also made us feel more deeply connected."
Meghan noted that Schauf was not technically her boyfriend when news broke in May that they are dating. However, the development prompted them to have a talk about their relationship status and make things official. "That was a weird conversation: 'So Christian, um, the tabloids say I'm your girlfriend, sooooo, like, ummm, am I?'" she recalled. "I MEAN talk about feeling like you're a prepubescent girl who's about 3 inches tall with her tail between her legs."
She mentioned that the Uncharted Supply Co. CEO is "someone I truly cherish" and she is "up to [her] eyeballs in happiness."
Us confirmed in May that the former reality star met Schauf in March. She made their relationship Instagram official in May.
Jim, 49, filed for divorce in October 2019 after five years of marriage. The estranged couple share daughter Aspen, 3, and twin sons Hart and Hayes, 2.

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Every activity has its own language that is recognized by those engaged in that activity as having specific meanings. That is certainly true in the Forex market, where a basic understanding of the concepts behind certain terms is important for every trader to navigate themselves around the market.
The Forex market is a market of currencies, with prices charged based upon what a currency is worth in relation to other currencies. Generally this "exchange rate" is traded against the U.S. dollar, although the euro, the Japanese yen, the British pound and the Swiss franc are also major players. In fact, they are often referred to as "The Majors."
Through the exchange rate one determines how many units of one currency you need to purchase one unit of another. The difference that exists between the price at which you buy and the price at which you sell is called the currency trading spread. It is simply the difference between the selling price and what it is bought for. That is why if you purchase a currency and sell it at the same exchange rate, the spread will cause you to lose money.
When a currency price is offered it is called a "quote" and in the Forex market they come in two forms. A direct quote, in which one currency is bid in terms of an exact relation (one dollar against a yen), or an indirect quote, such as a price of one unit of currency in terms of dollars in relation to the British pound. A quote is the actual price the market maker will honor, but sometimes there is only an "indication" meaning a price is mentioned but it is not necessarily what the rate will be at the end of the deal.
Like many financial arrangements, Forex trades require collateral to ensure that losers can pay. The minimum level of secure collateral required for a trade in the Forex market is called "the margin" or even just "minimum security." However, traders can use a trade that has been purchased on margin to create credit through leverage to greatly increase their potential returns. Depending on the deal, one might be able to control more than a hundred times the original money.
Margin enables private investors to trade in markets that have high minimum units of trading by allowing traders to hold a position that is larger than their account value. This enables private investors to make direct and indirect trades in the spot market, options, spread betting, contracts for difference or forwards and futures.
All of these transactions take place in a Forex market ripe with opportunities for profit but not without trading currency risks. Risks involving exchange rates, interest rates and risks involving credit are just a few of the risky situations that can be involved with currency trading.


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The fallout over the cessation of development for Dental Mac continues with information about alternate products continuing to come in. (See our previous stories — Dental Mac ceases development, Dental Mac alternatives offered, and FileMaker Pro to salve dental software woes? — for details.)
Randall C. Markarian DMD, MS, likes the commercial dental management program called MacBraces. Though it's geared more for orthodontic practices, the basic features lend themselves to any dental practice regardless of specialty, as well as to general dental practices, he added.
"I have been using it for over five years and find it feature rich, and the support is great," Markarian said. "Also, I have seen some suggestions that my office has made incorporated into the program."
MacBraces is a comprehensive office management program that includes scheduling, appointment cards, patient accounting, statements, electronic charting, patient information, coupon booklets and much more. The product is now in its 12th year. A company called Exceptional Software makes it and the contact info is:
Dan Regan Exceptional Software 10921 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 512 Los Angeles, CA 90024 Phone: 310-397-4873 E-mail: macbraces@mediaone.net
"MacBraces is a 4D based solution so there should be an OS X compatible version in the very near future," Markarian said.
Craig Landrum, chief technical officer of Mindwrap, said the company doesn't specifically tailor its software to dentists, but makes a document management system that can be customized to serve the needs of a dental office or any other business.
"What our software does is basically allow anyone to scan multipage documents, index them using a real database that you can design to fit your needs, and retrieve them very quickly," he said. "This could be useful for capturing patient records."
Mindwrap's single-user system is available for US$499. It includes six generic indexing screens, but a Screen Generator program allows end users to build their own for special purposes. If you need multiple scanning stations or have a large number of documents, you can step up to a full Unix, Linux or NT-based server system, Landrum said. He added "there isn't any other document management company around that builds large multi-user systems the Mac."
"Our systems can be upgraded to do OCR (using Textbridge from Xerox) and full text search (content searching)," he said. "We also have a very sophisticated workflow system. We just installed a very large workflow system at Hallmark Cards. Users can access our server databases from the Web."
Bob Wilkoff, DDS and CEO of SmileSystems, said his company makes 4Dental, a standalone software product that's based on the 4thDimension database engine.
"I engineered it over 12 years ago," Wilkoff told MacCentral. "I have used it to run my dental practice for over a decade. It rocks! Problem is that I am so busy with my growing practice, that I have no time to support the tech side of distributing a program such as this."
Interested? Contact Wilkoff by e-mail.
John Broughton, a computer consultant and FileMaker developer in Charleston, SC, has a client who is presently using Dental Mac. He said the client has become increasingly concerned about the application's change of hands from company to company "without any appreciable increase in quality or support."
"Dental Mac has some glaring restrictions such as not being able to run on AppleShare servers as well as an incompatibility with newer versions of the Mac OS," Broughton said. "My client has asked me to give consideration to developing a solution based on FileMaker and I would do so if the projected market would support such an effort. The attractiveness of a FileMaker solutions is its cross platform support, server based model, and ease of customization."
If you're interested in seeing Broughton, who has been working with and developing solutions for FileMaker since such a product was available, proceed with such a product, you can contact him via e-mail.


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Q: Why my code doesn`t open tkinter window? im trying to build some code that will open new Tkinter window and then there will be a text box that the client would enter text there, and the text will be saved in some variable in my code.
i dont understand what doesn`t work, the window is not being opened.
Help please..
import sys
from Tkinter import *

def mhello():
    mtext = ment.get()
    mlabel2 = Label(mGui, text = mtext).pack()
    return

mGui = Tk()
ment = StringVar()

mGui.geometry('450x450+500+300')
mGui.title('Nir`s ScreenShare')

mlabel = Label(mGui,text='My Label').pack()

mbutton = Button(mGui, text = 'OK', command = mhello,fg = 'red', bg='blue').pack()

mEntry = Entry(mGui,textvariable=ment).pack()

** im working with python 2.7 if it matters

A: For every tkinter code, you will need a mainloop(), add this at the end of your script:
mGui.mainloop()

And also, as a hint:
mEntry, mbutton, mlabel are all going to be None because .pack() doesn't return anything. You will need to do them at separate lines.
For example:
mlabel = Label(mGui,text='My Label')
mlabel.pack()

A: You are missing
mGui.mainloop()

A: you need a mainloop line
mGui.mainloop()

A: you need to add
mGui.mainloop()

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By Marcus Thompson II | Bay Area News Group
October 5, 2013 at 3:34 p.m.
ONTARIO — After more than a month of private workouts and closed training camp practices, the new-look Warriors were finally revealed to the public in Saturday's exhibition opener. And immediately, Golden State — which lost 104-95 to the Kobe Bryant-less Los Angeles Lakers — provided something to chew on for one of the biggest questions facing this team.
Coach Mark Jackson started newcomer Andre Iguodala in place of Klay Thompson, who has started every game for Golden State since it traded Monta Ellis in March 2012. This was the first sign of Jackson's thinking in regards to his starting lineup.
Stephen Curry, David Lee and Andrew Bogut are locks, Jackson said. That leaves Iguodala, Thompson and Harrison Barnes vying for the last two spots.
"Don't read anything into it," Jackson said. "It's just the way we're starting (Saturday). You could go either way. … All those guys are going to play a lot."
After Saturday's game, it's hard to see Iguodala as anything other than a fourth lock. The dimensions he brings to the lineup — size, athleticism, skill and versatility — were on full display in his one half of action.
Iguodala had 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting in 21 first-half minutes. He also had three rebounds and two steals.
He twice turned post-ups into easy baskets. Two other times, he finished at the rim with the authority, one of them a spinning drive in traffic he created on his own.
Barnes was the only one who provided that element for the Warriors last season, and he doesn't have Iguodala's ballhandling and court vision. Plus, Iguodala is a top-notch defender, as evidenced when he picked the pocket of Lakers guard Xavier Henry at half court and soared in for a tomahawk dunk.
"He's multifaceted. He's got a lot of strengths," Bogut said of Iguodala, who signed a four-year, $48 million deal in July. "He can push the ball. He can rebound. He's very, very active defensively. He's a welcomed sight for us at the three spot, and I think he's really going to help us."
Still, Jackson said Iguodala and Barnes starting together, with Thompson coming off the bench, is just one of three options he's investigating in the exhibition season. He said Thompson will get his chance to start and suggested Iguodala would get a look coming off the bench.
Playing Barnes and Iguodala together fits with Jackson's desire to pick up the tempo. Both are explosive athletes with good size. With them flanking Curry, that figures to be a boon to Golden State's transition game.
Plus, Thompson is the only of the three with experience coming off the bench. Thompson has 37 such games under his belt and looked comfortable Saturday, leading the Warriors with 26 points on 11-of-18 shooting in 38 minutes off the bench.
"His mentality remains the same," Jackson said, "so there is no concern with him."
Some other things we learned Saturday night:
Bogut is hungry. Playing noticeably hard and physically from the outset, he had 12 rebounds in 17 minutes. He even led a fast-break once.
"I felt great out there," Bogut said. "I felt like I was moving well, more active than I've been since I've been with the Warriors. Felt in great condition. Wasn't tired out there."
Bogut said that although most vets take it easy in the exhibition season, he can't afford to coast. He's going hard to knock off the rust, especially on offense. He was aggressive on that end but never able to find a rhythm. He had seven points on 2-of-8 shooting, several of his misses up close.
"I need to get back to the way I know how to play," he said. "I'm trying to make sure when that first … game comes, I'm 100 percent ready."
The Warriors offense, which was largely predicated on 3-point shooting last season, featured a lot of post-ups Saturday. Iguodala, Barnes, Bogut, Lee and Thompson all got isolations in the post.
Apparently, that will be a featured part of the offense.
"We were trying to exploit different matchups," Curry said. "You've got to be able to throw it in the post if it's a half-court game, execute that way. … Once guys get their timing down and get their rhythm, they should be good looks for us."
Jackson went surprisingly big. At one point in the first half, he played Bogut with fellow center Jermaine O'Neal.
"Both of those guys are big-time defenders," Jackson said. "Jermaine gives us a post presence. They're great guys to set screens and create openings. We will go to that lineup at times."
O'Neal, like Bogut, stood out for his edgy play. He blocked a hook at the rim by the Los Angeles big man Robert Sacre and proceeded to strut down court barking. Midway through the third quarter, he took away an easy layup with a hard foul on Lakers' forward Jordan Hill, shooting Hill a stare.
It's clear the Warriors have two centers willing to mix it up and capable of protecting the rim. And it appears their training camp battles with each other have them primed for the season already.
Curry's ankles are fine. He didn't do much, totaling less than 15 minutes in the first half, but did provide one of the highlights of the night. After a first-quarter steal set up a breakaway, Curry looked as if he were ready to throw a lob to Barnes. But Barnes conceded, giving Curry the breakaway. He threw down a one-hand dunk.
Point guard Toney Douglas, signed this offseason, didn't play until the third quarter. Second-year guard Kent Bazemore, on the other hand, was 0 for 2 in just under four minutes of first-half action.
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30% Of Workers Dipped Into Retirement Funds During 2020
Teresa GhilarducciSenior Contributor
I am an economics professor focusing on retirement security and jobs.
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Workers' retirement accounts have been hit by the COVID-19 recession.
Kiplinger Personal Finance and Personal Capital's November survey revealed nearly 30% of older American workers with accounts withdrew or borrowed money from an IRA or 401(k) during the pandemic, and nearly two-thirds used those retirement savings to cover basic living expenses.
We saw hints that withdrawal rates would be high in 2020. At the beginning of the pandemic 30% of Americans said they withdrew money from their retirement savings accounts in the previous two months for groceries and housing bills.
And a Financebuzz survey concluded more than a quarter of Americans have slowed or stopped contributing to their retirement savings due to COVID-19. And 21% of Americans haven't started saving for retirement yet — including 45% of Gen Z and 20% of millennials. And starting early is about the only hope anyone has of having enough retirement assets especially when interest rates will stay low for longer.
I do not criticize people for dipping into their retirement funds for emergencies. We are forcing people to make a devil's choice between their present and future selves. The U.S. has weak safety nets so people have to weaken their old age security, and give up tax free accumulations, just to get by.
And it is not just employees withdrawing savings. Employers are cutting back too because we have a voluntary retirement system. According to the Plan Sponsor Council of America, about 8% of employers slashed their 401(k) contributions in 2020.
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Workers are also hit by low returns
Saving for retirement and keeping the money in retirement accounts has always been spotty and subject to luck and circumstances. And saving long term is even more tricky as financial returns on safe assets look to be quite low for years. Even if everything is going your way and you and your employer are socking money away for your retirement, contributions to retirement funds would have to double to counteract teh effect of interest rates falling.
Here is the gripping math. MIT Professor James Poterba argues workers should save 40% (!) of income to get a lifetime income stream to cover half of our pre-retirement income if we can get 6% returns and save for at least 20 years. If workers do what workers don't and starting socking away money for retirement in their 20s the savings rate only has to be about 15-22% of pay.
But that math is mostly fantasy. Retirement saving rates before COVID-19 were about 13% (employer and employees) for only about half of the workforce.
Financial fragility has risen because of COVID-19
It makes sense people are dipping into their retirement accounts. This week at the Annual Economics Association meetings (virtual this year – bad that there is a pandemic, good I didn't have to go to Chicago in January— we economists like good hotel deals!) economists Robert L. Clark, Annamaria Lusardi, and Olivia S. Mitchell found financial fragility has increased because of COVID-19 especially among younger people and women. The financial fragility now will have life-long effects. The young are supposed to save to take advantage of compounding and women live longer so they need more financial assets.
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There is nothing new about workers nearing retirement being financially fragile, what is new, as the New School's Retirement Equity Lab found, is that financial fragility has increased dramatically since the early 1990s.
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Teaching compound interest and the effect of inflation may motivate a few people to save, but more likely the knowledge reinforces and rewards people who have the means and platforms – like an employer retirement plan – to save. Downward financial mobility in old age is not a natural consequence of suboptimal human behavior. Retirement income support programs have failed. The Biden – Harris Administration has plans to shore up retirement savings. And the Biden's nominee for a Cabinet Post, Peter Buttigieg had, when he was running for presenting a set of comprehensive plans.
Americans not having enough assets for a dignified retirement is a result of failed policy choices that we can overcome by expanding Social Security and adopting a public option 401(k) to halt the growth in elder poverty, downward mobility, and to reduce retirement inequality.
An earlier version misreported the share who invaded their accounts. Mark Solheim at Kiplinger's explained the mistake. "The problem originated when we asked two separate questions in the poll that evidently confused respondents-- whether they took a distribution from a retirement account ... AND whether they took a loan from an employer-sponsored retirement plan... We didn't catch that it was likely many respondents conflated the two scenarios and answered yes to both questions. In other words, we didn't calculate the total answers net of respondents who likely answered yes to both questions... That led to the statement in the intro to the poll (February issue of Kiplinger's) that nearly 60% of respondents took a loan or withdrawal when, in fact, the net response was closer to one-third. And that language was picked up by another staff member for the press release.
We have taken steps to prevent errors such as this in the future and published a correction in the March issue of Kiplinger's. I apologize for any embarrassment this has caused for you with your readers and editors.
Please let me know if I can answer any other questions.
Teresa Ghilarducci
I joined The New School in 2008 after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. My recent book, co-authored with Blackstone's Tony James and
I joined The New School in 2008 after 25 years as a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. My recent book, co-authored with Blackstone's Tony James and titled, Rescuing Retirement, charts a visionary, bipartisan, and simple path to solving the retirement crisis. I also wrote How to Retire with Enough Money, with Workman Press. I am a trustee of the $53 billion Medical Health Care Trust for GM, Ford, Chrysler UAW retirees and past trustee of the Indiana Public Employees Retirement System, Commissioner on the Bipartisan Policy Center's Personal Savings Initiative; member of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation advisory board, serving from 1995- 2002.


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PARIS _ Illan Haddad, 31, has for years worn a baseball hat over his yarmulke in fear of being attacked because he's a Jew. It's been that way since he was 15 and a Muslim neighbor shouted "Long live Palestine!" before spitting and assaulting him in his hometown of Gennevilliers, a northwestern suburb of Paris.
As he waits in a metro station in the center of Paris on his way home from work, he sighs with relief, anxious to escape what he says is a daily "atmosphere of tension."
Hate speech, both online and in real life, has been percolating in French society for years. Human rights advocates say the toxic French brands of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism have resurged in the week leading up to Sunday's presidential elections, as candidates launch their final efforts to mobilize the party and draw new voters. A Thursday night shootout, in which a gunman claimed by ISIS killed a police officer on the iconic Champs Elysees boulevard, has caused tensions to soar.
After Brexit in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump in the U.S., this year's presidential campaigns have morphed into an insidious and unprecedented competition of identity politics. Marine Le Pen, the surprising far-right frontrunner who heads the once-fringe National Front party, has brought xenophobia and the "clash" of Islamic and Western civilizations into mainstream discourse. On Wednesday, the anti-European Union and anti-immigration Le Pen wrapped up her last rally in Marseille — where a day earlier police arrested two men on suspicion of plotting an election attack — with a promise to stamp out the "poison" of radical Islam. She's also promised to ban the head scarf for Muslim women and the yarmulke for Jewish men.
Even Francois Fillon, the once-favored conservative candidate now polling in third place after a corruption scandal, has tapped into his conservative Catholic voting bloc who argue that the country's Christian traditions serve as its bulwark. "Let's stop kidding ourselves," Fillon wrote in his recently released bestselling book, Vanquishing Islamic Totalitarianism. "France doesn't have a problem with religion. The problem is linked to Islam."
In a fake interview published last week on the satirical website NordPresse, the prominent French-Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy was quoted as saying, "If Melenchon is elected, I'm leaving France," referring to Communist-backed candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon who has recently risen in the polls. The hashtag #BHL — standing for Bernard-Henri Levy — has since exploded on Twitter, and hundreds of Melenchon supporters circulated the fake interview on Twitter along with anti-Semitic comments. "Shove off to Israel or the States, you son of a bitch," one Twitter user wrote.
France's unusual political foray into the realm of religion, "is bad for all of us," says Haddad.
"Jews and Muslims are being talked about as 'others,' but we are French above anything else," he says. He adds that Jews and Muslims are being increasingly co-opted by the candidates, but none are addressing the real problems affecting the Muslim minority: lower access to education and housing and their over-representation in prisons where they're exposed to radicalization. He says the Jewish community has an interest in seeing those resolved, "since we, Jews and Muslims, we share the same struggle," and because French Muslims today carry out the greatest number of attacks against French Jews.
The French election will take place in two rounds, on April 23 and May 7. Many polls show that Le Pen will win the first round and lose to centrist candidate Emannuel Macron in the second.
Macron, Le Pen, Fillon and Mélenchon make it a four-horse race. The "Le Pen effect" now has all four campaigning on law and order and "national identity." But they've been virtually silent on a rising torrent of hate speech that has "become commonplace" in France, according to a report last year by the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance.
Hundreds of attacks are carried out every year against Jews, Muslims, and black French citizens. The organizations that track the trends — operating independently of the government, which forbids official consensus based on religious affiliation, and has shown little political will to get involved in the problem — say that there is severe under-reporting.
That is because French security forces provide little incentive for those coming forward with incidents not directly linked with terrorism. When Illan Haddad filed a complaint with the police more than fifteen years ago, they only responded a year later with a letter of apology but no promise of action.
In recent years, the focus on Islamic terrorism has only increased. The Charlie Hebdo massacre and a spate of brutal coordinated killings in 2015 in and around Paris, carried out by French and Belgian Muslim citizens who pledged allegiance to ISIS, shook the French consciousness and spurred new questions about the place of Muslims in French society. France declared a state of emergency that gave the state greater powers of surveillance, originally meant to be temporary but which remains in place today. The state has carried out more than 4,100 house raids overwhelmingly targeting Muslim communities, resulting in only six terror-related investigations, according to the most recent European Islamophobia Report.
"In the wake of a series of appalling attacks, from Paris to Berlin, governments have rushed through a raft of disproportionate and discriminatory laws," said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Director for Europe. "Taken alone these individual counter-terrorism measures are worrying enough, but when seen together, a disturbing picture emerges in which unchecked powers are trampling freedoms that have long been taken for granted."
Critics say that national security tunnel vision meant that too few politicians have challenged the country's claims of being colorblind and or its exclusivist state program of secularism (laïcité). Anti-hate speech organizations say the government's muscular stance has heightened minorities' sense of isolation, especially in France's blighted suburbs where Muslims, Jews, and other groups live in bleak housing projects and face economic discrimination.
A high-rise apartment block in Choisy-le-Roi, a suburb of Paris. Anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim incidents have steadily risen over the years. France is home to Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish minorities.
Many of France's five million Muslims and 500,000 Jews coexist uneasily in the suburbs surrounding Paris. Many Muslims complain that questioning the Holocaust is forbidden by law but insulting the Prophet Muhammad is not. Many Jews say they have returned to the level of insecurity their grandparents experienced in North Africa, where anti-Jewish pogroms forced a mass Jewish exodus to France in the 1950s and 1960s. Inter-communal violence and intimidation have become rampant, as the country polarizes in one of the most divisive elections in recent memory.
Anti-hate speech organizations say that it is the responsibility of American companies like Facebook and Twitter to take a more active stance. But tech giants have been reluctant to interfere in the murky world of online anti-Semitism, which is characterized today by a casualness that is both difficult to quantify and often deeply intertwined with politics. Even if users are banned from one site, they can always find other outlets, the argument goes.
"France is one of the only countries in the world that has laws against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, but we've seen that Facebook and other companies have not lived up to their pledge to take down illegal material within 24 hours," said Jonathan Arfi, vice president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), an umbrella organization of Jewish organizations in France. He adds that the sluggish response of social media groups has helped inflame the problem. He says he meets regularly with the local representatives of Facebook and other companies to "put pressure on them to take more responsibility."
Facebook and other social media companies have argued it is not their role to police the internet, and have lagged in taking down illegal online content. They are based in the United States, where free speech, including hate speech, is protected under the First Ammendment.
But since the 2015 terror attacks, companies have slowly begun to consent to sharing some responsibility for dangerous materials shared on their sites. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft signed the EU hate speech code, requiring them to remove illegal content within 24 hours. Audrey Herblin-Stoop, the director of Twitter relations in France, wrote in Le Monde that "some people have abused the strength [of our platform.] They shout louder than the others, even deafening the positive messages. They have distorted freedom of expression." Ahead of the elections, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites have been cooperating with local newspapers to enhance fact-checking tools to tackle hate speech and misinformation. Facebook announced last week that it closed 30,000 "fake accounts" in France.
Yasser Louati, a board member of the European Muslim Initiative For Social Cohesion, an organization that fights Islamophobia and hate crimes, says that such actions from companies like Facebook are too little, too late, and that lax policies of social media sites endanger the lives of all minorities in divided countries like France.
But as Facebook shirks its responsibilities under the "free speech" argument, Louati says social media's role in France's social discord has also emphasized the complicity of the French government, which he says has responded unevenly to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
"The result is a hierarchy of one-upmanship – the government is prioritizing tackling anti-Semitism while ignoring other forms of racism – and it's fueling conspiracy theories, which say that the state is controlled by the Jews," says Louati. He claims there's been a rise in anti-Muslim sites claiming that Muslims are "invading Europe" and that they have gone unchecked.
He says to understand the double failure of social media sites and the French government to grapple with hate speech, you need only look at the case of Dieudonne, a French comedian of Cameroonian descent. He popularized the so-called "quenelle," an inverted Nazi salute, which he said was anti-Zionist and anti-establishment, but not anti-Semitic. He's called on Christians and Muslims to unite to kill Jews and has depicted an Israeli settler as a Nazi. He's been repeatedly convicted for hate speech, advocating terrorism, and slander in Belgium and in France.
French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, also known as "Dieudonne", at a news conference in Paris. A French court upheld a ban on his show that was scheduled for the city of Tours on Friday. Dieudonne is accused of insulting the memory of Holocaust victims. It's the second performance of his tour to be banned.
But the ongoing state-versus-Dieudonne saga has only intensified the die-hard Dieudonne fan club, which praise every encounter with authorities. Feeding off the controversies, Dieudonne has continued to provoke.
In 2015, he posted of Facebook: "Je me sens Charlie Coulibaly," I feel like Charlie Coulibaly, in reference to Amedy Coulibaly, the Islamist gunman who murdered four hostages at a kosher market in Paris in coordination with the terrorists who carried out the Charlie Hebdo killing two days earlier. Dieudonne said he was referring to the double standard in French free speech laws that defend a satirical magazine that published an image of the Prophet Muhammed, but seeks to limit Dieudonne's shows. He was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor: "praising terrorism."
Since then, controversies and lawsuits have kept on coming, and Dieudonne has used them to build his anti-establishment street cred.
Young people do the "quenelle" outside the Zenith concert hall where French humorist Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, also known as Dieudonne, was banned from performing in 2014.
Dieudonne is on tour ahead of the French elections. Nice has banned him, saying his jokes about an attack last year were a "Nicoise quennelle" that insulted the victims of the attack. In that attack a man who'd sworn loyalty to ISIS plowed a semi-trailer into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day, killing 86 and wounding dozens others.
But fans can head to the comedian's official Youtube channel, which regularly fetches hundreds of thousands of views. "Dieudonne goes to prison" was viewed more than 600,000 times.
"Bravo Dieudo, like Mohamed Ali you prefer to be imprisoned rather than sacrifice your values. You are an example for all of us, in this world of cowards and collaborators," read one comment on his Youtube page.
Rafael Tyszblat, the program director of a European interfaith organization, the Muslim-Jewish council, said that "the state is clueless about what to do with cases like Dieudonne. It's running after this repressive policy which will never be comprehensive as long as it refuses to break down barriers and open up the ghettos."
"Criminalizing racism can never be enough," said Tyszblat.
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I was there less than a month ago, having supper with a friend in an Italian restaurant in the Embassies Compound, right in the heart of Riyadh. It's a beautiful and quiet area of the Saudi capital, lined with palm trees, modern buildings and upscale surroundings. Security was tight, however, and we were stopped twice at police roadblocks as we went to and from the restaurant.
The car bombing that killed 17 and wounded more than 100 people last week happened only a few kilometres from that restaurant where I had enjoyed the dinner and company of my Canadian friend, his wife and their two children. My friend and his family are among some 4,000 Canadian expatriate workers currently living in Saudi Arabia. In fact, the kingdom is home to a total of 6 million such workers from all over the globe.
In Saudi Arabia, almost everyone knows that any given area of Riyadh (or any of the larger cities) is inhabited mainly by Saudis, other Arabs, Westerners, or Asians. Whoever planned and executed this heinous crime must have known, therefore, that unlike the Embassies Compound, the Al-Mahia compound was a "soft target." They must also have known that this particular compound houses mostly Arab foreigners and that most of them are Muslim.
Thus the Arab victims — both fatalities and wounded — included not only Saudis, but also Egyptians, Lebanese, and Sudanese, as well as some Germans, French and Italians, whose families live there.
Condemnation is far too gentle a word to describe any sane response to this mindless atrocity.
And blame against Muslims is equally irrational: how could they target the innocent? Basic Islamic teaching stresses that killing one innocent person is as vile as killing all of humanity. Even if one appears to "get away with" murder in this life, it will be severely punished in the hereafter.
Saudi Interior Minister, Prince Nayef, said he could not rule out a connection to suspected al-Qaida terrorist cells that have been targeted in recent government sweeps; a number of suspects from those cells are still at large, despite recent security crackdowns in which some 600 were reportedly arrested.
Whoever they are, the car-bombing criminals left many questions unanswered. What, exactly, was their political motivation? Most of the American military has left the country for nearby Qatar, so a protest against them would seem pointless. And the Saudi government is making some progress toward reform, albeit slowly, which diminishes its importance as a target.
Muslims themselves are being misrepresented, victimized and oppressed in many countries, more often than not by their own governments. Then why would so-called Muslim terrorists randomly kill more of their own community? Doesn't that render the very idea of "Muslim terrorist" an oxymoron?
One thing is clear in the tragic aftermath of the Riyadh bombing, however. Condolences to the victims' families and a belated police crackdown on suspects won't be enough. Perhaps Saudi Arabia should take a lesson from neighbouring Egypt.
Egypt has been more successful in curbing extremism than many Middle Eastern countries, by adopting a dual path in counterterrorism techniques. The first line has been through traditional law enforcement. But its second line, more importantly, depends on curbing potential violence through open debates, dialogues, seminars, and lectures, which have brought moderate religious scholars together before audiences in prisons, universities, high schools, on TV, or at professional gatherings, community organizations, sports clubs, etc.
Regardless of the issues, the battlefield is always clearly drawn, with words being the only weapons allowed. And moderation has generally won the day.
Extremism is always short-lived because it is fundamentally against human nature. But when moderation is supported with knowledge and persuasion, extremism then shrinks to nothing. It may take time, but the result is always assured. Extremism cannot sustain itself long enough to dominate the society it detests. Saudi Arabia should definitely try the Egyptian approach.


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Is there any way to "fix" these before they "time out" on their own?
The player in me tends to see these events as objectives to be accomplished/fixed, especially if they happen to a race I am inclined to pamper at the moment.
Is there some way that I am missing?
Does somebody feel the same?
If so, providing dedicated dispatches to remedy these events might be a good way to address this.
Like you I really want to dive in and fix the problem when something happens to one of the races I like.
some way if we can. It is sort of a new kind of mission.
the bad things that happen?
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Obama Quietly Signs "Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act"
Posted By: Zero Hedge December 25, 2016
In nineteen Eighty Four language, Obama has just created the "Ministry of Truth" with the signing of S.2943.The bill's co-sponsor is Sen. Rob Portman, former U.S. Trade Representative with plenty of Trilateral Commission connections. ⁃ TN Editor
Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017.
In a statement, Obama said that:
Today, I have signed into law S. 2943, the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017." This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017 appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes authorities to facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It continues many critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we are able to sustain our momentum in countering the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to reassure our European allies, as well as many new authorizations that, among other things, provide the Departments of Defense and Energy more flexibility in countering cyber-attacks and our adversaries' use of unmanned aerial vehicles."
Much of the balance of Obama's statement blamed the GOP for Guantanamo's continued operation and warned that "unless the Congress changes course, it will be judged harshly by history," Obama said. Obama also said Congress failed to use the bill to reduce wasteful overhead (like perhaps massive F-35 cost overruns?) or modernize military health care, which he said would exacerbate budget pressures facing the military in the years ahead.
But while the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military – was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense Authortization Act.
Recall that as we reported in early June, "a bill to implement the U.S.' very own de facto Ministry of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress. As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a "whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions" to counter "foreign disinformation and manipulation," which they believe threaten the world's "security and stability."
Also called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. "These countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and populations," Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends a relatively small amount on its Voice of America, the Kremlin provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.
"Surprisingly," Portman continued, "there is currently no single U.S. governmental agency or department charged with the national level development, integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation."
Long before the "fake news" meme became a daily topic of extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN and WaPo, H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to "establish a Center for Information Analysis and Response," which will pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true dystopic manner — 'develop and disseminate' "fact-based narratives" to counter effrontery propaganda.
In short, long before "fake news" became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label "fake news."
Fast forward to December 8, when the "Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act" passed in the Senate, quietly inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report.
And now, following Friday's Obama signing of the NDAA on Friday evening, the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is now law.
Here is the full statement issued by the generously funded Senator Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the signing into law of a bill that further chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for future which hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a source of "disinformation and propaganda" and is shut down by the government.
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Donna E Turner
Let's use this act against the leftist media.
Jean L Schmidt
Reply to Donna E Turner
The purpose is not to use it "against" media. The purpose is to sort out the facts, and to stop propaganda. That means all propaganda — left or right.
Plew
Reply to Jean L Schmidt
Except they don't do that, because the media are all leftists
James Jenkins
My first impulse as well, although, once a nation gets on that slippery slope, regaining the loss of liberty is never easy. I would rather see libel laws expanded to include FCC licensed News Agencies, to address cases where it can be proven that "Journalists", abuse their status by knowingly lying in pursuit of a personal/political agenda. Somewhere along the way, "Journalism" has lost its moral compass. Once upon a time, a reporter caught lying in a news report, or even exaggerating details was black-listed from the industry. Today, most get promoted or given their own show. At worse, they… Read more »
Fred Donaldson
Remember when my newspaper was told not to publish troop movements or locations during the Vietnam War. Now, the government wants to stop publishing truth movements.
You want some really good fake news? How about this statement.
"Government is looking out for our best interest, we can trust them."
NOTE: The above statement has been approved and certified as "Truth", by the "Grubermint Ministry of Truth"
Don Q. Public
Slightly better that NDAA fiasco when Congress tried to give the military the right to detain and question anyone for any reason for any length of time without justification or recourse to courts of law. What is f*cking insane this time is that the "voters" just elected a clown who acts like a Nazi. Good luck America.
Reply to Don Q. Public
Oh, how I wish you could see what you have done by spreading that type of hateful hyperbole.
Phyllis Curtner
Who is the nazi now??
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Spleen - Accessory in a male B6C3F1/N mouse from a chronic study. A nodule of splenic tissue (accessory spleen) (arrow) is connected to the spleen via a mesenteric attachment (arrowhead).
Spleen - Accessory in a male B6C3F1 mouse from a chronic study (higher magnification of Figure 1). The accessory spleen (arrow) contains red pulp and white pulp components.
Accessory spleens ( Figure 1 , arrow) are rare findings in rodents and may be congenital, acquired following splenectomy, or a consequence of traumatic injury. When observed grossly in the peritoneal cavity, an accessory spleen may appear as one or more dark red to black nodules that have a smooth surface and range from less than a millimeter to several millimeters in diameter. These small nodules of splenic tissue have been observed in the mesenteric attachment of the spleen ( Figure 1 , arrowhead), pancreas, and elsewhere in the abdominal cavity. Histologically, accessory spleens may have all or some splenic components, such as the capsule, trabeculae, red pulp, and/or white pulp ( Figure 2 ).
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Whatsapp rolls out voice and video calls to its Dekstop app
March 5, 2021 Tushar News
Its finally out, the long-awaited feature from WhatsApp for voice and video calls on the PC has been released.
Whatsapp recently announced that it has included the one to one voice and video calls option on the computer. It's available for Windows and macOS powered computers. It's available only for single users, so that means you can only have one on one calls individually. This will have an option for both landscape and portrait modes.
Sometimes you just need a little more space. Secure and reliable, end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls are now available on our desktop app. Download now: https://t.co/JCc3rUunoU pic.twitter.com/PgCl76Mn7U
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) March 4, 2021
Which devices are supported? Is WhatsApp web also included?
As per the announcement the devices for desktop app calling are only for windows and macOS. Windows 10 64-bit version 1903 and newer and macOS 10.13 and newer are supported.
That means if you are a Linux user you will have to find some workarounds. This is because, WhatsApp does not have any desktop app for Linux users, so that means no calls.
This feature is available only for Whatsapp's desktop app and not for WhatsApp web. So, you may have to wait for longer for WhatsApp to include it on its browser led WhatsApp web. They have added that this feature on the desktop will be a standalone window of itself.
What's more about this feature? Is it encrypted?
The Facebook-owned company has said that both voice and video calls are end to end encrypted, and this can not be seen or heard by anyone.
It has also stated that group video and voice calls will be added in a near future. That means if you use Whatsapp calls for group chats, for time being you can only do it on its mobile app. Or you can use other video call services such as Zoom or Skype.
How to use the voice and video calls feature on the Whatsapp desktop app?
The first step will be to download Whatsapp's desktop app in case you haven't already.
Next, scan the QR code using the Whatsapp app from your smartphone.
Once, done with the above step. You can find all the chats on the desktop app.
Now, Open the individual chat you want to have a voice or video calls with.
Click on the voice or video icon on the top. This will initiate a call to the other user.
To switch the voice call to video you can simply click on the video or voice icon.
Now that we have seen the steps to make a voice and video call on WhatsApp desktop. Let's see how to receive the calls. For this, you will have to receive a call from an individual user
First, you will see an option to Accept or Decline the call.
You can decline to accept the call and Accept to talk to the caller
You can choose the options available to switch between voice and video calls.
You can also click on the X option to ignore the call.
Note: For the call to be made easily, you will have to allow Whatsapp to access the microphone and camera functionality of your computer. Also for calls, you can use only the device's primary hardware option and not make arrangements like making your mobile as a webcam and mic for the calls.
You may have noticed that recently Whatsapp has been releasing many features to attract new or old users who migrated to different WhatsApp alternatives due to its privacy change.
Do let us know in the comments below what other WhatsApp features are you waiting for. If you liked this news blog, turn on the notification option from the browser to receive a notification next time we upload a new one. Do share it with your friends and family Whatsapp groups 🙂
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