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package org.apache.jena.rdfxml.xmlinput.states;

import java.io.FileWriter ;
import java.io.IOException ;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException ;
import java.util.* ;

import org.apache.jena.rdfxml.xmlinput.ARPErrorNumbers ;
import org.apache.jena.rdfxml.xmlinput.impl.* ;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes ;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException ;

/**
 * For each state s, for each element-attribute event e1, - test s, e1 - if s,
 * e1 is not an error + test s, e1; Description; test s,e1, eg:prop; test s, e1,
 * end; for each element-attribute event e2 + test s, e1, e2 if s, e1, e2 is not
 * an error
 */
public class TestData implements ARPErrorNumbers{

    private static final URIReference foo = URIReference.createNoChecks("http://foo/");
    private static final URIReference bar = URIReference.createNoChecks("http://bar/");

    static TestHandler xmlHandler = new TestHandler();
//    static {
//        try {
//            xmlHandler.initParse("http://example.org/", "");
//        } catch (SAXParseException e) {
//           e.printStackTrace();
//        }
//
//    }
    static String dataFile = "testing/arp/state.txt";
    static AbsXMLContext xmlContext;

    static {
        try {
            xmlContext= new XMLBaselessContext(xmlHandler,
                    ERR_RESOLVING_AGAINST_RELATIVE_BASE).withBase(xmlHandler,"http://example.org/base/");
        } catch (SAXParseException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
    static TestFrame testFrame = new TestFrame(xmlHandler, xmlContext);

    static char white[] = { 32, 32, 32, 32, 32 };

    static char black[] = { 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 };

    private static final AttrEvent xmlSpace = new AttrEvent(QName.xml("space"));
    static Event allEvents[] = {
           new ElementEvent(QName.rdf("li")),
            new ElementEvent(QName.rdf("Description")),
            new ElementEvent("F",QName.rdf("RDF")),
            new ElementEvent(QName.eg("Goo")),
            new AttrEvent(QName.xml("base")),
            new AttrEvent("g", QName.xml("lang"), "en"),
            new AttrEvent(QName.eg("foo")),
            xmlSpace,
            new AttrEvent("B", QName.rdf("bagID"), "en"),
            new AttrEvent(QName.rdf("about")),
            new AttrEvent("h", QName.rdf("aboutEach"), "en"),
            new AttrEvent("H", QName.rdf("aboutEachPrefix"), "en"),
            new AttrEvent(QName.rdf("ID")), new AttrEvent(QName.rdf("nodeID")),
            new AttrEvent(QName.rdf("resource")),
            new AttrEvent(QName.rdf("type")),
            new AttrEvent(QName.rdf("datatype")),
            new AttrEvent("C", QName.rdf("parseType"), "Collection"),
            new AttrEvent("L", QName.rdf("parseType"), "Literal"),
            new AttrEvent("R", QName.rdf("parseType"), "Resource"),
            new InternalEvent("e", "</end>") {
                @Override
                FrameI apply(FrameI from, Attributes att) throws SAXParseException {
                    from.endElement();
                    return from.getParent();
                }
            }, new InternalEvent("O", "object") {
                @Override
                FrameI apply(FrameI from, Attributes att) {
                    ((WantsObjectFrameI) from).theObject(foo);
                    return from;
                }
            }, new InternalEvent("W", "white") {
                @Override
                FrameI apply(FrameI from, Attributes att) throws SAXParseException {
                    from.characters(white, 0, 5);
                    return from;
                }
            }, new InternalEvent("Q", "'abcde'") {
                @Override
                FrameI apply(FrameI from, Attributes att) throws SAXParseException {
                    from.characters(black, 0, 5);
                    return from;
                }
            },
            new InternalEvent("P", "pred-object") {
                @Override
                FrameI apply(FrameI from, Attributes att) {
                    ((HasSubjectFrameI) from).aPredAndObj(foo,bar);
                    return from;
                }
            }, };

    static Map<String, Event> short2Event = new HashMap<>();
    static {
        for ( Event allEvent : allEvents )
        {
            String key = allEvent.oneChar;
            if ( short2Event.get( key ) != null )
            {
                System.err.println( "Duplicate event code: " + key );
            }
            short2Event.put( key, allEvent );
        }
    }
    static Map<Class< ? extends FrameI>, String> state2Name = new HashMap<>();

    static Map<Class<? extends FrameI>, String> state2ShortName = new HashMap<>();

    static Map<String, Class<? extends FrameI>> shortName2State = new HashMap<>();

    static Map<Class<? extends FrameI>, Object[]> state2Args = new HashMap<>();

    static void add(String sh, String nm, Class< ? extends FrameI> f, Object args[]) {
        state2Name.put(f, nm);
        sh = getSimpleName(f);
        if (shortName2State.get(sh) != null) {
            System.err.println("Duplicate: " + sh);
        }
        state2Args.put(f, args);
        shortName2State.put(sh, f);
        state2ShortName.put(f, sh);
    }

    private static String getSimpleName(Class<? extends FrameI> f) {
        return XMLHandler.getSimpleName(f);
    }

    static AttributeLexer ap = new AttributeLexer(testFrame, 0, 0);
    static {
        add("ix", "inner-xml-literal", InnerXMLLiteral.class,
                new Object[] { testFrame, "foo", testFrame.namespaces });
        add("xl", "xml-literal", OuterXMLLiteral.class, new Object[] {
                testFrame, xmlContext });
        add("ip", "vanilla-prop-elt", WantLiteralValueOrDescription.class,
                new Object[] { testFrame, xmlContext });
        add("tl", "typed-literal", WantTypedLiteral.class, new Object[] {
                testFrame, "http://ex/dt", xmlContext });
        add("cl", "collection", RDFCollection.class, new Object[] {
                testFrame, xmlContext });
        add("tp", "top-level", WantTopLevelDescription.class,
                new Object[] { testFrame, ap });
        add("em", "empty-prop-elt", WantEmpty.class, new Object[] {
                testFrame, xmlContext });
        add("de", "inside-Description", WantPropertyElement.class,
                new Object[] { testFrame, xmlContext });
        add("RD", "looking-for-RDF", LookingForRDF.class, new Object[] {
                testFrame, ap });
    }

    int localCount;

    int globalCount;

    private EventList eventList = new EventList();

    public TestData() {
        super();
    }
//    String characters[] = {
//            "G",
//            "G e",
//            "G e G",
//            "Q",
//            "Q G",
//            "Q e",
//            "e",
//            "P",
//            "O",
//        };
    String characters[] = {
        "<eg:Goo>",
        "<eg:Goo> </end>",
        "<eg:Goo> </end> <eg:Goo>",
        "'abcde'",
        "'abcde' <eg:Goo>",
        "'abcde' </end>",
        "</end>",
        "pred-object",
        "object",
    };

    boolean inCharacterize = false;
    void characterize(Class< ? extends FrameI> f){
        inCharacterize = true;
        int sz = eventList.size;
        StringBuffer rslt = new StringBuffer();
        String skip = null;
        eventList.test(f);
        rslt.append(eventListName(f,null));
        rslt.append(" $ " + testInfo(f) + " {");
        if ( eventList.testResult.getClass() != LookingForRDF.class)

            for ( String character : characters )
            {
                if ( skip != null && character.startsWith( skip ) )
                {
                    continue;
                }
                skip = null;
                addEvents( character );
                rslt.append( " " + character + " $ " );
                boolean testV = eventList.test( f );
                rslt.append( testInfo( f ) + " ;" );
                eventList.size = sz;
                if ( !testV )
                {
                    skip = character;
                    continue;
                }
            }
        rslt.append(" }");
        data.add(rslt.toString());
        inCharacterize = false;
    }

    private String eventListName(Class< ? extends FrameI> f, Class< ? extends FrameI> f2) {
        StringBuffer rslt = new StringBuffer();
        rslt.append(stateName(f, f2));
        for (int i=0;i<eventList.size;i++) {
           rslt.append(' ');
           rslt.append(eventList.events[i].oneChar);
        }
        return rslt.toString();
    }

    private String stateName(Class< ? extends FrameI> f, Class< ? extends FrameI> f2) {
        return f==f2?"*":state2ShortName.get(f);
    }

    private void addEvents(String string) {
        String all[] = string.split(" ");
        for ( String anAll : all )
        {
            eventList.add( short2Event.get( anAll ) );
        }
    }

    private String testInfo(Class< ? extends FrameI> f) {
        return
        eventList.testFailure ? (eventList.testException ? "!" : "?") :
           (stateName(eventList.testResult.getClass(),f) + " " +
                xmlHandler.info() + " " + testFrame.info());
    }

    static Class<?> tryClasses[] = { FrameI.class, AbsXMLLiteral.class,
            HasSubjectFrameI.class, WantsObjectFrameI.class };

    static FrameI create(Class<? extends FrameI> cl) throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException {
       FrameI frame = null;
       Object args[] = state2Args.get(cl);
        Class<?> types[] = new Class<?>[args.length];
        for (int i = 1; i < args.length; i++) {
            types[i] = args[i].getClass();
            if (types[i]==XMLContext.class)
                types[i] = AbsXMLContext.class;
        }
        if (cl == InnerXMLLiteral.class)
            types[2] = Map.class;
        for ( Class<?> tryClass : tryClasses )
        {
            types[0] = tryClass;

            try
            {
                frame = cl.getConstructor( types ).newInstance( args );
                break;
            }
            catch ( NoSuchMethodException e )
            {
                continue;
            }
        }
        return frame;
    }

    void expand(Class< ? extends FrameI> f) {
        if (AbsXMLLiteral.class.isAssignableFrom(f))
            return;
        if (randomPurgeXMLAttrs())
            return;
        localCount++;
        globalCount++;
        if (localCount % 20000 == 0)
            stats(f);
        if (!eventList.test(f)) {
            if (!shorterTestFails(f))
                data.add(eventListName(f,null)+" $ " + testInfo(f));
            return;
        }
        characterize(f);
        if (eventList.size >= (AbsXMLLiteral.class.isAssignableFrom(f) ? 3 :
            eventList.testResult instanceof LookingForRDF ? 2
                : 8))
            return;
        for ( Event allEvent : allEvents )
        {
            if ( allEvent.isAttribute() )
            {
                Event e = eventList.last();
                if ( !( e.isElement() || ( e.isAttribute() && e.hashCode() < allEvent.hashCode() ) ) )
                {
                    continue;
                }
            }
            else if ( true )
            {
                continue;
            }
            eventList.add( allEvent );
            expand( f );
            eventList.pop();
        }
    }

    private Random dice = new Random(23);

    private boolean randomPurgeXMLAttrs() {
        int weight = 0;
        eventList.rewind();
        while (eventList.hasNext()) {
            Event e = eventList.next();
            if ( e==xmlSpace)
                weight += 2;
            else if ( e.isAttribute() && ((AttrEvent)e).q.uri.equals(Names.xmlns) )
                weight ++;
        }
        while (weight-- >0)
            if (dice.nextBoolean())
                return true;
        return false;
    }

    private boolean shorterTestFails(Class< ? extends FrameI> f) {
        if (eventList.size <= 2)
            return false;
          for (int i=1;i<eventList.size-1;i++){
              EventList copy = eventList.copy();
              copy.delete(i);
              if (!copy.test(f))
                  return true;
          }
          return false;
    }

    Set<String> data = new TreeSet<>(new Comparator<String>(){
        @Override
        public int compare(String arg1, String arg2) {
            StringBuffer b1 = new StringBuffer(arg1).reverse();
            StringBuffer b2 = new StringBuffer(arg2).reverse();
            return b1.toString().compareTo(b2.toString());
        }}
            );

    void stats(Class< ? extends FrameI> f) {
        if (false)
        System.out.println(state2ShortName.get(f) + ":" + state2Name.get(f)
                + ":" + getSimpleName(f) + "  " + localCount + "/"
                + globalCount);

    }

    void test1() throws IOException {
        Iterator<Class< ? extends FrameI>> it = state2Name.keySet().iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            Class< ? extends FrameI> f = it.next();
//            System.out.println(state2ShortName.get(f) + ":" + state2Name.get(f)
//                    + ":" + f.getSimpleName());
            localCount = 0;
            for ( Event allEvent : allEvents )
            {
                if ( allEvent.isElement() )
                {
                    eventList.clear();
                    eventList.add( allEvent );
                    expand( f );
                }
            }
            stats(f);
        }
        try ( FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(dataFile) ) {
            Iterator<String> it2 = data.iterator();
            while (it.hasNext()) {
                fw.write(it2.next());
                fw.write('\n');
            }
        }
    }

    public static String stateLongName(String sh) {
        return state2Name.get(shortName2State.get(sh));
    }

    public static Class< ? extends FrameI> toState(String sh) {
        return shortName2State.get(sh);
    }

}


Peter Okoye has taken to Instagram to console few singer, D'Banj who lost his son recently.
Earlier today, D'Banj took to Instagram to thank everyone who had extended a hand of support in one way or the other to him and his family since the tragic loss of Daniel Oyebanjo III.
Reacting to D'Banj's post, Peter Okoye commented saying: "we love you bro… stay strong… My son is your son. Remain blessed."


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About UCFC
Lead Investigators
Violence Prevention Research Program
Garen Wintemute, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Violence Prevention Research Program
Inaugural Susan P. Baker-Stephen P. Teret Chair in Violence Prevention
gjwintemute@ucdavis.edu
Garen Wintemute is a pioneer in the field of injury epidemiology and the prevention of firearm violence. His work helped create the public health approach to violence prevention. Dr. Wintemute is VPRP's director and now also directs UCFC, the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center. He is a practicing emergency medicine physician.
Pamela A. Keach, M.S.
Research Administrator
pakeach@ucdavis.edu
Pamela Keach is a Research Administrator at the University of California, Davis Violence Prevention Research Program. Previously, Pam was with UC San Francisco where she was a public health program manager, responsible for the implementation and evaluation of statewide chronic disease prevention programs. A recipient of the 2013 Arthritis Foundation, Marilyn Magaram Award for Public Health Leadership, she holds a Master of Science from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Sacramento, and a certificate in Health Informatics from UC Davis Extension.
Rose Kagawa, Ph.D, M.P.H.
rkagawa@ucdavis.edu
Rose Kagawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Kagawa received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology and her M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley. She conducts research on violence prevention and firearm policy and has particular interest in understanding how social and environmental contexts influence violence perpetration and victimization through the life course. Current projects include estimating the effects of changes to the built environment, including the demolition of vacant and dilapidated buildings, and poverty reduction interventions on the incidence of violence.
Hannah S. Laqueur, Ph.D., M.A., M.P.A.
hslaqueur@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Hannah Laqueur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She holds a Ph.D. from Berkeley Law's doctoral program in Jurisprudence & Social Policy, a Master's degree in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley, and a Master's in Public Policy & Administration from Columbia University. She specializes in criminal justice policy and the economics of crime. Her research includes work on substance use and drug policy, gun violence prevention, and machine learning methods to improve and evaluate decision-making in the criminal justice system.
Kara Rudolph, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.H.S.
kerudolph@ucdavis.edu
Kara Rudolph is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Rudolph has a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Master's degree in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar. Her research interests are in developing and applying causal inference methods to help better understand social and contextual influences on mental health, substance use, and violence in disadvantaged, urban areas of the United States. Her current work, funded by a NIDA K99/R00, is in developing methods to transport mediation effects from one population to another and applying those methods to understand how aspects of the school and peer environments mediate relationships between neighborhood factors and adolescent drug use. Click to learn more about Kara's current work
Professional Researchers
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professional Researcher
nkravitzwirtz@ucdavis.edu
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz is an Assistant Professional Researcher, an academic appointment that does not involve teaching, at VPRP. She received her Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Washington and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from UC Los Angeles. Prior to joining VPRP, she was a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, Population Studies Center. Her research has focused broadly on the social determinants and consequences of population health and health disparities, with a particular emphasis on neighborhood effects and urban poverty, race/ethnicity, and the transmission of inequality over the life course and across generations. Before pursuing graduate training, she worked on youth and community violence prevention efforts as part of a national nonprofit public health and primary prevention organization in Oakland, CA. Her work at VPRP focuses on the social epidemiology and prevention of firearm violence and substance use, including intersections with trauma, race, and policing across the life course.
Shani Buggs, Ph.D., M.P.H.
sabuggs@ucdavis.edu
Shani Buggs is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Violence Prevention Research Program. Her primary areas of research include community-level gun violence prevention programs and policies, firearm access and availability, comprehensive approaches to reducing violence through policies and programs at the local, state, and federal levels, and intersections between drugs, drug law enforcement, and gun violence. She completed her master's degree in Public Health and her doctorate in Health and Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Amanda Charbonneau, Ph.D., M.P.P.
acharbonneau@ucdavis.edu
Amanda Charbonneau is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Violence Prevention Research Program in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include the effects of laws, policies, and trainings on practitioner judgment and decision making. She holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Andrew Crawford, Ph.D.
ajacrawford@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Andrew Crawford is a Research Data Analyst at the University of California, Davis Violence Prevention Research Program. His research interests include substance use and the intersection of psychological principles with health research. Previously, Dr. Crawford was an Epidemiologist at the California Tribal Epidemiology Center/California Rural Indian Health Board and a Statistician at UC San Francisco.
Chris McCort, M.S.
cdmccort@ucdavis.edu
Mr. McCort joined VPRP as a Research Data Analyst after earning his M.S. in Biostatistics at the University of California, Davis. His interests focus on statistical computing and research methods.
Rocco Pallin, M.P.H.
rspallin@ucdavis.edu
Rocco Pallin is a Research Data Analyst at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program. Her work is focused on firearm violence prevention, with particular interest in firearm policy evaluation and community- and hospital-based interventions for firearm violence prevention. She also directs the What You Can Do initiative. Rocco has a background in youth development and community health. She holds an M.P.H. from Tulane University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Veronica Pear, M.P.H.
vapear@ucdavis.edu
Veronica Pear has been working as a Research Data Analyst at VRPR since 2016. She holds master's degrees in public health (UC Berkeley, 2016) and philosophy (UC San Diego, 2012), and she is currently working toward a PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley. Her work is broadly focused on identifying the causes and consequences of firearm violence and evaluating firearm policies. Current projects include an evaluation of California's Gun Violence Restraining Order policy and an analysis of the impact of firearm acquisition on risk of recurrent intentional injuries.
Julia Schleimer, M.P.H.
jpschleimer@ucdavis.edu
Julia Schleimer joined VPRP as a Research Data Analyst after earning her Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology and the social determinants of health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Julia's research focuses on applying social epidemiology to the intersecting causes and consequences of violence, substance use, and mental health.
Aaron Shev, Ph.D.
Senior Statistician
abshev@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Shev joined VPRP after completing his Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of California, Davis. His research is in machine learning and social network analysis with a focus on ranking and clustering methods.
Colette Smirniotis, Ph.D., M.S.
csmirniotis@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Smirniotis is a Research Data Analyst at VPRP. She completed her doctorate in Computational Statistics and her Master's degree in Statistics with a concentration in Biostatistics at San Diego State University. Her research interests include spatial modeling and machine learning.
Sydney Sohl
skcarlson@ucdavis.edu
Sydney began working with the Violence Prevention Research program as an undergraduate student employee in 2016 and now works with the team as a Research Data Analyst. She will begin a Master of Science in Nursing program at UC Davis in the summer of 2019. She plans to incorporate both research and clinical work into her future career.
Liz Tomsich, Ph.D.
eatomsich@ucdavis.edu
Dr. Liz Tomsich is a VPRP Research Data Analyst. Liz has over ten years of experience conducting research on interpersonal violence and policy in academic and law enforcement settings. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the University of Colorado, Denver.
Mona Wright, M.P.H.
mawright@ucdavis.edu
Ms. Wright holds a Master's degree in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She has worked with Dr. Wintemute since 1985 and with the Violence Prevention Research Program since 1990. She has served as lead investigator for several VPRP studies of firearm violence.
Brian Hayes, M.A.
Contracts and Grants Analyst
brhayes@ucdavis.edu
Brian Hayes is a Research Administrator at the Violence Prevention Research Program. He joined VPRP after four years as Research Development Analyst for the UC Davis Department of Family & Community Medicine. He holds a Master's degree in clinical psychology and is a practicing mental health clinician.
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For the 10th straight year, JetBlue Airways has the most satisfied customers among low-cost airlines, according to a national consumer study released Wednesday.
JetBlue, the busiest carrier at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, scored 801 points of a possible 1,000 in the J.D. Power 2015 North America Airline Satisfaction Study.
Southwest Airlines, the second-busiest carrier at Fort Lauderdale, was ranked the second-best low-cost airline with 781 points.
Other low-cost carriers were WestJet, AirTran and Frontier, with scores of 715, 702 and 659, respectively.
Spirit Airlines, based in Miramar, was not included.
JetBlue adding flights to Albany, N.Y.


A most charming girl from the tourist office showed us round the city and led us down her memory lane to this small and romantic café.
Located in a small dead end, it is the perfect place for a drink for friends and lovers. Try the many affordable cocktails and local beers and use the location as the perfect start to your evening exploring the hippest places in Wroclaw. You may well wonder why the café is called "Czeski Film". Well, Czech films are so complicated to understand that you will need a good cocktail to refresh your mind after watching one!


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Swansea City's game at Newcastle Preview
December 15, 2011 by Jim White
At this time of year the games come thick and fast. With two difficult Away fixtures within the next week, Swansea City and the travelling JackArmy will have clocked up considerable mileage before we and they get to unwrap some Christmas presents.
Of course then, we, the fans, will happily and post-prandially take in the Home Boxing Day clash with QPR, the better to clear our holiday excesses and bid good cheer to our Team, all of whom will be in the middle of a slightly more controlled and moderated Festive season.
Last Saturday's rewarding win over Fulham saw us confirm our good run of Home form, and the question now turns to the still under-rewarding matter of getting better material results Away from the Liberty. Brendan Rodgers knows as well as we do that it's imperative that at some stage we turn the performances on the road, which have ranged from sublime to disappointing, into points.
He will, no doubt, have calculated and targeted an overall picture of reward, but not to the extent of doing more than approach each individual fixture with a plan that suits THAT particular game.We armchair strategists meanwhile also have targets in our heads, but perhaps we OUGHT to keep them to ourselves, lest we REALLY get egg on our collective faces.
What, no spilling the beans whatsoever on what we think? Where's the fun in that ?
Awwh, go on then, just a teensy-weensy bit, otherwise there'd be no point in my doing this piece. Some may say that anyway, and they're perfectly entitled to, but it's not going to stop me since it's cathartic for me, and I enjoy it, too. So here we go. To the first of those fixtures.
It's a well known fact of Climatic record that the mean Temperature in Newcastle is some 5 degrees colder than that of Swansea. At this time of year it can also be considerably damp and gloomy, which led Lindisfarne, initially, and numerous others (including the legendary Geordie Toonster Paul Gascoigne), to regale us at one time or another with a chronic lament. "The Fog on the Tyne..", is, indeed, as Alan Hull claims "…..all mine, all mine", and he's welcome to it. Dig the retro football shirt, Man,….groovy!
Pack a warm coat. In 2009/10 at Mike Ashley's "Sports Direct Arena at St. James' Park"(sic), I sat in the Gods and wished I'd brought opera glasses as well, as Newcastle beat the Swans 3-0 in a view that put me in mind of the shots you get at big matches from the Goodyear Blimp. I swear the air was thinner at the top of the stand : oxygen masks would have helped I'm sure.
Whatever the view, you can be sure that Newcastle on the field have improved since then too. Mind you, so have we.
Their record up until 3 recent defeats has been excellent, but injuries and squad depth have begun to have an effect, particularly disrupting a previously constant back 5.
Tim Krul in goal has ensured he's now the No 1 ahead of Steve Harper and Geordies will tell you his form has been Vorm-like. They also have Fraser Forster on loan at Celtic, and Rob Elliot, on the books.
Disruption at CB, where Steve Taylor's ruptured achilles tendon injury has put him out for the season and Fabio Coloccini has been injured too, with a thigh strain. The Argentine, first signed for a big fee a couple of seasons ago, and who seemed like an older version of David Luiz (in Gary Neville's delicious phrase…." like a PlayStation Player controlled by a 10 yr old") in his early games for the Club, is nowadays confirming far more legitimate Argentina CB form – granite hard, technical efficiency and buccaneering (goalscoring occasionally) leadership.
With both CB's out injured in their recent losses, Danny Simpson, nominally a RB/RMF, and James Perch, signed from Forest as a versatile Defender, have been covering in a less stable manner. They also have the Hungarian rookie Tamas Kadar signed, but he has not yet got a squad number.
Ryan Taylor, the right footed LB is a renowned free kick specialist, and the club in the close season signed the LB Davide Santon from Inter, a highly rated Italian International.
Mike Williamson, another strong CB came from Portsmouth after an initial loan period but has struggled with injuries too this season (a broken arm and ankle strain amongst them),but he is at least back in training.
The squad also lists James Tavernier, a youth academy graduate CB primarily, and Shane Ferguson, acquired from Derry City, who has always played thus far as a MF.
The injuries have stretched the depth of defensive capability, but in Midfielders they have genuine quality, if again tested by the knocks, bumps and strains of the modern game.
The players are Yohan Cabaye, Danny Guthrie, Hatem Ben Arfa, Jonas Gutierrez, Sylvain Marveaux, Dan Gosling, Cheick Tiote, Mehdi Abeid, Alan Smith, Gabriel Obertan and Haris Vuckic, a truly cosmopolitan range.
5 French, 3 English, an Ivorian, an Argentine and a Slovenian, the Midfield mix gives a clue to their revamped (from previous days) scouting system.
In the past they had a reputation for signing big name, big money, often disappointing older players. Nowadays they go for lesser known, younger, cheaper alternatives, and have had and are having better success from it, utilising Ligue1 in France particularly.
Cabaye, Ben Arfa and Marveaux, creators all and both technically excellent and young, are Full French caps. So is the winger Obertan, ex Man Utd..
Abeid, the French Algerian, capped at U18 level, came from Lens. Tiote is the ball winning mainstay of the Ivory coast, Internationally, and came from Twente Enschede in Holland.
Jonas Gutierrez plays wide left or right, and as a member of Diego Maradona's Argentine WC team of the past, has added a grafting work ethic to his attacking verve, and the crowd love it.
Vuckic, recently called into the full Slovenia squad for Euro 2012 qualifiers, is an attack minded link.
The three English representatives range from the ageless Alan Smith, who started at DirtyLeeds, controversially kissed the badge and went to Man Utd on his journey to the North, to the young Dan Gosling, snaffled from Everton at the end of a contract and since capped at England U21 level.
Along the way we get also the workmanlike Danny Guthrie, ex Liverpool and Bolton, who, if they're wearing short sleeves, displays a fine example of the penchant from some modern footballers of the Tattooist's Art.
Up front, they choose from Demba Ba, Leon Best, Peter Lovenkrands, and the brothers Shola and Sammy Ameobi. Ba, attracted from West Ham last year (after being reportedly rejected by Stoke due to a gammy knee), has been scoring for fun. He got both in the 4-2 defeat at Norwich, and now stands on 11 for the season, behind only RVP's 15 at Arsenal.
Leon Best, ex Coventry, had always been considered a second-tier jouneyman, but has scored profitably and regularly since coming to the club, and has earned 5 RoI caps from Trapp.
Lovenkrands has 22 Danish caps, and the left footer is both pacey and tricky.
The two Geordie brothers, Shola and Sammy Ameobi, are hugely popular local lads-made-good in a City where the Centre Forward (and No 9) has always been revered. Think Shearer and Jackie Milburn. Think of the Robledo brothers. You see what they've got to live up to? The burden is heavy, indeed.
Shola, the elder brother, has been in the first team squad since Bobby Robson's days but his languid frame has caused him to miss time regularly over the years from injuries, many and varied.Has scored over 50 goals for them.
Sammy , the younger sibling, came again from the Academy, and broke into the squad against Chelsea at the end of the 2010/11 season. He is trickier, slightly quicker than his brother and is fast becoming a fans favourite.
They are managed nowadays by Alan Pardew, the shrewd ex-West Ham gaffer who took them (WHU) to the Premier league, and who was appointed by the still reviled Owner Mike Ashley in replacement of the popular Chris Hughton who, in his turn, had plotted the Toon's re-entry to the Prem.
Tactically, their shape is likely to be 4-3-3, 4-1-3-2, sometimes even 4-4-2. It depends on fitting personnel to the system (ie who's fit, who's not) and he will change within games as well. They ARE that flexible.
Pardew had to do a lot to win round the justifiably fickle Toon Army but he seems to be succeeding. Seen as a track-suit manager in the modern idiom, slightly David Brent-esqe in his use of Management-speak and motivational messages pinned to dressing room walls ( eg .. "Touching base" , "pro-active NOT re-active" etc….), his style obviously struck a chord with the owner and his "mission to enhance the Customer Experience" at The SDA. Although to be perfectly fair, the Geordies DO seem to be enjoying themselves more than they have at some times in the recent past.
Whatever, this is a difficult fixture, although the first of several where we will hope to get those elusive Away points.
My feeling with regard to our line up is this.
Given that the back 5 kept another clean sheet last week, I feel it would be a major surprise to us if there were any changes there. It's the rest of the team that sets the puzzle.
I know you'll excuse me these tactical musings, but in a week where we saw Guardiola, in ElClasico no less, go to 3 (maybe 3.5) at the back, well illustrated by Jonathan Wilson here, it doesn't half make you think.
Kemy Agustien made a difference on his timely introduction last week but Joe Allen is available again. In my head I've toyed with the idea of a 4-1-3-2 shape, meaning that Agustien could anchor as the 1, thus providing defensive security ahead of the Centre Backs. I'm conscious of the notion too that Ash Williams has done that role previously for both us and Wales, but on reflection it's probably a step too far.
An anchor would allow us to include Leon Britton, Joe Allen AND Mark Gower but the weakness of THAT argument is that one of the wide men has to be sacrificed, and I can't see BR going that route. So, since Joe didn't play v Fulham, and since our more ususal 4-3-3 is our Identity, KA, MG and LB would be the 3.
That leaves the front 3.
As the wide men in possession, Wayne Routledge and Scott Sinclair would hold their places, with Nathan Dyer on the bench. And, harsh as it would be on Leroy Lita, I feel a fully fit Danny Graham gives us just a little extra. At the end of the day, it's all about Chemistry.
I am just very glad that the ones making these decisions are Brendan and his staff.
Whatever line up he chooses, I guess it's fair to say that most of us Swans will go with that, and although I won't be there in person, I will be in spirit, (and live,too, Internet stream allowing).
Good luck Swansea City.
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This has been a pretty good January. I took the knee to the next level by starting some plyometrics twice a week. The knee held up under that pressure. I had to spend a week in France. That pumped up the running at the expense of the bike. Its been quite a while since I had two weeks of zero miles on the bike! Compared to December, I had twice as many mile running but a third of my bike total! Also of note - I had a perfect month - 31 days of exercise. Also incredible considering the International travel.


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Rex Forman
June 22, 1925 ~ May 3, 2019 (age 93)
FORMAN, Rex
aged 93 of Brandon, Florida died May 3, 2019. He was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho of Alfred John Forman and Rita Orison Forman.
He graduated early from high school and left home in 1942 to learn aviation instrument repair as a civilian in support the war effort. Later that year he joined the Navy and was stationed in Missouri, Florida, and Georgia. An Aviation Machinists Mate, he was proud of his flight time, especially flying Atlantic patrols in PBYs. He returned home at the end of the war, met and married Helen D. Morgan and they had three children. He later married Sophia M. Moore. In the 1960's. They were transferred to Ocean Springs, MS where they lived for 42 years. He began working for Standard Oil of California as a laborer, became an operator, and worked his way up to be an operations supervisor, qualified in multiple plants at a major oil refinery. He was a man of many talents. He was recognized for his ability to solve complex problems and was often asked to teach new operators about both the theory and the reality of operating the plant they were assigned. He was a published poet and, until he turned 80, wrote a poem for each birthday. He was an excellent golfer and scored two holes-in-one. He owned four sailboats (including two that he built), and spent many hours on the water. He was also a woodworker and built many pieces of furniture, art objects, and humorous figures. He was a radio amateur (WA5IKB), talking with people around the world. He taught himself software programming, and wrote programs to help him with his managing his interests. Sophia passed away in 2005, just short of their 50th anniversary.
Rex is survived by his son, Michael W. Carl (Li Hwa) of Brandon, and daughters Kathleen A. Sheehy of Owego NY and Pamela J. Morgan (Tom) of Idaho Falls ID, eight grand-children, seven great grand children, and one great great grandchild. Dear to Rex and Sophia was Betty Lau Kurecka of Fort Worth, TX whom they loved like a daughter.
At his request there will be no service; he will be laid to rest next to his beloved Sophia in Milan, MO.


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NMH Lab Program: Creating Relationships Across the Globe
Oct. 6, 2020 — English teacher Meg Donnelly's creative nonfiction class starts early. At 7:15 am ET, Donnelly was on Zoom, greeting each of her NMH Lab Program students as their faces appeared on the computer screen. "Hi, Katie! Good morning, Betty! Hi, Joey, and how are you? Can you move your screen a little so I can see you better?"
In the Lab program, NMH's remote-learning option, classes are scheduled to accommodate students from all over the world. Donnelly's students are among the approximately 140 NMH students who started the 2020–21 school year in the Lab program. Most live in countries where COVID-19-related travel restrictions prevented them from getting to campus for in-person classes this fall. "I'm trying hard to create relationships even though we're far apart," Donnelly said. "We spend lots of class time talking to each other." \
The personal touch is intentional, said Lab Program Director Grant Gonzalez. "This isn't a hybrid model. We're delivering a community." Providing families with a stand-alone remote-learning model in addition to an on-campus program is allowing NMH to serve all its students. "We're not trying to replace the on-campus experience. We're bringing as much of NMH as possible to these students," Gonzalez said.
Not long after NMH shifted to remote learning last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, faculty began planning for the next academic year. Feedback from students, families, and teachers informed the Lab program's development. It follows a project-based curriculum and balances live class meetings, collaborative work outside of classes, and expanded extra-help time. Just like on campus, the program connects students with a network of supportive adults through the Partnership of 12 Program, and offers access to sports, arts, affinity groups, and cocurriculars. Students have the option of staying in the Lab program for the entire school year, but students can transition to campus during any marking period.
"In the spring, due to the time difference, I had to miss some classes and watch the videos instead, " said Angie '22, of Seoul. "This year, I'm fully involved in my classes, and I'm getting a lot done."
Learning remotely doesn't come without challenges. For Bill '21, of Shanghai, attending classes at night often means skipping get-togethers with friends at home. But, he says, "My teachers offer many opportunities to talk about more than just what the class is teaching, which makes me feel cared for. Most importantly, I know my NMH friends will always be by my side."
Oleg '21, of Moscow, recently arrived on campus after starting the year remotely. After 14 days of on-campus quarantine, he'll move into his dorm room in Lower Tron. "No amount of online interaction will recreate being on campus, but the teachers try to give us as close to an in-school experience as possible," he said. " Their personal approach to teaching means a lot."


Saturday was a special day for everybody involved with St Michael's and not least school Principal Mark Henry and Pat Blake of Pat Blake Group, the main sponsor of Gaelic Games at the school.
Mark felt that victory is testament to the effort put in with all extra-curricular activities that take place at the school.
"We invest a lot in extra-curricular activities, not just Gaelic football but a range of sporting activities as well as music and drama and we do that because we feel it is of great value in developing skills and developing the whole pupil. We are a rural school from Fermanagh, we are not one of the huge schools in Ulster so for us to have achieved the pinnacle in Gaelic Games in schools football is brilliant for the school and it is recognition for everyone who is involved in extra-curricular activities in any guise in St Michael's College," he said.
And he said it was a proud moment when the final whistle eventually went following a nail biting finish at Croke Park.
"The last ten minutes were very nerve-wracking but thankfully the boys saw it out and the feeling afterwards on the pitch with the players was absolutely brilliant. It is a fabulous feeling, we are very proud, Dom and the players have worked so hard for this and for me they fully deserve to be All Ireland champions," he said.
With everything, to be successful often requires support and St Michael's have that from the Pat Blake Group who has been backing Gaelic Games down through the years at the school. And Pat says that it is something they are delighted to do.
"As a past student of the school and as the main sponsor of Gaelic Games in the school since Peter McGinnity's era we are keen to see success right across the board at all age groups. I know the MacRory and Hogan Cup take pride of place but we are delighted to support all the teams in the school.
"St Michael's success now will hopefully inspire young footballers throughout the county. The school has had more than decent results in a number of competitions over the years and I think this could maybe be a purple patch for success across the different age groups at the school," said Pat.
And the man himself, Dom Corrigan, received high praise from both men.
"I'm delighted for Dom Corrigan personally, he has put an awful lot into developing football in the school. When I came to the school in 1995 Dom was looking after Corn na nOg and Rannafast and took over MacRory in 99 and won it in his first year. Ever since then he has given his maximum to every single team that has come under his care. He has been working towards this for a very long time and it is recognition to the outstanding contribution he has made to football not only in St Michael's but across County Fermanagh," said the Principal.
And Pat added: "Only those who would have an insight track with regards to preparation that goes into winning a MacRory Cup, and even more so a Hogan Cup will appreciate the commitment, time and the energy that the players and management and in particular Dom Corrigan put in to achieve what they have done.
"In the early stages of the competition I would have been getting a minimum of one call a day from Dom and in the latter stages I have lost count of the number of calls I was getting from him," he laughed.
Pat was also quick to praise Dom Corrigan's backroom team.
"I'm delighted to see the assistance that Dom receives from the likes of Conor Lavery and Richie Donnelly and it is brilliant to see them giving up their time on a voluntary capacity," he added.
Next up for Pat will be a trip to Windsor Park to cheer on another Fermanagh side seeking major success.
"A number of us will be going to the Irish Cup final and cheering on Harry and his Ballinamallard team, that's the next big sporting thing for Fermanagh," he added.
And for the Principal now, the focus in school will be on exams and he is confident that those who enjoyed success on the field will also do the same academically.


My second summer working at Camp Ocean Pines I met a young girl who was having a tough time adapting to camp. I don't want to give her name away so we'll call her Ashley. On arrival day, Ashley was hiding behind what I assumed to be her grandparents. With a smile I walked over to Ashley and introduced myself. "Hi there I'm Racecar Driver, what's your name?" Ashley gave no response and looked to be extremely angry.
"Ashley! Tell the nice man your name. Do we need to have a talk?" the lady Ashley was hiding behind barked orders until Ashley murmured, "I'm Ashley".
"Nice to meet you Ashley. We are really excited that you came to camp, and I wanted to let you into a little secret. Everyone today feels a little nervous, so if you happen to ever feel nervous today, just know that everyone else is nervous….even me". Ashley rolled her eyes dramatically at me. "Is that a Minecraft t-shirt? I love that game, I love how it let's you build whatever you want". I asked trying to have even a little breakthrough. No response. "Well Ashley it was nice to meet you, and I want you to know that I am here if you need anything. Have a great first week of camp". Ashley watched as I went and "high-fived" other kids welcoming them to camp.
At the time I was a program coordinator, so I didn't have really information on the background of kids, so I asked Scott(my boss) about Ashley. He told me that she had been in the foster care system for her entire life, being passed from home to home. Camp Ocean Pines had used money donated to camp to send Ashley to camp, in hopes of giving her some support she was not getting at home.
Ashley was not getting along in her cabin. While the rest of her cabin was making friends and having a blast, Ashley would sit in the corner murmuring to herself. Her counselor really tried hard to get her involved and help her make friends, but Ashley didn't want camp(or at least she thought she didn't). The other girls in her cabin were also trying to include her. "Ashley come play with us. We really want you to." Ashley just looked away with an angry look on her face.
At Camp Ocean Pines, we ensure campers make friends and have a "magical" experience and I wanted Ashley to have that experience. I tried everything. At snack, I would go to Ashley and try and talk to her. I told her jokes, I told her funny stories, I told her about my first year at camp but nothing seemed to work. Then I asked her about video games. I asked if she liked to play them, what did she liked about them, what was her favorite game. "The people I live with say video games are bad for me" responded Ashley.
She talked to me! I was so happy I tried to hide my smile. "What's your favorite video game?" I asked Ashley hoping that she would talk more. She whispered Minecraft under her breath but stopped talking to me for the day. It wasn't until dinner the next day where I was able to see the real Ashley.
Most of the kids were eating sloppy joes, Ashley was just staring at her food. I told Ashley I had something to show her outside and she followed me. Right when she walked outside she was hit with the most enormous giant airplane I have ever made. She said, "Hey!" and threw the plane right back at me. It hit me right in the stomach. "Hey!" I said back to her and I grabbed the plane and threw it back to her. We ended up throwing the plane back and forth until she finally asked me how I made it. I showed her how I made the plane and she learned really fast. It wasn't long after that her cabin was outside asking if they could play with us. I told them that was up to Ashley. Ashley said, "Sure!" This was the beginning of Ashley making friends at camp, and she ended up having an amazing time. She made lifelong friends that she told me she still talks to today.
Camp played an instrumental part of her being able to open up and make friends. I know that camp has had an impact on many kids at camp. I've seen the shyest of kids blossom at camp. Camp is the place where the shy, awkward, and the over obsessed with caterpillars kid get to be accepted. Camp is the place where campers, counselors, and staff meet kids where they are at, and help them connect to our Camp Ocean Pines family.


I use massage oil to apply long smooth strokes, along with kneading and compression movements to loosen tight and bound muscles.
This treatment is very rhythmic and soothing, calming the body and mind. It relieves muscle tension and pain, increases flexibility, reduces stiff joints, boosts circulation and helps lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.


A couple of months ago, I learned one of my favorite musicians, Ryan Bingham, was on a solo-acoustic tour and coming through town. I only go to a handful of concerts each year and this was one that I did not want to miss. Credit card in hand, I was ready to fork over whatever they were asking for tickets when I abruptly learned the Portland show was sold out. I looked at the next nearest city on the tour, Seattle, and learned that show was sold out as well. I proceeded to check every city left on the tour and they were also sold out, all except one: Spokane, Washington. I thought about it for half a second before pulling the trigger, buying the ticket, and committing myself to a Spokane road trip for the Thursday night concert.
Seeing as it was a 6-hour drive to Spokane, I figured it was best to make a long weekend out of it. After cashing in my travel points to cover a free 3-night stay at a hotel in Spokane Valley, I noticed that the venue where the concert was going to be was also hosting the World Tour of the Banff Mountain Film Festival the weekend I was in town. I reached out to a friend in Spokane to see if she and her husband would like to get together while I was in town. It turns out they were up for grabbing a coffee as well as joining me for one night of the film festival.
So I had Thursday night and Friday covered with things to do. I then turned my thoughts to what natural areas there was to explore in the area. It didn't take long for me to remember that Coeur d'Alene was very close by, an area that had made it onto my bucket list when I was driving cross country for my move from Madison, Wisconsin to Seattle, Washington in 2010. I was eager to finally have sufficient time to explore the area, albeit 8 years after discovering it. Finally, for Sunday, I planned to use the day driving back to Portland to explore a couple of state parks in Washington that had been on my travel list, one that I had stopped at very briefly a few years earlier on my Labor Day weekend road trip of 2015, and another one that I had only seen pictures of.
Fast forward to November 15th and Cole and I hit the road first thing in the morning. I had planned for us to make a stop at Moses Lake to stretch our legs and check out the sand dunes but a pounding headache derailed those plans and we settled for a quick stop at Sprague Lake Rest Area instead which offered a lovely view of a spectacular sunset. We arrived at our hotel in Spokane Valley around 4:00 PM and were delighted with a dramatic tale from the front desk clerk of a former guest and stolen TV. It quickly became apparent that this hotel experience was going to be…interesting. After unloading my luggage from the car and getting things put away in my room, Cole and I ran out to grab a quick dinner to bring back and enjoy in the room. I had a couple of hours to lounge before it was time to head to the concert. Parking was a bit harder than I anticipated for downtown Spokane but eventually, I settled on an overpriced parking lot so I wouldn't miss the opening of the show. I'm happy to report that Ryan Bingham put on a spectacular event which was everything I had hoped it would be, complete with all the stories behind the music — something that has always been my favorite part of any kind of art form.
Friday morning I slept in a bit but after a quick shower and walk for Cole, we headed over to my friend's house. After checking out the spectacular view from their backyard deck, we decided to walk a mile or so through a nature preserve and park to a local coffee shop where we sat outside, sipped coffee, and enjoyed the sunny fall weather while catching up. After our fill of coffee, we started to walk back to their house, chatting more along the way. After a tour of their house and seeing some of their home projects I had only caught glimpses of on Instagram over the past year, Cole and I headed out for a quick drive to the top of Mt. Spokane. It was a perfect day for the beautiful and relaxed drive through meandering countryside scenery before beginning the winding ascent through the curvy mountain roads toward the top of the mountain. Unfortunately, the road that is needed to access the very top of the mountain was closed so we settled for a mid-level view off the mountain which was still pretty nice. Before long, we needed to head back to the hotel so I could drop Cole off and head over to the film festival. After dropping off Cole, I headed to the venue and joined my friends, who were saving me a seat in a very packed house. The films were all pretty good, exactly what I've come to expect year after year at this festival which I've attended every year since discovering it in 2014. There is always a film that makes you laugh, another that makes you cry, and one that makes you think.
Saturday I woke up early, eager to get to Coeur d'Alene. I parked the car at the City Park parking lot and proceeded to walk the beach with Cole. The sun was bright and the area was surprisingly desolate which made for a great start to the day. After my shoes had their fill of sand, we hopped back in the car and started our drive around the lake, keeping an eye out for the eagles we had learned were abundant at the time in the area. We did see a lot of eagles, unfortunately, mostly while driving so I didn't get to take a lot of pictures of them. We did stop at several places around the lake to stretch our legs, explore, and photograph a bit. By the time the sun was beginning to set, I was wiped and ready to head back to the hotel. Once at the hotel, Cole and I spent our final night lounging in bed with hotel movies while what sounded like chaos ensued in the hallway from a boisterous group taking up several rooms who apparently decided to spill into the hallway space for several hours.
I woke up at 5:00 AM Sunday, my back aching from the poor support of the hotel bed, and decided if I couldn't sleep, that Cole and I were going to hit the road early. What started as a bit of a grumpy day for me soon became the beginning of an exciting day for photography. First, we caught a magnificent sunrise at a random dead-end road I found that just happened to overlook an entire valley that faced the direction in which the sun was soon to be making its appearance. After we were back on the road, within an hour I found myself surrounded and enamored with rolling, curvacious farmland, the terrain that I knew was going to make for spectacular scenery once atop Steptoe Butte. Trying not to get too sidetracked with the side roads of the landscape, we finally found ourselves winding up the spiraling road to the top of the Butte. The drive up lent a beautiful yet terrifying view of the area as far as the eye could see in all directions. The road was narrow, and the land steeply dropped off just over the edge, with no guard rails in site. It was overwhelmingly clear that one wrong move could prove fatal if I was not careful. Once at the top, I could breath easier, although I was afraid I might find myself like one of those cats that climbs a tree but finds themselves unable to climb back down. Lucky for me and Cole, that turned out not to be the case.
After thoroughly freezing ourselves with the high wind and cool 27 degrees air, we started to make our way to Palouse Falls State Park for a more thorough look around than the first time I was there a few years ago. Along the way, I found so many cool roadside wonders to photograph from colorful wheat fields to wind turbines draped in fog. When we finally arrived at the park, we were happy to get out and hike around a bit, exploring all the views we reasonably could before we had to head home. I'm happy to report we did not run into any rattlesnakes and despite the large construction sign at the park entrance warning to stay away from cliff edges due to four people dying recently after falling into the strong currents of the river below and drowning, we managed to keep ourselves safe and in one piece. The drive home presented even more opportunities to photograph a few cool scenes along the way including one that turned out to be my new, most favorite photograph.
Cole and I arrived back in Portland around 7:30 that night. After unloading the car, and returning it to Enterprise, I grabbed a Lyft back home and quickly unpacked so I could begin sharing photos online from the trip. As soon as that was done, Cole and I called it a night and fell fast asleep. It was a great, but exhausting, trip. I was fortunate to have a short work week that next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday so the following 4-day weekend was earmarked for "rest and relaxation" on my calendar and that's just what Cole and I did.
Looks like a wonderful scenic road trip … excellent images! I especially like the first 2. I've been to Steptoe Butte in the late summer … interesting to see it in a different season.
Thanks, Denise. I know what you mean. All the photos I had seen before going here showed the area carpeted in green in all directions. The bonus to going this time of year was having the entire park to myself, which made my time there a little more special and reflective.


Opel is continuing its ongoing product offensive by releasing a real all-rounder with the new Opel Combo Life, a wonderful household car loaded with developments that makes everything possible. The fifth-generation Combo is based upon a new architecture. It is immensely spacious, highly practical and versatile, equipped with one or two rear sliding doors and can be bought as a short (4.40 metres) or long (4.75 metres) variation and as a five or seven seater.
With the new 2019 Opel Combo Life, you will be the hero of your regional sports team when taking an entire seven-a-side group plus sports clothing to the next match. Your prepared family "extensions" can unwind on 3 private rear seats all with Isofix kid seat brackets and take pleasure in a fantastic view of the sky thanks to the panoramic roofing system. And your pals will also love the exceptional spaciousness and ask whether they can obtain your new Opel Combo Life for their trips to nearest Swedish furniture shop.
The new 2019 Opel Combo Life significantly increases the number of modern security and comfort features, raising the bar in its sector significantly. Opel acknowledged the desire of its customers to make modern options accessible to households and have actually fitted it with a vast range of technologies that work in daily driving.
The Opel Combo Life also uses Opel-typical cutting edge Apple CarPlay and Android Auto suitable infotainment systems with as much as eight-inch capacitive colour touchscreen. The fun-factor for residents is further increased by the various charging alternatives. USB ports in the front and second row ensure that tablets and smartphones can be charged even while the kids enjoy their favourite YouTuber. A 230V power socket in the front footwell even enables one guest to plug in a laptop. Moreover, suitable smart devices can likewise be charged wirelessly via the inductive charging pad situated below the air-conditioning controls.
Compared to other cars in the section, it has a shorter front overhang and a greater bonnet. It looks more balanced, robust and confident. From the front, it shows a typically Opel identity with sculptured information enhancing the feeling of precision and strength. The high bonnet with 2 crisp lines, which go from the windshield to the grill, stresses the stability of the vehicle. The primary part of the car is the front grille, where the headlamps with LED Daytime Running Lights with the common Opel winglets band together exactly and amorously as a defined line. Two chrome wings in the grille welcome the Opel Blitz. Thick wheel-wells linked through the side sills further emphasise the strength of the 2019 Opel Combo Life. The rear of the car is extremely direct following a vertical style highlighting the high practicality of the vehicle and framing the generous opening to the travel luggage compartment.
In the interior, motorist ergonomics have actually played a definitive part resulting in a well-organised cockpit where all the controls are easy for the chauffeur to find and reach. The centre console is plainly divided in three various locations. In its upper part, the infotainment system uses up most of the space. Down from there, the motorist finds the heating and ventilation controls and in the lower part there is adequate storage space for a 0.5-litre bottle. Chrome accents on the guiding leather wheel, on the door manages and in the air vents include further character.
Under the bonnet, Opel Combo Life customers will have the choice in between a variety of turbo-charged, direct injection gas and diesel engines. All of the units combine driving pleasure with a high level of fuel economy. The engines are mated to five or six-speed manual transmissions with a segment-first eight-speed automatic alternative likewise being readily available.
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Deploys and configures the Chef Automate 2 server in an airgapped, stateless model.
The server will be tuned for passing Automate's preflight-check and swap will be disabled and the heapsize for Elasticsearch will be set to 1/2 total memory. The license may be referred as a URL or a string in an attribute. The recipe will attempt to restore if a backup file is specified in the attributes.
This recipe requires internet access and is used to create an airgap installation bundle (AIB file) from the "current" release channel. It copies the download AIB file to a destination directory with both the original filename and a generic filename for consistent installations (if desired). It will download a full AIB every run (currently 600 megabytes), so you may want to limit it to daily usage.
Runs chef-automate backup via cron and copies tarballs of the backups to a destination directory. The default is 2:30am daily, but you may change the cron schedule via the following attributes.
This will probably get rewritten when the backup gateway is available.
default: tests installing from a previously downloaded chef-automate and chef-automate-airgap.aib (use the aib suite to create this if necessary) to the shared test directory.
url: tests installing from a previously downloaded chef-automate-airgap.aib and license via URLs.
backup: install and configure backups.
restore: install from a backup .tgz.
aib: tests creating an airgap bundle for installing Automate offline. It writes chef-automate and chef-automate-airgap.aib to the shared test directory.
full: performs both the airgap bundle creation and installation.
Use knife ssl fetch https://192.168.33.33 to pull the default-centos-7.vagrantup.com.crt.
Install the certificate on your workstation. Under MacOS I used the Keychain Access application and did File->Import Items and selected the certificate. I then set the permissions to allow everything and deleted it when I destroyed the Vagrant machine.
Connect to https://192.168.33.33 which will redirect to default-centos-7.vagrantup.com or one of the other suites. This works with Chrome, not Firefox.
This file is used to list changes made in each version of the managed-automate2 cookbook.
Original AIB filename is now preserved in addition to generic name.
Add support for backup recipe and restoring from a backup file.


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Brexit economic experts are like medieval doctors with leeches - pseudoscience to trick the layman
By Daniel Hannan
The country, or at least its commentariat, owes Michael Gove an apology. When, during the Brexit referendum, the then Lord Chancellor dismissed experts' prophecies of an immediate contraction following a Leave vote, he was howled down as an irresponsible rabble-rouser. Now some of the most prominent experts are themselves admitting that Gove had a point. Last week, Andy Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist, described Gove's criticism as "a fair cop" given the "disconnect" between the forecasts and what has in fact happened since the vote.
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Theresa May and Donald Trump to hold talks on trade deal that cuts tariffs and allows workers to move between the US and UK
By Peter Dominiczak
Theresa May and Donald Trump will this week hold talks over a US-UK trade deal that slashes tariffs and makes it easier for hundreds of thousands of workers to move between the two countries. The Prime Minister will on Friday become the first foreign leader to hold talks with the new President in the White House following assurances by Mr Trump's team that he wants to do a major free trade deal with Britain that can be announced in the weeks after Brexit.
Boris Johnson: UK 'first in line' for free trade deal with US
By Julian Borger in Washington
UK foreign secretary emerges from meetings with Donald Trump's aides with positive attitude towards future relationship
Boris Johnson has claimed that the UK is "first in line" for a free trade deal with the US after the Trump administration takes office on 20 January. On a hastily arranged trip to the US to reinforce previously weak links with Donald Trump's transition team, Johnson also declared on Monday that the incoming administration had "a very exciting agenda of change". Johnson's claim about the UK's future status as Washington's preferred trading partner was a pointed reference to Barack Obama's warning during the EU referendum campaign that Britain would be at the "back of the queue" for a trade deal if it chose Brexit.
First China-U.K. Freight Train Departs as Xi Seeks to Lift Trade
By Bloomberg News
London trip will span 18 days and more than 12,000 kilometers
China initiated a rail-freight service to Britain as part of President Xi Jinping's efforts to strengthen trade ties with Europe. The first train departed Yiwu in eastern Zhejiang province on Jan. 1 and will cover more than 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) in about 18 days before reaching London, China Railway Corp. said in a statement Monday. The service, carrying garments, bags and suitcases among other items, will pass through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France.
Trump Greets U.K.'s May as World Leaders Look For Cues
By Robert Hutton and Margaret Talev
Theresa May will provide the first test for how world leaders can deal with Donald Trump when she arrives in the U.S. to welcome the new president to the global stage and lay the groundwork for a U.S.-U.K. trade deal. "As we rediscover our confidence together –- as you renew your nation just as we renew ours –- we have the opportunity, indeed the responsibility, to renew the special relationship for this new age," the U.K. prime minister will tell Republican lawmakers gathered in Philadelphia on Thursday, according to excerpts from her prepared remarks. "We have the opportunity to lead, together, again."
London Real Estate Suffers Largest Drop In A Decade
London continued to lead the pack amid the UK's weakening property market at the start of 2019, according to Bloomberg, which reports that prices have fallen the most since the financial crisis a decade ago.
Values in the capital dropped 3.8% year-over-year according to the Nationwide Building Society, marking the seventh straight decline. The lackluster performance leaves London as the worst-performing region in Britain.
"Great news from Britain!"
World's top wealth fund puts billions into Britain
UK will be stronger after Brexit, Norwegians say
By Oliver Wright, Policy Editor | Callum Jones, Trade Correspondent
The world's largest sovereign wealth fund is taking a 30-year bet that Britain will emerge from Brexit stronger outside the European Union. In an unexpected move, Norway's £740 billion wealth fund said yesterday that it would increase its exposure to British companies, property and bonds regardless of the outcome of Brexit negotiations. This comes despite a 12 per cent fall in the value of its £62 billion of UK investments this year. Britain is the third largest market for the fund's investment capital, which was built up from Norway's oil and gas revenues.
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..."Look at how merciful Islam is. The prophet forbade striking the face."
Send them some pink haired nonbinary Womyn's Studies professors on a cultural exchange program.
Too much money in that country. Don't expect to hear much from Alysa and Chelsea.
I wonder if this is where Michele learned how to keep Barry in line.
A "shocking" video? Seriously? Do liberals just ignore the world?
Exactly. Are people gasping with surprise?


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