"Shine" is an animated short film, which pictures a symbolic fight for the Lithuanian language during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is a poetic ode to Lithuania and its difficult struggle to keep the Lithuanian language alive through the historical changes. Dramatic exile to Siberia, Lithuanian book smuggling, and various movements for independence portrayed through various symbolic metaphors.
A journey deep into the oldest music in the Western world, guided by an eccentric musicologist who has dedicated his life to understanding and preserving it.
Two male, glowing creatures start a fight over trying to impress a female. Each one of them wants to win her over by giving a better light show than his competitor. They are on fire - until one gets burned.
An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomás as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery, illuminating how rainbows can shine around - and within - us all.
Eye candy as a special treat. Let Your Light Shine is the ultimate Spectrum Short film, a photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. A work in the tradition of the absolute animation film of the 1930s, which requires prismatic glasses to achieve the maximum result.
A comedy about a shampoo salesman who makes it onto a game show for inventors.
Shimazaki, who is a teacher at a film school and film director, criticizes the works of a student at the preview of their graduation project. However, he is driven into a frenzy when the audience denounces his film, and massacres 42 people on the spot. 4 years later, Natsuka, who was a high school student at that time, decides to film the ultimate horror film at the exact same location.
SHINE 54 was a professional wrestling event that took place at The Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida on November 2, 2018. It was broadcast on WWNLive.com and Fite.tv.
This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.
SHINE 1 is an event put on by SHINE Wrestling. The event took place at The Orpheum in Ybor City, Florida, USA.
Misterious luminous objects appear each night at San Andres beach.
Music dvd starring Irish country pop singer Brendan Shine.
Snowboarding's brightest up and comers and veteran pros as they film over the 2008/2009 season. Shot on location in the Whistler Backcountry, BC Interior, Alberta Rockies, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, California and Japan.
Join Reese Witherspoon for some real talk and laughs with female trailblazers.
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.
Rise-n-Shine is a morning talk show that aired weekdays at 6:00 AM ET on WLTZ in Columbus, Georgia from 1989 to 2010. The show ended due to host Calvin Floyd moving to a noon talk show.
Born to Shine was an ITV entertainment programme which featured celebrities who learn a new skill taught to them by talented teenagers, live on Sunday evenings. The show was presented by Natasha Kaplinsky and won by Jason Manford.
Shine on You is a drama series produced by Hong Kong broadcaster TVB and was first aired from September 13 to October 22, 2004 in the prime time 8:00 to 9:00 pm slot. Consisting of 30 episodes it was produced by Mui Siu Ching and featured a cast consiting of amongst others Bobby Au Yeung, Kenix Kwok and Michael Tao. The series concerned the lives of student and teachers at a band three school in Hong Kong. Michael Tao and Kenix Kwok were paired together for the first time since Detective Investigation Files III ended 7 years prior to this series. Following its first broadcast the series was repeated from July, 24 to September 1, 2006 in the noon time slot, and again from July 22, 2010 in the early evening slot.
A comedic doc series about the young entrepreneurs behind Shinesty, an apparel company in Colorado.
Shinee's Yunhanam is a South Korean variety show starring the South Korean boy group, Shinee and narrated by Gain of Brown Eyed Girls. It's the first reality show by Shinee 3 months after their debut. Yunhanam literally refers to the concept of a younger man dating an older woman, the concept also match with their Replay - Noona Is So Pretty.


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Q: How to Add customization option for each product in Magento? So I have multiple products, which can be customized by the user for some extra fee. Like say add a message for 5$. Gift wrap it for 10 $. These options I want on products page. Now I don't want to add these custom option for each products as it will take a lot of time and I have over 500 products. So is there an easy way to do it, where I can select which products can be customized.
The customization option that I want is exactly like this.
http://www.utsavfashion.in/lehenga/deep-purple-viscose-lehenga-choli-with-dupatta/sllwk419-itemcode
But I don't think this is built on Magento. How can I achieve this in Magento.

A: You can create options programmaticaly
Following this piece of code:

require 'app/Mage.php';
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$option = array(
    'title' => 'Your custom option title',
    'type' => 'radio', // could be drop_down ,checkbox , multiple
    'is_require' => 1,
    'sort_order' => 0,
    'values' => getOptions()
    );

function getOptions(){
   return array(
   array(
    'title' => 'Option Value 1',
    'price' =>100,
    'price_type' => 'fixed',
    'sku' => 'any sku for 1',
    'sort_order' => '1'
    ),
array(
    'title' => 'Option Value 2',
    'price' =>100,
    'price_type' => 'fixed',
    'sku' => 'any sku for 2',
    'sort_order' => '1'
    ),
  array(
    'title' => 'Option Value 3',
    'price' =>100,
    'price_type' => 'fixed',
    'sku' => 'any sku for 3',
    'sort_order' => '1'
    )
);
}

$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
foreach($products as $product) {
    $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($id);
    $product->setProductOptions(array($option));
    $product->setCanSaveCustomOptions(true);
    //Do not forget to save the product
    $product->save();

}

A: The simplest way is to have custom options, not configurable products.
And you can mass copy custom options from one product to, say, 100 other product using som mass product actions plugin from magento connect.
Also there are custom options templates extensions.
Also you can generate custom options with some script, see the answer below.

A: Your best option is likely going to be Magmi, which allows you to automate product imports with a variety of options. One of the plugins that comes with it is the Configurable Item Processor which allows you to create configurable products based on existing products or attributes.
There will still be some manual work in order to make your products Magmi-friendly. Hopefully this is enough to get you started. If you need help setting up and importing with Magmi, thats probably best for another question.

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This page displays sold house prices for Heaton Park Drive in Bradford.
Heaton Park Drive in Bradford BD9 consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Heaton Park Drive typically have values around £150,000 - £250,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £300,000.


In Horizon users can set their own timezone. If they don't it currently defaults to UTC on our stack. Is there a way to make this default to our timezone?
Time is set in Openstack host machine. Users are just accessing horizon service using web server running in host machine. Not sure if we can have individual horizon client in user's machine.


Only the men weren't yelling. They were singing. In harmony.
My friends didn't quite know what to make of this. When they got home and told me what they'd seen, we looked online to try to figure it all out. What we found was Men in Suits.
Men in Suits are a twenty-large choir of white, middle-aged men wearing suits who turn up at public Melbourne spaces unannounced, singing a-cappella covers and originals, satirically lamenting the mind-numbing mundanity of the corporate world — a world in which many of the vocalists are very familiar.
Their uncanny performance style have caused Men in Suits to be banned from various places; like Myer, where they lulled passing shoppers with their anti-consumer chant Buy More Stuff, during Christmas.
These dashing gentlemen supported violence against women when they were asked to perform at the Victorian Women's Trust's Be The Hero! Storming Against Violence forum.
What more do you want, folks? These blokes are using music to do good for the world — in a novel, humorous and entertaining way — better than any of the latest batch of sparkly musical vagaries, most of which fizzle and sputter out by year's end.
So lend them your ears!
Listen to Men in Suits' latest album, We Are Here To Help You.
Like a-capella singing? Try out Melbourne quartet The Nymphs.


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Rihanna Slams Snapchat for Running Ad Asking Users if They'd Rather 'Slap Rihanna or Punch Chris Brown'
Chris J Ratcliffe, Getty Images
Rihanna isn't letting Snapchat slide after the failing social media app ran a massively tone deaf advertisement for a game making light of domestic violence.
On Thursday (March 15), the pop star shared a statement in her Instagram Story in response to the tasteless ad.
"Now Snapchat, I know you already know you ain't my fav app out there! But I'm just trying to figure out what the point was with this mess! I'd love to call it ignorance, but I know you ain't that dumb," she wrote, adding that the company had "spent money to animate something that would intentionally bring shame to [domestic violence] victims."
"This isn't about my personal feelings, 'cause I don't have much of them," she continued, "but all the woman, children and men that have been victims of [domestic violence] in the past and especially the ones who haven't made it out yet...you let us down!"
"Shame on you. Throw the whole app-oligy away," she concluded. See below:
@badgalriri via Instagram
Earlier this month, Snapchat published an advertisement for a game app called "Would You Rather?," which asked users if they would rather "slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown"—a baffling query that seemed to reference Brown's 2009 assault on the "Love on the Brain" singer while they were dating.
The advertisement was quickly pulled, and Snapchat told BBC's Newsbeat that the "advert was reviewed and approved in error, as it violates our advertising guidelines."
"We immediately removed the ad last weekend, once we became aware. We are sorry that this happened," the company added.
However, the damage had already been done, with anti-domestic violence activists and celebrities like Chelsea Clinton condemning the company.
The Most Controversial Magazine Covers Ever:
Source: Rihanna Slams Snapchat for Running Ad Asking Users if They'd Rather 'Slap Rihanna or Punch Chris Brown'
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College may seem to be far in the future or it may be just around the corner. Either way, a 529 college savings plan can help you and your family to save for college while also taking advantage of the federal and state tax benefits for doing so.
CollegeAdvantage, Ohio's 529 college savings plan, has been helping families save for college for over 25 years. Families that start early and save regularly over time can accumulate funds to pay for some, half, or even all of a child's future higher education costs. Created by Congress to encourage families to save for college, all 529 plans offer tax-free growth and tax-free withdrawals when used to pay for 529-qualified higher education expenses. As an added advantage, Ohio taxpayers who make contributions to a CollegeAdvantage 529 account may deduct contributions of up to $4,000 from their Ohio taxable income per year, per beneficiary. And the deduction isn't limited to just the account owner; family and friends who make gift contributions directly to an account also qualify for the deduction. Even more, contributions over $4,000 per year, per beneficiary may be carried forward to future tax years until all contributions are fully deducted.
Families may open a CollegeAdvantage account for as little as $25. Funds can be used at accredited schools in Ohio and throughout the U.S., including public and private schools, 2-year, 4-year, graduate, or technical schools . . . any school that is eligible for federal financial aid. Eligible schools have a Federal School Code and can be identified by searching for the school's Code at www.fafsa.gov.
To learn more about saving for college with CollegeAdvantage 529 or to open an account online, visit www.CollegeAdvantage.com.


Barclays is testing the Bitcoin blockchain and the Bitcoin network has survived a surprise stress test by CoinWallet.
Canadian Senate's Committee recommends regulatory "light touch" on Bitcoin, and mining pool BTC Guild is shutting down.
GigaHash (gigahash.org) was launched in January 2015 providing cloud mining services from Bulgaria.
ShapeShift is leaving New York and Russia may soon legalize Bitcoin transactions.
StakeMiners (stakeminers.com) was launched in March 2015 providing stake "mining" services from the Philippines.


When she launches in late 2009, Oasis of the Seas will be the largest and most revolutionary cruise ship in the world. An architectural marvel at sea, she will span 16 decks, encompass 220,000 gross registered tons (GRT), carry 5,400 guests at double occupancy, and feature 2,700 staterooms. Oasis of the Seas will be the first ship to tout the cruise line's new neighborhood concept of seven distinct themed areas, which includes Central Park, Boardwalk, the Royal Promenade, the Pool and Sports Zone and Vitality at Sea Spa and Fitness Center. The ship will sail from her home port of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Additional information is available at www.oasisoftheseas.com.


Even if you work hard to save money on groceries, you may be spending too much without realizing it. Recently, I've come across some sneaky pricing tricks at my local grocery stores. At first, you might think that you are saving money on groceries, but you'll find that you are actually overpaying for groceries!
If you love to save money, you are probably drawn to clearance items when you shop-even at the grocery store. Clearance items may be seasonal items (like Easter themed) that have passed the time when people will likely buy them. Or they may just be items the store is trying to get rid of.
But a recent trip to my local Wal-mart had me a little surprised. They had a 12 pack of fruit pouches on the clearance shelf marked at a "clearance" price of $7.28. After a trip down the aisles to find the regular priced ones, I found a pack of 4 for $1.98 (equating to a 12 pack for $5.94), less than their clearance price!
We are programmed to think that the largest package of any item must be the best price for what we are buying. Especially since we are accustomed to buying in bulk at stores like Sam's Club or Costco.
My recent trip found a few examples of this, one of them being fresh blackberries. The small container was $1.48 and the large container (double the size) was $3.48.
In reality, you need to compare the prices for the different sizes. Some stores make this easy by listing a cost per ounce/unit directly on the price sticker. Other stores you may have to figure this out yourself. You may need to buy multiples of smaller packaged items instead of buying the large bulk package to save the most money.
Have you walked down an aisle and been drawn to the red or yellow tags indicating an item has been marked down? Most of the time, we assume it's a good deal because it's marked down, right?
Next time check the before and after price. Many of the items are only marked down a little bit. I saw plenty of signs advertising a great deal…but many were under $.20! Yes, it's still a savings over regular price. But I still feel duped because the grocery store made a big deal over a little savings. And if you like to stock pile when you find a good deal, you might be likely to stock up when you see the little red flag.
Only stock up on sale items if it is a good (rock bottom) price. Don't give in and buy more for the "little" sale.
This one is a little trickier and more on the food manufacturers. We as consumers don't like to pay more for our food, so what happens when food costs rise? Food packages shrink.
Instead of increasing prices, many items just get smaller. And what really peeves me is when they make a big deal about something being "regular" size again.
Do you remember when ice cream came in a half gallon container? Then it gradually went down to 1.75 quarts and now most are 1.5 quarts but the pricing has remained about the same.
Sometimes they change the packaging in a way that you don't even realizing you are getting less. I saw a special on tv where they made the dent in the bottom of the peanut butter jar bigger so the jar looked the same, but held less peanut butter.
A couple of other examples-shredded cheese is starting to shrink from it's 2 cup packages and some pasta is down to 12 oz from a pound.
When you go into the produce section, you find that most items are priced by the pound. And often times it's hard to find a scale to see how much you are actually getting (Wal-mart is the worst).
While that isn't too bad, you can still end up paying too much for food if you aren't careful.
Just last week, I wanted to get some watermelon. The store had whole watermelons for about $5, but I knew we would not eat (or have room for) a whole one. To my convenience, they had halved and quartered watermelon as well. And at the great price of $.69 a pound.
At $.69 a pound, I figured it would be a couple bucks. Except I figured wrong (duh, watermelon is heavy). And I didn't realize my mistake until I got home and saw the price tag on the bottom that I missed when I purchased it. My little quarter of a watermelon cost me $4.50, and I could have bought a whole one for just a little bit more.
Even when we work hard to save money on groceries, we may be getting tricked into paying more for our food. Pay close attention to the prices before you fall for these common tactics!


Can I see clearly now?
Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men." But they did not understand what this meant. It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.
Last week I met with a Vocations Chaplain as part of my exploration of whether God is calling me to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England. In my previous post ("Who I am I today?") I wrote of the challenge I felt to not pretend to be the person I thought the Vocations Chaplain would want to see, but to be true to myself.
During my meeting I came to the realisation that my life has had, in one respect at least, something in common with Jesus's disciples. Just as the true meaning of things Jesus said or did was kept from the disciples, it seems that I may have been prevented from seeing and understanding certain things until now.
Although my exploration of Anglican ordination began in earnest earlier this year I have talked about the subject in a seemingly trivial and sporadic fashion since becoming a Christian (see my post "I am called…"). I certainly felt the call of God during this time but never did it feel like I was being called to become ordained, nor did I take such talk seriously. God's calling in these years seemed focused on short-term projects, on relationships and on spiritual tests and trials.
It is almost as though I have been going through life not being able to see properly. It is almost as if I am living in 'The Matrix'.
In The Matrix, Neo lives in a world that seems real and perfectly acceptable. Life is fine, if perhaps a little mundane. There are hints that there is something else but nothing that screams out "Wake up!". When asked, he decides that he wants to look on his world with new eyes, to become fully aware of what is happening around him and how he fits in to that world.
In my world, on that run, I was asked a similar question by God. He suggested that I should at least explore ordination, nothing more. He didn't show a grand plan, or give me a picture of my life in a few years time, He just offered a choice: take the blue pill, dismiss His suggestion and carry on with my perfectly acceptable life; take the red pill and open myself, and my mind, to a path that was uncertain but one that would open my eyes to what was around me.
As my exploration of this particular calling developed this year I gradually began to tell friends and chat with them about it. Strange things began to happen. Unsolicited, friends would remind me of past conversations we had had, about their or my feeling that I was being called to preach and to be a pastor, or vicar. One friend passed on a conversation they had had with someone else who had only briefly met me yet said to them out of my ear-shot that they thought I would make a good vicar. Had I been told of this at the time it would have had little or no impact, so why has it now?
I entered my meeting with my Vocations Chaplain with my personality and my experiences laid bare. In doing so he was able to tell me things about myself that I hadn't noticed. He helped me to become more aware of myself than I had been when I arrived that evening. Had I worn a mask his job would have been harder and the meeting would have been less helpful.
As I ended my meeting with the Vocations Chaplain I realised that I had not been ready to hear a calling from God towards ordination before this year, and God knew that too. We all develop and learn at different rates. Perhaps I'm a slow learner but God has been using the past 15 years to mould and shape me into who I am now.
The fact that I feel a call to explore right now doesn't negate my past with God; He has certainly called and used me in the past, but for other things. In one sense it is a little frustrating, almost as though I have wasted all that time. But would I change my past? Would you?
Whilst most of my past has been a blessing and a delight it has also seen some dark and painful periods. But my past brought me to my present and has shaped me to a certain extent. It has also seen God provide a stable and secure foundation of a loving wife and children, and home to call my own, all things I have craved for as long as I can remember. Having strengthened my foundations He can now lead me on to a new phase in my life and journey. Had I tried to pursue or explore my current path earlier I suspect that it would have been a fruitless struggle.
If I changed the past I wouldn't be who I am, and who I am is who God loves, warts and all.
In life, our level of awareness of what is going on around us changes, whether God is part of it or not. Often, the more questions we ask the more we realise that we don't know. Sometimes that can be scary and daunting, and lead to us closing the door and running in the opposite direction. Sometimes the questions we ask can give tantalising answers that intrigue us and make us want to plunge deeper into the issue.
The Vocations Chaplain left me with some questions to ponder, questions that may help direct me along the right route. As I seek answers to the questions I was given I am confident my awareness of what my next steps should be will increase.
God has also helped me to become more aware of Him and more in-tune with Him. I feel as though I can see more clearly now. The clarity is being delivered more gradually than it was to Neo. Past conversations and experiences are beginning to make sense, well some of them!
I may not feel as though I am wandering about in the fog, and yes the path is becoming clearer, but I still can not say for sure whether I can make out the destination. Although perhaps I am sitting on the fence, hedging my bets because I am too scared to declare I can in case I am wrong. I should take strength from the confidence the Vocations Chaplain had in me being called to go further along this path. Whatever the case the destination will become clearer as I continue this particular journey and as more people walk alongside me to discern together what exactly God has in plan for me.
For now I have those questions to answer, which will no doubt form future posts on this blog. There is much more to discover and I am excited to see what I find.
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What Kind of Socialism is National-Socialism? What are the Alternatives?
Democrat Shooter Connor Betts and the Death of the American Family
The Trans/Sociopath Overlap
"Queer Jew" Revelations: Anne Frank Hoax Modified, Extended for Increased "Relevance"?
Europe: A House Divided
Racially Conscious Whites and Christianity
Marine Le Pen's TIME Debut: Disappointing
Black Violence and Chaos Reign as St. Paul Schools Spend Millions on "White Privilege Training"
Rosemary W. Pennington 2015-06-15
Rosemary W. Pennington · 15 June, 2015
"Training" insists that worst Black behaviors be "tolerated"; the result is a dangerous environment for White students and teachers. What is needed is not mere "reform," but a new society — and school system — for Whites alone.
HAVE THE taxpayers of St. Paul spent nearly $3 million over the past five years to bring chaos and danger to their schools and students?
Apparently so.
In 2010, the St. Paul school district began a contractual relationship with the Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based organization that tries to help public schools deal with achievement and disciplinary issues involving black students.
PEG packages and sells the concept of victimization, for a very high price.
It claims that the American education system is built around white culture, tradition and social norms — aka "white privilege" — to the unfair detriment of black students.
PEG believes that black students will only achieve if school curricula are customized to meet their cultural specifications. It also rejects the concept of using suspensions or expulsions to discipline black students.
The relationship with PEG has been costly for the St. Paul district, in more ways than one.
According to information provided by the district to EAGnews through a freedom of information request, St. Paul schools spent at least the following amounts on PEG consultations services over the past five years:
* $137,720 in 2010-11,
* $489,150 in 2013-14 and
* $285,895 in 2014-15.
The district also reported spending "matched amounts" of $132,072 (2010-11), $363,260 (2011-12) and $537,900 (2012-13) on PEG, without explaining what that term means.
Not long after PEG started working with St. Paul school officials, crucial policy changes were made, according to various news reports.
Special needs students with behavioral issues were mainstreamed into regular classrooms, a position openly advocated by PEG.
Student suspensions were replaced by "time outs," and school officials starting forgiving or ignoring violence and other unacceptable behavior, according to various sources.
"The disciplinary changes came out of meetings with an organization called Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based operation that has been consulting with the district dating back to 2010," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The result has been general chaos throughout the district, with far too many students out of control because they know there are no real consequences for their actions.
A local publication called CityPages recently told the story of Becky McQueen, an educator at St. Paul's Harding High School.
"Last spring, when she stepped into a fight between two basketball players, one grabbed her shoulder and head, throwing her aside," the CityPages article explained. "The kid was only sent home for a couple of days.
"In March, when a student barged into her class, McQueen happened to be standing in the doorway and got crushed into a shelf. The following week, two boys came storming in, hit a girl in the head, then skipped back out. One of them had already been written up more than 30 times.
"Yet another student who repeatedly drops into her class has hit kids and cursed at an aide, once telling McQueen he would "fry" her ass. She tried to make a joke of it — 'Ooh, I could use a little weight loss.' Her students interjected: 'No, that means he's gonna kill you.'"
McQueen now has her students use a secret knock on the classroom door, so she will know who to allow in, the article said.
"There are those that believe that by suspending kids we are building a pipeline to prison. I think that by not, we are," McQueen told CityPages. "I think we're telling these kids you don't have to be on time for anything, we're just going to talk to you. You can assault somebody and we're gonna let you come back here."
There are similar horror stories from many other school buildings in the district, according to CityPages:
At John A. Johnson Elementary on the East Side, several teachers, who asked to remain anonymous, describe anything but a learning environment. Students run up and down the hallways, slamming lockers and tearing posters off the walls. They hit and swear at each other, upend garbage cans under teachers' noses.
Nine teachers at Ramsey Middle School have quit since the beginning of this school year. Some left for other districts. Others couldn't withstand the escalating anarchy.
In mid-April, staff at Battle Creek Elementary penned a letter to their principal over "concerns about building wide safety, both physical and emotional, as well as the deteriorating learning environment."
A week later, the principal announced that he would be transferred next year.
One despondent teacher told CityPages, "We have students who will spend an hour in the hallway just running and hiding from people, like it's a game for them. A lot of them know no one is going to stop them, so they just continue."
The families of the district have clearly had enough.
Over the past four years, as PEG has cast its influence in St. Paul, the number of students living in the district but attending non-district schools, has increased from about 9,000 to 12,000.
Source: EAGnews
Black Inferiority: It's Far More Than IQ
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Can One Race Be Superior to Another?
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The Triumph of Communism
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The Words of Adolf Hitler, part 3: Education; The Enemy; Struggle
Zimbabwe: In Hundreds of Schools, Pass Rate Is Zero
Some Noteworthy Physical Characteristics of the Negro (and Their Relevance for Self-Defense)
David Duke said in an old video that in a few short decades, Whites will make up fewer than 1 in every 10 births. I can't for the life of me find what his source was. Where did he get this from? Assuming we all aren't genocided long before we are ten percent of the population, I cannot believe our percentage could ever get that low!
15 June, 2015 4:24 pm


My eyes were red and swollen even before we arrived at the church. I had already been crying in the car, not so much for him, but for all that I knew had happened between us so many years before this day. My older brother was just one of four primary abusers in my childhood, but in many ways he was the most damaging to me. And now he was dead.
The swirling emotions I felt as I entered the church were toxic and overwhelming. Family members greeted me with saddened, concerned faces, yet no one seemed as broken as I was, including his widow and children. No one else seemed to be struggling to hold back scalding tears, even though I know that many were genuinely sad that a friend, son, husband, and father they loved was now gone. I had known a completely different person than they had.
Music played softly on the sound system. I tried to put on a nice smile and talk with family members and friends, but as I saw the black and white photographs of our childhood years scroll by on the screen in the front of the church I ran down the hall to hide in the kitchen as I sobbed uncontrollably.
Mercifully, the service was brief. I managed to stand and read his obituary and to sing The Lord's Prayer at the end. I don't know how I made it through, but I did. It was my "gift" to him, even though I don't believe God's will was done "on earth as it is in heaven" in our lives in any way. I don't believe that big brothers were made to abuse their little brothers.
I shook a few hands, hugged a few necks, offered a few platitudes, and exited the building. My wife offered to drive but I refused. A few moments later, as I was backing out of the parking space, the sobbing returned—even harder. We changed places and she drove us away from the church. I had said goodbye.
I can't explain or justify the behavior of those who abused us. I know two former perpetrators and the response I've received from both is that they acted out of an overwhelming need. I'd call it an addiction (many may disagree), but the urge was so compelling they felt powerless to resist.
If that's correct, they struggle with greater internal monsters than we do. Generally, perpetrators are victim-survivors of sexual abuse and carry the pain most of us have experienced. On top of that, they also become victimizers.
I believe our abusers are tormented by their actions. Even though they feel they can't help themselves and find excuses for what they did, they also know they did something terrible. They stole our childhood innocence and brought immeasurable pain into our lives. Consequently, I see them as people in even greater pain than the rest of us.
It took me years to feel that way, but now I've learned compassion toward myself but also toward the abusers. I had to move beyond my own pain before I could understand that those who hurt me were also living in agony.
I do know they need my compassion.
Sometimes the question comes, "Where was God?"
When we ask such questions, we imply that if God is good, nothing bad should happen to us—or at least nothing bad to the innocent. Life just doesn't work that way. I've been reading the Bible for more than 50 years and the promises of God are to be with us in our pain and not to shield us. For example, "Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me" (Psalm 23:4, New Living Translation).
I wish God had protected me during childhood. I hate the pain I've had to go through. Now—after dealing with my issues for years—I can look back and thank God for taking me through those terrible times. He didn't let me give up, and I'm healthier today. However, that's not all: I care about others in their pain because I can feel what they feel.
Too often we forget the purpose of our ordeals. We come out stronger and more sensitive to the needs of others. We can wrap our arms around the hurting because we know how it feels to be hurt.
I don't know why God didn't intervene.
I do know that I can intervene when others are in pain.
This question comes up regularly, and I could give many answers, but here's one: I forgive because I want to move forward in my healing. That probably sounds like a selfish answer, and it is—but it's also a necessary one.
If I don't forgive, I hold on to my pain and won't let go. As long as I refuse to forgive, I will feel anger, rage, or some kind of negative emotion toward another. Holding on to those feelings holds me back.
I want to make it clear: This is not a demand to forgive. We forgive when we're ready. We are the only ones who can decide on the right time.
because I want to be free from my painful past.
After we've been treading up the painful winding path toward wholeness, we look ahead and see how far we have yet to go. It's like hiking up a mountain, and just as we reach the summit, we stare ahead and realize that to reach the destination means we have to keep going to another summit.
"There's always another mountain to climb," I groaned after about a year. Then I remembered the testimonies I used to hear from members of AA. After they told their stories of debauchery and agony, they went on to express the peace and joy they had experienced since their sobriety. Their presentations made it sound as if they had been totally healed.
They weren't healed. Some of them hold up their tokens to proclaim their sobriety. And many of them didn't go back to alcohol. None of them had everything figured out. The best members of AA would say to me that the journey was still one day at a time. The most victorious were able to say they were closer to a healthier life. None of them ever talked about arrival.
If you're agonizing over the journey yet ahead, perhaps you need to pause and look backward.
I can look at how far I've already come.
I can say, "I haven't arrived, but I'm on the way."
Early in my healing process, I asked that question repeatedly. I was hurting and I couldn't understand the reason for the intense pain. I wanted to face the reality of my traumatic childhood, learn from the experience, and move on with my life. But I didn't want the pain, or at least I wanted less of it.
My real question didn't involve why as much as it did how. "How do I get rid of the torment, the painful memories and re-experiencing my childhood trauma?" Like thousands of other survivors, I learned to say those now-clichéd words, "I had to feel the pain to move beyond the pain." As memories trickled back (some exploded), I faced each one. In private, I cried often in those early days; I raged and I yelled at my perpetrators.
In the midst of those rants and tears, I wanted relief. And it did help to vent, but it helped even more to talk to the two people who loved me enough to stay with me in my pain—my wife and my friend David.
What worked for me may not be the path for everyone. We have different temperaments and see life through our personal, unique experiences. If we want healing, each of us needs to find our own way.
I remind myself that it won't last.
The more I heal, the less the pain lingers.
"Why not you?" I've heard people say. That response lacks compassion.
We were needy—but again, that wasn't our fault. We didn't receive the love and affection we deserved and should have had. Our parents may have loved us but they didn't express it or we didn't feel their love.
If we didn't get what we needed from them, we became vulnerable and open to predators who treated us lovingly and gave us attention—but only as a means to take care of their own lust.
Here's an answer that helps me. I was a needy kid and was abused, but now that I'm well into my healing journey, I can help others on their path to wholeness.
Many of the emails that come to my personal box ask why in some form. Here's my answer: I don't know. I'm not sure anyone can fully give the reasons behind the queries about pain, injustice, healing, and anguish.
Instead of asking for the reason something happens, it's more healthful to focus on the deeper, perhaps-unasked question.
Here's my major reason for suggesting this: When we ask why, the natural answer is logical and analytical. We may gain information, but we rarely find help because our issues come from multi-layered pain and we want satisfying, emotional responses.
ask yourself, "What do I really want?"


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Eighty-First Annual Catalogue and Circular of Canandaigua Academy, Canandaigua, N. Y., June 15, 1876.
Names in this online transcription include Allen, Anderson, Ashley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Barhite, Barker, Bayley, Below, Benedict, Bishop, Bowdy, Brown, Brundage, Buckley, Buell, Callister, Campbell, Carr, Chapin, Christian, Clarke, Clement, Clohacey, Collins, Cook, Cooley, Cowan, Crittenden, Cross, Crowe, Davis, Depue, Dewey, Douglass, Drake, Draper, Dwyer, Eighmey, Evered, Ferguson, Fisher, Foster, Gardner, Gooding, Goodrich, Gorham, Granger, Graves, Green, Gunnison, Guyer, Haag, Hall, Hamilton, Hankinson, Hannah, Harlow, Hathaway, Hawley, Hayes, Hicks, Houghton, Howell, Howland, Hubbell, Jackson, Jewett, Jones, Kellogg, Lapham, Loomis, Lord, Mahaney, Mallery, Maltman, Matthews, McCarty, McClarey, McGough, McMillan, Metcalf, Middlebrook, Mizner, Murphy, Murray, Nelson, Newton, O'Reilley, Osgood, Otley, Peck, Perry, Petty, Phelps, Pierce, Pierson, Poe, Pound, Power, Powers, Pritchard, Rankine, Reed, Remington, Root, Sackett, Salisbury, Simmons, Sisson, Sloan, Smith, Stearns, Stebbins, Stevens, Sutherland, Swezey, Tallmadge, Taylor, Tellier, Tilton, Twist, VanBussum, Vanderbrooke, VanSickle, Warner, Watson, Wayne, Wheaton, Wilder, Wilson, Woodworth, Yunk.
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Reports of arrest of Saudi sponsor of Sri Lankan torture victim
Posted: 1252 GMT
There are unconfirmed reports that the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry has arrested the sponsor of a Sri Lankan maid who has been in the news lately after doctors in her home country found 24 nails and needles inserted into her skin allegedly by the Saudi couple she worked for.
The 49-year-old woman who moved to Riyadh in March said the torture was her employers' way of punishing her when she didn't do the work they demanded by inserting pieces of metal into her arms, legs, hands and forehead.
She returned to her country for treatment and the story has gained momentum, incurring indignation in Sri Lanka, including protests outside the Saudi embassy in Colombo, and widespread demands for the Saudi government to take action. Read the latest on this story in the Saudi English-language daily Arab News.
Posted by: IME Producer
Filed under: Human Rights •Saudi Arabia
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Shas spiritual leader: Abbas 'should perish'
Posted: 652 GMT
Shocking words have come from the spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox political party, Shas. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef denounced the upcoming direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington this week and was quoted by Israel Army Radio as saying of the Palestinian President, "Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this world... God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians."
Instant condemnation of his weekly sermon came from the Palestinian government. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat called it incitement, saying in a statement: "The spirtual leader of Shas is literally calling for a genocide against Palestinians," adding that, "He is particularly calling for the assassination of President Abbas (Abu Mazen) who within a few days will be sitting face to face with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Is this how the Israeli government prepares its public for a peace agreement?"
The Shas party is part of Netanyahu's coalition and has issued no official statement. Netanyahu's office issued this statement: "These things do not reflect PM Netanyahu's approach nor that of the Israeli government. Israel comes to the negotiations with a will to advance towards an agreement that would put an end to the conflict and guarantee peace, security and good neighboring relations between the two nations."
In his weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said he is aware of the difficulties of the upcoming direct talks, but the Israeli side is willing to advance towards peace.
Ahmed Tibi, an Arab Israeli and deputy speaker of the Israeli parliament says: "The Rabbi... has long been the leader of the unjust and evil, he speaks from hatred and calls for murder and death and this is a far cry from the values held by all heavenly religions."
This is not the first time the Shas spiritual leader has caused controversy with his sermons. Israeli media says in 2001 he called the Palestinians "evil and damnable" adding: "You must send missiles to them and annihilate them."
There's been widespread condemnation of the comments across the Arab media - coming just three days before the Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet to talk peace.
Posted by: CNN Correspondent, Paula Hancocks
Filed under: Israel •Palestinians
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Bahrain investigates activist as media gag order takes effect
Bahrain has begun investigating the case of Shiite activist and spokesman of Al Haq political movement Abduljalil Al- Singace, according the Emirati newspaper Gulf News.
This comes amid reports that the kingdom's prosecutor has issued a gag order on the media from further reporting on the case.
"Based on the requirements for discretion in order to reach facts and in line with Bahrain's public order, Dr Ali Al Buainain, the public prosecutor, has issued a gag order on publishing, through print, audio, video and online media, news or details on the case of the terror network," the Gulf News quotes a Bahraini public prosecution source as saying.
"No details or hints about the investigations should be published and violators of the gag will be imprisoned for up to one year or fined. The only exception is the statements issued by the public prosecutor."
Al Singace's arrest on August 13 upon his return from London and subsequent detention of other Haq supporters intensified clashes between rioters and security forces.
The New York Times reported on what seems to be a widespread crackdown on Shiite activists in the wake of the heightened tension.
Filed under: Bahrain •Human Rights •Media
Palestinian Authority Crackdown?
Heavy-handed behavior by Palestinian Authority security forces is not a new phenomenon. In the past, protests against the government have been broken up with force.
One Palestinian human rights group said in a statement it happened again on Wednesday.
The West Bank-based Al-Haq said political activists and members of civil society groups who oppose direct talks with Israel were in the process of convening when security personnel broke up the gathering and roughed up some people.
Al-Haq employees, who work across the street from the meeting location, said the meeting hall was filled with plainclothes police "who effectively disrupted the event." And, when the conference attendees left the hall to gather in front of the entrance in protest, they were surrounded by the officers, who started fights.
An Al-Haq staffer who tried to videotape what was going on was grabbed by the neck and had his camera seized. A co-worker who tried to assist him was injured and sent to the hospital.
Al-Haq threw a rhetorical counter punch. It called the actions of the West Bank government's security forces an "example of the increasing climate of violence and intimidation that is effectively transforming Palestinian society into a "police state.""
We could not reach anyone from the Palestinian Authority to comment on what transpired, but the authority-run WAFA news agency reported that President Mahmoud Abbas had ordered an investigation into the matter.
In a statement released Thursday the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights Points expressed its concern about "attacks the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to peaceful assembly" which it said were rights guaranteed by Palestinian law.
One thing is certain: The incident underscores just how controversial and sensitive the topic of negotiations is among Palestinians, many of whom do not support the terms under which the talks are to be held.
Posted by: Kevin Flower
Filed under: General •Human Rights •Palestinians •Protests •West Bank
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"You know the war is over, right?"
An injured woman is seen in her home following a car bomb in a residential neighbourhood in the southern holy city of Karbala (MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images)
Wednesday was a bloody day in conflict-worn Iraq. Just days after the much hyped drawdown of American combat brigades at least 48 Iraqis were killed in bomb attacks in 13 cities spread throughout the entire country.
The spike in violence is no surprise to many Iraqi citizens, who, as our Baghdad correspondent Arwa Damon reports, are increasingly fearful of a return to the "dark years"
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) – "It's so bad, the security situation is so bad in Baghdad, Arwa, it really is you have to believe me," one of our maintenance staff said to me, his eyes welling with tears.
In all my years here, even when the violence was at its worst, I have never seen him so distraught....
Full story here
Filed under: Iraq
VIDEO: Celebrating "Ramazan" in Turkey
Filed under: Culture •General •Turkey •Video
When Diplomats Strike
The Israeli Embassy to the United States in Washignton D.C. (David Jenkins/CNN)
Imagine you are the leader of your country making an important diplomatic visit to another country. You would expect, as is custom, to be met on the ground by personnel from your embassy who would assist with all of the complicated logistics and protocol of a state visit.
Pretty standard stuff that usually gets taken for granted in the world of international diplomacy, but not if you are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and your foreign ministry staff is on strike.
A report in Tuesday's Haaretz describes that the latest salvo by the union representing Israel's foreign ministry workers in its ongoing battle with the finance ministry over wages will be fired when Netanyahu visits Washington in September for the start of peace talks with the Palestinians.
Per Haaretz, after meeting Tuesday the union announced that embassy workers in Washington "will refuse to assist in any administrative aspect of the visit, including hotel reservations, organizing transportation for the Netanyahu or his staff, and the prime minister's arrival at the airport"
The labor dispute has been going on for a number of weeks and a speedy resolution does not appear to be in sight. Visitors to the Foreign Ministry website are greeted by a large red banner announcing "As part of the sanctions announced by the Israel Foreign Ministry workers' union, the Consular Department will not provide services to the public and telephone calls will not be answered"
The English website for Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aronoth describes how foreign ministry employees have already stopped offering services to diplomats visiting the Jewish State and will stop holding meetings in its embassies and consular offices abroad.
Barring a resolution Netanyahu's office will have to handle all the arrangements of his visit to the United States along with the help of the White House.
We contacted a foreign ministry spokesman for their reaction but, perhaps unsurprisingly, he was not answering the phone when we called.
Filed under: General •Israel •Netanyahu
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VIDEO: Tour of Baha'i shrine in Haifa
Israel is best known for its religious sites connected to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But in the coastal city of Haifa stands the main temple of the Baha'i faith. CNN's Michael Schwartz shows us around the shrine
Filed under: Israel •Religion •Video
Surprising the Critics and Skeptics
By Kevin Flower
"We are coming to talks from a real desire to achieve a peace agreement between the two peoples."
So pledged the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his cabinet Sunday after agreeing earlier in the week to participate in direct peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
"I know that there is a considerable skepticism after 17 years having passed since the beginning of the Oslo process." he said. "It is possible to understand why this doubtfulness exists. We are seeking to surprise the critics and the skeptics"
If this latest round of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians delivers an agreement within a year as proposed those critics and skeptics will not only be surprised - they will likely be stunned beyond belief. It is, of course, easy to wager against the prospects of such talks; 60 years of history is on the side of the naysayers. But as wonderful as it would be to say that this time will be different it is difficult seeing an end to the current state of deadlock.
Despite the time, money and careers invested in the "peace process" there is very little in this latest diplomatic initiative to offer hope that these talks will not come to the same ignominious end of peace talks past. Remember Madrid? Oslo? Wye River? Annapolis?
Law and Order: Saudi Arabia
A story that has been creating a stir in the region lately involes the case of a man in Saudi Arabia accused of paralyzing another man after attacking him with a knife.
According to local Saudi newspaper Okaz, the victim in the attack asked the judge hearing the case to submit his attacker to the same fate based on the precepts of Sharia law. The judge, says the paper, responded by sending letters to several hospitals in Saudi Arabia asking if they could sever a man's spinal cord.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom and Amir Ahmed have the rest of the compelling story here.
Filed under: General •Human Rights •Saudi Arabia
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package kr.pe.kwonnam.spymemcached.extratranscoders.integrationtest;

import kr.pe.kwonnam.spymemcached.extratranscoders.fst.FSTTranscoder;
import net.spy.memcached.internal.OperationFuture;
import net.spy.memcached.transcoders.Transcoder;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.Date;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

public class FSTTranscoderIntegrationTest extends AbstractMemcachedIntegrationTest {
    private Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FSTTranscoderIntegrationTest.class);

    @Override
    protected Transcoder<Object> initTranscoder() {
        return new FSTTranscoder<>();
    }

    @Test
    public void get_set() throws Exception {
        FakePost post = new FakePost("Hello FSTTranscoder Integration Test.", new Date(), FakePost.PostType.LONG);
        post.setContents(TEST_DATA);

        final OperationFuture<Boolean> set = memcachedClient.set("fst_post_01", 100, post);
        log.debug("post_01 result : {}", set.get());

        final FakePost postFromMemcached = (FakePost) memcachedClient.get("fst_post_01");
        log.debug("post from memcached :{}", postFromMemcached);

        assertThat(postFromMemcached).isEqualToComparingFieldByField(post);
    }
}

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I have made it a priority to make a blanket for all my boys before they are born (and hope to do so for anymore kids to come!) As soon as I find out the gender while pregnant, I can't wait to go buy my yarn (my favorite kind is this) and start crocheting!
I have never been pushy on trying to make them super attached to it, but so far Will and Sam's blankies have gotten lots of love from them.
About a year ago, just out of the blue, Will stopped wanting his blanky at bedtime. I must admit I was a little sad about it at first! Although, he doesn't need it to sleep anymore it is still right on his bedside. Every so often he will pull it into bed with him and wrap himself all up in it, and it sure does make my heart happy.
When I made Will's blanky my personal sense of style was pretty non existent (there was no Pinterest yet!), and I went with the generic blue's and green for him with a simple double crochet pattern.
Sammy boy still loves his blanky. He has gone back and forth when it comes to what stuffed animal he wants to sleep with (or as of late hard plastic dinosaurs), but has always loved his blanket. I went with a more classic neutral style for his with navy blue and white with the same double crochet pattern.
Charlie boy! He sleeps with his blanket every night, but is still a bit to young to become attached to anything (with the exception of his mommy, that is). My crocheting skills had gotten more advanced since having Sam, so I wanted to do something completely different for his blanky. I decided on a granny square style pattern (I used this one!) with some more funky and modern colors. I love how it came out!


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The Moon.
NASA.
Motion of the Moon
The Moon is one of the largest celestial objects in our sky. We are so accustomed to its motions that it may go unnoticed for long periods of time. Many people are unaware that the Moon is visible during the day at certain times.
Yet the Moon has a daily influence on our lives. Even though it is small, it is close to us and its gravity causes the ocean tides. We use its orbit to define a fundamental unit of time for us: the month. And its phases continually remind us of the ongoing circle dance of the Earth, Moon, and the Sun.
Tidal Forces
The force of gravity caused by an object gets weaker as you move farther away from that object. In this picture, the Earth is pulling on the Moon, and the Moon is pulling on the Earth. The Moon pulls more...more
Native American Astronomy
By 30,000 B.C,. Asian hunter-gatherers had crossed the Bering Strait into North America. These people were the first to inhabit this new land and so they are known as the Native Americans of North America....more
Archeoastronomy
"The movements of the heavenly bodies are an admirable thing, well known and manifest to all peoples. There are no people, no matter how barbaric and primitive, that do not raise up their eyes, take note,...more
The Stones of Carnac
The stones of Carnac, France, are probably the most famous stones markings outside of those found at Stonehenge in England. Where Stonehenge is composed of standing stones, the Carnac area has many different...more
The Cairns of Clava
Not too far from Loch Ness, where the green highlands of Scotland rise and fall there lies three giant cairns of stones. They are called the Balnuaran of Clava. The Balnuaran of Clava, giant tombs encased...more
This is an aerial view of Cuzco. In the center of the picture, the cathedral of Cuzco can be seen. This cathedral was built in the 17th century. Cuzco is located in Southern Peru. It is the ancient capital...more
The Stones of Fossa
The stone structures of England and France are very famous. But, one can also find stone rings, tombs, and dolmen structures in present-day Italy. One such megalithic structure is a site in Fossa, Abruzzo....more


I've talked about the inevitability of infrastructure convergence, so it might seem like I'm doing a complete 180 degree turn by introducing the opposite trend of infrastructure: aggregation. Despite appearances, disaggregated server technology isn't really the opposite of convergence. In fact, disaggregated and converged servers work together.
In this new trend, physical IT components come in larger and denser pools for maximum cost efficiency. At the same time, compute-intensive functionality, such as data protection, that was once tightly integrated with the hardware is pulled out and hosted separately to optimize performance and use cheaper components.
Consider today's cloud architects building hyper-scale infrastructures; instead of buying monolithic building blocks, they choose to pool massive amounts of dense commodity resources. Unlike converged infrastructure (CI) with pre-built racks of standard IT equipment that help ensure rapid deployment for Oracle and SAP or stacks of hyper-converged appliances that offer highly leveraged IT operations and predictable capital expenditure, new cloud infrastructures need to run many, any and all workloads brought to them at scale. Cloud architects therefore take advantage of both logical consolidation and massively dense physical resource pooling.
What's interesting is that both larger trends -- convergence and disaggregated servers -- depend on software-defined resources. Software-defined resources take advantage of ever-increasing compute power and decreasing cost of silicon computer chips. Converged environments use software to define and manage multiple resources and all their functional capabilities on a single host. Meanwhile, disaggregated server approaches separate out those software-defined resources and host them closer to workload executions paths, or on a host with ready capacity, for massive pooling of denser and often simpler physical components. The commonality is that software-defined capabilities run where they provide the best performance and agility, while physical resources are deployed in the most cost-efficient formats for a given scenario.
These convergence and disaggregation trends come together in an interesting way. IT functionalities will always mature and converge, especially where automation and integration can alleviate the need for painful and expensive 'silo'-ed management. Yet we also see underlying physical components becoming more modular in increasingly pluggable and fungible formats. In practice, I predict that the main point of converged IT becomes the whole data center rather than the rail or the rack within it.
By using both converged IT and disaggregated servers, you can build the best of both worlds -- a low Opex, commodity-priced and scalable plug-in infrastructure that supports the quality of service needs of a given application through converged and composed software-defined layers.
Of course, infrastructure and application performance management is still a real challenge. In these pooled, containerized and software-defined resource environments, what do you do when application performance goes bad? For any kind of troubleshooting, performance management or capacity planning, how can you peel back the layers of the onion when the onion itself is dynamically changing?
One answer is to manage our infrastructure as its own internal Internet of Things. We will need to apply big data analytics, sophisticated machine learning, and maybe even some advanced AI to optimize our logically converged but physically disaggregated infrastructure. But given that Google's AlphaGo has recently just defeated a top human Go champion -- a significant achievement in machine learning by one of the biggest cloud providers -- I'm optimistic that we'll soon see very smart IT management technologies capable of handling these cloud infrastructures.
Mike Matchett is senior analyst at Taneja Group. Reach him on Twitter: @smworldbigdata.


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North Korea Boycotts UN Human Rights Council Session Examining Its Record
North Korea has announced it will no longer take part in UN Human Rights Council session examining its rights record.
Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong accused the council of "politicization, selectivity and double standards" and of "singling out" North Korea for criticism.
The UN council has repeatedly criticized North Korea over its treatment of its citizens.
The move is likely to further isolate North Korea, which is due to face new sanctions.
The UN Security Council is set to vote on March 2 on the new measures, in response to North Korea's fourth test of a nuclear weapon and its launching of a satellite.
Both moves contravened existing sanctions.
In his statement to the Council, Ri Su-yong also accused the US and others of paying "so-called North Korean defectors" for their testimony.
He said North Korea would "never, ever be bound" by any resolution adopted by the Council.
A UN report in 2014 accused North Korea of "systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights", including disappearances, forced labor, torture, rape and infanticide.
Azerbaijan Elections 2015: Ruling New Azerbaijan Party Wins Majority
Azerbaijan's ruling party, New Azerbaijan, has won the country's parliamentary elections that were boycotted by the main opposition parties, the electoral commission said.
The New Azerbaijan party had won at least 70 seats in the 125-seat parliament, the commission said.
A host of small parties and candidates loyal to President Ilham Aliyev took almost all the rest.
The opposition has accused the government of jailing its opponents.
International monitors from the OSCE did not observe the vote, citing government restrictions.
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More than a dozen political parties were vying for 125 seats in Azerbaijan's National Assembly.
However, analysts say those that could be considered genuine in their opposition to the government refused to participate.
"The pre-election period was marred by massive violations. That's why we decided not to participate," opposition Musavat Party leader Arif Gajily told Reuters news agency.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the leading international monitoring group, has not considered any of Azerbaijan's elections since independence to be free and fair.
In 2015 – for the first time in more than two decades – the OSCE chose not to send a mission, condemning the Azerbaijani government's "crackdown on independent and critical voices".
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova calls for Sochi Winter Games boycott
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has called for foreign countries to boycott February's Sochi Winter Olympics, hours after she was freed from jail.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova dismissed the amnesty law that set her free, saying it was a "cosmetic measure".
She and band-mate Maria Alyokhina, who was also freed, said the prison system needed wider reform and promised to continue anti-government action.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Ayokhina were jailed in 2012 after singing a protest song in a Moscow cathedral.
The act was seen as blasphemous by many Russians, and was condemned by the Orthodox Church.
But their conviction for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" was criticized by rights groups, anti-government activists and foreign politicians.
The amnesty passed last week aimed to free some 20,000 prisoners.
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has called for foreign countries to boycott February's Sochi Winter Olympics
Both Pussy Riot members said their anti-government stance had not softened, and both promised to form a human-rights group to fight for prison reform.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who was freed from a prison hospital in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, immediately called for a boycott of the Sochi Games.
"What is happening today – releasing people just a few months before their term expires – is a cosmetic measure," she said.
"That includes the case of Khodorkovsky, who didn't have much time left on his prison term. This is ridiculous."
She said far more people should be set free.
"I'm calling for a boycott, for honesty. I'm calling [on Western governments] not to give in because of oil and gas deliveries from Russia."
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, labeled the Russian state a "totalitarian machine" and said prison reform was the starting point for reform of Russian society.
Maria Alyokhina, released in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 280 miles east of Moscow, told Russian TV that the amnesty was "a profanation".
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Romania votes on President Traian Basescu's impeachment
Romanians are voting in a referendum on whether to impeach President Traian Basescu.
Traian Basescu has already been suspended by parliament in a series of moves that have caused alarm among Romania's EU partners because of the speed of the process.
The government accuses Traian Basescu of exceeding his authority and of meddling in government affairs.
Traian Basescu denies the accusations and has urged a boycott of Sunday's referendum.
Romanians are voting in a referendum on whether to impeach President Traian Basescu
Under a new Romanian law backed by Traian Basescu's Liberal Democrat Party (PDL), more than half of the electorate will have to vote to make the result valid.
The referendum is one of the fiercest political clashes in Romania since the return of democracy in 1990.
The result is hard to predict but will have long-term repercussions for Romania's political and economic stability.
The row has paralyzed political decision-making in Romania at a time when it is finalizing agreements on an IMF-backed aid package.
Traian Basescu's popularity has slumped since he backed tough austerity measures demanded by Romania's international lenders and also because he backed corrupted members of PDL.
According to the latest polls, about 65% of the electorate wants to remove Traian Basescu. However, analysts say the government will struggle to achieve the required turnout.
Traian Basescu had initially urged Romanians to come to referendum and vote "no" to what he called "a coup", but later asked his supporters to boycott the vote altogether, a stance also adopted by the new opposition (PDL). However, Traian Basescu will vote today even he urged people to boycott the referendum.
If he is impeached, a presidential election must be held within three months.
Earlier this month, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy voiced "deep concerns" about the political crisis in Romania "with regard to the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary".
Romania and neighboring Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007, but Brussels has put both countries under special monitoring because of concerns about judicial independence, corruption and political influence in state institutions.
Ukraine slams Euro 2012 boycott
Ukraine denounces a threatened EU boycott of next month's Euro 2012 football championship as "destructive".
In a statement, Ukraine's foreign ministry said the move would undermine the image of the tournament and be detrimental to millions of Ukrainians and Poles.
Poland – which is co-hosting Euro 2012 – has also criticized any boycott.
Several European leaders are considering cancelling their trips to Ukraine, in protest over the treatment of jailed former PM Yulia Tymoshenko.
Yulia Tymoshenko, who is on hunger strike, alleges she was beaten by prison guards.
The statement from the Ukrainian foreign ministry said sport events were designed to bring unity, and criticized what it said were attempts to politicize them.
"We view as destructive attempts to politicize sporting events, which since ancient times have played a paramount role in improving understanding and agreement between nations," the statement said.
"A successful championship will be a victory not for politicians, parties or ideologies, but for all Ukrainians and Poles. Its failure will be a loss for millions," it said.
Ukraine denounces a threatened EU boycott of next month's Euro 2012 football championship as "destructive"
Austria has said it will boycott all the matches in Ukraine, while the Netherlands said it will not attend unless Yulia Tymoshenko's treatment improves.
On Thursday, EU officials said European Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso would not be attending.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also reported to be considering boycotting the event, while the UK says it is undecided on whether to attend.
Meanwhile, five European presidents – from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia – have said they will not attend a Ukrainian summit of Central and East European leaders next week in Yalta.
In an attempt to ratchet up the pressure further, Germany earlier said the EU is prepared to delay a trade agreement with Ukraine.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said that "with our EU partners we are unanimous that the EU Association Agreement with Ukraine cannot be ratified as long as the rule of law in Ukraine does not develop in the right direction".
But Ukraine's deputy prime minister has said Euro 2012 is on track and UEFA – European football's governing body – had not complained.
"The tournament is ready and on 11 May we will be transferring the control of the four stadia to UEFA."
Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister, was jailed last year for abuse of office, in a trial condemned by the West as politically motivated.
She is an arch-rival of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, who beat her to the presidency in February 2010, avenging his defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution.
The opening games of the month-long Euro 2012 will be played on 9 June.
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MAN Energy Solutions Opens Service Center In Oman
MAN Energy Solutions has opened a new service workshop for the oil & gas sector in Oman, a move the company said strengthens its footprint in the Middle East.
The facility in Rusayl was inaugurated by His Excellence Salim bin Nasser Al Aufi, the Undersecretary at the Ministry of Oil & Gas, Dr. Uwe Lauber, CEO of MAN Energy Solutions SE and Maqbool Hameed al Saleh, Chairman of OHI and Head of leading companies from the Sultanate of Oman and abroad.
The new MAN PrimeServ one-stop shop in Oman was built under a Joint Venture between MAN Energy Solutions and its local agent OHI Petroleum and Energy Services (OPES). The company's activities cover exploration for oil and gas, production of power and consumable water as well as related services to the several exploration and production companies such as the major state oil company Petroleum Development Oman (PDO).
One of the main goals of the local entity set up by MAN ES and OHI is to offer privileged services to important customers like PDO, ORPIC and others in the region. In addition to that, Oman benefits from good transport and logistics links to the other five GCC states (Gulf Cooperation Council), making it a strategically favorable location to cover the regions' needs for repairs and refurbishments of rotating equipment for the oil & gas industry as well as engines for energy generation.
"As the only original equipment manufacturer with a state-of-the-art service workshop in Oman, MAN Energy Solutions sets a key milestone within the oil & gas market," said Uwe Lauber, CEO of MAN Energy Solutions SE. "Together with OHI, we will use our renowned expertise and the larger capacities to increase our support towards customers in the Middle East."
The facility is equipped with the newest technology and machine tools needed for complex turbomachinery repairs. An essential feature, the company said, is the high-speed balancing machine, which has the capacity to test rotating equipment weighing up to ca. five tons at speeds of up to ca. 20k rpm. The capacity will be enhanced to handle 18 tons in the near future. Furthermore, the workshop has two low-speed balancing machines and is set to provide high quality and cost-effective turbomachinery inspection and repair solutions to OEM standards.
The new facility is not just geared to the needs of MAN's technology solutions, but also to the third-party segment of the GCC region. In addition to compressors and steam turbines, the third-party segment includes related equipment such as centrifugal pumps and gears. "For customers in the third-party we offer speed, quality and flexibility," said Mahesh Shownkani, workshop manager of MAN Energy Solutions in Muscat. "We have already demonstrated our capability in this respect. In the space of just six months, we have carried out four demanding third-party assignments to the complete satisfaction of our customers."
In recent years, the company has won a number of major projects from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), including a long-term fleet service contract. With 60+ turbomachinery casings, MAN Energy Solutions has the largest share among the leading turbomachinery manufacturers in Oman.
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Bill proposes more FDA inspections overseas
By on	 January 29, 2009 Agencies, Congress, Food and Drug Administration
As the Food and Drug Administration issues a massive recall of peanut products, a new bill could give the FDA stronger investigative powers.
HR 758, the FDA Globalization Act, was introduced Wednesday by Reps. John Dingell, D-Mich., Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and Frank Pallone, D-N.J.
The bill would require foreign factories that produce drugs and medical devices to be inspected at least every two years, the standard for domestic companies. New fees on imports would help pay for more inspections, and the bill would also give the FDA more room to impose larger fines on companies for faulty imported and domestic products.
In a statement, Dingell said,
"Every few months brings another crisis — E. coli in spinach, contaminated heparin, tainted peppers, and now salmonella in peanut butter that has killed eight people and sickened more than 483 people. The time to act is now."
The bill has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.


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Q: DataTables.net Export Button not generating Excel file I am getting the following error when I click on Export button of Datatables.net.
Following is my code
 $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: uri,
    data: JSON.stringify(args),
    contentType: "application/json;charset=utf-8",
    success: function (data, status, xhr) {
        //alert("The result is : " + data);
        if (!data.d) {
            $("#gvCurr").DataTable();
        }
        else {
            $("#gvCurr").DataTable({
                "aaData": JSON.parse(data.d),
                "bDestroy": true,
                dom: 'Bfrtip',
                deferRender: true,
                "bLengthChange": false,
                "bPaginate": false,
                buttons: [
                    {
                        extend: 'excel',
                        text: '<i class="fas fa-file-excel"></i> Export',
                        className: "btn btn-primary",
                        filename: 'DomesticInvoiceReport - ' + moment().format("DD-MMM-YYYY"),
                    }
                ],
                "columns": [
                    { "data": "ProjectNo" },
                    { "data": "CountryName" },
                    { "data": "StateName" },
                    { "data": "SectorName" },
                    { "data": "CoOrdName" },
                    { "data": "Curr1" },

                    { "data": "InvoiceNo_1" },
                    { "data": "InvoiceDate_1" },
                    { "data": "Month_1" },
                    { "data": "Year_1" },

                    { "data": "TotalFee_1" },
                    { "data": "EscalationAmt_1" },
                    { "data": "CurrentOPEAmt_1" },
                    { "data": "CGSTPerc" },
                    { "data": "SGSTPerc" },
                    { "data": "TotalTaxPerc_1" },
                    { "data": "TotalTaxAmt_1" },
                    { "data": "CurrentInvoiceAmt_1" },
                    {
                        mRender: function (data, type, row) {
                            if (row.IsWithheld_1 == "" || row.IsWithheld_1 == 0)
                                return 'No';
                        }
                    },
                    { "data": "WithheldAmt_1" },
                    { "data": "BalanceInHandUptoThisInv_1" }

                ],
                "order": [[0, "asc"]]
            });
        }
        $("#entry").hide();
        $("#list").show();
    },
    error: function (xhr) {
        alert(xhr.responseText);
    }
});

if you see int the code, If i comment out the columns after { "data": "Year_1" }, it is generating excel file and if I include the columns after that, it gives me error shown in the image attached. So it is not an issue of incorrect code or incorrect sequence of js files
I have included these settings in web.config
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.7.2" maxRequestLength="2147483647" requestLengthDiskThreshold="2097152" executionTimeout="240" />

<jsonSerialization maxJsonLength="2147483644" />

It shows the records properly when retrieved. At the time of export it is giving error. I am not sure what am I missing here.

A: I believe you have this issue :
{
  mRender: function (data, type, row) {
     if (row.IsWithheld_1 == "" || row.IsWithheld_1 == 0)
         return 'No';
     }
},

*

*render callbacks apply to the column definition, they cannot stay alone

*You must return a value, if you return undefined you'll get "trim is not a function"

The correct way is
{
  data: "IsWithheld_1",
  render: function(data, type, row) {
    return (data === '' || data == 0) ? 'No' : ''
  }
}


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It's basically no secret around here that I have few natural talents. I can't play any musical instruments, I'll never be writing for a Masters and the whole of my artistic abilities extends as far as the realm of stick figures. But throw me in a kitchen and I'll make a darn good pie.
This past fall I made 120 pies for a good friend's wedding (60 individual apple pies, 59 individual pumpkin pies and one normal sized apple pie). Pies are my standby when I get the itch... I'm sitting at my desk and I can't seem to focus... I need to bake. Don't tell me you don't have a vice like that (maybe not an itch quite like that though).
10/11/14, Congrats Bri & Bren!
This weekend I will be attending a benefit dinner & dance for a local woman who is in hospital having a bit of a hard time. When a member of our tiny town has a hard time its amazing how the community can band together and help out.
A couple years ago tragedy struck the very same household when Scott's iconic Black Magic van burnt. A vehicle burning might not sound like an incident to some people but for Scott - a paraplegic and VERY active member of the local Kinsmen club and other community organizations - this wasn't just his van, this was his liberty.
On that particular occasion the community came together with a weekend of fundraising where the different community groups hosted different functions (as a member of the Waldhof Wranglers I helped out with a spaghetti dinner), culminating with a dance and a pie auction.
You heard that right, a pie auction.
Now not to toot my own horn here, but my Pecan and Chocolate Pecan Pies fetched in the range of $300 each. Which is why I'm baking this weekend. I'm not a rich person (actually the opposite, I'm still working on paying off my student loans and am going to be talking to my financial advisor on Friday about getting myself a bit more debt... more on that later, hopefully) so I can't really donate money... but I can bake. When I was told there would be an auction (a regular one this time, not pie exclusive) I bought butter. I'll be donating a "lot" of pies (probably 2 - 4... I haven't actually started baking yet) and hopefully since winter is getting chilly and long around here... stomachs will be grumbling.
On that particular occasion the turn out was phenomenal and the pocketbooks open and just shy of $30,000 was raised. So stay tuned, I'll (hopefully remember to) take pictures of the pies and let you know how they do at the auction. If we're really lucky, the locals are feeling hungry as well as generous!


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Cantaracillo é um município da Espanha na província de Salamanca, comunidade autónoma de Castela e Leão, de área 37,07 km² com população de 227 habitantes (2007) e densidade populacional de 6,72 hab/km².

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Cantaracillo
Municípios da Espanha por nome
Municípios por nome de Castela e Leão
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Localidades de Salamanca (província)


Ryan Higa, born on 6th June 1990, has been a U.S. actor, YouTuber, and comedian. He is also known as "nigahiga". Ryan is famous for his YouTube comedy videos viewed for more than three billion times. His YouTube channel entitled "nigahiga" has been subscribed the most on YouTube consecutively for 677 days during the year 2009 to 2011.
No other YouTube channel except PewDiePie has ever been able to attain that position. Ryan's YouTube channel "Nigahiga" has been subscribed by more than 21 million people by June 2018. He started his channel in 2006 in collaboration with a friend named Sean Fujiyoshi. He has another channel entitled "Higa TV". He has been active since 2006 to the present days.
Ryan Higa took birth in Hilo, Hawaii, United States. He graduated from Walakea High School in the year 2008. His father's name is Wendell Higa and his mother's name is Luci Higa. He has a sibling: an elder brother named Kyle. Luci Higa, acting as his manager, manages the affairs of Ryan Higa. Ryan Higa's nationality is American while his ethnicity is Japanese. Ryan has taken training in judo and has achieved the rank of black belt. He also took part in wrestling while studying in the High School. His height is estimated to be 174 cm and weight is known to be 69 kgs.
Ryan Higa is not a married man as yet. The name of his girl friend was Tarynn Nago, with who he has been going out, for several years. Their relationship came to an end in 2010. Since then, there is no news about his being in any relationship or his dating anyone. Since he has not married, he has not divorced anyone. As of today, he is single.
Ryan Higa started his career as early as 2006 when he created his YouTube channel nigahiga, and started posting videos of himself and his friend. He and his friend Sean Fujiyoshi lip synced popular contemporary songs in these videos. They went beyond songs very soon and added different comedic acts. Kyle Chun, Tim Enos, Tarynn Nago, and Ryan Villaruel had been the artists who guest appeared in these videos.
His channel had been suspended temporarily for the violations of copyright, and some of his videos were removed in 2008. However, these videos that included How to be Ninja, How to be Gangster, and How to be Emo were restored in 2009. Ryan shifted then to Las Vegas for studying nuclear medicine and joined the University of Nevada. He founded a company named Ryan Higa Production Company (RHPC) in 2012.
In the year 2016, Ryan formed a band entitled BgA along with Justin Chon, Jun Sung Ahn, Phillip Wang, and David Choi. The BgA stands for "Boys Generally Asian". Ryan created another channel named Higa TV in the year 2011 in which video blogs have been posted. By June 2018, more than five million people had subscribed the channel. There is no record of Ryan getting any rewards so far. As per his biography, his net worth is estimated at $2 million.