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The crew is inside the haunted shack-mansion. Phillipe is dead on the ground. Tyler walks in.
Tyler: "Hey guys, I-" (Sees body) "Whoa! Aiech! Yeesh! Muahhh! Eewww! Yeeoo-"
James: "You know, those noises aren't going to exonerate you."
Tyler: "I guess not, but sheee..."
James: "Well, now we need to figure out which one of us killed Phillipe."
T.B.: "Could it have been the neighbor? The one that threatened to murder us all if we didn't leave before moonrise?"
James: "Now, now. Let's not jump to any conclusions."
Shawn: "Dammit, James, you never let us jump to conclusions!"
James: "I think we should establish our own alibis first. For example, at the time of the murder, I was in town shopping for food. Anyone in the store can vouch for me."
Kyla: "I was doing my video journal. The time stamp on the video should prove me innocent."
Lester: "Erica and I were debating about having premarital sexual relations. But after consulting with the Bible, we determined that going through with it would be morally wrong."
Erica: "So we can vouch for each other."
Tyler: "Well, I was having that same discussion with the local farmer's daughter. We came to a different conclusion."
Steve: "I'm twelve years old! If I could kill him, he deserved to die."
Shawn: "I was in the can. You can go in there if you don't believe me."
T.B.: "I was on the porch swing having a conversation."
James: "With who?"
T.B.: "The porch swing."
Everyone: "..."
T.B.: "Yeah, the porch swing was trying to convince me that I need to kill everyone in town - including you guys - before you all try to kill me."
James: "And did you decide to acquiesce?"
T.B.: "Oh, Lord no. I was actually trying to convince the porch swing about the value of human life. In fact, I was just up in the library upstairs doing some research in one of those old grimoires about what the ancient philosophers believed was the worth of humanity. Here's a brief outline."
T.B. hands James several sheets of paper.
James: "Well, it's quality research, but still..."
T.B.: "...Oh, wait, you think I did it? I...I suppose that did all sound pretty suspicious."
Tyler: "You know, I think T.B. may have been right saying that it could have been a neighbor."
James: "Now, hold on there! I know these people may not be the smartest people in the world, or the most welcoming, but this town is their home! How would you like it if I came in to your home and starting calling you a murderer?"
Tyler: "If I murdered people, I wouldn't be terribly offended."
Lester: "But I've seen these people go to church. That means they worship God! And any God-worshiping folk wouldn't murder. It's against the 10 Commandments!"
Shawn: "Unless they're lying about being religious."
Erica: "But lying is also against the 10 Commandments!"
T.B.: "We could always ask them."
James: "No, no, I don't want to offend these simple folk. I say right now, we give Phillipe a decent burial. Tyler, T.B., Shawn: get on it."
Fade to scene of Tyler, T.B., and Shawn digging. The grave is barely a couple inches deep.
T.B.: "This digging job isn't as fun as I was hoping."
Tyler: "Yeah, but we need to bury Phillipe's body."
Shawn: "Do we really?"
Tyler: "River?"
Shawn: "River."
Tyler and Shawn throw Phillipe's body into the river.
The crew is eating dinner at the witch's house. What they don't know is that the witch (in the guise of a beautiful young woman) killed Tyler and is feeding his remains to them.
James: "Thanks for inviting us to dinner, Ms. Starlight.
Witch: "Oh, it's my pleasure."
James: "I've noticed Tyler has taken quite a liking to you. It's a shame he couldn't be around for this dinner."
Witch: (Looking deviously into her large pot.) "Oh, I'm sure he's around here somewhere..."
James: "...I'm...I'm not sure I follow."
Witch: "Oh, nevermind. Let me serve you your food."
The witch begins pouring soup into everyone's bowls.
Kyla: "I have to ask, how do you keep your boobs so perky."
Lester: "Kyla! That's not approriate dinnertime talk."
Witch: "Oh, it's alright. I guess you could say it takes a little...magic."
The witch pours T.B.'s bowl of soup. One of Tyler's sneakers sticks out of it prominently.
T.B.: "..."
Witch: "Well, dig in, everyone! Eat, and grow plump and tender and...succulent!"
Shawn: "Hell yeah!"
Everyone eats their soup, except for T.B., who contemplates the sneaker for several moments. He then turns to the witch.
T.B.: "Um, there's a shoe in my soup. I'm not sure if that's part of the recipe, but..."
Witch: "Oh, I'm sorry, my dear. How did that get in there. Let me get it for you."
The witch comes over and pulls the sneaker from T.B.'s soup. A big toe falls out into the soup, splashing some of it onto T.B.'s shirt before floating in the concoction.
T.B.: ".......I think I'll just have a roll." (He picks up a roll and takes a bite from it.) "Euagh."
T.B. lets the food fall from his mouth. An eyeball comes out and rolls around the table.
Witch: "Oh, how did that get in there."
James: "You have an unusually high amount of body parts in your cooking, Ms. Starlight. Is this a Welsh recipe?"
Witch: "You know, sometimes when you cook a feisty animal, a few unexpected things will end up inside. Think of them as hidden surprises."
Erica: "Like Cracker Jack prizes?"
Witch: "Uh, yeah."
T.B.: "May I have some water?"
Witch: "There's water right in front of you."
T.B.: "Yeah, but it looks like there's fingernail clippings in-" (The witch looks at T.B. harshly. A small pendant comes our from her blouse.) "Hey, isn't that Tyler's sacred pendant?"
Witch: "Um...yes. He gave it to me the night we fell in love. He said it's a symbol of our love."
James: "Actually, it's a symbol of mankind's wickedness. Tyler's grandmother was a Polish Jew, one of the lucky ones to survive through the entirety of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and through it all, she saw her family and friends all killed in various horrible fashions. That pendant originally belong to one of her best friends. She was able to sneak it in when they were first imprisoned. However, one day the friend tried to ask guard for medical attention. A dog had bit her. The guard beat her to death on the spot. Tyler's grandmother went to her aid, but she was too late. Her best friend was dead, her pendant hanging limply from her neck. Tyler's grandmother took a small lock of her friend's hair and put it inside the locket attached to the pendant, where it still remains."
Shawn: "Unless it's in the food."
James: "She did this because she knew that whenever she felt the lock of hair, she would remember how she felt when she was holding the lifeless head of her best friend. So she would never forget the kinds of horrible things one person could do to another. Now, about 10 years ago, Tyler's grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. Tyler was the last person she spoke to before her death. She wanted him to take the pendant to remember not only her, but all the millions who had died before her, not surrounded by family in a warm hospice bed, but surrounded by laughing, spitting guards, beating and kicking them until they stopped breathing. And Tyler took that to heart. He has never removed that pendant, and said he would never do so until he had to pass it on to his own grandchildren, because to do so would be to forsake the memory of his people, his faith, and his grandmother."
Witch: "..."
Erica: "But he gave it to you as a present? How romantic!"
T.B.: "Ow, this salad bit me."
Witch: "Alright, this dinner is over!"
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L'attentat de l'Université de Karachi est survenu le 26 avril 2022 lorsqu'une femme a déclenché son gilet d'explosifs au passage d'une camionnette près de l'Institut Confucius de l'Université de Karachi au Pakistan. Trois universitaires chinois et leur chauffeur pakistanais ont été tués.

Le front de libération du Baloutchistan, un groupe séparatiste Baloutche  a revendiqué la responsabilité de l'attaque, affirmant que l'auteuse était une femme. C'est la première femme kamikaze de l'organisation.

Parmi les trois chinois tués figurait le directeur de l'Institut Confucius de l'Université. Les deux autres étaient enseignants.

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Le front de libération du Baloutchistan a revendiqué l'attentat à la bombe, qui, selon eux, a été commis pour décourager les programmes de développement chinois dans la région.

Le kamikaze a été identifié comme étant Shari Baloch, née à Sharan Hayat Baloch le 3 janvier 1991 à Tump dans le district de Kech au Baloutchistan, c'était une femme de 30 ans et enseignante de sciences au secondaire du district de Kech au Balouchistan.

Elle était bachelière et tenante d'une maîtrise dans l'éducation de l'Université ouverte Allama Iqbal et avait aussi obtenu une maîtrise dans la zoologie de l'. Elle se serait inscrite à un autre diplôme de troisième cycle à l'Université de Karachi des mois avant l'attaque, mais n'aurait pas été étudiante là-bas à l'époque.

Sharan a eu une fille et un fils, tous deux censément âgés de cinq ans, avec son mari Habitan Bashir Baloch, un dentiste originaire de Kech.

En 2019, Sharan Baloch a décroché un emploi au Département de l'éducation du Baloutchistan et a été employée dans une école secondaire gouvernementale à Kalatak, près de Turbat, où elle a enseigné les sciences aux étudiantes. Cependant, elle était absente de l'école depuis six mois avant l'attaque et s'était vu signifier un avis de justification, auquel elle n'avait pas répondu.

Son mari, Habitan, était également chargé de cours au  et entreprenait un diplôme de troisième cycle en santé publique de la . On a annoncé que son mari était impliqué dans un programme de formation à l' de Karachi et avait séjourné dans un hôtel près de l'hôpital alors. Le couple avait loué un appartement à , où Shari vivait depuis trois ans.

La famille de Sharan Baloch a été décrite comme "bien établie, très instruite, sans affiliation antérieure avec un groupe d'insurgés baloutches". Cependant, Sharan elle-même était restée membre du groupe de l' (Azad) pendant sa vie étudiante. Ses motivations pour l'attaque n'ont pas pu être déterminées, car personne dans sa famille immédiate n'aurait été victime d'atteintes aux droits humains. Quelques heures avant l'attaque, Baloch a posté un message d'adieu sur son compte Twitter. Peu de temps après l'attentat à la bombe, son mari a publié un Tweet dans lequel il faisait l'éloge et louait Shari, décrivant son action comme un "acte désintéressé". Le sort de son mari n'était pas connu immédiatement après l'attaque, des raids étant menés par les forces de sécurité pour l'appréhender ainsi que d'autres facilitateurs présumés. Le 27 avril, Habitan aurait été arrêté.

Réactions
  : La Chine a publié une condamnation de l'attaque.
  : Le 28 avril, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a publié une déclaration, selon laquelle les membres du Conseil de sécurité ont condamné dans les termes les plus forts l'attaque terroriste odieuse et lâche à l'Université de Karachi.

Notes et références

Avril 2022
2022 au Pakistan
Terrorisme en 2022
Attentat au Pakistan
Université de Karachi
Explosion en 2022
Attentat-suicide
Attentat à la bombe

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The Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos in West Pubnico will host its 9th annual Tern Festival, the weekend of June 21-22-23. 2013. Weather permitting, a 2 hr boat tour will place on Saturday morning June 22 at 9 am (in case of foul weather Saturday afternoon at 1pm or Saturday evening at 6pm or Sunday morning at 9 am). The 2hr Boat Sail in Lobster Bay , Captained by Blair Goodwin in the MV Brandon & Justin :( limited to 25 guests) will sail close to Brothers Island, colony of Roseate Terns, Ram & Argyle Islands, Wind Farm and Aquaculture site.
The new event this year will also include a Twilight tour, along with the conferences, guest speakers, bird photos exhibit, the boat tour, viewed the carving song birds on display and a tepee makes for a most enjoyable weekend including Acadian hospitality.


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Report Criticizes Record Of Sheriff-Turned-TV Star In Fox's new reality show, Smile, You're Under Arrest, "America's toughest sheriff" dishes out the heat. But in reality, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's department in Maricopa County, Ariz., is coming under fire.
Report Criticizes Record Of Sheriff-Turned-TV Star
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Fox's new show Smile, You're Under Arrest uses elaborate set-ups to lure unsuspecting fugitives to arrest by sheriff's deputies in Maricopa County, Ariz.
That's Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jurisdiction. He's been called "America's toughest sheriff," and on the TV show, Arpaio dishes out the heat. But in reality, his department is coming under fire.
"It's a very dangerous assignment, going after fugitives," Arpaio tells his deputies in a scene from the show. "You never know what's going to happen when these guys are wanted."
The premise of the show is a twist on two TV genres, Punked-style prank shows and police ride-alongs like Cops. In the first episode, actors lure men with outstanding warrants against them to a fake fashion show. Then the cops put them in handcuffs.
Arpaio first became notorious with his tent city for prisoners. He put them in pink underwear and striped pajamas. More recently, he's had deputies arrest illegal immigrants in controversial neighborhood sweeps. He says he agreed to do the show because it seemed like a good fit — and because it costs his department nothing. In fact, Arpaio says, it has saved the department money.
"The producers went through 3,900 of our warrants to research the show, so we had them doing our work for us," he says.
But Arpaio has his critics — among them Clint Bolick at The Goldwater Institute. Bolick just released a report titled: "Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office." He says Arpaio is doing a lousy job.
"We looked at the mission of the sheriff's office as it defines it, and evaluated it, and found that it comes up short in every area," he says.
Bolick's report notes the violent crime rate in Maricopa County — including homicides — is up, far higher than in Phoenix or neighboring Mesa. The response time for 911 calls is twice that of Phoenix. The sheriff's jails recently lost accreditation for not providing adequate health care to inmates. Deputies are routinely sent to Honduras to train police there but back home, Bolick says, the sheriff's highly publicized immigrant sweeps have not netted a single major smuggler.
"If you've got limited resources, who do you go after -– the guy who is here to work, or the guy who is making millions of dollars bringing in thousands of illegal immigrants?" Bolick says. "Certainly the latter."
Arpaio says he's disappointed with the report. "I had nothing to do with it and will never have anything to do with it," he says.
The Goldwater Institute is a conservative-libertarian outfit. Up until now, criticism of the sheriff has come from local newspapers and liberal activists who oppose the immigration sweeps.
The sheriff disputes the report as a rehash of old charges or inaccurate. Bolick says that's about as accurate as the sheriff's own record-keeping.
"It's atrocious," Bolick says. "If you live in almost any town or city that has a police department, and you're concerned about crime statistics, you can go online and find out exactly what the crime rates are. If you go on the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, you'll see a lot of self-congratulatory information, but you will not see any statistics."
Last month Arpaio easily won re-election. And he says he'll keep doing things his own way — including Smile, You're Under Arrest.
Related NPR Stories
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Vinegar Yard. London Bridge. Image: Miller Hare
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5.31.2022 / Press Releases / Featured / People / Projects
Mayor of London Approves KPF-Designed London Bridge Life Sciences Hub
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has approved the KPF-designed Vinegar Yard planning application. The major life-sciences led, mixed-use development – designed in partnership with CIT Developments for St Thomas Bermondsey Limited – is one of the first buildings within the SC1 Life Science and Innovation District at London Bridge.
Vinegar Yard is designed to accommodate flexible medical use and to support the emerging Guy's and St Thomas's medical and research hub, alongside retail, commercial and affordable workspace. A new urban garden and additional public realm improvements will contribute to Southwark Council's ongoing work to improve connections across the borough and regenerate the wider area.
KPF brought extensive experience of successful life sciences-led development around the world to the UK, working on this key project at London Bridge and also at Canary Wharf, where KPF was recently appointed as the architect of Europe's largest commercial lab.
Healthcare and life sciences are rapidly evolving disciplines that require highly-resilient buildings that are designed for a loose-fit and a long-life, with the potential to be refitted in response to the changing requirements of tenants and the potential of new technologies. The design team worked closely with the GLA and Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, using the Guys and St Thomas Adaptable Estates Strategy to allow flexible medical and R&D use. This included increased floor-to-floor heights, a more rigid structure to control vibration, and spatial provision for systems to support healthcare use.
The new building sits at the heart of a district that has seen extraordinary regeneration and physical changes in recent years: the construction of The Shard, the redevelopment of London Bridge station, and the revitalisation of many of the area's historic buildings and post-war housing estates. In response, KPF have created a building with a distinctive stepped profile, rising to 20 storeys, composed as a series of carefully assembled volumes that respond to the sensitivities of the immediate context. Inspired by traditional warehouse architecture, the facades are differentiated through subtle variations within a palette of brick, terracotta, stone and glazing.
At its base, the building is active on all sides, with retail frontages and visual and physical permeability that will animate the new urban garden and surrounding streets. Above, its stepped arrangement creates a series of outdoor landscaped terraces for use by occupants. Small gardens also animate the façade and provide additional outdoor green space.
As part of the scheme, the existing warehouse building at 9 Fenning Street will be retained and converted into a community-focussed space, with ground floor retail and a first floor that can accommodate meetings, events and exhibitions.
The design team are targeting a BREEAM Outstanding rating and WELL Building Institute Gold standard with Platinum Fit-out. A high-performance façade, mixed-mode ventilation, all electric system, air-source heat pumps and integrated photovoltaics contribute to the commitment to achieve net-zero operational carbon.
A 27% reduction in embodied carbon has been set against the GLA Benchmark and the project is targeting embodied carbon below 800 kgCO2e/m2. For a longer lifespan, the facades are composed of fixed, solid spandrels with window infills, as opposed to a curtain wall system, allowing for easier targeted repair or replacement.
John Bushell, Design Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, said:
"We are delighted that Vinegar Yard has received planning consent. It's been a long journey, but hugely rewarding, to deliver a design that places this building at the heart of London's new central life sciences and innovation district. Life sciences are an increasingly important element in the UK property sector, and our experience around the world tells us that life sciences innovation blossoms within a thriving mixed-use neighbourhood. That is central to our approach at Vinegar Yard, and we are looking forward to seeing it take shape.
"Connecting the benefits of the development with Southwark's diverse community is just as vital to the success of our building and the SC1 District. We have listened and directly responded to local aspirations so that the scheme delivers lasting improvements to the borough."
Ewen Puffett, Director at CIT, commented:
"We welcome the decision by the Mayor of London to approve the application for Vinegar Yard, a truly transformative development that will unlock this site's potential as a place for health and creativity. It will drive improvements to health and wealth across the area, creating jobs and contributing to London's post-Covid recovery.
"The project is the product of over five years of hard work and close collaboration with both the Greater London Authority, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust, Kings College London, Southwark Council, and our local community, reflecting CIT's commitment to the area with a vision to bring a lasting and positive social and economic impact to London Bridge."
KPF's expertise in life sciences and innovation districts includes Channelside in Boston, CUNY Advanced Science Research Centre in New York, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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We went on a safari through Mole National Park and got to see many animals, including various types of antelope, baboons, warthogs, and most exciting and unexpected of all, a group of 8 elephants! We learned a lot about the park and the animals' behavior and movements from the guides, but the most surprising thing we learned was that one of the guides was actually familiar with speech therapy and even with cleft lips, because a baby in his village had recently been born with a cleft. He said that no one had ever seen the baby, though. Our plan immediately became visiting the baby.
In some communities in Ghana there is shame associated with children are born with disabilities. The child's family members may not be able to get married due to belief that that family is tainted or being punished. Therefore, the mother of this baby had been hiding her 3 month old since the baby's birth.
When we arrived to the village, we met the baby's uncle who took us to the family's home and agreed to translate for us. Even though her own brother had never seen her son, the mother allowed our entire group of 16 plus our Internal Affairs Senior Consultant, George Odoi, and his assistant, Nicholas Lutterodt, into her home. Dr. Crowley let the mom know that we work with children with cleft lip and palate all the time in the US and Ghana and that it is very common. We told her that we just want to make sure that her baby is ready to have surgery. The mom reported to have signed up for cleft surgery with one of the missions. The mother told us that when the baby was born the father refused to recognize the child as his son and left. He never returned. The mother and her son were forced to live with her parents since she had no way to support herself. She was crying as she told us this story.
A quick assessment revealed that the baby met all developmental milestones for his age. He was alert and interested in all of us and did not seem frightened at all. We explained to the mom that the baby was beautiful and very smart. While Dr. Crowley held him, he put his head back at one point and the whole room was able to see that he had a perfectly intact palate. Dr. Crowley proceeded to tell his mom that once his lip is repaired he will be able to have perfect speech and live a normal life. Dr. Crowley asked to speak to a member of the father's family to explain this as well, so that the father would know his son would be fine. The father's brother came to the home and spoke to the mother and all of us and said he would tell his brother to come back and care for his family.
We all donated money to help assure that the baby will have enough food to develop a strong body ready for surgery and that they would have transportation to the hospital. We saw that our little donation was going to make a direct impact on this baby's life. The mom was crying from joy and when she bid us farewell, for the first time, she brought her baby out of the house and held him proudly.


If your Isuzu Rodeo is having trouble starting, is stalling while driving, or doesn't accelerate well, you may have a failing fuel filter. The fuel filter resides near the fuel pump. It filters out tiny pollutants in the gasoline from the tank before it reaches the engine. If the filter clogs or is damaged --- perhaps by a pothole or rock --- gasoline may not smoothly reach the engine. Replacing a fuel filter on an Isuzu Rodeo is an uncomplicated process that shouldn't take more than 25 minutes.
Open the hood of your Isuzu Rodeo. Unscrew the cap on the Shrader valve near the fuel injectors with your fingers. Press down on the Shrader valve with a paper towel to release pressure from the fuel lines. This action prevents gasoline from splashing on you when you take out the filter.
Raise the Isuzu Rodeo with a jack near the rear driver's side wheel. Rest the Rodeo on the jack stand for additional safety.
Put on gloves. Place plastic cup below the fuel filter, which is a small cylindrical canister from which two pipes protrude. It's attached to the frame rail near the rear driver's side tire.
Hold the nut on the outlet side of the fuel filter with a 1/2-inch wrench. Grip the hex nut of the pipe with your other wrench. Turn the hex nut counterclockwise to loosen it. Pull the pipe out of the fuel filter. Direct it at once down toward the cup to catch any leaking gasoline. Repeat this process for the inlet pipe.
Loosen the bolt on the fuel filter strap. Take out the fuel filter and set it aside.
Insert the replacement fuel filter into the strap, oriented the same way as the old fuel filter; outlet end facing the outlet pipe and inlet end facing the inlet pipe. Thread the pipes into the joints of the fuel filter. Secure in place with the hex nuts. Tighten the strap around the fuel filter. Lower the Isuzu Rodeo.


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Statistical analysis: Connacht's approach to game management could decide Pro12 Final
This was originally a guest post on Ultimate Rugby.
Connacht's success in the 2015/16 Pro12 has come on the back of a gameplan which puts faith in their attacking system and excellent handling skills. This has been clear in the way they have scored their tries throughout the year, but perhaps overlooked is its importance in the way they attempt to manage a lead in close games.
Accurate, controlled kicking from hand has been an important aspect of their run to the final over the last few weeks, but head coach Pat Lam has been vocal in his desire to avoid overreliance on the kicking game as a tactical tool. The ability to keep the ball for sustained periods of pressure is a vital skill when leading late in the game, and Connacht are able to do this extremely well because of the high level of basic skills Lam has instilled throughout the squad – as well as the clinical nature of their attack when try-scoring opportunities do present themselves.
Three games in the latter stages of the season are interesting examples of Connacht's approach in high-pressure scenarios: the 7-6 win over Leinster in round 18 of the regular season, and the home wins over Glasgow in round 22 and the semi-final (14-7 and 16-11 respectively). In all three matches, Connacht were protecting a lead of fewer than seven points for much of the second half, and attempted to do so for long stretches by keeping hold of the ball and denying the opposition the chance to attack. In the victory over Leinster they carried 161 times to the opposition's 128, and in last Saturday's semi-final carried 120 times to Glasgow's 113. (It's worth noting that although Glasgow made more carries in their round 22 clash, they played the entire second half with 14 men and thus were posing less of an attacking threat.)
ESPN collected detailed data for 13 of the province's 22 fixtures in this season's Pro12, and we can compare this wider sample with the three games mentioned above to gain insight into Connacht's approach to holding a lead.
The back three of Tiernan O'Halloran, Niyi Adeolokun and Matt Healy have arguably been Connacht's most effective attackers throughout the season, with Healy in particular putting forward a strong case for international selection on the back of some devastating performances with ball in hand. Indeed, over the 13 game sample for which ESPN provided data, players in the full back and wing positions accounted for 44% of all metres made by Connacht with the ball. However, in the close games it has been the centre partnership of Bundee Aki and Robbie Henshaw who have truly proven their value. The chart below shows the percentage of total carries made by Connacht players at each position – the blue line represents the average across the 13 game sample, while the orange line shows the same figures from the 7-6 win over Leinster:
Connacht jumped out to an early 7-0 lead in round 18 thanks to a Kieran Marmion try, and we can see that the centres (Aki, Henshaw and Peter Robb) took on more of the load than usual in the 65 minutes that followed – they made 21% of the team's carries in this match, compared to 16% across the 13 game sample. Also clear is the fact that it is the back three who are seeing less of the ball as a result, with 19% of all carries in this game compared to 23% in the wider sample.
The two victories over Glasgow followed the same pattern. Holding half-time leads of 7-0 in round 22 and 10-0 in the semi-final, once more Connacht were able to tighten up their attack and close out the game: again, the centres made 21% of carries across these two matches, with the figure for the back three dropping further to 16%. Also notable in these three wins was the slightly altered role of Kieran Marmion at scrum-half: having accounted for 42% of all of Connacht's passes across the wider sample, against Leinster in round 18 this jumped to 54%, and in the two Glasgow games sat at 51%. Their attacking style is predicated on positioning multiple capable distributors around the ball at all times, but in these three wins it appears that they have tightened up considerably, with the 9 serving as as the fulcrum.
While at times Connacht have been branded naïve for their willingness to attack from all over the pitch and an alleged lack of a 'cup rugby' mindset, from the statistics above we can see clearly that they alter their attacking approach in crunch time. If Connacht are to crown a fairytale season with silverware at Murrayfield this evening, it will likely follow this same pattern: seizing an early try-scoring opportunity, and closing out the game by mixing smart kicking and assurance with ball in hand.
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Q: Java - Find Server in network I want to find my Server in my network, when I don't know the ip.
So that's the code I have, but it takes really (!) long to test all IPs:
for (int j = 1; j < 255; j++) {
   for (int i = 1; i < 255; i++) {
       String iIPv4 = "192.168." + j + ".";
       try {
          Socket socket = new Socket();
          SocketAddress address = new InetSocketAddress(iIPv4 + i, 2652 );
          socket.connect(address, 5);
          BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
          String fromServer;
          while ((fromServer = in.readLine()) != null) {
             if (fromServer.equals("Connected to CC3000")) {
                System.out.println("CC3000 found! : " + iIPv4 + i);
                return iIPv4 + i;
             }
          }
       } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
       } catch (IOException e) {
       }
   }
}

so, whats a better way to find the server?
regards

A: I think that multithreading could help you here, since you don't want to be waiting for each connection to either establish or fail.
You can try say hundreds of sockets at once instead. Also checking that IP is reachable might save you some time.
Code below is really a naive and horrible example since there's no thread management at all, but you get the picture I hope. You should get the result much faster.
public static void findLanSocket(final int port, final int timeout) {
    List<Thread> pool = new ArrayList<>();

    for (int j = 1; j < 255; j++) {
        for (int i = 1; i < 255; i++) {
            final String iIPv4 = "192.168." + j + "." + i;

            Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    System.out.println("TESTING: " + iIPv4);

                    try {
                        // First check if IP is reachable at all.
                        InetAddress ip = InetAddress.getByName(iIPv4);
                        if (!ip.isReachable(timeout)) {
                            return;
                        }

                        // Address is reachable -> try connecting to socket.
                        Socket socket = new Socket();
                        SocketAddress address = new InetSocketAddress(ip, port);
                        socket.connect(address, timeout);

                        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
                        String fromServer;
                        while ((fromServer = in.readLine()) != null) {
                            if (fromServer.equals("Connected to CC3000")) {
                                System.out.println("CC3000 found! : " + iIPv4);
                            }
                        }

                    } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                    }
                }
            });

            pool.add(thread);
            thread.start();
        }
    }

    // Wait for threads to die.
    for (Thread thread : pool) {
        try {
            if (thread.isAlive()) {
                thread.join();
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
        }
    }
}

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Based on experiments, EDT test points reduce ATPG-based test pattern counts but are not as effective in BIST mode since they cannot guarantee desired random testability.
12) Financial institutions cover their liquidity needs at a significantly higher cost through the BIST repo market, the CBRT overnight lending, or the PD repo (see Figure 5, for the time frame on days of additional monetary tightening).
Generally, a BIST will prove to be more useful to a BSB than a COIST when the BSB is short on personnel or when the personnel who will be performing the intelligence support duties have not received COIST training.
Isiklar added that the downward trend in BIST could continue through Friday.
LogicVision's Dragonfly Test Platform(tm) enables integrated circuit designers to embed BIST functionality into a semiconductor design.
Established production tester companies and startups are working on a new kind of tester that assumes the existence of extensive BIST.
An increasingly common requirement for many automotive parts is the capability to perform online memory BIST testing.
Juniper employed a combination of Mentor's embedded deterministic test pattern generation and memory BIST products to meet demanding test requirements.
Schelle - Aartselaar: WEGENIS- and drainage works in the Steenwinkelstraat, Tuinlei, Hulstlei, Rodenbach City, Speltenlei, The Hooghen Road, BIST and Molenberglei - Preparatory work;- Topographical operations;- Scarifiying hardening;- Installation of sewers in vitrified clay and concrete + manholes;- Construction of dam wells and overflows;- Laying of paving asphalt, concrete paving;- Installation of speed bumps;- Digging ditches and reprofiling;- Placing kopmuren, dam walls and wooden hedge in the canals;- Maintenance of works.
Yyldyz subsidiaries E[pounds sterling]lker and GE[micro]zde GiriE-im's shares on the BIST each gained 1.
The Japanese Exchange (Tokyo TOPIX) was third following BIST.
Figure 1 shows the interface between a six-output PLL and a PLL BIST circuit that operates in this way.


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I have just posted an announcement detailing some of the API changes that were implemented by Wikidot earlier today.
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Please read the original announcement to find out more.


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On Saturday January 26, 2019, Alma "Peggy" Short, a life long resident of South Florida, passed away at her home in Plantation, she was 84.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mrs. Short worked for the Broward County Court House for 23 years and retired as the former Clerk of the Circuit Court.
She is the beloved mother of Bill Short (Pearl), Frank Short (Lee), Phillip Short (Sharon), Burt Short (Sandy) and the late Ray Short (Chris). She is also survived by 25 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her loving husbands, William Preston and Phillip Short.
The family will receive relatives and friends on Friday February 1, 2019 from 11:00 a.m. until service time at 12 noon at Horizon Funeral & Cremation Services, 4650 N. Federal Highway, Lighthouse Point, Florida 33064. Private burial services will be held at a later date.
Condolences to the Short family. Our thoughts and prayers go out to your whole family. Psalms 147:3 says God, "heals the broken hearted, and binds up their wounds." May God bring you comfort and peace.
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Baltimore City Police announced the arrest of suspect in the stabbing death of Gerald Williams who died two months ago on Feb. 1st.
Harry Malik Robertson, 20, of Bowie, was arrested in Prince George's County without incident, Thursday morning. Robertson was charged with 1st and 2nd degree murder and a related weapons charge.
According to Larry Jones, a Morgan Spokesman, Robertson attended Morgan for one semester in fall 2014. Jones said Robertson was not enrolled before or after that semester. It was not immediately made clear why Robertson wasn't still enrolled.
According to Leonard Hamm, Coppin State University's Director of Public Safety, Robertson was suspended after Williams' stabbing. Hamm, a former Baltimore City police commissioner, said Robertson was suspended from Coppin following a room search. Hamm did not disclose what was discovered in the room search.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, speaking at a news conference Monday, ordered a mandatory evacuation of the state's entire 187-mile coastline beginning at 12:00 p.m. ET Tuesday.
The mandatory evacuation order extends to eight counties along South Carolina's coast.
They are: Jasper, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Berkeley, Georgetown, and Ory counties.
Medical facilities, including nursing homes in those evacuation zones, will be evacuated as well, McMaster said.
McMaster estimates that approximately a million people will be evacuated from the coast beginning tomorrow.
President Trump will be briefed Monday by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FEMA Administrator Brock Long ahead of the expected landfall of Hurricane Florence, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
She urged residents in areas that may be affected by the storm to follow warnings from local officials.
Approximately 800 South Carolina National Guard soldiers and airmen have been mobilized to prepare, respond and participate in recovery efforts associated with Hurricane Florence, according to a statement from the 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Office.
The guard personnel are deploying from McEntire Joint National Guard Base near Columbia and heading to Bluffton, South Carolina, for assignment, according to the statement.
CNN affiliate WAVY reporter Kara Dixon took video at Naval Station Norfolk as Navy ships there left ahead of Hurricane Florence.
The video shows the U.S.S. Ramage departing.
On Monday, some 30 ships were ordered to leave Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek. They'll be heading to areas of the Atlantic out of the storm's path.
"Our ships can better weather storms of this magnitude when they are underway," US Fleet Forces Commander Adm. Christopher Grady said in a statement on Saturday.
American Airlines has issued a travel alert, including an alert for 23 airports in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, ahead of Hurricane Florence, according to a statement.
The airline has also issued a travel alert for 14 airports in nine countries and US territories ahead of Hurricane Isaac. Hurricane Olivia triggered an alert for two airports in Hawaii.
The alert allows customers to rebook without penalty, according to the carrier.
Hurricane Florence, which is currently a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds, is forecast to strike the Carolinas as a major hurricane.
Hurricane Jeanne was the last major hurricane to strike the east coast. The Category 3 storm made landfall near Port St. Lucie, Florida, in September 2004.
Hurricane Fran was the last major hurricane to strike the Carolinas. The Category 3 storm made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1996.
Hurricane Hugo was the last Category 4 to hit the Carolinas. It made landfall in September 1989.
In the last 100 years, 37 storms passed within 100 miles of Hurricane Florence's current location in the Atlantic — none of them hit the US.
Hurricane Florence is on a very unusual track. In the last 24 hours, Florence has strengthened from a minimal Category 1 with 75 mph winds to a powerful Category 4 with 130 mph winds. That's an increase of 55 mph in 24 hours. It has strengthened 40 mph in the last 13 hours, which no storm has done in the Atlantic in more than a decade.
Crystal Kirwan and her family don't have much of a choice as Hurricane Florence nears the coastal Carolinas. They need to evacuate their home in Moyock, North Carolina.
"This one is hard," she told CNN. "We live paycheck to paycheck being military and it's four days until payday."
It's not the wind they are most fearful of — it's the rain. When Hurricane Matthew blew through the area in 2016, she says their neighborhood was badly flooded for a week after.
Some neighbors even had sewage back up into their homes.
"We just feel with two special needs kiddos we should not stick this one out," she says.
The family will make the four and half-hour drive to family in Dover, Delaware, as soon as Kirwan's husband, who's in the military, is cleared from duty.
"Probably not too much better but most likely safer than here," she says.
In the meantime, the Kirwans are preparing their yard, moving valuables into the garage and making sure fence posts are secured.
To try and lessen any potential flooding, they're cleaning out their ditches. They also installed a new garage door seal to try and stop any water from coming in.
Florence just rapidly intensified. That's a pretty rare thing for hurricanes to do.
Florence has officially "rapidly intensified" into a Category 4 storm.
Just yesterday, as of 11 a.m. ET, the storm was a Category One with sustained winds of 75 mph -- now it has sustained winds of 130 mph. This is a 55 mph increase in just the last 24 hours.
A storm undergoes rapid intensification when its maximum sustained winds increase at least 35 mph in 24 hours or less, according to the National Hurricane Center.
That's a jump of about two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, which grades hurricane strength from 1 to 5.
While there isn't much definitive data on rapid intensification, a few key atmospheric ingredients help it occur, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy explained. They're the same conditions that often emerge in the Atlantic basin between August and October.
First: Ocean water needs to be warm -- more than 86 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal -- with that heat extending beneath the surface.
Then: Upper level winds must be calm so they don't disrupt thunderstorm activity.
Finally: A storm's internal conditions also must be just right. A hurricane needs a way to ventilate, much like a car engine, so it can continue to process all of the fuel from the warm ocean water and use it to strengthen the storm.
Rapid intensification is rare: Because all those pieces must be in place, rapid intensification is rare, with just one or two Atlantic storms per year undergoing such an acceleration.
That said, most storms that reach the highest categories, Cat 3, 4 and 5, reach these intensities through rapid intensification. Indeed, 70% of Atlantic storms that hit that mark do so through rapid intensification, according to a 2016 study published in Nature Communications.


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December 26, 2007 Column #27: There were still heroes in '07 But it's a toss-up whether the year's glass is half full or half empty
"Through My Eyes, the Minneapolis Story Continues..."
A weekly column by Ron Edwards featured in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
In this Christmas/Kwanza season of 2007, we celebrate the gifts to our community by heroes of our community, and challenge the unheroic to be heroic, as we look at some of the high and low marks in the social agenda of the people of America, and specifically the people of Minnesota. We'd like to think that one of the strengths of a society that is a democracy is that we have heroes, good people, those who give us the gift of speaking out for the causes of justice and goodness, those that fight for righteousness.
But then sometimes we begin to have doubts. And then you pull out the Honor Roll, and you realize yes, Margaret, there are still heroes in America.
And so we dedicate this year-end column to those quiet, anonymous heroes of the day.
Like Roosevelt Gaines, who for 30 years as an employee of the Urban League of Minneapolis has fought the passionate and yet often thankless job of finding jobs for our people, particularly in the field of construction.
And then you have Joe Boone,a Black general contractor who, for over 30 years, has toiled in a very competitive field of construction as an owner and contractor, a man who, a couple of years ago, put his business career on the line by successfully suing the City of Minneapolis and others for racial discrimination in the trades.
And then you have Lester Hall, a Black contractor who has fought the City to a standstill in his attempt to open the door of inclusion for all.
And then you have the group of Black women who have fought the University of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis to a standstill over the building of a still-questionable research center in North Minneapolis for which there remain unanswered questions.
And then you have those Black men and women who have raised questions about education and who have faced off against the Minneapolis Board of Education.
And then you have a group who no one saw coming and no one expected who have challenged the status quo of racism and nullification: five very courageous police officers who, in filing their lawsuit on December 3, 2007, brought into clear focus the culture of racism and nullification that has permeated the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).
The issues that they laid out, the allegations that they have made under the rule of law, have sent a tidal wave across this city and state -- in fact, across this nation and foreign countries, because we can tell you that the American Bar Association Law Review and the Canadian Broadcasting System and other major American publications are now examining the lawsuit and the allegations contained therein.
There had been warnings prior to December 3, one by a White lieutenant of the MPD whose career was dealt a blow when he was relieved of command because he exposed the reverse tidal wave of nullification, reversal and racism in the department. Michael Keith is his name. The Black Police Officers remember him, and that's a good thing.
And then there was the White female officer of the Minneapolis Park Police who was reprimanded because she did not shoot a 14-year-old Black student at Anderson Middle School.
We also recognize our heroes serving in the military, and service workers who work to make sure we get our water and heat and electricity.
These, my friends, are the kinds of heroes who give hope that the democratic institutions of our society will attempt to maintain a steady course toward justice and fairness and corrective action; and so, in some respects, '07 was a very good year, while in other respects, '07 was the year of uncertainty whether the glass is half full or half empty.
We address the half-full/half-empty question in a 3,000-word essay on our website (see 12-14-07 blog entry #36), and that raises the question of who has not been heroic. Our nominees for un-heroic non-heroes (unless you want to honor heroes of nullification and reversal) are Chief Tim Dolan, Mayor R.T. Rybak , and City Civil Rights Department Director Michael Jordan, a trifecta of not only racism and discrimination, but also of powerful men pretending to be victims while they themselves victimize others with their racism and discrimination.
Chief Dolan: You have been with the department for 22 years. You not only know its racist side, you have long been a part of it. Mayor Rybak: you inaugurated your first term by trying to eliminate the civilian panel established to review the work of the police. And Civil Rights Director Michael Jordan: you continue to bring shame with your lying and your playing the role of Mr. Charlie, denying Blacks their civil rights by pushing every so-called special interest group minority ahead of Blacks.
These are the mini-minded-mini-men-of-Miniville. Minneapolis doesn't need leaders driving while looking through the rearview mirror.
Only time and you will be able to make the half-full/half-empty judgment. So, as we move toward 2008, the battle will continue, and in this column we will continue to bring you the information and the facts. It is the right thing to do.
Have a blessed Christmas/Kwansa season. Give your children a hug and pray for the survival of Black America. In fact, pray for all of America.
Posted 12-26-07, 11:55 p.m.
December 19, 2007 Column #26: The Stiffing of OIC: Louis King and Steve Cramer Betrayed
In the early Spring of this year, Louis King, the Chief Executive Officer of OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Centers) felt that opportunity to be involved in the construction of the Twins stadium.
Mr. King knew, from previous history, that he was taking both a professional and a political chance, but Steve Cramer, the Chairman of the Baseball Authority, was equally confident that this thing, full and gainful employment for African American workers on the Twins baseball stadium could be done.
The general contractor is M.A. Mortenson, assured Mr. Cramer and the Baseball Authority and Mr. King and OIC, that they were all pulling in the right direction.
If there was ever a misrepresentation of fact, it was the false assurances by M.A. Mortenson that diversity is the order of the day. In fact, Mr. King was being treated so badly, that the Hennepin County Board, a couple of weeks ago, took away $186,000 in training money from OIC's Hardhat Program.
Only after Mr. King made a personal appeal did the County Board of Commissioners restore about $150,000. In the meantime, in a very confidential report to Mr. Cramer, OIC laid out a chilling set of circumstances that has led to, at best, only one African American being employed on the Twins stadium site.
And guess who is the prime obstructionist besides M.A. Mortenson? That right. The Minneapolis Civil Rights Department, that reported to the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission that the Department had just signed a lucrative contract with the Baseball Authority to monitor the stadium construction.
In a meeting about a week and a half ago, all of the principals came together, including Michael Jordan's Civil Rights Department. Louis King laid out in detail the violations that were occurring and which were an outgrowth of M.A. Mortenson's resistance to diversity and compliance.
On November 21, 2007, OIC spelled out to Steve Cramer the resistance and the reversal by M.A. Mortenson to diversity.
Now you have to understand that this is the same M.A. Mortenson, acting as the general contractor for the Gophers football stadium, that essentially made it clear that Blacks need not apply for employment.
The City of Minneapolis has taken the position that that is acceptable, and has declined to challenge the University of Minnesota or M.A. Mortenson's continued participation in the nullification and reversal of the Civil Rights Act of the City of Minneapolis.
To the credit of Louis King of OIC, and Steve Cramer of the Minnesota Baseball Authority, they have held these violations as unacceptable.
But unfortunately for Mr. Cramer and the Baseball Authority, they have entered into a contract with the City of Minneapolis and its Civil Rights Department that apparently is only concerned with maintaining the status quo of segregation, the nullification and reversal of civil rights.
The City of Minneapolis is saying that you can pay to go the game when the stadium is completed, but we'll be damned if we'll fight for you to work on it as it is being built.
Remember what we reported a couple of months ago, that Minneapolis City officials have said you can complete any project you want and not hire a single African American and still meet the diversity requirements, and its OK with them. Diversity, in other words, is becoming the new word for segregation.
Update on MPD
Las Vegas and the lastest MPD cover up: even though a Black female civilian employee of the MPD reported to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department that late on a Thursday night, early on a Friday morning, she was a victim of a sexual assault by white MPD officers in a hotel room in Las Vegas, the MPD has worked to silence her and carry out the big cover up. Check out Steve Perry's web site, the daily mole, December 7, 2007. He broke the story wide open, while the Strib and the MPD remain silent.
Chief Dolan has promoted three new white Lieutenants. What was interesting is that none of the three were on the Lieutenant's promotion list. We wonder why. Oh I'm sorry. We know the anwer. The leading candidate, the number one candidate on the list, is an African American sergeant with the initials of AK. Oh yes, and what about the Asian officer whose name showed up as appointed to Lieutenant and then bumped down to sergeant after the Duy Ngo settlement?
His name wasn't Vang, was it? They said it was a "typographical error."
Is this punishment for the Asian contingent for applauding too loudly when their beloved brother and comrade in arms received $4.5 million for his injuries? We hope not. After all, the Chief and Mayor says there is no racism, no racial animus in this police dept. What was the word they used? Oh yes, coincidence.
Liar liar response to law suit
Just as the Jim Carrey character in the movie "Liar Liar" could not lie, the city seems unable to tell the truth. See our web log entry 12-14-07, Blog #36: The Twin Towers of Minneapolis' Nullification and Reversal Begin to Finally Crumble as 5 Black Officers Sue the City for discrimination for more details about the City's blame game and playing "victim" and how it uses "diversity" as the new segregation.
Posted 12-21-07, 2:33 a.m.
December 5, 2007 Column #25: 1. The Betrayal of Joan Johnson: A Civil Rights Tragedy 2. Black police officers sue city and chief for discrimination
When Joan Johnson, the Chief Executive Officer and owner of Joan's Minority Owned Supplier, hereafter identified as J-MOS, became enrolled in the Small Underutilized Business Program, referred to as SUBP, she was led to believe that the City Civil Rights Department and the SUBP program were there to help contractors of color.
In April of this year, when the City of Minneapolis' purchasing department published the successful bids for the construction of sidewalks, alleys, curbs and gutters, J-MOS was informed that J-MOS would be a prime subcontractor/supplier for Standard Sidewalk, Inc., operating from a post office box in Blaine, Mn, but is shown to have corporate offices in Chisawgo County. Joan's company is also referred to as JMB (Joan's Minority Business).
But by late May 2007, Ms. Johnson had not heard anything. No wonder. We have discovered that rather than contact J-MOS, Standard Sidewalk, in the second week of May, 2007, emailed the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department to announce that they had reversed their postion and would not use J-MOS, but would award the $900 contract to another firm. As the overall contract was for $699,899.75, the $900 is .01% of the contract, far below the required 5% goal.
In July of 2007, an official of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department emailed Standard Sidewalk as well as officials in the City of Minneapolis' purchasing department, that this created a serious problem, stating, and I quote: "we have to discuss this issue as JMB's complaint won't go away, especially after you again placed heir name legally on that bid that was approved by us and the city's purchasing department. The go signal for your company on the city sidewalk project was done because of your statement." A city official then requested an immediate meeting to be held July 25, 2007, at 2 p.m., at the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights.
The only problem with that scenario was that a formal complaint had already been filed by a 3 rd party, alleging a civil rights violation against Standard Sidewalk. Consequently there were serious ethical issues with respect to such a meeting, which was presided over by the person who is now the Deputy Director of the Civil Rights Dept.
In fact, Standard Sidewalk was encouraged and guided in filing a formal complaint against Joan Johnson of J-MOS, making the preposterous statement that J -MOS serves "no commercially useful function." This is an allegation that has serious legal ramifications that can be a contract killer, a strategy that has been used by other white contractors to eliminate sub-contractors of color from the SUBP program.
In their letter to Michael Jordan, the Director of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department in the first week of August 2007, Standard Sidewalk made allocations that were both slanderous and unsubstantiated, and which ran very contrary to correspondence the Civil Rights Department received from J-MOS in both May and July of 2007.
In her correspondence of July, Ms. Johnson identified her suppliers, her relationship with the SUBP program, her lisings and contracts with the Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the Counties of Hennepin and Ramsey, and with the state of Minnesota.
A second letter in August, five days before Standard Sidewalk sent its letter, the Civil Rights Department declared specifically that J-MOS was not a commercially useful functioning enterprise. Unknown to Ms. Johnson and her firm, individuals within the Civil Rights Dept had begun a process to remove J-MOS from the list of approved companies from the city's certification list
In their letter of the first week of August, and I quote, "as pointed out by Marvin Taylor at our meeting of July 25, 2007, Standard Sidewalk has partnered with the City of Minneapolis going back many, many seasons. We value this relationship and hope to work for the City on many projects to come."
What is chilling about that statement was the email from the Civil Rights Department on July 19, 2007, 12:32 p.m., which stated the complainent firm JMB won't go away.
But it appears to the naked eye that arrangements were made, and in the letter of August 6, 2007, Standard Sidewalk indicated their appreciation for the problem going away and of J-MOS disappearing from the American landscape.
Incidentally, just a week and a half ago, Standard Sidewalk was the recipient of another large contract from the City of Minneapolis, with the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department saying that Standard Sidewalk was a business in good standing. How interesting.
On March 8, 2007, three white firms received over $2.3 million in contracts, and not a single one of them met their minority and women's goals. Joan, with friends like this, you don't need any enemies. Stay turned.
Black Police Officers Take A Stand
As this column hits the news stands to press, two recent stories about one of Homicide's best, Sgt Adams, and his reassignment and the outcry against that action of the MPD, provide helpful backdrop to explain why, two days ago, Monday, December 3, 2007, high-ranking members of the Black Police Officers Association filed the largest discrimination law suit in the history of the city of Minneapolis, "sueing the Minneapolis Police Department and its chief Monday over allegations of systemic racial discrimination and a hostile working environment." Congratulations. Our next column will provide more details.
Posted Dec 5, 2007, 9:15 a.m.
November 21, 2007 Column #24: Foundation in place to begin 'research' genocide—again
Last week, preparation began at the corner of Plymouth and Penn for the construction of Dr. Frankenstein's dream research center, which should be completed and up and running by late summer 2008.
After much maneuvering, back-room politics and payoffs, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents has authorized the beginning of this Great Racial Experiment. Dr. Dante Cicchetti and his associates are in place. The roundup of the usual suspects, Black children, will mark the program.
Also note that the Northside YMCA at North Commons was quietly shut down and boarded up for "rehab." In the future, families with children will be referred to this new incubator center at NorthPoint for processing before being moved to the research center.
Many do not realize that this is not the first time the University of Minnesota has conducted questionable experimental research involving African Americans.
In the mid-1970s, a very courageous Black woman, Elizabeth Samuels, sounded the alert regarding a dangerous research project on sickle cell anemia conducted by the University of Minnesota and the American Red Cross. Samuels was a community advocate and a community specialist located at Phyllis Wheatley Community Center.
There was some Negro leadership who suggested that experimental medical research directed toward the African American community should not be questioned. It was questioned by the late Dr. Thomas Johnson and other prominent African American physicians of Minneapolis, who mounted a significant challenge to protest this sickle cell project, raising questions about its purpose.
In fact, TV stations and the local newspapers reported on picketing and other protests outside the American Red Cross offices in Minneapolis and outside medical facilities of the University of Minnesota. They requested that data pertaining to the project be released. Their request was denied.
Once the American Red Cross realized that Samuels was the source of the information, they initiated a retaliatory action that led to her termination and the end of her career. She paid a severe price for her honesty, integrity, and commitment to humanity.
Some aspects of the investigation were so embarrassing that the University of Minnesota and the American Red Cross eventually promised, in a written agreement, that they would do more due diligence on the sickle cell project.
That due diligence lasted about two years. With Samuels gone, Black physicians under attack, the precedent of retaliation established, and the Black community moving on to deal with other issues, it was back to business as usual.
Now, 30 years later, the university and the medical community get another shot at experimental medicine that others consider medical genocide and medical apartheid against the African American community.
As the crews began preparing the site for the new medical Dachau last week, we realized that those engaged in experimental medicine with good intentions that get bad results against the interests of humanity were back in business. Again using the Black population as guinea pigs, Dr. Frankenstein's disdain and disrespect for the African American community resurfaces.
In 1980 I worked with Dick Gregory, who exposed a very dangerous project that involved the then-little-known HIV virus (later reported in the 1999 book The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, by Edward Hooper and Bill Hamilton).
In these polio vaccine experiments in the Congo (and later in New Jersey and San Francisco), serum from infected primates was given to Congolese (in the U.S. it was given either to handicapped children or newborns at prisons and hospitals), in a demonstration of the casual racism of the day. A program on this that Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby and I were going to host in Minneapolis was killed by our local Black ministerial leadership.
The Star Tribune reported November 7 a story from Dar Es-Salaam, Tanzania, about the scientific conference in Seattle two weeks ago, reporting that a vaccine trial was stopped as it increased the risk of AIDS in some who had been exposed, rather than preventing it. Some of the trials were held in South Africa.
Uncalled-for punishment in MPS
A valiant effort is underway by a dedicated group of citizens, predominantly Black, who are developing a covenant to deal with the future education of the African American child in a very hard-hitting approach that will be considered historic and of national importance.
The document will thoroughly test the commitment and direction of the board and administration of the Minneapolis Public Schools Special District #1.
The organizers will be announcing specific language over the coming weeks. In light of the report by the McKinsey Group to the MPS Board of Education about 10 days ago, and in light of the escalation of Black students to the new disciplinary program at Olson Middle School, and in light of the fact that principals are being told that they are not meeting their quotas in referring African American students to these disciplinary programs, we desperately need somebody to step forward with a program, with a plan, that has both impact and solution.
We applaud this group. Stay tuned.
November 7, 2007 Column #23: Park police prefer lethal force against our schoolchildren
Do you recall delicate conversations with others about how it sometimes seems that the life of Black children in the Minneapolis Public Schools are little valued or appreciated? We have heard them too.
These are not rumors. These are not speculation. They are true.
It is difficult for many, regardless of their race, to believe that there is such hatred and disdain for Black people in this city that it extends to children also. But it does. When we are offered proof, it is our journalistic responsibility to move the truth forward.
There is a 13-year-old Black student of Anderson Middle School sleeping peacefully tonight because of the professionalism and objectivity of a 27-year-veteran of the Minneapolis Park Police. That child owes her his life. He and his parents have no clue that the Park Police Command wish he had been shot dead instead.
Less than two weeks ago, an altercation took place in the cafeteria of Anderson Middle School. A young Black student in the special education program, 13 years of age but weighing 250 pounds, became unruly. As it is the park police that provide security for the public schools, this Park Board police officer answered the call.
She and the assistant principal brought the young boy under control; he lightly brushed the officer's neck area as she successfully defended herself. He was arrested and taken into custody.
The child pleaded guilty to forth degree simple assault. But, it was the aftermath that sent the chilling message reaffirming the danger that children of color face in their relationship with the security forces hired by the Minneapolis Public Schools.
This near-30-year Park Board officer was written up and, according to reliable sources, reprimanded for not using lethal force . Think about that: She was reprimanded for not discharging her weapon in a cafeteria filled with children. This is how deep the racism runs in the Park Police.
Rather than receive praise for safely bringing a situation under control, the officer was told that she froze, that she should have pulled her weapon and blown this "Black bastard" away.
This officer challenged the reprimand and the Park Police top command's logic and rationale.
Do not try, Park Board commissioners, to pass this off as rumor. It happened. We know. In fact, it took communication between the city attorney's office, the female park police officer, and, apparently, the Police Federation, to effect the rescinding of the reprimand and the order that the officer retake a course in how to use deadly force.
Understand that this means she was being reprimanded for not shooting this 13-year-old child in a cafeteria full of children, teachers, administrators and teachers' aides. The tradition of the doctrine of Justice Taney is alive and well in the commander of the park police -- that an African American child has no rights that Whites are duty bound, legally bound, or morally bound to respect.
Will public officials be angry that this happened? No. They will be angry because the information got out. There will be no ongoing discussion or debate against the policy that says lethal force is appropriate against a Black child under any and all circumstances.
For you Black parents with children in the Minneapolis Public Schools, give your babies a hug and a kiss and pray that they will be able to survive what is supposedly an educational journey in an environment of absolute safety.
Construction of the bridge
"Blacks Need Not Apply For Jobs." Again.
That was the message last week when a major bridge-building corporation from Colorado began the first stages to reconstruct the bridge that fell across the Mississippi. Just like the baseball and football stadiums, the bridge joins that infamous noncompliance Hall of Shame.
Do it. Build it. Make shareholder profit. And don't worry: Our City has officially defined minorities such that you don't have to hire Black folk. Why do federal, state, county and city officials stay silent instead of fighting for the right of African Americans to walk through the doors of opportunity on these projects?
Why are violence and homicides called violations when the laws, ordinances, and rules used to discriminate against our opportunities are not called violations?
This is how the agents and the designers of racism are able to legally carry out their successful program of nullification and reversal. They act as if we Black folk are invisible, nonentities, non-franchised, without meaningful constitutional rights.
Business as usual. Suffering continues. Dreams are unmet. They fill the penitentiaries and graveyards with us. Our leaders continue to eat fried chicken, drink champagne, and pretend that we shall overcome when they mean just themselves.
My friends, you live in a metropolitan area in which the civil and human rights of the African American are nullified and reversed, all under the guise that Black folks just aren't that important, and that their children have no right to a future -- or to even exist.
May God continue to pray for Black Minnesotans. Sometimes it seems as if he is the only one who does.
Posted 11-7-06, 3:08 a.m.
October 24, 2007 Column #22: A great warrior takes his final journey home. Go in peace, Brother Vernon, on your flight to the Spirit World
Vernon Bellecourt came into this life born WaBun-Inini -- Man of Dawn, in Ojibwa -- on October 17, 1931, on Minnesota's White Earth reservation, where unemployment was 95 percent when he was growing up. He moved to Minneapolis when he was 16.
Read tributes [Minnesota Public Radio], [New YorkTimes], [U.N. Observer], and [Fox News].
Read 1995 Interview of Vernon.
For most of his life, Vernon was a true and consummate warrior fighting not only the battles of his beloved people, but sitting at the table with world leaders in his role as a "diplomat for justice" (as stated in a UN piece) fighting the battle for the world's disenfranchised. His funeral was October 17, 2007.
I had the pleasure of knowing Vernon for over 35 years. He co-founded AIM (American Indian Movement) in 1968 and served as AIM negotiator at the 1972 occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., as part of the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan.
He was with Jesse Jackson in Operation Push in Chicago in 1973. In 1974, under United Nations auspices, Vernon helped organize an international conference on the rights of native peoples. We intoned "We shall overcome" alongside the American Indian's "We shall overrun."
The Minneapolis Star Tribune paid appropriate and well-deserved recognition to this great man on October 15.
Some who came to his wake at All Nations Church in South Minneapolis were government officials from such African countries as Ghana and Libya, paying their respects to a man who has now taken flight to the Spirit World, a sign of the respect and admiration for him around the world.
It was heartwarming to see former Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton at his wake. Other politicians were notable in their absence.
As president of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media, Vernon reminded everyone that Indians were people, not mascots or artifacts (protesting the tens of thousands of skeletal remains of American Indians held at various universities, anthropological centers and museums, and thus denied burial).
Truly we "pass this way" but once. To come this way and do nothing for humanity nor your people is to forfeit your right and claim to a legacy. Vernon Bellecourt leaves a legacy rich in achievements, success and caring.
It is in the context of extreme U.S. government repression of the American Indian Movement that Vernon and other indigenous leaders are best appreciated. He became an internationalist and was a founder of the International Indian Treaty Council, a staunch advocate, supporter and speaker for indigenous peoples around the world.
He understandably sought help wherever he could find it. Although reviled in Minnesota, he sat with leaders of international importance, such as Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Vernon was loved around the world, where he supported all indigenous people, including the Irish, Venezuelan, Cuban, Libyan, Nicaraguan, Palestinian, etc.
His first trip to see a foreign leader was in 1989, to Libya, when he met with Col. Qaddafi, who pledged a billion dollars for American Indians -- which the U.S. government didn't allow.
Unable to obtain free or cheap heating oil for our Indian reservations here, he got it from Venezuelan President Hugo Chaves. It was partly by meeting with controversial foreign figures like Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qadafi, Yasir Arafat, Chavez, etc., that Vernon was able to gain international recognition for Indian nations and their treaties.
Vernon Bellecourt, this humble son of Minnesota, sat at the table of international power. His council and wisdom were sought by those who walked the international stage in the fight for freedom. Vernon loved his people and was displeased with anyone who had no caring for those considered to be the least of our citizens, particularly the children of the world.
As we have pointed out in this column, Vernon fought against the use of despicable Indian names for sports teams. In this regard, not many will forget his arrest in October 1997, in Cleveland, Ohio, and the discomfort he brought on Ted Turner and Jane Fonda as they did the "tomahawk chop" at Atlanta Braves games.
But it was his concern for the future of the world's children that brought an even greater demand for his counsel and for his wisdom.
Some forget that not every private citizen gets asked to address the United Nations, as did Vernon. At the time, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega probably said it best when he called Vernon Bellecourt the most compelling spokesman for the indigenous people of the world.
Vernon Bellecourt will be missed on the local and world stages. You only pass this way once, and to have come and seen and said nothing will guarantee a bleak recollection and remembrance of your presence. But to have come, to have seen, to have spoken, and to have reached out to make a difference, to make a change, and to provide hope accords Vernon the right to be called forever one of the great warriors on the long and unbroken civil rights trail on behalf of his people.
Go in peace, our brother, and may you be greeted by the giants of our time, yesterday and today.
Posted Oct 24, 2007, 1:54 a.m.
October 10, 2007 Column #21: Shame on U of St. Thomas for silencing free speech
Last spring, Cris Toffolo, associate professor at St. Thomas University and chair of the Peace Studies Department, supported inviting South Africa's Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak at St. Thomas in April of 2008. Rather than respond with joy and positive reflection, St. Thomas "scuttled" the visit and relieved her of being Peace chair (for supporting the visit and for letting Bishop Tutu know, on Peace Studies letterhead, that there was a problem due to pressure from the Jewish community).
The great Jewish traditions support democracy (Deuteronomy 1), oppose the rule of kings or dictators (I Samuel 8), and speak the Exodus liberation mantra, "Let my people go." And, it was a Jew who gave us the Golden Rule. How shameful for those claiming to represent a people historically denied free speech, and whose books and people were burned, to characterize speech of a peace advocate as "offensive and hurtful."
Truth: Bishop Tutu supports the state of Israel.
Truth: He supports all people, including Palestinians, seeking inclusivity rather than us/them.
Truth: He succeeded in achieving the "truth and reconciliation" in South Africa that helped end apartheid.
In his October 4, 2007, Strib article, Randy Furst makes it appear that the Jewish position was correct, faultless and absolute. We respectfully disagree (free speech, remember?). Remember holocaust denial? We also abhor apartheid denial, history denial, and opposing views denial.
Truth: In the 1970s and 1980s, with Nelson Mandela still imprisoned on Robbins Island, Bishop Tutu exposed the USA and the state of Israel, its military, and its intelligence services and their close working relationship with the obstructionist and terroristic White apartheid regime of South Africa.
Truth: Bishop Tutu led the fight from a position of danger inside South Africa, calling upon the world to support the Sullivan Principles (to train and hire Blacks).
Bishop Tutu revealed the sinister and evil plot of the Israeli government and American corporations to sabotage the Sullivan Principles and continue supporting apartheid.
Truth: We understand the USA supporting dictators who sided with us against the USSR during the Cold War. But those days are over. Time to move on.
Truth: Bishop Tutu exposed the then evil and dangerous relationship between South African, American and Israeli scientists in the development of biological weapons to use, just in case, against the Black population of South Africa and against the military operations of the ANC (African National Congress, led by Nelson Mandela).
Truth: For those who desire to deny, we refer you to Congressional testimony of both the 1980s and 1990s and their lists of South African, American and Israeli corporations involved in this diabolical plan.
St. Thomas attempts to silence a voice renowned worldwide for its dedication and commitment to peace, truth and freedom, and instead embraces the voices of reversal and nullification to silence truth, which include our silent Black leadership and liberals.
Marv Davidov, a Jewish peace activist, represents the good in our community. He speaks truth about the shame of silencing: "Stifling debate and dissent [and] criticism of Israel is a disservice to all Jews, the state of Israel and the American people."
Bishop Tutu has made a difference on the world stage, earning the Nobel Peace Prize. St. Thomas has earned shame. God bless Bishop Tutu and his legacy, and shame upon the Catholic University of St. Thomas, a school that needs to engage truth and reconcile.
Bishop Tutu will speak at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul April 11-13, 2008. This is fitting and honors the legacy of Nellie Stone Johnson, who served on the board of trustees of this university with campuses across Minnesota.
We saw it coming
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Minneapolis Police Dept. Chief Tim Dolan led a delegation to a gathering of 170 police chiefs, mayors, and other government officials in a suburb of Chicago to discuss how to reduce violent crime ( Strib, Sept 29), including Chuck Wexler of the Police Executive Research Forum (who advises both Minneapolis and Israel on security issues) was one of the prime organizers. Our mayor and chief offered "Crime as a Public Health Issue."
The issue is not health. Let's review: Under the Patriot Act and other national security provisions, lists have been prepared, roundup sites designated, and special security units trained and developed.
Do you remember when the FBI was shamefully allowed to target Martin Luther King, Jr.? Do you remember the shameful Tuskeegee experiments? Do you recall our mantra about the shameful emergency regarding young Black males as a targeted and endangered species? Is there a shameful new Ritalin for Black males?
Again, the issue is not health. The issue is whether or not to prepare young men for jobs through education and whether to have families supported by community. If the prime economic base, limited to a couple of thousand, is sports, music, and selling drugs and rap songs, then your math reveals millions of young Black men excluded from the equation for success.
Then you understand that some consider us Black Americans expendable. That's what they really talked about in Chicago.
Ron hosts "Black Focus" on Channel 17, MTN-TV, Sundays, 5-6 pm. Formerly head of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission and the Urban League, he continues his "watchdog" role for Minneapolis. Order his book, hear his voice, read his solution papers, and read his between columns "web log" at www.TheMinneapolisStory.com.
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Watch out for five common resume errors before applying for your next job position.
Google "resume rules" and the search will return more than 129,000,000 results. With such a quantity of information readily available, it's hard to believe that nearly every hospitality professional continues to make mistakes on this important job search document. Not all the errors are horrendous, of course, but they don't have to be to damage your employability—especially when you're competing against dozens of equally qualified candidates for a hotel or restaurant job. Before you apply for your next position, eliminate these typical mistakes from your resume.
1. Beginning your resume with an objective.
Objectives have gone the way of the dinosaur, but you wouldn't know it by looking at most hospitality resumes. Experts now recommend ditching that tired, old paragraph for a fresher, marketing-focused approach. Try substituting a succinct headline that describes the type of role for which you're applying. Then add a subhead that highlights a few of your qualifications. For example, you might write something like, "Senior Sales Manager," then add, "A decade of experience maximizing room revenues and profits" beneath.
2. Organizing your resume chronologically with irrelevant work experience.
Hotel and restaurant hiring managers and human resource professionals often spend mere seconds scanning each resume before selecting candidates for further review. Ensure they note your most relevant hospitality experience by including the details for your most recent job at the top of the list. You can then include the rest in reverse chronological order. Additionally, if you've been a cook or server for decades, you don't need to include more than your last ten years of employment.
3. Submitting a resume without keywords.
4. Favoring responsibilities over accomplishments.
5. Submitting a resume with cluttered formatting.
Remember, once hiring managers get their hands on your resume, you have mere seconds to capture their attention. Cluttered formatting—including unreadable fonts, large blocks of text, and tiny margins—makes it more difficult for employers to scan and understand the details within. Fortunately, this mistake is easy to avoid with judicious use of white space, bolded headlines and simple, bulleted lists in a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial.
• Does Changing Ethnic Names On Resumes Improve Getting Hired?


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The country - one of the poorest in the world - has been devastated, with 8000 people killed, thousands injured and much of the country's infrastructure destroyed or badly damaged.
The BBC's Simon Cox investigates whether, in a country known for its corruption, there can be certainty the money will will end up in the right place?


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Being in survival mindset is not a big issue if it is a conscious choice of the individual.However the awareness of the above mindset will help you to change yourself into growth mindset and you attract good things in life!


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EU Hybrid Threats Center Says to Examine China's Activities in 2019
HELSINKI (Sputnik) - In 2019, a pool of experts at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats will begin work to examine China's activities, in particular, in the Pacific Rim, the center's international relations director told Sputnik.
Pacific Rim Nations May Agree on TPP in November
Peruvian foreign minister claims that Pacific Rim nations may reach a final agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal at a major economic summit in four months.
China Poised to Challenge US Supremacy in Latin America
Chinese President Xi Jinping has wrapped up his tour of Latin America, visiting Ecuador, Peru and Chile, and attending the 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Lima, Peru. Speaking to Sputnik, Latin America expert Alexander Kharlamenko warned that in the next few years, US-Chinese rivalry in Latin America is guaranteed to heat up.
Rejecting TPP Deal Would Hinder US Ability to Advance Objectives in Asia Pacific - Kerry
Rejecting the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement would be a gigantic self-inflicted wound for the United States as it would slow growth and prevent fully advancing US interests in the Asia Pacific region, US Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Lavrov, New Zealand's Counterpart Discuss Restoring Ties
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TPP Endangers Human Life to Benefit Corporations - US NGO
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal prioritizes corporate profits over human life and the environment, a US advocacy group representative told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Five Reasons Why TPP Ought to Have You Worried
Several chapters of the newly-inked Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which was published by countries party to it on November 5, have raised concerns in member countries.
TPP Countries to Refrain From 'Unfair Currency Practices' - US Treasury
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