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Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice
by Meghan Tschanz
Foreword by Carolyn Custis James
Church & Mission
Fresh out of college, hating her job, and searching for meaning, Meghan Tschanz left everything to join a mission trip around the globe, and quickly witnessed oppression experienced by women that she never thought possible.
Over the next several years, she befriended women around the globe who had survived sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, and violence so extreme Meghan wondered at the woman's survival. Through listening to their stories, Meghan started to notice a pattern—one that pointed to systems of injustice that harmed and held women back—systems, Meghan realized, she was often complicit in.
She was changed.
Returning to the United States, Meghan became keenly aware of how the teachings and messaging surrounding women in her own upbringing were part of the problem. In the process, she began to find her voice, one that spoke out against injustice and moved her into tension with her Christian community.
Women Rising is Meghan Tschanz's personal journey of transformation. But it's also a Christian blueprint for anyone wanting to confront injustice against women while pointing to a biblical standard for gender equality. With humility and grit, Meghan calls Christian women to amplify their voices for righteousness—and she calls the church to listen.
"In Women Rising, Meghan Tschanz invites us to listen to the voices of women. Listening can lead to compassion, repentance, advocacy, and justice. Listening opens our hearts and minds to the extreme oppression and injustice many women face, all over the globe. Tschanz's book is a clarion call to respond to gender inequality and join with women in their dignity and empowerment worldwide. Books like this change lives and can transform the world."
Graham Joseph Hill, principal of Stirling Theological College (University of Divinity), author of Holding Up Half the Sky
"In this vulnerable, engaging account of facing confusing and constricting gender roles in the church, Tschanz shows that patriarchy is not part of the world God created but is a result of sin and domination. She calls Christians to imagine a world as God meant it to be: all God's daughters being liberated to lead, serve, and stand up for truth and justice. If you've ever wondered if God has good news for women, this book is for you."
Katelyn Beaty, author of A Woman's Place
"With great heart and fierce determination, Meghan Tschanz confronts the stark realities of gender injustice around the world as she comes to terms with her own experiences of abuse within and beyond the church walls. Women Rising details the necessary and painful journey of sacred questioning and rediscovery that ultimately leads to Tschanz's spiritual liberation. Through her vulnerability and truth telling, Tschanz reveals the ways God works through the unexpected to heal us and transform our lives and our faith."
Katey Zeh, author of Women Rise Up: Sacred Stories of Resistance for Today's Revolution
"Meghan Tschanz has done something very important. On the one hand, she provides a wide-angle perspective on the world of twenty-first-century women and girls—those suffering human rights violations as well as women of privilege. On the other hand, and without ever losing sight of the big picture or narrowing the focus of her book to a single issue, she zooms in on stories of young girls trafficked for sex, of women enduring domestic violence, and of those denied educational opportunities. Meghan's work is unique in that she doesn't distinguish those women from herself and other women in the evangelical church. She masterfully weaves in her own often costly journey as a young girl growing up in the evangelical purity culture amid pervasive teaching about female submission to male leadership that diminished her sense of self and created an alarming vulnerability. Later, when confronted by horrific violence against women, a crisis of conscience compelled her to ask deeper questions. One of the many strengths of this book is that she doesn't just describe the issues, she drills deeper to explore how the church's gender theology is part of the problem and needs to be reexamined against this wide-angle perspective. Vital reading for both women and men."
Carolyn Custis James, author of Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women and Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World
"From discussing human trafficking and white saviorism to unpacking gender roles within the evangelical church, Women Rising covers a number of issues that deserve our full attention. Meghan Tschanz shares her powerful life experiences around these topics with a vulnerability that invites and challenges us all to reflect on our own experiences and beliefs about gender. She shows how rigid and restrictive gender roles for both women and men can lead to a diminishing of one's self as well as contribute to the dehumanization of others. Meghan is well aware of the potential controversies when discussing gender, particularly within Christian contexts, yet bravely uses her voice and her stories of the women she has met to constructively engage others in these conversations, leaving it up to us whether we will listen."
Brendan Kwiatkowski, PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and founder of Remasculate.org
"Women Rising is a powerful book that calls for all women to be treated with dignity and respect. Meghan shares her story with authenticity and draws us all into why we must value women and uplift their voices. She also challenges what has been the standard and what needs to change. She speaks the truth many are longing to hear."
Faitth Brooks, antiracism educator, director of programs and innovation, Be the Bridge
"Meghan Tschanz is a powerful voice for women and a strong advocate for the marginalized and oppressed. Her book, Women Rising, not only empowers women to be and do anything God has created them to, but also describes what it looks like to be a Christ follower and a feminist. Meghan beautifully shares her stories and the testimonies of others that expose everyday sexism and the lies we women are told about our roles as women in such a way that you feel like you are sitting at a table with her, sipping coffee. She shows women how strong and capable we are and how God has no limit to the extent in which he can and will use women for the kingdom—whether we are preaching a sermon in a church or coleading our families with our spouse. Meghan is a rare gem and a woman who carries a strong anointing for leadership and teaching."
Sierra White, founder and director of Ezer Rising
"This book should be required reading for Christians. For every girl and woman who has been made to feel small, demeaned, violated, and confused, and for every man who has bought into the lie of female subordination and missed out on all that half the church has to offer, Meghan's words speak freedom and hope for a better way."
Blythe Hill, CEO and founder of the Dressember Foundation
"In writing this visceral and instinctive critique of gender essentialism, Meghan Tschanz weaves her own abuse beside that suffered by the women she served globally. In searching for root causes, one answer rises supreme—women's inequality reinforced by male-only leadership propaganda that scrutinizes women's lives but leaves men's behavior unchecked. In this way patriarchy flourishes with impunity. Women Rising is a call to action for the world's women."
Mimi Haddad, president, CBE International
"Women Rising traces one woman's transformation from youthful evangelical missionary to Christian feminist. It's a bumpy ride that spans continents. Readers who are reshaping their beliefs about the role and worth of women will find plenty of fuel for their journey. They may even find themselves emerging from these pages, as the author does, with a woman-centric lens."
Ruth Everhart, Presbyterian pastor and author of The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
Introduction: A Time to Speak
1. God's Order
2. Bound by Tradition
3. Climbing Blind
4. Raised by a Pimp
5. Enough
6. Southern Gentleman
7. A Gradual Shifting of Beliefs
8. How to Say "You're Hurting Me"
9. Holding Men Accountable
10. The Root of Sin
11. If They Can Love, I Can Too
12. Death
13. Am I Making It Worse?
14. Love at Last
15. Choice
17. Use Your Voice
18. Drowning
19. Marriage
20. Sex
Conclusion: Remembering Who You Serve, Not Your Critics
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The #MeToo Reckoning
Forgotten Girls (Expanded Edition)
Brave Souls
Scars Across Humanity
The Cross and Gendercide
Birthing Hope
God in a Brothel
ABOUT Meghan Tschanz
Meghan Tschanz is a writer, speaker, and former missionary who is passionate about empowering women and reclaiming feminism for the Christian faith. A 2010 graduate of the University of Colorado, she's a prolific blogger and host of the Faith and Feminism podcast. She and her husband, Dustin, live in northeast Georgia.


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News 20 Apr 2020
Supercross reported to be restarting at Glendale in May
Final seven rounds could potentially take place within three-week period.
The 2020 Monster Energy Supercross season could resume within a month's time, as Feld Motor Sports is reported to be assessing a plan that would see the gates drop in Glendale during the middle of May.
With professional sport currently shutdown globally due to the coronavirus pandemic, Supercross could become one of the first to resume in a bid to crown this year's champions.
First tentatively reported by PulpMX's Steve Matthes on Twitter over the weekend, rounds 11 through 17 to cap off the season could be held over a three-week period between mid-May into June. All seven events would be held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
In an unprecedented move, there would have to be multiple rounds per week without spectators in attendance if the series is to be completed within that condensed period. It's unclear what personnel would be eligible to attend or if there would be strict quarantine measures in place to reduce the chances of anybody contracting COVID-19.
It was recently anticipated that Supercross would be on pause until September following the reduced 11-round Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, which is currently pencilled in to begin in the middle of June.
Glendale already hosted round four of the season in January, when Team Honda HRC's Ken Roczen captured a clean-sweep of the Triple Crown event ahead of current points-leader Eli Tomac (Monster Energy Kawasaki), who currently has a three-point lead in the 450SX standings following Daytona's 10th round held on March 7.
An early return to competition would also have to include the remaining rounds of 250SX West and East, which have so far contested six and four rounds respectively. Defending champions Dylan Ferrandis (Monster Energy Star Yamaha) and Chase Sexton (Geico Honda) lead those series.
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Running the Maze
by Coughlin, Jack; Davis, Donald A.
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Running the Maze Jack Coughlin Donald A. Davis In the aftermath of great floods, a doctor on a relief mission in northeastern Pakistan discovers the remains of a collapsed bridge that reminds him of a bridge near his childhood home in Ohio. He snaps a cellphone picture and sends it to his sisterjust before his entire team is slaughtered. His sister is Beth Ledford, a Coast Guard sniper, who suspects that the answer to the mystery of her brother's death is in that cellphone picture. No one believes her until she finds Kyle Swanson, once the top sniper in the Marine Corps and now the key member of a secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident. When Kyle takes Beth into Pakistan to investigate, they find the true secret behind the mass murderwhat may be the last, best hope of victory by al-Qaeda and the Taliban over allied forces. Now the two snipers have their sights set on one man, an American diplomat who has become the biggest obstacle to victory in the war on terror. The only question is: which of them gets to pull the trigger?
GUNNERY SGT. JACK COUGHLIN was with the Third Battalion, Fourth Regiment Marines during the drive to Baghdad and has operated on a wide range of assignments in hotspots around the world.
DONALD A. DAVIS is the author of twenty-three books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers.
FIVE-MINUTE BREAK. DR. JOEY Ledford sat on the shaky remnants of a wooden chair, smoking a Marlboro and sweating while monsoon rains slammed the tin roof of the makeshift medical clinic of United Nations Refugee Camp Five. Somewhere, doctors and nurses were performing surgeries in antiseptic, air-conditioned rooms that were packed with every conceivable device of the medical arts, with storage areas nearby bulging with vital, lifesaving medicines. They were listening to Bach or Norah Jones or Latin jazz as they performed meticulous cuts and closed wounds with care, taking all the time they needed to do it right. Somewhere, the magical art of medicine was a smooth choreography conducted by well-educated professionals in offices and clinics and hospitals. Somewhere, but not here.
Ledford exhaled, and twin streams of cigarette smoke flowed from his nostrils. The rain was not a gentle and sweet thundershower like back in Iowa. Instead of giving life to crops, this was unrelenting and fell in great sheets, as if some angry demon had ripped open the bellies of the fat black clouds. He looked out at the sprawl of the camp, where thousands of people were hiding under whatever shelter they could find. Armed guards were at the clinic door to keep them out. They had been driven out of their homes by overflowing rivers and leaking dams and were still being pursued by water. Poor creatures, Ledford thought. Poor, damned souls.
Sweat caked his T-shirt and khakis, and when he dropped the cigarette and ground it out, he noticed the bloodstains on his black rubber boots had become deep, splotchy layers during the day, and he could not recall the individual patients from which the blood had come. He would wash it off later. Break over, Ledford ducked back into the tent, back into the world of misery.
He sloshed his hands in a basin, slid gloves on, and put on a surgical mask and a fresh apron, then walked over to what once had been someone's kitchen table but now served a higher purpose as an operating room surface. It was covered by squares of disposable white paper on which a baby girl lay screaming as a nurse inserted an IV needle in her arm to start a drip. The mother shrieked nearby, echoing and amplifying the suffering of her one surviving child.
"It looks like another cholera," a nurse replied. "Once you set the broken arm, we will begin the antibiotics."
Ledford nodded. "We have any patient history or X-rays for her?"
"No. She's about six months old, has a one-oh-one fever and coughing. Cries are weak. The mother just arrived this morning and said a big rock banged into the child during a mudslide two days ago."
The doctor wasted no time complaining about what they didn't have, because they could only work with what was available. He was thirty-one, an even six feet tall, had longish dark hair that reached his collar, and possessed impeccable credentials: University of Iowa for premed, then the Carver College of Medicine there, followed by a three-year internal medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He'd been ready for the next step toward a successful career when he decided to take a holiday from his studies and go see the world. He did not like what he found out there. He had a rugged, handsome face, but the eyes were those of a combat veteran, for he had seen horror after horror in refugee camps from Haiti to Africa. The emergency calls for help from Pakistan when the floods struck had come as he was wrapping up an assignment in Bangladesh, and he did not hesitate. This was who he was now, at least for as long as he could stand it.
"OK," Ledford nodded to the anesthesiologist, David Foley, an irreverent Canadian from Ottawa. "Let's put the kid to sleep so we can move her on down the assembly line. We've got a lot of other customers waiting. Raining like hell and the drinking water is filthy because we can't store it. No excuse for waterborne diseases here."
There was a soft hiss in a plastic mask over the baby's mouth and nose, and she immediately began to calm. "Hey, Joey?" asked the gas-passer.
"What, David?"
"Five years from now you will be doing nip-and-tucks for rich ladies in your own fancy clinic. I will be driving a red convertible. We will tweet and play Fantasy Football and date supermodels." He looked at his instruments. All good. "OK. She's down."
Ledford let his fingers gently probe the left arm of the infant and explore the fracture. "Stay focused, Dr. Foley."
"Joey?"
"Be quiet. I'm trying to concentrate." He found the break and tried to picture in his mind how it looked. With luck and a few years, if the child beat the odds and lived that long, her limbs might one day be strong again. Babies are resilient.
"Doc Yao says we can have some time off. Sort of."
Ledford's hands were working smoothly now, and the nurse stayed with him, putting another damaged little human being back together. He let her do as much of the work as possible to improve her skills. "What's the catch?"
"We go up north and visit some of the flooded villages where the water is receding. Pick a site for a new UN facility upcountry. I think we can carve out some serious downtime in the process. Actually get some rest. We about done with this kid?"
"Just a few more minutes." As the nurse finished the bandaging, he gave the rest of the body a quick examination. No other breaks, but she was malnourished from being sick and unable to feed. He could clearly see the rib cage. He gently pinched, and the skin did not quickly resume its shape. "The arm will be fine, but the cholera is going to kick her little butt." He made a note to admit the child as a patient and try to get her cleaned up, inside and outside. If she survived all of that, then all she would have to worry about would be measles and malaria and land mines and machine guns and mortars and a long menu of infectious diseases and the questionable privilege of growing up in a third-world country in which women were second-class citizens. Thankfully, Ledford thought, the strict Islamic religious zealots had not invaded the camp yet, or he would not have been allowed to touch or even look at the naked female baby.
"What did you tell Dr. Yao?"
"I volunteered us."
"Humph," Ledford grunted. Might be interesting.
The team of nine medical workers headed out the following morning, in a convoy of three United Nations trucks, carrying just enough supplies to establish a base camp that could expand rapidly to help meet the flood emergency. Fifteen hours later, after grinding through brutal, washed-out roads, they reached a camp that was run by Doctors Without Borders, where they spent the night before pushing on deeper into the wasteland in the dusty gold of the new dawn.
"My ass is completely broken," complained David Foley by radio as the sun reached its zenith. He was in the third truck, and Ledford was riding as the only passenger in the lead vehicle.
"Take two aspirin, put it in a sling, and call me in the morning," Ledford joked.
"Better idea would be to just stop and have some lunch. Get our bearings," Foley replied.
Ledford thought that was a good idea, for the road had smoothed out a bit for the last few kilometers as it moved through some small hills. A side road branched off to the right and downward, and he told the driver to follow it to a spot where they could have a break. In a moment, they were on the back side of the hills and following an old road that sloped down into a valley, edging onto a flat plateau. "Here," he said. The trucks pulled up, nose to tailgate, and the team got out and stretched.
Foley walked up to join Ledford. "Why the grin? This place looks like the dark side of the moon." The flood had laid waste high up the banks before receding.
"I think we can set up the camp here," Ledford said. "Water is down quite a bit, and there is plenty of room to spread out. And look up at the other end of the valley, Dave. That big bridge is new; hell, theyre still working on it. Traffic, people, and supplies could feed over it and down to us without a problem. The valley is perfect for air resupply drops, too. Maybe the bridge people could lend us a bulldozer to carve an airstrip."
Foley had a pair of binoculars. "There are big machines at work up there, but I see trucks, too. So maybe it is in operation. You're right."
They joined the others, who had spread some blankets under stunted trees and laid out a lunch. Having some time off from the misery of the camps was reinvigorating. Afterward, some of them stretched out in the shade for quick naps, while Ledford took a walk farther down the road, alone. Although the driver, who carried a pistol, was the only member of the team with a weapon, they felt safe; medical workers helping people in need, no matter what their politics, were usually immune from any severe threat.
"Well, I'll be damned," he said with a loud laugh. He had come across an old steel trestle bridge that had been taken out by the flood, and the eastern end was canted down into the water. It reminded him of home, of an almost identical bridge where he and his sister, Beth, once played. He found his cell phone, snapped a picture, added the text message REMEMBER THIS? and sent it to her.
The group was stirring again when he got back. "Come on, everybody. Let's go for a walk and get a feel for the valley as our possible refugee camp site, then pay a visit to the big bridge at the other end. They will be our new neighbors, so we might as well pay our respects to whoever is in charge." There was a path along the western side of the river, and they followed in line. The afternoon was sunny, and a wind pushing through the valley cut the heat. This could be a good place.
Copyright © 2012 by Jack Coughlin with Donald A. Davis
FIVE-MINUTE BREAK.DR.JOEYLedford sat on the shaky remnants of a wooden chair, smoking a Marlboro and sweating while monsoon rains slammed the tin roof of the makeshift medical clinic of United Nations Refugee Camp Five. Somewhere, doctors and nurses were performing surgeries in antiseptic, air-conditioned rooms that were packed with every conceivable device of the medical arts, with storage areas nearby bulging with vital, lifesaving medicines. They were listening to Bach or Norah Jones or Latin jazz as they performed meticulous cuts and closed wounds with care, taking all the time they needed to do it right. Somewhere, the magical art of medicine was a smooth choreography conducted by well-educated professionals in offices and clinics and hospitals. Somewhere, but not here.
Ledford exhaled, and twin streams of cigarette smoke flowed from his nostrils. The rain was not a gentle and sweet thundershower like back in Iowa. Instead of giving life to crops, this was unrelenting and fell in great sheets, as if some angry demon had ripped open the bellies of the fat black clouds. He looked out at the sprawl of the camp, where thousands of people were hiding under whatever shelter they could find. Armed guards were at the clinic door to keep them out. They had been driven out of their homes by overflowing rivers and leaking dams and were still being pursued by water.Poor creatures,Ledford thought.Poor, damned souls.


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Kevin Harvick Takes Checkered Flag at Bristol Motor Speedway
Ammoland Inc. Posted on August 29, 2016 August 28, 2016 by AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson
Wiley X Sponsored Driver Wins Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race After Overnight Rain Delay
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The Bristol race, which began on Saturday night, was suspended after 48 laps because of rain. It was resumed on Sunday after rain showers cleared out of the area by late afternoon. For most of the final 200 laps, Harvick was out in front of the pack and was able to avoid a rash of wrecks. He pulled away for the win after brief rain shower caused a ninth and final caution with 66 laps to go.
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Polaris and Joe Thompson Support Our Veterans
Polaris RANGER® and Football Great Joe Thomas Hunt with Wounded Veterans to Raise Awareness and Funding for LEEK Hunting & Mountain Preserve.
Football great and avid hunter Joe Thomas, and a group of wounded and disabled veterans participated in a hunt to raise awareness and funding for LEEK Hunting & Mountain Preserve. Committed to the recovery of our nation's veterans, LEEK provides an outdoor retreat for wounded warriors and their families by using hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation as a means of rehabilitation. With the help of the RANGER CountryTM Heroes Hunt campaign, LEEK aims to raise $100,000 to support the expansion of Dunham Hall, which provides lodging and meeting rooms for veterans and their families.
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current physical status. Joe Thomas, record-holding offensive tackle with 10,363 consecutive snaps, participated in the RANGER Country Heroes Hunt because it combined two of his passions: hunting and supporting our nation's veterans. Throughout his 11-season football career, Thomas would often travel overseas to support our nation's troops.
"Spending a day in the wilderness with these guys changes you. I have a far greater appreciation for
the courage and sacrifice of our servicemen and servicewomen. They are on the front lines protecting
our values and way of life," said Thomas. "There are so many causes worthy of our support, but in my
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"No one understands sacrifice and true grit more than our servicemen and servicewomen," said Kyle Duea, vice president off-road marketing at Polaris. "This year, as an extension of RANGER Country, we wanted to honor those men and women who have provided us with the freedoms we all enjoy in this great country. LEEK's mission to encourage wounded heroes aligns perfectly with the values of RANGER Country, and we are calling on our owner community to join us in supporting them." For more information about LEEK Hunting & Mountain Preserve, to donate and to enter to win a 2019 RANGER XP 1000, visit donate.onecause.com/heroeshunt or text 512-920-5521, and follow on Facebook and Instagram.
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Sunshine Stars of Akure coach Kabiru Dogo has urged the Nigeria football family to step up efforts to ensure the safe return of Katsina United coach, Abdullahi Biffo who is believed to have been kidnapped by unknown persons two weeks ago.
It gathered that a ransom of N15m was made, but the family has not heard from the his adopters since then.
"I have spoken to a member of his family and I was told they were unable to reach him in the last six days," Dogo said.
"I beg and urge the Katsina State Government and his employers Katsina United to step up their efforts to get him released," Dogo pleaded.
"Coach Biffo is more like a brother to me because we are from the same Kwara State, I am also appealing to the Kwara State Government to do something too, because one of their own has been held captive.


Being a blogger and a working girl, sometimes I feel like a lot on my plate and don't know which one to do first. Have to run everywhere and take care of the family and spend time with friends as well. While doing all of these, I realized that I actually not taking care of me and my skin and decided to go for a manicure and pedicure session.
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At any point in time, you may have different obligations - it's almost rare that you won't have any.
There's always going to be rent, food, and other services you have to take care of.
But sometimes it's not the material things that we feel bound by.
Often times, what bounds us are people.
Think about one of your childhood friends. You may have sat together at lunch every day for 6 years and competed in high school sports together, and studied for tests until 1 A.M. together.
But have you ever felt like you "outgrew" them?
This is a totally normal thing to feel.
Sometimes we feel like we owe someone something. This may be to your parents or your significant other or your best friend. You may think "we've spent X number of years together, we can't just throw that all away!"
But sometimes, you need to let go of things that are ultimately holding you back.
If you're having the sense that you've outgrown some friends, that's completely fine. You don't have to "drop" them as some people would suggest. Just expand your social circle and hang out with them a little less.
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Compadre är en svensk-norsk-peruansk-finländsk dokumentärfilm från 2004, producerad och regisserad av Mikael Wiström.

Filmen skildrar den peruanska familjen Barrientos, en vanlig familj i Limas storstadsslum. Regissören Wiström hade under 30 år följt familjen och i filmen varvas arkivbilder med nyinspelat material. Filmen är också en fristående fortsättning på Wiströms dokumentärfilm Den andra stranden (1993) och fick en uppföljare i 2010 års Familia.

Compadre fotades och klipptes av Alberto Hersckovits och Wiström och premiärvisades den 23 april 2004 i Göteborg och Stockholm. Den visades även av Sveriges Television 2005 och var då nedkortad till 86 minuter (från 90 minuter).

Filmen fick första pris vid en filmfestival i Madrid 2005. Prissumman var på 12 000 euro.

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Finländska dokumentärfilmer
Norska dokumentärfilmer
Peruanska filmer
Svenska dokumentärfilmer
Spanskspråkiga filmer
Svenskspråkiga filmer
Filmer 2004
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Lady A's Hillary Scott Covers Amy Grant's 'Baby Baby' With Help From 8-Year-Old Daughter
During Lady A's performance in St. Louis on Sunday (August 8), the group's Hillary Scott and her 8-year-old daughter, Eisele, performed Amy Grant's "Baby Baby."
Eisele, wearing a patterned purple dress that matched Scott's outfit, got onstage, to render Amy's 1991 hit and hit all the powerful high notes with ease.
"St. Louis, you came to party!!!" the band captioned the Instagram post. "Eisele definitely stole the show and we loved making memories with all of you!!"
Grant has said quite often that "Baby Baby" as well as the rest of the songs from the Heart in Motion record were inspired by her daughter Millie, whom she was pregnant with during the writing process of the album.
The show was part of Lady A's What a Song Can Do Tour, which commenced at the end of July. The tour, which also features Carly Pearce, Niko Moon and Tenille Arts, concludes in early October.


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Mossy 1974 Ford Mustang II Field Find
Russ Dixon
This is one of those cars you ask yourself why? Not why did Ford reinvent the Mustang in 1974 as a made-over Pinto, but why would someone buy this car in the shape it's in? The nicest one of these cars on the planet today would fetch maybe $10,000. Perhaps as a parts car if you're fixing up another Mustang II, of which there aren't many of them around anymore. This one is sitting out in a forest with several other forgotten cars in Esopus, New York and is available here on Facebook Marketplace for $500.
The original Ford Mustang kept getting longer, wider and heavier as time went by. So, Ford redesigned it in 1974 in response to a growing demand for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars during the post-embargo fuel crisis of the 1970s. The strategy apparently worked as Ford sold more than a million of them during its four-year run and it was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year right out the gate.
Gone was the V-8 engine, so most early Mustang II's mostly shared their basic powerplants with the Pinto. So, the seller's car might have the 2.3-liter inline-4 that was capable of more than 30 mpg at the gas pump. This Mustang is said to have 120,000 miles on it and those were hard miles. With an automatic transmission, this blue Mustang II is rocker-panel deep in leaves (and dirt?) and the windshield is mostly gone, so Mother Nature and its critters have been able to invade the interior.
If you were to acquire this car, what would you do with it? Parts for another project? Convert it into some sort of drag car as the seller suggests? Or be merciful and take it the crusher? Otherwise, it may continue to stay out there for years to come.
More: Ford / Mustang
It's good for street rod parts!
Bakyrdhero Member
This little soldier has served its purpose, strip it and let It die with dignity.
Bob_in_TN Member
I have a friend who has restored some Mustang II's to show condition. He notes that certain parts are getting ***very*** hard to find, which is remarkable given the high production totals for the Mustang II. So maybe there are parts here to be salvaged. Otherwise, as Bakyrdhero says, let it die.
Nobody is going to convert this into a race car, it makes no sense to do so. Competitive turn key cars that run in the 10's can be found for around $10,000-$12,000, grudge night bombers are significantly less. It may not even be a good parts car due to the rust and broken windshield. This car is better left for the land owner to dispose let alone actually paying them money to take it off their hands.
Uncle Leo
Surprised nobody commented on the Monte or the Bronco in the background.
Joe Padavano
The Bronco was the first thing I noticed. Given the stupid money those go for, I'm amazed it's still there.
First thing I noticed where the trees….
Definitely a parts car , I've wandered around so many old time New England junkyards to know that nature has taken a hold of this. Worse yet , when the interior is exposed to the elements, the decomposition process speeds up. We have all seen plants and trees growing out from the inside of old cars . You can see the trunk has rotted out from water being trapped due to dirt and leaves clogging the drain channel and I wouldn't be surprised to see the channel rotted out and letting water in the trunk . As sorry as this car is, at least its escaped its date with the crusher long enough to help someone keep their classic on the road .
CCFisher
The Bronco and Trooper are far more interesting.
bro thats a montero
Ed Hardt
I am only interested in this as an episode of Vice Grip Garage
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Esopus? Put it back in the Creek.
Throw in the Monte Carlo and I'll buy it for $500.
Living in the same region of the country I will guarantee there is nothing left to the bottom side of this car. Unless there are the ultra hard to find parts mentioned above still attached I think even $500 is pushing it. Seller would do far better with the Bronco in the background even though it is probably in about the same shape.
Even though these are far from my favorite car, it's still a little sad.
Who else is thinking that if you changed the "7" in the year to a "6" then the asking price would be 10x or 20x higher at this sme condition? And that some fool would pay that much too!
120,000 miles was outstanding for an economy car of this era. 2-3 times the life of a Vega. If they'd have put the mustang on a Maverick platform these would be collectible today.
'Shoulda, coulda, woulda.' ;-)
DavidL Member
Rust to rust, ashes to ashes, rust in peace.
Bob Fleisch
Looks like it's exactly where it should be.
That was a lot of blue when new! I have a serious question about the condition of many cars that have sat on the ground and are piura rust underneath. How is it possible to mash one up and get any clean steel from it? All the plastic and vinyl and rubber. Then add to the fact that what steel remains is 80% rusted. Looks like a losing proposition to me.
Scrap cars usually get shredded into little pieces ; a lot of the fluff is separated from the steel there. Later, magnetic cranes pick up the small bits for transport which separates them more . The steel furnaces likely incinerate anything thats left
A friend of mine traded i her AMX on one of these awful cars. It had the 302 engine and overheated constantly. She sold in in less than a year and bought another impractical car. She should have kept the AMX. I could have bouthe it for $600, but I did not have $600 at the time.
Question is, what part is salvageable??
rustylink
https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/mustang-ii-suspension/
Those parts are readily available through the aftermarket. The story keeps referring to technology, not the actual parts from an old Mustang II.
scott m
A little early in the bubble for this one. Maybe in 40 years Unobtainium in LA will feature it
You said four year run. It was actually 5 model years, '74, '75, '76, '77 and '78.
Kevin Kendall
74 the year that Ford took a dump & offered it up to the public & called it a Mustang
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Korg Microsampler

Editor

The Microsampler doesn't have patches per se.  It just has a limited assortment of things that can be edited via MIDI.
  This editor gives you access to all of those things.  But you won't be able to save these settings, nor can you get them in bulk from the Microsampler.

Communicating with Edisyn

Set up your Microsampler's MIDI Routing to communicate properly with your computer: you probably will want "USB+MIDI".  Edisyn's Send To device should be "microSAMPLER SOUND", and Edisyn's Receive From device should be "microSAMPLER KBD/KNOB".  Set your Microsampler's Global MIDI Channel to the same as Edisyn's "Send Channel".

Hints

 The "Sample Number" dial changes which sample the parameters are affecting (in the Sample section).  You can set values for all 36 samples if you like.  Similarly, the "Pattern Number" dial changes which pattern its parameters are affecting (in the Pattern section), and you can set values for all 16 patterns.  However the Effects parameters only affect a given effect type.

The "Current Sample" and "Current Pattern" dials just specify which pattern or sample is presently brought up on the Microsampler.  They do not determine which sample or pattern the other parameters affect

Gotchas

The Microsampler's MIDI is a disaster.  Its pitch bend steps terribly.  It sends MIDI Clock without properly sending MIDI Start or MIDI Stop.  As soon as it receives a MIDI Start it starts the pattern sequencer whether you want it or not.  So don't expect much here.

There are a great many things on the Microsampler you cannot control remotely: most of the knobs and buttons, for example, as well as any commands which are triggers rather than settings.  Things like start point and end point are unavailable.  But there are a few items available, and Edisyn provides what's possible.

When you change the Effect, all of its settings will be reset on the Microsampler.

Though the Microsampler can respond to volume changes (via CC or Universal System Exclusive) and pan (via CC), Edisyn doesn't send these: they are not reflected on-screen and could be quite confusing.

Many thanks to

"Horvath", a user on KorgForums.com, who prepared a comprehensive documentation of all known sysex calls available for the Microsampler.  Without this document, this editor would have been far, far more difficult to write than it already was.

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Date
October 2017


Where? I want to know where they were! You chose a tantalizing teaser. Mine is here Sandy's Teaser, along with a related movie trailer.
That is such an awesome teaser. It raises so many questions and is soooo tempting!
OK, that sounds creepy. I recently got this book to review. Can't wait!!!
Super great teaser! I have this book but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'm really looking forward to it though - I think it sounds amazing! And all the reviews have been great :) I'd love to read your review when you're done!
.... well where were they?? That's very nice of you to give us such a taunting teaser ;). Thanks for sharing.
Loved The Immortal Rules! Great teaser!!!
Here's my Of Poseidon teaser! Happy Tuesday!
Being a fairly new Kagawa fan, I really want to get a copy of this one.
Sounds a bit scary! Thanks for sharing. My teaser is here.
Oh wow! i wonder where they were, good teaser!
Oooo smells like trouble. Great teaser.
Perfect teaser! I just finished this last week and I loved the section this teaser is from. Happy reading!
Oooh, one of the books I am dying to read!
Ooooo! I have this one on it's way to me! I can't wait to get it. Wonderful teaser!
Great teaser. Leaves me with all kinds of questions.
Hmm.. cool teaser. I might have to check this one out.


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You were a U.S. resident for a period that includes at least 3 consecutive calendar years.
You were a U.S. resident for at least 183 days in each of those years.
You ceased to be treated as a U.S. resident.
You then again became a U.S. resident before the end of the third calendar year after the end of the period described in (1) above.
Under this special rule, you are subject to tax on your U.S. source gross income and gains on a net basis at the graduated rates applicable to individuals (with allowable deductions) for the period you were a nonresident alien, unless you would be subject to a higher tax under section 871 (rules that normally apply to taxation of a nonresident alien's income, discussed earlier) after taking into account any applicable treaty benefit. For information on how to figure the special tax, see Expatriation Tax below.
John Willow, a citizen of New Zealand, entered the United States on April 1, 2013, as a lawful permanent resident. On August 1, 2015, John ceased to be a lawful permanent resident and returned to New Zealand. During his period of residence, he was present in the United States for at least 183 days in each of 3 consecutive years (2013, 2014, and 2015). He returned to the United States on October 5, 2018, as a lawful permanent resident. He became a resident before the close of the third calendar year (2018) beginning after the end of his first period of residence (August 1, 2015). Therefore, he is subject to tax under the special rule for the period of nonresidence (August 2, 2015 through October 4, 2018) if it is more than the tax that would normally apply to him as a nonresident alien.
If you are subject to this tax for any year in the period you were a nonresident alien, you must file Form 1040NR for that year. The return is due by the due date (including extensions) for filing your U.S. income tax return for the year that you again become a U.S. resident. If you already filed returns for that period, you must file amended returns. You must attach a statement to your return that identifies the source of all of your U.S. and foreign gross income and the items of income subject to this special rule.


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Q: EF code first, polymorphism cast I have a project with a person and a registered person
public class Person : BaseClass
    {
        public string Email { get; set; }
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Team> ParentTeams { get; set; }
        public virtual ICollection<Team> ChildTeams { get; set; }

        [NotMapped]
        public bool IsChildPerson { get; set; }
    }

public class RegisteredPerson : Person
    {
        public int ProxyId { get; set; }
    }

Registered person inherits person.
At a certain point the person becomes a registered person. But the person is allready bound to a team.
How can I cast the Person to a registered person, without losing the links to the other databases ?

A: As far as I know, you can't cast downwards. What you could do is use a mapping library like automapper to map your Person object to a RegisteredPerson and then use the context to save.
Example:
using AutoMapper;

//Create Map from Person to RegisteredPerson
Mapper.CreateMap<Person, RegisteredPerson>();

//Load person from Database
Person p = context.Persons.SingleOrDefault(predicate);
//Map Person to RegisteredPerson
RegisteredPerson r = Mapper.Map<Person, RegisteredPerson>(p);
//Assign values to RegisteredPerson
r.ProxyId = SomeValue;
using (var context = new YourContext())
{
    context.Persons.Attach(r);
    context.SaveChanges();
}
//Load new RegisteredPerson
using (var context = new YourContext())
{
    RegisteredPerson rp = context.Persons.OfType<RegisteredPerson>().SingleOrDefault(predicate);
}

Hope this helps...

A: Your problem lies in this sentence:

At a certain point the person becomes a registered person

In static OOP, an instance of a class cannot "become" a different class.
Do not use inheritance for that. Instead, store an IsRegistered flag.

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B/R Proposes Draft Night Trade for Blazers to Get a Top-10 Pick
Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman offers a trade that could land Portland the No. 7 overall pick
By Isaiah De los Santos@IsaiahDeLos Oct 21, 2020, 9:43am PDT
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The Portland Trail Blazers will have two picks at their disposal come NBA Draft Night 2020, possessing a selection in the first round (pick No. 16) and second round (pick No. 46). Being in the middle of the draft board means Portland will have to wait and see if their top prospect falls to them. However, the Blazers could attempt to trade up on draft night if there's a player they have their eye on, like they did in 2017 to land Zach Collins.
In his latest mock draft, Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman proposed a deal between Portland and the Detroit Pistons to land the Blazers the No. 7 overall pick. This hypothetical involves Portland's picks and young guard Anfernee Simons to move up to select Auburn forward Isaac Okoro:
Portland Trail Blazers receive: No. 7
Detroit Pistons receive: No. 16, No. 46, Anfernee Simons
The Blazers could use a defensive wing/forward, and Isaac Okoro could be the top option in the draft.
Meanwhile, Gary Trent Jr.'s emergence in the bubble should help make Anfernee Simons more expendable. Simons would hold more value to a Pistons team that lacks scoring firepower and ball-handlers.
Okoro projects as a fit for Portland with his comfort level and efficiency scoring off the ball. He can immediately contribute to Portland with his powerful frame, which he uses for attacking and locking down positions 2-4.
Okoro averaged 12.9 points and 4.4 rebounds during his lone season with the Tigers. You can read an extensive draft profile on his game here.
Simons came into the 2019-20 season with a heightened role, but he largely struggled to make an impact each night. He averaged 8.3 points and 1.4 assists in 20.7 minutes per game this season.
Do you like this trade for the Blazers? Would Detroit be interested in Wasserman's proposed deal? Let us know in the comments.


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Darmstadt es un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de St. Clair en el estado estadounidense de Illinois. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 68 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 364,65 personas por km².

Geografía
Darmstadt se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Darmstadt tiene una superficie total de 0.19 km², de la cual 0.19 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 68 personas residiendo en Darmstadt. La densidad de población era de 364,65 hab./km². De los 68 habitantes, Darmstadt estaba compuesto por el 100% blancos, el 0% eran afroamericanos, el 0% eran amerindios, el 0% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0% eran de otras razas y el 0% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 0% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Lugares designados por el censo en Illinois
Localidades del condado de St. Clair (Illinois)


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Andrey Gustavo dos Santos (født 23. september 1974) er en tidligere brasiliansk fodboldspiller.

Han har spillet for flere forskellige klubber i sin karriere, herunder Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

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Rivers of Nihil
Establishing a powerful presence in the death metal scene with their smashing debut album The Conscious Seed of Light in late 2013, Rivers of Nihil is an American death metal band from Reading, Pennsylvania. Labeled as "the best new Death metal band you'll hear this year" as early as 2012, Rivers of Nihil's sound and roster has continued to evolve thunderously over time, ultimately culminating into the quintet's magnum opus release Where Owls Know My Name in early 2018. A heavenly blend of pulverizing modern death metal riffs with tinges of jazzy, brass accentuation, electronica doomsday overtures and gripping folk hooks, their most recent work highlights the progression and maturity of their sound, setting them apart as a flaming bolide among other death metal titans.
Perhaps one of the hardest genres to successfully realise, death metal remains the stomping grounds of some of osu!'s most skilled mappers to date, and Rivers of Nihil is no exception. Broad cinematic pieces culminate in lengthier tracks featuring varied tempo, cadence and feeling, posing a considerable challenge for even experienced mappers. Have you got what it takes?
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Home > News > Mark Sesnan OBE reappointed to ukactive Board
Mark Sesnan OBE reappointed to ukactive Board
GLL Senior Officer and Specialist Adviser, Mark Sesnan OBE, has been reappointed to the Board of ukactive for a final, three-year term. He will serve as the representative for the 'Public Operator' section of the ukactive membership.
The news follows Sesnan's recent decision to step down as CEO of GLL whilst still playing an active role in the organisation. His continuing involvement with ukactive emphasises his commitment to the leisure industry as a whole and his desire to share almost thirty years of experience at the helm of an award-winning charitable social enterprise.
Under ukactive Chair Mike Farrar, Board members will work with ukactive's Councils and the Executive to drive ukactive's plans for the development and growth of the sector to reach more than five million new members as part of its 'Vision 2030' strategy.
Mark, who first joined the ukactive Board in May 2015, commented, "I am proud to be reappointed for a further three years, particularly as we approach such a crucial time for the future of the leisure sector.
"Together with our new Board members, we want to work with ukactive's members to elevate the value that society puts on our industry and ensure what we do is recognised and supported by the Government and its agencies."
Mark has been an effective advocate for the leisure sector – first lobbying the Government for more support during Covid and now adding his voice to calls for more financial support during the utilities crisis.
He was awarded an OBE in the 2022 New Year's Honours for services to the leisure sector – particularly during Covid.
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Now reading: ANSELM REYLE | REFLECTIONS
ANSELM REYLE | REFLECTIONS
8 JUNE – 4 AUGUST 2019
ST. AGNES | CHAPEL
Recently, when Anselm Reyle invited people to his property on the Spree River for an open house, I went along too. I wanted to see his villa, I wanted to swim, I wanted to eat and drink for free. Over three hundred guests had come, not only from Berlin, but also from next door, and next door is the water police. And so it came to be that I was standing in line at the grill behind two uniformed officers of the water police and eavesdropped on the following conversation:
Officer 1: "Somehow the party's not getting going, and we've been here for five minutes already ..."
Officer 2: "Ja, at the very least ..."
"Look at that: that table over there with the potato salad. It's covered with gold foil."
"Yeah, and?"
"Well, get this: it's the same stuff that Reyle uses for his foil paintings!"
"I am sure of it! We were just in his studio, and we saw this big roll of gold foil. That's the same foil!"
"Hmm, you're probably right. It's weird that he is using the same foil as a tablecloth for the sausages... "
"Actually, what do you make of Reyle's stuff?"
"I don't know, I'm not so sure. It's always so shiny and colorful, and somehow ... superficial ..."
"Now, now, we've seen him a couple of times, just the other day when he lent us his lawnmower. I don't think he's superficial at all. "
"Him not, of course, but his art. Everything is obsessed with surfaces!"
"But don't you get it? He's celebrating the surface! It's sort of like an over-affirmation that you have to read ironically."
"I don't know..."
"Of course! It's like that Warhol saying, 'Just look at the surface of my paintings, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.' "
"Yeah, I know but that's exactly what I mean!"
"Man, Jürgen. You really don't understand. You seriously cannot believe that Warhol really meant that."
Suddenly then, the two officers turned to me:
Officer 1: "Um, excuse me, but the line's not gonna get any faster with you breathing down our backs!"
Me: "But I'm not doing anything!"
Officer 2: "Yeah, right. You're shoving up against us the whole time with that weird snorting of yours! "
At that moment, Anselm Reyle approached us and I held him by the arm: "Tell me, the gold foil here on the table under the sausages, is that the same foil you're using for the paintings?"
"What? Oh, the gold foil? I don't know, wait a minute, there's Johann, he's just arrived! With Daniel Birnbaum! On the boat! I'll see you later."
Meanwhile, the line at the grill had yet to move an inch further. The two policemen were giving me snide looks and whispering something about me. Then they continued their conversation.
Officer 1: "Say, have you seen Reyle's most recent work? The watercolors?"
Officer 2: "Huh? Watercolors?"
"Yup. He's painting copies of his foil paintings, the crumpled gold foil…with incredible accuracy."
"What? Why is Reyle doing watercolors?"
"You remember when he had just set up his workshop here, two or three years ago, and I had come over because of the telescopic hedge trimmer."
"Yeah and?"
"And he had just proclaimed his withdrawal from the art world."
"I remember, yeah, we had all read that interview at the guardhouse back then..."
"Exactly…. And for a while there, he really did do nothing other than mow the lawn and landscape the garden and stuff. But when I was with him, he also told me that he was working – in secret, so to speak, like Duchamp on his last work – on quite different things."
"He started doing pottery."
"Oh right. Those huge malformed vases."
"Exactly. And that's when he started doing the watercolors."
"Pottery and watercolors, pretty strong stuff."
"He even started making tapestries..."
"Yes, I think that after all those stripe paintings and heavy-gloss sculptures, he wanted to go in another direction. He deliberately wanted to go…where it hurts."
"He wanted to go… to Tuscany. Pottery and watercolor painting... "
"Ah, I get it..."
"And yet it's Reyle all over again. He even has that signature of his, you know the one. The one which always consists of a few splashes of paint and a ring imprint, as if he had accidentally placed an overflown paint can down on top of the painting ... "
"Right, but what do you want to say?"
"So, now he has this same signature on his watercolors, in the form of a red wine circle, as if he was sipping a glass of red wine and accidentally sat it down on the watercolor..."
"Oh my God, that's just too good."
"Funny, right?"
At this point I'd really had enough of these wise-crack, pretentious police officers. Bitterly, I left the grounds just in time to see my car, which I had parked in the flower bed of the water police station, being towed away right before my eyes. With the dreamy setting sun behind him, in the distance I could make out how Anselm Reyle, sitting on his dock, beret on his head, took a deep pleasureful sip of red wine and then put his glass carefully down on the watercolors laid out in front of him.
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In 1992 the American with Disabilities Act came into effect and one of the requirements of it for municipalities was "citizen participation" in the implementation of it. The Town of East Hampton had previously had a Handicapped Advisory Board but in 1993 it was changed to The Disabilities Advisory Board and a number of new members were invited to join. The board was tasked with advising the Town on implementation of ADA and representing the disabled in the community. In reviewing the requirements of ADA and looking over the Town and Village of East Hampton it quickly became apparent that most of the town both public and commercial was not in compliance. A striking example was the United Artist Movie Theater in the heart of East Hampton. There were no spaces provided for wheelchairs in the theaters, the bathrooms, snack counter, the phones all were not accessible and there was no assistive listening system. The Advisory Board first asked Town and Village officials how the movie theater could be brought into compliance. It turned out that local government could not inforce the ADA because it was Federal law and local governments have no jurisdiction. So Board members made personal pleas to the local theater asking that it be made accessible to the disabled in compliance with ADA. The local management said they had no power to do such renovations and referred inquiries to United Artist corporate Headquarters in Colorado. A number of letters and phone calls later and many months passing made it clear that United Artist Inc. had no interest in complying with ADA and we were basically told to go away.
It became obvious that another approach was going to be required unless we wanted to go to Federal Court and sue which would take many years. Some of the new members of the Advisory Board had previous experience fighting for the rights of minorities against the "Powers that Be" during the Civil Rights days of the 60's. They suggested if we couldn't get UA to comply using local government and asking nicely that maybe there was another way. So a number of members of the Advisory Board got together and formed a not for profit corporation, a 501c3, the East End Disabilities Group Inc.
The East End Disabilities Group first again polity asked UA to comply with the ADA . When we were again rebuffed in late spring of 1994 EEDG went to the Village of East Hampton and applied for and got the first permit ever issued in the Village of East Hampton to demonstrate and picket on the sidewalks in East Hampton. The weekend before Memorial Day EEDG supporters, with signs and petitions in wheelchairs and on crutches, family and friends, demonstrated in front of the theater calling for a boycott starting on the following Memorial Day weekend. Not surprisingly we got a great deal of local and regional press coverage.
United Artists Theater Corp, started renovations on Tues, and work was sufficiently completed by Thursday.
Subsequently United Artists started making the necessary ADA renovations in the Southampton Theater and then the rest of their theaters in the US came into compliance.


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Q: Get SSL pem certificate of a webpage using Selenium webdriver I need to retrieve an information on some webpages using the Python Requests library. The problem is that, for some of those webpages, the SSL chain is broken (we don't have the intermediaries), so Requests raises a SSLError "unable to get local issuer certificate". I could ask Requests to not check the SSL (verify=False) however I do not want to for security reasons.
When accessing the same page via a web browser, this problem is no more because browsers are doing AIA fetching to retrieve missing intermediaries in a SSL chain, so I thought I would use headless Selenium instead of Requests, because it's using an actual browser, so the AIA fetching would be done. This is actually working, so I use requests and if I have an SSL error, I switch to Selenium. However, for reasons that are not relevant for this question, I would like to use only Requests to actually get the information, so I would like to pass to request the correct .pem file (using "verify=PATH_TO_PEM"). What I would like is to get this completed pem file from Selenium. This is basically, in pseudo-code, what I would like :
get_data(url):
  try:
    r = requests.get(url)
    return data_from_response(r)
  except SSLError:
    webdriver.get(url)  # selenium
    ssl_pem = get_pem_file(webdriver)
    r = requests.get(url, verify=ssl_pem)
    return data_from_response(r)

What I'm missing is the "get_pem_file" function. Is this possible ? And if so, how ?
Thanks


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Q: Animation from 0 to 1 opacity does not work in FireFox but works in Chrome I have following code for html and CSS to apply animation so that the logo image fades from  opacity of 0 to 1. This works very well in latest Chrome browser, but not in latest FireFox or IE 11.
I have made sure that initial opacity of the logo image is 0 through 'logo-new' class, so when animation happens it starts from 0 opacity.
Question: How can I make this type of animation work in FireFox and IE 11?
HTML

CSS
.logo-new {
    background-image: url("../logo.png");
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    height: 95px;
    opacity: 0;
    width: 479px;
}

.animate {
    -moz-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
    -webkit-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
    animation: fadeIn ease-in 1s 1;
    -moz-animation-delay: 1s;
    -webkit-animation-delay: 1s;
    animation-delay: 1s;
    -moz-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
    animation-fill-mode: forwards;
}

@-webkit-keyframes fadeIn {
    from {opacity: 0;}
    to {opacity: 1;}
}

@keyframes fadeOut {
    from {opacity: 1;}
    to {opacity: .5;}
}

UPDATE 1
As mentioned in comments by 'uʍopǝpısdn', that I needed to include keyframes for mozilla for it to work in FireFox. However, very surprisingly, for IE 11 I had to include a keyframes element without any browser prefix, and it didn't have to be at the top of the CSS.
.logo-new {
    background-image: url("../logo.png");
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    height: 95px;
    opacity: 0;
    width: 479px;
}

.animate {
    -moz-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
    -o-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
    -webkit-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
    animation: fadeIn ease-in 1s 1;
    -moz-animation-delay: 1s;
    -o-animation-delay: 1s;
    -webkit-animation-delay: 1s;
    animation-delay: 1s;
    -moz-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
    -o-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
    -webkit-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
    animation-fill-mode: forwards;
}

//IE 11 Fix for animation. Exclude browser prefix !!!!!
@keyframes fadeIn {
    from {opacity: 0;}
    to {opacity: 1;}
}

@-webkit-keyframes fadeIn {
    from {opacity: 0;}
    to {opacity: 1;}
}

//Fix for animation to work in FireFox. Include a 'moz' prefix
@-moz-keyframes fadeIn {
    from {opacity: 0;}
    to {opacity: 1;}
}

A: The following CSS worked.

*

*For FireFox include a 'moz' prefixed keyframes element in your CSS.

*For IE 11 include an non-prefixed keyframes element in your CSS at any position and not necessarily at the top of the CSS.
.logo-new {
background-image: url("../logo.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 95px;
opacity: 0;
width: 479px;
}

.animate {
-moz-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
-webkit-animation: fadeIn 1s ease-in;
animation: fadeIn ease-in 1s 1;
-moz-animation-delay: 1s;
-webkit-animation-delay: 1s;
animation-delay: 1s;
-moz-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
-webkit-animation-fill-mode: forwards;
animation-fill-mode: forwards;
}

 //IE 11 Fix for animation. Exclude browser prefix
 @keyframes fadeIn {
from {opacity: 0;}
to {opacity: 1;}
}

@-webkit-keyframes fadeIn {
   from {opacity: 0;}
   to {opacity: 1;}
}

//FireFox fix for animation. Inlcude 'moz' prefixed keyframes element
@-moz-keyframes fadeIn {
from {opacity: 0;}
to {opacity: 1;}
}

UPDATE
Even though the above CSS makes the animation work in IE 11 and FireFox, I found that we really don't need any 'moz' prefixed styles if using FireFox 38.x or any 'ms' prefixed styles for IE 11.
This means that IE 11 and FireFox 38.x do not need any browser specific styles for animation, which is a better solution in my view.  But Google Chrome 42.x is an exception and does need 'webkit' prefixed styles for animation.  So we can do away with all styles that are prefixed by 'moz' or 'ms' in above CSS and still have it work in IE 11 and FireFox 38.x.


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The long-term safety and efficacy of bilateral transplantation of human fetal striatal tissue in patients with mild to moderate Huntington's disease
Barker, R. A., Mason, S. L., Harrower, T. P., Swain, R. A., Ho, A. K., Sahakian, B. J., Mathur, R., Elneil, S., Thornton, S., Hurrelbrink, C., Armstrong, R. J., Tyers, P., Smith, E., Carpenter, A., Piccini, P., Tai, Y. F., Brooks, D. J., Pavese, N., Watts, C., Pickard, J. D., Rosser, Anne Elizabeth, Dunnett, Stephen Bruce, Simpson, S., Moore, J., Morrison, P., Esmonde, T., Chada, N., Craufurd, D., Snowdon, J., Thompson, J., Harper, P., Glew, R. and Harper, R. 2013. The long-term safety and efficacy of bilateral transplantation of human fetal striatal tissue in patients with mild to moderate Huntington's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 84 (6) , pp. 657-665. 10.1136/jnnp-2012-302441
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2012-302441
Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease involving progressive motor, cognitive and behavioural decline, leading to death approximately 20 years after motor onset. The disease is characterised pathologically by an early and progressive striatal neuronal cell loss and atrophy, which has provided the rationale for first clinical trials of neural repair using fetal striatal cell transplantation. Between 2000 and 2003, the 'NEST-UK' consortium carried out bilateral striatal transplants of human fetal striatal tissue in five HD patients. This paper describes the long-term follow up over a 3–10-year postoperative period of the patients, grafted and non-grafted, recruited to this cohort using the 'Core assessment program for intracerebral transplantations-HD' assessment protocol. No significant differences were found over time between the patients, grafted and non-grafted, on any subscore of the Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale, nor on the Mini Mental State Examination. There was a trend towards a slowing of progression on some timed motor tasks in four of the five patients with transplants, but overall, the trial showed no significant benefit of striatal allografts in comparison with a reference cohort of patients without grafts. Importantly, no significant adverse or placebo effects were seen. Notably, the raclopride positron emission tomography (PET) signal in individuals with transplants, indicated that there was no obvious surviving striatal graft tissue. This study concludes that fetal striatal allografting in HD is safe. While no sustained functional benefit was seen, we conclude that this may relate to the small amount of tissue that was grafted in this safety study compared with other reports of more successful transplants in patients with HD.
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
BMJ Publishing Group


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Q: is there any automated tool to perform functional testing for java batch application ? I have Java batch applications which writes data to the database. I want to have an automated test which will compare the expected output with the data in the database. I used DBfit to complete this procedure and works very well except I have to enter my expected data in excel spread sheet and then copy and paste into dbfit and format it, so this is a manual step I want to avoid.
Is there any automated tool to perform functional testing for java batch applications?

A: I wrote a DB compare test tool using DOS batch script.  This script compares a database schema to its previous baseline to find differences.   Might be able to be modified to compare actual table data content.  Here is my code , which you might need to modify slightly to make it work.  Obviously, to answer your question, a simple JUnit or NUnit script could launch this.
@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
ECHO.&ECHO.
ECHO This script will get schema snapshots of all your local MSSQL databases
ECHO and saves them to a directory where this script is ran.
PAUSE
CLS
:: first get timestamp of this script
SETLOCAL
FOR /F "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a IN ('"echo.|date"') DO (
    FOR /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/.- " %%A IN ("%DATE:* =%") DO (
        SET %%a=%%A&SET %%b=%%B&SET %%c=%%C))
SET /A "yy=10000%yy% %%10000,mm=100%mm% %% 100,dd=100%dd% %% 100"
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=:. " %%A IN ("%time: =0%") DO @SET UNIQUE=%yy%%mm%%dd%-%%A%%B

SET TITLE=atabase schema snapshot
TITLE=D%TITLE%
:: script also supports DBNAME as argument
IF NOT "%1"=="" (
  SET DBNAME=%1
  %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe -classpath jtds-1.2.4.jar;schemacrawler-8.8.jar;schemacrawler-sqlserver-8.8.jar schemacrawler.tools.sqlserver.Main^
 -user=sa -password=password -database=!DBNAME! -schemas=!DBNAME!.dbo.* -port=1433 -host=localhost -table_types=TABLE -command=schema -sortcolumns=true^
 -procedures= -infolevel=lint -loglevel=OFF >!DBNAME!_schema_!UNIQUE!.txt
  GOTO :ENDSINGLE
)

:: enable this section to run minimized
::IF NOT DEFINED PIL (
::    SET PIL=1
 ::   START /MIN "" %~0 %1
 ::   EXIT /B
::)

:BEGIN
ECHO D%TITLE% is running...
ECHO.
MKDIR %UNIQUE%
ECHO Directory %CD%\%UNIQUE% has now
ECHO been created to hold the results of this snapshot.
ECHO.
sqlcmd.exe -E -Slocalhost -h-1 -Q"SET NOCOUNT ON;SELECT name FROM sysdatabases WHERE name NOT IN ('master','tempdb','model','msdb');" >dblist.tmp
FOR /F %%A IN (dblist.tmp) DO (
  SET str=%%A
  SET str=!str: =!
  ECHO !str!>>.\!UNIQUE!\dblist_trimmed.tmp
)
ECHO.&ECHO.&ECHO.
FOR /F %%I IN (.\!UNIQUE!\dblist_trimmed.tmp) DO (
  SET DBNAME=%%I
  IF NOT "!DBNAME!"=="" (
    ECHO. Snapshot: !DBNAME!
    %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe -classpath jtds-1.2.4.jar;schemacrawler-8.8.jar;schemacrawler-sqlserver-8.8.jar schemacrawler.tools.sqlserver.Main^
 -user=sa -password=password -database=!DBNAME! -schemas=!DBNAME!.dbo.* -port=1433 -host=localhost -table_types=TABLE -command=schema -sortcolumns=true^
 -procedures= -infolevel=lint -loglevel=OFF >.\!UNIQUE!\!DBNAME!_schema.txt
  )
)
DEL /Q dblist.tmp
GOTO :ENDMULTI

:ENDSINGLE
ECHO Finished processing %1 .  Closing in 20 seconds...
GOTO :END
:ENDMULTI
ECHO Finished processing list .  Closing in 20 seconds...
:END
ECHO.
FOR /l %%a in (20,-1,1) do (TITLE D%TITLE% -- closing in %%as&ping -n 2 -w 1 127.0.0.1>NUL)


From collect + -o- + -mania.
An obsessive desire to collect things.
Only one thing could be considered and attributed: Leah's collectomania that grew to fanatic proportions after marriage.
Dreiser 's naturalism textually mimics capitalism's collectomania and fetishistic obsession with material objects and facts [...].
The apparent absence of selection criteria in Warhol's collectomania was also a characteristic of 'Raid the Icebox I', the touring show that he curated in 1969 at the Institute for the Arts in Houston [...].
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When you're into foreign underground bands who are often slotted into short opening slots because they're not widely known… well, you get used to enjoying one of your favs for about half an hour before the higher profile but sometimes less interesting headliners take to the stage. In the case of Katatonia and Cult of Luna's co-headlining tour stop at the Opera House in Toronto this September, 'interestingness' wasn't the issue. Nevertheless, openers Tesseract were the highlight of the night.
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Leslie Jordan Death Cause? 'Will and Grace' Star Popular American Actor, Writer, and Producer Dies
After almost 4 months of being passed, once again "Leslie Jordan" a popular American actor, writer, and producer's unfortunate demise is setting fire among his close ones and admirers. Because on 19th January 2023, the exact cause behind his passing took place while initially the cause was considered to be the car crash. As soon as his admirers are getting acquainted with the news their immense reaction commenced hitting the headlines to such an extent, as no one had even imagined that day their faces will collide with shocking news. Below you can explore the further information you need to know.
As per the exclusive reports or sources, initially, the reports were claiming that he lost his life due to a fatal road tragedy, where he had struck with another vehicle with a furious speed that turned the exact cause behind his passing and this is the reason, he had to leave the globe on the spot. But now, the integral news is claiming that "sudden cardiac dysfunction," led to the miserable incident when he crashed into a building in Hollywood, California. Therefore, he was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, and thus, he was directly sent to his close ones for cremation.
Leslie Jordan's Cause of Death Revealed?
Reportedly, Leslie Jordan had a sudden cardiac dysfunction while driving the car and due to the intensity of the stroke he lost all the controls over the car thus, unfortunately, he had to collide with the building which turned lethal for him as he never ever expected to leave the globe like this. But the fact is, why his family shared the false reports behind his passing of him in spite of knowing that a day truth will come out at any cost, in short, they should not have spread the rumors like this which is highly inappropriate.
Now, if we talk about the personal stuff of Leslie Jordan, so he was a popular American actor, comedian, writer, and singer as well. Jordan has done multiple superhit projects along with great commercials that turned beneficial for him and therefore, he received an immense fan following among everyone especially those who knew him well. He was born on the 29th of April 1955 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, and unluckily breathed last on the 24th of October 2022 in Los Angeles, California, United States. So here we have mentioned such details, and when something comes to the fore we will update you, stay tuned with us and do follow Social Telecast.
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